Flying Saucers UFO Reports

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up to ten UFOs moving over Lake Superior in V-formation north-northeast at 9000 miles per hour.

Source: Incident At Exeter, John G. Fuller

Gulf of Mexico, December 6, 1952. One of the most fascinating accounts of radar tracked objects was reported in Major Keyhoe's Flying Saucers from Outer Space based on information released to him by Al Chop. The sighting was first made by a bomber pilot at 5:24 a.m., 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast. The pilot called his radar officer at the Texas base and asked him to check the coastline on the auxillary scope in the cockpit. Suddenly a blip appeared at one edge of the screen of the officer's main radarscope. In the next revolution, the unidentified craft had gone 13 miles. Its third appearance indicated the object would meet the B-29 headon. The radar officer yelled for the flight engineer to help track the object. Between the two of them they computed the object's speed at 5,240 mph. Such speeds seemed impossible to both the bomber pilot and the radar officer, who took time to recalibrate his set. He found no malfunction and by this time there were four UFOs on his screen and also seen by the pilot. During the first six minutes, five such saucers were sighted, all moving at more than 5000 mph. Then the scopes cleared. For one minute the airmen saw nothing. Then two blurs of blue-white whizzed by and five saucers raced in behind the bomber, cut across its course, then headed straight for the B-29. Disaster was imminent. Abruptly the UFOs slowed to the speed of the bomber and hung behind it for ten seconds. When they left, it was to join a huge mother ship that sloshed across the radar scope and was gone, at 9000 mph. Intelligence officers questioned the experienced air and radar men over and over again, receiving always the same unshakeable reports on speed, design and maneuvers. The experience could be explained in only one way: Inteplanetary machines.

Custer, Wash., January 12, 1965: A farm family reported a glowing round object had landed on a snow covered field briefly. After the object took off, the family checked and found the snow melted in a 30 foot circle and the earth scorched. Shortly before this brief landing, radar officers at Blaine Air Force Base had been tracking a 30-foot disc that had buzzed an automobile being driven by a federal law enforcement officer a few miles from the field. This officer's signed statement is on file with NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, in Washington D.C.) The farm family was quoted as having been instructed by the Air Force not to discuss the incident.

Source: Flying Saucers—Serious Business, by Frank Edwards

On three occasions radar equipped F-94s locked on aerial targets only to have the lock-on broken by apparent violent maneuvers of the target.

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

## DO ASTRONOMERS GIVE CREDENCE TO UFOs?

In Frank Edwards' highly informative Flying Saucers Serious Business, he quotes Frank Halstead, Curator of the Darling Observatory, Duluth, Minn. in an interview with the author:

Edwards: "A little while ago you stated that you believe that intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe, possibly, or probably, developed far beyond our intelligence levels in some instances?"

Halstead: "That is correct."

Edwards: "In that case they would already have solved the problems of crossing space, would they not?"

Halstead: "I believe that is a reasonable assumption."

Edwards: "Such space travelers would conceivably have visited Earth, then?"

Halstead: "This is pure speculation, or almost pure speculation, but I think that we should assume that we have had space visitors. . . . I feel that we have had visitors from space just as I feel that in the universe we are not alone."

Edwards: "In your opinion, Mr. Halstead, could the Unidentified Flying objects of our time be space ships?"

Halstead: "Frankly, sir, they could hardly be anything else."

The experience of Professor Walter N. Webb, chief lecturer on astronomy at Charles Hayden Planetarium in Boston, who described the yellow glow that undulated over the hills at the south end of Silver Lake in Michigan in 1951 is another example of the trained eye confronted with an unidentifiable object. To the experienced astronomer the wavey path ruled out planes and planets and existing conditions ruled out inversion effect of ground based lights. The professor's conclusion: An UFO. To further substantiate the conviction of reputable astronomers that UFOs do exist, there is the account of Dr. Clyde Tombaugh's experience in 1949. Dr. Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet, Pluto, was at his Las Cruces, New Mexico, home when he saw a cigar-shaped object silhouetted against the sky. He could make out a row of yellow lighted openings, giving the impression of portholes or windows, running

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