Filer's Files
#17-1998
April 30, 1998
MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Director, Mutual UFO Network Eastern
George Filer: Majorstar@verizon.net
Webmaster Chuck Warren
My website is at: http://www.nationalufocenter.com
PRESIDENT GERALD FORD'S GREATEST HOUR:
On March 25, 1966, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford R- Michigan proposed
that Congress investigate the rash of reported sightings of identified objects
in Southern Michigan and other parts of the country. Ford said he believed,
"A congressional inquiry would be worth while because the American people are
becoming alarmed by the UFO stories."
I had always liked President Ford, because I believe he had the public
interest at heart. He was one of the few congressmen, who was concerned about
the Unidentified Flying Objects in our skies. I ask is there any congressman
with the courage of former President Ford who will again ask for an UFO
inquiry? There are very few if any congressmen willing to put his career,
prestige, and reputation on the line.
If we do get an opportunity, there are astronauts, military personnel, and
scientists standing ready to testify. I feel we have enough data to convince
congress in a fair hearing. Leaders in the UFO community have often felt, if
they could just have enough influence they could get the right answers. We
know that President Ford, Carter and Clinton have all attempted to obtain the
answer from government sources regarding UFOs.
I recently asked President Ford about the existence of UFOs. He wrote me a
friendly letter telling of his 25 and half years in the House -- never in the
Senate. His letter stated in part, "During my public career in Congress, as
Vice President and President, I made various requests for any information on
UFOs. The official authorities always denied the UFO allegations. As a
result I have no information that may be helpful to you."
If Congress, like the president uses its normal sources of intelligence such
as CIA, DIA, NSA, NASA they will likely get the same answer as our presidents
claim they were given. Essentially, our government intelligence agencies are
not aware or responsive to UFO reports and a possible alien threat. We have a
choice to assume they are incompetent, unaware or lying. I hope some where in
government there is someone correlating the data. One logical reason to
ignore the thousands of UFO reports is that they think they know what is
flying. The CIA recently claimed that most UFOs were misidentified U-2s. The
long wing span of the U-2 makes this a poor candidate to be mistaken for a
disc aircraft. However, the disc shaped Silverbug project recently released
could easily be identified as a classic UFO. The Air Force asked a number of
key scientists for the explanation of UFOs. The scientists always told them
it was a case of simple misidentification. These UFOs in our skies either
belong to our government or to someone else. They are a safety hazard and a
possible threat.
I was part of the group of military witnesses during Dr. Greer's attempts to
get Congressional Hearings last year. I spoke immediately after Edgar's
Mitchell's introduction to the media and various staff members of Congress.
Edgar later indicated, "In our briefing of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Intelligence Group, it became very clear to us that they were naive. They did
not really know any more about this effort than we do, if as much."
In my own personal efforts to reach Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General Shalikashvili, he and his aid both indicated the same lack of
knowledge about UFOs. I wrote and asked that he debate me on national
television. He kindly refused before leaving office. Now certainly all these
fine people could be stone walling us, but it seems more likely they are
unaware and do not take UFOs seriously, because there are Black budget
programs that fit the descriptions of UFOs. This could be a clever way of
ignoring our inquires, but it could be that most of the important people in
government now are just not aware of real UFOs.
Somewhere there must be knowledgeable people in government. If they do not
exist in government any more, I suggest they hire some of the old retired guys
to show them where we hid the secrets. The secret has been denied, obscured
and joked about for so long it's become a taboo subject. This means we have a
major public relations problem. We need help in convincing leaders of
government there is a possible threat and that it should be examined.
The late Representative Steven Schiff asked for an explanation for the Roswell
crash. There was a governor of Georgia, named Carter who said, "I saw a UFO,
and if you elect me president I'll find out what they are!" Well, we elected
him president and he never told us. Governor Reagan saw a UFO and said we
might have to fight aliens. In 1966, Representative Gerald Ford made national
headlines and later became President by asking about UFOs. Let us hope there
is one person in congress with the courage of former President Gerald Ford.
Perhaps he might even become president!
NEW JERSEY
I have a report of a woman and her son have observed UFOs in a field near
their home in the Mullica Hill area. They have been seeing UFOs in this field
on a fairly regular basis. The mother is concerned because she has discovered
circular round holes in her body. The scar is size of a dime. The holes are
very similar and they have occurred over a period of may years. The first
occurred in her arm, then her back and recently in her stomach. She visited
her medical doctor to determine the cause of the holes or scoop marks. The
Doctor is stumped by what could have caused the unusual wounds. She was
asleep in bed each time the holes occurred, but she has no memory of anything
unusual. There is nothing in the bed that would cause this kind of marks and
there were no holes in her nightgown. All holes are on the left side of her
body. The other members of the family do not have similar marks.
