G S G -- Project Twinkle

Project Twinkle

 

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By Billy Booth

UFOs/Alien Expert

There have always been unidentified objects or lights in the sky that have baffled the residents of Earth since the beginning of recorded history. These enigmatic sightings come in many shapes and sizes, and are often seen only briefly, making them oftentimes the seed of folklore as much as fact.

Shortly after the Kenneth Arnold sighting of so-called "flying saucers" over Mt. Ranier, and the Roswell crash in 1947, a series of sightings of "green fireballs" began, mostly in the southwestern United States, and almost exclusively over the state of New Mexico.

Often, these types of reports would go without being investigated by any governmental agency, but these sightings took on an ominous flavor. They were very often occurring over sensitive government installations, most notably the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratory. The green fireballs were honing in on government secrets.

An investigation was initiated by meteor expert Lincoln La Paz. He concluded that the fireballs were structured, that is, not atmospheric phenomena. Initially at least, they were thought to be of Russian origin. Were the fireballs Cold War spying devices?

So much did the high ranking United States officials fear the agenda of the green fireballs, that several top-secret meetings were held, some at Los Alamos, and others in Washington, D.C. The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board was in charge of the D.C. meetings.

Finally, in December of 1949, Project Twinkle was created. This was to be a network of stations with one duty-observe, study, and collect data on the fireball phenomena. This project did little to solve the mystery, and was disbanded two years later. They had now decided that the phenomena was after all, atmospheric in nature.

There were sightings recorded, but these fell into the "normal" explanation pool. Some of these were birds, airplanes, balloons, rockets, and more. After about one year of study, absolutely no explanation was given for the green fireball mystery. Project Twinkle was a short lived study group.

Governmental Study Groups

·         Project Twinkle

·         Project Sign

·         Project Grudge

·         The Robertson Panel

·         Project Blue Book

·         Taking UFO Research to the Next Level

·         Great Britain Releases UFO Files

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G S G -- The Robertson Panel: UFO Study Group

The Robertson Panel

UFOs/Alien ExpertBy Billy Booth

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Another UFO study group was formed by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952. This group was called the Robertson Panel, and was primarily formed because of the heavy amount of UFO sightings in and around the Washington D.C. area. The group was informed of many military activities, and intelligence issues, therefore the group was labeled "secret."

The Panel would determine that UFOs could, for the most part, be easily explained by the misidentification of everyday aerial objects. The group would also advocate a campaign to "debunk" UFOs. Their desire was for the public to lose interest in UFOs, and to be put bluntly, quit calling in reports.

Actually, the growing public interest in UFOs, and incoming queries were having an impact on government facilities, and the Robertson Panel desire was to quite this activity. According to some group members, this public interest had reached "mass hysteria" levels, and it was thought that our enemies, especially the Soviet Union, could capitalize on the problem.

The group was under the leadership of Howard Percy Robertson, who was physicist, and a CIA employee. The groups first meeting was on January 14, 1953. The group members were:

Louis Alvarez, physicist (and later, a Nobel Prize winner)

Frederick C. Durant, missile expert

Samuel A. Goudsmit, Brookhaven National Laboratories physicist

Thornton Page, astrophysicist, deputy director of Johns Hopkins’ Operations Research Office.

Lloyd Berkner, physicist and J. Allen Hynek, astronomer, were associate panel members.

The group met for four days. They studied film and went over various reports. Most of the group members were skeptics, yet some very interesting conclusions were reached.

On day one, two classic UFO films were shown: one, the 1950 Montana film, and second, the 1952 Delbert Newhouse film, which was taken in Utah. Two Navy film and photograph experts presented their conclusions: both films depicted objects unidentifiable by any conventional means. Naturally, this went against the status quo of the mindset of the majority of the group. Also, Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt gave a summary of Air Force attempts to study the UFO mystery.

On the second day of the meeting, Ruppelt concluded his presentation, Dr. J. Allen Hynek discussed the Battelle efforts, and the entire panel reviewed Air Force efforts at researching UFO sightings.

