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The Oberg Files
by
Blue Resonant Human, Ph.D.
(Agent BlueBird)
1997
In regards to Jim Oberg's startlingly revealing (yet utterly
ignored!) recent usenet posting:
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: OTHER gov't UFO secrets
From: jamesoberg@aol.com
Date: 26 Apr 1997 14:15:43 GMT
Open letter to CSETI:
I applaud CSETI's efforts to strip away the "government secrets
prosecution" barrier to the disclosure of people's stories about UFO
experiences and I fully support the call for a government
declaration that all legal constraints against disclosure be
dissolved. I've always felt that claims of fear of such prosecution
as an excuse by people not to "go public" was often merely a gimmick
not to have to take responsibility for the authenticity of such
stories, since as far as I've been able to tell -- and through
OMNI's "Project Open Book" we searched far and wide for examples --
nobody has ever been arrested or charged -- much less convicted and
sentenced -- for actually doing so.
But don't stop merely with legalizing disclosure of all -- if any --
government secrets about "real UFOs". I believe there is a far more
valuable body of "secrets" that will help understand the decades of
UFO phenomena that the world has experienced. This deals with
government-related activities which directly or indirectly led to
public perceptions that UFOs might be real when they weren't.
Sometimes these actions were carefully orchestrated in advance,
sometimes they were localized impromptu ad hoc damage- limitation
tactics. But from my own experience, they seem to have played a
tremendous and widely unappreciated role in inciting and enflaming
public interests in UFOs while deflecting public attention from real
highly-classified government activities.
I'm referring to situations where government representatives --
officials, military officers, any employees -- used "UFO" as a
convenient camouflage for other official classified activities (such
as retrieval of crashed aircraft or nuclear weapons or other
objects), or used artificial "UFO stories" (in oral, written,
photographic, film, etc.) form as "tracers" in studying the function
of security safeguards and personnel psychological responses, or
used "UFO" as an excuse (either intended or accidental) to cover-up
improper, forbidden, or diplomatically delicate activities (such as
aviation incidents involving dangerous accidental or deliberate
close passes or intercepts of civilian airliners, or overseas
excursions of agents on intelligence missions where deflection of
local perceptions was useful, or to conceal from the country of
origin the possession of foreign military hardware), or played
pranks and jokes on intended or accidental targets, or any other
activity that the government -- or any part of it -- wanted to keep
hidden, knowing that having it thought of as "UFO-related" would
consign it to the never-never- land of myth and nuttiness, thus
keeping mainstream media attention to a minimum. And it's worked!!
Please include such "UFO secrets" in your list of disclosure
demands, and ask that any government personnel involved in the use
(or misuse and abuse) of such practices be immune from any
government prosecution for the actions which led them to take such
measures. Once such immunity is verifiably granted, I have my own
list of people who have privately talked to me over the years and
who were involved in government activities leading to a number of
well-known "UFO cases", which can be released and which can help
understand where and how much of today's UFO mythology originated.
This is a serious proposal deserving of serious consideration, and
promises immensely fruitful results.
Figuring Brother Jim for the consummate team player, we marvelled
amongst ourselves at this unexpected midstream change of strategy
and could not help but wonder who birthed the Bright Idea to expose
the delicate underbelly of
The Dark Lords in such a blatant
fashion as this!
So, deciding to shake the tree a tad, we stuffed a copy of Oberg's
refreshingly candid letter into both the mouth of
The Eschaton (who immediately
circulated it on the Hill) and the beak of his Devious Overlord the
Pelican then sat back, amused, to watch the cauldron bubble a bit.
Eye of Newt and Tongue of Dan, etc.
Now in that our Fine Metaprogramming Friend, CSETI's Dr. Steve, is
currently embroiled in a Holy NWO B'hai Jihad of Galactic
Proportion, Brother Daniel was absolutely delighted to encounter
such a propitious cache-o-timely-intell, thinking to toss the recent
Oberg Missive on the Relatively Holy Fires which are already
beginning to brew in certain Secrecy Oversight Hearings out D.C.
way.
Alas, The Evil Government hath once again prevailed for a subsequent
call to Mr. Oberg revealed not the Righteously Indignant and Noble
Seeker of Truth we had hoped, but rather an intimidated and
downright terrified individual who had apparently been pushed around
a bit by The Bully which calls itself our Deare Uncle Samuel. In
fact, Mr. Oberg stated that he did not want his family involved in
any of this and that he was now abandoning the field of UFOlogy
altogether!
A most interesting turn of events, no?
