tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78111505982220336552024-03-13T09:59:59.825-07:00Did It Really Happen?I enjoy a good story. I'll entertain most folklore and myth. There are many stories about UFOs, government conspiracies, and paranormal events, but before you buy into anything, ask yourself, "Did it really happen?"Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-27709911884462726232024-02-25T18:33:00.000-08:002024-02-25T18:33:10.025-08:00I Have Something Coming Down the Pike<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">The title of this post says it all. In a couple of weeks, I'll have something other than a Merry Christmas or Happy New Year. In the past I've attempted, feebly it seems, to explain why this blog has been static with excuses that I 've grown bored with the subject of UFOs, family obligations, and being busy at work. All of them were true at the time. Add to the mix, real retirement and a big relocation from California to Idaho. That took a full year to plan and execute, but I did it. I'm still unpacking but I've made a dent into it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So, with that said, I'm ready to start posting. I plan to have a post that deals with UFO disclosure, government machinations and the perception of the general public. It will be a supposition that is based on a philosophical hypothesis. Laughingly, not my hypothesis, but one from a well-known, still living, philosopher. We'll all take a trip into the future.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When you read the post, keep in mind that I'm just like you, normal and average intellect. I've the typical educational background. I break no real ground, but rely on the thoughts of those much more knowledgeable than I. Yet, I have ideas that formulate. I dwell on subjects. Sometimes nonstop, yet I toss these ideas around. I rely on my knack for analyzing...shaking the box, if you will. For twenty years, I was paid to observe and to document and I'm pretty decent at that. So, I'll put that to the test in some sense of the word.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'll see you in a few weeks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Tim Hebert</span></p>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-63546308652769718972023-12-23T09:17:00.000-08:002023-12-23T09:17:44.275-08:002023...Merry Christmas and Wishing All a Happy New Year!<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I wanted to take the opportunity to wish all a Merry Christmas, or if you wish a Happy Holidays...I'll not judge.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A brief update. The blog site is doing well as far as a static platform as readership has been doing well. Plus, I retired recently and moved from Southern California for the cooler confines of Idaho. Personally, it has been a daunting past six months to pull this off.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As far as UFOs/UAPs...take your pick...I've had to divorce myself from the topic for obvious reasons due to the necessary events of retirement and selling my previous home with the added stress of physically moving from California to Idaho. In short, it was a bitch, yet I survived the ordeal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Once I get all of the boxes unpacked, I hope to get back to blogging as I should have the needed time on my hands. Again, thanks to all who have visited the site.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Tim Hebert </span></p>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-34106192986798221802023-01-21T10:25:00.000-08:002023-01-21T10:25:33.527-08:00Where is Tim Hebert? A Question From The Comment Section: UFO and Nukes. <p><span style="font-family: arial;">A recent comment from my last post:</span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"> "<span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">The new UAP study is promoting the Nuke-UFO hoaxes again! Where's James Carlson and Tim Hebert when we need them? Your research is hardly known at all while the military disinfo lies are now accepted as "rock hard" truth on the interwebs. Ah the religious fantasies.."</span></span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Not quite understanding the last sentence. Upset that I threw out a couple of verses from Esiah for a little uplifting for the Christmas holidays?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Can't say about James Carlson, but I believe that I said/wrote my peace regarding my opinions concerning UFO and nukes, ie nuclear weapons. Nothing has changed on that front.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I get the angst regarding the UAP study, but personally I left that subject for those that have the time and energy to tackle it. <span style="color: #2b00fe;"> <a href="http://badufos.blogspot.com">Robert Scheaffer</a></span> at Bad UFOs has been doing a great job covering the subject.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My meager personal thought is that by substituting the term UAP for UFO the government is using this as a pretext to look into technology being used by foreign government interests as well as organized criminal elements. Yet they may very well be interested in UFOs of olden times complete with the ET trimmings.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In short, I really don't know. I tend to look at the reality that I am confronted with on a daily basis. I'm more concerned with state and federal governmental overreach that has been on display for the past two years. Personal freedom is more important to me than government agencies feigning to be looking into UFOs/UAPs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>"Your research is hardly known"</i> Well, I did my best, but there is good news on that front. The viewership of the blog has been very positive. I don't post as frequently as I used to but that has not stopped people from viewing my work.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Currently total views is 242,000. For the past 6 months I've averaged well over 6000 views, that's 1000 per month. Again, not bad for a site that I've basically left up for those interested in looking at my past work, research and humble conclusions. One can take from it what one will...free to disagree if one wants. All that I ever asked was that my work be given due consideration.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's look at the last three months of activity on this blog:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Did UFOs Disable Minute Man Missiles at Malmstrom AFB in 1967...32 views and a total of 12.900 views since published back in Nov 2010.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Oscar Flight...36 views with overall views of 959.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2010 FE Warren posts...14 views...grand total of 897 views.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">UFO ICBM/Nuke Connection: Does it Really Exist...9 views.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thats just for the last three months regarding core UFO and Nukes blog posts. This does not touch on the numerous supporting posts for various principals involved in the numerous cases. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The total of the late David Schuur Minot AFB UFO encounter has been viewed separately 1.85K times. Again, this being another post going back to 2010.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Did It Really Happen" has been cited in numerous blog and web sites. Some supportive, some not so. My theories and conclusions have been circulating...what more can I do?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">James Carlson and I did an interview with NY Post reporter Steven Greenstreet back in November 2021 regarding Echo, Oscar and other related UFO and nukes stories. As of yet, no release of the interviews on his pod cast. Why so long? I've no answer to that question.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So, my work is still be looked at. My current views have not changed, but that can happen if new details emerge in the future. One current theme being circulating about the internet asks the question...do past UFO cases offer any real tangible answers to the reality of UFOs. UAPs is a different animal...its malleable, it can be beaten into any shape or form based on today's current technology.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tim Hebert </span></p>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-2367145357845285812022-12-25T15:01:00.002-08:002022-12-25T18:15:55.817-08:00A Message of Hope and Good Cheer...Merry Christmas!<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span face="ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">For unto us a </span><span :class="strongs ? 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'font-bold underline-dotted text-blue-600 cursor-pointer' : ''" class="strongs" click="$dispatch('strongs-link', '07965')" data-strongs-number="07965" face="ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px;" title="Strong's Number: 07965">Peace.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Isaiah, 9:6 KJV</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">And the glory of the </span><span class="small-caps" style="background-color: white; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white;"> shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the </span><span class="small-caps" style="background-color: white; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white;"> hath spoken it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Isaiah, 40:5 KJV</span></p>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-27235264359493876522021-11-26T19:21:00.003-08:002021-12-03T10:10:25.319-08:00The Passing of Eric Carlson<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mG3BjdptcvI/YaGg59_vylI/AAAAAAAAAwI/bvKoAGRwAqM0rZojWneG8rwtfKoxI5C2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s244/10th%2Bmissile%2Bssquadron%2Bpatch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="206" height="244" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mG3BjdptcvI/YaGg59_vylI/AAAAAAAAAwI/bvKoAGRwAqM0rZojWneG8rwtfKoxI5C2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/10th%2Bmissile%2Bssquadron%2Bpatch.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k42zQX3mIHg/YapdOkYdHsI/AAAAAAAAAwU/PBmp23C51iI2Sc6Rc4q78oEn8XTAUy3EgCNcBGAsYHQ/s713/Eric%2BD.%2BCarlson%2B1969-1970.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="685" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k42zQX3mIHg/YapdOkYdHsI/AAAAAAAAAwU/PBmp23C51iI2Sc6Rc4q78oEn8XTAUy3EgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Eric%2BD.%2BCarlson%2B1969-1970.jpg" width="307" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I received news from James Carlson that his father Eric Carlson passed on Aug 8, 2021 at the age of 84. Most of the readers that frequent this site are aware that Capt Carlson was the crew commander at Echo Flight during the all-flight missile shutdown event on 16 March 1967. I'll not rehash the details, but those interested can use the blog's search system to find the various posts listing Eric Carlson.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;">James was kind enough to provide a summary of his father's career. "As his military career went, he started out enlisted and worked his way up to officer eventually CAPT. as a missileer. During the latter part of his military career, he served in Okinawa with the 498 TMG, then Thailand and S. Korea. I'm not positive what commands he served at in Thailand and S. Korea, as we were living in Louisiana at the time -- they were unaccompanied tours..."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;">Of historical note, Capt Carlson was a crew member assigned to the 10th Strategic Missile Squadron, the first operational Minuteman ICBM missile squadron. The 10th's Alpha Flight was JFK's "Ace in the Hole" during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, thus earning the squadron moniker, "The First Ace in the Hole."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;">James further </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #26282a;">added, "Upon retiring, he went back to school to get his degree, and became a psychologist. He eventually worked as a counselor for violent men, later retiring from his second career."</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #26282a;">I want to again, extend my heartfelt condolences to James and his family.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #26282a;">Note to reader: James Carlson provided photo of his father.</span></span></span></p>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-87983111191450399472021-10-26T00:55:00.000-07:002021-10-26T00:55:28.916-07:00Cold Cases!