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
Ricardo Atristain, the MUFON State director for Virginia, reports: "Hello, I
went to Fredericksburg today and spoke to Kate Bailey of the Free Lance Star
newspaper. She said, she received numerous calls in response the sighting she
published on 4/7/98. Four of the witnesses were Fredericksburg police
officers. She threw most of the caller information away but was able to refer
me to one person. His name is Robert Tolen and he granted us permission to
use his name. I interviewed Mr. Tolen at his home in Spotsylvania, County.
He gave the following account: At approximately 6:42 PM on April 3, 1998, he
was in downtown Fredericksburg talking on a pay phone when the incident
occurred. While on the phone, he noticed a bright green glow in the southern
sky. He looked up and observed an egg shaped object with blue, green, and
yellow flames shooting out of it's rear. He said it was solid and it's
surface color was medium to dark Grey, similar to "Grey primer paint." It's
surface did not reflect any light and there was no sound or visible vapor
trail associated with the object. He estimated it's altitude to be between
900 to 1000 feet. The object was extremely fast and flew directly over him
from south to north within four to five seconds. This object's description is
not consistent with a meteor. Mr. Tolen said he also received a call from a
local woman who reported seeing a similar object fly over her house about a
week prior to his sighting. Also, he spoke with two other people from the
Shannon Airport who witnessed a similar object on 4/3. I haven't completed
the investigation yet, but I will keep you informed. I still have to interview
the police officers, the woman, and the two people at the airport. Note: Ms.
Bailey said she did receive a call from a person who observed a similar object
while he was in Raleigh, NC on April 3. Unfortunately, she threw his
information away. Regards, Rick
GEORGIA
MUFON investigator John Thompson states: "I received a report of a saucer-
shaped UFO hovering over a clover field near a stock pond near Stovall in
southeastern Troup County. The UFO was seen by a passing motorist 400 yards
from Wright Road on Monday, March 30, 1998. The witness stated, 'It was a
round thing that had lights going round and round.' The motorist only saw it
for a few seconds, before woods screened her view at 8:30 PM. Even though it
took less than a minute to turn the car around the UFO was gone. The motorist
then circled the area in her care trying to find the craft. It was just after
dusk so there was enough light to see there was no farm machinery or other
structures in the fields. This is the same exact spot where a daylight Valley
type UFO was seen by a man and his son in April of 1996.
On April 1, 1998, at 7:10 PM a UFO described as looking like a huge flying
dinner plate was reported ten miles north of LaGrange. A landowner about an
hour later, several members of the family saw a bright white light in the NNE.
This large non-blinking light, sat low on the horizon for several minutes.
Getting a pair of binoculars the woman watched the bright stationary light,
that was the size of Venus, for over a minute. While watching with binoculars
it suddenly "zipped" to the east. Also on April 1, at 8:20 PM, John Thompson
took a call from a retired dentist in western Troup County, who said that for
several minutes he observed a large stationary white light. Suddenly this
light moved away rapidly to the NE and "flared up." The Dentist asked John to
go outside and observe the light, but John was unable to detect it. A few
hours later Wednesday night, a cigar or disc-shaped UFO was reported at 10:30
PM by two women, twelve miles to the northwest. The Stoval witness recounted
two UFO LaGrange incidents in1963. A huge football field size UFO with
flashing lights, hovered over the railroad crossing at Greenville Street east
of LaGrange. These latest sightings show that UFOs were observed in the
LaGrange area by unrelated witnesses on March 30&31 and April 1. Thanks to
John Thompson.
GEORGIA
Former Georgia State Director, John Thompson writes that many different
witnesses from Korea to Georgia are reporting UFOs operate with repeatable and
distinctive flashes. John writes, "In the Korean case that Chief Sheets
investigated, American soldiers saw the flash or 'powering-up' of the UFO just
before it vanishing. I am convinced that the luminous lens-shaped UFOs are
the real McCoy. The distinctive "flash," the high speed departure, and
sometimes their incredible size rules anything else out. This is the real
baby. Chris Early, a physicist and former MUFON Georgia Director's
experiments and those of the late Paul Hill's from NASA has centered on a disc
shaped object that ionizes the atmosphere around it. This flash seen just
prior to acceleration definitely has something to due with this process. The
craft looks "energized," with the resultant plasma that envelopes around it.
There are other real extraterrestrial UFOs, but I have not seen them
personally. I have to see it to believe it. Chris believes that certain
people are picked to see UFOs. I reject this argument completely. We have a
mutual friend in New Hampshire whose entire family see UFOs. It's not by
coincidence they live in an isolated region. I also believe that hilly areas
-- but not too hilly -- along with a sparse population base and scanty radar
coverage are where real UFOs are seen. Here's another consideration: Take a
look of a satellite photo of Georgia on a USGS site, and you can clearly see a
fault or Fall line, just below LaGrange. It is very noticeable when coming in
from space. It looks like a long straight scar going from the SW to NE across
Georgia. The Fall Line separates the North American tectonic plate from the
old African plate. This portion below the Fall Line was torn off from the
African plate when the continents, which were once butted up against each
other millions of years ago, drifted apart.
Regarding whether all UFOs could just be "earth lights," I reject this.
Sunday night starting at 10 PM to about 4 AM on Monday are the best times to
see a UFO. Activity is also good through Thursday, but then quickly drops off
to almost zero by Saturday night; that's why most skywatches see nothing! The
aliens have the patterns of folks down pat. Secrecy is the main part of their
agenda and they don't move much when folks are out late Friday and Saturday
nights. If the sightings were random--as earth lights would be -- then we
could say possibly no intelligence is involved. But sightings are far from
random! Indeed I can think of only one investigation out of more than 100
that I have done, where something truly UFO like was seen on a Saturday night.
Early Sunday morning picks up some, then slacks off until after 9 PM. If
anybody sees a real UFO during a skywatch on weekend, it will definitely come
after 1 AM Sunday, and probably between 3 and 5 in the morning if the aliens
cooperate. Will anybody be up that late? Thanks to John Thompson ISUR/MUFON.
NEW MEXICO:
Skywatch Reports at 10:30 AM on April 22, 1998, my brother was traveling east
on Route 10 in southern New Mexico west of Las Cruces, near the border of Ulna
and Dona Ana counties. He saw several cars parked on the side of the road
with the occupants outside looking up in the air. He glanced over where they
were looking and saw a stationary white object. He stopped also, got out and
began to observe the object with the others. He said that it was a typical
"saucer shape" tilted upward at about 10 to 30 degrees from vertical. It was
about the thickness of a pencil held at arm's length and at about a 60 degree
angle from the horizon. He judged it to be about several miles away and a few
thousand feet up, south towards the Mexican border. He and the others
observed it motionless in the sky for about 10 minutes. It then began to
level out to a horizontal position after which it slowly started to move to
the south. In a few minutes it was gone from view. My brother is an "open
minded skeptic" and since it was too far away to see any identifiable features
and did not perform any erratic or unconventional maneuvers he is not saying
for sure that he observed a "flying saucer." However, it was nothing like he
had ever seen before and did not look like it "belonged there." Thanks to
Skywatch International Inc.
SIGHTINGS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
Greetings from Brisbane Australia, I am the Director for MUFON QED and
appointed the Continental Director for Australia and New Zealand. I am happy
to share information from down-under. I received a call from a retired
airforce Captain, who also worked on Radar for many years. The gentleman was
walking his dog on April 22, at 6:40 PM accompanied by his grandson when a
huge light appeared in the north flying at phenomenal speed. When it passed
over head he claimed the light from underneath lit up the surrounding area and
would have been about 20 feet across. It crossed the path of an airliner
coming into the Maroochydore Airport. As it passed over the Glass House
Mountains it then became a ball of light emitting red, green and blue lights.
It seems to have left a long white trail behind it. This person reports that
it was a clear night with no clouds in the sky. We have three more reports.
One from Hervey Bay, where five people witnessed a huge light traveling at
amazing speed, which seemed to change direction. Two other reports came in
from Bribie Island when the same description was given as the Gentleman from
Beerwah. Thanks to Glennys Mackay MUFON Australia and QUFON, Queensland UFO
Network, glenmack@thehub.com.au
MJ-12
Bob Collins writes, "A lot of these statements I find about Mj-12 are without
grounds from everything I've picked up over the years: One little thing about
this group that I heard from Intelligence sources is that they use to hold
their meetings airborne for security reasons. Mj-12 was hyper about leaks.
