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Showing posts sorted by relevance for query 1963. Sort by date Show all posts

Saturday, 1 February 2020

Website Searches:
Focus On UFO News Articles From
the Years 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966


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

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Monday, 13 January 2020

UFO Case Directory (ANRECAT):
“Rotating Object & Animal Reaction
Feb. 15, 1963
Willow Grove, Australia”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
Keith Basterfield:
February 15, 1963; Willow Grove, Australia
7:10 hrs local time. Farmer Charles Brew and his son Trevor were in a milking shed, milking a herd of cows. Charles saw an object descend very steeply out of the east out of low cloud, at about a forty-five degree angle. The object was described as about 25 feet in diameter, and about 9-10 feet high. The lower portion, about three feet high, was rotating in an anti-clockwise direction, and was of a bluish appearance. The upper portion of the object appeared to be stationary; battleship grey in colour, with a transparent dome on top. Protruding out of this dome was something which resembled a broom handle. A sound, described as a ‘swishing’ or ‘burbling’ was heard by Charles and also by Trevor. Trevor did not see the object due to his position in the milking shed. The weather at the time was described as low cloud, with rain. Visibility was poor with no thunder or lightning. The wind Charles said, was from the east. The object travelled across the sky, and using a tree for a reference, Charles estimated the object came as close as 75 feet. When due north of him, it hovered over a tree for a few seconds, and then took off to the W at a very fast speed, at an estimated 45 degree angle and lost in the low cloud. The total duration was 15-16 seconds. Cows, and a nearby horse, reacted by running away from the shed area. Charles reported he had a headache (an unusual occurrence for him) following the event, which lasted a day. He also reported a slight drop in milk production from the herd, over the week following the incident. (Sources: (1) RAAF file series A703, control symbol 580-1-1 part 4, pp373-390. This has detailed interview notes; sketches and map. (2) Transcript of interview between the Brews and the Victorian UFO Research Society. 1963. (3) Interview between the Brews and J E McDonald in 1967. (4) A series of blog posts by Keith Basterfield, bringing all the available Moe material into one place).”


Wikipedia article: “Willow Grove, Victoria”:


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Satellite photo of Willow Grove, Australia (tageo.com)
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UFO Report:
“The 1963 UFO Chronology”


Created: 14 May 2006
Updated: 17 March 2017
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is an 8-page chronology of UFO incidents for 1963. From August 4th into mid-month, there was a flurry of UFO sightings, mostly in southern Illinois. An advertising plane in the Chicago area caused some erroneous reports about the same time. Once the reports had been publicized, the planet Jupiter also was reported as a UFO on a few occasions. Our Vincennes, Indiana, NICAP Subcommittee investigated several of the key cases, submitting taped interviews and investigation reports. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: 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.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator


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Map of Illinois (lib.utexas.edu)
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Monday, 3 October 2016

UFO News Article:
“ ‘Light in Sky’ Chases Car,
Besieges Home of Farmer”


6 August 1963
(Chicago Tribune, Illinois)

Source: Chicago Tribune Archives

The whole article:
“A Wayne county family cowered in their darkened house early today [6 August 1963while a bright light hovered over their farm for several hours until it disappeared shortly before dawn.

A member of the family, Ronnie Austin, 18, became hysterical after he and his date were chased 10 miles by the bright moving object as they returned from a drive-in movie last night. Ronnie and Phyllis Bruce, a neighbor, rushed into the Austin household screaming.

The father, Orville Austin, stepped into the yard with a shotgun, then ran back into the house, turned off the lights, and called for protection against a mysterious aerial marauder.

Harry Lee, Wayne county deputy sheriff, said the light was apparently high in the sky and was bigger and brighter than any star. He described it as moving but not twinkling and said he kept it under observation for several hours.

Lee said he went to the farm home, 15 miles west of Fairfield, in answer to a call from Austin for help against the eerie object.

