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UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record

Professor Michel Bounias · author

Investigative journalist Leslie Kean presents official UAP documentation, radar data, and testimony from military generals, pilots, and officials worldwide.

DOCUMENTED EDITIONS
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PUBLISHED CLAIMS
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ARCHIVE TARGETS
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PRIMARY CLAIM LINKS
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INGESTION BATCHES
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UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record (2010 First Edition)

Publication: 2010-08-10
Language: en
Edition verification: corroborated
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139 CITATION LINK(S)
CLAIM-890002 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A colleague in Paris sent me an extraordinary new study by former high-ranking French officials documenting the existence of unidentified flying objects and exploring their potential impact on national security.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 1: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890003 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The term 'UFO' has been misused and has become so much a part of popular culture that its original (and accurate) definition has been nearly completely lost.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 1: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890004 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Richard Haines, former NASA senior scientist and aviation safety expert, defines UAP as: The visual stimulus that produces a sighting report of an object or light seen in the sky, the appearance and/or flight dynamics of which do not suggest a logical, conventional flying object and which remains unidentified after close scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making both a full technical identification as well as a common-sense identification, if one is possible.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 1: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890005 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The UFO taboo is the cultural stigma surrounding UFOs, leading to disbelief and denial among many in the United States.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 1: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890006 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Project Blue Book was a U.S. Air Force program from 1950 to 1970 that investigated UFO sightings and offered explanations to the public.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 1: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890007 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Hundreds of people saw a majestic triangular craft with a span of approximately a hundred and twenty feet and powerful beaming spotlights, moving very slowly without making any significant noise but, in several cases, accelerating to very high speeds.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 2: MAJESTIC CRAFT WITH POWERFUL BEAMING SPOTLIGHTSCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890008 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The sightings occurred in a more than two-year 'wave' over Belgium, beginning in late 1989.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 2: MAJESTIC CRAFT WITH POWERFUL BEAMING SPOTLIGHTSCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890009 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Numerous police officers were among the initial group of witnesses, reporting from different locations as the multiple flying craft hovered and glided and lit up fields along their routes.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 2: MAJESTIC CRAFT WITH POWERFUL BEAMING SPOTLIGHTSCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890010 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Colonel De Brouwer was tasked to handle the UFO wave by his country's defense minister, Guy Coeme.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 2: MAJESTIC CRAFT WITH POWERFUL BEAMING SPOTLIGHTSCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890011 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The objects left imprints on film, and although virtually impossible to detect on radar, they triggered the launching of Air Force F-i6s in anxious pursuit.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 2: MAJESTIC CRAFT WITH POWERFUL BEAMING SPOTLIGHTSCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890012 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A total of 143 sightings were reported in a small area around Eupen, Belgium, thirty kilometers east of the city of Liege and eleven kilometers west of the German border.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890013 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Some reported sightings were witnessed by more than one person, which means that at least 250 people described extraordinary UAP activity, with most reports occurring after sunset.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890014 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The weather was clear with open skies and good visibility.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890015 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Hovering above the field was a triangular craft with three spotlights beaming down and a red flashing light in the center.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890016 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The craft repeatedly emitted two red light beams with a red ball at the spearhead of both beams, in the horizontal plane.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890017 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object remained over the town of Eupen for approximately thirty minutes and was seen by numerous additional witnesses.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890018 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The craft hovered for approximately one hour, while Nicoll and Von Montigny sat in their car on a nearby hill and witnessed an extraordinary spectacle.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890019 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object then proceeded to Lake Gileppe, where it remained immobile, hovering for approximately one hour.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890020 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The craft repeatedly emitted two red light beams with a red ball at the spearhead of both beams, in the horizontal plane.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890021 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A lady was walking her dog in her courtyard when she noticed the spotlights of a craft hovering above her home.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890022 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The photographer saw four light spots on one slide and nothing on the second, which he threw away.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890023 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Large trapezoid platform with six lights, described as grayish.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890024 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Large rectangular craft with irregular structures on the bottom, silent and slow-moving.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890025 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Craft hovered over a nuclear power plant, beaming lights on the structure.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890026 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Craft responded to the presence of observers, moving with the terrain.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 3: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890030 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“I noticed below me and to the left, near the ground, another 'aircraft.' But after a few seconds I saw that this airplane seemed to have only a fuselage. It didn't have wings and it didn't have a tail, only a cockpit! It was an oval shape.