"I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not
constructed by any power on earth."
President Harry S. Truman, Press conference,
Washington DC, April 4, 1950
"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 concentrated effort is being made
by a small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush. The entire matter is considered
by the United States authorities to be of tremendous significance."
Wilbert Smith, in a formerly classified Canadian
government memorandum. Nov 21, 1950
Donald Slayton a Mercury astronaut revealed in an interview he had
seen UFOs in 1951: "I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when
I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright,
sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that
no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer it looked like a weather
balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got
behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked
like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly
going away from me -- and there I was, running at about 300 miles per
hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn
thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated
and just flat disappeared."
Donald "Deke" Slayon, NASA Mercury Astronaut
"For six hours...there were at least ten unidentifiable objects moving
above Washington. They were not ordinary aircraft."
Harry. G Barnes, Senior Air Traffic Controller
for the CAA 1952
"In view of the wide interest within the Agency. Outside knowledge
of Agency interest in Flying Saucers carries the risk of making the
problem even more serious in the public mind than it already is."
CIA memo 1952
"The least improbable explanation is that these things UFO's are artificial
and controlled. My opinion for some time has been that they have an
extraterrestrial origin.
Dr. Maurice Bilot, one of the world's leading
aerodynamicists and mathematical physicists. Life, April 7, 1952
"At this time the reports of incidents convince us that there is something
going on that must have immediate attention. Sightings of unexplained
objects at high altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity
of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are
not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of vehicles."
H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific
Intelligence, CIA; December 2, 1952
"There are many reasons to believe that they (UFOs) do exist: there
is so much evidence from reliable witnesses."
Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh (Sunday
Dispatch, London, Mar. 28, 1954)
"More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which
cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation... I am convinced
that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any
nation on this Earth."
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander-in-Chief
of RAF Fighter Command, London Sunday Dispatch July 11, 1954
"Of course flying saucers are real -- and they are interplanetary."
Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, former
head of Royal Air Force during World War II; August 1954
"...it is as impossible to confirm UFOs in the present as it will
be to deny them in the future."
Dr. Wernher von Braun
"(UFOs) are conceived and directed by intelligent beings. They probably
do not originate in our solar system." Years later he was quoted as
saying, "We cannot take the credit for our record advancement in certain
scientific fields alone. We have been helped." When asked by whom, he
replied,"The people of other worlds."
Dr. Herman Oberth, father of modern rocketry
1954
"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. I think that they possibly have
been sent out to conduct systematic, long-range investigations, first
of men, animals, vegetation, and more recently of atomic centers, armaments
and centers of armament production."
"These objects are conceived and directed by intelligent beings of
a very high order. They probably do not originate in our solar system,
perhaps not even in our galaxy."
Dr. Hermann Oberth Army Ballistic Missile
Agency and later NASA, 1954
"The problem of 'flying discs' has polarized the attention of the
whole world, but it's serious and it deserves to be treated seriously.
Almost all the governments of the great powers are interested in it,
dealing with it in a serious and confidential manner, due to its military
interest."
Brigadier General João Adil Oliveira, Chief of
the Air Force General Staff Information Service, Brazil, "Briefing
to the Army War College" in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 2, 1954
Washington, July 28th, 1995 - Congressman Steve Schiff released the
General Accounting Office report detailing the results of a records
audit related to events surrounding a crash near Roswell, New Mexico
in 1947. The 20 page report is the result of information requests to
Congressman Schiff and the difficulty he had getting answers from the
Department of Defense. Schiff said important documents, which may have
shed more light on what happened at Roswell, are missing.
"The GAO report states that the outgoing messages from Roswell Army
Air Field (RAAF) for this period of time were destroyed without proper
authority. It is my understanding that these outgoing messages were
permanent records, which should never have been destroyed. The GAO could
not identify who destroyed the messages...or why."
Congressman Steve Schiff
"In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation
than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that
there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we
owe it to the people to establish credibility
regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of
the subject."
President Gerald Ford
"In my opinion, the UFO problems...constitutes an areas of extraordianry
scientific interest."
Dr. James McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences,
UFOS: A Scientific Debate
"Well, Slim, (McClelland's knick name by Astronaut friends), I was
flying a P-51 Mustang at about 12,000 feet over Minneapolis in 1951.
I thought it was a simple kite. As I flew closer to it I looked at it
and thought it was a weather balloon. But as I got behind it I could
tell it wasn't a balloon. It looked like a disc."
NASA astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton to Clarke
McClelland
"Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs."
CIA Director Allen Dulles 1955 (later,
member of the Warren Commission)
"I have discussed this matter with the affected agencies of the government,
and they are of the opinion that it is not wise to publicize this matter
at this time."
