Post by auntym on Aug 18, 2011 20:52:42 GMT -6
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August 18th, 2011 02:24pm
Putting a lid on ‘this stuff’[/color]
by Billy Cox
It wasn’t enough for Project Blue Book to declare that military observers on the ground had mistaken UFOs cruising Strategic Air Command skies on Oct. 24, 1968, for a B-52 and the star Sirius. The official Air Force report also concluded the bomber crew in the air had mistaken the bogey(s) — which also interfered with radio traffic twice during the encounters — for ball lightning. Furthermore, the brass also pronounced how yet another star, Vega, had profoundly confused the experienced airmen, some of whom were Vietnam veterans.
Although the crew was debriefed by SAC Brig. Gen. Ralph Holland following futile efforts to identify the thing or things that had so easily breached security at a base bristling with nuclear warheads, none were interviewed by Lt. Col. Arthur Werlich, the unlucky Minot AFB official who drew the short straw to become Blue Book’s base liaison. The 10/24/68 event was the first UFO incident Werlich ever worked. He reconstructed the crew’s story from SAC reports, which have yet to be located.
Years later, several surviving crew members would discover that significant portions of radio-chatter transcripts with Radar Approach Control had been edited out, and that troublesome chronology sequences were altered or rearranged to sync with Blue Book’s version of events. A thorough anatomy of this travesty, assembled by Minnesota researcher Tom Tulien, is part of his online Sign Oral History Project.
Today, former copilot Capt. Bradford Runyon, who found Blue Book’s conclusions “insulting,” says “of course” the ‘68 incident involved national security.
CONTINUE READING: devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/12171/putting-a-lid-on-this-stuff/?pa=all&tc=pgall
August 18th, 2011 02:24pm
Putting a lid on ‘this stuff’[/color]
by Billy Cox
It wasn’t enough for Project Blue Book to declare that military observers on the ground had mistaken UFOs cruising Strategic Air Command skies on Oct. 24, 1968, for a B-52 and the star Sirius. The official Air Force report also concluded the bomber crew in the air had mistaken the bogey(s) — which also interfered with radio traffic twice during the encounters — for ball lightning. Furthermore, the brass also pronounced how yet another star, Vega, had profoundly confused the experienced airmen, some of whom were Vietnam veterans.
Although the crew was debriefed by SAC Brig. Gen. Ralph Holland following futile efforts to identify the thing or things that had so easily breached security at a base bristling with nuclear warheads, none were interviewed by Lt. Col. Arthur Werlich, the unlucky Minot AFB official who drew the short straw to become Blue Book’s base liaison. The 10/24/68 event was the first UFO incident Werlich ever worked. He reconstructed the crew’s story from SAC reports, which have yet to be located.
Years later, several surviving crew members would discover that significant portions of radio-chatter transcripts with Radar Approach Control had been edited out, and that troublesome chronology sequences were altered or rearranged to sync with Blue Book’s version of events. A thorough anatomy of this travesty, assembled by Minnesota researcher Tom Tulien, is part of his online Sign Oral History Project.
Today, former copilot Capt. Bradford Runyon, who found Blue Book’s conclusions “insulting,” says “of course” the ‘68 incident involved national security.
CONTINUE READING: devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/12171/putting-a-lid-on-this-stuff/?pa=all&tc=pgall