by
Michael E. Salla, PhD
February 12, 2004
from
Exopolitics Website
Introduction
[1]
On the night and early hours of February 20-21, 1954, while on a ‘vacation’
to Palm Springs, California, President Dwight Eisenhower went missing and
allegedly was taken to Edwards Air force base for a secret meeting.
When he
showed up the next morning at a church service in Los Angeles, reporters
were told that he had to have emergency dental treatment the previous
evening and had visited a local dentist.
The dentist later appeared at a
function that evening and presented as the ‘dentist’ who had treated Eisenhower. The missing night and morning has subsequently fueled rumors
that Eisenhower was using the alleged dentist visit as a cover story for an
extraordinary event.
The event is possibly the most significant that any
American President could have conducted: an alleged ‘First Contact’ meeting
with extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force base (previously Muroc Airfield),
and the beginning of a series of meetings with different extraterrestrial
races that led to a ‘treaty’ that was eventually signed.
This astonishing First Contact event, if it occurred, will experience its 50th anniversary on
February 20-21, 2004.
This paper explores the evidence that the First Contact meeting had occurred
with extraterrestrials with a distinctive ‘Nordic’ appearance, the
likelihood of an agreement having been spurned with this ‘Nordic race’,
the
start of a series of meetings that led to a treaty eventually being signed
with a different extraterrestrial race dubbed the ‘Greys’, and the
motivations of the different extraterrestrial races involved in these treaty
discussions.
The paper will further examine why these events were kept
secret for so long, the significance of the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower’s
meeting with extraterrestrials, and whether an official disclosure
announcement is likely in the near future.
Circumstantial Evidence Supporting Eisenhower’s ‘First Contact’ Meeting with
Extraterrestrials
There is circumstantial and testimonial evidence supporting Eisenhower’s
meeting with extraterrestrials and the start of a series of meetings that
culminated in the signing of a treaty with a different group of
extraterrestrials.
The most intriguing are circumstances surrounding Eisenhower’s alleged winter vacation to Palm Springs, California from
February 17-24, 1954. Firstly, the ”vacation for the President” which was
announced rather suddenly and came less than a week after Eisenhower’s
‘quail shooting’ vacation in Georgia.
According to UFO researcher,
William
Moore, all this was quite unusual and suggested that there was more to the
one week visit to Palm Springs than a simple holiday.
[2]
Second, on the Saturday night of February 20, President Eisenhower did go
missing fueling press speculation that he had taken ill or even died. In a
hastily convened press conference, Eisenhower’s Press Secretary announced
that Eisenhower had lost a tooth cap while eating fried chicken and had to
be rushed to a local dentist. The local dentist was introduced at an
official function on Sunday February 21, as "the dentist who had treated the
president".
[3]
Moore’s investigation of the incident concluded that the
dentist’s visit was being used as a cover story for Eisenhower’s true
whereabouts.
Consequently, Eisenhower was missing for an entire evening and could easily
have been taken from Palm Springs to the nearby Muroc Airfield,
later
renamed Edwards Air Force base.
The unscheduled nature of the President’s
vacation, the missing President and the dentist cover story provide
circumstantial evidence that the true purpose of his Palm Springs vacation
was for him to attend an event whose importance was such that it could not
be disclosed to the general public.
A meeting with extraterrestrials may
well have been the true purpose of his visit.
Gerald Light’s Letter That Eisenhower Met With Extraterrestrials
The first public source alleging a meeting with extraterrestrials was Gerald
Light who in a letter dated April 16, 1954 to Meade Layne, the then director
of Borderland Sciences Research Associates (now Foundation), claimed he was
part of a delegation of community leaders to an alleged meeting with
extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force Base.
In a subsequent article, Meade
Layne described Light as a “gifted and highly educated writer and lecturer”,
who was skilled both in clairvoyance and the occult.
[4]
Light was a well-known
metaphysical community leader in the Southern California area. The alleged
purpose of him and others on the delegation was to test public reaction to
the presence of extraterrestrials.
Light described the circumstances of the
meeting as follows:
'My dear friends:
I have just returned from Muroc [Edwards Air Force Base].
The report is true -- devastatingly true! I made the journey in company with
Franklin Allen of the Hearst papers and Edwin Nourse of
Brookings Institute
(Truman's erstwhile financial advisor) and Bishop MacIntyre of L.A. (confidential
names for the present, please).
When we were allowed to enter the restricted
section (after about six hours in which we were checked on every possible
item, event, incident and aspect of our personal and public lives), I had
the distinct feeling that the world had come to an end with fantastic
realism.
For I have never seen so many human beings in a state of complete
collapse and confusion, as they realized that their own world had indeed
ended with such finality as to beggar description.
The reality of the ‘other
plane’ aeroforms is now and forever removed from the realms of speculation
and made a rather painful part of the consciousness of every responsible
scientific and political group.
During my two days' visit I saw
five
separate and distinct types of aircraft being studied and handled by our Air
Force officials -- with the assistance and permission of the Etherians!
I
have no words to express my reactions. It has finally happened. It is now a
matter of history. President Eisenhower, as you may already know, was
spirited over to Muroc one night during his visit to Palm Springs recently.
