by Leslie Kean
A second paper by Dr. Maccabee, “Supplementary Discussions of the Phoenix Lights Videos of March 13, 1997,” January, 2006, can be found at http://brumac.8k.com/PhoenixSupplement/.
7 “any evidence whatsoever of aliens or UFOs” Dennis Roberts, reporter for the Modesto Bee, a Northern California newspaper, attended the press conference in Stockton, California, and taped it. He sent me a transcript in an e-mail on March 1, 2000.
8 over the Royal Air Force base at Cosford See chapter 17 by Nick Pope, “The Real X-Files,” for a review of the Cosford incident.
9 as Goldwater has written in his letters See the previous chapter for excerpts from these letters.
CHAPTER 26: ENGAGING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
1 I cofounded the Coalition for Freedom of Information See www.freedomofinfo.org for more information on the Coalition for Freedom of Information, CFi.
2 as a way of saving face MSNBC presidential debate, October 30, 2007. Transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21528787/page/22/.
3 “for for the benefit of science” Go to www.freedomofinfo.org for the full text of the International Declaration to the United States Government, first released in November 2007.
CHAPTER 27: MILITANT AGNOSTICISM AND THE UFO TABOO
1 the overwhelming evidence for its existence Alexander Wendt and Robert Duvall, “Sovereignty and the UFO,” Political Theory, vol. 36, no. 4 (August 2008), pp. 607–33. Sage Publications has posted the paper on its website, http:ptx.sagepub.com.
2 a bad fairy had administered a sleeping potion Hynek, “The Roots of Compacency,” 1985, op. cit.
3 UFO skeptics think that human beings know The widely used phrase “UFO skeptic” can be misleading, because “skepticism” should imply doubt but openness. However, in UFO discourse it has been deformed into positive denial.
4 over 400 extrasolar planets Dennis Overbye, “A Sultry World Is Found Orbiting a Distant Star,” New York Times, December 17, 2009.
5 “They Can’t Get Here” Some of this section is reprinted verbatim from the 2008 paper, Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, op. cit., p. 616. Occasional phrases or sentences in “Militant Agnosticism and the UFO Taboo” were also used in the first paper.
6 civilizataions should have reached Earth long ago Martyn Fogg, “Temporal Aspects of the Interaction Among the First Galactic Civilizations,” Icarus 69 (1987): 370–84.
7 the speed of light is truly an absolute barrier J. Deardorff et al., “Inflation-Theory Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation,” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 58 (2005): 43–50.
8 to skip over space without time dilation H. E. Puthoff, S. R. Little, and M. Ibison, “Engineering the Zero-Point Field and Polarizable Vacuum for Interstellar Flight,” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 55 (2002): 137–44.
9 “Fermi Paradox” Stephen Webb, Where Is Everybody? (New York: Copernicus Books, 2002).
10 UFOs are not a national security concern Richard Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, pp. 193–203.
11 reinforcing the skeptical case Peter Galison, “Removing Knowledge,” Critical Inquiry 31 (2004): 229–43. On UFO secrecy see especially Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, and, for the official view, Gerald Haines, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–1990,” Intelligence and National Security 14 (1999): 26–49, and Charles Ziegler, “UFOs and the US Intelligence Community,” Intelligence and National Security, vol. 14 (1999), pp. 1–25.
12 a science of UFOs One could imagine, for example, a complementary, bottom-up or “democratic” strategy centering on an Internet-funded NGO, an idea we (Wendt and Duvall) have explored elsewhere.
CHAPTER 28: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGE
1 “a powerful desire to do nothing” Hynek, “The Roots of Complacency,” op. cit.
2 “the dam breaks, sometimes cataclysmically” Ibid.
3 Dr. James E. McDonald, senior atmospheric physicist Dr. James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Washington, D.C., July 29, 1968. This report is recommended reading. For a detailed biography about McDonald and chronicle of his work, see Ann Druffel, Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald’s Fight for UFO Science (Wild Flower Press, 2003).
4 a 2009 memoir Peter Sturrock, A Tale of Two Sciences: Memoirs of a Dissident Scientist (Exoscience, 2009).
5 on the position of the scientific establishment Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence (Warner Books, 1999). Provides all the case reports presented at the conference. Recommended reading.
6 “If it does happen, it can happen.” Ibid., p. 160.
7 multiple dimensions, and even time travelers See Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel (Doubleday, 2008).
8 an August 2009 Newsweek cover story Andrew Romano, “Aliens Exist,” Newsweek, August 24 & 31, 2009, pp. 50–52.
9 over 400 planets orbiting other stars Marc Kaufman, “Search for Extraterrestrial Life Gains Momentum Around the World,” Washington Post, December 22, 2009. In addition to the exoplanets already discovered, the article states, “It is generally assumed that billions or trillions more are orbiting in distant systems.”
10 NASA has also developed a highly sensitive infrared space telescope NASA release, “NASA’s Wise Eye Spies First Glimpse of the Starry Sky; Infrared All-Sky Surveying Telescope Sends Back First Images from Space,” January 6, 2010. It begins, “NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light. Launched on Dec. 14, WISE will scan the entire sky for millions of hidden objects, including asteroids, ‘failed’ stars and powerful galaxies.” More information about the WISE mission is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/wise.