Governmental Study Groups

·         Project Twinkle

·         Project Sign

·         Project Grudge

·         The Robertson Panel

·         Project Blue Book

·         Taking UFO Research to the Next Level

·         Great Britain Releases UFO Files

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G S G -- Project Blue Boo

Project Blue Book: UFO Study Group

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By Billy Booth

UFOs/Aliens Expert

By the latter part of 1951, many of the higher ranking USAF generals became very dissatisfied by Air Force investigations into the UFO mystery. Project Grudge was closed and replaced by Project Blue Book. Blue Book began in the early part of 1952.

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt would be the first head of Blue Book. He was a decorated Airman from WW II, and later earned an aeronautics degree. He had also replaced some of the earlier terms given to the UFO enigma, such as "flying saucers," and "flying discs," with the more technical "unidentified flying objects." Ruppelt is credited as leading a serious effort to understand what UFOs really were.

Ruppelt implemented several upgrades to previous efforts to study the situation of UFOs. For one, he initiated a questionnaire for reporters. This would compile a more accurate statistical data base. He employed the Battelle Memorial Institute to computerize, as it were, the data. Ruppelt demanded neutrality among his group members, and anyone leaning too far one way of the other would soon find himself out of the group.

Ruppelt sought advice from scientists and other experts in an attempt to find an answer to the mystery of the UFOs. He also released press releases for public consumption, and classified reports for military intelligence. Under his leadership, two very important cases were analyzed, the Lubbock Lights, and the Washington D.C. wave of 1952.

One of the most important members of Blue Book was Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who was listed as a scientific consultant. Hynek had already served on Project Sign and Project Grudge. Though a skeptic in the beginning, he would become the most well known and respected UFO investigator of his era. He also developed a system of categorizing UFO sighting reports, coining the lasting phrase, "close encounters." He would be involved in the investigation of the most dramatic UFO cases of his time.

When Ruppelt left for a brief period of time for another assignment, and and when he returned, he was surprised to see his staff reduced from ten or more to just two. Frustrated, he finally left Blue Book. He was replaced in March, 1954, by Captain Charles Hardin. Ruppelt would write about Hardin... "he thinks that anyone who is even interested [in UFOs] is crazy. They bore him."

In 1956, Hardin was replaced by Captain George T. Gregory, who was noted as being more "anti-UFO" than Hardin. Very few reports were investigated during this time frame, and they were quickly determined to be of little importance.

In 1958, Gregory was replaced by Major Robert J. Friend, who made an attempt toward a more serious approach to the UFO problem, but his efforts were thwarted by lack of funds, and personnel. He would eventually recommend that Blue Book be dissolved.

1963 would see another head of Blue Book, Major Hector Quintanilla, who for the most part, assumed the role of debunker. Many critics claimed that by this time, Blue Book had little, if any, credibility left.

Governmental Study Groups

·         Project Twinkle

·         Project Sign

·         Project Grudge

·         The Robertson Panel

·         Project Blue Book

·         Taking UFO Research to the Next Level

·         Great Britain Releases UFO Files

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G S G -- Taking UFO Research to the Next Level

Taking UFO Research to the Next Level

Bigelow at Conference. 

By Billy Booth

UFOs/Aliens Expert

UFO Research Receives Large Donation

The MUFON organization is the world's largest UFO investigative group. Comprised of thousands of members worldwide, it has always prided itself in that all of its investigators work pro bono. That is, until now.

Billionaire Robert Bigelow, already known for his donations of millions of dollars to various UFO research projects, is now supplying MUFON with the money they need to take UFO investigation to the next level.

His donations are based on the idea that MUFON will not only obtain irrefutable proof that UFOs are real, but also to farm the technology used by alien intelligence to advance our own scientific understanding.

Rapid Response Team

Primarily, the funds will support a rapid response team that will quickly reach the destination of a high-level UFO event.

This has always been a soft spot in UFO research. Even with UFO information flowing on the Internet at a rapid pace, we have a big void in proving the existence of UFOs as real structured craft.

The void: experienced investigators to actually visit the site, interview witnesses, take photographs and video of the site, and possibly obtain physical traces of the craft.

