UFO Documentary Film Segment: Wing Commander Alan Turner MBE Discusses a UK MoD Air Traffic Control Radar UFO Incident that occurred at RAF Sopley, UK, on 21 April 1971

Source: Xtraeme (YouTube channel)

The segment is from the Channel 5 (London, UK) documentary film, Britain’s Closest Encounters - Alderney Lights.

When this UFO incident occurred, Alan Turner was Duty Military Supervisor and had the responsibility for monitoring the skies on radar screens for potential Soviet incursions.

A stunned RAF Coordinator first discovered two blips on the radar screen. Then more and more unknown objects came into view on the radar screen, according to Turner’s testimony in the documentary segment. They counted 35 in total. All the UFOs followed a north to south east track.

When the objects first appeared on the screen they flew 3,000 feet above ground level and climbed so rapidly, that by the time the UFOs disappeared from radar they were in excess of 60,000 feet.

Alan Turner was determined to solve the mystery. He diverted an RAF Canberra jet, which was on a return flight from West Germany.

When the pilot got within one mile of one particular blip, he said, in a very agitated voice, that the unknown object was “climbing like the clappers” (according to Turner) on the jet’s radar screen.

The Canberra pilot and his navigator never made visual contact with the object.

The objects were first sighted north east of the Salisbury Plain Danger Area (UK MoD military training area) and they left the radar screen south east of Salisbury Plain.

A few days after this UFO incident, Alan Turner was summoned into the Squadron Leader's office and questioned by two civilian-clothed men about the incident. The two men were not identified.

“I, along with all the others who were in the room on that day, were told in no uncertain terms not to relate what we had seen until cleared to do so,” Alan Turner said in an interview.

Turner has been assured by RAF officers that there were no training operations, classified or otherwise, going on at the time and there were no weather balloons or probes in the area at the time of the UFO incident.

Quote from Alan Turner’s testimony in the documentary film segment:

“There were seven technically different radars (my comment: both ground and airborne radar) – all seeing exactly the same thing.

There are two types of tape. One is the video tape taken from the radar, and the other is the voice tape. And that is air to ground, ground to air; that is all the land lines and all the converstions between the controllers and each other. I have absolutely no idea where it is or even if it still exists. All I do know is that it did exist.

I am absolutely certain that it was some very strange phenomenon on radar – which no one has yet to come up with any rational explanation for.”

Alan Turner was awarded the MBE in 1984, and he retired from the RAF in 1995.

The information in this article is taken from several credible sources.

I first reported about this documentary film segment on 5 August 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnAZYXe6klE

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Wing Commander Alan Turner, Royal Air Force (Ret.)

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GCI (Ground Control of Interception) radar installation at RAF Sopley, Hampshire, 1945 (text by commons.wikimedia.org)
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UFO News Article & TV News Report: “I-Team: Former Sen. Reid calls for congressional hearings into UFOs”

Updated: 2 February 2019

(CBS KLAS-TV LasVegasNOW.com, Las Vegas, Nevada)

George Knapp and Matt Adams present an interview with former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV).

Reid was a co-sponsor of the bill that funded the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The late Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) and the late Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) were also sponsors of that bill.

https://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/local-news/i-team-former-sen-reid-calls-for-congressional-hearings-into-ufos/1743467461

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0NJRXBLhB0

(Source: 8 News NOW Las Vegas (YouTube channel))

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UFO Podcast Interview: “Nimitz Encounters Supershow with Dave Beaty, PJ Hughes & Kevin Day”

Streamed live: 20 January 2019

(UFO News Network Sunday (YouTube channel), U.S.A.)

The guests talk about the 14 November 2004 USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group 11 UFO incident (occurred about a hundred miles south west of San Diego, California).

Video text:

“KEVIN DAY, RADAR OPERATOR ABOARD THE USS PRINCETON DURING THE TIC TAC EVENT IN 2004, PJ HUGHES, AVIATION TECH ABOARD THE USS NIMITZ, AND DAVE BEATY, CREATOR OF THE NIMITZ ENCOUNTERS, JOIN US TO FURTHER DISCUSS THIS ALL TIME GREAT CASE.”

The podcast is hosted by James Iandoli and Frank Stalter.

NOTE: This blog post was first posted on 25 January 2019 – but it did not show up on the blog after a few days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkczpJ1Kjg (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7squHEi2-8w (Part 2)

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UFO Podcast Interview: “035 - UFOs” (David Fravor)

Published: 2 January 2019

(The Fighter Pilot Podcast (YouTube channel), U.S.A.)

