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.”
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