New And Revised UFO Quote Directory.

• "I first became aware of UFOs in 1965 as a captain in the 3rd staff headquarters of the Tactical Air Force (FATAC) in the city of Metz, when I received all the reports submitted by the national police in the territory of the 1st Area. Some were disconcerting. Since there was no perceptible threat, we simply filed them away. At first I was only a bit taken aback, but then competent pilots I knew personally gradually admitted having been confronted by these phenomena."

General Denis Letty, Head of the French COMETA report - unofficial UFO study organization composed of high-ranking officials and military officers.

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• "It is necessary, apart from any joke or of any metaphysical position, to rationally seek the cause of these phenomena. If they are natural, so much for my theories and.. my self-esteem. But if it is proven that we really are in the presence of flying crafts, no effort must be saved to determine nature and the origin of it.

Lieutenant Plantier, French Air Forces - article published in 'La Revue Mensuelle de l'Armée de l'Air' #84, September, 1953.

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• "This is the first sighting in Zimbabwe where airborne pilots have tried to intercept a UFO. As far as my Air Staff is concerned, we believe implicitly that the unexplained UFOs are from civilizations beyond our planet."

Air Commodore David Thorne, Director of General Operations for the Zimbabwe Air Force discussing UFO incident at Bulawayo Airport, July 22nd, 1985 - October 24th (1985) letter to researcher Timothy Good.

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• "This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination."

Air Marshall Azim Daudpota discussing Zimbabwe's Bulawayo Airport incident where object was tracked on radar and witnessed by control tower operatives and pilots of two scrambled Hawk jets - The Times, London, August 3rd, 1985.







• "I don't know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren't called UFOs. They were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ in the early summer of '68. And this resulted in quite a little battle. And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved but we always reacted. Always after dark. The same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in '69."

USAF Chief of Staff General George S. Brown
DoD Transcript of Press Conference in Illinois, October 16th, 1973.

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• “Research on a world scale is at present being conducted, and because South Africa is situated so far south, observation in this area is regarded as of extreme importance."

South African Air Force issued statement - Air Chief of Staff, Defence Headquarters, Pretoria, November 20th, 1954.

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• "They were really scared. They didn’t know what to do. They were so terrified they didn’t fish. They wanted guns to shoot.. We had to explain to them that they couldn’t shoot at the UFOs or things could get worse."

Brazilian Military Investigator Sergeant Álvaro Pinto Santos - Colares, Brazil, 1977.

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• "Frequency of related sightings attest to some unconventional flying object in this area. There are too many indications of the presence of something for the source's remarks to be considered observations of nothing."

Lieutenant Colonel Russell on UFO reports from the extreme northern portion of the Island of Honshu, Japan including F-84G pilot Colonel Donald J. M. Blakeslee's encounter with a 'rotating cluster of lights colored white, green and red which appeared to increase its speed and vanish in 30 seconds' - December 29th, 1952.

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• "The conclusion appears inescapable that some type of flying object has been sighted. Identification and the origin of these objects is not discernible at this Headquarters.”

Major General G.P. Cabell, Director of Intelligence, U.S. Air Force, November 3rd, 1948.

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• "Information, not verifiable, has reached Hq USAF that persons claiming to represent the Air Force or other Defense establishments, have contacted citizens who have sighted unidentified flying objects. In one reported case, an individual in civilian clothes, who represented himswelf as a member of NORAD, demanded and recieved photos belonging to a private citizen. In another, a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police and other citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school room and told them that they did not see what they thought they saw and that they should not talk to anyone about the sighting. All military and civilian personnel and particularly Information Officers and UFO Investigating Officers who hear of such repots should immediately notify their local OSI offices."

Lt. General Hewitt T. Wheless, assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force - memo to defense agencies, including Strategic Air Command (SAC) - March 1st, 1967.

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•"Mysterious men dressed in Air Force uniforms or bearing impressive credintials from government agencies, have been silencing UFO witnesses. We have checked a number of these cases, and these men are not connected to the Air Force in any way, we haven't been able to find out anything about these men. By posing as Air Force officers and government agents, they are committing a Federal offence. We would sure like to catch one, unfortunately the trail is always too cold by the time we hear about these cases, But we are still trying."

Colonel George P. Freeman, Penatagon spokesman for the USAF's Project Bluebook - February, 1967.

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• "From the earliest days of the modern outbreak of sightings some forty years ago, there is a quite remarkable similarity between the descriptions given by observers of the flying vehicles. It is the more remarkable that there have been tens of thousands of these reports, from observers who range who range from illiterate peasants in Argentina and Spain to people with Ph.D.s in other countries and they have all been given spontaneously - which has led to the generic term 'flying saucer'.
There have been thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of sightings and encounters, physical results and of the latter, by people all over the world whose evidence on any other subject would be accepted without question. There have been major investigations lasting thirty or forty years by the governments of the USA, Russia and France, for certain, and probably Britain and other countries."

Lord Admiral Lord Hill-Norton (GCB), Chief of Defense Staff, Ministry of Defense, Britain; Chairman, Military Committee of NATO; Admiral of the Fleet; Member of House of Lords.







• "The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists seems to me to be overwhelming.. A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances.. been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another.."

Lord Admiral Hill-Norton.







• "I have frequently been asked why a person of my background 'a former Chief of the Defence Staff, a former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee' why I think there is a cover-up of the facts about UFOs. I believe governments fear that if they did disclose those facts, people would panic. I don't believe that at all. There is a serious possibility that we are being visited by people from outer space. It behoves us to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want."

Lord Admiral Hill-Norton.


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• "Of these UFO reports, the radar/visual reports are the most convincing. When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the lights and gets a radar lock only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer."

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.







• "UFOs were seen more frequently around areas vital to the defense of the United States. The Los Alamos - Albuquerque area, Oak Ridge, and White Sands Proving Ground rated high. Port areas, Strategic Air Command bases and industrial areas ranked next."

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.







• "In June 1952 the Air Force was taking the UFO problem seriously. One of the reasons was that there were a lot of good UFO reports coming in from Korea. Fighter pilots reported seeing silver coloured spheres or disks on several occasions, and radar in Japan, Okinawa, and in Korea had tracked unidentified targets."

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.








• "The study was hot because it wasn't official and the reason it wasn't official was because it was so hot."

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt on Major Dewey Fournet's 'motion study'.

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• "After the Fort Monmouth, NJ, radar sightings the Air Force held a meeting at the Pentagon. General Cabell presided over the meeting, and it was attended by his entire staff plus Lieutenant Cummings, Lieutenant Colonel Rosengarten, and a special representative from Republic Aircraft Corporation. The man from Republic supposedly represented a group of top U.S. industrialists and scientists who thought that there should be a lot more sensible answers coming from the Air Force regarding UFOs. Every word of the two-hour meeting was recorded on a wire recorder. The recording was so hot that it was later destroyed, but not before I had heard it several times.. it didn't exactly follow the tone of the official Air Force releases - many of the people present at the meeting weren't as convinced that the 'hoax, hallucination and misidentification' answer was quite as positive as the Grudge Report and subsequent press releases made out."

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.







• "Every time I get skeptical, I think of the other reports made by experienced pilots and radar operators, scientists and other people who know what they are looking at. These reports were thoroughly investigated and they are still unknowns. We have no aircraft on this earth that can at will so handily outdistance our latest jets.. The pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself, knew what they were talking about. Maybe the Earth is being visited by interplanetary space ships. When four college professors, a geologist, a chemist, a physicist, and a petroleum engineer report seeing the same UFOs on fourteen different occasions, the event can be classified as, at least, unusual. Add the fact that hundreds of other people saw these UFOs and that they were photographed, and the story gets even better. Add a few more facts, that these UFOs were picked up on radar and that a few people got a close look at one of them, and the story begins to convince even the most ardent skeptic."

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.







•"The one thing about these briefings that never failed to amaze me, although it happened time and time again, was the interest in UFOs within scientific circles. As soon as the word spread that Project Blue Book was giving official briefings to groups with the proper security clearances, we had no trouble in getting scientists to swap free advice for a briefing. I might add that we briefed only groups who were engaged in government work and who had the proper security clearances solely because we could discuss any government project that might be of help to us in pinning down the UFO. Our briefings weren't just squeezed in either; in many instances we would arrive at a place to find that a whole day had been set aside to talk about UFOs. And never once did I meet anyone who laughed off the whole subject of flying saucers even though publicly these same people had jovially sloughed off the press with answers of 'hallucinations,' 'absurd', or 'a waste of time and money.' They weren't wild-eyed fans but they were certainly interested."

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.

• "..and it was up to them to tell us if they (UFOs) were real---some type of vehicle flying through our atmosphere. If they were real, then they would have to be spacecraft because no one at the meeting gave a second thought to the possibility that the UFOs might be a super secret U.S. aircraft or a Soviet development. The scientists knew everything that was going on in the U.S. and they knew that no country in the world had developed their technology far enough to build such a craft that would perform as the UFOs were reported to do."

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt - Chief of Project Blue Book.







