When they got done, the guy from the CIA made all these other guys in there swear that this never took place. We never had this meeting. And this was never recorded. He said if they came out and told the American public that they ran into a UFO out there, it would cause panic across the country.
The group took that data… only I had the original video and the pilot’s report that came through, along with the FAA’s first report―it was all downstairs on my table.
They didn’t ask for that so I didn’t give it to them. And later on when I retired, that was the stuff that was in my office and all that came with me. And we’ve been sitting on it ever since.
[We have obtained all of these materials, including the radar video, ATC voice transcripts, the FAA report, and the computer printouts of the event. The tragedy of this JAL 747 pilot is a poignant reminder of the power of ridicule in keeping this subject secret. The pilot was forced to take a desk job for a prolonged period and was humiliated. ―SG]
Our military controllers said they had seen it. Our FAA controllers said they had seen it. After a period of time, the FAA controllers changed their story and said they really didn’t see a target, that they saw something else, which makes it sound like somebody is helping them fill out their reports.
But who do you tell that you were involved in a UFO incident without them looking at you like you aren’t wrapped too tight? This is the way our country is set up. The only ones who see a UFO in the TV programs are the rednecks out in the country that are going coon hunting or alligator hunting at night. If you talk about seeing a UFO, you are putting yourself in a funny kind of category. That’s probably one of the reasons why you don’t hear about it anymore. But as far as I’m concerned, I saw a UFO chase a Japanese 747 across the sky for over half an hour on radar. And it’s faster than anything that I know of in our government.
The senior NCO at NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) knows about it; he pulled me to the side and said so. I insisted there has to be a report filed or something. He told me there is a report that you can file―it’s about an inch thick, and the first two pages are about the sighting. The rest of it is basically a psychological profile of you, your family, your bloodlines, everything.
When the Air Force goes through it, they can discredit you completely by either saying that you were on drugs, or your mother was a communist, or anything to discredit you. You’d never get a promotion, and you’d spend the next three and one-half years up at the North Pole, living in a tent, checking the weather balloons with no hope for promotion. So, the message was pretty loud and clear: you just shut-up and don’t say anything to anybody. [See Appendix 6 for supporting document.]
Major George A. Filer III was an Air Force Intelligence Officer. He was a navigator in various aircraft and tanker transport aircraft and frequently briefed generals and congressmen on our capabilities and the threat to U.S. forces.
I had personally never seen any UFOs until about 1962, when we were flying tankers over England, and London Control asked us to intercept one of these craft. We happened to be done with our refueling mission, and we accepted the assignment. We were just over the North Sea, and they asked us to fly to the center of England. We were doing four hundred plus miles an hour in a dive down to intercept this object. They gave us headings, and it was pretty much hovering in the Oxford to the Stonehenge area, at twenty to thirty miles out. I got it on radar, and it was a very large return.
We used to fly up by the Forth Bridge over the Firth of Forth. The bridge was kind of like the San Francisco Bridge―it is a very large bridge, and the return of the UFO was similar to that in size and intensity. In other words, it was a very large radar return. Obviously, London Control had it on their radar, and they were vectoring us to this object. When we got about a mile from the UFO, it just took off into space―several thousand miles an hour, almost directly up. Frankly, at least to my knowledge, we had nothing like that capability.
My best guess is that it was a disc-type craft, but a fat disc―at least, there were lights something like this at the top and at the bottom. It was more than just a straight plate-like object; it had a dome on the top of it. If the radar return was accurate, it was probably five hundred yards across in size, or something―I mean it was a huge thing. We wrote it in the navigator’s log.
I also had a sighting here, where we live. This is Briarwood Lake in Medford, New Jersey; we had just moved into this house. I’m guessing it was three o’clock in the morning. I was asleep with my wife when suddenly the room got very bright in the middle of the night. I got up out of bed and opened up the shade and looked outside at the lake.
I don’t know if most people have seen a submarine surfacing with all the water coming up―well, this was like a disc about thirty-feet-in-diameter surfacing, and what looked to me like water coming off of it. Around the craft was this ionization―very similar to the Aurora Borealis. It moved across the lake for a while, and then flew off at a fairly high rate of speed. Because of that, I have checked with a lot of the neighbors, and it’s amazing how many people have actually seen craft on these lakes.
Also, occasionally I used to do briefings to the generals on the UFO sightings that had occurred around the world. One that sticks out in my mind is 1976―there was a famous encounter near Tehran.
Around that time, this particular colonel was telling me that the F-106 had set the world’s record for speed. They had these aircraft going as fast as they could, and they would be diving on this UFO that was hovering in a valley. Just like my experience in England, when they got near the craft, it took off and left them standing still. They were doing 1,500 miles per hour or something―whatever the top speed was at that time for these aircraft in a dive―but whoever was flying these had capabilities far beyond anything that we had for years and years―I think even today.
I think these are non-human craft that possess a different form of propulsion and are coming here doing reconnaissance.
I’ve talked to a number of astronauts who have seen them; I’ve talked to other military pilots who have seen them, and I remember Captain Ramidge who I used to work for in Athens, Greece―he had one during the Korean War fly right off his wing, stay with him for an hour―not only off his wing, but doing acrobatic things around his aircraft! I don’t know the exact percentage of people, but something like 10 % of the pilots and air crews that you ask have had sightings.
I sat in this room here a few years ago, and a colonel who was in intelligence told me that his entire B-52 crew saw a UFO. You know, these people don’t volunteer and sit in front of the camera and tell about it, but there are an awful lot of people who have seen them. I think that it’s time that these various programs come out. The way that it’s been kept secret is through ridicule. You will hear someone telling a story like this, and people will say, well, he must be crazy―he believes in UFOs. And, they brought this ridicule out when anyone saw anything, but my experience has been an awful lot of policemen have seen these; an awful lot of FBI have seen these; an awful lot of military personnel have seen these.
At times I used to transport nuclear weapons. In other words, I was mentally fit to carry nukes, but I’m not mentally fit if I report seeing a UFO.
Dr. Robert Wood: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Engineer
I have a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado, and I subsequently got a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell. I went right into McDonnell Douglas as a young engineer and stayed there for 43 years and wound up in charge of various aspects of our research and development programs, including the last one, which was the space station.