PART 2




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Article #: 1
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1978 AP PILOT DISAPPEARS

SOURCE: AP MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
DATE: 25 OCTOBER 1978

AUSTRALIAN PILOT DISAPPEARS AFTER REPORTING CHASE BY UFO'S

Boats and aircraft have found no trace of the 20-year old Australian pilot
who
disappeared with his plane on Saturday night after radioing that he was being chased by a UFO. Frederick Valentich was on a 125 mile training flight in
his
single engine Cessna 182 along the coast of Bass Strait when he told air traffic controllers in Melbourne that he was being buzzed by a UFO with 4 bright lights about 1000 feet above him.

Controllers said his last message was taped and was: "It's approaching from
due east towards me. It seems to be playing some sort of game... flying at a speed I can't estimate. It's not an aircraft. It's...It is flying past. It is a long shape. I cannot identify more than that. It's coming for me right now." A minute later: "It seems to be stationary. I'm also orbiting and the thing is orbiting on top of me also. It has a green light and a sort of metallic light on the outside." Valentich then radioed that his engine was running roughly. His last words were: "It is not an aircraft."

The Australian Air Force said it had received 11 reports from people along
the
coast who said they saw UFOs on Saturday night, but the Transport Department was skeptical. Ken Williams, a spokesman for the department, said, "It's
funny all these people ringing up with UFO reports well after Valentich's disappearance. It seems people often decide after the event, they too had
seen strange lights. But although we can't take them too seriously, we can never discourage such reports when investigating a plane's disappearance."

Some Transport Dept officials have speculated that Valentich became
disoriented and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a nearby island, while flying upside down.

Valentich's father, Guio, said his son used to study UFOs "as a hobby using information he had received from the Air Force. He was not the kind of
person
who would make up stories. Everything had to be very correct and positive
for
him. The fact that they have found no trace of him really verifies the fact that UFOs could have been there." Guio Valentich said he hoped his son hadn't crashed but had been taken by a UFO.
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Article #: 3
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1978 NEW ZEALAND ALERT

SOURCE: AP AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
DATE: 02 JANUARY 1979 - SIGHTING DATE 21 DECEMBER 1978


A television news team from Melbourne, Australia says it filmed a UFO on Saturday night while flying over the Kaikoura region of New Zealand's South Island. Aviation authorities reported that the UFO was apparently tracked by radar as well, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force put a Skyhawk jet fighter
on special standby alert.

The pilot of the news team's plane said he first noticed a bright white light about 20 miles ahead, and "It appeared to stay still until we got within 10 miles, then it turned with us as I changed course. It then went above us and circled and came down beneath us. It was making definite movements in
relation to us."

PHOTOGRAPH: AP. UFO filmed by New Zealand news team.
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Article #: 4
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1979 CIA UFO SURVEILLANCE

SOURCE: NYT (PHOENIX, AZ)
DATE: 01 JANUARY 1979


CIA PAPERS DETAIL UFO SURVEILLANCE

Ground Saucer Watch (GSW), an Arizona-based nation-wide UFO research organization of about 500 scientists, engineers and others, said on Friday it has obtained 1,000 pages of CIA documents under a freedom of information suit which show that the agency has been secretly involved in UFO surveillance
since 1949 - even though the CIA has repeatedly said its investigation ended
in 1952. William Spaulding, an aerospace engineer with AiResearch and head of GSW, said "the Government has been lying to us all these years. After reviewing the docments, GSW believes that UFOs do exist, they are real, the U.S. Government has been totally untruthful, and the cover-up is massive."

Mr. Spaulding said the documents show that U.S. embassies are used to gather information on UFO sightings which "seems to be directed to the CIA, the
White
House and the National Security Agency." A CIA memo dated August 1, 1952, recommended continued agency surveillance of "flying saucers", saying, "It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probably alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as confirmatory of the soundness of 'unpublished facts' in the hands of the U.S. Government."

