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Thursday, 6 February 2020
Website Searches:
Focus On UFO News Articles From
the Years 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971
Website: Trove (National Library of Australia ,
Canberra , ACT, Australia ):
(Search term: UFO 1967)
(Flying Saucer 1967)
(UFO 1968)
(Flying Saucer 1968)
(UFO 1969)
(Flying Saucer 1969)
(UFO 1970)
(Flying Saucer 1970)
(UFO 1971)
(Flying Saucer 1971)
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(National Library of Australia/wikimedia.org
image)
Saturday, 2 February 2019
UFO Report:
“The 1971 UFO Chronology”
Released: 18 April 2013
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“This is an 8-page chronology of UFO incidents and
events for 1971. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation
team: Richard Hall (the original 1970 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)).
An apparent lull in sighting reports may be the result
of the closing of Project Blue Book and the media coverage of this for several
years, and may not reflect the actual situation. But this was the calm before
the storm of 1973. We wish to caution readers/researchers as to the quality of
some of the submittals for this chrono. After consulting the usual sources
(NICAP files in particular) we ran a search on the internet to see if we had
missed anything important, and in the process located some cases which we have
listed as ‘unevaluated’ cases or sources. These are flagged as ‘unevaluated’
and, if anyone has any information that would upgrade these incidents to
officially investigated or documented in some way, please let us know.
NICAP Site Coordinator
July 18-24, 1971; Quebec , Canada
Blackouts
A succession of power failures occurred, coinciding
with many observations of UFOs in the same localities, some of them even
occurring over and near electric power stations of Hydro-Quebec....The city of Montreal and its
surroundings were particularly stricken
by the blackouts which occurred twice in the same week. (Claude MacDuff,
‘Canadian Power Failures and UFO Sightings’; Flying Saucer Review Case
Histories, Supp. No. 17. December 1973.)”
Related posts:
(tageo.com
photo)
Friday, 1 February 2019
UFO News Article:
“RAF RADAR CHIEF: I SAW FLEET OF UFOS”
13 September 2008
(The Sun, London ,
UK )
Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, Bainbridge Island , Wa sh ington
and AFU.se
The whole article (Page 7):
“AN RAF expert yesterday revealed how he tracked a
whole fleet of ‘spaceships’ on military radar — but the Ministry of Defence
told him to keep quiet.
Wing Commander Alan Turner, 64, said colleagues sat
stunned when 35 super-fast vessels appeared on their screens.
Wing Cmdr Turner, who was a chief operator of the
RAF’s radar system for 29 years, said the craft were equally spaced and shot
from 3,000ft to 60,000ft at almost 300mph.
Incredibly, every few seconds one of the UFOs would
suddenly vanish from radar and be replaced by an identical vessel moments
later. No aircraft at the time were able to maintain that rate of climb or hold
such a formation.
Wing Cmdr Turner – awarded an MBE in 1984 – said six
military radars, plus operators at Heathrow, filed reports on the unexplained
phenomenon in 1971.
Three days later, a representative for the Ministry of
Defence visited the RAF base to instruct them to ‘never speak about the
incident again.’ Wing Cmdr Turner, right, who retired from the RAF in 1995,
said: ‘UFOs are a fact and I don’t care who knows because I tracked them on
military radar units.
‘What I saw defied all logic and was, quite frankly,
extraordinary.
‘It wasn’t just me. More than 30 pairs of eyes of RAF
staff and radar operators at Heathrow
Airport witnessed the
same thing.
‘It’s
arrogant to believe that we’re the only ones in this universe.’
The dad of three, of Shrewsbury ,
Shropshire, was a radar supervisor at the now disused RAF Sopley base, Dorset , in 1971. Wing Cdr Turner said: ‘I instantly knew this
wasn’t a convoy of military planes.
‘The only craft we knew that had that rate of climb
were supersonic lightning aircraft but they wouldn’t have been able to hold such a perfect formation and they
also make a lot of noise. No one heard a thing on the night in question.’
Wing Cmdr Turner is guest speaker at the Close
Encounters conference in Pontefract, West Yorks , next month. Philip Mantle, of UFO Data
magazine, said yesterday: ‘His testimony is remarkable.’ ”
The Sun presents a map drawn by Commander Turner. The map charts the
flight of the UFOs in between key sites like RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire, and the VOR
aircraft navigation station at Brookmans
Park , Hertfordshire.
The UFO incident occurred on 21 April 1971.
Wikipedia article: “RAF Sopley”:
Wikipedia article: “RAF Lyneham”:
Related posts:
Wing Commander Alan
Turner, Royal Air Force (Ret.)
