UFO News Article: “ ‘Just The Facts’ On UFOs”

18 February 1968

(St. Petersburg Times, Florida)

The article reports on Mort Young’s book, “UFO: TOP SECRET” (Publisher: Essandress Special Editions, 1967):

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19680218&id=X90yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0lwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5642,5775849

Quote from the article:
“Of all the books on the subject, his is certainly the most concise and tightly reasoned.”

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Google Website Searches: Focus On UFO Incidents At Interstate Highways: I-16, I-17, I-19, I-20, I-22, I-24, I-25 and I-26 (Main Interstate Routes)

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT):

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA):

“FHWA Route Log and Finder List”:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/index.cfm

“FHWA Route Log and Finder List:

Table 1: Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways ”:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/table01.cfm

Interstate 16 (I-16) (Georgia), Interstate 17 (I-17) (Arizona), Interstate 19 (I-19) (Arizona), Interstate 20 (I-20) (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina), Interstate 22 (I-22) (Mississippi, Alabama), Interstate 24 (I-24) (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia), Interstate 25 (I-25) (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming), Interstate 26 (I-26) (North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee).

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

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+16”+site:nuforc.org

(Search term: Interstate 16 (I-16) (Georgia))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I-16”+site:nuforc.org

(I-16 (Georgia))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+17”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 17 (I-17) (Arizona))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I-17”+site:nuforc.org

(I-17 (Arizona))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+19”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 19 (I-19) (Arizona))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I-19”+site:nuforc.org

(I-19 (Arizona))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+20”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 20 (I-20) (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I-20”+site:nuforc.org

(I-20 (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, 
South Carolina))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+22”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 22 (I-22) (Mississippi, Alabama)) 
(no cases as of 20 May 2016)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I-22”+site:nuforc.org

(I-22 (Mississippi, Alabama)) 
(no cases as of 20 May 2016)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+24”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 24 (I-24) (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I-24”+site:nuforc.org

(I-24 (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+25”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 25 (I-25) (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I-25”+site:nuforc.org

(I-25 (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+26”+site:nuforc.org

(Interstate 26 (I-26) (North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I-26”+site:nuforc.org

(I-26 (North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee))

Website: UFO DNA (thecid.com/ufo)

(NOTE: Most of the reports come from NUFORC.org):

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+16”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 16 (I-16) (Georgia))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I+16”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-16 (Georgia))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+17”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 17 (I-17) (Arizona))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I+17”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-17 (Arizona))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+19”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 19 (I-19) (Arizona))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I+19”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-19 (Arizona))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+20”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 20 (I-20) (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina)) 
(no cases as of 20 May 2016)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I+20”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-20 (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, 
South Carolina))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+22”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 22 (I-22) (Mississippi, Alabama)) 
(no cases as of 20 May 2016)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I+22”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-22 (Mississippi, Alabama)) 
(no cases as of 20 May 2016)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+24”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 24 (I-24) (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I+24”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-24 (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+25”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 25 (I-25) (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I+25”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-25 (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Interstate+26”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(Interstate 26 (I-26) (North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee))

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“I+26”+site:thecid.com/ufo

(I-26 (North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee))

NOTE: I-22 (omitted from the U.S. Interstate Highway System Map): Mississippi (Tupelo, New Albany, Holly Springs), Alabama (Birmingham).

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 16”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_16

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 17”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_17

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 19”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_19

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 20”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_20

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 22”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_22

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 24”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_24

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 25”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_25

Wikipedia article: “Interstate 26”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_26

Related post:

google-website-searches-focus-on-ufo_17.html

U.S. Interstate Highway System Map (wikimedia.org)

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UFO News Article: “Thousands of New Yorkers report seeing UFOs”

30 August 1984

(The Ledger, Lakeland, Florida)

The article reports on the 1980s Hudson Valley, New York, UFO wave:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19840830&id=Z0dNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gvsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7104,5846488

Quote from the article:

“It seems that thousands of people in the area have reported seeing strange objects in the night sky. Usually described as V-shaped and about the size of a football field, the colossal ‘Thing’ is said to be absolutely noiseless and outlined in brilliant lights of white, green and amber.

(Eugene) Bauer (technician for a fiber optics firm) says he saw the Thing one night in March 1983 as he and a friend were driving home from a restaurant.

‘It floated above our car, no more than 150 feet up, standing still,’ he said. ‘I don’t know what it was, but I know it didn’t come from this Earth.’

