On Wednesday, October 5, 1960, an early warning radar station in Tula, Greenland, recorded a whole array of unidentified flying objects moving from the Soviet Union towards the United States of America. An instant later, red telephones at the Strategic Air Force headquarters (Omaha, Nebraska) rang shrilly, and bomber crews at air bases scattered throughout the world rushed to their vehicles. Carrying nuclear weapons on board, B-52 strategic bombers roared into the air and, circling ominously over their airfields, awaited the final order defining targets for retaliatory strike on the territory of the Soviet Union.
The headquarters of Strategic Aviation persistently called Thule to get confirmation of the information received. The base did not respond. The generals chewed cigars nervously. Has Tula already been hit?
Suddenly, unidentified objects changed course and disappeared from the screens of the intercept stations. Later, the unexpectedly interrupted connection of the strategic base in Greenland with the United States of America was explained by the fact that an iceberg had broken a submarine cable. It is very strange that the iceberg, which had never before been the cause of the accident, chose exactly this time for its "sabotage".
Of course, it is strange if we ignore the fact that everything connected with the secret of unidentified objects is filled with just such, seemingly unrelated, coincidences.
The Third World War did not start on this day, but it could have begun. Some time later, when rumors of mysterious signals on radar screens leaked to the press, three Labor MPs Empress Hughes, Swingler and Hat demanded an explanation at a regular meeting of the English House of Commons. At the request of the deputies, representatives of the US Air Force replied that the radars in Tula had intercepted signals reflected by the moon, and the cause of the commotion was their incorrect interpretation. The text of this explanation was published on November 30 by the leading Manchester newspaper GARDIAN, and a week later the whole story was "buried" on page 71 of NEW YORK TIMES.
Could a modern air defense radar really mistake the moon for a formation of flying saucers? I highly doubt it. When I visited a secret Air Force radar station in New Jersey in May 1967, I was very impressed by the complexity and efficiency of the equipment I saw. By pressing just a few buttons, the radar operators can instantly not only detect any aircraft within the range of the station, but also receive almost complete information about the speed, altitude and direction of its flight using a huge computer. Even the belonging of an aircraft to a particular division is recognized by the radar! Unknown objects are immediately identified in the rush of air traffic thanks to the usual but highly effective procedure for quickly identifying them. But even if the means of identification for some reason do not work, the interceptor fighters that are constantly in full readiness will take the initiative.
It is simply incredible, more precisely, it is impossible that the Moon or some other celestial body located at a great distance could so “fool” such a well-developed system.
Over the past twenty years, radars have often detected unidentified flying objects, and not only military radars, but also those belonging to weather services and airports. Often they were simultaneously observed visually and by eyewitnesses. For example, on July 27, 1966, when an unidentified flying object was detected by the radar of the Federal Agency's control tower at Greensboro High Point Airport, it was seen by several High Point Reendolph County police officers. According to these officers, objects appearing at an altitude of 500 feet (1 foot - 0.3048 m. Ed.) Were round, shiny, red-green in color and emitted bright streams of light.
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Since 1953, the official position of the government regarding flying saucers has remained extremely negative, although it is the government that has authorized active behind-the-scenes activities to study this phenomenon, like any other that could lead to world war.
During the large "flap" of flying saucers (ie, a large number of simultaneous observations in areas significantly distant from each other) in March 1966, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. giving testimony on this matter to the Foreign Affairs Commission of the US Congress, was already thoroughly instructed in advance by the specialists of the Air Force. So, in response to a question from Cornelius Gallagher, a senator from New Jersey, who has seen a dozen unidentified objects in his airspace during the month, what he thinks about this, McNamara said: “I spoke with the Secretary of the Air Air force. These institutions have not received a single report that could be trusted."