Commander David Fravor, U.S. Navy (Ret.), recounts the

14 November 2004 USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group 11 UFO incident (occurred about a hundred miles south west of San Diego, California).

Fravor was flying his F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter when the incident occurred.

At the time of the UFO incident, Fravor was the commanding officer of the VFA-41 Black Aces, a U.S. Navy strike fighter squadron.

Vincent Aiello, a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, is the host of the podcast.

The interview starts at 13:00.

NOTE: This blog post was first posted on 25 January 2019 – but it did not show up on the blog after a few days.

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UFO Report: “The 1971 UFO Chronology”

Released: 18 April 2013

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This is an 8-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1971. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (the original 1970 chronology from UFOE II), William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase (NSID)).

An apparent lull in sighting reports may be the result of the closing of Project Blue Book and the media coverage of this for several years, and may not reflect the actual situation. But this was the calm before the storm of 1973. We wish to caution readers/researchers as to the quality of some of the submittals for this chrono. After consulting the usual sources (NICAP files in particular) we ran a search on the internet to see if we had missed anything important, and in the process located some cases which we have listed as ‘unevaluated’ cases or sources. These are flagged as ‘unevaluated’ and, if anyone has any information that would upgrade these incidents to officially investigated or documented in some way, please let us know.

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

July 18-24, 1971; Quebec, Canada Blackouts

A succession of power failures occurred, coinciding with many observations of UFOs in the same localities, some of them even occurring over and near electric power stations of Hydro-Quebec....The city of Montreal and its surroundings were particularly stricken  by the blackouts which occurred twice in the same week. (Claude MacDuff, ‘Canadian Power Failures and UFO Sightings’; Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supp. No. 17. December 1973.)”

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1971fullrep.htm

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UFO News Article: “RAF RADAR CHIEF: I SAW FLEET OF UFOS”

13 September 2008

(The Sun, London, UK)

Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, Bainbridge Island, Washington and AFU.se

The whole article (Page 7):

“AN RAF expert yesterday revealed how he tracked a whole fleet of ‘spaceships’ on military radar — but the Ministry of Defence told him to keep quiet.

Wing Commander Alan Turner, 64, said colleagues sat stunned when 35 super-fast vessels appeared on their screens.

Wing Cmdr Turner, who was a chief operator of the RAF’s radar system for 29 years, said the craft were equally spaced and shot from 3,000ft to 60,000ft at almost 300mph.

Incredibly, every few seconds one of the UFOs would suddenly vanish from radar and be replaced by an identical vessel moments later. No aircraft at the time were able to maintain that rate of climb or hold such a formation.

Wing Cmdr Turner – awarded an MBE in 1984 – said six military radars, plus operators at Heathrow, filed reports on the unexplained phenomenon in 1971.

Three days later, a representative for the Ministry of Defence visited the RAF base to instruct them to ‘never speak about the incident again.’ Wing Cmdr Turner, right, who retired from the RAF in 1995, said: ‘UFOs are a fact and I don’t care who knows because I tracked them on military radar units.

‘What I saw defied all logic and was, quite frankly, extraordinary.

‘It wasn’t just me. More than 30 pairs of eyes of RAF staff and radar operators at Heathrow Airport witnessed the same thing.

‘It’s arrogant to believe that we’re the only ones in this universe.’

The dad of three, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, was a radar supervisor at the now disused RAF Sopley base, Dorset, in 1971. Wing Cdr Turner said: ‘I instantly knew this wasn’t a convoy of military planes.

‘The only craft we knew that had that rate of climb were supersonic lightning aircraft but they wouldn’t have been able  to hold such a perfect formation and they also make a lot of noise. No one heard a thing on the night in question.’

Wing Cmdr Turner is guest speaker at the Close Encounters  conference in Pontefract, West Yorks, next month. Philip Mantle, of UFO Data magazine, said yesterday: ‘His testimony is remarkable.’ ”

The Sun presents a map drawn by Commander Turner. The  map charts the flight of the UFOs in between key sites like RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire, and the VOR aircraft navigation station at Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire.

The UFO incident occurred on 21 April 1971.

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%202008%2010%20-%20no%20471.pdf

Wikipedia article: “RAF Sopley”:

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

Wikipedia article: “RAF Lyneham”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Brookmans Park”:

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

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Wing Commander Alan Turner, Royal Air Force (Ret.)

