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From: "Anthony Chippendale" <ufos@chipp.clara.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 15:12:18 +0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 10:24:55 -0400
Subject: PUFORI UFO News 1 Part 2
PUFORI UFO News...
In Association with UFOs Online.
Issue 1 Part 2
6th Spetmeber 1997
5) UFO Cover-up Admitted
WASHINGTON (AP) - With growing hysteria over alleged UFO
sightings in the 1950s, the Air Force repeatedly concocted false
cover stories to hide the fact that their super-secret spy planes had
been spotted, an intelligence study says.
Historian Gerald K. Haines writes that the Air Force, responding
to alleged UFO sightings during the Cold War years, frequently
provided explanations that were untrue to deflect attention away
from the spy planes.
``Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the
1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights (namely the
U-2) over the United States,'' Haines wrote in the spring issue of
Studies of Intelligence, an unclassified CIA journal.
Concern about the public finding out about the secret spy planes
``led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the
public in order to allay public fears and to protect an
extraordinarily sensitive national security project,'' Haines wrote.
``While perhaps justified, this deception added fuel to the
later conspiracy theories and the coverup controversy.
Haines, a historian at the National Reconnaissance Office, based
his article on a review of CIA documents from the late 1940s to 1990.
He described how the Air Force sought to deflect attention from
the development of its high-altitude experimental aircraft, the U-2
and the SR-71.
The early U-2s were silver and reflected the sun's rays,
especially at sunrise and sunset, and often appeared as fiery
objects to people below, Haines said. The U-2s were later painted
black.
Air Force investigators ``aware of the secret U-2 flights tried
to explain away such sightings by linking them to natural phenomena
such as ice crystals and temperature inversions,'' Haines wrote.
By 1956, the Air Force internally had clear explanations for 96
percent of all UFO sightings, Haines wrote, referring to the
experimental aircraft. ``They were careful, however, not to reveal the
true cause of the sighting to the public.''
He also said the CIA, during the height of the Cold War, hid its
involvement in studies into UFO sightings because the agency was
concerned if word came out it would lead to a national hysteria
that could be exploited by the Soviet Union.
The director of space policy at the Washington-based Federation
of American Scientists, John E. Pike, said the study raises
questions about other possible government coverups involving
unidentified flying objects.
``The flying-saucer community is definitely onto something,'' in
accusing the military of hiding something, Pike told The New York
Times, which reported on the study in Sunday's edition.
Haines' study, ``CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,'' is
available on the Internet at http://www.odci.gov/csi/studies/97unclas/
[NOTE: Above mentioned report will be serialised in PUFORI UFO News
starting with the next issue.]
6) Arizona UFO Analysis
By Andrew Brockinton and Terry Rodemerk MUFON Baywatch Newsletter
At around 8:00 PM on March 13, 1997, lights were sighted in the sky
over Phoenix, Arizona. There have been numerous reports written about
the sighting and many theories bantered about as to what it was that
moved over the night sky in Phoenix. Numerous people video taped the
events and these tapes have been analyzed and re-analyzed in an
attempt to explain the phenomena.
Some of these analyses have lead to a chevron shaped vehicle, some
alluded to being a much larger ship, and the government official
explanation is that it was flares from the nearby Estralle Air
National Guard bombing range which lies southwest of Phoenix on the
southwest side of the Estralle Mountains.
In our analysis, we utilized the video by Mike Krzyston taken from the
top of Mt. Ridge and scanned in several still photographs using an
Amiga 1200 AGA computer with DCTV video frame grabber and ImageFX
software for photo analysis. Our analysis leads us to theorize that
the MUFON article stating that they are flares is erroneous. From
enlargements of the single lights, they do not appear to be flares. To
verify this, we have a photo taken over Houston, Texas at night of a
flare in the sky, and the two pictures do not look anything alike.
In addition, from our analysis the lights in the Phoenix films appear
to be maneuvering jets along the same lines as the nozzle jets of the
liquid fuel rockets on the NASA's shuttles. Whether these are liquid
fuel jets like the shuttle, ion propulsion or plasma propulsion, we
cannot determine that at this time. Yet, looking at the pictures that
show this, tends to lead us to believe they are a form of ion plasma,
they trail off much like the aurora borealis does.
Watching the film you can see that it is one large ship rotating on a
center axis using maneuvering jets of some kind, possibly ion-plasma
propulsion, to turn a larger ship that was in between the Estrella
Mountains and the Phoenix South Mountains area in the southwest area
of Phoenix.
It may be that the only reason the people could see the lights at all,
is that this was a course correction maneuver done by the craft's
navigational system to fly between the South Mountains and the
Estrella Mountain range. This places the craft on a direct line of
flight to Casa Grande and then Tucson along US Interstate 10.
Sightings of a large object were reported in both these locations
within an hour after the Phoenix sightings and also by motorists along
US Interstate 10.
The analysis in the July 1997 MUFON JOURNAL places the so-called
flares being behind the Estrella Mountains, which appears to be too
far away to be the actual location. Analysis of other photos have
shown the faint outlines of 4337 foot Montezuma Peak, the highest
point in the Estrella range, behind the lights. This demonstrates the
craft to be a good mile to mile and a half closer than their location
under the military flares theory. If we place the craft on a Phoenix
map, Montezuma Peak shows to be behind the lights in more than one of
the pictures we scanned.
Analysis of photos show that the lights move from lower right to upper
left which is something that flares don't do. Also, it shows that
these lights move in synchronous, clock-wise movement, something that
the laws of physics would not allow a group of individual flares to
do. This synchronous, clock-wise movement shows that the lights were
connected to a single larger object being acted upon by a propulsion
system, i.e. the lights seen.
A more detailed presentation of our analysis will be given at the
August 16th MUFON meeting, and we urge those of you who have conducted
your own analysis to share your findings.
7) Gallop Poll Results
According to a Gallop poll on UFOS, conducted between 3-6 September
1996, UFO interest continues to rise. The poll results were:
87% os Americans have read or heard about UFOs
12% have seen something they thought was a UFO
45% think UFOs have visited Earth in some form
48% believe UFOs are "something real"
31% believe they are just people's imagination
72% believe there is life of some form on other planets in the
Universe 38% think there are people somewhat like ourselves living on
other planets in the Universe 71% believe the US government knows more
about UFOs than it is letting on.
8) Web Sites To Visit
Every issue we will be giving you the adresses of the best UFO-related
web sites.
UFOMind: http://www.ufomind.com
UFOs Online: http://home.clara.net/chipp/
UFO Magazine (UK) http://www.ufomag.co.uk
UFO Magazine (USA) http://www.ufomagazine.com
9) Coming Next Issue
In Issue two we will be bringing you all the latest UFO and space
news. Next month will also see part 1 of the report "CIA's Role In The
Study Of UFOs, 1947-1990".
Available on 28th September.
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