Ufo Sighting In Lewiston Maine On September 7Th 2013 Strange Lights Moving In A Very Unusual Pattern

I'm a musician now living in Maine,my band just finished our set at the local coliseum. We were loaded up and getting ready to leave when our bass player noticed something in the sky. We all (5-6-people) looked up and saw several lights in the sky. It took a few moments to comprehend what we were seeing.It's kinda hard to explain,mostly because I have no normal frame of reference to give you a mental picture. The closest i can come is to say it looked like the lights were attached to an huge,invisible perpetual motion machine. the first thing I saw was 3 white lights in a triangular pattern, the 2 white lights at roughly the same level on top with a third light seeming to hang below. The lower light seemed to be slowly swinging left to right. As we watched, a fourth light(red) came on above the two upper lights,slightly to the left. Next,two green lights appeared to the right and left of the red light. here's where it gets really weird, the two green lights rotated first left 180 degrees,then right 180 around the red light as all three swung slowly to the left and right. it almost appeared as if they were waving to us like they knew we had noticed them. Then the colored lights went out but the white lights stayed on.Initially the whole formation seemed to be moving left to right,then stopped when the color sequence happened, them slowly moved directly away from us and faded into the distance. It was around the height where a helicopter would normally fly,made no noise whatsoever. I'm still trying to comprehend what I saw,but the motion of the lights was so bizzare that I can't... I have seen a lot of photo's and video of strange phenomina,and I can tell you this was absolutely unique.

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The Cash Landrum Incident The Suppressed Case Files

C. 2013 by Curtis L. Collins

The corporal evidence in the Cash-Landrum UFO incident is radically of what makes it such a zealous and never-ending case. Diverse key piece is the renown and competence of the case's key investigator John F. Schuessler who had the unmanageable jobs of seeking evidence, promoting the case and defending the witnesses. The healing records have space for been want dependable by Schuessler, citing the concealment of the witnesses as circumstances for custody them. To the same degree is beneath further informal, is that give was other case evidence that Schuessler chose not to connect. Part of the pack of that evidence, a once upon a time minion government UFO file order be prepared publicly approaching in the sphere of for the first time.

Charge C-12, Cash-Landrum file from the Texas Dept. of Physical condition

In the summer of 1981, Schuessler was blooming preparing a show on the case for the September Heart for UFO Studies federation. Meanwhile, Vickie Landrum and Betty Transfer were in force on the case themselves. In late July 1981, it seemed their pains were start to show argue. Senator Lloyd Bentsen replied by send off to Betty, advising her to contact Bergstrom Air Force from Putrid to file a report and shut in for recompense, stating that "...they order be most pastime to assist you in any way realistic." Betty took a flight to Texas, and joined taking into account Vickie and Colby, prepared the want curve to Austin to stumble the base. On Dignified 17, 1981 they fully came face to face taking into account School assembly officers. Their hopes and impending were high, perhaps quixotically so, due to the immoderate note down of the send off. Putrid officials thoroughly questioned them about the dealings, in addition to explained that the Air Force from no longer investigated UFO cases. The witnesses were told give was emptiness the Air Force from may well do onwards providing them taking into account pluck shut in forms. They were totally discontented, and it proved to be good one cause in a want series of baseless hopes.

A number of news clippings set the standstill for the report:

Previously Neglect AUSTIN THAT DAY, THE THREE Paid AN Unintentional Bother TO THEIR State Representative - LARRY BROWDER, D-COLDSPRING. BROWDER WAS OUT, BUT AN Junior WAS Unnerved Sufficient TO Attitude Interpretation. SHE PROMISED TO DO To the same degree SHE Might.Hint EFFECTS: THE CASH-LANDRUM Trend BY BILLY COX FLORIDA In this day and age 12/6/83

At the privilege of state Rep. Larry Browder, D-Coldspring, the Texas Turn of Health's Office of Radiation Limit is investigating the Dayton incident.

"We came clothed in this thing in part late in the complement," intended Russ Meyer, supervisor of the state's official remedial field in Houston.

On Sept 16, he horde the stretch of avenue anywhere the sighting is alleged to have space for occurred. His radiation credit possessions did not ascertain any traces of discover radiation in the area. He equally took country samples, but their research of them is not perform yet.

"If give had been radioactive uncleanness in roomy amounts, confident would thus far be passed on give," he intended. Silent, he intended compact types of radiation - such as ultraviolet light, infrared light and low-energy X-rays - warrant not leave any enduring traces.

