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Hi All,
It may not sit too well with the folks who authored this document
to have the _entire_ document being posted on computer networks. However,
since I do have the complete 169 page document sitting here and have
read through a large majority of it, it's my opinion that most of this
information has already been released into the public domain over the
last 25 years in one form or another, specifically, the case histories. For this
reason, I feel that the smaller _overview_ of the document should
be posted as opposed to the entire file. Italicized emphasis in the original
document has been identified with the use of the underscore character. Any
typo/scanner errors are most likely mine.
This is being posted for Educational and Informational purposes only.
Don
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LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT
for the
BRIEFING DOCUMENT
on
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
December 15, 1995
To whom it may concern:
We believe that this Briefing Document on Unidentified Flying Objects
presents the best available evidence for the existence of UFOs.
Although just a brief sample of the scientific and military evidence
available worldwide is given, it represents some of the most
_carefully _documented incidents.
While several governments of the world have dealt with this problem,
as you can see in the enclosed report we think that these governments
should make available now all the UFO evidence they have collected,
for a thorough and open inquiry by the scientific community.
The political constraints that imposed the rule of secrecy during the
Cold War are no longer justified and the solution to the UFO mystery
may represent both a scientific and social breakthrough.
We, the undersigned, endorse the information contained in this
Briefing Document as the best available evidence from open sources.
CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies): President [signature]
Dr. Mark Rodeghier
FUFOR (Fund for UFO Research): Chairman [signature]
Mr. Richard H. Hall
MUFON (Mutual UFO Network): International Director [signature]
and President
Mr. Walter H. Andrus
Acknowledgments
Without the enthusiastic assistance of many people, the creation of
this Briefing Document would have been far more difficult, if not
impossible. While there are too many for us to thank individually,
some deserve special recognition:
Laurance S. Rockefeller, for his vision and support, financial
and otherwise, and George Lamb, for his day-to-day interest and
for serving so effectively as liaison for Mr. Rockefeller.
Marie "Bootsie" Galbraith, for the original idea and for hundreds
of hours of turning it into reality. Sandra Wright, for making
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
her BSW Foundation available as the umbrella under which all the
work could be done. Tina Nighman, for applying her talents and
good humor to a wide range of administrative assistance.
The leadership of the UFO Research Coalition: the Center for UFO
Studies, the Fund for UFO Research and the Mutual UFO Network,
for their cooperative efforts and total support.
Major General Wilfred De Brouwer, Deputy Chief of the Royal
Belgian Air Force; Dr. Claude Poher, founder of the Groupe
d'Etudes des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-identifie's (GEPAN),
Jean-Jacques Velasco, Director of the Service d'Expertise des
Phenomenes de Rentrees Atmospheriques (SEPRA); the Societe Belge
d'Etude des Phenomenes Spatiaux (SOBEPS), and internationally
recognized UFO authorities Stanton T. Friedman and Timothy Good,
for generously giving their time and help.
The Letter of Endorsement
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Overview ......................................................3
Government Secrecy ...............................................5
The Case for UFO Reality .........................................7
The UFO Cover-Up ................................................15
Summary of Quotations ...........................................19
Part 2. Case Histories ...............................................25
Introduction ....................................................27
1944-45: "Foo Fighters" Over Europe and Asia ...................31
1946: "Ghost Rockets Over Scandinavia" ......................33
1947: First American Sighting Wave ..........................37
1952: Second American Sighting Wave .........................41
1956: Radar/Visual Jet Chase Over England ...................45
1957: Third American Sighting Wave ..........................47
1958: Brazilian Navy Photographic Case ......................51
1964: Landing Case At Socorro, New Mexico ...................57
1967: Physiological Case At Falcon Lake, Canada .............61
1975: Strategic Air Command Bases UFO Alert .................65
1976: Multiple Witness Case In The Canary Islands ............69
1976: UFO Dog-Fight Over Tehran .............................75
1980: UFO Incidents at Rendlesham Forest, England .............79
1981: Physical Trace Case In Trans-en-Provence, France ......85
1986: Jet Chase Over Brazil .................................93
1986: Japan Airlines 747 Case Over Alaska ...................99
1989: Multiple Witness Case At Russian Missile Base ........103
1989-90: UFO Sighting Wave In Belgium .........................109
1991-94: Recent Cases .........................................115
Summary .......................................................117
Part 3. Quotations..................................................119
Appendices
Characteristics of IFOs and UFOs ..............................159
Terminology of UFOs ...........................................160
International Agreements and Resolutions ......................161
Recommended Reading ...........................................166
Resource Catalogs .............................................167
CUFOS, FUFOR and MUFON ........................................168
Part 1. Overview
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GOVERNMENT SECRECY
In a democracy, the decision where to draw the line between a
citizen's right to know and the government's right to secrecy for
national security reasons must be made by appropriate members of the
society. This issue has become the focus of much attention today and
is especially relevant to an ongoing discussion, both inside and
outside Congress, regarding UFO phenomena.
For obvious reasons, military services and the intelligence agencies
must maintain a certain amount of secrecy. However, in recent decades,
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and especially since the end of the Cold War, many observers believe
that the use of government secrecy has become excessive.
The power of government employees to restrict access to reports which
they write by classifying them "confidential," "secret" or even "top
secret" is often absolute. Once these reports are classified, they can
only be declassified by the originator or by a special procedure that
moves along at a glacial pace. Nor does the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) help very much. It does not apply to most classified material.
Meanwhile, our criminal statutes protect against the unauthorized
revelation of classified materials.
Secrecy, like power, lends itself to abuse. Behind the shield of
secrecy, it is possible for an agency or service to avoid scrutiny and
essentially to operate outside of the law. Accountability to the
taxpayers and to the Congress can be conveniently avoided.
The vast majority of people employed by the U.S. government do not
have access to classified information. Even those with secret and top
secret clearances will not have access to all highly classified
information. Furthermore, it is doubtful whether any member of
Congress can have access to all such information. Given the size of
the government bureaucracy and high degree of compartmentalization
that exists within it, it is conceivable that even the President
himself is not fully briefed on matters classified as "above top
secret." Such information, allowing access only on the strictest
"need-to-know" basis, is not necessarily given to senior elected
officials who come and go and can therefore be regarded as temporary,
political and unreliable.
Such is the case for top secret UFO information. In 1980, for example,
researchers requesting information through the FOIA learned of the
existence of 156 top secret UFO-related documents held by the
National Security Agency (NSA). This lead was not found through the
NSA itself, but through internal references in UFO-related documents
held by other government agencies. When the researchers filed a FOIA
request for the 156 NSA UFO documents, they were denied access to all
of them. They appealed, but Judge Gerhard Gesell of the First Federal
Court, District of Columbia, after reviewing the 21-page written
argument submitted by the NSA, denied their appeal. The 21-page
summary was later released, but even in this summary most of the
information was blacked out.
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(1) Judge Gesell Ruling re National Security Agency, November 14, 1980.
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Such action seems inconsistent with a government that officially
downplays the existence of true UFOs, and officially states that there
is no threat to national security.
In the case of UFO phenomena, the question must be asked: what would
give an un-elected government official the right to keep this
information to himself, thereby depriving the rest of the world of
possible knowledge of almost inconceivable magnitude and consequence?
Such elitism by the officials of any government, much less a government
based on the principles of democracy and individual rights, is a gross
injustice not only to its ovn people, but to all people.
At issue, in this case, is access to knowledge perhaps so profound
that it affects not only our very perspective on man's place in the
universe, but also perhaps his continued presence on this planet. If
the UFO phenomenon is real, we have clear evidence that an unknown
technology is at work, whose potential could be enormous for the good
of mankind - a potential source, for example, for useful energy benign
to the environment.
To acknowledge the enormous gap between our present understanding of
science and what is being evidenced, would provide the urgently needed
challenge to the scientific establishment to examine where some of its
basic assumptions might be faulty and to move berond them.
Is it possible that a few privileged individuals have access to this
information while denying it to the electorate for "national security"
reasons, so that it can be privately studied? In a democracy, should
not this decision be made by our _elected officials and be based upon an
informed discussion?
"UFO research is leading us kicking and screaming into the
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science of the twenty-first century.
"I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century
science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science,
and indeed a 30th Century science from which vantage points our
knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it
does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a
form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity." (From a
letter by Dr. J. Allen Hynek to Science magazine, August 1.
1966.)
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Northwestern University astronomer;
scientific consultant on UFOs to the U.S. Air Force from 1948
until 1969. Founder of the private Center for UFO Studies in
1973.
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THE CASE FOR UFO REALITY
As long as men and women have talked about strange sights in the
skies, two primary questions have been asked about what has come to be
called Unidentified Flying Objects:
1. Are they real, or are they just honest mistakes?
2. If they are real, could they be ships from some other world?
In this century, it started with the "foo fighters" of World War II:
glowing balls that flew in formation or "played tag" with military
airplanes over Europe and the Pacific. Suspected of being prototype
enemy weapons, they never displayed hostility and when the war was
over, they were all-but-forgotten.
In 1946, the Scandinavian countries reported many hundreds of "ghost
rockets" which flew low and silently, and often slowly. Efforts to
blame them on nearby Soviet tests of captured German missiles failed
when it was learned that no such tests had taken place.