This takes money and time. UFO research is no different than any other, and although some people will donate their time to a cause, they must be financially secure enough to pay their own way.

There are travel expenses, room and board costs, photographic and video equipment to buy and maintain, and there are few who can fly anywhere in the world on their own penny, at the drop of a hat.

Bigelow has even gone a step further by hiring 50 scientists who will aid MUFON as consultants and also provide the lab works to conduct analysis on possible trace evidence taken from an event site.

A Trial Run

The idea is that investigators on the scene can be drop-shipped any and all special equipment needed to fit a specific investigation. March 1 marks the creation of the new MUFON SIP (Star Impact Project).

The new project will be reviewed at the end of June to see if it will be continued, and there is no foreseeable reason to think it would be dropped.

Now, instead of just reporting and collecting sighting reports, UFO research has possibly moved to another level-the ability to visit, analyze, and collect the evidence needed to prove that we are not alone.

Governmental Study Groups

·         Project Twinkle

·         Project Sign

·         Project Grudge

·         The Robertson Panel

·         Project Blue Book

·         Taking UFO Research to the Next Level

·         Great Britain Releases UFO Files

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G S G -- Brits Release More UFO Files

Brits Release More UFO Files

 

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By Billy Booth

UFOs/Aliens Expert

As promised, the British Ministry of Defence has continued to release UFO sightings, drawings, sketches, and more. The latest release covers files from 1987-1993. As to be expected, some of the files are just sighting reports, but there are some that are quite interesting.

One of the most compelling cases comes from an area near the A9, in Calvine, just north of Pitlochry. This is probably the highlight of the release. Two individuals witnessed the 1990 event.

The witnesses reported a diamond-shaped UFO hovering during daylight hours. The UFO allegedly hovered for 10 minutes. This span of time allowed at least one Harrier jet, and possibly two, to reach the area. This means that other witnesses also saw and reported the incident, or that the military had picked up the object on radar.

The jets were reported to make several low level passes in the area of the diamond-shaped object. After a short period of time, the UFO sped away to be seen no more.

You would think that the fact that at least six photographs were taken by the two witnesses would be enough to sufficiently validate the incident, but for reasons unstated, the photograph has never been released to the public.

Another strange fact about the case is that the Ministry of Defence states that they have no idea where the Harrier jets came from. This seems to be the case also in the United States on occasion, where the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

The information on the photographs is vague. Reportedly, the photos showed a "blurry" diamond-shaped object close to one of the Harrier jets. However, despite this description, well known UFO investigator, and former Mod servant, Nike Pope, made these comments:

"... [it was one of the] most impressive photos ever shown to his department."

He also said: "The MoD has all sorts of equipment and expertise that we used to analyze and enhance imagery to tell whether there were any signs of fakery. "This picture was assessed by our digital experts, who concluded it was a real photograph showing a solid-structured craft which was estimated as being around 25 meters in diameter."

In a striking description of the craft, he added: "There were no wings and no visible signs of any propulsion system. "It was exotic and unknown in a way far beyond even the most modern stealth aircraft being trailed at that time."

Pope also related details of a meeting he attended with the defence intelligence staff. The Pitlochry photograph was shown and discussed. One of the members stated that it was not an American craft, and not from the Soviets either. He then said that only left one option... pointing his finger straight up to the skies, indicating it came from outer space.

Pope also said that an enlargement of Pitlochry photograph once hung on his office wall. His superior removed it, however, and stuck in his drawer.

Pope does not what happened to the mysterious photograph of the diamond-shaped UFO over Pitlochry in 1990. It could have been lost, or secreted away, to keep it from the eyes of the public.

It would be a great addition to Ufology to obtain a copy of the Pitlochry photograph, but it seems that it will remain another pieces of the hidden files of UFOs.

Possibly one day, a government official will come forward and release this photograph, and prove that we are not alone.

Governmental Study Groups

·         Project Twinkle

·         Project Sign

·         Project Grudge

·         The Robertson Panel

·         Project Blue Book

·         Taking UFO Research to the Next Level

·         Great Britain Releases UFO Files

Read More