Thursday, 14 September 2017
U.S. Government UFO Document:
“In Camera Affidavit of Eugene F. Yeates, Civil Action No. 8-1562, 9 Oct 80, US District Court for the District of Columbia in the Case of Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy (CAUS) vs. National Security Agency (NSA), 1980”
Released date: 7 April 2009
Posted date: 12 May 2009
Source of document:
National Security Agency
ATTN: FOIA Office (DJP4)
Fax: 443-479-3612
Source: governmentattic.org, U.S.A.
(wikimedia.org image)
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
U.S. Government UFO Document:
“UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, Lynn E. Catoe, Prepared by the Library of Congress, July 1969”
Request date: 9 November 2014
Released date: 12 November 2014
Posted date: 15 December 2014
Source of document:
ATTN: FOIA
Requester Service
Center
Source: governmentattic.org, U.S.A.
(wikimedia.org image)
Tuesday, 12 September 2017
UFO Report:
“The 1952 Sighting Wave: Radar-Visual Sightings
Establish UFOs As A Serious Mystery”
Created: 15 December 2005
Updated: 4 February 2017
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the web page:
“Fran Ridge:
This is a very comprehensive and qualitative effort.
Without the help of Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson, Brad
Sparks, Jean Waskiewicz, Bill Schroeder and others, this could not have been
done. (Items on the Chop clearance list are coded ‘CCL’). But none of this
would be complete without the story behind the wave of 1952, as told by none
other than Richard Hall.
On March 2, 1950, a Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) meeting
focused on establishing goals for a minimum air defense by 1952. The following
month at a USAF Commanders Conference at Ramey AFB, Puerto
Rico , planners familiarized
commanders with the thinking behind the plan of minimum defense as well as with
its contents. Referred to as the Blue Book Plan, it stipulated that a minimum
air defense could be in place by mid-1952. It was estimated that July 1, 1952,
as the critical date when the Soviets would pose a dangerous threat. General
Charles Cabell expected the Soviets to have between 45 and 90 atom bombs and 70
to 135 Tu-4 bombers (copied B-29s) by that time. Was there a nuclear connection
between this threat and the massive UFO sighting wave of 1952 and the events
over Washington
in July?
Richard Hall:
The summer 1952 UFO sighting wave was one of the
largest of all time, and arguably the most significant of all time in terms of
the credible reports and hardcore scientific data obtained. Electromagnetic
(EM) effects and physical trace evidence were
more prominent in other waves, but 1952 (and 1953) featured recurring
radar detection of UFOs, often from both ground and airborne radar, visual
sightings by jet interceptor pilots sent up to pursue the mysterious objects,
and cat-and-mouse chases in which the UFOs seemed to toy with the interceptors.
Further, Air Force investigators who plotted the sightings noticed that they
were concentrated around strategic military bases, and this clearly posed a
threat to national security since their origin was unknown. Senior generals in
the Air Force concluded that UFOs were
interplanetary in origin, and broadly hinted this belief in LIFE magazine for
April 1952.”
Related posts:
UFO Map: North
America 1952
(larryhatch.net/archive.org image)
Monday, 11 September 2017
UFO News Article:
“NUN SEES ‘SAUCER’ ”
22 May 1952
(Catholic Weekly, Sydney , Australia )
Source: Trove, National Library of Australia , Canberra ,
ACT,
The whole article:
“A nun and an Italian army officer saw a ‘flying
saucer’ in the sky over Asti , near Turin , according to a report published by the Vatican newspaper, ‘Osservatore Romano.’
The ‘saucer’ was described as being about the size of
a car steering wheel. It was visible for a minute.”
Related posts:
(tageo.com photo)
Sunday, 10 September 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“Item 2.102: FOIA Request to the
U. S. National Reconnaissance Office”
23 March 2011
(Larry W. Bryant’s UFOview,Newport News , Virginia )
(Larry W. Bryant’s UFOview,
Wikipedia article: “National Reconnaissance Office”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member
of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States
Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the ‘big
five’ U.S. intelligence agencies.[2] The NRO is headquartered in unincorporated
Fairfax County, Virginia,[3] 2
miles (3.2
km ) south of Washington Dulles International Airport.
