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Let’s crank it up a notch

by on Feb.23, 2012, under Breaking News

For devotees of minutae, last night’s Inception Radio Network podcast debate between retired U.S. Army Col. John Alexander and UFO historian Richard Dolan unfolded with all the revelations of a script reading. Alexander, author of UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Reality, maintained the phenomenon is real and bizarre, although the indifferent feds aren’t hiding a thing. Likewise, Dolan stuck by the premise of his UFOs and The National Security State series, which argues UFOs constitute maybe the most highly classified secret in… Read More »
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Goldwater UFO Files: The Highlights

by on Feb.16, 2012, under Breaking News

 

The Goldwater letters run from 1966 to 1996. You will note that after 1981 when Goldwater becomes Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee he no longer says I don't know much more than the man on the street.

1967 regarding the release of the “sensitive” files at WPAFB. If they were released “I think the information would be meager and not be substantiated fully”… “I can understand the sensitive and secret nature of these files”

In 1974 “I have no information that is not available to you and I am not aware exactly of what the Air Force might have…”

November 1974 - “I have tried in the years past to have the material collected by the Air Force to no avail. It is still classified above top secret. I have, however, heard that there is a plan underway to release some if not all, of this material in a book in the relative near future.”

November 1975 “It is still classified Top Secret. I have heard that there is a plan under way to release some, if not all, of this material in the near future.”

March 1975 – “It is still classified above Top Secret. I have, however, heard that there is a plan under way to release some, if not all of this material in the near future.”

May 1975 – “It is still classified above Top Secret. I have, however, that there is a plan to release some, if not all of this material in the near future, and I hope this is carried out.”

November 1975 - “It is still classified above Top Secret. I have, however, that there is a plan to release some, if not all of this material in the near future. I’m just as anxious to see this material as you are, and I hope we will not have to wait much longer.”

May 1977 – “If my secretary comes into my office and said, ‘there’s little man outside – he’s green—he has three eyes and an antenna coming out of his head,’ I would say,’ Show him in,’ because I wouldn’t be surprised.”

Februay 1978 – “I made an attempt to get into the room at Wright-Patterson Field where information was stored and I was denied this request, understandably. Frankly, I’m no expert on this subject; I’ve never made lengthy statements on it. What I’ve told you just about sums it up.”

June 27, 1978 to Col. Bill Coleman – ‘I will argue either way about UFOs; I can’t turn a blind eye to it. Something has to be there.”

November 1978 – “I truly doubt the Air Force has classified information on this subject not available to me.”

April 1980 – “He (LeMay) told me in no uncertain terms that I could not visit it and, furthermore, that he could not visit it either. After that I just left it alone and forgot about it. However, I believe that the material has been spread around into different archives of the Air Force.”

July 1980 – I have never been allowed to see the material that the Air Force collected, and I don’t blame them. I think it should be kept secret, but I hope one of these days we are going to know the whole story, and I hope I am around when it all comes to light.”

May 1981 – “The reason I wanted to see the highly classified files on UFOs at Wright Patterson was not to see any remains, because I don’t know of any UFO that supposedly crashed.”

July 15, 1981 –“Relative to your question about the accuracy of the details in the “Roswell Incident,” they are partially true, but not completely. I can’t give you any other answer than that so please don’t push it.”

August 31, 1981 – “I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.”

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Close Encounters of the First Kind: Do we really care? Part Two.

by on Feb.14, 2012, under Breaking News


Let's see how far I can get on this topic today. When you're dealing with an old man sometimes the energy just quits --- but high hopes. Yesterday we looked at some of the 1940s and 1950s cases which happened to be in my files [I say that to remind us that there are MANY other cases and many other drawings], where the witness blessed us with an actual first hand illustration of the object involved. Today we can gaze at another set of these things; this time from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. And so we go....

Our first and unsurprising "conclusion" is that they continue to defy any detailed pattern, just as their earlier sister set of cases also did so deny [how's that for 19th century British sentence structure? --- sorry, my PhD is in 19th century History of Science and Technology]. If anything these characters may even be a little bit more diverse. Even the two "diamond hexagonal" objects differed mightily in size, although they were both on the small side when it comes to UFOs. It was nice that the one lady felt that she saw the same shaped craft ten years and several hundred miles apart, but even that might give one some cause for out-of-control speculation [feel free; it doesn't hurt that much if you're honest about it].

As to the specific sightings: There are some of UFOlogy's strongest CE1s in this set. I've found over the years, even in very informal polls at UFO get-togethers, that folks differ greatly in their "favorite case lists", but a couple of these above make them more than not [ Red Bluff and Exeter]. [I've read recently an attempt to debunk Exeter, but if you read the extensive interviews by John Fuller and others on this case, you see rather quickly that the persons pushing the debunk aren't interested in addressing the whole case's details]. And Red Bluff is a UFO Titan no matter how you want to cut it. In that case the Air Force and Donald Menzel actually used atmospheric diffraction of stars WHICH WERE NOT EVEN IN THE SKY YET to come up with what was a totally ridiculous concept anyway. THAT was one of the biggest, most over-the-top, explanatory stupidities or dishonesties [take your pick] in the history of the field.


