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December 15, 2000 Halifax Herald Limited |
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December 9, 2000
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October 8, 2000 Florida Today The result,
according to The Day After Roswell, was a "quantum leap" in American
technology that gave the United States a decisive edge over the USSR.
Moreover, the missile shield premise behind Ronald Reagan's Strategic
Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars," actually was a ruse whose real
purpose was to defend against threats from space aliens. |
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September 24, 2000 Caller-Times (Corpus Christi,
Texas) |
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September 11, 2000 Irish
Times |
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August 28, 2000 Irish
Times |
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August 10, 2000
Baltimore Sun by Laura Sullivan |
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August 8, 2000 Fox News
UFO Hunters Search NSA Documents on Web |
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August 4, 2000 Detroit Free Press
UFO question pulls politics back to Earth |
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July 26, 2000 Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on
Wednesday said he would push for passage of legislation this year aimed at
reducing the burden on CIA declassifiers overwhelmed by numerous special
requests from government officials. |
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July 15, 2000 ABC News by Andres Ybarra |
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July 12, 2000 Edmonton Sun Shadowy agency prompts speculation by Doug
Beazley |
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July 12, 2000 Fox News |
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July 12, 2000
Washington Post |
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July 7, 2000 Edmonton Sun Conspiracy theorists landing in St. Paul by Doug Beazley |
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July 7, 2000 Rocky
Mountain News by Bill Johnson |
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July 7, 2000 Canadian Press
Residents of Alberta town wait patiently for UFO |
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July 1, 2000 McClendon News
Service
by Sarah McClendon |
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June 27, 2000 Irish
Independent |
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June 22, 2000
Washington Post |
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June 4, 2000 Rocky
Mountain News by Anthony Barnett The
government has traditionally treated reports of UFO sightings as highly
classified and only released information to the public after 30 years. But
the parliamentary ombudsman insisted that the Ministry of Defense hand
this information to Colin Ridyard, a research chemist from Wales who had
been seeking information relating to UFO sightings by pilots or radar
operators between July 1998 and July 1999. |
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June 2, 2000 Florida TodayDo new NASA tapes show UFOs? by Billy CoxThe authenticity of videos showing unidentified flying objects has been challenged since the advent of camcorders. But a new debate is unfolding over UFO images generated by NASA and marketed commercially in a video _ "The Secret NASA Transmissions: The Smoking Gun." It includes space-shuttle footage recorded above western North Africa on Feb. 26, 1996, that appears to show huge, distant spherical UFOs shadowing Columbia during mission STS-75.This peculiar sequence is just a portion of the "Smoking Gun" tape, produced and edited by Quest Publications, a British outfit that publishes UFO Magazine. Viewers who buy the $27.50 mail-order videotape also will see a number of other anomalous goings-on recorded by NASA cameras from various missions in the 1990s. For UFO skeptic Jim Oberg, the "Smoking Gun" furor is a classic example of the misinterpretations that occur when human perception expands into the unknown. He likens it to the 15th-century Age of Exploration, when Old World mariners mapped uncharted oceans and returned with tales of sea serpents and mermaids. As Earthlings secure their foothold in space, Oberg predicts there'll be more fog to come."When you're on the edge of the new frontier," said the former NASA mission control specialist, "your imagination fills in the details." For the Canadian largely responsible for bringing the NASA images into the public domain, the possibilities are exhilarating."It's all out there," said Martyn Stubbs of Vancouver, "and I think NASA is challenging us to find it." The STS-75 incident: In the winter of '96, Columbia was testing the $100 million Italian Tethered Satellite System, a ball-shaped device linked to a rod-and-reel deployment spool by a cable stretching 12 miles at maximum extension. The experiment was designed to see how well tethers could generate electricity in space. But it ended abruptly when the cable snapped.During shuttle video acquisition of the broken tether, the black void around the dismembered hardware began swarming with particles and beads of light, resembling an organic soup beneath a microscope. The tether appeared surrounded by the objects. And everyone was paying attention, as the communications chatter indicated:"I've tried to adjust the focus but I can't get better than that." "OK, Claude, thank you. Beautiful.""This view is showing, uhh . . . " Eight second pause. Some of the objects, many of them spheres with a single dot in the center, appear to pass behind the tether. " . . . the satellite, just moving into sunrise.""Eighty-one nautical miles now from Columbia." Thirty-three second pause. The objects gather in force."You guys getting the image?" "Franklin, we see a long line, a couple of starlike things, and a lot of things swimming in the foreground. Can you describe what you're seeing?""Well, the long line is a tether. Um, there's a little bit of debris that, uh, kinda flies with us and, uh, it's illuminated by the sun at such low angles. There's a lotta stray light and it's getting washed out quickly, but Claude is doing a good job trying to adjust the camera." Then a manager of community- access cable stations in British Columbia, Stubbs decided to record every minute of every manned mission via live downlink feeds in the mid-1990s, following the famous STS-48 controversy.In October 1991, STS-48 beamed back images that wound up in national debates, largely on tabloid TV shows. While passing over western Australia, one of shuttle Discovery's cameras recorded white blips that appeared to stop and change direction when a pulse of light raced toward them. Informally, NASA consultants agreed the camera had photo graphed ice crystals repulsed during a thruster jet firing, which accounted for the light flash. The only formal analysis of the footage was written by University of Nebraska- Omaha physics professor Dr. Jack Kasher. Using geometry and physics, Kasher eliminated near-foreground ice crystals and thruster-jet explanations, then concluded STS-48 had captured independently operated spacecraft."The Journal for UFO Studies is a refereed, academic journal," says Kasher on the magazine that published his conclusions. "I keep hoping for an official response from NASA, but of course that hasn't happened." Stubbs is waiting for NASA to weigh in on the STS-75 footage the video wasn't made public until March. He discounts ice crystals and other forms of near-foreground "shuttle dandruff.""These objects, particularly the spheres, are clearly going behind the tether," he insists. "And the tether is what, 70, 80 miles away? I've heard the argument that, well, surely if things that big could be seen from that far away, they should be visible here on Earth as well. But how can we know what an unknown phenomenon in space looks like from our perspective here on the ground?" *********************************But that's exactly what you could expect to see, argues Dr. Joseph Nuth, head of the Astrochemistry Branch Lab for Extraterrestrial Physics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "If you've got mile-wide flying saucers _ which they'd probably have to be, to be seen at that distance from the shuttle _ and six or eight of 'em at least, according to (Stubbs' interpretation), I can't imagine somebody on the ground not seeing it," said Nuth, who watched the "Smoking Gun" video.Furthermore, Nuth said space isn't a pristine environment. "When you're in a vacuum, things just de-gas and pop out," he said. "All the stuff comes out of little cracks and it does it the entire time it's up there, because the shuttle basically carries an atmosphere with it. Personally, I think Oberg's explanation is perfectly reasonable."Oberg, a 20-year veteran of mission-control operations at Johnson Space Center, said some of the images are, in fact, near- foreground objects exaggerated by the shuttle's camera system. "If you look at enough video, you see this as a standard out-of- focus effect," he said. "This particular camera system isn't designed for low light levels, and it's being pushed beyond its specifications in order to zoom in on the tether. Under these conditions, the tether itself looks bizarre, because it's only as thick as a phone cord, maybe an eighth of an inch. But because the image intensifier is turned all the way up, what we see is a phantom thickness that's not real."So, in addition to recording all the debris floating around, we see all these discs out there, too. Big circles with dots in the middle and all of them notched at about 7 o'clock. These notched discs are a feature of the camera." Consequently, Oberg said the discs passing behind the tether are an illusion blooming in an extreme environment. As for the sudden light flashes and streaks that Stubbs said are visible at some point on every mission, Oberg is less certain. "It's very interesting," he said. "Streaks probably occur when you're out there in the radiation belts."