05-21-2024, 02:26 PM
• Government Documents:
• "Object described as flat on top and bottom and appearing from a front view to have rounded edges and slightly beveled. From view as object dived from top of plane was completely round and spinning in a clockwise direction."
USAF Air Intelligence document describing UFO witnessed by F-51 pilot - July 9th, 1951.
Document
• "Pilot of helicopters wished to stress fact that object was of a saucer like nature, was stationary and at 2000 feet."
CMDR Flight Serve Centre Maxwell AFB - August 12th, 1954.
Document
• "Since 30th July, 1950 objects, round in form, have been sighted over the Hanford AEC plant.. Air Force jets attempted interception with negative results."
Major U. G. Carlan - August 4th, 1950.
Document / PDF
• "It looked to be about 2,000 feet in the air and a white-silverish looking colour, rotating in a counter clockwise manner."
Oak Ridge AEC plant - October 16th, 1950.
Document
• "In some RAF field, there was some sort of demonstration to which high officials of the RAF in London had been invited. During the show, a 'perfect flying saucer' was seen by these officials as well as RAF pilots."
H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence - December 18th, 1952 (also discusses the 'creation of the correctness of public opinion').
Document
• "Eight unidentified luminous circular objects flying in formation, vicinity Langley AFB."
USAF document - July 16th, 1952.
Document
• "The smaller objects began hovering in the area where the large object landed and after a few minutes they began flying around again. Mobile 02 reported that they appeared to be scouting the area."
USCG Document reporting UFOs 'quarter of a mile east of CEI Power Plant' - March 4th, 1988.
Document / Video
• "When the team was about ten miles from the landing site, static disrupted radio contact with them. Five to eight minutes later the glow diminished, and the UFO took off. Another UFO was visually sighted and confirmed by radar."
Classified report by an Air Force Strike Team at Minot AFB, 1966.
Document / Sketch
• "One oval object, described as being very bright, smooth, highly polished silver in colour with a definite blue haze surrounding it for the first 25 - 30 minutes of sighting was observed from O'Hare International airport."
Three Air Police Officers witness UFO over Chicago's O Hare airport - July 16th, 1952.
Document
• "A worldwide reporting system has been instituted and major Air Force bases have been ordered to make interceptions of unidentified flying objects."
H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director, Office of Scientific
Intelligence - confirming global monitoring and intercept orders for UFOs, 1952.
Document
• "Estimate at least 100 total sightings. AEC, AFSWP, 4th Army, local commanders perturbed by implications of phenomena."
Document from Kirtland Air Force Base directed to the USAF Chief of Staff - January 31st, 1949.
Document
• "The men report that at 1040 hours on 14 August 1947 the
two objects, which they describe as small, crescent shaped and
traveling at a speed twice that of a fighter plane, passed over
them on a zig-zag course in a westerly direction at an approxi-
mate altitude of twelve hundred feet."
USAF document describing UFOs on a zig zag course over Guam - August 14th, 1947.
Document
• "The object was completely stationary except for a halo around the centre, which appeared to be either revolving or pulsating. After watching it for approx. 4 minutes, it suddenly took off at tremendous speed & disappeared in a northerly direction, in a few seconds. I consider this object to have been approx 10 metres in diameter, hovering at 300 metres over the hills due west of the base. It was black, maybe due to looking in the drection of the setting sun. No lights appeared on it at any time."
USN Fire Captain Bill Lynn, object also witnessed by USN Lt. Commander William Moyer - official RAAF Department of Defence documents regarding a UFO hovering over (NSA) U.S. Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt on the west coast of Australia, October, 1973.
Link: 1 / 2
• "He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO."
Security Officer stationed at Cooper Nuclear Station, object also witnessed by other officers - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) document.
Link / Document / Video: 3:30
• "During April 1947, two employees of the Weather Bureau Station at Richmond, Virginia, reported seeing a strange metallic disk on three occasions.. One observation was at 15,000 feet when a disk was followed for 15 seconds. The disk appeared metallic, shaped like an ellipse with a flat bottom and a round top.. The disk appeared to be moving rather rapidly, although it was impossible to estimate its speed.”
U.S. Air Force document 'Analysis of Flying Objects in the US' - December 10th, 1948.
Link / Document
• "A senior Kuwait oil company (KOC) official told us the 'UFO' which first appeared over the northern oil fields seemingly did strange things to KOC's automatic pumping equipment."
Government document - Message 290606Z sent by the American Embassy in Kuwait City to the State Department, January, 1979.
