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Iranian jet chase up-date, p. 9.

Michigan family ob-serves horizon to horizonbeam, p. 4.

Interaction of UFOswith ICBM & nuclearsites, Part 2, p. 5.

UFO press: On theTrail of Saucer Spies byNick Redfern; Awaken-ing-How ET Contact CanTransform Your Life byMary Rodwell, p. 12.

Saturn moon may haveprerequisites for life, p. 13.

MUFON Forum: p. 13.Calendar, p. 17.IMonsignorBalduccisays Mexico blessed, p. 19.UFO Marketplace, p.23. Columns

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W.C. Levengood says UFOs may be responsible

Anomalous energy patternsfound atBy David E. Twichell

0 2006This article is intended as a follow-up to my article "Is bov ine hemoglob inthe smoking gun in cattle mutilationcases?" published in the June. 2005. is-sue of the MUFON UFO Jozrmnl.As a brief recap of that article. bio-physicist W.C. Levengood of thePinelandia Biophysical Laboratory inGrass Lake. MI, whose analytical meth-ods involving crop formations and ani-mal excisions have become the w orld-wide standard, shared his discovery ofsmall, black, hardened specks on thechest and testicles at the point of theexcision, which ultimately proved to bepure bovine hemoglobin.In her laboratory in Ohio, analyticalchemist Phyllis Budinger co n fm ed hisfindings using the latest state-of-the-artinfrared spectral photometer in analyz-ing the samples.The only known biochemical pro-cess to produce pure hemoglobin fromhuman o r animal blood m ust be donein a laboratory with chemicals, a cen-trifuge, and strict temperature control."It's totally incomprehensible howthe hemoglobin could be removed inthe middle of the night out in the middleof a pasture and separated from all theother cellular components," Levengoodstates in his scien tific paper "Biophysi-cal Study of Two Bovine Excision Sitesat Christmas Valley, Oregon, 2002" ( 02002).For this reason (as well as a laundrylist of other elemen ts of the evidence),Levengood rejects the skeptic's asser-tion that "cult worsh ipers" are to blamefor the deed. "The technology involvedis beyond anythtng currently available,"he says.So too does he reject the theory ofpredators. "The alterations are not aMay 2006

bovlne excision sitesAbout the authorDavid Twichell is a M UFON FieldInvestigator and editor of the Michi-gat1 MUFON Newsletter. He is theauthor of threeb o o k s : T h eU F O - e s u sCot1t1ecriot1.Global Impli-c a t io n s ofU F O Reality .and (w i t hGeorge Fi ler)Filer SFiles.He has his own cable TV show,"We Are Not Alone," and has writ-ten numerous articles. His web siteis www.ufoimplications.com

random ripping and tearing of the flesh,but rather they are precise, surgicalexcisions." For this reason, the term"bovine excision" is a more accuratedescription of the scene than "cattlemutilation," for wh ich the phenomenonis more commo nly known.In addi t ion to the hemoglobinanomaly, Levengood has also foundenergy patterns in connection with thesebovine incisions.In his scientific thesis, "Consistencyin Patterns of Energy Distributions atWorldwide Bovine Excision Sites" ( 02006), he observes:"There is an energy pattern infusedinto the soil and grass in the imm ediateregion around the animal, and extend-ing outward in a radial manner. Thetype of energy applied increases thethermod ynam ic free energy of both thegrass and soil."These free energy changes are con-sistently observed in most all excisioncases exam ined in this laboratory."This energy pattern extend s outwardfrom two to thirty feet from the carcass.

A well-known aspect of animal ex-cision cases is the fact that othe r ani-mals refuse to venture into the areawhere the carcass was d iscovered longafter the carcass has been remo ved.In a recent bovine excision investi-gation in Boyne Lake. Alberta, Canada,Levengood w rites:"When the owners arrived in thefield and found the dead cow, the restof the herd were very upset and ranaway from them as they approached.They told me that had never occurredbefore."This curious characteristic of thephenomenon could well be explainedby the energies being radiated from thesite. This energy may be outside therange of human perception, but wellwithin that of other animals.With the aid of scientific instrumen ts,these energies are easily detected an dhelp to venfy the reason for the animal'sreluctance to enter the area.

- An affiliation between animal exci-sions, crop formations, and UFOs haslong been suspected amo ng ufologistsand, covertly, some mainstream scien-tists. Many characteristics, such ashighconcen trations of "m agnetic particles,"are found in both sites.Biophysicist Levengood has alludedto this connection for years without di-rectly mak ing this assertion. Recen tly,however, he has become more candidin his treatment of both subjects.In the aforementioned scientific pa-per, he writes, "We don't know whyspecific organs are excised. Do thebovine organs con centrate certain ele-ments such as the rare earths [Cerium(Ce). Praseodymium (PI-). eodymium(Nd). Sama rium (Sm) etc.] that are ofimportance in the restoration of freeenergy in the internal cells of the enti-ties involved?'MUFON UFO Journal - 3


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Entities involved? Wh at entities in-volved?Levengood references the bookRaechel S Eyes by Helen Littrell andJean Bilodeaux (Wild Flower Press,2005, pp. 96), in which cattle abduc-tions and excisions are discussed."This process is described by HL astaking place in 'a vortex of highlycharged light particles. which transportsthe animal to a waiting spacec raft hov-ering above.' Th e light particles dis-cussed here may have properties quitedifferent than the light particles withwhich we are familiar. In our frame ofreference, ordinary light or photons arequantum particles, w hich do not pos-sess an electric charge."In the first paper mentioned in thisarticle, he states, "The energy affect-ing the plants is of a more subtle na-ture, giving the impression tha t it maybe an artifact of the propulsion or in-ternal energy compon ents emitted bythe 'UFO' craft."And, "This local injury effect was notobserved in plants a t the bull excisionsite; however, in this case the energysource (UFO) was at a sufficien t heightabove the soil surface to cause the in-duced magnetic field from the ion-elec-tron avalanches to 'pick up' magneticparticles-thus accounting for the reduc-tion in the level of magnetic particlesnear the anima l as well as the log-logtype of distribution."These statements qualify the ener-gies as being intelligently directed, asopposed to random, natural energies,and specifically m ention "unconven-tional flying objects."If there is a correlation betw een thecrop formation and animal excisionphenomena, one would expect thegreatest concentration of energies to befound at the carcass, and decrease out-ward-as is the case with radiation lev-els detected in cro p circles. .However, Levengoo d has found thatthe reverse is true. The greatest con-centration of energies is typically fou ndin the outer ring.In a telephone interview, he theorizesthat the higher energy levels are beingemitted from the ou ter ring of the craft.The variance in the outer diam eter of

the energy ring on the ground is depen-dent upon the size of the craft and thealtitude from which the animal had beenlowered or dropped.When asked why he is only now ad-mitting to his acceptance of the UFOand rela ted phe-nomena , Leven-good cited his ad-vanced years andthe fact that he istired of "beatingaround the bush"

Levengood He has enjoyed along and respectedcareer within the scientific comm unityand feels he has the right, as well as theobligation, to publicly announce hisconclusions based solely on the data.

References:"Is bovine hemoglobin the smokinggun in cattle mutilation cases?" 2005by David E. Twichell, MU FON UFOJournal, June, 2005, p. 3-4."Biophysical Study of Two BovineExcision Sites at Christmas Valley,Oregon. 2002." O 2002 by W.C.Levengood. All Rights Reserved."Consistency in Patterns of EnergyDistributions at Worldwide BovineExcis ion Sites" 0 006 by W.C.Levengood. All Rights Reserved.L in d a Mo u l to n Ho we . h t tp : / /www.earthfiles.comRaechel SEyes by Helen Littrell andJean Bilodeaux (W ild Flower Press,02005 .)Note: All excerpts from reports andarticles were reprinted with permission.

Michigan family observes strangewhite beam horizon to horizon

I n v e s t i g a t o r : J o h n W. Ca s t l e ,M U F O N F I a n d S S D f o r I o n i a,Clinton, Montcalm, and Gratiot coun-ties, MI.Pr im ar y w itness: Patty DonahueLoca tion: W acousta, MI.Date of sightin g: 3/12/05Tim e of sighting: 7:45 PMReport by witness: I took my dogsout front to hook them up on their tie-outs, and I was stargazing as the skygot brighter and brighter. After about15 minutes it seemed a s though everystar in the universe suddenly appeared.Everything quickly and strangely gotbrighter in a matter of seconds.All of a sudden my dog s, a black laband a border collie, sat down back toback, an d my lab looked up at the skyand started barking very tensely, likeshe does when she sees danger, suchas coyotes.I looked up, and to the far north wasthis huge beam of light going from westto east, which looked as though it w asa huge white solar light, like you wouldsee around Saturn in pictures.It seemed to follow the curve of theEarth, as a rainbow w ould, horizon tohorizon. At first I thought it was a very

different beginning to the northernlights, but as I watched, the band gotwider and wider.I ran inside to get my husband anddaughters, and we went outside towatch it. At about 8 PM my friend andtheir family from down the road drovedown and watched this with us.This beam of light was still gettingwider, west to east, but it seemed to bemoving as though it was being blownfrom the north toward the south.About 8:15 it was straight up overour heads, and by 8:30 it was way southof us. It had perfectly straight edge s,even as it got wide r and wider. It didn'treally seem too high in space, but nottoo low either.You could see this for miles andmiles, and there were no clouds. Asthe mass moved southward, there weremany flashing lights that we assumedwere airplanes or helicopters at the farsouthwestern end of this white beam.After it passed, the areas went backto their darker state, which was still aclear night w ith all the stars out. It dis-appeared just as it started-it was justgone.Determ ination: unknown.


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r Force personnel report UFOsat ICBM and nuclear weapons sites

By Robert L. Hastings@Copyright3,006 Roben L. Hastings. Al l Rights

Reserved. This material may nor be publ~shed . osted.rewritten or redistributed.Editor's Note: This is Part Twoof Hastings' research in which per-sonnel relate incidents involvingUFOs and the nation's ICBM andnuclear facilities.

