Event · 12 November 2007 · National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

National Press Club panel on UFOs and aviation safety

Also known as National Press Club 2007, NPC 2007

On 12 November 2007, journalist Leslie Kean and filmmaker James Fox brought together current and former military officers, pilots and government officials from Belgium, Chile, France, Iran, Peru, the UK and the U.S. at the National Press Club in Washington. Former Arizona governor Fife Symington moderated.

Speakers described official cases from their own countries, including the 1976 Tehran F-4 intercept, Rendlesham Forest, the Belgian wave, the 2007 Alderney sighting and the JAL 1628 encounter. The panellists signed a request asking the U.S. government to reopen the investigation that had ended with Project Blue Book in 1969.

Sources: National Press Club recording (2007)

Facts and claims

Key moments: National Press Club - November 12th, 2007. UFO Close Encounters

  1. 4:58 Wilfried De Brouwer: De Brouwer introduces himself as former chief of operations of the Belgian Air Force and describes the 1989–90 wave and the F-16 scrambles.
  2. 15:43 Jean-Charles Duboc: Air France captain Jean-Charles Duboc describes the 1994 sighting of a huge object near Paris, studied by the French COMETA group and GEIPAN.
  3. 19:58 Jean-Claude Ribes: Astronomer Jean-Claude Ribes of the French national space agency (CNES) speaks for GEIPAN, France's official UAP investigation office.
  4. 25:45 Parviz Jafari: Jafari: as squadron commander he flew the second F-4 and locked on with radar at 25 miles; the return was comparable to a 707 tanker, and the object flashed red, green, orange and blue.
  5. 26:40 Parviz Jafari: Jafari: objects separated from the main one; when one came towards him he tried to fire a heat-seeking missile but his weapons panel went out, and his radio was garbled.
  6. 26:52 Parviz Jafari: Jafari: one object landed in an open area, radiating light bright enough to see the sand.
  7. 27:45 Parviz Jafari: Jafari notes that a DIA assessment released under FOIA documented the event in detail and called it “a classic” case.
  8. 28:41 Rodrigo Bravo: Capt. Rodrigo Bravo of Chilean Army aviation describes Chile's official UAP investigations.
  9. 36:38 Oscar Santa María Huertas: Peruvian Air Force pilot Oscar Santa María describes firing on an unidentified object in his Sukhoi in 1980.
  10. 49:04 Ray Bowyer: Capt. Ray Bowyer recounts the 2007 Alderney sighting and urges aircrew to report what they see.
  11. 56:52 Jim Penniston: James Penniston describes his close approach to the craft at Rendlesham in 1980.
  12. 1:02:27 Charles Halt: Col. Charles Halt describes investigating the December 1980 events as deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters.
  13. 1:06:50 John Callahan: John Callahan, former FAA accidents and investigations division chief, on the 1986 Japan Airlines 1628 case: “an event that never happened.”

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