Coast-to-CoastAM: Roswell Crash and Newer Sightings

 

Just yesterday, I came across another website that I won’t name here, that was again claiming that recently declassified pictures proved that the Roswell crash was real, meaning extraterrestrial. The declassified pictures were not of an alien space craft, but of the crashed remains of an A-12 spy plane. The pictures came from the National Geographic website and were labeled as “Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed” and were originally posted on May 21, 2011. National Geographics noted that the crash happened in 1963 in Utah, and that the pictures had been declassified by the CIA recently, meaning in 2011 and not in the last couple of weeks. I fully expect to run into these pictures again and again as those who don’t bother to check the original source will believe they show an alien craft. A careful look at the pictures should reveal the terrestrial nature of the craft.

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/01/attip-philip-corso-and-roswell-crash.html  

Continuing in this vein, John Greenewald of Black Vault fame, has managed, through the Freedom of Information Act, to obtain a copy of the 19-page report that was sent to Congress about UAPs. This is the more comprehensive version the one that was released in June of last year.

Well, it tells us nothing. It is nearly completely redacted with only a few words on the first page that have not been edited out. It’s not unlike the document that Stan Friedman used to show that was nearly blank, though we now have that entire document. Most of those redactions in Friedman’s document had to do with intelligence gathering rather than UFO sightings. Very little dealt with UFOs, but given the heavy redaction we didn’t know that at the time.

In this case, however, we know that it deals with UFOs, or as they now want to call them, UAPs, because that was the purpose of the report. But rather than transparency, we have a document that is as dark as the inside of a cave at midnight with no moon. There is no real hint about what was seen, who saw what, or anything to do with evidence. All we know is that we have those cockpit videos that the Navy has verified as having come from Navy fighters, but tells us nothing about the images recorded.

As I have said, none of this suggests that we are moving toward disclosure. Rather, we are retreating to the same situation that we have endured for more than seventy years. Just take a look at the historical situation as it existed in the fall of 1947 when Lieutenant General Nathan Twining set up program to study the flying saucers, something that he labeled as real.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t some interesting sightings being made in the world today. On March 1, 2022, the witness in Pacific, Missouri, reported a single craft that was flying low and slow. At first, it seemed it was a flock of birds, but it soon became clear that it was a triangular-shaped craft that had lights all around it. The UFO continued to glide off and was beginning a slight climb. The witness attempted to photograph the UFO, but there was nothing to be seen in the picture. The UFO was in sight for about a minute.

Another triangle was seen in Johnson Valley, California on February 22 of this year. The witness said that a bright white light that looked, at first, like a planet or star, continued to approach, growing bigger until it took up a large portion of the sky. It seemed to jump, or teleport to another part of the sky. The shape was that of a triangle that was emitting another light. I’ll note here that orange light, or lights, are frequently reported with this sort of craft. The UFO was in sight for two to three minutes and the witness reported no fear but thought of this as a casual observation.

Keeping with this trend of triangular craft and orange light, was a report from Wauchula, Florida, on February 19 of this year. According to the witness, it was rectangular shaped at first but then appeared to transform into a triangle. There was no sound associated with the object but interestingly, there were aircraft in the area that seemed to be chasing the UFO. The witness watched for about ten minutes as the formation, that is, the UFO and the aircraft flew toward the south.

On February 15, the witness in Smicksburg, Pennsylvania reported three lights in a triangular formation was in sight about two minutes. The witness stopped, got out of the car to take pictures of the UFO. It was slow moving and made no sound. Following is the photograph:

The Pennsylvania UFO Photograph.

In the coming few weeks, I'll be chatting with John Greenewald about what he had found in his latest FOIA requests and with David Marler about the CUFOS scanning project which is to put as much data about UFO on the web as possible. He's working with Clas Svahn on this as well 

 

The End of Project Mogul

 

In Understanding Roswell, I looked again, at the Air Force’s ultimate answer for the UFO crash, which had written off as a balloon array from the “highly classified” Project Mogul. The Air Force, in their investigation, had eliminated all possible terrestrial answers, as civilian UFO researchers had done in the years before the Air Force entered the arena. We knew, based on our research, that there had been no aircraft accidents, civilian, military or experimental. There were no stray rockets or missiles from the White Sands Proving Ground and nothing associated with the 509^th Bomb Group that would account for the debris. There was no sort of nuclear accident that would have accounted for the high level of security testified to by the witnesses, both military and civilian. Had there been some sort of highly classified project in play, that would have explained the security, but since all that happened seventy-five years ago, there would be no legitimate reason for the secret to be kept in today’s environment.

This means that all of us, military, civilian, interested and uninterested, reached the same basic conclusion about what had fallen near tiny Corona, New Mexico, in July 1947. We all agreed that something had fallen. It was the identify of object that had left the debris scattered over about three quarters of a mile of pasture land in the high desert that was the question.

The lone exception to this was the classified balloon project code named “Mogul.” According to the Air Force investigation, this program, designed to place a constant level balloon in the upper atmosphere allowing American scientists and intelligence officers to listen for atomic detonations in the Soviet Union, left the debris. This was the reason for the high-level of security because no one in Washington, D.C., or the Pentagon for that matter, wanted the Soviets to know that we were listening for their atomic bomb testing.

