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In this episode, we're talking about the Oklahoma 1965 UFO
wave. That's correct, the Oklahoma
UFO1965 wave. Now look at this first article
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It doesn't cost anything. Now this article says Saucers
Over Oklahoma, written by David A Ferris, dated February 4th,
2015. So it's been a few years.
It's got a picture here of these folks standing around looking at
what seems to be 3 different orbs.
Since there's an old picture, an old black and white, it says
Saturday morning, July 31st, 1965 at 1:05 AM, Officer Louis
Sykes of Winewood Police Department reported, citing a
bright object in the sky a few miles northeast of town.
He described the object as having a blue-green center with
the rotating light circling the midsection.
The object abruptly rose into the night sky, where it hovered
for a few minutes before it began to lose altitude and then
move off to the north. The sighting was also confirmed
by the Murray County Sheriff's Office.
Tinker Air Force Base picked up an unidentified blip on their
radar scope at the same time is the one wood sighting.
The object was tracked at an altitude of 8000 feet until it
disappeared from the screen approximately 15 miles southwest
of Midwest City. And so think about this, you've
got two different law enforcement individuals that
spot this thing, report it, then that it shows up on radar okay.
And it's big enough that he that the one police officer describes
this is this bright light with this green light going around
it. So it's not like it's doesn't
sound like a flare or something tiny.
And it's 1965, so it's not a drone.
So it goes on and says the object was tracked at an
altitude of 8000 feet until it disappeared from their screen
approximately 15 miles southwest of Midwest City.
It was later learned that Carswell Army Air Force Base in
Fort Worth, TX had also tracked an unidentified object on their
radar screen earlier in the evening.
So you've got 2 military installations tracking this
thing. It's important.
Two military installations tracking on radar.
Two law enforcement individuals spot this thing from the ground.
A UFO had been witnessed by many people, including members of law
enforcement, and tracked on radar by military personnel at
two different Air Force bases. This was only the first night.
At the time, Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH was
home to a small, understaffed, underfunded office that was
responsible for investigating reports of unidentified flying
objects. Project Blue Book was
established in 1952 in response to civilian reports of such
phenomena. Yeah, a lot of people.
I think that Project Blue Book was mainly established to cover
the stuff up. Just the thought, It was highly
criticized as a public relations stunt to patronize taxpayers.
Yet America was in a Cold War with the Soviet Union.
A UFO sighting was more likely to be Russian than
extraterrestrial, which was one reason such reports were taken
seriously. And if you really think about
the condition of the Soviet Union in 1952 and them flying
one of these, one of these, you know, highly advanced aircraft
over the United States, it would really is, it seems pretty
laughable when you think about it.
There were also civilian UFO organizations that conducted
their own investigations within state or regional areas.
In 1965, Hayden C Hughes was the 20 year old director of the
Interplanetary Intelligence of UFO's.
The purpose of the organization was the study and scientific
research of unidentified flying objects.
Members included scientists, astronomers and others
interested in the UFO phenomena. Should police for media hear
reports of UFO activity, Hughes was notified.
That Saturday, Hughes traveled to Wynwood to interview Officer
Sykes. It was a busy day for
interplanetary intelligence of UFO members who received a wave
of reported sightings. On the same day a man claimed
that while fishing at Lake Hefner, he had witnessed A
saucer type craft emerged from the water, hover momentarily and
then fly away. The unnamed witness was reported
to have been admitted to a local hospital in a state of shock.
Now think about this course 1965.
He sees his flying saucer and he's overcome with shock because
he just can't believe what he just saw.
By Sunday August 1st, UF O's were the talk of the town having
been sighted throughout the state.
Oklahomans who wanted to glimpse one of these crafts were on
alert, armed with binoculars and cameras.
When dusk fell, saucer watchers would not be disappointed.
Around 9:00 PM, Hughes received a phone call from television
news man Mike Buchanan informing him that the Highway Patrol had
received more than 20 reports of UFO's en route toward Oklahoma
City. Now think about it, 1965, no
cell phones. Someone had to take the time and
pick up a phone at home, or maybe a pay phone and report
this to the police. Hughes drove to the Highway
Patrol's lookout tower that was formerly located along Broadway
Extension South of Edmond near 122nd St.
He scanned the night sky for hours while reports of these
strange flying objects came in over the police radio as they
were happening. Tinker Air Force Base reported
tracking 4U FO's on radar at an altitude of 22,000 feet.
