For
the show this week, I did something a little different. There was no guest for
the program. Instead, I provided a list of what I thought were the top ten UFO
cases from around the world. As I mentioned in the very beginning of the show,
there are many good sightings that involve multiple witnesses and multiple
chains of evidence. These top ten were the ones that I thought of on the
particular day that I created the list and that next week, I might have another
list.
I
did mention several cases that could have been on my list but weren’t there for
now. These included the Michigan sightings in 1966 which precipitated
congressional hearings called for by then Michigan congressional representative,
Gerald Ford. The Rendlesham Forest series of sightings in December 1980 is
another good case. I have interviewed Charles Halt, John Burroughs and Jim
Penniston on this program and the case could easily be on the list. And I
mentioned the Terry Lovelace abduction that might not have been alien inspired
but was certainly a real event. He talked of his interrogation by agents of the
Air Force Office of Special Investigation, which suggests possible
manipulation. Those at Rendlesham also mentioned AFOSI interrogations. Charles
Halt, the senior officer involved, confirmed that though he said he was not
subjected to the interrogations. I still wonder about that.
I
also mentioned that there were some important cases from the past that seemed
puzzling at the time but are now “solved.” I included the Mantell incident of
January 1948 in which Mantell died chasing a UFO. The best evidence available
today suggests that this was a tragic accident caused by a Skyhook balloon that
had been launched a day earlier in Minnesota. And I mentioned the
Chiles-Whitted sighting which, in 1948, inspired the famous Estimate of the
Situation, which is not to say it was the only reason the study was conducted.
I believe that they sighted a bolide as it broke up. Jerry Clark and others
disagree with that.
You
can, of course, see the program here:
The
cases that I discussed, in the order in which they were discussed are:
10.
The French Wave of I954
9.
The McMinnville Photographs of May 11, 1950
8.
The Lubbock Lights of August and September 1951.
7.
The Washington Nationals of July 1952.
6.
The Montana Movie of August 15, 1951
5.
The Coyne Helicopter Case of October 1973.
4.
The Shag Harbour UFO Crash (Emergency Landing) on October 4, 1967
3.
The Socorro, New Mexico (Zamora) Landing of April 24, 1964
2.
The Levelland Sightings of November 2/3, 1957
1.
What else? Roswell
In
the future, I plan to do this again, if there is interest in it. Next up, for
one of these solo shows would be UFO hoaxes… No, not MJ-12 or Aztec or the
Alien Autopsy, but the government’s hoaxes such as the Mogul Deception, the
Robertson Panel and the University of Colorado study, just to name a few. This
would be sometime in June.
For
those interested in such things, I have studied a number of the above cases in
depth and have written books about them. Encounter in the Desert is
about the Socorro landing witnessed by Lonnie Zamora. Levelland, is a
close look at those sightings of a glowing egg-shaped craft that stall car
engines. That book also contains detailed information about the French wave of
1954. I did a book called Invasion Washington about the Washington
National sightings which you can read for free at the NICAP website. And
finally, for those interested in the solid information about Roswell there is Understanding
Roswell. All books are available at Amazon, and as they say, if you enjoy
them, take a moment to leave a review or a rating.
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Next week, I’ll be talking to Philip Mantle of the Flying Disk Press about his new book about landings in the United Kingdom and his investigation, with Irene Scott into the Hickson-Parker Pascagoula abduction in 1973.
