Two Women Claim Alien Contact with pilot of Grounded Craft (1954)

Two Norwegian women claim they not only had a close look at a flying saucer but they talked to its "dark-skinned, long-haired" pilot. Skeptical police have launched an investigation.

By Sarasota Journal 8-25-1954

Roswell ‘Fying Saucer’ Report Sparked UFO Obsession | 75th Anniversary

The world was worrying about war when rancher W.W. Brazel walked into the sheriff’s office in Corona, N.M., on a hot, dusty day 75 years ago to report a “flying disk” he might have found on his property, about 100 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Field.

By Dave Kindy The Washington Post 7-8-22

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UFOs: "They Seemed ... To Have The Ability To Change Their Density" – Kenneth Arnold

There were nine of them, shiny, pusating objects flying over the Cascade Mountains as fast as 1700 mph. Kenneth Arnold was the first person to report seeing "Flying Saucers" – 30 years ago today.

By Syracuse Herald-Journal 6-24-1977

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"They seemed to be alive in the center, to have the ability to change their density. I know that sounds strange," said Arnold.

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Family Watches UFOs in a Dogfight

The first Flying Saucer report in the area in several months was made by a Shiloh man and his family who parked their car and got out to watch a strange 70-second "dog-fight" between two Flying Discs (UFOs).

By News-Journal Mansfield, Ohio 7-13-1953

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... "The two things looked like tadpoles at first glance. They were tremendously large and appeared to be flying at about 1000 ft. and about three miles away from us," Patton said.

"They were diving at each other at terrific speeds and acting like they were 'dog fighting.' We watched them for about 70 seconds and then they disappeared in a flash, heading north," Patton said.

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The First Preliminary UFO Report 74 years Ago, Oh The Similarities!

1. As requested by AC/AS-2 there is presented below the considered opinion of this Command concerning the so-called "Flying Discs". This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from

By Nathan Twining Air Materiel Command U.S. Air Force 9-23-1947

the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.

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UFO Activity Over Oakridge Atomic Energy Installation – Fighter Jets Scrambled! | UFO CHRONICLE –1950

Radar detection of Unidentified Objects [UFOs] over Oak Ridge Twelve, Nineteen Fifty, protection of vital installations. USAF radar installation at Knoxville at eleven twenty-five pm, EST, October Twelve, picked up indications of eleven objects and perhaps more traveling across controlled area of Atomic Energy Installation at Oak Ridge.

By Department of Justice Communications Section 10-13-1950

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UFO Fragments Found, More Craft Sighted | UFO CHRONICLE – 1947

Two flying disks were reported found in Texas and at least one is being investigated by military officials as the total number of Texans claiming to have seen the mysterious objects passed the 50 mark yesterday

By Abilene Reporter News 7-8-1947

The disks were reported found on a beach near Trinity Bay, near Houston and near Hillsboro.

The Houston Chronicle said a great deal of mystery surrounded the one found near there by Norman Hargrave ....

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Intelligence Men Die in Crash After Investigation

Two fliers who were killed yesterday in a crash in Washington were intelligence officers returning here after talking with Kenneth Arnold, Boise pilot reported seeing Flying Discs. Brig. Gen Ned Schamm, Fourth Air Force Chief of Staff, said today.

By The Sunday Star News 8-3-1947

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Argentina's First UFO Sighting – 1947

Residents of 56 and 25 are convinced that they were not fooled by an optical illusion. They claim to have actually seen the red sphere moving in quickly from the east, only to vanish

By Inexplicata 7-12-19

quickly. "It went that way," they state with absolute conviction, indicating a point in space, when interviewed by reporters. Now they hope at a chance to see another object in the heavens to confirm their statement. In the meantime, aside from a foreseeable case of neck ache, it is likelier to catch a cold during these popular investigations, and its duration would not be nearly as swift as the passage of the fantastic missile. In any event, the legend of the flying saucers, which has spread to every latitude on Earth, appears to keep finding fertile ground in the popular imagination, the only workshop that forges, it would seem, the bizarre devices sweeping across the sky at prodigious speeds, with no fixed trajectory or destination.