Airman In Class David Hughes-Former Air Policeman, 341"CombatDefense Squadron, Malmstrom AFB,Montana:Hughes stated, "I was stationed atMal ms t rom f rom Janua ry , 1966 ,through August. 1967. I was an a ir po-liceman, assigned to 'B' Flight, withthe 341 t Combat Defense Squadron.

"I worked at the Foxtrot [FlightLaunch C ontrol Facility]. Many nightswe observed a light in the sky betweenChoteau and Augu sta, Mon tana."He continued, "This light wouldmove at incredible speeds, make right-angle moves, and continue for hours.When seeking furthe r information fromwing comm and, we were often insultedwhen told it was a Telstar satellite."On on e occasion we were told byother friends w orking in the [air trafficcontrol] tower at the b ase that aircrafthad been launched to seek to identify astrange radar echo that had appearedon their screens and on the scre ens ofthe local airport."This was den ied the next day, butif memory serves, the local newspaperhad a story on it the next day. This m usthave happened sometime in early 19 67or late 1966."Airman Hughes concluded, "All Iknow is that some strange things con -sumed ou r attention many nights whileon patrol. We patrolled from Augustato Choteau each night and [frequently]saw something that lent credance to theUFO concept.''To us, 'UFO ' simply meant it wasan Unidentified Flying O bject, eitherfrom our military or some unknown

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ICBM underground silo.source . We never believed the satellitestory.

"However, when w e learned that thejets had been scrambled and the nextday it was denied, then we knew some-thing w as up."Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Chassey-Former Minuteman ICBM mainte-nance technician, 341"Missile Main-tenance S quadron, Malmstrom AFB,Montana:Chassey states that one night in thefall of 1975 he overhead a two-wayradio transmission alerting Air ForceSecurity Police abou t an unknown crafthovering over the base's Weapons S or-age Area (WSA).Chassey said the incident was w idelydiscussed at the missile mechanicalshop the following day. He later heardadditiona l details about it from a friend,who was a helicopter re-fueler.Apparently, two base helicopters hadbeen scrambled to ch ase the intruder,which rapidly flew toward Belt, MT,som e ten m iles distant.As the pursuing chop pers neared the

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town. the unidentified craft quicklydoubled-back to Malmstrom-leavingthem far behind-and again hove redover the WSA for a short period of timebefore finally departing.Chassey states that the object wasdescribed as an extremely bright light,and was assumed to have been a bonafide UFO becau se of its superior capa-bilities. He emphasized. "It flat outranthe helicop ters. We heard that it zippedout to Belt and back to the base in notime."Chassey, who separated from the AirForce at the end of October. 1975, be-lieves that the incident occurred shortlybefore he left Malmstrom.Comment: USA F documents fromOctober, 1975, declassified via theFreedom of Information Act, c o n f mother UFO sightings at the WeaponsStorage Areas at W urtsmith AFB, M I,and Loring AFB, ME.At the time, each base hosted B-52n u c l e a r b o m b e r s q u a d r o n s . A t

Wurtsmith, initial sighting reports re-About the author

Robert Hastings' interest in UFO sand ICBM s began early. In 1967, hisfather , USAF SMSgt. Robert E.Hastings, was stationed at Malm-strom AFB , MT, during a period ofhigh UFO act ivi ty at the base 'sICBM sites.Hasting s received a BFA in Pho-tography from Ohio University in1972 , and later re-trained in the fieldof Electron Microscopy. He w orkedas a laboratory analyst for PhilipsSemiconductors, in Albuquerque,NM, from 1988-2002.He has been researching military-related UFO sightings since 1973,and has been invited to present hisfindings at over 500colleges and uni-versities since 1 981.Hastings is now semi-retired andlives in Surfside Beach , SC.


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ferred to the unid entified craft as a "he-licopter." However. the radar op eratoraboard a nearby KC- 135 aircraft latertracked the craft traveling at approxi-mately 1,000 knots. far faster than anyknow n helicopter.At Loring. some reports mentionedan "unidentified helicopter" near theWSA. However. eyewitness accountsfrom a B-52 ground cre w indicated thatthe "helicopter" was bright orange,football-shaped. and had hovered si-lently.(For an extend ed discussion of thesecases, consult Lawrence Fawcett andBarry Greenwood's authoritative book.Clear Inrenr, later re-named The UFOCover-Up.)Lt. Col. ~ o b e r t eisher (US AFRet.)-Former Com manding Officer,De tachment #5 , 37 th Air RescueSquadron helicopter unit at MalmstromAFB, Montana:Peisher has confirmed the accuracyof Joseph Chassey's account regardingthe incident during which an unknowncraft hovered above Malmstrom'snuclear Weapons Storage Area onenight in the fall of 1 975.However, Peisher said that eventhough his unit's he licopters had indeedbeen involved in the intercept attempt,he himself had already been transferredto another squadron when the incidentoccurred, and had heard about it only"much later."Peisher also states that he had oncebeen briefed by local civilian law en-forcement about a series of cattle mu-tilations, many of w hich had occurrednear Minuteman missile sites, duringthe summ er and fall of 1975.He s t a t e s th a t h e a n d Ca s c a d eCounty Deputy Sheriff Capt. KeithWolverton determined that more than80 such mutila tions had o ccurredwithin Malmstrom's miss ile fie ldboundaries, some quite near variousICBM Launch Facilities (silos).Peisher further states that he hadbeen informally told about multipleUFO incidents at Malmstrom's Min-uteman missile sites, including oneevent during which a UFO "the size ofa football field" had silently flown overthe Echo Launch Control Facility onenight in the fall of 197 5.Comment: The following verbatim

excerpts are NORAD log entries fromNovem ber, 1975, declassified via theFreedom of Information Act. My owncomments and clarifications followsome of the entries (in parentheses):24'" NORAD Region Sen iorDirector's Log (Malmstrom AFB,MT):7 Nov 75 (10352) . Received a callfrom the 341" Strategic AirCommandPost (SA C CP), saying that the follow-ing missile locations reported seeing alarge red to orange to yellow object: M-1, L-3, LIM A, and L-6 ...Commanderand Deputy for Operations (DO) in-formed.7 Nov 75 (120 32) SAC advised thatthe LCF at H arlowton, Montana, ob-served an object which emitted a lightwhich illuminated the site driveway.7 Nov 75 (13 192 ) SAC advised K-1 says very bright object to their east isnow southeast of them and they arelooking at it with 10x50 binoculars.Object seems to have lights (several)on it, but no distinct pattern. The or-angelgold object overhead also seemsto have lights on it. SA C also advisedfema le civilian reports having seen anobject bearing sou th of her position sixmiles west of Lewistown.(Note that all of these reports referto the observation of aerial "objects."

Apparently, the Security Alert Teamscould not identify them as either mili-tary o r civilian aircraft.)7 Nov 75 (13272) L-I reportsthatthe object to their northeast seems tobe issuing a black object from it, tubu-lar in shape. In all this time, surveil-lance has not been able to detect anysort of track except for known traffic.( In o th e r .wo rd s, wh e n th e s esightings were first reported by SATs,"surveillance"-that is, radar personnel-at Malmstrom AFB and Great FallsInternational Purport could not detectany unknown aerial objects near themissile sites. As we shall see, radarcontact with the UFOs w as finally es-tablished as the sighting reports con-tinued to unfold.)7 Nov 75 (13552) K- 1 and L-1 re-port that as the sun rises, so do the ob-jects they have visual.7 N ov 75 (1429)From SAC CP: Asthe sun rose, the UFOs disappeared.Comm ander and DO notified.8Nov 75 (06352) A security camp erteam at K-4 reported UFO wi thw hitelights, one red light 50 yards behindwhite light. Personnel at K-1 seeingsame object.8Nov 75 (06 452) Height personnelpicked up objects 10-1 3,000 eet. Track5330, EKLB 0649, 18 knots, 9,500

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feet. Objects as many as seven, as fewas two AIC.(Height-finding radar finally con-f m e d that UFOs were present, vary-ing over time between two and sevenin number.)8 Nov 75 (07532) 5330 unknown0753 . S t a t i ona ry / seven kno t s /12,000 .. woF - 106 ..NCOC notified.(Radar confirmed that one U FO, atan altitude of 12,000 feet, had hovered-that is, was "stationary"-before resum-ing flight at a leisurely 7- knots, or 9mph. Shortly thereafter, two F-106swere scrambled to intercept it.)8 Nov 75 (09052) From SAC CP:L-sites had fighters and objects; fight-ers did not get dow n to objects.. 8 Nov 75 (09 l5Z) From SAC CP:From four different points: Observedobjects and fighters; when fighters ar-

rived in the area, the lights went out;when figh ters departed, the lights cameback on; To NCOC.(As SAT personnel at four differentlocations watched, the UFOs playedcat-and-mouse with the F -106s, extin-guishing their illumination as the jetsapproached their position and re-illu-minating themselves after the fightersreturned to base. The NORAD Com-bat O p e r a t i ~ ~ senter-NCOC-inColorado Springs, was im mediately in-form ed of this incident.)8 Nov 75 (11052) From SAC CP:L-5 reported object increased in speed-high velocity, raised in altitude, andnow can not tell the object from stars.To NCOC.9 Nov 75 (03 052) SAC C P calledand advised SAC crews at Sites L-1,L-6, and M-1 observing UFO. Objectyellowish bright round light 20 m ilesnorth of Harlowton, 2 to 4,000 feet.9 Nov 75 (032 02) SAC C P reportsUFO southeast of Lewistown, orangewhite disc object. 24" N ORA D Region

surveillance checking area. Surveil-lance unable to get height check.(Note the reference to the UF O hav-ing a "disc" or saucer shape. Severalmore log entries from Nov. 9 and 10c o n f m hat UFOs continued to be re-ported by SAT teams positioned nearvarious missile silos.)END O F LOG ENTRIESStaff Sgt. Joseph M. Brown-Form er Security Policeman, 343'*Mis-

