The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents, drawings, letters and parliamentary questions covering the years 2000-2005.
Find out more about the House of Lords’ debate on UFOs, a flying saucer hoax that was treated as a potentially real alien invasion of the UK and how 1978 nearly became 'the year of the UFO'.
Due to the large size of some of these files, we recommend you save them to your PC before opening them. Please right click on the links and select the ‘save’ option.
Previous file releases;
The National Archives holds other UFO files that have already been released by the Ministry of Defence. You can download these in PDF format for a small fee. The files contain details of numerous UFO sightings.
Introduction;
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"Within the vault of Library and Archives Canada there exist files from four government departments that were involved with collecting data and conducting investigations on unidentified flying objects (UFOs)".
The Department of Transport, Department of National Defence, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the National Research Council all dealt with reports, sightings and investigations of UFOs across Canada. Each department had different interests and goals. The truth about their investigations is found in files held by Library and Archives Canada. A selection of these files have been digitized and made available on this site.
Conduct your own UFO investigations using the following resources:
The Timeline;
Find information on the files of the four government agencies and view examples of their work. Browse through the timeline to learn when each department became involved in investigating UFOs.
The Map;
Investigate selected UFO sightings in Canada, some of which, according to the Department of National Defense, have not been solved.
The Search;
Investigate the files of all four agencies through the search tool. Type in a keyword such as a place or date, and view all government documents related to that keyword.
These files are not in English but hopefully there are some Danish people viewing this thread or some that can translate some juicy UFO reports from this Danish UFO data base
Insiders in the border-fiction;
quote;
"For many years, is the Ultra-editorial appeared in selected years, limit the information the subject within the scope of the literature a number of books, which were then the frontier fiction. Semifinalists will be revealed this year to ten books. This year was the seventh time, and the book selection was made by Seppo Plaami. He chose the threshold data book UFO-Finland ry, publishing and well-known British Mysterious Timothy Goodin works Insider - UFOs, the military and intelligence agencies. Seppo Plaami, which also has first-hand ufokokemuksia, says: "The selection criteria was that I think Timothy Good has done in this work that an excellent summary of the ufoasiasta. "
UFO-Finland ry Promoted headlines;
Broadcasting pääuutislähetys 05/09/2011 reported sightings made in Finland. Uutisreportaasissa interviewed by the UFO-Finland ry Vice Lasse agency. Ahonen, Finnish Air Force wanted to move in informing a number of other countries of the transparency line. The Air Force was repeating old lies YLE news, according to which they do not have anything to say. None of the Air Force refused to comment on this news. entirety News: Finns are becoming more common, sightings continue;
An interesting phenomenon of Nick Pope's lecture session;
Nick Pope's lecture, after Igor Volke told in their own style, interestingly strange phenomena have occurred in Estonia. Igor told me for example. miniufoista, which he also referred to as "tiny-UFOs." It was the presentation in this section Priit Rifk took a few pictures, showing a white ball of light. In the first picture a ball of light appears on the screen and the other shot at the top of the paper board, which at the same time, Igor piirteli miniufon images.
Auditorium located in the basement, so hardly reflected on the window that came to be the case. How they came to the balls? Coincidence again? Image details: Date: 30/01/2011, camera: Samsung, the image size: 3072x2304 px, shutter speed: 1 / 45 sec, aperture: 3.6, Focal Length: 7.5 mm, ISO: 240 (top) , 320 (lower figure), the flash mode (auto mode).
Nick Pope, Finland;
One of the world's best-known Mysterious, Nick Pope visited the UK for the first time in Finland 29.-30.1.2011. Practical arrangements was mainly responsible for Jani Lassila and events held in Hotel Arthur. Pope was 21 years, the British Ministry of Defence civil servant, and he had the opportunity to explore the many decades uforaportteihin always be made since the 1950s. In December 2010 became the 30 years since the well-known military base near the incident occurred Rendelshamin (also known as Woodbridge and Bentwaters).
Pope's lecture upon by the main above-mentioned cases. Pope in addition to conference lectures, Jaakko Närvä and Igor Volke. Pope's visit in the media got a lot of attention. MTV3 presented ten o'clock news on 30.1. Pope's short and longer version of the interview on Tuesday morning, 2.2. Also FST5 photographers were present. In addition, Estonia's Radio Channel 2's reporter interviewed Popea Ingrid Peek. The supplier was prepared to interview in depth, because it took me an hour and 20 minutes.
UFO-Finland ry released yet another ufokirjan;
Håkan Blomqvist: Aliens among us
UFO-Finland ry has not been previously published a book, which deals with possible human and alien contact. This book is the story of the amazing experience of a Swedish man, which he was the middle of middle age is somewhat unexpected. Events began in Uddevalla, near Gothenburg. The main character, Richard Höglund worked with aliens for several years and traveled to the Bahamas, including a number of occasions to carry out the task avaruuskontakteiltaan received.
Richard was the case in Sweden at the time the media from reporting news well. His story led to widespread amazement, and continues to cause. The case is investigated and collected information on Librarian Håkan Blomqvist. He wrote this book in 2009, after gathering information from more than 30 years.
Over 500 ufoaiheista link;
UFO-Finland ry's website, one of the most popular destinations is a list of links related to UFOs. It is collected and maintained for over ten years. At the moment, it is the largest of its kind in the world and contains over 500 links. The situation will change at a pace that is always involved in some of the non-functional links. If you find that someone associated with UFOs important link is missing or not working, please let us know.
Unidentified objects of power plants and nuclear arsenals close
Estonian newspaper Postimees and the media devote Öhtuleht 25/09/2010 in August took place in Pärnu, a strange observation. The Finnish company, Fortum's subsidiary, Fortum Termest has recently launched a new Pärnu, electricity and heat, including wood-generating power plant. CCTV image of the power plant early in the morning, 28 power plant in August moving luminous circular object. The target appeared and moved in camera at the area for about an hour. Video can be viewed on the following address: www.parnupostimees.ee/?id=318154
UFO-Finland ry was the incident in connection with Estonia's best-known Mysterious, Igor Volkeen . - I've been watching the media and described the phenomenon itself is familiar to us already. Even during the Soviet era buildings in the vicinity of certain types of energy equivalent to circling the balls with a ball appearance reminds a flash, even if it is a fireball. Russian scientists appointed by low-energetic phenomenon plasmapalloksi. In such a movement and operation of intelligent features is noticeable. Phenomenon and the importance of ancestry can not be easily ascertained, says Volke.
Industrial and power plants, including Finland, have made plenty of observations of unidentified flying objects.
Last week, Reuters reported the United States, of the 120 military personnel have signed a paper in which they testify, including nuclear arsenals in the context of the observed unidentified flying objects. Preliminary data indicate that at week 39 on the issues to be aware of a press conference.
Below are screenshot of the image controls the camera's monitor. A strange picture of the target at the bottom right.
At least as interesting as the news of the previous one, can be found at:
The UN and the aliens, the Aamulehti
the United Nations and the aliens, HS
The aliens and the UN
The UN and aliens
Aliens discovered the NASA spacecraft, Evening Magazine;
UFO-Finland ry released a new ufokirjan
Timothy Good: Insider - UFOs, the military and intelligence agencies
Now it's official - the armies of different countries, and intelligence reports that unidentified flying objects exist.
"High-ranking Air Force officers are behind the scenes really concerned about UFOs. Naurettavuustekijät authorities secrecy and get people to believe that unidentified flying objects are nonsense." U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the former head, Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter.
Hopefully as many Finnish citizens exercising power line in addition to reading this book. The time has come to see the world as it is.
Globally, the well-known Mysterious years of research includes a number of military and intelligence professionals, pilots, politicians, scientists, and interviews in addition to top-secret classified documents and reports. The work conducted just as the western world ufohistoriaa the first World War to the year 2004 until the events.
UFO-Finland ry has been a unique opportunity to bring this book to the Finnish language. The book contains a considerable amount of information that has not previously been available in Finnish.
The book has a large drawing-and-white illustrations. 482 pages.
Wendelle C. Stevens to investigate UFOs until the end of his life
For many Finns felt by the American ufoharrastajien Mysterious Wendelle C. Stevens died of a heart attack at home 9/7/2010 at the age of 87. He was one of the world's best-known Mysterious Mysterious and his career lasted 54 years. Stevens was active as a researcher until the end, though his inner circle had found his health deteriorated. Stevens wrote over 30 books and ufoaiheista he had collected 4000 ufovalokuvan archive. Stevens worked for 40 century U.S. armed forces, including the pilot, in 1972, remaining a full term of retired Lieutenant Colonel.
Wendelle Stevens lived in the last 20 years the State of Arizona, Tucson in the city. I visited my wife and Lasse Ahonen, Timo Koskenniemi, and with Wendell Tucson detached house in the spring of 2006. We sat talking in his backyard orange and lemon trees. We decided to go inside to drink coffee, I went to take cameras to the front yard of our car.