Ironically, it was on this day, that is, March 30, 1966, at 8 o'clock in the morning on the way to work, two very worthy people with a good reputation - Philip Lambert and Donnie Russell Ros - in the vicinity of Charleston (South Carolina) suddenly noticed a strange round object circling in the clear sky above the South Tracking Company terminus on Meeting Street. They stopped their car and watched the object for about eight minutes.
“It looked like a sterling silver disc,” Lambert later said. “It was about 14 feet thick and 20 feet in diameter. We saw her quite clearly, it was a beautiful day, we were both completely clear and not drunk."
Drawing on his eight years of experience with the Airborne Forces, Lambert claimed that the object was at an altitude of 800-900 feet when they saw it. Rotating rapidly around its axis, it constantly moved from one position to another.
Such cases are commonly referred to by ufologists as “Type I” observations, meaning the location of the object at a low altitude and the reliability of witness testimony. March 30, 1966 became Flap Day, and local newspapers across the country, coast to coast, were filled with Type I sightings.
Among the eyewitnesses were many police officers, pilots and others, whose testimony is beyond question. Later, when all the newspaper clippings and reports were collected, I found that the most frequently observed objects that day were in the following states: Michigan, New York (Long Island), Ohio, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Iowa and in many areas South Carolina. It was a typical small flap, and like most flaps it did not receive publicity. The observation reports did not go beyond the pages of provincial newspapers.
On the day these events took place, Secretary of Defense McNamara, speaking to members of the Congress Commission, cheerfully proclaimed his unanimity with the official views of the highest government circles.
“The people have started to take this issue very seriously,” Senator Gallagher remarked to McNamara.
“There is no evidence that all evidence of such observations is explained by nothing more than illusions,” the minister replied politely.
You can imagine how those two from South Carolina, about whom we wrote above, reacted to this! Over the years, anger and bitter disappointment gripped thousands of eyewitnesses in response to official government statements and explanations, the main purpose of which was to generate skepticism among those who have never seen a UFO, as well as to reduce press interest in this issue. As a result of this government policy, most observations remained unrecorded, and the phenomenon itself turned out to be completely incomprehensible to everyone, except for a few organizations and a handful of individuals who tried to generalize and qualify the observation reports.
When I first became interested in this issue in March 1966, I began by placing an order at the Bureau of Newspaper Clippings. The number of articles on this topic in our press literally overwhelmed me: I often received up to 150 newspaper clippings a day! Naturally, my first reaction was disbelief. I even thought that all our newspapers, forgetting about objectivity, have joined in some kind of gigantic hoax. I simply could not imagine that such a number of unidentified objects could so calmly "walk" in our sacred skies, without attracting serious attention from the military and scientists.
About the degree of reliability of reports
The first challenge I set myself was to determine the reliability of the reports published in the press. I began with a lot of long distance telephone calls with the publishers and reporters of those newspapers that published UFO reports almost every week. Their explanations sounded perfectly reasonable. Moreover, they convinced me that they publish only a tiny fraction of the reports at their disposal, choosing the most interesting and reliable ones, usually coming from police officers and local officials. The newspaper workers have made it very clear to me that literally thousands of observation reports from ordinary citizens remain unpublished.
I also telephoned many of the witnesses whose names were indicated in the published reports, and to my great embarrassment I learned that their experience in this matter is much wider than it could be judged from the newspapers. They told me that flying objects followed their cars, landed near them on the highway, and later even reappeared above their homes. After observing unidentified flying objects, many of the witnesses had inflamed and watery eyes for several days, and some of them felt something like ringing in their ears and felt currents of hot air when objects flew nearby. Even before telephone conversations, I managed to convince myself that the nature of the phenomenon is explained, rather, by hysteria, an unbalanced emotional state of people, rather than by any physical aspect. However, the more I listened to the witnesses, the more often these strangers among themselves mentioned the same incredible details.
It became quite obvious that for a conscientious investigation of this whole story, I need to visit the flap areas, thoroughly and comprehensively interview witnesses, which will be helped by my extensive experience as a writer and journalist.
