3” Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Proceedings | November 4-6, 2005 | Las Vegas, Nevada www.ufoconference.com Presented by www.majesticdocuments.com Examination of Reverse Engineering Claims Robert M. Wood, Ph.D. Copyright 2005 Robert M. Wood REVERSE ENGINEERING 1 UFOs a History and perspective on science a Reverse engineering process a Lt. Col. (ret) Philip Corso’s claims a Corso the man and his credibility a Integrated circuits perspective a Fiber optics perspective a Conclusions and next steps REVERSE ENGINEERING J EXAMPLES FROM HISTORY a Europeans copied gunpowder from China a Native Americans got rifles from settlers » Soviets copied the bomb from the U.S. "Once you know it can be done, it’s just a matter of time” — Phil Corso 3 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE | ARE NOT THE SAME a Scientists are interested in “why” a Science deals with very small to very large a Scientists try to understand “what is” a Scientists make discoveries a Scientific principles, once established, become “sacred” ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE 3 | ARE NOT THE SAME = Engineers are focused on “how” a Engineers deal with man-sized use (but it’s expanding rapidly both ways) = Engineers like to understand principles, but they'll skip that if it’s cheaper a Engineers make inventions = Engineers know the next breakthrough is just around the corner IT SEEMS REASONABLE TO SSUME ONE SET OF LAWS IN OUR UNIVERSE = Let’s also assume there is no magic a Math and logic would seem universal = Once we understand the principles, we can quantify, describe and replicate = Such laws would have to subsume our concepts of time, distance, psychic events and communication "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ”-A.C. Clarke Examination of Reverse Engineering Claims HOW WE PROBABLY DID E IT WITH MIGs Soviet pilot seeks asylum with MIG MIG is sent to Foreign Technology (AF) Dissembled, understood Mystery parts sent to appropriate contractor: what is it, how does it work, is it good, how much to make one? You get patent if we get early edge WHEN DID IT START? Standing beside the first crashed saucer - the scientist, engineer, officer or GI would have all been thinking, “How does it work?” Cape Girardeau in 1941 and Los Angeles in 1942 are near-certain recoveries for us to get started with a A system would be set up to figure it out J WHO HAD THE PARTS? a Initially, Army and FBI (1941) = Then, Army and Navy (1942) » With Roswell, Special Forces and AEC (1947) The agencies did not share ("The Army wouldn't let us have it...Hoover, FBI) 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference CORSO’S CLAIMS IN “THE | | DAY AFTER ROSWELL” » Image intensifiers a Fiber optics = Super-tenacity fibers = Integrated circuits a Lasers a Night vision equipment COMPANIES SPECIFICALLY 7 MENTIONED = IBM » Hughes Aircraft = Bell Labs and = Dow Corning “Dawn of a New Age,” Corso photo, EBE sketch, and letter in his typical writing Examination of Reverse Engineering Claims CORSO’S SUMMARY J CLAIMS IN “THE DAWN...” a Image intensifiers a Fiber optics a Super tenacity fibers Metals — molecular alignment Fluid amplification Transistors and integrated circuits High Altitude Research Project a Psycho-chemicals a Lasers CORSO’S CLAIMS IN “THE r DAWN OF A NEW AGE” a First hand: “I saw...”, “I did...”, a Second hand or conjecture: “They saw...”, “They did...” s Ambiguous claims: summary section seems to be “his opinion” EARLIER WRITTEN CLAIMS „= At least 130 pages hand printed a Page 128 titled “Brain Entry” a “I went to my UFO ‘junk drawer’ and pulled out an item...” = “,..called the atomic lab at Ft. Belvoir” = “We projected long, low waves...” a “Small dots would light up...” = ...Walter Reed, coordination with Ft. Monmouth 34 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference WHO WAS PHILIP CORSO? a Born 1915, died in 1998 at 83 a Distinguished career « Citation, 44-45, Vatican diplomacy, no loss a Commendation Ribbon, 45-46, Rome Intel. = Oak Leaf Cluster, 51-53 N. Korea Intel. = Commendation Ribbon, 57-59, AJAX safety = Citation, 59-60, Management of 30K troops in Germany a Retired as Lt. Col. After 21 years service MILITARY RECORDS 3 | RELEVANT TO OCRD = 4 May 61 — Enroute to OCRD (Office of the Chief of Research and Development) =a 26 Jun 61 — Staff O Plans Div » 18 Apr 62 — Chief Foreign Technology Div = 18 Jul 62 — Staff O Plans Div a 1 Mar 63 — Retired but "I joined OCRD in early 1960”? All above in OCRD 2 | FIRST HAND REMARKS « “Eyes Only access at the NSC of W.H.” » Saw brown chip, one from North American Rockwell = “possibly extraterrestrial...” “Nine clearances above top secret” “I was Chief of Foreign Technology Div in Army R&D” (how long unclear) “Three most important findings I presented to the General on UFO material... =a “Piece... whose atoms or molecules were aligned” = “Photograph and findings on supposedly alien bodies” « “The chip...revolutionize the world...space travel” “1957 crash just west of Red Canyon” = “...I had access to German discoveries we captured...” Examination