Coast-to-Coast AM -- UFO Archives and Sightings

Category: Paranormal & Extraterrestrial X-FILES

Just the other day, Isaw a request from MUFON to researchers looking to find a home for their filesto think of MUFON as that repository. It wasn’t all that long

ago that I learnedthat Dave Marler, along with Mark Rodeghier, were working to not only digitizethe Center for UFO Studies files, that included much of material collected byNICAP but to collect the files of other UFO researchers as well. The project iscalled The National UFO Historical Records Center. For those interested, theAPRO files are still in the hands of a family member but steps are being takento retrieve them for the Center. Those files would be a great asset.

Clas Svahn in Sweden,has been collecting files of both UFO and paranormal interest for his AFU(Archives for the Unexplained). I know that Clas Svahn has been in contact withDave Marler in Albuquerque to share their information. Philip Mantle, the ownerand publisher of the Flying Disk Press in England, has just shipped a greatdeal of information to Marler.

Marler has organizedthe effort to create digital files of this vast amount of information. There isan army of volunteers using the latest in technology to convert paper files,audio recordings, and all other kinds of collected material into a form thatcan be used for online research purposes. Although it is in its infant stage, agreat deal of material has already been digitized.

MUFON’s effort is knownas Project Aquarius. The name, and not MUFON’s project, is somewhat problematic(Project Aquarius being one of the first of the discredited MJ-12 documents). Ido know that some researchers have donated material to the project including theestates of Len Stringfield and Bob Pratt.

A sighting that I wouldadd to an archive took place on April 7 of this year. The witness in Skowhegan,Maine, said that he had been studying glowing orb UFO sightings and wonderingwhy they seemed to fly in triangular formations. He had been working at thecomputer for about two hours, when he noticed something in the sky thatresembled the objects of his research.

He said that the objectwas green, and looked as if it was triangular shaped. He heard no sound, saidthe lights were fluctuating as opposed to flashing and it was floating acrossthe sky.

He had created acircuit various components including fishing magnets with the idea ofgenerating a high Tesla magnetic field. He routed it through his computer. Hebelieves that this might have unraveled part of the UFO mystery, the suggestionbeing that he had created an EM field like those reported in many UFOsightings.

Finally, fromBroomfield, Colorado, the witness said that he noticed an object that changedcolor on April 3 of this year. He said that he was looking west, over Boulder,Colorado, and watched the object for ten minutes. He said that it was circular,that it changed color and vanished after those ten minutes.

The Bloomfield, Colorado UFO

The UFO seemed to beshaped like that reported in the Japanese Air Line 1628 case from November 17,1986. The pilot in that case reported a UFO that was confirmed by radar at thetime. I provided a chapter about the sighting in The Government UFO Files,for those interested in the whole story. I will note here that I did interviewJohn Callahan, who was the chief FAA investigator on the JAL case. The drawingmade by the pilot of the jet looked like the object in the pictures taken inColorado.