SPECIAL REPORT 2
UFO/MILI TARY CONFRONTATIONS
CASE STUDIES
By
Cl i f ford E. Stone
May 31, 1990
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SPECIAL REPORT 2
UFO/Military Confrontations
Case Studies
General Discussion
Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr.,
announced today (December 17, 1969) the termination of
Project Blue Book, The Air Force program for the
investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
In a memorandum to Air Force Chief of Staff General John D.
Ryan, Secretary Seamans stated that "th e continuation of
Project Blue Book cannot be justified either on the ground
of national security or in the interest of science," and
concluded that the project does not merit future
expenditures of resources.
The above two paragraphs are the beginning of the
Department of Defense News release, terminating Project
Blue Book. From these two paragraphs, we can see that the
Air Force was publicly stating that UFOs did not have any
scientific value nor did they represent any threat to our
national security.
If UFOS do not have any scientific value, why is it that to
this very day every scientific branch of the American
Intelligence Community has a " scientific interest" in the
phenomena? Especially what is termed by the American
Intelligence Community as "UFO Technology. " But this is
the subject of another Special Report.
This report deals with military confrontations with UFOs
and the American Intelligence Community"s reaction to
them. This report will attempt to show that the American
Intelligence Community, for reasons that remain unclear, do
in fact consider UFOs to be a matter of national security.
I believe that before we discuss file cases , we should
define a couple of terms in order to better understand what
the intelligence community considers to be a UFO and what
is meant by the term "national security."" For the purpose
of this report, I will use the Department of Defense
definitions for both these terms.
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO) - The definition of
an Unidentified Flying Object is any airborne object that
by performance, aerodynamic characteristics or unusual
features does not conform to any presently known type of
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aircraft or missile , or which cannot be identified as a
known object or phenomenon (Source: Project Blue Book
Briefing given the Air Defense Command, 1952).
NATIONAL SECURITY - A collective term encompassing
both national defense and foreign relations of the United
States. Specifically , the condition provided by: a. a
military or defense advantage over any foreign nation or
group of nations, or b. a favorable foreign relations
position, or c. a defense posture capable of successfully
resisting hostile or destructive action from within or
without, overt or covert (Source: Joint Chiefs of Staff
Publication 1, Sept. 3 , 1974).
SECURITY - A condition which results from the
establishment of measures which protects designated
information, personnel , systems, components and equipment
against hostile persons, acts , or influences (Source:
Joint Chiefs of Staff Publication 1, Sept. 3, 1974) .
I would ask the reader of this report to keep these
definitions in mind as we go over the file cases; keeping
in mind that the American Intelligence Community still has
information on these cases classified at least SECRET and
in many cases the information is classified TOP SECRET with
Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access
restrictions.
Case Files
File Case 1 (Cuba, March 1967)
In March 1967 , the 6947th Security Squadron based with the
Boca Chica Naval Air Station near Key West, Florida
recorded this incident. The mission of the 6947th was to
monitor all Cuban mil i tary communications .
Cuban radar installations reported a bogey approaching the
Cuban land mass from the northeast. Two MIG-21
fighter-interceptors were scrambled when the bogey crossed
into Cuban air space at an altitude of approximately 32 , 000
feet and an air speed of about 640 miles. The scrambled
flight was directed to within 3 miles of the object by
Cuban Ground Control Intercept (CGCI). Both pilots made a
visual of the object and the flight leader radioed to CGCI
that the object appeared to be a bright metallic sphere
with no visible markings or appendages . At this point , the
flight leader made a futile attempt to contact the object
for identification . Failing to get a response from the
object, Cuban Air Defense Headquarters ordered the object
destroyed. The flight leader armed his on board weapons
systems , achieved a radar lock on of the object and
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directed his wing man to follow him in on the combat run to
engage the object. Seconds later the wing man broke off
his approach to the object and started screaming to the
ground controller that the flight leader"s aircraft had
exploded. After regaining his composure, he further
reported that there was no smoke or flame, the flight
leader"s aircraft had disintergrated. CGCI reported that
the object then quickly accelerated and climbed beyond
32,000 feet and at last report was heading south-southeast
towards South American.