Among the documents are several detailed reports of USAF attempts to either intercept or destroy UFOs. In a 1976 incident in Iran, two F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bombers pursued a large UFO that was sending out smaller craft. One
of the smaller craft "headed straight for the F-4 at a very fast rate of
speed. The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile at the object but at that instant his weapons control panel went off and he lost all communications." the pilot eluded the craft, then watched as it "returned to the primary
object for a perfect rejoin."

A CIA document dated October 2, 1952, shows that a major point of concern is that UFO sightings could mask Russian air attacks or "psychological warfare". This report to the CIA director from the assistant director for the Office of Scientific Intelligence recommends that the National Security Council be advised of the "implications of the flying saucer problem"; that the matter
be
discussed with the Psychological Strategy Board; and that the CIA help "develop...a policy of public information which will minimize concern and possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified
objects."

A November, 1975 document directs against acknowledging any pattern in sightings. "Unless there is evidence which links sightings, or unless media queries link sightings, queries can best be handled individually at the
source
and as questions arise. Response should be direct, forthright and emphasize that the action taken was in response to an isolated or specific incident."

According to Mr. Spaulding, "We find a concentration of sightings around our military installations, research & development areas. The UFO phenomenon is following what our own astronauts are doing on other plants - we send a scoutship, we take soil samples and then we land." Mr. Spaulding said he has sworn statements from retired USAF colonels that at least 2 UFOs have crash- landed and been recovered by USAF. One crash was in New Mexico in 1948, and the other near Kingman, AZ in 1953. The retired officers claimed they got a glimpse of dead aliens who were in both cases about 4 feet tall with
silverish complexions and silver outfits that "seemed fused to the body from the heat."

GSW is waiting for a Federal judge to rule on the last phase of its CIA suit, which seeks access to 57 items that could provide "hard evidence" of UFOs
with
"retreivals of the third kind" such as motion pictures, gun camera film and residue from landings. Among the films they want is 40-48 frames taken in
1952 by Ralph Mayher, then a cameraman for KYW-TV, Cleveland, OH, and now a
GSW member. USAF borrowed the film in 1957 and has never returned it; officially stating the filmed object was a meteor. Said Mr. Spaulding,
"We're past the story-telling stage. We have to have it in black and white
to satisfy the scientific community".

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PART 3



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Article #: 5
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1966 DR. J.E. McDONALD

SOURCE: AP (PIERRE, SD)
DATE: 21 OCTOBER 1966


PHYSICIST SCORES `SAUCER' STATUS

Dr. James E. McDonald, professor of meteorology at the U of Arizona and
senior
physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, yesterday urged a "radical change" in the investigation of unidentified flying objects. Dr. McDonald
said that explaining saucers as extra-terrestrial visitors seems "absurd,"
but that now seems to be the "least unsatisfactory hypothesis" for at least some of the sightings. "I believe this is a problem of the first order of scientific importance. It has been neglected and misrepresented and is
crying for high- caliber attention." For about 12 years, he has interviewed anyone in the Tucson area who reported seeing unusual objects in the sky, and now the rash of sightings across the country and Congressional attention on
the subject has increased his own interest.

Dr. McDonald said that 18 years of "administrative foul-up" by USAF, "a very low level of scientific competence," and deliberate debunking of UFO
sightings
had frightened away scientists and left needless confusion in the public's mind. While he is convinced there is no attempt "to cover up a
super-secret,"
he says he found evidence in a USAF document that the CIA in 1953 asked USAF
to `debunk' saucer reports because they were clogging vital military
reporting channels and demanding too much time of investigators. The CIA reiterated a statement it made earlier this month that the agency had helped analyze sighting reports of unidentified flying objects in the early 1950's
to help determine if some objects "might have originated overseas. "USAF at that time concluded that the objects were not hostile `artifacts' of foreign or extraterrestrial origin. "Presently, the subject of UFOs is a responsibility of the Air Force and we have absolutely no interest either in building up or debunking any information regarding, or views on, UFOs." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Article #: 6
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1968 SCIENT.RECOMM.STUDY

SOURCE: NYT (DC)
DATE: 30 JULY 1968


SIX SCIENTISTS RECOMMEND FLYING SAUCER STUDY

At a hearing yesterday before the House Committee on Space and Astronautics, several witnesses urged Federal support for a huge program to collect information aimed at finally settling the decades old debate on UFOs. The committee chairman, Representative J. Edward Roush of Indiana, urged 3 months ago that Congress take over the saucer investigation being conducted by USAF after challenging the objectivity of the study.

Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Northwestern U said the USA should seek UN cooperation
in setting up "an international clearing house" for UFO information "because there is almost a total lack of quantitative data" on the subject. Dr. James E. McDonald, a U of Arizona meteorologist, said that the scientific community tended to discount saucer reports because there was no scientific data, and
yet these same scientists would not support the collection of such data. He also contended that the news media, including one New York City newspaper,
was refusing to print news of UFO sightings. Dr. Hynek and Dr. McDonald were supported by Dr. Robert L. Hall, a U of Illinois sociology professor; Dr. Robert M. L. Baker Jr. of the Computer Sciences Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and Dr. James A. Harder, an associate professor of engineering at the U of California, Berkeley. Dr. Carl Sagan of Cornell U, author of Intelligent
Life in the Universe, took the least positive stand on the existence of UFOs. Instead of an expensive UFO data gathering program which has a high risk of achieving positive results, he advocated instead an attempt to contact other civilizations with radio astronomy coupled with unmanned plenetary space flights. Dr. Sagan added facetiously that "it may be that things are so bad here that someone up there will come to save us from ourselves."

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Article #: 7
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1966 UFOS CALLED GAS

SOURCE: NYT (DETROIT)
DATE: 26 MARCH 1966


FLYING OBJECTS ARE CALLED GAS

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a Northwestern University Astrophysicist who is also
USAF's civilian investigator of unidentified flying objects, after studying
the widely witnessed Dexter and Hilsdale UFO sightings in southern Michigan, has called the report by 87 coeds, a college dean, and a civil defense
director from Hillsdale "a very puzzling sighting. There has been a flood of other reports from this area and I could not possibly have the time to investigate all of these." The other reports were of little scientific
value, he added, because there were no substantial groups of witnesses
agreeing on what they had seen. The other of the "two principal events" happened at Dexter the previous night when some 50 people reported seeing a similar football-shaped object hovering over a swamp.

Dr. Hynek said "This could have been due to the release of variable
quantities
of marsh gas. A dismal swamp is a most unlikely place for a visit from outer space. It is not a place where a helicopter would hover for several hours,
or
where a soundless secret device would likely be tested." Rotting vegetation produces the gas "which can be trapped by ice and winter conditions. When a spring thaw occurs, the gas may be released in some quantity." This may
cause
lights "sometimes right on the ground, sometimes merely floating above it.

The flames go out in one place and suddenly appear in another place, giving
the
illusion of motion. No heat is felt and the lights do not burn or char the ground. They can appear for hours at a time and sometimes for a whole night. Generally there is no smell, and usually no sound - except the popping sound
of little explosions." The astrophysicist emphasized that his explanation
did not "cover the entire UFO phenomenon over the past 20 years" and that
very few sightings could be attributed to marsh gas.

Dr. Hynek also said that the Milan photographs taken March 17 were "without
any question" only time exposures of a rising moon and the planet Venus. The consultant agreed with a questioner that the flying saucer phenomenon could
be an interesting field of study for other specialists such as psychologists and sociologists. Though his investigation here, he said, is over.

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PART 4



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Article #: 8
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1966 FORD TO ASK INQUIRY

SOURCE: NYT (WASHINGTON, DC)
DATE: 26 MARCH 1966


FORD TO ASK INQUIRY

House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford announced yesterday he would ask the chairmen of the House Armed Services Committee and the Science and
Astronautics Committee to consider a "full blown" investigation of
unidentified flying
objects. Several hundred persons have reported seeing mysterious lights in
Mr. Ford's home state of Michigan this week. No Congressional leader has called
for such an investigation before. Mr. Ford said he was in Michigan Thursday night and yesterday morning "and I can assure you there is interest and I suspect public concern" over the sightings. If swamp gas caused the lights, Mr. Ford said, USAF should have no hesitancy in explaining that to a
committee.
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Article #: 9
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
Subject: 1966 CONGRESS REASSURED

