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- The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; the U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974 FOIA release
This is a 1992 CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, originally classified Secret NOFORN and approved for release in 2013. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974 and the two aircraft it developed, the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. The history covers the U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union, the 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers and later operations in Asia and Latin America. It also includes a section on U-2s, UFOs and Operation BLUE BOOK.
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This is a secret War Department outgoing classified message, number WAR 86184, dated 2 January 1945. It was sent from Bissell of the Military Intelligence Division and signed by Ulio, addressed to G-2 at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Versailles, France. It notes press reports of red balls of fire flying alongside planes in flight, which air personnel called "Foo Fighters," and asks for an explanation if one is available.
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This memo, dated 16 January 1945, went from Headquarters XII Tactical Air Command, A-2 section, to the First Tactical Air Force (Prov). It quotes the 415th Night Fighter Squadron's December 1944 report that crews were followed by blinking, color-changing lights that came close, flew formation with their planes and unsettled them, and it asks for more information. In an endorsement dated 20 January 1945, First Tactical Air Force says no similar instances were reported and asks for details on color, size, altitude, timing and behavior.
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This secret 415th Night Fighter Squadron intelligence report, dated 30 January 1945, was sent to XII Tactical Air Command in reply to that command's 23 January 1945 endorsement. It quotes pilots' sortie reports from December 1944 to January 1945 describing red, orange, amber and white lights near Strasbourg, Hagenau, Worms, Luneville and Weissembourg that followed aircraft and then disappeared. Squadron crews called these lights "Foofighters." Each time a pilot asked GCI Control about aircraft in the area, the answer was negative.
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This SECRET indorsement chain, dated 4 and 5 February 1945, comes from Headquarters XII Tactical Air Command and the First Tactical Air Force (Provisional). It forwards earlier indorsements about unexplained phenomena to the Chief Intelligence Officer, Air Staff SHAEF. The First Tactical Air Force says it has no further information or explanation for the phenomena and believes further investigation is warranted. Because it lacks the technical personnel for that, it passes the matter to SHAEF for whatever investigation is advisable.
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This is a memo from the Air Staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, dated 11 February 1945 and addressed to the First Tactical Air Force (Prov.). It answers a 3rd Indorsement about night phenomena reported by pilots of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron. The memo says the Headquarters has no information explaining the lights and other phenomena. It refers the matter to the Air Ministry and hopes to arrange a visit to the unit by a USSTAF Air Technical Intelligence Officer.
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This secret memo from the Air Staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force is dated 11 February 1945 and signed by Air Commodore C.M. Grierson. It went to Headquarters USSTAF for the attention of Col. Bradley and covers "Night Phenomena." It forwards reports from the First Tactical Air Force, among them many from the 415th Night Fighter Squadron. The memo concludes that more than imagination seems to lie behind the reports, since crews are becoming worried. It notes that the Air Ministry and Mr. Robertson have been consulted and suggests that an intelligence officer interview the aircrews.
- Air Ministry reply 111/45/DDI2 Document
This is an Air Ministry (D.D.I.2) reply dated 13 March 1945, reference 111/45/DDI2, signed by Group Captain E. D. W. Hopkins and addressed to the SHAEF air staff about reports of "balls of fire." It says Bomber Command crews had been reporting similar phenomena for some time. It suggests some of the objects may have been Me. 262 jets and that flak rockets are the most likely explanation for the rest. It concludes that the affair remains a mystery and no definite explanation can yet be given.
- Numeric Files 1944–1945 37153 German Armament Equipment Documents Official release
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This SHAEF Air Staff (Forward) letter of 18 March 1945, signed by Air Commander C.M. Grierson for the Deputy Supreme Commander, went to the First Tactical Air Force (Prov.). It responds to night phenomena ('foofighter') reports that the XIIth Tactical Air Command had sent forward. It relays the Air Ministry's reply that Bomber Command crews had been reporting similar phenomena. The Air Ministry suggested that a few were Me.262s and the rest most likely flak rockets, and the letter offers no further information.
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This Project 10073 record and ATIC summary sheet, drawn from Seventh Bomber Command mission reports, covers a 2 May 1945 incident over Fala Island, Truk Atoll. The crew of a B-24 at 11,000 feet saw two airborne objects that turned from cherry red to orange to white. The objects followed the bomber through evasive action, and one stayed with it for hours toward Guam. Other B-24s reported green flames and red tracer-like trails. The final ATIC evaluation was possibly an enemy aircraft.
- Project Blue Book Administrative Files: 09203_2005 Official release
- Project Blue Book Administrative Files: 09475_2005 Official release
Project Blue Book Status Report No. 8, issued by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and dated 31 December 1952, covers June to October 1952, when 886 reports were received. That is more than in the previous five years combined. It breaks down evaluations by category and summarizes a survey of 44 astronomers and the 29 July 1952 Pentagon press conference. It also covers a new observer questionnaire, cooperation with the Air Defense Command, access to weather balloon tracking data and diffraction grating cameras.
- Project Blue Book Administrative Files: 595507 Official release
Project Blue Book Status Report No. 8, issued by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and dated 31 December 1952, covers June through October 1952, when 886 reports were received, more than in the previous five years combined. It breaks down evaluations by category, summarizes a consultant astronomer's interviews with 44 astronomers, and notes General Samford's 29 July press conference. It also describes the statistical analysis, the new observer questionnaire, Videon diffraction cameras and weather balloon tracking.
- Project Blue Book Administrative Files: 595542 Official release
This Project Blue Book administrative file from the Air Force's Technical Intelligence Division contains a chart titled "Frequency of Unidentified Flying Object Reports, June through September." The chart plots the number of reports per day. Its annotations mark a highly publicized incident at Washington D.C. and a press conference on unidentified flying objects. It also marks articles in Look magazine, one of them giving a "solution", along with articles in Life and The New Yorker.
- Project Blue Book Case Files on Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs): 595553 Official release
This 1947-dated Project Blue Book case file from the Air Materiel Command's Technical Intelligence Division contains an illustrated piece titled "Saucers Over Washington, D.C." It covers the radar sightings at the Washington National Airport control center on the night of July 19, 1952. Senior controller Harry G. Barnes reported at least 10 unidentified objects, and Capitol Airlines pilot C.S. Pierman saw lights that matched the radar returns. The piece disputes the Air Force's temperature inversion explanation, noting the inversion was only one degree.
- Project Blue Book Case Files on Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs): 596293 Official release
This 1952 memorandum for record, filed in the Project Blue Book case files, covers a trip to Washington by Col D. L. Bower and Capt E. J. Ruppelt. On 21 July they met MATS Air Weather Service and Flight Service at Andrews AFB to ask for help identifying balloons and aircraft, and proposed a CAA reporting letter. At the Pentagon the next day they worked on an Air Intelligence Digest issue and on public information arrangements. They also fielded press and presidential inquiries about the Saturday night radar sighting over Washington.
- Intelligence Review of “Ghost Rocket” Incidents, 1947 Official release
- General 1946-7 Vol 2 Official release
- Project Sign Progress Report, 1948 Case file
- General 1948 Vol 1 Official release
- D/FBI Correspondence Referral, 1949 Official release
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This confidential FBI office memorandum, sent from the San Antonio office to the FBI Director on January 31, 1949, and held in a NICAP copy, reports on Fourth Army intelligence conference discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena. It covers the July 1948 Eastern Airlines sighting over Montgomery, Alabama, and a concentration of green light sightings near Los Alamos, New Mexico. It notes that little concrete information has been obtained, and that G-2 and OSI are investigating while this office is not.
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This FBI office memorandum from the San Antonio Special Agent in Charge to the Director, dated January 31, 1949, reports on Fourth Army intelligence talks about unidentified aerial phenomena. It describes a July 1948 Eastern Airlines sighting over Montgomery, Alabama, and a run of green light sightings near Los Alamos in December 1948 and January 1949. According to the memo, the objects are either unknown natural phenomena or man made, and G-2 and OSI are investigating while the San Antonio office is not.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum from Dr. Stone to Dr. Machle, dated 15 March 1949, is on the subject of flying saucers. Stone writes that the survey documents leave the reader confused and lists points he thinks the survey missed. These include the chance that many objects are free meteorological sounding balloons and the unlikelihood of domestic or foreign craft being tested over the United States. He also raises the psychological tendency to see brief objects as circular and the odd time distribution of the observations.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This is a US government office memorandum from Dr. Stone of the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) to Dr. Machle, OSI, on the subject of flying saucers. It criticizes a survey of saucer reports as confusing and lists points the survey left out. These include the chance that many objects were free meteorological sounding balloons and the unlikelihood of US or foreign craft being tested over the United States. It also asks why brief sightings look circular and why the reports cluster by month.
- CIA-UAP-005, German Scientist's Article on 'Flying Discs' Official release
- (Estimated Pub Date) Untitled Listing of Terms FOIA release
- 342 HS1-416511228 319.1 Flying Discs 1949 Official release
- German Scientist's Article on 'Flying Discs' FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 31 July 1950 and marked unevaluated, forwards a translated article by Dr. Eduard Ludwig of Santiago, Chile, written for the German-language magazine Condor. Ludwig worked at the Junkers research plant in Dessau. He argues that the flying discs could be aircraft built on German research into boundary-layer aerodynamics, driven by gas turbines and fitted with Flettner rotors. He suggests that this technology may have fallen into Russian hands.
- German Scientists Article on "Flying Discs" FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 31 July 1950 and marked unevaluated, forwards a translation of an article by Dr. Eduard Ludwig of Santiago, Chile, written for Condor, a German language magazine published in Chile. Ludwig describes rotor experiments at the Junkers research plant in Dessau. He argues that flying discs may be gas-turbine aircraft that use Flettner rotors and boundary layer effects. He suggests this German science may have fallen into Russian hands.
- Unidentified Airborne Object FOIA release
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This Black Vault copy of Air Force records centers on the Project Twinkle Final Report, which Louis Elterman of the Geophysics Research Division wrote on 27 November 1951. Project Twinkle investigated green fireballs and other light phenomena in New Mexico using Askania cameras run by Land-Air at Vaughn and Holloman AFB. Elterman found the results essentially negative, with most sightings put down to aircraft, balloons, birds, clouds and meteors. He recommended no further spending. The file also includes the 1949 and 1950 correspondence that set up the project and 1952 memos about declassifying it.
- Newark Field Office, 1952-1967 Official release
- U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File, 1952 Official release
- Washington State ‘UFO’ Investigation, 1952-1960 Official release
- Light Phenomena East of Tashkent FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 11 February 1952, is a reinterrogation of an informant from an earlier report (SO-49149x). It describes three light phenomena seen almost every night from May to September 1947 from a camp at Pakhta Aral, about 50 km southwest of Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Each began as a dark red ball of fire that climbed a long trajectory while changing color, with no smoke, noise or detonation noticed. A field comment says the trajectory estimates should be treated with reserve.
- Light Phenomena East of Tashkent FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed on 11 February 1952, is unevaluated and supplements an earlier report through a second interrogation of the same informant. The informant describes light phenomena seen almost every night from May to September 1947 from a POW camp about 50 km southwest of Tashkent in the Uzbek SSR. Each phenomenon was a dark red ball of fire that rose on a long trajectory, changed color, and made no noise. A field comment advises treating the trajectory estimates with reserve.
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This audio file records a March 1952 presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, outlining the U.S. Air Force’s reorganized investigation into unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The presentation previews prospective technical methodologies, such as diffraction-grating photography and radar-scope synchronization, that were subsequently incorporated into Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force program active from 1952 to 1969 that investigated the nature and origin of UFOs. Ruppelt explains that out of approximately 800 historical cases reviewed by the Air Force, approximately 20% remained unexplained after technical analysis. These unresolved reports were sourced from credible military personnel, commercial pilots, and other qualified technical observers. He highlights geographic report concentrations around sensitive national security and nuclear weapons installations (including Los Alamos, Albuquerque, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories) and notes recurring anomalous characteristics, including silent high-speed flight and radar detections indicating unconfirmed air speeds between 1,000 and 3,500 miles per hour. Emphasizing that the Air Force found no conclusive evidence regarding the nature or origin of the phenomena, Ruppelt underscores the national security need for a systematic physical data collection effort to better evaluate these sightings.
- Transcript of a Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952 Hearing transcript
- Transmittal of Letter from Thomas B. Scott, Jr. FOIA release
This CIA memorandum from April 1952 was signed by Philip G. Strong, Deputy Assistant Director. It was sent to Major Carl R. Hart at Headquarters United States Air Force and passes on a letter from Thomas B. Scott, Jr. of Lake View, South Carolina, together with the Agency's reply. Scott had described signaling an object in the sky on 2 April 1952. The reply says the Agency is interested but that the Air Force is responsible for identifying such objects, so the letter was forwarded to it.
- Flying Saucers (PUBD Is Unknown) FOIA release
This CIA file on flying saucers includes a memorandum from Director Walter B. Smith to the Director of the Psychological Strategy Board. Smith says unidentified flying objects may matter for psychological warfare as well as intelligence and operations. The file also holds an Office of Scientific Intelligence study, draft NSC and Secretary of Defense papers proposing a centrally run research program, a briefing on the Air Force's small ATIC section under Captain Ruppelt, and a Project Blue Book paper on weather and research balloons.
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This Central Intelligence Agency file from 1952 contains several related papers. A July 1952 memorandum from the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence notes recent radar and visual sightings and says a special study group is under way. A later memo from H. Marshall Chadwell says objects seen at high altitude near U.S. defense installations are not attributable to natural phenomena. The file also includes a draft memo to the National Security Council and a draft NSC directive making identification of unidentified flying objects a priority.
- Flying Saucers (PUBD Is Unknown) FOIA release
This 1952 Central Intelligence Agency file brings together papers on unidentified flying objects. A memorandum to the Director of the Psychological Strategy Board says the subject may matter for psychological warfare, intelligence and operations. A study by the Office of Scientific Intelligence describes the small Air Force section at Wright Field led by Captain E. J. Ruppelt, criticizes its case-by-case analysis, and recommends a centrally coordinated research program. The file also contains a Project Blue Book paper on identifying weather and research balloons.
- Minutes of Branch Chief's Meeting of 11 August 1952 FOIA release
These Central Intelligence Agency minutes cover a P&E Division branch chiefs' meeting on 11 August 1952. Mr. Sullivan announced a new "Flying Saucers" project to keep a file, build outside contacts and bring the Division up to date so it could form an opinion when needed. The minutes say ATIC collects flying saucer information for CIA. Branch representatives were named, and Ray Gordon was made Project Officer, tasked with gathering ATIC reports and past findings in meteorology, radar and other sciences.
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This archival footage is a digitization of a 16mm print of Kodachrome color motion-picture film shot on a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse reported observing and filming a group of bright airborne objects and shortly thereafter submitted the footage to the U.S. Air Force. The film later became one of the visual cases reviewed by Project Blue Book, the 1952–1969 U.S. Air Force program that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The film’s limited detail and lack of fixed reference points prevented a conclusive resolution. From the 55-second mark onward, the film transitions to unrelated footage appearing to show a demonstration of sewing equipment. The presence of unrelated sewing-equipment footage suggests that the surviving footage may be a composite or reused print, though the available record does not establish how or when the materials came to be combined. As documented in records submitted with the film, contained in this collection under the title DOW-UAP-D102, the footage originally was paired with mountain scenery from Idaho, which is not preserved in this digitization.
- Flying Saucers in Spain and North Africa FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-23759), distributed 27 August 1952, collects unevaluated translations of Spanish and French newspaper items published in Tangier and Algiers between 22 May and 16 June 1952. It describes a rocket-shaped, smoke-trailing object over Barcelona, a green-lit object over Sousse, Tunisia, and sightings over Meknes, Taourirt and Casablanca in French Morocco. At Meknes, a witness said the object was much faster than nearby T-33 planes. The report draws no conclusions.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This informal CIA memo, dated 5 July 1952 and signed by Edward Tauss, Acting Chief of the Weapons and Equipment Division, gives an overall evaluation of "flying saucer" reports. It says that of 1,000 to 2,000 reports received by ATIC, most were phony, known U.S. equipment or natural phenomena, and fewer than 100 credible reports remained unexplained. The memo recommends that CIA surveillance of the subject continue while CIA interest is kept from the press and public. It also notes a briefing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base arranged for 8 August 1952.
- USSR and Satellite Mention of Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memo, dated 5 July 1952, reports on a file search for mentions of flying saucers in the Soviet and Satellite press. It says the search found no factual evidence of such mentions in the past two years. It cites a 10 June 1951 Moscow broadcast and a Budapest Szabad Nep article, both calling flying saucer stories American attempts to fan war hysteria. It notes that field stations were asked to watch for further Iron Curtain mentions.
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This Central Intelligence Agency item, dated 5 July 1952 and approved for release in March 1978, relays a press item from Bonn about an article by Dr. Waldemar Beck in the German magazine Der Flieger. The article claims a crewless flying saucer 47 meters in diameter crashed on Spitsbergen and was studied by Norwegian and German rocket experts. It reports a plutonium-cored radio piloting transmitter, an unknown steel alloy, 46 jets and Russian inscriptions on the instruments.
- 'Flying Saucers' in East Germany FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, numbered 00-W-23682 and published 9 July 1952, reproduces a Berlin press account about a claimed landing in the Soviet Zone of Germany. It reports that Oscar Linke, the former mayor of Gleimershausen, and his 11-year-old daughter Gabriella gave sworn testimony that they saw a disc about 15 meters across near Hasselbach. According to the testimony, two men in shiny metallic clothing boarded the object before it rose and flew off toward Stockheim. The report is marked as unevaluated information.
- Flying Saucers Over Belgian Congo Uranium Mines FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, numbered 00-W-23602 and distributed 16 August 1952, translates a 29 March 1952 article by Fritz Sitte from the German-language newspaper Die Presse. The article says two fiery disks were seen over uranium mines in the Elisabethville district of the southern Belgian Congo. It also says Commander Pierre pursued them in a fighter for 15 minutes and estimated their speed at about 1,500 kilometers per hour. A speculative sketch of the saucers' construction is appended.
- 711.5612[7-2852 Official release
- Recent Sightings of Unexplained Objects (with Memo Attached Dated 521202, Subject: Unidentified Flying Objects) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum was prepared for the Deputy Director/Intelligence and dated 23 July 1952. It comes from the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It reports that many visual sightings of unidentified objects have come in over the past several weeks. The office has reviewed such reports for three years, and a special study group has now been formed to review the subject. A report is expected about 25 August. The copy is partly illegible and was approved for release in 2010.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, was prepared in September 1952. It reviews the Air Force study of flying saucer reports at the Air Technical Intelligence Center, which had received about 1,500 official reports since 1947. It finds that the sightings carry national security implications, both psychological and for air defense. It recommends action by the National Security Council, new research and a public information policy that would minimize the risk of panic.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This CIA memorandum from the Acting Chief of the Weapons and Equipment Division to the Deputy Assistant Director/SI, dated August 1952, gives an overall evaluation of flying saucer reports. It says most of the 1000 to 2000 reports received by ATIC are hoaxes, known U.S. equipment or natural phenomena, and fewer than 100 credible reports remain unexplained. It recommends that CIA surveillance continue without press or public awareness and notes that a briefing at ATIC was set for 8 August 1952.
- (Deleted) Flying Saucers FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency information report on flying saucers in the Netherlands. It carries report number 00-B-55478, is marked as unevaluated information and was distributed on 2 September 1952. The surviving text says that on 24 July, at about 6:30, a woman and her four children saw a large formation of flying saucers over Arnhem. The objects came from the north in a V formation, stayed in view for several minutes and then suddenly disappeared to the south.
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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed on 2 September 1952 and marked as unevaluated, translates French-language newspaper items from Dakar and Casablanca published 12 to 18 July 1952. It collects eyewitness reports of flying saucers and luminous objects. They include a flame-emitting object over Dakar on 3 July and sightings in Morocco between 12 and 14 July at Had Kourt, Fedala, Ifrane, Chichaoua, Louis Gentil and near Casablanca. A blue ovoid object was also reported rising from the ground in the Daiet Aoua region.
- 'Saucers' Sighted Over Spain and French Africa FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report (No. OO-W-24108), distributed 27 September 1952, summarizes Spanish and French newspaper accounts published between April and August 1952. It covers four glowing spheres over Almansa and a red object over Andujar in Spain. It describes a cargo ship master's sighting of an orange light off Port Gentil, Gabon, where no planes were aloft, and a string of saucer reports across Oran Department, Algeria. The material is marked as unevaluated.
- Minutes of Branch Chief's Meeting of 11 August 1952 FOIA release
- USSR and Satellite Mention of Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memo, dated 22 August 1952 and approved for release on 24 January 1972, reports on searches for mentions of flying saucers in the Soviet and satellite press. Files turned up no factual press mentions in the past two years. They did turn up a 10 June 1951 Moscow broadcast and an August 1952 Budapest newspaper article, and both called saucer reports an American attempt to fan war hysteria. FAID was asked to have its field stations report any further Iron Curtain mentions.
- 'Flying Saucers' in East Germany FOIA release
- Flying Saucers in Spain and North Africa FOIA release
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, prepared by the Office of Scientific Intelligence in September 1952, asks whether flying saucer reports have national security implications. It reports that the Air Force's small ATIC group had received about 1500 official reports since 1947 and studies them only case by case. It identifies psychological warfare and air defense false alarm risks, notes silence in the Soviet press, and recommends National Security Council involvement, further research and a public information policy.
- (Deleted) Flying Saucers FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency information report dated 2 September 1952 and released with the title "(Deleted) Flying Saucers." The surviving text quotes an account of a large formation of "Flying Saucers" seen above Arnhem on 24 July at about 6:30. A woman, whose name is withheld, and her four children watched the objects come from the North in a V formation. They saw them for several minutes before the objects suddenly disappeared to the South.
- Flying Saucers Problem FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, signed by Ralph L. Clark and dated 2 September 1952, concerns the flying saucer problem. It records an agreement between CIA intelligence officials to bring responsible people in the community together to work out a program of research and intelligence. That program would then go to the DCI and possibly the Secretary of Defense and National Security Council. A meeting with Dr. Walter G. Whitman of the RDB and Gen. John A. Sanford of the USAF was proposed for 20 or 21 October.
