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Report of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon and its Safety
Implications at O'Hare International Airport on November 7, 2006
Case 18 By Richard F. Haines, Ph.D. Senior Editor Chief Scientist with K. Efishoff, D. Ledger, L. Lemke, S. Maranto, W. Puckett, T. Roe, M. Shough, R. Uriarte March 9, 2007 http://www.NARCAP.org National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena1 NARCAP wishes to thank the following individuals for their support in this investigation: Joel Bartlett, NARCAP; David Biedny; John Callahan, FAA, ret.; Linda Connell, NASA; Peter Davenport, NUFORC; John English, NARCAP; Milton Hourcade; Leslie Kean, NARCAP; Paul Kinzelman, NARCAP; Dan Lee, NARCAP; Sam Maranto, MUFON; Jim McClennahen, NARCAP; Boris Rabin, NASA; Jeff Ritzmann; Dr. Mark Rodeghier, CUFOS; John Schuessler, MUFON; Brian Smith, NASA; James Smith, Brad Sparks, NARCAP; Bob Stahl, NARCAP; Joe Vallejo, United Airlines, ret. 1.0 Executive Summary This report presents the results of an investigation into an interesting incident at O'Hare International Airport (ORD) on November 7, 2006 at about 1615 hrs (4:15 pm) CST that had definite safety implications. A number of highly reliable airline employees and others reported seeing a round, revolving, gray, metallic appearing object [hereafter called an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP)] hovering approximately above United Airline's Gate C17 in Concourse C at an altitude less than 1,900 feet above ground level (AGL) and departing sometime between 4:18 and 4:33 pm. Since two United taxi mechanics reported seeing the object sometime after 4:00 pm the object could have been present for at least eighteen minutes or more. The following subjects are discussed here: Description of eye witness accounts, overview of O'Hare International Airport and its aviation operations, visibility from the control tower, weather conditions, the reported hole in the cloud allegedly caused by the UAP, radar technical considerations and possible primary contacts, safety implications of the incident, and a summary. Appendices also present a discussion of hoax data, press coverage of the event, reports of UAP made by other alleged witnesses in the area on that day, a description of typical cockpit duties during an approach, landing, and taxi to gate and other relevant documents. Based on eye witness testimony the UAP would have ranged in size from about twenty-two to eighty eight feet diameter. It accelerated at a steeply inclined angle through the 1,900 ft cloud base leaving a round hole approximately its own size that lasted for as long as fourteen minutes. This is suggestive of a super heated object or otherwise radiated (microwave?) heat energy on the order of 9.4 kJ/m3. According to the FAA nothing was detected by radar at this location or time of day or seen by air traffic controllers from the main tower. An examination of primary radar data supplied by the FAA confirmed the first claim. Nevertheless, an FAA inbound ground controller remarked about the "UFO" (UAP) at about 3:58:09 pm, long before the object had departed. No reference to a UAP IS made by any inbound or outbound flight crew other than two United maintenance taxi mechanics moving an empty airplane to the maintenance hanger on the north side of the airport. Of course this does not mean that there was no object present but only that these flight crew did not discuss it over the radio. Our analyses suggest that a potentially significant air safety problem existed at O'Hare International Airport on the afternoon of November 7, 2006. Anytime an airborne object can hover for several minutes over a busy airport but not be registered on radar or seen visually from the control tower, constitutes a potential threat to flight safety. The identity of the UAP remains unknown. An official government inquiry should be carried out to evaluate whether or not current sensing technologies are adequate to insure against a future incident such as this. See the complete NARCAP report on .pdf with illustrations, maps, photos, charts, etc. -5.9 MB www.narcap.org
Source & References: www.narcap.org |
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By CHLOE JOHNSON-Staff Writer-ljohnson@fosters.com
Author Kathleen Marden, niece to Barney and Betty Hill, recently completed her book, "Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience." Sunday, July 22, 2007-It was supposed to be their long-anticipated honeymoon — a time Betty and Barney Hill would never forget. But by the time the Portsmouth couple got home from the White Mountains on an early morning in 1961, they were missing two hours from their memories, they said. What they did claim to remember — bright lights and beeping sounds, a flying saucer and a crew of aliens who made Barney Hill feel as though he were about to be captured — would change the rest of their lives. Their story became the nation's first widely known account of a forcible alien abduction and has been the subject of several books. Barney and Betty Hill died in 1969 and 2004, respectively, and now the Hills' niece, Kathy Marden of Stratham, who was close to the couple and became trustee of their estate, has published a new book about their experiences. Marden, a retired sociologist and educator, cowrote the book, "Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience," with Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist who studies ufology. Barney Hill was a practical man, Marden said. "Now do you believe in flying saucers?" Betty Hill asked him after their encounter in Lincoln, according to Marden. "Of course not. Don't be ridiculous," was Barney Hill's reply. When the Hills spoke to her about what they saw that night, it was the first time Marden had heard of flying saucers or thought about life on other planets. She said she later learned, however, that her mother had seen a UFO herself a few years earlier. Marden ran outside with the rest of her family to look at the Hill's car after the spacecraft allegedly had hovered above it. There were small, round polished spots that would not rub off. "It's really still a mystery," Marden said. "In terms of explaining what caused that, we don't know." Marden said her book fills in some blanks still left after several other books have analyzed the incident. For instance, she said, when John Fuller wrote "The Interrupted Journey" five years after the event, it was incomplete and left space for questions from skeptics. And skeptics remain. Joe Nickell of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, based in Amherst, N.Y., described himself as the world's only full-time, professional paranormal investigator. He said he's been researching aliens for about 30 years. There's no evidence anyone ever has been abducted by aliens, and there's no scientific proof aliens ever have been on the planet, he said. Often people who think they've been abducted have experienced a waking dream, or a dream in which the body is asleep but the mind is lucid. This can occur just before or after being fully asleep and comes with a feeling of being paralyzed, he said. People may feel strapped down and imagine aliens operating on them during such dreams, which seem real to them, he said. He interviewed Betty Hill and described her as having a fantasy-prone personality — not a mental illness, but a set of imaginative traits, including having vivid dreams and creative thoughts. He estimates about 4 percent of people have such a personality type. Marden disputes the description, referring to a personality profile in her book. It suggests the Hills both had a commitment to truth. The Hills revealed the details of their lost memories and missing time under hypnosis. When the abduction happened, they said, they were taken aboard a flying saucer and given physical examinations, according to Marden's book. But Nickell discounts the value of hypnosis, saying people with fantasy-prone personalities may be remembering only dreams or stories. The Hills told similar stories under hypnosis because Barney Hill was recalling the dreams his wife had shared with him and did not remember as much as she did, Nickell said. "I believe they had an experience," he said. "But it was of a psychiatric nature, not in the real world." Marden said Betty Hill began having dreams about aliens several days after the drive north. "These dreams filled in a period of missing time," she said. But, she added, there is "no way" the two of them could have communicated so many instances of the correlations on the hypnosis tapes. "This, in part, convinced me it probably did happen," she said. "Until I have scientific confirmation that it actually happened, I'm going to use the word probably." Betty and Barney Hill, according to Marden, did not want to publicize their story — they feared losing their jobs and standing in the community. Barney Hill worked as a carrier for the U.S Post Office, and Betty Hill was a social worker for the state. They were also an interacial couple, and active in the civil rights movement. But the story emerged anyway after the Hills attended a 1963 meeting of a group interested in UFOs. The aliens the Hills described have become the prototype for all alien abduction accounts, and the couple's story likely influenced others, Nickell said. "We humans have the capacity to imagine strange beings in our image," he said. "Most of the monsters are some version of us." He said it's unlikely aliens, if they do exist, have followed such a close evolutionary path as humans. Also, he said, "It's very unlikely aliens are buzzing the Earth and increasingly abducting people." Rather, stories of alien encounters are modern mythology, emerging in a time when people are looking beyond this planet for the next frontier, he said. His explanations for alien abductions are similar to those of a Harvard University researcher, Susan Clancy, who wrote about paralyzing dreams and false memories among fantasy-prone people. The Hills are included in a chapter of her 2005 book, "Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens." However, Friedman, Marden's coauthor, maintained that the hypnosis tapes are convincing. The Hill abduction was unique, he argued, because the investigation was able to retrieve previously repressed material about what happened. It brought forward details of the experience from each separately so they could be cross-checked, he said. "Others who have been abducted, after reading the book, were more likely to tell somebody because the story comes across so well as being legitimate," he said. Marden said her aunt and uncle will go down in history as having had a highly credible experience. "It appears that something is coming here, and I don't know why," she said. "You can speculate all you want, but we don't have the answers." Captured! is published by the Career Press. It sells for $16.99.
