UFOs_Who_Knows

Dedication: To the public which deserves the right to know the truth…

Acknowledgements:

TOC

1. Military
2. Government
3. Scientist
4. Astronaut
5. Clergy
6. Congress
7. Presidents
8. Celebrity
9. Journalists

Preface
Forward

Quotes

Conclusions

• MJ-12 linked people and why.

About the Authors

Dedication: To the public which deserves the right to know the truth…

Acknowledgements

Preface

General Douglas MacArthur

“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.”
(The New York Times, October 8, 1955)
“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… “
(Address to the United States Military Academy at West Point, May 12, 1962)
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was an American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II, including officially accepting Japan’s surrender on September 2, 1945. He oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951 and is credited with implementing democratic reforms in that country. MacArthur led the United Nations Command forces defending South Korea against the North Korean invasion from 1950 to 1951. He fought in three major wars (World War I, World War II, and the Korean War) and was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army.
: General Nathan Twining

“a. The phenomena reported is something real
and not visionary or fictitious.
b. 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.
c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by
natural phenomena, such as meteors.
d. 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.)
Nathan Farragut Twining (1897-1982) was a United States Air Force General. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960 he was the first member of the Air Force to serve in that role. In 1947, Twining was asked to study UFO reports, and recommended that a formal study of the phenomenon take place. Project Sign, an official U.S. government study of UFOs undertaken by the Air Force, was the result of Twining’s involvement. Project Sign was dissolved in late 1948.
: Delmer S. Fahrney

“Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our
atmosphere at very high speeds and controlled by thinking
intelligences… no agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate
at this time the speeds and accelerations which radar and observers
indicate these flying objects are able to achieve.”
(A public statement made during 1957)
Rear Admiral Delmar S. Fahrney has often been described as “the father of the guided missile.” He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1919, received a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1929 and was subsequently designated an aeronautical engineering duty officer. Admiral Fahrney was the first Commander of the Naval Air Missile Test Center, Point Mugu, California, where he served until his retirement from active duty in 1950. In 1957, Fahrney became the Board Chairman of NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, one of the first established private organizations devoted to UFO research in the U.S.

: Major General Joe W. Kelly

“Air Force interceptors still pursue UFOs as a matter of national
security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.”
(www.ufoevidence.org)
The first four-star commander of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS), Major General Joe William Kelly, assumed command as Lieutenant General of the U.S. Air Force’s Military Air Transport Service on June 1, 1960, and was promoted to full General on June 6, 1963. In 1961 he personally piloted the first jet aircraft assigned to MATS on its maiden voyage from the Boeing factory at Renton, Washington, to MATS Eastern Transport Air Force at McGuire AFB, New Jersey. In 1953, he was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C., as Director of Legislative Liaison. In this position he was responsible for the development of public laws affecting the Air Force as well as furthering Air Force relations with Congress. For his exceptional service in this position, General Kelly was awarded an oak leaf cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal by Secretary of the Air Force, James Douglas.

Major Jesse Marcel

“I was amazed at what I saw. The amount of debris that was scattered
over such an area…The more I saw of the fragments, the more I
realized it wasn’t anything I was acquainted with. In fact, as it turned
out, nobody else was acquainted with it…There was a cover up some
place about the whole matter.”
(Extract taken from a video interview)
Marcel was a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer involved in the 1947 Roswell recovery. Major Marcel may have been the person responsible for the first press release at that time which suggested that the military was covering up the retrieval of an alien spacecraft, not a weather balloon from a military project. Among the first to arrive at the crash site in Roswell, Marcel was well acquainted with all the weather balloons launched by the 509th Bomb Group, presumably including the Mogul balloons, one of which the U.S. Government now claims accounts for the Roswell wreckage.

: Captain Robert Salas

The security guard called and said, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object
hovering right outside the front gate. I’ve got all the men out here
with their weapons drawn.” We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear
tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs
were in the area….(A high ranking Air Force officer) said,
“Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final
report. I heard that many of the guards that reported the incident
were sent off to Vietnam.”
(Videotaped testimony regarding intrusion of an unidentified object
over a nuclear missile installation in 1967)
After graduating from the Air Force Academy, Captain Robert Salas served from 1964 to 1971 in active duty as a SAC Missile Launch Officer. He also held positions at Martin Marietta and Rockwell and spent 21 years with the Federal Aviation Authority. While in the Air Force, he was an air traffic controller and a missile launch officer as well as an engineer on the Titan 3 missiles. He was also a Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander.

: Brigadier General Arthur E. Exon

“We heard the material was coming to Wright field. It was brought
into our material evaluation labs. I don’t know how it arrived but the
boys who tested it said it was very unusual.”
(Randle/Schmitt on the debris recovered at Roswell, NM in 1947)
Brigadier General Exon entered aviation cadet training school and received his pilot rating in 1942. His first duty assignment was with the 57th Fighter Group in the European-African-Middle Eastern theater-of-operations during World War II. He flew 135 combat missions, with a total of 325 combat hours. During a mission over Cecina, Italy, in April 1944, Exon’s aircraft was severely damaged by an exploding ammunition depot, and he was forced to bail out. Captured by the Germans, he remained a prisoner of war until June 1945. In 1948, following completion of a two-year industrial administration course at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Exon was assigned to Air Materiel Command Headquarters, as Chief of the Maintenance Data Section. He was then assigned to the Pentagon for five years; and in August 1964 was assigned as Commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. His many decorations included the Distinguished Service Cross, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with fifteen oak-leaf clusters. He retired on May 1, 1969, and died on July 23, 2005.
: General Carlos Castro Cavero
“The nations of the world are currently working together in the
investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international
exchange of data.”
General Carlos Castro Cavero (Spain), 1976
Sources:
Benítez, J.J., La Gaceta del Norte, Bilbao, Spain, June 27, 1976; Benítez, J. J., “Release of Further
Official Spanish Documents on UFOs,” trans. by Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review,
3-4/79; Good, Timothy, Above Top Secret, p. 152
Carlos Castro Cavero was the divisional general commanding the air zone of the Canary Islands. In June 1976, he told journalist J. J. Benitez from La Gaceta del Norte that UFOs were being taken seriously at high levels. The Spanish Air Force, he said, had about twenty cases that were “thoroughly inexplicable.” This included Air Force pilot encounters. He also made the statement that “the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” This is an astonishing admission from a general of a NATO country, on par with Robert Galley’s remarks from 1974. Cavero said that “… maybe when this group of nations acquire more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world.” Of course, one might ask how many years, or decades, would be required before “more precise and definite information” would be obtained, particularly when the general had just admitted that there was a secret, international, collaborative program regarding UFOs. Presumably these intelligent people had been working together for some time by then. Cavero offered his personal belief that “UFOs are spaceships or extraterrestrial craft.” He even described a personal daylight sighting of a UFO at his ranch near Zaragoza. The event lasted for more than an hour. “It was an extremely bright object, which remained stationary there for that length of time and then shot off towards the mountains twenty kilometers in less than two seconds. No human device is capable of such a speed.”
Government Quotations
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June M. Crain

They frequently saw them [UFOs] and then told me, I’m positive
that there were three crashes by 1952.”
(June 27, 1997 interview with Police Sgt. Clarkson)
June Crain was born on June 16, 1925, in Dayton, Ohio, and began her employment at the age of seventeen with the United States’ War Department at the formerly- named Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) in the position of clerk typist. In 1943 she worked in the Air Service Command at Patterson Field; and by the 1950s was employed as a clerk-stenographer in the Cargo Unit-Parachute Branch at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. She was also an expert carpenter and built no less than fifteen homes for low-income families. In 1997, Crain was interviewed by retired police sergeant James E. Clarkson about her knowledge of recovered UFOs and dead alien bodies, and later signed an affidavit attesting to the accuracy of her recollections concerning crashed UFOs at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during the period of her employment at the base. She died on August 23, 1998.
Lieutenant Robert M. Jacobs

“For thirty years I’ve held that image in my mind. What I saw was a
circular object that looked like two pie plates put on top of each other
with a golf ball on top. It was a classic flying saucer, and it shot a beam
of something at our warhead.”
The “UFO” Filming, Big Sur, California
September 1964; UFO or IFO? Francis Ridge. http://www.nicap.org/bigsurdir.htm
In September 1964, Jacobs was a member of the 1369th Photographic Squadron of the U.S. Air Force at Vandenberg Air Force Base and held the position of Officer-in-Charge of Photo-instrumentation. That month, a UFO was caught on film as it appeared to disable a dummy warhead on an Atlas missile – something that was not seen until the event was reviewed on film. The following morning, Jacobs was ordered to report to the office of Major Florenz Mansmann, where he was shown the film and told to forget the incident ever happened. Before Mansmann’s death, and 40 years after the actual event, the major confirmed a UFO incident in writing.

Major George A. Filer

“It isn’t a question of whether or not flying saucers exist.
The question is, what are they and who do they belong to?”
(Global UFO Network)
George Filer is a retired US Air Force major. He was involved in a UFO incident in 1962 while aboard a USAF tanker in the vicinity of Stonehenge, England. He served in the field of intelligence for two decades, taught high-school children about aerospace science, and edits the online newsletter, Filer’s Files.

“The Central Intelligence Agency has reviewed the current situation
concerning unidentified flying objects which have created extensive
speculation in the press and have been the subject of concern to
Government organizations… Since 1947, approximately 2,000 official
reports of sightings have been received and of these, about 20% are as
yet unexplained.”
“It is my view that this situation has possible implications for our
national security which transcend the interests of a single service.
A broader, coordinated effort should be initiated to develop a firm
scientific understanding of the several phenomena which apparently
are involved in these reports…”
(1952 memorandum to the National Security Council)
General Walter Bedell “Beetle” Smith was Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff throughout most of World War II, served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1948, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1950 to 1953, and Under Secretary of State from 1953 to 1954. He also played a role in the creation of the National Security Agency in 1952.
General Curtis LeMay

“Many of the mysteries might be explained away as weather balloons,
stars, reflected lights, all sorts of odds and ends. I don’t mean to say
that, in the unclosed and unexplained or unexplainable instances,
those were actually flying objects. All I can say is that no natural
phenomena could be found to account for them… Repeat again: There
were some cases we could not explain. Never could.”
(Statement from 1965 autobiography Mission With LeMay,
with MacKinlay Kantor, New York: Doubleday, 1965.)
General Curtis Emerson LeMay is credited with designing and implementing an effective systematic bombing campaign in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. After the war, he headed the Berlin Airlift and reorganized the Strategic Air Command (SAC) into an effective means of conducting nuclear war. During the 1950s, he became U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff. In 1968, he was the Vice-Presidential running mate of independent candidate George C. Wallace. The April 25, 1988, issue of the New Yorker carried an interview with former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who said he repeatedly asked his friend General LeMay if there was any truth to the rumors that UFO evidence was stored in a secret room (Blue Room) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and if he (Goldwater) might obtain access to the room. Goldwater said an angry LeMay gave him “holy hell” and said, “Not only can’t you get into it, but don’t you ever mention it to me again.” LeMay also wrote an accommodation certificate for Harry B. Cooper, a typeset printing specialist for his outstanding service of the “USAF UFO Program.”
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt

“When four college professors, a geologist, a chemist, a physicist
and a petroleum engineer report seeing the same UFOs on fourteen
different occasions, the event can be classified as, at least, unusual.
Add the fact that hundreds of other people saw these UFOs and that
they were photographed, and the story gets even better. Add a few
more facts – that these UFOs were picked up on radar and that a
few people got a close look at one of them, and the story begins to
convince even the most ardent skeptic.”
(Ruppelt, Edward J., The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, New York: Doubleday, 1956.)
Edward J. Ruppelt was a United States Air Force officer probably best-known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects. He is generally credited with coining the term “unidentified flying object”, to replace the terms “flying saucer” and “flying disk”, which had become widely known; Ruppelt thought the latter terms were both suggestive and inadequate. Ruppelt was the director of Project Grudge from late 1951 until it became Project Blue Book in March 1952 and he remained with Blue Book until late 1953. UFO researcher Jerome Clark writes, “Most observers of Blue Book agree that the Ruppelt years comprised the project’s golden age, when investigations were most capably directed and conducted. Ruppelt himself was open-minded about UFOs, and his investigators were not known, as Grudge’s were, for force-fitting explanations on cases.”
Major General E.B. LeBailly

“Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from
intelligent and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity
cannot be doubted.” (September 28, 1965, letter to USAF Scientific
Advisory Board requesting a review of the UFO project. Gillmor,
Daniel S., ed. “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”
(The Condon Report, New York Times Books, 1969)
A native of Idaho, General LeBailly was born in 1915. He attended the University of California at Berkeley where, in 1939, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree. In that same year, he attended the Army Air Corps Flying Training School at Randolph Field, Texas, and earned his commission as a second lieutenant in 1940. After World War II, LeBailly commanded bases at Boise, Idaho, and Walla Walla, Washington, as well as a Reserve Training Center at Offutt Field, Nebraska. He graduated from the Air Command and Staff School in 1948. In 1952 the general went to Korea where he flew fifty combat missions as Commander of the 3rd Bombardment Wing. LeBailly returned to the United States in 1955 as Chief of Information Services for Headquarters Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. After three years he returned to Washington, D.C., as Deputy Director of the Office of Information under the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. In 1964 he became Director of Information for the U.S. Air Force. General LeBailly assumed duties as Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington, D.C., on August 1, 1970. He retired September 1, 1973, and died on February 17, 1992.
General George S. Brown

“I don’t know whether this story has ever been told or not. They
weren’t called UFOs. They were called enemy helicopters. And they
were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places.
They were seen up around the DMZ [demilitarized zone] in the early
summer of ‘68. And this resulted in quite a little battle. And in the
course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found
any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted
out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at
all involved but we always reacted. Always after dark. The same thing
happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in ‘69.”
(Department of Defense transcript of press conference in Illinois, October 16, 1973)
General George Scratchley Brown was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He served as the senior military adviser to the President of the United States, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. Brown was appointed assistant operations officer of the 2nd Air Division in May 1944 and assumed similar duties in May 1945 with Headquarters Air Training Command at Fort Worth, Texas. In 1946 Brown joined Headquarters Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, N.Y. as assistant to the Air Chief of Staff, and later became assistant deputy for operations. During the Korean War in 1950, he became commander of the 62nd Troop Carrier Group at McChord Air Force Base, Washington, which operated between the west coast and Japan. During 1951 and the early part of 1952, he commanded the 56th Fighter Wing at Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan, and in May 1952 he joined Fifth Air Force Headquarters at Seoul, Korea, as director for operations. In July 1953 Brown assumed command of the 3525th Pilot Training Wing at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona. He entered the National War College in 1956, and after graduating in 1957, Brown served as the executive to the Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force. In June 1959 he was selected to be Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and later was Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.

