We tend to associate
the UFO phenomena with the USA but it is much more international in nature
however some countries such as Russia and China have tended to maintain secrecy
of alleged UFO sighting not least because of their forms of government but also
because UFOs were considered a military threat not necessarily emanating from
space but from their cold war enemies. Objectors to the idea of UFOs not only claim that
nearly all, if not all sightings are misidentified phenomena, but that any such
sightings are merely figments of over active American minds. Yet the reality is, sightings have been made across the world. Above is an image taken above Argentina in 1977.
This huge orb of light (above) was seen by thousands of
people and was photographed at Maspalomas on Gran Canaria
in 1976. The picture was released by the Spanish Air Force who could not explain
the event. The image below was photographed by a US Marine Air group
pilot over the north-east China Sea during the Korean war. Reproduced in Timothy Good's Beyond Top Secret Good
comments "While the sharply delineated straight line in the middle and the black
lower half suggest photographic trickery, similar effects have been noted in
other cases."
The image below was taken in 1941/2 at Tientsien, a town in
the Hopeh Province of North China. Of course visual sighting are always open to interpretation
(and misinterpretation). Sometimes objects seen in the sky are very real, but
also very secret and reports are unlikely to generate a candid response from the
military. One such secret military project was Project Mogul; a US top
secret project to develop a means of detecting and monitoring Soviet nuclear
weapons which conducted its operations from Alamogordo Army Air Field, New
Mexico in June and July 1947 using high-altitude balloon arrays and
attached instrument packages (26).
It has been claimed that it was the wreckage
from one of these Mogul flights that could account for the debris found at the
infamous Roswell site, of which more later, and also at another crash at nearby
Corona. This is certainly the view of Karl Pflock, a former CIA officer, whose
career included a period as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for
Operational Test and Evaluation (27). The crash landing of a top-secret
project in open territory would undoubtedly have led to the immediate sealing of
the area and collection of all recoverable remains.
Of course many of the reported sightings of UFOs are hoaxes. In fact such hoaxes accounted for 33% of all
sightings claimed to be UFOs in a formal United States Air Force investigation
of the phenomenon in 1949.
A further 32% could be accounted for
astronomically, 12% were identified as weather balloons, however 23% remained
unaccounted for (28). It is this 23% that has long interested believers in
extraterrestrial contact, a belief that has widespread support throughout the
scientific community.
As Carl Sagan stated "The earth may have been visited by
various galactic civilisations many times (possibly in the order of 10,000)
during geological times.It is not out of
the question that artefacts of these visits still exist, or even that some kind
of base is maintained (possibly automatically) within the solar system to
provide continuity for successive expeditions." (29) However, one of the main
arguments against the likelihood of such alien visits is that the distances
between us and our universal neighbours - even if they do exist - are so great
that the possibility of physical contact can almost be ruled out. But can it be ruled
in?
References
(2) Story, R., Guardians of the Universe? pp. 113-127, Book Club Associates, London 1980. (3) Temple, R. The Sirius Mystery, Sidgwick and Jackson 1976. (4) Temple, R. The Sirius Mystery, Sidgwick and Jackson 1976. (5) The Unexplained. 297 (6) Ibid. (7) Ibid. (8) Temple, R. The Sirius Mystery, Sidgwick and Jackson 1976. (9) Valee p. 1 (10) Valee p. 2 (11) Trench, Brinsley le Poer, The Sky People Neville Spearman, London 1960. (12) Trench, Brinsley le Poer, The Flying Saucer Story. (13) Alien Worlds, Ruben Stone p 10. (14) The UFO Phenomenon p. 16 (15) Knowledge p. 396, 28th December 1883. (16) Mysteries of the Universe p. 183 (17) Ibid p. 18 (18) Randles, J UFOs & How to See Them p.9. (19) Angels Are Men From Space Austr. FSR, Vol. I No. 3, September 1960. See also Toronto Daily Star, 5th January 1960. (20) Mysteries of the Universe p. 181 (21) Hynek, J. A. H., Talk presented to the Hypervelocity Impact Conference, Elgin Air Force Base, Florida 27th April, 1960 as quoted in Valee, Jacques, Anatomy of a Phenomenon pp. 16-17, Tandem, 1974.
(22) Blum, Ralph and Judy, Beyond Earth p. 60 Corgi 1978. (23) Keel, John A., UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse p120, quoting the New York Tribune, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York 1970. (24) Chalker, W., The Missing Cessna and the UFO, pp. 3-5, Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 31, No. 5, 1986. (25) Chalker, W., Vanished? - The Valentich Affair Re-Examined, pp 6-12, Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 30 No. 2 1984. (26) Good,T Beyond Top Secret p 462 Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1996 (27) Roswell in Perspective (28) Technical Report No. 102-AC-49/15-100 pp 94-95. (29) Carl Sagan (1966 meeting of the American Astronautical Society, in Norman, Eric, Gods, Demons and Space Chariots New York, Lancer Books 1970.
(1) Sagan Carl, Broca's Brain Chapter 6, Random House, New York 1979.
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