"We were naturally anxious to get hold of one of
the [UFOs]. We told pilots to do practically anything in reason, even if they
had to grab one by the tail."
Major Jeremiah Boggs was U.S. Air Force.
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."
Brown, as U.S.A.F.
Chief of Staff, addressing the appearance of UFOs during the Vietnam War at a
press conference in Illinois, October 16, 1973.
Colonel Joseph
J. Bryan III
"These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth,
either manned or under remote control, or both."
"Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being
officially withheld." Bryan was founder of the CIA's psychological warfare
staff, special assistant to the secretary of the Air Force, advisor to NATO, and
board member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon (NICAP).
Lieutenant Colonel Lou Corbin
"The UFOs are
no figment of the imagination." Corbin was Army Intelligence.
Colonel Philip
J. Corso
"If you
suppress the truth it becomes your enemy...if you expose the truth it becomes
your weapon." "I had the evidence that a crash did happen. I ask you this, were
you there with me? did you have the clearances? They can't answer these
questions, they simply criticize with no evidence."
"I had the
evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young
people of the world and this country....They want it. Give it to them. Don't
hide it and tell lies and make stories. They're not stupid....It's their
information. It doesn't belong to the Army or the Department of Defense. If it's
classified, take the classification off and give it to them!" Colonel Corso
made this impassioned plea not long before his death in the summer of 1998. He
was a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and later went
on to become head of the U.S. Army Research and Development department's Foreign
Technology Desk where he claimed to have worked with General Arthur Trudeau in
"seeding" American military and industrial institutions with technology under
his stewardship which came from a crashed alien craft in Roswell New Mexico.
Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence J. Coyne
"With the
aircraft under my control, I observed the red-lighted object closing upon the
helicopter at the same altitude at a high rate of speed. It became apparent a
mid-air collision was about to happen unless evasive action was taken."
"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 this
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." Lt. Col. Coyne was a U.S. Army Reserve helicopter pilot with
3,000 hours of flying time. He and other three airmen had a close encounter with
a UFO on the night of October 18, 1973, while flying in a U.S. Army Bell Huey
utility helicopter in the vicinity of Mansfield, Ohio. Lt. Coyne described his
experience at a United Nations UFO hearing in 1978.
Sergeant Major
Robert O. Dean
"Wright
Patterson Air Force Base... was the headquarters for the foreign technology
division of the U.S. Air Force. It later became the headquarters for the alien
technology division of the U.S. Air Force. Wright Patterson, for many years was
the central repository of not only the hardware, but some of the little bodies
and even some of the living crew members who had been retrieved. But it became
very clear after a time that there wasn't enough room at Wright Patterson Air
Force Base. We literally filled up hangar after hangar with hardware. We're
storing it now in at least three different Air Force bases and much of it is
being kept underground at a place not too far from Las Vegas just beyond Nellis
Air Force Base which is repeatedly referred to as Dreamland, Groom Lake, or Site
51. That, today is one of the biggest repositories of hardware."
"...They
made...a recommendation to General Limnitzer, the American four star general
that I worked for. And they suggested this is so sensitive ... The conclusions
that we have reached, we believe could be...substantially earthshaking to the
people unless they're prepared for it. We believe at this point that this
should be given the highest classification NATO has' [which] at that time was
and still is Cosmic Top Secret." From a videotaped interview in which Dean
discussed SHAPE's alleged report entitled "An Assessment" based on a 3-year
investigation of UFOs being tracked on radar over central Europe. Dean was a
former NATO intelligence analyst for SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers
Europe)
Colonel Thomas
Jefferson Dubose
"There were
orders to ship the material from Roswell directly to Wright Field by special
plane." Dubose was adjutant to Brig. General Roger Ramey at the time of the
Roswell Incident. This statement contradicts the official story that the
material was first flown to Fort Worth, Texas, where Ramey posed with Major
Marcel and pieces of a weather balloon for the media.
Admiral Delmar
Fahrney
"Reliable
reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high
speeds and controlled by thinking intelligences." A public
statement, 1957.
Lieutenant
George Gorman
"I am convinced
there was thought behind the thing's maneuvers." Gorman was in the North Dakota
Air National Guard. In October, 1948 Gorman (flying an F51) chased a "ball of
light some eight inches wide" for about thirty minutes, through a series of
twists, turns and circles, nearly colliding with it on at least one occasion.
The object was also witnessed from the control tower at the Fargo Airport
through high-powered binoculars.
Lt. Colonel
Richard Headrick
"Saucers exist, I saw two. They were intelligently flown or operated (evasive tactics,
formation flight, hovering). They were mechanisms, not United States weapons,
nor Russian. I presume they are extraterrestrial." Headrick was a radar bombing
expert, 1959.
Major Donald E.
Keyhoe
"The Air Force
had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs."
"If, in fact,
we are able to find life or to answer the question 'Are we alone?' then that
certainly is grand enough and noble enough to be the enduring legacy of our
civilization." NASA, October 1999. "With control
of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative. We produced the A-bomb,
under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the
urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the
facts to scientists, the public, to Congress." "Once the people realize the
truth, they would back, even demand a crash program... for this is one race we
dare not lose..." Statement in 1953. "Russia and the
U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So
it's quite possible that the first space ships or satellites may encounter other
interplanetary machines, manned or otherwise. Our space devices may even be
closely approached by such alien machines."
"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." From a live national broadcast, on CBS in 1958.
Keyhoe had an approved script to follow, but when deviated unexpectedly from it
with this astonishing statement, the audio was cut-off in the middle of his
sentence, "for reasons of national security." Keyhoe was in the United States
Marine Corp.
Major General
Joe W. Kelly
"Air Force
interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national
security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved."
