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Are UFOs a mirage, conjured up by the Air Force to obscure classified
flight projects? In part, argues Mark Pilkington, a British journalist
and filmmaker who writes about society's oddities. In Mirage Men: An
Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, he
makes a persuasive case that much UFO-logy canon was started or
encouraged by the government trying to conceal Cold War military
projects. He recently chatted with U.S. News about the origins and
effects of UFO mythology around the world. Excerpts:
How has the UFO story been shaped by the government?
These
ideas do generate themselves to some extent, but there is evidence that
they were specifically shaped in some instances. I don't think this is
some long-running grand conspiracy, I just think that the UFO story has
been deployed and used at times when it was convenient. Just about
everything that is popularly believed about UFOs has been exploited,
shaped, and, at times, generated by people working for the U.S. Air
Force and the intelligence community. The idea that UFOs crashed on U.S.
soil, that the U.S. government was harboring and hiding UFO technology,
that it was denying its citizens the right to know that aliens have
come here and visited—all these things have been deliberately seeded
into the culture.
[See who the defense aerospace industry gives the most in campaign contributions to.]
Why would the government "seed" these ideas?
UFO
stories are used as a cover story for the flight-testing of
experimental and clandestine aircraft. If you look at the places where
UFO sightings are frequent, they are also the places where the military
tests its experimental aircraft. For the first few years that UFOs
circulated in popular culture after World War II, the public didn't talk
about UFOs as being alien. Rather, they were talked about as advanced
U.S. or Russian aircraft.
How long has this been going on?
Much
of it dates to the first flights of the U2 spy plane back in the 1950s.
The CIA's in-house journal had a story about 10 years ago that said
that one of the functions of Project Blue Book [the official Air Force
investigation into UFOs] was to monitor how visible the U2 was to people
on the ground. Someone would see what they thought was a UFO and then
the Air Force would send someone around to talk with them. Of course,
the Air Force would have a schedule of the U2 flights and be able to
tell if what the person saw was indeed a U2. By talking to all these
supposed UFO witnesses, the CIA could assess how visible the U2 was.
Were the Soviets a target for this?
There
are other, more subtle motivations from the U.S. side. One is the idea
of a super weapon. If unfriendly nations believe that you harbor alien
technology that you have integrated into your own weapons systems and
aircraft, then they have good reason to be afraid.
[See photos of space missions.]
What happened in 1952 over Washington, D.C.?
The
first incident took place early one morning in July. It was reported
extensively in the newspapers that a number of unknown objects appeared
on radar screens around Washington. Now, it looks very plausible to me
that the Washington incident was a demonstration of a technology from
the Defense Department, known as Project Palladium, which allowed the
operator to project radar blips onto other radar screens. Later on, the
technology became very sophisticated to the point where you could change
the shape of the blip and its speed and so forth. We go on in the book
at length about the evidence that suggests that the Washington radar
incident was a planned operation.
Do UFO fanatics know it may be they're duped?
Certainly.
I'm not the first person to tell them this. UFO lore has transcended to
what has become a religious matter for many of those involved. We talk
to a man called Bill Moore, who in the 1980s was one of the most
respected people in the UFO community. He was co-opted by Air Force
intelligence to act as a mole passing information to the Air Force about
what people were researching and to pass disinformation back into the
UFO community. When he came clean about all this at a UFO convention in
1989, people ran out crying into the hallways. But what happened to the
larger UFO lore? Nothing.
Is this a worldwide phenomenon?
The
UFO story is a global one, but I think it has its origins in American
culture. Not long ago there was a major UFO wave in Iran. Not
surprisingly, all the UFO incidents happened near the country's known
nuclear sites. Initially it was odd lights in the sky, then over a few
days, the stories started getting more dramatic. They were describing
small robots hovering in the skies. I read an interesting article
recently that described the impact of the drone use over Pakistan and
Afghanistan. The villagers describe the drones as being spiritual beings
with a life of their own that live in bedrooms in space and come to
feed on women and children. It is fascinating to watch, because I feel
like I've seen it all before. It will be different for every nation, as
they develop. Perhaps every nation will get the aliens it deserves.
What a load of tripe! The US is not capable of sending out these UFOs
to EVERY country in the world. And the capabilities of these craft are
beyond what any humans could produce at this point.
Maybe Bill Moore was lying? Maybe he was told to say that to make people think that?
