Some scientific papers and other references for UFOs

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Ivan Seeking

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The UFO Controversy in America
by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, 1975
http://216.128.67.116/pdf/ufocontroversy.pdf


Refuting Fermi: John B Alexander Ph.D.
http://216.128.67.116/pdf/fermi.pdf


300 scientific papers and reviews:
Go to the following link and search UFO at the bottom of the page.
http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse.html


What Is The Responsibility Of The Scientist?
by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, 1966
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/whatresp.htm


UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Committee:
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05082000-09580026/unrestricted/UFOCRITIQUE.pdf


Still in Default
by Dr. Bruce Maccabee
http://216.128.67.116/pdf/stillindefault.pdf


Physical Evidence Related to UFO Reports
The Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the
Pocantico Conference Center, Tarrytown, New York
September 29 – October 4, 1997 :
http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/ufo_reports/sturrock/toc.html


The Cometa Report:
http://www.cufos.org/cometa.html


Commentary on the Cometa Report:
http://216.128.67.116/pdf/cometa_commentary.pdf


Unidentified Flying Objects: An Historical Perspective
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Design Engineering Conference
George W. Earley
Americana Hotel, New York City
May 15-18, 1967
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/histper.htm


FIFTY-SIX AIRCRAFT PILOT SIGHTlNGS INVOLVING
ELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS
Richard F. Haines, Ph.D.
Copyright 1992
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/92apsiee.htm


"The UFO hypothesis and Survival Questions"
---declassified from SECRET.
http://www.nsa.gov/docs/efoia/released/ufo/ufo35.pdf


Atmosphere or UFO?
by Bruce Maccabee Ph.D.
Optical physicist for the Navy Deparment
--on RADAR events
http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/maccabee/1.html


ACCELERATION
Bruce S. Maccabee, Ph.D.
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/maccabee/acceleration.html


French Government UFO Study
http://www.nsa.gov/docs/efoia/released/ufo/ufo12.pdf


The Case for the Extraterrestrial Origins of Flying Saucers
by Stanton Friedman
http://216.128.67.116/pdf/friedman.pdf


PANEL URGES STUDY OF UFO REPORTS
Unexplained Phenomena Need Scrutiny, Science Group Says
By Kathy Sawyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 29, 1998; Page A01
http://www.aliensonearth.com/misc/1998/jun/d29-001.shtml
 
Other references

RB47H over the Gulf of Mexico; 1957
http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa011000a.htm


Father Gill and the night visitors; 1959:
http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa021599.htm


Betty and Barney Hill: 1961
(Note: I normally stay away from "abducties" but this case is considered a classic...The classic. (Classic what I'm not sure)
Considered by many to be the original modern abduction case.
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/hilldir.htm


The Big Sur Filming
Big Sur, California
September 15, 1964

http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/bigsurdir.htm

Note: I attempted to speak with Mr Mansmann a couple of times. Unfortunately he was too ill to speak and then passed away. I did speak with his wife twice and she was kind enough to have a short discussion with me on both occasions. According to Mrs. Mansmann, Mr. Mansmann maintained the truth of this story until his death last year.


Shag Harbor; 1967
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/shag.htm


Mansfield, Ohio; 1973
http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa081098.htm

http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/coyne.htm

The FOIA document for this event:
http://www.cufon.org/cufon/foia_007.htm


Rendlesham Forest: 1980
Http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/foi/ufo/ufofilepart1.pdf

http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/foi/ufo/ufofilepart2.pdf

http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/foi/ufo/ufofilepart3.pdf

http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/foi/ufo/ufofilepart4.pdf

http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/foi/ufo/ufofilepart5.pdf

http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/ufo/dep_ba1.pdf

http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa030998.htm

http://www.rendlesham.com/

http://www.flyingsaucery.com/Rendlesham/

NEW BBC REPORT: "UFO lights were 'a prank'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/suffolk/3033428.stm
**A full review of the several incidents that constitute this case seem to evade explanation by this report. Note that at least three security officers reported the direct observation of a craft: "A triangular shaped object was seen on the forest floor". More information will be posted as it becomes available.***


JAL Flight 1628: 1986
http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa020700a.htm

http://brumac.8k.com/JAL1628/Jal1628.html

http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.vandra.clara.net/parvati/caus8606.txt


Belgium; 1989-1991:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/9054/ufobelg.html


London: 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/448267.stm


New Jersey; 2001 [probably meteors]
http://www.nidsci.org/news/newjersey_contents.html

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/ufo010717.html

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/ufo_nj010719.html

http://www.rense.com/general11/joisie.htm

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2099468&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6