While this would explain the classification of the ultimate purpose, that did not cover the experiments in Alamogordo, New Mexico, that began in June, 1947. The activities there, known to those who participated in them as the New York University balloon project, were not classified, and, in fact, information about those activities was printed in newspapers around the United States on July 10, 1947. This negates the claim of high security in New Mexico and the reason for the secrecy there.

Phyllis McGuire

There are other aspects to this. According to the testimony of Phyllis McGuire, the teenaged daughter of Chaves County, New Mexico, Sheriff George Wilcox, when rancher Mack Brazel appeared in the Roswell office, she was there. The Wilcox family lived above the sheriff’s office. She reported that Brazel told the sheriff about the strange metal debris that he had found in one of the fields on the ranch he managed. More importantly, she mentioned that Brazel had brought samples of the debris with him.

While there are those who would suggest that the teenaged daughter revealing this decades later might not be the most reliable of sources, there is corroboration for this. General Thomas DuBose, the Chief of Staff for the Eighth Air Force in Fort Worth in 1947, interview by Don Schmitt and others, said that strange metallic debris discovered by Brazel, was sent by special flight to Fort Worth.

According to DuBose, the debris was taken to Fort Worth “two or three days earlier,” meaning, of course two or three days prior to the July 8 announcement that a “flying saucer” had been captured. It was DuBose who had alerted those in Washington that something had been found and it was DuBose who received orders from Major General Clements McMullen to bring a sample of that debris to Washington, sometime on Sunday, July 6.

BG Thomas Dubose

In a recorded interview, DuBose said, “He [McMullen] called me and said that I was, there was some talk of some elements that had been found on the ground outside Roswell, New Mexico. That the debris or elements were to be placed in a suitable container, and Blanchard was to see that they were delivered… and [Colonel] Al Clark… would pick them up and hand deliver them to McMullen in Washington. Nobody, and I must stress this, no one was to discuss it with their wives, me with Ramey, with anyone.”

DuBose then called Blanchard and relayed the instructions to him. At that moment, the samples of the debris that Brazel had taken to the Chaves County Sheriff’s Office, and mentioned by Phyllis McGuire, were taken, under orders from Blanchard to the Roswell Army Air Field and eventually on to Fort Worth.

All this suggests that the officers at the Roswell Army Air Field were unable to identify the material as the remains of a weather balloon and a rawin radar target. There was nothing special about the weather balloon that would have fooled anyone who had seen it.

Wilcox thought enough of Brazel’s tale that he dispatched two deputies to the area of the crash. Brazel gave them directions, but given the nature of the terrain, and the distance from Roswell, the deputies failed to find the field, though they did find a large, circular burned area to the north of town.

Wilcox, who was unable to identify the debris, then called out to the Roswell Army Air Field to report what the rancher had found. The call eventually reached Major Jesse A. Marcel, Sr., the Air Intelligence Officer. He drove from the base to the sheriff’s office where he met with Brazel and was shown the debris that Brazel had brought with him.

Apparently, Marcel was unable to identify the material and thought it strange enough that he should investigate further. In consultation with the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard, it was decided that Marcel should accompany Brazel back to the ranch. Blanchard mentioned the base had just acquired a counterintelligence office. He thought Marcel should take Captain Sheridan Cavitt, the officer in charge of that office, out to the ranch.

Marcel, had returned to the base, picked up Cavitt and then drove to the sheriff’s office. With Brazel leading the way, the small convoy, Brazel in his pickup, Marcel in his Buick, and Cavitt in a Jeep Carryall, arrived too late in the day to do much. They spent the night in a small house, and according to Marcel, had a later supper of beans.

The next morning, Brazel, Marcel and Cavitt made their way to the Debris Field. Marcel said that it was about three-quarters of a mile long, and two to three hundred yards wide. Cavitt would tell Air Force investigator, Colonel Richard Weaver in 1994, that it was much smaller, no bigger than a large room in a house. More importantly, Cavitt would tell Weaver that the moment he saw the material, he recognized it as the remains of balloons. Weaver didn’t ask, and Cavitt didn’t explain, why he had not told Marcel this, nor why he didn’t mention to Blanchard when he returned to the base.

The misleadingly captioned claim that this array, including the rawin radar targets was launched by New
York University scientists on June 4, 1947. This was actually Flight No. 2, flown on the east coast.
The arrays launched in New Mexico were a third shorter and carried no rawin targets.

The actual make up of the array trains flown in New Mexico. Flight No. 4 had been cancelled, but 

Flight No. 5, designated as the first successful flight, was launched on June 5, 1947. There is no 

evidence that any rawin targets were used on it or most subsequent flights.

There is the other, important problem. Cavitt didn’t explain why he had been fooled by the debris in Roswell, but recognized it once he arrived on the ranch. Had the debris been part of Project Mogul, which was made up of off-the-shelf weather balloons and rawin radar targets, there is no reason for it to have fooled Brazel, Wilcox, and Marcel. Had it been part of Project Mogul, and recognized as balloon debris, there is no reason for the trip to the ranch and clean up wouldn’t have been all that difficult.

