1 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,400 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:10,680 In this episode, we're talking about the Oklahoma 1965 UFO 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,080 wave. That's correct, the Oklahoma 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,320 UFO1965 wave. Now look at this first article 5 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:22,360 from this landpress.com. You can find a copy of this, or 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,080 rather a link to it, at the Buy Me a Coffee website. 7 00:00:25,810 --> 00:00:28,410 As always, thanks to the people that contribute over there and 8 00:00:28,410 --> 00:00:31,730 contribute at Spotify. And while you're at it, if 9 00:00:31,730 --> 00:00:33,810 you're listening to this program, go ahead and hit the 10 00:00:34,130 --> 00:00:37,490 follow or subscribe button on whatever platform you're on. 11 00:00:37,490 --> 00:00:41,010 It doesn't cost anything. Now this article says Saucers 12 00:00:41,010 --> 00:00:45,850 Over Oklahoma, written by David A Ferris, dated February 4th, 13 00:00:45,850 --> 00:00:48,450 2015. So it's been a few years. 14 00:00:49,130 --> 00:00:52,770 It's got a picture here of these folks standing around looking at 15 00:00:52,770 --> 00:00:54,450 what seems to be 3 different orbs. 16 00:00:54,450 --> 00:00:57,610 Since there's an old picture, an old black and white, it says 17 00:00:57,610 --> 00:01:02,970 Saturday morning, July 31st, 1965 at 1:05 AM, Officer Louis 18 00:01:02,970 --> 00:01:06,370 Sykes of Winewood Police Department reported, citing a 19 00:01:06,370 --> 00:01:09,810 bright object in the sky a few miles northeast of town. 20 00:01:10,890 --> 00:01:14,210 He described the object as having a blue-green center with 21 00:01:14,210 --> 00:01:17,770 the rotating light circling the midsection. 22 00:01:18,350 --> 00:01:21,990 The object abruptly rose into the night sky, where it hovered 23 00:01:21,990 --> 00:01:25,430 for a few minutes before it began to lose altitude and then 24 00:01:25,430 --> 00:01:29,110 move off to the north. The sighting was also confirmed 25 00:01:29,110 --> 00:01:31,190 by the Murray County Sheriff's Office. 26 00:01:31,670 --> 00:01:35,190 Tinker Air Force Base picked up an unidentified blip on their 27 00:01:35,190 --> 00:01:38,670 radar scope at the same time is the one wood sighting. 28 00:01:39,190 --> 00:01:43,550 The object was tracked at an altitude of 8000 feet until it 29 00:01:43,550 --> 00:01:47,320 disappeared from the screen approximately 15 miles southwest 30 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:50,080 of Midwest City. And so think about this, you've 31 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,320 got two different law enforcement individuals that 32 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:57,640 spot this thing, report it, then that it shows up on radar okay. 33 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,240 And it's big enough that he that the one police officer describes 34 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,240 this is this bright light with this green light going around 35 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,040 it. So it's not like it's doesn't 36 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,120 sound like a flare or something tiny. 37 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,200 And it's 1965, so it's not a drone. 38 00:02:12,780 --> 00:02:14,660 So it goes on and says the object was tracked at an 39 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:17,740 altitude of 8000 feet until it disappeared from their screen 40 00:02:17,740 --> 00:02:20,540 approximately 15 miles southwest of Midwest City. 41 00:02:20,980 --> 00:02:24,020 It was later learned that Carswell Army Air Force Base in 42 00:02:24,020 --> 00:02:28,100 Fort Worth, TX had also tracked an unidentified object on their 43 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:30,020 radar screen earlier in the evening. 44 00:02:30,420 --> 00:02:33,140 So you've got 2 military installations tracking this 45 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:34,460 thing. It's important. 46 00:02:34,460 --> 00:02:36,420 Two military installations tracking on radar. 47 00:02:36,940 --> 00:02:39,740 Two law enforcement individuals spot this thing from the ground. 48 00:02:40,420 --> 00:02:43,580 A UFO had been witnessed by many people, including members of law 49 00:02:43,580 --> 00:02:46,420 enforcement, and tracked on radar by military personnel at 50 00:02:46,420 --> 00:02:50,100 two different Air Force bases. This was only the first night. 51 00:02:51,180 --> 00:02:55,140 At the time, Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH was 52 00:02:55,140 --> 00:02:58,620 home to a small, understaffed, underfunded office that was 53 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:01,620 responsible for investigating reports of unidentified flying 54 00:03:01,620 --> 00:03:03,740 objects. Project Blue Book was 55 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:07,820 established in 1952 in response to civilian reports of such 56 00:03:07,820 --> 00:03:09,500 phenomena. Yeah, a lot of people. 57 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,160 I think that Project Blue Book was mainly established to cover 58 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,120 the stuff up. Just the thought, It was highly 59 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,040 criticized as a public relations stunt to patronize taxpayers. 60 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,240 Yet America was in a Cold War with the Soviet Union. 