FireFighters UFO Manual (UFO)
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Fire Fighters UFO Manual
Formatted By CammoDude
09-11-99 The following excerpt appeared in Fire Officer's
Guide to Disaster Control by William M. Kramer and Charles W. Bahme.
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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 US 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
In his book Incident at Exeter, John Fuller discusses
the seeming affinity of UFOs for electrical power lines in the northeastern
part of the United States. In a later section of this chapter dealing with
the effects of UFOs on our terrestrial activities, we will see how this affinity
may have been responsible for causing 36 million people to lose power over
an area of 8,000 square miles.(59)
Because of our recent adventures into space, there are
some who speculate that UFOs are more concerned with what we will do there
than in settling here. In any event, the Air Force's official publication
(issued by the Government Printing Office 1968) called Flying Objects says
that 'No UFO has been determined to represent a threat to our national security.'
That conclusion, however, should not rule out less disastrous consequences
than the overthrow of our government.
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Adverse Potential Of UFOS
Regardless of its past evaluations, the Air Force could
be wrong about a number of things. "It can't even guess within a couple of
billion dollars what one of its planes is going to cost; maybe, despite the
skepticism of the scientists and other investigators, the UFOs sent from
other planets do exist and have visited earth."(60) And maybe they have exhibited
some destructive effects, whether or not intentionally in every instance,
which we need to consider when drafting a plan for coping with an emergency
situation where UFOs are involved. Some of these documented effects are as
follows.
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UFO Hazards
The two principal hazards noted with relation to UFOs
have been attributed to powerful electrical fields which they can project
in a general or localized area and the psychological effects they have produced
on the general populace or individual contacts.
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Force Field Impact
The disruption of air and ground travel has often been
reported in the presence of UFOs. The ignition systems of auto and aircraft
engines have apparently been affected by energized force fields to such an
extent as to stop their operation; the headlights and radios have also ceased
to function. Here are a couple of examples. In Buenos Aires, on March 29,
1978, "A strange force shut off their engine and headlights of their Citroen
CG, lifted it 15 feet off the road, then set it down a minute later and 75
miles to the north." The driver had noticed a yellow and violet light shining
in his rear view mirror while driving the last leg of a long stock car race,
and he realized that it was approaching too fast to be a competitor. A month
later a Colombian bank manager and a navy officer had their car headlights
go off when buzzed by a UFO, with the navy man suffering temporary paralysis.
Other South American countries in which similar actions were reported around
that time included Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay.(61)
These effects have also been noted to influence the
controls and instruments of aircraft, e.g., the pilot of a Piper PH-24 reported
that his controls became inoperable when he was approached by three disk-shaped
objects, 10 to 12 feet in diameter, over Mexico City on May 3,1975.(62) Similar
cases have been reported by military pilots, illustrated by the classic case
of the near mid-air collision of an army helicopter with a UFO on October
18, 1973, over Ohio, where not only did both the UHF and VHF radio wave-
lengths go dead temporarily, but the downward movement of the helicopter
with its four occupants was levitated upward by a green beam from the UFO
in time to prevent its crash into the ground.(63)
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Communications Disruption
In addition to the impedance of radio transmissions
and reception, such as that described in the preceding incident, telephone
interference has occurred, illustrated by the chagrin of President Lyndon
Johnson in having his conversation from the Texas White House cut off while
talking to assistants in Washington, D.C.(64) The ability to render inoperable
all electronic forms of communications, including those that control the
launching of defense weapons systems, has been considered within the range
of UFO capability. Whether this could extend to the erasing of recorded computer
data such as bank records, personnel data, FBI, CIA, and NSA files, along
with critical information of every kind, is not beyond the realm of possibility.
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Regional Power Blackouts
It has long been suspected that UFOs have the capability
of blacking out a city, state, or many states by exerting a force field
sufficient to overload the circuits of public and private utility installations.
