UFO Report: “The 1988 UFO Chronology”

Created: 15 July 2008

Updated: 9 December 2016

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This is currently a 9-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1988. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1988 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. Trace cases are now being entered with the help of Ted Phillips, Center for Physical Trace Research and retrofitted into previous chronologies as time permits.

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

Feb.16, 1988; Rosehill area of Willenhall, England

Time not given. Two police officers saw a very large spinning oval-shaped UFO with flashing red and green lights around its circumference in the Rosehill area of Willenhall, England. It made no sound and flew off quickly toward the southeast. Two more cops saw the same or a similar UFO from Walsall. Their reports were sent to the Ministry of Defence. (Sources: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 10, citing Nicholas Redfern, A Covert Agenda, p. 165; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 23).

March 4, 1988; Eastlake, OH

8:35 p.m. local. Coast Guard witnesses, large illuminated ellipse hovering over Lake Erie, landing on ice. Smaller triangular objects emerged, zipped around independently (UFO Evidence II, Section I).

March 12, 1988; Edwards AFB (near), CA

Ground radar case.”

My comment: The 24 January 1988 Gulf Breeze, Florida, case has been exposed as a hoax by several well-known UFO researchers.

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1988fullrep.htm

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Satellite photo of Eastlake, Ohio (tageo.com)

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Aerial view of Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California

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Satellite photo of Willenhall, UK (tageo.com)

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UFO News Article:

“UFO sightings reported in gulf”,

9 February 1988 (The Gainesville Sun, Florida)

On 8 February 1988, the official Qatar News Agency reported that a UFO was sighted over the northern part of the Qatar peninsula on the night of 7 February, according to The Gainesville Sun:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gMBWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FeoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4724,2015623

Quote from the article:

“The agency said a number of men and women gave the same description of a ‘bright revolving disc with changing colors that emits a low hissing sound.’ ”

Qatar Google Satellite Map (maplandia.com):

http://www.maplandia.com/qatar/

Map of Qatar 
(Grolier Interactive, Inc./scholastic.com image)

UFO TV News Report: ABC Primetime Reports On UFOs In the Soviet Union

1994

(ABC News, New York City, New York)

Source: Chris Chilli (YouTube channel)

ABC presents interviews with several Soviet military officials, including retired Soviet Air Force Colonel Boris Sokolov.

On 4 October 1982, a huge UFO hovered over the ballistic missile base near Byelokoroviche, Ukraine. It looked like a flying saucer, according to a Lieutenant Colonel. While the UFO hovered over the ICBMs – the missiles were preparing for launching, according to Sokolov. For 15 seconds – the Soviet military had no control over the ICBM’s, ABC reports.

On 23 February 1988, a UFO was registered on radar near the Kapustin Yar air base (located in Astrakhan Oblast) – and the entire Soviet anti-ballistic radar grid did go on alert. Jet fighters were sent aloft – and several times, fighter pilots were ordered to fire on the unknown object. Each time a pilot was ready to fire – the target had disappeared. Finally, the UFO went away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwjb1I4fnV4

Wikipedia article: “Soviet Air Forces”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Kapustin Yar (air base)”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustin_Yar_(air_base)

Wikipedia article: “Kapustin Yar”:

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

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Map of Russia (lib.utexas.edu)

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UFO Radio Interview: “Dr. John Alexander – UFO Research and the U.S. Government”

Published: 19 February 2019

(Open Minds UFO Radio, Tempe, Arizona)

Video text:

“John Alexander is a retired Army Colonel who has been a critical figure in the field of non-lethal weapons and also played a role in U.S. Army Intelligence research in the paranormal. In the 1980s John put together a group of intelligence officials, members of all branches of the military and the defense aerospace industry to investigate UFO secrecy. His group was called the Advanced Theoretical Physics (ATP) project. In this episode, we discuss the similarities between John’s ATP and the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Due to the attention the disclosure of the existence of AATIP has garnered, there is a resurgence of interest in the UFO topic in Washington D.C. Relying on John’s insider knowledge on how the government works, we also discuss the difficulties a UFO research program would have functioning inside the government, the concerns the military or other credible organizations may have hosting a UFO program, and whether a government UFO program is the best option for resorcin into the UFO Phenomenon.

