Article #: 20 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 07-20-1986 Subject: 1969 BLUE BOOK CLOSES SOURCE: NEW YORK ( NYT ) DATE: DECEMBER 18, 1969 SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network Air Force Closes Study Of UFO's USAF Secretary Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. said: in a menorandum yesterday that Project Blue Book is closed since continuation of the study of UFO's "no longer can be justified either on the ground of National Sesurity or in the interest of Science." Project Blue Book has investigated 12,618 sighting reports during the past 22 years, at a cost of "several million dollars." Both a committee of the National Academy Of Sciences and a U Of Colorado group concluded earlier this year that further studies of the so-called flying saucers would be a waste of time and money. Surprisingly, the USAF decision was hailed by a number of UFO activists, but Dr. James McDonald, a meteorologist at the U Of Arizona, said: USAF was "writing off the UFO problem, which cries for serious scientific study ." Dr. Edward U. Condon, the U Of Colorado physicist who headed the UFO study, said: recently that his investigation "was a bunch of damned - nonsense" and that he was "sorry I ever got involed in such foolishness." USAF said: UFO reports had fallen from a high of 1501 in 1952 to 146 this year. Stuart Nixon, secretary-treasurer of NICAP, said: sightings still occur almost weekly and cited the report from a group of Richmond, VA policemen who said: they saw an object maneuvering over the city at 5:45 on Dec 5. Article #: 21 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 07-26-1986 Subject: 1944 NEW GERMAN WEAPONS SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES DATE: DECEMBER 14, 1944 SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network Floating Mystery Ball Is New German Weapon SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Dec. 13-A new German weapon has made its appearance on the western air front. It was disclosed today. Airmen of the American Aif Force report that they are encountering silver colored spheres in the air over German territory. The spheres are encoun- tered either singly or in clusters. Sometimes they are semi-translucent. ------------------------------ SUPREME HEADQUARTERS Dec. 13 ( Reuter ) - The Germans have produced a "secret" weapon in keeping with the Christmas season. The new device, apparently an air defense weapon resembles the huge glass balls that adorn Christmas trees. There was no information available as to whatholds them up like stars in the sky, what is in them or what their purpose is supposed to be. Article #: 22 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-11-1987 Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING SOURCE: THE SEATTLE TIMES DATE: 1 JANUARY 1987 SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network ----------------------------------- UFO report no surprise to longtime believer `They're here to warn us of danger we are' by Peter Lewis Times staff reporter Reports of a jumbo walnut-shaped unidentified flying object being sighted across the Arctic skies were music to Wayne Aho's ears. "I'm always thrilled to hear those reports because not many get into the news," said the Tacoma resident known as "Mr. UFO." Aho was referring to recent news accounts telling aof a veteran pilot who said three UFOs - two small ones and one shaped like a walnut and twice the size of an aircraft carrier - trailed his Japan Air Lines cargo jet for 400 miles as he flew across northeastern Alaska from Iceland to Anchorage on Nov. 17. The pilot, his co-pilot and flight engineer on JAL Flight 1628 reported seeing flashing lights trail their jet. Federal Aviation Administration officials confirmed that the controller who handled the flight saw a mysterious object trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the Alaska Air Command said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane. But Aho, founder and president of the New Age Foundation Inc., yesterday predicted that in the coming days or weeks, news organizations will be running "kill stories" that cast doubt on the sighting's authenticity. "Someone will come up with an explnation far more impossible for anyone to imagine as being reality," Aho said. That's what happened, Aho recalled, after amazed crew and passengers on a Soviet airliner reported seeing a star-like UFO beam a thin ray on the ground, then turn its dazzling light on the aircraft, then become a green cloud that "escorted" the plane during a flight over Minsk in January 1985. The story first appeared in a Russian newspaper. But Soviet authorities later discredited the report, saying the UFO was actually space junk orbiting the Earth, Aho recalled. His memory is borne out by U.S. news- paper clips. "How could space junk fly alongside and not fall?" asked Aho. "How could it follow at the speed of an airliner and fly beside it for 17 miles?" he asked. In the case of the newly reported sighting, Aho wondered why it has taken nearly two months for it to make news. "What held it up?" he asked. Aho, who said he has personally seen UFOs nine times, believes there is a deliberate effort on the part of the National Security Council to suppress UFO sightings because of the economic and political upheaval confirmed sightings would cause.. Yet according to an eight-year-old Gallup Poll, 16 million Americans have reported seeing UFOs, Aho said. And worldwide, an estimated 150 million people have seen them, he added. Aho's "awakening" to UFOs started in 1957 while he was attending a UFO convention in the Mojave Desert, where he became involved in a "close encounter of the third kind - like the movie," he said. UFOs are from a superior civilization that have come here "to warn us of the danger we are to ourselves," Aho believes. A self-described "70 years young," Aho said he was an intelligence officer trained in aircraft identification who attained the rank of major in the Army during the war. Robert Gribble, a retired Seattle firefighter who operates the Seattle- based National UFO Reporting Center, has received thousands of reports of UFO sightings over the years. He said the large, walnut-shaped UFO report in the Arctic skies is similar to outlines previously reported. "I think the significant thing there is that they tracked it one radar," Gribble said. "It lends credibility that they saw both objects (the UFO and the plane) on the screen at the same time." Two weeks ago, Gribble said yesterday, he was contacted by a Japanese reporter in Washington, D.C., who was the first to alert him to the sighting. Gribble said the reporter was trying to gather confirmation from various agencies to see if they had the sighting on radar, or if it had been reported by other airline crews, "and wanted to know if we had other reports, and of course we didn't," Gribble said. In 1986, his center received an average of six reports a day of sightings from English-speaking people from the Caribbean across North America to Hawaii, Gribble said. Busier years have averaged from 15 to 20 calls a day.