"Few things are more disturbing than to be plunged into pitch darkness without
warning; it is dangerous for masses of people. It paralyzes cities, blocks
highways, stops trains, leaves elevators suspended between floors. In general
it simply plays hell with the modern way of life."(65) You would think that
the power companies would have achieved sufficient reliability in their high
tech systems that a mass failure such as that which blacked out New York
and New England in 1965 would never happen--but it did. Although, as we have
mentioned before, it was known that UFO activity was associated with disturbances
with compasses. instruments, ignition systems, radios, etc., it was inconceivable
that it could also interfere with generation and distribution of electrical
power. Such a connection was also inferred in November 1953, when a glowing
red object went over a residential area of New Haven, Connecticut, causing
lights to dim out on both sides of the object's path and then come on when
it went out of sight.
Power failures were also reported in association with
UFOs in Brazil in 1957 to l959~ Rome, Italy, in 1958; and Mexico in 1965.
Likewise, in Uberlandia, where the power station operators promptly closed
the circuits when the UFO apparently caused them to open, it did no good,
and they were unable to restore the power until the UFO departed.
"The Granddaddy of all blackouts to date was the stygian
blanket that fell over 30 million people in the northeastern corner of the
U.S. during the early evening rush hour period on November 9, 1965."(66)
Relay services that were supposed to automatically transfer the load in case
of failure in one area to an alternate source malfunctioned. Military
communications relying on public power without alternate backup systems also
failed, but communications were operable to make a quick public announcement
that there was no military emergency. Though it was largely over by the next
morning, the official explanation about a malfunctioning small device in
a Canadian hydroelectric generating plant never accounted for the failure
of millions of dollars worth of electronic devices to shift the load when
the breakdown occurred.
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Fireballs Over Syracuse - The Blackout Connection
Airplane pilots reported that UFOs were being chased
across Pennsylvania about 4:30 P.M., and electronics and construction engineers
who were driving in the area of the Syracuse airport saw UFOs moving about
5:30 P.M., just prior to the Great Blackout. A veteran flight instructor
who had been flying over Syracuse on a training flight saw a glowing globe
over the power lines leading to the Niagara Falls generating plant. Hundreds
of others saw the glowing object in the sky on the night of the big power
failure.
That was on November 9th. On December 2nd, about 700,000
persons in Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico also had their power fail. It was
said to have originated in a regular failure in El Paso; then on December
5th, three nights later. 40,000 homes plus military installations in the
area of East Texas were also blacked out-- overloaded! Missile grounds (White
Sands), Fort Bliss, Holloman Air Force Base, and numerous airports were all
blacked out (with no emergency power backup), and this was when President
Johnson's telephone call to the White House in Washington, D.C. was cut off.
In response to his request for an explanation, President Johnson was told
that his calls were fed into a cable system that went dead when the surge
of power caused by the El Paso regulator blow-up hit it, and the backup batteries
didn't work. Though it may be debatable whether the above cases of electrical
transmission failure were merely coincidences with UFO activity, an incident
on April 18,1962, involving a UFO that had been tracked from New York, through
Kansas to Eureka, Utah, was well documented. The Air Force spokesman admitted
that the object had landed, and during the 42 minutes that it was on the
ground near the power station there was no power, but it was restored when
the UFO left. The object was pursued by jet interceptors summoned from Phoenix
and Stead Field in Reno until it exploded over the Mesquite Range in Nevada
in a brilliant glare that was visible over five states.(67)
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UFOS - The Panic Hazard
The second major disastrous effect that UFO activity,
real or imagined, can have on the populace, is the creation of fear, panic,
flight, and all kinds of irrational behavior. We have mentioned already the
rather well-documented case of hysterical contagion and mass hysteria created
by War of the Worlds, the radio drama by Orson Welles about an invasion of
Martians. It was broadcast on Halloween of 1938 during the period of the
invasions of Germany into Austria and Japan into China. "The drama, realistically
presented in the form of news bulletins and interviews concerning an alien
