The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

CLAIM-620001 · Reported Encounter Observation

“Eva recalled at age four or five seeing three small beings beside her bed, feeling genital touching, and crying out; her mother entered and told her it was a dream.”

CLAIM-620002 · Reported Craft Appearance

“Under hypnosis Eva described a gray dome-shaped craft outside the balcony, with a circular lower rim, red lights and a beam-like transport effect.”

CLAIM-620003 · Physical Characteristics

“Eva described the beings as about three feet tall with dark-brown wrinkled skin, hairless pear/triangular heads, very dark eyes and reduced facial features.”

CLAIM-620004 · Reported Encounter Observation

“At about nineteen Eva recalled waking to whispering, being unable to move or call out, sensing three beings and feeling fingers probing inside her vagina.”

CLAIM-620005 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“The episode included immobility, inability to vocalize and a sensed presence while in bed.”

CLAIM-620006 · Reported Encounter Observation

“Eva’s April 14 and May 6, 1992 journal entries describe a violet doorway-like rectangle, figures at the bed, dizziness, loss-of-gravity sensations and blue-white light.”

CLAIM-620007 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Eva’s husband reported hearing a “big bang” during the May episode but did not report seeing a craft or beings.”

CLAIM-620008 · Reported Encounter Observation

“Dave recalled a short walk near his uncle’s cabin followed by a memory gap; relatives were reportedly worried and had searched for him, with roughly forty-five minutes unaccounted for.”

CLAIM-620009 · Reported Encounter Observation

“Dave, Ralph and Jerry reportedly watched a silent low object approach, stop, pivot, display intense blue-white underside lights and depart rapidly.”

CLAIM-620010 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Jerry later acknowledged the UFO encounter, while Dave’s impression that he saw a face/occupant in the craft was personal and not independently corroborated.”

CLAIM-620011 · Reported Craft Appearance

“The source emphasizes abrupt changes of motion, silence, close approach and blue-white underside lights, but does not provide a sufficiently stable hull geometry for a canonical shape assignment.”

CLAIM-620012 · Reported Encounter Observation

“Before formal hypnosis Dave reported a female-seeming familiar being staring through the window, compelling eyes, anal-procedure sensations and finding himself curled beside his wife afterward.”

CLAIM-620013 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Later hypnosis expanded the being’s morphology and the procedure narrative.”

CLAIM-620014 · Reported Encounter Observation

“Peter’s first regression centered on a 1988 Caribbean experience involving anal probing and an object he interpreted as a tracking implant.”

CLAIM-620015 · Reported Encounter Observation

“On March 15, 1992 three women walking near Richard’s Connecticut house reportedly observed an unusual small aerial object and powerful unfamiliar sound while Peter remained inside.”

CLAIM-620016 · Reported Encounter Observation

“Peter estimated he lost awareness from about 10:15 until 11:05 and recovered several conscious memories of beings before the subsequent regression.”

CLAIM-620017 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“One woman felt certain Peter was “in the ship,” but she did not check the house and the source does not independently establish that the external object was the same craft Peter later described.”

CLAIM-620018 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Mack treats the Connecticut convergence as unusually suggestive because of external witnesses, while the evidentiary link between the two streams remains inferential.”

CLAIM-620019 · Reported Encounter Observation

“On April 15, 1990 Carlos reported photographing a pink-peach shaft of light extending from cloud toward water on Iona, then being enveloped in light and blacking out until after dark.”

CLAIM-620020 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Mack says two physics colleagues considered a solar-pillar explanation and rejected it based on geometry and optical appearance, but their analysis is not reproduced as an independent report in this edition.”

CLAIM-620021 · Consciousness & Telepathy

“Under hypnosis Carlos described the light as a transport “lightfall” or tunnel connected with a craft and later crystal-like technology.”

CLAIM-620022 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Carlos’s photograph is a real source artifact discussed by Mack, but the book does not establish a chain of custody or a definitive physical explanation for the light.”

CLAIM-620023 · Reported Encounter Observation

“Carlos consciously remembered an unusual yellow angel-like light/haze associated with a childhood aurora display.”

CLAIM-620024 · Physical Characteristics

“Under hypnosis Carlos described a small white creature with a large head and very large almond/catlike eyes emerging from the light.”

CLAIM-620025 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Carlos interpreted the being as a form emerging from light and connected it to later transformational experiences.”

CLAIM-620026 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“The balcony-craft exterior was not independently witnessed in the source and emerged in regression.”

CLAIM-620027 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“Dave reported the core window encounter before hypnosis, but later morphology and procedure details were expanded in regression.”

CLAIM-620028 · Mack Evidence Caveat

“The reported three-witness structure strengthens the sighting relative to most Mack case material, but no radar record, photograph, or contemporaneous written statements are reproduced.”

CLAIM-620029 · Consciousness & Telepathy

“Peter and Mack interpreted the Connecticut episode as part of Peter’s broader consciousness transformation and abduction narrative.”

CLAIM-620030 · Consciousness & Telepathy

“Carlos interpreted the Iona lightfall as a portal/transport event and part of a larger light-energy reality.”

CLAIM-620031 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO was described as being low on the southwestern horizon and disappearing after about twenty minutes.”

CLAIM-620032 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force's official report on the incident was a 'masterpiece in the art of 'weasel wording.' It said that the UFO might have been Venus or it could have been a balloon. Maybe two balloons. It probably was Venus except that this is doubtful because Venus was too dim to be seen in the afternoon.”

CLAIM-620033 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-51 was described as running low on fuel and asking permission to go to its base.”

CLAIM-620034 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-51 was described as climbing to 10,000 feet and then to 20,000 feet.”

CLAIM-620035 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-51 was described as being out of sight and not answering calls from the tower.”

CLAIM-620036 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-51 was described as crashing and being dead.”

CLAIM-620037 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The people in the tower estimated the UFO to be southwest of Godman and at an elevation of about 45 degrees.”