(gstatic.com photo)
GCI (Ground Control of Interception) radar installation at RAF Sopley, Hampshire, 1945 (text by commons.wikimedia.org)
(wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)
Satellite photo of Sopley ,
UK (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)
Friday, 27 February 2009
Proof of U.S. Air Force UFO Investigation, November 1971
Whenever (after December 1969) anyone has asked the U.S.
Air Force if it investigates UFO cases, the person has been
told that the U.S. Air Force stopped investigating UFO cases
after 17 December 1969 as a result of the Condon Report. This
UFO study determined that UFOs offer no credible threat to
U.S. national security and there is no evidence that UFOs
originate from another planet in another solar system.
So, what do we find two years later, in November 1971?
We find that the U.S. Air Force investigates a UFO case!
In the March 1972 edition of Skylook, which was the Midwest UFO Network’s monthly magazine, we learn that the Air Force investigated the Paul Doss UFO sighting/photographs case.
Paul Doss was a MUFON State-Section Director (Indiana). On 9 May 1971 he had visited the Vermillion River Observatory, south of Union Corner, Illinois. While he was there he saw and photographed a huge, cone-shaped UFO that flew right over him.
On 24 November 1971 Paul Doss was interviewed by U.S. Air Force officials at the Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois. The UFO photographs were also delivered to the U.S. Air Force officials.
The end of the article says:
“And, as Mr. Andrus (Walter H. Andrus, Jr. was MUFON’s Director) pointed out, in a letter accompanying this report, very significant is the fact that our Government IS still interested in UFOs – and is quietly investigating – despite the Condon Report which apparently was intended to laugh off the whole subject of “flying saucers” and to convince the public of the Government’s total lack of interest and cessation of all investigation.”
The Skylook, March 1972 article on page 6, “Black, Cone-shaped Object is Photographed over Illinois Observatory”:
http://www.theblackvault.com/encyclopedia/documents/MUFON/Journals/1972/March_1972.pdf
Here is more evidence of U.S. Air Force UFO interest:
CNN – Larry King Live: UFOs Are They for Real?: Comments by James Fox and U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles I. Halt (at 5:30 minutes into the video) regarding the 1980 Bentwaters, UK, UFO case in relation to the U.S. Air Force and UFO investigations post 1969 (Source: Exopolitik (YouTube channel)):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnW_iFdGIQ
I guess the U.S. Air Force (U.S. military) is still investigating UFO cases!
And I can guarantee that U.S. Air Force officers have seen this TV (BBC World News) UFO footage video:
Official United States Department of Defense document:
“Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)”:
http://www.defenselink.mil/faq/pis/16.html
(wikimedia.org image)
Whenever (after December 1969) anyone has asked the U.S.
Air Force if it investigates UFO cases, the person has been
told that the U.S. Air Force stopped investigating UFO cases
after 17 December 1969 as a result of the Condon Report. This
UFO study determined that UFOs offer no credible threat to
U.S. national security and there is no evidence that UFOs
originate from another planet in another solar system.
So, what do we find two years later, in November 1971?
We find that the U.S. Air Force investigates a UFO case!
In the March 1972 edition of Skylook, which was the Midwest UFO Network’s monthly magazine, we learn that the Air Force investigated the Paul Doss UFO sighting/photographs case.
Paul Doss was a MUFON State-Section Director (Indiana). On 9 May 1971 he had visited the Vermillion River Observatory, south of Union Corner, Illinois. While he was there he saw and photographed a huge, cone-shaped UFO that flew right over him.
On 24 November 1971 Paul Doss was interviewed by U.S. Air Force officials at the Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois. The UFO photographs were also delivered to the U.S. Air Force officials.
The end of the article says:
“And, as Mr. Andrus (Walter H. Andrus, Jr. was MUFON’s Director) pointed out, in a letter accompanying this report, very significant is the fact that our Government IS still interested in UFOs – and is quietly investigating – despite the Condon Report which apparently was intended to laugh off the whole subject of “flying saucers” and to convince the public of the Government’s total lack of interest and cessation of all investigation.”
The Skylook, March 1972 article on page 6, “Black, Cone-shaped Object is Photographed over Illinois Observatory”:
http://www.theblackvault.com/encyclopedia/documents/MUFON/Journals/1972/March_1972.pdf
Here is more evidence of U.S. Air Force UFO interest:
CNN – Larry King Live: UFOs Are They for Real?: Comments by James Fox and U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles I. Halt (at 5:30 minutes into the video) regarding the 1980 Bentwaters, UK, UFO case in relation to the U.S. Air Force and UFO investigations post 1969 (Source: Exopolitik (YouTube channel)):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnW_iFdGIQ
I guess the U.S. Air Force (U.S. military) is still investigating UFO cases!
