Thursday, 14 January 2016

UFO Article (Blog):
“Project Newsprint – Queensland commences,
and another old sighting from Victoria”


By Keith Basterfield, 14 January 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)























Map of Queensland, Australia (australiaforall.com)
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UFO Article (Blog):
“Project Newsprint – Victoria – more sightings”


By Keith Basterfield, 13 January 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/project-newsprint-victoria-more.html















Map of Victoria, Australia (provelopassion.files.wordpress.com)
(provelopassion.files.wordpress.com image)

UFO Article (Blog):
“TROVE – more digitised
newspapers now available”


By Keith Basterfield, 10 January 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/trove-more-digitised-newspapers-now.html









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UFO Article (Blog):
“Project Newsprint – Victoria – update”


By Keith Basterfield, 10 January 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)


Related post:

ufo-article-blog-project-newsprint.html















Map of Victoria, Australia (provelopassion.files.wordpress.com)
(provelopassion.files.wordpress.com image)

UFO News Article & Video:
“VIDEO: Astro-photographers film
‘super-fast’ UFO hurtling over Darwin”


8 January 2016
(Northern Territory News, Darwin, Australia)

The UFO footage was recorded (by Paul and Sylvia Mayo) at a petrol station near Berrimah, Australia (located south of Darwin) on 12 June 2015, at 1:00 a.m.:













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Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Google Website Searches:
Focus On Project Blue Book Documents
Mentioning Radar


Website: Fold3.com (Lindon, Utah):

(Radar)
(Radar Data)

(Radar Scope)

(Radar Screen)
(Radar Return)
(Radar Painted)

(Radar Showed)

(Radar Contact)
















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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Google Website Searches:
Focus On Project Blue Book Documents
Mentioning Radiation/Radioactive/
Radioactivity/Geiger Counter/
Alpha Rays/Beta Rays/Gamma Rays


Site: Fold3.com (Lindon, Utah):

(Geiger Counter)

(Alpha Rays)

(Beta Rays)


















(ufocasebook.com image)

U.S. Government UFO Document:
“SUBJECT: Visit to WADC”


4 November 1952
(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah

Quote from the document:
Facts and Discussion

1. On 4 Nov 1952 Capt E. J. Ruppelt and Lt R. M. Olsson visited Col Hood, chief of the Nuclear Powered Aircraft Branch of WADC. Previous to this visit, Col Hood had contacted ATIC in regard to certain sightings of UFO’s at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, in which he and a Naval officer had attempted to obtain correlation between sightings and peaks in radiation backgrounds.

2. Col Hood stated that in Jul 1950, the person who was then head of the Physics Department at Vanderbilt University (Col Hood could not recall his name, but stated he would find out and notify ATIC) said that he believed there might be some correlation between sightings of UFO’s and increases in radiation. Col Hood and a Naval officer became interested and attempted to correlate these occurences.”

3. … Col Hood stated that approximately three times per month, peaks would be recorded on the tapes, sometimes on either the alpha counter or gamma counter and sometimes on both simultaneously. They took these peaks and the unknown radar pickups and in some cases were able to correlate them. No written record was made or kept, consequently, the percent correlation is not known.”













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UFO News Article:
“ ‘Abnormal Radiation’ Reported By Author”


19 January 1956
(Wilmington Morning Star, North Carolina)

The article reports on retired U.S. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt’s UFO book (published in early 1956):


Quote from the article:
“A new book on flying saucers said today some atomic scientists have detected ‘abnormal radiations’ at the times and in the areas of sighting of unidentified objects in the sky. But it says there is no proof the phenomena are connected.

The author, former Air Force Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, was for two years chief of the Air Force project for investigation of flying saucer reports.

He said that the data which he gathered on the radiation reports was rejected by the Air Force as containing ‘not enough conclusive evidence.’

‘No one could explain the sudden bursts of radiation, but there was no proof that they were associated with UFO’s,’ Ruppelt said in ‘The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,’ published by Doubleday & Co.

1. A panel of scientists in January 1953, rejected an unofficial Air Force analysis prepared by a staff headed by Maj. Dewey Fournet, that UFOs were interplanetary space ships. Ruppelt said the space ship conclusion was supported by some air officers ‘at command levels just a notch below’ Maj. Gen. John A. Samford, at the time Air Force director of intelligence.

