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[UFO] [2]: 7262140-20060474F-001-010-2023

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This is a CSETI Project Starlight comprehensive briefing document, prepared by Steven M. Greer, M.D., director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and dated April 1997. It contains CSETI position papers arguing that the US government secretly holds extraterrestrial craft and that covert management of the subject threatens national security, along with letters to President Clinton seeking disclosure. It also includes government records, among them an FAA Charlotte Tower re-recording of a December 1977 police helicopter sighting.

  • p. 241 …TIME PERSONNEL: Sept. 4, 1957 Capt. L. Ferreira {BA2) Lance Cpl. M. ~rcelino Lance Cpl. s…
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Over 11.uleholm, I .aav an object -- on ay right and obliquely ill front ot ae,
fi)'iq at • ■ c.evbat lover altitude -- which at tir1t I tbougbt to be a Jet
pl.am. 'l'be ■ilhouette vu thin an4 it approached ae at a Yer7 hisb nlocity. Q Q0282
OU. Job&DHOD and I have CU8C\I.IH4 the utter of it• ■peed( &D4 CCDp&riDI it•
1peed Vitb, for example, that ot the "n,.s.ac Burel.a" (J-29J, ve ban Ht1Mte4
tl:le 1peed to be about t t~t or 10UD4. The vhole b\1.11DHI took plac:e faotut1c&ll7
qw.ckl.7, but I belieTe tbat I vu able to 1ee the object for 4 to 5 aecoods.
"VbeD the object got closer, I vaa able to a1certala that lt vu •~tric
w aetall1c . It 11 nry 41:r.ficul.t to describe 1ometb1ac that ooe bu nner
Hell before, but I vould HY that it looked like a .f'lytac lozenge. '1'he obJect
414 DOt IH&. to have a crev( but ■eemed more to be a robot. When it paue4
under the vs.as lot the DC-3J, I could 110 longer aee it. Tho Mcbauic, vho va1
able to ob1ene it for tive more 1econda, coDtirms the fact that 1t vu circular
or pouibl7 •CIPVbat elliptical 1D form. 4lt the time of the 1ac14eat, ve vere
n,.s.as at an altitude of 2,150 meter■ and the cloud ce111DS vu about l,500
•tu ■• Thua, the object ■hould baTe beea tl.yiag at an altitude of between
l,500 &Ad l,600 meters. Ve eatUiated -the ahe to be about 10 aete.ra 1D 41•-
Mter. It .lett no exbauat or coodenaait.ioD trail.
-Ve are both ab10lutel7 convinced tbat it could not b&Te been a meteor .or
othv celeatial pheoomenon. We did not aee an7 di stinct light but ve~e only
able to aee that the object bad a metallic lustre. Immediatel7 a.tter the ob-
aenation, ve reported to F5 in LJungbybed and to tbe regional. c1Til air.
■ecurity aerTice at Bul.ltotta. The course ot tbe object vaa ■ auth-soutbvest.
The vhole thing bappeoed ■o quickl,. that ve could not have managed to change
courae (and follov the object) •• • • '
. Olle Joha.Daaoo 's atatemeot vu aa tollovs: "I vaa Iitting forv&rd 1n the
right-ham aeat or the pilot•• cabin vben Cnptain Chriatiern.saon pointed to the
object. Vbat I aav vu an ellipse vitb sharp outline& &nd 1c:111eth1ng betveeo
aUTe:r and vbite in color. I aav it f or about 10 accocda. It TH ap:;,roacbing
trc:a the north in a direction opposite to our&, at a speed ot about l,200 kilo-
meter, "pezi hour. It vu t'lfing entirely above tbe clouds. Frca Mab~ nortb-
va.rd, ·we vere able t o see the groand tor only a r~ myr1amet.e.ra and atter that
there vu A. cloud cOTering all. tbe vay to Stockholm. We vere ~17108 at a apeed
ot about 270 kilometer ■ per hour . Ten minutes •atter tbe 1nc1deot, ve met an
SAS (Scand1oav1an Airline, System.) DC-4 . Tber~upon, ve estimated the ob ject •s
apeed at about three times that of tbe DC-4. Ttere aee:med to bf! no flames or
a oke trail from the object. Since ve bad the automatic pilot on, ve bad no
chance to tfu-o qw.ckl,. eoougb to ■ee vhere the object veot."
The Defense Stllft's abort comcunique on the !.ncident read as follovs :
"At 1457 hours 00 Tburada7, the c:rev on a c1Til1an commercial plane obse"ed,
1D tbe rtcinity ot lllsslebolm, an wucnovn object vh1ch moTed at • high apeed
in a directioo opposite to that or the plane. The object vas Tieved for 6 to
7 aecoods •. At the time of the incident, there ·vu clear veather at the alti-
tude at vbicb tbe plane vu flfia&• Because. or the lov cloud ceiliDC, the
object could not have been aeen trca the ground. \litbi: the Jmavledge or the
Defense Staff, tbere vas no Svedi.ah plane in -the area concerned at the -:1me of
the ~ideat. In-rest1gat1on c:ont1aues.• i
. hport■ or· "fiyiq saucers• baTe arisen in both Europe and -~el'.!ic~:.:..~~
countless e:::::asions ::1 :-ecent ;-:::.::-s but, !.-:-:~ding to a atatement -to Dae:ns
ft'ybeter· by a mbe~ or the ~ Sta.ff, theae ob&enanons OTer .Sk;&,&De c&n be . ·. _..,
'termed the -clearest and most ··detailed vbich heretofore baTe been -made rep.:::~ing
myst~ous, wu:novn a1.rcrart.·(l) ·· ,:·_
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