UFOs Confront Soldiers During War, Says Ex-Air Force Intelligence Officer

Excerpt from huffingtonpost.com

The public rarely hears about interactions between military personnel and unexplained aircraft — especially during wartime.
As

time goes on, however, UFO stories stuck behind red tape begin to see

the light of day. The Vietnam War saw its share of UFO activity in the

1960s.

One close encounter, in 1968, involved the crew of an

American patrol boat that reported two glowing circular craft following

them in the demilitarized zone that separated North and South Vietnam

(see depiction below).

The

crew aboard a second patrol boat later reported seeing the UFOs over

the first boat and a flash of light, followed by an explosion that

completely destroyed the boat. These Vietnam reports included close

observation of the unknown aerial craft which appeared to house pilots

(see recreation image at the top of this story).

Wartime UFO stories are recreated in the premiere episode

of the second season of History’s “Hangar 1: The UFO Files.” The

accounts are drawn from tens of thousands of UFO cases in the archives

of the Mutual UFO Network, the world’s largest UFO investigation group.

“The

military was interested in [UFOs] because they had capabilities far

above anything that we had, and they wanted to find out what the

technology was and, frankly, who they belonged to,” according to former

Air Force intelligence officer, Capt. George Filer.

While in

Vietnam, Filer — who had a top secret clearance — gave daily briefings

to Gen. George S. Brown, deputy commander for air operations in

Vietnam.

“Frequently, the Vietcong or North Vietnamese would be

attacking an outpost and I would explain that, and we would have

ground-air support, particularly at night where we’d go in there with

these gun ships, and I would give briefings on all of that,” Filer told

The Huffington Post. “Some of the time, there would be unidentified

craft over the DMZ.”

Filer described a typical report that he’d receive and which he included in his briefings to Brown:

“You’d

have an aircraft flying along, doing around 500 knots and a UFO comes

alongside and does some barrel rolls around the aircraft and then flies

off at three times the speed of one of the fastest jets we have in the

Air Force. So, obviously, it has a technology far in advance of anything

we have.

“I would be told this unofficially. People tell you a

lot of things that they don’t put in writing or sign their name to.

There was always this part of UFOs that, if you got too interested, it

could mess up your career. And this is true today even with commercial pilots.

I’ve also heard from people serving in Afghanistan saying they’ve seen

UFOs, and the Iranian news carries UFO reports pretty regularly.”

During

a 1973 press conference, five years after the patrol boat UFO

encounters, Brown — as USAF chief of staff — was asked about the Air

Force’s position on UFOs:

I

don’t know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren’t

called UFOs. The were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen

at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up

around the DMZ in the early summer of ’68. And this resulted in quite a

little battle.

And in the course of this, an

Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only

found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some

shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved, but we always

reacted.

Always after dark, the same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in ’69.

Many stories about battling UFOs have emerged throughout history.

One

early account of UFO warfare was supposedly seen by the citizens of

Nuremberg, Germany, in 1561. On a morning in April, the Nuremberg

Gazette reportedly described an aerial battle

between large “cylindrical shapes from which emerged black, red, orange

and blue-white spheres that darted about… All these elements started

to fight one against the other.” An artist, Hans Glaser, created a

woodcut of the spectacle, seen below:

During

World War II, also in Germany, Allied aircraft pilots often reported

mysterious glowing, fast-moving, circular lights, which were dubbed Foo

Fighters. The New York Times reported it as “military slang for flying saucers.”

Filer — who documents his sightings and other UFO news at the National UFO Center site

— was one of several military eyewitnesses to something extraordinary

in the sky over England. It was 1962, and he was the navigator on a

refueling tanker.
“We were out over the North Sea when London

Control called and asked if we would be willing to intercept an

unidentified that was over Oxford and the Stonehenge area. We had just

finished up our refueling mission, so we said sure, and they cleared all

the traffic around us and gave us top priority as we descended towards

the UFO. All they really had was a very large radar return, but it was

much bigger than a normal aircraft.”

Filer

(pictured at right) recalled how his radar scope indicated the UFO was

as big as the huge Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland that he and his

crew often used as a regular navigation point.

“The ‘thing’ was at

1,000 feet and we were descending from 32,000 feet. We picked up this

huge radar return while we were still about 30 miles out. It was dark

out and when we got much closer to the object, we saw lights around it,

outlining the shape of a cylinder, like a cruise ship. It then just

quickly rose and went up into space. 

“We were pretty sure we’d just seen a UFO.”

Filer

also told HuffPost that he has heard from air traffic controllers who

claimed they were told to “always divert aircraft away from UFOs and

deny that it existed. I think they want this whole situation to go away,

and I think [the policy] is coming from the National Security Council

— they’re at the highest level. It sounds funny, but presidents don’t

always know what their National Security Council is doing.”

Upcoming

episodes of “Hangar 1″ over the next 12 weeks will focus on folks

who’ve held military positions and are willing to come forward and tell

their stories.

One of those (hold onto your hats) is a man who

claims he was in the Marines (wait for it…) and that he was stationed

on Mars for several years. That’s right: the red planet Mars. He’ll

describe being part of an off-planet military force. Let’s not pass

judgment…yet.
There’s also the story of a retired Army sergeant who says he was assigned to UFO crash and retrieval cases where both ships and ET bodies were supposedly recovered — some dead, some alive.

In

case you were wondering, Hangar 1 is an actual hangar where MUFON, for a

long time, stored all of its archives. At one point, all of the

organization’s files were housed in this airport hangar somewhere in the

middle of the country. The images of Hangar 1 that appear in the series

are of the real hangar.

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UFOs Confront Soldiers During War, Says Ex-Air Force Intelligence Officer