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** From the CUFON BBS **
Filename(s): Apabl001-006.txt
This is the index to the articles located in the next 7 posts
called "AP-UFO" .
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Backlogged Associated Press (AP) Articles Directory
Art # Date From Filename Subject
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1 06-17-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_001.TXT 1978 AP PILOT DISAPPEARS
3 06-17-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_001.TXT 1978 NEW ZEALAND ALERT
4 06-17-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_001.TXT 1979 CIA UFO SURVEILLANCE
5 06-17-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_002.TXT 1966 DR. J.E. McDONALD
6 06-17-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_002.TXT 1968 SCIENT.RECOMM.STUDY
7 06-17-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_002.TXT 1966 UFOS CALLED GAS
8 06-17-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_003.TXT 1966 FORD TO ASK INQUIRY
9 06-17-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_003.TXT 1966 CONGRESS REASSURED
10 09-23-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_003.TXT 1968 CO U ENDS STUDY
11 09-23-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_003.TXT 1966 SATEL.TERMED UNKNOWN
12 09-23-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_004.TXT 1969 NO VISITS FROM AFAR
13 07-11-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_004.TXT 1947 CRASHED DISK ROSWELL
14 07-12-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_004.TXT 1966 SIGHTINGS PEAK 1,060
15 07-19-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_005.TXT 1973 P.CARTER REPORTS UFO
16 07-19-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_005.TXT 1977 CARTER,ASKED NASA
17 07-19-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_005.TXT 1977 NASA REFUSES CARTER
18 07-19-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_005.TXT 1977 UN TO SET UP AGENCY
19 07-19-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_005.TXT 1978 UN HEARS CASE - UFO
20 07-20-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_006.TXT 1969 BLUE BOOK CLOSES
21 07-26-1986 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_006.TXT 1944 NEW GERMAN WEAPONS
22 01-11-1987 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_006.TXT 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING
23 01-11-1987 UFO INFO SERVICE APA_006.TXT 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING
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Article #: 1
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1978 AP PILOT DISAPPEARS
SOURCE: AP MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
DATE: 25 OCTOBER 1978
AUSTRALIAN PILOT DISAPPEARS AFTER REPORTING CHASE BY UFO'S
Boats and aircraft have found no trace of the 20-year old Australian pilot who
disappeared with his plane on Saturday night after radioing that he was being
chased by a UFO. Frederick Valentich was on a 125 mile training flight in his
single engine Cessna 182 along the coast of Bass Strait when he told air
traffic controllers in Melbourne that he was being buzzed by a UFO with 4
bright lights about 1000 feet above him.
Controllers said his last message was taped and was: "It's approaching from due
east towards me. It seems to be playing some sort of game... flying at a speed
I can't estimate. It's not an aircraft. It's...It is flying past. It is a
long shape. I cannot identify more than that. It's coming for me right now."
A minute later: "It seems to be stationary. I'm also orbiting and the thing is
orbiting on top of me also. It has a green light and a sort of metallic light
on the outside." Valentich then radioed that his engine was running roughly.
His last words were: "It is not an aircraft."
The Australian Air Force said it had received 11 reports from people along the
coast who said they saw UFOs on Saturday night, but the Transport Department
was skeptical. Ken Williams, a spokesman for the department, said, "It's funny
all these people ringing up with UFO reports well after Valentich's
disappearance. It seems people often decide after the event, they too had seen
strange lights. But although we can't take them too seriously, we can never
discourage such reports when investigating a plane's disappearance."
Some Transport Dept officials have speculated that Valentich became disoriented
and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a nearby island,
while flying upside down.
Valentich's father, Guio, said his son used to study UFOs "as a hobby using
information he had received from the Air Force. He was not the kind of person
who would make up stories. Everything had to be very correct and positive for
him. The fact that they have found no trace of him really verifies the fact
that UFOs could have been there." Guio Valentich said he hoped his son hadn't
crashed but had been taken by a UFO.
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1978 NEW ZEALAND ALERT
SOURCE: AP AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
DATE: 02 JANUARY 1979 - SIGHTING DATE 21 DECEMBER 1978
A television news team from Melbourne, Australia says it filmed a UFO on
Saturday night while flying over the Kaikoura region of New Zealand's South
Island. Aviation authorities reported that the UFO was apparently tracked by
radar as well, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force put a Skyhawk jet fighter on
special standby alert.
