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by Michael E. Salla, Ph.D
Kona, Hawaii
July/18/2008
from
Exopolitics Website
Significant support for the testimony of
multiple witnesses of a UFO seen near Stephenville Texas on January
8, 2008 came in the form of radar data recently released by the
Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). Responding to a series
of Freedom of Information requests by the Mutual UFO Network
(MUFON), the FAA supplied 2.8 million radar returns from five
sites covering the area where the UFO was sighted.
A report by MUFON titled, "Special
Research Report - Stephenville, Texas," provided a
detailed analysis of raw data released by the FAA.
The authors of the MUFON Stephenville
Report, Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, stated:
"data was obtained that indicates
unidentified aircraft without transponder beacons which were not
military jets, were found in the same compass direction and time
frame as cited by the witnesses (Stephenville Report, p. 5)."
The radar returns supported witness
testimonies that the object was at times stationary and also able to
accelerate at tremendous speeds. Schulze and Powell claimed that
some of the radar data confirmed that the object reached speeds up
to 2100 mph. This was done without creating a sonic boom.
They note:
Much more important than the
possible sudden acceleration shown by the object is its
trajectory heading. This object was traveling to the southeast
on a direct course towards the Crawford Ranch, also known
as President Bush's western White House. The last time
the object was seen on radar at 8:00pm, it was continuing on a
direct path to Crawford Ranch and was only 10 miles away.
(Stephenville Report, p. 7).
Schulze and Powell also revealed the
extent of military activity in the area using log books and radar
returns from Carswell Air Force Base, and were able to distinguish
these from the sighted UFO.
The radar returns confirmed witness
testimonies of significant military aerial activity in relation to
the UFO despite initial denials by military authorities. Schulze and
Powell further examined the data in terms of witness testimonies of
the UFO being chased by jets at a very low altitude.
They concluded:
The Selden witnesses also indicated
that the unknown object returned and was being chased by jets at
very low altitude. These chase jets do not show up on radar. If
their altitude was below 2000 feet, as described by the
witnesses, then they would have been too low to be detected by
the nearest FAA radar.
(Stephenville Report, p. 7).
In what appears to be a notable national
security lapse, they continue:
During this entire episode of over
an hour, there is no indication that any of the military jets
reacted to this unknown aircraft, that was without a required
transponder, and that was headed directly to the Western
White House.
Two questions arise here.
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First, why would military
authorities allow a UFO to get so close to the Crawford
Ranch?
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Second, why would the FAA allow
radar data to be released that confirm an apparent national
security breach at the "Western White House" involving a
UFO?
Answers to these questions may be found
by first examining past FAA policy on releasing UFO information, and
the role of senior national security officials in dictating this
policy to senior FAA officials.
Earlier FAA policy concerning UFOs appear to have two elements.
These elements of what appears to be a
long standing policy of the FAA regarding UFOs is exemplified in two
well documented cases.
The first concerns the 2006 multiple witness sighting of a UFO over
O'Hare International Airport. In a comprehensive report of the
O'Hare incident titled, "Report
of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon and its Safety Implications at
O'Hare International Airport on November 7, 2006," by Dr
Richard Haines, he notes:
According to the FAA nothing was
detected by radar at this location or time of day or seen by air
traffic controllers from the main tower. An examination of
primary radar data supplied by the FAA confirmed the first
claim. Nevertheless, an FAA inbound ground controller remarked
about the "UFO" (UAP) … long before the object had departed.
(O'Hare Report, p. 5).
Furthermore, Haines reported on the
result of FOIA requests for tower logs and communications that:
"clearly showed (1) three separate
telephone inquiries from the United ramp tower (and management)
concerning the UAP [UFO] and (2) a written notation of one of
these calls in the FAA's tower's Daily Record of Facility
Operations".
(O'Hare Report, p. 19).
More incriminating was a series of
interviews with United Airline employees by a journalist for the
Chicago Tribune, Jon Hilkevitch, wherein it was alleged that
they were "told
to not talk about what they saw to anyone." Was the
management of United Airlines muzzling its employees because of FAA
pressure, and was the FAA muzzling its own employees?
Regardless of the answers to these
questions, the FAA's policy seemed to be one of dismissing
testimonies of a UFO at O'Hare international airport regardless of
witness reliability and quantity.
The second documented case involves a former section chief for the
FAA, John Callahan, who revealed what occurred to radar and
other evidence of a UFO witnessed in the vicinity of a Japanese
Airline 747 flying over Alaska in 1986. After the event, Callahan
requested all the data to be transferred first to Atlantic City for
initial analysis by him and his team, and then to Washington D.C.
for a personal viewing by the FAA Administrator, Vice Admiral
Donald Engen.
