Who am I?
Presenter-provided biography, credentials, and personal-history statements.
Sources & Image Credits
Law Enforcement Encounters with UAP
Research sources, source notes, and image credits by slide.
Speaker-Note Sources and Image Credits
Sources and credits transcribed from the October 2026 presentation. Source descriptions retain the level of detail supplied in the speaker notes.
Presentation Objectives
Author-developed presentation objectives.
Housekeeping
Author-developed framing and terminology; official U.S. Government UAP terminology referenced from Department of Defense/AARO materials.
Law Enforcement Encounters with UAP
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book records and Air Force public-affairs fact sheet; U.S. Congress/DoD AARO statutory and program materials; FAA/AARO civilian-pilot reporting guidance.
AUTHOR SYNTHESIS: statement that local law enforcement commonly serves as a first responder to civilian reports, illustrated by the case studies in this presentation.
Law Enforcement Encounters with UAP Case studies
Author's case selection and research notes for the nine case studies in this presentation.
Nevada 2023
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department public records (911 call, body-worn camera, and case materials).
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: KLAS 8 News Now coverage.
Nevada 2023
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department public records (911 call, body-worn camera, and case materials).
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: KLAS 8 News Now coverage.
Nevada 2023
Photo: KLAS 8 News Now.
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department public-record materials; Creech AFB/Nellis AFB public responses.
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: KLAS 8 News Now reporting of those public responses.
New Hampshire 1965
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book Exeter case file; Exeter Police Department witness/report material; later Air Force/Blue Book correspondence concerning the Exeter sighting.
New Hampshire 1965
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book Exeter case file; contemporary accounts of Norman Muscarello and Officer Eugene Bertrand; Exeter Police Department material.
New Hampshire 1965
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book Exeter case file; Officer Eugene Bertrand's and Norman Muscarello's accounts; Exeter Police Department material.
New Hampshire 1965
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book Exeter case file; Officer David Hunt, Eugene Bertrand, and Norman Muscarello accounts; Pease AFB/USAF investigative correspondence.
New Hampshire 1965
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: U.S. Air Force/Project Blue Book Exeter case file; Pease AFB investigation; correspondence concerning Major David Griffin and Lt. Allan Brandt.
New Hampshire 1965
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book Exeter case file and correspondence; Major Hector Quintanilla correspondence; Office of the Secretary of the Air Force correspondence concerning the case.
New Hampshire 1965
Photo: Muscarello, Hunt, Bertrand, and Toland from Exeter Historical Society.
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book Exeter case file; Air Force correspondence and witness accounts.
Ohio 1994
PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Trumbull County/Liberty Township 911 and local law-enforcement/dispatch material; FAA/Youngstown-Warren Airport tower response.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Kenny Young's documented research on the December 1994 Trumbull County sightings, including his work with the surviving 911/tower material.
Ohio 1994
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Liberty Township/Brookfield Township police accounts; local dispatch and witness material.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Kenny Young's documented research on the 1994 Trumbull County incident.
Ohio 1994
PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: FAA/Youngstown-Warren Airport tower response; local police/dispatch accounts.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Kenny Young's research and interviews concerning the 1994 Trumbull County sightings.
Ohio 1994
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Brookfield Township Police Officer James Baker's account; local police/dispatch reports.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Kenny Young's research on the 1994 Trumbull County incident.
Ohio 1994
PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Local police accounts and dispatch reports; Youngstown Air Reserve Station/910th Airlift Wing response as documented in the case research.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Kenny Young's 1998 interview with Capt. John Keytack, including Keytack's categorical denial that the reported incident occurred and his statement that the base had no jets on alert that night.
Ohio 1994
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Local police/dispatch accounts; FAA/USAF responses concerning the 1994 Trumbull County incident.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Kenny Young's research and documentation of the police, FAA, and Air Force responses.
Minnesota 1979
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Marshall County Sheriff's Office/Deputy Val Johnson incident report.
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: Contemporary 1979 reporting, including Minneapolis Star material.
Minnesota 1979
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Marshall County Sheriff's Office incident report; Deputy Val Johnson's account; contemporaneous medical and law-enforcement documentation.
