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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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24-05-2016
Couple reports rural NY close encounter with two UFOs
Couple reports rural NY close encounter with two UFOs
A New York witness at Adams reported watching to “limousine-sized” black triangle UFOs that silently floated at the tree top level, according to testimony in Case 76388 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The reporting witness was a passenger in a vehicle driven by her boyfriend southbound along Route 11 between Watertown and Adams.
“At about 11:45-ish we saw lights on the road up ahead and the picture just didn’t make sense to us,” the witness stated.“At first it looked to me like maybe a fire truck up ahead or something, but the closer we got the less sense the image we were seeing made.”
Adams, NY, is about 14 miles southwest of Watertown, along Route 11. (Credit: Google)
The two continued in the direction of the object, coming up on it fast, within seconds.
“They were in fact closer to us than I thought, maybe a quarter-mile from where we first noticed the lights. We had to slow down fast or we would have driven right underneath and past them. My boyfriend came to a stop so these things were drifting across the road right in front of us. We were driving south on Route 11 so they were drifting across the road in a southwest direction, and right over the road in front of us. They turned around and drifted back the direction they had been coming from; northeast.”
The two got a good look at the objects.
“Because they turned around in front of us, we got to see just about every angle of these things except the top, so it was not an optical illusion and we could tell how close they were to each other and to us. We saw them up close, clearly, and in 3-D. It was dark, but there were street lights and our headlights and they had blinking lights, red and white only, the whole time we saw them.”
The two watched closely.
“I had turned off the heat and radio as we came upon them, and I immediately stuck my head right out the window for the best angle, and two things struck me right away. First; the silence. They made no noise that I could detect above the noise of our vehicle, which is not loud. Second; their proximity to each other. They were so close together I would think they would be bumping into each other. When they turned around I thought we were going to witness a crash. They were only a few feet from each other. And they never split up when they were in our sights, but they moved independently, not like they were attached.”
The witness and her boyfriend were southbound along Route 11 heading into Adams from Watertown. (Credit: Google)
The objects were large.
“The craft were about the size of limousines, lazily floating over the road not far above the telephone poles. They were both triangular, but they were not the same. One was a wider triangle, like you might picture a military drone or something, but the other one was a skinny, pointy triangle. Both had, I believe, red blinking lights in the front corner on the bottom, and white blinking lights on the side corners on the bottom. Besides being triangular in shape and the lights, they were completely featureless, at least from the bottom and sides. Just perfect triangles, no other angles or patterns at all. Just black.”
The witness had never seen anything like this before.
“Like even any drones I look up that belong to any military or even anything out of Popular Science, nothing I’ve seen is a perfect triangle like that. They all have some other angles, discernable wings, engines, something. They were both like that, exactly the same except for the shape of the triangle. We were so close that if there was any other detail to notice in their shape, we would have seen it. We should have been able to see detail, but it was just their outlines, the lights, and flat matte black.”
It was a clear night.
“There were stars out and they blocked their light, blocked the lighter color of the horizon behind them. There was no light reflecting off them, and there should have been. There were all these lights like I said, and not one glimmer of a reflection off any part of them. And the lights that came off them were bright but not blinding; there was no glare, even so close. And my eyes have a problem with glare and bright lights. But not these.”
The objects stopped and turned around.
“After they turned around and we just gawked for what seemed like minutes, but must have been seconds, a spotlight shown coming from the side of I think the skinny one, right off the tip of the wing or side corner of the triangle. It shown in our direction, but I think it shown over us, not right on us… and then they were drifting over the trees back in the direction they seemed to have come from.”
The witness told her boyfriend to hurry up and chase them and not to lose them.
“I kept my eyes on them and could see the lights through the trees, and directed my boyfriend where to go, but I lost them through the trees. I could see them and then they were just nowhere. My boyfriend took a route that should have cut them off, if they had continued their speed and direction, and we drove around with my head out the moon roof searching and finding hilltops to search the horizons, but nothing. They were gone.”
The couple had to stop their vehicle along Route 11 to avoid driving underneath the two UFOs. (Credit: Google)
The two then drove around looking for a police car, but could not find one.
“We finally gave up and went home and I think it was close to 1a.m. I was determined to alert authorities. I knew they wouldn’t exactly believe us, or do anything about it, but I just wanted it on record, wanted someone to know that happened, and I’m just so curious, and I was hoping that we wouldn’t be the only ones! I figured they would get more calls, more reports. I thought with them being right above the ground and apparently in no hurry, someone else around must have noticed something. It’s a rural area, but right smack in between Adams and Adams Center.”
The witness called Jefferson County Police, but the state troopers showed up first.
“The troopers said they would check around with Fort Drum and stuff and were nice, but obviously didn’t take it very seriously, which is the best I really expected. I’m just hoping something else turns up. I want some more news. Even if it isn’t extra-terrestrial drones or something, it still had to be some sort of secret technology or something that not many people have witnessed, and that’s still amazing to me.”
New York State Section Director John Lombardo and Chief Investigator Nicholas Voulgaris are investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
BIZAR OBJECT ONTDEKT OP DE BODEM VAN STILLE OCEAAN
BIZAR OBJECT ONTDEKT OP DE BODEM VAN STILLE OCEAAN
Onder water vinden we veel dingen waarvan wij aan de oppervlakte meestal geen flauw benul hebben dat ze überhaupt bestaan.
Zo is er nu iemand die een vreemd en naar het lijkt bewegend object heeft ontdekt op de bodem van de oceaan van enkele kilometers lang dat een spoor achterlaat op de bodem.
Soms is Google heel nuttig, zeker op het gebied van kaarten. Vaak vind je op Google Maps of Earth de meest interessante zaken als ze tenminste niet zijn geblurred (wazig gemaakt) door de zoekmachine.
Zoals iemand dat onlangs deed met een stuk van de bodem van de Stille Oceaan, ten westen van de Amerikaanse kust en een beetje in de richting van Alaska.
Op de kaarten van Google zie je een vreemd cirkelvormig object dat er uitziet als een ronde UFO en een duidelijk spoor achterlaat op de bodem.
Wat je ziet op de afbeelding is niet bepaald een klein object. De doorsnee van de cirkel is groter van vier kilometer.
Je ziet een soort kronkelig spoor achter het object en wanneer je de volgende video bekijkt, zie je nog meer vreemde constructies op de bodem van de oceaan.
Het is natuurlijk ook niet voor niets dat wij al langer schrijven over een buitenaardse basis voor de kust van Californië en dat daar heel regelmatig vreemde ruimteschepen worden waargenomen.
Huge UFO in the sky photographed by two men 1500 miles apart! May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Huge UFO in the sky photographed by two men 1500 miles apart! May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
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Date of sighting: May 2016 Location of sighting: Northern Indiana, USA This is a great video where the eyewitness MrMBB33 of Youtube gives an excellent account of two UFO sightings that are 1,500 miles apart, but describing the same object. The object do appear to be the same in all aspects. If you have seen this UFO please let us know in the comments below please. There are many US agencies that are trying to keep UFO sighting reports silent and out of the ears of the public and they even hire bloggers to troll UFO sites with cruel and mean comments. Don't believe their tactics. UFOs are real. They do exist everywhere on Earth. Fight the gov by sharing this information on Twitter, Facebook or other sharing sites. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I saw reported this 'thing' in the sky to you guys and the following day a gentleman from Northern Indiana saw and photographed the same object in the sky approximately 20 minutes after I witnessed it. His visual was identical to mine. Large structure traveling to the NE appearing to be in orbit on the left side of the moon at the 10 O'clock position moving through the sky in broad daylight! Typically, space debris is not visible nor photogenic from the ground unless it is reentering the atmosphere at mind boggling speeds putting on a firework show. this did not. In the camera, it did look like a structure, but not the ISS. Original e-mail from the witness in Indiana below: "The reason I even took the shot was it appeared to look like a cigar shape object moving through the sky and I was like OMG...out of several shots this was the only photo with something in it. Thx for responding to me I watch every post u make from the hydra post on. My name is Mike I live in Northern Indiana near South Bend." This is his e-mail to me with the photograph I showed you in the video.