********************************* As he reviewed the voluminous mission tapes, Stubbs kept seeing orange streaking action, captured by payload bay cameras and interior cams as well. Freezing the images took some effort Stubbs said they flashed at one-thirtieth of a second.On one "Smoking Gun" sequence, shuttle astronauts preparing to leave the orbiter for a spacewalk are clearly perplexed. The streaking is visible on tape: "What was that flash?""What, Max?" "I saw a light flash past me just here. Did you see it?""I thought it must've been me." Chuckle. "What?""I thought it was my imagination." "I saw it, too, so it's not. There (were) two of them. There's another one. What are they?""I thought I saw the lights flickering in here. Who'd be taking pictures?" "What is this? It's just gone past in front of us."Stubbs said he didn't mean for the video title _ "The Secret NASA Transmissions" _ to imply a coverup, or that the mission downlinks were surreptitiously channeled. "The images were all readily available," he said. "But I think they have a double or hidden meaning. You don't see it unless (you) make time to look at literally everything, like I've done. And then patterns emerge. It's like the O.J. trials, reasonable doubt versus a perponderance of evidence. To me, there's a perponderance of evidence that something very strange is going on."********************************* One of his many challenges on tape is to debate former astronaut Story Musgrave, a veteran of six shuttle missions. In the "Smoking Gun" video, Musgrave is heard saying, "That's really interesting" during the appearance of an ostensible plasma blob that emerges against an Earth background during STS-80 in December 1996."I believe Story's playing both sides of the fence," Stubbs said. "He's always talking about life out there, and he's taped some unusual things. I think he knows more than he's saying." Now living in Kissimmee, Musgrave insists the astronaut corps he flew with before retiring in 1996 has no evidence of extraterrestrial activity.Objects in space, particularly near-foreground objects, do weird things, he said. They are ubiquitous. They break apart. They move independently. They bump into each other and make right- angle maneuvers. They change velocity. "I've seen what looks like a little snake swimming along on its own internal motions. I've got it on videotape," he said. "I come back to KSC and I ask the guys on the ground, are you missing something, a sealed rubber hose? They say no, there are no post-flight anomalies. I go up again and there it is, swimming along in the sunlight, internal motion. Yeah, they're curious about it, but OK, so what?"Since you know there are billions upon billions of intelligent civilizations out there somewhere, must we now, as a part of our Copernican evolution, make this great leap? The fact that I don't understand something doesn't mean that I should apply loose thinking, noncritical thinking, to the process. It does a disservice to the cause of exploration." Jack Kasher hasn't reviewed the entire "Smoking Gun" video _ only a snippet featured in a recent Fox TV special. Without knowing the camera's capabilities, Kasher said Oberg's explanation sounds valid. But a prosaic solution to the STS-75 images doesn't alter his contention that STS-48 photographed spacecraft making evasive maneuvers."I worked a summer at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1991, and there are a lot of really smart people there," Kasher said. "But they're not at all interested in UFOs and it never comes up. I wish they would seize an opportunity like this and put all possible explanations on the table for discussion. Because this is an area of tremendous public interest." Oberg agrees that NASA should consider being more proactive in addressing issues with extraterrestrial undertones, given the subject's visibility level."These are definitely striking images," Oberg said. "I think it's a legitimate subject in our popular culture." |
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June 2000
VSD (France) |
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May 14, 2000
Philadelphia Inquirer |
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April 20, 2000
Whitehorse Star by Stephanie Waddell |
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March 14, 2000 MSNBC Missoulian claims UFO sighting during WWII NBC
Montana |
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February 22, 2000 Gazette
Extra (Janesville, Wisconsin) |
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February 20, 2000 Halifax Chronicle-Herald '67 UFO story to be
filmed |
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February 19, 2000 Omaha World-Herald UFOs 'Out There,' Prof Says by Michael Kelly |
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January 30, 2000 Tampa Tribune A candidate too alien to win? by Daniel Ruth |
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January 25, 2000 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Midwest UFO sightings lack credibility to scientists by Heather Ratcliffe |
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January 20-26, 2000 METRO (Silicone Valley) |
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January 19, 2000 Chicago Sun-Times |
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January 13, 2000 Daily Southtown
(Millstadt, IL) |
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January 9, 2000 St.
Louis Post-Dispatch by Valerie Schremp |
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January 2, 1999 Associated Press |
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December 29, 1999 New Zealand Press |
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December 26, 1999 Florida Today |
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December 3, 1999 ABC News Cylinder UFO Spends One Hour Over
Shanghai |
November 24, 1999 Florida Today Scientists' plan for trying to manage
the event: Confirm, verify, tell the world |
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November 21, 1999 Seattle Times Book review: Invasion of alien matters by David Williams |
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November 13, 1999 Toronto Star |
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November 12, 1999 WRTV Channel 6 (Indianapolis,
Indiana) Vicki Duncan |
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November 11, 1999 Detroit News Washington state near
top in UFO sightings |
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November 7, 1999 Agence France Presse Seven Fishermen & Video Of Sighting SYDNEY, Nov 7 (AFP) - Seven
professional fishermen said Sunday they had video footage showing a
possible UFO sighting off the coast of northern New South Wales. |
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October 29, 1999 Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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October 29, 1999 MSNBC.com NYers watch skies for
UFOs |
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October 24, 1999 Florida Today
Former Blue Book chief says, `We're probably not alone' |
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October 23, 1999
Florida Today |
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October 21, 1999
Mirror |
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October 12, 1999
Calgary Herald |
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September 28, 1999 Space.com |
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September 25, 1999 San Antonio Express-News |
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September 24, 1999 Oregonian Big debate falls from
the skies Three weeks later, Bell and
Davenport continue to push a UFO |
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September 10, 1999
Dallas Morning News |
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September 6, 1999 Modesto Bee |
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September 6, 1999 Modesto Bee |
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September 6, 1999 San Francisco Chronicle |