Ronnie said the light appeared above and behind him shortly after he and his date had started a 10-mile drive home. Ronnie described the light as big as an automobile and said when it swooped near him it caused his car motor to crackle.

Ronnie said he raced his car but couldn’t outdistance the light. It followed him home and kept its strange vigil over the farm house. Ronnie, after he became hysterical, was given a sedative by a physician.

Three other members of the Austin family and Mis Bruce supported the story, Lee said.

The deputy said police in Mount Vernon, 15 miles west of the Austin home, reported seeing a strange light in the sky and that Kenneth Talbot, police radio operator, said it appeared to have the shape of a cross.”

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1963/08/06/page/1/article/light-in-sky-chases-car-besieges-home-of-farmer



















Satellite photo of Fairfield, Illinois (tageo.com)
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Wednesday, 11 November 2015

UFO Article:
“UFOs, the AISS, & My Brush With the 1127th”


By Francis Ridge
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the article:
“In 1963, I was living in Vincennes, Indiana. That September I was contacted by an Air Force reserve captain, the CO for the local 1127th Air Reserve Squadron, requesting a briefing concerning our NICAP team’s investigations of UFOs. This briefing was scheduled to be given at the Robert Green Auditorium on the 16th of that month. I was flattered and simply thought that this interest was due to the increased UFO activity in the region, particularly the 1963 UFO concentration or ‘mini-flap’ in southern Illinois. But it now appears there was more to it than that.

We had always suspected that Project Blue Book (the official AF UFO project) was merely a PR front, and there was evidence that some types of UFO project teams were active even after Blue Book closed down in December of 1969. But now we knew who some of these people were, and we had it from a reliable source: The Bolender Memo of  20 October 1969. Brigadier General C. H. Bolender wrote, ‘Moreover; reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146  or Air Force Manual 55-11 , and are not part of the Blue Book system.’ The real responsibility for UFO reports was located in Langley, Virginia and not Dayton, Ohio. This also explained why some important case files were not found in the Blue Book archives.”

http://www.nicap.org/brief1127.htm















Team of U.S. Air Force Physicists in Southern Illinois, 1963
(nicap.org photo)

Friday, 5 October 2018

UFO Case Report:
“Report # 1005
08-21~22-1963
THE SKJÆRVØY CASE”


(Water UFO (waterufo.net), Claymont, Delaware)

The whole UFO case report:
“UFO-INFORMASJON in Oslo, Norway, has received a report of a particularly interesting norwegian [sic] sighting from 1963. The observation took place at a small island named Skjærvøy on the coast of the northern part of Norway. The following is a summary of the incident as told by the observer himself, Helge Mikalsen of Skjærvøy:

On August 21 or 22, 1963 at 5 p.m., I took out on a fishing trip in my boat to the sound called Kagsund near Skjærvøy. The weather was clear and there was no wind. At about 6:30 p.m., I was going to change my fishing location to near the ‘Skjærvøyskjæret’ (sunken rock) and was looking west towards the island Arnøy. I suddenly saw a flame, as from a rocket shooting out from the mountain. I thought the Navy was performing some kind of training mission, but if so they would have to be testing something new because I saw a 6 feet wide orange colored [sic] flame. I then saw an object which went straight up in the air, but the speed was not as fast as that of a rocket being launched! At a height of about 6,000 ft., the flame was gone and I saw the sharp outline of a gray object. I figured it to be some sort of balloon or parachute. The object then started to move eastward straight against the wind, and keeping the same altitude, it passed over a mountain top (2,350 ft.) and a small village. As it moved out over the sound, approaching me, it came lower and I realised it was certainly no balloon or parachute. Then the thought struck me that it was a UFO. I now observed 2 objects, one large and one small. The large object had 5 big windows on the side towards me, which were oval on top and about 6 ft. high. The distance to the object was 450 feet, and it hovered about 40 - 50 feet above the water. Suddenly, what appeared to be 2 rails came down out of the large object, and the smaller one hooked on to these and was drawn into the larger one. The small thing was oval, about 6 by 9 feet. No smoke or flame was observed and there was no sound.     