Suddenly, a very low Stevens crashed out of the house behind two black and almost silent helicopter. Helicopters made a quick turn in front of Stevens' house, and immediately disappeared behind a nearby hill slopes. I got a few photos taken from helicopters. Our interest event - Stevens said that he had never seen a house near the helicopters.
Stevens kerkisi their lives to document a huge amount of ufoaineistoa. Unfortunately, a large number of "silent" ufotietoutta Stevens disappeared off the cost of time. He was blessed buried with military honors 16.9. Wendelle a good trip, the truth is out there somewhere.
Photo below: Timo Koskenniemi (left), and Tommy Stevens Wendelle Ruuskanen, who moments earlier ottamaansa presents the photographs of black helicopters.
Tommy Ruuskanen 09/08/201;
Books in Helsinki
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In early December 2009 the British Ministry of Defence announced that it has stopped for more than 50 years, lasted ufotutkimukset. This makes interesting news is that it's never been told that ufotutkimuksia would not even begun. Ufotutkimusten official existence is always in dispute.
Over 50 years of research after the Ministry of Defence is still not the opinion of extraterrestrial life exists. Similarly, there is no evidence that the sightings were caused by Britain's security threat.
Over half a century of observation reports have accumulated thousands. What is interesting in this material will take place, it was not told. Hopefully not, however, to do so than in Finland! The observation of the reports is used to receive had the phone number and e-mail address, which are now closed. One ufohavaintoja investigated an employee is transferred to another department.
Now, freed resources for the Ministry will continue to use the more worldly and more important issues such as the war in Afghanistan!
UFO-Finland ry released a new ufokirjan
Azo Haapanen: sightings of the Armed Forces 1933-1979
The book, which is the general opinion, can not exist. Finnish Defence Forces carried out ufotutkimukset have hitherto been unknown to us things.
Recently, state ufoarkistojaan have revealed at least in the United Kingdom, Denmark and France. This book also reveals the dirty details of the Finnish Defence Forces ufotutkimuksesta: official ufotutkimusraportteja have been destroyed by burning!
The knowledge gained from reliable sources, it is certain that the National Archives tähti uforaportteja is "edited" before they are published. A large part of the uforaporteista is still held by the armed forces.
Quite an interesting way the Finnish Air Force has completed the test flights in the country, and thus the viewers of observations using aircraft has been ruled out, the phenomenon caused. Ghost rockets, Phantom of the aircraft, flying cigars and flying saucers in addition to the book even tells laskeutumistapauksesta. The book is hardcover, 192 pages, price 27 e.
Helsinki Sanomat published a reportage Pudasjärven Feed the region ufoilmiöistä
NOW-Annex 09/18/2009
The story the main character is a Atte Särkelä, a phenomenon that makes up the public consciousness 40 years ago. Särkelä had to include people's ridicule, because he dared to speak of the phenomenon. Even the family is not spared Särkelä pilkalta. Only the 90 century, UFOs already ventured to speak publicly. The article tries to find an explanation Feed phenomena.
Kainalojuttuna cover story is a compilation of explanations. Otherwise, a good package is broken, when the astronomer ufoilmiölle sought an explanation from the mouth. Explanations about its story of the Finnish Air Force. According to them, they do not have any information on the subject.
The Air Force will come this autumn, wow the UFO-Finland ry's new book. It reveals the integrity, the country's air force has investigated ufoilmiötä.
HS's story can be found in this link: UFOs Pudasjärven above
Feed the mountain area conceals many mysteries;
Hailuoto scientific ufoseminaari received media publicity
Hailuoto pilot hotel January 30-February 1, 2009 was a very organized ufoseminaari our visibility in the media. On the media devote at least Yle, Aamulehti, Forum24, Kalevala, Finnish Central, New York Times, Evening Magazine, New Finland, Itä-Savo and Verkkouutiset.
Most of the publicity can be explained by a fresh, Jaakko Narva PhD doctoral dissertation. Närvä Ph.D. subject: Ufologia ufokokemukset and religious phenomenon - Theoretical research, which he also gave a presentation during the seminar.
The event was organized without any commercial objective, so the income nor the expenditure incurred. Thank you to all lecturers, the opportunity to participate in your own expense. The pilot show our thanks also to the hotel and its staff for the excellent accommodation and seafood that included meals. Thank you for showing in the Oulu Region Settlement Association, whose ownership of the hotel business is the pilot. The next seminar in the planning is already underway.
Hailuoto scientific ufoseminaari, Hailuoto January 30 to February 1, 2009
Location: Hailuoto Luotokeskus
Program:
Friday at 18, Mikko Sarsila: Presentation of Research Technology
at 20 Viewing ufovideoita
Saturday, breakfast at 9 am
Lasse Ahonen at 10: What ufoilmiössä is true?
lunch break at 12-13
at 13 Tommy Ruuskanen: Ufohavaintojen shooting stills and video camera
15.00-15.30 coffee break
15.30 Timo Koskenniemi: How to take advantage of Medicine ufotutkimuksessa?
Pause
18.30 ufopaneeli, discussion of scientific ufotutkimuksen opportunities. Panel participants Lasse Ahonen, Lasse Jalonen, Matias, Main Building, Timo Koskenniemi, James Närvä and Mikko Sarsila. Chairman Tommy Ruuskanen.
Sunday, breakfast at 9 am
at 10 James Närvä: Narva dissertation on "Ufologia ufokokemukset and religious phenomenon - Theoretical Research."
lunch break at 12-13
at 13 Olavi Kiviniemi: the reality of UFOs
Opportunity for a decision at 16 o'clock at the latest.
Entry fee: 15 euros / day. The price includes a buffet meal at the table. Paid to the UFO-Finland ry's account 478311-219180, bank reference 3670.
Accommodation: Pilot Hotel 40 Euros / day / person 2-person rooms, including breakfast. Cabin accommodation for 4-6 persons in cabins winter-65-85 per day / cabin. All cabins have a mm. Toilet, shower, refrigerator, coffee maker, oven stove or cooker, dining and ruoanlaittoastiastot and television. Luoto, Finland is a caravan site for motorhomes and caravans. Trolley Place 20 euros / day.
Almost a hundred have arrived the enthusiasts, or otherwise interested in the matter were to experience a rare treat when on Saturday they had arrived at 13/12/2008 FM James Narva dissertation University of Helsinki Main Building room 13 Dissertation title was "Ufologia ufokokemukset and religious phenomenon - Theoretical Research." The opponent was Professor Seppo Knuuttila, University of Joensuu, and the Custos Professor René Gothóni.
Dissertation Work Närvä when James was familiar with the subject for five years a very extensive and thorough. The result was a 397-page dissertation printed in small print. Scope of work also describes the huge amount of source material, which as a good indication of his doctoral thesis in 1134 mentioned a source of reference.
Dissertation lasted about two hours, and showed that the only candidate, Professor Seppo Knuuttila, had in-depth knowledge and knew what he was talking about. This thesis clearly showed that ufoilmiötä can be studied scientifically, but if the desire and attitude can be found in such research work is in good condition. Hopefully, this dissertation will be a new kind of ufokeskustelua time. Finally, Professor Knuuttila asked the question: whether they are or not? It Närvä answered: is.
The stars we have come - a new book
The Earth is a paradise planet, the Milky Way zone of life. Galaxies are large grain fields, a monumental life in the universe. Has trillions of galaxies. So it is with the Earth-like planets in the whole of existence. Perhaps it is also supermaapalloja, bigger and smaller.
There may be other universes and other dimensions, which the laws of physics we do not yet understand. Perhaps Einstein's theory of relativity is still small, niche markets for new things. Oh, and also so that our own universe is not scale at all significant, but the side path.
Matias, Main Building of the stars we have come to the book, tells the time and space, the deep essence of expert precision. He also ponders the human status, and future acts - ufojakaan forgetting. He will examine critically our understanding of natural phenomena, and does not shy away from present requirements, but also to God.
Main building knowledge of astronomy is a profound, deeply felt first-hand with determination throughout life requested information. Main Building warns, however, from making the world's beliefs through the pictures. He emphasizes the experimental science still doubt romuttamatta philosophical reflection on the deep mysteries of life.
The universe has many of the DIY work that support the emergence of life. The laws of nature leave every situation of life the development of niche markets in every corner of All That Is. If carbon is not created, the electron electric charge would be different galaxies to avoid long-lived stars or if the space would be reduced. We would not exist today in the form.
Supernova explosions brought the Galaxy heavy elements, planets, and our building materials. The stars we have come to the stars, and we have to go back again. The book has 318 pages and the price of 37 e.
A strange flying object in southern Finland;
Southern Finnish man was 7/25/2008 Outdoors family members with the time at 11-12, and decided to take a few pictures. The first picture did not show anything unusual, but 31 seconds later, the captured image is displayed on the left side of the west and north-west direction of a strange object, which seems to come from behind a cloud. The image on the right side is limited to the parents of out. No sound was not part of or in any other special was not observed.