61 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,480 A UFO sighting was more likely to be Russian than 62 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,560 extraterrestrial, which was one reason such reports were taken 63 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,720 seriously. And if you really think about 64 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,760 the condition of the Soviet Union in 1952 and them flying 65 00:03:38,350 --> 00:03:41,590 one of these, one of these, you know, highly advanced aircraft 66 00:03:41,590 --> 00:03:45,150 over the United States, it would really is, it seems pretty 67 00:03:45,150 --> 00:03:46,510 laughable when you think about it. 68 00:03:46,950 --> 00:03:50,430 There were also civilian UFO organizations that conducted 69 00:03:50,430 --> 00:03:53,910 their own investigations within state or regional areas. 70 00:03:54,350 --> 00:03:58,310 In 1965, Hayden C Hughes was the 20 year old director of the 71 00:03:58,390 --> 00:04:00,510 Interplanetary Intelligence of UFO's. 72 00:04:00,990 --> 00:04:04,550 The purpose of the organization was the study and scientific 73 00:04:04,550 --> 00:04:07,070 research of unidentified flying objects. 74 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:10,260 Members included scientists, astronomers and others 75 00:04:10,260 --> 00:04:13,900 interested in the UFO phenomena. Should police for media hear 76 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:17,060 reports of UFO activity, Hughes was notified. 77 00:04:17,620 --> 00:04:21,140 That Saturday, Hughes traveled to Wynwood to interview Officer 78 00:04:21,140 --> 00:04:23,140 Sykes. It was a busy day for 79 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:27,140 interplanetary intelligence of UFO members who received a wave 80 00:04:27,180 --> 00:04:30,740 of reported sightings. On the same day a man claimed 81 00:04:30,740 --> 00:04:33,780 that while fishing at Lake Hefner, he had witnessed A 82 00:04:33,780 --> 00:04:38,710 saucer type craft emerged from the water, hover momentarily and 83 00:04:38,710 --> 00:04:42,150 then fly away. The unnamed witness was reported 84 00:04:42,150 --> 00:04:45,590 to have been admitted to a local hospital in a state of shock. 85 00:04:46,390 --> 00:04:50,190 Now think about this course 1965. 86 00:04:50,470 --> 00:04:53,950 He sees his flying saucer and he's overcome with shock because 87 00:04:53,950 --> 00:04:55,790 he just can't believe what he just saw. 88 00:04:56,790 --> 00:05:00,590 By Sunday August 1st, UF O's were the talk of the town having 89 00:05:00,590 --> 00:05:02,030 been sighted throughout the state. 90 00:05:02,550 --> 00:05:05,430 Oklahomans who wanted to glimpse one of these crafts were on 91 00:05:05,430 --> 00:05:07,940 alert, armed with binoculars and cameras. 92 00:05:08,340 --> 00:05:11,620 When dusk fell, saucer watchers would not be disappointed. 93 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:14,620 Around 9:00 PM, Hughes received a phone call from television 94 00:05:14,620 --> 00:05:18,500 news man Mike Buchanan informing him that the Highway Patrol had 95 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:22,620 received more than 20 reports of UFO's en route toward Oklahoma 96 00:05:22,620 --> 00:05:25,860 City. Now think about it, 1965, no 97 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:28,340 cell phones. Someone had to take the time and 98 00:05:28,340 --> 00:05:31,540 pick up a phone at home, or maybe a pay phone and report 99 00:05:31,540 --> 00:05:34,300 this to the police. Hughes drove to the Highway 100 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:37,460 Patrol's lookout tower that was formerly located along Broadway 101 00:05:37,460 --> 00:05:40,500 Extension South of Edmond near 122nd St. 102 00:05:41,140 --> 00:05:43,820 He scanned the night sky for hours while reports of these 103 00:05:43,820 --> 00:05:46,700 strange flying objects came in over the police radio as they 104 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:49,460 were happening. Tinker Air Force Base reported 105 00:05:49,460 --> 00:05:54,660 tracking 4U FO's on radar at an altitude of 22,000 feet. 106 00:05:55,140 --> 00:05:58,740 The craft appeared as they had the night before, very bright, 107 00:05:59,220 --> 00:06:03,040 multi collared, hovering and then flying off at high rates of 108 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,160 speed, sometimes making sharp right angle turns. 109 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,440 The earliest reported sighting near Edmond that Sunday night 110 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,000 occurred east of town about 10:00 PM when W Pitchford and 111 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,160 his wife watched one of the objects as it passed near their 112 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,200 home. They were startled to see the 113 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,680 craft flying at such a low altitude of approximately a half 114 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,720 a mile or less. It was described as circular, 115 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:27,280 about 30 feet diameter, with a Dome on top. 116 00:06:27,910 --> 00:06:30,470 Mr. Pitchford said the object first appeared on the eastern 117 00:06:30,470 --> 00:06:34,670 horizon, quickly approached his house, and then whooshed by 118 00:06:34,670 --> 00:06:38,230 going West by southwest. So he sees this thing hovering 119 00:06:38,230 --> 00:06:42,350 there on the horizon, just zooms up to the house, hovers there 120 00:06:42,550 --> 00:06:44,870 and takes off, clearly a flying saucer. 121 00:06:45,310 --> 00:06:48,430 Meanwhile, at the lookout tower, observers continue their watch 122 00:06:48,430 --> 00:06:52,790 without any luck until 11:30 PM when a craft was reported north 123 00:06:52,790 --> 00:06:56,190 of El Reno and moving E putting it about 20 miles West of the 124 00:06:56,190 --> 00:06:59,360 tower. Hughes 6 Hwy. patrolman and a 125 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,280 reporter looked in amazement as a bright multicolored UFO 126 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:06,440 appeared over the western horizon heading toward Edmond. 