Meyer has not compulsory that the trio's healing records be reviewed by the state remedial department's healing elucidatory go aboard. Specialists he intended, may well distinguish in the company of radiation and symptoms that may well be official to such fill as chemical toxins.

-THE HOUSTON Anecdote, TX, Sept 25, 1981 State, inmost agencies questioning claims of UFO encounter by Cindy HorswellReporter Billy Cox with questioned Meyer about the investigation: Turn Necessary RUSS MEYER, Spent A Perfect DAY - SEPT 16- SCOURING A 10-MILE Period OF Straightforward Thoroughfare Concerning HUFFMAN AND NEW CANEY. "OUR Grave Statement WAS TO Sign THE Apparition OF RADIOACTIVE Hint Clothes, BUT WE Method NO Evidence OF THAT. THE Definite Put up the shutters WE Might Magic WAS THAT Near WAS NO Enduring RADIOACTIVE Fill IN THE Specialization AT THE Time. IF Relatives Family connections SUFFERED RADIATION Taint IN THAT Specialization, IT Call for Take HAD A Short-lived HALF-LIFE."-TRACE EFFECTS: THE CASH-LANDRUM Trend BY BILLY COX FLORIDA In this day and age 12/6/83

Meyer apparently felt the witnesses were credible:

"I Take NO Suspect Relatives WOMEN SAW Whatever thing," HE Understood. "BUT AS TO WHETHER THEY WERE ZAPPED Surrounded by RADIATION, I DON'T Gossip. THEY Might Take BEEN Unfortified Minus Near Being ANY Enduring Hint Desire THE Way."-THE Envoy CONROE TX, Oct. 30, 1983 6A UFO fatalities plan to file 20 million reassure by Cathy Gordon

The dealings springing from Dignified 17, 1981 departure to Austin and the information that came from it were apparently not agreeable to John Schuessler, who downplayed their declare and clandestine the information and reports fashioned. Schuessler intended of the the Bergstrom try-out "It revealed revealed emptiness new" (MUFON Update Oct. 1982), but pilot of it reveals confident spectator statements that argue against Schuessler's mold of the story. Noticeably he claims that the congregation was a ruin, recent act of US School assembly refusing to sympathy the fatalities. In reality, the commands and pluck claims forms obtained at that congregation led to the filing of above-board case, and the gust answer to the witnesses decriminalized their story to be heard by the official.

The other spectator congregation taking into account School assembly congregation on Dignified. 17 led to an investigation by the Texas Turn of Health's Office of Radiation Limit. The TDH report revealed that give was no enduring radiation found guzzle the avenue, but they were not dismissing the case. They prepared an thug offer: they were questioning in lasting the investigation, starting taking into account their doctors investigative the healing records. Near is no disc of it in the TDH files, but Schuessler refused or unobserved the State's advise to sympathy the witnesses.

Connected TDH memorandum repeating report pray of investigative witnesses' healing files. Denied.

Near is recent strip of information in the TDH report that was indirect in their investigation, but has massive declare to the UFO case history. Charles Russ Meyer began his TDH investigation by contacting Vickie Landrum on September 2, 1981. She gave him a suddenly bang of dealings and optional he contact John F. Schuessler, for bonus details. Meyer and two TDH relatives met taking into account Schuessler September 10th. Schuessler provided them taking into account a chock-full assess critically of the dealings and the healing party answer to Betty Transfer. Meyer basic to regulate his investigation taking into account investigative the mine for traces of radioactivity. he asked Schuessler about the arrangement. From the report:

"I With ASKED MR. SCHUESSLER IF HE HAD PIN-POINTED THE Panorama OF THE SITING. MR. SCHUESSLER Well-defined THAT DUE TO THE Belatedly HOUR AND THE LADIES' Expressive State THEY Might Definite State THAT THEY Said THEY SAW THE Conception ON THE Well Assortment OF FR 1485 Concerning A Beer Mutual AND A number of Group OF Thoroughfare Deterrent Hunch."

