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Subject: 40th Anniversary Of eaver County UFO Sighting




Source: The Beaver County Times - Beaver, Pennsylvania

http://tinyurl.com/zdfgu

May 12 06

[Audio at site]


40th Anniversary Of eaver County UFO Sighting

Sally Maxson
The Times

As far as the federal government is concerned, the incident is
over and done.

"The case was closed and never reopened," said Brian Seese, a
paranormal researcher from Hopewell Township, who includes the
incident in his new book, "Unexplained Events in Beaver County."

In late 1966, Weitzel, the NICAP investigator assigned to the
case, delivered his final report to his Washington, D.C.,
supervisor, Richard Hall.

"I personally hand-carried a copy of Weitzel's very thick and
extremely well-documented report to Dr. Edward Condon," Hall
recalled last month.

Condon, a scientist, was in charge of a UFO study conducted by
the University of Colorado under the sponsorship of the Air
Force.

"Years later, I learned to my astonishment that he never turned
over the case to his staff, and it gathered dust in his personal
files," Hall said.

And so when the Air Force turned the Colorado report over to
Congress, the Ohio-to-Conway incident wasn't mentioned.

"Maj. Hector Quintanilla tried to pass it off as a sighting of
the planet Venus and an earth satellite, which was quite
preposterous," said Hall, who wrote "The UFO Evidence, Vol. II;
A Thirty-Year Report," published in 2001. "I think he may have
changed it to an unexplained case later on."

According to the files of a leading UFO researcher, Brad Sparks,
the Air Force ultimately did categorize the case as
"unexplained" and probably left it at that, Hall said.

Project Blue Book files would show the final status of the
incident, Hall said.

But trying to get someone to share Project Blue Book details
isn't easy.

The feds closed Project Blue Book in 1972, ending at least
publicly the Air Force's role as a UFO investigation agency.


[Thanks to Stuart Miller of http://www.uforeview.net for the lead]