In his 1997 book Remote Viewers, Jim Schnabel told the story of the United States Intelligence community’s involvement in the controversial issue of psychic espionage, which began largely in the early to mid-1970s.
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Commenting on the abilities of a gifted remote viewer in regard to matters of a UFO nature, one Pat Price, Schnabel noted that Price was of the opinion that “…Alaska’s Mount Hayes—the jewel of a glacial mountain range northeast of Anchorage—was home to one of the world’s largest alien bases.”
According to Pat Price, the aliens living deep beneath Mount Hayes were very human in appearance, differing only in their heart, lungs, blood and eyes. Ominously, he added that the aliens used “thought transference for motor control of us.” Price added: “The site has also been responsible for strange activity and malfunctions of U.S. and Soviet spacecraft.”
Remarkably, despite the controversial nature of this story, we have discovered that the United States military took a keen interest in tales of UFO activity in Alaska during the subject’s formative years. For example, previously classified FBI files tell of astonishing UFO encounters in Alaska in the period 1947-1950.
It was in August 1947 that a highly impressive account of a UFO incident involving two serving military personnel was provided to the FBI in Anchorage. The report began: “This is to advise that two Army officers have reported to the Office of the Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of Alaska, Fort Richardson, Alaska, that they witnessed an object passing through the air at such a tremendous rate of speed that it could not be judged how many miles per hour.”
According to the official report, the UFO was initially sighted by only one of the two officers, but he soon alerted his colleague to the strange sight. “The object appeared to be in the shape of a sphere and did not give the impression of being disc-like or comparable to a disc. The first officer stated that it would be impossible to give any minute details about the object but that it appeared to be about two or three feet in diameter and did not leave any vapor trail in the sky.”
An experienced officer who was on his first attempt to measure the altitude of the object and from a comparison with cloud formations in the area he determined that whatever the nature of the mysterious sphere it was sailing at a height of over ten thousand feet. And it should be noted that to be at such a height and still be visible in all probability the UFO must have exceeded by a large margin the initial size estimate of “two or three feet.”
When questioned the second officer gave a substantially similar account the only notable difference being that in his opinion he considered the object to be approximately ten feet in diameter and compared it to “half the size of a full moon on a normal night.” This discrepancy in size was apparently due to the fact that the second officer believed the UFO was more likely to be at an altitude of three to four thousand feet rather than at an altitude of ten thousand feet as had been suggested by his colleague.
The difference of opinion about the altitude and size of the object may or may not have been significant; the important factor, however, was that both officers agreed that some sort of anomalous object had definitely been seen. And as the report concluded: “…the second officer pointed out that one of the notable features of this report was that it was definitely traveling upwind.”
Shortly thereafter, the FBI office in Anchorage reported to Bureau Director J. Edgar Hoover that: “…we were able to locate an airman [who] observed some flying object near Bethel, Alaska, in July 1947.”
The report to Hoover continued: “[The pilot] reported that the occasion of seeing the flying object near Bethel was on a July day when the sky was completely clear of clouds and being during the early evening it was daylight all night. The time he sighted this flying object was about ten o’clock at night and the sun had just set below the horizon. The flying weather was extremely good and he was entering Bethel Airport in a DC-3.”
As he approached the airport, the pilot was surprised to see to his left an unidentified craft “about the size of a C-54 without a fuselage” that appeared to resemble a “flying wing.”
As a result of its unique shape, the pilot was initially unable to determine whether the object was heading toward or away from his aircraft and opted to make a 45-degree turn in an attempt to decrease any possible chance of collision. The FBI noted that the pilot was certain that the craft was free of any external power source such as a propeller-driven engine and exhibited no exhaust as it passed.
The document adds: “He radioed the Civil Aeronautics Administration station at Bethel asking what aircraft were in the vicinity and there were no reports of any aircraft. The object he had sighted was about five or ten miles from the airport prior to his arrival and [he] stated that its path did not pass directly over the airport. He, of course, could not say whether the object was making any noise and stated that it was flying at an altitude of one thousand feet and an estimated speed of 300 miles per hour.”
“He was traveling from Bethel to Nome which is in a northwesterly direction. He noticed no radio interference and is unable to describe the color which did not appear dark but of definite shape and did not blend with the sky but had a sharp and definite outline. [He] clearly observed the object at this time.”
As the 1940s drew to a close and a new decade dawned, the FBI continued to receive and record high-quality UFO reports on a regular basis. Of these one of the most reliable relates to a remarkable series of encounters that occurred in Alaskan airspace over two days in the early 1950s.
