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    UFO Institute International History & Investigations: 20 Year Report
    UFO Institute International History & Investigations: 20 Year Report
    UFO Institute International History & Investigations: 20 Year Report
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    UFO Institute International History & Investigations: 20 Year Report

    By Steven Robert Alexander

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    In 1993, an Army National Guard Captain started a UFO Research organization in Colorado Springs on a quiet Tuesday night at the local library. It didn't take long before the organization was involved in a major event, known as "The NORAD Incident." This book tells how the group started and grew, outlines some of its major investigations, and also provides a history of UFO phenomena.

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    PublisherSteven Robert Alexander
    Release dateOct 30, 2013
    ISBN9781628478747
    UFO Institute International History & Investigations: 20 Year Report
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    Steven Robert Alexander

    Steven Robert Alexander, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) U.S. Army has been writing stories and books all of his life. His creativity and imagination allow him to write on all subject matters from ghost stories, military adventure romances, children’s stories, high school sports, and romance stories.Steve served 28 years in the U.S. Army, partly active duty, Reserve and National Guard. He served two tours in the Middle East. In 2004 while serving as a Senior Advisor to an Iraqi Division Command he was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds sustained in a vehicle borne improvised explosive device, VBIED, a suicide bomber in a water tanker filled with explosives, detonated himself in close proximity. Steve has also been awarded the Combat Action Badge. He served a follow on tour late in his career in Kuwait, serving as an Operations Officer. He also served tours in Panama, Japan and Slovenia, sites that will be included in future novels.Steve is also an accomplished broadcaster, having hosted national radio shows on Cable Radio Network out of Los Angeles. He is an experienced talk show host and oldies music show host, most well known for the Major Ripster and the "B Team" Show that ran from 1999-2001. After 911, Steve volunteered for active duty and Iraq and spent the next ten years on active duty until his May 2011 retirement.Steve is an American Civil War and Ancient Greece historian, an Eagle Scout and high school football coach. He lives in Colorado and has five Grandchildren. He enjoys throwing theme parties, songwriting, and acting.

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      UFO Institute International History & Investigations - Steven Robert Alexander

      PART I - HISTORY

      This section presents the early history of the UFO phenomena - long before I got involved.

      There is information on many of the historical classic cases and what I mention here is just a small fraction of the history of the phenomena.

      My experience, 1976 I was traveling on Highway 285 traveling east towards highway 24. It wasn’t a close in sighting, but I knew it wasn’t a typical aircraft either. It was a little bigger than a green dot moving about all of the foothills as if it were searching for something.

      Later as a military officer, I found that type of flight pattern to be known as Nap-Of-The-Earth. Years later after flying in Huey’s, Blackhawks and Chinooks I realized what I saw for sure wasn’t a military helicopter. What it was, I’ll never know. It was there and then it flew away, in a slow steady fashion, not a rapid ascent into the atmosphere. In the late 90’s while on another mission in South Dakota, I and several others spotted what appeared to be a large number of triangular shaped craft hovering on a horizon. We thought they were F-117 Stealth Fighters. There was only one problem: they were stationary and they stayed in one locale for a considerable time - I never found out what they were.

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      Chapter 1

      What Went Before

      When I first started the UFO Institute, I knew that I was going to be dealing with people from various levels of knowledge, education, and experience with the phenomena. I put a core team together quickly, as the organization became much bigger than I thought possible, and far exceeded my expectation of where it would go.

      We knew that there were people who had a casual interest, but also knew that there were people that would come forward and claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrial beings.

      We had to find a way to serve everybody's needs. That was easier said than done. One thing we tried to do was to certainly, at the beginning, get everybody on the same page and to do that we gave, we pretty much had to compile a history of what we knew about UFO sightings. We soon found that, when it comes to sighting, what an individual believes they know or have experienced with respect to sightings will play a major part in interpretations. For example, you can go inside churches in Europe and look at the stained glass windows and decide that you see what looks like flying saucers going across the sky. Someone else might view the same scene and believe it is an Angel in flight. You can see where this is going.

      Many people believe a UFO sighting is a rare thing, almost a special kind of gift for selected persons. Others claim that UFO is a misnomer. The sightings are not unidentified but rather IACs -- Identified Alien Craft--and are as common as the day is light and night is dark. Some who have seen UFOs, even claim to have ridden in them. I once asked a group, How often do you see them? They asked me how often I looked up at night. They had a point.