Source & References: http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070722/FOSTERS01/107220367 |
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On 07-27-07, B J was interviewed on Alienationsam.comThe topics discussed were the recently released NARCAP report on the O'Hare airport sighting, the series of photographs and reports on the Strange, Drone craft, the video and sightings over Stratford on Avon, and Surrey, both in the United Kingdom. Also discussed is the new book on the Hill Abduction, "Captured," written by Stanton T. Friedman, and Kathleen Marden, niece of the late Betty Hill. Listen to the windows audio file below:
Download Audio Interview-15.22 MB-1:02
Source & References: www.alienationsam.com |
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By NICHOLAS BERGIN
nbergin@thehawkeye.com Keith Jacobs says he saw an oval-shaped craft over Roosevelt Avenue Monday morning. Here on this insignificant spinning ball we call Earth, human beings exist almost completely unaware of the mysteries secluded and locked away in the near infinite galaxies beyond our atmosphere. But every once in a while, someone looks up to the heavens and makes a discovery. While traveling north on Roosevelt Avenue near Notre Dame High School, Burlington resident Keith Jacobs glanced to the sky at exactly 6:07 a.m. Monday and spotted a UFO, he said. Jacobs was on his way to Perkins Restaurant for a morning coffee when, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a brilliant blue light southeast of his location. As the light came nearer, Jacobs said he saw an oval-shaped craft about 50 feet long and 40 feet wide, with a blue light on the bottom cruising about 400 to 500 feet above the ground. It had no identifying marks, no wings, no propellers and no means of propulsion such as rockets or jets. "I would say it was some sort of antigravity device," Jacobs said. "About four seconds was all I got a glimpse of it, and it shot off fast." The craft sped across the sky in a northwest direction, descended slightly revealing a black or dark gray checkered top, then curved west and shot off in the direction of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Jacobs said. Jacobs, a candidate for city council, does not believe publicly discussing his close encounter will hurt his chances at winning the November election. Jacobs has served on various city committees and unsuccessfully lobbied last month to be appointed to the council following the resignation of Mayor Mike Edwards. "The citizens of this nation should realize that (UFOs) do exist. I think it is a good thing to report them," Jacobs said. "I don't know if our government would be interested in following up on anything like this or not. But I should think they would be somewhat concerned." IAAP spokesperson Bob Haines said, to his knowledge, the plant has not conducted any experiments with flying crafts, has not performed any tests that would resulted in an object lifting farther than six feet off the ground, and has not received any reports of mysterious flying crafts or blue lights in the sky. Others, though, have noticed blue lights in the sky above the IAAP. Tina Cable said both she and her neighbor saw a bright blue light hovering in the sky above the munitions plant last month. "It was a real bright blue light," Cable said "It almost looked like a star, but brighter than even the North Star." Cable's not entirely sure what it was she saw, but thinks it may have been a planet. However, she said the light looked "weird." "I'm not one to cross the line," and say it was a UFO, Cable said. "I'm not a fruit-loop." Jacobs said he understands many fellow residents might roll their eyes upon hearing his story, but he is only being honest. "I realize I'm probably in for some ridicule, but I saw what I saw, and I'm not backing down. I think we need more people to come forward about these things," Jacobs said. This is Jacob's third UFO siting. In 1996 he saw a man on a hovercraft while trimming his lawn. Jacobs said both he and his then 26-year-old son witnessed the floating man enter a cylinder shaped UFO through a hatch in the front of the ship. In the 1970s, he had his first UFO sighting while camping in Geode State Park. "There are just thousands of other galaxies out there, it's just endless. There is a possibility that there are planets where creatures could survive and develop themselves much as we have, or maybe more advanced than we are. I think we should be alert to this sort of thing," Jacobs said. No other reports of UFO activity were made on Monday with the Burlington Police department, according to Police Lt. Steve Bell or with Des Moines County Emergency Management, according to Coordinator Gina Hardin. Southeast Iowa Regional Airport Manager Sharon Leeper said she has seen no aircraft matching the description at the airport. Tom Philips, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in the Quad Cities, said he could think of no weather-related issues that could have caused the phenomenon and the craft does not fit the description of a weather balloon. Weather balloons are usually 6 feet in diameter and are an off-white color, he said.
