LOCATION: Papua, New Guinea
DATE OF OBSERVATION: June 26, 1959

The following is a transcript from an audio cassette recording of Henry McKay, at the 24 minute 51 second mark. This would have been at either one of his lectures or his course.

The cassette is simply labelled as “UFO Talk H.H.M”. Date unknown. From the files of the Henry McKay UFO Archives:

“Quite a few number of years ago there was an incident reported in New Guinea, where a Reverend Gill and a number of missionary observed the UFO on three evenings. It was brought to his attention by some of the Natives yelling, which brought him outside and he observed, and it’s well documented, a hovering UFO, the discoid configuration.

And one of the evenings there were three humanoids aboard the craft standing on the outer rim, if you will, performing some sort of an operation or procedure, work procedure.

One of the Native boys waved at this craft and one of the creatures leaned over what appeared to be like a rail, a railing on a ship, and waved back. Now, they couldn’t see the railing, but it gave him that  impression, that it was a railing that he was leaning over, and waved back.

This so intrigued the, Father Gill, that he went and sent one of the Native boys for his torches, he called it a flashlight. And he signaled to the UFO, and it responded.

Now the Reverend Gill has released all this information, and it’s well documented at the UFO Research Centre under the direction of Dr. Allen Hynek.” – Henry McKay

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The following is a transcript from an audio cassette recording of Henry McKay, around the 42 second mark. This would have been at either one of his lectures or his course.

The cassette is simply labelled as “UFO Talk H.H.M”. Date unknown. From the files of the Henry McKay UFO Archives:

Now, the three broad categories of UFO:

The “A” category is the astronomical or aerial observation. Of the UFO reports, this would comprise of approximately 75-80%. Now, unfortunately, I do not have any training in astronomy.

A lot of the activity that’s unidentified that’s going on in space may have some military background to it and it’s difficult to extract the information from the authorities.

So, I do not pursue that particular area.

The “B” category is below normal aircraft altitude, or at tree-top level if you will.

And the “C” category is contact with the ground or communication with humans.

That’s the three broad categories. “A” astronomical. “B” below normal aircraft altitude or at 500 foot distance if you will. And “C” category is contact with the ground or some sort of communication.”

– Henry McKay

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The Report on the UFO Wave of 1947 discusses the first contemporary wave of UFO sightings in this country, which reached its peak on July 6 – 7, 1947. It includes a detailed chronology of more than 850 UFO cases for June and July with complete references, primarily from 140 newspapers in 90 cities in the United States and Canada, but also from the files of NICAP and Project Blue Book, as well as references from a number of publications on UFOs.

About 250 of these reports are discussed in detail, with reference to patterns of appearance and behavior of the objects reported, to special types of witnesses, and to other special features. A summary of the period, the pattern of press coverage, and its effects on the subject, are discussed. Maps are provided to illustrate the daily distribution of sightings for the period.

Introduction

Just over twenty years ago, the problem of the Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) burst into public attention. In a single two-week period in the summer of 1947, the UFO problem was laid in confusing disorder before the American public by means of banner headlines and wire-stories in profusion.

In retrospect, it seems clear that the visible record of 1947 emergence of the UFO problem is primarily a journalistic record. Although scientists, the military, and a few governmental spokesmen took minor parts in the dramatic entry of UFOs onto the modern scene, newspapermen wrote and delivered the key lines that made the journalists role in the drama preeminent. Hence, to reconstruct that eventful public emergence of the UFO problem, one must turn to the nation’s newspapers and review the day-by-day (sometimes hour-byhour) unfolding of the evidence — evidence that something of truly unusual nature was occurring. A few writers have already nibbled at the edge of a journalistic review of that curtain-raising two-week episode in late June and early July, 1947.

In the present book, Bloecher gives us what will probably come to be regarded as the definitive analysis of that important episode in UFO and journalistic history. His approach was straightforward: Because his professional work takes him to many parts of the country, he began several years ago to devote maximum possible time to digging into local library files of newspapers, in order to extract original 1947 press material reporting the UFO problem in all its dimensions.

As his files grew he turned to other sources, including Air Force Project Blue Book files and files of independent investigatory groups. From all this, he has assembled and put into far clearer order than could have been apparent to 1947 readers a systematic recounting of the 1947 birth of the UFO problem. This book is the result of his studies. I commend it to the attention of all serious students of the UFO problem.

Report on the UFO Wave of 1947 By Ted Bloecher – Introduction  By Dr. James E. McDonald

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Courtesy of the Henry McKay UFO Archives, this historical document is a letter from Dr. J. Allen Hynek to Iris Owen, dated August 24, 1977.  It is significant to not only the UFO research community, but also to the ghost research community. Hynek was the astronomy consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s UFO projects, including Project Bluebook.

