Het Evangelie der UFO-getuigenOp 27 september 2010 vond er in de National Press Club in Washington DC een Disclosure plaats door getuigen uit het Amerikaanse Leger. Vrijgegeven overheidsdocumenten en getuigenissen van voormalige of gepensioneerde personeelsleden van het Amerikaanse Leger bevestigen zonder enige twijfel de realiteit van voortdurende, plotselinge binnenkomst van UFOs bij sites met atoombom-raketten. Deze UFOs zijn door de getuigen beschreven als schotelvormig, cylindervormig, of sferisch. Deze objecten zijn in staat tot onvoorstelbaar snelle vliegbewegingen, over het algemeen in complete stilte. Het gaat de afgelopen 37 jaar om meer dan 120 getuigen. Het gaat om waarnemingen bij nucleaire raketinstallaties, opslagplaatsen van atoombommen en plaatsen waar deze bommen in het tijdperk van bovengrondse atoomproeven werden getest in Nevada en de Stille Zuidzee. Wij geloven dat bezoekers van een andere wereld belang stelden in de nucleaire wapenwedloop die begon bij de beëindiging van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Betreffende de "Nuclear Missiles Shutdown Incidents" geloven wij dat de bezoekers hiermee een boodschap wilden geven aan zowel Washington als (onder andere) Moskou : - Jullie spelen met vuur! Het bezit en de dreiging van het gebruik van deze wapens bedreigen het voortbestaan van de menselijke soort en de integriteit van de planetaire omgeving.
HET EVANGELIE VAN ECHO OSCAR INDIA Getuige ROBERT SALAS 1967 -1ste luitenant Malmstrom AFB (Air Force Base), Montana -Missile launch officer "Op 24 maart 1967 was ik werkzaam in Oscar Flight, een ondergrondse capsule, ongeveer 18 meter onder de grond. Boven bevonden zich veiligheidsbewakers, het hoofd daarvan heet FSC (Flight Security Controller). Mijn commandant was luitenant Fred Meiwald, nu gepensioneerd kolonel Meiwald. In de avonduren van 24 maart kreeg ik een telefoontje van de FSC: - We observeren vreemde lichten in de lucht die merkwaardige bewegingen maken... kun je dat rapporteren? Vijf minuten later belde hij nogmaals, hij schreeuwde in de hoorn van zijn telefoon: - Er hangt een rood gloeiend object precies boven de hoofdingang, 9 meter in diameter. Het pulseert. Alle bewakers zijn hier buiten, dit is doodeng. Wat moeten we doen! - Zorg ervoor dat er niets binnen het hek komt, antwoordde ik. Ik belde Meiwald die aan het pauzeren was. Ik vertelde hem het verhaal en juist op dat moment werd ik gealarmeerd dat de raketten in een "No-Go"-toestand raakten, wat betekent dat ze niet gelanceerd konden worden. Ze waren ge-disabled, terwil dit object nog steeds boven onze site zweefde, boven onze LCF (Launch Control Facility). We rapporteerden het incident aan de commando-post. Er gingen ook waarschuwingslampjes branden dat er indringers zouden zijn, dus belde ik de bovenwacht, de FSC, en gaf opdracht een security team op onderzoek te laten gaan. De FSC vertelde me dat het object met hoge snelheid verdwenen was. In stilte, zonder lawaai te maken. Toen verlieten de bewakers de LCF en zagen het object opnieuw, terwijl radiocontact onmogelijk was. Maar er gebeurde verder niets. We hebben de security alarms gereset. Alle controle systemen zijn ondergronds; bovengrondse bewakers zijn niet in staat daar enige invloed op uit te oefenen. De raketten waren nu onbruikbaar, daarom lieten we een onderhoudsteam komen om ze weer "on alert" te krijgen. Het probleem bleek een falen te zijn van het "Guidance & Control"-systeem. De volgende morgen brachten we rapport uit aan Malmstrom Base, aan de squadron commandant. Hij werd lijkbleek, hij wist geen verklaring, er was geen sprake van een luchtmachtoefening. Er was daarbij ook iemand aanwezig van de Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Hij bevool ons te zwijgen. Ik moest een non-disclosure statement ondertekenen. Ik zweeg totdat ik in het boek "Above Top Secret" van Timothy Good op pagina 301 een paragraaf las over een "No-Go", waarbij UFOs in het spel zouden zijn. Op dat moment, met hulp van mijn onderzoeker James Klotz, verzochten we de Air Force documenten te sturen over de Shutdown. We vermeden het woord UFO zorgvuldig. Ik wist niet meer precies of ik op 24 maart op Echo Flight of op Oscar Flight dienst had gehad. De Air Force was bereid het "Echo Flight"-incident te declassificeren. Toen ik met Fred Meiwald op 25 maart rapport uitbracht aan Malmstrom Base, vertelde Fred dat hetzelfde was gebeurt op een andere site, ongeveer een week eerder. Hoogstwaarschijnlijk verwees Meiwald naar het "Echo Flight"-incident. Na de declassificatie van dit incident, voelde ik dat ik niet langer hoefde te zwijgen. Niet alleen de 10 missiles van Oscar Flight - waar ik die avond dienst had - gingen down, maar op 16 maart gebeurde hetzelfde bij Echo Flight, en daarover ontvingen we uitgebreide informatie dankzij de Freedom of Information Act. We hebben een getuige, Walt Figel (de "Deputy Missile Crew Commander" van Echo Flight). Ik heb een aantal brieven over het incident van Eric Carlson, de commandant van Echo Flight. En kolonel Meiwald gaf me in 1996 een telefonisch interview over deze zaak. Ik heb dat gesprek opgenomen en hij gaf me permissie er gebruik van te maken. We hebben geluidsopnamen van getuigen, geschreven statements, en documenten van de Air Force om mijn getuigenis te ondersteunen." Getuige DWYNN ARNESON
-natuurkundige/wiskundige -26 jaar werkzaam voor de Air Force, als communicatie- en elektronica officier (o.a. in Vietnam) -Clearances: top secret, crypto, special compartment information, talent keyhole 1967 -officer in charge van het communicatie-centrum van de 20ste luchtmachtdivisie in Great Falls, Montana -Crypto custodian -Top secret control officer voor de divisie -verantwoordelijk voor nucleaire launch authenticators "Van maart van dat jaar heb ik een scherpe herinnering van een boodschap in mijn communicatie-centrum over het incident waar Bob (Robert Salas) van getuigde, dat een UFO in feite bij diverse missile silo's een shutdown veroorzaakte. In de jaren 1970, rond 1975, was ik commandant bij een radar site in Maine, bij Loring AFB (Air Force Base). Daar hadden we periodiek bijeenkomsten met de SAC security police. Ik herinner me precies dat ze ons twee keer vertelden dat er UFOs gezien werden boven plaatsen waar we atoombommen hadden opgeslagen, bij Loring AFB en SAC Bomber Base. Ik heb verder geen details gehoord of er "nukes" werden beschadigd of gedeactiveerd, ik heb er geen rapport van gezien. Na mijn werk bij de AF ging ik bij Boeing aan de slag als Computersystemen Analyst. Eén van mij supervisors bij Boeing was Robert Kaminski (inmiddels overleden). Deze ingenieur werd door Boeing uitgezonden om onderzoek te doen naar de Shutdowns. Hij woonde vlak bij mij in Washington State, en vaak bespraken we o.a. het UFO-fenomeen. Hij zei: - Arnie, those things were perfectly clean & they did not go down by themselves! Hij vertelde me dat halverwege het onderzoek de AF een boodschap naar Boeing stuurde: - Stop het onderzoek en zendt ons géén rapport, géén rapport. Robert vertelde me dat een aantal keer. Concluderend, ik ben al 60 jaar bezig met het bestuderen van UFOs (1950-2010) en ben ervan overtuigd dat iemand "out there" ons een boodschap probeert te geven. Getuige ROBERT JAMISON -van januari 1965 tot oktober 1967 werkzaam op Malmstrom AFB -commandant van het "combat missile targeting team". Hun taak: de raketten op de juiste doelen richten, soms een herstart verrichten als een missile "off alert" gaat en daarbij de "target"-gegevens verifiëren In maart 1967 kreeg ik een telefoontje van Job Control: - Er is een missile down in Oscar Flight. Ga ernaar toe voor een herstart. Zoiets gebeurde wel vaker. We gingen naar de hangar, en daar kwamen kennisen op me af: - Bob, weet je wat er gebeurd is? Er is een UFO gezien boven Roy, en op dat moment gingen álle missiles down. (Roy ligt in Montana vlakbij Lewistown; Oscar Flight is bij Roy.) Wel, dat was hoogst ongebruikelijk, alle missiles down. Ik nam contact op met Job Control. Zij bevestigden dat alle missiles down waren, de hele Oscar Flight was down. Ik zei: - That doesn't happen. Hij zei: - Toch wel, en een week geleden gebeurde het ook. Een UFO werd gezien boven Echo Flight en ook daar gingen alle missiles down. Job Control vertelde ook dat eerder die dag een UFO was gespot boven Belt, Montana, een kleine stad ten oosten