UFO's in Santa Cruz County?
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In July of 1947 news papers from all over the country reported the sightings of UFO activity in the skies. In fact eye witness accounts had been reported in 31 different states, all within a week’s time. Each eye witness exclaimed to see one or more disk shaped objects, flying at a high rate of speed across their city skies. According to the Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1947. The entire crew of a Boise to Seattle United Airliner reported 9 flying disks over Idaho. It appeared 5 of the 9 disk shaped objects were on a heading which appeared to match the United Airline plane. The pilot, co-pilot and stewardess all described the objects as flat, about 40 to 50 feet in circumference and round. The objects were flying at a high rate of speed and did not appear to be aggressive the objects were unresponsive to any of the aircrafts signal lights. July 8, 1947 The Waco – News Tribune, reported, over 50 reports by eye witnesses claiming to see 2 disk shaped objects flying over several cities in the last few days. The military was investigating the reports. July 10, 1947 Medford Mail – Tribune Oregon, reported unidentified disk shape objects flying over Michigan, traveling at speeds of 100 miles per hour and approximately 150 feet in the air. Witnesses took this photograph. July 8, 1947 The Eugene Guard (Eugene, Oregon) reports “Army Reports Disk Found In New Mexico” “Roswell, N.M (AP)- The Army Air Force here Tuesday announced a flying disk had been found on a ranch near Roswell, and is in Army possession. Lt. Warren Haught, public information officer of the Roswell Army, Air Field, announced the find had been made “sometime last week.” “It was inspected and subsequently loaned, by Maj. Jesse A. Marcel, of the 509th Bomb Group intelligence office at Roswell, “to higher headquarters.” “The Army gave no other details.” It wasn’t until weeks later, that the military began trying to debunk all of the sightings which had been reported nationwide. Government agencies began claiming the sightings were everything from weather balloons to reflections of light which were producing an optical illusion. Those who witnessed the actual sightings however, were not so easily persuaded by the government’s frivolous explanations. In July of 1969 – Apollo 11 landed on the moon with its first two human astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. On November 14, 1969, Apollo 12 was dispatched for the second landing to the Moon November 10, 1975, Daily Independent Journal, reports Apollos reported followed by UFOs “Santa Cruz (UPI) – Two Apollo crews were followed by unidentified flying objects during their lunar missions, according to a UFO investigator. Prof. James Harder, an engineering professor at UC Berkely, told a week end symposium that Apollo 11 was followed halfway to the moon and one UFO followed Apollo 12 on three orbits around the moon. He asserted that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration suppressed the UFO incidents for fear of panic. “ “He discovered the Apollo 11 incident while reviewing tape-recorded conversation between the spacecraft and Houston Space control, he said.” “He said the Apollo 12 incident, which he is still investigating, was disclosed by a member of the space team whom he declined to identify. “ 
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