• "We’re ordered to hide sightings when possible, but if a strong report does get out we have to publish a fast explanation - make up something to kill the report in a hurry, and also ridicule the witness, specially if we can’t figure out a plausible answer. We even have to discredit our own pilots. It’s a raw deal, but we can’t buck the CIA. The whole thing makes me sick —I’m thinking of putting in for inactive.”

Captain Edward Ruppelt, first head of project Blue Book - 1953 letter to Major Donald Keyhoe (Ruppelt reassigned upon request the same year).


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• "Object described as flat on top and bottom and appearing from a front view to have rounded edges and slightly beveled. From view as object dived from top of plane was completely round and spinning in a clockwise direction."

USAF Air Intelligence document describing UFO witnessed by F-51 pilot - July 9th, 1951.

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• "Pilot of helicopters wished to stress fact that object was of a saucer like nature, was stationary and at 2000 feet."

CMDR Flight Serve Centre Maxwell AFB - August 12th, 1954.

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• "Since 30th July, 1950 objects, round in form, have been sighted over the Hanford AEC plant.. Air Force jets attempted interception with negative results."

Major U. G. Carlan - August 4th, 1950.

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• "It looked to be about 2,000 feet in the air and a white-silverish looking colour, rotating in a counter clockwise manner."

Oak Ridge AEC plant - October 16th, 1950.

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• "In some RAF field, there was some sort of demonstration to which high officials of the RAF in London had been invited. During the show, a 'perfect flying saucer' was seen by these officials as well as RAF pilots."

H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence - December 18th, 1952 (also discusses the 'creation of the correctness of public opinion').

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• "Eight unidentified luminous circular objects flying in formation, vicinity Langley AFB."

USAF document - July 16th, 1952.

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• "The smaller objects began hovering in the area where the large object landed and after a few minutes they began flying around again. Mobile 02 reported that they appeared to be scouting the area."

USCG Document reporting UFOs 'quarter of a mile east of CEI Power Plant' - March 4th, 1988.

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•"When the team was about ten miles from the landing site, static disrupted radio contact with them. Five to eight minutes later the glow diminished, and the UFO took off. Another UFO was visually sighted and confirmed by radar."

Classified report by an Air Force Strike Team at Minot AFB, 1966.

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• "One oval object, described as being very bright, smooth, highly polished silver in colour with a definite blue haze surrounding it for the first 25 - 30 minutes of sighting was observed from O'Hare International airport."

Three Air Police Officers witness UFO over Chicago's O Hare airport - July 16th, 1952.

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• "A worldwide reporting system has been instituted and major Air Force bases have been ordered to make interceptions of unidentified flying objects."

H. Marshall Chadwell,
Assistant Director,
Office of Scientific
Intelligence confirming global monitoring and intercept orders for UFOs - 1952.

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• "Estimate at least 100 total sightings. AEC, AFSWP, 4th Army, local commanders perturbed by implications of phenomena."

Document from Kirtland Air Force Base directed to the USAF Chief of Staff - January 31st, 1949.

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• "The men report that at 1040 hours on 14 August 1947 the
two objects, which they describe as small, crescent shaped and
traveling at a speed twice that of a fighter plane, passed over
them on a zig-zag course in a westerly direction at an approxi-
mate altitude of twelve hundred feet."

USAF document describing UFOs on a zig zag course over Guam - August 14th, 1947.

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• "The object was completely stationary except for a halo around the centre, which appeared to be either revolving or pulsating. After watching it for approx. 4 minutes, it suddenly took off at tremendous speed & disappeared in a northerly direction, in a few seconds. I consider this object to have been approx 10 metres in diameter, hovering at 300 metres over the hills due west of the base. It was black, maybe due to looking in the drection of the setting sun. No lights appeared on it at any time."

USN Fire Captain Bill Lynn, object also witnessed by USN Lt. Commander William Moyer - official RAAF Department of Defence documents regarding a UFO hovering over (NSA) U.S. Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt on the west coast of Australia, October, 1973.

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• "He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO."

Security Officer stationed at Cooper Nuclear Station, object also witnessed by other officers - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) document.

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• "During April 1947, two employees of the Weather Bureau Station at Richmond, Virginia, reported seeing a strange metallic disk on three occasions.. One observation was at 15,000 feet when a disk was followed for 15 seconds. The disk appeared metallic, shaped like an ellipse with a flat bottom and a round top.. The disk appeared to be moving rather rapidly, although it was impossible to estimate its speed.”

U.S. Air Force document 'Analysis of Flying Objects in the US' - December 10th, 1948.

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• "A senior Kuwait oil company (KOC) official told us the 'UFO' which first appeared over the northern oil fields seemingly did strange things to KOC's automatic pumping equipment."

Government document - Message 290606Z sent by the American Embassy in Kuwait City to the State Department, January, 1979.

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• "As a conclusion of the observed constant facts in almost all presentations, it is the opinion of this Command that the phenomenon is solid and reflects intelligence by its capacity to follow and sustain distance from the observers, as well as to fly in formation, and are not necessarily manned craft."

Air Brigadier Jose Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, acting commander of the Brazilian Air Command of Air Defense (COMDA) - ‘Occurrence Report’ - June 2nd, 1986.

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• "At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention.. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitude and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major US defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles."

Dr .H Marshall Chadwell, former assistant director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, in a December, 1952 memo to then-director of the CIA, General Walter B. Smith.

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• "This 'flying saucer' situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around."

Lt. Colonel George Garrett, Air Force Base Intelligence Report, 'FLYING DISCS', July 30th, 1947.

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• "At a recent weekly intelligence conference of G-2, ONI, OSI and FBI in the Fourth Army area, officers of G-2 Fourth Army have discussed the matter of 'unidentified aircraft' or 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' otherwise known as 'flying discs,' 'flying saucers' and 'balls of fire.' This matter is considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the Army and the Air Force.

FBI issued memo on UFOs entitled 'Protection of Vital Installations' sent to the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Office of Special Investigation (first mention of UAP) - January 31st, 1949.

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• "The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious."

Commander of the Air Materiel Command, Lieutenant General Nathan Twining - letter to the Commander of the Army Air Forces on the subject of 'Flying Discs' - September 23rd, 1947.

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• "Sometime in his career, each pilot can expect to encounter strange, unusual happenings which will never be adequately or entirely explained by logic or subsequent investigation."

Captain Henry S. Shields, HQ USAFE / IHOMP.

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• "Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from intelligent and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity cannot be doubted." 

USAF Major General E.B. LeBaily, Director of Information - letter to USAF Scientific Advisory Board, September 28th, 1965.

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• "It must be accepted that some type of flying objects have been observed, although their identification and origin are not discernible."

U.S. Air Intelligence Report # 100-203-79, ANALYSIS OF FLYING OBJECTS IN THE U.S., December 10th, 1948.

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• "Of almost 2,000 reports that are deemed to have sufficient information to permit analysis, 22.8% are judged to be "unexplained," and another 31.3% are judged to be "doubtfully" explained. In total, therefore, 54% of the sightings are said to lack convincing explanations."

Battelle scientists, USAF Battelle Memorial Institute UFO study 'Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14', May 5th, 1955 (USAF Secretary Donald A. Quarles attempts to deceive the U.S. public in study's press release).

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• "The best thing to do is to keep an open and skeptical mind, and not take an extreme position on any side of the question."

USAF 'Introductory Space Science', Volume II - Deparment of Physics, USAF.

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• "I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening of UFO investigations."

Colonel Senn to Lieutenant General Crow of NASA regarding UFO investigations - September 1st, 1977.

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• “Moreover, reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and are not part of the Blue Book system.

However, as already stated, reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose.”

Bolender memo - October 20th, 1969 (vid below discusses NORAD and 'OPREP 3').

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• "NORAD has been the retrieval agency for all of the UFO documentation made under JANAP 146(E)."

John Greenewald Junior - UFO Document archivist.

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• "We've got documents released under the Public Information Records Act back from the 1960's which state the Provost and Security Services used to investigate UFOs - they moved from Acton to Rudloe Manor."

U.K. Researcher Matthew Williams.

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• "As we now know, DI55 (Defense Intelligence 55) was yet another tool to the UK government's armoury in investigating and researching UFOs. Prior to this document coming our way, the MOD denied that there was any other department involved in the subject of UFOs."

U.K. Researcher Graham Birdsall.

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• "Since 28th October, 1975 numerous reports of suspicious objects have been received at the NORAD CU; reliable military personnel at Loring AFB, Maine, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, Malmstrom AFB, Mt, Minot AFB, ND, and Canadian Forces Station, Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada have visually sighted suspicious objects."

The Commander-in-Chief of North American Air Defense Command, November 11th, 1975.

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• "Two UFOs are reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. Security Police observing them reported the UFOs to be 25 yards in diameter, gold or silver in color with blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on the bottom."

National Military Command Center Document - January 21st, 1976.

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• "Two separate patrols from Site R reported sighting 3 oblong objects with a reddish tint moving East to West.. One individual stated the object was about the size of a 2 and a half ton truck."

UFO witnessed 'over the ammo storage area' - Fort Richie / Raven Rock Mountain Complex, Maryland, July 30th, 1976.

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• "Of the 1600 cases registered since 1954, nearly 25% are classified as 'type D', meaning that despite good or very good data and credible witnesses, we are confronted with something we can't explain".