CLAIM-620038 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Dr. Hynek said that he didn't think that the UFO was Venus.”

CLAIM-620039 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The people in the tower had been positive of their descriptions, their statements brought that out.”

CLAIM-620040 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The canopy reflection theory was checked but found to be unlikely.”

CLAIM-620041 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The only theory left to check was that the object might have been one of the big, 100-foot-diameter, 'skyhook' balloons.”

CLAIM-620042 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Mantell Incident is the same old UFO jigsaw puzzle.”

CLAIM-620043 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The ghost rockets left in March, as mysteriously as they had arrived.”

CLAIM-620044 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO that nearly collided with the airliner would have passed almost over Macon, Georgia, after passing the DC-3.”

CLAIM-620045 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Gorman Incident was the famous 'duel of death' with a UFO.”

CLAIM-620046 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It looked something like a huge meteor except that it was a bright green color and it didn't arch downward, as meteors usually do.”

CLAIM-620047 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The green-colored ball of fire had started low, from near the eastern slopes of the Sandia Mountains, arched upward a little, then seemed to level out.”

CLAIM-620048 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The green ball of fire got dimmer and dimmer until it disappeared.”

CLAIM-620049 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Greenish colored meteors, although not common, had been observed on many occasions.”

CLAIM-620050 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The flat trajectory, which seemed to be so important in proving that the green fireballs were extraterrestrial, was also nothing new.”

CLAIM-620051 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The reason that so many had been seen during December of 1948 and January of 1949 was that the weather had been unusually clear all over the Southwest during this period.”

CLAIM-620052 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The trajectory was too flat, the color was too green, and he couldn't locate any fragments even though he had found the spots where they should have hit the earth if they were meteorites.”

CLAIM-620053 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“No ---Dr. La Paz didn't think that they were meteors.”

CLAIM-620054 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“No ---Dr. La Paz didn't think that they were meteorites either.”

CLAIM-620055 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“No particles of a green fireball had ever been found.”

CLAIM-620056 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The green fireballs, they theorized, could be some type of unmanned test vehicle that was being projected into our atmosphere from a 'spaceship' hovering several hundred miles above the earth.”

CLAIM-620057 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the green fireballs are test vehicles-somebody else's. The regular UFO reports might be explained by the fact that the manned vehicles were venturing down to within 100,000 or 200,000 feet of the earth, or to the altitude at which atmosphere re-entry begins to get critical.”

CLAIM-620058 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Witnesses reported seeing formations of small lights flying through the night sky.”

CLAIM-620059 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The lights changed in color from a bluish white to orange and back to bluish white.”

CLAIM-620060 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The lights usually traveled from west to east and made no sound.”

CLAIM-620061 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A great many reports were caused by people seeing balloons or such astronomical bodies as planets, meteors, or stars.”

CLAIM-620062 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The order of February 11, 1949, that changed the name of Project Sign to Project Grudge had not directed any change in the operating policy of the project.”

CLAIM-620063 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force didn't O.K. the plan. I don't know where the plan was killed, or who killed it, but it was killed.”

CLAIM-620064 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Shallet's article, which appeared in two parts in the April 30 and May 7, 1949, issues of The Saturday Evening Post, is important in the history of the UFO and in understanding the UFO problem because it had considerable effect on public opinion.”

CLAIM-620065 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“True magazine 'scooped' the world with their story that UFO's were from outer space.”

CLAIM-620066 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“True magazine 'scooped' the world with their story that UFO's were from outer space.”

CLAIM-620067 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“True magazine 'scooped' the world with their story that UFO's were from outer space.”

CLAIM-620068 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force didn't O.K. the plan. I don't know where the plan was killed, or who killed it, but it was killed.”

CLAIM-620069 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The order of February 11, 1949, that changed the name of Project Sign to Project Grudge had not directed any change in the operating policy of the project.”

CLAIM-620070 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Project Twinkle would prove it.”

CLAIM-620071 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Orson Welles presented a famous UFO broadcast in 1938.”

CLAIM-620072 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Orson Welles presented a famous UFO broadcast in 1938.”

CLAIM-620073 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force had a plan to counter the Keyhoe article, or any other story that might appear. The plan originated at ATIC. It called for a general officer to hold a short press conference, flash his stars, and speak the magic words 'hoaxes, hallucinations, and the misidentification of known objects.'”

CLAIM-620074 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“McLaughlin and crew found out that the UFO had been traveling 4 degrees per second.”

CLAIM-620075 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Donald Keyhoe's article in the January True had converted many people but there were still a few heathens.”

CLAIM-620076 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Navy had no comment to make about the sightings, but they did comment on McLaughlin.”

CLAIM-620077 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“McLaughlin's report contained no personal opinions, just facts.”

CLAIM-620078 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force had no comment to make on McLaughlin's story.”

CLAIM-620079 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A bright light hovering off to the southeast.”

CLAIM-620080 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A disk-shaped UFO buzzed a high flying B-36.”

CLAIM-620081 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A mass UFO sighting reported by most of the town's 3,600 citizens.”

CLAIM-620082 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A white light off to his left.”

CLAIM-620083 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A huge orange red UFO was nothing more than the light from the many northern Indiana blast furnaces reflecting a haze layer.”

CLAIM-620084 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A UFO sighting reported by pilots.”

CLAIM-620085 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The night before a Mid Continent Airlines DC-3 was taxiing out to take off from the airport at Sioux City, Iowa, when the airport control tower operators noticed a bright bluish white light in the west.”

CLAIM-620086 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“On the night of May 29, 1950, the crew of an American Airlines DC-6 had just taken off from Washington National Airport, and they were about seven miles west of Mount Vernon when the copilot suddenly looked out and yelled, 'Watch it - watch it.'”

CLAIM-620087 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A student operator was giving a demonstration to a group of visiting brass at the radar school when he spotted an object about 12,000 yards southeast of the station, flying low toward the north.”

