Friday, 1 September 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“Police report on the Boyup Brook
encounter, uncovered”
By Keith Basterfield, 29 August 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Background
On 30 October 1967, an intriguing encounter happened
near Boyup Brook , Western Australia .
The story broke in the Wednesday 1 November 1967
edition of ‘The West Australian’ newspaper. According to the newspaper, the
sole witness reported the incident to a constable L Johnson of the Boyup Brook
police station.
I had always wondered what happened to the police
report of the event? No one I knew of, had ever seen it, or had a copy of
it. A couple of years ago, I thought
that I might have located the report, when a Western Australian Police
Department file, number 64/2885 was found, titled ‘Unidentified Flying Objects.’
However, the file contained only 56 pages, despite the file’s folio numbering
system indicating that there had been 148 pages on the file. It turned out that
there seemed to be missing folios, numbered 32-122, covering the years
1955-1969. So, no luck in locating papers dealing with a 1967 incident.
2017
Fast forward to mid-August this year, when US researcher and historian Barry Greenwood of Boston , visited the archives of the J Allen Hynek Center
for UFO Studies, in Chicago .
One of his aims was to search for Australian material, which had not been seen
for years, if ever, by most Australian researchers. Barry located the long
missing Western Australian Police Department report on the Boyup Brook
incident. Many thanks to Barry for sharing this find with me.”
Kojonup in relation to the capital city of Perth . Image courtesy of
Google maps. (text by Keith Basterfield) (4.bp.blogspot.com/ ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com
image)
UFO Article (Blog):
“Dr Michael J Duggin’s 1971 symposium paper”
By Keith Basterfield, 1 September 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Further to my earlier blog posts about Dr Michael J
Duggin’s contribution to Australian UAP research, I have now located a summary
of a 1971 talk he gave.
ANZAAS
On 30 October 1971, the South Australian Division of
the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, held
a one day symposium in Adelaide ,
South Australia , titled ‘The
Unidentified Flying Object Problem.’
Courtesy of Peter Horne, of Adelaide , I now have a copy of the ‘Condensed
Papers’ from the Symposium.
Dr Duggin presented a paper titled ‘The Analysis of
UFO Reports.’ The ‘Condensed Papers’ only contain a summary of the talk, which
I present below.”
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, an Australian
scientist, was a member of the original ‘invisible college’ that studied UFOs
and a senior scientist with the U.S. Air Force Research Labs at Kirtland Air
Force Base.
Related posts:
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, Australian Scientist
(U.S. Air
Force/theozfiles.blogspot.com photo)
UFO Article (Blog):
“Dr Michael J Duggin and Jacques Vallee”
By Keith Basterfield, 26 August 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Duggin writes to Vallee
In a blog post dated 4 January 2017, I reported on the
passing on, of Australian Dr Michael J Duggin. Between at least 1966 and 1973,
Duggin took an active interest in UAP. Inter alia, I reported upon a meeting
between Duggin and Jacques Vallee in the US , in 1966.
Recently, I was fortunate enough to come across copies
of a letter from Dr Duggin to Jacques Vallee, in the digital collection of US researcher
Dr. Michael Swords. There was also a copy of a response letter to Duggin from
one William T Powers, an associate of both Jacques Vallee, and Dr J Allen
Hynek. I will image the letters below, and provide a typed copy of their
contents.”
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, an Australian
scientist, was a member of the original ‘invisible college’ that studied UFOs
and a senior scientist with the U.S. Air Force Research Labs at Kirtland Air
Force Base.
Related post:
Dr. Michael J. Duggin, Australian
Scientist
(U.S. Air
Force/theozfiles.blogspot.com photo)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
UFO Journal Articles:
Focus On the Controversy Around
Edward J. Ruppelt’s Revised UFO Book
(National Investigations Committee
on Aerial Phenomena, Washington, D.C.)
Source: J. Allen
Hynek Center
for UFO St udies
(CUFOS.org)
NICAP’s newsletter, U.F.O. Investigator, gives an in-depth look into the controversy
around Ruppelt’s book.
