SUBJECT: MYSTERY CRAFT HAUNT CALIFORNIA AIR BASES            FILE: UFO3102





         MUFONET-BBS GROUP  -  MUFONET-BBS NETWORK
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     Operation Right To Know Newsletter, Vol. 1, No.4
                  September/October 1992
     Posted at the request of Operation Right To Know

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�         MYSTERY CRAFT HAUNT CALIFORNIA AIR BASES           �
�                                                            �
�By Hal McKenzie                                             �
�                                                            �
�  Sightings of strange craft have become commonplace in     �
�southern California's Antelope Valley, particularly near Air�
�Force bases and supersecret aerospace research facilities   �
�called "skunk works," according to Bill Hamilton, an        �
�independent UFO investigator in Glendale.                   �
�                                                            �
�  A dark, triangular, silent object has been sighted by     �
�independent witnesses from Lancaster all the way to         �
�Hesperia, Hamilton said in a phone interview. The object    �
�seemed to be moving along the northern boundary of the San  �
�Gabnel Mountains on an eastwest trajectory. The object has  �
�been seen "quite frequently within the last 10 months,"     �
�Hamilton said.                                              �
�                                                            �
�  Hamilton cited a news report of a United Airlines 747     �
�jumbo jet that nearly collided with a mysterious, wingless  �
�craft on August 5. Aviation Week & Space Technology, in its �
�August 24 issue described the encounter this way:           �
�                                                            �
�  "The pilot and copilot of United flight 934, with a heavy �
�passenger load from Los Angeles to London, said they saw an �
�unusual aircraft coming directly at them and pass under the �
�747 by an estimated 500-1,000 feet. The incident occurred   �
�near George AFB at about 1:45 p.m. on August 5. The 747 was �
�at 23,000 ft. departing from Los Angeles International      �
�Airport on a heading of about 40 deg. magnetic . . .        �
�                                                            �
�  "The several-second sighting gave the crew the impression �
�that the other aircraft was a lifting-body configuration,   �
�and they described it as looking like the forward fuselage  �
�of a Lockheed SR-71--without wings but with a tail of sorts.�
�They estimated the size as similar to an F-16.              �
�                                                            �
�* Hints of Secrets                                          �
�                                                            �
�  "Defense Dept. and Air Force officials said late last     �
�week that it was not one of their secret projects," the     �
�AvWeek article continued. " 'But we're not the only ones    �
�with strange projects,' he added, referring to the CIA and  �
�other organizations [our emphasis]." Was this an inadvertent�
�tip-off of secret tests of alien technology conducted by    �
�shadowy ultra-secret government agencies outside the regular�
�military?                                                   �
�                                                            �
�  Hamilton also said there were "one or two reports of big  �
�boomerangs being sighted in the Lancaster area" of a type   �
�seen frequently over upstate New York and Belgium, some of  �
�which witnesses estimated to be 2-3 football fields in span.�
�He said it was significant that the sightings took place in �
�and around airspace controlled by the military, at Edwards  �
�AFB and George AFB, as well as an FAA facility for the Los  �
�Angeles area near Palmdale and other aerospace facilities.  �
�When asked about the boomerangs, authorities "just deny     �
�knowing anything about it," Hamilton said.                  �
�                                                            �
�  Hamilton said that last summer, when there was heavy      �
�sighting activity in Antelope Valley, he called the Public  �
�Affairs officer at Edwards AFB. "He didn't dispute it, but  �
�said there was a lot of secret projects in the valley,"     �
�Hamilton said. "He told me he wanted to take some fast film �
�and see it himself." The FAA denied any radar contact,      �
�Hamilton said.                                              �
�                                                            �
�*  Discs and Boomerangs                                     �
�                                                            �
�  Hamilton said that on several occasions in the last two   �
�years there were suspicious sightings near "skunk works," or�
�top-secret research and development facilities in the       �
�valley. He said that at a Northrop facility, witnesses saw a�
�"disc hovering directly over the facility in broad daylight,�
�streaking off toward the mountains.                         �
�                                                            �
�  "Back in October 26, 1988, witnesses saw two large        �
�boomerangs escorted by about 17 discs in formation, at very �
�slow speed, that flew over the Northrop facility, and was   �
�seen that night in Fresno. A friend who saw it pass directly�
�overhead estimated it was twice the width of his property,  �
�which was 330 feet wide," Hamilton said.                    �
�                                                            �
�=END=                                                       �
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