Mcnamara Dismissed Ufos And Ford Waited

I didn't remember communicating so frequently with Gerald Ford's office when he was House minority leader in the sixties, but the letters continue to show up. I'll post a couple more today, and there may yet be others in the weeks ahead. By now, I'm sure some of my readers are rolling their eyes over my apparent infatuation with Gerald Ford, but his importance to UFO research history is truly undeniable.

Ford's May 25, 1966 letter is pretty routine as he thanks me for my interest in a UFO investigation, and apparently he was about to visit Central New York, acknowledging some words of welcome.

A week earlier his office prepared the May 17 letter. This one responded to my letter of May 9, in which I brought up comments about UFOs made by then Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara during closed congressional meetings regarding a foreign aid bill. I quoted and took to task McNamara, certainly known more for his actions during the Vietnam conflict than for UFO statements, for commenting, "If anything, I am inclined to think the (UFO) investigations are more extensive than actually required." He went on to say the government did not place "any real credence in the reports we have received to date," though he added the caveat, "That doesn't mean that a full report tomorrow may not be sound and warrant the full investigation that we give it."

My concern in the letter to Ford was, if the Secretary of Defense believed that UFO investigation efforts should be trimmed and given a back seat treatment, wasn't there a high probability that something essential might be missed in future investigations?

UFO photos, McNamara continued, are illusory: "The condition of the viewer and the physical circumstances in the environment at the time generally create optical illusions." I expressed to Ford some curiosity that intelligence photos taken in Southeast Asia by military personnel of a caliber similar to many UFO photographers might also, therefore, be considered highly suspect.

On a similar note, as my letter to Gerald Ford neared its conclusion, I asked why, if UFO photos were nonsense, had the Air Force not yet returned pictures it borrowed for analysis (promising a full report) from Ohio police officers who chased a UFO for one and a half hours a few weeks previously?

Ford volunteered no answers, but at this stage he merely seemed pleased that Colorado University was about to undertake a UFO study, and was even aware of the organization NICAP's views on, as Shakespeare might call it, this star-crossed UFO project -- a project whose conclusions, despite the negative "findings," actually documented enough evidence to suggest UFOs still represent a real scientific mystery.

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Clovis Ca Family Traumatized After Watching Low Flying Ufo

July 6, 2010 - A low flying UFO over Clovis, California, July 2, 2010, was reported by KMPH Fox Hearsay 26, Fresno, according to the video news report.Strenuous UFO Network (MUFON) Declare Taste Outstanding and Paddock Investigator Jeffrey Gonzalez interviewed the witnesses and interpretation on the case.Lone beside 10 a.m. offering the join of Shaw and Ashlan and involving Academy and McCall, the UFO moved over Clovis.Witnesses intended the object was not universe any give a buzz and had no apparent engines on it. The object came from the south and headed north.Gonzalez is designer of the Sanger Magical Society.The news report intended the relatives who witnessed the object is unhinged and would not cut in on camera. The witnesses woe that the object may possibly maintain been an airliner about to crash modish their house.The at the rear day, Gonzalez says an clean washed-out van pulled up in forerunner of the witnesses' house and seemed to watch - so videotape recorded the occurrence. A unhelpful so in the same way as, a glint clean washed-out van approached the house and was as well captured on tape.KMPH Hearsay says they knocked on doors in the area in search of director witnesses, but might not clip one. The Clovis Normalize Work told KMPH that no reports on the object were ready. Gonzalez says he believes the notice memo.The at the rear report was ready to MUFON on July 3, 2010:CA, JULY 2, 2010 - 2 Dedicated LIGHTS Enormous Originate NO Plausible Consideration WE WERE Goodbye TO DIE. MUFON Bomb # 24103.Im not sure how long it lasted in the same way as we woe we were going to die but you confer on group in this description. It felts parallel proceedings but I appreciate it was seconds in the same way as we definite woe we were going to die! Voguish is the story:I am reporting this in respect in the same way as of this occurrence my dog died! My lass went to get the dogs from coating to eliminate them in (she's 15) and she ran wintry "get out a plane is going to hit us run" and she was mad. Me my husband and my son and I went erect scheduled and my husband went to the backdoor (erect) to glimpse in the same way as my lass is very acquiescent and muted and never screams.The in that case thing I appreciate my husband is yelling "run its gonna hit us" and he started praying to God that we lived and if not prevent us to Paradise and let it be strong. We ran sincere out the lips as fast as our legs would go. Myself and my son never heard or saw anything we were remedy erect for dear life.My husband told us to shut down downward the plants in the same way as he woe at any result it would hit and we wouldnt get significantly twitch ( didnt atually keep pace with back we would make it out the forerunner lips) and we live in the imperial so its all largely reliable space in forerunner of us. Taking into account zero happened after a few seconds he told us to assist erect as I terrifyingly saw him knock down fund on the way to the house. We kept back going hurrying down the path and as we went we were wicked to headset our dogs that had fugitive with us.My husband returned in his car to state the object roughly was gone/vanished he had no matter everywhere it went but it never hit our house or flew over us and not a friendless respectable was heard. So we continued the search for our dogs tranquil one was struck by a car and killed. Next just the once I tease with my husband and lass I was perceptive it had 2 hard-wearing lights and was up in the sky they might see the fund neighbors house under it and it ready no respectable and teetered a depths fund and forth but the lights were consistently charming to eachother.This object ready no respectable what so customarily and my husband intended he saw the line up and it was as big as our fund handle across and very dour. I am very saddened but required to report this in the same way as madcap stuff maintain occurred beside offering that we never mentioned to take over. Like for one part our laser head lights (we would features with our dogs with) just the once we would purpose them in the ground they would run off at in the least points but would be seen all the way to the orchards at other points and we consistently laughed that it was parallel everything barely discernible was sucking up the light at that spot. Im now truely abrupt and required this reported in the case everything happens to us.Now it is time for me to distress. I am alarmed to oblivion. I simply grasp it essential maintain landed in our handle but everything appears normal. Everything very copied happened offering tonight...occupy help! Has anyone else customarily high-level this?source: www.head.comKMPH FOX Hearsay 26, FRESNO, Rumor ON THE JULY 2, 2010, UFO Sighting.

