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by Charles Lear
Some are born to it, some achieve it, and some have it thrust upon them. If one is talking about a life devoted to UFO research, Leonard Stringfield was in the last category. He was a prominent figure in the early days of UFO investigation and remained highly active until his death in 1994. Most notably, Stringfield was the only private investigator ever to have a direct line to the Air Force during their Project Blue Book investigation.
Born in 1920, Stringfield’s interest in UFOs began in 1945, just three days before the end of World War II. He was an Army Air Force intelligence officer, flying as a passenger in a C-46 headed for Iwo Jima. Mid-way, after taking off from Ie Shima, the plane developed a problem in its left engine and started losing altitude. As this was happening, Stringfield noticed “three unidentifiable blobs of brilliant white light, each about the size of a dime held at arm’s length.” The pilot regained control and as the plane ascended, Stringfield noted that the objects remained below and vanished into the clouds.
Writing about the incident in his 1957 book, “Saucer Post…3-0 Blue” he compared what he’d seen to the “foo fighters” reported by pilots from all sides of the war. He went on to write that he believed that the engine trouble had been caused by the objects.
In 1950, news reports of flying saucers revived Stringfield’s wartime memory. One report was from a family that had seen an object fly over their house that lit up the area under it as it passed. The other was of a blue light swinging like a pendulum over a ridge. The witnesses were fellow citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio and Stringfield was impressed by their “genuineness.” He became convinced that flying saucers were interplanetary and found this “ominous.” In 1952, there was a flap that included sightings in restricted airspace over Washington, D.C. during two consecutive weekends. On July 25th, Stringfield and other Cincinnatians observed a teardrop-shaped object moving quickly through the sky and changing direction. He was compelled to report it to the press and announce that he was forming a research group, the Civilian Investigating Group for Aerial Phenomena. Though the organization consisted only of Stringfield throughout its short, less than 2-year existence, he received hundreds of reports and was noted as a local flying saucer authority.
Anthony Lappé is a New York-based author, producer and director. He is the executive producer of the HISTORY Channel’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation He produced the award-winning Showtime documentary about the Iraq war, BattleGround. He was the Executive Editor of the Sundance-awarding winning Guerrilla News Network. He has written for Details, ESPN: The Magazine, New York Magazine, and the South China Morning Post, among many others. In addition, he has produced programming for Fuse, PBS, National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Science Channel. More recently, he was a writer/producer for Radical Media, where he wrote Robert Redford’s 3D documentary Cathedrals of Culture: The Salk Institute, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.
An Air Force veteran who held a TOP SECRET/CRYPTO clearance, Tom is now a retired Philadelphia area businessman. He has been a Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) State Section Director forSoutheastern Pennsylvania from 1986 to 2001, a Special Investigator for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) from 1991 to 2001, and a member of the CUFOS board of directors from 1997 to 2001. Tom began investigating aspects of the Roswell Incident in 1991 for the Roswell investigative team of Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, and since 1998 has teamed exclusively with Don Schmitt to continue a proactive investigation of the case. Read more
by Charles Lear
A lot of people are familiar with the mysterious airship wave over the United States that began in 1896. Beginning in California and continuing throughout the rest of the country, people reported seeing large ships in the sky, often described as cigar-shaped and with bright lights when seen at night. There were reports of landings and meetings with human-looking occupants and most thought they were seeing the results of some great inventor’s work. The sightings were reported in many newspapers of the day and they remain an intriguing part of American history. What many people are not aware of is that, in 1909, New Zealand experienced a similar wave of sightings.
As with the American sightings, the New Zealand sightings are preserved in newspaper articles and these are an excellent means of establishing a timeline. New Zealand took a special interest in creating a national archive to preserve its newspapers and there is a wealth of material available to researchers at paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. A 2015 article written by Bryan Dickeson that appears on the UFO Focus New Zealand Research Network website, goes into detail about the news coverage. He noted how researchers have consistently favored the coverage by northern island sources and that this has resulted in the loss of important details as the first sightings occurred on the south island. The very first sighting was reported in the July 13, 1909 edition of the Clutha Free Press, but Dickeson described being unable to find the original article after a 25-year search. Fortunately, enough of the article was reprinted in other papers, that he was able to reconstruct it.
The article begins with a statement regarding the witness’ credibility:
“A resident of Stirling whose veracity we have always been accustomed to look upon as absolutely unimpeachable called upon us yesterday with the story of a strange light seen in the sky over the Wangaloa Hills on Sunday night.”
The witness described the light as “a white light with a reflector” and that it changed altitude and direction seeming to move “with as much ease, and even grace, as a bird on the wing.” He stated that he and others with him, thought they could make out an opaque outline and he came to the conclusion that they had witnessed an airship making an experimental flight.
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By Charles Lear
The history of UFO reports in Finland is much like that of other countries except that it starts earlier than most, dating back to the early 20th century. As was the case for much of Scandinavia, Finland had reports in the 1930s and 1940s of mystery lights, aircraft and rockets but, unlike its neighbors and much of Europe, the government of Finland has been quite secretive regarding official UFO investigations. Despite the government’s secrecy, documents have been released and were examined by private researchers. These documents revealed that Finnish defense organizations were actively investigating UFO reports from the very beginning and some intriguing cases have been brought to light.
Finland has the distinction of having an abduction account from 1917. The first printed version of that account appeared in the June 9, 1978 edition of the newspaper, Kurkijokelainen, and was written by Latomäen Aino. According to the story, a widow, Anni, was missing from her house in the community of Jyrinvaara for several days. Neighbors had thought she’d been away visiting her daughter but, when she reappeared, she had an unusual explanation for her absence. According to her, a large craft, shaped like a washbasin, had descended next to her house and small creatures came down out of it using a ladder. She was able to partially understand their language and, after refusing their invitation to come aboard, was taken by force. The craft flew off and she described being taken all over the planet and then among the stars.