It designs, builds, and operates the reconnaissance
satellites of the United
States government, and provides satellite
intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence
(SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement
and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.[4]
The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense[5] and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO’s federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[6] A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and ‘virtually no federal workforce,’ accomplishing most of its work through ‘tens of thousands’ of defense contractor personnel.[7]”
Related posts:
The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense[5] and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO’s federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[6] A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and ‘virtually no federal workforce,’ accomplishing most of its work through ‘tens of thousands’ of defense contractor personnel.[7]”
Related posts:
(wikimedia.org image)
Saturday, 9 September 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“The former Department of Supply,
Dr Michael J Duggin, and ANZAAS”
By Keith Basterfield, 9 September 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Background
I have previously written a number of times about the
former Australian Department of Supply and files which it held on UAP; and the
1971 ANZAAS UAP symposium.
We know from examining previous government files, that
there was discussion within the Department of Defence, in May to July 1971,
about the RAAF handing over investigation of UAP to the Department of Supply,
or at least the Department of Supply taking a look at a limited number of cases
per year from a scientific perspective. (For example NAA files series A703
control symbol 554/1/1/30 Part 2, p.164.) What we have never found out is, what
area within the Department of Supply had expressed this interest? Does a
December 1971 internal Department of Supply memo give us a clue?
In view of this interest, I have transcribed the text
of the memo below. I will then provide some comments about the contents, and
the broader context.
The memo
This is an internal memorandum to Mr T F C Lawrence,
Deputy Secretary, Research and Engineering, Department of Supply, from C N Gerrard, Radar and Electronic Tracking
Group, dated 2 December 1971. The subject was ‘Regarding recent symposium on
UFOs.’
3. The general feeling of those present was that there
is a residue of sighting reports which indicate that some strange phenomenon
exists; and that this warrants scientific investigation.”
Related posts:
(2.bp.blogspot.com/ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com
image)
Friday, 8 September 2017
Newsletter Quote:
“STIGMATA”
Number Four, Summer 1978
(Project Stigma, Paris ,
Texas )
Source: Archives For the Unexplained (AFU.se),
Norrköping, Sweden
Project Stigma was run by the late animal mutilation
researcher Thomas (Tom) R. Adams.
Quote from the newsletter issue:
“A CLOSER LOOK
February
Skagit Co., Washington: It appears that,
proportionally, the number of horse mutilations are increasing. In the last
week of December, a classic horse mutilation occurred in Salt Lake City , Utah .
In early January a prized thoroughbred was killed, but not mutilated, in
Carroll Co., Arkansas .
Leading up to that event, a notable wave of UFO sightings occurred in Carroll County . Benton County , Arkansas
adjoins Carroll Co. on the west (see April, May). The Carroll Co. horse was
apparently killed by a single blow to the snout. A veterinary pathologist was
impressed by the fact that the killer had to know just how and where to strike
the blow once, in order to quickly kill the animal. The Salt Lake City horse, which was mutilated,
suffered a similar blow to the skull. Details on the Skagit Co. horse death
remain sketchy. An investigator in an adjacent county
bas not had much success in getting
information from Skagit
County authorities.
March and
April
Goochland Co., Virginia: Investigators have wondered
about the relatively small number of mutilations which have been reported from
the southeastern United
States , which certainly contain their share
of livestock. In 1978, it seems that more reports are beginning to emanate from
the South. At least 9 cattle, and perhaps as many as 17, were found ‘dead and
mutilated in a bizarre fashion’ on the Virginia State Farm (a state
correctional center) near Crozier in a 3-week period in March and April. No
incidents occurred outside the State Farm. In fact, the mutilations were
discovered in two separate, non-adjoining pastures owned by the State Farm. Autopsies
were conducted on some of the animals, but no cause of death could be
discerned. Ears and udders, primarily, were the parts excised from the carcasses
which, according to Goochland County Sheriff's Captain Mavin Clements, decomposed
very rapidly. Reports of UFO sightings and landings occurred from the area
around the State Farm during the 3-week period. Several Farm guards reported
seeing bright, noiseless, meandering nocturnal lights, some of which appeared
to land behind nearby hills. Project Stigma interviewed a witness who lives
less than a half-mile from the State Farm. On a late Sunday night or early
Monday he observed a white light which descended below a low knoll between his
residence and the Farm. The percipient was struck by the clarity and brilliance
of the light and the lack of any sound. This occurred ‘during the time’ that the
mutilations were being discovered, although it is not known whether any
mutilations occurred on that specific night.