Document / Link / NewsClipping / Sketch
• "As a conclusion of the observed constant facts in almost all presentations, it is the opinion of this Command that the phenomenon is solid and reflects intelligence by its capacity to follow and sustain distance from the observers, as well as to fly in formation, and are not necessarily manned craft."
Air Brigadier Jose Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, acting commander of the Brazilian Air Command of Air Defense (COMDA) - ‘Occurrence Report’ - June 2nd, 1986.
Document
• "At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention.. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitude and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major US defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles."
Dr .H Marshall Chadwell, former assistant director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, in a December, 1952 memo to then-director of the CIA, General Walter B. Smith.
Document
• "This 'flying saucer' situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around."
Lt. Colonel George Garrett, Air Force Base Intelligence Report, 'FLYING DISCS', July 30th, 1947.
Link / Document
• "At a recent weekly intelligence conference of G-2, ONI, OSI and FBI in the Fourth Army area, officers of G-2 Fourth Army have discussed the matter of 'unidentified aircraft' or 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' otherwise known as 'flying discs,' 'flying saucers' and 'balls of fire.' This matter is considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the Army and the Air Force.
FBI issued memo on UFOs entitled 'Protection of Vital Installations' sent to the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Office of Special Investigation (first mention of UAP) - January 31st, 1949.
Video / Document: 1 /.2 / 3
• "The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious."
Commander of the Air Materiel Command, Lieutenant General Nathan Twining - letter to the Commander of the Army Air Forces on the subject of 'Flying Discs' - September 23rd, 1947.
Video / Link / Document
• "Sometime in his career, each pilot can expect to encounter strange, unusual happenings which will never be adequately or entirely explained by logic or subsequent investigation."
Captain Henry S. Shields, HQ USAFE / IHOMP.
Link / Document
• "Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from intelligent and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity cannot be doubted."
USAF Major General E.B. LeBaily, Director of Information - letter to USAF Scientific Advisory Board, September 28th, 1965.
PDF
• "It must be accepted that some type of flying objects have been observed, although their identification and origin are not discernible."
U.S. Air Intelligence Report # 100-203-79, ANALYSIS OF FLYING OBJECTS IN THE U.S., December 10th, 1948.
PDF
• "Of almost 2,000 reports that are deemed to have sufficient information to permit analysis, 22.8% are judged to be "unexplained," and another 31.3% are judged to be "doubtfully" explained. In total, therefore, 54% of the sightings are said to lack convincing explanations."
Battelle scientists, USAF Battelle Memorial Institute UFO study 'Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14', May 5th, 1955 (USAF Secretary Donald A. Quarles attempts to deceive the U.S. public in study's press release).
Video / Link / Report: PDF
• "The best thing to do is to keep an open and skeptical mind, and not take an extreme position on any side of the question."
USAF 'Introductory Space Science', Volume II - Deparment of Physics, USAF.
Document / Video
• "I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening of UFO investigations."
Colonel Senn to Lieutenant General Crow of NASA regarding UFO investigations - September 1st, 1977.
Document
• “Moreover, reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and are not part of the Blue Book system.
However, as already stated, reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose.”
Bolender memo - October 20th, 1969 (vid below discusses NORAD and 'OPREP 3').
Video /.Document
• "NORAD has been the retrieval agency for all of the UFO documentation made under JANAP 146(E)."
John Greenewald Junior - UFO Document archivist.
Video: 14:50
• "We've got documents released under the Public Information Records Act back from the 1960's which state the Provost and Security Services used to investigate UFOs - they moved from Acton to Rudloe Manor."
U.K. Researcher Matthew Williams.
Video
Video / Link: 1 / 2 / 3
• "As we now know, DI55 (Defense Intelligence 55) was yet another tool to the UK government's armoury in investigating and researching UFOs. Prior to this document coming our way, the MOD denied that there was any other department involved in the subject of UFOs."
U.K. Researcher Graham Birdsall.
Video: 10:00
• NORAD SAC Base flap - 1975 / 1976:
• "Object described as flat on top and bottom and appearing from a front view to have rounded edges and slightly beveled. From view as object dived from top of plane was completely round and spinning in a clockwise direction."
USAF Air Intelligence document describing UFO witnessed by F-51 pilot - July 9th, 1951.
Document
• "Pilot of helicopters wished to stress fact that object was of a saucer like nature, was stationary and at 2000 feet."
CMDR Flight Serve Centre Maxwell AFB - August 12th, 1954.