SOURCE: AP (WASHINGTON, DC)
DATE: 06 APRIL 1966


CONGRESS REASSURED ON SPACE VISITS

Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Harold Brown assured the House Armed Services Committee yesterday there was no evidence that the earth had been visited by strangers from outer space. Dr. Brown said almost all of the 10,147 unidentified flying objects reported in the last 19 years were easily explained, including the recent Michigan sightings, as marsh gases, pranks, planets, comets, meteors, fireballs, and auroral streamers. But, he said,
"the Air Force has an open mind" and would continue to investigate all reports."

PHOTOGRAPH: Dr. Harold Brown
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Article #: 10
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-23-1986
Subject: 1968 CO U ENDS STUDY

SOURCE: NYT (DC)
DATE: 01 MAY 1968


COLORADO UNIVERSITY ENDS SAUCER STUDY BUT DOES NOT DISCLOSE RESULTS

Field investigations of UFO reports by the U of Colorado research project
were
completed on schedule today, but findings won't be discussed until the final report is sent to the National Academy of Sciences in late September. The U
of Colorado undertook a $500,000 study of UFOs at USAF's request because critics
accused USAF of failing to make a comprehensive, scientific investigation of saucer reports.

In a related development, NICAP held a news conference yesterday to announce
it has "broken with" the Colorado Project to "reveal the firing of top
project
scientists and other incidents leading to the project's failure. "A May 14 Look article by John G. Fuller told about the oustings last February of David R. Saunders, a psychologist, and Dr. Norman E. Levine, an electrical
engineer, and called the project the "flying saucer fiasco". On the House floor
yesterday, Representative J. Edward Roush quoted from the Look article and
said Congress should take over the UFO investigation from USAF because grave doubts
had arisen "as to the scientific profundity and objectivity of the Colorado project."

PHOTOGRAPH: E. U. Condon
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Article #: 11
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-23-1986
Subject: 1966 SATEL.TERMED UNKNOWN

SOURCE: NYT (DC)
DATE: 01 NOVEMBER 1966


THREE SATELLITES TERMED UNKNOWN

NASA's Goddard Flight Center in its Sept 30 & Oct 15 issues of the Satellite Situation Report has listed 3 `unknowns' among the many satellites, rocket bodies and space debris orbiting the earth. NORAD continuously monitors all orbiting objects from more than 100 radar stations around the globe. Information is also fed to NORAD by volunteers of the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory's `Moonwatch' teams, by airline pilots and others.

It is the first time the report has listed `unknowns' among the identified orbiting objects. Since the objects are not considered to constitute any danger military officials argued against listing them until they could be identified, fearing that `flying saucer' enthusiasts would cite the objects
as
evidence the earth had extraterrestrial visitors.

NORAD contends it has tracked objects as small as 1 foot in length, though
the
Satellite Situation Report omits any reference to the size & weight of listed satellites. 2 of the unknowns are in an orbit inclined at 85 degrees to the equator - an inclination close to those sometimes used for military
launchings
from Vandenberg AFB, CA; the other's orbit is inclined at 35 degrees to the equator - a launching angle sometimes used from Cape Kennedy, FL. 1 of the 2 in an 85 degree orbit swings from a low point of 385 miles above the earth to 3,944 miles; the other dips to 459 miles and swings out to 3,802 miles.

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Article #: 12
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-23-1986
Subject: 1969 NO VISITS FROM AFAR

SOURCE: NYT
DATE: 08 JANUARY 1969


UFO FINDING: No Visits From Afar

Though the findings by the U of Colordo UFO study have not yet been made public, the AP yesterday circulated a fragmentary account of the principal conclusions in the report. It is expected that the report will be made
public
at the same time as the evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences requested by USAF.

