From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Chapter 13 - Disaster Control and UFOs
Date: 9 Apr 94 01:40:01 GMT
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The following excerpt appeared in Fire Officer's Guide to Disaster
Control by William M. Kramer and Charles W. Bahme.  It is copyright (c)
1992 by Fire Engineering Books & Videos.

ParaNet has provided this for information and education purposes only.

Below is the text from Chapter 13 of the Fire Officer's Guide to
Disaster Control dealing with none other than UFOs.  On the surface, it
might appear to be the author's life-long interest in the subject of
UFOs, but something very much more important is going on here.  This
manual is a national guide used by many local fire officials in disaster
planning, and it is also approved by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management
Act).  With all of the denial by official military channels of the
reality of UFOs, it surprises us to see that a manual with so much
information would even broach the subject of UFOs in such an "official"
way.  Although this chapter is not an "official" proclamation of UFOs,
it serves to show how seriously this subject may be taken by some in
official positions of the government, including FEMA.

Although the 1942 aerial attack by UFOs is glossed over by many UFO
researchers, it appears to have created quite an impression on the
author of this manual.

As many of you will recall, the Air Force took a considerable amount of
heat from the UFO research community following the closure of Project
Blue Book, with a training manual that was used at the Air Force Academy,
one chapter dealing with UFOs (ParaNet has the chapter in their
database).  Following strong protests, the Air Force ordered the manaul
revised to remove this chapter.  This chapter is much like the material
below.

We at ParaNet wonder if "War of the Worlds" is being taken more
seriously than anyone previously knew or admitted?

Our thanks to Brian Wood for scanning this article.

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CHAPTER 13: ENEMY ATTACK AND UFO POTENTIAL


  FEW RESIDENTS of the United States, except for those in
Hawaii, have experienced an enemy attack on their hometown in
this century; some think they  have. The Great Los Angeles Air
Raid of February 26, 1942, began at 2:25  A.M. when the U.S.
Army announced the approach of hostile aircraft and  the cities
air raid warning system went into effect for the first time in
World  War II. "Suddenly the night was rent by sirens.
Searchlights began to sweep  the sky. Minutes later gun crews at
Army forts along the coast line began  pumping the first of
1,433 rounds of ack-ack into the moonlight. Thousands  of
volunteer air raid wardens tumbled from their beds and grabbed
their  boots and helmets. Citizens awakened to the screech of
sirens and, heedless  of the blackout warning, began snapping on
their lights . . . The din continued  for two hours. Finally the
guns fell silent. The enemy, evidently, had  been routed. Los
Angeles began to taste the exhilaration of its first military
victory. "(1)

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THE UFO THREAT--A FACT

   In this chapter we will now turn our attention to the very
real threat  posed by Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),
whether they exist or not. The  well-documented and highly
publicized War of the Worlds radio drama by  Orson Welles shows
how even a perceived existence to alien creatures can  cause
very real disaster-like conditions and panic among a given
populace.  In addition, if the apparent visits by alien beings
and their space vehicles  should pose any type of threat, it
will, as always, be the fire service that  is called upon to
provide the first line of life-saving defense and disaster
mitigation .

   On April 25,1991, radio station KSHE in St. Louis, Missouri.
was fined  $25,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for
broadcasting a  mock warning of a nuclear attack during the
Persian Gulf War. The seriousness  with which the FCC treated
this case is indicative of the very real panic  that can be
created from even illusionary or fictional phenomena. Certainly
if these unexplainable events become more prevalent, the
possibility of  panic could be even greater; and again, the fire
department will be the  agency called upon to handle the
situation.(35) Hence, as we near the year  2000 and move beyond,
any comprehensive disaster plan should address  the potential
for panic and other deleterious effects that might befall a
populated  area when unexplainable phenomena occur. We will see,
as we continue  our discussion in this chapter, that widespread
blackouts,  communication disruptions, and other potentially
disastrous conditions  have been linked directly to UFO
sightings. Hence, fire service leaders who  want to ensure that
their disaster planning is complete will not neglect an
appendix to outline those things that could be done in
preparation for the  occurrence of such phenomena.

  Throughout this book, many of the references to actual events
are based  on the experiences of both of the authors. However,
in this area of UFOs  and their potential, we are relying
largely on the research and experiences  of Charles Bahme. Chuck
has made a considerable study of this subject and is acquiring
many publications and VCR tapes to augment his library on  this
and related phenomena. His interest in UFOs was greatly
heightened  when Congress in 1969 adopted a law (14 CFR Ch. V
Part 1211--Extraterrestrial  Exposure) which gave the NASA
Administrator the arbitrary discretion to  quarantine under
armed guard any object, person, or other form  of life which has
been extraterrestrially exposed. The very fact that our
congressmen believed there was a necessity for such drastic
authority made  Chuck wonder if they had only our astronauts in
mind when they adopted  it. Could it be applied to anyone who
has had a UFO encounter? Whether  it has or not is not likely to
be a topic for public dissemination.


