Tag: United States Air Force

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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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2005: UFO sighting terrified locals 40 years ago

By Bonnie Meroth news@seacoastonline.com EXETER – Engulfed in the blackness of a late summer night, a teenage Navy recruit walked down the quiet country highway. Suddenly, a huge object loomed above him. Throwing himself to the ground to avoid being hit, he huddled against a stone wall. The blood drained from his face. The time was around 2 a.m. The date was Sept. 3, 1965. Thus began the “Incident at Exeter,” a series of sightings officially qualified as a legitimate visit from an unidentified flying object. In September and October 1965, several sightings in New Hampshire were carefully investigated and documented by local and federal offices. The encounters that night took special precedence over other UFO sightings because of the credibility of Exeter police […] Read More

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1992: The UFO Problem

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS AIR UNIVERSITY MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE AL 36112,5001 October 16, 1992   HQ AU/IMD 50 LeMay Plaza South Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6334   This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act request of September 14, 1992, for a copy of the “Thesis Submitted to the Air Command and Staff College of Air University …” entitled “The UFO Problem: Time for a Reassessment” by J. King, Major, USAF, dated June 1968. The requested document is releasable and a copy is attached. there is no charge for the document. Sincerely /s/ Lucy P. McInnis LUCY P. McINNIS 1 Atch Chief, Records Management Division Copy of Thesis Directorate of Information Management   Strength Through Knowledge ————————————————————————— AIR COMMAND AND […] Read More

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1998: Journalist flies in MiG over the Nellis Range

01-31-98 From: Mark Farmer After making a real pain of myself and as a finishing flourish to my over-gestated “Nellis: Story of a Superbase/Jewels of the Nellis Range” features for Jane’s Defense Weekly, my big, bald self penetrated deeply into the Range Complex to completely survey and photograph all installations and observe Red Flag operations… in the backseat of a USAF F-16D! With Col. T-Bone Rake, Commanding Officer of the 414th CTS “Aggressors” (probably the best fighter pilots in the world and the only ones to wear the Red Star, Hammer and Sickle), at the stick, we blasted off to the north of Nellis along the western side of the Range (call sign MiG-5). A group of French Mirage 2000Ns were supposed to join […] Read More

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1947: DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE UFO DOC

SECRET     DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE          AFOIR-CO/Lt Col Garrett/mob/4544 28 Oct 47         Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type       Aircraft   CSGID Hq. USAF – AFOIR 30 OCT 1947 Attn: Plans and   Lt Col Garrett/mob/4544 Collection Branch           1.     It is requested that a Collection Memorandum, similar to the attached draft, be issued to the addresses indicated thereon.     This is in accordance with a conversation between Lt. Colonel Smith and Lt. Colonel Garrett. 2.     It will be appreciated if, at the time this Memorandum is reproduced, ten   (10) additional copies could be run off and sent to the Directorate of Intelligence, Air Intelligence […] Read More

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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Chapter 1

This is the entire text of the book “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” by Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of the United States Air Force Project Blue Book. CONTENTS: CHAPTER ONE Project Blue Book and the UFO Story, 1 (This page) CHAPTER TWO The Era of Confusion Begins, 15 CHAPTER THREE The Classics, 29 CHAPTER FOUR Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and Grudge, 47 CHAPTER FIVE The Dark Ages, 59 CHAPTER SIX The Presses Roll-The Air Force Shrugs, 69 CHAPTER SEVEN The Pentagon Rumbles, 82 CHAPTER EIGHT The Lubbock Lights, Unabridged, 96 CHAPTER NINE The New Project Grudge, 111 CHAPTER TEN Project Blue Book and the Big Build-Up, 123 CHAPTER ELEVEN The Big Flap, 139 CHAPTER TWELVE The Washington Merry-Go-Round, 156 CHAPTER […] Read More

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1981: Transcript of Bergstrom AFB: Interview of Betty Cash, Vickie & Colby Landrum

TRANSCRIPT OF BERGSTROM AFB INTERVIEW OF BETTY CASH, VICKIE & COLBY LANDRUM August 1981 Part 1 of 2 TRANSCRIPT of a taped interview held at Bergstrom Air Force Base Law Library Building 2102, 17 August 1981, between Betty Cash, Vicki Landrum, Colby Landrum and representatives of the United States Air Force in the persons of Captain John Camp, Acting Staff Judge Advocate, Captain Terry Davis, Claims Officer, and Miss Pat Wolf, Assistant Claims Officer.  COMMENT by CUFONSM SYSOP We are very lucky to have been provided a copy of this tape by Betty Cash herself. The Cash – Landrum case is undisputedly one of the classic UFO sighting/physical trace cases.  It assumes great importance because of the traces left behind by the unknown object in […] Read More

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2007: NASA to Search Files on UFO Incident

WASHINGTON (Oct. 27) NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers. The Air Force’s explanation for the unidentified flying object: a meteor or meteors. “They could not find anything,” one Air Force memo stated after a late-night search on Dec. 9, 1965. Several NASA employees also were reported to have been […] 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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1968: Why UFOs Aren’t Tracked by Radar?