11 “An extraordinary phenomenon demands an extraordinary investigation.” UFO researcher and author Budd Hopkins originated this phrase in 1987 while conversing with astronomer Carl Sagan in the greenroom of a Boston TV station. For an account of the interchange, see Budd Hopkins, Art, Life and UFOs: A Memoir (Anomalist Books, 2009).
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UFOs : generals, pilots, and government officials go on the record / Leslie Kean. — 1st ed.
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
FOREWORD By John Podesta
INTRODUCTION
Defining the Indefinable: What Is a UFO?
PART 1
OBJECTS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
CHAPTER 1
Majestic Craft with Powerful Beaming Spotlights
CHAPTER 2
The UAP Wave over Belgium
by Major General Wilfried De Brouwer (Ret.)
CHAPTER 3
Pilots: A Unique Window into the Unknown
CHAPTER 4
Circled by a UFO
by Captain Júlio Miguel Guerra
CHAPTER 5
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Aviation Safety
by Richard F. Haines, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 6
Incursion at O’Hare A
irport, 2006
CHAPTER 7
Gigantic UFOs over the English Channel, 2007
by Captain Ray Bowyer
CHAPTER 8
UFOs as Air Force Targets
CHAPTER 9
Dogfight over Tehran
by General Parviz Jafari (Ret.), Iranian Air Force
CHAPTER 10
Close Combat with a UFO
by Comandante Oscar Santa María Huertas (Ret.), Peruvian Air Force
PART 2
IN THE LINE OF DUTY
CHAPTER 11
The Roots of UFO Debunking in America
CHAPTER 12
Taking the Phenomenon Seriously
CHAPTER 13
The Birth of COMETA
by Major General Denis Letty (Ret.)
CHAPTER 14
France and the UFO Question
by Jean-Jacques Velasco
CHAPTER 15
UFOs and the National Security Problem
CHAPTER 16
“A Powerful Desire to Do Nothing”
CHAPTER 17
The Real X-Files
by Nick Pope
The Cosford Incident
The Rendlesham Forest Incident: A Cold Case Review
Project Condign
The Public Informed … the Public Denied
CHAPTER 18
The Extraordinary Incident at Rendlesham Forest
by Sergeant James Penniston (Ret.), U.S. Air Force, and by Colonel Charles I. Halt (Ret.), U.S. Air Force
I. Sergeant James Penniston
II. Colonel Charles I. Halt
CHAPTER 19
Chile: Aeronautical Cases and the Official Response
by General Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza (Ret.), Chilean Air Force, and by Captain Rodrigo Bravo Garrido, Aviation Army of Chile
I. General Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza
II. Captain Rodrigo Bravo Garrido
CHAPTER 20
UFOs in Brazil
by Brigadier General José Carlos Pereira (Ret.)
PART 3
A CALL TO ACTION
CHAPTER 21
Fighting Back: A New UFO Agency in America
CHAPTER 22
The FAA Investigates a UFO Event “That Never Happened”
by John J. Callahan
CHAPTER 23
Government Cover-up: Policy or Myth?
CHAPTER 24
Governor Fife Symington and Movement Toward Change
CHAPTER 25
Setting the Record Straight
by Fife Symington III Governor of Arizona, 1991–97
CHAPTER 26
Engaging the U.S. Government
CHAPTER 27
Militant Agnosticism and the UFO Taboo
by Dr. Alexander Wendt and Dr. Raymond Duvall
Proving Our Ignorance
The Threat of the UFO
Maintaining the Taboo
Resistance Through Militant Agnosticism
CHAPTER 28
Facing an Extreme Challenge
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: MAJESTIC CRAFT WITH POWERFUL BEAMING SPOTLIGHTS
CHAPTER 2: THE UAP WAVE OVER BELGIUM
CHAPTER 3: PILOTS
CHAPTER 4: CIRCLED BY A UFO
CHAPTER 5: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA AND AVIATION SAFETY
CHAPTER 6: INCURSION AT O’HARE AIRPORT
CHAPTER 7: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
CHAPTER 8: UFOS AS AIR FORCE TARGETS
CHAPTER 9: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRAN
CHAPTER 10: CLOSE COMBAT WITH A UFO
CHAPTER 11: THE ROOTS OF UFO DEBUNKING IN AMERICA
CHAPTER 12: TAKING THE PHENOMENON SERIOUSLY
CHAPTER 13: THE BIRTH OF COMETA
CHAPTER 14: FRANCE AND THE UFO QUESTION
CHAPTER 15: UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEM
CHAPTER 16: “A POWERFUL DESIRE TO DO NOTHING”
CHAPTER 17: THE REAL X-FILES
CHAPTER 19: CHILE
CHAPTER 20: UFOS IN BRAZIL
CHAPTER 21: FIGHTING BACK
CHAPTER 22: THE FAA INVESTIGATES A UFO EVENT “THAT NEVER HAPPENED”
CHAPTER 23: GOVERNMENT COVER-UP
CHAPTER 24: GOVERNOR FIFE SYMINGTON AND MOVEMENT TOWARD CHANGE
CHAPTER 26: ENGAGING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER 27: MILITANT AGNOSTICISM AND THE UFO TABOO
CHAPTER 28: FACING AN EXTREME CHALLENGE