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- UPDATE: COOPER
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- Re the Cooper Edwards UFO story, please add a link to
http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/1997/feb/m04-010.shtml
which includes my report, researched and written in the early 1980s,
about the actual incident Cooper is talking about.
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- The original witnesses, Bittick and Gettys, clearly describe
an event quite different from the way Cooper remembers it. So does James
McDonald, who also investigated it.
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- The case is Blue Book #4715, and the 30 page report can
be ordered from the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. I have
done so myself. Nothing disappeared, the photos are there on file, the
witness interviews, maps, everything.
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- I do not offer an explanation of why Cooper's version
is so different from that of the original witnesses and investigators,
and at variance with the existing documentation, nor do I think I have
to. Use your own imagination.
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- Just ask yourself this: if something had really landed
there, wouldn't somebody -- Cooper included -- have walked out and searched
the ground for imprints? Why do you suppose Cooper omits describing this
obvious consequence of a "landing".
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- And note Cooper's 1978 comment on a taped interview:
"I'd just as soon not get into the Edwards incident. I didn't get
to see anything personally, it was all second hand evidence really."
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- Jim Oberg
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- ASTRONAUT GORDON COOPER'S UFO FILMS
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- In recently published memoirs "Leap of Faith: An
Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown", by USAF Colonel L. Gordon Cooper
(Ret.) recounts how he chased UFOs over Germany in his F-86. Following
this experience, Cooper was very open minded about UFOs. He writes, "I
knew an Air Force master sergeant assigned to a team that received an emergency
call-out from Washington D.C., to the Pacific southwest (not Roswell.)
He told me they reached a canyon and found a wreckage at the site. According
to his friend -- and I had been around him enough to consider him a reliable
guy -- a metallic disk-shaped object had crashed, and sitting atop the
wreckage were two very human-looking fellows in flight suits, waving at
them. They were hustled away, and the sergeant never found out who they
were or what happened to them."
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- As a captain stationed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.,
on May 3, 1957, he became aware that a metallic, saucer-shaped craft had
landed (silently) sometime after 8:00 a.m. on base property. He alleges
that the event was filmed by a startled technical film crew on assignment
50 yards away, the craft zooming out of sight when the photographers tried
to approach it for a better camera shot. Cooper writes that, upon learning
of the incident, he telephoned appropriate Pentagon officials, who ordered
him to have all the film developed (but not printed) and to ship it immediately
to the Pentagon. He adds that, before complying, he chose to peek at some
of the negatives, which confirmed the existence of the "saucer"
as described to him by the film crew. Cooper notes that he heard nothing
more about the film or the results of any investigation. Thanks to Dwight
Connelly
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- NEW YORK RECTANGLE SHAPED UFO
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- NEW YORK CITY - Peter Davenport reports that on September
8, 2000, the witness says, "My workmate and I were sitting at lunch
in the cafeteria in a Manhattan building over looking Central Park. We
saw a police helicopter circling the park because of the UN meeting of
world leaders. Then, I saw a reddish/amber object which seemed stationary
at first, but then began to move very slowly. I kept looking and the object
now was showing a bright white color. I pointed that to my workmate and
we decided to focus on the object and the helicopter. It wasn't long before
we noticed that the flying object was actually moving in a circular fashion,
traveling and spinning, that was evident because we could see the bright
white color and then reddish/amber. Sometimes it appeared this was a two-colored
object and sometimes one. We became more curious when we realized that
this thing was really moving upwards and getting smaller and that we now
would only recognize the bright white color. We knew it was not a balloon,
nor a helicopter, nor any other object that we can recognize. We suggested
it might be a flying saucer and we both laughed. I still do not know what
the heck this thing was but I know I had never seen anything like it before.
