SUBJECT: OLD NEWS FROM CUFON FILE: UFO1177 SOURCE : CUFON Computer UFO Network SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects POSSIBLE FORGOTTEN OR UNKNOWN INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I can assure you the flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth. President Harry S. Truman - Press conference, Washington DC, April 4, 1950. 2. Based upon unreliable and unscientific surmises as data, the Air Force develops elaborate statistical findings which seem impressive to the uninitiated public unschooled in the fallaciec of the statistical method. One must conclude that the highly publicized Air Force pronouncements based upon unsound statistics serve merely to misrepreent the true character of the UFO phenomena. Yale Scientific Magazine (Yale University) Volume XXXVII, Number 7, April 1963 3. I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources. John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. January 1965 4. I have absolutely no idea where the UFO's come from or how they are operated, but after ten years of research, I know they are something from ourside our atmosphere. Dr. James E. McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric physics, University of Arizona. 1967. 5. I've been convinced for a long time that the flying saucers are real and interplanetary. Another words we are being watched by beings from outer space. Albert M. Chop, deputy public relations director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and former United States Air Force spokesman for Project Blue Book. 6. The least improbable explanation is that these things UFO's are artificial and controlled. My opinion for some time has been that they have an extraterrestrial origin. Dr. Maurice Bilot, one of the world's leading aerodynamicists and mathematical physicists. Life, April 7, 1952 7. Of course the flying saucers are real and they are interplanetary. Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, commanding officer of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain, August 1954 Comments: It would seem that many people thought there was something to all of this stuff called UFO's and if this is all true, could it be that all of us are being mislead. One thing is for sure the history of this subject matter is being forgotten and there is over 40 years of it. It should be very clear to many people that this at least is true and if so then why ? I must admit this does bother me to think that we think so little of ourselves not to care about whats real and whats not. The old story is why should anyone care unless there is some money to be made or does this really concern a layman who does not know anything anyway are so they say. but who are they ? This is what we should start finding out and then maybe we will be a little closer to the problem. There has been to many good men who put themselves on the line for such a good cause, I believe we call this truth or have we forgotten this too. Dale D. Goudie, Director Of CUFON. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -> LATE NEWS <- JUNE 1, 1986 CUFON: Does not necessarily take or have any opinion as to the (AP) News Articles which are on this system. Note: CUFON - Leaves this up to the reader or readers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seattle Times BY Elizabeth Puliiam Times Staff Reporter NASA should get out of the business of launching spacecraft and let private industry take over before astronomical costs cancel the space program forever, according to one member of a presidential commission on U.S. space strategy. Unless we can redically lower the cost of reaching space, it's possible that this country may not go, said David Webb, a space development consultant and member of President Reagan's National Commission on Space, in an interview here yesterday. Webb will address the Space Development Conference at 3:30 p.m. today in the Westin Hotel. The Commission delivered its recommendations to the president Friday, although parts of the controversial report had earlier been leaked to trade journals. The report describes layers of space stations between the earth, moon and mars to be built by 2017. The cost of putting objects into space must be slashed to noe-tenth its present level, from $2,000 per pound, to $200 per pound, to make further space exploitation possible, Webb said. That means that the private sector should be more heavily involved in designing and opwerating space craft. CUFON - Computer UFO Network -> LATEST NEWS <- July 17, 1986 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seattle Times Close-Up Mystery Air Force Crash Hush Fuels Reports That Doomed Plane Was "Stealth" Knlght-Ridder Newspapers and Reuters: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bakersfield, Calif. - Out on Rancheria Road stands a roadblock manned by two soldiers wearing "sunglasses", green-and-brown camouflage outfits and black M-16 rifles slung over their backs. Beyond that roadblock, out in the sun-bleached hills about 12 miles from Bakersfield, is a mystery. Early last Friday, something fell out of the sky and into a canyon in the Sequoia National Forest, crashing on Kenneth and Agnes Mebane's ranch about 4 miles south of the roadblock. It is something the Air Force wishes no one else knew about. And they intend to do everything they can to keep others from finding out. I haven't asked them anything, says 63-year-old Kenneth Mebane of the soldiers who moved onto his property without asking permission shortly after the 2 A.M. incident. Then, echoing many who live nearby, Mebane adds, I think that's their business. Officiallt, the Air Force says only that one of its planes crashed and that its pilot, Maj. Ross Mulhare, was killed. Military analysts suspect the plane was one of a number of top-secret Stealth fighters designed to be virtually invisible to enemy radar. The Pentagon refuses to acknowledge that any such planes exist, although it is known the Air Force currently has three Stealth programs in operation. The plane also is suspected to have come from nearby Edwards Air Force Base, although the military won't comfirm or deny that. I can't say where it was based at or where it was going, say Air Force Lt. Col. Jerry Guess, who is stationed at Edwards and who is the only authorized dpokesman at the crash scene. So much secrecy is ironic in light of a pending congressional investigation into reports that the Lockheed Corp., major contractor for the F-19 Stealth fighter, may have lost hundreds of documents involved with its Stealth research. The plane was first sighted by a pilot in a small commercial airplane, who radioed the Federal Aviation Administration in Los Angeles. The FAA notified the Forest Service, which called in Kern County firefighters from Bakersfield to put out a 120 acre fire sparked by the crash. Fire Capt. Darrell Tiede and his crew from the Niles station house arrived before the military and saw the wreckage. But Tiede refuses to talk about it. A reporter for the Bakersfield Californian says one firefighter described the crash site as molten iron. But the reporter says the man's supervisor quickly told him not to say anymore. Kern County Fire Capt. Bill Alexander says all the secrecy can cause problems. Air Force personnel shooed firefighters away from the area before they had completely mopped up the blaze, he says. A Kern County "coroner's investigator was dispatched to the ranch, but turned back to Bakersfield when military officials said they were taking care of the remains. The Air Force refuses to say where the pilot was taken." While the cleanup continues, the Air Force has moved into an office at Meadows Field, Bakersfield's public airport. And it has been flying helicopters and twin-engine planes in and out of the field over the past six days. If the plane that crashed was a Stealth model, the Air Force has to be concerned that no debris is left in the area. Not only is the sleek, highly aerodynamic shape of a Stealth fighter believed important in eluding radar, but the materials used to build the plane must be of a special kind to absorb,rather than reflect , enemy radar. Thus the military would have to make sure that every chunk of the plane's body was removed. CUFON - Computer UFO Network - > LATE NEWS <- DECEMBER 5, 1985 FALLSTON, MD. ( AP ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ REAGAN TO GORBACHEV: " THREAT FROM ET'T WOULD UNITE EARTH " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ President Reagan revealed wednesday that his discussions with soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, touched not only on "Star Wars," but the extraterrestrial. In an address to students at Fallston High School here, reahan departed from his prepared remarks to say that in his private discussions with Gorbachev at last months Geneva summit, he noted that "we're all god children. I couldn't help but say to him just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly if there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe, Reagan said the president went on to say that such an event would force himself and Gorbachev to forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and they would find out that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. Well, I don't suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us, Reagan added. But I think that between us we can bring about that realization. The President then ended his remarks, without giving his young audience a clue as to how Gorbachev reponded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************