'X' Zone Broadcast Network - The Allende Letters with Blair MacKenzie Blake

 

Several weeks ago, I learned about a man, Blair MacKensie Blake, who had found an original copy of the Varo Manufacturing reproduction of Morris K. Jessup’s The Case for the UFO that had been filled with bizarre annotations. This book, and several letters that were written about it, created a subset of UFO study known as the Allende Letters. It suggested, in part, that the Navy had successfully teleported a ship during World War II and that those who had annotated Jessup’s book an a unique and insider knowledge of the UFO. You can listen to that interview here:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/50565617

And for those of a more visual mindset, you can watch the interview here:

https://rumble.com/embed/v19kurz/?pub=yqkns

Now, I suspect that those of you who are not fully cognizant with the tale of the Allende Letters, might find some of this to be confusing. I have written about the topic in the past. You can read those postings here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/07/allende-letters.html

And for those who enjoy chasing footnotes and are interested in another reason not to believe the Allende Letters are anything other than a hoax, you can read another theory here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/08/chasing-sources-philadelphia-experiment.html

And there is even more commentary that you can read here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/06/ufos-never-ending-saga.html

With all that background, it will be easier to understand the discussion about the Allende Letters and how the Varo edition of the book came to be. Allende, who was born Carl Allen, had bought a copy (and yes, I am assuming that he bought the copy) of Jessup’s book and then filled it with annotations about his beliefs and theories as they might have been postulated by three men rather than one. Because of the nature of the book and because of those notations, and because of the letters, all of which ended up in the hands of several Naval officers, the nature and tone of the book changed. Blair suggested that this made the book better because of the hint of authenticity buried in those annotations. I found that to be an interesting remark.

Anyway, we learn of Blair’s quest to find the rarest UFO book, which is an original copy of the Varo edition. I, of course, have a xerox copy of the book and I know the provenance of it. Sidney Sherby, who was one of the Naval officers responsible for it, loaned me a copy of the Varo edition if I had a way to, well, copy it. I did and I did. This is a mock up of one of the pages from the book so that you can see what was done.

The annotations in the book were not as neatly done as this.

During our discussion, there is some mention of the Philadelphia Experiment, mentioned in the letters, and the disappearance of the Star Dust, a BOAC passenger plane that vanished on a routine flight. Rather than go into the details here, which are interesting, you can read about that here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2006/08/disappearing-aircraft-part-1-stardust.html

Anyway, it turns out that Blair hadn’t conducted an in-depth investigation of the Allende Letters case, but he was able to provide some interesting insights to aspects of it. His real purpose was to find the book, which took about 35 years. He had found other copies, and I even had an edition that had been produced by the French years ago, thought the notations were in blue rather than the red of the Varo edition or the colored inks used by Allende. You can see a sample of that here, courtesy of Blair:

A book annotated by Allende, but not the Jessup book.

And yes, I did write a magazine article about all this that Allende found and annotated. A sample follows here:

For those interested, I believe that provide an interesting perspective on this narrow aspect of the UFO world.

Coast-to-Coast AM: SETI, Proxima Centauri, and Recent Sightings

 

We’ve talked about the SETI program of searching for intelligent signals from other planets in the past. We’re not necessarily looking for a message directed out into the cosmos, but any electronic signal that is not natural, though some sort of message would be a bonus. On Earth, we’ve been beaming these radio waves out for about a century and a quarter, meaning that scientists on worlds 125 light years radius of Earth might be able to detect a signal sent from here. That incorporates a lot of space because this is a bubble around the planet, not just a linear distance.

We’ve talked about the WOW Signal that was detected in 1977 that has not been explained as either a natural signal or interference from all the electronic devices in use at the time. You can read more about that here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/03/wow-signal.html

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/05/new-theory-on-wow-signal.html

There have been other examples, none quite as famous, and we just learned about the Chinese detection that has now been explained as some of that electronic interference.

There are other examples including a detection of a signal coming from Alpha Centauri C, better known as Proxima Centauri, which is not all that far from Earth. Just 4.2 light years. There is information suggesting this too, might be electronic interference from Earth, but there are important points to be made. There are two planets circling Proxima Centauri, one of them in the Goldilocks Zone, meaning it is warm enough for liquid water, and it is a rocky planet about one and a half times the size of Earth.

Proxima Centauri as seen through the Hubble Telescope.

There is another aspect that affects the Barney and Betty Hill abduction, or rather the identification of Zeta I and Zeta II Reticuli, as the home world of the grays. Remember, Marjorie Fish, using the information that Betty Hill had provided on the Star Map shown by the leader, attempted to determine the alien’s home world. She created a three-dimensional model of our section of the galaxy, looking for the same pattern among the stars.