After investigating hundreds of UFO incidents, Dr. Condon and his staff found that a number of episodes previously classed as inexplicable could be
accounted for by natural means or by hoaxes. In some cases, witnesses with seemingly impeccable credentials were found to be self-contradictory and
hence their accounts were of little value. The document states that no evidence could be found that UFOs were intelligently guided spacecraft from beyond the earth and thus a large scale effort to determine the nature of flying saucers would be a waste of time and money. There was also no
evidence found that the government was withholding information about the objects from the public, except a reasonable USAF policy of delaying comment until an investigation was completed.

The Colorado group seems to have made every effort to remain aloof from any USAF influence. Thus, the cases it investigated were chosen largely from the recommendations of private groups, particularly NICAP. But as the investigative phase of the project drew to a close in late 1967, there was a falling out between Dr. Condon and Donald Keyhoe of NICAP, alledgedly because of Dr. Condon's lack of sympathy for the view that some UFOs may be
visitations from other worlds.

Other UFO enthusiasts were disenchanted when an internal university
memorandum
was presented in a magazine of national circulation as an indication of bias against proponents of the unidentified objects. The document, written before the project had begun, discussed whether the university could undertake the study without incurring ridicule from the academic world while still
satisfying the public that an open-minded study was being made. Two members
of the staff were dismissed, apparently for their role in removing the memorandum from the project's files. One was a psychologist, Dr. David R. Saunders, who had become
a member of NICAP shortly before joining the Colorado project. This week a book went on sale written by Dr. Saunders a journalist from Boulder, R. Roger Harkins, entitled UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong. Saunders
& Harkins argue that the Colorado investigation was a front contrived at the highest echelons of government to mask the truth, and that "someone on the project must be acting in a double role," which led to a mutual distrust
among members.

PHOTOGRAPH: Dr. Condon (portrait) AP same as previous photograph of Condon
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Article #: 13
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-11-1986
Subject: 1947 CRASHED DISK ROSWELL

SOURCE: NEWS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
DATE: 8 JULY 1947
PLACE: ROSWELL, NM

BULLETIN:

ROSWELL, N.M., JULY 8 - Possession of a "flying disk" was disclosed today by the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Grop of Roswell Army Air Base.

Oficers at the base say the "disk" was flown in a Super-Forttress to "higher headquarters" undisclosed.

The intelligence office reported that it gained possession of the "disk: through the co-operation of a Roswell rancher and George Wilson, sheriff at Roswell.

The disk landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher, whose name has not yet been obtained, stored the
disk
until such time as he was able to reach the Roswell sheriff's office.

The air base refused to give details of construction of the disk or its appearance.

Residents near the ranch on seeing a strange blue light several days ago
about
3:00 a.m.
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Article #: 14
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-12-1986
Subject: 1966 SIGHTINGS PEAK 1,060

SOURCE: NYT ( DAYTON, OH )
DATE: 15 FEBRUARY 1967

SIGHTINGS OF UFOs NEAR PEAK DURING 1966

Maj. Hector Quintanella, director of USAF's Project Blue Book, says a total
of 1,060 reports of unidentified flying objects were submitted to USAF during 1966, the second highest year's total since Blue Book began keeping records
20 years ago.

The record high of 1,501 was in 1952; the annual average is 555. Of the
11,107
reports since 1947, 676 remain unidentified, 30 of them from 1966.

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Article #: 15
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1973 P.CARTER REPORTS UFO

SOURCE: FLEETWOOD, PA ( AP )
DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 1973
SYSTEM: CUFON

Governor Jimmy Carter on UFOs

A dispatch from Statesboro, GA quoted Governor Jimmy Carter on UFO's "I've seen one myself." Mr. Carter said: he saw the shining, saucer-shaped object before he became governor.

He did not specify the date or place, but noted that he had been with friends after a business dinner. The dispatch said: there have been a number of UFO sightings in the South recently but did not specify how many of them had been after business dinners.
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Article #: 16
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1977 CARTER,ASKED NASA

SOURCE: WASHINGTON D.C. ( AP )
DATE: NOVEMBER 27, 1977
SYSTEM: CUFON

Carter Asked Space Agency to Investigate UFO's

President Carter had asked NASA to establish a panel of inquiry to
investigate
UFO's. Dave Williamsom, NASA's assistant for special projects, answered on friday that NASA was "not anxious" to get into the controversy because it's
not wise to do research on something that is not a measurable phenomenon.

