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how long you live, you will never know any more about UFOs than you know today. You will never know any more about what UFOs really are, or where they come from. You will never know any more about what the U.S.
It has always been part of UFOlogy's be- Easley's and the governments reach apparlief that the proof of alien visitation existed and the government was concealing this great secret. By the 1970s, it had become commonly accepted that the government was concealing all sorts of secrets. So when the Ros
produced a real dog or a single pony in the center ring of the UFO controversy. (Hmmm come to think of it, they haven't produced a saucer, saucer fragment or, an alien creature either.) Instead of offering their imaginary performing dogs treats and dangling a tasty
he latest news concerning the greatest secret never kept comes from Anthony Bragalia, who is also promoting his research associated with the re-release of Carey and Schmitt's book on Roswell.
emphasis) in those damned things...they could use remote control.6 However, the following is the exchange crash at Roswell: ...bodies or something laying there. They
A Google Earth map with a line indicating the direction of the pillar. Contributor to various UFO magazines and books, including International UFO Reporter (J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO studies), UFO 1947-1997 (John Brown
all the great minds of UFOlogy to pool their resources and get some answers. What happened? The website went up in 2003 and one would expect something to be done. The website looks mostly like a cut and paste with the rest being done in
The first thing the show did was present several "former employees" at AUTEC. We are not made too aware of what their responsibilities were but one of them was part of a torpedo retrieval vessel. He sounds like a deck hand or junior enlisted if you ask me. Because he worked
STORIES". This article sounds very much like the story recounted by Bragalia. Since Bragalia did not list his source, I had to assume this is it. The funny thing about this article is that Bragalia's version does not appear to quite agree with it. While it is true the article states that Center
Late of The Green Jackets, and Author of UP WHITEHALL WITH HAT AND GUN, BIRDS OF COVENT GARDEN, & c. n 1996, Simon & Schuster published Open Skies, Closed Minds by British
Matt Graeber n the second edition of Tim Printy's popular online "SUNlite" newsletter, I
espite the popular belief UFO sightings are either misidentifications of one kind or another or, space ships from other worlds, there may be other types
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS a.k.a. "MINISAUCERS" or, Dual Process of Perception events.
"Close encounter within a university office" his report involves the experience of a young man (age 23) who was a
"An interactive close encounter " r. Greene is a thirty-five-year-old businessman who after sleeping
hen questioned about the possibility the black object may have cast a shadow on the sunlit bedroom ceiling, Mr. Greene couldn't recall seeing one, while
"A close encounter in the park" came across this Minisaucer sighting, when I was invited to participate in
UNlite readers may recall my earlier mention of two articles I wrote for the Magonia Journal back in 2002 and 2003
n both of the indoor cases we have examined, the observer(s) appear to have first reacted to their perception of
Matthew Graeber Perhaps the most remarkable part of Mr. Compton's presentation concerned his revelations about a middle-aged woman (Mrs. Brotmann) of Philadelphia, who was
n a 1996 book about the discovery of many mythical creature fossils, a deceased Texan (said to be a paleontologist) is suspected of actually sculpting and
s I was enjoying a late dinner on the wintry night of January 15th.1974, the phone rang and a very excited young
MIGHT A UFO OBSERVATION BE? Matthew Graeber t seems many pro-UFOlogists tend to
ristol/Levitown, Pa, back in the midseventies: Police were dispatched in the pouring rain on a dark windy night in response to a frantic call from a woman
ALIEN SPACECRAFT. AZTECIAN UFOOLOGY! n another free-fall of non-logic example. One saucer crash expert currently
'Twas the night before Nanosh and all through the ship, not a hybrid was stirring, not even a blip. The stun guns were hung by the ejection pod's door, and six photon torpedoes lie stacked on the floor.
Dear Saucer-heads, Saucerettes or Saucer Cross-Dressers, (please take your pick).I just thought I'd send you these Holiday Greetings, while also wishing you and yours a heart felt and Joyous
ALIENS AMONG US!
