Thursday, 28 January 2016

Google Website Searches:
Focus On Royal Australian Air Force
Involvement In the UFO Issue


Website: UFO UpDates mailing list (ufoupdateslist.com) 
(Toronto, Canada):

(Royal Australian Air Force)













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UFO Article (Blog):
“Latest digitised RAAF UAS file”


By Keith Basterfield, 29 January 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:
Introduction

One of the RAAF’s base level,  unusual aerial sightings files, which I found on RecordSearch earlier this month, has just been digitised for me. I am waiting for two others to be digitised.

It is National Archives of Australia file series A9755 control symbol 10, barcode 3533543. It’s status is ‘Open with exception.’ The file was formerly a Department of Defence file, simply titled ‘Unusual Aerial Sightings,’  number 5/113/AIR Part 10, held by number 82 bomber wing, Amberley RAAF base in Queensland. 

The digitised version has 39 pages, but there is a standard blue mask on the file indicating that 2.5 cms thickness of other documents are on the file, but outside the Archive Act. 

The only way to obtain these remaining papers is by submitting a request under the Freedom of Information Act to the Department of Defence. As this would cost around Aust$1,000 I am not going to do this. If any reader would like to go through this process, the Australian UFO community would be very grateful.

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/latest-digitised-raaf-uas-file.html


















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UFO Article (Blog):
“Project Newsprint – Stage 2 –
Victoria – concludes”


By Keith Basterfield, 25 January 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:
Stage one

Project Newsprint commenced in September 2015. Its main aim is to seek any previously unknown, past or current sightings, from remote and regional Australia, outside of the capital cities, by forwarding letters to the editors of newspapers. 

Stage one was conducted in Western Australia, and the final stage one report may be read here. Some fascinating, older close encounter cases came to light.

Stage two

The second state in which I chose to run Project Newsprint, was Victoria. I submitted 100 plus emails directly to the editors of rural and regional newspapers, plus posted on their respective newspaper run Facebook pages. I advised that I was collecting sightings from their local area and that I would like to hear from readers about their experiences.

Detailed articles about the Project were carried by a number of papers, including the Mildura ‘Sunraysia Daily’;  (two articles) the ‘Swan Hill Guardian’; the ‘Wangaratta Chronicle’; the ‘Mansfield Courier’ and the ‘Gippsland Times.’ ”

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/project-newsprint-stage-2-victoria.html















Map of Victoria, Australia (provelopassion.files.wordpress.com)
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UFO Article (Blog):
“Three more vehicular close
encounters from Victoria”


By Keith Basterfield, 22 January 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:
“I have now found out details about three more close encounter cases from Victoria, which involved objects approaching motor vehicles travelling along the road.

Following the appearance of a piece about Project Newsprint, in a recent issue of the ‘Gippsland Times’  I received a telephone call from a man, who told me about yet another close encounter.

UFO Research NSW Inc. received a fascinating report on 27 April 2015 from a 71 year old man from Coongulla, Victoria to advise them about a personal experience.

An Internet search located the third case, from a copy of the ‘South Gippsland Sentinel Times’ dated 18 February 2014. This was an article titled ‘Close Encounters of the South Gippy Kind.’ ”















Map of Victoria, Australia (provelopassion.files.wordpress.com)
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UFO Article (Blog):
“Another Australian government
Valentich file emerges.”


By Keith Basterfield, 21 January 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:
“On 28 June 2012 I wrote a blog piece about the discovery of two Australian government files relating to the disappearance, in 1978, of pilot Frederick Valentich, over Bass Strait, Australia.

Last year, in September, while randomly checking the National Archives of Australia’s RecordSearch database, I found a two part file which also relates to the disappearance.

The new file is NAA file series B638, control symbol M116/783/1047 parts 1 and part 2;  barcodes 10499635 and 10499636. Series B638 is comprised of 299 air safety, accident and incident files, where M stands for Melbourne.

I immediately requested that the files, whose status was ‘Not yet examined’ be examined. On 18 December 2015, I was advised that both parts of the file were now ‘open.’ I then submitted a request to have the file digitised, and paid the relevant fee.

The file, when ‘open’ is titled ‘Accident on C182L - Moorabbin Vic/King Island Tas - 21 October 1978. VH-DSJ [including multiple newspaper cuttings regarding incident folder contains two piles.]’ ”


















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Wednesday, 27 January 2016

U.S. Government UFO Document:
“PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD:
DATE: 29 Jul 62/
LOCATION: Ocean Springs, Mississippi”


(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah

The UFO (diamond shaped, sometimes triangular in shape) was observed by an Ocean Springs man, his wife, daughter and niece.