There is still another, important aspect to all this. The Project Mogul balloons were launched from Alamogordo Army Air Field. Dr. Albert Crary, the man in charge of the experiments in New Mexico, kept records of the launches, and that record of his field notes, diary entries and final report are all available both online and in the massive Air Force report on the Roswell case. Based on all that data, we know that all Mogul flights prior to July 6, which is the date that Brazel drove into Roswell, were accounted for with the exception of Flight No. 4, which had been scheduled for launch on June 3, but postponed until June 4. Another attempt was made on the following morning. Crary's entry for this attempt said:

June 4 Wed

Out to Tularosa Range and fired charges between 00 and 06 this am. No balloon flight again on account of clouds. Flew regular sonobuoy mike up in cluster of balloons and had good luck on receiver on ground but poor on plane. Out with Thompson pm. Shot charges 1800 to 2400.

This provided the timing of the events in Alamogordo, and because of the regulations under which they operated, they were forced to cancel the flight. There is nothing ambiguous in the documentation. Flight No. 4 was cancelled. Later that morning, they flew a cluster of balloons with a sonobuoy, but this wasn’t a full Mogul array and no evidence that the balloon cluster ever left the Alamogordo area.

To take this one step further, an examination of the documentation available in Crary’s notes, showed they weren’t using the rawin radar targets at this stage of their research. Flight No. 5, which flew the next day, June 5, did not have any radar targets on it, according to the illustrations available in the final reports. If there were no rawin targets attached to the flight, then where did the rawin originate that was displayed in General Ramey’s office. And, if there were no rawin targets, then isn’t that photograph taken in Ramey’s office evidence of a coverup?

There are pictures of an array being prepared that do show the rawin radar targets as part of the assembly but that photograph was taken on July 22, 1948, more than a year after the crash in Roswell. Another photograph, published on July 10, 1947, shows the launch of the two balloons, with but a single rawin target attached.

Here is where we are. The June 4, 1947, launch of Flight No. 4, was cancelled according to the documentation. Later in the day, there was the launch of a cluster of balloons, but this was not a full array. It was made up of the already inflated balloons and a sonobuoy to test the radio reception. There is no evidence that it left the Alamogordo area and no evidence that it contained a rawin radar target. Without Flight No. 4, the explanation of a Mogul balloon array accounting for the debris found by Mack Brazel, fails.

An alleged Mogul array being prepared for flight. This one was launched more than a year after the
cancelled June 4, Mogul Flight No. 4.

The date the photograph was taken, July 22, 1948.

The documentation, provided in the various field notes, diary entries, and other evidence, shows that rawin targets were not part of the arrays being launched in New Mexico, and if there were no such targets, then the balloon explanation fails at that point as well.

Although the Air Force claimed that Project Mogul was highly classified and that would account for those in Roswell being unable to identify the balloon is misleading. The ultimate purpose was classified, but the work being done in New Mexico was not. The newspaper articles published on July 10, 1947, proves this claim to be false.

With the elimination of the Mogul explanation, based on the overwhelming evidence that Flight No. 4 was cancelled, there is no terrestrial explanation for what fell on the Brazel managed ranch. Remember, the Air Force eliminated all other mundane explanations before settling on Mogul. There could be, somewhere, a super-secret project that would account for the debris, but no one has identified it yet, and it is difficult to believe that revelation of such a program would adversely affect national security in the world today. Had there been such an explanation, the Air Force would have used it years ago and the Roswell case would have been solved.

Until and unless, such a program or project is revealed and it can be shown to have scattered the debris in New Mexico, the only conclusion to be drawn is that whatever fell that day is unknown. To many, that leads directly to the extraterrestrial. The lack of evidence for the terrestrial does suggest something alien. Is sufficient to prove the case? That’s left up to the individual but it the most logical explanation at the moment.

'X' Zone Broadcast Network - Tom Deuley, Del Rio UFO Crash and Alien Abduction

This week I spoke with Tom Deuley, who has been around the UFO field for a long time. I believe I first met him in San Antonio at a UFO conference in the 1990s. One of the things he talked about was the Del Rio UFO crash. This was a tale told by

Tom Deuley

Robert Willingham, who claimed to be a retired Air Force colonel, fighter pilot and a veteran of the Korean War. I had investigated his background in the early 2000s after learning that no one else had done that. He had been accepted as an Air Force officer without much in the way of question or documentation. For those who wish to explore the Willingham saga at length, you can read about it here:

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/06/mj-12-and-cognitive-dissonance.html

Embedded in that article are links to other stories about Willingham and his tales of UFO crashes… yes, crashes. Eventually, he claimed to have been on the scene of seven crashes. What are the odds?

Tom added a note to the Willingham saga that provides additional insight into the man and his stories.

We also talked about the Ambient Monitoring Project, which was designed to monitor the surroundings of those who have reported abduction. It’s a passive system without either audio or visual capability. The system records a variety of conditions in the bedroom and according to Tom, if the temperature varies by as little as a degree, that is noted. The theory was to gather data in a scientific way that could provide clues about the abduction phenomenon.