“It is impossible to deny anymore 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.”
(O Globo, Brazilian newspaper, Rio de Janeiro, February 28, 1958)

Oliveria was Chief of the Air Force General Staff Information Service and Director of the first official UFO inquiry in Brazil.
“The number of thoughtful, intelligent educated people in full
possession of their faculties have ‘seen something’ and described
it, grows every day. We can … say categorically that mysterious
objects have indeed appeared and continued to appear in the sky
that surrounds us…(they) unmistakably suggest a systematic aerial
exploration and cannot be the result of chance.”
(From the forward to Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, Aime Michel)
Chassin was the Commanding General of the French Air Forces, and General Air Defense Coordinator, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe (NATO).
: Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Halt

“The object was described as being metallic in appearance and
triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base
and approximately two meters high. It illuminated the entire forest
with a white light. The object itself had a pulsating red light on top
and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering
or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object, it maneuvered
through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a
nearby farm went into a frenzy.”
(In a January 13, 1981 memo concerning the December 1980 UFO incident)
USAF, RAF Bentwaters (UK) Deputy Base Commander, Headquarters, 81st Combat Support Group. Charles I. Halt is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and the former Base Commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. After serving in Vietnam, Japan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander. The Rendlesham Forest Incident of late December 1980 occurred shortly after that and he was an important witness to events on the second night of sightings. In the early hours of 28 December 1980, Lieutenant Colonel Halt led a patrol to investigate an alleged UFO landing site near the eastern edge of Rendlesham Forest. During this investigation they witnessed several unidentified lights, the most prominent of them being a bright, flashing light in the direction of Orford Ness. In January 1981 Halt composed an official Air Force memorandum listing details of the events. The memo was then dispatched to the Ministry of Defense. Halt also made an audio tape recording of the incident. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1991, Halt made his first public appearance in a television documentary, where he confirmed the authenticity of the Rendlesham Forest Incident. In 1997 he was interviewed by Georgina Bruni for a book about the Rendlesham event, You Can’t Tell the People.

: Captain Omar R. Pagani

“The unidentified flying objects do exist. Their presence and
intelligent displacement in the Argentine airspace has been proven.
Their nature and origin is unknown.”
(Informe Oficial O.V.N.I, Sumario S# A. 02778-DTO. OVNI, Naval Air Station Comandante
Espora, in ICUFON Project World Authority for Spatial Affairs (W.A.S.A.), New York, 1979)
Pagani was the Director of the Argentine Navy UFO investigation team in the 1960s. As a result of a series of observations at Argentine and Chilean meteorological stations on Deception Island, Antarctica, in June and July 1965, Captain Pagani made the above quote at a press conference.
“By this order, the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information
must delete all evidence of UFO reality and intelligent control,
which would, of course, contradict the Air Force stand that UFOs
do not exist. The same rule applies to A.F. press releases and UFO
information given to congress and the public.”
(From a 1962 Air Force order disclosed by Major William T. Coleman
in Flying Saucers 101, page 99)
Coleman was a former Air Force headquarters spokesman and former Project Blue Book officer.
: Roscoe Hillenkoetter

“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)
(Feb. 28, 1960, New York Times, ‘Air Force Order on ‘Saucers’ Cited’).
Through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense… to hide the facts, the Air
Force has silenced its personnel.”
Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter was the third director of the post-World War II U.S. Central Intelligence Group (CIG) and the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency, created by the National Security Act of 1947. He served as director of the CIG and the CIA from May 1, 1947 to October 7, 1950. Hillenkoetter was a member of NICAP for five years, and Donald E. Keyhoe writes in his book Aliens from Space that Hillenkoetter wanted public disclosure of UFO evidence. He was also allegedly the first member of the super-secret group called Majestic-12, supposedly created by Executive Order on September 24, 1947, by President Harry Truman. This group was supposed to be the main “umbrella group” overseeing UFO research in the aftermath of the Roswell UFO incident, the alleged recovery of a crashed flying saucer and alien bodies in July 1947. In 1961, Hillenkoetter joined with a majority of the NICAP Board in urging a Congressional investigation of the UFO problem.
: Major Donald Keyhoe

“The Air Force had put out a secret order for its
pilots to capture UFOs.”
For the last six months we have been working with a congressional
committee investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs
are real machines under intelligent [control].”
(During a live TV broadcast on CBS in 1958 in which he was pulled from the air when he
began to deviate from the prepared format of the program)
Donald Keyhoe graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland with a B.S. degree and the commission of a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. The young Lieutenant became a naval aviator, piloting both balloons and airplanes in the period between the World Wars. In the years leading to World War II, Lieutenant Keyhoe commanded a flight of naval seaplanes being ferried from the U.S. to Guam, and served on that island. He became editor of the Coast and Geodetic Survey publications and then he was appointed Chief of Information for the Aeronautics Branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce. During World War II he was recalled to active duty with the rank of Major and served in the Pentagon in the Naval Aviation Training Division. His article “Flying Saucers Are Real” in the January 1950 issue of True became one of the most widely read and discussed articles in publishing history, which was expanded into a paperback book The Flying Saucers Are Real and reached an even wider audience. This was followed by the major hardcover books Flying Saucers from Outer Space (1953), Flying Saucer Conspiracy (1955), and Flying Saucers: Top Secret (1960). In January 1957 Keyhoe had become Director of the newly formed National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, D.C., which under his leadership gave serious publicity to the UFO mystery through the 1960s and encouraged Congressional hearings.
: Azim Daudpota

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion,
no deception, no imagination.”
(Speaking about a UFO sighting over Zimbabwe in 1985)
Azim Daudpota was a Zimbabwe Air Marshall and Squadron Leader who flew 15 strike and 5 Air Defense missions. He controlled and conducted his missions very ably and was always looked up to by his subordinates. He gave precise and clearcut instructions in the air and was responsible for wrecking many tanks, guns, vehicles, etc., in the face of heavy enemy ground fire. His great moments came on 21st September, 1965, when his formation destroyed many enemy medium guns at Wagha-Attari Sector. For his leadership, devotion to duty and complete disregard for personal safety, Squadron Leader Azim Daudpota was awarded Sitara-i-Juraat.
: Lord Dowding

“More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of
which cannot be accounted for by any ‘scientific’ explanation, that
they are hallucinations, the effects of light refraction, meteors,
wheels falling from airplanes, and the like….They have been
tracked on radar screens… and the observed speeds have been as
great as 9,000 mph. I am convinced that these objects do exist and
they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore
see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from an
extraterrestrial source.”
(Sunday Dispatch, July 11, 1954)
After obtaining his pilot’s license in December 1913, Dowding joined the Royal Flying Corps (RFC). He was sent to France and in 1915 was promoted to Commander of 16 Squadron. In 1929 he was promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal and the following year joined the Air Council. In the years prior to World War II he was the commanding officer of the RAF’s Fighter Command and oversaw development of the ‘Dowding System,’ an integrated air defense system of radar, raid plotting and radio control of aircraft. He also introduced modern aircraft into service, such as the eight-gun Spitfire and Hurricane. He was also Commanding Officer of the RAF during WWII.
: Admiral Lord Hill-Norton

“I have frequently been asked why a person of my background—a
former Chief of the Defence Staff, a former Chairman of the NATO
Military Committee—why I think there is a cover-up (of) the facts
about UFOs. I believe governments fear that if they did disclose those
facts, people would panic. I don’t believe that at all. There is a serious
possibility that we are being visited by people from outer space. It
behooves us to find out who they are, where they come from, and
what they want.”
(Disclosure, pp. 305-307)
Peter John Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton GCB was an Admiral of the Fleet, former Chief of the Defense Staff of the United Kingdom and former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. He was known as an outspoken advocate on the importance of sea power and a strong defense for Britain. Though a traditionalist by nature, he also believed in modernization, taking the brave decision to abolish the Royal Navy’s traditional daily rum ration. In later years he took an interest in UFOs, which included writing about them and asking questions in Parliament.

: Marshall Nurjadin Roesmin

“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.”
(Need to Know, Good, Timothy, 2007)
Rusmin Nurjardin was the most famous Indonesian fighter pilot during the 1960s and served as the nation’s Chief of the Air Staff from 1966 to 1969. He was also the founder of Indonesia’s Aerial Acrobatic Team that was founded in 1962 and routinely flew MIG-17F/PF Fresco aircraft at air-shows and public displays in his home country and abroad.
: Lt. Frank H. Schofield

“[Three objects] appeared beneath the clouds, their color a rather
bright red. As they approached the ship, they appeared to soar,
passing above the broken clouds. After rising above the clouds they
appeared to be moving directly away from the Earth. The largest had
an apparent area of about six suns. It was egg-shaped, the larger end
forward. The second was about twice the size of the sun,
and the third, about the size of the sun. Their near approach to the
surface appeared to be most remarkable. That they did come below
the clouds and soar instead of continuing their southeasterly
course is also curious. The lights were in sight for over two minutes
and were carefully observed by three people whose accounts
agree as to the details.”
(A sighting by the U.S.S. Supply off of the eastern coast of Korea,
as reported by then Lt. Frank H. Schofield, later to become Commander-in-Chief
of the Pacific Fleet.2 February 28, 1904, Korea)
Frank Herman Schofield was a decorated admiral in the United States Navy, where he served with distinction in the Spanish-American War and World War I. During the Spanish-American War, he served on the USS Hawk (IX-14), participating in the blockade of Cuban ports and in the capture of four enemy ships. Between 1898 and 1917, he served in various capacities afloat and ashore including duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. After American entry into World War I, he was ordered to London, where he served on the staff of Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, and European Waters until December 1918. Awarded the Navy Cross for his World War I and Peace Commission service, he was detached from the Naval Advisory Staff in May 1919 and, in July, returned to sea duty as commanding officer of the battleship, USS Texas (BB-35). During the 1920s, he served on the General Board from 1921 to 28 UFOs: WHO KNOWS?
1923; was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1924; commanded Destroyer Squadrons, Battle Fleet, from 1924 to 1926; headed the War Plans Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1926 to 1929; was a member of the Naval Advisory
: Lieutenant George Gorman

“I am also convinced that the object was governed by the laws of
inertia because its acceleration was rapid but not immediate, and
although it was able to turn fairly tight at considerable speed, it still
followed a natural curve.”
“When I attempted to turn with the object, I blacked out temporarily
due to excessive speed,” Gorman stated. “I am in fairly good physical
condition and I do not believe there are many, if any, pilots who could
withstand the turn effected by the light and remain conscious.”
(http://www.ufocasebook.com/ltgorman.html)
Lieutenant Gorman was an F-51 pilot of the North Dakota Air National Guard. His UFO encounter is considered one of the early “classics” in UFO history because of his 27 minute long “dogfight” with a UFO in the skies above Fargo in 1948. During World War II, he had been an Air Force instructor, training French student pilots. In Fargo, his home, he had a good reputation, not only for veracity; but as a businessman, too. At only 26, he was part-owner of a construction company, and also the Fargo representative for a hardware store chain. Gorman retired from the Air Force in 1969 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was then living in Texas
: Colonel Robert Willingham

“Headquarters wouldn’t let us go after it and we played around a little
bit. We got to watching how it made 90 degree turns at this high speed
and everything. We knew it wasn’t a missile of any type,
so then we confirmed it with the radar control station, and they kept
following it, and then it crashed somewhere off between Texas and
the Mexico border.”
(From an affidavit in the 1970’s when discussing a sighting of a UFO while he was navigating
an F94 jet on September 6th 1950)
(http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1743.htm)
On Friday, March 30, 2001, Robert Caldwell Willingham left his home near Lipan, Texas. He had faced a 27-month battle against Stage IV cancer. During this period he was able to spend valuable time with family and friends. He passed away at 7:20 p.m. on Saturday, March 31st. Bob was born Dec. 8, 1931, in Abilene to Alton Jackson and Nell Blanche. He graduated from Abilene High School in 1950. Bob enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1951 and served through the duration of the Korean War. After receiving his wings in the Air Force, he was a pilot in the Air Rescue Services, based on Kwajalein Atoll until 1956. Upon completion of his military service, he earned a BBA degree from UT-Austin. Bob developed a career in residential home building that began in Abilene and eventually moved to Arlington. He retired in 1980 to a ranch in Parker County. Although in frail health, Bob was able to enjoy one last fight as pilot, taking a glider through numerous aerobatic maneuvers, drawing upon his experience in the Air Force.
: David Thorne
“This is the first sighting in Zimbabwe where airborne pilots have
tried to intercept a UFO. As far as my Air Staff is concerned, we
believe implicitly that the unexplained UFOs are from civilizations
beyond our planet.”
Thorne was the Director of General Operations for the Zimbabwe Air Force in 1985. (Above
Top Secret, Good, Timothy, 1987)
: Colonel Wilfred De Brouwer

“The Air Force has arrived at the conclusion that a certain number
of anomalous phenomena has been produced in Belgian airspace.
The numerous testimonies of ground observations….reinforced
by the reports of the night March 30-31 (1990) have led us to
face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorized aerial
activities have taken place. The day will undoubtedly come when
the phenomenon will be observed with the technological means of
detection and collection that won’t leave a single doubt about its
origin. This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the mystery
for a long time; a mystery that continues to be present. But it exists, it
is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion.”
(1990: following a spate of sightings over the country witnessed by hundreds of people.
Many of the sightings were confirmed on radar)
De Brouwer was the Chief of Operations for the Belgian Air Force in 1990 (now Major General and Deputy Chief of the Belgian Air Force); he established a Special Task Force Unit to work closely with the Gendarmerie to investigate the sightings as soon as they were reported.
: Lieutenant Colonel
Lawrence J. Coyne

“I looked out ahead of the helicopter and observed an aircraft I have
never seen before. This craft positioned itself directly in front of
the moving helicopter. This craft was 50 to 60 feet long with a grey
metallic structure. On the front of this craft was a large steady bright
red light. I could delineate where the red stopped on the structure
of this craft because red was reflecting off the grey structure. The
design of this craft was symmetrical in shape with a prominent
aft indentation on the undercarriage. From this portion of the
undercarriage, a green light, pyramid-shaped, emerged with the light
initially in the trail position. This green light then swung 90 degrees,
coming directly into the front windshield and lighting up the entire
cockpit of the aircraft. All colors inside the cabin of the helicopter
were absorbed by this green light. That includes the instrument panel
lights on the aircraft.”
“As a result of my experience, I am convinced this object was real and
that these types of incidents should require a thorough investigation.
It is my own personal opinion that worldwide procedures need to
be established to effectively study theses phenomena through an
international cooperative effort. The establishment of a Transponder
Code for aircraft flying worldwide is needed, to identify to ground
controllers that a pilot is indeed experiencing a UFO phenomena
and that pilot anxiety can be reduced to provide safe effective flying,
knowing he is under radar control.”
(Statement to the Special Political Committee of the United Nations, November 27, 1978)
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: Albert M. Chop

The air force has never denied the possibility that interplanetary
spacecraft exist. There are many people in the Air Force
who believe in UFOs.”
(Quoted in Sightings: UFOs)
Albert M. Chop began his career as a newspaper reporter in the city of Dayton, Ohio. At the end of World War II, he went to work for the Press Section of the Air Material Command at Wright Field, Ohio – now known as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Chop had been given the opportunity to speak with numerous top government officials, military personnel and elements of the United States’ intelligence community, who had become firmly convinced that many UFO sightings represented visitations from very real craft of unknown origins. In 1952 (at the specific request of Major General John A. Samford and General Sory Smith, of the Office of Public Information at the Department of Defense), Colonel DeWitt Searles, who then held the position of Chief of the Air Force’s Public Relations Office, transferred Chop from Dayton, Ohio to the Pentagon’s Press Section, where he was specifically tasked with replying to media inquiries concerning UFOs that followed the famous wave of UFO sightings over Washington, D.C., in July of that year.
: General Kanshi Ishikawa
“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)
General Kanshi Ishikawa was Chief of Staff of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force. In 1967, he was Commander of the 2nd Air Wing at Chitose Air Base.