So, in the spring of 1966, I began my travels and, having traveled through 20 states, took testimony from tens of hundreds of people. From time to time, of course, I came across both individuals hungry for fame and just outright liars, but it was very easy to recognize them. Most of those I met were simple and honest people. Many of them openly showed a clear reluctance to talk to me about this topic until I was able to win their trust and convince me that I had not come to scoff at them. Some observed such unusual and even incredible things that they were simply embarrassed to tell me about them, believing that I would not believe them. Following the usual rule of reporters, while listening to them, I did not give any information in return, so that the witnesses, telling me their stories, sometimes did not even suspectthat I have already heard about quite the same in the opposite end of the country. The details of these stories were never published and were not known to anyone, so I was able to draw a unique correlation that would otherwise be completely impossible.
Traveling around the country, I naturally visited the offices of local newspapers and talked to publishers and reporters, to whom all information about UFOs observed in the surrounding areas flocked. After meeting with witnesses, interviews with whom were published in the press, I realized how skillfully and objectively the newspapermen did their work. After that, I changed my attitude towards those clippings that were pouring into my mailbox in an endless stream. I realized that the newspaper is a completely reliable source of information.
At the same time, I found out that most of the materials published by various private organizations bear the imprint of their beliefs. For the same reason, many details were either not indicated at all, or were interpreted in their own way.
In contrast, the witnesses, as I have already pointed out, honestly and frankly talked about what they saw, and local newspapers also honestly and objectively gave reports on this. Although the nature of this phenomenon cannot be understood by reading newspaper clippings, they can serve as statistical material for systematizing UFO sightings. As far as I know, none of the organizations have ever even tried to do this. And the specialists of the US Air Force, who made such an attempt in the early fifties, soon became desperate. The volume of work was too huge to translate all the information at their disposal into the language of statistics.
Classification of the frequency of observation of the phenomenon
I accumulated over 10,000 clippings and reports during 1966. (During the same period, only 1,060 reports were allegedly received by the Air Force.) I personally verified the reliability of many of the cases described in them and became firmly convinced of the reliability of the testimony. In 1967 I devoted all my time to systematizing a huge mass of material, classifying it and bringing it down to a statistical form. I did this gigantic job alone. I ignored most of the "lights in the sky" reports, focusing only on the "Type I" observations. From NASA, I received annual data on meteorites and similar phenomena, as well as on all rocket launches. By comparing the reports with NASA data, I eliminated all possible or probable cases where meteorites and rockets could be mistaken for UFOs.
My main goal was to try to trace some system in the frequency of observations of flaps. The result of the completion of my work on organizing all the material was two folders. The first contained cases of "Type I" (only 730, or 7.3% of the total number of cases), the second - typical cases of "Type II" (clearly controlled vehicles seen at high altitude, sharply different from conventional aircraft and natural phenomena). The second folder contained 2600 reports. Thus, I worked with 33.3% of the total number of reports. (Television polls have long revealed that the views and habits of 1,500 viewers are perfectly consistent with the views and habits of people across the country.) As soon as I finished organizing, it immediately struck me,that all cases of UFO sightings in a certain pattern are distributed over the days of the week, and their peak falls on Wednesday, mainly between 20 and 23 hours.
Among the reports at my disposal, 0.5% were not dated.
If this phenomenon were based on a purely psychological basis, then it is quite natural that the largest number of observations would have occurred on Saturday evening, when many are out of the house, visit each other, and experience the effects of alcohol. Instead, the largest number of reports falls on Wednesday, gradually declining on the remaining days of the week, and reaching a minimum on Tuesday. This inexplicable, reliably proven "phenomenon of the environment" was again confirmed in 1967 and 1968.
This does not mean, of course, that flying saucers appear every Wednesday, but during large flaps they are regularly observed on Wednesdays.
The exception to this rule was the flap on Tuesday, August 16, 1966, when thousands of people in five states saw unusual aerial phenomena.
A careful study of the geography of observing phenomena leads us to another surprising conclusion - they seem to be concentrated within the conditional boundaries of a particular state. For example, during the flap on August 16, hundreds of sightings of objects were recorded in Arkansas, and they formed two belts crossing the state from north to south. However, we have not received a single report from the neighboring states: Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana. Minnesota and Wisconsin, located significantly north of Arkansas, became the arena for the actions of the same flap, which showed particular activity in Minnesota, and, interestingly, without going beyond the purely conditional administrative boundaries of the state.
A few sighting reports came that night from New Jersey and South Dakota, areas bordering Minnesota.
Of course, if meteorites or other natural phenomena were taken for UFOs, they would be observed in adjacent states. This, by the way, is one of the sobering aspects of the most inveterate skeptics. After all, UFOs were sometimes observed for hours in the same area! From Fort Smith, Arkansas, radio correspondent John Kahner covered crowded streets for hours, describing multicolored light beams in the sky over the city.
Radio commentator Ken Bock hosted a similar broadcast that evening from another Arkansas city, Paragut.
While studying other flasks, I again stumbled upon this unexplained geographical phenomenon. If UFOs are indeed vehicles of any purpose, then it seems that their pilots are not only familiar with our calendar, as evidenced by the concentration of activity of objects on Wednesdays, but also know the administrative divisions of the country well, which allows them to carefully study our states from one border to another.
Does this sound like the job of Martians or other space aliens? They perfectly know our calendars, our maps, everything about us, while we know nothing about them!
Skeptics, trying to disprove the existence of UFOs, argue that the flap areas are becoming places of mass hysteria precisely because of the unverified publication of several reporters.
This is completely untrue. Almost all reports about the flap are published extremely quickly. There is simply no time left for their fabrication.
Random people, hundreds of miles apart, conscientiously report their observations of unidentified objects to local police stations and newspaper offices, sometimes without even suspecting that similar reports have already come from other people, that they were not the only witnesses that night phenomenal phenomenon. The next day, newspapers from different counties, and sometimes from different states, begin to publish the messages received, and people who read, for example, the Arkansas GEZETTE, have no idea that in other states the newspapers are filled with descriptions of UFO cases that occurred that same night. … None of the news agencies, apart from the North American Association of Newspapers, can generally compile a general picture of the flap nationwide, so that individual fabrications are relatively easy to recognize.
Anatomy of a flap
March - April 1967 surpassed all previous years in the number of publications about UFO sightings. In March alone, I received over 20,000 newspaper clippings and reports, most of which I personally investigated. However, the major news agencies completely ignored this flap, because none of the publishers understood the situation, and perhaps because of the mythical censorship, so revered in some circles of UFO enthusiasts, which is also attributed to the lack of complementary data to compose a general picture of the phenomenon. and a complete lack of serious research. The indifference to this issue, long demonstrated by the official circles, gave rise to passivity of the whole society.
The largest flap in the spring of 1967 peaked on Wednesday March 8th.
Here is a brief overview of the observation reports that came that day.
1. State of Minnesota. A strange object hovered over houses, thrilling people.
Such a mysterious light emanated from him that the imagination involuntarily drew a picture of the landing of some green-skinned aliens from space in one of the city courtyards. The object moved now smoothly, now with great speed. it appeared at 8 pm and remained within sight of about an hour, and then, as it were, melted into thin air (Floewood, RUEREL FOR / UM, March 9, 1967).
2. State of Michigan. Groce Point Wood police received eight UFO reports hovering over Lijen Shul at about 8 pm Wednesday, and worked with the Air Force to investigate the “flaming orange oval,” which was photographed twice during the week. Operative duty officer at Selfridge Air Force Base, Major Raymond Neele, said: "There was definitely something there, too many people saw it" (Detroit, FREE PRESS March 11, 1967).
