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Robert Gribble in the National UFO

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Reporting Center by Charles Lear when

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the subject of UFO databases comes up

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the National UFO Reporting Center is

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usually mentioned along with the name of

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its seemingly tireless director Peter

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Davenport what many may not know is who

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it was that got it started Washington

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State move on director Maureen Morgan

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wrote an article titled the early years

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of new Fork Bob Gribble and Wendy Connor

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which was published in the November 2021

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Washington mufon newsletter according to

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Morgan Bob Gribble a Seattle firefighter

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became fascinated by UFOs in 1954 when

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he read an article in true magazine this

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could have been the article in the May

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1954 issue titled what our Air Force

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found out about UFOs written by Edward J

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rupelt the first director of Project

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Blue Book according to Morgan Gribble

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ordered the 1954 book flying saucers on

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the attack by Harold Wilkins which was

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advertised in the magazine and then

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picked up Donald Kia's 1954 book flying

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saucers are real he became believer in

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the Extraterrestrial hypothesis and set

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about starting a saucer Group which he

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named the space observers League he put

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out a report on interplanetary

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spacecraft called Flying Saucer review

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which is the same name as the British

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publication started that same year by

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former Royal Air Force pilot Derek

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Dempster Gribble's Publications contain

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articles some reprinted with permission

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from magazines such as fape opinion

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pieces and UFO related news there were

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also sightings reports and Volume 1

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Number 9 has a report from a young Ray

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Stanford official investigator and

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reporter for Sol of the first sighting

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he ever had on July 10 1954 Stanford

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reported a flat circular desk flying

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over his home in Corpus Christi Texas at

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an estimated 150 miles per hour he wrote

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that it was traveling west stopped and

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hovered for a few minutes and then

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continued according to him there were 11

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Witnesses by DEC December of 1955

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Gribble changed the name of the

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organization to civilian saucer

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intelligence some readers may be aware

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that there is an active group at that

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time founded in 1954 called civilian

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saucer intelligence New York that would

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become renowned for the scientific

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approach to Flying Saucer research in

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1957 Gribble changed the name to the

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aerial phenomena research Group which is

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quite similar to the aerial phenomena

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research organization a group founded in

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1952 by Jim and coral Lorenzen he put

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out the aprg reporter until 1969. at the

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same time he was busy with aprg he

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formed another group that he named the

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national investigations Commission on

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aerial phenomena and put out the nycap

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reporter in 1962 and 1963 the fact that

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Gribble's group had the same acronym as

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that of Donald keos significantly more

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famous group The National investigations

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committee on area phenomena did not

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Escape kehoe's attention and the very

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first issue of the nycap reporter

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Gribble goes on the defensive regarding

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an article headlined erroneous use of

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nycap name in the August September issue

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of the UFO investigator put out by

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kehoe's group it is reported in the

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investigator that Gribble issued a press

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release erroneously announcing himself

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as the Director of the nycap Washington

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subcommittee in the reporter Gribble

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calls Kehoe a prevaricator criticizes

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the accuracy of his reporting questions

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the accuracy of kehoe's books and

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magazine articles and offers one

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thousand dollars to anyone who can

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produce an article where he directly or

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indirectly identified himself in the way

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described in the investigator by 1969

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Gribble seems to have burned himself out

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according to Morgan in her article

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Gribble had been a full-time member of

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the Seattle Fire Department and had a

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wife and five children during his time

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as a sorcerer in 1969 he got out

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allergy slash ufology and dumped all of

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his related archives into a landfill his

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retirement wouldn't last long in 1969

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the U.S Air Force terminated Project

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Blue Book in 1973 there was a flap in

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the United States and Gribble saw a need

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for a place where people could report

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their Encounters in 1974 he set up what

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he called the National UFO Reporting

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Center and called Sheriff's offices and

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let them know they could give out his

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phone number to Witnesses word spread

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and soon as number was at the ready of

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police station's military bases and

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airports according to Morgan the FAA

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told Pilots to call new Fork if they

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wanted to report a UFO encounter Gribble

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got others to work with him and all of

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the reports over the phone were recorded

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on tape if Gribble and his associates

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thought a case warranted it they would

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do an on-site investigation Gribble and

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his operation are described in the 1986

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Associated Press article according to

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the article newfork was run out of

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gribbles cramped but tidy office in his

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home he spent twelve hundred dollars per

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year to keep it running and received an

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average of six calls per day even though

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he'd never seen a UFO himself he told

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the reporter there's not the slightest

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doubt that they're there according to

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Morgan Gribble retired from active

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research in 1994 and turned new Fork

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over to Peter Davenport by 2004 he was

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drowning in tapes and archived materials

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he was ready to pay another visit to the

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dump but he got the idea instead to

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donate his materials to Albuquerque new

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mexico-based UFO historian Wendy Connors

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Connors was the perfect person to take

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care of and preserve Gribble's materials

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particularly his tapes according to

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Morgan Connors spent several years in

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the Air Force working in Communications

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was interested in UFOs and specialized

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in the preservation of early historic

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recordings and photographs dealing with

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the UFO phenomena from 1947 to 1973

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Connors collected UFO related audio

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clips and compiled them into a

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collection she called faded discs The

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archive.org Connors took the best of the

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new Fork recordings and compiled them

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into a 44-hour collection of 252 tracks

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these can also be accessed at

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archive.org or in a more easily

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negotiated format with tracks of

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Interest labeled at the Northern Ontario

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UFO research Society website

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knowuphores.com standout tracks include

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eight tracks having to do with the

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Travis Walton case including Travis

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Walton's brother calling to report on

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the encounter by Travis and his

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co-workers while Travis was still

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missing new Fort continues today with

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Peter Davenport at the helm and with the

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rise of the internet came easy access to

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all for a comprehensive no-nonsense

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database fortunately for historians and

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researchers Gribble took a moment to

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pause before impulsively heading for the

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dump and took a moment to come up with

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an original and Lasting name for his

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Charles Lear is the author of The Flying

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Saucer investigators available at

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