Billy Cox (De Void) Inherits NASA Employee’s UFO Files

Sarasota Herald Tribune journalist Billy Cox (De Void) writes that the late John Reiss, a former NASA employee, presented him with his personal UFO files.

Once again, we see that a top U.S. government employee was very interested in the UFO phenomenon.

John Reiss was an electrical engineer who worked on some of NASA's most celebrated planetary probe projects, such as Viking, Voyager, Cassini and Galileo.

“So long, Mr. Reiss” by Billy Cox (De Void):

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090320/BLOG32/903209969/2379/BLOG32?Title=So-long-Mr-Reiss-

Billy Cox, U.S. Journalist & UFO Researcher

(theufochronicles.com photo)

9/11 UFOs:
Fast-flying UFO near the WTC Found in Documentary

The History Channel documentary film, “9-11” shows footage of the UFO which seems to have two large, white lights. The UFO doesn't resemble a helicopter or an airplane in any way. This UFO was videotaped by numerous individuals, both TV channel cameramen and private citizens on 9/11-2001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfDMbBh83jw

CNN did also show footage of the UFO, which moved slowly towards the right (on the right side of the screen), after the second airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center. A little while later it flew at high speed in the opposite direction, as seen in the above video. (A link to this video was also posted on 14 December 2008 on this blog):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBH2s4J_Scc

NASA TV UFOs: The Space Shuttle Discovery Encounters Large UFO, 17 March 2009

NASA Space Shuttle STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) encountered a large UFO on 17 March 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48qDmyYsFM

The NASA STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) Space Shuttle Discovery mission:

Launch date: 15 March 2009 –
Landing date: 28 March 2009.

The Frederick Valentich UFO Encounter/
Disappearance Case, 21 October 1978, 7:09 p.m.

On the above date Frederick Valentich was flying from Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne to King Island, Tasmania.

According to the conversation Frederick Valentich had with the Melbourne Flight Service Unit air traffic control centre, he had encountered a very large UFO at 7:09 p.m.

At 7:12 p.m. Valentich told the air traffic controller, Steve Robey, that his Cessna 182L airplane experienced engine trouble and that the UFO was flying right above him. A short time later the Melbourne air traffic controller heard a metallic, scraping sound.

And no one has seen Frederick Valentich or his airplane since the above date.

The Royal Australian Air Force and Navy performed an extensive search in the area where Valentich was suspected to have crashed, but they didn’t find anything.

This case involves people from several Australian Government departments. The Melbourne Flight Service Unit (air traffic control centre), the Department of Transport (DoT), the Police, the Royal Australian Air Force and Navy were involved in this UFO case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk614HOR-X0 (1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMKDZsYldRY (2 of 2)

The Frederick Valentich UFO Encounter Case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzfVBrMol0

Several people on the ground corroborated Valentich’s story. They told Australian investigators that they saw a Cessna airplane, which flew under a large unknown object at the time Valentich was supposed to be in that area.

Wikipedia article: Valentich Disappearance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentich_Disappearance

Frederick Valentich






Valentich flew a Cessna 182L airplane

(History Channel image)

Stephen Robey,
Moorabbin Airport Air Traffic Controller

Harold Brown, U.S. Secretary of Defense
and Dr. J. Allen Hynek Interviewed afterthe 1966 U.S. Public UFO Hearings

This UFO documentary outtake is very interesting. Harold Brown, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Astronomer) were interviewed after the public UFO Hearings that were held by the U.S. House Armed Services Committee on 5 April 1966(http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/shgintro.html).

Both men denied that the U.S. Air Force was hiding UFO secrets from the U.S. public.

First we see how Dr. J. Allen Hynek responded as the U.S. Air Force's scientific adviser on the subject of UFOs, when he was interviewed after the 1966 UFO hearings. Then, in the second Hynek interview (1985), which was conducted many years after Hynek had left his job at the U.S. Air Force, we are told how the inner machinations within the U.S. Air Force worked regarding the UFO phenomenon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moi8UlyRkUU

In Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s own words:

“I know the job they (the U.S. Air Force) had. They were told not to excite the public. Don’t rock the boat. I saw it with my own eyes how whenever a (UFO) case happened that they could explain, they made a point of that and let that out to the media. Cases that were very difficult to explain, they would jump handsprings to keep the media away from (them). They had a job to do, whether rightfully or wrongly, to keep the public from getting excited.”