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This Central Intelligence Agency file contains memoranda to the Director of Central Intelligence from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, dated October 1952. They find that the Air Force's Air Technical Intelligence Center explains flying saucer reports one case at a time, which is not enough to resolve the problem as a whole. The memos warn of two national security dangers, mass psychological panic and air defense vulnerability, and recommend that the National Security Council be briefed and that research begin.
- 'Saucers' Sighted Over Spain and French Africa FOIA release
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This Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-24639), distributed 24 November 1952, compiles unevaluated translations of French and Spanish newspaper items from July to October 1952. It covers sightings of luminous disks and other unidentified objects over French Morocco, Algeria, Tangier, Spain, Mallorca, Durban in South Africa and Abidjan. Most items describe the object seen across Morocco on 21 September 1952, including a close pass reported by a tourist pilot named Creze. One newspaper suggested that object was probably a meteor.
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This declassified Central Intelligence Agency file includes an Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence dated 2 October 1952 and an attached memo on flying saucers. H. Marshall Chadwell of OSI found that the Air Force's ATIC was the only group studying the subject, and only case by case. Chadwell warned of two national security risks, mass panic and confusion in air defense. He recommended that the National Security Council start research and adopt a public information policy.
- Unidentified Object Over Norwegian Town FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency report, No. 00-W-24549, was distributed on 13 November 1952. It translates an item from the Norwegian newspaper Harstad Tidende, published 20 September 1952, and is marked as unevaluated information. According to the item, on 18 September three forestry workers just outside Kirkenes watched a flat, round object 15 to 20 meters across hover motionless at about 500 meters before it flew off northwest at great speed. The workers appear to have been the only witnesses.
- Flying Saucers Problem FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, dated 14 October 1952 and signed by Ralph L. Clark, covers an informal discussion among DD/I, AD/IC and the Acting AD/SI about the flying saucer problem. They agreed that the responsible people in the intelligence community should meet to work out a research and intelligence program. The finished program could then go to the DCI, and possibly to the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Council. The memo sets a meeting for 20 or 21 October with Dr. Walter G. Whitman, General John A. Samford and others.
- Fcc Monitoring and Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 2 November 1952, reports an interview with Irving Weston of the FCC's Field Engineering and Monitoring Division. Weston said the Commission had no knowledge of unexplained radio signals that might be connected with flying saucers. The memo describes the FCC's 12 full-time and 6 part-time monitoring stations, the limits of its VHF monitoring and its file of reported intercepts. It concludes that persistent signals below 30 mc/s would likely draw attention.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record, dated 3 December 1952, describes meetings at MIT with Julius Stratton, Max Millikan, Lloyd Berkner and Jerrold Zacharias. The author briefed them on recent sightings and discussed where a scientific review of flying saucers could be based, including Project LINCOLN, Princeton or Cal Tech. The memo concludes that full backing from the DCI will probably be needed to secure Air Force cooperation for such a review.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence is dated 1952 and summarizes the state of the investigation into unidentified flying objects. It lists recent incidents, among them movies of ten objects taken near Tremonton, Utah on 2 July 1952, a brilliant light seen off the coast of Maine, and an alleged ground contact in Florida. It also reports that work is underway with Dr. H. P. Robertson to set up a panel of top scientists to review the subject.
- Unidentified Object Over Norwegian Town FOIA release
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file dated 2 December 1952 holds a memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence. It says that sightings of unexplained high-speed objects at great altitudes near major U.S. defense installations need immediate attention. Chadwell proposes a consulting group of qualified scientists. The file also holds a draft memorandum to the National Security Council and a draft directive. Together they would have the Director of Central Intelligence run a priority program of intelligence and research to identify unidentified flying objects.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This CIA memorandum for record, dated 3 December 1952 and filed by OSI, describes meetings at MIT on flying saucers. The writer briefed Julius Stratton, Max Millikan, Lloyd Berkner and Jerrold Zacharias on recent cases, including the Limestone Base case, the Florida scoutmaster case and the Utah motion pictures. Stratton urged an investigation, possibly through Project LINCOLN or Cal Tech. The memo concludes that full DCI backing would probably be needed to secure Air Force cooperation for a scientific review.
- Proposed Study on the "Flying Saucers" Phenomena FOIA release
- Fcc Monitoring and Flying Saucers FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated 9 December 1952, sent by H. U. Graham to DAD/SI. It records an interview with Irving Weston of the FCC's Field Engineering and Monitoring Division. Weston said the Commission knew of no unexplained radio signals that might be connected with flying saucers. The memo describes the FCC's 12 full-time and 6 part-time monitoring stations and their limited coverage of VHF. It also describes the FCC's file of reported intercepts, and it notes that the discussion was classified Secret.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This 1952 memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence comes from H. Marshall Chadwell, the CIA's Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It answers the Director's request of 10 December 1952 and summarizes recent unidentified flying object incidents. These include the Tremonton, Utah sighting of 2 July 1952, a brilliant light over the Maine coast, and an alleged ground contact in Florida. It also reports plans with Dr. H. P. Robertson to form a panel of top scientists to review the subject within weeks.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This is a CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence file from December 1952 on unidentified flying objects. It includes memoranda to the Director of Central Intelligence from Assistant Director H. Marshall Chadwell, a letter from Thornton Page to H. P. Robertson, and F. C. Durant's note of a call with Captain Edward Ruppelt. The file says there is still no reasonable evidence that the objects are of foreign origin. It plans a small consultant panel and reviews the Tremonton film, the Presque Isle and Limestone lights, and the Florida scoutmaster case.
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This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 29 December 1952, holds a thank-you letter from H. Marshall Chadwell to Professor J. Allen Hynek of Ohio State University. With it is Hynek's earlier letter to Chadwell, which puts in writing the astronomical calculations he had first given by telephone. Hynek concludes that a theodolite sighting made from Limestone and Presque Isle was the planet Jupiter. He bases this on how closely its position and its rates of motion matched the computed ones. Chadwell writes that he agrees with the findings.
- Robertson Panel Report Report
This declassified CIA document, released through The Black Vault, reports on the meetings of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which the Office of Scientific Intelligence convened on January 14 to 18, 1953. It includes a history of the sessions and the panel's informal comments, and it appends the formal report signed by H. P. Robertson and others. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It recommended stripping UFOs of their special status and starting a public education program.
- _Transmission-of-CIA-Scientific-Advisory-Panel-Rept_1953 Official release
- California Committee for Saucer Investigation FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated 9 February 1953 from the Chief of the Contact Division to the Assistant for Operations, OSI, reports remarks by Dr. Walter Riedel, a former Peenemuende rocket designer, on the California Committee for Saucer Investigation. The group had received about 1570 sighting letters and judged perhaps 25 reliable, forwarding most to Wright Field. It also planned a test hoax over Los Angeles, and the memo suggests the Malibu sightings reported on 30 January 1953 could have been that hoax.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum by F. C. Durant reports on the January 1953 meetings of the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, chaired by Dr. H. P. Robertson. It covers the history of the sessions and the panel members' comments on individual cases, radar interference, instrumentation and an educational program. The panel concluded unanimously that the sightings showed no direct threat to national security. It recommended training and public education to strip UFOs of their special status.
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This Central Intelligence Agency information report (No. 00-W-25291), distributed 9 February 1953, compiles unevaluated French-language newspaper items published from July to November 1952. It covers sightings over Dakar, Oran, Algiers, Corsica and the Algerian coast. It also describes a formation of 16 disks seen by about 100 residents of Gaillac, Tarn, who reported falling glass-wool-like particles. The Algerian weather bureau chief attributed the Algiers sightings to weather balloons. The report ends with Rudolf Schriever's West German patent application for a flying saucer.
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This undated Central Intelligence Agency letter from Philip G. Strong, Deputy Assistant Director, to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner is about the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects that met in January 1953. It says the Air Force asked for the panel's conclusions to be declassified for press use. Strong, Robertson and Goudsmit agree to release only certain paragraphs and want the Agency's link to the panel kept secret. Strong asks for Berkner's view and whether his name may be used.
- Telephone Conversation with Dr. John A. Wheeler FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, dated 2 January 1953 and written by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, covers a phone call with Dr. John A. Wheeler at Princeton. The CIA had wanted him as a consultant on the "flying saucer" problem, but his AEC work prevented it. Wheeler suggested two foreign scientists, the aurora expert Dr. Chapman and Dr. Hannes Alfven. He thought they might be used through a cut-out if a scientific attack on the problem was warranted.
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This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 2 January 1953, is a letter from Assistant Director H. Marshall Chadwell to MIT Provost Julius Stratton. It says the Intelligence Advisory Committee recommended that CIA convene a panel of scientists on unidentified flying objects, and that CIA concurs with the panel's report, which is enclosed. The file also includes a 27 January 1953 memo on the advisory group's 14 to 17 January meetings. That memo reports the finding that the objects pose no threat to national security and that education programs were recommended.
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This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 3 January 1953, records the comments and suggestions of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met 14 to 17 January 1953. The panel reviewed case histories including Tremonton, Great Falls, Washington and Haneda and concluded that it found no evidence of a direct threat to national security or of extraterrestrial origin. It rejected the Navy's analysis of the Tremonton film and recommended an educational program of training and debunking, supported by ATIC.
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This Central Intelligence Agency file sends the Intelligence Advisory Committee the report of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met 14 to 17 January 1953 under H. P. Robertson. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security or of hostile foreign artifacts. It said that continued emphasis on UFO reporting could clog communication channels, and it recommended stripping the subject of its special status. The file also lists the evidence reviewed and the participants, and records CIA's conclusion that no NSCID was warranted.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memo records the January 14 to 17, 1953 meeting of an ad hoc panel of scientific consultants, chaired by Dr. Robertson and including Alvarez, Goudsmit, Page and Hynek, convened to review the UFO problem. It lists the OSI staff and Air Force and Navy personnel present. The stated conclusions are that there was no evidence of a physical threat or of unknown scientific principles, and that UFOs were not of direct intelligence interest. They were of operational interest because of risks to air defense and of enemy psychological warfare.
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This undated Central Intelligence Agency document, filed with a date of 4 January 1953, assesses the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). It describes the group as a loose but efficient structure led by Executive Director Stuart Nixon. The group has an Editorial Review Board, an advisory group that includes some ex-CIA and Defense Intelligence members, and about 35 regional investigators. It also notes NICAP's $40,000 budget, its 3,500 members and a planned computer pattern-analysis effort called Project Access, meant to cover its 15,000 or more reports.
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This undated CIA letter from Deputy Assistant Director Philip G. Strong to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner concerns the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which the Agency set up in January 1953 with H. P. Robertson as chairman. The Air Force had asked for the panel's conclusions to be declassified for press use. Strong says the CIA and panel members agree to release only some paragraphs, and that the Agency's link to the panel should not be disclosed. He asks Berkner whether his name may be used.
- Briefing of One Board on Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, signed by F. C. Durant of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, records a briefing on unidentified flying objects given to the Board of National Estimates (ONE) on 29 January. P. G. Strong presented a history of O/SI interest and action on the subject and showed motion picture films of sightings at Tremonton, Utah, and Great Falls, Montana. The Board had already received the Scientific Advisory Panel report, and the briefing served as background for an ATIC briefing on 30 January.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from the Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence, dated January 1953, asks permission to hire Dr. Luis W. Alvarez and Dr. Thornton Page as ad hoc consultants to the O/SI Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which was to convene on 14 January 1953. It describes Alvarez as a radar expert and Page as an astronomer who had studied the subject. It proposes paying each $50 per day. The request was approved subject to security clearance.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 5 January 1953 and sent from the Chief, FEIS to Bureau Chiefs, passes along to the field a summary of conclusions from a panel of Scientific Consultants. The panel found no evidence that Unidentified Flying Objects pose a direct physical threat to national security or call for revising scientific concepts. It warned that continued reporting could clog communications and breed public hysteria. It recommended stripping the objects of their special status and educating the public.
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This undated Central Intelligence Agency letter from Deputy Assistant Director Philip G. Strong to Dr. Thornton Page of Johns Hopkins University concerns an Air Force request to declassify the conclusions of the January 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, chaired by H. P. Robertson. Strong writes that Robertson and Goudsmit agree to release only the conclusion in paragraph 2 and the recommendation in paragraph 4a. He adds that the Panel's link to the Agency should not be disclosed, and he asks for Page's views, including on whether panel members' names may be used.
- Telephone Conversation with Dr. John A. Wheeler FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, dated 6 January 1953, records a telephone call to Dr. John A. Wheeler at Princeton about a possible consultant role in the CIA's study of the "flying saucer" problem. The CIA told Wheeler that his urgent AEC work on MATTERHORN ruled out the role for now. Wheeler said he would still discuss the matter. He suggested two foreign scientists, Dr. Chapman, an aurora authority, and Dr. Hannes Alfven, who might be used through a "cut out".
- Consultants for Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects (with Memo Attached Dated 520109) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, dated 9 January 1953, asks permission to engage Dr. Luis W. Alvarez and Dr. Thornton Page as ad hoc consultants. They would serve on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which was scheduled to convene on 14 January 1953. The memo cites a December 1952 IAC decision to enlist scientists to review UFO evidence. It proposes paying each consultant $50 per day, and approval is subject to security clearance.
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This undated CIA letter from Philip G. Strong, Deputy Assistant Director, to Dr. Thornton Page of Johns Hopkins University concerns an Air Force request to declassify the conclusions of the January 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs, chaired by H. P. Robertson, so the Air Force could use them in the press. Strong writes that Robertson, Goudsmit and the Agency support releasing only some paragraphs and want the Panel's link to the CIA withheld. He asks Page for his view and whether the members' names may be used.
- Comments and Suggestions of UFO Panel (PUBD Unknown) FOIA release
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, typed 12 February 1953, records the meeting of an ad hoc panel of scientific consultants convened on January 14, 1953 to review the UFO problem. It lists the panel, including Dr. Robertson, Dr. Luis Alvarez, Dr. S. Goudsmit, Dr. Thornton Page and Dr. J.A. Hynek, along with the OSI staff and Air Force and Navy advisers who attended. The panel concluded that UFOs posed no physical threat to US security and showed no evidence of unknown scientific principles. They were of operational interest only because of risks to air defense and possible enemy psychological warfare.
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This Central Intelligence Agency letter, dated 27 January 1953, is from Assistant Director H. Marshall Chadwell to Dr. Julius A. Stratton, Provost of MIT. It explains that CIA gathered a panel of scientists to study unidentified flying objects and says the agency agrees with the panel's conclusions. It adds that CIA's interest in the subject was kept restricted. Attached material includes a memo on the Advisory Group chaired by Dr. H. P. Robertson, which found the objects pose no threat to United States security. The panel's charge and a list of possible explanations are also attached.
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This Central Intelligence Agency file pairs a letter dated 28 January 1953 from H. Marshall Chadwell to H. P. Robertson of the California Institute of Technology with Robertson's own letter of 20 January 1953. Chadwell says a copy of the Panel report, lists of personnel and the evidence received are being forwarded to Robertson, and that the report is going up the chain with his office's concurrence. Robertson's letter says he hopes the report will take care of the Forteans for a while and proposes dates for a possible rump Panel meeting.
- Briefing of One Board on Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This CIA memorandum for record, dated 30 January 1953, documents a briefing on unidentified flying objects given to the ONE Board on 29 January by P. G. Strong, assisted by F. C. Durant. The briefing covered the history of O/SI interest and action on the subject and showed motion picture films of sightings at Tremonton, Utah, and Great Falls, Montana. The Board had already received copies of the Scientific Advisory Panel's report. The briefing was background ahead of an ATIC briefing that ONE had requested for 30 January.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memo by F. C. Durant, dated 31 March 1953, reports that the Office of Current Intelligence is no longer following UFO reports. It proposes that O/SI keep watch on the subject by naming David E. Stevenson of the Applied Science Division as action man, routing future UFO messages to him, and transferring the O/CI files, most of which Durant recommends destroying. Panel Reports are noted as held in the Operations Staff office.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 6 February 1953 and titled Unidentified Flying Objects, passes a summary to the field as research information. It restates the conclusions of a panel of scientific consultants: the objects show no sign of a direct physical threat to national security. The panel adds that continued emphasis on reports could clog communications and hide real hostile action. It recommends removing the objects' special status and aura of mystery, and setting up training and public education programs.
- California Committee for Saucer Investigation FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated 9 February 1953 and sent from the Chief of the Contact Division, reports remarks by Dr. Walter Riedel on the California Committee for Saucer Investigation. Riedel was a former German rocket designer now working at North American Aviation. The memo says the private group had received about 1,570 sighting letters and judged roughly 25 of them reliable and unexplained. It adds that the group planned a test hoax over Los Angeles to measure how the public reports aerial phenomena.
- Item for Director's Log FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency item for the Director's Log, signed by Richard D. Drain, Secretary of the Intelligence Advisory Committee, reports that Federal Civil Defense Administration Administrator Peterson wrote the IAC on 18 April. His letter concerned the report of a panel of scientific consultants on unidentified flying objects, which had been sent to FCDA on 13 March under IAC-D-67. Peterson expressed interest and proposed a conference. The matter was referred to OSI to arrange CIA assistance.
- Fcda Meeting FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, signed by Philip G. Strong, Acting Deputy Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, and dated 23 April 1953, concerns a meeting with the Federal Civil Defense Administration proposed in a letter from Val Peterson. Strong says Ted Babbitt would ask whether the meeting could be held on April 30. Mr. Clark would represent OSI, accompanied by Dr. H. P. Robertson, who had chaired the Panel. The meeting's location would depend on whether Governor Peterson attended in person.
- Further to Fcda Meeting FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, signed by Philip G. Strong, Acting Deputy Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, and dated 24 April 1953, sets up a meeting with the FCDA. Ted Babbitt reported that any time on 30 April would suit. Governor Peterson would not attend because of a White House commitment and named John deChant, Ralph E. Spear, Ted Babbitt and possibly one more person to go in his place. The memo does not describe any sightings.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This is a CIA memorandum dated 31 March 1953 from F. C. Durant of the Office of Scientific Intelligence about who should handle reports of unidentified flying objects. It notes that the Office of Current Intelligence had stopped following UFO reports. Durant proposes naming David Stevenson of the Applied Science Division as the action officer for all future UFO messages. He also recommends keeping only sample reports from the old file and destroying the rest.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, is addressed to the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division of OSI. It is dated May 27, 1953, and was drafted on 20 May 1953. It gives that division responsibility for keeping current on reports of unidentified flying object sightings and asks the Applied Science Division for weapons and hardware support. It also says where the UFO files are kept and tells the division to take custody of the files it needs.
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This is a letter from H. Marshall Chadwell of the Central Intelligence Agency to physicist Samuel A. Goudsmit of Brookhaven National Laboratory, dated 7 April 1953. It answers Goudsmit's March 1953 request for the name and address of a civilian flying saucer group whose pamphlets he had seen in Chadwell's files in January. The reply names the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, which publishes the APRO Bulletin, and Civilian Saucer Investigations in Los Angeles, and it thanks Goudsmit for his help that January.
- Item for Director's Log FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency item for the Director's Log, dated April 21, 1953 and signed by Richard D. Drain, Secretary of the Intelligence Advisory Committee, records a letter of 18 April from the Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration. It concerns the report of a panel of scientific consultants on unidentified flying objects, which had been sent to FCDA on 13 March. The Administrator asked for a conference to discuss it, and the matter was referred to OSI to arrange.
- Fcda Meeting FOIA release
This is a CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record dated 23 April 1953, signed by Philip O. Strong, Acting Deputy Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It records a call with Tod Babbitt about a meeting that Val Peterson had proposed in a letter. The meeting might be set for April 30th. Mr. Clark would represent OSI, and Dr. H. F. Robertson, who chaired the Panel, would go with him. The memo also discusses whether to hold the meeting in Governor Peterson's office or at OSI.
- Further to Fcda Meeting FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, dated 24 April 1953 and signed by Philip G. Strong, Acting Deputy Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, covers the arrangements for a meeting with the FCDA. Ted Babbitt reported that any time on 30 April would suit, and CIA staff were to call him back with an exact time. Governor Peterson could not attend because he had to be at the White House. He named John deChant, Ralph E. Spear, Ted Babbitt and possibly one other person to go in his place.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated May 27, 1953, went from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division of OSI. It gives that division responsibility for keeping current knowledge of unidentified flying object sighting reports. The Applied Science Division is asked to support it from a weapons and hardware standpoint. The memo also says where existing UFO files are held and arranges for incoming material from O/CI to be routed straight to the division.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division, Office of Scientific Intelligence, responds to a 27 May 1953 assignment to maintain current knowledge of UFO sighting reports. After consulting USAF personnel and members of the Scientific Review Board convened by CIA the previous year, the division cites the Board's finding of no serious, direct threat to national security. It declares the project inactive, with incoming material reviewed periodically and filed, handled by a part-time analyst and file clerk.
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This is a letter from John S. Warner, Legislative Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, to Representative Gordon H. Scherer. It answers his 24 August letter, which forwarded correspondence from Mrs. Catherine Carter Golden of Cincinnati about unidentified flying objects and about photographs taken in Brazil and shown on the Dave Garroway show. Warner says a free-lance photographer took the photograph and developed it with no one else present. He adds that the Air Force has primary responsibility for UFO investigations and that the Agency has no further information.
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This Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-27452), distributed 18 August 1953, compiles translated newspaper items from Athens, Brazzaville and Tehran published March to May 1953. German engineer Georg Klein claims the Germans planned flying saucers from 1941, flew one at Prague in February 1945, and that the Soviets seized plans and personnel at Breslau. It also reports four discs seen over Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari in November 1952, saucers over Homs, Syria, and a luminous object over Abadan, Iran.
- Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 3 July 1953, went from the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division, SI, to the Assistant Director, SI. It reviews the division's new responsibility for keeping current on unidentified flying object reports. The memo cites the Scientific Review Board's finding that the material posed no serious, direct threat to national security. It declares the project inactive, directs that reports be filed for future reference, and assigns a part-time analyst and file clerk to review them periodically.
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This CIA foreign documents report, distributed 20 August 1953, gives the full text of a Stockholm Morgon-Tidningen article from 13 July 1953. It says Danish defense authorities take flying saucers seriously. A Danish Air Force Command report based on radar observations suggests the objects could come from a Soviet base on Novaya Zemlya. The report cites a 12 November 1952 sighting by Karup Airfield personnel and Norwegian sightings at Horten and near Bodø.
