WHIRRING SOUNDS: ARE THEY UFO/UAP'S OR DRONES?

They can be very annoying. When they come in the dead of night and no source is immediately detectable, they can be a bit scary.  Recently, I was told that there are an increasing number of reports of odd, strange, "whirring" sounds that can be seen to impact surroundings (animals bark, growl, motion lights and security cameras come on, etc.).  When in urban settings it is easy to believe some local police force is following a criminal, checking out a report of suspicious behaviors, or some business is plotting or photographing an area for study. When this happens at night, it is a little troubling.

Around 2010, when living in Norman, Oklahoma, I was awakened on more than one night by the sound of a loud buzzing or whirring. It sounded as if it was in or near my yard. The yard was an acre and backed by a wheat field in a boundary area of the community near Moore, Oklahoma.  My two dogs would be barking or growling. When I looked out into the dark from a darkened room, I could see nothing but could hear other dogs excited. 

On one occasion, I also heard a helicopter - very different sound - and it seemed to be scanning the area with a spotlight. I could not see but assumed the Police were searching for someone or something. 

The troubling thing was the whirring and buzzing would seem to hover over the yard and or house long enough to disturb the dogs and to awaken me. 

When this happens, it is easy to say bored teenager with a drone making a nuisance of themself. When it happens over ranch lands with no one nearby, as it did in one case, then it becomes a bit more troubling. 

Many data collection sites are reporting that there has been a large uptick in "whirring" reports too. 

I recall one of the early 1947 reports of a UFO over Oklahoma. It involved an object that "whirred."

What was the whirring then and what is it now? 

20 Flying Discs Over Ada, OK in 1956?

The Flying Saucer's Review's WORLD ROUNDUP of UFO Sightings and Events (Citadel Press, 1958) contains a story from Ada, Oklahoma.

In brief, the account was that two boys were outside on the school yard of Washington School for a 10 a.m. morning break. The two, Kent Meyer and his friend, Clayton Campbell, reported seeing 20 discs flying low, in a tight formation. They said they were silver grey, made no sound and exhibited no exhaust trail that was visible to them. The date was May 17, 1956 in Pontotoc County, in southeast Oklahoma.

There was a Washington School in Ada at the time. A search of newspapers offered through the Oklahoma Historical Society's "Oklahoma gateway" resource revealed no Ada newspapers on that platform.

That same year in Project Blue Book were reports filed for Stroud, Frederick, Oklahoma City, Sapulpa, and Altus.

Anyone with information about Kent Meyer, Clayton Campbell, or this event, please leave a comment.

A Two State Sighting Event of Roosevelt, Oklahoma

 A man and his wife, he and employee at the base in Wichita Falls, Texas, were returning from the north along US HWY 81 in January 1961 when they saw the things sketched in this drawing.

They described them as footballs, slightly flattened, and they traveled in a trio. The witness, very familiar with planes and jets of the time due to his work at the Texas base, could not explain them. Their speed, shape, and movements defied all he knew.

Meanwhile, down in Texas, witnesses there at a local radio station and the local base at Wichita Falls also witnessed VERY similar objects moving in the direction to be the objects seen by the couple in Oklahoma.

The official designation was planes or birds or something similar. The cover report is placidly calm in labeling the object as a known. As is often the case, once the reader delves into the report file and reads and sees what the witness shared with the Project Blue Book officers, it is clear it was not normal.

OKLAHOMA UFO SIGHTING LOCATIONS: 1947-1969. Marilyn A. Hudson

Drawn from the work of Marilyn A. Hudson, author of Sooner Saucers: Oklahoma UFO's 1947-1969 (2020) here is a list of locations related to UFO reports in Project Blue Book for Oklahoma by Years and regions in the state.

By years--

1947: Oklahoma City (2), Yukon, and Enid

1952: Tulsa, Enid

1953: Muskogee (apparent hoax photo), Stillwater (spotlights), Oklahoma City (4)

1954: Oklahoma City (2), Enid, Canton, Kingfisher, Enid, Tulsa

1955: Oklahoma City (2), Duncan, Tussey, Stillwater

1956: Stroud, Frederick, Oklahoma City (3), Sapulpa, Altus

1957: Oklahoma City (4), Tulsa(2), Bartlesville, Afton

1958: Tulsa, Lawton, Altus, Oklahoma City, Midwest City, Ponca City, Temple, Fairfax, Poteau

1960: Altus, Ft. Sill, Tulsa

1961: Roosevelt, Altus AFB

1962: Oklahoma City

1964: Ardmore, Sayre, Oklahoma City

1965: Hinton, Hugo, Tulsa, Midwest City, Norman, Purcell, Wynnewood, Cushing, Tulsa, Paul's Valley, Lindsay, Ardmore, Altus, Hobart, Chickasha, Erick, Forgan, Guymon, Guthrie, Edmond, Bethany, Warr Acres, Choctaw, Harrah, Moore, Yukon, El Reno, Shawnee, Seminole, McAlester, Chandler, Stillwater, Miami, Sapulpa, Hardesty, Sand Springs, Stratford, Pawnee, Wewoka, Coalgate, Eufaula, Stigler, Kiefer, Tishomingo, Durant, Meeker, Davenport, Chandler...NOTE: The 'Summer of '65' is an in-depth study in and of itself. Long dismissed, the PBB records indicate something very serious and not understood was going on. 