3. State of Oklahoma. At 8:45 pm Wednesday, Mrs. Homer Smith stepped out onto the veranda of her house and saw a rapidly spinning object emitting multicolored light beams. Stunned, she called her ten-year-old son, and together they began to closely watch the object flying south over Ninth Street. The object was moving and spinning so fast that it was difficult to count the number of colors it spread, but there were many of them. Mrs Smith believes that she saw the rear of the ship, judging by the "streams of fire escaping from there" (Henrietta, DAILY FREE LANCE, March 19, 1967).
4. State of Arkansas. Mrs. Ned Vanok saw an object out of her kitchen window at night, which she said was red-orange, but before flying away, changed its color to silver-white. The object was round and rather large. He hovered very low, then increased altitude and speed and disappeared.
The object flew too fast to be mistaken for a star.
In addition to Mrs. Vanok, the incident was observed by her neighbors, the Folkets (Clyindon, MONRO CANTY SUN, March 16, 1967).
5. State of Maryland. Two private individuals and a police officer observed a round object with a "shining gold mine". When the object hovered, its top emitted a crimson glow. It flew three times in an oval trajectory between Fort Mead and Laurel and disappeared (Lorkle, PRINCE JORGES CANTY NEWES, March 16, 1967).
6. State of Montana. Mr. Richard Hegland of Stevensville told the Missoula County Police Department that he saw a round flying object at 8:20 pm on Wednesday evening, "which threw out three fireballs before disappearing." (Missoula, MISSULIEN SENINLE, March 9, 1967) …
7. State of Montana. Many have seen unidentified flying objects in the areas of Ikelek, Lame Jones and Walled. According to reports, the objects were hovering about a mile from the surface of the earth. They moved freely in any direction, lighting green and red lights, as if wishing to remain visible in the approaching twilight. Mrs. Henson, from the words of her relatives from Walled, told the newspaper that a certain Stanley Ketchman observed these objects from a much closer distance than the others, but when trying to get even closer, the objects literally disappeared into thin air. (Becker, FALLON CANTY TIMES from March 9, 1967).
8. State of Missouri. Mr. Slene Moore from Caledonia last Wednesday at 1915 hours saw a flash of light from his kitchen window. He called his wife, and together they observed an object in the form of a sparkling metal oblong ball, shaped like a watermelon. A beautiful multicolored radiance spread around the entire perimeter of the ball - mostly green and red, with an admixture of white, blue, yellow, orange. The object was about 35 feet long and was in sight for 15-20 minutes (Wadstone, Kentucky, KENTUCKY STANDARD dated March 16, 1967).
nine. State of Missouri. In the past two and a half weeks, about 100 individuals have reported their UFO sightings in the Oseh Beach and Line Chris areas (Versailles, LIDE-STATESMAN, March 16, 1967). 10. State of Missouri. Mrs. Phyllis Rawls of Bunkton reported her sightings of the multicolored object at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The object was emitting blue, green and white beams. He hovered for two hours, moving in a vertical plane. Many from the area have also reported similar facts, in particular Leo Kees is a correspondent for radio station KRMS (Boonville, DALY NEWS, March 9, 1967). 11. State of Illinois. The Davis couple, driving along Highway 30, saw a beam of light over the plain at about noon. They stopped the car and for three to four minutes observed a strange object that was very shiny and emitted blue and red rays. Mrs Davis stated: “It was round and,seemed to be heading straight for us, but suddenly turned back, gained altitude and disappeared behind a small cloud. We waited another ten minutes, but he didn’t appear again.” Ronald Kohlberg of Aurora reported that for the past several months, he and his neighbors had observed an unusual light in the sky every night from the west of their area (Aurora, BICKEN NEWS, March 9, 1967). 12. State of Illinois. Several residents of Pontiek reported to the police that the site was being observed. He appeared on Wednesday at about 10 pm and was in their field of vision until midnight. Slowly moving vertically, the object emitted multi-colored rays - white, red and occasionally green (Pontiek, LIDE, March 10, 1967). 13. State of Illinois. Knox County Sheriff's Deputy Frank Couson and twenty others watched a round object for several hours Wednesday night, emitting pulsating white and red light. The object resembled a flattened ball and was approximately 2,000 feet above the ground. The sheriff's deputy admitted that a similar object appeared over his car on Monday, when he was driving on Highway 74 near Gelsburg, but then he did not dare to tell about it.
