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Australian Police UFOs - Research Preamble
Copyright (C) 2008, Richard A. Jones.
UFOs are serious business. The subject of UFOs remains a key intelligence problem, and one that has required unprecedented security and deception.1 In 1960, former CIA director Admiral Hillenkoetter confirmed that, “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. … but through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.”2 Why all the heavy secrecy? For most people, the question of UFOs is mere philosophical postulation, something of an academic interest but of no practical importance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
“The Disclosure Project”3 is an example US UFO disclosure organisation, spearheaded by Dr Steven M. Greer, and has produced thousands of military and civilian pilot witnesses, government insider disclosures, testimony from Strategic Air Command and nuclear weapons officials, and dozens of top-secret government documents, proving that not only are UFOs very much real, but that the implications of an extraterrestrial UFO presence are far-reaching – New energy and propulsion systems, implications for ending world poverty, ending environmental pollution and destruction, and implications for world peace and security. Essentially, the progress of civilisation has been deferred for over 50 years, all in the name of money and power for the few. Police officers are becoming stars in this UFO disclosure process, pressuring those in-the-know to come clean for the benefit of humanity. Indeed police officers are becoming a very important part of this process, their testimony particularly weighty.
The police hold such high credibility and responsibility within the community that open discussion of UFOs is unthinkable, given the serious consequences of openly reporting UFO sightings, yet they play such a critical role on the UFO-intelligence frontline as high-calibre observers that they often rate close to the astronaut, aviation professional and the scientist/engineer throughout research literature. The February 1975 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin4 discusses the issue, and noting Australian officers, stating that, “Many other police reports are on record. And, these experiences are not uniquely American, - French, Italian, English, Canadian, and Australian police have frequently been involved in UFO sightings.”
Intelligence forces have definitely not ignored the value of the officer in the UFO saga. Police are more than just UFO witnesses. In fact, the police feature as a massive UFO data collection force. The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin states that, “For many years, local law enforcement officials have borne the brunt of public concern in the persistent mystery of UFOs … Sometimes, UFO witnesses have been under great emotional stress, and have turned to the police for urgent help and guidance … Law enforcement agencies have been repeatedly involved with people who have reported unidentified flying objects (UFOs)” Inviting police participation, the bulletin also states, “It is natural for law enforcement agencies to solve mysteries. Now, they can help solve what may be one of the greatest mysteries of all time.” Great effort was made at this time to brief police on UFO procedure in the US. Through the cooperation of the director of Northwestern University's Traffic Institute, a toll-free UFO hotline number had been distributed to several thousand police chiefs and sheriffs around the country. It was urged that this phone number be widely disseminated to all lawmen in all parts of the country.
The author of this FBI briefing document is one astronomer Dr J. Allen Hynek, chief former scientific advisor to the American Air Force’s public UFO investigation “Project Bluebook”, who recanted all his government-military work and, following the global UFO wave of 1973, helped to set up the international public organization the Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS). No doubt, Hynek saw Australian police as having a similar role in UFO data collection to that of American police forces, but not only because of his references to Australia in his FBI briefing paper, but also because he came to visit Australia in 1973 on the very public yet official business of UFOs. What became of Hynek’s vision of a UFO-savvy police force in Australia?
The effort to utilise police in the collation of UFO intelligence was not uniquely American, and America was far from the first nation that concluded that there was a need to brief their police force on the subject of UFOs. In France, officials had already publicly acknowledged their support of cooperative efforts when investigating serious UFO reports, established during the 1951 UFO wave, well before America’s 1975 FBI briefing. The '"Gendarmerie Nationale,"5 an official publication of the Gendarmes (a Paramilitary National Guard branch of the French National Police), discusses procedures which French police should follow upon receiving a report of a sighting, a procedure reflected in correspondence to the Gendarmerie Director6. Australia has struggled to follow suit, where Civilian UFO organizations have had to work hard to form any relationship with local and state police.
A serious advance was made in the area of Police-UFO disclosure in Britain in 2002, when Detective Constable 1877 Gary Heseltine of the British Transport Police began to compile a database of British Police Officer UFO witnesses, publishing his first summary in 2003. A serious contribution to the disclosure movement, according to his 2008 Police Reporting UFO Sightings (PRUFOS) Database Report7, his catalogue currently sports over 608 officers. It’s now time Australian officers stood up to take its place alongside officers in Britain, as well as France, America, and elsewhere.
Making a starting point for Australian officer disclosure, this paper reviews the relationship that specifically Australian police have with the UFO phenomenon, primarily local and state police, then federal, and to a lesser degree intelligence and military, however often in the context of work already done in other nations or within local civilian organizations. No apparent studies have been found that specifically address these topics in any depth. No hitherto surveys of police related UFO cases that are focused specifically on Australian police on any significant scale can be readily found in the public domain. Whilst certainly far from exhaustive, this paper hopefully represents a significant contribution to the research vacuum and potentially a basis for further police and UFO studies, but most significantly, as a contribution to global UFO disclosure.
Based on an excerpt from "Australian Policing and UFOs".
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1. Good, Timothy, “Need To Know – UFOs, the Military and Intelligence”, Sidgewick & Jackson, 2006.
2. Former CIA director Admiral Hillenkoetter, 1960 Intelligence Documents.
3. Greer, Steven M., “Disclosure – Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History”, Crossing Point Inc. Publications, 2001. This book presents a published summary of the testimony of official informants.
4. Hynek, J. Allen, “The UFO Mystery”, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, February 1975.
5. “Gendarmerie Nationale”.
6. “Direction Generale de la Gendarmerie Nationale, Bureau defense operations”, 24 Adut 1998, Directeur Generale.
7. Heseltine, Gary, “6th Annual PRUFOS Police Report”, 10 March 2008, www.prufospolicedatabase.co.uk.
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