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"No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets.
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely they drew their plans against us ..."
To most people, a UFO is a "flying saucer" -- an advanced vehicle from outer space, most likely manned by little green men. Part of the blame for this falls on businessman Kenneth Arnold who, fifty years ago, reported seeing nine silvery discs over Mt Rainier, USA, "skipping like saucers on a pond". This started the first modern UFO "wave".During the fifties, "saucers" were very physical "nuts-and-bolts" things. The pilots were generally nice guys, somewhat angelic or, at least, Aryan in appearance, taking "contactees" like George Adamski or Daniel Fry for a ride, often expressing concern for the state of the world and admonishing against the nuclear tests of those days. Cigar-shaped "mother ships" were seen in the skies. Alien mass landings were imminent.
On the more conventional side, aircraft pilots -- military as well as civilian -- reported encounters with "saucers" or more remote observations (so called "nocturnal lights" and "daylight discs"). The U.S. Air Force felt compelled to set up Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book to deal with reports. The first serious UFO book -- The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by captain Edward Ruppelt, head of Blue Book -- was published. The scientific Robertson Panel convened in 1953 and concluded that UFO:s didn't pose a threat to U.S. national security. Lots of observations were made all over the world. "Debunkers", like astronomers Donald Menzel and J. Allen Hynek, explained away observations as swamp gas, hallucinations or the planet Venus. Psychoanalyst C.G. Jung wrote "Flying Saucers -- A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky", blaming it all on the collective unconscious.The sixties, a less technologically and more spiritually oriented decade, saw new explanations, more in line with the general thinking of the day. Researchers realised that some UFO experiences had a lot in common with the fairy tales of old and with stories like the one about Rip van Winkle. There were absurd reports like those about waist-high ufonauts asking for the time or sharing pancakes with humans. Evidence of a connection between UFO encounters and parapsychological phenomena started to emerge. Hynek abdicated as USAF:s chief debunker and published "The UFO Experience". Jaques Vallée wrote "UFOs: The Psychic Solution" and "Passport to Magonia". Hynek and Vallée jointly published "The Edge of Reality".
The nuts-and-bolts explanation coexisted with the new approach, and there was much talk about government secrecy and about crashed craft and dead aliens being stored at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In '68 the infamous Condon Report was released in an unsuccessful attempt to show that all observations had "natural" explanations."Abductions", performed by small humanoids, had been reported already in the fifties, for example the Brazilian Villas-Boas case in 1957, but they were scarce and seldom taken seriously. In the seventies, there was a sharp increase in the number of "abduction" reports. Typical (if that is the word!) are Betty and Barney Hill's experience at Exeter, the Hicks case in Pascagoula, the Travis Walton case and the Betty Luca Andreasson affair. What had initially seemed rather harmless and innocent -- like Antonio Villas-Boas being seduced by a humanoid -- now began to take on a more sinister character. The purpose of the kidnappings seemed to be more or less painful medical examinations and, perhaps, the surgical insertion of tiny objects into the victim's body. Many abductees experienced the "missing time" syndrome and were also troubled by nightmares; this lead some of them to undergo hypnotical regression to recover buried memories.
Abductions continued to be reported during the eighties. Whitley Strieber made an impact on the general public with his books "Communion" and "Transformation". Some researchers, like Budd Hopkins, feel -- on the basis of material obtained during hypnosis -- that we are being subjected to an experiment in cross-breeding between humans and aliens. Others, like Alvin Lawson, believe that the abduction experience is purely psychical, probably inherited.
A characteristic feature of our time is paranoia. Ufologists have always had good reasons to be paranoid, and today these reasons seem stronger than ever. This has given rise to renewed interest in the Roswell case (an alleged "saucer" crash in 1947 in New Mexico), theories about a secret government group called Majestic-12 and suspicions about conspiracies between humans in high places and aliens. And what is really going on in the forbidden zone -- Area 51?
The newly released report by Gerald K. Haines gives conclusive evidence of CIA involvement and manipulation "in the interest of national security".