Kelly
made this statement in 1957.
General Robert B. Landry
"I was called
one afternoon [in 1948] to come to the Oval Office – the President wanted to see
me.... I was directed to report quarterly to the President after consulting with
Central Intelligence people, as to whether or not any UFO incidents received by
them could be considered as having any strategic threatening implications .." Landry was an aide to President Harry S. Truman.
Major General
E.B. LeBaily
"Many of the
reports that cannot be explained have come from intelligent and technically
well-qualified individuals whose integrity cannot be doubted." As USAF Director
of Information, in a September 28, 1965, letter to USAF Scientific Advisory
Board.
General Curtis
LeMay
"We had a
number of reports from reputable individuals (well-educated serious-minded
folks, scientists and fliers) who surely saw something." As Air Force Chief of
Staff, in his 1965 autobiography, 'Mission With LeMay,' stated that although the
bulk of UFO reports could be explained as conventional or natural phenomena,
some could not. "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 Douglas
MacArthur
"The nations of
the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war.
The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by
people from other planets." Oct. 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." An address by General Douglas MacArthur to the
United States Military Academy at West Point, May 12, 1962.
Captain Thomas
Mantell
"It appears to
be a metallic object......tremendous in size....directly ahead and slightly
above .... I am trying to close for a better look." Mantell, a USAF pilot,
reporting to the tower at Goodman Air Force base, a UFO they had picked up on
radar and requested him to investigate. They were his last known words.
Mantell's plane was later found strewn across a stretch of ground just southwest
of Franklyn, Kentucky.
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 this whole matter." Major Marcel, a
U.S. Army Intelligence Officer, in a videotaped interview. 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.
Lt. Colonel
James McAshan
"In concealing
the evidence of UFO operations, the Air Force is making a serious mistake." McAshan was USAF.
Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker
"Flying saucers
are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations."
Captain Rickenbacker was known as, "American Ace of Aces," medal of honor-winning commander of the
94th Aero Pursuit Squadron in WWI, with 26 "kills".
Captain Edward
J. Ruppelt
"Every time I
get skeptical, I think of the other reports made by experienced pilots and radar
operators, scientists, and other people who know what they are looking at. These
reports were thoroughly investigated and they are still unknowns."
"We have no
aircraft on this earth that can at will so handily outdistance our latest
jets... The pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and
the man on the street who have told me, 'I wouldn't have believed it either if I
hadn't seen it myself,' knew what they were talking about. Maybe the Earth is
being visited by interplanetary space ships."
"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, Chief
of Project Blue Book, from his book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,
1956.
Colonel Carl
Sanderson
"From their
maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was
greater than any aircraft known today." Sanderson, USAF,
commenting on his sighting of two circular silver UFOs in close proximity to his
plane over Hermanas, New Mexico. The UFOs were said to make a series of
seemingly impossible maneuvers before disappearing at an astonishing speed and
showing up again over El Paso, Texas.
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." Lt. Frank H.
Schofield, later to become Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, aboard the
U.S.S. Supply off of the eastern coast of Korea, February 28, 1904
Colonel Charles Senn
"I sincerely hope that you are successful in preventing
a reopening of UFO investigations."
In a letter from , to Lieutenant General
Duward Crow of NASA, dated 1 September 1977. Colonel Senn was Chief
of the Air Force, Community Relations Division.
Major Gerald
Smith
"[There was]
something definite in the sky...If it had proved to be hostile we would have
destroyed it." Smith, USAF, was one of the F-106 pilots scrambled under orders
from NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) to investigate a UFO over West
Palm Beach, Florida on September 14, 1972. The UFO was viewed through
binoculars by the FAA supervisor, George Morales, sighted by an Eastern Airlines
captain, police and several civilians, as well as being tracked on radar by
Miami International Airport and Homestead AFB.
Lieutenant D.A.
Swimley
"And don't tell
me they were reflections, I know they were solid objects." Swimley, USAF,
commenting on a sighting of eight disc shaped objects he and several fellow
officers watched circling over Hamilton AFB, California, on August 3, 1953. The
objects were also picked up on radar and spotted by many civilian pilots. F-86
Sabres were scrambled to intercept the objects, but the jets were apparently too
slow.
General Nathan
Twining
"The reported
operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability
(particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted
... lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled." Twining as Head of Air Material Command (AMC), 1947. "The phenomenon
is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects
approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed
on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or
light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and
maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be
considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar." Twining, in a
declassified letter to the Pentagon.
Major Robert
White
"There are
things out there! There absolutely is!" White exclaiming over the radio
about a UFO encounter taking place on a 58 mile high X-15 flight on July 17,
1962.
"I have no idea what it could be. It was greyish in
color and about thirty to forty feet away." He later reported
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 they claimed that it crashed somewhere
off between Texas and the Mexico border." Willingham, USAF, from an affidavit
filed in the 1970s. Willingham and his navigator were test flying an F-94 on
Sept.6, 1950 out of San Angelo, Texas when they were alerted by radar control
operators of a UFO in their area.
Colonel Steve Wilson
"I have no
feelings, truthfully. My association with MJ-12 has left me dead inside. I feel
myself still cold and calculating. I never let anyone get close to me. I feel
like a human robot. I have killed mercilessly and lied for the good of the
country, or so I believed at the time."
"The things I have seen are beyond human
understanding and totally unbelievable. I only have a desire to help humanity
somehow through what is bound to come soon."
Col. Wilson, USAF, revealed that he was in charge of Project Pounce, the unit
tasked to retrieve downed UFOs and prevent civilian access to them. He also
revealed the designations and manufacturers of U.S. antigravity craft.