Source & References: http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/UFO_072607 |
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Hello again from Talent! This will be my THIRD submission to you!
As with my other submissions, and those of so many people these days, I did not see the object with my eyes, not noticing the object in the photograph until much later (days actually) when I stopped and took a close look at what was downloaded from my camera on the computer. The photo was taken facing ESE at 4:12pm, 7/19/07 with a 5mp camera. It appears on close examination as if the object has a gold or yellow field of some sort which appears as a dome shape to me! I have been taking LOTS of pictures these days, and of nothing in particular except the sky. It seems that the mechanical honesty of the camera is capturing that which, for whatever reasons, our basic perceptions generally do not. I've gotten quite a few anomalous objects, but this is the best of the most recent, So, keep taking lots of photos everybody! It appears they are here, now, and we don't have to wait for someone else to give us disclosure! We can each participate in bringing more light to bear on the subject. F. D., Talent, Oregon
Source & References: F. D., Talent, Oregon |
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A COUPLE were mesmerised as seven red lights flew silently and at great speed above their house in the early hours of the morning.
It was just after midnight when Leigh Williams, 31, went out to the back of his house on Townsend Avenue for a cigarette. He said he saw some strange lights in the sky and ran inside to get his wife, Lynn, 32. She said: "I thought he was taking the mick and I told him I was tired and to leave me alone. He said 'if you don't believe me look out there'. There were seven lights flying fast over the house. Two of them were flying round each other. They were flying very close together, closer than planes. They were going so fast I couldn't focus on them. "I ran inside and got my camcorder. I thought they could be helicopters but when I zoomed in I was scared to death. They were glowing red in the middle. I'm a very logical person. We are not into the paranormal at all. I thought people would think we were barmy if we said we saw UFOs." Although the time on the video shows the objects being captured at 11.16pm, the film was actually taken at 12.16am – the camcorder clock had not been re-set to British Summer Time. "They weren't like anything I have seen before. For the lights to be so low there had to be some noise if they were planes. If someone can tell me what they were, I will sleep better at night. "This has really put me off sitting out the back at night. You think you know everything about the world but that was a mystery to me." The first to the see objects was Leigh. He said: "I haven't got a clue what they were. It was a bit strange. I hadn't seen anything like that before. "There was no noise whatsoever. Surely if they were aircraft there would have been lots of noise. My wife was panicking. We just want to know what it was. When they went over it happened so quick. They moved very smoothly and were glowing." A spokesman for North Wales Police confirmed they received a call at the same time from another resident in Borras who said they has seen six flying orange orbs. One theory being circulated in the area is the weird lights were in fact Chinese lanterns, usually tied together and released on the wind and can reach high speeds if conditions are right. To see video, visit this page.
