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3 “as if by a single command” Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization Bulletin, January–February 1969, pp. 1, 4.
4 and interviewed Ken Hansen This name is a pseudonym.
5 remains even more of a mystery Richard F. Haines and Paul Norman, “Valentich Disappearance: New Evidence and a New Conclusion,” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 14, no. 1 (2000), pp. 19–33.
6 but this aircraft suffered no ill effects Bruce Maccabee, “A History of the New Zealand Sightings of December 31, 1978,” 2005, http://brumac.8k.com; Bruce Maccabee, “Atmosphere or UFO? A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report,” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 13, no. 3 (1999), pp. 421–59.
7 a dive to avoid a collision Richard F. Haines, International UFO Reporter, vol. 32, no. 3 (July 2009), pp. 9–18.
8 he believed the thing was a “spaceship” Richard F. Haines, “Commercial Jet Crew Sights Unidentified Object—Part I,” Flying Saucer Review, vol. 27, no. 4 (January 1982), pp. 3–6; Richard F. Haines, “Commercial Jet Crew Sights Unidentified Object—Part II,” Flying Saucer Review, vol. 27, no. 5 (March 1982), pp. 2–8.
9 “in the Big Bateau Bay in Spanish Fort, Alabama” NTSB Report ATL03FA008.
10 would have produced wing-tip vortex turbulence R. D. Boyd, “The Last Flight of Nightship 282.” In preparation, 2010.
11 the investigation conducted by the NTSB Boyd, Ibid.
12 “possible presence of inorganic silicate compounds” NTSB Accident Report ATL03FA008, p. 4, undated.
13 a recently unclassified report from the United Kingdom Defence Intelligence Analysis Staff, Project Condign, 2000.
14 high-quality foreign pilot reports as well Dominique F. Weinstein, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings,” National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (www.narcap.org), Technical Report 4, 2001.
15 intelligence and deliberate flight control Richard F. Haines, “Aviation Safety in America—A Previously Neglected Factor,” NARCAP Technical Report 01, 2000.
16 “Nobody knows what to do, really” National UFO Reporting Center, August 5, 1992.
CHAPTER 6: INCURSION AT O’HARE AIRPORT
1 the Chicago Tribune on January 1, 2007 Jon Hilkevitch, “In the Sky! A Bird? A Plane? A … UFO?” Chicago Tribune, January 1, 2007.
2 and five other specialists Haines et al., “Report of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon and Its Safety Implications at O’Hare International Airport on November 7, 2006,” March 9, 2007, NARCAP Technical Report 10, http://www.narcap.org/reports/010/TR10_Case_18a.pdf.
3 “UAP as non-existent” Ibid., p. 100.
4 “a future incident such as this” Ibid., p. 5.
5 “whether acknowledged or unacknowledged” Ibid., p. 54.
CHAPTER 7: GIGANTIC UFOS OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
1 and many other avenues of investigation Jean-François Baure, David Clarke, Paul Fuller, and Martin Shough, “Report on Aerial Phenomena Observed Near the Channel Islands, UK, April 23 2007,” February 2008 http://www.guernsey.uk-ufo.org/.
CHAPTER 8: UFOS AS AIR FORCE TARGETS
1 General Jafari and Comandante Santa María Comandante is the rank equivalent to colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
CHAPTER 9: DOGFIGHT OVER TEHRAN
1 It was flashing with intense red, green, orange, and blue lights Jafari’s description of the UFO, at very close range, is unusual. However, it bears an extraordinary resemblance to a report filed by another general, when he, like Jafari, was also an Air Force pilot. As referenced in chapter 4 by Julio Guerra, and in my note for that chapter, Portuguese General José Lemos Ferreira submitted his description of a UFO to the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book in 1957. The document is available in those archives.
While on a nighttime practice flight with three other Air Force jets, Ferreira saw an object that looked like “a bright star unusually big and scintillating, with a colored nucleus which changed color constantly—deep green, blue, reddish and yellowish hues.” Note the similarity to Jafari’s description: