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Egg Shaped UFO”s

The egg craft has been seen to fly with the long axis vertical. Egg configurations ordinarily range in the 1 – 30-meter range and it is equipped to land with the retractable landing gear. Studies done on ground impressions left when an egg-shaped craft was seen to land revealed that it was 6 meters axial and 3 meters cross diameter. The weight of the craft was 30 tons. The sound may be from a roar to a hum, buzz, whine or whirr at close quarters, which can rises in both pitch and intensity seconds before and during takeoff. In flight it may have a light swish-of-air sound, or may run absolutely silent. With few exceptions, there is no roar or boom when moving at […] Read More

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Cylinder Shaped UFO’s

Cylindrical UFOs’ have been witnessed on many occasions to sit stationary in the sky for very long periods of time. Several have been witnessed to return the following day to the same location, as if they have not yet finished their surveillance. These locations are generally sensitive military installations, large bodies of water, electrical or petroleum plants.Other cylindrical objects have been observed displaying erratic behavior,such as zipping from horizon to horizon in the blink of an eye, spinning at high speed and swinging back and forth in a pendulum motion. The size range of the cylinder craft varies greatly from approximately 10 to 250 feet in length. Daytime colours most popularly associated with these craft are gray, silver metallic, reflective shiny aluminum, black, yellow, […] Read More

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1957 CIA Memo Concerning UFO Report

INTRODUCTION 27-September-1998 – The CIA memorandum, the text of which is reproduced below, was located in the 1979 microfiche set of The Declassified Documents Catalog, published by Research Publications, Inc., Woodbridge CT, available at Federal Deposit Libraries. It is an interesting document for several reasons: * It mentions an interest in UFO at a very high level of the intelligence community, the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) * It mentions what is possibly electromagnetic interference with multiple radars coincident with detection of a UFO * It mentions action by elements of the military and intelligence communities very quickly after a UFO report COMMENT The memo, dated the 21st of September 1957, concerns the radar detection of a UFO over the state of New York the […] Read More

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Signals, Noise, and UFO Waves

Signals, Noise, and UFO Waves By Richard Hall Over the past 50 years a seeming outbreak of UFO sightings has captured public and news media attention on average about every five to eight years. Sometimes the sightings have been sufficiently spectacular that the publicity has led someone to attempt a scientific study, but these studies usually bog down in confusion and controversy, and the interest fades away. News media interest comes and goes, the press tending to treat UFOs as a “silly season” topic. Ufologists continue to compile data suggesting that UFO sightings tend to come in waves, but no particular pattern has been found that would even begin to bowl scientists off their feet. For whatever reasons, the UFO phenomenon—or attention to it—ebbs […] Read More

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2009: UFOs and VITAMIN C – Linus Pauling’s Flying Saucer Secret

by Anthony Bragalia Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling -physicist, chemist and controversial advocate of Vitamin C therapy- was a secret UFO researcher who authored intriguing confidential studies on the flying saucer phenomena. Recently acquired information also reveals that Pauling may have provided his technical expertise to Battelle Memorial Institute in the study of Roswell-like memory metal in the years after the crash! Emerging research reveals that Pauling was intensely studying UFOs and that he had a special relationship with Battelle- a research and development contractor known to have been active in UFO study through its work with the USAF’s Project Blue Book. Battelle has also been implicated in the study of the Roswell UFO crash debris “memory metal.” Battelle’s involvement in the debris […] Read More

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Project Bluebook

The Condon Report: Introduction The “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects” (Condon & Gillmor 1969; often referred to as the “Condon Report”) presents the findings of the Colorado Project regarding a scientific study of unidentified flying objects. It remains the most influential public document concerning the current scientific status of the UFO issue. Following is a short chronology of events that led to the Air Force contract with the University of Colorado to initiate the study. This extract is from: “An Analysis of the Condon Report on the Colorado UFO Project,” by P.A. Sturrock, Center for Space Science and Astrophysics, Stanford University. Dr. Sturrock’s analysis is highly recommended as a comprehensive introduction to the text. Additionally, we have included many relevant links that offer […] Read More

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1995: A Short Introduction to Ufology

Dennis Stacy, Editor, MUFON UFO Journal original source The acronym UFO – for Unidentified Flying Object – is so prevalent and commonplace today, that it’s easy to forget the term is not even fully fifty years old yet. There is even some dispute about the acronym’s exact origin. In his classic account of his years spent as the director of Project Blue Book – the Air Force’s official UFO “investigation” agency – Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt says unequivocally that “UFO is the official term that I created to replace the words ‘flying saucers’” (Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Doubleday, 1956, p. 6). Presumably, this would have been sometime between 1951, when Ruppelt took over Project Grudge, later renamed Blue Book, and September of 1953, […] Read More