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August 22, 1999 Edmonton Journal (Canada) Truth about real "X-Files" is out there by James Langton The truth is out there, and Peter Gersten believes he knows where to find it. As director of the Campaign Against UFO Secrecy, he plans to launch a lawsuit this week against the U.S. government, claiming that its refusal to hand over secret documents on the existence of flying saucers is a violation of his constitutional rights. While the authorities, including the Department of Defence and the CIA, say that they are not concealing details about alien incursions, their denials are undermined by growing evidence of real-life "X-Files." The British academic journal Intelligence and National Security last week published an official CIA report on attempts to uncover the truth behind a half-century of reports of UFO sightings. The CIA operated its own UFO team. Like the TV series The X-Files, the agency was plagued by bitter divisions between believers and non-believers. Gersten and his organization hope that their latest lawsuit will force the authorities to reveal what they know about a large number of well-documented sightings of large triangular craft seen over Arizona and New Mexico in recent years. The objects, some many times larger than a jumbo jet, have been seen by the tens of thousands of people. One was filmed over Phoenix two years ago but later interpreted by the air force as a series of flares dropped in a training mission - an explanation few accepted. "People have a right to the truth," says Gersten, a lawyer from Scottsdale, Ariz., who believes that extra-terrestrials are trying to contact us through crop-circles. "I believe that the authorities have evidence and that I can prove it in a court of law." While such extreme opinions are only shared by a tiny minority, most Americans believe that their government knows more than they will say. Opinion polls show that more than half believe in UFOs. And after years of denial, almost all branches of the American military now admit that they carried out their own secret investigations into flying saucers, particularly in the 1950s when UFO fever peaked. The CIA report, by its official historian Gerald Haynes, says that the agency eventually concluded that most reports could be explained and that there were no little green men. While some CIA agents believed there was evidence of genuine UFO activity, the official version attributes at least half the sightings to secret U.S. air force reconnaissance aircraft such as the U-2 and Blackbird. Dr. Bruce Maccabee, one of America's leading UFO experts who regularly met CIA agents from 1979, believes that the "real X-Files" are in the vaults of the air force and FBI. The air force also maintained Project Blue Book in which it documented nearly 13,000 sightings between 1951 to 1969, all but 700 of which it was able to explain as conventional aircraft or natural phenomenon. The air force has also attempted - with very limited success - to end speculation that it recovered the remains of a spacecraft which crashed near Roswell, N.M., in 1947, and several alien bodies. It has released previously classified files which claim the "saucer" was actually a weather balloon used to monitor nuclear tests and that the "aliens" were crash test dummies for parachute prototypes. Among UFO diehards, however,
such "explanations" are seen only as evidence of a further coverup. |
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August 18, 1999 Daily Telegraph (UK) UFO Report Reveals Rifts At CIA by Michael Smith But an agency committee
decided they could be used by Moscow either to create mass hysteria or to
overload the air warning system, making it unable to distinguish between
UFOs and Soviet bombers. In 1955, claims by two elderly sisters that they
had contact with UFOs attracted widespread publicity. A CIA agent
describing himself as an air officer spoke to them and reported that he
appeared to have stumbled upon a scene from Arsenic and Old Lace. Analysis
of a "code" that the women believed aliens were using to make contact with
them while they listened to their favorite radio program showed it was
Morse from a U.S. radio station. But when UFO enthusiasts heard of the
"air force" officers visit, they became immediately suspicious he was a
member of the CIA trying to cover up the affair. |
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June 9, 1999 Albuquerque Journal |
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June 15, 1999 Tampa Tribune |
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July 9, 1999 New York Times by Nicholas D. Kristof |
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July 9, 1999 Los Angeles Times |
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July 6, 1999 Washington Times |
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July 3, 1999 Washington Post |
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July 1, 1999 Dawn (Pakistan) Do aliens exist? by Munazza Siddiqui Frank Drake, in the
early 1960s, came up with an equation (called the "Drake Equation") that
calculated the possibility of extraterrestrial life. He determined
that there was a possibility of 100,000 to 1,000,000 extraterrestrial
civilizations in our galaxy (the Milky Way) alone. With so many complex
and huge solar systems across the galaxy, the Earth cannot be the centre
of the universe. Because if it is then what is the purpose of the rest of
the huge universe? |
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May 25, 1999 Surrey Now Major UFO Sightings In The Famous
'Surrey Corridor' In British Columbia by Tom Zytaruk |
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May 22, 1999 London Evening Standard ** |
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May 19, 1999 |
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April 21, 1999 Chicago Sun-Times |
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April 9, 1999 Seattle Times |
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April 6, 1999 The Hindu (India's
National Newspaper) |
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March 31, 1999 Marlette Leader Unusual Sightings in the
Sky Peak Interest in the Thumb |
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March 31, 1999 Washington Post The CEO From Cyberspace:
Joe Firmage, A Master of the Universe at 28, Wants to Defy Gravity and
Visit the Far Corners Of His Realm |
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March 14, 1999 Dallas Morning News |
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March 4, 1999 Canadian Broadcast Corporation News Swissair-UFO "It was right over us,
right above, opposite direction, and, and I don’t know, two, three, four
hundred feet above. All that I can tell, 127, is that (we) saw a light
object, it was white, and very fast." |
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March 1999 Reason Magazine |
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February 22, 1999 Los Angeles Times |
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February 17, 1999
New York Times
The first thing I want to tell you about
"Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?" (NBC at 8) is that
you should take a close look at the title. |
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February 17, 1999
ABC News |
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February 7, 1999 Sunday Times of London |
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January 16, 1999 MSNBC When fortunes go to
flights of fancy |
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January 16, 1999
Florida Today |
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January 9, 1999 Reuters Real-life X-File?
Computer pioneer quits to chase UFOs |
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January 9, 1999 Dallas Morning News UFO lectures spout some
alien ideas |
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December 31, 1998 MSNBC
Chuck Humphrey, Charles
Spiegel and Chuck Missler share more than a first name. Although they
probably would resist the idea, each occupies a corner on the intersection
of spirituality and space beliefs. HUMPHREY IS the sole survivor of a wave of
Heaven’s Gate suicide attempts undertaken in the belief that shedding
one’s earthly “container” would open an unearthly door to a higher level
of existence. Spiegel is the director of the Unarius Academy of Science,
an organisation diligently preparing in the San Diego area to welcome a
grand landing of spaceships in 2001. And Missler, a commentator at
Koinonia House, a fundamentalist Christian centre in Idaho, draws
connections between UFO reports and biblical references.
‘I made every intention ... to exit my vehicle.’ Heaven’s Gate was shot through with references to space exploration: The followers saw themselves as members of an “away team” on a temporary mission to Earth. When the mission was finished, the team would make its exit aboard space-time vehicles piloted by members of the kingdom of heaven. Those emissaries from the “next level” were pictured as the big-headed, dark-eyed extra-terrestrials of UFO culture. The followers drawn together and disciplined by Marshall Applewhite felt they shared a special bond, Humphrey says. “Our Creator designed it this way,” he
says. “It’s the same thing that happened 2,000 years ago. ‘For those who
have ears to hear, drop everything and follow me.’ When I first was
introduced to this information back in 1975, it was as if I knew these
individuals.”
‘It's the end of a cycle, and therefore the beginning of a new cycle.’
The Unarius perspective is that organisms are like
recyclable computers, processing information from other realms of
existence. Spiegel says that what Applewhite did was the equivalent of
taking a sledge hammer to one’s own computer, and that it will take many
tens of thousands of years on another planet to repair the damage. DEFENDING THE FAITH Chuck Missler doesn’t think flying saucers are poppycock, but he definitely doesn’t think they’re here to show humans the path to righteousness, either. In fact, Missler cites biblical passages such as Genesis 6, 2 Peter 2 and Jude 6-7 to make his point that the UFO phenomenon could well be a trick of the devil and a harbinger of the last days.
