Article #: 20
     From: UFO INFO SERVICE         
Date Sent: 07-20-1986
  Subject: 1969 BLUE BOOK CLOSES    

SOURCE:   NEW YORK  ( NYT )   
  DATE:   DECEMBER 18, 1969   
SYSTEM:   CUFON Computer UFO Network    

Air Force Closes Study Of UFO's    
 
USAF Secretary Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. said: in a menorandum yesterday that 
Project Blue Book is closed since continuation of the study of UFO's "no longer 
can be justified either on the ground of National Sesurity or in the interest 
of Science." 
 
Project Blue Book has investigated 12,618 sighting reports during the past 22 
years, at a cost of "several million dollars."  Both a committee of the 
National Academy Of Sciences and a U Of Colorado group concluded earlier this 
year that further studies of the so-called flying saucers would be a waste of 
time and money. 
 
Surprisingly, the USAF decision was hailed by a number of UFO activists, but 
Dr. James McDonald, a meteorologist at the U Of Arizona, said: USAF was 
"writing off the UFO problem, which cries for serious scientific study ."  Dr. 
Edward U. Condon, the U Of Colorado physicist who headed the UFO study, said: 
recently that his investigation "was a bunch of damned - nonsense" and that he 
was "sorry I ever got involed in such foolishness." 
 
USAF said: UFO reports had fallen from a high of 1501 in 1952 to 146 this year.  
Stuart Nixon, secretary-treasurer of NICAP, said: sightings still occur almost 
weekly and cited the report from a group of Richmond, VA policemen who said: 
they saw an object maneuvering over the city at 5:45 on Dec 5. 
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 Article #: 21
     From: UFO INFO SERVICE         
Date Sent: 07-26-1986
  Subject: 1944 NEW GERMAN WEAPONS  

SOURCE:   NEW YORK TIMES 
  DATE:   DECEMBER 14, 1944   
SYSTEM:   CUFON Computer UFO Network    

Floating Mystery Ball Is New German Weapon   
 
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,    Allied Expeditionary Force, Dec. 13-A new German 
weapon has made its appearance on the western air front. It was disclosed 
today. 
 
Airmen of the American Aif Force report that they are encountering silver 
colored spheres in the air over German territory.  The spheres are encoun- 
tered either singly or in clusters. Sometimes they are semi-translucent. 
 
                      ------------------------------   
 
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS Dec. 13 ( Reuter ) - The Germans have produced a "secret" 
weapon in keeping with the Christmas season. 
 
The new device, apparently an air defense weapon resembles the huge glass balls 
that adorn Christmas trees.  There was no information available as to whatholds 
them up like stars in the sky, what is in them or what their purpose is 
supposed to be.  
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 Article #: 22
     From: UFO INFO SERVICE         
Date Sent: 01-11-1987
  Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING 

SOURCE:  THE SEATTLE TIMES    
  DATE:  1 JANUARY 1987  
SYSTEM:  CUFON Computer UFO Network
 
UFO report no surprise to longtime believer  
 
`They're here to warn us of danger we are'
 
by Peter Lewis 
Times staff reporter
 
Reports of a jumbo walnut-shaped unidentified flying object being sighted 
across the Arctic skies were music to Wayne Aho's ears. 

"I'm always thrilled to hear those reports because not many get into the news," 
said the Tacoma resident known as "Mr. UFO." 

Aho was referring to recent news accounts telling aof a veteran pilot who said 
three UFOs - two small ones and one shaped like a walnut and twice the size of 
an aircraft carrier - trailed his Japan Air Lines cargo jet for 400 miles as he 
flew across northeastern Alaska from Iceland to Anchorage on Nov. 17. 

The pilot, his co-pilot and flight engineer on JAL Flight 1628 reported seeing 
flashing lights trail their jet.  Federal Aviation Administration officials 
confirmed that the controller who handled the flight saw a mysterious object 
trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the Alaska Air Command 
said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane. 

But Aho, founder and president of the New Age Foundation Inc., yesterday 
predicted that in the coming days or weeks, news organizations will be running 
"kill stories" that cast doubt on the sighting's authenticity. 

"Someone will come up with an explnation far more impossible for anyone to 
imagine as being reality," Aho said. 

That's what happened, Aho recalled, after amazed crew and passengers on a 
Soviet airliner reported seeing a star-like UFO beam a thin ray on the ground, 
then turn its dazzling light on the aircraft, then become a green cloud that 
"escorted" the plane during a flight over Minsk in January 1985. 

The story first appeared in a Russian newspaper.  But Soviet authorities later 
discredited the report, saying the UFO was actually space junk orbiting the 
Earth, Aho recalled.  His memory is borne out by U.S. newspaper clips. 

"How could space junk fly alongside and not fall?" asked Aho.  "How could it 
follow at the speed of an airliner and fly beside it for 17 miles?" he asked. 

In the case of the newly reported sighting, Aho wondered why it has taken 
nearly two months for it to make news.  "What held it up?" he asked.  

