UFO Article (Blog): “A Forgotten Piece of 1959 Research”

By Dr. Michael D. Swords, 4 April 2010

(The Big Study)

The article focuses mainly on two UFO polls conducted by John Lester of the Newark Star-Ledger:

http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.no/2010/04/forgotten-piece-of-1959-research.html

Quote from the article:

“The mention was about a poll that Lester made of 50 commercial pilots about what they felt about UFOs and the way the government was handling the subject and treating the witnesses.

Lester did a much more ambitious poll than the one with the pilots. Taking a full month to accomplish it, he contacted 1000 government radar operators around the US and asked several questions: Had they seen UFOs? Did their radars track them? Were they ‘real targets’? What did they think about all this? Lester's results were far more stunning [for me] than the pilot responses.”

“Diagram of the UFOs tracked by Washington’s National Airport radar scope on 20 July 1952. At A, 7 objects approach the Nation’s capital from the south. At B, some are seen over the White House and Capitol. At C, they appear over Andrews Air Force Base. At D, one UFO tracks an airliner. At E, one is seen to make a sharp right angle turn.” Source: UFOs – A Pictorial History From Antiquity to the Present, by David C. Knight. (McGraw Hill Book Co., 1979.) (rense.com image)

UFO Article (Blog): “DISCLOSURE???”

By Dr. Michael D. Swords, 3 February 2011

(The Big Study)

Michael D. Swords informs about different types of UFO disclosure:

http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.no/2011/02/disclosure.html

Quote from the article:

“A few words about Type One. This has been going on for a very long time. It was the primary agenda item of NICAP, Major Keyhoe, Richard Hall, and many of the Giants of ‘ancient’ UFOlogy. It was an extreme irritant in the hide of the intelligence community and particularly the Air Force, and required a special Pentagon/Wright-Pat hit-team to thwart them in the late fifties and early sixties. The released insider documents describing this ‘team’s’ struggles to head Keyhoe off are the clearest statements of government deliberately blocking UFO inquiry that any conspiracy theorist would desire.”

(nicap.org image)

UFO Publications: “UFO Studies, Research Papers and Books”

(NOUFORS, Sudbury, Canada)

Northern Ontario UFO Research & Study presents the following UFO reports, research papers and books:

* “PROJECT BLUE BOOK – SPECIAL REPORT NO.14, May 5, 1955”

* “ELECTRO-MAGNETIC EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS by Washington, D.C., Subcommittee of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), June 1960”

* “THE UFO EVIDENCE, 1964 (book by NICAP)”

* “ADVANCED VEHICLE CONCEPTS RESEARCH, May 2, 1968”

* “UNITED STATES AIR FORCE PROJECTS GRUDGE and BLUEBOOK REPORTS 1-12, June 1968”

Dr. James E. McDonald publications:

* “STATEMENT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, 
July 29, 1968

* UFOs – An International Scientific Problem

* UFOs – Extraterrestrial Probes?

* UFO ENCOUNTER 1

* Science in Default

* UFOs and the Condon Report

* THE PROBLEM OF THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

* UFOs OVER LAKENHEATH IN 1956

* THE 1957 GULF COAST RB-47 INCIDENT

* THE KIRTLAND AIRFIELD UFO

* UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: GREATEST SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM OF OUR TIMES?

* Science, Technology, and UFOs

* Letter to the United Nations Outer Space Affairs Group Meteorological Factors in Unidentified Radar Returns”

* “RAND Document, November 27, 1968”

* “UFOLOGY, 1976 (book by James M. McCampbell”

* “THE UFO ENIGMA, 1983”:

http://www.noufors.com/UFO_studies_research_papers_&_books.html

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UFO News Article: “Coverup charged on UFOs”

14 November 1983 
(Spokane Chronicle, Washington)

The article focuses on the November 1983 “A Cosmic Watergate?” conference:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ov1LAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fvkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6920,3076321

Quote from the article:

“LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Lawrence Fawcett says he was a skeptic about UFOs until the afternoon he saw one the size of a Boeing 747 tap a power substation in Manchester, Conn., and blow out the town’s electricity.”

Lawrence A. Fawcett was a Connecticut police officer.



