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Ophiuchus1
I''m sure that existing procedures cover very well the arrival of UFOs into our skies. There is no need now for a big showing of interest in that
angle of the phenomena except to better cement into the public's mind of the existence of such craft. One of the best examples of how such a case was
handled was an exciting case in 1948 as published in Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt in his 1956 book,
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. (The
following is information taken from the book but not a direct quote from the book. The book is available from Amazon for a very low price.)
Estimate of the Situation
The time was 2:45 a.m. The Eastern airliner was on a routine night flight from Houston to Atlanta. Its position was 20 miles southwest of
Montgomery, Alabama.
The pilot, Capt. Clarence S. Chiles, caught a glimpse of a movement somewhere out ahead of the plane. It was a light. His interest became concern as
he watched it rapidly increase in size. Whatever it was, it was approaching the plane at a tremendous speed. After a few seconds of studying its
movement, it was apparent that the light was on a collision course with the plane.
Chiles thought he knew what it was and he was greatly alarmed. Without looking away, he reached across to the other seat and tapped his copilot, John
Whitted, on the arm.
“Look,” Chiles said, “Here comes a new Army jet job.” The words were hardly out of his mouth before he realized that couldn’t be true. A
jet, even the most modern, couldn’t move that fast.
Whitted also sensed it wasn’t a jet. The pilots sat silently at the controls and watched the light come hurling toward them.
It dived slightly to align its path more directly with the airliner’s. The gap between the two was rapidly closing. The cockpit’s interior
gradually brightened as it filled with glaring light streaming from the object. On it rushed, straight at them. It’s pilot seemed to be playing an
airborne game of “chicken.”
A split-second before it would have crashed into the airliner, the object veered to its left, whipping by the aircraft with only feet to spare.
In fear of a collision near that last second, Chiles instinctively pulled the plane over into a sharp turn to his left. As he jerked on the wheel, he
felt a shock wave from the other craft buffet the airliner. Whitted recovered quickly enough to lean to his window and glimpse back to see the object
arch into a steep climb and disappear into a cloud layer.
Later, Air Force intelligence officers from the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) based at Wright-Patterson Air Base rushed down to Atlanta to
extensively debrief the two pilots. They wanted a full, firsthand report. They got it.
The light seemed to be coming from what was the “cockpit” area of the craft. It was brilliant. The body of the object was dark and cigar-shaped,
about 100-foot long and twice the thickness of a B-29 fuselage. A long the side were two rows of large, brightly lit “windows.” A deep blue
glow, as if from a strong gaseous or electric plasma enveloped the bottom portion of the cigar shape. From the rear, it emitted a huge,
fifty-foot-long tail of red-orange flame. As the object swept by the plane, the pilots didn’t see any signs of conventional flight structures—no
wings, no tail, nothing. Whitted did notice, as he looked back, that the exhaust lengthened as the object angled into the climb.
The pilots’ story was supported by an Army colonel on board the plane, at least two separate persons on the ground and another pilot flying in the
vicinity.
The sighting was extremely important to the intelligence officers from ATIC. They were part of an Air Force unit seriously working to uncover the
identity of the UFOs. They believed UFOs were extraterrestrial spaceships, and they were looking for proof to back up that assertion. It had been
discovered several months before that none of the stock explanations for terrestrial origins for the mysterious craft were viable when it came to
explaining one decent sighting. The alien hypothesis won out. Even if they didn’t have a scrap of physical evidence.
No aircraft manufactured on earth could have been so badly mistaken in form and flight characteristics and yet still be so rich in unusual details as
was this thing. Now, the officers felt that had the circumstantial evidence needed to present a convincing case to their superior officers.
The intelligence team’s official conclusion took the form of the usual bureaucratic report. A few weeks after the sighting, the report was in
complete in its final draft form and sent to the Pentagon.
It was a thick document, printed on legal-sized paper stamped across the black cover was the importance the team believed it warranted: TOP SECRET.
It was a status report and not a final, concluding product, therefore it was given the unexciting title of “The Estimate of the Situation.”
The UFO sighting and other events just described didn’t happen during the current time, or even last year. They happened more than 70 years ago.
The sighting, considered a classic, was made from a DC-3 July 24, 1948. It is doubly important because it was the triggering factor the production of
the “Estimate of the Situation,” a report that was to be Washington’s first official confrontation with the knowledge that UFOs were alien
machines.
The public is being hoodwinked, tricked, lied to and cheated by TPTB. It is as simple as that. And I'll remind you, that this side of the equation
doesn't even begin to approach the real aspect of the situation, only the most general aspects.
edit on 31-1-2024 by CosmicFocus because: (no
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