The case is listed as “UNIDENTIFIED.”

https://www.fold3.com/image/8686654



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Satellite photo of Ocean Springs, Mississippi (tageo.com)
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UFO Report:
“Low Flying Triangular Objects: A Safety Hazard”


April 2001
(National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas, Nevada)

Source: Internet Archive, San Francisco, California

http://web.archive.org/web/20061210225836/http://nidsci.org/pdf/triangularcraft.pdf







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Tuesday, 26 January 2016

UFO Map:
“Triangular UFO Sightings and
Air Force Air Mobility Command Bases”


(National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas, Nevada)

Source: Internet Archive, San Francisco, California

“Map of 250 Recently Investigated Reports of Black Triangles”:

















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UFO Report:
“NIDS Investigations of the
Flying Triangle Enigma.”


August 2004
(National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas, Nevada)

Source: Internet Archive, San Francisco, California

http://web.archive.org/web/20070629172738/http://www.nidsci.org/articles/8_25trireport.php






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UFO Report:
“Comparison of Unidentified Triangular or Deltoid Aircraft Location Patterns in Three Independent UFO Databases: NIDS, MUFON and Larry Hatch”


June 2001
(National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas, Nevada)

Source: Internet Archive, San Francisco, California

http://web.archive.org/web/20061211153900/http://nidsci.org/pdf/triangularcraftdatabases.pdf






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U.S. Government UFO Document (FOIA):
“UFO REPORTEDLY LANDS IN
MOUNTAIN PASS NEAR YEREVAN”


Publication date: 5 August 1991
(Central Intelligence Agency (foia.cia.gov), Washington, D.C.)

The whole text:
“A UFO REPORTEDLY LANDED IN A MOUNTAIN PASS IN THE VICINITY OF THE ASTAVAN VILLAGE, 12-15 KM FROM YEREVAN, ON AUGUST 4 AT APPROXIMATLY 21:30 LOCAL TIME, THE NORUTIUM SERVICE NEWS AGENCY REPORTS.

ACCORDING TO EYEWITNESSES’ REPORTS, THE UFO STAYED THERE UNTIL 3 A.M. WITH ITS LIGHTS TWINKLING, CHANGING ITS SHAPE. HOWEVER, NOBODY DARED TO APPROACH IT.”

http://www.foia.cia.gov/document/0005517731













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Satellite photo of Yervan, Armenia (tageo.com)
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Google Website Searches:
Focus On CIA FOIA UFO Documents


Website: FOIA.CIA.gov:












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Monday, 25 January 2016

UFO Book Manuscript:
“UFO’s: An Air Force Dilemma”


By Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., U.S. Air Force 

(Internet Archive, San Francisco, California)

Source: National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas, Nevada

The book manuscript (copyrighted 1974) was written in 1975, according to NIDS:

The late Hector Quintanilla, Jr. was the last chief officer of Project Blue Book (1963-1970), the U.S. Air Force’s investigation into the UFO phenomenon.

NOTE: Hector Quintanilla was a Major, according to Project Blue Book documents.














The late Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., U.S. Air Force,
Chief Officer of Project Blue Book (1963-1969)
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UFO Mailing List Post:
“Hector Quintanilla’s Unpublished Manuscript”


By Colm Kelleher, 5 February 2001
(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

The whole post:
“NIDS publishes previously unpublished manuscript by Project Blue Book’s Lt. Col. Hector Quintanilla. 

For the first time NIDS is electronically publishing a book manuscript written in 1975 by Lt. Col. Hector Quintanilla, the head of the USAF Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book was supposed to be an objective investigation and documentation of the UFO phenomenon carried out by the United States Air Force from March 1952 until December 1969.

NIDS’ purpose in making available this previously unpublished manuscript is twofold: (a) to demonstrate to the interested public, through the authors own unedited words, Lt. Col. Quintanilla’s attitudes, preconceptions and biases that dominated Project Blue Book and (b) to make available to historians and to the public the methodology and practices employed by the United States Air Force in investigating and cataloging the UFO phenomenon.

The manuscript covers the years of Quintanilla’s own involvement from July 1963-December1969 in Project Blue Book and also contains many valuable insights into the public and media reaction to the USAF funded study, from the perspective of the author. In particular, Lt. Col. Quintanilla’s descriptions of University of Arizona professor James McDonald’s pursuit of the UFO phenomena as well as Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s relationship with Project Blue Book are annotated for the public record in considerable, colorful and sometimes jaundiced detail.