sile Security Squadron, MalmstromAFB, Montana:Comment: I first learned of JoeBrown's experience after he posted abrief sum mary of it on researcher RonWrigh t's Triad Research website. WithWright's assistance, I located Brownand interviewed him.Brown states that one night in thespring of 1992, he and his security teampartner were posted at Alpha Flightmissile silo A-3.Due to an alarm system malfunctionat the site, the two-man team wasstaked-out in a security camper near thelaunch facility, with on e man on dutywhile the other slept."I believe it w as.M arch or April,"Brown told me, "site top-side securitywas down-the IMPSS (Improved Min-uteman Phys ical Security System)-and

if I remember correctly, there was notop-side power."At about 4:30 AM, Brown noticed abright white light moving erraticallyacross the sky. In his online posting,Brown had written, "This light wasdoing some wild things in the sky, sud-den direction changes, moving veryfast, then stopping, then shoo ting off inanother direction. I watched this forabout 15 to 20 m inutes.".Then the light appeared to movecloser to the silo. "I started gettingspooked," Brown w rote. "so I reachedout the window of the truck and startedbanging on the camper shell to wake[my partner1 up."He finally came around the front,asking me what was wrong. I pointedto the lightand told him I'd been watch-ing it for around 20 minutes and I didn'tknow what it was. He got into the pas-senger side of the truck and we keptwatching this thing do ing its acrobat-ics."Brown dec ided to radio another se-curity team posted at Alpha F light siloA-10, located some 10 miles away."They responded hesitantly that theywere watch ing this light," he wrote.

TheFlight Security Controller (FSC )at the Alpha Flight Launch ControlFacility apparently overheard this ex-change, because he suddenly broke intothe conversation to inquire about theanxious radio chatter between the twosecurity teams. Each confirmed that

they w ere observing the strange lightas it raced wildly around the sky.Brown wrote that the team contin-ued to watch the UFO until around 6:30to 7:00 AM, when it suddenly appearedto go straight up and ho ver. "We couldstill see the light, but by now it wasstarting to get daylight."As it got brighter, we could sort ofmake out a black shape around wherethe light was. We had binoculars, buteven with them, all you could see wasa fuzzy outline of sort of a triangle. Ican't estimate the height of the object."Upon returning to Malmstrom,Brown and his partner privately con-ferred with the security team posted atAlpha F light silo A- 10. The four guardsagreed that they would not mention thesighting, and all expressed concernabout possible repercussions resultingfrom their report to the Flight SecurityController.As the security guards returned theirweapons to the arm ory, they were sud-denly orde red to report to a captain as-signed to their squadron. Brown can-not recall the officer's name, but re-memb ers being very concerned by thisunexpected development.The captain asked the men to de-scribe what they had seen. He listenedcarefully and then pointedly suggestedthat they not discu ss the sighting.

Brown told me, "At this point, thecaptain says, well I don't thinkyou sawa n y h n g an d I wouldn't go around talk-ing abou t it. You guys are under PRP,remem ber that!"Comment: Here is an apparent in-stance in which the mere mention ofthe PRP-Personnel Reliability Pro-gram-effec tively intimidated militaryUFO witnesses into silence.This Department of Defense direc-tive pertains to those who wo rk with oraround nuclear weapons, and dictatestheir conduct both o n and off the job.If an individual's commanding of-ficer judges his or her behavior to beunreliable, and a potential threat to thesecurity of the weapons, a psychologi-cal examination of that person is usu-ally ordered. Depending on itsoutcome,the individual under scrutiny risks be-ing relieved of duty.Brown stated that a couple of daysafter his experience at Alpha Flight, he

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heard that there had been som e unusualactivity at Malmstrom that same night.Referring to these rumored develop-men ts, he told me. "[A friend of mine]was a tech sergeant in the [missile]maintenance squadron. and it was a bitunusual for him to actually go out inthe field. He normally trouble-shot stuffon-base."He and I never got to really discu sswhat had happened ...[but] he did tellme that a lot of maintenance fo k s weresent out that nigh t. Quite honestly, a lotof us w ere afraid to talk about it openly,especially after being told by our cap-tain that we should not talk about any-thing."Malmstrom AFB, Montana(1995):UF O sighting by a M inuteman mis-sile maintenance technician, w ho re-quests anonymity, as reported to TSgt.Jeff Goodrich (USAF Ret.)-FormerTeam Chief of Missile Handling, 34 lS tMaintenance Squadron, MalmstromAFB:In the early hours of Jan. 20, 1995,an Alert Response Team composed oftwo s ecurity police had been driving tothe India Flight Launch Control Facil-ity when they no ticed a strange light inthe southern sky.As they passed by M inuteman silo1-4, one of the men radioed a missilemaintenance team working there, andasked its leader whether he could seethe light too. The response w as aftir-mative.The missile maintenance technicianwho later reported the sighting toGoodrich said that the light was "large,"and displayed num erous smaller lights-red, orange, yellow, green, and blue-across its surface. The UFO had beenmoving very slowly across the missilefield, at low altitude.The technician insisted that the ob-ject was not an airplane or helicopter.Becau se he was a member of the mis-sile maintenance team, and not a secu-r i ty pol iceman, he d id not knowwhether the Alert Response Team hadsubsequently reported the UF O to theFlight Security Controller at the IndiaFlight Launch Control Facility.Comment: This UFO was not thefirst to be reported in Montana d uringJanuary, 1995. A brief entry in the sight-

sons located be-tween Fa i r f i e ldand Deer Lodge.Perhaps siW-cantly, Fairfieldlies near the geo-graphic center ofthe Hotel FlightMinuteman mis-sile field, with siloH-9 situa ted at thewestern edge oftown , iust north of

ing database published by the NationalUFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)indicates that on the even ing of Jan. 5an unnamed Ai r Force of f i cer a tMalmstrom AFB ad called NUFOR Cto relay a sighting report which he hadjust received from som eone in the townof Shelby.At about 9 PM the unidentified per-son had observed two objects movingsilently through the sky for about twominutes.Although their shape could not bedetermined, the absence of any soundhad apparently struck the sighting wit-ness as unusual, and so a call was m adeto Malmstrom.Shelby is located almost exactly onthe northern boundary of the QuebecFlight Minuteman missile field-withsilo Q-18 situated less than two mileseast of town, just north of Rou te 2.Another entry in the NUFO RC da-tabase indicates that two d ays later, onJan. 7, at about 3 PM , an unidentifiedwoman had called Malmstrom AFBregarding a UFO sighting. Unfortu-nately, the location of the s ighting is notspecified in the entry. -A third call to NUFORC occurredon Jan. 18-just two days prior to theincident at India Flight reported to TSgt.Jeff Goodrich.The reporting center's log states,"Ananonymous caller reports m ultipleUFO s ight ings repor ted be tweenFairfield and Deer Lodge, Montana.Background noise during call soundslike communications noise from som ekind of ope rations center."The caller told NUFO RC that he hadreceived multiple UFO sighting reportsover the period of an hour from per-

ICBM underground complex. ~ o u t e 4 0 8 .Furtherm ore, ifone leaves Fairfield and travels south-west-in a straight line toward DeerLodge-one will even tually exit theHotel field and cro ss directly into theGolf Flight m issile field.In short, nearly half of the country-side between Fairfield and D eer Lodgel i e s wi t h i n t he bounda r i e s o fMalmst rom's Minuteman miss i l efields.Although no evidence has yet sur-faced wh ich would place the reportedUFOs in close proximity to specific si-los within either Hotel or G olf Flight,the caller from Deer Lodge w as never-theless relaying sighting reports m adeby persons calling from the heart of"Rocket Ranch" country.The three sighting reports publishedby NUFORC may be found at http://w w w . n u f o r c . o r ~ / w e b r e p o r t s /

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An update on the 1976Iranian jet chase

By Bruce MaccabeeA rude awakeningWhen I talked to Henry, an employeeof the Westinghouse Corporation, inlate 1 982 he still remembered the night,six years before, when he was rudelyawakened by th e loud roar of jets tak-ing off at full speed.At that time he lived close to theShahroki Air Field in Hamadan, Iran.Jets taking off at full speed at night and"with afterburner" were a rarity, hesaid.Henry w as in Iran to help maintainthe avionics, including radar, in the F-4 Phanto m jets that the Lranians hadbought several years earlier.Although he did not know the rea-son for the high speed takeoffs at thetime they occurred, he found out thenext day: the jets had chased a UFO.Several days after that, he and co-workers were allowed to examin e theplanes. They found that all the elec-

tronics were operating normally. Thiswas surprising, considering what thepilots reported had happened during thechase!Mehrebad Airport in Tehran was abusy airport, handling many hundredsof takeoffs and landings, civilian andmilitary, every day.Houssain Pirouzi was the night su-pervisor in charge of the air traffic con-trol tower at the airport. At age 3 5 healready had 1 3years experien ce in traf-fic control.When he arrived at work about 10PM the evening of Sept. 18 ,1976, therewas nothing to suggest that this warmevening would be unlike any other hehad ever experienced.The first hint of som ething differentcame at about 1 0:30 PM w hen the air-port received a phone call from a civil-ian in the Shemiran area, about 10 milesnorthea st of the airport.May 2006

BackgroundWhat f ollows is my reconstructionof the sighting history. This is based.in part. on two interviews of HossainPirouzi, done three and four months af-ter the events. They were provided tome by reporter Bo b Pratt. who was. atthe time, a full time UFO investigatoremployed by the National Enquirer.Thi s history is also based on news-paper acco unts and on the initially clas-sified (Confidential) U. S. Air Force(USAF) teletype message by Lt. Col.Olin M ooy that prim arily describes theevents as recounted durin g an interviewof the pilot of th e second jet.Col. Mooy was a member of theMilitary Assis tance and AdvisoryGroup (MAAG) which consisted ofUSA F officers who provided assistanceand advice to the Imperial Iranian AirForce (IIAF)A strange objectHossain Pirouzi listened as a lady de-scribed seeing "a stran ge object like asun in the sky about 1,000 meters(about 3,000 ft) above me. The colorschange through orange, red and yel-low."She said the closest thing she couldcom pare -it with was a fan with fourblades. Furthermore, she thought theremight be two objects, because some-times it seemed to separate into twoparts. Pirouzi told her she shouldn'tworry. He would check it out.Pirouzi didn't bother to check up onit. His radar was being repaired, sothere was nothing on the radar screen.He went about his normal business tak-ing care of oth er aircraft that were pass-ing through his control area.Then at about 10:45 he got anothercall. Th is caller was another lady inthe sam e area of the city as the first lady.She said she had been on the roof ofher house and suddenly saw a strangeobject lighting up and changing direc-