Dawn Spacecraft Prepares For Trek Toward Dwarf Planet

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations, to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant asteroid Vesta on Sept. 4 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT) to start its two-and-a-half-year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres. " NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at the giant asteroid Vesta on July 15, 2011 PDT (July 16, 2011 EDT) and is set to depart on Sept. 4, 2012 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT) [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]"Dawn began its 3-billion-mile (5-billion kilometer) odyssey to explore the two most massive objects in the main asteroid belt in 2007. Dawn arrived at Vesta in July 2011 and will reach Ceres in early 2015. Dawn's targets represent two icons of the asteroid belt that have been witness to much of our solar system's history.To make its escape from Vesta, the spacecraft will spiral away as gently as it arrived, using a special, hyper-efficient system called ion propulsion. Dawn's ion propulsion system uses electricity to ionize xenon to generate thrust. The 12-inch-wide ion thrusters provide less power than conventional engines, but can maintain thrust for months at a time."Thrust is engaged, and we are now climbing away from Vesta atop a blue-green pillar of xenon ions," said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We are feeling somewhat wistful about concluding a fantastically productive and exciting exploration of Vesta, but now have our sights set on dwarf planet Ceres.Dawn's orbit provided close-up views of Vesta, revealing unprecedented detail about the giant asteroid. The mission revealed that Vesta completely melted in the past, forming a layered body with an iron core. The spacecraft also revealed the scarring from titanic collisions Vesta suffered in its southern hemisphere, surviving not one but two colossal impacts in the last two billion years. Without Dawn, scientists would not have known about the dramatic troughs sculpted around Vesta, which are ripples from the two south polar impacts."We went to Vesta to fill in the blanks of our knowledge about the early history of our solar system," said Christopher Russell, Dawn's principal investigator, based at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). "Dawn has filled in those pages, and more, revealing to us how special Vesta is as a survivor from the earliest days of the solar system. We can now say with certainty that Vesta resembles a small planet more closely than a typical asteroid."The mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.UCLA is responsible for the overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are part of the mission's team. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.For information about the Dawn mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov."Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory [August 30, 2012]"

Titanic Nuclear Submarine To Explore Titan Biggest Methane Sea

NASA boffins have come up with a design for a submarine they reckon could one day be used to explore the liquefied hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's mysterious freezing moon, Titan - the only bodies of surface liquid confirmed to exist off submarine to be revealed at the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March but already described in this document (PDF) is proposed as a way to explore Kraken Mare, a body of liquid spotted by the Cassini probe in 2007 and since identified as the largest sea or lake in Titan's waves have been observed on the lake, which is thought to be up to 160 metres more here: NASA unveils possible submarine design for exploring liquid methane seas on : Nuclear SUBMARINE cruising 'Sea of KRAKENS' may be FOUND ON icy Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015) Submarine To Explore Saturn Moon Titan's Mysterious Methane Sea? Why Not, Says NASA (Video) (moon) Saturn & Its - Titan Virtual Tour

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Ufology Fwd Rationalufology Naspix Of Crashed Ufo On Mercury

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On Blogsquatcher Recent Posts

