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The Flying Saucer Crashes

In this case, the official sources are too busy explaining why this is impossible rather than attempting to learn if it is true.

(CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa) - In 1950, a columnist for Variety, Frank Scully, published a book entitled, Behind the Flying Saucers. It was an expose of a government program, funded in secret and retaining some 1800 scientists, to study the remains of three crashed flying saucers allegedly captured in the desert Southwest.

This story, if true, would be the exclusive of a lifetime.

UFOs Fall from the Sky in Kevin D. Randle`s New Book, CRASH

“An expert on bringing the language of science to the topic of UFOs” - Publishers Weekly

(CEDAR RAPIDS) - For over 30 years one of the foremost experts on UFOs, a decorated combat veteran and retired Lieutenant Colonel whose assistance is sought by government, news media and scientists, Kevin D. Randle, Ph.D. has written a new book, Crash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky, A History of Famous Incidents, Conspiracies, and Cover‐ups.

Members of C-130 Crew Recovered From Vietnam War

Since late 1973, the remains of 927 Americans killed in the Vietnam War have been accounted-for and returned to their families.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of nine U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been accounted-for and returned to their families for burial with full military honors.

On May 22, 1968, these men were aboard a C-130A Hercules on an evening flare mission over northern Salavan Province, Laos. Fifteen minutes after the aircraft made a radio call, the crew of another U.S. aircraft observed a large ground fire near the last known location of Mason’s aircraft.

Victims of Victims

“Agent Orange is not harmful or deadly to human beings” - said the liars

(DA NANG VIETNAM) - Saturday afternoon, the heat of the summer is upon us in Da Nang. The comforts I enjoyed back in the US still exist for me in some ways – air-conditioning, hot water, a decent meal.

The Day I Flew Wing to Wing with a Soviet MiG-17

"I spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force learning to fight these things, and now I own one" -MiG Pilot Bill Reesman

(SALEM, Ore.) - From time to time I unearth old archival material and this one, an aerial show from a historic Russian jet fighter, I think, is a gem.

On this particular day, I was able to shoot a story on Bill Reesman's red MiG-17 the best possible way; from a Lear Jet!

NASA`s Anti-Counterfeiting Measures Fall Short of Validating Parts Authenticity

Integrating authenticity solutions only way to protect integrity of electronics manufacturers' products.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - While battling counterfeiters is nothing new for famous jewelry makers and popular video game companies, fake components have become a significant challenge for high-end electronic manufacturers, directly impacting NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Minnesota`s Governor Gets Tough with the Secretary of the Air Force - Will it Work?

The purpose of this article is to provide a modicum of background information for Governor Pawlenty and his fellow governors.

(MINNEAPOLIS) - Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, sent a letter to nine governors throughout the United States ordering them to transfer aviation assets consisting of C130’s, the most numerous of the ‘heavy lifters’ positioned with all branches of the service to a site specific.

The stated intent is to create a fully equipped squadron of C130’s (all models and variants) in Arkansas.

Eroding a Nation`s Will to Fight

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse" - British philosopher John Stuart Mill

(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) - I noticed a recent verdict by the UK’s Wiltshire Coroner David Masters regarding the deaths by friendly fire of three British soldiers in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Coroner Masters correctly noted that the deaths were caused by friendly fire as a result of a British Forward Air Controller (FAC) who gave the American F-15 the wrong coordinate locations for dropping a 500 pound bomb.

Murder of Marine Colonel Demands Justice

A Marine Corps Colonel was murdered at MCAS El Toro, California. His brother has relentlessly pursued the investigation of his death for over 19 years. Guns, drugs, and a government cover-up make this a perfect crime.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Marine Colonel James E. Sabow, age 51, was found dead by his wife in the backyard of his quarters at MCAS El Toro, California. The Orange County Coroner ruled the death a suicide.

This was a direct violation of Navy regulations, which required that a post-mortem examination be conducted at the nearest Armed Forces Medical Examination Facility.

Barge Capsizes, Spilling 4500 Tons of Scrap Metal off Columbia River

The scrap metal came free from the barge and fell to the bottom of the ocean.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Coast Guard is responding to the capsizing of a barge approximately eight miles from the Columbia River bar near Astoria, Ore.