Aho, who said he has personally seen UFOs nine times, believes there is a 
deliberate effort on the part of the National Security Council to suppress UFO 
sightings because of the economic and political upheaval confirmed sightings 
would cause.. 

Yet according to an eight-year-old Gallup Poll, 16 million Americans have 
reported seeing UFOs, Aho said.  And worldwide, an estimated 150 million people 
have seen them, he added. 

Aho's "awakening" to UFOs started in 1957 while he was attending a UFO 
convention in the Mojave Desert, where he became involved in a "close encounter 
of the third kind - like the movie," he said. 

UFOs are from a superior civilization that have come here "to warn us of the 
danger we are to ourselves," Aho believes. 

A self-described "70 years young," Aho said he was an intelligence officer 
trained in aircraft identification who attained the rank of major in the Army 
during the war. 

Robert Gribble, a retired Seattle firefighter who operates the Seattle-based 
National UFO Reporting Center, has received thousands of reports of UFO 
sightings over the years.  He said the large, walnut-shaped UFO report in the 
Arctic skies is similar to outlines previously reported. 

"I think the significant thing there is that they tracked it one radar," 
Gribble said.  "It lends credibility that they saw both objects (the UFO and 
the plane) on the screen at the same time." 

Two weeks ago, Gribble said yesterday, he was contacted by a Japanese reporter 
in Washington, D.C., who was the first to alert him to the sighting.  Gribble 
said the reporter was trying to gather confirmation from various agencies to 
see if they had the sighting on radar, or if it had been reported by other 
airline crews, "and wanted to know if we had other reports, and of course we 
didn't," Gribble said. 

In 1986, his center received an average of six reports a day of sightings from 
English-speaking people from the Caribbean across North America to Hawaii, 
Gribble said.  Busier years have averaged from 15 to 20 calls a day. 
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 Article #: 23
     From: UFO INFO SERVICE         
Date Sent: 01-11-1987
  Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING 

SOURCE:  UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
  DATE:  31 DECEMBER 1986
SYSTEM:  CUFON COMPUTER UFO NETWORK

 
Pilot describes `unbelievable' UFO encounter 
 
United Press International    
 
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - "It was unbelievable."   

The words belonged to Kenju Terauchi, a Japan Air Lines pilot who was trying to 
describe an inflight incident that thus far has defied explanation. 

The veteran pilot says theree unidentified flying objects - two small ones and 
one twice the size of an aircraft carrier - trailed his JAL cargo jet for 400 
miles across the Arctic skies. 

Terauchi yesterday acknowledged that some of his colleagues have doubts about 
what he, his co-pilot and flight engineer saw Nov. 17 as they flew from Iceland 
to Anchorage.  

The crewmen of JAL Flight 1628 reported seeing flashing lights trailing their 
jet that clear night to the Federal Aviation Administration, which interviewed 
the three in Anchorage.  The plane later went on to Tokyo. 

FAA officials Monday confirmed the controller who handled Flight 1628 saw a 
mysterious object trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the 
Alaska Air Command said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane. 

In yesterday's interview, Terauchi, 47, a pilot with 29 years of experience, 
said he saw three UFOs and that at one point lights from the two smaller ones 
appeared directly in front of the Boeing 747 cockpit at close range. 

Terauchi referred to the objects as "the two small ships and the mothership," 
and expressed amazement that they disappeared and reappeared and moved quickly 
and stopped suddenly.  He said he could not explain the events, except to 
speculate that he saw something of extraterrestrial origin. 

Speaking in English with occasional help from a translator, Terauchi drew maps, 
pictures and supplied technical annotation to describe the incident. 

Terauchi repeatedly said the object that appeared on FAA and Air Force radar 
was "a very big one - two times bigger than an aircraft carrier."  

The smaller UFOs did not appear on his radar, he said.  Nor were additional 
objects picked up on FAA or Air Force radar. 

Terauchi said the three crewmen saw lights from the two small objects.  He drew 
a picture for the FAA showing lights on a formation, each object having what 
appeared to be two panels of lights. 

The captain said he saw lights on the larger object and once, near Fairbanks, 
saw it in faint silhouette eight miles away.  He drew a picture of what he saw 
- something resembling a large shelled walnut.  

The crew was not frightened, Terauchi said.  Their feeling was, he said, "We 
want to escape from this." And so - with FAA permission and direction - the 
crew dropped in altitude and made numerous turns, but the objects remained. 

"They were still following us," Terauchi said, and FAA radar confirmed that at 
least one object remained despite the maneuvers.  

Asked if he was nervous, Terauchi replied, "No, I am the captain.  I cannot be 
nervous." 

Asked why he thought the UFOs would tail his plane, Terauchi laughed and 
replied, "We were carrying Beaujolais, a very famous wine made in France.  
Maybe they want to drink it." 

FAA security manager Jim Derry, who interviewed the crewmen, said they were 
"normal, professional, rational, (and had) no drug or alcohol involvement." 

FAA flight control reports indicate the mysterious object stayed with Flight 
1628 for at least 32 minutes.  Terauchi said he thought it was longer. 

The flight controller directing the JAL plane reported the object on his radar 
 as close as five miles to the jet. 

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