Bauer was among a dozen supposed witnesses who recounted their stories before an enthralled audience at the Aug. 25 ‘UFO Conference,’ the agenda of which stretched a full 12 hours.

Dennis Sant, deputy clerk of Putnam County, N.Y., approached the microphone to tell of having watched ‘it’ hover over Interstate Highway 84 one moonlit night.”

Related posts:

http://realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=Hudson+Valley

Map of New York (lib.utexas.edu)

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Video freeze-frame: Large UFO filmed (by Bob Pozzuoli) 
over Brewster (New York) on 24 July 1984

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UFO Case Report: “Ham Radio Operator Hears American Airlines Pilot Report UFO.”

By William Puckett (Montana State MUFON Director),

6 February 2016

(UFOs Northwest, Helena, Montana)

Quote from the UFO case report:

“Location of Sighting: Near Nephi, Utah

Date of Sighting: January 14, 2016

Time of Sighting: Between 12:12 and 12:13 AM MST

Background: This case was reported to me by Erica Lukes who is the director of MUFON for the state of Utah. She knows a radio show host (Pat Daniels) who was scanning communications between aircraft and the FAA shortly after midnight on January 14, 2016. He heard a conversation between an airline pilot and Air Route Traffic Control.

The pilot reported seeing an extremely large bright object that he estimated a mile wide to his right. The air traffic controller told him that he was looking in the direction of Nephi, Utah. Apparently the air traffic controller told the pilot that the object was not detected on radar. The object appeared to keep pace with the aircraft.

A Freedom of Information (FOIA) request was written to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). About six weeks later we received a response to the FOIA. The response consisted of radar returns, voice tapes and tower logs. The FAA is to be commended for their full and timely response to our request.

Research showed that the aircraft was American Airlines Flight Number 434 which was enroute from San Francisco, CA to Philadelphia, PA. The actual sighting time was between 12:12 and 12:13 AM MST on January 14, 2016. We were able to find segments of the conversation on the Air Traffic Control archives website, but much of conversation was deleted. One could hear the controller telling the pilot that Nephi, Utah was off to his right and the pilot acknowledging the transmission. However, the UFO report was not on the tape. The ham radio operator did not record the conversation so the ‘UFO report’ could not be heard. He heard the conversation on the frequency of 127.95 mhz.

Update: March 4, 2016. The voice tape obtained from the FAA (see above) does fill in some of the transmission missing from the tape from the Air Traffic Control archives website. The only thing not included from the original transmission was the estimated size of the object and the and the conversation where the FAA said that the object was not detected on radar. The airline crew described the object as a large orange square.

An animation was constructed for each revolution of the radar (12 seconds). The radar animation frames are speeded up to one second/revolution in the animation. (Animation follows voice tape above.) The animation shows 1 to 3 returns for each revolution of the radar. There are a few rotations where no returns are detected. This is strange. There is no detected conventional movement and the returns vary from 0 to 3 over the 7 minute period. The time period is from 12:08 to 12:15 AM MST which is a few minutes before and after the pilot reported the strange object. One wonders if the object was moving erratically and perhaps was rotating exposing more or less radar cross sectional area resulting in no detection or a different number of returns? The object could have been large considering this type of ‘radar signature?’

A visual trace of the FAA tape is shown in Figure 1. Pat Daniels (ham radio operator) stated in a radio interview that the aircraft radioed the FAA and inquired whether radar showed anything in the area of their sighting. This conversation was around a minute before the conversation where the FAA told the crew that the town to the right was Nephi, Utah. There was some conversation in this time frame. (See annotation in Figure 1.) However, the conversation has been deleted and only a second or two not ‘redacted.’ The question is why did the FAA redact this conversation? According to Pat Daniels the crew did not announce their flight number when they first sighted the object. So perhaps the FAA didn’t include it for that reason. Or perhaps they did not want the public to hear the conversation? In the recorded conversation starting just after 12:12 AM the crew was talking about their sighting and the FAA responded ‘you mean to the right.’ How did they know that? They knew because they had it on radar.”

http://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/ham-radio-operator-hears-american-airlines-pilot-report-ufo/

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UFO News Article (Blog): “They do it for our own good”

By Billy Cox, 25 March 2016

(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida)

Billy Cox reports on William Puckett’s investigation of  the 

14 January 2016 American Airlines Flight Number 434 UFO 

incident near Nephi, Utah:

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15492/they-do-it-for-our-own-good/

The UFO case involves the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

FAA radar pinpointed an object or objects above Interstate 15, according to Cox.

