Showing posts with label Okinawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Okinawa. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2016

UFO Detected by Radar, Jets Scrambled | MY UFO EXPERIENCE

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UFO Detected by Radar, Jets Scrambled
The ATC scope boys said they had a “huge bogie” on the radar for more then 30 minutes. When they scrambled the old F-5’s at NAHA AFB, the object moved away quickly. (Illustration)

     I was in the USAF from 1966 to 1969, 3.4 years total. I was sent to school at Sheppard AFB for about 6 months….

I was sent to a radar site on the southern tip of Okinawa to operate a prime power plant….
Reader SUbmitted Report
The UFO Chronicles
11-7-2007

One night in 1967 we were working the swing shift and we stayed at the NCO Club until closing, which was close to 1:00 am. A co-worker and I David M. Jxxxxx were eating a late night snack; we had no alcohol that night. When we walked out the side door with a small girl who worked at the NCO Club (she was going to get her mop and buckets to clean the club) she exclaimed, “Ok somi yo!” (Oh my god!) She went back inside and stayed inside.

I walked with David and he said he would go get his new 35mm camera. He ran back to our barracks and I slowly walked that direction staring at this large orange colored light. It was a typical misty evening that shrouds this small mountain peak that time of year. I walked along and got to the end door of the barracks and then as I turned my head to look at David—this object just disappeared.

As he came out the second floor door, he said his camera was out of film. The radar observers working at that time were closed mouth, when we asked later that day, what did they see. Later on as time passed we got bits and pieces of information.

The people of the local islands were seeing all kinds of light that night. KSBK got many sighting reports as well as ours that early AM. KSBK went off the air at 3:00 AM or so if I remember. The scope dopes, as we called the ATC scope boys said they had a “huge bogie” on the radar for more then 30 minutes. When they scrambled the old F-5’s at NAHA AFB, the object moved away quickly. This bright light was seen all over this area and even in Taiwan that night.

They estimated that it was over 200 ft in diameter based on the ping they were getting.

When we observed the light it was difficult to estimate the size or distance as there was a misty light rain. I t was about 35 degrees above the surface and it was past the end of this escarpment of the radar site hilltop

YOZA Dake Air Station was then the longest reaching radar at this island. Raytheon had recently modified the old dish and added new panels and it had the longest over the horizon look for any site at that time as we were looking for anything Russia might launch at the USA or at this huge military encampment we had during the Vietnam War. There was over 60,000 there and or passing through.

The old Major who ran the site was telling people that the “Bogie Book” was full of unidentified objects seen on radar.

I was later sent to Offut AFB Sac HQ and I was told by some people bout th Holliman AFB UFOs that shut down some missile silos.

I was assigned to work with AFB portable generators for stand-by power. We had to go out to a site where there was a long wave radio transmitter and these guys said they saw many weird lights at night near Silver Creek, Nebraska.

The radio was designed to transmit signal all over the world in the event WWIII was to ever happen. The antenna tower was half wave and was the tallest in the world at that time.

Saturday, February 20, 2016

'Fact of' Nuclear Weapons on Okinawa Declassified


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'Fact of' Nuclear Weapons on Okinawa Declassified

     The Department of Defense revealed this week that “The fact that U.S. nuclear weapons were deployed on Okinawa prior to Okinawa’s reversion to Japan on May 15, 1972” has been declassified.

While this is indeed news concerning classification policy, it does not represent new information about Okinawa.
By Steven Aftergood
Secrecy News
2-19-16

According to an existing Wikipedia entry, “Between 1954 and 1972, 19 different types of nuclear weapons were deployed in Okinawa, but with fewer than around 1,000 warheads at any one time” (citing research by Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin and William Burr that was published in 1999 in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists). As often seems to be the case, declassification here followed disclosure, not the other way around.