‘Our view is that we are being set up for some kind of gigantic
deception.’ “Our view is that we are being set up for
some kind of gigantic deception. ... Our concern is that the average
Christian believer is really ill-prepared to deal with what we think is
forthcoming,” he says. |
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December 31, 1998 MSNBC |
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December 31, 1998 The Ufologists:
Questions unsettled |
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December 30, 1998 Is 'E.T' a Retelling of
the Christ Story? |
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December 22, 1998 Windsor Star |
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December 7, 1998 Herald (Rock Hill, South Carolina) Photograph brings back
memories of alien sighting |
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November 30, 1998 Associated Press She says E.T. life
exists but feds are covering it up |
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November 20, 1998 Daily Reveille (Louisiana State U) UFO Lecturer At
Louisiana State Explores Accounts Of Alien Visits |
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November 19, 1998
National Post (Canada) |
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November 10, 1998
New Brunswick Telegraph Journal |
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November 5, 1998 Birmingham News UFO buffs scan stars in
search of life from other planets |
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November 5, 1998 Agence France Presse Air Force Pilot Plays
Chase with UFO |
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November 3, 1998
Dallas Morning News |
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October 18, 1998 The People (UK) |
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October 9, 1998 Florida Today Seventy-six-year-old Sue
Jones has a photo album. She opens it up. |
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October 4, 1998 Houston Chronicle |
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August 31, 1998 |
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August 29, 1998
Times of London
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August 26, 1998 St Louis Post-Dispatch by Allison Schlesinger |
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August 17, 1998 Seattle Times |
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August 15 1998 Times of London |
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August 13, 1998 Boston Globe by Diane White |
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August 12, 1998 Evansville Courier Close Encounter:
Illinois Man Convinced He Saw A UFO 75 Years Ago |
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August 10, 1998 Salt Lake City Deseret News |
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August 10, 1998 Deseret News |
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August 9, 1998 The X-Files: One Glance
at the Shining Metallic Object in the Sky Changed this Writer's Life for
Ever Depending on how far away it was, each bar could have been the size of a
plane, or much larger. The sunshine glanced off the upper bar. I looked at
it as I walked, my head turned to the left, trying to understand what it
was. I saw that it wasn't a plane, but it might have been two planes, one
superimposed by perspective over the other. It did not look in the least
like that, so I rejected the theory instantly. (In any case, the previous
flight had taken off some 15 minutes earlier.) It might have been a piece
of airport apparatus mounted on a tall pole, but there was no pole. |
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August 8, 1998 Independent (UK) by Duff Hart-Davis |
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August 2, 1998 Deseret News
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July 28, 1998 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Cosmic mysteries
continue to intrigue |
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July 26, 1998 Idaho Statesman |
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July 12, 1998
Sunday
Mirror (UK) |
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July 7, 1998 Southeast Missourian Local UFO probe Researcher seeks answers to report of crash in 1941
by Peggy O'Farrel |
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July 1, 1998 New York Post |
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July 1, 1998 Florida Today |
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June 29, 1998 Washington Post
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June 29, 1998 Science panel says it's
worth evaluating UFO reports |
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June 29, 1998 CNN |
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June 29, 1998
CNN |
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June 24, 1998
Boulder Daily Camera
They came from Tabernash, Fort Morgan and Aurora. They came
from Peyton, Berthoud and Boulder. |
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June 24, 1998 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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June 15, 1998 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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May 16, 1998 Albuquerque Journal Proceeds from the "UFO
Crash at Aztec 50th Anniversary Event" will go in a fund to buy books and
computers for a new Aztec public library. "What am I going to say --
I don't want people to support a library? I love libraries." |
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May 10, 1998 Arizona Republic
"Thats a good question,"
she said. "I guess I have an open mind." Since God created the universe,
she said, "Why couldn't he have created others?" "I don't know why they (the
government) don't check it out and if it was nothing, say it was nothing,"
Barwood said. "Being there were videos of it, it has people's curiosity.
Why not check it out and see if it's a hoax?" |
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May 10, 1998 USA Today Mars' 'face' a pile of rocks? by Paul Hoversten |
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May 5, 1998 Death of Cow Investigated
RED RIVER, N.M. (AP) - A cow found dead in a
mountain pasture was missing an eye and its tongue and had suffered
massive hemorrhaging, investigators say. |
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April 27, 1998
London Daily Express (UK) |
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March 20, 1998 Huntsville Times
Author: Blame NASA for high interest in
UFOs |
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March 13, 1998 Arizona Republic Phoenix Lights remain
bright one year later. Alien or not, they lit up some lives |
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April 14, 1998 South China Morning Post |
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April 10, 1998 Florida Today Making a case for a face
on Mars; scientist not ready to concede |
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March 26, 1998 MSNBC Arizona group files suit
over Roswell |
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March 11, 1998
Arizona Republic by Steve Wilson First, a little background. The lights were
spotted between 7:30 and 10:30 in the evening over a 300-mile corridor
from the Nevada line through Prescott Valley and Phoenix to the northern
edge of Tucson. Some reports indicate that a single "V" formation traveled
across the state, while others suggest multiple UFO events. The lights
were seen by hundreds of people. |
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March --, 1998 Ashtabula Star Beacon |
January 4, 1998 Washington Post The Start of Something Big |
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December 15, 1997 Associated Press Martians smarter than
the average American?