Another resident of La Plata claims having seen, with his own eyes, the swift transit of a flying saucer, similar to the ones discovered in other areas by men from this planet. He is a landowner with a farm outside this city. A serious person and - according to his son - not much given to rumors...Therefore, this gentleman told the following story over the dinner table: at the break of day on Monday, he saw a silvery object shaped like a disk pass by at an incredible speed at an estimated altitude of 1000 meters. It was disc-shaped, flying in an impeccable zig-zag pattern. Suddenly, it plunged vertically, falling into a field five hundred meters distant from the observer's perspective. Our man headed to the site, but found no traces of the alleged saucer. Not even smoke. We are back where we started. However, as legal jargon puts it, the discoverer's statement is indivisible. He has seen the real part of the legend, and we, however, can state that there is nothing at all between both platters...

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* Source: El Día (Argentina) and Marcelo G. Metayer
Date: July 13, 1947

[Translation (c) 2019 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Marcelo G. Metayer]

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Stanton T. Friedman, Scientist Who Tracked UFOs, Dies at 84

Stanton T. Friedman, whose conviction that extraterrestrials have arrived on Earth led him to leave his career as a nuclear physicist to lecture widely about alien visitations, died on May 13 in Toronto. He was 84.

By Richard Sandomir The New York Times 5-21-19

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In Remembrance: Stanton Friedman – 1934-2019

It is with deep sadness that I post about the passing of Stan Friedman. A few people have confirmed that Stan passed away while in Toronto on May 13, 2019.

By Chris Rutkowski Ufology Research 5-14-19

I first met Stan when he visited Winnipeg in about 1976, during the Charlie Redstar UFO furore. He gave a lecture about UFOs at the University of Manitoba and received a standing ovation. After his talk, we met and exchanged info. Ever since then, we had kept in touch and got together or at least spoke on the phone every year.

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Stan will be remembered for this advocacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, believing that some of the alien visitors were from the Zeta I, Zeta II Reticuli star system some 37 lights years from Earth. He had met with Betty Hill, and had partnered with Hill’s niece, Kathleen Marden in recent years. Together they wrote Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience which was an inside look the Hill abduction. Stan started his adult life as a nuclear physicist working in the industry on various projects, including some that were

By Kevin Randle A Different Perspective 12-15-19

classified. In 1970, he quit industry to devote full time to his UFO research. He had lectured at hundreds of colleges and universities and wrote several books about science and UFOs. He appeared on thousands of radio shows, on television and in documentaries.

While in Louisiana in 1978, a television station manager suggested that Stan might want to talk to a fellow named Jesse Marcel, a ham radio operator. Marcel was, of course, the air intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group, the military unit said to have recovered the remains of an alien spacecraft and the bodies of the occupants. That began a decades long search for documents, witnesses, and insight into what became know as the Roswell Incident.

It was during my research into the Roswell crash that I first met Stan more than 30 years ago. We did share information and resources, though we sometimes clashed over details. Stan believed that a few of the early MJ-12 documents were authentic while I believed them all to be created by UFO enthusiasts to provide documents proving that a spacecraft had been recovered. Stan was instrumental, however, in proving that dozens of the documents were faked, showing that he simply didn’t accept everything handed to him as authentic.

Stan had met Vern Maltais who claimed that his friend, Barney Barnett, had seen a crashed saucer on the Plains of San Agustin. Barnett had a niece, Alice Knight, and though both Stan and I had asked her about anything to document this, Knight said that she had nothing. She called me one night and said that she had found a diary that Ruth Barnett had kept for the year 1947. I was scheduled to meet Stan, along with Don Schmitt, in Albuquerque a few weeks later. I said I would swing by Knight’s house, which was more or less on the way. I smile every time I think about the first words Stan said to me when we met in Albuquerque. He asked, “Did you get it?”

I certainly had, but there was nothing in it to corroborate the Barnett tale. That was a great disappointment for all of us.