In this letter Hynek mentions the upcoming release of the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, which he was the consultant for, and anticipates that the movie “will yield a large number of ancient sightings”.

Hynek than goes on to express his thoughts on physical evidence of UFOs and how not all UFO reports should be discounted as just mere “hallucinations”.

And, even more interesting, is his statement “Your work at the Foundation has certainly shown that the mind can influence physical matter — Phillip, table-tipping, poltergeist phenomena — all attest to this.”

Iris Owen, whom Hynek wrote this letter to, was the wife of Dr. George Owen. The Owens ran the TSPR (Toronto Society for Psychical Research), which led the infamous Philip Experiment — which is what Hynek was referring to when he mentioned “Phillip”. The Owens’ goal with the experiment was to see if the mind could actually “create” a ghost.

Hynek also mentions his opinion regarding correlations between ghost research (in particular ‘psychic research’) and UFO research, and the need for both organizations to “keep in close touch on really significant cases”.

Most telling is when he says, “I am being driven, somewhat reluctantly to the feeling that many UFOs are caused by our own psychic energy somehow interacting with matter”.

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The Henry McKay Confession Tape is an audio cassette tape from 1978 of pioneer physical trace UFOlogist Henry McKay talking about his experiences of being watched, stalked and harassed by authorities due to his UFO research involvement.

In this audio cassette tape Henry talks about his mail being diverted, his telegram being diverted, his telephone being tapped, men watching his house from their car, being chased down the highway by an unknown vehicle, police showing up at his door to harass him from a city over 3 hours away, army showing up at his investigation sites (Henry specialized in landing sites and physical traces), and the monitoring of UFO investigators and researchers.

Henry also mentions the Edwin Fuhr case (Regina, Saskatchewan) and that the police told Edwin not to say anything about his UFO sighting. He also mentions the Stephen Michalak case in Falcon Lake, Manitoba.

He also talks about Ground Saucer Watch attempting to take the government to court regarding harassment for investigating UFOs. He also talks about his long fight with the government to get the Joe Borda files from the government (over 10 years Henry tried) in Brantford when a UFO landed in a tobacco field.

It is not known who Henry was talking to in this tape. All that is known is that this conversation took place in a car in front of Henry’s home in Toronto, Canada in 1978. At around the 22 minute mark the tape goes blank, this is the way it is on the original tape and it is not known what caused this. Then around the 27 minute mark the tape cuts off as Henry is mid-sentence and then you hear Henry do a countdown of sorts. Then the tape comes back to the interview in the car.

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This is a Christmas card that was sent to pioneer physical trace UFOlogist Henry McKay from his good friend Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Date unknown.

There are two images. The first image is the front of the card, the second image is the inside of the card.

Hynek coined the term “Close Encounters”, and was the astronomy consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s UFO projects including Project Bluebook. Inside the card (which is the second image) Hynek wrote: “Merry Christmas! How’s this for a close encounter of the third kind! Mimi and Allen. Hope to see you soon.”

Mimi was Hynek’s wife.

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The date of this document is not known. The North American UFO Federation was headed by NASA scientist Dr. Richard F. Haines, Ph.D.

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By Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos  and Ole Jonny Brænne

Photograph, in the popular philosophy, is the best evidence to prove the existence of something, e.g. “a picture is worth a thousand words”. In observational sciences, astronomy for instance, photographic records are basic.

Hessdalen in Norway has produced innumerable eye-witness reports of anomalous phenomena, and is therefore an area of special interest. In addition to the human observers, there is a large amount of instrumented evidence, in the form of photography and video, either by persons or through automated recordings by on-site equipment.

In spite of a recurrent phenomenon photographed at least since the early eighties, surprisingly no one has decided to produce a decent inventory of all photographic and film evidence obtained over the years in this area.

We do not intend to produce such a long-awaited, exhaustive register of anomalous activity in Hessdalen; however with this catalogue we attempt to stimulate the interest of Hessdalen researchers to compile such a definitive work. Starting with data from the FOTOCAT Project and combining that data with documentation supplied with the cooperation of Ole Jonny Brænne, from local organization UFO-Norge, we test the possibility of creating a preliminary catalogue of all UFO occurrences reported in Norway. Although the present catalogue also collects the photographic events in Hessdalen (collated by performing a comprehensive, but probably not exhaustive, review of the literature), it is mainly targeted at the gathering of UFO reports in Norway, as far as pictures and films are concerned.

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These newspaper headlines were submitted to The Black Vault. Although many of us are used to the Roswell Daily Record headline, these are archived here for reference.

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