There were also many reports of UFO sightings on Wednesday evening in the Warren and Henry areas near Gelsburg. 14. State of Illinois. On Wednesday evening, several police officers and a dozen other local residents observed a UFO near Flangen. A soldier named Kennedy followed the facility to Interstate 51, where he met with two Woodford County sheriff's deputies, who observed the facility approaching Mayononk from the east. The object emitted blue-white and red light (Bloomington, PENTNGRAF dated March 10, 1967). 15. State of Illinois. On Thursday, the County Sheriff in Gelsburg received a report on a flying saucer from a veteran police officer who was a former pilot. Dozens of similar reports were submitted to the Molana City Police Department (Chicago, NEWS, March 9, 1967). 16. State of Illinois. On the evening of March 8, Wednesday,and then on Thursday and Friday, numerous eyewitness accounts of unidentified flying objects were recorded. Reports of UFO sightings in the area west of Eldor were received every day at about the same time - about 20 hours and 30 minutes. Similar reports also followed from the Stemvot Rock area (Eldora, Iowa, HERALD LEDGE, March 14, 1967). 17. State of Iowa. A blue saucer-shaped slick was spotted Wednesday evening over Dam 18 north of Ballington. According to Deputy Homer Dixon, it could have been the reflection of a searchlight beam from the mirror-like surface of the ice. This report from the Ballington area was the last to come in the past two weeks (Ballington, name of the newspaper has not been established). 18. State of Iowa. Mrs L. Coppenhover reported,that at 21 hours 45 minutes on Wednesday saw a large red ball floating above her house. “You know,” she asked, “how does the setting sun sometimes light up a crimson glow over itself? This is exactly what this thing looked like, with the only difference that it was mobile. She quickly moved away, and the blinding glow was replaced by a slight glow. I used to see satellites, but there was nothing like that. This thing moved very quickly and maneuvered sharply. " The father of the witness, Walter Jingstrom (Boone, NEWS REPUBLIC, March 10, 1967) stated the same. 19. State of Kansas. Mr. Jack Yensonius from Prairie Vtu, returning home, at about 8 pm saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turn half-fiery red, and eject three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.floating over her house. “You know,” she asked, “how does the setting sun sometimes light up a crimson glow over itself? This is exactly what this thing looked like, with the only difference that it was mobile. She quickly moved away, and the blinding glow was replaced by a slight glow. I used to see satellites, but there was nothing like that. This thing moved very quickly and maneuvered sharply. " The father of the witness, Walter Jingstrom (Boone, NEWS REPUBLIC, March 10, 1967) stated the same. 19. State of Kansas. Mr. Jack Yensonius from Prairie Vtu, returning home, at about 8 pm saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turning half-fiery red, and ejecting three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.floating over her house. “You know,” she asked, “how does the setting sun sometimes light up a crimson glow over itself? This is exactly what this thing looked like, with the only difference that it was mobile. She quickly moved away, and the blinding glow was replaced by a slight glow. I used to see satellites, but there was nothing like that. This thing moved very quickly and maneuvered sharply. " The father of the witness, Walter Jingstrom (Boone, NEWS REPUBLIC, March 10, 1967) stated the same. 19. State of Kansas. Mr. Jack Jensonius from Prairie Vtu, returning home, at about 8 pm saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turn half-fiery red, and eject three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.- how does the setting sun sometimes ignite a crimson glow over itself? This is exactly what this thing looked like, with the only difference that it was mobile. She quickly moved away, and the blinding glow was replaced by a slight glow. I used to see satellites, but there was nothing like that. This thing moved very quickly and maneuvered sharply. " The witness's father, Walter Jingstrom (Boone, NEWS REPUBLIC, March 10, 1967) stated the same. 19. State of Kansas. Mr. Jack Jensonius from Prairie Vtu, returning home, at about 8 pm saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turning half-fiery red, and ejecting three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.