spaceship landing in New Jersey, resulted in many kinds of hysterical actions,
including thousands of panic-stricken phone calls, wildly fleeing automobiles,
and impromptu shot gun brigades."(68)
Though most persons reporting UFOs do not interpret
them as personal threats, it is possible that some of the large volume of
reports may be attributable to hysterical contagion. In any case, one of
the reasons often cited for the tight secrecy on government UFO research
findings is the need to prevent the possible panic that a revelation of the
truth might arouse. Rumors that people were being abducted, dematerialized,
burned, made radioactive, rounded up and impounded, liquidated with ray guns
and lasers or shipped off to Mars or Venus might well give rise to fear--fear
of the unknown. Hysteria could cause frightened persons to imagine that their
water was poisoned, the air contaminated with undetectable but lethal aerosols
or nerve gases. With hundreds of UFO squadrons zooming across the landscape
from California to New York, Toronto to Mexico City, communications disrupted,
widespread power failures, airports and railroads paralyzed, highways turned
into giant parking lots of immobilized vehicles full of terrified motorists,
the problem of restoring order and sanity would be a tremendous challenge
to all of the emergency services, assuming their personnel would remain calm,
detached. and able to resist the human impulse to put the safety and well
being of their own families ahead of the public's. To make matters worse,
some of the more excitable gun owners might be tempted to rush out Rambo
fashion, and in utter disregard of the damage that falling bullets might
cause innocent residents below their fallout, start firing at the evasive
objects regardless of the range.
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Personal Hazards - Physiological
The force field affects on the physical environment--
communication, transportation, illumination, and computerized data storage--have
already been considered. We might have added that some physical effects have
been observed at locations where UFOs have landed-- circular patterns of
crops destroyed by heat or radiation and baking or sterilization of the soil
at the site.
On a more practical basis there may be grounds for concern
that more than just the environment can be adversely affected by UFO actions.
While pursuing UFOs, military aircraft have disappeared in mid-air, exploded,
and suffered harassment. Persons on the ground have sustained serious burns,
paralysis, and "blows" from a force field, radiated emissions, or rays and
beams that have been described like that of a "stun-gun"(69)
In 1980, three witnesses saw a red ball of light hovering
above houses in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when suddenly a bolt of blue light
shot down and two houses burst into flames.(70) An Indiana man saw a bright
light flash pass his window; the power went off in his house so he went outside
to investigate and found a brilliantly lit object hovering above him; when
he started to walk toward it his body commenced to tingle and he was unable
to move until the object disappeared. A similar tingling sensation swept
over another man in Lvnn, Massachusetts. one night when he approached a domed
object with a red glowing cone rising from a parking lot. He too was immobile
until the object moved out of sight. Some believe that even animals may be
at risk by UFOs; in trying to account for the death of 15 ponies, the leader
of an investigative team believed they were crushed by the anti-gravity field
of a flying saucer as it took off.(71)
Thus, UFOs may not only have the power to control some
of our military and industrial establishment's highly technical scientific
hardware, they may also possess the ability to impose pain and control over
people who attempt to attack them, even to the extent of "liquidating" them
in one way or another.
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UFOS - Emergency Action
In view of the fact that many UFOlogists believe that
we are fast approaching a time when overt landings of UFOs will become less
remarkable, and in the absence of our knowing whether their visits are friendly
or hostile, it would not be remiss to give some thought to the part that
fire departments might play in the event of the unexpected arrival of UFOs
in their communities. For example, what would be your course of action as
an incident commander at the scene of a school ground where a UFO has crashed
into the boiler room, rupturing a fuel line, and ignition has occurred in
the spilling oil, endangering the occupants of the craft who are trapped
in the wreckage? If your rescue attempts are successful, and two of the five
small alien creatures are injured but still alive, how do you dispose of
the dead and treat the survivors? How would the presence of children on the
school grounds affect your actions? What persons and agencies would be notified?