Wikipedia article: Dr. J. Allen Hynek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Allen_Hynek

Dr. J. Allen Hynek was the founder of CUFOS in 1973 (http://www.cufos.org/).

Harold Brown,

former U.S. Secretary of Defense (1977-1981)

(at the time of the 1966 UFO Hearings,

Brown was Secretary of the Air Force)



Dr. J. Allen Hynek,

Astronomer &

the U.S. Air Force's

Scientific Consultant

on UFOs

MUFON UFO Case Report:
“Pasadena, California Helicopter 
Crew Encounter UFO in 1972”
(UFO Casebook, Belton, Texas)

It was officer Al Matisoff and pilot Pat Spafford with the Pasadena Police Department, who saw the UFO near the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California on 15 October 1972.

It's Al Matisoff who recounts the story:

http://www.ufocasebook.com/2009/california1972.html (Article)













Police Officer Al Matisoff (left) and Police Pilot Pat Spafford
(UFO Casebook.com photo)

UFO TV News Reports:
The Carteret, New Jersey, UFO Case,
15 July 2001, 0:38 a.m.

This famous UFO case involved several police officers who themselves saw the very large UFO, which flew slowly over Carteret. Multiple smaller UFOs were also witnessed.

Fox 5 News report:

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

Channel 9 News report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tRgss-E070

WB 11 News report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by6EVTdVU4g

Several New Jersey police officers sighted the UFO
(youtube.com image)

Satellite photo of Carteret, New Jersey (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

U.S. Air Force Captain Robert L. Salas (Ret.) Testimony Regarding the Shutdown of ICBMs by a UFO
at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana,
March 1967, Early Morning

The Disclosure Project statement by Robert L. Salas, 2001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaeIO5aEEWI

Robert L. Salas lecture at MUFON Los Angeles, 2005:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p42WkIfVhyI

5th Irish International UFO Conference 2008: Robert L. Salas interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9PO1646_NQ

"Minuteman Missiles Shutdown" by Robert L. Salas (NICAP.org):

http://www.nicap.org/malmstrom67-3.htm (Article)

"The Malmstrom Air Force Base UFO/Missile Incident"
(with statement by Robert L. Salas) (CUFON.org):

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm (Article)

Captain Robert L. Salas,

U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

"Faded Giant: The 1967 Missile/UFO Incidents"
by Robert L Salas and James Klotz

(cufon.org image)

UFO Filmed during Live TV News Broadcast,
Tallinn, Estonia, Unknown Date, Daytime

A self-luminous UFO was suddenly seen during a live TV news broadcast (unknown TV channel) in Estonia.

It seems that the UFO hovered for a short while, whereupon it started to move slowly to the right before disappearing behind a building:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgBLzwI_E5I

UFO TV News Report:
Dr. J. Allen Hynek Interview &
Colusa, California, UFO Sighting,
14 April 1977 (ABC News, New York City)

Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Astronomer) was the U.S. Air Force's scientific consultant on UFOs (1948-1970) and founder of CUFOS.

The Colusa, California UFO incident occurred on 10 September 1976, at 00:45 a.m. (not October 1976):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7vAXyIouv0

Dr. J. Allen Hynek

UFO TV News Report:
3 UFOs Filmed over Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 5 June 1999, Night-time (Seven Network)

Several independent witnesses saw the 3 UFOs from different locations. Judging by the testimony by Laszlo Novak, who filmed the UFOs, it seems that the UFOs were flying in formation and that it wasn’t a triangular shaped UFO he saw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUMpafZ3n6A

UFO Documentary Film Segment:
U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker Airplane 
Encounters Large UFO, Alaska, 30 January 1987

Two and a half months after the JAL Flight 1628’s UFOs encounter (the previous post), a similar incident occurred over Alaska. A U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker flew inbound from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska to Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska. At 20,000 feet the airplane crew sighted a very large disk shaped UFO that was similar to the one encountered by the JAL Flight 1628. The UFO moved to within 13 metres (40 feet) of the KC-135.

And as can be determined by the U.S. Air Force Pilot’s question 5:29 minutes into the video, it's apparent that he has been briefed about the JAL Flight 1628’s UFO encounter.

The answer by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official was also very interesting. He said, “It’s very rare seeing the lights (UFOs) up there”. He thereby admitted that UFOs were seen from time to time, albeit rarely!

And the silly notion that the U.S. government (here the FAA) is not investigating UFO sightings or is not interested in UFOs, can once and for all be ruled out by listening to the message the U.S. Air Force Captain received from the FAA (8:17 minutes into the video). The FAA message to the U.S. Air Force Captain said, “Call the local FAA office in Anchorage after you have landed at Eielson Air Force Base”. Then the Captain asked, “That’s concerning the object we were looking at?” “Affirmative”, answered the Eielson Air Force Base official.

So anyone who wants to define the UFO phenomenon as being a myth must first find plausible explanations for several thousand cases that involve UFO sightings, films and photographs made by highly credible, top government officials from around the world. And then you have the UFO radar data.

Segment from the documentary, “UFO Files: Black Box UFO Secrets” (The History Channel) (The KC-135 crew’s UFO encounter can be seen 6:55 minutes into the video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZkFsQlXlD0
(Source: franklee00 (YouTube channel))

Less than 24 hours later (31 January 1987), the Alaska Airlines Flight 53 encountered several very large disk shaped UFOs that trailed them. The UFOs eventually flew away from the airplane, moving about a mile a second!

Wikipedia article: “Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-135_Stratotanker

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a military aerial refueling aircraft. Both the KC-135 and the Boeing 707 airliner were developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype. It is the predominant variant of the C-135 Stratolifter family of transport aircraft. The KC-135 was the US Air Force’s first jet-powered refueling tanker and replaced the KC-97 Stratofreighter. The KC-135 was initially tasked with refueling strategic bombers, but was used extensively in the Vietnam War and later conflicts such as Operation Desert Storm to extend the range and endurance of US tactical fighters and bombers.”

U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
(Military-Aircraft.org.uk photo)

The Japan Airlines (JAL) Cargo Jet UFOs Encounter, North East Alaska, 17 November 1986, 5:11 p.m.

JAL Flight 1628 encountered one very large, disk shaped UFO and two small, rectangular shaped UFOs over Alaska, on this flight from Paris to Tokyo. Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi described the large UFO as being twice as large as an aircraft carrier.

In this case, we see that a U.S. government official again has brought forth solid, official UFO evidence. The man who must be thanked for that is John Callahan, who was then the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Division Chief of the Office of Accident, Investigation and Prevention.

John Callahan also relates (1:27 minutes into the below interview video) that JAL Captain Kenju Terauchi talked to a U.S. Air Force official on an aircraft that also picked up the UFO on radar during the duration of this JAL UFOs encounter. Later in the same video Callahan tells us that the FAA Administrator Admiral Donald D. Engen had set up a briefing and told Callahan to bring all the evidence he had. There Callahan met with three officials from the CIA, three from the FBI and three from President Ronald Reagan’s Scientific Study Team. And all of them were excited, according to Callahan!

Once again, we see that the U.S. Air Force (Military) and the U.S. Intelligence community are involved in a solid, bona fide UFO case.

The UFO incident occurred on 17 November 1986, at 5:19 p.m. (18 November, at 2:19 UTC), according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document (files.afu.se).

Link to John Callahan’s speech during the Disclosure Project meeting at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 9 May 2001:

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

John Callahan interview regarding this case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_w1OPgoR5M

Segment from a UFO Files documentary (The History Channel):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZAvh5F_BHs

“CNN – Larry King Live: UFOs are they for Real?” had a segment about this case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnW_iFdGIQ

Link to John Callahan’s statements on the Top Secret Testimony.com site (with radar scope photograph of the large UFO):

http://www.topsecrettestimony.com/Witnesses/AllWitnesses/FAADivisionChiefJohnCallahan/tabid/298/Default.aspx

John Callahan, Former FAA Division Chief of the Office of
Accident, Investigation and Prevention
(youtube.com image)

Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,
with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs
(4.bp.blogspot.com photo)

The U.S. Book, “The Fire Officer’s Guide to Disaster Control” has UFO Chapter

It’s well known that the U.S. Congress, NASA, United States Armed Forces, CIA, FBI, NSA, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Police Departments (including Sheriff’s Departments) have been involved in the UFO phenomenon in the U.S. throughout the years. But in the 1990s it came as a surprise to most people that the United States Fire Administration (USFA) also takes UFOs seriously.

It was two USFA officials, William M. Kramer and Charles W. Bahme who wrote the guide, which was published in 1992.

ABC 15 News report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opJfx6r8-ks

v-j-enterprises.com:
“Fire Officer’s Guide to Disaster Control:
Chapter 13: Enemy Attack and UFO Potential”:

http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/firefigh.html

UFOINFO.com article by Dennis G. Balthaser:
"Fire Fighters, Disaster Control and the UFO Potential"

http://www.ufoinfo.com/news/balthaser0303.shtml

Wikipedia article (part): “The United States Fire Administration (USFA) is a division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which in turn is managed by the Department of Homeland Security.”