The first major American wave of sightings of "flying discs" began in
the early summer of 1947. Within two weeks, at least 1,000 sightings
were recorded of fast silvery discs seen in the daytime. The first
military studies concluded they were real and of unknown nature and
origin. (2)
From then on, UFOs seemed to fly at will over all parts of the world:
fast and exotic, untouchable and and unproven. By the 1990s, there had
been over 100,000 reported sightings, many by airline pilots and
military pilots and other qualified witnesses.
Despite the steady accumulation of a vast quantity of information
about the appearance and behavior of UFOs, little light has been shed
on the two questions posed at the beginning. The armed services and
universities, as well as private groups and individuals, have devoted
a great amount of time to investigating UFOs, yet there is no
consensus about their nature, origins or purpose.
Still, if a close look is taken at the best available evidence, it is
possible to deal with what is known about UFOs, and what may
reasonably be assumed. The point we will make is that the evidence to
support the conclusion that UFOs are unknown aircraft/spacecraft
seems to be overwhelming.
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(2) Memo from Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, Commanding General of the Air
Materiel Command, Wright Field, to Gen. Spaatz, Commanding General of
the U.S. Army Air Forces, September 23, 1947.
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Visual Evidence
Most of what is "known" about UFOs comes from individuals'
descriptions of what they say they saw. If the individuals are
reliable and knowledgeable about the sky, the information stands a
good chance of being useful. This is the source of the case's
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"credibility," one of the two primary criteria recognized by the late
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, long a consultant on UFOs to the U.S. Air Force,
and later the founder of the private Center for UFO Studies.
Dr. Hynek's other criterion is "strangeness," meaning the extent to
which a reported observation differs from normal airplanes,
satellites, meteors, etc. A large aluminum-looking sphere which
maneuvers violently and changes speed abruptly, rates higher for
"strangeness" than a somewhat peculiar light seen in the night sky.
It is the reports which rate highest in both "credibility" and
"strangeness" that form the heart of the UFO mystery. Are they indeed
convincing observations of unknown aircraft/spacecraft, or are they
merely strangely shaped clouds or balloons seen under unusual lighting
conditions, or some other natural or manmade phenomena?
Radar Evidence
Radar has played a major role in UFO sightings, repeatedly confirming
the presence of something unidentified which responds to radar much as
an airplane does. Clouds and other weather phenomena show up on radar,
but any experienced operator can tell the difference between weather
and something solid.
On popular explanation for radar/visual reports is temperature
inversion. This was first brought to public attention following two
nights of UFO sightings over Washington D.C., in 1952. Inversions, the
cause of mirages, probably never caused these or any other UFO
reports. According to a 1969 study by the Air Force Environmental
Technical Applications Center, the conditions needed to produce the
UFO-like effects attributed to inversions cannot exist in the Earth's
atmosphere. (3)
The most thoroughly investigated recent radar/visual UFO sightings
occurred in Belgium and Russia. Military jet interceptors were
launched following observations from the ground. Ground-based and
airborne radars then confirmed what was being seen visually, including
high speeds and violent maneuvers far beyond the capability of the
best modern warplanes. In both countries, high government officials
admitted they were baffled.
While the human eye can be fooled, and radar can be fooled, it is
considered extremely unlikely that both can be fooled, in exactly the
same way, at exactly the same time. Thus radar/visual reports rate
among the most convincing of all types of UFO sightings.
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(3) Menkello, F.V., "Quantitative Aspects of Mirages," USAF
Environmental Technical Applications Center, 1969.
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Physical Evidence
UFOs have been seen high in the sky, near to the ground, on the
ground, and even rising from water. If some UFOs have landed, it is
reasonable to suspect that some of them may have left traces behind,
and indeed that is the case. Imprints, residues, charred and broken
tree branches and rocks are among the bits of evidence claimed for UFO
landings. Furthermore, under microscopic examination, some residues
exhibit strange and unusual characteristics.
Perhaps the most well known example of a physical trace case in the
United States occurred in 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico, where a
policeman reported seeing an egg-shaped craft sitting on slender legs
in an open field. When it had flown away, he and a second policeman
inspected the area where it had been parked and found depressions in
the dirt, as well as still smoldering, blackened shrubs. The sighting
was investigated within two hours by men from U.S. Army Intelligence
and the FBI, followed a day later by the chief civilian scientific
consultant to Project Blue Book (the official Air Force investigation
of UFO sightings). All agreed that the primary witness was highly
reliable. Later, the final director of Blue Book called this case the
most puzzling of the approximately 12,500 in his files.
The best documented example of a physical trace case in Europe
occurred in Trans-en-Provence, France, where a farmer reported seeing
a saucer-shaped craft land on his property and then fly away after a
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
short while. Physical traces left on the ground were collected by the
police within 2 hours and later analyzed in several French government
laboratories. Microscopic analyses revealed anomalous biochemical and
electromagnetic effects on the soil and vegetation. The diector of the
Service d'Expertise des Phenomenes de Rentrees Atmospheriques (SEPRA,
formerly called GEPAN) at the National Center for Space Studies (CNES)
describes this case as the most puzzling UFO case in the French
government files. (5)
Government Statements
The involvement of the American government in the UFO mystery has long
offered its own set of questions. Known investigations have produced
ambiguous results, and explanations offered for specific cases have
frequently been at odds with scientific reasoning. Sometimes,
little-publicized official statements have supported the position
that UFOs are real and unexplained.