3. While the Air Force has said officially there is no proof that space ships exist, ‘This conclusion is far from being unanimous among the military and their scientific advisers.’ ”



















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U.S. Government UFO Document:
“Subject: Memorandum for Record:
Preparation for trip to Los Alamos, N.M.,
and the West Coast”


29 December 1952
(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah

Quote from the document:
“1. At approximately 1330 on 29 Dec 1952, Capt Ruppelt called Lt Col Paul H. Butman (telephone: Sterling 38000– Extension 221), Division of Military Application, Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. Purpose of the call was to coordinate the visit to Los Alamos. Col Butman has previously been briefed on the possible correlation between detection of radiation from unknown sources and unidentified flying objects by Capt Ruppelt during a visit to AEC approximately two weeks ago.”













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U.S. Government UFO Document:
“SUBJECT: Memorandum for Record:
Call to Los Alamos, New Mexico”


15 December 1952
(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah

The whole text:
“1. On the evening of 15 Dec 1952, Capt E. J. Ruppelt called Mr. Homer T. Gittings, Jr., of 1537B 41st Street, Los Alamos, New Mexico (Tele: 24880). The purpose of the call was to contact Mr. (blacked out name) in regard to some previous data that Capt Ruppelt had obtained about a correlation between the visual sightings of UFO and radiation from unknown sourses. Previous to this, Capt Ruppelt sent Mr. (blacked out name) a registered letter requesting the data, but the letter was returned as unclaimed. Mr. (blacked out name) explained that when the letter arrived, he had been out of town and the post office had gotten mixed up on his instructions to hold any mail and had returned the letter.

2. Although not too much data could be obtained over the telephone, Mr. (blacked out name) did shed some light on some of the questions that had been asked in regard to the correlations. In the first place, a Mr. (blacked out name), Los Alamos, New Mexico, phone 22263, was the person who knew people at Mt. Palomar who had also seen unidentified aerial objects at the same time they had detected some radiation. Contrary to previous beliefs, Mr. (blacked out name) was not there at the time and only heard of the incident through personal letters from these people at Mt. Palomar. Mr. (blacked out name) stated that he was sure that Mr. (blacked out name) could give us the names of the people at Palomar and there is a possibility that they are still there. The other gentleman involved in the sightings at Los Alamos is a (blacked out name). Mr. (blacked out name) stated that between 
1 Oct 1951 and 1 Oct 1952 he had picked three or four definite indications of radiation from unknown sources and that several of them had correlated with newspaper articles within two hours. He was not sure how many Mr. (blacked out name) obtained.

3. In describing the nature of the radiation which had been picked up, Mr. (blacked out name) stated that ‘they picked up a vertical component – a particle that penetrated three thin walled tubes and the roof of the building.’ The tubes are 5/8 inches in diameter and 2 inches on center. He stated that they had checked all sources of radiation from the laboratory and that this type of radiation was far out of line for any cosmic activity.

4. Mr. (blacked out name) was asked to obtain more information on the type of equipment that was used to get the radiation, the exact dates and time of all indicated radiation, and a little bit of background on each of the people. He was also told that personnel from Blue Book would try to contact him personally within the next two or three weeks to obtain all of this information.”














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Sunday, 10 January 2016

UFO Case Directory:
“Category 2, Close Encounters –
Object Maneuvers In Parking Lot –
July 14, 1954 –
St. Louis, Missouri”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
Brad Sparks:
July 14, 1954; St. Louis, Missouri (BBU)
7:50 a.m. (CDT). McDonnell Aircraft Propulsion Lab employees sighted 1.5-foot sheet-like object maneuvering in company parking lot from distances varying from 4 to 200 feet, first descending from the E at 30 ft altitude stopped on the ground, rose to 4 ft height, made right-angle turn to N, traveled 75 ft and climbed above 8-ft fence to disappear in the overcast sky, under light almost calm wind conditions. One observer followed at 5-ft distance. (Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 150-1)