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About the authorDr. ~ a c c a b e eolds the M.S. and'h. D. in physics from The Amer i-:an U niversity, Washington, DC . In1972 he comm enced his long ca--eer at the Naval Surface W arfare

Center . Dres-ently head-quartered atD a h l g r e n ,VA.~e hasw o r k e d o n' P optical datageneration ofMaccabee u n d e rwa te rsound with lasers, and various as-

pects of the Strateg ic Defense Ini-tiative (SDI) and Ballistic MissileDefense (BM D) using high powerlasers.He has been a ctive in UFO re-search since the late 1960s when hejoined the National InvestigationsCommittee on Aerial Phenomena(NICAP), and was active in re-search-and investigation for NICA Puntil its demise in 1980.H e b e c a m e a m e m b e r o fM U F O N i n 1 9 7 5 , a n d w a ssubequently appointed to the posi-tion of state Director for Maryland,a position he still holds.In 1979 he was instrumental inestablishing the Fund for UFO R e-search, and was the chairman forabout 13 years. He presently serveson the National Board of the Fund.His UFO research and investi-gations have covered many notablecases and historical research.Dr. Maccabee is the author orco-author of about three dozentechnical articles and more than ahundred UFO articles over the past25 years, and has written all or partof four non-fiction UFO books andone U FO-related novel.He is an accomplished pianistwho performed at the 1997 and1 9 9 9 MUFON s y mp o s ia . H i swebsite is www.b~mac.8k.com.


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- .. ' \. . me .. .It has just passed me by..missing&$G . . , .. . me narrowly.."According to the newspaper report,~ * y . ! & y ,+f.af6 cpLrr3-fN "The disturbed voice of the pilot wasC;AL;& CRKH , 7vw-J nfc- clear on the tape. He then asked to be,/ + ,, aElr.6 "&=- ( I ~ ~ ~ ~ ~uided back to base."=*r' Q$5firrGGe t According to Pirouzi, while the jetp,@,,., 1' CarrrnlN "*',,, ,, m;ufi.J was about 150 miles from Tehran, the

v.4 s - 4 9C,,,cC y=p7 ~ CW L V J M " object appeared over the city again,I L . L M S ~ * J having beaten the jet back to the city.- 3 ' ~ " Y ? ( - A / ~ / ~ '4 @O , A ~ + ~ A ~ ~Jafari, now flying westward, again ap-proached the object.6 i+%3m3rdsA ( M oH~&'ftfli m C He reported to Pirouzi that every9 ,,,mar c ~ G - __swr ,wr I I ~ O U ~ Dn c-@I- n,,+,, m f ~ m*#.) time he closed on the object it affectedhis radio and all his instruments. Ac-cording to Pirouzi, Jafari's engines

at Babolsar and Shaharoki. Babolsaris about 100 (statute) miles northeastof Tehran, on the north side of theElburz Mountains, which rise to over18,000 ftTehran is at about 4,000 ft above sealevel. ShaharokiAirBase is about 15 0(statute) miles west-southwest ofTehran . Neither of these radar instal-lations had a radar target in the loca-tion of the object.[Conjecture: perhaps the high moun-tains-blocke d the Babolsar radar, andperhaps the object-was not apparent tothe Shahariki radar because it wouldhave been silhouetted against "groundclutter" caused by the high mountainsaround northern and eastern Tehran.]Youssefi then called Pirouzi, andPerouzi told the general wh ere to lookfor the object. Youssefi went onto theroof of his northern Tehran house. Hereported to Pirouzi that he saw the sam eobject and "it isn't a star." He decidedto appeal to "air powers."Gen. Yo ussefi called Sha hroki AirBase and ordered an imm ediate launchof a P hantom jet.

According to Janes' All the World'sAircrafi,n the late 60's an d early 70'sIran purchased 32 F-4D Phantom jetsand also some-number not given-F-4Ejets. The se are capable of speeds up toMach 2.2.Twenty-three-year-old Lt. Jafari re-sponded to the scramble order. He tookoff at 1:30 AM at his fastest takeoffspeed (and woke up Henry!). He soonspotted the UFObecause it was bright

enough to be seen from 7 0 miles away..He proceeded to a point about 40miles north of Tehran. Pirouzi actedas an intermediary, relaying Youssefi'sorders to the pilot.Th e general ordered the pilot to getas close as possible to determine theshape of the object, but to do nothingelse (no order to attack). It appearedto now be as high as 12,000 ft.A ccord i ng t o J a f a r i , a s he ap -proached at more than the speed ofsound the object sped up to stay ahead.He described it as "half the size of themoon as seen from earth," and "it wasradiating violet, orange, and white lightabout three times as strong as moon-light." Mach 2 is not enoughJafari put the "pedal to the metal"and reached a speed of about Mach 2(1,500 mph or 25 miles per minute),and still couldn 't catch it. He was fly-ing toward Afghanistan, about 500miles east of Tehran.Youssefi ordered him to return toTehran if he cou ldn't catch it, so Jafariturned and headed back. Th e objectalso reversed direction and began tochase the plane.In a short section of an audio taperecording (I presume made at the AirTraffic Control Center at Mehrabad)that was published in a local newspa-per (see below), Jafari reported:"Something is coming at me frombehind. It is 15 miles aw ay.. .now tenmiles.. .now five miles.. .It is levelnow.. .I think it is going to crash in to

were w orking normally, and the fightson the instrument panel were working,but all his navigation aids were out.Youssefi ordered him to close againto get a better view. This time, accord -ing to the Air Force teletype message(see below) of Lt. Col. Mooy, whenJafari got to a range of about 25 nauti-cal miles (about 29 statute miles), he"lost all instrumentation and com mu -nications (UHFradio and intercom)."[Note: the intercom allows comm u-nication between the pilot in the frontseata nd the radar operator in the backseat of the aircraft.]Pirouzi reported that " . at onepoint as he w as talking to me, his radiowent dead completely as he got closeto the object."By this time he was running low onfuel, so he broke off the chase andheaded back toward Shaharoki. Ac-cording to the Air Force teletype m es-sage, "When the F-4 turned away fromthe object and apparently was no longera threat to it the aircraft regained a ll in-strumentation and comm unications."Before he left the area, Jafari re-ported receiving an emergency beaconsignal, as had the earlier civilian aircraft.(Wh ether or not this was related tothe presence of the UFO is not known.It may be that an emergency beaconsomehow fell out of an aircraft that hadpassed over earlier and had landed onthe ground and started transmitting asif a crash had occurred.)Continued next issue: "The sec-ond jet chase."

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and anti-secrecy, and pushed fo r Con-Is thegovernment watching? gressional hearings to expose this. On AWakening-How ET Contact CanO n lhe the Saucer 'pies- the other ha nd.. .they were also Coop- Transform Your Life by MaryRodwell,and Government erating with the C w nd theAir Force. ~~~~d by Dr. Roger hir , 002-2005,by Nick Redfern, 20069 AnOmalist Unknown to US , the f0ITns that Were Av at~Pu blicatio ns, ww.avafarpubli-150 Broadway #Io8, Sari given us to use in ou r investigations had cations.com, 6x9, soft cover, 242TX 78209, 5x 9 cover, been supplied by theAir Force.. ..I lean pages, $16.99.298 pages, $15.95. toward the idea that there was coop- ~ ~ v i ~ ~ ~ dy ~ w i ~ h ~onnellyReviewed by Dwight C on n el l~ eration between the government andNICAP." Journal editorJournal editorThe basic thesis of this book is that Redfern points out that much of the The author, from Australia, is aounselor, mother ofthose of us involved with UFOs are governmen t interest and activity is natu- three, hypnothera-being spied on by ral, especially w hen secret information

is being leaked to the public.pist, metaphysical

government agen- teacher, intuitiv ecies, particu larly in He points to the successful attack healer, researcher,the U.S., but also that drove Paul Bennew itz to nervousin the UK. collapse as "understandable" from the writer, and foun dergovernment viewp oint, as it "was just of the AustralianRedfem, whose protecting its military secrets from a Close Encounterrecent book Body man who had not only wrongly per- Resource NetworkSnatchers in theDesert has raised ceived those secrets to have extrater- (ACERN).She has report-considerable con- restrial origins, but who was intent on ed ly worked wi th more than 900troversy, is a vet- telling the whole world what he had experiencers.era n rese arc he r uncovered." Like many in ufology, Rodwell camewho is also the author of A Covert But he add s, "Perhaps aliens really into the field slowly and un aware, leam-Agenda; The FB I F i l e s ; C o s m i c d id mak e co n tac t w i th Geo rg e ing and ev olving a s her clients relatedCrash es; Strange Secrets (with Andy Adarnski. perhap s a flying saucer did stories that indicated they had experi-Roberts); and Three Men Seeking Mon- crash on the Berwyn Moun tains. Per- enced something unusual.sters. haps there really are alien bodies bur- 661n itially,whe says, only focusedThrou gh declassified gove rnme nt ied deep below Wright-Patterson Air onindividualswith contact ex -files and personal interviews, the au- Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. And per- periences. But as I researched, I foundthor presents extensive evidence that haps this is the real reason for the offi- several individuals to have some, bu tboth little-known and w ell-known re- cia1 surveillance of the UFO Cornrnu- not all, of the aspects of the classicsearchers, witnesses, and authors have nity." form, and then others who had manybeen the subject of government inter- He also suggests there may be an- more subtle indicators.,,est. other reason for government interest in Rodwell believes that many indi-In addition to individuals,UFO or- UFO researchers: perhaps the govern- vidualswith abductiodcontact experi-ganizations, such as the National Inves- ment and aliens are working together, ences have been misdiagnosed bytigations Committee on Aerial Phenom- but are afraid to make this cooperation medical professionals, resulting in falseen a (NICAP) have also been studied public. labeling of mental disorders, as well asand, perhaps, influenced by the go vern- In reading this book I feel a little left the prescribing of bgs and therapiesment.. out. Desp ite nearly four decades, off that not only do not work, but harm theIt has been widely reported that an d on , ed itin g Skylook an d the patienu.NICAP was infiltrated by the CIA, and MUFON UFO Journal, I have never, This book is primarily an attempt tothat this partly led to its demise. so far as I know, had my p hone tapped provide the reader with an extensiveNICAPresearcher and author Ray or my mail checked. checklist to determine if abductiodcon-Fowler is quoted by Redfern as say- It seems I am much more likely to tact has occurred. If this is determineding, "NICAP seemed to tell its mem- be visited by Mo rmon missionaries than and accepted, then the individual canbers that [NICA P was] anti-Air Force by Men in Black.12 MUFON UFO Journal May 2006