Source & References: http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/speakout?articleid=3061741 |
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By Alice Gu 2007-7-24 "It's moving very fast to the northeast, spraying fire-like gas and transforming into two objects, a ball and a cube." It's not a line from a sci-fi movie, but from a tape recording of a conversation between a ground dispatcher and a passenger plane pilot who allegedly chased an unidentified flying object 16 years ago above Shanghai. The tape, the only known in-flight voice recording of a UFO sighting in China, was released to the public for the first time during a UFO seminar held on Saturday in Shanghai, Beijing Legal Times reported today. The recording has been kept by Wu Jialu, former senior engineer with the Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute. He said equipment needed to analyze the report wasn't available until now. "The 26-minute-long tape recording on March 18, 1991, included the pilot detecting the object, following it and eventually, he watched it disappear," said Wu, now director general with a city's UFO research center. Wu played the taped conversation to the newspaper. The following is a transcript of the conversation. Airport dispatcher (A): 3603, what did you see? 3603: I took off, flying about seven sea miles (13 kilometers) at the Course 28 degrees. I found an unidentified flying object right at my front. It was three meters to five meters in length. It's red and it looks like it is spraying fire. It's flying to the northeast. I turned slightly to the north and the object was farther and farther from my plane. It's moving fast and suddenly it turned around. I flew about 20 sea miles (37 kilometers). It is moving southeast. It's flying lower and lower. I turned a little to the west. It turned around suddenly to the north again. It turned black. It separated into two, one ball on the upper side and one cube below it. The two objects flew northeast for a while and then they turned to the northwest. They climbed up and disappeared. They came out, and disappeared again. A: I got it. A: When did you last see the object? 3603: About 6:26pm at 10 sea miles (18 kilometers) from Wuxi City. A: Well, what's its location then? 3603: It was right in front of me. A: 3603, can you estimate its speed? 3603: Its speed, um, the maximum speed … … It's difficult to say. It's about 600 kilometers per hour to 700 kilometers per hour. I felt like it's flying at the speed of big planes. Cui Yilin, a reporter with Shanghai-based Xinmin Evening News, told Beijing Legal Times that he received hundreds of calls from local residents on March 19, 1991, saying they saw a "red fire ball" over Shanghai the previous day. "There were calls from Wusong, Xinzhuang and Bund areas. But the one that really got my attention was from Hongqiao Airport," Cui said. Jin Xin, an on-duty dispatcher at the navigation tower of Hongqiao Airport on March 18, 1991, told Cui that he saw the flying object, which was engulfed by red light. "I immediately asked a pilot that was about to take off to follow the object," Jin told the newspaper. Jin gave a tape of the recorded conversation with the pilot to Wu after the incident. Jin said pilot 3603 was Zhu Zhaoyuan, who flew for Jinan Airlines, which has since been taken over by China Eastern Airlines. "He was piloting a small passenger plane when he chased the object," Jin said. Zhu was middle-aged and an experienced pilot, Jin added. Zhu could not be reached for comment, said the report. Liu Yan, a researcher at Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the newspaper that more than 90 percent of UFO reports were false. "People are easily misled by the reflection of light emitted by planes and believe they see UFO," said Liu.
Source & References: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200707/20070724/article_324577.htm |
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The threat of UFOs compromising reactor security, as
if the nuclear industry didn't have enough to deal with
already, became a very real concern in 1984. Although of-
ficials won't admit it, several researchers have information That
New York 's Indian Point Reactor complex endured such
a UFO problem during the long siege of sightings that
happened throughout the state's Hudson Valley area.
The portrayal of the event in this article is based primarily on
the disclosures of unnamed sources.