UFO Discussion--Why Now?

The subject of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) was not
included in  previous editions of this book. The first edition
was the Handbook of  Disaster Control which Chuck personally
published in 1952 following his  release from active naval duty
in the Korean War. Although his services in  the conflict as
Security Coordinator for the Chief of Naval Operations  involved
the creation of a worldwide disaster control organization for
the  protection of the physical properties of the Navy, it must
be admitted that  the directives approved for this new
organization did not reflect any significant  concern for a
flying saucer threat to its shore establishment. That  was in
the 1950s. Now that we are in the 1990s it is doubtful that the
UFO  potential would be brushed off so lightly by our military
security forces.  This change of attitude was evidenced as far
back as December 24, 1959,  when the Inspector General of the
Air Force issued the following Operations  and Training Order:
"Unidentified Flying Objects--sometimes treated  lightly by the
press and referred to as 'Flying Saucers'--must be rapidly and
accurately identified as serious Air Force business...."(36)

  There is no uncertainty about the reality of the war between
nations on  our planet and the disastrous effects of military
actions. The 200 sorties  flown every hour against Iraq in the
Persian Gulf provided ample evidence  of global war's
destructive power. On the other hand, there are many persons
who may believe that a discussion of the theoretical harm that
could be  caused by a real or imaginary invasion of UFOs would
be 'far out!" But this  is not so for the thousands of witnesses
of unexplained aerial phenomena.  To them it is also serious
business.

  Chuck's interest in UFOs commenced during the early morning
hours  of August 26,1942, while he was roller skating from his
house to the nearest  fire station a few blocks away; the wail
of sirens had signaled his recall to  fire duty, and with the
stringent blackout orders in effect. driving was not  wise;
besides, it was much more exciting to be out in the open where
he  could see the spectacular aerial "fireworks" that filled the
heavens all  around him. Few residents of the U.S. had ever
experienced a real or imaginary  invasion of UFOs like that
which occurred in what has become known  as "The Los Angeles Air
Raid of 1942." The Army announced the approach  of hostile
aircraft and the city's air raid warning system went into effect
for  the first time in World War II. The defense to this
"attack" is described in  dramatic terms in the opening
paragraph of this chapter.




    But what enemy had been routed? No one ever knew. All the
fire fighters  saw in the sky were the 15 or 20 moving "things"
which seemed to change  course at great speed apparently
unaffected by the flak from bursting shells  all around them.
Rumors that one had been shot down were never verified,  nor was
the explanation that these zig-zagging invaders were weather
balloons  ever taken seriously. In any event, for Chuck, that
unforgettable episode  aroused a continuing interest in UFOs,
rivalling his professional fields  of law and fire protection.
The fact that he subsequently was a member of  a group whose
sighting of a flight of UFOs was authenticated by airport  radar
helped to sustain that interest.


UFO Background Information

   With no intention of trying to prove or disprove the
authenticity of the  numerous UFO encounters often related by
very credible witnesses including  airline and military pilots,
astronauts, police officers, fire fighters, members  of
Congress, and even a U.S. President, the balance of this chapter
will  present a brief history and nature of UFOs and their
alleged occupants; their  widespread sightings over the globe
since ancient times; their appearance,  propulsion origin, and
possible motives for continuing reconnaissance.

   A quick look at some of the classic accounts of encounters
documented  in numerous foreign and U.S. publications might help
us judge the magnitude  of their threat, if any, to social
stability, and, if deemed desirable, propose a   fire service
plan for coping with some of the conceivable catastrophic
effects that UFOs could produce on cities and densely populated
areas.

  For readers who already have made up their minds that there is
no such  thing as a UFO notwithstanding the overwhelming
evidence to the contrary,  it should be pointed out that there
is circumstantial evidence that disastrous  effects have already
been attributed to UFO activity in more than one nation,
including the United States.


UFOs--What Are They?

   William Shakespeare put a fitting observation in the mouth of
Hamlet,  the Prince of Denmark, that went like this: "There are
more things in heaven  and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of
in your philosophy." Whether  Hamlet was referring to those
strange lights or objects that appear in the  sky or near the
ground and have no known cause, we will never know, but  the
World Book Encyclopedia defines such things as UFOs.(37)

   Several theories have been propounded as to what they might
be. Some  scientists believe that they are of extraterrestrial
origin--coming from other  planets. Military officers conjecture
that they might be alien aircraft. Some  attribute them all to
natural causes, such as meteors, comets, sun dogs, light
reflections, marsh gas, ball lightning, even though they must
admit that scientists  cannot explain all UFO reports in that
manner. Still others are  inclined to believe that they may be
forms from other dimensions which can  materialize and
dematerialize at will perhaps by making a wavelength or
frequency transition so as to become invisible to humans. Some
believe they  are time travelers from the future.


