UFO-rapporten van de U.S. Marine worden openbaar?

Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers

A Congressman is asking the Navy to release its UFO files. His letter closely aligns with the findings the former Blink-182 singer has released over the last two years.

by MJ Banias

Aug 9 2019, 2:11pm

Last month, Republican representative Mark Walker of North Carolina wrote a letter expressing concern over the recent surge in UFO-related events affecting American military forces.
Walker’s concerns stem from the December 2017 article in the New York Times about the now defunded secret Pentagon UFO program called AATIP and the revelations that several Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015 engaged in bizarre encounters with anomalous aerial objects off the coast of California and Florida. The news that the Navy is now changing its protocols for personnel to report UFO sightings has spurred a renewed interest in the potential safety and security risks these unknown objects pose.

"The reports mention the existence of these encounters both domestically and abroad during various missions and trainings," Walker wrote. "Based on pilot accounts, encounters with these UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) often involved complex flight patterns and advanced maneuvering, which demand extreme advances in quantum mechanics, nuclear science, electromagnetics, and thermodynamics.”
What's most notable is that what Walker is asking for closely aligns with what Blink 182 singer Tom Delonge's To the Stars Academy (TTSA) has been uncovering and publishing over the last few years. While TTSA has made some odd claims, the sheer amount of attention the media is giving the UFO topic in the last two years has undoubtedly increased.

“What we see here with Mark Walker’s letter to the Secretary of the Navy is the undiscussed, but most successful component of TTSA—a political lobby," Tim McMillan, a law enforcement consultant and intelligence analyst interested in UFOs, said in an interview. "It’s abundantly clear by the language of his letter, Rep. Walker is acting on information brought out by TTSA or their proxies.”
“The Navy’s response to Rep. Walker will be the most interesting aspect of all this,” McMillan added. “Will Rep. Walker make the Navy’s response public? If he feels the Navy’s response is inadequate, will Rep. Walker push the issue further?”

Noting the various reports made by pilots expressing their amazement at how the objects in question seemed to easily outmaneuver their fighter planes, Walker states, "If the accounts are true, the unidentified crafts could pose a serious security risk to our military personnel and defense apparatus."
Walker concludes the letter by asking two key questions on everyone’s mind; does the Department of Defense “continue to dedicate resources to tracking and investigating these claims” of unidentified objects and has the DoD found “physical evidence or otherwise that substantiates these claims?”

This letter seems to suggest that the study of UFOs is becoming serious political business and has many within the UFO community stating that this is a pivotal moment in the study of the phenomenon. Perhaps Walker just likes UFOs. Whatever the case, politicians and high-ranking officials have been addicted to UFOs for decades and Walker’s letter is just another example in a long history of politicians trying to get answers. (No, Bernie Sanders doesn't count.)

One of the most unique, and politically shrewd, UFO discussions occurred on the floor of the Canadian House of Commons in 1967 and 1968 when Ed Schreyer and Barry Mather, two Ministers of Parliament from British Columbia, demanded more information concerning UFOs from the Department of National Defence. They made a public motion that all relevant government departments be forced by the House to “issue a copy of all letters, reports, studies or other data” with respect to unidentified flying objects be made public.
Author and researcher Chris Rutkowski, an expert in Canadian UFO history, told Motherboard that this type of public and open dialogue on the House floor is unheard of. Rutkowski stated that it led to a formal motion to have all related UFO documents released. But ultimately, the Canadian government didn't release the files mentioned. However, “it shows that politicians have demanded action on UFOs for decades,” he said.

Former presidential candidate and Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater tried, on multiple occasions in the late 1960’s and 70’s, to gain access to certain areas of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base but was denied access where, he alleged, the Air Force was hiding evidence regarding flying saucers.

“I think the government does know [about UFOs]," Goldwater said in a 1994 radio interview. "I can’t back that up, but I think that at Wright-Patterson field, if you could get into a certain place, you’d find out what the Air Force and the government knows about UFOs.”
“I called Curtis LeMay [Goldwater's running mate and former Air Force General] and I said, ‘General, I know we have a room at Wright-Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Could I go in there?’ I’ve never heard him get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out, and said, ‘Don’t ever ask me that question again!’”
In 1993, New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff made several inquiries to the DoD regarding the infamous Roswell UFO crash of 1947. While his letters were shuffled around between several bureaucrats and offices for two years, it was finally investigated by the General Accounting Office (Government Accountability Office today). The GAO launched an investigation into the Roswell crash. Its findings came out in July of 1995, which established the Roswell crash to be nothing more than a balloon from a military project called MOGUL. Indeed, Schiff’s letters and the GAO response was big UFO news in the mid-90’s, yet did not provide any answers or hard evidence to sate the UFO community.

