"The least improbable explanation is that these things
UFO's are artificial and controlled. My opinion for some time has been that they
have an extraterrestrial origin." Biot was one of the world's leading aerodynamicists and mathematical
physicists. Life, April 7, 1952.
Werner Von Braun
"We find ourselves faced by powers which are far
stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to
us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer
contact with those powers, and in six or nine months time it may be possible to
speak with some precision on the matter." This comment comes from "News Europa" Jan. 1959 and refers to mysterious
events during the re-entry phase of the Juno 2 rocket during a test flight.
"...it is as impossible to confirm them (UFOs) in the present as it will be to
deny them in the future."
n a comment to Nasa scientist, Clark McClelland. Von Braun was rocket scientist
who was instrumental in the development of Nazi Germany's V2 rocket and later,
the American space program.
Louis Breguet
"The discs use a means of propulsion different from
ours. There is no other possible explanation. Flying saucers come from another
world." Breguet was a French aircraft designer and manufacturer.
Dr. Richard F. Haines
"What I found [in doing research for the book
Project Delta] was compelling evidence to claim that most of these aerial
objects far exceeded the terrestrial technology of the era in which they were
seen. I was forced to conclude that there is a great likelihood that Earth is
being visited by highly advanced aerospace vehicles under highly 'intelligent'
control indeed." Haines, a retired NASA senior research scientist at Ames Research Center and
the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science where he worked on the
International Space Station, from the preface of his book, CE-5, 1998.
Dr. Frank Halstead
"Many professional astronomers are convinced that
saucers are interplanetary machines." Halstead was with the Darling Observatory, Minnesota in 1957.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
"When I first got involved in this field, I was
particularly skeptical of people who said they had seen UFOs on several
occasions and totally incredulous about those who claimed to have been taken
aboard one. But I've had to change my mind."
"It reminds me of tthe days of Galileo when he was
trying to get people to look at the sun spots. They would say that the sun is a
symbol of God; God is perfect; therefore the sun is perfect; therefore spots
cannot exist: therefore there is no point in looking." Hynek in Newsweek, Nov. 21, 1977.
"I was there at [Project] Bluebook and I know the job they had. They were told
not to excite the public, not to rock the boat... Whenever a case happened that
they coud explain--which was quite a few--they made a point of that, and let
that out to the media. . .Cases that were very difficult to explain, they would
jump handsprings to keep the media away from them. They had a job to do,
rightfully or wrongfully, to keep the public from getting excited." Hynek was former Chairman of the Dept. of Astronomy at North Western
University and scientific advisor to Project Bluebook from 1952-1969.
Lee Katchen
"UFO sightings are now so common, the military doesn't
have time to worry about them. . .when a UFO appears, they simply ignore it. .
.Unconventional targets are ignored because apparently we are only interested in
Russian targets, possibly enemy targets. Something that hovers in the air, then
shoots off at 5,000 miles per hour, doesn't interest us, because it can't be the
enemy. UFOs are picked up by ground and air radar, and they have been
photographed by gun camera all along. There are so many UFOs in the sky that the
Air Force has had to employ special radar networks to screen them out." Katchen, NASA atmospheric physicist, in an announcement on June 7, 1968 in
which he stated that he believed, based on his examination of 7,000 reports,
that UFOs have an extraterrestrial origin.
Robert J. Low
"The trick would be, I think, to describe the
project so that, to the public, it woud appear a totally objective study but, to
the scientific community, would present the image of a group of non-believers
trying their best to be objective, but having an almost zero expectation of
finding a saucer." Low, project coordinator of the Colorado University UFO Project (a.k.a. The
Condon Committee), in a memorandum of instruction from August 9, 1966. This
telling quote gives an impression as to what may have been the goal of the
Project: to either get the thing out of the way without hurting any of the
scientists' credibility, or to comply with a rumored Air Force directive to
produce a report showing UFOs to be unworthy of scientific consideration.
Clark McClelland
"As the Gemini Capsule entered orbit, the RCA
world tracking team began to realize that 'our' capsule was not alone as viewed
through their incoming telemetry, visual theodolite and other high powered
optical data. Our capsule had four 'visitors'. The RCA team was ordered to run a
recheck of the situation to be certain ghost images were not the cause. The
Titan II stages were also excluded as causing the images. . . .After much
huddling and discussion the intelligent determination was that we had other
physical objects up there with our Gemini capsule. . . .The official NASA
determination was that the objects were the torn particles or remains of the
Titan upper stage that apparently entered orbit with the Gemini capsule. I was
at the news conference and I nearly began to laugh. How could a broken stage
overtake the capsule and stop slightly ahead of the capsule to accompany it an
entire orbit around the earth? But I held my laugh to save my job." Commenting on the April 9, 1964 unmanned launch of the Gemini-Titan 2.
"The day will arrive when the governments of
earth will finally admit we are not alone, that humans have come face to face
with other lifeforms from the cosmos." These quotes come from Clark's website, The Stargate Chronicles. McClelland
was an Aerospace Engineer and Technical Assistant to the Apollo Program Manager
during the Apollo moon landings, also assisted in almost six hundred launches at
Cape Canaveral, and in addition to working in the Mercury and Gemini programs,
Space Lab and the Space Station, was heavily involved in the Space Shuttle
program.
