Friday, 18 November 2016

UFO Report:
“The Nuclear Connection Project presents
The Oak Ridge Sightings including
all the Tennessee Blue Book Unknowns”


(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report (the introduction):
Updated: September 22, 2005:
The evidence for a UFO/Nuclear Connection grows stronger by the day. Official FBI, CIA, Army and Air Force documents establish, beyond a doubt, that UFOs have been seen and reported where uranium was mined and plutonium was manufactured (the Congo, New Mexico, the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the Hanford Plant at Washington, the Savannah River facility at South Carolina). Official reports are on file of UFOs seen where bomb development took place (Los Alamos, Sandia Base) and where nuclear weapons were stored (New Mexico: Los Alamos,Manzano Mountain near Kirtland, NM, and Texas: Killeen Base ant Camp Hood).

This is the third part of that story, the Oak Ridge and Tennesse Sightings, which we produced to include all the known cases and provided links to the full report directories and official supporting documents. The matrix for this chronology is based on a paper NCP-14: Saucers Over Oak Ridge by one of our NCP staff members, Bruce Maccabee. Where enough information is not available to produce a case directory, the supporting documents are provided as temporary directories.

I wish to thank Dan Wilson, one of our staff researchers, for his fine research into the Blue Book Archives for the supporting documents in most of these cases. And to Brad Sparks for his re-evaluation of the Project Blue Book Unknowns which doubled the  number of cases that were unexplained, many of which occurred in New Mexico and other high-security areas such as Oak Ridge (TN) and Killeen Base (TX) and were used as a checklist. Jan Aldrich provided documentation on some cases; Richard Hall provided the chronologies and basic case lists (UFOE, UFOE II); and Jean  Waskiewicz and I created a set of useable databases within the NICAP Global Sighting Information Database) for the total caseload.

Francis Ridge
Coordinator, Nuclear Connection Project

http://www.nicap.org/oakridge/oakridgesightings.htm















“Y-12” Area at Oak Ridge, Tennessee
(nicap.org photo)

Google Website Searches:
Focus On Oak Ridge, Tennessee, UFO Incidents


Oak Ridge, Tennessee, home of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (nuclear science research, development and production centre), has experienced many UFO incidents through the years.

Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP.org):

(Search term: Oak Ridge/(U.S.) Government)

(Oak Ridge/(U.S.) Military)

(Oak Ridge/(U.S.) Intelligence)

(Oak Ridge/C.I.A.)

(Oak Ridge/F.B.I.)

(Oak Ridge/(U.S.) Army)

(Oak Ridge/(U.S.) Air Force)

(Oak Ridge/Project Blue Book)

(Oak Ridge/Radar)

(Oak Ridge)

Wikipedia article: “Oak Ridge National Laboratory”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
History

The town of Oak Ridge was established by the Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Clinton Engineer Works in 1942 on isolated farm land as part of the Manhattan Project.[11] During the war, advanced research for the government was managed at the site by the University of Chicago. In 1943, construction of the ‘Clinton Laboratories’ was completed, later renamed to ‘Oak Ridge National Laboratory.’ The site was chosen for the X-10 Graphite Reactor, used to show that plutonium can be extracted from enriched uranium. Enrico Fermi and his colleagues developed the world’s second self-sustaining nuclear reactor after Fermi’s previous experiment Chicago Pile-1, the X-10 was the first designed for continuous operation.[12] After the end of World War II the demand for weapons-grade plutonium fell and the reactor and the laboratory’s 1000 employees were no longer involved in nuclear weapons,[11][13] instead it was used for scientific research.[12] In 1946 the first medical isotopes were produced in the X-10 reactor, by 1950 almost 20,000 samples had been shipped to various hospitals.”

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, campus
(wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)




















Satellite photo of Oak Ridge, Tennessee (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

UFO Report:
“Comprovações Eletromagnéticas
[Detecção por Instrumentos]”
(“Electromagnetic Evidence
[Instrument Detection]”)


By Jackson Luiz Camargo
(Portal Fenomenum, Brazil)

Quote from the report (translated by Google Translate):
Section Menu
In recordings by instruments we can cite the documentary evidence obtained by radars and other sensors of capture. Generally this type of proof is obtained in the military or traffic control field. A record of this type becomes even more valid when accompanied by the capture from several instruments which eliminates the hypothesis of problems in the equipment or sensor.

The following table presents a compilation of known cases (193) of UFO capture by radars. These cases are all related in the chronology of ufological cases where the sources for the elaboration of this table are listed.
_________________________________________________

Occurrence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA             

Date: January 21, 1951 - 6:20 pm             

Description: A UFO is picked up by radar and chased by an F-82 fighter from the American Air Force.”


