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Crash Story File: The Reme Baca Smoking-Gun Interview

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter Original publication: May 20, 2023. Any substantive changes or updates after that date are summarized in a log that appears at the end of the article. Less than a year before going public with what became the Jacques Vallee-Paola Harris story of the

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Crash Story: The Trinity UFO Crash Hoax

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter Original publication: May 1, 2023. Substantive changes since initial publication are logged at the bottom of the article. “So we have a very unusual situation there, where we have the best possible witnesses.” – Jacques Vallee, A Different Perspective, June 3, 2021 (at 19:

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Crash Story File: Eddie Apodaca, the Real Policeman Who Cracked The Trinity UFO Crash Case

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter Original publication: May 1, 2023. Latest update: June 2, 2023 (refer to the log of substantive updates that appears at the end of the article). You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims that a UFO crashed

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Crash Story File: The “Secret File” of Governor Dixy Lee Ray

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter Original publication: May 1, 2023 You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims that a UFO crashed and was recovered near San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945. To go back to the Crash Story hub story

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Crash Story File: The Morphing Fantasies of Billy Brophy About His Airman Father

By Douglas Dean Johnson Original publication: May 1, 2023 @ddeanjohnson on Twitter You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims that a UFO crashed and was recovered near San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945. To go back to the Crash Story hub and

Crash Story File: The Suppressed Tale of the Captured Alien

By Douglas Dean Johnson Initial publication: May 1, 2023 You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims that a UFO crashed and was recovered near San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945. To go back to the Crash Story hub and index, click here.

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Crash Story File: Jose Padilla's "Stolen Valor" Claims to Service in the California Highway Patrol

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter Original publication: May 1, 2023 ‌ You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims that a UFO crashed and was recovered near San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945. To go back to the Crash Story hub and

Crash Story File: The Shifting Narratives of the Trinity UFO Crash and Recovery

By Douglas Dean Johnson Original publication: May 1, 2023 You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims that a UFO crashed and was recovered near San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945. To go back to the Crash Story hub story and index, click

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Crash Story File: The Sources of the Trinity Tale

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter Original publication: May 1, 2023. All substantive changes and updates to this article after that date are listed in a log that appears at the bottom of the article. You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims

Trinity UFO crash, Reme Baca, Jacque Vallee, Paola Harris, Dixy Lee Ray

Crash Story File: Reme Baca (AKA Ray Baca)-- Fantasy Kingmaker, Fabricator of Tall Tales

By Douglas Dean Johnson Original publication: May 1, 2023 @ddeanjohnson on Twitter You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims that a UFO crashed and was recovered near San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945. To go back to the Crash Story hub story

Crash Story File: The “Alien” Artifact with Metric Dimensions

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter Original publication: May 1, 2023 You are in the Crash Story Files, a series of investigative reports examining claims that a UFO crashed and was recovered near San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945. To go back to the Crash Story hub story

"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena": A look at the UAP-related provisions of the final FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 7776)

By Douglas Dean Johnson (@ddeanjohnson) Posted December 6, 2022, 11:30 PM EST. Latest update: December 23, 2022, 11:30 AM EST. A list of substantive changes since the initial posting appears at the bottom of the page. The first PDF document linked below contains all of the provisions relating

Congressional Intelligence and Armed Services Committees Advance New Measures to Probe for Possible Hidden UFO Data

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter July 14, 2022 (To receive articles such as this for free by email as soon as they are published, click the "Subscribe" button and enter your email address. My gmail address is my full name, with periods on each side of "Dean.") Building

Scientist & intelligence officer Sean Kirkpatrick picked to head the new Pentagon-IC office empowered by Congress to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter "I have to be able to see and metaphorically hear everything that’s going on between 100 kilometers off the face of the planet to wherever we are, and right now we can’t do that." – Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., April 13, 2021

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"Plasma Beam"-- or Fever Dream? Key Questions for PhDs, Journalists, and Regular Folks About Ray Stanford's "Beam Ship UFO" Movie of October 5, 1985, and Other Stanford Tales

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter April 29, 2022. Most recent update May 26, 2023 (see list of changes at the bottom of the article). "[Kevin Knuth, Ph.D., physicist] plans on writing a scientific paper on UAP characteristics using the [October 5, 1985 Ray] Stanford image in the

Project Starlight International (P.S.I.), Fact and Fiction: Daniel H. Harris, Ph.D., Project Starlight Research Director (1977-1978), releases a strongly worded challenge to Ray Stanford's P.S.I. stories and UFO-evidence claims

"I have recently become aware of various interviews in which Ray Stanford has painted a picture of P.S.I. and my participation therein that is very different from the reality that I knew," writes Daniel H. Harris, Ph.D., in a just-released open letter. Dr. Harris was Research Director

Congress Tells Pentagon and Intelligence Community: UFOs Are Serious Business!

Congress directs the military and intelligence agencies to get a grip on "unidentified aerial phenomena," and authorizes the resources required. By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter WASHINGTON– (December 7, 2021, 1:45 PM EST) – With the unveiling today of legislative language already agreed on in negotiations between key lawmakers

Joe Rogan and Bob Lazar -- A Tale of Parallel Universes?

By Douglas D. Johnson December 13, 2020 @ddeanjohnson on Twitter Jacques Vallee appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast for 3.25 hours on December 4, 2020. They spent much time discussing purported materials recovered from UFOs, yet they conspicuously avoided discussing the claims of Bob Lazar– claims which Rogan has on

Will Congress now boldly go where no Congress has gone before?

The U.S. Senate may soon consider a far-reaching proposal to upgrade military and intelligence investigations of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and to require annual unclassified reports by Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on Twitter WASHINGTON (Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, Noon EDT, with later updates noted in brackets) -- The U.S.

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Bob Lazar and his Nevada felony: Some key documents

In June 1990, Bob Lazar pled guilty in Nevada to a felony charge, criminal pandering. Lazar received a three-year suspended sentence, with probation; he satisfactorily completed the probation. These documents are part of the now-public file of court documents associated a petition filed with the court in 1996, seeking to