WASHINGTON - Most Americans think there is intelligent life on other
planets -- more intelligent than on Earth. |
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December 14, 1997 Unknown UFO site remains so |
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December 8, 1997 United Press International |
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December 7, 1997 Globe and Mail by Jay Ingram |
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November 23, 1997 |
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July 1, 1997 UFO faithful land in
Roswell for anniversary fest |
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May 10, 1997 |
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February 28, 1997
FOIAville: Good things
take time |
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June 26,
1996 James Oberg and Don Ecker
on Larry King Live KING: Are you a scientist? |
Fall 1995 (Vol. 17, No. 8)
OMNI Magazine by Karl T. Pflock |
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August 1, 1995 Cleburne Times-Review UFO group plans second trip to study reported sighting by Lori Elmore-Moon Jason Leigh's attempts to contact the media via television and newspapers have been met with skepticism. Relentless, Leigh has continued his endeavors to alert the public by contacting various organizations such as MUFON, syndicated programs such as Sightings and Unexplained Mysteries, and local TV stations. During an interview hosted by WFAA, Leigh told WFAA reporter Karin Kelly, "I felt complete awe...I'm wondering what 'they' (or 'it') are doing. The predominant thought was that they were surveying the area. Possibly making a map. In the footage I took, the object is mostly hovering over some cow pastures." Leigh recalled an incident in Alvarado involving cattle mutilations which he feels is directly linked to UFOs. "There was a story two years ago over at Alvarado - about cows and sheep that was pretty well hushed up," Leigh said. "It was right around the time of the video taped Dallas UFO sighting ; late spring or early summer of 1993." While Leigh considers himself a neutral skeptic regarding the subject of UFOs, He has respected the passion with which people approach their encounters. "These people are afraid of not being believed. They had a sighting, but did not have a camera with which to record the event. I sort of fell into that category. I've never told another living person about my sightings until recently. "I don't think we should make the mistake of saying that we believe in UFOs as we believe in God. It's more of an 'accepting the reality' of those who believe," he said. "Some of the people I have spoken with who say they believe in UFOs-- and it's so emotional for them--it's almost on a religious level and I think this is where we may be making a mistake. "In my case, it does not matter what my commentary--I have the video and it speaks for itself. The video is the evidence. Not the person." Members of MUFON, including field investigators Lance Oliver, Lindy Whitehurst, Paul Rutherford, and research specialist, Melinda Chance-Layhe, traveled to Cleburne to view Leigh's video tape and to visit the area of the sighting. "The Mutual UFO Network is the world's largest international investigative organization of unidentified flying objects," Oliver, a field investigator for 15 years, said. MUFON is comprised of laymen as well as scientists from across the globe. "We try to observe these incidents from an objective, scientific point of view," Oliver said. "This sighting is very unusual. We are in the process right now of having it professionally analyzed. "One possibility is that Leigh observed Exotic Phenomena-like a shooting star or a meteorite that grazed the earth's atmosphere. But at the low angle he saw the object, above a house top, the distance would have had to have been over 200 miles. People all over North America would have seen the thing. "McDonald Observatory told me that there are no meteorites that would last for five minutes that would actually hit the atmosphere for that long without burning up or actually bouncing back into space," Oliver said. "Leigh has also reported a sighting from June 1st, 1995, in which a large spherical object hung in the sky over Dallas. I personally saw that. I tracked it down - it was on a Thursday - and I witnessed it from about 7:10 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. The huge round sphere looked like a big dot in the sky. Someone video taped that object with high powered optics, put it through computer analysis, and it is anything but a weather balloon, which is what I've been told. "The object over Dallas remained stationary for almost 30 minutes. It was pretty unusual. I called the balloon launching center in Palestine. They don't have spherical weather balloons and they don't know of anyone who does." said Oliver. Anyone having any information about the sighting in Cleburne is encouraged to call MUFON. All reports remain confidential. According to Oliver, Jason Leigh's sighting is excellent. Leigh is highly credible, and on the spot with a video camera. The video will be further studied. "A lot of people think you're crazy," Oliver said with reference to UFO sightings. "There is a definite bias against strange things. If it's out of the ordinary...it's not something that [people] want to be associated with." (AP). |
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June 25, 1995 Cleburne Times-Review He's ready for the non-believersCleburne man says he video taped a UFO by Lori Elmore-Moon Sunday, June 11, 1995. 1:22 P.M. Lakeshore Drive. Jason Leigh of Cleburne witnessed movement in the blue skies of Cleburne, an incident that will remain with him for the rest of his life. According to Leigh, four to five golfers at the municipal golf course witnessed the strange occurrence as well, as they paused from their game and turned their eyes skyward in the direction of a strange, silver, cigar shaped object. Leigh was able to video tape the object. Excited by his find, Leigh contacted the news media and was informed by three television networks that the object was probably a weather balloon, launched by the government from the Palestine area. "What we saw here was something essentially going against the wind, traveling horizontally," Leigh said. "Those weather balloons are designed to move vertically. Even if it were going up vertically, we would see it moving. I called the National Balloon Base in Palestine and spoke in great detail with Jim Turner who informed me that the weather balloons they launch are 906 feet tall, have a payload of 1600 pounds, are ground controlled, and are filled with a classified amount of helium. They travel vertically, three to five miles up to the jet stream winds and the landings are ground controlled. "He [Turner] laughingly told me that a weather balloon could not possibly be the object in my video, reiterating that the 'balloons are 906 feet tall and never fly over populated areas'. "This thing had no sound, no prop, no jet, no turbine...zip!" said Leigh. "All I heard was the wind. The audio on the video proves it. Scientists can subject this video to something called a spectrum analyzer - that analyzes the frequency of sounds." (The camera is stereo surround, having three microphones). Leigh is confident that both the audio and the video of the tape will validate his theory. He said that the size, shape and speed of the object can be calculated by judging the size of the house and chimney, which is part of the footage he shot. He explained that other fixed objects in the video, clouds, tree limbs, and other visible fixed objects will aid in determining the size and speed of the object. Leigh said that the object appeared to be 50 to 80 feet in length, and approximately 10 to 20 feet wide. "The UFO was not a known aircraft, swamp gas, a giant bird, a hang glider, a comet, a shooting star, an atmospheric anomaly or a weather balloon. It had intelligent control of its movements. The glowing of the object was a result of the sun's rays reflecting off of the object's dull metallic appearance." This is not the first time that Jason Leigh has had an encounter with a UFO. In 1979, while traveling down an interstate in New Orleans, LA, Leigh had an urge to glance skyward. "The object was perfectly metallic, mushroom shaped with a hump in the middle...I'm driving alone and I look up at the sky and there is this metal object just tilting down, wavering back and forth. I'm thinking, 'this can't be...' " Leigh said the appearance of the object reminded him of smooth, gleaming chrome. Although the Cleburne incident was Leigh's first opportunity to tape a sighting, he has seen UFOs all of his life. "If you don't know what it is, what is it? It's a UFO. It's not a plane, It's not a weather balloon. There it is in broad daylight...other people - the golfers are looking at it and gesturing...The fact remains, we have the video." (AP).
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November 1994 American Funeral Director Embalming ET: A Practitioner's Close Encounter by Joyce Murphy |
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August 25, 1984 New York Times Strange Sights Brighten The Night Skies Upstate by Schmalz, Jeffrey
The public hearing was plodding along
routinely at the Town Hall one night last month.
"All of a sudden, a cop burst in
yelling: 'The UFOs here! The UFOs here!' " said Peter A. Brandenberg,
a 43-year-old real-estate developer. "Everyone jumped up and jolted
out. We went flying down the stairs to see this thing, just staring
at it."
On a night before that, William A.
Pollard was driving along Interstate 84 near Brewster.
'Whoa! Wait a Minute Here'
"My neighbors said they had seen
something," said Mr. Pollard, 29, the manager of an automobile
service center. "I said, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' I never believed in
that stuff. But off in a field I saw this gigantic triangle with
lights, about 30 feet off the ground - hovering. Then it turned off
its lights and shot straight up - straight up. That's when I said,
'Whoa! Wait a minute here.' "
Throughout northern Westchester County,
Dutchess and Putnam Counties and western Connecticut this summer,
thousands of residents have reported strange objects in the sky -
each usually in a V-shape or a circle, about the size of a football
field, absolutely noiseless and outlined in brilliant lights of
white, red or green.
At night, the curious sometimes crowd
the Taconic Parkway, a prime site for viewing. A hot line has been
set up in Westchester to field inquiries. And in shopping centers
and at parties, the talk is of a secret weapon or of close
encounters.
The Police Call It a Hoax
The state police say the "object" is
really five or six small planes flying in tight formation as part of
a hoax. Some residents are not so sure. And others say that if that
really is the case, authorities ought to put an end to it.
"If it's not a UFO," said Irene Lunn of
Mahopac, "I want to know exactly what it is and what it's doing
around here. And I want it stopped."
Mrs. Lunn was among those who reported
the most recent sighting, this past Monday night. She was coming
home from the supermarket at 9 P.M. with her 5-year-old daughter,
Erica, when, she said, "I saw it over a pond on a nearby farm, high
enough to just clear the trees, traveling south."
"It wasn't an airplane, it wasn't a
helicopter, it wasn't a hang glider," Mrs. Lunn went on. "There was
no sound at all, you could hear the crickets."