127 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:11,200 Hugh stated it looked like a light source, dominantly white, 128 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,760 and appeared to have a green glow around it. 129 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,920 The UFO also seemed to be flashing red, white and blue 130 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,280 lights. It hovered over the area for 131 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,480 about an hour. An hour doesn't sound like 132 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,660 flares or swamp gas or anything like that to me. 133 00:07:29,020 --> 00:07:32,380 Officer Joel Cobb of the Edmond Police Department was on duty 134 00:07:32,380 --> 00:07:34,980 that Sunday night. It was before midnight when he 135 00:07:34,980 --> 00:07:38,740 heard over his police radio a general broadcast to watch for 136 00:07:38,740 --> 00:07:42,700 unusual flying objects. He soon witnessed A brightly 137 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:46,180 lighted object which changed color frequently over his house 138 00:07:46,180 --> 00:07:48,740 in North in the North Central area of the town. 139 00:07:49,380 --> 00:07:52,980 It appeared to hover briefly, then moved N where it hovered 140 00:07:52,980 --> 00:07:55,180 over Graceland Cemetery for several minutes. 141 00:07:55,620 --> 00:07:57,820 Officer Cobb and his wife watched the object until it 142 00:07:57,820 --> 00:07:59,900 suddenly zipped away to the north. 143 00:08:00,260 --> 00:08:03,180 Missus Cobb reported watching a similar object in the night sky 144 00:08:03,180 --> 00:08:05,780 South of town until about 3:00 AM. 145 00:08:06,660 --> 00:08:09,740 Edmond Police Officer Chuck Jones was also on duty that 146 00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:12,860 Sunday night and saw the strange lights and presence of other 147 00:08:12,860 --> 00:08:15,300 witnesses. Their sighting was to the 148 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:19,620 southwest of town and lasted for several minutes, Officer Jones 149 00:08:19,620 --> 00:08:21,860 explained. It was brightly lighted. 150 00:08:22,580 --> 00:08:25,380 It was not a plane and it was not a star. 151 00:08:27,340 --> 00:08:30,500 The craft was witnessed by many Edmond residents before moving 152 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:33,460 on to the northeast. This craft, or a similar one 153 00:08:33,460 --> 00:08:36,260 that traveled in the same direction, flew over Tulsa about 154 00:08:36,260 --> 00:08:39,380 an hour and a half later where it was photographed before it 155 00:08:39,380 --> 00:08:43,059 continued on into Kansas. This is amazing at these 156 00:08:43,059 --> 00:08:47,260 multiple sightings just seen by a number of police officers 157 00:08:47,940 --> 00:08:52,500 tracked by the US government, witnessed by dozens if not 158 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:53,740 hundreds of people on the ground. 159 00:08:54,670 --> 00:08:57,990 Certified mass UFO sighting, the article continues. 160 00:08:57,990 --> 00:09:01,710 It says Oklahoma was not the only state to experience UFLUFO 161 00:09:01,710 --> 00:09:03,710 activity on that hot summer night. 162 00:09:03,870 --> 00:09:07,430 By midnight, the UPI wire service reported thousands of 163 00:09:07,430 --> 00:09:11,390 UFO reports from Dallas, TX. Similar sightings were reported 164 00:09:11,390 --> 00:09:14,590 in Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming. 165 00:09:15,270 --> 00:09:19,350 By Monday's morning light, August 2nd, 10s of thousands of 166 00:09:19,350 --> 00:09:24,800 people from 7 different states had witnessed UFO activity, at 167 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,400 least 2US Air Force bases that tracked the strange lights on 168 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,280 radar. At the same time they were 169 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,880 observed by members of the military and law enforcement. 170 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:36,120 Had American airspace been invaded by a foreign presence? 171 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,880 Questions went up the Air Force chain of command until they 172 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,680 reached the Pentagon in Washington DC. 173 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,840 The flippant responses previously given by the 174 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,840 government officials to dismiss such sightings would not work in 175 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:48,880 this case, but they tried anyway. 176 00:09:49,620 --> 00:09:52,940 By afternoon that same Monday, the Air Force had solved the UFO 177 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:56,020 mystery of the previous two nights, an official response 178 00:09:56,020 --> 00:09:58,700 from the Secretary of Air Force of Information stated. 179 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:02,140 The initial study of the majority of reports received 180 00:10:02,140 --> 00:10:06,020 thus far would indicate that observations were astrological 181 00:10:06,020 --> 00:10:08,420 in nature. The objects were most likely 182 00:10:08,420 --> 00:10:13,420 observed where the planet or stars Jupiter, Capella, Bella 183 00:10:13,420 --> 00:10:19,480 Juice, or Elderbron were are clearly visible in the eastern 184 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,440 sky the time of the reported sightings and the azimuth and 185 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,760 elevation reported sightings supports this conclusion. 