More select cases from cohenufo:
http://www.cohenufo.org/authorsc.html#Malmstrom


More potential UFO events in history:
http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fourworld.compuserve.com%2Fhomepages%2FAndyPage%2Fufosight.htm
 
Some report databases

International Newspaper Library
http://www.notizieufo.com/library


International Organizations
And Case Files
http://www.narcap.org/international%20orgs%20case%20files/intlorgscases.htm

http://ufos.about.com/library/bldata/blsight4.htm

http://www.ufoinfo.com/organizations/index.shtml

http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/ufolistg.html


UFO India:
http://www.ufoindia.org/


Victorian U.F.O. Research Society Inc.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~vufors/sighting.htm


US and International:
National UFO Reporting Center
http://www.nwlink.com/~ufocntr/


NICAP:
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/casebook.htm


The Filer Files:
http://www.ufoinfo.com/filer/index.shtml


Shadow Research:
http://www.shadowresearch.com/ufo/ufo_reports.htm


MUFON:
http://www.mufon.com/mufonorg.html


100megs13: [Warning; this site is not known to me but it looked well stocked]
http://pgrsel.100megs13.com/sys/list.htm


Aerosphere Magazine:
http://www.aerosphere.com/Magazine/UFO_stories_/ufo_stories_.shtml


Some video and photo databases:
[Viewer beware! Many photos and videos are obviously hoaxes or nothing of significance]

http://ufos.about.com/cs/ufodigitalvideo/
at this link you will find,
http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dreaman.org%2Fmoviegallery.html
The Edwards AFB incident is very good but it is 8 minuts long. Low speed users beware. Also, see the Patterson/Bentwaters interview.


Note: Some videos are interesting and many are nothing at all.
http://www.yorkshireufoinfo.homestead.com/NASAmissionfootage.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AndyPage/ufopictu.htm

http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/videoclips/

http://www.ufocasebook.com/videos.html
Hold on to your seat and watch the video of Lt. Corso. I have no opinion on this subject yet, but from what I do know his credibility has been otherwise established. He died shortly after making this recording. Also, see the interview with Astronaut Gordon Cooper in which he claims to have seen a UFO land at Edwards AFB. I saw this when it first aired. This surely did contribute to my early interest in the subject.

http://www.ufowisconsin.com/pvgallery.html

http://www.unexplainable.net/movies/

http://maldiniszones.homestead.com/XZONE.html

http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicvideos.html

http://www.ufodigest.com/video.html

http://www.ufovideo.com/

http://www.galactic-server.net/video/video.html

http://bjbooth.topcities.com/videos2.html

http://www.uforc.com/

http://members.tripod.com/~RELYR/UFO_Videos.html

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/videoufos.htm
 
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UFO case blocked by MoD
Details of one of Britain's most famous UFO scares was among information repeatedly suppressed by government defence chiefs, according to a Westminster watchdog.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2537115.stm


THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
Noah talks with Peter Sturrock, Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Professor Sturrock recently assembled a panel of scientists to review data from a collection of UFO sightings. This panel made the first independent review of UFO sightings since 1970 and concluded that a collection of alleged UFO sightings merit additional scientific study. Professor Sturrock believes that a lack of institutional support hinders the study of UFOs.
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http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1034787


UFO REPORT
[A] team of scientists published the first independent review of UFO phenomena in thirty years. While they found no signs of alien intelligence, they did conclude that there is some UFO evidence that can't be explained. In this hour, we'll take a closer look at the report. Plus, we'll talk about a new approach to spinal cord repair in rats.
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http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1010519


CIA, UFO'S & SECRECY
NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the C-I-A's admission that it deceived the public for decades when asked about sightings of unidentified flying objects. For much of that time, the agency denied that UPO's even existed, explaining them away as `unusual weather phenomena,' Now the CIA admits that the objects were actually U-S high altitude aircraft used to spy on other countries.
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http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1028513
 
Missing F-89 Case
Kinross AFB, Michigan
November 23, 1953:

http://www.cufon.org/kinross/Kinross_acc_rept.htm

http://www.cufon.org/kinross/kinross_missing.htm

http://www.nuforc.org/mancla.html

http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/kinrossdir.htm


UFO's over Washington DC, 1952:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A31625-2002Jul19&notFound=true

