Kevin Randle Ufo Researcher Really

"Clothed in is an bring up from a effort by Kevin D. Randle in "UFO ADJUST" magazine, Pepper 1975, entitled, "DEEP CLUES ABSENT SAD BY TOP-QUALITY POWDERED FINE CHINA" (SHROUD 37):

Way in the third procession, everyplace Randle writes that "The military showed up in thread..."

Where's the accord, the orientation that proves the military did, "UNDENIABLY", show up?

We direct a body of other Randle articles, and settle by Jerome Clark, which, in observation, portend one reserve reportage, and mind-sets that portend a wrong next believability of accounts by cost, everyplace for example it comes to UFOs.

The be wary of mind is not put on by group fellows, at least well-chosen, in their to the fore incarnations as "ufologists."

In malice of something Allen Hynek, who smothered the Mannor and Hillsdale flying saucer sightings in 1966 by attributing them to "HORDE GAS" wear for the faked 1967 Jaroslav photo seen here:

Hynek made-up that the "STUDY SO FAR DOES NOT INTRODUCE ANY LINK WITH OF AN WELL CHEAT." ["Top-quality ground Fine china Clear, 1967, Shroud 44"].

The before time Jaroslav brothers admitted, not have a yen for after, to deal the "SAUCER" and faking the photograph.

Hynek was dismissed by the media as changeable after the 1966 "HORDE GAS" pale and he never regained loyalty in the middling of news media after that magnitude.

He never regained loyalty in the middling of us either.

We balk at the alleged noted ufologists for example they've assumed to be inexpert or appropriately in good health fake, short-lived back-tracking and deal excuses for their in the lead of "drivel."

One can let off them, but one can't fade to retrieve...their blunders and errant "research."

RR

Pascagoula Abduction

"Note: Crack was in black and white by get in "ALL CAPS". I accept re-written and condensed report for spelling and specified language rules."

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MUFON Skin # 21371

Television journalism Date: 01/06/2010

Obsession Date: 05/14/1978

Location: Ocala National Coppice, Florida

Summary: Stood looking up at a crft on an divide road in Ocala National Coppice.

Report:

My boyfriend conscious me that some Christmas I tell him a story about a UFO. He meant he thought the Christmas lights reminded me of it.

This blind date, he insisted that I research to hook any information about what I had seen in the Ocala National Coppice.

I had told him of an encounter I had and that it was reported in the Ocala Victory Direction the close day. Yet, I had never persued any information about it.

On May 14, 1978 at night, I was opportunity native land from Ocala with a girlfriend. I was overcast down an unpaved divide road everyplace I lived, in imitation of I had an encounter with a craft.

All I can recapture of the performance is that my chum and I were cachet, diagonal be in support of something opposed to my car, looking up at the craft. It was a ambiguous experience.

I remember looking at her LP and preoccupied that the light was so pleasant, that I may perhaps see petite hairs on her search. I recapture imprint the same I was transport in muzzy force.

I can best strain the craft as reminding me of giant bribe toys. It had round, pod-like compartments allied with hulking cylinders. It had sore, ashen and I unsure red lights (LOOKED BLUSHING). Lucky, the wane seemed to seem the same pollute and nebulous neon lights.

I unsure it was no advanced than 20 - 30 feet to a different place from us. I do not remember in receipt of out of my car, or in receipt of be in support of something appearing in my car and departure native land.

The close sunup I meant to my chum abruptly, "DO YOU REMEMBER SEEING THAT LAST NIGHT?" Her answer was yes and that was the end of the speak.

The performance seemed dream-like and I had no press on to talk about it furthermore with her, nor did she with me.

I forgetfully remember something about my friend's face looking the same it was sun dried up but I don't recapture if my face was dried up.

I remember seeing this object balanced rumbling and tranquil above us and I remember being in the open air my car. No matter which else is bare.

My research of this performance corresponds with the sightings at the Fade away Refuge Electronic Center. So, for any other reports of this sighting, I mettle verify 100%, that this craft was at hand.