It's only because of Reagan and his perception of an "Alien" threat that
things started to loosen up. After Reagan left the security lid came right
back down. I'll vouch for the Republican's pushing for this except for
Eisenhower. Nixon and Reagan were both the big "go getters" so to speak in
trying to get this out to the public. But, politics gets in the way. Regards
Robert Collins http://209.3.33.6/researchers/rmc_sanctuary_ot_birds.htm
CALIFORNIA:
Bob Wilson reports in the Antelope Valley Press Staff Writer on April 25,
1998. ROSALIND Authorities say nothing was there, but about a dozen people
who called the Valley Press Thursday night claimed something was. That
something was described as a large craft lingering above the Albertson's
grocery store at about 9:15 p.m. It made no noise, but its lights caused
motorists to park and gawk, and some to call the newspaper. On Friday, Kern
County deputies at the Rosamond sheriff's station, about a mile from the
grocery store, said they had no reports of such sightings. Air Force Plant 42
spokeswoman Lorraine Sadler said she, too, had no information on the event.
"And we have some military people that live in Rosamond, too," Sadler said.
Edwards Air Force Base public information officer Gary Hatch said base
operations reported no flights scheduled in that area at that time of night.
The base's command post also had taken no reports of any craft, either known
or unknown, in the area, Hatch said. Calls about the object began flowing to
the Valley Press shortly after 9:00 p.m., copy chief Jana Treece said. "After
the first couple of calls, we all said, `Yeah, OK, sure' " Treece said. "But
between about 9:15 and 11 p.m., we received a dozen calls from people who were
either on their way to the Albatross's to do some shopping or who were eating
at the nearby Taco Bell. "For the most part, everyone gave the same
description," Treece said. That description was of a large object, not quite
octagonal in shape, between 100 yards and 200 yards in length, with orange and
yellow lights around its bottom surface. "One of the callers said cars were
pulling off to the side of the road to check the object out," Treece said.
Suggestions that the object was a helicopter blurred by windy, hazy weather
conditions were discounted by those calling, she said. "Everyone said it was
not a helicopter because there was no noise associated with it," Treece said.
Of those who called, "I couldn't get anybody to leave a name," she said.
While she and her coworkers occasionally field similar types of calls, "we
don't get so many all on the same night and all calling about the same thing,"
she said. Hatch surmised the object could have been a helicopter with a
lighted billboard attached to the bottom, akin to the ones that occasionally
buzz the games of the Lancaster JetHawks baseball team. If the object really
was 200 yards in length, "It would have been bigger than the Albertson's
store," he said. Although the JetHawks were on the field Thursday evening,
the field they were playing on was in Visalia
Mitch Barker, public affairs specialist for the Federal Aviation
Administration, also reported no information on the object. "We checked with
our air-traffic control facilities, and there was nothing logged during that
shift, so I don't know what to tell you," Barker said. However, it's possible
that something in the sky over Rosamond might have been missed. "A lot of
people think we have surveillance of the skies taking place at all times, but
that's not true," Barker said. "Our people are looking at where the airplanes
are actually flying and concentrating on keeping them apart." Thanks to
Skywatch, Bill Hamilton and Jim Hickman jhickman@itlnet.
THUNDERDART HYPERSONIC SPACECRAFT
Michigan Director Skywatch International Doug Parrish states:
"On very good authority I have been told in the last year from someone who
knows, but obviously must remain unidentified, that the United States Air
Force currently has in its hangers an aircraft that are capable of Mach 50.
That's 50 times the speed of sound. If we regard the speed of sound as
somewhere around 770 mph, then Mach 50 becomes 38,500 mph. That's three times
around the world in two hours. As far as I know, this is an intra-atmospheric
aircraft that takes off from a large base in the Far West. Has anyone ever
heard of the name "Thunderdart"? Doug Parrish <dparrish@ismi.net.
Editors Note: Your story of a Mach 50 aircraft confirms similar stories I have
heard. Mach 50 seems almost too fast and represents a major leap in speed.
The Carter administration canceled the SSTs, however many believe Reagan
started this program as a military space plane. The original plans called for
the development of a narrow "v" shaped craft. It is logical to assume the
Lockheed Skunkworks developed a follow on aircraft to the SR-71 and its 43
foot long piggy back carried D-21 ramjet Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). In
1965, using the engine of a Bomarc missile the D-21 could launch from the
SR-71 accelerate to Mach 3.3 and penetrate deep into enemy airspace. A
similar piggyback idea for the Aurora is called Thunderdart. I would think
after thirty-three years we would have a very advanced hypersonic craft
darting into space.
Please send your letters and reports to George Filer at Majorstar@verizon.net.
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