Aeronautical Engineer Jacques Patenet, head of GEIPAN - French service of UFO studies at the French Space Agency CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales).

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•"Taking all evidence which has come to the Subcommittee's attention into account, we find it difficult to ignore the small residue of well documented but unexplainable cases which form a hardcore of the UFO.. a phenomenon which has such a high ratio of unexplained cases (about 30%) should arose scientific curiosity."

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Subcommittee, November, 1970.

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• "Taking into account the facts that we gathered from the observers and from the location of their observations, we concluded that there generally can be said to be a material phenomenon behind the observations. In 60% of the cases reported here, the description of this phenomenon is apparently one of a flying machine whose origin, modes of lifting and/or propulsion are totally outside our knowledge..

The study of the observed phenomenon seems to us, by its extraordinary characteristics, potentially able to bring to humankind knowledge and eventually techniques of considerable importance. We suggest that a deep study of this phenomenon be undertaken with a high degree of priority." 

Dr. Claude Poher, Ph.D. in astronomy, founder and first director of GEPAN, the UFO investigative office under the French government's National Center for Space Sciences which analyzed reports from the Gendarmerie from 1974 through 1978, writing in the GEPAN Report to the Scientific Committee, June, 1978, Vol 1, Chapter 4.

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• "The phenomenon seems to be real.. The general coherence of sighting reports worldwide should not leave researchers indifferent. One does not conceive objective arguments to justify an attitude that would avoid at all cost these observations. The risk is, at worst, to confirm the existence of unknown vehicles appearing erratically into our atmosphere - a hypothesis that seems to explain nearly all reported aspects of the phenomenon and could be linked to the current exobiology branch of space research."

Dr. Claude Poher, expert on aeronautics, astronomy and astronautics, engineer at the French Space Agency (CNES) - 1971 Statistical Study prepared for the CNES and French officials.

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• "Over the past 20 years a vast amount of evidence has been accumulating that bears on the existence of UFO's. Most of this is little known to the general public or to most scientists. But on the basis of the data and ordinary rules of evidence, as would be applied in civil or criminal courts, the physical reality of UFO's has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt."

Dr J. A. Harder Ph.D.
Professor of Civil Engineering - statement given to the UFO Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics U.S. House Of Representatives, July 29th, 1969.

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• "The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science. This requires a change in attitude primarily on the part of scientists and administrators in universities."

Dr. Peter A. Sturrock, Professor of Space Science and Astrophysics and Deputy Director of the Center for Space Sciences and Astrophysics at Stanford University.

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• "Most scientists have never had the occasion to confront evidence concerning the UFO phenomenon. To a scientist, the main source of hard information (other than his own experiments' observations) is provided by the scientific journals. With rare exceptions, scientific journals do not publish reports of UFO observations. The decision not to publish is made by the editor acting on the advice of reviewers. This process is self-reinforcing: the apparent lack of data confirms the view that there is nothing to the UFO phenomenon, and this view (prejudice) works against the presentation of relevant data."

Dr. Peter A. Sturrock, 'An Analysis of the Condon Report on the Colorado UFO Project', Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol.1, No.1, 1987.

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• "Since 1947, ATIC has received approximately 1500 official reports of sightings plus an enormous volume of letters, phone calls, and press reports. During July 1952 alone, official reports totaled 250. Of the 1500 reports, Air Force carries 20 percent as unexplained and of those received from January through July 1952 it carries 28 percent unexplained."

H. Marshall Chadwell,
Assistant Director,
Office of Scientific
Intelligence.

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• "Unbiased, disinterested physical scientists usually measure the properties of inanimate matter. Biological, medical, and behavioral scientists, on the other hand, study intelligences less than or equal to their own. In this Project, we dealt with an intelligence equal to or greater than that of man. We interacted with the phenomenon under study.”

Dr. Harley Rutledge, Chairman of the Physics Department, SE Missouri State University.

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• "All over the world credible witnesses are reporting experiences similar to mine. Holding these people up to ridicule does not alter the existing facts. The time is long overdue for accepting the presence of these things, whatever they are and dealing with them and the public on a basis of realism."

Frank Halstead, Former Curator of Darling Observatory, University of Minnesota.

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• "I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement in danger of excommunication by the scientific theocracy. Nevertheless, in recent years I have investigated the story of the unidentified flying object (UFO), and I am no longer able to dismiss the idea lightly."

Dr. Frank B. Salisbury, Professor of Plant Physiology at Utah State University - First Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, USAF Academy, May, 1964.

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•“For nearly 40 years, the science establishment has ignored the UFO problem, relegating it to the domain of 'true believers and mental imcompetents' (a.k.a. 'kooks and nuts').
Scientists have participated in a 'self-cover-up' by refusing to look at the credible and well-reported data.
Furthermore, some of those few scientists who have studied UFO data have published explanations which are unconvincing or just plain wrong and have 'gotten away with it' because most of the rest of the scientific community has not cared enough to analyze these explanations. The general rejection of the scientific validity of UFO sightings has made it difficult to publish analyses of good sightings in refereed journals of establishment science.”

Dr Bruce Maccabee Ph.D, optical physicist - 'Still In Default: UFOs And Science'.

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• "At the very least, it is already possible to show scientifically the evidence for physico-chemical modifications affecting sometimes the ground of alleged landing sites, as well as the effects produced on the vegetation. Such research has already begun and doesn't necessarily require large sums.. The UFO problem in its totality, nevertheless, cannot be really understood unless our science someday is able to propose physical models that take into account the observed phenomena. We are not able to know if this will ever occur, and in any event, we are still very far from that stage."

Dr. Pierre Guérin, senior researcher at the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) - 'Le Dossier des Objets Volants Non Identifiés', Sciences & Avenir, No. 307, Paris, September, 1972.

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• "It seemed fantastic that there could be any such thing. At first, the temptation was to say it was all nonsense, a series of optical illusions. But there have been so many reports from responsible observers that they cannot be ignored. It seems hardly possible that all these reports could be due to optical illusions."

Dr. J. C. MacKenzie, Chairman of the Canadian Atomic Energy Control Board and former president of the National Research Council - Ottawa Journal, April 16th, 1952.

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• "A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO problem deserved further study the replies were: 23% certainly, 30% probably, 27% percent possibly, 17% probably not, 3% certainly not.
Interestingly, there was a positive correlation between the amount of reading done on the subject and the opinion that further study was in order.”

Dr. Bernard Haisch - Director for the California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics.

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• "I have learned quite a bit about the UFO phenomenon over the years, certainly more than I had bargained for, and have met many of the leading figures, some credible, some deluded. When Professor Peter Sturrock, a prominent Stanford University plasma physicist, did a survey of the membership of the American Astronomical Society in the 1970s, he made an interesting finding: astronomers who spent time reading up on the UFO phenomenon developed more interest in it. If there were nothing to it, you would expect the opposite: lack of credible evidence would cause interest to wane. And the fact of the matter is, there does exist a vast amount of high quality, albeit enigmatic, data.

Dr. Bernard Haisch - Director for the California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics.

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• "I propose that true skepticism is called for today: neither the gullible acceptance of true belief nor the closed-minded rejection of the scoffer masquerading as the skeptic. One should be skeptical of both the believers and the scoffers. The negative claims of pseudo-skeptics who offer facile explanations must themselves be subject to criticism.

If a competent witness reports having seen something tens of degrees of arc in size (as happens) and the scoffer, who of course was not there, offers Venus or a high altitude weather balloon as an explanation, the requirement of extraordinary proof for an extraordinary claim falls on the proffered negative claim as well.

That kind of approach is also pseudo-science. Moreover just being a scientist confers neither necessary expertise nor sufficient knowledge. Any scientist who has not read a few serious books and articles presenting actual UFO evidence should out of intellectual honesty refrain from making scientific pronouncements. To look at the evidence and go away unconvinced is one thing. To not look at the evidence and be convinced against it nonetheless is another. That is not science. Do your homework."

Dr. Bernard Haisch - Director for the California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics.

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•"I have been saddened as I came to understand the irrational response of the scientific establishment to the UFO phenomena. I have come to understand the scientific establishment's UFO paradigm. The paradigm is belief driven.. Never have I seen so many fallacies strung together as in the the scientific and skeptical responses to UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. It is the Emperor's New Clothes in reverse."

Dr Timothy Pennington Ph.D, Physical Chemist, American Chemical Society.

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• "There is an exceedingly large body of reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) from all over the world. Preliminary investigations show that about 67% of these are due to natural phenomena and so they are classed as Identified Flying Objects (IFOs.) The remainder, even discounting doubtful cases, forms an impressive collection of data. People making reports are usually sincere, often technically qualified and generally shy of the publicity which their sighting causes.

The vast number of unexplained reports, which show a surprising degree of internal consistency, argues for serious study of the UFO problem at this time."

Dr. Michael J. Duggin, Kirtland Air Force Research Laboratory - paper presented to the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science - Symposium on 'The Unidentified Flying Object Problem', October 30th, 1971.