By Matt Graeber, Edited by Grace L. Graeber his entry in the series of Twenty-Fist Century UFOlogy actually began
As we stood there watching we were completely flabergasted because it was going to pass directly over our house. And it did. It passed directly over head maybe a thousand or so feet overhead... it seemed to float over us and it made absolutely no detectable sound at all... As we looked up we could s
Matthew Graeber I hadn't any preconceived notions concerning the circle enigma, we had both read a little about it in the UFO literature and had seen a couple of TV news segments and specials about the phenomenon. Because I resided in Montgomery County and was actually in the vicinity
Matthew Graeber n this written for 'SUNlite' article we will take a look into the possible connections between UFOs and various reported monster appearances (other than
who has shamelessly gone over to the other side, I AM NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST JEALOUS OF THEIR SUCCESSES - I SIMPLY DETEST UNSUSPECTING FOLKS BEING BAMBOOZLED BY UFOOLogists WHO FEIGN BEING KNOWLEDGEABLE, WELLINTENTIONED AND SINCERE ABOUT
FEIGN BEING KNOWLEDGEABLE, WELLINTENTIONED AND SINCERE ABOUT ADVANCING SCIENCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF HUMANKIND. I mean, have these socalled experts no shame at all?! I have learned several very disappointing things about some UFO reports and many experts during my thirty-seven years of
2. MUFON case management system. Slow falling slight angle yellow fireball with explosion. Submitted April 15, 2010. Available at pl?mode=view_long_desc&id=22828&rnd=92021 3. Davenport, Peter. National UFO Center UFO Reports Database. Available at
I don't think so, 'cause the lint in my navel is still pretty much intact and kinda fuzzy too! Matthew Graeber
Recently, I have obtained information about a disgruntled abductee named Emma (A pseudonym), who alleges she was mistreated and psychologically abused by an abductologist who hypnotically regressed her (over the telephone)
When we got within a 50 meter distance. The object was producing red and blue light. The blue light was steady and projecting under the object. It was lighting up the area directly under extending a meter or two out. At this point of positive identification I relayed to CSC, SSgt Coffey. Positive si
Smoke gets in your eyes: A classic UFO sighting by Peter Merlin............................11 The Kean and Oberg MSNBC deb ate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Life in the Bullseye: Dr. David Clarke takes verbal abuse from the UFOlogical elit
evin Randle discussed one of the
nthony Bragalia wrote a piece about George Wilcox and how he was mentally distraught over the Roswell event. According to Bragalia, Wilcox decided
A RELIABLE SOURCE? I AM JUST ASKING............. UFOLOGY AS AN ACT OF LOVE by Matthew Graeber aturally, speaking of love is no light
roneous readings. My biggest concern was the experience level of the operator. What was Sgt. Nevels training and experience with the AN/ First of all, the choice to use the AN/PDR-27 was not a very
Hallet. M. (1992). La vague OVNI Belge ou le triomphe de la désinformation. (The Belgian UFO Wave or the Triumph of Disinformation.)
n October 23rd, a missile shutdown occurred at F.E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) in Wyoming. A
for the 23rd of October but no reports from Wyoming, Colorado, or Nebraska, which surround the AFB. The NUFORC database has not been updated in some time but it will be important to note how many UFO reports appear after October
A transcript of the 'Halt tape' can be found at URL: ufo/halttape.htm, and an MP3 audio file can be downloaded from
WITNESSES WERE ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED OF THE EVENT'S REALITY - HAD THE CHILDREN REPORTED THE EVENT MORE ACCURATELY THAN THE ADULTS? 21st century UFOlogy
UFO CASE to be scientifically genuine out of the thousands/millions reported. Moreover, the so-called 'Evidence' which is presented is often anecdotal in nature and highly questionable in content rarely worthy of in-depth scientific scrutiny. This is why I felt it necessary to write about the dark s
in mind that the difference between UFOlogy and UFOOLogy is but a single vowel. However, OBJECTIVE UFOLOGY, often 'Misidentified' as debunkerism and skepticism is something else entirely. However, believers see the many stories
Matt Graeber, ex-director of the Philadelphia-based pro-UFO Report and Information Center (UFORIC) 1972-1980, is a retired commercial artist and veteran presently residing with his wife of 42 years in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. Some of the case particulars mentioned in this article first appeared in a FA
I have been informed that the National Geographic channel will be presenting a program on Area 51 this spring. It promises to be something more than recording videos from some mountain dozens of miles away through a telescope. I look forward to it. I will probably will review it in SUNlite 3-3.
he source of the video is from a television
his will be a quick read about a very
s with the many past attempts to persuade normal folks UFology is a serious science or true protoscience. We
t seems IF there were such a simple solution to the Global Warming problem there would be little need for the rush to Cap and Trade legislation, wind turbine
Sheaffer, R. (1997). "The Truth Is, They Never Were 'Saucers' ". Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 21, n°5. Stacy, D., Huyghe, P. (2000). The Field Guide to UFOs: A classification of various unidentified aerial phenomena based on
that were identified as UNKNOWNS by the data reduction process, there were only 12 that were described with sufficient detail that they could be used in an attempt to derive a model of a "flying saucer". 6
he next few months have several astronomical events that can produce UFO reports. I feel it is important to remind readers of SUNlite to be on the lookout for reports that might be related
ibid. P. 12. 17. "UFO files: Kecksburg UFO". History Channel. June 6, 2005. Television.