van Maolmstrom. Deze UFO dook in een canyon. De AF werd erop af gestuurd en zag een licht op de bodem van de canyon. Job Control zei: - Ga naar de Emergency Command Post die ze ingericht hebben in de briefing-kamer van de kolonel. Het was er erg druk, en ik kwam er niet achter wat er precies aan de hand was. Ik wilde mijn team gereed te maken. Ik ging naar de debriefing, waar ze normaal gesproken vertellen over terrein- en weersituaties. En toen werd me verteld naar een andere tafel te gaan voor een speciale briefing. Ik ging erheen, en een andere NCO benaderde me, ik kende hem omdat hij wel vaker onze debriefer of briefer was. Hij zei: - Kijk, we hebben een probleem. Er zijn UFOs in de buurt, en ze hebben gerotzooid met onze missile sites. Er zijn procedures vastgesteld wat je moet doen als je er één ziet wanneer je in het veld bent. Als jullie onderweg een UFO| zien, ga dan níet naar de launcher, maar naar de dichtstbijzijnde LCF (launch control facility). Neem dan contact op met Job Control en laat ze weten wat je doet. Als jullie net bij een site zijn en die binnengaan, stop dan waar je mee bezig bent, en verlaat de site, en neem radiocontact op met Job Control. En wacht dan op verdere instructies. Als jullie ter plekke zijn en aan het werk, zorg dan dat je met het team en de tapes (met de atoombom-doelen) in de launcher gaat, en zorg dat het luik goed dicht zit. Alle teams hebben in het veld een bewapende beveiliger bij zich. Dat is gebruikelijk. Deze blijft altijd achter boven, helemaal alleen. Hij behoort aan Job Control of de LCF te rapporteren wat hij gezien heeft. Hij vervolgde: - Nog één ding. Ga nog niet op pad. We willen eerst zeker weten dat alle activiteiten in het veld gestopt zijn. We hebben nog anderhalf uur gewacht voordat we mochten gaan. We gingen naar Oscar Flight, 120 mijl over hobbelig terrein in een AF-truck. Daar hebben we drie (of vier) missiles herstart. De start-up was succesvol. Ik zag geen incidenten in het veld. Toen we terugkwamen volgde de debriefing. Ik vroeg hem: - Hoe zit het met de UFO in Belt? Hij zei: - Zodra het licht is. sturen we helicopters. Maar toen het licht werd, schoot de UFO omhoog en verdween. Een week later hoorde ik dat er een UFO gezien werd boven India Flight, en dat daar een gedeeltelijke Shutdown plaats vond, 4 of 5 missiles op "No-Go". Ik werd erop uit gestuurd en heb minstens 2 ervan herstart." |
Valse getuigenissenNatuurlijk is niet iedereen blij met dit Evangelie. James Carlson, de zoon van de commandant van Echo Flight, is bereid gevonden - of onder druk gezet - het verhaal te debunken. Zo wordt het een welles-nietes verhaal, waarbij we James moeten geloven om wat hij schrijft, en waarbij we de Getuigen moeten geloven om wat ze gezegd hebben, live voor de camera's. Waar is de leugendetector?
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James Carlson: In this manuscript I debunk completely the Echo Flight UFO Incident of March 16, 1967, and prove that the myth of UFO interference with the nuclear weapons systems at Malmstrom AFB in March 1967 is a nothing but a poorly executed lie propogated by Robert Salas, James Klotz, Robert Hastings, Brad Sparks, CUFON, and NICAP -- a lie that has no basis in fact and lacks even the most liberal standards of proof. I've utilized newly discovered documents, in addition to the same documents, interviews, and published statements originally used and badly interpreted to support the belief in UFO interference with the Malmstrom missile systems, in order to destroy in minute, step-by-step detail, every aspect of the claims originally made by Robert Salas and James Klotz in their book "Faded Giant". Fully documented and footnoted, I examine in some detail all sides of this surprisingly well-documented event, reaching the only possible conclusion that UFOs had nothing at all to do with any of the events at Malmstrom in March, 1967 and nothing whatsoever to do with the missile failures that occurred. If you haven't read this book in its entirety, then you do not understand the events that occurred at Echo Flight and elsewhere that March. EN WEDERHOOR