Here's the problem. Fish rejected putting red dwarf stars into her models because there are so many of them, and she could think of no reason for the aliens to visit red dwarf star systems. However, if Proxima Centauri has planets, including one in the Goldilocks Zone, then that suggests that there might be something of interest there. The latest estimates that there are 1.5 planets for each star. This means, frankly, that Fish elimination the red dwarf stars was a mistake. It means that her identification of the Zeta Reticuli system is flawed and we should reassess this. You can read more about this here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/12/betty-hills-star-map.html

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-hillfish-star-map-revisited.html

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/09/hill-star-map-badly-out-of-date.html

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/03/revisiting-hill-star-map.html

Getting back to Proxima Centauri, if the signal recently detected is from an alien race, it means that our galaxy might be teeming with life, and if so, then that increases the possibility that some UFOs are alien visitors, though not necessarily from Proxima Centauri.

My thinking here is if the star closest to the Earth (other than the sun) had intelligent life on it, then it provides a good case for life throughout the galaxy. That doesn’t mean that every star system that has planets in the Goldilocks Zone will have intelligent life, but it certainly suggests that intelligent life will not be overly rare.

So, while SETI searches for radio signals and other electronic emissions, there are still important UFO sightings such as the one from Lamoni, Iowa, on March 26 of this year. According to MUFON’s Cases Management System and the Iowa MUFON Assistance State Director Jason Moran, the witnesses, a man and his wife, had been observing strange lights in the late evening and early morning for a number of years.

On March 26, the lights were spotted about midnight and remained in sight for about two hours. They moved slowly, mostly in an east west path but often stopped to hover for short periods. The objects emitted a sparkling star-like light of various colors. The lights were observed through a telescope and the witnesses took pictures through the telescope, using a cell phone. Moran closed the case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

I’ll note here that such cases, of repeated observations, usually result in the identification of a terrestrially based source or some astronomical object just as Venus. However, in this case there are photographs that do not resemble anything in the area, and both the observations by the witnesses and the photographs tend to rule out many astronomical objects especially since it was viewed and photographed through a telescope.

In another report that is also part of the MUFON Case Management System, Florida MUFON State Section Director Vincent Maynard, reported on a sighting made on April 14 of this year in Davenport, Florida. The witness was taking a photo of a sunset and when reviewing the picture later, spotted a triangular-shaped UFO that he had not seen at the time. Maynard, who labeled the case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle wrote, “…there is no way on Earth this [object could be confused] with anything terrestrial… it is either a craft from another world, dimension, time, deep within the planet or from light years away or something made… on Earth that the government owns and is it secret.”

The dark triangular-shaped UFO with a blunt nose and no visible surface features, resembles sightings made of such craft for the last several years. David Marler has cataloged many such sightings. This does not appear to be an artifact from the digital camera or some sort of lens flare or internal reflection.

I will note here that the photographs from both cases appear in the latest issue of the MUFON Journal.

Pascagoula Perspective

 

While I was doing research on the Internet, I found a reference to me about the Charles Hickson – Calvin Parker abduction in Pascagoula, Mississippi on October 11, 1973. This was in a skeptical magazine, but it was based, apparently, on a reference I had supplied to Ron Story’s The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, published in 2001. What I had written there was:

The landing site of the UFO was only a few hundred yards away from and in full view of a heavily traveled highway. No one ever came forward to corroborate the story, or to suggest that he or she had been on the highway and saw the UFO.

This bit of analysis was based on the skeptical argument that had been offered over the years. Turns out to be wrong. First, the location site of the UFO landing and the abduction is only briefly visible from the highway, given the construction of the bridge that must be crossed, the surrounding terrain, and the vegetation in the area. In other words, it is in a location that is in view of the highway for only seconds and it is difficult to see.

What I have learned about this in the world today is that there were others in the area who saw the bright blue light that surrounded the UFO. I learned, in talking to Calvin Parker, that he had talked with people who told him they had seen the UFO that night in 1973. Among those witnesses were Vernon and Maria Blair, crane operator Louis Lee, and a carload of people including Ray Broadus, Emmanuel P. Sigalas and finally a fellow named Larry Booth.

Vernon and Maria Blair at a much younger age.
Photo courtesy Philip Mantle and Calvin Parker.

The Blairs and Louis Lee had not talked about their observations until decades later. They said they wanted to avoid the ridicule that is associated with reporting a UFO. They could read the newspapers and see the news reports and they just were not comfortable with dragging the spotlight to them.

I asked Calvin Parker about this, because he was talking about new witnesses, and that there were newspaper articles and other documentation that provided dates. I, of course, was of the opinion that these new witnesses had just appeared on the scene recently and to me, that was a problem.

However, there is a document dated October 12, 1973, created at Keesler Air Force Base by officers at the base. It mentions the military personnel who were involved in the interrogation of Hickson and Parker while they were at the base to be checked for radioactive contamination. But more importantly, it provides the names of two men who had reported seeing something in the area of the abduction on the night of the abduction.

