UFOs or UAVs?
The hottest thing in military tech for the past few years has been the development of Umanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs.) I suspect that a lot of UFO reports over the past few years (and perhaps even to the late 1970s) have been unauthorized sightings of these surveillance platforms, and the military and its civilian contractors are only too happy to oblige when people mistake the hovering lights for flying saucers.
The objects that Paul Bennewitz filmed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque beginning in late 1978 have all the earmarks of early UAV development, and insiders I interviewed for my book, Project Beta hinted that this was the case. Some who were not in on all the secrets were almost certain of this. In another episode recounted in the book, former State Highway Patrolman Gabe Valdez described a nighttime incident in which he and three other law enforcement personnel “cornered” a hovering amber light in a farmer’s pasture near Dulce, New Mexico in the early 1980s. The foggy night obscured any details of the object, but as they approached it from four sides, the light abruptly switched off. As it moved off in the darkness, “We heard a sound like a small lawnmower motor” moving over their heads, Valdez said. Dulce was the nexus of a lot of strange goings-on at the time, most notably mysterious animal deaths. There is an Army base (Fort Collins) over the border in nearby Colorado which (like the isolated Fort Huachaca in southern Arizona) was apparently used as a base for UAV operations.
The “Guardian” UAV in operation at Fort Huachaca
Since spytech is usually 10-20 usually years ahead of where the public thinks it is, this fits in perfectly with the timetable on UAVs, which have only recently come to major public awareness. See this report on a company in England which has nearly perfected something that could easily be mistaken for a UFO. GFS (for Geoff’s Flying Saucer) Company president Geoff Hatton said: “Ever since I was in the hovercraft industry, I’ve wanted to develop a craft that could go up into the air as well as move across the ground. At last we’ve done it. Our UAV takes off vertically and can land virtually anywhere. We’ve filed four patent applications on the basic design and are now developing automated flight controls.”
Platform test image from GFS-associated website
As we have said here before, the government may not know what the UFOs are, or where they come from, but they have no problem using the subject for their own needs when the situation demands it.
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Jan 05 2007 
January 5th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Funny you mention this, just the other day I was driving down airport road and I saw a funny looking little doughnut shaped UFO. GREAT! I grabbed my kolchak the nightstalker special (old cheapy camera that resides in the glovebox) and got ready to take some pics. Thats when I rounded the corner of the flight facility and saw the goofy air force E-5 playing with the remote control and sporting a huge goofy grin. He waved, I waved, it was… hilarious. ;-p
It’s almost as funny as the time the Albuquerque MUFON people accused me of being a man in black for insisting that the black helicopters in town came from the special operations wing at Kirkland AFB. Silly me!
January 5th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
This seems certainly a lot more fun than fooling around with some stupid model airplane–and he gets paid for it!
Where did the MUFONites they think the helicopters came from, Zeta Reticuli? This is part of the reason I don’t go to the local meetings anymore, although I must admit that I got some good questions and discussion when I spoke there a couple of months ago.
January 6th, 2007 at 6:32 am
Have recently been amused at much the now-legendary “Flatwoods/Braxton County Monster” of 1952 resembles a UAV in both structure and movement. When artist Frank Feschino began researching this incident several years back one of the first things he discovered was that the famous drawing of the thing..”based on eyewitness descriptions”…was NOT what they said they saw. The drawing published and circulated (and re-circulated) for years seems to be a HIGHLY anthropomorphized version of what the witnesses saw. They reported a shell type object with a “head” to it (though not really a head in a human context), little arms or antennas that stuck out to the side, and a “skirted” bottom that seemed metallically segmented. The drawing that was made turned the “head” into an anthropomorphized head, turned the little horizontal antenna into long, pantographic style arms, and rendered the “skirt” LITERALLY…as though the thing was wearing a dress. The preposterousness of the appearance of this version of the “monster” tended to put people “off” of it for years.
What Feschino was told by all surviving witnesses was that this rendering was NOT what they saw…so he sat down, took notes from them, made sketches for their approval, and finally came up with what they agreed was the thing they SAW…instead of what other people implied they saw.
Then he painted it.
And what did he paint? Something that looks VERY close to a UAV of some kind…not a “monster”. The revised version shows the kind of thing that could be akin to the probe “Nomad” on the old classic Star Trek episode. Or to the “Guardian” at Fort Huachuca.
Interesting.
Check it out at here.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:36 am
There are a couple of UK UFO cases that were almost certainly UAV-related: one off the coast of Scotland in 1996, and one a few years later on the Isle of Man (also off the UK mainland). I’ll dig into my files and do a write up over the next week.
I met Feschino at Ryan Wood’s crashed ufo gig in November and he gave a good lecture on Flatwoods.