CLAIM-620088 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The pilot of a T-33 jet trainer, carrying an Air Force major as passenger and flying 20,000 feet over Point Pleasant, New Jersey, spotted a dull silver, disk-like object far below him.”

CLAIM-620089 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Radar operators at Fort Monmouth picked up a target that couldn't be tracked automatically.”

CLAIM-620090 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A teletype machine at Wright-Patterson AFB began to chatter out a message.”

CLAIM-620091 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It was in a gradual turn to its left, and it wasn't another airplane.”

CLAIM-620092 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The lights were a weird bluish green color and they were in a semicircular formation.”

CLAIM-620093 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The formation was different, however. The lights Hart saw were always flying in a perfect V.”

CLAIM-620094 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“They suddenly noticed 'a pear shaped' object about 150 yards ahead of them. It was just off the side of the road, about 120 feet in the air. It was drifting slowly to the east, 'less than the speed required to take off in a Cub airplane.'”

CLAIM-620095 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“She said it looked like 'an airplane without a body.' On the back edge of the wing were pairs of glowing bluish lights.”

CLAIM-620096 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The oily white breast of a plover could easily reflect light, but plovers usually didn't travel in more than pairs, or three at the most.”

CLAIM-620097 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The targets were caused by weather, although it was a borderline case.”

CLAIM-620098 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO that the student radar operator had assumed to be traveling at a terrific speed because he couldn't lock on to it turned out to be a 400-mile-an-hour conventional airplane.”

CLAIM-620099 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could have been a balloon, so I sent a wire to the Air Force weather detachment at the Long Beach Municipal Airport.”

CLAIM-620100 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The second radar sighting of the series also turned out to be a balloon.”

CLAIM-620101 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The second day's radar sightings were caused by another balloon and weather - both enhanced by the firm conviction that there were some mighty queer goings on over Jersey.”

CLAIM-620102 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“There was no positive proof that any craft foreign to our knowledge existed.”

CLAIM-620103 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The pilot was positive that he had followed directly behind the UFO for over a minute and all the time it was pulling away from him.”

CLAIM-620104 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The unidentified target slowed down, stopped, and reversed its course, heading directly toward the radar station.”

CLAIM-620105 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“I don't know what it was, but I've never seen anything like it before or since - maybe it was a spaceship.”

CLAIM-620106 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-94 radar operator reported a weak target off to the right at 28,000 feet.”

CLAIM-620107 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Radar engineers detected unidentified targets while testing radars.”

CLAIM-620108 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A huge ball of fire paced two B-29's.”

CLAIM-620109 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A few hours after it had left New York City it was out over the Atlantic Ocean, about 600 miles off Jacksonville, Florida, flying at 8,000 feet.”

CLAIM-620110 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The copilot reached over and slapped the pilot on the shoulder and pointed.”

CLAIM-620111 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light began to get bigger and bigger until it was 'ten times the size of a landing light of an airplane.'”

CLAIM-620112 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He happened to be facing south, looking off across the countryside.”

CLAIM-620113 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light got fairly close, the CIA man said that he suddenly realized there wasn't any sound associated with it.”

CLAIM-620114 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light finished its climb, stop, and level out.”

CLAIM-620115 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light had been in sight too long to be a meteor.”

CLAIM-620116 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A slow moving, high-altitude target that climbed and dove at unusual speeds.”

CLAIM-620117 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Multiple reports of a shiny, round object moving from north to south.”

CLAIM-620118 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Radar picked up odd targets that enlarged and then became smaller, with one report suggesting a disk-shaped object.”

CLAIM-620119 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The fireball could have been two meteors: one that buzzed the C-54 and another that streaked across the airfield at Goose AFB.”

CLAIM-620120 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could have been an intelligently controlled craft that had streaked northeast across the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Quebec Province at 2,400 miles an hour.”

CLAIM-620121 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could have been a meteor.”

CLAIM-620122 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could have been a skyhook balloon.”

CLAIM-620123 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A 'large red light with small white lights on the side' was reported as it came in from the west north west, made a 180 degree turn directly over their heads, and disappeared over the horizon.”

CLAIM-620124 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A teardrop shaped object hovered over Dayton for several minutes about midnight.”

CLAIM-620125 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Both officers had heard flying saucer stories, and both thought the light was a balloon.”

CLAIM-620126 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The targets loafed along at 100 to 130 miles an hour; then in an apparent sudden burst of speed two of them streaked out of radar range.”

CLAIM-620127 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“One target was clocked at 7,000 miles an hour.”

CLAIM-620128 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The targets passed close to commercial airliners in the area and on two occasions the pilots of the airliners saw lights that they couldn't identify.”

CLAIM-620129 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“I first heard about the sighting about ten o'clock in the evening when I received a telephone call from Bob Ginna, Life magazine's UFO expert.”

CLAIM-620130 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“About 10:30 P.M. on July 26 the same radar operators who had seen the UFO's the week before picked up several of the same slow moving targets.”

CLAIM-620131 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A few minutes after the F-94 over Newport News had the last lock-on broken, the targets came back on the scopes at Washington National.”

CLAIM-620132 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The controllers vectored the jets toward group after group of targets, but each time, before the jets could get close enough to see anything more than just a light, the targets had sped away.”

CLAIM-620133 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The tower operators at Andrews AFB saw a 'large fiery-orange-colored sphere' when the radar operators at National Airport told them they had a target over the Andrews Radio range station.”

CLAIM-620134 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The tower operators later changed their story and said that what they saw was merely a star.”

CLAIM-620135 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-94C pilot changed his mind even after he'd given the press and later told me his story about vainly trying to intercept unidentified lights.”

CLAIM-620136 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The pilot of the F-94C says that all he saw was a ground light reflecting off a layer of haze.”

CLAIM-620137 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The most outstanding incident happened just after a take-off one night from Washington National.”