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• "There are too many independent eyewitness reports to ignore. Too many of the reports describe coherent physical effects and there is an agreement among the accounts concerning what was observed. If all of these witnesses are lying, then it is a mental disease of such novelty and proportions that it must be studied. But of course there are also physical effects. The Air Force report allows us to approach the problem in a rational and scientific way. The simplest hypothesis is that the reports are caused by extraterrestrial visitors, but that hypothesis carries with it other problems. We are not in a rush to form a conclusion, but also to study the mystery."

Dr. Auguste Meessen, Professor of Physics, Louvain University -
interview with French journalist Marie Therese de Brosses - MUFON UFO Journal, No. 268, August, 1990.







• "On November 29th, 1989, a large craft with triangular shape flew over the town of Eupen. The gendarmes von Montigny and Nicol found it near the road linking Aix-la-Chapelle and Eupen. It was stationary in the air, above a field which it illuminated with three powerful beams. The beams emanated from large circular surfaces near the triangle's corners. In the center of the dark and flat understructure there was some kind of 'red gyrating beacon.' The object did not make any noise. When it began to move, the gendarmes headed towards a small road in the area over which they expected the object to fly. Instead, it made a half-turn and continued slowly in the direction of Eupen, following the road at low altitude. It was seen by different witnesses as it flew above houses and near City Hall."

Auguste Meessen, Professor of Physics, Louvain University.

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• "I had access to special libraries, so we could go up to the library that the Air Force ran and sort of paw through top-secret material. Since I was interested in UFOs, I’d look to see what they had. For about a year, I was getting quite a few hits. Then, all of a sudden, the whole subject material vanished. The entire classification for the subject just vanished."

McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Engineer Dr. Robert Wood.

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• "The goal of understanding anomalistic phenomena, if attained, may be of unprecedented importance to the human race. We must get a positive scientific program off the ground; a program that progresses according to the highest scientific standards, has specific objectives, is well funded, and long term."

Dr. Robert M. L. Baker, Head of Lockheed's Astrodynamics Research Center - 1968 Congressional Hearings.

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• "A world blanket of secrecy surrounded the UFO question because the authorities were unwilling to admit the existence of a force against which we had no possibility of defense."

Dr Paul Santorini - Fowler, R., UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, New York: Bantam Books, 1974.

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• "I looked up and saw a large, whitish egg-shaped object moving in and out of clouds to the northeast, in the direction of the Sacramento Mountains. It made a shallow dive, turned and crossed the highway a few miles ahead then turned sharply and disappeared over the Organ Pass. It was definitely a solid object."

James Stokes, high altitude research engineer - also described a 'wave of heat' from the UFO and his face later appeared sunburned - White Sands missile range, November 4th, 1957.

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• "An association between UFOs and electrical power facilities has been recognized for many years. UFOs tend to hover near generating stations, switchyards, and substations, and to travel along the rights-of-way for high-voltage transmission lines. They are frequently seen at these locations at the time of, or just prior to, electrical blackouts over extended areas served by the facilities."

Engineer James M. McCampbell.

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• "I went out by myself to take a look and there it was, hovering about 1500 feet in the air and about 200 yards from me. It was a round saucer-shaped object about 25 to 30 feet in diameter. It looked like a high-intensity red light with a lot of lights coming out of what seemed to be portholes.

The lights were flashing and causing a spinning effect. I couldn't see any image of its bottom, which may have been concave, I'm not sure. I kept walking and got to within 100 yards of it. I looked at it for two or three minutes until it darted behind the power plant almost like a blur. I went north of the power plant to see where it had gone and found it hovering over a water intake pump on the other side of the station.

I stood there for a couple of minutes and watched it. The most amazing part is the way this object moved rapidly with no effort and perfectly silently. I just can't get over that. I don't know what it was but I know this much: we don't have anything like this."

Operations Engineer Oscar Wills, Central Illinois Power Generating Station - March 22nd, 1973 (same time as Piedmont UFO flap).

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• "They moved jerkily when moving slowly. The speed varied from about 50 to 500 mph. Their ability to make tight circling turns was amazing."

NASA Aerodynamicist Paul R. Hill discussing his UFO sighting over the waters of Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, July 16th, 1952.

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• "I was destined to remain as unidentified as the flying objects."

NASA Aerodynamicist Paul Hill who posthumously published his UFO research because he was 'fearful' of specific government agencies.

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• "The saucers cannot have a terrestrial origin, if they are what is told."

Louis Breguet - French aircraft designer and manufacturer.

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"Something foreign to our knowledge."

Dr. Marcos Guerci, Chief of Meteorological Office describes objects also witnessed by control tower operator Carlos Bassoli - Argentine Embassy official report. Cordoba Airport, November 25th, 1954.

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• "I could see clearly the top of the body, which was a dark, non-shining material with no sharp edges. The most striking part was the eye-like object off-center to the right, with two distinct yellow regions. The lower region was revolving, blinking or scanning."

Physicist Dr Vasil Uzunoglu describes a 'submarine like object with a peaked top with a red light and rounded undersurface' hover over a house - Washington, D.C., August 1st, 1966.

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• "The clouds were drifting from the southwest to the northeast at right angles to the motion of the object. Therefore it must have been powered in some way.. I would estimate its speed at 100 mph., perhaps as high as 200 mph. This too means a powered craft. However, I could hear no engine noise."

Dr. Seymour L. Hess, Meteorologist, Lowell Observatory, Arizona, May 20th, 1950.

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• "In this field (Ufology), prejudice will take you farther from the truth than ignorance.. But with a topic such as UFOs, where does the scientific method begin? And where does it end? This grand endeavor would consist of the serious recording of the enormous available data and the use of all scientific procedures for the purpose of analysis.. China is so vast, and UFOs are certainly being witnessed again and again all throughout China, and China most definitely will evolve her own indigenous school of UFO researchers. This is our sincerest and deepest hope."

Bang Wen-Gwang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Beijing Astronomical Research Society - 'The Aspirations & Hopes of the Chinese UFO Investigator', The Journal of UFO Research, No. 1, People's Republic of China, 1981.







• "UFOs are an unresolved mystery with profound influence in the world."

Professor Liang Renglin of Guangzhou Jinan University, Chairman of CURO - 'UFO Conference Held in Darlian' - China Daily, August 27th, 1985.

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• "They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity.. They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes. First, this would explain their luminosity.. Secondly, it would explain the noiselessness of UFO flight.. Finally, this assumption also explains the strong electrical and magnetic effects sometimes, though not always, observed in the vicinity of UFOs." 

Professor Hermann Oberth, German rocket expert considered one of the three fathers of the space age. Worked with Dr. Werner von Braun from 1955 at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and later NASA - 'Dr. Hermann Oberth discusses UFOs', Fate Magazine, May, 1962.

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• "There are about 50 observations known from the time before World War II. Then the number of appearances increased; the Allies thought it was a German secret weapon, and the Germans thought it was one of the Allies. Since 1947, the reports of eyewitnesses increased considerably. It is said by the English Air Marshall Lord Dowding that there have been 10,000 (reports) by 1953."

German Rocket Scientist Hermann Oberth Writing in
Mitteilungen Der Gesellschaft Fur Interplanetarik
1961.

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• "I'm convinced saucers have an out-of-world basis."

Dr. Walther Riedel, German rocket scientist at Peenemunde, March 3rd, 1952 - Life Magazine, April 7th, 1952 issue.

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• "The least improbable explanation is that these things are artificial and controlled.. My opinion for some time has been that they have an extraterrestrial origin."

Dr. Maurice Biot, U.S. Aerodynamicist and mathematical physicist - Life Magazine, 'Have We Visitors from Outer Space?', 1952.

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• "These people have seen something - What it is I do not know and am not curious to know."

Albert Einstein, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (reply letter to Californian Minister Louis A. Gardner, July 23rd, 1952).

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• "There are three incontrovertible points that even the grossest sceptic can't ignore - one, that UFO reports not only exist but persist; two, that the phenomenon is global in nature (over 140 countries) and three, that many UFO reports come from highly credible and technically trained people."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University and scientific consultant for Air Force investigations of UFOs from 1948 until 1969 (Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book).

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• “Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects – UFO’s. As a consequence of my work on the voluminous air force files and, to a greater extent, of personal investigation of many puzzling cases and interviews with witnesses of good repute, I have long been aware that the subject of UFO’s could not be dismissed as mere nonsense."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.







• "Project Blue Book was ballyhooed by the Air Force as a full-fledged top-priority operation. It was no such thing. The staff, in a sense, was a joke. In terms of scientific training and numbers, it was highly inadequate to the task. And the methods used were positively archaic. And that is the crack operation that the general public believes looked adequately into the UFO phenomenon."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.







• "When Major Quintanilla came in, the flag of the utter nonsense school was flying at its highest on the mast. Now he had a certain Sgt. Moody assisting him.. Moody epitomized the conviction-before-trial method. Anything that he didn't understand or didn't like was immediately put into the psychological category, which meant 'crackpot'. He would not ever say that the person who reported a case was a fairly respectable person, maybe we should look into it, or maybe we should find out. He was also the master of the possible: possible balloon, possible aircraft, possible birds, which then became, by his own hand (and I argued with him violently at times), the probable; he said, well, we have no category 'possible' aircraft. It is therefore either unidentified or aircraft. Well, it is more likely aircraft; therefore it is aircraft.. An 'unidentified' to Moody was not a challenge for further research. To have it remain unidentified was a blot.. and he did everything to remove it. He went back to cases from Captain Gregory's days and way back in Ruppelt's days and redid the files. A lot that were unidentified in those days he 'identified' years and years later."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.