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 5: CIRCLED BY A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890031 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was an oval shape. What kind of airplane could that be?”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 5: CIRCLED BY A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890032 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The bottom half was a darker tone.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 5: CIRCLED BY A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890033 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object was flying at a fantastic speed in a large elliptical orbit to the left, between 5,000 feet to the south and approximately 10,000 feet to the north, always from left to right, repeating this route over and over.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 5: CIRCLED BY A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890034 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was very close to my plane, only about fifteen feet.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 5: CIRCLED BY A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890035 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was a metallic disc composed of two halves, one on the top and another on the bottom, with some kind of band around the center, brilliant, with the top reflecting the sun.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 5: CIRCLED BY A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890036 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Whenever another airborne vehicle of any kind cannot be communicated with, makes a very high-speed approach, and then stops unexpectedly within fifteen feet of one's airplane, any pilot in the world would be justifiably concerned and even afraid.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890037 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“On their final approach, the pilot had to maneuver around the object and climb again to wait for it to depart.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890038 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“For six and a half minutes, he conversed with flight service specialist Steve Robey at the Melbourne airport about something unidentified orbiting around his airplane, heading straight for him, and chasing him.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890039 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A series of light phenomena appeared, escorted the aircraft, and flew around it.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890040 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A commercial flight almost collided with a UAP that darted out of a cloud straight toward the aircraft.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890041 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The two lights separated rapidly, and he made a dive to avoid a collision.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890042 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The self-luminous sphere remained at their altitude as they descended.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890043 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Captain Schultz and his copilot were so close to the object that it appeared as large as a grapefruit held at arm's length.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890044 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The Cessna 208B collided in-flight with an unknown object at 3,000 feet and descended uncontrolled into swampy water.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 6: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890045 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A disc-shaped object hovered quietly over the United Airlines terminal and then cut a sharp hole in the cloud bank above while zooming off.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 7: Incursion at O'Hare Airport, 2006CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890046 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The metallic-looking disc was about the size of a quarter or half dollar held at arm's length.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 7: Incursion at O'Hare Airport, 2006CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890047 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The UFO is estimated to have ranged in size from about 22 to 88 feet in diameter, and was suspended at approximately 1,500 feet over Gate C17 at the United terminal.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 7: Incursion at O'Hare Airport, 2006CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890048 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Reports show the event lasted from about five to fifteen minutes.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 7: Incursion at O'Hare Airport, 2006CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890049 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object made no noise as it shot up and left a clear hole in the clouds.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 7: Incursion at O'Hare Airport, 2006CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890050 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Five months after the O'Hare incident, on April 23, 2007, another sighting occurred involving pilots and aviation personnel, this time over the English Channel off the French coast of Normandy.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890051 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The objects were very, very large. The objects were picked up on radar in two locations, and one was witnessed by another pilot from a totally different vantage point.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890052 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“They were sharply defined, and pointed on both ends. The aspect ratio was approximately 15:1 and I could clearly see a dark band two-thirds of the way along from left to right while viewing it through the binoculars.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890053 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Their brilliance is difficult to describe, but I was able to look at this fantastic light without discomfort.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890054 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“They both seemed to be stationary, but the radar traces later proved otherwise: they were actually moving away from each other at about 6 knots, one to the north, from the northern tip of Guernsey towards Casquettes lighthouse, the other moving south along the northwest coast of Guernsey.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890055 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The northernmost of the two objects ends up in its final moments transiting overhead of the Casquettes lighthouse.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890056 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The decluttered radar trace recorded at the time clearly shows two slow-moving objects appearing simultaneously and disappearing off the trace simultaneously.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890057 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“I believe that there were two solid craft working in unison that day, shown by the fact that their sortie was linked together in both time and space.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890058 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“What they were, I cannot answer. What they were doing, once again I cannot answer.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 8: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 2007CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890059 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Several times during a wild cat-and-mouse chase, he and his backseat navigator attempted to launch a Sidewinder missile at additional smaller objects heading their way, but at the moment of fire their equipment shut down, returning to normal only when their jet moved away.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 9: UFOS AS AIR FORCE TARGETSCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890060 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“He quickly realized this was something unknown, a UFO. Three different times he locked on to the object to fire when it was stationary, but each time, at the last instant, it shot straight upward.