WILL THE GOVERNMENT TELL THE TRUTH?
DO YOU HAVE ANY INFO THAT MAY HELP HERE?
E-MAIL HIGHLIGHTS:
"I need your help on the following, do you have in your collection
any reports on this information. I have been frustrated in trying to find
data concerning an incident with a UFO in which I was involved, in the
capacity of RAPCON maintenance chief at Larson AFB Wash. The event occurred
in either 1956, 57, 58 or before July 1959, I cannot remember the date or
year because we had several similar incidents during these years. I know the
AF made record of the event with Project Blue Book,--I was required to
provide radar and air-ground comm. tapes to PBB personnel, but I find no
mention of said incident among the 701 Unsolved Incidents List published by
the old PBB. The incident occurred in very clear weather over the Hanford
Nuclear facilities during the afternoon and lasted about an hour and fifteen
minutes. Four F-104 fighters were scrambled on the object (which was
described as a large orange ball) stationary during the first 10 minutes and
then moving slowly over the reservation and eventually moving northwest along
the Columbia River about 20 miles and then suddenly accelerating and rising
upward at great speed (est. 1000+ mph) and disappearing. The F-104's relieved
each other in relays because of fuel carrying limits, flying very near the
thing the pilot eyeball estimate of size 30-60 feet in diameter. This was a
major sighting witnessed by a dozen or more scientists on the ground, at
least 4 maybe 5 fighter pilots, a half dozen RAPCON controllers and
controllers at our AC&W radar site (Othello) about 20 mile south of us, where
radar recordings of the entire incident were made. I became interested
because I could not find this UFO in the PBB Unsolved List and I do not know
how to obtain a copy of an unexpurgated Project Blue Book, Maybe you have
someone can help me. Please reply." -- Leo P Giampietro (lpg@pacentro.com)
or (lpg@in-depthknowledge.com)
|
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SEARCH A SHAM DECLARES UFO GROUP
In the ongoing Phoenix, Arizona federal lawsuit, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
(CAUS) vs. the Department of Defense (DoD), Judge Stephen M. McNamee had
directed that the DoD provide CAUS with the details of its search for
information about a football field-sized triangular aerial object that has
been seen by thousands
of witnesses for the past twenty years.
On March 17th, the DoD provided that information, submitting three affidavits
detailing its search within the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), two of the three components
searched within the DoD for the requested information.
Though the Department of Defense had previously stated that they conducted a
computerized search of the Joint Chiefs of Staff using "unique identifiers
and keywords," the affidavits submitted on Friday referred to the ordinary
terms of "UFO, unidentified flying object, spacecraft, alien craft, and
flying saucer" as well as some
innocuous terms as "big, large, hover, soundless, corner and underneath."
"Not only was the DoD search inadequate and unreasonable, it was a sham. No
wonder they conveniently omitted these terms in their original affidavits"
declared Peter A. Gersten, attorney and Executive Director for Citizens
Against UFO Secrecy, the UFO activist group known for its use of the Freedom
of Information Act in its pursuit to end all secrecy surrounding these
enigmatic craft. "This is proof that the DoD treated the CAUS request as a
typical request for UFO information and did not take it seriously."
Even the e-mails sent to the 200 employees of DARPA, Gersten found lacking.
"Though the e-mails did include the description of the craft, it did not
include either the sketches nor the photo that were also included in the
original CAUS request. Instead each employee was told that the photo and
sketches were available 'if you need to see them'" stated Gersten. "It is
very difficult for me to believe that not one past or present DARPA project
even resembled the object described."
None of the responses from DARPA employees were included with the latest
affidavits. There was also no mention of the procedure used to search the
Defense & Space Operations Division, the third component searched.
Gersten told P3N that he intends to file a response to the new affidavits
asking Judge McNamee to deny the Department of Defense's Motion for Summary
Judgment. "It is obvious that there are several issues that still should be
decided. To dismiss this lawsuit now, knowing that no reasonable search was
ever done, would be an injustice and an insult to the spirit and intent of
the Freedom of Information Act as well as all the people who are seeking the
truth about these strange objects in our skies."
Gersten will also be asking for another court appearance to argue his latest
objections.
Contact information: Peter A. Gersten; ufolawyer@caus.org; 480-609-9120.
|
