Journalist Mike Culbert’s Multi-Part UAP Articles from Nov. 1967
Mike Culbert was the editor of the Berkeley Daily Gazette in the late 60’s. He wrote an amazing and leading-edge series of UAP articles that was published in Nov. 1967:
Part 1: “Twenty years after the phenomenon of UFO sightings began, the “problem,” far from diminishing, has been on the increase. There are now mass sightings and a wealth of information is forthcoming from foreign sources, including the Soviet Union. The “problem” has simply outstripped the government’s capacity to deal with it in a controlled way.
In the meantime, the circumstantial (and palpable) evidence for UFOs has grown. It is now overwhelming, although the American public, which has unfortunately grown to accept the official imprimatur of its government as the decisive factor as to what is real and what is not real, is not generally aware of that evidence. Last year, a Gallup Poll indicated that 5 million Americans believe they have seen UFOs since 1947. The number of foreign sightings has not been fully determined, but reliable ufologists claim a minimum of 50,000 reliable non-U.S. sightings since that year.”
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkeley-gazette-mike-culbert-ufos/175408455/
Part 2: “There is evidence now that the CIA has been responsible for the secrecy clampdown imposed on UFOs since 1953; and, moreover, that the CIA, or an agency similar to it, may in fact intercept the most interesting cases of UFO sightings before they even reach the Air Force for “investigation.””
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkeley-gazette-cia-uap-link/175408045/
Part 3: “Science writer Otto Binder … notes that reporters were banned from seeing even ATIC reports as early as 1954 and that the concerted effort to suppress all UFO news began about that time.
Such censorship (1953–54 and from then on) followed a victory in the Air Force schism, as suggested by the late Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, first head of Project Bluebook, between the faction believing UFOs to be (a) real and (b) interplanetary and those who were skeptical. The skeptics, with some kind of nudge from above, apparently won out. It was Maj. Keyhoe who coined the term “silence group” for the anti-UFO brass in the Air Force.””
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkeley-gazette-mike-culbert-usaf-u/175408721/
Part 4: “Last April, Soviet astronomer Fyodor Y. Zigel [Felix Ziegel] reported U.S.S.R. radar has been detecting UFOs for TWENTY YEARS — despite Red policy statements, sounding ever-so-Washingtonian, to the contrary.””
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-berkeley-gazette-mike-culbert-uap-fi/175408949/
