UFO Hearing:

“Citizen Hearing On Disclosure –
April 29 To May 3, 2013 – Washington, DC”

(Citizen Hearing Foundation, Marina del Rey, California)

The Hearing will be attended by the former U.S. Congress members Merrill Cook (R-Utah), Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) and Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Michigan):

http://www.citizenshearing.org/

Quote from the website:

“An event with historical implications will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC from April 29 to May 3, 2013.  At that time as many as forty researchers and military/agency witnesses will testify for thirty hours over five days before former members of the United States Congress.”

The Citizen Hearing Foundation is formed by Paradigm Research Group and Just Cause Entertainment.

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UFO Website:

“MUFON France”

Jacques Patenet is the National Director of MUFON France:

http://mufon-france.fr/

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmufon-france.fr%2F

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UFO Mailing List Post:

“MUFON France  Director” 

by UFO UpDates, 2 April 2013

(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

Jacques Patenet has been appointed National Director of MUFON France, Ray Dickenson informs:

http://ufoupdateslist.com/2013/apr/m02-002.shtml

Jacques Patenet, National Director of MUFON France

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UFO Article (Blog):

“U.S.  President Lyndon Johnson’s secret UAP study”

by Keith Basterfield, 11 January 2013

(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,

New South Wales, Australia)

Keith Basterfield found a number of references relating 

to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s UFO interest in the book, 
“UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry”:

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2013/01/u-s-president-lyndon-johnsons-secret.html

Wikipedia article: “Lyndon B. Johnson”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson,

36th President of the United States

(Democrat)

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UFO News Article:

“Chinese Study UFO Sightings”, 

13 November 1980 (Youngstown Vindicator, Ohio)

“The agency said Wednesday more than 100 UFO sightings have been reported in south-central and east China. Some reports describe the objects as long, others as saucer like or as balls of brilliant light, Xinhua (news agency) said,” the article reads:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4yJJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sIMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1096,5125740

Map of China (theodora.com)

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UFO Studies:
“UFO Sighting Wave Studies”

(NICAP.org)

The web page contains a link to NICAP’s UFO sighting wave directory:

http://www.nicap.org/waves.htm

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UFO Article (Blog):

“UFOs & The Enigma of the United States Navy”

by Dr. Michael D. Swords, 24 April 2010

(The Big Study)

There are many hints that the U.S. Navy had interest in the UFO phenomenon, Michael D. Swords writes:

http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.no/2010/04/ufos-enigma-of-united-states-navy.html

Wikipedia article: “United States Navy”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy

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U.S. Government UFO Documents (FOIA):

“Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) Related Documents:

Department of the Army UFO Page”

(Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff,

FOIA Requester Service Center,

United States Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.)

The web page contains the following report: “ALLEGED ‘FLYING SAUCER’ TYPE AIRCRAFT” (Page 148):

https://www.rmda.army.mil/foia/FOIA_ReadingRoom/(a)(2)(D)%20-%20Records%20released%20to%20the%20public%20under%20t/ALL/ufo.pdf

Wikipedia article: “United States Army”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army

The Seal of the United States Department of the Army

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UFO News Article:

“American Troops in Europe Ordered To Watch for

Flying Saucers [UFOs] | UFO CHRONICLE 4-26-1948”,

2 April 2013 (The UFO Chronicles)

“In a directive to soldiers, the army said that ‘unconventional aircraft,’ including ‘flying discs,’ should be reported promptly to headquarters.

No indication was given as to what caused the order,” the Times Herald article (titled “ ‘Flying Saucers’ Sought In Europe”) reads:

http://www.theufochronicles.com/2013/04/american-troops-in-europe-ordered-to.html

U.S. government article: “History timeline: Major events in USAREUR and European history” (eur.army.mil):

eur.army.mil/organization/timeline.htm

U.S. government article: “History of EUCOM” (eucom.mil):

eucom.mil/mission/background/history-of-eucom

Wikipedia article: “United States European Command”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_European_Command

Quote from the Wikipedia article, ‘United States European Command’:

“Prior to 1952, the title “European Command (EUCOM)” referred to a single-service, United States Army command.”

The logo of the U.S Army Europe

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UFO News Article:

“Scientific body turns attention to UFO mystery”

10 July 1975 (The Miami News, Florida)

The Miami News informs about the UFO research work of the 
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19750710&id=tNszAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gusFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4838,4021952

Part of the article focuses on CUFOS’ research into UFO physical trace cases.

CUFOS had the active cooperation of police forces across the United States, including the FBI – and had received an expression of interest in such cooperation from the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (DCPA), Department of Defense, according to the article.