Satellite photo of Nephi, Utah (tageo.com)

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UFO Article (Blog): “Mid-Air Encounter With UFO – Rarely Seen US Army Documents Available Again”

By Paul Dean, 15 May 2016

(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

The article reports on the 18 October 1973 (at 11:05 p.m.) Lawrence J. Coyne (Captain, U.S. Army) helicopter UFO incident near Mansfield, Ohio.

Dean presents the ‘U.S. Army Disposition Form’ report – and 
four other pages pertaining to the case. The report was signed 
by all four of the crew, Captain Lawrence J. Coyne (pilot), 
1st. Lieutenant Arrigo Jezzi, Staff Sergeant John Healey and 
Staff Sergeant Robert Yanacsek.

Coyne retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Army.

Quote from the article:

“Who remembers the 1973 case where a UFO nearly destroyed a US Army Reserve helicopter? You should. Even the debunkers and sceptics get uncomfortable with this one.

Jennie Zeidman, associate of astronomer J. Allen Hynek, published a report titled ‘Helicopter-UFO Encounter Over Ohio’ for the Centre for UFO Studies in 1979 after meticulously investigating the case.

The case has never been solved.”

http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2016/05/mid-air-encounter-with-ufo-rarely-seen.html

Related posts:

http://realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=Lawrence+Coyne

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UFO Article (Blog): “Project Moon Dust And The 1127th Field Activities Group – More Unseen Records?”

By Paul Dean, 8 May 2016

(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

Quote from the article:

“When going through hundreds of old United States Air Force (USAF) records at archive.org I found a record titled ‘History of the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence: July – December 1967.’ This is not the first time I have found records this way. See this post for another example of what can be found at archive.org if one makes the effort. Anyway, the above mentioned record seems to only include the functions and responsibilities of the 1127th Field Activities Group (FAG). It starts off at Page 46. For those readers who don’t know, the 1127th FAG, historically, relates to the USAF’s painful reaction to the UFO issue. The organisation started out its shadowy life as the 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS) in January 1953, when Air Defence Command Regulation 24-4 created it for a wartime mission of exploiting downed enemy people, papers, and hardware. In March 1953, the decision was made to use the 4602nd AISS in UFO investigations and, by the end of December 1953, a working agreement existed between the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) and the new 4602nd AISS. In fact, all UFO reports were to go through the 4602d AISS prior to any transmission to Project Blue Book at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base – Project Blue Book being the publicly admitted UFO ‘investigative’ desk, if you can call what they did as ‘investigations’ that is. Anyway, in July 1957 the 4602nd, became the 1006th AISS, then in April 1960, it was reorganised as the 1127th FAG! Furthermore, through the years, these organisations ran the infamous ‘Project Moon Dust,’ which many of you will know of. For those that do not, put simply, the original mission of Project Moon Dust, as stated by US Air Force Message #54322, dated December 23, 1957, was to ‘to collect and analyze raw intelligence reports from the field on fallen space debris and objects of unknown origin.’

Looking at the bigger picture, the only thing these obscure publications really prove is that there is more UFO-related, governmental (usually of military providence) record to be found. There must be dozens of under-utilised archives that contain significant, at least historically, material. None of this of course will solve the UFO matter. It will, however, fill in little parts of history, and, sometimes, lead us to more discoveries.”

http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2016/05/project-moon-dust-and-1127th-field.html

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UFO TV Report & News Article: “Archive 1959: Fighter jets sent to intercept Redmond UFO”

12 May 2016

(NBC KGW, Portland, Oregon)

KGW reports on the 24 September 1959 Redmond, Oregon, UFO incident.

The large, bright UFO was first spotted by police officer Robert Dickerson shortly before dawn.

Six F-102 jet fighters were sent from Portland.

The article contains the official report L. E. Davis sent to the Federal Aviation Agency (now Federal Aviation Administration) (FAA). Davis was Chief of Redmond Air Traffic Communication Station.

Quote from Davis’ letter:

“Seattle Air Route Control Center advised radar contacted UFO at 1420Z located 25 miles south of Redmond at 52.00 feet.”