But we must not forget that the influx of more conventional observation reports has continued to this day. There are for example the fairly recent Hudson Valley and Gulf Breeze sightings and the Belgian "flap".Of necessity, much must be left out in a brief introduction such as this. Examples of omissions are
Whether these phenomena are in fact related to the UFO issue is an open question.
- USO:s -- unidentified submarine objects
- MIB -- the sinister Men in Black, appearing out of nothing to question and harass witnesses
- Black, unmarked and unidentified "ghost helicopters" of unknown origin
- Mysterious cattle mutilations
- Crop circles
- The giant figures of Nazca Plains
- The Dogon tribe in Africa and its knowledge about Sirius' dark companion
As researchers have dug deeper, another aspect has emerged. Today, the general feeling seems to be that the UFO phenomenon has been with us since time immemorial. For example,
- During WWII, allied bombers reported being followed by "foo fighters". After the war, it was found that similar observations hade been made by German pilots.
- In the thirties, Swedish airspace was invaded by "ghost fliers".
- The well-known events at Fatima in Portugal
- During the last years of the nineteenth century, many reports were made of mysterious airships, looking somewhat like Robur's ship in the Verne novel.
- Earlier in that century, astronomers had observed circular objects moving rapidly over the skies.
- Going further back, myth tends to merge with reality. For example, in the ninth century, a mysterious flying ship abducted of a number of French villagers. Upon their return, they were killed for consorting with the devil.
- A rather famous UFO observation is that made by the prophet Hesekiel on the bank of the river Kebar. The story is recounted in the Bible.
- Some ancient sanskrit texts feature the vimana, a flying object resembling a UFO.
To summarize: The UFO phenomenon has been with us in its present form for the last fifty years. In other manifestations it may perhaps be a perpetual companion of mankind. It is clearly dynamical -- during the years it has changed character several times. Or -- is it our conception of it that has changed? Another question naturally comes to mind: is it really one phenomenon, or are we ignorantly putting a common label on a whole range of phenomena?
An abundance of theories (or, rather, hypotheses or conjectures) have been put forth:
Most of these suggestions don't seem to lead to testable proposals -- at least not at mankind's present level of knowledge. To help you formulate and nurse your own pet theory, here are a few links -- some of which are probably dead -- of varying quality and reliability (the ordering is only alphabetical):
- Hoaxes
- Hallucinations (sometimes even mass hallucinations)
- Misinterpretations of familiar objects like swamp gas, balloons, Venus or Jupiter
- Ball lightning
- Piezoelectric effects
- Fantasies, induced by hypnosis
- Manifestations of the collective unconscious
- Some psychic phenomenon, like the Tibetan "tulpa"
- Visitors from space
- Visitors from the future
- Visitors from another dimension (a parallel world?)
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Project BLUE BOOK - Unidentified Flying Objects
- General Information
- Reference Report relating to Project BLUE BOOK
- U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet on UFO'S and Project BLUE BOOK
- Reference Report relating to Majestic 12 {MJ-12}
- Information of the "Roswell Incident"
Project BLUE BOOK Reference Report
Textual records of Project BLUE BOOK (the documentation relating to investigations of unidentified flying objects), excluding names of people involved in the sightings, are now available for research in the National Archives Building. The records include approximately 2 cubic feet of unarranged project or administrative files, 37 cubic feet of case files in which individual sightings are arranged chronologically, and 3 cubic feet of records relating to the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), portions of which are arranged chronologically, by OSI district, and by overseas command. A cubic foot of records comprises about 2,000 pages. Finding aids for these records include a file list for the project files and an index to individual sightings, entered by date and location.
Access to BLUE BOOK textual records is by means of 94 rolls of 35mm microfilm (T-1206) in the National Archives Microfilm Reading Room. The first microfilm roll includes a list of contents for all of the rolls and the finding aids. Photographs scattered among the textual records have also been filmed separately on the last two rolls.
Motion picture film, sound recordings, and some still pictures are maintained by the Motion Picture & Sound & Video Branch (NNSM) and the Still Picture Branch (NNSP).
U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet Concerning UFO's and Project BLUE BOOK
The following is a copy of the US Air Force Fact Sheet distributed by Wright-Patterson AFB in January 1985.