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, U.S. Astronomer,
the U.S. Air Force's Scientific Consultant
on UFOs (1948-1969), UFO Author,
Lecturer & Researcher
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UFO News Article:

“Illinois UFO Soars Away Unexplained”,

3 October 1967 (The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania)

Everett Diamond, a Rockford, Illinois resident, David H. Winker, an Illinois state police officer and Bill Truempler, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic specialist, sighted a silver coloured, elliptical shaped UFO on 2 October 1967, The Pittsburgh Press reports:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19671003&id=yEgqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j08EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5075,1657681

“Rockford, Illinois” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Rockford-Illinois.html

Map highlighting Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois

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UFO Paper/Lecture:

“A SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE VIDEOTAPE TAKEN BY SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY ON SHUTTLE FLIGHT STS-48” by Jack Kasher, Ph.D.

(NICAP.org)

The STS-48 UFO incident occurred on 15 September 1991, at around 8:30 p.m. GMT:

http://www.nicap.org/muj_kasher_sts48.htm

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UFO Radio Interview:

Dr. Jack Kasher 

(Unknown Date)

(Dark Matters Radio, U.S.A.)

Host Don Ecker presents a UFOs Tonite! interview with Dr. Jack Kasher:

http://www.dqrm.com/shows/DMR/2013/wk01/dmr-04-w.mp3

Dr. Jack Kasher, U.S. Physicist & UFO Researcher

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UFO News Article:

“20 years since Cosford UFO mystery”,

30 March 2013 (Shropshire Star, Ketley, UK)

The RAF Cosford, UK UFO incident occurred on 31 March 1993, 
at around 1:15 a.m.:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2013/03/30/20-years-since-cosford-ufo-mystery/

A large, triangular shaped UFO manoeuvred over the Royal Air Force base.

The UFO was sighted over many locales in England on 30 and 
31 March 1993.

Related post:

ufo-article-cosford-incident-by-nick_25.html

Wikipedia article: “RAF Cosford”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Cosford

Runway 24 at RAF Cosford, Albrighton, UK (wikimedia.org)

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UFO Article (Blog):

“Digitised Bureau of Meteorology file 
includes some reports of UAP”

by Keith Basterfield, 29 March 2013

(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,

New South Wales, Australia)

The file (file series PP956/1, control symbol 45/38, titled “Observations – General by outside authorities (includes UFO)”, date range 1972-1981, barcode 1854167) is located in the Perth office of the NAA, Keith Basterfield informs:

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2013/03/digitised-bureau-of-meteorology-file.html

Wikipedia article: “Bureau of Meteorology”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Meteorology

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UFO Video Report:

“Your Need to Know – The RAND Corporation and UFOs”,

28 March 2013

(OpenMinds.tv, Tempe, Arizona)

The video report is presented by J. Antonio Huneeus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAcBu9xBi4

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UFO Journal Supplement:

“FLYING SAUCER REVIEW CASE HISTORIES”,

Supplement No. 17 – December 1973

(Flying Saucer Review, London, UK)

The journal supplement contains two 1973 UFO articles, “UFOs PICTURED OVER JAPAN” (UFO sightings over Toyama (city) and Nagai (city)) and “DID A UFO LAND IN THEIR FRONT GARDEN” (possible UFO incident in Queenstown, South Africa):

http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2017.pdf

Nagai is situated 91 kilometres (56 miles) north-east of Niigata (city).

Map of Japan (vidiani.com)
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UFO Book Chapter:

“REGIONAL ENCOUNTERS: The FC Files:

CHAPTER 4: THE WAVE OF 1973”

by Francis L. Ridge, 1994 
(NICAP.org)

Francis L. Ridge was the MUFON State Section Director for Posey, Vanderburgh and Gibson Counties, Indiana in 1973:

http://www.nicap.org/regenc/RegEnc.pdf

Chapter 4 starts on page 41.

Francis L. Ridge,
NICAP Site Coordinator
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UFO Journal Issue:
“UFO INVESTIGATOR”, 

November 1973 

(National Investigations Committee

on Aerial Phenomena, Washington, D.C.)

Source: CUFOS.org

The journal (published in Kensington, Maryland) contains articles on the 11 October 1973 Pascagoula, Mississippi, UFO case and the 18 October 1973 U.S. Army helicopter UFO incident (the Coyne case) over Mansfield, Ohio:

http://cufos.org/UFOI_and_Selected_Documents/UFOI/092%20NOVEMBER%201973.pdf

Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence J. Coyne,
U.S. Army (youtube.com image)

Australian Government UFO E-Magazine Article:

“What a gem! Flying saucers and other aerial objects”

(Your Memento, 2 March 2011)

(National Archives of Australia, Canberra,

Australian Capital Territory)

The article presents a Department of Air diagram of a 1955 Australian UFO sighting:

http://yourmemento.naa.gov.au/2011/03/what-a-gem-flying-saucers-and-other-aerial-objects/

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