The Government is hiding more than people think. The Government might
have been faking SOME of these but could not fake ALL of the reported
craft. And these events happened much, much earlier in history...
When I was a kid of about 8 years old. (This would be around 1986) me,
my brother and parents saw a UFO right above our heads as we walked home
one dark winter's evening. We lived in a quiet village in the north of
England. Nothing special is there except fields and a few houses. There
used to be a coal mine where the UFO was which had closed down. The UFO
was the typical flying saucer shape, glowed bright yellowy-orange and
hovered above our heads for a minute or two. It then landed in a field.
Me being an excited young kid wanted to run to it but my mum held me
back because she was afraid. It then shot up into the air and out of the
atmosphere at phenomenal speed without a sound. Even now, almost 30
years on there's no-known aircraft capable of that. If the US military
wanted to hide their secret new weapons, is this the way they would go
about doing it?
My entire immediate
family saw one in 1964 on loop rd. in the everglades at night while
fishing. It was bright orange and came within 200 ft. it was silent and
we could not see the shape of it. In 1964 it would have been difficult
to hoax and the road was surrounded by swampwater during that period. I
still don't know what it was but I remember it well to this day.
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Are UFOs a mirage, conjured up by the Air Force to obscure classified flight projects? In part, argues Mark Pilkington, a British journalist and filmmaker who writes about society's oddities. In Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, he makes a persuasive case that much UFO-logy canon was started or encouraged by the government trying to conceal Cold War military projects. He recently chatted with U.S. News about the origins and effects of UFO mythology around the world. Excerpts:
How has the UFO story been shaped by the government?
These ideas do generate themselves to some extent, but there is evidence that they were specifically shaped in some instances. I don't think this is some long-running grand conspiracy, I just think that the UFO story has been deployed and used at times when it was convenient. Just about everything that is popularly believed about UFOs has been exploited, shaped, and, at times, generated by people working for the U.S. Air Force and the intelligence community. The idea that UFOs crashed on U.S. soil, that the U.S. government was harboring and hiding UFO technology, that it was denying its citizens the right to know that aliens have come here and visited—all these things have been deliberately seeded into the culture.
[See who the defense aerospace industry gives the most in campaign contributions to.]
Why would the government "seed" these ideas?
UFO stories are used as a cover story for the flight-testing of experimental and clandestine aircraft. If you look at the places where UFO sightings are frequent, they are also the places where the military tests its experimental aircraft. For the first few years that UFOs circulated in popular culture after World War II, the public didn't talk about UFOs as being alien. Rather, they were talked about as advanced U.S. or Russian aircraft.
How long has this been going on?
Much of it dates to the first flights of the U2 spy plane back in the 1950s. The CIA's in-house journal had a story about 10 years ago that said that one of the functions of Project Blue Book [the official Air Force investigation into UFOs] was to monitor how visible the U2 was to people on the ground. Someone would see what they thought was a UFO and then the Air Force would send someone around to talk with them. Of course, the Air Force would have a schedule of the U2 flights and be able to tell if what the person saw was indeed a U2. By talking to all these supposed UFO witnesses, the CIA could assess how visible the U2 was.
Were the Soviets a target for this?
There are other, more subtle motivations from the U.S. side. One is the idea of a super weapon. If unfriendly nations believe that you harbor alien technology that you have integrated into your own weapons systems and aircraft, then they have good reason to be afraid.
[See photos of space missions.]
What happened in 1952 over Washington, D.C.?
The first incident took place early one morning in July. It was reported extensively in the newspapers that a number of unknown objects appeared on radar screens around Washington. Now, it looks very plausible to me that the Washington incident was a demonstration of a technology from the Defense Department, known as Project Palladium, which allowed the operator to project radar blips onto other radar screens. Later on, the technology became very sophisticated to the point where you could change the shape of the blip and its speed and so forth. We go on in the book at length about the evidence that suggests that the Washington radar incident was a planned operation.
Do UFO fanatics know it may be they're duped?
Certainly. I'm not the first person to tell them this. UFO lore has transcended to what has become a religious matter for many of those involved. We talk to a man called Bill Moore, who in the 1980s was one of the most respected people in the UFO community. He was co-opted by Air Force intelligence to act as a mole passing information to the Air Force about what people were researching and to pass disinformation back into the UFO community. When he came clean about all this at a UFO convention in 1989, people ran out crying into the hallways. But what happened to the larger UFO lore? Nothing.