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 9: UFOS AS AIR FORCE TARGETSCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890063 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It looked similar to a star, but bigger and brighter.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890064 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was flashing colored lights, and changing positions at about 6,000 feet up.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890065 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It also appeared to be changing shapes.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890066 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was moving close to the speed of sound, so they couldn't catch it.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890067 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was flashing with intense red, green, orange, and blue lights.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890068 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was so brilliant, flying at a low altitude over the city, and then it started climbing.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890069 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was like a moon—a round, bright light.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890070 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It was a round dome over it with a dim light inside of it.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890071 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It landed gently on the ground, radiating a high bright light.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890072 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The emergency squawk came from this area, and we flew right over the spot, but there was nothing.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 10: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRANCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890073 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The 'balloon' was in restricted air space without authorization, representing a grave challenge to national sovereignty.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 11: CLOSE COMBAT WITH A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890074 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“This thing had not only appeared in such an area, but it was not replying to communications sent on universally recognized frequencies, and it was moving toward the base.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 11: CLOSE COMBAT WITH A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890075 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object was an object that measured about 35 feet (10 meters) in diameter with a shiny dome on top that was cream-colored, similar to a light bulb cut in half.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 11: CLOSE COMBAT WITH A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890076 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object was not a spying device but a UFO, something totally unknown.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 11: CLOSE COMBAT WITH A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890077 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object performed maneuvers that defied the laws of aerodynamics.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 11: CLOSE COMBAT WITH A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890078 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Our military experts were not able to find any artifact or machine that could have done what this object did.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 11: CLOSE COMBAT WITH A UFOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890079 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 12: THE ROOTS OF UFO DEBUNKING IN AMERICACLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890080 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“This is one of the few UFO reports in which all factors investigated, geometric, psychological, and physical, appear to be consistent with the assertion that an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disc-shaped, tens of meters in diameter, and evidently artificial, flew within the sight of two witnesses.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 12: THE ROOTS OF UFO DEBUNKING IN AMERICACLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890081 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious...”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 12: THE ROOTS OF UFO DEBUNKING IN AMERICACLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890082 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.”
SUPPORTS
SRC-002041 · Chapter 12: THE ROOTS OF UFO DEBUNKING IN AMERICACLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890083 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Since the close of Project Blue Book, the United States has become somewhat of a pariah on the international scene when it comes to official UFO investigations.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 13: TAKING THE PHENOMENON SERIOUSLYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890086 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The objective reality of unidentified aerial phenomena, better known to the general public as UFOs, is no longer in doubt.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 13: TAKING THE PHENOMENON SERIOUSLYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890087 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The European Environmental Bureau position is that 'the precautionary principle justifies early action in the case of uncertainty and ignorance in order to prevent potential harm.'”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 13: TAKING THE PHENOMENON SERIOUSLYCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890099 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“While the French agency under Velasco's direction was focused on the scientific study of UFO evidence as a program within the National Space Center throughout the 1970s, ‘80s, and '90s, the American government was doing absolutely nothing to address ongoing UFO sightings on the other side of the Atlantic, no matter who reported them or what effect they were having on aircraft or military facilities.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890100 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Since the termination of Project Blue Book, U.S. public policy seemed to be to deny any interest in UFOs whatsoever, even if it meant obvious evasiveness or a little bending of the truth here and there.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890101 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The Air Force statements issued at the close of Project Blue Book generated ammunition for UFO denial that is still used today, showing that nothing has changed in America for over forty years.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890102 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The second point can be disputed simply by credible, multiple-witness case studies on record at the time, and many others that have occurred since, such as those of General Parvis Jafari and Comandante Oscar Santa Maria Huertas.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890103 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Dr. James Harder, a University of California professor of civil engineering, told the House Science and Astronautics Committee in its 1968 hearing that the physical reality of UFOs has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890104 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Four years later, our government also filed a report on the Peruvian incident involving Oscar Santa Maria.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890105 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The Air Force statements issued at the close of Project Blue Book generated ammunition for UFO denial that is still used today, showing that nothing has changed in America for over forty years.”