CLAIM-620138 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The only object we could see where the radar had a target turned out to be the Wilson Lines moonlight steamboat trip to Mount Vernon.”

CLAIM-620139 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A scoutmaster and three boy scouts saw a UFO, with the scoutmaster being burned.”

CLAIM-620140 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He said that he had been in the Pacific most of the war and repeated some rather hairy stories of what he'd been through.”

CLAIM-620141 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He had a logical answer. The lights looked like an airplane crashing into the woods some distance away.”

CLAIM-620142 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He had traveled about 50 yards off the road when he ran into a palmetto thicket, so he stopped and looked for a clear path.”

CLAIM-620143 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He walked a few more paces and suddenly got a horrible feeling that somebody was watching him.”

CLAIM-620144 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He shone his light up at the edge of the object and got a quick but good look.”

CLAIM-620145 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He dropped his light and machete, and put his arms over his face.”

CLAIM-620146 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The deputy called the Air Force.”

CLAIM-620147 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The flight surgeon had no idea how this specifically could have happened.”

CLAIM-620148 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The scoutmaster's background was not as clean as he led one to believe.”

CLAIM-620149 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The scoutmaster had been stalling the press.”

CLAIM-620150 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The scoutmaster's story was a hoax.”

CLAIM-620151 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light was circular in shape and had a constant brilliance. It appeared to be the upper portion of a large, round, dark shape which was about four times the diameter of the light itself.”

CLAIM-620152 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO moved in closer, or at least it appeared to be getting closer because it became more distinct.”

CLAIM-620153 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO moved off to the east, getting dimmer and dimmer as it disappeared.”

CLAIM-620154 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO was highly directional, like a spotlight.”

CLAIM-620155 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could not be identified as something we knew about. It could have been an interplanetary spaceship.”

CLAIM-620156 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“To quote from a section entitled 'Induction Heating' from an electrical engineering textbook: A rod of solid metal or any electrical conductor, when subjected to an alternating magnetic field, has electromotive forces set up in it. These electromotive forces cause what are known as 'eddy currents.' A rise in temperature results from 'eddy currents.' Induction heating is a common method of melting metals in a foundry.”

CLAIM-620157 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Ozone is prepared by passing air between two plates which are charged at a high electrical potential.”

CLAIM-620158 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The radar at Brookley AFB was so located that part of the area that it scanned was over Mobile Bay. It was in this area that the UFO was detected.”

CLAIM-620159 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The object looked like a balloon. From its size it was apparent that if it were a balloon, it would have been launched from one of the ships, so the word went out on the TBS radio: 'Who launched a balloon?'”

CLAIM-620160 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The object appeared to be large, plenty large enough to show up in a photo, so the reporter shot several pictures.”

CLAIM-620161 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO was described as 'shiny, spherical, and white' and seemed to 'rotate around its vertical axis and sort of wobble.'”

CLAIM-620162 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The object was described as 'round, silvery, and white' and seemed to 'rotate around its vertical axis and sort of wobble.'”

CLAIM-620163 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Some people think we should accept a new model of an airplane after only five or ten hours of flight testing. This is enough proof for them that the airplane will fly.”

CLAIM-620164 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Others wouldn't be happy unless it was flight tested for five or ten years.”

CLAIM-620165 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The answer is somewhere in between these two extremes.”

CLAIM-620166 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A sudden increase of radiation was indicated. The radiation remained high for a few seconds, then dropped back to normal.”

CLAIM-620167 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Three silvery objects moving in a V formation were seen high in the cloudless blue.”

CLAIM-620168 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A lone dark object was seen streaking across the sky.”

CLAIM-620169 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A silvery, circular shaped object near the instrument shack.”

CLAIM-620170 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Several of the Geiger tubes had been triggered at 10:17 A.M.”

CLAIM-620171 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“They found instances where, during the same period of time that radiation in the area had been much higher than normal, radar had had a UFO on the scope.”

CLAIM-620172 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“One of them was listening to the Geiger counter when he detected a definite increase in the clicking.”

CLAIM-620173 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The gods who watch over the UFO project were smiling about this time, because one morning I got a call from a colonel on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.”

CLAIM-620174 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The board's ruling wrote finish to this investigation.”

CLAIM-620175 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO's are interplanetary spacecraft.”

CLAIM-620176 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Radar had picked up an unidentified target near the spot where the scientists in the car had seen the UFO, and it had been traveling north.”

CLAIM-620177 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The highest speeds reported for our combination radar visual sightings were 700 to 800 miles an hour.”

CLAIM-620178 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“They watched it for a while, took a few notes, then drove back to the lab.”

CLAIM-620179 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Both of the observers had seen several of the green fireballs and said that this object was similar in all respects except that the color was a brilliant blue white.”

CLAIM-620180 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Radiation Story”

CLAIM-620181 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Geiger Counter”

CLAIM-620182 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-47”

CLAIM-620183 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Mineral Club”

CLAIM-620184 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Tremonton Movie”

CLAIM-620185 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Montana Movie”

CLAIM-620186 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The National Security Council”

CLAIM-620187 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Hundreds of people going home from work saw a large, dark, 'cigar shaped object with stubby wings' traveling northwest across Oakland.”

CLAIM-620188 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Reports continued to come in to the newspapers until about April 20.”

CLAIM-620189 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Two large bright lights flying across the blue sky in an echelon formation.”

CLAIM-620190 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Two large bright lights flying across the blue sky in an echelon formation.”

CLAIM-620191 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He thought this was why it was so noticeable among the stars.”

CLAIM-620192 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It had too much of a definitely circular shape.”

CLAIM-620193 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It changed color in about a two second cycle.”

CLAIM-620194 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It went through this cycle two or three times.”

CLAIM-620195 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Then it changed in shape to a perfect triangle.”

CLAIM-620196 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Then it split into two triangles, one above the other.”