<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">I've been thinking this over for the past week, re-looking at certain cases. I know that the old UFO case seem rather...old, but they are still interesting none the less. The Navy, Tic-tac's and the Pentagon's past and current UFO...excuse me...UAP interest dominates the current discussions, but I'm not interested in that area. What is it? Oh, yes, Back to the Future. We had Project Blue Book in the past only for it to "succumb" to the government's desire to get out of the UFO business. Now we all are finding out that the UFO/UAP business was doing well all along...this time business being done under the table. Oh well, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", "Open Sans", FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif;"><i>c'est la vie</i>!</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So on with the show. Projects upcoming when ever that is or promises made, promises broken.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Re-looking at Robert Salas Oscar Flight claims. Yes, I heard a collective groan from what's left of my readership. I watched the last National Press Club presentation this past Tuesday and was taken back at the sparse participation as compared to 2010. As Salas stated in his opening remarks some could not make it this time around and some have passed on. I have a soft spot for old crew dogs regardless of what I written in this blog.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm attempting to reach out to Mr. Salas and will see how that goes. This will allow me to bring in the 1967 Belt, Mt UFO sighting which I've been woefully negligent by not giving this particular case it's due consideration as it happened on the same day that Mr. Salas says that his flight (Oscar) lost strategic alert status due to UFOs or something else. Project Blue Book investigated this incident, or at a minimum information was sent to them via the base UFO officer, LtCol Lewis Chase. I'm going to see if this old crew dog can drag this case across the finish line. Well, I'll try to advance it as far as I can. Certainly nothing to lose. Who knows, I might get a participation trophy for my efforts. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">2. David Schindele has an interesting observation/story circa September of 1966 while on the crew force at Minot AFB, ND. This is very similar to that of the late David Schuur's observation roughly about the same time while on alert at Minot, AFB. There is a PBB investigation that occurred roughly during the same timeframe. This should be interesting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">3. This one is no big deal, but it was a bone that I attempted to provide to Robert Hastings some years back, but as is/was his custom he became a self righteous ass hole so I kept it from him. As to his last comment about me via an article of his and I paraphrase, "Tim, I have 150 former military members that say differently than you and they are brave enough to..." Well, I kept two observations from two highly respected former Ellsworth AFB missile wing FSCs that I was well acquainted with...Robert could have had 152... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">These two guys were with me back at Vandenberg AFB in the same missile crew training class, ILCS-26 back in the latter end of 1980. Both were assigned to Malmstrom with me but in different squadrons. They might corroborate some of the Minuteman Ellsworth AFB, SD UFO sightings around 1974. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">4. And finally, I will redo the 1968 Minot case. I'm starting from scratch as the last effort was a piss poor effort for my part. My work will be done in silence and will only be posted when completely done to my satisfaction...let me repeat...my satisfaction. I will provide no updates. No more distractions this time. I had a sound methodology last time but I deviated, no, worse, I took a detour and wound up way off the beaten path slowly drifting with a blown gasket up to some off the road version of a dilapidated Stuckeys selling crappy trinkets. Not this time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And when I'm done:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">a. One third of you will praise my </span><span style="font-family: arial;">brilliance and temerity. Tim Hebert is the "bringer of clarity!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">b. One third of you will say, "meh, he gave it a shot."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">c. One third of you will clutch your fake pearls aghast at my efforts. "My God, Tim Hebert is stating that witness lied and that they were dopers taking hits from bongs while watching UFOs in the nights sky. And worse he alluded that they beat their dogs when they returned to base." Yet it will all be self pleasuring rubbish. No one will be branded as liars. All will be taken at face value and treated with respect. They all witnessed something. That is a fact. Yet the Greek chorus will sing on and on as they are the keepers of truth.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Until next time...</span></p>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-24919476110635261832021-10-20T10:16:00.005-07:002021-10-20T10:22:59.301-07:00A quick review of Robert Salas presentation at the National Press Club, 19 Oct 2021<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #353c41; font-size: 14px;">Last night I reviewed the contents of Robert Salas' press conference. I was taken back by the lack of participation as compared to the 2010 presser. Salas did state that some of those individuals had passed on. Notably missing was Robert Hastings, but I do recall that this was solely put together by Salas. Awhile back he had alluded to that he would have four new witnesses regarding the Oscar Flight incident...there were none mentioned in the presentation.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353c41; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Based on what I saw and heard there was nothing new presented that advanced any of Salas' claims regarding Echo and/or Oscar Flights at Malmstrom back in 1967. Again, missing is any collaborating information from other personnel that would have been present on 24/25 March 1967. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353c41; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Mr. Schindele provided his experience, but unfortunately he has nothing personally to back up his claim as far as documentation, ie maintenance reports and up channeled reports to various HQ units. Most importantly, Schindele was not on alert when the alleged incident happened. He, like most of the launch officers, heard about UFOs from others, yet saw nothing themselves. But with that said, Mr. Schindele has a Blue Book report that documents a UFO report in the Mohall and Velva vicinity on 2 March 1967. Schindele's time line for his incident, as he stated in the press conference, was Sept of 1966 which was six months earlier than the Blue Book reported case. As of this time, I am not aware that anyone who was manning Schindele's Launch Control Facility has come forward to strengthen his claim. On the other hand, the late David Schuur's story may correspond to Schindele's timeline.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353c41; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Mr Jamison and Mr Jacobs provided nothing new in their respective presentations. Tim Printy had provided an article on the Big Sur story in his SunLite webzine regarding Jacobs' claims. I've provided my opinion on Jamison's claims on this blog.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353c41; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Note to reader: I'll provide more information should the need arise.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353c41; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></p>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-50218306283101351042021-10-14T11:21:00.000-07:002021-10-14T11:21:14.632-07:00Looks like a sequel...Nukes and UFOs ...Another National Press Club Reunion<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> I came across this info a few days ago via <a href="http://theufochronicles.com"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">theufochronicles.com</span></a> . Robert Salas and gang will be holding a panel discussion at the National Press Club on October 19, 2021. There appears to be a You Tube link to view the event.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Will have to see if anything new is presented or if this will be a rehash of the same stories. Regardless, I will post an update later next week after watching the event.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's good to be back!</span></p>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-46154290865036012042019-04-30T19:59:00.001-07:002019-04-30T19:59:06.451-07:00Echo Flight: The Makings of a UFO Myth...Revisited<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This post was probably the next important article. After re-reading the unit history, I stumbled across an important revelation. This came about from not what was written, but what was not discussed in the history.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This led to a re-evaluation of the Malmstrom UFO story involving Echo Flight.</span><br />
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<strong>Introduction</strong><br />
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First, let me start off by saying that the Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight case is a great UFO story. It's the perfect storm for UFO buffs in that there are reports, documents, and "witnesses." Its listed in the top ten of UFO cases. People have been interviewed to the extent that every surviving individuals cerebral memory capacity has been extracted, evaluated, discarded and re-extracted for what ever purpose in the attempt to prove or disprove individual pet theories. In short, it's a ufologists dream come true...or is it.<br />
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But for all it's bells and whistles, Echo Flight proves only to be an illusion...a distant mirage in Ufology's desolate desert. Researching this case is akin to walking into a thick and dense forest making it difficult to see ahead as you hack your way through it's thick foliage. It lures you into a trance as you bog down into it's minutia. Its loaded with perceived facts that take you down potentially promising paths only to wind up at a dead end. It's a siren song. It's proponents take the view, "If looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then..." Yet I find my self yelling at them, "Don't fall for it, open your eyes, it's a f****ing dog!" <br />
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As I had stated in my very <a href="http://timhebert.blogspot.com/2010/11/did-ufos-disable-minuteman-missiles-at.html" style="color: #1177cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">first article</span></a>, UFOs over Echo were never mentioned during my four years on station at Malmstrom nor while completing Initial Qualification Training at Vandenberg AFB, CA. We talked about the legend of A-05 being built over an old Native American burial site and it's apparitions that appeared to security camper teams, but nothing about UFOs, and this includes the 1978 UFO case around Kilo. The A-05 legend originated in the first part of the 1960s, some four to five years before Echo. Why is it that a ghost story about a haunted Launch Facility has longevity yet the UFO story concerning Echo has evaporated from the collective memory bank? This cognitive memory dispersal still fascinates me to this day.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't write much about the UFO topic any more. It bores me. People that believe in the UFO fiction bore me. But Malmstrom's story enchanted me even though the premise of UFO visitations basked in absurdity. Malmstrom was my home in the early 1980s. I drove the roads to every site save the 564th's for well over 4 years. It allowed me to revisit an important time in my life as a young officer, so the story provided a time machine, a form of needed therapy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">When it comes to the existence of UFOs, I have to admit that I'm rather agnostic about the subject. Its simple for me, over the past 53 years, I've never seen a UFO. I don't rule the phenomenon out completely, but I'm of the mind frame that you have to "show me the saucer" or better yet, I need to see one with my own eyes. The case of the Malmstrom AFB UFO incident that allegedly happened in 1967 caught my attention about a year ago. Malmstrom was my first Air Force assignment, stationed there from 1981 to 1985. I was assigned to the 490th Strategic Missile Squadron as a Minuteman II launch officer. My primary alert facilities where November-01, Lima-01 and Kilo-01. During my time on station, I never saw a UFO, nor did I hear from other alert crew members that they had seen one. Curiously, I had never heard of any stories about UFOs disabling ICBM. We would talk about the myths and legends surrounding our "haunted" Launch Facility, A-05, but UFOs weren't in our lexicon.</span><br /><br /><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-family: Times;">A UFO Mysteriously Causes 10 Minuteman ICBMs to Drop Off Alert</span></strong></div>