Document
• "Since 30th July, 1950 objects, round in form, have been sighted over the Hanford AEC plant.. Air Force jets attempted interception with negative results."
Major U. G. Carlan - August 4th, 1950.
Document / PDF
• "It looked to be about 2,000 feet in the air and a white-silverish looking colour, rotating in a counter clockwise manner."
Oak Ridge AEC plant - October 16th, 1950.
Document
• "In some RAF field, there was some sort of demonstration to which high officials of the RAF in London had been invited. During the show, a 'perfect flying saucer' was seen by these officials as well as RAF pilots."
H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence - December 18th, 1952 (also discusses the 'creation of the correctness of public opinion').
Document
• "Eight unidentified luminous circular objects flying in formation, vicinity Langley AFB."
USAF document - July 16th, 1952.
Document
• "The smaller objects began hovering in the area where the large object landed and after a few minutes they began flying around again. Mobile 02 reported that they appeared to be scouting the area."
USCG Document reporting UFOs 'quarter of a mile east of CEI Power Plant' - March 4th, 1988.
Document / Video
• "When the team was about ten miles from the landing site, static disrupted radio contact with them. Five to eight minutes later the glow diminished, and the UFO took off. Another UFO was visually sighted and confirmed by radar."
Classified report by an Air Force Strike Team at Minot AFB, 1966.
Document / Sketch
• "One oval object, described as being very bright, smooth, highly polished silver in colour with a definite blue haze surrounding it for the first 25 - 30 minutes of sighting was observed from O'Hare International airport."
Three Air Police Officers witness UFO over Chicago's O Hare airport - July 16th, 1952.
Document
• "A worldwide reporting system has been instituted and major Air Force bases have been ordered to make interceptions of unidentified flying objects."
H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director, Office of Scientific
Intelligence - confirming global monitoring and intercept orders for UFOs, 1952.
Document
• "Estimate at least 100 total sightings. AEC, AFSWP, 4th Army, local commanders perturbed by implications of phenomena."
Document from Kirtland Air Force Base directed to the USAF Chief of Staff - January 31st, 1949.
Document
• "The men report that at 1040 hours on 14 August 1947 the
two objects, which they describe as small, crescent shaped and
traveling at a speed twice that of a fighter plane, passed over
them on a zig-zag course in a westerly direction at an approxi-
mate altitude of twelve hundred feet."
USAF document describing UFOs on a zig zag course over Guam - August 14th, 1947.
Document
• "The object was completely stationary except for a halo around the centre, which appeared to be either revolving or pulsating. After watching it for approx. 4 minutes, it suddenly took off at tremendous speed & disappeared in a northerly direction, in a few seconds. I consider this object to have been approx 10 metres in diameter, hovering at 300 metres over the hills due west of the base. It was black, maybe due to looking in the drection of the setting sun. No lights appeared on it at any time."
USN Fire Captain Bill Lynn, object also witnessed by USN Lt. Commander William Moyer - official RAAF Department of Defence documents regarding a UFO hovering over (NSA) U.S. Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt on the west coast of Australia, October, 1973.
Link: 1 / 2
• "He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO."
Security Officer stationed at Cooper Nuclear Station, object also witnessed by other officers - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) document.
Link / Document / Video: 3:30
• "During April 1947, two employees of the Weather Bureau Station at Richmond, Virginia, reported seeing a strange metallic disk on three occasions.. One observation was at 15,000 feet when a disk was followed for 15 seconds. The disk appeared metallic, shaped like an ellipse with a flat bottom and a round top.. The disk appeared to be moving rather rapidly, although it was impossible to estimate its speed.”
U.S. Air Force document 'Analysis of Flying Objects in the US' - December 10th, 1948.
Link / Document
• "A senior Kuwait oil company (KOC) official told us the 'UFO' which first appeared over the northern oil fields seemingly did strange things to KOC's automatic pumping equipment."
Government document - Message 290606Z sent by the American Embassy in Kuwait City to the State Department, January, 1979.
Document / Link / NewsClipping / Sketch
• "As a conclusion of the observed constant facts in almost all presentations, it is the opinion of this Command that the phenomenon is solid and reflects intelligence by its capacity to follow and sustain distance from the observers, as well as to fly in formation, and are not necessarily manned craft."
Air Brigadier Jose Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, acting commander of the Brazilian Air Command of Air Defense (COMDA) - ‘Occurrence Report’ - June 2nd, 1986.
Document
• "At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention.. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitude and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major US defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles."