The pilot of the news team's plane said he first noticed a bright white light
about 20 miles ahead, and "It appeared to stay still until we got within 10
miles, then it turned with us as I changed course. It then went above us and
circled and came down beneath us. It was making definite movements in relation
to us."
PHOTOGRAPH: AP. UFO filmed by New Zealand news team.
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Article #: 4
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1979 CIA UFO SURVEILLANCE
SOURCE: NYT (PHOENIX, AZ)
DATE: 01 JANUARY 1979
CIA PAPERS DETAIL UFO SURVEILLANCE
Ground Saucer Watch (GSW), an Arizona-based nation-wide UFO research
organization of about 500 scientists, engineers and others, said on Friday it
has obtained 1,000 pages of CIA documents under a freedom of information suit
which show that the agency has been secretly involved in UFO surveillance since
1949 - even though the CIA has repeatedly said its investigation ended in 1952.
William Spaulding, an aerospace engineer with AiResearch and head of GSW, said
"the Government has been lying to us all these years. After reviewing the
docments, GSW believes that UFOs do exist, they are real, the U.S. Government
has been totally untruthful, and the cover-up is massive."
Mr. Spaulding said the documents show that U.S. embassies are used to gather
information on UFO sightings which "seems to be directed to the CIA, the White
House and the National Security Agency." A CIA memo dated August 1, 1952,
recommended continued agency surveillance of "flying saucers", saying, "It is
strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach
the press or public, in view of their probably alarmist tendencies to accept
such interest as confirmatory of the soundness of 'unpublished facts' in the
hands of the U.S. Government."
Among the documents are several detailed reports of USAF attempts to either
intercept or destroy UFOs. In a 1976 incident in Iran, two F-4 Phantom jet
fighter-bombers pursued a large UFO that was sending out smaller craft. One of
the smaller craft "headed straight for the F-4 at a very fast rate of speed.
The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile at the object but at that instant
his weapons control panel went off and he lost all communications." the pilot
eluded the craft, then watched as it "returned to the primary object for a
perfect rejoin."
A CIA document dated October 2, 1952, shows that a major point of concern is
that UFO sightings could mask Russian air attacks or "psychological warfare".
This report to the CIA director from the assistant director for the Office of
Scientific Intelligence recommends that the National Security Council be
advised of the "implications of the flying saucer problem"; that the matter be
discussed with the Psychological Strategy Board; and that the CIA help
"develop...a policy of public information which will minimize concern and
possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified objects."
A November, 1975 document directs against acknowledging any pattern in
sightings. "Unless there is evidence which links sightings, or unless media
queries link sightings, queries can best be handled individually at the source
and as questions arise. Response should be direct, forthright and emphasize
that the action taken was in response to an isolated or specific incident."
According to Mr. Spaulding, "We find a concentration of sightings around our
military installations, research & development areas. The UFO phenomenon is
following what our own astronauts are doing on other plants - we send a
scoutship, we take soil samples and then we land." Mr. Spaulding said he has
sworn statements from retired USAF colonels that at least 2 UFOs have crash-
landed and been recovered by USAF. One crash was in New Mexico in 1948, and
the other near Kingman, AZ in 1953. The retired officers claimed they got a
glimpse of dead aliens who were in both cases about 4 feet tall with silverish
complexions and silver outfits that "seemed fused to the body from the heat."
GSW is waiting for a Federal judge to rule on the last phase of its CIA suit,
which seeks access to 57 items that could provide "hard evidence" of UFOs with
"retreivals of the third kind" such as motion pictures, gun camera film and
residue from landings. Among the films they want is 40-48 frames taken in 1952
by Ralph Mayher, then a cameraman for KYW-TV, Cleveland, OH, and now a GSW
member. USAF borrowed the film in 1957 and has never returned it; officially
stating the filmed object was a meteor. Said Mr. Spaulding, "We're past the
story-telling stage. We have to have it in black and white to satisfy the
scientific community".