The complete book, which is copyrighted to Karl Quintanilla, can be found on the NIDS web site at: http://www.nidsci.org. A separate forward to the book, written by Alex Chionetti and J. Antonio Huneeus will be added when it is received.”

http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2001/feb/m05-007.shtml

NOTE: Hector Quintanilla was a Major, according to Project Blue Book documents.






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U.S. Government UFO Document:
“PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD:
DATE: 24 April 1964/
LOCATION: Socorro, New Mexico”


(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah

The UFO (which had landed near a dynamite shack) was observed by police officer Lonnie Zamora. 

The case is listed as “UNIDENTIFIED.”

https://www.fold3.com/image/8694623

The document contains newspaper articles.



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Satellite photo of Socorro, New Mexico (tageo.com)
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U.S. Government UFO Article:
“News & Information:
How To Investigate a Flying Saucer”


(Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.)

Quote from the article:
“Hector Quintanilla, the last chief officer of the US Air Force’s famous UFO investigation program, Project BLUE BOOK, was in charge of the Zamora case. His team was convinced that Zamora was telling the truth, and despite an extremely thorough investigation, they were unable to locate the object or its origins. In an article for Studies in Intelligence called, ‘The Investigation of UFO’s,’ Quintanilla says that the Zamora sighting is ‘the best-documented case on record.’ It remains unsolved.

Project BLUE BOOK was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Between 1947 and 1969, the Air Force recorded 12,618 sightings of strange phenomena — 701 of which remain ‘unidentified’ like the Zamora case. Although the CIA was not directly affiliated with Project BLUE BOOK, the Agency did play a large role in investigating UFOs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which led to the creation of several studies, panels, and programs. Former CIA Chief Historian, Gerald K. Haines, wrote an in-depth article looking at the Agency’s role in studying the UFO phenomenon for Studies in Intelligence. In his article, ‘CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,’ Haines says that ‘while the Agency’s concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s, CIA has since paid only limited and peripheral attention to the phenomena.’

With over 20 years of investigations, from the late 1940s until Project BLUE BOOK’s termination in 1969, the CIA and USAF have learned a thing or two about how to investigate a UFO sighting. While most government officials and scientists now dismiss flying saucer reports as a quaint relic of the 1950s and 1960s, there’s still a lot that can be learned from the history and methodology of ‘flying saucer intelligence.’ ”

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/how-to-investigate-a-flying-saucer.html

The facts (official CIA UFO documents) seem to contradict the view the Agency takes of the UFO phenomenon (last paragraph).













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Google Website Searches:
Focus On Project Blue Book


Website: UFO UpDates mailing list (ufoupdateslist.com) 
(Toronto, Canada):

(Project Blue Book)

(Blue Book)

(Blue Book -Re:)

















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Saturday, 23 January 2016

Google Website Searches:
Focus On Project Blue Book Documents
Mentioning Motor Vehicle/Motor Vehicle Engine/Headlights/Lights/Radio


Website: Fold3.com (Lindon, Utah):

(Car)

(Cars)

(Automobile)

(Automobiles)

(Auto)

(Autos)

(Station Wagon)

(Taxi)

(Truck)

(Trucks)

(Bus)

(Tractor)

(Motor Vehicle)

(Vehicle)

(Car Motor)

(Automobile Motor)
(Motor)
(Car Headlights)

(Car Lights)

(Automobile Headlights)

(Automobile Lights)

(Auto Headlights)

(Auto Lights)

(Headlights)

(Car Radio)


















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UFO Article (Blog):
“Project Blue Book – Exposed…”


By Kevin D. Randle, 22 July 2007
(A Different Perspective, Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

Quote from the article:
“Back in the olden days, while I was still in college and a member of Air Force ROTC, I learned that the Project Blue Book files were available for study and review at the Air Force Archives at the what was then called Maxwell Air Force Base. The announcement was made in an internal Air Force document, meaning, simply, that it was circulated inside the Air Force but not necessarily in the civilian world. It said that anyone who traveled to Alabama could see the material.

They eventually told us about a master index to the sightings. This master index gave the dates of the sightings, location, names of the witnesses and the Air Force conclusion. Cornett and I went through the whole thing and copied the information of all the unidentifieds, most of the photo cases, landing trace cases, and anything else that struck us as important. I didn’t know how valuable that information would become later.

In other files, they took the names out of the Air Force generated reports, but left the names in newspaper articles that were filed with the reports. In other words, in some cases, you can put the names back in.

But remember, Cornett and I copied the names from so many of the case files that I, too, can put them back in. In fact, in Project Blue Book  Exposed, Appendix B is a listing of those cases, including the date and time, location and the witnesses, along with a brief description of the sighting.”

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/07/project-blue-book-exposed.html

















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