That document names, specifically, Ray Broadus, and another, independent witness identified only by his first name, and that he owned a gas station. Later, Ralph Blum reported on a fellow named Larry Booth who owned a gas station. In other words, here were the names of two witnesses who made reports the very next day.

Add to that, in interview conducted with Emmanual P. Sigalas, months after the abduction. That doesn’t matter, because, as noted he was in the car with Broadus and that gives us the date.

My point here is simple. When I wrote those words most recently quoted, it was that I had accepted the words printed by Philip Klass and other skeptics. Given these criticisms, that is, no one saw the object from the highway and there were no other witnesses to the event, I had believed them. When Parker told me that this wasn’t true, I investigated and found that there were other witnesses, and some of them were interviewed the day after the abduction. That certainly changes some of the problems with the case and provides, well, a different perspective. I just thought I would mention it.

Roswell Revisited or I Fly Solo on the 'X' Zone Broadcast Network

 

This week, because it was the 75^th anniversary of the Roswell crash, and because everyone that I would have wanted for a guest was either celebrating the 4^th  of July, recovering from that celebration, or had travelled to Roswell, I flew solo. My plan was to cover some of the high points… and low points in my investigations into the Roswell crash.

But first, I had a rant or two. I mentioned that I was not a fan of Amazon’s new rating system for books. You could give one star but didn’t have to give a reason. While I appreciate four- and five-star ratings, when we fall to the other end, I’d like to know why the rating was so low… And many times, when there is a review, it has nothing to do with the quality of the writing or information, but with the condition of the book. I have no control over that. One of those who actually provided a review mentioned that the pages were falling out. Not my fault. You need to take that up with publishers and book binders. I just wonder how often the reader is offended by something I don’t control.

I did mention that the negative reviews, as opposed to just the negative ratings, sometimes provide feed back that does help. One of those suggested that one of my books just seemed to be an excuse to denigrate other researchers. While that wasn’t the intent, I could understand the comment and could, next time, be cognizant of that and tone down the rhetoric.

The second rant came about because I had just seen an unqualified comment on another website in which the host said that Project Mogul was the cause of the debris and that it was top secret which was why there had been such an effort to recover it. I just wish these people would do a little research and learn that what was going on in New Mexico was not highly classified. It wasn’t classified at all and that negates this excuse. For those interested in the on-going arguments, just type Project Mogul into the search engine on the left and you can sort through all my postings on it.

From there, I moved onto the meat of the program, explaining how I had become involved in the original Roswell investigation. It was an outgrowth of a purposed debate about UFOs between science fiction writers and investigators from the Center for UFO Studies. It looked as if it was going to be one-sided, so I jumped to the pro side. It’s all explained in the show, which, of course, you can listen to hear:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/50491419

Or watch here, if you want to see me talk about UFOs and Roswell for an hour:

https://rumble.com/v1bdonf-a-different-perspective-with-kevin-randle-roswells-75th-anniversary.html

In the second segment, I did talk about our first trip Roswell and how it didn’t look all that good until we met with Bill Brazel. Here was a guy who had handled the debris and who had gotten part of the story from his father, Mack.

Bill Brazel in 1989. Photo by Kevin Randle

I also talked about my conversations with Edwin Easley, the Roswell Provost Marshal in 1947. I believe I have mentioned this on several occasions, but for this program, I wanted to hit the high points.

In the third segment, because it was necessary, I addressed some of the problems with the Roswell story. These were embodied by Frank Kaufmann, Glenn Dennis and the Plains of San Agustin. Although Don and I had accepted the tales told by Frank Kaufmann, and how they were backed by Walter Haut, we were the ones that finally exposed his stories. True, others had denounced him earlier, but they based it, not on evidence, but in their belief there was no alien component to the Roswell story. Mark Rodeghier, Mark Chesney and Don Schmitt had gathered the initial evidence, and I provided some documentation that ultimately proved the case.

Glenn Dennis. Not the most credible source.

In the final segment, I mentioned one of the things on which we all agree and that is that something fell in Roswell. Once again, because it is part of the story, I touched on the Project Mogul nonsense.

I also mentioned, because there is a note of irony in it, that the Air Force, during their investigation confirmed many of the things that we had said about the alternative explanations. In other words, we agreed that it wasn’t an errant missile or rocket from White Sands, it wasn’t an experimental aircraft, it wasn’t some kind of accident involving atomic weapons or that it was an early experiment in space flight that had gone horribly wrong. Of course, we disagreed with their final conclusion about Project Mogul.

Next time, I’ll be talking with Blair MacKenzie Blake about the Allende Letters and our separate investigations into them, including getting copies of the Varo edition of Morris K. Jessup’s book that might have sparked this whole controversy.