"Editor's Note: This was perceptibly a case of Unfamiliar Attack and I would without doubt be nosy in a report of this case."

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The Pinecastle Electronic Stroke Mushroom Tracking Situation normal a "VIVID" on a UFO, on a Sunday, May 14, 1978.

"The incident began with a dealings claim from a voter. At about 10:05 PM, she called from accessible White Glen Springs to ask if the facility was freezing off flares. She had moral seen something that looked the same a spark. The chore elected official, SK-1 Robert Clark, sure thing her no such canvass was departure on at that importance. A small claim came a few minutes final."

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November 2002 London Ufo Landing

Birmingham UFO Group Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Originally forwarded by Richard Hall

Release Date: 11/08/1977

In June 2011 a man named Brian Seers got in touch with me via Richplanet.net about a possible UFO landing that he and his friends witnessed back in November 2002 in London. Unfortunately he did not send through any additional details after the initial correspondence, so at present this is all that is known about what took place.

INCIDENT DETAILS

It was a cold but clear night in November 2002. Brian and three friends were out doing some after dark fishing. It was 9.15pm and they were all sitting along the bank. Brian turned round and noticed a strange looking object on the ground. It was about 25 feet away from them, and looked like a large disc-shaped object with a raised dome on the top. It was completely black in colour and there were no markings or lighting on it. It was about 12-13 feet across and 10 foot in depth.

Brian did not approach the object but informed his friends about it. When they turned round and also saw the object they appeared to become panicked. They quickly packed up their fishing gear and left the area, and Brian headed away with them. He has no idea how long the object remained in the area for, but when he returned to the location it was no longer there.

INCIDENT ANALYSIS

Could the object seen have actually been a landed UFO in close proximity to the witnesses? It certainly appeared to be a "classic" flying saucer shape. It is unknown at present if it was really black in colour or if this was just because it was after dark and in shadow. It certainly appeared unusual to the witnesses, and spooked some of them enough to get them to leave the area rather than approach it. The actions of the men do sound unusual; I would have expected at least some of them to approach it to make sure whether it really was a landed craft or something else.

As none of them did go right up to it, we cannot rule out the possibility that it was something mundane that was placed there temporarily. Perhaps it was an unusual model or modern art sculpture, or perhaps some kind of container. You may feel that this sounds unlikely, but it is very easy to mistake a mundane object for something more unusual, especially after dark. The object did not move at all, did not have any lighting on it and was completely silent, so other than the apparent shape of the object and the fact that it was only there temporarily, there is nothing else which would suggest it actually was a landed craft.

Unfortunately we will probably never know whether this really was a UFO landing or just a case of misidentification, but it is an interesting case none the less.

"Copyright Dave Hodrien 2011"

Ufo Fireworks Dream Followed By Olympic Ufo Fireworks

By Aaron Hermann ( Revelation of Babylon blog )

On Sunday morning July 22, 2012 I received a dream from The Lord. Before I started having these dreams The Lord instructed me that they would be coming and I was to write them down. The following is what I wrote down in my journal:

"I was in some sort of street festival or some other type of public celebration that was taking place at night. I remember that the mood was festive.

There were fireworks in the sky, and some man that I did not know turned to me and pointed out how exciting they were and asked me what I thought about them.

It was at this time that I noticed a strange occurrence in the sky off to the right. It appeared as if it was Aurora Borealis, or something that looked like it. It was green at first and then a yellow color.

I turned to the man who addressed me earlier and told him that "they" always try and distract us from where we should really be looking. A very short time later it appeared as if the smoke from the fireworks was filling the air and then very suddenly the smoke cleared and the sky seemed to open and a large, circular UFO was directly above us.

People began to scream and run, and I could feel the fear and panic that had overtaken the entire area. The "UFO" was not friendly and it seemed to be firing laser-like energy beams at people and buildings. I saw one such beam strike a building and the building exploded...then I woke up."