Is this a worldwide phenomenon?
The UFO story is a global one, but I think it has its origins in American culture. Not long ago there was a major UFO wave in Iran. Not surprisingly, all the UFO incidents happened near the country's known nuclear sites. Initially it was odd lights in the sky, then over a few days, the stories started getting more dramatic. They were describing small robots hovering in the skies. I read an interesting article recently that described the impact of the drone use over Pakistan and Afghanistan. The villagers describe the drones as being spiritual beings with a life of their own that live in bedrooms in space and come to feed on women and children. It is fascinating to watch, because I feel like I've seen it all before. It will be different for every nation, as they develop. Perhaps every nation will get the aliens it deserves.
What a load of tripe! The US is not capable of sending out these UFOs to EVERY country in the world. And the capabilities of these craft are beyond what any humans could produce at this point.
Maybe Bill Moore was lying? Maybe he was told to say that to make people think that?
The Government is hiding more than people think. The Government might have been faking SOME of these but could not fake ALL of the reported craft. And these events happened much, much earlier in history...
When I was a kid of about 8 years old. (This would be around 1986) me, my brother and parents saw a UFO right above our heads as we walked home one dark winter's evening. We lived in a quiet village in the north of England. Nothing special is there except fields and a few houses. There used to be a coal mine where the UFO was which had closed down. The UFO was the typical flying saucer shape, glowed bright yellowy-orange and hovered above our heads for a minute or two. It then landed in a field. Me being an excited young kid wanted to run to it but my mum held me back because she was afraid. It then shot up into the air and out of the atmosphere at phenomenal speed without a sound. Even now, almost 30 years on there's no-known aircraft capable of that. If the US military wanted to hide their secret new weapons, is this the way they would go about doing it?
My entire immediate family saw one in 1964 on loop rd. in the everglades at night while fishing. It was bright orange and came within 200 ft. it was silent and we could not see the shape of it. In 1964 it would have been difficult to hoax and the road was surrounded by swampwater during that period. I still don't know what it was but I remember it well to this day.
Are UFOs a mirage, conjured up by the Air Force to obscure classified flight projects? In part, argues Mark Pilkington, a British journalist and filmmaker who writes about society's oddities. In Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, he makes a persuasive case that much UFO-logy canon was started or encouraged by the government trying to conceal Cold War military projects. He recently chatted with U.S. News about the origins and effects of UFO mythology around the world. Excerpts:
How has the UFO story been shaped by the government?
These ideas do generate themselves to some extent, but there is evidence that they were specifically shaped in some instances. I don't think this is some long-running grand conspiracy, I just think that the UFO story has been deployed and used at times when it was convenient. Just about everything that is popularly believed about UFOs has been exploited, shaped, and, at times, generated by people working for the U.S. Air Force and the intelligence community. The idea that UFOs crashed on U.S. soil, that the U.S. government was harboring and hiding UFO technology, that it was denying its citizens the right to know that aliens have come here and visited—all these things have been deliberately seeded into the culture.
[See who the defense aerospace industry gives the most in campaign contributions to.]
Why would the government "seed" these ideas?
UFO stories are used as a cover story for the flight-testing of experimental and clandestine aircraft. If you look at the places where UFO sightings are frequent, they are also the places where the military tests its experimental aircraft. For the first few years that UFOs circulated in popular culture after World War II, the public didn't talk about UFOs as being alien. Rather, they were talked about as advanced U.S. or Russian aircraft.
How long has this been going on?
Much of it dates to the first flights of the U2 spy plane back in the 1950s. The CIA's in-house journal had a story about 10 years ago that said that one of the functions of Project Blue Book [the official Air Force investigation into UFOs] was to monitor how visible the U2 was to people on the ground. Someone would see what they thought was a UFO and then the Air Force would send someone around to talk with them. Of course, the Air Force would have a schedule of the U2 flights and be able to tell if what the person saw was indeed a U2. By talking to all these supposed UFO witnesses, the CIA could assess how visible the U2 was.
Were the Soviets a target for this?
There are other, more subtle motivations from the U.S. side. One is the idea of a super weapon. If unfriendly nations believe that you harbor alien technology that you have integrated into your own weapons systems and aircraft, then they have good reason to be afraid.
[See photos of space missions.]
What happened in 1952 over Washington, D.C.?