Robert Hastings: Regarding the Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight UFO incident of March 16, 1967--involving the full-flight, 10-missile shutdown that occurred just prior to UFOs being reported to the deputy missile commander on duty, now-retired Col. Walter Figel, by a maintenance team member and a security police team member--some highly relevant facts have been omitted by James Carlson in his recent posts on various websites. To illustrate the problem, on another blog Carlson wrote: Walt Figel and my father were the only people in the room, and Figel has repeatedly stated that he had the impression the guys who said "This UFO must have brought the missiles down" were joking around. In every single interview with him, he has said the same thing: "I thought it was a joke, that these guys were yanking my chain"... What Col. Walt Figel (USAF Ret.) *actually* told me in an audiotaped interview was quite different, something James already knew when he wrote the passage above, because I had earlier posted large excerpts from the interview on the same blog. James' selective editing of Figel's words—regarding the report he got from the Security Alert Team member of a UFO hovering directly over one of Echo’s missile silos—was intended to alter their meaning, to create the spin he requires to make his factually-inaccurate debunking of the Echo Flight UFO incident hold together. VERBATIM EXCERPT FROM MY 10/20/08 INTERVIEW WITH COL. FIGEL: RH: What was the demeanor of the guard you were talking to? WF: Um, you know, I wouldn’t say panicked, or anything [like that]. I was thinking he was yanking my chain more than anything else. RH: But he seemed to be serious to you? WF: He seemed to be serious and I wasn’t taking him seriously. RH: Alright. If it was a large object, did he describe the shape of the object? WF: He just said a large round object. RH: Directly over the LF (Launch Facility)? WF: Directly over the site. END OF EXCERPT After speaking with Figel, in October 2008, I urged James Carlson to call him, to hear all of this from the colonel’s own mouth. James has steadfastly refused to do so, nearly a year-and-a-half later, something one may verify by going to the link above and reviewing his posts on that thread. Carlson says he doesn't need to speak with the other person in the capsule that day because he knows that his "father would never lie to" him. In short, anyone who reads James Carlson’s take on things, including what he says former Minuteman missile launch officer Bob Salas (or Col. Figel or I) supposedly said, and then checks his comments against the original source material, will quickly learn how reckless and selective James is with the facts. A larger excerpt of my telephone conversation with Col. Walter Figel follows here: WF: [At the time of the Echo Flight shutdown] what was unusual was that several of the missiles were open...for some routine maintenance. I don’t remember why. But, uh, at least two of them were running on diesel power so they were not connected to the power grid. I don’t remember if it was three open or four open [but] it was just routine maintenance. Nothing had happened [to the missiles]. It was just the time of the year for routine maintenance. Um, and the day before, there were maintenance teams out there. They had stayed overnight-- RH: Do you know how many maintenance teams were out overnight? WF: You know, I think it was four. It was the two sites that had diesels running and two others. And when maintenance stays overnight they...stay in a camper...When you have maintenance on the site and they’re going to stay overnight, you have a security team on the site. RH: Right. (Break. Figel goes into detail about security procedures.) WF: [When] the missiles dropped off alert, I started calling the maintenance people out there on the radio to talk to them. I had the security guard authenticate so I know I’m talking to a security guard and, you know, [I asked] “What’s going on? Is maintenance trying to get into the silo?” [The guard said,] “No, they’re still in the camper.” [So, I said,] “Get ‘em up, I want to talk to them.” Then I tried to tell them what I had was a Channel 9 No-Go. RH: Uh huh. WF: Uh, we did