And I can guarantee that U.S. Air Force officers have seen this TV (BBC World News) UFO footage video:
(Source: tico1977 (YouTube channel))
(Source: hawkeyepeace (YouTube channel))
Official United States Department of Defense document:
“Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)”:
http://www.defenselink.mil/faq/pis/16.html
(wikimedia.org image)
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
UFO Case Directory
(Sightings From Aircraft or Spacecraft):
“Glowing Disc Startles
Veteran Brazilian Airline Pilot
between Belo Horizonte and Uberaba, Brazil
Aug. 9, 1971”
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Richard Hall:
Capt. Vicente Lopes Buono, commanding an airline flight (call letters
PP-DHU) between Belo Horizonte and Uberaba, Brazil, on August 9, 1971, at 9:00
a.m., reported that his plane was paced for 20 minutes at 2,400 meters (7,920 feet ) altitude by
a glowing orange disc (‘like two round basins, one on top of the other’) over
mountainous terrain. Sgt. Falcao, flight controller at Uberaba airport, suggested that he
investigate the object. When the pilot tried to move closer, the object
maintained a constant distance, then suddenly increased its speed and
disappeared.
The sighting occurred between the cities of Pratinha and Sacramento in the Minas
Gerais region. Lopes Buono, a pilot for 24 years, said ‘I never saw anything
like it in my entire career as a pilot.’ He gave a statement to Sgt. Silvio
Motta, commander of the Brazilian Air Force unit in Uberaba.14
Source: Volume II, The UFO Evidence, A Thirty-Year Report, Richard Hall,
(2001), page 131”
Wikipedia article: “Pratinha”:
Wikipedia article: “Sacramento ,
Minas Gerais”:
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Pratinha, Sacramento and Uberaba ,
Minas Gerais State , Brazil
(Photo: Google)
Location of Pratinha [in
Minas Gerais State , Brazil ]
(Text: Wikipedia) (Image: wikimedia.org)
Location of Sacramento [in
Minas Gerais State , Brazil ]
(Text: Wikipedia) (Image: wikimedia.org)
Saturday, 9 September 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“The former Department of Supply,
Dr Michael J Duggin, and ANZAAS”
By Keith Basterfield, 9 September 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Background
I have previously written a number of times about the
former Australian Department of Supply and files which it held on UAP; and the
1971 ANZAAS UAP symposium.
We know from examining previous government files, that
there was discussion within the Department of Defence, in May to July 1971,
about the RAAF handing over investigation of UAP to the Department of Supply,
or at least the Department of Supply taking a look at a limited number of cases
per year from a scientific perspective. (For example NAA files series A703
control symbol 554/1/1/30 Part 2, p.164.) What we have never found out is, what
area within the Department of Supply had expressed this interest? Does a
December 1971 internal Department of Supply memo give us a clue?
In view of this interest, I have transcribed the text
of the memo below. I will then provide some comments about the contents, and
the broader context.
The memo
This is an internal memorandum to Mr T F C Lawrence,
Deputy Secretary, Research and Engineering, Department of Supply, from C N Gerrard, Radar and Electronic Tracking
Group, dated 2 December 1971. The subject was ‘Regarding recent symposium on
UFOs.’
3. The general feeling of those present was that there
is a residue of sighting reports which indicate that some strange phenomenon
exists; and that this warrants scientific investigation.”
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(2.bp.blogspot.com/ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com
image)
Friday, 1 September 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“Dr Michael J Duggin’s 1971 symposium paper”
By Keith Basterfield, 1 September 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Further to my earlier blog posts about Dr Michael J
Duggin’s contribution to Australian UAP research, I have now located a summary
of a 1971 talk he gave.
ANZAAS
On 30 October 1971, the South Australian Division of
the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, held
a one day symposium in Adelaide ,
South Australia , titled ‘The
Unidentified Flying Object Problem.’
Courtesy of Peter Horne, of Adelaide , I now have a copy of the ‘Condensed
Papers’ from the Symposium.
Dr Duggin presented a paper titled ‘The Analysis of
UFO Reports.’ The ‘Condensed Papers’ only contain a summary of the talk, which
I present below.”
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, an Australian
scientist, was a member of the original ‘invisible college’ that studied UFOs
and a senior scientist with the U.S. Air Force Research Labs at Kirtland Air
Force Base.