The craft appeared as they had the night before, very bright,
multi collared, hovering and then flying off at high rates of
speed, sometimes making sharp right angle turns.
The earliest reported sighting near Edmond that Sunday night
occurred east of town about 10:00 PM when W Pitchford and
his wife watched one of the objects as it passed near their
home. They were startled to see the
craft flying at such a low altitude of approximately a half
a mile or less. It was described as circular,
about 30 feet diameter, with a Dome on top.
Mr. Pitchford said the object first appeared on the eastern
horizon, quickly approached his house, and then whooshed by
going West by southwest. So he sees this thing hovering
there on the horizon, just zooms up to the house, hovers there
and takes off, clearly a flying saucer.
Meanwhile, at the lookout tower, observers continue their watch
without any luck until 11:30 PM when a craft was reported north
of El Reno and moving E putting it about 20 miles West of the
tower. Hughes 6 Hwy. patrolman and a
reporter looked in amazement as a bright multicolored UFO
appeared over the western horizon heading toward Edmond.
Hugh stated it looked like a light source, dominantly white,
and appeared to have a green glow around it.
The UFO also seemed to be flashing red, white and blue
lights. It hovered over the area for
about an hour. An hour doesn't sound like
flares or swamp gas or anything like that to me.
Officer Joel Cobb of the Edmond Police Department was on duty
that Sunday night. It was before midnight when he
heard over his police radio a general broadcast to watch for
unusual flying objects. He soon witnessed A brightly
lighted object which changed color frequently over his house
in North in the North Central area of the town.
It appeared to hover briefly, then moved N where it hovered
over Graceland Cemetery for several minutes.
Officer Cobb and his wife watched the object until it
suddenly zipped away to the north.
Missus Cobb reported watching a similar object in the night sky
South of town until about 3:00 AM.
Edmond Police Officer Chuck Jones was also on duty that
Sunday night and saw the strange lights and presence of other
witnesses. Their sighting was to the
southwest of town and lasted for several minutes, Officer Jones
explained. It was brightly lighted.
It was not a plane and it was not a star.
The craft was witnessed by many Edmond residents before moving
on to the northeast. This craft, or a similar one
that traveled in the same direction, flew over Tulsa about
an hour and a half later where it was photographed before it
continued on into Kansas. This is amazing at these
multiple sightings just seen by a number of police officers
tracked by the US government, witnessed by dozens if not
hundreds of people on the ground.
Certified mass UFO sighting, the article continues.
It says Oklahoma was not the only state to experience UFLUFO
activity on that hot summer night.
By midnight, the UPI wire service reported thousands of
UFO reports from Dallas, TX. Similar sightings were reported
in Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming.
By Monday's morning light, August 2nd, 10s of thousands of
people from 7 different states had witnessed UFO activity, at
least 2US Air Force bases that tracked the strange lights on
radar. At the same time they were
observed by members of the military and law enforcement.
Had American airspace been invaded by a foreign presence?
Questions went up the Air Force chain of command until they
reached the Pentagon in Washington DC.
The flippant responses previously given by the
government officials to dismiss such sightings would not work in
this case, but they tried anyway.
By afternoon that same Monday, the Air Force had solved the UFO
mystery of the previous two nights, an official response
from the Secretary of Air Force of Information stated.
The initial study of the majority of reports received
thus far would indicate that observations were astrological
in nature. The objects were most likely
observed where the planet or stars Jupiter, Capella, Bella
Juice, or Elderbron were are clearly visible in the eastern
sky the time of the reported sightings and the azimuth and
elevation reported sightings supports this conclusion.
There weren't no aircraft scrambled in an attempt to
intercept the reported objects. The lights seem blinking and
changing colors were explained as a natural atmospheric
phenomena called skintillation, the same effect that causes
stars to appear to twinkle. The Air Force response concluded
the investigation is continuing. Yeah, we know how the
investigations go sometimes, don't we?
Robert Ritzer, who was then the director of the Oklahoma Science
and Arts Foundation Planetarium, emphatically disagreed.
He told the Oklahoma Journal. That is as far from the truth as
you can get. Somebody had made a mistake.
These stars and planets are on the opposite side of the Earth
from Oklahoma City at this time of year.
Wow, that just shows you the arrogance of these people.
So they claim that they were seeing stars that could not have
physically been viewed, something simple enough to
disprove that the paper could call up a guy from the local
planetarium. He's like, are you kidding me?
Riser suggests that someone may have read the star chart wrong,
or had it upside down and yeah, or maybe they just lied.