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(4) Steiger Brad, ed. _Project Blue Book, Ballantine Books, 196.
(5) GEPAN, Note Technique No. 16 Enquete 81/01, _Analyse d'une Trace,
Toulouse, March 1, 1983. (English translation published in the
MUFON UFO Journal, March 1984.)
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Sometimes statements not intended for the public have been brought to
the surface by UFO researchers:
July 30, 1947: "This Flying saucer" situation is not all
imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something
is really flying around. (6)
Sept. 23, 1947: "The phenomenon reported is something real and
not visionary or fictitious. " (7)
Oct. 28, 1947. "It is the considered opinion of some elements
that the object [sic may in fact represent an interplanetary
craft of some kind." (8)
Dec. 10, 1948: "It must be accepted that some type of flying
objects have been observed, although their identification and
origin are not discernible." (9)
In 1948, the U.S. Air Force opened a publicly-known UFO investigation
called Project Sign. Later, it became Project Grudge and finally
Project Blue Book. In 1955, the U.S. Air Force released a study of
3,200 UFO reports it had received between 1947 and 1952. The private
Battelle Memorial Institute used the Air Force data to arrive at its
own conclusions: of the cases for which there was some conclusion,
almost 50% were either unexplained, or doubtfully explained.
Moreover, it was determined that the higher the qualifications of the
witnesses, the harder it was to explain the reports in terms of
common phenomena. (10)
In 1967, as Project Blue Book was coming under increasing attack from
the press and the public, the Air Force contracted with the University
of Colorado to make a final study of UFOs. In contrast to the totally
negative statements of the study director, Dr. Edward U. Condon, the
body of the f1nal report showed that about 30% of the cases studied
were left without explanation.
Comments on individual cases by University of Colorado scientists
included:
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(6) Air Force Base Intelligence Report, "Flying Discs," AFBIR-CO,
July 30, 1947.
(7) Twining, ibid
(8) Draft Intelligence Collections Memorandum issued by Brig. Gen.
George Shulgen, Chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements
Division of the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff of the U.S.
Air Force, October 28, 1947.
(9) U.S. Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, "Analysis of Flying
Objects in the U.S.," December 10, 1948.
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
(10) Air Force Project Blue Book, "Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of
Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects)," May 5, 1955.
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"This is the most puzzling case in the radar/visual files. The
apparently rational, intelligent behavior of the UFO suggests a
mechanical device of unknown origin as the most probable
explanation.
"All factors investigated - geometric, psychological and physical
- appear to be consistent with the assertion that an
extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disc-shaped, tens
of meters in diameter, and evidently artificial, flew within sight
of two witnesses. " (11)
Following the recommendation of the University of Colorado, Project
Blue Book was ended in late 1969, after almost 22 years of Air Force
official investigations. It left behind approximately 12,500 case
files, of which 585 were officially declared "Unknown." This means that
the project staff felt it had sufficient information about a case, but
were unable to supply a full explanation of it.
Cases lacking sufficient information for meaningful analysis were kept
separate. Furthermore, an official memo was released years later,
under the Freedom of Information Act, that made it clear that "reports
of unidentified flying objects _which could affect national security...
are not part of the Blue Book system." [emphasis added]. Such reports
"would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force
procedures designed for this purpose." (12)
In summary, it is apparent that the evidence - visual, radar and
physical - strongly suggests that more than mistaken observations of
conventional phenomena are involved in many UFO sightings. Witness
testimony, backed up by official U.S. government documents, point
toward the presence in the Earths atmosphere of apparently
manufactured craft that cannot be explained as mistaken observations
of acknowledged aircraft, spacecraft, atmospheric or astronomical
phenomena.
The Case For Extraterrestrial UFOs
If UFOs are not anything known, then they must be unknown. What says
"unknown" more powerfully than extraterrestrial?" In the absence of
any specific knowledge of even a single extraterrestrial
civilization, there are no constraints on theorizing about the
nature, technology and behavior of one or more hypothesized alien
cultures.
But are UFOs extraterrestrial? Lacking proof, we must deal very
carefully with any answers. It remains a possibility that some or all
of the otherwise unexplained UFO reports
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(11) Gillmor, Daniel S., ed., _Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying
Objects, New York Times Books, 1969.
(12) Bolender, Brig. Gen. C.H., USAF, Memo re Project Blue Book,
October 20, 1969.