Senator Richard Russell, head of Senate Armed
Services Committee regarding his sighting of a UFO during a 1955
trip to the Soviet Union.
"Because of the developments of science, all the countries on earth
will have to unite to survive and to make a common front against attack
by people from other planets. The politics of the future will be cosmic,
or interplanetary."
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, former Five Star General
of the Army,(New York Times, Oct 8, 1955.)
"While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957,
we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell
how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude."
"While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced
aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed
the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and
landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer,
it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known
aircraft."
NASA astronaut, L. Gordon Cooper
"Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere
at very high speeds and controlled by thinking intelligences."
Navy Admiral Delmar Fahrney public statement,
1957
"We have stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously
when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept
them."
General Benjamin Chidlaw - US Eastern Air Defense,
Air Defense Command
"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...
It is a fact confirmed by material evidence. There are thousands of
documents, photos, and sighting reports demonstrating its existence.
For instance, when I went to the Air Force High command to discuss the
flying saucers I called for ten witnesses - military (AF officers) and
civilians - to report their evidence about the presence of flying saucers
in the skies of Rio Grande do Sul, and over Gravataí AFB [Air Force
Base]; some of them had seen UFOs with the naked eye, others with high
powered optical instruments. For more than two hours the phenomenon
was present in the sky, impressing the selected audience: officers,
engineers, technicians, etc."
Brigadier General João Adil Oliveira Brazil,
Feb. 28, 1958
"Congressional investigations are still being held on the problem
of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there
is quite a bit of interest. Since most of the material presented to
the Committees is classified, the hearings are never printed."
Congressman William H. Ayres 1958
"Saucers exist; I saw two. They were intelligently flown or operated
(evasive tactics, formation flight, hovering). They were mechanisms,
not United States weapons, nor Russian. I presume they are extraterrestrial."
Lt. Colonel Richard Headrickradar bombing
expert, 1959
"I've talked with people of military and government credentials and
position and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories
openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly...the
first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced
years are anxious to tell their story. We can't deny that, and the evidence
points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed
an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that
crash site..."
NASA Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo
14 Mission veteran.
Dr. Brian O'Leary, on 18th September 1994 made the following declarations
publicly at the International Forum on New Science in Fort Collins,
Colorado. Dr O'Leary said that "For nearly 50
years, the secrecy apparatus within the United States Government has
kept from the public UFO and alien contact information." He flatly stated
that. "We have contact with alien cultures..." As for the non-disclosure
of these facts, Dr O'Leary said, "The suppression of UFO and other extraterrestrial
intelligence information for at least 47 years is probably being orchestrated
by an elite band of men in the CIA, NSA, DIA and their like. This small
group appears able to keep these already-hard-to-believe secrets very
well. Those who have investigated this hydra-headed beast believe that
the Cosmic Watergate of UFO, alien, mind-control, genetic engineering,
free-energy, anti-gravity propulsion and other secrets will make Watergate
or Iran-Gate...appear to be kindergarten exercises."
Brian O'Leary - NASA Astronaut
"We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we
had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us. More
I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in
entering into closer contact with those powers, and in six or
nine months time it may be possible to speak with some precision on
the matter."
Dr. Werner von Braun (on the deflection
from orbit of a United States satellite, 1959)
"Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is
imperative that we learn where UFO's come from and what their purpose
is. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned
about UFOs. Through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are
led to believe that unidentified flying objects are nonsense. To hide
the facts the Air Force has silenced its personnel."
Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, 1st Director,
CIA Feb 18, 1960
"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."
Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, 1st Director,
CIA (Statement in NICAP news release, Feb 27, 1960.)
“The overall effectiveness about the actual Soviet response and alert
status is not documented to the point where U.S. intelligence can provide
a true picture of how Soviet air defenses perceive unidentified flying
objects. 80% of the sighting reports investigated by the Air Force’s
project Blue Book were explainable and posed no immediate threat to
national security. The remaining cases have been classified for security
reasons and are under review. While the possibility remains true U.F.O.
cases are of non-terrestrial origin, U.S. Intelligence is of the opinion
that they do not constitute a physical threat to national defense. For
reasons of security, I cannot divulge pertinent data on some of the
more sensitive aspects of MJ-12 activities, which have been deemed properly
classified under the 1954 Atomic Energy Act.”
Allen W. Dulles, CIA Director Nov 5, 1961,
top-secret operations review concerning the MJ-12 project, referencing
Presidential National Security Memorandum of June 28, 1961 "It has been
speculated that of all groups scientists and engineers might be the
most devastated by the discovery of relatively superior creatures, since
these professions are most clearly associated with the mastery of nature,
rather than with the understanding and expression of man."
