Sunday, 24 February 2019
UFO Report:
“The 1977 UFO Chronology”
Created: 15 August 2007
Updated: 4 March 2018
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently a 24-page chronology of UFO
incidents and events for 1977. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our
documentation team: Richard Hall (the original 1977 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]). The latest entries were provided by
A-Team member Mike Swords. You will note the many foreign reports that we are
now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to
us. As more come in, this page will be updated.
This is the year that the MADAR Project got its real
test. Go to July 10th and listen to the datatape recording! There were seven
detections of magnetic anomalies by the Multiple Anomaly Detection and
Automated Recording system at my Mt.
Vernon , Indiana
facility, within a six week period! There were UFO sightings within 60 miles NW and 85 miles SW at the same
time MADAR was triggered.
Finally, in November, I was invited by the press to
view the motion picture ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ before it was
officially released.
NICAP Site Coordinator
April 20, 1977 - CIA Memo Declassified
Memo from CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith to
Director, Psychological Strategy Board, declassified 20 April 1977 (Good, Above
Top Secret, 511)
May 1977; France . Groupe d'Etude des
Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies (GEPAN) organized under the auspices of
the French national space agency for the study of UFOs.
July 1, 1977; Aviano ,
Italy
3:00 AM. Electronic alarms suddenly sounded at the
NATO base and then home to the 40th Tactical Group. Something had set off the
magnetic and motion detectors in the high hurricane type fence protecting the
Victor Alert compound, a facility that housed fighter aircraft, their crews,
maintenance and support personnel. Simultaneously a power outage occurred at
the Victor Alert facility, and though a back-up system immediately kicked in,
minor power fluxes went on for the next 15 to 20 minutes. Soon security
personnel were reporting a strange light display off to the northwest, off
base, perhaps 200 meters
beyond the fence line, over a soybean field. Luminous round object with dome
hovered above a NATO base security zone, spinning; changed color, emitted sound
like swarm of bees (NICAP UFOE II, NICAP UFOE II, Section II).
July 21, 1977; Porter, TX
4:15 AM. Officer John W. Bruner, a deputy sheriff, was
on duty and was the first person to observe the phenomenon. Officer Bruner and
his partner Officer Coogler were parked west of the object which appeared to be
approximately 1/2 to 1 mile
away. Bruner and Coogler got out of their vehicle and tried to observe the
object better by shinning their light on it. The object moved toward the men
and the officers turned off the light because they became nervous at seeing the
object's response to their light. The object then moved back to its first
location. The two officers concurred that the object appeared to have six
portholes surrounding a type of framework. The two officers observed the UFO
for approximately 45 minutes. During that time period, the UFO appeared to
stand still in mid air, pulsated, traveled at incredible speeds and flew with
erratic mobility. The officers described the UFO's apparent size to be about
that of a grapefruit. Officer Bruner is convinced That the object he saw was
not a balloon or a helicopter. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1977, page
4)
Aug. 28, 1977; Windermere ,
Cumbria , England
12:10 AM An on duty police officer PC IAN MACKENZIE
observed two very bright horizontal lights in the vicinity of Langdale Pike
that moved towards him and grew brighter. He ruled out any type of aircraft. At
the same time PS JOHN McMULLEN also spotted the UFO from his location whilst
walking through Keswick with three other officers. He described the object as
being hang glider or diamond shaped. At 0020 hours PS JAMES TROHEAR and PC JOHN
FISWICK also reported seeing the object from their position at the Fallbarrow
Park Caravan Site on the shores of Lake Windermere .
Other unnamed officers were also present at that location and saw the object.
