Posted On: June 14, 2022

Here are a few examples of both military and pilot UFO sightings from the early 1950s.

On December 7th, 1953, according to Army Intelligence records, Private First Class Alfred De Bonise and Sergeant First Class James Conley sighted an unidentified object directly above the Headquarters Battery, 89th AAA Battalion, at Fort George C. Meade, Maryland, where the National Security Agency (established in 1952) was later sited.

At 21:30 hours the witnesses’ attention was drawn to an object which made a noise that "resembled the sound of an artillery shell in flight. The sound was not like that of an airplane or a truck. There were no further sounds after the initial whirring noise", the report states, and adds:

"The object was white and shining ‘like a star.’ It appeared to be large, very high, and shaped like a round ashtray. It moved with an erratic motion, eventually fading out of sight in a north-easterly direction. De Bonise and Conley observed the object for about twenty minutes."

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On April 29th, 1954, at 22:11 hours, an unidentified illuminated object was observed above the Second Army Radio Station, Fort Meade, by the Supervisor Radio Operator and two co-workers, Corporal Flath and Private First Class Hough. Described as round in shape, the color of the sun, and three or four times the size of a large star, the object appeared out of the sky from the southwest at an undetermined speed.

"The light emitted by the object was blinking on and off as the object moved across the sky in a straight path", the report states. "When it got above the Second Army Radio Station it stopped blinking and started to disappear by going straight up and becoming smaller in size."

The entire sighting lasted for seven minutes. Eastern Air Defense Command as well as Army Intelligence were notified.

Army personnel had strict orders not to discuss their sightings with unauthorized parties, as the following order, signed by Colonel Charles L. Odin, Chief of Staff, shows:

"Persons involved in sightings will not discuss or disseminate such information to persons or agencies other than their superior officer(s) and other personnel authorized by the Acting Chief of Staff, G-2, this headquarters."

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1954: Mystery Aircraft

In an earlier video, we refer to the many reports of mysterious unidentified aircraft, as opposed to disks, cigars, and so on, seen over Scandinavia and, to a lesser extent, the US and Britain in the 1930s.

These bizarre sightings have continued to be reported over the years, and I am convinced that the intelligences responsible for UFOs are able either to construct facsimiles of our own aircraft or to manifest themselves in such a way that we are duped into believing they are conventional aircraft, presumably for purposes of subterfuge.

One Air Force Intelligence report that describes an exceptionally well documented sighting of a strange aircraft occurred directly over Carswell AFB, Texas, at approximately 23:00 hours on February 4th, 1954, in full view of the control tower personnel.

The object was first detected by Carswell Ground Control Approach (GCA) Station at a distance of thirteen to fifteen miles, and showed up as a one-inch return on the radarscope at a distance of ten miles.

Because the object was approaching the airfield, the GCA operator notified the Airdrome Officer of the Day as well as the control tower. The object passed directly over the Carswell tower at 3 to 4000 feet, observed by all the tower personnel, and was described as having a long fuselage, elliptical wings, and a stabilizer, but with no visible means of propulsion.

No sound could be detected. The aircraft had a very bright light in the nose and tail, and two yellowish lights on the bottom of the fuselage.

One observer thought he could see a light on each wing tip. The tower operator kept the object under surveillance with standard Air Force binoculars throughout the observation. Subsequent investigations revealed that no local aircraft were responsible, and that there was "no unusual activity, meteorological, astronomical, or otherwise, that could contribute to [the] sighting."

The witnesses (all named) were described as "completely reliable", and as to the content of the report, "probably true."

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA and the NSA were included in the distribution list.

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1953 - 1957: Near Collisions With Airliners

At midnight on 19 October 1953 an American Airlines DC-6 en route to Washington, DC, was buzzed by a UFO over Conowingo Dam, Maryland. The object appeared to be heading toward the airliner on a collision course, so Captain J. L. Kidd threw the plane into a dive as the UFO streaked overhead and disappeared.

Several passengers were thrown into the aisle and Captain Kidd radioed to Washington Airport for ambulances and doctors. The UFO was as large as the DC-6, the crew affirmed.

Checks by civil aviation authorities showed that no other aircraft within a 100-mile radius were near the airliner.

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An even more serious incident took place on the night of 14 April 1954 when Captain J. M. Schidel of United Airlines Flight 193 was forced to make a sharp climbing turn in order to avoid colliding with an unknown object over Long Beach, California.

One passenger was thrown to the floor, breaking a leg, and a stewardess fractured her ankle.

"It was in sight just two seconds and made no movement to avoid me", said Schidel. No other known aircraft were in the vicinity at the time.

On 9 March 1957 the Civil Aeronautics Board received a "Flash" message from Miami Air Traffic Control:

"DOUGLAS 6A PAA FLIGHT 257 TO AVOID UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT TRAVELING EAST TO WEST, PILOT TOOK VIOLENT EVASIVE ACTION. OBJECT APPEARED TO HAVE A BRILLIANT GREENISH-WHITE CENTER WITH AN OUTER RING WHICH REFLECTED THE GLOW FROM THE CENTER, ABOVE DESCRIPTION FITS WHAT SEVEN OTHER FLIGHTS SAW, MIAMI REPORTS NO MISSILE ACTIVITY, ORIGINAL REPORTS OF JET ACTIVITY DISCOUNTED."

The airliner was piloted by Captain Matthew Van Winkle, and the sighting took place at 03:30 hours, 150 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida. Several passengers were injured and the plane was met by ambulances at San Juan.

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On 17 July 1957, Flight 655 en route from Dallas to Los Angeles with Captain E. Bachner at the controls had a near miss with an object "at least the size of a B-47", 100 miles east of El Paso, Texas. Two passengers suffered slight injuries and had to be taken to hospital on landing.

No known aircraft were in the vicinity at the time.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988.

My Take: The evidence just keeps piling up. Qualified pilots and observers all seeing things that cannot easily be explained away. No swamp gas and temperature inversions here.

Posted On: June 14, 2022

Here are a few examples of both military and pilot UFO sightings from the early 1950s.

On December 7th, 1953, according to Army Intelligence records, Private First Class Alfred De Bonise and Sergeant First Class James Conley sighted an unidentified object directly above the Headquarters Battery, 89th AAA Battalion, at Fort George C. Meade, Maryland, where the National Security Agency (established in 1952) was later sited.

At 21:30 hours the witnesses’ attention was drawn to an object which made a noise that "resembled the sound of an artillery shell in flight. The sound was not like that of an airplane or a truck. There were no further sounds after the initial whirring noise", the report states, and adds:

"The object was white and shining ‘like a star.’ It appeared to be large, very high, and shaped like a round ashtray. It moved with an erratic motion, eventually fading out of sight in a north-easterly direction. De Bonise and Conley observed the object for about twenty minutes."

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On April 29th, 1954, at 22:11 hours, an unidentified illuminated object was observed above the Second Army Radio Station, Fort Meade, by the Supervisor Radio Operator and two co-workers, Corporal Flath and Private First Class Hough. Described as round in shape, the color of the sun, and three or four times the size of a large star, the object appeared out of the sky from the southwest at an undetermined speed.

"The light emitted by the object was blinking on and off as the object moved across the sky in a straight path", the report states. "When it got above the Second Army Radio Station it stopped blinking and started to disappear by going straight up and becoming smaller in size."

The entire sighting lasted for seven minutes. Eastern Air Defense Command as well as Army Intelligence were notified.

Army personnel had strict orders not to discuss their sightings with unauthorized parties, as the following order, signed by Colonel Charles L. Odin, Chief of Staff, shows:

"Persons involved in sightings will not discuss or disseminate such information to persons or agencies other than their superior officer(s) and other personnel authorized by the Acting Chief of Staff, G-2, this headquarters."

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1954: Mystery Aircraft

In an earlier video, we refer to the many reports of mysterious unidentified aircraft, as opposed to disks, cigars, and so on, seen over Scandinavia and, to a lesser extent, the US and Britain in the 1930s.