“Despite the seeming insanity of the subject, I felt that I would be
derelict in my scientific responsibility to the Air Force if I did not
point out that the whole UFO phenomenon might have aspects to it
worthy of scientific attention.”
(Hearings on Unidentified Flying Objects, Committee on Armed Services, House of Represen-
tatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, 1966)
“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)
In 1931, Dr. Hynek received a B.S. from the University of Chicago and completed his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Yerkes Observatory, Chicago, in 1935. He joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State University in 1936. Hynek acted as scientific advisor to three consecutive UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force: Project Sign (1947-1949), Project Grudge (1949-1952), and finally, Project Blue Book (1952 to 1969); for decades afterwards, he conducted his own independent UFO research. During World War II, Hynek was a civilian scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he helped to develop the Navy’s radio proximity fuse. After the war, Hynek returned to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State, rising to full professor in 1950. In 1956 he left to join Professor Fred Whipple, the Harvard astronomer, at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, which had combined with the Harvard Observatory at Harvard. Hynek had the 3a6ssignUmFOesn:tWoHf OdirKeNcOtiWngS?the tracking of an American space satellite, a project for the International Geophysical Year in 1956 and thereafter. After completing his work on the satellite program, Hynek went back to teaching, taking the position of professor
SCIENTIST: Stephen Hawking

Of course it is possible that UFOs really do contain aliens, as many
people believe, and the government is hushing it up”
(Comment from C-SPAN Television)
Stephen William Hawking is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. These include the runaway popular science bestseller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Stephen Hawking was the guest lecturer at the Second Millennium Evening at the White House on March 6, 1998.
SCIENTIST: Dr. Paul Santorini
“We soon established that they were not missiles. But, before we could
do any more, the Army, after conferring with foreign officials, ordered
the investigation stopped. 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, New York: Bantam Books, 1974)
Dr. Paul Santorini was the leading Greek scientist in the mid-twentieth century. Santorini was a developer of the proximity fuse on the first atomic bomb and held patents on guidance systems for Nike missiles and radar systems. Santorini was supplied by the Greek Army with a team of engineers to investigate what were believed to be Russian missiles flying over Greece. In a 1967 lecture to the Greek Astronomical Society, broadcast on Athens Radio, he publicly revealed what had been found in his 1947 investigation, as quoted above. (Good, 23; Keyhoe, 14)
SCIENTIST: Dr. James McDonald

“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’.”
(Before Congress, 1968.)
“The types 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 numbers
are quite astonishing. Also, such sightings appear to be occurring all
over the globe.”
(“Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,” Hearings before the Committee on Science
and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, July 29, 1968.)
“The scientific community as a whole does not take the U.F.O.
problem seriously because it lacks experimental data, but it lacks
experimental data because it does not take the problem seriously. It is
like the youth of 20 who cannot find a job because he lacks experience
and lacks experience because he cannot find a job.”
(UFOs and Extraterrestrials in History, volume 4 preface, unnumbered page)
James Edward McDonald received his PhD in physics from Iowa State University in 1951, then worked there as an assistant professor in meteorology. He was a research physicist in the University of Chicago’s department of meteorology from 1953 to 1954, when he joined the University of Arizona faculty as a professor. SMCIcEDNoTnISaTldS was39 also a senior physicist in the University’s Institute of Atmospheric Physics and served as both associate director from 1954 to 1956, and scientific director from 1956 to
SCIENTIST: Dr. Robert M. L. Baker, Jr.

In 1968, he made the following statement concerning the one
U.S. radar system in operation at that time that, to his knowledge,
exhibited sufficient continuous coverage to reveal UFOs operating
above the earth’s atmosphere:
“The system is partially classified and, hence, I cannot go into great
detail… Since this particular sensor system has been in operation,
there have been a number of anomalistic alarms. Alarms that, as of
this date, have not been explained on the basis of natural phenomena
interference, equipment malfunction or inadequacy, or man-made
space objects.”
(1968 Congressional Hearings, ibid.)
Baker was President of West Coast University; author of two astrodynamics textbooks; head of Lockheed’s Astrodynamics Research Center (1961-64); and a member of the faculty of Astronomy and Engineering at UCLA (1959-71). He has specialized in the study of motion pictures of UFOs and anomalistic radar images, and has concluded that two of the most famous UFO motion pictures, taken in the 1950s, cannot be explained in terms of conventional phenomena.

“1. To what conclusions have you come with regard to UFOs? I have
concluded that the earth is being visited by intelligently controlled
vehicles whose origin is extraterrestrial. This doesn’t mean I know
where they come from, why they are here, or how they operate.

2. What basis do you have for these conclusions? Eyewitness
   and photographic and radar reports from all over the earth by
   competent witnesses of definite objects whose characteristics such as
   maneuverability, high speed, and hovering, along with definite shape,
   texture, and surface features, rule out terrestrial explanations.
3. Were there any differences between the unknowns and the knowns?
   A ‘chi square’ statistical analysis was performed comparing the
   unknowns in this study to all the knowns. It was shown that the
   probability that the unknowns came from the same population of
   sighting reports as the knowns, was less than 1%. This was based
   on apparent color, velocity, etc… Maneuverability, one of the most
   distinguished characteristics of UFOs, was not included in this
   statistical analysis.”
   (In a prepared statement submitted to the House Science and Astronautics Committee UFO
   Hearings in 1968, he posed and answered a series of key questions about the UFO phenomenon))
   Stanton T. Friedman received BS and MS degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for such companies as GE, GM, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell Douglas on such advanced, classified, eventually cancelled, projects as nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and nuclear power plants for space. He has published more than 80 UFO papers and appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell InciSdCeInEtNaTnISdT cSo- 41 authored Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident. TOP SECRET/ MAJIC, his explosive book about the Majestic 12 group established in 1947 to deal

In a report on UFOs for French officials, he wrote: “The phenomenon
seems to be real… The general coherence of sighting reports
worldwide should not leave researchers indifferent. One does not
conceive objective arguments to justify an attitude that would avoid
at all cost these observations… The risk is, at worst, to confirm
the existence of unknown vehicles appearing erratically into our
atmosphere – a hypothesis that seems to explain nearly all reported
aspects of the phenomenon and could be linked to the current (1970)
exobiology branch of space research.”
(1971 Statistical Study prepared for the CNES and French officials.)
“Given the volume of the objects described in the observations…
I can affirm that our futuristic space generators are far from being
able to produce the amount of energy seen by the UFO witnesses.
The light power seen is probably the tip of the iceberg, because no
thermodynamic system can produce energy without dissipating a
part of it. The megawatts of observed light are most likely the energy
‘leak’ from the energy conversion system used by the
flying object, which means that the useful energy produced is much
greater than what is seen.”
“The knowledge of such an energy production method is crucial for
the future of mankind. The UFO observation reports tells us that
ambitious, entirely new, solutions are possible [underlined in the
original]. This is very important.”
(Letter to Marie Galbraith, November 26, 1995)
4P2oherUwFaOs :aWn HeOxpKeNrtOoWnSa?eronautics, astronomy and astronautics, engineer at the French Space Agency (CNES) for thirty years, specializing in rocket propulsion and nuclear space energy; former Chairman of many working groups in the International
“There are too many independent eyewitness reports to ignore. Too
many of the reports describe coherent physical effects, and there is an
agreement among the accounts concerning what was observed… But
of course there are also physical effects. The Air Force report [of the
F-16 jet scramble incident on the night of March 30-31, 1990] allows
us to approach the problem in a rational and scientific way. The
simplest hypothesis is that the reports are caused by extraterrestrial
visitors, but that hypothesis carries with it other problems. We are not
in a rush to form a conclusion, but continue to study the mystery.”
(Brosses, M.-T. de, “F-16 Radar Tracks UFO,” Paris Match, July 5, 1990. English version in the
MUFON UFO Journal, No. 268, August 1990)
Meessen was a Professor of Physics at the Catholic University in Louvain and one of the scientific consultants for the Belgian Society for the Study of Space Phenomena (SOBEPS). In an interview with French journalist, Marie-Therese de Brosses, Professor Meessen discussed the UFO wave in Belgium.

In a November 10, 1967 broadcast on Moscow Central Television,
with Soviet Air Force General Porfiri Stolyarov, Zigel stated:
“Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must
study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details of strange flying
craft seen over the territories of the Soviet Union. This is a serious
challenge to science and we need the help of all Soviet citizens.”
(Good, T., ibid.)
“Observations show that UFOs behave ‘sensibly.’ In a group formation
flight, they maintain a pattern. They are most often spotted over
airfields, atomic stations and other very new engineering installations.
On encountering aircraft, they always maneuver so as to avoid direct
contact. A considerable list of these seemingly intelligent actions
gives the impression that UFOs are investigating, perhaps even
reconnoitering… 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)
In an interview with Henri Gris in 1981, he stated: “We have seen
these UFOs over the USSR; craft of every possible shape: small,
big, flattened, spherical. They are able to remain stationary in the
atmosphere or to shoot along at 100,000 kilometers per hour… They
44 arUeFOalss: oWHabOlKeNtOoWaSf?fect our power resources, halting our electricity
generating plants, our radio stations, and our engines, without
however leaving any permanent damage. So refined a technology can
SCIENTIST: American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics UFO Subcommittee

“From a scientific and engineering standpoint, it is unacceptable to
simply ignore substantial numbers of unexplained observations… the
only promising approach is a continuing moderate-level effort with
emphasis on improved data collection by objective means… involving
available remote sensing capabilities and certain software changes.”
(Story, Ronald D., The Encyclopedia of UFOs, New York: Doubleday, 1980.)
The AIAA established a subcommittee in 1967 to look into the UFO question. The UFO Subcommittee issued several reports and statements, including in-depth studies of two UFO incidents. The UFO Subcommittee stated that its “most important conclusion” was that government agencies consider funding UFO research.

SCIENTIST: Dr. Richard Haines

“We’re not dealing with mental projections or hallucinations on the
part of the witness but with a real physical phenomenon.”
(Observing UFO’s, Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980)
“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.”
(“Fifty-Six Aircraft Pilot Sightings Involving Electromagnetic Effects,” MUFON 1992 Interna-
tional UFO Symposium Proceedings)
Haines was a psychologist specializing in pilot and astronaut “human factors” research for the Ames NASA Research Center in California, from where he retired in 1988 as Chief of the Space Human Factors Office.
SCIENTIST: Peter A. Sturrock, PhD
“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 attitude primarily on the part of scientists and
administrators in universities.”
(Report on a Survey of the American Astronomical Society concerning the UFO Phenomenon,
Stanford University Report SUIPR 68IR, 1977)
“Although… the scientific community has tended to minimize the
significance of the UFO phenomenon, certain individual scientists
have argued that the phenomenon is both real and significant. Such
views have been presented in the Hearings of the House Committee
on Science and Astronautics [and elsewhere]. It is also notable that
one major national scientific society, the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, set up a subcommittee in 1967 to ‘gain
a fresh and objective perspective on the UFO phenomenon.’”
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, anSdCItEhNiTsISvTiSew 47
works against the presentation of relevant data.”
“”

“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.”
(Confrontations, New York: Ballantine Books, 1990)
“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.”
(Forbidden Science, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1992.)
Jacques F. Vallée, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist, computer scientist and world renowned 48 UFOs: WHO KNOWS?
researcher and author of many books, including Messengers of Deception and Passport to Magonia. He worked closely with Dr. J. Allen Hynek. In May 1955, Vallée sighted a UFO over his Pontoise home. Six years later in 1961, while working on
SCIENTIST: John E. Mack, PhD

“I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which
the UFOs or the alien beings come (whether or not, for example,
they originate in the physical universe as modern astrophysics has
described it). But they manifest in the physical world and bring about
definable consequences in that domain.”
(Abduction – Human Encounters With Aliens, New York: Scribners, 1994)
Born in 1929, John Mack was an American Psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change. He advocated that Western culture required a shift away from a purely materialist worldview towards a transpersonal worldview which embraced elements of Eastern spiritual and philosophical traditions. In the early 1990s, Mack commenced his decade-plus study of approximately two hundred men and women who reported recurrent alien encounter experiences. Mack initially suspected that such persons were suffering from mental illness, but when none were present in the persons he interviewed, Mack’s interest was piqued. Many of those Mack interviewed reported that their encounters had affected the way they regarded the world, including producing a heightened sense of spirituality and environmental concern.
SCIENTIST: Dr. Clyde W. Tombaugh

I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because…
nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since… I was so
unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with
astonishment.”
(The UFO Evidence, ibid. On August 20, 1949)
“I have seen three objects in the last seven years which defied any
explanation of known phenomenon, such as Venus, atmospheric
optic, meteors or planes. I am a professional, highly skilled,
professional astronomer. In addition I have seen three green fireballs
which were unusual in behavior from normal green fireballs … I think
that several reputable scientists are being unscientific in refusing to
entertain the possibility of extraterrestrial origin and nature.”
(Ledger, Don (2004-09-20). UFO UpDates. Retrieved on 2007-02-28)
“Although our own solar system is believed to support no other
life than on Earth, other stars in the galaxy may have hundreds of
thousands of habitable worlds. Races on these worlds may have been
able to utilize the tremendous amounts of power required to bridge
the space between the stars…”
(Clark, Jerry (1997). UFO Encyclopedia: Volume 2, 896)
An American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto on February 18, 1930, Tombaugh built his first telescope and sent drawings of his observations of Jupiter and Mars to the Lowell Observatory. Tombaugh was employed at the Lowell Observatory from 1929 to 1945. Following his discovery of Pluto, Tombaugh earned astronomy degrees from the University of Kansas and Northern Arizona University. 50 UFOs: WHO KNOWS?
He taught astronomy at New Mexico State University from 1955 until his retirement in 1973. Tombaugh was probably the most eminent astronomer to have reported seeing Unidentified Flying Objects and to support the Extraterrestrial hypothesis. On

“It now seems quite clear that Earth is not the only inhabited planet.
There is evidence that the bulk of the stars in the sky have planetary
systems. Recent research concerning the origin of life on Earth
suggests that the physical and chemical processes leading to the origin
of life occur rapidly in the early history of the majority of planets.
The selective value of intelligence and technical civilization is obvious,
and it seems likely that a large number of planets within our Milky
Way galaxy – perhaps as many as a million – are inhabited by technical
civilizations in advance of our own. Interstellar space flight is far
beyond our present technical capabilities, but there seems to be no
fundamental physical objections to preclude, from our own vantage
point, the possibility of its development by other civilizations.”
(“Unidentified Flying Objects,” The Encyclopedia Americana, 1963)
Sagan attended the University of Chicago, where he received a BA and a MA in physics, before earning his PhD in astronomy and astrophysics and becoming a professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing over 600 scientific papers, contributing to more than 20 popular science books, and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage—the most widely watched PBS program in history. He also wrote the novel Contact, the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film of the same name starring Jodie Foster. In his works, he frequently advocated skeptical inquiry, humanism, and the scientific method. Sagan was a leader in the U.S. space program since its inception and worked as an adviser to NASA since the 1950s. Sagan assembled the first physical message that was sent into space: a gold-anodized plaque, attached to the space probe Pioneer 10 and 11S lCaIuEnNcThISeTdSin 51 1972 and 1973. He is also the 1994 recipient of the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award of the National Academy of Sciences for distinguished contributions in the

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.”
(Oberth H., “Flying Saucers Come From A Distant World,”
The American Weekly, October 24, 1954.)
“They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity… They produce
high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their
paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to
influence the ionized air at higher altitudes. First, this would explain
their luminosity… Secondly, it would explain the noiselessness of UFO
flight… Finally, this assumption also explains the strong electrical
and magnetic effects sometimes, though not always, observed in the
vicinity of UFOs.”
(“Dr. Hermann Oberth discusses UFOs,” Fate, May 1962.)
Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born, German and Romanian physicist, and one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. In 1928 and 1929 Oberth worked in Berlin as a scientific consultant on the first film ever to have scenes set in space, Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon), directed at Universum Film AG by Fritz Lang. Oberth’s main task was to build and launch a rocket as a publicity event prior to the film’s premiere. On June 5, 1929, Oberth won the fi52rst RUEFPO-Hs:irWscHhOPKriNzeOWofSt?he French Astronomical Society for his Encouragement of Astronautics in his book Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (Ways to Spaceflight) that expanded to a full-length book. In 1929, Oberth launched his first liquid fuel rocket,
SCIENTIST: Frank B. Salisbury, PhD
“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
Bioengineering Symposium, held at the United States Air Force Academy, in May 1964.
Quoted in Fuller, John G., Incident at Exeter, Putnam, 1966;
Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, page 144)
Frank Boyer Salisbury was born in Provo, Utah, on August 3, 1926. His academic achievements included securing a BS at the University of Utah 1951; an MA at Utah in 1962; and a PhD at the California Institute of Technology in 1955. His area of expertise was plant physiology. During his career, he worked as Assistant Professor of Botany, Pomona College from 1954-5; Assistant Professor of Botany, Colorado State from 1955-61; Full Professor, Colorado State from 1961-66; Professor and Head, Deptartment of Plant Science, Utah State University in 1966. He was a member of the Society of Plant Physiology; the Ecological Society; and the Astronautical Society. His interests included: the physiology of flowering; space biology; and physiological ecology.
SCIENTIST: Leo Sprinkle, PhD
In 1956, he had a second sighting while driving with his wife near
Boulder, Colorado: “We watched it for quite a few minutes. We could
see it was larger than the headlights of the cars below. And we could
see it was not attached to anything. And there was no sound. I became
frightened actually, because it wasn’t anything I could understand…
from a personal viewpoint, I am pretty well convinced that we are
being surveyed.”
(“Flying Saucers,” Special Issue of Look Magazine, 1967)
Professor of psychology at the University of Wyoming had his first UFO sighting in 1951 when he and a friend saw “something in the sky, round and metallic looking.” Dr. Ronald Leo Sprinkle is an American psychologist who was born in 1930. He studied at the University of Colorado and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. During his time as a professor at the University of Wyoming he became perhaps the first academic figure to investigate tales of supposed alien abduction; his involvement in this specific field having begun back in the 1960s. Eventually Sprinkle came to believe that he had been abducted by aliens in his youth. He is the author of the book Soul Samples and has published several encyclopedia entries; a half dozen book chapters; and approximately fifty articles and papers on various topics, including: UFO research; ESP; Hypnosis; Reincarnation; Spiritual Emergence; Counseling theory and practice. He founded the Rocky Mountain UFO Conference held every June in Laramie, Wyoming, and he is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Association for Counseling and Development; and the Association for Past-life Research and Therapies. Sprinkle says: “My approach is to minimize the tendency to ‘explain’ (or explain away) the reality of psychic experiences, and to emphasize the willingness to ‘explore’ the personal meaning of these human experiences of spiritual emergence.” 54 UFOs: WHO KNOWS?
ASTRONAUT: Major Gordon Cooper

“A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and
landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with
their cameras toward the UFO…. I had chance to hold (the film) up
to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind
that it was made someplace other than on this earth.”
(Describing an incident he witnessed during the 1960’s during a videotaped interview for the
Disclosure Program)
To the United Nations: “I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles
and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most
astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.” “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 east to west
over Europe.”
“Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped
vehicles at great altitudes over the base [Germany, 1951] and we tried
to get close to them, but they were able to change direction faster than
our fighters. I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained
ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.”
Gordon Cooper was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, the first Americans chosen for space flight duty by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Cooper had flown jets in Europe and America as an Air Force pilot throughout the 1950s and became an engineer and test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1959 he was chosen from among hundreds of pilots to join the NASA astronaut program. On May 15th and 16th of 1963, Cooper orbited tAhSeTERaOrNthAU22TStime5s5 in Faith 7, the last of the Mercury flights. On August 21st 1965, he and Pete Conrad were launched into space in the Gemini 5 orbiting earth for eight days proving that
ASTRONAUT: Edgar Mitchell, PhD

Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that “he is 90 percent sure
that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs,
recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets” and
that UFOs have been the “subject of disinformation in order to deflect
attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out.” In
2004 he told the St. Petersburg Times that a “cabal of insiders” inside
the US Government was studying recovered alien bodies, and that this
group had stopped briefing US Presidents after John F. Kennedy. He
has said, that “We all know that UFOs are real, now the question is:
where [do] they come from?”
Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. is an American pilot and astronaut. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours of February 9, 1971 moon-walking on the Fra Mauro formation; he was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. Mitchell was selected to be an astronaut in 1966 and was seconded from the Navy to NASA. He was backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 10 and flew on Apollo 14. Mitchell remained with NASA until he retired from the Navy in 1972. During the Apollo 14 flight he conducted private ESP experiments with his friends on Earth. In early 1973, he founded the nonprofit Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has ignored, including psychic events. As well as academic papers, Mitchell has written Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science and the Way of the Explorer. He is currently the Advisory Board Chairman of the Institute for Cooperation in Space.
ASTRONAUT: Donald (Deke) Slayton

“I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted the object.
I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright sunny afternoon. I thought
the object was a kite, then realized no kite is gonna [sic] 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 darned thing, it didn’t
look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disc. About the
same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me – and
there I was, running at about 300 hundred miles an hour. I tracked
it for a little while, and then all of a sudden the darn thing just took
off. It pulled about a 45 degree angle climbing turn and accelerated
and just flat disappeared. A couple of days later, I was having a beer
with my commanding officer, and I thought, ‘What the hell, I’d better
mention something to him about it.’ I did, and he told me to get on
down to intelligence and give them a report. I did, and I never heard
anything more on it.”
(In an interview about a 1951 sighting National Enquirer, October 23, 1979,
Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, page 140)
Donald Slayton entered the United States Army Air Forces as a cadet in 1942, was trained as a B-26 pilot, and flew 56 combat missions with the 319th Bomb group over Europe during World War II. Slayton earned a B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Slayton became one of the NACA test pilots at Edwards AFB in the California Desert. He tested a number of supersonic USAF fighters, including the F-101, F-102, F-105, and F-106. He was chosen as one of the original seven American Astronauts in 1959. Slayton was one of the eight Paresev pilots. Slayton resigned his Air Force commission in 1963 and worked for NASA in a civilian capacity as head of Astronaut selection. Unofficially called “ACShTiRefO ANsAtUroTnSaut,5”7 he had the decisive role of choosing the crews for the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the decision of who would be the first person on the moon. In 1972, Slayton
ASTRONAUT: Pavel Popovich

The UFO sightings have become the constant component of human
activity and require a serious global study.”
(MUFON International Symposium Proceedings, 1992)
Pavel Romanovich Popovich was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, arguably the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space, selected as one of twenty Air Force Pilots to be trained for space travel in 1960. Popovich commanded two space flights, Vostok 4 and Soyuz 14. His call sign in these flights was Golden Eagle. Vostok 4 was part of the first dual space flight, with Andrian Nikolayev on Vostok 3. Popvich retired from the space program in 1982. In 1984 Popovich joined the Academy of Sciences newly created All-Union Investigation Committee for Anomalous Aerial Phenomena and became head of the Academy’s UFO Commission. He is currently the president of the UFO Association of Russia and the Chairman of the Ukrainian Diaspora Organization in Russia.
ASTRONAUT: Yevegni Khrunov

“As regards UFOs, their presence cannot be denied: thousands of
people have seen them. It may be that their source is optical effects,
but some of their properties, for instance, their ability to change
course by 90 degrees at great speed, simply stagger the imagination.”
(1969)
Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5/ Soyuz 4 mission. Khrunov was a colonel, a Hero of the Soviet Union, and a Kandidat of Technical Sciences. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner, and various other medals. After leaving the space program in 1980 he was appointed to the Chief State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations until his retirement in 1989. He died of a heart attack in 2000.
ASTRONAUT: Major General
Vladimir Kovalyonok

“On may 5, 1981, we were in orbit [in the Salyut-6 space station]. I
saw an object that didn’t resemble any cosmic objects I’m familiar
with. It was a round object which resembled a melon, round and
a little bit elongated. In front of this object was something that
resembled a gyrating depressed cone. I can draw it, it’s difficult to
describe. The object resembles a barbell. I saw it becoming transparent
and like with a ‘body’ inside. At the other end I saw something like gas
discharging, like a reactive object. Then something happened that is
very difficult for me to describe from the point of view of physics…
What are the particulars? First conclusion: the object moved in a
suborbital path, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to see it. There
were two clouds, like smoke, that formed a barbell. It came near me
and I watched it. The we entered in to the shade for two or three
minutes after this happened. When we came out of the shade we
didn’t see anything. But during a certain time, we and the craft were
moving together.”
(From a videotaped interview recorded near Moscow by Giorgio Bongiovanni in 1993
Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, page 142)
Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok was a Soviet cosmonaut. He entered the Soviet space program on July 5, 1967 and was commander of three missions: Soyuz 25, Soyuz 29, and Soyuz T-4. He retired on June 23, 1984. Kovalyonok graduated from Higher Air Force School Monino, 1976 with a Doctorate of Military Sciences degree. 6H0e waUsF MOsa:joWr HGOenKeNraOlWinS t?he Soviet Air Force and was selected as cosmonaut on July 5, 1967 (TsPK-4). He was the Director of Moscow Zhukovski Military Air Force Engineering Academy. He is now General Air Force Reserve and consultant.
ASTRONAUT: Dr. Brian O’Leary

“We have contact with alien cultures.”
(At International Forum on New Science, Fort Collins, Colorado, September 18, 1994)
Brian Todd O’Leary is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut. He was one of the astronauts in the sixth group selected by NASA in August 1967. This group of eleven is known as the group of scientist-astronauts, intended to train for the Apollo Applications Program—follow-on to the moon landings. He was a part of the “Skylab” missions, who nicknamed themselves the ‘XS-11’. O’Leary himself resigned in disgust and wrote about the experience in his first book, The Making of an Ex-Astronaut. O’Leary was the deputy team leader for NASA Mariner 10 Venus-Mercury television science team. He has authored five other popular books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the field of planetary science and astronautics and was one of the more visible advocates of Gerard K. O’Neill and the L5 Society’s plans for an orbiting city. O’Leary is now retired and living in Ecuador.
ASTRONAUT: James Irwin

