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NICAP's 1966 UFO Chronology, 34 pages in length, is online at:

The 1966 UFO Chronology

"Created: September 7, 2006, Updated 25 May 2014
This is a 34-page chronology (increased from 11-pages) of UFO incidents and events for 1966, the beginning of the "Mother of All UFO Waves", which lasted throughout 1966 and 1967. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (the original chronology from UFOE II), William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Last, but not least, our thanks to Jean Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves. Three notable events stand out among the others are two sightings; the Dexter and Hillsdale (MI) sightings of March 20-21 (Frank Manor, etc.) and the Portage County (OH) incident of April 17 (Deputies Spauer and Neff), and the event being the writing of the "Trick would be" memo by Robert Low on Aug. 9th. It is extremely interesting that both 1966 and 1967 include many sightings near missile sites, and in 1966 the US reached a peak of 31,700 of stockpiled nuclear warheads. For more on the 1966-1967 sighting wave, serious researchers should get their copy of this report: "Alien Invasion or Human Fantasy? The 1966-67 UFO Wave" (Richard Hall). For information on missile deployment, see To Defend & Deter. (1)"
 
PROJECT 1947




UNITED STATES NAVY, MARINE CORPS, COAST GUARD AND OTHER GOVERNMENT SEAGOING SERVICES UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO) AND UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERGED OBJECT (USO) SIGHTING REPORTS

Compiled and copyright © 2013 by Jan L. Aldrich


INTRODUCTION


When NICAP compiled The UFO Evidence (1964), it included one section on “Air Force Observations” dating back to World War II that included 92 sightings, mostly by pilots and other flight crew members. Another section on “Army, Navy and Marine Corps” included 36 sightings.

— Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II



As demonstrated in the book UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry, the history of US Navy involvement in the UFO problem is elusive and incomplete with many serious gaps in the historical record. Most of the documentation of the Navy’s involvement can be traced through records from other agencies, with the main source being the USAF Project Blue Book records.

Over 50 years before World War II, the US Navy Hydrographic Office obtained extracts of merchant ship logs, internal reports concerning matters dealing with navigation, ocean phenomena and occasional unusual celestial phenomena. Of the latter these were either filed away or published in various notices and bulletins. A later publication entitled “Notice to Mariners” contained a number of such sightings of interest to UFO researchers.

Many of the documents concerning the “ghost rocket” phenomena from Naval Attaches and commands in Europe are available at the National Archives.

Captain Bernard Baruch, Jr., son of the financier and advisor to the government, was instrumental in formulating an important World War II reporting system used by both the British and Americans: Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings (CIRES). Captain Baruch advocated and guided the effort to convert the system to peacetime uses in what became the Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings (CIRVIS). In 1949, at Baruch’s urging, UFOs were included in the reporting scheme. Baruch continued his efforts to improve and upgrade the system until the 1960s.

For a short time the Navy had its own UFO project in the early 1950. Almost no records exist concerning the scope and content of the investigations.

Sometimes the Navy would release information about UFO sightings to the press. We know of a number of observations by Navy and Marine Corps personnel because of stories in the media. Most of these were from 1947-1970. After that, few stories appear in the media. Reports are now made by Naval personnel to UFO organizations. The service has always been historically reticent to make its UFO records public, but attempting to examine reports of the past few decades has been made difficult by an almost complete absence of accessible documentation.

The Coast Guard has been generally forthcoming in its involvement with UFO reports, which because of its size have not been as extensive in scope and number.

One area which the Navy controls completely concerns reports of objects on and under the water - USOs. Very little information about this aspect is ever reported in the press. The Navy’s anti-submarine patrols and huge underwater detection network seldom make the news with reports of USOs.