Matias main house's new book;
Mainly in astronomy, space issues and a lot of UFOs by Matias, Main Building is the latest book, the mysteries of the war, expanded its production written into new territory. As the name of the book already suggests, it deals with war and related issues. The book just to find readers interested persons on these subjects. But surprise, surprise: the book can also be found Mysterious interesting things.
Section 19 "of the Soviet Union harassment cloud crossed the Finnish 1985" explains the observed mainly in Ostrobothnia and Finland exceeding the strange cloud. Chapter 23 "When the entire battalions will disappear into the void" tells the whole women in the military departments of the strange disappearances, which is not even today have found a natural explanation. The book has a large black and white and color illustrations. 206 pages, price 29.90 e.
The police chased UFO;
UFO encounter was a police helicopter in a military base near the 07.06.2008 in Cardiff, England. Waiting for the helicopter to land at an altitude of 500 feet when the crew discovered the ship's darting towards them from below. The pilot managed to bypass the danger, however, evasive on the move. The helicopter was a return trip to the Ministry of Defence base in St. Athanista. A three-member helicopter crew described the UFO saucer shape. They managed to chase the North Devon coast, until gasoline meter rang red. South Wales Police spokesman said the incident as follows:
"We can confirm that the ASU (Air Support Unit) discovered an unusual vessel. Report this sent to the investigating bodies." The report also mentioned that the ship was approaching at high speed, and that the helicopter was in flight path. "They are convinced that it was a UFO. It sounds far-fetched, but yes, they know what they saw." The police helicopter is about crossing the Bristol Channel, while driving behind unidentified ship. Then they lost contact with the vision, and had a moment to turn back due to fuel shortage.
Romanian leaked military report claimed that at least one unidentified flying object crashed fighter last year in Central Europe in the sky. Romania's Ministry of Defence began the studies, and tried to figure out what, or what kind of stumbled upon the Romanian MIG 21 fighter.
According to an official report, at least in the cab kupuosa significantly damaged upon impact. Cases examined by the Defence Ministry as saying authorities rejected the usual explanation of the models, such as birds, ice blocks, or small meteorites. Served as principal investigator Commander Nicolae Grigorie referred to the report, researchers in confusion as follows: "We can define what it does not always have been, but we can not say exactly what it was."
MIG-21 fighter was a shock at the time of carrying out training flights over Transylvania. Shock effect lasted only 67 milliseconds. The event was recorded in a fighter cockpit-mounted video camera. In fact the pilot, Marine Mitrica not hurt the situation badly. He managed to land safely damaged fighter back down to earth.
Confused by the Romanian military authorities to push the ufotapausta now the Air Force Safety Committee for investigation.
Source: www.upi.com
Lauri Tervonen;
UFO crashed in Vietnam - the evidence is in a safe place;
UFO allegedly exploded above the island of Phu Quocin. Found by local metal songs have led to speculation about the origin of the UFO.
Vietnam's national news agency reported the case as follows: "An unidentified flying object exploded in Phu Quocin north of the island above the 5/27/2008 about ten o'clock in the morning." Source of information was revealed the island's military commander, acting Colonel Nguyen Van Qui. None of the private passenger or military aircraft have not yet been reported missing in that area.
The first observation made ufosta Cambodian authorities, who compared the UFO, "a fire in the sky." Following this observation, said UFO exploded. It ufosta what was left of the Phu Quocin apparently crashed on the island, where the locals took possession of the metal piece that size, they reported about 1.6 meters. The metal is said to be peculiar-looking, and its surface has been noticed symbols that appear in printed or engraved in metal.
Site was found in more metal songs. Phu Quocin Military Region have already received over 14 pieces of metal. Local residents' representative of the committee Lam Quang Chanh said that the scrap metal fell Ganh Dau and Cua Can communes area at about 10.20.
Although the findings from the island and discovered the metal pieces would not have anything to do with the external intelligence with the chain of events tangeeraa many other famous ufotapauksen with. If a piece of metal found on the island are the symbols of authentic, the connection, for example in the 1960s occurred at Kecksburgissa ufotapaukseen is clear, as described by the witnesses, the symbols are very similar.
UFOs do not tipahtele the sky every day. This time, the situation is very interesting, because ufosalaliittoteoriat are generally well in North America and Britain, the key. However, Vietnam is a Communist country, a close relationship with China to prevent a spread of information, which is considered a superpower in terms of counter-productive. Hopefully, the Vietnamese national news agency reported the events truthfully.
Lauri Tervonen;
Sturrockin new edition of the report;
Acclaimed scientist Peter A. Sturrockin aides to write a scientific ufokirjasta "Uforaporteihin associated with physical evidence," has released a new revised edition. The book has been on the market for several years and is still being sold, because the corresponding scientific ufokirjoja does not have many. Also look has been redesigned. The book has 143 pages and cost 19 euros.
New ufokirjoja;
UFO-Finland ry to develop continuously publishing activities. So far, we have published seven books and more are coming. We strive to continue to publish, at least one new ufokirjan year. Do you have a desk drawer or in a suitable known manuscripts for publication? It can also be a translation. Contact us, we look forward to suggestions!
OTTAWA Canada's former Minister of Defence Paul Hellyerin, 83, according to a secret government concealment ufoteknologia provide an effective means to fight against global warming. "I would like to see what kind ufoteknologiaa might be there, with the use of fossil fuels to an end in one generation. It could provide an opportunity to save our planet," he said in Ottawa Citizen newspaper in an interview. "We have to convince all governments to tell it what they know. And some of us believe that they know so much about." (Kaleva, 1.3.2007, STT, AFP)
Paul Hellyerin interview in its entirety can be found at:
In early December 2006 the UFO-Finland ry released a new 230-page ufokirjan "stars and strange phenomena." Oulu is a writer Matias, Main Building. The book is based almost entirely on domestic prior to unpublished material. The book has received considerable publicity as soon as fresh, mainly in northern Finland in the press, which is natural, because the book is mainly based on above-mentioned events in the region for several decades.
Matias, Main Building is well known for a long line of amateur astronomers and the Mysterious, who has decades of experience in the starry sky, and the observation of natural phenomena. Main building extensive experience in the science writer has created a foundation for the emergence of this book. Stars and strange phenomena, the book is an exciting, new perspectives and ideas from the opening book. It says sharply, and the prevalence of various phenomena in astronomy, UFO and SETI research problems.
Have affected the natural wonders of the main house as a child. Stars, comets, ball lightning, and "flying saucers" have developed a natural quality of the study of the mind. The book is full of information and the big issues, studies and theories. The book also reveals the Kuusamo Saapungin ufosta tiskivesinaurun born, and brings out the Kainuu Border Guard to conduct studies on Pyyvaaran ufosta. The book is a 4-color illustrations.
France to resume official ufotutkimukset;
French Space Administration, CNES, published 28/09/2005 press release that the CNES has decided to reopen the ufotutkimukset. Unidentified atmospheric phenomena (UFO = = UAP, the French used to as a PAN) activity and the activity of this research and monitoring in this area for information it was decided to establish a
The Executive Committee unidentified aerial phenomena and space-related activities to monitor
It met CNES for the first time in 22.9.2005.
Committee of the task is threefold:
reports, collection, clean writing and filing data bank for the establishment.
reports analyzing various experts.
Informing the interested public, regular publication of reports and archives, access to the monitoring.
Committee, chaired by the CNES, former Director-General Yves Sillard, and its members include:
CNES's representatives: Toulouse, Department Deputy Director, external information, teaching and public relations director of the responsible and ethical issues.
CNES in cooperation with the representatives of different organizations: the national gendarmerie, National Police Force, Air Force, Civil Defence, Civil Aviation Administration, National Weather Service.
Researchers, the CNES has invited the Director-General in agreement with the Chairman of the Committee.
At its first meeting, the Committee recommended that the CNES creates, or recreates, relations between the authorities above. Activities open to the importance of the lines was less and it was decided to create a website, which would be published to-date information, taking into account the prevailing legislation.
The Committee will meet as often as needed, and at least twice a year at the invitation of its president. CNES UAP Affairs in charge must submit an annual status report to the Steering Committee, and report progress twice a year. CNES CNES, forwarding are controlled for the Ministries Management Committee presented the annual report and recommendations along with.
(The Committee has received a relatively high level of team leader. Sillard Yves has served as CNES Director General in the years 1976-1982. Sillard was appointed in 1998, NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Deputy Registrars. Sillard led to the mm. The Concorde project and the Guyana Space Centre located in France).
MEXICO'S DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RELEASES UFO INFORMATION
Mexico's Department of Defense Releases UFO Information - Evidence of a International Rift in the Management of UFOs/Extraterrestrial Affairs?
Michael E. Salla, PhD;
On Tuesday, May 11, 2004, an international press conference was held to announce the findings of a joint official and private effort to investigate a UFO sighting.