A WEEKEND IN APRIL
Two classic, definitive cattle mutilations occurred on
the weekend of April 22-23, 1978 - in Natrona County ,
Wyoming and Rio Arriba County , New Mexico .
We can report on these incidents in more detail than most, as they were subject
to more scrutiny and examination than is usual.
Rancher Vern Robinett’s 400-lb. yearling heifer had
been seen alive and well on Friday, April 21, 1978. A neighbor later
reported having seen the animal down sometime on Saturday, the 22nd, but Robinett
did not discover the animal until Tuesday, the 25th.
During weeks preceding the mutilation, UFO sightings
were numerous north and south of Casper .
A deputy reported witnessed UFOs and was able to record their sound on a
cassette recorder.
Rio Arriba
County, New Mexico
In June of 1976 at least 3 cattle mutilations were
reported in northern Rio
Arriba County .
An interesting and well-documented case occurred in a pasture approx. 12 miles from the town of Dulce . At that site were numerous circular ‘tracks’ or
impressions in the ground, primarily in straight lines, plus a set of three
different indentations in a tripod arrangement. For a summary of the event, the
reader is directed to the November/December 1977 issue of Beyond Reality
Magazine (P.O. Box 428; Nanuet, NY 10954) and the article, ‘Cattle Mutilation:
Witchcraft Rituals or Space Invasion’ by Howard and Lovola Burgess. Dulce area
residents had reported UFOs, including a sighting on the night of the
mutilation. One investigator, while revisiting the site, observed a large black
object which glided away just above the ground. Unusual images which were not
visible to the naked eye later turned up on photos taken in the area of the
mute site. And, excessive radiation was detected within the round (4-inch diameter)
indentations.
Manuel Gomez, owner of the cow victimized in June of 1976, has become a ‘favorite’ of the mutilators, with at least 4 o! his cattle falling
victim to the siege. Gomez ranches as well as operates a store on the outskirts
of Dulce, near his house. The mutilation which occurred late on April 23rd or
early on the 24th took place, not at the pasture 12 miles SE of Dulce as in
1976, but in a field less than a mile from the Gomez residence in Dulce. The
11-month-old bull vas seen alive Sunday evening and discovered by Gomez early
Monday morning, the 24th. At about 11:00 PM, Sunday night, a Department of Game
and Fish officer observed a large orange light on a ridge behind the Gomez
property; also, a neighbor reported hearing an apparent helicopter flying low
in the area the same night.
The 4-inch tracks were back. The carcass lay in a lane
in the middle of the pasture, and down the lane for a considerable distance
were the imprints. They "went back and forth a couple of times,’ then
stopped about 100 feet
from the carcass. Five other bulls and a flock of sheep were in the pasture and
unharmed.
Approximately 4 days before the April discovery of the
Gomez cow, a helicopter landed near the Gomez store and home. The occupants
said they had run out of gas while aiding the State Police in searching for two
lost boys. They bought gas from the pump at the Gomez store, paying with a
credit card that indicated they were associated with a helicopter rental
service in southwestern Colorado .
The problem was: the State Police claimed that the chopper was not aiding them
in any way.
Aftermath
At presstime, it would seem that no further known
mutilation activity has occurred in the Casper ,
Wyoming area. The same cannot be
said for New Mexico .
About a week after the Dulce mutilation of April 23rd or 24th, and about 10 miles from town, a cow
belonging to an official of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation was found
mutilated. It appeared that a belt or harness had been placecl around the
animal behind the front lege. Several ‘pod marks’ were found several hundred
feet away. It has been theorized once again that the animal was picked up in
the area of the indentations, mutilated, and then dropped where it was found. It
bas been reported that during that approximate period of time unidentified orange
airborne lights were seen in the area.
On May 14, 1978, State Police announced that they were
investigating the apparent mutilation of two cows and a calf on the ranch of Julius
Ferran near Coyote, New Mexico , in southern Rio Arriba
County . There was a
report that rains washed away any tracks or ground markings. However, one
investigator claims to have photographed peculiar round ‘footprints’ at the
site.
Back to the Dulce area – two more mutilations (the ‘usual’
parts taken) were reported there in late May. A front leg was broken on each, no
strap or harness marks were visible, and if there were ‘pod marks,’ they had
been obliterated by numerous other cattle tracks.