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"awaken" and go on with a more nor-mal life. One of the ea rly chapters, forexample, is entitled, "Now I Know IAm No t Crazy."One of the key items discussed byRodwell involves dealing with childrenwho experience contact. This materialcan be a va luable guide for parents.In addition to "normal" children,Rod well also discusses "star ch ildren,"defined as children with unusual knowl-edge who may be the product of hu-man an d alien interaction.Also covered is the missing preg-nancy syndrome, as well as implantsand support groups.Although the author deals with sometopics beyond her expertise-and citessources that not everyone would ac-cept-the basic premise of the book

seems to be both valid and ho peful: al-though people who have experiencedalien contac t are often misdiagnosed bycareg ivers, they can still "awaken" andlive more positive lives.Saturn moon shootsgeysers of water

Scientists have found evidence thatcold, Ye llowstone-like geysers of wa-ter are issuing from a moon of Saturncalled Enceladus, app arently fueled byliquid reservoirs that may lie just tensof yards beneath the moon's icy sur-face.The surprising discovery, detailed ina recent issue of the journal Science,could shoo t Enceladus to the top of thelist in the search fo r life elsewhere inour solar system . Scientists describedit as the most important discovery inplanetary science in a quarter-century."I think this is important enough thatwe will see a redirection in the plan-etary exploration program," CarolynPorco, head of the imag ing team for theCass in i mi s s ion t o S a tu rn , t o ldMSNBC.com. "We've just broughtEnceladus up to the forefront as a ma-jor target of astrob iologica l interest."Th e readings from Enceladus' gey-ser plumes indicate that all the prereq-uisites for life as we know it could ex-ist beneath Enceladus' surface, Porcosaid.May 2006

MUFON ForumStrieber claims imaginary?I appreciated the article by Budd

Hopkins about the cover of Commun-ion in the latest wa rc h ]MUFON Jour-nal. How ever I feel compelled to makea comment about Whitley Strieber'sclaims.There are many of us in the UFOcommunity who have long known thathis experiences are totally imaginary,and this article inadvertently confirmsthat fact.Any thinking person has to ask howon earth he wen t through all of the ex-periences he claims he had (includinga Gray someh ow living in his house...)and got the shape of the alien's head s ocompletely wrong.Th e article mentions his "intense ex-citement" at the completion of the paint-ing because "it was exactly like thefaces he'd seen" and that it was the"same face."Then i t describes how Whit ley"could not stop talking about the waythe artist had accurately caught the sil-houette of the alien's face."No w onder Strieber is said to havelooked "no np lusse d when confrontedwith the fact that his accurately-por-trayed alien was so different from anyother ever reported.His sudden abou t-face and the sud-den "retrieval" of his memory is enoughto make any thinking person cringe."Now that I think abou t it" ? .... 'mon!It's obvious the guy was caug ht in a lie!Strieber is a writer of h orror and sto-ries about the weird who has found inthe UFO field not only a wealth of fas-cinating material to play with and ex-ploit, but also an abundan ce of peopleeager to have any well-known personvalidate the reality of the alien presence.That he is a brilliant fiction writerthere is no doubt, but he has a ttemptedto use almost every facet of ufology(Roswell, abductions, coverups, hiddenmem ories, missing time, implants etc)to sell books.

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Have w e forgotten his support of thealien craft accompanying Hale-Bo pp?But don't take it from me. The on eperson on earth who is presumablycloser to Whitley Strieber than anyother-his wife-has a f f i e d o multiplepeople that everything he has eve r writ-ten is fiction.In the presence of Gle m ys Mackay,MUFON's coordinator in Australia,and several others, she volunteered thatinformation when we brought theStriebers to Brisbane for an Interna-tional Conference in 1999.As I have followed his writing andpronounce ments since then, it is obvi-ous that anyone who quotes him or ref-erences him will one day have egg ontheir face.Hopkins' account of his Comm un-ion cover makes a valid point aboutthose who have had authentic alienencounters, but it also reveals the factthat Whitley Strieber's own en countershave no basis outside his own, very fer-tile, imag ination.-Warren AstonBourdais answers RedfernIn the March issue of the MUFONUFOJou rna l, Nick Redfern has madea detailed critique of my article regard-ing his book Body Snatchers in theDesert" (published in the Novemberissue), citing a "number of hugely c riti-cal errors." I w ould like to reply to atleast some of them.Redfern first says that I qu estionedthe scenario of a massive amount ofdocumentat ion on Unit 73 1 beingbrought to the United States after theWWTI. I did not.I mentioned that it had been ob-tained, after two years of n egotiationwith the Japanese, in exchange for im-munity granted to the doctors who hadmade ho mb le biowarfare experimentsat Unit 731 in Manchuria.On the other hand, I did write that itwould have been impossible for theAm erican military to seize any of the


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remaining prisoners, since they had allbeen killed just before the a niva l of theRussians in Manchuria.Now, Redfern sa ys that "certain Unit731 activities were undertaken in theclosing states of the War on severalPacific islands." I suppose we are tounderstand that it was possible, then,to seize prisoners a nd send them to theUnited S tates. very secretly, for furtherexperiments.In his book, Redfern does mention,at the beginning (page 5) , experimentsmade on a sm all island in the Pacific,revealed to him by the "Black Widow,"but that track is forgotten in the rest ofthe book.Instead, the activities of U nit 73 1 inManchuria are detailed in chapter 5"Medical Madne ss," with no mentionat all of Pacific islands. Only mentionedthere are Unit 100 and Unit 731, lo-cated near the city of H arbin, and laterat Pingfan. in Manchuria. in accordancewith historical sources.SO ,when his source "Levine" states(page 85) that "a quantity of still-liv ingpeople were found in the remains ofUnit 7 3 1 facilities," w e understand thathe refers to the facilities in Manchuria,and that, therefore, the story is bogus.Now, if this happened, not in Man-churia, but on Pacific islands, Redfernstill has, again, to give serious docu-mentation to prove that! Redfern alsoannounces "new CIA documentationdue to surface in 2006."Well, if it confirms the Redfern sce-nario of handicapped C hinese prison-. ers being sent to the Unites States tocarry on w ith horrible experiments, itwill be big news-and a big scanda l too.We will see. In the meantime, I remain,for my part, very skeptical about sucha dubious scenario.Redfern accuses m e of having mis-understood the question of the atomicpowered aircraft, by saying that his in-formers had mentioned tests of such aplane, which did not exist in 1947. Idid not say that a t all.

I questioned, following Stan Fried-man and others, the mere possibility ofloading an atomic pile, or any similardevice, on a little "Horten like" flyingwing such as described by Redfern.14

Besides, it would have been extremelydangerous for the technicians who weresupposed to do it.Redfern insists that "Progeria suffer-ers," found in the alleged crash nearWhite Sands, could have been at theorigin of the rumors of aliens found nearRoswell. But the main witnesses re-ferred to a crash near Roswell, not nearWhite Sands. with the exception of thedubious cameraman's tale.Secondly, even if we adm it that somelittle-informed people, having a glim pseat such alleged victims, might havemade such a confusion, this could notbe the c ase of military personnel, in-cluding doctors, having to rescue them.I don't see at all how the rescue ofsuch bodies near White Sands couldhave created the "le ge nd of an Aliencrash near Rosw ell. It's just nonsenseto me.Regarding the other alleged crash, ofa weird little plane (a "lifting body"!)near Roswell, piloted this time by acrew of norm al Japanese, it's even m oreimpossible: if this w ere what the mili-tary of Roswel l had found nearRo sw ell ~o rp se s f normal Japanesepilots among debris of balloon and air-plane-they would have been easilyidentified.

