21 April 1984
(Hartford Courant, Connecticut)
Sources: U.F.O.
Newsclipping Service, Plumerville,
Arkansas and AFU.se
The article reports on the UFO book, Clear Intent (the book was retitled “The
UFO Cover-Up”), and the research work of Lawrence A. Fawcett. The book is
written by Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood.
Quote from the article (Page 7):
“The Coventry
police lieutenant’s interest in Unidentified Flying Objects is a serious one,
and the government is just as concerned as he is, Fawcett maintains in his soon-to-be
released book on the subject.
The government has been covering up dangerous activities
by UFOs, says Fawcett in ‘Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO
Experience ,’ the book he wrote with Barry J. Greenwood, a postal worker in Stoneham, Mass.
Fawcett’s fascination with UFOs began in 1965, when he
saw a strange glowing object floating above an electrical substation in Manchester. A flash of
electricity passed between the object and the substation, Fawcett said.
Since then, he has studied reports of UFO sightings
and he and others have amassed 4,000 pages of documents from the Air Force, the
FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency, which collects foreign
intelligence and protects the security of Armed Forces communications.
The truth about UFOs, Fawcett said, is that they have
penetrated high-security areas in Strategic Air Command bases, where unauthorized
craft are not allowed.
The documents record hundreds of sightings of strange,
glowing lights; mysterious, unidentified helicopters and other unexplained
objects in the sky:
• ‘The object was a glowing orange light that flew on
our wing at about 1 mile,’
Capt. K.E. May said in a report to his superiors at Michigan’s Wurtsmith Air
Force Base on Sept. 30, 1981. ‘We attempted to close in on it and it came at us
on a 90-degree intercept.’ May twice closed in on the object, but it evaded his
plane, seemingly reversing direction in mid-air, and finally disappeared
overhead, the report says.
• In September and October 1975, strange objects were
sighted at five Strategic Air Command bases in the northern United States,
reports say.
‘For two months, UFOs were coming and going with
impunity at these bases,’ Fawcett said. ‘Our latest planes couldn't stop them.’
In Cascade
County, Mont., the
sheriff’s office released this report: ‘A local veterinarian observed a white
light in the sky with a red light on the side. His observation was that the
cattle in the area started howling louder than he had ever heard.’
The Strategic Air Command was almost as disturbed as
the cattle. On Oct. 29, 1975, it released the following memo: ‘As a short-term
measure we are directing our Northern Tier SP (special police) units to assume
security option III - Security Vigilance Posture during hours of darkness.’
Reports in the book were obtained by Fawcett, Greenwood and other
members of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy of New York City. Most were obtained
through Freedom of Information Act suits in U.S. District Court and the U.S.
Court of Appeals in Washington,
D.C.
‘These documents show that UFOs are real. They’re not
the result of hallucinations or air balloons,’ Fawcett said. ‘They show that
UFOs display a technology far beyond ours.’
A report NSA submitted for the private inspection of a
U.S. appeals court judge in Washington, D.C.,
contends that releasing records of UFO sightings would give an enemy important
information about the country’s ability to detect foreign aircraft.
When Fawcett got the report, it was so heavily
censored with black pencil that fragments such as ‘In this document, the author
discovers what he considers to be ...’ were followed by a full page of
blacked-out material.
‘I feel that UFOs do pose a threat to the security of
the United States,’
Fawcett said. If military aircraft could duplicate UFOs’ ability to move and
change directions at incredibly high speeds, ‘we'd have air superiority over
the world. If the Russians could do it, they’d control us.’
‘We have a right to know about UFOs,’ he said, ‘and
the government has a duty to tell us.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., will
release the book in June.”
My comment: The 1975 northern tier (U.S./Canada)
Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases UFO incidents occurred mainly in October and
November.
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/2012/01/ufo-report-1975-ufo-chronology-nicap.html
Aerial
view of Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Oscoda,
Michigan
(decommissioned
on 30 June 1993) (wikimedia.org photo)