      We agreed on the existence of UFOs and there was also general agreement that UFOs are extraterrestrial in nature. From there, we decided to break members up into subgroups, depending on the varying major details of individual’s experiences. No two people had the exact same story, but there were many who had similar experiences and that provided us with an excellent basis to find common ground.

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      Chapter 2

      Foo in the Sky

      Once having established our groups, we turned to the stories themselves. One of the most famous sub-groups came from the middle of the 20th century and sightings in 1944 over the skies of Europe. In the midst of air-to-air combat involving B-17 bomber runs and air battles between P-47s, P-51s and P-38s versus the Bf-109s and FW-190s of the German Luftwaffe, unusual balls of light began appearing in the night skies. These balls of light were seen by pilots of both Allied and Axis powers.

      They were called foo fighters and there were many of them. The nonsense word foo emerged in popular culture during the early 1930s, first being used by cartoonist Bill Holman who peppered his Smokey Stover fireman cartoon strips with foo signs and puns. Holman claimed to have found the word on the bottom of a Chinese figurine. It was part of service culture by World War II and, by 1944, the term foo fighter was used by radar operators to describe a spurious or dubious trace [1].

      415th Night Fighter Squadron member Donald J. Meiers, was from Chicago and was an avid reader of Bill Holman's strip, which was run daily in the Chicago Tribune. Smokey Stover's catch phrase was where there's foo, there's fire. In a mission debriefing on the evening November 27, 1944, Fritz Ringwald, the unit's Intelligence Officer, stated that Don Meiers and Ed Schleuter had sighted a red ball of fire that appeared to chase them through a variety of high speed maneuvers. Fritz said that Don was extremely agitated and had a copy of the comic strip tucked in his back pocket. He pulled it out and slammed it down on Fritz's desk and said, it was another one of those foo fighters! and stormed out of the debriefing room [2]. In December 1944, a correspondent from the Associated Press in Paris, Bob Wilson, was sent to the 415th's base outside of Dijon, France to investigate this story. It was at this time that the term came into common usage.

      There is much discussion that these foo fighters were a new weapon fielded by the Third Reich. That was never verified, but reliable speculation continued to insist that a German engineer had designed a flying top prototype aircraft in 1941, and it was test flown in 1942.

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      Chapter 3

      Roswell

      After World War II, with the great draw down of the armed forces of the world, the Army Air Corps continued to fly and to establish bases at strategic locations. One of those bases was to become perhaps the best-known location with respect to UFO lore: Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico.

      No book about UFOs is complete with a mention of the Roswell Incident, as it later became known-one of the most famous stories in UFO history, and it bears repeating in a quick summary here. Please bear in mind that there are many different versions of this incident.

      In July of 1947, a rancher name William Mac Brazel discovered a mysterious debris field scattered on his pasture land. Depending on which account one reads, Brazel either held on to the debris for a few days before contacting the local Army airfield or first contacted the local sheriff. Whichever account is correct, the fact is

      that Major Jesse Marcel and a man in plainclothes [3] were present as the Army Air Corps sent military personnel to recover as much as possible of the debris.

      There are many different versions of the removal of the debris but at least one recounts flatbed trucks were brought in, along with containers for the smaller parts and pieces.

      Over the years, UFO enthusiasts have held many discussions about the nature of that crash and of the object(s) involved. A favorite theory has been that there was a possible midair collision of 2 unidentified flying objects. One of the spacecraft supposedly crashed near Roswell in pieces, but proponents of this theory believe the other craft came down intact over 100 miles away near San Augustine. According to Roswell lore, the second craft came down complete with minimal structural damage and was recovered by the military and hidden from the public. That crash site was so remote that none outside of the military saw the wreckage.

      Back at William Brazel's ranch, the speculation reached a fever pitch with the rumors that investigators had discovered alien bodies along with the debris. One piece of speculation, rumored that the mortuary in Roswell area was reported to have taken 4 to 5 small caskets suitable for child size victims out to the air base.

      If there were alien bodies, what happened to them? At least one account has the debris/bodies being flown to Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas. Another claims Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio as their final resting place. Later, the pilot who flew the remains from Roswell Army Airfield to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, Colonel Pappy Henderson, supposedly swore to his wife, while on his deathbed, that he had actually had flown the dead aliens’ bodies from Roswell.

      There were more theories, including the possibility that the bodies had been dissected and studied, and that they had been placed in a deep-freeze or some sort of cryogenic state.

      Many who have researched and written about Roswell

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