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From: George A. Filer <Majorstar@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:19:01 EDT
Fwd Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:05:59 -0400
Subject: Filer's Files #24 --1999
Filer's Files #24 --1999, MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Mutual UFO Network Eastern Director,
June 18, 1999, Majorstar@aol.com (609) 654-0020
Wilbert Smith, Senior radio engineer, Department of Transport,
Director of Project Magnet for the Canadian government after
visiting key US officials stated:
"The matter is the most highly classified subject in the
United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.
Flying saucers exist. Their modus operandi is unknown but a
concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by
Doctor Vannevar Bush. The entire matter is considered by the
United States authorities to be of tremendous significance."
(Top Secret memorandum on "Geo Magnetics" November 21, 1950:)
NEW JERSEY
WANAQUE -- Tim Beckley writes about last weeks Jim Cleary
interview with a Wanaque investigator. There are a few things
wrong with this report. I was involved in the initial
investigations and wrote the story up for Fate magazine. There
were strange things flying around Wanaque that I do not believe
were (Earth) fault lights, because these cannot shoot into and
out of a reservoir. However, a craft did not go into the water
for a week and stay there. Augie Roberts, somewhat of a famous
Ufologist and early UFO witness himself saw and photographed a
light over the water. He said it looked like it had submerged,
but there was ice all over he reservoir and I think this was in
February. Supposedly it shot down a beam of light onto the ice
and cut a hole into it first. Some people were even going
around with pictures showing the craft, but the much reproduced
photos were really taken in Pennsylvania sometime before. They
are a series of four or five photos showing a beam of light
coming out of the bottom of the craft. Also the Governor never
visited the site. The Mayor made some comment at a town council
meeting and some thought the Air Force had shown up and
threatened witnesses. But it was actually an NICAP member who
wanted the case kept under his belt so he got credit for the
investigation and word got out that he was an MIB or government
agent. As usual things got out of hand and certain rumors
persist to this day. As in the case of Roswell and other UFO
incidents you have a legitimate case and what is added on later
acts like a smoke screen to make the story sound ridiculous.
There was at least one police officer with multiple sightings
and there was talk that a car had disappeared. This is totally
without proof. If you drive down the road around the reservoir
you will disappear because it just keeps on going toward I think
High Bridge; where Howard Menger was having some of his
experiences. Thanks to Tim Beckley Mr. UFO. MRUFO@webtv.net.
INDIANA
GARY -- Eric Carman writes: "I would like to share with you an
incident that I have only told my wife and brother about." On a
relatively clear day last June, (I am not sure of the exact
date) I was sitting in my living room at approximately 10:30 AM
waiting for my daughter's school bus. I was seated next to my
large picture window when, something caught my eye to the right.
At first glance, I saw what I perceived to be children's
balloons floating away in the wind. When I took a second look,
I was struck by something odd. There are 4-6 power lines
located in front of the house and these balloons were slowly
traveling in a trajectory directly parallel with the power
lines. This peaked my interest enough to go outside and look. I
noticed three gray, slightly metallic, slightly oval spheres
slowly rotating or "rolling" over one another as they traveled
horizontally. Then a low level fourth sphere came and joined
the original three. They continued their horizontal path for a
few more seconds in relation to the power lines, sped up
tremendously and vanished. I was able to snap a photo, but I
took it as the four UFOs joined and it doesn't show much. I do
not know what they were but I know I will never forget them."
Thanks to Eric Carman, CARQUEZ @aol.com.
MINNESOTA -
TWO HARBORS -- Just north of Duluth on Lake Superior's southern
end is a National Park called Split Rock Light House. It used
to be a working lighthouse but is not any more. I was hiking
with my daughter on June 4, 1999, along the shore. We stopped
to see a VERY bright object hovering above the lake about three
miles out from shore. There were no other objects in the sky
nor any shipping to speak of in the area. It was about 1,000
feet above the water. We were unable to tell the size of the
object since it was so bright and we just watched it hover there
for about 30 minutes. After that it went straight up! I did
not have my camera with me -- something I regret for more
reasons than this. There were several other witnesses at the
lighthouse. There was no aircraft traffic in the area according
to the Duluth International Airport radar. Thanks to Dave
Briscoe, Minnesota State Director Skywatch International.