What I found interesting, on one hand, was that they had trouble finding people to participate in the program. However, thinking about it, I’m not sure that I would want a device that monitored the conditions in my bedroom. They did find a few who participated and the amount of evidence collected, given the way the system worked, seems to be overwhelming. Although the monitoring aspect has been concluded, analysis of that data is a Herculean task and is continuing.

Anyway, you can listen to the show in the audio player on the left, or you can link to it here:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48898776

Next up is Terry Lovelace. I haven’t had him on the program in quite a while. We’ll be talking about his abduction experience, his abduction research and his delving in to past lives… which will give me the chance to bring up Conversations, which is the book I wrote about my experience with a woman who seemed to have had a past life, or rather, several of them. 

Coast to Coast AM - Repeatability

 One thing that we all look for in the world of the UFO is some kind of repeatability. That means, simply, that people in other locations and other times report a craft that is similar those reported earlier. One of the problems in the UFO field is the wide variety of craft that are reported with very few cases in which a similar craft is seen somewhere else at some other time. An example of this are the photographs taken first in McMinnville, Oregon, in 1950 and later in Rouen, France in 1954. A similar object seen and photographed at widely separated locations.

The top photo is from McMinnville and the bottom from Rouen, France. I am
making no claims about the authenticity of either picture. I'm only pointing
out that the images are a match for one another.

Fran Ridge, of the NICAP website and the MADAR program, alerted me to a sighting that has some aspect of repeatability. He posted about a sighting he sent to the National UFO Reporting Center last year. According to him, on September 3, 2021, he, and 14 others were in The Poconos, when they watched a lighted object for five minutes.

According to his report, they were doing what he termed as a sky watch event in Blooming Grove Pennsylvania. At 9:44 p.m. two of them saw three lights slowly moving away from them around the Sterling, Pennsylvania area heading towards Scranton, Pennsylvania. They used high power binoculars to watch the craft. To the unaided eye it was three yellowish-pinkish lights in a row. The color reminded Fran Ridge of mercury vapor lights. The lights were about the size of a pencil eraser held at arm’s length. The lights were arranged in a horizontal pattern. When Fran and the others looked through the binoculars, they began to suspect they might be seeing the back of a craft that was very large. It moved very slowly and they watched it for about five minutes, until they lost sight of it behind the tree line. Fran said it was too slow to be an airplane.

What Fran found particularly odd was that through the binoculars, he could see that under the three yellow lights there were three tiny red lights that blinked randomly and not sequentially. One would blink once and then a second later another would blink. They thought they might be looking at the back of a large black triangle. He also noted that they didn’t take a photo of the UFO.

That was one sighting of a craft with a specific set of lights. The MUFON Case Management System, had a report from December 14, 2021, from a witness, in West Dundee, Illinois, who saw an object that Fran believed was similar to the one he had seen in September. Although there wasn’t a photograph, the drawing submitted by the witness looked like the object Fran and the others had seen.

There were two additional sightings made in Illinois, and all three took place in December, within a day or two of each other. All three were of triangular-shaped objects. Importantly, in the case from Macomb, Illinois, the witness made a video with a cell phone.

Fran posted a photograph of an object taken on the night of January 31, 2008 in Indiana. This too, reminded him of the object he had seen and it seemed to be related to the Illinois sightings as well.

Photograph supplied by Fran Ridge of an object that resembled the one he saw.

In all of the cases reported here, the object had a line of lights on what seemed to be the rear, and in all the cases, it seemed that the UFO was triangular shaped. This does suggest the note of repeatability that I mentioned earlier.

I’ll say here that the December Illinois sightings are part of the MUFON Case Management System and are still under investigation. If I find additional information about them, I’ll post it.

'X' Zone Broadcast Network - Clas Svahn: Ghost Rockets, Swedish UFO Research and the AFU

 

My guest this week was Swedish Ufologist, Clas Svahn. Like me, he had become interested in UFOs at a young age, and like me, he wanted to get the first-hand observations of those who reported UFOs. We both were interested in checking the information that was circulating about UFOs. You can watch the show by accessing it on the video log to the left and listen to it by accessing the audio version just below.

Clas Svahn

One of the first things I asked about was the Ghost Rocket sightings made in Scandinavia and then in northern Europe. It had seemed that they began in 1946 and by the end of the year, had tapered off. According Clas, that wasn’t quite accurate. He mentioned sightings from the 1930s, though these seemed to be more about strange lights in the sky rather than some solid craft. After the end of the Second World War, the sightings of cigar-shaped craft began in depth, and although it was reported that the phenomenon disappeared by the end of 1946, sightings continued until the 1990s.

One of the interesting aspects of this were reports of the rockets dropping into lakes around Sweden. According to Clas, they were seen o hit the water and caused huge splashes. Comprehensive searches by military divers failed to find wreckage or evidence of these events. Clas said that there were no crashes onto land, contrary to what had been reported by others.