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This undated CIA letter, filed under 24 August 1953, is from Legislative Counsel John S. Warner to Representative Gordon H. Scherer. It answers Scherer's forwarding of a letter about UFOs from Mrs. Catherine Carter Golden of Cincinnati, who had asked about Brazilian pictures shown on the Dave Garroway show. Warner says a free-lance photographer took the photograph and that, contrary to her information, no one else was present when it was developed. He adds that the Air Force has primary responsibility for UFO investigations and that the Agency has no further information.
- Quarterly Report-- July 1- September 30, 1953. FOIA release
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This Central Intelligence Agency Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum, dated 8 December 1953, reports a consultant's review of Donald Keyhoe's book "Flying Saucers from Outer Space" for possible security violations about CIA's role in flying saucer investigations. The consultant calls the book distorted and full of half-truths, notes CIA appears only on page 242, and says the CIA panel never recommended hiding information from the public. The memo finds no security breach and recommends no further action.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated 3 November 1953 was signed by P. G. Strong and filed under the subject "Flying Saucers." It says overall substantive responsibility for the subject has been given to the Physics and Electronics Division, which also holds action responsibility within that division. It tells the Operations Staff to coordinate any matter on the project with a named colonel or, in his absence, a named deputy. The text also carries a distribution list.
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This CIA memorandum from the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence reviews the status of the agency's UFO project in late 1953. It says Air Force interest in the subject is declining, and that ATIC is transferring Project Bluebook to Air Defense Command. It also covers a flawed camera program for recording sightings, the minimal attention given by the Navy and Army, and the drop in 1953 sightings, which it attributes to the January 1953 panel recommendations.
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This is an Office Memorandum dated 8 December 1953 from the Chief, Operations Staff, O/SI, to the CIA's Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It reports a consultant's review of Keyhoe's book "Flying Saucers from Outer Space", which was checked for security breaches about CIA's part in flying saucer investigations. The consultant found the book distorted. The CIA mentions, on page 242, were judged not to reveal the O/SI panel. The memo concludes that no security breach occurred and recommends no further action.
- Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency document titled Flying Objects is dated 16 December 1953. The extracted text is mostly garbled and made up largely of number sequences. The readable part is a routing note saying that overall substantive responsibility for the subject has been assigned to a division described as covering electronics. It says the operations staff must coordinate any effort with an assigned officer. No sighting or conclusion can be read from the text.
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This December 17, 1953 Central Intelligence Agency memorandum was written by the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division, Office of Scientific Intelligence, for the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It reviews the status of the agency's UFOB project, which was limited to tracking other agencies and keeping files. It describes the Air Force's shrinking Project Bluebook, its planned move to Air Defense Command, a camera program and the Project STORK statistical study. It also notes minimal Navy and Army interest and the results of the January 1953 panel recommendations.
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This Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-29151) is dated 1954 and was distributed on 11 January 1954. It compiles Greek and French newspaper items published between July and November 1953 about unidentified aircraft. They include luminous circular and spherical objects seen in Spain, among them one over San Martin Valdeiglesias, and a luminous, rocket-shaped object that hovered over Drama, Greece, on 11 August 1953. Shepherds near Oued Zem, French Morocco, also reported a multicolored fast-flying object. The information is marked unevaluated.
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This Central Intelligence Agency release is filed as a note from Strong to Page about the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, and it is nearly illegible. The readable part is a letter from CIA Legislative Counsel John S. Warner to Representative Gordon H. Scherer. It answers a constituent's question about a UFO photograph taken in Brazil, says the Air Force has primary responsibility for UFO investigations, and says the Agency has no further information. The rest of the text is garbled OCR that mentions Dr. Robertson.
- Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-29903), distributed on 20 April 1954, that compiles unevaluated foreign newspaper accounts published between November 1953 and January 1954. It covers sightings of unidentified flying objects in Pakistan, South Africa, Dahomey, France, Sweden, Denmark and West Germany. Among them are objects seen over Peshawar, a light that seemed to follow a motorist near Brandvlei, a reported landing at Marignane airfield, and a large 9 January meteor that Lund Observatory's Bertil Lindblad confirmed.
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This Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-29745), distributed in April 1954, translates three Dagens Nyheter articles from 18 to 20 December 1953. It covers a sighting on 17 December 1953 by Transair pilot Ulf Christiernsson and flight mechanic Olle Johansson, who saw a round metallic object near Hässleholm, Skaane, while flying a DC-3. Swedish Defense and Air Staff experts suggested a daylight meteor or a balloon. Later reports favored perfume advertising balloons released that day near Hässleholm.
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This Central Intelligence Agency report, No. 00-W-30339, was distributed on 26 May 1954. It collects unevaluated foreign newspaper accounts published between 10 December 1953 and 2 March 1954 of unidentified flying objects seen outside the Soviet orbit. Sightings include a fireball seen by a Sabena pilot near Brussels, a fiery disk at Arras, and a red ball at Gemeaux. Others describe disks and a cigar-shaped object over Algeria and a metallic disk above Montevideo. French astronomers attributed the Dieppe explosion to a large meteorite.
- 'Flying Saucer' Theories and Experiments FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency report, distributed 27 May 1954, collects unevaluated foreign press items published between December 1953 and January 1954 about "flying saucer" theories and experiments. It summarizes a French Air Force periodical article arguing that interstellar ships powered by cosmic energy are possible. It also relays engineer George Klein's account of German saucer construction from 1941 to 1945, including designs by Miethe, Habermohl and Schreiver. Finally, it reports that a Genoa patent office granted Scipione Mattolin a patent for a flying disk.
- Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
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This undated memorandum from the CIA's Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence to the Director of Central Intelligence comments on report 00-B-90229 about a sighting of an unconventional aircraft. The memo says distance and lighting made identification very difficult and that the description partly fits a vertical take-off aircraft or a rocket launched from a zero-length rail. It concludes that the object was probably not a flying saucer. It also notes that in 1954 a USAF advisory committee recommended against supporting project "Y".
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This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for the record is dated 15 June 1954. It answers a 20 May 1954 request on how to divide intelligence responsibilities for non-conventional air vehicles like the saucer-like planes then being developed by Canadian, British and USAF organizations. ASD/SI is to identify, assess and report any foreign use of such vehicles. PSE/SI keeps the OSI project and central file on unidentified flying objects and shares relevant material. The memo concludes that no special action is needed at this time.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record from Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, sets out which offices handle non-conventional types of air vehicles. It rescinds an earlier memorandum on the same subject dated 14 June 1954. It makes ASD responsible for all surveillance of available information on the subject, with the other OSI divisions providing technical consultation. ASD will also keep the OSI files, so the other divisions must forward their files to ASD and stop filing on the subject.
- Untitled(To Walter Pforzheimer from H. Marshall Chadwell Attaching a Suggested Draft Reply to Senator Johnson) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 4 May 1954, is from the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, H. Marshall Chadwell, to Walter Pforzheimer of the Office of General Counsel. It attaches a suggested draft reply to Senator Johnson's letter of 19 April 1954 about a constituent's inquiry on flying saucers. The draft says most reported sightings have been explained as natural phenomena and the rest lack scientific detail. It advises the Senator to answer without citing the Agency and to refer further questions to the Air Force.
- Flying Saucers' Theories and Experiments FOIA release
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This Central Intelligence Agency report, 00-W-30797, was distributed 30 July 1954 and compiles unevaluated foreign newspaper accounts of unidentified flying objects published between 19 January and 15 May 1954. It covers sightings in France near Saint Mexant and Sare, in Sweden's Norrbotten Province and at Kautokeino in northern Norway, and over Saint Arnaud, Setif and Ouled Djellal in Algeria. It also includes reports from Worcester in South Africa and from Port Swettenham and Cheras in British Malaya.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated June 1954, sets out how the Office of Scientific Intelligence divided intelligence responsibilities for non-conventional air vehicles like those being developed by Canadian, British and USAF organizations. ASD/SI was made responsible for identifying, assessing and reporting any foreign power's use of such vehicles. P&E/SI kept the OSI project and central file on unidentified flying objects and was to share relevant material. The memo is signed by Sidney N. Graybeal and others.
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This is a Central Intelligence Agency Memorandum for the Record dated 14 June 1954 and signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It covers office responsibilities for non-conventional types of air vehicles and rescinds an earlier memorandum on the same subject. ASD is to handle all surveillance of available information on the topic and keep the OSI files. Other divisions must send their files to ASD, stop filing on the subject, and give ASD technical advice when asked.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, from Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence Herbert Scoville Jr., comments on report 00-B-90229 about a sighting of an unconventional aircraft. It says the distance and lighting made identification very hard and that the description partly fits a vertical take-off aircraft or a rocket launched from a zero length rail. It concludes the object was probably not a flying saucer. It also notes that a 1954 Air Force scientific committee recommended against supporting project "Y".
- Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency report, No. 00-W-30883, was distributed on 25 August 1954. It is an unevaluated compilation of foreign press items published between 7 May and 20 June 1954 about unidentified flying objects. The report covers sightings in northern Norrbotten, Sweden, and a plan to excavate a metallic object buried in a field near Spjellerup, Denmark. It also includes a craft seen over the Taurus Mountains from Mersin, Turkey, and glowing disks near Frankfurt and Düsseldorf airport in West Germany.
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This Central Intelligence Agency report, No. 00-W-30956, was distributed on 22 September 1954. It is unevaluated information drawn from Finnish, Norwegian and Austrian newspapers published between 10 June and 15 July 1954. It covers objects photographed in Helsinki and Maarianhamina during and after the 30 June eclipse, and an oblong object seen at Pulkkila on 14 July. It also covers color film of two shining disks shot from an airplane over Norway, and a gleaming red object seen over the Tennen Mountains near Hallein, Austria.
- Meeting of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 1954, reports on a meeting of the Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel held in September at the Naval Research Laboratory, Anacostia. The panel, chaired by James A. Van Allen, discussed high altitude and satellite vehicles and the International Geophysical Year. It covers rockets such as the Viking and Aerobee, a phased plan for artificial satellites, and funding from the National Science Foundation. The author also records a conversation with Van Allen about the instrumentation needed for high altitude rockets. The memo contains no UFO material.
- Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
- Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 25 October 1954, compiles unevaluated foreign newspaper accounts published between 5 July and 2 September 1954 describing unidentified flying object sightings. It covers an object that 50 soldiers watched during antiaircraft exercises at Stavern, Norway, and saucer reports from West Berlin, Darmstadt, Schleswig, Rastatt, Switzerland, Montlucon, Vernon and Lyon. It also covers a luminous globe seen over Laketi in the Middle Congo and six objects seen over Enkeldoorn in Southern Rhodesia.
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This Central Intelligence Agency compilation of foreign press and radio reports, distributed 29 October 1954, gathers unevaluated sightings of unidentified flying objects published between 31 July and 20 September 1954. It covers reports from Austria, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Uganda and Singapore. Items include a hovering object near Acheux-en-Vimeu, a red-orange disk near Hirson, and an object tracked by the Ciampino control tower and Pratica di Mare radar near Rome. French air police are quoted as attributing two alleged landings to smuggling planes.
- Meeting of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 16 September 1954, reports on a September meeting of the Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel at the Naval Research Laboratory, Anacostia, chaired by James A. Van Allen. It summarizes briefings on the capabilities of research rockets such as the Viking and Aerobee and on a three-phase earth satellite program. It also covers Project Orbiter planning and funding for the International Geophysical Year. The author concludes that a satellite could likely be orbited by that year given high government priority.
- Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
- CIA-UAP-006, Sighting Of Unconventional Aircraft Official release
- Unusual Wire Recording FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 5 January 1955, comes from the Deputy Chief of Support Staff, O/SI, and is addressed to the Chief of the Contact Division, OO. It concerns a wire recording of an unidentified electrical transmission of radio waves and points to an attached enclosure for details of the incident. The memo asks the Office of Operations to try to obtain the recording so this office can investigate it, and to route it through Support Staff/SI to the Physics and Electronics Division/SI.
- Radio Code Recording - Case (Deleted) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memo to the Chief of the Contact Division is dated 4 February 1955, though its text answers a request of 25 February 1955. It reports that the agency got a tape copy of a wire recording that the owners said held a message from outer space. The owners would not give up the original recording, even to the government, but were glad of the interest. The memo says other Chicago radio operators also claim such recordings and offers to track them down.
- New Case (Deleted) - Radio Code Recording FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 5 February 1955, is addressed from the Contact Division to the Chief of the Chicago Office under the subject "Radio Code Recording." It says a requesting office wants the recording of a radio program in which an unidentified code was heard. It asks the Chicago office to obtain the recording, or to borrow it if the owners will not release it permanently. The memo also asks that the recording be returned afterward.
- Unusual Wire Recording FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 25 February 1955 and signed by R. Norriek, Deputy Chief, went from the Support Staff to the Chief of the Contact Division. It says a source has a wire recording of an unidentified electrical transduction of unknown origin. It asks the Office of Operations to try to get the recording so the Office can investigate it. The recording was to be sent through Support Staff/SI to the Physics and Electronics Division/SI.
- Radio Recording FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum on the subject "Radio Recording," dated 3 March 1955. It is addressed to the Contact Division's Scientific Branch and copied to the Chief, Support Staff and the Chief, Physics and Electronics Division. It answers a 17 March 1955 enclosure about a case. The memo reports that the enclosed tape recording was analyzed and positively identified as a known signal of U.S. origin. It thanks the source for their cooperation in obtaining the recording.
- New Case (Deleted)- Radio Code Recording FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memo, dated 4 March 1955, is addressed to the Chief of the Chicago Office. It says that a CIA component is interested in obtaining the wire recording of a radio program in which an unidentified code was heard. The memo asks the office to arrange a loan of the recording if the owners will not release it permanently, and to return it to headquarters.
- Radio Code Recording- Case (Deleted) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memo, dated 17 March 1955 and approved for release on 24 March 1978, answers a request of 25 February 1955. It reports that the office obtained a tape copy of a wire recording said to contain a message from outer space. The owners would not give up the original recording but were pleased by the government's interest. The memo adds that Chicago radio operators also claim to have recorded such messages, and it asks for the recipient's conclusions.
- Radio Recording FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 6 April 1955 and titled Radio Recording, was sent to the Contact Division's Scientific Branch. It answers a memorandum of 17 March 1955 about Case 119. The memo reports that the tape recording enclosed with that memorandum was analysed and positively identified as a known signal of U.S. origin. It closes by thanking the recipients for their cooperation in securing the recording.
- Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects Analysis
Special Report No. 14 was issued by the U.S. Air Force's Air Technical Intelligence Center on 5 May 1955. It is a statistical study of about 4,000 reports of unidentified aerial objects from June 1947 to December 1952. The reports were reduced to IBM punched cards and analyzed with methods including chi square tests. The report concludes that the reports it examined are very unlikely to represent technology beyond present scientific knowledge, and it notes that no case produced valid physical evidence.
- Unusual Ufob Report FOIA release
This 1955 CIA memorandum from the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division, Scientific Intelligence, to the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence forwards a preliminary cable from Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland. The cable describes an object seen at the same time by the pilot of a KC-97 tanker and by a ground radar site. The memo calls the report unusual for two reasons. The pilot's radioed direction changes matched the radar scope exactly, and radar tracked the object for 49 minutes. The memo adds that a fuller AF Form 112 report was expected.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated August 8, 1955, is from Todos M. Odarenko, Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division in the Office of Scientific Intelligence, to the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It explains that the division had kept an inactive UFO project since 1953. The work took 10 to 25 analyst hours a month, and the project produced no intelligence of concern to national security. Odarenko recommends ending the project and placing its files in dead storage.
- Flying Objects Seen in Shakhty Area FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 9 August 1955, relays unevaluated observations of flying objects near Shakhty in the Rostov Oblast, USSR. It says prisoners of war at the Ayuta camp saw three silent, reddish, fiery objects cross the sky at intervals one evening in August 1953 before they disappeared toward the Ayuta mines. Field comments note that earlier Shakhty reports described loud engine noise and suggest the objects were propelled by a ramjet or rocket engine.
- Unusual Ufob Report FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated 12 July 1955. It was written by the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division, Office of Scientific Intelligence, to the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It forwards a preliminary cable from Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland, about an object seen visually by a KC-97 tanker pilot and tracked at the same time by ground radar. The memo calls the case unusual because radar observed the object for 49 minutes and the pilot's reported direction changes matched the radar scope exactly.
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This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated 8 August 1955, is from the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division to the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It reviews the division's 1953 assignment to keep current knowledge of unidentified flying object sightings, which took 10 to 25 analyst hours per month. It states that no intelligence of concern to national security was developed. It recommends terminating the project and placing its files in dead storage.
- Flying Objects Seen in Shakhty Area FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 9 August 1955, describes three flying objects seen one August 1953 evening over a camp about 10 km southwest of Shakhty in the USSR. The objects moved from southeast to northwest without sound, glowing reddish like a comet or shooting star. Observers believed they were rockets. Field comments note that earlier Shakhty reports described loud noises and suggest the objects were propelled by a ramjet or rocket engine.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, prepared for the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, is dated 1955. It summarizes debriefings of four members of an official party who saw objects while travelling by train at night. They reported a greenish-yellow glowing object that rose rapidly while rotating and then levelled into horizontal flight, along with a triangular object with lights. The memo concludes that most observations can probably be explained as climbing aircraft or missiles and that the evidence does not warrant concluding a radically new aircraft is in operation.
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This is a letter from CIA Director Allen W. Dulles to Representative Gordon H. Scherer, dated September 1955. It replies to Scherer's letter of 15 September 1955, which enclosed a letter from Thomas H. Eickhoff about possible mail fraud connected with George Adamski's book Inside The Space Ships. Dulles says the questions are largely outside CIA's jurisdiction, because the agency has no law-enforcement powers. He adds that CIA does not comment on the book or its pictures, and he suggests Scherer refer the questions to the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation.
- Reported Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for information, dated 3 September 1955 and signed by the Chief of the Applied Science Division, SI, assesses a reported sighting of two unconventional aircraft. It compares the objects to Project "Y", a 30 ft circular wing that Avro Aircraft Ltd. in Canada is developing under US Air Force contract, directed by John Frost. The memo suggests the Soviets may have such craft in service, but says more details of the sighting are needed before it can be evaluated properly.
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This CIA Scientific Intelligence memorandum, signed by a Cooper, is a poorly legible review of a dispatch dated 23 October 1955 reporting two flying saucer or disc-like aircraft. An interviewed witness saw only lights that rose vertically and passed overhead silently, and the memo judges his account insufficient to confirm anything unconventional, urging interrogation of the others. It recalls that the Robertson group found earlier U.S. sightings posed no security threat and notes a Project Y at a firm developing a high-performance vertical take-off aircraft.
- Interview with (Deleted) FOIA release
This memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, dated 4 September 1955 and signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, reports on a "Flying Saucer" event. After three of the four observers were interviewed, nothing confirmed that unconventional aircraft existed, and the objects were more likely normal jets or aircraft with a high rate of climb. The memo recommends that the observer who sent the original dispatch be interviewed alone rather than in a joint interview with colleagues.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated 1955, is signed by the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It records an interview about a sighting made from a train on 27 October, when a party saw two greenish-yellow balls rising rapidly and a searchlight nearby. The memo does not support the theory of saucer-like or unconventional aircraft. It suggests the objects were probably jet exhausts in a steep climb, though they could have been aircraft of the short or near-vertical take-off type.
- Interview with (Deleted) (PUBD Is Unknown) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated 4 September 1955, reports an interview with a traveler whose name is withheld. While riding a train with three others after dark, he saw two greenish yellow round lights climb steeply one after the other, with no trail, smoke or audible noise. A searchlight nearby did not track them. His companions said they saw lights and details on the objects. He added that if the objects were jet aircraft, they climbed surprisingly fast.
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This CIA memorandum dated 6 September 1955 records a traveler's account of an unusual flying object seen from a train at about 7:10 PM, while four members of a party rode in a sleeping car. The witnesses saw a reddish glow like a searchlight on the horizon, then an object with two white lights like eyes that rose vertically and passed over the train silently in about five seconds. The file also includes interrogation notes and interviews describing a rotating, balloon-like shape, and it records that a porter pulled the shades soon afterward.
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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, numbered OO-2-321/15354-66, relays an airline pilot's account of a sighting on 17 June 1966 near the Rudeshur beacon, about 25 miles WSW of Mehrabad Airport, Tehran. Flying at about 18,000 feet, the pilot and the crew of another airliner watched a brilliant white sphere grow in size and fade over four to five minutes. The sphere appeared to lie deep within the Soviet Union. The pilot could not explain it and suggested gases from a man-made explosion lit by the sun.
- Flying Object Observed at Rostov FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, approved for release on 24 June 1978, describes a fiery ball seen at about 2000 hours on 12 or 13 September 1953. It flew from north-northeast to south-southwest, about 5 km west of the coast, at a constant altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 meters. The object was yellowish red in front and dark red toward the rear, left no smoke trail and made no sound. The report says the sighting confirms earlier unidentified flying object observations in the Rostov area.
- Flying Objects Seen in Saransk Area FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated October 1955, relays observations of a flying object in the USSR. On three evenings in July and August 1954, observers about 30 km west of Saransk saw a white, drop-shaped luminous object brighter than a shooting star. It crossed about 60 degrees of sky in roughly a second, and other people saw the same thing on other days. The evaluator's comment says the type of object cannot be inferred from such scanty statements.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated October 1955 and approved for release in 2010, records a sighting of an unusual flying object from a train. A traveler on a sleeping car describes how a companion saw a flying saucer, and how he then saw a glowing searchlight on the horizon and an object with two white lights rising vertically and passing over the train in silence. The file also contains interrogation notes and interview notes on the same sighting from other witnesses, with names redacted.
- Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated October 1955, gives a traveler's account of a sighting made from a slow train on 4 October 1955. The source says the party watched a triangular object about the size of a jet fighter, with a light at each point and lit by a searchlight, launched from an airfield about two miles away. It made several fast spirals and then climbed steeply to high altitude. The source says a steward pulled down the blinds while they watched. Place names are redacted.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, signed by the Senior Director of Scientific Intelligence and dated 13 October 1955 in the archive record, is about a reported sighting of flying saucers or unconventional aircraft. A delegation member who was among four observers saw lights that rose vertically and passed overhead, and the memo judges that his account cannot be relied on. It also recalls that a group led by Mr. Robertson explained most U.S. sightings and found no threat. It notes Project Y, an unconventional aircraft being developed under John Frost.
