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Monday, 22 April 2013

UFO Book Excerpt:
“The first few paragraphs of the Conclusion of 
UFOs and the National Security State
The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991” 
by Richard M. Dolan, 26 November 2012 
(keyholepublishing.com, Rochester, New York)

In this excerpt, Richard M. Dolan mentions the hundreds of UFOs which have been recorded by the U.S. Air Force’s Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite system:


U.S. Air Force fact sheet dated 15 September 2010: 
“DEFENSE SUPPORT PROGRAM SATELLITES”:


“Defense Support Program” (fas.org):


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Richard M. Dolan,
U.S. Historian, UFO Author,
Lecturer & Researcher

Friday, 21 February 2020

UFO Case Directory (IMCAT):
“DSP Satellite Tracks Fast Walker
May 5, 1984
Orbit”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
Fran Ridge:
May 5, 1984; ORBIT
At 1400 hours zulu time, an object was spotted by a US, the ultra-sensitive orbiting USDSP satellites our county uses for detailed surveillance and air defense. It was reportedly tracked as it sped first directly toward the Earth at 22,000 mph and passed if front and within 15 miles of the satellite. It suddenly and without impact or contact with other devices or obstructions curved outward, away from the Earth. It was tracked for another 9 minutes until it then disappeared. [An] alert was triggered at the North America Air Defense Command. It had been determined to NOT be incoming ballistic missiles, or any other type of conventionally explainable object. These satellites have the infra-red capability to spot small heat sources on the surface of the [Earth] and are time-proven as effective monitoring devices.”

http://www.nicap.org/840505orbit_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Defense Support Program”:


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DSP satellite deployment during STS-44 (text by Wikipedia)
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Thursday, 1 July 2010

UFO TV Report:
U.S. Air Force Defense Support Program (DSP) 

Reconnaissance Satellite Registration of the 
1976 Tehran, Iran UFO 
(Unknown German TV Channel)

The TV report also contains a comment by former NASA research scientist and UFO researcher (NARCAP) Dr. Richard F. Haines, Ph.D.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBsb4kT1WUk

Wikipedia article: “Defense Support Program”.

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Painting of a DSP satellite on station (Wikimedia.org image)

Thursday, 20 February 2020

UFO Report:
“The 1984 UFO Chronology”


Created: 15 March 2008
Updated: 20 April 2016
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently a 5-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1985. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1985 chronology from UFOE II), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]. 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. Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the expertise of two other team members: William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Bob Gribble‘s entries are those filed with the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington, now operated by Peter Davenport.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator

April 1984; Stanmore, Middlesex, England
PC Richard Milthorp was one of at least 20 uniformed officers who observed a dome shaped circular UFO that appeared to ‘fire’ balls of light to the ground for two hours. He submitted a report with one other officer that was sent to the Ministry of Defence and the Civil Aviation Authority. The Superintendent for Harrow Police station at the time said that the report by MILTHORP and PC PAUL ISLES was made by ‘two normal sensible men.’ UFO Classification NL (Nocturnal Light) On Duty sighting. 20 Officers. Source - Page 251, The UFO Encyclopaedia by John Spencer, Headline Book Publishing 1991

April 18, 1984; Lakenheath Air Base, England
A rectangular UFO hovered only 100 feet above the side of a road near the RAF Lakenheath Air Base in England. It had red, green and white lights, and was silent. (Source: International UFO Reporter, March 1986, p. 5).

April 19, 1984; at an eastern airport in England
16.00 GMT. Air traffic controllers at an eastern airport in England witnessed a glowing sphere that looked like ‘masses of silver paper crinkled up’ touch down on a cross runway, then rocket skyward in a maneuver they judged impossible for aircraft. It climbed 3000 feet in under a second. (Source: International UFO Reporter, March-April 1986, p. 5).

April 24, 1984; Chimayo, NM
7:10 PM. Radar visual confirmation. A 1000 foot long cigar-shaped object followed a KC-135 USAF tanker aircraft through a U-turn over the mountains of Chimayo, New Mexico while separate nocturnal lights cavorted about in the sky. Radar blips were tracked at the time. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1984).

May 5, 1984; Over Indian Ocean & in Space
At 1400 hours GMT a ultra-sensitive orbiting US DSP (Defense Support Program) spy satellite detected the entry of an unknown object that passes 15 miles in front of it, and then flew below it over the Indian Ocean. An alert was triggered at the North America Air Defense Command. Object moving at 22,000 miles per hour, changed course, and flew back out into outer space. (Source: Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 324).

