Earth (59 page)

36.
Part of an article by J. L. Ferrando in an unknown French newspaper, translated by Louise Zinsstag, based on a taped interview with Gordon Cooper by Benny Manocchia during an international congress in New York, 1973.

37.
Good, Timothy,
Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed
, William Morrow, New York, (revised edition), 1993, pp. 224–6.

38.
www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/stafford-tp.html

39.
Good, op. cit., pp. 226–8.

40.
Personal interview, Grosvenor House Hotel, London, November 24, 1996.

41.
Larson, George C., “Moments & Milestones,”
Air & Space/Smithsonian
, Vol. 26, No. 2, June/July 2011, p. 80.

42.
Good, op. cit., 230–4.

43.
Personal communication, April 8, 1992.

44.
kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship

45.
Keller, T.L.,
The Total Novices Guide to UFOs
, 2FS (publishing), LLC, PO Box 5481, Palm Springs, CA 92263-5481, 2010, p. 167.

46.
Jane's Defence Weekly
, June 12, 1993.

47.
LaViolette, Paul A.,
Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion
, Bear & Company, Rochester, Vermont, 2008, pp. 395–6.

48.
Interview on the Art Bell Radio Show, Coast to Coast FM, November 2, 2003.

49.
LaViolette, op. cit, p. 396–7.

50.
Reagan,
Ronald,
The Reagan Diaries
, edited by Douglas Brinkley, HarperCollins, New York, 2007, p. 334.

51.
Sheridan, Michael, “China's £30bn space gallop leaves US on launchpad,”
The Sunday Times
, November 6, 2011.

52.
Aerospace & Defense News
, May 22, 2012.

53.
Ibid., May 25, 2012.

54.
Ronson, Jon, “Game Over,”
The Guardian/Guardian Unlimited
, London, July 9, 2005. In May 2011, despite a lengthy and intensive campaign mounted by the
Daily Mail
and the support of numerous politicians (including Prime Minister David Cameron), President Obama's top law officer, Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General, vowed to “take all of the necessary steps” to have Gary—who suffers from Asperger's syndrome—extradited and “held accountable for the crimes that he committed.” Previously, in conversation with Mr. Cameron at the White House, Mr. Obama had promised to find an “appropriate solution”
(Daily Mail,
London,
May 13, 2011). The matter was raised again by the Prime Minister during President Obama's visit to Britain in late May 2011. “We have proceeded through all the processes required under our extradition agreements,” the president stated. “It's now in the hands of the British legal system.” (
Daily Mail
, May 26, 2011.) In October 2012, Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May vetoed the extradition.

The Americans were furious. The U.S. Department of Justice expressed disappointment at the Home Secretary's decision, “particularly given the past decisions of the U.K. courts and prior Home Secretaries that he should face trial in the United States.” It did not, however, view the ruling as a precedent for other cases. U.S. lawyer David Rivkin criticised Ms. May's decision, saying that to deny the extradition on health grounds was “laughable.” (Kumar, Nikhil, “U.S. disappointed by ‘laughable' decision,”
The Independent
, London, October 17, 2012). For a lengthy period, it was likely that Gary would face prosecution in a British court of law. No longer.

“On the 14th December, 2012,” Gary wrote to me in March 2013, “we were awaiting a decision from the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service as to whether or not I would have to face a UK trial … with some trepidation, we awaited the outcome of this decision, having been told it would be on this day. To our huge relief, the CPS, having formed a special panel with the Metropolitan Police (which is highly unusual in these circumstances) decided that a UK prosecution would be of no use and that they probably wouldn't be able to get a conviction.”

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

1.
Filer's Files
#9-2012, edited by Maj. George A. Filer, USAF (Ret.), [email protected]

2.
Arthur Stansel, a supervisory engineer who worked at Wright Air Development Center (Aircraft Laboratory) during this period, was the first to publicly release information
on the Kingman, Arizona, incident of May 1953. In his sworn 1973 affidavit, Stansel described that craft as “oval and about 30 feet in diameter,” as opposed to Bill Uhouse's 30-meter-diameter claim. (See my book
Need to Know.
)

3.
Dohan, Henry,
UFOs: The Pawn of His Creator
, published by David R. Kammerer, PO Box 96701, Las Vegas, Nevada 89193, second, revised edition, 2008, pp. 253–4.