Coast-to-Coast AM: The Mystery Rocket and Some UFOs

 

Here’s what I learned about the rocket impact on the Moon. This apparently happened on March 4 of this year but NASA didn’t release the images until June 24. The impact left double, overlapping craters suggesting a mass at each end of the rocket, meaning, the engines at one end and a payload of some sort at the other.

Using my training as an Intelligence Officer, including a system in which all possible scenarios are explored even the most ridiculous, I wondered about two things. Who would be launching the rockets in secrecy and what was the possible payload? The answers, at the far end of the scale, was that some nation with atomic weapons and a space program might have attempted to place some of those weapons in orbit. That would account for no one coming forward to claim the rocket and what the heavy payload might have been.

But, I have since learned that the leading theory, at the moment, is that it was the third stage of a Chinese rocket that had been launched in 2014 which accounted for the lack of ownership. The third-stage rocket was originally listed by the 18^th Space Control Squadron that it had burned up after it was used but they later changed the status to in orbit.

For those interested, the 18th Space Control Squadron is part of the United States Space Force Domain Awareness unit located at Vandenberg AFB, California, and is currently commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lintker. The mission of the 18th SDS is to provide and advance a continuous, comprehensive, and combat-relevant understanding of the space situation and to keep track of some 45,000 pieces of space junk, which is a lot of space junk and might explain why no one is sure about the identity of the rocket that hit the moon.

Moving on, I wasn’t going to mention these types of UFO sightings any more, but I found a number of additional photographs from around the country for the June 19 UFO sightings. Looking at the photos, it is clear that they are additional SpaceX launches. I am surprised at the number of reports and the wide distribution of the witnesses. This picture is from Mesquite, Nevada, as just one more example.

There are pictures of things other than the SpaceX launches. On June 4 of this year, the witness spotted what he thought, at first, was a falling star. It swooped down at high speed until it was about fifty feet over his house in the Killeen, Texas, area.

He described the UFO as tube-like and later as a tic tac with a rainbow of colors swirling around its center. As he got his phone out to photograph it, the UFO shot up into the sky. He said that it seemed to split into two, then balled up, turning into a rectangle with multiple lights.

He said that his wife got out her phone and began recording as well, until the UFO disappeared. He said that they could see another object appear and disappear. Once the first object had disappeared, the second came down and flew off in the same direction as the first.

They then jumped into their car and gave chase. It was too low and they lost sight of it. Following is the photograph:

Also on June 4, the witness was walking the dog on the north edge of Davis, California. The witness spotted something that at first appeared to be a balloon. It was a metallic object, only six to eight feet in diameter that looked like a clam shell with spikes coming out of the rim. The UFO was only two to three hundred feet over head. The witness said that it flew straight and level.

The witness also said, “I held up the phone to the object, observing both it and my screen at the same time, but the object would not show up on my screen… I watched it cruise out of sight… at maybe thirty to fifty miles an hour.”

The witness walked back to the car and checked the footage but the image wasn’t there. At home, the witness used photoshop, trying out filters that can find the edge of things, but they found nothing.

Coast-to-Coast AM: Roswell Information and Current Sightings

I see where the mainstream media has finally started reporting on the story that drones might be responsible for some of those 144 incidents that started the latest interest in UFOs if we are to believe what they say. I, of course, reported on that last week. Now, however, some of the sailors are saying that it wasn’t drones.

That too is something I have seen before. There are times when witnesses with insist that a sighting is of something alien when there is a good terrestrial explanation for it. That’s not to say the sailors are wrong, only that we need more information and that doesn’t seem to be coming any time soon. I’ll keep an eye on this.

We’re now beginning the 75^th anniversary celebration of the Roswell UFO crash. I thought I would point out a couple of facts that have been overlooked by those who wish to push the Project Mogul balloon solution. The mainstream media and the debunkers keep coming back to this solution, rejecting the idea that the documentation refutes it. I always wonder why they ask for documentation and when it doesn’t confirm their beliefs, they reject it.

Mogul Flight #4, the culprit in all this, was cancelled according to that documentation. Charles Moore told me that they couldn’t put the helium back in the bottles, so they ran an experiment with a cluster of balloons, which was not a full flight. The make-up of those clusters did not include rawin targets which supposedly accounted for the metallic debris found by Mack Brazel.

In fact, according to the documentation, there were no rawin targets used on those first flights in New Mexico, which is more proof that the pictures taken of the alleged debris in General Ramey’s office were staged and did not show material brought from Roswell.

When Mack Brazel traveled to the sheriff’s office in Roswell, he brought samples of the material with him. In other words, Major Jesse Marcel saw remnants of the craft and had it been a balloon, he would have recognized it as such and there would have been no reason for him to go to the ranch. That material was sent to Fort Worth according to testimony by Colonel Thomas DuBose, the 8^th Air Force chief of staff at the time. I have much more about this on my blog and in my book Understanding Roswell.

