December 5, 2008

Editor:

The TV program UFO Hunters is doing a great job in investigating some of the recent well known UFO sightings. Moreover, this team is helping to punch holes in the debunkers/skeptics arguments which are usually weak to begin with. Take for example the recent episode (10-29-08) regarding the Tinley Park, IL encounters. Hunters obtained a number of videos shot from different locations during the August 21, 2004, encounter which was witnessed by multipludes of people on that summer night.

Using methods such as triangulation and computer stabilization of one light, the team was able to show that the three lights remained a constant distance from each other and were fixed or locked to some kind of structure. The lights were estimated to be at an elevation around 2000 feet. The added experiment of sending helium balloons aloft with flares attached to a PVC structure (far smaller than the one sided, 1500 ft. estimate of the videoed craft) showed that balloons and flares could not have been what was seen in the sky that night for periods of a half hour and more.

A Larry King episode (1-18-08) featured skeptic/debunker James McGaha (among others) explaining away the Phoenix lights (March, 1997) as just lights with no evidence that they were connected or fixed to a structure. This despite eye witnesses Erin Watson and Monica Bush interviewed on the program who attested the huge craft moved slowly and took four minutes to pass over them as it blotted out the stars. McGaha’s response was “they didn’t know what they were looking at,” and these were just lights with no evidence that they were fixed and what they saw were five high flying Warthog jets. The young ladies were adamant that they saw a structured craft of huge proportions and that it was not a group of jets. Fyfe Symington (R), Governor of Arizona at the time, first made light of the event but later admitted he witnessed the same huge craft as it came directly over his home. On more than one occasion he has described the craft as “unworldly”.

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UFO Mag: I have a question.

To start with I watch with interest all of the UFO programs on the History Channel and although I have never personally seen a UFO I believe.

Last year I was traveling through New Mexico and I stopped at a little town named Aztec. I n the library of this town is extensive information concerning a crashed or landed UFO just outside of town in 1949. This UFO was supposedly carried off intact by the military and there are newspaper articles and other documents to back this up.

After a couple of tries and the help of some locals, I was able to find the supposed site. On this site there has been a plaque set identifying the site.

My question is, "How come we never hear anything of this." There are several programs on about Roswell, but nothing of Aztec. Answer please.

Thank You...........Jim Lester, High Springs, Fl.

I would like to point out a serious flaw in Mr. Cooper's known past. Bill Cooper was discharged from the military in December of 1975. A very short time later he became Chief Diving Instructor at the Coastal School of Deep Sea Diving, and then head of the Mixed Gas Saturation Diving Department at the College of Oceaneering. When he was in the military, his assignments and duties were the following:
Primary military occupation of Quartermaster (Navigation). Secondary NEC is 9545 (Internal Security). USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) Pacific and Vietnam sea duty. Camp Carter, Vietnam
Naval Security and Intelligence
Danang Harbor Patrol (gather intelligence and secure the harbor) and Cua Viet (DMZ) river patrol duty (gather intelligence and secure the river)
USS Charles Berry DE-1035 Pacific sea duty CINCPACFLT STAFF
Commander in Chief of the Pacific
Fleet Staff - OPSTAT reporting and Naval Intelligence Briefing Team Petty Officer of the Watch in the Command Center
USS Oriskany CVA-35 Pacific sea duty.
Honorable Discharge December 1975 Rank E-6 None of these military positions would have involved the necessary training and experience required to have been Chief Diving Instructor at Coastal and head of the Mixed Gas Department at the College of Oceaneering. Now for the more interesting part. I was a student in 1977 at the Coastal School of Deep Sea Diving when he was an instructor. I was with him or in his presence 5 days a week for 3 1/2 months. I sat there and listened to his lectures for 3 1/2 months. This man had extensive commercial diving experience and presented himself repeatedly as being a former salvage diver. There was no doubt that he was telling the truth. He was extremely knowledgeable on commercial diving and on salvage diving. It would have taken years of experience for him to have the obvious knowledge that he had. So, I'm wondering if he wasn't in fact a salvage diver and that is what he was doing when he says he was in the Navy. I honestly don't have a clue. If that was true, then I would have to wonder where he actually got those medals that he used to display. I have looked at a zillion Internet articles about this guy and not one single one of them makes one single mention of him being a commercial diver. However, he not only had to have been one, but had to have had literally years of experience. Following my time at the diving school, I went on to become a commercial diver myself for over 10 years, so I am more than qualified to say this. Should anyone be interested in responding I would welcome hearing from them. Bob Jensen

Nancy, I just wanted to drop you a quick note, and an update on the growing movement, as led by Steve Bassett. My recent on article on this Call to Action is now posted on one of Australia's largest online news sites.
http://www.faxts.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=694:dennis-whitney&catid=68:usa-news
As a footnote, the editor is as passionate about the subject, as any one of us. This has led him to expand his original news site www.Australia.to to two additional sites www.SolarWarden.com and www.faxts.com ,which is devoted much more to the all-important UFO reality. His name is Greg Rogers, and he has joined our collective voices, to help see through our Nations' right to disclosure. He chose to expand to these additional sites after a few articles of mine, and the accounts oftwo pilots I met at James Gilliland's ranch. We are each regular contributors to these sites. Nancy, I always thought you two should pair up, as he has some great knowledge of the many sightings in Australia, especially in the Alice Springs area. And a substantial Aussie readership can be good for all involved, where is concerns the growing activity on eachhh continent.

But even if you choose not to publish this in your magazine Nancy, I want to thank you anyway for such a great service you'reteam is doing. I hope you'll pass this link along to anyone who would like to be part of the conversation, and submit their commentary to me. Twenty minutes, and a stamp to the President-elect, will help our voice raise to a level that can't be suppressed. The letter writing is so important, but this must be a discussion that is brought loudly to the forefront. Any help is greatly appreciated. Stan Friedman has already chimed in, and our discussion on this 'Call to Action' has begun. He's told me he's not entirely in favor of it, but the talk must be had. Of that, I think we both agreed.

All the best,
Dennis Whitney