TEACHERS HAVE TAUGHT US THROUGH THE AGES. THEY ARE WATCHING US NOW...

The following sections set forth some of the most astonishing information ever presented to the people of Earth, much of it for the very first time.

The first two sections provide background information on the phenomenon in question, one coming from a historical perspective, and the other from a more institutional perspective. The texts come from two of the most reputable investigative reporters of various anomalies in recent history. Naturally, there is substantial overlap between their work.

Prior to publication of The Truth, these two investigators had not seen most of the new MAJESTIC TWELVE documents, so their summaries are reproduced here in witness to their independent work in advance of startling new alleged details.

The History

The term "saucer" was used to describe an unusual sky object on January 24, 1878. The Denison Daily News in Denison, Texas reported that local farmer John Martin watched a round, dark object that looked like a "saucer" moving high in the sky "at a wonderful speed."

Sixty-nine years later on June 24, 1947, an Idaho salesman named Kenneth Arnold would use the same word to describe strange crescent-shaped objects moving in the sky. Arnold was flying his small airplane over the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, approaching Mt. Rainier around 3 pm from the west.

At 9,200 feet over Mineral, Washington, "a tremendously bright flash lit up the surface of my aircraft," Arnold later wrote in his book The Coming of the Saucers 1952.

"I observed ... a formation of very bright objects coming from the vicinity of Mt. Baker flying very close to the mountain tops and traveling at tremendous speed. ...I watched as these objects rapidly neared the snow border of Mt. Rainier..."

Arnold counted nine objects flying in two parallel rows, four in front and five in back.

"...Their flight was like speed boats on rough water," Arnold wrote.

He told reporters in Pendleton, Oregon,

"they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water."

The phrase "flying saucers" stuck with the media which tried to keep up with hundreds of eyewitness sightings in the United States that year.

Three years earlier in 1944 when American troops were fighting Germans and Japanese in World War II, pilots reported "strange flares" and "bright orange lights that were under perfect control." The lights could move rapidly, come to a complete stop, remain motionless for minutes at a time, and then disappear like a lamp turned off by a switch.

The French word for fire is feu and a popular wartime comic strip, Smoky Stover, made the pun "Where there’s foo, there’s fire." So, "foo" became pilot lingo for the fiery lights that haunted their planes. The "foo fighters" were invisible to radar while easily pacing jets right off wing tips. Pilots were unnerved when the red-orange balls shot straight up in vertical jumps that no other known Allied aircraft could do.

Before and during World War II, there were rumors that Germany was developing or back-engineering round aircraft. If true, whose technology were the Germans back-engineering and where are those discs today? Hitler also implied his scientists had "death rays" to conquer the world. But if there were any truths to these persistent rumors, why didn’t Hitler and his Third Reich use the advanced technologies before their defeat?

When the German scientist Wernher Von Braun and others tested German Vengeance-2 (V-2) rockets at White Sands Missile Range, an inexplicable number of rockets went off course or blew up and rumors were that discs sometimes were present when there were problems.

The Las Cruces Citizen reported on May 22, 1947 under the headline "Peculiar Phenomena Is Blamed as V-2 Rocket Goes Astray" that Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner, Commanding Officer of White Sands, blamed "peculiar phenomena" for the erratic test flight of a German V-2 rocket launched May 15, 1947 at White Sands Proving Ground which landed only six miles east of Alamogordo at the town of Indian Springs.

The rocket carrying a warhead installed by the Naval Research Laboratory was spotted at its landing about 55 miles from the launching site where it was fired at 4:09 PM. A crew was sent out immediately to recover the rocket body and warhead."

Throughout centuries before World War II, discs and other unusual machines in earth’s skies and waters have been reported around the world. In his classic 1965 book, Anatomy of A Phenomenon, French astronomer and computer scientist Jacques Vallee cited University of Peking, China discoveries of granite carvings "possibly made in 45,000 B. C."

Those stone carvings depict cylindrical-shaped objects in the sky upon which humanoid figures stand.

Another European researcher, B. Le Poer Trench reported in his 1960 book The Sky People that the former director of the Egyptian Museum at the Vatican, Professor Alberto Tulli, had an Egyptian papyrus from Thutmose III (1504-1450 B. C.) that was translated in part:

"In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day ... the scribes of the House of Life found it was a circle of fire that was coming in the sky."

There was also "a foul odor," no sound, and a size estimated to be "one rod long and wide."

A rod is defined as 16.5 feet. Over several days, the number of bright "fire circles" increased and filled the sky. The Pharaoh and his army watched as "these fire circles ascended higher in the sky towards the south."

The Bible has many references to "pillars of fire," Isaiah’s whirlwind chariots of fire, Ezekiel’s "large cloud glowing with fire" that contained wheels within wheels, unusual entities such as the six-fingered and six-toed giants of Gath and other tall beings with glowing faces and long white robes that suddenly appear and disappear.

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana epic poems of India describe events more than three thousand years ago that mention round, flying vehicles called vimanas which made loud noise, could move in any direction and traveled on some kind of ray.
 

After World War II

Throughout 1947 there were hundreds of eyewitness sightings of round, oval, crescent, wedge and cigar-shaped aerial vehicles.

The most famous U. S. incidents were the "flying saucers" reported by Kenneth Arnold near Mt. Rainier, Washington and the alleged crash of one or two UFOs between Corona and Roswell, New Mexico in the first week of July 1947.

According to a TOP SECRET/MAJIC "Briefing Document: Operation MAJESTIC-12 Prepared for President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower: (EYES ONLY) 18 November, 1952," a TOP SECRET Research and Development /Intelligence operation known as Majestic-12 was established by President Harry S. Truman in a classified Executive Order on September 24, 1947 to study and assess the unidentified flying object mystery.

The term "MAJIC," with a "J," might have been derived from the word MAGIC, with a "G," which was used in the 1930s by Director of Naval Intelligence, Walter Anderson, as a collective code name for cryptology and its super secret codebreakers.

J. Andrew Kissner, New Mexico House Representative for District 37 in Las Cruces, researched early United States efforts to collect and analyze flying discs. He suggests that the terms MAJIC and MJ-12 might also be associated with the Manhattan (Engineering District) Joint Chiefs of Staff Integrated Command – (Z Division, Group) 12. Originally, Division Z was involved in the TOP SECRET nuclear weapons development at Los Alamos in the early 1940s.

By 1952 and the change of administrations, President Truman had already signed the National Security Act in July 1947 which created the National Security Council. Also under that Act, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was organized from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) which had played important roles in cryptanalysis during both world wars.

The dozen scientists, military leaders and businessmen assigned to the TOP SECRET/MAJIC Majestic-12 (MJ-12) Research and Development/Intelligence group were listed in this order in the Eisenhower briefing document (Appendix 1):

Navy Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Vannevar Bush, electrical engineer, Scientific Adviser to President Truman and Chairman of the National Defense Resources Commission.
James Vincent Forrestal, appointed by President Truman to be the first Secretary of Defense after the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. Died on May 22, 1949 at Bethesda Naval Hospital after falling four stories through a plate glass window.
Army General Walter Bedell Smith, took James Forrestal’s place in the MJ-12 group in 1950 after Defense Secretary Forrestal’s death.
Air Force General Nathan F. Twining, head of the Air Material Command at Wright Field (later Wright-Patterson AFB), Dayton, Ohio and later became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon.
Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, former Director of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the forerunner of the CIA.
Jerome Hunsaker, aeronautical engineer and Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Aerospace.
Sidney W. Souers, businessman and close friend of President Truman’s, headed the Central Intelligence Group in 1946 that became the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947. Later he was an honorary director of the McDonnell Douglas Corp.
Gordon Gray, attorney, Secretary of the Army, Special Assistant to President Truman and Director of the Psychological Strategy Board for the CIA.
Donald H. Menzel, Chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Astronomy.
Army General Robert Montague, Director of the Anti-Aircraft and Guided Missiles Branch of the Army Artillery School and Commanding General of Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Lloyd V. Berkner, electrical engineer, developer of radar and navigation systems, organized the International Geophysical Year in 1950 and created the Distant Early Warning radar system.

The following is a partial history of 1947 UFOB events from the MJ-12 briefing paper for President-Elect Eisenhower:

"On 24 June, 1947, a civilian pilot flying over the Cascade Mountains in the State of Washington observed nine flying disc-shaped aircraft traveling in formation at a high rate of speed. Although this was not the first known sighting of such objects, it was the first to gain widespread attention in the public media. Hundreds of reports of sightings of similar objects followed.

 

Many of these came from highly credible military and civilian sources. These reports resulted in independent efforts by several different elements of the military to ascertain the nature and purpose of these objects in the interests of national defense. A number of witnesses were interviewed and there were several unsuccessful attempts to utilize aircraft in efforts to pursue reported discs in flight. Public reaction bordered on near hysteria at times.

"In spite of these efforts, little of substance was learned about the objects until a local rancher reported that one had crashed in a remote region of New Mexico located approximately seventy-five miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (now Walker Field).

"On 07 July, 1947, a secret operation was begun to assure recovery of the wreckage of this object for scientific study. During the course of this operation, aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded. These had fallen to earth about two miles east of the wreckage site.

 

All four were dead and badly decomposed due to action by predators and exposure to the elements during the approximately one week time period which had elapsed before their discovery. A special scientific team took charge of removing these bodies for study. (See Attachment ‘C’.) The wreckage of the craft was also removed to several different locations. (See Attachment ‘B’.) Civilian and military witnesses in the area were debriefed, and news reporters were given the effective cover story that the object had been a misguided weather research balloon.

"A covert analytical effort organized by General (Nathan) Twining and Dr. (Vannevar) Bush acting on the direct orders of the President (Truman), resulted in a preliminary consensus (19 September, 1947) that the disc was most likely a short range reconnaissance craft. This conclusion was based for the most part on the craft’s size and the apparent lack of any identifiable provisioning. A similar analysis of the four dead occupants was arranged by Dr. (Detlev) Bronk.

 

It was the tentative conclusion of this group (30 November, 1947) that although these creatures are human-like in appearance, the biological and evolutionary processes responsible for their development has apparently been quite different than those observed or postulated in homo-sapiens. Dr. Bronk’s team has suggested the term ‘Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities,’ or ‘EBEs,’ be adopted as the standard term of reference for these creatures until such time as a more definitive designation can be agreed upon.

"Since it is virtually certain that these craft do not originate in any country on earth, considerable speculation has centered around what their point of origin might be and how they get here. Mars was and remains a possibility, although some scientists, most notably Dr. Menzel, consider it more likely that we are dealing with beings from another solar system entirely.

"Numerous examples of what appear to be a form of writing were found in the wreckage. Efforts to decipher these have remained largely unsuccessful. (See Attachment ‘E’.) Equally unsuccessful have been efforts to determine the method of propulsion or the nature or method of transmission of the power source involved. Research along these lines has been complicated by the complete absence of identifiable wings, propellers, jets or other conventional methods of propulsion and guidance, as well as a total lack of metallic wiring, vacuum tubes, or similar recognizable electronic components. (See Attachment ‘F’.) It is assumed that the propulsion unit was completely destroyed by the explosion which caused the crash.

"A need for as much additional information as possible about these craft, their performance characteristics and their purpose led to the undertaking known as U. S. Air Force Project SIGN in December, 1947. In order to preserve security, (sic) liaison between SIGN and Majestic-12 was limited to two individuals within the Intelligence Division of Air Material Command whose role was to pass along certain types of information through channels. SIGN evolved into Project GRUDGE in December, 1948. The operation is currently being conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK, with (sic) liason maintained through the Air Force officer who is head of the project.

"Implications for the National Security are of continuing importance in that the motives and ultimate intentions of these visitors remain completely unknown. In addition, a significant upsurge in the surveillance activity of these craft beginning in May and continuing through the autumn of this year (1952) has caused considerable concern that new developments may be imminent.

 

It is for these reasons, as well as the obvious international and technological considerations and the ultimate need to avoid a public panic at all costs, that the Majestic-12 Group remains of the unanimous opinion that imposition of the strictest security precautions should continue without interruption into the new administration. At the same time, contingency plan MJ-1949-04PP/78 (Top Secret -Eyes Only) should be held in continued readiness should the need to make a public announcement present itself. (See Attachment ‘G’.)"

Other sources and documents indicate that in the late 1940s several different and unusual craft were retrieved from New Mexico and elsewhere not mentioned in the Eisenhower briefing. The description of decayed bodies might have been deliberate misinformation, even for Eisenhower, to avoid having to discuss the dissections and storage of more than one type of being.

A March 22, 1950 Federal Bureau of Investigation Memorandum to FBI Director Hoover said:

"An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. ...the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers."

Radar is a government acronym for Radio Detecting and Ranging which uses various microwave frequencies.
 

1948 – 1998: Chronological Highlights Concerning Unidentified Flying Objects

If a future historian studied world newspapers from the last half of the 20th Century, he or she would find that unusual sky objects referred to as "flying saucers," UFOs or UFOBs (unidentified flying objects) were frequently reported in the United States and around the planet. If that historian also studied U. S. government documents about those UFOBs and its policies of denial and misinformation to keep the public and press ignorant of the facts, a chronological outline after 1947 would include the following highlights.

January 7, Fort Knox, Kentucky — Shortly after noon, the Kentucky State Police received many phone calls from residents in Maysville, Owensboro and Irvington, who reported a high-flying UFO moving west at high speed. The police relayed the information to the control tower of Godman Air Force Base near Fort Knox, Kentucky.

The base commander and a number of other observers watched the object through binoculars. There were different descriptions of the same oddly shaped aerial craft, perhaps from different angles: silvery-white "ice cream cone" tipped with red; conical or teardrop-shaped changing to round; and umbrella-shaped.

A similar craft was described in a 1954 War Department training manual about "Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal" in a section labeled "Description of Craft." (See: 1954 April below.)

At Godman AFB, three P-51s were scrambled to identify the UFO, led by Captain Thomas Mantell. The three planes had no oxygen aboard as they began to climb toward the unidentified craft.

Mantell radioed the tower:

"The object is traveling at half my speed and 12 o’clock high. I’m going to close in right now for a good look. It’s directly ahead of me. The thing looks metallic and of tremendous size. It’s going up now and forward as fast as I am. That’s 360 miles an hour. I’m going up to 20,000 feet, and if I’m no closer, I’ll abandon chase."

Mantell continued to climb, but the other two pilots radioed: "This strange object is too high for us to catch. It’s going too fast." And they turned back. An eyewitness who saw the crash said that Mantell’s P-51 went into a dive and began to disintegrate a few thousand feet above the ground. Mantell was dead amid wreckage spread over a half mile area.

Writer Harold Wilkins in his 1954 book Flying Saucers On The Attack wrote about the Mantell case:

"On the day of the crash, about 5 PM (1700 hours), came a report from an airfield at Columbus, Ohio that a glowing disc was seen hurtling across the sky at an estimated speed of 550 miles an hour. It was white and orange and emitted an exhaust some five times its own length. This was at Lockbourne air base and the observers said the disc was followed from the observation tower for more than twenty minutes. It glowed from white to amber, appeared round or oval, and traveled in level flight. At one time it seemed to ‘motion like an elevator,’ and then appeared ‘to touch the ground.’ No sound was heard from it, and it finally faded and lowered towards the horizon.

"At the Clinton County Army Air Base at Wilmington, Ohio, observers reported: ‘A flaming red cone trailing a gaseous green mist tore through the sky at 7:55 PM (19:55 hours).’

"This apparition looks very much like the machine that over four hours earlier smashed Mantell and his plane. Or, if not, it was one of the same type. At the same control tower, a staff sergeant and corporal saw ‘the red cone maneuvering for thirty-five minutes when it seemed to vanish over the horizon. ...It seemed to hang suspended in the air at intervals. Then it came down (and) then ascended at what looked like a terrific speed. The intense brightness from this phenomenon in the sky pierced through a heavy cloud layer which intermittently passed over the region.’

"It is to be noted that thousands of people witnessed this phenomenon. Now came an amazing fact about the appearance of this phenomenal visitant: It was seen at places set apart by a distance of 180–190 miles and at an immense height. Calculations by radar and the theodolite (small surveying telescope) indicated that in order to be visible to the eye in such circumstances such a stupendous machine must have been well over 500 feet in diameter! ... The answer is that it has been computed by later theodolite observations and mathematical calculations that the length of this colossal cosmic machine that smashed up Mantell and his plane was about 15,000 feet!"

After the terrible crash, rumors spread that Mantell had been shot down by an extraterrestrial spacecraft. But the first U. S. Air Force explanation was that Mantell had been chasing Venus.

Later, the Navy said it had been testing classified Skyhook Balloons used for high-altitude photographic reconnaissance.

The U. S. government’s reliance upon "balloons" to help explain away disc encounters is explained as official policy in the April 1954 War Department training manual about "Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal" in Chapter 3, Recovery Operations, Section I. Security, Topic 12. Press Blackout, Paragraph c. Deceptive Statements:

"It may become necessary to issue false statements to preserve the security of the (extraterrestrial recovery) site. Meteors, downed satellites, weather balloons and military aircraft are all acceptable alternatives..."

January 22, Dayton and Fairborn, Ohio — Creation of Project SIGN, the code name of the first USAF investigation into UFOBs, as the government called them, implemented by the Intelligence Division of the Air Material Command (AMC), Wright Field, Ohio (now known as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). AMC was later renamed the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC).

Its function was to,

"collect, collate, evaluate and distribute to interested government agencies and contractors all information concerning sightings and phenomena in the atmosphere which can be construed to be of concern to the national security."

July 24, 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama — Captain Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted were flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3 from Houston to Atlanta at 2:45 AM when they saw a large red light headed toward them from the east.

The encounter was summarized by USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt (Chief, Project BLUE BOOK, 1951-1953) who wrote in his 1956 book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects:

"The UFO was now almost on top of them. Chiles racked the DC-3 up into a tight left turn. Just as the UFO flashed by about 700 feet to the right, the DC-3 hit turbulent air."

The pilots described the UFO as cigar-shaped with an underside that had a "deep blue glow." There were "two rows of windows from which bright lights glowed," and a "50-foot trail or orange-red flame" shot out the back.

A few days before on July 21, 1948, over The Hague in Holland, Dutch observers also reported a cigar-shaped UFO with two parallel rows of windows.

Ruppelt wrote:

"A few days after the DC-3 was buzzed, the people at ATIC (Project SIGN) decided that the time had arrived to make an ‘Estimate of the Situation.’ The situation was the UFOs; the estimate was that they were interplanetary! ... The document pointed out that the reports hadn’t actually started with the Arnold Incident (near Mt. Rainier, Washington on June 24, 1947). Earlier reports came from a weather observer in Richmond, Virginia who observed a ‘silver disc’ through his theodolite telescope; an F-47 pilot and three pilots in his formation who saw a ‘silver flying wing,’ and the English ‘ghost airplanes’ that had been picked up on radar early in 1947 proved this point."