I did ask about reports that the Swedish military had suppressed newspaper reports of the Ghost Rockets, but Clas said that wasn’t the case. He also mentioned that he had seen the military files about the Ghost Rockets. Like others, I had heard that the Soviets (as opposed to the Russians) had been using the Ghost Rockets to intimidate the Swedish government, but that seemed to be wrong as well. Clas had the opportunity to review the Russian files on the rockets and there was no evidence of the Soviets using them or knowing what they were.

In the end, there seems to be no solution. The identity of the Ghost Rockets, whatever they might be, was not discovered. The important thing here was that the man who had done extensive research into the Ghost Rockets said that he didn’t know what they were which seems to be the same conclusion reached by the Swedish military.

Clas said that there was a serious attempt by the military to find an answer. Unlike the situation here, in Sweden, there was good cooperation between the military authorities and the civilian researchers. Having had access to more than a thousand reports made over the years, Clas found no evidence of the sort of sloppy and biased work done in the United States by the Air Force, the CIA and the Condon Committee.

We also talked about the Archives for the Unexplained (AFU), which began in 1973 and continues until today. According to Clas, that archives span more than 7000 square feet and is expanding. The collection includes the files and data from around the world but seems to have a disproportion of English-speaking files, many of them collected from Great Britain. This is an on-going project and much of the material has been scanned so that it is digitally available to researchers around the world. As noted in the name, they collect more than just UFO data, but have an interest in all paranormal activity. They are cooperating with the CUFOS project designed to digitize the Center’s UFO files. Those interested can find more information at www.afu.se.

Next week, I’ll be chatting with Tom Deuley about his investigations into UFOs. He has been around this field about as long as I have. We’ll get some interesting insights from him.

Coast to Coast AM: Witness Video Tapes and EM Effects

 

Back in 1994, the Air Force investigated the Roswell case. They used information supplied by CUFOS, MUFON and FUFOR. When they finished, rather than return the materials to those organizations, they stuffed it all in boxes and sent it to the National Archives. I mention this because that material is now on line, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing by itself. However, given that the material is listed as having come from the Air Force suggesting some sort of official approval, it now has added credibility. Several of the tapes are on line with hundreds of thousands of views but with no disclaimers and no commentary about the reliability of the information. At least two of those tapes, are from witnesses who were discredited at the time of the Air Force 1994 investigation.

These are the statements provided, in the early 1990s by Gerald Anderson and Glenn Dennis. The interviews were conducted to gain a knowledge of the Roswell UFO crash. It might be said that these were preliminary interviews and that the witnesses had not been fully vetted. Later, additional information was learned which suggested that these two witnesses could not be trusted.

Anderson, for example, was caught in a number of lies including his claim he had been a Navy SEAL. He identified his high school anthropology teacher as the leader of the archaeologists on the Plains of San Agustin who seen the crashed disk. Anderson, who was five at the time, said the archaeologist was Adrian Buskirk… but Buskirk denied that he had been there and was, in fact, in Arizona at the time.

Anderson was also caught, and later admitted to forging a telephone bill, that became part of the overall investigation. Rather than repeat this information now, you can read about it here:

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/05/gerald-anderson-stan-friedman-and.html

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/08/stan-friedman-vs-philip-klass-whats.html

And I mention this posting because, embedded in it are several other links that have some relevance to this discussion. For those who wish to follow this to the extreme and get a clearer picture of some of this nastiness, you can read that here:

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/03/x-zone-broadcast-network-fallout-from.html

I will also note that the Glenn Dennis testimony has collapsed as well. That is another of the videos released through the National Archives which is wrapped in a mantle of credibility because it was part of the Air Force investigation. However, had the Air Force completed their investigation in a professional manner, they would have learned that the nurse Dennis talked about never existed. And, of course, if there was no nurse, then his importance to the story is reduced if not completely negated.

The National Archives. Photo by Kevin Randle.

As I mentioned, releasing the interviews might not be a bad thing. The problem is that there is no commentary accompanying that release to suggest the information is problematic at best.

Without some sort of clarification, people are now watching those tapes and believing the tales told which provides an inaccurate picture of the events in 1947. I thought it necessary to warn others that some of the videos should not be accepted as fact. I’ll provide additional information on my blog.

The other thing that has happened this week is that Rich Reynolds, over at his UFO Conjectures blog was suggesting no causal link between the stalling of car engines and the close approach of UFOs. I believe the Levelland case, in which witnesses at multiple locations independently reported their cars stalling when the glowing UFO approached provides that causal relation.

Through out that discussion, he seemed to be saying that collecting the data does not advance our knowledge. I confess that I’m somewhat confused by his arguments there but then we could say the same thing about most of the UFO phenomenon. Collecting the data in the world today is the same as collecting the data a half century ago. Another report of a strange light in the sky or a silver disk flying over does nothing to advance our knowledge. I think what Rich is suggesting that we begin to think beyond the collection of the data and find a way to use it to advance our knowledge.

Although such cases are rare, they are a small subset of the overall UFO phenomena, and these sorts of cases are still reported. On January 22 of this year, the witness driving near Wichita, Kansas, at about 10 p.m., noticed a bright light off to the left. He first thought was it might be the landing light from an aircraft, but it kept approaching and there was no landing field nearby.

