I've been reading Timothy Good's new book, Need to Know, UFOs, the Military And Intelligence, and I find myself, as I did with his first book, Above Top Secret, overwhelmed with the sheer number of incidents reported and investigated by our military and scientists across the world. There is a reason the print is so small, the page count high and the years required to accumulate the data in order to make sense of it. He's tireless and the book is exhaustive, but there are new gems of information throughout. The years have brought new perspective to old stories so there is a good bit of rehashing of his first book. He's spoken to many people who verify or bring new light. He also questions what may or may not be real.
One of the areas of ufology I'd never heard or read much about is the ghost rockets that plagued Sweden in the summer of 1946, well before the Roswell incident. They were seen elsewhere throughout the world, but not with the regularity of that of Sweden so various military and scientific investigations were centered there. Before science could get a real grip, other than to say they were not missiles, military power began to censor the data because no military institution could even keep up with the ghost rockets, much less do anything about them.
The phenomenon appeared to be shaped like a missile and issued a firey tail, often green. Often enough, the missile wasn't visible, but the firey balls of light, when followed, broke up into several balls of fire that flew in different directions across the horizon. Some of the missile-like objects appeared to have windows and all were assumed to be Russian rocketry at first. But the truth seemed to be that Russian missile technology at the time simply couldn't have been as advanced as that of the U.S. because Russia did not acquire the likes of Werner Von Braun after the war. They got the second rate scientists who didn't have Von Braun's expertise in the subject of rocketry. It would be years before the Russians surpassed missile technology of the West.
The truly weird and unexplained part of the Swedish sightings were the explosions of these fireballs. Parts were seen to fly off out of the explosions, but very little evidence was ever found other than some carbide slag. In the case of the Maury Island incident, it's believed that the slag found on the boat was replaced with some slag that would further confuse researchers. So I went to Wikipedia and just confused myself more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide
I'm still sitting with that little nugget though I have no idea if it means anything at all. Surely, firing milk churns couldn't have been the explanation for ghost rockets. Surely?
Anyway, I thought maybe we could discuss some other data from the book as we come across it. Seems there were many more possible malfunctions of our V-2 rocket firings that went unreported. While Good has no proof that they were as outstanding as the event reported in Out Of The Blue, he does have evidence that the military covered up the other events and investigated them quite thoroughly. Though the other incidents seemed to be of a similar ilk, he cannot say they were indeed related because the proof isn't there.
One of the areas of ufology I'd never heard or read much about is the ghost rockets that plagued Sweden in the summer of 1946, well before the Roswell incident. They were seen elsewhere throughout the world, but not with the regularity of that of Sweden so various military and scientific investigations were centered there. Before science could get a real grip, other than to say they were not missiles, military power began to censor the data because no military institution could even keep up with the ghost rockets, much less do anything about them.
The phenomenon appeared to be shaped like a missile and issued a firey tail, often green. Often enough, the missile wasn't visible, but the firey balls of light, when followed, broke up into several balls of fire that flew in different directions across the horizon. Some of the missile-like objects appeared to have windows and all were assumed to be Russian rocketry at first. But the truth seemed to be that Russian missile technology at the time simply couldn't have been as advanced as that of the U.S. because Russia did not acquire the likes of Werner Von Braun after the war. They got the second rate scientists who didn't have Von Braun's expertise in the subject of rocketry. It would be years before the Russians surpassed missile technology of the West.
The truly weird and unexplained part of the Swedish sightings were the explosions of these fireballs. Parts were seen to fly off out of the explosions, but very little evidence was ever found other than some carbide slag. In the case of the Maury Island incident, it's believed that the slag found on the boat was replaced with some slag that would further confuse researchers. So I went to Wikipedia and just confused myself more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide
I'm still sitting with that little nugget though I have no idea if it means anything at all. Surely, firing milk churns couldn't have been the explanation for ghost rockets. Surely?
Anyway, I thought maybe we could discuss some other data from the book as we come across it. Seems there were many more possible malfunctions of our V-2 rocket firings that went unreported. While Good has no proof that they were as outstanding as the event reported in Out Of The Blue, he does have evidence that the military covered up the other events and investigated them quite thoroughly. Though the other incidents seemed to be of a similar ilk, he cannot say they were indeed related because the proof isn't there.