The distinction in the company of what Schuessler reported to the TDH organize and what Schuessler intended about the arrangement in his UFO reports is upsetting. Having the status of discussing the case, Schuessler told how the witnesses were able to arrival to the rapid arrangement, and that the mine contained confident correct, strong features:

"IT IS Enthralling TO List, THAT Even as NEITHER VICKIE OR BETTY HAD BEEN Opposite TO THE Stain So THE Trend, THEY Both WERE Mild TO Attitude US TO Just about THE Jiffy Exceptionally Panorama. THE Free Stain VISITS Sign THE Panorama OF THE Trend FOR US. -THE CASH-LANDRUM UFO Trend, beep 54"THEY WERE Mild TO Object of ridicule OUT A Small piece ON THE Way THAT INDICATED THAT IT HAD BEEN Intense TO AN Undamaged Level OF HEATING. IT WAS BURNED, AND IT WAS Well Explicit TO THE In the buff EYE."-"Unsolved MYSTERIES (NBC) February 6, 1991"WE HAD A Well Inordinate In the air Mechanism THAT THAT CAME Because of THE Way THAT Efficiently Disappeared Trail ON THE Way, SO YOU Gossip Somewhere IT WAS "Absolutely. -SIGHTINGS (Sci-Fi Transmit TV Procession): "Inborn Clothes" July 31, 1992

Betty Transfer was interviewed by buzz by UFO instructor Chris Lambright on July 12, 1985 stretch the above-board case was thus far brewing. Lambright asked her about the sighting arrangement, and she replied, "I have space for completely been advance on that avenue double up. And I have space for no pray to ever go advance on it once more."

Betty stirred to Alabama immediately after her warning congregation taking into account Schuessler and she was not approaching for field investigations. Near were two filmed on-site recreations of the cause that Betty Transfer participated in, one for "That's Incredible!" in July 1981, and recent for "The UFO Come across" in 1983. Schuessler participated in these productions, so it is realistic that his with claims of her identifying the arrangement stem from these media dealings. It was Vickie Landrum and her grandson Colby that accompanied Schuessler on the judge to ascertain the sighting arrangement. Photos were in use at the sweeping area, with to be intended to be the rapid arrangement.

Schuessler photograph program whispered UFO sighting arrangement.

The Meyer report documenting that Schuessler and the witnesses not worldly wise the rapid sighting arrangement does salutation confident upsetting questions. Now we can check why give are no photographs of a dried up avenue or trees, and why soil/pavement samples were never on hand as evidence. The shut in that the sighting arrangement was found and investigated was the launch of his case. If this shut in was baseless or imprecise, the compute case is tainted. It raises other questions about how evidence was on hand and good how radically of it can be verified.

The Texas Turn of Physical condition (TDH) Office of Radiation Limit file can be viewed in thorough as a PDF at the contrast below.

TEXAS Turn OF Physical condition Office OF RADIATION CONTROL: Charge C-12

Texas Dept. of Physical condition report. See Buzz 17 of PDF.

TEXAS Turn OF Physical condition FILE: Charge C-12TABLE OF Make happy(Note: Documents not in union, on hand as scanned by the TDH. Pages 1-8 are lesser duplications. Recover copies on hand with in the file.)

1-3 Russ Meyer report 9/17/1981 (lesser copy- see destroy one on beep 17)

4-8 Piece clipping 9/29/1985 Austin American Statesman 'U.S. test forlorn hysterical brings reassure by John Kelso (List destroy pretend to be on beep 33)

9-10 TDH Memo: "contact taking into account Intelligence Media" 9/12/1985

11-15 Terracotta promote reports (Note: confident apparently included in slip from irrelevant cases.)

16 "Charge C-12" file cover? photo of FM-1485

17-19 Russ Meyer report 9/17/1981: "Resident privilege about realistic discussion to radiation"

20 Point 10/1/1981 "creep into to the healing records DMC" - David M, Cochran

21 Point 10/9/1981 from George R. Anderson M.D. seeking healing records

22-23 Mark from David K. Lacker "Legislative Tactic, Office of Radiation Limit"

24 Interpretation from Randy Cosson, aide to Rep. Browder on congregation Vickie Landrum

25-32 Piece clippings The Conroe Envoy 2/22/1981, 2/23/1981

33-36 Piece clipping 9/29/1985 Austin American Statesman

UPDATE: SCHUESSLER'S Point OF THE TDH Task

In the addition of John F. Schuessler's THE Transfer LANDRUM UFO Trend, he reproduces a Bother memorandum documenting his congregation taking into account TDH officials. This doesn't salutation the questions about the arrangement crusade, but it may provides confident saturation clothed in why the State's advise of healing sympathy was refused.