Scully 1950 Columbus 1954 (source: Moseley) 1. Destination
UFOs on the
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HR2S-1W, P-2V, WB-29, RC-121C, AD-5W 1220-1365 MHZ
American Philosophical Society. Philip Klass Collection. Box Series II-6. Letter from Frank McClure to Phil Klass dated
HE THEN HAD TWO SIGNALS AT RELATIVE BEARINGS OF 040 AND 070 DEGREES.15 Another interpretation is that McClure went between the two frequency ranges to see if the signal he previously detected was still there. His hand written notes
It is important to note that most of these visual bearings (which are ball park figures and not precise measurements) are in the direction of the Fort Worth/Dallas area. Was there anything over those cities that might have produced the light? Potential sources of the light will be discussed in anoth
DIVING BUSINESS AND I DON"T BELIEVE IT HAPPENED...12 Dr. McDonald's interview notes with the copilot McCoid also indicated this maneuver probably did not happen as described: He did not recall overflying the Unknown, nor did he recall the bank or dive near
OF OBJECT AS 10NM NORTH WEST OF FT WORTH, TEXAS, AND ADC SITE IMMEDIATELY CONFIRMED PRESENCE OF OBJECT ON THEIR SCOPES.2 This indicates that Duncanville needed to be directed towards the UFO. According to Chase's testimony, they were tracking
OBSERVING THE OBJECT AND REPORTING IT TO US AS THE INCIDENT OCCURRED.1 Chase would then make the following accusations about Blue Book, the USAF, and the UFO 'problem': Phil: Remember the attitude of officialdom at the time. Ridicule everything we can not explain. The word was out at that
EUPEN , GILEPPE. Roger Paquay - Physicist made very few editorial corrections fearing I might edit out something important. I ask my readers bear with the syntax issues in order to understand Mr. Paquay's
produce the events described in this case, and I'd have proved it to everyone's satisfaction if "debunkers" and the Air Force did not step in. I, I, I know now they were involved in a conspiracy to hide the truth about UFOs... Perhaps, before creating a UFO conspiracy, UFOlogists might try looking a
provided by Frank Joyce quotes Sheriff Wilcox, who talked to Mack Brazel: SHERIFF GEORGE WILCOX (CORRECT) OF ROSWELL WAYS THAT THE DISC WAS FOUND ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO BY A RANCHER BY THE NAME OF W. W. BRIZELL ON THE FOSTER RANCH NEAR CORONA, ABOUT 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSWELL NEAR THE CENTER OF NE
However, the predominant date that was given was that he arrived on Monday: The furor started Monday when W. W. Brazel, a rancher living on the old Foster place, 25 miles southeast of Corona, New Mexico, came in the office and reported finding an object which fitted the descriptions of the flying di
Brazel went to the sheriff's office and reported his find. He told Wilcox that the object was not very big and that he thought it might be a weather device made of tin foil: SHERIFF WILCOX SAYS THAT BRIZELL SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, BUT THAT AT FIRST IT APPEARED TO BE A WEATHER METER.... SHER
Having no idea how to deal with this, Sheriff Wilcox called the RAAF. This is how Jesse Marcel became involved. He and another individual in civilian clothes (assumed to be Sheridan Cavitt), went into town to see Brazel. After talking to Brazel, all three of them went out to the ranch: Maj. Jesse A.