What is remarkable in the press conference is that Department of Defense collaborated with a top Mexican UFO researcher, Jaime Maussan, in the release of information concerning the appearance of up to 11 UFO's in the vicinity of a Mexican Air force flight that was on a drug surveillance mission on March 5, 2004. Using infrared cameras and radar tracking, the eight-man crew of the Merlin C26/A flight was able to monitor the UFOs, which at one point formed a circle around the flight. In investigating the incident, the Air force contacted Jaime Maussan and asked him to participate in the inquiry.
The release of data on the UFOs taken by a Mexican Air force crew was certainly a coup for Maussan who released the information in the popular television program 'Great Mysteries of the Third Millennium' on May 9, 2004. Maussan was initially contacted on April 20, by the Department of Defense and had a meeting the next day with General Clemente Vega Garcia, Secretary of Defense and his senior officials.
The Secretary of Defense went further however than simply informing Maussan of the incident. General Clemente released film and other data of the incident to Maussan that he could investigate with his own independent research team. The Department of Defense confirmed to international media outlets such as Reuters in a May 11 Press Conference that it had handed over the film and data to Maussan. This was certainly unprecedented and signaled a major new approach to dealing with the UFO phenomenon by a major world government.
Up to the present time, there appears to have been a well- coordinated international effort in managing UFO sightings and reports of UFO crashes. These have typically been handled in a way suggesting a sophisticated global system for dealing with UFO sightings, and even collecting the remains of crashed UFOs, without witnesses having much credibility before the mass media. This global management system has prevented governmental releases of UFO information to the general public and international media.
Whatever releases did occur typically involved private civilians rather than military personnel in their official capacities revealing UFO information. In the US, military personnel have been legally proscribed from participating in the release of information of UFO sightings according to military regulations described in the Joint Army Navy Air Publication (JANAP) 146 released in 1953. Similar provisions are found in the British Ministry of Defense and other major nations that have had to deal with the UFO phenomenon, and/or cooperate closely with the US.
This official international system for repressing UFO reports suffered a significant setback in 1999 with the release of a French government supported study of the UFO phenomenon. The COMETA Report comprised former top military officials and found credible evidence to support the existence of UFOs as phenomenon that required serious political attention.
The COMETA report was not widely covered in the US but signaled that major nations differed in how much information they should release to their general publics. In December 2002, the British Ministry of Defense released a file on the Rendlesham UFO incident of 1980 describing one of the most well document UFO sightings in British history.
Significantly, the US military has not released its own files of the incident despite having played a leading investigatory role at Rendlesham. The respective official positions over the Rendlesham files suggests a clear difference of opinion between the British and US military officials over the extent to which UFO information will be released to the general public and the mass media.
The participation of the Mexican Department of Defense in collaborating with Maussan in releasing information on a contemporary UFO sighting is unprecedented. This is a significant development that goes even further than the COMETA report in challenging the non-disclosure position supported by the US government that apparently plays a major role in the international management system in place for UFO sightings/crashes. The Mexican Department of Defense effort in collaborating with Maussan simultaneously achieves a number of things. First, it helps legitimate research into the UFO phenomenon that now has official government support as a credible field of study at least in Mexico.
Second, it legitimates the investigatory skills and experiences of private Mexican researchers such as Maussan. Third, it comes at a time of great international friction over the war in Iraq suggesting that this Mexican initiative marks a major rupture in the de facto global management system for UFOs that echoes global dissent over US policies in Iraq. If the COMETA report and the release of the Rendlesham files are solid indicators of the European position towards UFO disclosure, then it appears that the US is becoming increasingly isolated in its strict non- disclosure policy.
If indeed there is a major rift in the global management system over the rate and extent to which disclosure of UFOs sightings and/or UFO evidence is made to the general public of major states, then it may be predicted that further disclosures by other governments are likely. It may be concluded that the Mexican Department of Defense collaboration with private UFO researchers heralds a major new phase in the UFO phenomenon.
With a more integrated global media and Internet, it will be very difficult if impossible for the mass media in the US to ignore UFO developments in other countries. If major world governments begin disclosing information concerning contemporary UFO sightings, then it may be predicted that the non-disclosure policy in place for over 50 years may soon come to an end. This would usher in the age of exopolitics where the political implications of an extraterrestrial presence would predictably dominate global politics.
The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Pressa news website.
The records dating back to soviet times were compiled by a special navy group collecting reports of unexplained incidents delivered by submarines and military ships. The group was headed by deputy Navy commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov, and the documents reveal numerous cases of possible UFO encounters, the website says.
Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher, says the materials are of great value.
“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” he said.
On one occasion a nuclear submarine, which was on a combat mission in the Pacific Ocean, detected six unknown objects. After the crew failed to leave behind their pursuers by maneuvering, the captain ordered to surface. The objects followed suit, took to the air, and flew away.
Many mysterious events happened in the region of Bermuda Triangle, recalls retired submarine commander Rear Admiral Yury Beketov. Instruments malfunctioned with no apparent reason or detected strong interference. The former navy officer says this could be deliberate disruption by UFOs.
Vladimir Kremlev for RT. Click to enlarge “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, of 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” Beketov said.
Navy intelligence veteran, Captain 1st rank Igor Barklay comments:
“Ocean UFOs often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”
Another place where people often report UFO encounters is Russia’s Lake Baikal, the deepest fresh water body in the world. Fishermen tell of powerful lights coming from the deep and objects flying up from the water.
In one case in 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal spotted a group of humanoid creatures dressed in silvery suits. The encounter happened at a depth of 50 meters, and the divers tried to catch the strangers. Three of the seven men died, while four others were severely injured.
“I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Vladimir Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there.”
Meanwhile Russian Navy officials have denied the collection of UFO-related encounters exists. A source in the Navy’s service staff said the story may have its roots in the reports of vessel commanders, which describe locating objects of unclear but Earthly origin.
“An illusion of a UFO encounter can result from large fish shoals, floating garbage or natural phenomena,” ITAR-TASS news agency cites the source.
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Declassification!
Military UFO Records Released: The Spanish Experience
by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos;
Investigation in Spain is inevitably associated with Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, who, alone or with collaborators, has authored a series of outstanding books which reflect more than twenty years of dedicated work. His 1987 Enciclopedia de los encuentros cercanos con ovnis (with Juan Antonio Fernández Peris) is probably the best-documented collection of close encounter cases in print. Ballester Olmos's attention remains chiefly directed at strongly evidenced UFO sightings, as opposed to abductions, where every local case he has investigated proved to be either a hoax or capable of some alternative explanation.
During recent years his main activity has been co-operating with the Spanish government in the release of official documents. In 1995 he published a book containing his findings to date, Expedientes Insólitos, and here he presents some notable cases from the military archives.
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos can be contacted at Aptdo. de Correos 12140, 46080 Valencia, Spain (phone: +34 96 179 627, fax: +34 96 179 2600)
In the history of UFO research in Spain from 1947 to 1997, one event is of out-standing importance: the release by the Spanish Ministry of Defence of previously secret Air Force UFO archives, a process which started in 1992. I was privileged to play a part throughout this process which has made the official files literally an open book which anyone may read.
No Secret Lasts Forever;
Friday, 8 November 1996. 13.30 hours.Torrejón Air Force Base, near Madrid. Lieutenant Colonel Enrique Rocamora walks briskly along the corndors of the Aerial Operative Command (MOA) heading for the commander-in-chief's bureau. This is no routine dispatch: he carries with him the proposal for declassification of the last UFO file waiting for release.
It was during 1990-1991 that I started to induce the Air Force to review the classified matter policy applied in 1979 to UFO information (before that it has been considered Confidential). Step by step I watched the process proceed. In May 1991 the Air Safety Section, responsible for matters concerning UFOs and custodian of the UFO files, submitted a memo proposing to declassify the archives. In March 1992 the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to downgrade the classification level imposed on UFO documents, leaving to the Air Force Chief of Staff the authority to fully declassify them.
The documents transferred to MOA comprised 62 files of UFO reports covering the period 1962 to 1991; procedures and memos shaping official Air Force policy on UFOs, 1968 to 1991; and UFO information requests from civilians addressed to the Air Force over the same period.
MOA's Intelligence Section took on the declassification task. The actual workload was handed to Lieutenant Colonel Angel Bastida. An open-minded individual and the prototype of the 21st century military man, Bastida formulated a new procedure detailing the involvement and investigation of UFO reports by the Air Force, and an analysis of all available historical information with arguments favouring full disclosure of existing and future UFO files. Incidentally~ Bastida also authored the best paper ever written by the military on the Air Force and the UFO problem
In September 1992, the first files were declassified. They were cases from 1962, 1967 and 1968. By the time Bastida moved to another military post he had declassified 22 files. His successor, Lieutenant Colonel Enrique Rocamora - a strong and sharp staff officer - declassified a further 53 files. The process was carried out as speedily as possible, given the fact that declassifying secret UFO files was only one part of these officers' work.