In the 1950s and 60s some within the Navy gave encouragement and facilitated, probably unofficially, the efforts of both Major Donald E. Keyhoe and Dr. James E. McDonald. Such support was not extensive, but was occasionally helpful as the Office of Naval Research (ONR) suggested a way for McDonald to get access to the UFO project files at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. After the closure of Project Blue Book, military UFO reports rapidly decreased although countries which continued UFO investigation projects saw no such decrease.

In the current climate of Popular Culture and Internet fringe theories, most new UFO reports come from UFO organizations or Social Media with all that entails.

Although serious discussions of UFOs always suffered from a skewed perception of both the UFO reporter and the investigator, we have still managed to conduct thorough, responsible and serious research. One such investigation was utilized by the late Peter Jennings for his 2005 ABC News program, "UFOs: Seeing Is Believing" report on the B-52 Minot AFB incident of 24 October, 1968:
Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs—Seeing Is Believing: 24 October 1968, Minot AFB Case - YouTube

The extensive collection of carefully researched material available on the Minot AFB incident is available here: http://minotb52ufo.com/

As one military officer told me, “I am happy to see people coming forward with their stories and getting them on the record.”

Project 1947 compiled this list with three goals in mind:

1. To update the Navy and Marine Corps UFO sightings list in NICAP’s The UFO Evidence, edited by Richard H.Hall in 1964. NICAP had access to only a few official reports in 1964 as the Project Blue Book files were not public.

2. To initiate the list called for in Task 7c in the of the CFI proposal
Sign Historical Group - Updated CFI Proposal - Jan L. Aldrich

The list includes a number of cases without any official documentation. The hope is for additional information on such cases to be forthcoming.

3. To extend the topic of Navy involvement discussed in the recent historical publication, "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry". A large number of the listed reports are from official sources or were acknowledged officially.

With this compilation we are trying to put a few such accounts on the record. This remains a work in progress. It is not complete by any means and we will continue to add material to the combined US Navy, Marine and Coast Guard UFO and USO reports catalogue as more cases come to light.

— Jan Aldrich
Project 1947








Some Notes on Sources
Since UFO Evidence was published in 1964, few collections of US Navy UFO reports have been compiled. Notable exceptions on the Internet are:

Water UFO: (Carl Feindt) which covers not just US Navy UFO reports but reports from foreign navies, merchant marine, fishermen, and other vessels on oceans and bodies of water:
Welcome to Water UFO Research Site

Blue Book UFO Report at Sea by Ships by Tony Rullan. This is a compilation of Navy and other reports from ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with discussions and analysis:
http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf

One other large source of Navy reports is contained within a Chronology of general UFO reports. See the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), The UFO Sighting Chronology:
The UFO Chronology

The current preliminary listing covers about 60% of the reports collected. They are from diverse sources: official documents, especially the US Air Force Project Blue Book files, media sources, various UFO books, and collections of reports from various UFO organizations:

Project Blue Book Archives

Official Project Blue Book and other government microfilms converted to PDF files:
Blue Book Archive

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)

and other UFO organizations. Authors’ works cited include the following:

Bloecher, Ted

Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947

Chester, Keith

Chester, Strange Company

Gross, Loren. UFOs: A History (cited by year of the booklets) later titled The Fifth Horsemen of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History.

Greenwood, Barry and Larry Fawcett, Clear Intent

Haines, Richard, PhD

Haines I Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War
Haines II Project Delta

Hall, Richard

Hall I Airships to Arnold
Hall II UFO Evidence, Volume 1
Hall III UFO Evidence, Volume 2
Hall IV Alien Invasion or Human Fantasy? The 1966-67 UFO Wave

Hynek, J. Allen, PhD

Hynek I The UFO Experience
Hynek II The Hynek UFO Report

Keyhoe, Donald E. Major, USMC, Retired

Keyhoe I The Flying Saucers Are Real
Keyhoe II Flying Saucers from Outer Space
Keyhoe III Flying Saucer Conspiracy
Keyhoe IV Flying Saucers Top Secret
Keyhoe V Aliens from Space

Ruppelt, Edward J.

Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

The other main source is the Internet reporting site National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)

Large collections of newspaper clippings from Barry Greenwood, Loren Gross, the late Robert Gribble, Katherine Brisendine, and Project 1947 were used in this compilation. The authors of UFOs and Government contributed materially to this compilation, especially Professor Michael Swords and Robert Powell.

Other collections consulted were The Keyhoe Archives, Dr. James E. McDonald’s papers, Dr. Willy Smith papers, George Fawcett’s papers at the Roswell Museum and several other sources.

Origin of Reports and the Quality of Sources

The biggest reservoir of official Navy reports is the Project Blue Book files. No complete listing of Navy reports within the Project Blue Book files has been made although Tony Rullan’s paper probably contains the most comprehensive for ships in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

World War II cases in the current list mostly come from personal accounts in various civilian publications and reports to UFO organizations. Few reports have official documents to back them up either as ship logs or official war diaries. However, four decades after Commander Hendershot's 1945 letter voicing concerns about unknown aerial intrusions over the Hanford Nuclear installation, we find official backing in 4th Air Force documents suggesting the Navy uses its Pasco Naval Air Station, Washington, to counter the unknown incursions.

The Navy reports of flying discs sightings during the 1947 UFO wave come mostly from the media. Some are from official documents in the Project Blue Book files. More report went to the press as opposed to those which went through intelligence channels.

After the Air Force established Project SIGN more reports started to go through channels to the Air Force, and sometimes were also reported in the press. Occasionally the accounts only appeared in the local press. A New Zealand woman wrote to Sgt. Harold Fulton who led a UFO organization in New Zealand, Civil Saucer Investigations, New Zealand, that her son-in-law, an officer in the US Navy stationed near San Diego had seen a UFO in 1952. Recently, the San Diego Union newspaper became available online and Barry Greenwood was able to recover the news report.

Interestingly there was a report mentioned in the CSI-LA newsletter number 2 about an incident at the Naval Air Station at San Diego:
SHG: - CSI Bulletin #2: Winter, 1953

A very well confirmed report from an aerographer of San Diego, California, North Island Navy Station, reports that he saw numerous objects through a theodolite while tracking a weather balloon. The spectacle continued for such a long time that he informed his chief officer. Also the latter saw the objects passing by in large numbers. Other witnesses present were an aerological officer, a group of USAF and Navy pilots, the control tower operator and the commander of the field.

So it appears that rumors of this account were kicking around for years. Although in the CSI-LA newsletter the context implies it happened in 1952. A letter in the Project Blue Book files indicates the date was December 1950.

Beside official records and media reports there is a vast area of personal reports and rumors, some which have fantastical elements as one would expect occasionally from men that go down to the sea in ships. However, we have tried to maintain a serious demeanor here and eliminate the journalistic hoaxes and tall tales while keeping an open mind. Some of these reports have explanations, but are still listed here because they have historical significance.

This is a work in progress with many more accounts to be added in the future. As always, Project 1947 welcomes the addition of new accounts, clarifications, comments, criticisms at:
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— Jan L. Aldrich









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Renner mentioned an 'upsidedown ice cream cone', Spaur's drawing (see Weitzel's pdf below) shows it right side up, with an antenna-like spike reminiscent of a sighting in Rouen, France in 1957:

Photo - Rouen, France March 1954

and the Trent photos:

Dr. Bruce Maccabee Research Website



Additionally, Dorothy Izatt has a photo of an ice cream type ufo at her original site:

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(Object on lower left was released through the conical beam)

NICAP investigator William Weitzel's comprehensive pdf:

http://www.ufosthroughthewormhole.o...-Middle-of-Hell-From-Flying-Saucer-Review.pdf

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Some thoughts on the Portage UFO interaction with police cruisers, and other CEs.