186 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,080 There weren't no aircraft scrambled in an attempt to 187 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,560 intercept the reported objects. The lights seem blinking and 188 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:36,200 changing colors were explained as a natural atmospheric 189 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,120 phenomena called skintillation, the same effect that causes 190 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,000 stars to appear to twinkle. The Air Force response concluded 191 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,670 the investigation is continuing. Yeah, we know how the 192 00:10:46,670 --> 00:10:48,470 investigations go sometimes, don't we? 193 00:10:48,990 --> 00:10:51,830 Robert Ritzer, who was then the director of the Oklahoma Science 194 00:10:51,830 --> 00:10:54,750 and Arts Foundation Planetarium, emphatically disagreed. 195 00:10:55,790 --> 00:10:59,590 He told the Oklahoma Journal. That is as far from the truth as 196 00:10:59,590 --> 00:11:02,030 you can get. Somebody had made a mistake. 197 00:11:02,030 --> 00:11:04,750 These stars and planets are on the opposite side of the Earth 198 00:11:04,750 --> 00:11:06,910 from Oklahoma City at this time of year. 199 00:11:08,070 --> 00:11:10,670 Wow, that just shows you the arrogance of these people. 200 00:11:10,910 --> 00:11:14,110 So they claim that they were seeing stars that could not have 201 00:11:14,110 --> 00:11:18,290 physically been viewed, something simple enough to 202 00:11:18,290 --> 00:11:22,090 disprove that the paper could call up a guy from the local 203 00:11:22,090 --> 00:11:24,010 planetarium. He's like, are you kidding me? 204 00:11:24,610 --> 00:11:27,370 Riser suggests that someone may have read the star chart wrong, 205 00:11:27,370 --> 00:11:30,170 or had it upside down and yeah, or maybe they just lied. 206 00:11:30,450 --> 00:11:33,570 He did concede that meteors and a touch of mass hysteria could 207 00:11:33,970 --> 00:11:36,570 have accounted for some reports and then added, but that still 208 00:11:36,570 --> 00:11:39,570 leaves a number of observations still unexplained. 209 00:11:40,690 --> 00:11:43,730 By Tuesday, local papers had begun their coverage of the 210 00:11:43,730 --> 00:11:47,010 previous night's events and what became a series of articles on 211 00:11:47,010 --> 00:11:51,130 the sooner saucer sightings. The August 3rd edition of the 212 00:11:51,170 --> 00:11:54,810 Edmund Sun reported that the events of the previous Sunday 213 00:11:54,810 --> 00:11:59,370 night in a front page article under the headline Edmund Claims 214 00:11:59,860 --> 00:12:03,020 Share of Saucer Sightings. This same evening, the 215 00:12:03,020 --> 00:12:06,820 Interplanetary Intelligence of UFO's hosted a watch party on 216 00:12:06,820 --> 00:12:10,820 the grounds of WKY Radio, which was located on Britain Rd. 217 00:12:10,820 --> 00:12:14,620 South of the Broadway extension. On the following evening of 218 00:12:14,620 --> 00:12:17,860 August 4th, Edmond residents were still seeing UFO's. 219 00:12:18,220 --> 00:12:21,820 The Edmond Police Department received a report of four red 220 00:12:21,980 --> 00:12:26,420 objects flying toward the town from the northeast at about 8:30 221 00:12:26,420 --> 00:12:30,670 PM The sighting was witnessed by a family of five who watched the 222 00:12:30,670 --> 00:12:33,950 lights dim and then reappear just as bright. 223 00:12:34,470 --> 00:12:36,470 It's almost like these things wanted to be seen. 224 00:12:36,870 --> 00:12:38,910 It's almost as if they knew people were looking at that, 225 00:12:38,910 --> 00:12:41,310 looking for them, and they just showed up there to say, hey, 226 00:12:41,310 --> 00:12:43,270 here we are. That's what it seems like. 227 00:12:44,070 --> 00:12:46,790 This late Sunday evening of August 1st faded into early 228 00:12:46,790 --> 00:12:49,350 Monday morning. The objects continued to travel 229 00:12:49,350 --> 00:12:51,630 northeast from the Oklahoma City area. 230 00:12:52,230 --> 00:12:55,070 Just after midnight, Tulsa residents watched as the lights 231 00:12:55,070 --> 00:12:59,170 approached from the West. At around 12:30 AM, four members 232 00:12:59,170 --> 00:13:01,890 of the Full Gospel Chapel were leaving for the evening when 233 00:13:01,890 --> 00:13:05,250 they witnessed A phenomena. They watched for about an hour 234 00:13:05,250 --> 00:13:09,090 as the lights traveled overhead, continuing in their northeast 235 00:13:09,090 --> 00:13:12,250 direction until they disappeared over Sand Springs, the river 236 00:13:12,250 --> 00:13:17,210 Buster, Stillmeyer said. We counted 17 or better that 237 00:13:17,210 --> 00:13:19,090 were distinct. It's odd. 238 00:13:19,450 --> 00:13:24,010 They would go a distance, then stop, change color, then go on. 239 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,840 The colors changed slowly from white to green to red. 240 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,920 They were together, but were not in formation. 241 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:36,040 One seemed to zigzag or sway in and out, not just an honest 242 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:37,760 description of what this guy saw. 243 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:44,160 At approximately 1:45 AM, a 14 year old Tulsa paperboy was 244 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,600 poised to make UFO history. Alan Smith and his father had 245 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,840 observed the strange lights the night before. 246 00:13:51,230 --> 00:13:54,590 This night father and son stood at the ready in their backyard 247 00:13:54,670 --> 00:13:58,630 armed with a Boy Scout camera. Also present were Allen's 18 248 00:13:58,630 --> 00:14:02,630 year old sister Shirley, her husband Ron Hall and the Smith's 249 00:14:02,630 --> 00:14:04,430 next door neighbor Darryl Swimmer. 