• "I was there at Project Bluebook and I know the job they had. They were told not to excite the public, not to rock the boat.. Whenever a case happened that they coud explain - which was quite a few - they made a point of that, and let that out to the media.. Cases that were very difficult to explain, they would jump handsprings to keep the media away from them. They had a job to do, rightfully or wrongfully, to keep the public from getting excited."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.







• "Blue Book was now under direct orders to debunk.. I remember the conversations around the conference table in which it was suggested that Walt Disney or some other educational cartoon producer be enlisted in the debunking process."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.







"We will never know whether UFO reports represent genuinely new empirical observations if we continue the type of logical fallacy illustrated by the Air Force analysis of a radar-visual UFO report from Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1957."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.







• "The discrepancy between what was reported and the Blue Book evaluation is so great as to be laughable."

Dr Hynek on the Redlands UFO case, February 4th, 1968.

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• "For the government to continue to maintain that UFOs are nonexistent in the face of the documents already released and of other cogent evidence presented in this book is puerile and in a sense an insult to the American people."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.







• "We forget that sometime there will be a 30th century science which probably will be as different (from science today) as Babylonian society. We went from the Kitty Hawk to the moon in 70 years. This UFO business has been going on for a quarter of a century. We should cut the nonsense and get down to study."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.







•"There exists a phenomenon.. that is worthy of systematic rigorous study. The body of data point to an aspect or domain of the natural world not yet explored by science.. When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump." 

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.


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• "As a result of several trips to Project Bluebook, I´ve had an opportunity to examine quite carefully and in detail the types of reports that are made by Bluebook personnel. In most cases, I have found that there's almost no correlation between so-called 'evaluations and explanations' that are made by Bluebook and the facts of the case..
There are hundreds of good cases in the Air Force files that should have led to top-level scientific scrutiny of this problem, years ago, yet these cases have been swept under the rug in a most disturbing way."

Dr James E. McDonald -Senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Arizona.







• "The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machine-like objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses.. When one starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing. Also, such sightings appear to be occurring all over the globe."

Dr. James E. McDonald - Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, July 29th, 1968.







• "My study of past official Air Force investigations (Blue Book) leads me to describe them as completely superficial. Officially released 'explanations' of important UFO sightings have been almost absurdly erroneous."

Senior Atmospherical Physicist Dr James E. McDonald, speech to American Meteorological Society 1966.

• "This series of incidents became national headline news until officially explained in terms of ball lightning and wet ignitions. However, on checking weather data, I found that there were no thunderstorms anywhere close to Levelland that night, and there was no rain capable of wetting ignitions. Although I have not located any of the drivers involved, I have interviewed Sheriff Weir Clem of Levelland and a Levelland newspaperman, both of whom investigated the incidents that night. They confirmed the complete absence of rain or lightning activity. The incidents cannot be regarded as explained."

Dr James McDonald on the November 1957 Levelland UFO flap.

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• "Much of what might be made clear at great length will have to be compressed into my remark that the scientific world at large is in for a shock when it becomes aware of the astonishing nature of the UFO phenomenon and its bewildering complexity. I make that terse comment well aware that it invites easy ridicule; but intellectual honesty demands that I make clear that my two years' study convinces me that in the UFO problem lie scientific and technological questions that will challenge the ability of the world's outstanding scientists to explain - as soon as they start examining the facts."

Dr. James E. McDonald.







"I speak from three years of detailed, personal research involving interviews with more than five hundred witnessess in selected UFO cases, chiefly in the United States. In my opinion the UFO problem, far from being the 'nonsense problem' it has been labelled by many scientists, constitutes an area of extraordinary scientific interest."

Dr James E. McDonald. Professor of Atmospheric Sciences -
Senior Physicist. Quoted in 'UFOs - a Scientific debate'.


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• "Reports of anomalous aerial objects (AAO) appearing in the atmosphere continue to be made by pilots of almost every airline and air force of the world in addition to private and experimental test pilots..
We're not dealing with mental projections or hallucinations on the part of the witness but with a real physical phenomenon."

Dr. Richard Haines, Psychologist specializing in pilot and astronaut 'human factors' research for the Ames NASA Research Center in California - Chief of the Space Human Factors Office.







• “Although I do not yet have enough reliable information concerning the relevant characteristics of the UFO phenomenon with which to form a scientific judgment of its 'core' identity, I do believe that the phenomenon is objectively real; i.e., I believe that the many thousands of eyewitnesses around the world are experiencing UFO phenomenon in a manner very similar to the way any other human with normal sensory capabilities would perceive it if they happened to be present.”

Dr. Richard Haines.







• "Air Catalogue is a rather extensive library I’ve been collecting for almost 30 years from commercial, private, and test pilots. I have over 3,000 cases. My estimate is that for every pilot who does come forward, and makes a confidential or a public report, there are 20, 30 other pilots who don’t."

NASA Research Scientist (Gemini, Apollo, Skylab), Dr. Richard Haines.


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• "The fact that since 1946 numerous persons in all countries have made detailed reports of events they regard as strange, mysterious, sometimes even terrifying, deserves attention. While many of the reports can be traced to natural events, we intend to demonstrate that, after the inevitable errors and the obvious hoaxes are eliminated, the reports reveal common characterstics, possess a high degree of internal coherence, and appear to be the result of the witnesses’ exposure to a set of unusual circumstances."

Dr. Jacques Fabrice Vallée, Astrophysicist
from the introduction to ‘Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma’, 1966.







• "Governments took notice, organizing task forces, encouraging secret briefings and study groups, funding classified research and all the time denying before the public that any of the phenomena might be real. The major revelation of these Diaries may be the demonstration of how the scientific community was misled by the government, how the best data were kept hidden, and how the public record was shamelessly manipulated."

Dr Jacques Fabrice Vallée - Astronomer.







• "First, there is a physical object. That may be a flying saucer or it may be a projection or it may be something entirely different. All we know about it is that it represents a tremendous quantity of electromagnetic energy in a small volume. I say that based upon the evidence gathered from traces, from electromagnetic and radar detection and from perturbations of the electromagnetic fields such as Dr. Claude Poher, the French space scientist, has recorded."

Dr Jacques Fabrice Vallée - Astronomer.







• "What UFO witnesses describe as 'light' may, in fact, be a complex combination of ionising and non-ionising radiation. Many of the injuries described in Brazil, however, are consistent with the effects of high-power pulsed microwaves."

Dr Jacques Fabrice Vallée - Astronomer.







• "The UFO Phenomenon exists. It has been with us throughout history. It is physical in nature and it remains unexplained in terms of contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness that we have not yet recognized, and which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them." 

Dr Jacques Fabrice Vallée - Astronomer.







• "The very concept of a parallel between modern ufology and ancient folklore is still occasionally challenged by believers in the theory that UFOs are nuts-and-bolts spacecraft."

Dr Jacques Fabrice Vallée - Astronomer.


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• "We in academia have it made after all, especially the scientists in academia, we're kind of at the top of the pecking order.. and in order to maintain that illusion (which is was it is) we've got to not appear the fool so the majority of the scientific community is a very non-risk taking group of people that live in a rather small reality and are in fact scared of things that seem to be outside that reality."

Michael D. Swords Ph.D, Professor of Natural Science, Western
Michigan University.

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• "Because few scientists have carefully studied the literature and conducted field investigations, most know pratically nothing about UFOs. Their ignorance of the subject has much to do with their attitudes towards it."

Dr David M. Jacobs, Professor of History, Temple University - (UFO Congress paper, 1980).

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• "Even the Soviets, who previously refused even to discuss the subject now admit to having a study group with good qualifications. The USSR Academy of Sciences still holds to the orthodox scientific view that UFOs are a nonproblem, however, using the same arguments we heard so long. These arguments are just as invalid in the USSR as in the USA."

George Kocher, unofficial paper 'UFOs: What to Do?' for circulation within RAND Corporation - November 27th, 1968.

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• "Hysteria and contagion of belief can account for some of the reports of UFOs, but the weight of evidence suggests strongly that there must be some kind of physical phenomenon which underlies a portion of the reports."

Dr. Robert L. Hall, USAF Psychologist - statement submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, July 29th, 1968.

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• "About 20 per cent of the sightings being reported to Ohio Northern university's 'Project A' cannot be explained away by ordinary procedure. There is a general consistency in these sightings - a saucer-shaped object, flat on the bottom with rounded edges and rising to a slight dome on top. The color is the same, bright blue or green. Takeoff is the same, slow at first and then, after reaching a certain point above the earth's surface, a terrific burst of speed."

Dr. Warren Hickman, University Dean and Co-Chairman of Project A, Ohio Northern University's UFO Investigation - THE NEWS (Lima, OHIO), 'Project A' Chief Can't Explain Flying Saucers', September 25th, 1952.

