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• APfl 06/20 1301 UFO Investigations

  Tags: 1947, Air Force, Washington
  Posted in UFO Report on January 13th, 2008 by RoswellUFOs.com

  Date: 20-Jun-87 20:31 MST
  From: Executive News Svc. [76374,303]
  Subj: APfl 06/20 1301 UFO Investigations

  By BILL KACZOR Associated Press Writer
  FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A retired Air Force pilot says he
  suspects, contrary to official denials, an unknown federal agency is
  investigating reports of unidentified flying objects and other close
  encounters with extraterrestrial beings.
  Donald M. Ware, Florida state director of the Mutual UFO Network Inc., a
  private “ufology” organization, says he doesn’t have any direct knowledge but
  nearly a lifetime of study leads him to believe probes are secretly being
  conducted by some national intelligence agency.
  “That idea doesn’t bother me. I don’t mind being an unequal partner,” Ware
  said in a recent interview. “I support the policy of secrecy.”
  He said secrecy would be necessary because, official statements
  notwithstanding, he is convinced the subject involves national security in the
  form of advanced alien technology.
  Ware said he intends to take that message to the Annual MUFON UFO Symposium
  June 26-28 at American University in Washington, D.C., where he is to be part
  of a panel discussion on UFOs and the government.
  His position is unlikely to be shared by many UFO investigators, Ware
  admitted. A common complaint of ufologists is the government‘s professed lack
  of interest and its failure to cooperate with private UFO studies.
  “I’m so bold as to suggest there is a possibility of cooperation with some
  unknown government agency if we show a little more tolerance of their policy
  of secrecy,” Ware said.
  “As long as we publicly take such an antagonistic attitude, as long as we
  place the government in an adversarial relationship,” Ware said, “we are not
  going to get much cooperation from them whoever they are.”
  The Air Force closed its Project Blue Book investigation of more than
  12,000 UFOs in 1969 after a panel of scientists found no evidence of visitors
  from outer space. Most sightings were found to be such things as planets,
  stars, meteors, weather balloons, satellites, false radar echoes, marsh gas,
  clouds, aircraft or optical illusions, but a few have remained unexplained.
  The official word ever since has been that the government has nothing to do
  with UFO investigations and whatever they might be they pose no threat to
  national security.
  Ware, 51, joined the service in 1957. He said he was uninvolved in the Air
  Force’s UFO activities during his 26-year military career as a teacher, staff
  scientist and fighter pilot, including two combat tours in Vietnam.
  “That’s one reason I can speak so freely,” he said. “I have no information
  from the Air Force.”
  His interest began as a teen-ager in 1952 when he saw star-like objects
  streaking through the sky while walking near his home in the nation’s capital.
  Similar sightings, including radar returns, had been reported a week earlier
  and Ware said they remain unexplained.
  He began reading everything about UFOs he could get his hands on, including
  books in the library at Duke University where he received a mechanical
  engineering degree. He later earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering
  from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
  Ware kept up his interest in UFOs, building up a personal library on the
  subject and questioning other pilots.
  “I had no qualms about saying, `Anybody seen a UFO?’ ” Ware said. The
  answer, he said, usually was “yes.”
  However, until March of 1970, military personnel were ordered not to talk
  about UFOs, Ware said.
  “I think that in the late ’40s and early ’50s the U.S. government really
  wanted the public to tell them what they saw and that those people primarily
  responsible for investigating UFOs were not listed in the phone book,” Ware
  said. “The U.S. Air Force was chosen as Uncle Sam’s public relations agent
  because they were listed in the phone book.”
  No one thing has convinced him of government involvement, Ware said. “Two
  years of study after I saw the UFOs in 1952 convinced me that somebody is
  watching us,” he said. “Ten more years of study caused me to think somebody
  in our government has known that as a fact at least since 1947.”
  Ware said his goals in becoming state director of MUFON, an international
  scientific organization based in Seguin, Texas, were to improve relations
  between “ufologists” and the government and to learn all he could about alien
  technology from abductees and other witnesses of close encounters.
  Ware said he hasn’t seen any more UFOs since 1952 and doesn’t expect to.
  “I haven’t been selected,” he said. He still scans the skies, but not for
  UFOs. When he’s not investigating UFO reports or giving talks about the
  subject to civic groups, he is bird watching. He is treasurer of and runs an
  annual bird count for the Choctawhatchee Audubon Society and does surveys for
  the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas project.
  Ware said his two avocations are unrelated. “Lots of people have accused
  me of getting a lot of satisfaction from identifying feathered objects,” he
  said, grinning. “No, I’m just a nature boy.”

  Copyright 1987 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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