Publicatie uit :VICE newsletter , 9 aug. 2019

"Experiencers"....

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aliens-invented-the-game-of-chess-says-world-chess-president-kirsan-ilyumzhinov_n_55f31627e4b063ecbfa42cce
WEIRD NEWS 

09/17/2015 09:08 am ET Updated Sep 17, 2015

World Chess President Claims He Was Abducted By Space Aliens — And They Invented Chess

“They came in a flying saucer, picked me up, and I spent a whole day in outer space.”

By Lee Speigel

about the 53-year-old former president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia.

Ilyumzhinov is currently president of the International Chess Foundation (FIDE), a position he’s held since 1995, after readily defeating former world chess champion Garry Kasparov last year for the job.

His background and position on UFOs and ETs will undoubtedly bring Ilyumzhinov under fresh scrutiny — he’s reportedly considering running for president of FIFA, the international governing  body of football. “The suggestion has been made but ... for myself, I haven’t decided anything about this issue yet,” Ilyumzhinov said, according to the Associated Press.

During his Kalmykia presidency, Ilyumzhinov — pictured above at a 2006 meeting in Moscow’s Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) — claimed he was abducted by extraterrestrials. 

Ilyumzhinov says that, on an evening in September 1997, ETs wearing yellow spacesuits spirited him out of his Moscow home and took him to their spaceship. Here’s part of an interview he gave in 2007 for an Al Jazeera news report, “Meet the President — Kirsan Ilyumzhinov”:

I was taken [from] my apartment in Moscow to this spaceship, and we went to some star and after that, I asked them, ‘Please bring me back.’ They are like people, like us. They have the same mind and the same vision. I talked with them and I understand that we are not alone in this whole world — we are not unique. 

I’m not a crazy man, but after I gave the first interview to Radio Freedom in Russia ... thousands — not hundreds — thousands of people wrote me letters and called on the phone, saying, ‘Oh, Kirsan, you are a politician and you are not afraid to talk about it?’

Following a 2010 television interview in which Ilyumzhinov freely spoke of his alleged meeting with aliens on a spaceship, a member of the Russian Parliament — Andre Lebedev — voiced several concerns to President Dmitry Medvedev, according to BBC News.

Lebedev wanted to know if Ilyumzhinov was “fit to govern.”

“He is also concerned that, if [Ilyumzhinov] was abducted, he may have revealed details about his job and state secrets. ... Assuming the whole thing was not just a bad joke, it was an historic event and should have been reported to the Kremlin,” the BBC quoted Lebedev. 

“[Lebedev] also asks if there are official guidelines for what government officials should do if contacted by aliens, especially if those officials have access to state secrets.”

Considering his alleged otherworldly encounter and his long-term association with FIDE, it’s not surprising to hear Ilyumzhinov make an out-of-this-world connection between aliens and the game of chess.

(LEFT) ANTHONY BRADSHAW / (RIGHT) NATALIA KOLESNIKOV / GETTY IMAGES

“My theory is that chess comes from space. Because it’s the same rules — 64 squares, black and white, and the same rules in Japan, in China, in Qatar, in Mongolia, in Africa — the rules are the same. Why? I think maybe it is from space.”

In a 2001 Radio Freedom (Czech Republic) interview, Ilyumzhinov described how his alien encounter unfolded:

It was not in our Russian space vehicles, but with aliens. They came in a flying saucer, picked me up, and I spent a whole day in outer space.

It was from my apartment. They flew in and picked me up. They were wearing yellow spacesuits. I remember this moment exactly. We went off to their interplanetary ship, and I started to feel a lack of air, a lack of oxygen. They gave me a spacesuit as well.

One of the aliens pointed to his chest and indicated that the oxygen supply could be regulated by turning a dial. So this is what I did.

It’s probably a good reminder moment that this is a man who was president of a Russian republic for 17 years, has been the president of the global chess organization for the past two decades, may seek the presidency of FIFA and has had numerous high-powered political connections, including the above pictured Putin.