United States Air Force
Public Affairs Division,
Wright-Patterson AFB,
Ohio 45433
UFOs & PROJECT BLUE BOOK
On December 17, 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project BLUE BOOK, the Air Force program for the investigation of UFOS.
From 1947 to 1969, a total of 12, 618 sightings were reported to Project BLUE BOOK. Of these 701 remain "Unidentified." The project was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, whose personnel no longer receive, document or investigate UFO reports.
The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 40s, '50s, and '60s.
As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles.
With the termination of Project BLUE BOOK, the Air Force regulations establishing and controlling the program for investigating and analyzing UFOs were rescinded. Documentation regarding the former BLUE BOOK investigation has been permanently transferred to the Military Reference Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408, and is available for public review and analysis.
Since Project BLUE BOOK was closed, nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOS. Because of the considerable cost to the Air Force in the past, and the tight funding of Air Force needs today, there is no likelihood the Air Force will become involved with UFO investigation again.
There are a number of universities and professional scientific organizations, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which have considered UFO phenomena during periodic meetings and seminars. In addition, a list of private organizations interested in aerial phenomena my be found in Gayle's Encyclopedia of Associations (edition 8, vol-. 1, pp. 432-433). Such timely review of the situation by private groups ensures that sound evidence will not be overlooked by the scientific community.
A person calling the base to report a UFO is advised to contact a private or professional organization (as mentioned above) or to contact a local law enforcement agency if the caller feels his or public safety is endangered.
Periodically, it is erroneously stated that the remains of extraterrestrial visitors are or have been stored at Wright-Patterson AFB. There are not now nor ever have been, any extraterrestrial visitors or equipment on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Majestic 12 or "MJ-12" Reference Report
The National Archives has received many requests for documentation and information about "Project MJ-12." Many of the inquiries concern a memorandum from Robert Cutler to Gen. Nathan Twining, dated July 14, 1954. This particular document poses problems for the following reasons:
- The document was located in Record Group 341, entry 267. The series is filed by a Top Secret register number. This document does not bear such a number.
- The document is filed in the folder T4-1846. There are no other documents in the folder regarding "NSC/MJ-12."
- Researchers on the staff of the National Archives have searched in the records of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs on Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, and in other related files. No further information has been found on this subject.
- Inquiries to the U.S. Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council failed to produce further information.
- The Freedom of Information Office of the National Security Council informed the National Archives that "Top Secret Restricted Information" is a marking which did not come into use at the National Security Council until the Nixon Administration. The Eisenhower Presidential Library also confirm that this particular marking was not used during the Eisenhower Administration.
- The document in question does not bear an official government letterhead or watermark. The NARA conservation specialist examined the paper and determined it was a ribbon copy prepared on "diction onionskin." The Eisenhower Library has examined a representative sample of the documents in its collection of the Cutler papers. All documents in the sample created by Mr. Cutler while he served on the NSC staff have an eagle watermark in the bond paper. The onionskin carbon copies have either an eagle watermark or no watermark at all. Most documents sent out by the NSC were prepared on White House letterhead paper. For the brief period when Mr. Cutler left the NSC, his carbon copies were prepared on "prestige onionskin."
- The National Archives searched the Official Meeting Minute Files of the National Security Council and found no record of a NSC meeting on July 16, 1954. A search of all NSC Meeting Minutes for July 1954 found no mention of MJ-12 nor Majestic.
- The Judicial, Fiscal and Social Branch searched the indices of the NSC records and found no listing for: MJ-12, Majestic, unidentified flying objects, UFO, flying saucers, or flying discs.
- NAJA found a memo in a folder titled "Special Meeting July 16, 1956" which indicated that NSC members would be called to a civil defense exercise on July 16, 1956.
- The Eisenhower Library states, in a letter to the Military Reference Branch, dated July 16, 1987:
"president Eisenhower's Appointment Books contain no entry for a special meeting on July 16, 1954 which might have included a briefing on MJ-12. Even when the President had 'off the record' meetings, the Appointment Books contain entries indicating the time of the meeting and the participants ...