There is no measurable UFO evidence such as a piece of metal, flesh or cloth. We don't even have any radio signals. A photograph is not a measurement. But
he added that a group of technical experts he headed would recommend by the
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Article #: 17
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1977 NASA REFUSES CARTER

SOURCE: WASHINGTON D.C. ( AP )
DATE: DECEMBER 28, 1977
SYSTEM: CUFON

NASA Refuses To Reopen Investigation of UFO's

NASA administrator Robert Frosch, in a letter last week to Pres. Carter's science advisor Dr. Frank Press, rejected a White House request to
investigate UFO's saying that such an inquiry would be "wasteful and probably unproductive."

Dr. Press said: he accepted NASA's conclusions and did not plan to pursue the matter further. NASA said: that it stood ready to analyze any "bona fide physical evidence from credible sources," but such evidence has never been found.
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Article #: 18
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1977 UN TO SET UP AGENCY

SOURCE: NEW YORK ( AP )
DATE: OCTOBER 08, 1977
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network

UN Urged To Set Up An Agency For UFO's

Mr.Wellington Friday, a delegate from Grenada, spoke before the UN General Assembly Special Political Committee yesterday at the start of a debate on
how
the UN could contribute to UFO research.

He said: the UN should establish an agency to study the sightings of physical alien objects, contact with such objects and the exchanges with alien
creatures occupying UFO's.

Grenada's Prime Minister Sir Eric M. Gairy has for many years asked the UN to establish a UFO agency; delegates agreed that they needed time to prepare for
a debate on the issue later this week. --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------

Article #: 19
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-19-1986
Subject: 1978 UN HEARS CASE - UFO

SOURCE: NEW YORK ( AP )
DATE: OCTOBER 15, 1978
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network

United Nations Hears Case For UFO's

For the second time in two years, the Prime Minister of the West Indies
island
of Grenada, Sin Eric Gairy, is campaigning to get the UN to set up an agency
to "collate, coordinate and corroborate information" on UFO's.

In 1977, Gairy succeeded in getting UFO's on the General Assembly's agenda which resulted in an agreement that any country with information or ideas on the subject could send them to UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim; however,
in
the year since Waldhein has made no public mention of co-operation from
member
nations.

Earlier this week, Gairy was at the UN making his case again: "We've passed
the stage now whether or not these things exist. I think it is accepted that these things do exist. I think we now want to know the nature, the origin
and the intent of these saucers. Some people think they have come to do
good. Some think they have come to dominate human beings."

He cited reported that aircraft have been put out of commission, but not destroyed, after attacking saucers. "That comfirms my thought on their positive intent. I believe they are coming here to help mankind because man
is so self- destructive...

It would be very conceited for man to think that he is the most intelligent
of
God's creatures. "Sir Eric says he hes seen two UFO's in the last three
years; the second time earlier this year from a hotel room in Grenada. "The time is going to come when everybody on Earth will have to pay attention to
the UFO phenomenon."

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Article #: 20
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-20-1986
Subject: 1969 BLUE BOOK CLOSES

SOURCE: NEW YORK ( NYT )
DATE: DECEMBER 18, 1969
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network

Air Force Closes Study Of UFO's

USAF Secretary Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. said: in a menorandum yesterday that Project Blue Book is closed since continuation of the study of UFO's "no
longer can be justified either on the ground of National Sesurity or in the interest
of Science."

Project Blue Book has investigated 12,618 sighting reports during the past 22 years, at a cost of "several million dollars." Both a committee of the National Academy Of Sciences and a U Of Colorado group concluded earlier this year that further studies of the so-called flying saucers would be a waste of time and money.

Surprisingly, the USAF decision was hailed by a number of UFO activists, but Dr. James McDonald, a meteorologist at the U Of Arizona, said: USAF was "writing off the UFO problem, which cries for serious scientific study ."
Dr.
Edward U. Condon, the U Of Colorado physicist who headed the UFO study, said: recently that his investigation "was a bunch of damned - nonsense" and that
he
was "sorry I ever got involved in such foolishness."