<br />On the morning of March 16, 1967, Capt Eric Carlson and Lt Walter Figel were finishing up their alert cycle at the 10th Strategic Missile Squadron's Echo-01 Launch Control Center located near Winifred, MT. At approximately 0845, an alarm sounded indicating a missile fault. One of Echo's Launch Facilities (LF) had dropped from "Strategic Alert" to off alert. The crew, following tech order procedures initiated a Voice Reporting Signal Assembly (VRSA) channel check that revealed a reporting channel 9, LF No-Go, effecting the Minuteman I's guidance and control system. In rapid succession, the rest of Echo's remaining 9 sorties drop off alert status. All with the same VRSA channel 9 LF No-Go report.<br /><br />Fast forward three decades. UFO researcher, Robert Hastings, tells an interesting tale of UFOs and a subsequent Air Force cover-up involving the Echo Flight shutdown. In an article on the ufochronicles.com web site, "Did UFOs Cause the Shutdown of ICBMs at Malmstrom AFB in March 1967?" dated 12-26-2008, Hastings provides the contents of a telephone interview with Col Walter Figel (USAF Ret).<br /><br />Figel basically tells Hastings that during the morning of 16 March 1967 all ten missile did drop off alert with VRSA ch 9 No-Go reports. At least two of the LFs had maintenance teams on site. Two LFs were on diesel generators as backup power sources. When asked what was causing the faults, the maintenance team member stated, "Must be a UFO hovering over the site." Figel thought that the individual was joking. A subsequent call from a security guard stated that he could see an object over the LF. Figel thought that the man seemed serious but not panicked.<br /><br />Figel recalls being relieved by the new on-coming crew and returning to base where he and Carlson were questioned by squadron personnel. When asked if Carlson heard all of the radio communications from the maintenance and security teams, Figel said that Carlson heard everything as he was sitting no more than two feet away.<br /><br />When asked if Carlson had said anything to Hastings in a 10-6-08 interview, Hastings stated that Carlson seemed reluctant to talk about it. Carlson did not recall any UFO involvement nor did he recall ever talking to Figel about UFOs causing the shutdown incident. Thus ended the interview.<br /><br />In another on-line article on the cufon.org site, Robert Salas and Jim Klotz, "The Malmstrom AFB UFO/Missile Incident" originally dated 27 Nov 1996, updated 15 May 2000, provides a brief accounting of the Echo Flight incident basically identical to the Hastings/Figel account. The thrust of the article promotes Salas experience at Oscar Flight on 24 March 1967. Salas states that on alert as a Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander at the 490th SMS Oscar Flight (near Roy, MT), security personnel top-side reported that they saw two star-like objects zig-zagging around in the night sky. Moments later, Oscar's Flight Security Controller (FSC) reported a UFO hovering outside of the facility's gate. The object was glowing red. Salas states that he then reported the information to the command post. (Kilo-01, the squadron's command post or the Wing Command Post back at the base?) The FSC calls back Salas that one man has been injured and is in the process of being evacuated by helicopter back to the base. At this point Salas awakens his crew commander, Fred Meiwald, and briefs him on the events. About this time, alarms sound and 6 to 8 LFs drop off of alert and all registering No-Go indications.<br /><br />What is interesting about the Salas and Klotz article is that Salas thought that he was on alert at November-01 LCC during the night of 24 March 1967, hence the update to the original article now depicting Salas at Oscar-01. There is no documentation showing that anyone was injured at Oscar-01 and helicoptered back to base.<br /><br />So, as can be seen, Hastings, Salas and Klotz present testimony that UFOs caused, not just Echo Flight to shutdown, but 6 to 8 missile shut downs in Oscar Flight. Since the Echo Flight incident is referenced in detail in declassified Air Force documents with no mentioning of the Oscar Flight incident, Hastings, Salas and Klotz have declared that SAC and the Air Force intentionally covered-up the fact that UFOs disabled numerous ICBMs.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Robert Jamison</strong></div>
<br />On 1-12-2009, Robert Hastings posted another article on <span style="text-decoration: underline;">ufochronicles.com</span>, "UFOs <span style="font-weight: bold;">DID</span> Shutdown Minuteman Missiles at Echo and Oscar Flight at Malmstrom AFB in March 1967." The focus of Hastings article was to show that Figel's account was echoed in a interview given to Robert Salas and Jim Klotz. By this time Salas and Klotz were in the process of writing their co-authored book, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Faded Giant</span>. Hastings provides another interview which he uses as confirmation that both Echo and Oscar Flights were brought down by a UFO. Thus in Hastings' opinion this proves that SAC and the Air Force engaged in a cover-up.<br /><br />Robert C. Jamison provided Hastings with his experience during the March 1967 incident. Jamison was a 1stLt assigned to a Combat Targeting Team (CTT). As the CTT commander, Jamison assisted in the restart of an entire flight of ten Minueman I ICBMs. He was "certain" that the restart occurred in a flight near Lewistown, MT believing that in may have been Oscar Flight. (Oscar is near Roy, MT; November is near Grassrange, MT) Jamison recalled that the start ups occurred around the 24/25 March time-frame.<br /><br />Prior to being dispatched to the field, Jamison's team is kept on the base as a precaution to UFO reports coming from the field. He and his team received a special briefing concerning UFO reporting procedures. While awaiting to be dispatched to the field, Jamison overhears radio traffic concerning a UFO sighting near Belt, MT. (Belt is approx. 15 miles east of Great Falls/Malmstrom) Jamison's team is eventually dispatched and performs restarts at 3 to 4 LFs. While performing his tasks, Jamison stated that he saw nothing unusual. Two weeks later Jamison responded to a partial flight shutdown southwest of Great Falls. Hastings believes that this may have been India Flight.<br /><br />In Hastings' conclusion, he believes that Jamison responded to the Oscar Flight shutdowns. This is interesting as Jamison stated that he responded to a full flight shutdown not a partial shutdown as stated in Salas' and Klotz's article. No where in the article does Jamison actually state what flight/flights that the restarts occurred in. After conferring with Hastings, Salas would then change his story that he was at Oscar rather than November Flight.<br /><br /><div align="center">
<strong>Who Saw the UFOs?</strong></div>
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Let's look at some of the particular claims that supposedly supports UFOs as the cause of the Echo Flight shutdowns.<br /><br />1. Lt. Walter Figel receives a report from one of the maintenance personnel at one of Echo's LFs that a UFO is seen hovering over the site. The maintenance team member would have either been in the Soft Support Building (partially underground, housing the diesel generator and other equipment, totally separate from the silo itself) or from inside the LF/silo. In either case, there would have been no way that the maintenance personnel could have had visual sighting of any object. Figel stated to Hastings that he contacted the maintenance team by radio. In order to verify the LF No-Go and its corresponding VRSA channel, the maintenance team would have had to have been in the LF itself and communicating back to Figel by use of the Secure Intersite Network (SIN) lines. Both team members would have had to have been together in the LF since the inside of the LF was a "NO LONE ZONE" and the enforcement of the SAC Two Man Policy would have been in effect. Only the security guard would have been topside providing site security.<br /><br />2. There are no names associated with the maintenance/security personnel. Simply, we do not know who these individuals were. Of all of the individuals that Hastings had interviewed, the people that supposedly saw the UFO remain unknown to this day.<br /><br />3. Lt. Figel thought that the maintenance team chief was joking. He initially did not take this seriously. And most importantly neither Figel or his commander, Eric Carlson, ever make the claim that they had seen a UFO. After they were relieved from their alert duties, Carlson and Figel would have had at least a two hour drive back to Malmstrom. Surely they would have observed something unusual and would have told Hastings during the interviews. <br /><br />4. Lt. Jamison tells a story of UFO briefings prior to dispatching to the field, yet he does not report seeing a UFO while performing his tasks for the missile restarts. Jamison states that he was dispatched with his CTT to perform a full flight missile restart, yet he cannot recall what flight that he responded to.<br /><br />5. Salas has had difficulty in deciding which site that he was on alert. Initially he thought that he was at November but later changed to being at Oscar only after conferring with Hastings. Regardless, the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">341st SMW Wing History, 1 Jan -30 March 1967 (pg 32)</span> only describes the Echo Flight shutdowns. There is no mentioning of any issues occurring in either Oscar or November Flights. There is no mentioning of airlifting an injured man back to the base via helicopter. Salas never states that he actually saw a UFO. Salas, like Hastings, is unable to name the individuals at Oscar that supposedly saw a UFO. <br /><br />UFOs are talked about or alluded to, but none of the principle characters of Hastings' story sees or reports any strange objects flying in the sky or hovering over an ICBM launch site. The UFO hypothesis remains seriously in doubt. I propose a different set of hypothesis based upon the Minuteman I's complexity and the reporting of UFO sightings starting in January of 1967.<br /><br />1.The ten missiles in Echo Flight shut down due to a power system anomaly, though unusual in the number of involved LFs, a similar incident had occurred in 1966, on a smaller scale, at another 10th Strategic Missile Squadron Flight. <br /><br />2. The involvement of UFOs started out as a practical joke due to the past reports of sighting by the local population and subsequently published reports in the local newspapers and talked about for three months prior to the 16 March 1967 Echo Flight incident.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
<strong>Echo Flight's ten Launch Facilities (LFs) shutdown due to a power system/supply anomaly.</strong><br /><br />The concept, design and development of the Minuteman ICBM weapon system started as mobile rail based system. But due to logistical and local political problems, the system eventually evolved into a underground silo based missile system. The basing concept was one that had one Launch Control Center (LCC) being able to remotely monitor 10 distant LFs. Initially, each LF housed the Minuteman IA ICBM and over the coming decades the missile and its corresponding command and control system would be modified to eventually support the current Minuteman III system. The initial growth in the system's complexity was mainly due to the ongoing enhancement of positive control and the fear of an unauthorized launch.<br /><br />Yet, as the system matured, problems arose due to the remoteness of the LFs from the support base. An LF could be as close to it's support base as 20 miles and as far as 150 miles. Security for the LF was remotely monitored from its LCC. The LF needed power which was supplied commercially and in the case of interruptions, a back up diesel generator supplied standby power until commercial powere returned. Should the backup diesel generator fail, then the site would go on battery power.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb249/doc04.pdf">http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb249/doc04.pdf</a> USAF Ballistic Missile Program, 1964-1966, Bernard Nalty.</span><br /><br />As early as 1964, the LF diesel generators were a growing problem. Due to the initial system design, the missile launch crew could not monitor the backup diesel generators. The original diesel generators were used more than what SAC had anticipated causing an increase in fuel consumption and decreasing the oil levels leading to infield failures. This required the LF to switch to its last redundant backup system ....batteries.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb249/doc05.pdf">http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb249/doc05.pdf</a> USAF Ballistic Missile Program, 1967-1968, Bernard Nalty.</span><br /><br />During the 1965-1966, SAC's Minuteman wings faced numerous operational disruptions due to storms which downed commercial power lines. Diesel generator failures out in the field was of great concern. (pg. 13) In some cases, diesel generators continued running well after returning to commercial power. In 1966, SAC started a program to refurbish/replace the standby diesel generators and components. The program resulted in:<br /><br />1. Mechanism to switch automatically to internal power supply.<br />2. Found out that the new switching mechanism was overly sensitive to fluctuations in commercial current.<br />3. This sensitivity was fixed by installing a 2 second delay after sensing a change in voltage and the shutting off of commercial power. Then the system would allow a switch to diesel generators.</div>