The time was now 6:40 p.m., and I must admit I was feeling nervous and afraid. For a short moment I had looked around for other witnesses, but could see no other boats. The wind had now increased and the sea was dark, but underneath the object the water was calm and shiny. In one of the object’s windows, I saw a green light beam which was directed at me. The round light (about 1 ft. in diameter) was changing colour, light and dark green, and something seemed to be moving behind the light. I tried to lift a fish into the boat, but could not manage it. I seemed to be paralyzed. Whether this was due to the excitement or something else, I do not know.   

I judged the large UFO to be about 30 feet high, and 105-120 feet long (diameter?). I cannot say for certain if the object was oval or circular, as it had the same side turned towards me during the whole observation. It was flat underneath but had a dome on top. The object had stopped right over a large, sunken german [sic] cargo ship which shipwrecked here in 1944, and which carried ore and quicksilver. I watched something which I am not certain of, either being drawn out of, or dumped into the sea. Several little dark things were seen between the object and the sea surface. To me it seemed that something was coming up out of the sea and entered in through the bottom of the object. It hovered motionless during this time which was 10 minutes. The UFO then tilted a little to one side and started to accelerate. Suddenly the large object’s speed increased tremendously, and in one minute, it had disappeared in a northerly direction out of the fjord of Kvenangen [sic] (Kvænangen). The colour of the object was metallic or silver-grey.     

On the basis of the investigations carried out by: TRONDHEIM UFO FORENING, Trondheim, & UFO-INFORMASJON, Oslo, it is considered that this person is reliable and that the story very likely is true. Mr. Mikalsen has agreed to the story being publically known.   

Material kindly supplied by our Norwegian correspondent.

This reference: from “Pegasus 4” Vol. 3?, 1972

With thanks to The J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS): http://www.cufos.org/
    












Skjervøy, Norway (wikimedia.org)
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Monday, 25 January 2016

UFO Book Manuscript:
“UFO’s: An Air Force Dilemma”


By Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., U.S. Air Force 

(Internet Archive, San Francisco, California)

Source: National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas, Nevada

The book manuscript (copyrighted 1974) was written in 1975, according to NIDS:

The late Hector Quintanilla, Jr. was the last chief officer of Project Blue Book (1963-1970), the U.S. Air Force’s investigation into the UFO phenomenon.

NOTE: Hector Quintanilla was a Major, according to Project Blue Book documents.














The late Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., U.S. Air Force,
Chief Officer of Project Blue Book (1963-1969)
(ovnis-usa.com photo)

Monday, 15 June 2020

UFO Radio Show:
“ ‘Contact,’ with Bob Kennedy”


Date of broadcast: 18 May 1964
(WBZ Radio, Boston, Massachusetts)

Source: Flight 19 Video (YouTube channel)

Quote from the video text:
“Synopsis: Bob Kennedy’s guests are: Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Streeter Stuart, newsman and NICAP member and Walter Webb, amateur astronomer and NICAP member. This is an extremely important historical recording of early NICAP members and the head to head by Walter Webb and [Streeter Stuart] with Mrs. Lyle Boyd over the [book’s] omissions and conclusions. It must also be stated that NICAP, since early 1964, had been using appearances on the radio as a vehicle to promote their upcoming research book entitled, The UFO Evidence.”

My comment:
The radio show has an interview with police officer Lonnie Zamora. Zamora was a witness to the 24 April 1964 Socorro, New Mexico, UFO incident. The interview starts at 10:24.


Article:
“WBZ NewsRadio 1030 History – 1960’s”

14 March 2010
(CBS WBZ, Boston, Massachusetts)

Quote from the article:
September 30th, 1963: Bob Kennedy, who will do talk and public affairs, joins WBZ. His award-winning show called ‘Contact’, made it’s debut on September 30th, 1963 and featured a wide range of celebrities– from politicians to authors to the day’s biggest newsmakers– appear on it. The call-in number is Algonquin 4-5678. ‘Contact’ remains on the air during most of the decade.”


