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Wednesday, 2 February 2022

UFO TV News Report:
“NEW PENTAGON UFO OFFICE CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF TRANSPARENCY —
THE GOVERNMENT MUST BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT UFOs”

Published: 11 December 2021

(Fox News, New York City, New York)

My comment:

Tucker Carlson interviews Luis Elizondo about the U.S. Department of Defense’s proposed Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) and the U.S. Congress’ proposed Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office (ASRO).

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6286253141001#sp=show-clips








The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia

(Photo: wikimedia.org)

Thursday, 9 December 2021

UFO Article:
“FORMER DEFENSE OFFICIALS WEIGH-IN
ON PROPOSED ‘UAP LEGISLATION’”

By Tim McMillan, 22 November 2021

(The Debrief, U.S.A.)

https://thedebrief.org/former-defense-officials-weigh-in-on-proposed-uap-legislation/








The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia

(wikimedia.org photo)

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

UFO Article:
“Pentagon Utilized UFOs and Nukes
Data Collected by R. Hastings”

By Robert L. Hastings, 30 October 2021

(The UFO Chronicles (U.S.A.), 2 November 2021)

Quote from the article:

“In a recent podcast (see below), former Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) director Luis Elizondo confirmed that information I had published in my 2008 book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, was utilized by the secret Pentagon group to assess the nature and scope of ominous activity by unknown aerial craft at nuclear weapons facilities during the Cold War era.”

https://www.theufochronicles.com/2021/10/pentagon-utilized-ufos-and-nukes-data.html


 










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Wednesday, 21 October 2020

UFO Paper:
“UFOs: GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT,
SECRECY, AND DOCUMENTS”

By Barry J. Greenwood, Stoneham, Massachusetts,

22 January 1997

(Project 1947, Canterbury, Connecticut)

Barry J. Greenwood served as an investigator and State Section Director for Massachusetts MUFON for ten years, according to NICAP.org.

I also reported about this UFO paper on 10 April 2013.

https://www.project1947.com/bg/ufogov.htm 

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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia 

(Photo: wikimedia.org)

Sunday, 4 October 2020

Chilean Government UFO Article:
“CEFAA: 23 años investigando
fenómenos aéreos anómalos”
(“CEFAA: 23 years investigating
anomalous aerial phenomena”)

22 September 2020

(Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA), Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil, Santiago, Chile)

The whole article (translated by Google Translate):

“On October 3, 2020, the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA), dependent on the General Secretariat of the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), celebrates 23 years of existence.

On that day and month, but in 1997, CEFAA was born through Exempt Resolution No. 01599 after the interest expressed by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Air Force, Air General Fernando Rojas Vender, and by the former Commander of that branch, General Ramón Vega Hidalgo, who determined that the investigative body be under the authority of the DGAC. 

In this way, through an official document, the then Director of the Institution, General of the Air Brigade Gonzalo Miranda Aguirre, gave life to CEFAA in the premises of the Aeronautical Technical School, in the Quinta Normal, in Santiago.

In 1996, the written press in our country published articles on 27 sightings, with an average of just over two per month, and in 1997, almost one case was registered per month, according to data provided by engineer Pablo Petrowitsch, one of the first scholars of this type of phenomena in Chile.

Sightings in Arica

Although 1996 was copious in reports of sightings, the decisive cases for the creation of CEFAA occurred in late March and early April 1997. During those days, the press published reports on lights of unknown origin over Arica for three consecutive nights and one of the incidents was even seen by personnel from the Control Tower and by the then head of the Chacalluta Airport.

CEFAA’s mission is to collect, study, analyze and classify all the information related to strange aerial phenomena reported in the national territory, with the aim of supporting the safety of air operations in the airspace of responsibility of the DGAC, which covers 32 million square kilometers. 

History

The first Director of CEFAA was Colonel Enzo Di Nocera and since its birth the Air Traffic Controller Gustavo Rodríguez Navarro was linked to the new entity, who was known within the DGAC because for decades he had been investigating reports of anomalous aerial phenomena by personal interest.