June 14, 1984; Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, NY
10:30 PM. Guards at the Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson River, New York sighted a dark disc-shaped object with lights, 30 feet in diameter, that stayed over the nuclear reactor for 15 minutes. It finally flew away toward the northeast. (Source: J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrogno, Night Siege, p. 143).

June 24, 1984; Peekskill, NY
10:30 p.m. UFO over nuclear plant causes alert and elect failure. (Hynek/Imbrogno)

July 24, 1984; Indian Point Nuclear Plant, Westchester County, NY
9:00 PM. A very large boomerang-shaped UFO hovered only 300 feet over an active vent of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant cooling tower for 15 minutes on the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. Several guards came forward to report the incident, reporting there were a total of eleven witnesses to the UFO at the plant that night, and that the security guards broke out shotguns. A big cover-up by government officials was claimed. (Sources: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1985, p. 8; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14168, citing George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 302; J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 148; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 120; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 128).

July 24, 1984; Brewster, NY
10:20 PM. A videotape was made by a Mr. [Pozzuoli, according to the book, Night Siege] of a ring of lights in the dark sky over Brewster, New York in the Hudson River Valley, suggesting a dark circular, ellipsoid, or disc-shaped object. Analysis of the videotape was done by Dr. Lew Allen of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 128; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 2).”

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1984fullrep.htm

Wikipedia article: “Indian Point Energy Center”:


Wikipedia article: “RAF Lakenheath”:


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The RAF Lakenheath airfield, UK
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Large UFO filmed (by Bob Pozzuoli) over Brewster (New York)
on 24 July 1984 (possibly the same UFO which hovered over the Indian Point Energy Center, according to the book, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings”)
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019

UFO Article (Blog):
“Is the US Office of Naval Intelligence
now part of the AATIP effort?”


By Keith Basterfield, 9 July 2019
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:
Danny Silva

In a blog post dated 6 July 2019, US researcher Danny Silva noted, that in episode 6 of the ‘Unidentified’ TV series, former Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) manager, Luis Elizondo stated:

‘AATIP is no longer run by a single office. There's now several offices that are engaged in this effort...and it is being run with official blessing.’

When Elizondo resigned from the Department of Defense, in October 2017 he signed his resignation letter ‘Luis D Elizondo, Director, National Program Special Management Staff, OUSD(I).’ So, we know that AATIP then lay within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. What other offices might now be involved in the AATIP? Do we have any clues? I think we do.”


Wikipedia article: “Office of Naval Intelligence”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) is the military intelligence agency of the United States Navy. Established in 1882 primarily to advance the Navy’s modernization efforts,[4][5] ONI is the oldest member of the United States Intelligence Community and serves as the nation’s premier source of maritime intelligence. Since the First World War, its mission has broadened to include real-time reporting on the developments and activities of foreign navies; protecting maritime resources and interests; monitoring and countering transnational maritime threats; providing technical, operational, and tactical support to the U.S. Navy and its partners; and surveying the global maritime environment. ONI employs over 3,000 military and civilian personnel worldwide and is headquartered at the National Maritime Intelligence Center in Suitland, Maryland.”

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Wednesday, 27 March 2019

UFO Article (Blog):
“Two AATIP related conferences in March 2019”


By Keith Basterfield, 8 January 2019
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:
Scientific Coalition for UFOlogy

The Scientific Coalition for UFOlogy will hold a conference on the subject of Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena, between 15-17 March 2019, in Huntsville, Alabama, in the USA.

The SCU’s website states that the ‘SCU is an organization composed of affiliate members from science, engineering, astronomy, psychology, chemistry, military and other disciplines with many holding PhDs, BS, BA degrees.

‘SCU seeks to hold this conference in the hopes of bringing together other serious minded attendees from Redstone Arsenal, NASA, military defense contractors and academia in order to have serious dialogue about the subject and how science can progress in studying the phenomena.’

Speakers

The keynote speaker is Luis Elizondo, former program manager for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

Other speakers are:

Dr Travis Taylor, Department of Defense: ‘A scientific approach to analyzing and preparing for an alien invasion.’

Mr Philippe Ailleris, Project Controller, European Space Agency. ‘Detection and characterization of anomalous aerial objects using satellite data imagery.’

Mr Robert Powell, SCU: ‘2004 USS Nimitz case report.’

Mr Peter Reali, SCU: ‘2004 USS Nimitz case physics.’

Mr Richard Hoffman, SCU: ‘2013 Aguadilla Puerto Rico case technical review.’

S A Little, SCU: ‘Unidentified submersible object (USO) reports, creating a database for cluster analysis.’