So where does this leave us? The sp00ks can still hide many of their
heinous and insidious black-ops human experimentation projeckts
beneath the veil of the Modern Urban Myth which we all lovingly
refer to as Club UFOlogy whilst Brother James will have trouble
showing his face around these parts without some elaborate form of
retraction-flavoured sophistry. Though many of the True Blue UFO
Believers will no doubt rejoice over this perceived "victory" as yet
another of their Hegelian counterparts bites the dust, we cannot but
perceive this as a depressing setback in terms of shedding much
needed light into some of the darker recesses of the taxpayer-funded
eschatological machine.
::: sigh :::
In any event, for those who suspect something far less
extraterrestrial than "rectum-coring reticulan reptoids" from outer
space, we have included some related materials which you will no
doubt find of great interest:
[dated 1952]
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D.C.
Office of the Director
Memorandum to: Director, Psychological Strategy Board
Subject: Flying Saucers
I am today transmitting to the National Security Council a proposal
(TAB A) in which it is concluded that the problems connected with
unidentified flying objects appear to have implications for
psychological warfare as well as for intelligence and operations.
The background for this view is presented in some detail in TAB B.
I suggest that we discuss as an early board meeting the possible
offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena for
psychological warfare purposes.
Walter B. Smith
Director
Enclosure
[Note: for additional information regarding this controversial
document, contact Technology 1999, 3739 8th Ave, Suite One, San
Diego, CA 92103-4327, (888) 223-1999 -B:.B:.]
THE PENTACLE MEMORANDUM
A controversial memorandum from 1953 may shed new light on the UFO
phenomenon.
January 9, 1953
SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION
G-1579-4
cc: B.D. Thomas
H.C. Cross / A.D. Westerman
L.R. Jackson
W.T. Reid
P.J. Rieppal
V.W. Ellsey / R.J. Lund
Files
Extra [handwritten]
Mr. Miles E. Coll
Box 9575
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
Attention Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt
Dear Mr. Coll:
This letter concerns a preliminary recommendation to ATIC on future
methods of handling the problem of unidentified aerial objects. This
recommendation is based on our experience to date in analyzing
several thousands of reports on this subject. We regard the
recommendation as preliminary because our analysis is not yet
complete, and we are not able to document it where we feel it should
be supported by facts from the analysis.
We are making this recommendation prematurely because of a
CIA-sponsored meeting of a scientific panel, meeting in Washington,
D.C., January 14, 15, and 16, 1953, to consider the problem of
"flying saucers". The CIA-sponsored meeting is being hold subsequent
to a meeting of CIA, ATIC, and our representatives held at ATIC on
December 12, 1952. At the December 12 meeting our representatives
strongly recommended that a scientific panel not be set up until the
results of our analysis of the sighting- reports collected by ATIC
were available. Since a meeting of the panel is now definitely
scheduled we feel that agreement between Project Stork and ATIC
should be reached as to what can and what cannot be discussed at the
meeting in Washington on January 14-16 concerning our preliminary
recommendation to ATIC.
Experience to date on our study of unidentified flying objects shows
that there is a distinct lack of reliable data with which to work.
Even the best-documented reports are frequently lacking in critical
information that makes it impossible to arrive at a possible
identification, i.e. even in a well-documented report there is
always an element of doubt about the data, either because the
observer had no means of getting the required data, or was not
prepared to utilize the means at his disposal. Therefore, we
recommend that a controlled experiment be set up by which reliable
physical data can be obtained. A tentative preliminary plan by which
the experiment could be designed and carried out is discussed in the
following paragraphs.
Based on our experience so far, it is expected that certain
conclusions will be reached as a result of our analysis which will
make obvious the need for an effort to obtain reliable data from
competent observers using the [...unreadable...] necessary
equipment. Until more reliable data are available, no positive
answers to the problem will be possible.
We expect that our analysis will show that certain areas in the
United States have had an abnormally high number of reported
incidents of unidentified flying objects. Assuming that, from our
analysis, several definite areas productive of reports can be
selected, we recommend that one or two of theses areas be set up as
experimental areas. This area, or areas, should have observation
posts with complete visual skywatch, with radar and photographic
coverage, plus all other instruments necessary or helpful in
obtaining positive and reliable data on everything in the air over
the area. A very complete record of the weather should also be kept
during the time of the experiment. Coverage should be so complete
that any object in the air could be tracked, and information as to
its altitude, velocity, size, shape, color, time of day, etc. could
be recorded. All balloon releases or known balloon paths, aircraft
flights, and flights of rockets in the test area should be known to
those in charge of the experiment. Many different types of aerial
activity should be secretly and purposefully scheduled within the
area.
We recognize that this proposed experiment would amount to a large-
scale military maneuver, or operation, and that it would require
extensive preparation and fine coordination, plus maximum security.
Although it would be a major operation, and expensive, there are
many extra benefits to be derived besides the data on unidentified
aerial objects.
