Acronyms
A2 - Air Force Intelligence
AAC - Alaskan Air Command
AAF - Army Air Force
ACOM - Asian Communist - One of NSA's 4 major Operational
Divisions
ADC - AeroSpace Defense Command
ADLA - Assistant Director for Legal & Legislative AffAirs -
(NSA)
ADPL - Assistant Director for Policy & Liason - (NSA)
ADPR - Assistant Director for Plans / Resources - (NSA)
ADT - Assistant Director for Training
ADVA - Advanced Soviet - One of the 4 major operational
divisions of NSA's production organization: combined
with GENS into 'A Group'
AEC - Atomic Energy Commission
AFB - Air Force Base
AFESC - Air Force Electronic Security Command
AFGWC - Air Force Global Weather Control
AFIS - Air Force Intelligence Service
AFOC - Air Force Operations Center
AFR - Air Force Regulation
AFSA - Armed Forces Security Agency
AFSAC - Armed Forces Security Agency Council
AFSS - Air Force Security Service
ALLO - ALL Others- One of the 4 Major Operational Divisions
of NSA'S Production Organization - now known as
'G Group'
ALP - Advanced Language Program
AMB - Ambassador
ANCIB - Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board
ANCICC - Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Coordinating
Committee
ANG - Air National Guard
APRO - Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
AR - Army Regulation
ARC - Ad Hoc Requirements Committee
ARDF - Airborne Radio Direction Finding
ARFCOS - Armed Forces Courier Service
ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
ASA - Army Security Agency
ASD - Applied Science Division (CIA)
AST - Atlantic Standard Time
ATIC - Air Technical Intelligence Center (Air Force)
BMW - Bomb Wing
CAUS - Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
CFS - Canadian Forces Station
CGS - Coast Guard Station
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
CIC - Counter Intelligence Corps
CINC/NORAD - Commander In Charge, NORAD
CSICOP - Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
Phenomenon
CUFON - Computer UFO Network
CUFOS - Center for UFO Studies
COMINT - Communications Intelligence (NSA)
CP - Command Post
CSC - Central Security Control (Air Force)
DATT - Defense Attache (US Embassy)
DCD - Domestic Collections Division (CIA)
DCSOPS - Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans
(Air Force)
DDO - Deputy Director for Operations (Air Force)
DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency
DMZ - Demilitarized Zone (Vietnam)
DO - Duty Officer
EBE - Extra-terrestrial Biological Entity
ET - Extra-Terrestrial
FAA - Federal Aviation Administration
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FOIA - Freedom of Information Act (also F.O.I.A.)
G2 - Army Intelligence
GAO - Government Accounting Office
GCCS - Government Code and Cypher School
GCHQ - Government Communications HeadQuarters
GCI - Ground Control Intercept
GENS - General Soviet - One of the 4 Major Operational
Divisions of NSA's Production Organization combined
with ADVA into 'A Group'
GG - Government Grade - used in place of GS1 TO GS18
only for Gov't Employees such as NSA Employees
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time (ZULU Time)
GREY - Alleged Alien Species
GSW - Ground Saucer Watch
HFDF - High Frequency Direction Finding
HUAC - House Un-American Activities Committee
HUMINT - Human Intelligence
ICI - Interagency Committee on Intelligence
IDA-CRD - Institute for Defense Analysis-Communications
Research Division
IDP - Intercept Deployment Plan
IEC - Intelligence Evaluation Committee
INSCOM - U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
INTELPOST - International Electronic Post
INTELSAT - International Telecommunications Satellite
INYSA - Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence, USAF,
Science and Technology Branch, Directorate of
Response Management
INZ - AeroSpace Intelligence Division (AFIS)
INZA - Editing, Debriefing, and Continuity Branch (AFIS)
IPB - Intercept Priorities Board
IUR - International UFO Reporter (Published by CUFOS)
JACL - Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division (USAF)
JANAP - Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication
JCS - Joint Chiefs of Staff
JOSAF - Joint Operations Support Activity - Frankfurt
JRC - Joint Reconnaissance Center
JSPC - Joint SOBE Processing Center
JTLS - Joint Technical Language Service
KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
(Committee for State Security) USSR
KISR - Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
KM - Kilometer
LASP - Low Altitude Surveillance Platform
LCF - Launch Control Facility (Air Force)
LIUFON - Long Island (NY) UFO Network
LOB - Raymond E. Linn Operations Building
LPMEDLEY - CIA Cryptonym for an Operation in Support of the NSA
LRTS - Long Range Technical
MI-8 - Military Intelligence Section 8 - Codes and Ciphers
Search
MIB - 'Men In Black'
MID - Military Intelligence Division
MJ-12 - Alleged Secret Government Committee for UFO/Alien
Research
M5 - NSA Office of Security
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPRO - Machine Processing Section of NSA's Production
Organization
MUFON - Mutual UFO Network
NAVSPASUR - Naval Space Surveillance System
NCOC - National Combat Operations Center
NEPA - Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft
NICAP - National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
NM - Nautical Mile
NMCC - National Military Command Center
NORAD - North American AeroSpace Defense Command
NPIC - National Photographic Interpretation Center
NRL - Naval Research Laboratory
NSA - National Security Agency
NSF - National Science Foundation
OAM - Operation Animal Mutilation
ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence
OSI - Office of Special Investigations (Air Force)
OSI - Office of Special Investigations (CIA)
OSS - Office of Strategic ServiceS
PSAPR - Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research INC.
RAPCOM - Radar Approach Communications
RAPCON - Radar Approach Control
RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RUFO - 'Red Light' Unidentified Flying Object
SA - Special Agent
SAC - Strategic Air Command
SAC/HO - Strategic Air Command Office of History
SAFOI - Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information
SAO - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAT - Security Alert Team
SBI - Special Background Investigation
SDS - Students for a Democratic Society
SIGLEX - Special Interest Group on Lexicography
SIGNIT - Signals Intelligence (NSA)
SIGTRAN - Special Interest Group on Translation
SIGVOICE - Special Interest Group on Voice
SIPG - Special Intercept Priorities Group
SIS - Signal Intelligence Service
SOLIS - SIGNIT On Line Intelligence System
SPADATS - Space Detection And Tracking System (NORAD)
SPS - Security Police Squadron
SSA - Signal Security Agency
SSB - Soft Support Building (USAF)
TIA - Temperature Inversion Analysis
UFO - Unidentified Flying Object
UFOIS - UFO Information Service
UFORC - UFO Reporting Center
UFORIC - UFO Research Institute of Canada
USAF - United States Air Force
USG - United States Government
Z - ZULU (Universal Time) (Greenwich Mean Time)
| The Phoenix Lights
- Lynne D. Kitei During the evening hours of March 13, 1997, thousands of Arizona residents witnessed a mile-long, v-shaped formation of lights flying in the skies overhead. The UFO sightings garnered headline news, catching the attention of both USA Today and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. One person, however, was not surprised by the appearance of the lights. Dr. Lynne Kitei was simply grateful that a phenomenon she'd been witnessing--and documenting--for months was being validated by the experience of thousands of people statewide. After the incident, Dr. Kitei preferred to stay in the background, anonymously feeding information and video clips to the many news organizations who wanted in on the story. Now, for the first time, Dr. Kitei comes forward to tell her own story. 'The Phoenix Lights' is an exhaustively researched look at the phenomenon, including dozens of astonishing photographs and Kitei's own take on the wider implications of this remarkable event. |
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