- how does the setting sun sometimes ignite a crimson glow over itself? This is exactly what this thing looked like, with the only difference that it was mobile. She quickly moved away, and the blinding glow was replaced by a slight glow. I used to see satellites, but there was nothing like that. This thing moved very quickly and maneuvered sharply. " The witness's father, Walter Jingstrom (Boone, NEWS REPUBLIC, March 10, 1967) stated the same. 19. State of Kansas. Mr. Jack Jensonius from Prairie Vtu, returning home, at about 8 pm saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turn half-fiery red, and eject three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.and the blinding glow was replaced by a light glow. I used to see satellites, but there was nothing like that. This thing moved very quickly and maneuvered sharply. " The witness's father, Walter Jingstrom (Boone, NEWS REPUBLIC, March 10, 1967) stated the same. 19. State of Kansas. Mr. Jack Yensonius from Prairie Vtu, returning home, at about 8 pm saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turning half-fiery red, and ejecting three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.and the blinding glow was replaced by a light glow. I used to see satellites, but there was nothing like that. This thing moved very quickly and maneuvered sharply. " The father of the witness, Walter Jingstrom (Boone, NEWS REPUBLIC, March 10, 1967) stated the same. 19. State of Kansas. Mr. Jack Jensonius from Prairie Vtu, returning home, at about 8 pm saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turn half-fiery red, and eject three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.at about 20 o'clock I saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turning half-fiery red, and ejecting three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.at about 20 o'clock I saw a light in the sky and some kind of bright blue object. As Jensonius stared at it, the object seemed to explode in mid-air, turn half-fiery red, and eject three flaming tails that reached the surface of the earth.
The object was heading westward and soon disappeared from sight. Then Mr. Jensonius drove a little more along the road. Here is what he reported on subsequent events: “The entire sky was illuminated by a huge flash, and right in front of me, the saucer-shaped object began to split into two parts, one of which was still blue, and the other turned fiery red. As the distance between these parts increased, a connecting tape about a foot and a half thick formed between them. While I was observing the object, it flared up again and disappeared”(Philippsburg, REVIEW, March 16, 1967). 20. State of Kansas. On Wednesday evening, between 8:30 pm and 8:30 pm, several police officers in Marion watched an unidentified flying object. Police dispatcher on duty Sterling Frem watched through binoculars as the object changed color, turning red, sometimes green, sometimes yellow. "All,who were with me, he declared, saw it. And there can be no talk of any hallucinations "(Marion, MARION CANTY RECORD, March 9, 1967). 21. State of Kansas. On Wednesday around 9 pm, a group of young men from Towend, driving along the highway northwest of the city, suddenly saw rotating red, white and blue lights in the sky above the reservoirs of the city water supply, which moved towards Wilsonfield. The boys summoned Virginia Chief of Police Osborne. Arriving at the scene, Osborne noticed that "the trees on the riverbank were illuminated with rainbow light as a mysterious object flew over us." A convoy of vehicles, led by the police chief's car, pursued the object, which continued its flight without changing course and altitude until it was out of sight (Whitewater, INDENPENDENT, March 9, 1967). 22. State of Kansas. Sheriff H. L. Sullivan and Police Chief All Kisner watched a floating object near Goodland for over an hour on Wednesday night. They stated. that it resembled a sphere up to 14 feet long, below which was an object about twelve feet in diameter. The UFO carried three lights - red, green and amber. Goodland Police Officer Ron Wihant also saw an oval object flying over the city at low speed at an altitude of about 1,500 feet that evening (Norton, TELIGREM, March 14, 1967). Goodland Police Officer Ron Wihant also saw an oval object flying over the city at low speed at an altitude of about 1,500 feet that evening (Norton, TELIGREM, March 14, 1967). Goodland Police Officer Ron Wihant also saw an oval object flying over the city at low speed at an altitude of about 1,500 feet that evening (Norton, TELIGREM, March 14, 1967).