THAT "HE MIGHT BE ON HIS WAY BACK TO ROSWELL BY PLANE NOW." 35 If the source thought the plane may be on its way back at this point, the source must have known the plane left RAAF earlier in the What happened next is difficult to determine since there is little record of what happened between 1PM an
MEXICO...SHERIFF WILCOX QUOTES BRIZELL AS SAYING THAT "IT MORE OR LESS SEEMED LIKE TINFOIL." WILCOX SAYS THAT BRIZELL SAID THAT THE DIXC WAS BROKEN SOME, APPARENTLY FROM THE FALL. THE SHERIFF SAYS THAT BRIZELL DESCRIBED THE OBJECT ABOUT AS LARGE AS A SAFE IN THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. HE ADDED THAT THE S
A BALLON BY CABLE, WHICH BALLON WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FEET IN DIAMETER. MAJOR CURTAN FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE OBJECT FOUND RESEMBLES A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON WITH A RADAR REFLECTOR, BUT THAT TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEIR OFFICE AND WRIGHT FIELD HAD NOT (UNINTELLIGIBLE) BORNE OUT TH
It is interesting that the size of the balloon was estimated at twenty feet. Ramey was quoted by some that he estimated the size to be about twenty-five feet in diameter. It appears that the estimates of size had to do with the quantity of debris that had been brought into the office. If laid out fl
FEET IN DIAMETER.2 UFO Crash at Roswell
oted as one of the top ten UFO cases ever, the 1996 Yukon UFO event was considered highly prized by some. People like Stanton Friedman and Michael Swords stood by it as a very good UFO case because it had multiple witnesses and it was "thoroughly" investigated. The UFO was reported as a "mothership"
systems division Douglas Aircraft Company, INC. Santa Monica, Ca. November 1962. P. 33-34. 41. Kyle, Ed. "Thor-Delta beginnings". Space launch report web site. updated 7/13/2009.
I was pleased to see that there was a lengthy video out there debunking just about everything on the "Ancient Aliens" show. Many decades ago, I was a big ancient astronauts fan/supporter/proponent. However, as I learned more about history, I began to accept less and less of what was presented in tho
t was pointed out by Kevin Randle that I got James Bond Johnson's name wrong in my Roswell issue. Somehow I began writing his name as Jay Bond Johnson (I have spelled it out that way on my web site as well). Johnson and I exchanged e-mails about a decade ago before he passed away so there really is
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What all these numbers mean is that they were taken by Landsat 5 on path 32 row 37. The julian date was 1998 and the days were 173, 189, and 237, which translate to June 22nd, July 8th, and August 25th. After downloading the images, I then cropped the desired area, ran auto levels in photoshop and t
...On December 20, 1962, at approximately 2:15 a.m., radar operator Jose Besutti was staring at his scope in the Flight Control Tower at Ezeiza International Airport, just west of Buenos Aires. Suddenly, he saw an unidentified blip and contacted airport manager Horacio Alora. As the tower crew watch
hile this is really not a book, It is a collection of all the issues of the International UFO Reporter(IUR). I originally thought it was not going to include the later issues but the DVD, as I received it, contained everything right up to the
A Broken Promise in the Faith Why Science Should Study Ufo Reports By Martin S. Kottmeyer
John H. Jannsen, one of the first saucer photographers, opines in the first weeks of the saucer saga that the vehicles being seen may utilize magnetic and anti-gravity propulsion methods. (Bloecher, p. IV-6.) Fred Johnson, a prospector, comes forward to corroborate Kenneth Arnold's story. He was wor
Frank Scully, in Variety, gives the first inside scoop of what two scientists found when they checked out a crashed flying saucer. They indicated that saucers "Traveled on magnetic waves" and could go to Venus and back in 42 minutes. Magnetic waves, they explained, emanate from the Sun, and go aroun
Pentax K110D 6.1 MP Digital SLR NIKON D5000 12.1 MP Digital SLR The model was a simple Styrofoam bowl suspended underneath a pole. All photos were taken from an approximate distance of 1415 feet and two photographs were taken of each setup. I used the widest angle lens setting on each camera and set
robably the most interesting thing one can find in the case file is a report by a group calling itself Civilian UFO research (CUFOR) out of Chicago, Illinois. They conducted their analysis from March 28th to August 7th. It opens with the author of the report stating that this was a very confusing ca
One of the items that always bothers me about these reports is when they don't designate a time zone or do not use Zulu time. In 1952, daylight savings time was not used nationwide and one can never be sure who was using it and who was not. According to internet sources, Missouri employed CDT in 195
by Matt Graeber take pen in hand to fulfill a silent promise I made to you and myself to lead you from a 'provable illusion'.
