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2015: John E. Mack Was Not Murdered

As a follow-up to my previous article – “Liquidation of the UFO Researchers” – I figured it’s time to lay to rest a particularly controversial claim that has no basis in reality, at all. But, it’s a controversy which I find myself having to correct people on, at least several times a year. It’s the claim that the late “alien abduction” researcher, Dr. John E. Mack, was murdered. Give me a break. He was not. He died in a tragic accident. As I noted in the aforementioned article, yes I do believe there have been some very sinister deaths in Ufology. However, to take the position that when a UFO researcher dies, things have to be viewed with suspicion is ridiculous. And it’s paranoid […] Read More

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Who’s Behind The UFO Phenomenon?

Alain Kerizo Artist’s sketch of an alien allegedly responsible for an alien abduction in New Hampshire (1961) Introduction The UFO phenomenon has been going on since antiquity, accounts of apparitions similar to the ones reported in the 20th century being found in the holy books of the various pagan religions. Interestingly, a significant lapse in the record of these events through history occurred during the ages of Faith, only to resume with the Protestant revolt. In our times, the literature on UFO’s has stacked up, and has gone beyond mere description of events. Authors writing from an atheistic or gnostic point of view have used the phenomenon to call into question Christianity, some going so far as to say that “all the religious manifestations […] Read More

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2015: The Magonia Problem

by David Halperin One day not long after the year 800, Agobard, archbishop of Lyon, found himself in exactly the right place to stop a lynching. Lucky thing for three men and one woman, who were said to have fallen from ships that sailed through the sky. Vis-à-vis the aerial ships, Agobard was what we’d now call a “debunker.” If he were alive today, he’d probably be in CSICOP. Or maybe not: the foundation of his skepticism was that the popular beliefs he devoted himself to debunking were contrary to Holy Scripture. But let Agobard tell the story: But we have seen and heard of many people overcome with so much foolishness, made crazy by so much stupidity, that they believe and say that […] Read More

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1966: I know the Secret of the Flying Saucers

by Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.) Editor’s Note: Major Keyhoe has been writing about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s) in this magazine and elsewhere for over 15 years. From the outset he has insisted that flying saucers are real and interplanetary, and many authorities have come to agree with him. Now he claims that control over gravity itself is the only explanation for the astounding maneuvers which saucers are said to make.Some physicists dismiss this theory as fundamentally erroneous. But, as you will read, there are others who find Major Keyhoe’s latest chapter in “The Great Flying Saucer Story” important and plausible. One night last February, over the North Pacific, a Flying Tiger Airlines crew had a startling aerial encounter. What they saw is […] Read More

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1957: Astronaut Gordon Cooper Witnessed a UFO Landing in 1957

“I had a camera crew filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came down to land on a dry lake bed. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about 30 feet across. It was pretty clear it was an alien craft.” The event Cooper describes happened in 1957. At that time, he was one of the best test pilots at the Edwards Air Force Base in California. He also managed several other projects belonging to the Experimental Flight Test School at Edwards and his credibility has never been called into question. On May 3 of that year, he had his crew of engineers setting […] Read More

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2015: Television and the UFO – The Mass Acceptance Agenda and the Dark Skies Reboot

In conspiracy theory we deal with a great many arcane and subversive topics from vast government conspiracies to hidden agendas, aliens to cryptids, and about everything in between. Many times these subjects are subversive by nature and are never able to reach a mass population due to the arcane and paranoid nature of the topics. This is a problem that will always be true, and for those of us heavily invested in the research, we will always dwell in the dark corners of the populace seek out tantalizing snippets of information, following dead-end leads, and speaking with shadowy characters. The shadowy characters though are probably reserved for the more adventitious amongst the theorists but we have all had our run-ins. For myself, I have […] Read More

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1971: Official U.S. Navy Photos of Arctic UFOs Encounter LEAKED

A set of newly-released photos detail the U.S. Navy’s close encounter with an enormous UFO/USO. The case was submitted to The Black Vault by researcher/investigator Alex Mistretta, who in turn got them from one of his anonymous sources in Europe. An interesting story is attached to these photos. In March 1971, the USS Trepang, a Sturgeon Class attack submarine, was on a routine military and scientific mission at the edge of the Arctic Ocean. The exact location of the sighting is unknown, but the submarine’s position was somewhere between Iceland and the Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic. The unidentified object was first spotted through the periscope by an officer named John Kilika and the photos were taken by an unnamed officer. The quality […] Read More