- Numerical File, 5-2500 Official release
- Reported Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for information, dated 19 October 1955 and signed by W. E. Lexon, Chief of the Applied Science Division, discusses a reported sighting of two unconventional aircraft. It says the objects resemble Project "Y", a circular-wing craft that Avro Aircraft Ltd., Canada, is researching under US Air Force contract and that John Frost directs. It suggests the Soviets may have similar craft in service. It concludes that more details are needed and that technically competent persons will question the witnesses.
- Interview with (Deleted) (PUBD Is Unknown) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency interview record, dated 20 October 1955, recounts a sighting by a traveler whose name is redacted. While riding a train after dark with three companions, he saw two round greenish yellow lights climb steeply and rapidly without noise, smoke or trail. His companions said they saw lights and details on the objects and that the objects passed over the train. The memo notes a nearby searchlight that did not track them and is signed off through Herbert Scoville, Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence.
- Interview with (Deleted) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, dated 27 October 1955 and signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, reports on interviews with three of the four observers in a "Flying Saucer" event. It finds nothing confirming unconventional aircraft and suggests the objects were probably normal jets or aircraft with a high rate of climb. It recommends interviewing separately the person who sent the original dispatch.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 27 October 1955 and signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, records an interview with a person who reported seeing unconventional or saucer-like aircraft from a train. The observer saw two greenish-yellow fiery balls rising rapidly, with a searchlight nearby. The memo concludes that the testimony does not support the saucer theory. It suggests the objects were probably exhausts of jet aircraft in a steep climb, or possibly short or vertical take-off aircraft.
- Unexplained Traveling Bright Light Seen in the Sky FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 27 October 1955, describes a sighting near Leningrad. On a night in July, a traveler going by train from Leningrad to Moscow saw a bright light in the sky trailing a long tail. The source says it was much too bright to be a plane and was under two thousand feet above the ground. When asked, the guide joked that it was probably a flying saucer. An editorial comment notes that another source reported the same incident.
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This is a 31 October 1955 memorandum from the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Scientific Intelligence, signed by an Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It reports on debriefings of four observers who saw objects from a train at night. They described a luminous object rising rapidly and rotating, with lights like eyes, which then turned sharply into horizontal flight. The memo concludes that the evidence is not firm enough to show that a radically new type of aircraft had been developed and put into operation.
- Sighting of Unconventional Flying Object FOIA release
- Guided Missiles in Afghanistan FOIA release
This is a CIA memorandum dated 10 November 1955 from the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, about reports of guided missiles or flying objects in Afghanistan. The memo says the office cannot determine what the observed object was or how it was used, and it asks for further details and any debris. It notes that an attached army report closely resembles a United Press article, also attached, about a disc-like craft that local residents saw near a Soviet base.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record is dated 1956 and was signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It rescinds a 14 June 1954 memorandum on office responsibilities for non-conventional types of air vehicles. From then on, ASD would monitor all available information on the subject and keep the Office of Scientific Intelligence files on it. Other OSI divisions were to give ASD technical consulting help, send it their files and stop their own filing on the subject.
- Untitled (Discusses What Mass UFO Reports Could Do) FOIA release
This undated Central Intelligence Agency fragment, catalogued as 1956, is a poorly transcribed note about the national security side of UFO reports. The author says one part of the issue is outside the writer's own office but still matters to the CIA because it affects national security. It warns that a mass wave of UFO reports could cause mass hysteria, overload radar systems and overload communication facilities.
- Untitled (Discusses What Mass UFO Reports Could Do) FOIA release
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This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 1956-01-02, is the Durant report of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects. Its extracted text is badly garbled. The report records the Panel's view that most reviewed sightings had reasonable explanations and that the objects showed no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It discusses the Tremonton and Great Falls films and World War II foo fighters. It also recommends an educational and training program and warns that heavy volumes of reports could clog military reporting channels.
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This Central Intelligence Agency release pairs a January 1956 transmittal memo from the Liaison Division to the Chief of the Applied Science Division with a summary and tabulation of an unconventional flying object sighted in the USSR on 4 October 1955. Members of a party travelling by train from Baku to Tiflis made the sighting. The chart sets their accounts side by side, covering shape, size, lights, motion and searchlights. It concludes that darkness and the short duration kept the observers from describing the object properly.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, sent by the Chief of the Liaison Division of Central Reference to the Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, forwards a tabulation of statements by each member of a party. The party saw an unidentified flying object on 4 October 1955 while riding the train from Baku to Tiflis. The Office of Scientific Intelligence prepared the tabulation, but the enclosure is not attached. Two copies of the memo appear, dated February 1956.
- Responsibility for 'Unidentified Flying Objects' FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated 4 January 1956, covers responsibility within the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) for "Unidentified Flying Objects." The Division states that it has taken over responsibility for non-conventional types of air vehicles. It sets out how reports will be filed, forwarded to the Fundamental Sciences Area, or destroyed, and cites ATIC's Project Blue Book Special Report 11 as showing that such reports cannot be usefully analyzed. It also recommends destroying the old UFO files held by the Electronics Division.
- Report of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 5 January 1956 and titled Report of Unidentified Flying Objects, reproduces excerpts from a letter received from a Belgian correspondent in early November 1955. The writer asks for prices and delivery information on a small 60x telescope made for sportsmen. They say Americans will not reveal what flying saucers really are, and they want the telescopes for their own observation group. The letter adds that the objects are being seen more and more over Belgium. The OCR text is badly garbled.
- Report of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report on Belgium, report no. 10-A 50566, has the subject line "Report of Unidentified Flying Bombs". It quotes a letter sent to a telescope maker by a correspondent in Kivu, Belgian Congo. The writer asked about price and delivery for a compact telescope for an observation group they were forming. The letter says UFOs were being seen more and more over the country, and it asks for near armor-plated packing so the instrument would arrive intact.
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This CIA memorandum for the record, dated 9 January 1956, was signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It covers office responsibilities for non-conventional types of air vehicles and rescinds an earlier memorandum of 14 June 1954. From now on ASD will conduct all surveillance of available information on the subject and maintain the OSI files. Other OSI divisions are to provide technical consultation, forward their files to ASD, and stop their own filing on the subject.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from Robert Amory, Jr., Deputy Director/Intelligence, to the Assistant Director/Scientific Intelligence concerns flying saucers. It notes a 17 March 1956 article in the French magazine Match about a radar photograph of a mysterious celestial object, confirmed visually by a scheduled airline pilot. Amory asks whether CIA keeps in touch with the Air Force center on such reports, including foreign sightings, and says the Office of Scientific Intelligence should follow the subject, if only to refute spectacular published reports.
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This Central Intelligence Agency transmittal, issued by the Chief of the Liaison Division, Central Reference, dated 8 February 1956, was addressed to the Director of Intelligence at U.S. Air Force headquarters. It forwards one copy of a tabulation of statements made by each member of a party about an unidentified flying object they saw on 4 October 1955 while on the train from Baku to Tiflis. The Office of Scientific Intelligence prepared the tabulation.
- Responsibility for "Unidentified Flying Objects" FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated 9 February 1956, explains how a division within the Office of Scientific Intelligence will handle its newly assumed responsibility for unidentified flying objects. Raw reports bearing on foreign weapons or fundamental science are to be filed or forwarded, and all others destroyed. The memo cites Project Blue Book Special Report 11 in saying such reports cannot be usefully analyzed. It also recommends destroying the raw and obsolete UFO reports held in the Electronic Division.
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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 1956 and distributed in April 1956, concerns Hungary and passes on a November 1955 letter a source received from a niece. The letter said so-called flying saucers or rockets had kept people nervous for several weeks and kept scientific groups busy, with speeds estimated at 12 thousand km per hour. A sketch of the objects' formation and suspected course was included. The source noted it was the niece's first mention of such objects.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This 1956 Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Deputy Director for Intelligence is signed by Herbert Scoville Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It answers questions about a UFO report in the French magazine Match, which it says lacks enough information for identification and appears exaggerated. The memo says Air Force Blue Book investigations cut unknown cases from 25 to 10 per cent, and it confirms liaison with the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center. It also expects a close approach of Mars in September 1956 to prompt more reports.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 26 March 1956, was sent by Deputy Director/Intelligence Robert Amory, Jr. to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It points to an article in the 17 March 1956 issue of the French magazine MATCH about a radar photograph of a mysterious celestial object that an airline pilot also reported seeing. Amory asks whether the agency keeps in touch with the Air Force center on foreign sightings. Noting that Mars would soon make an unusually close approach to Earth, he urges the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) to keep following the subject so it can refute spectacular published reports.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This is a CIA memorandum, prepared in the Office of Scientific Intelligence and dated 13 April 1956, from H. Marshall Chadwell's office, signed by Herbert Scoville Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It answers a query about a flying saucer article in a French magazine. The article gave too little information to identify the object. The memo notes that the office keeps close liaison with the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center on foreign and domestic reports. It adds that Mars will make a close approach on 7 September 1956, which may bring a wave of sighting reports.
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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, received 17 April 1956, concerns Hungary. It passes on a November 1955 letter that a source got from a niece in Budapest. According to the letter, fast "flying saucers (rockets)" had made people nervous for several weeks and kept scientific groups busy, with estimated speeds of 12 thousand per hour. A sketch of the objects' formation and suspected course came with the letter. The source noted that this was the first time the niece had mentioned such objects.
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This Central Intelligence Agency release gathers financial records for MKULTRA Subproject 52, with dates running from 1955 to 1964. It includes invoices, certifications, vouchers, receipts, bank statements and expense notebooks for a chemical consultant who was paid to procure and prepare specified chemicals for TSD/BB. The project records describe novel chemicals that could not be obtained through normal channels, among them tetrahydroacridine, dimethyltryptamine and 4-hydroxytryptophan. The documents contain no UFO material.
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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 4 July 1956, relays a source's account of fast-moving flying objects over Stalingrad in spring 1954. While convalescing from jaundice at a military hospital near the Barrikady works, the source and other patients twice saw an unknown object cross from horizon to horizon, heading southeast to northwest and apparently climbing. The object itself was not visible. It caused strong air vibration, a screeching, whistling noise unlike an artillery shell, and a visible disturbance around it.
- Fast-Moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad in Spring 1954- Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 2 August 1956, collects unevaluated accounts from a source. The source says that in spring 1954, while in a military hospital near Stalingrad, they twice saw an unseen object cross the sky with strong air vibration and a screeching noise. The report also describes a May 1956 radar observation of a fast high-altitude formation reported to Hungary's Ministry of Defense, along with a wave of Hungarian flying saucer reports that officials dismissed as a myth.
- Untitled (to Gordon H. Scherer from Allen Dulles Discussing Thomas Eickhoffs Letter Regarding George Adamski's Book) FOIA release
This CIA letter from Director Allen Dulles to Representative Gordon H. Scherer answers the congressman's letter of 15 September 1955, which enclosed a letter from Thomas Eickhoff about George Adamski's book Inside The Space Ships. Dulles says the questions fall largely outside CIA jurisdiction, because mail fraud is a law enforcement matter that the National Security Act bars the Agency from handling. He adds that CIA does not comment on the truth of published material or the authenticity of the book's pictures. He suggests the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation instead.
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This Central Intelligence Agency file holds routing slips and a memo titled Report of Unidentified Flying Object, written by an agency employee. The employee saw a red flare-like object at night on 6 December 1956 while watching test 3018, the launch of a Viking rocket that was the first on the Vanguard program. The object flew north at an estimated 750 to 1000 miles per hour and then turned east. Comments added on 4 January 1957 say the Air Force ruled out aircraft and weather balloons, and camera plates showed nothing.
- CIA-UAP-009, Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest Official release
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 11 January 1957, went from the Chief of the Liaison Division, Office of Central Reference, to the Director of Intelligence, U.S. Air Force, for the attention of Colonel Charles E. Taylor. It forwarded attached correspondence about a reported sighting of an unidentified flying object for whatever action the Air Force considered appropriate. It also asked that the CIA receive a copy of any report produced if an investigation followed.
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This Central Intelligence Agency letter, dated 8 January 1957 and signed by Director Allen W. Dulles, replies to Senator Margaret Chase Smith of the United States Senate. Dulles thanks her for her letter of 2 January 1957, which enclosed a letter from Mrs. Vincent J. Perry of Mexico, Maine. He says the CIA will forward Mrs. Perry's letter to the proper authorities for action. The text gives no details about what her letter contained.
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This Central Intelligence Agency letter, dated January 1957, was signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director, and sent to Mr. John P. Anderson of Cocoa Beach, Florida. It acknowledges receipt of Anderson's letter of 4 January 1957, which reported an unidentified flying object. Scoville thanks him for the report and for his additional comments. The letter says nothing about what was seen and gives no analysis or conclusion. It carries an Office of Scientific Intelligence routing notation dated 16 January 1957.
- Untitled(To Margaret Smith from Allen Dulles Thanking Her for Forwarding Letter from Mrs. Vincent J. Perry) FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency letter dated 8 January 1957 from Director Allen W. Dulles to Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Dulles thanks the senator for her letter of 2 January 1957, which enclosed a letter from Mrs. Vincent J. Perry of Mexico, Maine. He says the CIA will make sure that letter is forwarded to the proper authorities for action. The reply does not describe what Mrs. Perry's letter contained.
- Untitled (to John Anderson from Herbert Scoville Acknowledging Receipt of Letter Reporting an UFO) FOIA release
This is a short Central Intelligence Agency letter dated 16 January 1957 from Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director, to Mr. John P. Anderson of Cocoa Beach, Florida. It acknowledges receipt of Anderson's letter of 4 January 1957, which reported an unidentified flying object, and thanks him for the report and for the additional comments he appended. The letter gives no details of the sighting and draws no conclusions. A distribution list shows copies routed within the agency, including to the Office of Scientific Intelligence.
- Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 1 March 1957, relays a source's account from Hungarian engineer associates. It describes a May 1950 alert in which air defense radar observed a formation of unknown objects flying east at about twenty-five thousand meters at extreme speed, which air defense had no weapons to intercept. It also notes near-daily Hungarian flying saucer reports in May and June 1950, which experts at the War Technical Institute judged nonexistent or US propaganda, and an official announcement called a myth.
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This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 4 March 1957, reports that the Director of Central Intelligence received a letter from Leon Davidson of White Plains, New York. Davidson referred to earlier correspondence about a recording, asked for Agency cooperation in learning what a code message revealed, and said he had recently testified before the House Subcommittee on Government Information. The sender says copies of that testimony are being obtained and asks how the correspondence began and for any background on Davidson.
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This undated-year cable, released by the Central Intelligence Agency and catalogued under 2 April 1957, is a short follow-up message sent from Chicago. It points to an earlier case and telephone conversation and asks what progress has been made. The sender says the correspondence is more than a month old and warns that delay adds "more fuel to the fire." It also says that people at Wright Field are waiting for advice, and it asks for a prompt reply.
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This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 1957, pairs a letter from Leon Davidson to the Director of Central Intelligence with a CIA reply addressed to Davidson in White Plains, New York. The reply, signed by an Assistant to the Director, refers to Davidson's 21 April 1957 letter to Mr. Dulles. It states that a survey of the intelligence community found the item in question was analyzed by another government agency, and that the Air Force would soon write to answer his query about the nature of the recording.
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This is a short Central Intelligence Agency letter to Leon Davison of White Plains, New York, signed by J. Arnold Shaw, Assistant to the Director, on behalf of Allen Dulles. It is catalogued under 5 April 1957, and its distribution line is dated 9 May 1957. Shaw writes that the tape recording Davison mentioned was analyzed by another government agency. He adds that Davison will hear directly from that agency about the nature of the recording. The letter was approved for release in 1975.
- Untitled (DCI Has Received a Letter from Leon Davidson Requesting Information on the Recording You Received) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 25 April 1957, reports that the Director of Central Intelligence received a letter from Leon Davidson of White Plains, New York. Davidson asked for information about a recording and for Agency cooperation in learning what its code message revealed. He also said he had recently testified before the House Subcommittee on Government Information. The sender asks the recipient how the correspondence with Davidson began and requests any background information on him.
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This untitled Central Intelligence Agency cable from the Chicago office, dated April 26, 1957, reports on two letters received from Davidson asking for information on UFOs. In the first, dated March 6, he asked whether a tape had been analyzed at ATIC, Wright Field. The reply said the tape had gone to the proper authorities and that no results were available. When Davidson asked where to direct his enquiries, he was referred to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where he was apparently stalled.
- Final Personnel Record for Newhouse, Delbert C., U.S. Navy, 1957 Official release
- Unidentified Flying Saucers (UFO) FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from the Planning and Coordination Staff, dated 2 May 1957, answers three questions about CIA work on UFOs. It says the Air Force and CIA both still follow the subject, and that Phil Strong of OSI is responsible for it. It recounts the 1952 to 1953 OSI panel study and the small remaining ATIC Blue Book effort, and reports that little of importance has been received. It also mentions a British and Canadian flying saucer design project run by the Canadians.
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This is a Central Intelligence Agency routing memorandum dated 10 May 1957, sent from the Chief of the Contact Division (Support) to the Chief of the Chicago Office. It forwards an OSI memorandum about attempts to recover an analysis of a tape. It also forwards a memorandum to the DCI and a suggested letter for him to send to Mr. Leon Davidson, which it says was found acceptable. The Chicago Office is asked to tell the Air Force about the action taken and to obtain a copy of their letter to Davidson.
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This is a Central Intelligence Agency letter dated 9 to 10 May 1957 from J. Arnold Shaw, Assistant to the Director, to Mr. Leon Davison of White Plains, New York. Shaw writes on behalf of Mr. Dulles to answer Davison's letter of April 21. The letter says the tape Davison mentioned was analyzed by another government agency, and that Davison will hear directly from that agency about the nature of the recording. The document was approved for release in 1975.
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This Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 May 1957 is a short routine message from the Chicago office. It asks what progress has been made on a case, which was discussed earlier by telephone, and on related correspondence that is now more than a month old. The sender warns that further delay adds fuel to the fire. They also say people at Wright Field are waiting for advice. The cable asks for a prompt reply.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, signed by Philip G. Strong, Deputy Assistant Director/Collection, Scientific Intelligence, and addressed to the Deputy Director for Coordination, reports on contacts with Dr. M. K. Jessup about meteor study in Mexico and flying saucers. Jessup referred the Agency to Wayne Aho, who met with two CIA specialists. The memo attaches notes of that conversation and a George Dixon Washington Post column, and concludes the Agency has nothing to gain from further follow-up.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated June 5, 1957, records an interview with a person whose name is deleted, on the subject of unidentified flying objects. The subject is described as a calm Oakland businessman and WWII intelligence officer. He claimed extrasensory powers, invisible space ships traveling in a fourth dimension, and an encounter during a May 1957 trip to a Yucaipa Valley convention. There, he said, a light landed in the desert. The memo notes that no classified information was given.
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This 11 June 1957 Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, from the Planning and Coordination Staff, answers three questions about how UFOs are being followed. It says the Air Force and the CIA both still follow UFOs and that OSI's Phil Strong is responsible for the subject at the CIA. It recounts the 1952 OSI panel and its January 1953 report and describes the small remaining ATIC effort left from Project Blue Book. It also reports a British and Canadian saucer-shaped aircraft project.
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This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 1 July 1957, is a short message about a flying saucer letter connected with someone named Davidson. The sender says a copy of an ATIC letter had not been received, so they called Colonel Baird again. Baird said the letter had been sent and a copy was in the mail. He also expected Davidson to make further inquiries, and the sender says they are not sure they agree. The document carries release approval stamps.
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This one-page Central Intelligence Agency information report, numbered CS-3,325.4.7 and dated 1957, covers a flying object seen on 12 June from Iranian Julfa on the Iran/USSR border. The object looked like a ball about half a meter across with a half-meter tail. It flew at high speed from Nakhichevan toward Soviet territory and was visible for only a few seconds. A field comment adds a second witness, who described the object as football-sized and said its smoke trail stayed visible for about 15 minutes.
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This Central Intelligence Agency cable from Support, dated 2 July 1957 and marked case closed, is a short routine message about a reply owed to someone named Davidson. It says that, based on a conversation with ATIC, the DCI's office had been told Davidson would receive a reply. The cable asks whether the recipient got a copy of the letter to Davidson or was told it had been written. The sender wants to close the matter knowing for certain that the letter was sent.
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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 26 July 1957 and addressed to the Deputy Assistant Director for Collection, records an interview with a person whose name is deleted. The man worked in the lumber business in Oakland, California. He said he had extra sensory perception and could travel in the fourth dimension. He described saucer encounters, including a desert light seen during a May 1957 flight to attend a spacecraft convention. The memo notes that no classified information was given.
- Flying Saucers FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 31 July 1957, went from the Deputy Assistant Director for Collection, Scientific Intelligence, to the Deputy Director for Coordination about flying saucers. Staff contacted Dr. M. K. Jessup. He saw little agency interest in his meteor study in Mexico and referred them to Wayne Aho, who then met with CIA aircraft and geophysics specialists. The memo attaches notes of that conversation and a Washington Post column by George Dixon, and it concludes that further follow-up offers nothing to gain.
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This Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 5 August 1957 concerns a flying saucer letter from Davidson. The sender reports that a copy of an ATIC letter had not been received, so they called Col. Daird again. Daird said the letter had gone out and a copy was in the mail, and that he expected Davidson to make further enquiry. The sender says they are not sure they agree. The document was approved for release on 24 March 1978.