He subsequently describes what happened
after Admiral Engen saw the data:
Well a few minutes later the Admiral
calls down and says, I have set up a briefing tomorrow morning
at 9:00 am in the round room. Bring all the stuff you have.
Bring everybody up there and give them whatever they want… They
[a group of national security officials] brought in three people
from the FBI, three people from the CIA, and three people from
Reagan's Scientific Study team - I don't know who the rest of
people were but they were all excited. When they got done, they
actually swore all these other guys in there that this never
took place. We never had this meeting. And this was never
recorded.
[http://www.topsecrettestimony.com/Witnesses/AllWitnesses/FAADivisionChiefJohnCallahan/tabid/298/Default.aspx]
Callahan went on to disclose in his
public testimony how the data was confiscated by the national
security team from the Reagan administration who were concerned
about public reaction to the reality of UFOs. Callahan further
described how he was able to hold on to a duplicate set of data in
his office which he revealed at a May 2001 National Press Club
Conference.
Callahan believed that the FAA
was complicit in a cover up of what the radar evidence clearly
showed was a UFO that backed pilot and passenger testimonies of a
UFO following a Japanese 747.
For those people that say that if
these UFOs existed, they would some day be on radar and that
there'd be professionals who would see it, then I can tell them
that back in 1986 there were enough professional people that saw
it. It was brought down to headquarters, FAA headquarters,
Washington D.C. The Administrator saw the tape of it. The people
that we were debriefing, they've all seen. Reagan's
Scientific Study team, three of those professors, doctors,
they've seen it.
As far as I was concerned they were
the ones that verified my own thoughts about it. They were very,
very excited about the data. They had said that this was the
only time a UFO was ever recorded on radar for any length of
time where it is 30 some minutes.
And they have all this data to look
at…
http://www.topsecrettestimony.com/Witnesses/AllWitnesses/FAADivisionChiefJohnCallahan/tabid/298/Default.aspx
The two well documented case studies
from the 2006 O'Hare incident and the 1987 Japanese 747 Alaska
incident reveal that the FAA has been complicit in the dismissal of
credible witness testimonies of UFOs, and more significantly of
deliberately withdrawing corroborating data. Senior national
security officials in various Presidential administrations have
played key roles in dictating this policy to the FAA and its
administrators.
Consequently, I now return to the earlier two questions concerning
the FAA's release of radar returns from the Stephenville incident,
and why it authorized this release in the case of a UFO that was
tracked heading towards President Bush's Crawford Ranch. The
release of the radar returns suggests a significant policy change by
senior national security officials within the Bush
administration has occurred.
Rather than debunking UFO testimonies
and withholding corroborating data, the FAA is now releasing key
data that helps confirm these testimonies. A new policy of
openness appears to be underway. The testimony of former
FAA chief Callahan wherein he revealed the role of national security
officials in secretly directing FAA policy when it comes to UFO
sightings, suggests they have approved the new openness policy.
This may account for why major
television programs such Larry King Live have been running an
unprecedented series of programs on UFOs since the Stephenville
sighting. Importantly, the new openness policy may be related to a
set of
secret meetings at the United Nations
from February 12-14 wherein a new policy of openness on UFOs was
approved by member nations.
Furthermore, the release of radar evidence pointing to a possible
national security breach concerning the Western White House,
suggests that the UFO was something other than a classified military
project. If the Stephenville UFO was a classified military project,
secrecy could easily have been imposed, and the FAA prevented from
releasing its radar data for obvious national security reasons.
Also, if the UFO belonged to a foreign
nation, it would be highly unlikely that the military jets tracking
the UFO would not have engaged with the UFO as it approached the
Crawford Ranch, as Schulze and Powell implied in their report.
A more plausible explanation for the FAA's release of the radar data
is that senior national security officials are signaling that the
Stephenville UFO sighting was not part of any classified program,
nor does it belong to any other national government.
The FAA and more senior officials are
directing the general public to contemplate a genuine enigma over
the UFOs' origin. Consequently, it appears that the goal of the
shift in FAA policy on UFOs is that a program to acclimate the
American public to the reality of UFOs, and the possibility that
they have something other than earthly origin is well underway.
It can therefore be predicted that in
the months ahead, more persuasive empirical data by the FAA and
other government agencies will be allowed to emerge into the public
arena increasingly pointing to the reality of UFOs and the
possibility of an extraterrestrial origin.
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