UFOs: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Observations, Explanations and Speculations

Preface
References
Contents
Acronyms
Part I UFO Look-and-Feel: A Glance at Historic Sightings
1 Early UFO Sagas and Legends Prior to Trinity (July 1945)
	1.1 An Alien Sumerian Civilization
	1.2 The Razing of Saubha: Krishna\'s Battle Against a Flying Fortress
	1.3 The Second Punic War Sightings, at 218–201 BC
	1.4 Flaming Shield in 776
	1.5 Flying Plate or Hat Observed Hovering over a Church in 1665
	1.6 Flying Saucer with a Cigar-Shaped Form of 1882
	1.7 Mystery Airship Wave of 1896–1897
	1.8 Mysterious Airships with Searchlights of 1909
	1.9 The War of the Worlds Scare of 1938
	1.10 Crash Retrieval in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in the Spring of 1941
	1.11 The Battle of Los Angeles of 1942
	1.12 Roman Sabinski\'s June 1942 Encounter with a Foo Fighter
	References
2 UFO Sagas and Legends from Trinity (July 1945) Until the Robertson Panel (January 1953)
	2.1 UFO Intercept Attempt at Hanford Nuclear Plant in July 1945
	2.2 Trinity Crash in August 1945
	2.3 Flying Saucers or Pelicans in V-formation—Kenneth Arnold\'s Sighting on June 24, 1947
	2.4 Roswell UFO Incident on July 7, 1947
	2.5 Twining Memo 1947
	2.6 Submerged Spinning Wheels of Light on November 14, 1949
	2.7 Lubbock Lights in 1951
	2.8 New Castle AFB, Delaware at 2320 h, 25 July 1952
	2.9 Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO)
	2.10 1952 Washington Flyovers from July 12 to 29, 1952
	2.11 Rapid City Incident on the Night of August 12, 1953
	References
3 UFO Sagas and Legends After the Robertson Panel Until 2003
	3.1 Some Literature
	3.2 British Royal Air Force Pilots ``See Things\'\' in 1952–1953
		3.2.1 Exercise Mainbrace UFOs in September 1952
		3.2.2 RAF Little Rissington Incident in the Afternoon of October 21, 1952
	3.3 Hearsay About Wernher von Braun 1959
	3.4 Socorro Policeman Zamora\'s Encounter in 1964—A Student Prank?
	3.5 A Lavender Farmer\'s Encounter in Valensole, France, in 1965
	3.6 ``Foo Fighter\'\' Sightings by the Chief Pilots of Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines
	3.7 Malmstrom Incident in 1967
		3.7.1 Oscar Flight Missile Combat Crew
		3.7.2 Echo Flight Missile Combat Crew
		3.7.3 Postmortem Analysis by Boeing Corporation
	3.8 Minot Air Force Base Incident on October 24, 1968
		3.8.1 Stimulated Encounter with a UFO
		3.8.2 Observation of the Landed UFO
		3.8.3 Silo Slit Opened
		3.8.4 Project Blue Book Entry
	3.9 John Lennon\'s New York UFO in August 1974
	3.10 Tehran Incident in 1976
		3.10.1 Sighting by Airport Personnel
		3.10.2 First Attempt to Approach the Object
		3.10.3 Attempt to Shoot Down an Approaching Uncategorized Object
	3.11 Terry Lovelace Encounter at Devil\'s Den in Arkansas in 1977
	3.12 Abduction at a Minuteman Missile Launch Site in November 1977
	3.13 Frederick Valentich Disappearance in 1978
	3.14 Rendlesham Forest Incident in 1980
		3.14.1 The Halt Memo, Halt\'s Signed Notarized Statement, and Conrad\'s Statement
		3.14.2 December 26, 1980
		3.14.3 UFO Scanning a Weapons Storage Area in Late December 1980
		3.14.4 A Reddish/Orange Object on Late December 27, 1980
		3.14.5 December 28, 1980
	3.15 Soviet UFO Missile Crises in 1982
	3.16 Brazil\'s Night of UFOs on May 19, 1986
	3.17 UFOs Over Gulf Breeze from November 11, 1987, to 1988
	References
4 UFO Sagas and Legends After 2003
	4.1 Nimitz Encounter on November 10–14, 2004
		4.1.1 Context and Sources
		4.1.2 USS Princeton Observes Groups of Objects Raining Out of the Sky Toward the Sea
		4.1.3 Whitewater
		4.1.4 Encounter with an Oval Object
		4.1.5 Object Waiting at the Combat Air Patrol Point
		4.1.6 Another Wave of Fighters Recording a Movie
		4.1.7 Estimate of Eye Resolution
		4.1.8 Analysis of the Flir, Gofast, and Gimbal Videos
	4.2 The Woo According to Chris Bledsoe\'s Alleged Abduction on January 8, 2007, and by ``The Lady\'\' in 2012
	4.3 Hazard Aircrew Encounter of 2014
	4.4 Sentient ``tic tac\'\' Shaped Object Highlight on May 6, 2021
	4.5 Spheres with a Cube Inside
	References
5 Some Visual Photos of Objects that Have Not (yet?) Been Identified
	5.1 Trent Phtotos Near Near McMinnville, Oregon on May 11, 1950
	5.2 Saucer-shaped Object Moving Above the Sea Towards Trindade Island on January 16, 1958
	5.3 Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica Survey Photo on September 4, 1971
	5.4 Calvine UFO Photos on August 4, 1990
	5.5 Cigar-shaped Object South of Spain on January 23, 2010
	5.6 ``Metallic Orb\'\' at an Undisclosed ``Middle East\'\' Location on December 7, 2022
	References
Part II UFO Compliance-and-Management: Handling Strange Matters
6 UFO Perception in the USA and Elsewhere
	6.1 United States of America
		6.1.1 Project Sign, Late 1947–1948
		6.1.2 Project Grudge, 1948–1952
		6.1.3 Insert: Was There a Breakaway Agency Parallel to Project Grudge Attempting to Gather Design Data on Interplanetary Spaceships?