That said, Ilyumzhinov’s alien narrative continues:

The ship was absolutely enormous. One of its chambers was the size of a large football pitch. We landed on one of the planets and picked up some piece of equipment. They told me everything in detail.

I asked them to take me back to Earth as quickly as possible, because in two days I had to conduct Youth Government Week. And then they brought me back and everything was normal again.

A few days later I was walking along thinking: ‘Why did they take me?’ And I was cursing myself for not asking them any questions. But it is possible that it is still not the time for us to meet these extraterrestrial civilizations.

That question of “Why did they take me?” has most likely been echoed by the countless people who have claimed over several decades to have experiences quite similar to what Ilyumzhinov insists happened to him.

In fact, these so-called international UFO abductees form the basis of a growing sub-culture of the UFO community — they call themselves “experiencers.” For more than a quarter of a century, groups of like-minded individuals have found solace by sharing their experiences with each other.

Is the alien abduction phenomenon truly alien-related? According to a 2009 ABC News report, “Psychologists say the media-generated images of alien kidnappings can become easily engrained in our subconscious and then vividly re-enacted in our dreams.”

One reason why many people in Russia and America may appear to have cut Ilyumzhinov some slack about his claims is because they believe they’ve shared a similar experience.

“Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is one Russian politician who publicly discussed UFOs and, culturally, it apparently was not a disaster. Perhaps the Russian population sees him as someone bending the rules when he talks about having had an experience with a UFO and its alien crew,” said Jan Harzan, executive director of the Mutual UFO Network, the largest civilian-based UFO investigating organization in the world.

“Whether he’s outspoken about UFOs from experience or just for publicity and attention, we don’t know,” Harzan told The Huffington Post in an email. “But it is rather unusual when you compare him to American politicians. Here in the U.S., it is still political disaster for a politician to discuss UFOs from a personal point of view.”

FIFA will choose its new president next February. If Ilyumzhinov decides to enter the race of international football president contenders, maybe he’s due for another ET visit — one that might convince him that perhaps “they” invented football, too.

Waar zijn al de buitenaardse objecten naartoe?

Heb je al gehoord van die gekke bollen die af en toe gevonden worden? Ze komen uit de lucht vallen, ergens op een plek op onze planeet, veroorzaakten wel eens brand ook, zijn hol vanbinnen, en vertonen raar gedrag als je ze mee neemt naar huis ( onzin?). Zie deze video op Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-JBxhBl5w

Het is ruimte-afval.... van onze eigen ruimteraketten.

Deze bol met "tepel" is de brandstoftank van een raket, lees hier :
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2078428/Great-space-ball-mystery-SOLVED.html

Hier een mooie verzameling :
https://www.tarrdaniel.com/documents/Ufology/space_balls.html
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Terug naar de zoektocht naar objecten van ECHTE buitenaardse technologie, ik ben niet de enige die hiernaar zoekt :

1975 -- Ariz. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R) revealed that he had previously attempted to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, where UFO information was allegedly stored. His request was denied because it was classified above top secret. In a 1988 interview with Larry King, Goldwater said he believed secret government UFO investigations were going on.


Eén president weet zeker wel meer.... Welke? Deze :

11 / 19

Dwight Eisenhower

2010 -- New Hampshire state Rep. Henry W. McElroy (R) recorded a video on which he claimed to have seen a briefing document from the 1950s that described how benevolent aliens were present in the U.S. and that a meeting could be arranged between them and former President Eisenhower (seen here).

Ook deze hoge piet wist meer :

1974 -- President Richard Nixon (R) became part of UFO folklore when he allegedly took comedian Jackie Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida in 1974 and showed him wreckage of a flying saucer as well as the remains of several extraterrestrials. The story was made public by two people: Gleason's wife, Beverly, told Esquire magazine that her husband had related this tale to her. And Gleason, who was known to have a strong interest in UFOs, reportedly told the story to author Larry Warren, who had been involved in real UFO encounters experienced by many American military personnel at the RAF Bentwaters base in the U.K. in 1980.

(AP)

Kecksburg UFO Incident - het metaal werd onderzocht door wetenschappers.... door wie?