After the Chiles/Whitted Sighting near Montgomery, Alabama, Project SIGN prepared an "Estimate of the Situation." Classified TOP SECRET, the report concluded that UFOBs were extraterrestrial vehicles. The estimate received considerable attention until it reached Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg who did not like the conclusion and later had the report destroyed.

General Vandenberg did not explain that he was a member of the TOP SECRET Research and Development/Intelligence operation known as Majestic-12 appointed by President Truman in the summer of 1947 in which it was agreed that,

"imposition of the strictest security precautions should continue without interruption into the new administration."

Translation: no one outside Truman and MJ-12 were to know that extraterrestrial entities in very advanced craft were interacting with earth.

After General Vandenberg destroyed SIGN’s "Estimate of the Situation," the USAF changed SIGN to Project GRUDGE on February 11, 1949.

A final Project SIGN report reflected the tension between the extraterrestrial "estimate" and Gen. Vandenberg’s rejection of that assessment:

"No definite and conclusive evidence is yet available that would prove or disprove the existence of these unidentified objects as real aircraft of unknown or unconventional configuration. It is unlikely that positive proof of their existence will be obtained without examination of the remains of crashed objects. Proof of non-existence is equally impossible to obtain unless a reasonable and convincing explanation is determined for each incident."

October 1, Fargo, North Dakota — It was 9:00 PM when 25-year-old 2nd Lt. George F. Gorman in the North Dakota Air National Guard wanted to land his F-51. The control tower told Gorman that a Piper Cub was close by and he saw the small airplane below him. At the same time, a light passed on his right. The tower had nothing on radar. Gorman was curious and closed in on the light to what he estimated was a thousand yards. The light was blinking on and off and Gorman thought it was six to eight inches in diameter. He could not see any other shape around the light.

Captain Ruppelt summarized what happened next:

"Suddenly the light became steady as it apparently put on power; it pulled into a sharp left bank and made a pass at the tower. The light zoomed up with the F-51 in hot pursuit. At 7,000 feet, it made a turn. Gorman followed and tried to cut inside the light’s turn to get closer to it, but he couldn’t do it."

Then the light turned on Gorman and came straight on a collision course. Gorman dived and the,

"UFO passed over the ‘51 canopy with only a few feet to spare. Again, both the F-51 and the object turned and closed on each other head on, and again the pilot had to dive out to prevent a collision. All of a sudden the light began to climb and disappeared."

Gorman told ATIC investigators, "I had the distinct impression that its maneuvers were controlled by thought or reason." Project SIGN investigators went over Gorman’s plane with a Geiger counter and found it was more radioactive than a similar airplane used for comparison.

February 11 -Project SIGN was re-named Project GRUDGE. Despite General Vandenberg’s deliberate interference with SIGN’s estimate that discs were extraterrestrial, and perhaps due to the Mantell crash and the Gorman "dog fight" with the light over Fargo, someone in government wanted the Air Force to control UFO investigations. But, clearly a policy decision had been made to use misinformation and ridicule to keep the public and media out of the loop. Consequently, Project GRUDGE seemed to publicly concentrate on the people who reported UFOBs in an apparent effort to neutralize public interest by forcing eyewitnesses to accept natural explanations.

Yet, even Project GRUDGE’s final report conceded that 23% of its 244 cases were unidentified. However, GRUDGE implied that all those unidentified cases might be due to mental problems:

"There are sufficient psychological explanations for the reports of unidentified flying objects to provide plausible explanations for reports not otherwise explainable."

The report concluded that the investigation of UFOs should be reduced in scope so that only those reports "clearly indicating realistic technical applications" would be submitted to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) and ultimately and secretly to MJ-12. It did however, suggest that the Psychological Warfare Division be informed since mass hysteria could ensue if Cold War enemies placed aerial objects over the United States and started rumors that they were alien craft.

It was also decided that government investigations gave UFOs too much credibility, so the USAF issued a press release on Dec. 27, 1949 announcing the termination of Project GRUDGE only ten months after its start. However, the organization continued to operate quietly, its data remained classified, and GRUDGE was reassigned to USAF Capt. Edward Ruppelt in September 1951.

May 22, Bethesda, Maryland — First U. S. Secretary of Defense, James Vincent Forrestal, fell through a plate glass window four stories to his death at the U. S. Naval Hospital.

He had become America’s first Secretary of Defense with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947 which President Harry S. Truman signed in July. Forrestal resigned effective March 28, 1949 after two years of a deteriorating mental condition. Navy doctors said Forrestal suffered from,

"a severe depression of the type seen in operational fatigue during the war."

What exactly provoked the Secretary to plunge through the glass window to his death is still a mystery, but there has been speculation that it had something to do with the government’s secrets about alien life forms.

January 29, South Table Mountain, Colorado — An eyewitness reported a silvery-green oval disc hovered about fifty feet above a hill and then landed slowly in a ravine. Its diameter was about sixty feet and a band around the middle revolved. After a green light flashed beneath the landed disc, it shot upward at very high speed leaving behind a pungent smell.

March 18, Lago Argentino, Argentina — A rancher watched two objects come out of the sky and land. He walked to within about four hundred feet of the silver craft which gave off a greenish-blue vapor and "an intense smell of burning benzine." A large, flat section on top was revolving above a transparent cabin in which he could see four tall men working at instruments. The men looked at the rancher and shone a light in his direction at the same time a blue light illuminated the craft. The vapor increased and "flames" that alternated red and green came out of the craft’s base. Then the craft rose with a faint hum and flew off leaving bluish trails.

May 11, McMinnville, Oregon — Paul and Evelyn Trent watched and photographed a disc at about 8 PM over their home.

"The object was coming in toward us," Evelyn Trent said, "and seemed to be tipped up a bit. It was very bright — almost silvery — and there was no noise or smoke."

Paul Trent said he took the first photograph, re-wound his film, and the round craft accelerated toward the northwest as he took a second photograph. Both frames were snapped within thirty seconds. The couple could not guess size, speed or distance, but Paul Trent said, "It was moving awfully fast." After considerable government and civilian testing, the Trent images are considered to be authentic photographs.

August 15, Great Falls, Montana — Nicholas Mariana, General Manager of the Great Falls baseball team, photographed two silver discs through a telephoto lens he had on his 16mm movie camera. While he filmed for about twenty seconds, his secretary also watched. The developed film showed two circles of bright light. In October 1950, the U. S. Air Force looked at the film and dismissed it as "too dark" to distinguish recognizable objects.

Mariana was outraged when he received the film back and insisted that about 35 frames were missing which most clearly showed the discs spinning. Public controversy raged for years while behind the scenes the Air Force actions were consistent with the MJ-12 policy of secrecy and denial to protect national security.
 

1951

Winter, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Kenya, Africa — Crew of a British airliner reported a "bullet-shaped, metallic" object "vertically marked on sides." There was a large "fin" at the "rear." The bullet object glowed brightly with a colored radiance and seemed to rapidly whirl on itself. The craft hung in the air motionless for seventeen minutes above Mt. Kilimanjaro’s 19,710 feet mountain top as the crew watched it through binoculars. Then the craft rose higher to 40,000 feet, paused and kept rising vertically until it was out of sight.

June 19, 1951, Sonderborg, Denmark — A mechanic heard a whistling sound and saw a craft land in a meadow. He approached the object to within 150 feet and found himself paralyzed. He also noticed the birds stopped singing and the cows weren’t moving either. Four brown-skinned men emerged from the craft wearing black shiny suits and see-through helmets. Eight smaller objects also came out of the craft and hovered above it. The men seemed to make repairs on the craft’s deck.

Then the machine flew up to about 300 feet, hesitated, and then rose rapidly out of sight. Only then could the mechanic move again.
 

1952

March — USAF Captain Edward Ruppelt had quietly continued Project GRUDGE investigations after its official demise. Then, in March 1952, the Air Force changed GRUDGE to a more public Project BLUE BOOK which again emphasized natural explanations for the public, while the genuine and secret analyses of photographs, films, drawings and eyewitness interviews from around the world were carried out by secret intelligence units.

June 21, Oak Ridge Laboratory, Tennessee — Operated by the Atomic Energy Commission and so sensitive that air traffic above the lab was prohibited. However, a Ground Observer Corps (GOC) spotter reported a slow-moving light over the lab. An F-47 on combat air patrol followed the light between 10,000 and 27,000 feet. The pilot said he could not see any silhouette around the white light which he estimated to be six to eight inches in diameter and blinked on and off. At times, the light would go steady as if increasing in power and come straight at the F-47, reminiscent of the Gorman case over Fargo, North Dakota in 1948.

July 2, Tremonton, Utah — Naval Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse, his wife and two children were driving on a highway near Tremonton around 11 AM when they saw a dozen objects moving in the sky. Newhouse was an experienced photographer who had worked more than a thousand hours on aerial photograph missions and twenty-two hundred hours as chief photographer.

He had a Bell and Howell 16mm movie camera in his car trunk. Using a three-inch telescopic lens, he shot about 40 feet of color film of the aerial objects before they disappeared. He described them as flat and circular "like two pie pans, one inverted on top of the other."

The public side of the Air Force’s Project BLUE BOOK reported the objects were probably "a flock of birds." Meanwhile, the Naval Photographic Interpretation Laboratory was conducting a frame-by-frame evaluation. After studying the film for a total of one thousand hours, Naval analysts concluded that the objects glowed, were under intelligent control, and were not birds, balloons, or aircraft.

In 1976, the Tremonton film was subjected to computer image processing by a civilian group known as Ground Saucer Watch (GSW). The UFOs were calculated to be about five to seven miles from the observer; were 50-foot diameter discs that were thicker in the middle than at the edges; and traveled in a controlled formation.

July 19-20, Washington, D. C. — Between 11:40 PM on the 19th and 5 AM on the 20th, two radarscopes at Washington National Airport picked up eight unidentified targets moving 100 to 300 mph and violating the restricted air space above the White House and the Capitol. Erratically, the objects would suddenly accelerate at high speeds and stop in the air. Numerous airline crews also reported strange lights that moved up, down and sideways which correlated with erratically moving radar blips.

Radar controllers at Andrews AFB also tracked the unidentified targets and at one point visually saw a huge, fiery red-orange sphere. Jet fighters arrived around 3:30 AM and the UFOs disappeared, only to reappear after the jets left.

The same thing happened one week later over the Capitol at 9 PM on July 26, 1952. Four to twelve UFOs were tracked on radar at various times. Into the next day, July 27, at 2 AM, USAF interceptors were scrambled. Although the UFOs had been present for several hours, they disappeared just as the two jets appeared on the radar screens. After about ten minutes, the aircraft were sent back to Wilmington, Delaware. At the exact moment the interceptors disappeared from the radarscopes, the UFOs reappeared.

At 3 AM, more jet interceptors took off from Wilmington. About twenty minutes later, Washington radar operators had them on their scopes. This time the UFOs remained visible on radar as well. One of the pilots said the blue-white lights were extremely bright as they formed a ring around him. The frightened pilot asked what he should do, but the radar control room had no answer. Then the lights moved away. Unidentified targets were tracked on radar until dawn.

On July 28, 1952, the New York Times headlined "‘Objects’ Outstrip Jets Over Capital – Spotted Second Time in Week by Radar, but Interceptors Fail to Make Contact."

Under pressure from the news media, the Air Force held a press conference on July 29, 1952. Major General John Samford, Chief of Air Force Intelligence, explained that the unknown targets observed over Washington were the result of "temperature inversions." The media accepted that government explanation without much criticism. But the press was not told that the chief radar controller confirmed the UFOs made strong and bright radar blips consistent with solid moving objects, not the diffuse and shapeless blobs produced by temperature inversions.

Later, Project BLUE BOOK’s spokesman, Albert Chop, who had been an eyewitness during the Washington UFO flyovers, also rejected the temperature inversion explanation. Further, in contradiction to Major General Samford, Project BLUE BOOK classified the objects as "unknown."

September 24, Cuba — A Navy pilot was making practice passes for night fighters when he saw an unusual orange light. Immediately after he landed, he filed this report:

"As the light approached the city from the east, it started a left turn. I started to intercept. During the first part of the chase, the closest I got to the light was 8 to 10 miles. At this time, it appeared to be as large as an SNJ and had a greenish tail that looked to be five to six times as long as the light’s diameter. This tail was seen several times in the next ten minutes in periods of (about) 5 to 30 seconds each. As I reached 10,000 feet, it appeared to be at 15,000 feet and in a left turn. It took 40 degrees of bank to keep the nose of my plane on the light. At this time, I estimated the light to be in a 10 to 15 mile orbit.

"At 12,000 feet I stopped climbing, but the light was still climbing faster than I was. I then reversed my turn from left to right and the light also reversed. As I was not gaining distance, I held a steady course south trying to estimate a perpendicular between the light and myself. The light was moving north, so I turned north. As I turned, the light appeared to move west, then south over the base. I again tried to intercept, but the light appeared to climb rapidly at a 60-degree angle. It climbed to 35,000 feet, then started a rapid descent.

"Prior to this, while the light was still at approximately 15,000 feet, I deliberately placed it between the moon and myself three times to try to identify a solid body. I and my two crewmen all had a good view of the light as it passed the moon. We could see no solid body. We considered the fact that it might be an aerologist’s balloon, but we did not see a silhouette. Also, we would have rapidly caught up with and passed a balloon.

"During its descent, the light appeared to slow down at about 10,000 feet, at which time I made three runs on it. Two were on a 90-degree collision course and the light traveled at tremendous speed across my bow. On the third run, I was so close that the light blanked out the airfield below me. Suddenly it started a dive and I followed, losing it at 1,500 feet."

November 2, New Mexico and Arizona — During 1952, many airmen and scientists saw mysterious, bright green fireballs light up night skies, continuing a trend that had begun in 1948 when green fireballs were reported throughout the southwestern United States, extended to the eastern U. S. in 1950, and seemed concentrated again in New Mexico and Arizona in 1951 and following years.

On November 2, 1952, a green ball larger and brighter than a full moon "exploded in a tremendous paroxysm of light, with no sound" over New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz, a world authority on meteorites and Director of the University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics, had been consulting with intelligence officers at Kirtland AFB about what the green fireballs might be. Back at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, ATIC’s main interest was to see if the green fireballs were focused most in New Mexico where many of America’s most sensitive radar and missile testing facilities were. ATIC also wanted to know if the green fireballs had something to do with the UFOB phenomenon.

Dr. La Paz said the green fireballs were not electrostatic phenomena and were not meteorites because the trajectory was too flat, the color was too green and he couldn’t find any fragments on the ground, even though he had found spots where the trajectory should have hit the earth if they were meteorites.

November 4, Washington, D. C. — President Harry S. Truman abolished the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFS) and created the National Security Agency (NSA). NSA reports to the Secretary of Defense who sits on the National Security Council (NSC). The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) serves the NSC. Some government insiders assert that Truman’s Majestic-12 Special Studies Group and its successors over the years have reported about disc and extraterrestrial biological entities directly to the National Security Council, or some related subsection of officials who are not elected or appointed and who have more permanent, classified continuity.

December 10, Richland, Washington — At the Atomic Energy Commission’s Hanford nuclear plant, a pilot of a patrolling F-94 spotted a light while flying at 26,000 feet, but ground radar saw nothing. The pilot closed on the object which he described as a large, round, white "thing" with a dim reddish light coming from two "windows." After the pilot lost visual contact, he got a radar lock-on. When the F-94 attempted to close on the object again, it would reverse direction and dive away. Several times the jet altered course because collision with the round light seemed imminent.

January — A small group of five eminent scientists were brought together by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to study UFO reports and to determine whether the phenomenon was a threat to U. S. national security.

The Robertson Panel was named after its chairman, H. P. Robertson. A mathematician and physicist, Robertson was also Director of the Weapons System Evaluation Group in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and was on the CIA payroll. Other Robertson Panel members included physicist and Noble Prize-winner Luis W. Alvarez; geophysicist and radar specialist Lloyd F. Berkner, who was one of the directors of the Brookhaven National Laboratories in Long Island, New York; physicist Samuel Goudsmit, who was on the Brookhaven Lab staff; and astronomer and astrophysicist Thornton Page, who was Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins University Operations Research Office.

In addition to the five panel members, other unofficial participants included astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who was a consultant to the USAF; army ordnance test station director Frederick C. Durant, who served as reporter for the panel; and Commanding General of the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), William M. Garland.

The CIA was represented by Asst. Dir. of the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) H. Marshall Chadwell, Deputy Assistant Director of the OSI Ralph L. Clark and CIA agent Philip G. Strong. Also present were Air Force officers Edward Ruppelt and Dewey Fournet and Navy Photo Interpretation Laboratory representatives R. S. Neasham and Harry Woo.

Over three days, the panel examined selected cases from Project BLUE BOOK files and screened the 1952 Tremonton, Utah and 1950 Great Falls, Montana 16mm films of aerial discs. On the fourth day, the five scientists discussed tentative conclusions and recommendations and commissioned Robertson to draft a report which they edited.

The panel concluded that there was no evidence of a direct physical threat to national security and that the "continued emphasis on the reporting of these phenomena, in these parlous times, results in a threat to the orderly functioning of the protective organs of the body politic." The Robertson Panel therefore recommended:

"a. That the national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired; and

"b. That the national security agencies institute policies on intelligence, training and public education designed to prepare the material defenses and the morale of the country to recognize most promptly and to react most effectively to true indications of hostile intent or action."

The panel proposed a public education program to train people to identify correctly-known objects and suggested that the Air Force continue BLUE BOOK with an emphasis on convincing the public there was nothing unusual in the skies.

Astronomer J. Allen Hynek, not officially a panel member, was not asked to sign the report with which he disagreed anyway. He thought it unreasonable to write a conclusion about UFOs in four days when he himself had spent more than four years in the field and did not understand the phenomenon. Sixteen years later in December 1974, the CIA finally declassified the report and made copies available.

November 23, Lake Superior, Michigan — An F-89 jet from Kinross AFB in Michigan was asked to investigate an unidentified radar blip. As Air Defense operators watched their radar scopes, the UFO blip suddenly merged with the F-89 blip.

A USAF report said,

"The plane was followed by radar until it merged with an object 70 miles off Keweenaw Point in upper Michigan. Kinross AFB spokesmen said the missing plane was equipped with two rubber rafts and that each officer wore a life jacket. One official said, "It seems incredible, but the blip apparently just swallowed our F-89. ...No trace was ever found of the missing men, the F-89 or the UFO." Even the Chicago Tribune headlined "Jet, Two Aboard, Vanishes Over Lake Superior."

August 21, Hopkinsville, Kentucky — At about 7 PM, teenager Billy Ray Sutton told his family he watched a large, bright object land a few hundred feet from the well outside the house. About an hour later, a dog started barking. The family saw a creature about four feet tall with long arms raised over its round head. Its ears were enormous and pointed. The eyes were large, round and glowing yellow.

