From: Colm Kelleher, 1 September 2001
(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)
The whole post:
“On July 25, 2001, NIDS sent a FOIA request to the FAA (Federal
Aviation Administration) requesting radar tapes (Tracon) for the July 14-15, 2001 timeframe around the
Carteret UFO incident. NIDS also requested the tower voice tapes for the same
time period from Newark International Airport.
Prior to receiving the FOIA data, NIDS received a
preliminary analytical report that details unidentified flying objects without
transponders detected on air traffic control radar in the airspace around
Newark International Airport on the night of July 14-15, 2001. The report is
summarized in table form below.
The following points are to be noted:
All times in the report are Zulu time (GMT). Subtract 4
hours to get Carteret time for each data point.
Speed of the different objects is measured in knots
(kts).
EWR refers to Newark International Airport.
_None_ of the objects in the table below had
transponders.
By far the most noteworthy aspect of this
communication is the large number of objects detected that DO NOT have
transponders (all commercial aircraft have transponders) in the airspace around
Newark International at the same time that an estimated seventy eyewitnesses on
the New Jersey Turnpike and a further fifty (estimated) witnesses from Staten
Island reported unidentified lights in the same area of sky.
A request to randomly check for aircraft without
transponders at the same time on a DIFFERENT night produced the result that there
were no objects without transponders in the air around Newark International
airport on that second, randomly chosen, night.
This ‘control’ study lends support to the notion that
such a large profusion of objects without transponders in the air around one of
the busiest international airports in the world is unusual. Secondly, the fact
that multiple objects without transponders were in the same airspace while over
one hundred eyewitnesses on the ground were watching several unidentified objects
over Carteret may be of interest.
In addition, we now have interviews with 13 witnesses
posted on our website:
http://www.nidsci.org/news/newjersey_contents.html”
National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) is defunct.
The NIDS website can be found on archives.org:
(ufocasebook.com image)
Satellite
photo of Carteret, New Jersey (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)