He did concede that meteors and a touch of mass hysteria could
have accounted for some reports and then added, but that still
leaves a number of observations still unexplained.
By Tuesday, local papers had begun their coverage of the
previous night's events and what became a series of articles on
the sooner saucer sightings. The August 3rd edition of the
Edmund Sun reported that the events of the previous Sunday
night in a front page article under the headline Edmund Claims
Share of Saucer Sightings. This same evening, the
Interplanetary Intelligence of UFO's hosted a watch party on
the grounds of WKY Radio, which was located on Britain Rd.
South of the Broadway extension. On the following evening of
August 4th, Edmond residents were still seeing UFO's.
The Edmond Police Department received a report of four red
objects flying toward the town from the northeast at about 8:30
PM The sighting was witnessed by a family of five who watched the
lights dim and then reappear just as bright.
It's almost like these things wanted to be seen.
It's almost as if they knew people were looking at that,
looking for them, and they just showed up there to say, hey,
here we are. That's what it seems like.
This late Sunday evening of August 1st faded into early
Monday morning. The objects continued to travel
northeast from the Oklahoma City area.
Just after midnight, Tulsa residents watched as the lights
approached from the West. At around 12:30 AM, four members
of the Full Gospel Chapel were leaving for the evening when
they witnessed A phenomena. They watched for about an hour
as the lights traveled overhead, continuing in their northeast
direction until they disappeared over Sand Springs, the river
Buster, Stillmeyer said. We counted 17 or better that
were distinct. It's odd.
They would go a distance, then stop, change color, then go on.
The colors changed slowly from white to green to red.
They were together, but were not in formation.
One seemed to zigzag or sway in and out, not just an honest
description of what this guy saw.
At approximately 1:45 AM, a 14 year old Tulsa paperboy was
poised to make UFO history. Alan Smith and his father had
observed the strange lights the night before.
This night father and son stood at the ready in their backyard
armed with a Boy Scout camera. Also present were Allen's 18
year old sister Shirley, her husband Ron Hall and the Smith's
next door neighbor Darryl Swimmer.
The object came into view from the western sky as it continued
as north by northeast direction. It appeared to the group as a
BLOB of rotating, multicolored lights and was reported to admit
a whining sound. As the object increased his
speed, the lights became brighter and the whining pitch
intensified. The group noticed that the
neighborhood dogs began to howl, apparently in response to the
objects. Proximity Witness estimated the
object was between 40 to 60 feet in diameter.
Allen waited until the lights were overhead, then pointed his
camera and clicked the shutter. Despite the following few days
of UFO hysteria in the news, The Smiths waited a week before
taking the roll of film to the Excel camera store at 914 S
Detroit in Tulsa for developing. When the photos were ready, the
family was disappointed to find no image of the strange lights.
Examination of the negatives revealed there were two photos
that had not been developed. 1 appeared to be a multi colored
BLOB near the corner of the frame.
The Smiths returned the following day to had the photo
in question developed when it was ready.
The family was amazed to see an image of what they had watched
fly overhead that early Monday morning.
What appeared as a BLOB of light to observers was captured on
film as a saucer shaped object displaying different color
sections separated by solid black lines.
Now you have to wonder if those first two pictures were taken by
the by the developer who just couldn't help themselves, or if
this was some sort of government intervention, some sort of, you
know, men in black, deep state OPS.
The Smith's. The Smith family finally
realized that they were in position of a good quality UFO
photo, but we're not sure what to do with it.
A neighbor at the Smith's telephone to Hayden Hughes and
ask him if he would be interested in seeing an unusual
photograph taken a couple of weeks earlier.
The same night that Hughes had cited a similar object.
Hughes arrived at the Smith's house with Cliff King, a
photographer for the Oklahoma Journal.
Besides interviewing witnesses and examining the unusual photo,
King attempted to duplicate the image under the same
circumstances. He stood in the backyard at
approximately the same time of night to eliminate the
possibility of the voice camera lens was flawed or that the
image was merely A reflection of an earthbound object.
John Gum, a chief photographer for the Oklahoma Journal,
examined the role of film shot by King.
In addition to the photo and negative of Smith's UFO, the
object was estimated to be approximately 50 feet in
diameter and less than a mile away in distance.