Mysterie: Het Kecksburg UFO incident

Geschreven door  Kris Christiaens

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Artistieke impressie van het 'Kecksburg incident'

Op 9 december 1965 werd door duizenden inwoners boven zes staten van Amerika een gigantische vuurbal opgemerkt en kwamen verscheidene metalen brokstukken neer boven Michigan en het noorden van de staat Ohio. Volgens de eerste geruchten zou het gegaan hebben om een meteoor maar inwoners van het kleine stadje Kecksburg, dat gelegen is op ongeveer 45 kilometer van Pennsylvania, beweerden dat een object zou neergekomen zijn in een dichtbij gelegen bos.

Een van de schetsen die gemaakt werden door ooggetuigen
over het object dat werd gevonden in het bos nabij Kecksburg.

Leger zet gebied af

Volgens een klein jongetje uit de stad Keckburg zou een onbekend voorwerp geland zijn in een nabij gelegen bos. Toen zijn moeder een blauwe wolk zag opstijgen uit het bos verwittigde ze onmiddellijk de lokale politie. Volgens verklaringen van de plaatselijke vrijwillige brandweerlieden werd een object gevonden in het bos dat de vorm had van een klok en ongeveer even groot was als een Volkwagen Beatle met daarop rare tekens die veel weg hadden van Egyptische hiërogliefen. Volgens andere ooggetuigen begon het Amerikaanse leger het bos af te zetten en werd een voorwerp door een vrachtwagen uit het bos gereden naar een onbekende plaats. Er bevond zich ook heel snel een journalist van de plaatselijke krant op het terrein en de krantenkop van de volgende dag luidde: 'Unidentified Flying Object Falls near Kecksburg - Army Ropes off Area'.

Schokgolven

Het incident werd meermaals besproken in verschillende wetenschappelijke magazines doorheen de geschiedenis en zo werd in de februari editie van Sky and Telescope 1966 geschreven dat de vuurbal, die duizenden mensen hadden waargenomen, eveneens door 23 piloten werd gezien vanuit hun cockpit omstreeks 4u44 plaatselijke tijd. Een seismograaf die zich op veertig kilometer van de stad Detroit bevond, rapporteerde enkele schokgolven in de aarde toen de vuurbal doorheen de lucht zoefde.

Zachte landing

In 2003 werd een wetenschappelijke studie gesponsord door het Sci Fi Channel dat vooral onderzoek verrichte naar de plaats waar het object was neergekomen en dit in samenwerking met de 'Coalition for Freedom of Information'. Hun belangrijkste ondervinding was dat verschillende bomen, die zich in het bos nabij Kecksbug bevonden, grote schade hadden opgelopen. Dit was dan ook het eerste grote fysische bewijs dat er weldegelijk een object moet zijn neergekomen in deze regio. Volgens het Amerikaanse leger, dat het terrein had onderzocht, werd er niets gevonden in het bos en had het leger helemaal niets weggehaald uit de regio. Een ander bewijs dat het wetenschappelijke onderzoek opleverde, was dat de grond in het bos geen schade vertoonde wat er op kon wijzen dat een object een zachte landing moet hebben gemaakt. Hierdoor werd er uitgesloten dat er een meteoriet zou zijn neergekomen aangezien deze grote schade zou veroorzaakt hebben. Op 1 november 2003 werd door de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA een document vrijgegeven van veertig pagina’s dik over het incident. Hierin stond echter niets nieuws. Er werden uiteindelijk ook nog documenten vrijgegeven door de Amerikaanse luchtmacht waarin een verslag terug te vinden was van drie militairen die het terrein hadden onderzocht maar deze hadden eveneens niets gevonden.

Russische satelliet

Bijna veertig jaar na de crash in Kecksburg, in december 2005, maakte een NASA woordvoerder bekend dat het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap weldegelijk metalen brokstukken zou hebben onderzocht die afkomstig waren uit het bos van Kecksburg. Volgens NASA zou het gaan om delen van een Russische satelliet. Volgens de woordvoerder werden alle onderdelen zorgvuldig onderzocht door NASA-experts maar gingen de documenten over dit onderzoek in de jaren '90 verloren. Deze nieuwe verklaring van NASA staat volledig in tegenstelling met de verklaring van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht die in 1965 beweerde niets te hedden gevonden op dit terrein.

Een model van wat de inwoners uit Keckburg hadden zien 
neerkomen staat vandaag de dag nog steeds tentoongesteld 
in het centrum van het stadje Kecksburg.