Fran Ridge:
July 14, 1954; St. Louis, Missouri (BBU)
7:50 a.m. (CDT). Ten McDonnell Aircraft Propulsion Lab employees (5 reporting) sighted a 1.5-foot milky white rectangular object maneuvering in company parking lot at 3-8 mph from distances varying from 4 to 200 feet, first descending from the E at 30 ft altitude stopped on the ground, rose to 4 ft height, made right-angle turn to N, traveled 75 ft and climbed above 8-ft fence to disappear in the overcast sky, under light almost calm wind conditions. All observers had aeronautical experience. One observer followed at 4-ft distance. (Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 150-1)”

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

http://www.nicap.org/540714stlouis_dir.htm






















Satellite photo of St. Louis, Missouri (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Google Website Searches:
Focus On UFO Incidents At Research
Facilities/Centers and Laboratories


Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP.org):

(Research Facility)

(Laboratory)

(Lab)

Website: National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC.org):

(Research Facility)

(Research Center)

(Laboratory)

(Lab)

Website: UFOINFO.com:

(Research Facility)

(Laboratory)

Website: UFO DNA (thecid.com/ufo):

(Research Facility)

(Research Center)

(Laboratory)

(Lab)

UFO case report:
“RV NEAR OAK RIDGE AEC PLANT – June 21, 1952”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
“On June 21, 1952, at 10:58 PM, a Ground Observer Corps spotter reported that a slow-moving craft was nearing the AECs Oak Ridge Laboratory, an area so secret that it is prohibited to aircraft. The spotter called the light into his filter center and the filter center relayed the message to the ground control intercept radar. They had a target. But before they could do more than confirm the GOC spotter’s report, the target faded from the radarscope.

An F-47 aircraft on combat air patrol in the area was vectored in visually, spotted a light, and closed on it. They ‘fought’ from 10,000 to 27,000 feet, and several times the object made what seemed to be ramming attacks. The light was described as white, 
6 to 8 inches in diameter, and blinking until it put on power. The pilot could see no silhouette around the light. The similarity to the Fargo case was striking.

In each of these instances, as well as in the case narrated next, the sources of the stories were trained airmen with excellent reputations. They were sincerely baffled by what they bad seen. They had no conceivable motive for falsifying or ‘dressing up’ their reports.

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt”

http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge520621.htm






















Satellite photo of Oak Ridge, Tennessee (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Saturday, 9 January 2016

UFO Paper:
“THE FANTASTIC FLIGHT OF JAL1628”


By Bruce Maccabee (brumac.8k.com)

The paper reports on the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines cargo jet Flight 1628 UFO incident over North East Alaska:


The initial UFO sighting occurred 90 nautical miles north east of Fort Yukon, according to Maccabee.

The UFO incident occurred on 17 November 1986, at 5:19 p.m. (18 November, at 2:19 UTC), according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document (files.afu.se).

The JAL cargo jet was piloted by Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi.

NOTE: It is unclear whether the pilot’s first name is Kenju or Kenji.

Related post:

ufo-news-article-washington-to-get-ufo.html





















Map of Alaska (wikimedia.org)
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U.S. Government Document Catalogue:
“The National Archives Catalog:
Information Releases Relating to
Unidentified Flying Object, 1986 - 1986”


(National Archives and Records Administration,
Washington, D.C.)

The document deals with the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines cargo jet Flight 1628 UFO incident over North East Alaska:


Quote from the document:
Scope & Content

This series documents the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by the crew of Japan Airlines flight 1628 while in Alaskan air space. There are transcripts of the pilot’s communication with air traffic control personnel; a text of an interview with the captain, Federal Aviation Administration personnel, and an interpreter as well as with the flight engineer and co-pilot. There are also diagrams drawn by the captain detailing the position of the UFO relative to his airplane during the sighting, and a copy of his personal statement on the event.

There are inspection and surveillance reports; photographs of recreated radar screens simulating the actual sighting; copies of newspaper clippings; and letters from citizens requesting copies of documents related to the sighting.”

The JAL cargo jet was piloted by Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi.

The UFO incident occurred on 17 November 1986, at 5:19 p.m. (18 November, at 2:19 UTC), according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document (files.afu.se).

Related post:

ufo-article-blog-john-callahan-of-japan.html













Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,
with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs
(4.bp.blogspot.com photo)