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Former pilots and officials call for new U.S.
UFO probe

November 12, 2007, ABC
News/Reuters


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3855969

An
international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials
called on the U.S. government on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO
investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports
about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings.
"Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to
ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of
existing aircraft and helicopters," they said in a
statement released at a news conference. The panelists from seven
countries, including former senior military officers, said they had each
seen a UFO or conducted an official investigation into UFO phenomena.
"It's a question of who [are] you going to believe: your lying
eyes or the government?" remarked John
Callahan, a former Federal Aviation Administration investigator, who
said the CIA in 1987 tried to hush up the sighting of a huge lighted ball
four times the size of a jumbo jet in Alaska. The panel,
organized by a group dedicated to winning credibility for the study of
UFOs, urged Washington to resume UFO investigations through the U.S. Air
Force or NASA. "It would certainly, I think, take a lot of angst out of
this issue," said former Arizona Gov. Fife
Symington, who said he was among hundreds who saw a delta-shaped
craft
with enormous lights silently traverse the sky near Phoenix in 1997.

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UFOS: Are They for Real?

November 3, 2007, CNN


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/09/lkl.01.html

LARRY
KING, HOST: Our panel here in Los Angeles, Fife
Symington, the former governor of Arizona, who in 1997 ridiculed an
infamous UFO
sighting by thousands of people in the state and later admitted that
he himself saw a craft. James Fox, the filmmaker who is the executive
producer of the award-winning feature length documentary "Out of the
Blue" -- the definitive investigation of the UFO phenomenon. Colonel
Chuck Halt
[USAF] the deputy base commander of Bentwaters Woodbridge, a U.S.
military base in Suffolk, England. Sergeant Jim Penniston ... a
security supervisor at that base in 1980. He says he sat with a UFO on
the
ground for 45 minutes before it hovered above him and shot into the air
at
an unearthly speed. SYMINGTON: I was a skeptic [until] I saw a
wedge-shaped craft of enormous proportions fly over ... Phoenix. KING:
Colonel Halt [what] did you see? HALT: We noticed three objects. They
were illuminated with multiple lights and were moving at high speed in
sharp, angular patterns. One of them approached us at very high speed
and
sent down a beam ... at our feet. SGT. JIM PENNISTON: I was there. We
discovered a craft of unknown origin ... on the ground. We touched it,
walked around it, photographed it. KING: Added to [our panel] is John
Callahan, the former division chief of accidents and investigations
branch of the FAA. In 1986 a Japanese pilot said he saw twin cylinders
flying in formation within 500 feet of his air cargo jet. He claimed the
object was the size of two aircraft carriers and it followed him for over
30 minutes. KING: After this incident, you said [the] FAA
administrator held a briefing. CALLAHAN: When we got all done with our
briefing ... the CIA man stood up and said, this event never happened, we
were never here, you're all sworn to secrecy and we are confiscating all
of this data.

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I touched a UFO: ex-air force
pilot

November 13, 2007, Sydney Morning
Herald (Australia's leading newspaper)


http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/i-touched-a-ufo-exair-force-pilot/

A group
of former pilots who have recounted seeing strange phenomena in the sky
has demanded the US government reopen an investigation into UFOs. Several
pilots offered dramatic accounts of witnessing UFOs - including a
transparent flying disc and a triangular craft with mysterious markings.
"We want the US government to stop perpetuating the myth that all UFOs
can
be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms," said Fife
Symington, [a] former governor of Arizona and air force pilot who
says
he saw a UFO in 1997. "Our country needs to reopen its official
investigation that it shut down in 1969," Symington said. "Nothing in my
training prepared me for what we were witnessing," said James Penniston, a
retired US Air Force pilot, as he described seeing and touching a UFO
when
he was stationed at a British air base in Woodbridge. He said he saw an
inexplicable triangular craft in a clearing in the woods with "blue and
yellow lights swirling around the exterior". The UFO was "warm to the
touch and felt like metal," Penniston said. One side of the craft had
pictorial symbols. Then after 45 minutes, the light from the object
"began
to intensify" and it then "shot off at an unbelievable speed" before 80
Air
Force personnel, he said. "In my logbook, I wrote 'speed: impossible'." A
former official with the Federal Aviation Administration, John
Callahan, said government agencies discourage inquiries into UFOs.
"'Who believes in UFOs?' is the kind of attitude of the FAA all the
time,"
he said. "However, when I asked the CIA person: 'What do you
think
it was,' he responded 'a UFO'." When Callahan suggested the government
tell Americans about [the] UFO, the CIA official allegedly told him: "'No
way, if we were to tell the American public there are UFOs they would
panic."'