Apollo 15 astronaut to Frank Stranges after backing out of speaking
at a 1976 UFO convention where he was going to “inform us of the
strange things he saw on the surface of the moon.”
Look, I have a pension to worry about. I have a family to take care of, and they told me to just back away from this entirely or else.”
James Irwin – (on tape) to a famous Canadian pilot
“He told me the story here in the hangar…as soon as we were by our-
selves. He turned to me and he looked at me and said, ‘I’m going to
say something that is Top Secret. If you repeat it I will deny ever hav-
ing said it.’ He said they weren’t there (on the moon surface) an hour
and a saucer landed a mile away from them and we asked Houston if
we could motor over and say howdy. They said: ‘No ignore them and
pretend they’re not there, and carry on about your business.’ He said
the all the time we were there they saw no sign of movement, and they
were still there when we left.”
James Irwin was one of 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He also served as a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 10, the first mission to carry the full Apollo stack to the Moon, and was the dry run for the first manned Moon landing. He then served as backup lunar module pilot for the second Moon landing mission, Apollo 12. Between July 26 and August 7, 1971 – as the Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) – Irwin logged 295 hours and 11 minutes in space. Apollo 15 landed in the Moon’s Hadley-Apennine region, noted for its mountains. A patch cut by Irwin from the backpack abandoned on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission was auctioned at Christie’s in 2001 for $310,500 in a consignment of material from I6r2win’sUFeOstsa: tWeHtOhaKtNgOaWrnSe?red “a combined $500,000”.
RELIGIOUS FIGURE: Monsignor Corrado Balducci

“We can no longer think… is it true? Is it not true? Are they truths or
are they lies–if we believe or if we don’t believe–no! There are already
numerous considerations which make the existence of these beings
into a certainty we cannot doubt.”
(www.bibleufo.com)
Monsignor Corrado Balducci was a Vatican theologian and an insider close to the Pope. He has been featured on national Italian television numerous times, expressing the view that extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon and [is] “not due to psychological impairment”. The Roman priest and Curia member served the Holy See as a diplomat and member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (“Propaganda Fide”). He was an expert on demonology and parapsychology, and was for several years the exorcist of the diocese of Rome, the Pope’s diocese. Msgr. Balducci wrote several books, including the bestseller Il Diavolo (The Devil) which reached 14 print runs in the hardcover edition. Furthermore, he was a regular guest on Italian State TV (Rai Due), where he made several statements on the UFO phenomenon post- 1995. He spoke at the UFO Congresses in Acapulco and San Marino. More than that, he demonstrates the openness of the Roman Catholic Church, and he can be considered the first-ever Catholic figurehead to give a complex, positive statement regarding the UFO/ET reality from the point of view of a major world religion – with over 1 billion faithful, the Roman Catholic Church is indeed the largest religious community on Earth. Note that since the first Balducci statement, H.H., the Dalai Lama (for Tibetan Buddhism), several Jewish rabbis in Israel and, in 2001, the Muslim authorities of Turkey all followed with positive statements on this subject.
REPORTER: Sarah McClendon

“The real danger to the U.S. and perhaps this whole planet is the
government has placed such a heavy blanket of secrecy upon this
issue. So much secrecy, those in government who have knowledge
showing UFOs are identifiable feel the subject cannot be discussed
by those in the know without serious repercussions. Others are
afraid their friends and co-workers will think they are crazy if they
even so much as insinuate that UFOs are identifiable as manned
craft from outside the earth. […] After the Roswell incident, the Air
Force replied to reporters’ inquiries that this was all part of research
using weather balloons and other equipment. [Colonel] Corso and
hundreds of others who work or have worked in secret defense and
scientific agencies are willing to swear under oath that alien craft are
repeatedly penetrating our airspace.”
(Excerpts from a press release on March 30, 1998)
A long-time White House reporter who covered presidential politics for a halfcentury, McClendon founded her own freelance news service as a single mother in the post-World War II era and became known as a model for women in the press and as a vocal advocate of various causes, particularly those of United States military veterans. McClendon enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, and reported for duty in September, 1942. McClendon initially served in the WAAC’s public relations department, then attended Officer Candidate School, was promoted to Lieutenant and eventually was assigned to the Army Surgeon General’s office as a public relations officer. Under the banner of her McClendon News Service (which includes two part-time staff members and one intern), she cranks out a weekly syndicated newspaper column, a biweekly newsletter, and a weekly radio commentary that airs 6o4n 1,2U0F0O s:taWtiHoOnsKaNcOroWsSs?the nation.
CONGRESSMAN: William Hanes Ayres

“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
committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.”
(Flying Saucers 101, 1958)
William Hanes Ayres (February 5, 1916–December 27, 2000) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. Ayres was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the nine succeeding Congresses. Ayres was well regarded by House members of both parties. He usually did not list his party affiliation on his campaign literature, instead listing himself as “Your Congressman.” He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress, defeated by John Seiberling, an Akron Democrat and scion. He died of heart and kidney ailments on December 27, 2000, in Columbia, Maryland. His interment was at Arlington National Cemetery.

POLITICIAN: Margaret Thatcher

You Can’t Tell the People is a book by the late UFO researcher
Georgina Bruni. It is an examination of the famous UFO landing
at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in December 1980 that was
witnessed by numerous United States Air Force personnel stationed at
the nearby Royal Air Force Bentwaters. Bruni’s book reveals the story
of the incident, the aftermath and the cover-up. In 1997, Bruni met
Lady Thatcher and mentioned the events to her. In reply,
Thatcher said: “UFOs! You must get your facts right and you can’t tell
the people.”
Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher was born in 1925 and is a former British Conservative politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. She is the first and, to date, the only woman to hold that particular post. She is also the oldest still-living British Prime Minister. In 1974, Thatcher backed Sir Keith Joseph for the position of Conservative Party Leader, but after falling short he dropped out of the race. As a result, Thatcher entered herself and became leader of the Conservative party in 1975. She defiantly opposed the Soviet Union, and her tough-talking rhetoric gained her the nickname of the “Iron Lady.” As the Conservative party maintained leads in most polls, Thatcher went on to become Britain’s Prime Minister in the 1979 General Election. Thatcher’s tenure as Prime Minister was the longest since that of Lord Salisbury, and was the longest continuous period in office since the tenure of Lord Liverpool, who was Prime Minister in the early 19th century. She was the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom, and the first of only three women to have held any of the four great offices of state.
PRESIDENT: Jimmy Carter

“It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright,
it changed colours, and it was about the size of the moon. We watched
it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One
thing’s for sure: I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen
unidentified flying objects in the sky.”
(Following his sighting along with many others of a UFO at Leary, Georgia in October 1969)
“We cast this message into the cosmos Of the 200 billion stars in
the Milky Way galaxy, some — perhaps many — may have inhabited
planet and space faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts
Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our
message: We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours.
We hope, some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a
community of galactic civilizations. This record represents
our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast
and awesome universe.”
(Carter’s official statement placed on the Voyager 1 Spacecraft for its trip
outside our solar system on September 5, 1977)
“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.”
“I don’t laugh at people any more when they say they’ve seen UFOs.
I’ve seen one myself.”
(Remarking on his sighting in January ’69 on ABC news, January 22, 1999)
“I don’t see any reason to keep information like that seGcOrVeEtR, NbMuEt NtThere67 may be some aspects of the UFO information which I am not familiar that might be related to some secret experiments that we were doing
PRESIDENT: Gerald Ford

“…I strongly recommend that there be a commitment to
investigation of the UFO phenomenon. I think we owe it to the people
to establish credibility regarding ufos and to product the greatest
possible enlightenment on this subject.”
(Letter sent as a congressmen to the chairman of the armed services committee,
March 28, 1966)
“During my public career in Congress, as Vice President and
President, I made various requests for information on UFOs. The
official authorities always denied the UFO allegations.”
March 17, 1998 letter to George Filer
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the fortieth Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and became President upon Richard Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974. Ford was the fifth U.S. President never to be elected for the position of President, but the only U.S. President to not even be elected as Vice President or President. Before ascending to the vice-presidency, Ford served nearly 25 years as Representative from Michigan’s 5th congressional district, eight of them as the Republican Minority Leader. As president, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War, even as South Vietnam, a former ally, was invaded and conquered by North Vietnam. Following his years as president, Ford remained active in the Republican Party. After experiencing health problems, and being admitted to the hospital four times in 2006, Ford died at his home, aged 93, on December 26, 2006.
PRESIDENT: Ronald Reagan

“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would
vanish if we were facing an Alien threat from outside this world.”
(Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 1987)
“I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this
bright light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,
“Have you ever seen anything like that?” He was shocked and 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 about it.”
(While governor of California, as told to Norman C. Miller, Washing Bureau Chief, The Wall
Street Journal, 1972, Flying Saucers 101, page 308)
And a supporting statement:
“I was the pilot of the plane when we saw the UFO. Also on board
were Governor Reagan and a couple of his security people. We were
flying a Cessna Citation. It was maybe 9 or 10 o’clock at night. We
were near Bakersfield, California when Governor Reagan and the
others called my attention to a big light flying a bit behind the plane.
It appeared to be several hundred yards away. It was a fairly steady light until it began to elongate. Then the light took off. The UFO went from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed instantly. If you give an airplane power it will accelerate, but not like a hotrod, and that was this was like. … The object definitely wasn’t another airplane. 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.”GOVERNMENT 69
(Bull Payntor, pilot of Governor Reagan’s airplane, Flying Saucers 101, pages 308, 309)
POLITICIAN: William J. Clinton

“I want you to find the answers to two questions for me. One, who
killed JFK? And two, are there UFOs?” Clinton was dead serious. I had
looked into both, but wasn’t satisfied with the answers I was getting.”
(Friends in High Places, Hubbell, Webster
I don’t know if any of you have seen this new movie “Independence
Day” — (applause) — but somebody said I was coming to Youngstown
because this is the day the White House got blown away by space
aliens. (Laughter.) I hope it’s there when I get back.
July 4, 1996 in Youngstown, Ohio
“Yes, I think we’d fight them off. We find a way to win. That’s what
America does — we’d find a way to win if it happened.”
July 15, 1996 interview with MSNBC’s Tom Brokaw
Very interesting, don’t you think, that this movie, Independence Day,
is becoming the most successful movie ever? Some say it’s because
they blew up the White House and the Congress — (laughter) — and
that may be. But, you know, you see story after story after story about
how the movie audiences leap up and cheer at the end of the movie
when we vanquish the alien invaders, right? I mean, what happened?
The country was flat on its back, the rest of the world was threatened,
and you see all over the world all these people have all of a sudden
put aside the differences that seem so trivial once their existence was
threatened, and they’re working together all over the world to defeat a
common adversary.
Remarks by the President at Ceremony for Boys and Girls Nation July 18, 1996
They believe you have to drive people apart in order to win elections.
And since they’re wrong on the issues, they’re right. In other words,
people won’t agree with them on the issues, so the only way they
could win is to convince them that we’re the first cousins of space
aliens. (Laughter.) They’ve got this figured out now; we’re right and
they’re wrong on these big issues. So the only way they can win is to
convince people that we’re space aliens.
April 1, 2000 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT FUNDRAISER FOR MRS. CLINTON,
Hyatt Regency Washington. D.C.
They sort of try to turn you into a space alien . . . And now the
Republicans are saying, well, if your problems aren’t all solved, it’s
just because the aliens have taken over Washington. (Laughter.). . .
And while we have been working, they have been talking, blaming,
dividing, turning us into aliens . . .
October 3, 1994 during a Victory Rally speech for Senator Robb
“Won’t it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no
Martians to write to or e-mail us?”
Millennium Evening at the White House: Informatics Meets Genomics, October 12, 1999
“If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn’t be playing
these kinds of games.”
November 7, 1999 – in a reaction to the fact that he would have to veto new Republican bill
“NASA even sent Chuck Berry’s music on a space probe searching
for intelligent life in outer space. (Laughter.) Well, now, if they’re out
there, they’re duck walking.”
Kennedy Center Honors held in the White House Clinton- December 3, 2000
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in
the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they
would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security . . . It’s
very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you
realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you’re not more
likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things
February 9, 1998 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY Gaston Hall
Georgetown University Washington, D.C.
I get so angry at all these conflicts around the world, and these
expressions of hatred here at home based on race or religion or
sexual orientation. If we were being attacked by space aliens, like in
that movie, “Independence Day,” we’d all be looking for a foxhole
to get in together and a gun to pick up together. The absence of a
threat sometimes causes us to lose our sense of focus, our center, our
concentration . . . And what I’m saying is — you all laughed when I
said this before, I referenced that movie, “Independence Day” — but,
you know, if we were being attacked by space aliens, we wouldn’t be
playing these kind of games. These kinds of games are only possible
because the economy is strong and the American people are self-
confident . . .
1999 Speaks to a school
“Well I don’t know if you all heard this, but, there was actually,
when I was president in my second term, there was an anniversary
observance of Roswell. Remember that? People came to Roswell, New
Mexico from all over the world. And there was also a site in Nevada
where people were convinced that the government had buried a
UFO and perhaps an alien deep underground because we wouldn’t
allow anybody to go there. And uhm… I can say now, ‘cause it’s now
been released into the public domain This place in Nevada was
really serious, that there was an alien artifact there. So I actually sent
somebody there to figure it out.”
“I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government
documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed
from me too. And if there were, well I wouldn’t be the first American
president that underlings have lied to, or that career bureaucrats
have waited out. But there may be some career person sitting around
somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents.
But if so, they successfully eluded me…and I’m almost embarrassed
to tell you I did (chuckling) try to find out.”
September 2005 to CLSA group in Hong Kong
I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you’re
out in the crowd tonight, here’s the answer to your question. No, as far
as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico,
in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien
bodies, they didn’t tell me about it, either, and I want to know.
In Belfast Northern Ireland November 1995
You know, I’ve always been really interested in this stuff, and I’m going
to read this.
August 2007 to Hollywood producer Paul Davids when he was given the books “Witness to
Roswell” and “The Roswell Legacy”, and a new affidavit that had been released following the
death of Roswell witness Walter Haut.
Sarah, there’s a government inside the government,
and I don’t control it.
As quoted by senior White House reporter Sarah McClendon in reply to why
he wasn’t doing anything about UFO disclosure.
“It’s interesting that you said that because when we celebrated the
anniversary of that event out in New Mexico, I actually got all the
government documents and read them and I’m convinced there
wasn’t a UFO there. On the other hand, you shouldn’t give up hope
because just a couple months ago, our government astrophysicists
spotted a planet revolving around a star that is one of the closest to
our solar system that they believe has conditions close enough to
earth that it might contain life. Unfortunately, it’s 20 million light
years away so unless you, your kids and your grandkids, and maybe
one more generation, want to take a trip for us, we’ll have to wait for
them to come to us. And then we’ll know the truth.”
Answering the question: When will we ever know the truth about UFOs? February 6, 2008
Bill Clinton was the forty-second President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. Before his presidency, Clinton served nearly twelve years as the 50th and 52nd Governor of Arkansas. He created the William J. Clinton Foundation to promote and address international causes, such as treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and global warming. In 2004, he released a personal autobiography, My Life. With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) degree in 1968. It was at Georgetown that he interned for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. While in college he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Upon graduation he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied government. Presenting himself as a moderate and a member of the New Democrat wing of the Democratic Party, he headed the moderate Democratic Leadership Council in 1990 and 1991. After graduating from Yale Law School, Clinton returned to Arkansas and became a University of Arkansas law professor. His election ended an era of Republican rule of the White House for the previous 12 years, and 20 of the previous 24 years. The election also gave the Democrats full control of both branches of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. On 17 July 1996, President Clinton issued Executive Order 13011 – Federal Information Technology, ordering the heads of all federal agencies to fully utilize information technology to make the information of the agency easily accessible to the public. In 1995, United States President William J. Clinton signed Executive Order 12958 which created new standards for the process of classifying documents and led to an unprecedented effort to declassify millions of pages from the U.S. diplomatic and national security history. This policy has resulted in the declassification of what were 800 million pages of historically valuable records, with the potential of hundreds of millions more being declassified in the near future.
PRESIDENT: John. F. Kennedy