The summer of 1984 was a troublesome season for authorities at the Indian Point nuclear reactor complex in Buchanan, New York. Two UFO appearances, one of which was verified by Carl Patrick, director of nuclear information for the New York Power Authority (NYPA), and later documented by the press and the 1987 book Night Siege, apparently put the normally tight security of the plant to a severe test. The first event entailed the brief flyover of a huge craft, witnessed by three security policemen on June 14. That was followed ten days later by a UFO incident of unprecedented impact. It was one of hundreds of UFO sightings in the Hudson Valley, but one the nuclear workers won't soon forget. "Here comes that UFO again! " an Indian Point security guard is said to have yelled on the night of July 24, 1984, alerting other security personnel by way of the plant's internal communications system. A UFO, variously described as looking like "an ice cream cone " and "boomerang, " had lazily drifted over to Reactor #3-the only active reactor at the time-lingering about 300 feet above the domed construction for some ten minutes, sending security officials into an uproar. Now, six years later, the principal UFO researcher on the case admits that many aspects of the event remain confusing and undisclosed. And although he's still receiving information, Philip Imbrogno calls his own lengthy investigation "stagnant." "Every time new information comes up or I get a lead on something, I get very reluctant to deal with it again," said Imbrogno, who heads the science department at the Windward School in White Plains, New York. "The entire case has caused me quite a bit of pressure . . . The event would indicate that whatever appeared over there, our state-of-the-art technology in defense was unable to deal with it. " He suggests that from what his sources have said, a military aspect came into play. The Indian Point UFO represented an intolerable security breach. Military customers? Imbrogno says that it is precisely that aspect which has had a lasting effect, and which has generated repercussions that continue to this day. But according to the New York Power Authority, which oversees the reactor complex, Indian Point itself has no direct military customers. Reactor #3 primarily services local and state facilities in New York City and Westchester County, including local school districts, the New York City subway systems and some of New York's trains. Most importantly, in Imbrogno's mind, are several military installations in and around Duchess County, which allegedly get their power from Indian Point. According to his sources, these are primarily satellite receiving stations, and "a number of other military operations of which we can only guess, " Imbrogno says. The official agency overseeing the reactor complex is the New York Power Authority, although Consolidated Edison has jurisdiction over Reactor #2 and is sold use of #3 for extensive transmissions to New York residential users and, perhaps, military facilities such as Camp Smith, an Air National Guard base located north of Peekskill. (Reactor #l is inactive.) It was NYPA whose officials apparently spent considerable human energy trying to dissuade Imbrogno from writing about the July 24 event, concerned he would release information vital to the plant's security. "I think other agencies were using (the NYPA) to harass me, " he said, noting that he was constantly subjected to their repetitive phone calls, threatening that he would be forced to appear at a hearing on the incident. (He was never subpoenaed, but Imbrogno subsequently, and perhaps coincidentally, was audited by the IRS four times.) The compulsion to publish was undeniable; of what may have been as many as 70 UFO witnesses among Indian Point personnel, a number quietly sought out Imbrogno, and on the condition of anonymity provided him with the vital facts which led to the production of Night Siege (co-written with Bob Pratt and J. Allen Hynek.) "My sources involve people who work in security for the plant and also people in secretarial and janitorial positions," he said. "The only problem is that getting anything on paper- documentation, something official-is very, very hard, I have unofficial confirmation right now that a number of documents pertaining to the sighting do exist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. " Normally, NRC records can be opened to the public under terms of the Freedom of Information Act, but when he in- quired, Imbrogno was informed that the documents were being held at the reactor complex, and as such were protected under national security regulations. "It's a joint sort of thing, " he said, "In other words, although the NRC is pretty open to the public, if they want to keep a document classified, they'll store it with another agency. I have an inside secretarial source who's actually seen the documents filed." The NYPA's Patrick denies that any such documentation exists, and dismisses the incident by claiming that all Hudson Valley UFO sightings were later identified as light aircraft, There was no videotape taken by on-site surveillance cameras, Patrick insists, or audio recording of oral communications, both pieces of evidence which Imbrogno strongly feels do exist and are being retained somewhere. According to Imbrogno's sources, a security shake-up ensued the very next day. "A number of agencies came in, including the NRC and military personnel, and they supposedly cleaned out everything. You have to remember that with nuclear