UFO News Article: 

“Police Watch UFO in Cairo, Illinois, Area”,

21 January 1967 (St. Joseph News-Press, Missouri)

The article reports on two Cairo, Illinois UFO incidents (19 and 
20 January 1967) that were experienced by police officers:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wE1hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-nQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5298,3669335

Quote from the article:

“Some residents of Poplar Bluff, Mo., 80 miles west of Cairo, reported Thursday night spotting an unidentified flying object. Authorities said the descriptions given by all those reported to have seen the object were identical.

Cairo patrolmen Gene Smith and Carl Jones said they saw the object, described as having red and white lights, Thursday night and were among a group of officers who watched an identical phenomenon Friday night.”

“Cairo, Illinois” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Cairo-Illinois.html

Satellite photo of Cairo, Illinois (city-data.com)

(city-data.com photo)

UFO News Article:

“Ozarks group investigating possible ‘UFO landing site’ ”,

12 April 1973 (St. Joseph Gazette, Missouri)

The UFO incident occurred in Piedmont, Missouri on the night of 
6 April 1973, the St. Joseph Gazette reports:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PltfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a1oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=689,1186379

Quote from the article:

“Keeney (Dennis Keeney, the engineer for radio station KPWB in Piedmont) said seven persons, including Sheriff Gene Beardon, saw the saucer-shaped object last Friday night. Residents began reporting mysterious celestial objects a few weeks ago.”

I posted earlier about the 1973 Piedmont area UFO sightings:

ufo-news-article-missouri-ufo-sighting.html

ufo-news-article-ufo-seen-by-many-at.html

ufo-news-article-1973-ufo-sightings.html

“Piedmont, Missouri” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Piedmont-Missouri.html

















Satellite photo of Piedmont, Missouri (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

French Government UFO Articles:

UAP (UFO) Research at CNES

(Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales,

Paris, France)

France’s National Centre for Space Studies (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) (CNES) presents six articles that focus on its UAP research work.

A history of UAP research at CNES – From Gepan to Geipan:

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5039-a-history-of-uap-research-at-cnes.php

New unit, broader mandate:

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5040-new-unit-broader-mandate.php

In-depth analysis:

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5041-in-depth-analysis.php

What if you observe a UAP?:

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5042-what-if-you-observe-a-uap.php

GEIPAN UAP investigation unit opens its files (26 March 2007):

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5866-geipan-uap-investigation-unit-opens-its-files.php

Our guest: Jacques Patenet, Head of GEIPAN, CNES (March 2007):

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5870-space-talk-march-2007.php

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5871-the-plain-truth-of-the-matter.php

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5872-calling-scientists.php

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5873-a-day-at-geipan.php

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/5874-getting-witnesses-to-measure-what-they-see.php

GEIPAN website:

http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnes-geipan.fr%2F

(wikimedia.org image)

French Government UFO Document:

“POURQUOI LA MISE EN LIGNE 
PAR LE CNES DE SES ARCHIVES PAN 
(Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non identifiés)?”

(“WHY DOES CNES PUBLISH ITS UAP ARCHIVES 
(Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena)?”)

(Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales,

Paris, France)

France’s National Centre for Space Studies (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) (CNES) gives an overview of its UAP (UFO) research work:

http://www.cnes.fr/automne_modules_files/standard/public/p5872_2b9d3d73e247c66544547197895c9e0ePourquoi_la_mise_en_ligne.pdf

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnes.fr%2Fautomne_modules_files%2Fstandard%2Fpublic%2Fp5872_2b9d3d73e247c66544547197895c9e0ePourquoi_la_mise_en_ligne.pdf

UFO Mailing List Post:

“European Voice UFO Article”

by Nick Pope, 27 March 2004

(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

Nick Pope presents a European Voice (the 18-24 March edition) article:

http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2004/mar/m27-017.shtml

Quote from the article:

“On 20 January, Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN) MEP Sebastiano Musumeci submitted a proposal concerning the ‘creation of a Community body for the study of unexplained atmospheric phenomena.’ In other words, unidentified flying

objects (UFOs).”

Union for Europe of the Nations was a political group of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2009, according to Wikipedia.org.

