How do we know UFO sightings represent anything extraordinary
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Brief Proof of UFOs
During the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles the military instituted a mandatory black out of the entire city of LA and fired 1400+ Anti-Aircraft rounds at a single, quoting the military, "unidentified aircraft." The shelling lasted 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).
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", and 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)
Also in 1948 Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a self-proclaimed skeptic, joined Project Blue Book as a scientific adviser. By 1969 when Blue Book was shutdown Hynek did an about face. He wrote several books, particularly, "The Hynek UFO Report" which repeatedly stated that the attitude of Blue Book was, "it can't be therefore it isn't."
He also gave an interview, available on YouTube, where he said, "I was there at Blue Book and I know the job they had. They were told not to excite the public, don't rock the boat, and I saw it [with] my own eyes. ... The cases that were very difficult to explain they would jump handsprings to keep the media away from that." He later went on to found the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).
July 13th through the 29th of 1952, over the skies of Washington DC, numerous UFOs were seen by observers on the ground, in the air, and tracked on radar. The situation escalated and General Samford, the Director of Intelligence of the USAF, held an emergency press conference. When asked by 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" and 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.
1956 at RAF Bentwaters, Lakenheath, and Sculthorpe an object was sighted by several military officers on the ground while simultaneously tracked on radar at 2 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."
Astronaut Gordon Cooper claimed he saw his first UFO while flying over W. Germany in 1952. During 1957 while filming at Edwards AFB he stated that a UFO landed in the CA flats and the film was confiscated by the military. It's hard to imagine what Cooper would hope to gain from such a story. If you listen to his tone in this interview. I think you'll agree when I say he doesn't sound particularly excitable.
March 16, 1967 in Montana at the Malmstrom AFB Minutemen Missile Launch Control Center (LCC), a perimeter security guard phoned the on-staff Deputy Crew Commander (DMCCC), Cpt. Robert Salas, in the LCC capsule to report a glowing-red orb floating over the facility. Salas not believing this instructed the man to "call [back] when something more significant happened."
Five to ten minutes later, following another distressed security call, the alarm klaxon sounded and lights at the commander's station flashed indicating missiles were entering a "no-go," or unlaunchable, condition. Oscar-flight lost 6 to 8 missiles that morning. Several miles away at Echo-flight, under similar circumstances, another LCC crew lost all 10 missiles.
The loss of one nuclear missile let alone eighteen is unprecedented.
According to FOIA declassified Strategic Missile Wing documents and interviews with ex-Boeing engineers’ tests were unable to identify a pathway for missile shutdowns. Mr. Salas has since gone before the National Press Club and stated that he’s willing to testify before Congress to the truthfulness of this account.
On 1986 flight JAL-1628 there were 3 air-visuals of a UFO the size of an aircraft carrier, one air, and two ground radar confirmations. This lasted for 30 minutes. Also the FAA chief John Callahan admitted in front of the National Press Club that he gave the flight data to Reagan's scientific staff and said afterwards he was sworn to secrecy by the CIA.
In 1952 naval photographer, Delbert Newhouse, video-taped a flotilla of UFOs while with his wife and two small children. He recorded several minutes worth of color video footage. When handed to the USAF it was instantly classified Top Secret. The first analysis concluded they were not balloons, aircraft, and unlikely to be birds.
The second analysis by USN Photo Interpretation Lab at Navy's Anacostia facilities was the culmination of a ~1000 man hours of work. There was almost complete consensus it couldn't be birds because there was no fluttering. The P.I.L representative suggested they weren't birds, balloons, aircraft, were "not reflections because there was no blinking while passing through 60 degrees of arc" and were, therefore, "self-luminous."
The third group to analyze the film led by the CIA, the Robertson panel, conceded to Dr. Thornton Page's analysis. His argument was that the images on the film looked similar to seagulls he had seen near his home. This simple ten-second analysis became the official explanation.
In 1969 Page lamented the "excessive levity" he brought to the Panel's proceeding and how he later thought the UFO subject deserved serious scrutiny.
So in conclusion these accounts demonstrate:
- that there is something unidentified in our airspace. Project Twinkle definitively proves this, as does the 1957 RB-47 encounter.
- it's likely more than just a simple aerial/weather phenomena. The 1956 Bentwaters sighting, the 1976 Iranian F16 encounter, and the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles strongly suggest intelligence.
And,
- in recent years we're seeing many instances where people who have worked in high-ranking positions in the government are whistle-blowing (FAA Chief Callahan, Astronaut Cooper, Blue Book Dir. Ruppelt, Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Blue Book Scientific adviser Hynek, Attorney Daniel Sheehan, Lt. Col. Daniel Mcgovern, Gov. Fife Symington, Vice-Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, nuclear weapons launch officer Cpt. Salas, etc) and they're largely being ignored even though many of them have publicly stated they're willing to testify under oath before congress.
If this isn't enough to convince you something's happening in our skies research Big Sur (1964/09/16), the Coyne Helicopter incident (1973/10/18), Iranian F-4 encounter (1976/09/19), 1909 plane stands still for 15 minutes in MA (1909/12/24), Denison daylight Texas sighting (1878/01), Discovery Mission 29 (1989/03/13-14) and there are many other highly-strange, credible reports.
Argument used on the Citizen's Briefing Book
Just to underscore how important this issue is, I'm including a synopsis that hopefully demonstrates just how much evidence there is supporting the existence of UAPs and why the subject needs to be taken seriously. At a minimum, there should be public congressional hearings before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. We need the testimony from the likes of legal counsel Daniel Sheehan, ex-FAA chief John Callahan, ex-pilot and Gov. Fife Symington on the record.
(NOTE: the rest is the same as the above Brief Proof of UFOs)
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