HaCKeRz KrOnIcKLeZ 3/HaCKeRz_KrOnIcKLeZ.iso/ufo2/norad.txt

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Code Name "DREAMLAND"
Authorized by: Col. [BLACKED OUT], USAF
             : Lt. Col. H.G. Bennett, USAF
Code clearance "Majic Q"
4  01-20-89 11:42pse
(complete write thru _ reports of fires in arkansas)

       COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (UPI) _ A streaking object, probably a
Soviet rocket body re-entering the atmosphere, left a fiery trail
across the night sky Friday, and falling debris may have caused two
fires in Arkansas, authorities said.
       The object, which prompted thousands of calls in several states,
entered the atmosphere across the central United States shortly after
7p.m. MST, going from southwest to northeast, officials at the North
American Aerospace Defense Command said. There were reports from people
in Texas, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas who had seen the flaming
object.
       "Our best estimation is that it was the re-entry of a Soviet
rocket body associated with a launch that took place last year," said
Commander Dugald Gillis, a NORAD spokesman.  (Cover Story)
       Authorities in rural northwestern Arkansas reported two
mysterious fires possibly caused by the space debris, and some
Washington County sheriff's deputies reported the object passed over
their heads.
       "We didn't locate any actual debris," said Sheriff's Sgt. James
Cantrell, who did not see the object, but collected reports on it. "We
had a couple of fires mysteriously started, but it being dark, we
didn't locate anything. We'll probably go out tomorrow morning and look
over the area."
       Sheriff's officers and volunteer firefighters rushed to the
fires to check out reports of a possible small plane crash in the rural
area about 4 miles southwest of the town of West Fork, Cantrell said.
       "Some of the deputies reported seeing it, so did some of the
firemen and ambulance personnel. While they were standing around, this
object went over," Cantrell said.  Reports of the distance varied with
some deputies and firefighters saying the burning object came as close
as 200 yards and others saying it appeared to be a couple of miles
above the ground.
       "Everybody said it looked like a rocket and had a blue-green
fire from the tail of it," Cantrell said of the 10 to 15 sightings
reported to his department. "They could tell it was a rocket. They knew
it wasn't a meteor or something. It had a cone or cigar shape."
       The debris apparently started two small fires in the rural area,
each about 100 square yards in size, Cantrell said. The nearest house
was about a half-mile away.
       In Texas, thousands of people telephoned radio and television
stations after sighting the object flash across the northeastern sky.
A control tower operator at a Dallas airport, Love Field, said a pilot
sitting in his plane on the ground informed the tower he had seen the
object and that it resembled a meteor fireball.
     The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is charged
with the responsibility for the protection of the North American
continent from air attack.  This is done through continuous monitoring
of the skies with sophisticated radar systems designed to detect any
foreign objects in or approaching our airspace.  When an unidentified
aircraft is sighted by radar, NORAD attempts to communicate with it for
identification purposes.  If this is not successful, it becomes
necessary to "scramble" interceptors to identify the craft visually.
According to NORAD, this happens about fifteen times per month.
Usually the aircraft are identified.  Sometimes they are not identified.
These reports would be classified as UFOs or, as NORAD terms them,
"Uncorrelated Observations."  Two types of uncorrelated observations
have been noted in NORAD data.  One type involves the atmospheric
detection of unknown aerial objects, and the other involves the space
detection of unknown orbiting objects.
    Space observations are recorded by the NORAD Space Detection and
Tracking System (SPADATS) and a Navy counterpart, the Naval Space
Surveillance System (NAVSPASUR).  These systems track and maintain
element sets on approximately 5,000 man-made, catalogued objects in
space.  Approximately 25,000 observations are sent to the NORAD Space
Defense Center each day from the sensor systems.  Most of these
observations are directly correlated to catalogued objects.  The ones
that are not correlated are not necessarily all genuine UFOs.  A great
majority are either satellites too small to track or debris from
satellite break-ups.
    Estimates vary, but several hundred catalogued objects are orbiting
the earth at present.  These objects and the continuous need to update
the element sets of catalogued objects due to natural phenomena are the
largest contributors of uncorrelated observations.  A certain percentage
are never correlated with known objects and can literally be called
unidentified flying objects or, in this case, "unidentified orbiting
objects."
    According to NORAD, between SPADATS and NAVSPASUR approximately ten
million uncorrelated observations have been collected over the last
twenty years.  If we were to take the usual estimates of the percentage
of true unknowns from all UFO reports sent to various sources (ninety
five percent, give or take a few percent), we are left with roughly
five percent being UFOs.  This agrees well with the government's
figures.

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    ADDITIONAL VERIFICATION THAT NORAD HAS MONITORED UFOS.