Dr. James E. McDonald
"I have absolutely no idea where the UFO's come from or
how they are operated, but after ten years of research, I know they are
something from outside our atmosphere." Dr. James E. McDonald was Professor of Atmospheric physics, University of
Arizona in 1967.
Dr. J. C. MacKenzie
"It seemed fantastic that there could be any such
thing. At first, the temptation was to say it was all nonsense, a series of
optical illusions. But there have been so many reports from responsible
observers that they cannot be ignored. It seems hardly possible that all these
reports could be due to optical illusions." MacKenzie was Chairman of the Canadian Atomic Energy Control Board and former
president of the National Research Council.
Dr. Harry Messel
"The facts about saucers were long tracked down and
results have long been known in top secret defense circles of more countries
than one." Dr. Harry Messel, Professor of Physics at Sydney University, Australia, in a
1965 statement.
C. B. Moore
"Based on the descriptions, I can definitely rule
this out. There wasn't a balloon in 1947 or today that could account for this
incident." Moore, General Mills Meteorologist and expert on weather balloons, when asked
whether he believed the Roswell Incident could be explained by a Mogul balloon.
Dr. Herman Oberth
"UFOs are conceived and directed by intelligent beings
of a very high order, and they are propelled by distorting the gravitational
field, converting gravity into useable energy. There is no doubt in my mind that
these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort. I and my colleagues are
confident that they do not originate in our solar system, but we feel that they
may use Mars or some other body as sort of a way station. They probably do not
originate in our solar system, perhaps not even in our galaxy." This comment was apparently made sometime in 1954, I don't know the source,
but it seems consistent with the following quote from The American Weekly of
Oct. 24, 1954.
"It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that
they are space ships from another solar system."
"We cannot take the credit for our record advancement
in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped." From a statement to a group of reporters after his retirement in 1960. Dr.
Oberth was considered the father of modern rocketry.
Dr. Walther Riedel
"I am completely convinced that [UFOs] have an
out-of-world basis." From LIFE Magazine, April 7, 1952. Riedel was research director and chief
designer at Germany's rocket center in Peenemunde and also worked on classified
projects for the U.S. after WW2.
Dr. John Sathco
"There are in excess of 200 reports of the type that we
had from down in Louisiana, from people claiming that they have had direct
contact with a spacecraft full of aliens. I mean 200 reports from witnesses who
are as reliable or more so than these people. I'm not counting the reports from
the obvious crackpots that have an axe to grind....If you accept them at face
value then you're forced to accept that we have been visited. Sathco was an Astronomer at the University of Southern California in 1973.
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 Dr. Vannevar Bush." From a declssified Canadian government memorandum dated Nov. 21, 1950.
"...it soon became apparent that there was a very real
and quite large gap between this alien science and the science in which I had
been trained. Certain crucial experiments were suggested and carried out, and in
each case the results confirmed the validity of the alien science. Beyond this
point the alien science just seemed to be incomprehensible." In a speech concerning experiments allegedly suggested by EBEs
(Extraterrestrial Biological Entities); March 31, 1958.
"If, as appears evident, the Flying Saucers are
emissaries from some other civilisation, and actually do operate on magnetic
principles, we have before us the Fact that we have missed something in magnetic
theory but have a good indication of the direction in which to look for the
missing quantities. It is therefore strongly recommended that work on Project
Magnet be continued and expanded to include experts in each of the various
fields involved in these studies" From an interim report dated 25th June 1952 Wilbert Smith was the electrical
engineer who convinced the Canadian government to establish Project Magnet to
study the UFO phenomenon and later served as engineer-in-charge of the project.
Clyde Tombaugh
"The illuminated rectangles I saw did maintain an
exact fixed position with respect to each other, which would tend to support the
impression of solidity. I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial
reflection. . . .I do a great deal of observing (both telescopic and unaided
eye) in the backyard and nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since."
Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto, in a letter dated September
10, 1957. The phenomenon was also witnessed by his wife.
Dr. Weisberg
"Like a turtle's back, with a cabin space some fifteen
feet in diameter. The bodies of six occupants were seared and the interior of
the disc had been badly damaged by intense heat." Dr. Weisber, from a memo by the director of the Borderland Science Research
Foundation, Layne Meade, in 1949 concerning a description given by Dr. Weisberg,
a Canadian physics professor who apparently examined some retrieved discs for
the U. S. Air Force at Edwards AFB.
Zhang Zhousheng
"What was especially important was that, at a distance of 180 kilometers apart,
the records about the direction of movement of the strange aerial body in space,
made independently by at least two different observers was basically the same. .
. .To the present time this strange phenomenon has not been satisfactorily
explained, yet there were thousands of good observers who had seen it." Zhang Zhousheng an astronomer at the Yunnan Observatory in Chengdu City,
China. Zhousheng and others nearby watched a strange glowing, spiral
object moving steadily across the sky for about five minutes on the evening of
July 26, 1977.