The late Lawrence A. Fawcett, U.S. UFO Author & Researcher

(Paranormal Videos You may have Missed (YouTube channel)/

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U.S. Military UFO Reports, UFO News Articles & National Wire Service Reports: “the battle of los angeles”

(Saturday Night Uforia)

Several UFOs were first sighted over Los Angeles, California, on the night of 24 February 1942.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article, “Battle of Los Angeles”: 
“Air raid sirens were sounded throughout Los Angeles County at 2:25 a.m. and a total blackout was ordered. Thousands of air raid wardens were summoned to their positions. At 3:16 a.m. on February 25, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade began firing 12.8-pound anti-aircraft shells into the air at the object(s); over 1400 shells would eventually be fired [1]. Pilots of the 4th Interceptor Command were alerted but their aircraft remained grounded. The artillery fire continued sporadically until 4:14 a.m. The objects were said to have taken about 20 minutes to have moved from over Santa Monica to above Long Beach. The "all clear" was sounded and the blackout order lifted at 7:21 a.m.”

It was the contemporary news agencies who named the UFO incident, The Battle of Los Angeles:

http://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/thebattleoflosangeles.html

The famous 25 February 1942 “Battle of Los Angeles” photo

(gstatic.com photo)

UFO Article & Documentary Film Series Trailer: “New UFO show set to premiere on Discovery Canada”

By Jason McClellan, 10 December 2013

(OpenMinds.tv, Tempe, Arizona)

The documentary series is titled “Close Encounters”:

http://www.openminds.tv/new-ufo-show-set-premiere-discovery-canada/25398

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Mystery Documentary Film Series Trailer: “THE UNEXPLAINED FILES” (2013)

31 October 2013

(Discovery Communications, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland)

“Missing Pilot”:

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

This is a documentary trailer on the 21 October 1978 Frederick Valentich disappearance. On this date, Valentich was flying from Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne to King Island, Tasmania.

The Australian article on the 21 October 1978 Frederick Valentich case (4.bp.blogspot.com image)

U.S. Government UFO Documents: “Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) Related Documents DoD: UFO Packet”

(Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff,

FOIA Requester Service Center,

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

The “UFO Packet” (foi/homeland_defense/UFOs/) web page contains the U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet titled “INFORMATION OF UFOs,” which announces that the Air Force ended its UFO investigations on 17 December 1969 (Page 26):

http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/homeland_defense/UFOs/174.pdf

The web page also contains the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)/Joint Staff (JS) document called “DDO TALKER (AS OF 091400 EST NOV 75).”

The document’s full text reads as follows (Page 55):

“UFO SIGHTING

(U) Unknown sightings vicinity Malmstrom AFB, MT (See MFR).

A follow-up with NORAD at 090430 EST provided no additional

Information. (LTG Smith indicated his continuing interest in

phones with DDO OT #4 on 8 November 1975).”

The Seal of the United States Department of Defense (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org image)

UFO News Article & TV News Report: “ITV programme to revisit famous Suffolk UFO sighting”

20 November 2013 
(ITV, London, UK)

ITV reports on the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest, UK, UFO incidents:

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2013-11-20/itv-programme-to-revisit-famous-suffolk-ufo-sighting/

Map of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, UK

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UK Government UFO Documents: “Selected Documents: Rendlesham Forest/Flying Saucer Working Party”

(NickPope.net)

Quote from the web page:

“The Flying Saucer Working Party was set up in October 1950 by Ministry of Defence Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Henry Tizard”:

http://www.nickpope.net/Selected_Documents.htm

Quote from the “Flying Saucer Working Party” document:

“Investigation of incidents in the United Kingdom

10. During the summer and autumn of 1950 the British press gave considerable publicity to reports of alleged sightings of luminous bodies travelling at high speed, usually after dark, but occasionally in daylight. The Air Ministry also received a number of letters from members of the public with similar reports.”

Nick Pope, the former Head of the UK MoD's UFO Office
(1991-1994), UFO Author, Lecturer & Researcher

UFO Case Directory: “Category 1, Distant Encounters – The Farmington Invasion – March 16, 1950 – Farmington, New Mexico”

(NICAP.org)

The Farmington (New Mexico) UFO incidents occurred on three consecutive days (15, 16 and 17 March 1950).