Brookings Institute for NASA 4/18/61
"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there
was a constant surveillance by UFOs."
Astronaut Scott Carpenter-Carpenter photographed
a UFO while in orbit May 24, 1962. NASA still has not released the photograph.
"You now face a new world - a world of change. The thrust into outer
space of the satellite, spheres and missiles marked the beginning of
another epoch in the long story of mankind - the chapter of the space
age. We speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy ...of
the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of
an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate
conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some
other planetary galaxy... "
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, former Five Star General
of the Army, (Address to the United States Military Academy at
West Point, May 12, 1962.)
Major Robert White reported a UFO during his fifty-eight-mile high
flight of an X-15. "I have no idea what it could be. It was grayish
in color and about thrity to forty feet away." According to a Time Magazine
article, Major White exclaimed over the radio: "There ARE things out
there! There absolutely is!"
Major Robert White, USAF X-15 Test Pilot
July 17, 1962
"Based upon unreliable and unscientific surmises as data, the Air
Force develops elaborate statistical findings which seem impressive
to the uninitiated public unschooled in the fallacies of the statistical
method. One must conclude that the highly publicized Air Force pronouncements
based upon unsound statistics serve merely to misrepreent the true character
of the UFO phenomena.
Yale Scientific Magazine (Yale University)
Volume XXXVII, Number 7, April 1963
"[I am] disturbed by the way in which the CIA has been diverted from
its original assignment. [It has] become a government all of its own
and all secret. They don't have to account to anybody."
President Harry S. Truman Washington Post,
December 22, 1963
"I made discreet enquiries through the Canadian Embassy staff in Washington
who were able to obtain for me the following information:
a. The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States
Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.
b. Flying saucers exist.
c. Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being
made by a small group headed by Doctor Vannevar Bush.
d. The entire matter is considered by the United States authorities
to be of tremendous significance.
Wilbur B. Smith, TOP SECRET Memo; Department
of Transport, Intra-departmental Correspondence, OTTAWA, Ontario, Nov
21, 1950 (downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL 15/9/69)
"As a member of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, I,
of course, have had contact with high Air Force officers and have had
opportunity to hear their comments on and off the record on the subject
of unidentified flying objects. Despite being confronted with seemingly
unimpeachable evidence that such phenomena exist, these officers give
little credence to the many reports on the matter. When pressed on specific
details the experts refuse to answer on grounds that they are involved
in the nation's security and cannot be discussed publicly ...I will
continue to seek a definite answer to this most important question."
Congressman Joseph E. Karth (D. Minn.)
- Aug 24, 1960
"I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available
information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard
so many unimpeachable sources."
John McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives
of the United States; Jan 1965
"Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from intelligent
and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity cannot be
doubted."
Major General E.B. LeBaily, USAF Director of Information
(Sept 28, 1965 letter to USAF Scientific Advisory Board)
"In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation
than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that
there be a committee investigation [of the UFO phenomenon]."
Congressman Gerald Ford, 1966 [later President]
"The trick would be to describe the project so that, to the public,
it would appear a totally objective study, but to the scientific community
would present the image of a group of nonbelievers trying their best
to be objective but having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer."
Robert Low, University of Colorado senior administrator,
former intelligence officer, and assistant director of the Condon Committee,
in a confidential 1966 memo suggesting the approach of the Condon UFO
study
"My study of past official Air Force investigations (Project Blue
Book) leads me to describe them as completely
superficial. Officially released 'explanations' of important
UFO sightings have been almost absurdly erroneous."
James McDonald, speech to American Meteorological
Society 1966
"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."
J. Allen Hynek, letter to Science magazine,
Aug. 1, 1966
"When the team was ten miles from the landing site, static disrupted
radio contact with them. Five to eight minutes later the glow diminished,
and the UFO took off. Another UFO was visually sighted and confirmed
by radar."
Classified report by an Air Force Strike Team
at Minot AFB, 1966
"UFOs sighted in Indonesia are identical with those sighted in other
countries. Sometimes they pose a problem for our air defense and once
we were obliged to open fire on them."
Air Marshall Roesmin Nurjadin, Commander-in-Chief
of the Indonesian Air Force, in a letter to Yusuke J. Matsumura
dated May 5, 1967, reprinted in Good.
"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."
General Kanshi Ishikawa, Chief of Staff of Japan's
Air Self-Defense Force; Commander of the 2nd Air Wing, Chitose
Air Base. 1967
"I have absolutely no idea where the UFO's come from or how they are
operated, but after ten years of research, I know they are something
from ourside our atmosphere.
