by Dan Wright
Scientific Advisory Panel, formation of the, 48
Scientific Review Board review of national security, 62
scouting balloon over Sofia, Romania, 214
Scoville, Herbert, 76–77
Allen Dulles and, 93
anomalous aerial phenomena and, 96–97
correspondence with Robert Amory, Jr., 99
letter to George Wyllie, 141
letter to Lawrence Houston, 161
memo written by, 124
memorandum from, 91
UFO-related dispatch from, 93
secret aircraft, UFOs and, 186
secret weaponry as the source of UFO reports, 152
security
restrictions on content of eyewitness accounts, 125–126
violations of the CIA, 64–65
Setif, Algeria, cigar-shaped vehicle over, 77
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, reports of odd lights in, 211–212
Shakhty, Russia, objects seen near, 90
Shanghai, China, cigar-shaped aerial object over, 171–172
shapes of daytime sightings, 13
Shaw, J. Arnold, 139
correspondence with Leon Davidson, 104
Shetland Islands, aerial object spotted near the, 297–298
shiny metallic clothing, sightings of men dressed in, 27–28
Shklovsky, Joseph, 183
sighting by the public, report elements for, 121
sighting reports,
pilot requirements for, 236
reduced numbers in, 22
sightings, astronomers with personal, 205
sightings,
Cold War, 114–115
features of nighttime, 13–14
increases in, 55
patterns of, 186
psychological factors contributing to, 36
shapes of daytime, 13
silencing UFO witnesses, allegations made about, 139
silent flying disc over Edwards Air Force Base, 115
silver disc over Glen Burnie, Maryland, 43
silver oval sighting in Roseville, Michigan, 29
silver-colored sphere over Sweden, 78
single-witness accounts, disqualification of, 33–34
single-witness sightings, discarded, 153
Skyhook balloon, Thomas Mantell and a misidentified, 10, 215
Skyhook balloon sightings at Holloman Air Force Base, 19
sleep disturbances after abduction, 239
small beings seen in Tingsryd, Sweden, 274
Smith, Walter B.,
communications with, 48
document ordered by, 33
memo sent to, 40, 41
Smith, Wilbert, memo written by, 21
Socorro, New Mexico, incident at, 172, 205
Sofia, Romania, NATO scouting balloon over, 214
Sonoma, California, flat object seen over, 72
Sousse, Tunisia,
pale-green light over, 38
unfamiliar objects spotted over, 29
South Africa, bright light over, 68–69
South Korean Air Force, unknown intruder detected by the, 295–296
Soviet
aeronautical equipment, secret, 106
airspace, UFOs in, 293–294
attacks, Air Force analysis of UFO reports for, 39
committee for the study of unusual phenomena, 233
design of flying saucer craft, 106
government policy, psychological warfare and, 36
knowledge of flying saucer phenomena, 39
lunar program, JPRS reports and the, 285–286
military UFO commission, 208
press and OSI, the, 308
press reports of UFOs, 208
scientists' opinions of UFOs, 213–214
secret weapons, UFOs as, 34
sightings, rulings on, 214
space launches mistaken for UFOs, 299
theft of German flying saucer plans, 63
Soviet Union, UFO sightings in the, 281–282
Soviets, secret project by the, 93
Spaulding, William, 263–264
demands for secrecy on UFOs from, 259
Today show appearance by, 264
special reports prepared by the Battelle Memorial Institute, 88–89
sphere, anomalous, crash of an, 281
spheres over Almansa, Spain, 38–39
spindle shape over Oran, Algeria, 29
spiral nebula in China, 268
Spitsbergen, UFO crash in, 32
Spjellerup, Sweden, excavation in, 78
St. George, Minnesota, flying saucer over, 178–179
St. Helens, Tasmania, bright light in, 241–242
Stalingrad, Russia, unknown flying over, 99
Stansel, Arthur, 73
statement on UFOs from Harry Truman, 15
static electricity, 57
stereoscopic photography, accuracy of, 214
stereoscopic photos, anomalous flying objects and, 215
Stigsjoe, Sweden, unknown over, 141
Stranges, Frank, Joe Pyne interview with, 189–190
Strategic Air Command, 44, 115, 144
Stratton, Dr. Julius, communication with, 56
Stringfield, Leonard, Mantell incident and, 10
Strong, Philip G., 40, 41, 58, 64–65