The authors have never read any advice on these matters.
The following admonition was printed on the inside front jacket of Frank
Edward's book on flying saucers:
WARNING
"Near approaches of UFOs can be harmful to human beings.
Do not stand under a UFO that is hovering at low altitude. Do not touch or
attempt to touch a UFO that has landed. In either case the safe thing to
do is to get away from there very quickly and let the military take over.
There is a possibility of radiation danger and there are known cases where
persons have been burned by rays emanating from UFOs. Don't take chances
with UFOs!"
In view of the federal law (cited earlier) empowering
NASA's administrator to impound, without a hearing, anyone who touches a
UFO or its occupants. it would be inadvisable to make personal contact unless
you are willing to submit to NASA's quarantine requirements, should the law
be invoked.
Besides the possible physical effects of approaching
a UFO, e.g.. burns, radiation, etc., there may be psychological effects produced
by force fields that could induce a hypnotic state in the viewer, loss of
consciousness, memory relapse, and submission to the occupants. Jacques Vallee,
author of "The Invisible College" cautions that we should consider psychic
effects, such as space-time distortions experienced by percipients of craft-like
devices which appear to fade away--dematerialize--and then reappear; of alien,
strange voices or thoughts that may effect involuntary changes in the manner
in which witnesses may react in such circumstances.(72)
Perhaps the above warnings of Edwards and Vallee are
a little too cautious and apprehensive to adopt as a general pattern of conduct
in every situation. In the absence of overt acts indicating hostility, there
may be no danger in approaching a landing (or landed) UFO with a positive,
solicitous attitude of wanting to be of service. This nonaggressive mental
state may be telepathically sensed by those aboard or emerging from the craft;
a form of nonvocal communication is a possibility. It goes without saying
that any display of firearms or other weapons on your part could be construed
as unfriendly and likely to thwart your intention of conveying a helpful
attitude.
In a best case scenario, you may be able to obtain guidance
as to the appropriate actions to take, whether of a life-saving nature, e.g.,
in quelling a fire, abating a spill, and of preservation of property, or
even in the reduction of apprehension on the part of your response team and
the spectators.
In a less optimistic scenario, you may have engine trouble
upon approaching the scene, and radio contact could be lost with your dispatcher.
If at night, your headlights could go out, the city could be blacked out,
and your portable generators may malfunction when you attempt to use them
for fans and portable lights. It would certainly be an inopportune time for
your comrades to announce that they had decided to take their pensions, effective
immediately.
In any event, the incident could provide invaluable
experience for further training in coping with rare and difficult emergencies.
Whatever "inside" information you are able to pass along to your fellow officers
and citizens of the world might help to alleviate unreasonable fear, so that
there would be less likelihood that we would ever again experience the panic
and hysteria that was created by War of the Worlds a half century ago. Truth
is the best cure for the unknown. A list of some of the available books on
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) is found in Appendix H.
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Conclusion
Some fire chiefs have little confidence in disaster
plans, especially those dealing with UFOs or enemy attack. If you develop
a plan that sets forth your responsibilities, resources, organizations, supplies
information, telephone numbers, and special data that will be useful in obtaining
help and fulfilling your role in disaster control, commit it to an electronic
medium, a computer with a capability for continuous updating through modern
word processing. Bring it forth when the need requires. With a good plan,
good leadership, and adequate resources, you may save many lives in any disaster,
including attack from possible enemies.
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Chapter 13 References
1. Smith. Iack. "The Night L.A. Bombed." Los Angeles
Times, September 9, 1975, Part 1, p. I .
2. World Book Encyclopedia, Volume 21, p. 21, Chicago,
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3. Cloud, Stanley W. "Gathering Storm" in Time, September
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4. "Secret History of the War" in Newsweek, March 18,1991,
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5. "Snubbing People Power" in U.S. News ~ World Report,
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6. World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. 21, p.22. Field Enterprises
Educational Corporation, Chicago, IL 1976.
