USAF "force fit" debunks.

Jacques Vallee discusses 'completely ridiculous' USAF UFO explanations including one case involving a bird carrying four lights:


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Intriguing radar/visual UFO incident from Kirtland Air Force Base in which two air tower control officers witnessed a very strange egg-shaped object 'with no wings, tail, or fuselage' hover and then fly across the runway on November 4th, 1957.


USAF explanation:

Aircraft.


Kirtland Air Force Base UFO - November, 1957.

UFO sighting by top aeronautical engineer Kelly Johnson:




USAF Explanation:

Lenticular cloud.

Dr J Allen Hynek's comment about the Redlands UFO case, 1968:

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

Sketch of object based on witness descriptions:






USAF explanation:

Aircraft.




Thread:

Redlands California 1968; 100-plus UFO Witnesses

More examples taken from the Chop Clearance list.

Gray Oval Sighted By 3 Fighter Aircraft

Jan. 29, 1953

Presque Isle, Maine

A nice example of an utterly ludicrous BB explanation. A "dark grey oval", 3/4 the apparent size of a dime at arm's length, which explicitly did not shine or emit or reflect light of any kind, pursued for 4 mins, in bright daylight, on a continuous heading of 70deg.

Conclusion "Venus, at 100deg".

Stunning.

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The Laredo / "Earl Fogle" Case

Dec. 4, 1952

Laredo, Texas

This case is a Gorman-like aerial duel UFO case from Laredo, Texas, Dec 4, 1952, from the BB files (via Jan Aldrich and BB Archive).

This is a classic example of Ruppelt falsifying case details he was personally familiar with to force a UFO Unknown into a phony IFO category, one he knew for a fact was utterly false. Ruppelt personally sent the TWX on Dec 10 that resulted in the Dec 15 Air Intelligence Information Report on Dec 15 with the full pilot report and the investigator data that revealed that the Weather Bureau balloon had been released at 2053 CST. Ruppelt's handwriting is on one BB typed summary correcting a word.

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