A down to earth talk about flying saucers By Matt Graeber From 1972 to 1980. I was the director of a small Philadelphia-based UFO report and information center acronymed U.F.O.R.I.C. During my eight year stint, the group's investigators and I sought to discover trends or spikes in the data we collec
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by Luis Gonzalez ean F. Meers has devoted a long reply (updated September 12, 2013) to disprove the alleged similarities between Linda Cortile's abduction and a science-fiction novel published some time before the alleged abduction by Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Nighteyes1.
Alleged Similarity #16 - The letter from "the third man" warned of ecological problems and potential harm to world peace if there was interference <-> Wendy was racing world disaster in "Nighteyes". In this case, Meers dismiss the similarity because, when the letter was finally published in its enti
Budd Hopkins, Witnessed: the True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions, Simon & Schuster, 1996
Atlas%20F%20%20Missile%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf USAF Air training Command. Missile Launch/Missile Officer student training guide OBR1821/3121-3. Sheppard technical training center. Sheppard AFB, Texas. 16 July
(Cancelled by NAVAREA XII 323/2014) NORTH PACIFIC. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 110800Z TO 180001Z SEP IN AREAS: A. BOUND BY 34-24N 124-45W, 34-38N 123-00W,
34-24N 124-45W, 34-38N 123-00W, 35-00N 123-00W, 35-20N 124-45W. 34-30N 34-54N AND 127-54W 129-06W. C. BOUND BY 34-06N 134-30W, 34-12N 131-18W,
34-06N 134-30W, 34-12N 131-18W, 34-48N 131-18W, 34-36N 134-30W. D. BOUND BY 29-12N 161-30W, 30-06N 157-24W, 31-24N 157-48W, 30-18N 161-48W. E. BOUND BY
15-54N 165-00E, 18-00N 169-00E, 18-42N 168-30E, 17-00N 164-36E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 180101Z SEP 14.
( 060940Z SEP 2014 ) These boundaries include an area about 200 miles SSW of San Francisco and another area that was between Kwajalein and Wake island. It appears these were the launch sites and the impact areas. Comparing data collection and evaluation
hen discussing the efforts of the Canadian UFO survey over the past twenty-five years, Chris Rutkowski wrote: Regardless of one's belief in the "reality" of UFOs (however that may be construed), studies such as ours affirm that there is a persistent phenomenon that deserves further scientific study.
Local topography has effects on surface wind conditions that can be quite marked. For example, it is not uncommon to have two wind socks on an airfield pointing in very different directions simultaneously. Objects such as trees and buildings produce local wind effects very different from those indic
An airfoil "stalls" when the angle that it is presenting to the relative airflow ( Angle of Attack - AoA or alpha) exceeds about 15 degrees. At around 15 degrees the normal laminar flow of air over the wing breaks away, becoming turbulent, whilst lift rapidly decreases. However, unless designed othe
Alpha. Mensuration performed in IPACO on the angle subtended by the disc's axis of symmetry to the vertical on both images comes out as: Direct measurements on the pictures gave the following results:
DONUTS. I WAS WAITING THERE FOR MY MOTHER TO GET BACK INTO THE CAR AND I NOTICE A SHOOTING STAR. IT WAS RED AND ORANGE. BUT THE STAR DID NOT SHOOT ACROSS THE SKY. IT WAS LIKE A SLOW MOTION SHOOTING STAR. LEAVING A STREAM OF ORANGE AND RED BEHINDE IT. THEN THE STREAM DISAPEARED AND THE STAR-LIKE OBJE
IF THE LIGHT WOULD APPEAR AGAIN AND TO RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF IT BEING A PLANE BUT THE LIGHT NEVER SHOWED AGAIN.7 East of Tampa, in Haines City, came another report: Object appeared to be a slow moving orange colored ball descending through cloud layer leaving a very long sparkly reflective tra
he RSRG may not have shaken the entire UFOlogical world but it did make an impact. During the May 5th presentation we were told that a long list of experts tried and failed to resolve the wording on the placard at the feet of the body in the slide. It was also implied that everyone would have access
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by David Schroth he following thoughts are prompted by the recent death of Walt Andrus, the founder of MUFON and advocate for half a century of the idea that Flying Saucers and UFOs represent alien beings visiting the Earth.