John began his Army career in 1956, and he retired a colonel in 1988. His Army career included positions in special operations, intelligence, and research and development. From 1966 to 1969 John commanded special forces teams in Vietnam and Thailand. His last military assignment was as Director, Advanced System Concepts Office, U.S. Army Laboratory Command. After retiring from the Army, John joined Los Alamos National Laboratory. As a program manager, he conducted non-lethal warfare briefings at the highest levels of government including the White House Staff, National Security Council, Members of Congress, Director of Central Intelligence, and senior Defense officials. John also met with heads of industry, presented at academic institutions, including Columbia, Harvard, and MIT. He has advised the CIA, US Special Operations Command, and the National Intelligence Council. In 2003, John served as a mentor to Afghan Ministry of Defense senior officials through the Office of Military Cooperation – Afghanistan, (Coalition Forces) Kabul. Academically, he holds an M.A., Pepperdine University, Ph.D., Walden University, and later attended the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and the Kennedy School of Government general officer program ‘National and International Security for Senior Executives’ at Harvard University.”

The interview starts at 25:25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMmtUR97tQI

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Dr. John B. Alexander, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)

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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT): “Category 9, RADAR George AFB / Apple Valley, CA Radar Case (BBU 1176) May 1, 1952 George AFB, California”

Updated: 23 February 2016

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Fran Ridge:

The principle witness to the phenomena had been a Lt. Colonel who was Wing Director of Personnel of the 146th Fighter-Bomber Wing headquartered at George Field so it was no wonder the case sparked an immediate reaction by the High Command. This is apparently #1 on Major Dewey Fournet’s ‘motions study’ UFOs cases as presented to the Robertson Panel in January of 1953, whereby he deduced that UFOs were guided by intelligence and the flight characteristics indicated that the intelligence was beyond ‘us’. This is a Project Blue Book unknown and later information (15 Feb 2006) seems to indicate that this might classify as a radar/visual case. (see Lt. Col. link below)

Brad Sparks:

May 1, 1952; George AFB, California (BBU 1176)

10:50 am. An Air Force officer and a group of airmen in a separate location observed a formation of five white disc-shaped objects, three in front and two behind. The trailing objects darted around in zig-zag motions. Suddenly the objects switched to a tight V-formation, made an almost 90-degree turn and sped away over the mountains. The five objects were sighted at George AFB and from a golf course 4 miles away. Observer: S/Sgt David Darbyrsira 146th Air Police Squadron sighted the 5 objects at at George AFB, at 1050 hours PDT, about one hour after a cloud from an atom blast was sighted in the direction of Las Vegas.”

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

http://www.nicap.org/520501george_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “George Air Force Base”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“George Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, 8 miles northwest, of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California.

George AFB was closed pursuant to a decision by the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission at the end of the Cold War. It is now the site of the Southern California Logistics Airport.

Established by the United States Army Air Corps as an Advanced Flying School in June 1941, it was closed at the end of World War II. It was again activated as a training base by the United States Air Force with the outbreak of the Korean War in November 1950. It remained a training base throughout the Cold War and in the immediate post-Cold War period, primarily for the Tactical Air Command (TAC) and later the Air Combat Command (ACC), training USAF, NATO and other Allied pilots and weapon systems officers in front-line fighter aircraft until being closed in 1993.

Since 2009, the California Air National Guard’s 196th Reconnaissance Squadron (96 RS) has operated an MQ-1 Predator Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) training facility at the Southern California Logistics Airport.[2]”

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USGS digital orthophoto of George Air Force Base in California (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)