UFO Classification System

   Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Northern University Professor Emeritus of
 Astronomy and an advisor to the Air Force's Blue Book Project.
adopted a  very simple classification system based solely upon
the manner of  observation:

   1. Nocturnal lights
   2. Daylight disks
   3. Close encounters (day or night)
   4. Radar readings.

   He concluded that this system tells us nothing about the
nature of the  UFOs, but can suggest a means for gathering
data.(38) He found that while  a large number of such reports
were readily identifiable by trained investigators  as
misconceptions of known objects or events, a small residue
(about  1.000) were not. These came from credible witnesses from
such widely separated places as Canada. Australia. South
America, and Antarctica. He concludes  with: "Although I know of
no hypothesis that adequately covers the  mountainous evidence,
this should not and must not deter us from following  the advice
of Schroedinger: to be curious, capable of being astonished, and
eager to find out."(39) Dr. Hynek has an excellent,
well-illustrated article  on UFOs in a 1982 book which gives a
detailed history of the UFO sightings,  together with the
reports of some well-known people who made them,  including
President Jimmy Carter while governor of Georgia.(40)

 Shapes of UFOs

    Witnesses have described the shapes of UFOs as anything
varying from  a sphere to a boomerang. Some have resembled
flying saucers with a lid;  others a glowing tube; some as
semi-spherical with colored apertures; some  with reddish-orange
glows, or fire-like or sparking discharges. Incredible  speed
and maneuverabilities not attainable by aircraft of any kind are
commonly  observed. Many of the books and articles in Appendix H
have excellent  photographs of these unexplained
visitors--photos that have been  checked by experts for their
authenticity.

History of UFOs

   For hundreds of years mysterious objects in the sky and
strange moving  lights have been reported by many people,
including the military pilots in  World War II who called them
foo fighters, ("Where there's Foo, there's  Fire"). In the
middle of the 1900s flying saucers were increasingly observed
in the United States and other countries.  Scientists at the
University of Colorado hired by the Air Force from 1966  to 1968
to study this type of aerial phenomena could explain most of the
 UFO reports as a star (Venus), meteor, planet, balloon, rocket,
artificial satellite,  etc. Sometimes atmospheric conditions,
aircraft exhaust trails, or  unusual lighting conditions may
produce optical illusions that observers  thought were UFOs.
After investigating more than 12,000 reports, the U.S.  Air
Force was unable to explain where the unexplained UFOs come
from,  but apparently concluded that the national security was
not threatened by  them.(41) The emphasis of the university's
team, headed by Edward U.  Condon, seemed to be more concerned
with the establishment of the emotional  stability or
instability of those who reported the sightings than with  other
evidence.



   Psychiatrists have examined the witnesses who claimed to have
encountered   UFOs and even been taken aboard their craft, such
as the two shipyard  workers in Mississippi, and found that they
are not unbalanced people.(42)  "They're not crackpots. There
was definitely something here that was not  terrestrial."(43)
Dr. J. Allen Hynek agreed, and added. "Where they are coming
from and  why they are here is a matter of conjecture. but the
fact that they were here  on this planet is beyond a reasonable
doubt."(44)

   The Air Force. after 20 years of being deluged with UFO
sightings and  spending millions of dollars on their
investigation, decided to drop the  inquiry business and turned
the project over to a Kensington, Maryland,  group called NICAP
(National Investigation Committee on Aerial  Phenomena). This
left NASA (National Aeronautics and Space  Administration) with
part of the task of trying to run UFO sighting reports,
including many by its own Apollo and Skylab astronauts. By 1974
over a  score of astronauts saw and photographed UFOs during
their flights beyond  the earth's atmosphere.

   Early in the Apollo 11 mission, which culminated in the moon
walk,  astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael
Collins reported  sightings of what seemed to be a UFO during
the first half of their flight  to the lunar surface. There were
many more sightings by U.S. and Soviet  Astronauts. On November
11,1966, Gemini XII astronauts Jim Lovell and  Edwin Aldrin said
that they saw four UFOs linked together, and on October  12,
1964, three Russian astronauts aboard Voskod reported that they
were  surrounded by a "formation of fast-moving disc-shaped
objects."(45)

UFO Organizations

   In addition to NICAP, some of the other organizations that
study UFO  phenomena are MUFON (Mutual UFO Networks), CAUS
(Citizens Against  UFO Secrecy), GSW (Ground Saucer Watch),
CUFOS (the Center for UFO  Studies), and APRO (Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization), an Arizona  nonprofit scientific and
educational organization, founded in 1952.(46)

Why the Secrecy?

