TESTIMONIAL
May 9, 2001: National Press Club, Washington,
D.C.
Hi, my name is George Filer III. The
reason I am here is because George Filer the fifth is in the hangar
and will be born on Friday. I am a retired intelligence officer and
flyer, with almost five thousand hours, and I didn’t believe in
UFOs until London Control called us in the winter of 1962 and asked
us, would we chase one? And we said, “Sure!” So we leapt down from
thirty thousand feet to a thousand feet, where the UFO was
hovering. And we went into a steep dive and actually exceeded the
redline of the aircraft. So it’s kinda dangerous chasing UFOs. And
in any case, I was able to get the UFO on the aircraft radar, at
about forty miles, and we could see a light on in the distance, and
as we closed we kept on picking up this radar return. The point I’m
mentioning is that the radar return was very distinct and solid,
indicating it was some kind of metallic object. We got about a mile
from the UFO, and it kinda lit up in the sky and went off into
space. Very similar to what the shuttle looks like when it takes
off. [ …]
When I was in the Twenty-first Air
Force, McGuire AFB, I briefed General Glau about a UFO over Tehran,
Iran, in 1976. Two F-4s from the Iranian Air Force had taken off
and tried to intercept the UFO, and when they turned on their fire
control systems, immediately all their electric systems went out
and the planes had to return to base. This was particularly
significant because it was also picked up on
satellites.
In 1978, on January 18, I was going
into the base—every morning I did the briefing to the general’s
staff—and I noticed that there were some lights off in the distance
at the end of the runway there. When I got into the command post,
the senior master sergeant in charge said that there had been UFOs
in the pattern all night, they were on radar, the tower had seen
them, they had gotten aircraft reports and so on … and that one had
landed or crashed at Fort Dix—Fort Dix and McGuire are right
together. This is kinda like the “Roswell of the East.” In any
case, an alien had come off the craft and had been shot by a
military policeman [ …]. Our security police went out there and
found him on the end of the runway, dead. And they asked me to
brief the general staff, a General Tom Sadler, at the eight o’clock
stand-up briefing, and I said, “I don’t think I want to do this;
you know, the general doesn’t have a good sense of humor and I’m
not sure I believe this.”
So, I did some checking, called the 438th Command Post, and
everybody had pretty much the same story. At eight o’clock that
morning, just before I went on, [ …] everyone’s very worried about
it; they said, “Don’t brief it, it’s too hot,” so to
speak.
That’s pretty much my story. I’m
prepared to tell the story in front of Congress, and it is the
truth. Now, because of this, I’ve stayed interested in UFOs. And I
am the Eastern Director of the Mutual UFO Network, and between the
National Reporting Center and Peter Davenport and MUFON, we get one
hundred [UFO] reports a week on average of people from all over the
United States that see these things regularly. And if you start
checking, they’re out there, and they’re low, and people are seeing
them all the time. And these are highly qualified people, all of
whom essentially give us the reports by e-mail.
—George Filer
III,
intelligence
officer and pilot (ret.)
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