NEW YORK CITY -- A second report was received on September 8, 2000, describing
a rectangle shaped object spinning around, changing colors constantly from
red to white. New York police helicopters circle around the area, but they
failed to see the object. The witness believed they are looking down on
the city instead of up at the object. Object are climbing upwards and gets
further away. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC http://www.ufocenter.com/
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- NEW JERSEY FLYING TRIANGLE UFO
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- WALDWICK - I spoke on the phone with Brian McCrudden
who says, "Some of my family and friends have witnessed strange lights
and a triangle shaped craft in the sky starting on September 5th and continuing
thru September 8, 2000." All sightings happened at night. The footage
I shot is an object that changes form very fast. It looks like a worm at
times. It jumps all over the place changing into different shapes. And
at two different times it emits a green wave of light that is on the film.
On September 7th my friend and I saw an extremely bright object moving
over the tree tops. The light from the object lit up the woods below like
it was day light. We live on White's Pond and have seen many strange UFOs.
One object looked like a burning candle with a golden yellow center. It
moved right over where we were standing. Frankly we got scared and my friend
an I ran like hell back to the house. The objects seem to be circling our
area. Brian indicated their home is on the standard flight path into Newark
and they are use to seeing standard planes, but these are very different.
Thanks to bjmccrud@aol.com and Larry Clark nymufon@nycap.rr.com.
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- NEW JERSEY FLYING RECTANGLE
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- WAYNE -- I have investigated the Debra Yetman case more
thoroughly and the witness has provided more detailed information concerning
her May 15, 2000, UFO sighting. Debra filled out the MUFON forms and wrote:
"Sitting in my backyard, 2:30 in the afternoon, I was reading Linda
Moulton Howe's book "Glim pses of Other Realities, Vol. II".
I don't know what made me look up other than wishing to myself how much
I wish I knew for sure if these are real occurrences. I still remember
the absolute shock I felt because they were not like anything I ever read
or heard about from other people. They were just above the tree line so
you could see it was not a bird, kite, balloon or plane. Two solid black
objects moving at a 'fast pace.' There was no lights, no sound, nothing
else to see! It was so close, I could see that they appeared totally solid
from my ground point of view. One came right after the other moving in
the formation I drew. They were probably the size of (in length) of a small
car. The objects flew over the house then my yard and me! They then flew
over the trees in my yard which are very high, 75 to 100 feet tall continuing
out of sight once over those trees. My reaction was shock and disbelief
in my own eyes, because I could not imagine what they were. Still I can't
except they must be UFOs. There was no chance to run and get a camera,
it happened so fast. The dog was scared and wanted to go in. She didn't
bark, but ran to the door with her tail between her legs. I went with her,
and got scared and stayed inside for awhile. No one else was home.
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- Editors Note: During September there have been almost
nightly sightings in this general area of Northern New Jersey only ten
miles west of New York City. Debra made a nice drawing of the two black
objects that were rectangle in shape. Assuming they were twenty feet long
they were about two feet thick and three feet wide. Moving north east at
50 mph they flew directly over the witness at an altitude of 100 feet.
They look similar to the shape of a two by four. This particular odd shape
flying wing has been seen in New Jersey before. One was see flying over
Teterboro Airport by aircraft engineers and by police in Medford. This
general area has had sightings periodically for fifty years.
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- PENNSYLVANIA TRIANGULAR PATTERN LIGHTS
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- HERMITAGE -- On September 9, 2000, my two friends and
I were hanging out in the one friends backyard, which is actually located
on the main business strip of our town. They were sitting at a picnic table
and I was standing. I was talking when I looked up, I saw something fly
overhead between two 40 feet trees. I quickly turned and took a few steps
to my left and watched the object disappear into the night sky. My friends
got up from the table and asked, "Did you see that?" We discussed
what we saw and each drew pictures of what we saw. It did not appear to
be flying at an altitude greater than a couple hundred feet. It was absolutely
silent. We all saw the same thing. It was moving west to east but not at
a moderate speed. It did not bank like a plane would and swiftly moved
to the right. It consisted of three rectangular lights, gold-amber in color,
not terribly bright, but distinct--no halos or blurriness to them. It was
hazy that night. The rectangles were in a triangular pattern, one on top,
two on the bottom as if there was one for each point on a triangle. Thanks
to Peter Davenport NUFORC http://www.ufocenter.com/
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- PENNSYLVANIA ROD SHAPED UFO
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- BETHLEHEM -- Margaret Kichline writes, "This morning,
September 16, 2000, I went outside to see some deer that were in our neighbors
back yard at 6:45 AM." I walked around the back end of our wooded
property checking out things and saw an object traveling very fast, that
was silvery white-rod shape. I ran into my house to get my binoculars.