TEXAS
KARNES CITY -- Your Filer's Files 99-22, regarding Michael
Harvey's sighting of a UFO while working the night shift for
Conoco Oil Company at an open pit uranium mine. Graduate
Geologist John Thompson and field investigator writes: "Did that
hit a nerve." I worked much of South Texas in a geochemical
survey for uranium. I have stood in many of those open-pits.
Virtually, everything Harvey wrote rings true. He even had the
designation for Caterpillar 657B earth movers correct. I cannot
confirm the UFO sighting, but there were many strange things
going on in those days including UFO reports. I had a rancher
tell me once that two of his cows changed colors while drinking
water on his ranch, not far from a Karnes City mine. Harvey's
story holds up remarkably well for at least what he claims to be
doing when seeing his UFO. Harvey stated, "The light was so
bright that it hurt my eyes. The object was round and the
bright light was coming from the center of the bottom of the
UFO. Around the perimeter of the craft were hundreds of
penlight size light beams that alternated in all colors of the
spectrum. Now, I know they were laser beams. Two days after
the UFO incident, the tap rock was removed to expose the uranium
ore. We were astounded to find that the uranium ore was now a
chalky white substance that had NO radioactivity at all! There
was a 250 foot diameter circle of this chalky material in the
center of the pit. Outside of the circle, the uranium ore was
still as potent as before the incident. Core samples do not
lie. This chalky material was uranium before this incident.
Many a night I have thought about what happened and wondered why
the UFO needed the uranium?" John Thompson comments, "I suspect
that the open pit mine of his has long been covered over. Only
the most sensitive instrument-far more expensive than a Geiger
Counter-could perhaps, sense the truth of his claim about the
uranium ore losing its potency where the UFO hovered. The
circular area around the chalky material was still "potent"
uranium ore. In any advent all the ore would be mined now. If
somehow the UFO changed the material, it would have been noted
somewhere by a geologist or mining engineer with Conoco. This
case may be able to provide hard evidence of a UFO visitation
and it would be worth following up and getting a signed MUFON
form." Thanks to John Thompson MUFON GA State Section Director.
OKLAHOMA
MINCO - S. Ritter writes, "I have two new UFO reports for
you. On June 3, 1999, my husband and I had gone on a road trip
and we saw two UFO's. At first they were headed south and then
the second stopped and started going north. They were the size
of BB's (an eighth of an inch) held out at arm's length. We
pulled over at the First American Bank in Minco, got out of the
car and watched them for at least five minutes. We watched them
until they disappeared. The second UFO siting occurred the same
night at 10:20 PM, as I continued to watch the sky. I noticed
that there was a cluster of stars in a small half-circle
formation. As I was closely watching, from out of nowhere an
object shot out of the center of this cluster of stars. It
accelerated at a very high speed heading east and then
disappeared. It was also the size of a BB held out at arm's
length. This was by far not a shooting star or a falling star.
Thanks to. S. Ritter at Bbbritter in Yukon, OK.
MONTANA
FLORENCE - On June 15, 1999, at 10:30 PM a gold light was
observed shooting across sky similar to shooting star. The gold
light then flashed bright blue/green and disintegrated or
disappeared. It was observed by two people. Thanks to Skywatch
International Inc.
BRAZIL
Thiago Ticchetti reports that the NOTÍCIAS POPULARES Newspaper
claims that a Flying Saucer appeared over ten Latin American
countries during Monday afternoon and dawn on Tuesday, June 12
and 13, 1999. A spaceship the size of a football field may have
landed in Goias, Brazil. There are several reports, all very
similar, from residents of Chapadão do Sul, in Mato Grosso and
Chapadão do Céu, Goiás. The phenomenon would have been seen in
Bolivia, Colômbia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Panamá, México, Peru
and Venezuela. The main report came from Francisco Fetter who
was at work and around 6:00 PM. He looked to the sky and saw a
strange thing. The thing looked a pot cover. The size was
about a football field, had lights and became red before
disappearing. He saw the UFO for three minutes and called
another office 80 kilometers away. When Mozar Menezes got the
call, he said, He was could see the object. "It was a
spectacular light, wonderful," said Francisco. Housewife Ema
Helena Schilick and her children, said that they also saw a
strange object in the sky. Eunice Claudia and Ernane Emerson
were at the bus stop when the UFO appeared. They said that it
was a round object, enormous, and moving very slow. Four
tourists at the Parque Nacional das Emas tell the same story.
