FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 15

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## vfo protect

"MANY TIMES I HAVE SEEN FLYING DROPS OLLOWING AND OVERTAKING MISSILES IN LIGHT AT THE EXPERIMENTAL BASE AT WHITE ANDS, NEW MEXICO, WHERE, AS IS KNOWN, HE FIRST AMERICAN ATOM BOMB WAS TRIED OUT." COLONEL MACLAUGHLIN.

Missile expert. (Statement in 1949.)

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lamogordo, N.M. - At least 29 White Sands Missile ange personnel were eyewitnesses to one or more identified Flying Objects between 10.30 and 11 m. Thursday.

## 29 sight UFO's over White lands Range

by Dorrance Guy.

An investigation is under way at Holloman Air force Base, N.M., with Maj. James Stephens, UFO officer, in charge. He, too, is not allowed to discus o sightings.

All service personnel and civilians working for the services have been forbidden to discuss the sightings.

News concerning the UFOs has been cutoff by ders from the Pentagon.

Terry Clark, president and general manager of radio station KALG, Alamogordo, said the UFOs first were spotted near Ruidoso, N.M., then went near Villoman AFB, then south toward Orogrande, N.M., and then disappeared over the Sacramento Mountains.

information officers at Holloman AFB and WSMR are contacted by Clark and he was told the Flight Safety Office at Kirtland AFB at Albuquerque, H.M. would handle the investigation. Kirtland would make comment except that all information would have to be from the Pentagon.

Clark called the assigned number at the Pentagon it was told that no information was available.

Capt. Frank J. Morris, director of information at Human AFB, Saturday night said that Maj. Steps is handling the investigation. He said the re is would be sent to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio,

d from there would go to the Pentagon. He said information would be released except through the public Information Office under the Secretary of the Force.

either WSMR nor Holloman AFB personnel has authority in the case.

Dark said eyewitnesses, when they could be identified, would not allow use of their names because the Air Force regulation.

however, these witnesses estimated that the "silv discs" were flying at an altitude of "20,000 to 300 feet" and moving at a speed of "approximat- 2,000 miles per hour."

here were several Air Force planes in the air + WSMX at the time of the sightings. While it

took a few minutes to transfer from Army to Force communications, the pilots were notified of the UFOs. They circled around, but none of the pilots was able to see anything unusual.

Missile firings at WSMR were checked. There were none at this time. There was little cloud cover during the half hour involved and, at this time of day, it would be impossible to see a meteor. The objects were moving much faster than a balloon.

One WSMR individual said the UFOs were tracked on radar. There is no accurate estimate of the number of objects spotted. There may have been one - may have been more.

There is no indication when the Pentagon will release any information on the sightings - if ever.

From: The El Paso Times, El Paso, Texas.

Sunday, March 6th, 1967.

COMMENT: We understand from our source of information that this news item appeared only in El Paso, Texas. Inquiries showed that the Air Force had stopped the incident being reported in the national newspapers. To quote the above news report: "There is no indication when the Pentagon will release any information on the sightings - if ever."

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And so, life goes on . . .

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## UFO's over British Columbia

On April 14th, 1967, at about 8.05 p.m., San Squire and Scott McNeill (two boys aged about 14) were on their cycles going along Cedar Hill Crossroads, Virginia, B.C. They crossed over Cadboro Bay Road into Upper Terrace Road (Uplands residential district), and proceeded down into Ripon Road as far as the Circle. From there, they saw a red and a green light hovering over what they thought was probably the area of the Uplands Golf Clubhouse on Cadboro Bay Road. They were on their way down to the Tachi Club, and didn't stop to investigate, however. The two lights were not blinking, and seemed stationary (but it must be remembered that on their cycles, they were moving, which prevented their being certain about this last point). The sky was dark and starry: there was hardly any wind at all.

At 8.10 p.m. the same evening, i.e. five or six minutes later, Ian Squire's grandmother (name withheld at witness' request) was driving uphill along Cadboro Bay Road southwards towards the northern gates into The Uplands district, when suddenly she saw a red and a green light over the roadway, i.e. higher than the height of a very tall tree. The witness, who is personally known to me through her daughter and grandson, unfortunately did not stop to investigate. Instead, she continued on right underneath the object which, she said, seemed to be spread entirely over the width of the wide roadway. The two colored lights seemed to be shining only forwards, and to be from 4 to 8 feet from the extrem-