Cosmos 96

Nu NASA voor een nieuwe versie van het verhaal had gezorgd, gingen journalisten uitpluizen of het verhaal van de Russische satelliet klopte of niet. Volgens een verklaring van Nicholas Johnson, die hoofdonderzoeker was voor NASA naar brokstukken die afkomstig waren uit de ruimte, was het onmogelijk dat het brokstuk, dat werd waargenomen door inwoners uit Kecksburg, een onderdeel zou geweest zijn van een Russische Venus satelliet die de naam Cosmos 96 kreeg. Indien het toch zou gegaan hebben om het Russische ruimtetuig was het volgens Johnson onmogelijk dat dit voorwerp dergelijke grote vuurbal zou kunnen hebben veroorzaakt die door duizenden mensen werd gezien. Opnieuw rees de vraag over welk Russisch voorwerp het uiteindelijk wel zou gaan en welke brokstukken NASA dan wel had onderzocht. Volgens velen is het ook onmogelijk dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie deze belangrijke documenten van dit onderzoek kwijtraakte. In december 2005 werd opnieuw een proces aangespannen tegen NASA om de documenten vrij te geven of deze beter te zoeken.

Doofpotoperatie

Net als het stadje Roswell in New Mexico is Kecksburg voor vele UFO aanhangers één van de vele doofpotoperaties van de Amerikaanse overheid en is dit verhaal het ultieme bewijs dat de Aarde bezocht werd door buitenaards leven. Voor anderen is Kecksburg een bewijs dat de Koude Oorlog nog steeds zijn geheimen niet prijsgeeft en we wellicht nooit zullen weten welke testen zowel de Verenigde Staten alsook de toenmalige Sovjet-Unie ondernomen hebben in de ruimte of welke ruimtetuigen beide landen allemaal hebben gelanceerd. Een andere mogelijke verklaring zou zijn herkomst hebben in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zo gaan sommigen ervan uit dat het voorwerp dat neergekomen is nabij Kecksburg gelijkenissen vertoont met een geheim wapen van de nazi's dat gekend was onder de naam 'Die Glocke' (de bel). Indien het echter zou gaan om een ongevaarlijke, gekende satelliet zou er nooit een dergelijke grote geheimhouding zijn geweest rond dit incident.

_____bron ; https://www.spacepage.be/artikelen/buitenaards-leven/mysterie/mysterie-het-kecksburg-ufo-incident

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Eigen notitie : hoe kunnen we wijzer worden als alles in de doofpot komt? Ik zou wat meer willen weten over het metaal van dit vreemde object. 

Ik herinner mij ook een relaas van een werknemer die ergens gaan neuzen was bij NASA waar hij niet mocht komen en die die klok met zijn eigen ogen gezien heeft (deze, of iets gelijkaardigs) dus al die leugens van "er is daar niks gevonden" ...

UFO's worden vaak gezien tijdens oorlogen

bron ; https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ufos-during-wartime_n_7046472?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC0eHqV-TMWiYpY6n_hgt4bl1fUjlkgB_5TCU_mPbQdD9Ry2vqhqBWFFCzuxtYDelyVkI1Q9Di8hxo36aWgdjVRHmlkSpJ6a8migClVoolp7iQgG2gNGPtHg27w2bGMXj5GMQqLedn4lxDkyZHkt48HdUi-YZMoI6KDCUV0EOFbk

UFOs Confront Soldiers During War, Says Ex-Air Force Intelligence Officer

By Lee Speigel

The public rarely hears about interactions between military personnel and unexplained aircraft — especially during wartime.

As time goes on, however, UFO stories stuck behind red tape begin to see the light of day. The Vietnam War saw its share of UFO activity in the 1960s.The public rarely hears about interactions between military personnel and unexplained aircraft — especially during wartime.

One close encounter, in 1968, involved the crew of an American patrol boat that reported two glowing circular craft following them in the demilitarized zone that separated North and South Vietnam (see depiction below).

The crew aboard a second patrol boat later reported seeing the UFOs over the first boat and a flash of light, followed by an explosion that completely destroyed the boat. These Vietnam reports included close observation of the unknown aerial craft which appeared to house pilots (see recreation image at the top of this story).

Wartime UFO stories are recreated in the premiere episode of the second season of History’s “Hangar 1: The UFO Files.” The accounts are drawn from tens of thousands of UFO cases in the archives of the Mutual UFO Network, the world’s largest UFO investigation group.