PS TROHEAR described the object as triangular or diamond shaped. At 0022 hours
PC ALEXANDER INGLIS was driving home with three colleagues along the
A591Keswick to Bothel road when they too caught sight of the lights. As the
object approached them he pulled the car over to have a better look. Despite
their efforts they could not make out a distinct shape of the object. All they
could make out was two extremely bright lights attached to it and there was a
faint purring noise associated with it. At 0025 hours PC JOSEPH MAW and a
colleague spotted the object heading in the direction of Buttermere. It was
traveling at a low altitude over the surrounding fells. At around the same time
PC DAVID WILD spotted the UFO whilst out on foot patrol on the A592 Rayrigg Road
to Bowness. He described it as kite shaped and that it was a very large
structured craft. At 0030 hours a number of civilian witnesses also spotted the
object. At the same time following a police radio request for officer
sightings, two further officers, PS GEOFFREY MERCKEL and PC RONALD JONES
observed the same UFO from their position at Skelwith Bridge
on the A593 road. They described the object as being kite shaped as they
watched it go out to sea over Morcambe
Bay . Multiple police
witness corroboration reported from several geographical locations. On and Off
Duty sighting. 17 Officers (nine named plus a number of unspecified officers).
Source - A Covert Agenda by Nick Redfern. Pocket Books 1998. Pages 131-132.
(Reference: THE 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective Constable
1877 HESELTINE British Transport Police )
Dec. 8, 1977; Los
Angeles , CA
Four UFOs tracked on radar; bright, circular objects
maneuvered around airliner (NICAP UFOE II, Section III).”
Quote from the Wikipedia article, “Porter, Texas ”:
“Porter is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County
in southeastern Texas within the Houston –The
Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.”
Wikipedia article: “Aviano Air Base”:
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Map of Texas
highlighting Montgomery
County
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UFO News Article:
“2 Sightings Of UFOs Near Anchorage”
15 May 1977
(Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, Washington)
Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Seattle , Washington
and AFU.se
The whole article (Page 1):
“Unidentified flying objects have been reported over
the Chugach Mountains just east of here by a Northwest Orient Airline crew and
a radar approach controller at Anchorage
International Airport ,
reports Pat Fullerton of Anchorage
radio station KANC.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Cliff
Cernick said Friday one of the controllers reported that on April 23 (1977) he
saw ‘four blips which gyrated on his radarscope in an unusual manner. The
controller, Terry Siegrest, saw the blips settle downwards, and then move
across the scope at a rapid rate of speed.’
Cernick says the airline also reported sighting an
unidentified flying object on that date.
It might have some natural explanation and I wouldn’t
overplay it,’ Cernick said. ‘I don’t want people to think the FAA sees little
green men.’
Siegrest told Fullerton
the objects first appeared about 30 miles from Anchorage , moving slowly and eventually
stopping completely. When they· resumed movement. he said, they picked up speed
and ‘zipped off to the east .’
Harry Fluharty relieved Siegrest after the radar sightings.
He said a Northwest Orient pilot reported that he saw a single bright object at
60,000 feet
moving at a high rate of speed.
Fluharty quoted the pilot as saying, ‘I’ll probably be
sorry for reporting this, but I know what I saw and my whole crew saw it, too.’
”
Wikipedia article: “Ted Stevens
Anchorage International
Airport ”:
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Saturday, 23 February 2019
UFO Paper:
“THE USAF-SPONSORED COLORADO PROJECT FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF UFOS”
1995 MUFON Symposium Proceedings Presentation by
Michael D. Swords, Ph.D., Professor Natural Sciences, Western Michigan
University (tex t by the Sign Historical Group)
Sources: Sign Historical Group, U.S.A. and
project1947.com
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=“Condon
Report”
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=“University of Colorado”
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=“University of Colorado”
(wikimedia.org image)
U.S. Government UFO Document:
“SUBJECT: SUMMARY OF AERIAL PHENOMENA IN NEW MEXICO MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING”
23 August 1950
(Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington , D.C. )
Source: ufohastings.com
Quote from the document (not written in Federal Bureau
of Investigation document format):
“PURPOSE
To advise that: (1) OSI has expressed concern in
connection with the continued appearance of unexplained phenomena described as
green fireballs, discs and meteors in the vicinity of sensitive installations
in New Mexico. (2) (blacked out text) Meteor Expert of University of New
Mexico, reported that the phenomena does not appear to be of meteoric origin.