And it is my conviction that he will ignore the terrific conflict between
the various 'authorities' and go directly to the people via radio and
television - if the impasse continues much longer.
From what I could gather,
an official statement to the country is being prepared for delivery about
the middle of May.
[5]
Of course no such formal announcement was made, and Light’s supposed meeting
has either been the best-kept secret of the twentieth century or the
fabrication of an elderly mystic known for out of body experiences.
The
events Light describes in his meeting in terms of the panic and confusion of
many of those present, the emotional impact of the alleged landing, and the
tremendous difference of opinion on what to do in terms of telling the
public and responding to the extraterrestrial visitors, are plausible
descriptions of what may have occurred.
Indeed, the psychological and
emotional impact Light describes for senior national security leaders at the
meeting is consistent with what could be expected for such a ‘life changing
event’.
A further way of determining Light’s claim is to investigate the
figures he named along with himself as part of the community delegation, and
whether they could have been plausible candidates for such a meeting.
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Dr Edwin Nourse (1883-1974) was the first chairman of the
Council of
Economic Advisors to the President (1944-1953) and was President Truman’s
chief economic advisor.
[6] Nourse officially retired to private life in
1953 and would certainly have been a good choice of someone who could give
confidential economic advise to the Eisenhower administration.
If
Dr Nourse
was present at such a meeting, he did so in order to provide his expertise
on the possible economic impact of First Contact with extraterrestrials.
Another of the individuals mentioned by Light was Bishop MacIntyre.
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Cardinal James Francis MacIntyre was the bishop and head of the Catholic
Church in Los Angeles (1948-1970) and would have been an important gauge for
the possible reaction from religious leaders generally, and in particular
from the most influential and powerful religious institution on the planet –
the Roman Catholic Church.
In particular, Cardinal MacIntyre would have been
a good choice as a representative for the Vatican since he was appointed the
first Cardinal of the Western United States by Pope Pius XII in 1952. All
Cardinal MacIntyre’s correspondence is closed to researchers thus making it
impossible to confirm what impact the visit to Muroc had on him and what he
communicated to other church leaders and the Vatican.
[7]
Cardinal MacIntyre
had sufficient rank and authority to represent the Catholic Church and the
religious community in a delegation of community leaders.
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The fourth member of the delegation of community leaders was
Franklin
Winthrop Allen, a former reporter with the Hearst Newspapers Group.
[8]
Allen was 80 years old at the time, author of a book instructing reporters
on how to deal with Congressional Committee Hearings, and would have been a
good choice for a member of the press who could maintain confidentiality.
The four represented senior leaders of the religious, spiritual, economic
and newspaper communities and were well advanced in age and status.
They
would certainly have been plausible choices for a community delegation that
could provide confidential advise on a possible public response to a First
Contact event involving extraterrestrial races. Such a selection would have
constituted a ‘wise men’ group that would have been entirely in character
for the conservative nature of American society in 1954.
While Light may
well contrived such a list in a fabricated account or ‘out of body’
experience as Moore implies in his analysis, there is nothing in Light’s
selection that eliminates the possibility that they were plausible members
of such a delegation.
[9] At face value then, the selection of such a ‘wise
men’ group gives some credence to Light’s claim.
It may be concluded then that following items all make up circumstantial
evidence that a meeting with extraterrestrials occurred.
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The first is Eisenhower’s missing night.
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The second is the weak ‘cover story’ used for
Eisenhower’s absence.
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The third is Light’s description of actual events at
the meeting in terms of the psychological and emotional impact of the
described meeting which is consistent with what could be anticipated.
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The
final is Light’s description of the composition of community leaders or
‘wise men’ at the meeting.
These four items collectively provide
circumstantial evidence that a meeting with extraterrestrials occurred and
that Eisenhower was present.
Testimonies Supporting Eisenhower’s Meeting With Extraterrestrials
There are a number of other sources alleging an extraterrestrial meeting at Edwards Air force base that corresponded to a formal First Contact event.
These sources are based on testimonies of ‘whistleblowers’ that witnessed
documents or learned from their ‘insider contacts’ of such a meeting. These
testimonies describe what appears to be two separate sets of meetings
involving different extraterrestrial groups who met either with President
Eisenhower and/or with Eisenhower administration officials over a short
period of time.
The first of these meetings, the actual ‘First Contact’
event, did not lead to an agreement and the extraterrestrials were
effectively spurned.
The second of these meetings did lead to an agreement,
and this has been apparently become the basis of subsequent secret
interactions with extraterrestrial races involved in the ‘treaty’ that was
signed.
There is some discrepancy in the sequence of meetings and where they
were held, but all agree that a ‘First Contact’ meeting involving
President
Eisenhower did occur, and that one of these meetings occurred with his
February 1954 visit to Edwards Air force base.
The first version of Eisenhower’s meeting is described by one of the most
‘controversial’ whistleblowers to ever have come forward into the public
arena to describe an extraterrestrial presence.
William Cooper served on the
Naval Intelligence briefing team for the Commander of the Pacific Fleet
between 1970-73, and had access to classified documents that he had to
review in order to fulfill his briefing duties.
