Klotz, James

Klotz, James – “…part of a national effort to preserve the history of the UFO phenomenon”

Jim Klotz is “…an active UFO researcher interested in UFOs since 1959. Served as the System Operator for the Computer UFO Network and was the creator of the CUFON UFO/Flying Saucer Comic Book Cover Gallery, the forerunner to UFOPOP. Resides in Western Washington State.”  – UfoPop.org 

Coauthor with Robert Salas of Faded Giant: The 1967 Missile / UFO Incidents  (Malmstrom AFB)

Faded Giant by Robert Salas and James Klotz

  • How ’bout them defenseless nukes? Billy Cox, Apr 9, 2009, Sarasota Herald-Tribune  — “Salas and co-author Jim Klotz demonstrated how the hovering phenomenon that disabled fully armed nukes on the early morning of March 24, 1967, …”

 

 

. . . Strangely, a poem entitled “The Flying Saucer” was discovered as a result of the persistent FOIA efforts of longtime UFO researcher Jim Klotz, as revealed to him in a letter from Maxwell Air Force Base archivist Archie DiFante in a letter responding to Klotz’s FOIA request.

Klotz first learned of the poem as part of a larger batch of documents that were revealed to exist by Maryland researcher Michael Ravnitzky, who in the early 2000s managed to obtain a listing of more than 500,000 documents held by the U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base, many of which remain classified.

. . . “The document in question is unclassified and available to the public,” DiFante explained in a letter to Klotz dated January 7, 2005, and delivered from the Department of the Air Force Historical Research Agency. Although the print quality of the document in question was relatively poor, a quaint poem inspired by sightings of UFOs during the late 1940s had managed to survive over the years, and remained in the Air Force’s historical archives in Alabama.

Penned by a T/Sgt Barnes in March 1950, the poem, aptly titled “The Flying Saucer,” might not otherwise have seen the light of day without Klotz’s efforts. It reads as follows:

Hearing tales of little men and speeding ships on high. Around me all most every day, I cast a weary eye.

Today I saw men gathered around the hangar door. They said they saw a Saucer. A tiny ship they swore.

They pointed to the cloudless sky. “Past Vapor Trails”, they sigh, I saw a far off something, Shining in the sky.

We watched it hard, it seemed to move As vapors drifted by I felt the strangest feelings Of course I know not why.

A weather baloon sent up to give The weather for the day. Some said a star that shines so bright, We see it in the day.

Elusions, stars or man made things Ships from other planets. We watched, we talked and wondered. But none of us could name it.

Because I could not give them The answer is not given, What is the thing that shines so bright So far up in the heavens.

T/Sgt Barnes

“It’s unclear why this item by Tech Sergeant Barnes appears in the March 1950 history of the 27th Fighter Group, Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, but it does,” Klotz later noted.