United States: NORAD chief of staff tells Powell no data corroborates the reported event
On December 22, 2008, Maj. Gen. John H. Bordelon, NORAD chief of staff, replied to Robert Powell's request that an exhaustive search had found no tactical or technical information to corroborate the event, and referred him to the National UFO Reporting Center.
Background
Maj. Gen. John H. Bordelon, chief of staff of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), responded to a request from Robert Powell. He stated that an 'exhaustive search' of data files had been conducted. The Air Force 'could find no tactical or technical information that would corroborate this event'. Bordelon referred Powell to the National UFO Reporting Center hotline. According to the preceding context in Eberhart's chronology, Powell had asked NORAD to examine the Stephenville, Texas, sightings of January 8, 2008, as a possible airspace violation. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.