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 
discourgae 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. 
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 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. 
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 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 Spauldintg, 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 f3eet 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".  

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