While that was 75 years ago, there are interesting sightings today. On June 20 of this year, in Pleasantville, Iowa, the witness was washing his car and taking pictures. Although he didn’t see anything unusual, when he reviewed the pictures later, he found a strange object in one of them. A picture taken moments later had no object in it.

The black UFO just to the right of the tree.

On June 19, in the Queens, New York, area, the witness was traveling southbound over the Whitestone Bridge and saw six to eight bright objects in the western sky. The UFOs were stationary but then would change formation in the blink of an eye. One of the objects broke off, flying off diagonally. The formation was close together and was in sight for about six minutes.

The Queens, New York formation photograph

Also on June 19, this time near Cordova, Alabama, the witness said that while sitting on the back deck, both he and his wife, saw a bright light that had a ring following it. He said that both the light and the ring moved in unison, and were in sight for about ten minutes. It eventually disappeared over the eastern horizon.

The spectacular Cordova sighting of a SpaceX launch.

There was a similar sighting, on the same date in Omaha, Oklahoma. The witnesses were sitting around a bonfire, when they saw a bright light, trailed by a smoke ring. They, of course, took a picture. I suspect these last two are of a SpaceX launch and mention them to let others know what these unusual displays look like.

The Omaha photograph taken about the same time on the same day, proving this
was a SpaceX rocket.

Coast-to-Coast AM: Updaptes and Sightings

Periodically, I find it necessary to update some of the reports. Last week, I mentioned the Chinese had detected a signal, using their Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope know as FAST. At the time, they believed the signal had been sent by aliens. Specifically, they thought the signal came from Kepler 438b, which would be the second planet in the Kepler star system. It is described as a rocky planet, estimated as being one and a half times the size of Earth and is in the Goldilocks Zone, meaning it was warm enough to have liquid water. Kepler 438 is a red dwarf star in the constellation Lyra.

The Chinese FAST Radio Telescope.

Dan Werthimer, from the University of California at Berkely, who, among others wrote a paper about the discovery said that the signals were radio interference from Earth. It is radio pollution.

This sort of thing has happened in the past. Each time the signals have ultimately been identified as natural phenomena or from a terrestrial created sources. The lone exception is the WOW signal detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory at The Ohio State University on August 15, 1977. It has not been repeated which is one of the criteria set up as the standard for proof of alien life. I have posted information about the WOW signal and you can read it here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/03/wow-signal.html

I should note that I had posted an article about a possible identification of the signal which you can read here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/05/new-theory-on-wow-signal.html

I mention that simply because it is necessary to view all the information available before making a decision on the importance of the WOW Signal. Given that, it is necessary to point out now that this theory has been discredited. Scientists with the Big Ear research team dismissed the claim because there were no comets in the right position as the time the signal was detected. Seems that there still is no natural solution for the signal.

I mentioned a sighting from Evansdale, Iowa, on April 21 and posted a photograph here. This was probably a picture of a Starlink satellite. More of these satellites are being launched and we’ll have to aware of them as possible sources of UFO sightings. You can find out about Starlink satellites at their tracking website found at https://findstarlink.com/.

But there are interesting cases out there. Just last week, on June 16, two witnesses, a man and a woman, were eating dinner in their home between Weatherford, Texas and Mineral Wells. Out the window they have a good view of the prairie and to the west, saw what at first looked like a glowing ball of bright orange light. It came closer and they said that they could see that it was elongated, which is what I call cigar shaped. They estimated that it was about fifty feet long and they thought it was twenty feet in diameter. It was flying above the trees in a straight line. Although it was in view for about four minutes, neither thought about getting any video of it. They were just amazed at what they were seeing. It finally just flew out of sight.

A witness was preparing for bed in Comfort, Texas, and was looking out the window over the hay field. He saw a bright light flash across the sky. He said, “It moved extremely fast… the light was bright and did not have a tail or appear to be a shooting star.”

He said that the light seemed to be already in motion when it appeared and that it disappeared just as fast as it had shown up. He said that his wife and kids were in bed at the time so they didn’t see anything.

It was only about two to three miles away by his estimate. He said that he lives on a farm and is familiar with the night sky. He said that he was stumped by the sighting and said he reported it to see if anyone else had seen the same thing.

And finally, here’s a quick one. The witness in Middletown, Rhode Island, said he saw a slow moving, tic-tac shaped object that was in sight for about ten seconds. There was no exhaust. I mention this only because it resembles the case from the Weatherford, Texas, area. 