   In their book UFOs Over America, authors Jim and Carol
Lorenzo charge  that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) has
been closely involved in the  collection and suppression of UFO
information. "Witnesses to the phenomena  have been bribed,
coerced, and threatened by the CIA, who wanted valuable
evidence given to them alone."(47) One reason given is that
military  intelligence may view the UFOs as a tool of either a
known or unknown  potential enemy. "If these vehicles prove
evasive and surreptitious, all the  more reason to suspect
them.... the probability looms large that the minds  behind
these vehicles may well be gathering intelligence of their
own."(48)

  Another reason for secrecy may lie in the hope of obtaining
knowledge  relating to advanced propulsion methods and
anti-gravity systems before  other potential enemies on earth
may acquire it. Hence, though many nations  are secretly
investigating UFOs, they are reluctant to share their findings.
Robert Lofton, in his book Identified Flying Saucers, claims
that the Air  Force became the "goat" in the effort of the CIA
to debunk many sightings  by pilots, radar technicians. and
reliable civilian observers. He thinks that  the suppression of
information about how dangerous UFOs can be is wrong.  After
citing a case where a child was burned over 50 to 60 percent of
her  body by a low flying UFO and then taken to an Air Force
hospital, no one  would explain why her clothes were not burned
at the same time. He also  describes another burn case in New
Mexico and another man who recently  received a sledge-hammer
like blow that knocked him unconscious by the  force field of a
100-foot diameter UFO. "The public ought to be told the danger!
. . .  Nothing helps rumors and panic more than ignorance."(49)

   Major Donald Keyhoe describes in his book Aliens from Space,
The Real  Story of Unidentified Flying Objects the difficulties
he had in 1957 in trying   to get the truth from government
agencies after he was director of NICAP,  the world's largest
UFO research organization with over 30 subcommittees  in the
U.S. and abroad.(50)

   According to some UFOlogists the attempts at cover-up by the
CIA  extend to destruction of evidence that it could not
confiscate. Apparently  some of our nation's important leaders
have been denied access to some UFO  secrets in the possession
of an agency of the United States, the very existence  of which
is classified above top secret.(51) Senator Barry Goldwater,  a
retired Air Force Reserve Brigadier General and pilot with many
decades  of flying experience, was quoted as saying "I certainly
believe in aliens in  space. They may not look like us, but I
have very strong feelings that they  have advanced beyond our
mental capabilities." He said he was refused permission  to
check the Air Force files on UFOs and added, "I think some
highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we
don't  know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force
discloses  them."(52) He said that he put faith in the reports
of the Air Force, Navy,  and commercial pilots who reported
instances where a UFO would fly near  them--right off their
plane's wing--and then just zoom away at incredible  speeds. "I
remember the case in Georgia in the 1950s of a National Guard
plane going after a UFO and never returning. And I recall the
case in  Franklin. Kentucky, when four military planes
investigated a UFO. One of  them exploded in midair and no one
knows why."(53)

   Unleashed by the policy of Glasnost (greater openness) the
Soviet media  felt free to include accounts of UFO sightings. A
Tuss report of October 10,  1989, reported a large shiny ball or
disk hovering over a Voronezh park; residents  saw the UFO land
and three creatures similar to human beings  emerged,
accompanied by a robot.(54)

   Apparently the Russians felt no need to suppress this report
which was  poked fun at in Newsweek and Time magazines(55) but
not in U.S. News  and World Report: "A scant few decades ago,
both the U.S. government and  the media treated flying objects
as no laughing matter--which even  Congress looked into. In
1966, Representative Ford responded to a rash of  sightings in
his home state of Michigan by calling for, and getting, a House
hearing on UFOs."(56)


UFO Missions

   Many reasons have been advanced for the purpose of the UFOs
visits  to our planet. Although some of the persons who
apparently have been the  subjects of genetic investigation,
such as the family of Whitley Streiber may  not agree, the
majority of those who have studied possible UFO visitors feel
that they are friendly. Mr. Streiber described his experience as
terrifying,  and believes that these "little figures with eyes
that seem to stare into the  deepest core of being are asking
for something. Whatever it is, it is more  than simple
information. The goal does not seem to be a sort of clear and
open exchange that we might expect; whatever may be surfacing,
it wants  far more than that. It seems to me that it seeks the
very depth of soul; it seeks  communion."(57)

   From the thousands of reports he has studied. William
Spaulding, aerospace  engineer and head of the Arizona-based
Ground Saucer Watch,  believes that a pattern indicates that
UFOs are here on a surveillance mission:  the fact that a
majority of sightings occur around our military installations,
research and development areas leads to the conclusion that a
methodical study is being made of the earth and its defensive
and offensive  capabilities. "The phenomena is not unlike our
own space explorations:  scout ship survey: soil samples;
landing."(58)


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