When the creature was about twenty feet away, two of the men shot at it with a gun. Seemingly unharmed, the creature turned over in a somersault and ran off. Then a second creature appeared at a window. One of the men shot right through the screen and assumed a direct hit. But when he went out to see if the creature was dead, a claw-like hand reached down at him from the roof. Another entity was on a tree branch. The men fired at both creatures. The bullets seemed to ricochet off as if the creatures were covered with invisible armor. The creature in the tree floated to the ground and ran away.

At about 11 PM, the frightened family left the house and drove in panic to the Hopkinsville police station. State, county and city police drove to the farmhouse. On the way, one of the officers saw what he later described as a strange shower of meteors coming from the direction of the Sutton homestead and two passed overhead with a loud swishing sound. At the farmhouse, the police could not find any humanoids or landed craft.

This case was classified as unidentified by Project BLUE BOOK.
 

1956

April 8, Elboeuf, France — Two brothers and three other witnesses saw an aerial object about twenty-five feet in diameter that glowed yellow-orange with a red dome and rotating fins underneath. The red ball came down from the sky and hovered at tree height and then left at high speed.

July 20, Panorama City, California — Three witnesses described a huge, ball-shaped object. Out of it came three beings nearly seven feet tall. Each had long, blond hair and wore tight, green suits.
 

1957

July 30, Galt, Ontario, Canada — A man saw a flash of light in the sky and a circular object making a whirring sound landed surrounded by "flames." The disc appeared to have a spinning outer section that moved around a stationary central dome. After thirty minutes, the disc took off leaving the ground blackened and branches broken.

September 14, Ubatuba, Sau Palo, Brazil — Eyewitnesses saw a "flying disc" explode into thousands of fiery fragments which fell onto the beach and sea. The metal tested as nearly 100% pure magnesium and was 6.7% heavier than ordinary pure magnesium. Former NASA scientist Paul Hill calculated that the density anomaly could be explained if the metal were the pure isotope 26Magnesium not found naturally on earth.

October 15, Francisco de Sales, Brazil — Antonio Villas Boas, a 23-year-old farmer was plowing with his tractor at 1 AM. He saw a "red star in the sky" that became,

"a very luminous, egg-shaped object, flying towards me at a terrific speed. ...Then it began to drop towards the ground very slowly. ...it was a strange machine, rather rounded in shape and surrounded by little purplish lights and with an enormous red headlight in front..."

The deposition by Boas given to journalist Joao Martins was translated by Gordon Creighton, Editor of Flying Saucer Review in England.

"I could see the shape of the machine clearly, which was like a large elongated egg with three metal spurs in front (one in the middle and one on each side). They were three metal shafts, thick at the bases and pointed at the tips. I could not distinguish their colour, for they were enveloped by a powerful reddish phosphorescence (or fluorescent light, like that of a luminous sign) of the same shade as the front headlight. On the upper part of the machine there was something which was revolving at great speed and also giving off a powerful fluorescent reddish light. At the moment when the machine reduced speed to land, this light changed to a greenish colour, which corresponded to a diminution in the speed of rotation of that revolving part, which at this point seemed to be taking on the shape of a round dish or a flattened cupola" that never stopped turning even when the craft was still."

This early abduction case was also detailed Boas’s encounters with beings which took him into the disc where the agenda was to make Boas have sexual intercourse with a female.

"Her hair was fair, almost white (like hair bleached with peroxide), smooth, not very abundant, reaching to half way down her neck and with the ends curling inwards; and parted in the centre. Her eyes were large and blue, more elongated than round, being slanted outwards." After the intercourse, Boas said, "That was what they wanted of me — a good stallion to improve their own stock."

November — After the launch of the Russian Sputnik satellites in October 1957, disc sightings increased worldwide. The U. S. Army even admitted that a huge, oval object ‘nearly as bright as the sun’ was spotted on November 3 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

The bright oval hovered near bunkers used in the first atom bomb explosion on July 16, 1945. Two different military police patrols saw the bright object. Two days later at 5:21 AM on November 5, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sebago in the Gulf of Mexico reported a bright light that circled above the ship at speeds up to 1,000 mph. The object was tracked on the ship’s radar for twenty-seven minutes.

Reports of unusual aerial craft also came from Australia, France, Great Britain, Egypt, Japan and other countries.
 

1958

January 16, Trindade Island, Brazil — The Brazilian Navy training ship, Almirante Saldanha, had been converted into a floating laboratory to carry out research for the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The ship was preparing to leave Trindade Island on its return trip to Rio de Janeiro on January 16, 1958. On board was a civilian group of submarine explorers, including professional marine photographer Almiro Barauna.

Around noon, a disk was seen in the sky and one of the crew yelled, "Flying saucer!" Barauna photographed while a hundred officers and crewmen on deck watched the glowing, flattened sphere. Its center was encircled by a large ring or platform similar in shape to the planet Saturn. Barauna took six shots of the craft as it moved back and forth by a nearby mountain for about twenty seconds. Then the craft sped away and disappeared in the distance. Barauna developed the film in a dark room on board. Four of the six exposures showed the strange aerial disc.

When Barauna reached Rio de Janeiro, he made prints and turned them over, together with the negatives, to the Brazilian Navy. They were analyzed by both the Navy Photo Reconnaissance Laboratory and the Cruzeiro do Sul Aero-photogrammetric Service, both of which agreed the photographs were authentic.

For several weeks, the incident was kept secret. However, when the prints were taken to the President of Brazil, he released them to the public personally vouching for their authenticity. They were published in Brazilian newspapers on February 21, 1958, five weeks after they had been taken. But, when the pictures were televised in the United States, USAF investigators declared them to be fakes.

That public dismissal was consistent with Majestic-12’s official policy of cover-up and denial of an extraterrestrial presence in the interest of maintaining United States national security.
 

1959

January, Stratford-on-Avon, England — Flying Saucer Review reported that a man watched a fiery, round object come out of the sky and land about three hundred feet away. While a blue haze formed, three figures emerged from the round craft and moved clumsily. The eyewitness said he was unable to move until the craft and its occupants took off again rapidly leaving a glittering trail.

May 20, Tres Lomas, Argentina — Two hunters saw a silver-colored, disc-shaped object with a dome on top resting on the ground about 450 feet away. After it took off, the grass was flattened.

June 26, Boianai, Papua, New Guinea — Many mysterious sky craft had been seen over Papua in 1959. Reverend William Booth Gill, an Anglican priest and graduate of Brisbane University, was in charge of the Boianai mission station. Rev. Gill was looking at the planet Venus around 6:45 PM and saw another sparkling object that moved toward him. He yelled and thirty-seven other people at the mission joined Gill to watch the round UFO. The glowing craft came down to about 500 feet and the eyewitnesses could see its large base and a smaller "upper deck." Four legs protruded from the base and a thin shaft of blue light occasionally beamed upward from the center of the upper deck at a 45 degree angle. Four "men" appeared to be working outside on top of the craft.

At 7:20 PM, the UFO rose through the cloud covering which Gill estimated to be about 2,000 feet. An hour later, the round machine reappeared and descended again. This time, it hovered at a slightly lower altitude. Three more discs appeared, moving up and down through the clouds. The first object, which Gill called the "mother ship," remained stationary for a short time before moving through the clouds and out to sea.

he next night at about 6 PM in a twilight sky, the craft came back and repeated their odd maneuvers. This time the larger disc descended to an altitude of about 400 feet. Two smaller discs remained above. Noticing that one of the occupants seemed to be staring down, Rev. Gill waved. To everyone’s amazement, the figure waved back. A Papuan worker waved his arms. Two figures on the craft each raised their arms. Gill used a flashlight to send signals to the humanoids and saw the craft swing back and forth as if in reply. At

6:30 PM, Gill went to dinner. A half-hour later, the large craft was still there, but the smaller discs had disappeared. All the observers went to church for evening services.

The third night on June 28, only one object hovered at low altitude and no crew members were seen.

April 8, Ithaca, New York and Green Bank, West Virginia — Astronomer Frank Drake at Cornell University created and directed Project Ozma, the earliest effort in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Radio telescopes at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia were aimed at Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. Those two yellow sequence stars both lie within eleven light years of our solar system and resemble our own sun in age and type. Thus, the greater likelihood those suns might have planets like our own solar system.

When the receiver was first focused on Epsilon Eridani, a very strong signal was detected. There was great excitement in the control room. However, the mysterious pulse was later attributed by government officials to an Earth-based signal related to a secret military experiment. Or was that more calculated intelligence misinformation? That suspicion was raised by UFO investigators when Project Ozma was ended only three months later in July 1960. Later, Dr. Drake collaborated with Green Bank Observatory Director, Otto Struve, to announce the "Green Bank Formula":

This equation purports to yield the number N of technically advanced civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy as a function of other astronomical, biological and psychological factors. If it is assumed that one percent of civilizations learn to live with the technology of mass destruction and themselves, then N = 1,000,000 planets and the nearest advanced civilization would be on average a few hundred light-years away from earth.

September 23, Labrador — A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with lighted portholes flew from the sky to the ocean surface and then descended straight down into the water off Labrador’s north coast.

November 13, La Londe, France — A man woke up when a green light brightened his bedroom. He went to the window and saw a bright, round object about 18 feet in diameter at the railroad tracks 900 feet away.

The craft was on tripod legs and emitted orange flashes. A dome on top started spinning, the tripod retracted and the round object rose silently straight up above the trees and sped out of sight.

Washington, D. C., Pentagon — Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso was assigned to be Chief of the Army’s Foreign Technology Division in 1961 under the direction of General Arthur Trudeau, Head of Army Research and Development in the Pentagon.

In his 1997 book The Day After Roswell, Lt. Col. Corso described how General Trudeau ordered him to take unknown technologies that had been retrieved from extraterrestrial craft and stored in Pentagon file cabinets and to get those technologies into U. S. aerospace and other private industry research and development.

The goal, General Trudeau said, was to keep the advanced technologies out of the hands of Cold War enemies and all the spies that had infiltrated the Central Intelligence Agency.

On Page 115, Col. Corso states:

"Among the Roswell artifacts and questions and issues that arose from the Roswell crash, on my preliminary list that needed resolution for development scheduling or simple inquiries to our military scientific community were:

Image intensifiers, which ultimately became ‘night vision’ Fiber optics Supertenacity fibers Lasers Molecular alignment metallic alloys Integrated circuits and microminiaturization of logic boards HARP (High Altitude Research Project) Project Horizon (moon base) Portable atomic generators (ion propulsion drive) Irradiated food "Third brain" guidance systems (EBE headbands) Particle beams ("Star Wars" antimissile energy weapons)Electromagnetic propulsion systems Depleted uranium projectiles"

Continuing on Page 116, Col. Corso wrote:

"General Trudeau also had relationships with the army contractors who were developing new weapons systems for the military within one part of the company while another part was harvesting some of the same technology for consumer products development. These were (such) companies (as) — Bell Labs, IBM, Monsanto, Dow, General Electric and Hughes — that General Trudeau wanted to talk to about the list of technological products that we’d compiled from our R&D Roswell file."

September 19 — Betty and Barney Hill were driving toward their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire from Canada through the White Mountains after a vacation. Betty noticed a light in the sky that was big, bright and moving. She looked at it through binoculars and saw a disc from which "slowly, a red light came out on the left side of the object, followed by a similar one on the right."

Barney Hill stopped the car, took the binoculars and got out to look at the,

"large glowing pancake ... as wide in diameter as the distance between three telephone poles along the road," as Barney later described it. He could see multi-colored lights around the periphery that changed to white. The craft swung in a silent arc directly across the road, not more than a hundred feet from him."

He could see a double row of windows.

"Behind the clearly structured windows, he could see the figures, at least half a dozen living beings. They seemed to be bracing themselves against the transparent windows, as the craft tilted down toward (Barney’s) direction. They were, as a group, staring directly at (Barney.) He became vaguely aware that they were wearing uniforms."

Barney sharpened the focus of the binoculars on one face and saw eyes he had never seen before that terrified him. He ran back to the car and drove away in a panic.

"Suddenly a strange electronic-sounding beeping was heard. The car seemed to vibrate with it. It was in irregular rhythm — beep, beep — beep, beep, beep — seeming to come from behind the car in the direction of the trunk. ...(Betty and Barney) each began to feel an odd tingling drowsiness came over them."

When the couple next became conscious, they were still driving in the car but now it was dawn near Concord and both their wrist watches had stopped running. They were two hours behind schedule and had no idea what happened.

The following day, Barney felt an unexplained soreness on the back of his neck and noticed that his shoes had become scuffed on the tops of the toes. Later, Barney found a ring of warts around his penis and testicles. Betty discovered round, shiny spots on the paint of the car’s trunk.

Ten days later, Betty began to have a series of vivid dreams in which she and Barney were taken aboard a flying saucer and medically examined by beings:

"Most of the (beings) are my height ... about five feet to five feet four inches. Their chests are larger than ours; their noses were larger (longer) than the average size although I have seen people with noses like theirs — like Jimmy Durante.

"Their complexions were of a gray tone; like a gray paint with a black base; their lips were of a bluish tint. Hair and eyes were very dark, possibly black. The dreams continued for five successive nights."

Betty was obsessed about being exposed to radiation and contacted Pease AFB in Portsmouth, a SAC installation that had received many UFO reports in 1961. The Hills story began to seep out and eventually UFO investigators suggested that the Hills try hypnosis to find out what happened during those two missing hours.
 

1962

June 26, Verona, Italy — A family of three watched a silver disc the size of a full moon maneuver in the sky near Santa Anastasia church. Later that night, one of them was awakened by intense cold and green light in the room. In the window was a translucent, but sharply defined humanoid body that had a huge, hairless head. The eyewitness screamed and the entity shrank and vanished "like a TV image when one turns off the set."

August 20, Duas Pontes, Brazil — A man told police he saw two spherical objects hovering six feet above ground a few meters from his house. One disc was black with an antenna and a small tail. The other disc was black and white. Both emitted a humming sound and what looked like flickering fire through an opening. The two spheres merged into one, raising dust from the ground while an acrid-smelling yellow mist spread out and enveloped the man.

Then the merged craft vanished.
 

1963

January 4, Rome, Italy — A well-known psychiatrist saw an object on the ground in a deserted city park. It was a fifteen foot-long cylinder with a dome on top and a thick ring surrounded the cylinder. Along the side were a series of round apertures. The cylinder was about three feet above the ground supported on tripod legs. Suddenly the ring started spinning rapidly and a gust of air was felt as the craft rose a few feet above ground and then disappeared in a split second.

February 20, Lecce, Italy — A young man watched through binoculars as a disc spun slowly and almost stationary about fifteen hundred feet from him. The disc had a central upper dome that glowed brighter than the craft’s overall yellow-red halo. The eyewitness saw a "particle" (possibly smaller craft) leave the disc, after which the craft stopped spinning, gained altitude with a vertical shifting and left toward the northeast.

March 13, Richards Bay, South Africa — Fred White was fishing when he heard a high-pitched whine coming from the east and saw an object come in his direction and land about 50 feet away, scattering sand. It was at least 60 feet in diameter and was shaped like two plates glued together. Through several oval portholes, White could see light inside. A man with a fair complexion, wearing a metallic helmet, looked at the witness. He wore a sky-blue, one-piece coverall with no visible buttons or fasteners and his hands were covered by shiny mesh gloves. About six minutes later, the craft took off in a gust of warm air and caused static on White’s radio.

December — Betty Hill accompanied her husband, Barney, on his first visit to eminent Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon. It quickly became apparent to Simon that both Barney and Betty needed treatment. There followed a series of visits during which husband and wife independently underwent hypnotic regressions. Separately, each recounted a story of being taken aboard a spacecraft shortly after the first set of beeps.

Barney had kept his eyes closed during most of the experience, but Betty recalled seeing his feet dragging over the ground as the beings took them into the disc. That explained his scuffed shoe tops. The couple said the large-eyed humanoid aliens communicated telepathically. In Betty’s repeated dreams right after the encounter, she remembered a huge "Jimmy Durante" nose on one or more of the beings. But the hypnosis description did not emphasize a large nose. Betty remembered the mouth was a straight slit.

The Hills were given medical examinations in separate rooms. At one point, Barney was aware of a circular instrument placed around his groin which seemed to connect to the ring of warts that had grown around his genitals. During Betty’s examination, a long needle was inserted in her navel. She was told it was a pregnancy test. Amniocentesis was not widely used until the mid to late 1960s

Afterwards, she was shown a "star map" of glowing dots joined by lines which the "alien leader" said were travel and trade routes. Betty said the beings insisted she would not remember her experience, but she was determined that she would. The couple were returned to their car, the craft increased in brilliance and resembled a glowing orange ball as it left.

Most of the details of Barney’s experience were described in Betty’s account, but her account contained many details not included in Barney’s. Dr. Simon’s opinion was that the couple "had suffered severe anxiety reactions after an experience with a UFO" and the Hills’ medical insurance claim was paid based on Dr. Simon’s assessment.

April 24, Socorro, New Mexico — Deputy Marshal Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeding motorist on the outskirts of town at approximately 5:45 PM. Suddenly, he heard a roar and saw a blue and orange flame in the sky about a mile to the southwest. Zamora turned his patrol car toward the "fire" and drove over rough terrain. He got within 800 feet of an object that was a metallic shiny-white and looked like an egg standing up vertically. At first, Zamora thought the object was a crashed car standing on end. Then, he noticed two small people in white coveralls beside the object.

Zamora drove forward to about 100 feet from the object. The white-suited figures were no longer visible. As he stepped out of his car and walked toward the "egg," he could see that it was standing on legs. Zamora could see a red colored insignia on the side of the craft that was about 2 1/2 feet wide composed of an arrow tip pointed straight up inside an arc placed slightly above a horizontal straight line. Suddenly, there was a loud roar and Zamora ran to take cover behind his car. The craft began to rise slowly, emitting a light-blue and orange flame. Zamora kept on running away until the roar stopped. When he turned around, the white "egg" was rising slowly and then moved with great speed into the distance.

Zamora was joined by Sergeant Sam Chavez. They examined the site and found burned brush and four depressions in the ground considered to have been made by landing pads. The case was investigated by numerous civilian organizations, journalists, the US Air Force and an agent from the FBI who was in Chavez’s office at the time.

Astronomer J. Allen Hynek investigated in his official capacity as consultant to the Air Force. He told the news media it was one of the best substantiated reports. Hynek also told Project BLUE BOOK Major Hector Quintanilla that UFO organizations might use the case to obtain a long-sought Congressional investigation of the UFO situation.

Quintanilla contacted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and fifteen industrial firms to find out if they were conducting any experiments with lunar landers near Socorro. The reply in each case was negative. This landing, trace and entity case was listed as "unidentified" in BLUE BOOK files.