As the UFO flew over the car, the engine began to sputter but then it returned to its normal operation. He could see an object behind the light that he described as an oval or egg-shaped, and watched as it turned and approached again. As it did, the engine died and the headlights faded. For a moment, the UFO hovered over the car. The man tried to restart the engine but it reacted as if the battery was dead.

After a minute or so, the UFO began to rise, and then shot off, disappearing in seconds. When it was gone, the headlights came on and he could restart the engine. I will note here that he had to take an action to restart the car.

This is all the information I have on this case. The witness requested his name not be used. While I appreciate his desire to remain unidentified, especially in the world today, it does decrease the overall value of the report.

On July 8, 2014, near Joplin, Missouri, the witnesses, that included a retired commercial airline pilot and his wife, were driving home when they were flagged down by a man, whose dog was barking and acting wild. I will note here that animal reactions to UFOs is another aspect to these EM Effects.

The man pointed to an object in the sky that seemed to be hovering about 300 feet off the ground. It was an off- white color and was illuminated by a yellowish light coming from the inside.  It had dark, square windows.  It began to descend, as if it was going to land. As it reached tree top level, some sort of mist formed around it. The witness was using a spotlight to search the fields. After driving about a mile, the spotlight went out and the seatbelt warning began to sound. The jeep’s automatic transmission would not change gears. This is still another aspect of these sorts of cases. The engines are not affected but other components are. The witnesses continued the search but the UFO was gone. After a short time, all the components began to work properly.

These sorts of cases do supply some clues about some UFOs, but certainly not all. Not every close approach by a UFO result in this sort of interaction with the environment. Still, the cases are more interesting that lights in the distance.

Coast to Coast AM - Christopher Mellon and Cigar Shaped UFO Sightings

 

Christopher Mellon, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton  and George W. Bush Administrations and a the Staff Director of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, published a long article about the Air Force lack of transparency in the current crop of UAP sightings.

Christopher Mellon

I mention this because, in his analysis, he failed to mention the deceit of the Condon Committee. That was the University of Colorado study, funded by the Air Force, in which the conclusions were written before the study was conducted. A letter from an Air Force officer told the Committee members what the conclusions were to be and those were the conclusions reached. This alleged scientific study is often cited by skeptics as evidence that there is no alien visitation. This is why I’m somewhat critical of the renewed efforts to resolve the UFO situation. You can see the Hippler letter here:

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

And you can read the entire Mellon article here:

https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-issue/

There is another aspect to this that worries me and it had to do with a quote from Mellon. Leslie Kean reported Mellon said:

I highly doubt DoD or any other government agency is concealing UFO information. I participated in a comprehensive review of DoD's black programs and spent over a decade conducting oversight of the national foreign intelligence program, an almost totally separate world of secrets. I visited Area 51 and other military, intelligence and research facilities. During all those years, I never detected the faintest hint of government interest or involvement in UFOs. ... While a few new, previously overlooked documents might turn up (the bureaucracy is never perfect), I do not believe they would resolve the UFO issue or provide significant new insights. I can think of one lengthy UFO report that is classified only due to concerns over sources and methods. In fact, it identified a convincing conventional explanation for the pilot sightings in this particular case. There are lots of classified documents related to activities at Area 51, where high security is needed. But this is all legitimate stuff the American people would support. They have nothing to do with UFOs, to the best of my knowledge.

While I understand that people can modify an opinion based on new and additional information, it is disturbing to read that Mellon said he was involved in reviewing black projects and found the least interest in UFOs by the government. This statement is inaccurate because government interest in UFOs transcended the end of the Condon Committee, transcended the end of Project Blue Book and survived the compromise of Moon Dust. In other words, those of us on the outside of these inner government circles can point to government interest. And I haven’t even mentioned the poor explanations for some very puzzling cases.

Since you asked, I will point to the Levelland sightings of November 1957. No matter what you think about alien visitation, you must admit that ball lightning does not explain the stalling of car engines over a period of two hours and at multiple locations. I just published a comprehensive look at the Levelland sightings.

All this does suggest the latest trend in the UFO field, which is a renewed, official interest in UFOs, even if we can see the government playing fast and loose with the facts. How else to explain the continual delay in providing the proper and accurate information to Congress and to those of us outside of Washington, D.C.

 Another trend is the  increased sightings of cigar-shaped craft, many of them reported to MUFON. On December 12, 2021, the witness, in Titlow Hill, California, saw a dark object with a cigar shape. It moved at a constant speed and made no noise. The witness watched the UFO through a finder scope attached to a larger telescope. He said that the UFO was barely visible against a very dark gray sky. There was a pair of lights on the front end, one on the nose and the other lower on the leading edge. There was a line of rectangular lights along the center of the craft.

He watched as the object changed direction and moved closer. It then disappeared behind a tree line to the east. When the object disappeared, he grabbed his binoculars. He did run across the road in an attempt to spot the object again, but it was gone.

Also on December 12, of last year, the witness, in Rancho Mirage, California, saw several lights moving slowly. The craft was cigar shaped. It moved from south to north and then seemed to dissolve. There were no clouds where it disappeared and he could see stars in the area. He spotted several private planes but they were not flying as high as the UFO. Instead, it seemed to be at the same level as commercial aircraft, and was about the size of four of them put together. He did say that he had seen the Star Link Satellites before and that this was nothing like that.