He describes the background
and nature of the ‘First contact’ with extraterrestrials as follows:
In 1953 Astronomers discovered large objects in space which were moving
toward the Earth. It was first believed that they were asteroids.
Later
evidence proved that the objects could only be Spaceships. Project Sigma
intercepted alien radio communications. When the objects reached the Earth
they took up a very high orbit around the Equator.
There were several huge
ships, and their actual intent was unknown. Project Sigma, and a
new
project, Plato, through radio communications using the computer binary
language, was able to arrange a landing that resulted in face to face
contact with alien beings from another planet. Project Plato was tasked with
establishing diplomatic relations with this race of space aliens. In the
meantime a race of human looking aliens contacted the U.S. Government.
This
alien group warned us against the aliens that were orbiting the Equator and
offered to help us with our spiritual development. They demanded that we
dismantle and destroy our nuclear weapons as the major condition.
They
refused to exchange technology citing that we were spiritually unable to
handle the technology which we then possessed. They believed that we would
use any new technology to destroy each other.
This race stated that,
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we were
on a path of self destruction and we must stop killing each other,
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stop
polluting the Earth,
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stop raping the Earth's natural resources,
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and learn to
live in harmony.
These terms were met with extreme suspicion, especially the
major condition of nuclear disarmament.
It was believed that meeting that
condition would leave us helpless in the face of an obvious alien threat. We
also had nothing in history to help with the decision. Nuclear disarmament
was not considered to be within the best interest of the United States.
The
overtures were rejected.
[10]
The significant point about Cooper’s version is that the humanoid
extraterrestrial race was not willing to enter into technology exchanges
that might help weapons development, and instead was focused on spiritual
development. Significantly, the overtures of these extraterrestrials were
turned down.
Confirmation that the First Contact meeting involved extraterrestrials who
were effectively spurned for taking what might be considered a principled
stand on technology assistance and nuclear weapons comes from the son of a
former Navy Commander who claimed that his father had been present at the
First Contact event on February 20-21, 1954.
According to Charles L. Suggs,
a retired Sgt from the US Marine Corps, his father Charles L. Suggs,
(1909-1987) was a former Commander with the US Navy who attended the meeting
at Edwards Air force base with Eisenhower.
[11]
Sgt Suggs recounted his
father’s experiences from the meeting in a 1991 interview with a prominent
UFO researcher:
Charlie's father, Navy Commander Charles Suggs
accompanied President Ike along
with others on Feb. 20th. They met and spoke with 2 white-haired Nordics
that had pale blue eyes and colorless lips. The spokesman stood a number of
feet away from Ike and would not let him approach any closer.
A second nordic stood on the extended ramp of a bi-convex saucer that stood on tripod
landing gear on the landing strip. According to Charlie, there were B-58
Hustlers on the field even though the first one did not fly officially till
1956. These visitors said they came from another solar system.
They posed
detailed questions about our
nuclear testing.
[12]
Another ‘whistleblower’ who confirms that First Contact involved an
extraterrestrial race being spurned for their principled stand on technology
transfer is the son of the famous creator of the Lear Jet, William Lear.
John Lear is a former Lockheed L-1011 Captain who flew over 150 test
aircraft and held 18 world speed records, and during the late 1960's, 1970's
and early 1980's was a contract pilot for the CIA.
Lear developed a close
relationship with CIA Director (DCI) William Colby who was in charge of
covert operations in Vietnam before becoming DCI.
According to Lear there
had indeed been a warning from another race prior to an agreement being
eventually signed, and he claimed they visited Muroc/Edward and the
following occurred:
In 1954, President Eisenhower
met with a representative of another alien
species at Muroc Test Center, which is now called Edwards Airforce Base.
This alien suggested that they could help us get rid of the Greys but
Eisenhower turned down their offer because they offered no technology.
[13]
Cooper’s and Lear’s idea of more than one extraterrestrial race interacting
with the Eisenhower administration is supported by other
whistleblowers such
as former Master Sergeant Robert Dean who like Cooper, had access to top
secret documents while working in the intelligence division for the Supreme
Commander of a major US military command.
In Dean’s 27 year distinguished
military career, he served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
where he witnessed these documents while serving under the Supreme Allied
Commander of Europe.
Dean claimed:
The group at the time, there were just four that they knew of for certain
and the Greys were one of those groups. There was a group that looked
exactly like we do.
There was a human group that looked so much like us that
that really drove the admirals and the generals crazy because they
determined that these people, and they had seen them repeatedly, they had
had contact with them, there had been abductions, there had been contacts…
Two other groups, there was a very large group, I say large, they were 6-8
maybe sometimes 9 feet tall and they were humanoid, but they were very pale,
very white, didn't have any hair on their bodies at all.
And then there was
another group that had sort of a reptilian quality to them. We had
encountered them, military people and police officers all over the world
have run into these guys.
They had vertical pupils in their eyes and their
skin seemed to have a quality very much like what you find on the stomach of
a lizard.
So those were the four they knew of in 1964.
[14]
There is some discrepancy in the testimonials as to which Air force base the
spurned extraterrestrials met with President Eisenhower and/or Eisenhower
administration officials.