If there is any revelation in the new DoD announcement, it is that this half-century-old historical information was still considered classified until now. As such, it has been an ongoing obstacle to the public release of records concerning the history of Okinawa and US-Japan relations.

Because this information had been classified as “Formerly Restricted Data” under the Atomic Energy Act rather than by executive order, its declassification required the concurrence of the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and (in this case) the Department of State. Any one of those agencies had the power to veto the decision to declassify, or to stymie it by simply refusing to participate.

Instead, the information was declassified as a result of a new procedure adopted by the Obama Administration to coordinate the review of nuclear weapons-related historical material that is no longer sensitive but that has remained classified under the Atomic Energy Act by default. The new procedure had been recommended by a 2012 report from the Public Interest Declassification Board, and was adopted by the White House-led Classification Reform Committee. [...]

Friday, January 31, 2014

UPDATE: UFOS Over Okinawa Came From U.S. Marines | VIDEO


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UFOS Over Okinawa Came From U.S. Marines

By www.okinawatimes
1-29-14

On the 28th, in the Okinawa U.S. Marine Corps news section, a flare was shown in regards to the mysterious lights [seen near Naha Port in the town of Naha Tondo] as described in the previous article. With that we have removed the term "UFO" from the [previous] heading; the following article is dated January 29:

     On the 28th, in the At around 9 pm on the 23rd, orange lights, about 10 of them had been seen floating around in the Naha sky; multiple reports of sightings were received at this newspaper. On the 28th, the Okinawa U.S. Marine Corps news department explained the lights being flares and showed a picture of the flares being deployed along with the machine firing them off.

F-16 Dropping Flares
Example of F-16 Dropping Flares

In checking with the newspaper, the photography, showed "Third Marine Expeditionary Force during training missions southwest of Naha; “it was training with flares fired from the aircraft" he said.

There are three bombing fields Desuna Island, Torishima, of Kume Island to the west of Naha, but the location was not revealed.

There were several witnesses who contacted this newspaper to report the “mysterious lights.”

Experts had previously ruled out astronomical phenomena, and the U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force had not been training.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

UFOs: Mysterious Lights Over Naha, Okinawa | VIDEO

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UFOs - Mysterious Lights Over Naha, Okinawa (1 of 2) 1-23-14

By www.okinawatimes
1-25-14

    At around 9 pm on the 23rd, orange lights, about 10 of them had been seen floating around in the Naha sky; multiple reports of sightings were received at this newspaper. Experts said, "That the lights were not considered to astronomical phenomena." According to one witness, most of the lights appeared in the sky near Naha Port in the town of Naha Tondo; they repeatedly move up and down left and right, about 15 minutes later they were all gone.

. . . According to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, they don’t have any information on the mystery lights. "Self-Defense Forces’ aircraft did not fly at that time"; all training flights took place before 19:20 the same day. (I have some image processing). . . .

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Japanese Government Official Confirms Partial Recovery Of Crashed UFO | UFO NEWS


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Japanese Navy Destroyer JS Kurama (Edt)

By inothernewz.com
12-7-12

     OKINAWA, JAPAN- A high level Japanese government official with knowledge of the recent UFO crash off the coast of Okinawa agreed to speak with Inothernewz.com regarding the salvage operation under the condition that we do not divulge his name. The source today confirmed the Japanese Navy has partially recovered a large chunk of the foreign vessel.

“I can report with complete accuracy that Navy divers from the destroyer JS Kurama have brought up a substantial piece of the wrecked UFO,” he said. “Both civilian and military engineers took part in recovering the piece. It is now safely aboard the JS Kurama, which is the ship being used by the Japanese Navy for its salvage efforts.”

The source went on to detail how the military and government plan on keeping the UFO’s wreckage a secret from the world’s media.

“The government has a plan to deny everything regarding this UFO,” said the source, who works inside the Japanese Prime Minister’s office. “The world’s mainstream media have not picked up on this story yet and that’s just fine with the government and military officials. . . .