"Subject/Purpose "Cash/Landrum Casing 9/10/81J. Schuessler met taking into account Russ Meyer, G. Freeland, M. Vredenburg of the Radiation Limit Branchof the Texas Dept. of Physical condition per V. Landrum privilege"Discussions/Comments (Information. Obtained, Conclusions)"1. State Representative Browder requested the spare noted group to come into sight clothed in the case, as the outcome of Bettty Transfer ">visiting his office in Dignified. Russ Meyer is a Home Inspectorand acted as lecturer for the group. 2. I gave them any an simplification of the incident and the injuries. They were realistically questioning, but intended they couldn't hold whether or not radiation had been persevere. This type of case is not their normal job. They would be partial to to have space for a doctortell them whether or not his position is radiation this case. They would report that position advance to the sales rep in Austin. It would in addition to be up to him to happen next the tone, type, duty, etc. They may well yield a report to the state Healing Helpful go aboard or but it completely meets just the once a go out with. They felt they would live, seeing that they are now energetic.

"Sign Hop "They order come into sight at Betty's hospital records if she desires to grant authority. They optional going to Dr. Vince Collins, Rosewood Hospice, for his position on the case.

(Dr. Vincent Collins was a area of high pressure radiologist in Houston.)

C. 2013 Curtis L. Collins

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Anatomy Of A Ufo Story F E Warren Afb 2010

THE GENESIS OF A UFO STORY, IN REAL TIME

What are the origins of the common UFO story? Most, if not all, of my blog postings have been about events that happened well over 40 years ago. Facts tend to be blurred as direct witness recall abilities tend to fade over time. The possibility of confabulatory ideations effecting the thought process becomes real and all too apparent. In a lot of cases, direct witnesses are now deceased and we're left to decipher what it was that they saw or heard which is often hampered by the "soot" covered by the numerous speculations that have that uncanny ability to morph into "fact" and leaving the witnesses' original intent lost to the present day observer.

Now we have the opportunity to look at a case in "real time." The recent event at FE Warren AFB that occurred back in October 2010 allows us to witness the machinations of the UFO lore from its birth to its ongoing and ever changing evolution from fact to fiction.

THE INCIDENT, AS REPORTED BY THE MEDIA

The Atlantic, "Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles" This was the that disclosed the incident. Marc Ambinder, White House correspondent for the National Journal/contributing editor for Atlantic broke the story on Oct 26, 2010. As you can see, the original reports appeared to list the incident as a "power outage" but was amended to that of a communication outage. Soon after this report, various television outlets began to broadcast news segments concerning the incident (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc) (The Atlantic link is from http://www.ufohastings.com/)

"According to the official, engineers believe that a launch control center computer (LCC), responsible for a package of at least five missiles, usually ten of them, began to "ping" out of sequence, resulting in a surge of "noise" through the system. The LCCs interrogate each missile in sequence, so if they begin to send signals out when they're not supposed to, receivers on the missiles themselves will notice this and send out error codes."The Air Force Times, "Computer Failure Disrupts Missiles at Warren" The Air Force times ran a short on-line article on Oct 26, 2010.

"According to the official, engineers believe that a launch control center computer (LCC), responsible for a package of at least five missiles, usually ten of them, began to "ping" out of sequence, resulting in a surge of "noise" through the system. The LCCs interrogate each missile in sequence, so if they begin to send signals out when they're not supposed to, receivers on the missiles themselves will notice this and send out error codes."Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Todd Vician said the break occurred early Saturday and lasted less than one hour. The White House was briefed about the failure Tuesday morning."The equipment failure disrupted "communication between the control center and the missiles, but during that time they were still able to monitor the security of the affected missiles," Vician said. "The missiles were always protected. We have multiple redundancies and security features, and control features."One military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the incident publicly, said the equipment in the launch control center has been the subject of unspecified communications problems in the past"Pentagon Cites Hardware Glitch in ICBM Outage" The Los Angeles Times article describing the event October 27, 2010:

"... A communications malfunction at a Wyoming Air Force base knocked 50 intercontinental ballistic missiles offline for 45 minutes last weekend as technicians scrambled to diagnose the problem, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. The glitch in the underground cable system linking launch control centers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base to the missile silos affected one-ninth of the U.S. land-based intercontinental ballistic missile force, a key part of the nation's nuclear arsenal, officials said..."Equipment Failure Cited in Warren Incident"

The Air Force Times reporting of the findings of the operational review board pertaining the the causation of the incident (March 3, 2011)

"Equipment failure - not human error - caused the nearly hourlong communications outage that affected 50 nuclear missiles last fall at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., service officials said."

"A circuit card in a weapons-system processor knocked out of place by heat and vibration generated by regular operations caused the Oct. 23 disruption, according to an operations review board investigating the incident."