"This thing is a burning hot story," said the Revista UFO
editor, A.J. Gevaerd. "We've received dozens of from all over
Latin America." Gevaerd is going to Chapadão do Sul to
investigate -- "I am going to interview some witnesses, because
usually when these sightings happen there are also abduction
cases." There are also rumors that fighters were launched from
Anápolis Air Force Base, in Goiás, to chase the UFO. Thanks to
Thiago Ticchetti, thiagolt@opengate.com.br, (DEPTE - EBE-ET /
Brasilia-Brasil)
GIGANTIC UNITED KINGDOM CROP CIRCLE PICTOGRAM
EAST FIELD -- Stuart Dike and Andreas Müller 'and the
International Crop Circle Archive' report a huge crop circle has
been found near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire on the June 12, 1999.
The first formation closer to the hill is a staggering 700 feet
in length, with a mixture of different styles from season's
past. It is basically a combination of the very first
pictograms from the early nineties with different components
from the designs that stirred the world, back in those heady
days. The formation is close to Knapp Hill, and has amazing
amount of different sections, including the famous Boxes, which
were seen on the very early formations, plus Key designs, and an
unusual Celtic Cross design placed in the central section of the
overall pattern. Images and a video shot by Peter Sorensen
copyright 1999, can be observed at the web site:
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/1999/Eastfield/Eastfield99a.h
tml
Editor's Note: The shear size of the pictograms provides
convincing evidence they were not made by human endeavors.
Seven hundred feet of intricate pictograms should prove once and
for all the reality of the phenomenon based on their complexity,
huge size and a possible message. It would require dozens if
not hundreds to hoax a site this large and complex. The logical
conclusion is that this pictogram crop circle was made by an
unknown intelligence.
AUSTRALIA
GRAFTON - The Keith Basterfield Network and Skywatch report a
total of six orange UFO's slowly flew over the Eastern Coast
heading northeast on Friday, June 11, 1999. The first UFO was
seen at 6:50 PM, a second at 9:45 PM, following the same flight
path. At 10:10 PM, another object approached from the southwest
also heading northeast. An amazing sight occurred at 10:25 PM
as one by one, three orange UFO's emerged from behind a tree
line. They slowly flew on the same flight path as the others.
The two leading objects were one slightly behind the other at
the same altitude. The third was trailing 300 meters behind,
and about the same altitude of the first two. Its altitude is
estimated at around 1,500 feet. When the group was to the north
of my position, the center object appeared to almost stop. The
leading object continued to move on alone, blinked a few times
then went out. The trailing object then caught up and overtook
the stationary center UFO. After it had passed, both UFOs began
slowly blinking on-and-off in perfect unison. They then faded
out together. While video taping the 10:10 PM sighting, a
'meteor' without a tail streaked through the field of view. I
am not sure what it was, but it was very fast. A total of 23
minutes of video was taken of these sightings. Supposedly,
there was a news report of UFO activity on Prime TV. Thanks to
Barry Taylor stingray@nor.com.au
http://www.nor.com.au/users/stingray
ESPERANCE, WEST AUSTRALIA -- Diane Harrison Australian Skywatch
Director reports that on June 9, 1999, Peter witnessed tons of
white filamentous threads falling from the sky over a 90
kilometer area. Paddocks, hedges, trees were covered with the
stuff and it hung off power lines in great shrouds with lengths
up to thirty feet long. Apparently the sky was thick with it up
to a thousand feet or more. The threads fell for five hours
from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. All the paddocks in the area had a
'sheen' caused by layers of the stuff. Peter picked up some of
the 'hair' to try to get it analyzed. A Cessna aircraft was
flying at 200 feet through the falling threads. Three contrails
were stationary much higher. Channel 9 reported the 'Angel
Hair' was used in Yugoslavia to put out electrical power
generators. We all know that was an unrelated carbon based
substance! Thanks to Australian UFO Research Network
RPIT ROSWELL REVISITATION REPORT #1
The primary purpose of this RPIT Report is to present the
findings of RPIT (Roswell Photo Interpretation Team) photo
analysts after five-months of intensive study of the Roswell
"flying saucer" photos taken in the office of General Ramey on
July 8, 1947, and then to invite the assistance of Ufologists
who are willing to seriously address this question: "What can
all this evidence really mean toward resolving the half century
old Riddle of Roswell?" Even though the RPIT group at this
juncture is only presenting this evidence and offering no final
conclusions, it would appear that this may be the most
convincing close-up visual evidence of arrival of an ET
spacecraft on earth.
