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Thursday, 30 July 2015

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Headquarters NORAD and USNORTHCOM,
Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado
(Wikimedia.org photo)

















NORAD Combat Operations Center, Cheyenne Mountain Complex,
Colorado Springs, Colorado (Google.com/regmedia.co.uk photo)
















Cheyenne Mountain Command Center – 1984
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Sunday, 1 December 2019

UFO Case Directory (RADCAT):
“Security Option 5 Alert At NORAD
Late October 1975
Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
“Fran Ridge:
October 1975; NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado
According to an informant I interviewed in 1983 there had been a major incident at NORAD HQ which prompted a Security Option 5 alert and total ‘lock down’ at ‘the Mountain.’ We have proof that there were incidents at that time period that, to quote from released documents, ‘prompted the implementations of a Security Option 3 at our northern tier bases since 27 October.’ Sightings occurred at Loring AFB, Maine, Wurtsmith AFB, [Michigan, not New Hampshire], and then at Malmstrom AFB, Montana.”

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


Wikipedia article: “North American Aerospace Defense Command”:


Quote from the above Wikipedia article:
“North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD /ˈnɔːræd/), known until March 1981 as the North American Air Defense Command, is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America.[4] Headquarters for NORAD and the NORAD/United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) center are located at Peterson Air Force Base in El Paso County, near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex has the Alternate Command Center. The NORAD commander and deputy commander (CINCNORAD) are, respectively, a United States four-star general or equivalent and a Canadian three-star general or equivalent.

Organization

CINCNORAD maintains the NORAD headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The NORAD and USNORTHCOM Command Center at Peterson AFB serves as a central collection and coordination facility for a worldwide system of sensors designed to provide the commander and the leadership of Canada and the U.S. with an accurate picture of any aerospace or maritime threat.[5] NORAD has administratively divided the North American landmass into three regions:

* Alaska NORAD (ANR) Region – Eleventh Air Force (11 AF)
* Canadian NORAD (CANR) Region – 1 Canadian Air Division 
   (1 Cdn Air Div)
* Continental U.S. (CONR) Region – First Air Force 
   (1 AF/CONR-AFNORTH)

Both the CONR and CANR regions are divided into eastern and western sectors.”

Wikipedia article: “Peterson Air Force Base”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Peterson Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force Base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, home to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the Air Force Space Command headquarters, and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) headquarters. Developed as a World War II air support base for Camp Carson, the facility conducted Army Air Forces training and supported Cold War air defense centers at the nearby Ent Air Force Base, Chidlaw Building, and Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The base has been the location of the Air Force Space Command headquarters since 1987 and has had NORAD/NORTHCOM command center operations since the 2006 Cheyenne Mountain Realignment placed the nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex centers on standby.”












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NORAD/USNORTHCOM Alternate Command Center prior
to the Cheyenne Mountain Realignment. (text by Wikipedia)
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Thursday, 19 November 2015

UFO Article (Blog):
“NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen – Part 5”


By Paul Dean, 18 November 2015
(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

Paul Dean is researching what role the North American Aerospace Defense Command has maintained regarding the UFO matter:


Quote from the article:
“This is Part 5 of an ongoing series regarding the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) and their involvement UFO phenomenon. I have already detailed over a dozen pages of declassified military documents that show us that tangible UFO events have come to the attention of NORAD.

Dealing with NORAD is not easy. Normally, one would request information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from an American government agency, or under the Access to Information Act (ATIA) from a Canadian government agency. However, NORAD is a ‘bi-national’ organisation, and the governments involved decided to ‘exempt’ it from either FOIA or ATIA in 1982. However, the US’s Northern Command (NORTHCOM), who partly controls NORAD, can process FOI requests for NORAD records – but everything is on NORAD’s terms. The actual response one gets from the NORTHCOM FOIA and Privacy Act Requester Service Center at Peterson Air Force Base for NORAD records is, except in exceedingly rare cases:

‘NORAD as a bi-national organization is not subject to FOIA. No search of records will be conducted.’ ”














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Saturday, 4 March 2017

UFO Article (Blog):
“ ‘OPREP-3’ – A Classified US Military
Reporting Channel For UFO Incidents? – Part 9”


By Paul Dean, 6 February 2017
(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

Quote from the article:
“Previously, in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of this series, I looked at the US military’s OPREP–3 reporting system, and, in particular, its use in alerting top–echelon military commands of serious UFO incidents. In 1975, and again in 1978, the OPREP–3 system was used to convey urgent and current information regarding perceived UFO activity near sensitive US military installations. In Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7 of this series, I moved away from the raw reporting of UFOs, and began to discuss the US government’s response, concern, evaluation and investigation of these well–documented, intrusive aerial events, which were to become known as the ‘1970’s over flights,’ or variations of that apt title. Through the release of hundreds of pages of records, via the utilisation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), researchers could piece together a chronological narrative of UFO detection, reporting, response and investigation. It was the efforts of Robert Todd, Barry Greenwood, Lawrence Fawcett and Todd Zechel, and a few others, which saw government agencies, especially military commands, release such records.