Forwarded to the FBI by an official U.S. Navy source, the classified three-page intelligence report paints a startling picture of several UFO encounters involving the military. Titled “Unidentified Phenomena in the Vicinity of Kodiak, Alaska ,” it refers to “a report of sightings of unidentified airborne objects by several members of the Navy on January 22 and 23, 1950.”
The author of the report noted: “…at 220240W January 19, Lieutenant Smith, USN, commander of P2V3 patrol aircraft No. 4 Squadron One reported an unidentified radar contact 20 miles north of Naval Air Station, Kodiak, Alaska. When this contact was first made, Lieutenant Smith was flying the Kodiak Security Patrol.
“At 0243W, 8 minutes later a radar contact was made on an object 10 miles southeast of NAS Kodiak. Lt. Smith checked with the control tower to determine what traffic was known in the area and was informed that there was none. During this period the radar operator, Gaskey, ALC, USN reported intermittent radar interference of a type never before experienced. Contact was lost at this time but the intermittent interference continued.”
Smith and Gaskey were not the only ones to report unidentified vehicles invading Alaskan airspace. At the time of these encounters, the USS Tilbrook was anchored near “buoy 19” in the nearby man-ship channel. Aboard the Tilbrook was a sailor named Morgan (first name unknown) who was on guard duty.
At some point between 0200 and 0300 hours, Morgan reported that a “very fast moving red light that appeared to be from natural exhaust appeared to come from the southeast moved clockwise in a large circle in the direction of and around Kodiak and returned in a generally southeasterly direction.”
Perhaps not quite believing what he was seeing, Morgan alerted one of his companions, Carver, to the strange spectacle and they both watched as the UFO made a “return flight.” According to Morgan and Carver’s testimony: “The object was in sight for about 30 seconds. No odor or sound was detected, and the object was described as having the appearance of a fireball about a foot in diameter.”
The report then records another encounter with the mysterious visitor: “At 220440W, conducting routine Kodiak security patrol Lt. Smith reported a visual sighting of an unidentified airborne object at a range of 5 miles off the starboard bow. This object showed indications of great speed on the radar scope. The trailing edge of the blip gave a tail-like indication.”
Lieutenant Smith quickly advised the rest of the crew of PV23 No. 24 that the UFO was in sight and they all watched in fascination as the strange vehicle flew overhead at a speed estimated at around 1,800 mph. Smith climbed to intercept the UFO and tried in vain to go around it.
Needless to say, its high speed and remarkable maneuverability ensured that Smith’s actions were futile. However, neither Lieutenant Smith nor his crew were well prepared for what happened next.
“Subsequently, the object appeared to be opening the range,” the official report says, “and Smith attempted to close the range. The UFO was observed to open slightly, then turn left and climb onto Smith’s block. Smith considered this a highly threatening gesture and turned off all of the aircraft’s lights. Four minutes later, the object disappeared from view in a southeasterly direction.”
At 0435 the following day, Lieutenants Barco and Causer of Patrol Squadron One were conducting a Kodiak Security Patrol when they also sighted an unidentified aerial vehicle. At the time of the encounter, the aircraft the officers had sighted flying was approximately 62 miles south of Kodiak. For ten minutes, Barco and Causer, along with pilot Captain Paulson, watched in amazement as the mysterious object twisted and turned in the Alaskan sky. An assessment of these reports reads as follows:
“1. To Lieutenant Smith and the crew it appeared as two orange lights rotating around a common center, “like two jet planes making slow movements in tight formation.” It had a wide range of speeds.
2. To Morgan and Carver it appeared as a reddish-orange fireball about a foot in diameter traveling at high speed.
3. To Causer, Barco and Paulson, it appeared to be a pulsating, yellow-orange projectile-shaped flame with regular pulsation periods of 3 to 5 seconds. Later, as the object increased in range, the pulsations appeared to increase to 7 or 8 seconds and then turn off at 7 to 8 seconds.”
The final comment on the encounters reads: “Since no weather balloons were launched within a reasonable time prior to the sightings, it appears that the object or objects were not balloons. If not balloons the objects must be considered phenomena (possibly meteorites) the exact nature of which could not be determined by this office.”
The “meteorite” theory for this series of encounters is particularly intriguing. Needless to say, the meteorites do not stay in view for “about 30 seconds,” the meteorites do not approach military aircraft in what is considered a “highly threatening gesture,” and they do not appear as “two orange lights rotating around a common center.”
In other words, it seems safe to conclude that genuinely anomalous phenomena were indeed witnessed by experienced military personnel in Kodiak, Alaska, in January 1950.
Does this prove that there really is an alien base deep beneath Mount Hayes in Alaska as Pat Price suggested? No, of course not. But in light of all this, perhaps it’s time someone took a closer look at Price’s claims. You know: just in case…
Por Nick Redfern