BACKGROUND: In May of 1998 Major George Filer, USAF-Ret., an
official in the MUFON organization and publisher of "Filer's
Files," contacted a fellow military retiree, Colonel James Bond
Johnson, USA-Ret., to voice a special concern. Filer had been
phone visiting with the widow of Lt. Gen. Roger Ramey,
USAF-Ret., and she had expressed concerns over what she
described as unfair treatment of her late husband in connection
with his part in the Roswell Event of 1947. At issue is whether
the general committed fraud upon the American people by
announcing during a special live radio broadcast that the object
first identified officially by the then Army Air Forces as a
"captured flying saucer" was in fact "only a weather balloon and
weather device." A few writers had even accused the general of
"switching" the actual debris with fake junk prior to allowing a
member of the press to examine and photograph the purported
wreckage. Johnson, who on the afternoon of July 8, 1947, had
taken a series of photos of General Ramey and two other officers
in the general's 8th Air Force HQ offices in Fort Worth, Texas,
for his newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, offered to
revisit the matter. Johnson only recently had obtained an
enlargement of a photo of one of the officers, Major Jesse
Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bombardment Group,
stationed at Roswell, NM. Major Marcel had headed a recovery
team of the "flying saucer" wreckage from a ranch near Roswell
and had been ordered to courier the debris to General Ramey's
office for examination. Marcel had just arrived in Fort Worth
by B-29 bomber and was photographed as the debris was being
unpacked from meat wrapper paper packages in Ramey's office.
The general was away from his office but expected to return
shortly. Two unopened packages of debris lying in clear view,
Marcel's soiled flight uniform, scruffy field boots and his tie
and uniform cap tossed across a nearby radiator on a blazing
summer day in Texas point to a "fast breaking" and unresolved
situation. Reporter-photographer Johnson had arrived
unexpectedly to provide the sole photo coverage of what has
proved to be the "Story of the Century!" Johnson first assisted
with the debris unpacking and then "posed" Marcel with what
later was described by the major as some of the "less impressive
pieces" of the wreckage. When General Ramey returned to his
office Johnson photographed him alone examining the pieces of
wreckage and then he was joined in other shots by Colonel Thomas
J. Dubose, Ramey's chief of staff. Of special interest, the
general in each of the four pictures taken of him by Johnson is
holding a letter-size paper. In the first two pictures the
general has the message folded but in the last two shots it is
unfolded and in a position to be read. It has been speculated
that Ramey was handed an urgent message as he entered his office
and that if he first had read the message he never would have
permitted the photos to be made. In support of this theory,
shortly after Johnson departed the Ramey office, the general
ordered his weather officer to report to his office and to
identify the debris as a "weather balloon and radar device."
Then, the general personally went to a Fort Worth radio station
that same night to make his dramatic announcement that "shot
down" the earlier official AAF "flying saucer" "capture" story.
And the Roswell debris NEVER has been seen since by any member
of the media during the next 51 years! The five month study by
RPIT has been done in a completely "Sunshine" climate with
frequent updates being made to the UFO community and research
results being posted independently on their web pages by each
RPIT analyst. All of these RPIT member web sites are linked to
the link page of James Bond Johnson. None of the RPIT analysts
have sought any financial profit from their findings and also
they have borne their own expenses to date in advancing this
project.