Black UFO Moving Slowly Over East London May 19 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Moving Slowly Over East London May 19 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 19, 2016 Location of sighting: East London, England This UFO was seen over England last week and as it passes in front of a cloud the blackness of its color stands out. The UFO is turning slowly as it moves and this is why its shape changes every few seconds. London is a hotspot of UFO activity so this comes a no surprise. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Streetcap1 of Youtube found this UFO that looks similar to the UFOs seen in the Tether Incident long ago. It also has many similarities to the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars. So many UFOs and structures in NASA photos, and NASA still refuses to acknowledge or even investigate any of them. Many NASA scientist have said in the past that NASA tries to live by the motto, "for the benefit of all." But honestly I just don't see it. They are doing whats best for them and the US military. What the public wants, and what we ask them to investigate has hit deaf ears at NASA. Excellent find by Streetcap1. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Aliens live among us in order to save the planet from us, says the head of the world’s biggest UFO archive The military trusts him and he is officially supported by the Swedish government: Swedish UFO-researcher Håkan Blomqvist founded together with friends the Archive for UFO Research in 1973. Nowadays, his library in the city of Norrköping contains more than 20.000 books, many thousands of documents from around the world and is considered the world’s biggest UFO archive. Besides of numerous UFO sightings reports which the Swedish military sends him regularly, this archive also contains documentation about cases that Blomqvist has investigated himself – among them are some of the most amazing cases of direct ET contact in Scandinavia. Blomqvist is well aware that such witness reports can hardly be proven. However, some of the cases suggest that ETs do in fact live among us – in order to observe us and to intervene in case the planet is in danger….
Conspiracy Theorists Claim UFO Prevents Huge Impact Of A Meteor To Earth
Conspiracy Theorists Claim UFO Prevents Huge Impact Of A Meteor To Earth
Friendly aliens might have just saved the Earth from a destructive meteor strike, claimed conspiracy theorists.
The theory surfaced after a released footage showed a fireball exploding in the skies of Maine, New England in the U.S.
The natural phenomena show an apparent second, smaller object entering the atmosphere of the Earth during the incident on Tuesday.
The presence of a second object was confirmed by the American Meteor Society (AMS) but said that it was just a smaller meteor fragment as it broke up in Earth’s atmosphere.
Despite the AMS explanation, most diehard alien chasers still thought an alien craft was dispatched to destroy the meteor, which believed to prevent an impact.
The theory further claimed that galactic patrols might be looking over humanity as these space beings know that people on Earth still don’t have the technology to deal with comet strikes or asteroid, which could wipe out the entire planet.
The fireball was witnessed over Canada, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Vermont, New Jersey, and New Hampshire.
YouTube channel Nemesis Maturity uploaded the video that showed two objects – one seemingly followed the other.
The second, smaller object seemed to strike the bigger one prior to a big explosion.
The video was from a security camera installed at Burlington International Airport in South Burlington, Vermont.
A display of a proton-proton collision taken in the LHCb detector in the early hours of May 9.
Credit: LHCB
The Large Hadron Collider is the most complex machine ever built by humankind and it is probing into deep quantum unknown, revealing never-before-seen detail in the matter and forces that underpin the foundations of our universe. In its most basic sense, the LHC is a time machine; with each relativistic proton-on-proton collision, the particle accelerator is revealing energy densities and states of matter that haven't existed in our universe since the moment after the Big Bang, nearly 14 billion years ago.
The collider, which is managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is located near Geneva, Switzerland.
With the countless billions of collisions between ions inside the LHC's detectors comes a firehose of data that needs to be recorded, deciphered and stored. Since the 27 kilometer (17 mile) circumference ring of supercooled electromagnets started smashing protons together once more after its winter break, LHC scientists are expecting a lot more data this year than what the experiment produced in 2015.
"The LHC is running extremely well," said CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology Frédérick Bordry in a statement. "We now have an ambitious goal for 2016, as we plan to deliver around six times more data than in 2015."
And this data will contain ever more detailed information about the elusive Higgs boson that was discovered in 2012 and possibly even details of "new" or "exotic" physics that physicists could spend decades trying to understand. Key to the LHC's aims is to attempt to understand what dark matter is and why the universe is composed of matter and not antimatter.
In fact, there was already a buzz surrounding an unexpected signal that was recorded in 2015 that could represent something amazing, but as is the mantra of any scientist: more data is needed. And it looks like LHC physicists are about to be flooded with the stuff.
Central to the LHC's recent upgrades is the sheer density of accelerated "beams" of protons that are accelerated to close to the speed of light. The more concentrated or focused the beams, the more collisions can be achieved. More collisions means more data and the more likelihood of revealing new and exciting things about our universe. This year, LHC engineers hope to magnetically squeeze the beams of protons when they collide inside the detectors, generating up to one billion proton collisions per second.
Add these advances in extreme beam control with the fact the LHC will be running at a record-breaking collision energy of 13 TeV and we have the unprecedented opportunity to make some groundbreaking discoveries.
"In 2015, we opened the doors to a completely new landscape with unprecedented energy. Now we can begin to explore this landscape in depth," said CERN Director for Research and Computing, Eckhard Elsen.
The current plan is to continue proton-proton collisions for six months and then carry out a four-week run using much heavier lead ions.
So the message is clear: Hold onto your hats. We're in for an incredible year of discovery that could confirm or deny certain models of our universe and revel something completely unexpected and, possibly, something very exotic.
The shocking theory emerged after the release of footage of a fireball exploding in the skies above Maine, New England, USA
Clips of the natural phenomena show what appears to be a second, smaller object entering the Earth's atmosphere during the event on Tuesday.
The American Meteor Society (AMS) has since confirmed a second object was present, but says it was just a smaller fragment of the meteor as it broke up in our atmosphere.
However, the seemingly satisfactory explanation, has done nothing to dampen speculation from die hard alien chasers looking for evidence of extra terrestrial visitations.
The most popular theory is it was an alien craft dispatched to destroy the meteor to prevent an impact.
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The meteor was caught on webcam entering Earth's atmosphere
It also claims there could even be galactic patrols looking over us as they know we do not yet have the technology to deal with asteroid or comet strikes which could potentially wipe out life on the planet.
At the time, most eyewitnesses saw only one object enter the atmosphere, steak across the skies and then burn up.
The AMS had more than 700 reports from witnesses with the fireball also seen over New Hampshire, New Jersey, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and in Canada.
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Nemesis Maturity explains the crazy theory in its YouTube video
What a bunch of b*lls**t, that was just a fragment of the rock that disintegrated during entry. The ‘extraterrestrials’ are very far away and have better things to do.
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YouTube channel Nemesis Maturity, which regularly features conspiracy theories, uploaded a video showing two objects arrived, one appearing to follow the other.
The second, smaller object, then appeared to strike the bigger one before a huge explosion.
The footage was taken from a security camera at Burlington International Airport, South Burlington, Vermont and uploaded by AMS.
According to Nemesis Maturity, UFO researchers analysed the footage, before taking the leap that the second object could have been an alien UFO that shot down the speeding meteor.
People feared a major earthquake or volcano eruption when they were frightened out of bed on Saturday.
The boom was strong enough to shake windows in Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico.
Thousands of city’s 3 million inhabitants were woken by the mystery phenomena.
They feared a major earthquake had struck , or the monster Popocatepetl volcano had blown its top, but officials quickly ruled out these theories as no seismic activity was registered.
It was really strong. Windows were shaking. We thought it was an earthquake, but it wasn't. There was a sound like an explosion. We were truly terrified.
Alvaro Morales
Frightened local resident, Emma Chavez said: "It was horrible, we thought it was the volcano, but it wasn't.
"There was a light that shone for a couple of seconds like it was daytime and then there was tremendous thunder."
Alvaro Morales, said: "It was really strong. Windows were shaking. We thought it was an earthquake, but it wasn't. There was a sound like an explosion. We were truly terrified."
One theory, put forward by a locally-based astronomic society was it was an exploding meteor above the city just 30 miles from the capital Mexico City.
The society tweeted that if a space rock had burned up in the atmosphere, there would be nothing to see afterwards and no impact detected.
Residents said a being exited a UFO and climbed a tree
The mystery humanoid was allegedly seen climbing through trees, then jumped back on board the object when it had been seen.
Three students claim to have seen the entity circling Argentine city Santa Cruz before making the dramatic landing, according to local TV news.
A report on Notivision said locals who claimed to have been the UFO said "an extraterrestrial creature descended from its 'craft', before making attempts to get back on board when it was seen".
A TV news reporter for Notivision said: "Three students were witnesses to the sighting from EL Dorado as they returned home from school.
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The students describe what they saw to TV news crew
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Witnesses provided a basic sketch of what they saw to reporters
Turkish Airlines pilots saw a UFO on day of MS804 crash
Turkish Airlines pilots said an unidentified object with green lights passed above their plane on Thursday, the day of the loss of the flight from Paris to Cairo.
The bizarre sighting was just around 350 miles from the last recorded radar observation of the MS804 flight above the Mediterranean.
According to local reports the two pilots reported the inexplicable sighting to the Air Traffic Control Centre at Atatürk Airport, Istanbul.
The pair reportedly said: “An unidentified object with green lights passed 2 to 3,000 feet above us.
“Then it disappeared all of a sudden. We are guessing that it was a UFO.”
An unidentified object with green lights passed 2 to 3,000 feet above us. Then it disappeared all of a sudden. We are guessing that it was a UFO
Turkish Airline pilots
The plane was flying at around 17,000 feet above Istanbul’s Silivri district, during an internal flight from the western Turkish resort town of Bodrum to Istanbul, when they saw the strange craft.
The plane landed at Atatürk Airport around 30 minutes later at just before midnight.
An investigation was launched by the General Directorate of State Airports Authority, but confirmed that strangely, it did not find any object in its radars that could be what the pilots described seeing.
The EgyptAir Airbus A320 vanished from radar with 66 people on board in the early hours of Thursday, meaning the Turkish sighting was several hours later.
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Turkse piloten zien UFO met groene lichten op dezelfde dag dat EgyptAir-vlucht crasht
Turkse piloten zien UFO met groene lichten op dezelfde dag dat EgyptAir-vlucht crasht
Turkse piloten hebben donderdag een onbekend vliegend object met groene lichten boven hun vliegtuig gezien. Op dezelfde dag crashte vlucht MS804 van EgyptAir. Dat schrijven diverse media.
De twee piloten maakten bij de luchtverkeerstoren van de luchthaven Istanbul Atatürk melding van de UFO, meldde de lokale website Haberler. “Zo’n 2 tot 3000 voet boven ons passeerde een ongeïdentificeerd object met groene lichten,” zeiden de piloten, toevoegende dat het plotseling verdween. “We vermoeden dat het een UFO was.”
Niet op de radar
De krant Hurriyet Daily schrijft dat de piloten de UFO zagen in de buurt van het Turkse district Silivri in de provincie Istanbul. De piloten zeiden ook dat ze de UFO zagen toen het vliegtuig op ruim 5000 meter hoogte vloog. Het vliegtuig landde 30 minuten na de waarneming. De luchtvaartautoriteiten zagen het object niet op de radar verschijnen.
Het is niet voor het eerst dat piloten melding maken van een UFO. In 2015 zei Andy Danziger, oud-piloot van president Obama, dat veel piloten UFO’s hebben gezien en dat ‘vrijwel alle piloten in UFO’s geloven’.
Exacte oorzaak
Egypte heeft een onderzeeër gestuurd naar het gebied waar vlucht MS804 van EgyptAir is neergestort. Volgens de Egyptische president moet het vaartuig op zoek naar de zwarte dozen van de Airbus A320.
Volgens president Sisi kan het nog wel even duren voordat de exacte oorzaak van de crash bekend is. Hij houdt met alle scenario’s rekening. Het toestel verdween donderdag van de radar en was op weg van Parijs naar Caïro. Aan boord waren 66 mensen.
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A Man In Washington Reports Military Helicopter Escorting A UFO
A Man In Washington Reports Military Helicopter Escorting A UFO
A military helicopter reportedly escorted a cigar-shaped UFO near to ground level, according to a witness at Battle Ground in Washington.
The incident that happened at 11:20 p.m. on March 21, 2016, was reported to MUFON the following day and can be accessed in Case 75344 from the organization’s witness reporting database.
The reporting witness was in the backyard and heard a sound of an incoming flying object, presumably a Chinook helicopter, nearby. It flew close to the ground as it passed into view. Ahead of it was an apparent dark moving craft, according to the witness.
Though the witness admitted that observing both was very short, he could make out a cigar shape of the UFO, which made no sound at all. It appeared to the witness that the helicopter flying close to it was an escort of the mysterious, silent aerial thing.
The witness thinks there has been UFO activity for many years in the area. The witness claimed that he has prior reports from the place and also haven’t mentioned other unusual sightings in the area. He suggested that UFO watchers should visit Battle Ground, Washington.
Washington Assistant State Director AletaDeBee investigated the case and closed it as unknown.
In her report, DeBee wrote that the UFO and military aircraft were about the same size, speed, and altitude – 2 to 300 feet off the ground. The known aerial object could be a Chinook helicopter as it had two props, DeBee added.
The UFO was in front of the chopper and not slung underneath, but moved as fast as the aircraft without making any sound and was not lighted. The investigator concluded that this was unknown but did not rule out the fact that this could be a military vehicle not known to her at this time.
UFOs - Documenting The Evidence - NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen - Part 1
UFOs - Documenting The Evidence
Don't Just Believe Me, But Do Look At The Evidence. By Paul Dean. Contact: pj_dean@hotmail.com
NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen - Part 1
About a year ago, I took the plunge and begun the near-impossible task of ascertaining what role joint US/Canadian North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) has maintained regarding the UFO matter. Sure enough, just as I had suspected, there is a paper trail dating back decades, and much of it makes for rather awkward reading. Furthermore, I have been working with David Charmichael, a brilliant British citizen who has been aggressively asking NORAD, and its parent agency Northern Command (NORTHCOM), one of ten Unified Combatant Commands organised directly under the Secretary of Defence and Joint Chiefs of Staff, for some honest answers regarding the oddities they track on vast radar systems, and other UFO-related matters. Together he and I have discovered much.
For those that don’t know, NORAD, as its current Fact Sheet states, is: “...charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America. Aerospace warning includes the detection, validation, and warning of attack against North America whether by aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles, through mutual support arrangements with other commands. Aerospace control includes ensuring air sovereignty and air defence of the airspace of Canada and the United States.”.
Put simply, NORAD uses myriad primary and secondary radars to build up an integrated, recognised air and aerospace picture, even out into sub-space, of what is flying around about the USA and Canada. NORAD has generally maintained that the only “UFOs” they detect and track are simply strayed aircraft, hostile formations of Russian combat aircraft and such. NORAD do not have any interest, or, any knowledge, of our sort of “UFO” events. Unfortunately for NORAD, however, if one goes by what the contents of their own declassified paperwork says, the overwhelming evidence is that they have not been honest, and this dishonesty has been going on since the 1950’s. But first, let’s see what official concoctions NORAD has come up with over the long years. The Official Stance In a reply letter dated 10th November, 1975, Colonel Terrence C. James, NORAD Headquarters, Ent Air Force Base, to researcher Robert Todd, it was stated: “…this command has no present activity in investigating UFOs, nor does any area of the United States government that I’m aware of.” Another letter from NORAD HQ, dated 28th, November, 1975, also to Robert Todd, said: “We do not undertake investigative measures… …our interests are satisfied in near real time, and no formal documentation is created by this command.” In a 19 December 1995 letter to researcher Dr. Armen Victorian, NORAD’s Directorate of Information clarified their terminology, while distancing themselves, as one would expect, from the core UFO issue: “Historically, the term UFO was used by the Air Force starting in 1947 and ending in 1969 with the shelving of the Project Blue Book. We all know what the term UFO means, we just don’t use it... …The specific term “UFO” is not used by this command even though you could say that this term would equate to Unknown Track Report: either an Uncorrelated Event or an Unknown Track, since an unidentified flying object could be considered either.” These official statements may sound legitimate at face value, but, in fact, they fly in the face of various documents begrudgingly released by the US military over five long decades.
For Restricted Readership Since 1954, the “Joint Army Navy Air Force Protocol 146” (JANAP 146) procedures, promulgated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have issued a series of “Communications Instructions for Vital Intelligence Sightings”, more commonly referred to as simply “CIRVIS”. The timely reporting of UFO’s by militaryand civilian pilots, as well as other professionals, is clearly laid down in these CIRVIS procedures, and, first on the addressing distribution list is none other than the Commander-in-Chief, NORAD (CINCNORAD). For example, the February 1959 version of JANAP CIRVIS procedures, published as JANAP 146(D), states, in part, under the “Information to be Reported and When to Report” section on Page 8: (1) While airborne and from land based observers.
(a) Hostile or unidentified single aircraft or formations of aircraft which appear to be directed against the United States or Canada or their forces.
(b) Missiles.
(c) Unidentified flying objects.
(d) Hostile or unidentified submarines.
(e) Hostile or unidentified group or groups of military surface vessels…”
(f) Individual surface vessels, submarines, or aircraft of unconventional design, or engaged in suspicious activity or observed in a location or on a course which may be interpreted as constituting a threat to the United States, Canada or their forces.
(g) Any unexplained or unusual activity which may indicate a possible attack against or through Canada or the United States, including the presence of any unidentified or other suspicious ground parties in the Polar Region or other remote or sparsely populated areas.” Note, that “Unidentified Flying Objects” is listed as distinct from single aircraft, formations of aircraft, missiles, etc. Below is an image of this page from JANAP 146(D) CIRVIS.
Of even more interest are these two procedural statements, on Page 12:
“c. A post-landing report is desired immediately after landing by CINCNORAD or RCAF-ADC to amplify the airborne report(s).” And, “(1) Post-landing reports should be addressed to CINCNORAD, Ent AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado, or, RCAF-ADC, St. Hubert, Quebec…” CINCNORAD is merely Commander-in-Chief, NORAD, and, RCAF-ADC is Royal Canadian Air Force, Air Defence Command. Below is an image of the page.
Thus it is established that NORAD, even so long ago, was very much concerning itself with serious UFO sightings made by US or Canadian forces, and any claims to the contrary are absolute nonsense. Now, I can already hear the “But, that was in 1959! What about something current?!”. The 2008 “Air Force Instruction 10-206 Operational Reporting” instruction contains the second most current CIRVIS sightings procedures, which still include “Unidentified Flying Objects” as separate from aircraft, missiles, etc. On Page 36, it is stated, with regards to the addressee of such “vital” reports: “5.3. Submitted To: 5.3.1. Airborne reports: US, Canadian military, or civilian communications facility. 5.3.2. Post-landing reports: Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), Cheyenne Mt, Colorado, or HQ Northern NORAD Region, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, whichever is more convenient. If landing outside Canadian or US territories, submit reports through the nearest Canadian military or diplomatic representative or US.” So much for NORAD not being in the US military’s “UFO loop”.
“Unknown Objects” It isn’t just the above mentioned CIRVIS procedures which raise questions. NORAD’s Operational Instruction Index 0-2, coded “RCCOI 0-2” and dated 7th of March, 1978, inventories a number of instructional publications vital to the overall mission success of NORAD Regional and Sector Operations Centers. Page 2 of the index lists a 9th of May, 1977 instruction titled “Possible Unknowns, Unknowns, Special Tracks and Unknown Objects Actions”. The Below the list is imaged.
There a numerous such NORAD indexes that contain references to classified publications., and through diligent research, some of these publications have been released. The above mentioned instruction, coded 55-8, contains a section, on Page 6, titled “Unknown Objects”, and states, on part: “...Unknown object reporting will be accomplished using the same procedures as for Unknown Track reporting. NORAD Form 61 will be used even though such observations may not result in track establishment.”
This makes very clear that “unknown objects” are of concern to NORAD, despite what the United States government has ceaselessly said to the public. The page in question is imaged below.
While these procedural and instructional records are significant, there is far more material which catches NORAD out red-handed being involved with localized and serious UFO events. In my next post, Part 2 of this series, I will be highlighting such material which provides ample evidence that NORAD know far more about the UFO issue than they are prepared to discuss.
UFOs - Documenting The Evidence - NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen - PART 2
UFOs - Documenting The Evidence
Don't Just Believe Me, But Do Look At The Evidence. By Paul Dean. Contact: pj_dean@hotmail.com
NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen - PART 2
Continuing on from my Part 1 of my series, titled “NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen” I will carry on presenting evidence, in the form of declassified documents, that the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) has been heavily involved in significant, inexplicable and unexplainable UFO events since its formation in 1957. Even when given the opportunity to disclose UFO case and study records to the flawed the University of Colorado’s “UFO Study” (the US Air Force’s final word on the UFO matter in 1969), NORAD managed to stay nearly silent on the matter despite evidence they were sitting on vital, even startling information. I am not attempting here to analysis the actual cases as such. This would not be the appropriate platform to do so, and, much work has been done of these events already. What I am attempting to do is prove NORAD, like so many other agencies, have not been truthful, which is getting seemingly easier every day.
