Flying Saucer Review March 1982 [antikvár]

given to Lord Clancarty by tlie former Cliief of tiie Defence Staff, Lord Hill-Norton, or of liis implication tiiat he didn't know what happened to UFO reports after they arrived at the Ministry of Defence. Now surely, if there are for example UFO reports made by service officers or men, then a Chief of the Defence Staff should know of their existence, and that in some of them there could well be "more than met the eye," but that someone before the Admiral's time as Chief of Staff had decided they were "of no interest." (Some readers will recall BBC's Man Alive programme in February 1972 when, after a summary of the puzzling, indeed astounding, events at Laken-heath in 1956 had been related, the Ministry of Defence spokesman who was taking part, was pressed about the official reports of the extremely important affair. His blustered reply was that the " reports had been destroyed." At the time that sounded very convenient for someone intent on hiding the facts from the public gaze.)So we may assume that that authoritative newspaper, The Times, under a cloak of mild frivolity, did a little bit of covering-up of its own by not letting slip a mention that a former Chief of Defence Staff, who waspuzzled by what happened to UFO reports once they reached the Ministry of Defence, had chosen to support Lord Clancarty. We are well aware that most of the 2,250 reports over four years are reports of mundane things, or of celestial bodies. But some of them are not, and whispers that emerge from the Ministry of Defence have it that some of them are very strange indeed, which is why Lord Hill-Norton's "someone", and perhaps The Times as well, considered the public should in no way be encouraged to think on these matters.Postscript:On March 10, 1982, five days after the House of Lords question the BBC2 Out of Court programme featured Lord Clancarty, Lord Kimberley (whose latest airship was on view) and other peers, at Carding-ton. There was also a separate interview with Lord Hill-Norton who stated that the evidence was enough to show that there was a cover-up, and that things had even been kept from him when he was Chief of Defence Staff. He pointed out that he would not be speaking in front of the TV cameras if he had been made party to them!COMMERCIAL JET CREW SIGHTS UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT - Part 2Richard F. HainesIN the first part of this article it was related, in detail, how the captain (Captain "P.S.") of a wide-body LlOll jet airliner which was flying over Lake Michigan on airway J-34, saw an apparently round metallic-appearing object suddenly " . splash into view, full size," and swing close by on the aircraft's port side. The sighting lasted about five seconds: the first officer also saw something a "very bright light flash" during the last second or so of the encounter.Details of the investigationThe author was first called by the captain on July 10, 1981, about his sighting. The brief telephone conversation established the basic facts.A pilot report form was filled out by the captain and received on July 11th. A personal in-depth interview was held on July 30th in the presence of Al Reed, a professional graphic artist as well as a MUFON field investigator. Together we worked to help the witness first recognise and then reconstruct the shape, surface details, and orientation of the object he had reported. After several hours, a colour air-brush rendidon of the basic object was achieved by Reed. This illustration isDate of Sighting: July 4, 1981 Time of Sighting; 20.45 (3MT (16.45 COST) Location of Sighting; South central Lake MichiganDuration of Sighting; Approx. 5 seconds Nunnber of UFOs; one Number of Witnesses; twopresented as Figure 5; it represents the appearance of the disc when it was at position 5 in the next illustration (Figure 6).The intense flash of light is depicted and is thought to have come from a reflection of sunlight since the geometry of the sun, aircraft, and object was correct to produce such a reflection. Captain P.S. was also loaned a colour chart to take along on a flight following the same flight path. He was to try to visually match the sky colours if possible. This was accomplished during the week of August 3rd. The appearance of the sky seen in the upper half of the aircraft's forward window was most nearly matched by a medium blue (Pantone 292-A) shade" while the next