How could anyone possibly have predicted what was about to
happen? Personally, I can only think of a few possibilities.
First, the Washington UFO waves were man-made events; which
means that someone in-the-know decided to give Capt. Ruppelt
advanced warning of what was going to occur. Second, the UFO
waves of 1952 were actually a natural phenomenon, such as a
predictable meteor shower, and thus a scientist, such as an
astronomer, could have given Ruppelt forewarning of the same.
Third, the UFO waves were real, and had been spotted in space
by an astronomer who then informed Ruppelt of their impending
arrival. Fourth, the informer was either a human who was in
direct contact with the UFO's, and thus had prior knowledge
of their arrival in a few days time, or else the informer
was in fact an alien himself. Which one do you believe; or
is there possibly another explanation?

Over the decades, a considerable number of pilots and air
traffic controllers have witnessed strange happenings in the
sky. However, the general public usually doesn't hear about
them; because like JAL's Captain Terauchi, these people are
afraid that they might be ridiculed; or worse yet, they may
even be suspended from their jobs if they decide to talk. As
one California air traffic controller stated in testimony to
the National UFO Reporting Center, in a letter dated the
20th of February, 1997:

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"In my [only] six years at the Center, I have personally
been part of three bizarre encounters, non-military and
non-civilian. I'm just one of 15,000 controllers, too, so
there *have* to be many more that go unreported."

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However, now and then, a few of these people will take the
chance and step forward, and share what they have seen or
experienced. Captain John Baldwin, a former military and
commercial pilot, was a witness to some of the strange UFO
happenings of July, 1952. He stated:

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"The object seemed to back away from us and change shape. It
was perfectly round and still at first. Then it seemed to
back away from us and change shape. It became flat, gained
speed and then disappeared quickly."

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Two years earlier, in 1950, Captain Willis T. Sperry, a
pilot with American Airlines, shared this UFO encounter
which had been experienced by himself and his companions:

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"Three of us, Gates, Flight Engineer Robert Arnholt (also a
pilot) and I all got a good look at it. Silhouetted against
the moon, it appeared to be the shape of a torpedo or
submarine, except that there were no protruding fins or
external structure of any kind. It appeared to be a perfectly
streamlined object of a dark metallic color, but at night it
could have been pink or any other color and looked the same."

"In comparing the speed of this object with jet aircraft,
(which I have observed many times at close range), I would
say without a doubt that the speed of the object was far
beyond the limits of any known aircraft speeds that we know.
In comparison, the speed was fantastic."

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In 1966, an unnamed pilot of American Airlines Flight 387,
which was on a flight from St. Louis to Los Angeles, made
the following comments while passing over Farmington, New
Mexico, at an altitude of 33,000 feet:

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"I have never seen anything like it before. Other planes in
the area have also seen it, nor can they identify it."

"Please look off the left wingtip if you want to see a
flying saucer."

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Ulf Christiansson, (not the founding member of the Swedish
rock group "Jerusalem"), was a former World War II fighter
pilot for the British Royal Air Force. Later, he became a
commercial pilot in his home country of Sweden. In 1958,
Christiansson and his engineer had an encounter with an
unusual object which sped by their craft, as they flew in
the skies over southern Sweden. In describing their UFO
encounter, Christiansson said:

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"This object was completely symmetric and I would say it had
a spherical appearance, in a way. It was metallic white and
left no vapour trail as it went by just above the clouds."

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Many people consider Project Blue Book to have been the most
honest, and the most earnest attempt, to discover the truth
behind the UFO phenomenon. This was due in large part to the
fact that a number of very high-level, serious-minded people,
including generals, were involved with it, as well as noted
astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. While Hynek was initially a
vocal skeptic, after seeing some of the evidence, even he was
later forced to re-evaluate his position concerning UFO's. As
a matter of historical record, it was during the period that
Project Blue Book was active, that the commonly-used acronym
U.F.O., or "Unidentified Flying Object", was assigned to the
strange aerial objects which had previously been referred to
as "flying discs" or "flying saucers".

Sadly, as I mentioned earlier, in spite of the intentions of
some of the more honorable men who were involved with Project
Blue Book, just like its predecessors, Project Blue Book was
destined to be destroyed by powerful forces within the U.S.
Government, who apparently did not want the truth concerning
UFO's to come to light. While we have discussed the Condon
Report, the demise of Project Blue Book started much earlier
than the late 1960's when the Condon Report was released. In
1952, following the much-publicized Washington, DC UFO wave,
the C.I.A. established a study panel comprised of individuals
from a variety of fields, including physicists, engineers and
meteorologists. Dr. J. Allen Hynek was also on the panel. The
panel was headed by Dr. H. P. Robertson, a physicist from the
California Institute of Technology, and was thus referred to
as the Robertson Panel. This panel first convened in January
of 1953.

Some critics assert that by any account, the Robertson Panel
was a complete sham, just like Project Grudge before it, and
the Condon Report which would follow it years later. Even
though Captain Ruppelt, Dr. Hynek, and other serious-minded
individuals presented some of the most convincing evidence
which had been collected to date by Project Blue Book, after
investing only twelve hours to study more than six years of
UFO data, the Robertson Panel determined that the majority
of UFO sightings could be attributed to logical and normal
explanations. Concerning the small percentage of UFO cases
that remained unexplained, the Robertson Panel stated that
further investigation would resolve those cases in a normal
fashion as well, but that no more time or effort should be
invested in them. In short, the government should just stop
wasting time investigating UFO sightings.

However, to add injury to insult, the Robertson Panel also
recommended that the U.S. Air Force embark on a campaign to
purposely de-emphasize the importance of the UFO phenomenon.
The panel specifically suggested that the Air Force adopt a
policy to shape public opinion by debunking UFO's via the
mass media. The Robertson Panel also encouraged the USAF to
ridicule anyone who professed the belief that UFO's were of
extraterrestrial origin. Furthermore, civilian UFO research
groups were vilified, and targeted as potential subversives.
Some people are convinced that the Air Force has continued
to implement some of these same tactics, even in our current
day. Not only that, but in spite of the FOIA, (Freedom of
Information Act), it is still very difficult to obtain any
truly meaningful UFO-related data from the U.S. Government.
So much information is either missing from the files, or
censored with black ink, that what is left does not tell us
very much at all.

To help you to fully grasp how intent the U.S. Government
was on clamping down on all UFO leaks by military personnel,
consider that in December of 1953, Joint Army-Navy-Air Force
Regulation 146 was put into effect. This regulation made it
a crime for any military personnel to discuss classified UFO
reports with unauthorized persons. Violators faced up to two
years in prison, and/or fines of up to $10,000. Now, that is
getting serious! But there is an odd paradox here. If UFO's
don't really exist, as the government claims, then why would
the military go to such extremes to keep everyone quiet? It
just doesn't make sense, does it; unless . . .



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