reactors, you're only going to get 10 percent of the real story. They're overly terrified of bad publicity, and are really afraid of the anti-nuclear groups, which can cause trouble. Anything that happens is immediately covered up, including UFO sightings. " An 'irregularity' Imbrogno further alleges that shortly after the UFO infringement, a crack in the reactor's casing was discovered. The public didn't hear about such a situation until a year later; the NYPA's Patrick denied any "crack, " although he did recall a time when Reactor #2 may have developed an "irregularity. " Imbrogno says, "[Indian Point officials] made a public statement that operations were not affected, that everything was normal. But I've been told by several people that they lost power, the security system dropped, and the reactor controls went crazy. Apparently it was caused by the UFO." No way, says the NYPA. "Any implication that the sightings of these [light aircraft] in any way affected Reactor #3 is false", Patrick said. Imbrogno's sources indicate otherwise. Supposedly, a mass of sophisticated, high-accuracy tracking equipment was installed at the complex, enabling security to quickly generate a computer image of whatever aircraft might be affecting the equipment. Apparently such problems are still going on. Patrick would not comment on what kinds of security equipment protect Indian Point, but stressed that nothing new has been installed since the incident. Imbrogno is also suspicious that the armed security forces at the site may have had reason to attempt firing on the craft, again an allegation flatly refuted by the NYPA. "I know a number of helicopters with rocket launchers were sent up and followed the craft for some distance," Imbrogno commented, citing his anonymous sources for the info. "When these helicopters went on their way, the object moved off and started crossing the Hudson, and disappeared up north." Officials will not talk to Imbrogno, nor answer his letters, he says. UFO spoke with Cliff Spieler, vice president at the New York Power Authority. He, like Patrick, basically dismisses the entire affair. "Having looked into this thing and living two miles from Indian Point, think the UFO reports are nonsense, " he said. "[All Hudson Valley UFO sightings] are linked to small planes flying out of Duchess County." At one time, officials speaking for Indian Point made their position quite clear to Imbrogno, "They said, 'you can cooperate with us, or you don't have to cooperate with us. If you don't cooperate with us, you have to face the consequences, because you are dealing in an area of national security. The incident that took place over there involved national security because it was a breach of security at a nuclear reactor.' But they weren't ready to say who was breaching security!" In considering the "who," Imbrogno took in a number of hypotheses, including the possibility that the incident was an elaborate test flight of a secret military craft, such as the B-2 Stealth bomber, or a covertly-planned contingency test of the plant's security operations, carried out under the guise of a UFO overflight. Nothing is impossible, he'll admit. But the most tenable answer, he feels, is that the UFO was an extraterrestrial craft. "I don't think our government could be so bold with a craft of the kind that appeared at Indian Point," he said. "Talking to these security people, and looking into their eyes," his voice trailed, " . . . they tell a story of this one cop who got up on the roof below the UFO, and the thing started moving a little bit. He pulled out his gun, looked at it, then put the gun back in his holster and ducked!.. The people who were telling these stories are not familiar with the UFO literature. If I really wanted to go into this, with no fear of what would happen to me, I'm sure there's an incredible story here. I am still being given information about certain things going on there-In the nighttime, people seeing little creatures coming through the walls of the casing on the reactor, and military personnel indicating 'we're aware of these creatures and we don't care if they're from outer space-shoot 'em!' . . . On a newscast on Channel 7 in New York, they were interviewing one guy, and he said, 'I saw it going over the reactor! I think they're sucking the power from it! That's what they're doing!' But a civilization that has this type of vehicle- any intelligence, whatever it is-I'm sure doesn't need nuclear energy." Ed. Note: In a letter to UFO shortly after this article was written, Imbrogno added to his remarks. "It is hard to believe that people like John Lear and Bill Cooper are revealing 'top secret' information with little or no repercussions. I just poked my nose a little too deep into an area of national security and got my ears pinned back for it. My next step is to approach this in a legal way by asking for an investigation (preferably by a member of Congress) to find out how and why the security at this government reactor was violated and why information is being withheld." source: This file was provided to the ParaNet Information Service by UFO Magazine. All rights are reserved. by Vicki Cooper Staff UFO Magazine
