Jan's really interesting Letters to Me:
Jan's original letter with incorrect time and date for Stokes & Sebago
(Not specifically Jan's fault. He was quoting available information at the time.
Brad Sparks just pinned it down a little further.)
Date:
Sun, 12 Apr 1998 16:08:26 -0700
From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
To: rjcohen@li.net Subject: 1957 Cont.
Hi
Jerry,
Here are the dates/times
for:
Kirkland AFB, NM 10:45-11:04
pm MST 4 Nov
Stokes
01:10 am 5 Nov
Sebago 05:10-05:21
am 5 Nov.
In between the
time of Leveland and until Kirkland there are
dozens of sightings,
between Kirkland and Stokes there is one and
between Stokes and Sebago there
are at least four.
I can't
say much about the 1960 incident. Perhaps it was a
Corona spy satellite.
As for Sputnik II, I don't know what that
was. I think the Smithsonian
said it might be part of the
booster rocket.
If
you can find the Dave Garriway show recording or other period
pieces that
would be very interesting. ....snip....
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Jan's
reference to
the 1960 "Skything" incident is only a"maybe."
The description given by the scientific people who observed it
indicates it was there for some viewings and not present for others.
Because of that fact and because it was definitely not a "side-lobe,"
noting it was traveling in the opposite direction from the launched
vehicle at a much greater rate of speed, this researcher would like
to
see a complete, definitive answer to what this was. We still don't have
one to this date. It is still an unknown, and an odd-one at that.
Also, from reading the cases Jan sent
me below, another question
comes to mind; Exactly what would spark so many
people to
report what is documented below in so short a space of time?
i.e. Exactly what phenomenon sparked the numerous reports?
It doesn't appear
to this researcher as though it is all simply
psychologically based, newspaper
stimulated or hoaxed.
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If
the following group of cases from Jan (Nov 2&3, 1957) stimulates
your curiosity and you
didn't read it above, come back here when
you are finished reading Jan/s information,
and take an in-depth look
at
Kirtland AFB 11/4/57 , authenticated by the AF's
Project Blue
Book, The Condon Committee, and Atmospheric Physicist
James
McDonald. Follow that with newspaper articles on the
Sebago
11/5/57 from that same series. If you've already read them,
you might check out
the detailed workups concerning two cases from
the
Belgium 1989/90 series, another regarding the
Illinois,
USA 2000
sightings, and a fourth from Chicago O'Hare Airport (Nov. 2006). They
make one realize this whole phenomena is still ongoing.
The occurrence
and details of each are thoroughly verified and thoroughly investigated.
Perhaps you have a really good answer as to what any of them were as well.
(But again, finish Jan's information below first. His information also helps
one to
realize that mass hysteria couldn't possibly have caused _everything_
that was reported.)
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Date:
Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:23:31 -0700
From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
To: rjcohen@li.net
Subject: Partial Answer 1957
Hi Jerry,
Greenwood,
Project 1947 contributors, and I have screened about
1000 1957 newspapers
world wide. In addition Ed Stewart and I
copied most of the 1957 files
(much material seems to be missing)
at CUFOS. CUFOS also had several
scrap books and loose unfiled
material and unsorted files belonging to ICARF. A real gem
belonged to newspaper columnist Bulkley Griffin. It had
lots of
clippings from small newspapers that carried Griffins columns.
CUFOS let us borrow these and send them to Greenwood who arrange
and mounted
the clippings and made copies. Recently Tom Rouse
sent me copies of
his clipping collection, and Loren Gross
acquired the 1957 clipping service
material from Robert Gribble.
In addition Greenwood paid Columbia University
to put Dr. Leon
Davidson's scrapbooks on microfilm. Swords, Gross,
Greenwood,
Jerry Clark, and I went to the University of Arizona to check
out
(and massively copy) McDonald's files.
So
for 1957 we all did not just fall off the turnip truck.
However, it feels
that way. There are indeed lost or little known
material about the 1957
flap. It is not well documented. We
sent all our material to
Loren Gross. So far he has produced 10
booklets on 1957. I have
talked to Richard Hall about publishing
this series in a FUFOR report.
It looks promising.
Here
is the summarized chronology of 2 Nov '57
Youngstown,
Ohio, early morning, two waitresses see egg-shaped
object zipping along near
cemetery.