The week leading up to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games was intense and productive. On Friday afternoon I had a couple of hours of peaceful quiet to spend with The Lord and during that time I sought The Lord about the direction He seemed to be taking me in regards to my work for Him. A great deal was revealed, and the nature of it was such that I was a bit taken aback at first. I told The Lord that I was willing to do whatever He had for me, but the nature of it was such that if He could give me a sign...a clear, undeniable, unmistakable sign to serve as a confirmation of the nature of my ministry that it would be of great help.

I left it with The Lord and over the course of Friday and Saturday He continued to show me what He has in mind for me. I spoke to Bob for nearly three hours last night about everything that has been going on with the Olympics, what The Lord has been showing us and telling us, and we looked at some of the comments being sent in from folks around the world who have been reading the blog.

One of the comments mentioned a UFO sighting over the Olympic stadium and included a link to the video. After seeing the video, I recognized that this was the confirming sign that I had asked The Lord for. To borrow a phrase from Bob, "The Lord saw me coming" and gave me the dream five days prior to asking for a sign and six days prior to seeing the video. Praise The Lord!

Prior to the Olympics an article appeared on the Daily Mail featuring former British Minister of Defense, and UFO expert, Nick Pope:

"One of the UK's top UFO experts has given his views on the likelihood of aliens suddenly appearing in our skies - and how the international community would respond.

Nick Pope, who has more than two decades under his belt at the Ministry of Defence, said mass summer events - like the Olympic Games in London - would be a prime time for crafts from otherworlds to present themselves to mankind.

He warned: 'With the summer of mass events we are all on high alert for terrorism. But we must also cast our eyes further afield and be prepared for even the most seemingly unfathomable.'"

"Keep an eye on the skies for saucers during the Olympics Games, warns former MoD UFO expert

By Aaron Hermann ( Revelation of Babylon blog )

Bob Schlenker (theopenscroll@) and Aaron Hermann (theultimateplan@)

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Veteran Roswell Ufo Researcher Condemns Recent Witness Revelations As Shoddy And Disingenuous

ANTHONY BRAGALIA TAKES CREDIT FOR OTHER RESEARCHERS WORK

Editors Note: As many of our regular readers are aware, both Dennis Balthaser and Tony Bragalia have columns here at TUFOC and we have been publishing their respective penscript for years. The following article is a revision of the original (12-13-12) after Mr. Balthaser & Mr. Bragalia discussed the matter.

In the Mr. Balthaser made a public request/suggestion for Mr. Bragalia to remove a snippet of audio (re an interview with witness Walter Haut, co-copyrighted by Balthaser ">By Dennis Balthaser

www.truthseekeratroswell.com

12-13-12

Anthony Bragalia's latest article entitled "Roswell Officer Speaks from the Grave: Taped Confession of ET Recovery Revealed", posted on his bragalia.blogspot.com on December 6, 2012 is another of his articles containing wrong, and misleading information where in my opinion he also wrongly took credit for being the first to reveal certain information. I previously called Bragalia's hand in January 2010 about an article he wrote about the BLM and the Foster ranch where the Roswell debris was found.

The taped confession he refers to is an "oral history video recording" that former Historical Researcher Wendy Connors and I did with Walter Haut at the UFO Museum November 15, 2000. (My copy of the videotape has the following notation on the cover: "Copyright (c) MM-Wendy Connors/Dennis Balthaser".) In Bragalia's article he lists the date of the recording as "1999," which indicates he did not know it was a video recording or the date it was done. He also states that, "Wendy Connors has graciously and generously entrusted him with access to her years of research materials, now in the care of an archivist in the Pacific Northwest."

I contacted Wendy about that statement, and she emphatically informed me that, "she gave him permission to get copies of printed materials from her archives, but DID NOT give him permission to use the Haut interview we did." The Walter Haut interview we did "is not in the public domain." Apparently this is where the confusion came into play, as Tony has an email from Wendy stating he has "Carte Blanche" to her archived material.

That brings me to the copyright law. The Haut interview as stated above, is copyrighted jointly by Wendy and I. I was never contacted by Bragalia about using any portion of the interview, before he wrote it, and consequently suggested that he remove it in its entirety from his blog or any other website that might have posted it.