The object looked strange with no wings at all. It was about an inch to
2 inches in size without the binoculars and it made no sound. The object
had a faint white blinking light in the center. I followed it until I couldn't
see it anymore going toward the airport in the clear blue sky. I watched
it halfway through it's course and saw a low flying airliner crossing in
another direction. It was very low and I could see it in detail without
binoculars. Thanks to Margaret Kichline vixalien@enter.net (Margaret Kichline)
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- DELAWARE FLYING TRIANGLE
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- WILMINGTON - On September 16, 2000, a mother daughter
and three grandkids saw a very strange flying triangle. In each corner
there was a bright white light. Each light blinked in turn one after the
other. The object just hovered there and a very faint humming sound could
be heard. There seemed to be a little mist or haze around it. We didn't
know what it could be. After a while in one corner there were two lights
that shone, one bright white and the other was bright red. They flashed
as the object slowly started to move away, then in a bright flash of light
it was gone. There was a small trail of light left behind, but then it
soon faded. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC http://www.ufocenter.com/
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- GEORGIA FLYING TRIANGLE
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- LA GRANGE - Researcher John Thompson writes, "I
had a person in my office say that they along with 4 other adults saw a
triangle shaped craft, with four large non-blinking lights Labor Day night.
It was going north towards LaGrange. It was very high, and moved at a speed
like a satellite. A large central brilliant white light on its bottom came
on. The light, interestingly, faded on and faded off like a dimmer is twirled
and then twirled back quickly. The light expanded and then rapidly contracted.
After flying past they heard a "dim humming noise" like a B-2
Stealth bomber makes which one of the witnesses has seen fly over during
an airplane show in Columbus. No one thought it was an airliner. No lights
were seen blinking or of any other color besides white. It was seen at
10:00 PM on September 4, 2000, on a clear night. Their drawing of the craft
shows a huge diffused light covering about half of the triangle shaped
craft they saw. The three other white and much smaller lights were at each
corner of the craft. Thanks to John Thompson
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- MISSISSIPPI CONTRAILS WITNESS SILVERY DISC
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- TUPELO -- On September 16, 2000, a silvery disc flew
from west to east against clear blue sky. My wife had called me out to
view the contrails crisscrossing the morning sky. I retrieved my binoculars
to try to identify the aircraft when the disc appeared just below a fresh
con-trail. I pointed it out to my wife, and she saw it without the aid
of binoculars. The disc was about 10,000 feet high and the sighting lasted
from 20 to 30 seconds. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC http://www.ufocenter.com/
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- AZORES UFO REPORTS
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- LAJES FIELD -- Henry Deitchman writes, "During the
many years of my life as an Air Traffic Controller, it was always a fantasy
of mine to one day see a UFO. In 1973, my fantasy was realized while working
as a controller at the Radar Approach Control at Lajes Field, Azores Islands
in the middle of the Atlantic. My first few months there were quiet, but
then the Arab/Israeli War started and the USAF started resupplying Israel
with arms. During the entire time of the resupply airlift, a few weeks,
the radar and tower controllers encountered not less than one UFO incident
per day. It got so bad that we even started sending out NAVY P-3 Sub Chasers
our electronic warfare airplanes, covertly, to try to identify where they
were coming from, but all efforts proved useless. The UFO's would follow
our aircraft during the day and even make low approaches to the runway
at night. None of the controllers were afraid of collisions, but it did
bother us keeping in mind who we were in control of and who the observers
were. Before you ask, yes, we did have fun with them. Occasionally we would
turn an F-4 to chase them, not that we thought we could catch something
that fast, but it kept us all honest and broke the monotony. All considered,
it was a fantastic experience. Except the debriefing afterwards by some
officers sent in from the states." Thanks to CAUS and Henry Deitchman
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- AUSTRALIA MYSTERY CROSS AND PRINTS
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- Australian researcher Barry Taylor reports a local lady
