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 involed 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.
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.
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
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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. news-
paper 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.