NICAP.org presents U.S. government (U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.

http://www.nicap.org/500316farmington_dir.htm

Related post:

UFO News Article:

“Hundreds Witness Mystery Flight

Of Flying Discs In New Mexico”,

18 March 1950 (Lewiston Morning Tribune, Idaho):

ufo-news-article-hundreds-witness.html

“Farmington, New Mexico” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Farmington-New-Mexico.html

Satellite photo of Farmington, New Mexico (tageo.com)
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UFO Audio Interview: “UFO Encounters – March 16, 1950 near Clearfield, PA – Dr. Craig Hunter”

10 December 2008 
(Eyes On The Skies Productions)

Dr. Craig Hunter observed a large, disk shaped UFO at close range:

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

Related post:

UFO news article:

“A 2-Minute Close-Up View -

Scientist Sees Flying Saucer Spinning Near Clearfield”,

16 March 1950 (The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania):

ufo-news-article-2-minute-close-up-view.html

“Clearfield, Pennsylvania” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Clearfield-Pennsylvania.html

Satellite photo of Clearfield, Pennsylvania

(tageo.com photo)

UFO Case Reports: “UFO CASEBOOK: 1950”

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the web page:

“This selection of ‘UFO CASEBOOK’ contains the Blue Book ‘Unknowns’ and will soon provide the best links to these cases (where available). Appropriate additions to these and other Casebook files, in particular, those filed AFTER Blue Book closed down in December of 1969, will eventually be provided by reputable private researchers and official UFO organizations.

Francis Ridge

NICAP”:

http://www.nicap.org/1950.htm

Related posts:

ufo-newsmagazine-articles-book-excerpt.html

ufo-journal-issue-journal-of-ufo-history.html

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UFO Report Chronology: “UFO Sightings in 1950”

(UFO DNA, U.S.A.)

Many of the 1950 UFO incidents were witnessed by military personnel:

http://thecid.com/ufo/chrono/chrono/1950.htm

Quote from the web page:

“22 January 1950 04:40 (a.m.) – Kodiak, Alaska, USA – US Navy patrol plane and USS Tillamook encounter a ‘threatening’ radar target and electromagnetic effects”

NOTE: Each UFO case report contains a link to a map of the location of the UFO incident.

Satellite photo of Kodiak, Alaska

(tageo.com image)

UFO Report: “1950 UFO Chronology and Graphic Evidence of UFO Reality”

Created: 22 December 2005,

Updated: 13 November 2013

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This is a 21-page report on an on-going project involving a number of people. With the help of William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), and Dan Wilson (digging out the cases from my checklist), the task becomes much easier. But without Brad Sparks’ updated list, the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns, the entire project would have been impossible. And our thanks also go to Jean Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves.

This was a very important year in UFOlogy. Some of the best photographic evidence was obtained that year: April 23, Red Bud, Illinois; April 27, White Sands, New Mexico (Cinetheodolite film taken by camera tracking station); May 11, McMinnville, Oregon (Trent photos); May 24, White Sands (Cinetheodolite films); June 27, Louisville, Kentucky (Hixenbaugh movie film); August 15, Great Falls, Montana (Mariana color film); August 31, Alamogordo, New Mexico (Project TWINKLE film). Even more important is the fact that the April 27 White Sands tracking was a successful triangulation!!!

Then there were all the sightings and radar-jamming and radiation incidents at Oak Ridge (in particular, Oct 29 & 30th). The Oak Ridge story included the FBI being put on ‘immediate high alert’.

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator”:

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1950fullrep.htm

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UFO News Article: “Planes Make Futile Chase Of Flying Disk”

19 September 1950 
(The Tuscaloosa News, Tuscaloosa-Northport, Alabama)

Hundreds of Poplar Bluff, South-Eastern Missouri residents sighted a UFO on the afternoon of 18 September 1950, The Tuscaloosa News informs:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19500919&id=t_I-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=T00MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6336,6343380

Quote from the article:

“Police, airport and radio station personnel said ‘just about everyone in Poplar Bluff’ saw the mysterious object for five or six hours yesterday afternoon.

Civil Aeronautics Authority workers at Maiden, 28 miles southeast of here, plotted its southeasterly course from 4. p.m. until dark.