According to Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Special Agent Richard C. Doty, the "egg-shaped" craft that Lonnie Zamora saw was an "extraterrestrial biological entity" or EBEN vehicle on its way to an official meeting arranged through the MJ-12 group.

Doty told me on April 9, 1983 at the AFOSI office inside Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

"Remember Lonnie Zamora? (The craft) came down around 6 PM on April 24, 1964, right? Well, it was a mistake. We, or they ... someone blew the time and coordinates. That was an advance military scout ship. We got it corrected and they came back to where they were supposed to be at Holloman AFB the next morning at 6 AM, April 25, 1964." Later, I also learned that the meeting between U. S. officials and Ebens who came in three egg-shaped discs took place east of the Trinity Site (first atomic bomb explosion) near Red Canyon in the northeast corner of the White Sands Missile Range.

 

At this meeting, other sources who have seen 16mm film of the event say there was also a being who had a very large Arabic-style nose, wore Egyptian-looking armor and a high-peaked helmet and who stood silently behind the Ebens holding a rod in its left hand.

 

"After the Ebens landed in one of their egg-shaped ships, they had devices that looked like large wands. A wand was handed to our commander. When he spoke into the wand, the Eben language came out in another wand held by one of the Ebens. When the Eben spoke into his wand, English words came out of the and the commander was holding, sort of like a loud speaker."
 

1965

January 11, Washington, D. C. — Six Army Signal Corps engineers stood at windows in the Munitions Building in downtown Washington and watched discs zigzag across the sky toward the Capitol. Suddenly, two delta-wing jets appeared and raced toward the UFOs which took off leaving the jets far behind them. When news reporters tried to follow up on the story, they were told by the Defense Department and by military officials that the incident had never happened.

November 9, New York City, N. Y. — After the great power blackout, actor Stuart Whitman told people he was startled to hear a whistling sound outside his 12th floor window and saw two hovering objects that glowed. One was orange and the other blue. He then heard inside his mind, apparently telepathically, words that indicated the blackout was a "demonstration."
 

1966

January 19, Horseshoe Lagoon, Australia — A farmer was driving his tractor when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a gray-blue craft about 25 feet in diameter and about nine feet high rise out of the lagoon. The craft was spinning like a top, rose to sixty feet and then flew off rapidly. The farmer found flattened reeds in several places at the lagoon.

March 20, Milan, Michigan — A police officer saw what he thought was a plane about to crash. He tried to contact police headquarters, but his radio transmitter would not work. As the object got close to his patrol car, the policeman could see it was a huge disk about fifty feet in diameter with a number of multi-colored lights spinning at the periphery. The disc kept pace with the patrol car for about half a mile and then flew off.

October, Boulder, Colorado — The U.S. Air Force entered into a formal agreement to study UFOs with the University of Colorado, having been turned down by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the University of North Carolina and the University of California. The project was to be directed by Edward Condon, a highly respected physicist. Although the Air Force’s alleged goal was to have an impartial investigation, Dr. Condon soon made his attitude clear:

"It is my inclination right now to recommend that the government get out of this business. My attitude right now is that there’s nothing to it ... but I’m not supposed to reach a conclusion for another year ..."

The situation was further aggravated when two of the Condon Committee members, David Saunders and Norman E. Levine, discovered a memorandum which had been written by Project Coordinator Robert Low almost three months before the start of the project.

In it, Low seemed to be writing to an insider about a foregone conclusion the study would take.

"Our study would be conducted almost exclusively by non believers who, although they couldn’t possibly prove a negative result, could and probably would add an impressive body of evidence that there is no reality to the observations. The trick would be, I think, to describe the project so that to the public, it would appear a totally objective study, but to the scientific community, would present the image of a group of non believers trying their best to be objective, but having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer. One way to do this would be to stress investigation, not of the physical phenomena, but rather of the people who do the observing — the psychology and sociology of persons and groups who report seeing UFOs. If the emphasis were put here, rather than on examination of the old question of the physical reality of the saucer, I think the scientific community would quickly get the message ..."

Saunders and Levine sent a copy of the memo to Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe. Condon learned about the leak in February 1968 and immediately fired Saunders and Levine for insubordination. Two weeks later, Low’s Administrative Assistant, Mary Louis Armstrong, resigned, stating that the project members had no confidence in Low’s leadership.

The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) who had been cooperating with the Condon Committee withdrew their support.

By June 1968 when Condon’s report was completed, the study’s credibility was diminished. That might be the reason why Condon sent his report to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for review.

After receiving their stamp of approval, the Condon Report was released to the public on January 1969.

"Nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge," the report concluded. "Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby."

Condon did not mention that more than 25% of the cases examined had remained unsolved. He ignored other contributors to the report who felt their was evidence to support at least an open minded consideration of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. If MJ-12’s intention had been to use the Condon Committee to drive a final scientific nail of denial into the UFO mystery to get the public and media off the government’s back, the ironic result was even more public controversy and distrust of government.

The United States Air Force canceled Project BLUE BOOK in December 1969 and told the public and media it no longer investigated UFOs.

January 25, South Ashburnham, Massachusetts — Betty Andreasson was at home with her family in the evening when a power failure occurred. In the dark, a glowing light was visible through the windows. Moments later, the house lights came on again and Andreasson saw that her family seemed to be frozen in place as if in suspended animation. She, however, was unaffected and watched as four creatures entered the house, passing right through a closed wooden door.

The entities were about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall. Their heads were pear-shaped, large on top with narrow chins. They had holes for noses and scar-like slits for mouths. Their large almond-shaped eyes slanted around to the sides of their heads. Each sleeve of their dark blue, skintight uniforms had a symbol resembling a bird with outstretched wings.

The leader began to converse telepathically with Andreasson. He gave her a thin, blue book in exchange for Betty’s Bible. About the blue book, Betty said,

"There is something there (on the cover). It’s very thin. Thin gold. It just looks Egyptian. ...the first three pages were just white light — glowing. ...there is strange writing in it and numbers. ...It’s mysterious because of the strangeness of it. ...(There’s) a pyramid, but a strange-type pyramid. It has a chute on it, and it has an arrow, some type of an arrow. It’s like takeoff things for airplanes..."

The beings took Andreasson outside to an oval craft. Once aboard, she was submitted to a frightening and painful physical examination. Then she was transported to an alien world of high strangeness in which her Catholic beliefs were provoked by 3-dimensional images, possibly holographic, of a spiritual nature and heard "the voice of God."

Andreasson was returned to her home where the members of her family remained frozen like statues. She went to bed and fell asleep while one of the entities watched over her. When she awakened the following morning, her family was up and going about its normal business. The glowing book given to Betty by the beings disappeared.

Two government insiders have told me about extraterrestrial technology referred to as the "Yellow Book." Their explanation for the name relates to the color of the glowing letters and words that appear on white, glowing pages.

"...the letters and words look like yellow light. The book doesn’t have any pages. It’s a rectangle about fifteen inches by nineteen inches. If you saw it laying on a table, you would think it was a flat piece of plastic with a light grey metallic sheen. But when you pick it up in your hands, the words start appearing and they are a yellow color. You move your eyes along as the words appear and they just keep coming as you read. Once you get to the bottom, the next page starts. Followed by the next page, and the next page over and over on the same surface."

September 9, Alamosa, Colorado — An Appaloosa mare named Lady was found stripped of flesh from the neck up and her chest had been opened and internal organs excised. The cuts were bloodless.

Rancher Berle Lewis and his wife Nellie said that when they searched the ground, Lady’s tracks stopped about 100 feet southeast of her body.

"It looked like she jumped around in a circle," Berle said. "But there was nothing else, no tracks of any kind between there and where we found her."

There were no tracks around Lady’s body, but forty feet south of her was a broken bush. "Around the bush," said Berle, "was a three foot circle of six or eight holes in the ground about four inches across and three to four inches deep." Late that summer there had been many reports in the San Luis Valley about strange lights in the sky. So, when the unusual death of the Colorado horse made national and international news, several headlines questioned whether the UFOs might be connected. And that’s how the animal mutilation mystery began — and continues to date.

It has haunted ranchers and law enforcement agencies throughout Canada, the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa and parts of Europe.

That same autumn Lady died, there had been similar bizarre horse deaths reported in Canada. In August 1967, the Res Bureaux in Kingston, Ontario reported that on the Sarcee Reserve near Twin Bridges in Alberta, a dead horse was found where a witness claimed a "domed saucer craft" had been seen earlier that day.

Another aerial association with the animal mutilation mystery are dark, silent helicopters. Lou Girodo, Chief Investigator in the District Attorney’s office in Trinidad, Colorado told me in October 1979 that he thought the helicopters were spacecraft piloted by creatures not from this planet which had technology that could camouflage their discs to look like our choppers.

I have also been told by a confidential military source that certain frequencies are related to alien craft, that an agency in our government monitors those frequencies, and when detected, teams of choppers, jets or vans equipped with radar and electronic gear are scrambled to interfere with and/or monitor alien activities.

Army Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso, now deceased, wrote on Pages 180-182 in his 1997 book The Day After Roswell:

"In the Pentagon from 1961 to 1963, I reviewed field reports from local and state police agencies about the discoveries of dead cattle whose carcasses looked as though they had been systematically mutilated and reports from people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens and experimented on. One of the common threads in these stories were reports by the self-described abductees of being subjected to some sort of probing or even a form of surgery with controlled, intense, pencil-thin beams of light" which Col. Corso associated with a laser instrument retrieved from downed spacecraft.

"...Local police reported that when veterinarians were called to the scene to examine the dead cattle left in fields, they often found evidence not just that the animal’s blood had been drained but that entire organs were removed with such surgical skill that it couldn’t have been the work of predators or vandals removing the organs for some depraved ritual.

"...I also remembered that both civilian and military intelligence personnel attached to the staffs of individuals who worked for the Hillenkoetter and Twining working group on UFOs in the 1950s were actively engaging in research into the kinds of surgical methods that would produce ‘crime scene evidence’ like this.

"...Although the first public reports of cattle mutilations surfaced around 1967 in Colorado, at the White House we were reading about the mutilation stories that had been kept out of press as far back as the middle 1950s, especially in the area around Colorado. ...Our intelligence organizations and especially the working group believed that the cattle mutilations that could not be obviously explained away as pranks, predators, or ritual slaughter were the results of interventions by extraterrestrials who were harvesting specific organs for experimentation.

"...We had irrefutable evidence that EBEs were landing on farms, harvesting vital organs from livestock, and then just leaving the carcasses on the ground because they knew we couldn’t do anything about it."

December 3, Ashland, Nebraska — In the early morning hours, Patrolman Herbert Schirmer encountered a football-shaped craft on the ground supported on a tripod and emitting red lights. Schirmer remembered hearing a shrill beeping noise and seeing a red-orange beam when the object rose up, but he could not account for about twenty minutes of time. The case was studied by the Condon Committee which asked psychologist Dr. Leo Sprinkle to regress Schirmer hypnotically to penetrate the patrolman’s amnesia.

Under hypnosis, Schirmer described seeing entities about four feet tall emerge from the craft. He tried to draw his revolver, but said telepathic communication from the beings stopped him. One held a "box-like thing" that emitted a green light or gas that covered the patrol car. Another entity touched his neck and caused pain. Later, Schirmer had a red welt on his neck. The entities telepathically communicated to Schirmer that their origin was a nearby galaxy beyond the Milky Way and they had several bases on Earth.

Schirmer asked if the aliens kidnapped people and they told him they had a program known as "breeding analysis" and some humans had been used in those experiments.
 

1968 to 1972

This was a crescendo period of increasing worldwide reports of UFOs, orange glowing spheres seen over pastures where mutilated animals were found, human abductions and continuing government cover-ups. Some researchers recall the mid to late 1970s as the period when whatever is behind the UFO phenomenon turned the heat up in every direction between 1973 to 1979.

Sadly, abductee Barney Hill died in February 1969 at age 46 of a cerebral hemorrhage. And ironically, the U. S. Air Force terminated Project BLUE BOOK in December 1969 claiming falsely there was no official interest in the UFO phenomenon.

May, Houston, Texas — In addition to their own physical examinations by non-human beings, some human abductees have also reported seeing earth animals in glass cages as if on display, or hooked up to tubes and machines as if being tested, or even subjected to excisions of the same body parts found missing in the worldwide animal mutilation phenomenon.

One such case began in May 1973. A family of five from a suburb outside Houston, Texas traveled together in a car. It was a clear night and they were on their way back home from playing bingo. Judy Doraty noticed a bright, blue-white light pacing the car. She pointed it out to her brother-in-law, her sister, her teenage daughter, Cindy, and her mother. Eventually, they stopped the car by the side of the road in farmland outside Houston to watch the light and Judy was the only person who got out of the car for a better look. When she got back in the car she felt nauseous and very thirsty.

When the family finally drove up to their relatives who had been baby-sitting, they were much later than expected and the light appeared there before everyone. Judy Doraty became hysterical. After that night, she suffered terrible headaches and vivid dreams that panicked her. Finally, she sought medical help in 1978.

That led to hypnosis with a medical doctor to relieve her blocked memory about that disturbing night in May 1973. In the first session, Judy described seeing a small animal rising in a pale yellow beam of light into the sky. In further hypnosis sessions, Judy clarified that the animal was a brown and white calf. She also watched "two little men" that had "snake eyes" excise tissue from the calf’s eye, tongue and testicles.

The beings communicated to her telepathically that they were "stationed here" and had been testing earth soil, water, vegetation and animal life for quite some time. Judy received information about nuclear testing in space and underwater and a consequential poisonous contamination of earth water. "...it affects the offspring and with each offspring they say (the changes from the contamination) get more prevalent."

Judy’s teenage daughter, Cindy, had been terrified about the May 1973 night and had never wanted to talk about it with her mother. But finally seventeen years later on August 6, 1990, Cindy agreed to explore her own amnesia about the incident with hypnosis.

She also recalled seeing a brown and white calf rise in a pale yellow beam of light into a disk-shaped object while a blue-white spotlight at the other end of the disc kept moving as if searching the ground. Like her mother, Cindy was taken aboard the craft and was examined by "bug-looking things" with large eyes "like a snake," meaning vertical slit pupils.

Cindy also recalled being shown a laboratory where animal parts such as a dog’s snout, pig fetus, dead birds and a calf’s tongue were lying on a table.

October 11, Pascagoula, Mississippi — Two shipyard workers, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, were night fishing off an abandoned pier on the Pascagoula River outside the city. Both heard a strange buzzing and looked up to see a large, glowing, bluish-white, egg-shaped craft hovering nearby. Terrified, the men watched as a part of the craft opened and three, five-foot-tall entities floated out toward Hickson and Parker.

The skin was gray and wrinkled. Where humans would have noses and ears, these possible robots or androids had pointed projections. Each entity had a small opening like a mouth under its pointed "nose." There were no necks and the arms were extremely long ending in hands that resembled lobster claws or mittens. The legs extended straight down from the torso and ended in round "feet."

Two of the creatures took hold of Hickson under his arms while the other grabbed Parker who fainted. All of them floated into the "egg" where still-conscious Hickson was taken into a circular room that was very brightly lighted. He was "levitated" into a horizontal position in the air while a football-sized "eye" seemingly free-floating moved up and down his body as if giving him a physical examination.

According to Hickson, about half an hour later, both men were taken back out to the river bank, the "egg" left and Parker regained consciousness. Hickson and Parker called nearby Keesler Air Force Base and a local newspaper office, but were referred to the sheriff where they ended up around 10:30 PM. The sheriff later stated that something had happened to the two men because they were "scared to death and on the verge of a heart attack."

The following day, Hickson and Parker were interrogated and medically examined at Keesler AFB. The case was also investigated by J. Allen Hynek and University of California civil engineering professor, James Harder, who consulted to the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO). Calvin Parker was subsequently hospitalized for a nervous breakdown.

October 18, Mansfield, Ohio — During the height of the 1973 UFO flap throughout the U. S. and in Ohio - and only three days after the state’s governor, John Gilligan, had seen a UFO near Ann Arbor, Michigan - a four-man Army Reserve helicopter crew encountered a UFO which seemed to exert control over their chopper.

Just after 11 PM on October 18, 1978, a Bell Helicopter UH-1H was traveling over the Mansfield area. Army Reserve crew members Sergeant Robert Yanacsek and Captain Lawrence Coyne saw a red light on the eastern horizon. The light seemed to be pacing them but within a short time came straight toward their helicopter. To avoid a collision, Coyne put the helicopter into a twenty-degree dive at 2,000 feet per minute.

As they reached 1,700 feet, the light was still heading straight for them. The crew braced themselves for impact. Just as the collision seemed imminent, the object stopped about 500 feet above the aircraft. Looking up through a stream of green light which flooded the bubble canopy of the helicopter, the crew saw a 60-foot-long object resembling a streamlined fat cigar.

The front end of the UFO was a red light. At the rear was a green spotlight which had swung around to illuminate the helicopter. Between the lighted ends was a gray metallic hull which reflected the red and green lights. A dome protruded at the center. Copilot Arrigo Jezzi tried to make radio contact with an airport, but could not transmit or receive.

The crew felt a bounce and the UFO took off toward the west. As it changed its course to northwest, the green light turned to white. Then the object made a climbing turn and disappeared. Meanwhile, Coyne had caught sight of his altimeter. The needle was rising. All controls were set for a 20-degree dive, yet they had climbed from 1,700 to 3,500 feet with no power and were still climbing at 1,000 feet per minute. The crew felt no G-forces or other noticeable strains. Within six or seven minutes, radio contact was re-established.

September 30 — Newsweek Magazine and other media reported increasing numbers of animal mutilations. "Since last May, more than 100 cattle have been found dead and gruesomely mutilated in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa. ...A few residents report sighting strange creatures resembling bears and gorillas, and at least one farmer claims that a shiny UFO landed in a field where a slaughtered animal was later found."

In December 1974, one heifer was found dead and mutilated inside a perfect circle of exposed soil surrounded by snow near Kimball, Minnesota. There was not a single track around the animal, implying the heifer had been lowered from above onto the ground.

Cases had been increasing since the late 1960s and no one could understand what was happening. Healthy and alive one day, dead and mutilated the next. Cattle, horses, pigs, goats – even deer and elk. The animals all looked about the same. An ear missing, an eye missing, sometimes a circle of hide taken around the empty eye socket, one side of the lower jaw stripped of all flesh, the tongue cut out from deep within the throat, the sex organs removed in cookie cutter, hide-deep precision and the rectum cored out. No blood. No tracks.