Cooper claims this occurred at Homestead Air force
base in Florida, and not Edwards.
[15]
On the other hand
Lear and Suggs
suggest it occurred at Edwards. In his letter, Gerald Light pointed to
intense disagreement amongst Eisenhower officials in responding to the
extraterrestrials at the Edwards AFB meeting.
Such intense disagreement may
predictably have occurred if national security officials were responding to
an extraterrestrial request to abandon the pursuit of weapons technologies.
Given the intensity of the Cold War, the national security officials present
may well have decided it was more prudent to seek better terms before
agreeing to the extraterrestrials request. Light’s testimony implies that
the meeting at Edwards did not result in an agreement, but instead resulted
in intense disagreement between Eisenhower officials.
Consequently, I will
conclude that the Lear and Suggs version is more accurate, and that the
‘First Contact’ meeting occurred at Edwards Air force base in February
20-21, 1954.
The Subsequent 1954 Agreement with Extraterrestrials
According to the testimonies examined so far, the February 20-21, 1954
meeting was not successful, and the extraterrestrials were spurned due to
their refusal to enter into technology exchanges and insistence on nuclear
disarmament by the US and presumably other major world powers.
Cooper describes the circumstances of a subsequent agreement that was reached after
the failure of the first meeting.
While Cooper has a different version of
dates and times for the 1954 meetings, he agrees that there were two sets of
meetings involving different extraterrestrials meeting with President
Eisenhower and/or Eisenhower administration officials.
[16]
Later in 1954 the race of large nosed Gray Aliens which had been orbiting
the Earth landed at Holloman Air Force Base.
A basic agreement was reached.
This race identified themselves as originating from a Planet around a red
star in the Constellation of Orion which we called Betelgeuse. They stated
that their planet was dying and that at some unknown future time they would
no longer be able to survive there.
[17]
The meeting at Holloman Air force base in New Mexico has reportedly been the
site of subsequent extraterrestrial meetings with the same extraterrestrials
who it will be shown signed the 1954 treaty.
In 1972-73, for example, the
producers Robert Emenegger and Allan Sandler, had allegedly been offered and
witnessed actual Air force film footage of a meeting involving Grey
extraterrestrials that occurred at Holloman Air force base in 1971.
[18]
Cooper explained the terms of the 1954 treaty reached with the Grey
extraterrestrials as follows:
The treaty stated that
the aliens would not interfere in our affairs and we
would not interfere in theirs. We would keep their presence on earth a
secret. They would furnish us with advanced technology and would help us in
our technological development.
They would not make any treaty with any other
Earth nation.
They could abduct humans on a limited and periodic basis for
the purpose of medical examination and monitoring of our development, with
the stipulation that the humans would not be harmed, would be returned to
their point of abduction, would have no memory of the event, and that the
alien nation would furnish
Majesty Twelve (MJ-12) with a list of all human contacts
and abductees on a regularly scheduled basis.
[19]
Another whistleblower
source for a treaty having been signed is Phil
Schneider, a former geological engineer that was employed by corporations
contracted to build underground bases worked extensively on black projects
involving extraterrestrials.
He revealed his own knowledge of the treaty in
the following:
Back in 1954, under the
Eisenhower administration, the federal government
decided to circumvent the Constitution of the United States and form a
treaty with alien entities. It was called the 1954 Grenada Treaty, which
basically made the agreement that the aliens involved could take a few cows
and test their implanting techniques on a few human beings, but that they
had to give details about the people involved.
[20]
Schneider’s knowledge of the treaty would have come from his familiarity
with a range of compartmentalized black projects and interaction with other
personnel working with extraterrestrials.
Yet another whistleblower source
for an agreement being signed is Dr Michael Wolf, who claims to have served
on various policy-making committees responsible for extraterrestrial affairs
for twenty five years.
[21]
He claims that the
Eisenhower administration
entered into the treaty with an extraterrestrial race and that this treaty
was never ratified as constitutionally required.
[22]
Significantly, a number of whistleblowers argue that the treaty that was
signed involved some compulsion on the part of the extraterrestrials.
Don
Phillips is a former Air force serviceman and employee on clandestine
aviation projects who testified having seen documents describing the meeting
between President Eisenhower and extraterrestrials, and the background to a
subsequent agreement:
We have records from 1954 that were
meetings between our own leaders of this
country and ET’s here in California. And, as I understand it from the
written documentation, we were asked if we would allow them to be here and
do research.
I have read that our reply was well, how can we stop you? You
are so advanced. And I will say by this camera and this sound, that it was President Eisenhower that had this meeting. [23]
Col.
Phillip Corso, a highly decorated officer that served in
Eisenhower’s
National Security Council alluded to a treaty signed by the Eisenhower
administration with extraterrestrials in his memoirs. He wrote:
“We had
negotiated a kind of surrender with them [extraterrestrials] as long as we
couldn’t fight them. They dictated the terms because they knew what we most
feared was disclosure.”
[24]
Corso’s claim of a ‘negotiated surrender’
suggests that some sort of agreement or ‘treaty’ was reached which he was
not happy with.
What Do We Know of the Grey Extraterrestrials that signed the Treaty?