Article No. 1: “CAPT. RUPPELT REVISING HIS UFO BOOK –
Air Force Rumored to be Pressuring Former project chief”
(by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Director of NICAP)
(U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 8, June 1959)
Air Force Rumored to be Pressuring Former project chief”
(by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Director of NICAP)
(U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 8, June 1959)
Article No. 2: “RUPPELT REVERSES STAND ON UFOs”
(U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 9, March 1960)
(U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 9, March 1960)
Related posts:
The late Captain Edward J. Ruppelt,
U.S. Air Force,
Head of Project Blue Book (1952-1953)
(gstatic.com/NARCAP.org photo)
(gstatic.com/NARCAP.org photo)
UFO Journal Article:
“UFO CHASE BY AF JETS REVEALED TO NICAP”
U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 8, June 1959
(National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena, Washington , D.C. )
Source: J. Allen
Hynek Center
for UFO St udies
(CUFOS.org)
NICAP reports on a 1958 radar-visual UFO case.
The two UFOs were chased by two U.S. Air Force jets.
Related posts:
(wikimedia.org image)
Google Website Searches:
Focus On UFO Incidents Involving
Radar Tracking of UFOs
Website: National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous
Phenomena (NARCAP.org), Temecula ,
California
(Search term: “Radar”)
(“Radars”)
UFO report:
“Radar Catalogue: A Review of Twenty One Ground and Airborne
Radar UAP Contact Reports Generally Related to Aviation Safety for the Period October
15, 1948 to September 19, 1976”
By Martin Shough (UK ), 2002
Source: National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous
Phenomena (NARCAP.org), Temecula ,
California
Related posts:
(dandare.files.wordpress.com/narcap.org
image)
Monday, 28 August 2017
Google Website Searches:
Focus On UFO Incidents Involving
Radar Tracking of UFOs
Website: Comisión de
Estudio del Fenomeno OVNI Republica Argentina (CEFORA.com.ar), Victoria , Argentina :
(Search term: “Radar”)
Website: Visión OVNI (visionovni.com.ar), Victoria , Argentina :
(“Radar”)
(“Radares”)
(“Radars”)
Website: Portal Fenomenum (fenomenum.com.br), Brazil :
(“Radar”)
(“Radares”)
(“Radars”)
Website: Revista UFO (Brazilian UFO Magazine)
(ufo.com.br), Campo Grande ,
Brazil :
(“Radar”)
(“Radares”)
(“Radars”)
UFO case report:
“CASO FEDERICO MACHAIN”
(“FEDERICO MACHAIN CASE”)
(“FEDERICO MACHAIN CASE”)
29 March 2009
(Comisión de Estudio del Fenomeno OVNI Republica Argentina
(CEFORA.com.ar), Victoria , Argentina )
In June 1965, Lieutenant Federico Machain, Argentine
Air Force, chased a UFO (in his NA airplane) over the Punta Indio Naval Air
Base (Spanish: Base Aeronaval Punta Indio), Argentina .
The UFO was also recorded on radar.
Wikipedia article: “Punta Indio Naval Air Base”:
Related posts:
Saturday, 26 August 2017
Google Website Searches:
Focus On UFO Incidents Involving
Radar Tracking of UFOs
Website:
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS.org):
(Search term: “Radar”)
(“Radars”)
Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena (NICAP.org):
(“Radar”)
(“Radars”)
Website: Archives For the Unexplained (AFU.se),
Norrköping, Sweden :
(“Radar”)
(“Radars”)
Related posts:
“Diagram of the UFOs tracked by Washington ’s National
Airport radar
scope on 20 July 1952. At A, 7 objects approach
the Nation’s capital from the south.
At B, some are seen over
the White House and Capitol. At C,
they appear over Andrews
Air Force Base. At D, one UFO tracks
an airliner. At E, one is
seen to make a sharp right angle
turn.” Source: UFOs –
A Pictorial History From Antiquity to
the Present, by David C.
