AIR FORCE LIES CAUSES THEM EMBARRASSMENT

To follow up on my previous post, government lies to explain away UFO sightings has caused the Air Force (which had the responibility of investigating UFOs) great embarrassment. If an explanation is challenged, a second explanation is all ready, and sometimes a third.

The summer of 1965 saw one of the biggest waves of UFO sightings in history. Thousands of people in the mid-west saw them. They were picked up on radar. They were photographed. They were even chased by Air Force jets. They were seen to hover and speed away at fantastic speeds. They zig-zaged and changed colors. They flew singley and in formation.

At first, the Air Force explanation for the mid-west sightings were as follows:
"The observations were astronomical in nature. The objects may have been the planet Jupiter or the stars Rigel, Capella, Betelgeuse or Aldeberan, all of which were visible." The Air Force said it's "conclusion" was supported by the time, the azimuth and elevation of the reported sightings.

To the average layman, this sounds very impressive and was probably accepted by most people. However, Robert Risser, director of the Oklahoma Planetarium knows about these matters.

"That's as far from the truth as you can get", Risser said. "Somebody has made a mistake. These stars and planets are on the opposite side of the earth from Oklahoma City at this time of the year."

An apparently embarrassed spokesman for the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base quickly corrected his story: "We didn't mean the Oklahoma sightings were those stars, we meant that the Montana state reports were stars."

The revision failed to soothe astronomer Risser. "What's the difference", he asked, "Those stars are no more visible from Montana than from Oklahoma City." Although Risser's reply was carried in newspapers all over the country and never publicly challenged by the Air Force, the records of these sightings at Wright-Patterson A.F. Base contain the official conclusion, "stars, misidentified." As far as the Air Force was concerned, the big wave of UFO reports is solved, and I defy anyone to get them to change their official evaluation. They also failed to explain why their jets were trying to catch those stars.