According to Cooper,
the Grey extraterrestrials signing the treaty were not
trustworthy:
By 1955 it became obvious that the aliens had deceived
Eisenhower and had
broken the treaty…
It was suspected that the aliens were not submitting a
complete list of human contacts and abductees to the
Majesty Twelve and it
was suspected that not all abductees had been returned.
[25]
Similarly, Lear argued that the Grey extraterrestrials quickly broke the
treaty and could not be trusted:
… a deal was struck that in exchange for advanced technology from the aliens
we would allow them to abduct a very small number of persons and we would
periodically be given a list of those persons abducted.
We got something
less than the technology we bargained for and found the abductions exceeded
by a million fold than what we had naively agreed to.
[26]
Other whistleblowers also suggested that the extraterrestrials who signed
the Treaty with Eisenhower couldn’t be trusted. Schneider claimed that
despite the treaty’s provisions on the number of humans who would be
‘abducted’ for experiments,
“the aliens altered the bargain until they
decided they wouldn't abide by it at all.”
[27]
As mentioned earlier, Col Phillip Corso similarly believed that the
extraterrestrials that the Eisenhower administration entered into agreements
with couldn’t be trusted.
Corso believed these forced a ‘negotiated
surrender’ suggesting an extraterrestrial agenda that was suspect.
While General Douglas Macarthur didn’t directly mention any government treaty with
extraterrestrials, he gave a famous warning in October 1955 suggesting that
some extraterrestrial presence existed that threatened human sovereignty:
You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of
harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human
race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy."
"The nations
of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary
war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against
attack by people from other planets.
[28]
Macarthur may well have been alluding to the same extraterrestrials that
Corso, Cooper and Lear believed had entered into an agreement with the
Eisenhower administration.
Significantly, reports of contacts with extraterrestrials began to change
once the alleged treaty began to be implemented.
The friendly ‘space
brothers’ reports involving contactees of the 1950s changed as reports of
abductions began to emerge after the first recorded case in 1961 involving
Barney and Betty Hill:
Another apparent pattern that has occurred in Ufology is the dominance of
the space brothers in the 1950's who were kind, interacted with people who
became known as contactees, and took people for rides in their space crafts.
This pattern changed dramatically with the abduction of Betty and
Barney Hill in the early 1960's.
The space brother human types of the 1950's seemed
to fade away, and they were replaced in the UFO literature with another type
of alien. In the early sixties the first abduction of the Hills began a new
pattern where the aliens were grey "evil" aliens who would abduct people
against their will, and perform medical procedures on them.
There were, as
far as this author is aware no confirmed cases of "classic" abductions in
the 1950's.
Unlike the "good" space brothers of the 1950's these grey aliens
were described by all, who were unfortunate enough to have met with them, as
being distant and without emotions.
[29]
According to Wolf, the extraterrestrials were Greys from the
fourth planet
of the star system Zeta Reticulum, while Cooper claims they were
tall Greys
from Betelgeuse, Orion.
Wolf’s and Cooper’s differing versions likely
reflect a close relationship between Greys from Rigel and Betelguese, and
that more than one species of extraterrestrials may have been covered in the
treaty.
Wolf has described the Greys as having positive motivations in
regard to their presence on Earth, but have been inhibited and targeted by
rogue elements in the US military.
[30] Similarly,
Robert Dean believes that
the extraterrestrials visiting Earth are friendly.
[31]
This contrasts with
the testimonies of Cooper, Lear, Schneider, Corso and arguably even
Macarthur over the true motivations of the Greys. It is worth repeating
Gerald Light’s claim of a “terrific conflict between the various
'authorities'” on whether to inform the general public or not.
It is likely
that these differing perspectives on the motivations of the Greys reflected
an uncertainty that has continued to intensely divide policy makers up to
the present on how to best respond to the extraterrestrial presence and what
to tell the general public.
[32]
Maintaining Secrecy and Witness Credibility
The uncertainty over the motivations and behavior of the Grey
extraterrestrials appears to have played a large role in the government
decision not to disclose the extraterrestrial presence and the treaty
Eisenhower signed with them.
The following passage from an ‘alleged official
document’ leaked to UFO researchers describes the official secrecy policy
adopted in April 1954, two months after Eisenhower had ‘First Contact’ with
extraterrestrials who were spurned by the Eisenhower administration:
Any encounter with entities known to be of extraterrestrial origin is to be
considered to be a matter of national security and therefore classified TOP
SECRET (see below images).
Under no circumstances is the general public or the public press to
learn of the existence of these entities.
The official government policy is
that such creatures do not exist, and that no agency of the federal
government is now engaged in any study of extraterrestrials or their
artifacts. Any deviation from this stated policy is absolutely forbidden.
[33]
Penalties for disclosing classified information concerning extraterrestrials
are quite severe.
In December 1953, the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued
Army-Navy-Air Force publication 146 that made the unauthorized release of
information concerning UFOs a crime under the Espionage Act, punishable by
up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
[34]
According to
Robert Dean,
this draconian penalty is what prevents most former military servicemen from
coming forward to disclose information.