Southern Dominican
Republic, 1:00 am. Strange bodies in "Y"
formation.
Brenham,
TX, 5:50 pm Glowing Saucer
Near
the North Carolina-Virginia State line 6:50 pm
An object hovered over a car
while the driving down
the road for 10 minutes.
Logansport,
LA, 7:00 pm, bright object hovered and disappeared
down below hill.
Shreveport, LA 7:00 pm Landing
of a glowing object.
Fort
Worth, TX, abt 8:00 pm boy sees an egg-shaped going
northeast.
Btn Seminole & Seagraves,
TX, 8:30 pm. Car Stalling as lights
rose up from road and sped away. (jc: engine stalling)
Levelland, TX 10:30 pm. Pedro
Siado (or Saucedo) sighting/car
stalling/rush of wind/heat. (jc: engine stalling)
10:50
Siado (Saucedo) called dispatcher A. J. Fowler at police
HQ to report his
sighting.
11:00 pm Fowler
called Reese AFB who started to monitor police
radios for additional reports.
Near Littlefield,TX (30 miles
North of Levelland) 1100 pm couple
say fireball and small object sighting--moved
west then south.
Amarillo,
TX 11:20 pm Two CAA tower operators saw blue colored
object (meteor?)
Near Amarillo, TX (late evening?)
A couple flagged down a police
officer and reported an incident similar to
Siado's.
About midnight Fowler
and another police officer brushed off
Siado's (Saucedo's) sighting.
After mid-night Jose Alvarez reported
his vehicle stalled as
"The Thing" went by. (jc: engine stalling)
Fowler
changes his mind and calls all mobile units about the UFO.
Joe
Wheeler called Fowler about another car stalling. (jc: engine stalling)
Fowler
said he got about 15 calls about lights
9
miles from Leveland night Marion Smith saw an object 600 feet
off the
highway
3 Nov
13
miles E of Levelland, Texas Tech freshman has encounter/EM
effect.
More
Jan
--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.iufog.org/project1947/
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Date: Wed,
13 Jan 1999 00:39:07 -0800
From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
To: rjcohen@li.net
Subject: Re: Permission to Use E-mails
Hi Jerry,
Sure, go ahead!
Well, you might want to correct the number of books
Loren wrote on 1957 to
10.
3 Nov, continued chronology
Fowler contacted Sheriff
Weir Clem and the Texas Highway Patrol.
Fowler
is answering the phone as fast as he can pick it up.
A
sheriffs unit from Aton says "The Thing in the sky east of
Whitharral.
Frank D. Williams of Kermit saw the
it four miles north of
town. He said that every time the things lights
went off and
on his car lights and motor would go off. When it took
off
it sounded like thunder. (jc: so we're talking about engine
stalling here too.)
At
12:45 am about 5 miles east of Levelland Ronald Martin of
Levelland
saw a ball of fire about a mile ahead of him. It
was so bright it lit
up his truck cab. His engine quit and
the lights went out, but restarted
itself when the object
left. (jc: engine stalling)
About
10 miles NE of Levelland, two grain combines stopped
as an object flew by.
At about 1:00 am, 2 miles
NW of Levelland, Sheriff Clem
and Deputy McCullough when the pavement was
lit up by a light
that disappear instantly. The Sheriff did not talk
about this
sighting until after his retirement in 1975.
In
the same area two Highway Patrol men saw flashes come from
the same direction.
About 1:00 am, Fire Marshall
Roy Jones was driving north
of Levelland, his car started to act up and his
lights
dimmed. He only observed a streak of light after the vehicle
problems.
About 1:15
am, 5 miles west of Levelland James D. Long of
Waco saw "The Thing"
with its lights on. Then, the lights
went out. As his truck approached
the object its lights
came on and his engine quit and his lights went out.
It
took off with a roaring sound. His vehicle restarted when the
UFO had gone. (jc: engine stalling)
2:00 am Plainview,
Texas (about 50 miles south of Levelland)
a sound like the wind was heard
and her bedroom was
flooded with a flash of light.
Levelland
Sun-News report got on the road to look for the
thing. He saw nothing
but observed that the sky was clear
or near clear.
