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a ufo flap in virginia in 1965. by

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charles lear

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throughout modern ufo history there have

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been periods when a large number of

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reports have come from one area these

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were termed ufo flaps by air force ufo

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investigators working for project blue

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book according to former project blue

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book director edward rupelt in his 1956

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book the report on unidentified flying

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objects in air force parlance a flap was

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a state of confusion just below panic

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that could be brought on by any number

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of things this week we'll look at a 1965

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flap in the virginia area that involved

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reported em effects creatures and armed

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citizens ready to defend the planet

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newspaper clippings and comments by

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investigators about the events can be

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found at the ufo history group website

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the flap actually began in 1964 with the

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december 21st sighting by harrisburg

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virginia gunsmith horace burns according

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to the report he was driving on route

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250 near fishersville when he saw a huge

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metallic object in the sky coming from

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the north as it landed in a field to his

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right his car stalled and he drifted to

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a stop burns described the object as

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shaped like a beehive 125 feet in

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diameter and 80 feet tall he observed it

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as it rested for 60 to 90 seconds and

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then rose up and flew away to the

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northeast he was able to restart his car

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and drive home burns contacted the ufo

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investigators club at eastern mennonite

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college club president ernest gammon who

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was a professor at the college and a

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member of the national investigations

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committee on aerial phenomena checked

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the area with a geiger counter and

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claimed to have found heavy

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radioactivity he also reported that

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homeowners in the area had complained to

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the virginia electric and power company

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that their radios and televisions

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stopped working for several minutes and

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that their lights dimmed kevin contacted

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project blue book and sergeants david

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moody and harold jones were sent to

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investigate they arrived on january 12

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1965 interviewed burns and the written

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report states that he exhibited no

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indications of suffering from mental

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disorders they also reported that there

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was no trace of radiation at the site

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within a month the local papers were

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reporting that many area residents had

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claimed to have had sightings a january

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18 1965 article headlined flying saucer

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reports to believe or not to believe

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reports that all books on ufos have been

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checked out of both the staunton and

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waynesboro public libraries and that

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there is a long waiting list for them in

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an article headlined air force denies

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reports of ufo sighting in the state in

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the january 21st 1965 newport news times

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herald reporter virginia biggins wrote

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that a pentagon spokesperson stated that

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they had no records of any report in the

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area the article then goes on to

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describe several sightings in the air

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force investigation of burns's sighting

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another case of cars stalling during a

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ufo sighting was described in an article

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titled ufos back at full tilt in the

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january 25th 1965 times herald two men

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in separate cars driving near

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williamsburg reported seeing an aluminum

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colored object shaped like an upside

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down ice cream cone 75 feet above the

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ground according to them their car

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engine stopped when the object was in

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sight and restarted as soon as it left a

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dramatic encounter that was investigated

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by nycap and described in books was

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reported to have occurred on january 19

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according to an account on the nycap

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website william blackburn was chopping

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wood for some archers in the augusta

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county archery club near brands flats

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virginia when he spotted two objects in

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the sky the smaller of the two objects

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descended and landed about 18 yards from

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the witness three beings around three

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feet tall and dressed in shiny clothes

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came out of the craft and approached

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blackburn to within 12 yards according

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to him their eyes seemed to look through

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you blackburn was frozen in fright

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holding his double-edged axe when the

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beings made some sounds that were

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unintelligible they then returned to the

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craft and the craft rose up and

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disappeared nycap investigator richard

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hall went to interview blackburn after

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his account appeared in the local press

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in an article headlined ufo spotter held

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silenced in the february 4th 1965

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richmond times dispatch hall is quoted

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as saying that blackburn had been

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instructed explicitly not to say

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anything and it was suggested strongly

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that some federal authority had told him

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this there was another humanoid sighting

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in the form of a small green man

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reported by three boys on january 26

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according to an associated press article

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in the january 29th washington dc

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evening star headlined its closed season

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on the little green men augusta county

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sheriff john e kent received complaints

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that area residents were arming

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themselves and going out to hunt the

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creature down kent told the reporter

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that the situation had gotten out of

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hand and that it was now dangerous to

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county residents he vowed that anyone

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out armed with no good reason would be

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dealt with according to the law he added

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that if there really were creatures from

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outer space in the area who's got a

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right to mow them down the article ends

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with the news that a local resident had

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come forward and admitted that he was

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attempting to play a joke on a neighbor

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and that he was in fact the little green

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man despite the silliness a report that

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got some serious attention was that of

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two nasa engineers former air force

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major john naidly and a.g crimes jr both

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of whom worked at nasa langley research

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center in hampton virginia despite being

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a former air force officer naidly

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reported his sighting to the newport

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news virginia daily press while crimmons

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jr reported his to langley air force

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base the daily press ran the story the

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following day on january 28

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1965. according to the article nadeley

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reported seeing a soundless object with

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lights around its rim maneuvering near

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his house in hampton virginia larry

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bryant investigated and wrote about it

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in the june 1968 issue of flying saucers

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according to him he talked to nadly and

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found out that crimeans jr his neighbor

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had had his sighting near the same time

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he contacted crimmons jr and crimmons jr

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told him that he watched an object land

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on plum island which was an old air

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force bombing range bryant wrote that he

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was concerned that no one from the air

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force had contacted natalie and that he

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bryant wrote a letter to virginia

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senator harry f byrd byrd wrote back

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saying that he communicated with the

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secretary of the air force regarding

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numerous sightings and would present the

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matter to his colleagues in the senate

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armed services committee brian

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eventually received a reply to his

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inquiries to the air force saying that

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crimeans jr had seen a navy helicopter

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an article in the nightcap march april

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1965 ufo investigator describes the

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sightings by the two nasa engineers in

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the air force response when the story

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came out in the daily press according to

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the article the head of project blue

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book major hector quintanilla went to

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virginia on a debunking tour it's

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reported that quintanilla combined

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ridicule evasion or denial of documented

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facts and claimed not a single ufo

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report had ever been proved true it

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seems the air force did their best to

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downplay the virginia sightings and

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perhaps that's why this flap is somewhat

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forgotten the very next year thanks to a

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remark by blue book scientific

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consultant j alan heineck that some

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sightings during a flap in michigan

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might have been of swamp gas the air

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force would be dragged into congress and