RendleshamForest UK opens its own 'X-file' CNN, Nov. 29, 2002
It could have been an "X-Files" episode: More than 20 years ago, U.S. airmen reported seeing a "strange glowing object" near a British air base. The bizarre sighting, which occurred near RAF Woodbridge in eastern England in the early hours of December 27, 1980, is detailed in the government's restricted "Rendlesham File." The report, dozens of pages long, is only now being released as part of an opening-up of the inner workings of the UK government.
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RendleshamForest Ministers lift lid on UFO secrets BBC, 28 November, 2002
Details of a mysterious "glowing" UFO seen close to an RAF base more than 20 years ago have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. Restrictions on the Ministry of Defence's "Rendlesham File" were dropped as part of an opening-up of the inner workings of Whitehall. The documents have only previously been made available to around 20 people who used the American Freedom of Information Act to gain access to them.
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TrindadeIsland The Trindade Island UFO Incidents and Photographs Brent Raynes, Classic UFO Cases
On January 16, 1958, while a Brazilian Navy ship known as the Almirante Saldanha sat anchored off the south coast of Trindade, a small rocky island located in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, it seems that a most remarkable event transpired.
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RendleshamForest British FOIA Rendlesham File Released The Times (UK), 20 November 2002
The so-called Rendlesham File, now available for public inspection, is a fat catalogue of increasingly despairing correspondence between the Ministry of Defence and members of the public after the sighting of unexplained lights in Rendlesham Forest, near the RAF base at Woodbridge, Suffolk, in
December 1980.
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RendleshamForest The Rendlesham Files Reviewed Nick Pope, UFO Magazine, Oct. 2001
Ever since Georgina Bruni first broke the story concerning the release of MOD documents on the Rendlesham Forest incident, I’ve found myself on the receiving end of numerous questions concerning the papers. [Here are] observations based on my personal involvement with this case.
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RendleshamForest Rendlesham - The Unresolved Mystery Nick Pope, UK Ministry of Defence
There has been much recent debate about the Rendlesham Forest incident, and some interesting and well-researched articles have appeared. How are we to make sense of the various conflicting views? Has the case really been resolved, or is there more work to be done before we can make such a claim?
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TrindadeIsland The Trinidade Island Photograph "The Encyclopedia of UFOs" by Ronald Story (UFO Casebook)
Overview, summary of the Trinidade Island photographic UFO case, from 'The Encyclopedia of UFOs' by Ronald Story.
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TrindadeIsland The Almirante Saldanha UFO Sighting off Trinidade Island - Brazil 1958 Hynek, J. Allen . The Hynek UFO Report
"One of the most highly celebrated and controversial series of photos in the Blue Book files are those taken by an official photographer aboard the Brazilian Navy survey ship, Almirante Saldanha, off Trindade Island, some 600 miles east of Rio De Janeiro.
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TrindadeIsland Trindade Revisited Dr. Willy Smith, July/August, 1983, International UFO Reporter
Twenty-five years ago a series of photographs of a UFO were taken from onboard a Brazilian Navy vessel, a sailing ship, then engaged in scientific work. Both the UFO and the taking of the pictures were witnessed by 47 crew members, who vouched for both. These photographs have stood the test of time, and have appeared in many books and articles about UFOs over this past quarter-century.
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TrindadeIsland CUFOS - Trinidade Island Case and Photographs CUFOS, Center for UFO Studies
In-depth collection of articles, documents, and analysis of the Trinidade Island case and photographs. Trindade, a small rocky island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean 600 miles off the coast of Bahia, Brazil, was the site of one of the most impressive photographic cases in UFO history
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TrindadeIsland Trinidade Island Photographs Jerome Clark, CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies)
Trindade, a small rocky island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean 600 miles off the coast of Bahia, Brazil, was the site of one of the most impressive photographic cases in UFO history.
Posted on 10/3/2003 12:26:59 PM
RadarCases Lakenheath and Bentwaters RAF/USAF Radar/Visual Case, 1956 Dr. James E. McDonald, "Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations", AAAS Symposium, 1969
James McDonald's study of the significant radar/visual UFO case at Lakenheath/Bentwaters, UK in 1956.
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PilotSightings Disclosure Project Witness Testimony: Radar and Pilot Cases Steven Greer, Disclosure Project
This area of testimony deals specifically with pilot encounters, radar cases and related cases. We have no fewer than 20 witnesses from the Air Force, the Marines, the Navy, the Army, and civilian authorities in the United States and abroad who are qualified air traffic controllers and pilots who have seen and tracked these objects on radar.
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RadarCases Radar/Visual Jet Chase Over Bentwater, UK, 1956 UFOs at Close Sight
Many ufologists are aware of this case, but most people are not. This is undoubtedly one of the most important UFO events in the Blue Book files, but surprisingly was not listed among the "unknowns". The case impressed Dr. James E. McDonald and Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and even more so notable, the Condon Committee. This case involved observations of unidentified objects by USAF and RAF personnel, extending over 5 hours, and involving ground-radar, airborne-radar, ground visual and airborne-visual sightings of high-speed unconventionally maneuvering objects in the vicinity of two RAF stations at night.
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RadarCases Lakenheath 1956: A UK Radar-Visual UFO Classic Gordon D. Thayer, Journal of Astronautics and Aeronautics; September 1971, UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA
with two highly redundant contacts -- the first with ground radar, combined with both ground and airborne visual observers, and the second with airborne radar, an airborne visual observer, and two different ground radars -- the Bentwaters-Lakenheath UFO incident represents one of the most significant radar-visual UFO cases.