The first incident took place early one morning in July. It was reported extensively in the newspapers that a number of unknown objects appeared on radar screens around Washington. Now, it looks very plausible to me that the Washington incident was a demonstration of a technology from the Defense Department, known as Project Palladium, which allowed the operator to project radar blips onto other radar screens. Later on, the technology became very sophisticated to the point where you could change the shape of the blip and its speed and so forth. We go on in the book at length about the evidence that suggests that the Washington radar incident was a planned operation.
Do UFO fanatics know it may be they're duped?
Certainly. I'm not the first person to tell them this. UFO lore has transcended to what has become a religious matter for many of those involved. We talk to a man called Bill Moore, who in the 1980s was one of the most respected people in the UFO community. He was co-opted by Air Force intelligence to act as a mole passing information to the Air Force about what people were researching and to pass disinformation back into the UFO community. When he came clean about all this at a UFO convention in 1989, people ran out crying into the hallways. But what happened to the larger UFO lore? Nothing.
Is this a worldwide phenomenon?
The UFO story is a global one, but I think it has its origins in American culture. Not long ago there was a major UFO wave in Iran. Not surprisingly, all the UFO incidents happened near the country's known nuclear sites. Initially it was odd lights in the sky, then over a few days, the stories started getting more dramatic. They were describing small robots hovering in the skies. I read an interesting article recently that described the impact of the drone use over Pakistan and Afghanistan. The villagers describe the drones as being spiritual beings with a life of their own that live in bedrooms in space and come to feed on women and children. It is fascinating to watch, because I feel like I've seen it all before. It will be different for every nation, as they develop. Perhaps every nation will get the aliens it deserves.
What a load of tripe! The US is not capable of sending out these UFOs to EVERY country in the world. And the capabilities of these craft are beyond what any humans could produce at this point.
Maybe Bill Moore was lying? Maybe he was told to say that to make people think that?
The Government is hiding more than people think. The Government might have been faking SOME of these but could not fake ALL of the reported craft. And these events happened much, much earlier in history...
When I was a kid of about 8 years old. (This would be around 1986) me, my brother and parents saw a UFO right above our heads as we walked home one dark winter's evening. We lived in a quiet village in the north of England. Nothing special is there except fields and a few houses. There used to be a coal mine where the UFO was which had closed down. The UFO was the typical flying saucer shape, glowed bright yellowy-orange and hovered above our heads for a minute or two. It then landed in a field. Me being an excited young kid wanted to run to it but my mum held me back because she was afraid. It then shot up into the air and out of the atmosphere at phenomenal speed without a sound. Even now, almost 30 years on there's no-known aircraft capable of that. If the US military wanted to hide their secret new weapons, is this the way they would go about doing it?
My entire immediate family saw one in 1964 on loop rd. in the everglades at night while fishing. It was bright orange and came within 200 ft. it was silent and we could not see the shape of it. In 1964 it would have been difficult to hoax and the road was surrounded by swampwater during that period. I still don't know what it was but I remember it well to this day.
The Truth Behind UFO Sightings and the U.S. Air Force
Are UFOs a mirage, conjured up by the Air Force to obscure classified flight projects? In part, argues Mark Pilkington, a British journalist and filmmaker who writes about society's oddities. In Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, he makes a persuasive case that much UFO-logy canon was started or encouraged by the government trying to conceal Cold War military projects. He recently chatted with U.S. News about the origins and effects of UFO mythology around the world. Excerpts:
How has the UFO story been shaped by the government?
These ideas do generate themselves to some extent, but there is evidence that they were specifically shaped in some instances. I don't think this is some long-running grand conspiracy, I just think that the UFO story has been deployed and used at times when it was convenient. Just about everything that is popularly believed about UFOs has been exploited, shaped, and, at times, generated by people working for the U.S. Air Force and the intelligence community. The idea that UFOs crashed on U.S. soil, that the U.S. government was harboring and hiding UFO technology, that it was denying its citizens the right to know that aliens have come here and visited—all these things have been deliberately seeded into the culture.
[See who the defense aerospace industry gives the most in campaign contributions to.]
Why would the government "seed" these ideas?
UFO stories are used as a cover story for the flight-testing of experimental and clandestine aircraft. If you look at the places where UFO sightings are frequent, they are also the places where the military tests its experimental aircraft. For the first few years that UFOs circulated in popular culture after World War II, the public didn't talk about UFOs as being alien. Rather, they were talked about as advanced U.S. or Russian aircraft.