A spot report was immediately sent priority to the National
Security Agency (NSA) as is standard precedure in cases
involving the loss of military aircraft by a nation that is
potentially hostile to the United States. The NSA is
required to acknowledge receipt of such a report. However,
in this case they did not. Therefore a follow-up report
was re-transmitted. Several hours later the 6947th was
directed to ship all records pertinent to this case to NSA
Headquarters and to list the loss of the aircraft as a
equipment malfunction.
The NSA still maintains all records and pertinent
intelligence on this case classified at the TS/SCI level.
File Case 2 (Iran, 19 - 20 Sept. 1976)
At about 0030 hours on 19 September 1976 the operations
officer at the Imperial Iranian Air Force"s command post in
the Tehran area received four telephone calls from citizens
living in the Shemiran area of Tehran saying that they had
seen strange objects in the sky. Some reported a kind of
bird- like object while others reported a helicopter with a
light on. There were no helicopters airborne at that
time. A senior officer at the command post, after telling
the citizens it was only stars and talked to Mehrabad
Tower, decided to look for himself. He noticed an obj ect
in the sky similar to a star but bigger and brighter. He
decided to scramble an F-4 from Shahpokhi AFB to
investigate.
At 0130 hours the F-4 took off and proceeded to a point
about 40 nautical miles north of Tehran. Due to its
brilliance, the object was easily visible from 70 miles
away. As the F- 4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles
the pilot lost all instrumentation and communications
aboard his aircraft. He broke off the intercept and headed
back to Shahpokhi. When the F-4 turned away from the
object and apparently was no longer a threat to it the
aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications.
At 0140 hours a second F-4 was scrambled. The backseater
(instrument officer) acquired a radar lock on at 27
nautical miles in the 12 o"clock high position with the VC
(rate of closure) at 150 nautical miles per hours. As the
range decreased to 25 nautical miles the object moved away
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at a speed that was visible on the radar scope and stayed
at 25 nautical miles.
The size of the radar return was comparable to that of
KC-135 tanker. The visual size of the object was difficult
to discern because of its intense brilliance. The light
that it gave off was that of flashing strobe lights
arranged in a rectangular pattern and alternating blue,
green, red and orange in color. The suquence of the lights
was so fast that all the colors could be seen at once. The
object and pursuing F-4 continued on a course to the south
of Tehran when another brightly lighted object, estimated
to be one half to one third the apparent size of the moon,
carne out of the original object. This second object headed
straight toward the F-4 at a very fast rate of speed. The
pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile at the object but
at that instant his weapons control panel went off and he
lost all communications. At this point the pilot initiated
a turn and negative G drive to get away. As he turned the
object fell in trail at what appeared to be about 3 to 4
nautical miles. As he continued in his turn away from the
primary object, the second object went to the inside of his
turn then returned to the primary object for a perfect
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Shortly after the second object joined up with the primary
object another object appeared to come out of the other
side of the primary object going straight down at a great
rate of speed. The F- 4 crew having regained communications
and weapons systems, watched the object approach the ground
anticipating a large explosion. This object appeared to
come to rest gently on the earth and cast a very bright
light over an area of about 1.2 to 1.8 miles.
The crew descended from their altitude of 25 miles to 15
miles and continued to observe and marked the object"s
position. They had some difficulty in adjusting their
night visibility for landing, so after orbiting Mehrabad a
few times they went out for a straight in landing. There
was a lot of interference on the UHF (radio} and each time
they passed through a magnetic bearing of 150 degrees from
Fhrabad they lost their communications and the INS
fluctuated from 30 to 50 degrees.
The one civil airliner that was approaching Mehrabad during
this same time experienced communications failure in the
same vicinity but did not report seeing anything.
While the F-4 was on a long final approach the crew noticed
another cylinder shaped object (about the size of a T- Bird
at 10 miles} with bright steady lights on each end and a
flasher in the middle. When queried the tower stated there
was no other known traffic in the area. During the time
that the object passed over the F-4 the tower did not have
a visual on it but picked it up after the pilot told them
to look between the mountains and the refinery.
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During daylight the F-4 crew was taken out to the area in a
helicopter where the object apparently had landed. Nothing
was noticed at the spot where they thought the object
landed (a dry lake bed) but as they circled off to the west
of the area, they picked up a very noticeable beeper
signal. At the point where the return was the loudest was
a small house with a garden. They landed and asked the
people within if they had noticed anything strange last
night. The people talked about a loud noise and a very
bright light like lighting. The aircraft and area where
the object was believed to have landed were checked for
possible radiation. The results of that check remains
classified by the American Intelligence Community.