Sightings: Strange and Less Strange;
The military UFO reports contain descriptions of several different kinds of seemingly anomalous phenomena. They include examples of lights or uncorrelated radar echoes which seem to defy a rational explanation. My colleagues and I are painstakingly analysing all pieces of information to determine if these cases can be solved, or whether they become true UFOs. The entire files are available to who-ever may contribute his/her know-how to this endeavour.
In the majority of cases, investigation, whether by the Air Force or by independent civilian ufologists, has revealed a misinterpretation of some kind. These cases show us, on the one hand, what kinds of anomalous features may occur; and on the other, how easily people, puzzled by the sighting of unexpected luminous phenomena in the sky, can jump to erroneous conclusions.
24 November 1974: Alarm in a Radar Squadron;
Grand Canary is one of the seven Spanish islands in the Atlantic Ocean which form the Canary archipelago. At about 19.30 hours on 24 November 1974, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel E.L. and his daughter were driving by the North Freeway, when they saw a bright white light in the sky leaving a short trail, travelling at great speed and disappearing a few seconds later. His statement described it as a meteorite or bolide flying horizontally in a northwest direction at some 1,000 metres.
Fifteen minutes later, at 19.45, an Iberia Fokker-27 took off from Tenerife airport en route to Las Palmas (Grand Canary Islands). On a clear night, it was flying over a stratus cloud layer to its flight level of 2,000 metres and turning northwest when the pilots sighted a powerful lightjust in front of them, in a flight corridor typically used by regular air traffic from Las Palmas to Tenerife. Iberia captain Saura called Canary Flight Control to tell them they were passing 'traffic proceeding from Las Palmas'.
By now the light had descended to 1,800 metres, the standard flight level for airplanes. Captain Saura was surpnsed to be told there was no reported flight at that position. He insisted that he had it in sight, well silhouetted against the stratus layer, at a range of some 25 km, and he asked for a check from the military radar.
The radar operator on Grand Canary duly reported that he had only the Fokker's echo on screen: he saw no other traffic. At this point, the airliner's crew realised to their amazement that the light had been stationary at 'three o'clock' for more than a minute: any normal aircraft should have sailed past by now. Full of curiosity, the Fokker's pilot started to change course in the direction of the light. As he did so, the light seemed to shift rapidly away from the aircraft, emitting intermittent orange and yellow flashes as it vanished.
By now, the radar station had been placed in 'alert' situation, and their personnel started to scrutinise the skies with special care and attention. At 20.20 hours an echo was detected at 20º (NNE), 56 km distant, approaching directly towards the radar site at 500 knots; they were unable to determine its altitude.
The trace disappeared when it entered the 'blind cone' (vertical) of the antennae, and did not reappear. Out of doors, a light of more than 1st magnitude was sighted, fixed in the firmament (according to one witness), slowly moving around the site (according to another), while a third declared it to be nothing more than a star.
At 20.30 hours, radar detected a trace at radial 356º (north), 58 km away, which correlated with Iberia flight 281 Madrid to Tenerife. At the same time, it recorded an uncorrelated track at 326º (northwest), 74 km away, heading south. After changing direction, it remained stationary unhl passed by IB-281, where-upon it suddenly vanished. No other traffic was scheduled at that time and location.
Taken together, these observations seem to indicate that a mysterious luminous object was hanging above two of the Canary Islands for more than an hour.
However, it is also legitimate to divide the complex series of events into several individual occurrences: (1) a meteor-like sighting of brief duration,
(2) a light in the clouds which a nearby military radar system did not recognise, but which disappeared as soon as the pilot altered his angle of vision,
(3) in an excited environment (radar operators were requested to search for UFOs with extreme care), they detected a first echo which mysteriously disappeared without a trace, another trace in the proximity of a commercial aircraft (not seen opncally by the aircrew),
and finally a fixed light in the celestial vault not different from a star. In summary: a case offering radar traces which are not confirmed visually, and visual sightings which are not confirmed by radar.
No final conclusion has been adopted to date by the research team.
23 December 1985: a UFO in the Log Book;
The merchant vessel Manuel Soto, owned by Transmediterránea Co., was sailing on December 23, 1985 from Las Palmas (Grand Canary island) to Arrecife (Lanzarote Island). At 03.10 hours, the third officer on duty observed in the horizon by the bow what seemed to be the rising of a heavenly body. He identified it as the star Antares.
Checked ten minutes later, however, the light's position did not correspond either with Antares or any other star or planet. The officer took measurements of the altitude and azimuth of the light, which remained stationary until 03.25 when it suddenly began to move quickly. Other members of the crew came to see what was happening.
The light approached the ship, passing directly over the vessel two minutes later. As it did, all the witnesses could perceive the object's profile, which did not resemble that of a typical aeroplane or helicopter. The object had a very intense white light on its central part, a weaker red light near it, and another white light - not as strong - set apart. The separation between the lights made the witnesses think the object was flying low, but they could hear no sound.
The shipping company passed the log book entry to the Spanish Navy. The Navy Staff submitted it to the Air Force, but Canary Islands Air Command reported that their investigations showed no UFO observed on that date. No further investigation was made.
And so this second sighting from the Canary Islands also remains unidentified. Sadly, nothing was reported about how the object was lost out of sight. In prinaple, the behaviour of the object - approaching from the horizon, flying at a constant altitude and speed - is consistent with that of an aircraft. Nevertheless, lack of additional detail - including the actual silhouette of the craft - prevents us from developing any specific hypothesis.
8 December 1980: Aircraft on Fire?
A brief file reports - just two telephone messages - received in the Cádiz Maritime Captaincy General from merchant vessel Conquistador and fishing ship Besugo. At 20.50 hours on December 8, 1980 the first ship was navigating 35º27'N/ 7º50' W bearing northeast, when it reported a disintegrating object over the vessel at some 20º altitude which was sighted by the captain and the radio operator.
Additionally, at 20.45 hours, personnel from the second ship, sailing in position 33º 52' N/ 8º 55' W, observed a fiery phenomenon in a north direction at sea level. Their impression was that it might be a passenger plane with a fire on its left engine.
In isolation, those two incidents off the Morocco coast might never have received an explanation. However, consulting our files we discovered that a significant flap of 'UFO sightings' originated at that time in southwest Spain. Thousands witnessed a series of incandescent objects flying in a group passing slowly overhead. The general trajectory of the luminous trail was southwest to northeast.
As described, the phenomenon is absolutely compatible with a meteor shower or a space junk re-entry: the second alternative can be discarded as no decay is known to have occurred at that date, so meteors seem the preferred explanation.
25 December 1980 Jet Propulsion UFO;
On 25 December 1980, at 22.05 hours, an Air Force captain was driving along the Tudela-Arguedas road when he saw an unknown flying object with a large central body with a 'powerful jet propulsion system'. In addition, he saw a few more tiny luminous objects manoeuvring in formation with the large one. He estimated their altitude at some 1,000 metres, course 20º (north-northeast): the speed was similar to a commercial airplane. He saw it disappear behind the mountains, leaving a smoke trail much wider than that of a plane.
In the absence of any supplementary information, this would have been simply another unidentified. But there was a thick dossier in my archives to put this event into its proper perspective. That night, a giant, fiery phenomenon was sighted over Spain and other European countries a few minutes past 21.00 GMT (one hour later in Spain) skyrocketing on a rough south-to-north course.
North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) reported the re-entry into the atmosphere of the rocket used in the launch of Soviet satellite Cosmos 749. It was travelling from southwest to northeast on an arc that would have taken it over Portugal, Spain, France and southern England. There is little doubt that this is what the officer witnessed.
19 August 1982: a Rotating Flying Saucer;
A civilian witness reported an unusual experience on 19 August 1982, at 22.30 hours, seen from an apartment block faang the sea in the summer resort village of Blanes (Gerona). He was with seven other people, who also watched the aerial show in astonishment. The first witness was on the terrace when he heard the sound of an aircraft and just above him he saw a circle of lights blinking regularly. Through binoculars he distinguished the shape of a 'cylindrical disc' which was rotating clockwise: he estimated its size as twice that of a DC-4 air-plane.
Speed and altitude were constant, then it made a turn so he could see it both from underneath and from the top. It had seven or eight illuminated 'windows'. The sighting lasted around three minutes. Then and there he made some drawings of what he thought he had seen and some days later he sent a letter to Air Force Headquarters with a full description of the events and some impressive sketches.
The official report presents no conclusion at all as no investigation was ever conducted. However, a review of newspapers for August and September 1982 disclosed similar sightings in many towns of eastern and northern Spain. Not only that, the press, confirmed by Barcelona Air Control, reported that advertising aircraft carrying luminous publicity panels were active during that summer in such locations, giving rise to surprise observations and misinterpretations with UFOs. Again, we may be confident that this was what the witness saw at Blanes.
