Showing posts with label Gulf Breeze Six. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gulf Breeze Six. Show all posts

Thursday, April 27, 2023

The UFO That Terrorized Gulf Breeze Florida

Photo of Gulf Breeze UFO

Ed Walters, a local contractor and family man, allegedly began a long, strange encounter with beings from another world on November 11, 1987

     In the late 1980s, the small town of Gulf Breeze, Florida, became the epicenter of a series of strange and unexplained sightings. People reported seeing strange lights and UFOs in the sky, with a contractor named Ed Walters directly in the
middle of the action. These sightings quickly gained national attention, and the Gulf Breeze UFO incident became one of the most well-known and controversial cases of its kind.

This story of extraterrestrial intrigue has it all: aliens, hypnosis, photographic evidence, and even a couple of bumbling UFO hunters.

But what really happened in Gulf Breeze, and is there any truth to the claims made by Walters?

Saturday, March 11, 2017

NSA Interest in the Paranormal


NSA Interest in the Paranormal

     A declassified NSA draft titled Parapsychology: The COMSEC Threat and SIGINT Capability recently caught my attention when an excerpt was shared by researcher Michael Best. COMSEC stands for communications security, while SIGINT refers to signals intelligence. The six-page document, apparently composed in approximately 1981 and approved for release in 2011, may be viewed in full on the CIA website.

The unnamed author of the draft wrote that dealing with such issues as the manipulation of personnel behavior by psychic means could not be avoided within the work force, including at the NSA. The author continued that psychic warfare was inevitable and that "practitioners" within the Agency were already "functioning."
Jack Brewer
By Jack Brewer
ufotrail.blogspot.com
3-2-17

Whatever we are to make of such declassified documents, their very existence may offer us some insight into an era in which the intelligence and UFO communities alike pushed the envelope edges. Let's take a look at some topics previously explored on The UFO Trail and how they might relate to one another. We might consider how such cases as the Gulf Breeze Six may possibly have been more a result of a fringe-friendly NSA and intelligence culture than it was the bizarre, isolated incident it's often thought to have been. Reviewing such circumstances might help us more clearly understand the evolution of belief systems surrounding UFOs, as well as assist us in ultimately forming more relevant questions.

Thursday, March 09, 2017

The Gulf Breeze Six, UFOs, The NSA, Military Intelligence and The Mission To Save The World

Revisiting the Gulf Breeze Six

GIs' Mysterious Appearance Sparks Rumors About UFOs (Header)- The Morning News Tribune 7-19-1990

     I recently made a decision to add inquiring about the Gulf Breeze Six to my ongoing FOIA requests. I initially emailed James Carrion to get his input on most effectively composing the requests. In his response, James mentioned he would take a look around for some material he might have on the case and send it along in the event I'd find it useful. He soon emailed copies of dozens of relevant newspaper clippings, messages posted on listservs, interviews, and similar documents I very much appreciate and find of historic value. With James' permission I am sharing a 117-page pdf file he provided. In the post below I'll explore the case, discuss some of the many interesting points in the material James offered, and describe the resulting FOIA requests filed.
Jack Brewer
By Jack Brewer
ufotrail.blogspot.com
2-12-17

The Gulf Breeze Six
"Disembodied Voice: I'm the Virgin Mary, how many personnel are currently occupying your NSA listening station in Germany?"

- Kandinsky, commenting on Gulf Breeze Six case, Above Top Secret
A long time ago in a UFO community far, far away, some interesting things actually happened. It might be hard for some to imagine, but events went down in ufology other than self-described disclosure activists frantically building urgency around what chronically amounts to nothing and a podcaster persistently trying to extract cash from email lists like third world con men hacking Yahoo.

The 1980's gave ufology a series of eyebrow-raising evolving into jaw-dropping events, compliments of the intelligence community, that included Airman Simone Mendez and her run in with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and FBI; Paul Bennewitz and Linda Moulton Howe targeted for deception by OSI Special Agent Richard Doty; and in 1989, writer and researcher Bill Moore took the opportunity as keynote speaker at the annual MUFON symposium to declare he'd been collaborating with Doty and other members of the IC to distribute disinformation.

While that was happening, the Florida community of Gulf Breeze gained global attention due to reported dramatic UFO sightings and, in particular, the controversial case of Ed Walters. As a result, Gulf Breeze was the site of the 1990 annual MUFON symposium, at which time - just a year since Moore cannonballed into the last gig - a crew of a half dozen AWOL intelligence analysts partial to using a Ouija board arrived at the home of a local psychic as the conference came to a close down the street. The group became known as the Gulf Breeze Six.