contacted him regarding a mysterious 'cross' that had appeared on her arm
during the night. Also, there were mysterious 'finger' print marks on her
bedroom mirror. The question is, "did the same 'entity' that scratched
the cross on her arm, leave these mysterious finger prints on her bedroom
mirror? A full DNA sampling of the prints was undertaken with the assistance
of the Scientific Research group 'Phenomena Research Australia.' The results
showed NO Human DNA, in fact no DNA at all of what could have made these
prints. There was an unusually high density bacterial culture found in
the prints. This is also unexplainable. the physical proof we are looking
for that 'inter-dimensional beings ' are visiting Humans in their own homes
at night? Or does it have an 'Earthly' explanation, and all we have to
do is find it? Thanks to Barry Taylor stingray@nor.com.au The print images
and details are now posted at: http://www.nor.com.au/users/stingray/latesite.htm
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- NORTH CAROLINA DISC UFO REPORT A HOAX
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- MUFON Investigator Rex Peterson writes that the North
Carolina story is a hoax perpetuated by someone who uses various aliases
such as Paul Novak, Grendel 1, Grendel The Martyr, and Sceptic Trooper,
etc. Apparently, Paul Novak chooses to spend a couple hours unashamedly
typing out fake UFO reports.
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- Editor's Note: I have often mentioned, "These are
initial reports and need further investigation." I admit we have difficulty
in determining if someone is dishonest when sending or calling in a report.
This particular report was detailed and several typed pages long. It probably
took more than an hour to write. Most of the key details of the story such
as the loss of life in the Hurricane Floyd , the flooding on Tar River,
NC and other details seemed accurate. Our investigations, phone calls,
travel costs are at our cost on a volunteer basis. The final reports are
signed. We consistently find that 99% of the 300 people a month reporting
UFO reports are truthful. Generally people are quite excited by their sighting.
These initial reports are reported has quickly as possible to you the reader,
and investigation is done after the fact usually taking many months. When
ever possible our investigators interview the persons who wrote the report
and have them sign a form indicating their willingness to stand behind
their report.
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- As an Intelligence officer and flier who spent twenty
years in the Air Force it came to my attention that UFOs are traveling
in our skies at high speeds in disregard for the safety of the flying public.
Almost every major aircraft accident such as TWA Flight 800 and EgyptAir
990 often involve reports of UFOs often by hundreds of people. I personally
chased a UFO while in the Air Force while serving in England. London Control
directed our intercept of the target UFO that was hovering over the Stonehenge
area. UFOs are treated very seriously by the government, millions of pages
of government documents have already been released. My experiences have
shown me that this is very serious to the US and UK. High ranking retired
military personnel in France, recently released their historic document
"UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" written by the
French Association. Initiated by four-star General Bernard Norlain, former
Commander of the French Tactical Air Force and Military Counselor to the
Prime Minister, COMETA, or "Committee for In-Depth Studies",
is composed of French generals, admirals, engineers, doctors, physicists,
and other high-ranking officials including the Chief of National Police,
and the Research Director of the French equivalent of NASA. Cooperation
between various governments is encouraged. China has asked for international
cooperation partially do to a UFO and commercial aircraft collision.
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- Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 astronaut who was the
sixth man to walk on the moon, strongly supports such cooperation. Along
with five-star Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, the former head of the British
Ministry of Defense and Major Gordon L. Cooper, one of America's original
seven Mercury astronauts, Mitchell is calling for Congressional hearings
to shed light on the UFO question. "People have been digging through
the files and investigating for years now. The files are quite convincing.
Occasionally the skeptic will attempt to hoax a sighting, but I personally
feel they do more damage to their own cause than they realize. Our goal
is to obtain valid sightings and to determine exactly what is going on.
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