Stan was tenacious in his research, traveling around the country, visiting presidential libraries, meeting with families of witnesses, gathering important information, and providing encouragement to many interested in UFOs. He debated those in the scientific community and those he thought of as debunkers. He was proud of taking a thousand dollars from Philip Klass, when Klass suggested that none of the typewriters in the White House used pica type. Klass said he would pay one hundred dollars for each example, up to ten. Stan happily complied earning him the grand.

Although we had been at odds, in later years, we both seemed to mellow out. In Roswell in 2012, he mentioned that he thought I was right about Robert Willingham, a man who had claimed to have seen a crashed saucer just south of the Mexico. The evidence stacked against Willingham was overwhelming, but that didn’t dissuade Stan from his belief that the Eisenhower Briefing Document was authentic. It was just one of those things with which we had to agree to disagree.

The last time I saw Stan, I believe, was at the Citizen Hearing in Washington, D.C. in May 2013. We sat together, listening to a couple of the sessions of the hearing, and were both part of the hearing that dealt with Roswell. At one point, as we sat together, a question was directed as us, which we both answered at the same time, the same way. It dealt with a minor point about Roswell.

That was the thing. Stan said, more than once, that he and I agreed on more than we disagreed. We had one of those adversarial relations that was more cordial than many thought. In Roswell, at a big dinner in 2012, I had taken a seat at one end of the long table and Stan was about to sit at the far end. Someone mentioned that, believing, I guess, that we were mortal enemies. Before Stan sat down, I moved and took the chair opposite of him. Those around us waited for fireworks, but there were none. We had a nice chat during that dinner.

Stan could be headstrong but he was also interested in the evidence. He could defend those he thought had solid information, rarely abandoning them when the evidence went against them. He was positive that we have been visited, and debated those who thought otherwise. He was a strong advocate for his position, often complained about the entrenched attitudes of the academic world, and arguing passionately for his beliefs.

He leaves behind a wife, and three children. Stan was 84.

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Farewell to the ‘Grand Marshal’

Famed UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, whose persistence drew international attention to the alleged 1947 UFO crash near Roswell, died Monday. He was 84. [...]

By Christina Stock Roswell Daily News 5-15-19

“He was on his way home from speaking at a conference in Ohio,” she said. “All of us at the UFO Museum were deeply saddened by the news. The reason Roswell is what it is today is because of Stanton Friedman and his curiosity to know the truth. Stan will forever be a part of the International UFO Museum and Research Center. He will be greatly missed by many.”

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Stanton Friedman, the famed UFO researcher based in Fredericton, has died. Friedman was returning from a speaking engagement in

By Colin McPhail www.cbc.ca 5-14-19

Columbus, Ohio, when he died suddenly at the Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday night, according to his family.

He was 84.

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Disc-Shaped UFO Overtakes an F-84 ThunderJet | UFO CHRONICLE – 1953

The U.S. Air Force today reported a small, metallic, disc-shaped object and was observed at very close range by another pilot. [...]

By The Troy Messenger Troy 1-27-1953

He said it caught up with an F-84 Thunderjet, hovered a few moments and then shot out of sight.

It was the second disclosure in a week by Air Force Intelligence of mysterious flying objects over northern Japan near the Russian-Siberian area.

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News Account of The 'Real UFO Event' Portrayed in Project Blue Book Series

A national guard fighter pilot Saturday told a story of a 30-minute encounter with a mysterious flying object over this city in the darkness–and his account was supported by two control tower operators and another flier.

By San Francisco Chronicle 10-1-1948

In a signed statement for air force intelligence, the pilot, Lt. George Gorman of the 178th fighter squadron, North Dakota air national guard reported he chased and did aerial maneuvers Friday night with a lighted, disc-like object which outran and out maneuvered him.

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Huge UFO Sighted Over New Mexico | UFO CHRONICLE – 1951

A crew of four were checking on a balloon. A strange object crossed their path. It was elliptal in shape, about 105 feet in diameter, flying at an altitude of about 56 miles. It was moving at about 1,800 MPH. High power binoculars showed no exhaust trail, no stream of light, no other evidence of propulsion as we know it.