'X' Zone Broadcast Network - Michael Schratt

This week I talked with Michael Schratt who has produced a book that is interesting, not only for the information included in it, but for the beautiful, color illustrations of the UFO sightings featured in it. Schratt has a long history of UFO research and he has an extensive knowledge of the topic. You can listen to the show here:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/50224682

And you can watch the show here:

https://rumble.com/v18nyur-a-different-perspective-with-kevin-randle-interviews-michael-schratt.html

First up, we talked about the Cape Girardeau UFO crash of 1941. I had explored that in my book, Crash: When UFOs Fall from the Sky. The problem is that the case is basically single witness and she didn’t see anything first hand other than a photograph that has been long lost. You can read a longer analysis here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/search?q=Cape+Girardeau

From there we moved on to some of the sightings for which Michael had supplied some of the paintings. First up there was the Temple, Oklahoma, landing in which the witness not only saw the landed craft, but one of the beings, though he said the being was human as opposed to humanoid. The case was investigated by Project Blue Book and is one of the three labeled as “unidentified,” in the files that involve occupant sightings. In almost all the other cases, if a witness reported creatures, it was labeled as psychological, meaning there was something wrong with the witness. You can read more about the Temple case here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/12/temple-oklahoma-ufo-landing.html

And for those who would like to see some of the Project Blue Book documents, you can see them here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/03/canadian-texas-vs-temple-oklahoma-minor.html

The illustration for the Temple, Oklahoma sighting based on the Air Force file.

The actual illustration from the Project Blue Book files.

We also talked about the Canadian man, Stephen Michalak, who was injured by the close approach of a UFO in 1967. Pictures of the injury have been published around the Internet, which provides some additional evidence of the sighting.  You can read some of the official documentation here:

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/unusual/ufo/Documents/1967-06-26.pdf

We also talked about a sighting from Mobile, Alabama, which interested me based on the illustration. It was a single witness sighting but the craft described was quite elaborate. The problem I have is that is single witness, and given the size of the craft, I am surprised there was no corroborative sightings. That might be explained by a reluctance of the witnesses to come forward with their stories. It also might be explained by there being no other witnesses. You can see all the illustrations and the accompanying stories at Dark Files: A Pictorial History of Lost, Forgotten and Obscure UFO Encounters, available at Amazom.

The illustration of the Mobile, Alabama sighting.

In the final segment, I talked about Moon Dust. I had just published an updated version of my 1998 book, Project Moon Dust. Brad Sparks had said that there was no Project known as Moon Dust, which I found difficult to believe because of all the documents we have labeled Moon Dust. It seems that Moon Dust was a code word that covered the Moon Dust activities. So, there was Moon Dust, just not as a project, but an activity.

Next up, I’ll be talking to Ron James about involvement in the UFO field and what his research has turned up. This was postponed from earlier in the month. 

Coast-to-Coast AM: Drones, Disclosure and Sightings

 

When the Navy released the videos several years ago, I thought Disclosure had taken a step or two forward. Congress demanded a report from the Director, National Intelligence that did nothing to move us forward. Now we learn that the 2019 sightings over Navy ships in the Pacific were, in fact drones. I haven’t seen the full report yet, but it seems that the drones might have been controlled by a “mother ship” owned by Hong Kong. This doesn’t bode well for Disclosure.

However, on the other side of the coin, NASA announced that they were commissioning a team to begin studying the UFOs this fall. The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect it and how NASA can use the data for a scientific understanding of UFOs… which is what the Condon Committee was supposed to do a half century ago but had a different, secret agenda.

This, however, seems to be a step toward Disclosure because, in years past, NASA wanted nothing to do with UFOs, no matter the scientific answers that might be found.

So, while NASA and the government are gearing up to do what has been done in the past, there are still interesting sightings being reported. MUFON’s Case Management System provided the following.

The witness, out walking his dog in Scotland on January 22 of this year said that he noticed a star-like object and thought it strange enough that he began filming with his cell phone. It was a triangular-shaped object moving at a slow speed. He said the UFO flew behind a cloud and he thought it should emerge quickly into a clear sky. That didn’t happen. He said that he waited for about thirty minutes and believed that cloud had drifted inland. About fifteen minutes later he filmed a helicopter returning from off shore.

The witness said that this was the third sighting in under a month. MUFON Field Investigator James Dallas investigated, closing the case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

In a report filed to the National UFO Reporting Center on the day it happened, May 30 of this year, from Ocotillo Wells, California, the witness said that the UFO popped out of nowhere. The object was spinning and seemed to be moving from side to side. The witness said that there was pod on top of the object like that seen on other UFOs, which I took to mean a dome. There were short legs under it and the craft had a disk shape. It was a yellowish-orange color that slowly faded.

The witness and his father took pictures of the UFO and video of the movements. Both Jupiter and Venus were visible in the sky and the witness was able to identify them both, ruling them out. Given the shape and the size, they ruled out a drone, and as the sky darkened, the UFO began to camouflage itself.

