TULSA'S MOTHER SHIP OF 1966

From the files of my book, SOONER SAUCERS, one of my favorite - and almost unknown stories of Oklahoma UFO's. Sept. 1966, Tulsa.

As I learned early in my research, one has to go deep - into the witness reports and associated data on a event in Project Blue Book. Read them and not the conclusions made by others. Some with the Project had little faith in people and so ignored everything they said anyway. Several, including Dr. Menzel, had presuppositions that belied adherence to an open mind and the potential for learning new things.

As a result, when the spin-doctors finished with this event, well to read the summary of this event, it looks pretty ho-hum.

Then when one digs deeper, scanning the sketch included by the witness and the parts left out of his statement by AF officials - it gets - interesting.

The witness saw the object officials would label a plane disappear into a vast dark mass of a craft....That part, however, never made it into the final public explanation of the event.

THE LATEST UFO/UAP Report

 UFO SKIES: Is It Disclosure? In a Manner of Speaking...

One of the great mysteries of all time: are we alone in the universe? The topic of UFO/UAP phenomena has been around for many centuries. Kenneth Arnold's famed sighting of June 1947 - days before the Roswell Event - appeared to coin a term for the objects: flying saucers. In reality, that term can be found in a North Texas newspaper of the 1870's when a farmer described the strange object that sailed past overhead at great speed.

The Roswell Event - where the Army released they had one of the "saucers" and then they promptly recanted that and buried the story beneath a hard-to-swallow tale that painted the local military personnel of Roswell (then the only base for planes carrying nuclear weapons) and the local people of Roswell as ignorant yokels. Digging the knife into any would-be witnesses and all those who had said they had seen something were top brass, talking heads, and newspapers all with one agenda: ridicule anyone who says they have seen one of these things! One top ranking military officer inferred the only state not reporting seeing things in the sky was Kansas because it was a "dry state."  Thus, if you see anything you have to be drunk.  Reputation ruined. Period. By the way, Kansas had its own reports as well.

It is truly amazing to see the shift in how news, governments, and others are speaking about this subject. After, decades of the mandatory tone being ridicule, this tone of acceptance and recognition of the topic as a science-worthy field of discussion is amazing. 

 Major news outlets that once led with tongue-in-cheek speak about "little green men" (which was a way of casting the subject in the same arena as little pink elephants and not a reference to any green aliens!) are sitting up, adjusting their ties and hairdos and looking serious and somber as they file the story under, "series news."  

Amazing.

So, while it may not be the tell all disclosure some envisioned what is happening, and hopefully, will continue to happen, is to bring the subject into the room for serious discussion. 

While the very brief report released to the public says little, it does say some powerful things. It says the UFO/UAP is a real object based on scientific equipment that tracked them, based on highly qualified witnesses who saw them, and video evidence they could not refute.

The task force was mandated to study the best cases and present a report. From those best cases they were able to identify only one.  Then the task force recommendations read like reports presented by Dr. J. Allen Hynek decades ago: better science, more rigor, more study, and the openness to learn and accept what is discovered.

Now - governments and private groups - should come together to discover more and share more with a public unafraid of what may be discovered.

 So the UFOs Are Real. Now What? (msn.com)

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Be sure and read Marilyn A. Hudson's book, SOONER SAUCERS: Oklahoma UFO's 1947 to 1969. Available on Amazon.