Dr .H Marshall Chadwell, former assistant director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, in a December, 1952 memo to then-director of the CIA, General Walter B. Smith.
Document
• "This 'flying saucer' situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around."
Lt. Colonel George Garrett, Air Force Base Intelligence Report, 'FLYING DISCS', July 30th, 1947.
Link / Document
• "At a recent weekly intelligence conference of G-2, ONI, OSI and FBI in the Fourth Army area, officers of G-2 Fourth Army have discussed the matter of 'unidentified aircraft' or 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' otherwise known as 'flying discs,' 'flying saucers' and 'balls of fire.' This matter is considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the Army and the Air Force.
FBI issued memo on UFOs entitled 'Protection of Vital Installations' sent to the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Office of Special Investigation (first mention of UAP) - January 31st, 1949.
Video / Document: 1 /.2 / 3
• "The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious."
Commander of the Air Materiel Command, Lieutenant General Nathan Twining - letter to the Commander of the Army Air Forces on the subject of 'Flying Discs' - September 23rd, 1947.
Video / Link / Document
• "Sometime in his career, each pilot can expect to encounter strange, unusual happenings which will never be adequately or entirely explained by logic or subsequent investigation."
Captain Henry S. Shields, HQ USAFE / IHOMP.
Link / Document
• "Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from intelligent and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity cannot be doubted."
USAF Major General E.B. LeBaily, Director of Information - letter to USAF Scientific Advisory Board, September 28th, 1965.
• "It must be accepted that some type of flying objects have been observed, although their identification and origin are not discernible."
U.S. Air Intelligence Report # 100-203-79, ANALYSIS OF FLYING OBJECTS IN THE U.S., December 10th, 1948.
• "Of almost 2,000 reports that are deemed to have sufficient information to permit analysis, 22.8% are judged to be "unexplained," and another 31.3% are judged to be "doubtfully" explained. In total, therefore, 54% of the sightings are said to lack convincing explanations."
Battelle scientists, USAF Battelle Memorial Institute UFO study 'Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14', May 5th, 1955 (USAF Secretary Donald A. Quarles attempts to deceive the U.S. public in study's press release).
Video / Link / Report: PDF
• "The best thing to do is to keep an open and skeptical mind, and not take an extreme position on any side of the question."
USAF 'Introductory Space Science', Volume II - Deparment of Physics, USAF.
Document / Video
• "I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening of UFO investigations."
Colonel Senn to Lieutenant General Crow of NASA regarding UFO investigations - September 1st, 1977.
Document
• “Moreover, reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and are not part of the Blue Book system.
However, as already stated, reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose.”
Bolender memo - October 20th, 1969 (vid below discusses NORAD and 'OPREP 3').
Video /.Document
• "NORAD has been the retrieval agency for all of the UFO documentation made under JANAP 146(E)."
John Greenewald Junior - UFO Document archivist.
Video: 14:50
• "We've got documents released under the Public Information Records Act back from the 1960's which state the Provost and Security Services used to investigate UFOs - they moved from Acton to Rudloe Manor."
U.K. Researcher Matthew Williams.
Video
Video / Link: 1 / 2 / 3
• "As we now know, DI55 (Defense Intelligence 55) was yet another tool to the UK government's armoury in investigating and researching UFOs. Prior to this document coming our way, the MOD denied that there was any other department involved in the subject of UFOs."
U.K. Researcher Graham Birdsall.
Video: 10:00
• NORAD SAC Base flap - 1975 / 1976:
Quote:• "Since 28th October, 1975 numerous reports of suspicious objects have been received at the NORAD CU; reliable military personnel at Loring AFB, Maine, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, Malmstrom AFB, Mt, Minot AFB, ND, and Canadian Forces Station, Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada have visually sighted suspicious objects."
The Commander-in-Chief of North American Air Defense Command, November 11th, 1975.
Video / E-Book / Link 1 / 2
• "Two UFOs are reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. Security Police observing them reported the UFOs to be 25 yards in diameter, gold or silver in color with blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on the bottom."
National Military Command Center Document - January 21st, 1976.
Document / Article: PDF / Video: 56:20
• "Two separate patrols from Site R reported sighting 3 oblong objects with a reddish tint moving East to West.. One individual stated the object was about the size of a 2 and a half ton truck."
UFO witnessed 'over the ammo storage area' - Fort Richie / Raven Rock Mountain Complex, Maryland, July 30th, 1976.
Document: 1 / 2 / Link / NewsClipping