4.
LaViolette, Paul A.,
Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion
, Bear & Company, Rochester, Vermont, 2008, pp. 26–31.

5.
Ibid., pp. 54–9.

6.
Adamski, George,
Flying Saucers Farewell
, Abelard-Schuman, London, 1961, pp. 36–7.

7.
LaViolette, op. cit., p. 70.

8.
Ibid., pp. 77–80.

9.
Ibid., pp. 106–7.

10.
Green, William,
The Observer's World Aircraft Directory
, Frederick Warne & Co., London and New York, 1961, p. 136. For a detailed history of the Avrocar and numerous other such aircraft developed around the world, see
Secret Projects—Flying Saucer Aircraft
, by Bill Rose and Tony Buttler (Midland Publishing, Hinckley, LE10 3EY, U.K., 2006).

11.
Good, Timothy,
Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up
, William Morrow, New York, 1988, pp. 225–6.

12.
Ideal's UFO Magazine
, No. 4, 1978.

13.
Personal communications, 2005.

14.
Good, Timothy,
Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed
, William Morrow, New York, 1993, pp. 139–40, citing a letter from Mike Hunt to David Dobbs, April 20, 1980.

15.
Round Robin
, Vol. 23/3, May–June 1967, pp. 7–8. This article was kindly supplied to me by Håkan Blomqvist.

16.
Personal communications, December 16, 2010, and May 27, 2011.

17.
Personal interview, Mount Palomar, California, August 19, 1976.

18.
Dolan, Richard M.,
UFOs and the National Security State: The UFO Cover-Up Exposed, 1973–1991
, Keyhole Publishing Co., Rochester, New York, 2009, pp. 457–9.

19.
Greer, Steven M.,
Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History
, pre-publication edition, Crossing Point, Inc., PO Box 265, Crozet, VA 22932, 2001, p. 500.

20.
Dolan, op. cit., pp. 459–60.

21.
Greer, op. cit., p. 504.

22.
Adamski, George,
Inside The Space Ships
, Abelard-Schuman, Inc., New York, 1955, p. 47.

23.
Personal interview, April 23, 1999.

24.
Personal communication, February 3, 1999.

25.
Personal interview, April 23, 1999.

26.
In 1990, witnesses near Paris observed a giant UFO which carried a “zone of silence” with it (Chapter 16).

27.
“The Night
We Stumbled Upon An Alien Base,”
UFO Universe
, Vol. 1, No. 5, October/November 1991, pp. 52–4. This report was sent to the magazine via Sandra L. Edison, publisher of
Network Newsletter
. Though the author did not want her name associated with the story, Ms. Edison described the witness as “very reliable and trustworthy.”

28.
Keller, T. L.,
The Total Novice's Guide to UFOs
, 2FS (Publishing), LLC, PO Box 5481, Palm Springs, CA 92263-5481, 2010, pp. 139–152.

29.
Hamilton III, William F.,
Cosmic Top Secret: America's Secret UFO Program
, Inner Light Publications, Box 753, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, 1991, p. 85.

30.
Ibid., p. 78.

31.
Accessed in 2011 from Youtube.com (Steven Greer/William Pawelec).

32.
On June 15, 2006, I was in Washington, D.C. A front-page article in that day's
Washington Post
got my attention: “Hawaiian Marine Reserve to be World's Largest.” President George W. Bush had announced plans to designate an island chain covering roughly 1,400 by 100 miles northwest of Hawaii as a national monument—the largest protected marine reserve in the world. The reserve would have been nearly 140,000 square miles, an area nearly the size of Montana, to which access would be strictly controlled. I immediately recalled the alien base allegedly located within that area, and wondered if there was a connection.

33.
Corso, Col. Philip J.,
The Day After Roswell
, Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1997, pp. 264–5, 268.

34.
It will be recalled that Barbara Beavers was told by the aliens on board a craft in Yucca Valley, California, in November 1977 that the propulsion system included a “cloud chamber consisting of plasma and electromagnetism” (Chapter 12). It is also worth mentioning that research by physicists into plasma fields has been ongoing officially for a number of years: “There is a wide range of possible applications of plasma aerodynamics,” says Dr. Sergey B. Leonov, a professor at the Laboratory of Experimental Plasma Aerodynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences. “Not all are well-developed, but some are not far from practical realization …” (
Aviation Week & Space Technology
, Vol. 173, No. 38, October 24/31, 2011, p. 78.)