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UFO Report: “UFOs Are Stalking and Intercepting Dummy Nuclear Warheads During Test Flights – Retired U.S. Air Force ICBM Targeting Team Chief Says The Big Sur Incident Was Not An Isolated Case”

By Robert L. Hastings, 23 August 2011

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“Thousands of declassified U.S. government documents and hundreds of military veterans have confirmed the reality of ongoing UFO activity at American nuclear weapons sites. Seven of those veterans participated in my September 27, 2010 press conference in Washington D.C., which CNN streamed live.

I have investigated the UFO-Nukes Connection since 1973 and have interviewed nearly 130 former or retired U.S. military personnel about their experiences at ICBM launch facilities, weapons storage depots, nuclear bomb test sites, and missile test ranges. A summary of their dramatic testimony may be found in my book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, which is available only at my website, www.ufohastings.com.

One of the most remarkable cases, known as the Big Sur Incident, involved the inadvertent motion picture filming of a UFO that approached, circled, and—using four beams of light—shot down a dummy nuclear warhead in flight as it raced downrange over the Pacific Ocean to a designated splashdown site near Kwajalein Atoll. Although the exact date is uncertain at this point, because the documents are still classified, the available evidence suggests that this event occurred sometime in September 1964.

The former U.S. Air Force officer in charge of filming the interrupted test flight, former Lt. (now Dr.) Robert M. Jacobs, broke the amazing story in 1982 and has publicly discussed it countless times since then, most recently on the Larry King Live program in July 2008.

Jacobs’ account has been entirely corroborated by another officer, retired Major (later Dr.) Florenze J. Mansmann, who carefully studied the Top Secret film at Vandenberg AFB, California prior to its confiscation by CIA agents. Mansmann said that his frame-by-frame analysis of the footage, using a magnifier, revealed that the UFO—which appeared to the unaided eye as small, white dot—was actually a domed, disc-shaped craft that had pivoted on is vertical axis before emitting each beam of light.

Shortly after releasing the fourth bright burst, the UFO raced out of camera frame while the stricken warhead began to tumble, eventually falling into the ocean hundreds of miles short of its target. Private letters between Jacobs, Mansmann and two other individuals, in which the amazing event is discussed in detail, are available for review.

However, significantly, independent confirmation of UFO activity during missile launches at Vandenberg has appeared in, of all places, The New York Times. On June 17, 1974, the prestigious newspaper carried this story:

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Experts at an Army missile base say they are puzzled about strange ‘ghost ships’ picked up by powerful radar scanner in the Pacific during a tracking exercise last summer.

There has been little official comment on what the scientists found during the exercise, but Major Dallas Van Hoose, an Army spokesman, confirmed recently that ‘some unexplained aerial phenomena’ were observed during the exercise last August [1973]. Scientists, many of whom are reluctant to be named in interviews because of general public skepticism over unidentified flying objects, say privately they have been unable to find any explanation for the ‘ghost ships.’

‘We have never seen anything precisely like this before,’ said one ballistic missile defense expert who works for an Army agency here and who is familiar with the advanced radar used to test missiles and warheads. Huntsville houses the Army’s ballistic missile defense systems command which tests in the Kwajelein [sic] Atoll region of the Marshall Island Trust Territory held by the U.S.

Last August the Air Force launched a Minuteman ICBM from Vandenberg Air Force base aimed for the Kwajelein missile range which is used by the Army, Air Force, and Navy. The radar experts in the Pacific found they were also tracking an unidentified flying object next to the ICBM’s nose cone. Radar picked up an inverted saucer-shape object to the right and above the descending nose cone and watched it cross the warhead’s trajectory to a point which was below and to-the-left of it before the phantom ship disappeared. The ghost ship was described as being 10-feet high and 40-feet long. Two separate radar systems saw it at the same time which may eliminate the probability that there was a malfunction in one of the radar systems. It was also reported that 3 other identical objects were seen in the vicinity—the same size, shape, and dimensions. One scientist said the data indicated that the phantom ship ‘flew under its own power’ but could not explain what sort of ‘power’ was involved.

So far none of the experts here believe the ghost ship was a natural phenomenon caused by freak weather conditions or echoes commonly seen on radar screens.”

http://www.nicap.org/reports/80XXXXvandenberg_report.htm

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Aerial view of Space Launch Complex 6 (1985), 

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