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• "There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases - perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies - for which there is no explanation.. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to."

Dr. Margaret Mead, world-renowned Anthropologist, 'UFOs - Visitors from Outer Space?', Redbook, vol. 143, September, 1974.

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• "UFO denial appears to be as much political as sociological - more like Galileo’s ideas were political for the Catholic Church than like the once ridiculed theory of continental drift. In short, considerable work goes into ignoring UFOs, constituting them as objects only of ridicule and scorn. To that extent one may speak of a 'UFO taboo', a prohibition in the authoritative public sphere on taking UFOs seriously.”

Professor Alexander Wendt - 'Sovereignty and the UFO', academic peer reviewed and published paper co-authored with Raymond Duvall.

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• "There appears, then, to be a broad consensus among the governments cited above: UFOs are objectively real – albeit currently not fully understood by science - worthy, at best, of focused study and, at the very least, of sustained monitoring in the interests of aviation safety and national security."

Robbie Graham - 'History of Government Management of UFO Perceptions through Film and Television', academic peer reviewed and published paper co-authored with Matthew Alford.

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• "Over 50 percent of the UFO sightings have occurred over, coming from, or plunging into or coming out of water."

Zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson.

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• "It remains an established fact, supported by numerous observations, that UFOs have not only been seen visually but have also been picked up on the radar screen and have left traces on the photographic plate."

Dr. Carl Jung, 'A Fresh Look at Flying Saucers', Time, August 4th, 1967.

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• "I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which the UFOs or the alien beings come - whether or not, for example, they originate in the physical universe as modern astrophysics has described it.. but they manifest in the physical world and bring about definable consequences in that domain."

Dr. John E. Mack, Professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and founding director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change, 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner - 'Abduction', New York: Scribners, 1994.

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• "The phenomenon may be our own distant descendants coming back through time to study us in their own evolutionary past."
 
Dr. Michael P. Masters Ph.D, Professor of biological anthropology - 'Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon'.

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• "The mission of the Chinese UFO scholars is to help our citizens realize and implement their right to know and their right to discover. Any attempt to cover up is unacceptable. Statistics of the China UFO group shows that people involved in the subject of UFOs is of an overwhelming scale. According to our statistics in China, out of 1.3 billion people we have close to tens of millions of people who are UFO enthusiasts. And of those who are interested in the UFO subject who believe that UFO exists, account for half of the Chinese population.”

Dr. Sun Shili, Ph.D., Professor of International Trade at Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics.

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• "Based upon unreliable and unscientific surmises as data, the Air Force develops elaborate statistical findings which seem impressive to the uninitiated public unschooled in the fallacies of the statistical method. One must conclude that the highly publicized Air Force pronouncements based upon unsound statistics serve merely to misrepresent the true character of the UFO phenomena."

Yale Scientific Magazine (Yale University) Volume XXXVII, Number 7, April, 1963.







• "The government has manipulated the results scientific studies, such as the one done by Battelle, to show that they found noting when in fact they did. In other cases it has set up panels that purported to scientifically examine the subject, but instead used them to debunk the phenomena, such as those of Robertson and Condon."

Battelle Researcher Dr. Irena Scott Ph.D.

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• "By calling the Robertson Panel a scientific panel we really do an injustice to science itself. It's an insult to science to call the Robertson Panel anything other than an officially sanctioned cover up to put UFOs away from the public."

Researcher Richard Dolan describes the CIA Robertson Panel which led to the implementation of the military wide directive JANAP 146 which made the reporting of UFOs to the American public an act of espionage (fines of up to ten thousand dollars and/or one to ten years in prison).

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• "I get so mad when I read this, I am just appalled that any government official reading this kind of report could accept it. It seems to me that any responsible general or politician on reading something like this would demand further explanation."

Researcher John Keel on the full uncensored text of the CIA Robertson UFO Panel.

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• "They were in a very definite mood to debunk.. I would have had about as much chance of coming out and saying that I thought they were all wet as Galileo might have had satisfying or convincing the Inquisitors that the earth moved."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University and scientific consultant for Air Force investigations of UFOs from 1948 until 1969 (Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book).

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• "The Robertson Panel was a device used by the CIA to establish a cover programme (Project Bluebook) that would draw attention away from a covert programme designed to meet the UFO challenge."

Jim and Coral Lorenzen, Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO).

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• "This memo to the Director of CIA indicates that what would be the recommendation of the Robertson Panel was already determined a year before.. It also shows that CIA estimated current efforts of UFO research insufficient as far as national security is concerned and that the problem must be escalated to higher levels."

Researcher Patrick Gross.

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• "I think Ufologists live in their own world and they believe that everybody knows about this panel - the problem is the vast majority of the populace don't."

Researcher Paul Kimball on the CIA Robertson Panel 'disseminating the gospel'.

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• "Perhaps that'll take care of the Forteans for a while." 

H.P. Robertson - letter to H. Marshall Chadwell (Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence at the CIA) dated January 20th, 1953.

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• "The Condon report was a travesty on science."

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University and scientific consultant for Air Force investigations of UFOs from 1948 until 1969 (Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book).

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• "You can actually buy the Condon Report, it's like the Kennedy assassination report, it's about 800 pages long, all the data is in there, much of it contradicting what Condon's final conclusion was. Eventually the report was released and at the time, a lot of people forget this, to large scale ridicule by the scientific community."

Researcher Paul Kimball.

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• "Specious argumentation, and argumentation of scientifically very weak nature, abound in the Report's case-analyses. And, while broadly charging bias on the part of those who have taken the UFO problem seriously in the past, the Report exhibits degrees of bias in the opposite direction that deserve the sharpest of criticism."

Dr James McDonald -Senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Arizona.






• "The opposite conclusion could have been drawn from The Condon Report's content, namely, that a phenomenon with such a high ratio of unexplained cases (about 30 percent) should arouse sufficient scientific curiosity to continue its study.. From a scientific and engineering standpoint, it is unacceptable to simply ignore substantial numbers of unexplained observations.. the only promising approach is a continuing moderate-level effort with emphasis on improved data collection by objective means.. involving available remote sensing capabilities and certain software changes."

Ronald D. Story - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics UFO Subcommittee - New York: Doubleday, 1980.

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• "If we read the report of the Condon Committee closely and ignore Dr. Condon’s conclusion, there is a strong argument for continued intense research.”

Dr. Michael Duggin, US Air Force Research Labs, Kirtland Air Force Base.

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• "The Condon report was a political and sociological response to the USAF’s UFO problem."

Dr. Michael Swords -
Condon study review, CUFOS Journal of UFO Studies Volume 6, 1995/1996.

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• "The conclusions were drawn before the check was even signed, and Dr. Edward U. Condon, the chairman, knew what answers the Air Force wanted."

Researcher Kevin Randle.

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• "Ivan Sanderson knew Condon and the story was as you know that he was asked to do a 'job' or take the consequences of bring investigated for his past. Whatever the motivation he undoubtedly did a good job for his unseen masters."

Dr. Berthold Schwarz M.D.

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• "There was a man who played a very influential role in World War II deceptions, his name was Dr. R. V. Jones. Aside from being the MOD's Director of Scientific Intelligence he was a leading expert in the use of deception, his whole thing was 'how do you fool people?' and he would dream up very elaborate methods of hoodwinking people and steering them away from some things the military did not want people to know about.

Interestingly enough Jones evidently played an important behind the scenes role in planning for the University of Colorado's UFO study by Edward Condon and the Robertson Panel - I think this is a significant fact that has not got a lot of attention in the UFO community so far."

Researcher Terry Hansen.

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•"The trick would be to describe the project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally objective study, but to the scientific community would present the image of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective but having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer."

Robert Low, Assistant Director of the Condon Committee (and former intelligence officer) - confidential 1966 memo suggesting the 'approach' of the Condon UFO study.

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• "As a member of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, I, of course, have had contact with high Air Force officers and have had opportunity to hear their comments on and off the record on the subject of unidentified flying objects. Despite being confronted with seemingly unimpeachable evidence that such phenomena exist, these officers give little credence to the many reports on the matter. When pressed on specific details the experts refuse to answer on grounds that they are involved in the nation's security and cannot be discussed publicly.. I will continue to seek a definite answer to this most important question."

U.S. Congressman Joseph E. Karth - August 24th, 1960.

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• "I have discussed this matter with the effected agencies of the government, and they are of the opinion that is it not wise to publicize this matter at this time."

U.S. Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr., head of the Armed Services Committee, following his sighting of two disc-shaped objects during an official trip to the Soviet Union - also present were Lt. Col. Hathaway and interpreter Ruben Efron (CIA, FBI, and Air Force documents obtained through FOIA , 1985) - Transcaucasus region of Russia, October 4th, 1955.

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• "I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources."

John McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, January, 1965.

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• "UFOs have never been accurately explained. I think there is as much reason to believe that there is something to them as there is for believing that there is not. There is certainly reason for thinking we don't have all the facts and certainly the Senate committee dealing with space should have all the facts."

U.S. Senator Thomas J. Dodd - March 14th, 1960.