“Unidentified Flying Objects” Take, for example, a 10th of April, 1964 information relay message found in the US Air Force’s (USAF) Project Blue Book records. The document highlights and summarises the contents of previous information moving around US Air Force Headquarters (USAF/HQ), USAF Air Staff, and the National Military Command Center (NMCC). In the subject line there are three very familiar words: “Unidentified Flying Objects”. Under this, two pieces of sectioned information state: “NMCC, NORAD advised that there were 6 to 12 unidentified flying objects at 30 miles East of Merced, California. Radar picked up 12 objects at altitudes 60,000 ft., 90,000 ft., and higher elevations. F-106’s were scrambled at Castle Air Force Base. There were no results because of high altitudes. They are checking the possibility of sending U-2’s.” And, “Objects were following a 60 mile race-track pattern. F-106’s were flying a 90,000 ft. altitude.Pilots locked on to some of the objects but could not keep the lock. NORAD said they were sending 2 more XXXXX aircraft with pilots in pressure suits.”
The case was later dismissed by the USAF as one mere weather balloon. Whether that conclusion is accurate has been debated ad nauseam, but for the purposes of my study it is interesting to note that NORAD is mentioned not once, but twice, in the message text. Specifically, “NMCC, NORAD advised that there were 6 to 12 unidentified flying objects...”and “NORAD said they were sending 2 more XXXXX aircraft with pilots in pressure suits.”. So, for NORAD to state – as they did throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s – that they had no interest or “records held” relating to unidentified flying objects is clearly deceptive. Below is an image of this record.
Another record, dated September 10, 1972, and sent from 22 NORAD Region Headquarters, (22NRHQ) North Bay, Ontario, Canada to both the Canadian Forces Headquarters (CFHQ) and the National Research Council (NRC) is an unclassified telex discovered in the Canadian Archives, along with dozens of others like it. It details an object seen visually, and, tracked on radar by two tower operators at North Bay Airport, which is connected to Canada’s NORAD Operations Headquarters. Described visually as “one object flashing red and green lights, speed very slow to 300 knots at 4000 to 6000 feet estimated”, the report then gives the following further description: “Visual sighting correlated with a North Bay terminal radar return at 340 degrees, six miles. Object appeared to turn in tight circles or hover for approx. 15 minutes and then lose altitude steadily with flashing lights becoming dimmer until visual contact lost at 0345Z. Radar contact lost prior to visual contact.” Below is an image of the telex.
Aside from the obvious fact that NORAD, again, is mentioned in what can only be described assome sort of UFO event, two interesting issues are raised here. Firstly, the message reads “UNLCAS” in the security classification line – meaning “unclassified”. In other words, the contents of the message are not security or intelligence sensitive. From this, one can’t help but wonder what sort of material is held in NORAD records which are classified. Apparently there are many. Secondly, it is interesting to note that the telex was sent from NORAD, not to NORAD – further rubbishing the assertions that they have not one scrap of interest in odd aerial incidents.
In another Canadian telex, again sent from 22NRHQ to the CFHQ and NRC, dated 4th July, 1972, states that Captain Sorefleet and Captain Drury, stationed at Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, Quebec, reported one “white oval” while flying in a fighter jet at 35,000 feet. The description indicates a“small red tail”. This, of course, could be a meteor sighting. However, the telex finally states “observed for 2 minutes about 40 miles”. Whatever the object was, it was clearly unidentifiable enough that the pilots wished to report it, and NORAD was part of that process.
The page is imaged below.
These events occurred in 1972, only 2 years after the Secretary of the USAF famously claimed that no US military agency, which includes NORAD, will continue the reporting, or receiving of reports, of UFO events, and, that: “No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security.” But did the US Department of Defence – especially the commands dealing with air defence and air warfare – really accept this? Do we have any evidence that the above statement is complete rubbish barely fit for the trash bin?
Who’s Got Their Stories Straight At Air Force Headquarters This Week? In 1979, research Robert Todd had the USAF release some of the documents related to the closure of Project Blue Book – the USAF’s 17 year study (one of three such study’s) into the UFO phenomenon. One of the documents was a 20th October, 1969 memo known as the “Bolender Memo”. Signed by Brigadier General Carrol H. Bolender, Deputy Director of Development, USAF, the second page of the memo contains two passages which depart radically from the USAF’s above mentioned statement that no UFO event reported or investigated was a threat to national security. Those passages are: “Moreover, reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and are not part of the Blue Book system.” And, “However, as already stated, reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose.” Below is an image of the page in question.
The Bolender Memo, quite simply, admits that some UFO reports can, and do affect national security. This flies in the face of what the public were being told. Also, the memo indicates that Project Blue Book was never supposed to receive the most alarming, security-vital UFO reports, and, specifically, such reports were being made using the “Joint Army Navy Air Force Protocol 146(E)”(JANAP 146E) system or “Air Force Manual 55-11” (AFM 55-11). In fact, at this time Project Blue Book, and the University of Colorado’s flawed “UFO Study”, was only receiving reports filed using “Air Force Regulation 80-17” (AFR 80-17). This raises awkward questions. For example, if Project Blue Book staff were not getting a chance to evaluate the most sensitive UFO reports submitted by USAF airmen and other military professionals, then who was? As I highlighted in my Part 1 of this series, the USAF and NORAD were in fact at the receiving end of UFO reports made using JANAP 146E’s “Communication Instructions for Vital Intelligence Sightings” (CIRVIS) procedures. UFO reports made using AFM 55-11, using the “Air Force Operational Reporting System” (AFOREP), were likely occurring too. America’s political leaders have not been told about all this, even when they have asked specific questions. In a reply letter to Senator Patty Murray, dated August 25, 1993, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Shubert, USAF, stated: “As information, the Air force began investigating UFOs in 1948 under a program called Project Sign. Later, the program's name was changed to Project Grudge and, in 1953, it became known as Project Blue Book. On December 17, 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project Blue Book... ...As a result of these investigations, studies, and experience, the conclusions of Project Blue book were: 1) no UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security…” Again, compare this with the contents of the Bolender Memo: “…reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and are not part of the Blue Book system.”.Since the public and Congress did not, and do not, know about this JANAP 146 and AFM 55-11 business, the impression can be easily given, as it was to Senator Murray, that the USAF had then, and have now, no reason to take whatsoever the UFO matter seriously. Below is an image of the USAF letter to Patty Murray.
The above examples are only a handful of quite contradictory pieces of information that have managed to find their way out of NORAD, and the wider US military. I have countless more on file. Thousands. Why are we consistently finding that the press, the public, and even politicians were, and still are now, told one thing, but, in classified documents, meant for very restricted readership, the exact opposite is stated? Recently, retired USAF Colonel Charles Halt, who was Deputy Base Commander of the Bentwaters Air Force Base during the famous Rendlesham Forest event, stated: “I’ve heard many people say that it’s time for the government to appoint an agency to investigate. Folks, there is an agency, a very close-held, compartmentalized agency that’s been investigating this for years, and there’s a very active role played by many of our intelligence agencies that probably don’t even know the details of what happens once they collect the data and forward it. It’s kind of scary, isn’t it?” Should we brush these sort of comments aside? Maybe not. He may just be confirming what government documents have been telling us all along.
