Subject: Unexplained Lights Later in the night a red sun/ike light was seen through the trees. It moved about and pulsed. At one point it appeared to throw offglowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects and then disappeared. Immediately thereafter, three starlike objects were noticed in the sky, two objects to the north and one to the south, all of which were about 1 oo offthe horizon. The objects moved rapidly in sharp angular movements and displayed red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared to be elliptical through an 8-12 power lens. Then they turned to full circles. The objects to the north remained in the sky for an hour or more. The object to the south was visible for two or three hours and beamed down a stream of light from time to time. Numerous individuals, including the undersigned, witnessed the activities. -from an oHicial memorandum wriHen by Charles I. Halt, Lt. 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Pr inted in the U.S.A. � 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I Contents Editor s Fo reword vii 1 A British Perspective 1988 GRAHAM AND MARK BIRDSALL 2 UFO Lands in Suffolk-and That's Official ! 35 RALPH NOYES 3 The English Com Circles in 1988 59 GEORGE WINGFIELD 4 So Yo u Want to Be a Ufologist? 96 PATRICIA GRANT 5 Te stimony from Africa 105 CYNTHIA HIND 6 The Soviet Scene 1988 121 NIKOLAI LEBEDEV 7 UFOs in China 1987-88 132 PAUL DONG 8 UFO Encounters along the Nullarbor Plain 145 PAUL NORMAN 9 UFO Crash/Retrievals: Is the Cover-Up Lifting? 169 LEONARD STRINGFIELD 10 The Gulf Breeze (Florida) UFO Encounters 196 DONALD WARE vi THE UFO REPORT App endix Some Major UFO Organizations 223 The Crop Circles 224 Some UFO Journals 225 Bibliography 226 Services 228 Index 231 Editor's Foreword "Whatever anyone will say, both my son and I will never forget the 19th November, 1987," wrote Mrs. Barbara Forrest, in a letter to me describing a sighting at Brierley Hill, West Midlands, on that evening. "The craft came so very low, to enable us to have a very close look. It was massive, wonderful, and frightening.'' Mrs. Forrest and her son were just two of hundreds of witnesses who reported UFOs during the latter half of 1987, when a massive wave of sightings proliferated throughout the U.K. and in many other countries; a wave which was to continue unabated in 1988. With a few exceptions (such as the Nullarbor case, de­ scribed in Chapter 8) the national media continue to ig­ nore these important events, or to pour scorn on the subject. ''Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,'' began Michael Thompson-Noel in a lengthy article fo r the Fi­ nancial Ti mes in June 1988, "believe it or not but the modern religion of Ufology today enters its 42nd year .... It is a religion of the space age that offers us heavenly lights, god-like aliens and flying green jellies. '' Ufology, said Mr. Thompson-Noel, is based on "a rubbish­ mountain of non-evidence.'' 1 Since Above Top Secret was published in June 1987, my travels have taken me to Australia, Brazil, Canada, the U.S.A., and the U.S.S.R. I have fo und encouraging signs that not all journalists share Mr. Thompson-Noel's view. And in the Soviet Union, I had the opportunity of express­ ing my own views in an interview fo r Leningrad TV's Op en Door program in January 1989. That would have been inconceivable only a few years ago. On October 14, 1988 a two-hour TV documentary, UFO vii viii THE UFO REPORT Cover Up ? Live, was shown in the U.S.A., Canada, Aus­ tralia, and New Zealand. The program included live par­ ticipation from Washington DC, Gulf Breeze, Florida, and Moscow. A telephone poll conducted during and afterthe program revealed that 30,835 people had experienced a Close Encounter of the First Kind (CEI-UFO seen within 500 ft); 2,482 reported a CEil (involving physical evi­ dence); 1,477 a CElli (alien occupants seen); and an astonishing 2, 969 witnesses who claimed to have been ab­ ducted by aliens (CEIV).2 On the program, Paul Shartle, former security man­ ager and chief of requirement fo r the audio-visual pro­ gram at Norton Air Force Base, California, revealed the existence of an official filmtaken at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, which allegedly shows a UFO landing and the occupants communicating with various personnel at the base. Interviewed with Shartle was the TV producer Rob­ ert Emenegger, who obtained the film via the Pentagon in the early 1970s when he was in the process of making a documentary on the subject. He had hoped to include the film in his documentary, but permission was suddenly withdrawn. Two alleged U.S. Government intelligence agents, "Condor" and "Falcon," appeared on the documentary, with their fa ces blacked out and voices electronically mod­ ulated. They confirmed the existence of the so-called ''Majestic-12'' committee, established under President Truman in 1947 , following the retrieval of an alien space­ craft and its dead occupants in the New Mexican desert (details of which were firstpubli shed in Above Top Secret) . They further revealed that there had been actual commu­ nication with a number of extraterrestrials. All this could be disinformation, of course. And the obtrusive synthesized background music that pervaded the entire documentary did little to enhance the agents' cred­ ibility. Nonetheless, I have been informed that their cre­ dentials, at least, are bona fide. Many people have written to ask me if the Majestic- 12 briefing document, prepared fo r President-elect Eisen­ hower by fo rmerCIA director Vice-Admiral Roscoe Hil­ lenkoetter in November 1952, reproduced fo r the firsttime Editor's Foreword lx in Above Top Secret, is authentic. The document (which I obtained from a CIA source) received world-wide public­ ity in 1987, and lengthy_ articles appeared in such news­ papers as the Observer and the New Yo rk Ti mes. The document's authenticity has been questioned by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, the Harry S Truman Library, and the National Archives, but a great deal of information has now surfaced which tends to indicate that it is genuine. A 1954 top secret memorandum from presidential as­ sistant Robert Cutler to the then Air Force Chief of Staff, General Nathan 1\vining, makes reference to the ''MJ-12 Special Studies Project'' in connection with a meeting at the White House on July 16 that year. The memorandum was located in the files of USAF Intelligence at the Na­ tional Archives, and there is every indication that it is genuine. Dr. Roger Wescott, Professor of Anthropology and Lin­ guistics at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, has compared the writing style on the Eisenhower briefing pa­ per with known-to-be-authentic examples of Hillenkoet­ ter's writings. In April 1988 he stated as fo llows: '' ...In my opinion, there is no compelling reason to regard any of these communications as fraudulent or to believe that any of them were written by anyone other than Hillen­ koetter himself. ' '3 This does not, of course, prove that the document is legitimate. Further research is currently being done by Jaime Shandera, William Moore, and Stanton Friedman, and $16',000 has been appropriated by the Fund fo r UFO Research so that Friedman can devote several months to the project.