The Ocotello Wells, CA UFO

One of the interesting aspects of the report was that everyone saw many aircraft in the sky, except when the UFO was there. Then they didn’t see any aircraft.

Government UFO Hoaxes

This week, because of scheduling issues and travel arrangements by the guest, we weren’t able to connect for the show. Ron James will be the guest on June 29 so we didn’t lose anything. We just have to wait a few extra weeks.

Instead, I flew solo because I knew that something like this would happen eventually and I’d need a backup. I wanted to talk about Government UFO hoaxes, which is something we all know about but might not have understood the significance of them. You can listen to the show here:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/50130768

And for those of you with a little more adventurous nature, you can actually watch the show here:

https://rumble.com/v17sl7t-a-different-perspective-with-kevin-randle-government-ufo-hoaxes-the-key.html?mref=yqkns&mc=7zk0c

Before we delved into that, I talked about so some of the trouble inside the UFO field. We have examples of bad faith players but seem to embrace them rather than ignore them. These are people who have burst onto the UFO scene with terrific stories of their involvement in many of the best UFO cases or their travel to other planets. Normally, I just sort of make generic comments about how something doesn’t make sense or is illogical or there is no evidence for it. In this case I named Philip Corso, suggesting that his story was largely false.

I pointed out a few problems, mentioning that we had no evidence and no testimony of a convoy leaving Roswell with the bodies of the alien crew. Given that they were an aviation asset, meaning they had both cargo airplanes and Air Force bombers, they could fly the bodies to Wright Field in a matter of hours. There was no reason for them to drive cross country in a trip that could take two or three days. This suggested that Corso couldn’t have seen the bodies at Fort Riley, Kansas, because they had never been there.

I didn’t note that I found it difficult to believe that they would have unloaded the trucks at Fort Riley and left the crates guarded by soldiers stationed there rather than members of the convoy. Nor can I believe that the guards assigned would have been snooping around the crates opening them… and then once having violated military regulations by compromising the integrity of the crates, would call a field grade officer to allow him to see what they had found. This just doesn’t work on so many levels and is obviously an invented tale.

There has been push back suggesting that I have become too opinionated. No, I have just become annoyed with those making up tales, whether it is men, and a few women, telling tales about their exploits in Vietnam, and then learning that some of them had been clerks or cooks or maintenance men, all important jobs, but not combat jobs, and learning that some of them hadn’t served in Vietnam and that many of them hadn’t served in the military.

Here was Corso plugging himself into the Roswell story with no evidence that he had anything to do with it. I don’t believe his story and see the problems with it. I suppose that those who haven’t served just don’t see the trouble, but I do.

Having finished my rant about the charlatans in the field, I moved on to the government hoaxes starting with Project Sign. True, it started out as a legitimate investigation, it soon devolved into a propaganda operation with lies about the outcome of investigations. The result was the Estimate of the Situation (EOTS). This was the document that basically guided UFO research by the Air Force for the next two decades.

I did get into the Robertson Panel, which is one of the biggest UFO hoaxes by the government. As Dr. Michael Swords pointed out, it seemed unlikely that after a week of investigating the UFO reports, Robertson would have a draft of the report ready for signature the next day. How had it been written so fast. It smacked of a document written before the panel was even seated.

Edward Condon

And, of course, there was the Condon Committee in which an Air Force officer discussed the final report with a member of the committee before anyone had begun the investigation. In the end, that letter, written by Robert Hippler provided the answers the Air Force wanted found. I have discussed this on the blog a number of times. You can review them here:

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html

Finally, I did talk about the Project Mogul hoax as an explanation for Roswell. One of the points was that Flight No. 4, which never flew and was disassembled according to Charles Moore, had no rawin radar targets on it, which therefore couldn’t have left

Charles Moore

the metal debris Mack Brazel found or supplied the debris displayed in General Ramey’s office. I laid all this out in Understanding Roswell, which those of you who want to know the truth rather than reading about the exciting “memories” of those who weren’t involved or weren’t there, should find interesting.

Next week, I’ll be talking to Michael Schratt about his new book and some of the incredible paintings that show some of the encounters. 

Coast to Coast AM: UAP, UFO History and Current Sightings

As those of you who visit here know, I’m not a fan of the term UAP. I think it is an attempt to disassociate the idea of alien visitation from the observations made by military personnel. I think we all need to reject it simply because it denies the history. But. I have a document dated 1949, while the Air Force was struggling with the term flying saucers. It uses the phrase Unidentified Aerial Phenomena to describe, well, a flying saucer. I found it interesting that we have actually returned to one of the original descriptors of the flying saucers yet are using it to reject the history of them.

And speaking of history, on one of the UFO lists that provides me with interesting information there was a query from one of the list members. Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos wrote to ask for help about a UFO seen during the Belgium UFO wave. According to the information, on June 26, 1989, the witness and his wife saw a strange, globe-shaped object with four landing gear. The witness was a mechanical engineer and was reported to be quite credible. His wife saw the UFO as well, and Olmos asked if anyone knew of other sightings with a similar object.