“The military was interested in [UFOs] because they had capabilities far above anything that we had, and they wanted to find out what the technology was and, frankly, who they belonged to,” according to former Air Force intelligence officer, Capt. George Filer.

While in Vietnam, Filer — who had a top secret clearance — gave daily briefings to Gen. George S. Brown, deputy commander for air operations in Vietnam.

“Frequently, the Vietcong or North Vietnamese would be attacking an outpost and I would explain that, and we would have ground-air support, particularly at night where we’d go in there with these gun ships, and I would give briefings on all of that,” Filer told The Huffington Post. “Some of the time, there would be unidentified craft over the DMZ.”

Filer described a typical report that he’d receive and which he included in his briefings to Brown:

“You’d have an aircraft flying along, doing around 500 knots and a UFO comes alongside and does some barrel rolls around the aircraft and then flies off at three times the speed of one of the fastest jets we have in the Air Force. So, obviously, it has a technology far in advance of anything we have.

“I would be told this unofficially. People tell you a lot of things that they don’t put in writing or sign their name to. There was always this part of UFOs that, if you got too interested, it could mess up your career. And this is true today even with commercial pilots. I’ve also heard from people serving in Afghanistan saying they’ve seen UFOs, and the Iranian news carries UFO reports pretty regularly.”

During a 1973 press conference, five years after the patrol boat UFO encounters, Brown — as USAF chief of staff — was asked about the Air Force’s position on UFOs:

I don’t know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren’t called UFOs. The were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ in the early summer of ‘68. And this resulted in quite a little battle.

And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved, but we always reacted.

Always after dark, the same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in ‘69.

Many stories about battling UFOs have emerged throughout history.

One early account of UFO warfare was supposedly seen by the citizens of Nuremberg, Germany, in 1561. On a morning in April, the Nuremberg Gazette reportedly described an aerial battle between large “cylindrical shapes from which emerged black, red, orange and blue-white spheres that darted about... All these elements started to fight one against the other.” An artist, Hans Glaser, created a woodcut of the spectacle, seen below:

During World War II, also in Germany, Allied aircraft pilots often reported mysterious glowing, fast-moving, circular lights, which were dubbed Foo Fighters. The New York Times reported it as “military slang for flying saucers.”

Filer — who documents his sightings and other UFO news at the National UFO Center site — was one of several military eyewitnesses to something extraordinary in the sky over England. It was 1962, and he was the navigator on a refueling tanker.

“We were out over the North Sea when London Control called and asked if we would be willing to intercept an unidentified that was over Oxford and the Stonehenge area. We had just finished up our refueling mission, so we said sure, and they cleared all the traffic around us and gave us top priority as we descended towards the UFO. All they really had was a very large radar return, but it was much bigger than a normal aircraft.”

Filer (pictured at right) recalled how his radar scope indicated the UFO was as big as the huge Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland that he and his crew often used as a regular navigation point.

“The ‘thing’ was at 1,000 feet and we were descending from 32,000 feet. We picked up this huge radar return while we were still about 30 miles out. It was dark out and when we got much closer to the object, we saw lights around it, outlining the shape of a cylinder, like a cruise ship. It then just quickly rose and went up into space.

“We were pretty sure we’d just seen a UFO.”

Filer also told HuffPost that he has heard from air traffic controllers who claimed they were told to “always divert aircraft away from UFOs and deny that it existed. I think they want this whole situation to go away, and I think [the policy] is coming from the National Security Council — they’re at the highest level. It sounds funny, but presidents don’t always know what their National Security Council is doing.”

Upcoming episodes of “Hangar 1” over the next 12 weeks will focus on folks who’ve held military positions and are willing to come forward and tell their stories.

One of those (hold onto your hats) is a man who claims he was in the Marines (wait for it...) and that he was stationed on Mars for several years. That’s right: the red planet Mars. He’ll describe being part of an off-planet military force. Let’s not pass judgment...yet.

There’s also the story of a retired Army sergeant who says he was assigned to UFO crash and retrieval cases where both ships and ET bodies were supposedly recovered — some dead, some alive.

In case you were wondering, Hangar 1 is an actual hangar where MUFON, for a long time, stored all of its archives. At one point, all of the organization’s files were housed in this airport hangar somewhere in the middle of the country. The images of Hangar 1 that appear in the series are of the real hangar.

“Hangar 1: The UFO Files” is on the History channel on Friday nights. Check your local listings for exact times.

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