    November 7, 1975 at Malmstrom Air Force Base.  UFO penetrates
missile silo....It began to rise, and at about 1,000 feet, NORAD picked
up the UFO on radar.  Two F-106 jet interceptors were launched from
Great Falls, Montana, and headed toward the K-7 area.  The UFO
continued to rise.  At about 200,000 feet, it disappeared from NORAD's
radar.
AND
...An additional bit of information surfaced later.  In a National
Military Command Center "Memorandum for Record" dated November 8, 1975,
6 a.m. EST, the following statement appeared in reference to Malmstrom:
At 405 EST, SAC Site L-5 observed one object accelerate, and climb
rapidly to a point in altitude where it became indistinguishable from
the stars.  NORAD will carry this incident as a FADE remaining UNKNOWN
at 320 EST since after that time only visual sightings occurred.
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    During October and November 1975, several major Air Force bases
were easily penetrated by UFOs.  Through a leak by a Pentagon source,
enough specific data was learned about the incidents to demand and
receive edited government documents about them via the Freedom of
Information Act.  The reader will note the sometime use of the terms
unidentified, helicopters, aircraft, and targets by the reporting Air
Force bases.  It's quite apparent that such terminology was the product
of ignorance concerning the objects' identity.  In reality, the USAF
was dealing with the unknown!  The following summaries are directly
from the logs of NORAD which I have on file.

9 October/0630Z:  Command Director called by Air Force Operations
Center concerning an unknown helicopter landing in the munitions
storage area at Loring Air Force Base, Maine.  Apparently this was the
second night in a row for the occurrence.  There was also an indication,
but not confirmed, that Canadian bases had been overflown by a
helicopter.

31 October/0445Z:  Report from Wurtsmith Air Force Base through Ops
Center--incident at 0355Z.  Helicopter hovered over SAC Weapons storage
area, then departed area.  Tanker flying at 2,700 feet made both visual
sighting and radar skin paint.  Tracked object 35 nautical miles
southeast over Lake Huron where contact was lost.

01 November/0920Z:  Received as info message from Loring Air Force
Base, Maine, citing probable helicopter overflight of base.

08 November/0753Z:  24th NORAD Region unknown track J330, heading SSW,
12,000 feet.  1 to 7 objects, 46.46N 109.23W.

Two F-106 scrambled out of Great Falls at 0745Z .  SAC reported visual
sighting from Sabotage Alert Teams (SAT) K1, K3, L1 and L6 (lights and
jet sounds).  Weather section states no anomalous propagation or
northern lights.  0853Z SAC SAT Teams K3 and L4 report target at 300
feet altitude and L4 reports target at 5 miles.  Contact lost at 0820Z.

F-106s returned to base at 0850Z with negative results.

0905Z Great Falls radar search and height had intermittent contact.

0910Z SAC teams again had visual (Site C-1, 10 miles SE Stanford,
Montana).

0920Z SAC CP reported that when F-106s were in area, targets would turn
out lights, and when F-106s left, targets would turn lights on...This
same type of activity has been reported in the Malmstrom area for
several days....The track will be carried as a remaining unknown.

All of these Air Force bases belonged to the Strategic Air Command
(SAC).  The Malmstrom and Grand Forks bases house Minuteman missile
sites.  K1, K3, L1, etc., are missile locations.  These visitations
become more intriguing as we now turn to the 24th NORAD Region senior
director's log(Malmstrom AFB, Montana).

07 November/1035Z:  Received a call from the 341st Strategic Air
Command Post (SAC CP) saying that the following missile locations
reported seeing a large red to orange to yellow object:  M1, L-3, LIMA
and L-6.  The general object location would be 10 miles south of Moore,
Montana, and 20 miles east of Buffalo, Montana.  Commander and Deputy
for Operations (DO) informed.

07 November/1203Z:  SAC advised that the Launch Control Facility at
Harlowton, Montana, observed an object which emitted a light which
illuminated the site driveway.

07 November/1319Z:  SAC advised K-1 says very bright object to their
east is now southeast of them and they are looking at it with 10 x 50
binoculars.  Object seems to have lights (several) on it, but no
distinct pattern.  The orange/gold object overhead also has small
lights on it.  SAC also advises female civilian reports having seen an
object bearing south from her position six miles west of Lewistown.

07 November/1327Z:  L-1 reports that the object to their northeast
seems to be issuing a black object from it, tubular in shape.  In all
this time, surveillance has not been able to detect any sort of track
except for known traffic.

08 November/0635Z:  A security camper team at K-4 reported a UFO with
white lights, one red light 50 yeards behind white light. Personnel at
K-1 seeing same object.

08 November/0645Z:  Height personnel picked up objects 10-13,000
feet...Objects as many as seven.

08 November/0753Z:  Unknown...Stationary/seven knots/12,000...
Two F-106...notified.

08 November/0820Z:  Lost radar contact, fighters broken off.

08 November/0905Z:  L-sites had fighters and objects (in view); fighters
did not get down to objects.

08 November/0915Z:  From SAC Command Post:  From four different
points:  Observed objects and fighters; When fighters arrived in the
area, the lights went out; when fighters departed, the lights came back
on.

09 November/0305Z:  SAC Command Post called and advised SAC crews at
Sites L-1, L-6 and M-1 observing UFO.  Object yellowish bright around
light 20 miles north of Harlowton, 2 to 4,000 feet.

10 November/1125Z:  UFO sighting reported by Minot Air Force Station
...moving east, about the size of a car...the object passed over the
radar station, 1,000 feet to 2,000 feet high, no noise heard.  Three
people from the site or local area saw the object.

The above excerpts from official Air Force logs. The Air Force also
refused to declassify some of the documents requested, saying that the
contents of such were "exempt from disclosure" under the FOIA.  Under
TOP SECRET and encoded is what else happened at these SAC bases on
those eventful nights?