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Michael Busby discusses how the airship saga forms a backdrop for such things as the 1845 German civil war, the 1849 gold rush, the American civil war, various events in the 1879s and 1880s culminating in the 1897 airship story.
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By Charles Lear
When it comes to reported UFO crash locations in New Mexico, everyone has heard of Roswell, many have heard of Aztec but few have heard of San Antonio. San Antonio is a small village, 12 miles south of Socorro just northeast of White Sands Missile Range. It was the childhood home of two men, Reme Baca and Jose Padilla who, in 2003, came forward with the story that they had discovered a crashed UFO there in 1945.
In 2002, Reme Baca and Jose Padilla were living in Washington State and California respectively. Padilla left San Antonio in 1954 and Baca left in 1955. According to Baca, there was no contact between them from 1955 to 2001. They renewed contact after coming across each other while searching their ancestry on the internet. In the course of their conversations, they revisited an unusual series of events from their childhood. They got in touch with an old schoolmate, Ben Moffett, who was a reporter for the Socorro newspaper, The Mountain Mail. They related the events to him in 2003 and he published their tale as a two-part series in the November 2 and November 6, 2003 editions.
On July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated at the Trinity site, which is approximately 40 miles from San Antonio. Jose Padilla and his mother were up early that day and when the bomb went off, his mother observed it through a crack in the door and lost her sight in one eye. Residents of the area were told that what they had witnessed was the accidental explosion of a munitions dump. A month later, on or near August 16th, Reme Baca, age 7, was with Padilla, age 9, helping out on the ranch owned by Padilla’s father, Faustino. They were tasked with finding a cow that had wandered off to give birth and they set out on horseback. That children that age would be helping out as ranch hands may seem extraordinary to us modern folks, but a picture of Baca on horseback confirms that he was, at least, able to ride at that age.
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By Charles Lear
Occasionally, a good, solid, interesting UFO case will slip away from memory only to be rediscovered, years later by an alert researcher. A 1967 case involving a New York woman, Emma Funk, is a perfect example. This case was found recently by New York based researcher and author, Linda Zimmermann, and discussed on the Hudson River Radio show she hosts, “UFO Headquarters.” The Hudson River Valley of New York has long been an active area for UFO sightings and is particularly well known for a wave in the 1980s involving low flying, silent, black triangles, some the size of a football field. The incident involving Funk occurred in Millerton, NY, which is just east of the Hudson River Valley near the Connecticut border. It involved a collision with an object while driving and was remarkably similar to a case familiar to many, the “Val Johnson Incident”, that happened 12 years later.
On Tuesday morning, July 18, 1967, Emma Funk reported an incident to local police. Village patrolman Lewis Lindsay described the report for an article, which appeared in the July 19th edition of the Poughkeepsie Journal. According to the article, Funk was driving home after work on Monday at 11:25 PM. She was heading north on route 22, when an object the size of a softball hit her windshield. At that moment, her headlights went out, her car stalled and the inside of the car was filled with a bright light. Funk was dazed and when she regained her composure and got the car back in motion, she realized she was driving south, in the opposite direction. Lindsay checked the car, saw that there was a crack in the windshield and noted that he couldn’t make a determination as to its cause. The article mentions that there had been “recurring reports of unidentified flying objects in Northeast Dutchess County.” Lindsay said that there was a search planned in the area to try to locate “the sphere” but wouldn’t speculate whether the incident had any connection with the reported UFOs.
A follow up article in the August 5th edition of the same paper describes a meeting at LaGrange Town Office hosted by Aerial Investigations Research Corps Inc. where Funk’s windshield was on display. The object is described in this article as baseball sized and black with an orange glow. A.I.R.’s president, William Donovan, announced at the meeting that the windshield would be sent to the physics department of Syracuse University for “chemical and ballistics tests” and that pictures of it would be sent to the Condon committee. The Condon committee was a group at the University of Colorado that was studying the UFO phenomenon on behalf of the Air Force.
This is first hand Late 80’s in sonar on submarine doing a Mediterranean. run on way to Italy.
Can’t say how far because we took a week doing ops on way. We were
over ultra deep water. There is a charted area with unmistakable
mechanical loud noise coming from below in middle of nothing. After all these years the only thing I remember for sure is a reciprocating sound, but it was more complex. I was told to ignore it, we know it’s there. It is not on any chart you will
see, it’s “need to know” and since we all had Top Secret it’s above
that. Point is if you talk to submariners that worked sonar and went
to Mediterranean, then docked with USS Orion sub tender. They did same
route and some of them have heard it. No doubt about it.
Hello Martin…Finally, my first UFO sighting. I was in the pool this afternoon (tough life) and looked up to see a bright white object moving across the sky heading in a North-Easterly direction. The object was certainly weird, hence my ‘unidentified’ classification.
It was cylindrical, but traveling in a vertical/upright position, not in your normal aircraft horizontal mode. There seemed to be a circular halo around it and the thing also seemed to pulse as it moved across the sky. The speed did not not appear to be particularly fast, maybe 200mph. With nothing in the sky for comparison, altitude and size of the object is really a guess. There was no sound.
We do see a lot of aircraft in the area going into West Palm Beach airport. I’m sure this was not a plane and the flight path was not in the usual trajectory for West Palm. Couple of other points, time was just before 4pm, the sky was fairly clear with only a few clouds.
My first thought, I kid you not, was I have tell Martin. This is a world exclusive.
I have no idea what the protocol is or who to talk to
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