It is a Blessing and a Curse: Starlink and UAP Research (2023)

Modern life demands easy, cheap, and reliable internet connectivity. Realities of terrain limitations, company infrastructures, and financial demands have created dead zones. The modern attitude has moved away from being chained to a desk with a computer screen, cpu, and accessories to being mobile and immediate. The STARLINK system has been the solution - involving the launching of at least 12,000 small satellite units to form grids around the globe to support the need for strong, reliable and immediate connectivity.

On the pro side is that it should be more reliable, immediate, accessible and inexpensive.  The negative side is that it will limit the natural resource of the dark sky, weave a web of artificial communication systems around the planet, and have the potential to be the next "coal mines" "oil rigs", "toxic waste", and "wind farm" environmental disasters. Plus, anyone who ever saw the movie "Terminator" with its underlying story of a satellites and AI eliminating humanity....has to get a chill with the running amuck of a grid of satellites and an evolving AI already in existence that lacks any ethical or moral guidelines.

Now, with the increased interest in sky watching to see UAPs the fact that people are not as engaged with real time events as they might be is clearly evident. Lacking the authoritative forces of past generations - (1) a vetted, balanced, and researched newspaper or news source, (2) quality, current, and accessible local library resources and professionals, and (3) a trustworthy, public good focused, government, the results are dismaying.  Information is found via asking friends or group members which often results in the blind leading the blind. Information searching is avoided in favor of disseminated information (I won't read about it - just tell me). Deep complexities are avoided and the demand is for a simple, easy answer that requires no thought, evidence comparison, or hearing opposing views.

Thus - 

People keep reporting these strange strings of lights in the sky. What are they? Even when they are explained away there is often something that they refuse to accept.

Tracking apps are being reported as not reporting sightings in an area. Not all apps are equal and they might be  overwhelmed by the sheer number of objects being launched. The sats are a money-making component of the companies' broader plans after all.                                                                                                                                              

• As of February 2023, there are over 3,580 Starlink satellites in orbit. 
• Of these, 3,236 are operational. 
• SpaceX has launched over 4,000 Starlink satellites into space. 
• Nearly 12,000 satellites are planned to be deployed, with a possible later extension to 42,000.

More information:

How to Spot SpaceX's 60 New Starlink Satellites in the Night Sky | Space

What was the "LA" in the FBI Memo of 1947?

The days preceding and following what is coyly referred to as "The Roswell Incident" the military (apparently led in part by Schulgen) were covertly investigating the many reports of odd things in the skies. The FBI, because of the real threat of Soviet covert operations, was equally curious. Since no one seemed to know what they were....the curiosity intensified. 

Schulgen, already involved in some top secret work related to some special projects, was selected to follow up on an idea.  The FBI had the "legs" in the form of field investigators and the military did not have a wide scale investigative element capable at the time of the type of vetting required to sort the wheat from the chaff of all those reports. Could perhaps the FBI lend the military a hand?  J. Edgar Hoover and his directors had been burned before through military stonewalling...he was therefore cautious and agreed on specific grounds.

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There is one telling line that has raised questions for decades. 

"For instance in the La case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it..."

Since a little earlier in the month there had been a deliberate hoax in Shreveport, Louisiana, many assume that is the case referred to by JEH. Although the "La" was a traditional abbreviation for Louisiana in the time, might it be something else? JEH was inconsistent in many of his shortcuts in his notes. For one thing, the FBI did, apparently, get information about the Shreveport "disc" - made as a practical joker there. Similarly, other similar hoaxes had been accessible to them as well from numerous records. 

Could it be that the "La" referred not to a recent case but from nearly six years previously?  The Battle of Los Angeles on 25 February 1942.

The event was classified as "war nerves": that did not say much about the 12,000 air raid wardens, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade antiaircraft batteries, and the 4th Interceptor Command, as well as local law enforcement and many others. Over 1,430 rounds of antiaircraft shells were expended, including 12 8-pound shells.  Reports from the field by Herald Express newspaper staff indicated they had eyewitnesses among the reporters of shells hitting the "object" directly - but nothing was shot down.  The image below shows the familiar image from the newspaper. Searchlights are focused on the strong light mass in the center. Above it shells are exploding. Darkened, the image highlights the sense of a "something" in the core heart of the beams.

In 1974 under provisions of a FOIA request a 1942 memo came to light. Written by George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, and sent to President Roosevelt on 26 February 1942, there were some fascinating facts...

Unidentified airplanes were "probably" fired upon over Los Angeles (LA), This statement verifies the number of rounds fired and by what Brigade,

As many as "fifteen" of those unidentified (they were not Army or Navy planes) may have been involved flying at various speeds (slow to 200 mph) and altitudes of 9,000 to 10,000 feet.

*No bombs were dropped.

*No causalities among US troops

*No planes were shot down

*No American Army or Navy planes were in action

A note on the speed estimate indicates that the report may have ignored an eyewitness driving near Douglas Aircraft Company near Pasadena and ordered to park and douse his lights by an Air Raid Warden. He observed "bright red spots of lights" low on the horizon to the south - moving in an odd manner. The lights were zig-zagging low to the ground at about 10,000 feet. The witness, Paul T Collins, indicated he could see different batteries firing and the red objects caught in the process - moving in and around the bursting shells at incredible speed. He estimates about "five miles per second."   He noted from the position he and others were, they could not see the "enormous UFO" because it was probably below their horizon, but they did see the fast paced, and mobile, red lights objects.

"Prior to the release of the Marshall memorandum, the Department of Defense state that they had no record of the event."  The contradictions of timelines, descriptions, the insulting classification of serious and trained military and civilians as frightened and trigger-happy causes one to consider that there was a coverup involved.... (See Timothy Good's ABOVE TOP SECRET for more of the early events of the modern era). 

So- was JEH referring to a Louisiana case of a prankster?  Or, was he referring to perhaps some still concealed event of that earlier Battle of Los Angeles?

Interview

Yesterday I was interviewed by an ABC news affiliate in Oklahoma (KOCO) about my UFO books, research, and the stories I uncovered. The setting could not have been better, the "Office of Clark Kent" in the Spirit of America Route 66 Museum in Stroud, Oklahoma. Thanks to Museum owner and director, Steve Brant. 

The modern moment of UFO/UAP activities and study needs the "truth and justice" of America's "favorite alien"....and his alter ego of Clark Kent. As an ex- newspaper stringer....and a small part of a larger disclosure process...I felt right at home.