Sebastiano Musumeci,

former UEN MEP (Italy)

(forges.forumpa.it photo)

UFO Report (Summary):

“Audit du SEPRA – Synthèse du rapport final”

(“SEPRA Audit – Summary of the final report”)

(Original report dated 30 November 2001,

Summary published in December 2012)

(GEIPAN, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales,

Toulouse, France)

SEPRA (UAP (UFO) research and information group within CNES, the French space agency) existed from 1988-2004:

http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fileadmin/geipan-doc/Audit_SEPRA_synthese_web.pdf

In 1992, a Belgian member of the European Parliament (Mr. di Rupo) presented a draft resolution (B3-1990/90) that proposed the creation of a “European UFO Observation Centre,” the report informs.

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnes-geipan.fr%2Ffileadmin%2Fgeipan-doc%2FAudit_SEPRA_synthese_web.pdf

GEIPAN News:

“Le rapport d'audit du SEPRA 2001 : 
le document fondateur du GEIPAN”

(“The 2001 SEPRA audit report: 
the founding document of GEIPAN”), 6 November 2012:

http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=181&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=140&tx_ttnews[backPid]=211

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnesgeipan.fr%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D181%26no_cache%3D1%26tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D%3D140%26tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D%3D211

Wikipedia article: “GEIPAN”:

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

(wikimedia.org image)

French Government UFO Sightings Database:

“RECHERCHER LES CAS D’OBSERVATION”

(“SEARCH THE (UFO) SIGHTINGS DATABASE”)
(GEIPAN, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales,

Toulouse, France)

GEIPAN presents French UFO case reports:

http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=202

English translation:

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=fr&to=en&a=http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/index.php?id=202

(cnes.fr image)

UK Government UFO Documents: 

“UAP in the UK Air Defence Region: Volume 2”

(Date released proactively: 15 May 2006)

(UK Ministry of Defence, London, UK)

The UK Ministry of Defence presents Technical Point Papers:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121026065214/http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/PublicationScheme/SearchPublicationScheme/UapInTheUkAirDefenceRegionVolume2.htm

The badge of the UK Ministry of Defence Combined Services

(vector-images.com image)

UFO News Article:

“Roscoe Drummond: Honest Answers

Overdue On Flying Saucer Question”,

28 March 1966 
(The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida)

In this article, Roscoe Drummond argues that the time has come for the President or Congress to name an objective and respected panel to investigate, appraise and report on all present and future UFO evidence about what is going on:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IowyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=krcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4186,9698504

The seal of the United States Congress (wikimedia.org)

(wikimedia.org image)

UFO News Article:

“CRITICS ANSWERED: We’re Not Hiding

Anything On UFOs, Air Force Says”,

30 March 1966 (The Miami News, Florida)

Part of the article reports on the ongoing argument between 
U.S. Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe and the U.S. Air 
Force regarding the UFO issue:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G25VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_D4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2725,4779825

(wikimedia.org image)

UFO News Article:

“Military Report Once Accepted Space ‘Saucers’ ”,

‎4 January 1967 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania)

The article reports on the UFO research work of U.S. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the Air Force’s three UFO projects, Project Sign, Project Grudge and Project Blue Book and the alleged 1948 Project Sign document, “Estimate of the Situation”:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wMZaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lWwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7323,731987

It was Edward J. Ruppelt’s 1956 book that first publicly disclosed the document. The book was cleared by the U.S. Air Force.

Quote from the article:
“Today the Air Force denies that such a document ever existed. But Ruppelt claimed he saw it. It was, he wrote, a thick document printed on legal-size paper, with a black cover with ‘Top Secret’ printed across the cover.”

Ruppelt was the director of Project Blue Book from March 1952 until late 1953.

He was also the director of Project Grudge from late 1951 until 
it became Project Blue Book in March 1952, according to the 
Wikipedia article, “Edward J. Ruppelt.”

The late Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, U.S. Air Force,
Head of Project Blue Book (1952-1953)
(NARCAP.org photo)

UFO Magazine Article:

“Entrevista a J. J. Benítez: 

20 años de la desclasificación militar”

(“Interview with J. J. Benítez: 

20 years of military declassification”)

(planetabenitez.com, Cadiz, Spain)

The Spanish journalist J. J. Benítez presents an ENIGMAS 
(No. 200) article:

http://www.planetabenitez.com/entrevistas/entrevista011.htm

It was Benítez who broke the story on the existence of the Spanish Air Force’s secret UFO files, according to the article.