A National Guard sergeant at Memphis finally confirmed that the F-51’s climbed to 39,000 feet but could not make contact with the object. He did not say whether the pilots actually saw the object.”

“Poplar Bluff, Missouri” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Poplar-Bluff-Missouri.html

Map of Missouri (lib.utexas.edu)

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UFO News Article: “More Flying Disk Stories Heard; Now Over Carolinas”

10 March 1950 (The Bend Bulletin, Oregon)

The article contains reports on two March 1950 mass UFO sightings:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19500310&id=AWlYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cvcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6411,5995010

On 10 March (according to NICAP.org), a disk shaped UFO hovered over Orangeburg, South Carolina for 15 minutes, then disappeared leaving a vapour trail (night-time sighting) and a bright, disk shaped UFO was sighted over Van Nuys, Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley), California on 8 March (according to the website, UFO DNA).

Quote from the article:

“Another flying saucer was reported yesterday by residents of Van Nuys, Calif., who told police they saw a bright disk flying about 400 feet in the air. All witnesses said they were sure it was not an aircraft of any known variety.

Composer Eddie Coffman and actor Reed Hadley and his wife said they studied the disk through a telescope. Coffman said it appeared to be 50 feet in diameter and have a dark smudge on the top.”

“Orangeburg, South Carolina” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Orangeburg-South-Carolina.html

Wikipedia article: “Van Nuys, Los Angeles”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nuys,_Los_Angeles

Satellite photo of Orangeburg, South Carolina

(tageo.com photo)

UFO News Article: “Flying Disk Reported at Sioux City”

31 March 1950 (The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa)

A UFO, described as looking like a straightedge ruler and as a disk, was sighted over Sioux City, Iowa on 30 March 1950:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NRNRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8csMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4882,6444402

Quote from the article:

“The object was seen by at least eight persons, including several members of the Iowa air national guard unit here.

Dr. Fred M. Bohmker, 30, a veterinarian, said he saw the object at about 9:30 a.m. while pursuing his hobby of watching wild geese in migration.

‘One particular flock of geese went overhead, but an object remained above their path of flight,’ he said. He declared he watched it through binoculars and ‘all I could think of was a straight-edge ruler.’

Two other persons with Dr. Bohmker also saw the object. They were Sam Baker, about 28, and Harlan Hyde, about 48.

Cpl. Richard Kjos, 21, a member of an air national guard unit, said he saw the object a little later. ‘It followed a T-6 (training plane) right into the traffic pattern. It was white – awfully white – and was blurred around the edges, mist-like.’

Kjos said the object appeared to be ‘quite high’ over a highway near the air base.

Both the corporal and other members of the national guard unit who saw the object said it appeared to be controlled because it ‘made a smooth even flight.’

They said it travelled slowly for a time and then streaked away at high speed. Some of the guardsmen described the object as ‘like a dime turned on edge.’ ”

“Sioux City, Iowa” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Sioux-City-Iowa.html






















Aerial view of Sioux City, Iowa
(airphotona.com photo)

Satellite photo of Sioux City, Iowa
(tageo.com photo)

UFO News Article: “Skeptic Says He Saw Flying Saucer”

6 July 1950 (Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah)

William Grant, a former Marine Corps aerial photographer, and Gilbert Magill, president of a firm conducting research with helicopters, sighted a brilliantly lighted, disk shaped UFO over Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on 5 July 1950, at midnight, the article says:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19500706&id=NMkdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KFgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5071,1014429

“West Hollywood, California” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/West-Hollywood-California.html

Satellite photo of West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

(tageo.com photo)

UFO News Article: “Reports Show Flying Saucers Put in a Very Busy Week”

27 July 1952 (The News and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina)

The article informs about some of the UFO incidents that occurred over the north-eastern part of the United States in July 1952:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ewlZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JkYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3957,5612661

Quote from the article:

“Most of the recent sightings were made by relatively competent observers, by pilots, airport control tower men and civilian air defense spotters. In one case, radar technicians at the airport in Washington reported unidentified, unexplained ‘blips’ on their radar scopes the same night other people saw strange lights in the sky.”

Map of the United States (united-states-map.com)
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