A case that I particularly like [probably for irrational reasons] is the Millersport, OH incident of 1963. [my "synthesis" of the four witnesses' drawings is above]. In this case a family watched a UFO essentially "parked in the air" for some time until it took off. The drawings were done separately and "are the same, and different at the same time". They have plenty of similarity to convince one of the unity of the experience, and enough difference to convince one that the witnesses were not even subconsciously pushed to say one exact story. So, for me, even though this was one family, the reports have an element of credible independence. This case may also be a good old-fashioned CE3 as well, as the mother felt that she quite clearly saw a humanoid -shaped figure silhouetted in one of the windows. So, what can I tell you? I like it, and probably would put the case in my top 200 or so encounters to use to defend the phenomenon. And just to complete that thought: it is my experience with just my own files that there are probably at least 400 or 500 cases good enough to roll out there in front of reasonable people to defend the basic anomalous nature of the phenomenon.

There are other cases in the list of similar confidence... but I've placed alongside to the left a drawing of one just too late to have made that panel: Mackay, Queensland 1965 [actually it may well have made it if I was being obsessive about month-&-day order but life's too short for such nonsense in filing.]

Mackay has multiple independent witnesses, a very good viewing allowing much detail, and a possible related trace [which would convert it into a CE2t]. For the ET-technology debate, the witnesses stated that this was "a well-defined machine, solid and metallic". The witnesses had no background with which to judge size, and said it could have been anywhere from 30' to less than 10'. The internal diameter of a ring trace found the next day a little ways away was c.20', so the guessed range may have been good. Three brilliant floodlights surveyed the ground, and the thing was in sight for 30 minutes. It then rapidly accelerated away. Well, I say that's a rocking good UFO! And it's one of the many that Jim McDonald researched while he visited Australia in 1967. I'm happy to share anything with Jim McDonald, but particularly a mutual interest in the Mackay case.

Other things are sequestered on this list. Sheffield, OH 1958 was probably the incident which caused the Air Force more difficulty in Congress than any other. It was a pretty good unknown, but the difficulties were caused by the USAF making a complete hash out of its non-investigation and making statements which offended a no-nonsense woman. With Mrs. Fitzgerald's cooperation, a Ohio UFO group [not NICAP but of NICAP attitude and competency] pursued congressional aid in redressing USAF incompetency and nearly got an investigation by congress when Don Keyhoe couldn't. The ultimate case report small monograph [ called the "Fitzgerald Report"] was delivered to many congressmen, and is a UFO historical classic.

Elsewise here, are things like the great Lt.Colonel Gasslein case from Springfield,PA with all its witnesses and its long-observation, and apparent clear high technology nature. Another thing which is irrelevant to everybody but my brother and myself is the St. Albans, WV case of 1958, which is our own personal CE1. I used to view this as "just as nice domed disk", but as I thought about our observation the thing had to be closer than I thought.

I should have drawn a little "map" but this should be simple enough to follow without that. Tom and I watched the disk going by E-to-W almost exactly, looking out of a north-facing window in our home. When it looked like I was going to lose the sighting shortly, I "sacrificed" a little of the window view and turned and bolted for the west-facing door in another room. Trees unfortunately blocked the whole scene so I had to continue running until I cleared them [ah, those were the days .... actual running]. Once cleared the thing still wasn't in sight so I shifted on a precise right angle turn to the north [not by plan; that was how you had to go given all the obstacles] and jumped down a steep embankment [could I ever do that? Yes you could old man; you were once a basketball player remember? Basketball? What's that?]. Once down that embankment it was just a few more strides to get a look to the west and there the thing was, almost due west at the time. So you can see that I took a "Z" shaped run with right angles, and the object was at least close to dead west on that final angle. I'm not saying that the disk was only 30 yards away when it passed by the window; that seems way too close, but who knows? But even given some slop in the actual angle-guessing of my last position, that object was very probably far closer than a football field. So, I'm giving myself credit for a CE1. If you don't... that's OK too. It's also a good case because someone up-river was reporting it to a local radio station at the time. I have no idea how many other folks may have seen it, or whether Tom and I got the best look.

The picture above is the artwork from the old J.Allen Hynek slideshow, illustrating the concept of a close encounter of the first kind using the Exeter case. It is a pretty faithful rendition from witness testimony vs some of the other representations that you see [example, see the picture at the very top of this post; also supposed to represent Exeter]. It points out another danger in these drawings: never put anything out there without the approval of the witness. It as an old prof friend of mine would say "subtracts from the sum total of knowledge in the Universe".


My lightbulb is growing dimmer than usual at the moment, so I'm going to stop here, and complete this topic next time with the Total BS part: what might it mean? Till then, if you have the stamina.



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"TAKEN UP" – An ET UFO Story – 2012 by TJ Morris

by on Jan.13, 2012, under Breaking News

Tom Bradley and Sarah Bolton slowly walked up the short ramp of the small aircraft not of earth origin which was written in the reports although the Colonel still would slip and call it a UFO.

