Flying Saucers UFO Reports

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Perhaps most significant, and certainly most aggravating, is the common occurrence of electro-magnetic effects in those areas where UFOs are sighted. Single cars, blocks of houses and sometimes whole areas have suffered severe caprices of current when UFOs were overhead. The disturbance may be reflected in no more than a stalled motor or heavy static on the radio, but in Hammond, Ind., in 1957, while police chased a UFO, there was a TV blackout in the city. And in 1963, in Australia at the same time an unidentified object danced over the town of Wonthaggi, TV interference was recorded in three towns. There was a city light failure in Rome, Italy in 1958 at the same time a UFO passed over the city and in Brazil in 1959 the automatic keys at a power station flipped off as a UFO was spotted over the trunk line. After the object had passed the power station functioned normally. These are only a few of the instances and serious consideration is still being given by some students of the power line theory that UFOs played a role in the disastrous blackout along the Eastern Seaboard in November, 1965.

## HAVE UFOs BEEN TRACKED ON RADAR?

Goose Air Force Base, Newfoundland, June 19, 1952: Radar experts picked up object on scope making 90 degree turn over airfield after C-54 transport pilot alerted base to fireball that was buzzing his plane. Radar experts had seen number of meteors; did not think this was one.

Source: The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of Air Force Project Blue Book.

Goose Bay, June 19, 1952: "Just as radar men picked up a UEO track, ground men outside saw a strange, redlighted machine come in over the field."

Source: Flying Saucers From Outer Space, by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, U.S. Marine Corps, retired.

Oneida Air Force Base, Japan, August 5, 1952: Ground Control Intercept Station picks up track of saucer hovering near tower. "The mysterious craft divided into three units as if two other saucers had been launched from the first." Three machines raced off at speeds clocked at 300 knots.

Source: Flying Saucers from Outer Space from material supplied Major Keyhoe by Albert M. Chop, civilian expert on UFOs, formerly acting press chief working with Project Intelligence officers at Wright Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.

Wichita, Kans., August 1, 1965: Several unidentified objects tracked by Weather Bureau at altitude of 6000 9000 feet. Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Tinker Air Force Base tracked four on its radar screen at one time, estimating altitudes at about 23,000 feet. At 3:40 a.m., Weather Bureau at Wichita said it had tracked one of the objects south and west of Wellington . . . had first appeared on radar at altitude of about 22,000 feet, then descended to 4000 feet.

## Source: New York Times, August 3, 1965

". . . air force has come along and singled that (above) case out to say that their radar did not confirm the visual sightings of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. . . .

"We've got information to contradict the Air Force denial here. It's a nine page report of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety outlining a sighting by the police and confirmed by the Caswell Air Force Base radar."

Source: Quotes by Richard Hall, assistant Director of NICAP, in Incident At Exeter, by John G. Fuller.

Houghton, Mich., U.S. Air Force Radar Base, Keweenaw Peninsula reported to UPI "solid radar contact" on

Radar experts admit scope is as susceptible to illusion as is the eye, but have picked up some strange blips.