By Frank Scully The Charleston Daily Mail 2-3-1951

"I am convinced," McLaughlin said, "that it was a flying saucer and, further, that these disks are space ships from another planet, operated by animate, intelligent beings."

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A New Roswell Solution?

Well, we have a new solution to the Roswell case. No, it’s not a weather balloon as the Army Air Forces claimed in 1947 and no, it’s not a Project Mogul balloon that many skeptics and the Air Force have claimed, starting with Robert Todd in the early 1990s (or late 1980s) but something called a satelloon. This was, is, a huge polyethylene balloon that had been covered with a thin layer of aluminum to enhance the reflective properties and create a passive communications satellite or something like that.

By Kevin Randle A Different Perspective 6-14-18

Dr. Bob W. Gross appeared this last week (June 12) on Martin Willis’ show, UFO Live. Gross, who had lived in New Mexico from 2001 to 2010 and who traveled all over the state, thought that he had the solution to the Roswell case. Naturally, I was skeptical. You can listen here (Roswell begins in the second hour).

And you can read more about his theories here:

An Extraterrestrial Flying Disk Crashed Near Roswell in 1947: Not a UFO

An Extraterrestrial Flying Disk Crashed Near Roswell in 1947: Not a UFO -PT2-

Here’s the problem as I see it. Gross has cherry-picked his evidence to bolster his theory. He talked of the debris field and the metallic residue that had been collected there. These were fragments of one of these aluminumized balloons that had exploded and rained down the debris or so he claimed. Apparently, they can explode. See The Odyssey of Project Echo.

But the problem is that he has ignored the other debris found there as described to me by Bill Brazel. Brazel said:

There was only three items involved. Something on the order of balsa wood and something on the order of heavy gauge monofilament fishing line and a little piece of… it wasn’t really aluminum foil and it wasn’t really lead foil but it was on that order…

Photo copyright by Kevin Randle.

While the piece of aluminum-like material could have been the remains of one of these satelloons, the other two pieces were not. According to Brazel, you could shine a light in one end and have it come out the other, or, in other words, he was talking about fiber optics. And the balsa like material was so strong that he couldn’t get a shaving using his pocket knife.

Gross also said that these satelloons took on a disk shape, at least the early versions did and that some of them were tested in New Mexico, hidden in the Mogul arrays. In my many communications with Charles Moore, among others, nothing like that was ever mentioned, and I suspect that if the Air Force could have connected these two events together, they would have done so.

Photo copyright by Kevin Randle.

The real problem with this theory is that I can find nothing to support the idea that the testing was going on in New Mexico in 1947. In fact, there is quite the history available on the topic and the research around it. You can find more about all this and Project Echo satelloons here.

And the history of these “Giant Spheres” here:

A Minor History Of / Giant Spheres

And here:

NASA's Early Inflatable Spacecraft, the Satelloon

'History Detectives' investigate the case of the mylar mystery

While I can find nothing that suggests any of this was going on in 1947, Gross alluded to witnesses and documents that could do that. If true, then he might have something. However, it is difficult to ignore the information about the debris provided by Brazel and Jesse Marcel, Sr., and several others who handled it in 1947, which doesn’t fit with his descriptions.

And, while Gross said that he found no testimony of anyone seeing the flying saucer crash, there are those who reported seeing a more intact structure, not on the debris field, but on a secondary site some distance away. That testimony seems to have escaped his research.


No, the problem is that all the information that I have been able to find does not put any of these strange balloons in New Mexico in 1947. Unless he can do that, this falls into the same category of the anthropomorphic dummies that Captain James McAndrew used in his attempt to explain the bodies reported by some of the witnesses. The timing is just flat wrong. If the dummies weren’t being dropped in 1947 and the satelloons weren’t being tested in 1947, then the explanations fail at that point. We must wait, however, for Gross to provide the additional documentation and witnesses that he claims to have before providing a final analysis. That will be coming in his book.

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