Facts and Figures;
The Spanish declassification process imposes no restriction as to date. Over the years, several current incidents, whether reported to the Air Force by civilian witnesses or by military personnel, were declassified immediately after investigation - an example which other countries would do well to follow.
Since 1992, a number of UFO observations have been added to the MOA archives, both old and new, so that the original 62 files have now become 75. They amount to 1,900 pages, which anyone can read (and copy) in the Library of the Air Force Headquarters in Madrid.
The files cover a total of 97 separate events between the years 1962 to 1995, which averages about three cases per year. But we find that certain years - 1968 (23),1969 (7), 1975 (7),1977 (6), 1978 (8), 1979 (9) and 1980 (7) - seem to deviate markedly from the mean. However, examination often reveals simple down-to-earth explanations. The 1968-69 wave was clearly due to a press release by the Ministry of Air asking the public to report UFO sightings, combined with the highly visible night-time appearance of the planet Venus, plus giant meteorological balloons carried by wind from France. 1975 is conspicuous only because one file includes several cases originating with a single and unreliable informant.
A 1977 file, likewise, describes a succession of contactee-type stories allegedly expenenced during a three-month period. The 1978 peak is due to a photographic fraud which involved several dates. 1979 contains some good cases, but we notice that half of them occurred in November: for this we can look to the media impact of the incident of 11 November when the crew of a Supercaravelle reported strange lights. Finally, 1980 shows a chance accumulation of varied events, totally unrelated to one another. In short, none of the fluctuations constitutes a real 'wave' of true UFOs.
The reports reveal 20 radar detections, 15 scrambles or launches of jet interceptors, 10 close encounters, 13 instances where photographic material exists, and 28 civilian pilot witnesses (figures not mutually exclusive). Apart from the Air Force, other official bodies making reports included the Navy (9 reports), the Civil Guard (7), the Army (5) and the Police (3).
If we look at time of day data, the following table appears:
It is somewhat dismaying to find that, contrary to what we might expect, UFOs follow the same time-of-day distribution as IFOs.
As soon as files were declassified, a multidisciplinary team of experts, coordinated by myself, rushed to analyse the information. The research is not finished, as some reports present complex problems which make analysis difficult. The absence of inquiry at the time, the absence of corroboration, and insufficient information add to the complications. Nonetheless, our investigative efforts proved fruitful and we have been able to draw an array of general conclusions.
IFOs comprise 85% of the total. They break down to:
Astronomical explanations - the most frequent error stimulus: four out of ten observational mistakes involve Venus, other planets and stars, meteors and fireballs, or even the Moon.
Hoaxes explain two out of ten reports.
Meteorological balloons emerge as misperception culprits in one in ten cases (mostly from the French CNES programmes of 1967-1970).
The Miscellaneous cluster includes a variety of reasons for misinterpretation: three of every ten IFO cases are due to rockets and missiles, aircraft, reflections and temperature inversions, space junk re-entries, false radar echoes, fireworks or light projectors.
These proportions are consistent with those found in other samples, for example by Allan Hendry in 7he UFO Handbook. This suggests a world-wide pattern.
Nevertheless, 15% of the reports released by the Air Force remain to be resolved. One case (January 1,1975, Burgos) defies every explanation and anses as a true anomaly. Nine others present outstanding abnormal features and they are tunder further study. Finally, five cases have insufficient data to be evaluated.
Chronology;
My role in this process has had two well-defined stages. During 1990 and 1991 my task was to meet with the Air Force's Public Relations commanding officer and with the Colonel in charge of the Air Safety Section, seeking to convince them that UFO information poses no threat to National Security;
that keeping UFO reports secret gives a false image that the State is concealing 'special knowledge'; that restriction of access to UFO files from students is hardly compatible with a truly democratic nation. I pointed out parallels such as the US precedent in freeing the Blue Book files, the initiative of the Australian Air Force, and GEPAN/SEPRA in France.
One of my objectives was to get all official UFO reports to a centralised location before declassification began, and in 1991 I persuaded Colonel Álvaro Fernández Rodas - an intelligent, well prepared officer - to ask all Air Regions to submit any UFO information they had on file. By this means the archives grew from 55 to 62 files.
That was a useful start: but what was the next step? One day in June 1992 I was approached by Lieutenant Colonel Bastida. It happened by chance while I was visiting a General in the Air Force Headquarters, and that evening I had my first meeting with the man from MOA.
I found that he was aware of my UFO work and I could feel he respected it. In fact, he had used my books as a guideline for designing case summaries, procedures and methodology involving statistics and a computer catalogue of UFO cases. This meeting was the first in a long series: mutual communication between civilian and military 'ufology' became a reality.
This relationship continued with Rocamora, Bastida's successor. Frequent visits and other contacts permitted me to:
- Closely monitor the declassification process, including incoming new material, and ensure that any information on record was made public totally uncensored (except for witness names).
- Stimulate an official search by Air Force bases, radar stations, etc. for both past and recent cases: this led to more than 25 additional case sources (to be released shortly).
- Obtain the declassification of policy documents, directives and instruction texts prepared by the Air Force over the twenty-five year period.
For myself, as a civilian investigator, the achieving of these goals has been a dream come true. It would not have been possible, however, without a progressive attitude within the Air Force, and the determination of a group of military men to achieve one of the major targets of the ufological community in any country: to have the 'secret' stamps removed from the Air Force's UFO reports.
Acknowledgements: The author wishes to recognise the able assistance and cooperation of Mr. Joan Plana, Vice-president CEI (Barcelona) and expert in deffence issues, and the author's co-worker since 1988. Thanks also to Sra. Carmen Romero Asensio, for a professional word-processing of a difficult hand-written text.
* Article from UFOs 1947-1997, by Hillary Evans & Dennis Stacy (eds.), John Brown Publishing Co., London, 1997
Daniel Iglesias reports;
quote;
"The UFO phenomenon has manifested itself many times in Uruguay,
South America. The Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) high command has
declassified its files and allowed EL PAIS (The National Newspaper) to
access its UFO records and eyewitness accounts.. While the Air Force
commission that studies these cases has been operating for only a few
decades, the UFO phenomenon in Uruguay began in 1947, and continues
a rich history of seeing UFOs, according to Col. Ariel Sanchez, an Air
Force officer with 33 years of active service and who presides over the
UFO commission.
The agency operates out of a small office in downtown
Montevideo and has a computer database and print archives. There are
hundreds of files in green binders under the heading "Confidential",
containing eyewitness accounts, photographs, sketches, drawings,
documents and evaluations made by officials
The files consist of reports that accrue at a rate of 100 cases per year with 2100 solid reports the commission has researched and dismissed many for various reasons.
Thirty years after research began, forty cases remain unexplained. These
files have been kept open, and range from sightings and landings of
alleged craft to abductions, where people claim to have been kidnapped
by extraterrestrial entities. Photo was taken over Florida, Uruguay on July
25, 1977 by Horticulturist Hector Delgado.
The military commission's task is to compile a record of cases and draft
guidelines or conclusions regarding their veracity and origin. They have
obtained solid results: "The commission managed to determine
modifications to the chemical composition of the soil where landings were
reported. It could be a phenomenon that occurs in the lower sectors of the
atmosphere, the landing of aircraft from a foreign air force, up to the
extraterrestrial hypothesis.
It could be a monitoring probe from outer space, much in the same way that we send probes to explore distant worlds," stated the officer. "The UFO phenomenon exists and I must stress that the Air Force does not dismiss an extraterrestrial hypothesis based on our scientific analysis," said Col. Sanchez. The Uruguayan Air Force has now declassified all of its information and only the identity of the witnesses remains undisclosed.
In a case in the Department of Durazno, a witness reported a UFO landing and soil analysis showed an increase in the values of minerals such as chrome, manganese, phosphorus and carbon, enabling researchers to conclude that the event had indeed been real.
In another case two reddish spheres, flew silently over the heads of two
teamsters driving cattle. The objects moved at high speed in opposite
directions and the vanished toward the west at high speed. UFOs are
most likely to be seen in February, March, July and October in Uruguay. In
February of 2009, the commission received numerous reports
accompanied by digital photographs.
Photographs or film are not a determining factor in any case, but rather a contribution, explains
Sanchez, given the current technical possibilities for hoaxing images.
Unsolved cases have a considerable high strangeness quotient for
example, the 1986, pursuit by two Pucara jet fighters over the Palmar Dam
in response to the maneuvers of a luminous sphere. The pilots chased it
and were about to intercept it, when the sphere flew off at a dizzying rate
of speed toward Argentina. When the pilots returned to their base, the
sphere reappeared over the dam. They chase it again and it vanished
from sight, changing colors from red to yellow.
A similar case occurred to a group of military pilots in 1996, engaged in
exercises over the Santa Bernardina Base in Durazno. They saw two
luminous spheres at 10,000 feet (3,000 meters), whose presence was
corroborated by the airport's control tower. When the objects flew away,
they maintained their shape and luminosity, which enabled the spherical
shape to be confirmed. Minutes later, the pilots noticed their glow
diminished, and only their outline was illuminated.