communication with Dr. Luis Alvarez, 111
contact with former Robertson Panel members and, 109
correspondence with Samuel Goudsmit, 120
inquiry into UFO photos from, 154
memo to Dr. Thornton Page from, 64
memo written by, 61, 64, 66
memorandum sent by, 164
memorandum sent to, 60
UFO-related freshman papers, 143
Stuggart, Arkansas, sighting, 15
Sunderland, Captain M., 155
supersonic airborne jets, NICAP claim of, 107
surveillance by ASD, 77
swamp gas,
J. Allen Hynek determination of, 191, 206
UFOs and, 187
Sweden,
aerial objects photographed over, 151
silver-colored sphere over, 78
Swiss Air Force, flying saucers seen by the, 81
Sylvania, Alabama, red-orange light over, 302
T
Tacker, Lawrence, 127–130, 131–133, 134, 140, 155–156
psychological warfare accusations and, 161
Taiwan Straights, UFOs spotted over the, 300
Tananarive, Madagascar, green ball over, 84–85
Tangiers, Algeria, rocket-shaped object near, 37
Taourirt, Morocco, disc sighting over, 38
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, nocturnal lights near, 25–26
Teaticket, Massachusetts, sighting, 15
technology, duplication of saucer, 170–171
Teel, LaRe L., 129
telepath, MITI study of, 298
Teller, Dr. Edward, Project Sign and, 13
temperature inversions, reports generated because of, 35
temperature inversions mistaken for UFOs, 36
thermoplane, 295, 301
Tiaret, Algeria, cigar-shaped mass sighting in, 28
time travel, UFOs and, 186
Timor Sea, sightings on the, 2
Tingsryd, Sweden, small beings seen in, 274
Titan missile site, 165
Tombaugh, Clyde, 205
Torres, Lieutenant Milton, 115
Trakehnen, Germany, incident in, 184
travelers, interplanetary, 42
Tremonton, Utah,
aerial anomaly over, 49
footage from, 52
footage of unknowns at, 41
orange object over, 42
Tretyak, Ivan,
denials of, 292–293
interview of, 291, 293–294
triangle hovering over Maxton, North Carolina, 84
triangle-shaped aerial object over the Escambia Bay Bridge, 288
triangular
air
borne object over Hiroshima, Japan, 176–177
object near Bornholm Island, 45
Truax Air Force Base, disappearing jet from, 69
Truman, Harry, 25
executive order of, 5
statement on UFOs from, 15
Truman-era documents concerning 1947 UFO crash, 276
Truzzi, Marcello, UFO research and, 258–259
tubular object sighting over San Antonio, Texas, 30
turbulent air masses mistaken for UFOs, 36
Tuscany, Italy, white object spotted over, 82
Twining, General Nathan, 306
letter written by, 8
U
UFOBs, 67
Army evidence of, 68
Project STORK and, 68
ufology, Cecil B. Scott and, 296
Umvuma, Zimbabwe, blue beam in, 241
unexplained
cosmic ray phenomena, 54
sightings, geographic locations of, 53
unidentified aerial objects, reports of, 41
Unidentified Flying Objects Research Committee, 134, 139
unidentified objects over Salisbury, Rhodesia, 80
unidentified radar echo, 229
University of Colorado, 195, 196, 197, 198, 200, 201, 309
University of Colorado UFO Project, 20, 185, 187, 192, 216
University of Colorado UFO study group, 195– 200, 222
unknown objects, photographs of, 133
unknowns,
ATIC explanations for, 42
cases listed as, 89
US
Forecast Center, UFO sightings and the, 243
government, responsibility of sightings from the, 37
psychological warfare planning, 39–40
secret weapons, UFOs as, 34
secret weapons development, unknowns explained as, 42
USAF, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 19, 34, 35, 36, 45, 51, 57–59, 66, 67, 69, 128, 136, 140, 151, 161, 168, 186, 189, 196, 197, 309
personnel, Air Force regulations for, 150
Project Blue Book, 15, 23, 29–30, 36, 43, 44, 46, 65, 72, 73, 94, 99, 113, 144, 206, 210, 219, 224, 254
rocket and the Roswell, New Mexico, incident, 282
role regarding reported aerial anomalies, 121
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, sighting over, 46, 100
Uzbek Republic, information report from the, 25
V
V formation, discs over George Air Force Base in a, 43–44
V formation over Norway, 77
V-shaped wing, sighting of an object with a, 23
validity of published saucer reports, 83