Dr. James E. McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric
physics University of Arizona, 1967
"My own present opinion, based on two years of careful study, is that
UFOs are probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that
might very tentatively be termed 'surveillance'. I believe no other
problem within your jurisdiction is of comparable scientific and national
importance. These are strong words, and I intend them to be. I now regard
the [extraterrestrial hypothesis] as the one most likely to prove correct."
Dr. James McDonald, testimony to the United States
Congress 1968
"The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range
sightings of machine-like objects of unconventional nature and unconventional
performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even
on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number
of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses... When one
starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing.
Also, such sightings appear to be occurring all over the globe."
Dr. James E. McDonald, Senior Physicist, Institute
of Atmospheric Physics testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives,
"Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects," Hearings before the Committee
on Science and Astronautics, July 29, 1968.
"Mission Control, please
be informed...there is a Santa Claus."
NASA astronaut, James Lovell flying with
Frank Borman and William Anders, emerging from the dark side of the
moon during their historic first lunar orbit mission, Apollo-8, in December,
1968. ("Santa Claus" was the mission code name used if sighting a 'strange
object' such as a UFO)
Both Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after
that historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. One
of the astronauts refered to a "light" in or on a crater during the
television transmission, followed by a request from mission control
for further information. Nothing more was heard.
According to a NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with
their own VHF receiving facilities bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets
picked up the following exchange:
NASA: Whats there? Mission Control calling
Apollo 11...
Apollo11: These "Babies" are huge, Sir!
Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there
are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater
edge! They're on the Moon watching us!
A professor engaged in a discussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA
symposium:
Professor: "What REALLY happened out
there with Apollo 11?"
Armstrong: "It was incredible. Of course
we had always known there was a possibility. The fact is, we were warned
off! (by the Aliens). There was never any question then of a space station
or a moon city."
Professor: "How do you mean 'warned off'?
Armstrong: "I can't go into details,
except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size
and technology - Boy, were they big!...and menacing!"
"Neil Armstrong relayed the message to
Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them
after having landed near the moon module. But this message was never
heard by the public -- because NASA censored it." Buzz Aldrin took color
movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming
them after he and Armstrong went outside. Armstrong confirmed that the
story was true but refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting
that the CIA was behind the cover-up."
Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, Physicist; Professor of
Mathematics, Moscow University
"...highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that
we don't know about."
Senator Barry Goldwater
"We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they
come from."
Captain Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut,
1971
"I've been convinced for a long time that the flying saucers are real
and interplanetary. In other words, we are being watched by beings from
outer space."
Albert M. Chop, Deputy Public Relations Director,
NASA former USAF spokesman for Project Blue Book.
"If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this
country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists.
I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one."
President Jimmy Carter during his Presidential
campaign
"I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other
civilization."
Eugene Cernan, Commander, Apollo 17 MissionLos
Angeles Times, 1973
"It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships
from another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned
by intelligent observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range
scientific investigations of our earth for centuries."
Dr. Herman Oberth, NASA father of modern
rocketry, UFO News 1974.
"Sometimes we actually got lucky enough to score a hit with a missile
before the UFO could take any evasive action, which an army air defense
battalion did with an antiaircraft missile near Ramstein Air Force Base
in Germany in May 1974. The spacecraft managed to crash-land in a valley.
The craft was retrieved and flown back to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada."
Col. Phillip J. Corso (retired), Ramstein
AFB, Germany, May 1974 "The Day After Rosewell"
"I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this
white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,
"Have you ever seen anything like that?" He was shocked and he said,
"Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" "We followed it for several
minutes. It was a bright white light." "We followed it to Bakersfield,
and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into
the heavens." "When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it. But
we didn't file a report on the object because for a long time they considered
you a nut if you saw a UFO..."
Ronald Reagan 1974
"The flying saucer situation is not all imaginary . . . Something
is flying around."
July 1947 FBI/Army Intelligence Report
(declassified by the United States Freedom of Information Act in 1976)
"Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States
and in Spain, as well as in the rest of the world... (speaking as an
invididual) I believe that UFOs are spaceships or extraterrestrial craft.
The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation
of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe
when this group of nations acquire more precise and definite information,
it will be possible to release the news to the world."
General Carlos Castro Cavero, General in the Spanish
Air Force and former Commander of Spain's Third Aerial Region;
interview with J. J. Benitez, La Gaceta del Norte, Balboa, Spain, June
27, 1976.
Gordon L. Cooper, one of America's original
seven Mercury Astronauts, personally saw and his men filmed UFOs
so he has been outspoken about the need for an open inquiry into UFOs.