August 13, Alamogordo, New Mexico — Air Force Sergeant Charles L. Moody was in the desert observing a meteor shower at about 1:15 AM when he saw a glowing, metallic, disc-shaped object falling toward the ground about 300 feet away. The disc was about fifty feet long and eighteen to twenty feet wide. As it descended to an altitude of 15 to 20 feet, it wobbled on its own axis. Then it began moving slowly and steadily toward Moody. He jumped into his car, but was unable to start it. The UFO came to a stop about 70 feet away. Moody could hear a high-pitched humming sound. He noticed a rectangular window in the craft through which he could see shadows resembling human forms.

The humming stopped and his body became numb. The next thing he remembered was the object rose into the sky and disappeared. He was surprised when he got home that the time was 3:00 AM. He felt that he had somehow lost about one and a half hours.

The following day, Moody experienced a pain in his lower back. Within a few days, a rash broke out over his lower body. Upon the recommendation of a physician, he began to practice self-hypnosis in an effort to recall what had occurred during the lost time period. Over the next few weeks, he was able to piece together what might have happened.

After being overcome by numbness on August 13, 1975, he watched two beings approach his car. About six feet tall, the creatures wore skintight black clothing. Moody tried to fight them off, but passed out. He awoke on a smooth, flat surface inside the craft and could not move his legs. Next to him stood a humanoid that was shorter than Moody’s two captors, only about five feet tall and dressed in silvery white, not black. However, like the other taller ones, he had a large hairless head, a protruding brow, large eyes, small ears and nose, and very thin lips. His skin was whitish-gray. This "leader" asked Moody telepathically if he was prepared to behave peacefully. When Moody agreed to do so, the leader applied a rod-like device to his back which relieved the paralysis.

Moody was taken to another part of the ship where he was shown the drive unit, a device consisting of a large rod surrounded by three glass-canopied holes. Each hole contained a central crystalline object with one rod on each side of it. One rod had a spherical head, while the other was topped by a T-bar.

As he moved about the craft, Moody noticed a sweet, stifling odor. He was told that the aliens’ mother ship was situated miles away above Earth. He was promised a future meeting with the occupants, but warned that closer contact with humans would not be attempted for another twenty years. The aliens told Moody that he would have no recollection of the incident until about two weeks later. The leader placed his hands on the sides of Moody’s head, rendering him unconscious once more. Moody awoke in his car as the UFO was leaving.

The case was investigated by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) and field investigator, USAF Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens. An analysis of Moody’s claims by Charles McQuiston, co-inventor of the Psychological Stress Evaluator, indicated that Moody was telling the truth.

August 20, Albany, New York — On the evening of August 20, 1975, telephones started ringing in Albany’s police barracks, newspaper offices, radio and television stations. Startled citizens were reporting UFOs. State Trooper Michael Morgan was dispatched to the scene of one of the sightings. Upon his arrival, he met a police detective who was already observing a blimp-sized object hovering at five hundred feet over Lake Saratoga.

As the reddish, glowing UFO flashed on and off, two smaller objects approached and merged with it. At this point, air traffic controllers at Albany airport were alerted and located the object on a radar scanner. After a few minutes, the two smaller objects broke away and left in the direction from which they had come. The first object moved towards the two nervous policemen and, as it passed over them, the police were dazzled by a brilliant white light shining out of the center of the craft’s base. Silently, the craft turned and began to move away slowly.

Suddenly, the UFO disappeared.

"It was as if," Morgan remarked, "someone had reached up and turned the lights out."

Meanwhile, the Albany tower operators had been following the movements of the UFO. After tracking the target for 45 minutes, they lost contact with it. However, within a short time, the tower received a call from the pilot of a military airplane flying over the Albany area at 8,000 feet. The pilot warned them that he had just seen a red "fireball" at one thousand feet above him headed toward the airport. The controllers located the object just as it entered the 50-mile range of one of their radarscopes. The anti-clutter device was thrown to ascertain whether or not the blip was an "angel." However, the image still came through clearly. The controllers estimated the object’s speed to be 3,000 miles per hour.

About 5 miles outside Albany, the target vanished. The controllers surmised that it had either accelerated to a speed of 5,000 miles per hour or had executed a seemingly impossible vertical maneuver at high speed.

At the same time, large disks and bright lights were seen at a low altitude less than 50 miles north over the South Glens Falls area and as far north as Lake George. The case was investigated by Ernest Jahn who contacted the Smithsonian Institution in Cambridge. They were unable to give any explanation for the sightings. This is considered one of the better documented UFO cases because it involved civilians, police, the Federal Aviation Administration and military authorities and was confirmed by radar.

November 5, Snowflake, Arizona — Seven men ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-eight were thinning out scrub in the Sitgreaves National Forest, near Snowflake, Arizona, 156 miles northwest of Phoenix. At about 6 PM, the men stopped working and left for home. They had gone only about one hundred yards when a strange glow behind some trees caught their attention.

Further down the road in a clearing, the group could see a "strange, golden metallic disc" hovering silently about ninety feet away and fifteen feet above the ground. The "golden machine was starkly outlined" against the sky and glowed with a milky yellow color.

Travis Walton later wrote,

"I estimated the thing to have an overall diameter of fifteen or twenty feet and to be about eight or ten feet thick. The flattened disc had a shape like that of two gigantic pie pans placed lip to lip with a small round bowl turned down on top. We could see darker strips of a dull silver sheen that divided the glowing areas into panel-like sections. The dim yellowish light given off by the surface had the luster of hot metal.

"There was no visible antennae or protrusions of any kind. Nothing that resembled a hatch, ports or window structures could be seen. There was no motion and no sound from the craft. It almost appeared to be dead in the air."

The driver hit the break, but before the truck had come to a complete stop, Travis Walton jumped out and walked quickly into the clearing. As he stood there looking up at the smooth base of the disc, he could hear a beeping sound. Then the craft began to rumble. As the noise increased, the disc spun on its vertical axis. Walton took cover behind a log while the others shouted at him to get back in the truck. Walton stood up and suddenly a beam of greenish-blue light shot out of the base of the craft and struck Walton in his head and chest. His colleagues saw a bright flash surround his body which stiffened and shot straight up into the air with his head knocked back and his arms and legs extended. Then, Travis Walton was hurled backward onto the ground several feet away.

The terrified driver took off with the other men in the truck. About a quarter-mile down the road, they saw a flash of light shoot up above the trees and disappeared into the black sky. So the group decided they should go back. But neither Travis Walton nor the craft were at the clearing.

Finally, they went to the local sheriff’s office to report what they had seen. An unsuccessful search was conducted and Walton’s mother was told Travis had disappeared.

Then a week later on November 11, Walton’s sister was stunned to hear her brother’s voice on the phone. He said he was calling from a pay phone in the nearby town of Heber. His voice was weak. He asked his brother-in-law, Grant Neff, to come and get him. Neff and Walton’s brother, Duane, found Walton slumped on the floor of the phone booth in a confused mental state. He was twelve miles from the place where he had disappeared.

Walton remembered being hit by the beam of light and passing out. He also remembered waking up in a low-ceilinged room. The air was hot and damp. Three entities about five feet tall with large, bald, domed heads and "white marshmallowy-looking flesh" were watching him. Although the creatures’ mouths, noses and ears were small, their brown, staring eyes were twice the size of human eyes.

Walton said he was frightened, tried to hit them with a rod he picked up in the room, and the entities turned around and walked away. Walton ran in panic out into a curving hall, went into another room where he experimented with a console until a male at least seven feet tall appeared in the doorway. The man wore a clear helmet like an ocean diver might wear and Travis could see his sandy-colored hair and golden eyes.

The man led Walton out of the craft into a huge enclosure where the air was fresher and where several other disk-shaped craft were parked. The two entered another craft where there were three more blond-haired beings. All wore blue, tight fitting jumpsuits, including a female with breasts. The female placed an object that Walton thought resembled an oxygen mask over his face and he passed out.

When he regained consciousness, he was lying back on the road. A disk-shaped craft was rising up into the sky directly above him. Travis could feel intense heat as he watched doors in the base close. When the object had disappeared, he walked to the nearest telephone booth and called his sister not realizing he had been gone for days.

September 19, Teheran, Iran — In a confidential report from the United States military attaché in Iran to the Pentagon, it was reported that at about 12:30 AM on September 19, citizens in the Shemiran area of Teheran began calling Iranian Air Force headquarters to report a strange object in the sky. The UFO was flashing intensely brilliant strobe lights, arranged in a rectangular pattern and alternating blue, green, red and orange in color. Controllers at Mehrabad airport reported the object’s altitude to be approximately 5,000 feet.

At 1:30 AM, an F-4 was scrambled from Shahrokhi AFB. When the interceptor approached within a range of just under thirty miles, all instrumentation and communications were lost. The confidential communiqué stated, "When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the jet regained all instrumentation and communications."

Ten minutes later at 1:40 AM, a second F-4 was launched. As the backseater radar operator tracked the object, he compared the size of the radar return to that of a 707 tanker. As the second F-4 pursued the UFO southwards, the unidentified craft maintained a distance of almost 30 miles. Suddenly, another bright object, estimated to be one-half to one-third the apparent size of the moon, came out of the original object.

The second UFO sped toward the jet. The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile, but at that moment his weapons control panel went off and he lost all communications.

As the jet dove out of the way, the UFO circled behind it and then returned to the mother ship. Moments later, another object emerged from the opposite side of the mother ship and descended at high speed. It came to rest gently on the ground, casting a bright light over a 1 1/2 mile area. The F-4 pilot descended to a lower altitude and continued to observe the UFO. The object ascended again, rejoining the mother ship which then departed. As the F-4 came in to land at the airport, the pilot and radar operator noticed overhead yet another cylindrical UFO with steady lights on each end and a flashing light in the middle. Tower controllers saw it as it passed over the jet.

After daybreak, the F-4 crew flew over the UFO landing site in a helicopter. No traces were observed, although a strange beeping signal was picked up west of the location.

The occupants of a house in the area reported that they had heard a loud noise and had seen a bright illumination similar to lightning.
 

1977 to 1989

Over the next thirteen years, discs and other unusual aerial craft were continually sighted, landing sites showed physical traces in soil and grass, animals continued to be mutilated, orange spheres and Bigfoot were seen near mutilation sites, and the U. S. government continued its policy of denial, misinformation and silence about the real facts it had concerning extraterrestrial biological entities and their advanced technologies and possibly other dimensional entities as well.

One incident stands out for the number of military eyewitnesses and very high strangeness, including the implication of time travel.

December 26-30, 1980, Bentwaters AFB, England — Christmas week in December 1980 was a tense and confusing time for several dozen men at the joint United States and English Royal Air Force Base at Bentwaters near the southeastern coast of the British Isles. In the early morning hours of December 26-30, odd lights were seen moving in the Rendlesham forest and various security and military personnel investigated.

Two of the security men, Staff Sergeant James Penniston and Airman First Class John Smith (alias), had a close encounter with one of the lights. Penniston recalls blue and red lights moving in the forest at the East Gate of Bentwaters around 2 AM on December 26, 1980. Afterward, there were a series of meetings and debriefings with superior officers.

Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander at Bentwaters, told Penniston,

"The reports will remain confidential and we should treat the incident as Top Secret and not discuss it with anybody." Penniston remembered being told there was radiation where the lights had been, a dosage equivalent to "five or ten x-rays."

After his encounter with lights, Penniston received a call to report on December 30, 1980 to the 81st Security Police Squadron, Bentwaters. There Major Malcolm Zickler ordered Penniston to report to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations to tell two agents what happened. AFOSI’s responsibility is to investigate Air Force personnel crimes and other sensitive matters. Therefore, it is the only organization that can legally intrude into the command structure at any level without commanders having full knowledge.

Penniston did not want to tell the agents all the truth because he thought it was too bizarre. But eventually, the agents demanded that he agree to hypnosis with Sodium Pentothal that would be recorded by two tape recorders. That occurred and Penniston described approaching a white light, seeing a large disc-shaped craft within the light that had raised symbols on its surface, reaching out to touch the symbols and simultaneously receiving binary code information in his mind.

The essence of the communication was that the intelligence behind the craft and binary code were time travelers from earth’s future. Their mission was to gather chromosomes, genetic material, from humans and animals and to return to their time line several thousand years in the future where their civilization’s ability to reproduce has a serious problem and faces extinction.

Penniston was asked under hypnosis if the time travelers were using humans "like breeding stock?"

He answered,

"No. Like Band-Aids."

Penniston said government intelligence already knew what he told them and that it was considered vital to keep it all secret.

"It will breach national security and can destroy the system, cause wars, chaos in the streets. That’s why it’s important to keep it quiet."

However, Penniston shared his story because he said it didn’t make any difference.

"It’s too unbelievable."

December 31, 1982 to July 1986, the Hudson Valley of New York and southwestern Connecticut down to Long Island Sound — Thousands of residents over four years used the same words to describe a sky object: a boomerang that was huge, maybe a thousand feet long and several stories high, moving slowly and silently close to the ground, sometimes with lights and sometimes without. The early sightings seemed concentrated over Westchester County, so the UFO became known as the "Westchester Boomerang."

In their 1987 book, Night Siege, The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, astronomer J. Allen Hynek and Philip J. Imbrogno and writer Bob Pratt said:

"Something truly astonishing was happening, but those who are responsible for protecting us — the law enforcement agencies, state and federal governments, and the military — ignored it.

"Hundreds of people living in the affluent suburbs within commuting distance of one of the world’s largest and most cosmopolitan cities were astonished, awestruck and frightened by what they could only regard as a very bizarre event, yet the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which monitors the air lanes through which the boomerang-shaped object flew repeatedly, persisted in denying its existence.

One case involved a security officer for the Indian Head Power Authority, "Carl," who had also been a New York State Police officer. On June 14, 1984, he and other security guards and Consolidated-Edison nuclear power employees watched a boomerang for twenty minutes.

"...during that time I would say it hovered in one area for about fifteen minutes without moving," Carl said. "The lights were incredibly bright and they were steady," Carl said. "It was hovering over the parking lot on the reactor grounds and over some buildings that have lights on twenty-four hours a day. These are bright security lights, and the lights on this object were at least ten times as bright.

"The building it was over is quite large — about eighty feet high — and this object dwarfed it." Carl estimated the boomerang was at least 300 feet long. "When the object turned, it rotated as if it was lying on a wheel. It made a very slow, sharp, ninety-degree turn. The object always moved in the direction of the apex."

Then ten days later on July 24, other security supervisors and guards, including Carl, saw a similar object.

"It approached from basically the same direction as before and this time the lights were changing. First, they would all be yellow, then white, and then they all turned blue. The lights were in a semicircle and in the rear, pretty far back, was this red, blinking light.

"As the object approached the plant, I got about as close as 500 feet from it," Carl said. "It looked like an ice cream cone. You could see it was a solid body about the size of three football fields. At this time, it was directly over our heads, and we were looking up at it. It was still moving, but very slowly. I could walk and keep up with it, so it must have been going slower than five to ten miles an hour."

On that date, only one of three reactors at Indian Head was in operation. Carl said,

"Ours was the only one working. This object picked the right one to fly over, and that’s what got our supervisor worried. This thing got to within thirty feet of the reactor."

A duty officer inside one of the buildings had control over a security camera placed outside the buildings. He turned one of the cameras on top a 95-foot-tall pole.

"I turned my camera in that direction and I saw eight bright lights in a V shape, very wide, almost like a half circle. They were at least as bright as the landing lights on a large jet. My supervisor and I panned the camera up and down and the object was very large, bigger than a football field." The duty officer said the object was so big that to see all of it from front to back he had to pan the camera nearly 180 degrees.

"It was one solid structure and very large. We had it on camera for about fifteen minutes. ...It seemed very brazen. It acted like it didn’t care who saw it."

Another security officer said,

"There was this series of lights in the shape of a boomerang, and behind it was this dark structure, and there were these two things on the bottom that looked like hollow spheres of some sort. They looked like portals that could open up and rockets or something could fly out of there. They were very dark. It was very low. It was so close I actually got scared looking at it."

The few times the FAA or law enforcement commented, the explanations varied from blimps to small planes flying together in formation to hoax everyone. But Dr. Hynek and Philip Imbrogno concluded their book:

"...we feel we have presented an overwhelming amount of evidence that something strange and inexplicable is in our midst; something alien to the world as we know it.

"We do not know what it is. We can only speculate.

"We would like to know what it is, and we believe everyone who saw it would like to know.

"We invite the scientists of the world to take an open-minded, objective look at this phenomenon and help solve the mystery."

September 21 to October 2, 1989, Voronezh, Russia — In this large industrial city with a population of a million people, dozens of children and adults reported seeing unidentified flying objects within the city limits, watched them land, and their occupants come out. One park near School No. 33 was the site of repeated landings and encounters.

For example, on September 26 or 27 (the boy doesn’t remember exactly), at 7 PM a student saw an object with portholes. A being about nine feet tall emerged from it. "On his head, I saw two eyes and slightly above them a red lamp. On his breast there was a disk with three spots of different colors, and slightly below it there was a rectangle which started sticking out from the body."

The Komsomolskaya Pravda, Novosti Press Agency and The New York Times summarized the several eyewitness accounts:

"the flyover and landing of a mysterious ellipsis-shaped body about 45-feet in diameter and 18 feet thick with a hatch in the middle was seen from various distances. The object remained at a height of roughly five feet above earth, then supports came out and it landed.

"From the open hatch there emerged a 9 foot tall figure which filled the whole of the ‘doorway.’ Distinctive features: a heavy gait, no neck (the ‘head’ with something like three luminous eyes was a kind of hemisphere lying directly on the shoulders). The alien — sometimes there were a few of them — walked near the craft for some time, examined the (park) plot, and seemed to take soil samples."

Russian Colonel of the Militia, Lyudmila Makarova, head of the Criminal Expertise Department of the Voronezh Administration of Internal Affairs, headed a group of experts who took measurements on the site of the events.

She said,

"I don’t know what actually happened here, but an increase in the radioactive background is in evidence."

November 17, 1986, Fort Yukon, Arctic Circle — The crew of a Japan Air Lines cargo jet Flight 1628 reported a mysterious and gigantic aerial vehicle shaped like a walnut with bright flashing white and yellow lights followed the airliner across the Arctic Circle as the plane traveled from Reykjavik, Iceland to Tokyo.

The three-man crew radioed air traffic controllers in Anchorage about the huge UFO flying "in formation" with them. The controller in charge of the Boeing 747 picked up a second, unknown object on his radar screen. But Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Paul Steucke said electronically recorded radar data did not show a second object and the FAA "can’t reconcile the difference." The U. S. Air Force also reported briefly seeing a second object on radar. The FAA confirmed that lights appeared only a mile from the JAL jet as it crossed the Arctic Circle about 30 miles southeast of the town of Fort Yukon.

When Japan Airlines pilot Kenju Terauchi was interviewed, he said the large walnut-shaped object was as big or bigger than "two aircraft carriers placed end-to-end."

The pilot drew a picture that was carried in international newspapers in which the walnut-shaped craft takes up 2.5 inches and his JAL airliner in comparison is only one-quarter of an inch.
 