CLAIM-620197 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He had been flying F-51's in Korea and had recently started to check out in the jets. He took off, cleared the traffic pattern, and started climbing toward Blythe Radio, about 130 miles west of Luke.”

CLAIM-620198 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A lady spotter at Black Hawk, about 10 miles west of Ellsworth, had reported an extremely bright light low on the horizon, off to the northeast.”

CLAIM-620199 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Had they had any reports of unidentified lights?”

CLAIM-620200 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A fast moving, bright bluish white light”

CLAIM-620201 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A strange cigar shaped object hang over the city for forty minutes”

CLAIM-620202 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“An extremely bright circular shaped object under and a little behind the airplane”

CLAIM-620203 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the light and gets a radar lock on only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer.”

CLAIM-620204 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to what the final outcome of the UFO investigation will be, but I am sure that within a few years there will be a proven answer.”

CLAIM-620205 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the final proven answer will be that all of the UFO's that have been reported are merely misidentified known objects.”

CLAIM-620206 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the many pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, 'I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself,' knew what they were talking about.”

CLAIM-620207 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the earth is being visited by interplanetary spaceships.”

CLAIM-790001 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The radar picked up an unidentified target that came in very fast - about 700 miles per hour - and then slowed down to about 100 miles per hour.”

CLAIM-790002 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The pilot described it as being 'like a doughnut without a hole.'”

CLAIM-790003 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The intelligence officer wrote up his report of a UFO sighting, but at the last minute, just before sending it, he was told to hold it back.”

CLAIM-790004 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“For this reason the military prefers the more general, if less colorful, name: unidentified flying objects.”

CLAIM-790005 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The attitude toward this task varied from a state of near panic, early in the life of the project, to that of complete contempt for anyone who even mentioned the words 'flying saucer.'”

CLAIM-790006 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO observer's estimate of where the object was located in the sky helped us to identify astronomical bodies.”

CLAIM-790007 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The excitement and serious interest occurred when we received UFO reports in which the observer was reliable and the stimuli could not be identified.”

CLAIM-790008 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Nobody knows what the two colonels saw over Carson Sink.”

CLAIM-790009 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the colonels actually did see what they thought they did, a type of craft completely foreign to them.”

CLAIM-790010 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The sergeants' report, however, contained one bit of information that completely changed the previous picture.”

CLAIM-790011 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The object was no jet airplane because there was no sound.”

CLAIM-790012 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It was not a searchlight because there were none on the air base.”

CLAIM-790013 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It was not an automobile spotlight because a spotlight will not produce the type of light the sergeants described.”

CLAIM-790014 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Kenneth Arnold reported seeing a series of nine bright disk-shaped objects flying at high speeds.”

CLAIM-790015 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Project Sign, the forerunner of Project Grudge and Project Blue Book, was launched.”

CLAIM-790016 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The reported phenomena were real.”

CLAIM-790017 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“In Vancouver, Washington, sheriff's deputies saw twenty to thirty.”

CLAIM-790018 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A United Airlines crew saw five.”

CLAIM-790019 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A staff sergeant saw several dim, glowing lights.”

CLAIM-790020 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A pilot saw a bright, disk-shaped object.”

CLAIM-790021 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A test pilot saw a spherically shaped object.”

CLAIM-790022 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Technicians observed a round object, white aluminum color.”

CLAIM-790023 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A pilot saw a flat object of a light reflecting nature.”

CLAIM-790024 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Harbor patrolmen saw six doughnut-shaped objects.”

CLAIM-790025 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The first photo was taken on July 4 in Seattle.”

CLAIM-790026 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The first sighting that really made the Air Force take a deep interest in UFO's occurred on July 8 at Muroc Air Base.”

CLAIM-790027 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Harbor patrolmen saw six doughnut-shaped objects.”

CLAIM-790028 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A strange aircraft was reported as being 'circular, about 250 to 300 feet in diameter,' and moving westward at a 'pretty good clip.'”

CLAIM-790029 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO was described as metallic and tremendous in size.”

CLAIM-790030 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO was described as being above and ahead of Captain Mantell and climbing.”

CLAIM-790031 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO was described as being low on the southwestern horizon and disappearing after about twenty minutes.”

CLAIM-790032 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force's official report on the incident was a 'masterpiece in the art of 'weasel wording.' It said that the UFO might have been Venus or it could have been a balloon. Maybe two balloons. It probably was Venus except that this is doubtful because Venus was too dim to be seen in the afternoon.”

CLAIM-790033 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-51 was described as running low on fuel and asking permission to go to its base.”

CLAIM-790034 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-51 was described as climbing to 10,000 feet and then to 20,000 feet.”

CLAIM-790035 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-51 was described as being out of sight and not answering calls from the tower.”

CLAIM-790036 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-51 was described as crashing and being dead.”

CLAIM-790037 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The people in the tower estimated the UFO to be southwest of Godman and at an elevation of about 45 degrees.”

CLAIM-790038 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Dr. Hynek said that he didn't think that the UFO was Venus.”

CLAIM-790039 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The people in the tower had been positive of their descriptions, their statements brought that out.”

CLAIM-790040 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The canopy reflection theory was checked but found to be unlikely.”

CLAIM-790041 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The only theory left to check was that the object might have been one of the big, 100-foot-diameter, 'skyhook' balloons.”

CLAIM-790042 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Mantell Incident is the same old UFO jigsaw puzzle.”

CLAIM-790043 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The ghost rockets left in March, as mysteriously as they had arrived.”

CLAIM-790044 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO that nearly collided with the airliner would have passed almost over Macon, Georgia, after passing the DC-3.”

CLAIM-790045 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Gorman Incident was the famous 'duel of death' with a UFO.”

CLAIM-790046 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It looked something like a huge meteor except that it was a bright green color and it didn't arch downward, as meteors usually do.”

CLAIM-790047 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The green-colored ball of fire had started low, from near the eastern slopes of the Sandia Mountains, arched upward a little, then seemed to level out.”