The Journal knew they had an important story, but wanted to
be cautious before reporting something as incredible as a UFO
photo. Witnesses present when the photo
was taken were interviewed by the Journal's aviation editor
Jim Krause, who first learned of the incident from a Tulsa
reporter. Additional interviews were
conducted by associate Editor Bill Boykin and Publisher WP
Bill Atkinson. By early October, the newsmen
were satisfied. On Tuesday, October 5th, 1965,
the Oklahoma Journal presented photographic evidence of the UF
O's seen over Oklahoma in a front page article.
The paper had purchased a photo and negative from The Smiths for
$15. Oh man, talk about a deal.
Hughes was also in position of copies of the photo with
negatives. With permission, he supplied
fellow UFO researchers and the media with copies of a now
famous image. When requested, Hughes sent
copies of the photo to Eastman Kodak and the office of Project
Blue Book at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
Both offices responded with the same conclusion, that photo
analysis was useless without the original negative.
Yeah, they want to get that negative.
In the meantime, Smith's photo, now property of the Oklahoma
Journal, was receiving much attention.
It appeared in publications worldwide and continues to be
reprinted in books and articles today.
It reaches height to popularity when it appeared in the April
1st, 1966 issue of Life magazine.
This was when Project Blue Book decided that they wanted another
look at the mysterious photo, and this time they insisted on
seeing the original and the negative.
The journal complied in On June 9th, 1966, the Air Force's Photo
Processing and Photo Analysis Division completed their
official report. It read in part.
Using the 2.5 image size and the camera range data quoted in the
journal article. The object become approximately
30 feet in diameter or 40% smaller than quoted in the
article, 50 feet at a range of less than one mile.
Their report concluded. Quote Photo processing personnel
noted that the image bears a resemblance, although it doesn't
appear identical to the effect they have observed obtained by
photographing a multi collared revolving filter flood light of
the type used to eliminate and color aluminum trees during the
Christmas season. Despite any reservations Air
Force investigators may have had about what the object of the
photograph was, there are conclusions regarding size and
distance matched that of the journals analysis and what
eyewitnesses. So I guess they had this multi
colored revolving light that you used to eliminate Christmas
trees at a mile up in the sky and that's strange.
Attempts were later made by civilian photographers to
recreate the photo using a multicolor revolving filter
floodlight, but the results were not a match.
In 1977, a civilian UFO research group from Phoenix, AZ known as
Ground Saucer Watch analyzed the photo using new computer
scanning techniques. Their results were also
estimated the object photograph to be less than one mile away
and about 30 to 40 feet in diameter.
It was also determined that the density of the lines separating
the colors on the night on the object were greater than the
surrounding night sky. Their conclusion was that the
photograph captured the image of a single solid, threedimensional
object, approximately the shape of a saucer.
So whatever became my the original photo a negative?
The author asked. That is what Hughes would like
to know. A copy negative had remained in
his possession for decades until he journalistly lent it to the
producers of a television show, Unsolved Mysteries.
Perhaps someday they will solve the mystery of what they did
with it. Oh, boy.
So here you go again. I mean, show it's different
today because everything's digital.
But just imagine, back then this thing's on a negative.
And the guy it's nobody can disprove it.
And eventually he lends it to a television show.
Unsolved Mysteries. How ironic and the mystery is,
what did they do with that negative?
Maybe somebody from the deep State slipped into that movie
studio and helped themselves to this thing.
After a summer of UFO sightings without satisfactory
explanation, the American people were not sure what to think.
They appealed to their elected representatives, who soon
understood that these socalled UFO kooks were the same
hardworking, taxpaying citizens who voted them into office.
On April 5th, 1966, Congress held its first open hearing on
the subject of UFOs. Representative L Mendel Rivers
of South Carolina had the dubious honor of heading the
meeting, which seemed to be an attempt to patronize voters for
another term. Nothing was resolved in Project
Blue Book was now under more pressure than ever to come up
with answers. By this point, the Air Force had
had enough of the UFO business. Attempts to solve the mysterious
phenomenon were unsuccessful, as were their responses to dismiss
sightings in 1966 as a means to an end.
The previous two decades of reports collected by Project
Blue Book were analyzed by a team of scientists at Colorado
University under the direction of Doctor Edward Uller Condon.
The Condon Committee, as it became known, was controversial
from the start. Doctor Condon was criticized for
having already made-up his mind in regard to the non existence
of UFO's. It seemed as if the American
voters and taxpayers were again being patronized.
By December of 1968, the committee's predictable
conclusions were published in the Condom report.
It stated that UFO's were not of significance for scientific
study and recommended that Project Blue Book be cancelled.