“I would like you to assume personally the initiative and central
responsibility within the government for the development of a
program of substantive cooperation with the Soviet Union
in the field of outer space, including the development of specific
technical proposals.”
(November 12, 1963, National Security Memorandum #271 Sent to James Webb,
Administrator, NASA)
“I’d like to tell the public about the alien situation,
but my hands are tied.”
(John F. Kennedy, as told to Bill Holden, Air Force One loadmaster, on a flight to Germany
in the summer of 1963, Alien Agenda, page 124)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.After Kennedy’s military service as commander of the USS PT-109 during World War II in the South Pacific, his aspirations turned political, with the encouragement and grooming of his father. Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1961. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election, one of the closest in American history. He is the youngest man and the only practicing Roman Catholic to be elected President. To date he is also the only President to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime, but was murdered two days later by Jack Ruby before he could be put on trial. The Warren Commission concluded that OswalGdOhVaEdRaNcMteEdN aT lone75 in killing the president; however, the House Select Committee on Assassinations declared in 1979 that there was more likely a conspiracy that included Oswald. The en-
PRESIDENT: George Bush Sr.

George Bush, Sr., was President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush was born in Massachusetts to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush postponed going to college and became the youngest naval aviator in the US Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40. In 1988, Bush launched a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as president, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency; military operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf at a time of world change; the Berlin Wall fell in 1989; and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later. Domestically, Bush reneged on a 1988 campaign promise; and after a struggle with Congress, signed an increase in taxes that Congress had passed. In the wake of economic concerns, he lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton. Bush is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida. He was the last World War II veteran to serve as U.S. president, and the last president to have fought in a war before being elected.

PRESIDENT: George W. Bush

“I know some. I know a fair amount.”
During his campaign to become President, George Bush was unexpectedly cornered into
making a statement regarding UFOs. On March 7, 1988, at a political rally in Rogers, Arkansas,
Bush was about to meet with reporters when a man named Charles Huffer approached him.
Carrying his tape recorder, Huffer asked Bush if, once elected President, he would “tell the
truth about UFOs.” “Yeah,” replied Bush – quickly adding, “If we can find it, what it is. We are
really interested.” “You’ll have it, you’ll have it,” said Huffer. “It’s in there. Declassify it and tell
us, ok?” “Okay, alright, yes,” Bush said as he entered the building to meet with the press.
When Bush re-emerged some time later, Huffer was still there. Tape recorder running, he said,
he was “going to hold you to that promise.” “Alright,” replied Bush. “Okay,” said Huffer, “you’re
going to get it,” meaning the UFO information. Bush cleverly replied, “Why don’t you send
me some information about it?” he asked. “Naw,” said Huffer. “You’re a CIA man. You know
all that stuff.” “I know some,” replied Bush. “I know a fair amount.” This was a very interesting
revelation. The current Vice President and former CIA Director openly stating he knew “a fair
amount” about UFOs. The problem was that Huffer was just a private citizen, not a journal-
ist, and so the story never took off. True, UFO researchers quickly learned that there had been
some kind of confirmation made by the Vice President, but the details were unclear. Some
versions had him admitting to being a member of MJ-12, which he had not done. Huffer had
come close to a surprise breakthrough on the UFO cover-up. The lack of follow-up by Ameri-
can journalists, however, ensured that the story died by the time Bush became President.
George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, and served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He also served as the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. Bush is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush (the 41st President) and Barbara Bush; he is one of only two Presidents to be the son of a preceding President (the other was John Quincy Adams). After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked in his family’s oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives shortly thereafter. In a close and controversial election, Bush was elected President in 2000 as the Republican candidate, receiving a majority of the electoral votes while losing the popular vote to then-Vice President Al Gore.

VICE PRESIDENT: Dick Cheney

“Well, if I had been briefed on that [UFOs],
I am sure it would have been classified.”
(April 2001, Diane Rehm Talk Show with Grant Cameron)
Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney was born January 30, 1941, and served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush. Cheney was raised in Casper, Wyoming. He began his political career as an intern for Congressman William A. Steiger, eventually working his way into the White House during the Ford administration, where he served as White House Chief of Staff. In 1978, Cheney was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming; he was reelected five times, eventually becoming House Minority Whip. Cheney was selected to be the Secretary of Defense during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, holding the position for the majority of Bush’s term. During this time, Cheney oversaw the 1991 Operation Desert Storm, among other actions. Out of office during the Clinton presidency, Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000. Cheney joined the Bush administration in 2000, after Bush selected him as his running mate. After becoming Vice President, Cheney remained a very public, influential and controversial figure.

ROYALTY: Prince Philip

“There are many reasons to believe that they (UFOs) exist:
there is so much evidence from reliable sources.”
(Sunday Dispatch, London, March 28, 1954, Unidentified
Flying Objects Briefing Document, page 132)
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh is the husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Originally a royal Prince of Greece and Denmark, Prince Philip renounced these titles shortly before his marriage. Prince Philip is a member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which includes the royal houses of Denmark and Norway and the deposed royal house of Greece. In addition to his royal duties, the Duke of Edinburgh is also the patron of many organizations, including The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the World Wide Fund for Nature, and he is Chancellor of both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge. In 1939, Prince Philip joined the Royal Navy, graduating in 1940 from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth as the best cadet in his course. Prince Philip was later posted as the First Lieutenant of the new destroyer HMS Whelp where he saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla, including being present in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrender was signed. In the post-war years, Prince Philip served as an instructor at the Petty Officers’ School and attended Naval Staff College, Greenwich. Prince Philip has for many years been Colonel-in-Chief of the oldest Canadian Infantry Regiment, the Royal Canadian Regiment. This regiment continues to be the only Regiment in the Commonwealth to be authorized to wear a dead Monarch’s insignia, that being Queen Victoria’s insignia.
GOVERNMENT: Allen Dulles

Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.”
(A Lone Chemist’s Quest to Expose the UFO Cover-Up, Philip Coppens,
http://www.philipcoppens.com/davidson.html)
Dulles was the first civilian and the longest serving (1953-1961) Director of Central Intelligence and a member of the Warren Commission. Between stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. Dulles was appointed by William J. Donovan to become head of operations in New York for the Coordinator of Information (COI), which was set up in Room 3603 of Rockefeller Center, taking over offices staffed by Britain’s MI6. Under Dulles’s direction, the CIA created MK-Ultra, a top secret mind-control research project which was managed by Sidney Gottlieb. Dulles also personally oversaw Operation Mockingbird, a program which influenced American media companies as part of the “New Look”.
From January through March of 1974, French radio journalist, Jean-
Claude Bourret, aired a series of 40 radio programs about UFOs.
These were broadcast on French national radio (France-Inter). One of
Bourret’s guests was the current French Minister of Defense, Robert
Galley, who dropped a true bombshell on February 21. Galley spoke
of the widespread nature of the UFO phenomenon, the strong quality
of evidence, and how he was “deeply convinced” that people needed
to regard UFOs with a “completely open mind.” It was undeniable,
he said, “that there are facts that are unexplained or badly explained.”
Galley confirmed that the French military had a strong interest in
UFOs since 1954, a year of numerous sightings throughout France. He
added that the military records contained “accounts of some baffling
radar/visual incidents.” Most significantly of all, Galley stated: “I must
say that if your listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports
coming in from airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie,
and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting
investigations, all of which reports are being forwarded by us to the
CNES (National Center for Space Studies), then they would see that it
is all pretty disturbing.” That a Minister of Defense of a major power
in the 1970s could tell a journalist that some UFO reports were “pretty
disturbing,” is a startling revelation, to say the least. One can hardly
imagine such a statement coming from an active American Defense
Secretary. There does not appear to have been any major follow up on
this statement within media or government circles.
Hansen, Terry. The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up. (Xlibris
Corporation, 2000), p. 187-188; Good, Timothy, Above Top Secret, p. 129; Bowen, Charles,
Editor, Encounter Cases from Flying Saucer Review. (Signet Books, 1977)G, Op.VvEiiR-xNiM; VEaNllTee, In8-1
visible College, p. 56; Berliner, Don with Marie Galbraith and Antonio Huneeus. UFO Briefing
Document: The Best Available Evidence (UFO Research Coalition, 1995), p. 174.
“The UFO was bouncing around the 747. (It) was a huge ball with
lights running around it… Well, I’ve been involved in a lot of cover-
ups with the FAA. When we gave the presentation to the Reagan staff,
they had all those people swear that this never happened. But they
never had me swear it never happened. I can tell you what I’ve seen
with my own eyes. I’ve got a videotape. I’ve got the voice tape.
I’ve got the reports that were filed that will confirm what
I’ve been telling you.”
(During a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program)
John Callahan worked as Division Manager of the Accidents Evaluation and Investigations Board of the Federal Aviation Authority for six years.

“These records, many of which, according to our research, could
contain records about Kecksburg, have not been made public forcing
us to rely on the FOIA process. Certainly having the military descend
on a United States town, holding people at gunpoint, is not the
ordinary way we do business in this country. People should have an
explanation about what triggered that sort of military response…so
that people can judge for themselves whether it was appropriate.”
(http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1313.htm)
John Podesta is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for American Progress. Podesta served as Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001, where he was responsible for directing, managing, and overseeing all policy development, daily operations, Congressional relations, and staff activities of the White House. He coordinated the work of cabinet agencies with a particular emphasis on the development of federal budget and tax policy, and served in the President’s Cabinet and as a Principal on the National Security Council. A frequent guest of Sunday morning news programs, Podesta is known for his straight talk, acerbic wit, and fierce defense of the Clinton Administration – which he also served from 1997 to 1998 as both an Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff. Earlier, from January 1993 to 1995, he was Assistant to the President, Staff Secretary and a senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy. Podesta has held a number of positions on Capitol Hill including: Counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Thomas A. Daschle (1995-1996); Chief Counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee (1987-1988); Chief Minority Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks; Security and Terrorism; and Regulatory Reform; and Counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee (1979-1981). In addition, in 1988, Podesta founded with his brother Tony, Podesta Associates, Inc., a GWOaVsEhRinNgMtoEnN, TD.C. 83 government relations and public affairs firm.

We must insist upon full access to disks recovered. For instance, in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.”
(Handwritten on memo to Clyde Tolson, July 15, 1947)
“I would do it, but before agreeing to do it, we must insist
upon full access to discs recovered. For instance, in the L.A. [or La.]
case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for
cursory examination.”
(Handwritten note to Clyde Tolson, July 15, 1947)
“I regret that I am unable to comment as you requested in your letter
of February 15. The investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects
is not and never has been a matter that is within the investigative
jurisdiction of the FBI.”
From a February 23, 1972 letter (Ryan – I suggest you consider having this quote follow the
classic Hoover statement you’ll be including.)
John Edgar Hoover, known popularly as J. Edgar Hoover, was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He founded the present form of the agency, and remained director for 48 years until his death. During his life, Hoover was highly regarded by much of the U.S. public. Since his death, various allegations have tarnished this image. Hoover’s leadership spanned eight presidential administrations, encompassed Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. During this time, the United States moved from being a rural nation with strong isolationist tendencies to an urbanized superpower. From nearly t8h4e beUgFiOnsn:inWgHoOf hKiNsOcWarSe?er with the FBI, Hoover was accused of exceeding and abusing his authority, criticism that grew especially strong in the 1960s. He is known to have investigated individuals and groups because of their political beliefs rather than thpir QI iqnprfprl criminal oirtiwitv I iQino thp FRT for nthpr illpooil artix/itipq
GOVERNMENT: Bill Richardson

People can handle the truth – no matter how bizarre or mundane.”
(Alien Rock, page 170)
William Blaine “Bill” Richardson III is the current Governor of New Mexico and was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. He has previously served as a U.S. Representative, Ambassador to the United Nations, and as the U.S. Secretary of Energy. He was chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention as well as Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association in 2005 and 2006, overseeing the Democrats’ re-capturing of a majority of the country’s governorships. Richardson has been recognized for negotiating the release of hostages, American servicemen, and political prisoners in North Korea, Iraq, and Cuba. Richardson spent a little more than 14 years in Congress. As a congressman, he kept his interest in foreign relations. He visited Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru, India, North Korea, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Sudan to represent U.S. interests. Richardson served as Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the 98th Congress (1983–1985) and as Chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Native American Affairs in the 103rd Congress (1993–1994). While in the House, Richardson sponsored bills such as the Indian Tribal Justice Act, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments, the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act, the American Indian Agricultural Resource Management Act, the Indian Dams Safety Act, the Tribal Self-Governance Act, the Indian Tribal Jurisdiction Bill (commonly known as the “Duro Fix”) and the Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act.
GOVERNMENT: Jerry L. Pettis
“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 reluctant
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 can’t be explained.”
(Stated in 1968 during the House Committee on Science and Astronautics UFO hearings
U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, July 1968
Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, page 23)
Representative of California Jerry Lyle Pettis was an American politician and a Congressman from California. He was also a rancher, teacher, aviator, religious leader, and businessman. Educated in Arizona and California, he graduated from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California in 1938. He did graduate work at the University of Southern California and the University of Denver in 1939-1941 before becoming a businessman. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. In 1966, he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives representing California’s 33rd congressional district until January 1975 and its 37th congressional district thereafter. He was re-elected in 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1974 before dying in a private aircraft crash in Banning, California on February 14, 1975. His wife, Shirley Neil Pettis, replaced him in the House five days later. He was a Seventh-day Adventist. The Jerry Pettis Memorial Veterans Administration Hospital in Loma Linda, California was so named in his honor. His congressional papers are located in the Archives & Special Collections at Loma Linda University.
GOVERNMENT: Dennis Kucinich