Weitzel's account of Spaur and Neff's interaction with the UFO shows a pattern of give-and-take, sometimes called a cat-and-mouse scenario. When Spaur sped up the UFO also sped up, when he slowed or stopped, the UFO would do likewise. The other behavior I note is the repeated crossing of the highway by the UFO during the trip into Pennsylvania. This behavior is similar to a scout in the conestoga wagon days, when scouts would forge ahead checking the lay of the land, possible obstructions , dangers, etc. Incidentally, this crossing-of-paths behavior is frequently seen in pilot reports also.

My view is that the UFO wasn't 'leading' the way, but was perhaps escorting, or following the police cruisers, as if the cruisers knew where to go perhaps for a landing place for the UFO and contact with officials. When the cars no longer followed, the UFO took off. The accounts relating to the jet fighters is also interesting and also shows this cat-and-mouse type of behavior. At one point, the UFO was chased by the jets, then the jets were 'chased' by the UFO. Maybe not. Maybe the UFO was trying to instigate an escort, a 'safe passage mode' where the jets would escort the UFO to a safe landing site and contact with humans, for negotiating protocols for further contact, trade or some other purpose.

Something similar was seen in the Cash-Landrum case with the helicopters, though that case may have been one of ours. The O'Hare case in 2006, where the UFO seemed to be waiting for some kind of signal from the airport, hovering for a half hour in plain sight before punching a hole in the clouds when it left, could be a similar behavior. Being visible and only hovering could be interpreted as: "Hello, here I am. Permission to land, please". Had someone flashed a signal from a clear landing area of the airport, I wonder if the UFO might have responded with a flashing light acknowledgement and proceeded to land. There are a number of human - UFO interactions where people flashed patterns of flashlights/headlights/plane landing lights at UFOs and received responses varying from duplication of flashes to suddenly approaching the people--much to their consternation, I might add. Cases can be found in Haines' CE-5 book and many other places.

Perhaps the mildest UFO response to outright attacks by military jets is the electrical systems shutdowns experienced by Jafari in Iran in 1976. Also very interesting are the mergings of jets and UFOs when they both disappear, I wonder if when the UFO opening a 'portal' to exit our planet, such jets accidentally (or intentionally) are also pulled through to suddenly find themselves flying in the atmosphere of an alien world--I'd like to be a fly in the cockpit just to hear the pilot's reaction to that!

So among species that fly but never have had previous contact, perhaps there is an unwritten protocol, through certain maneuvers and/or signals, that pilots from said species can learn to understand, and can begin to communicate with one another.
 
My view is that the UFO wasn't 'leading' the way, but was perhaps escorting, or following the police cruisers, as if the cruisers knew where to go perhaps for a landing place for the UFO and contact with officials. When the cars no longer followed, the UFO took off. The accounts relating to the jet fighters is also interesting and also shows this cat-and-mouse type of behavior. At one point, the UFO was chased by the jets, then the jets were 'chased' by the UFO. Maybe not. Maybe the UFO was trying to instigate an escort, a 'safe passage mode' where the jets would escort the UFO to a safe landing site and contact with humans, for negotiating protocols for further contact, trade or some other purpose.
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So among species that fly but never have had previous contact, perhaps there is an unwritten protocol, through certain maneuvers and/or signals, that pilots from said species can learn to understand, and can begin to communicate with one another.
Those are some interesting notions - the idea of meeting and landing implies suggestion that we are equals or mutuals coming together on safe ground. But to date we have no examples of such 'intentional meetings' initiated by the phenomenon. If anything, contact cases are mostly from witness stumbling onto a very strange & brief scene of humanoids or robots in the landscape. The other extreme is the intentionality seen inside the abduction phenomenon (though even less proof here) where it's all about the poking & prodding.

You'd think if they really wanted to meet with us out in the field they'd make their experiences a little more cordial and less traumatic. In the Portage case it seems, like in other cat & mouse sequences, the phenomenon is merely toying with us, the way my dog toys with me when we play keep away in the yard. Certainly there is an intelligence of some sort that is being witnessed here.

