UFO News Article: “Airman Chases ‘Flying Saucer’ ”

2 February 1953

(The Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, Australia)

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

The whole article:
“A Marine jet fighter pursued a ‘flying saucer’ for 25 miles near Santa Ana, Southern California (on 28 January 1953). 

The Marine Corps said that the pilot reported that the saucer was a ‘fiery object.’

Later four other flying saucers were reported seen in the area by a photographer and two pilots of the Northrop Aircraft Company.

They said the ‘saucers’ were flying in formation at an estimated altitude of 20,000ft.”

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49252111

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UFO News Article: “Objects in Sky Seen at Lock”

21 February 1947

(The Transcontinental, Port Augusta, Australia)

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

The whole article:

“Writing in The Advertiser, Mr. F. W. Flavel of Lock, Eyre Peninsula, states: ‘I saw objects in the sky between 7 and 8 o’clock the same day (5 February 1947) as you received a report from Port Augusta. I was walking in a north-westerly direction to the house after feeding the pigs. There were five of the strange objects and they seemed to be coming up out of the sea, like a shadow with smoky greyish color around them. ‘They were oblong with narrow points. I saw them quite plainly. They seemed to be floating in the air from north-west to south-east and caused a shadow.’ ”

This appears to be an unidentified submerged object (USO)/UFO incident.

Lock is located 78 kilometres (48 miles) south west of the town of Kimba, according to Google Earth.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168306564

Wikipedia article: “Lock, South Australia”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock,_South_Australia

Wikipedia article: “Eyre Peninsula”:

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

“Map of Eyre Peninsula, SA” (bonzle.com):

http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=37685&cmd=sp

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Eyre Peninsula towns and cities with a population of more than 500 (Australian census 2011) (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org image)

UFO News Article: “Objects in Sky Not Meteorites – OPINION OF GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER”

14 February 1947

(The Transcontinental, Port Augusta, Australia)

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

The whole article:

“Commenting on a report from Port Augusta that several men working in the yard at the Commonwealth Railways workshops at about 9 a.m. on Wednesday (5 February 1947) of last week, had seen five strang [sic] egg shaped objects in formation, pass across the sky at a height of about 6,000 feet, the Government Astronomer (Mr. G. F. Dodwell) said that the phenomenon did not fit in with anything astronomical and was a complete mystery to him.

Mr. Dodwell discounted the probability of the objects being meteorites. He said that meteorites, being very small, and travelling at such high speeds, did not cast shadows, whereas the objects which passed over Port Augusta did. The presence of falling meteorites would have been accompanied by a deafening roar.”

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168306511

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Satellite photo of Port Augusta, Australia (tageo.com)

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UFO News Articles: “List: UFO’s And ‘Flying Saucers’ in the Australian Print Media”

(Trove, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia)

Quote from the web page:

“A collection of Reports on UFO and Flying Saucer Sightings, Explainations [sic], and Theories which have been published in the Australian press.

132 items

created by: jamierussell on 2010-11-21 21:50:14.0”

The articles cover the years 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=3265

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UFO Report: “1951 UFO Chronology”

Created: 2 January 2006

Updated: 29 April 2017
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This chronology is currently a 20-page report. I want to thank all the members of the A-Team who made this possible. Finally, but certainly not least, I want to thank Loren Gross for thoughtfully and diligently collecting data many years ago for his UFO Histories and supplemental notes, in particular here the year 1951. A big thanks to CUFOS and Mary Castnor for housing them on the CUFOS site …

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

Feb. 9 (not 10th), 1951; off Newfoundland, Canada

On the night of the UFO encounter, a four engine Navy R5D transport was flying west over the Atlantic. On this trip the 30-year-old pilot was 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. 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. (NICAP, BB, Dan Wilson)

Feb. 21, 1951; Bt. Newfoundland and Iceland (BB)

3:00 AM. The Incident #26 report describes the event in more detail. Lt. George Williams was piloting a Navy Fleet Logistics airplane cruising at 10,000 feet. At first he thought the object was a ship and then called the copilot forward. Nine witnesses saw the object approach at terrific closing rate. It veered to their port side and hovered momentarily, then rose at extremely rapid rate and disappeared off their port quarter. Size was estimated at 200 feet in diameter, flat elliptical or cigar shaped by side view and seemed to be producing a ring of red-orange exhaust all along the edge. (Jan Aldrich, Project Interloper report).”

UFO incidents involving U.S. military personnel occurred thick and fast in 1951.

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm

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The Graham E. Bethune Case, 9 [not 10] February 1951, 

off Newfoundland, Canada (nicap.org image)

Map of Canada (canada-maps.org)

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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.

http://www.nicap.org/bb/NARA-PBB89-420.jpg

Wikipedia article: “Naval Station Argentia”:

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

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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”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Douglas_DC-4_variants

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U.S. Navy R5D Transport (text by NICAP.org)

(variant: Douglas DC-4 R5D) (nicap.org photo)

Map of Canada (canada-maps.org)

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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.

https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/

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

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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.

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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.”

https://www.explorescu.org/post/estimating-flight-characteristics-of-anomalous-unidentified-aerial-vehicles

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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

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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)

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