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After the Echo Flight shutdown, SAC and other agencies began a comprehensive investigation. Bernard Nalty briefly gives a short accounting of the incident, <a class="postlink" href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb249/doc05.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">USAF Ballistic Missile Program, 1967-1968</span></a> (pgs 16-17).<br /><br />March 1967- entire flight of Minuteman I missiles at Malmstrom AFB abruptly drop off alert. Tests at Malmstrom, Ogden, and Boeing revealed the following:<br /><br />1. Possible electronic noise pulse as probable causation.<br /><br />2. Surge pulse was similar to an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) event.<br /><br />3. Follow on test and evaluations showed that the Minuteman I was most vulnerable to electronic noise pulses that interfered with the LF's Logic Coupler, located in the missile's MGS.<br /><br />4. Further testing showed that the Minuteman II missile guidance system was equally vulnerable to noise pulses.<br /><br />5. The recommended fixes via Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) was a system-wide installation of EMP filters for the suppression of EMP and other related "noise" pulses.<br /><br />As I stated above, Nalty gives the incident a brief notation in his history, but he confirms that the event actually occurred, but was there a cover-up? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nalty does not mention any other flights dropping off alert, ie, November or </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oscar flights.</span> This is where I have to give James Carlson credit for his research. James Carlson is the son of Eric Carlson. James has been persistent that no UFO had caused the Echo Flight shutdowns. Eric Carlson has always claimed that no UFOs were involved. James' debate with Hastings showed that he had "dug" into the "noise" pulse theory in a rather thorough manner. In fact, James was doing what Hastings and others should have been doing: ruling out other possible factors that could have caused the flight to drop off alert.</div>
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<strong>The 341st Strategic Missile Wing Unit History</strong><br /><br />Via the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Black Vault.com</span> site's FOIA documents, <a class="postlink" href="http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/malmstromufo.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">UFO Case: Malmstrom AFB UFO/Missile Incident March 16, 1967</span></a> excerpts from the declassified 341st SMW Unit History.<br /><br />"The 341st SMW and 341st Combat Support Group 1 Jan-30 Mar 1967" Prepared by A2C David B. Gamble.<br /><br />The unit's history was initially classified SECRET to comply with SACR 210-1 and AFR 205-1. The reason for the unit's classified history was due to the revealing of the unit's current military capabilities and operational status.<br /><br />Page 32, titled "Investigation of Echo Flight Incident" documents the actual shutdown and the wing's, SAC, AF, and other agencies response.<br /><br />16 Mar 1967, 0845, all ten sorties of Echo Flight shutdown with No-Go VRSA channels 9 and 12 indications. All of the sorties dropped off alert nearly simultaneously. Not other units were effected. A Guidance and Control channel 50 data dump was collected from LFs E-7 and E-08. All ten of the LFs were returned to strategic alert without the need for equipment replacement. All sorties showed that they were subjected to a "normal" controlled shutdown.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />E-8 was previously experiencing intermittent operation of diesel generator, that is, on stand-by power and not on commercial power. Inspection of the LCC cables, communication cable lines from LCC to all 10 LFs, showed not discrepancies. The LCF/LCC had commercial power problems in the afternoon of 16 March. This resulted in the burnout of the 10HP ECS chiller compressor motor. The chiller provides cooling air for the LCC and its equipment racks. Based upon the non-alert status of an entire missile flight, SAC HQ directed analysis by OOAMA (Ogeden/Hill AFB). A task force was set up involving OOMA, Boeing, Autonetics, and 15th AF. (Pg. 33)<br /><br />Fault Isolator Test Tapes were extracted from both E-07 and E-08. (pg 34) The LCC crew was questioned about the days events by the Wing Maintenance Evaluation Team, OOMA and Boeing on 16 March. <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">(Figel</span> <span style="color: black;">had told Hastings that they were questioned only by squadron personnel. He omitted be questioned by members of the task force.)</span></span></span> The crew reported that all ten sorties dropped off of alert within 10-40 seconds. On the commander's console stand-by lights or fault lights were illuminated. <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black;">(I am assuming what was meant is that prior to the sorties dropping off alert there were no fault indication lights illuminated. Once the sorties dropped off alert, there would have been a fault light illuminated, then the crew would have interrogated for any active VRSA channels via the VRSA panel located on the</span> <span style="color: black;">deputy's console.)</span></span></span> E-8 had previously had an active VRSA channel 26 which showed the the site was operating on back-up diesel generator. (pg 35)<br /><br />The deputy commander (Figel) had awaken the commander (Carlson). The commander was first to see the faults on his console, the deputy commander had his back turned from the console. (pg 36) <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black;">(Again, assuming that Figel received the radio reports from the maintenance teams and Carlson awoke just</span> <span style="color: black;">in time to see the fault indications on his console.)</span></span></span> The Channel 50 data dump for E-7 and E-8 showed that both sites had shut down due to external influences to the Guidance and Control.<br /><br />19 March, channel 50 data dump was obtained for E-02 and E-09. By then, both missiles had been returned to strategic alert. Both missile's Guidance and Control showed no previous No-Go loop. If a true No-Go situation had occurred, both Guidance and Controls would have showed LFNA (not authenticating due to loss of codes) and only VRSA channel 9. Due to the lack of these indications and data, the No-Go theory was eliminated. All ten sorties had reported VRSA channels 9 and 12 (effecting the guidance and control and the logic coupler respectively). Only the logic coupler is capable of generating both VRSA 9 and 12, <span style="font-weight: bold;">if</span> an external generated signal is present. (pg 37) Finally weather was ruled out as a factor.<br /><br />On page 38, an interesting notation is made that UFO proponents, such as Hastings, Salas, Klotz, and others, have deemed as a "smoking gun" and the possible beginnings of a cover-up. A2C Gamble writes, <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Rumors of UFOs at the time of incident disproven." </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black;">(I will show that UFO</span> <span style="color: black;">"sightings" were numerous leading up to 16 March and lasting until the Belt "sighting" on 24 March. These interesting reports set the stage for a "viral" rumor mill and possibly set up a potential practical joke that may have gotten out of hand.)</span></span></span></span>Again, the unit history states that UFO rumors were disproven, yet, in keeping with then Air Force protocol (Project Blue Book was still in effect), a query was made into any unusual sightings out in the flight areas east of Malmstrom (10th SMS and 490th SMS). A Mobile Strike Team was in the November Flight area and reported that they saw no unusual activities or sightings. The 801st Radar Squadron, back at Malmstrom, saw nothing on radar for the Echo Flight area - no atmospheric interference problems. (pg 38)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Referencing the 341st SMW Unit History, 1 Jan - 30 Mar 1967, (pg 38-39), a review of the wing's maintenance history showed that a similar incident occurred at the 10th SMS's Alpha Flight. On 19 December 1966, A-6, A-7, and A-10 experienced shutdowns. As in the Echo incident, there were similarities:<br /><br />1. Carlson and Figel were the alert crew.<br />2. Weather was not a factor.<br />3. There were commercial power failures at the LCC after the LFs had shutdown.<br /><br />This is probably why Carlson and Figel were questioned by the Wing Maintenance Evaluation Team. I find it interesting that Hastings, Salas, and Klotz, failed to mention this in their respective articles. In fact, Salas and Klotz only provided pages 32 -38 of the Unit History as references/links in their Cufon.org article, "The Malmstrom AFB UFO/Missile Incident", <span style="color: blue;"><a class="postlink" href="http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm">http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm</a></span>They omitted 20-25 pages of the Unit History that showed that SAC and other agencies had indeed conducted extensive test and evaluations in response to the incident. These evaluations would continue for almost a full year. They appeared to pick only those pages that would boister a UFO/cover up hypothesis.<br /><br />The on-going investigation started to center around the HICS lines to and from the LCC and ten LF. These are hardened cable lines that are internally pressurized (pneumatically) and allow commands and status interrogations to be elicited back and forth from the LCC and LF. If a drop in pressure occurred in the lines, then this would mean that a cable was accidentally cut, or in the extremes, "someone" was intentionally "tapping" into the system. This would trigger an alarm in the LCC and a security situation would be called requiring security personnel to search the flight for any "unusual" activity. (In Minuteman II, my system in the 1980s, the commands were encrypted. Any HICS line issues would result in a security situation and the entire flight, and if need be, the entire squadron to go into Anti-Jam Mode. The makings of a crappy alert.)<br /><br />Referencing the 341st SMW Wing History, 1 Apr - 30 June 1967:<br /><br />At Boeing, engineers established that a 30 micro second pulse (-10 to 0 volt square wave) Self Test Command at Coupler Logic Drawer Interface resulted in a shutdown with VRSA channel 9 and 12 No-Go 70 percent of the time. Autonetics' tests showed the a pulse generated long enough resulted in a Initiate Coupler Self Test. This caused a sequencing error between the Guidance and Control and Coupler modes. The sequencing error was deemed capable of initiating a Guidance and Control and Logic Coupler No-Go shutdown (VRSA 9 and 12). Boeing decided that they needed to determine the source and path of the noise pulse to the Logic Computer. (This was James Carlson's contention and his research alerted me to look at this issue closely.)<br /><br />As Boeing was conducting their pulse pathway evaluations, they found that EMP issues via the Secure Intersite Network (SIN) lines were susceptible to noise-type pulses at Minuteman II wings. Since the SIN lines go only to and from the LCC and its ten LFs, this could explain a flight peculiar problem. Possible sources of the noise pulse at Echo Flight:<br /><br />1. Transformer failure at the LCF.<br /><br />2. Ground current flow via the HICS cables, easily providing a pathway inducing voltage pulses on SIN lines to all of the flight's LFs.<br /><br />Subsequent field tests showed that there were no significant problems with Echo's SIN lines. This lead Boeing to believe that the cause was more than likely not a power issue but more in line with an EMP nature. SAC would eventually ask Air Force Systems Command - Ballistic System Division to test Malmstrom"s units for EMP vulnerability.<br /><br />341st SMW History, 1 July - 30 Sept 1967:<br /><br />As noted in the previously mentioned history, Boeing's testing of noise pulses via the SIN lines to the Logic Coupler was disproven as the cause of the problem. With that said, Boeing did prove that the Logic Coupler was capable of receiving noise pulse irregularities. Boeing's lab test showed the following:<br /><br />1. When tested in a lab environment, 60 percent of the time, the same shutdown response occurred as did Echo Flight.<br /><br />2. 85 percent of the time this resulted in a missile sortie downgraded to "non-EWO" status. Basically, the missile sortie would drop off of strategic alert status. (EWO = Emergency War Orders, the ability to accept and recognize a valid launch command from one or more LCCs in a given flight)<br /><br />Subsequent testing of Minuteman II wings showed that the logic couplers were susceptible to "noise" impulses which resulted in a sortie dropping off of alert. These noise impulses were later to be identified as EMPs. As concerns for EMP vulnerability became the prime culprit, SAC via Boeing, Ogden, and AF Systems Command would institute a Minuteman force-wide implementation of EMP filters.<br /><br />A review of comments from current and former missile crews on the missileforums.com web site reveals that as of this date, no crew member has ever experience an unknown abrupt loss of all ten ICBMs in a flight. I, author of this post, count myself among those former crew members and concur with the general consensus.</div>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The "Infamous" SAC letter!</span><br /><br />SAC Message to OOMA, Hill AFB, originally SECRET<br /><span style="color: blue;"><a class="postlink" href="http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/sacmsg.htm">http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/sacmsg.htm</a></span><br /><br />Upon review of the letter, it appears to be similar to the type of messages sent back and forth between AF commands, wings, and support agencies. I can make a "strong" assumption that the SAC message to Hill AFB is authentic. Based upon the content of the message, I can clearly understand why the message was classified SECRET but not for the reasons that UFO/cover-up theorist may believe.<br /><br />The 341st SMW had already started an "in-house" evaluation and reported their preliminary results to SAC prior to this letter being generated. As of now those initial messages appear to either remain classified or lost. But what makes this particular letter classified SECRET?<br /><br />SAC uses the following language:<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">"The fact that no apparent reason for the loss of ten missiles can be readily identified is cause for great concern to this headquarters."</span><br /><br />SAC should have and did have "great concerns", because ten of it's ICBMs had abruptly dropped off of alert. This meant that SAC had 10 targets that were not covered under the then version of the Single Integrated Operational Plan, known as the SIOP. SAC planners would have been scrambling to look for other assets to cover those targets or would have had to do without coverage. So yes, SAC had <span style="font-weight: bold;">GRAVE CONCERNS</span>. This in itself justified that the information in the message be classified SECRET.<br /><br />The letter in its basic meaning, set in motion for OOMA, Boeing, Autonetics and 15th AF to provide support to evaluate the situation and find a cause and correction as detailed in the 341st SMS Wing's history.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">"We must have an in-depth analysis to determine cause and corrective action....."</span><br /><br />The UFO theory backers have used the Malmstrom Incident to foster the notion that a portion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal was neutralized by a UFO. True, ten ICBMs were off alert for one to two days, but no damage was done to the ICBMs themselves. And most importantly, the RVs remained under positive control! There was no "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Broken Arrow</span>" called either by the 341st SMW or by SAC!</div>
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So far, I've shown that of the 10 Echo Flight ICBMs in question:<br /><br />1. Shutdowns occurred due to a then never seen electrical anomaly.<br /><br />2. This anomaly was thoroughly evaluated by SAC, 15th Air Force, 341st SMW, Boeing, Autonetics, OOMA (Hill AFB), and AF Systems Command.<br /><br />3. Due to the on-going investigation a serious weapon system vulnerability was discovered (EMP susceptibility)<br /><br />4. A fix was implemented force-wide.<br /><br />5. After 16 Mar 1967, this type of anomaly would never again occur in any Minuteman wing/system.<br /><br />6. The early Minuteman I system was in a constant state of evolution through upgrades and modifications. What started out to be a "simple" system became extremely complicated effecting command and control functions. As newer Minuteman II and III missiles came on line, the command and control structure changed to adapt to newer capabilities.<br /><br />7. Information and any documentation describing a nuclear weapon system vulnerability would have been classified because the U.S. was heavily involved in the Cold War, hence, SAC would not have wanted to publicize to the USSR that we discovered a "weakness" in our own ICBM system.<br /><br /><strong>Rumor of UFOs at time of incident disproven."</strong><br /><br />So stated in the 341st SMW's Unit History, 1 Jan - 30 Mar 1967.<br /><br />When one reads of the accounts of various UFO sightings as rendered by Robert Hastings, the facts are plain. There were a number of sightings of unexplained "objects" over Montana as recorded via nicap.org, <span style="color: blue;"><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nicap.org/waves/1967fullrep.htm">http://www.nicap.org/waves/1967fullrep.htm</a></span><br /><br />Jan 9, 1967: Malta, MT at 9pm, on family farm. Family alerted by dog, family saw a large rectangular object with glowing red light along the bottom and large amber light on top moving at high speed. The object landed in a field for approximately one hour. Object suddenly disappeared as if it took off at at a high rate of speed. The next day, family went to the field were the object had landed. There were no tracks in the snow and no sign that anything had been there. (Billings Gazette, 1-20-67)<br /><br />Jan 26, 1967: Havre, MT at 8:15pm. A man saw a yellow sphere with blinking yellow body lights which circled a mountain and flew off (nicap.org)<br /><br />Feb 9, 1967: Chester, MT, 6:30am, Railroad foreman saw a saucer (disk) with bright body of light hovering over the railroad depot. The depot was engulfed in light, the object departed straight up. (Spokane Spokesman-Review, 2/12/67)<br /><br />Feb 23, 1967 Glasgow AFB, MT, reported sighting by NICAP (no details listed)<br /><br />Mar 22, 1967: Newspaper article (UPI), "UFOs Seen In Great Falls Vicinity", The Daily Inter Lake<br />Tuesday night, 7:45pm - 8:30pm, several persons reported seeing unidentified flying objects over the Great Falls, Vaughn, Fort Benton, and Manchester. White lights, big with a little one on top. The object was moving east to west then north to south.<br /><br />Mar 23, 1967: Great Falls, MT, 9pm: Sheriffs deputies saw a yellow object with a red glow coming from top to bottom. Object hovered then flew away. Many sightings throughout the state. (Great Falls Leader, 3/24/67)<br /><br />Mar 24, 1967: Belt, MT, 9pm, Truck driver outside of Belt, MT sees a dome shaped object showing bright lights and landing in a nearby ravine. ( Investigated by Project Blue Book)<br /><br />Further reviewing of NICAP's reported sightings revealed that after the Mar 24th sighting near Belt, no other reports would come in for Montana for the rest of 1967. That's approximately 9 full months of "nothing" observed nor reported by anyone!<br /><br />Back in 1967, there were no laptop computers, Internet, cell phones, or 24 hour news coverage on television. The military rank and file then as in the extended past was a virtual "factory" manufacturing rumors absent factual information. This was the obligatory rumor mill. It would be the same for my experience 14 years later as a young SAC missile launch officer! Based upon the numerous sightings being reported in the local newspapers, it is certainly possible, if not probable, that the idea of UFOs roaming uncontested over the Montana skies and the remote parts of the ICBM flights areas (100 to 150 miles away from Great Falls/Malmstrom AFB) could have been construed as real. This psychological environment could have also induced practical joking. Remember, the maintenance team member, in the missile silo, stating, "It must be a UFO hovering over the site." Lt Figel took this in a jokingly manner because it was presented as so!<br /><br />But rumors must have persisted as well as the unsupported sightings of UFOs through out that region of Montana. Everyone heard of the rumors of UFOs, yet, no one has testified that they actually saw a UFO, just rumors. Thus the beginnings of a non-descript electrical/EMP anomaly morphing into this great Orson Wells-like UFO "invasion."</div>
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As I conclude, I have attempted to show that there is overwhelming evidence that UFOs did not cause the shutdown of 10 Minuteman I ICBMs. The information that I have provided hinges on two points:</div>
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It's not my intention to either prove or disprove whether UFOs exist. That subject is beyond my capacity to tackle. All that I've attempted to do was to show that there are rational explanations that must be taken into account before going the route of UFO involvement.</div>
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Most people may feel that the Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident is not worth the effort to bother with. To a degree, I concur. But if you read the articles published by Hastings, Salas and others, they leave the impression that we that served in SAC were used as pawns or worse yet as stooges. This could not have been farther from the truth. We had a job to do and in my opinion did that job in an outstanding manner...and we continue to do so. </div>
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So now I ask you, "Did it really happen?"<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Update: 5/23/2013</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This particular post has been the most popular. I recently did a re-read of the article to see if it still passes muster. The basic premise in the article still holds true to what I believe happened at Echo Flight on 16 Mar 1967.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's not part of this article is my re-evaluation of the case based on re-looking at the 341st Unit History and other information. This has been discussed in a few of my blogs posts.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Here are my 11 points of contention that, in my opinion, that rules out UFO involvement during Echo's ten ICBM shutdown back on 16 March 1967:</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">1. High probability that no maintenance teams were out on any of Echo's sites during shutdowns.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">2. No maintenance or security teams mentioned in the Unit History.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">3. After 44 years, none of the supposed eye witnesses have ever been identified, nor have these people ever came forward, concluding that they may never have existed in the first place.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">4. Walter Figel's inconsistency from both Hastings and Salas' interviews.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">5. Walter Figel's perceived reluctance to publicly support Hastings' UFO theory, as evidence by, his absence from the D.C press conference, lack of an affidavit affirming his statements.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">6. Eric Carlson's strong denial of receiving any UFO reports from security personnel.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">7. No intercept missions flown by the Montana National Guard against any unknown radar contacts.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">8. Minuteman LF design of connectivity isolation precludes any one event (UFO included) from affecting the remaining ICBMs in a given flight.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">9. Echo was a flight specific event with no other adjoining flight effected</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">10. The only plausible UFO scenario would have been a UFO over/near Echo's LCF/LCC. This never occurred and no reports or rumors ever comes close to supporting this scenario.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">11. The Boeing ECP and final installation of EMP suppression fixes resulting in no Echo-like situation from ever happening again for all SAC missile wings (Minuteman and Titan).</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">To understand how I derived at the above, please read<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://timhebert2.blogspot.com/">"Echo Flight: The Makings of a UFO Myth."</a></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Best Regards,</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Tim Hebert</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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</span>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-50683050917218683812018-06-14T12:28:00.000-07:002018-06-14T12:40:55.772-07:00Montana's mini-UFO wave of 1967<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in 2010, <a href="http://timhebert.blogspot.com/2010/11/did-ufos-disable-minuteman-missiles-at.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">my first blog</span></a> posting regarding the Echo Flight incident, listed a few UFO sightings that occurred in Montana 1967. This demonstrated that UFOs were on the minds of the general public. I suspected that this may have been the catalyst for the UFO rumors that emanated around Malmstrom on 16 March 1967.</span><br />