English translation:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=es&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.planetabenitez.com/entrevistas/entrevista011.htm&usg=ALkJrhiy_haVukS4IW3nJeg0_5AjeiXMsA

Juan José Benítez, 
Spanish Journalist &

UFO Researcher

(youtube.com image)

UFO Lecture Review:

“Lecture – Dr. Richard F. Haines:

‘Pilot Sightings of UFO Phenomena’ ”

by Jason Cowland

(Victorian U.F.O. Research Society, 
Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia)

The lecture was held at the Royal Victorian Aero Club, Moorabbin Airport (Melbourne, Australia) on 17 March 1998:

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~vufors/hainesReview.htm







Dr. Richard F. Haines, former NASA Senior Research Scientist, NARCAP Chief Scientist and UFO Researcher (gstatic.com photo)

UFO Article & Video Report:

“The COMETA Report on Your Need to Know”

by Michael Cline, 14 December 2012

(OpenMinds.tv, Tempe, Arizona)

The video report is presented by J. Antonio Huneeus:

http://www.openminds.tv/cometa-report-your-need-to-know/

(OpenMinds.tv image)

Italian Government UFO Documents: 

“Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati (O.V.N.I.)”

(“Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)”)

(Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force), Rome, Italy)

The Italian Air Force presents UFO case reports from the years 2001 through 2009:

http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/Organizzazione/SMA/EntiDipendenti/Pagine/RGS_OVNI.aspx

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aeronautica.difesa.it%2FOrganizzazione%2FSMA%2FEntiDipendenti%2FPagine%2FRGS_OVNI.aspx

Wikipedia article: “Italian Air Force”:

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
















Coat of Arms of the Italian Air Force
(wikimedia.org image)

UFO Journal Article:

“DIALOGUE WITH VICENTE-JUAN 
BALLESTER OLMOS”

(Journal of UFO History, Vol. IV, No. 4,
September-October, 2007)

(Fundación Anomalía, Santander, Spain)

Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos talks about his cooperation with the Spanish Air Force, among other things:

http://www.anomalia.org/fotocat/jufoh.pdf

Wikipedia article: “Spanish Air Force”:

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

Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos,
Spanish UFO Researcher

UFO Sightings Map:

“UFO Map: Spain & Portugal”, 
By Larry Hatch

(*U* UFO DATABASE, U.S.A.)

Source: Internet Archive, San Francisco, California

The UFO sightings are divided into arbitrary eras by colours, according to Larry Hatch:

http://www.web.archive.org/web/20060704225158/http://www.larryhatch.net/SPNPT.html

Quote from the article:

“The most recent era (1980 to present in green) shows a loose 
grouping in NW Spain.”

UFO Map: Spain & Portugal
(text by larryhatch.net) (larryhatch.net/archive.org image)

UFO Paper: 

“Background Paper: 
The Galician UFO Wave (1995-1996)”,

5 October 2009 (Inexplicata.blogspot.com)

Inexplicata presents the Spanish UFO researcher Manuel 
Carballal’s paper (translated by Scott Corrales), “A UFO Alert 
in Spain”:

http://inexplicata.blogspot.no/2009/10/background-paper-galician-ufo-wave-1995.html

The paper first appeared in the SAMIZDAT newsletter (the 
Autumn 1996 issue), according to Inexplicata.

Map of Galicia, Spain (idealspain.com)
(idealspain.com image)

UFO Mailing List Post: 

“Brazilian Air Force Pilot Report”

by Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, 11 December 2012

(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

Two Brazilian Air Force F-5 fighter jet pilots sighted a UFO over the State of Rio Grande do Sul (near Santa Maria) on 3 January 1982, Thiago Luiz Ticchetti informs:

http://ufoupdateslist.com/2012/dec/m11-002.shtml

Santa Maria, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (santamaria.nirudia.com) (santamaria.nirudia.com photo)

U.S. Government UFO Magazine Article:

“AF ‘Flying Saucer’ Studies Stress Valid Observations”,

9 August 1952 
(Air Force Times, Springfield (current HQ), Virginia)

(PROJECT 1947, Canterbury, Connecticut)

The Air Force Times reports on a statement by Captain Edward 
J. Ruppelt, head of the Aerial Phenomena Section at Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio:

http://www.project1947.com/howto/aftimes.html

(wikimedia.org image)