CLAIM-790048 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The green ball of fire got dimmer and dimmer until it disappeared.”

CLAIM-790049 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Greenish colored meteors, although not common, had been observed on many occasions.”

CLAIM-790050 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The flat trajectory, which seemed to be so important in proving that the green fireballs were extraterrestrial, was also nothing new.”

CLAIM-790051 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The reason that so many had been seen during December of 1948 and January of 1949 was that the weather had been unusually clear all over the Southwest during this period.”

CLAIM-790052 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The trajectory was too flat, the color was too green, and he couldn't locate any fragments even though he had found the spots where they should have hit the earth if they were meteorites.”

CLAIM-790053 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“No ---Dr. La Paz didn't think that they were meteors.”

CLAIM-790054 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“No ---Dr. La Paz didn't think that they were meteorites either.”

CLAIM-790055 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“No particles of a green fireball had ever been found.”

CLAIM-790056 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The green fireballs, they theorized, could be some type of unmanned test vehicle that was being projected into our atmosphere from a 'spaceship' hovering several hundred miles above the earth.”

CLAIM-790057 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the green fireballs are test vehicles-somebody else's. The regular UFO reports might be explained by the fact that the manned vehicles were venturing down to within 100,000 or 200,000 feet of the earth, or to the altitude at which atmosphere re-entry begins to get critical.”

CLAIM-790058 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Witnesses reported seeing formations of small lights flying through the night sky.”

CLAIM-790059 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The lights changed in color from a bluish white to orange and back to bluish white.”

CLAIM-790060 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The lights usually traveled from west to east and made no sound.”

CLAIM-790061 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A great many reports were caused by people seeing balloons or such astronomical bodies as planets, meteors, or stars.”

CLAIM-790062 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The order of February 11, 1949, that changed the name of Project Sign to Project Grudge had not directed any change in the operating policy of the project.”

CLAIM-790063 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force didn't O.K. the plan. I don't know where the plan was killed, or who killed it, but it was killed.”

CLAIM-790064 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Shallet's article, which appeared in two parts in the April 30 and May 7, 1949, issues of The Saturday Evening Post, is important in the history of the UFO and in understanding the UFO problem because it had considerable effect on public opinion.”

CLAIM-790065 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“True magazine 'scooped' the world with their story that UFO's were from outer space.”

CLAIM-790066 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“True magazine 'scooped' the world with their story that UFO's were from outer space.”

CLAIM-790067 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“True magazine 'scooped' the world with their story that UFO's were from outer space.”

CLAIM-790068 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force didn't O.K. the plan. I don't know where the plan was killed, or who killed it, but it was killed.”

CLAIM-790069 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The order of February 11, 1949, that changed the name of Project Sign to Project Grudge had not directed any change in the operating policy of the project.”

CLAIM-790070 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Project Twinkle would prove it.”

CLAIM-790071 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Orson Welles presented a famous UFO broadcast in 1938.”

CLAIM-790072 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Orson Welles presented a famous UFO broadcast in 1938.”

CLAIM-790073 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force had a plan to counter the Keyhoe article, or any other story that might appear. The plan originated at ATIC. It called for a general officer to hold a short press conference, flash his stars, and speak the magic words 'hoaxes, hallucinations, and the misidentification of known objects.'”

CLAIM-790074 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“McLaughlin and crew found out that the UFO had been traveling 4 degrees per second.”

CLAIM-790075 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Donald Keyhoe's article in the January True had converted many people but there were still a few heathens.”

CLAIM-790076 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Navy had no comment to make about the sightings, but they did comment on McLaughlin.”

CLAIM-790077 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“McLaughlin's report contained no personal opinions, just facts.”

CLAIM-790078 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Air Force had no comment to make on McLaughlin's story.”

CLAIM-790079 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A bright light hovering off to the southeast.”

CLAIM-790080 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A disk-shaped UFO buzzed a high flying B-36.”

CLAIM-790081 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A mass UFO sighting reported by most of the town's 3,600 citizens.”

CLAIM-790082 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A white light off to his left.”

CLAIM-790083 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A huge orange red UFO was nothing more than the light from the many northern Indiana blast furnaces reflecting a haze layer.”

CLAIM-790084 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A UFO sighting reported by pilots.”

CLAIM-790085 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The night before a Mid Continent Airlines DC-3 was taxiing out to take off from the airport at Sioux City, Iowa, when the airport control tower operators noticed a bright bluish white light in the west.”

CLAIM-790086 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“On the night of May 29, 1950, the crew of an American Airlines DC-6 had just taken off from Washington National Airport, and they were about seven miles west of Mount Vernon when the copilot suddenly looked out and yelled, 'Watch it - watch it.'”

CLAIM-790087 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A student operator was giving a demonstration to a group of visiting brass at the radar school when he spotted an object about 12,000 yards southeast of the station, flying low toward the north.”

CLAIM-790088 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The pilot of a T-33 jet trainer, carrying an Air Force major as passenger and flying 20,000 feet over Point Pleasant, New Jersey, spotted a dull silver, disk-like object far below him.”

CLAIM-790089 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Radar operators at Fort Monmouth picked up a target that couldn't be tracked automatically.”

CLAIM-790090 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A teletype machine at Wright-Patterson AFB began to chatter out a message.”

CLAIM-790091 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It was in a gradual turn to its left, and it wasn't another airplane.”

CLAIM-790092 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The lights were a weird bluish green color and they were in a semicircular formation.”

CLAIM-790093 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The formation was different, however. The lights Hart saw were always flying in a perfect V.”

CLAIM-790094 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“They suddenly noticed 'a pear shaped' object about 150 yards ahead of them. It was just off the side of the road, about 120 feet in the air. It was drifting slowly to the east, 'less than the speed required to take off in a Cub airplane.'”

CLAIM-790095 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“She said it looked like 'an airplane without a body.' On the back edge of the wing were pairs of glowing bluish lights.”