English translation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fenomenum.com.br%2Fufo%2Fcomprovacao%2Feletromagneticas1

NOTE: The Portal Fenomenum material can be copied and used if the source is mentioned.




















Satellite photo of Oak Ridge, Tennessee (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Thursday, 17 November 2016

UFO Radio Interview:
“A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle -
Guest: CARMON MARANO”


Published on 2 November 2016
(‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

Source: Rob McConnell (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“Inside Project Blue Book – Served as a member of the Project Blue Book staff based at Wright-Patterson Air Force in the late 1960s, at the very end of Blue Book. Recovered several boxes of case files and other material from Blue Book as it closed and eventually provided that material to Rob Mercer.”
















Carmon Marano, Project Blue Book Staff Member
(4.bp.blogspot.com/kevinrandle.blogspot.com photo)

UFO Article (Blog):
“X-Zone Broadcast Network –
Former Blue Book Officer, Carmon Marano”


By Kevin D. Randle, 3 November 2016
(A Different Perspective, Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

Quote from the article:
“This week I had the opportunity of interview former Air Force officer Carmon Marano who had been on the staff of Project Blue Book. How do I know? First, Ben Moss sent me a picture that showed the Blue Book Staff and he is the lieutenant standing, more or less, behind Hector Quintanilla. Second, in reviewing the UFO sightings from Minot Air Force Base in 1968 I found a number of memos for the record that he had written. Finally, of course, he said exactly that and unlike so many others who have said they were part of Blue Book, we can actually prove it with him.”

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/11/x-zone-broadcast-network-former-blue.html















The Project Blue Book Staff
(2.bp.blogspot.com/kevinrandle.blogspot.com photo)

UFO Article (Blog):
“ ‘OPREP-3’ – A Classified US Military
Reporting Channel For UFO Incidents? – Part 7”


By Paul Dean, 7 November 2016
(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

Quote from the article:
“In Part 5 and Part 6 of this series, I discussed the US military and intelligence community’s responses and concerns regarding a series of provocative UFO events which occurred in the mid–1970’s over United States Air Force (USAF) bases which were assigned to the Strategic Air Command (SAC). Previously, in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, I looked the US military’s OPREP–3 reporting system which was one of the methods used to alert top–level military commands and components of these, to put it mildly, unusual events. In Part 4, I highlighted a special category of OPREP–3 reporting which was explicitly designed for the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) and Aerospace Defence Command (ADCOM), to report general unknown radar tracks, and, ‘Unidentified Flying Objects – UFOs.’ In summary, what started out as a dialogue about UFO’s being reported by the OPREP–3 reporting system, has expanded into a much wider appraisal of myriad declassified documents which deal with UFO case investigation, evaluation and high level concern long after the US government apparently gave up on the UFO issue.

In this Part 7, I will continue to focus on declassified records released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and the National Military Command Center (NMCC). The release of these records came about due to the once–powerful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), or, rather, its implementation by researchers Barry Greenwood, Robert Todd, Lawrence Fawcett, Todd Zechel and others.”

http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2016/11/oprep-3-classified-us-military.html






















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ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com image)

Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Brazil Government UFO Documents:
“Documentos sobre perseguição de caça da FAB
à UFO em 1983, em Porto das Caixas (RJ)”
(“Documents on the FAB hunt of UFO in 1983,
in Porto das Caixas (RJ)”)


(Brazilian Air Force, Brasilia, Brazil)

Source: Revista UFO (Brazilian UFO Magazine), Campo Grande,
Brazil (ufo.com.br)

Text by Revista UFO (including the blog post headline) (translated by Google Translate):
“Documents on the chase of an FAB (Brazilian Air Force) fighter jet of a UFO that was being observed in the region of Porto das Caixas. The object was not being picked up on the radars. The object was filmed from the fighter jet interceptor during the hunt. The case occurred on October 31, 1983.”




















Satellite photo of Porto das Caixas, Brazil (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

UFO Article:
“FAB Persegue UFOs em Anápolis”
(“FAB Chases UFOs in Anápolis”)


By Jackson Luiz Camargo
(Portal Fenomenum, Brazil)

The whole translated article (by Google Translate):
Introduction
In April 1982, another UFO is captured by Aeronautics radars. The event occurred on April 28, 1982, just 79 days after the famous VASP Flight 169 case, which occurred on February 8 of the same year.

The incident began around 10:30 p.m. when unidentified signals began to appear on the radar of Anápolis Air Base. They moved between the radial 080/110 degrees, with an approximate bow of 290 degrees. These characteristics led the controllers to believe, at first sight, that it was a helicopter squadron. Due to the approaching movement of these objects, the controllers informed Lieutenant Alves, who in turn informed Lt. Daltro that he was the chief of the Military Flight Operations Center (COpM).

