Lots of Acronyms Tracking UFOs

By Billy Cox
The Herald tribune
6-20-08

Last month, the Vietnam New Agency announced that an explosion above Phu Quoc Island had littered the coastline with metallic debris. Residents showed off recovered scraps for the cameras, but no nation or corporation stepped forward to demand it back. No media followups on the analysis.

Last October, a Romanian Mig 21 allegedly got dinged and battered by several UFOs, but the local TV report didn’t hit the West until a few weeks ago. Too bad Romanians don’t speak English.

The point is, there’s a lot of stuff falling from the sky these days, but it usually passes with little more than a blurb and a shrug. Last year, however, a newsflash out of Somalia prompted Frank Warren to do a double take.

According to Shabelle Radio, something crashed outside a town called Buulo Burde in March 2007, and allegedly killed a grazing camel upon impact. The report stated, somewhat awkwardly, that the thing glittered during the day and “in the nighttime it turns lights and speaks a strange language which can’t be understood by the villagers.”

Warren, who runs a UFO Web site in Sacramento [Knowledge is Power], posted the news immediately. What intrigued him most were the government Internet Service Providers tuning into the story: U.S. Central Command, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, NASA/Cleveland, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“They all stacked up on top of each other within minutes, and I can guarantee you that was no accident,” says Warren. “It may have been something as simple as somebody making a call to a friend and saying, ‘Hey, check this out.’ But who knows.”

Warren says the Somalian mystery crackled along the Internet for about 72 hours. “Then it went black. There was no more news. I tried to track it through local forums asking, ‘Have you heard any more?’ and they said no. I even e-mailed one of the local papers and never heard back.”

Lacking additional data, Warren suspects what slammed into east Africa was a spy satellite, and that it was recovered by rapid-response teams. He hasn’t seen such a concentrated crush of government traffic before or sense. But authority types people are clearly trolling his page for the latest developments on the UFO frontier.

Warren forwarded a sampling of the ISPs scoping over the years:

• Naval Surface Warfare Center, Fredericksburg, Va.
  
• Department Of Veterans Affairs/Little Rock, Ark.


• Oak Ridge National Laboratory


• U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Arlington, Va.


• The Boeing Company, Everett, Wash.


• Computer Sciences Corp, Lexington Park, Md.


• National Archives And Records Administration, Temple Hills, Md.


• Information Systems, U.S. House Of Representatives, Oxon Hill, Md.


• U.S. Department Of Transportation, Washington, D.C.


• Contra Costa County Office Of Education, Oakley Calif.


• State Of Texas General Services Commission, Bastrop, Tex.


• City Of Austin, Texas


• State Of New Jersey


• Department Of Treasury, Trenton, N.J.

Also:

• Department of Energy/Western Area Power Administration Fort Collins, Colo.


• Headquarters 5th Signal Command


• Naval Construction Training Center, Arlington, Va.


• State Of New Mexico, Santa Fe


• State of Alaska, Anchorage


• Army Information Systems Command, Huachuca City, Ariz.


• Department of Defense Network Information Center, Vienna, Va.


• Massachusetts Institute Of Technology


• RCN Corporation, Baltimore, Md.

Not to mention:

• U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.


• NASA/Cleveland


• 75th Air Base Wing, Hill AFB, Utah


• U.S. Military Academy, Newburgh, N.Y.


• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office Of Operations


• National Defense University, Accokeek, Md.


• Joint Services Command And Staff College, Second Assignment, London


• NASA/Huntsville


• Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, Md.


• Arlington County Government, Arlington, Va.


• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Palo Alto, Calif.

Oh — and there’s:

• Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago


• State Of Delaware, Georgetown, Del.


• Shaw AFB, South Carolina


• NASA/Kennedy Space Center


• Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Lab For Nuclear Science


• Government Of The Province Of Ontario, Toronto


• Federal Election Commission, Washington, D.C.


• State Of New Jersey Department Of Treasury, Trenton


• Space Science Institute, Boulder. Colo.


• National Environmental Trust, Annapolis, Md.


• Science Applications International Corporation, Washington, D.C.


• Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

P.S.:

• Department of Defense Network Information Centers in Hugo, Minn.