We have cited not all the reports, but they also give an idea of what happened on Wednesday 1967. This flap cannot be called anything special, rather, on the contrary, it was the most common and none of the incidents that occurred during it deserves special attention. In 1966 alone, 64 flaps occurred, many of which were much larger than the March 1967 flap.
The March 8 flap apparently concentrated over the states of Kansas and Illinois.
Indeed, in recent years, UFO activity has focused on areas of the Midwest. By the fall of 1967, it was possible to draw a very simple conclusion: the number of observations in sparsely populated areas is significantly greater than in densely populated areas. As a matter of fact, this conclusion is not new.
Air Force specialists came to him in the late forties.
It would seem that if the phenomenon is based on a purely "psychological" factor, then the number of reports from densely populated areas should significantly exceed the number of reports from sparsely populated areas, and not vice versa. Meanwhile, objects still clearly prefer mountainous areas, deserts and woodlands, that is, places where the risk of being discovered is minimized. As you may have noticed from the above examples, most UFO sightings are observed between 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm, that is, during the hours when most of rural America is sitting at home staring at TV screens, especially on weekdays.
Researchers claim that UFOs land on the ground in the middle of the night in desert areas, where the likelihood of their detection is extremely low. Residents of most rural areas get up very early, so their active life calms down by 22 o'clock. In other words, after 22 hours, UFOs are almost not at risk of being seen. If this does happen, then this may have two explanations: either as a result of a UFO accident, or for some unknown, but deliberate purpose. However, whenever objects are noticed, they take off or mysteriously dissolve in the air.
Based on these facts alone, one can come to an interesting conclusion: if these objects are indeed machines controlled by intelligent beings, then these beings clearly do not want to be caught. They prefer the darkness of the night, choose the middle of the week for peak activity, and methodically explore our states within their administrative boundaries at this particular time. All this is very reminiscent of preparation for a military operation, reconnaissance for the secret deployment of forces in areas invisible to the enemy.
However, all this is not so simple. The first big flap in the Midwest happened in 1897. Even then, someone was scrutinizing us. And if secrecy is really their goal, then they should be grateful to both our government and our media. What are the reasons for their activities and, more importantly, are they preparing some kind of trap for us?
If these strange unidentified objects feel so free among us, then can we be satisfied with the words of Secretary of Defense McNamara, addressed to the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Congress: “All the reports at the disposal of the government were investigated, in each case we found a more reasonable explanation phenomenon and we see no reason to believe that these are aliens from outer space, and besides, they still threaten our security."
Newspapers published on March 9, 1967, quoted Dr. D. Allen Hyneck as explaining all the reports on March 8 as the state of Venus. But this is not what worries me, but the report from two persons from Lake Erie. Police officers William Rutledge and Donald Peck watched the strange glow over Lake Erie for two hours on August 3, 1966. It appeared as a bright flash in the morning at 4:45 am and, according to both police officers, moved east, then stopped, changed color and disappeared. After a moment it reappeared, but this time its color was light blue. Rutledge and Peck watched him until 6:55 am, and in the rays of the rising sun a silvery, probably metal object appeared in front of the astonished police, which then flew towards the Canadian border and disappeared.
What if all the strange lights of the night sky turned out to be silvery metal objects in the sobering light of day? Then we can safely forget about all the theories of luminous gas, meteorites, plasma and so on, that is, about everything that skeptics have been consoling and deceiving themselves with over the past twenty years.
From the book: "UFO: Operation Trojan Horse", John Kill