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Feb 9, 1967: Chester, MT, 6:30am, Railroad foreman saw a saucer (disk) with bright body of light hovering over the railroad depot. The depot was engulfed in light, the object departed straight up. (Spokane Spokesman-Review, 2/12/67)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Feb 23, 1967 Glasgow AFB, MT, reported sighting by NICAP (no details listed)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Mar 22, 1967: Newspaper article (UPI), "UFOs Seen In Great Falls Vicinity", The Daily Inter Lake</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Tuesday night, 7:45pm - 8:30pm, several persons reported seeing unidentified flying objects over the Great Falls, Vaughn, Fort Benton, and Manchester. White lights, big with a little one on top. The object was moving east to west then north to south.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Mar 23, 1967: Great Falls, MT, 9pm: Sheriffs deputies saw a yellow object with a red glow coming from top to bottom. Object hovered then flew away. Many sightings throughout the state. (Great Falls Leader, 3/24/67)</span></i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The March 24 Belt sighting was covered by Blue Book. Despite "around the clock" observation by local and military personnel there was no evidence that anything had actually landed. The object was observed to have landed, but nothing was observed to have left the ravine. I hope to put together a blog post on this incident in the future.</span></div>
Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-40392463049699805222018-06-02T11:27:00.001-07:002018-06-02T11:34:18.929-07:00Echo/Oscar Flight "Incidents" 51 years have past!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>March, 16/24, 1967 to June 2, 2018</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's now been 51 years since the Echo Flight "No-Go" and the Oscar Flight UFO myth. It seems that it was only yesterday that I touted the 45th anniversary of Echo Flight. My how time has past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then, what is new? Absolutely nothing. There has been no new evidence to show up that supports Robert Sala's claim that Oscar Flight suffered the same fate as that of Echo. Yet, he does still persist in his claim...sparring with windmills no doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Hastings had produced and released a documentary that had elements of the Echo/Oscar stories (and others), but for producing a good presentation, its content was stale. Nothing new added to the discussion, but rather a rehash of the old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've received bits and pieces from former Minuteman crew members that portray interesting events during that time period, ie, actual balloons (man-made) landing on launch facilities, but no actual UFOs...go figure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And after 51 years, no eye witnesses have come forward to corroborate that UFOs where seen in both flight areas....not one. Where are they?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumors and innuendo that still persist to this day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Did it really happen?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-38294917194841950052018-06-01T10:34:00.002-07:002018-06-01T10:47:50.719-07:00Jose Caravaca's Distortion Theory<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is there a weird affect on UFO witnesses that UFO investigators have overlooked? Jose Caravaca has long been attempting to find the answer and has formulated his Distortion Theory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Via <a href="https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2018/05/ufology-has-been-big-scam-what-they.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rich Reynold's</span></a> site, Jose has provided interesting points of contention regarding the behaviors of both UFOs, the craft occupants, and the witnesses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my opinion, Jose provides salient points that underlines the insanity of the Disclosure movement and Ufology in general. It's the absurdities of the behaviors of UFOs and the witnesses that Jose has highlighted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is loosely borne out by some of the cases that I've referenced here on this blog. For example, <a href="http://www.ufohastings.com/articles/like-a-diamond-in-the-sky" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Robert Hastings</span></a> relays a story told to him by a ICBM maintenance team member who experienced an encounter over an Ellsworth AFB launch facility circa winter of 1978.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During this same time, two of my IQT classmates at Vandenberg AFB (1980) were FSCs at Ellsworth and relayed a story of Alarm Response Teams chasing strange lights in the skies throughout their flight. They appeared sincere and rather circumspect about their experiences, and yet they stated that they were not emotionally traumatized on the night in questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I posted a blog article detailing the story of <a href="https://timhebert.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-ssgt-louis-d-kenneweg.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SSgt Louis Kenneweg</span></a> who made statements to seeing strange lights near the Malmstrom AFB weapon storage facility, yet he calmly reports for duty apparently telling no supervisor of his observation....basically business as usual.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are but a few of the UFO stories that I've come across involving observations of seemingly highly trained individuals responsible in some form for the operation and upkeep of nuclear ICBMs. There are trace elements of Caravaca's absurdities in all of these stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only draw back to Caravaca's theory is the use of a possible paranormal make up of his "external" agent that acts on the observers/witnesses. I submit that external stimuli may well be a factor, but other environmental agents should be closely looked at as well as the psychological make up of the observers themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Could it be that these witnesses, per Jose's cases, have something in common as far as cognitive behavioral traits? I would like to see this aspect further explored. </span>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-63026084993763759562018-03-05T10:02:00.000-08:002018-03-05T10:02:53.389-08:00Contacted By Former Launch Officer Assigned to Malmstrom AFB<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last week I stumbled on a few Face Book messages sent my way. My personal Face Book page is devoid of any UFO discussions as I use it mainly as a platform to converse with family and former crew members who had served with me while on station at Malmstrom back in the early 1980s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Go to my Face Book page, and you'll be treated to the obligatory dopey dog photos, I've two dachshunds whom I pay mortgage on their home...they rule the house. Plus, I've photo of my wife. I believe I've more photos of the dogs than that of my wife...I believe my wife is not concerned as we are still married after almost 36 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, back to the thrust of this post. One of my ignored Face Book message was from a former Air Force officer that had been assigned to the 490th SMS (my old squadron) at Malmstrom AFB during the late 1960s!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've intentionally omitted this gentleman's name, and after connecting with him, he gave permission to post a portion of his comment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brief, yet filled with interesting detail. I'll try to get more info, if this person is willing. BTW, I've no background on this person other than looking at details from his FB page. He went on, as he stated to me, to be assigned to Elmendorf AFB. I believe that his FB page shows that he went on to the AFIT program (Air Force Institute of Technology) and is now retired.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-24827297556516163902018-01-03T15:46:00.001-08:002018-01-03T15:46:17.024-08:00A response to a few comments on the blog<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've received a few comments from an individual named Phil Tanny. I don't know Mr. Tanny, nor do I know if that is his real name, but his comments appear to be reasonable to entertain a reply. Mr. Tanny provided the below comment on my post: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Phil Tanny: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Well, the officers interviewed by Hastings are either liars, seriously disturbed individuals, or they are telling the truth.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">If we reject the stories they are telling it seems the burden then falls upon us to provide evidence they are lying or disturbed.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Seeing no such evidence, and finding their reputations and demeanor to be credible, I've chosen to believe them. If new evidence arises which brings their character in to question, I'll of course review my conclusion at that point.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It seems to me Hastings has proven that there have been craft of unknown origin in the vicinity of our nuclear bases. In this interview he seems pretty careful to state that any theories he has beyond that are merely his opinion and not proven fact.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">https://vimeo.com/80881015</span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I think Hastings should be applauded for making a sincere serious effort to study this subject in a manner that is as professional as possible. He's provided us with information which, as he would say himself, we are free to do with as we please.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Science ignores the UFO subject entirely, and most UFO "research" is dreamy wildly speculative trash. </span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Hastings is attempting to do it right, and he deserves respect for the attempt, however one might regard his conclusions.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A final thought. UFO believers only have to be right one time to win the day, whereas UFO skeptics have to defeat each and every one of the thousands of reports.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">First, the burden falls squarely on the shoulders of those who make a claim. It is the inability to qualify the claim which causes me to reject the story. That I had taken considerable personal time to research such claims was a means to satisfy my professional curiosity and shows a respectful deference to those officer's that had made the claims. In other words, I gave numerous stories due consideration and in the end have rejected them for the various reasons mentioned in the many blog posts listed on this site. I might add that all were free to make comment on this blog, but had chosen to be silent...that of course is their right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As far as Hastings' "sincere serious effort to study this subject..." That depends on the cases which he chooses to propagate. The few which I've looked in depth at leaves me unconvinced due to the distortion of memories over time, the changing nature of the individual narratives and his lack of understanding of the weapon systems involved. Frankly, Mr. Hastings has the tendency to pound a round peg into a square hole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Despite my misgivings about Hastings' research, I do agree that in the end one must look at his information and be free to do with as one please. I merely provide alternative possibilities to the alleged UFO encounters involving our nuclear ICBM forces. This information I provide and one is free to do with it as pleased. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The problem is that UFO believers state that they are right all of the time, yet provide, at best, poor evidence to support their claim. BTW, you commented on a post involving Robert Salas. Curious, you made no defense of his claim. Salas is a prime example of offering a decades old story that has morphed so many times over the years. There is no documentation that supports his story nor have anyone come forward that provided support for his story. There would have been at a minimum 8 people above ground at Salas' alert facility. The devil's in the details, Mr. Tanny, or in this case the lack of details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I'll provide more of Mr. Tanny's comments in a later post.</span>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-29140277976566706462017-08-03T18:50:00.001-07:002017-08-03T18:50:50.984-07:00UFOs and Earthquakes<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wrote this up a few years ago and it's been in the draft section of the blog. It's based on an old Persinger paper covering "UFO" lights secondary to plate tectonic stress release...visible energy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recently came across an old (1988) research paper authored by Michael Persinger titled, "Geophysical Varibles and Behavior: Epidemiological Considerations for Incidence of Cancer and Depression in Areas of Frequent UFO Reports."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Persinger's paper was published in Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1988. The crux of the paper deals with radon gas and electromagnetic fields releasing as a precursor to seismic activity (earthquakes). Though this paper is 24 years old, researchers are still looking at the validity of increasing electromagnetic field spikes prior to earth quake activity. Persinger's paper has a UFO angle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pesinger briefly explores the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Anomalous luminous displays, often described as verified UFO reports, hypothesized to be generated by local, intense and brief tectonic strain fields.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Luminous displays are an extreme manifestation of tectonic strain fields.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. In an active region of seismic activity, intense electromagnetic fields might occur briefly, but with increase frequency over a prolong period of time, lasting months to years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. From an epidemiological stand point, it is possible that tectonic strain fields may have two possible causation for cancer: a) penetrating magnetic component of extremely low frequency or pulsed radio frequency ranges and b) the release of radon gas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Time varying exposure to these magnetic fields may correlate to increase psychiatric disorders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a. nocturnal alterations in pineal melatonin, effecting serotonin pathways.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> b. variants of temporal lobe dysfunction/lability.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> c. brief seizure activity affecting the brain's limbic structures further affecting cognitive functioning, ie, changes in memory and behavior.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> d. if above is true, then after each tectonic event there should be an increase of psychiatric disorders in the affected geographical region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Noted areas in which luminous phenomena were highly localized for several months:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a. Uinta Basin (1967)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> b. Carman, Manitoba (1975-76)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> c. Zeitoun, Egypt (1968-69)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> d. Hessdalen, Norway (1984-85)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> e. Historically, possible most intense single focal display occurred in 1917, several thousand viewing bright luminosity near Fatima, Portuagal (the vision of Mary).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Two high-risk groups : individuals who have a singular very intense close encounter with luminous phenomena, and those who have intermittent, frequent exposures over a lifetime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a. UFO field investigators due to working in the vicinity of luminous phenomena.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> b. UFO field researchers would be predicted to be prone brain tumors, testicular cancer, and leukemia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> c. Temporal lobe dysfunction symptoms: delusions, extreme egocentric interpretation of events, belief in personal destiny, and a sense of presence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Per Persinger's closing statement, "The magnitude of the effect is difficult to predict in light of the likely variable exposure schedules and unclear dosimetry of tectonic strain fields; many UFO investigators have no actual history of close proximity of luminous phenomena...Obviously not every field investigator or person who has had a single intense expo</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sure to such phenomena would develop these disorders. However, at such expected incidence levels, the presence of a tectonic strain factor should be evident in a controlled epidemiological study."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After mentally digesting Persinger's key elements presented above and keeping in mind that this is a 24 year old paper, certain components need to be looked at in today's understanding of the subject matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is there evidence that prior to earthquake activity there is spiking of electromagnetic fields?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Wired Magazine, 12/14/2007,<a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/earthquake_alarm"><span style="color: blue;"> "Evidence Mounts for Electromagnetic Earthquake Precursors"</span></a>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"> Scientists revealed data Thursday that an electromagnetic alarm might have preceded a 2007 earthquake in Northern California. The evidence could offer support to a controversial theory that mysterious and little-understood signals might offer fair warning for imminent catastrophic earthquakes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Note to Reader: This blog post was written and held in draft before the strong Easter Sunday earthquake of 2010 which was centered near El Centro, Ca/Mexicali area of Mexico. It was felt in San Diego with a magnitude in the 6s. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to provide abstracts and snippets from peer reviewed journals in relation to UFOs, alien abductions and close encounters. This is really what lured me into posting about the phenomena.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My general view, based on my current profession, is that some UFO related encounters have a psychological component, and to a rare occasion, a psychiatric element. That's not to mean that people who see something are psychotic, on the contrary, the sighting may be very real, but information (missing) may lead to an illogical conclusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I've been exploring the possibility of brief neuro-physiological conditions that induce momentary </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">psycho-pathological events that alter the perception of reality or conscious awareness.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> This may involve the increase in neural transmitters in the neuronal synapses caused by stress or an undetected </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">physiological</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">condition</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em;">This article investigates the possible role of metaphorical thinking in psychotic delusions. Twenty-five participants with delusions were asked to give an account of how their ideas had formed and to describe recent experiences relevant to their delusional beliefs. The data suggest that for some participants there may have been a crucial period when the person has unusual experiences, psychosocial difficulties, and made attempts involving metaphor/metonymy to understand these experiences. Furthermore, some participants reported very recent unusual experiences using metaphorical terms, and we speculate on the possibility that the content of the metaphors contributes to a continuation of psychotic experience. The data form a series of case illustrations and are exploratory. No generalizations can be made, but the presence of significant metaphors and metonymy in 11 out of 25 case histories suggests the process may be an important one. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em;">We end by outlining a theoretical model of how metaphors might contribute to the formation of delusions: it is suggested that delusional statements are intended to be literal statements, but report on experiences transformed by metaphorical meaning. This transformation involves the ‘fusion’ of conceptual domains.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em;">There was no UFO componet in his delusional thinking, but bizarre none the less, as the rock group KISS played a predominate role in the delusion. KISS was based on a obscure planet in our solar system and apparently it's band members played an important role in protecting the Earth, if not the galaxy. KISS was the metaphoric incarnation of universal salvation for my patient, that is, it's how he had perceived it to be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em;">This young man kept a journal consisting of his rambling thoughts. True to form, as it is with schizophrenics, the writings were fragmented, circumstantial, with tangential patterns. Over the course of months, I would discover that there was a pattern. I could piece the fragments together and what would unfold was a complete story line...still bizarre in detail...but none the less, a complete piece of work. Again the individual band members played an important role (messianic?). They were the metaphor as described by Rhodes and Jakes.</span><br />
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Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-64161009039550070302017-07-28T14:51:00.000-07:002017-07-28T19:50:41.082-07:00What is important with a blog? Readership or comments?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My friend Rich Reynolds over at <a href="https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2017/07/my-blog-readers-my-blog-commenters.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">UFO Conjectures</span></a> appears to be lamenting not his readership numbers but comments from said readers. So I ask the question: What is more important, readers or comments?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Rich's tomes tend to be that of merging classical literature, art, theology with attempts to explain the UFO and/or ET phenomena. I've no qualms with that approach as it provides enlightenment for his readers and challenges that readership to look at the classics. It's an interesting approach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But his approach does cut down on comments, yet it does provide a swell of viewers, I being one of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If I use this <span style="color: black;">blog</span> as an example, you'll see the same, plenty of readers but not quite the numbers of comments. I've long accepted this to be the case and have no problems with it. It's the readership that matters. My views are being considered...not accepted or rejected...but considered. This is not to mean that these views may well have been outright rejected, but at least someone has taken the time to read and comprehend what I'm all about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Further, I write as I would speak...simple and easy to understand. That does not mean that I can not wax prose and communicate in the highest standards of academia or obtuse intellectualism. I can easily convert to that form, but find it very stuffy and off putting, if not outright stupid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The subject tends to be complicated, why not explain it in the most simplest form?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://timhebert2.blogspot.com/">https://timhebert2.blogspot.com/</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, Echo Flight: The Makings of a UFO Myth, 2122 current views.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://timhebert3.blogspot.com/">https://timhebert3.blogspot.com/</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, Oscar Flight: A mysterious UFO Tale Never Was, 1441 current views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Very little comments, yet slowly but surely spreading my alternative theory for anyone to consider. This and the above works/opinions are what I want to be known for.</span><br />