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will some day be explained in terms of as-yet-unknown natural
phenomena, or secret highly advanced man-made aircraft and/or
spacecraft.
Nevertheless, there are impressive reasons for speculating about the
extraterrestrial origin for some UFOs, namely their shapes and their
performance.
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Shapes of UFOs
Most UFOs observed in daylight, when shapes and details can be seen,
have been described as having simple geometric shapes: discs, spheres,
cylinders and more recently, triangles.
Disc-shaped airplanes have been flown, but none is known to have
exceeded 150 mph, nor to have other capabilities displayed by UFOs.
Difficulties in stability and control have so far prevented any
disc-shaped aircraft from getting beyond the stage of low-performance
prototypes.
Spherical aircraft have so far been limited to gas-filled balloons,
whose performance is at the bottom of the speed and maneuverability
scales. Balloons can fly only as the wind blows and can be overtaken
quickly by airplanes.
Cylindrical aircraft are unknown, as the lack of wings poses huge
problems when it comes to such functions as taking off and flying
level. Rockets and missiles are cylindrical and certainly are able to
fly, but only as the result of great power in relation to their size.
They cn only fly upwards up at launch, and on a ballistic curve on
their way to a target.
Triangle is the shape of delta-winged airplanes, though the flight
characteristics of triangular UFOs removes them from this category.
It is entirely possible that some radical military aircraft having one
or more of these shapes are flying from super-secret test facilities.
But this would have to be a recent development unable to explain
sightings of such craft during most of the past 50 years.
Performance of UFOs
Even more striking than the shapes of UFOs is their performance:
speed, acceleration, maneuverability, silence.
Speed. UFOs have been tracked on military radar travelling silently
at several thousand miles per hour well within the Earth's
atmosphere. An airplane attempting this would create an inescapable
sonic boom before melting from friction with the air.
Extreme Acceleration. Airplanes do not visibly accelerate in the air,
though they show generally impressive acceleration during take-off.
Drag-racing cars and motorcycles accelerate in a manner obvious to
even the least experienced observer. In the case of
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UFOs, airline and military pilots have reported that they fly at the
same speed as an airplane, and then display acceleration common only
to anti-missile missiles. Veteran pilots describe their observations
with words like "astounding" and "unbelievable."
Extreme Maneuverability. While airplanes can perform abrupt maneuvers,
these are generally seen only in air shows. Even then, such flying is
more often described by the outside observer as "graceful" rather than
"violent," though the pilot may use the latter term. Impossibilities
for airplanes (but not, apparently, for UFOs) include right-angle
turns at high speed, and zig-zag flight.
Silent Hovering. While helicopters and VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and
Landing) airplanes can hover, they produce noises whose quality and
volume positively identify them. UFOs, on the other hand, appear able
to hover with little or no motion for long periods without any sound.
This remains well beyond the state of known science, let alone
technology.
Summary
The U.S. Government, and many other governments, claim that although
not all UFO reports can be explained, there is no evidence that Earth
has been visited by aliens. Most scientists and leading journalists
agree with this position. However, these same scientists believe that
there must be many advanced civilizations on planets orbiting the
billions of stars they estimate to exist in the universe. The gap
between these two positions is generally explained by the assumed
inability of even the most advanced society to travel the enormous
distances separating the Earth from even the nearest stars.
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From : Don Allen 1:3618/2
To : All
Subj : 09:Briefing Document [09/14]
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
Yet there are thousands of sightings of novel, high-performance craft
in our skies, reported by highly skilled and experienced observers.
There are also hundreds of other reports of craft seen on the ground,
and sometimes of humanoid beings in their vicinity.
The great conflict between official positions and trustworthy
observations constitutes the mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects.
A possible solution to this mystery is the suggestion that the
official position is based on an elaborate cover-up. If it is a
cover-up, what then is being protected, and by whom?
The answers to these questions generally focus on the issue of
national security as well as fear of the public reaction to an
official disclosure of UFO reality and its extraterrestrial origin.
The question of extraterrestrial intention and the frightening
aspects of the alleged abduction phenomena could be extremely
disturbing. However, many researchers believe that it is the science
and technology behind the national security veil which lies at the
heart of the secrecy, and that:
- fallen discs are being reverse engineered, repaired and/or
copied, and being tested;
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- the technology is so advanced that we can barely imagine the science
behind it (which could be based on a fundamentally different
understanding of gravity and electromagnetic fields);
- whichever nation masters this extraordinary technology will certainly
be the most powerful nation on earth;
- in the opinion of those in control, the guarding of this technology
for defense purposes, far outweighs its potential value for other
purposes - i.e. a non-polluting, cost efficient solution to our
present energy and environmental crisis.