[35]
“Special Operations
Manual, SOM1-01
Extraterrestrial Entities
and Technology, Recovery and Disposal,”
April 1954 Part 2
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The strategies for dealing with those former servicemen, corporate employees
or witnesses brave or ‘foolish’ enough to come forward to reveal classified
information is to intimidate, silence, eliminate or discredit these
individuals.
This policy involves such strategies as removing all public
records of former military service men or corporate employees, forcing
individuals to make retractions, deliberately distorting statements of
individuals, or discrediting individuals. Bob Lazar, for example, claimed to
be a former physicist employed with reverse engineering extraterrestrial
craft.
He described the disappearance of all his university and public
records indicating how military-intelligence agencies actively discredit
whistleblowers. [36]
In the cases of the witnesses cited so far, Cooper, Schneider, Lear, Wolf,
all have been subjected to some or all of these strategies thereby making it
difficult to reach firm conclusions about their testimonies.
Since the
creation of controversy, uncertainty, and confusion is the modus operandi of
military-intelligence agencies in maintaining secrecy of the
extraterrestrial presence, then the testimonies of former
officials/employees/witnesses need to be considered on their merits.
While
issues of credibility, credentials, disinformation are important in the
study of the extraterrestrial presence, a rigorous methodology for dealing
with the efforts of military-intelligence agencies to discredit, intimidate
or create controversy around particular witnesses, has yet to be developed.
For example, numerous efforts to discredit Cooper in particular by referring
to inconsistencies in his statements, retractions, egregious behavior and
stated positions, may be due in part or in whole to the policy of
military-intelligence officials to discredit and/or intimidate Cooper from
leaking classified information that he may very well have witnessed in his
official capacities.
Since Cooper’s military record does indicate he did
serve in an official capacity on the briefing team of the Commander of the
Pacific Fleet, it is most likely that much of his testimony is credible.
Whatever inaccuracies exist in terms of his recollections of the timing of
meetings between the Eisenhower administration and extraterrestrials may
either have been due to memory lapses or perhaps deliberately introduced as
a self-protective mechanism.
It has been pointed out by some
‘whistleblowers’ that making retractions or sowing inaccuracies in
testimonies is sometimes essential in disseminating information without
being physically harmed.
[37]
The controversial
Cooper
had been subjected to
undoubtedly the longest and most intense military-intelligence efforts to
discredit or intimidate any whistleblower revealing classified information.
The non-disclosure policy developed for the extraterrestrial presence is
most likely due to a profound policy dilemma on the part of responsible
national security officials.
This dilemma comes from uncertainty over what
the true benefits of the purported 1954 treaty were, and what the
consequences of the treaty would be. While the signing of the treaty
provided US national security agencies an opportunity to study
extraterrestrial technologies, and to observe the extraterrestrial
biological program with abducted civilians, it appeared the treaty was not
as beneficial as was first thought due to excessive abductions of US
civilians.
The subsequent behavior of the Greys in their interactions with US national
security agencies was the most likely reason for deferring a decision to
release news of the treaty and the extraterrestrial presence to the global
public. According to Lights’ testimony, Eisenhower had indicated to those
present on February 20-21, 1954, that an announcement would be made soon
after the First Contact event.
Since this didn’t occur, and a treaty was
eventually signed with a different group of extraterrestrials, the Greys,
this suggested that the national security agencies were deeply divided over
the wisdom of disclosing this information, and alarmed by the possible
public reaction to the Grey activities.
At his farewell speech in 1961, President Eisenhower was possibly alluding
to the growing power of national security agencies that dealt with the
extraterrestrial presence and were gaining great power as a result of the
dilemma over what to do with the extraterrestrial presence:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military
industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for
granted.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper
meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our
peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper
together.
If the President was dissatisfied with the non-disclosure of the
extraterrestrial presence, then his speech was indicating that the
responsible national security agencies were both dominating public policy
and taking a ‘hard-line approach’ that was inconsistent with American
democratic ideals.
In the subsequent decades, it appears that on a number of occasions,
official disclosure was seriously contemplated. For example, Robert Emenegger and
Allan Sandler claimed they were approached by the Pentagon in
1972 to produce an officially sanctioned video that would be used for
official public disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence.
When the offer
was later withdrawn, the reason given was that the time was no longer
suitable due to the Watergate Scandal. While it is undoubtedly true that
political factors would impact on making a formal disclosure announcement,
it is more likely the case that non-disclosure was caused by lack of clarity
over what the true motivations of the extraterrestrials were, and the impact
an announcement would have on extraterrestrial activities.
Making any
announcement of the extraterrestrial presence would naturally have lead to
questions concerning the extraterrestrials’ motivations and activities. If
officials couldn’t agree on appropriate answers, they most likely decided
that it was better to defer disclosure rather than threaten national
security by making inaccurate announcements.
The precise nature of the extraterrestrial abductions and the medical
programs implemented by the Greys has been extensively researched and
discussed by a number of UFO researchers.
Their conclusions vary widely
suggesting that the deep disagreement among private UFO researchers over the
motivations and activities of the Greys, very likely mirrors that of
official government sources.
[38]
As long as such uncertainty continues, it
appears that disclosure may continue to be deferred until key global events
no longer makes the non-disclosure policy viable.