"AFTER" Bragalia heard about this editorial I was writing he did finally call me, and I am of the opinion that he was not aware that I was part of the interview or had the joint copyright with Wendy. His reason for not calling earlier was due to other articles I had written that were critical of his research (like now), highlighting errors and erroneous statements etc. The 27-second audio recording he originally had in the article was removed quickly after hearing about my concern, which was the prudent thing to do, claiming that had he known about the copyright he would have called me. I will accept that and advised him to be more diligent in the future when doing his research.

Bragalia had no knowledge of how or when Wendy and I discovered some of the information we discussed with Walter during the interview. I can tell you that some of the information came from Walter's daughter prior to the interview and that 6 pages of questions and comments were used to conduct the interview by me, with his daughter agreeing to the questions to be presented. (I have a copy of the written agenda used with a note that she had seen the agenda.) There were no restrictions placed on Wendy or I about what would be discussed in the interview, which covered Walter's personal and military life as a video oral history, and were explained to him to his satisfaction during the first part of the recording

In the first paragraph of Bragalia's article he refers to Walter Haut as a Lieutenant Colonel and Press Officer. Walter was a Lieutenant not a Lieutenant Colonel. Considering the difference in rank between a Lieutenant Colonel and Lieutenant is more than an oversight as Bragalia admitted it was on his part.

In the same paragraph he states that a portion of the rare audiotape is revealed publicly by him for the first time in his article. Wendy Connors and I being interviewed on the radio show "Strange Days Indeed", years ago played a small portion of the tape as copyright owners, so Bragalia should not have taken credit for revealing something for the first time. Our interview with Walter was not the first time that he revealed some of the information, but was one of the reasons Wendy and I decided to do the oral history with him.

The notarized declaration of 2002 that Bragalia mentions as being published in Schmitt and Carey's book, was not written by Walter, but by Don Schmitt by his own admission on the "Paracast" radio show. Walter signed it in the presence of a visitor to the UFO Museum, whose last name is not listed as the witness on the affidavit in their book. Neither Schmitt, nor Carey were present when Walter signed it. There was another affidavit signed by Walter Haut in 1993 witnessed by Max Littell, who along with Glenn Dennis and Walter Haut were the original founders of the UFO Museum. The verbiage, content and style of writing in the 2002 affidavit was totally different than the 1993 affidavit and did not sound like the man Wendy and I interviewed in 2000.

Bragalia makes no reference to some of the photos used in his article as having requested permission to use them, such as the movie film prop belonging to the Museum, or the Roswell Daily record newspaper that he shows in the article. Perhaps in Bragalia's mind he is the first to reveal those photos also. A good researcher would make sure he has permission to use certain information before going public with it.

Having volunteered at the Museum from 1996-1998, I had the opportunity to visit with Walter daily and had the utmost respect for him. I in fact wrote a tribute to him on January 2, 2006 after his death in 2005. I also wrote an editorial on October 1, 2007 about the 2002 affidavit Walter signed written by Don Schmitt. Both articles are archived on my website in the Editorials link.

If Bragalia is going to write future articles about Roswell, he needs to thoroughly research his information before going public, and honor copyright laws, when they apply as they did in this latest article about Walter Haut. I do not take lightly those who use other researchers years of work for their own credit, and can assure you I will publicly do whatever is needed to keep the field of Ufology honest. Copyright laws are there for a reason, to prevent people from taking credit for other researchers work.

In our phone conversation Tony admitted that he "assumed" that I was just sitting in on the interview rather than being an actual participant in the interview, and never bothered to contact me, or question my involvement with the interview, knowing I was present. I would like to believe that Anthony Bragalia is a better researcher than what he presented in the article, and would hope that any future articles he writes are better researched than this one was.

I was pleased that he finally did contact me, and I accept the fact that he admitted he should have also contacted me about the copyright, and did have the short audio clip removed as I requested, however I stand firm on my thoughts about the wrong and misleading information he presented in the article.

