Ross Coulthart UAP Book - Prologue, Chapter 1 & Chapter 2

“A long diamond-shaped craft hovering overhead with the rear edge chopped off, rows of lights running towards the craft's tip. It was a dark grey colour but not as dark as the night sky. It was 100 feet above us at most.”

“It followed them along the road for a kilometre. Then it shot up into the sky and appeared to land in the scrub a few hundred metres off the road, a light now shining from underneath.”

“The policemen told her they had no idea, but that the same object had followed them the previous night.”

“Two days later, two American military policemen walked into Annie's workplace in town and asked her to come with them.”

“'You do realise that what you saw was a weather balloon?' I laughed at that.”

“Then one of the APS policemen sitting next to me – they both had their heads down – said: 'Please shut up . . . Shut up before you get us all killed.'”

“The photographs of 'the craft' were printed at a printing shop inside the base and the two officers had shown them to colleagues. 'Next thing, they were in custody. They searched the photo-machine, and they took his camera, the pics and the negatives.'”

“Declassified files held in the Australian government's National Archives reveal that anomalous sightings of unexplained objects at North West Cape have been officially reported to the Australian Air Force for decades by soldiers, tourists, a senior American officer at the base, and a local fireman.”

“What is possibly the earliest official 'mystery aircraft' flap recorded in government files came in 1930 when a Royal Australian Air Force Squadron Leader George Jones was sent to Warrnambool in Victoria to investigate reports of mystery aircraft seen flying inland over the coast.”

“'They were not aircraft belonging to us and, as far as I could find out, they were not aircraft belonging to any other powers.'”

“Jones rose to lofty heights, becoming the Royal Australian Air Force's Chief of Air Staff during the Second World War, and was later Air Marshall Sir George Jones.”

“He said that, after a series of 'bright flashes', he saw 'a dull grey-white airship coming towards me. It seemed impossible . . . Except for a cloud or two there was nothing else in the sky.'”

“Not only were the lights caught on radar and seen by multiple people onboard, they were also filmed on a later return flight by cameraman David Crockett and reported by Australian TV reporter Quentin Fogarty.”

“'We've just heard from Wellington radar that we've got an object about a mile behind us and it's following us.'”

“the Royal New Zealand Air Force delivered a report into the incident one month after the Kaikoura sighting and announced it had solved the puzzle, asserting that everyone on board the plane was simply confused by 'natural but unusual atmospheric phenomena'.”

“a 20-year-old Melbourne-based pilot Frederick Valentich had disappeared while piloting a tiny Cessna aircraft over Bass Strait on a flight to King Island. Shortly before he and his aircraft disappeared, Valentich was recorded telling Melbourne air traffic control that he was being followed by a huge illuminated shiny metal craft hovering above him.”

“Some of his dramatic last words, as his engine began rough idling, were: 'It's hovering and it's not an aircraft.' Then the transmission was interrupted by strange pulsing sounds and his radio cut out.”

“In February 1946, Sweden had more than 2000 sightings of so-called 'ghost rockets', hundreds of them corroborated by radar returns, and purported physical fragments of these objects were even recovered.”

“Sweden's Air Intelligence Service told the Americans that 'these phenomena are obviously the result of a high technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth'.”

“In February 1947, there were three independent and well-verified sightings of a formation of five egg-shaped wingless and tailless craft flying over southern Australia... A farmer on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula... His account corroborated another made earlier by workmen at Port Augusta, 260 kilometres north-east... The third sighting of a formation of five weird, high-speed, egg-shaped UAPs came two months later, a thousand kilometres east in New South Wales.”

“The farmer, a Mr Nettlebeck, reportedly estimated the speed at about 1000 miles an hour (1600 km/h).”

“Arnold was a private pilot and... he estimated their speed as they tracked across the breadth of the distant mountain as being up to 1700 miles an hour (2700 km/h).”

“He described their shape as convex with one object differently as crescent-shaped... he noticed a series of bright flashes north of Mount Rainier... from a distance of 30 to 40 kilometres away.”

“On 5 July 1947, a ranch foreman named Mac Brazel found crash debris scattered across a cattle ranch 120 kilometres from Roswell in New Mexico.”

“Marcel described a massive field of debris 1200 metres long and 60 to 90 metres wide. There was allegedly a gouge in the field that extended up to 150 metres long, which looked as if 'something had touched down and skipped along'.”

“At midday on the same day, 8 July 1947, Blanchard ordered his base public information officer Lieutenant Walter Haut to issue a press release announcing that the US Army had recovered a flying disc.”

“Just three hours after the noon Roswell press release, General Ramey issued a new statement through Associated Press asserting that the supposed flying disc was simply a weather balloon.”

“The air force's 1994 report claimed the wreckage that was recovered was from a then top-secret balloon project designed to monitor Soviet nuclear tests, known as Project MOGUL.”

“As the US Congress's General Accounting Office discovered during its 1995 review of the incident's paperwork, not a single document from the Roswell Army Airfield in the crash period survives; every bit of paper relating to this 1947 incident was destroyed with no apparent authorisation.”

“There is also the extraordinary deathbed affidavit of former US Army public information officer Lieutenant Walter Haut, who testified in 2002 that he was taken out to a hangar by Colonel Blanchard to view recovered child-sized bodies with abnormally large heads, lying under a tarpaulin at the base.”

“he alleged that Blanchard allowed him to see an apparent alien craft in a hangar 'approx. 12 to 15 feet in length, not quite as wide, about 6 feet high and more of an egg shape.'”

“It was not until the early 1990s, when I was working in Australia as a television investigative journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners, that I was encouraged by Australian Air Force insiders to reconsider my default dismissive attitude towards unidentified objects in our skies.”

“'Pilots don't report this sort of stuff because it's career-ending to admit you see these things. But there is something weird happening that can't be dismissed. Too many of us have seen these objects.'”

“Throughout the Second World War and during the late 1940s, many Second World War aviators over Europe or in the Pacific theatre reported seeing luminous discs or spheres known as Foo Fighters. Bomber pilots over Europe regularly reported wingless and tailless glowing objects tracking their aircraft, 'that could turn on a dime'.”

“US government and military insiders I have interviewed for this book admit they have knowledge of technology operating in our skies, oceans and orbit that far exceeds known human science.”

“by September 1947, General Nathan Twining, a former combat fighter pilot and World War Two commander, the head of the United States Air Materiel Command, penned a now famous letter about the flying discs, acknowledging that the phenomenon, whatever it was, was 'something real and not visionary or fictitious'”

“Twining described how the 'metallic' looking discs showed capabilities such as extreme rates of climb and manoeuvrability, including evasion when detected, which 'lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, or remotely'”

“He subsequently claimed to have seen a highly classified 1948 Project Sign report, entitled 'Estimate of the Situation', investigating the flying saucer sightings. 'The situation was the UFOs; the estimate was that they were interplanetary,' he succinctly admitted.”

“The air force project would eventually investigate 12,618 UAP reports from both civilians and military witnesses”

“in 1953, the US Air Command had created the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS) that confidentially vetted all UAP reports before they were sent to Blue Book, culling sightings that raised national security concerns.”

“Inside the US station early that evening at 7.20 pm, about seven hours after Kissinger's DEFCON escalation order was issued, Bill Lynn, an Australian fire captain working for the US Navy, was one of two witnesses who noticed an unusual object hovering in the sky near the base.”

“He estimated the object was approximately 30 feet (9 metres) in diameter hovering at 1000 feet over the hills due west of the base. 'It was black, maybe due to looking in the direction of the setting sun. No lights appeared on it at any time.'”

“more than 100 children and adult teachers saw several hovering UAPs”

“I just heard a slight whoosh, whirring sound just momentarily. I looked over my shoulder and saw the craft. I saw three of them. I definitely saw three... One larger and two slightly smaller. They were about 18 feet across, a silvery colour. If you placed two saucers inverted on top of each other with a slight dome on top of it.”

“She told me she actually saw the craft close up in The Grange bushland, describing it as a classic silvery saucer-shaped object – she was near enough to feel its heat through her hand.”

“It was not a balloon. It was a machine, a craft... She remembers watching as the craft lifted slowly off the ground, tilted on its side, and then shot off at an incredible speed.”

“In an instant they whizzed out of sight, disappearing into the horizon, silently leaving the planes in their wake.”

“Soon after the incident, military jeeps and trucks full of soldiers arrived at the school. All the students were called to an assembly and warned not to talk about what they saw.”

“Researcher Shane Ryan told me he has interviewed an extraordinary tally of 122 witnesses who clearly saw a 'flying saucer' at Westall.”

“Not one document on the Westall incident has ever surfaced from any government archives, despite strenuous efforts by several researchers.”

“about 100 kilometres off the coast at a mid-point between the US city of San Diego and the coastal town of Ensenada in Mexico, the behemoth aircraft supercarrier USS Nimitz was undergoing preparatory training with other vessels in its carrier strike group before deploying to the Middle East”

“Since 10 November he had tracked numerous unidentified aerial objects with no transponder return, closely clustering in groups of five to ten at a time at an altitude far above normal commercial or military aviation traffic”

“the cluster of UAPs was at one moment somewhere about 80,000 feet or higher, some were lower at 28,000 feet. Then, instantly (Day calculates it to be 0.78 of a second) the UAPs plummeted to hover at a range of different altitudes, spanning from 28,000 feet to one craft hanging just 50 feet above the surface of the ocean.”

“Commander Fravor was then shocked to discern what he can only describe as a featureless giant white 'Tic Tac'-candy shaped object with what looked like two appendages below its belly; it was hovering just above the surface of the ocean over the disturbance in the water. The Tic Tac, roughly the length of his FA-18 jet, had no windows, no visible engines, no wings, no exhaust or smoke, and no discernible markings.”

“'It was there . . . then it rifled out of sight in a split second,' Slaight remembers. 'It was as if the object was shot out of a rifle. There was no gradual acceleration or spooling up period, it just shot out of sight immediately. I have never seen anything like it before or since. No human could have withstood that kind of acceleration.'”

“the USS Princeton radioed, 'You're not going to believe this. It's at your cap.' One of the UAPs was clearly tracked on the AEGIS radar hovering at 24,000 feet, right at the very spot where Fravor and his wingman were headed.”

“'As it turns out, all of our comms had been erased. Now, every time you key a mic on the ship, it stamps the optical disk with a date and time stamp. All the date and time stamps were there but the actual comms were all missing. And that was another anomalous thing because as far as I know I don't even think that's possible. But it happened,' Day recalls.”

“On board the Princeton, Gary Voorhis was also ordered to turn over the data tapes from the ship's Combat Engagement Centre and, in defiance of normal procedure, he was also ordered to erase everything including blank tapes.”

“'We have crash retrievals,' he went on to repeat, 'and they have been analysed and unfortunately our laboratory diagnostic technologies and our material sciences and the understanding of physics that we had were not advanced enough to be able to make heads or tails of what it is, of what they had their hands on.'”

“in June 2009, then Senator Harry Reid wrote to the US Secretary of Defence requesting the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) be given the status of a Special Access Program (SAP). The Senator's letter gave clues as to why such strict classification was now necessary, asserting that 'substantial progress' had been made with the identification of 'several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings.'”

“'Yes, I was. I was never read out of it. So, I really don't think it would help but I really can't speak about it.'”

“'I saw a piece of piece of material that was reported to me as being a titanium alloy that was not known to the air force... It was a piece about three by maybe four feet... it showed no attachment except something welded to it. But it was not welded to it. It just was integral with, if you could think of it as a bulkhead, it was integral with the skin'”

“On 11 October 2017, Tom DeLonge took to a Seattle stage to officially announce, as president and CEO, the formation of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences (TTSA).”

“One of those videos was the 76-second so-called FLIR1 video, depicting the Tic Tac, the egg- or oblong-shaped UAP filmed by the USS Nimitz pilot in 2004. That FLIR1/Tic Tac film was posted on the TTSA site along with another undated 34-second video known as the 'Gimbal'.”

“in late 2020, TTSA imploded. Speculation had mounted for months that former Defence Department mandarin Christopher Mellon and key figures Luis Elizondo and Steve Justice were leaving TTSA... Tom DeLonge several more months to formally admit to the Securities Exchange Commission not only their departure, but also, a week later, Dr Hal Puthoff's resignation as a director.”

“TTSA's Luis Elizondo coined a phrase, 'The Five Observables', the characteristics most commonly seen in UAPs.”

“He also told the Times that he had given a classified briefing to a Defence Department agency three months earlier in March 2020 about retrievals from 'off-world vehicles not made on this earth'.”

“The Program apparently 'has recovered technological hardware not of this Earth and not made by human hands'.”

“as rumours of an imminent New York Times story mounted in June 2020, Wilson finally issued a strong denial that any such meeting with Davis ever happened.”

“Two days before Christmas, 2022, an extraordinary piece of legislation was signed into law by US President Joe Biden”

“On 17 May 2022, two top Defense Department intelligence officials appeared before the first public congressional hearing into UAPs in over half a century. It is important to note neither official was put under oath.”