The question of just what would be accomplished by the proposed
experiment occurs. Just how could the problem of these unidentified
objects be solved? From this test area, during the time of the
experiment, it can be assumed that there would be a steady flow of
reports from ordinary civilian observers, in addition to those by
military or other official observers. It should be possible by such
a controlled experiment to prove the identity of all objects
reported, or to determine positively that there were objects present
of unknown identity. Any hoaxes under a set-up such as this could
almost certainly be exposed, perhaps not publicly, but at least to
the military.
In addition, by having resulting data from the controlled
experiment, reports for the last five years could be re-evaluated,
in the light of similar but positive information. This should make
possible reasonably certain conclusions concerning the importance of
the problem of "flying saucers".
Results of an experiment such as described could assist the Air
Force to determine how much attention to pay to future situations
when, as in the past summer, there were thousands of sightings
reported. In the future, then, the Air Force should be able to make
positive statements, reassuring to the public, and to the effect
that everything is well under control.
Very truly yours,
[unsigned]
H.C. Cross
[following is a related response from Jacques Vallee]
Excerpt from:
Encounter Chronicles, Journal of Scientific Intelligence
Issue #16, Vol. 4, No. 4, July-August 1996
Dr. Rod Lewis, Editor/Publisher
10878 Westheimer #293, Houston, TX 77042
forbsci@aol.com
(713) 558-5342 (BBS)
(713) 558-1630 (Voicemail)
27 April 1993
Barry Greenwood
JUST CAUSE
Dear Barry:
Thank you for sending me your thoughtful commentary about the
Pentacle document. I do agree with you on one point: the
significance of the memo comes, in part, from what it does not say.
In particular, it makes no reference to any recovered UFO hardware,
at Roswell or elsewhere, or to alien bodies. The greater
significance of what it does say will slowly emerge in coming years
as the overall implications come to light. Let me draw your
attention to three specific points.
Project Twinkle and other observational efforts by the military,
which you mention in an effort to show that Pentacle was only
dusting off an old idea, were purely passive projects. In sharp
contrast the Pentacle proposal goes far beyond anything mentioned
before. It daringly states that "many different types of aerial
activity should be SECRETLY AND PURPOSEFULLY SCHEDULED WITHIN THE
AREA (my emphasis)." It is difficult to be more clear. We are not
talking simply about setting up observing stations and cameras. We
are talking about large-scale, covert simulation of UFO waves under
military control.
The greatest implication, which is perhaps not obvious on first
reading but which amounts to a scandal of major proportion in the
eyes of any scientist, has to do with the outright manipulation of
the Robertson panel. Here is a special meeting of the five most
eminent scientists in the land, assembled by the government to
discuss a matter of national security. Not only are they not made
aware of all the data, but another group has already decided "what
can and cannot be discussed (Pentacle's own words!)" when they meet.
Dr. Hynek categorically stated to me that the panel was not briefed
about the Pentacle proposals.
Revelation of this document may seem irrelevant to Just Cause, but
its explosive nature wasn't lost on Battelle. As I noted in
Forbidden Science, and as Fred Beckman vividly recalls to this day,
the Project Stork team reacted with fury when Hynek went back to
Battelle in 1967, demanding to know the truth. The man I have called
Pentacle snatched his notes away and told him in no uncertain terms
that the contents of the memo were not to be discussed, under any
circumstances.
[In Forbidden Science, Vallee notes in June of 1967 "What these
people were recommending was nothing less than a carefully
calibrated and monitored simulation of an entire UFO wave" and asks
"For whom did 'Pentacle' work? Did the proposed experiment take
place? Who were these people who calmly sat around the table with
the CIA and the Air Force and who, many years before us, understood
the need to acquire second-generation data?" And of the insights of
his friend Dr. Hynek, he states "Hynek had once assured me that if
it ever turned out that a secret study had been conducted, the
American public would raise an unbelievable stink against the
military and intelligence communities. It would be an outrage, he
said, an insult to the whole country, not to mention a violation of
the most cherished principles of American democracy." (p. 285)
Elsewhere, regarding the Pentacle document he remarks "It is hard to
excuse the betrayal of science that took place when the intelligence
community decided to bar the Robertson Panel from direct access to
the knowledge Pentacle and his group had obtained." while of Hynek,
he laments "Hynek was a quiet man, who disliked confrontation and
scandal, feared authority and was in awe of secrecy. He once told me
plainly that 'he would not look under the bed even if he knew for
certain that something was hidden there.'" (pp. 425-426) -B:.B:.]