In 1979, a crew of a commercial airline was pursued by a powerful light
that was photographed by passengers and remains unexplained. The Air
Force also has visual reports of a dozen mutilated animals that may be
related to Argentina, where 700 mutilated animals were found. FAU does
not dismiss the possibility of an extraterrestrial event. Military statistics
show that most people reporting sightings involve young men up to 45
years of age.
They also indicate that cases occur in the early hours of the
evening, 49% of statistics are made up of reports of luminous spheres;
barely 2% include occupant sightings. Also several cases of the abduction
of humans remain unexplained.
One of them occurred in Playa Pascual in
1980 and involved a camper, who was suddenly taken by surprise by
short beings who immobilized him and conveyed him to a vehicle, where
he was subjected to a medical examination. Another "missing time" case
involved a family that was driving along the road when an aircraft flew over
their vehicle and landed in front of them.
They were unable to account for what had occurred to them for several minutes. (Translation (c) 2009, S.
Where does one begin with the USA ,its UFO data base is pretty large so i will provide numerous links, there have been a number of cases from the US that have been covered way back in this thread for anyone that is interested
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UFO Observed By Pilots Making 90 Degree Turn ~ September 10, 1951;
Government Document 1;
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"Lt. Rogers followed the object in a diving turn to the left descending to an altitude of about 16,000 fet with the object about 8,000 feet below and to the right of the aircraft. Thereafter he tried to keep a course paralleling, but above, that of the object.
"As soon as Major Ballard completed his radio report he was notified of the strange object. Both watched it make a 90 degree turn to the left and kept it under observation together while it covered approximately 20 miles before it disappeared out to sea".
"On the same date a radar station at Ft. Monmouth reported two targets that were unidentified, traveling over 700 mph, and giving returns that could not be explained as being equipment malfunction, anomalous propagation, or anything but an actual target as described in the attached report".
"In 1989 the aircraft carrier USS Midway was on a tour of duty in the Indian Ocean. On a mission in the Gulf of Oman, the Combat Direction Centre (CDC) watch officer and his crew were electronically monitoring the positions and movements of all surface contacts to ensure a safety margin of three miles or more from any potentialy hostile vessels".
Suddenly the officer spotted three strong blips (contacts) on his radar screen grouped in triangular formation. On the second sweep of the radar screen the officer was stunned to see that the contacts had moved a considerable distance in a remarkably short period of time. While this CDC group's mission is to monitor and track ocean surface contacts, low flying aircraft are also periodicaly picked up on their low angled radar.
These contacts however, were moving faster than any aircraft the officer or his crew had ever observed. The next unnerving thought to occur to the CDC officer, was that these were missiles. The officer checked with the airbourne detection group within the CDC and they responded that they weren't picking up or tracking anything at all.There were no contact blips flashing on their screens.
Tensions mounted quickly however,as the CDC officer and his crew continued to track the three fast moving blips as they angled towards the ship. As the "contacts" rapidly got closer, two of the blips made a startling ninety degree turn away from the ship ,but the third turned directly towards the ship. The CDC offcier excitedly barked over the ship's intercom to the observers on the ship's superstructure that something was coming right at them at a high rate os speed. Accelerating, it was coming in so fast there was no time to react. When the object got within one mile of the ship it suddenly disappeared from radar..
quote;
"Some of the aircraft cases have not received detailed study, mainly because of the reluctance of pilots to report UFO sightings for fear of ridicule. Cases involving ground vehicles have been analyzed by NICAP in previous publications.The following group of cases dramatically illustrates this pattern of inquisitiveness".
1968;
Reports of airline and private pilots encountering UFOs have continued in 1968. On July 8, the pilot and passengers of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk were approached by a UFO over Warren, Ohio about 10:20 p.m. Two brothers, Richard and Ken Montgomery, with Elizabeth Soverns and Rosalind Rians as passengers, were flying at about 4,000 feet over Warren; Richard Montgomery was at the controls.
"I noticed an object coming toward us from the direction of Youngstown to the southeast," he related. "I swung over... to get a closer look when the object headed directly toward our airplane. It stopped and hung motionless in the air... momentarily, and as our aircraft came closer, it moved swiftly upward and came back at us from another angle."
Montgomery said the UFO appeared metallic and had a light beaming from its underside. He estimated it was from six to ten feet in diameter and from 16 to 20 feet tall.
The pilot maneuvered the plane several times, but the object kept following at a distance of from 150 to 200 yards. Then the UFO "suddenly sped in an easterly direction at amazing speed and was quickly out of sight."
During this encounter, control tower operators at Youngstown Municipal Airport received calls from area residents concerning "a `dogfight' between two aircraft in the skies over. . . Warren."
At 7:45 p.m., February 28, the three-man crew of an Eastern Air Lines ferry flight from St. Louis to Miami saw a string of unknown lights that caused the pilot "to take evasive action." Traveling at 18,000 feet, Captain Robert F. Reilman, Flight Officer A. J. Farmer and Safety Officer Rick Morrison first noticed "a red flashing light" at their altitude. In his report to NICAP, the pilot said the light was at their 11:30 position about halfway between Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida.
"Who's this at our 11:30 position?" Capt. Reilman asked a nearby control center.
The center replied that they had been in communication with a plane 15 miles away.
"Well, this guy isn't 15 miles away," the pilot replied. "He's at 11:30, has one flashing red light and three - now four red lights strung out - one red light turned to green."
At this point, Capt. Reilman "prepared to take evasive action." The center radioed back that they had spotted no targets on their radar scope.
"Come on," Reilman responded, "he's going right by us at our 9:00 position."
The center still replied that they had no targets and that no balloons were in the vicinity.
"I dropped the subject and proceeded to Miami," the Captain concluded.
"Pacings of ground vehicles have often badly frightened the witnesses, showing that official debunking and denials have not abated fears of UFOs. If anything, they have increased such fears, since many citizens believe the facts are kept from them. On June 20, 1968, about 2 a.m., Mr. & Mrs. Larry Ferney of Mobile, Alabama, were driving near Roswell, N.M. when they saw an object descending from a height of about 100 yards. The UFO displayed three bright lights, "like the landing lights of an aircraft."
"Making a 90-degree turn, the UFO headed down toward the car and proceeded to pace it for 5 miles at an estimated distance of about 50 feet. Mr. & Mrs. Ferney were in a state of near hysteria, first fearing an imminent crash, then frightened by the mysterious object apparently pursuing them. Finally, the UFO raced out of sight".
A similar car-pacing, in which the witness was badly frightened, occurred October 27, 1967 in Parshall, N.D. The case was investigated by the NICAP-North Dakota Subcommittee.
"About 3 a.m., Lt. Glen D. Brunsell, of the Parshall Police Department, saw a brilliantly glowing UFO. "It was so bright," he reported later, "that at times it hurt my eyes to look directly at it." (NICAP Comment: This reaction has been reported on numerous occasions, sometimes followed by temporary impairment to vision)".
"The UFO passed over a warehouse at low altitude, headed east with an up-and-down motion, then stopped and hovered near a missile base. Lt. Brunsell told NICAP the unknown object moved slowly around the area for five minutes, then "suddenly shot straight up into the sky and was gone in about three seconds."
Shortly before Lt. Brunsell sighted the UFO, it was seen by a Parshall cafe waitress on her way home from work. (Her name is deleted at her request). The witness told NICAP the UFO - a large, round, revolving object - seemed to rise from the ground.
"My car began sheering very hard," she said, "bumping and swaying around on the road like it had four flat tires." Frightened, she accelerated to escape, but the object followed her car. As it paced her, she could see "two or three white - appearing streaks of light coming down vertically from the object."
As she neared her home, the UFO stopped and appeared to hover momentarily. Then it moved out of sight over a warehouse to the north. This was the same warehouse over which the object traveled as it was observed by Lt. Brunsell - an important confirmation of the waitress' report.
link; http://www.nicap.org/newlook/section_III.htm
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"On June 20, 1968, about 2 a.m., Mr. & Mrs. Larry Ferney of Mobile, Alabama, were driving near Roswell, N.M. when they saw an object descending from a height of about 100 yards. The UFO displayed three bright lights, "like the landing lights of an aircraft."
"Making a 90-degree turn, the UFO headed down toward the car and proceeded to pace it for 5 miles at an estimated distance of about 50 feet. Mr. & Mrs. Ferney were in a state of near hysteria, first fearing an imminent crash, then frightened by the mysterious object apparently pursuing them. Finally, the UFO raced out of sigh"t.
link;http://www.nicap.org/newlook/section_III.htm
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"Headquarters wouldn't let us go after it and we played around a little bit. We got to watching how it made 90 degree turns at this high speed and everything. We knew it wasn't a missile of any type, so then we confirmed it with the radar control station, and they kept following it, and then it crashed somewhere off between Texas and the Mexico border."
Colonel Robert Willingham, USAF from an Sworn Affidavit in the 1970's when discussing a sighting of a UFO whilst he was navigating an F94 jet on September 6th 1950.
"Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations."
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. World War I air ace.
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UFOs over DC in 1952, Jets Scrambled;
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"National Airlines plane en route to National Airport, about 60 mi. SW of the city observed a blue- white ball of light hovering to the west. Object then "came up to 11,000 ft. and then maintained a parallel course, on the same level, at the same speed, until the aircraft pilot turned on all lights. Object then departed from the vicinity at an estimated 1000 mph. Weather was excellent for observation." The crew said the object "took off up and away." No other air traffic was reported in the area at the time".
July 14. Newport News, Virginia: Southbound Pan American Airways plane at 8,000 ft. nearing the Norfolk, Virginia., area observed six glowing red, circular objects approaching below the airliner; objects flipped up on edge in unison and then sped from behind and under the airliner and joined the in-line formation, which "climbed in a graceful arc above the altitude of the airliner." "Then the lights blinked out one by one, though not in sequence." Next day the crew was thoroughly interrogated and advised that they already had seven other reports of red discs moving at high speed and making sharp turns.
July 16. Hampton Roads, Virginia: A Government aeronautical research engineer observed two amber-colored lights approaching from the south at about 500 m.p.h. These slowed and made a U-turn, revolved around each other at a high rate of speed, then joined by two other objects from different directions, the four sped off to the south at about 500 m.p.h. "They moved jerkily when moving slowly. Their ability to make tight circling turns was amazing."
July 18. Washington, D. C. Radio station chief engineer observed 6-7 bright orange discs moving in single file. Each in turn veered sharply upward and disappeared.
July 19. National Airport began picking up unidentified targets on radar.
July 20. Herndon, Va. Capital Airlines flight from National Airport called by control tower to check on unidentified radar targets saw three objects, and three more between there and Martinsburg, W. Va. "like falling stars without tails [which] moved rapidly up, down, and horizontally. Also hovered." Chief CAA air traffic controller Harry Barnes later said in a newspaper interview: "His [the pilot's] subsequent description of the movement of the objects coincided with the position of our pips [radar targets] at all times while in our range.
Diagram of July 20, 1952 UFOs Over DC;
Diagram of the UFOs tracked by Washington's National Airport radar scope on July 20, 1952. At A, 7 objects approach the Nation's capital from the south. At B, some are seen over the White House and Capitol. At C, they appear over Andrews Air Force Base. At D, one UFO tracks an airliner. At E, one is seen to make a sharp right-angular turn. Source: UFOs - A Pictorial History From Antiquity to the Present, by David C. Knight. (McGraw Hill Book Co., 1979.) Source: Chez
Andes Mountain UAP/UFO photo investigation;
Here is one very interesting case that was put under serious scientific investgation, manily the photo of a UAP/UFO was under scrutiny and is to this day filed under unexplained/genuine by a one Dr Haines who will become clear from the information on him below;
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NARCAP (National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena) has signed an official joint-cooperation agreement with the Chilean Ministrial Department of Civil Aeronautics (like America’s FAA) to share information and study UAP cases which affect aviation safety. This is a ground-breaking development, since a government agency has formalized its relationship with a scientific organization in the United States and asked for its assistance in case studies.
The CEFAA (Committee for the Study of Anomolous Aerial Phenomena), an agency within the Chilean civil aviation department, was set up in 1997 to focus on incidents involving UAP that impact aviation saftey. General Gonzalo Miranda, director of the civil aeronautics branch, ordered its creation following a series of sightings witnessed by civil servants and aeronautic experts, along with civilians, at an airport in Northern Chile. The agency has a close working relationship with the Army. Directed by General Ricardo Bermúdez, the CEFAA is now working with NARCAP, the closest group we have in America to an official agency, and NARCAP has links to research associates and technical specialists throughout the world. I hope that soon this relationship will expand to include an American government official who can also liason with the CEFAA and other agencies in various countries.
Dr. Richard Haines is the chief scientist for NARCAP, and Ted Roe is the executive director. For more information on NARCAP, go to www.NARCAP.org. Both Gen. Bermúdez and Dr. Haines contributed chapters to my book; please consult that text for background.
source;http://ufosontherecord.com/research/
Dr. Haines was given a fascinating photograph of a UAP by the CEFAA for analysis, and has written a paper, “Photoanalyses of Digital Images Taken on February 14, 2010 at 1717 Hours above the Andes Mountains in Central Chile” for the Chilean government (we call it the “El Yeso” paper). I have been given permission to post that here, for the first time. The photographs are copyrighted and must not be copied or spread around the internet. If that happens, I may be restricted in bringing forward future research of this caliber, so please honor this request.
Photo,original taken by witness and studied by Dr;Haines;
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Here is some detailed expert investgation summary carried out on this photo below from link source below;
Sixteen medium and high resolution, digital photos were taken on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 1717 hrs. local time at 33 47.8’ south; 69 53.35’ W (about 45 miles SE of Santiago, Chile) high in the Andes Mountains.
They were received by the author on May 28, 2010 from the Comite de Estudios de Fenomenos Aereos Anomalos (CEFAA) for analysis and comment. This paper describes the results of various photo-optical measurements made on several of these photographs showing the solar disc, cumulus clouds, reddish clouds at a higher altitude, and an angularly small and unusual image that appeared in one photograph.
These analyses showed that (1) There was a symmetrical, apparently solid object (hereafter referred to as an unidentified aerial phenomena: UAP) with several interesting surface details present in one photograph, (2)
No evidence was found for a digital cut-and-paste operation (a hoax), (3) The UAP was not visible in any of the other photographs taken of the same location in the sky, (3) The location of the UAP was indicated to be on or near a Chilean commercial airway and might possibly have posed a threat to flight safety under certain operational conditions, and (4) The identity of this UAP remains unidentified at this time.
Figure 2 is the primary photograph that was studied; it contained the UAP. It consisted of a 1.26 MB file (1741 x 1306 x 8) at 96 dpi resolution. Figure 3 is the same full frame as Figure 2 increased in brightness and contrast, and divided into sixteen numbered, equal-area rectangles as shown. Specific image details are located by area number and approximate location within each area. For example, the sun is in the lower left corner of area eleven and the reddish UAP is in the upper left-corner of area six.
length of time in this location it could have been a hazard to commercial flight operations. Anytime an object of this size and high visibility is in the area where airplanes are flying it can distract the cockpit crew from carrying out their normal duties.
If the object is near by or approaching the airplane the pilot must decide whether to change his heading and/or altitude toavoid a possible collision. Because the present UAP was partially hidden by a reddish cloud layer it must have been higher than this cloud layer by some amount. Its altitude cannot be determined.
If the photographer had noticed the reddish UAP in Figure 2 wouldn’t she have tried to obtain more photographs of it? Why then didn’t she center the location of the UAP in the camera’s field of view in the following photos? Since she didn’t it tends to support her statement that she didn’t see the UAP at all.
Mention also must be made (for the sake of completeness) of the occurrence of the huge 8.8 magnitude earthquake 17 of February 27, 2010 (at 0334:14 hrs. local time) that was centered at 35 deg 54’ 32” South,; 72 deg 43’ 59” W. This was only thirteen days after this photo was taken. The estimated depth of the temblor’s epicenter was 22 miles. The horizontal distance between the photographer’s location at the El Yeso reservoir and the surface location of the earthquake’s epicenter18 is approximately 225 miles! In summary, although this UAP could not be positively identified it presented a number of highly intriguing details that deserve further research.
Here we have the picture of a UFO taken out of an aircraft by non other than a one Dr J. Allen Hynek who was the united states astronomer, professor, and ufologist who was the chief investigator employed by the USAF governmental to investigate UFO sightings by the military and the general public;
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Dr J. Allen Hynek with his picture he took of the UFO;
"Dr. Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 – April 27, 1986) was a United States astronomer, professor, and ufologist.[1] He is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research. Hynek acted as scientific adviser to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three consecutive names: Project Sign (1947–1949), Project Grudge (1949–1952), and Project Blue Book (1952 to 1969). For decades afterwards, he conducted his own independent UFO research, and is widely considered the father of the concept of scientific analysis of both reports and, especially, trace evidence purportedly left by UFOs;"
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"The photographs themselves appeared in a book authored by Hynek and Vallee in 1975, The Edge of Reality. They may or may not be of a flying saucer, but they are certainly not clouds. The importance of stereoscopic photographs cannot be overemphasized. Such a camera is of outstanding evidentiary value. Hynek, in effect, had captured a possible Holy Grail on film".
Below is just one of hundreds of UFO declassified UFO docs released by the Canadian ministry of defense;The below memo deals with a supposed UFO crash from 1968 and the photos of some of the debris;This is a highly provocatal case and one wonders why these docs would be declassified showing possible proof of a genuine UFO crash and its debris;There is a real wealth of docs here for study to the serious/interested student/surfer
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