On December 3, the witness, on the way to his girlfriend’s house in Chesterfield, Virginia, spotted something strange off to the left. He thought it might be a reflection or some other rather mundane object but then realized this was a massive craft. He said that it was cigar shaped, seemed somewhat bulky, and that it had a large light that looked like windows that were sectioned off.

Finally, on December 3, 2021, the witness saw a distant object hover for about twenty minutes. It flashed two red lights and one gold light sequentially and it had two other white lights on it. The UFO moved slowly to the north and then did a circular loop. He said that it was big and cigar like. He said that hovered after the loop and then sped away.

As I say, each of the sightings lasted much more than a minute and several of them were accompanied with video, which was reported to MUFON and are now part of their Case Management System.

There is one additional case to be mentioned because there is some interesting video that goes with it. This was an object reported over Norway. It might be returning space debris, and at one point, the first video goes out of focus so that the object looks like a fuzzy orb. I mention this case, only because of the videos that go with it. You can see the video here:

https://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2022/02/really-fast-ufo-sighting-over-northern-parts-of-norway-2022-norwegian-mainstream-medias-reports.html 

As always, I’ll keep my eyes open and if there is additional information about any of the cases mentioned here, I’ll publish it as well.

'X' Zone Broadcast Network: Dr. James Horan and the Journal of Scientific Exploration

 

This week I spoke with Dr. James Horan, who is the new editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. We had published an article about the Ramey Memo in the Journal in Spring 2002. You can listen to the discussion here:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48669630

We did talk about the Ramey Memo and that much could be learned from it. Because it was a document with a known and proven provenance, the legitimacy of

Dr. James Horan

it was not in question. The photograph shows General Ramey holding the document. We know that J. Bond Johnson took the picture and given that it was transmitted over the INS newswire with a time and date stamp on it, we know the picture was taken on the afternoon of July 8, 1947. I have to laugh because this is so well documented while other documents just show up in mail boxes with no clue as to where they came from and no way to verify the legitimacy of the documents. Just type Ramey Memo into the search engine and you will find a number of articles and discussions about it.

We discussed the experiment we conducted as a way of testing whether or not priming had any influence in the interpretation of the Ramey Memo. For those interested in the experiment, it can be found here, in the Spring 2002 edition of the Journal of Scientific Exploration:

www.scientificexploration.org

And, of course, we had to talk about the beginning of his interest in the Roswell case and the fact that there is no controversy about one aspect of it. Everyone agrees that something fell. It is the identity of the object that is in question. I did mention that the Air Force, in their massive report issued in the middle of the 1990s, pretty well eliminated any explanation other than a Project Mogul balloon. Of course, I, was well as many others, find that explanation lacking any authenticity. There was nothing classified about the balloon launches in New Mexico. It was the ultimate purpose that was classified, but even the name, Mogul, was known to those involved with the project.

All this sort of bypasses the discussion about vetting the witnesses, the difference between anecdotal testimony and scientific observation, and some of the failures of the Roswell witnesses. This wasn’t a way to dismiss the Roswell case, but a way of validating aspects of it.

We wrapped up our discussion with some comments about Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project and the search for alien artifacts. Loeb’s theories, while not universally accepted in the scientific community, have moved the discussion from the realm of the impossible to the realm of learning a new way of finding other intelligent life forms out there.

And, of course, we provided additional information about the Journal and Society for Scientific Exploration.

Next up is Clas Svahn, a Swedish UFO researcher, whose interests expand beyond just the UFO. We’ll talk about his latest book, Files of the Unexplained.

Coast-to-Coast AM -- UFOs and Cameras

For this week, I thought that I would just mention a few interesting sightings, including three in which there seemed to be some kind of EM Effect. I was actually looking for cases in which cell phone cameras failed but ended up with these that involved a trend for that sort of thing if not something that reflected it perfectly.

On November 24 of last year, just after midnight, a woman was driving along the Savannah Highway near Hollywood, South Carolina. She said, “I was driving home and saw a very bright light in the distance… I pulled my car over to try to figure out what it was and realized it was moving in my direction.”

She said there were two, massive objects with lights so bright that she could see little in the way of details. They were low in the sky and had a rounded shape and she thought they were much lower than airplanes would be flying. As they flew over, she heard nothing other than a quiet hum. They moved smoothly, according to her and disappeared heading toward the Atlantic Ocean. She told the investigators that she felt no physical or psychological effects from the experience.

She did take pictures of the objects and they were published in the latest MUFON Journal.

South Carolina MUFON Field Investigator William Brumleve, closed the case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

William Puckett

On October 10 of 2020, the witness reported to William Puckett’s UFOSNW website, that he saw glowing globe he described as big as the moon. Something black flew out of the globe and as it did, he said that his phone cracked.