Consequently, there would havebeen no press release, and no Roswellcase to talk about. Redfern finds "highlysignificant" the testimony of Sgt.Melvin Brown, as reported by hisdaughter Beverly Bean, who had a briefglimpse at corpse s under a tarp, in thedarkness of a truck a fter dusk, and re-called that they "looked Asian."Actua lly, he also sa id that they hadlarge heads and no hair, that their skinlooked yellowish-orange (rather than"yellowy"), and was similar to that ofa lizard. Peculiar Japan ese pilots!As for the "Alien Autopsy film,"Redfern explains that the strange be-ing was not a victim from the WhiteSands crash, but probably of ''atomicflash blindness experiments undertakenat Randolph Air Force base, TX."He says that the first idea is "non-sense." I agree , but let me add that hissecond idea is nonsense as well. I don'tknow what that film show ed, but it was

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certainly not a human body.Finally, Redfern doubts that the sce-nario revealed by his informers c ouldbe a debunking operation, because thegovernm ent "had laid the matter to rest"with the Mogul story and the crash-test-dummies.Not really. First, nobody took thedummies seriously. Secondly, the M o-gul balloon train (Mogul 4. w ith radartargets, which was never launched!)looks more and more like a phantomballoon, fading aw ay like the legend-ary ship.To test it, just buy a balsa wood stickand break it in your hands. It's quiteconceiva ble that an attempt is nowmade to replace it.-Gildas Bourdais

Arnold's daughter soughtDear colleagues,I wonder if you could help me,please. I am trying to trace the daugh-ter of the late Kenne th Arnold.It is my hope and intention to try andmake the definitive docum entuy on thela te Kenneth Arnold and f d y ementhis rightful place in u fological history.His daughter is Kim Purvis, or KimArnold Purvis.If you know where I can contact KimPurvis, or know of anyon e that mightbe able to help me locate her, then Iwould be extremely grateful if youcould contact me at the following:Philip Mantle,49 East Leigh Drive,Tingley,Near Wakefield,West Yorkshire,England,WF 3 1PF.E-mail:

James Bond Johnson diesJames Bond Johnson died March 25of cancer . He i s bes t known byufologists for his photograph of Gen.Roger Rarney with the alleged Roswelldebris. A paper in the general's handwas later enlarged and analyzed by vari-ous individuals, yielding intriguing ref-erences to the R oswell incident..May 2006


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Note: These reports are presented in or-der to keep readers informed of some of thevast number of sightings being reported.However, these cases have not been officiallyinvestigated, unless noted.Light stops car in IndianaKosicosco County - he witnessreports, "I was driving west on County~ o a d00 at 9: 10PM on March 23,2006, talking onthe phone to myuncle, when I no-t iced a strangeblue light to theeast.I began to no-t i ce the l i gh tseem ed to -be George Filerstaying with melike the Moon in the night sky. I beganto get this strange feeling after watch-ing the light for about eight m inutes."As I entered Marshal County myphone suddenly went dead and my carstereo went on full volume, then tonothing but static. All the gauges werebouncing back and fourth erratically,and my c ar totally shut down."I hit the brakes to stop the car, andjumped out of my car to look for thelight, but there was nothing in the sky.My car at this point came back on a s ifnothing had ever happened.

"Allthe lights and gauges were func-tioning normally, and the radio wasback on the station at normal volume.My cell phone was now back on, so Iimmediately called my uncle back andtold him what had happened."My whole body was shalung, as hestated that there was a very loud puls-ing sound right before the phone cut toa busy signal. I was really freaked out.Later I called the Bremen Police andthe Indiana State Police, but they told

me that no one had called them."Thanks toMUFONCase ManagementSystem (CM S)Illinois silver and orange UFOsYorkville- he witness reports,"My brother and I were on our wayhome from track practice when we sawmany fire orange-colored UFOs onFeb. 13,20 06. at 5:40 PM.

"We turned towards the craft and fol-lowed them until they disappeared be-cause they were drifting away too fastover the horizon. We could se e at leastten ships as we followed them."One flew straight over our truck.When it w as straight above us, it wasabout the same size as a full M oon, andlooked like it was still high in altitude."We then watched the UFOs flyaway over the horizon, rising slowlyuntil the ships , one by one , were ou t ofsight. The s hips looked like they wereabout a m ile apart in the sky, but theystill looked close enough to be together."They flew in a line with a small headat the end of the direction it was going,and the craft were surrounded by fire."Thanks to Peter DavenportIllinois object alerts dogDes Plaines- My dog ran to theback door barking like crazy at 1 PM,"says the witness, "so I let him out andhe ran to the back fenc e, looking up andbarking at a dark object about 40 feetaway, 20 feet off the ground."It m ade no sound, and daylight didnot reflect off it. It was round, four feethigh at the top, and three feet square atthe bottom."It was just sitting in the air, sort oftwisting slowly, and started to ascendup, slow at first, then quickly, till it en-tered a cloud ba nk. I could see it as asmall black dot.

"It just sat there for awhile, then wasgone. It seemed to be examining thelarge petroleum tanks for the airportfuel cache." Thanks to Peter Davenport,Director, www .ufocenter.comHuge light in ArgentinaCIUFOS-La Pampa reports that onMarch 18, 2006, six witnesses saw alarge light for several minutes at A dolfoZiegen fhu's property located in PareraProvince.Ruben Ariel Lara , 37 ; Rober toFernandez, 53; and four minors wit-nessed a light "three to four times thesize of the full moon."They were trapping armadillos at22:30 hours when a light appeared overthe field, ascending to a considerableheight before descending, and engag-ing in maneuvers.Fernandez reports, "It was round,and spun on its vertical axis while emit-ting some very distinctive red, green,blue, orange , yellow, and silver lights."The witnesses were frightened by thesighting and left the area.Mutilated anim als were found at thislocation in July, 2005, and a huge "Aus-tralian-type" water tank containing70,000 liters of water was found com -pletely drained during the eveningThanks to S. Corrales, MU. Transla-tion (c) 2006.Tennessee triangle & helicoptersQuebeck- On March 11,2006,"says the witness, "my nephew, a friend,and I heard the sound of approachinghelicopters and could see their naviga-tion lights approachmg."Three helicopters in a triangle for-mation passed overhead on a south-westerly heading. As they began to passover, I noticed that the trailmg helicop-ter was quite some distance behind the

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front two. Then, as they passed over-- head, I could see that the void betweenthe helicopters was not empty at all.There w as a black triangle-shaped craftwithout any lights flying between theleading and trailing helicopters."We were only able to se e the craftbecause it was darker than the slightovercas t we had that night. I am abso-lutely convinced that the helicopterswere"escorting' this craft for some un-known reason." Thank s to Peter Dav-enport.Argentina policeman abducted?Dorila- ergio Pucheta, a provin-cial police corporal, says he was in-volved in an abduction on M arch 2 and3,2 00 6. The officer is currently underpsychiatric care.

He told a Barcelona, Spain, radiostation that he feels "somewhat ner-vous; my head aches, and my handsitch." Pucheta showed a video of around light made during February closeto where he was abducted.He reports, "I was driving a Hondamotorcycle belonging to the Cattle Rus-tling Division when I reached the w il-derness area. I saw a red light, and Idrove towards it, and it vanished."I stopped to hear any noise, and thered light appeared in front of me,against my face and hypnotized m e. Icould only move my hands, nothingelse."Later, the light rose into the air, andI tried to escape, running aw ay on footinto the fields with two pursuing enti-ties behind me that levitated. They weresmaller than me, somewhat transpar-ent, with a large head and clear, veryred eyes."They performed life tests when Ireached a cornfield, at some 10 metersaway. I saw a large figure that appearedto be chewing the corn cobs and wasbreakmg something.

"1 felt very scared, and stood therestaring at it. It was getting clo ser andcloser, and that's when I felt them tellme, either you go forward or backward.Then, I stood thinking and w ak ed rightpast the figure, and the fear so rt of leftme at that moment."I feel very afraid abou t going out at

night, and the entities told me telepathi-cally they were going to seize anotherfellow officer who also travels alone."Pucheta's service pistol and policewalkie-talkie were found at the site,together with other belongings. His cellphone lost all of its stored phone num-bers, except for the last call Puchetamade calling for backup.Pucheta also m ade it clear that hisexperience is just one of "many cases"recorded in the rural area. (Translation(c) 2006, Scott Corrales, Institute ofHispanic Ufology ( IHU). Specialthanks to Christian Q uintero, PlanetaUFO)California flying diamondOntario- At 7 PM on March 1,2006," says the witness, "I saw a singleobject that wa s shaped like a football,kind of squished down a little to beabout 213 the diameter of a football,elliptical in shape."It was just hovering above a moun-tain ridge in a ho rizontal position. Thisobject was the length of a 747 airlineror larger. It had interm ittent-flashing ol-ored lights coming from every anglethat looked like colored lights reflect-ing off a high quality diamond."I work in the engineering field inaerospace and avionics, and I havenever before seen anythmg like this. Myneighbor saw pretty much what I sawthrough the binoculars."She described it as a translucentoval object, extremely large, which ap-peared to have what looked similar toan immense amount of flashing dia-monds."It reminded us of the movie 'CloseEncounters of the Third Kind' in whichthe ship had these different coloredlights flashing." Thanks to Peter Da v-enport, Director, www.ufocenter.com.

Massachusetts blurry discDennis - On M arch 20,200 6, at7:25 PM," says the witness, "on myfront steps facing Cape Cod Bay, Ilooked up and saw an extremely brightlight in the sky, just above the line ofthe trees, in the shape of a blurry disc."It was quite large , and had only ap-peared for a second, and was m oving

so fast that I blinked and it w as gone. Iwould never have thought twice aboutit, but my eye sstill hurt from the bright-ness."The size of the object would beabout that of a quarter at arm's length.It was bright yellowish-white in theshape of a disc, almost oblong, but itwas blurry. It was the height of a lowflying aircraft. It was in the path of theplane route moving extremely fast."Thanks to UFOINFO.Argentina cell phone ph otosAtuel River- businessman fish-ing along the banks of the Atuel Rivermanaged to photograph a UFO that wassuspended in the air for some 30 sec-onds before it took off.The image shows a UFO immersedin a fireball. This curious event tookplace on March 6,2006, when Ramon,32, a renowned businessman fromAlvear, was fishing in an area knownas Paso del Loro.He said, "We were fishing around10 PM, and I looked up and saw anobject like a fireball 30 meters highsuspended in the air 40 to 50 metersaway from us."The object must have been sus-pended in the air some 30 seconds,since it gave me time to take tw o pho-tos with my cell phone, and a third onethat didn't com e out very well."The object was on the far side ofthe river, over some hills in the area.Then it ascended toward the cordillera,but it wasn't abrupt. It had reddishtones on the one side and bluish oneson the other." (Translation (c) 2006. S.Corrales,IHU.Special thanks to MarioLuis Bracamonte, S.I.O. - Argentina)New Mexico triangleTAOS- he w itness reports, "AsI was opening my w indow on Feb. 28,2006, at 8:57 PM, a huge triangle craftwith three red lights zoomed towardsTaos Mountain at an unimaginablespeed."I immediately saw a d ark triangu-lar craft in the clouds with a red lighton each of three comers. It took mybreath away that it was so fast. There

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was no noise, and the craft was huge."Thanks to Peter Davenport.North Carolina UFO over linesGrey's Creek - I saw a UFO onHighway 87 on or about Dec. 1 2,2005,as I drove north entering CumberlandCounty," says the witness.