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Marin report, 20 June 1767, page 2 Scan
Marin report, 20 June 1767, page 3 Scan
MANDEMENT DE MONSEIGNEUR L'EVÈQUE DE MENDE, POUR ORDONNER DES PRIERES PUBLIQUES; à l'occasion de l'Animal antropophage qui défie le Gevaudan. AMENDE; Chez la VEUVE DE FRANÇOIS BERGERON, Imprimeur du Roi, de Monfeigneur l'Evêque, du College . & de la Ville. M. D C C. L I V,…
Court judgment of 17 October 1778 at Mende with a physical description of Marie-Jeanne Vallet Scan
1764 notice: Figure du monstre qui désole le Gévaudan, with the 2,700-livre reward Scan
German print, 1764: the Beast attacking a well-dressed man Scan
German print, September 1764: attack scenes Scan
German print with a French and German reward announcement Scan
Print of the Beast, 1764 Scan
Hyena print, 1765: the Beast as a hyena, as sent to the Court Scan
Print engraved by M. Ray showing a reptile-like lion Scan
Marie-Jeanne Vallet fighting the Beast, 11 August 1765 Scan
Engraving from the Magné de Marolles collection, about 1765 Scan
Attack print, about 1764 Scan
Magné de Marolles collection: the Beast attacking a woman Scan
Magné de Marolles collection: Figure de la bête farouche ScanFIGURE DE LA BÊTE FAROUCHE ET EXTRAORDINAIRE , QUI DÉVORE LES FILLES Dans la Province de Gévaudan , & qui s'échappe avec tant de vitesse , qu'en très-peu de tems on la voit à deux ou trois lieues de distance , & qu'on ne peut l'attraper ni la tuer.…
Magné de Marolles collection: portrait of the hyena Scan
Magné de Marolles collection: true figure of the ferocious beast called a hyena Scan
Magné de Marolles collection: furious beast supposed to be a hyena Scan
Magné de Marolles vignette: two dragoons chasing the Beast, sabres in hand Scan
Magné de Marolles vignette: a beheaded woman Scan
Magné de Marolles collection: the ferocious beast that caused such cruel ravages Scan
François Antoine killing the Wolf of Chazes, 21 September 1765 Scan
Magné de Marolles collection: this ferocious beast that caused so many ravages Scan
François Antoine shooting the Beast, engraving, Paris, 1765 Scan
François Antoine and Rinchard bring down the Beast Scan
Illustration from the almanac Le Messager boiteux, 1765 Scan
Man with a sword beside the dead Beast, about 1765 Scan
Illustration from the English magazine Universal Museum, 1765 Scan
Print from an unnamed French periodical, 1764 to 1767 Scan
A woman and the Beast, unnamed French periodical, 1764 to 1767 Scan
Print of the Beast, 1764 Scan
Danish print of the Beast as a hyena Scan
Jeanne Jouve defending her children, a later illustration dated 1839 to 1840 Scan
Portrait of the Marquis d'Apcher, who organised the June 1767 hunt Scan
Title page of an 1809 melodrama about the Beast ScanLA BETE DU GÉVAUDAN, MELODRAME ENTROIS ACTES, EN PROSE, ET A GRAND SPECTACLE; Par M. POMPIGNY, Auteur d'Hortense de Vauciuse, d'Adrienne de Courtenai, etc. Musique de MM. QUAISAIN et D***, Ballet de M, MILLOT. Représenté pour la première fois, à Paris, sur le Théâtre de l'Ambigu Comique, le 25 Juill…
Illustration by Gustave Janet for Élie Berthet's novel, 1858 Scan
Jeannot Grandes Dents and the Beast, illustration for Élie Berthet's novel Scan
1910 cover of Élie Berthet's La Bête du Gévaudan Scan
Bertall, Histoire véridique du canard, 19th-century satire Scan
Turgot map, 1739, showing the Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld, where the remains of Chastel's animal were probably buried Scan
Portrait of the minister Comte de Saint-Florentin, 1769 Scan
Jean Chastel on Philippe Kaeppelin's stele Scan
Ténazeyre forest and the Sogne d'Auvers, where Jean Chastel shot the animal Scan
Site of the attack on Marie-Jeanne Vallet at Paulhac, 11 August 1765 Scan
Edge of the Bois de Pommier, where the Wolf of Chazes was shot Scan
The Intendance d'Auvergne building in Clermont Scan
Statue of Marie-Jeanne Vallet fighting the Beast, Auvers Scan
Auvers, Haute-Loire, 2007 Scan
Statue of the Beast at Saugues Scan
Statue of the Beast at Saugues Scan
Representation of the Beast at Marvejols Scan
Modern sculptures of the Beast Scan
Modern representation of the Beast Scan
Modern representation of the Beast Scan
The Beast at a festival in Mende Scan
Landscape near Saugues Scan
Modern painting of the Clermont-Prince volunteers on patrol in early 1765 Scan
Modern drawing of the animal based on the descriptions of the inhabitants Scan
THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT. "Strange things come up to look at us— The matter of the day." something comes up to look at it." The masters of the deep."—Song, "The Return of the Admiral." A NEW attestation of the existence of the Great Sea Serpent has just been placed upon official record; and has very na…
HE\D OF THE SEA-SERPENT SEEN BY CAPT. M'QUILE. pearance of the Sorpent, under the supervision of Captain M'Quhue, and with his approval of the authenticity of their details as to position and form. The next communication is the following letter, addressed, within the past ten days, to the Editor of …
THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT. 44 Strange things come up to look at us— Strange things come up to look as us- The masters of the doop."—Song, "The Return of the Admiral." A NEW attestation of the existence of the Great Sea Serpent has just been placed upon official record ; and has very naturally resuscitat…
HEAD OF THE SEA SERPENT SEEN BY CAPT. M'QUILE. W of Good Hope on the 30th of July and reached St. Helena on the 16th of August. Next, the following very interesting report, by Captain M'Quiah, was forwarded to the Admiralty: "Her Majesty's Ship Dreadfuls, Hamanoze, Oct. 11. "Sir—In reply to your let…
Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January 1932, p. 7: Frederick Cox recalls Birmingham's flying machine. Scan"Did I ever tell you about Birmingham," he asked. "Birmingham was an alderman of Parramatta Council, and an engineer, and at his house in Duck-lane, near the Old Men's Home in Macquarie-street, Parramatta, he built a flying machine. As he failed to form a company to get the machine on the market, Bi…
A WINGED SHIP IN THE SKY. It Cleaves the Air With Pinions Like a Huge Condor. ALL SACRAMENTO SEES THE NEW WONDER. The Inventor's Lawyer Describes the Machine and Says It Is Genuine. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IT WAS SEEN SOARING NEAR SAN JOSE AT MIDNIGHT. "The Call's" Exclusive Account of the Greatest Invent…
AMUSEMENTS. EATER — "Dr. Belgraff." EATER — "The New South." FERA-HOUSE — "Midnight Alarm." HOUKE — "The Little Duke." high-Class Vandeville. EATER — End of the Century. FREET THEATER. — T. A. Kennedy, AN TEMPLE.—Piano Recital, Satur5. VY & Co.—This dav, December 1, salesroom, 1185 Market street, at…
S. E. Haydon's article "A Windmill Demolishes It," The Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897, page 5. ScanA Windmill Demolishes It. Aurora, Wise Co., Tex,Ap ril 17.-(To The News.)-About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing through the country. It was traveling due north, and much nearer the earth than ever before…
Egryn Chapel 1904 Scan
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ME EVENING REPUBLICAN, COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1909. i {in order to enrich this stranger” D. EE a {4 espa {wished you to know it. she would No ene but a wor I have confided it to you herself. 1 must )) despair, and the d decline—" | ! @ daily burden of ill Mr Harper interrupted the other |…
AERIAL MYSTERY. SEEN BY OVER 20 PEOPLE. Although it is nearly two months since the mysterious airship, which is claimed to have been seen at night by many people in all parts of Eastern England, was first noticed, there is not the faintest clue to an elucidation of the mystery.…
AIRSHIP MYSTERY. FLIGHT BY NIGHT OVER CARDIFF. A WELL-SUBSTANTIATED STORY. THE AERONAUTS SEEN ON A MOUNTAIN. STRANGE DISCOVERIES (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) CARDIFF, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. In the early hours of this morning an airship was seen from the Cardiff docks coming from the direction of Newport. It …
METEORIC DISPLAY OF FEBRUARY 9, 1913 (From a drawing by Gustave Hahn, Toronto). The above represents a portion of the display as observed by Mr. and Mrs. Hahn, in the vicinity of High Park, Toronto. The spaces between succeeding clusters were actually somewhat greater than shown here.…
Varios aspectos do povo ajoehidel e orando no momento de des`obrir o sol e de se dar o fenomeno que tanto impressionou a multilha. no vagalhão colossal d'aquile povo que ali se iuntou a 15 outubro. O teu racionalismo so'reu um formidível embate e quer-s estabelecer uma opinão segura sorocorrendo-te …
gem dos creentes foi aumentando de mez para mez, a ponto de se juntarem na charneca de Fátima, em 15 de outubro, umas cincoenta mil pessoas, consoante os calculos de individuos desaiponxa- Consulte os efeitos de milíduos desapaxionados. Nas precedentes reunidos de fie's, não falton quem tivesse supo…
O povo ora ajoelhado e olhando o alto manifestações sobrenaturaes, sem temer que a invernia as prejudicasse, diminuindo-lhes o esp endor e a imponencia... Vi que o desalento não invadiu as almas, que a con iança se conservou viva e ardente, a despeito das inesperadas contrariedades, que a compo tura…
FOR THE NEXT 120km YOU ARE IN LAND the MIN LIGHT THIS UNSOLVED MODERN MYSTERY IS A LIGHT THAT AT TIMES FOLLOWS TRAVELLERS FOR LONG DISTANCES-IT HAS BEEN APPROACHED BUT NEVER IDENTIFIED ERECTED BY THE BOULIA SHIRE COUNCIL IN THE INTEREST OF TOURISM…
Como ve el autor de Sarrasqueta la expedición que organiza el señor Onelli : CARICATURA DE REDONDO. El doctor Augusto Vaccari que, en representación de "Caras y Caretas" acompaña a la arriesgada y benemérita comisión exploradora que irá a la Patagonia en busca del plesiosauro, — el famoso animal de …
An Antediluvian Monster Is the Argentine Plesiosaurus a Fake or a Scientific Marvel? By Leonard Matters WHATEVER may be the opinion in scientific circles—and it is one of scornful skepticism—the fact remains that the report of the existence in Argentina of a living specimen of a race of mammoth rept…
STRANGE SPECTACLE ON LOCH NESS What was it? (PROM A CORRESPONDENT). Loch Ness has for generations been credited with being the home of a fearsome-looking monster, but, somehow or other, the "water-kelpie," as this legendary creature is called, has always been regarded as a myth, if not a joke. Now, …
RUINS OF BORLEY RECTORY, most haunted house in England, provided the photographer who took this picture in 1944 with a puzzling bit of ghostcraft. At instant shutter was snapped a brick (white speck against dark shallow in room at right) rose from the floor, apparently nudged by unseen hands.…
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MISSION REPORT UNIT REPORTING: 415TH NIGHT FIGHTER SQUADRON REPORT : 1. 1845/2030 - INTRUDER. Visibility too poor for observation. Patrolled 7th Army Front from R-1108 to HAGENAU - artillery flashes seen. Before leaving, new floo fire (3 red lights) 3 miles away at 3,000 feet stationary. Vicinity of…
ISSION REPORT FORM A-2 SECTION TIME: 1000 1400 FINAL x DATE: 3/10/2017 DIST C.G. A-5 CONT X11 TAG X 1. GROUP OR WING: ___ GROUP (ER) ___ 2. TOTAL NO. MISSIONS: ___ 5 ___ TOTAL NO. SORTIES: ___ 35. ___ 3. TYPE OF MISSIONS: ARMED RECCES. 14. ROUTE OR AREA. AS DIRECTED. 5. FLAK: 6. CLAIMS: | TYPE | DES…
PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. DATE·TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION 2. May 5th 45 | Fala Island, Truk Atoll 3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION Military | Possibly A/C (enemy) 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | Two | 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Over 1 hour | Two A/B objects at same alt as observer's…
Great Balls Of Fire! Nazis Throw Them At Our Planes A U.S. Night Fighter Base, France, Jan. 1 (P)—The Nazls have thrown something new into the night skies over Germany—the weird mysterious "foo-fighter," balls of fire which race alongside the wings of American Beaufighters flying intruder missions o…
MOUNTAIN MAIL, Socorro, NM - Oct. 30, 2003 (Reprinted with permission of author and copyright holder) Aliens Among Us? Copyright by the Mountain Mail, Socorro, N.M., and Ben Moffett. Just before dawn on July 16, 1945, scientists detonated the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site, some 20 mi…
across central New Mexico. Among the most prominent was Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora's April 24, 1964, on-duty report of a "manned" UFO just south of Socorro, less than 10 miles north of the heretofore unnoticed 1945 Padilla Ranch crash. Jose and Remigio were long gone from the area by the t…
MOUNTAIN MAIL, Socorro, NM - Nov. 6, 2003 (Reprinted with permission of author and copyright holder) Witnesses Still Wonder About Crash Operation Copyright, the Mountain Mail, Socorro, N.M., and Ben Moffett. The second of a two-part series on a flying object that crashed just west of San Antonio, N.…
ENLISTED RECORD AND REPORT OF SEPARATION HONORABLE DISCHARGE WD AGO FORM 53.55 1 November 1944 This form supersedes all previous editions of WD AGO Forms 53 and 55 for enlisted persons entitled to an Honorable Discharge, which will not be used after receipt of this revision. 6. BOARD OF REGISTRATION…
REGISTRATION CARD—(Men born on or after January 1, 1922 and on or before June 30, 1924) SERIAL NUMBER | 1. NAME (Print) | ORDER NUMBER N 84 | Eddie C. Apodaca | 10 429 2. PLACE OF RESIDENCE (Print) P.O. 494 Hot Springs Sierra New Mex. [THE PLACE OF RESIDENCE GIVEN ON THE LINE ABOVE WILL DETERMINE LO…
U. S. ARMY 370th Fighter Squadron 359th Fighter Group Organization Name PASSENGER LIST Date: 1 October 1945 List No. | Name | RE-7380 - AR Shipment No. & better | East Wratham AAF 133 Home Sta of Departure Reception Sta No. | Grain | AIR | ASN | Arm of Service | MOB 122. | SMITH, EWARD L. | (25) | S…
August 1, 1951 28 Applicants Pass Tests for NM Police Jobs SANTA FE, Aug. 1 (4)—Twenty-eight applicants completed a month's training at the State Police Recruit School yesterday. State Police Chief Joe Roach said 20 to 22 of the young men will be taken into the force before long under an expansion a…
Police Course Is Completed By 28 Would-Be Officers Las Cruces Sun-News/August 1, 1951 SANTA FE, Aug. 1 UP Twenty-eight applicants completed a month's training in the state pollen recruit school yesterday. State Police Chief Joe Roach said 20 to 22 of the young men will be taken into the force before…
Board of Supervisors New Mexico State Police Santa Fe, New Mexico. Gentlemen: Please be advised the following listed officers have successfully served their two year probationary period and are now classified as duly qualified and regular State Police Officers as of August 10th, 1953: Eddie Apodaca …
Convict with Knife Takes over NM Bus SOCORRO (AP) A paroled Arizona convict, free only four days, held 25 passengers of a New Mexico bus in a grip of terror early today for more than an hour. Knife in hand, he stalked the aisle of the north-bound vehicle, mouthing curses and obscenities, threatening…
HOME / BLOG / UFOS / THE 1945 SAN ANTONIO UFO CRASH: THE REME BACA AND JOSE PADILLA WITNESS CASE The 1945 San Antonio UFO Crash: The Reme Baca and Jose Padilla witness Case NOVEMBER 29,2010 PAOLA HARRIS UFOS By Paola Leopizzi Harris Born on the edge of Ground Zero, living in the shadow of Area 51, t…
It is one of the most astounding cases I have ever covered in my career and it helps complete the puzzle of why there has been so many crash retrievals in New Mexico. As journalist Ben Moffet, who so beautifully describes the cover-up - we can begin to see where it fits in UFO history. It was in thi…
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From the United States ben moffett Baca's Book Adds Yet Another Layer to UFO Tales in New Mexico Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2015 Remigio Baca's book is likely valuable and interesting to students of UFO lore in America and especially in New Mexico. I am reviewing the book because I…
Still from the documentary O Homem que Derreteu: Caso João Prestes. Scan
Still from the documentary O Homem que Derreteu: Caso João Prestes. Scan
TOP SECRET USAFE 14 TT 1524 TOP SECRET 4 Nov 1948 From OI OB For some time we have been concerned by the recurring reports on flying saucers. They periodically continue to cup up; during the last week, one was observed hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes. They have been reporte…
In These United States Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted by Idaho Pilot Speed Estimated at 1,200 Miles an Hour When Seen 10,000 Feet Up Near Mt. Rainier PENDLETON, Ore., June 25.—F. NINE INHIBITIVE MOUSES like objects flying at "inhibitile" speed at 10,000 feet altitude were reported here by Kenath …
MEMORANDUM FOR THIS OFFICER IN CHARGE: 1. On 12 July 1947, Boise, Idaho, was interviewed in regard to the report by that he saw 9 strange objects flying over the Cassino Mountain Range of Washington State on July 25th. The voluntarily agreed to give the interviewer a written report of exactly what h…
1. DATE·TIME GROUP 24 Jun 47 | 2. LOCATION Mr. Rainer, Washington 3. SOURCE Civilian | 10. CONCLUSION Other (MIRAGE) KENNETH ARNOLD SIGHTING 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Nine 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 23-3 minutes | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Observer sighted a large circular objects heading west. They a…
Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice 422 - Federal Office Building, Civic Center San Francisco 2, California September 19, 1947 Director, FBI Attention: Assistant Director D. M. LADD FE: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS 67C Dear Sir: I am transmitting herewith copies of a "rest…
bers To Quiz Ellion Roosevelt Todas: PRECKED BOMBER CARRIED DISC SECRET. | Nig The Cacia Times Amy Sos tt BROT) Was J »... Tl Dg On Plane EET to | or a Se…
Roswell Daily Record Movies as Usual Levees broke and flood waters rolled into the town of Grand Tower, ill. but while the manager of this movie theater sweeps out the water that has entered the lobby, these youngsters are standing in line for tickets for the night's performance. (AP Wirephoto). Som…
Top of the Roswell Daily Record front page: RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region ScanRoswell Daily Record tablished 1888 5¢ PER COPY he rolled into the town of Grand Tower, Ill. movie theater sweeps out the water that has waters are standing in line for tickets for the photo). Claims Army Is Stacking Courts Martial Indiana Senator Lays Protest Before Patterson Washington, July 8 (AP…
Army Reveals It Has Flying Disc Found On Ranch In New Mexico ROSWELL (N. M.), July 8. $ - (P) $ The army air forces here today announced a flying disc has been found on a ranch near Roswell and is in possession of the army. Lieutenant Warren Haught, public information officer of the Roswell Army Air…
"Flying Saucer" Found In New Mexico A "FLYING SAUCER" has been found by the U.S. Army Air Force on a ranch near Roswell Airfield, in New Mexico. Lieutenant Haught, the Public Relations Officer at Roswell, announced yesterday that the "find" had been made "some time last week." In a statement he said…
Date: 24 May 94 STATEMENT OF WITNESS Place: Washington I Sheridan W.Cavitt hereby state that Richard L. Weaver was identified to me as a Colonel, USAF. I do hereby voluntarily and of my own free will make the following statement without having been subjected to any coercion, unlawful influence or un…
July 1995 GOVERNMENT RECORDS Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico THE ROSWELL REPORT BEST QUALITY INSTITUTED 1 Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert Headquarters United States Air Force 1995 A Die-Hard Issue CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-9…
THE "DISC" INVESTIGATION The "flying disc" hoax in Twin Falls at least gave us an insight into that old "cloak and dagger" secrecy which the U. S. army on occasion employs to the extent of making itself ridiculous. Once army intelligence got wind of the discovery in Twin Falls, it threw its censorsh…
TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: March 22, 1950 FROM : GUY HOTTEL, SAC, WASHINGTON 14. 1 SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS INFORMATION CONCERNING Flying Discs or Flying Saucers The following information was furnished to SA R. H. KURTZMAN by KARL HOWE, Special Investigator, Sex Squad, Metropolitan Police Department: A…
Scientist Says Flying Saucer Pilots Will Land Within Year 'LITTLE MEN IN SAUCER' DUE SOON TO EXPLORE EARTH, SAVANT SAYS Geophysicist Sees Saucers Landing Soon Thinks Pilots From Other Planet About Ready to Visit Earth Denver, Oct. 19. Denver geophysicist Silas M. Newton, who believes flying saucers …
When asked if he had pictures of the "little men" reportedly found dead in their space ships, if he had seen them himself, or if he knew of anyone by name who had, Newton replied: "All will come out finally, but don't pin me down with questions I will not answer."…
Mr. Eastern Air Lines Miami, Fla. The following is a report of an unidentified aircraft which was sighted by and me, as we were twenty miles southwest of Montgomery, Ala. July 24, 1948, as we were on Eastern's trip 576. At 2:45 A. M. we were cruising at 5,000 feet when there came, what looked like a…
MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Incident #172, Fargo, N. Dakota, dated 1 Oct '48 TO: Mr. Money 1. Per your request for telecon condensation: a. Command Representatives interrogated witnesses involved in Incident #172 on the 3 Oct '18. b. Newspaper reports were confirmed as being substantially correct. c. Summar…
UNCLASSIFIED Chief of Staff United States Air Force Washington, 25, D. C. ATTN: APOEI Collections Branch 1. On the 3 October 1945, the following representatives of this Command interrogated witnesses involved in the North Dakota incident of 1 October 1945 which occurred from 2100 to 2127 hours Centr…
Subject: Project "SIGH" AIR INSPECTOR When the object began evasive tactics the F-51 pilot utilized maximum authorized power. (Engine seal for military power was not broken.) However, the object out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed the F-51 in every instance. Contact was lost twenty-seven minutes…
Lt. George Gorman Scan