• San Diego, and Columbus, Ohio


• Northrop Grumman Corp, Huntington Beach, Calif.


• Directorate of Information Management, Fort Meade, Md.


• NASA/Hampton, Va.


• Army Information Systems Command, San Antonio


• 20th Communications Squadron, Sumter, S.C.


• Defense Medical Systems Support Center, Falls Church, Va.


• U.S. Dept. Of Justice, Washington, D.C.

P.S.S.:

• National Aerospace Laboratory, Leeuwarden Friesland


• Netherlands National Computer Security Center, Baltimore


• Defense Contract Management Agency, Boston


• Reseau D'informations Scientifiques Du Quebec (Risq Inc.), Montreal, Quebec


• NASA/San Jose


• Andrews AFB, Md.


• Federal Aviation Administration, Egg Harbor Township, N.J.


• U.S. Department Of State, Washington, D.C.


• TRW Space And Defense Sector, Redondo Beach, Calif.


• NASA/New Orleans


• National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration, Seattle


• Army & Air Force Exchange Service, Virginia Beach.

We’re not done yet:

• Defense Reutilization And Marketing Service, Battle Creek, Mich.


• U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, Vicksburg, Miss.


• Canadian House Of Commons, Ottawa


• State Of Minnesota, Minneapolis


• Lockheed-Martin Corp., Denver


• Munitions System Division, Eglin AFB


• Federal Aviation Administration, Curtis Bay, Md.


• Allied Signal Technical Services, Colorado Springs, Colo.


• Northrop Grumman Corp, Laurel, Md.


• The Boeing Company, Chicago


• Defense Contract Management Agency, Oak Park, Ill.


• DoD Network Information Center, Tampa.
  

As well as:

• National Library Of Medicine, Gaithersburg, Md.


• Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C.


• U.S. Geological Survey, Littleton, Colo.


• Director Of Logistics/Transportation Office, Fort Campbell, Ky.


• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Palo Alto, Calif.


• Public Defender office, Rockville, Md.


• Army National Guard Bureau, Columbia, S.C.


• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.


• Headquarters U.S. Army Recruiting Command, Fort Knox, Ky.


• Spacelabs Medical, Issaquah, Wash.


• Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio


• United Technologies Research Center, Manchester, Conn.


• Air National Guard Arlington Virginia United States


• NASA/Las Cruces


• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.


• Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C.


• U.S. Bureau Of Indian Affairs, Ariz.


• Australian Department Of Defence, Adelaide


• NASA/Greenbelt, Md.

Plus:

• Air Force Flight Test Center, Anchorage, Alaska


• NASA/Slidell, La.


• U.S. Southern Command, Miami


• U.S. Senate, Sergeant At Arms, Washington, D.C.


• National Weather Service, Kansas City, Mo.


• Army Information Systems Command, Fort Knox, Ky.


• National Archives And Records Administration, Temple Hills, Md.


• Board Of Police Commissioners, Plano, Tex.


• Department Of Prime Minister And Cabinet, Sydney, Australia


• 355th Communications Squadron, Tucson, Ariz.


• NASA/Glennie, Mich.


• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board, Irving, Tex.


• NASA/Houston


• General Services Administration, Silver Spring, Md.


• Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio


• Naval Research Laboratory, Lorton, Va.
  

De Void has just run out of transitions:

• Offutt AFB, Nebraska


• Army Personnel Command, Grovetown, Ga.


• New Mexico Institute Of Mining And Technology, Socorro, N.M.


• The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.


• National Radio Astronomy Observatory, San Antonio, N.M.


• North Carolina Research And Education Network, Raleigh, N.C.


• U.S. Geological Survey, Fairfield, Calif.


• Texas Railroad Commission, Austin, Tex.


• USAF Systems Command, Los Angeles


• V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, Columbia, S.C.


• Federal Reserve Information Technology, Richmond, Va.


• 49th Fighter Wing, Holloman AFB, N.M.


• Naval Research Laboratory, Picayune, Miss.
  

Is anybody getting any work done?

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See Also:

UFO Crashes in Somalia?

UFO Crashes in Russia’s Siberia

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