"I spotted a red and bluish green lighthovering 180 feet off the ground justover a power line. I drove just aboutunderneath it and then to the ne xt exitto make a U -turn."I saw it fly across the road, and Istarted driving south again. I looked tomy left, and it was hovering 80 feetabove the lines. I drove past it to m akea left turn to try to get a close r look, asI couldn't see it through the trees. I wentback to the highway and m ade a rightto see if it was still there, but it wasgone.'"It was an orb shape. The way thisthing moved across the highway froma standstill, this was no helicopter."Thank s to Peter Davenport.Ohio floating discStryker- On March 5, 2006,"says the witness, "I was driving on aclear crisp day with blue skies at 2 PMand noticed a disc -like object very highin the sky. It was two miles from me,not m oving in any particular direction,and there was a plane directly above itwith contrails.. '"T'he lower object was defin itely sil-ver in color, and just 'floating' up there.I kept a direct ey e on it, but in an in-stant it disappeared." Thank s to PeterDavenport.Oregon discs form triangleMilton Freewater- No one has toprove to me UFO's are real," says thewitness. "In June, 1974, I was enjoy-ing being outside at 10AM,watchinga construction crew building a newbridge, when suddenly these discspulled up in the sky a mile away at1,000fee t in the air."They were in a triangular formationlike the Blue Angels. with no wings. Iknow they w ere being flown by intelli-gent beings, but cannot say they wereMay 2006

ours or aliens. They stopped and stayedin one spot for about 30 to 40 secondsand w atched the bridge construction."Suddenly they flew in form ation tothe west. The disc's metal skin reflectedthe sun as airplane metal does. Therewere about 8 or 9 discs in the forma-tion. They were solid."Rhode Island chevronSouth Kingstown - he witnesssaw a huge chevron or triangular craftwith two large w hite circular lights inthe village of Perryville on .Feb. 28,2006, at 7:45 PM."The gigantic chevron was movingvery slowly east-northeast," says thewitness, "with two huge non-flashinground yellow-white lights spaced anenormous distance apart. I then noticeda black shape, and then a small flash-ing green light in the cente r of this craft.I stopped my truck and got out."The craft made no noise at all anddrifted sideways in the ENE diiectionuntil I lost it in the tree tops. I wouldsay it was no m ore than 500 feet in theair on a perfectly clear starlit night."I called the South Kingstown po-lice, asking if anyone else had reportedthe sighting, but they said 'no.' I wouldsay that the craft was as big as two747s." Thanks to Peter Davenport.New Mexico videoAlbuquerque- t 1 12 PM on Feb.24,2006, a UFO was seen from a ve-hicle traveling south on Yale Road. Thewitness reports, "The object was disc-shaped and light colored/semi-reflec-. . . . - . . .tive (wh itellight silver)."I am a pilot, so I know and recog-nize most types of aircraft. This objectwas 114 mile north of me a t 750 - 1,000

feet in elevation. It was slightly largerthan an F-15."It was possibly moving slowly andlaterally. After abou t 15 seconds, it be-gan to travel north away from us at anincredible speed. It became a distantpoint before disappearing out of sightafter about seven seconds. I was in theback of a car looking out the back win-dow w hen it caught my eye."I focused directly on it. Weather

conditions were calm and clear. No otherair traffic was in the immediate area."Thanks to MUFON.New York trianglePoughkeepsie - On March 8,2006, at 8 PM," says the witness, "Isaw a flying triangle with full lighting

flanking on each side. One side was allred, and the other side was green."It was hovering in place for mostof the time, then ab ruptly moved to an-other area in the sky for a few momentsand then d isappeared . The l igh tsblinked on and off for about fifteenminutes." Thanks to Peter Davenport.

May 13-14-CPRI Paranormal co n-ference, Richmond-Koger South ConfCTR , Richmond, VA, featuring JasonHawe s, Dr. Sally Rhine Feather, JohnZaffis, and Mark N esbitt.h t t p : / / v i r g i n i a g h o s t s . c o m /paranormal-conference-06.phpMay 19-20-McMenamins UFOFestival, McMinnville, OR, 503-223-0109, www .ufofest.com..June 16-18-SGRA conference,Howard Johnson M otel, Milford, CT,featuring Jeff Belanger, John Zaffis,Stacey Jones, Stephen Wagner, Nick~ o e s l e r , ~ i a n e a j o r i n a s , onNowinski, Todd Bates, Dr. JimmyLowerey, David Twichell, and MarkMihallco. www.sgra-media.org.July 14-16-The 37Ih An nualMUFON International UFO Sympo-sium. Marriott Denver Tech CenterHotel, Denver, CO . "UnconventionalFlying Objects: The Best Evidence."Fea tu red speaker s i nc lude Br i anBoldman, C arl Feindt, Linda M oultonHow e, David Marler, Ted Phillips, RonRegehr, Steve R eichmuth, KennethStorc h , Marsha l l Vian Summ ers ,Ruben U riarte, and Ryan Wood.Oct. 2SM ysterie s of Space& SkyIII, ear Annapolis,MD, featuring DonBer l iner , Rob/Sue Swiatek , AnnaJarnerson, Dr. Charles Ernrnons, and(conference organizer) Dr. S. PeterResta (spr100@ aol.com) 410-360-1168 X 8

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Dhvsical TracesBy Ted Phillips

Marley WoodsWhen I was contacted by one of thewitnesses of a curious event in Decem-ber, 1998, I was quite reluctant to be-com e involved as it sounded like a sin-gular event with no evidence other thanvisual ob se~ at i on .In my second conve rsation I learnedthat the witness had checked my in-vo l vemen t i nUFOs through asecurity check tobe sure I wouldnot bring in thenews media.I was becom-ing more inter-ested. in that thewitnesses weremul t i p l e and

is im po rta nt if h e s to be spent in-vestigating an y UFO related event. Inother words, why generate a lie andkeep it quiet?I was impressed with this man anddecided to at least have a look. I canonly tell you that the events I would en-counter over the next five years tookplace in a remote area in Missouri.Exac t locations will not be given inorder to'protect these people from themedia and those who might crowd thelocations to see for themselves. .Obviously I cannot use names at therequest of the many w itnesses. It wasnot, and is not, my plan to keep this tomyself for any other reason. All namesand locations are on file, and if the wit-nesses agree to release them i t will bedone imm ediately.Th e data received will be presentedin chronological order a s it occurred.

~ecember5,1998The first event took place on Dec.15, 1998, as the witness (J) and his wifewere driving their truck to their "farm,"

a family cabin located on a high hill attheir cattle ranch of several hundredacres."My wife and I were driving to ourfarm to check the cattle," reports J. "Wewere on County Road -. Right beforethe T. home I viewed a large lit sta-tionary object above a high hill behindthe - ome."I quickly alerted my wife, causingher to se e the object also. I drove ap-proximately another 100 yards. just pastthe - home, and stopped. When Istopped, the object immediately disap-peared."The best way to describe the ob-ject is that it was tank-like in form withat least three orange lights about mid-way. These lights were running hori-zontally across the side of the object.There were other smaller lights aboveand below the larger lights."The o bject produced no sound, andthen suddenly vanished. Also, no move-ment w as detected as it hovered abovethe tree s on the hill."After waiting a short time to see ifthe object would return, the two con-tinued their drive to the farm, locatedabout a quarter mile distant.When they arrived at the locked frontgate, J and his wife were getting out ofthe truck to unlock and open the gatewhen they saw w hat appeared to be theobject again. It was stationary aboveand in front of their cabin, several hun-dred feet ahead.

They opened the gate and starteddriving tow ard it, and the object againdisappeared."We then drove to my barn to getfeed," says J, "and again saw the largeobject hovering ab ove the far distantnortheast timber horizon. It appearedto be very large, tank-like in shape, andwith the same orange lights around themid-section."It also seemed to be mov ing very

slowly to the east until it suddenly van-ished.Shortly after it disappeared, twolarge orange lights came into view tothe right of where the object had been .These two lights grew larger, then dis-appeared with no sound.After seeing this, J called T and K(their son and daughter). who thencame to the farm also. Nothing wasseen for the next 45minutes.But then J was called from the cabin,and went to the car where T & K weresitting. While looking eas t, all three (J,T,& K) saw a glowing light coming upthe hill from the creek below towardthem.They equated the glow to that of ve-hicular headlights coming up from thecreek. However, neither the beam n orthe source of light was seen, only itsglow. In essence, the glow appeared asheadlights which had not topped thehill, according to the witnesses .I checked the area on my first tripand found the terrain over which theglow passed was very rough. Head-l ights would have been bouncingaround, but the glow was reported assteady.There is no thing in that direction thatcould have produced light of any kind.The farm is totally gated, and a vehiclecould not en ter the area unless it passedthe careta ker's home-and all the gateswere locked.The witnesses estimated that theglow approached to within 150feet oftheir position and went out.

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About 30 minutes later, the groupwitnessed a similar beam or glow m ov-ing east across the open field fromwhich they had originally seen the light.It appeared as a faint spotlight search-ing the field, but the light had no brightsource.The field is located several hundredfeet from the cabin, and is clearly vis-ible. There are no roads or access. Thearea is extremely quiet, and the slight-est sound could have been heard.At about 8:45, while driving home,J and his wife approached the T homeagain. Illuminated by his porch.light, Tstood in his yard w ith rifle in hand.J reports, "We stopped, and T toldus that his dogs had been barking, sohe cam e out to see what had them riledup. His goats, sheep, and large guarddogs, who usually spend the night onthe hill where we first viewed the hov-ering object, had com e off the hill andwere gathered around T's house. Ac-cording to T, the animals were very rest-less.