UFOs - Documenting The Evidence - NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen - Part 3
UFOs - Documenting The Evidence
Don't Just Believe Me, But Do Look At The Evidence. By Paul Dean. Contact: pj_dean@hotmail.com
NORAD And The UFO Smokescreen - Part 3
This blogpost is the third in a series which aims to link, through official and documented record, the UFO matter with the huge North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). For over 50 years, NORAD’s stance on so-called “UFOs” – and I don’t mean merely stray aircraft – is that they know nothing, see nothing and hold nothing on record. However, myriad US military documents prove that NORAD has not been entirely honest. In this post I will highlight two especially unusual occasions where they were certainly involved. But, beforehand, if my readers need to catch up, I have linked is Part 1 and Part 2.
UFOs Are Tracked On NORAD Systems: And That’s Fact Now down to business. A little known fact concerning the infamous Japan Airlines sighting in 1986 is that NORAD almost definitely played a role in the extraordinary event, completely aside from the FAA and even the USAF. For those that do not know about this case, I will only briefly summarise it. On November 17th, 1986, Japan Airlines (JAL) cargo flight 1628 was flying at nearly 900 kilometres an hour over Alaska. Just after sunset, the three crew witnessed a series of UFO encounters that last for 31 minutes, and, the entire fiasco was watched on both FAA primary radar, and, USAF primary radar. The case made headlines around the world. In 2000, John Callahan, Chief of the FAA’s Accidents, Evaluations and Investigations division confirmed the seriousness of the event, and the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency and the President’s Scientific Staff. He also came forward with more FAA evidence, on top of the hundreds of pages of official documentation already released. NORAD’s involvement has been overlooked in this case, I believe. At the heart of the matter, we know for an absolute fact that both the primary radar at the FAA’s Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center (AARTCC), and the primary radar at the USAF’s Elmendorf Air Force Base Regional Operations Command Center (ROCC) picked up “surge primary returns” next to the JAL flight. As these returns were being watched on the screens, the crew were discussing with the FAA, over radio, the worrisome traffic they had around them. It’s a classic radar-visual case, pure and simply. The actual voice tapes of this event are available, and one can actually hear the gravity of the situation in the voices of the pilot, as well as those of the air traffic controllers at FAA AARTCC and USAF ROCC. The important thing here is that there may have been, in some no-doubt complex way, a third set of air traffic controllers, using a third system, watching the event. In the official FAA voice tape transcript the USAF’s ROCC controller says, at 5:38:51: “Ah, I’m gonna talk to my other radar man here has gotta, he’s got some other equipment watching this aircraft.” The passage of speech is somewhat broken, but he clearly says “my other radar man here” and“some other equipment”. Considering it is a USAF controller who was talking, one can’t help but question who “my other radar man” could be, and, what “other equipment” was “watching” the UFOs around the JAL flight? It turns out it was probably NORAD. Elmendorf Air Force Base had, in the 1980’s, a more classified system operated by NORAD, which complimented the USAF hardware. The two merged in Year 2000, but, back in 1986, NORAD’s presence wasn’t exactly advertised at the time of the JAL 1628 UFO sightings. In fact, when one reads that dismal FAA paperwork on the incident, even the USAF’s involvement, let alone NORAD’s, was barely mentioned, despite the fact that they were watching the same thing on their screens, and stating such to the FAA controllers and the JAL pilots. Whatever the exact situation, speculation that NORAD was involved in this event is strengthened when one reads a particular FAA document from the FAA’s JAL 1628 report. After one of the post-landing interviews between the JAL crew and FAA Special Agents James Derry and Ronald Mickle, Special Agent Derry wrote a one page statement. The final paragraph states: “Upon completion of my discussion with the crew, I called Captain Stevens (Duty Officer to NORAD) and asked if he had any questions other than what I had asked. He said he had no other questions, but they also showed two targets on radar (one was JAL). He stated that they would give all data to Intelligence in the morning. I then asked Bobby Lamkin by phone if the Air Force was holding the data and he said yes” Below is an image of this document.
NORAD On Alert Another incident where NORAD paperwork connects them, very strongly I might add, to serious UFO events, is the extraordinary October-November, 1975 “over flights” of a dozen US military bases by unknown aircraft, variously described as mundane helicopters right through to totally unfamiliar and oddly performing craft that appeared repeatedly on ground-based radar and utterly eluded USAF authorities for weeks. These events were highlighted in Barry Greenwood and Lawrence Fawcett’s game-changing 1984 book “Clear Intent”, later published with the title “UFO Cover Up: What the Government Won’t Say”. I will not even attempt here to give an overview of the wave of UFO activity that occurred at that time. What does need to be said though is that hundreds and hundreds of pages of official documents were released from nearly two dozen commands and agencies within the US military throughout 1976 to 1983. Barry Greenwood and Robert Todd accessed most of them, and Barry fondly tells me how stunned he was – time after time – that such raw intelligence and front-line reporting was being furnished to him. These researchers cannot be thanked enough for their work.
Amongst those piles of gold, was a four page release of “incident” summaries extracted from both the NORAD Command Directors Log and the 24th NORAD Region Senior Director’s Log. The time period for released material was from the 29th of October to the 10th of November, 1975. The actual documents were released to researcher Todd Zechel on the 4th of October, 1977. Despite the fact these are quite well known, I wish to highlight some of the contents, and provide imagery of the offending pages. The first page details various worrisome intrusions by “unknown helicopters” over Loring Air Force Base, Maine, Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan, and Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana – all of which maintained mission-ready nuclear weapons.
See below.
The stakes are raised on page 2 of the release where the 24th NORAD Region Senior Director's Log (Malmstrom AFB, Montana) The most alarming incident summaries are probably: “7 Nov 75 (1035Z) - Received a call from the 341st Strategic Air Command Post (SAC CP), saying that the following missile locationsreported seeing a large red to orange to yellow object: M-1, L-3, LIMA and L-6. The general object location would be 10 miles south of Moore, Montana, and 20 miles east of Buffalo, Montana. Commander and Deputy for Operations (DO) informed.” And, for the actual word “UFO”, “7 Nov 75 (1429Z) - From SAC CP: As the sun rose, the UFOs disappeared. Commander and DO notified.”
On page 3, the continuing NORAD summaries mention the term “UFO” five times, plus radar tracks of “unknowns”, “objects”, plus the inspection of such events by fighter jets, which met with failure.
The page is imaged below.
The final page summarises a continuation of similar events that kept plaguing nuclear-weapon equipped bases along the US-Canadian untill mid-November. One piece of text, which brought Minot Air Force Base into the spectacle states:
“10 Nov 75 (1125Z) - UFO sighting reported by Minot Air Force Station, a bright star-like object in the west, moving east, about the size of a car. First seen approximately 1015Z. Approximately 1120Z, the object passed over the radar station, 1,000 feet to 2,000 feet high, no noise heard. Three people from the site or local area saw the object. NCOC notified.”