		6.1.4 Project Blue Book, 1952–1969—a Data Volume Trap—drowning in Data
		6.1.5 Robertson Panel, 1952–53
		6.1.6 Futile Attempts Toward Breakaway Gravity Research Starting in 1955
		6.1.7 Condon Committee, 1966–1968
		6.1.8 Turner\'s View of the Condon Report and the End of Project Blue Book
		6.1.9 Ad Hoc Initiatives After Project Blue Book
	6.2 United Kingdom
		6.2.1 Flying Saucer Working Party, 1950–1951
		6.2.2 Condign Report of 1996
		6.2.3 Discrete Enquiries for the Duke of Edinburgh
	6.3 Former USSR, Russia, and Ukraine
		6.3.1 UFOs over Soviet Nuclear Bases
		6.3.2 Bizarre Statement by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
		6.3.3 Handwaving and Handraising UFO Responses
	6.4 France
		6.4.1 GEIPAN
		6.4.2 COMETA
	6.5 Australia
	6.6 Canada
	6.7 China, India and Many Other States
	6.8 Germany
	References
7 Some Flight Characteristics
	7.1 Explanation Trap Through Conceptual and Theoretical Overreach
	7.2 Rapid Change of Direction and Speed
	7.3 Total Lack of Noise or Humming Sounds
	7.4 No Sonic Booms
	7.5 Shapes
	7.6 Motion Types
		7.6.1 Wobble
		7.6.2 Zig-zag
	7.7 Underwater Unidentified Submerged Objects
	7.8 Evasive Not Aggressive
	References
8 Abductions and Experiences
	8.1 Caveat
	8.2 Deception Operations Against Experiencers and UFO Reporters
		8.2.1 UFOs Serving as Camouflage for Secret Military Technology and Spy Planes
		8.2.2 The Controversial Story of Paul Bennewitz
	8.3 Abduction Saga I: Barney and Betty Hill Abduction
	8.4 Abduction Saga II: Travis Walton Incident
	8.5 Different Types of Experiences and Abductions
		8.5.1 Individuals Having Sightings Versus Experiencers Versus Abductees
		8.5.2 Time and Situation of Abductions
	8.6 Ontological Shock
	8.7 Sleep Paralysis May Account for a Large Number of ``abductions\'\'
	8.8 The Sexual Connotation: Arousal and Rape
	8.9 Possible Psychotic or Schizophrenic Origins
	8.10 Alien Subversion?
	8.11 Fort\'s ``we\'re Property\'\' Hypothesis
	8.12 Demonology
	8.13 Alien Implants and DNA Analysis?
	8.14 Connections to Psychoanalysis and Similarities to Freud\'s Seduction Hypothesis
		8.14.1 Freud\'s Abandonment of Hypnosis
		8.14.2 Memories of Childhood Abductions
		8.14.3 Some Personal Observations
	References
9 Crash Retreivals and UFO Materials
	9.1 Caveat
	9.2 Missing Artifacts from Ancient Aliens
	9.3 Why Do UFOs Crash? How Common Are Crashes?
	9.4 Can UFOs Be Downed by Electromagnetic Pulses?
		9.4.1 Personal Account of a Sailor
		9.4.2 UFO Coming down Like a Brick
	9.5 Smith Memo
	9.6 Corso\'s Memories
	9.7 Stalin\'s Craft
	9.8 Wilson Notes
		9.8.1 Context
		9.8.2 Excerpts from the Wilson Notes
	9.9 A former intelligence officer turned whistleblower
	9.10 Where Would Alien Stuff Most Likely Reside?
	9.11 Could We Hack Ourselves into Their Database?
	9.12 Human ``Implants\'\' as Alien Material?
	9.13 Speculations of a Possible Involvement of Einstein
		9.13.1 Memories of ``Einstein\'s Pet\'\'
		9.13.2 Einstein\'s Letter of Ignorance
	References
Part III UFO Apprehension-and-Challenge: Some Speculations
10 Are UFOs Cargo?
	10.1 Cargo Cults
	10.2 Contemporary Cargo Cults Reflecting Alien Technologies
	References
11 Are We an Unaware Participant in Some Galactic Hypercivilization?
	11.1 The Overall Context
	11.2 Galactic Expansion
	11.3 Where Are They?
		11.3.1 Origin
		11.3.2 They May Already Be Watching Us or Among Us
		11.3.3 Rough Estimate for the Probability of Seeing a UFO
	11.4 Nonfraternization
	11.5 Zoo Hypothesis
	References
12 Possible Consequences of Disclosure  or Contact
	12.1 Loss of Autonomy
	12.2 Imbalance of Power
	12.3 The Melian Dialog
	12.4 The Brookings Report of 1961
	12.5 We May Pose Dangers to Visitors
	12.6 Possible Scenarios
	References
Part IV Executive Summary
13 Executive Summaries
	13.1 The ``Great Nothingburger\'\' Scenario
	13.2 The Hidden Breakaway Scenario
	13.3 Total Control of Earth by ``Others\'\' Leading to Loss of Human Autonomy
	13.4 The Theological Wild Card: UFOs Are Daemonic
	13.5 Uniform Recommendation of Government UFO Panels: Continue Qualified Research
	References
Appendix A US Categories of Secrecy
	A.1 Congressional Power and Oversight
		Title 10 versus Title 50 of the United States Code
Appendix B Explanation Trap Through Conceptual  and Theoretical Overreach
References
Index