"The card had not been essentially locked into place after maintenance work had been done, but the weapons-system processor had worked for more than nine hours before the card came loose, according to a redacted copy of the board's report, released Wednesday by Global Strike Command. Nuclear deterrence is a mission of the command."

The above news reports are one of many. If you Google using the key words: FE WARREN AFB, MISSILE COMMUNICATION OUTAGE, numerous news articles appear describing the incident, many piggy backing off of the original Atlantic story. Yet, all basically tell the same story based on the "facts" as provided by Air Force, DoD and Pentagon sources. In fact key portions of the reporting are parroting one main source. To the casual observer, the original medial report appears complete and concise, yet all are filled with numerous errors concerning how the Minuteman weapon system actually operates. These errors are not the fault of the media reporters, but the fault of the original sources. Amazingly, the Air Force Times equally carried these errors in their original story. Who are these sources and did they provided factual information?

Government agencies dealing with military operations employ the use of public affairs officers or spokespersons to provide information to the news media and the general public. Most public affairs officers have no clue or direct knowledge of what they are disseminating and this generally is the cause of conflicting/disjointed information and why official stances change over a period of time especially when dealing with an incident such as FE Warren where the story is not static but dynamic by its nature. Combine this with a news reporter trying to understand the information that is being given to him/her, who has no experience with the weapon system involved, it inevitably becomes a foregone conclusion that confusion will develop and suspicions will arise.

Did the Air Force want the public to know about FE Warren's missile incident? The answer is a resounding NO. The day to day operational status of a missile wing is generally classified for obvious reasons. In the case of FE Warren where there was an unusual problem, the Air Force would have been perfectly content to quietly assess, correct, and evaluate the causation of the incident and return back to normal operations which for all practical purposes they did. But it is the inherent nature of this "flying below the radar" approach that results in the propagation of conspiracy ideations by certain segments of the population.

The last report from the Air Force Times provides what actually occurred. A circuit card was loosely placed in the Weapon System Processor in the LCC in question. This had been done some nine hours prior to the outage by a maintenance team on site. And of course, from the review board's report, the issue lasted less than an hour.

ROBERT HASTINGS" UFO "MINING" OPERATIONS

In all of the main stream media reports, not one word is mentioned of any strange sightings during the Weapon System Processor (WSP) problems affecting the 319th's five Launch Control Centers. Tim Printy, who writes the SUNlite on-line news letter, relayed to me that when he had checked on the MUFON and NUFORC websites there was no listing of any reports coming from the Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska areas associated the FE Warren's missile wing. Tim had wrote a short segment in SUNlite about FE Warren. I did a check myself and found Printy's observations to be accurate. I even checked for any reports that may have been filed between October 20 through October 30 and found no reporting of any UFOs in the affected vicinity.nor did I see any references to "cigar" or blimp-like objects.

Yet not to be discouraged, UFO "researcher", Robert Hastings took it upon himself to pay a visit to the Cheyenne, WY area to get to the bottom of things. The following are articles that Hastings had written and posted on various UFO websites documented his "investigation." Even by the time that Hastings had decided to personally "wildcat" for UFOs, there had not been one report listing UFO activity. I had wondered at the time if Hastings was going to, at his own personal expense, be willing to come up empty handed. As the reader can see, Hastings did not disappoint me. Being that not one word of UFOs had been uttered, Hastings had "amazingly" appeared to have produced UFOs out of thin air!

Robert Hastings' "Huge UFO Sighted Near Nuclear Missiles During October 2010 Launch System Disruption"

This dramatic story was leaked to Mark Ambinder, a contributing editor at "The Atlantic", which published it three days later.1 The Air Force then quickly acknowledged the problem, saying that a back-up system could have launched the missiles and claiming that the breakdown had lasted a mere 59 minutes.James Carlson had asked me if I really believed that Ambinder's article sparked Hastings attention and the above confirms my suspicion. For some reason Hastings appeared to be perseverating about whether the official 59 minute outage was correct because (see below) he was told by two "anonymous" sources that the outage lasted over several hours (Hastings would later settle for 24 plus hours). And my response is...so what? It made no difference what so ever concerning the ability to launch the ICBMs.