Finally, this 4 page NORAD release was finalised with some interesting statements which eluded to more material that related to the over flights of these bases, and, thus, Todd Zechel's FOI request. The text indicates that more documents of NORAD providence are in existence, but that they are not fit for release to the public due to legal exemptions. Specifically: “2. HQ USAF/DADF also forwarded a copy of NORAD document for a review for possible downgrade and release. We have determined the document if properly and currently classified and is exempt from disclosure under Public Law 90-23, 5 USC 552b(1).” These pages were signed off by one Colonel Terrance C. James, USAF, Director of Administration. The USAF and NORAD run administrative and functional operations hand-in-hand, thus, a USAF Colonel was able to clear this material for release. Also, aside from the above releases, there were actually a great deal more documents of NORAD providence, or, that mentioned NORAD, released to the likes of Barry Greenwood, Robert Todd, Lawrence Fawcett, Todd Zechel and others in that extraordinary period of FOI openness. In one, which Barry Greenwood has on file, the Commander-in-Chief of NORAD sent a four-part message to various NORAD units on November 11, 1975 summarizing the events: “Since 28 Oct 75 numerous reports of suspicious objects have been received at the NORAD CU; reliable military personnel at Loring AFB, Maine, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, Malmstrom AFB, Mt, Minot AFB, ND, and Canadian Forces Station, Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada have visually sighted suspicious objects.” Regardless of who released what, clearly any NORAD Log Extracts that contain the phraseology like “UFOs”, radar tracks of low-flying “unknowns”, “objects” and “unknown helicopters” indeed fall within our area of interest. NORAD, as well as other US military branches, stated that these incidents were “isolated”, but even the most bone-headed skeptic would not accept that. In my next blog post I will be discussing more about NORAD's capabilities and mission, and the current and ongoing efforts by myself and UK researcher David Charmichael to get to the bottom of how NORAD currently handles the UFO matter. Stay tuned.
There can be very few people within the field of UFO research who haven’t heard accounts of significant material on UFOs going “missing.” We’re talking about the likesof certain files on the Rendlesham Forest UFO event of 1980, and on the Roswell controversy of 1947. There’s also a very intriguing – but far less well-known – affair from the 1950s. It’s one that I have taken a personal interest in, but which still remains unresolved.
The late Ralph Noyes retired from the British Ministry of Defense in 1977. In an interview with UFO investigator Timothy Good, Noyes revealed that, back in the 1950s, the Royal Air Force had secured “gun-camera” footage of UFOs over the UK. The footage – seen by Noyes at the MoD in 1970, along with a dozen or so other individuals – wasn’t overly spectacular (Noyes described it as “unimpressive”). But, it certainly showed something anomalous and fast-moving. Noyes (whose account you can find in Good’s 1987 book, Above Top Secret) confirmed that he saw the footage while in the employ of the MoD, as did representatives from the Meteorological Office, the Director of Air Defense, and a number of personnel from the Air Staff. A theory was offered that the phenomenon may have been “something obscure meteorologically.”
Nick Pope
In the latter part of 1993, I approached the Ministry of Defense and inquired about the then-current status of that same gun-camera footage. Certainly, it was not available for study at the National Archives. So, where was it? That’s a good question. One of those I spoke with on this matter was Nick Pope. Between 1991 and 1994, Pope worked in one particular Ministry of Defense office that handled UFO reports, Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a.
Pope told me: “I liaised with our archivist people, who are the sort of middlemen between us and [the National Archives]. They made a number of checks and, basically, a check was made of any place where this material might have ended. Now, that includes [the National Archives]. It also includes anything that might have got lodged in a halfway house of archiving. They checked the Imperial War Museum and, I think, the RAF Museum.”
Pope continued: “No-one is disputing that Ralph Noyes saw this footage and that it existed. That’s not in dispute, as far as I’m concerned. I think it’s unfortunate, but I suspect that one of two things happened. Either it got lost or destroyed somewhere, because it wasn’t seen as being of public interest at that time. Or, old film deteriorates; it becomes unstable and you have to destroy it before it becomes a health and safety hazard. But, I think Ralph himself said that the footage wasn’t that spectacular. We did have a thorough look for it and unfortunately it didn’t turn up. Given that we’ve now had a proper look, I think it’s unlikely it will turn up. All I can say is, we gave it our best shot.”
While I have absolutely no doubt that Pope was being entirely honest and sincere in his statements, I find it odd that such footage would have been routinely destroyed – and without copies being made for possible, future reference. After all, whether it was a craft from “somewhere else” or, as Noyes suggested, a strange meteorological phenomenon, the fact is that it was caught on film by a military pilot (or pilots), in British airspace, and remained unidentified.
A study of the available and now-declassified UFO reports of the Ministry of Defense shows that, across the decades, it preserved thousands of reports submitted by the general public. Many of those reports described nothing stranger than sightings of mere lights in the sky. Yet, they were all carefully kept on file. But, evidence obtained by the military was seemingly destroyed. To me, that doesn’t make sense. Unless, of course, there’s another explanation: that, to this day, the footage remains classified and far away from the prying eyes of Ufologists. And even from employees of the Ministry of Defense, too.
UFOs and horror have always gone hand-in-hand in Hollywood. Ever since 1951 whenThe Thing from Another Worldterrified cinemagoers with its giant humanoid vegetable monster, audiences have revelled in the repulsion of silver screen aliens. But while the majority of Hollywood’s ETs are invasive, not all are explicitly horrific or soul-chillingly scary.
The popularization of abduction mythology in the late-1980s and early-1990s gave Hollywood a rich new vein to tap – one that lent itself naturally to the horror genre. Helpless victims being snatched from their familiar surroundings in the dead of night by stealthy non-human entities is horror that writes itself.
The Hollywood adaptations of Whitley Strieber’s Communionand Budd Hopkins’Intruders (1989 and 1992 respectively) represented the industry’s first attempts to engage seriously with the abduction phenomenon in its full spectrum of weirdness as reported by experiencers. As real life does not conform to genre, so Communion andIntruders came in a mixture of shades: sci-fi, horror, family drama, but above all else they were existential stories. Unfortunately, such genre-defying products didn’t sit well with studio bosses, who wanted easy-to-package narratives for increasingly dumbed-down audiences.
Hollywood simplified its approach to abductions in 1993 with Fire in the Sky, the big screen adaptation of Travis Walton’s famous true-life account of alien abduction in Arizona in 1975. Tracy Tormé’s screenplay was a reasonably faithful accounting of the Walton experience – that is until its final act, which notoriously distorted Walton’s encounter out of all recognition. The ‘Nordic’ beings described by Travis and their walkabout with him in a spaceport were nowhere to be seen in the movie. Walton’s skittish Grays were replaced with frightful goblin-like beings who literally drag the logger like a sack of spuds through their pestilent, rotting spaceship – all dank tunnels and dripping embryonic sacks – before gluing him to a table with a suffocating membrane and subjecting him to graphic torture with a thick needle to the eyeball. It remains a horrific sequence, so powerful as to erase almost all memory of the events that precede it.
In fairness to the screenwriter, Tormé’s hand was forced away from the word of Walton’s account by jittery studio executives at Paramount, who had threatened to pull the plug on the movie if radical changes weren’t made. Walton himself agreed to these changes, albeit reluctantly. This marked the point in time when alien abduction truly entered the horror genre. Hollywood has never looked back.
Here are four distinctly UFOlogical films from more recent years which have exploited the abduction phenomenon to horrific effect…
The Fourth Kind (2009)
The Fourth Kind was purported by Universal studios to be a true story “based on actual case studies” from the files of Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist who had collected disturbing testimonies from the town of Nome, Alaska, where numerous residents allegedly had vanished since the 1960s. Universal presented archive news clippings online from various Alaskan newspapers, painting a picture of a town historically plagued by UFO sightings and apparent alien abductions.