How long has this been going on?
Much of it dates to the first flights of the U2 spy plane back in the 1950s. The CIA's in-house journal had a story about 10 years ago that said that one of the functions of Project Blue Book [the official Air Force investigation into UFOs] was to monitor how visible the U2 was to people on the ground. Someone would see what they thought was a UFO and then the Air Force would send someone around to talk with them. Of course, the Air Force would have a schedule of the U2 flights and be able to tell if what the person saw was indeed a U2. By talking to all these supposed UFO witnesses, the CIA could assess how visible the U2 was.
Were the Soviets a target for this?
There are other, more subtle motivations from the U.S. side. One is the idea of a super weapon. If unfriendly nations believe that you harbor alien technology that you have integrated into your own weapons systems and aircraft, then they have good reason to be afraid.
[See photos of space missions.]
What happened in 1952 over Washington, D.C.?
The first incident took place early one morning in July. It was reported extensively in the newspapers that a number of unknown objects appeared on radar screens around Washington. Now, it looks very plausible to me that the Washington incident was a demonstration of a technology from the Defense Department, known as Project Palladium, which allowed the operator to project radar blips onto other radar screens. Later on, the technology became very sophisticated to the point where you could change the shape of the blip and its speed and so forth. We go on in the book at length about the evidence that suggests that the Washington radar incident was a planned operation.
Do UFO fanatics know it may be they're duped?
Certainly. I'm not the first person to tell them this. UFO lore has transcended to what has become a religious matter for many of those involved. We talk to a man called Bill Moore, who in the 1980s was one of the most respected people in the UFO community. He was co-opted by Air Force intelligence to act as a mole passing information to the Air Force about what people were researching and to pass disinformation back into the UFO community. When he came clean about all this at a UFO convention in 1989, people ran out crying into the hallways. But what happened to the larger UFO lore? Nothing.
Is this a worldwide phenomenon?
The UFO story is a global one, but I think it has its origins in American culture. Not long ago there was a major UFO wave in Iran. Not surprisingly, all the UFO incidents happened near the country's known nuclear sites. Initially it was odd lights in the sky, then over a few days, the stories started getting more dramatic. They were describing small robots hovering in the skies. I read an interesting article recently that described the impact of the drone use over Pakistan and Afghanistan. The villagers describe the drones as being spiritual beings with a life of their own that live in bedrooms in space and come to feed on women and children. It is fascinating to watch, because I feel like I've seen it all before. It will be different for every nation, as they develop. Perhaps every nation will get the aliens it deserves.
What a load of tripe! The US is not capable of sending out these UFOs to EVERY country in the world. And the capabilities of these craft are beyond what any humans could produce at this point.
Maybe Bill Moore was lying? Maybe he was told to say that to make people think that?
The Government is hiding more than people think. The Government might have been faking SOME of these but could not fake ALL of the reported craft. And these events happened much, much earlier in history...
When I was a kid of about 8 years old. (This would be around 1986) me, my brother and parents saw a UFO right above our heads as we walked home one dark winter's evening. We lived in a quiet village in the north of England. Nothing special is there except fields and a few houses. There used to be a coal mine where the UFO was which had closed down. The UFO was the typical flying saucer shape, glowed bright yellowy-orange and hovered above our heads for a minute or two. It then landed in a field. Me being an excited young kid wanted to run to it but my mum held me back because she was afraid. It then shot up into the air and out of the atmosphere at phenomenal speed without a sound. Even now, almost 30 years on there's no-known aircraft capable of that. If the US military wanted to hide their secret new weapons, is this the way they would go about doing it?
My entire immediate family saw one in 1964 on loop rd. in the everglades at night while fishing. It was bright orange and came within 200 ft. it was silent and we could not see the shape of it. In 1964 it would have been difficult to hoax and the road was surrounded by swampwater during that period. I still don't know what it was but I remember it well to this day.
How has the UFO story been shaped by the government?
These ideas do generate themselves to some extent, but there is evidence that they were specifically shaped in some instances. I don't think this is some long-running grand conspiracy, I just think that the UFO story has been deployed and used at times when it was convenient. Just about everything that is popularly believed about UFOs has been exploited, shaped, and, at times, generated by people working for the U.S. Air Force and the intelligence community. The idea that UFOs crashed on U.S. soil, that the U.S. government was harboring and hiding UFO technology, that it was denying its citizens the right to know that aliens have come here and visited—all these things have been deliberately seeded into the culture.