As for communicating with us, there are many cases of humans claiming a kind of telepathy in relation to the lights in the sky, or with aliens on the ground, but that could very well be an internal experience. I used to think my cat could read my mind. Was Spaur really seeing Floyd stalk him, or was this a mental affliction due to the initial destabilizing experience? There have been some examples of symbols, on craft and other minor moments of communication but again nothing very substantial.

It seems that there is an inability to share any real direct meaningful communication with us. Perhaps our relationship to the phenomenon is more comparable to that of my dog and I?
 
Renner mentioned an 'upsidedown ice cream cone', Spaur's drawing (see Weitzel's pdf below) shows it right side up, with an antenna-like spike reminiscent of a sighting in Rouen, France in 1957:

Photo - Rouen, France March 1954

and the Trent photos:

Dr. Bruce Maccabee Research Website


Additionally, Dorothy Izatt has a photo of an ice cream type ufo at her original site:

photo04

(Object on lower left was released through the conical beam)

NICAP investigator William Weitzel's comprehensive pdf:

http://www.ufosthroughthewormhole.o...-Middle-of-Hell-From-Flying-Saucer-Review.pdf

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Thanks for connecting these three cases together with their spike antenna. I've always felt that seeing patterning in the technological design aesthetics of crafts, clothing & tools come closest to expressing the possibility of an alien culture present in our midsts.

The variety of all of the above, even just the sheer variance of craft alone that have been witnessed over the decades, are truly mind-boggling and seem to suggest the phenomenon may be more of an internal than external experience. Then again, look at how car designs and technologies have changed over the same decades since 1950's flying saucers.

Still, there's something compelling about the similarity in object descriptions & photos
 
I' ve read some accounts of this case online and noticed this:

Some of the witness descriptions have what any UFO investigator would consider a "red flag". By that I mean the description of an illuminated object keeping pace with a witness who was inside a vehicle. This always suggets the possibility that the UFO was actually a distant celestial object, usually the planet Venus. This is a common one, because such objects do appear to maintain a deliberate distance from one' car while the viewer is in motion. It's an optical illusion based on perspective.

I'm not saying that Venus matches the entirety of the officer's description - rather I'm simply saying I wasn't surprised Blue Book opted for the Venus explanation. It's kind of like when someone reports seeing a sea serpent in a lake, and then you discover sturgeon are native to the area. Based on the content of the sighting, it's an easy(lazy?) solution, though probably not the best.
 
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That "solution" may have worked if there had been one witness- but multiple cops from different counties/state? Certainly a lazy debunking.
 
This was a great show despite Chris' absence. I think we take Gene's interview skills for granted. The show was very listenable, informative, and humorous in parts. However, the ending was chilling and disturbing. An all-around great episode.
 
I went back to Ohio
But my family was gone
I stood on the back porch
There was nobody home

I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories
Saw this world past
Like the wind through the trees
Ay, oh, where did you go, Ohio?

(good show, but needed more walnut gargling)
 
I've been wanting to put together a serious website for documenting Indiana forgotten histories and mysteries for some time (way before this podcast). I love history. My site would be county by county with serious research, user input in another gallery. Every seriously researched topic/story would have a way to locate the sites of note. The three topics I am interested in are tragedy, community shame (the stuff the county wants to forget), and unexplained or unsolved mysteries. I have a little experience with websites to be modest. Would someone want to know the real location of lynchings in your county? Bet there are no plaques?

I contacted Mr. Renner. I wanted local authors, websites, and sources. Indiana and Ohio aren't so far a way. He said he has nothing for me. It's not his "niche".
A quick look at a g plus profile made me realize someone wants to be a hollywood screen play writer, but ohio paranormal pays the bills.

Grousing aside, can anyone help me or is anyone else interested? A quick google of the internet finds no serious sites on my local, just misinformed shaky cam videos? This won't be profitable affair, but I just want to share the knowledge.
 
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