In 1978, he sent the following letter to the United Nations:
"I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are
visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically
advanced than we are 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. We may first have to show them that we have learned
how to resolve our problems by peaceful means rather than warfare, before
we are accepted as fully qualified universal team members. I should
point out that I am not an experienced UFO professional researcher -
I have not yet had the privilege of flying a UFO nor of meeting the
crew of one. However, I do feel that I am somewhat qualified to discuss
them, since I have been into the fringes of the vast areas of which
they travel. Also, I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation
of many flights of them, of different sizes flying in fighter formation,
generally from west to east over Europe. They were at a higher altitude
than we could reach with our jet fighters."
"I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from
some other technically advanced civilization."
Gordon Cooper, Mercury 7 Astronaut NASA, USAF
Pilot, Nov. 27, 1978
"I think that Walter Schirra aboard Mercury 8 was the first of the
astronauts to use the code name 'Santa Claus' to indicate the presence
of flying saucers next to space capsules. However, his announcements
were barely noticed by the general public".
Maurice Chatelain (former) Chief - NASA Communications
Systems
"UFOs defy worldly logic... The human mind cannot begin to comprehend
UFO characteristics: their propulsion, their sudden appearance, their
disappearance, their great speeds, their silence, their manoeuvre, their
apparent anti-gravity, their changing shapes."
Earl of Kimberly, House of Lords Debate
on Unidentified Flying Objects, HANSARD (Lords), vol. 397, no. 23, Jan.
18, 1979.
"Many men have seen them [UFOs] and have not been mistaken. Who are
we to doubt their word?... Only a few weeks ago a Palermo policeman
photographed one, and four Italian Navy officers saw a 300-foot long
fiery craft rising from the sea and disappearing into the sky... Why
should these men of law enforcement and defense lie?"
Lord Rankeillour, Member of the House of Lords
(Ibid)
"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere...
that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical
force or effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be overwhelming...
A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose
credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have
been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military
pilots. Their observations have in many instances... been supported
either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly,
by... interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another..."
Lord Hill-Norton (GCB), Chief of Defense Staff,
Ministry of Defense, Great Britain (1971-73); Chairman, Military Committee
of NATO (1974-77); Admiral of the Fleet; Member of House of Lords
(Ibid)
"It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light
side, and when we entered the shadow side it disappeared completely.
It was an engineered structure, made from some type of metal, approximately
40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider
here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like
small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it,
and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away."- Cosmonaut
Victor Afanasyev commenting on a UFO sighting that occurred while
en route to the Solyut 6 space station in April of 1979
"We have indeed been contacted by extraterrestrial beings, and the
US government in collusion with other national powers of the Earth is
determined to keep this information away from the general public. The
purpose of the inter-nation conspiracy concerning the reality of UFOs
is to maintain a workable stability amongst the nations of the world,
and for them in turn to retain institutional control over their respective
populations."
"Thus for governments to admit that there are beings from outer space
with mentalities and technological capabilities obviously far superior
to ours, could, once fully perceived by the average person, erode the
foundations of the Earth’s traditional power structure. Political and
legal systems, religions, economic and social institutions could all
soon become meaningless in the eyes of the public. The national oligarchical
establishments, even civilization as we know it, could collapse into
anarchy. Such extreme conclusions are not necessarily
valid, but they probably accurately reflect the fears of
the ruling classes of most major nations who’s leaders, particularly
those in the intelligence business, have always advocated excessive
government secrecy as being necessary to preserve national security..."
Victor Marchetti, former Executive Assistant to
the deputy director of the CIA, 1979.
"It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell
you what was inside. We both know about the rumors (concerning a captured
UFO and crew members). I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but
I have intelligent friends who have."
Barry Goldwater - US Senator, US Air Force General
and candidate for President , quoted from his letter dated April
11, 1979.
"Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater.
The encounter was common knowledge in NASA but nobody has talked about
it until now." "...all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both
at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of
extraterrestrial origin. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed
Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence."
Maurice Chatelain (former) Chief - NASA Communications
Systems, 1979
"Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large,
mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon
module. But his message was never heard by the public - because NASA
censored it."
Dr. Vladmimir Azahzha, Soviet physicist and mathematics
professor.
"In this field [Ufology], prejudice will take you farther from the
truth than ignorance..."
Bang Wen-Gwang, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing Astronomical Research Society, 1981
"I still do not know why the high order of classification has been
given and why the denial of the existence of these objects [has been
perpetuated]."