On June 14, 1978, Project Stigma investigators Gary
Massey and Tom Adams, while on vacation in southern Colorado , were advised of another mutilation
in the Dulce area. Accompanied by Colorado
investigators David Perkins and Cari Seawell, we arrived in Dulce to examine
the site on Thursday, June 15th. It bas been estimated that the mutilation
occurred late Monday, the 12th or early Tuesday morning – which would have been
two years to the date since the June 1976 mutilation. Plus, this
latest event transpired in the same pasture, the
animal having been found less than 300 yards from where the 1976 cow finally fell.
And yes, the owner of the animal was, once again, Manuel Gomez.
There were indentations in the hide of the animal’s
legs which suggested the presence of a clamp or similar device. Flies were
present on the carcass but it was obvious that other predators must have had
better things to do.
A NON-ENCOUNTER
A pilot who grew up in the area around Nara Visa, in
northeastern New Mexico .
Told Project Stigma of the time in 1975 when he and three friends took infrared
cameras in the personal airplane to the Nara Visa vicinity. As livestock
mutilations plagued the region, residents had been steadily reporting either
unmarked and unidentified helicopters and/or strange meandering nocturnal
lights. One night, while the UFOs were being seen in abundance, the foursome
took to the air. Their efforts were coordinated with ground observers who could
see both the airplane and the UFOs. Those on the ground tried to direct the
plane to the area of the strange lights, but the four in the airplane could not
see the UFOs at all. They flew around the area for two hours as the frustrated
ground observers told them where the lights appeared to be – but the four
hapless occupants of the airplane were never able to see the objects/lights.”
(tageo.com photo)
Thursday, 7 September 2017
PROJECT 1947 UFO Resources:
“Subject: Foo Fighter and
Ghost Rockets on PJ47 Website.”
By Jan L. Aldrich, 5 July 2007
(NICAP.org)
Related posts:
(paradigmresearchgroup.org image)
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“Spain: Ministry of Defense Investigated
at Least 8 UFO Cases in 70s-80s”
21 July 2017
(Inexplicata.blogspot.com)
Source: PLANETA
UFO and Alicante Press
(Date: 21 July 2017)
The emblem of the Spanish Armed Forces
(wikimedia.org image)
Monday, 4 September 2017
UFO Journal Article:
“McDONALD PRODS PRESS,
SCORES AF INCOMPETENCE”
U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. III, No. 12, March-April 1967
(National Investigations Committee
on Aerial Phenomena, Washington, D.C.)
Source: J. Allen
Hynek Center
for UFO Studies (CUFOS.org)
NICAP’s newsletter, The UFO Investigator, reports on
Dr. James E. McDonald’s 22 April 1967 talk before the American Society of
Newspaper Editors (ASNE).
Related posts:
The late Dr. James Edward McDonald, U.S. Physicist &
UFO Researcher (wikimedia.org photo)
Sunday, 3 September 2017
UFO TV News Report:
1998 Costa Rica Mass UFO Sighting
1998
(Teletica, San
José , Costa Rica )
Source: menefonf (YouTube channel)
The UFO incident occurred in San José .
The 7 Días TV
report contains a very good UFO video (2 UFOs).
(youtube.com image)
Saturday, 2 September 2017
UFO TV Talk Show:
“Melbourne UFO Mystery: 50 Years On |
Studio 10”
(Network TEN, Pyrmont ,
Australia )
Published on YouTube: 20 January 2016
Source: Studio 10 (YouTube channel)
Studio 10 focuses on the 6 April 1966 Westall (Melbourne)
High School UFO incident.
Related posts:
Shaun Matthews, one of the Westall
UFO witnesses,
photographed at Grange Reserve, where he sighted
the UFO
(The Age.com.au photo)
UFO TV News Report:
“TRUTH STILL OUT THERE”
(Network Ten, Pyrmont ,
Australia )
Published on YouTube: 5 April 2016
Source: brad morris (YouTube channel)
Network Ten reports on the 6 April 1966 Westall (Melbourne)
High School UFO incident.
Related posts:
One of the Westall High School (Clayton, Melbourne , Australia ) UFO witnesses points to
the spot where the UFO landed
(Bill Chalker photo)
Friday, 1 September 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“Police report on the Boyup Brook
encounter, uncovered”
By Keith Basterfield, 29 August 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Background
On 30 October 1967, an intriguing encounter happened
near Boyup Brook , Western Australia .
The story broke in the Wednesday 1 November 1967
edition of ‘The West Australian’ newspaper. According to the newspaper, the
sole witness reported the incident to a constable L Johnson of the Boyup Brook
police station.