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07-13-I was taking a nightly walk throughout the town of Moscow, ID listening to music on my mp3 player and as I was coming up the street to my apartment I looked up to the east (bearing of 50 degrees, approx 35 degrees elevation) and saw what I thought at first to be a bright star, however there were no stars (or planets) that were that bright in that sector of the sky. The light then got brighter for a moment and then started moving in a U type curve higher into the sky and began to get dimmer. Shortly thereafter I lost track of the object. Shortly thereafter I sprinted to my apartment to grab my camera, but by the time I got back outside I could not find the object again after about 30 minutes of searching the sky. The sky is also hazy in this area at this time of year due to dust which did not help in tracking the object. source: www.mufon.com |
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07-20-My son noticed unusual lights in sky due east of my location. We observed them for app. 3 minutes total time. White lights, chevron shape, NO SOLID object seen... appeared to be rather distant. App. 10-15 degrees above horizon, (general direction of Wright Patterson AFB from here) flares ??? Lights appeared to be on and off at short durations. Not consistant flashes like strobes. Definitely unlike the many aircraft I've seen going to and from CVG airport which is about 30 miles from here. I have never reported anything before, but this was definitely out of the ordinary. I'm just saying that what I saw was very unusual, not extra-terrestrial. I sent my son for a video camera... have not yet reviewed tape... will forward copy if anything is visible. source: www.mufon.com |
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07-06-At about 4 PM my wife and I were traveling south east bound on I-24 between exit 89 in KY and exit 1 in TN observed a small black sphere the size of a basketball between 50-100 feet above the ground and only 100 feet to the right side of the interstate. I am surprised I even saw the object as it was small and somewhat close to trees. The sphere had a small ring around the middle, but tilted about 45 degrees from the horizon. Only visible for about one minute as I could not slow down. Continued to observe in side and rear window. It slowly gained altitude but I lost it because of trees, a small hill and then by it's distance away. Would not have reported it except I read the recent MD report and it appears to be identical to what I saw. I am a retired Army helicopter instructor pilot with 23 years of flying experience. This object was not a balloon, or a power line obstacle marker (those are orange) and just to make sure I went back to the exact spot and there are no power lines or houses, only heavy forested area. source: www.mufon.com |
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07-19-My friend Derek and I were driving out in the country because we were bored. Willie was in the back seat but he tells us he could not see anything. We had been driving for about an hour and were talking to each other. The streak appeared shortly after we had turned around to head back. It came from behind the car and moved very quickly. We were going about 60. It was pretty high up and far away I think. It was green. It disappeared after about two seconds. I couldn't make out the shape but I could tell it was moving pretty fast. When I saw it my mouth hung open and I was kinda in awe. I felt like the moment had slowed down a bit. There was a silence between me and Derek for a few seconds. After that it was all we could talk about till we got home. Willie didn't see anything he says. source: www.mufon.com |
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07-15-Watchig the sky with binocculars (as I do often now since my first sighting ) about 35 min. later I see a black ball / sphere with a plasma like light emitting from it . At times it would get intense, then dim, at times would go out to black, but still visible. This lasted about ten to twelve min. until house blocked my view. I stared at this "object" until my arms were fatigued and tears streamed down my cheek from holding the binocculars! I tried not to blink or make a move, so i would'nt lose it. source: www.mufon.com |
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07-12-I first noticed this object while running errands with my husband. It glowed and did not really seem to fit - as it was very noticeable and hung low in the sky. I kept an eye on it as we traveled home. It did not move, did not grow dimmer or brighter. At first I thought it was a planet/star. However, when we arrived home, it had not moved downward towards the horizon. Around 10 p.m., I was speaking to a friend on the phone, on the front porch, facing west. I looked for the object and it was moving northeast. It was pulsating, moving slowly at a rather low altitude. It came by the house and I lost sight of it at that time.
It resembled two other objects I had seen a month or so ago. There were two of them, one in the southeast and the other in the west. They were round, glowed an orange color and moved slowly. My attention was drawn to them due to the "firefly lights". There were about five or six objects, I could not see the shape, that were flying from the north towards the object. They resembled fire flies, flashing a brilliant white light and moving rapidly. They seemed to converge on the object. The object then began "floating" towards the west. I followed as it moved and ran through the house to the front - facing west. At that time, I spotted a second orange glowing object some distance from the first, "floating" west. Once again I noticed the "firefly" lights that seemed to be following it. I watched until they disappeared. source: www.mufon.com |
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