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Symington: I saw a UFO in the Arizona
sky

November 9, 2007, CNN


http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/09/simington.ufocommentary/

In 1997,
during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied
logic and challenged my reality. I witnessed a massive delta-shaped
craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix,
Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. As a pilot and a former Air Force
Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any
man-made object I'd ever seen. The incident was witnessed by
hundreds -- if not thousands -- of people in Arizona, and my office was
besieged with phone calls from very concerned Arizonians. The growing
hysteria intensified when the story broke nationally. I decided to
lighten
the mood of the state by calling a press conference where my chief of
staff
arrived in an alien costume. We managed to lessen the sense of panic but,
at the same time, upset many of my constituents. I would now like to set
the record straight. I never meant to ridicule anyone. My office did make
inquiries as to the origin of the craft, but to this day they remain
unanswered. Eventually the Air Force claimed responsibility stating that
they dropped flares. This is indicative of the attitude from official
channels. We get explanations that fly in the face of the facts.
Explanations like weather balloons, swamp gas and military flares. I was
never happy with the Air Force's silly explanation. I now know that I am
not alone. There are many high-ranking military, aviation and government
officials who share my concerns. While on active duty, they have either
witnessed a UFO incident or have conducted an official investigation into
UFO cases relevant to aviation safety and national security. By speaking
out with me, these people are putting their reputations on the line.
Investigations need to be re-opened, documents need to be unsealed and
the
idea of an open dialogue can no longer be shunned.

Note:
For a two-page summary of UFO testimony by top government and military
officials, click
here.


O Brother, Who Art Thou?

November 15, 2007, Washington
Post


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111402127.html

"I am
not
my brother's keeper," Howard "Cookie" Krongard, the State Department's
inspector general, testified to the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee yesterday. As Cookie surely must know, that excuse hasn't
worked
since Genesis. In this case, the players weren't Cain and Abel, but
Cookie
and his brother Buzzy. Cookie, under fire for allegedly quashing probes
of
the infamous Blackwater security contractor, began his testimony by
angrily
denying the "ugly rumors" that his brother, former CIA official Alvin
"Buzzy" Krongard, is on Blackwater's advisory board. But during a recess,
Cookie called Buzzy and learned that -- gulp -- the ugly rumors are true:
His brother is on the board. When the lawmakers returned, Cookie revised
and extended his testimony. "I had not been aware of that," Cookie told
the congressmen. "I hereby recuse myself from any matters having to do
with Blackwater." The lawmakers reacted with Old Testament fury. The
swaggering Cookie -- he alternately addressed the lawmakers with his
thumb
in his waistband, slouching in his chair, rolling his eyes and making
baffled glances -- had spent the morning aggressively denying the
allegations lodged against him: that he had impeded investigations into
contracting fraud, including weapons smuggling by Blackwater, and that he
had abused his underlings. But then came Buzzy's bombshell -- and
Cookie's
credibility crumbled. Either he had lied to Congress, or his own brother
had lied to him. It was only the latest bit of strangeness for the
powerful but eccentric Brothers Krongard. Buzzy [is] known for his cigar
chomping, martial arts and recreational workouts with SWAT teams.
"Krongard once punched a great white shark in the jaw," his
hometown Baltimore Sun reported when he took the No. 3 job at the CIA a
decade ago. More recently, Buzzy joined the advisory board of Blackwater,
the firm known for its ready trigger fingers in Iraq.

Note:
Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard was the Executive Director (the third-highest
position) at the CIA on 9/11, and had until 1998 been the head of the
firm
used to buy many of the "put"
options on United Airlines stock made just prior to 9/11 that were
never claimed, though this received little media coverage.



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