1989 to 1998

Spring — More than two thousand simple circles, Celtic crosses and increasingly complex pictograms have been discovered in southern England’s crop fields since 1978 with the largest concentration occurring from 1989 throughout the 1990s. Hundreds more have been reported in more than a dozen other countries including Japan, Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada and the United States.

When the circle designs suddenly evolved in 1990 to complex formations that included rectangles, triangles and ovals as well as circles and rings as big as football fields, astronomer Archie Roy at Glasgow University said he was convinced humanity was encountering an advanced intelligence.

Then in 1991, other large formations emerged which resembled ladders and insects. The season culminated with a large geometric shape near Barbury Castle, England found at 6 AM on July 17. The equilateral triangle measured approximately 177 feet each side. At each vertex of the triangle were different circular formations which averaged about 75 feet in diameter. The formation was not in the field as late as 10 PM the evening of July 16 when a television crew was taping nearby. The manager of Waterstone’s bookshop in Bristol said that he and two others had seen six pulsing lights and one large dark object cross the sky that night. Others talked about seeing unusual lights over Barbury Castle north of the ancient sacred circle of stones called Avebury.

A warden who lived in a bungalow on the Barbury Castle hill said he "heard the most colossal roar coupled with a pulsing hum at 3:30 AM the morning of July 17, 1991. He compared the roar to a hundred planes going over. This sound ended abruptly after a few minutes, but strangely he never got up to look outside the house.

Grazing sheep near the large formation were not hurt, but the owner found the animals at the opposite end of a large pasture where they had not gone before as if they had been frightened by something.

On July 27, 1992 at 12:30 AM, a group of four witnesses near Woodborough Hill in Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England saw a disc with red, white and green lights moving around its middle and an amber light that seemed to detach itself from the disc and move off. Large formations in cereal crops had been found before and after the sighting, but there is yet no hard evidence of a disc craft actually making formations.

Biophysicist W. C. Levengood in Michigan has been studying plants and soil from formations around the world since 1991. He has documented a pattern of physical and biochemical changes in affected plants which he hypothesizes were made by a "spinning plasma vortex containing complex microwave and electronic energies."

The source of the spinning plasma vortex is unknown.

March 30-31, 1990, Belgian Airspace — On the night of March 30-31, hundreds of police and civilians reported a large triangle-shaped craft flying across Belgium. Eyewitnesses all described the same configuration: one large white light in each corner of the triangle, sometimes one large white light and/or smaller red glowing lights at the center of the triangle. Royal Belgian Air Force radar operators at Glons and Semmerzake confirmed the UFO and two F-16 Fighting Falcons were scrambled to intercept. The craft was moving very slowly at 6,500 feet until the F-16s radar locked on it. Then the triangle accelerated easily beyond the jets and dived to below 650 feet, too low for radar to separate its blip from ground clutter.

Between November 1989 and March 1990, Belgian authorities had received over 2,500 reports of triangular UFOs in Belgian skies. Eyewitness drawings closely match the government’s own drawing of a triangular craft as shown in its April 1954 TOP SECRET/MAJIC EYES ONLY "Restricted SOM1-01 Majestic-12 Group Special Operations Manual – Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal" in the section labeled "9. Description of Craft" discussed earlier.

February 4, 1993, Gadsden, Alabama — The Gadsden Times headline that day said, "Deja vu! UFOs return to skies over DeKalb?"

And the story, datelined Fort Payne, said:

"A week of reports of strange lights over DeKalb County has police officials building a file on the county’s latest encounter with unidentified flying objects.

"Sue Johnson was drying her hair about 5 AM January 28 when a noise she cannot describe brought her to the kitchen window of her home in Dogtown.

"What she saw practically in her backyard was some sort of airborne object, covered with glimmering red, green and white lights, and moving slowly below the treetops."

The newspaper described several other peoples’ encounters with lights and "silent helicopters" at the same time that dozens of cattle mutilations were being reported to police and sheriffs’ offices around Fort Payne, Geraldine and Albertville.

Reverend Roger Watkins and his teenage son were wakened around 2 AM by heavy shaking of their Geraldine house. Even their gold fish were knocked out of three fish bowls on the living room coffee table and died. From their second floor windows, Rev. Watkins and his son could see an enormous object about 150 feet in diameter and no more than six feet off the ground at their fence line only a dozen yards from the house.

The Reverend said,

"It was shaped like a plate with pulsing lights of many colors all around what looked like silver metal."

After about ten minutes, the disc began to lift upward, spinning as it did so, and then vanished.

March 13, 1997, Phoenix, Arizona — Light configurations in triangular or V shapes were observed by hundreds, if not thousands, of residents from northern to southern Arizona. Some Phoenix witnesses said the V-shape turned red at one point and shot vertically upward and out of sight. Others saw large, orange glowing spheres near Luke AFB in Phoenix.

A professional real estate couple in Phoenix watched a dark triangle at around 8:30 PM move slowly near their hill top home. Based on the street grids below, they estimated the triangle’s length to be 1.8 miles. The female eyewitness said she could see humanoid shadows at what appeared to be rectangular windows along one of the triangle’s sides.
 

The History is Filed Away

The last half of the 20th Century has been a time of calculated U. S. government denial and misinformation about other life forms existing in our universe in order to preserve the vested interests and status quo of political, economic and religious institutions. Perhaps future historians will judge that dishonest policy as wise following two world wars.
 

The Aftermath

"…the Government doesn’t know what it knows."
---FBI Agent Investigating UFO issues

There was a time when the United States Government admitted the reality of Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, former Army chief of staff then serving as commander of the Air Force’s Air Material Command, in September of 1947 said this about UFOs:

"The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

"There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft…

"The reported operating characteristics…lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely."

Following the Twining report, an early CIA memo conceded "that the objects are from outer space…is a possibility." A month after Twining wrote his opinion, an Air Force Intelligence "Draft of Collection Memorandum" stated cryptically,

"While there remains the possibility of Russian manufacture…it is the considered opinion of some elements that the object may in fact represent an interplanetary craft of some kind."

This openness regarding UFOs soon to changed drastically to a rigid attitude of dismissal and ridicule that set the tone for both government and the mass media’s response to the phenomenon for the next 50 years.

But even in 1947 ---a pivotal year in the UFO issue ---strange craft flying in the skies were nothing new. Although unknown to most people, stories of flying disc-shaped objects and even close encounters with their occupants date back to man’s pre-history.

According to scholar Richard L. Thompson,

"there a great deal of material in Vedic literature (Hindu manuscripts that are among the earliest known writings of mankind) about flying machines, called vimanas, that show striking resemblances to UFOs."

Biblical accounts, such as Ezekiel’s fiery flying wheel, also parallel modern UFO sighting accounts.

The Great Airship Mystery of 1896-97 ranging from the West Coast to the central United States clearly showed that something was seen in the air years before the Wright brothers flew a heavier-then-air machine at Kitty Hawk, NJ, in 1903. Strange flying objects were reported in Brazil, England, Belgium, Holland and Germany beginning in 1910. Large low-flying silent craft, accompanied by enigmatic radio signals, were frequently sighted over Scandinavia in the years prior to World War II.

During the war, allied bomber crews reported being chased and followed by glowing balls of light they called "foo fighters". These objects were believed to be enemy secret weapons until after the war when it was learned that German and Japanese pilots also experienced the pursuing lights and believed they were Allied weapons.

According to several credible accounts, certain men within the US Government were aware that strange objects were flying through earth’s skies long before World War II. The government already had a top-secret group of cryptographers working on breaking the Japanese and German military codes. The code word for this operation was MAGIC. Once it became known that objects under intelligent control were in the atmosphere, who better qualified to seek the possibility of communication then the cryptographers of MAGIC?

Expanding this group to include men with scientific and aviation backgrounds, MAGIC soon became known as the Group of 12 which later apparently became MAGIC 12. Later still, MAGIC 12 was changed to MAJESTIC 12 or MJ-12 to mislead researchers for security reasons.

Whatever the name, these high-level investigators had precious little hard evidence of the UFO reality ---until mid-1947 when everything changed.

Despite more than 1,000 published accounts of UFO sightings worldwide between late June and mid-July of 1947 alone, it was the experience of Boise, Idaho, businessman Kenneth Arnold that is generally accepted as starting the modern UFO era.

On June 24, 1947, Arnold was piloting a Callair airplane near Mount Rainier when he encountered a formation of very bright horseshoe-shaped objects flying at "tremendous" speed. "They didn’t fly like any aircraft I had seen before," commented Arnold, who also was a member of an Idaho search and rescue air team. In later discussing his sighting with news reporters, Arnold described the objects’ flight characteristics, saying they flew "like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water."

The name stuck. The nation was enthralled with the idea of "flying saucers," especially after a news release from the Army that a "flying disc" had been captured in New Mexico just two weeks after Arnold’s encounter.

Today the name Roswell is synonymous with UFOs. Yet, as with the UFO issue itself, what actually happened at Roswell remains both speculative and controversial.

The Roswell case is a microcosm of the UFO issue, with personal beliefs lining up according to each individual mindset. Mindset is simply each person’s paradigm or world view based on the totality of his or her own experience.

In this case, one can believe differing government pronouncements, all of which ---with the exception of the initial news release ---state nothing unearthly occurred at Roswell in 1947, or one can believe an immense wealth of information and testimony indicating that something quite extraordinary occurred in the New Mexico desert. Since there is some amount of evidence to support either view, it is left up to the individual mindset to decide what to believe.

Dispassionately dissecting the government’s case, one is struck by the scarcity of relevant documentation. A 1997 Air Force publication, prematurely entitled The Roswell Report: Case Closed, presented much data which, while impressive in appearance, had little relevance to the Roswell controversy.

For example, the report comments on the fact that actor Robert Stack played in a 1956 film about Air Force medical projects and in 1990 was host to an Unsolved Mysteries TV program about Roswell. There is extensive comment about the use of local citizens in the recovery of Air Force balloon launches and photos of balloons and equipment, even a borrowed mule used to transport a balloon ---as if all that somehow explained the events of the 1947.

One section stated,

"The examination of events that involved the Walker AFB (Roswell Army Air Force Base was changed to Walker AFB in 1948) hospital that may explain reports of bodies was begun by reviewing the most prominent possible source, which were aircraft accident(s)."

For several pages, the report presented comparisons of known crashes to accounts of small bodies at Roswell. Yet, according to their own data, there were no fatal aircraft accidents in the vicinity of Roswell in 1947. The Air Force argument apparently rested on the possible connection between the Roswell crash story and the fatal crash of a KC-97G tanker ---which occurred in 1956!

Many pages of the Air Force report are used to detail studies utilizing anthropomorphic dummies, which were dropped over and recovered from the New Mexico desert. This ingenious explanation falls apart after careful review of the Air Force’s own material.

The earliest launch date for testing such dummies is listed as June 23, 1954, seven years after the reported Roswell crash.

Additionally, the report described the test dummies as "72 inches tall (six feet), weighed 200 pounds (with) provisions for mounting instrumentation." This description could hardly account for the numerous witnesses ---accurately quoted in the Air Force report ---all of whom described the bodies at the Roswell crash site as no more than four and a half feet tall. Photos accompanying the report clearly show dummies with a human appearance, both in size and features, and it only makes sense to use such accurate human-like approximations to test parachutes, ejection seats and such.

It beggars the imagination to think that the highly-trained and experienced intelligence officers of Roswell’s 509th Bomb Group ---the only unit in 1947 to carry atomic weapons ---could confuse a six-foot-tall human dummy for a four-foot-tall spindly spaceman.

In 1997 when the Air Force publicly announced that Roswell was only about a crashed MOGUL balloon and crash dummies, even national news commentator Sam Donaldson quipped,

"Do you really expect us to believe that?"

In truth, most Americans didn’t believe that. The evidence which flies in the face of the facile Air Force explanation is simply too voluminous and compelling.

More than 400 individuals are now on the public record claiming to have knowledge of a crashed "flying disc" and non-human bodies at Roswell in 1947.

Some of these witnesses present unbelievable and contradictory stories. But others, such as Roswell mortician Glenn Dennis who claimed that Roswell base medical personnel contacted him on how to obtain several small coffins; Brig. General Arthur Exon, a former commander of Wright-Patterson AFB, who said he was aware of both Roswell crash debris and small bodies being shipped to Wright-Patterson and former Chaves County Sheriff George A. Wilcox, who said he was forced to turn over unusual Roswell wreckage to military officers who then threatened both him and his family if he talked about his experience.

Even ordinary people, with nothing to gain from telling their experiences, have come forward. Edward and Helen Farcas in 1997 told Texas news reporters about their separate experiences in New Mexico in 1947.

Mrs. Farcas said she saw a fiery object streaked over her home near Roswell.

"It was going at a pace that no weather balloon ever went, " she recalled. "It was just like a jet engine was stuck on it. That thing was going so fast, honest to Pete. It was shiny, it was bright as all get-out."

Eager to tell her husband about her sighting, Mrs. Farcas found Edward had his own story to tell when he arrived home from Roswell Air Base where he was a master sergeant with the 509th Bomb Group.

"I saw the vehicles, the trucks, the GI trucks, covered, bringing in this debris from what we heard was the crash of a flying saucer that crashed northwest of Roswell," he said. "I was right there near the flight line. They were under heavy guard. They had a lot of security. They took that stuff and they took it in a big hanger. And they had security around so we couldn’t see what it was….I don’t talk about the thing too much…until I get provoked and someone says it isn’t so. Because it’s an incident that’s been covered up. There’s too much lying going on."

If even half of the people who have given statements about a crashed disc and alien bodies are discounted, the remainder should be enough to convince any open minded person that something quite extraordinary occurred in the New Mexico desert in 1947.

Yet, at the time, military authorities quickly denounced as erroneous a press release from the Roswell base declaring that a "flying disc" had been captured. Base personnel were mistaken, they countered. It was only a weather balloon. And the American public, still imbued with wartime patriotism, accepted this explanation from their leaders. It was only after the political assassinations of the 1960s, the Vietnam experience and Watergate that the public began to realize that government officials could and would lie to them.

It is obvious that there is more to the Roswell story than has been admitted by the government. The military claims nothing unusual took place while some 400 witnesses claim otherwise. Who is telling the truth?

One objective indicator of who’s telling the truth may be buried in a 1995 US General Accounting Office report regarding Roswell, which was prompted by a 1994 request from the late New Mexico Representative Steven Schiff. The GAO reported it could find no evidence of a crashed saucer but failed to endorse the Air Force’s claim that only a secret MOGUL balloon crashed at Roswell.

Most telling was the fact that GAO investigators discovered that Roswell Army Air Field administrative records from March, 1945, through December, 1949, as well as message traffic from the base between October, 1946, through December, 1949, had been mysteriously destroyed.

Schiff’s press liaison, Barry Bitzer commented,

"Having spent 24 years in the military, (Schiff) did express some surprise that those records were destroyed, supposedly against regulations and without traceable authorization."

Whatever actually happened at Roswell during July, 1947, it apparently prompted and immediate and profound change in government openness toward UFOs. Changes in the basic structure of this nation’s military had been in the wind since December 19, 1945, when President Harry Truman asked Congress to create a unified military establishment. Concurrently there had been a long-standing debate regarding the creation of a centralized intelligence agency to replace the wartime Office of Strategic Services.

But following the Roswell incident, there appeared to be an unnatural urgency to tightening the military and intelligence systems. This culminated with Truman signing into law the National Security Act of 1947 on July 25, less than a month after Roswell. The act went into effect on September 18, 1947.

This act separated the Air Force from the Army and created the military Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency. But according to then Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal "the most important feature of the bill" was the creation of the National Security Council (NSC), after some adjustment comprised of the President, the Vice President and the secretaries of state and defense.

Not only was the 1947 act rushed into law but Congress had no real conception of the ultimate purposes of the legislation. The national mood was still one of wartime security and congressmen were simply given a wink and an assurance that national secrecy required national legislation. "Congress wound up legislating in the dark," commented Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Tim Weiner.

At the heart of this darkness were the UFOs. Now under the National Security Act of 1947, control of UFO information ---obviously a matter of national security ---was centered in the four members of the NSC. The National Security Council system bypassed Congress, the Constitution, the media and the public.

It was at this same juncture that Truman reportedly created the MJ-12 group by secret executive order to monitor the UFO issue. One MJ-12 document ---not universally accepted as legitimate ---dated September 24, 1947, stated over the apparent signature of President Truman,

"Hereafter this matter shall be referred to only as Operation Majestic Twelve."

Several supposed MJ-12 documents have now surfaced including an MJ-12 Operations Manual which presents details of a Roswell saucer recovery as well as descriptions of alien bodies.

"So far, secrecy seems to be working," commented one report.

This secrecy may have been instigated by none other than Air Force Chief Twining himself. Following his rather honest report of September, 1947, and at Twining’s recommendation, a UFO study group ---designated Project Sign ---was created by the end of that year within the Air Force.

Sign members quickly became sharply divided between those who believed UFOs to be secret but ordinary Soviet technology perhaps built from captured Nazi designs and those who subscribed to the extraterrestrial thesis.

"The division grew greater as it became increasingly clear that the `ordinary’ foreign technology explanation was untenable," wrote J. Allen Hynek, then director of Ohio State University’s McMillin Observatory, who joined Project Sign in early 1948.

Hynek, like others within Project Sign, started out as a total skeptic, snickering at the "gullibility" of those who professed to see UFOs.

"It was not until several years had passed and data of similar nature continued to flow not only from this country but from many others that I had occasion to feel the phenomenon was indeed being proved: there were too many occurrences that couldn’t be explained in ‘ordinary’ terms, " he wrote.

Such occurrences included famous early UFO cases like the death of National Guard Capt. Thomas Mantell, who died in January, 1948, when his F-51 plane crashed in Kentucky after chasing a large UFO detected on radar and reported by Kentucky highway patrolmen. Later in 1948 mysterious green fireballs were reported on numerous occasions in New Mexico and neighboring states.

On Oct. 1, 1948, another National Guard pilot, Lt. George F. Gorman reported an aerial dogfight with a UFO at Fargo, ND.

"The object was not only able to out turn and out speed my aircraft, " stated Gorman, "but was able…to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of my aircraft. I am convinced that there was definite thought behind its maneuvers."

Faced with accounts such as these, Project Sign members began to accept the extraterrestrial thesis. "With the Soviets practically eliminated as a UFO source, the idea of interplanetary spaceships was becoming more popular," wrote Air Force Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, who later would head the Project Blue Book UFO investigation.

The Sign staff prepared an "Estimate of the Situation" report for higher authorities which concluded that UFOs represented interplanetary spaceships.

According to Ruppelt, this report drew "considerable comment" as it worked its way through military channels to higher command echelons, "but no one stopped it" ---until it hit the desk of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg.

