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Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona, May 1, 1952

THE EVENT:

“Early in the 1952 UFO sighting wave two discs approached and paced a B-36 bomber in the vicinity of Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona. On May 1, 1952, Major Rudy Pestalozzi, a base intelligence officer, along with an airman, looked up as a B-36 flew overhead and saw two shiny discs overtake the bomber, slow to its speed and position themselves alongside.

The bomber crew, startled by the experience, made an unscheduled landing at the base and were interrogated at length by Major Pestalozzi, who happened to be the base UFO officer. Members of the flight crew had crowded into the starboard blister aft of the wing and looked down at a slight angle to see the closest disc, which was lens- or double-disc-shaped and about 20-25 feet in diameter.

After about 20 seconds, the objects peeled off at an angle of 70-80 degrees from the flight path of the B-36 and sped away.

Major Pestalozzi sent a comprehensive report of the incident to Project Blue Book. Within the next two months the summer 1952 UFO sighting wave reached a crescendo, generating national headlines and stirring up major Government interest, as radar repeatedly detected UFOs, and jet interceptors engaged in cat-and-mouse pursuits.”

www.nicap.org

source:

J. Allen Hynek, "The Hynek UFO Report", New York, Dell Publishing Co., 1977, pp. 109-112, 292-294.

Pr. James E. McDonald files, University of Arizona library.

Project Blue Book files, National Archives, Washington DC.

Note: picture is artwork

https://www.ufocasebook.com/airforcebomber1952.html

RR

Doing an end-run around current UFO “notables” and UFO madness

Copyright 2021, InterAmerica, Inc.
 
Film-maker and current UFO gadfly Jeremy Corbell posted this on Twitter (and offered the same view on a YouTube video recently) It's a view with some merit I think:

But Corbell has been cavorting with Bob Lazar lately and also work-ing the AATIP videos to death.
 
He’s also, apparently, a Skinwalker Ranch fanboy.
 
I don’t find anything outrageous about Corbell’s views, or the recurring appearances of Bob Lazar, or even Joe Rogan (as I noted the other day).
 
The UFO topic is now a four-ring circus. (It was a three-ring carnival a few years ago but has “evolved” into a full-blown spectacle with almost everyone having an act.)
 
Yes, Corbell is right: we are inside a new reality or a different reality perhaps, one that I contend can be called “Madness” (Insanity).
 
Those who frequent here are, as I see it, rather sane, normal when it comes to UFOs.
 
Obtuse observations (mine and those I insist upon inserting here) are treated with magnanimity by the regulars and some weighty lurkers. I appreciate that.
 
 But there comes a time – and it’s now I think – where we have to separate the wheat from the chaff, the foolishness from the factual.
 
John Greenewald Jr. (Black Vault) offered that there is a coarsening of dialogue in UFO circles. That caught The Anomalist’s Bill Murphy's eye and others.
 
John sees what I see, all over the place but pronouncedly in social media. (There’s a writer at Facebook who’s use of that great Saxon descriptive – Fuck – to the point of diminishing the dynamism of the word, pressing it into action about everything and everybody.
 
That’s only one example. I’m sure our guy Ron has experienced the downgrading of the UFO conversation, from his former UFO Magazine stint to his presence now on Facebook. The conversations are not only loopy but as JG Jr. notes, crude (to the point of imbecility as I’m suggesting).
 
But that’s not the most egregious problem. The spotlight on goofballs and sociopaths is bountiful, news media joining in the diminution of the dialogue and dilution of the UFO topic even more so than in its halcyon days of silliness during the 1950s.
 
We can go along for the ride – and I often do, sadly – or we can remain aloof from the frivolous fray, sticking to what is rational or seeming to be.
 
I’m sure most of you agree….
 
RR

UFO photos, presented just to cause trouble?

My almost-pal Claude Falkstrom eschews most (maybe all) UFO photos, so I'm guessing he'll hate these:

They appear in a video/article about Blue Book:

https://youtu.be/JHeZjJgO9Ns

(The photo on the right was determined (I think) to be a hubcap thrown into the air)

Then there are these from 1944 England and 1952 France:

Then we have the McMinnville/Trent photo(s):

Anthony Bragalia has posted material on the Trent photo(s) and I (along wth others) have posed questions about the authenticity of them; me wondering why the objects are flying askew. (No one has yet been able to determine the photos were faked, although Bruce Maccabee gave them an analytical comeuppance, or so many thought.)

Then (to irritate Claude, maybe, and those who hate these kinds of photos, without real credibility):

(The photo on the left from India, the right photo, no info provided from its online source.)

My point?

There have been UFO photos of all kinds for years, many from before 1947.

Can they all be fake, especially the pre-flying saucer era photos?

Some, maybe even just one, has to be authentic. And if so, what does that tell us?

RR