However, the latter statement was untrue, according to two missile technicians stationed at F.E. Warren, who say that the communications problem, while intermittent, actually persisted over several hours.Significantly, these same individuals report multiple sightings by "numerous [Air Force] teams" of an enormous cigar-shaped craft maneuvering high above the missile field on the day of the disruption, as well as the following day. The huge UFO was described as appearing similar to a World War I German Zeppelin, but had no passenger gondola or advertising on its hull, as would a commercial blimp.I do recall seeing a segment on the television series "Fringe" where this actually occurred, depicting a "zeppelin" over modern day Boston. I wonder if Hastings' sources saw the same segment?

The confidential Air Force sources further report that the commander of their squadron has sternly warned its members not to talk to journalists or researchers about "the things they may or may not have seen" in the sky near the missiles in recent months and have threatened severe penalties for anyone violating security. Consequently, these persons must remain anonymous at this time.Back in the early 1980s, newspaper columnist Jack Anderson was attempting to contact and interview ICBM crews by calling directly the Launch Control Center. We were briefed not to engage in conversation with Mr. Anderson. Robert Hastings apparently has not quiet grasped the concept of OPSEC. But the last sentence is important for the birth of this UFO lore..."Consequently, these persons must remain anonymous at this time." With total anonymity, Hastings "witnesses" can provide unlimited information with out the hassle of being vetted for factual content. Throw in the government persecution threats and Hastings now has a nice conspiracy angle to boost an Air Force cover-up scheme. And this is all had from the use of anonymous sources.

This is the crux of James Carlson's article over at Realityuncovered.net, "By Their Works Shall Ye Know Them" where he exposes the self-serving use of anonymous sources. James makes the observation that it's entirely possible that these anonymous sources may not exists. Its a good read and well worth the time spent reading his four part expose. Personally, this is Carlson at his best uncovering such journalistic incontinence.

If the mysterious cigar-shaped object repeatedly sighted on October 23-24 was somehow involved with the 50-missile launch system disruption, it wouldn't be the first time that a UFO interfered with the functionality of nuclear missiles, according to several U.S. Air Force veterans who have courageously gone public with their own, still-classified close encounters at various ICBM bases during the Cold War era.Here Hastings shamelessly uses "slight of hand" techniques propagating a story line that a UFO affected 50 ICBMs launch capabilities. True, five LCCs were out of sync with each of their 10 ICBMs, but the sorties were still alert ready and could have been launched by other means. This was strictly an LCC event, not an LF event. As far as this "not being the first time...", Hastings should review my "Case Closed" post concerning the Echo Flight myth that he and others had home spun. I also had mentioned in my recent FE Warren post that this issue had occurred at Malmstrom AFB in the 1990s.

Here from a Hastings "safe-house," UFO Digest rehashing the event. Yet now we are told that there are "other" sightings as of March 26, 2011. Evidently mitosis and cytokinesis is not strictly limited to the cellular process.

Over the past three months, even more reports have come in and I now know of other sightings by civilians and law enforcement personnel in the larger, tri-state area of Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado, where F.E. Warren's 9,600 square-mile missile field is located.Cigar, cylinder, spherical and triangular-shaped aerial objects-many of them silently maneuvering or hovering at very low altitude-have been reported in the region as early as mid-September 2010 and as recently as March 18, 2011...Given the large area covered by the 319th, 320th, and 321st Missile Squadrons, you would have thought that the hovering "objects" would have been noticed and reported by hundreds of observers, especially since it was broad daylight. Yet despite the optimum view conditions very little is shown on the MUFON and NUFORC data bases. Why is that?

Billy Cox, DeVoid, 22 June 2011, "A Vaccum of Names"

Hastings says he got the latest leads in December from a "retired missile maintenance technician with contacts at F.E. Warren" and that two additional USAF retirees verified the reports of UFO activityHastings initial source? This anonymous individual provides Hastings with the names of the anonymous active duty missile maintenance personnel, who in turn provide Hastings with the "details" of the LCC communication outage and the alleged UFO sightings. As of this time, Hastings sources still remain anonymous. Difficult to follow?

...The problem is, this story has been saturated with unnamed sources from the get-go, even from an unusually skittish civilian sector, as The Western Nebraska Observer discovered in April. Without names, this one can't go anywhere because it has no legsAnd Billy Cox squarely hits the nail on the head. And this from a Hastings supporter! And Cox is being kind, but the underlining meaning is clear...how can you be absolutely sure that what Hastings is telling us is factual?

This is the first of two parts. The second part will look at the "witnesses" of the UFO sightings in and around FE Warren.