Vandenberg squelched the report, saying he just couldn’t accept the idea of interplanetary spaceships. All copies were ordered destroyed, but a few, according to Ruppelt, were kept as "mementos of the golden days of the UFOs."

Interestingly enough, Vandenberg is one of those men listed as a member of the top-secret MJ-12 UFO group. Could it be that he knew more about the issue than the Project Sign staff and took steps to head off any low-level investigation?

Vandenberg’s response to the "Estimate of the Situation" report certainly set the tone. Most of the Project Sign staff saw the writing on the wall and departed, leaving only a few minor staffers in charge.

These survivors quickly began to seek more mundane explanations for the bizarre UFO sightings. In a rewritten "Estimate of the Situation", they concluded that Mantell hallucinated and died due to oxygen deprivation while chasing Venus and that Gorman dueled with a lighted weather balloon,. In fact by the time the rewritten report was issued in late 1948, all but seven UFO reports had been explained away.

Meanwhile the new media had caught wind of the Project Sign investigation but, without knowing its proper code name, called it Project Saucer. The Air Force responded to this unwanted attention by announcing the end of Project Sign.

This was not exactly true. Only February 11, 1949, the group’s name was simply changed to Project Grudge with significant changes in its operation.

"The change to Project Grudge signaled the adoption of the strict brush-off attitude to the UFO problem," noted Hynek. "Now the public relations statements on specific UFO cases bore little resemblance to the facts of the case. If a case contained some of the elements possibly attributable to aircraft, a balloon, etc., it automatically became that object in the press release."

Ruppelt shared the confusion and frustration of the Air Force investigators.

"This drastic change in official attitude is as difficult to explain as it was difficult for many people who knew what was going on inside Project Sign to believe…Here were people deciding that there was nothing to this UFO business right at the time when the reports seemed to be getting better. From what I could see, if there were any mind-changing to be done, it should have been the other way…"

Of course, none of this internal consternation was known to the media or the public. The official government position on UFOs had become one of denial ---there was nothing there except misinterpretations and hoaxes.

"Now the public relations statements on specific UFO cases bore little resemblance to the facts of the case," noted Hynek.

Meanwhile the UFOs appeared unaffected by the commotion. They continued to come and go at their leisure, appearing ever more frequently and in increasingly brazen situations. They were frequently observed near our most sensitive military and atomic installations.

Behind the scenes, high-ranking government officials were intensely interested in any UFO information, giving lie to the banal press releases being issued by the Air Force.

Even FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was denied access to information. In a 1947 memo, Hoover groused,

"…we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the (La?) case the Army grabbed it and wouldn’t let us have it for cursory examination."

Wilbert B. Smith, a Canadian official, told his superiors he had learned from American scientist Dr. Robert Sarbacher that "flying saucers exist" and that the issue was considered to be of "tremendous significance" by U.S. authorities, who had classified the matter at a "rating higher even than the H-bomb".

In the 1980s, Dr. Sarbacher, who served on the U.S. Government’s Research and Development Board as well as president and board chairman of the Washington Institute of Technology, confirmed Smith’s account in a letter, stating,

"Dr. Vannevar Bush (another MJ-12 listee) was definitely involved, and I think Dr. Robert Oppenheimer also…I did received some official reports when I was in my office at the Pentagon but all these were left there as at the time we were never supposed to take them out of the office…About the only thing I remember at this time is that certain materials reported to have come from flying saucer crashes were extremely light and very tough.

 

I am sure our laboratories analyzed them very carefully….I remember that in talking to some of the people at the office that I got the impression these ‘aliens’ were constructed like certain insects we have observed on earth…I still do not know why the high order of classification has been given and why the denial of the existence of these devices."

As the 1950s began, Project Grudge foundered, strapped by political, funding and manpower problems. Ruppelt said the project lapsed into a period of almost complete inactivity which he termed the "Dark Ages".

A newsman of the time described one of the only reports issued by Project Grudge as,

"quite impressive, but only in its ambiguousness, illogical reasoning and very apparent attempt to write off all UFO reports a any cost…to cover up the real story."

Nationally-syndicated columnist Jack Anderson felt the same.

"I know a government cover-up when I see one, and I am compelled to say that the Air Force’s handling of the UFO reports has all the earmarks of a cover-up," he recently wrote.

Irritated that the media and the public would not just drop the subject of UFOs, high-ranking military officers established a new, reorganized Project Grudge on October 27, 1951, and placed Capt. Ruppelt in charge.

Ruppelt noted a "schizophrenic" approached to UFOs by the Air Force. While on the one hand constantly denying that UFOs existed, Air Force officials on the other hand issued orders to both pilots and air controllers on how to proceed when a UFO was encountered. These orders, known as Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings (CIRVIS), directed pilots to report UFO sightings but kept these reports secret from the public.

This censorship was extended to commercial pilots when Air Force officials met with representatives of the nation’s major airlines. Pilots were told to cease reporting UFOs to their companies but instead report directly to military intelligence in Washington. According to Scripps-Howard New Service, prior to this meeting, commercial pilots had been reporting between five and ten UFO sightings per night. Following the meeting where the new guidelines for reporting were issued as well as admonitions against discussing the issue publicly, these reports dropped to zero.

Almost 500 airline pilots signed a petition protesting this censorship but to no avail. Someone with considerable power was determined to close off public discussion of UFOs.

Ruppelt, meanwhile brought fresh interest to Project Grudge. He personally investigated some of the more publicized UFO incidents. Ruppelt also visited the makers of the military "Skyhook" balloons, a favorite explanation for UFO reports. A day-long discussion convinced Ruppelt that balloons could not account for all UFO sightings.

By March, 1952, with UFO reports increasing not only in quantity but in quality, Project Grudge was scrapped. The Air Force investigation, now working closely with the Air Defense Command, became a separate organization officially called the Aerial Phenomena Group. This name was soon changed to Project Blue Book, which continued as the official US Government response to UFOs until 1969.

Ruppelt’s Project Blue Book also instigated another change. Disgusted with the expression "flying saucer" which had come to represent anything and everything strange and unworldly, Ruppelt popularized the term Unidentified Flying Object or UFO, in the belief that this more closely represented the focus of the investigation.

On April 7, 1952, Life magazine published an article entitled, "Have We Visitors from Space?" The piece, which discussed the possibility that UFOs indeed were from other worlds, cited several highly-placed government sources. In fact, believers and skeptics alike agreed that the concept of interplanetary visitors was the personal opinion of several ranking Pentagon officers at the time. But they stopped short of believing, as did several UFO researchers of the time, that the article had been officially approved at the highest-levels to condition the public to the idea of extraterrestrial visitation.

Conditioned or not, both the public and government officials were jolted by events beginning on July 19, 1952. That night about 11:40 p.m., more than eight UFOs were tracked on radar at both Andrews Air Force Base and Washington National Airport streaking over Washington at "fantastic high speeds". The objects were observed by experienced pilots and air traffic controllers along with countless citizens in addition to the radar contacts until nearly daylight. Ominously, these objects were well within Washington’s most restricted airspace ---passing over both the Capitol and the White House.

These sightings continued later in July. Each time jet interceptors were vectored to the area of the UFOs, they would disappear until the jets returned to base when they would reappear and continue their aerobatics demonstration.

When the aerial show began, news reporters jammed into the radar room at National Airport but they were quickly ordered out with the excuse that classified radio frequencies would be used to communicate with the interceptors.

"I knew this was absurd because any ham radio operator worth his salt could build equipment and listen in on any intercept," Ruppelt wrote.

He said he later learned the real reason for dismissing the newsmen was to prevent them from learning the reality of the UFOs should one be brought down.

With little chance that the extraordinary aerial display could be denied, the Air Force called a news conference on July 29. It was largest and longest Air Force briefing since World War II. Maj. Gen. John Samford hedged on many questions asked by the reporters largely because, according to Ruppelt, he simply didn’t have an answer.

Samford finally passed the buck to an intelligence officer who speculated that the display over Washington had been caused by temperature inversion, a phenomenon creating pockets of warm air which could both reflect light and be picked up on radar. This explanation, while reported skeptically by the media, was embraced by UFO debunkers. However, Blue Book investigators determined that each night of the sightings temperature inversions were never strong enough to affect radar.

"So the Washington National Airport sightings are still unknowns," Ruppelt concluded.

The Washington incidents were enough to cause Blue Book staffers to decide it was time to end the official secrecy regarding UFOs. This decision was supported by then Navy Secretary Dan Kimbell, who ordered a Navy investigator after experiencing his own UFO sighting while flying to Hawaii.

Both the Air Force and the Navy spent months studying some of the best sightings of the period including a film of fast-moving bright flying objects taken on July 2, 1952, by Navy Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse. Neither Air Force nor Navy photo analysts could offer a conclusive explanation for the objects in the film.

With both the Air Force and the Navy now in the UFO investigation business and with Blue Book members calling for an end to the secrecy, it was obvious that something had to be done to control and contain the issue.

This was accomplished by calling upon the CIA, then one of the most hidden of government agencies and one that had been surreptitiously keeping tabs on UFOs since its inception in 1947. Retired Marine Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, who in 1956 helped form a private UFO group called the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), claimed fellow NICAP member and former CIA Director Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter ---the same Adm. Hillenkoetter named as a MJ-12 member in the dubious MJ-12 documents ---confirmed to him this early CIA interest.

Keyhoe, a man with impressive credentials and highly-placed Washington contacts, said a decision was made to "seize control of the AF investigation and insist on a hard-boiled, ruthless censorship, to kill off public belief in UFOs".

To this end, CIA officials quietly convened a panel of distinguished scientists to make a secret study of the UFO evidence up to that time. The panel was selected by then CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith ---another name on the MJ-12 list ---and included yet another MJ-12 listee, Dr. Lloyd Berkner. The panel was chaired by Dr. H.P. Robertson, a California Institute of Technology physicist with close connections to

U.S. intelligence, especially through his study of the German V-2 rocket program during World War II.

One panel member, Dr. Thornton L. Page of Johns Hopkins University, reflected the viewpoint of most of his peers when he later recalled, "At the start I thought it was a lot of nonsense and said so."

The Robertson Panel, as it came to be known, was hampered by men of Page’s mindset and thrown off by the highly selective presentation of UFO cases by the CIA, charged one of the attending Air Force officers.

"We were double-crossed," commented a Blue Book member.

 

"The CIA (didn’t) want to prepare the public ---they’re trying to bury the subject. Those agents ran the whole show and the scientists followed their lead. They threw out the Utah (Newhouse) film ---said the Navy analysts were incompetent. We had over a hundred of the strongest verified reports. The agents bypassed the best ones. The scientists saw just 15 cases and the CIA men tried to pick holes in them."

This assertion was supported by astronomer Hynek, by that time too swayed toward the spaceship theory to be allowed anywhere near the Robertson panel.

"The panel was not given access to many of the truly puzzling cases," he confirmed, adding, "The Robertson panel did get someplace: they made the subject of UFOs scientifically unrespectable, and for nearly (50) years not enough attention was paid to the subject to acquire the kind of data needed to even decide the nature of the UFO phenomenon."

After just five days of study, the Robertson Panel concluded there was no indication that the UFO phenomenon constituted a direct threat to national security. No one knowledgeable with the panel’s operation was surprised.

Intriguingly however, the panel saw fit to delve into the psychological aspect of UFOs while denying any physical reality. Panelists concluded that "the continued emphasis on the reporting of these phenomena does, in these perilous times, result in a threat to the orderly functioning of the protective organs of the body politic", such as clogging defense communications with "irrelevant reports" and causing false alarms which might diminish a rapid response to a Soviet attack.

To remedy this perceived weakness in the defense system, the panel recommended that "national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired."

With the CIA-dominated Robertson Panel, the US Government thus began a conscious program of dismissal and ridicule regarding UFOs which has continued ---with only minor interruptions ---to this day.

Despite their protestations, Project Blue Book members resumed their role of explaining away all UFO cases. Al Chop, Blue Book’s civilian press officer, said,

"They killed the whole program. We (were) ordered to work up a national debunking campaign, planting articles in magazines and arranging broadcasts to make UFO reports sound like poppycock." According to Keyhoe, Ruppelt told him, "What Al Chop told you isn’t the worst of it. We’re ordered to hide sightings when possible, but if a strong report does get out we have to publish a fast explanation ---make up something to kill the report in a hurry and also ridicule the witness, especially if we can’t figure out a plausible answer. We even have to discredit our own pilots. It’s a raw deal but we can’t buck the CIA."

The severity of this program of dismissal eventually resulted in this statement from Air Force Headquarters by Lt. Col. L. J. Tacker,

"There never has been an official Air Force conclusion that Flying Saucers are real."

Apparently Tacker had not read the Air Force documents previously mentioned.

The success of the new program of denial has been demonstrated by comments from leading government officials such as Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell, House Majority Leader John McCormack and Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. All have stated that their efforts to learn about UFOs were blocked by some higher power. In a 1979 letter, Goldwater wrote, "This thing has gotten so highly classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it.

In March, 1954, Project Blue Book underwent yet another reorganization. Now UFO reports were screened by the 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron. Only sightings which could not be rationalized away were forwarded to Blue Book, which was required to pass along all unexplained reports to the CIA. This was obviously a clear-cut method to hide away any inexplicable sightings.

By late 1956, a disgusted Capt. Ruppelt had resigned from Blue Book and published a book critical of the Air Force investigation and supporting the idea of extraterrestrial visitation.

What is clear from the record is that by the time of Ruppelt’s departure from Project Blue Book, the UFO issue had been taken away from the military and placed firmly in the hands of the CIA and perhaps even higher, more secret, groups.

"The Air Force entered upon a long period of unfortunate, amateurish public relations," wrote Hynek, who remained with Blue Book as a consultant. He noted that "some of the Blue Book evaluations of sincere reports were often so transparent and irrelevant that they had later to be retracted."

The UFOs meanwhile continued to confound both Project Blue Book inactivity and government pronouncements that they simply didn’t exist. In 1962, Edward R. Trapnell, assistant for public relations to the secretary of the Air Force, was shocked to learn that at that time the rate of UFO sightings was three times higher than when Blue Book first began.

The most documented cases of the 1950s and 60s included the buzzing of a British Overseas Airways Boeing Stratocruiser by several UFOs just after leaving New York City on June 29, 1954; radar contacts and multiple witnesses tracked a UFO that passed near two US-leased air bases near Ipswich, England, on August 13, 1956; a giant torpedo-shaped UFO which caused both motorists’ cars to stop running after it made a brief landing outside Levelland, Texas, on November 2, 1957; a recorded radar contact with a UFO that approached the televised launch of a Polaris rocket from Cape Canaveral, FL., on January 10, 1961; the observation of a landed UFO along with two occupants by Policeman Lonnie Zamora near Socorro, NM, on April 24, 1964 and further UFO demonstrations near Washington, D.C. between December 21, 1964 and January 11, 1965.

By the mid-Sixties, a new wrinkle had been added to simple UFO sightings. Stories of contact with UFO occupants and even abductions began to surface. Contactees such as George Adamski, Howard Menger, Daniel Fry and George Van Tassel claimed to have conversations with extraterrestrials and even taken on trips aboard their craft.

Perhaps the earliest and most publicized abduction case involved a New Hampshire interracial couple, Betty and Barney Hill. The Hills claimed to have recalled under hypnosis an abduction as they drove home on September 19, 1961. The Hill case received widespread publicity in the 1960s, with both a popular book and a movie made from their experience.

Considering the continued government program of ridicule aimed at anyone who sought a serious discussion of UFOs and the increasingly bizarre accounts of UFO contact, it was understandable that during the 1960s, the Air Force tried unsuccessfully to rid itself of the Blue Book UFO project. A suggestion that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) take over the UFO probe was discarded because it was believed that any NASA involvement would only convince more people of the reality of UFOs.

By the mid-1960s, pressure to treat UFOs seriously was building from different quarters. Maj. Keyhoe and his NICAP organization tried unsuccessfully to have Congress investigate the issue but the politicians were dissuaded by secret briefings by military and intelligence officers. The news media and the public were becoming wary of the self-serving explanations presented by Project Blue Book.

The public’s ire was especially aroused after nearly 100 persons ---including a Civil Defense official, a college dean, students and law enforcement officers ---watched a football-shaped pulsating object land in marshland near Dexter, Michigan, on March 20, 1966. Government investigators, including astronomer Hynek, quickly explained away the sighting as simply will-o’-the-wisp or fox fire. "Air Force Insults Public With Swamp-Gas Theory" cried one newspaper headline, reflecting public indignation. This public response prompted Michigan Rep. Gerald R. Ford to press for a congressional investigation.

Brief hearings were conducted on April 5, 1966, but testimony was tightly restricted to statements from the secretary of the Air Force, the commander of Project Blue Book and Hynek, none of whom ever claimed to have seen a UFO. Nevertheless, public pressure to learn more continued to grow.

Responding to all this, the Air Force announced on Oct. 7, 1966, that a $500,000 government grant was to be given to the University of Colorado to Study UFOs. Dr. Edward Condon, a physicist with long-standing government ties having worked on the development of both radar and the atomic bomb, was named director of the study. It quickly became known as the Condon Committee. It also quickly became apparent that Condon had no intention of conducting an open-minded, objective study.

Less than three months after the contract was awarded, Condon stated,

"My attitude right now is that there is nothing to it…But I’m not supposed to reach a conclusion for another year."

Later a memo from the study’s project coordinator, Robert Low, confirmed the insincerity of the investigator.

Writing to a Colorado University dean even before the project began, Low stated,

"Our study would be conducted almost exclusively by nonbelievers who…could and probably would add an impressive body of evidence that there is no reality to the (UFO) observations. The trick would be, I think, to describe the project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally objective study but, to the scientific community, would present the image of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective but having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer…If we set up the thing right and take pains to get the proper people involved…we could carry the job off to our benefit."

With these attitudes at the top clashing with those of the field investigators on the bottom, the study group soon broke into rival bickering and contentious factions.

One outside consultant, astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallee noted,

"Not surprisingly, a few months later the work of the committee had come to a standstill."

Like the Warren Commission before it, the Condon Committee operated from predetermined conclusions and a selective choice of evidence. It produced a report which made pronouncements unsupported by ---or even contradicting ---its own raw data.

The Condon Report was issued on January 9, 1969, with the pompous title, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, and stated,

"Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us (emphasis added) leads us to conclude that further study of UFOs cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby."

Of the 12,618 UFO reports in the Blue Book files, Condon’s committee chose to study a mere 117 ---none of which dealt with the numerous reports of UFOs detected near sensitive military and defense installations ---then admitted that 30 percent of this small sample defied logical explanation.

The report was immediately attacked from all sides. A subcommittee of the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics in 1970 stated,

"The opposite conclusions could have been drawn from the content of the (Condon) report, namely that a phenomenon with such a high ratio of unexplained cases should arouse sufficient scientific curiosity to continue its study."