Office Memorandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI January 31, 1949 DATE: FROM S.C, S.N. ANTONIO SUBJECT: PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLICTIONS DURE.U FILE # 65-50300 CONDITIAL Ludersfeld 2010 8/31/77 at recent Weekly Intelligence Conferences of G-2, ONI, OSI, and FD-I., in the Fourth Army…
CAPTAIN THOMAS F. MANTELL, JR. Born in Franklin, Ky., 30 June 1922. Graduated Male High School. Louisville. Joined Army Air Corps. 16 June 1942. Graduated Flight School, 30 June 1943. During WW II. Mantell assigned to 440th Troop Carrier Group. 96th Troop Carrier Squadron. 9th Air Force. Awarded Dis…
CAPTAIN THOMAS F. MANTELL, JR. Born in Franklin, Ky., 30 June 1922. Graduated Male High School, Louisville. Joined Army Air Corps, 16 June 1942. Graduated Flight School, 30 June 1943 During WW II. Mantell assigned to 440th Troop Carrier Group, 96th Troop Carrier Squadron, 9th Air Force. Awarded Dist…
Fort Knox UFO incident still stirs interest CAPT. THOMAS MANTELL (LEFT) died in a plane crash while following an unidentified flying object that appeared over Fort Knox in 1948. Courtesy photo Compiled by LARRY BARNES TURKET EDITOR Tomorrow is the 57th anniversary of one of the most unusual events e…
FLIER DIES CHASING A 'FLYING SAUCER' Plane Explodes Over Kentucky as That and Near States Report Strange Object LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 8 (AP) Several areas of Kentucky and adjoining states were excited today over reports of a "flying saucer" which led to the death of one National Guard flier and frui…
Two other members of the Kentucky National Guard, also asked to make a flying investigation of reported "flying discs" in the area near Fort Knox, returned to their Louisville base. Two Hopkinsville pilots, James Garret and William Crenshaw, said they chased a flying object which they believed to be…
of the planes later called reported no success." reported no success. Captain Mantell, an air hero during the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the third pilot. His mother, Mrs. Thomas F. Mantell Sr., said in Louisville she was informed that her son flew too high in his pursuit of the object and lost…
http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB1-15 JANUARY - FEBRUARY - MARCH 1948 SIGHTINGS LOCATION January OBSERVER 1948 | Antarctic NOT IN FOLDER | NOT IN FOLDER (Photos) (Photos) 1948 | Warren, Minnesota (NO CARD) | PHYSICAL-G Other (HOAX) 110 | Abilene, Texas | | Insufficient Data …
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SPECIAL DEVICES CENTER BANDS POINT, PORT WASHINGTON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK May 23 10 p.m. 20 MAY 1949 3137 Front: Commanding Officer and Director Mas: The Chief of Naval Operations Attn: Office of Naval Intelligence Via: The Chief of Naval Research Subj: Lighting of Unidentified Object—Report of Encl…
An employee in the supersonic laboratory of an aeronautical laboratory and some other employees of this lab, were by a river, 2-1/2 miles from its mouth, when they saw an object. The time was about 1700 hours on May 24, 1949. The object was reflecting sunlight when observed by naked eye. However, he…
Scientists Tracked Flying Saucer Over N.M. Navy Man Tells Of Tracking This newspaper has been granted permission to reprint an art clea appearing in the book "How Scientists tracked a Flying Saucer." The article is written by Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, U. S. Navy. The article deals with an occu…
'Mass Flight' of Sky Disks Seen by 5000 (Editor's note: The Air Force, in Washington, issued a flat denial today that any such thing as a "flying sancer" exists. The Air Force also denied that it is trying to cover up some of its own experiments by discrediting the "flying sancer" reports. However, …
Citizens See 'Hundreds' Over Town FARMINGTON, N.M. March 17. (F)—A large group of flying saucers was reported over Farmington this morning. Some estimates placed the number at hundreds; others kept it to 20 or more, first leafing over the town and then streaking through the skies. Clayton J. Boody, …
Scores Report Seeing Saucers' Flight in Formation Over New Mexico FARMINGTON, N.M., March 17 (U.P.)—A mass flight of flying saucers over this Northwestern New Mexico oil town of 5000 population was reported today by 50 persons, including businessmen and private pilots. Detailed accounts of the fligh…
Berkshire Eagle clipping: "Mariana reports flying disk" (date listed on source page needs checking) ScanMariana Reports Flying Discs Could it be that even baseballs now come home to roost? Nick Marina, general manager of the park, said he self that question this morning. Two objects—for all the world like the long gong that plays the melody, but the ball that balls it back just past. By Lou Brigantii …
Flying Saucer Film Taken Over by AF GREAT FALLS, Mont. (P)—Nick Mariana says that the Air Force has taken his color movies of two dives that burst over a baseball park here Aug. 15. He said he turned the color films over to the air technical command here at the request of a special investigator of t…
Photos of Sancers? Spotled, Says AF DAYTON, Ohio (AF)—No one will ever know if those airborne objects photographed by a Great Falls, Mont., baseball manager were "giving mascars." The Air Force, which Manager Nick Mariana said confiscated pictures he took, reported the color film was "too dark to di…
INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS REPORT NO. 00 -W-23682 CD NO. COUNTRY Germany SUBJECT Military; Scientific DATE OF INFORMATION 1952 HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspaper DATE DIST. 23 AUG 1952 WHERE PUBLISHED Athena DATE PUBLISHED 9 Jul 1952 NO. OF PAGES 2 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMAT…
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New development adds to saga of 'Lubbock Lights' phenomena By Jeff South Update Staff Writer The mystery of the "Lubbock Lights," a V-shaped string of illuminated objects which flew over the muo city 26 years ago, is now more baffling than ever. In the latest development, computer-assisted scientist…
Scan of Donald Keyhoe's TRUE magazine article, December 1952 Scan
THE MONSTER which prowled the hills of Braxton County on Friday, Sept. 12, was drawn by a New York artist from descriptions given him by Mrs. Kathleen May and Gene Lemon, Flatwoods residents who said they saw the "thing." The two witnesses, with A. Lee Stewart, Jr., Sutton publisher, held their expe…
Glowing Monster Sought In West Virginia Hills Woman, Boys Report Fire-Breathing Giant Was Discovered Near Spot Where Flying Saucers Were Seen Landing SUTTON, W. Va. — UP — Eye witnesses' accounts of a tail, glowing monster with a blood-red face skulking in the hills divided Braxton County today into…
NEGATIVES OF FLYING SAUCER INTRIGUE THEM Two negative reports to show a flying saucer that appeared on the California desert intrigue (from left) Alfred C. Bailley, Mrs. Bailley, both of Winston; William Williamson and Mrs. Williamson, both of Prescott. They claim they saw the mother ship of the fly…
Pic.13 Right Foot. One of the witnesses, Alice Wells, made this sketch of the visitor while watching the interview through binoculars. It conveys the broad features of his appearance but is far short of doing him justice.…
Lions Speaker Has Talked to Man From Venus A man who met and talked to a visitor from outer space told members of the Corona Lions club about it today. Dr. George Adamski, formerly an astronomer with Mount Palomar, described what it's like to talk to a man from another world. The contact, as he call…
I was sitting close to the astronomer, Dr. George Adamski, at Lions club yesterday when he told about meeting face-to-face with a man from Outer Space—the planet Venus, to be specific. * * * Every now and then Dr. Adamski would seem to look directly at me and his quick black eyes would pierce sharpl…
"Ring Around" column by Justin Hammond PAGE SIX MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1953. CORONA DAILY INDEPENDENT. CORONA, CALIF. Friday I promised to tell you a little more about what Dr. George Adamski told the Lions club about meeting a man from the planet Venus. Over the weekend a number of people have mentioned…
Miami Pilots Spot 8 Saucers Flying In Formation By JOHN F. BONNER Herald Staff Writer Two Miami airlines pilots said Tuesday they saw 1,000-mile-an hour flying saucers in formation over Chesapeake Bay. They said eight of the "things" 100 feet in diameter and "glowing like hot coals," passed directly…
1,000 Miles An Hour Miami Pilots Spot Eight Saucers In Formation Continued from Page 1 taneous—they wheeled up on their edges, still in formation, then flattened out again and went off in almost the opposite direction. "When they were up on their sides, we could see a dark rim around their edges. Th…
Saucer Report Sparks Air Force Probe By United Press WASHINGTON — The Air Force said Wednesday a "preliminary report" on the reported sighting of eight "flying saucers" over Norfolk, Va., Monday night has been received at the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Dayton, O. The "saucers" were reported …
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. The Inspector General USAF Miami Detachment 7th OSI District Office of Special Investigations Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida CIH/ra 15 July 1952 SUBJECT: SIGHTED UNCONVENTIONAL TYPE AIRCRAFT BY TWO PIL…
FOUR CREW MEMBERS of the airliner missing on flight from San Francisco to Hawaii are stewardess Yvonne Alexander (upper left) of San Francisco and Katie Kearney (lower left) of H. G. Brown (lower left) of Palo Alto, pilot, and W. H. Fortenberry of Santa Clara, second engineer. There are four others …
Miami Pilots Spot 8 Sau By JOHN F. BONNER Harold Stuff Weller Two Mastai airlines pilots said Tuesday they saw 1,000 miles an hour flying around in formation over Chesapeake Bay. They say eight of the "inspire" 100 feet in diameter and "glowing like hot boa," passed directly beneath their Pan Americ…
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TOPCLIFFE AIRMEN "FLYING SAUCER" "Incredible Speed" He is Flight Lieutenant John William Kilburn (31), of Thornhill, Cumberland, who has been in the R.A.F. for 16 years, 11 of them as aircrew. He said: "I noticed a white object and assumed that its height was between 10,000 and 20,000 feet. It was f…
'SAUCER' CHASED R JET PLANE Say 6 Airmen NOT Smoke-Ring Or Weather Balloon, Says Pilot By Sunday Dispatch Reporter SERIOUS investigation was being made last night by the R.A.F. into the mystery of a silvery-white object that chased a Meteor jet-plane over Yorkshire during "Exercise Mainbrace." It wa…
Is It Real Thing? Air Force Checks 'Saucer' Photo GEN. JOHN A. SAMFORD Not sold on saucers. Bucks Lead Bums Picture Taken By Coast Guard Other saucer stories on Page 5. WASHINGTON, July 30—The Air Force is checking the authenticity of a photograph which purports to show five flying saucers in format…
While looking over the internet a couple of days ago, I ran across your Case Update: JULY 2002 [of the Tremonton film] in which you attached a letter to me dated [as near as I can make out - it's a very bad copy March 9, 2003. I never received the letter. I'm unable to decipher the copy I downloaded…
Wolfgang Klemperer Scan
horizontally in space with four angles located 90 degrees apart on the rim. If you stood back and watched the wheel rotated, any one light on the rim would get brighter as the wheel turned and the light came closer. Then as the light started to recede, it would get dimmer and dimmer until it disappe…
BARNES THEN STATES: 'BEFORE NOTIFYING THE AIR FORCE...OUR TECHNICIANS HAD CAREFULLY CHECKED THE EQUIPMENT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT IT WAS OPERATING PERFECTLY...' "THERE IS NO OTHER CONCLUSION I CAN REACH BUT THAT FOR SIX HOURS ON THE MORNING OF THE 20TH OF JULY THEY WASHINGTON, THEY WERE NOT ORDINARY AI…
CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED SECURITY INFORMATION STATUS REPORT PROJECT BLUE BOOK - REPORT NO. 8 FORMERLY PROJECT GRUDGE PROJECT NO. 10073 31 DECEMBER 1952 DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007 By 5/10/2020 NARA Date5/17/2023 AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE OHIO CONFIDENTI…
"The thing I saw and actually filmed would have been the same as what you see going off the launching pads today. A lot of the newspapers at the time said it was, you know, a flying saucer and all sorts of garbage. It was not." - Tom Drury to Bill Chalker, 1982 While a definite identification has no…
The cloud from which the silvery object described by Mr. Drury emerged is distinctly visible. On emerging from the clouds apparent in a clear sky (the photos were taken at midday), still pictures reveal vivid confirmation of Mr. Drury's report the object, as first like a tiny brilliant object, has r…
FIRST INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT CONVENTION AT GIANT ROCK INTERPLANETARY AIRPORT 17 mi. North of Yucca Valley, California Sunday April 4th 1954 SPEECHES AND DISCUSSIONS PICNIC Bring Your Own Food and Refreshments Our Restaurant Will Be Closed ADMISSION FREE Your host and hostess Mr & Mrs G. U. Van Ta…
In Loving Memory of Gene Felix Eugene Moncla, Jr. 1st Lt. United States Air Force Born October 21, 1926 Disappeared November 23, 1953 Intercepting an UFO Over Canadian Border as Pilot of a F 89 Jet Plane.…
Moncla near his F-89 Scan
Wisconsin State Journal HST Discredited, McCarthy…
STATEMENT When A-E7-T-E was picked up: Pillow (P-36) it was believed to be VD-512, but because the aircraft was off the flight plan course by about 30 miles, it was classified as "Unknown". Word was read, d from Haplus (F-c6) that Horsefly wanted a (correlation check on th) track. At 23172, Maples s…
Shortly after the two blips merged on the PFI Scope, the IFF return disappeared. It should be noted, like that the fighter had been painting a radar return on the scope in addition to the IFF return. Thus, it is strange that no radar return on the fighter was picked up after the merger, had the IFF …
On the night of 23 November 1953 I was on duty at OIC of the 133 FIS alert detention at Kirkross AFB. At 1322 on 5 minute aircraft was surrendered, at 1515 a 5 minute aircraft took-off on a requested O.A.F., and at 1922 another 5 minute aircraft was surrendered leaving only one 5 minute aircraft on …
Ms Monella and I had been on five minute alert on Monday afternoon on 23 November 1953. The fifteen minute crews come on at 1700, stayed until 1745 and then went on to a 10-minute alert on Monday afternoon over 5 min from Monella and I when the scramble horn blew once and La Monella was airborne abo…
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QERTIFICATE 1. The following Technical Orders were noted on Part III of the Form 1 as not compiled with for F-890 S1-5853A. a. T.0.01-1-476 Replacement Exchange of Type B-8 stick grip. b. T. O. O1-15DC-1 Not in A/C. c. T.0. O2B-1=17 Compounding the Ignition System. d. T.O. O1-15PDO-172 Installation …
1st Lt. Felix Moncla Scan
1st Lt. John Schmidt Scan
Capt. Glen Collins Scan
Lt. Col. Harry Shoup Scan
Harry Shoup, 1955 Scan
RCAF 412 Squadron Scan
Donald Keyhoe Scan
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Mr. Allingham's first photograph of the Flying Saucer, taken when he first sighted it at 12.35 p.m. on the 18th February, 1954. At this time, he estimated its height at about 5,000 feet.…
The first of two photographs which the author took at approximately 3.45 p.m., as the Saucer was descending. The landing gear is clearly discernible to the lower left of the picture.…
The Martian, photographed by the author at approximately 4.20 p.m. as he turned back towards the Saucer preparatory to departure. The Saucer itself is just out of the picture, to the left. The Martian was about 6 feet in height, and wore a single-piece garment, presumably insulating and entirely fle…
Substance from 'Flying Saucers' Analysed A sample of a substance which trailed from what were regarded as "flying saucers" over Florence has been examined by an Italian professor, who says that it appears to be similar to borosilicate glass…
Saucers Over Italy Local Woman Writes of Strange Apparitions (This fascinating letter about a hush-hush subject comes from Mrs. James Hogg III, of Florence, Italy. Mrs. Hogg is the former Joan Karges, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Karges Sr., 808 Sunset-dr. She's now secretary to Bernard Berense…
Flying Saucers Descend Flying Sauce On Europe By A STAFF CORRESPONDENT IN LONDON The flood of reports about flying saucers which came out of Europe last week has no precedent. Every country has seen them—from Asia Minor around through the Mediterranean as far up as Scandinavia. THE reports vary from…
Italy Has Rash of Flying Saucers, Including 'Landing' Viewed by 100 BY MRS. JAMES HOGG III (Mrs. Hogg, a former Evansville, Ind., resident now living in Italy, describes "flung saucers" in Italy in a letter home. It was printed in the Evansville Press, a sister paper of The Post in Scripps-Howard Ne…
Express and Star clipping on the Roestenburg sighting (filename labelled 1959) Scan
FLYING SAUCER OVER ENGLAND I WAS very interested in your article on flying saucers. It was whilst reading your article that the evening paper arrived, and I enclose a cutting which I hope may be of some interest to you. Having studied the sketch I am struck with the close resemblance to the photogra…
Flying Cigar at Stafford. Several Stafford people saw a strange object shaped like a cigar and glowing bright orange, high over the town at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 10. One of those who observed the cigar was Mrs. Jesse Roestenberg. (Flying saucer researchers will recall that in October, 1954,…
Rampton it was on October 21, 1954, at a time when the great European wave of that year was beginning to show signs of tailing-off, that case number five came to light. At Rampton, near Shrewbury, Mrs. Jennie Roostenberg, English wife of a young Dutchman settled in the United Kingdom, claimed that a…
It was on October 21, 1954, at a time when the great European wave of that year was beginning to show signs of tailing off, that case number five came to light.2 At Ranton, near Shrewsbury, Mrs Jennie Roestenberg, English wife of a young Dutchman settled in the United Kingdom, claimed that at 4.45 p…
SOUCOUPE vive lumière m'chaîlu comme ferrait un colair de magnésium. Aveu- tion de la lumière, le colair la porie se tetermer, l'appareil us- culier légèrement, s'élever à une dizaine de mètres, puis flier comme un colair dans la direction d'Anzin. M. Dewilde invité à décrire la soucoupe a encore in…
Un garde-barrière prévient la police: "Une soucoupe volante et ses deux occupants ont atterri près de chez moi" A GUERRE DES MONDES, un film projeté sur bien des écrans de la région, va-t-elle engendrer une epidemie de soucoupes volantes susceptible de troubler le sommell des habitants de nos palsie…
ON RELÈVE DES TRACES sur la voie ferrée où un habitant de Quarouble AFFIRME AVOIR VU UNE SOUCOUPE Un cultivateur corrézien prétend avoir embrassé le passager d'un «cigare volant»! LE mystère des passionne l'opinion publique. Ce n'est plus d'Amérique ou d'Australie que les témoignages viennent, mais …
Marius Dewilde, le métallurgiste qui affirme avoir vu deux "Martiens" dans une soucoupe volante, nous fuit le récit de son étrange vision « C'était deux êtres ne mesurant pas plus d'un mètre, extrêmement larges d'épaules et dont la tête me parut énorme » LILLE, 13 septembre (par tel.). DES · Martien…
DES "MARTIENS" A QUAROUBLE SUITE DE LA PAGE 1 Mais un homme affirme les unux et il les décrit avec une precision, une telle foi, que plus pessimistes se preenant a à la réalité de l'aventure. Je homme, c'est un ouvrier maillurgiste, âgé de 34 ans, M. maras Dewilde. Test un homme sérieux. Aux aux sér…
Les "Martiens" de Quarouble auraient atterri sur la voie ferrée Les inspecteurs de la police de l'air ont relevé des traces de bequilles sur les traverses VALENCIENNES, 14 sept. (dép. « France-soir »). ROIS inspecteurs de la police de l'air sont revenus, hier, à Quarouble (Nord) pour y entendre M. M…
Près de Valenciennes, un ouvrier déclare avoir aperçu deux êtes étranges auprès d'un engin mystérieux Vulveniennes, 12 septembre. — M. Marius Dewilve, 34 ans, ouvrier aux Aelers du Nord de la France, domi- né à l'ancienne niveau, 90 ans. — D. Caroube, a dédictré qu'elle vers 22 heures, son attention…
Près de Valenciennes voir aperçu deux êtres ranges auprès un engin mystérieux VALENCIENNES, 12 septembre — Un habitant de Caroule, des de Valenciennes, M. Marius bovive, 34 ans, ouvrir aux Ate- du Nord de la France, a maç-Misseron, domicile au pas- ure à niveau No 79, a declare vendredi soir, aux en…
'BALIVERNES pas de o B a grosse téfe... — as RTs Ly ) Sey Re Dy 212 { EE 1 if aad I) A Terr = lei Police de U'Air : Nous avons wh. nouveau 4 mgnaler sur les Soucoupes a bord de ...volant a bord de s a bequilles dont la police de lair a cru devoir mesurer les trades au centimetre ! IL semble léigitim…
Il n'y a pas de Martiens... Suite de la première page « été victime d'un traumatisme cranien »... I n'est pas besoin de préciser que pas un lecteur de ces incroyables prenons au peu une seconde prenonce sur cellulaire. Car, a dire dire, ce ne l'guère. Mais il y a mieux encore. La police de l'air a e…
Les soucoupes se multiplient Un « Martien » a embrassé un cultivateur corrézien Tulle, 14 septembre. — Les témoins des evolution de sou-coupes volantes sont légion en France. Il a auffl que M. Dewilde alt cru en ameerçoir une, sur une oeie ferrée, en appelant ces étoiles et se soit employé à décrite…
Un habitant du Nord aurait vu deux passagers d'une soucoupe volante Dans le ciel de la Somme et des Pyrenees, des soucoupes volantes ont été vues récemment. M. Marius Dewiive, du la France, iul, a vu non seulement une soucoupé volante, mais ses passagers. Il a déclaré que vendredi soir, aux environs…
Dans ON A VU LES DEUX PASSAGERS D'UNE SOUCOUPE VOLANTE... LILLE. — Récemment, dans la Somme ou les Pyrenees, des soucoupes volantes ont été vues dans le ciel. M Marius Dewilde, 34 ans, ouvrier des Acieries de Blanc-Liseron, demeurant à Taurouge, dans le Nord, a vu lui, l'autre nuit, vers 22 h. 30, à…
2 Little Armless Men 'Visit' Frenchman in Flying Saucer QUAROUBLE, FRANCE — (Reuters)—A steelworker here claimed a baby flying saucer paid him a visit over the weekend here and two little armless men in space helmets came out for a look around. But when he ran up for a closer look. Marius DeWilde sa…