In 1998, Air Brigade General Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza assumed the leadership of ETA and also CEFAA, until February 2002. In March of that year, CEFAA's leadership was under the command of Air Brigade General Hernán Henríquez Cobaise, who he held that position until March 2008. During all those years, CEFAA entered a dormant stage.

On December 15, 2009, the then Director General of Civil Aeronautics, General of the Air Brigade José Huepe Pérez, ordered that CEFAA become directly dependent on the General Secretariat of the DGAC, for which reason the Committee left the Aeronautical Technical School, It began to function on the grounds of the National Aeronautical and Space Museum and was again in charge of General (R) Ricardo Bermúdez.

The CEFAA operated for years with General Bermúdez at the head, with the Air Traffic Controller Gustavo Rodríguez as an investigator and with José Lay as the Head of International Relations.

During those first years, CEFAA stood out for giving free talks with different guests at the Aeronautical Technical School, for a high-profile event with international guests during the International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE) 2000 and for similar events during the editions of FIDAE of 2016 and 2018.

In December 2016, General Bermúdez left the leadership of CEFAA and in September 2017, the scientific journalist and historian Hugo Camus Palacios joined by public competition, who soon took over the leadership of the Committee.

Historical heritage

The merit of having initiated the investigation of these phenomena in Chile goes to the Chilean Commission for Studies of Unidentified Space Phenomena, created by the Director of the Chilean Meteorological Office, Sergio Napoleón Bravo, and sponsored by the Scientific Society of Chile, in which featured prominent academics, scientists and researchers of the time. 

In an interview published by the Spanish newspaper ABC in 1969, Sergio Bravo affirmed: “I confess that at first, when the news about it began to invade the world press, we were skeptical. But there were so many stories and the professional solvency of many of the people who referred to it that the concern to investigate these facts in a systematic and scientific way was born in us ".

New CEFAA 

In 2017, in addition to Hugo Camus, Pablo Trigo Marihual joined CEFAA as administrative assistant. At the end of that year, Gustavo Rodríguez and José Lay left the Committee after several years of service and in March 2018, science professor Gustavo Arriagada Bustamante joined the committee as a researcher.

The new CEFAA team was completed in mid-October 2019, when journalist Patricio Abusleme Hoffman joined as a second investigator. 

During the few years in which the new CEFAA has functioned, Director Camus has participated in ufological conferences, has been interviewed by different media and, together with researcher Gustavo Arriagada, has given talks on the work of CEFAA to aeronautical and different branches of the Armed Forces in various cities of Chile.

After the paradigm shift that the global pandemic caused by Covid-19 meant, the members of CEFAA have continued to carry out their work remotely, consulting their internal and external advisers when the cases under study warrant it. 

To report any sighting of anomalous aerial phenomena that have taken place within the territory of the Republic of Chile, users can do so through the CEFAA website at the following link:

http://www.cefaa.gob.cl/home/enviar-caso” 

http://www.cefaa.gob.cl/home/actualidad/noticias/cefaa23anosinvestigandofenomenosaereosanomalos

English translation (by Google Translate): 

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cefaa.gob.cl%2Fhome%2Factualidad%2Fnoticias%2Fcefaa23anosinvestigandofenomenosaereosanomalos

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The current CEFAA team, headed by Director Hugo Camus, at the Committee’s premises in Cerrillos. 

(Text: cefaa.gob.cl) (Photo: cefaa.gob.cl)

Members of CEFAA and some advisers to the Committee shortly after its creation in the late 1990s, headed by General (R) Ricardo Bermúdez. 

(Text: cefaa.gob.cl) (Photo: cefaa.gob.cl)

Friday, 18 September 2020

UFO News Article (Blog):
“Rolling the bones, upping the ante”

By Billy Cox, 28 August 2020

(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida)

Billy Cox writes about the latest UFO developments within the U.S. Department of Defense. In addition, he writes about season two of  “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.”

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/16025/rolling-the-bones-upping-the-ante/ 

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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia

(wikimedia.org photo)

(Image: History/youtube.com)

Sunday, 6 September 2020

UFO Article (Blog):
“UAP Task Force:
The Pentagon Responds to Questions”


By Roger Glassel, 2 September 2020
(Blue Blurry Lines, U.S.A.)