In Part 8, I discussed both the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) and the old Aerospace Defence Command’s (ADCOM) role in, and response to, the ‘over flights,’ especially the events of October and November, 1975. Specifically, I laid out NORAD and ADCOM’s handling of FOI requests, which demonstrated clear inconsistencies, and possibly deceitful conduct. More importantly, I presented the comparatively few NORAD and ADCOM documents that were releasable, including so-called ‘Command Directors Logs’ and ‘Senior Command Directors Logs.’ I also laid out a handful of misleading statements made by NORAD regarding UFO’s generally. Finally, it should be known that I will be discussing NORAD and ADCOM’s involvement in the ‘over flights’ at greater length in my ongoing series titled ‘NORAD and the UFO Smokescreen.’ In this edition of my series, I will present more NORAD and ADCOM correspondence, including FOI action, plus further declassified records, all of which are critical in assessing how these two massive organisations dealt with the both the UFO events themselves, and the fallout that occurred later.

Briefly, NORAD was, and still is, a bi–national, United States–Canadian military organisation charged with aerospace warning and aerospace control over North America. Its mission includes aircraft detection and monitoring, airspace management and defensive air sovereignty. ADCOM, which was inactivated in 1986, was a major command (MAJCOM) of the USAF, and was tasked with tactically defending the just continental USA only. As I have outlined previously, during the 1970’s and 1980’s, NORAD’s air sovereignty responsibilities were divided into a number of geographical ‘NORAD Regions,’ often shortened to ‘NR.’ Likewise, ADCOM’s air defence mission was similarly divided into distinct ‘Air Divisions,’ frequently notated simply as ‘AD.’ ”

http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2017/02/oprep-3-classified-us-military.html





















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Monday, 11 July 2016

UFO Article (Blog):
“NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen – Part 9”


By Paul Dean, 10 July 2016
(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

Quote from the article:
“In Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8 of my ‘NORAD and the UFO Smokescreen’ series, I discussed the possibility that the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), as well as other commands and their space components, may have detected and tracked UFO’s outside Earth’s atmosphere. I discussed NORAD’s early efforts, starting in the 1950’s, and brought us through to the 1990’s and 2000’s, where the old US Space Command (SPACECOM), and then the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) partially took over space surveillance from NORAD. I have introduced the core topic of ‘Uncorrelated Target’ (UCT) detection and tracking, and highlighted examples of declassified military doctrine that relates to such events. I also presented the work of UFO researchers in years gone by to obtain space object tracking data, and will continue to do so in this entry in the series, plus raise some new topics which are key to understanding NORAD’s role in space, and what it means for UFO research. As I have stated before, I use the term ‘UFO’ to describe unknown and unidentifiable bodies which are above-and-beyond natural and manmade objects.

Veteran UFO researcher Walter Webb, while studying the 1995 American West Airlines Radar-Visual UFO case in New Mexico, asked a number of questions of NORAD in a November 27th letter. Nearly a month later, on the 19th of December, 1995, S. W. Johnson, of NORAD/USSPACECOM Directorate of Public Affairs, replied to Webb. Their letter, in part, stated:

‘NORAD uses the term ‘Unknown Track Report’ (UTR) for events within our atmosphere and the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) uses the term ‘Uncorrelated Events’ for objects in space. UTR’s are considered sensitive and are not releasable to the public. Uncorrelated Event Reports (UERs) are classified SECRET until downgraded by proper authority. The term ‘UFO’ has not been used by this headquarters since the ‘Blue Book’  was permanently closed in 1974.”

http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.no/2016_07_01_archive.html














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Tuesday, 1 June 2010

UFO News Article (Excerpt):
“NORAD: No Saucers Fly in the Sky!”,
18 August 1967 (Chicago Tribune)

The Chicago Tribune reports on an official UFO statement made by NORAD:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/588340482.html?dids=588340482:588340482&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+18%2C+1967&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=NORAD%3A+No+Saucers+Fly+in+the+Sky!&pqatl=google

The whole excerpt:
“North American air defense command officially said here today that no flying saucers, no extra-terrestrial space ships, and no ‘unfriendly objects’ have ever been identified by air forces over the United States or Canada.”

The NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters are located at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Answers.com article: “Peterson Afb”:

http://www.answers.com/topic/peterson-air-force-base

Quote from the “Peterson Afb” article:
“Peterson AFB is home to the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), AFSPC's 21st Space Wing (21 SW), Army Space Command and the Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing (302 AW). The 21 SW serves as host unit for Peterson AFB.”














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Headquarters NORAD and USNORTHCOM,
Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado
(wikimedia.org photo)
















NORAD Combat Operations Center, Cheyenne Mountain Complex,
Colorado Springs, Colorado (Google.com/regmedia.co.uk photo)

Monday, 30 May 2016

UFO Article (Blog):
“NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen – Part 8”


By Paul Dean, 27 May 2016
(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

The article reports on the FOIA research work of Robert Todd (U.S.A.) and Dr. Henry Azadehdel (UK).

Quote from the article:
“In Part 6 and Part 7 of my ‘NORAD and the UFO Smokescreen’ series, I discussed the possibility that the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), as well as other commands and their space components, may have detected and tracked UFO’s outside Earth’s atmosphere. As I have stated before, I use the term ‘UFO’ to describe unknown and unidentifiable bodies which are above-and-beyond natural and manmade objects. I discussed NORAD’s early efforts, starting in the 1950’s, through to the 1990’s and 2000’s, where the US Space Command (SPACECOM), and then the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) partially took over space surveillance from NORAD. Possibly the most important issue I discussed was the detection and tracking of unknown bodies in space, usually termed ‘Uncorrelated Targets’ (UCTs), plus the declassified military doctrine that tasks the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) with evaluating them.

In this entry in the series, I look at the efforts of UFO researchers, from the 1970’s to the 1990’s, to obtain actual UCT data from NORAD, as well as the space component commands of the United States Navy (USN) and United States Air Force (USAF). It should be noted, that UFO researchers were not aware of the term ‘Uncorrelated Target’ (UCT) until 1994, yet had been in use within the US military since at least 1968. Even without using the exact jargon, some significant information was released.”

http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2016/05/norad-and-ufo-smokescreen-part-8-in.html














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Monday, 21 August 2017

UFO News Article:
“Air Force Pacts for Saucer Probe
But Can’t Wait To Discount UFOs”


18 October 1967
(The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, California)

Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, California (http://cdnc.ucr.edu)

Quote from the article:
“To get back to Flying Saucers—Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), that is:

The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) knows what it thinks about them. A recent issue of the NORAD News Service, published in Colorado Springs, carried an article headlined somewhat this way:

UFOs NOT SAUCERS, NO THREAT Says NORAD

This might strike you as a bit presumptuous, considering that: 
—NORAD’s boss, the U.S. Air Force, last year contracted (for $313,000) with the University of Colorado to conduct a scientific investigation to find out just what the—just what in the world UFOs really are.

As far as the air defense command is concerned, the NORAD News Service reported, UFOs ‘have never been shown to be anything but natural atmospheric or astronomical phenomena or airborne objects —birds, insects, hardware—seen under unusual circumstances.’ ”


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Sunday, 24 April 2016

UFO Article (Blog):
“NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen – Part 7”


By Paul Dean, 23 April 2016
(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

Quote from the article:
“In Part 6 of ‘NORAD and the UFO Smokescreen,’ I introduced the possibility that the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), as well as other commands and their space components, had ever detected and tracked what we would ultimately called UFO’s outside Earth’s atmosphere. By UFO’s, I, of course, mean unknown and unidentifiable bodies above-and-beyond manmade payloads or debris, and natural, meteoritic material. I established that NORAD is not in direct command and control of space surveillance systems, but relies on incoming data from the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and the component commands who run the vast Space Surveillance Network (SSN) – over thirty electro-optical and radar sensors distributed the world over. I also established that, if UFO’s do in fact exist, that NORAD and the SSN could, even in the 1950’s and 1960’s, have spotted serious UFO’s events – within technical limitations – and that such events would have been classified. Beyond those facts, much of what we know, at least up until the mid-1970’s, is inconclusive, and sometimes just rumor. However, this very large and complicated jigsaw puzzle was becoming clearer.”

http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2016/04/norad-and-ufo-smokescreen-part-7-in.html














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