Conclusion
An examination of the evidence presented in this paper in terms of
whistleblower or witness testimonies raises tremendous problems in terms of
coming to a conclusive opinion over:
-
first, the truth of the alleged
‘First
Contact’ meeting between Eisenhower and extraterrestrials
-
second, claims of
more than one set of extraterrestrials meeting with the Eisenhower
administration
-
third, the various policy issues that arise from the
meetings and subsequent treaty that was allegedly signed
Most perplexing is
how to view the testimonies of whistleblowers who appear sincere, positively
motivated and have plausible stories, yet are plagued by controversy,
allegations of fraud, inconsistency and other irregularities.
Due to the
official secrecy policy adopted towards the extraterrestrial presence, it
may be concluded that some if not most of the controversy surrounding these
individuals has been caused by military-intelligence agencies intent on
discrediting whistleblower or witness testimonies.
While there continues to be uncertainty caused by the controversy
surrounding whistleblower testimonies and the role of military-intelligence
agencies in generating this controversy, the bulk of evidence points to a
‘First Contact’ meeting having occurred during Eisenhower’s Palm Spring
vacation on February 20-21, 1954.
The testimonies suggest that the
extraterrestrials in the First Contact event, a race of tall ‘Nordic’
extraterrestrials were spurned due to their reluctance to provide advanced
technology in an agreement.
A subsequent meeting and treaty was then signed
with a different set of extraterrestrials, commonly called Greys, who did
not have the same reluctance in exchanging extraterrestrial technology as
part of an agreement.
Most of the available evidence that has found its way into the public arena
suggests that the extraterrestrial race with whom the treaty was signed,
the Greys, are at best an enigma and at worst simply untrustworthy in their
treatment of abducted civilians.
The subsequent shift in witness reports
from friendly extraterrestrial ‘contacts’ to disturbing ‘abductions’,
suggest that the Eisenhower administration had signed a treaty with
extraterrestrials whose motivations and activities are an enigma as far as
the general public interest is concerned.
The activities of the Grey
extraterrestrials apparently continues to raise uncertainty for US national
security agencies in terms of an appropriate strategic response.
[39]
On the
contrary, the friendly Nordic ‘space brothers’ faded from the scene since
the Eisenhower administration saw them as not sufficiently motivated to
serve the technological and strategic goals of US national security
agencies.
The question of when disclosure of the treaty signed by Eisenhower and of
the extraterrestrial presence might occur is one that has long been
anticipated. A recent economic event might be a signal that some form of
disclosure is possible in the near future.
According to Craig Copetas, Bloomberg News correspondent in Paris, the World Economic Forum at Davos
Switzerland from January 21-25, 2004,
discussed extraterrestrials at one or
more closed sessions. In a story published on January 21, Copetas claimed
that "forum officials maintain their five-day program on Partnering for
Security and Prosperity requires an unambiguous examination of
extraterrestrial presence on Earth.”
[40]
The
Davos Forum is a gauge for
trends in the global economy and discusses various topics that have a long
term effect on business. The inclusion of conspiracy theories of an
extraterrestrial presence and technologies on the formal agenda has
significance well beyond the hypothetical nature of the discussion.
Various
national governments may well be tacitly letting the word out to their
‘friends in the business community’, that they had better start exploring
how a future disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence and technologies
will influence the business world.
Given the discussion at Davos on January
21, 2004, of a possible extraterrestrial presence, and the forthcoming 50th
anniversary of Eisenhower’s treaty on February 20-21, it might be speculated
that a disclosure announcement may soon be made.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of a First Contact meeting between the
US and an extraterrestrial race, we must do so with wonder at the awesome
nature of this occasion.
At the same time, we must do whatever necessary to
make public the full details of the meeting, and the apparent spurning of
what appears to be a principled extraterrestrial race that rejected
technology transfers while dangerous weapons programs were in place in the
US and elsewhere on the planet.
The subsequent signing of a treaty at a
later date with an extraterrestrial race willing to trade technology in
exchange for ‘limited medical experiments’ with civilians will surely go
down in history as a deeply significant event whose effects continues to
reverberate through human society.
Finally, we must be alert to the mounting
evidence that while a treaty was signed after the 1954 ‘First Contact’
event, it may well have been with the ‘wrong extraterrestrials’, and that
this might adversely impact on humanity if not dealt with in an open,
transparent and truthful manner.
We live on the verge of a bold new future
with many uncertainties over the secrecy surrounding the extraterrestrial
presence, what best prepares us as this information enters into the public
arena are our faith, democratic values, and dedication to truth.
ENDNOTES
[1] I sincerely thank H.M for his generous support of my research and
providing the intellectually stimulating environment for many of the ideas
in the paper to be developed. Grateful thanks also to George Arnold and two
other librarians at American University’s Main Library who provided research
assistance. I am also grateful to William Hamilton for permission to cite
his personal notes of a 1991 interview with Sgt Charles L. Suggs.