250 00:14:04,790 --> 00:14:07,870 The object came into view from the western sky as it continued 251 00:14:07,870 --> 00:14:11,070 as north by northeast direction. It appeared to the group as a 252 00:14:11,070 --> 00:14:14,990 BLOB of rotating, multicolored lights and was reported to admit 253 00:14:14,990 --> 00:14:18,230 a whining sound. As the object increased his 254 00:14:18,230 --> 00:14:21,760 speed, the lights became brighter and the whining pitch 255 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,200 intensified. The group noticed that the 256 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,720 neighborhood dogs began to howl, apparently in response to the 257 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,840 objects. Proximity Witness estimated the 258 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,480 object was between 40 to 60 feet in diameter. 259 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,680 Allen waited until the lights were overhead, then pointed his 260 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,600 camera and clicked the shutter. Despite the following few days 261 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,720 of UFO hysteria in the news, The Smiths waited a week before 262 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,080 taking the roll of film to the Excel camera store at 914 S 263 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,240 Detroit in Tulsa for developing. When the photos were ready, the 264 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,320 family was disappointed to find no image of the strange lights. 265 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,400 Examination of the negatives revealed there were two photos 266 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:06,400 that had not been developed. 1 appeared to be a multi colored 267 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,280 BLOB near the corner of the frame. 268 00:15:08,950 --> 00:15:11,070 The Smiths returned the following day to had the photo 269 00:15:11,070 --> 00:15:13,350 in question developed when it was ready. 270 00:15:13,350 --> 00:15:16,510 The family was amazed to see an image of what they had watched 271 00:15:16,510 --> 00:15:18,870 fly overhead that early Monday morning. 272 00:15:19,550 --> 00:15:23,430 What appeared as a BLOB of light to observers was captured on 273 00:15:23,430 --> 00:15:27,110 film as a saucer shaped object displaying different color 274 00:15:27,110 --> 00:15:30,470 sections separated by solid black lines. 275 00:15:30,870 --> 00:15:33,190 Now you have to wonder if those first two pictures were taken by 276 00:15:33,190 --> 00:15:37,960 the by the developer who just couldn't help themselves, or if 277 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,960 this was some sort of government intervention, some sort of, you 278 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:42,840 know, men in black, deep state OPS. 279 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,600 The Smith's. The Smith family finally 280 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,520 realized that they were in position of a good quality UFO 281 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,840 photo, but we're not sure what to do with it. 282 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,680 A neighbor at the Smith's telephone to Hayden Hughes and 283 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,960 ask him if he would be interested in seeing an unusual 284 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,400 photograph taken a couple of weeks earlier. 285 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,680 The same night that Hughes had cited a similar object. 286 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,600 Hughes arrived at the Smith's house with Cliff King, a 287 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,480 photographer for the Oklahoma Journal. 288 00:16:08,060 --> 00:16:11,540 Besides interviewing witnesses and examining the unusual photo, 289 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:14,300 King attempted to duplicate the image under the same 290 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:16,820 circumstances. He stood in the backyard at 291 00:16:16,820 --> 00:16:18,900 approximately the same time of night to eliminate the 292 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:22,020 possibility of the voice camera lens was flawed or that the 293 00:16:22,020 --> 00:16:24,700 image was merely A reflection of an earthbound object. 294 00:16:25,220 --> 00:16:28,380 John Gum, a chief photographer for the Oklahoma Journal, 295 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:30,900 examined the role of film shot by King. 296 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:35,360 In addition to the photo and negative of Smith's UFO, the 297 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,480 object was estimated to be approximately 50 feet in 298 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,880 diameter and less than a mile away in distance. 299 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,760 The Journal knew they had an important story, but wanted to 300 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,600 be cautious before reporting something as incredible as a UFO 301 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,320 photo. Witnesses present when the photo 302 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,880 was taken were interviewed by the Journal's aviation editor 303 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,360 Jim Krause, who first learned of the incident from a Tulsa 304 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,520 reporter. Additional interviews were 305 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,320 conducted by associate Editor Bill Boykin and Publisher WP 306 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,609 Bill Atkinson. By early October, the newsmen 307 00:17:06,609 --> 00:17:10,530 were satisfied. On Tuesday, October 5th, 1965, 308 00:17:10,530 --> 00:17:13,849 the Oklahoma Journal presented photographic evidence of the UF 309 00:17:13,849 --> 00:17:17,010 O's seen over Oklahoma in a front page article. 