7. "Preparing for Iraqi Chemical Warfare," photo and
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8. "Steel Rain' in Newsweek, March 18,1991, p.31.
9. See note 2, volume 9, p. 416.
10. See Chapter 8 for a more in-depth discussion of
terrorism.
11. Gilliam. l. "A-Bomb Materials Can Be Stolen, Expert
Says," Los Angeles Times, December ll. 1975, Part Il, p. 1.
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16. CBS News broadcast, April 1991.
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19. Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War--Some Perspectives,
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20. Ibid. p. 6.
21. "Turning Up the Heat on the Greenhouse" in Newsweek,
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22. See note 19, p. 6.
23. Seenote 19, p. 5.
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Control, Ist ed., Boston, MA: NFPA 1978, p. 340.
27. Fire Effects of Bombing Attacks, Technical Manual
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Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
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29. World Book Encyclopedia, 1991.
30. Disaster Operations, Defense Civil Preparedness
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31. Bruno, Hal. "The Wait May Be Over at FEMA" in Firehouse,
Vol. 15, No. 5 (May 1990) p. 10.
32. See note 30, p. 40.
33. The U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington,
D.C. has several publications available as of 1991 which suggest measures
that can be taken to safeguard dwellings and other buildings, in preparation
for a nuclear attack; they illustrate the relative protection afforded for
fallout radiation by various types of construction and in various locations
within a building. Two available from the U.S. Government Printing Office,
are Fallout Protection and ln Time of Emergency, both Office of Civil Defense.
34. Weldon, Curt. "The Fight for Fire Protection" in
Firehouse, Vol. 16, No. 4 (April 1991), p. 20.
35. Radio Broadcast on station KSHE, St. Louis, MO,
reported on April 25, 1991.
36. Edwards, Frank. Flying Saucers--Serious Business,
NY: Lyle Stuart,965. p. 315.
37. World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Inc., 1988,
Vol. 20, p. 19.
38. Sagan, Carl, and Thornton Page. UFOs--A Scientific
Deoate, Cornell Univ., 1972, p. 44.
39. Ibid. p. 51.
40. Readers Digest. Mysteries Of The Unexplained, p.
219.
41. Steiger, Brad, Editor. Project Blue Book. NY: Ballantine
Books, 1976, p. 170.
42. Uphoff, Walter and Mary lo, New Psychic Frontiers,
Colin Smyth Ltd., 1975. p. 152.
43. Ibid., quoting Dr. James Harder, University of
California.
44. Ibid. p. 152.
45. Macomber, Frank. "UFOs Spotted by Astronauts Still
Haven't Been Identified," Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 17, 1974, p. 30.
46. APRO's addre$s was given as 3910 E. Kleindale Rd..
Tucson, Arizona, 85716.
47. Lorenzen, lim and Coral. UFOs Over America, NY:
Signet. 1968, pp. 182 et seq.
48. Ibid. p. 186.
49. Lofton, Robert. ldentified Flying Saucers, NY: David
McKay Co., 1968, p. 86.
50. Kehoe, Donald, Major. Aliens From Space, The Real
Story of the UFOs, New York: Doubleday, 1972.
51. Friedman, Stanton. Cosmic Watergate, New Realities,
1979; Hvnek, l. Allen. "UFOs." This World, Aug. 30, 1981, p. 13.
52. Zullo, Allan A. "I Believe That Earth Has Been Visited
By Creatures From Outer Space," National Enquirer, December 1973.
53. Ibid. p. 2.
54. Press Democrat, October 10, 1989, p. A-5; also reported
in weekly news magazines; see notes 22 and 23.
55. Time, October 23,1989; Newsweek, October 30,1989;
UFO update, Omni, January 1990.