Minnesota 1979
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Marshall County Sheriff's investigation; Center for UFO Studies testing results; Honeywell engineering examination.
ARCHIVAL/INSTITUTIONAL: Minnesota Historical Society documentation concerning the incident and preserved vehicle.
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: Contemporary/local reporting where used for the public-impact portion of the account.
Minnesota 1979
Photo: Minnesota Star, 11 September 1979.
PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Marshall County Sheriff's Office material.
SECONDARY/CONTEMPORARY REPORTING: Minneapolis Star, 11 September 1979.
ARCHIVAL/INSTITUTIONAL: Minnesota Historical Society documentation concerning the incident and preserved evidence.
Illinois 2000
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: St. Clair County/CENCOM dispatch material and municipal police reports.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Darryl Barker's research and documentary, The Edge of Reality: Illinois UFO: January 5, 2000, including his work obtaining the CENCOM dispatch timecode material.
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: MUFON Journal No. 383.
Illinois 2000
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: St. Clair County/CENCOM dispatch recordings/logs; Officer David Martin's police report/sketch.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Darryl Barker's research/documentary, used to reconstruct and corroborate the dispatch timeline.
Illinois 2000
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Officer Craig Stevens' Millstadt Police report/sketch and Polaroid; St. Clair County/CENCOM dispatch records.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Darryl Barker's research/documentary, including the preserved dispatch timeline.
Illinois 2000
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Officer Matt Jany/Dupo Police account; St. Clair County/CENCOM dispatch records; Lambert-St. Louis Airport response.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Darryl Barker's research/documentary.
Illinois 2000
Photo: Officer Craig Stevens’ Polaroid from dbarkertv.com.
PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: St. Clair County/CENCOM dispatch records; Officer Craig Stevens' Polaroid.
RESEARCHER/DOCUMENTARIAN: Darryl Barker, The Edge of Reality: Illinois UFO: January 5, 2000, and related research; his work was helpful in reconstructing the timeline.
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: MUFON Journal No. 383.
Ohio/Pennsylvania 1966
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book case file, Portage County/Ohio-Pennsylvania, April 1966; Portage County Sheriff's investigation; contemporary police statements.
Ohio/Pennsylvania 1966
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PRIMARY/CONTEMPORARY RECORDS: Project Blue Book Portage County case file; statements of Spaur, Neff, Huston, and Panzanella.
SECONDARY/CONTEMPORARY: Ohio/Pennsylvania law-enforcement reporting where used for chronology/corroboration.
Ohio/Pennsylvania 1966
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book case file and Quintanilla correspondence.
SECONDARY/CONTEMPORARY: Newspaper coverage documenting the officers' publicity and aftermath.
Ohio/Pennsylvania 1966
Photo: Scene from film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book Portage County case file; contemporary police/radio records; Air Force correspondence concerning the alleged interception.
SECONDARY/CONTEMPORARY: Newspaper accounts and later accounts used to document the conflicting interception claims and aftermath.
Nova Scotia 1967
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: RCMP/Canadian Forces records concerning the Shag Harbour incident; Canadian government search documentation.
CONTEMPORARY WITNESS MATERIAL: Witness reports/accounts.
Nova Scotia 1967
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: RCMP and Canadian Forces communications; Rescue Coordination Centre Halifax records.
CONTEMPORARY WITNESS MATERIAL: Witness reports/accounts.
Nova Scotia 1967
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: RCMP incident reports and officer accounts; Canadian Forces/Coast Guard records.
CONTEMPORARY WITNESS MATERIAL: Witness statements.
Nova Scotia 1967
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: RCMP reports; Canadian Coast Guard search records; contemporary Canadian government documentation.
CONTEMPORARY WITNESS MATERIAL: Witness statements.
Nova Scotia 1967
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Canadian Coast Guard/Maritime Command search records; Department of National Defence reports; RCMP records concerning the October 1967 search.
Nova Scotia 1967
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: RCMP and Canadian Forces records; Canadian government documentation concerning UFO-reporting procedures.
INSTITUTIONAL/ARCHIVAL: Municipality of Barrington material.