She described an object "about
three-quarters the size of my house, with an L-shaped structure
suspended underneath it."
"It actually stopped over the house,"
Mrs. Lunn said. "At one point, all the lights went green, then red,
then they went back to a pattern of green and red and white. I felt
like it was letting us know it knew we were watching it. That was
scary. It went on for about 10 minutes."
The state and local police are flooded
with calls every time the objects are seen. Many of the sightings
have been reported by police officers on patrol.
One officer, according to Sgt. Kenneth
V. Spiro of Troop K of the state police, which is responsible for
the area in which sightings have been, followed the object.
"He tracked it to Stormville airport,"
the sergeant said. "It was a group of light planes. They fly in
formation. The undersides and under the wings are painted black, so
they can't be seen from the ground. The planes are rigged with
bright lights that they can turn from one color to another. It's the
lights that give the shape to the UFO
"The trooper spoke to a couple of the
pilots, and they're getting a big kick out of it. There's no
violation of the law here." He refused to give the name of the
trooper or of the pilots the trooper spoke to. The airport, a small
field in Dutchess County, was deserted the other evening. Neighbors
said they had seen no activity on recent nights.
But for many people, questions remain.
Some wondered how airplanes could hover over an object or how they
could shoot straight up into the air. Others said that they had seen
the hoaxers but that they had also seen something different.
"I've seen those jerks five or six
times," Mr. Pollard said of the pilots flying in formation. "They
were nothing like what I saw the first time, nothing like it at
all."
Mr. Pollard said that "the first thing I
saw was rigid -
absolutely rigid."
F.A.A. Seems Uninterested
Many residents want a thorough
investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. But the agency
does not seem interested.
"Why would we care about a UFO?" said
Louis Achitoff, a spokesman for the eastern region of the F.A.A., in
an interview. "If the pilot's up there with a clearance and at
the right altitude, we don't care what planet he comes from."
Residents were angry when told of the
F.A.A. comment.
"That's horrendous," Mrs. Lunn said.
"That thing's not flying over the F.A.A. Well, it's flying over my
house and my treetops and I want to know for sure what it is." As
Low as 500 Feet
Pressed for additional comment, Timothy L. Hartnett, the deputy director of the Eastern region of the F.A.A., said of the hoaxers that there were no regulations prohibiting planes from flying in formation.
"They can fly as close together as they
feel safe," he said. And in areas of sparse population, planes could
fly as low as 500 feet, Mr. Hartnett said.
In an effort to pull together
information, Peter A. Gersten, a criminal lawyer who has made
sightings from his Peekskill apartment, has organized a meeting for
Saturday at the Henry H. Welles school in Brewster. He has invited
UFO experts and local officials.
Among those attending will be Dr. J.
Allen Hynek, who is a retired head of the astronomy department at
Northwestern University, former associate director of the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and former consultant to the
Air Force on UFOs.
'You Have to Look Into It'
Dr. Hynek, the head of the Center for
UFO Studies, a private group that acts as a clearinghouse for UFO
reports, said, "When you have highly trained technical people,
lawyers, C.P.A.'s, government people seeing what they're seeing, you
have to look into it."
The experts should have plenty of
photographs to study at the meeting.
"We're seeing quite a few UFO pictures," said Greg Dunlap, 22, the manager of CPI Photo Finish in Yorktown. "People come in and hand you the film and say: 'Be careful with these. We ran outside with our camera because something was flying over our house.' It breaks up the day for us. You get tired of seeing Hawaii." |
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November 4, 1973 Mansfield News Journal Incident named after pilot CLEVELAND -- Army Reserve
helicopter pilot Capt. Lawrence Coyne is a military commander who doesn't
believe in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or little green spacemen. |
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December 17, 1966 Saturday Evening Post Are Flying Saucers Real?
by J. Allen Hynek
We had many reports from people of good
repute, yet we had no scientifically incontrovertible
evidence--authenticated movies, spectrograms of reported lights,
"hardware"--on which to make a judgment. There are no properly
authenticated photographs to match any of the vivid prose descriptions of
visual sightings. Some of the purported "photographs" are patent hoaxes.
Others show little detail; they could be anything. Some show a
considerable amount of detail, but cannot be substantiated. |
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December 6, 1966 Minot Daily News |
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October 10, 1966 Newsweek UFOs for Real?
Flying saucers once again have zoomed back
into the public eye-or imagination. In the first six months of this year
the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, the official registrar of
Unidentified Flying Objects, has duly noted 508 UFO "sightings." Saturday
Review columnist and UFO believer John Fuller's "Incident at Exeter" has
been sharing space on the best-seller lists with former radio announcer
Frank Edwards' book "Flying Saucers-Serious Business." And just last week
Fuller began a two-part story in Look magazine recounting the terrifying
two hours that a New Hampshire couple claim they spent being interrogated
aboard a flying saucer. |
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October 9, 1966 Cleveland Plain Dealer He Chased a Flying Saucer, Now His Life is Shattered
by John De Groot |
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April 18, 1966 Cleveland Plain Dealer Ohio Deputies Chase, Lose
Brilliant UFO
RAVENNA--Hundreds of persons in two states reported seeing a "brilliant
and shiny" object over eastern Ohio early yesterday. Two Portage
County deputies chased it 86 miles. |
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February 15, 1965 Cincinnati Post Frank Edwards Convinces
Mary UFOs Do Exist |
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November 26, 1962 Stars and Stripes Prof Says Beings From
Outer Space Have Visited Earth "That means that every
star, such as our sun, would be visited at least once every million years.
In some systems where these beings found life, they would make more
frequent visits. There's a strong probability, then, that they have
visited earth every few thousand years. |
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May 22, 1955
International News Service |
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October 25, 1954
Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) |
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December 18, 1953
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern |
February 26, 1951 Washington Post 'Saucers' May Be Experiments By Likely Foe, Scientist Says Scituate, Mass (AP) - A former Air Force Scientist today brushed aside the idea that flying saucers are just balloons and urged a full investigation on wht he said may be experiments by "a potential enemy of the United States." Dr. Anthony O. Mirarchi, who was employed by the Air force as an air chemist in its geophysical laboratory, took issue with a recent magazine article written by Dr. Urner LIddel, Navy scientist. Liddel said what people have been seeing are plastic balloons sent in to the upper air for radiation research. Fears "Worse Pearl Harbor" Mirarchi said that if flying saucers are experimental missiles launched by foreign hands they could "lead to a worse Pearl Harbor than we ever experienced." "The Navy report is erroneous, it lulls people into a false sense of security," he said in an interview. He said that as a assistant chief of a branch of the geophysical research organization he conducted an investigation and recommended "considerable appropriation" to press a study of the mysterious phenomena. At Washington , a Air Force spokesman who was asked about Mirarchi's contentions, had this to say: "In over 500 investigations we have made so far we have yet to find one concrete bit of evidence to back up these repots of flying saucers." AF Still Studies Reports
However, the spokesman added, the Air Force
has not terminated the long study of flying saucer rumors. It is
still to be carried Dr. Mirarchi said that after studying extensive files of the Office of Strategic Information covering hundreds of eyewitness reports of flying saucers or "fireballs," he concluded the observations were consistent with "a missile programmed in advance." In other words, the objects had "maneuvered motion," as though guided by some mechanism. He said the descriptions of vertical and horizontal motions did not indicate any natural phenomenon like a meteor or the erratic motion of drifting balloons. He remarked that a number of "the fireball observations came from a certain region of the New Mexico which is critical to the national interests." In that region is the Los Alamos atomic installation. Dr. Mirarchi left his Government jot to enter business for himself and now lives in Scituate. |
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May 7, 1949 Air Force Times Many Flying Saucers Incidents Remain Unsolved, AF Reports
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio--Preliminary studies made here by the Air
Material Command concerning 270 reports of "flying saucers" have not
solved the mystery that has fascinated the nation for nearly two years,
but they have succeeded in proving most of the incidents involved objects
such as weather balloons, flares, flights of birds, and practical jokes. |
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July 9, 1947 Cheyenne Wyoming Eagle Only Meager Details of Flying Disc Given by William F. McMenamin WASHINGTON, July 8, (UP) -- The mystery of the "flying saucers" took a new twist tonight with the disclosure the army air forces has recovered a strange object in New Mexico, and is forwarding it to Wright Field, Dayton, O., for examination. Announcement of the find came first from the Roswell, N.M., army air base, near where a "saucer" was found three weeks ago. AAF headquarters later revealed that a "security lid" has been clamped on all but the sketchiest details of the discovery. Flimsy AAF spokesmen would say only that the "saucer" was a flimsily-constructed, kite-like object measuring about 25 feet in diameter and covered with a material resembling tinfoil A telephonic report from Brig. Gen. Roger B. Ramey, commander of the eighth air force at Fort Worth, Tex., said the purposed "saucer" was badly battered when discovered by a rancher at Corona, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, N.M. Ramey scoffed at the possibility that the object could have been piloted or that it could have obtained the supersonic speeds credited to the "flying saucers" allegedly spotted in recent weeks. He reported that the object was too lightly constructed to have carried anyone and that there was no evidence that it had had a power plant of any sort. It bore no identification marks, and Ramey emphasized that no one had seen it in flight. AAF sources ruled out the possibility that it might have been an army weather-kite. Helium balloons have been used for weather recording for the past seven or eight years. They said it had been sent to Fort Worth by superfortress for trans-shipment to the AAF experimental center at Dayton. AAF commanders in New Mexico refused to permit the object to be photographed on the grounds that it was "high level stuff," although Ramey indicated he was not attaching too great importance to the find pending investigation. The Roswell announcement came from Col. William H. Blanchard, commanding officer of the Roswell army air base, who specifically described the discovery as "a flying disc." He said the disc had been forwarded to higher headquarters, presumably the commanding general of the 8th air force at Fort Worth, Tex. Blanchard would reveal no further details. Sheriff George Wilcox of Roswell said the disc was found about three weeks ago by W. W. Brizell [sic], on the Foster ranch at Corona, 75 miles northwest of Roswell. Wilcox said that Brizell does not have a telephone and so did not report finding the disc until the day before yesterday. Brizell told the sheriff he didn't know just what the disc was, but that at first it appeared to be a weather meter. The sheriff's office notified the army, which sent intelligence officers to pick up the object. Then today the army announced possession of a disc. The sheriff quoted Brizell as saying the object "seemed more or less like tinfoil." The rancher described the disc as about as large as a safe in the sheriff's office. The safe is about three and one-half by four feet. |
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July 9, 1947
New York Times |
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July 8, 1947 Los Angeles Herald-Express Army Finds 'Flying Saucer' ROSWELL, N. M. (AP) --The Army Air Force here today announced a flying disc had been found on a ranch near Roswell and is in Army possession. Lieut. Warren Haught, public-information officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, announced the find had been made "sometime last week" and had been turned over to the air field through co-operation of the sheriff's office. "It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently flown" by Major Jesse A. Marcel, of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office at Roswell "to higher headquarters." The Army gave no other details. (Officers at the base say that the "disc" was flown in a Superfortress to "higher headquarters" undisclosed. The air base refused to give details of construction of the disc or its appearance, but residents near the ranch on which the disc was found reported seeing a strange blue light several days ago about 3 a.m.) Haught's statement: "The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th (atomic) bomb group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the co-operation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County. "The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell some time last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Major Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th bomb group intelligence office. "Action was immediately taken and the disc was
picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air
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July 8, 1947 Marysville/Yuba City Appeal-Democrat Army Says Flying Disc Discovered ROSWELL, N. M., July 8 (AP)--The Army Air Force here today announced a flying disk [also spelled "disc"] had been found on a ranch near Roswell and is in Army possession. Lieut. Warren Haught [sic], public-information officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, announced the find had been made "some time last week" and had been turned over to the air field through cooperation of the sheriff's office. "It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned" by Maj. Jesse A. Marcel [also spelled "Marcell"] of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence office at Roswell "to higher headquarters." The Army gave no other details. Haught's statement: "The many rumors regarding the flying disk [disc] became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th (Atomic) Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disk [disc] through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County. "The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell some time last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disk until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence office. "Action was immediately taken and the disk [disc] was picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters." The rancher's name and location of his place were withheld. George Walsh of radio station KSWS, which provided first news of the announcement, said only Major Marcel [Marcell], Col. W. H. Blanchard, commanding officer at Roswell Air Field, and the rancher had seen the object here. The sheriff, Walsh reported, upon receiving word from the rancher went immediately to the intelligence officer at Roswell field. |
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July 8, 1947 Seattle Daily Times Disk Lands on Rancy in N.M.: Is Held by Army ROSWELL, N. M. (AP)--The Army Air Force here today announced a flying disk had been found on a ranch near Roswell and is in Army possession. Lieut. Warren Haught [sic], public-information officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, announced the find had been made "some time last week" and had been turned over to the air field through cooperation of the sheriff's office. "It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned" by Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence office at Roswell "to higher headquarters." The Army gave no other details. (The United Press quoted officers at the air base as saying the disk was flown in a B-29 Superfortress to higher headquarters.) In Washington D.C., Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey said today a battered object described as a flying disk found near Roswell, New Mexico, is being shipped by air to the A.A.F. research center at Wright Field, Ohio. Ramey, commander of the Eighth Air Force with headquarters at Fort Worth, received the object from the Roswell Army Air Base. In talking by telephone to A.A.F. headquarters at Washington, Ramey described the object as of "flimsy construction; almost like a box kite." It was so badly battered that Ramey was unable to say whether it had a disk form. He did not indicate the size of the object. There were some "fragments of junk" found near the object near the New Mexico ranch where a rancher sighted it last week. Ramey reported that so far as the A.A.F. investigation could determine, no one had seen the object in the air. Asked what the material seemed to be, A.A.F. officials here said Ramey described it as "apparently some sort of tin foil." The rancher's name and location of his place were withheld. (The United Press reported the disk landed on a ranch at Corona, N.M. and was discovered by W. W. Brizell [sic] of the Poster [sic] Ranch. The news agency said residents near the ranch reported seeing a strange blue light in the early morning on which the object crashed to earth.) George Walsh of radio station KSWS, which provided first news of the announcement, said only Major Marcell [sic], Col. W. H. Blanchard, commanding officer at Roswell Air Field, and the rancher had seen the object here. Later A.A.F. headquarters officials denied they had any information at all on the matter. They said they were trying to call Roswell by telephone to find out what had happened. The War Department in Washington had nothing to say immediately about the reported find. Haught's statement: "The many rumors regarding the flying disk became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th (Atomic) Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disk through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County. "The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell some time last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disk until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence office. "Action was immediately taken and the disk was picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters."