am sure that some will consider this explanation implausible because the distance would probably make the payload too faint to see. However, the second stage was a large object and the payload was attached to a third stage. With the larger surface areas, the objects were going to reflect more sunlig
Buy it, borrow it, bin it: Bad UFOs by Robert Sheaffer............................................26
n the March-April issue of SUNlite there is a reference to an article by a misinformed staff writer of Latin Post1 stating that the new Argentine government had closed the modest Air Force unit to study UFO phenomena, CEFAE2 . Fortunately, I am in close contact with the responsible of that agency, C
2015 Canadian UFO survey released
he actual position of the object at a point in time must be somewhere on the sight line between the crosshair ground track and the plane. If the object was stationary or moving very slowly or drifting with the wind then these sight lines would intersect at about the same ground coordinates over a sh
he first 2 sight lines shown in the attachments show a plane altitude of 1,900 ft. and intersect a fractional distance of 0.51 from the ground crosshair to the plane. Thus the object altitude would be 1,900 * 0.51 = 970 ft. altitude. The same procedure for the last 2 sight lines is 3,300 * 0.21 = 69
his video is set to "black hot" meaning that the display shows hot/warm objects as dark. The "halo" effect of a white border around a black hot body is a common artifact in IR imaging and is only mentioned in passing. What needs to be addressed are: 1. double images seen at 1:22:41, 1:22:46 and 1:24
Since 29 November 1989 to April 1991 numerous witnesses were collected by SOBEPS about observations that were said to be UFOs. I did think about this problem and I tried to define criterions who permit to analyze the data coming from the witnesses. The first criterion, the most important, is to dist
8 Nov 75 (0820Z) - Lost radar contact, fighters broken off at 0825, looking in area of J331 (another height finder contact). 8 Nov 75 (0905Z) - From SAC CP: L-sites had fighters and objects; fighters did not get down to objects. 8 Nov 75 (0915Z) - From SAC CP: From four different points: Observed ob
Los Alamos, NM
Cochran, AZ 355 NM West
Cee Vee, TX 186 NM East
Muleshoe, TX
Insufficient data
Astro (Venus)
Location (MST) Location (PST)
Agreed. Probably Capella, Venus and Jupiter. 2. Stars/planets
The Influence of UFO Lore in Pop Culture" by Luis R. Gonzales.......................................4-7 UFO evidence under review: May 29, 1961 Newark Ohio film...........................8-9 The 701 club: Case 8836 May 26,
Atmospheric disturbances
Milwaukee, WI
Who's blogging UFOs? Hot topics and varied opinions David Clarke wrote that the last of the Ministry of Defense's (MOD) UFO files have finally been revealed. His article described the events that resulted in the MOD getting
Insufficient data Same as Denver, CO case.
Insufficient data Possible cloud. Dark object hovering near cloud bank. Changed shape and slowly disappeared.
Terryville, CT
Searchlight
COLOR CLN RED CMA GREEN CMA AND WHITE OR YELLOW LIGHTS WHICH APPEARED TO BLINK PD MANEUVERS CLN STATIONARY TO SLOW CMA MOVEMTMT (sic) TOWARD NORTH PD This means there were four points of light that were stationary sometimes and showed some slow northward motion. These points of light flashed differe
Possible aircraft
Insufficient data Agreed. Possible astronomical but documents are too faded to
Lenticular cloud Insufficient information. Came from prisoners, who told the story almost a year later. It could have been a cloud or it might have been parahelia. There is not enough information to draw
Propagation
Insufficient data Possible meteor
PILOT AND THE AIR FORCE. TRANS-WORLD AIRWAYS PILOT CHARLES KRATOVIL OF PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, SAYS HE SAW AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT . . . LARGE, WHITE-COLORED, AND DISC-SHAPED. HE SAYS HE AND HIS TWO CREW MATES SPOTTED THE OBJECT 10 MILES NORTH OF BOSTON THIS THAT IT WAS PURSUING THE SAME COURSE AS
KRATOVIL SAYS HE RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM THE AIRLINES BOSTON OFFICE QUOTING THE AIR FORCE AS SAYING THE OBJECT PROBABLY WAS A WEATHER BALLOON. HOWEVER, THE PILOTS PUT IT THIS WAY: "IF THIS IS A WEATHER BALLOON... IT'S THE FIRST TIME I EVER SAW ONE TRAVELING AGAINST THE WIND."3 The formal explanation
UNIDENTIFIED. Description by witnesses adequate but no satisfactory explanation available.
Cashmere, WA
Insufficient data Possible meteor
THEY'RE STILL CLIMBING AND GOING! Federal Express 256, are those things still flying? Yeah, they're still trekkin' right on. You can see the contrails on 'em. There's three of 'em. They're still gaining altitude in there, they're WAY You still see them out there?