New Mexico 1964
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Socorro Police Department/Officer Lonnie Zamora accounts; FBI documentation; U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book case file, 1964.
New Mexico 1964
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Lonnie Zamora's Project Blue Book statement; Socorro Police documentation; FBI and Air Force investigative records.
New Mexico 1964
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Socorro PD/New Mexico State Police reports; FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes Jr. documentation; White Sands/Army and local law-enforcement records.
New Mexico 1964
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: White Sands Missile Range/Army Captain Richard T. Holder documentation; FBI reports; Socorro police measurements and diagrams; Project Blue Book records.
New Mexico 1964
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Lonnie Zamora's drawing and Project Blue Book correspondence; USAF Foreign Technology Division insignia research; FBI/Army investigative records.
New Mexico 1964
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book case file; Major William Connor and Sergeant David Moody reports; Dr. J. Allen Hynek investigation; site/physical-evidence documentation.
New Mexico 1964
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: USAF Foreign Technology Division laboratory/technical analysis of the Socorro site; Project Blue Book case file and associated correspondence.
New Mexico 1964
Photo: Project 10073 Record Card for the Zamora incident. This form was the standardized Project Blue Book case-summary card used by the Air Force for individual UFO reports. It was an Air Technical Intelligence Center form that condensed the basic facts of a case into 12 fields—date, location, time, observation type, photographs, source, duration, number of objects, course, summary, comments, and conclusion. From Center for UFO Studies website.
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: 28 May 1964 USAF Foreign Technology Division report; Project 10073 Record Card; Project Blue Book case file.
REPRODUCTION/ARCHIVAL COPY: Center for UFO Studies copy of the Project 10073 record card, used only as an accessible reproduction of the Air Force record.
New Mexico 1964
Photo 1: Joe Pompeo, A Little History Substack.
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Project Blue Book case file; FBI and Air Force correspondence.
CIA PRIMARY SOURCE: Hector Quintanilla, "The Investigation of UFO's," Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall 1966), released for public inspection 2 January 1981.
Belgium 1989-1990
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Belgian Gendarmerie reports/accounts; Belgian Air Force/Ministry of Defence records; accounts by Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer.
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: SOBEPS documentation.
Belgium 1989-1990
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Belgian Gendarmerie reports; Belgian Armed Forces/Ministry of Defence documentation.
SECONDARY/CONTEMPORARY: SOBEPS witness compilation and contemporary Belgian reporting, used for witness totals and media characterization.
Belgium 1989-1990
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Belgian Gendarmerie reports; Belgian Air Force/Ministry of Defence records; Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer accounts.
Belgium 1989-1990
Photo: Colonel de Brouwer at later media interview in 1990 from YouTube.
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Belgian Ministry of Defence/Air Force records; Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer's public statements.
SECONDARY/REPORTED DOCUMENTATION: U.S. Embassy response as reproduced/reported in the Belgian investigation; contemporary media coverage.
Belgium 1989-1990
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Belgian Ministry of Defence records; Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer's accounts; Gendarmerie/Air Force operational documentation.
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: SOBEPS documentation concerning the operational response.
Belgium 1989-1990
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Belgian Gendarmerie reports; CRC Glons and military radar records; Colonel de Brouwer/Belgian Air Force operational accounts.
Belgium 1989-1990
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: CRC Glons and Semmerzake radar records; Belgian Gendarmerie reports; Belgian Air Force scramble/intercept records.
Belgium 1989-1990
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PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Belgian Air Force F-16 intercept records; Colonel de Brouwer's NATO presentation; Belgian Air Force technical analysis of the 1990 radar data, including later Kalman-filter analysis.
Belgium 1989-1990
Photo: Colonel de Brouwer at NATO HQ press conference from Washington Post Facebook page.
PRIMARY/OFFICIAL: Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer's NATO press conference; Belgian Air Force and Gendarmerie records; later Belgian technical analysis.
SECONDARY/CORROBORATING: Washington Post coverage, where used for public-context corroboration.
Final takeaways for current Law Enforcement
Author's synthesis of the nine case studies and the law-enforcement lessons developed from the documented investigations.
QUESTIONS?
Author's presentation and contact information.
THaNK YOU
Author's presentation.