(3) OSI has contracted with Land-Air Inc., Alamogordo , New Mexico ,
to make scientific study of the unexplained phenomena.”
The letter was sent from A. H. Belmont to D. M. Ladd.
Wikipedia article: “Federal Bureau of Investigation”:
Wikipedia article: “United States
Air Force Office of Special Investigations”:
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UFO Case Report (E-mail):
“Subject: Groveton MO, February 9, 1968”
By Joan Woodward, 26 November 2005
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO case report:
“Animal Reaction Feature:
In the early morning darkness, the witness heard cows
in a pasture in front of his house bawling as if frightened. He looked out a
window and saw a large circular object hovering 20 to 25 feet above the ground
and 300 to 350 feet
from the house. The glow associated with
the object was bright enough that the witness could see furniture in the house,
could see limbs on trees, and the fence between the pasture and house. The glow
also allowed him to see the cattle that were in a rough semicircle about 100 to
200 feet
from the object. Some cows with calves were bawling and being answered by
calves. Then one cow whirled and ran toward the barn, followed within seconds
by all the others. Throughout the sighting there was a distinct swishing sound
(like a piece of wire whirled at high speed) with a pulsating rhythm.
The Sighting:
This sighting is included on the list of Blue Book
‘Unknowns (#12235).’ The time of the
sighting was reported as 4:30 am by Skylook (1970) and as 3:20 am by Hynek
(1977). The witness resides on a farm. He is nearsighted (but can drive without
glasses) and viewed these events without glasses. Hynek felt he was a stable,
factual witness. His house sits ¼ mile from a road and the pasture is between
the house and the road.
After being alerted as described above and seeing the
cattle run toward the barn, the witness focused on the object. He saw a
circular object estimated as 100
feet in diameter with at least one concave side from which
came yellow-green light. The witness saw 7 openings in the center of the
concave side. Without glasses he was not sure if the openings were round or
square, but estimated them to be 2 to 2.5 feet in diameter.
The duration of the sighting was estimated with
uncertainty, but was probably greater than 1 minute and less than 5 minutes. The
object departed by rapidly rising at a 45 degree angle but maintained the
horizontal position the craft held during hovering. On departure, the swishing sound became 2-3 times
louder and the pulsations became more rapid.
Source: Skylook #33, August 1970”
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Thursday, 21 February 2019
U.S. Government UFO Document:
“PROJECT 10073 RECORD (CARD):
DATE – TIME GROUP: 9 Feb. 68/
LOCATION: Groveton, Missouri”
(Project Blue Book , U.S. Air Force, Washington , D.C. )
Source: Fold3.com, Lindon , Utah
Quote from the document:
“The observer was awakened by several of his cows
bawling. The observer rushed to his living room and sighted a craft that was
estimated to be about 100 ft .
in diameter and had concave sides. A bright yellow-green light came from the
concave sides of the craft and the craft itself produced a pulsating sound
similar to a piece of wire whirled at high speed above a person’s head. During
this time the cows were staring at the object which the observer estimated to
be about 100 to 200 ft
away and about 25 ft .
above the ground. Finally the cows whirled and ran into the barn. Shortly
afterward the craft moved away rapidly toward the SW. When the object moved
toward the SW the noise was reportedly two or three times louder and the sound
pulsations were more rapid. The duration of the sighting was 1 to 5 minutes.
NOTE: The observer is somewhat nearsighted but was not wearing his glasses
during the observation.”
Project Blue Book listed the case as “UNIDENTIFIED.”
The UFO incident occurred at 4:20 a.m. (9:20 a.m. Zulu
Time Zone).