Quote from the article:
“In a previous email sent to me back in May, 2020, the Pentagon stated that there was already a interagency team/task force under the cognizance of the OUSD(I) that was analyzing sighting reports, and as most of the reports were from Navy pilots, the Navy did much of the effort. In Pentagon's recent press release it is stated that the UAPTF, established on August 4, 2020, under the oversight of the OUSD(I) and lead by the Navy. This contributed to some confusion, and I contacted Susan Gough and Joseph Gradisher to comment on the contradiction.”

My comment:
“On 4 August 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF),” according to a 14 August 2020 U.S. Department of Defense news release article.


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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia
(Photo: wikimedia.org)

Sunday, 23 August 2020

UFO Article (Blog) (Redux):
“The Air Force Investigates The Flying Disks”


By Dr. Michael D. Swords, 1 September 2009
(The Big Study)

Michael D. Swords informs about the first inquiries (in 1947) the U.S. Air Force made into UFOs.

Quote from the article:
“In late June of 1947, the flying disks had begun to appear all over the United States. This was the Air Force’s area of concern, and, after convincing themselves that this was not citizen craziness, they got on the job. The document on the upper right is an example of how quickly this happened and at what level of authority. It’s a note from General Nathan Twining [Commander of Wright-Patterson AFB, and the AF’s high technology research group] to Brigadier General Samuel Brentnall who was chief of the Engineering Technology division there. Twining and Brentnall have been discussing Flying Disk reports [there is a newspaper story on them clipped to this note] already by the beginning of July. So, the AF’s technology wizards are quite interested in what this mystery device is, which has now been reported by many of their own flyers.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The major information point for flying disk reports was in the Pentagon at the Air Force’s Intelligence Division. There they had a Collections branch commanded by Colonel Robert Taylor III. His right-hand man was Lt. Colonel George Garrett. Garrett got the job of collecting and correlating all the flying disk information. He had an FBI contact named S.L. Reynolds. The reason for the contact was that the intelligence community initially suspected that some of these reports were made by Soviet sympathizers in order to scare the public. They quickly found out otherwise [Soviet sympathizers weren't flying at 30,000 feet in metal disks to scare people in New Mexico], and Garrett and Reynolds settled down to try to figure out what WAS going on.”

Swords also presents U.S. government (U.S. Air Force and Federal Bureau of Investigation) documents that pertain to the UFO investigations.

I first reported about this article on 22 August 2013.

http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2009/09/air-force-investigates-flying-disks.html

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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia
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Saturday, 15 August 2020

U.S. Government UFO News Release Article:
“IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Establishment of Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena Task Force”


14 August 2020
(U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.)

The whole article:
“On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF. 

The Department of Defense established the UAPTF to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs. The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.

As DOD has stated previously, the safety of our personnel and the security of our operations are of paramount concern. The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report. This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.”


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(Image: U.S. Department of Defense)


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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia
(Photo: wikimedia.org)

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

UFO Article (Blog):
“An analysis of the latest Department
of Defense statement on UAP”


By Keith Basterfield, 27 July 2019
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:
“Office of Naval Intelligence

In a blog post dated 9 July 2020, titled ‘Is the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) now part of the AATIP effort?’ [see below link] I explored that possibility. Now, in July 2020, we know that the ONI is indeed heavily involved.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Part of report 116-233 from the U.S. Congress Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, dated 17 June 2020, stated:

‘The Committee supports the effort of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence, to standardise collection and reporting on unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to adversarial foreign governments and the threat that they pose to U.S. military assets and installations.’

Department of Defense statement

Popular Mechanics magazine posted an article on their website dated 24 July 2020, by Andrew Daniels, which discussed the recent New York Times article on UAP, and various aspects of recent reporting on the topic.”


Related post:

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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia
(wikimedia.org photo)

Sunday, 26 July 2020

UFO News Article:
“No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O.
Unit Will Make Some Findings Public”


23 July 2020
(The New York Times, New York City, New York)

The article reports that the U.S. Navy’s UAP Task Force will soon present some of its findings.