that with the sites that were there, that [had maintenance teams and their guards on site] and I sent Strike Teams to two other sites. There’s no sense sending them where I [already] have a guard and a gun and an authenticate. RH: Right. WF: Uh— RH: So far in this narrative, you haven’t mentioned UFOs. WF: [Laughs] That’s correct. Um, somewhere along the way, um, one of the maintenance people—cause he didn’t know what was going on any place else either, they have no capability of talking to each other [at different launch sites], in other words, they can talk to the [launch] capsule but they can’t talk to each other-- RH: Right WF: —unless they were on the radio and no one was using the radio except the security police. And the guy says, “We got a Channel 9 No-Go. It must be a UFO hovering over the site. I think I see one here.” [I said,] “Yeah, right, whatever. What were you drinking?” And he tried to convince me of something and I said, well, I basically, you know, didn’t believe him. [Laughs] I said, you know, we have to get somebody to look at this [No-Go]. [A short time later] one of the Strike Teams that went out, one of the two, claimed that they saw something over the site. RH: How did they describe that? WF: Oh, on radio, [they said,] “There’s this large object hovering over the site!” I’ve always been a non-believer [in UFOs] so I said, “Right, sure you do.” [They responded,] “Yeah! Yeah, we do!” So, [I said,] “There’s two of you there, saying so, so write it down in your report.” [The Strike Team leader] said, “What do you want us to do?” [I said,] “Follow your checklist. Go to the site, open it up, and call me.” RH: What was the demeanor of the guard you were talking to? WF: Um, you know, I wouldn’t say panicked, or anything [like that]. I was thinking he was yanking my chain more than anything else. RH: But he seemed to be serious to you? WF: He seemed to be serious and I wasn’t taking him seriously. RH: Alright. If it was a large object, did he describe the shape of the object? WF: He just said a large round object. RH: Directly over the LF? WF: Directly over the site. (BREAK. Figel describes hearing from the maintenance man about his opening up the silo, going down into it, and reporting that even though the missile was offline, nothing was visually damaged or otherwise amiss at the site.) RH: Did he describe the object leaving the scene? WF: No. He never said anything about it again. (BREAK. Figel describes telling all the maintenance teams to stay at their sites until relieved, and not to attempt repairs until told to do so, since the missile silos were in effect “crime scenes”.) RH: When you got the first call, well, when the missiles went down, you didn’t have an inkling of an alleged UFO-involvement until you got the report back from the first Strike Team member? WF: That’s correct. (RH: Actually, upon reviewing the taped conversation with Figel, I realized that the missile maintenance man had apparently mentioned seeing the UFO first.) RH: Okay, uh, and only one of the two teams reported seeing an object? WF: Right. RH: Uh, did you discuss the report with Mr. Carlson—that you were being told that there was a UFO at one of the sites? WF: Um, he could hear it, uh, I mean he was sitting right there, two feet away from me-- RH: So— WF: Whatever I said, he would have heard. (Break. Figel describes going back to Malmstrom with Carlson and being debriefed by “everybody and his brother.”) RH: Did any of the conversations back at squadron headquarters, uh, was there any mention of UFOs? WF: I told them everything everyone told me. No one made any comments or inquiries-- RH: So you did mention the report that you got from the Strike Team? WF: Yes. RH: And no one asked any questions about UFOs per se? WF: No. RH: Did they act skeptically or negatively when you mentioned [the Strike Team’s UFO report]? WF: They just wrote things down. RH: [Laughs] That sounds right. Poker-faced and-- WF: [Laughs] Poker-faced and wrote things down. They just said, “Thank you very much. Don’t talk about it.” I didn’t sign anything, I can tell you that. (Break. Hastings describes similar testimony from other missileers