Two FAB (Brazilian Air Force) fighters that have already met in training flight were sent to identify the origin of the signals. After a while, the pilots spotted one of the bright objects over the Anápolis region. The pilots approached the strange object that suddenly wiped out its lights, causing loss of eye contact. With the loss of visual contact the pilots returned to the base and later could observe the anomalous signals captured on the radar. These targets continued to emerge between the radius 080/110 degrees, disappearing between the radials 260/290 degrees.

Shortly after, two other pilots took off on a training mission. Before proceeding to their training maneuvers they were assigned to check the origin of the signals. This time there was no visual counting, but for a short time there was registration on the aircraft radars. Later, at the end of the training, one of the pilots was approaching runway 6 when he was alerted by the controller that there was an unidentified target on the radar at 12 o’clock. At this moment the pilot spotted a luminous object whose light oscillated. The strange object and the hunt were at 4800 feet of altitude. As the hunt was very close to the strange object, the pilot maneuvered to the right to avoid a possible collision. During the maneuver the pilot had the impression that the object also performed a maneuver to the left. After the maneuvers the object moved away from the hunt. All the movement was registered by the radars of the Air Base. Later, one of the base flight controllers observed, through binoculars, the presence of a yellowish, static object in the sky. The controller informed the other flight controllers that they could also observe the strange light for an approximate period of 3 hours.

The next day, the records of the strange object continued the next day when a new radar contact was obtained by the COpM, this time appearing in the radial 210 degrees. The TABA radars recorded nothing. Around midnight, they were also picked up by TABA. Due to the strangeness of the signals captured by the two centers, the COpM displaced two F-103 fighters, which made a training flight to verify the nature of the signals that were present in the South-Southwest sectors of Anápolis. The pilot did not obtain visual or radar contact with any aircraft.”


English translation:


Wikipedia article: “Anápolis”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The Força Aérea Brasileira (Brazilian Air Force) operates one of their most important bases here, protecting the nearby capital as well as being an important element of the SIVAM project, the Amazonas survey system.”




















Satellite photo of Anápolis, Brazil (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Monday, 14 November 2016

UFO TV Report:
“Fantástico” TV Report


14 April 1991
(TV Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Source: Omar Carline Bueno (YouTube channel)

TV Globo reports about a UFO incident that was registered on CINDACTA radar.


Wikipedia article: “CINDACTA”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The air traffic control centers of Brazil are known by the acronym CINDACTA, or Centro Integrado de Defesa Aérea e Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Integrated Air Traffic Control and Air Defense Center). Four CINDACTAs are in operation, located in four different cities and each responsible for different regions of Brazil’s airspace.

The use of military air traffic controllers for civilian traffic is not unusual, but has been deprecated in most developed countries. In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operates a wholly parallel system with that of the US Air Force and NORAD. This is also the case of Eurocontrol and each of its member nations’ air defense systems. Brazil’s use of an integrated command poses some unique challenges to the government. As members of the military, controllers are not allowed to form unions (such as the case of NATCA in the US) or to strike.”

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CINDACTA centres in Brazil
(wikimedia.org image)

Sunday, 13 November 2016

UFO News Article:
“SAUCER STORIES”


16 April 1954
(Centralian Advocate, Alice Springs, Australia)

Source: Trove, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

The whole article:
“It took the skill of ‘witch doctors,’ and the old men of the tribe to calm down aborigine Sonny who claims that he was almost swept from his horse by a ‘flying saucer’ recently.

Further news of the Santa Teresa saucer incident which took place on March 17 (1954) reached Alice this week, when Mr. Arthur Pope arrived in town. Sonny, who says a ‘thing’ like a big ball with a tail flew near him as he rode over a ridge, worked for Mr. Pope.

It is reported that when Sonny, panic stricken and inarticulate, rode into Santa Teresa, the old men had to work on him for a while before he could talk.

Mr. Pope says that there seems little doubt that the native saw something very strange. He points out that the South Australian ‘flying umbrella’ had the same glassy appearance described by Sonny.

Three more reports of strange sky happenings have been received by the ‘Advocate.’ A brightly coloured object was seen to streak from the heavens and disappear with a loud report followed by a rumbling noise near Hatches Creek recently. A visitor at Carmichael’s Tourist Court heard something fly overhead, low, and at a terrific speed. Another, unconfirmed sighting of a ‘saucer’ has been reported just south of town.”

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65172352?searchTerm=SAUCER+STORIES

Santa Teresa is located 68 kilometres (42 miles) southwest of Alice Springs.