These bizarre sightings have continued to be reported over the years, and I am convinced that the intelligences responsible for UFOs are able either to construct facsimiles of our own aircraft or to manifest themselves in such a way that we are duped into believing they are conventional aircraft, presumably for purposes of subterfuge.

One Air Force Intelligence report that describes an exceptionally well documented sighting of a strange aircraft occurred directly over Carswell AFB, Texas, at approximately 23:00 hours on February 4th, 1954, in full view of the control tower personnel.

The object was first detected by Carswell Ground Control Approach (GCA) Station at a distance of thirteen to fifteen miles, and showed up as a one-inch return on the radarscope at a distance of ten miles.

Because the object was approaching the airfield, the GCA operator notified the Airdrome Officer of the Day as well as the control tower. The object passed directly over the Carswell tower at 3 to 4000 feet, observed by all the tower personnel, and was described as having a long fuselage, elliptical wings, and a stabilizer, but with no visible means of propulsion.

No sound could be detected. The aircraft had a very bright light in the nose and tail, and two yellowish lights on the bottom of the fuselage.

One observer thought he could see a light on each wing tip. The tower operator kept the object under surveillance with standard Air Force binoculars throughout the observation. Subsequent investigations revealed that no local aircraft were responsible, and that there was "no unusual activity, meteorological, astronomical, or otherwise, that could contribute to [the] sighting."

The witnesses (all named) were described as "completely reliable", and as to the content of the report, "probably true."

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA and the NSA were included in the distribution list.

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1953 - 1957: Near Collisions With Airliners

At midnight on 19 October 1953 an American Airlines DC-6 en route to Washington, DC, was buzzed by a UFO over Conowingo Dam, Maryland. The object appeared to be heading toward the airliner on a collision course, so Captain J. L. Kidd threw the plane into a dive as the UFO streaked overhead and disappeared.

Several passengers were thrown into the aisle and Captain Kidd radioed to Washington Airport for ambulances and doctors. The UFO was as large as the DC-6, the crew affirmed.

Checks by civil aviation authorities showed that no other aircraft within a 100-mile radius were near the airliner.

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An even more serious incident took place on the night of 14 April 1954 when Captain J. M. Schidel of United Airlines Flight 193 was forced to make a sharp climbing turn in order to avoid colliding with an unknown object over Long Beach, California.

One passenger was thrown to the floor, breaking a leg, and a stewardess fractured her ankle.

"It was in sight just two seconds and made no movement to avoid me", said Schidel. No other known aircraft were in the vicinity at the time.

On 9 March 1957 the Civil Aeronautics Board received a "Flash" message from Miami Air Traffic Control:

"DOUGLAS 6A PAA FLIGHT 257 TO AVOID UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT TRAVELING EAST TO WEST, PILOT TOOK VIOLENT EVASIVE ACTION. OBJECT APPEARED TO HAVE A BRILLIANT GREENISH-WHITE CENTER WITH AN OUTER RING WHICH REFLECTED THE GLOW FROM THE CENTER, ABOVE DESCRIPTION FITS WHAT SEVEN OTHER FLIGHTS SAW, MIAMI REPORTS NO MISSILE ACTIVITY, ORIGINAL REPORTS OF JET ACTIVITY DISCOUNTED."

The airliner was piloted by Captain Matthew Van Winkle, and the sighting took place at 03:30 hours, 150 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida. Several passengers were injured and the plane was met by ambulances at San Juan.

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On 17 July 1957, Flight 655 en route from Dallas to Los Angeles with Captain E. Bachner at the controls had a near miss with an object "at least the size of a B-47", 100 miles east of El Paso, Texas. Two passengers suffered slight injuries and had to be taken to hospital on landing.

No known aircraft were in the vicinity at the time.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988.

My Take: The evidence just keeps piling up. Qualified pilots and observers all seeing things that cannot easily be explained away. No swamp gas and temperature inversions here.