"The Declassification office of the National Security Council has informed us that it has no record of any declassification action having been taken on this memorandum or any other documents on this alleged project ..."
Robert Cutler, at the direction of President Eisenhower, was visiting overseas military installations on the day he supposedly issued this memorandum--- July 14, 1954. The Administration Series in Eisenhower's Papers as President contains Cutler's memorandum and report to the President upon his return from the trip. The memorandum is dated July 20, 1954 and refers to Cutler's visits to installations in Europe and North Africa between July 3 and 15. Also, within the NSC Staff Papers is a memorandum dated July 3, 1954, from Cutler to his two subordinates, James S. Ia and J. Patrick Cone, explaining how they should handle NSC administrative matters during his absence; one would assume that if the memorandum to Twining were genuine, Lay or Cone would have signed it."
When certifying a document under the seal of the National Archives we attest that the reproduction is a true copy of a document in our custody. We do not authenticate documents or the information contained in a document.
The "Roswell Incident"
The National Archives has been unable to locate any documentation among the Project BLUE BOOK records which discuss the 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico.
On September 8, 1994, the Secretary of the Air Force, Sheila E. Widnall, announced that the United States Air Force had completed its study to locate records that relate to the alleged 1947 UFO incident near Roswell, New Mexico. Pro-UFO researchers claim that an extraterrestrial spacecraft and its alien occupants were recovered near Roswell in July of 1947, and that this fact was kept from the public.
At the request of Congressman Steven H. Schiff (R-NM), the General Accounting Office (GAO) initiated an audit in February of 1994, to locate all records relating to the "Roswell Incident" and to determine if such records were properly handled. The GAO audit was completed and the results published by the Headquarters, U.S. Air Force in 1995. The publication is entitled "The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert." This publication may be obtained from most U.S. Government Depository Library. The call number is ISBN 0-16- 048023-X.
The General Accounting Office audit involved a number of government agencies but focused on the Air Force. To support this audit, the Air Force initiated a systematic search of current Air Force offices as well as numerous archives and records centers which might help explain the incident. Air Force officials also interviewed a number of persons who may have had knowledge of the events. Prior to the interviews, Secretary Widnall released those persons from any previous security obligations that may have restricted their statements.
The Air Force research did not locate or develop any information that the "Roswell Incident" was a UFO event nor was there any indication of a "cover-up" by the Government. Information obtained through exhaustive records searches and interviews indicated that the materials recovered near Roswell was consistent with a balloon devise of the type used in a then classified project. No records indicated or even hinted that the recovery of "alien" bodies or extraterrestrial materials.
All documentation related to this case are now declassified and the information in the public domain. Documentation has been turned over to the office of the Air Force Historian.
Unidentified flying objects — a term that refers to objects that are literally unidentified, not necessarily suspected alien spacecraft — have made the news several times in recent years. The New York Times has reported on the Pentagon's efforts to track and study UFOs. And the DOD has confirmed the authenticity of videos from U.S. military planes showing flying objects of unknown nature and origin. Now the Senate committee wants to regulate the Pentagon's tracking effort, according to the committee's Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. The rule will be part of the 2021 intelligence authorization bill, which Congress has yet to pass.
"The Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence [ONI] to standardize collection and reporting on unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations," the report states.
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However, according to the committee's report, "there is no unified, comprehensive process" for collecting information on unidentified aerial phenomena, "despite the potential threat."
This announcement, Agence France-Presse pointed out, appears to represent the first confirmation that the ONI is still tracking these objects in a systematic way. Federal officials previously said that a program along these lines existed, but ended in 2012. UFO writer Roger Glassel confirmed in May, based on an email exchange with a Navy representative, the existence of an "interagency team" led by the U.S. Navy and focused on "unidentified aerial phenomena."
The committee instructed the Director of National Intelligence and other agency heads to submit a report within 180 days with a number of details about the ONI's investigation. The report must include details about what the federal government knows about "intrusions" into restricted U.S. airspace and other unidentified flying objects, as well as a plan to firm up intelligence collection and sharing on the subject.
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