Dr. Robert Sarbacher (on his involvement
with secret government programs dealing with UFOs), Nov. 29, 1983
"I know other astronauts share my feelings....And we know the government
is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs. I had a good friend at Roswell,
a fellow officer. He had to be careful about what he said. He made it
clear to me that what crashed was a craft of alien origin, and members
of the crew were recovered. It wasn't a weather balloon, like the Air
Force cover story." "Every day in the U.S.A., our radar instruments
capture objects of form and composition unknown to us."
"For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on
all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in
the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition
unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity
of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public."
Colonel L. Gordon Cooper, Mercury/Astronaut,
address to the UN in 1985
"As far as my Air Staff is concerned, we believe implicitly that the
unexplained UFOs are from some civilization beyond our planet."
Air Commodore David Thorne, Director General of
Operations letter to Timothy Good, Oct. 24, 1985
"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 (prejudice) works
against the presentation of relevant data."
Peter A. Sturrock, "An Analysis of the
Condon Report on the Colorado UFO Project," Journal of Scientific Exploration,
Vol.1, No.1, 1987
“I wish to bring to your attention a very real and dangerous situation
that threatens not only us, the world, but our very existence as a race.
No longer can the United States be in the position which it found itself
in 1947. This was realized in January 1950 when President Truman made
a decision to go ahead with a defense program exceeding in scope and
cost of the Manhattan Project.”
Dr. Edward Teller, memo to President Reagan
"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget
how much unites all the members of humanity. I occasionally think how
quickly our differences, worldwide, would vanish if we were facing an
alien threat from outside this world."
Former President Ronald Reagan, while sharing
the stage with former Russian leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, 1988
"His Excellency recognizes the importance of the [UFO] matter, to
the extent that within the Ministry of Aeronautics there exists a Bureau
in charge of studying the matter, receiving, analyzing and archiving
chronologically the phenomena observed in Brazilian airspace that comes
to the attention of this Ministry."
Air Force Colonel Sergio Candiota da Silva, Assistant
to the Minister of Aeronautics Dec. 19, 1988
"The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously."
Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR leader.
Reply to workers in the Urals. 'Soviet Youth' May 4, 1990
"I believe it is a reasonable time to take the UFO problem seriously
as a reality... I hope that this Symposium will contribute to peace
on earth from the point of view of outer space, and take the first step
toward the international cooperation in the field of UFOs. From the
point of view of 'people' in outer space, all human beings on earth
are the same people, regardless of whether they are American, Russian,
Japanese, or whoever."
Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan Letter
to Mayor Shiotani, June 24, 1990
"Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon
in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to
the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they
know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When
a so-called 'expert' tells them the object must have been the moon or
a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent
or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown."
Dr. Jacques Vallee, astrophysicist, computer scientist
1990
"We're not dealing with mental projections or hallucinations on the
part of the witness but with a real physical phenomenon. Reports of
anomalous aerial objects (AAO) appearing in the atmosphere continue
to be made by pilots of almost every airline and air force of the world,
in addition to private and experimental test pilots. This paper presents
a review of 56 reports of AAO in which electromagnetic effects (E-M)
take place on-board the aircraft when the phenomenon is located nearby
- but not before it appeared or after it had departed.
"Reported E-M effects included radio interference or total failure,
radar contact with and without simultaneous visual contact, magnetic
and/or gyro-compass deviations, automatic direction finder failure or
interference, engine stopping or interruption, dimming cabin lights,
transponder failure, and military aircraft weapon system failure."
Dr. Richard Haines, Chief of Space Human Factors
Office, Ames NASA Research Center International UFO Symposium
Proceedings, 1992
Jaques Vallee reveals from his diaries how the government has deliberately
misled the scientific world, the media and the public regarding their
information on UFOs and paranormal research:
"I have followed this rule of silence for the last thirty years, but
I have finally decided that I had no right to keep them (diaries) private
anymore... They provide a primary source about a crucial fact in the
recent historical record: the appearance of new classes of phenomena
that highlighted the reality of the paranormal. These phenomena were
deliberately denied or distorted by those in authority within the government
and the military. Science never had fair and complete access to the
most important files.
"The thirteen years covered here, from 1957 to 1969, saw some of the
most exciting events in technological history... Behind the grand parade
of the visible breakthroughs in science, however, more private mysteries
were also taking place: all over the world people had begun to observe
what they described as controlled devices in the sky. They were shaped
like saucers or spheres. They seemed to violate every known principle
in our physics.
"Governments took notice, organizing task forces, encouraging secret
briefings and study groups, funding classified research and all the
time denying before the public that any of the phenomena might be real.