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UFO Report:
“The 1968 UFO Chronology”
Created: 15 November 2006
Updated: 5 January 2017
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“This is a
twelve-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1968. Our thanks
for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (the
original 1968 chronology from UFOE II), William Wise (Project Blue Book
Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive
Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Last, but not least, our thanks to Jean
Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it
possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves.
Earlier last year, on September 18, 1967, Condon, Low
and Saunders had met for the first time in many weeks. As a result of his
reading of the memo, Saunders was deeply concerned about the negative approach
to the UFO problem. Saunders was led to believe that if by chance the Extra
Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) hypothesis was substantiated, the announcement
would be sent by Condon directly to the Air Force and the President, and never
be allowed to go to the public. This troubled him, because Saunders had been
given a clear understanding that the report would go first to the National
Academy of Sciences, then to the public and Air Force simultaneously. Saunders
felt he could not let the problem drop. Another meeting was agreed to. At this
point, Keyhoe suddenly sent word that NICAP was going to take a strong stand
against the Condon committee and no longer would supply material and reports.
The reason, Keyhoe said, was a new speech made by Condon at the Atomic
Spectroscopy Symposium at Gaithersburg ,
Md. , on September 13, 1967. A report of the new
Condon speech had already reached Dr. McDonald in a letter from a colleague at
the University of
Arizona , William S.
Bickel, assistant professor of physics on the campus. The rest was all down
hill, but the Condon Report later tried to say they couldn’t get cooperation,
as excerpts inserted in the chronology will demonstrate.
As the Colorado UFO Project prepares to announce the
failure to find anything of substance to UFOs and the need to close the Air
Force Project Blue Book, other studies, such as the secret NSA document below,
and later the RAND document (Nov. 27), give a more accurate report.
NICAP Site Coordinator
Sept. 17, 1968; Nellis AFB, NV (BBU)
Wikipedia article: “Nellis Air Force Base”:
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Wednesday, 20 February 2019
UFO Interviews:
“Interview Index”
(Sign Oral History Project, Thomas Tulien, Project
Coordinator,
Many of the interviews are with U.S. Air Force personnel who witnessed the 24
October 1968 Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota , UFO
incident.
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UFO News Article:
“Farmer may have had close encounter”
20 October 1990
(Sandusky Register, Ohio )
Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville , Arkansas
and AFU.se
The whole article (Page 1):
“Farmer James Lawson doesn’t know what made the
perfect 50-foot circle in his cornfield, but he’s not ruling out the possibility
that it was an alien being.
The corn stalks are flattened in neat rows in
clockwise swirl, hidden from the nearest intersection but visible from inside
the field.
The phenomenon is common in Britian, with hundreds of
such incidents reported in recent years. Crop circle reports have also come in
from the Soviet Union, Japan
and New England .
‘I was just making my first trip (on a combine)
through the field,’ Lawson said . ‘The first thing I thought of was a UFO.
‘I thought ‘holy smokes, what is this?’ ’
‘It feels weird. There’s no road coming in,’ said
Lawson, 70. ‘It could have been here quite a while, but the ears are still on
the stalks. Maybe it’s been a month or so.’
‘When I went in to tell my wife, she didn’t believe
me,’ Lawson said. ‘She said, ‘You're goofy.’ ’
Lawson has farmed for 42 years and although he did not
think the crop circle is a hoax, he wasn’t quite ready to accept the UFO
theory.
‘It couldn’t have been the wind because the dike would
have stopped it. And it’s a perfect circle. The stalks are mashed in perfect
rows,’ he said. ‘Maybe it was a UFO that made the circle when it landed and
then took off.’
Other explanations from around the world range from
the landing pods to crazed hedgehogs to a freak natural event.
Lawson said he would leave the circle alone and
harvest around it.