“I did, And the rest of the account — I didn’t — I — it an was
unidentified flying object, okay. It’s like — it’s unidentified. I saw
something. Now, to answer your question: I’m moving my…and I’m
also going to move my campaign office to Roswell, New Mexico and
another one, an Exeter, New Hampshire, okay… And also, you have to
keep in mind that more — that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO, and also that
more people in this country have seen UFOs than, I think, approve of
George Bush’s presidency.’’
When asked October 30, 2007 if he had seen a UFO at the home of actress Shirley MacLaine
What I wish I had said if I had thought about it a little bit more…I
didn’t get any messages or anything, but what I should have said is
“Ya, Tim (Russert), it spoke to me” and said ‘Take me to your leader,’
and I said, “No, not this guy – he doesn’t like illegal aliens.”
Dennis Kucinich – October 31, 2007 Ashville, North Carolina
I later learned after this story surfaced that 40 million Americans
have seen things in the sky that they thought they couldn’t identify.
I also learned that President Reagan and President Carter at one
time or another saw UFOs. So it may just be that seeing a UFO is a
prerequisite to becoming President
Kucinich to Michigan JWR radio
They always try to belittle Dennis, and that’s fine. UFO means
Unidentified Flying Object, I think it’s fun but I also think it’s a waste
of time when there are important things we should be talking about
Elizabeth Kucinich – October 30, 2007 responding to her husband
being asked about his UFO sighting
I think it’s a very arrogant position for the human race to think that
in the multitudes of planets and stars that are out there that we are on
only place in the universe that has life…I would suggest though that if
governments did understand or want to make public that there might
be extraterrestrial life or they have evidence to show the evidence, I
have a cynical mind that it would be used as a means to weaponize
space, to create more fear, to create more control through government
control, as opposed to liberating the human experience in
understanding that there is life elsewhere. I would be used negatively.
Elizabeth Kucinich April 8, 2008 in Berlin Germany
Dennis John Kucinich is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 elections. Kucinich currently represents the 10th District of Ohio in the House of Representatives, which he has been serving since 1996. His district includes most of western Cleveland as well as suburbs such as Parma and Lakewood. He is currently the chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He is also a member of the Education and Labor Committee.
POLITICIAN: Sir Winston Churchill

“What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it
mean? What is the truth?”
(July 28, 1952 memo to secretary of State for Air – Lord Cherwell, Above Top Secret, page 28)
Winston Churchill was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. In 1910, Churchill was promoted to Home Secretary, where he was to prove somewhat controversial. In 1911, Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty, a post he held into World War I. He gave impetus to reform efforts, including development of naval aviation, tanks, and the switch in fuel from coal to oil, a massive engineering task, also depending on securing Mesopotamia’s oil rights, bought circa 1907 through the secret service using the Royal Burmah Oil Company as a front company. Churchill’s greatest achievement was his refusal to capitulate when defeat seemed imminent, and he remained a strong opponent of any negotiations with Germany throughout the war. By adopting a policy of no surrender, Churchill kept democracy alive in the U.K. and created the basis for the later Allied counter-attacks of 1942-45, with Britain serving as a platform for the supply of Soviet Union and the liberation of Western Europe.

CONGRESSMAN: Steven Schiff

“Documents that should have provided more information
were destroyed,’’ Schiff said.
“The military cannot explain who destroyed them or why.’’
(AP Press Release July 29, 1995)
Steven Harvey Schiff was born on March 18, 1947 in the city of Chicago, Illinois, and was an American politician. He received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico’s Law School. From 1972 until 1981, Schiff served as an assistant attorney for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was the District Attorney for Bernalillo County, New Mexico from 1981 until the time that he entered Congress. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, and represented the first district of the state of New Mexico from 1989 until 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was also a member of the New Mexico National Guard until 1989, and was a reservist up until the time of his death. Schiff died on March 25, 1998 from the effects of skin cancer. Schiff’s death occurred during his fifth term in Congress in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Republican Heather Wilson won a special election to succeed him. Somewhat ironically, the date of Congressman Schiff’s death in 1998 was exactly fifty years after the reported date of the famous Aztec, New Mexico UFO crash: namely, March 25, 1948.
SENATOR: Richard Russell

“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.”
(Following his sighting of a UFO during an official trip to the Soviet Union in 1955)
Richard Brevard Russell, Jr., was an American Democratic Party politician who was a long-time United States Senator from the state of Georgia. He represented Georgia in the Senate from 1933 until his death in 1971. He was a founder and leader of the Conservative coalition that dominated Congress from 1937 to 1963, and was Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services (82nd and 84 through 90th Congresses).;Russell served in the enlisted ranks of the United States Naval Reserve Forces in 1918 and, in 1919, set up law practice with his father in Winder. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives (1921-31), serving as its speaker (1927-31). His meteoric rise was capped by election, at age 33, as Governor of Georgia, serving from 1931 to 1933. He was a progressive governor who reorganized the bureaucracy, promoted economic development in the midst of the Great Depression, and balanced the budget. In 1932 one Robert E. Burns, serving time on a Georgia chain gang, escaped to New Jersey and wrote a book entitled I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, condemning the Georgia prison system as inhumane. It became a popular movie but Russell demanded extradition. New Jersey refused and Russell was attacked from all quarters.

SENATOR: Barry Goldwater

“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 this
request. It is still classified above top secret.”
(In a letter of March 28, 1975)
Barry Morris Goldwater was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953– 1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Party’s nominee for President in the 1964 election. He was a Major General in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He was also referred to as “Mr. Conservative”. Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and fought inside the Conservative coalition to defeat the New Deal coalition. He lost the 1964 presidential election by a large margin to incumbent Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson. The Johnson campaign and other critics painted him as a reactionary, while supporters praised his crusades against the federal government, labor unions, and the welfare state. His defeat allowed Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats in Congress to pass the Great Society programs; but the defeat of many older Republicans in 1964 also cleared the way for a younger generation of American conservatives to mobilize. Goldwater was much less active as a national leader of conservatives after 1964; his followers mostly rallied behind Ronald Reagan, who became Governor of California in 1966 and President of the United States in 1981. By the 1980s, the increasing influence of the Christian Right on the Republican Party so conflicted with Goldwater’s libertarian views that he became a vocal opponent of the religious right on issues such as abortion and gay rights. Goldwater concentrated on his Senate duties, especially passage of the Goldwater- Nichols Act of 1986.
SENATOR: Jake Garn
“I must defer to the position of Senator Goldwater, Chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee, when he writes that “this thing has
gotten so highly classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it.”
(From a June 13, 1983 letter to Lee M. Graham)
Edwin Jacob Garn is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party, and served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993. Garn became the first sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-51-D (April 12–April 19, 1985). Born in Richfield, Utah, Garn earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business and finance from the University of Utah in 1955, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He also attended East High School, Clayton Middle School, and Uintah Elementary School. STS-51-D was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Its primary objective was to deploy two communications satellites, and to perform electrophoresis and echocardiograph operations in space in addition to a number of other experiments. At the conclusion of the mission, Garn had traveled over 2.5 million miles in 108 Earth orbits, logging over 167 hours in space. The space-sickness he experienced during the journey was so severe that Garry Trudeau suggested NASA create a scale of spacesickness and name it after him, and he was quickly dubbed Barfin’ Jake by his Senate colleagues. Upon his return, he co-authored a book of fiction entitled, Night Launch. The book centers upon terrorists that take control of the Space Shuttle Discovery during the first NASA-USSR space shuttle flight. It was first published in 1989, with a paperback edition coming out in 1990.
SENATOR: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

“Remember that movie Independence Day, where invaders were
coming from outer space and the whole world was united against the
invasion? Why can’t we be united on behalf of our planet? And that’s
what I want to do.”
Hillary Clinton- Council Bluffs Iowa, December 17, 2007
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the United States Senator from New York, and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton—the 42nd President of the United States—and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She embarked on a career in law after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973. She was later named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979, and was twice listed as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America. She was the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992 and was active in a number of organizations concerned with child welfare, as well as sitting on the board of Wal-Mart and several other corporate boards.
As First Lady of the United States, her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan, failed to gain approval from the U.S. Congress in 1994. In 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a role in advocating for the establishment of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. That election marked the first time an American First Lady ran for public office; Clinton is also the first female senator to represent New York. In the 2008 presidential nomination race, Clinton succeeded in winning more primaries and delegates than any woman in U.S. history.
GOVERNMENT: Ambassador Anderson and
Henry Kissinger

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los
Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is
especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from
beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very
existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world
leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears
is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights
will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being
granted to them by their world government.”
Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992 Bilderbergers meeting. Unbeknownst
to Kissinger, his speech was taped by a Swiss delegate to the meeting.
Henry Alfred Kissinger is a German-born American politician, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President. A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente. During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations he cut a flamboyant figure, appearing at social occasions with many celebrities. His foreign policy record made him a nemesis to both the anti-war left and the anti-communist right alike. With the recent declassification of Nixon and Ford administration documents relating to U.S. policy toward South America and East Timor, Kissinger has come under fire from journalists and human rights advocacy groups, both in the U.S. and abroad. Following the release of those documents, officials in France, Brazil, Chile, Spain, and Argentina have sought him for questioning in connectioGnOwViEthRNOMpeErNaTtion 95 Condor, hindering his travel abroad.
POLITICIAN: General Wesley Clark

“We need to look at the realms of applied and higher mathematics. I
still believe in E = mc squared. But I can’t believe that in all of human
history, we’ll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to
reach where we want to go. I happen to believe that mankind can do
it. I’ve argued with physicists about it. I’ve argued with best friends
about it. I just have to believe it. It’s my only faith-based initiative.”
General Wesley Clark – Sept. 27, 2003, in New Castle, New Hampshire
I heard a bit. In fact, I’m going to be in Roswell, New Mexico tonight.
There are things going on. But we will have to work out our own
mathematics.”
General Wesley Clark, Reno Nevada, October 30, 2004 in reply to whether
or not he was briefed on UFOs
General Wesley Kanne Clark, is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE (Philosophy, Politics & Economics), and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master’s degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Clark commanded Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War during his term as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000. Some of Clark’s command decisions during the conflict, such as his statements at press briefings, and his actions at Priština International Airport, were heavily criticized. At times, he had a difficult relationship with Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton, which led to rumors Clark was forced into retirement; though both he and the Department 9o6f DefUeFnOsse: sWaHidOhKisNrOetWirSe?ment was merely standard personnel movement. Clark joined the 2004 race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination as a candidate on September 17, 2003, but withdrew from the primary race on February 11, 2004
GOVERNMENT: Victor Marchetti

“We have, indeed, been contacted – perhaps even visited – by
extraterrestrial beings, and the U.S. government, in collusion with
the other national powers of the earth, is determined to keep this
information from the general public.”
“The purpose of the international conspiracy is to maintain a
workable stability among the nations of the world and for them, in
turn, to retain institutional control over their respective populations.
Thus, for these 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 mind of the public. The
national oligarchical establishments, even civilization as we now 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 the major nations,
whose leaders (particularly those in the intelligence business) have
always advocated excessive governmental secrecy as being necessary to
preserve ‘national security.’”
(“How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon,” Second Look, Vol. 1, No.7,
Washington, D.C., May 1979)
Victor Marchetti was an American soldier serving in the Cold War, was recruited into government intelligence departments in 1952 in order to spy in East Germany. Marchetti joined the CIA in 1955, working as a specialist on the USSR. He was a leading CIA expert on Third World Aid, with a focus on USSR military supplieGsOtVoECRuNbMaEaNfTter 97 the JFK assassination. In 1966 Marchetti was promoted to the office of special assistant to the Chief of Planning Programming and Budgeting and a special assistant
PRESIDENT, SOVIET UNION: Mikhail Gorbachev

The phenomenon of UFOs is real. I know that there are scientific
organizations which study the problem.”
(On 26th April 1990)
“At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth
faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet
Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not
dispute the hypothesis, though I think it’s early yet to worry
about such an intrusion.”
Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Youth, 4 May 1990.
The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.
Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 in Privolnoye, Stavropol territory in the North Caucasus, to a peasant family in a small village. His father was an agricultural mechanic on a collective farm. In 1942 at the age of 11 his district was occupied by the Germans, leading to 3 years of hardship during World War II. After spending time as an agricultural assistant in 1950, Gorbachev enrolled as a law student in the University of Moscow. At the university Gorbachev became a full member of the Soviet Union Communist Party (CPSU). After receiving his degree in law in 1956, Gorbachev made rapid progress within the Communist Party. By 1970 Gorbachev had become the first Secretary for Stavropol territory, governing an area of 2.4 million people. By 1980 he had been made the youngest full member of the Politburo. After the death of Chernenko in 1985, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party; a position of enormous power.
GOVERNMENT: Wilbert Smith

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 Doctor Vannevar Bush.”
(In a Top Secret Canadian government memorandum, 21 November 1950,
quoted in Above Top Secret)
Wilbert Brockhouse Smith was a Canadian electrical engineer, radio engineer and contactee born in Alberta in 1910. In 1933, Smith earned a B. Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia. Six years later, he was hired by Canada’s Department of Transport. In 1950, Smith’s interest in UFOs was piqued by articles written by retired U.S. Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe, and by Frank Scully’s book Behind the Flying Saucers, which claimed that several crashed UFOs had been recovered by the U.S. military. As a result of his interest in the subject, Smith lobbied the DOT to establish a UFO research group: Project Magnet. Founded in 1952, it operated under DOT auspices until 1954, after which Smith was allowed to use Magnet’s facilities at his own expense. Smith wrote several reports for Magnet, concluding that UFOs were likely extraterrestrial in origin, and used principles of magnetism to travel. Smith died on December 27, 1962 of intestinal cancer. And although the fact was not disclosed until well after his death, Smith claimed that, in the late 1940s, he received what a friend described as “mental messages from space people” – something which Smith discussed with very few people during his life.
CHINESE ACADEMY: Social Sciences
“In this field [Ufology], prejudice will take you farther from the truth
than ignorance… But with a topic such as UFOs, where does the
scientific method begin? And where does it end? This grand endeavor
would consist of the serious recording of the enormous available data
and the use of all scientific procedures for the purpose of analysis…
China is so vast, and UFOs are certainly being witnessed again and
again all throughout China, and China most definitely will evolve
her own indigenous school of UFO researchers.
This is our sincerest and deepest hope.”
(Wen-Gwang, B., “The Aspirations & Hopes of the Chinese UFO Investigator,” The Journal of
UFO Research, No. 1, People’s Republic of China, 1981)
One of the branches of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is the China UFO Research Organization (CURO). As of 1985, CURO had 20,000 members, and two publications, the Journal of UFO Research and Space Exploration. The Journal’s first issue, in 1981, included an article by Comrade Bang Wen-Gwang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Beijing Astronomical Research Society.

