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my name is John Callahan

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I'm a retired FAA employee I was a

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division manager for the accidents

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evaluation and Investigation Division

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and these sing about two years before I

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retired I received a call from my Alaska

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region where the region wanted to know

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what to tell the media when I questioned

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tell the media what he says about the

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UFO and it went downhill from there

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what UFO had turned out I told him what

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the government of Hawaii would do at

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that time was to tell him it's under

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investigation and then I had him send

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all that data to the FAA Tech Center in

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Atlantic City the next day my immediate

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boss service director Howie Sofia and I

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went to Atlantic City I just purchased a

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year a new video camera and I videoed

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the the event and the Lake City we had

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him play back on again on a scope you

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would call a scope of plans you display

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DVD exactly what the pilot seen or what

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the control the scene and we tied that

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in with the voice a tape so we could

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hear exactly what the controller certain

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what he heard and we taped it we came

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back the next day briefed the

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administrator Admiral Lincoln on what

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happened he won the five-minute briefing

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after we started the brief and he won

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the know if he could see the video we

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put the video on he watched the video

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the whole video the next day he set up a

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meeting for me to give a dog and pony

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show to President Reagan scientific

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staff and whoever they brought over and

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they hand off all that data to them that

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morning in the FAA round room it was

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either 9 or 10 o'clock three men from

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breaking scientific staff three CIA

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people three FBI people and I own

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the other guys were along with all the

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FAA experts that I brought with me they

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could decide or o'clock about the

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hardware and software how it worked we

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put on a dog and pony show we let them

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watch the video we had all the day to

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day we have all the printouts that the

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computer put out they got all excited

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over it when it was all done the CIA

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yeah one of the CIA men told the people

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they were now sworn to secrecy that this

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meeting never happened

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and this event never happened well I

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asked them why you know I thought it was

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probably just a stealth bomber at the

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time he says well this is the first time

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that we have recorded radar data on a

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UFO and these guys are going to get all

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excited - drooling over all this data I

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said well you're gonna tell the public

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about it and he says no we don't tell

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the public about this it would panic the

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public he says we're gonna go back and

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study this I said okay it was what he

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was gonna do now I've told this story

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many times and I'd get sometimes funny

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much some people I have with me the

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voice tapes of the controllers that were

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involved the FAA original tapes see

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after we handed this stuff off to the

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president's staff the FAA didn't know

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what to do with that we don't separate

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UFOs from real traffic so it's not our

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problem

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and I have a copy of the original of the

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video that we took which is rather

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interesting and once once the thing was

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all over the reports started coming into

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my office but because it wasn't an FAA

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air traffic problem

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the FAA report ended up on a table in my

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office and stayed there gar retired when

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one of the staffers packed up all my

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gear and helped it move to my house also

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in a box I found just a few good days

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ago and my 1992 tax return I have the

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target crowds from the computer data

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which so if you wanted to reach out look

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at every target that was up there at the

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time you can now reproduce this from

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this piece of paper here and it's called

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the UFO incident Japan 1648 I believe

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the number was that happened on November

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the 18th 1986 I'm prepared to go to

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Congress the square before Congress that

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everything I've told you people and

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everything is here is the truth thank

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you

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you