56. U.S. News ~ World Report, "UFOs in Uncle Sam's Closet,"
October 23, 1989, p.19.
57. Streiber, Whitley. Communion, NY: William Morrow,
1987, p. 15.
58. Adamski, George, lnside the Flying Saucers, NY:
Paperback Library, 1967. p. 11.
59. Fuller, John. lncident at Exeter, cited in UFO Update,
in New Realities,1978. p.52.
60. "Shooting Down The Flying Saucers," Los Angeles
Times, December 15,1959, Pt. Il, p. 5.
61. Boudreaux, Richard. "South Americans Take UFOs
Seriously," Los Angeles Times, November 29, 1978. Pt. VI, p. 7.
62. See note 6, p. 224.
63. Randles, Jenny. The UFO Conspiracy, NY: Sterling
Pub. Co.. 1990, p. 105.
64. See note 1, p. 267.
65. See note 1, p. 255.
66. Ibid. p. 259.
67. Ibid. p. 269.
68. See note 4, p. 216.
69. Blundell, Nigel, and Roger Boar. The World's Greatest
UFO Mysteries, NY: Berkeley Books, 1990, p. 175.
70. Ibid. p. 176.
71. Ibid. p. 179.
72. Vallee. Jacques. The Invisible College, NY: E. P.
Dutton, 1975 p. 6.
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About The Authors
Dr. William Kramer has baccalaureate degrees in Industrial
Management and Business Administration, a master s degree in Industrial
Relations, and a Ph.D. in Administrative Management from the University of
Cincinnati; and a master's degree in Business Administration from Xavier
University. He has edited numerous course guides for the Open Learning Fire
Service Program and published numerous fire service journal articles. He
is chairman of the seven- University National Open Learning Educational
Consortium, Associate Professor and Director of the Open Learning Program
at the University of Cincinnati, a District Fire Chief for the City of Cincinnati
and the educational commentator for American Heat video productions.
Charles (Chuck) Bahme is the author of many fire service
articles as well as books, including the Handbook of Disaster Control,
predecessor to the Fire Officer's Guide to Disaster Control, Fire Service
and the Law, Fire Officer's Guide to Dangerous Chemicals, Fire Protection
for Chemiculs, Fire Officers Guide to Emergency Action, Firemen's Law Book,
and Fire Officer's Guide to Extinguishing Systems. After responding to a
devastating chemical explosion in the City of Los Angeles he wrote its Dangerous
Chemicals Code, the first comprehensive set of regulations ever adopted by
any municipality pertaining to hazardous materials. Following his naval service
in World War II he was called upon to write U. S. Navy: Structural Fire Fighting
for the Chief of Naval Operations. In thirty years of service with the City
of Los Angeles Fire Department he advanced through the ranks from recruit
to deputy fire chief, the rank he held at the time of his retirement. During
that period he augmented his A.B. degree from UCLA with a Juris Doctor degree
from Southwestern University. Through the same years he served with the U.
S. Navy: six years of active duty during World War II and the Korean conflict,
and twenty-eight years with the Naval Reserve, in which he retired with the
rank of Captain. Chief Bahme is an attorney at law with admission to practice
in California, before federal district courts, the Supreme Court of the United
States, and the highest court of military appeals. He has taught courses
in fire protection engi- neering a UCLA, and fire administration at USC and
various state, national, and international conferences. He has served in
Europe and the Far East for the Department of Defense and the U. S. State
Department. In recent years he has been teaching a course in Political and
Legal Foundations of Fire Protection as a faculty member of Cogswell College's
Open Learning Fire Service Program. He has also served as the NFPA's Fire
Extinguishing Specialist, its Western Representative, and as chairman of
its Committee on Hazardous Chemicals Fire Fighting. Upon his moving to Lake
County, California, he served as the chairman of his local Kelseyville fire
district's board of directors and as a disaster control visor to his local
Red Cross chapter.
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