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Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-57717218216968576662017-07-28T10:12:00.001-07:002017-07-28T10:12:33.417-07:00Interesting comments on my Sercy, Arkansas Titan II posts<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some years ago, I posted the sad story about the tragedy that occurred at the Titan II site located near Sercy, Arkansas back in 1965. Site 373-4 was undergoing contractor work in the launch tube/silo when a flash fire occurred killing 53 civilians that were trapped in the enclosed structure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had asked the question if the site was "haunted" and over the years I've accumulated comments from those crew members that pulled alert at the site after the tragic event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The post can be accessed <a href="http://timhebert.blogspot.com/2012/01/titan-ii-complex-373-4-was-it-really.html?showComment=1500222905699#c1687150620477727548" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a> with the comments from those crew members.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've also posted briefly on the explosion and subsequent destruction of the Titan II site [374-7] near Damascus, Arkansas which occurred on Sept 18, 1980. The story and photos of the sites total destruction can be Googled.</span>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-68140254853714455962017-06-28T11:13:00.000-07:002017-06-28T11:18:43.773-07:00David Schindele "It Never Happened"<span style="font-family: "arial";">Retired Air Force officer David Schindele has recently published a book, <a href="http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2017/06/book-tells-about-air-force-ufo-incidents/"><span style="color: blue;">"It Never Happened."</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span> Mr. Schindele was a Minuteman launch officer assigned to Minot AFB, ND back in the late 1960s. [1965-1968]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Is this the same incident that the late David Schuur reported while on alert at a Minot site back in the late 1960s? I wrote a <a href="http://timhebert.blogspot.com/2010/12/did-ufo-attempt-to-launch-minot-afb.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">blog post back in 2010</span></a> looking into Schuur's story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Note: Mr. Schindele's book is listed on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0998689041/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0998689041&linkCode=as2&tag=thufch-20&linkId=af2625d8dc5b76ec721da1f6b31d6b94" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>.</span></div>
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Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-75653202598407687252017-06-28T00:15:00.000-07:002017-06-28T00:15:23.483-07:00Observing the "Hard Problem" of Consciousness in a Clinical Setting<span style="font-family: Arial;">Most have heard of the concept of the "hard problem" of consciousness. David Chalmers describes it as the understanding of qualia. What is the description of the color of red, or describe the scent of a rose. Such is the difficult concept of defining consciousness which is still allusive to this day.</span><br />
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<br />Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-24473843389168150192017-06-07T13:43:00.001-07:002017-06-07T13:43:30.627-07:00A Paradigm Shift for this Blog?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you noticed, I'm gradually shifting the blog postings away from the UFO topic. UFOs tend to bore me at this point. Its a waste of time both personally and intellectual-wise. That's not to mean that I view the endeavors of others as a waste of time...that's their choice, but for me it's a distraction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The brain is a most fascinating organ. It functions like a computer syphoning data from our eyes, ears, nose, and taste buds providing a complex map of how we view our external environment. Yet, unlike a computer, the brain's "operating system" is vague and open to many interpretations...what is the basis for consciousness?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As complex as the brain, it's not a stand alone organ. The moment the heart stops beating and circulation is interrupted we lose consciousness. Restore circulation within a specific period of time, consciousness is restored. I'm simplifying it, because there are numerous issues that could occur with brain functionality, but never the less, consciousness can be restored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Metabolic imbalances and pathogens effect the functions of the brain resulting in altered states of consciousness in the form of deliriums. But altered states does not wipe out entirely one's consciousness. It continues to exist and functions even in a disadvantaged state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Is there a free will component? Yes, as we have the opportunity to freely change lanes and consciously attempt to drive in a safe manner as we are aware of the consequences of our actions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Note to readers, my use of the term "free will" is a personal preference as modern day philosophy and psychology discourage the term, but circumvent this by substituting "choice" as way of defining the decisions we make when faced with numerous options or actions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So there we have it. My personal model of a crude version of the multiverse. Numerous little universes existing side-by-side.</span></div>
<br />Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-15131014822791056622017-06-01T20:06:00.000-07:002017-06-01T20:06:18.135-07:00Consciousness and UFOs<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can consciousness explain UFOs?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This is a curios question, but worthy of pondering. Both subjects are difficult to qualify as consciousness is a poorly understood reality while UFOs may be an abstract product of the other. To look at this further, one has to separate the two with the hopes of defining each subject.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above via Wikipedia is a decent definition, but based on years of observation and interaction with individuals suffering from neurological insults, I believe that "quality" of awareness can be omitted. So consciousness is the state of awareness that is not dependent on quality as this is purely a subjective term that an outside observer would attach independent of the observed individual.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Someone suffering from the total degradation of cognition still presents as conscious and he/she attempts to interact or interpret the environment [milieu]. Interesting observations have shown to me that these individuals are quiet aware of who they are...the have a sense of self-awareness. They know their names; they respond to their names. They may not know where they are, the current date, age, or the names of spouses/children, but they know that they exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I believe that it's possible to say that consciousness exists somewhat independent of cognition. But if we throw in all of the cognitive functions, such as, memory, learning, judgement, spatial, and executive functioning, we are presented with an operative functioning neuro-system. But, these functionalities appear to be somewhat loosely independent of consciousness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte">An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena.</span></blockquote>
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<span title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"><br /></span>
<span title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again from Wikipedia, we have a decent definition of the term "UFO." The first part of the definition is spot on: "...object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon..." But the crux of the UFO cultural understanding is the last part, "...popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin..." This last part tends to be the universal definition.</span></span><br />
<span title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span>
<span title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may recall that some years back I had spotted an object moving at high speed through my telescope and wrote a post about it. To me, it was obviously a satellite of some kind, but I had one person commenting that I may have indeed seen an object of the ET variety...I did not.</span></span><br />
<span title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span>
<span title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"><span style="font-family: "arial";">But nonetheless, one's consciousness would be aware of the UFO as an external object. The ability to comprehend the UFO would therefore fall under the realm of cognitive functioning, ie, memory, learning, judgement, etc. As I had postulated in a previous post using a behavioral component with possible conditioning, then the individual is left to whatever interpretation fits his/her mental framework.</span></span><br />
<span title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span>
<span title="An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is in its strictest definition any apparent object in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. However the term is widely used in popular culture to refer more specifically to supposed observations of craft of extraterrestrial origin. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. Some of them are not identified, either because of lack of evidence or because no conventional explanation can be found despite exte"><span style="font-family: "arial";">One's consciousness is aware of the UFO, but the actual interpretation of the object is an abstract construct of cognition. The object may well exist in reality, but one must remember that reality is how things truly exist, not as they appear, nor how they are imagined.</span></span><br />
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<br />Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-55506557990374711022017-05-21T12:36:00.000-07:002017-05-22T20:13:05.145-07:00Existing in Different Realities <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reality is an interesting concept. Basically its the mental question that we ask on a second by second basis: "What is real?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, not as it appears or as it is imagined. Are UFOs a reality? That depends on how you view reality which in turn goes to state of mind. And most importantly, that reality may be intractably imbedded in relativism. I'll touch on the concept of relativism in a later post, but it is the biggest obstacle we face when discussing the UFO subject both from a skeptical and believer point of view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can we exist in different competing realities? The obvious answer is yes. I use a personal example of living in two different versions of reality...and both were real, existing side by side, but one totally hidden from the other, yet meeting the textbook definition of reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Most know by now that back in the early 1980s I was a missile officer for the old Strategic Air Command...I was on a Minuteman II launch crew pulling nuclear alerts at Malmstrom AFB, MT. Rather than live on base, my wife and I lived in the local community of Great Falls proper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We initially lived in an apartment then saved up to buy a small home. Along the way my daughter was born. During this time I was subjected to the realities that come with living in a local economy. I had rent/mortgage to pay along with the usual utility bills. Gas was $1.15 per gallon and I bitched and moaned about that. Social outlets were movies, occasional eating out at local restaurants, and road trips around that beautiful state called Montana. This was the normal reality that most Americans were living in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Contrast that to going out on nuclear alerts. Getting up at 5 or 6 am depending if I had packed my crew bag the night before. Pre-departure briefing at 7 am. Because I was in the 490th SMS, I could anticipate a 2 to 3 hour drive to the site. Once the alert commenced time changed as I was no longer clocking time in Pacific Standard local, but now under Zulu [GMT]. There was no visual references for day or night. It was noisy as cold air was being blown into the equipment racks to keep them from overheating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There would be a constant flow of message traffic [we were in a higher state of DEFCON] via the Primary Alerting System. A warble tone...deedle, deedle, deedle</span> ...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Sky Bird, Sky Bird, the is the SAC Airborne Command Post with a test of the primary alerting system...acknowledge." This would go on with SAC HQ, 15th Air Force HQ and 8th Air Force HQ...all day and that does not include the myriad of Emergency Alert Messages that hit the command net. I was surrounded by motor generator noise, radio traffic, communication racks discharging messages, buzzers and ringing bells. Throw in the constant SAC exercises for good measure to complete the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The above two mentioned realities co-existed side by side, yet one was totally hidden from the other. So yes it is possible for two different realities to exist as both reflected things as they actually existed despite appearances and one's imagination. </span>Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.com0