CLAIM-790096 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The oily white breast of a plover could easily reflect light, but plovers usually didn't travel in more than pairs, or three at the most.”

CLAIM-790097 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The targets were caused by weather, although it was a borderline case.”

CLAIM-790098 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO that the student radar operator had assumed to be traveling at a terrific speed because he couldn't lock on to it turned out to be a 400-mile-an-hour conventional airplane.”

CLAIM-790099 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could have been a balloon, so I sent a wire to the Air Force weather detachment at the Long Beach Municipal Airport.”

CLAIM-790100 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The second radar sighting of the series also turned out to be a balloon.”

CLAIM-790101 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The second day's radar sightings were caused by another balloon and weather - both enhanced by the firm conviction that there were some mighty queer goings on over Jersey.”

CLAIM-790102 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“There was no positive proof that any craft foreign to our knowledge existed.”

CLAIM-790103 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The pilot was positive that he had followed directly behind the UFO for over a minute and all the time it was pulling away from him.”

CLAIM-790104 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The unidentified target slowed down, stopped, and reversed its course, heading directly toward the radar station.”

CLAIM-790105 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“I don't know what it was, but I've never seen anything like it before or since - maybe it was a spaceship.”

CLAIM-790106 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-94 radar operator reported a weak target off to the right at 28,000 feet.”

CLAIM-790107 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Radar engineers detected unidentified targets while testing radars.”

CLAIM-790108 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A huge ball of fire paced two B-29's.”

CLAIM-790109 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A few hours after it had left New York City it was out over the Atlantic Ocean, about 600 miles off Jacksonville, Florida, flying at 8,000 feet.”

CLAIM-790110 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The copilot reached over and slapped the pilot on the shoulder and pointed.”

CLAIM-790111 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light began to get bigger and bigger until it was 'ten times the size of a landing light of an airplane.'”

CLAIM-790112 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He happened to be facing south, looking off across the countryside.”

CLAIM-790113 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light got fairly close, the CIA man said that he suddenly realized there wasn't any sound associated with it.”

CLAIM-790114 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light finished its climb, stop, and level out.”

CLAIM-790115 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light had been in sight too long to be a meteor.”

CLAIM-790116 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A slow moving, high-altitude target that climbed and dove at unusual speeds.”

CLAIM-790117 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Multiple reports of a shiny, round object moving from north to south.”

CLAIM-790118 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Radar picked up odd targets that enlarged and then became smaller, with one report suggesting a disk-shaped object.”

CLAIM-790119 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The fireball could have been two meteors: one that buzzed the C-54 and another that streaked across the airfield at Goose AFB.”

CLAIM-790120 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could have been an intelligently controlled craft that had streaked northeast across the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Quebec Province at 2,400 miles an hour.”

CLAIM-790121 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could have been a meteor.”

CLAIM-790122 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could have been a skyhook balloon.”

CLAIM-790123 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A 'large red light with small white lights on the side' was reported as it came in from the west north west, made a 180 degree turn directly over their heads, and disappeared over the horizon.”

CLAIM-790124 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A teardrop shaped object hovered over Dayton for several minutes about midnight.”

CLAIM-790125 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Both officers had heard flying saucer stories, and both thought the light was a balloon.”

CLAIM-790126 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The targets loafed along at 100 to 130 miles an hour; then in an apparent sudden burst of speed two of them streaked out of radar range.”

CLAIM-790127 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“One target was clocked at 7,000 miles an hour.”

CLAIM-790128 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The targets passed close to commercial airliners in the area and on two occasions the pilots of the airliners saw lights that they couldn't identify.”

CLAIM-790129 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“I first heard about the sighting about ten o'clock in the evening when I received a telephone call from Bob Ginna, Life magazine's UFO expert.”

CLAIM-790130 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“About 10:30 P.M. on July 26 the same radar operators who had seen the UFO's the week before picked up several of the same slow moving targets.”

CLAIM-790131 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A few minutes after the F-94 over Newport News had the last lock-on broken, the targets came back on the scopes at Washington National.”

CLAIM-790132 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The controllers vectored the jets toward group after group of targets, but each time, before the jets could get close enough to see anything more than just a light, the targets had sped away.”

CLAIM-790133 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The tower operators at Andrews AFB saw a 'large fiery-orange-colored sphere' when the radar operators at National Airport told them they had a target over the Andrews Radio range station.”

CLAIM-790134 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The tower operators later changed their story and said that what they saw was merely a star.”

CLAIM-790135 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-94C pilot changed his mind even after he'd given the press and later told me his story about vainly trying to intercept unidentified lights.”

CLAIM-790136 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The pilot of the F-94C says that all he saw was a ground light reflecting off a layer of haze.”

CLAIM-790137 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The most outstanding incident happened just after a take-off one night from Washington National.”

CLAIM-790138 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The only object we could see where the radar had a target turned out to be the Wilson Lines moonlight steamboat trip to Mount Vernon.”

CLAIM-790139 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A scoutmaster and three boy scouts saw a UFO, with the scoutmaster being burned.”

CLAIM-790140 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He said that he had been in the Pacific most of the war and repeated some rather hairy stories of what he'd been through.”

CLAIM-790141 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He had a logical answer. The lights looked like an airplane crashing into the woods some distance away.”

CLAIM-790142 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He had traveled about 50 yards off the road when he ran into a palmetto thicket, so he stopped and looked for a clear path.”

CLAIM-790143 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He walked a few more paces and suddenly got a horrible feeling that somebody was watching him.”

CLAIM-790144 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He shone his light up at the edge of the object and got a quick but good look.”

CLAIM-790145 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He dropped his light and machete, and put his arms over his face.”

CLAIM-790146 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The deputy called the Air Force.”

CLAIM-790147 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The flight surgeon had no idea how this specifically could have happened.”

CLAIM-790148 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The scoutmaster's background was not as clean as he led one to believe.”