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THE UFO COVER-UP
There are two major elements to the UFO mystery: the UFOs themselves
and the intensive efforts by the governments of the world to withhold
information about them. Neither the nature nor the purpose of the
governments' actions are clearly understood. But this policy dates
back to the latter part of World War II when UFO-like "foo fighters"
were being reported by combat pilots.
A report about "foo-fighters" is said to have been prepared in 1945
by the United States Eighth Air Force, but no copy has been seen by
the public, despite the passing of a half century. A year later, when
"ghost rockets" were seen over Scandinavia, the Swedish Government
invoked secrecy and only began to release information 40 years later.
When "flying saucers" appeared over the USA in the summer of 1947,
only the most general information was made public, while reports and
analyses were kept under wraps, as was the fact that the government
was taking the saucers seriously. (13, 14)
The U.S. Air Force ongoing UFO investigation (Project Sign, Project
Grudge, and Project Blue Book), collected more than 12,000 reports,
most of which were "explained." It was official policy to refuse to
comment on "unexplained" cases. By keeping case details secret, the
public was kept from learning that many of the allegedly-explained
cases had not been analyzed by generally accepted scientific
standards. (15)
In 1976, with the amendment of the Freedom of Information and Privacy
Act by the U.S. Congress, a mechanism was created for unearthing
government UFO information whose very existence had long been denied.
Formal requests, followed by appeals and sometimes legal action,
produced thousands of pages of previously-classified documents from
the Air Force, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of
Investigation and other intelligence-oriented agencies.
It appears, however, that the released information was the least
sensitive material in the official files. Almost all the released
documents had been classified merely "Confidential" or "Secret,"
with just a few having been "Top Secret". Many pages of these
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To : All
Subj : 10:Briefing Document [10/14]
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
documents showed the black marks of censorship. In fact, many pages
of the voluminous case files of the official U.S. Air Force
investigation contained black marks hiding information. (16)
The rapid flow of UFO documents in the 1970s dropped to a slow
trickle in the 1980s, but will probably pick up again with the
Administration's recent declassification measures. However, since
every government agency has at its disposal a long list of reasons for
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(13) SAC Memo to FBI, "Protection of Vital Installations," January
31, 1949.
(14) Smith, Wilbert, Memo to the Department of Transport, Ottawa,
November 21, 1950.
(15) Bolender, Bri. Gen. C.H., ibid.
(16) Judge Gesell Ruling, ibid.
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refusing to release information, it will still be easy to keep the
most interesting and significant material locked up.
The most striking example of continuing government secrecy is its
reaction to growing public and press interest in the apparent crash in
1947 of a strange craft on a sheep ranch in New Mexico: the so-called
"Roswell Incident." Most of the time since 1947, the Air Force claimed
that the crash was that of a weather balloon. Despite the testimony to
the contrary of dozens of first-hand and second-hand witnesses to this
event, the U.S. Government has yet to release even one Air Force
Report that includes the 11 testimony of these witnesses. Personal
efforts in 1993 by U.S. Congressman Steven Schiff from New Mexico to
learn about the crash were ignored. He turned the task over to the
General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress.
(17, 18)
As a result of this investigation, the U.S. Air Force issued a brief
report in July 1994 and a large report in 1995, both of them now
stating that the wreckage found on the sheep ranch was not that of a
balloon used for weather data collection, but of a balloon from a
then-secret Project Mogul experiment intended to detect Soviet nuclear
explosions, which used trains and clusters of standard weather
balloons. (19)
The GAO, in its final report in July 1995, stated that it could find
no evidence for a UFO wreckage, but discovered that a large quantity
of potentially valuable U.S. Air Force message traffic for the period
had been improperly destroyed. Furthermore, since no documentation was
found to support the new Project Mogul explanation, the GAO did not
endorse the current Air Force explanation and stated that "the debate
on what crashed at Roswell continues." (20)
While there is some indication that a few governments are easing their
long-held policies of withholding all UFO information, there is no sign
that this could become a trend, or that it could produce truly
meaningful information.
As the result of long-term and highly effective practices by many of
the world's governments, the people have been kept in the dark about
the extent and significance of UFO activity. Moreover, thousands of
talented scientists who might contribute to the understanding of UFOs
have been prevented from doing so because they are not part of the
governmental system.
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(17) FBI teletype, July 5, 1947
(18) Claiborne, William, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe,"
Washington Post, January 14, 1994.
(19) Weaver, Col. Richard L., USAF, "Report of Air Force Research
regarding the "Roswell Incident,"' July 1994. USAF, "The Roswell
Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert," October
1995.
(20) United States General Accounting Office Report to the Honorable
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To : All
Subj : 11:Briefing Document [11/14]
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
Steven H. Schiff, House of Representatives. Government Records
"Result of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near
Roswell, New Mexico," July 1995.
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Since _no_ government has _openly stated_ that UFOs constitute a
potential security threat, there is no reason to assume that there
is any reasonable basis for continuing to keep UFO-related information
secret.
