SUBJECT: ASSORTED AP REPORTS FILE: UFO3073 PART 2 ============================================================================ Article #: 1 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 06-17-1986 Subject: 1978 AP PILOT DISAPPEARS SOURCE: AP MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA DATE: 25 OCTOBER 1978 AUSTRALIAN PILOT DISAPPEARS AFTER REPORTING CHASE BY UFO'S Boats and aircraft have found no trace of the 20-year old Australian pilot who disappeared with his plane on Saturday night after radioing that he was being chased by a UFO. Frederick Valentich was on a 125 mile training flight in his single engine Cessna 182 along the coast of Bass Strait when he told air traffic controllers in Melbourne that he was being buzzed by a UFO with 4 bright lights about 1000 feet above him. Controllers said his last message was taped and was: "It's approaching from due east towards me. It seems to be playing some sort of game... flying at a speed I can't estimate. It's not an aircraft. It's...It is flying past. It is a long shape. I cannot identify more than that. It's coming for me right now." A minute later: "It seems to be stationary. I'm also orbiting and the thing is orbiting on top of me also. It has a green light and a sort of metallic light on the outside." Valentich then radioed that his engine was running roughly. His last words were: "It is not an aircraft." The Australian Air Force said it had received 11 reports from people along the coast who said they saw UFOs on Saturday night, but the Transport Department was skeptical. Ken Williams, a spokesman for the department, said, "It's funny all these people ringing up with UFO reports well after Valentich's disappearance. It seems people often decide after the event, they too had seen strange lights. But although we can't take them too seriously, we can never discourage such reports when investigating a plane's disappearance." Some Transport Dept officials have speculated that Valentich became disoriented and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a nearby island, while flying upside down. Valentich's father, Guio, said his son used to study UFOs "as a hobby using information he had received from the Air Force. He was not the kind of person who would make up stories. Everything had to be very correct and positive for him. The fact that they have found no trace of him really verifies the fact that UFOs could have been there." Guio Valentich said he hoped his son hadn't crashed but had been taken by a UFO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article #: 3 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 06-17-1986 Subject: 1978 NEW ZEALAND ALERT SOURCE: AP AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND DATE: 02 JANUARY 1979 - SIGHTING DATE 21 DECEMBER 1978 A television news team from Melbourne, Australia says it filmed a UFO on Saturday night while flying over the Kaikoura region of New Zealand's South Island. Aviation authorities reported that the UFO was apparently tracked by radar as well, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force put a Skyhawk jet fighter on special standby alert. The pilot of the news team's plane said he first noticed a bright white light about 20 miles ahead, and "It appeared to stay still until we got within 10 miles, then it turned with us as I changed course. It then went above us and circled and came down beneath us. It was making definite movements in relation to us." PHOTOGRAPH: AP. UFO filmed by New Zealand news team. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article #: 4 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 06-17-1986 Subject: 1979 CIA UFO SURVEILLANCE SOURCE: NYT (PHOENIX, AZ) DATE: 01 JANUARY 1979 CIA PAPERS DETAIL UFO SURVEILLANCE Ground Saucer Watch (GSW), an Arizona-based nation-wide UFO research organization of about 500 scientists, engineers and others, said on Friday it has obtained 1,000 pages of CIA documents under a freedom of information suit which show that the agency has been secretly involved in UFO surveillance since 1949 - even though the CIA has repeatedly said its investigation ended in 1952. William Spaulding, an aerospace engineer with AiResearch and head of GSW, said "the Government has been lying to us all these years. After reviewing the docments, GSW believes that UFOs do exist, they are real, the U.S. Government has been totally untruthful, and the cover-up is massive." Mr. Spaulding said the documents show that U.S. embassies are used to gather information on UFO sightings which "seems to be directed to the CIA, the White House and the National Security Agency." A CIA memo dated August 1, 1952, recommended continued agency surveillance of "flying saucers", saying, "It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probably alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as confirmatory of the soundness of 'unpublished facts' in the hands of the U.S. Government." Among the documents are several detailed reports of USAF attempts to either intercept or destroy UFOs. In a 1976 incident in Iran, two F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bombers pursued a large UFO that was sending out smaller craft. One of the smaller craft "headed straight for the F-4 at a very fast rate of speed. The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile at the object but at that instant his weapons control panel went off and he lost all communications." the pilot eluded the craft, then watched as it "returned to the primary object for a perfect rejoin." A CIA document dated October 2, 1952, shows that a major point of concern is that UFO sightings could mask Russian air attacks or "psychological warfare". This report to the CIA director from the assistant director for the Office of Scientific Intelligence recommends that the National Security Council be advised of the "implications of the flying saucer problem"; that the matter be discussed with the Psychological Strategy Board; and that the CIA help "develop...a policy of public information which will minimize concern and possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified objects." A November, 1975 document directs against acknowledging any pattern in sightings. "Unless there is evidence which links sightings, or unless media queries link sightings, queries can best be handled individually at the source and as questions arise. Response should be direct, forthright and emphasize that the action taken was in response to an isolated or specific incident." According to Mr. Spaulding, "We find a concentration of sightings around our military installations, research & development areas. The UFO phenomenon is following what our own astronauts are doing on other plants - we send a scoutship, we take soil samples and then we land." Mr. Spaulding said he has sworn statements from retired USAF colonels that at least 2 UFOs have crash- landed and been recovered by USAF. One crash was in New Mexico in 1948, and the other near Kingman, AZ in 1953. The retired officers claimed they got a glimpse of dead aliens who were in both cases about 4 feet tall with silverish complexions and silver outfits that "seemed fused to the body from the heat." GSW is waiting for a Federal judge to rule on the last phase of its CIA suit, which seeks access to 57 items that could provide "hard evidence" of UFOs with "retreivals of the third kind" such as motion pictures, gun camera film and residue from landings. Among the films they want is 40-48 frames taken in 1952 by Ralph Mayher, then a cameraman for KYW-TV, Cleveland, OH, and now a GSW member. USAF borrowed the film in 1957 and has never returned it; officially stating the filmed object was a meteor. Said Mr. Spaulding, "We're past the story-telling stage. We have to have it in black and white to satisfy the scientific community". ============================================================================= ********************************************************************* * -------->>> THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo <<<------- * *********************************************************************