Thursday, 26 November 2015

UFO Article (Blog):
“Slow Swan Song”


By Dr. Michael D. Swords, 29 September 2015
(The Big Study)

In this post, Swords opines about the status of the UFO phenomenon:


Quote from the post:
“Well, on to my first statement of opinion ............

UFOs are real. The percentage of doubt in my mind is so small that I’m tempted to slide from mere belief into certainty.”
















(thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“UFOs Sighted In Two Counties”


25 March 1977
(Observer-Reporter, Washington, Pennsylvania)

The article reports on a March 1977 Jefferson and Clearfield Counties (Pennsylvania) UFO flap:


Quote from the article:
“The 31-year-old (state police) trooper (Phillip Dale) then followed the second object about seven miles and watched it hover over a radio tower near Luthersburg.”






















Satellite photo of Luthersburg, Pennsylvania (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Google Website Searches:
Focus On UFO Incidents At Television/
Radio Towers


Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP.org):

(Television Tower)

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(Transmission Tower)

Website: National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC.org):

(TV Tower)

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Website: UFO Casebook (ufocasebook.com):

(TV Tower)

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Website: UFOINFO.com:

(TV Tower)

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(Transmission Tower)

Website: UFO DNA (thecid.com/ufo):

(Television Tower)

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NICAP.org UFO case (Project Blue Book) report: 
“Category 1, Distant Encounters:
Light Hovers Over Radio Tower
Jan. 21, 1965
Richmond, Virginia

Dan Wilson:
Jan. 21, 1965; Richmond, Virginia (BB)

7:10 p.m. EST. A bright light, the size compared with a half dollar held at arm's length was observed hovering over the tower of radio station WTVR. After hovering for a few seconds the object appeared to move rapidly to the north and disappear over the horizon. The light was seen for approximately 45 seconds. 
(Dan Wilson)”:























Satellite photo of Richmond, Virginia (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

UFO Project:
“UFOs: A History/
The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse”


By Loren E. Gross
(Sign Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Gross draws his material from newspaper, magazine, military and civilian reports, UFO books and collections from UFO researchers:

http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/



















(sohp.us image)

UFO News Article (Blog):
“Back when you couldn't ignore it ...”


By Billy Cox, 20 November 2015
(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida)

Billy Cox reports about the UFO project (“UFOs: A History/The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse”of veteran researcher Loren E. Gross:

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15407/back-when-you-couldnt-ignore-it/

Quote from the article:
“Drawn from original newspaper, magazine, military and civilian reports, ‘every UFO book available,’ and collections from the likes of crusading atmospheric physicist Dr. James McDonald, this online collection at http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/ is the culmination of a lifetime’s work from veteran researcher Loren Gross.

‘Remarkably,’ Gross states in his introduction in comparing military accounts with civilian accounts, ‘there is very little overlap aside from well-known incidents. The Air Force explanations are a joke and I paid little attention to them. Having reviewed tens of thousands of sighting reports, I did not use every case while compiling the UFO histories – only the ones I thought were the best.’

A joke indeed. In a verdict that rendered the USAF a laughingstock to the residents of Levelland, the Pentagon kissed off the 11/3/57 incident this way: ‘Weather phenomenon of electrical nature, generally classified as ‘Ball Lightning’ or ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,’ caused by stormy conditions in the area, including mist, rain, thunderstorms and lightning.’ Nevermind that the skies over Levelland that evening were relatively clear that evening, that not a drop of rain fell on the west Texas town during the event, or that some of these split-second ‘ball lightning’ incidents elasticized for three to four minutes.”



















(sohp.us image)

UFO News Article:
“Reporter spots UFO in Bartow”


27 September 1973
(Rome News-Tribune, Georgia)

Two UFOs were sighted near the Etowah Indian Mounds by Tim Richardson, a Cartersville radio station newsman, on the night 
of 26 September 1973, the Rome News-Tribune reports:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19730927&id=IuwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IDMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2371,3750723






















Satellite photo of Bartow, Georgia (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Google Website Searches:
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NOTE: As of 2019, Google has ended the search by date service.

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Daily UFO Histogram 1973 
(larryhatch.net/archive.org image)

Google Website Searches:
Focus On UFO Incidents At Music Concerts


Website: National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC.org):

(Music Concert)

(Concert)

(Live Music)

Website: UFO Casebook (ufocasebook.com):

(Music Concert)

(Concert)

Website: UFOINFO.com:
(Concert)

Website: UFO DNA (thecid.com/ufo):

(Music Concert)

(Concert)

(Live Music)

Video: UFOs filmed during the 4 October 2008 Bruce 
Springsteen concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(Source: juno2070 (YouTube channel)):












UFOs were sighted during the Bruce Springsteen concert
in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on 4 October 2008
(WPVI-TV image)

Monday, 23 November 2015

UFO News Article:
“UFOs: What’s In Secret Papers?”


7 November 1981
(The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania)

The article reports on the FOIA lawsuit by Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) against the National Security Agency (NSA).

CAUS brought legal action against the NSA in an effort to get hold of the agency’s 131 secret UFO documents:


The article contains a 1973 UFO photo from Georgia (U.S.).

I also reported about this article (by the Washington Post Service) on 30 October 2010 and 10 October 2012:






(v-j-enterprises.com image)

Sunday, 22 November 2015

UFO News Article:
“UFOs on radar denied”


18 November 1975
(Bangor Daily News, Maine)

Quote from the article:
“Lt. Robert Barca, assistant information officer said his office was not too sure where the information came from, but a recheck showed Loring’s radar screen did not track ‘the thing’ seen by several observers in the area before dawn Sunday.

Loring’s information officer, Maj. Richard F. Quimby, had said Sunday that a radar screen at the base had tracked ‘the thing,’ which was spotted and described Sunday by Caribou police, sheriff’s deputies, a U.S. Customs official in Limestone and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable.

‘Something must have been misconstrued,’ Barca said Monday. ‘We did some rechecking and we can’t find anyone who spotted it on radar.’ ”


Related post:

UFO News Article:
“Hovering, Blinking UFO Stirs Caribou, Air Base”,
17 November 1975
(The Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine):


Quote from the 17 November 1975 The Lewiston Daily Sun article:
“An unidentified airman at the Strategic Air Command base in Limestone told Caribou police that an unidentified object had appeared briefly on a radar screen, but appeared to be across the border 15 miles away in Canada.”















Aerial view of Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine
(loringremembers/history-of-loring-afb photo)












Aerial view of the 3080th Aviation Depot Group area
(East Loring), Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine
(loringremembers/history-of-loring-afb photo)

Google Website Searches:
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Daily UFO Histogram 1973 
(larryhatch.net/archive.org image)