F ile Case 3 (Peru, 9 & 10 May 1980)
On May 9, 1980 a group of Peruian Air Force officers in
formation at Mariano Malgar spotted a UFO that was round in
shape, hovering near the airfield. The air commander
scrambled an SU- 22 aircraft to make an intercept. The
pilot intercepted the object and fired upon it at very
close range without causing any apparent damage. The pilot
tried to make a second pass on the object, but the object
out-ran the SU-22.
During the night of May 10, 1980 a second object with
lights was sighted. Again an SU-22 was scrambled, but the
object out-ran the aircraft.
The State Department Telex concerning this incident made
this very interesting comment about the incident ,
"Apparently some vehicle was spotted, but its origin
remains unknown."
File Case 4 (Barzil, May 19, 1986)
At least 20 unidentified flying objects were observed by
several aircrews and on radar the night of May 19, 1986.
The objects were first seen by the pilot of a Xingu
aircraft , transporting Ozires Si l va , former President of
Embraer , between Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro. Fighters
were scrambled from Santa Cruz Air Base at approximately
2100 hours. Although three made radar contact, only one of
the three pilots managed to see what he described as red ,
white and green lights . Shortly afterward , radar contact
was made with similar objects near Brasilia and three
mirages (jet fighters) were scrambled from Anapolis Air
Base. All three made radar and visual contact at 20,000
feet. They reported that they were escorted by thirteen of
these disks with red, green and white lights at a distance
of one to three mi l es. The objects then rapidly
disappeared from both ground and airborne radars .
The Air Minister is quo t ed by the press as saying there
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were three groups of targets on the ground radar and that
the scopes of the airborne radars were saturated.
The State Department Telex concerning this incident made
this comment, "There is too much here to be ignored. Three
visual sightings and positive radar contact from three
different types of radar systems leads one to believe that
something arrived over Brazil the night of 19 May."
Conclusions
The cases cited above are but a small representation of the
volumes of information the American Intelligence Community
has on cases similar to those cited in this report.
However, those cases remain classified in the interest of
national security. To be sure, the American Intelligence
Community even has information on the cases cited that is
classified at the TS/SCI level, once again in the interest
of national security.
Regardless of what the United States Air Force states
publicly, the official record clearly indicates the the Air
Force, as well as the rest of the intelligence community,
considers incidents such as those cited to be a matter of
national security. This can be deduced by the fact that so
much information concerning UFO/military confrontations
remain classified in the interest of national security.
The reason(s) for the classification of this information
remain unknown to the general public and UFO researchers
alike.
It is the conclusions of this researcher that based on the
best available information from the United States
Government some type of aerial objects, displaying
technology that no nation on the face of the earth
currently has, is operating in the air space of the United
States as well as every other nation on earth. Also, these
objects seem directed and with purpose; under intelligent
control not of this world. Furthermore, and this is the
most frightening aspect of all, these objects can come and
go as they please and the nations of the world are
powerless to do anything about them other then watch and
observe.
It may be the fact that we are powerless to do anything
that has led the governments of the world, to include the
United States, to deny the existence of these objects and
classify the subject matter to such a high degree. After
all, no nation wishes to express a sense of helplessness in
any situation as this could lead to a sense of insecurity
on the part of the people, as well as the governing body,
of that nation.
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The American Intelligence Community , especially the United
States Air Force, has been made the fall guy in the so
called UFO cover-up. I believe that it should be made
clear at this point that every existing government on the
face of the earth has classified information concerning
UFOs; not just the u. s . Government. Also , I feel that much
of this information is classified to protect such things as
methodology , technology , locations and identities of
intelligence operatives vital to intelligence operations;
all correct and legiti mate concerns of any inte l ligence
agency. Furthermore , I feel it is necessary to state ,
having some knowledge of the intelligence community , that
there exist no greater dedicated people in the world than
those within the i ntellig ence community.
However, I feel that in order to be more open in government
and to ensure an informed public, the American Intelligence
Community needs to reconsider its thought and position on
those documents that have thus far been denied the public.
UFOs are deserving a closer look by the scientific
community and the only way this will happen is with the
u.s. Government making available to the scientific
community all the information the government has on UFOs .
This includes the information presently classified in the
interest of national security.
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Cli fford E. Stone
May 31 , 1990
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SUPPORTING GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
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