who were debriefed at Malmstrom and other Strategic Air Command bases, following UFO-related incidents in the missile fields.) WF: What did Eric [Carlson] have to say [about the shutdown incident]? (RH had interviewed Carlson two weeks earlier, on 10/6/08) RH: Uh, he said that he couldn’t recall any UFO-involvement in the incident. He couldn’t remember if you had mentioned UFOs, one way or another. His son [James] has now [posted] on a blog, a web log, a couple of lengthy statements in which he defamed Salas, said Salas was a liar, [and said] there was nothing involving UFOs at Echo... WF: Did Eric say anything else that was a discontinuity [relative to what I’ve said]? RH: ...Well, I [told Eric] that you had [heard from] a guard or a maintenance person that there was an object above the site, which you’ve confirmed today-- WF: Yes. RH: —And I asked Eric if he remembered any of that, and he said that he did not. And, um, I asked him why his son would have written this scathing, very negative summary, which I will send [to] you, about the event-- WF: That will be interesting. RH: —calling Salas a liar, and so on and so forth. WF: Well, I didn’t do that. RH: Well, I know, but his son, you know, for whatever reason, his son, James Carlson, has got a bug up his nose and said that nothing happened, there were no reports of UFOs, which you told me is incorrect because you got one. WF: I did! RH: Well, according to James, it was all bull and Salas was basically pulling it out of the air. [Eric] Carlson just, he didn’t really want to talk about it, frankly, but he did answer my questions. He just was kind of circumspect. I can’t say that he’s not being truthful when he says he doesn’t remember talking to you about UFOs, but that’s what he told me. WF: I’m sure we had a long conversation [right after it happened]. I mean, I reported everything to him that I heard or was told. I mean, we were together, you know? [Laughs] RH: Well, it has been 40 years, so we have to take that into account. [That is, the possibility of faded memories.] END OF TELEPHONE TRANSCRIPT So, folks, James Carlson has it all wrong, according to his father’s deputy missile commander that day at Echo Flight, now retired Col. Walter Figel. Actually, James, the presence of a UFO at one of Echo’s missiles was *seriously* reported to Figel, by both a missile maintenance technician and a Security Alert Team member. It was described as a “large, round object”, hovering directly over the launch facility. Moreover, James, Figel insists that your father was fully aware of the situation, given that he was sitting “two feet away” from Figel during his phone calls with the on-site maintenance man and the responding missile security policeman. As to why your father can not, or will not, confirm Figel’s story, I won’t speculate. Now, there is independent confirmation of airmen at Echo Flight reporting UFOs at the time of the shutdowns. Robert Kaminski, the Boeing Corporation engineer responsible for investigating the Minuteman missile shutdowns at Echo Flight, wrote to researcher James Klotz on February 1, 1997, and told Klotz what actually happened after his team began their inquiry. EXCERPTS FROM KAMINSKI’S LETTER TO JAMES KLOTZ “Hi James, I received your package of information on Tuesday January 28, 1997. After reviewing the information it sure revived memories concerning the Malmstrom AFB E-Flight investigation of which I was the Boeing in-house project engineer for the field team investigation. Per your request I have documented my direct involvement as I recall the event and give names and other information not previously covered in my book, "Lying Wonders." As I previously mentioned to Bob Salas and others, I never submitted a final report from Boeing to the Air Force. A final report was generated but not submitted. This will become clear as you will see in my recollection noted below... At the time of the incident, I was an engineer in the MIP/CNP (Material Improvement Project/Controlled Numbered Problem) group. This was a Logistics Engineering group. The group was contracted by the Air Force so that Boeing could respond to specific Air Force