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Dead Alien Bodies

SHORT UFO FACT: [May 7, 1949; Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas (BBU) 7:40 p.m. Lt. Mardell Ward, at the Army's UFO observation post, and another observation site, spotted a brilliant white diamond-shaped object at triangulated location 15,000 ft away at 1,000 ft 57 secs 2+ real-time triangulation altitude headed NW. Object was tracked for 57 seconds as it traveled 20 miles (AT 1,300 MPH) while changing color from white to reddish to greenish as it dropped altitude and dimmed then disappeared. No sound. (FOIA; JAN ALDRICH; LOREN GROSS JAN-JUN 1949 SUPP P. 79, ERRONEOUSLY PUT AT LOS ALAMOS) ]

UFO AMAZING

SHORT UFO FACT: [May 6, 1949; Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas (BBU) UFO observation network using Army artillery observers (WARD?), established 2 days earlier, tracks its first object. (FOIA; JAN ALDRICH) real-time triangulation? ]

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Ufos Suppressed Technology And The Breakaway Civilization

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SGT REPORT Feb 5, 2015

Andrew Johnson from Check The Evidence.com joins me to discuss some very interesting topics: UFO's, suppressed technologies and the breakaway civilization.

At Wright-Patterson AFB in 1993, Ben Rich the former head of Lockheed Skunkworks admitted "We already have the means to travel among the stars... anything you can imagine we can already know how to do." Ben Rich also admitted, "We have things in the Nevada desert that are alien to your way of thinking, far beyond anything you see on Star Trek."

Astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper have also been candid about the existence of UFO's and have called for the end of the government coverup surrounding the subject.

What does Space Shuttle mission 75 and the "Tether incident" tell us about NASA and its willingness to explain away even the most shocking video footage as nothing more than "ice crystals"?

Is there a breakaway civilization, as Catherine Austin Fitts has called it, which has harnessed advanced technologies for their own use? Has a secret space program been developed through black projects which has allowed man to travel far beyond the moon as Ben Rich claimed? And does this breakaway civilization intend to leave us behind?

The Socorro Ufo Hoax Exposed

By Anthony Bragalia

The UFO Iconoclast(s)

InterAmerica, Inc.

(c) 9-23-09

Editor's note-Lead civilian investigator of The Socorro Incident, Ray Stanford offers his preliminary rebuttal; it can be found in the "Comments Section."

-FW

Famous 1964 Sighting was a College Prank After 45 years the truth is now revealed- one of the most famous UFO sightings in history was a hoax. The recent confession of an elderly College President -and a newly discovered document- indicate that the 1964 sighting of a landed UFO by Socorro, NM policeman Lonnie Zamora was the result of an elaborate school prank. This incredible story is publicly recounted for the first time ever by individuals who have held the secret of Socorro for decades.

THE SOCORRO UFO STORY

Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora was performing his town patrol duties on Friday, April 24, 1964. But this would be unlike any other patrol Sgt. Zamora had ever experienced. At about 5:50 PM Sgt. Zamora started pursuit of a speeding car. But the chase was broken off when Zamora heard a loud explosion. He thought perhaps it came from a dynamite shack nearby. He then observed a cone of flame traveling over a hill. Once over the hill, Zamora stopped his car about 100 feet away from what he reported as a strange landed, 20 foot "aluminum-white" oval object resting on structured "legs." The ovoid had a red insignia about two feet wide on its surface. Though the artistic rendition of the UFO above depicts an opening- Zamora had reported the object as smooth, without any windows or doors. Zamora also noticed what appeared to be two figures "the size of small adults or large kids" and "normal in shape" wearing "white coveralls" walking around the object.

As Zamora started to approach the object on foot, the figures jumped away from his view. As Zamora left his car, he bumped it and his glasses fell off. He reports that a flame from the underside of the craft then appeared and the object roared away. Zamora heard a high-pitched whine and then silence. The object traveled very fast over him, and then just three feet above a nearby shack- and finally out of view over another hill. Left at the site were four "landing impressions" as well as areas of burnt creosote bush near where the object has rested.