Additional panel members include: Dr C Powell, Senior Engineer/scientist at Davidson Technologies, Inc.

UFO MegaCon

This conference will be held between 24-30 March 2019 in Laughlin, Nevada, and is being organised by a group including Robert Brown, Lorien Fenton and Gordon Pekrul.

There are currently 42 ‘speakers & guests’ listed on the website, including UAP researchers; experiencers; military witnesses and others.

On the topic of military encounters/AATIP related speakers and guests, these include:

Gary P Voorhis who was a fire control-man and Aegis technician aboard the USS Princeton in November 2004, who will be interviewed as part of a panel of military witnesses.

Kevin Day, radar operator on the USS Princeton in November 2004 during the Nimitz encounters. Day will present a talk titled ‘The Nimitz Tic Tac encounter revealed -the incredible behind the scenes story.’

Daniel Sheehan will speak on ‘To the Stars Academy quandary.’ Should the UFO community support a national security state-staff who seek to convince the world that UFOs are ‘real’ but constitute ‘a threat to the national security of our country’ in exchange for these government experts finally ‘giving credence’ to ‘the reality of UFOs.’

Patrick ‘JP’ Hughes was a second class Petty Officer attached to the VAW-117 squadron onboard the USS Nimitz in November 2004. Hughes will be interviewed as part of the panel of military witnesses.

Robert Kiviat

Now, regular blog readers will be familiar with Voorhis; Day; Sheehan and Hughes. However, there is an additional speaker of interest, Robert Kiviat.

According to the UFO MegaCon website, Kiviat worked with the FOX network to ‘establish its alternative TV department’ which produced a range of paranormal and UFO documentaries.”


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Wednesday, 27 June 2018

UFO Case Directory:
“Alaskan Radar Case
January 22, 1952
Nenana, Alaska”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
Francis Ridge:
Jan. 22, 1952; Nenana, Alaska
This was a an incident involving both ground and airborne radar. Three F-94’s were scrambled to intercept the radar target. The UFO maneuvered and radar indicated it streaked away to the west. The object was tracked at 23,000 feet and clocked at 1500 mph. At first the Air Force claimed this was a weather target. But when you read the documents below you can see they never explained this incident.

Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt:
A month or two after we’d received the report, I was out in Colorado Springs at Air Defense Command Headquarters. I was eating lunch in the officers’ club when I saw an officer from the radar operations section at ADC. He asked me to stop by his office when I had a spare minute, and I said that I would. He said that it was important.”

NICAP.org presents U.S. government (U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.


Wikipedia article: “Clear Air Force Station”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Clear Air Force Station (‘Clear’ colloq.) is a United States Air Force Station radar station for detecting incoming ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles[3] to NORAD’s command center and to provide Space Surveillance data to Air Force Space Command’s Space Control Center (SCC). Clear’s AN/FPS-123 Upgraded Early Warning Radar is part of the Solid State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS) which also includes those at Beale AFB, Cape Cod AFS, RAF Fylingdales and Thule Site J. The ‘historic property’ was one of the Alaska World War II Army Airfields and later a Cold War BMEWS site providing NORAD data to Colorado’s BMEWS Central Computer and Display Facility (CC&DF).

In addition to the ‘original camp area’ with buildings still in use today,[4] areas of the station include the airfield (ICAO: PACL), the ‘SSPARS Site’[5] the technical site (Utilador,[6] BMEWS reflectors, support buildings, power plant), and the composite site (two permanent dormitories, a mess hall, recreation area, and administrative area).[citation needed] In addition to the Air National Guard unit, Clear has active duty USAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, civilian, and contractor personnel.”

Clear Air Force Station is located in Nenana, Alaska.

News article:
“Inside the Gates: Alaska’s missile defense program”

16 August 2017
(KTVA, Anchorage, Alaska)


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Clear Air Force Station, Alaska, with Phased Array Radar System
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Satellite photo of Nenana, Alaska (tageo.com)
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Thursday, 5 October 2017

UFO Article:
“Subject: Case 35 (Condon Report),
Vandenberg AFB, Oct. 6, 1967”


By Francis Ridge, 3 June 2009
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the article:
“This is one I had missed, probably because  it was selected by the Condon Committee and because the explanations given appeared to indicate it wasn’t that good a case. It’s a good thing I read about it in Ann Druffel’s ‘Firestorm.’

According to her report (page 399) the incident began when Vandenberg AFB radar detected a very large stationary object some miles over the Pacific off the Northern California coast. Later, radar detected numerous small, but strong, targets traveling eastward in irregular flight. The location and time of Case #35 was listed in the Condon Report as ‘South Pacific, Fall 1967.’