Santa Teresa can be found at these coordinates (Google Earth):
24° 7'41.26"S 134°22'35.84"E.




















Satellite photo of Alice Springs, Australia (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“ABORIGINES SEE ‘SAUCER’ ”


27 May 1953
(The Canberra Times, ACT, Australia)

Source: Trove, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

The whole article:
“Aborigines at Garden Point mission, near the Northernmost tip of Australia, have reported seeing a ‘flying saucer.’

An unidentified object flying at ‘tremendous speed’ was seen in the sky at daylight over Shark Bay, Melville Island, a few days ago.

The natives called Brother G. Clark, mission superintendent, who also saw the object.

Brother Clark and the natives said they all saw a ‘flying saucer’ in level flight, trailing flame and smoke, as it disappeared northward.

Brother Clark has reported the incident to naval intelligence.

The natives had not previously heard of a ‘flying saucer.’ ”

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2882869?searchTerm=ABORIGINES+SEE+“SAUCER”




















Satellite photo of Garden Point, Australia (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Saturday, 12 November 2016

UFO Article (Blog):
“Spain: Alcorcón – Defense Department
Declassifies 80 UFO Files,
Parque Lisboa Case Among Them”


3 November 2016
(Inexplicata.blogspot.com)

The files (running from 1962 to 1995) are found under the heading “Sightings of Strange Phenomena (UFO Files).”

http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2016/11/spain-alcorcon-defense-department.html













Emblem of the Spanish Armed Forces
(wikimedia.org image)

Thursday, 10 November 2016

Google Website Searches:
Focus On UFO Films/Videos (Footage)


Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP.org):

(Search term: “Film”)

(“Films”)

(“Filmed”)

(“Filming”)

(“Motion Picture”)

(“Motion Pictures”)

(“Video”)

(“Videos”)

(“Videotape”)

(“Videotapes”)

(“Videotaped”)

(“Videotaping”)

(“Footage”)








Film freeze-frame of the 15 August 1950 Great FallsMontana, UFOs (filmed by Nicholas Mariana) (ufocasebook.com image)








Freeze-frame from the 2 July 1952 Tremonton, Utah, UFO film
(gststic.com image)

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

UFO News Magazine Article:
“WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE IDENTIFY
THESE FLYING OBJECTS?”


1 December 1968 (not 1 November 1968)
(Chicago Tribune Magazine, Illinois)

Source: Chicago Tribune Archives


















(ufocasebook.com image)

Tuesday, 8 November 2016

UFO Lecture:
“Bill Chalker Speaking at Paracon Australia 2016”


Source: UFO Research (NSW) Incorporated (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“Presentation on the 29 May 2016, 12 noon to 1 pm at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW, Australia.

Bill is an Australian UFO researcher, historian and is the author of the books, ‘The OZ Files: The Australian UFO Story’ and ‘Hair of the Alien: DNA and other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abductions.’

In the 50th year anniversary of the extraordinary UFO wave of 1966 this presentation focuses on the Westall School UFO sightings, the Tully (Queensland, Australia) UFO landing, the Burkes Flat (Victoria, Australia) ‘bent headlight beam’ case, the Balwyn UFO photo, Penrith (NSW, Australia) close encounter and Bankstown (NSW, Australia) ‘saucer nest.’ ”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hz9cvpPadc















Bill Chalker, Australian Industrial Chemist, 
UFO Author & Researcher 
(flickr.com photo)

Sunday, 6 November 2016

UFO Lecture:
“Keith Basterfield, Australia –
UFOs An Anfractuous Phenomenon”


Source: UFO Research (NSW) Incorporated (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“Keith spoke at the UFO Research (NSW) Incorporated meeting at Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club, NSW, Australia on the 2 July 2016.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2kt0_gPZkc













Keith Basterfield, Australian UFO Researcher
(noufors.com photo)

Saturday, 5 November 2016

U.S. Government UFO Documents:
“UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS”


(Air Force Declassification Office, U.S. Air Force, 
Washington, D.C.)

The U.S. Air Force presents the following UFO documents:
“Project Grudge Documents 1950;
Roswell Report – Case Closed;
UFO Report 10 Dec 53, Thule AFB Greenland;
UFO Report 12 Oct 53, Geneva NY;
UFO Report 14 Sept 53, AZ;
UFO Report 30 Sept 53, Silver Springs MD;
UFO Report 6 Aug 53, Bismark ND;
UFO Report 8 Aug 53, Rapid City SD;
UFO Sighting 29 Sept 53, Lawton, OK”

I also reported about these UFO documents on 24 November 2011.

http://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/Home/Top-Flight-Documents/Unidentified-Flying-Objects













(wikimedia.org image)