Zamora, shocked, then radioed to another officer what he had just observed. When the officer asked Zamora "What does it look like?" Zamora responded, "It looks like a balloon." Zamora would later state that he did not know exactly what it was -it could have been a secret military experiment or even ET. Zamora has remained reluctant to offer his opinion on the specific nature or origin of the craft. He says it was strange and frightening. But he leaves the analysis to others- and only indicates that he was sincere in reporting what he had observed. And Zamora was sincere. And he was extremely cooperative with investigators. But he was also hoodwinked.

The period following the sighting in 1964 found Socorro a town turned upside-down. It was also an active one for Lonnie Zamora. He was visited by many journalists and UFO researchers. This included officials from the US Air Force Project Blue Book, investigators from the civilian UFO study group NICAP and noted skeptics. The story received national and international media attention. To this very day Socorro remains one of the most well-known UFO incidents in history. Still living, long retired and exhausted of the matter, Zamora now avoids any talk about the event.

THE INCRIMINATING DOCUMENT

A former New Mexico Tech President affirmed in the 1960s in a letter to renowned scientist Dr. Linus Pauling that the Socorro UFO was a hoax.

A letter from Dr. Linus Pauling located within the Special Collections of Oregon State University (where the Pauling papers are archived) provides insight into the true nature of the Socorro sighting. In a 1968 letter to Dr. Stirling Colgate -the President of New Mexico Tech- Pauling inquires about the Socorro sighting. Colgate replied to Pauling by sending back Pauling's letter with a handwritten notation at the bottom. Dr. Colgate writes: "I have a good indication of the student who engineered the hoax. Student has left. Cheers, Stirling."

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Dr. Pauling (a multiple Nobel-Prize winner) was very interested in the UFO phenomena. An earlier article by this author details Pauling's secret UFO studies. He was researching the Socorro-Zamora landing case and decided to write to his friend, Stirling Colgate, President at New Mexico Tech to see what he might have known about the incident. Dr. Colgate's blunt reply leaves little doubt that tricksters were involved. But to allay any further doubt, I contacted Colgate.

THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S CONFESSION

As well as having been NM Tech's President, Dr. Stirling Colgate was a world-famous astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Considered a science visionary, he specialized in plasma and atmospheric physics. His discoveries in these fields are acknowledged as monumental. His associates included such luminaries as Oppenheimer and Pauling. Colgate still maintains an office at Los Alamos at age 84! This author emailed Colgate to see what his thoughts are today on the Socorro UFO and to see if he would shed additional light on the event. In my email to Colgate I attached the Pauling letter from 1968 with Colgate's handwritten notes on the Socorro UFO.

Colgate took several days to reply to me. In his email, Colgate answered very cryptically and sparingly:- To the question, "Do you still know this to be a hoax? His reply was simple: "Yes."

- When asked, "Today, decades later, can you expand on what you wrote to Pauling about the event?" He wrote: "I will ask a friend, but he and other students did not want their cover blown."

- He offered that the hoax, "was a no-brainer."

- When asked "Specifically how did they do it?" He just answered, "Will ask."

- When queried, "Have you ever publicly commented on this?" he replied "Of course not."It has been some time now, and I have never heard back from Stirling Colgate. He indicated that he would "make some inquiries" to see what more could be detailed on the event. Perhaps his "friend and the other students" who he alludes to are still not ready to come forward and be identified. As Colgate puts it, maybe they still do not "want their cover blown."

Or perhaps Colgate was stunned that the Pauling letter was ever discovered- and knows that he has already said too much. Colgate is likely conflicted about having known about the hoaxers -and the truth about the Socorro UFO- for decades. He said nothing publicly then- and prefers to not say a whole lot more now.

THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR'S CORROBORATION

Dr. Frank T. Etscorn was a Psychology Professor at New Mexico Tech from the mid-1970s until the early 1990s. Dr. Etscorn is famously known for being the inventor of the Nicotine Patch. A wing of the College was dedicated to Etscorn in 1993. Etscorn had known about the Socorro UFO event from the decade before he began work at the College- and it had always intrigued him. This author had learned of his interest and contacted Dr Etscorn to see if he had ever found out anything about the sighting and what had really happened. In a recent telephone conversation, Dr. Etscorn related:

"As a project, a former student of mine had examined the case in the mid 1980s. Using yearbooks and networking, she began calling alumni who were at Tech in 1964. She somehow located one of the former students believed to have been involved. He would not expand on the hoax or have his name used- but she found out it was a hoax. My memory of her investigation is spotty- it was 25 years ago. But I remember that she found also found out through records that coincidentally a rear projection device was stolen from the campus the day of the UFO sighting."

Etcorn was a noted psychologist. He said that the psychology of these Techies was such that they liked to fool those who they thought were foolish.

We discussed how the pranksters may have incorporated 1) a large helium balloon resting on the desert floor to appear "landed" and then released up into the air on cue. Perhaps it was a reflective white colored balloon or a balloon fitted over with glossy-white craft paper- with added "landing struts" and a red insignia drawn on its side 2) "roaring" or "whining" explosives, pyrotechnics, model rockets, thrown flares or a flame device 3) smaller students dressed in white lab coats acting as the "aliens" and 4) the digging out of "landing depressions" and burning of nearby bushes. Soil or rock in the area may have been "salted" with silicon or trinitite from the school's Geology Lab. And perhaps it was intentional that Zamora was led to the landed craft by a speeding car. One of the students may have purposely engaged Lonnie in a car chase to lure him to where the hoax was staged. Zamora reports that he "broke the chase" to investigate the UFO- just as the students knew that he would.

Though these ideas about how the hoax may have been accomplished are strictly speculative, Dr. Etscorn reminded me of an important fact: Nothing that was reported was beyond the abilities of "smart Techies" to create.

WHAT A TECHIE LEARNED

Dave Collis was a freshman at New Mexico Tech in 1965, a year after the Socorro UFO incident. Collis went on to become a published scientist helping to lead the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at NM Tech. He is considered a world expert in researching blast effects and explosives.

Collis explained that he himself enjoyed planning pranks when he was a student at Tech. In 1965, he and his friends had planned a "paranormal" prank and shared the plan with one of his trusted Professors. The Professor (who had been with Tech for years) told him that NM Tech had a long history of pranking- and that one of them was especially noteworthy. Collis then said that the Professor (whose name he does not remember or does not wish to offer) had "confidentially told me that the UFO sighting by the town cop was a hoax done by Techie students." Collis did not want to press the Professor on who did it -or how. Collis says, "he was telling me this in confidence, so I didn't ask for the details and he didn't offer." When asked if the Professor could have been making up the hoax story, Collis replied that in the context of his conversation with him- there was no reason for him to lie. The Professor had told him the truth about the hoax, of that he was sure. Collis, when told about Stirling Colgate's confirmation that it was a hoax said, "Colgate is a brilliant man and he was a great College President. From what I was told by my Professor, it was a hoax. And if Colgate also says it was a hoax, it was." Collis (who is a pyrotechnics expert and often directed NM Tech's July 4 Fireworks) said that it always has surprised him that people didn't seem to realize just how "terrestrial" the reported Zamora UFO seemed to be in the first place.

THE REASON FOR THE HOAX

Collis also explained that Lonnie Zamora had a reputation for "hounding" the Techie students during that time. The students and the Socorro police did not have a particularly good relationship back then. He said that there was "a lot of friction" at the time between what were felt to be "elitist and educated Techies" versus the "under-educated and simpler town folk." Zamora was always harassing the students for seemingly no reason, and at every opportunity. Many of the college kids just did not like him. What better way to "get back" at Zamora than for them to fool a fool?

Little known is that Zamora himself had worked at New Mexico Tech as a mechanic for seven years before becoming a patrolman. He had developed an insiders view of these college kids' world- a world that was very different than his own. When he left to join the town police, he was then in a position to exert his "influence" on these same kids. Collis further explains that Zamora was known as being "not especially educated." Supporting this are the observations of USAF investigator Dr. J. Allen Hynek. He wrote in his report of his interview of Zamora, "I would conclude that Zamora, although not overly bright or articulate, is basically sincere."