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Article #: 5
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1966 DR. J.E. McDONALD
SOURCE: AP (PIERRE, SD)
DATE: 21 OCTOBER 1966
PHYSICIST SCORES `SAUCER' STATUS
Dr. James E. McDonald, professor of meteorology at the U of Arizona and senior
physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, yesterday urged a "radical
change" in the investigation of unidentified flying objects. Dr. McDonald said
that explaining saucers as extra-terrestrial visitors seems "absurd," but that
now seems to be the "least unsatisfactory hypothesis" for at least some of the
sightings. "I believe this is a problem of the first order of scientific
importance. It has been neglected and misrepresented and is crying for high-
caliber attention." For about 12 years, he has interviewed anyone in the
Tucson area who reported seeing unusual objects in the sky, and now the rash of
sightings across the country and Congressional attention on the subject has
increased his own interest.
Dr. McDonald said that 18 years of "administrative foul-up" by USAF, "a very
low level of scientific competence," and deliberate debunking of UFO sightings
had frightened away scientists and left needless confusion in the public's
mind. While he is convinced there is no attempt "to cover up a super-secret,"
he says he found evidence in a USAF document that the CIA in 1953 asked USAF to
`debunk' saucer reports because they were clogging vital military reporting
channels and demanding too much time of investigators. The CIA reiterated a
statement it made earlier this month that the agency had helped analyze
sighting reports of unidentified flying objects in the early 1950's to help
determine if some objects "might have originated overseas. "USAF at that time
concluded that the objects were not hostile `artifacts' of foreign or
extraterrestrial origin. "Presently, the subject of UFOs is a responsibility
of the Air Force and we have absolutely no interest either in building up or
debunking any information regarding, or views on, UFOs."
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Article #: 6
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1968 SCIENT.RECOMM.STUDY
SOURCE: NYT (DC)
DATE: 30 JULY 1968
SIX SCIENTISTS RECOMMEND FLYING SAUCER STUDY
At a hearing yesterday before the House Committee on Space and Astronautics,
several witnesses urged Federal support for a huge program to collect
information aimed at finally settling the decades old debate on UFOs. The
committee chairman, Representative J. Edward Roush of Indiana, urged 3 months
ago that Congress take over the saucer investigation being conducted by USAF
after challenging the objectivity of the study.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Northwestern U said the USA should seek UN cooperation in
setting up "an international clearing house" for UFO information "because there
is almost a total lack of quantitative data" on the subject. Dr. James E.
McDonald, a U of Arizona meteorologist, said that the scientific community
tended to discount saucer reports because there was no scientific data, and yet
these same scientists would not support the collection of such data. He also
contended that the news media, including one New York City newspaper, was
refusing to print news of UFO sightings. Dr. Hynek and Dr. McDonald were
supported by Dr. Robert L. Hall, a U of Illinois sociology professor; Dr.
Robert M. L. Baker Jr. of the Computer Sciences Corporation, El Segundo, CA;
and Dr. James A. Harder, an associate professor of engineering at the U of
California, Berkeley. Dr. Carl Sagan of Cornell U, author of Intelligent Life
in the Universe, took the least positive stand on the existence of UFOs.
Instead of an expensive UFO data gathering program which has a high risk of
achieving positive results, he advocated instead an attempt to contact other
civilizations with radio astronomy coupled with unmanned plenetary space
flights. Dr. Sagan added facetiously that "it may be that things are so bad
here that someone up there will come to save us from ourselves."
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1966 UFOS CALLED GAS
SOURCE: NYT (DETROIT)
DATE: 26 MARCH 1966
FLYING OBJECTS ARE CALLED GAS
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a Northwestern University Astrophysicist who is also USAF's
civilian investigator of unidentified flying objects, after studying the widely
witnessed Dexter and Hilsdale UFO sightings in southern Michigan, has called
the report by 87 coeds, a college dean, and a civil defense director from
Hillsdale "a very puzzling sighting. There has been a flood of other reports
from this area and I could not possibly have the time to investigate all of
these." The other reports were of little scientific value, he added, because
there were no substantial groups of witnesses agreeing on what they had seen.
The other of the "two principal events" happened at Dexter the previous night
when some 50 people reported seeing a similar football-shaped object hovering
over a swamp.
Dr. Hynek said "This could have been due to the release of variable quantities
of marsh gas. A dismal swamp is a most unlikely place for a visit from outer
space. It is not a place where a helicopter would hover for several hours, or
where a soundless secret device would likely be tested." Rotting vegetation
produces the gas "which can be trapped by ice and winter conditions. When a
spring thaw occurs, the gas may be released in some quantity." This may cause
lights "sometimes right on the ground, sometimes merely floating above it.
The flames go out in one place and suddenly appear in another place, giving the
illusion of motion. No heat is felt and the lights do not burn or char the
ground. They can appear for hours at a time and sometimes for a whole night.
Generally there is no smell, and usually no sound - except the popping sound of
little explosions." The astrophysicist emphasized that his explanation did not
"cover the entire UFO phenomenon over the past 20 years" and that very few
sightings could be attributed to marsh gas.
Dr. Hynek also said that the Milan photographs taken March 17 were "without any
question" only time exposures of a rising moon and the planet Venus. The
consultant agreed with a questioner that the flying saucer phenomenon could be
an interesting field of study for other specialists such as psychologists and
sociologists. Though his investigation here, he said, is over.
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Article #: 8
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1966 FORD TO ASK INQUIRY
SOURCE: NYT (WASHINGTON, DC)
DATE: 26 MARCH 1966
FORD TO ASK INQUIRY
House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford announced yesterday he would ask the
chairmen of the House Armed Services Committee and the Science and Astronautics
Committee to consider a "full blown" investigation of unidentified flying
objects. Several hundred persons have reported seeing mysterious lights in Mr.
Ford's home state of Michigan this week. No Congressional leader has called
for such an investigation before. Mr. Ford said he was in Michigan Thursday
night and yesterday morning "and I can assure you there is interest and I
suspect public concern" over the sightings. If swamp gas caused the lights,
Mr. Ford said, USAF should have no hesitancy in explaining that to a committee.
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Article #: 9
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1966 CONGRESS REASSURED
SOURCE: AP (WASHINGTON, DC)
DATE: 06 APRIL 1966
CONGRESS REASSURED ON SPACE VISITS
Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Harold Brown assured the House Armed Services
Committee yesterday there was no evidence that the earth had been visited by
strangers from outer space. Dr. Brown said almost all of the 10,147
unidentified flying objects reported in the last 19 years were easily
explained, including the recent Michigan sightings, as marsh gases, pranks,
planets, comets, meteors, fireballs, and auroral streamers. But, he said, "the
Air Force has an open mind" and would continue to investigate all reports."
PHOTOGRAPH: Dr. Harold Brown
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Article #: 10
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-23-1986
Subject: 1968 CO U ENDS STUDY
SOURCE: NYT (DC)
DATE: 01 MAY 1968
COLORADO UNIVERSITY ENDS SAUCER STUDY BUT DOES NOT DISCLOSE RESULTS
Field investigations of UFO reports by the U of Colorado research project were
completed on schedule today, but findings won't be discussed until the final
report is sent to the National Academy of Sciences in late September. The U of
Colorado undertook a $500,000 study of UFOs at USAF's request because critics
accused USAF of failing to make a comprehensive, scientific investigation of
saucer reports.
In a related development, NICAP held a news conference yesterday to announce it
has "broken with" the Colorado Project to "reveal the firing of top project
scientists and other incidents leading to the project's failure. "A May 14
Look article by John G. Fuller told about the oustings last February of David
R. Saunders, a psychologist, and Dr. Norman E. Levine, an electrical engineer,
and called the project the "flying saucer fiasco". On the House floor
yesterday, Representative J. Edward Roush quoted from the Look article and said
Congress should take over the UFO investigation from USAF because grave doubts
had arisen "as to the scientific profundity and objectivity of the Colorado
project."
PHOTOGRAPH: E. U. Condon
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Article #: 11
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-23-1986
Subject: 1966 SATEL.TERMED UNKNOWN
SOURCE: NYT (DC)
DATE: 01 NOVEMBER 1966
THREE SATELLITES TERMED UNKNOWN
NASA's Goddard Flight Center in its Sept 30 & Oct 15 issues of the Satellite
Situation Report has listed 3 `unknowns' among the many satellites, rocket
bodies and space debris orbiting the earth. NORAD continuously monitors all
orbiting objects from more than 100 radar stations around the globe.
Information is also fed to NORAD by volunteers of the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory's `Moonwatch' teams, by airline pilots and others.
It is the first time the report has listed `unknowns' among the identified
orbiting objects. Since the objects are not considered to constitute any
danger military officials argued against listing them until they could be
identified, fearing that `flying saucer' enthusiasts would cite the objects as
evidence the earth had extraterrestrial visitors.
NORAD contends it has tracked objects as small as 1 foot in length, though the
Satellite Situation Report omits any reference to the size & weight of listed
satellites. 2 of the unknowns are in an orbit inclined at 85 degrees to the
equator - an inclination close to those sometimes used for military launchings
from Vandenberg AFB, CA; the other's orbit is inclined at 35 degrees to the
equator - a launching angle sometimes used from Cape Kennedy, FL. 1 of the 2
in an 85 degree orbit swings from a low point of 385 miles above the earth to
3,944 miles; the other dips to 459 miles and swings out to 3,802 miles.
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Article #: 12
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-23-1986
Subject: 1969 NO VISITS FROM AFAR
SOURCE: NYT
DATE: 08 JANUARY 1969
UFO FINDING: No Visits From Afar
Though the findings by the U of Colordo UFO study have not yet been made
public, the AP yesterday circulated a fragmentary account of the principal
conclusions in the report. It is expected that the report will be made public
at the same time as the evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences
requested by USAF.
After investigating hundreds of UFO incidents, Dr. Condon and his staff found
that a number of episodes previously classed as inexplicable could be accounted
for by natural means or by hoaxes. In some cases, witnesses with seemingly
impeccable credentials were found to be self-contradictory and hence their
accounts were of little value. The document states that no evidence could be
found that UFOs were intelligently guided spacecraft from beyond the earth and
thus a large scale effort to determine the nature of flying saucers would be a
waste of time and money. There was also no evidence found that the government
was withholding information about the objects from the public, except a
reasonable USAF policy of delaying comment until an investigation was
completed.
The Colorado group seems to have made every effort to remain aloof from any
USAF influence. Thus, the cases it investigated were chosen largely from the
recommendations of private groups, particularly NICAP. But as the
investigative phase of the project drew to a close in late 1967, there was a
falling out between Dr. Condon and Donald Keyhoe of NICAP, alledgedly because
of Dr. Condon's lack of sympathy for the view that some UFOs may be visitations
from other worlds.
Other UFO enthusiasts were disenchanted when an internal university memorandum
was presented in a magazine of national circulation as an indication of bias
against proponents of the unidentified objects. The document, written before
the project had begun, discussed whether the university could undertake the
study without incurring ridicule from the academic world while still satisfying
the public that an open-minded study was being made. Two members of the staff
were dismissed, apparently for their role in removing the memorandum from the
project's files. One was a psychologist, Dr. David R. Saunders, who had become
a member of NICAP shortly before joining the Colorado project. This week a
book went on sale written by Dr. Saunders a journalist from Boulder, R. Roger
Harkins, entitled UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong. Saunders &
Harkins argue that the Colorado investigation was a front contrived at the
highest echelons of government to mask the truth, and that "someone on the
project must be acting in a double role," which led to a mutual distrust among
members.
PHOTOGRAPH: Dr. Condon (portrait) AP same as previous photograph of Condon
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Article #: 13
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-11-1986
Subject: 1947 CRASHED DISK ROSWELL
SOURCE: NEWS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
DATE: 8 JULY 1947
PLACE: ROSWELL, NM
BULLETIN:
ROSWELL, N.M., JULY 8 - Possession of a "flying disk" was disclosed today by
the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Grop of Roswell Army Air Base.
Oficers at the base say the "disk" was flown in a Super-Forttress to "higher
headquarters" undisclosed.
The intelligence office reported that it gained possession of the "disk:
through the co-operation of a Roswell rancher and George Wilson, sheriff at
Roswell.
The disk landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone
facilities, the rancher, whose name has not yet been obtained, stored the disk
until such time as he was able to reach the Roswell sheriff's office.
The air base refused to give details of construction of the disk or its
appearance.
Residents near the ranch on seeing a strange blue light several days ago about
3:00 a.m.
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-12-1986
Subject: 1966 SIGHTINGS PEAK 1,060
SOURCE: NYT ( DAYTON, OH )
DATE: 15 FEBRUARY 1967
SIGHTINGS OF UFOs NEAR PEAK DURING 1966
Maj. Hector Quintanella, director of USAF's Project Blue Book, says a total of
1,060 reports of unidentified flying objects were submitted to USAF during
1966, the second highest year's total since Blue Book began keeping records 20
years ago.
The record high of 1,501 was in 1952; the annual average is 555. Of the 11,107
reports since 1947, 676 remain unidentified, 30 of them from 1966.
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Article #: 15
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1973 P.CARTER REPORTS UFO
SOURCE: FLEETWOOD, PA ( AP )
DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 1973
SYSTEM: CUFON
Governor Jimmy Carter on UFOs
A dispatch from Statesboro, GA quoted Governor Jimmy Carter on UFO's "I've
seen one myself." Mr. Carter said: he saw the shining, saucer-shaped object
before he became governor.
He did not specify the date or place, but noted that he had been with friends
after a business dinner. The dispatch said: there have been a number of UFO
sightings in the South recently but did not specify how many of them had been
after business dinners.
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1977 CARTER,ASKED NASA
SOURCE: WASHINGTON D.C. ( AP )
DATE: NOVEMBER 27, 1977
SYSTEM: CUFON
Carter Asked Space Agency to Investigate UFO's
President Carter had asked NASA to establish a panel of inquiry to investigate
UFO's. Dave Williamsom, NASA's assistant for special projects, answered on
friday that NASA was "not anxious" to get into the controversy because it's not
wise to do research on something that is not a measurable phenomenon.
There is no measurable UFO evidence such as a piece of metal, flesh or cloth.
We don't even have any radio signals. A photograph is not a measurement. But he
added that a group of technical experts he headed would recommend by the end of
the year what NASA's response should be to the white house request.
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Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1977 NASA REFUSES CARTER
SOURCE: WASHINGTON D.C. ( AP )
DATE: DECEMBER 28, 1977
SYSTEM: CUFON
NASA Refuses To Reopen Investigation of UFO's
NASA administrator Robert Frosch, in a letter last week to Pres. Carter's
science advisor Dr. Frank Press, rejected a White House request to investigate
UFO's saying that such an inquiry would be "wasteful and probably
unproductive."
Dr. Press said: he accepted NASA's conclusions and did not plan to pursue the
matter further. NASA said: that it stood ready to analyze any "bona fide
physical evidence from credible sources," but such evidence has never been
found.
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1977 UN TO SET UP AGENCY
SOURCE: NEW YORK ( AP )
DATE: OCTOBER 08, 1977
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
UN Urged To Set Up An Agency For UFO's
Mr.Wellington Friday, a delegate from Grenada, spoke before the UN General
Assembly Special Political Committee yesterday at the start of a debate on how
the UN could contribute to UFO research.
He said: the UN should establish an agency to study the sightings of physical
alien objects, contact with such objects and the exchanges with alien creatures
occupying UFO's.
Grenada's Prime Minister Sir Eric M. Gairy has for many years asked the UN to
establish a UFO agency; delegates agreed that they needed time to prepare for a
debate on the issue later this week. --
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1978 UN HEARS CASE - UFO
SOURCE: NEW YORK ( AP )
DATE: OCTOBER 15, 1978
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
United Nations Hears Case For UFO's
For the second time in two years, the Prime Minister of the West Indies island
of Grenada, Sin Eric Gairy, is campaigning to get the UN to set up an agency to
"collate, coordinate and corroborate information" on UFO's.
In 1977, Gairy succeeded in getting UFO's on the General Assembly's agenda
which resulted in an agreement that any country with information or ideas on
the subject could send them to UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim; however, in
the year since Waldhein has made no public mention of co-operation from member
nations.
Earlier this week, Gairy was at the UN making his case again: "We've passed the
stage now whether or not these things exist. I think it is accepted that these
things do exist. I think we now want to know the nature, the origin and the
intent of these saucers. Some people think they have come to do good. Some
think they have come to dominate human beings."
He cited reported that aircraft have been put out of commission, but not
destroyed, after attacking saucers. "That comfirms my thought on their
positive intent. I believe they are coming here to help mankind because man is
so self- destructive...
It would be very conceited for man to think that he is the most intelligent of
God's creatures. "Sir Eric says he hes seen two UFO's in the last three years;
the second time earlier this year from a hotel room in Grenada. "The time is
going to come when everybody on Earth will have to pay attention to the UFO
phenomenon."
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Article #: 20
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-20-1986
Subject: 1969 BLUE BOOK CLOSES
SOURCE: NEW YORK ( NYT )
DATE: DECEMBER 18, 1969
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
Air Force Closes Study Of UFO's
USAF Secretary Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. said: in a menorandum yesterday that
Project Blue Book is closed since continuation of the study of UFO's "no longer
can be justified either on the ground of National Sesurity or in the interest
of Science."
Project Blue Book has investigated 12,618 sighting reports during the past 22
years, at a cost of "several million dollars." Both a committee of the
National Academy Of Sciences and a U Of Colorado group concluded earlier this
year that further studies of the so-called flying saucers would be a waste of
time and money.
Surprisingly, the USAF decision was hailed by a number of UFO activists, but
Dr. James McDonald, a meteorologist at the U Of Arizona, said: USAF was
"writing off the UFO problem, which cries for serious scientific study ." Dr.
Edward U. Condon, the U Of Colorado physicist who headed the UFO study, said:
recently that his investigation "was a bunch of damned - nonsense" and that he
was "sorry I ever got involved in such foolishness."
USAF said: UFO reports had fallen from a high of 1501 in 1952 to 146 this year.
Stuart Nixon, secretary-treasurer of NICAP, said: sightings still occur almost
weekly and cited the report from a group of Richmond, VA policemen who said:
they saw an object maneuvering over the city at 5:45 on Dec 5.
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-26-1986
Subject: 1944 NEW GERMAN WEAPONS
SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
DATE: DECEMBER 14, 1944
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
Floating Mystery Ball Is New German Weapon
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Dec. 13-A new German
weapon has made its appearance on the western air front. It was disclosed
today.
Airmen of the American Aif Force report that they are encountering silver
colored spheres in the air over German territory. The spheres are encoun-
tered either singly or in clusters. Sometimes they are semi-translucent.
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS Dec. 13 ( Reuter ) - The Germans have produced a "secret"
weapon in keeping with the Christmas season.
The new device, apparently an air defense weapon resembles the huge glass balls
that adorn Christmas trees. There was no information available as to whatholds
them up like stars in the sky, what is in them or what their purpose is
supposed to be.
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-11-1987
Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING
SOURCE: THE SEATTLE TIMES
DATE: 1 JANUARY 1987
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
UFO report no surprise to longtime believer
`They're here to warn us of danger we are'
by Peter Lewis
Times staff reporter
Reports of a jumbo walnut-shaped unidentified flying object being sighted
across the Arctic skies were music to Wayne Aho's ears.
"I'm always thrilled to hear those reports because not many get into the news,"
said the Tacoma resident known as "Mr. UFO."
Aho was referring to recent news accounts telling aof a veteran pilot who said
three UFOs - two small ones and one shaped like a walnut and twice the size of
an aircraft carrier - trailed his Japan Air Lines cargo jet for 400 miles as he
flew across northeastern Alaska from Iceland to Anchorage on Nov. 17.
The pilot, his co-pilot and flight engineer on JAL Flight 1628 reported seeing
flashing lights trail their jet. Federal Aviation Administration officials
confirmed that the controller who handled the flight saw a mysterious object
trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the Alaska Air Command
said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane.
But Aho, founder and president of the New Age Foundation Inc., yesterday
predicted that in the coming days or weeks, news organizations will be running
"kill stories" that cast doubt on the sighting's authenticity.
"Someone will come up with an explnation far more impossible for anyone to
imagine as being reality," Aho said.
That's what happened, Aho recalled, after amazed crew and passengers on a
Soviet airliner reported seeing a star-like UFO beam a thin ray on the ground,
then turn its dazzling light on the aircraft, then become a green cloud that
"escorted" the plane during a flight over Minsk in January 1985.
The story first appeared in a Russian newspaper. But Soviet authorities later
discredited the report, saying the UFO was actually space junk orbiting the
Earth, Aho recalled. His memory is borne out by U.S. newspaper clips.
"How could space junk fly alongside and not fall?" asked Aho. "How could it
follow at the speed of an airliner and fly beside it for 17 miles?" he asked.
In the case of the newly reported sighting, Aho wondered why it has taken
nearly two months for it to make news. "What held it up?" he asked.
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Aho, who said he has personally seen UFOs nine times, believes there is a
deliberate effort on the part of the National Security Council to suppress UFO
sightings because of the economic and political upheaval confirmed sightings
would cause..
Yet according to an eight-year-old Gallup Poll, 16 million Americans have
reported seeing UFOs, Aho said. And worldwide, an estimated 150 million people
have seen them, he added.
Aho's "awakening" to UFOs started in 1957 while he was attending a UFO
convention in the Mojave Desert, where he became involved in a "close encounter
of the third kind - like the movie," he said.
