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.
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.
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.
Comment from the poster:
It is in English and Subtitled in Portuguese.
Entrevistado por Paola Harris (written interview in Portuguese but has the link to the Original one in English)
Another good video interview dond by Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy
Sgt. Clifford Stone was a veteran from the Vitnam war and the military used him to be in touch with the Extraterrestrial due to his psychic abilities.
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