I was interested in this because of the damage done to his phone, apparently by passing of the object. Although he said he sees these things frequently, which suggests some sort of terrestrial explanation, the damage to cell phones is becoming an aspect to some of these sightings. Puckett posted it without comment and you can see it here:

https://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/large-oblong-object-about-the-size-of-the-moon/

Keeping with this theme of camera failures, on May 29, 2020, the witness, in Newton-Abbot-Devon, England, reported that he was outside, looking for the ISS when a strange object caught his eye. He zoomed in with his Nikon P900 camera. He said that there was a silver, metallic saucer that had large, black-tinted windows that were shaped like semi-circles. He said that he saw six such windows as the UFO rotated slowly and was enveloped in a cloud.

At that point, he snapped a picture and wondered if the cloud was some sort of way for the UFO to conceal itself when it drifted over his house. He said that he tried to take another picture, but the camera malfunctioned. He set it down on the garden table, and watched as the UFO slowly floated off, into the distance where he lost sight of it. You can see the pictures here:

https://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/large-silver-metallic-saucer-becomes-enveloped-by-cloud/

Finally, is a case from Selma, Texas, on April 21, 2020. Although this doesn’t deal with the cell phone camera failing, it does fit into the trend. The witness and his daughter were looking up, into the sky when a huge, triangular craft appeared. It was moving at a steady pace and it looked as if there were little wings on it, but it was making no noise. When it disappeared, the witness, who had been using his cell phone to play music through the car radio, unplugged it. The phone was then filled with static and was muffled, trouble might have been caused by the close approach of the UFO.

The common thread tonight was the interference from UFOs, causing the failure of some of the electronic components cell phones and cameras. I’m looking for more cases in which the cell phone cameras fail because they could provide a clue about energy fields associated with some UFO close encounters. 

'X' Zone Broadcast Network - William Puckett

 

This week I invited William Puckett on the program to talk about what was happening in the world of UFOs.  He hosts a website, www.ufosnw.com, on which he posts sighting reports made to him. Many of them include pictures and videos of those sightings that allows the reader to decide if the object is something strange or something that has a terrestrial explanation. You can listen to the show here:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48569631

Before I brought on William, I mentioned something that bothers me. I have been

William Puckett

working on a book Understanding Roswell, which is a deeper look into the backgrounds of some of the witnesses. The dilemma is what to say about someone’s background in this world of cancel culture. I’m thinking specifically of Jesse Marcel, Sr., because it seems, based on everything that we have seen, read and heard that Jesse tended to spin a tale or two.

I mentioned specifically, the tale about preforming an appendectomy on a soldier while being given the instructions by a surgeon using the radio. In Linda Corley’s book, For the Sake of My Country, she mentioned Jesse beginning to tell the story and his wife, Viaud, saying something about it, suggesting she didn’t believe it.

There are other areas of embellishment that can’t be proved and, in some cases, have been disproved. I hesitate to mention all this because of the family. Jesse

Jesse Marcel, Jr.

Marcel, Jr., was a man of great integrity. I know of no embellishments he made to his testimony about the UFO recovery.

The other side of this is that Jesse Marcel Sr. telling of his involvement in the retrieval isn’t stand along. There are many others who talked about those events, corroborating what Marcel, Sr. said. If we didn’t have that additional testimony, we could easily reject all that Marcel, Sr. said. There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of embellishment to that tale.

My hesitation is what good does it do to mention all this? It doesn’t alter the case, which, if it was stand alone, it certainly would. Take Marcel out of the picture and we still have every member of Colonel Blanchard’s senior staff that we were able to interview suggested it was something extraterrestrial other than a single officer.

William mentioned that he had the opportunity to interview Jesse, Jr. a number of times found him, as did I, an honest man. Jesse, Jr. was a good man, and if he was still alive, I probably would have kept some of the trouble with Jesse, Sr. to myself. As it is, in the upcoming book, Understanding Roswell, I look at this a little more deeply.

When we finally got around to talking about William’s website and experiences, I asked about the Star Link Satellites because it seemed they were responsible for a number of UFO sightings. Such reports had become so common, that William stopped noting them at his website. There are some pictures of those satellites on his website.

We talked about the number of pictures that have been reported over the last few years. William explained that there was a way to determine if a picture had been manipulated by looking at the meta data available. If there had been an alteration, that could be determined and the photo could be rejected. He also said that he doesn’t post pictures that are obvious fakes.

One of the interesting things he mentioned was that in many cell phone pictures of anomalous green objects might be an artifact from the camera. When the camera was pointed, more or less, in the direction of the sun, the “lens flares” tended to manifest as something green.

I also asked if the upswing in triangular-shaped objects might be the result of some sort of evolution in terrestrial aviation technology. It seemed to me that with so many sightings of them in the world today, it might be a new technology that is Earth-based, rather than something interstellar. He had noticed a similar trend.

He did provide information on a couple of interesting cases that suggested EM Effects as well. It was a wide-ranging conversation. There is a link to EM cases on his website, and, of course, my book, Levelland, is all about EM Effects for those interested in pursuing that line of investigation.

Next week, I’ll be talking with Dr. James Horan, who has done some scientific research into the Roswell case in general and the Ramey Memo in particular. He is also the editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. We’ll delve into the Ramey Memo and some of his other UFO investigations. If you have questions, put them in the comments section of the blog. I won’t post them, but will try to get them answered.