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• "I have taken a special interest in these UFO accounts because many of the latest reported sightings have been in my home state of Michigan.. Because I think there may be substance to some of these reports and because I believe the American people are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given them by the Air Force to date, I am proposing that either the Science and Astronautics Committee or the Armed Services Committee of the House, schedule hearings on the subject of UFOs and invite testimony from both the executive branch of the Government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFOs.. In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject."

U.S. Senator (future President) Gerald Ford.

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• "The Air Force failed in its responsibility in thoroughly investigating this incident (April 17th, 1966 sighting, Pennsylvania). Once people entrusted with the public welfare no longer think people can handle the truth, then the people, in turn, will no longer trust the government."

U.S. Congressman William Stanton.

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• "As reports of these objects continue to appear from many parts of the world, it is quite understandable that there should be a growing interest in seeing some responsible effort made to seek explanations of these phenomena." 

Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, OBE, UK Prime Minister, July, 1967.

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• "I must say that if listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from the airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are forwarded by us to the National Center for Space Studies, then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing."

M. Robert Galley - French Minister of Defense. From a national radio interview by Jean-Claude Bourret, on February 21st, 1974.

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• "I believe that the attitude of spirit that we must adopt vis-a-vis this phenomena is an open one, that is to say that it doesn't consist in denying apriori, as our ancestors of previous centuries did deny many things that seem nowadays perfectly elementary." 

M. Robert Galley, French Minister of Defense - Bourret, Jean-Claude, La nouvelle vague des soucoups volantes (PDF), Paris: editions france-empire, 1975.







• "I cannot help but feel that there may be some justification behind some of the UFO reports. I also feel that if there is any information available within the Government which has not been released to the American public it should be made known. I have every confidence that the American people would be able to take such information without hysteria. The fear of the unknown is always greater than fear of the known."

U.S. Congressman Walter H. Moeller - May 15th, 1959.

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• "UFOs defy worldly logic.. The human mind cannot begin to comprehend UFO characteristics: their propulsion, their sudden appearance, their disappearance, their great speeds, their silence, their manoeuvre, their apparent anti-gravity, their changing shapes."

Earl of Kimberly, former Liberal Party spokesman on aerospace - House of Lords, 'Debate on Unidentified Flying Objects' - HANSARD, Lords, vol. 397, no. 23, January 18th, 1979.

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• "If one human being out of tens of thousands who allege to have seen these phenomena is telling the truth, then there is a dire need for us to look into the matter."

Lord Davies of Leek-Member of the House of Lords, Debate on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 18th, 1979.

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"Many men have seen them (UFOs) and have not been mistaken. Who are we to doubt their word?.. Only a few weeks ago a Palermo policeman photographed one, and four Italian Navy officers saw a 300-foot long fiery craft rising from the sea and disappearing into the sky.. Why should these men of law enforcement and defense lie?"

Lord Rankeillour, Member of the House of Lords - Debate on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 18th, 1979.

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• “Having spent a great deal of my life in the air, as a pilot I know that many pilots have seen phenomena that they could not explain. These men, most of whom have talked to me, have been very reticent to talk about this publicly, because of the ridicule that they were afraid would be heaped upon them.. However, there is a phenomena here that isn't explained.”

U.S. Congressman Jerry L. Pettis - House Committee on Science and Astronautics hearing on UFOs, Ninetieth Congress, Second Sesson, July 29th, 1968.

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• "There are undoubtedly some objects observed directly or on radar scopes which are not subject to positive analysis. However, the public should be given all information which would not adversely affect our national security."

U.S. Senator Stuart Symington - April 17th, 1959.

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• “I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light, it was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said ‘Have you seen anything like that before?’ He was shocked and said, ‘Nope.’ And I said to him: ‘Let’s follow it!’ We followed it for several minutes.. to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.”

U.S. President Ronald Reagan describes 1974 UFO encounter with pilot Bill Paynter to veteran newsman Norman C. Miller (then Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal).

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• "The increased sightings nationally could lead to a state of panic and hysteria and we ought to be concerned about it."

U.S. Rep. J. Edward Roush (D-Ind.)
Columbus Citizen Journal October 18th, 1973 - discussing the 1973 UFO wave.

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• "I am not one of those who arbitrarily dismiss 'flying saucers' as figments of the imagination. I take them seriously, and I certainly would have no objections to a careful and reasonable investigation of this phenomenon. Too many intelligent and thoroughly responsible people, who have been in positions to observe such unidentified foreign objects, have testified to their conviction that such objects exist for me or anyone else to deny the validity of their observations. Under careful supervision, and with the proper safeguards, I would think that a Congressional investigation would be a worthwhile undertaking."

U.S. Congresswoman Florence P. Dwyer - April 26th, 1960.

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• "Congressional investigations.. are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest. Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed."

U.S. Congressman William H. Ayres, 1958.

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• "I am an Air Force Reserve Officer and have been one for the past 27 years and, consequently, I am, indeed, interested in unidentified flying objects. I, frankly, feel that there is a great deal to this and I have discussed it often with many Air Force Officers."

U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater - August 31st, 1957.

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• "I share the concern of my colleagues in Congress about the gravity of the UFO problem.. my genuine desire to see positive action taken to lessen the danger caused by UFOs to air travel and our national security."

U.S. Congressman John F. Shelley - January 28th, 1963.

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• "Around Szolnok many UFO reports have been received from the Ministry of Defense, which obviously and logically means that they know very well where they have to land and what they have to do. It is remarkable indeed that the Hungarian newspapers, in general newspapers everywhere, reject the reports of the authorities."

Gyorgy Keleti, Minister of Defense, Hungary - article by Attila Lenart entitled 'Ask a Question to the Minister of Defense: George Keleti, Are You Afraid of a UFO Invasion?', Nepszava, Budapest, August 18th, 1994.

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• “Adjuntas is a little town in the Central Range of Puerto Rico, and at this moment, we are very intrigued by some unusual events that are affecting our daily lives.
Some years ago, we noticed the presence of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) in our skies. At first, we did not give great importance to this matter, but lately these things have appeared again and our citizens are distressed over this. Many, many persons have witnessed the presence of these objects in our surrounding space (evidence of these apparitions is included).
Our purpose in writing you is to ask for your help to clarify what is really happening by ordering an investigation so that the people in our community can keep calm.”

Adjuntas Politician Rigoberto Ramos, letter to U.S. President George W. Bush - Puerto Rico, 1991.

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• "First of all, I told a magazine this past January that, as an underdeveloped country with regards to the UFO problem, Japan had to take into account what should be done about the UFO question, and that we had to spend more time on these matters. In addition, I said that someone had to solve the UFO problem with far reaching vision at the same time. Secondly, I believe it is a reasonable time to take the UFO problem seriously as a reality.. I hope that this Symposium will contribute to peace on earth from the point of view of outer space, and take the first step toward the international cooperation in the field of UFOs."

Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu - letter to Mayor Shiotani of Hakui City, June 24th, 1990.

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• “In the particular field of UFOs, not to mention the people who see a flying saucer landing in a field, there are fighter pilots, astronauts, people who are anything but funny and report very precise observations. We must not say that they are nonsense but just recognize that there are things that escape us.”

Alain Juillet, French DGSE director, Senior Economic Intelligence Officer to the Prime Minister.

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• "I cannot share the smug complacency of the disbelievers, who automatically assume that every sighting must either be a hoax or hallucination.. A thorough hearing should put the entire problem in some perspective, and perhaps even permit the congressmen to make some qualified judgments about the true nature of these objects."

U.S. Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin.






• "It seems to me that the Congress would be well advised to investigate this subject. Unless there are compelling security reasons to the contrary, I believe the time has come to subject the whole panoply of unidentified flying objects to cross-examination under oath so that we may have a record of reference with more than usual credibility."

U.S. Congressman Louis C. Wyman.






• "I am recommending that we launch a congressional investigation into the matter of UFOs. To these hearings I would urge that we invite all those individuals and organizations in the United States and abroad, which have made serious efforts to study the subject. We need such a scientific review in order to direct our efforts in the future. The American people have the right to expect this from us.. I have written the Comptroller General of the United States asking for an immediate investigation of the incidents involving the use of public moneys at the University of Colorado.. I am convinced that the reasonable approach, the scientific approach is to maintain an open mind on the matter until some real evidence appears, one way or the other. We have not had that as yet. I was hopeful that the Colorado project would provide just this evidence, or leadings for the future. Now I have my doubts."

U.S. Congressman J. Edward Roush.







• "I share your belief that action should be taken. I have written to the Chairmen of both the Science and Astronautics Committee and the House Committee on Armed Services proposing that a thorough investigation be made on the Congressional level."

U.S. Congressman William F. Ryan.







• "This is a subject of increasing interest throughout the world, and I am pleased to see that legitimate efforts are being made to thoroughly investigate the situation."

U.S. Congressman Fred B. Rooney.






• "I may have occasion to resume my explorations of the matter but I note from the number of persons in House and Senate who have made reports on the matter that this rather solid body of opinion may continue to push for a broader investigation."

U.S. Senator Everett M. Dirksen.