Jim Mann,
Director of the Maricopa County
chapter of MUFON

U.S. Air Force Academy Text Book:
"... the UFO Phenomenon is 50,000 Years Old"

The above statement was found in an official U.S. Air Force Academy text book from the late 1960s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkiX4rOxsRs

And here are other statements from the text book:

"... may be four different groups of aliens ..." and

"... the UFO problem ..."

Comment by narrator George Knapp regarding the above statements: "The Air Force's own words!"

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVDcFr3W50

(Source: tico1977 (YouTube channel))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiRqbJ0AlO4

(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)

NASA TV UFOs: 2 UFOs Filmed during
Space Shuttle Landing, Unknown Date

This UFO video comes from a presentation by Jaime Maussan (Mexico):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9BUA9SoZ4k

The UFOs can be seen 5 (large UFO) and 8 (UFO sphere) seconds into the video. At the start of the video one can also see the large UFO in the upper, central part of the screen. If one watches this UFO, one can see that it moves slowly to the left.

10 seconds into the video one can also see a self-luminous UFO sphere that hovers close to a Spacewalking NASA astronaut.

I don’t know what STS mission the above landing footage comes from, but it’s possible that it’s from the STS-112 mission
(7 October – 18 October 2002).

I posted a report about the UFO (2 seconds into the video) that was filmed during that mission on 6 December 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJKUCg_Bra8

And as said many times before – the Kennedy Space Center area has a rather large no-fly zone (except the fighter jet that accompanies the Space Shuttle) during the Space Shuttle landings.

Hovering UFO Filmed at the Henri Coanda
International Airport, Bucharest, Romania,
Summer 2004, Night-time

The self-luminous UFO with red and green lights was filmed over Terminal 2 by the airport’s surveillance camera.

Romanian TV news report (Unknown TV channel):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Hrd9IeUOc

A Romanian TV newscast showed a report about this UFO case:

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disclose.tv%2Faction%2Fviewvideo%2F4904%2FUFO_Caught_by_Airport_Surveillance_Cam_in_Romania%2F&sl=ro&tl=en&history_state0
(with report in English)

Sorin Stoicescu, who in 2004 was the General Director of the Civil Aviation Agency at the Ministry of Transport, has stated that the film is authentic and not hoaxed.

UFO Film:
The Delbert C. Newhouse (U.S. Navy) UFO Film, Tremonton, Utah, 2 July 1952, 11:00 a.m.

Delbert C. Newhouse was a U.S. Navy Warrant Officer and Chief Photographer.

Newhouse, his wife and their two children were driving along the highway, nine kilometres (six miles) from Tremonton, Utah when his wife noticed several objects in the sky that she could not identify.















Delbert C. Newhouse (left)

The Newhouse UFO film segment from the film, “U.F.O.”, 1956:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of3m8_LvUWs
(Source: MrCL1O (YouTube channel))

Quote from the video text:

“Included in this video is a rehearsed but accurate interview with Delbert Newhouse regarding the filming. Also included is a summary of the original conclusions of the Photo Reconnaissance Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the U.S. Navy Photo Interpretation Center as well as some breakdown analysis of the footage.”

"U.F.O." REVISITED by Robert Barrow (1976):

http://www.ufologie.net/htm/greenerouseufo.htm

Wikipedia article: “Warrant officer”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Warrant officers in the United States are classified as officers and are in the ‘W’ category (NATO ‘WO’); they are technical leaders and specialists. Chief warrant officers are commissioned by the President of the United States and take the same oath as regular commissioned officers. They may be technical experts with a long service as enlisted personnel, or direct entrants such as U.S. Army helicopter pilots.”

Freeze-frame from the 2 July 1952 Tremonton, Utah, UFO film

(gststic.com image)

UFO Comments by McCain, Truman and Reagan

One can see these UFO comments at the start of the UFO compilation video, "Objects in the Sky":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iexcP28P3sg

John McCain’s stoic and well-informed answer was very impressive. And his answer, "It's always of great interest to me ...", proves that he takes the UFO phenomenon seriously.

Links to the videos showing the UFO related comments by U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Harry S. Truman have been posted here before.

U.S. Senator

John McCain,

Arizona
(Republican)