“Je les ai vus au passage à niveau” prétend l'ouvrier trépané de Quaroube "Ils m'ont embrassé" affirme l'Auvergnat SERPENT DE MER », nouveau genre, le problème des soucoupes voluptues revient au premier plan de l'actualité. Une étrange information nous apprend qu'un habitant du département du Nord, …
Soucoupes volantes Me voici fort perplexe. M. Dewilde raconte avoir vu deux Martiens et leur engin sur la voie ferrée Saint-Amand-Blanc-Misseron, pris du passage à niveau 79. Les policiers de Valenciennes se sont déplacez comme pour un fric-frac de clapier et sont restés perplexes devant les écorchu…
Vus de près par un habitant DEUX PETITS ETRES CASQUES ONT DISPARU A BORD D'UN MYSTERIEUX ENGIN Lille, 12. (A.C.P.) — Une nouvelle soucoupe volante serait descendue du ciel et se serait posée, dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi, sur le territoire de Quadruble, près de Valenciennes, à proximité du pass…
Ex-Wacoan in Venezuela Relates Saucer Saga There By MARY LOUISE EDGAR Boundless curiosity is unleashed whenever the word, flying saucer, is mentioned. What is it? Could it be a guided missile or a spy ship from Mars? Waco Tribune-Herald Staff A letter recently received by Dr. and Mrs. N. V. A. Kelle…
A Strange Incident In Caracas? But Nodody Knows For Certain Key West CAA Tower Hears Wierd Stories By DENIS SNEIGR A flying saucer from outer space landed at Caracas, Venezuela, last night, injured a number of persons, and took off again. That information was received by The Citizen today. The Assoc…
Page scan of OVNIS : un dossier brûlant (Atlas, 1984, p. 78) describing the Tananarive sighting ScanDes extra-terrestres bien tranquilles Les animaux, les êtes humains et même la nature peuvent rester marqués par le passage d'un ovni : comment, dans un tel cas, mettre en doute la réalité du phénomène ? Quatre incidents à verser au dossier... Août 1954, Madagascar : « Une balle verte » L'un des plu…
Captain Gregory J. A. Hynek Hopkinsville Case The Chief of Police in Hopkinsville is the officer who stated that the affair was investigated by Air Force officers from Fort Campbell. I understand that MP's and a Pfc from Fort Campbell investigated at the farmhouse on late Monday afternoon. The Pfc w…
- FIRST SIGHTING ON RADAR - FIRST MOVEMENT AND STOPPING PLACE SEEN ON RADAR INTERCEPT POINT BY RAF INTERCEPTOR - POINT ALSO AT WHICH RAF PILOT REPORTED RADAR GUNSIGHT LOCKED ON UFO…
adar - Chauve-souris et soucoupes volantes L'apparition dans divers ciels de phénomènes aériens habituels a donné lieu à tant de commentaires (sceptiques, fantaisistes ou angoisses), engendré si nombres explications tant en France qu'à l'éiranger, qu'à l'occasion de la parution de ce numéro, il nous…
A FRONT VIEW ... chap on eye level... (not allowing to see the eyes). ... small opening in uniform covered (see mingly) by a fine screen. two flat, (seemingly) hollow tubes, entering uniform at ear level, having emerged from a small protuberance on the back gloves and shoes are of white colour and (…
At two o'clock on the morning of November 4, 1957, in Fort Itaipa, located in the vicinity of Santos, São Paulo, according to a Report by Dr. Olavo Fontes, two guards where on watch duty at the top of the highest lookout tower facing the ocean. Suddenly an orange color light appeared and quickly pos…
This is the bare bones of the sighting. As I was conducting my research, I looked to see what others had written about the case. In The A.P.R.O. Bulletin of September 1959, Fountes' tale was published apparently as it appeared in his book Shadow of the Unknown. Later, in 1962, Coral Lorenzen, in her…
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PLANS FOR SERVICES ARE MACH FIRST MAN WOUNDED IN KOREA TO ADDRESS TRADE HIGH STUDENTS BREAK IS REPORTED TO POLICE Voting Up To Early Afternoon Is Reported Light In City Election RUSY IS ON BADGE Woman, 100 Dies Tafoy At Finklburg TOTAL OF 2040 CAST TODAY UP TO 12:30 LEOMINSTER MAN NAMED AIRMAN OF MO…
REPORT MYSTERY OBJECT SKIPPING OVER STATES OF TEXAS, NEW MEXICO LUBBOCK, Tex. Nov. 5 (AP)—A missile engineer reported seeing a "brilliant colored egg-shaped object" which stalled autos in New Mexico yesterday at about the same time the Air Force started an investigation into similar reports. v. 5 (P…
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AS, NEW MEXICO Nov. 5 (P)—lights were seen over other parts reported seeing of Texas, near Chicago and in egg-shaped ob- Virginia. Nov 5 GP—1 reported seeing egg-shaped obd autos in New at about the Air Force started into similar re- mystery object the countryside identific military texico over the …
t Jr. 30. of Framing- taken out of the State row today to begin a murder after his life by the Executive 11th hour move yes- was to have been no later than Thurs- ing Cambridge attor- ovinger, 29, during a upt at his father-in- home in 1955. ative Council com-math sentence to one person in an extrat…
Hint Plane Over Scots Was Red London, April 6 (UPI)—Royal Air Force officials said today that a mystery object spotted on radar screens in Scotland may have been a Soviet reconnaissance plane on the west coast of Scotland picked up the unidentified object on Thursday but officials refused to say in …
Jerry Crew, 1958 Scan
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Depoimento do Comandante Paulo Moreira da Silva Sôbre o Anunciado Disco-Voador da Trindade — Acredita no Trabalho do Fotógrafo, Até Prova em Contrário O DISCO-VOADOR da Trindade — fotógrafo Ba- raúna, dia 16 de janeiro último — tem seus adeptos fervorosos e acirrados inimigos. O de- poimento do Capi…
I pojawit się gość z nieba... W ubiegtym tygodniu ekipa telewizji japońskiej kręciła w Gdyni film o katastrofie UFO, która wydarzyta się w styczniu 1959 roku. Dziś o tajemniczych wydarzeniach w gdyńskim porcie pamiętają tylko nieliczni żyjących świadkowie. Co naprawdę stało się pewnej mrożnej, stycz…
The Killian Case * Dotted lines are flight paths of Capt. Peter Killian (top), Capt. A.D. Yates (bottom). * Arrows show lines-of-sight. * Shaded area is hypothetical path of UFO's. 1. 8:20 p.m. First sighting by Capt. Killian…
Page 8.—THE NELSON EVENING MAIL, Wednesday, July 22, 1959. WENT TO MILK COWS: THIS IS WHAT BLENHEIM WOMAN SAID SHE SAW "A saucer-shaped glow with two indented green lights in the bottom descended. The air became very warm. Two rows of jets shooting out orange flames appeared to revolve in opposite d…
November 4, 1969 Office of Information Royal New Zealand Air Force Wellington, New Zealand Gentlemen: On July 13, 1959, at Blenheim, Mrs. Frederick Moreland reported observing a saucer-shaped object with a transparent dome. The object war sharply outlined at a near 50 yards distance. Inside the tran…
JOINT MESSAGEFORM | SECURITY CLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED SPACE BELOW RESERVED FOR COMMUNICATION CENTER PRECEDENCE ACTION NOUTINE INFO | BOOK | MULTI | SINGLE | ACCOUNTING SYMBOL AF | ORIG. OR REFERS TO ORIG | CLASSIFICATION OF REFERENCE FROM: ATIC, W-P AFB | SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO: MOCCLELLAN AFB, CALI…
Radio KBLF interview of officers and of highway patrol, Red Bluff, Office. Saturday night, approximately 11:50, almost midnight. Where did you first spot the unidentified flying object? East of Corning (?), about 4 miles East of Corning to be exact. You were on the Hoag (?)路 where the people know th…
TEHAMA COUNTY SHERIFF SUPPLEMENTAL CRIME REPORT INFORMATION ON FLYING OBJECTS Type of Crime Crime Report No. REPORT ON FLYING OBJEETS, TEHAMA CO. On Monday 8-8-60 at approxima tely 9:05Pm at the Tehama County Jail there was heard and felt two loud Booms, at about 9:25PM received a radio report from …
Submitted by Tehama County Red Bluff, California Red Bluff, Calif. Red Bluff, Calif. Red Bluff, Calif. unknown. from the Tehama Co. Jail Address…
EXTRACT 14 August 1960 0030 - Red Bluff police officer called in to report "UFOB" obv flying north shape round red bright said state troopers also saw these. 0100 - Police officers saw 4 of these objects above. They called these in. All infer we read was passed to Maj Frederick at PADS 0230 - called…
On August 17th at approximately 8 or 8:30 PM I went up in the forestry look-out at Inskip Mountain for a clearer view of Echo I. At about 9 PM I saw a dull red light above the horizon at what Mrs. Jones, Miss Mountain, and me for some-time, 15 to 20 minutes at least. I lost sight of the light at tim…
Highway Patrolmen Charles A. Carson and Stanley E. Scott (left to right) have been busy fellows the last couple of days giving accounts of their unidentified flying object story to papers, radio and television all over the state. Some of those who in the past chalked off this type of UFO accounts ar…
BOY STARTS NEW PROBE INTO FLYING SAUCERS NEWS OF THE WORLD REPORTER A PHOTOGRAPH boy has started an investigation riddle. The picture, the sky, was taken by playing with friends at his home in Moorcrescent, Mosborough, near Sheffield. He and his father visited the Air Ministry in London, told office…
THE Great Flying Saucer Hoax was revealed yesterday. . . TEN YEARS after it happened—and by the man who pulled off the spoof. Alex Birch, now a 24-year-old salesman, confessed how he fooled the world with a box-camera photo that brought him fame. At the time of his incredible "scoop" Alex was a 14-y…
Universidad Nacional de Encunado Facultad de Ciencias Exacta y Tecnología San Miguel de Tucumán, (R.A.), 23 do Octubre de 1963.— [LAURENCE 1963] Al Señor Director del Instituto de Ingeniería Qufmica Ing. Oscar Männich Presente De mi consideración: De mi consideración: Tongo el agrado de dirigirse a …
FORMULARIO DE INFORMACION TECNICA SOBRE OBJETOS VOLADORES NO IDENTIFICADOS (Compendio de datos) Para que su información pueda ser archivada y codificada tan exactamente como sea posible, por favor use el espacio siguiente para redactar una pequeña descripción del acontecimiento que Ud. observó. Pued…
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HUMANOID HOOD OR HELMET CAME STRAIGHT DOWN TO SHOULDERS LARGE DARK EYES, LIKE | NO NOSE APPARENT WELDING GOGGLES = DARK AREA AROUND EY e— ee — TIGHT FITTING SUIT SUIT APPEARED SHORT, STOCKY BUILD, TO BE ONE PIECE ANE MUSCULAR Ld Ne COLOR OF SUIT WAS SILVER WHITE / / 3 X / HANDS APPEARED TO —~ Ey ~" …
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Djakarta, 5th May 1967 P.O. Box JAPAN. Dear Mr. In response to your letter about Unidentified Flying Objects I wish to state, that up to now the Indonesian Air Force has no official opinion regarding said subject. It does not imply however, that we disregard the intrusion of our skies by illegal air…
Security meeting on marsh 'a joke' By a Staff Reporter MR JAMES TEMPLETON, a Carlisle fireman, dismissed as "a joke" yesterday a report in a newspaper that he kept a rendezvous with security men on Burgh Marsh to discuss a controversial photograph he took there last May. The photograph of his daught…
Astonished "When I went to pick up the photographs, the manageress said it was a lovely one of Elizabeth but who was the big fellow," Jim recalls. "I told her it could not be my photograph. I was absolutely astonished. There was a figure in it beside Elizabeth. It was uncanny. He was wearing exactly…
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UFO Sighting Eugene P. Bastard Jr., was cruising on the morning of the 3rd of September at 0100 on Hole. 106 by-pass near Exeter N.H. I noticed an automobile marked on the side of the road and stopped to investigate. I found a woman in the car who turned to investigate. She was standing behind her a…
1. DATE · TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION 9 December 65 09/2115Z | Indiana, Ohio Penna, Michigan, Canada 3. SOURCE Civilians (MULTIPLE) | 10. CONCLUSION Astro (NETEOR) 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Seconds | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS SEE CASE FILE 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visu…
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20330 1 March 1967 REPLY TO ATTN OF: AFCCS SUBJECT Impersonations of Air Force Officers ADC | AFSC | HQCOMD USAF | SAC AFCS | ATC | CAC | TAC AFLC | AU | MAC | USAFSS Information, not verifiable, has re…
REPLY TO ATTN OF: AFCCS SUBJECT. Impersonations of Air Force Officers. ADC | AFSC | HQCOMD USAF | SAC AFCS | ATC | CAC | TAC AFLC | AU | MAC | USAFSS Information, not verifiable, has reached Hq USAF that persons claiming to represent the Air Force or other Defense establishments have contacted citiz…
Deputy Dale Spaur's sketch of the object he chased Scan
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The Melbourne Age Apr 12, 1966, p.6 "Saucer" not death cause Police do not believe there is any connection between a fatal accident near Maryborough on Thursday night and a reported flying saucer sighting at the same spot four days earlier. * Page 2—The Sun, Tuesday, April 12, 1966 Did a light lure …
The two lead masks Scan
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Morro do Vintém Scan
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Élcio's arrest Scan
Miguel's brother Scan
Neli, Manuel's wife Scan
Bus ticket, seat 26 Scan
Auto Viação Santo Antônio HORARIOS Campos-Rio e vice-versa 7 - 8 - 10 - 13 - 16 - 21 - 23 e 23,30 horas 6 - 9 - 12 - 14 - 17.30 - 18 - 22 e 24 horas Niterol-Campos 6 - 9 - 12 - 14 - 16 - 18 - 22 e 24 horas Campos-Cabo Frio 6,15 e 14,30 horas Cabo Frio-Campos 9,30 e 18,30 horas TELEFONES: CAMFOS — Ru…
Local Deputy's 'Saucer' Pictures These pictures of flying objects were made about 15 miles southeast of Ann Arbor by Sheriff's Deputy David York. The picture at left was made at 5:30 a.m. The picture at right was from the same location 45 minutes later. 'Saucer' Pictures Intrigue Nation Washtenaw Co…
Ann Arbor News page scan, March 28, 1966 ScanSightings Of UFOs Continue Washtenaw County's "flying saucers"—which the U. S. Air Force writes off as swamp gas or stars—were back in force over the weekend. Sheriff's deputies and city police reported they processed 11 reports of unidentified flying objects over the area Saturday night, yesterday …
Ann Arbor News, February 17, 1983: Dexter man's passing recalls UFO sighting ScanDexter man's passing recalls UFO sighting By WILLIAM B. TREML NEWS STAFF REPORTER FEB1719 The death this week of Frank E. Mannor of Dexter Township recalled for many in Washtenaw County a series of bizarre "Unidentified Flying Object" episodes which occurred 17 years ago and which have never been fu…
The Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, 2020. Scan
The Mothman statue by Bob Roach, 23 May 2009. Scan
The Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, 2010. Scan
Silver Bridge collapse memorial signage, 2010. ScanSILVER BRIDGE COLLAPSE Constructed in 1928, connected Point Pleasant and Kanauga, OH. Name credited to aluminum colored paint used. First eye-bar suspension bridge of its type in US. Rush hour collapse on 15 December 1967, resulted in 31 vehicles falling into river, killing 46 and injuring 9. Failed…
The 2011 Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant. Scan
Plaque at the Mothman statue. Scan
George Pedley Scan
Seen Near Tully Tully 'nests' no hoax, say farmers TULLY cane farmer Mr Albert Pennisi sits in the middle of one of the 'saucer nests' mysteriously formed at Horseshoe Lagoon on his property in the 1960s. By PAUL WHITTAKER in Tully TULLY'S mysterious saucer nests could not possibly be man-made despi…
Flying saucer WHO WERE mystery deepens 5 PILOTS? CLAYTON.—The unidentified flying object reported over the Clayton area on April 6 was almost certainly observed by the pilots of several light aircraft which flew close to and chased the object for a considerable time. MARYLIN EAST-WOOD (pictured) a s…
FLYING SAUCER MYSTERY: AUCER MYSTERY: SCHOOL SILENT What was it? More than 19,500 copies of each issue circulate extensively through Dandenong, Springvale, Noble Park, Waverley, Berwick, Oakleigh, Clayton, Cranbourne, Knox and Sherbrooke. 1 Scott St., Dandenong. Ph. Dandenong 2 0251, 2 0365. Price 4…
LYING SAUCER MYSTERY: DISTRICT NEWSPAPER — EVERY TUESDAY and THURSDAY 12,500 copies of each issue circulate extensively through Dandenong, Noble Park, Waverley, Berwick, Oakleigh, Clayton, Cranbourne, Knox and Sherbrooke. 1. Dandenong. Ph. Dandenong 2 0251, 2 0365. Price 4 cents SCHOOL SILENT What w…
The above story was written by a boy from the Westall High School which is situated in the Melbourne metropolitan area. The sighting occurred on April 6th, and as the result of an advertisement placed in a Melbourne daily newspaper, and our own investigations, we pieced together a jigsaw puzzle rese…
Westall High School Scan
DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. INWARD TELETYPE MESSAGE. VV MX662 UU PP DE RAYX 038 08/0136Z ZNR UUUUU P 0801302 INVOLVED FORTAL FM HOMEWOOD SUPDER MELBOURNE COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY INVOLVED TO TOWNSEND TREASURY CANBERRA MACHINE TOWNS, ETC., OF TOTAL INFO HOMER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS CANBERRA PROJECT HIBAL …
PAGE THREE RAYX 038 UNCLAS (M) VHD (B) STRICTLY CONTROLLED OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES HAVE BEEN DRAWN UP BY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION AND D C A AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ARE KEPT INFORMED OF THE PROGRESS OF THE BALLOON AND PAYLOAD BY THE PROJECT STAFF INCLUDING THE PILOT OF THE TRACKING AIRCRAFT. THE B…
I stood about this tall before it. Figure 33. The Great Bird (June 21) It looked like a 15-foot eagle, but its neck was longer. It spread its wings, shielding the light behind it.…
Figure 3. Betty's rendition of how the entities appeared through the closed kitchen door: they "moved in a jerky motion, leaving a vapory image behind" (drawn April 10, 1977)…
The Flying Thing leaves two constables baffled Left: A painting of The Thing. Right: the two constables who chased it at 90 m.p.h. FROM JULIAN MOUNTER BRISTOL: Oct. 24 The North Devon "Thing" revealed itself to two police constables in the bitterly cold and dark two night hours of this morning. It "…
Some slight evidence of movement in a radial manner along the marks was visible in that the grass had been pressed down in a definite direction.…
mediately noticed a circular mark some thirty feet in diameter on a region of relatively high ground. He im- During the next day or two Mr. Sanders and several others visited the pasture, and located three more similar marks.…
As measured by the Camrose Canadian, the mark varies from five to seven inches wide, and the smallest circular mark is 31 ft. 9 ins. in diameter. Three of the rings are essentially circular - very closely so I would say - while the largest mark is slightly elliptical, varying from 34 ft. 5 ins. to 3…
predominantly in the form of crushed and discoloured pasture grass The most striking feature of the circular marks, other than the close circularity, was that they were quite distinct from the car and truck tyre marks made during the week since discovery. The marks were, in general, very uniform in …
Reports of ring imprints are not uncommon... In Camrose, Alberta six different rings were reported. Photographs of the Camrose rings were received by this project for evaluation.…
The existence of an imprint of odd shape or a circular area of crushed vegetation often can be established. Its mere existence does not prove, however, that the marking was made by a strange being or vehicle ... Quite frequently, however, UFO origin of the markings is assumed, even though no UFO was…
UFO REPORT GAMWIDE, ALBERTA On August 8, 1967, a Br. K. Patrieg, of Camrose, Alberta, reported the finding of a number of circular impressions in a pasture in the vicinity of the town of Camrose, Alberta. An investigation was conducted by an officer from Canadian Forces Base, Edmonton, in the compan…
UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE VINNIPEG AREA - STATEMENTS & SIGNATURES. STEPAM MIOHALAK, (50yrs.), 314 Lindsay, "pg. states,- "At 12:15 P.M. May 20th, 1967, I was in the bush near the swamp, about 2 & a half miles north of the Faloon Lake gate, and I was chipping rock. I heard some geese crying and I looked u…
Project How Now (Service Star), the testing of Mark 5 reentry vehicles by higher headquarters for effectiveness. Malmstrom sent the last vehicle in the program for the base during the quarter. This ended the program at Malmstrom. (U) A walk-thru inspection of the HF Hardened Antennas at Malmstrom wa…
sites were reported to have been subject to a normal controlled shutdown. The only unusual LF events noted were the failure of the secondary door actuator motor at LF, E-2 and the intermittent operation of the diesel generator at LF, E-8. Technical Analysis Division (TAD) personnel inspected LCC, E-…
March 67. A preliminary analysis was made of the Fault Isolator Test Tape (FITT) from LF, D-7 and E-8. Targeting support was echedualed for a G&C Channel 50 data dump at LF's E-2 and E-9 which, although returned to alert, were still felt to possess useful data. The investigation was held in suspense…
--- The only possible means that could be identified by the team involved a situation in which a coupler self test command occurred along with a partial reset within the coupler. This could feasible cause a VKSA 9 and 12 indication. This was also quite remote for all 10 couplers would have to have b…
DIVISION | DATE | RCMP FILE REFERENCES REF DOSSIERS GRC. H | 7 OCT 67 | SUB DIVISION. SOUS DIVISION HALIFAX | 67-400-23-X DETACHMENT DÉTACHEMENT LUNENBURG | 1. On this date a request was received from the Halifax Sub-Division Section N.C.O., via XJD 84, to contact Capt. Leo Howard MERSEY, of the M/V…
Un OVNI por el planeta Tierra y piloto Tiviroli: Resignarse a creer. Los argentinos y sus platos voladores "Si no tuviera tanto respeto por los chinos diría que te traje de un almuerzo de los chinos y que no te respete de Relaciones Exteriores, Nicanor Costa Mendez. El chiste del Canciller el lunes …
EASTMANCOLOR y en escenarios de LONDRES, PARIS, MADRID y BUENOS AIRES MARCELA LOPEZ REY-JORGE SOBRAL-PERLA CARON JUAN CARLOS ALTAVISTA-JAVIER PORTALES con la actuación especial de ANTOINE GABEN - GLORIA UGARTE - JUAN, DIAZ - ZELMAR GUENOL NANCY LOPRESTI - LINDA PERETZ - RODOLFO CRESPI DIREC y la col…
The Reed family. Scan
Jane Green. Scan
Fieldwork photo Scan