The Belgium UFO from 1989.

Moving to a more current report, the witness and his wife were sitting outside at their home in Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa, at about 6:30 on May 18 of this year when an odd-looking object glided over them from west to east. The object consisted of about 20 square lights on each side in two straight parallel lines. They estimated it to be one kilometer in length. He said he could not tell whether it was in space or in our atmosphere. They both got their cameras, but could not film the UFO. He said he had never seen something so large in space. It took about 3 minutes to cross the sky. He said they spend quite a bit time in the evening sitting outside and always look for satellites and shooting stars, suggesting some knowledge about what is in the sky around them.

I mention this sighting only because it reminded me of the sighting by Clyde Tombaugh, a reputable astronomer who discovered Pluto. On August 20, 1949, Tombaugh and his wife were in the backyard. He wrote, “I happened to be looking up… admiring the beautiful transparent sky of stars, when suddenly I spied a geometrical group of faint bluish-green rectangles of light similar to the Lubbock Lights… As the group moved south-southeasterly, the individual rectangles became foreshortened, their space in formation smaller and their intensity duller, fading from view about 35 degrees above the horizon.”

Tombaugh said that he thought they were individual lights but his wife suggested they were on a larger object. Donald Menzel, the Harvard UFO debunker, said it was probably lights from the windows of other houses reflecting on the nonexistent haze, but Tombaugh disagreed because the night was clear without a hint of haze. Since Menzel wasn’t there and Tombaugh was, I accept Tombaugh’s denial of the alleged identification.

Finally, on April 21 of this year a man in Evansdale, Iowa, photographed a cigar-shaped craft that was in sight for about a minute. He said that his daughter first saw the UFO and asked him what it was. He thought she meant something on the ground, and then looked up to see the UFO. He took two photos of it, along with a short video as you can see.

Top picture includes the roof to show that the object is not a streak based on
movement of the camera. The size might be the result of the object moving.

As usual, with many of these current sightings, I have not had the opportunity to completely vet the photographs. There is not evidence of a hoax here but that doesn’t mean we’re looking at an alien spacecraft. That is something that we all need to remember when looking at these sightings. 

Coast to Coast AM - Editorial Comment and Recent Sightings

 

First, I want to make a couple of editorial comments. In the last week or so, there have been stories of a door spotted in a photograph taken by the Curiosity Rover on Mars. NASA, and most of whom have commented on it, say that it is a small crevice and a natural formation.

Second, a growing number of my colleagues and others are already tired of the term UAP. This new designation seems to be a way of separating the long UFO history from the more recent sightings beginning with those from the USS Nimitz. We need to reject this attempt to eliminate the past and realize that there is much that can be applied to the new study regardless of the desire to ignore it. We have already seen an example of this when those in front of the congressional committee in May had no real knowledge of the Malmstrom AFB sightings of 1967 that were a matter of national security importance.

Of course, sightings outside the military and the interest in the new investigation continue. Rich Reynolds linked to an interesting video that was made on the afternoon of April 25, 2014. The witness said that he used a 300 mm lens when he captured the image.

There has been some analysis suggesting that the video is real. One analyst said that the cloud behind the airplane seemed to be dispersing but the airplane did not show any manipulation. If nothing else, it is an interesting video with a fairly good view of a disk-shaped object.

https://www.ufosightingsfootage.uk/2022/04/clear-ufo-hiding-behind-clouds-zooms.html

More recently, on May 12 of this year, the witnesses in Wilsonville, Oregon, spotted a contrail made up of four parallel lines, which in and of itself is interesting. The witnesses said that they hadn’t seen or heard any aircraft.

Moving toward the front of the contrails, the photographer said that he saw the object. It is somewhat circular with a bright top surface and an underside that is in shadow. 

From Windham, Maine, the witnesses were outside also on May 12 of this year. They were watching the rising of the planets, which suggests some familiarity with what is in the sky. They spotted a line of UFOs that appeared to be about the size of Venus, perfectly aligned, traveling to the northeast about 45 degrees above the horizon. At first, it looked like about twenty planets traveling together and I thought it sounded like the starlink satellites. The witnesses, however, said they were moving slower than satellites, there were too many objects in the line and they were in sight for about five minutes which seems to rule out the starlink satellites.

Finally, I mention this merely because it links back to the Green Fireballs of the late 1940s. The witnesses were heading home near Patrick Springs, Virginia, when the driver spotted a bright green fireball on May 11, 2022. All three in the truck saw the object, which was in sight for about 30 seconds. It disappeared as it flew beyond the nearby mountains. The fireball was described as very large, it left no trail, had no tail and it fell very fast