SUPPORTS
SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890106 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The second point can be disputed simply by credible, multiple-witness case studies on record at the time, and many others that have occurred since, such as those of General Parvis Jafari and Comandante Oscar Santa Maria Huertas.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890107 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Dr. James Harder, a University of California professor of civil engineering, told the House Science and Astronautics Committee in its 1968 hearing that the physical reality of UFOs has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 16: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890108 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Witnesses said these structures appeared to be as huge as football fields and were capable of shooting off at incredible speeds from stationary positions.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 17: A POWERFUL DESIRE TO DO NOTHINGCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890109 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The bizarre and highly unusual 'red light ball' phenomenon reported by the four Belgian policemen made an appearance in upstate New York as well.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 17: A POWERFUL DESIRE TO DO NOTHINGCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890110 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Groups of people watched, often at close range or while standing directly underneath, and some reported seeing a dark, solid structure behind the lights.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 17: A POWERFUL DESIRE TO DO NOTHINGCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890115 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A silhouetted triangular craft about 9 feet long by 6.5 feet high came into view. The craft was fully intact, sitting in a small clearing inside the woods.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 19: THE EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT AT RENDLESHAM FORESTCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890116 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“We watched in amazement for a minute or two. I recorded more on the tape: 'H: Strange. One again left. Let's approach the edge of the woods at that point.'”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 19: THE EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT AT RENDLESHAM FORESTCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890117 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object also sent down beams that night near or into the weapons storage area. I was several miles away, but we could see a few beams, and they were reported on the radio from the location.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 19: THE EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT AT RENDLESHAM FORESTCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890121 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The first view was that of a disc shining with a phosphorescent glow, which, even in daylight, appeared to be brighter than the moon.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 21: UFOS IN BRAZILCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890122 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The object followed its path across the sky, changing to a tilted position; its real shape was clearly outlined against the sky: that of a flattened sphere encircled, at the equator, by a large ring or platform.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 21: UFOS IN BRAZILCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890123 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The objects were observed as white, green, and yellow lights, and sometimes without any lights at all.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 21: UFOS IN BRAZILCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890124 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Radar readings on both the air defense system and intercepting jets were recorded simultaneously, while, also simultaneously, the pilots observed the objects through the cockpit window.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 21: UFOS IN BRAZILCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890125 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The official conclusion reads as follows: 'It is the opinion of this Command that the phenomenon is solid and reflects intelligence by its capacity to follow and sustain distance from the observers, and also to fly information, not necessarily manned.'”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 21: UFOS IN BRAZILCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890126 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“When asked, most military officers who have been personally involved with UFO incidents refrain from interpretation or speculation, yet privately many have a keen, persistent interest in getting to the bottom of the problem.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 22: FIGHTING BACK: A NEW UFO AGENCY IN AMERICACLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890127 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The FAA did conduct an official investigation two months after the Alaska event—mainly because there was radar evidence, and because 'public interest' forced the issue.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 22: FIGHTING BACK: A NEW UFO AGENCY IN AMERICACLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890131 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A gigantic round object with colored lights flashing and running around it, which was much bigger than his 747, as big as an aircraft carrier.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 23: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT 'THAT NEVER HAPPENED'CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890132 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The objects then flew in level flight with the 747. Later, the captain made a turn to evade the UFO, but it flew alongside the jet, keeping a constant distance.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 23: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT 'THAT NEVER HAPPENED'CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890133 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The technology was 'unthinkable,' Terauchi said, because the UFOs appeared to have control over both inertia and gravity.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 23: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT 'THAT NEVER HAPPENED'CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890134 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The FAA had developed a computer program capable of re-creating the traffic on the controllers' scope, called plan view display (PVD).”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 23: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT 'THAT NEVER HAPPENED'CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890135 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The hardware and software engineers put together a large chart that showed every target along the flight of the 747 during its reported encounter with the UFO.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 23: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT 'THAT NEVER HAPPENED'CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890136 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The CIA confiscated all this data, and you are all sworn to secrecy.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 23: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT 'THAT NEVER HAPPENED'CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890137 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The FAA spokesman at the time, Paul Steucke, said it was just a 'coincidence' that the split image happened to fall at the right distance and the same side of the aircraft where the object was reported visually by the pilot.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 23: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT 'THAT NEVER HAPPENED'CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890138 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The final report simply outright ignored the three visual sightings with all their details and drawings, as if the event really had never happened.