310 00:17:17,410 --> 00:17:20,450 The paper had purchased a photo and negative from The Smiths for 311 00:17:20,450 --> 00:17:24,770 $15. Oh man, talk about a deal. 312 00:17:25,250 --> 00:17:28,089 Hughes was also in position of copies of the photo with 313 00:17:28,089 --> 00:17:30,510 negatives. With permission, he supplied 314 00:17:30,510 --> 00:17:33,670 fellow UFO researchers and the media with copies of a now 315 00:17:33,670 --> 00:17:36,790 famous image. When requested, Hughes sent 316 00:17:36,790 --> 00:17:40,150 copies of the photo to Eastman Kodak and the office of Project 317 00:17:40,150 --> 00:17:42,670 Blue Book at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. 318 00:17:43,070 --> 00:17:46,470 Both offices responded with the same conclusion, that photo 319 00:17:46,470 --> 00:17:49,190 analysis was useless without the original negative. 320 00:17:49,550 --> 00:17:50,950 Yeah, they want to get that negative. 321 00:17:51,470 --> 00:17:54,310 In the meantime, Smith's photo, now property of the Oklahoma 322 00:17:54,310 --> 00:17:56,830 Journal, was receiving much attention. 323 00:17:57,350 --> 00:18:00,310 It appeared in publications worldwide and continues to be 324 00:18:00,590 --> 00:18:02,510 reprinted in books and articles today. 325 00:18:03,150 --> 00:18:06,110 It reaches height to popularity when it appeared in the April 326 00:18:06,110 --> 00:18:08,870 1st, 1966 issue of Life magazine. 327 00:18:08,910 --> 00:18:11,750 This was when Project Blue Book decided that they wanted another 328 00:18:11,750 --> 00:18:15,190 look at the mysterious photo, and this time they insisted on 329 00:18:15,190 --> 00:18:17,390 seeing the original and the negative. 330 00:18:17,790 --> 00:18:21,230 The journal complied in On June 9th, 1966, the Air Force's Photo 331 00:18:21,230 --> 00:18:24,270 Processing and Photo Analysis Division completed their 332 00:18:24,270 --> 00:18:26,430 official report. It read in part. 333 00:18:26,890 --> 00:18:30,250 Using the 2.5 image size and the camera range data quoted in the 334 00:18:30,250 --> 00:18:33,650 journal article. The object become approximately 335 00:18:33,650 --> 00:18:37,770 30 feet in diameter or 40% smaller than quoted in the 336 00:18:37,770 --> 00:18:41,570 article, 50 feet at a range of less than one mile. 337 00:18:41,810 --> 00:18:45,730 Their report concluded. Quote Photo processing personnel 338 00:18:45,730 --> 00:18:48,450 noted that the image bears a resemblance, although it doesn't 339 00:18:48,450 --> 00:18:52,650 appear identical to the effect they have observed obtained by 340 00:18:52,650 --> 00:18:57,060 photographing a multi collared revolving filter flood light of 341 00:18:57,060 --> 00:19:00,580 the type used to eliminate and color aluminum trees during the 342 00:19:00,580 --> 00:19:04,420 Christmas season. Despite any reservations Air 343 00:19:04,420 --> 00:19:06,980 Force investigators may have had about what the object of the 344 00:19:06,980 --> 00:19:09,580 photograph was, there are conclusions regarding size and 345 00:19:09,580 --> 00:19:12,580 distance matched that of the journals analysis and what 346 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:16,900 eyewitnesses. So I guess they had this multi 347 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:19,980 colored revolving light that you used to eliminate Christmas 348 00:19:19,980 --> 00:19:23,540 trees at a mile up in the sky and that's strange. 349 00:19:24,030 --> 00:19:26,190 Attempts were later made by civilian photographers to 350 00:19:26,190 --> 00:19:29,510 recreate the photo using a multicolor revolving filter 351 00:19:29,510 --> 00:19:31,870 floodlight, but the results were not a match. 352 00:19:32,310 --> 00:19:37,270 In 1977, a civilian UFO research group from Phoenix, AZ known as 353 00:19:37,270 --> 00:19:40,870 Ground Saucer Watch analyzed the photo using new computer 354 00:19:40,870 --> 00:19:43,790 scanning techniques. Their results were also 355 00:19:43,790 --> 00:19:47,350 estimated the object photograph to be less than one mile away 356 00:19:47,670 --> 00:19:49,990 and about 30 to 40 feet in diameter. 357 00:19:50,430 --> 00:19:54,450 It was also determined that the density of the lines separating 358 00:19:54,450 --> 00:19:57,730 the colors on the night on the object were greater than the 359 00:19:57,810 --> 00:20:00,330 surrounding night sky. Their conclusion was that the 360 00:20:00,330 --> 00:20:04,650 photograph captured the image of a single solid, threedimensional 361 00:20:04,650 --> 00:20:06,890 object, approximately the shape of a saucer. 362 00:20:07,770 --> 00:20:10,530 So whatever became my the original photo a negative? 363 00:20:10,530 --> 00:20:12,810 The author asked. That is what Hughes would like 364 00:20:12,810 --> 00:20:15,690 to know. A copy negative had remained in 365 00:20:15,690 --> 00:20:19,610 his possession for decades until he journalistly lent it to the 366 00:20:19,610 --> 00:20:22,650 producers of a television show, Unsolved Mysteries. 367 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,920 Perhaps someday they will solve the mystery of what they did 368 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,480 with it. Oh, boy. 369 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,240 So here you go again. I mean, show it's different 370 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,480 today because everything's digital. 371 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,400 But just imagine, back then this thing's on a negative. 372 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,680 And the guy it's nobody can disprove it. 373 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:42,680 And eventually he lends it to a television show. 374 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,840 Unsolved Mysteries. How ironic and the mystery is, 375 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,560 what did they do with that negative? 376 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,160 Maybe somebody from the deep State slipped into that movie 377 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,080 studio and helped themselves to this thing. 378 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,360 After a summer of UFO sightings without satisfactory 379 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,880 explanation, the American people were not sure what to think. 380 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,520 They appealed to their elected representatives, who soon 381 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,680 understood that these socalled UFO kooks were the same 382 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,600 hardworking, taxpaying citizens who voted them into office. 383 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,360 On April 5th, 1966, Congress held its first open hearing on 384 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:16,060 the subject of UFOs. Representative L Mendel Rivers 385 00:21:16,180 --> 00:21:18,860 of South Carolina had the dubious honor of heading the 386 00:21:18,860 --> 00:21:22,380 meeting, which seemed to be an attempt to patronize voters for 387 00:21:22,380 --> 00:21:24,980 another term. Nothing was resolved in Project 388 00:21:24,980 --> 00:21:27,500 Blue Book was now under more pressure than ever to come up 389 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,020 with answers. By this point, the Air Force had 390 00:21:30,020 --> 00:21:33,380 had enough of the UFO business. Attempts to solve the mysterious 391 00:21:33,380 --> 00:21:36,580 phenomenon were unsuccessful, as were their responses to dismiss 392 00:21:36,580 --> 00:21:40,020 sightings in 1966 as a means to an end. 393 00:21:40,020 --> 00:21:43,430 The previous two decades of reports collected by Project 394 00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:46,590 Blue Book were analyzed by a team of scientists at Colorado 395 00:21:46,590 --> 00:21:50,310 University under the direction of Doctor Edward Uller Condon. 396 00:21:50,550 --> 00:21:53,950 The Condon Committee, as it became known, was controversial 397 00:21:53,950 --> 00:21:56,590 from the start. Doctor Condon was criticized for 398 00:21:56,590 --> 00:21:59,390 having already made-up his mind in regard to the non existence 399 00:21:59,390 --> 00:22:02,230 of UFO's. It seemed as if the American 400 00:22:02,230 --> 00:22:04,750 voters and taxpayers were again being patronized. 401 00:22:05,110 --> 00:22:08,230 By December of 1968, the committee's predictable 402 00:22:08,230 --> 00:22:10,310 conclusions were published in the Condom report. 403 00:22:10,660 --> 00:22:13,700 It stated that UFO's were not of significance for scientific 404 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:17,380 study and recommended that Project Blue Book be cancelled. 405 00:22:17,780 --> 00:22:20,500 The following year, the Air Force was officially relieved of 406 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:23,340 its responsibility to to investigate UFO's and presently 407 00:22:23,340 --> 00:22:25,380 does not collect reports of such sightings. 408 00:22:25,380 --> 00:22:27,300 Of course, this article is a few years old. 409 00:22:27,580 --> 00:22:30,580 Ironically, the greatest number of official government documents 410 00:22:30,580 --> 00:22:33,420 involving UFO's belongs to the US Navy. 411 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:38,580 Well, the Navy is really highly regarded for their intelligence 412 00:22:38,580 --> 00:22:41,180 gathering capabilities and you can get into that. 413 00:22:41,180 --> 00:22:43,260 But yeah, I think that's where the secrets are buried. 414 00:22:43,780 --> 00:22:46,260 Now, before I close this up, I included this. 415 00:22:46,540 --> 00:22:50,900 I included this second screenshot here. 416 00:22:51,780 --> 00:22:56,260 It's from oklahoma.com and it they they post this little 417 00:22:56,260 --> 00:22:57,700 flashback thing They do apparently. 418 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:00,820 Sometimes it says we run a throwback image each week 419 00:23:00,820 --> 00:23:04,160 showcasing Oklahoma's history. Be sure to follow us on Twitter, 420 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,560 The Oklahoman and like us at Facebook, blah blah blah. 421 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,720 Linda Lynn, News Research editor and thanks to them for doing 422 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:11,640 this. This is awesome. 423 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,800 They have this picture from 1965, this police officer. 424 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,680 Now, I just talked to you about all the dozens and not hundreds, 425 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,080 maybe thousands of people that saw these things. 426 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,320 All kinds of reports, multiple police officers reporting, 427 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:29,420 county sheriff's, city cops. These things appeared on two 428 00:23:29,420 --> 00:23:31,580 different government radar installations. 429 00:23:31,580 --> 00:23:34,580 They were just seen all over the state in multiple states 430 00:23:34,580 --> 00:23:37,860 surrounding. That's the context, these 30 431 00:23:37,860 --> 00:23:42,940 foot across, 40 foot across UFO flying saucer actually 432 00:23:42,940 --> 00:23:44,740 photographed. Here we go. 433 00:23:44,740 --> 00:23:48,620 It says Oklahoma City Police officer Richard Boyd holds a 434 00:23:48,620 --> 00:23:51,060 small parachute with a flare attached. 