Best UFO cases

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Not everyone agrees on what characteristics make the best UFO cases, but in my mind the cases listed below (in order of significance) are the best in the sense that they've withstood my own ability to disprove them. As a secondary criteria I filter based on aspects of the case that expose positive characteristics about the nature of the object(s), with the stranger they are the more significant.

Contents 1 (1956/08/13-14) Lakenheath-Bentwater radar-visual jet chase 2 (1967/03/16) Malmstrom AFB UFO/missile incident 3 (1957/07/17) RB-47 radar/visual multiple-witnesses 4 (1976/09/19) 1976 Tehran UFO ground-air visual, air-radar, infrared-satellite incident 5 (1986/11/17) JAL-1628 Alaska air-visual ground-air radar 6 (1949/12 - 1951/12) Project Twinkle 7 (1952/07/13-29) Washington D.C. UFO flap 8 (1942/02/25) Battle of Los Angeles 9 (1973/10/18) Coyne Helicopter incident 10 Notes 11 References 12 Further Reading 13 External Links

(1956/08/13-14) Lakenheath-Bentwater radar-visual jet chase

In the year 1956 at RAF Bentwaters, Lakenheath, and Sculthorpe an object was sighted by several military officers on the ground while simultaneously tracked on radar at two different stations. The object moved at ~4000 MPH and was monitored for several hours during which two planes were scrambled.

When the first de Havilland Venom locked on to the object the UFO shot to the rear of the plane. The pilot tried evasive maneuvers, couldn't break free and eventually had to return to base to refuel.

The second plane encountered mechanical difficulties as it flew within range of the object. The US sponsored Condon Report had this to say, "In conclusion, although conventional or natural explanations certainly cannot be ruled out, the probability of such seems low in this case and the probability that at least one genuine UFO was involved appears fairly high."

(1967/03/16) Malmstrom AFB UFO/missile incident

In 1967, a year before Project Blue Books doors were shut and in the middle of the Condon study, in Montana at the Malmstrom AFB Oscar-Flight Missile Launch Control Center, a perimeter security guard phoned the Deputy Crew Commander (DMCCC), Captain Robert Salas, in the LCC capsule to report an inexplicable glowing red object floating over the facility. Not believing this Capt. Salas told the man to phone back when something more significant happened.

Five to ten minutes later the guard called again, more distressed, reporting that the object was approaching the gate. At this point Salas told him to secure the site and then went to wake his commanding officer, Lt. Fred Meiwald, from his scheduled sleep period. While briefing Lt. Meiwald the alarm klaxon sounded and the lights at the commander's station showed missiles going in to a "No-Go" (or unlaunchable) condition.

In total Oscar-flight lost 6-8 missiles that morning. Each silo was run on a completely separate system from the others to prevent cascading failures. Several miles away at Echo-flight, under similar circumstances, another LCC crew lost all 10 of their missiles. The loss of 1 missile due to system failure let alone 18 is so improbable as to be considered impossible.

This is verifiable through FOIA documentation and Boeing documentation detailing to what extent SAC investigated the failures. Robert Salas has also since written a book titled 'Faded Giant' to help broaden awareness of this event. In it he notes that one correspondence from SAC stated the incident, "was of very grave concern to this headquarters." Perhaps most alarming of all is that the Declassified Strategic Missile Wing documents along with interviews of ex-Boeing engineers revealed that the tests confirmed no cause for missile shutdowns was ever found.

(1957/07/17) RB-47 radar/visual multiple-witnesses

An Air Force RB-47, equipped with electronic countermeasures (ECM) gear and manned by six officers, was followed by an unidentified object for a distance of well over 700 mi. and for a time period of 1.5 hr., as it flew from Mississippi, through Louisiana and Texas and into Oklahoma. The object was, at various times, seen visually by the cockpit crew as an intensely luminous light, followed by ground-radar and detected on ECM monitoring gear aboard the RB-47.^[1]

(1976/09/19) 1976 Tehran UFO ground-air visual, air-radar, infrared-satellite incident

One of the best documented UFO-aircraft incidents, when a UFO was observed flying over the restricted airspace of Tehran, Iran. Two U.S.-made F-4 Phantom II jet fighters of the Imperial Iranian Air Force were scrambled, but as the pilots closed in on the target, their communications and weapons systems were suddenly jammed. The incident was confirmed by high ranking officers of the Iranian Air Force and later documented by several agencies of the U.S. military.^[2]

(1986/11/17) JAL-1628 Alaska air-visual ground-air radar

This is a compelling case on several levels:

1. Capt. Terauchi - A pilot of 29 years says he saw a UFO
2. Tamefuji and Tsukuba - The other two crew members, say they saw something that they couldn't explain.
3. The ROCC controller said he had a primary target in the same position JAL-1628 identified traffic.
4. The AARTCC controller signed an affidavit saying, "Several times I had primary returns where JL1628 reported the traffic."
5. Then a week later the FAA Head of Accidents & Investigation, John Callahan, claims he was visited by the CIA, FBI, and Reagan's Scientific Study team, and was sworn to secrecy after discussing the JAL-1628 sighting. A discussion where the subject was treated very seriously; as though it were a real UFO.

It should be noted John Callahan kept the flight records and in front of the National Press Club presented this information boldly stating he's prepared to testify before Congress, under oath, that everything he presented was true.

(1949/12 - 1951/12) Project Twinkle

In 1948 green fireballs were seen over the south-western skies of the US near nuclear weapons research sites. Famous meteoriticist Dr. Lincoln La Paz declared they weren't normal meteors. In 1949 the USAF started Project Twinkle under the direction of Dr. Anthony Mirarchi.

The study concluded in a now declassified report that cinetheodolites had tracked 4 objects traveling at an "altitude of ~150K ft" (~28.5 miles!), were "30 ft. in diameter", & traveling at an "undeterminable, yet high speed." Mirarchi went on to later criticize a Time magazine article that claimed there was no proof to support the existence of UFOs.

Mirarchi wrote, "There was too much evidence in favor of saucers to say they could have all been balloons. 'I was conducting the main investigation. The government had to depend on me or my branch for information.' He said he didn't see how the Navy could say there had been no concrete evidence of the phenomena." (see here for more details)

(1952/07/13-29) Washington D.C. UFO flap

July 13 - 29th of 1952, over the skies of Washington DC, numerous UFOs were seen by observers on the ground, in the air, & tracked on radar. The situation escalated & General Samford, the Director of Intelligence of the USAF, held an emergency press conference. When asked by a reporters what people were seeing he suggested the lights on the ground may have looked like they were in the air because inversions act like an "air lens" & bend light rays. He added that something similar could have "tricked" radar in to thinking it was tracking aerial targets. (ufologie.net...)

In 1969 an Air Force scientific report titled "Quantitative Aspects of Mirages" (Menkello, F.G. Report No. 6112, USAF, Environmental Technical Applications Center) made it clear inversions strong enough to create the visual effect described during the 1952 press-conference could not exist in earth's atmosphere.

(1942/02/25) Battle of Los Angeles

During the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles the military instituted a mandatory black out of the entire city of LA & fired 1400+ Anti-Aircraft rounds at a single, quoting the military, "unidentified aircraft." This lasted for more than an hour. Despite numerous confirmed hits the craft remained airborne and eventually flew off without ever being identified. (Read the 1942 LA times article).

(1973/10/18) Coyne Helicopter incident

The Coyne case (or "Army helicopter incident") stands out as, perhaps the most credible (in the "high strangeness" category) of the 1973 wave. An Army Reserve helicopter crew of four men encountered a gray, metallic-looking, cigar-shaped object, with unusual lights and maneuvers, as they were airborne between Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio.^[3]

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