Sergeant Smith worked as a radar controller from 1967 to 1973, reporting to NORAD on any radar UFO readings that may pose a threat to military airspace operations.

In his testimony, he recounts his first encounter with a UFO in which the people he was stationed with were observing a UFO on radar that was behaving in an unusual sequential manner. The UFO would hover at about 80000 feet for 10 minutes, then descended slowly until it dropped off the radar for another 10 minutes, then instantly reappear at 80000 feet again! The next sweep of the radar would show that it was stationary at 200 miles away. It would stay in that location  for 10 minutes and repeat what it has just done 2 more times.

He was later told that when you see a UFO, you notify NORAD, you don’t write anything down, but rather just keep it to yourself because it is on a “need to know” basis only. A typical response that you hear from multiple witnesses in this subject.

Later that year, NORAD called him to let him know that there was a UFO coming up the California coastline, but that he should do nothing as they were just giving him the “heads up”.

Then in late 1972 while stationed in Michigan, he received panicky calls from police officers who were attempting to follow 3 UFOs. On checking the radar, he confirmed this, called NORAD who said that they were worried now because they had some B52s that were going to be landing near the stated location, so NORAD diverted the bombers. For this event, he received many calls from witnesses, to which he deceptively responded that there was nothing on radar at all. This would be his standard response until this press conference!

Like all these witnesses, he ends saying that he will testify under oath to a congressional hearing that what he has said is the truth.

Now this is a little more interesting, because we learn that whatever is causing this phenomenon is real enough to irritate public military authorities. We also learn that these things are TREMENDOUSLY fast. No wonder the military have a funny attitude about whether or not people get to know about them. The thing about the military, at least in the States, is that the attitude they have about being biggest and best at everything gets put in its place. Egos are definitely bruised. I don’t think this has anything to do with the public panicking. Knowing that  a bobbing spaceship is doing repetitive maneuvers is not as scary as making your next mortgage payment… As such, we start to see picture of military paranoia being painted here.

There are allot more testimonies to go from this conference, and there have been many, many more since then, so watch out while we take a merry journey down the rabbit hole! See you next post.

Lt. Col Charles L Brown is a retired military officer who worked for the predecessor of the famous project Blue Book; Project Grudge. In his testimony at the 2001 National Press Club conference hosted by Dr Steven Greer, he tells us that he flew bombers in Europe during the second World War before his posting at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. While at the base, he was assigned to analyze global UFO reports for 2 years.

He was sent UFO reports, which he  analyzed so that he could offer official advice to air technical intelligence. In looking at these reports he says he became “convinced that there was substance to what was being reported”. Furthermore, these reports came from reputable military and civilian sources, like pilots, police officers and other credible people. The reports represented ground visuals, ground radar, and airborne radar confirmation of some of the sightings, all of which came from global sources.

Of course, Brown says that he is prepared to testify before congress that what he says is true.

As in the case of Mr Callahan, I we have to be honest and admit that this is not indication of extraterrestrial craft on the face of it, but could rather be advanced military technology. It is, however valuable testimony, because it lends credence to the concept of Ufology, which suffers from a certain stigma of being less than reputable.

Also bear in mind that Brown’s testimony here is a brief overview of what he did. He has not gone into any detail of any actual cases, which may provide someone with the ability to create a more informed personal opinion  about WHAT these UFOs are. In the context of the subsequent disclosures, I think you’ll agree that this very question is answered fairly well!

One fact remains though, these are still the opinions of witnesses. As such, we can never know for sure what it is that they think they saw. For that reason, we must do what some judicial systems do and strive for an assesment based on the balance of probabilities. A weight of consistent testimony is therefor needed to reduce the odds of falacy and deception. Hopefully this aproach will bring a weight of probability to the table that matches the same level of certainty we have that the world is not actually a giant simulation and that we are not brains in a jar… hang on… How certain ios that? You get the idea though!

I’m going to summarize the testimony of each of the original 2001 press conference individuals, in sequence. First up is John Callahan, who’s testimony at the conference was of his orders to cover up a UFO incident in Alaska that was recorded by air traffic controllers. He said that he thought it was just some sort of Stealth craft, however the CIA told him that the public would panic if told what it really was. In his testimony, he states that the meeting with representatives of various government agencies ended with a command to never acknowledge that this event and subsequent meeting with officials ever occurred.

As far as I can tell, this is not a strong indication of anything extraterrestrial necessarily. Rather, it is as Mr Callahan said, a recording of something ‘like a stealth’ craft. Of course, such a thing as this, human or extraterrestrial would be of a sensitive enough nature to warrant at the very least, an initial non disclosure. If so many bigwigs from the public government agencies were present, it must have been an issue of national security and as such, a cover up of this even would be considered appropriate.

Here you can watch a snippet from a formal interview with Mr Callahan that was recorded by the Disclosure Project.

I believe that the UFO phenomenon is so well known now that if this report was actually publicized today, it would not make front page news. People would probably say “Oh, cool. I always thought they were real”. A radar readout is so abstract to most people, however once the geeks have analyzed it and explained what the amazing maneuvers mean, the behavior of the erratic vehicle would still most likely not create much of a stir in people.

May I therefor speak for the average human on this one and say “AAAAAARGH the Pod People are attacking!!!! AAAAAARGH!”
Or rather, more realistically, “Oh that’s cool, I always thought they were real”.

There was a Fantastic tales episode in the 60s or so (before my time I’m afraid!) depicting a man in a space suit exiting his craft on the surface of a lovely green, watery planet. He was being welcomed by a bunch of odd looking semi-humanoids, dangling their podlings from their knees and pointing to the funny alien.

“Welcome to Venus, earth man”, they said. Well of late, and I know you people will have seen this by now, the Japanese premier’s wife Miyuki Hatoyama has been welcomed by the Venusians too! No way!

Apparently she wrote a book last year depicting her astral journey to Venus on a flying saucer. Maybe she subscribes to the theory that Venus is not actually a scolding 900 °F with a surface pressure 90 times greater than earth...

You see, how could the parachute on the Russian Vanera 7 probe have survived the descent using primitive 70s technology? It would have burned up as it fell to the surface! (Sarcastic grin)

Well chaps, you see it was a journey in her astral body. In your astral body, you can do whatever you want, go wherever you want and make up whatever fantastic journey you want! Bless her.