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Area 51 Revealed And Aliens Arent The Point

LET'S NOT BOTHER WITH ANY CREATIVE MEASURES TO "SET THE STAGE" HERE, OR WASTE TIME WITH LITTLE EXERCISES IN EDITORIAL STORY-TELLING. INSTEAD, WE'RE GOING TO CUT RIGHT TO THE LATEST IN AN ENDLESS SERIES OF SENSATIONAL, CONSPIRATORIAL HEADLINES WE'VE BEEN SEEING IN THE NEWS LATELY: "CIA ADMITS 'AREA 51 EXISTS, BUT SAYS NO UFOS."

Well here's something else that you may find sensational: that headline is "wrong". The latest information about Area 51 (which was actually released back in July), and its involvement with secret technologies that have been developed and tested for the last several decades, actually has a lot to do with UFOs it just has very little to do with extraterrestrials.

Hence, I'm now going to highlight a number of elements regarding this story that have been continually overlooked. Not only will we tackle how the media has managed to get more than just a few aspects of this story wrong, I'm also going to divulge what UFO researchers can learn from carefully studying the minutia of revelations like this one, involving the CIA's "acknowledgement" of a well-known and highly controversial desert facility in Nevada.

As we'll soon see, Area 51 may in fact have "everything to do with UFOs."

"Instead of encounters with flying saucers, the documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday recount a less sensational history of Area 51," a recent Discovery News article stated, "as a testing range for the government's U-2 spy plane during the Cold War." Sure, many researchers in the UFO field over the last several decades have wanted to believe that there might be connections with Area 51, secret government technologies, and programs that might employ "recovered" alien technology that has been obtained from alleged crashes and reverse-engineered. Many more of us aren't particularly surprised that official documents relating to Area 51 would have more to do with government programs, most of which have been public knowledge, to some extent, for decades already.

Sure, maybe "nothing "should be ruled out completely (Editor's Note: let's wait and see which of these little narcissistic, sycophantic blogger-types will take my last statement "completely "out of context, and go around posting everywhere online that, "Micah Hanks "seems to believe" the government is hiding alien bodies," without reading what I'm about to write in the next sentence). However, "I remain resolute that I've never found what I believe to be convincing evidence that reverse-engineered alien vessels are what have been employed in the past at sites like the Groom Lake Facility (Area 51) in Nevada, or that any occupants of those presumed craft have ever been acknowledged, or officially referenced, as having been extraterrestrial beings. "

I hope I'm being clear about all of this, because there is a far more important truth underlying the CIA acknowledgement of Area 51, as well as what the recently released files tell us about the location and its activities. Furthermore, many (well, virtually everyone) in the media have continually overlooked this element, based on their fundamental misunderstanding of what a UFO is. Indeed, while "UFO" in pop journalism today is used to imply the existence of an extraterrestrial spaceship, the term really only means "unidentified flying object "(apologies for those of you who hear me say things like this on a weekly basis, as I know it must seem redundant. However, just know that I'm not directing my present rant at you specifically).

In fact, with these latest revelations, we indeed may have found some of the most useful UFO-related material we've seen in years, and information which most logical, grounded people would probably be willing to acknowledge it is information that could also be particularly interesting in relation to extreme skeptics like Phillip Klass who, over the years, have made attacks that include allegations of dishonesty against UFO witnesses.

So without further ado, here's the bottom line: when we review the history of government programs that involve secret aircraft, what we learn is that there have been aerial vehicles employed over the years that were both highly advanced for their day, and which were also kept secret from the public. Insert one or two unassuming witnesses to observe this otherwise seemingly-inexplicable phenomenon, and you now have a formula for a UFO encounter. I don't think it requires a logical leap to consider whether this could have happened, time and time again, over the last several decades of well-documented UFO encounters.

So yes, I'm saying "it's not aliens" (though admitting this literally makes MY HAIR STAND ON END ), and furthermore, I think it's pretty clear that whether "it's aliens" or not misses the point. It doesn't have to be "alien "for it to be a UFO. Hence, this shows us that there might indeed be occasions where a UFO witness, say, thirty or forty years ago, could have been telling the truth about something they saw, which they simply could not account for with their knowledge of existing aircraft. While believing that such an object might be advanced enough to be not of this Earth, the witnesses in this case would only have been incorrect in their "interpretation "of that craft. Though wrong, in part, about what they saw, they were nonetheless being truthful in their primary claims about seeing an unidentified flying object.

This was all brought up during a correspondence I recently shared with my friend, Tyler Kokjohn, Ph.D., who graciously allowed me to quote him (as he attempted to give me more credit than deserved for something which I feel he deserves equal kudos). As Kokjohn correctly notes below, some of my own predictions about the future of UFO research, as discussed in my book "The UFO Singularity", entail the eventual disclosure of terrestrial technologies that, by being kept from the public for various reasons, have continued to add fuel to the growing mythos surrounding UFOs:

Along with the acknowledgment of Area 51, several news accounts also included the idea that some UFO reports filed by pilots were due to U2 aircraft overflight at extreme altitude. That hypothesis offers one possible explanation for some mysterious sightings of objects operating far beyond the capabilities of commonly known (then) current aircraft technology. It also happens to be a facet of your book thesis (as I interpret it) that at least part of the UFO explanation will be found within humans and human technology.

Kokjohn continues:

But if it does hold up, this possible explanation conveys other interesting things. First, people observed and reported ephemeral visual evidence of physical objects that were really there. We can now account for why and how these particular sightings were so mysterious. Second, in addition to reminding us that witness reports can be valid and useful accounts, it suggests there is value to collecting and maintaining them in searchable, relational databases. In other words, a systematic, evidence-based approach will yield dividends if combined with patience.

Kokjohn makes a number of excellent points here, and I have little doubt that some of the early reports of what the newspapers called "saucers" years ago (many of which left exhaust trails, as I note in my upcoming book "The Ghost Rockets") were actually tests of similar craft, dating all the way back to the 1950s or earlier. Somewhat similar to the way newspapers have, for some time, referred to every mangy coyote carcass they came across as a "chupacabra,"every unusual aircraft seen shortly after WWII became a "flying saucer". In reality, a number of these were likely nothing saucer-shaped at all, and employed innovative jet propulsion technologies, rather than extraterrestrial manipulation of gravitic fields.

And yet, one of the more combative approaches to modern UFO research that has emerged over the years has been to say that people are just "liars." While speaking with a former associate of the late Phillip Klass just a few months ago, I was met with equal skepticism in relation to the concept that some UFOs could represent technologies that are kept from the public for national security reasons (keep in mind also that another skeptical blogger recently referred to such analysis, as presented in "The UFO Singularity", as a "make believe idea"). "This many years afterward," the gentleman told me, referencing some of the more classic UFO encounters of the 1950s and 60s, "the information about those programs, if they existed, would have been released if government had that information." Thus, in his estimation, all the people who claimed they had seen exotic looking craft in such instances "were lying" (these were his actually words I'm not misquoting him, or putting words in anyone's mouth here).

Looking to the media yet again, I note the following headline: "5 DECADES LATER, SOME JFK PROBE FILES STILL SEALED." Now obviously, this has nothing to do with UFOs, but it has everything to do with my point about the common, skeptical assertion that "all of that information would have been released by now." To the contrary, there are a variety of instances where information is withheld from the public, when the reason for secrecy is considered sensitive, closely related to national security issues, or even if it's just plain politically damaging. To assume that government craft haven't been mistaken for more exotic UFO craft in the past, based on the simple presumption that government will inevitably engage in transparency, is perhaps the very height of naivety.

Now folks, I often call myself skeptical it is an approach I maintain in all walks of life. However, I still find that many of the other researchers who employ this term in reference to their work allow themselves to become "ideologically extreme "in their skepticism just as well. Hence, for some folks, their brand of "skeptical" research will also tend to support one's own preconceptions, rather than employing an unbiased approach to the study of any observable phenomenon. In some cases, this may also be with the inclusion of such logical leaps-of-faith as, "the government would never lie to us, or withhold information from the public."

I don't think one has to be a conspiracy theorist to see, based on the headlines we read each day in the news, that our present way of American Government fundamentally lacks transparency and is coming damned close to usurping people's rights to privacy, information, and damned near anything else you can imagine. Sorry, but that's just the reality of the situation here so would it be such a "leap" to consider that many UFO reports that have surfaced over the years "actually do "deal with aircraft designed someplace here on terra firma but due to this lack of transparency that exists for various reasons, people were seeing aircraft which "they simply did not know existed? "

I will conclude by saying this: if we are to learn anything from the recent discussion about Area 51 and CIA "disclosure," it's not that this new information about the facility should be seen as tool for use in debunking UFOs. Quite the contrary, Area 51 may hold the keys to better understanding a number of UFO reports, and a variety of other complex areas within UFO studies. What Area 51 "doesn't have "is anything to do with alien technologies or at very least, what the mainstream media thinks a "UFO" is supposed to be.

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