USAF said: UFO reports had fallen from a high of 1501 in 1952 to 146 this
year.
Stuart Nixon, secretary-treasurer of NICAP, said: sightings still occur
almost
weekly and cited the report from a group of Richmond, VA policemen who said: they saw an object maneuvering over the city at 5:45 on Dec 5.
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Article #: 21
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-26-1986
Subject: 1944 NEW GERMAN WEAPONS

SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
DATE: DECEMBER 14, 1944
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network

Floating Mystery Ball Is New German Weapon

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Dec. 13-A new German weapon has made its appearance on the western air front. It was disclosed today.

Airmen of the American Aif Force report that they are encountering silver colored spheres in the air over German territory. The spheres are encoun- tered either singly or in clusters. Sometimes they are semi-translucent.

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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS Dec. 13 ( Reuter ) - The Germans have produced a
"secret"
weapon in keeping with the Christmas season.

The new device, apparently an air defense weapon resembles the huge glass
balls that adorn Christmas trees. There was no information available as to whatholds them up like stars in the sky, what is in them or what their
purpose is
supposed to be.
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Article #: 22
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-11-1987
Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING

SOURCE: THE SEATTLE TIMES
DATE: 1 JANUARY 1987
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network

UFO report no surprise to longtime believer

`They're here to warn us of danger we are'

by Peter Lewis
Times staff reporter

Reports of a jumbo walnut-shaped unidentified flying object being sighted across the Arctic skies were music to Wayne Aho's ears.

"I'm always thrilled to hear those reports because not many get into the
news," said the Tacoma resident known as "Mr. UFO."

Aho was referring to recent news accounts telling aof a veteran pilot who
said
three UFOs - two small ones and one shaped like a walnut and twice the size
of
an aircraft carrier - trailed his Japan Air Lines cargo jet for 400 miles as
he flew across northeastern Alaska from Iceland to Anchorage on Nov. 17.

The pilot, his co-pilot and flight engineer on JAL Flight 1628 reported
seeing
flashing lights trail their jet. Federal Aviation Administration officials confirmed that the controller who handled the flight saw a mysterious object trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the Alaska Air Command said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane.

But Aho, founder and president of the New Age Foundation Inc., yesterday predicted that in the coming days or weeks, news organizations will be
running
"kill stories" that cast doubt on the sighting's authenticity.

"Someone will come up with an explnation far more impossible for anyone to imagine as being reality," Aho said.

That's what happened, Aho recalled, after amazed crew and passengers on a Soviet airliner reported seeing a star-like UFO beam a thin ray on the
ground,
then turn its dazzling light on the aircraft, then become a green cloud that "escorted" the plane during a flight over Minsk in January 1985.

The story first appeared in a Russian newspaper. But Soviet authorities
later
discredited the report, saying the UFO was actually space junk orbiting the Earth, Aho recalled. His memory is borne out by U.S. newspaper clips.

"How could space junk fly alongside and not fall?" asked Aho. "How could it follow at the speed of an airliner and fly beside it for 17 miles?" he asked.

In the case of the newly reported sighting, Aho wondered why it has taken nearly two months for it to make news. "What held it up?" he asked.

Aho, who said he has personally seen UFOs nine times, believes there is a deliberate effort on the part of the National Security Council to suppress
UFO
sightings because of the economic and political upheaval confirmed sightings would cause..

Yet according to an eight-year-old Gallup Poll, 16 million Americans have reported seeing UFOs, Aho said. And worldwide, an estimated 150 million
people have seen them, he added.

Aho's "awakening" to UFOs started in 1957 while he was attending a UFO convention in the Mojave Desert, where he became involved in a "close
encounter of the third kind - like the movie," he said.

UFOs are from a superior civilization that have come here "to warn us of the danger we are to ourselves," Aho believes.

A self-described "70 years young," Aho said he was an intelligence officer trained in aircraft identification who attained the rank of major in the Army during the war.