About
am. White Sand Proving Grounds, the White Sand
daily diary had the
following entry: "three military
police, in separate sightings, reported
seeing a mysterious
object make a controlled landing and take off in an
isolated area uprange."
2:50
pm between Midway and Odessa, Texas an object
dropped out of the heavy overcast,
and disappeared
in the fog.
Cincinnati,
Ohio UFO spotted.
Scotia,
Nebraska, about 6:00 pm a boy and his sister saw
a humming UFO come down
close to them. When the boy
started towards it, he was unable to move.
Demming, NM, 7:30 pm, UFO
recorded on camera.
Late
at night. Near Roswell, NM. While driving
home two women
notice a glow in the clouds. Their
car lights went out. When
checked by a mechanic the
lights later worked perfectly.
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.project1947.com/
P. O. Box 391, Canterbury, CT 06331, USA
Telephone: (860) 546-9135
(4/30/2007 jc: Count through the above incidents in Jan's letters to me,
and note how many involved
engine stalling. It wasn't just one or two.
Also note comment #3 by Wendy Connors regarding the January 1958
Trindade case, which occurred approximately two months after the
cases I delineated above.)
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Further information regarding the Levelland cases
can be obtained from Project Blue Book files at:
NICAP Search Engine (insert word: levelland) for more material)
Blue Book Files at NICAP (Francis Ridge) ((insert words: levelland blue book)
Francis Ridge
and more specifically at:
Radar
cases category 9
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3/28/2005: From an investigation concerning 1957-58 cases in Brazil,
performed by Olavo T. Fontes, M.D.
Report published in 1960.
. . . Sighting reports from Brazil, one month after Kirtland,
(December 1957 and January 1958 sightings)
Navy secret report to the Brazilian House of Representatives:
Some quotes from same . . .
"unidentified objects" shaped like a flying saucer, and tear-shaped devices. "One object,"
said the report, "when seen from below, showed a spherical outline and its color was
undefined for some, like stainless steel for others. The size was not determined. All
the reports called attention to the high speed, controlled maneuvers, and extreme mobility
of the objects spotted. Their movements were not continuous like those of an airplane—
but abrupt and rapid, with sudden changes of course and speed, and right-angle turns."
"a distinct oval-shaped outline and was about three times as long as it was wide. It was
silvery-white in color and reflected sunlight with what looked like a metallic shine."
". . . cloudless sky and no haze. The object left no vapor trail or exhaust. No projections
were noted on the surface. It was not rotating, but the small change of shape at intervals
suggested an oscillatory motion of some sort."
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"Q. What was the color of the object?
A. It showed a dark grey color, appearing to be surrounded—mostly in the area ahead
of it—by a kind of condensation of a greenish, phosphorescent vapor (or mist).
- (Editor's note: My sighting in 1967 involved a mist around the vehicle)
"Q. Did the object appear to be metallic?
A. Yes. It was obviously a solid object.
"Q. How was it flying? Any special characteristic?
A. Yes. It showed an undulatory movement as it flew across the sky, like the
flight
of a
bat. And when it came back, it changed speed abruptly, with no
transition, in a jump.
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December 5, 1957.
"silvery in color and round-shaped; its angular diameter was similar to that of the full moon’s."
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"A silvery, circular object, with an apparent size compared with the full moon, crossed
the sky silently at about six thousand feet. This time it was watched by five workers, a
sailor, the island’s doctor, and a Navy officer—Lieutenant Inacio Carlos Moreira. "
"The first view was that of a disk shining with a phosphorescent glow, which—even at
daylight—appeared to be brighter than the moon. The object was about the apparent
size (angular diameter) of the full moon. As it followed its path across the sky, changing
to a tilted position, its real shape was clearly outlined against the sky: that of a
flattened sphere encircled, at the equator, by a large ring or platform. Its speed
was around 700 miles an hour at the moment it disappeared into the horizon."
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(jc 11/22/2006): And if you still think it's all 100% totally impossible, click here
(and then at the link that says "Brazilian Air Force")
to see a posting concerning
a 2005 release of case information directly from the Brazilian Air Force.
Page
from the website of:
CohenUFO.org
Website Master Index
10/21/2007: One can click HERE to see an update on the Sebago case. Be sure to come back and read the letters Jan & I exchanged, and observe the dates of all sightings as well as the sighting details found in Jan's cases.