UFOs are from a superior civilization that have come here "to warn us of the
danger we are to ourselves," Aho believes.
A self-described "70 years young," Aho said he was an intelligence officer
trained in aircraft identification who attained the rank of major in the Army
during the war.
Robert Gribble, a retired Seattle firefighter who operates the Seattle-based
National UFO Reporting Center, has received thousands of reports of UFO
sightings over the years. He said the large, walnut-shaped UFO report in the
Arctic skies is similar to outlines previously reported.
"I think the significant thing there is that they tracked it one radar,"
Gribble said. "It lends credibility that they saw both objects (the UFO and
the plane) on the screen at the same time."
Two weeks ago, Gribble said yesterday, he was contacted by a Japanese reporter
in Washington, D.C., who was the first to alert him to the sighting. Gribble
said the reporter was trying to gather confirmation from various agencies to
see if they had the sighting on radar, or if it had been reported by other
airline crews, "and wanted to know if we had other reports, and of course we
didn't," Gribble said.
In 1986, his center received an average of six reports a day of sightings from
English-speaking people from the Caribbean across North America to Hawaii,
Gribble said. Busier years have averaged from 15 to 20 calls a day.
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-11-1987
Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING
SOURCE: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
DATE: 31 DECEMBER 1986
SYSTEM: CUFON COMPUTER UFO NETWORK
Pilot describes `unbelievable' UFO encounter
United Press International
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - "It was unbelievable."
The words belonged to Kenju Terauchi, a Japan Air Lines pilot who was trying to
describe an inflight incident that thus far has defied explanation.
The veteran pilot says theree unidentified flying objects - two small ones and
one twice the size of an aircraft carrier - trailed his JAL cargo jet for 400
miles across the Arctic skies.
Terauchi yesterday acknowledged that some of his colleagues have doubts about
what he, his co-pilot and flight engineer saw Nov. 17 as they flew from Iceland
to Anchorage.
The crewmen of JAL Flight 1628 reported seeing flashing lights trailing their
jet that clear night to the Federal Aviation Administration, which interviewed
the three in Anchorage. The plane later went on to Tokyo.
FAA officials Monday confirmed the controller who handled Flight 1628 saw a
mysterious object trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the
Alaska Air Command said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane.
In yesterday's interview, Terauchi, 47, a pilot with 29 years of experience,
said he saw three UFOs and that at one point lights from the two smaller ones
appeared directly in front of the Boeing 747 cockpit at close range.
Terauchi referred to the objects as "the two small ships and the mothership,"
and expressed amazement that they disappeared and reappeared and moved quickly
and stopped suddenly. He said he could not explain the events, except to
speculate that he saw something of extraterrestrial origin.
Speaking in English with occasional help from a translator, Terauchi drew maps,
pictures and supplied technical annotation to describe the incident.
Terauchi repeatedly said the object that appeared on FAA and Air Force radar
was "a very big one - two times bigger than an aircraft carrier."
The smaller UFOs did not appear on his radar, he said. Nor were additional
objects picked up on FAA or Air Force radar.
Terauchi said the three crewmen saw lights from the two small objects. He drew
a picture for the FAA showing lights on a formation, each object having what
appeared to be two panels of lights.
The captain said he saw lights on the larger object and once, near Fairbanks,
saw it in faint silhouette eight miles away. He drew a picture of what he saw
- something resembling a large shelled walnut.
The crew was not frightened, Terauchi said. Their feeling was, he said, "We
want to escape from this." And so - with FAA permission and direction - the
crew dropped in altitude and made numerous turns, but the objects remained.
"They were still following us," Terauchi said, and FAA radar confirmed that at
least one object remained despite the maneuvers.
Asked if he was nervous, Terauchi replied, "No, I am the captain. I cannot be
nervous."
Asked why he thought the UFOs would tail his plane, Terauchi laughed and
replied, "We were carrying Beaujolais, a very famous wine made in France.
Maybe they want to drink it."
FAA security manager Jim Derry, who interviewed the crewmen, said they were
"normal, professional, rational, (and had) no drug or alcohol involvement."
FAA flight control reports indicate the mysterious object stayed with Flight
1628 for at least 32 minutes. Terauchi said he thought it was longer.
The flight controller directing the JAL plane reported the object on his radar
as close as five miles to the jet.
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