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1952: Operation Mainbrace

In 1952, a large scale naval operation attracted the attention of several UFOs and unidentified submerged objects. Multiple credible military witnesses saw them and rumors say General Dwight Eisenhower was also present. Called Operation Mainbrace (September 14-25, 1952), this naval exercise organized by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) involved armed forces from the United States, the UK, Canada, France, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Approximately 80,000 men aboard 1,000 planes and 200 ships participated in a display of force meant to demonstrate NATO’s effectiveness in the event of the Soviet Union attacking western Europe. This massive operation caught the eye of everyone in the vicinity and, apparently, not all of them were human. The first two incidents occurred during the first day of […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 14: May 19, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor TRIANGULAR UFO SIGHTED NEAR CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA Sunday night, May 12, at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time, a 19-year-old male driver heading east on Route 76, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, spotted a UFO just north of the highway. He said, “I looked up and saw a huge black triangle. It was not moving. It had a bright light at each tip.” At the time of the sighting, the witness was heading home after a visit to his girl friend’s house in Pittsburgh. There were no other cars on the road. The UFO was seen hovering above the Conodoguinet River, about two miles west of Carlisle, near the Army base. At the time he spotted the UFO, the witness was listening to a cassette. He […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 15: May 26, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor This week we’ve got two UFO landing stories, both from South America, but first let’s see what’s happening in the USA. LARGE, SLOW-MOVING FIREBALL SEEN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK On Saturday, May 25, 1996, at 10:45 p.m., a couple parked on the outskirts of Lyons Falls, New York spotted a “large fireball” in the sky. “It was pretty impressive,” the male witness said. “It took about 25 seconds to cross the sky, moving from east to west. It was kind of a dull yellowish-white.” Lyons Falls is on Route 12, just west of the Adirondack Mountains, approximately 36 miles northwest of Utica. Note: Conventional meteors are visible for only 5 to 10 seconds. The Lyons Falls “fireball” was visible for twice […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 13: May 12, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor SAUCER HOVERS OVER NEW JERSEY TOWN Sunday night, May 5, 1996, at approximately 10:12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, a party of amateur astronomers set up their telescope on a hillside in Wayne, New Jersey. The group hoped to obtain good views of the planet Venus, then prominent on the western horizon. As the first astronomer peered through the telescope’s eyepiece, he saw “a bright flash near Venus.” She said, “At first I thought it was some sort of meteor exploding in the upper atmosphere.” Another member of the group, who’d set up their telescope on Brandon Avenue near Route 23, said the sky explosion was “a whitish green color.” The first astronomer looked again and saw a gray saucer with “two […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 10: April 21, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor GREEN FIREBALL SIGHTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA Last night, Saturday, April 20, 1996, at around 10 p.m., a UFO described as a “green fireball” rocketed over the town of North Augusta, S.C. The object was moving at a high speed and travelling at a very high altitude. The eyewitness was a South Carolina teenaged boy. He added that, immediately after the flyover, about seven jet interceptors travelled over the town, heading in the same direction as the UFO. Note: North Augusta, a community of 34,000, is situated three miles north of the Savannah River, which forms the South Carolina state line. Eight miles southwest of the town, in Georgia, is Fort Gordon, a U.S. Army base. BRAZILIAN MOTORIST MAY HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 12: May 5, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor We’ve had a record-breaking week for UFO sightings. Let’s start off with a case that’s still going down. This one’s hot off the phone, readers, and it’s happening (where else!?) in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. WEEK-LONG UFO FLAP ON BLANCA PEAK From Friday night, April 26, to Friday night, May 3, 1996, a solitary UFO appeared over the eastern side of Blanca Peak, a 14,345-foot mountain in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo range. The object was visible each night between 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. The UFO was first seen April 26 by Mrs. Helen W., who owns a ranch two miles east of the mountain, just off Colorado Highway 160. Mrs. W and her husband, an Air Force officer, described the object […] Read More