Dean
Adept Dabbler
Journalists Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean have creatively employed the new (and wretchedly bad) History Channel drama Project Blue Book as a springboard to get a good dose of real UFO history into the pages of the New York Times (January 15, 2019). It is in the Television section, but who cares?
Among the many strong points in the story, I was happy to see this paragraph highlighting one of the many incidents in which UFO events occurred in the vicinity of nuclear weapons sites, as has been documented in decades of investigations by Robert Hastings.
The web version of the Times story even contains a link video of the 1952 press conference by Air Force Major General John A. Samford (resulting from the famous "Washington Merry-Go-Around" flap around Washington, D.C.), during which Samford made the oft-quoted statement, "However, there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports that have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things." (That comment occurs at 1:55 into the video.)
Among the many strong points in the story, I was happy to see this paragraph highlighting one of the many incidents in which UFO events occurred in the vicinity of nuclear weapons sites, as has been documented in decades of investigations by Robert Hastings.
. . . in 1967, a glowing red oval-shaped object hovered over Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, and all 10 of the facility’s underground nuclear missiles became disabled almost simultaneously while the U.F.O. was present, according to interviews with witnesses and official government reports. Technicians could find no conventional explanation.
The web version of the Times story even contains a link video of the 1952 press conference by Air Force Major General John A. Samford (resulting from the famous "Washington Merry-Go-Around" flap around Washington, D.C.), during which Samford made the oft-quoted statement, "However, there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports that have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things." (That comment occurs at 1:55 into the video.)