I find it odd that a group that claims to be interested in the
historical study of our field, as Just Cause does, should fail to
see the significance of the Pentacle Memo, which is an authentic
document, when so much time, money and ink have been devoted over
the last several years to an in-depth analysis of the MJ-12 papers,
which were faked. Perhaps the Pentacle memo only proves that
scientific studies of UFOs (and even their classified components)
have been manipulated since the fifties. But it also suggests
several avenues of research which are vital to the future of this
field: why were Pentacle's proposals kept from the panel? Were his
plans for a secret simulation of UFO waves implemented? If so, when,
where and how? What was discovered as a result? Are these
simulations still going on? I invite your group to turn its
investigative resources and its analytical talent to this important
task.
In reading Forbidden Science, you should recognize that the book is
a Diary, no, an analytical report or a memoir. Therefore many
important inferences, many relevant details, can only be found by
reading between the lines. Your preliminary analysis of the Pentacle
memo is not unfair, but it is somewhat simplistic, and it takes it
out of context. I invite you to go back for a second, closer
reading.
/s/
Jacques Vallee
cc: Fred Beckman
Subj: Re: "THE" James Oberg?
Date: 94-08-17 07:20:07 EDT
From: JamesOberg
To: Density 4
Professional Profile James E. Oberg
Address: Rt 2 Box 350, Dickinson, TX 77539
FAX or phone: 713-337-2838
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Born Nov. 7, 1944, NYC, NY. Married 1969, two sons (b. 1977, 1984).
SSN xxx-xx-xxxx
US Passport # xxxxxxx, expires 3/3/02, issued in Marseilles, France
on March 3, 1992
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Education: B.A.-- mathematics (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa),
Ohio Wesleyan University, 1966, departmental honors in math (orbital
rendezvous), honors in Russian
M.S. (plus additional Ph.D. coursework), Applied Mathematics (Astrodynamics),
Northwestern University, 1969
M.S. Computing Sciences (compiler design), University of New Mexico,
1972. USAF Squadron Officer School // Command and Staff College //
DoD Computer Institute faculty
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Profession: Manned Spaceflight Operations Specialist (Past, Present,
and Future)
Avocation: Expert in Russian Space Technology, Operations, History,
and Policy
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Sample Specialties:
Space Station Habitability // Role of Man-in-Space // Technology
Transfer Vulnerabilities/Opportunities
Space Hardware and Facilities Assessment // Accurate Policy Options
Analysis Problems of high-tech complex systems control center
operations and decision-making International Cooperation &
Competition // "Lessons Learned" Overviews Russian military/civil
aerospace operations, accidents, historical controversies Divergent,
Innovative Alternative Approaches to Complex Technical Problems
Technological Defenses Against Biosphere Threats ("Planetary
Engineering")
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Recent consultees on Soviet/Russian spaceflight include:
NASA -- (Johnson Space Center, NASA Headquarters, Marshall
Spaceflight Center and JPL)
Rockwell Space Operations Company // National Air and Space Museum
Fairchild Space Company (Germantown, MD) // TRW Corporation (Redondo
Beach)
Hamilton Standard // McDonnell Douglas Space Station Office
(Washington, DC)
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) // Government Accounting
Office (GAO)
National Science Foundation // U.S. Army Engineering Center (Fort
Leonard Wood, MO)
Association of Space Explorers // United States Information Agency
// Voice of America
United Nations Outer Space Affairs Division // British
Interplanetary Society // RAND Corporation
International Space Hall of Fame (Alamogordo) // Space Commerce
Corporation (Houston)
Sotheby's of New York // George Marshall Institute (Washington, DC)
// Boston Museum of Science
Teledyne Brown Engineering (Colorado Springs) // U.S. Library of
Congress Federal Research Division
Science Applications International Corporation (New York City) //
AT&T Bell Labs (Whippany, NJ)
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ABC News (including Evening News, Nightline, Good Morning America)
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Crossfire)
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Happens"
PBS NOVA Russian space miniseries "The Russian Right Stuff" (WGBH)
Most major U.S. newspapers, newsmagazines, wire services, and radio
networks
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Publications: Author of more than 400 popular magazine articles on
spaceflight around the world, and of eight books including Red Star
in Orbit (Random House), Pioneering Space (McGraw-Hill), Mission to
Mars (New American Library), and, most recently, Uncovering Soviet
Disasters (Random House).
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Books in preparation on "Space Age Folklore", "Russian Secrets",
"Future of the Russian Space Program", and "Climate Engineering on
Earth". Also, leading speaker and commentator on Russian space
affairs.
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Languages: Eloquent English, good Russian and French, medium German,
Latin.
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Professional Honors: American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, National Space Society, British Interplanetary
Society, Clear Lake Council of Technical Societies, Russian Academy
of Cosmonautics Nov 12, 1993
Obscuris Vera Involvens:
-Blue Resonant Human, Ph.D., etc.
"No, no, no - not you, m'lord, the other m'lord, m'lord."
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