Francis Ridge:
In January of 1998 I received a large collection of notes by Edward
Ruppelt that his wife had turned over to the Center for UFO Studies in
Chicago. These were actually provided to me by Robert Swiatek of the
Fund
for UFO Research. They included interesting information regarding this
case. In June of 2002 our Nuclear Connection Project team made a
startling
discovery. A few years before we had found that there were193 incidents
where UFOs and nuclear energy or weapons sites were common factors.
Kirtland
had figured in on two of them (1957 & 1980). We then realized any
major
sighting over Kirtland would also have a NC and this incident was added
to the list.
Lt. Glen Parrish was the
Intelligence
Officer at the 34th Air Defense Division at Albuquerque where Col.
Matheny was the CO. Ruppelt: "Parrish sent in some of the best reports
that we
had and he is the man who showed me the report on the pilot who shot at
the UFO." (Sept. 1952) According to Ruppelt, with all of the good
reports that
Parrish had submitted, he wasn’t a
confirmed believer. But he did think that the reports were important
enough to warrant careful investigations. In addition to the above,
Parrish was the middle man for the reports from the people who were
doing the radiation work in Los Alamos. The date of the encounter was
discovered by Brad Sparks to have been sometime in September of that
year. Dan Wilson recently posted some BB docs that show incidents in
September, but have them listed as explained as "balloon".
Joel Carpenter:
In the spring of 1952 there was proposal by Col Methaney (I believe
that's the spelling) of
Kirtland's Air Defense Command 34th Air Defense Division - to modify
Lockheed F-94C Starfire interceptors with cameras to get closeup photos
of UFOs. They were to be put on 24/7 alert (POUNCE). I would think
Kirtland
would have been the logical place.