Article #: 8
     From: UFO INFO SERVICE         
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
  Subject: 1966 FORD TO ASK INQUIRY 

SOURCE:  NYT (WASHINGTON, DC) 
  DATE:  26 MARCH 1966   

 
FORD TO ASK INQUIRY 
 
House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford announced yesterday he would ask the
chairmen of the House Armed Services Committee and the Science and    
Astronautics Committee to consider a "full blown" investigation of    
unidentified flying objects.  Several hundred persons have reported seeing 
mysterious lights in Mr. Ford's home state of Michigan this week.  No 
Congressional leader has called for such an investigation before.  Mr.
Ford said he was in Michigan Thursday night and yesterday morning "and I   
can assure you there is interest and I suspect public concern" over the    
sightings.  If swamp gas caused the lights, Mr. Ford said, USAF should
have no hesitancy in explaining that to a committee.   
 


 


 Article #: 9
     From: UFO INFO SERVICE         
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
  Subject: 1966 CONGRESS REASSURED  

SOURCE:  AP (WASHINGTON, DC)  
  DATE:  06 APRIL 1966   

 
CONGRESS REASSURED ON SPACE VISITS 
 
Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Harold Brown assured the House Armed   
Services Committee yesterday there was no evidence that the earth had been 
visited by strangers from outer space.  Dr. Brown said almost all of the   
10,147 unidentified flying objects reported in the last 19 years were 
easily explained, including the recent Michigan sightings, as marsh gases, 
pranks, planets, comets, meteors, fireballs, and auroral streamers.  But,  
he said, "the Air Force has an open mind" and would continue to  
investigate all reports."
 
PHOTOGRAPH:  Dr. Harold Brown 
 


 


 Article #: 10
     From: UFO INFO SERVICE         
Date Sent: 09-23-1986
  Subject: 1968 CO U ENDS STUDY     

SOURCE:   NYT (DC)  
  DATE:   01 MAY 1968    

 
COLORADO UNIVERSITY ENDS SAUCER STUDY BUT DOES NOT DISCLOSE RESULTS   
 
Field investigations of UFO reports by the U of Colorado research project  
were completed on schedule today, but findings won't be discussed until    
the final report is sent to the National Academy of Sciences in late  
September.  The U of Colorado undertook a $500,000 study of UFOs at USAF's 
request because critics accused USAF of failing to make a comprehensive,   
scientific investigation of saucer reports.  
 
In a related development, NICAP held a news conference yesterday to   
announce it has "broken with" the Colorado Project to "reveal the firing   
of top project scientists and other incidents leading to the project's
failure."  A May 14 Look article by John G. Fuller told about the
oustings last February of David R. Saunders, a psychologist, and Dr.  
Norman E. Levine, an electrical engineer, and called the project the  
"flying saucer fiasco".  On the House floor yesterday, Representative 
J. Edward Roush quoted from the Look article and said Congress should 
take over the UFO investigation from USAF because grave doubts had arisen  
"as to the scientific profundity and objectivity of the Colorado project." 
 
PHOTOGRAPH:  E. U. Condon
 


 


 Article #: 11
     From: UFO INFO SERVICE         
Date Sent: 09-23-1986
  Subject: 1966 SATEL.TERMED UNKNOWN

SOURCE:   NYT (DC)  
  DATE:   01 NOVEMBER 1966    

 
THREE SATELLITES TERMED UNKNOWN    
 
NASA's Goddard Flight Center in its Sept 30 & Oct 15 issues of the    
Satellite Situation Report has listed 3 `unknowns' among the many
satellites, rocket bodies and space debris orbiting the earth.  NORAD 
continuously monitors all orbiting objects from more than 100 radar   
stations around the globe.  Information is also fed to NORAD by volunteers 
of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's `Moonwatch' teams, by  
airline pilots and others.    
 
It is the first time the report has listed `unknowns' among the identified 
orbiting objects.  Since the objects are not considered to constitute any  
danger military officials argued against listing them until they could be  
identified, fearing that `flying saucer' enthusiasts would cite the   
objects as evidence the earth had extraterrestrial visitors.
 
NORAD contends it has tracked objects as small as 1 foot in length,   
though the Satellite Situation Report omits any reference to the size &    
weight of listed satellites.  2 of the unknowns are in an orbit inclined   
at 85 degrees to the equator - an inclination close to those sometimes
used for military launchings from Vandenberg AFB, CA; the other's orbit    
is inclined at 35 degrees to the equator - a launching angle sometimes
used from Cape Kennedy, FL.  1 of the 2 in an 85 degree orbit swings from  
a low point of 385 miles above the earth to 3,944 miles; the other dips    
to 459 miles and swings out to 3,802 miles.