The Vandenberg incidents, therefore, possibly represented a ‘carrier craft’ releasing numbers of smaller UFOs. Large UFOs like this had appeared off the California coast from time to time, reportedly hovering for hours some miles at sea. If the Vandenberg main object was a ‘carrier craft,’ the Vandenberg reports and the China Lake aviator sighting could possibly be linked. In McDonald’s files, no indication had been found that he managed to track down the NWC aviator sighting.”


Wikipedia article: “Vandenberg Air Force Base”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Vandenberg Air Force Base (IATA: VBG, ICAO: KVBG, FAA LID: VBG) is a United States Air Force Base 9.2 miles (14.8 km) northwest of Lompoc, California. It is under the jurisdiction of the 30th Space Wing, Air Force Space Command (AFSPC).

Vandenberg AFB is a Department of Defense space and missile testing base, with a mission of placing satellites into polar orbit from the West Coast using expendable boosters (Pegasus, Taurus, Minotaur, Atlas V, and Delta IV) and reusable boosters (SpaceX's Falcon 9). Wing personnel also support the Service's LGM-30G Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Force Development Evaluation program.

In addition to its military mission, the base also leases launch pad facilities to SpaceX (SLC-4E), as well as 100 acres (40 ha) leased to the California Spaceport in 1995.

Established in 1941, the base is named in honor of former Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg.

Vandenberg Air Force base will serve as one of two Pacific bases to defend against possible North Korean or Iranian missile threats. The program will have interceptor missiles that will launch to take down intermediate-range ballistic missiles that pose a threat to the United States.[3]”

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Aerial view of Space Launch Complex 6 (1985), 
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California 
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Thursday, 11 October 2018

UFO Newsletter Article:
“AF Steps Up UFO Debunking”


U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 2, October 1967
(National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, Washington, D.C.)

Source: CUFOS.org

The whole article:
“The highly-touted objective UFO investigation by the University of Colorado, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force, has brought no change in Air Force debunking practices. It was expected that the Air Force would declare a moratorium and adopt a wait-and-see attitude pending completion of the Colorado study. The actions can only increase public doubt about the outcome of the Air Force sponsored study which is, in effect, being pre-judged by the sponsor.

In the July/August issue of The Airman, ‘OfficiaI Magazine of the U.S. Air Force,’ Major George W. Ogles, Headquarters, USAF, dredged up all the standard debunking statements, including a hackneyed photograph of the Avrocar which has been used periodically to imply that UFOs might be U.S. secret craft. (In reality, the Avrocar project was unsuccessful and was scrapped years ago). Major Ogles incorrectly reported that there are no unexplained radar UFO sightings. When NICAP produced an Air Force letter admitting that a December 6, 1952, radar sighting was classified as unexplained, this case appeared in the next installment of the article as an exception to the rule. There are, of course hundreds of unexplained radar sightings. When these are cited to the Air Force, spokesmen either deny any knowledge of the cases or attribute them to errors by the radar operators.

In mid-August, the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) issued the misleading statement that no UFOs had been detected by their tracking system over the United States or Canada (NORAD computers automatically screen out radar targets such as UFOs which do not conform to known aircraft characteristics, because NORAD’s main mission is to detect possible enemy aircraft attacking the country). NORAD said that 95% of all sightings had been tracked down to the conventional source, an exaggeration which needs no further comment. Why the statement emanated from NORAD instead of Headquarters USAF as official regulations require is not known (AF Regulation 80-17; Section B, paragraph 4).

The widely disseminated annual Project Blue Book ‘fact sheet’,
1 March 1967, a standard hand-out to the press and the public, makes no mention whatsoever of the Colorado Project. Instead, Project Blue Book continues as before the Colorado contract to investigate sightings independently and to grind out counter-to-fact ‘explanations’ in many cases.

A sudden AF reversal after years of debunking was not expected. But if the Colorado study is objective, top Air Force officials should realize that their previous findings may have to be overhauled. They therefore support the neutrality and objectivity of the Colorado Project. Instead, the stepped-up debunking practices cause many people to suspect that the Air Force thinks it knows what Colorado’s conclusions will be. Even if the Project were nothing but a ‘hired’ whitewash job, however, it would seem wiser on the part of the Air Force to pretend objectivity until the conclusion is made public rather than to cast doubt in advance. NICAP does not believe that the Colorado Program will turn out to be a whitewash, but we do object strenuously to the use of such pressures by the Air Force to encourage a negative finding.”


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