http://www.spartechsoftware.com/dimensions/aliens/UFOWashington.htm

http://www.rense.com/general8/flew.htm

http://www.subversiveelement.com/UFOWashingtonDC.html


The Nash/Fortenberry Sighting; 1952
http://216.128.67.116/pdf/tulien.pdf


The McMinnville UFO; 1950:
http://www.ufx.org/mcminn/photo.htm

http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/trentmac.htm

http://www.debunker.com/texts/BSMtrentPJK.html

http://www.nicap.org/cufospaper2.htm



I contacted the Roerich Museum in New York and confirmed the following quote. The curator’s assistant, being very familiar with this excerpt, then added that Roerich’s wife was also on this expedition. In her diary she comments that this must have been a craft with people from somewhere else; then she suggests the existence of life on other planets. [Ivan]
“On August fifth [1929] - something remarkable! We were in our camp in the Kukunor district not far from the Humboldt Chain. In the morning about half-past nine some of our caravaneers noticed a remarkably big black eagle flying over us. Seven of us began to watch this unusual bird. At this same moment another of our caravaneers remarked, ‘There is something far above the bird’. And he shouted in his astonishment. We all saw, in a direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting the sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp the thing changed in its direction from south to southwest. And we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly an oval form with shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun.”
-----Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya
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Next, from the San Francisco Call, Nov 26, 1896: This light was observed by many prominent individuals including Deputy Secretary of State George A. McCalvy, District Attorney Frank D. Ryan, and E. D. McCabe, the governor's personal secretary.
"When [the mysterious light] first appeared it was seen moving rapidly from the northeast and heading in a southwesterly direction. As it neared the southern boundary of the city [of Sacramento] it turned directly toward the west and after passing the city went south, being distinctly visible for upward of 20 minutes."
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From 3000 BC, China: From the book " Memories of the Sovereigns and the Kings " published in the 3rd century AD in China.
:...in the third millennium B.C., before the birth of Huang Ti or of Chi You. ...'sons from the sky', would descend to Earth on a star which was the shape of a saucer.
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Many more potential historical UFO Quotes:
http://www.connect.net/mattvest/histqts.html
 
The Foo-Fighters of WWII
Foo-Fighters

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CUFON - UFO Information Service Seattle, Washington

History of UFO's During World War II
During world war II the accumulation of sightings of mysterious celestial objects, finally started to worry the military authorities.

In both camps, high-ranking officials of the intelligence services started to study these strange objects and investigation committees composed of military and scientific personnel were set up in various countries. They had a double purpose: first of all to determine the nature of these flying objects and then to see if they constituted a threat to the security of the nation.

During world war II, the Allies, just like the Germans, noticed the presence of these enigmatic flying objects above their secret bases. The first reaction of each side was obviously to suspect espionage on the part of their enemy.

In 1943 the British were the first to set up a special group to enquire into the question of these object. The British set up a small organization to collect evidence. It was headed by Lieutenant General Massey and was inspired by reports from a spy who, in fact was a double agent operating under the orders of the Mayor of Cologne. He had confirmed that the "Foo-fighters" were not German devices, but that the Germans thought that they were Allied weapons which, of course, the British knew was not so.

Later in 1966, was learned from the British Aviation Minister that project Massey had been officially classified in 1944. Perhaps it was pure coincidence, but the double agent was denounced and executed at the beginning of that year. For their part the Germans did not remain inactive. But in 1944, the Wehemacht asked Oberkommando of the "Luftwaffe (aviation)" to set up a center to collect information on all the various sightings of these mysterious celestial objects.

This was known as Sonderburo No 13 which, until the time of the German defeat scrupulously applied itself to its job. The short time that this commission was in existence prevented it from coming to any definite conclusions, but it collected an impressive amount of information.

The first sighting, studied by the Sonderburo, went back two years and came from Hauptmann Fischer, an engineer in civil life. On March 14,1942, at 5:35 p.m., Fischer landed at the secret air base at Banak, in Norway. At that instant the radar picked up a luminous object and Fischer was asked to go up and identify it. At about 10,000 feet the pilot caught sight of the object, and gave a description by radio to the base: an enormous streamlined craft about 300 feet long and about 50 feet in diameter. The "aerial whale" which was Fischer's title for it stayed horizontal for a long moment before rising vertically and disappearing at great speed.

It was not a machine constructed by the hand of man, Fischer stated in his report. On reading the report, Air Marshall Hermann Goering concluded that the solitude of the north does not seem to have done much for this pilot.

The report of another interesting incident was carefully preserved in the archives of the German Investigation Committee: that of the launching of an experimental rocket on February 12, 1944, at the Kummersdorf test center.

On that day the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, S.S. Reichsfuhrer Himmler and S.S. Gruppenfuhrer Heinz Kammler were present at the launching which was being filmed. Some days later the authorities at the base organized a showing of the film. The astonished spectators, could see very clearly a spherical body which followed the rocket and circled around it.

The authorities immediately suspected Allied espionage. However, an agent informed Himmler that the English were themselves victims of the same sort of phenomenon and thought that it was a new type of German prototype craft. However, the most convincing evidence filed away by the Sonderburo came from a military flying ace.

On September 29, 1944, at 10:45 a.m., a test pilot was trying out a new Messerschmitt jet, ME 262 Schwalbe, when his attention was suddenly caught by two luminous points situated on his right. He shot at full speed in that direction and found himself face to face with a cylindrical object, more than three hundred feet long with some openings along its side, and fitted with long antennae placed in front up to about halfway along its length. Having approached within about 1,500 feet of the craft the pilot was amazed to see that it was moving at a speed of more than 1,200 m.p.h.
Source:
http://www.skiesare.demon.co.uk/foofight.htm

Other references:
http://www.altuit.com/webs/wray/The...FooFighters.htm

http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/newse/foo/

http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/newse/foo/foo2.html

http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa101501a.htm

http://www.ufoarea.bravepages.com/e...oofighters.html

Warning: This site may be some newage garbage...I will have to take a better look. Still, sometimes these sites use legitimate references so I will leave for now:
http://www.germanufochatter.com/Ger...an-UFO-Foo.html

http://www.foofig.narod.ru/eng/foo_fighters_of_wwii.htm

http://www.caus.org/miscufo/mu021901.shtml
 
Here's one of my favorite UFO reference sites:

http://www.crank.net/et.html

Hmmm... looks like a few of the sites Ivan listed are here as well. Perhaps it might be more convenient to use this one link?
 
Boy you really hopped. I must have really scared you. ;)

How many of the government links do we find at your site?
 
Ivan,

Thanks for the Links. It will take me quite some time to scan through all of them, but I will give it an effort.

I'm especially eager to hear about the Scientific studies and what they concluded in detail. I see they concluded that the subject needs further study, but I'd like to see where/why they came to this conclusion.
 
I noticed you linked Narcap. Ted Roe signed up here a while back and presented his website. It turns out his website is a bogus front for UFOlogists, has nothing to do with aviation safety and is run from his parents basement where he lives - a sad case.

I'm especially eager to hear about the Scientific studies and what they concluded in detail.

I doubt most of the so-called “studies” in the majority of those sites have any scientific value. They are biased in that ET is inferred when in fact; there is no evidence to suggest or support such claims.

I see they concluded that the subject needs further study, but I'd like to see where/why they came to this conclusion.

It’s really quite simple, no evidence – plenty of wild speculation.

I see your mind is already made up.

Do you or anyone else have evidence to suggest otherwise?

I must have really scared you.

I quiver.
 
Ivan

Historian Richard Dolan points out that modern study of the UFO often fails to see the value of the investigations into the phenomenon that occurred long ago. Keyhoe's work against UFO secrecy as early as the 1950s set the stage for much of what is known today, at least as far as the sightings of the times, and the government's reaction to them.

Much of Keyhoe's work is now available online. I'm supplying a link to a site with his book "The Flying Saucers are Real" at the link. They were dealing with the same issues then as we do now; there was recently a show (on Discovery? Not sure) which tried to debunk the Mantell incident, in which Capt. Mantell's plane allegedly exploded during a chase of a UFO. Attempts to explain what happened include 1) he passed out from lack of oxygen, and 2) he was chasing a balloon. We're still hearing that explanation; I frankly find the lack of oxygen explanation more plausible than the balloon. But Keyhoe does a good job of examining this case.

Much of the information provided to Keyhoe is less filtered than anyone would receive now. Keyhoe had a relationship with Ruppelt, and for one of his books, had access to classified Air Force Files. I'm at work at the moment and can't remember which book it was. I'll check tonight.

Anyway, give this a look.

http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/fsar-chapters.htm
 
Re: Ivan

Originally posted by Ives
Much of the information provided to Keyhoe is less filtered than anyone would receive now. Keyhoe had a relationship with Ruppelt, and for one of his books, had access to classified Air Force Files
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Irronically, Capt. Ruppelt, who was head of Project Blue Book for a while, later went on to write a book in support of UFO's being real.

The late 40's/Early 50's are a great source of information on this topic. There was an open dialog on the subject, as the 'Ridicule' factor had not yet set it.
 
There is a tool that can be applied uniquely to interviews with military personel and government representitives back then. The body language of deceit was not generally known. There are a number of interviews in which the government representitives deny various claims - esp the ones made in regards to the flaps of the 50s - where nearly every key indicator of someone lying is demonstrated in the speaker's body language.
 
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