The movie draws extensively from UFOlogy, featuring a psychologist (à la John Mack) interviewing numerous people whose lives have been turned upside down by mysterious nocturnal disturbances. In a knowing reference to the owl in abduction lore, each of the experiencers report seeing the bird immediately prior to and during their traumas. The owl is later revealed to be a screen memory enforced by the aliens, who here are almost demonic in nature as they physically possess and speak through the bodies of their victims in a dark and twisted tongue, which we are told is Sumerian – a clear reference to the Annunaki of Ancient Astronaut lore. Invasive experimentation is depicted, including procedures on the female reproductive system, but the aliens’ ultimate agenda is left a mystery.
The Fourth Kind was presented as a docudrama featuring “real” footage capturing the events in Nome alongside dramatic reconstructions with Hollywood actors. At various points throughout the film, the ‘dramatic reconstructions’ and ‘real events’ are presented simultaneously in split-screen in order that the viewer can clearly distinguish between the two. But, of course, none of it is real. The “real” footage was fabricated in its entirety, so too were all of the Alaskan news clippings used by Universal in its marketing campaign. Dr. Abigail Tyler never existed, neither did anyone else portrayed in the film. When this elaborate Hollywood sham was revealed, Universal was served with a lawsuit from the Alaska Press Club, to whom the studio agreed to pay $20,000 for undermining the credibility of the various papers whose names had been exploited by the studio. The film went on to make a respectable $49 million from its $10 million investment.
Dark Skies (2013)
Not to be confused with Bryce Zabel’s unrelated Dark Skies TV show from the 1990s, from which this movie brazenly took its title, Dark Skies follows the plight of the Barretts, a suburban family who have been ‘marked’ by evil Grays for nocturnal terrorization and abduction. Husband and wife Daniel and Lacey (Josh Hamilton and Keri Russell) slowly come to accept that the insidious events plaguing their lives have no earthly explanation and, in desperation, turn to local UFOlogist and abductee Edwin Pollard (J.K. Simmons) for answers. Dark Skies is formulaic and predictable, but upon close viewing it demonstrates some understanding of the abduction phenomenon as reported, or at least of its key characteristics. As is standard, some of these characteristics are distorted for horrific effect.
The behaviour of the Grays in Dark Skies is not too far wide of the mark UFOlogically. At times they behave like poltergeists, invisibly raiding the family’s fridge, stealing family photos from their frames, and, in a scene seemingly paying homage to the Poltergeistmovie (1982), elaborately stacking household items in the kitchen. The effect is to bemuse and to frighten. Although exaggerated, these scenes are significant in that numerous abductees have reported paranormal occurrences in conjunction with their experiences – specifically poltergeist phenomena and so-called ‘shadow people.’ These latter phenomena are depicted in Dark Skies in scenes where CCTV captures blurry images of shadow-like figures silently infiltrating the family’s home at night, looming at the children’s bedsides. In this respect the movie is faithful to abduction literature, which describes Grays and other entities effortlessly gaining access to abductees in any given environment – windows, doors, even brick walls are no obstacle for intelligences who consistently demonstrate almost supernatural abilities.
Dark Skies features UFOlogical flourishes from start to finish, suggesting a reasonable level of research on the part of writer/director Scott Stewart. Paintings of owls hang prominently in a child’s bedroom, family members experience missing time, disorientation, nose bleeds; they discover implants in their bodies and unexplainable marks on their skin, including bruises and even geometric shapes, as has so often been reported in real life cases.
Dark Skies received poor to middling reviews from critics, but went on to gross a very respectable $27 million against its very modest $3.5 million budget.
Alien Abduction (2014)
This found-footage flick received limited theatrical distribution following a Video on Demand release. The events of the movie are documented by an autistic eleven-year-old-boy (played by Riley Polanski), who, along with his family, is attacked and abducted by Grays while on a camping trip in the Brown Mountains of North Carolina – a region known in real life for its folklore relating to mysterious lights in the sky.
Seeking to blur UFO fact and fantasy, the movie opens with text informing us that what follows is “actual leaked footage from the US Air Force.” We then see shaky-cam shots filmed inside the alien spacecraft of people being tortured. Screams fill the thick, putrid air. As in Fire in the Sky, and in sharp contrast to experiencer testimonies, the alien environment here is dungeon-like.
The narrative then begins proper, as Riley’s camera footage reveals to us the events that befell him and his family, which play out almost like a stalk-and-slash story. A substantial chunk of the action takes place in a tunnel on a lonely road, wherein the family stumble across dozens of abandoned cars, their drivers and passengers apparently having been abducted en masse. The method of abduction is a violent and messy one, requiring the abductee to be directly within the clawing grasp of a Gray, or clearly within a tractor beam. The aliens here seem far away from thinking, reasoning beings. They are brutal monsters whose methods are crude and dirty.
When all family members have been killed or abducted, including Riley (whose camera continues to film aboard the spaceship before being jettisoned back down to earth by a snarling Gray), the footage is retrieved by Project Blue Book personnel. A card reads: “All footage property of the U.S. Air Force: Project Blue Book Case #4499.”
Extraterrestrial (2014)
In a well-worn horror setup, a group of young friends gather for a good time at a secluded cabin in the woods. It’s not zombies or demons who spoil their fun, though, but tall Grays, who have crashed their flying saucer nearby. Extraterrestrial plays out as ‘teens vs. aliens’ with a heavy debt to UFOlogy. Fire in the Sky, in particular, served as a strong influence. The opening scene is a clear homage to the phone box scene in Firewhere a traumatized, animal-like Travis Walton desperately calls for help following his abduction. Extraterrestrial even features a scene which mirrors almost shot-for-shot the famous scene in the Walton movie where Travis steps out of the car and gazes awestruck at the craft above, only to be ‘zapped’ by a beam of light before being taken. The interior of the spaceship in Extraterrestrial is very much like that in the Walton movie – organic, dank, and gooey. If these allusions weren’t subtle enough, the name of one the characters in Extraterrestrial, Michael Ironside’s gruff woodsman, is Travis.
Beyond its homages to Fire in the Sky, Extraterrestrial references other UFOlogical facets and events. The plot features animal mutilations and a crashed UFO with wreckage “like tinfoil,” a description used by Roswell witnesses. There is even a Project Moon Dust-style crash/retrieval team, whose government bosses have maintained a treaty with the aliens since 1947. The treaty, we are told, is “a basic simple agreement with one cardinal rule: do not engage.” Essentially, then, the government has been turning a blind-eye to the aliens’ human experimentations for almost seven decades. The experiments in Extraterrestrial are restricted mainly to lethal anal probings with large metal drills. The aliens here are monsters, nothing more. How such violent creatures survived long enough as a species to develop interstellar or transdimensional travel is, unsurprisingly, never considered.
Tens-of-thousands of individuals the world over continue to report physical and/or mental interactions with otherworldly intelligences. Regardless of one’s personal perspective on such accounts, it seems fair to say that Hollywood’s treatment of the abduction phenomenon has been generally crude and simplistic. Today, Hollywood shows little sign of engaging with abduction lore beyond its most obvious horror tropes; little interest in exploring the oft-reported psychologically and spiritually transformative aspects of these experiences at individual and collective levels. Yes, abduction movies of the future can (and perhaps should) still be deeply scary, but scares needn’t always come at the expense of narrative nuance and psychological complexity. I, for one, hope more filmmakers begin to recognize this subject for the rich tapestry of human emotion it truly represents. Theirs would be the movies I’d pay to see.
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