Much attention is paid to the study of the UFO phenomenon. France, England, Spain, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Argentina, Australia, Japan and China are making intensive efforts to study UFOs through the state line. In addition, at present there are more than 400 different public organizations dealing with the UFO problem in the world. Thanks to them, thousands of UFO pictures and drawings with their descriptions were obtained.
About 50 UFO journals are published in various countries of the world. In 1964, the French Air Force issued an order according to which all data on UFO sightings were ordered to be transferred to the bureau, which later became known as the Group for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (JEPAN). It was headed by Professor Claude Poer.
In 1971, the French police were tasked with registering and investigating all reports of UFOs, and a special questionnaire was sent out by the French gendarmerie, which indicated that the gendarmes in their reports on the survey of UFO landing sites should reflect data not only on the landed vehicles, but and about unknown creatures, if any, were observed near the apparatus. It was also indicated that the traces of the object on the soil should be photographed on infrared film from a height of 10 m using a helicopter called.
In February 1974, the French Minister of the Armed Forces Halley, speaking on the radio, officially announced that radar observations and evidence of UFOs by military pilots had been recorded in France, that is, "there are irrefutable things that are incomprehensible and inexplicable today." He went on to add: "If radio listeners saw the mass of reports of UFO encounters that we receive from the gendarmerie and send to the space research center, they would understand the concern we have."
In 1977, JEPAN was transferred to the French National Center for Space Research in Toulouse, and Dr. Hesterle soon became its head. In "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (1981. August 8) there was an interview of the APN correspondent with A. Esterl, in which it was said that information to this group comes from the gendarmerie, army, civil aviation, radar control service and other state institutions, as well as from individuals and organizations. Every month in France, an average of 20 unidentified phenomena are recorded, and 15% of them cannot be explained. The activities of this group are supervised by a council of eight prominent scientists of various specialties. ZHEPAN has collected over 15,000 reports of sightings, including UFO landings in France.
However, since 1981,. ZHEPAN has stopped all reporting of UFO information to the press. There are several private UFO research groups in France. The most famous of them - ZHEPA - which publishes the magazine "Phenomenes spatiaux". The titles of other ufological journals are Lumieres dans la nuit and Ouranos. In England, a special branch of the British Ministry of Aviation, studying UFOs, back in 1959 collected more than 45,000 reports, notes and photographs related to UFOs. At the same time, all military personnel were strictly forbidden to speak openly about UFO sightings.
Official British Department of Defense documents issued in 1970 and 1978 indicated that UFO sightings were organized in the British Armed Forces. Investigation of all UFO reports received by the British Department of Defense is being conducted by a team of experienced personnel who have access to any information available to the Department of Defense. They are also provided with the necessary scientific and professional assistance from other government and private organizations.
However, full UFO reports in accordance with the existing provisions can only be published after 30 years. The UFO issue was specially considered in the English House of Lords in 1979 and twice in 1982. Moreover, in 1979, out of 14 speakers, eight spoke in favor of the reality of the existence of UFOs and their study. In 1982, in response to a request from Lord Clancarty, a government spokesman stated that in four years (1978-1981), 2,250 reports of sightings of unidentified objects had been received. A careful study of them showed that they are not related to the country's security issues. British police are instructed to report UFO sightings. The Defense Department refuses to give the press information about the UFO.
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In England there are about 20 different public UFO organizations. The largest of these is the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), which publishes the BUFORA Journal. A total of five UFO journals are published in England, of which the Flying Saucers Review is the most famous. In Italy, the Ministry of Defense developed a special questionnaire to clarify the circumstances of the appearance of UFOs and sent it out to civilian airports, military air bases and emergency information centers.
The completed questionnaires are forwarded to the appropriate directorate of the Air Force headquarters. There are three UFO research organizations in Italy. The most famous of them is Centro Ufologico Nazionale - "National Ufological Center", founded in 1965 and headed by R. Pinotti. Italians publish three UFO journals, including Notiziare UFO and Clypeus. According to the magazine "The Sun", the Spanish Air Force also began hunting for flying saucers in the fall of 1969, as Spain decided to solve the UFO mystery. The Spanish Air Ministry requires the population to immediately report UFO sightings to the nearest airbases. In 1976, the Spanish Air Ministry declassified 12 UFO sightings. There are four UFO research organizations in Spain and two magazines are published on the subject.
The number of UFO sightings on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany is relatively small, and neither the Ministry of Defense, nor the command of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany are engaged in collecting and generalizing data on UFOs. However, Germany also has four public organizations for the study of UFOs. The most famous of these is DUIST, which publishes the magazine "UFO Nachrichten". In Sweden, UFOs are studied by the National Defense Research Institute. In addition, there are four UFO organizations and the magazine "UFO aktuellt" is published.
In Canada, this is being done by the Atmospheric Section of the Canadian National Research Council and five UFO organizations, with three journals being published (including the Canadian UFO Report). In Argentina, UFO data are collected by the Air Force Research Division and there are six UFO organizations. In Australia, data is collected by the Air Force Intelligence Agency, with approximately 100 reports per year, there are 12 civil society organizations studying UFOs, and three magazines are published (including the Australian FSR and UFO Bulletin).
In Japan, the Air Force is also engaged in UFO research, as evidenced by the statements of a number of Japanese generals. For example, Lieutenant General Akiro Hirano said: "We often see UFOs in the sky and calmly investigate them," and Major General Komura admitted that UFO research is being conducted at the highest level and in cooperation with the United States. In Japan, there are organizations SBA International and JUFORA, two magazines are published (including UFO News). In China, in 1980, an association for the study of UFOs was established at the University of Wuhan, with branches in Beijing, Shanghai and several provinces. The second organization "Society for UFO Research" was created in China in 1981 at Guangzhou University and has more than 2,000 members, and together with peripheral organizations - over 20,000 people. Over the past five years, it has collected over 600 UFO sightings over China.
In Brazil, UFO research is carried out by the Flying Disc Research Society and the journals Diskos Voaderes and OVNI are published. There are also international organizations for UFO research. One of them "Contact International" with centers in England has a branch in 34 countries. It is headed by Lord Le Poer Trench. The second, better known, is the International Intercontinental UFO Research and Analysis Network (ICUFON), based in New York. It is headed by von Kevitsky. According to von Kewitzky, our planet is threatened by an invasion by aliens, as evidence of which he considers isolated examples of hostility from UFOs. This point of view was stated by von Kevitzky in 1978.in the first ICUFON memorandum under the biased title "Government evidence of operations on Earth by extraterrestrial UFO units and their potential threat to international security." To confirm this point of view, the memorandum provides individual examples of the deaths and disappearances of aircraft and people during encounters with UFOs, as well as a statement made in 1978 by the Deputy Director of the International Security Service at the US State Department A. Michaud and the representative of the Department of Space Affairs I. Pikusom: "Aliens from outer space systematically pose a real threat to us, and we pose a real threat to them, and this includes the possibility of military action."made in 1978 by the Deputy Director of the International Security Service at the US State Department A. Michaud and the representative of the Department of Space Affairs I. Picus: “Aliens from outer space systematically pose a real threat to us, and we pose a real threat to them, and this includes the possibility of military action ".made in 1978 by the Deputy Director of the International Security Service at the US State Department A. Michaud and the representative of the Department of Space Affairs I. Picus: “Aliens from outer space systematically pose a real threat to us, and we pose a real threat to them, and this includes the possibility of military action ".
Von Kevitsky also referred to the statements of the famous American General MacArthur, who repeatedly argued that the future war would be an interplanetary conflict in which united humanity would enter into battle with evil forces from other worlds, and who called on all the nations of the Earth to unite in order to secure the future life of mankind and to create a united front against the attack of aliens. In 1978, this memorandum was presented to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and representatives of all UN member states. In 1980, von Kevitzky published the second ICUFON memorandum justifying the need to create a World Space Agency to perform the following tasks: international control and observation of UFO activities around the world; finding possible ways to establish contact with the forces,leading UFO activities; prevention of any hostile actions towards UFOs by the armed forces of the countries participating in the agency; using UFO discoveries to accelerate progress and improve lives in all countries.
The Memorandum cited various examples of actions by US government agencies aimed at suppressing and concealing data on the UFO problem from the public. In 1982, von Kewitzky published the third ICUFON Memorandum, which included, among other things, a letter from General Schweitzer addressed to him on behalf of President Reagan (section 1 of this chapter). And finally, in 1988, von Kewitzky, based on the three previous memorandums, drew up and sent to the missions of all UN member states a new memorandum containing 350 declassified documents describing 140 classic UFO cases.