PRANKS AND GEEKS

As readers of my articles well realize, I am convinced that ET has visited Earth. But I am also a critical thinker. I recognize the role that pranks and hoaxes have played when it comes to things UFO. I am not happy to report the results of my investigation- but it is a story that must be told. It is an obligation to history and truth. The compulsion to prank is a reality we must always bear in mind in evaluating all UFO reports.

Neil Steinburg's classic study on college pranks, "If At All Possible Involve a Cow: The Book of College Pranks" is very instructive relative to the Socorro hoax. Steinburg's hypothesis is that college pranks happen because there are many young creative minds that feel "stifled." And these minds are looking for release- a little fun. And there is a "geek" connection. Complicated and sophisticated pranks are often pulled off by engineering or science students who have the technical know how. The many well-known stunts by students at MIT and Caltech show that the grander the stunt- the more highly educated the students. The "fun" of such pranks does not come from admission to them, it comes from the reaction to them.

I recall two pranks that were pulled off by others during my own college days when living in Boston. MIT students had perfected two stunts that were mind-boggling. The first involved taking an enormous promotional prop "cow statue" (weighing a quarter-ton) from the lawn of a suburban steakhouse. Somehow the students were able to hoist the huge cow figure on top of the famous MIT "dome buiding." They removed it the following day -and returned it to the steakhouse lawn- without anyone ever having seen them. To this day, no one has ever owned up to the prank- and no one has ever come forward stating that they saw the stunt being carried out. It is still unknown how this was accomplished without use of a heavy construction crane. The second prank involved a high-tech catapult. Somehow the MIT students were able to hurl large clear water balloons made of very thin material up and over two city streets. The water balloons were sent careening across the block with precision to land exactly at the entrance of another college's building. When people went to open the door, invisible "water bombs" hit them out of nowhere- causing them to get soaked. Visibly stunned, they had no idea where the water burst came from- and had to go to class soaking wet.

THE SOCORRO HOAXERS TODAY

Great jokes can be carried out with great planning and calculation. But great jokes can also backfire. Perhaps the Socorro UFO hoaxers continue to get a "big laugh" over the whole thing and revel in their prank done decades ago. But it is more likely that the New Mexico Tech pranksters -who perhaps became famous scientists- are today oldsters in retirement struggling with what they did. They played a trick on a community, a nation and the world. They are keenly aware that they had involved the Air Force, media, scientists and many others. They know that Zamora's life was made difficult by the event. He was made a spectacle and suffered hugely from the unwanted attention. They must ponder their youthful folly- and how much time, effort and money was expended in the prank's long aftermath. It was "a prank gone wild." It had escalated beyond what they could ever have imagined. Often pulling off a brilliant prank "traps" the pranksters. They create the illusion, but they never receive the "credit." And no credit was ever sought by those who engineered one of the greatest hoaxes in UFO history.

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Newly Released Ufo Files From The Uk Government August 11 2011

Source: ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk

FILES RELEASED IN AUGUST 2011

The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents, drawings, letters and parliamentary questions covering the years 1985-2007.

Read eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings, see the picture of a 'flying saucer' which was sent for analysis by defence experts and discover the bizarre story of 'Mork and Mindy's' visit to East Dulwich.

Start by reading our highlights guide (PDF, 397kb) to help you navigate your way through the files released in August 2011.

Seven files in this tranche (DEFE 31/182/1-188/1) contain copies of numerous UFO reports made by members of the public and submitted to MoD between April 1993 and July 1996. These reports are duplicates of papers from tranche #4 of the UFO files, released by The National Archives in August 2009 (DEFE 24/1959/1-1961/1 and DEFE 24/1974/1-76/1 on the webpage).

Due to the large size of some of these files, we recommend you save them to your PC before opening them. Please right click on the links and select the 'save' option.

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