James McDonald, Statement on UFOs to U.S. House Committee on Science and Aeronautics, 1968 Symposium on UFOs The skeptic who asks this question, and many do, is asking a very reasonable question. With so much radar equipment deployed all over the world, and especially within the United States, it seems sensible to expect that, if there are any airborne devices maneuvering in our airspace, they ought to show up on radars once in a while. They do indeed and have been doing so for all of the two decades that radar has been in widespread use. Here, as with so many other general misconceptions about the true state of the UFO problem, we encounter disturbingly large amounts of misinformation. As with other categories of […] Read More

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The Secret Government Origin, Identity & Purpose of MJ-12

by Milton William Cooper During the years following World War II the government of the United States was confronted with a series of events which were to change beyond prediction its future and with it the future of humanity. These events were so incredible that they defied belief. A stunned President Truman and his two Military Commanders found themselves virtually impotent after having just won the most devastating and costly war in history. The United States had developed, used, and was the only nation on Earth in possession of the atomic bomb which alone had the potential to destroy any enemy, and even the Earth itself. At that time the United States had the best economy, the most advanced technology, the highest standard of […] Read More

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2001: Aquarius is government UFO research project

SPECIAL RELEASE: AQUARIUS IS UFO PROJECT, SAYS NSA PARANET ALPHA 04/01 No, this is not an April Fool joke. Nor, by the way, is it the full extent of the Big Breakthrough. But its a good start. Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) is reporting that the NSA has CONFIRMED that the US Air Force project code-named Aquarius is UFO-oriented. In their latest CAUS BULLETIN, editors Barry Greenwood and Lawrence Fawcett state the following: One of our members, Clifford Stone, received copies of letters sent to Senators John Glenn and Peter Domenici affirming that this was so. Stone requested the assistance of the Senators when the NSA became balky at responding to his requests on Aquarius. This comes as a striking reversal to previous statements […] Read More

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1980: Aquarius Document

NOTICE: THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT WAS NOT OBTAINED THROUGH NORMAL GOVERNMENT CHANNELS. THE PARANET RATING OF THE DOCUMENT IS S5/P2: PROBABLE HOAX. ————————————————————————— CUFON – UFO INFORMATION SERVICE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT DOCUMENT FILES ————————————————————————— SECRET 17 NOV 1980 RTTEZYVW RUFLOJA9136 ZNY S E C R E T GT SECRET      FOR AFOSI ONLY R 171130Z NOV 80 FM HQ AFOSI BOLLING AFB DC//IVOE TO RUWTFBA AFOSI DIST 17 KIRTLAND AFB NM//BID INFO 7602 AINTELG FT BELVOIR VA//INSR SECRET       FOR AFOSI ONLY Ref:  Request for Photo Imagery Interpretation Your MSG 292030Z Oct 80. Subject Case NR:  8017D93-126 HQ CR 44 1.  Subject Negatives/Film were analyzed by HQ IVT and 7602 AINTELG, it and the following results were found: A.  Negative #1:  Depicting C-5A aircraft on […] Read More

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1969: SCIENCE IN DEFAULT Part 1

22 YEARS OF INADEQUATE UFO INVESTIGATIONS James E. McDonald, Institute of Atmospheric Physics University of Arizona, Tucson (Material presented at the Symposium on UFOs, 134th Meeting, AAAS, Boston, Dec, 27, 1969) Part 1 of 2 Parts AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, 134th MEETING Subject: Science in Default: 22 Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations Author: James E. McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Address: The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721  Time: 9:00 a.m., December 27, 1969 Place: Sheraton Plaza Ballroom Program: General Symposium, Unidentified Flying Objects Convention Address: Sheraton Plaza Hotel RELEASE TIME A.M. December 28      No scientifically adequate investigation of the UFO problem has been carried out during the entire 22 years that have now passed since the first extensive wave […] Read More