decommissioned missile site...future home of the National UFO Reporting Center

[sky otter]

 
i was reading this article mainly because we used to have the missile sights close by and i am always intriqued  firstly cause it is where i met hubby way back when and secondly by what folks do with them...there are some you tubes with the article one of which i found very interesting and makes me think of paying much more attention to the chem trails as they happen..looks like a tracking device to me...
i need a better camera, sigh
en~joy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/national-ufo-reporting-center_n_1210976.html

National UFO Reporting Center Plans To Turn ICBM Site Into Headquarters

Over the Cold War years underground missile sites were built in the United States to house weapons to defend America from attack by outside forces.

In an odd twist, one such decommissioned site in Davenport, Wash., might end up becoming the future home of the National UFO Reporting Center.

For many years, the center's director, Peter Davenport, dreamed of relocating his organization in a missile site and even living there himself.

He explored several decommissioned ICBM sites in Washington state until someone decided to sell one in 2005: Atlas E Missile Site 6.

The site, shown in a 1960s image below, fell under the jurisdiction of Fairchild Air Force Base from 1961 to 1964.


"It was the first underground ICBM ... site in the U.S. arsenal, decommissioned in 1964," Davenport told The Huffington Post via email.

Considerable work is needed before this missile site will be ready for occupancy, he said, but meanwhile the work of the center goes on, from an office elsewhere in Davenport. Its role is to "receive, record, and to the greatest degree possible, corroborate and document reports from individuals who have been witness to unusual, possibly UFO-related events," according to its website.

With its phone hotline operating almost nonstop since 1974, the center has received tens of thousands of calls over the years from people reporting UFO encounters, especially from individuals wishing to remain anonymous.

When government agencies receive UFO reports that they either can't or don't want to handle, they often direct the reports to the center. The organization maintains a relationship with law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Aviation Administration's traffic control centers, the National Weather Service, military facilities and even NASA.

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Davenport's center doesn't presume that all UFOs are extraterrestrial; he shares information gathered from his hotline with the public and many serious investigators to try and get to the root of each sighting report.

"I've seen many video clips on YouTube, and it's been disappointing, without exception," Davenport said. "The [principal] problem is the high frequency of prank videos, posted, apparently for no purpose other than to gain notoriety for the contributor," Davenport said.

Another major problem, according to Davenport, is the low quality of most of the clips.

We provided him some recent videos of objects said to be UFOs posted on YouTube and asked for his take on them.

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This first video, posted on Jan. 4, shows an object over Buenos Aires.

Another video posted Jan. 9 shows a triangular pattern of lights in the sky over Michigan.

This video from Jan. 6, with no location indicated, depicts an object zipping behind a contrail.

this last one is interesting..once you get past the camera being dropped..lol



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Davenport suggested that a person's predisposition toward UFOs can play a role.

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Within the scientific community, many might disagree with Davenport's assessment of what is the cause behind that 5 percent. One thing, for sure, Davenport seems to have plentiful reports to keep him busy, with more than 200 received in the first two weeks of 2012.

......................entire article is here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/national-ufo-reporting-center_n_1210976.html

[spacemaverick]

The object dipping behind the contrail had a flashing light on top.  Must be one of ours!  Interesting that this gentleman wants to put the headquarters in an abandoned silo.  Any idea of the cost?

[sky otter]

 

cost..they ain't cheap..the one in ny state is a wow

but here's tons of info if U r interested

http://1800recycling.com/2010/11/repurposed-nuclear-missile-recycle-silos/

this one is over the top...price wise
http://www.missilebases.com/properties

the one near the community where i grew up is now a civil center type place
if you do a quick search of old misslie silo sites for sale..you can spend the day

[spacemaverick]

Okay!  Those sites are a little rich for my taste.  I guess I will have to dig my own hole and hope for the best.  Now a communications bunker or something along those lines might work.  Some of them are in very nice country though.