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 (text by the Sign Historical Group)

Sources: Sign Historical Group, U.S.A. and project1947.com

http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/swordscc.html

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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.

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Wikipedia article: “Federal Bureau of Investigation”:

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

Wikipedia article: “United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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”

http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-680209.htm

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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.

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

Sept. 17, 1968; Nellis AFB, NV (BBU)

1 a.m. 2 air traffic controllers including supervisor saw nocturnal light. (Hynek UFO Exp ch. 5, case NL-3)”

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1968fullrep.htm

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Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (wikimedia.org)

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UFO Interviews: “Interview Index”

(Sign Oral History Project, Thomas Tulien, Project Coordinator,

Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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.

http://sohp.us/interviews/

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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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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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Ted R. Phillips (left) and Dr. J. Allen Hynek investigate the

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.

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UFO Interview (Transcript): “Oral History Interview with Albert M. Chop”

November 1999

(Sign Oral History Project, Thomas Tulien, Project Coordinator,

Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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.

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UFO Article (Biography): “Albert M. Chop”

(Sign Oral History Project, Thomas Tulien, Project Coordinator,

Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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.

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Albert M. Chop, U.S. Air Force and NASA Public Affairs Officer

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UFO News Article: “Three times a UFO has been spotted flying over the metro-east”

Updated: 25 July 2017

(Belleville News-Democrat, Illinois)

The article gives an in-depth overview of the 5 January 2000 Illinois UFO incident.

Several people, including four police officers, observed a large, triangular shaped UFO which flew slowly over South West Illinois on this morning.

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Millstadt, Illinois, Police Officer Craig Stevens 

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Satellite photo of Millstadt, Illinois (tageo.com)

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Google Searches: Focus On the 5 January 2000 Illinois UFO Incident

Several people, including four police officers, observed a large, triangular shaped UFO which flew slowly over South West Illinois on the morning of 5 January 2000.

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Millstadt, Illinois, Police Officer Craig Stevens 

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