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SUMMARY OF QUOTATIONS
UFOs: THE REALITY
General Nathan D. Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(1957-1960):
"The phenomena 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 a man-made aircraft...The reported operating characteristics
such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in
roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted
or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the
possibility that some of the objects are controlled either
manually, automatically, or remotely. " (Letter to the Commanding
General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, September 23, 1947.)
Brigadier General Joao Adil Oliveira, Chief of the Air Force General
Staff Information Service, and Director of the first official
military UFO inquiry in Brazil in the mid-5Os:
"It is impossible to deny any more the existence of flying
saucers at the present time...The flying saucer is not a ghost
from another dimension or a mysterious dragon. It is a fact
confirmed by material evidence. There are thousands of documents,
photos, and sighting reports demonstrating its existence." ("How
to doubt?," _O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, February 28, 1958.)
General Lionel M. Chassin, Commanding General of the French Air
Forces, and General Air Defense Coordinator, Allied Air Forces,
Central Europe (NATO):
"The number of thoughtful, intelligent, educated people in full
possession of their faculties who have 'seen something' and
described it grows every day... We can... say categorically that
mysterious objects have indeed appeared and continue to appear
in the sky that surrounds us... [they unmistakably suggest a
systematic aerial exploration and cannot be the result of
chance. It indicates purposive and intelligent action."
(Chassin, L., Foreward to the book by Michel Aime, _Flying
Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, New York: Criterion Books,
1958.)
Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, first Director of the CIA (1947-1950):
"Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It
is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their
purpose is." (Maccabee, Bruce, "What The Admiral Knew: UFO,
MJ-12 and R. Hillenkoetter," International UFO Reporter, Nov./Dec.,
1986.)
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UFOs: EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN
Professor Hermann Oberth, German rocket expert considered one of the
three fathers of the space age. In 1955, Dr. Werner von Braun invited
him to the U.S. where he worked on rockets with the Army Ballistic
Missile Agency and later NASA:
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
"It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are
space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly
are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that
may have been investigating our earth for centuries." (Oberth H.,
"Flying Saucers Come From A Distant World," _The American Weekly,
October 24, 195.)
General Kanshi Ishikawa, Chief of Staff of Japan's Air Self-Defense
Force; Commander of the 2nd Air Wing, Chitose Air Base (1967):
"Much evidence tells us UFOs have been tracked by radar; so, UFOs
are real and they may come from outer space... UFO photographs and
various materials show scientifically that there are more advanced
people piloting the saucers and motherships." (1967 interview
published in UFO News, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1974.)
Gordon Cooper, Astronaut (Mercury-Atlas 9, Gemini 5), Col. USAF (Ret):
"I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews
are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a
little more technically advanced than we are here on earth. I feel
that we need to have a top level, coordinated program to
scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the earth
concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface
with these visitors in a friendly fashion." (Letter to Grenada's
Ambassador to the United Nations, November 9, 1978)
Major-General Pavel Popovich, pioneer Cosmonaut and "Hero of the
Soviet Union," President of All-Union Ufology Association of the
Commonwealth of Independent States:
"Today it can be stated with a high degree of confidence that
observed manifestations of UFOs are no longer confined to the
modern picture of the world... The historical evidence of the
phenomenon... allows us to hypothesize that ever since mankind
has been co-existing with this extraordinary substance, it has
manifested a high level of intelligence and technology. The UFO
sightings have become the constant component of human activity
and require a serious global study... The scientific study of
the UFO phenomenon should take place in the midst of other
sciences dealing with man and the world." (Popovich, P., MUFON
1992 International Symposium Proceedings.)
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UFOs: SECRECY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Wilbert Smith, Senior radio engineer, Department of Transport,
Director of Project Magnet, the first Canadian government UFO
investigation in the 1950s:
"The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United
States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. Flying
saucers exist. Their modus operandi is unknown but a
concentrated efort is being made by a small group headed by
Doctor Vannevar Bush. The entire matter is considered by the
United States authorities to be of tremendous significance. "
(Top Secret memorandum on "Geo-Magnetics," November 21, 1950.)
Dr. Paul Santorini, Greek physicist and engineer credited with
developing the proximity fuse for the Hiroshima atomic bomb, two
patents for the guidance system used in the U.S. Nike missiles, and a
centrimetric radar system. In 1947, he investigated a series of UFO
reports over Greece that were initially thought to be Soviet missiles:
"We soon established that they were not missiles... Foreign
scientists flew to Greece for secret talks with me... A world
blanket of secrecy surrounded the UFO question because the
authorities were unwilling to admit the existence of a force
against which we had no possibility of defense." (Fowler, R.,
_UFOs. Interplanetary Visitors, 1974.)
