YouTube video · UAP Gerb · 28 February 2024
FASTWALKERS - UFOs Outside Earth
Gerb follows the NORAD and Space Force term 'fast walker' for objects entering or leaving the atmosphere, detected chiefly by DSP early-warning satellites. FOIA requests are refused, but NORAD released two technical papers (1989 and 2008) that confirm DSP has logged such objects since 1972. He links two cases, a 1984 DSP fast walker reported by an anonymous source through Joe Stefula and a DSP printout said to cover Tehran 1976, adds Bob Fish's 2015 email, and reads Coulthart's Long Beach source as the Aerospace Corporation.
On the record
- The 1989 NORAD/FTD and 2008 AFIT papers; the FOIA denials.
Open questions
- Neither the 1984 printout nor the Tehran printout has been authenticated.
Leads to follow
- Possible new narrative for Igor: 'The space watch'.
Timeline
On the recordWitness testimonyAlleged / one person's word
5 May 1984
DSP fast walker turns back to spaceAnonymous source via Joe Stefula.
The claims, checked
On the record (6)
'Fast walker' and 'slow walker' are NORAD terms for objects entering or leaving the atmosphere, detected mainly by DSP early-warning satellites.firsthandThe NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denials
The Space Force gave The Black Vault a full denial under FOIA exemption 1 in 2023; in 2013 NORTHCOM/NORAD said fast-walker records were 'currently and properly classified' but released two papers.firsthandSpace Force and NORTHCOM FOIA repliesThe NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denials
The 1989 paper, by NORAD with the Air Force Foreign Technology Division, says fast-walker data have been recorded since 1972 by ballistic-missile early-warning satellites in geostationary orbit, and that the orbits could not be solved.Author given as Capt. Richard P. Ossiander(?) in the write-up; the captions are unclear.firsthandThe NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denialsNational Air and Space Intelligence Center
The 2008 AFIT paper: satellite sensors looking down 'occasionally observe reflected light from an object... moving too fast relative to the background... to be located within the atmosphere. These objects are commonly called fast walkers.'firsthandCapt. Bradley R. Townsend, AFIT (2008)The NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denials
In 1979 NORAD said a search for UFO tracking data would take over 18,000 man-hours and cost $155,000, and later refused to waive the fees.firsthandGreenwood and Fawcett, Clear IntentThe NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denials
The 2014 DSP fact sheet says Aerospace Corporation researchers used DSP data to develop a hazard support system.firsthandDSP fact sheet (2014)The Aerospace CorporationThe NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denials
Witness testimony (4)
Hynek said at Goddard on 6 Jan 1967 that NORAD had tracked UFOs since 1957 and that every continental US military case in the Blue Book files was a NORAD case.firsthandJ. Allen HynekThe NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denialsProject Blue Book
DSP staff at El Segundo told Bob Fish of a fast walker from deep space that passed close to a DSP satellite and made a 30-degree course correction, so it was not on a ballistic re-entry path.Fish was a cleared program manager; Coulthart vetted him.secondhandBob Fish (email to John Podesta, Mar 2015)unnamed DSP staff → Bob Fish → WikiLeaks → told itThe NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denials
Vallée's journals record Kit Green, Puthoff, Davis and Kristen Zimmerman suspecting Aerospace Corp, with Lockheed and Northrop, of deep UFO work.Forbidden Science, vol. 5.secondhandKit Green, Hal Puthoff, Eric Davis, Kristen Zimmerman → Jacques Vallée → told itThe Aerospace CorporationHal PuthoffEric W. Davis
A source told Coulthart that an aerospace company in Long Beach with sprawling gardens had access to 'the wreckage'.In Plain Sight (2021).anonymousunnamed source → Ross Coulthart → told itRoss Coulthart, 'In Plain Sight' (2021)
Alleged / one person's word (5)
On 5 May 1984 a DSP satellite saw an object pass within about 1.8 mi (another version says 15 mi) at 22,000 mph, then curve back out to space; Joe Stefula said the DSP printout for that date matched.Anonymous source; the distance differs between versions.anonymousJoe Stefulaanonymous source → Joe Stefula → told it
Lee Graham and Roger Ritter of Aerojet located a DSP printout from the Tehran overflight showing an anomalous object ('238 scans possible SR').Contested provenance; only a grainy image survives.secondhandLee Graham and Roger RitterDSP printout → Lee Graham and Roger Ritter → told itJets lose weapons over TehranRocketdyne / Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris)
The Tehran printout gives only a date, not a time, and may show the scrambled jets rather than the object.analysisBrad SparksJets lose weapons over Tehran
The Long Beach company is the Aerospace Corporation.Gerb's identification.speculationThe Aerospace Corporation
The fast-walker label lets the government keep space-borne UAP data out of UFO and UAP FOIA requests.speculationThe NORAD fast-walker papers (1989, 2008) and the FOIA denials