1966: Temple, Enid, Tangier, Tulsa

1967: Norman, Oklahoma City, Tulsa

1968: Rocky

1969: Billings

Regional area sightings:

Northwest Oklahoma (Includes panhandle):

Enid (4), Fairfax, Woodward, Tangier, Guymon, Forgon, Erick, Sayre, Kingfisher, Canton, Hardesty

North Central (roughly the 1-35 corridor):

Stillwater (5), Ponca City (3) Pawnee, Hinton, Billings

Northeast Oklahoma:

Tulsa (7), Sapulpa, Bartlesville, Afton, Waggoner, Davenport, Cushing, Chandler, Stroud, Meeker, Stigler, Sand Springs, Bristow, Poteau

Central Section (basically metro OKC area):

Oklahoma City (22), Midwest City, Edmond, Guthrie, Warr Acres, Bethany, Purcell, Moore, Choctaw, Shawnee, Harrah, 

Southwest Oklahoma:

Lawton, Ft. Sill, Altus, Duncan, Frederick, Roosevelt, Rocky, Hobart, Chickasha

South Central Oklahoma:

Temple, Ardmore, Stratford

Southeast Oklahoma:

Muskogee, McAlester, Hugo, Seminole, Coalgate, Eufaula, 

Also, this graph of directional movements of the cases listing such information might be helpful.  The directions indicate the direction the objects were witnessed to have moved. Note,,. "motionless" may also refer to stationary rather than without movement.

The greatest movement was to the south, followed by to the north.  During the summer of '65, this north and south movement is important due to the strange activity around the eastern Nebraska and western Wyoming ammo depot and missile silo.

--Copyright, Marilyn A. Hudson, 2020. If use cite Marilyn A. Hudson, Sooner Saucers: Oklahoma UFO'a 1947-1969.  Book available on Amazon in print or digital format.

THE FIVE OBSERVABLES: Cloaking?

 Contents [hide]

1 What Are The Five Observables?

1.1 Anti-Gravity Lift

1.2 Sudden And Instantaneous Acceleration

1.3 Hypersonic Velocities Without Signatures

1.4 Low Observability, Or Cloaking

1.5 Trans-Medium Travel

1.6 What Does It All Mean?

2 The 2004 Nimitz Encounter

2.1 A “Tic-Tac” Shaped Object With Speed “Beyond Anything Seen!”

2.2 Into The Public Arena

2.3 Attempts At Suppression?

2.4 Differing Information

3 A Temporary Moment Of Vindication

[SOURCE: The Five Observables: What Are They And What Might They Mean? - UFO Insight]

1.4 - Is a very interesting one I have noted in many Project Blue Book cases, and others.  The number of cases where an "unknown" slipped into handy cloudbanks, fog banks, larger dark masses, etc. is surprisingly large.

The idea that unknown craft might make use of the environment to generate clouds, fog, etc. has been a long held concept. It fits many known facts reported. It explains a lot of strange things seen, It could be the by-product of a craft operating in the atmosphere or a by-product or result of some action of the craft for defense or concealment. 

Examine the cases for mention of these actions and then consider what they might mean.

The GIldebrand Amendment and MUFON: Time for Team Work

NOV.2021/ Recently, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) submitted an important amendment for inclusion in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act requiring the government to strengthen its investigations of unidentified aerial phenomena, otherwise known as UFOs. [UFO CHRONICLES]  . The Amendment was recently relabeled as SA4593 with significant bi-partisan support. 

This move has led MUFON, and others, to begin to press for a renewed partnership between civilian and government groups in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to the UAP's of this era. 

As this site has mentioned previously, once there was a vast partnership between government and private sector professionals and trained amateurs. 

Various projects from wartime surveys of the skies for enemy planes to observing and recording data for lunar explorations and comet tracking had long used this positive partnership.  Then, the paranoia of the cold war and a full scale move into a world of secrets and classified information, heaved the passionate and enthused civilians out into the cold. When this first happened, under Project Grudge and then early Project Blue Book the civilian response was the development of hundreds of UFO groups ranging from "nutjob" guilds watching for "Brothers from Space" to scientifically inclined professionals and amateurs intent on gathering accurately data, recording it and analyzing it. Some of these, such as NICAP, produced far more scientific and detailed reports than PBB could have produced with its limited resources. Yet, these high-quality groups were viewed with suspicion and "Communist seed beds" or as "Nut Cases."

Just as watching the night skies for meteors, comets, and planetary phases requires vast amounts of time and person power - and active networks of trained enthusiasts aided professional astronomers for decades in doing just that - so too, the scope of a truly vast scientific study and investigation of sightings requires a lot of feet on the ground. It is once more time for that partnership mode to be rediscovered and utilized. 

MUFON - the Mutual UFO Network has a large membership, a highly sophisticated field investigator training program, and a framework already in place to aid any renewed government studies in these sightings and the collection of appropriate data along the way. 

It is time for team work once more. 

Excellent Video to Be Introduced to the UAP Topic

 This is a fairly recent video, hosted by the man who headed the UK's UFO program for over 20 years. It is logical, fact based, and is enhanced by Nick Pope's keen grasp of how governments function.  Worth the watching.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8583894/mediaviewer/rm659046656/

Here is an interview related to the topic: