Saturday, 19 October 2019

U.S. Government UFO Document:
“NAVAL MESSAGE”


10 February 1951
(U.S. Navy, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

The document pertains to the 9 February 1951 Lieutenant Graham E. Bethune UFO incident. Bethune was the pilot of the R5D Navy transport airplane.

The whole document (not written in U.S. Department of Defense document format):
“VR-1 PILOTS OFF LIGHT N-125 ENROUTE KEFLAVIK TO ARGENTIA ON COURSE 225 TRUE AT 10000 FEET REPORTED AN UNIDENTIFIED RED AND YELLOW OBJECT AT 100055Z INITIALLY BEARING 060 RELATIVE. OBJECT APPEARED TO BE CLOSE TO SURFACE. SHAPE INDEFINITE WHEN FIRST SIGHTED LATER APPEARING CIRCULAR. DIAMETER ESTIMATED IN EXCESS 400 FEET. OBJECT APPROACHED PLANE TURNED AND DISAPPEARED OVER HORIZON ON COURSE 290 TRUE AT TREMENDOUS SPEED. 100055Z POSITION LATITUDE 49-50 NORTH LONG 50-03 WEST. SIGHTING REPORTED TO GANDER ATC PLAIN LANGUAGE.”

The document was sent from Naval Station Argentia, Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada.


Wikipedia article: “Naval Station Argentia”:























(U.S. Navy/nicap.org image)

UFO Case Directory:
(SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT):
“The Bethune Encounter
February 9, 1951
Off Newfoundland, Canada”


Posted: 3 June 2009
Updated: 25 March 2014
(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
“9:55 pm local
Duration Sev mins
aircraft R5D Navy C54
Newfoundland, Canada
Military
6-7+ observers
No EMI
Possible radar contact

Fran Ridge:
Feb. 9, 1951; Off Newfoundland, Canada
(0055 Zulu is Feb. 10th) 9:55 pm local (Feb. 9). A four engine Navy R5D transport was flying west over the Atlantic. On this trip the pilots and navigators were bringing two flight crews home from special duty in Europe. Including his own crew there were over twenty-five pilots, navigators and flight engineers aboard the transport. Bright indefinite object first sighted near ocean surface at 060 relative, then became a ring which had a close encounter with the transport. Object now circular estimated at in excess of 400' diameter, then turned and disappeared over horizon on course 290 at tremendous speed. The National Archives turned up a number of supporting documents on this case, including Air Intelligence Information Reports by five of the crew members. Although it isn't documented, reports indicate the object was tracked by ground radar. Publicly, the Air Force made several attempts to explain the sighting as the aurora borealis (northern lights) or the Moon, but behind the scenes the encounter was; being taken very seriously. The number and quality of UFO sightings in the region in 1950 prompted the government of Iceland to request military aid from the United States. Apparently what we know today as UFOs were interpreted as experimental Soviet bombers. After 50 years of waiting, no craft with this discription [description] or performance has shown up in any Earthly inventory, Russion [Russian] or American. This event, and others like it, prompted the development of the Air Defense Command. (James McDonald’s letter to NICAP shows William D. Bridge was the weather navigator on that flight and mentioned another witness named Abrams. Another witness was Fred Kingdon who says Bethune was a co-pilot on his flight and that the AF investigation team at Argentia classified the incident as Top Secret. Finally, the final testimony of Graham Bethune was written by Robert Durant and is presented below in a doc file.) Major Donald Keyhoe had learned of this hidden report in 1959. Admiral Delmer S. Fahrney, former Navy guided missile chief (whom he had known for years) told him that Captain James Taylor, USN, Ret., had an important UFO sighting made by a naval pilot and his crew. That night Taylor gave him the report.

Richard Hall:
I must say that after reading the BB file, the notion that they saw the moon seems absurd. It is very clear that the object approached from one direction, then (a la Nash-Fortenberry) reversed direction at a very sharp angle and disappeared over the horizon in quite a different position. Quite an ‘illusion!’

Dan Wilson:
In par 10 of Bethune’s report he states that Capt. D.H. Paulson’s written and radar report was not on microfilm (meaning BB files I guess). So there may be a radar report.”

NICAP.org presents U.S. government documents that pertain to the UFO case.

http://www.nicap.org/casework/2014indexes/jan-mar/510210newfoundland_dir.htm

“Map produced 14 May 2009 (Joel Carpenter)” (NICAP.org):

http://www.nicap.org/images/bethune_map_03.jpg

Wikipedia article: “List of Douglas DC-4 variants”:












U.S. Navy R5D Transport (text by NICAP.org)
(variant: Douglas DC-4 R5D) (nicap.org photo)
















Map of Canada (canada-maps.org)
(canada-maps.org image)

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

UFO Article (“News”):
“A Defining Moment in History”


20 September 2019
(To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, Encinitas, California)

For the first time – the U.S. Navy has confirmed that the three U.S. government videos, FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast, show unidentified aerial phenomena, the article reports.