This memorandum consists of four parts (Vecherny Leningrad. 1989, 12 July): A - UFO potential danger syndrome, B - military plans for armed defense against extraterrestrial invaders (UFOs), C - undeclared war against UFOs - galactic forces, D - road to the star war and the question of survival. However, one can hardly agree with the conclusions of these ICUFON memorandums regarding the danger allegedly threatening our planet from UFOs, because the overwhelming majority of sightings and encounters with UFOs still do not indicate their hostility.
Although, there are also no sufficient grounds for a diametrically opposite point of view, which Pamirenko adheres to, who considers UFOs to be "our space friends and well-wishers." There have been repeated attempts to organize UFO research within the framework of the United Nations, since some UN leaders took this problem quite seriously. The first attempt to organize an international study of this phenomenon was made in 1966 by the UN Secretary General U. Tan. But then-US envoy to the United Nations, Goldberg, took vigorous measures to prevent this, and assured U. Thang that the United States would itself conduct an impartial "scientific" study of the UFO problem.
U. Thang's attitude towards UFOs can be judged by his statement made on July 5, 1967: "The most important problem that should interest us, besides the Vietnam War, is flying saucers or UFOs." When in 1970 West German UFO researcher Jacobi asked U Thant if it was true that extraterrestrial UFO pilots had made contact with governments and that all these facts and their reasons were kept secret, he replied: “There are things that I cannot and cannot I have the right to speak. " The issue of the actions of the spacecraft of earthly powers during encounters with UFOs was raised at the UN meeting in 1971 in the speech of the representative of Uganda, Ibingir, who expressed concern about the dangerous consequences that the careless actions of the crews of earthly spacecraft in encounters with unknown objects could have.
He stated: “We must be sure that the Earth's spacecraft does not behave in a hostile manner when accidentally encountering a spacecraft or object of unknown origin. For the guilt of an unknown amount, which caused damage to one of the states of the Earth, will turn out to be negligible in comparison with the guilt of the state, whose actions will provoke aggression from an unknown cosmic source in relation to our entire planet. Therefore, I propose to include in the draft convention a paragraph obliging states to manage their space objects in such a way that, in the event of a meeting with unknown objects, they show reasonableness in their behavior, do not confront these objects and do not provoke them."
In 1977, the government of Grenada proposed to discuss at the UN session the issue of creating a UN ad hoc committee to coordinate research on the UFO phenomenon. But the US State Department immediately directed the US representative to the UN, Young, to declare that the United States "does not support the Grenadian proposal to create a special committee to study the possibilities of establishing contact with an intelligent civilization within and beyond the solar system." At the same time, Fagel, Secretary of the American Delegation to the United Nations, delivered a confidential message from President Carter to Prime Minister Grenada Gary of President Carter's insistent advice to abandon the demands of international UFO studies, a message from the very same Carter who, most recently, himself zealously accused the former US government of excessive secrecy of research. UFO.
It would seem, why should the president of the largest country in the capitalist world insist on changing the position of little Grenada, and even on the issue of some UFOs, the existence of which is not officially recognized by the American authorities. As a result of active opposition from the United States, Grenada was forced to withdraw its draft, and the UN resolution on this issue in 1977 was limited only to an appeal to all states "to discuss their views on the UFO problem with the UN Secretary General."
However, in 1978, Grenada raised this issue again, and its proposal was nevertheless considered at a meeting of the UN special political committee, at which Professors A. Hynek and J. Vallee made reports, and after them, Lt. Col. of the American Air Force, Coyne, made a report on the case direct impact of a UFO on a helicopter. Following this, a specially prepared motion picture was shown, which included footage from the most impressive footage of UFO flights, and a letter was read from the American astronaut Gordon Cooper, proposing to study the possibility of establishing friendly contacts with UFOs. But the consideration of the issue of organizing an international study of UFOs at the plenary meeting of the 33rd session of the UN in December 1978was also released on the brakes and was reduced only to a call from all interested countries to report their observations and research in the field of UFOs to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
The persistent attempts of the American leadership to prevent international research of the UFO problem can be explained by only one thing - the desire of the United States to downplay the importance of this problem in the eyes of other countries in order to secure a monopoly in this area. Public ufological organizations in many countries have repeatedly held international UFO congresses in Germany, USA, Mexico and other countries. In October 1989, an international conference on UFOs was held in Frankfurt am Main under the motto "Dialogue with the Universe", which was for the first time attended by Soviet representatives: A. Mordvin-Schodro, Chairman of the Commission for the National Academy of Natural Sciences of the USSR; Rylkin and journalist S. Bulantsev.