70th Anniversary of the modern era of UAPs: Information and Thoughts

With the 70th anniversary of Kenneth Arnold’s sighting over a formation of crescent-shaped UAPs and of the Roswell “UFO crash”, I thought that this was a good time for providing a new blog entry with some reflections and links to some interesting information:

– PERSPECTIVES:
UFO researchers Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Thomas E. Bullard have issued a joint paper about their thoughts about the status of Ufology: “The nature of UFO evidence: Two views”, can be accessed from: www.academia.edu, at this link:
https://www.academia.edu/33352049/THE_NATURE_OF_UFO_EVIDENCE_TWO_VIEWS .
Milton W. Hourcade, responsible of the Unusual Aerial Phenomena Study Group, has also described the UFO theme in perspective, providing some relevant contextual background and views based on his long experience. To be read here:
http://www.uapsg.com/2017/06/70-years-after-arnold-case-ufo-theme-in.html

– UAP & THE HISTORIANS:
     Greg Eghigian, Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University, has written last April an interesting article in which he rightly asks: Why have academic historians all but neglected this subject ? Surely a significant phenomenon this large should warrant our attention…
https://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2017/04/ufos-and-the-historians/

Talking about historical documents and correctly describing the UAP events, I strongly recommend the website of Jan Aldrich, founder and coordinator of the following website: (http://www.project1947.com/), which represents a gold mine of relevant information. Still many information are still missing and all researchers hope that they will eventually surface one day, allowing to shed further light on UFO history. Jan Aldrich and Barry Greenwood have recently nominated their 10 most wanted articles which have yet to be recovered. Here is their list:
http://www.project1947.com/folio/index.htm
http://www.project1947.com/folio/folio.htm

– UAP CASES:
     Missing relevant information pertaining to interesting UAP cases do not only relate to the beginning of the modern UFO history (1940s-1950s). For example, Dr David Clarke, Research Fellow in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, has last month uncovered, within the release by Britain’s Ministry of Defence of 15 of its last remaining UFO files at the UK’s National Archives, details about of a stunning Cold War close encounter witnessed by the entire crew of a US Air Force spy-plane during 90 minutes. A film of the 280 SU radar pictures and the tape on which radio transmissions were recorded, were made available for a study. The details of this October 1982 incident can be found here:
https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2017/06/30/ufo-files-exclusive-cold-war-spyplane-incident/
Clearly there is a lot of information missing on this case, but it is interesting that this case was not known by anyone until 1 month ago. As usually done in such case, the interested researchers will need to submit official requests for attempting to recover any further information. (in that case through a FOIA towards USAFE (European section of the USAF), the AF Office of Intelligence, the Dept of Defense, and the Air Force Historical Center). 

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