The major revelation of these Diaries may be the demonstration of how
the scientific community was misled by the government, how the best
data were kept hidden, and how the public record was shamelessly manipulated."
Dr. Jacques Vallee, astrophysicist, computer scientist
1992
In a published article in April 1995, Chatelain dropped the bombshell
revelation that, "...the Apollo Moon Mission found 'several mysterious
geometric structures of unnatural origin' on the Moon".
Maurice Chatelain - former NASA Director of Communications
"...if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they
didn't tell me about it either, and I want to know."
Bill Clinton, President - United States of America,
Oct. 1995.
"I know other astronauts share my feelings...we know the government
is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs."
Col. Gordon Cooper, Mercury/Gemini Astronaut,
Jan 14, 1997
"...the General Staff of the Polish Army have had a special division
which gathered and evaluated all information about UFO sightings and
close encounters with aliens since the early 1980s".
Col. Zdzislaw Czekierda, Spokesman, General Staff
- Polish Army, 1997
Hare said she saw a NASA technician air brush a UFO out of a space
satellite photo and "that it was done routinely".
Donna Hare - photo labs, Johnson Space Center
- Houston, TX. 1998
"I've talked with people of stature - of military and government credentials
and position - and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their
stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly...
the first hand experiences of these credible witnesses, now in advanced
years and anxious to tell their story. We can't deny that, and the evidence
points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed
an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that
crash site."
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
from a taped interview in 1998.
"If you suppress the truth it becomes your enemy...if you expose the
truth it becomes your weapon. I had the evidence that a crash did happen.
I ask [you] this: 'Were you there with me? Did you have the clearances?'
They can't answer these questions. They simply criticize with no evidence."
Colonel Philip Corso - National Secuirty Advisor
Eisenhower Administration; former head of the Foreign Technology Desk,
United States Army Research and Development; 1998 video interview, shortly
before his death.
"Sometimes we actually got lucky enough to score a hit with a missile
before the UFO could take any evasive action, which an army air defense
battalion did with an antiaircraft missile near Ramstein Air Force Base
in Germany in May 1974. The spacecraft managed to crash-land in a valley.
The craft was retrieved and flown back to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada."
Col. Phillip J. Corso, U.S. Army from "The
Day After Rosewell", p127, 1998
"Initially I was skeptical about this reality but I believe today that
the force of evidence commands an honest, scientific look at the facts.
The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and
that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered
from the crash site."
Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 1999
"If we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available
to us, we have to come to the conclusion that ... other life probably
exists out there and perhaps in many places."
Apollo Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Oct 21,
1999.
"Whatever did or did not happen at Roswell in 1947 will ultimately
prove to be a rounding error when the implications of this phenomenon
become widely known."
Joseph Firmage, International Space Sciences Organization,
1999
"I'm fairly convinced that we have discovered life on Mars," Clarke
told Buzz Aldrin. "There are some incredible photographs from [the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory], which to me are pretty convincing proof of the
existence of large forms of life on Mars! Have a look at them. I don't
see any other interpretation."
Arthur Clarke ~Feb 27 2001
On March 6, former astronaut and senator John Glenn appeared on the
sitcom Frasier and gave a remarkable soliloquy: "Back in those glory
days, I was very uncomfortable when they asked us to say things that
I didn't want to say, and deny other things. Some people asked, you
know, 'Were you alone out there?' We never gave
the real answer. We've seen things out there, strange things. But we
know what we saw out there. And we couldn't really say anything, the
bosses were scared of this. They were afraid of 'War of the Worlds'
type stuff, about panic in the streets. And so we had to keep quiet.
And now we only see these things in our nightmares or maybe in the movies.
And some of them are pretty close to being the truth." Aldrin did not
comment.
Senator John Glenn - former NASA astronaut
March 6, 2001
In another statement Wednesday, Donna Hare, said that Apollo astronauts
saw an alien craft when they landed on the moon, but were told not to
reveal it. Hare's source was a man who had been quarantined with the
astronauts.
Donna Hare, former NASA contract employee
(reported by ABC News, May 10, 2001)
Former Air Force Maj. George Filer III told reporters that when he
was at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, an alien craft came down,
and an alien got out and was shot by a military policeman.
"Our security police went out there and found him at the end of the
runway dead," Filer said.
"They asked me to brief the general staff," he said, but was later
told not to. He said he would tell the story in front of Congress. Filer
says he also chased an alien ship over England when flying for the U.S.
Air Force. "I personally have observed a UFO both visually and on radar."
George Flier III, Major, USAF (reported
by ABC News, May 10, 2001)
Diane Reme interviewed VP Dick Cheney on the first part of her show.
A caller asked about UFOs. His reply was something to the effect that
'...if I ever was briefed on UFOs it would be classified and I wouldn't
be able to talk about it.' Diane Reme followed by asking, "Is there
an investigation going on in this administration regarding UFOs?" And
he said 'Ummm....I have not come across the subject since I've been
back in govt since Jan 20th. I've been in alot of meetings, but none
of them about UFO's as i recall." Dick Cheney,
VP, USA. April 11, 2001. (25 min into the show at: http://www.wamu.org/dr/)
As my friend commented, "Once again, Cheney is either suavely regurgitating
another lie - or - he's telling the truth, which means he's clueless.
Either position is unacceptable for a man in his position, given the
critical 'energy /environmental /extraterrestrial situation' now facing
all humanity."
"The astronauts are very controlled by military secrecy oaths."
Clark McClelland - NASA June 6, 2001
Insights, Overview and Context:
"Gradually, I began to accumulate cases that I really couldn't explain,
cases reported by reliable, sincere people whom I often interviewed
in person. I found that the persons making these reports were often
not acquainted with UFO's before their experience, which baffled and
thoroughly frightened them. Fearing ridicule, they were often reluctant
to report the sighting and did so only out of a sense of duty and a
tremendous desire to get a rational explanation for their irrational
experience."
"The UFO phenomenon exists, and this fact alone should represent a
challenge to science and not a roadblock. We have a responsibility as
scientists to support those who accept this challenge even though we
may not ourselves be inclined to pursue the matter. In any event, ridicule
of those who do consider this subject should not enter, for ridicule
is certainly not a part of the scientific method."
Dr. J. Allen Hynek "Are
Flying Saucers Real?"
"UFOs are conceived and directed by intelligent beings of a very high
order, and they are propelled by distorting the gravitational field,
converting gravity into useable energy. There is no doubt in my mind
that these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort. I and my colleagues
are confident that they do not originate in our solar system...perhaps
not even in our galaxy." It is my thesis that flying saucers are real
and that they are space ships from another solar system."
Dr. Herman Oberth, the father of modern rocketry
"One of the principal results of my own recent intensive study of
the UFO enigma is this: I have become convinced that the scientific
community, not only in this country but throughout the world, has been
casually ignoring as nonsense a matter of extraordinary scientific importance..."
James E. McDonald, Senior Physicist, Institute
of Atmospheric Physics; Professor - Dept. of Meteorology; University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
"No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this
time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate
these flying objects are able to achieve... there are objects coming
into our atmosphere at very high speeds."
Admiral Delmer S. Fahrney, former head
of the Navy's guided-missile program (New York Times)
"50,000 virtually reliable people have reported sighting unidentified
flying objects… From available information, the UFO phenomenon appears
to have been global in nature for almost 50,000 years. This leaves us
with the unpleasant possibility of alien visitors to our planet, or
at least of alien controlled UFO's. The best thing to do is to keep
an open and skeptical mind, and not take an extreme position on any
side of the question"
USAF "Introductory Space Science", Volume
II - Deparment of Physics, USAF
"I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials
and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their
stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly....
The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in
advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that,
and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident,
and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered
from that crash site."
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
from a taped interview.
"The time will have to come when we realize that we're not the center
of the universe. The galaxy may be teeming with life. There may be millions
of civilizations."
Richard Terrile, Astromomer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"We're way, way past time for bringing this information to the public,
acknowledging it and entering into the sort of discussions at the highest
levels of congress and the government - to make this information available
to the public. It's far, far past time for this. If we don't do it here,
I don't know when we'll ever going to be able to do it."
" I think our representative democracy is in danger....I think events
are moving so fast, so very rapidly, that no one is really on top of
it, and if we don't get the people mobilized here to demand that we
get to the bottom of these issues we're talking about today...we're
not going to have an opportunity forever. This is a key issue that we
are talking about."
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
Jan 5, 1998 on the Art Bell Show
As the Federal Government continues to deny the existence of other
worldly life forms, the American people only lose trust in the Federal
government. The truth is, the knowledge that we are not alone is buried
deep within our cellular memory. We already know the
truth. This alone accounts for the deep fascination with all
things which deal with this topic.
Dr. Heather Anne Harder
James Harder
UFO 'research by proclamation':
"Characterized by fantastic tales and an utter lack of research into
possible explanations. 'I have no doubts' is the most common figure
of speech...and they are doubtlessly sincere, if arguably deluded."
James Oberg, NASA
"It is difficult for those to see,
whose paycheck depends on them not seeing."
(Upton Sinclair)
"All truth passes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; next
it is violently attacked; finally, it is held to be self-evident." Schopenhauer