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Bob Kennedy, Radio Show Host, WBZ Radio
(Photo: Google)

Saturday, 13 October 2018

UFO News Article:
“A Moment In (Recent) History:
Chet Grusinski: witness confirms
UFO sighting aboard USS FDR, 1958”


26 December 2000
(Broad Top Bulletin, Saxton, Pennsylvania)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Seattle, Washington and AFU.se

The first part of the article reports on two USS Franklin D. Roosevelt UFO incidents. The witnesses were Chester Grusinski (in 1958) and Harry A. Jordan (off the coast of Sardinia, Italy, in 1963).

Quote from the article:
Jordan on the FDR

From 1961 through December 1965 Jordan served US Navy aboard the destroyer escort USS Laffey, destroyer USS Loeser, and aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVA-42. He served in the operations intelligence division on all three ships, to display, analyze, report and record radar, radio and electronic emission data. For this he received extensive training at the Naval Station, Newport, RI.”


Wikipedia article: “USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42)”:

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USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB/CVA/CV-42) in 1967 
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Satellite photo of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Friday, 20 September 2019

UFO TV Programme (audio only):
“Armstrong Circle Theater -
UFO, the Enigma of the Skies”


Aired: 22 January 1958
(Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), New York City, New York)

Sources: Wendy Connors and Internet Archive (archive.org),
San Francisco, California

The following people are involved in this radio programme, according to IMDb.com: William Corrigan (Director), Irve Tunick, the writer, and interviews of Douglas Edwards, Donald E. Keyhoe and John Nebel.

“Armstrong Circle Theatre” is the correct title of the anthology drama TV series, according to IMDb.com, The Classic TV Archive and Wikipedia, but many write “Armstrong Circle Theater.”

IMDb.com web page: “Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1963): U.F.O: Enigma of the Skies”:


The Classic TV Archive (ctva.biz) article: “Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950-63)”:


Wikipedia article: “Armstrong Circle Theatre”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to 1957 on NBC, and then until 1963 on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U.S. Steel Hour. It finished in the Nielsen ratings at #19 for the 1950-1951 season and #24 for 1951-1952.[1] The principal sponsor was Armstrong World Industries.”

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The late Major Donald Edward Keyhoe, U.S. Marine Corps,
NICAP Director, UFO Author & Researcher
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Friday, 22 November 2013

UFO Report:
“The 1964 UFO Chronology”


Created: 9 June 2006,
Updated: 1 November 2013
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the web page:
“Following the UFO wave of 1957, a drought of sightings ran from 1958 to about 1964. Larry Hatch catalogued about 100 events per year in that period with his ‘U’ Database, the lowest count being 1963 with only 61 sightings. The 1954 European wave included some physical trace cases, and there was a scattering of reports after that. However, cases of this type increased markedly after 1963. 1964 was the year the landing reports became more prominent, beginning with the blockbuster event on April 24 at Socorro, New Mexico. (Note: Brad Sparks: My impression is that 1958-63 were not a ‘drought’ at all, that it is only the civilian outsider's viewpoint not knowing what the AF was collecting.  The BB files indicate a continuing stream of high quality UFO cases some of astounding merit). As far as 1964 was concerned, we all note a surprising lack of sightings reported in the first three months..

Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), Jean Waskiewicz (UFO dBase), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns).

Fran Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator”:

http://www.nicap.org/waves/1964fullrep.htm






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Tuesday, 8 June 2010

UFO News Article:
“ ‘UFO’ SIGHTED ON WEDNESDAY”,
7 February 1963 (Gettysburg Times, Pennsylvania)


Gettysburg Times reports on several U.S. UFO sightings that occurred on 5 February 1963:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sXElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A_MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4648,1415056

UFOs (or the same UFO) were sighted over Gettysburg, PA, Williamsport, PA, Charlottesville, VA, Frederick, MD and a U.S. Military Base near Washington, D.C. The UFO hovered over the U.S. Military Base for a while, according to Carl C. Chambers, who sighted the UFO from an airplane.