INVESTIGATIVE ACTIONS TAKEN: After the call from Filer, Johnson
first examined the Marcel photo he had obtained from the
University of Texas at Arlington Library, depository of four of
the original Ramey office photo negatives. He noticed what
seemed to be never before noticed anomalous objects and symbols
in the debris. He then contacted two members of the MUFON
Orange County to show them his findings and then placed on the
Internet an invitation for others to assist in "revisiting" the
Ramey office photos. Selected as charter members of RPIT
(Roswell Photo Interpretation Team) were three volunteers from
the United States and two from the UK. The Team has since been
augmented by other volunteers from Australia to the former USSR.
The only things the Team shares in common is an interest in
trying to solve the Riddle of Roswell; they all possess a
computer and the required software for photo analysis. The team
members at the beginning of the project were mostly skeptics
regarding any ET connection to the Roswell Event. RPIT members
independently obtained enlargements of the Ramey office photos
directly from UTA and began their investigations under
coordination by Ronald Regher, Los Angeles area aerospace
satellite engineer and MUFON Orange County associate director.
Initial Team findings concluded that none of the several Air
Force explanations as to the details of the Roswell Event could
have been accurate. The Air Force had claimed recently that the
Roswell "UFO" was "likely" an experimental Mogul balloon train.
RPIT has determined that: I. There was NO Mogul launch that
reasonably could have produced the kinds of debris seen in the
Ramey office photos. II. The Ramey office photos contain NONE
of the items that would have been found in the wreckage of a
Mogul balloon train: sheets of plain aluminum foil with balsa
wood stick frames and all held together by several hundred feet
of string; this all was then lifted by inflated helium filled
neoprene balloons. Neither the instructions in English included
with each Mogul balloon train nor any other English writings --
or any other known language writings -- are to be found in the
Ramey office photos. III. The RPIT initial discoveries also
included: •(A) foil like material that is covered by organized
symbols or glyphs such as would be utilized in "writings." The
symbols are described as similar to ancient Egyptian glyphs but
have not yet been deciphered. Some symbols are found
repetitively in various parts of the photos, which would
virtually eliminate the "chance" factor; •(B) beams which have
very prominent organized symbols or glyphs embossed in bas
relief along several beams in the wreckage; •(C) The beams
appear to be hollow and fabricated from some type of possibly
ceramic material -- but NOT balsa wood as used in a Mogul
train! -- which has been formed and drilled in several places;
and, •(D) Numerous other anomalous objects that would NOT be
found in a Mogul train or any other weather balloon or Rawin
device. Please forward suggestions to: Ronald Regehr,
Coordinator, Marilyn Ruben, Analyst MJ Ruben@aol.com, Neil
Morris, Neil@adm1.ph.man.ac.uk, Ben Field,
Ben@abcfield.force9.co.uk. Thanks to James Bond Johnson, RPIT's
Project Director JBONJO@aol.com
CONFERENCE: July 2-4, 30th Annual MUFON 1999 International UFO
Symposium at Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel in Arlington
Virginia. E-mail mufonhq@aol.com
TAPE OF EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE UFO ENCOUNTER
Lunar Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell was at Edwards the night the
UFO chase occurred. The 6th person to walk on the moon said,
"The night it happened I investigated it myself and this was a
real event." Sam Sherman's audio documentary tape called THE
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE ENCOUNTER on the night of October 7,
1965, uses the actual voice recordings provided by the Air
Force. During this event 12 high tech luminous UFOs invade
secure air space and came down low over the runways at Edwards
AFB. Tower operator Sgt. Chuck Sorrels spotted them and
notified the Air Defense Command. Sgt. Sorrels is heard on the
original tapes and in a new segment where he verifies the event
as it is heard on the archival recordings. The UFOs are
described and a decision is made to launch F-106 fighter
interceptors. You are there in an important part of UFO
history. Hear it for yourself, its the best UFO tape ever made
and its record of a real event. The cost of the tape is $14.95
each plus $2.00 for shipping -- total $16.95 -- you can send
either a personal check or money order to: Independent
International Films, Box 565, Dept. GF, Old Bridge, New Jersey
08857.
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