The video comes from a September 1959 broadcast of ‘Space Report’ on KGW Television:

http://www.kgw.com/news/special-reports/archive-video/archive-1959-fighter-jets-sent-to-intercept-redmond-ufo_/187710228

The video is also presented on facebook.com by KGW-TV:

https://www.facebook.com/KGWTV8/videos/1959:-ufo-over-redmond/10153439068855736/

Related post:

google-website-searches-focus-on-ufo_6.html

Satellite photo of Redmond, Oregon (tageo.com)

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UFO Technical Report: “Small White Ball of Light Flies Near Airliner: Investigation of High Resolution, Digital, Color Photographs of July 3, 2005 at 2031 Hrs., Palo Alto, California”

By Richard F. Haines, 27 July 2007

(NARCAP, Temecula, California)

The photographs were taken by the amateur astronomer Lance Boehm.

http://www.narcap.org/files/narcap_TR-12_2007.pdf

Satellite photo of Palo Alto, California (tageo.com)

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UFO News Article: Flying Saucer Drawing by U.S. Air Force Sergeants, California, 1950

5 April 1950

(Plattsburgh press-Republican, New York)

Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com

The whole article:

“ ‘WE SWEAR IT’ – With hands on the Bible, Air Force Sergeants Bill Elder, left, and Bob O’Hara take an oath that they saw a fantastic sky form cavorting over a mountain resort near Long Beach, Calif. At left is their sketch of the ‘pinkish, pancake-like affair, with a fin on one side,’ one of the latest in a new rash of ‘flying saucers.’ ”

http://ufonewspaper.blogspot.com/2016/01/pilots-drawing-of-flying-saucer-1950.html

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Satellite photo of Long Beach, California (tageo.com)

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UFO News Article: “Destroyer Tracks Unidentified ‘Object’ Off Southern Coast”

10 November 1950

(The Modesto Bee, California)

Source: Water UFO (waterufo.net)

Quote from the article:

“The United States destroyer Blue (USS Blue (DD-744)) search[ed] the Pacific Ocean off Southern California with radar today, trying to track down a mysterious ‘unidentified object.’

A Navy report said the Blue picked the ‘object’ up on its radar screen and was maintaining the contact.

The Blue, based in San Diego, had the object in its radar screen and was trying to close with it to identify it.

Announcement of the search was made at Washington after San Diego authorities forwarded a report to the Navy Department there.

The announcement made no mention of a submarine and gave no details of when or where contact with the object was made.”

http://www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=1518

Wikipedia article: “USS Blue (DD-744)”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Blue_(DD-744)

Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Blue was again placed in commission 15 September 1950 and reported to Destroyer Division 131, Pacific Fleet. After engaging in training exercises off the coast of California, she departed San Diego early in 1951 and arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, 23 January. She operated in Korean and Japanese waters until August.”

USS Blue (DD-744) (wikimedia.org)

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UFO News Article: “Brilliant Object Sighted Near California Airliner”

6 October 1950

(Eugene Register-Guard, Oregon)

The whole article:

“A mysterious, brilliantly-lighted object that dived at an airline plane near Burbank, Calif., had aeronautical authorities digging out their ‘flying saucer’ data again Friday.

Capt. Cecil Hardin, captain of California Central Airlines flight No. 71, radioed Lockheed Airport at Burbank, Calif., Thursday night that the mystery object dived on him at 7:32 p.m. between Van Nuys and San Fernando.

Lockheed operations called Van Nuys which reported no aircraft in flight, and reports from air controlling points in the region failed to show any aircraft in the area.

The object, which looked like a flying wing without a fuselage, loomed straight ahead of the plane and then did a half-roll and went under the left wing, Hardin said.

‘We were climbing from the airport. I looked up and there came six or eight brilliant lights. I started to pull up and it went under the wing. We didn’t feel any prop wash.’

‘I couldn’t tell whether it came within 100 feet or 500 feet of us.

Hardin said his co-pilot, Jack Conroy of Glendale, also saw the object. An unidentified woman passenger told him later she saw lights flash by, but paid no attention as her baby started to cry at the time.

Hardin, a former Army transport pilot, guessed the speed of the object was at least equal to that of a jet plane.

He described the object as being ‘about as long as a DC-3’ (about 85 feet) and said the lights must have been on top as he could still see them after the object went under the wing.”

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19501006&id=RZMVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vAsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4930,4634200

Satellite photo of San Fernando, California (tageo.com)

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U.S. Government UFO Document: “PROJECT 10073 RECORD (CARD): DATE – TIME GROUP: 21 June 1950/LOCATION: Hamilton AFB, California”

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

Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah

Quote from the document (Page 1):

“Military (witnesses).

Report not in file. Card not in file. Case missing.

Four newsclippings and one extract from a ‘Flying Saucer’ magazine constitute the only information available. Case will be evaluated if file is located.”

https://www.fold3.com/image/9615059

Hamilton Air Force Base (now Hamilton Army Airfield) (located in Novato) was transferred to the United States Army in 1973.

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Satellite photo of Novato, California (tageo.com)

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