"Anyway--what's smoke, mirrors, disinformation etc. and what's fact is all very, very, very difficult to even speculate about at this point."
Spot on.
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ALL: TMSuchman--who preferred it attributed vs anonymous--gave the OK to post this from his FREEPMAIL to me. He requested some minor spelling etc editing for readability (I hope I got all the biggies!). Bold, color emphases, as usual, are from Quix.
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Re: Upcoming Events: Peter Jennings UFO Special on TV:
February 24, 2005
From TMSuchman | 02/07/2005 9:08:32 AM MST replied
I have had 2 such experiances. The first was in 1978 in St. Charles Mo. & the second was in Aug of 1999 in Yuma, AZ. The Yuma, sighting was a lot better.
The time was aprox 1700 hrs local Yuma time. I was exiting out of the fbo [fixed base operator] at the Yuma International Airport [where I was the flight line supervisor] (I refueled aircraft).
I saw 3 arrow head shaped aircraft at 750 feet AGL [above ground level, They came from the north from the area of the Yuma Proving Grounds. The craft were a brunt orange in color with a 3 engine "bell" housing. The center one was larger than the 2 on either side of it.
They shot an approach on runway 35 and turned to the east by south, southeast direction.
My backround is in crash, fire, rescue in the Marine Corps & my hobby is homebuilt and experimental aircraft. I had taught aircraft recogintion to my crash crew so they could be able to conduct better RESCUE OPS in the event of an emergency, with much more information.
I did make a report to the national UFO reporting center, with no reports ever came back.
At the time there was a live fire excersize going on with units from the Marine Corps [the old Hawk Missle system], Army, and Air Force being involved.
I would surmise that they had come out of the Toanahah Test Range, or Area 51 [but I cannot say for sure]. They were at least ahead of the "state of the art" aircraft by several years.
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Quix note: There have been stories, rumors etc. that a number of our super advanced craft have DUAL propulsion systems--antigrav--silent mode and conventional or super advanced ramjet--forget the term--sorts of propulsion.