Robert Gribble, a retired Seattle firefighter who operates the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center, has received thousands of reports of UFO sightings over the years. He said the large, walnut-shaped UFO report in the Arctic skies is similar to outlines previously reported.

"I think the significant thing there is that they tracked it one radar," Gribble said. "It lends credibility that they saw both objects (the UFO and the plane) on the screen at the same time."

Two weeks ago, Gribble said yesterday, he was contacted by a Japanese
reporter
in Washington, D.C., who was the first to alert him to the sighting. Gribble said the reporter was trying to gather confirmation from various agencies to see if they had the sighting on radar, or if it had been reported by other airline crews, "and wanted to know if we had other reports, and of course we didn't," Gribble said.

In 1986, his center received an average of six reports a day of sightings
from
English-speaking people from the Caribbean across North America to Hawaii, Gribble said. Busier years have averaged from 15 to 20 calls a day.
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Article #: 23
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-11-1987
Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING

SOURCE: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
DATE: 31 DECEMBER 1986
SYSTEM: CUFON COMPUTER UFO NETWORK


Pilot describes `unbelievable' UFO encounter

United Press International

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - "It was unbelievable."

The words belonged to Kenju Terauchi, a Japan Air Lines pilot who was trying
to describe an inflight incident that thus far has defied explanation.

The veteran pilot says theree unidentified flying objects - two small ones
and
one twice the size of an aircraft carrier - trailed his JAL cargo jet for 400 miles across the Arctic skies.

Terauchi yesterday acknowledged that some of his colleagues have doubts about what he, his co-pilot and flight engineer saw Nov. 17 as they flew from
Iceland to Anchorage.

The crewmen of JAL Flight 1628 reported seeing flashing lights trailing their jet that clear night to the Federal Aviation Administration, which
interviewed
the three in Anchorage. The plane later went on to Tokyo.

FAA officials Monday confirmed the controller who handled Flight 1628 saw a mysterious object trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the Alaska Air Command said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane.

In yesterday's interview, Terauchi, 47, a pilot with 29 years of experience, said he saw three UFOs and that at one point lights from the two smaller ones appeared directly in front of the Boeing 747 cockpit at close range.

Terauchi referred to the objects as "the two small ships and the mothership," and expressed amazement that they disappeared and reappeared and moved
quickly
and stopped suddenly. He said he could not explain the events, except to speculate that he saw something of extraterrestrial origin.

Speaking in English with occasional help from a translator, Terauchi drew
maps, pictures and supplied technical annotation to describe the incident.

Terauchi repeatedly said the object that appeared on FAA and Air Force radar was "a very big one - two times bigger than an aircraft carrier."

The smaller UFOs did not appear on his radar, he said. Nor were additional objects picked up on FAA or Air Force radar.

Terauchi said the three crewmen saw lights from the two small objects. He
drew a picture for the FAA showing lights on a formation, each object having what
appeared to be two panels of lights.

The captain said he saw lights on the larger object and once, near Fairbanks, saw it in faint silhouette eight miles away. He drew a picture of what he
saw
- something resembling a large shelled walnut.

The crew was not frightened, Terauchi said. Their feeling was, he said, "We want to escape from this." And so - with FAA permission and direction - the crew dropped in altitude and made numerous turns, but the objects remained.

"They were still following us," Terauchi said, and FAA radar confirmed that
at
least one object remained despite the maneuvers.

Asked if he was nervous, Terauchi replied, "No, I am the captain. I cannot
be
nervous."

Asked why he thought the UFOs would tail his plane, Terauchi laughed and replied, "We were carrying Beaujolais, a very famous wine made in France.
Maybe they want to drink it."

FAA security manager Jim Derry, who interviewed the crewmen, said they were "normal, professional, rational, (and had) no drug or alcohol involvement."

FAA flight control reports indicate the mysterious object stayed with Flight 1628 for at least 32 minutes. Terauchi said he thought it was longer.

The flight controller directing the JAL plane reported the object on his
radar
as close as five miles to the jet.

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