Friday, 22 August 2008

UFO: in the sky, pilots are sometimes strange encounters


Several military pilots and civilians, gathered in Washington, competed Monday in striking testimony to tell their strange encounters with unidentified flying objects, hoping to encourage the authorities to take seriously these unexplained phenomena, often turned to derision .

"Nothing in my training I was not prepared for it," James Penniston, an officer retired from the Air Force U.S., before telling have seen and touched "a triangular vessel, illuminated blue and yellow" who was raised in a forest adjacent to a British airbase in Woodbridge (GB) in 1980.

The UFO "was hot to the touch and had a metallic texture. One side was covered with symbols of which the largest was a triangle," he says.

"The light has intensified (...) the ship took off the ground without noise or movement of air and left incredibly quickly," before more than 80 people on the base. "In my book, I wrote + speed: + impossible."

M. Penniston is part of an international panel of twenty pilots and scientists, have signed a petition calling for serious investigations on this subject.

"What the U.S. government stop perpetuating the myth that there is a conventional explanation for all phenomena Ovni. Our country should reopen the investigation," said at a press conference Fife Symington, former governor of Arizona itself witnessed an Ovni in 1997.

More generally, "for reasons of national security and aviation security, each country should seek to identify any object moving through its airspace," underline these personalities.

"Unfortunately, the subject of Ovni was contaminated by false information provided to the media by unqualified individuals," laments Rodrigo Bravo, an expert from the Air Force of Chile.

However, "one of our most famous cases in 1988, showed that Ovni could be a danger to flight operations: a Boeing 737 on final approach to Puerto Montt (south) found himself facing a big white light surrounded by green and red fonçait on him, and the pilot had to make a steep left turn to avoid a collision. "

Monday, pilots attending Washington competed anecdotes equally striking, for the greatest pleasure of "believers" in the room.

In 1976, Parviz Jafari, a former Iranian fighter pilot, tried in vain to attack aboard his F-4 "an object with lights flashing red, orange and light blue", above Tehran. But "when I m'approchais too, was pinned my arms and my radio blurred," he recalls.

Former captain of Air France, Jean-Charles Duboc assured him he observed "a Ovni near Paris, during a flight Nice-London, which resembled a huge disc, approximately 300 metres in diameter and that has left a radar signature.

But "like all airlines, Air France is concerned about its image. It was very hard to address the issue," said the former pilot.

"Who believes in Ovni? It is the systematic attitude of the FAA," the authority of American civil aviation, provides one of its former executives, John Callahan, discouraged to investigate a Ovni spotted over Alaska in 1987.

"When I asked the head of the CIA what he thought, he said + It is indeed a Ovni, but you can not tell the American public, it paniquerait +", says it.

The phenomenon is quite real, according to Nick Pope, former British Ministry of Defence: Of the 10,000 reports received by the British government since 1950, "most Ovni have proved to be planes, satellites and meteorites, but in 5% of cases, no explanation has been established "