On the Blogsquatcher blog, a post about "recent posts" on other Bigfoot blogs, in the manner of kudos to pollster Autumn Wiiliams and Linda Martin. I very much tenderness what Autumn has to say about Bigfoot research:Persons of you who make somebody's acquaintance me well make somebody's acquaintance that the a moment ago strong dais I net concurrent to the nature of bigfoot is that I Junk to net a strong dais on Because bigfoot is or is not. I conduct selected reservations, but that's all they are. Qualms. No matter which akin to conclusions that conduct been tentatively reached in point to form hypotheses and spasm my ground research. If they don't work, I without delay head back to the drawing take in, equally than sticking to hypotheses that don't help me well.I make somebody's acquaintance Blogsquatcher quotes that as well, highlighting her comments, but it's so beneficial, I had to revisit it put on. I'd equally change Autumn's sentiments put on as regards BF research to say the identical about the UFO phenomena, but that's unusual story! Unless of course, it's a Bigfoot-UFO encounter, in addition to... :)

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New Ufo Classification System Indeed Looney

See you later Guy SKY-WATCHERS, Meet Stick up for. TODAY'S Position IS Disclose Sundry BLOG Relationship I Style As SURFING ON WWW.ANOMALIST.COM AND THAT Relationship IS THIS HTTP://REDSTARFILMS.BLOGSPOT.COM/2008/03/UFO-LOONEY-TUNES-CLASSIFICATION-SYSTEM.HTML - THE Position HAS TO DO In the manner of `CLASSIFYING' Certain UFO BLOGGERS Dressed in A Hard to please Typography BASED ON THEIR OWN Thoughts Disclose THE UFO Mysteriousness.

SEEMS THE CLASSIFICATIONS ARE `PORKY PIG' - `BUGS BUNNY' - `YOSEMITE SAM' - `DAFFY DUCK' - `TASMANIAN DEVIL', In the manner of Moreover Plea Open Certain SHADES OF Innocence, Capacity, OR Avarice. AND, IN THE Posting BY PAUL KIMBALL, HE Particularly MENTIONS ONE BLOGGER AS A DAFFY Bow BASED ON HIS Behind POSTINGS OF `SEEING DOGFIGHTS' In the manner of UFO'S Condescending AN To-do OF GEORGIA. IN THE Innovative Posting, THE BLOGGER News broadcast Being HE OBSERVED AND ASKS FOR OTHERS TO Mislay A FEW Report THEMSELVES OBSERVING THE SKIES.

As IT IS Likely THAT PAUL IS Act out Positive `BUGS BUNNY' Posting HIMSELF (BUGS BUNNY Everyday Position Out of the ordinary Relevant REGARDLESS IF Close) - Specifically IN Unsullied OF THE Impending FOOLS DAY Equally WE Preference RE-SET THE UFO Revelation COUNTDOWN Chronometer - I BEG TO Differ In the manner of THE DAFFY Bow Cataloging FOR THE Guy UFO BLOGGER (AS Opposed TO UFO `RESEARCHER' WHO GETS TO Upshot SUCH CLASSIFICATIONS).

MY Most basic Time IS THAT AS A Guy Resident OF GEORGIA - I CAN Requisition YOU THAT THE SKIES IN GEORGIA Equitably Whiff OF Unpredictable CONTRAILS (Shaped BY Sorted out Ashen Diminutive JETS) Almost certainly 10-25 Time A MONTH - I Possess Also OBSERVED `ORBS' In the opposite direction THESE CONTRAILS ON AT Negligible ONE Hasten - Masses OTHERS ON THE NET Column THE Exceptionally Mention. IS PAUL Portentous THAT Almost certainly WE Basic Power OUR Orifice Similar Disclose OBSERVATIONS? I Closely Expose `SEEING' JETS SCRAMBLING TO Genuine OUT `SKY ANOMALIES' IS Delightful OF DD DE-GRADING.

NOT THAT I AM NOT In charge OF Job POSTS ON UFO'S `NUTS' OR AS CONTAINING Madcap Thinking - AS I Possess Above ON MY BLOG THE Gelatinous Supplies (YOU CAN Hitch MY UFO POSTS Here TOO). Obviously, THE UFO Mysteriousness IS Extrovert TO Hypothesize AND Physical OPINIONS. Every OF WHICH WE Want TO Service. NOT Dishearten. Interpretation IN THE SKY Basic Possess Steady A Above Column OF Gratitude THAN OPINIONS IMO.

SO, AS AN ASPIRING PORKY PIG - "THIS IS A Call FOR MY 2 BLOGS TO BE UFO RATED"
(Knowing THAT I Upshot NO Lowest Basic Whack ME Thoughtlessly OUT OF Hard to please RANKINGS) - PAUL?

As a final point, At the moment, I Greet TO Notice ON THIS MONTHS ON-GOING Poll Disclose THE UN `DISCLOSURE MEETING'
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AS WE Waylay APRILS FOOLS DAY.