CLAIM-790149 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The scoutmaster had been stalling the press.”

CLAIM-790150 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The scoutmaster's story was a hoax.”

CLAIM-790151 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The light was circular in shape and had a constant brilliance. It appeared to be the upper portion of a large, round, dark shape which was about four times the diameter of the light itself.”

CLAIM-790152 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO moved in closer, or at least it appeared to be getting closer because it became more distinct.”

CLAIM-790153 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO moved off to the east, getting dimmer and dimmer as it disappeared.”

CLAIM-790154 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO was highly directional, like a spotlight.”

CLAIM-790155 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO could not be identified as something we knew about. It could have been an interplanetary spaceship.”

CLAIM-790156 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“To quote from a section entitled 'Induction Heating' from an electrical engineering textbook: A rod of solid metal or any electrical conductor, when subjected to an alternating magnetic field, has electromotive forces set up in it. These electromotive forces cause what are known as 'eddy currents.' A rise in temperature results from 'eddy currents.' Induction heating is a common method of melting metals in a foundry.”

CLAIM-790157 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Ozone is prepared by passing air between two plates which are charged at a high electrical potential.”

CLAIM-790158 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The radar at Brookley AFB was so located that part of the area that it scanned was over Mobile Bay. It was in this area that the UFO was detected.”

CLAIM-790159 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The object looked like a balloon. From its size it was apparent that if it were a balloon, it would have been launched from one of the ships, so the word went out on the TBS radio: 'Who launched a balloon?'”

CLAIM-790160 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The object appeared to be large, plenty large enough to show up in a photo, so the reporter shot several pictures.”

CLAIM-790161 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO was described as 'shiny, spherical, and white' and seemed to 'rotate around its vertical axis and sort of wobble.'”

CLAIM-790162 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The object was described as 'round, silvery, and white' and seemed to 'rotate around its vertical axis and sort of wobble.'”

CLAIM-790163 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Some people think we should accept a new model of an airplane after only five or ten hours of flight testing. This is enough proof for them that the airplane will fly.”

CLAIM-790164 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Others wouldn't be happy unless it was flight tested for five or ten years.”

CLAIM-790165 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The answer is somewhere in between these two extremes.”

CLAIM-790166 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A sudden increase of radiation was indicated. The radiation remained high for a few seconds, then dropped back to normal.”

CLAIM-790167 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Three silvery objects moving in a V formation were seen high in the cloudless blue.”

CLAIM-790168 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A lone dark object was seen streaking across the sky.”

CLAIM-790169 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A silvery, circular shaped object near the instrument shack.”

CLAIM-790170 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Several of the Geiger tubes had been triggered at 10:17 A.M.”

CLAIM-790171 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“They found instances where, during the same period of time that radiation in the area had been much higher than normal, radar had had a UFO on the scope.”

CLAIM-790172 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“One of them was listening to the Geiger counter when he detected a definite increase in the clicking.”

CLAIM-790173 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The gods who watch over the UFO project were smiling about this time, because one morning I got a call from a colonel on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.”

CLAIM-790174 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The board's ruling wrote finish to this investigation.”

CLAIM-790175 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The UFO's are interplanetary spacecraft.”

CLAIM-790176 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Radar had picked up an unidentified target near the spot where the scientists in the car had seen the UFO, and it had been traveling north.”

CLAIM-790177 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The highest speeds reported for our combination radar visual sightings were 700 to 800 miles an hour.”

CLAIM-790178 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“They watched it for a while, took a few notes, then drove back to the lab.”

CLAIM-790179 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Both of the observers had seen several of the green fireballs and said that this object was similar in all respects except that the color was a brilliant blue white.”

CLAIM-790180 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Radiation Story”

CLAIM-790181 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Geiger Counter”

CLAIM-790182 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The F-47”

CLAIM-790183 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Mineral Club”

CLAIM-790184 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Tremonton Movie”

CLAIM-790185 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The Montana Movie”

CLAIM-790186 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“The National Security Council”

CLAIM-790187 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Hundreds of people going home from work saw a large, dark, 'cigar shaped object with stubby wings' traveling northwest across Oakland.”

CLAIM-790188 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Reports continued to come in to the newspapers until about April 20.”

CLAIM-790189 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Two large bright lights flying across the blue sky in an echelon formation.”

CLAIM-790190 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Two large bright lights flying across the blue sky in an echelon formation.”

CLAIM-790191 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He thought this was why it was so noticeable among the stars.”

CLAIM-790192 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It had too much of a definitely circular shape.”

CLAIM-790193 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It changed color in about a two second cycle.”

CLAIM-790194 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“It went through this cycle two or three times.”

CLAIM-790195 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Then it changed in shape to a perfect triangle.”

CLAIM-790196 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Then it split into two triangles, one above the other.”

CLAIM-790197 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“He had been flying F-51's in Korea and had recently started to check out in the jets. He took off, cleared the traffic pattern, and started climbing toward Blythe Radio, about 130 miles west of Luke.”

CLAIM-790198 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A lady spotter at Black Hawk, about 10 miles west of Ellsworth, had reported an extremely bright light low on the horizon, off to the northeast.”

CLAIM-790199 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Had they had any reports of unidentified lights?”

CLAIM-790200 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A fast moving, bright bluish white light”

CLAIM-790201 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“A strange cigar shaped object hang over the city for forty minutes”

CLAIM-790202 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“An extremely bright circular shaped object under and a little behind the airplane”

CLAIM-790203 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the light and gets a radar lock on only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer.”

CLAIM-790204 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to what the final outcome of the UFO investigation will be, but I am sure that within a few years there will be a proven answer.”

CLAIM-790205 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the final proven answer will be that all of the UFO's that have been reported are merely misidentified known objects.”

CLAIM-790206 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the many pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, 'I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself,' knew what they were talking about.”

CLAIM-790207 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation

“Maybe the earth is being visited by interplanetary spaceships.”