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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia
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UFO Report:
“The 1979 UFO Chronology”


Created: 15 October 2007
Updated: 6 December 2016
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently a 14-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1979. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1979 chronology from UFOE II), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]). You will note the many foreign reports that we are now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated. Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the expertise of two other team members: William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns).

This year was the second and final season for Project UFO which was an NBC television series. Based loosely on the real-life Project Blue Book, the show was created by Dragnet veteran Jack Webb, who pored through Air Force files looking for episode ideas. The show was produced by Col. William Coleman who had had his own spectacular UFO sighting while in the Air Force.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator

Feb. 3, 1979, Camp New Amsterdam, Netherlands
Night? An object with three very bright white lights and one red light flew at an altitude of 150 to 200 meters (about 500 to 650 feet) and an average speed of 50 to 100 kilometers per hour (about 30 to 60 miles per hour) over the flight line of the Soesterberg base. At times it was seen to emit a beam of light to the ground. The object did not make a sound and was seen by many airmen at the base. The object twice flew along the flight line before departing at a high rate of speed. This was the summary of an investigative report by three members of the working group NOBOVO, including Dr. W. deGraaff, who worked at the (Harmons) Astronomical Institute. (Unidentified: The UFO Phenomenon, 144, Robert Salas)

April 19, 1979; Talisay, Philippines
Police witnesses reported seeing a mother ship which later spewed out smaller UFOs, all of which landed in a valley. Military authorities were investigating. [Manila, Philippines (UPI), May 1, 1979.]

Aug. 27, 1979; Warren, MN
1:40 a.m. Frightening UFO case which involved physical trace elements. Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson was patrolling near the North Dakota border when he noticed a bright light coming through his side window. Johnson knew it was not typical vehicle lights. He thought it might be a small plane in trouble and about to crash.

Sept.17, 1979; Eichstatt, Germany
12:15 AM. In the Bavarian town of Eichstatt three pentagon-shaped UFOs were seen by many, including 10 police officers. One object hovered at 500 meters, then shot away. (Sources: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13306, citing MUFON).

Oct.15, 1979; Dover, DE
G,V, AF radar & 2 UFOs, state police vis.

Dec. 29, 1979; N. Illinois
11:00 PM. ‘We had a call from the sheriff’s department at 11:00 PM, and they said they were looking at a UFO. We looked on the radar and observed the target in the area westbound, very fast. There were three controllers and myself. We watched the target and it stopped, changed direction to a north heading, went north for about three miles, stopped again, went southwest for five miles, stopped again, went westbound right up to the Mississippi River, stopped there, then continued westbound. It covered 54 miles in three-and-one half minutes, plus it stopped four times. We were receiving a strong return. There were no known aircraft in the area. I have never seen an aircraft at that speed turn that fast. The stops were very abrupt and the turns were very abrupt. I don’t know of any airplane that can turn that fast. We picked up a second object at 11:04 PM and it proceeded southwest until it was directly over the Mississippi River at which time it turned southbound and paralleled right over the river for about half-a-mile and moved away to the west-southwest. After we picked up the second object, I checked back with the sheriff’s department and was advised that they had observed another object. The position the sheriff gave me correlated with the targets we saw.’ (MUJ-186,13)”


Wikipedia article: “Soesterberg Air Base”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Soesterberg Air Base (IATA: UTC, ICAO: EHSB) was a Royal Netherlands Air Force military air base located in Soesterberg, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) east-northeast of Utrecht. It was first established as an airfield in 1911, and in 1913, the Dutch Army bought the field and established the Army Aviation Division.

For almost 40 years, United States Air Force facilities at Soesterberg, named Camp New Amsterdam was a major front line USAFE air base during the Cold War. The base was closed on 31 December 2008, due to budget cuts in the Dutch Army. The air base ceased flying operations on 12 November 2008, when the command was transferred from the Dutch Air Force to Dutch Defense who will take care of the base until it will be given back to nature. The last fighter ever to depart, delayed due bad weather at Aviano AB, was a Greek F-4E Phantom II. The former USAFE part stays in military hands, and will now officially be called Camp New Amsterdam.”

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Soesterberg Air Base, Soesterberg, The Netherlands
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Satellite photo of Soesterberg, The Netherlands 
(tageo.com) (Photo: tageo.com)