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2001: The Case for Extraterrestrial UFOs

While most sights described as UFOs turn out to be misidentified known natural and artificial phenomena, many hundreds do not. It is these that form the core of the UFO mystery. That UFOs constitute a distinct category of describable sights is based on hundreds of highly detailed and consistent descriptions by professionals (especially airline and military pilots) of their close-up, broad daylight observations of unique flying machines. This is supported by the permanent files of the U. S. Air Force‘s Project Blue Book UFO investigation (1948-1969). Of 572 cases admittedly unidentified (and not simply lacking sufficient information), 15% (85) are from military pilots, most of them the USAF’s own. Adding to them the unexplained sightings by commercial airline and professional test pilots, the figure […] Read More

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The Case for UFO Reality

The UFO Briefing Document, Don Berliner, et. al. As long as men and women have talked about strange sights in the skies, two primary questions have been asked about what has come to be called Unidentified Flying Objects: Are they real, or are they just honest mistakes? If they are real, could they be ships from some other world? In this century, it started with the “foo fighters” of World War II: glowing balls that flew in formation or “played tag” with military airplanes over Europe and the Pacific. Suspected of being prototype enemy weapons, they never displayed hostility and when the war was over, they were all-but-forgotten. In 1946, the Scandinavian countries reported many hundreds of “ghost rockets” which flew low and silently, […] Read More

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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 2: February 26, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor NEW INFORMATION IN THE 1948 MANTELL CASE Last week’s “Sightings” had an interview with former Army sergeant Quinton A. Blackwell, who was in the tower at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky the afternoon of January 7, 1948, when Captain Thomas F. Mantell had his fatal encounter with a UFO. During his meeting with Capt. Mantell’s two sons and sister, Blackwell made a startling statement. He said that once Capt. Mantell had the large metallic saucer in sight, the pilot remarked, “We’re going to need hot guns.” “Hot guns” is Air Force slang for aircraft weaponry loaded with live ammunition. The five F-51 Mustang fighter planes were on a routine ferry flight from Georgia to Godman Field that day and were not […] Read More

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1956: The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects

By Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt    The following excerpts are taken from Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt’s book, The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects, first published in 1956.   Capt. Ruppelt was Chief of the Air Force’s “Project Blue Book” from 1951 to Sept. 1953, an operation of the “Air Technical Intelligence Center” (ATIC). On 21 May 1951, the United States Air Force established ATIC as a field activity of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Foreword  This is a book about unidentified flying objects – UFOs – flying saucers.” It is actually more than a book; it is a report because it is the first time that anyone, either military or civilian, has brought together in one document all the facts about this […] Read More

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1968: Project Pounce

Project Pounce is another UFO-related project. Some sources consider Project Pounce to be an earlier version of Project Blue Book, though most researchers believe that Blue Book was only preceded by Sign Project and Project Grudge. They are supported in this by the official documentation that is currently available (through FOIA etc.). Then again, as Blue Book was nothing more than an overt PR exercise, it is probable that a real, yet covert, project would also have existed to investigate the UFO phenomenon. According to M.W. Cooper, Project Pounce was more than that. He claims it also is the project formed to recover all downed or crashed craft and aliens. (Other sources describe a similar project, yet, call it Bluefly Project.) Established in 1968.  […] Read More

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Project Sign

Project Sign, just like project Grudge, is an earlier version of  Project Project Blue Book. Project Sign was the first project to officially investigate UFOs.under MAJESTIC TWELVE It was short-lived: it was started in 1948 and already by the end of 1948 it was succeeded by Project Grudge. The main reason for this is that by fall 1948 the project Sign team had come to the conclusion that UFOs were most likely extraterrestrial ships. They had written this in the so-called “Estimate of the Situation.” When this paper reached the Pentagon, the staff of Project Sign was told that their conclusions were unacceptable and that all copies of the Estimate had to be destroyed. The project was broken up and replaced by Project Grudge. […] Read More

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1949: Project Grudge

Declassified on July 23, 1997, Project Grudge was originally released in August of 1949 as a SECRET Technical Report (NO 102-AC 49/15-100) by the headquarters of the Air Materiel Command, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio. Approved by Lt. Col. Hemstreet and Col. Watson, it is 406 pages long and covers a large number of UFO sightings along with investigation analysis, conclusions, and supplementary reports. Overall, it is just the basic background work on pedestrian UFO sightings by many credible military witnesses. No discussion of crashes, alien bodies, or the other TOP SECRET material found in more classified reports — just the way you would expect it. The following extract (classified SECRET) is taken from the SUMMARY to the U.S. Air Force’s PROJECT GRUDGE TECHNICAL […] Read More