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 23: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT 'THAT NEVER HAPPENED'CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890139 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The CIA's directive that 'this event never happened,' as reported by former FAA official John Callahan, may be familiar to those who have read statements from American military witnesses to UFO events.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890140 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Many have been told more or less the same thing by their superior officers: Do not speak to anyone about the incident that you just experienced.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890141 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“A number of fearless men and women have, years later, spoken out in spite of orders or oaths, without repercussions.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890142 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The repeated demand for silence, coupled with the overzealous classification of government documents and the furtive misidentifications issued by Project Blue Book, and later the FAA, has led to much speculation about whether government agencies are involved in some kind of cover-up—a widespread, carefully orchestrated policy, hidden from almost everyone, to keep secret 'the truth' about UFOs.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890143 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Documents prove that the UFO phenomenon became a concern to the Air Force, the CIA, and the FBI as long ago as the late 1940s, thereby giving U.S. authorities ample time to collect the best data and study physical evidence.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890144 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The military would have been extremely interested in the technological capabilities demonstrated by these objects, if they could ever get access to them.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890145 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“We must consider the possibility that enough concise data—even physical material retrieved from crashed UFOs—could have been obtained and studied in secret.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890146 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“If our government officials were hungry to discover some of the keys to these exotic new technologies, or thought we were on the verge of unearthing a new physics, something from another space-time perhaps, these discoveries could give America unimaginable new capabilities.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890147 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The analogy has been made to a group of cavemen suddenly coming into possession of a television set, before even understanding the fundamental concepts of electricity or radio waves.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 24: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP: POLICY OR MYTH?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890148 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“On March 13, 1997, multiple triangular and V-shaped UFOs made a series of brazen new appearances, this time over the western United States.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 25: GOVERNOR FIFE SYMINGTON AND MOVEMENT TOWARD CHANGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890153 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The National Guard dropped high-intensity magnesium flares southwest of Phoenix between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 25: GOVERNOR FIFE SYMINGTON AND MOVEMENT TOWARD CHANGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890157 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“I still don't know what it was.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 26: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHTCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890162 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“There are many high-ranking military aviation and government officials who have witnessed similar apparently inexplicable things at other times and in other quarters of the sky, and who share my concern that our government disparages these facts at its, and our, peril.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 26: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHTCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890171 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The UFO taboo is a societal taboo preventing serious consideration of UFOs.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 28: MILITANT AGNOSTICISM AND THE UFO TABOOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890172 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Militant agnosticism is a political stance advocating for systematic study of UFOs without taking a position on their extraterrestrial origin.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 28: MILITANT AGNOSTICISM AND THE UFO TABOOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890173 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“UFOs are unexplained objects in the sky.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 28: MILITANT AGNOSTICISM AND THE UFO TABOOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890174 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The UFO taboo is a functionally necessary for modern, anthropocentric rule.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 28: MILITANT AGNOSTICISM AND THE UFO TABOOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890175 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Militant agnosticism can help overcome the UFO ignorance problem.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 28: MILITANT AGNOSTICISM AND THE UFO TABOOCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890176 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The fundamental problem afflicting true understanding of UFOs is ignorance, not secrecy, and that this ignorance is accepted because it serves a political purpose.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890177 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The problem is more energized, more confrontational than simple ignorance, as we have seen.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890178 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The UFO taboo is akin to denial in psychoanalysis.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890179 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The American political establishment is monopolizing any decision making for the time being.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890180 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The potential dangers of acknowledging and investigating UFOs are real.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890181 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The fears are understandable, and even justified;”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890182 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The waters are rising to a level that will eventually compel the dam to break.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890183 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“The phenomenon itself has placed us in a precarious situation that we have not chosen, and that we can do nothing about.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890184 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“It's time now, finally, to open our eyes and find out what that might be.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890185 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“There are solid, three-dimensional objects of unknown origin flying in our skies, stopping in midair and zooming toward outer space, which are apparently not natural or man-made.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890186 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Photographs have captured their image on film, and radar blips have done the same on tracking monitors.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-890187 · ufos generals pilots and government officials go o Observation
“Thousands of people from all walks of life in every continent have seen these objects, including many pilots and military officers.”
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SRC-002041 · Chapter 29: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGECLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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