435 00:23:51,060 --> 00:23:55,540 In 1965, for at least three straight days to front, pages of 436 00:23:55,540 --> 00:23:59,230 the Daily Oklahoman reported numerous sightings of 437 00:23:59,390 --> 00:24:02,590 unidentified flying objects across the state, parts of the 438 00:24:02,590 --> 00:24:05,110 nation. In South America, residents were 439 00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:08,350 shaken by what they had seen in the sky. 440 00:24:08,870 --> 00:24:12,910 Colorful flashing lights, kite shaped object, striped and 441 00:24:12,910 --> 00:24:16,750 glowing triangular object. Flying saucers, a floating white 442 00:24:16,750 --> 00:24:19,030 globe. I mean, just think about that. 443 00:24:19,030 --> 00:24:22,610 All the different varieties of Ufo's that they've saw, it says 444 00:24:22,610 --> 00:24:25,490 people are upset. They want to know what they are 445 00:24:25,490 --> 00:24:28,450 and we can't tell them. In Oklahoma and Oklahoma City 446 00:24:28,450 --> 00:24:32,130 police dispatcher said some officials proposed the numerous 447 00:24:32,130 --> 00:24:35,210 UFO sightings, many at high altitudes, might have been 448 00:24:35,210 --> 00:24:39,810 caused by meteors, a bright evening star, balloons, optical 449 00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:41,770 illusions and atmospheric conditions. 450 00:24:42,090 --> 00:24:46,570 Amid the ongoing police calls, Boyd recovered the small 451 00:24:46,570 --> 00:24:50,700 parachute after it was seen floating down near SE53. 452 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:52,340 And Shields has got a picture of this guy. 453 00:24:52,340 --> 00:24:56,220 So this is, to me obviously, a setup deal. 454 00:24:56,540 --> 00:24:59,100 It doesn't tell you if the flare's been expanded, if the 455 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:01,380 flare's gone off and been burned up, or if it's not. 456 00:25:01,860 --> 00:25:06,060 But he's the the the cop. He's looking at this thing. 457 00:25:06,060 --> 00:25:08,420 He's kind of got this smile on his face like, man, what am I 458 00:25:08,420 --> 00:25:12,220 doing here? And so this is a parallel 459 00:25:12,220 --> 00:25:14,940 narrative. This is 1965 when they're and 460 00:25:14,940 --> 00:25:16,500 they're kind of clumsy at it back then. 461 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:21,940 But on one side of this event you have dozens if not hundreds 462 00:25:21,940 --> 00:25:25,780 of people, law enforcement officers, all that they they 463 00:25:25,780 --> 00:25:28,140 reported seeing multiple different UF O's. 464 00:25:28,180 --> 00:25:31,060 Everything from orbs to triangles. 465 00:25:31,180 --> 00:25:34,860 You know the the the big delta shaped UF O's to someone taking 466 00:25:34,860 --> 00:25:40,340 a picture of a saucer shaped UFO that appears to be 3040 feet 467 00:25:40,340 --> 00:25:45,100 across overhead light slashing. So it's not like they're just 468 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:47,670 seeing flares drop out of the sky. 469 00:25:47,750 --> 00:25:53,710 OK, that's not yet. And besides all of the besides 470 00:25:53,710 --> 00:25:56,550 all of the eyewitnesses to this mass UFO site that went on for 471 00:25:56,550 --> 00:26:01,070 days, by the way, you have at least 2 recorded instances of 472 00:26:01,070 --> 00:26:03,310 government radar installations picking stuff up. 473 00:26:03,310 --> 00:26:05,550 I don't think they're going to pick up a flare. 474 00:26:05,550 --> 00:26:08,950 Not 1965. So you have on one side you have 475 00:26:08,950 --> 00:26:15,430 all this, this massive evidence, law enforcement citizens, radar, 476 00:26:15,910 --> 00:26:20,030 photographic evidence. And on the other side you have 477 00:26:20,030 --> 00:26:24,070 a, a police officer holding a little looks like a kids 478 00:26:24,070 --> 00:26:27,230 parachute with what they say is a flare and saying Oh yeah, he 479 00:26:27,230 --> 00:26:29,630 found this. That sounds to me like a typical 480 00:26:29,630 --> 00:26:30,950 plant. Look this thing has been going 481 00:26:30,950 --> 00:26:33,910 on for several days and people were getting upset about it. 482 00:26:34,830 --> 00:26:38,070 Why wouldn't the government go out there and and just deposit 483 00:26:38,070 --> 00:26:40,110 one of these flares on the ground and say okay, what you 484 00:26:40,110 --> 00:26:43,230 saw was a flare. So we're supposed to believe 485 00:26:44,660 --> 00:26:46,820 we're supposed to leave the the flare theory that this thing was 486 00:26:46,820 --> 00:26:49,580 dropped from an airplane, even though the government at the 487 00:26:49,580 --> 00:26:51,140 time said no, we're not doing any of that. 488 00:26:52,020 --> 00:26:54,020 We're supposed to leave. This was a flare drop from an 489 00:26:54,020 --> 00:26:56,260 airplane somewhere. Just one, that's all. 490 00:26:56,260 --> 00:26:59,500 Just just a single flare. And that's supposed to convince 491 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,820 us that the dozens and dozens of sightings that were that were 492 00:27:02,820 --> 00:27:08,230 reported over multiple states didn't exist, in spite of the 493 00:27:08,230 --> 00:27:11,630 fact that the government had previously lied to us and told 494 00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:14,670 us that people were simply seeing a collection of stars 495 00:27:15,390 --> 00:27:18,630 that they couldn't have seen because those stars would have 496 00:27:18,630 --> 00:27:21,870 appeared to people on the opposite side of the planet. 497 00:27:22,710 --> 00:27:27,750 I just love this Sooner saucer story because of the fact that 498 00:27:28,470 --> 00:27:34,750 it just shows you in 1965 this stuff was going on and the deep 499 00:27:34,750 --> 00:27:38,830 state was just getting. They were just starting to turn 500 00:27:38,830 --> 00:27:41,510 the wheels on how to develop parallel narratives and how to 501 00:27:41,510 --> 00:27:43,430 lie to people and how to cover up evidence. 502 00:27:43,710 --> 00:27:45,510 And you can see how much further they've come along. 503 00:27:46,310 --> 00:27:51,070 So if you want to see the truth about UFO's, you don't need to 504 00:27:51,070 --> 00:27:53,030 go to the government to find the truth, OK? 505 00:27:53,230 --> 00:27:56,870 You need to go to the source, talk to the people that solve 506 00:27:56,870 --> 00:27:58,670 these things. What a great story. 507 00:27:58,670 --> 00:28:00,470 Until next time, this is UFO Warning. 508 00:28:00,550 --> 00:28:01,110 Over and out.