Page 9 - The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper - Vol 24 No 2 - February 24 2015

USAF Project Blue Book Now Open
Air Force’s long-shuttered
Project Blue Book on
UFOs now open
A UFO enthusiast posts 130,000 pages
of material in a free online database.
Matthias Gafni - Tribune News Service
It was 1964. Late at night. The Northern
California man had lost his hunting buddies in
the woods near Lake Tahoe and climbed a tree
to sleep.
Awakened by a glowing object landing
on a nearby ridge, the man was soon fighting for
his life against two neckless creatures and a
robot before the beings emitted a noxious gas
and knocked him out
A tall tale? Drunken binge? Drug-
induced hallucination? No matter. That UFO
sighting and thousands more were studiously
collected and meticulously researched as part of
the Air Force’s strange, long-shuttered Project
Blue Book.
For 22 years, the military seemed to
spare little expense in chronicling humans’
reported otherworldly encounters with glowing
orbs, spinning spheres, flying ice cream cones,
and more. All of it was hidden away in archive
files until a UFO enthusiast posted 130,000
documents worth of Blue Book material in a
free online database for the first time last month. investigators concluded.
The project was launched in 1947, two
years after the end of World War II and just as
the Cold War was gearing up. It concluded in
1969 without offering definitive proof of either
aliens visiting Earth or advanced spycraft
launched by our enemies. But the gold mine of
reports – witness names redacted – provides a
snapshot of a nervous, suspicious era that drove
our government to consider even the most
fanciful reports.
“UFO investigations were taken very
seriously,” said Alejandro Rojas, editor of Open
Minds magazine, who points to a 1947 report of
an unidentified flying object near Mt. Rainier in
Washington by private pilot Kenneth Arnold as
the mother of modern UFO sightings. “He was
a credible person, and it hit the press and
became a really, really big story,” Rojas said.
Add a dash of postwar paranoia, and the
Air Force dove in head first, he said.
“The public’s imagination went wild
with (UFOs),” said Jeff Underwood, historian
of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
“It was a serious attempt to find if there was any
validity to a UFO crisis or just mass hysteria.
“For the Air Force, it was driven more
over concerns the Soviets created a super secret
weapon than if there were little green men,” he
said.
In the end, many of the more than
12,000 sightings diligently investigated by the
Air Force were chalked up to weather
phenomena, meteors, satellites, a bright planet,
balloons, birds or overactive imaginations.
The latter category would seem to fit the
story told in 1964 by the lost hunter near Lake
Tahoe, who swore he spent the night in a tree,
firing arrows at three white “robot”-looking
creatures, setting scraps of his clothing afire and
hurling the pieces at the glowing aliens below.
UFO witnesses ranged from
grandmothers to amateur astronomers and even
military pilots, who should have known a
weather balloon when they saw one. Several
reports included sketches, charts and purported
photographs of the objects.
Bay Area newspapers had a field day
with one mysterious craft spotted by dozens of
people as it drifted over the region on Feb. 7,
1950, including two nurses who swore they
were “non-drinkers.”
“Flying ‘Ice Cream Cone’ Reported
Over Alameda,” a San Francisco Chronicle
headline screamed. The article featured a
cartoon drawing of the flying confection with a
Navy officer looking through binoculars yelling
“Vanilla!” while a young boy said: “I say it’s
chocolate!”
A San Jose man eventually wrote to the
Air Force explaining that his own close look at
the object revealed a single-engine airplane with
a reddish vapor trail behind it. Mystery solved,
Popular culture drove the reports,
Underwood said, and it ultimately slowed them
down in the late 1960s.
“As soon as Star Trek started, I lost
interest in UFOs,” he laughed.[]
Indigo children of St.
Louis claim they can talk
to the dead
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – They claim to see
the unseen and talk to loved ones who have
passed on. They are Indigo children and
they’re living right here in St. Louis and
Jerseyville.
Nathan Parks, his mom Jodie, and his
little sister Hailey are all Indigos.
“My first experience was when I was
about 6 years old. I saw an angel floating
above.” said Jodie Parks “We had poltergeist
activity things flying all over the house a
shadow man presenting itself to him.”
Dr. Barbara Condron With the School
of Metaphyics, and author of, How to Raise an
Indigo child, describes what it means to be an
Indigo.
“They walk through walls, they can
start fires they can do all kinds of things with
their mental abilities.” said Dr. Barbara
Condron of the School of Metaphysics.
Many times kids are diagnosed with a
mental disorder if they display Indigo traits.
“They are often misdiagnosed,” said
Dr. Barbara Condron.
“I always thought there was something
wrong with me,” said Jessica Andre.
Jessica Andre, 28, has been seeing
spirits and predicting certain outcomes her
whole life, but she says she is not a psychic. “I
do remember seeing apparitions in my house
and being like that is the norm.”
Lisa Pini describes herself as a psychic
and an Indigo. She used her gift to help the
family of a missing person.
“Locating a body it was a rough one,
but it did bring closure to the family” said
psychic medium Lisa Pini.
Whether you believe they see angels or
spirits. One would have to admit their vision is
extraordinary. []
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