The FLIR1 video was recorded on 14 November 2004 and the Gimbal and GoFast videos were recorded on 21 January 2015.

The November 2004 USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group 11 UFO incidents occurred about a hundred miles south west of San Diego, California. The main UFO incident occurred on 14 November 2004 (David Fravor and Jim Slaight).

It was not Fravor who filmed the Tic Tac UFO. The UFO was filmed a while after Fravor’s incident.

David Fravor, who chased the UFO (resembled a white Tic Tac), was flying his F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter.

Lieutenant Commander (later Commander) Jim Slaight was the pilot of the second F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter.

It was the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group 9 that held exercises approximately 100 miles east (JAX OPAREA), equidistant between Jacksonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia, in January 2015.


Related posts:










realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=New+2019+U.S.+Navy+UFO+Guidelines


Freeze-frame of the Tic Tac UFO (filmed from a U.S. Navy
F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter on 14 November 2004)
(U.S. Department of Defense/disclose.tv/gstatic.com image)



















Freeze-frame of the Gimbal UFO (filmed by the U.S. Navy on
21 January 2015) (U.S. Department of Defense/
The UFO Chronicles image)


Freeze-frame of the GoFast UFO (filmed by the U.S. Navy on
21 January 2015) (U.S. Department of Defense/CNN.com/
gstatic.com image)

UFO Article (“News”):
“UNIDENTIFIED Gets Second Season”


19 September 2019
(To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, Encinitas, California)

The UFO documentary film TV series focus on the U.S. Department of Defense’s UFO programme, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) (ran from 2007 to 2012).

The programme was run (from 2010) by Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring. Elizondo is now the Director of Global Security & Special Programs for the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.

After 2012, Elizondo oversaw UFO work for five more years before resigning in October 2017.















(History/youtube.com image)

UFO Paper:
“Estimating Flight Characteristics of
Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles”


Published: 25 September 2019
By Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell and Peter A. Reali
(Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), U.S.A.)

The paper investigates three UFO incidents: the 9 February 1951 Lieutenant Graham Bethune, U.S. Navy (off Newfoundland, Canada) (according to NICAP.org), 17 November 1986 North East Alaska (Japan Airlines (JAL) Flight 1628) and 14 November 2004 (USS Nimitz) Tic Tac cases.

Quote from the 11 October 2019 De Void (Billy Cox) article,
“Let’s see them equations”:
“ ‘Flight Characteristics’ takes three incidents – the Tic Tac, a 1951 sighting by Navy Lt. Graham Bethune near Nova Scotia, the 1986 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 – and ties them together with these threads: ‘multiple professional witnesses observing the UAV in multiple modalities (including sight, radar, infrared imaging, etc.),’ in which each incident produces ‘sufficient information to estimate kinetic qualities such as speeds and accelerations.’

‘Assuming that any one of these cases we examine is based on accurate reports,’ they add, ‘we show that the UAVs exhibit unreasonably high accelerations ranging from 100 g to well over 5,000 g.’ Not very sporting odds for a dogfight. The authors tell readers that ‘humans can endure up to 45 g for 0.044 seconds with no injurious or debilitating effects.’ Meaning: attempt those moves and you’re soup in a can.”


Related posts:




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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines, with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs (the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines (JAL) Flight 1628 case) (4.bp.blogspot.com photo)


Freeze-frame of the Tic Tac UFO (filmed from a U.S. Navy
F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter on 14 November 2004)
(U.S. Department of Defense/disclose.tv/gstatic.com image)

UFO Article (Blog):
“Argentina: Anomalous Object
in the Skies of Argentina”


30 September 2019
(Inexplicata.blogspot.com)

Inexplicata reports on two UFO observations (of possibly the same object) that were made in Argentina on 26 September 2019.

The unknown objects were sighted from the city of Corrientes, Province of Corrientes, at around 6:50 a.m. and the locality of Campana, Province of Buenos Aires, at around 11:30 a.m.

The Campana witness said the object was static, white in colour, elongated like a cigar, flew very high and in an area that is not normally flown over by airplanes and helicopters.

After a preliminary analysis, the presence of aerostatic balloons has been dismissed, according to Inexplicata.

The photo of the UFO appears to show an elongated, cylindrical shaped object.

http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2019/09/argentina-anomalous-object-in-skies-of.html

















Satellite photo of Corrientes, Argentina (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)















Satellite photo of Campana, Argentina (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)























Map of Argentina (lib.utexas.edu)
(lib.utexas.edu image)

Monday, 14 October 2019

UFO News Article (Blog):
“Let’s see them equations”


By Billy Cox, 11 October 2019
(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida)

In this article, Billy Cox reports on the two U.S. Navy USO incidents recounted by David Fravor during The Joe Rogan Experience podcast (realtvufos.blogspot.com) and the 25 April 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, UFO/USO incident. Both USO incidents recounted by Fravor probably occurred off Puerto Rico.

He also writes about the two Scientific Coalition for Ufology 
(now called Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies) papers, “2013 Aguadilla Puerto Rico UAP” and “A Forensic Analysis of Navy Carrier Strike Group Eleven’s Encounter with an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle” and a new SCU report called “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.”

Quote from the article:
“ ‘Flight Characteristics’ takes three incidents – the Tic Tac, a 1951 sighting by Navy Lt. Graham Bethune near Nova Scotia, the 1986 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 – and ties them together with these threads: ‘multiple professional witnesses observing the UAV in multiple modalities (including sight, radar, infrared imaging, etc.),’ in which each incident produces ‘sufficient information to estimate kinetic qualities such as speeds and accelerations.’

‘Assuming that any one of these cases we examine is based on accurate reports,’ they add, ‘we show that the UAVs exhibit unreasonably high accelerations ranging from 100 g to well over 5,000 g.’ Not very sporting odds for a dogfight. The authors tell readers that ‘humans can endure up to 45 g for 0.044 seconds with no injurious or debilitating effects.’ Meaning: attempt those moves and you’re soup in a can.”


Related posts:




realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=Flight+1628





Freeze-frame of the UFO/USO that was filmed over 
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on 25 April 2013
(3.bp.blogspot.com/maestroviejodespierta2.com image)







Freeze-frame of the Aguadilla UFO/USO after it split into two separate objects (openminds.tv image)


Freeze-frame of the Tic Tac UFO (filmed from a U.S. Navy
F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter on 14 November 2004)
(U.S. Department of Defense/disclose.tv/gstatic.com image)

UFO TV News Report:
“UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS –
LUIS ELIZONDO CONFIRMED THE EXISTENCE
OF U.S. GOVERNMENT PROGRAM”


2 October 2019
(Nine Network, Sydney, Australia)

Source: eventimus (YouTube channel)

Nine Network reports on the U.S. Navy’s FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast UFO videos.

The FLIR1 video was recorded on 14 November 2004 and the Gimbal and GoFast videos were recorded on 21 January 2015.

The November 2004 USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group 11 UFO incidents occurred about a hundred miles south west of San Diego, California. The main UFO incident occurred on 
14 November 2004 (David Fravor and Jim Slaight).

It was not Fravor who filmed the Tic Tac UFO. The UFO was filmed a while after Fravor’s incident.

David Fravor, who chased the UFO (resembled a white Tic Tac), was flying his F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter.

Lieutenant Commander (later Commander) Jim Slaight was the pilot of the second F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter.

It was the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group 9 that held exercises approximately 100 miles east (JAX OPAREA), equidistant between Jacksonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia, in January 2015.

Luis Elizondo ran the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) from 2010 (according to Elizondo’s own words in the following video: youtube.com). AATIP ran from 2007 to 2012. After 2012, Elizondo oversaw UFO work for five more years before resigning from the U.S. Department of Defense in October 2017. Elizondo is now the Director of Global Security & Special Programs for the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.

Related posts:













realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=New+2019+U.S.+Navy+UFO+Guidelines


Freeze-frame of the Tic Tac (FLIR1) UFO (filmed from a U.S. Navy

F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter on 14 November 2004)
(U.S. Department of Defense/disclose.tv/gstatic.com image)












Freeze-frame of the GoFast UFO (filmed by the U.S. Navy on
21 January 2015) (U.S. Department of Defense/CNN.com/
gstatic.com image)

Saturday, 12 October 2019

UFO Report:
“ANALYSIS OF RADAR AND AIR-VISUAL
UFO OBSERVATIONS ON 24 OCTOBER 1968
AT MINOT AFB, NORTH DAKOTA, USA”


By Claude Poher, Ph.D., August 2005
(minotb52ufo.com, U.S.A.)

Dr. Claude Poher is a French engineer, astronomer, astrophysicist and UFO researcher.

http://minotb52ufo.com/poher/cp-abstract.php

Related posts:







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Dr. Claude Poher, French Engineer, Astronomer,
Astrophysicist and UFO Researcher
(Exopolitik (YouTube channel)/youtube.com image)




This U.S. Air Force photo shows the B-52 radar screen on which a blip of the UFO appears (abovetopsecret.com photo)