December 16,1998J describes the events: "At 6:45 PMI arrived at the entrance gate to my.farm.I shut off the engine, and as I be-gan to exit the truck to unlock the gateI saw a bright light appear above thenortheast horizon."As I w atched, six more.lights ap-peared in a horizontal line to make atotal of seven lights. After several sec-onds they began to squeeze out. I im-mediately called T (son)."After T and I sat for about 20 inin-Utes watching the no rtheast, we saw afaint orange light appear. The field be-neath the light seemed to have a faintspotlight.glow moving aroun d over it."About 15 seconds later, a secondorange light appeared, and as we bothwatched, a small silver object exited theorange object and began moving south-east; We both watched the silver objectas it flew out of sight. Over the next 45minutes, threeorange lights appeared."December 17,1998Eight witnesses observed a smallbright light moving from south to north-east at high speed. It suddenly made animmediate hairpin U-turn and begantraveling south. About five secondsMay 2006

later, a large orange glow appearedwhere the sm aller light was located.When the orange glow was bright-est, a very small object moved out ofthe orange glow and traveled out ofsight toward the south.During the next 30 to 40 minutes, atotal of 16 orange lights were seen. Tenlights in a continual succession wereseen lighting up in a perfect horizontalline across the northeastern sky.

These lights were followed in a fewminutes by three lights in a "spacedapart," somewhat vertical, arrange-ment.N C videotaped some of the tenlights. As he attempted to tape thesmaller object, the camera would notfunction, but it did function whenturned away from the object.Next month: tremendous forcemoves truck.

Monsignor Corrado Balducci saysMexico blessed with UFO sightings

By Paola Leopizzi Harrisw~w.~ao laharris . i tAt a conference in Rom e organized

by Starw orks Italia and Area 51maga-zine featuring special guest Mexicanjournalist Jaime Maussan, MonsignorCorrado Balducci told the aud ience thatMexico was blessed with so manysightings because of its incredible open-ness and faith.He says he wil l cont inue to bespokesman fo r the opening up of pub-lic opinion and church attention towardsthe people from the stars. "I will askthe Vatican to dedicate the religiousfeast day Christ, the King of the Uni-verse to include "all its inhabitants."B o t h Maussan and Mons i gnorBalducci were awarded the Interna-tional George Adamski Award at theevent in Rome.Maussan explained to the audiencethat he became interested in the UFOphenomeno n after viewing them whenthey appeared during the last solareclipse.over Mexico."After that," he said, "I told theMexican people to look to the skies torecord objects with their digital cam-eras. Now, I have more footag e of flo-tillas, of moving orbs, and of flying hu-manoids than any other journalist."I am now getting films of live aliensafter showing the amateur cell phon efootage taken by boys playing soccerwho encountered a tall being who triedto grab one of the boys."[See Febru-ary, 2006 Journal.]After seeing these films, MonsignorMUFON UFO Journal

Balducci said that the Vatican is veryinterested in this phenom enon, and thathe was designated spokesman .He told the audience that he hadwritten a note about the imp ortance ofhis presence at the x-conference inWashington, DC, in 2005 to the cur-rent Pope Benedict the sixteenth, andthat he also knew that the late Pope JohnPaul followed his TV appearances -speaking about UFOs.He added that, in the Bible, Jesus iscalled "King of the Universe" and thatin this phrase it is understood as the"universe and its inhabitants.""There is such a variety of animaland plant species on the planet, do wenot assume God would on ly create onetype of life?" he asks. "I always wishto be the spokesman for these starpeoples who also are part of God'sglory, and I will continue to bring it tothe a t tent ion of the Holy MotherChurch."Opinions in favor of the habitabil-ity of other worlds are held not only bysecular scientists, but also theologistsand people who died and were madesaints."I can also mention Cardinal Cusano(1401-1464)' wh o wrote, 'There is nostar from w hich we are authorized toexclude the existence of beings, whomay even b e different to us.'"The Jesuit and astronomer, FatherAngelo Secchi (18 18- 866 ), wrote,'It's absurd to consider the worlds thatsurround us as uninhabited deserts.'And I could go on and on."


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. . . PERCEPTIONSy StantonT.FriedmanZapped planesSom e people responded strongly tosome of the things in Frank Feschino'simportant book (First Edition) TheBraxton County Monster: Coverup ofthe Flatwoods Monster Revealed,which came o ut in 2004. I had writtenthe foreword and ep ilog.There were two areas of concern,one being the implication from the PRmaterial that there had been dogfightsbetween U FOs and m ilitary intercep-

tors.The other was my comment in theepilog that I had heard of six differentcases in which planes had apparentlybeen zapped by UFOs they were try-ing to attack.Frank and I, with significant helpfrom Dr. David Rudiak and BarryGreenwood, dug out substantiating in-formation that frankly surp rised us all.One was the fact that orders hadbeen issued in 1952 for military planesto shoot down UFOs if they didn't landwhen instructed to do so.Flatwoods took place on Sept. 12,1952, on which date there were a hostof UFO sightings and close encounters,apparently especially w ith the F-94Cfighters which were newly equippedwith air-to-air missiles rather than justmachine guns.As I noted in my MUF ON 2005 pa-per "Government UFO Lies," therewas even a comment by Gen. RogerRamey (of Roswell fame), but now amajor general, that planes had beenscrambled hundreds of times afterUFOs.So much for the notion that UFOsare not a threat to national s ecurity. Inother words, the notion of UFOs de-molishing or disintegrating planesdoesn't seem strange if our planes wereattacking the UFO s.One critic wanted signed swornstatements and full nvestigative reports

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of the destroyed planes, which ofcourse, not surprisingly, I don't have.Bu t I think it may help if I discuss theevents I heard about.The first story I heard was at a col-lege in McMinnville, OR. A collegeemployee, retired from the military. hadasked if he could talk to me privatelybe fo re mylecture "Fly-ing SaucersARE Real."

This wasmany yearsago. My lec-ture had beenwel l publ i -c i zed . H eknew I ,wasn't goingStun Friedman to laugh, andthat I hadworked under security.

IA (Informant A) was operating mili-tary radar in K alispell, MT, in the early1950s when word was received from aCanad ian installation to the north that aUFO was heading their way. It waspicked up on radar.A fighter plane which was in the areawas vectored towards it, and the flightof both w as monitored on the radar. Themilitary knew its altitude, speed, anddirection. The two blips came togetherand the plane disappeared. No tracewas ever found.IA told me that the word went outthen not to shoot at UFOs, but take guncamera pictures.. IA had a need toknow for trajectories and activities ofuncorrelated targets because he wouldbe in touch with the radar facility in thedirection towards wh ich the UFO wasgoing. C learly if there had been a n at-tacking force from the Soviet Union,such personnel would be of extremeimportance for defen se purposes.Another informan t called after a ra-

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dio show and noted that when he wasstationed in Canada as part of the DewLine system there was a ca se in whichtwo planes went after an UNK NOW N,but only one came ba ck.After a lecture I gave at Steven s In-stitute of Technology in Hobo ken, NJ,one of my contacts quietly told me thathis brother had been based at a NavalAir Base in Corsicana, TX , when oneof several planes that had been sent upto chase a UFO disappeared.Shortly thereafter it had been postedtha t the crew had suddenly beenshipped to Vietnam. Not long after, ithad been noted that they had suppos-edly been, killed in comb at over th eocean and w ere lost.A case that fit right into the 1952framework was reported to me pri-vately after I had been on the radio talk-ing about the well known sightings overwashington, DC, in the summer of1952.A retired military person told me thatj e t s w ere be i ng s c r ambl ed f romAndrews A ir Force Base for the nextyear after that (not ust in July), and thatin one instance two went up but onlyone cam e back. The pilot was in shockand kept saying that "he went straightup."Weeks later a cover story was putout that the missing plane had gonedown at sea, and the crew could not belocated.The notion that such plane losses

could not be covered up is easily put torest by noting that in 2001 the US gov-ernment convened a numb er of fami-lies together to award medals in thename of 166 US military crewmen whohad been involved in reconnaissancenear the Soviet Union, China, and NorthKorea, mostly in the 1948-1960 timeframe.Their planes were attacked by So-viet forces, with some crew m embersMay 2006


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having apparently bailed out and beentaken prisoner, and others killed dur-ing the incidents. There had been nopublic recognition of these events at thetime.Apparently it was also true that So-viet reconnaissance planes venturingtoo close to North Am erica and Europehad also been destroyed. All familieshad been lied to.Obviously neither country wanted toadmit what was done or that they couldnot prevent close approaches by ."en-emy aircraft."Another individual contacted me af-ter a radio broadcast and told of observ -ing out west as two U FOs approacheda m ilitary airplane which suddenly dis-appeared.. . .Beautiful clear skies, seenfrom a fine vantage point.

The case w hich really got to me wasdescribed to me in 1977 by a formermilitary man who had heard my lec-ture at a Texas College, then inter-viewed me for a local radio station.Apparently I passed muster, and hequietly, with no one else around andafter I agreed to keep his name secret,told me his story.He was based in 1967 at the BocaChica (near Key West, FL) NationalSecurity Agency listening post whichwas the closest one to C uba. All listen-ers were trilingual (English, Spanishand Russian since the Russians werepretty much in charge).It is dull androutine work most of the time.Then during the day they picked upcommunication from the Cuban AirDefense Comm and about an unknownapproaching from the northeast at aspeed around Mach one and at an el-evation of 10,000 meters.Two MIG-21 jets were scrambled.The report back was that it was aspherical object with no appendages.It was told to leave Cuban airspace.There was no change in i ts path.Ground controllers than instructed thepilot to shoot down the intruder,The pilot radioed that his missileswere arm ed, and he had a radar lock-on. Then there was shrieking over theairwaves from the wingman that thelead plane had just disintegrated.The UFO then went straight up to

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