Knight. (McGraw Hill Book Co., 1979.) (rense.com image)
Knight. (McGraw Hill Book Co., 1979.) (rense.com image)
Friday, 25 August 2017
Google Website Searches:
Focus On U.S. Government UFO
Documents Mentioning Radar/Radars
Website: The Computer UFO Network (CUFON.org), Seattle , Washington
(Search term: “Radar”)
(“Radars”)
(wikimedia.org image)
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
UFO Article:
“The ‘Other’ Rendlesham Forest UFO Encounters”
By Nick Redfern, 9 June 2017
(Mysterious Universe, St. Leonards , Australia )
Related posts:
Map of RAF Bentwaters, RAF Woodbridge , UK ,
and the
December 1980 UFO landing site (2.bp.blogspot.com image)
Monday, 21 August 2017
UFO News Article:
“Air Force Pacts for Saucer Probe
But Can’t Wait To Discount UFOs”
18 October 1967
(The Desert Sun, Palm
Springs , California )
Source: California
Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California ,
Riverside , California (http://cdnc.ucr.edu)
Quote from the article:
“To get back to Flying Saucers—Unidentified Flying
Objects (UFOs), that is:
The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) knows
what it thinks about them. A recent issue of the NORAD News Service, published
in Colorado Springs ,
carried an article headlined somewhat this way:
UFOs NOT SAUCERS, NO THREAT Says NORAD
This might strike you as a bit presumptuous,
considering that:
—NORAD’s boss, the U.S. Air Force, last year contracted (for $313,000) with theUniversity
of Colorado to conduct a
scientific investigation to find out just what the—just what in the world UFOs
really are.
—NORAD’s boss, the U.S. Air Force, last year contracted (for $313,000) with the
As far as the air defense command is concerned, the
NORAD News Service reported, UFOs ‘have never been shown to be anything but
natural atmospheric or astronomical phenomena or airborne objects —birds, insects,
hardware—seen under unusual circumstances.’ ”
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=“NORAD+And+The+UFO+Smokescreen”
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=NORAD
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=NORAD
(wikimedia.org image)
Sunday, 20 August 2017
UFO News Article:
“One Out of Four In U.S. Believes ‘Saucers’ Real”
20 March 1950
(St. Petersburg Times, Florida )
Quote from the article:
“The Air Force wearily repeated its opinion yesterday–flying
saucers are only figments of the imagination.
In Pittsburgh ,
Herb Morrison, a former lieutenant colonel in the Air Force and a pilot for 20
years, said, ‘I didn’t believe in flying
saucers until I saw them.’
Morrison said he saw five saucers one day while
playing golf with six friends.
‘They were definitely not airplanes and two of them
even appeared to be flying loose formation,’ he said.”
(wikimedia.org image)
Saturday, 19 August 2017
UFO News Article:
“Marine Pilots Spot Eerie Flying Object”
12 February 1953
(Greensboro Daily News,
North Carolina )
Source: The UFO Chronicles
The glowing, disk-like object was sighted by four
pilots stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Havelock , North Carolina .
One of the pilots, Marine 1st Lieutenant Ed Balacco, saw
the UFO near Edenton , North Carolina , while flying his F9F Panther
jet.
Wikipedia article: “Marine Corps Air Station Cherry
Point”:
(tageo.com photo)
Friday, 18 August 2017
U.S. Government UFO Document:
“SUBJECT: Air Space Violation at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee”
Date: 27 July 1953
(U.S.
Army, Washington , D.C. )
Source: NICAP.org
The whole document:
“THRU: Commanding General
Third Army
ATTN: AC of S. G2
TO: The Adjutant General
1. Reference: Section VIII, paragraph 73b, AR 380-5.
2. The following report of unidentified objects by
Norman H. Brown, Acting Chief, Review and Analysis Section, AEC, has been
received from the Senior Instructor, USAR Instructor Group, Oak Ridge , Tennessee ,
and is transmitted herewith in accordance with directive cited in paragraph 1,
above:
‘At approximately 3:00 P.M. on July 19, 1953, an F-86
aircraft was observed flying over the Oak Ridge residential area, making
circles at what appeared to the writer to be approximately 2,500 or 3,500 feet . The F-86
flew over the area in this manner for approximately ten or fifteen minutes. The
writer, together with his wife, observed the aircraft through a pair of six
power field glasses. After the aircraft flew in what appeared to be the
direction of Knoxville , Tennessee , a black object moved out of a
high white cloud, directly over the area the F-86 had been flying. This object
began to travel, at a tremendous speed, in a large circle. This action on the
part of the unknown object continued for at least five minutes. During the
circle of this object, it appeared at times to be in the shape of a cigar and
at other times round.’