Related posts:
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, Australian Scientist
(U.S. Air
Force/theozfiles.blogspot.com photo)
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
UFO Case Report:
“Nov. 7, 1971; Norris City, IL”
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Evening. Former Navy weather observer and wife observed for 9 minutes a
bright, slowly-moving ‘white-orange’ light approaching from the East. Object
appeared to be about 1500-2000', changed course and disappeared. (UFOI, 71,
page 3)”
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(Photo: Google)
(Photo: tageo.com)
Sunday, 28 July 2013
UFO News Article:
“Young man goes west on UFO hunt”
14 September 1971
(The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
(The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
The Age reports on the UFO
research work of APRO representative Donald Cline, an electronics
technician and a former U.S. Air Force pilot, who moved to Perth, Western Australia to investigate UFO sightings:
The article contains the following two UFO
reports: Cline’s September 1971 (at 8:15 p.m.) sighting over Helena Valley, a
Perth suburb, and an April 1971 (at around 4:45 a.m.) sighting (two witnesses/UFO car chase) over Brunswick Junction, Western Australia (159
kilometres (99 miles ) south of Perth).
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
UFO Case Report:
“July 18-24, 1971; Quebec, Canada Blackouts”
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“A succession of power failures occurred,
coinciding with many observations of UFOs in the same localities, some of them
even occurring over and near electric power stations of Hydro-Quebec....The
city of Montreal
and its surroundings were particularly stricken by the blackouts which occurred
twice in the same week. (Claude MacDuff, ‘Canadian Power Failures and UFO
Sightings’; Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supp. No. 17. December 1973.)”
Wikipedia article: “Hydro-Québec”:
Related posts:
Hydro-Québec generation and main transmission network,
as of 2008. (Text: Wikipedia) (Photo: wikimedia.org)
Sunday, 3 February 2019
UFO Documentary Film Segment:
Wing Commander Alan Turner MBE Discusses
a UK MoD Air Traffic Control Radar UFO Incident
that occurred at RAF Sopley, UK, on 21 April 1971
Source: Xtraeme (YouTube channel)
The segment is from the Channel 5 (London , UK )
documentary film, Britain’s Closest
Encounters - Alderney Lights.
When this UFO incident occurred, Alan Turner was Duty Military Supervisor
and had the responsibility for monitoring the skies on radar screens for
potential Soviet incursions.
A stunned RAF
Coordinator first discovered two blips on the radar screen. Then more and more
unknown objects came into view on the radar screen, according to Turner’s
testimony in the documentary segment. They counted 35 in total. All
the UFOs followed a north to south east track.
When the objects first appeared on the screen they flew
Alan Turner was determined to solve the mystery. He diverted an RAF Canberra jet, which was on a return flight from
When the pilot got within one mile of one particular blip, he said, in a very agitated voice, that the unknown object was “climbing like the clappers” (according to Turner) on the jet’s radar screen.
The
The objects were first sighted north east of the Salisbury Plain Danger Area (UK MoD military training area) and they left the radar screen south east of
A few days after this UFO incident, Alan Turner was summoned into the Squadron Leader's office and questioned by two civilian-clothed men about the incident. The two men were not identified.
“I, along with all the others who were in the room on that day, were told in no uncertain terms not to relate what we had seen until cleared to do so,” Alan Turner said in an interview.
Turner has been assured by RAF officers that there were no training operations, classified or otherwise, going on at the time and there were no weather balloons or probes in the area at the time of the UFO incident.
Quote from Alan Turner’s testimony in the documentary
film segment:
“There were seven technically different radars (my
comment: both ground and airborne radar) – all seeing exactly the same thing.
There are two types of tape. One is the video tape
taken from the radar, and the other is the voice tape. And that is air to
ground, ground to air; that is all the land lines and all the converstions
between the controllers and each other. I have absolutely no idea where it is
or even if it still exists. All I do know is that it did exist.
I am absolutely certain that it was some very strange
phenomenon on radar – which no one has yet to come up with any rational
explanation for.”
Alan Turner was awarded the MBE in 1984, and he retired from the RAF in
1995.
The information in this
article is taken from several credible sources.
I first reported about this documentary film segment
on 5 August 2009.
Related posts:
Wing Commander Alan Turner, Royal Air Force (Ret.)
(gstatic.com photo)
GCI (Ground Control of Interception) radar installation at RAF Sopley, Hampshire, 1945 (text by commons.wikimedia.org)
(wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)
Satellite photo of Sopley , UK (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)
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