Senator Barry M. Goldwater, Sr., (R-Arizona), Republican presidential
candidate, 1964:
"The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long
time. About ten or tvelve years ago, I made an effort to find
out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base
where the information is stored that has been collected by the
Air Force, and I was understandably denied the request. It is
still classified above Top Secret." (Good, T., _Above Top
Secret, Quill William Morrow, 1988; Frontispiece, letter to
Shlomo Amon, March 28, 1975.)
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
Representative Steven H. Schiff, (R-New Mexico), in response to
inquiries in 1993 concerning a possible cover-up of the crash of an
alleged UFO outside Roswell, NM in 1947, requested information from the
Department of Defense:
"It's difficult for me to understand, even if there was a
legitimate seclrity concern in 1947, that it would be a present
security concern these many years later. Frankly I am baffled by
the lack of responsiveness on the part of the Defense Dept. on
this one issue, I simply can't explain it." (Remarks on CBS
radio's _The Gil Gross Show, February 1994.)
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UFOs: CHALLENGE FOR TODAY'S SCIENCE
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at
Northwestern University and scientific consultant to the U.S. Air
Force investigations of UFOs from 1948 until 1969 (Projects Sign,
Grudge and Blue Book):
"There exists a phenomenon...that is worthy of systematic
rigorous study... The body of data point to an aspect or domain
of the natural world not yet explored by science...When the long
awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will
prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of
science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump."
(Hynek, J. Allen, _The UFO Experience. A Scientific Inquiry,
Chicago: Regnery Co., 1972.)
Dr. Felix Y. Zigel, Professor of mathematics and astronomy at the
Moscow Aviation Institute, father of Russian Ufology:
"The important thing now is for US to discard any preconceived
notions about UFOs and to organize on a global scale a calm,
sensation-free and strictly scientific study of this strange
phenomenon. The subject and aims of the investigation are so
serious that they justify all efforts. It goes without saying
that international cooperation is vital." (Zigel, F.,
"Unidentified Flying Objects," _Soviet Life. No. 2 (137).
February 1968.)
M. Robert Galley, French Minister of Defense (1974):
"I believe that the attitude of spirit that we must adopt
vis-a-vis this phenomena is an open one, that is to say that it
doesn't consist in denying aprori as our ancesters of previous
centuries did deny many things that seem nowadays perfectly
elementary." (Bourret, Jean-Claude, _La nouvelle vague des
soucoups volantes, Paris: editions france-empire, 1975)
Dr. Peter A. Sturrock, Professor of Space Science and Astrophysics
and Deputy Director of the Center for Space Sciences and Astrophysics
at Stanford University:
"The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about
unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive
scientific study by the normal procedures of established
science. This requires a change in atittude primarily on the
part of scientists and administrators in universities."
(Sturrock, Peter A., _Report on a Survey of the American
Astronomical Society concerning the UFO Phenomenon, Stanford
University Report SUIPR 68IR, 1977.)
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UFOs: THE EFFECT OF RIDICULE
Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter (see above):
"It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional
hearings. Behind the scenes high ranking Air Force officers are
soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy
and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying
objects are nonsense." (Statement in a NICAP news release,
February 27, 1960.)
Dr. Frank B. Salisbury, Professor of Plant Physiology at Utah State
University:
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
"I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by
a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making
the statement in danger of excommunication by the scientific
theocracy. Nevertheless, in recent years I have investigated the
story of the unidentified flying object (UFO), and I am no longer
able to dismiss the idea lightly." (Paper on "Exobiology"
presented at the First Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineenng
Symposium, May 1964. Quoted in Fuller, John G., _Incident at
Exeter, Putnam, 1 966.)
Representative Jerry L. Pettis, (R-California), stated in 1968 during
the House Committee on Science and Astronautics UFO hearings:
"Having spent a great deal of my life in the air, as a pilot... I
know that many pilots...have seen phenomena that they could not
explain. These men, most of whom have talked to me, have been
very reticent to talk about this publicly because of the ridicule
that they were afraid would be heaped upon them... However, there
is a phenomena here that isn't explained." (U.S. House of
Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, July 1968.)
Dr. Peter A. Sturrock (see above):
"In their public statements (but not necessarily in their
private statements), scientists express a generally negative
attitude towards the UFO problem, and it is interesting to try
to understand this attitude. Most scientists have never had the
occasion to confront evidence concerning the UFO phenomenon. To
a scientist, the main source of hard information (other than his
own experiments' observations) is provided by the scientific
journals. With rare exceptions, scientific journals do not
publish reports of UFO observations. The decision not to publish
is made by the editor acting on the advice of reviewers. This
process is self-reinforcing: the apparent lack of data confirms
the view that there is nothing to the UFO phenomenon, and this
view works against the presentation of relevant data. "
(Sturrock, Peter A., _Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 1,
No. 1, 1987.)
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