The following year, the Air Force was officially relieved of
its responsibility to to investigate UFO's and presently
does not collect reports of such sightings.
Of course, this article is a few years old.
Ironically, the greatest number of official government documents
involving UFO's belongs to the US Navy.
Well, the Navy is really highly regarded for their intelligence
gathering capabilities and you can get into that.
But yeah, I think that's where the secrets are buried.
Now, before I close this up, I included this.
I included this second screenshot here.
It's from oklahoma.com and it they they post this little
flashback thing They do apparently.
Sometimes it says we run a throwback image each week
showcasing Oklahoma's history. Be sure to follow us on Twitter,
The Oklahoman and like us at Facebook, blah blah blah.
Linda Lynn, News Research editor and thanks to them for doing
this. This is awesome.
They have this picture from 1965, this police officer.
Now, I just talked to you about all the dozens and not hundreds,
maybe thousands of people that saw these things.
All kinds of reports, multiple police officers reporting,
county sheriff's, city cops. These things appeared on two
different government radar installations.
They were just seen all over the state in multiple states
surrounding. That's the context, these 30
foot across, 40 foot across UFO flying saucer actually
photographed. Here we go.
It says Oklahoma City Police officer Richard Boyd holds a
small parachute with a flare attached.
In 1965, for at least three straight days to front, pages of
the Daily Oklahoman reported numerous sightings of
unidentified flying objects across the state, parts of the
nation. In South America, residents were
shaken by what they had seen in the sky.
Colorful flashing lights, kite shaped object, striped and
glowing triangular object. Flying saucers, a floating white
globe. I mean, just think about that.
All the different varieties of Ufo's that they've saw, it says
people are upset. They want to know what they are
and we can't tell them. In Oklahoma and Oklahoma City
police dispatcher said some officials proposed the numerous
UFO sightings, many at high altitudes, might have been
caused by meteors, a bright evening star, balloons, optical
illusions and atmospheric conditions.
Amid the ongoing police calls, Boyd recovered the small
parachute after it was seen floating down near SE53.
And Shields has got a picture of this guy.
So this is, to me obviously, a setup deal.
It doesn't tell you if the flare's been expanded, if the
flare's gone off and been burned up, or if it's not.
But he's the the the cop. He's looking at this thing.
He's kind of got this smile on his face like, man, what am I
doing here? And so this is a parallel
narrative. This is 1965 when they're and
they're kind of clumsy at it back then.
But on one side of this event you have dozens if not hundreds
of people, law enforcement officers, all that they they
reported seeing multiple different UF O's.
Everything from orbs to triangles.
You know the the the big delta shaped UF O's to someone taking
a picture of a saucer shaped UFO that appears to be 3040 feet
across overhead light slashing. So it's not like they're just
seeing flares drop out of the sky.
OK, that's not yet. And besides all of the besides
all of the eyewitnesses to this mass UFO site that went on for
days, by the way, you have at least 2 recorded instances of
government radar installations picking stuff up.
I don't think they're going to pick up a flare.
Not 1965. So you have on one side you have
all this, this massive evidence, law enforcement citizens, radar,
photographic evidence. And on the other side you have
a, a police officer holding a little looks like a kids
parachute with what they say is a flare and saying Oh yeah, he
found this. That sounds to me like a typical
plant. Look this thing has been going
on for several days and people were getting upset about it.
Why wouldn't the government go out there and and just deposit
one of these flares on the ground and say okay, what you
saw was a flare. So we're supposed to believe
we're supposed to leave the the flare theory that this thing was
dropped from an airplane, even though the government at the
time said no, we're not doing any of that.
We're supposed to leave. This was a flare drop from an
airplane somewhere. Just one, that's all.
Just just a single flare. And that's supposed to convince
us that the dozens and dozens of sightings that were that were
reported over multiple states didn't exist, in spite of the
fact that the government had previously lied to us and told
us that people were simply seeing a collection of stars
that they couldn't have seen because those stars would have
appeared to people on the opposite side of the planet.
I just love this Sooner saucer story because of the fact that
it just shows you in 1965 this stuff was going on and the deep
state was just getting. They were just starting to turn
the wheels on how to develop parallel narratives and how to
lie to people and how to cover up evidence.
And you can see how much further they've come along.
So if you want to see the truth about UFO's, you don't need to
go to the government to find the truth, OK?
You need to go to the source, talk to the people that solve
these things. What a great story.
Until next time, this is UFO Warning.
Over and out.