I had always wondered what happened to the police
report of the event? No one I knew of, had ever seen it, or had a copy of
it. A couple of years ago, I thought
that I might have located the report, when a Western Australian Police
Department file, number 64/2885 was found, titled ‘Unidentified Flying Objects.’
However, the file contained only 56 pages, despite the file’s folio numbering
system indicating that there had been 148 pages on the file. It turned out that
there seemed to be missing folios, numbered 32-122, covering the years
1955-1969. So, no luck in locating papers dealing with a 1967 incident.
2017
Fast forward to mid-August this year, when US researcher and historian Barry Greenwood of Boston , visited the archives of the J Allen Hynek Center
for UFO Studies, in Chicago .
One of his aims was to search for Australian material, which had not been seen
for years, if ever, by most Australian researchers. Barry located the long
missing Western Australian Police Department report on the Boyup Brook
incident. Many thanks to Barry for sharing this find with me.”
Kojonup in relation to the capital city of Perth . Image courtesy of
Google maps. (text by Keith Basterfield) (4.bp.blogspot.com/ ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com
image)
UFO Article (Blog):
“Dr Michael J Duggin’s 1971 symposium paper”
By Keith Basterfield, 1 September 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Further to my earlier blog posts about Dr Michael J
Duggin’s contribution to Australian UAP research, I have now located a summary
of a 1971 talk he gave.
ANZAAS
On 30 October 1971, the South Australian Division of
the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, held
a one day symposium in Adelaide ,
South Australia , titled ‘The
Unidentified Flying Object Problem.’
Courtesy of Peter Horne, of Adelaide , I now have a copy of the ‘Condensed
Papers’ from the Symposium.
Dr Duggin presented a paper titled ‘The Analysis of
UFO Reports.’ The ‘Condensed Papers’ only contain a summary of the talk, which
I present below.”
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, an Australian
scientist, was a member of the original ‘invisible college’ that studied UFOs
and a senior scientist with the U.S. Air Force Research Labs at Kirtland Air
Force Base.
Related posts:
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, Australian Scientist
(U.S. Air
Force/theozfiles.blogspot.com photo)
UFO Article (Blog):
“Dr Michael J Duggin and Jacques Vallee”
By Keith Basterfield, 26 August 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Duggin writes to Vallee
In a blog post dated 4 January 2017, I reported on the
passing on, of Australian Dr Michael J Duggin. Between at least 1966 and 1973,
Duggin took an active interest in UAP. Inter alia, I reported upon a meeting
between Duggin and Jacques Vallee in the US , in 1966.
Recently, I was fortunate enough to come across copies
of a letter from Dr Duggin to Jacques Vallee, in the digital collection of US researcher
Dr. Michael Swords. There was also a copy of a response letter to Duggin from
one William T Powers, an associate of both Jacques Vallee, and Dr J Allen
Hynek. I will image the letters below, and provide a typed copy of their
contents.”
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, an Australian
scientist, was a member of the original ‘invisible college’ that studied UFOs
and a senior scientist with the U.S. Air Force Research Labs at Kirtland Air
Force Base.
Related post:
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, Australian
Scientist
(U.S. Air
Force/theozfiles.blogspot.com photo)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
UFO Journal Articles:
Focus On the Controversy Around
Edward J. Ruppelt’s Revised UFO Book
(National Investigations Committee
on Aerial Phenomena, Washington, D.C.)
Source: J. Allen
Hynek Center
for UFO St udies
(CUFOS.org)
NICAP’s newsletter, U.F.O. Investigator, gives an in-depth look into the controversy
around Ruppelt’s book.
Article No. 1: “CAPT. RUPPELT REVISING HIS UFO BOOK –
Air Force Rumored to be Pressuring Former project chief”
(by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Director of NICAP)
(U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 8, June 1959)
Air Force Rumored to be Pressuring Former project chief”
(by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Director of NICAP)
(U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 8, June 1959)
Article No. 2: “RUPPELT REVERSES STAND ON UFOs”
(U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 9, March 1960)
(U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 9, March 1960)
Related posts:
The late Captain Edward J. Ruppelt,
U.S. Air Force,
Head of Project Blue Book (1952-1953)
(gstatic.com/NARCAP.org photo)
(gstatic.com/NARCAP.org photo)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)