35.
Personal interview, June 22, 2010.

36.
Personal interview, June 24, 2010.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: LEVIATHANS OF THE SKIES

1.
“Memoirs of a Veteran Ufologist (1954–1999)” by Emily Crewe.

2.
Dohan, Henry,
UFOs: The Pawn of His Creator
, published posthumously by David R. Kammerer, 2008, p. 49.

3.
RAF Northolt currently serves as home to No. 32 (The Royal) Squadron, and to various official visitors, including British and Foreign Royalty, Heads of State and Government Ministers, as well as military personnel of the British and Foreign armed forces, in addition to civilian VIPs and various celebrities.

4.
Personal communication, September 29, 2009.

5.
Exmouth Herald
, August 7, 1987.

6.
Ibid.,
August 14, 1987.

7.
Personal communications, 1987–89.

8.
Stewart, Ian, “UFO experts probe Notts night sights,”
Nottingham Evening Post
, December 14, 1987.

9.
Personal interviews, Paris, December 12, 2000, and Gretz-Armainvilliers, November 15, 2004.

10.
Haines, Dr. Richard and Guénette, Bernard, “A Large Stationary Object Above Montreal,”
Alien Update
, ed. Timothy Good, Avon Books, New York, 1995, pp. 95–123.

11.
Greco, Dr. Samuel, “The Williamsport Wave,”
Alien Update
, ed. Timothy Good, Avon Books, New York, 1995, pp. 124–50.

12.
Personal communication, October 20, 1992.

13.
Personal communication from Squadron Leader J. A. Bartram RAF, Office of the Commander, Headquarters British Forces Cyprus, November 16, 1992.

14.
Letter from Judy Christodoulou,
Flying Saucer Review
, Vol. 37, No. 3, Autumn 1992.

15.
Personal communication, November 12, 1992.

16.
Personal communication from Squadron Leader A. R. Legg MSc BEng RAF, Office of the Commander British Forces Cyprus, January 22, 2004.

17.
Good, Timothy,
Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence
, Pegasus Books, New York, 2007, pp. 431–2.

18.
Personal communications, July 2008.

19.
Personal communication, January 7, 1998.

20.
Jasek, Martin, M.Sc., P. Eng., “Twenty-two-plus Witnesses Observe a UFO Larger than a Football Stadium,”
UFO*BC Quarterly
, Vol. 4, No. 4, Fall 1999, p. 1; ufobc.ca/yukon/22eventsum.htm.

21.
Kitei, Lynne D., MD,
The Phoenix Lights
, Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA 22902, 2000/2004, pp. 1–2, 20, 23.

22.
Kean, Leslie, “Symington confirms he saw UFO 10 years ago,”
Prescott Daily Courier
, March 18, 2007.

23.
Kean, Leslie,
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
, Harmony Books, New York, 2010, p. 262.

24.
Personal communication, March 27, 2010.

25.
Personal communication, June 11, 2011.

26.
Ledger, Don and Styles, Chris,
Dark Object: The World's Only Government-documented UFO Crash
, Dell, Random House, New York, 2001.

27.
Ledger, Don,
Flying Triangular UFOs: The Monsters in our Skies
, Halifax UFO International Conference, October 11, 2003. Available via donledger.com.

28.
Sirisena, Ananda, “UFO Sighted near British Nuclear Research Establishment,”
UFO Matrix
, Vol. 1, Issue 4,
2010.

29.
Shaffer, Kim, “Triangle Passes Over Man in Bristol, Tennessee,” mufontennessee.org (October 9, 2004).

30.
Personal communications, April 29 and May 29, 2005.

31.
Located
11 miles southwest of Cambridge, Bassingbourn Barracks served as an RAF station in World War II and as a bomber base of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Currently it functions as a recruit training base and is home to the Army Training Regiment Bassingbourn and 2484 (Bassingbourn) Squadron Air Training Corps. The B-17 Flying Fortress
Memphis Belle
was based there and Bassingbourn features in the film of that name. The Tower Museum is located in the original control tower.