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RadarCases Meteorological Factors in Unidentified Radar Returns Dr. James E. McDonald, 14th Radar Meteorology Conference, American Meteorological Society, 1970
This scientific paper, presented by physicist James McDonald in 1970, "comments upon and cites some examples of a category of unidentified radar returns that do not seem to be well-known to investigators in radar meteorology, despite the fact that the phenomena have frequently been attributed to anomalous propagation and other weather effects. These are a type of returns observed on operational radars, chiefly military and air traffic radars, intermittently over a period of about twenty years, yet never subjected to any very careful, systematic, and extended scientific scrutiny, as near as I have been able to ascertain."
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RadarCases Atmosphere or UFO?: A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report (Radar Cases) Bruce Maccabee
Radar and radar-visual sightings were among the various types of UFO sightings discussed by the review panel sponsored by the Society for Scientific Exploration in the Fall of 1997. This paper, a response to the panel opinion, demonstrates that careful consideration of atmospheric effects is not sufficient to explain at least some of the radar, radar-visual, and photographic sightings that have been reported over the years.
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RadarCases Radar Tracks, Blips, and Blobs Maj. Donald Keyhoe, From the TRUE Report On Flying Saucers, 1967
In 1952, the Director of AF Intelligence admitted more than 300 cases of radar tracking and visual sightings confirmed by radar. In the ensuing years, there have been at least 2,000 additional radar cases in the U.S. alone. When the full story of the UFO's is written, radar will prove to have supplied indisputable technical evidence which finally convinced many previous skeptics.
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CE-5 Brief Bio of Dr. Steven Greer, Director, CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
Dr. Greer is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence and is the founder and international director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Dr. Greer, as director of CSETI, has led research teams throughout the world investigating the existence of ETI and on several occasions has successfully established preliminary contact and communication with extraterrestrial spacecraft at close range.
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CE-5 Book: "Extraterrestrial Contact : The Evidence and Implications", by Steven Greer Steven Greer, MD
This book includes the best UFO /ET cases and the evidence for them; the best somoking gun doucments related to UFOs; the remarkable close encounters of Dr. Greer and CSETI. It includes a thought-provoking overview of why ETs are here and what the implications are. Featured in the book - the remarkable Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind experiences of Dr.Greer and the CSETI research teams who have encountered and made contact with UFOs all over the world
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CE-5 Book: CE-5 : "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" Richard Haines, Ph.D.
This book documents, explains, and questions nearly 250 UFO incidents from around the world where people have deliberately tried to have contact with UFO phenomena or alien beings and succeeded. Each file probes reports where humans around the world have seen and deliberately signalled to unidentified aerial objects or beings. Exhaustively researched and thoroughly referenced, CE-5 was compiled from technical data, research and eyewitness interviews.
Posted on 10/3/2003 10:55:50 AM
PilotSightings Interference with Aircraft Equipment (Sturrock Panel Report) Peter Sturrock / Sturrock Panel Report / Physical Evidence Related to UFO Reports
Richard Haines presented a summary of his extensive research into pilot-UFO-sighting reports. He now has a catalog of over 3,000 pilot reports, of which approximately 4% involve transient electromagnetic effects allegedly associated with the presence of strange objects. Another catalog of aircraft-UFO-encounter cases (referred to by Velasco in Section 5) is being compiled by Weinstein (1997) as a GEPAN/SEPRA project; this catalog currently contains several hundred aircraft-UFO-encounter cases.
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EMEffects Interference with Aircraft Equipment (Sturrock Panel Report) Peter Sturrock / Sturrock Panel Report / Physical Evidence Related to UFO Reports
Richard Haines presented a summary of his extensive research into pilot-UFO-sighting reports. He now has a catalog of over 3,000 pilot reports, of which approximately 4% involve transient electromagnetic effects allegedly associated with the presence of strange objects. Haines focused on cases that appear to involve transient electromagnetic (EM) disturbances that occur only while one or more objects are seen flying near the airplane and which return to normal as soon as the object departs (Haines 1979; 1992). Haines has compiled a catalog of 185 such EM events which occurred over a 51-year period (1944-1995)
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RadarCases Disclosure Project Witness Testimony: Radar and Pilot Cases Steven Greer, Disclosure Project
This area of testimony deals specifically with pilot encounters, radar cases and related cases. It should be pointed out that for decades, people who have been skeptical of the UFO subject have asserted that if these objects were real, they would have been tracked on radar. We have no fewer than 20 witnesses from the Air Force, the Marines, the Navy, the Army, and civilian authorities in the United States and abroad who are qualified air traffic controllers and pilots who have seen and tracked these objects on radar.
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analysis The Science of UFOs: Fact vs. Skepticism Richard H. Hall
In-depth report of quality cases and analysis of the UFO phenomenon. "Stereotypes die hard. The myth among scientists that UFOs are a "nonsense problem" without any substance was firmly established more than 50 years ago and persists until this day. The cases used as illustrations in this report are chosen partly to refute the stereotypes and partly to show the recurring patterns and observational details, with special emphasis on the numerous areas of potential scientific research that would be possible if UFOs were accepted as a real phenomenon and funding were available. Strong human testimony establishes clearly that the structured UFOs featured here are a product of technology, not a natural phenomenon. The only remaining question is: Whose technology?"
Posted on 10/1/2003 10:55:08 PM
science UFO's and Mainstream Science Bernard Haisch, Ph. D., Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Scientific Exploration, published in THE MUFON UFO JOURNAL, No. 335, March 1996
Even if the UFO phenomenon should turn out to be deeper than we imagine, even should it prove to transcend science as we know it, the scientific approach is the only feasible way in the real, political, economic, technological world we live in to give us some chance to control our dealings with this phenomenon, rather than letting the phenomenon entirely control us... if such it is.
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