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A Different Perspective on UAP Report 13
UAP Report and a Mini
Estimate of the Situation -
A Comparison
by Kevin Randle
Host of “A Different Perspective
Radio Show” on XZBN
About three quarters of a century ago, we find
that the military and the government were in the
same place that we find ourselves today. That
means that they didn’t know what was
happening but they had a number of flying
saucer sightings that the Air Force found
puzzling. Their solution then was to create an
estimate of the situation. This is not the fabled
Estimate of the Situation that is talked about in
UFO literature, but another, earlier estimate
that contained 16 cases and about 35 reports outright lies about UFOs. It was as vague as the puzzling. Following, in the order they were
that included a sighting with color photographs. new report and offered little in the way of listed by Garrett is what can be found about
investigative analysis. these cases in the world of the Internet and the
The following analysis could have been written declassified Project Blue Book files, along with
today, given what the UAP report to Congress Read the following with the UAP report in mind. some possible solutions for a few of them.
supplied. I offer this in comparison to what was I believe we are going down the same path,
released on June 25 because it is basically the given that no one today seems to have a sense of Garrett’s first case was that from Manitou
same thing. Reports gathered and selected history. Those responsible for the report to Springs, Colorado, which is at the foot of Pike’s
because of who the witnesses were, little in the Congress should have taken time to look at the Peak near Colorado Springs. The first indication
way of analysis of those sightings, and a history of UFO investigation. It might have of this case was published on June 28 in the
suggestion that more needed to be done. In the saved them some time and suggested a method Denver Post. It becomes clear that one of the
end, nothing came of this and we were subjected for their work. Instead, it looked to me that they witnesses was Dean Hauser, a Navy veteran,
to decades of misinformation, distortion and have fallen into the same trap because no one who was accompanied by six other railroad
looked down the road. Here is a report about workers, including Ted Weigand, Marion
THE ALL NEW that earlier assessment that I wrote two years Hisshouse, T.J. Smith and L.D Jamison. They
‘X’ ZONE STORE ago. They could have just taken it and handed it were eating lunch when Weigand spotted a
GRAND OPENING in as if it was something new and important. bright silver-colored object approaching rapidly
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It is surprising that Lieutenant Colonel George overhead and the group of men watched it
Garrett’s “Mini Estimate of the Situation” was perform wild gyrations for a number of minutes.
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accepted as anything other than rumor and Hauser said that the object, after having
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speculation that it seemed to include. There was approached in a straight line, “began to move
little hard information in it, there was apparently erratically in wide circles. All this time it
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no real investigation of the cases so that a reflected light, like metal, but intermittently, as
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legitimate conclusion could not be drawn, but it though the angle of reflection might be changing
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seemed to have been accepted at the higher from time to time.”
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headquarters. However, given they believed the
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solution to the flying disc question resided at the According to the witnesses, it was difficult to get
and many others!
top of the chain of command, the somewhat a clear idea of its shape, and even viewing it
lackadaisical composition of it isn’t all that through binoculars did not appear to “bring it
surprising. It seemed to be a warning that they any closer.” They estimated its height at one
were onto something that maybe should remain thousand feet. For twenty minutes they watched
classified, even if the answer was to be found in it climb, dive, reverse its flight course, and
terrestrial terms. finally move off into the wind in a westerly
direction. “It disappeared in a straight line in the
In the world today, and even that world decades west northwest in a clear blue sky,” Hauser
ago, there were avenues for investigation that reported. At no time did anyone hear any noise.
were not followed. The military and the
government had the resources to look deeper (Continued on Page 14)
into the phenomenon that was commanding so
much press attention. Garrett, along with FBI A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
agent Reynolds, and Brigadier General George
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Schulgen, seemed to have put together a
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document that did little to advance their
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knowledge. Today we can do that.
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Rather than create a number of tables that
THE GRAND REOPENING OF AND
provided a quick look at the sightings as they
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information about those sightings. Today it is
AT AND
clear that some of the cases cited in that Mini
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ETOS are not very good and certainly not overly