UFO INVESTIGATOR JIMMY CARTER'S 1973 UFO REPORT During the autumn of 1973 hundreds of people throughout the United States reported UFOs to NICAP. Among those reports were two made by state governors. During the recent presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter was quoted by the National Enquirer as stating…
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Ronnie Johnson Scan
No Trace Of Monster In Louisiana, Mo. Hunt By ED WILKS Of the Post-Dispatch Staff LOUISIANA, Mo., July 19 — Twenty-five men trudged over wooded hills today in what authorities said was the first monster hunt of this Mississippi River town. But they found not even a trace of a rabbit or squirrel, let…
Loren Coleman Scan
REFERENCE CR OFFICE SYMBOL | SUBJECT Noar Midair Collision with UFO Report TO Commander | FROM | Flight Operations Off | DATE | 23 Nov 73 CMT 1 83D USARCOM | | USAR Flight Facility | | ATTN: AHRCCG | | Cleveland Hopkins Airport | | Columbus Support Facility | | Cleveland, Ohio | 44135 | Columbus, Oh…
Mansfield Tower who acknowledged the helicopter and was asked by CPT Coyne if there were any high performance aircraft flying in the vicinity of Mansfield Airport however there was no response received from the tower. The crew expected impact from the object instead, the object was observed to hesit…
How to Use Anxiety To Your Advantage MYSTERIOUS WAVE OF UFOs REPORTED IN MASS SIGHTING -PAGE 41 What You Should Know About the Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet page 21 Top Psychic's New Predictions for Enquirer Readers page 5 6 Actresses Tell Why Sex Appeal Doesn't Have to End at 40 Would You Believ…
Books about the case ScanTHE WORLD'S MYSTERIES EXPLORED August 1978 75¢ UFO, Helicopter Near Collision 66 Birds on the Attack 54 Ghosts of Leith Hall 44 Key to the Empire... Royal Road of the Inca 34 . . .Plus Many Other Intriguing Features A HELICOPTER-UFO ENCOUNTER OVER OHIO by Jennie Zeidman Center for UFO Studies…
DIDIONIS LLANCA, 25 AROS, SOLTERO, CAMIONERO, HOMBRE TIMIDO Y CALLADO, HOMBRE HUMANO HUMANO, DE BANHA BLANCA EN ESTADO DE AMNESIA TOTAL. TRES DIAIS DESPUES, CUANDO RECUPERO LA MEMORIA, NARRO UNA EXTRAORDINARIA NUNA EXTRAORDINARIA NOCTURNO, EN LA RUTA 3, CON UN PLATO VOLADOR Y SERES QUE HABLABAN CON …
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EL IDENTIKIT DE LOS EXTRAÑOS SERES Según una detallada narración de Dionisio Luis, nuestro dibujante Roberto Regalado reconstruyo as las caras y el traje de los presentos triplancas del plato volador. Según algunos estudiosos del fenómeno O.V.N.I., estas caracteristicas responden a la llamada Tipolo…
En cuanto a la investigación del hecho ocurrió en Bahía Blanca, sin dudar o no de lo relatado por D. LL., en mí consideración el testigo no es hábil como tal.…
Dionisio Llanca Scan
Dionisio Llanca ScanDIONISIO LLANCA, 25 AROS, SOLTERO, CAMIONERO, HOMBRE TIMIDO Y CALLADO, LLEGO A UN HOSPITAL DE BAHIA BLANCA EN ESTADO DE AMNESIA TOTAL TRES DIAS DESPUES, CUANDO RECUPER LA MARIA UNA EXTRAORINARIA HISTORIA: SU ENCUENTRO NOCTURNO, EN LA RUTA 3, CON UN PLATO VOLADOR Y SERES QUE HABLABAN CON CHILLIDOS Y …
El misterio de Villa Bordeu Dionisio Llanca fue sorprendido por tres seres mientras cambiaba un neumático de su camión junto a la Ruta 3 y lo llevaron en su ovni. Fabio Zerpa investigó el caso. A Llanca le inyectaron pentotal y años después dijo que eso fue "un calvario". Dionisio Llanca era camione…
At Piedmont Where To Go What To See Girl watching is out for the moment and UFO watching is in. Flocks of people, many from Poplar Bluff, have swarmed to Piedmont in hopes of getting a glimpse of a UFO For those of you who haven't been to the Piedmont area yet, but who plan to go, here are some help…
Stato Maggiore dell'Aeronautica 20 Reparto Prot. N° SMA/232/8642/G37-4 Al CENTRO ITALIANO STUDI UFOLOGICI Dott. Paolo FIORINO Via Buriasco n. 5 Allegati N° 6 (sei) + 1 elenco 10135 TORINO e, per conoscenza: Allo STATO MAGGIORE DELLA DIFESA ROMA OGGETTO: Oggetti Volanti non Identificati (O.V.N.I.). R…
"Ho inseguito un disco volante da Caselle fino a Voghera: giocava a rimpiattino,, Il racconto del pilota di un "Piper" - Decine di persone hanno potuto vedere lUfo nel cielo dell'aeroporto, il radar lo ha seguito finché, con una brusca impennata, è scomparso nelle profondità dello spazio Un oggetto …
Movement of car Rough Pastures Witnesses here when no sound heard from the car or tyres Mist first seen - it covered the whole road and was coloured green. Car radio began to smoke and lights faded out. Car stopped with witnesses in panic.…
ased on an early attempt by Elaine to draw one of the small entities, or "examiners." Early impression by John of an "examiner". with four digits on each hand, Large talons or nails rotrate from each finger. It is very thick set, and walk awkwardly. John hears it make occasional utteral cutter. Desp…
Lead image for the 2025 'Table for 300: A Charlie Redstar Dinner' anniversary article Scan
Episode artwork for Believing the Bizarre, Ep. 84, not an event photo Scan
Illustration from Believing the Bizarre, not an event photo Scan
Illustration from Believing the Bizarre, not an event photo Scan
Illustration from Believing the Bizarre, not an event photo Scan
Illustration from Believing the Bizarre, not an event photo Scan
NMCC THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Subject: AFB Penetration 1. At 290200 EST AFOC informed NMCC that an unidentified helicopter, possibly two, had been sighted flying low over Loring AFB Maine, in proximity to a weapons storage area. 2, An Army Nat…
FB PENETRATION An approximately 290200 EST Oct 75, AFOC relayed a report from Loring AFD, ME indicating that one unidentified helicopter, possibly two helicopters, had penetrated Loring AFB from Canadian territory with one helicopter landing briefly in proximity to a weapons storage area. Attempts t…
DDO UPDATE WEST HEM APP PENICRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, one unidentified helicopter was sighted 300 to 500 meters from the weapons storage area at Loring AFB, Maine. The helicopter was at an altitude of 150 feet and penetrated Loring AFB. An attempt to contact and identify the intrud…
LPB PENDBRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, one unidentified helicopter has sighted 300 to 500 meters from the weapons storage area at Loring AFB, Maine. The helicopter was at an altitude of 150 feet and penetrated Loring AFB. An attempt to contact and identify the intruding helicopter was m…
DDO UPDATE APS PENETRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, an unidentified helicopter was sighted at an altitude of 150 feet at approximately 300 to 500 meters from a weapons storage area at Loring AFB, NE. At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage ar…
AEE PENETRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, an unidentified helicopter was sighted at an altitude of 150 feet at approximately 300 to 500 meters from a weapons storage area at Loring AFB, NE. At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In both…
MUNICIPALITY OF MONTANA 1. A copy of your letter dated 22 August 1977 was received in this headquarters for direct reply on 19 September 1977. The following Log entries have been extracted for release: a. NORAD Command Director's Log (1975). 29 October/0630Z: Command Director called by Air Force Ope…
L4 report visual, K3 reports target at 300 feet altitude and L4 reports target at 5 miles. Contact lost at 0820Z. F-106s returned to base at 0850Z with negative results. 0905Z Great Falls radar search and height had intermittent contact. 0910Z SAC teams again had visual (Site C-1, 10 miles SE Stanfo…
8 Nov 75 (0635Z) - A security camper team at K-4 reported UFO with white lights, one red light 50 yards behind white light. Personnel at K-1 seeing same object. 8 Nov 75 (0645Z) - Height personnel picked up objects 10-13,000 feet, Track J330, EKLB 0648, 18 knots, 9,500 feet. Objects as many as seven…
10 Nov 75 (0215Z) - Received a call from SAC CP. Report(UFO sighting from site K-1 around Harlowton area. Surveillance checking area with height finder. 10 Nov 75 (01532) - Surveillance report unable to locate track that would correlate with UFO sighted by K-1. 10 Nov 75 (1125Z) - UFO sighting repor…
NO CONTACT. THE UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT DID NOT DISPLAY LIGHTING. GROUND PERSONNEL WERE ABLE TO DIRECT THE AIR GUARD HELICOPTER TO WITHIN 100FT OF THE UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT, WITH BOTH HELICOPTERS IN DIGHT, BUT VISUAL ACQUISITION HAD NOT MADE. DURING THIS PERIOD A KC-133 HAS ENGITING AT 5032PT POL TO AID IN IDEN…
A/C PASSED OVERHEAD HOT HEARD THE SOUND OF THE MAIN ROTO, WAS Able TO OBSERVE THE TAIL ROTOR, AND THE REFLECTION OF A PFD ROTATING HEACON BENATH THE A/C SUGGESTED TO MOTH THAT THE A/C WAS DARK IN COLOR. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SIGHTING BY MOTH, CHARLES C. AVANZATO, SSGT, FR 67C, 42 SPS, OBSERVED THE A…
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY The Operations Center Date 28 October 1975 Time | Event and Action 1500 | 1555 | 1627 | 1635 | 1840 | 1850 | 1920 | 1925 | 2300 | 0000 | 0047 | 0205 | 0540 | 0610 | NMCC Rep notified Ops Ctr that DDO Talker contained update concerning penetration of Loring AFB, Maine by u…
EVENT | DATE/TIME OF EVENT Identified Helicopter Intrusion | 30/2255E Oct 1975 L. TION: | TIME REPORTED TO AFOC: Wurtsmith AFB, MI | 30/2327E Oct 1975…
NMCC MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Subject: Unidentified Flying Object Sighting 1. At 310805 received phoncon from AFOC: MG Lane, CG, Armanent and Development Test Center, Eglin AFB, Florida called and reported a UFO sighting from 0430 EST to 0600 EST. Security Policemen spotted lights from what they ca…
NMCC THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Subject: Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) 1. At approximately 0345 EDT, the ANKCC called to indicate they had received several reports of UFC's in the vicinity of Fort Ritchie. The following events su…
cuts for well-decorated cake, Three Sightings of UFO Reported Two Poland persons, David Stephens and Glenn Gray, reported to the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Department Monday morning the sighting of some UFOs in the Poland Spring area between 3 and 5 a.m. and, in turn, the ASO referred the reports…
Approved For Release 2004/10/13: CIA-RDP88-01315R003000700014 ARTICLE APPEAKED THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE ON PAGE 106 14 October 1979 Though officials have long denied that they take 'flying saucers' seriously, declassified documents now reveal extensive Government concern over the phenomenon. By P…
Joyce Bowles. Scan
'Will be ready this time' Spotting UFO changes view of Elmwood man By Tom Lawin ELMWOOD — Can observing a UFO change a person's lifestyle? A respected Pierce County village police officer, who has the satisfaction of knowing that many other persons saw the same flaming ball he did six months ago, co…
NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T! (U) Captain Henry S. Shields, HQ USAFE/INOMP Sometime in his career, each pilot can expect to encounter strange, unusual happenings which will never be adequately or entirely explained by logic or subsequent investigation. The following article recounts just such an ep…
A second F-4 was scrambled ten minutes after the first. The backsenter reported radar-lock on the UFO at 27 NM/12 o'clock high position, and a rate of closure of 150 knots. Upon reaching the 25 NM point, the object began rapidly moving away to maintain a constant separation distance while still visi…
adjusting their night vision devices for landing. The landing was further complicated by excessive interference on UHF and a further complete loss of all communications when passing through a 150 degree magnetic bearing from the home base. The inertial navigation system simultaneously fluctuated fro…
Armando Valdés Scan
Ángel María Tonna Scan
FIRST FLOOR. FIG 1 Plan of the two floors of the Harpers' house. Positions of beds are shown as they were at the start of the case. The 'boxroom' is the smaller of the two back bedrooms. The rearrangement of the front bedroom can be seen in the illustrations.…
SOMERSET, Ky., Sept. 24 (U.P.).—George Meece, 8, of Ruth, near here, was picked up by a bald eagle and carried aloft ten feet before the bird dropped him, it was revealed yesterday. The boy, weighing about 50 pounds, was playing with four companions on a hillside when the eagle swooped down and fast…
1. DSIR INVESTIGATIONS ARE CONTINUING BUT THERE ARE NO DEFINITE RESULTS YET. THEY ARE PROVIDING TECHNICAL SERVICES TO BACK UP AN RNZAF INVESTIGATION. THE RESEARCH CENTRES ON ANOMOLOUS RADAR RETURNS AND ANALYSIS OF THE FILM RECORDS. 2. BOTH CROCKETT'S AND TVI'S FILMS ARE HIGHLY DISTORTED. CROCKETT'S …
Un OVNI se pose à Koweit Un *u* objet volant non identifie (OVNI) a interre de la ville de Koweit dans la nuit de la vendre à vendredi denier, le vendre à vendredi, minutes plus tard, rapporte la presse koweitienne du matin. Selon les quotidiens «At Qabas», et «At Alatab», et «At Alatab» l'aspect d'…
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA | DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT | Reference No. AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SUMMARY REPORT | | V116/783/1047 Publication of this report is authorized by the Secretary under the provision of Air Navigation Regulations 203 (1) 1. LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE Not known | Height a.m. a…
TIME | FROM | TEXT :46 | FSU | D D DELTA SIERRA JULIET what type of aircraft is it :50 | VH-DSJ | DELTA SIERRA JULIET I cannot affirm it is four bright it seems to me like landing lights 1907:04 | FSU | DELTA SIERRA JULIET :32 | VH-DSJ | MELBOURNE this (is) DELTA SIERRA JULIET the aircraft has just …
Memorial plaque to Frederick Valentich at the Cape Otway lighthouse, photographed 17 February 2016. ScanTHE UNKNOWN This plaque commemorates the landmark of the mysterious disappearance of FREDERICK VALENTICH on 24 October 1978. Frederick was flying a Cessna 182L, and at this point he changed direction to south from the lighthouse towards the sea. Twelve minutes flying south from here at precisely 19:…
Zanfretta in uniform Scan
CORRIERE MERCANTILE NOTICE The information contained herein is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or a solicitation of investment or other financial advice. The information CAMERA BIRMA, D. - III. Dag 1999. I dikte improving intera…
L'aventure extra-terrestre de Franck Fontaine Les gendarmes s'obstinent... LA « VIE TERRIENNE » a repris son cours normal pour Franck Fontaine. Le jeune homme, devenu vedette après son aventure « extra-terrestre », va retrouver, avec ses parents, l'animation des marchés de la région parisienne où il…
FRANCK FONTAINE, le jeune homme qui a disparu pendant une semaine à Cergy-Pontoise après avoir vu, selon ses déclarations, un O.V.N.I. s'abattre sur sa voiture, a révélé hier matin qu'il conservait des souvenirs de sa période de disparition. « C'etait agreable », a-t-il affirmed aux journalistes con…
THIS IS THE SITE REFERRED TO IN ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S "MYSTERIOUS WORLD" WHICH DESCR BES AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A FORESTRY WORKER OUT WALKING AND WHAT APPEARED TO HIM AS AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT LDC 1991…
Betty Cash obituary with photo, The Anniston Star, 30 December 1998. ScanCash OXFORD Graveside services for Betty Cash, 69, of 2311 Nancy Drive will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at Oxford Memorial Park Cemetery with Douglas Wells officiating. The family will receive friends Thursday from 9 a.m. until time of services at Miller Funeral Home. Mrs. Cash died Tuesday at Regional M…
Senator Lloyd Bentsew 240 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. 20505 Dear Senator Bentsew: I am a 32 year old resident of Dayton, Texas, my elected representative to complain of severe suit of an apparent military operation on December The incident happened between 9:00 and 9:15 PM from …
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE CD 13 Jan 81 source. Unexplained Lights no. RAF/CC 1. Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L), two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they …
REPLY TO CD ATTN OF. SUBJECT: Unexplained Lights 10. RAF/CC 1. Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L), two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permissi…
— NORGE LAMMET av UFO-frykt TRONDHEIM (NTB) Nordmenn skal ifslge den amerikanske avisen Globe vaere paralysert av frykt for en kommende invasjon fra verdensrommet. Det er etter en reportasjereise til den UFObeskte Heasdalen i SerTrendelag Globes medarbeider kan slå fast at «UFO-ene holder Norge i fr…
TV-team fra USA inntar Hessdalen En synsk person har forutsagt at UFO-mysteriet i Hessdalen skal bli oppklart idag, 28. desember. Som en følge av denne spådommen har en hel hærskare av skuelystne strømmet til fjellbygda. I spissen for de fremmøtte er et TV-team fra USA! Men også fotografer fra Sveri…
Col. Boris Sokolov Scan
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Alfred Burtoo Scan
TC SECRET/MAJIC EYES ONLY * TOP SECRET * --n. Hoyt S. Vandenberg EYES ONLY ONE OF ONE. SUBJECT: OPERATION MAJESTIC-12 PRELIMINARY BRIEF PRESIDENT-ELECT EISENHOWER. DOCUMENT PREPARED 18 NOVEMBER, 1952. BRIEFING OFFICER: ADM. ROSCOE H. HILLENKOETT (MJ-1) NOTE: This document has been prepared as a prel…
Fig.1 efectos observados "in situ" A: Base de la "mancha", de más claros contornos B: Huella interior en forma de "V" (45 m. y 35 m. por rama) C: Perfil de las canas y espartillo, chamuscadas en su cara sur D: Caminito trazado por los turistas y/o curiosos E: Zona más intensamente quemada F: Zona me…
lugar, se ha comprobado personalmente en tres ocasiones (y otras más gracias a los testimonios de distintas personas que también estuvieron en el lugar) que si bien los vientos predominantes vienen desde el Norte, ellos resultan “embolsoidad” debido a un promontorio que desciende desde un pronunciad…
z Ao Gomego 13 de enero de 1906 LA Tt i A [ M/A an Ine go | OVNI en las si CAPILLA DEL MONTE, Cérdoba (De nuestra agencia). — Un objeto volador no identificado de grandes dimensiones, cuyas evoluciones fueron ob- servadas ayer por espacio de una hora, descendio en 1a Iadera de una de las lomas de Ia…
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En primer plano, Lilly Arijón; detrás, a la izquierda y en el centro, la mancha oscura que revela que alli aterrizó un OVNI, dejando todo el pasto carbonizado.…
Buscarán los restos de una ciudad subterránea Una expedition de jóvenes científicos argentinos tratará de localizar los vestigios de una miliólogica ciudad subterránea y milenaria en las sierras de Cordoba. Varios jóvenes argentinos, movidos por fervor científico, tratarán de hallar vestigios de una…
CAPILLA DEL MONTE, DONDE LOS VIEJOS SE SIENTEN JOVENES Y LOS GERIATRAS ESTUDIAN EL FENOMENO a la base de la reforma y a los problemas que se presentan en la reforma. ... a la base de la reforma y a los den relaciones que diamunten, de detalhes del potencial de un sustentado. In diamunten del sustent…
OPERACION ERKS-1985 INSTITUTO PLANIFICADOR DE ENCUENTROS CERCANOS (L.P.E.C.) Vedia 1631, 10 "A" (1429 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: 701-2517 Houario de Secretaria: lunes a viernes de 15 a 21 hs. ¿que es "Operación Erks"? "Operación Erks" es un proyecto de nuestro INSTITUTO PLANIFICADOR DE ENCUENTROS…
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UFO Model UFO Model consisting of two styrofoam plates attached by a strip of drafting paper. The model was found in the attic of Ed Walter's Pensacola home shortly after he moved. Walters claimed to have sighted UFOs in the area during the 1980s. On loan from the UWF Historic Trust. 1995.043.0001.a…
Newspaper clipping, "Alien encounter on a wild moor" by Gill Harley, dated 14 January 1995 ScanAlien encounter on a wild moor WHEN PC Philip Spencer was confronted by a little green man on a lonely moor he found it hard to believe what he saw. But as an experienced observer, Spencer's reaction was immediate and — fortunately for later investigators — decisive. He pulled out the camera he was …
Still from the Knowles family interview Scan
1) La position des phénomènes observés en l'air avec des projections d'hologrammes sont tout-à-fait à exclure car : - les projecteurs lasers aurient dû être observés normalement par les pilotes en vol. - les hologrammes ne peuvent être détectés par radar. - Une projection laser ne peut se voir en l'…
Figure 6: Horizontal position, main object, raw data, with flash and pre-flash.…
Figure 15: Relative positions of Shuttle and ice particle if particle velocity is 8300 feet/second. This is a view from above the Shuttle.…
Figure 16: Horizontal and vertical velocities, fast object on the right.…
STRANGE EVIDENCE BY BILL CHALKER This is a complex and difficult story to tell. We have taken a hair sample that was allegedly from an alien abduction episode and subjected it to DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis—a technique that has not been used before in UFO investigation. Without this…
The Met. O X-Files File 1/96/A: Spooky sightings in Shropshire 31 March 1993, RAF Shawbury: Just after midnight 0115: MET. OFFICE observer Wayne Elliott received a call from the MoD Police at RAF Cosford saying a family on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border had just had a close encounter with a cra…
First landing site Scan
Moors plane crash riddle NO wonder she's got a winning smile . . . actress Juliette Binoche has just picked up the Oscar for best supporting actress in The English Patient, bringing the British film's haul of trophies at Hollywood's biggest night of the year to an amazing NINE awards FULL STORY: P10…
A mountain rescue unit escours the moors. Was the 'crash' a Tornado jet, above, illegally breaking the sound harrier? A HUNT for a 'crashed aircraft' which cost tens of thousands of pounds could have been sparked by a military Jet illegally breaking the sound barrier. A emergency services from four …
On the evening of 13 Mar 97, our command post and other base agencies received telephone calls about the lights that many saw in the sky over Arizona. In the days that followed, our public affairs office also handled calls about the same subject. When queried by the staff of the Strange Universe tel…
The Skookum cast Scan
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Still image of the Yukon object shot down on 11 Feb 2023 (related case) Scan