David Bowie

“They came over so regularly we could time them. Sometimes
they stood still, other times they moved so fast it was hard to
keep a steady eye on them.”
(Strange Days Indeed! – Celebrity UFO Encounters, Jim Hickman,
www.rense.com/general2/celeb.htm)
Born David Robert Jones in Brixton, South London, Bowie developed an interest in music early on and began playing the saxophone at age thirteen. At sixteen, he started a career as a commercial artist, singing and playing with rock bands in his spare time. Bowie’s first flirtation with fame came in 1969 with his single, Space Oddity, telling the story of Major Tom, an astronaut who becomes lost in space, though it has also been interpreted as an allegory for drug-taking. In 1976, director Nicolas Roeg cast Bowie in his first leading role, as an unhappy alien who becomes a famous industrialist and pop star, as he tries to find a way home in The Man Who Fell to Earth. Continuously producing hit albums, songs and film-performances for the next two decades, on January 17, 1996 David Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, at the eleventh annual induction ceremony. The 1990s also saw Bowie launch a branded internet service provider (BowieNet) as well as a novel and quite successful fundraising scheme to raise cash on the strength of future royalties, called Bowie Bonds. Twenty-nine albums and a small fortune of wealth and fans later, David Bowie was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on February 8, 2006.
John Lennon and May Pang

“… as I turned my head, hovering over the next building, no more
than a hundred feet away was this thing.”
(John Lennon, August 23, 1974 UFO sighting from the penthouse apartment of girlfriend May
Pang, East 52nd St, NYC, Alien Rock, page 10)
“There’s a UFO over New York and I ain’t too surprised.”
(John Lennon, lyric line from Nobody Told Me, one of the last songs he wrote)
“My eye caught this large circular object coming towards us. It was
shaped like a flattened cone, and on top was a large, brilliant red light,
not pulsating as on any of the aircraft we’d seen heading for Newark
Airport. … It was, I estimate about the size of a Learjet, and it was
so close that if we had something to throw at it, we probably
would have hit it.”
(May Pang, John Lennon’s girlfriend, 1974 UFO sighting, Alien Rock, 31)
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE, was born on October 9, 1940. He was an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. He is ranked the second most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history after McCartney. After The Beatles split up, Lennon enjoyed a successful solo career with such acclaimed and iconic songs as Give Peace a Chance and Imagine. After a self-imposed retirement to raise his son, Lennon reemerged with a comeback album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered at the age of 40 on December 8, 1980, less than one month after its release. The album would go on to win the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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May Pang, a native of New York’s Spanish Harlem, grew up with music all around her. From street-corner “do-wop” groups like Dion & The Belmonts — to the British ’’
Keith Richards

I’ve seen a few (UFOs), but nothing any of the ministries would believe. I believe they exist – plenty of people have seen them.”
(Following a 1968 sighting from his estate in Sussex, Alien Rock, page 61)
Keith Richards, born on December 18, 1943, is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine’s “Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. With songwriting partner and the Rolling Stones’ lead vocalist Mick Jagger, Richards has written and recorded hundreds of songs, fourteen of which are listed by Rolling Stone magazine among the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.
Ace Frehley

“As I was about to shut my eyes, I noticed a bright ball of light out
the window to my right. I blinked once or twice to make certain it
wasn’t some sort of illusion, but sure enough the ‘thing’ was still
there. I couldn’t make out any great detail. It looked like an enormous
baseball and its actions were completely erratic, moving from side to
side. The UFO remained in view for a brief period, and then darted
off, traveling quite rapidly. I know it wasn’t a satellite or another plane.
We were pretty high up when it appeared, leaving me to
conclude it was a UFO.”
UFOs Among the Stars, Page 32
Frehley was the rock band Kiss’ lead guitarist, also known as the “spaceman.” Frehley played with the group from its inception in 1973 until his departure in 1982. After leaving Kiss, Frehley embarked on a moderately successful solo career, which was put on hold when he rejoined Kiss in 1996 for a highly successful reunion tour. His second tenure with Kiss lasted until 2002, when he left at the conclusion of what was purported to be the band’s Farewell Tour. Frehley’s Comet, a mixture of hard rock and pop metal, was a successful return to the music scene for Frehley. The band’s album peaked at #43 on the Billboard 200 (selling nearly 500,000 copies), and the single, Rock Soldiers, reached #27 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Frehley stated on his new official website www.acefrehley.com that the title of his new album will be Anomaly. It has also been announced by the Ace To Space team that Frehley has been given the “green light” on a project organized in which he will be the first musician to go into, perform in, record in, and broadcast a live performance from outer space. This project has been in the works for 10 years. VH1 has been chosen to document this spectacular experience.

“I happened to see this red light in the sky over the East River, and
it appeared to be moving around quite differently than an airplane
would. At first it was only a very small red light and I thought to
myself it must be a balloon with a light attached to it. But then it
moved horizontal, faster than my eyes could follow it, before stopping
dead in its path as though it had hit a barrier. Then it did lazy loops
almost like a figure eight. Next it made a few more circles and then
noiselessly it went zap again to another part of the sky. … My guess is
that the UFO was up around 5,000 feet, just looking down at me. In
back of this never-ending ‘glow,’ I could see a strange saucer-shaped
craft of unknown dimensions.”
(UFOs Among the Stars, Page 46-47)
Most people know Mel Tormé as a legendary jazz singer, actor, and television host, but this performer was also an author and a private licensed pilot. He co-wrote The Christmas Song and also wrote the music for the Judy Garland Show. In February 1999, Tormé was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Tormé was a licensed pilot and often flew a small plane to his USA gigs. At a low point in his musical career, he even pondered becoming an airline pilot. On August 8, 1996, a stroke abruptly ended his 65-year singing career; another stroke in 1999 ended his life.
Cliff Robertson

“By no means was I prepared for what I saw through the binoculars.
Instead of supplying me with a rational explanation, it only convinced
me that no identification was possible. I’ve been a pilot for years and
I have to be honest and say, never before have I encountered anything
remotely like this during my experience as an aviator. There, in front
of me, was a weird alien contraption, a cylindrical-shaped craft made
of highly polished metal. It just hovered out there, high up over the
water, then – boom! – all of a sudden it was gone.
It disappeared in the twinkling of an eye, blasting off straight
up at a tremendous velocity.”
(UFOs Among the Stars, Page 15)
Clifford Parker “Cliff” Robertson III was born on September 9, 1923, and is an American actor with a film and television career that spans half of a century. Robertson won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie Charly. In addition to his Oscar and Emmy and several lifetime achievement awards from various film festivals, Robertson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. He is perhaps best known to younger audiences for playing Ben Parker in the Spider-Man film series.

Jackie Gleason

These were definitely not objects made on our planet – they weren’t
secret weapons but were solid craft.”
(Of his two sightings near Miami, Florida, UFOs Among the Stars, Page 55)
Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr., baptized as John Herbert “Jackie” Gleason, was born on February 26, 1916 and died on June 24, 1987. He was an American comedian, actor and musician. Gleason was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden on the sitcom The Honeymooners. His most noted film role was Minnesota Fats in The Hustler.
Cliff Robertson

“All around me, as far as I could see, was nothing but a beautiful
blue expanse of sky and water. Suddenly my attention was attracted
to an object skipping across the heavens. Looking closer I saw what
definitely was a disc-shaped object. What they call a UFO or flying
saucer. I watched it for a good half hour as it darted back and forth
right in front of my eyes. There is no way anyone can convince me
what I saw wasn’t some sort of intelligently controlled craft.”
(UFOs Among the Stars, Page 16)
An Academy Award winning actor and a U.S. Naval Reserve Captain, Glenn Ford’s breakthrough role in Hollywood came in 1946, when he starred alongside Rita Hayworth in Gilda. He went on to be a leading man opposite her in a total of five films. While the movie is mostly remembered as the vehicle for Hayworth’s provocative rendition of a song called Put the Blame on Mame, The New York Times’ movie reviewer Bosley Crowther praised Ford’s “stamina and poise in a thankless role,” despite the movie’s poor direction. Ford’s career flourished in the 1950s and into the 1960s, and continued into the early 1990s, with an increasing number of television roles.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

“I know from reading books since then that others have seen craft
like this. It was immense, and glowed brilliantly from the lights that
surrounded it. Actually, the object was so bright that I had a hard time
keeping my eyes on it.”
(UFOs Among the Stars, Page 22)
Samuel George “Sammy” Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, impressionist and musician, who remains known for being a member of the ‘Rat Pack’ of entertainers of the Fifties and Sixties, including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford.
Steven Spielberg

“I think its mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligence species in the Cosmos. That’s totally impossible. It is exciting.

Dan Aykroyd

[UFOs] surely must be considered one of the most important and
fundamental mysteries of our existence.”
(Mufon Brochure quote)
The question is not whether they exist, but rather are some of them
here to do our species harm or good?”
(From his DVD, Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs)
Daniel Edward “Dan” Aykroyd, is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Awardwinning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. Aykroyd gained fame on the American late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live, where he was a writer and cast member for its first four seasons, from 1975 to 1979. Aykroyd brought a unique sensibility to the show, combining youth, unusual interests, talent as an impersonator and an almost lunatic intensity. He is a MUFON Benefactor (Lifetime) member and MUFON’s official Hollywood Consultant. He recently provided complimentary copies of the MUFON UFO Journal to a list of prestigious Hollywood contacts, accompanied by a personal letter praising MUFON’s work.
John S. Stephen Michaud

“We were startled by what sounded like a most unusual and terrific
explosion, evidently very nearby. Raising my eyes…I observed a
torpedo-shaped body, some 300 feet away, stationary in appearance,
and suspended in the air about 50 feet above the tops of the
buildings. In size it was about 6 feet long by 8 inches in diameter,
the shell, or covering, having a dark appearance, with here and there
tongues of fire issuing from spots on the surface, resembling red-hot
unburnished copper this object began to move, rather slowly,
and disappeared over Dolan Brother’s store, southward. As it moved,
the covering seemed rupturing in places, and through these the
intensely red flames issued.”
(UFOs Among the Stars, Page 22)(July 2, 1907, 2pm, Vermont, USA as reported in a letter to
the Monthly Weather Review)
John S. Stephen Michaud, second bishop of Burlington, was known as the “builder” bishop…he picked up where Bishop de Goesbriand left off and was responsible for the completion of the magnificent old Cathedral Church that burned by arson in 1972. Bishop Michaud opened the Fanny Allen Hospital and staffed it with the wonderful Sisters of the Religious Hospitalers. He also started the Loretto Home in Rutland, which was very capably operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph, and he brought the hardworking, dedicated Society of St. Edmunds priests to Vermont to establish St. Michael’s College at Winooski Park.
Margaret Mead, PhD

There are unidentified objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases

• perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies – for which there is no
  explanation… We can only imagine what purpose lies beyond these
  quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the
  earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are
  simply watching what we are up to – that a responsible society outside
  our solar system is keeping an eye on us, in order to see that we don’t
  set in motion a chain reaction that might have repercussions far
  outside our solar system. It is plausible to attribute to extraterrestrial
  creatures such intentions – as plausible as any we ourselves at present
  are capable of imagining.”
  (“UFOs – Visitors from Outer Space,” Redbook magazine, vol. 143, September 1974)
  Margaret Mead studied one year, 1919, at DePauw University, then transferred to Barnard College where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in 1923. She studied with Professor Franz Boas and his assistant Dr. Ruth Benedict at Columbia University before earning her Master’s Degree in 1924. Mead set out in 1925 to do fieldwork in Polynesia. In 1926, she joined the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, as assistant curator. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1929. Her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) was based on research she conducted as a graduate student, and with her published works based on time with the Sepik and on the island of Tau in the Manua Group of Islands. Another extremely influential book by Mead was Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies.
  Dorothy Kilgallen

“Flying saucers are regarded as of such importance that they
will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of the world
military heads next summer.”
(1954; Need to Know, Good, Timothy, page 270)
Dorothy Kilgallen was a US gossip columnist and TV personality. From London, on May 23, 1955, she sent an INS wire to the US claiming that “The Ministry of Flying Saucers is expecting world-wide response to the information they have released,” that “the scientific and aeronautic authorities of Great Britain, after having examined the remains of a mysterious airship of conventional [sic] form – have come to the conclusion that these strange flying objects do not represent optical illusions, nor are they Soviet inventions, but that we have to deal with objects that really fly and that originate from some other planet.”
Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson

“In the very middle of the Near East crisis, UN Secretary General
Thant took time to do a very significant thing. He arranged to have
one of the top advocates of the theory that flying saucers – UFOs – are
from another planet, speak before the Outer Space Affairs Committee
of the UN. Interesting fact is that U Thant has confided to friends that
he considers UFOs the most important problem facing the UN.”
(The New York Post, June 27, 1967)
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 – December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. Jack Anderson was a key and often controversial figure in reporting on J. Edgar Hoover’s apparent ties to the Mafia, Watergate, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the search for fugitive ex-Nazi officials in South America, and the Savings and Loan scandal. He discovered a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, and has also been credited for breaking the Iran-Contra affair, though he has said the scoop was “spiked” because he had become too close to President Ronald Reagan. Anderson was a crusader against corruption. Anderson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1986. In July 2004, at the age of 81, Anderson retired from his syndicated column, “Washington Merry-Go-Round.” He died of complications from Parkinson’s disease, survived by his wife, Olivia, and nine children.
Andrew Russell Pearson (December 13, 1897–September 1, 1969), known professionally as Drew Pearson, and born in Evanston, Illinois,[1] was one of the most well-known 1A1m4 ericUaFnOnse: wWsHpOapKeNrOaWndS?radio journalists of his day. He was best known for his syndicated newspaper column Washington Merry-Go-Round. He also had a program on NBC Radio entitled Drew Pearson Comments.
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