[See who the defense aerospace industry gives the most in campaign contributions to.]
Why would the government "seed" these ideas?
UFO stories are used as a cover story for the flight-testing of experimental and clandestine aircraft. If you look at the places where UFO sightings are frequent, they are also the places where the military tests its experimental aircraft. For the first few years that UFOs circulated in popular culture after World War II, the public didn't talk about UFOs as being alien. Rather, they were talked about as advanced U.S. or Russian aircraft.
How long has this been going on?
Much of it dates to the first flights of the U2 spy plane back in the 1950s. The CIA's in-house journal had a story about 10 years ago that said that one of the functions of Project Blue Book [the official Air Force investigation into UFOs] was to monitor how visible the U2 was to people on the ground. Someone would see what they thought was a UFO and then the Air Force would send someone around to talk with them. Of course, the Air Force would have a schedule of the U2 flights and be able to tell if what the person saw was indeed a U2. By talking to all these supposed UFO witnesses, the CIA could assess how visible the U2 was.
Were the Soviets a target for this?
There are other, more subtle motivations from the U.S. side. One is the idea of a super weapon. If unfriendly nations believe that you harbor alien technology that you have integrated into your own weapons systems and aircraft, then they have good reason to be afraid.
[See photos of space missions.]
What happened in 1952 over Washington, D.C.?
The first incident took place early one morning in July. It was reported extensively in the newspapers that a number of unknown objects appeared on radar screens around Washington. Now, it looks very plausible to me that the Washington incident was a demonstration of a technology from the Defense Department, known as Project Palladium, which allowed the operator to project radar blips onto other radar screens. Later on, the technology became very sophisticated to the point where you could change the shape of the blip and its speed and so forth. We go on in the book at length about the evidence that suggests that the Washington radar incident was a planned operation.
Do UFO fanatics know it may be they're duped?
Certainly. I'm not the first person to tell them this. UFO lore has transcended to what has become a religious matter for many of those involved. We talk to a man called Bill Moore, who in the 1980s was one of the most respected people in the UFO community. He was co-opted by Air Force intelligence to act as a mole passing information to the Air Force about what people were researching and to pass disinformation back into the UFO community. When he came clean about all this at a UFO convention in 1989, people ran out crying into the hallways. But what happened to the larger UFO lore? Nothing.
Is this a worldwide phenomenon?
The UFO story is a global one, but I think it has its origins in American culture. Not long ago there was a major UFO wave in Iran. Not surprisingly, all the UFO incidents happened near the country's known nuclear sites. Initially it was odd lights in the sky, then over a few days, the stories started getting more dramatic. They were describing small robots hovering in the skies. I read an interesting article recently that described the impact of the drone use over Pakistan and Afghanistan. The villagers describe the drones as being spiritual beings with a life of their own that live in bedrooms in space and come to feed on women and children. It is fascinating to watch, because I feel like I've seen it all before. It will be different for every nation, as they develop. Perhaps every nation will get the aliens it deserves.
What a load of tripe! The US is not capable of sending out these UFOs to EVERY country in the world. And the capabilities of these craft are beyond what any humans could produce at this point.
Maybe Bill Moore was lying? Maybe he was told to say that to make people think that?
The Government is hiding more than people think. The Government might have been faking SOME of these but could not fake ALL of the reported craft. And these events happened much, much earlier in history...
When I was a kid of about 8 years old. (This would be around 1986) me, my brother and parents saw a UFO right above our heads as we walked home one dark winter's evening. We lived in a quiet village in the north of England. Nothing special is there except fields and a few houses. There used to be a coal mine where the UFO was which had closed down. The UFO was the typical flying saucer shape, glowed bright yellowy-orange and hovered above our heads for a minute or two. It then landed in a field. Me being an excited young kid wanted to run to it but my mum held me back because she was afraid. It then shot up into the air and out of the atmosphere at phenomenal speed without a sound. Even now, almost 30 years on there's no-known aircraft capable of that. If the US military wanted to hide their secret new weapons, is this the way they would go about doing it?
My entire immediate family saw one in 1964 on loop rd. in the everglades at night while fishing. It was bright orange and came within 200 ft. it was silent and we could not see the shape of it. In 1964 it would have been difficult to hoax and the road was surrounded by swampwater during that period. I still don't know what it was but I remember it well to this day.
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