...We've got a maniac's down in the Atlantic out there. NATO forces -- THEY probably let it go. crazy people military warning area Maybe it was the Navy playing around... quite a spectacular sight...We've never seen anything like THAT before sure wasn't something normal
Missile debris Agreed. Navajo missile test failure
False Target
Development flaw
Notes and references
The airmen used binoculars to watch it and said thai it definitely was in controlled flight. Three times it appeared to pass over the Hamilton Field radio beacon, which is just north of the field, they said. The blue flame looked like an acetylene torch. Its maneuvers in the area lasted about 25 min
POINTED TOWARDS VENUS" Aeronautical charts for the region with notes for the position of the aircraft, direction of travel, and directions for Arcturus and
am beginning to think that NARCAP is incapable of properly evaluating simple cases. The latest case was obvious to most people familiar with rocket booster in low earth orbit conducting a de-orbit burn or venting fuel. Ted Roe was aware of, and mentioned, the Falcon rocket launch a few hours before
UNIDENTIFIED S. of Kyushu, Japan
Multiple observations from different locations. Most appear to describe the stars Arcturus, Capella, and Sirius
Chelveston, UK Insufficient data
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1. Courier 1B rocket 2. Satellite 2. Agreed Echo Satellite
The Blue Book file he Blue Book file does not contain very much. It contains only a basic investigation conducted by the assistant UFO officer, MSGT
UFO evidence under review: November 5, 1957 Aiken, Georgia................4-5 The 701 club: Case 8654 Pacific December 16, 1963....................6 Blue Book case review: JanuA world-wide UFOlogical library? Project ary - June 1964....................................7-14
1. Aircraft 1. Agreed. (Radar target unrelated to visual sighting) 2. Insufficient data 2. Agreed. Visual sighting appears to be just a light that was visible below the aircraft and appeared to be pacing the aircraft. No
JANUARY 27, THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED A UFO WHILE FLYING AT 41,000 FEET IN THEIR BOEING 747SP AT LAT 45 NORTH AND LONG 55 EAST, OVER KAZAKHSTAN. THEY FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE OBJECT AS A BRIGHT LIGHT OF ENORMOUS INTENSITY, APPROACHING THEM FROM OVER THE HORIZON TO THE EAST AT A GREAT RATE OF SPEED AND AT A
OBJECT GIVES OFF A MUCH LARGER TRAILING WAVE OF HEAT/LIGHT. SOME FORTY-FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE INITIAL SIGHTING, AS THE SUN WAS RISING, THE AIRCRAFT FLEW UNDER THE CONTRAILS WHICH THE OBJECT HAD LEFT BEHIND. THE PLANE WAS MAKING OVER 500 KNOTS. RHODES ESTIMATED THE ALTITUDE OF THE CONTRAILS AT APPROX
THE MANEUVERS OF THE OBJECT, I.E., CIRCLES, CORKSCREWS, ETC. 3. TO OUR SUGGESTION THAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A METEOR ENTERING AND SKIPPING OFF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, RHODES AND HIS CREW WERE ADAMANT THAT THEY HAD SEEN THOUSANDS OF "FALLING STARS" AND OTHER SPACE JUNK ENTERING THE ATMOSPHERE I
4. COMMENT: WE HAVE NO OPINION AND REPORT THE ABOVE FOR WHAT IT MAY BE WORTH.3 There is no additional information and there seems to be little follow-up by Haines. The photographs noted in the description have never surfaced, which makes one question the source. Did the photographs not turn out or d
Stabilization on chute/piece of
1. Agreed for 24 Sept 2000 sighting.
Agreed. Source was balloon launched from Fort Churchill, MB.
Agreed. Possibly Arcturus and Antares followed by Echo 2 observation one hour later.
1. Aircraft
Insufficient data Satellite. Echo 2.
Agreed. Kecksburg Meteor. See SUNlite 3-6.
Barium cloud Agreed. Photos are of Barium cloud release
UNIDENTIFIED UNIDENTIFIED
V: Hoax. Photographs are supposed to show object seen. If they are a hoax, then the report is a hoax
ses.................................................23 Buy it, borrow it, bin it.................................23 Buy it: The UFO files by David Clarke
The 701 club: Case #636 July 27, 1952. SUNlite 5-3 page 25-28 A diet of Worms: What is Nick Pope trying to hide? by Col. Arnold