As Tom and Sarah took their seats the chairs conformed to their bodies as usual. Then the console lights came on which was also normal each time they came on board the spacecraft.

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“UFO” takes pictures of Hunter

by on Jan.08, 2012, under Breaking News

One the most captivating UAP book that I recently read is the one from Dr. John B. Alexander (retired U.S. Army Colonel): UFOs. Myths, conspiraties, and realities (Thomas Dunne Books, 2011).  Believers and skeptics will certainly find it interesting… Issued in 2011 and beginning with a commentary from Tom Clancy and an introduction by Burt [...]
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UFO movie news round-up (1 Jan. 2012)

by on Dec.31, 2011, under Breaking News

By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers

Harrison Ford is to play the role of Colonel Hyram Graff in Ender's Game, a big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s classic – and, until now, “unfilmable” – sci-fi novel about a future Earth under threat of invasion by a race of insectoid aliens known as 'Formics'. Set seventy years after an epic human/alien war, the story follows the character of Ender Wiggin, a young boy whose tactical genius offers hope for humanity in the face of a new Formic invasion.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ender's Game will also star Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), Abigail Breslin and Ben Kingsly. Ben Hood (Rendition, X-Men: Origins) will helm the production, while Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (whose credits include Transformers and Cowboys and Aliens) will produce. Shooting begins in February and the movie will hit cinemas in March 2013.

In other news, Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor has been chosen by Marvel to direct the sequel to Thor. Plot details for Thor 2 are sketchy at present, but the first movie – which features in my ten most notable UFO movies of 2011 list – touched on various themes and ideas central to UFOlogy, including Ancient Astronauts, wormhole travel and shadowy government agents tasked with monitoring extraordinary phenomena. Incidentally, the character of Thor will also be appearing in the upcoming mega-movie The Avengers, in which he and other Marvel superheroes will be pitted against the alien menace Loki – Thor’s own brother. Thor 2 is due for release in 2013. The Avengers is released this April. View the trailer below...


Finally, the Moscow-set alien invasion movie The Darkest Hour has opened to poor reviews from critics. Entertainment Weekly gave the movie a D+, noting: “You should be rooting for the humans, but you might as well be rooting for the blobs. Most likely, though, you’ll just be rooting for the credits.” Ouch. The Wrap was no less scathing in its review, calling The Darkest Hour anaggressively idiotic movie”, saying of its thinly sketched characters: “if these dimwits represent the hope of humanity, bring on the alien overlords.” In the same vein, The Hollywood Reporter describes The Darkest Hour asAn alien invasion flick that evidently expects dramatic shots of a depopulated Red Square to make up for a flatlining screenplay and the absence of even a single compelling character." Ouch again. For many more wince-inducing reviews of The Darkest Hour, head on over to Rotten Tomatoes.
The Darkest Hour (2011): An "aggressively idiotic movie."

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Movie in the making- Apollo Minus Project

by on Oct.12, 2011, under Breaking News

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I received a request from Nick Ronan, film producer with Chance of Fate Productions, asking if I would help promote his movie project. 

I don't intend to make it a habit promoting movies but this one looks promising, so I decided to let Nick tell it in his own words. -SW


Official Apollo Insignia

For years rumors have circulated throughout NASA about Apollo 11’s controversial “findings” in 1969.  For over forty years, the government has kept these files “classified.”  Now, for the first time ever, Apollo Minus Project is a bold new independent film that investigates these “findings.”

Based on actual events, the film follows the story of DANIEL CONROY, a young documentary filmmaker who sets out to uncover the truth about his grandfather, James L. Conroy, an Air Force pilot and U.S. Astronaut.  Colonel Conroy vanished mysteriously in the deserts of Nevada in 1970, six months after returning from a top-secret mission to investigate evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Here’s what we know: Daniel Conroy (25) disappeared while finishing this documentary.  Most of the footage that will be used to assemble this film was taken from his home camera. The mystery of the Conroy family remains untold.
Daniel Conroy (1986 – Presumed Dead Spring 2011)
Grandson of Colonel James A. Conroy
Age: 25
Missing 06/2011
Last Seen Following his Grandfather’s Route, Town of Rachel, Lincoln County, Nevada.
Note: There is a small reward for any information leading to Daniel’s recovery.

This is not another alien monster flick.  Nor is it another ET family feel-good movie.

As the film’s producer, I would like to suggest that Daniel uncovered something that has remained hidden for many years.  Something that his grandfather knew.  Something that potentially cost them both their lives.
 
The film is an intimate blend between The Blair Witch Project and District 9. It is the story of a boy’s struggle to hold his broken family together after the effects of his grandfather’s contact with alien life.  It is an odyssey.  A conspiracy story.  A hunt for clues in dark places where there is no safe return, where the witnesses hide in dark corners and whisper, “We are not alone.”

Please check out the film’s official teaser (video).

Or visit our kickstarter page to learn how to get more involved and help fund this project.  Right now we are still seeking funding to continue our research and prepare for full production in 2012.

Nick Ronan
Producer
Apollo Minus Project


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