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July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell
Region The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer. According to information released by the department, over authority of Maj. J. A. Marcel, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the Roswell vicinity, after an unidentified rancher had notified sheriff Geo. Wilcox, here, that he had found the instrument on his premises. Major Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and recovered the disk, it was stated. After the intelligence office here had inspected the instrument it was flown to "higher headquarters". The intelligence office stated that no details of the saucer's construction or its appearance had been revealed. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot apparently were the only persons in Roswell who have seen what they thought was a flying disk. They were sitting on their porch at 105 South Penn. last Wednesday night at about ten minutes before ten o'clock when a large glowing object zoomed out of the sky from the southeast, going a northwesterly direction at a high rate of speed. Wilmot called Mrs. Wilmot's attention to it and both ran down into the yard to watch. It was in sight less than a minute, perhaps 40 or 50 seconds, Wilmot estimated. Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated between 400 and 500 miles per hour. In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth to mouth, or like two oldtype washbowls placed together in the same fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from inside, though not like it would be if a light were merely underneath. From where he stood Wilmot said that the object looked to be about five feet in size, and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that it must have been 15 or 20 feet in diameter, though this was just a guess. Wilmot said that he heard no sound but that Mrs. Wilmot said she heard a swishing sound for a very short time. The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the treetops in the general vicinity of six mile hill. Wilmot, who is one of the most respected and reliable citizens in town, kept the story to himself hoping that someone else would come out and tell about having seen one, but finally today decided that he would go ahead and tell about seeing it. The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one came only a few minutes after he had decided to release the details of what he had seen. |
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July 7, 1947 Daily Telegraph Hunting Flying Saucers While the United States Military air craft hunted the skies over
pacific coast areas today with out result, Flying Saucers where reported
over Canada for the first time. Scores of residents of Wallaceburg, in
Southwestern Ontario, asserted that they saw 2 large formations of the
illuminated discs swung over a wide arc in the sky on Saturday night. |
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July 7, 1947
Berkshire County Eagle [Pittsfield, Massachusetts]
'Saucers' Seen Here But Reports Debunked
Four local persons have reported seeing "flying saucers" over
Pittsfield, but most of six others, queried at random on North
Street this morning, debunk the whole idea.
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph H. Wilkinson of 140 Pomery Avenue, Mrs. Sidney
R. Smith Jr. and her son Robert of 145 Bartlett Avenue, said they
saw one of the disks while watching the 4th of July parade Friday
morning, at approximately 10:45. They said it was at a very high
altitude and going fast in a southerly direction.
Describing the saucer, Mrs. Wilkinson said that it looked like an
airplane at first, but upon closer scrutiny, appeared to be a round
silver object, quite luminous. Mrs. Smith reported she first
spotted the disk in the distance. It seemed to be a round,
colorless, luminous object with a peculiar rolling motion.
This morning's survey produced the following opinions:
George Henzel, photographer: "I certainly don't think it's just
imagination, not with so many people seeing them. It's either what
some foreign government is sending over, or an experiment of our own
Army."
George Pechewlys, Rosa Restaurant counterman: "I think it's people's
imaginations. I haven't seen any flying saucers myself, except for
one I threw out in the kitchen the other day."
Louis Weller, Palace Cut Rate proprietor: "Those people that say
they saw them are nuts. If they look long enough, maybe they'll
find the cups and spoons to go with them. I'm a veteran of both
wars, and from my experience I say you can't reach this country with
something controlled by radar."
John Metro, Electrics third baseman: "I don't know what you're
talking about. I've never heard of them."
Philip C. Ahern, Pittsfield Taxpayers' Association secretary: "I've
had spots before my eyes, but I haven't seen any saucers. I think
it's one of those things that catch on -- people hear about them and
think they see them."
John (Buck) Foley, Foley's Restaurant proprietor: "Somebody's got
the DT's."
From one end of the country to the other, new reports of disk- like
"flying saucers" skimming through the skies added to the mystery
which has baffled the nation since June 25....
Howard W. Blakeslee, Associated Press science editor, said in New
York:
Much of what has been described about the flying saucers reported
from nearly all parts of the country may be explained by certain
laws of eyesight.
All objects appear round or nearly so at any distance which is close
to the limit of how far a person can see. If the objects are seen
by reflected light, as in most cases reported, they are almost
certain to be round, and if the reflections are sunlight then the
sizes reported are those which would be expected from distant light
reflections. Descriptions of virtually all the saucers as round and
flat fit exactly with the tricks that eyes play. This trickiness
varies with differences in weather and lighting.
This writer has seen flying saucers over Long Island Sound near his
home not only this year but in previous years. They were round,
bright and moving ast. But they were no mystery [thank God! -- JC]
because they were light reflected from the bodies of airplanes that
soon identified themselves by changing course and coming near to be
seen distinctly.
Many descriptions of movements of the flying saucers fit with the
common maneuvers of airplanes, singly or in groups. Some of the
maneuvering reported, which took saucers out of sight again,
resembles what can be seen while watching distant airplanes.
Whether planes are guided, pilotless or jet, they all would look the
same at great distances.
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July 7, 1947
Kingsport [Tennessee] News
Europe Greets 'Flying Saucers' Stories With Levity, Unbelief
by Ed Creagh
London -- (AP) -- Don't mention those flying saucer on this side of
the Atlantic unless you're prepared for an argument about your
sanity.
Maybe they have been seen by sober citizens over a vast area of the
United States, but Europe won't believe in them until somebody
lassoes one and has it photographed by Frank Sinatra, the British
Ambassador and five Supreme Court Justices.
"America's reply to the Loch Ness Monster," chortled Sunday's Sunday
Dispatch, referring to Britain's hoariest tall story -- the vast sea
serpent that is "seen" romping in Scotland's Loch Ness every time
the tourist trade needs a shot in the arm.
"Citizens of a country which possesses the atom bomb ought not to be
afraid of anything," scoffed the Communist Daily Worker, adding:
"You remember those stories about rockets streaking out over Sweden
-- or is your memory short?"
(Swedish military headquarters announced last Oct. 10 that radar
equipment had detected some kind of "ghost rockets" over Sweden, but
that "It proved impossible, on the basis of indications, to decide
the nature of the things." Peculiar aerial objects have been
reported sighted in great numbers between July and October, 1946.
There was speculation that they might be experimental rockets from
the Russian-occupied Baltic Coast of Germany.)
Europeans generally took the position that the flying saucers, like
Sweden's "ghost rockets," would go away if everyone took a good
stiff bicarbonate of soda and the pledge, in that order.
Frenchmen shrugged at the story. Scandinavians grinned
good-naturedly and Englishmen, most infuriatingly of all, asked
Americans about the skyborne crockery as one might ask a child how
his G-man game was progressing.
"What is it, mass hallucination, or one of those American hoaxes?"
inquired a Fleet Street sub-editor.
"You Americans have a lot of fun playing games like that, don't
you?" suggested a school teacher.
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