Even author Curtis Peebles, a debunker who has dismissed all UFO cases as misinterpretation of natural events, hallucinations or hoaxes, recognized the weakness of the committee’s work.

"It was impossible for the different factions to come together in a common effort, " he wrote. "The Condon Study was a microcosm of the Sixties."

Other critics were less kind. "(The Condon Report is) one of the most deliberate cover-ups ever perpetrated on the public," said John Northrop, founder of Northrop Aircraft Company.

"The 21st century will die laughing at the Condon Report," commented University of Arizona physicist Dr. James E. McDonald.

"What sort of scientific investigation is it that assumes the answer before starting," groused Hynek, adding that several scientists confided to him that it was their study of the Condon Report that convinced them UFOs should be taken more seriously.

But the Condon Committee achieved it’s purpose ---it was made plain to the scientific community that there would be no merit or grants in the study of UFOs, public and media discussion of the subject was closed off, congressional inquiries were sidetracked and Hynek, by now an outspoken champion of further UFO study, was dropped after 20 years as an Air Force consultant.

All records of the Condon Committee were transferred to a private home and burned.

Toward the end of 1969, a relieved Air Force high command, buttressed by the Condon Report, terminated Project Blue Book which in hindsight can be seen to have been nothing more than a public relations front with the best cases being passed under the table to a more secret UFO group. Many of the strongest UFO cases in the Blue Book files disappeared. The government had officially closed the book on UFOs. It seemed that the UFO era had come to an end.

The only problem for the government was that those pesky UFOs refused to go away.

In fact, from the Sixties through the end of the 1990s, reports of UFO sightings and contact only increased.

The more notable cases included:

• a rash of sightings beginning in September, 1965, in New Hampshire and lasting through late November when a massive power outage blacked out most of the northeast;

• the well-documented abduction account of devout Christian Betty Andreasson from her Massachusetts home in January, 1967;

• the reported abduction of Nebraska Patrolman Herbert Schirmer who said he was told of an alien "breeding analysis" program;

• the first documented animal mutilation of the horse "Lady" (misidentified in some accounts as her mother "Snippy") in Colorado during September, 1967;

• many UFO reports made by U.S. servicemen during the Vietnam War;

• the reported abduction of two Mississippi fishermen in October, 1973;

• the widely-publicized abduction report of laborer Travis Walton from a national forest in Arizona in November, 1975;

• the irradiation of Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and her seven-year-old grandson near Houston, TX, in December, 1980, when the women claimed to have encountered a large spherical UFO belching flames and surrounded by helicopters;

• the largely unreported UFO encounter by U.S. Air Force personnel ---including the base commander ---in late December, 1980, in the Rendlesham Forest near Ipswich, England,

• the notorious controversy over sightings and photographs of UFOs over Gulf Breeze, FL, between November, 1987, and May, 1988.

Sightings and abduction claims have only increased since the U.S. Government ended any official interest with the closing of Project Blue Book in 1969. Added to this are the secondary issues of the animal mutilations and the enigmatic crops circles, which while mostly confined to the English countryside also have been reported in the United States and many other countries.

The mutilations, which have been reported almost all states and have continued through 1998, still are attributed to predators or Satanists by a indolent news media. However, the fact remains that after more than 30 years, no one has been prosecuted for draining all blood and surgically removing organs from animals.

Another secondary issue involves one of the US Government’s most secret places ---the Groom Lake facility in southern Nevada better known as Area 51. It was in this remote desert location that top-secret aircraft such as the U2 and SR-71 were developed.

Today, more hush-hush projects are underway, protected by government-hired private security agents employed by the Wackenhut Corporation.

"Multiple reports from well-qualified observers lend substantial credence to the existence of numerous secret aircraft flying from remote bases in the southwestern US, regardless of the political, funding or technical arguments against that possibility, " reported the prestigious periodical Aviation Week & Space Technology, whose editors concluded "there is substantial evidence that another family of craft exists that relies on exotic propulsion and aerodynamic schemes not fully understood at this time."

Today there is no doubt that such super-secret craft with amazing technology are being tested at Area 51 and other locations. The question has become, "Where did the United States get such technology?"

The mundane answer would be that we simply have some smart scientists and engineers. While this is undoubtedly true, there is a more unearthly answer. Many people, including Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, believe that some of our most recent aircraft use technology gained from crashed or donated UFOs. The late Col. Philip Corso revealed that in the early 1960s as head of the Foreign Technology Desk of the U.S. Army’s Research and Development Department, he personally presented select American companies with technology obtained from the 1947 crashed Roswell alien disc.

The statements of Corso, Mitchell and others support the testimony of physicist Robert Lazar who has publicly claimed to have reverse engineered UFOs at Area 51. Numerous attempts to discredit both Lazar’s work record as well as his scientific explanations of UFO workings have met with little success. The available evidence indicates Lazar may well have done what he claims and no one has clearly refuted his physics.

Despite all this, the US Government continues to maintain it has no interest in UFOs. In addition to the information regarding Area 51 and other locations now available, the recent release of documents revealed an ongoing government UFO investigation . The old 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron evolved into the 1127th Air Activities Group which investigated UFOs under a program called Project Moon Dust.

Initially the government denied Moon Dust’s existence but recanted after more documents came to light, including a State Department memo to,

"All American Diplomatic and Consular Posts" advising that Moon Dust was to be notified in all "cases involving examination of non-US space objects or objects of unknown origin."

Col. George M. Mattingley, Jr., chief of the Congressional Inquiry Division in the Office of Legislative Liaison, attempted to correct the record by admitting that Project Moon Dust and another program, Operation Blue Fly, did exist for the purpose of retrieving fallen Soviet space equipment but were discontinued due to lack of activity in the late 1950s. However, other released documents indicated that Moon Dust and Blue Fly were still operational in the late 1980s, though perhaps under another name.

It is now obvious that while the government ended it official UFO inquiry ---Project Blue Book ---in 1969, its covert investigations continue today.

Regardless of whether the MJ-12 documents now in public hands are authentic, there exists a highly-secret group at the top of the American power structure that operates in the manner they describe. Washington newsman Anthony Kimery was told that Project Blue Book was disbanded to make way for a "top-secret government agency to assume centralized control over UFO-related matters."

All investigations into the legitimacy of the controversial MJ-12 papers have hit dead ends. Some serious questions have been raised about type faces and signatures on the papers. However, even an inquiry by the FBI to determine if any security violations had occurred could neither fully discredit nor authenticate the documents.

Pulitzer Prize nominee and author Howard Blum quoted one FBI agent involved in the MJ-12 probe as saying,

"All we’re finding out is that the government doesn’t know what it knows. There are too many secret levels. You can’t get a straight story. It wouldn’t surprise me if we never know if the papers are genuine or not."

The US Government’s fixation on UFO secrecy apparently extends to other nations as well. Many foreign officials have stated that they were told not to talk about UFO incidents by US authorities. United Nations documents confirm that ranking US military officers are "at the heart of UFO operations". Dr. Robert F. Creegan with State University of New York traveled to Britain in the mid-1980s seeking information on UFOs.

He later reported,

"It was made evident to me that the British…had to appease the American military-industrial complex and so could not assist one in a search for truth."

In 1991, President Bill Clinton appointed his close friend Webster Hubbell associate attorney general of the Justice Department. According to Hubbell, Clinton asked him specifically to find out "Who killed JFK?" and the truth regarding UFOs. Hubbell said he felt he was stonewalled and was unable to secure this information for his chief.

Following Hubbell’s disclosure, Dr. Steven Greer, director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), revealed that in 1993, he presented a UFO briefing to then CIA Director Adm. James Woolsey. According to Greer, an upset Woolsey was stymied in his attempts to obtain relevant documents from CIA files.

If even the President of the United States and the director of the CIA cannot get to UFO information, it would appear as though secrecy in this issue has extended far beyond any normal security considerations. It prompts many to wonder, "Who’s really in charge?"

It is a supreme irony that the American public, who pay such lip service to the ideals of freedom and openness, should have allowed the creation of a national-security state that may be suppressing what can only be the greatest discovery in all of mankind’s history ---that we are not alone in the universe.
 

The New Majestic Twelve Documents

What would happen if an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed to Earth in Pleasantville, USA, in 1947?

At a time when the most advanced technology personally familiar to the common man was Ford truck, at a time when we had no transistor, no laser, no satellites, no moon landing, no Hubble Telescope, no Star Wars or Star Trek, and not even a hand calculator, how would leaders react to such an astonishing and frightening event?

Read the Day After Roswell to consider one highly respected and decorated Army colonel's story. Although his view of the Cold War is somewhat paranoid – very typically so for his generation – Corso received a glowing commendation and forward from Senator Strom Thurmond for the book, which made it into the first printing and was later retracted when the subject matter was revealed. He signed an affidavit testifying to the truth of his statements before his death in 1998. Note that Corso's co-author William Birnes is widely known to have exaggerated and mistaken certain details from the original manuscript, which I have had the opportunity to see at a distance.

Also read Project Mindshift and consider whether there may exist a connection between modern science fiction and the UFO situation.

In 1998, several remarkable new MAJESTIC 12 documents have emerged which dramatically expand the image available to examine of the alleged organization originally charged with the assessment of the UFO situation. These remarkable documents can be examined at ... http://www.thewordistruth.org/narr_article.cfm?id=765

An authentication analysis has been underway since 1996, and continues today. The ongoing and up-to-date authentication discussion can be found at ... http://www.thewordistruth.org/narr_article.cfm?id=116

Now that the new MAJESTIC 12 documents are in broad circulation, it is appropriate for me to make a few comments regarding their authenticity and their role in support of the hypothesis contained in The Truth.

Let me first state for the record five key philosophical points that frame my sponsorship of the publishing of these documents:

1. I have no economic motive in advancing this hypothesis or these materials. I have every conceivable career disincentive for pursuing this research. However, this line of discovery in my opinion is more important than any individual's career, and I am putting my money where my mouth is to do this.
    

2. Only those who have taken the time to read extensively in the domain are qualified to assess the historicity of the UFO phenomenon. Outright rejection of the evidence without comprehensive review of the research in print across hundreds of books is close-minded, unscientific, and indeed irresponsible in the extreme. It is also quite understandable given decades of government disinformation which, right or wrong in its genesis and continuation, was specifically designed to create a "giggle factor" surrounding the subject.
    

3. I will not selectively listen only to the evidence that simply agrees with my own previously stated views, nor will I reject evidence because it is contrary to conventional presumptions of scientists. The case "for" the reality of the UFO phenomenon is rather comprehensively summarized in The Truth, and as credible and rigorous new evidence materializes, it will be added to the site. As I discover rigorous skeptical examinations of individual documentary or historical evidence, I will include them also as part of the appropriate sections of The Truth, and/or use them to modify my own position as reflected in the narrative. Everyone will have the ability to read such perspectives and decide for themselves what is true.
    

4. The UFO phenomenon can no longer be dismissed because of an apparent incompatibility with the laws of physics, such as the speed of light limitation on interstellar travel. There are now numerous well-grounded physics papers and books in circulation that clearly point towards the ability to engineer spacetime itself, which effectively provide clear plausibility to the concept of gravitational propulsion. If we have the intellectual courage to take the Drake equation and project into it technology capable of engineering gravity, we will be left not only with the plausibility of something like the observed UFO phenomenon, but the overwhelming likelihood of it. This is a simple scientific fact.
    

5. I am unwaveringly committed to a rigorous pursuit of the truth, wherever that may lead. www.TheWordIsTruth.org will contain my best effort to present the complete and true story spanning the subjects touched upon within it.

With those points as a foundation for the evolution of my book, I would like to state my own views on the question of how the authenticity of the MJ-12 materials bears on the historicity of the events they describe.

After years of analysis of previously-published MJ-12 documents (such as the work conducted by Stanton Friedman) and particularly in light of the newly released MJ-12 documents, one thing is clear to virtually all serious researchers regardless of whether they believe in the pristine authenticity of the new materials: many of the MJ-12 documents simply must have been authored by or within the military-intelligence community of a superpower.

This fact alone speaks volumes when considered next to the mountain of other UFO evidence. If the documents are pristine and true, they were written by the individuals therein mentioned or assistants. If the documents are partial or complete forgeries, then they were written by an intelligence agency of the government of either the United States or the Soviet Union. In this sense, even the serious-minded skeptics are hard pressed not to agree that they are "authentic" in terms of military-intelligence authorship.

The question is, could they be authentic in military-intelligence authorship and not authentic in detail? And if so, what does that say about the most important authentication question of all: the basic history they describe?

It is almost certain that the security infrastructures created to contain the history of the crash of an extraterrestrial vehicle in 1947 would ultimately wind up creating forgeries for whatever purpose.

Three ulterior purposes immediately spring to mind:

1. documents seeded with small but critical flaws, destined to one day leak and discredit their entire chains of custody and all of the surrounding research, thereby helping to seal the cover on the program,

2. documents fabricated to mis-inform Cold War allies or enemies or proxies thereof about the details of the events, and

3. documents fabricated to disinform internal constituencies: competing branches of government, particularly nosy investigators, diligent reporters, or the public at large.

But whether every single MJ-12 document is completely accurate in historical detail, genuine in authorship, or pristine in generation is not the issue. It is obviously possible that an intelligence agency of either superpower fabricated one or more of the documents for one of the purposes described above, or some other purpose.

However, I believe that it is exceedingly improbable that such documents were created in a vacuum – created as complete fiction, in the complete absence of an authentic phenomenon and original historical events. The mere existence of such documents as these, containing the verifiable details that they do, is powerful evidence for the reality of the basic UFO phenomenon, irrespective of whether a "crash" occurred in 1947.

Indeed, I have personally sat across the table from top leaders and brilliant minds of the military and science, on multiple occasions, who have confirmed the basic truth of the UFO phenomenon. Those who know me best know that I would never have bet my reputation and my career without such explicit confirmation. I have nothing – nothing – to gain by lying. I am telling the truth.

Based upon what these leaders have told me, I do not believe that most elected officials or military intelligence officials have much more knowledge than the general public on the subject of UFOs. The best private information I have been able to secure is that the organization responsible for managing the domain is comprised of less than 1000 people and was long ago privatized and pulled entirely outside of the machinery of the political and military command structure.

It reports to no publicly elected or appointed leader, but rather a self-selected governing body which today is comprised of a larger number of industrialists than military or civil officials. It is believed that a growing minority of this governing body wishes to move towards public release of the secret in the near future.

For those involved in UFO research, I strongly suggest that you focus your energies on tying together the historical events and people described in the documents, rather than exclusively concentrating on the history of the pages themselves. As far as "proving" the pristine authenticity of the MJ-12 documents and their history is concerned, it is really only critical to validate any one of the principal documents.

If only a single major document is validated, then MJ-12 was factual, and its confirmed existence and basic mission is to be added to the already overwhelming and far more powerful testimonial evidence in favor of the reality of the UFO phenomenon. Focusing too much time on the provenance of the pages themselves is a mistake, because the most compelling proof that their storyline is basically true – short of new materials or events unfolding – is bound to come in the form of other corroborating historical research and witness testimony.

In the final analysis, the skeptic is charged with doing far, far more than discrediting these newly released documents through speculative criticisms based upon typographical errors or one or two seemingly anachronistic details, because the historicity of the documents is not the most important question. The most important question is the historicity of the phenomenon they describe. There is OVERWHELMING evidence that the UFO phenomenon is real. Therefore, ANY such well-crafted documents – pristine in every detail or not – argue in behalf of the reality of the UFO phenomenon.

It is astronomically unlikely that the massive and generally self-consistent evidence of extraterrestrial activity over the past five decades is simply a large coincidence or the product of a several good hoaxes.

I ask the skeptic to step forward and comprehensively refute all the evidence: the millions of sightings, the thousands of reported landings, the thousands of abduction experiences, and the countless highly strange accompanying phenomena for which no one yet has a clear explanation: crop circles, cattle mutilations, etc.

The refutation must take into account the following facts:

1. compelling UFO evidence spans all nations, modernized or not, regardless of whether their populations have been exposed to science fiction

2. the evidence spans far more than 50 years – rather it goes back thousands of years, peppered throughout the ancient books and scriptures of our ancestors

3. the evidence is found to be exactly as it should be found when describing a phenomenon advanced far beyond humanity: it borders on the incomprehensible

How is a family of monkeys to interpret a Palm Pilot III? Or a Boeing 777? Or a football game? Or a scientist shooting at them with a dart to tranquilize, abduct, examine, and release them? Such a comparison is entirely fair and completely literal.

I am not aware of the existence of sufficient contrary data to refute the massive accumulation of evidence supporting the reality of the UFO phenomenon. Indeed, let me restate perhaps the only truly powerful scientific argument against its plausibility: gravitational propulsion is not possible, therefore we have not been and are not being visited by beings from other worlds. This argument is ultimately the only basis upon which the UFO phenomenon can be rejected as a product of our collective imagination.

So I ask you this: what if it is possible to engineer gravity? 100% of the scientific presumptions against interstellar travel – and by direct implication extraterrestrial visitation – must immediately be extinguished if there is a single credible demonstration of practical gravity engineering. There is good evidence to believe that open science is now flirting with such a demonstration, and it is reported in my book.

But perhaps the most significant motive to consider seriously the possibility that the UFO phenomenon is based in fact is that any integration of the majestic history of science with the profound history of faith would clearly demand some connective concept of such a high order.

The reason I have not "called out" the MJ-12 documents within The Truth web site more prominently than the narrative is because we can begin to comprehend the UFO phenomenon only if we are capable of putting it into a coherent world view. How else can the implications of such astonishing information possibly be considered?

The Truth represents one continuing effort to rigorously integrate a world view given such knowledge. It proposes that several billion faithful human beings across history have indeed been doing their faltering best to follow their truth, just as several hundred million scientists have done more recently. If we reject the hypothesis of The Truth and nothing replaces it that can as coherently connect science and faith in history, then we must ask ourselves how we can avoid spiraling towards one of three unambiguous and harsh futures: science deconstructing faith as fantasy, religion destroying science as evil, or perhaps economics destroying both as inefficient.

If the hypothesis of The Truth is correct, or if another hypothesis can bring these questions into coherence with equal completeness, then there is indeed a grander integrated story of our history. In that case it is not only important, but vital at this time to step beyond our preexisting world view and expand the boundaries of our imagination.

If humanity is indeed the subject of a multimillennium process of education, if not genesis itself, it is of fundamental importance that we demonstrate our ability to think, study and teach on a new level.

Will we choose to step out of our Truman Show?

If you wish to receive a regular update on happenings in the UFO research community, I recommend you subscribe to Michael Lindemann's CNI-News. As Mr. Lindemann does, you must keep an open mind and remember that the UFO domain is littered with fantasy and garbage.

At the core of this can be found information of high quality and extreme importance.

It's taken me over a decade to separate one from the other.

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