• "Mr. Speaker, the Chicago Sun-Times, in an editorial of August 8, has performed a most creditable public service by calling attention to the fact that unidentified flying objects are a serious business. I believe the article should be added to the present dialogue on this very important subject and I am taking the liberty today of including it in the Congressional Record."

U.S. Congressman Roman C. Pucinski.






• "We have checked into the possibility of gaining enough support to initiate Congressional hearings for clarification of the UFO problem. Regretfully, we find there is very little interest in holding such hearings. Should increased interest develop on this subject, you can be assured I will be back in touch with you."

U.S. Congressman Bob Wilson - Armed Services Committee.


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• "Something is happening that needs the scrutiny and careful attention and the scientific backgrounds of many people from many disciplines to examine adequately.. Some people feel because they haven't been reading in the newspapers every night and hearing it on the radio and television that this UFO phenomena has dried up and gone away - it hasn't. They are still being seen, and heard and reported in many instances."

John P. Timmerman, investigator and treasurer for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).

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• "The device had the shape of two saucers, one inverted on top of the other. It must have measured about 1.5 m in height. It was the color of lead. This device had a ridge all the way around its circumference. Under the machine I saw two kinds of pieces as it was lifting off."

Renato Nicolai describes UFO which emitted a whistling sound - Trans-en-Provence, France, January 8th, 1981.

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• "The color of the machine was like a brushed stainless steel. It was rough and you could see while it was revolving that it was sort of grooved all around; you could see kind of grooves, they were darker grey.. a dark grey.. like it had been hot at one time, like steel that gets hot and cools off."

Farmer Edwin Fuhr describes close range encounter with five spinning, domed shaped objects - Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada, September 1st, 1974.

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• "I am not daydreaming, I did not dream what I saw in my field, I really saw it. The machine looked like a big rugby ball and had the shape of a giant spider. I clearly counted six legs and a central pivot."

Farmer Maurice Masse, Valensole, France, July 1st, 1965.

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• "These sea-mine-type things with spikes on them came out of the back and grabbed my trousers ripping right through to my skin."

Livingston Development Corporation Forestry Worker Robert Taylor - Dechmont Woods, Scotland, November 9th, 1979.

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"I was astonished to see this dome shaped object hovering approximately forty feet off the ground in one of the nearby fields, a couple of hundred yards away. It had a cockpit in the centre, with three portholes, and was glowing with violet light. The outside of the craft consisted of what looked like glass panelling, gun metal grey in colour."

Nigel Frapple, Wincanton, Somerset, May 20th, 1954.

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• "Just as I pulled the drapes a brilliant light hit me in the eyes, It was still dark outside, but about 60 feet away right above the children's ward, there was this object so big and bright I could see everything clearly. The object was circular and had what I guess you would call a top and bottom. The bottom was silvery, like metal, and was shaped like a bowl. There was a string of bright lights around it like a necklace. The top was a dome made of something like glass. It was lit up from inside and I could see right into it."

Nurse Doreen Kendall, Cowichan District Hospital, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, January 1st, 1970.

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• "It was a bright red object in the night sky, I thought I was seeing an airplane on fire."

Mona Stafford, UFO also witnessed by Elaine Thomas and Louise Smith - Lancaster, Kentucky, January 6th, 1976.

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• "It was all of a sudden the level of the windshield of the car, covering the road bed, I could see the landing gear - that was very much the most frightening moment because it wasn't beside me anymore - it was trying to stop me."

Schoolteacher Carole Forster, Elmswood, Wisconsin, March 2nd, 1975.

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• "I saw it going up and it hovered right above the car."

Anne Devereaux, Ingleton, North Yorkshire, January 16th, 2005.

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• "I left work at the Daventry teachers centre to drive home, I saw a brilliant red light over one side of the road and a brilliant green light over the other - it was attached to something grey and I thought it was an aircraft which was very low but as I got nearer to it I found it was actually stationary. It was grey, smooth and plastic looking it was so smooth. This dumbbell shape with these two bright lights underneath, I had no idea what this object was, I'd never seen anything like it at all."

Schoolteacher Elsie Oakensen - Church Stowe, Daventry, Northamptonshire, November 22nd, 1978.

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• "A brilliantly lit, egg-shaped object about 200 feet long was sitting in the road."

Jim Wheeler - Levelland, Texas, November 2nd, 1957 (vehicle interference/multiple reports).

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• "I'd never seen anything like it in my life - it was black in colour, it was shiny, it had three parts to it, it was circular.. I really panicked, I didn't know what to do."

Gary Wood, object also witnessed by Colin Wright - Tarbrax, East Lothian, Scotland, August 27th, 1992.

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• "We saw this object which was shaped like a crescent moon - it was physical, it was a physical object. I felt like I could have gone up and touched it, I just couldn't believe what I was seeing."

Lynda Jones, suffered burns around the eyes the following day - Didsbury, Manchester, England, July, 1979.

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• "I've known Mr Baker for about thirty years and he and his family have been here for a long time and when this story broke on the UFOs he asked me not to put it in the paper because of the anxiety his family was being put through by callers and curiosity seekers so I thought that I wouldn't.. and he was very appreciative that I honoured his wish that I wouldn't."

Newspaper Editor Jasper Landry - entire family witness very strange object on road outside their farm in Mellen, Wisconsin, March 13th, 1975.

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• "I looked to the north and it looked like a falling star, it was red and kind of coming down at forty five degrees. So then I watched it and was going to see if it landed and maybe go down and see what it was.. and when it got to the top of the trees it stopped and a blue and a white light came on it."

Farmer Frank Manor, Dexter, Michigan, March 20th, 1966.

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• "My guess is that whatever it was, the cow’s seen it and the dogs were raising all kinds of heck, they were all shook up.. It looked like a hotel more than anything. It looked like it had three layers of windows, like compartments - I know what I seen, I don’t care what anybody thinks."

Dairy Farmer Ernie Pacheco describes rectangular UFO (and animal reaction) - Benton County farm, Oregon, April, 1976.

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• "It was like amazing really because it was the size of two double decker buses and it was sort of like spinning - spinning round and changing colours."

Farmer Alf Kyme, Bacup, Lancashire, February 24th, 1979.

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• "When I came round the corner to check the grounds I looked up in the sky and this UFO was up in the sky - approximately where I later learnt the area where Alan Godfrey had his experience, I didn't know at the time. The object shot across the valley four times backwards and forwards and it vanished over the hills."

School Caretaker Leonard Smith, Todmorden, November 28th, 1980 (same night as Alan Godfrey).

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• "The object started to glow bright red as if somebody had lit a bonfire in the middle of the field, and it spanned half the field. We could see the outline of it clearly, like a dome, but we couldn't see no doors, but there was no heat, just a red glow like a sunset. We couldn't even hear a bird - everything was dead."

Mrs Bowen, Bentilee Housing Estate, Stoke On Trent, England, September 2nd, 1967.

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• "The flying saucer that was near the garden and the ones on the track took off like a spinning top."

Jolié Moreno - Santa Teresa Estate, Trancas, Tucuman Province, Argentina, October 21st, 1963.

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• "It maneuvered like no other craft I've seen, it looked like it was underwater, like the way a nose goes up and down on a submarine".

Colin Saunders, Warwickshire, England, March 31st, 1999.

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• "I'm ashamed to tell you cause you're gonna' think I'm crazy - I have never been more frightened in my life."

Police dispatch recordings - two dozen witnesses in more than ten different locations all report strange UFO activity in California, June 14th, 1992.

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• "I came in and I couldn't go to sleep. I went over it step by step in my mind, and since then I've sat there and said Louise, you didn't see what you saw, you just think you saw what you saw."

Veteran fire lookout Louise Kutz - Satus Peak Lookout Station, Toppenish Reservation, Yakima, September 29th, 1978.

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• "And I saw this thing just come sailing slowly in from the woods, cross the river and just come floating across my garden. It was lit up something terrible. It wasn't going very fast, just slowly along. It was only about six foot long and not quite a foot thick. It looked to be flat on the top and bottom but you couldn't tell, it was lit up so bright. It had whitish lights on the top and bottom, like my kitchen lights, and little red lights on the side. There were six or seven of them, kind of pointed in back like tear drops. It didn't make any noise. Talk about light, you could see just as plain all the way to the end of the garden. It crept crawling along and then it passed behind my woodshed and suddenly everything went black. That's the last I saw of it. It was really nice to see, though. It was pretty.. prettiest thing I've ever seen in my life."

Adolph Birkland, Two Harbors, Minnesota, September, 1974 (Bob Pratt Archives).

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• “The UFO was over where the beach was.. hovering I would say maybe a hundred, two hundred feet in the air. It was silver. It was your basic UFO.. it was definitely completely metallic with a silver dome on top and a silver dome on the bottom of it, like two plates put together. And it had little lights around it.”

George Gray describes UFO witnessed whilst driving along the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica - also additional witnesses.

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• "This thing had landed in the roadway. It took up the whole width of the road and overlapped onto the pavements. It wasn’t on the ground, it had about eight massive suckers. The centre was still, but the outer rim was spinning slowly and it had white lights flashing, like a camera flash. There were about 30 of us staring at it. We could hear it humming."

Rodney Maynard - King Harold’s Way, Bexleyheath, England, July 17th, 1955.

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