‘This object was extremely black in color, having an
appearance of a deep black metal exterior with a fine gloss. It did not leave a
vapor trail or were there any lights of shine noticed. No sound was heard. The
object flew east at a tremendous speed for what appeared to be approximately
three miles where it stopped. The object was then joined by two more of these
same objects. A formation similar to a spread ‘V’ was formed and the objects,
at a tremendous speed flew in an eastward direction.’
3. Further information will be reported as received.
FOR THE CHIEF:
Captain, ASC Asst. Adjutant”
Related posts:
(wikimedia.org image)
(tageo.com photo)
Thursday, 17 August 2017
UFO Case Directory:
“Black Objects Maneuver Over Area nr F-86
July 19, 1953
Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Fran Ridge:
July 19, 1953; Oak
Ridge , Tennessee
At approximately 3:00 P.M., an F-86 aircraft was
observed flying over the Oak Ridge
residential area, making circles at what appeared to be approximately 2,500 or 3,500 feet . The F-86
flew over the area in this manner for approximately ten or fifteen minutes. The
witness, together with his wife, observed the aircraft through a pair of six
power field glasses. After the aircraft flew in what appeared to be the
direction of Knoxville , Tennessee , a black object moved out of a
high white cloud, directly over the area the F-86 had been flying. This object
began to travel, at a tremendous speed, in a large circle. This action on the
part of the unknown object continued for at least five minutes. During the
circle of this object, it appeared at times to be in the shape of a cigar and
at other times round. (Not listed in neither the BB Unknowns nor the updated
catalog by Brad Sparks, this incident was mentioned in the MUFON UFO Journal,
Issue No. 205. An Army document was
located and is presented by the link below with a transcript.)”
NICAP.org presents a
Wikipedia article: “Oak Ridge , Tennessee ”:
Related posts:
“Y-12” Area at Oak Ridge , Tennessee
(nicap.org
photo)
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“Holland, MI Radar-Visual UFO Case, part two.”
By Dr. Michael D. Swords, 26 April 2012
(The Big Study)
Quote from the article:
“In part two of this legendary saga, I'm going to try
to sketch out how CUFOS and I got involved with the case. That involvement
ultimately led to the publication of our findings in the article in the International
UFO Reporter above. Those findings encompassed only a small, albeit vital,
portion of the case, as other investigators allegedly were getting the mass of
the on-the-ground fieldwork data. As said in part one, it turns out that those ‘other’
researchers were either NOT getting the fieldwork data or that data was never
utilized and promulgated to the rest of us. We didn't know that at the time, of
course.
CUFOS got word of this explosion of UFOs over Western Michigan at about the same time that everyone
else did, but CUFOS was by that time in its history no longer an organization
which did onsite fieldwork except in very special circumstances. Still, CUFOS
Director, Mark Rodeghier, decided that this one sounded like we should at least
we should dip our toe in the water. He knew that I was not a field researcher,
but that I had a friend, an old NICAP member, who used to do that. So that's
who he called. My friend began looking into this.
It was instantly obvious that a chaotic circus had
immediately commenced. Witnesses, other than the Graves
family, were being assaulted in paparazzi fashion and being turned off
everywhere. The 911 operator told my friend that he knew of a few witnesses who
had seen quite a bit, but who had told him that under no circumstances was he
to let out their names. One guy was an ex-USAF colonel who lived south along
the coast and who would have been a superior addition to the story. But no way.
The NOAA station manager had told everyone flat that
there would be no interviewing any station personnel especially the night
operator who took the 911 call. They wanted none of the grief. My friend made
contact not only with them [briefly] but went on to talk with NOAA HQ in Washington DC .
He made a good impression. Ultimately they called him back and said that he
could have the only interview with the staff, BUT he would have to bring that
WMU science professor with him when he came [he'd played my ‘PhD card’ to them
over the phone]. So I was stuck with a field investigation if we wanted access.”
http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/04/holland-mi-radar-visual-ufo-case-part.html
I also reported about this article on 28 April 2012.
I also reported about this article on 28 April 2012.
(2.bp.blogspot.com/thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com image)
(michigan.org image)
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