Aerial view of Frederick, Maryland (galacticafanfic.com photo)

Sunday, 17 November 2019

Google Website Search:
Focus On the UFO Incidents That Have Occurred At the Selfridge Air National Guard Base and Selfridge AFB Radar Station Through the Years


Website: NICAP.org

Selfridge Air National Guard Base and Selfridge AFB Army Air Defense Command Post are located near Mount Clemens, Michigan.

It is possible to use brilliant – second to none UFO websites like NICAP.org to find the total (or near total) number of UFO cases that have occurred at or near a specific military base, facility or installation.
(Search term: Selfridge)

Wikipedia article: “Selfridge Air National Guard Base”:


Quote from the above Wikipedia article:
Selfridge Air National Guard Base or Selfridge ANGB (IATA: MTC, ICAO: KMTC, FAA LID: MTC) is an Air National Guard installation located in Harrison Township, Michigan, near Mount Clemens. Selfridge Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917.[1]

Units and organizations

The host organization is the 127th Wing (127 WG) of the Michigan Air National Guard, but a variety of Air Force Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Army Reserve, Army National Guard and active duty Coast Guard units use the facility as well.[2] In 1971, Selfridge ANGB became the largest and most complex joint Reserves Forces base in the United States, a position it held until surpassed by NAS JRB Fort Worth (former Carswell AFB) in the late 1990s.

"U.S. Army Garrison-Selfridge serves the Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) supporting tank construction in the Detroit area."[3] Civil Air Patrol civilian organizations at Selfridge are the 176th Selfridge Composite Squadron and the headquarters of the Michigan Wing.

Selfridge is home to Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines and Marine Wing Support Group 47 (MWSG-47.)[4][5]”

Wikipedia article: “Selfridge AFB radar station”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The Selfridge AFB radar station is a United States military facility in Michigan. It began operations in 1949 with a Bendix AN/CPS-5 Radar test that tracked aircraft at 210 mi (340 km).[citation needed] A height finder MIT AN/CPS-4 Radar was added by March 9, 1950;[2] and the station was site L-17 of the Lashup Radar Network and site LP-17[when?] of the subsequent network during construction of the Air Defense Command permanent network. The 661st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated at Selfridge in 1951, and with a pair of General Electric AN/CPS-6 Radars,[clarification needed] the station became site LP-20 of the permanent ADC network in 1952. In 1957 the station added a height finder General Electric AN/FPS-6 Radar. The station became part of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment radar network in 1959, supplying radar tracks to SAGE data center DC-06 at Custer Air Force Station, Michigan, for directing interceptor aircraft and CIM-10 Bomarc air defense missiles.

By 1960, the AN/CPS-6 radar had been replaced by a Bendix AN/FPS-20 Radar for general surveillance, and the site had an additional General Electric AN/FPS-6A height-finder radar. A Sperry AN/FPS-35 radar installed at the station's tower in 1961 became operational in 1962, and the AN/FPS-6A height-finder was replaced with an Avco AN/FPS-26A Radar c. 1963. On 31 July 1963, Selfridge AFB was redesignated as NORAD site Z-20.

The 661st AC & WS also operated Gap Filler sites with Bendix AN/FPS-18 Radars before deactivating on July 1, 1974. The radar station was shared with the United States Army for Nike missile command-and-control.

In 1960, Army Air Defense Command Post (AADCP) D-15DC was constructed for coordinating Nike surface-to-air missile launches from numerous Michigan batteries from Algonac/Marine City (D-17) south to Carleton (D-57) & Newport (D-58). The AADCP closed when the Army deactivated the remaining D-06, D-58, & D-87 batteries in April 1974 at Utica, Newport, and Commerce/Union Lake.”

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Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan (wikimedia.org)
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Satellite photo of Mount ClemensMichigan (tageo.com)
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