[2] William Moore, “UFO’s: Exploring the ET Phenomenon,” Gazette (Hollywood,
CA., March 29, 1989). Available online at:
http://www.presidentialufo.com/ike&the.htm
[3] William Moore, “UFO’s: Exploring the ET Phenomenon,”
http://www.presidentialufo.com/ike&the.htm
[4] John Spencer, “Light, Gerald,” The UFO Encyclopedia: Inexplicable
Sightings, Alien Abductions, Close Encounters, Brilliant Hoaxes (Avon Books,
1991) 188.
[5] “A Covenant With Death by Bill Cooper,”
http://www.alienshift.com/id40.html Also in William Cooper, Behold a Pale
Horse (Light Technology Publishing 1991), 203.
[6] For biographical details on “Edwin G. Nourse, Ph.D. (1883-1974)” go to:
http://www.coopheroes.org/inductees/nourse.html
[7]
For closure of Cardinal McIntyre’s records, see regulations governing
access to the Los Angeles Catholic Archives
http://www.archivalcenter.org/Archival_Regulations/arcreg.html
[8] Franklin Winthrop Allen was author of Instructions for Reporters for
Hearings Before the Interstate Commerce Committee (Dispatch Press, 1918).
[9] See William Moore, “UFO’s: Exploring the ET Phenomenon,”
http://www.presidentialufo.com/ike&the.htm
[10]
Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12”
[11] Personal notes from Bill Hamilton from a 1991 interview with Sgt Suggs.
[12] Personal notes from William Hamilton from a 1991 interview with Sgt
Suggs. See also William Hamilton, Cosmic Top Secret (Inner Light, 1992).
[13] “John Lear Disclosure Briefing,” Coast to Coast Radio (November, 2003)
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/11/02.html
[14] 21st Century Radio's Hieronimus & Co. “Transcript of Interview with Bob
Dean, March 24, 1996,”
http://www.planetarymysteries.com/hieronimus/bobdean.html
See also Larry Lowe, “Perspective on Robert O. Dean: Let's Listen to the
Man," (CNI News, 1995)
http://www.reptilianagenda.com/research/r110199j.html
[15] Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,”
See also
Cooper, Behold A Pale Horse, 202.
[16] Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12”
[17] Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12”
[18]
“1972 Film Disclosure Offer,”
http://www.presidentialufo.com/disclosure_72-75.htm
[19]
Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,” also in
Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse, 203-04.
[20] Phil Schneider, “MUFON Conference Presentation, 1995,” available online
at:
http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/schneid.html
[21] See Chris Stoner, 'The Revelations of Dr Michael Wolf on the UFO Cover
Up and ET Reality,” (October 2000)
[22] See Richard Boylan, “Official Within MJ-12 UFO-Secrecy Management Group
Reveals Insider Secrets”
[23] “Testimony of Don Phillips,” Disclosure, ed., Stephen Greer (Crossing
Point, 2001) 379
[24] Phillip Corso,
The Day After Roswell (Pocket Books, 1997) 292.
[25]
Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,” also in
Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse, 209.
[26] “John Lear Disclosure Briefing,” Coast to Coast Radio (November, 2003)
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/11/02.html
[27]
Phil Schneider, MUFON Conference Presentation, 1995, available online
at:
http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/schneid.html
[28]
“UFO Quotes by Astronauts and Cosmonauts,”
http://ufos.my100megs.com/ufoquotes.htm
[29] “’Good’ versus ‘Bad Alien’,
http://www.presidentialufo.com/good_bad_alien.htm
[30] See Chris Stoner, 'The Revelations of Dr Michael Wolf on the UFO Cover
Up and ET Reality,” (October 2000)
[31] 21st Century Radio's Hieronimus & Co. “Transcript of Interview with Bob
Dean, March 24, 1996,”
http://www.planetarymysteries.com/hieronimus/bobdean.html
[32]
For description of Wolf’s association with the Greys, see Chris Stoner,
'The Revelations of Dr Michael Wolf on the UFO Cover Up and ET Reality,”
(October 2000)
[33] Majestic 12 Group, “Special
Operations Manual, SOM1-01 -
Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal,” April 1954
Part 2.
[34] 21st Century Radio's Hieronimus & Co. “Transcript of Interview with Bob
Dean, March 24, 1996,”
http://www.planetarymysteries.com/hieronimus/bobdean.html
[35] See 21st Century Radio's Hieronimus & Co. “Transcript of Interview with
Bob Dean, March 24, 1996,”
http://www.planetarymysteries.com/hieronimus/bobdean.html
[36] “Bob Lazar on the Billy Goodman Happening” December 20, 1989
http://www.swa-home.de/lazar3.htm
[37] Author interviews with anonymous whistleblowers.
[38] See Michael Salla, “Disinformation, Extraterrestrial Subversion &
Psychological Reductionism – A Reply to Dr Richard Boylan,”
www.exopolitics.org January 7, 2004.
http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-11.htm
[39] For discussion of US strategy in dealing with extraterrestrials, see
Michael Salla,
The Failure of Power Politics as a Strategic Response to the
Extraterrestrial Presence – Developing Human Capacity as a Viable Global
Defense Strategy (January 1, 2004).
[40] A. CRAIG COPETAS, “Extraterrestrial edge helps the balance sheet,”
Bloomberg News (01/21/04) Available online at:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2365195
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