‘l think people would be interested,’ he said. ‘Who
knows who might want to come and see this?’ ”
The photo text:
“James Lawson of rural Milan , Illinois ,
stands on the ladder of his combine in front of the mysterious circle of
flattened corn he found in his field while harvesting Tuesday. The circle is a
perfect 46 1/2-foot in diameter and had no sign or evidence of cutting or
humans in the circle area.”
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Tuesday, 19 February 2019
UFO Book:
“PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED
WITH UFO SIGHTINGS”
Compiled by Ted R. Phillips, July 1975
(Center for UFO Studies, Northfield , Illinois )
Source: CUFOS.org
The book’s foreword is written by Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
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2 November 1975 Medford, Minnesota, UFO landing incident
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Google Searches:
Focus On Albert M. Chop’s
Involvement In the UFO Issue
The late Albert M. Chop was a U.S. Air Force and NASA
Public Affairs Officer.
Chop was initially very sceptical of UFOs, but after
being promoted to Chief of the Press Section at Air Materiel Command (AMC) he
changed his view on the UFO issue.
At the request of Major General John A. Samford and
Major General Sory Smith of the Office of Public Information at the U.S. Defense
Department, Chop was transferred (by U.S. Air Force Public Relations Office
Chief Colonel DeWitt Searles) from Dayton, Ohio, to the Pentagon’s Press
Section in Washington ,
D.C., in 1952.
When the 26 July 1952 Washington , D.C. ,
UFO incident occurred, Chop was present in the radar control room at Washington National Airport .
(Search term: “Albert M. Chop” UFO)
(“Albert Chop” UFO)
Wikipedia article: “Air Materiel Command”:
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Albert M. Chop, MSC
Deputy Public Affairs Officer, is shown at
his console in the Mission Control Operations Room at the NASA
Headquarters inHouston , Texas
(project 1947.com photo)
his console in the Mission Control Operations Room at the NASA
Headquarters in
UFO Interview (Transcript):
“Oral History Interview with Albert M. Chop”
November 1999
(Sign Oral History Project, Thomas Tulien, Project
Coordinator,
The late Albert M. Chop was a U.S. Air Force and NASA
Public Affairs Officer.
Chop was initially very sceptical of UFOs, but after
being promoted to Chief of the Press Section at Air Materiel Command (AMC) he changed
his view on the UFO issue.
At the request of Major General John A. Samford and
Major General Sory Smith of the Office of Public Information at the U.S. Defense
Department, Chop was transferred (by U.S. Air Force Public Relations Office
Chief Colonel DeWitt Searles) from Dayton, Ohio, to the Pentagon’s Press
Section in Washington ,
D.C., in 1952.
When the 26 July 1952 Washington , D.C. ,
UFO incident occurred, Chop was present in the radar control room at Washington National Airport .
Wikipedia article: “Air Materiel Command”:
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Albert M. Chop, MSC
Deputy Public Affairs Officer, is shown at
his console in the Mission Control Operations
Room at the NASA
Headquarters in Houston , Texas
(project 1947.com photo)
Monday, 18 February 2019
UFO Article (Biography):
“Albert M. Chop”
(Sign Oral History Project, Thomas Tulien, Project
Coordinator,
The late Albert M. Chop was a U.S. Air Force and NASA
Public Affairs Officer.
Chop was initially very sceptical of UFOs, but after
being promoted to Chief of the Press Section at Air Materiel Command (AMC) he
changed his view on the UFO issue.
At the request of Major General John A. Samford and
Major General Sory Smith of the Office of Public Information at the U.S. Defense
Department, Chop was transferred (by U.S. Air Force Public Relations Office Chief
Colonel DeWitt Searles) from Dayton, Ohio, to the Pentagon’s Press Section in Washington ,
D.C., in 1952.
When the 26 July 1952 Washington , D.C. ,
UFO incident occurred, Chop was present in the radar control room at Washington National Airport .
Wikipedia article: “Air Materiel Command”:
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Albert M. Chop, U.S. Air Force and NASA Public Affairs Officer
(nicap.org photo)
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