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SUBJECT: ASSORTED AP REPORTS FILE: UFO3073
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PART 2
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Article #: 1
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 06-17-1986
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Subject: 1978 AP PILOT DISAPPEARS
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SOURCE: AP MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
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DATE: 25 OCTOBER 1978
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AUSTRALIAN PILOT DISAPPEARS AFTER REPORTING CHASE BY UFO'S
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Boats and aircraft have found no trace of the 20-year old Australian pilot
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who
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disappeared with his plane on Saturday night after radioing that he was being
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chased by a UFO. Frederick Valentich was on a 125 mile training flight in
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his
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single engine Cessna 182 along the coast of Bass Strait when he told air
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traffic controllers in Melbourne that he was being buzzed by a UFO with 4
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bright lights about 1000 feet above him.
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Controllers said his last message was taped and was: "It's approaching from
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due east towards me. It seems to be playing some sort of game... flying at a
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speed I can't estimate. It's not an aircraft. It's...It is flying past. It
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is a long shape. I cannot identify more than that. It's coming for me right
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now." A minute later: "It seems to be stationary. I'm also orbiting and the
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thing is orbiting on top of me also. It has a green light and a sort of
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metallic light on the outside." Valentich then radioed that his engine was
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running roughly. His last words were: "It is not an aircraft."
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The Australian Air Force said it had received 11 reports from people along
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the
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coast who said they saw UFOs on Saturday night, but the Transport Department
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was skeptical. Ken Williams, a spokesman for the department, said, "It's
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funny all these people ringing up with UFO reports well after Valentich's
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disappearance. It seems people often decide after the event, they too had
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seen strange lights. But although we can't take them too seriously, we can
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never discourage such reports when investigating a plane's disappearance."
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Some Transport Dept officials have speculated that Valentich became
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disoriented and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a
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nearby island, while flying upside down.
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Valentich's father, Guio, said his son used to study UFOs "as a hobby using
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information he had received from the Air Force. He was not the kind of
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person
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who would make up stories. Everything had to be very correct and positive
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for
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him. The fact that they have found no trace of him really verifies the fact
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that UFOs could have been there." Guio Valentich said he hoped his son hadn't
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crashed but had been taken by a UFO.
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Article #: 3
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 06-17-1986
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Subject: 1978 NEW ZEALAND ALERT
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SOURCE: AP AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
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DATE: 02 JANUARY 1979 - SIGHTING DATE 21 DECEMBER 1978
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A television news team from Melbourne, Australia says it filmed a UFO on
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Saturday night while flying over the Kaikoura region of New Zealand's South
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Island. Aviation authorities reported that the UFO was apparently tracked by
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radar as well, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force put a Skyhawk jet fighter
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on special standby alert.
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The pilot of the news team's plane said he first noticed a bright white light
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about 20 miles ahead, and "It appeared to stay still until we got within 10
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miles, then it turned with us as I changed course. It then went above us and
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circled and came down beneath us. It was making definite movements in
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relation to us."
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PHOTOGRAPH: AP. UFO filmed by New Zealand news team.
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Article #: 4
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 06-17-1986
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Subject: 1979 CIA UFO SURVEILLANCE
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SOURCE: NYT (PHOENIX, AZ)
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DATE: 01 JANUARY 1979
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CIA PAPERS DETAIL UFO SURVEILLANCE
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Ground Saucer Watch (GSW), an Arizona-based nation-wide UFO research
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organization of about 500 scientists, engineers and others, said on Friday it
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has obtained 1,000 pages of CIA documents under a freedom of information suit
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which show that the agency has been secretly involved in UFO surveillance
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since 1949 - even though the CIA has repeatedly said its investigation ended
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in 1952. William Spaulding, an aerospace engineer with AiResearch and head of
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GSW, said "the Government has been lying to us all these years. After
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reviewing the docments, GSW believes that UFOs do exist, they are real, the
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U.S. Government has been totally untruthful, and the cover-up is massive."
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Mr. Spaulding said the documents show that U.S. embassies are used to gather
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information on UFO sightings which "seems to be directed to the CIA, the
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White
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House and the National Security Agency." A CIA memo dated August 1, 1952,
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recommended continued agency surveillance of "flying saucers", saying, "It is
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strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach
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the press or public, in view of their probably alarmist tendencies to accept
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such interest as confirmatory of the soundness of 'unpublished facts' in the
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hands of the U.S. Government."
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Among the documents are several detailed reports of USAF attempts to either
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intercept or destroy UFOs. In a 1976 incident in Iran, two F-4 Phantom jet
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fighter-bombers pursued a large UFO that was sending out smaller craft. One
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of the smaller craft "headed straight for the F-4 at a very fast rate of
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speed. The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile at the object but at that
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instant his weapons control panel went off and he lost all communications."
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the pilot eluded the craft, then watched as it "returned to the primary
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object for a perfect rejoin."
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A CIA document dated October 2, 1952, shows that a major point of concern is
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that UFO sightings could mask Russian air attacks or "psychological warfare".
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This report to the CIA director from the assistant director for the Office of
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Scientific Intelligence recommends that the National Security Council be
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advised of the "implications of the flying saucer problem"; that the matter
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be
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discussed with the Psychological Strategy Board; and that the CIA help
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"develop...a policy of public information which will minimize concern and
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possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified
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objects."
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A November, 1975 document directs against acknowledging any pattern in
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sightings. "Unless there is evidence which links sightings, or unless media
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queries link sightings, queries can best be handled individually at the
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source
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and as questions arise. Response should be direct, forthright and emphasize
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that the action taken was in response to an isolated or specific incident."
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According to Mr. Spaulding, "We find a concentration of sightings around our
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military installations, research & development areas. The UFO phenomenon is
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following what our own astronauts are doing on other plants - we send a
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scoutship, we take soil samples and then we land." Mr. Spaulding said he has
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sworn statements from retired USAF colonels that at least 2 UFOs have crash-
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landed and been recovered by USAF. One crash was in New Mexico in 1948, and
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the other near Kingman, AZ in 1953. The retired officers claimed they got a
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glimpse of dead aliens who were in both cases about 4 feet tall with
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silverish complexions and silver outfits that "seemed fused to the body from
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the heat."
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GSW is waiting for a Federal judge to rule on the last phase of its CIA suit,
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which seeks access to 57 items that could provide "hard evidence" of UFOs
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with
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"retreivals of the third kind" such as motion pictures, gun camera film and
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residue from landings. Among the films they want is 40-48 frames taken in
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1952 by Ralph Mayher, then a cameraman for KYW-TV, Cleveland, OH, and now a
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GSW member. USAF borrowed the film in 1957 and has never returned it;
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officially stating the filmed object was a meteor. Said Mr. Spaulding,
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"We're past the story-telling stage. We have to have it in black and white
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to satisfy the scientific community".
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