Minuteman Missiles problems that occurred in the field. The assignments came from the OOAMA Air Material Command. Our group was made up of a small unit of engineers that were knowledgeable of, and had worked on the Minuteman Missile program... We were usually notified by our OOAMA Boeing contact (located at Hill AFB) when a request was coming in from the Air Force. Don Peterson, was our Boeing OOAMA contact... I was handed the E-Flight CNP assignment when it arrived by the group supervisor. As the internal Boeing project engineer I arranged meetings necessary with management and technical personnel required to determine a course of action to be taken, in exploring why 10 missiles had suddenly fallen from alert status, green to red, with no explanation for it. This was an unusual request and we had no prior similar incident or experience to this kind of anomaly. At the time of the request, no mention was made of an UFO involvement... Since this was a field site peculiar incident, a determination was made to send out an investigation team to survey the LCF and the LFs to determine what failures or related incidents could be found to explain the cause...there were about 5 persons in all that were sent out. After a week in the field the team returned and pooled their data. At the outset the team quickly noticed a lack of anything that would come close to explain why the event occurred. There were no significant failures, engineering data or findings that would explain how ten missiles were knocked off alert. This indeed turned out to be a rare event and not encountered before. The use of backup power systems and other technical system circuit operational redundancy strongly suggests that this kind of event is virtually impossible once the system was up and running and on line with other LCF's and LF's interconnectivity. The only thing that even came close to a failure was that a transformer on a commercial power pole down the road from one of the sites was in the process of failing. It exhibited a intermittent transient type of failure that could have generated noise spikes on the power line. This in itself could not have caused the problem at E-Flight. The problem was reported to the local power company who took action to replace the transformer. The team met with me to report their findings and it was decided that the final report would have nothing significant in it to explain what happened at E-Flight. In other words there was no technical explanation that could explain the event. The team went off to do the report. Meanwhile I was contacted by our representative at OOAMA (Don Peterson) and told by him that the incident was reported as being a UFO event--That a UFO was seen by some Airmen over the LCF at the time E-Flight went down. Subsequently, we were notified a few days later that a stop work order was on the way from OOAMA to stop any further effort on this project. We stopped. We were also told that we were not to submit the final engineering report. This was most unusual since all of our work required review by the customer and the submittal of a final Engineering report to OOAMA. Days later, I asked our Boeing OOAMA rep what was going on. His reply to me--off the record---was that the LCF capsule jockeys were suspected of causing the problem somehow by something they did to one of the digital racks in the LCF. The Air Force capsule officers apparently were quietly removed from their job as LCF officers. This part of the story can not be verified by me, as it was hearsay... Sincerely Yours, [Robert Kaminski] END OF LETTER TO KLOTZ In summary, the Air Force eventually lied about the reasons for the Echo Flight shutdown by telling Boeing rep Don Peterson that the launch officers (James’ father and Walt Figel) had screwed up and had been relieved of their positions. We now know that was a cover story. Kaminski had earlier learned the truth—about airmen reporting UFOs at E Flight—from Peterson. In short, while James Carlson’s ongoing misrepresentations about the shutdown incident Echo Flight may fool a few uninformed persons, the facts are available for anyone who wishes to pursue them. --Robert Hastings |