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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 Perhaps most significant, and certainly most aggravat- ing, is the common. occurrence of electro-magnetic effects in those areas where UFOs are sighted. Single cars, blocks of houses and sometimes whole areas have suffered severe caprices of current when UFOs were overhead. The dis- turbance may be reflected in no more than a stalled motor or heavy static on the radio, but in Hammond, Ind., in 1957, while police chased a UFO, there was a TV black- out in the city. And in 1963, in Australia at the same time an unidentified object danced over the town of Won- thaggi, TV interference was recorded in three towns. There was a city light failure in Rome, Italy in 1958 at the same time a UFO passed over the city and in Brazil in 1959 the automatic keys at a power station flipped off as a UFO was spotted over the trunk line. After the ob- ject had passed the power station functioned normally. These are only a few of the instances and serious considera- tion is still being given by some students of the power line theory that UFOs played a role in the disastrous blackout along the Eastern Seaboard in November, 1965. HAVE UFOs BEEN TRACKED ON RADAR? Goose Air Force Base, Newfoundland, June 19, 1952: Radar experts picked up object on scope making 90 de- gree turn over airfield after C-54 transport pilot alerted base to fireball that was buzzing his plane. Radar experts had seen number of meteors; did not think this was one. The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, for- mer head of Air Force Project Blue Book. Source: Goose: Bay, June 19, 1952: “Just as radar men picked up a UEO track, ground men outside saw a strange, red- lighted machine come in over the field.” Flying Saucers From Outer Space, by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, U.S. Marine Corps, retired. Source: Radar experts admit scope is as susceptible to illusion as is the eye, but have picked up some strange blips. Oneida Air Force Base, Japan, August 5, 1952: Ground Control Intercept Station picks up track of saucer hovering near tower. “The mysterious craft divided into three units as if two other saucers had been Jaunched from the first.” Three machines raced off at speeds clocked at 300 knots. ; Source: Flying Saucers from Outer Space from material supplied Major Key- hoe by Albert M. Chop, civilian expert on UFOs, formerly acting press chief working with Project In- telligence officers at Wright Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Wichita, Kans., August 1, 1965: Several unidentified objects tracked by Weather Bureau at altitude of 6000- 9000 feet. Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Tinker Air Force Base tracked four on its radar screen at one time, estimating altitudes at about 23,000 feet. At 3:40 a.m., Weather Bureau at Wichita said it had tracked one of the objects south and west of Wellington . . . had first ap- peared on radar at altitude of about 22,000 feet, then de- scended to 4000 feet. Source: New York Times, August 3, 1965 “ |. air force has come along and singled that (above ) case out to say that their radar did not confirm the visual sightings of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. . . . “We've got information to contradict the Air Force de- nial here. It’s a nine page report of the Oklahoma Depart- ment of Public Safety outlining a sighting by the police and confirmed by the Caswell Air Force Base radar.” Quotes by Richard Hall, assistant Director of NICAP, in Incident At Exeter, by John G. Fuller. Source: Houghton, Mich., U.S. Air Force Radar Base, Kewee- .naw Peninsula reported to UPI “solid radar contact” on Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 a