Vallee, Dr. Jacques, 264
theories of, 235
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, photographs taken on, 279–280
Varanasi, India, luminous discs spotted near, 255
Varginha, Brazil, submarine-shaped object over, 303–304
Venus mistaken as UFOs, 33
Vienna, Austria, IFDRB file published from, 26–27
Volkman, Ernest, 273
von Braun, Dr. Werner, 4–5, 143–144
Paperclip and, 5–6
W
W&E message to DDI, 31
Walcha, New South Wales, red undefined object over, 278
Walesville, New York, tragedy at, 84
Warfield, Alan, 59–60
Warner, John S., 64
letter from Coral Lorenzen to, 155
Washington, D.C.,
anomalous objects over, 175
sightings in, 29
Washington National Airport, objects flying over, 30
Waukesha County, Wisconsin, hovering object in, 234
Weapons and Equipment Division, see W&E
weather balloons, 52, 55, 94, 117, 183
misidentification of, 34, 153
weather balloons mistaken as UFOs, 33, 114
Webb, Walter, 205
Weber, Karl, 183
Wheelus Air Force Base, round object at, 136
White, L. K., 188
white mass sighting at the Algiers factory, 28
white object spotted over Tuscany, Italy, 82
White Pond, New York, boomerang-shaped object in, 273
White Sands incident, 14
White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, series of encounters at, 118
Whiting, Fred, 271
Wilcox Field, oncoming unknown over, 114
Williams Lake, British Colombia, red light over, 289
Williamsburg, Virginia, incident in, 206–207
Wilmington, Delaware, sightings over, 31
Wilson, Lieutenant Robert, 69
windblown objects mistaken for UFOs, 36
Witkowski, Igor, 5
witness, aerial anomalies and the earnestness of a, 36
witness
accounts, evaluating, 122
interviews conducted by James E. McDonald, 202
reliability, the ATIC and, 34
witnesses,
scientifically trained, 204
silencing of UFO, 124
Worcester, South Africa, 77
World War II and the OSS, 3
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 18, 58, 184, 186, 187, 213, 260, 306, 309
ATIC and, 42, 103, 104, 123, 307
investigations by, 19
OSI meeting at, 43
Skyhook balloon at the, 36
written correspondence on UFO-related matters, 221
Wurtsmith Air Force Base, low-flying helicopter at, 245
Wyllie, George, letter from Herbert Scoville to, 141–142
Wyman, Louis, House Resolution 946 by, 212
Y
Yaak, Montana, 48
Yarovslavl Highway, objects along the, 284–285
yellow object sighting in Lodi, Algeria, 28
Yeltsin, Boris, 295
Yuma, Arizona, flame-colored discs over, 29
Z
Zamora, Lonnie, 172, 205
Zanesville, Ohio, testing of photographs taken at, 201
Zeider Zee, sightings at, 2
Zhukovskiy, Russia, airshow display in, 297
Ziegel, Dr. Felix,
and UFOs as optical illusions, 214
theories of, 195–196, 218
About the Author
Dan Wright is retired from Michigan civil service where he was a senior analyst and technical writer in the state department of social services.
In 1978 he joined the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a multi-national organization comprising thousands of volunteer field investigators and researchers to address cases of aerial phenomena reported by the public. Following his ascension to the Michigan state directorship, he was further elevated to the international board of directors in 1986. He subsequently served two terms as MUFON's deputy director in charge of all North American investigations. He authored multiple chapters for its manual of investigative procedures, he was instrumental in devising computerized case reports, and he conducted a 5-year study involving 300+ cases of alleged alien abduction. In 1995, 1997, and 2003 he was selected to speak to members gathered at the MUFON International UFO Symposium.
In 2014 Dan published Winter Solstice, a novel shedding light on Islam and Christianity and corresponding Middle East and American politics, while introducing a superior nonhuman intelligence.
Dan Wright holds a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Illinois, Springfield.
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