of Reverse Engineering Claims SECOND HAND REMARKS “thrown in with great men...” “,..chip should have taken centuries...” “some sort of being in a photograph...” “They (2 f.s.) dissolve in a transparent alignment of atoms” (75% accurate, 25% questionable) “German scientists were of the opinion that...exit/entry into a time dimension” “Items and data from UFOs found in USSR” (no source noted!) “As in the Philadelphia Experiment...” “A report speculated that each fiber...atomic/molecular alignment” “...mention of some sort of film over the eyeball” “They also had a head band...possibly mental telepathy.” “lack of information on the Roswell crashed saucer. (No mention of nourishment, water, refrigeration, medical, toilet, recreational)” “ample evidence of alien activity on the Moon. 122 photos...” A STUDY OF INTENTIONS AND HOSTILE ACTS Reconnaissance Advanced propulsion systems Superior medical techniques Tampering with earth environment and food supply Abduction of humans at will, taking fluid and tissues Mutilation of cattle and other animals Surveying (spying) on our atomic installations Hindering missile and space equipment testing Hampering our military preparedness and nuclear deterrent Halting reconnaissance of the moon and mars Causing crashes of aircraft and casualties among our military and civilian population Tampering with human and animal genetics CORSO’s VIEW ON MUTILATIONS “In their animal and human mutilations, the aliens have shown a callous indifference concerning their victims. Their behavior has been insidious and it appears they might be using our earth and manipulating earth life. Skeptics will excuse them that possibly they are benevolent and want to help. However, there is no evidence that they have healed anyone or alleviated human ailments. On the other hand, they have caused pain, suffering and even death.” 3'4 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference CORSO J RECOMMENDATION a Intensify “Star Wars” efforts, fire at their UFOs or mother ship a Send a nuclear armed probe at Phobos on Mars » Send an electromagnetic probe at the moon. (“De-gaussers as used in the Philadelphia experiment.”) “Above should be done together with the Russians... CORSO’S VIEWS ON J ACADEMIA a I warned them, “Remember, I am not one of your college professors. I will hit you with reality, not theory, or fuzzy intellectual thinking.” ---after a farewell dinner CORSO’S VIEWS ON DEBUNKERS “The ‘debunkers’ and ‘skeptics’ were most useful. They did their job, so well, that we never had to set up or use ‘disinformation’ tactics. Most were honest and sincere in their beliefs and activities. This would have been most difficult to match by a plan, or a ‘black’ propaganda operation.” Examination of Reverse Engineering Claims MY SUMMARY: CORSO THE MAN a Highly intelligent a An Army product a Limited civilian academic training a Logical thinker a Exposed to craft, some documentation Highly cleared, but not to MJ-12 U.S. Army focus and exposure High integrity, poor memory for dates FIBER OPTICS PERSPECTIVE = a “,,,optical wave guide fibers similar to glass rods except they are flexible and have a plastic cladding wrap.” — R&D Lab to Commanding Genl, 2 Sep 47 a Specific Corso reference to Corning a Dow Corning patents in this area a Name, timing of patent holders » Circle of friendships INTEGRATED CIRCUIT 7 | PERSPECTIVE =a “,,.grid-like lines intersecting groups of dots arranged in circular patterns.” — Twining to Truman, 19 Sep 47 a First references to “integrated circuit” s Comprehensive history by Kuijsten = Shockley links to war, Bush, R&D a IC patent holders were proteges 3 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference y IC PATENTS z Texas Instruments and RCA filed patents in 1959 CONCLUSIONS = Reverse engineering was inevitable a Leaked documents confirm it » Corso’s claims are not easily proven = His IC claims seem quite inaccurate a His fiber optic claims should be further explored via patent searches = Nobody is claiming travel or propulsion a Reverse engineering began in the early 40s, not the late 50’s REFERENCE SOURCES a Brinkman, William et al. 1997. A History of the Invention of the Transistor and Where It Will Lead Us. IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits 32, No.12, December 1997. Kuijsten, Marcel. 2001. The Development of the Transistor & the Integrated Circuit: Exploring Col. Corso’s Claims of Extraterrestrial Reverse Engineering. Submitted for publication. Hamilton, William. 2005. Reverse Engineering. See 3™ Annual Crash Retrieval Proceedings. Researching the Energy Techology of UFOs Tom Valone, Ph.D., PE Panel Unss Study OF UFO Re “ports bower ere rn Set vaes Saver Cree an Night Lights Tell:Potential Visitors Where on arth are All 3°59 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference How Can We Visit Mars? m= TRIAL ERROR MAY? 10E4 Darty ater te Conings damer m HORA, Prete Red Re ea ht D Ml araga e CERTAINLY f a NOT BY e CARRYING aE FUEL mes o a heeg T it oaia ie a arad errr 32 Nes Ce pred tee Ne te hd a ewe ee tener md eo ere of pokes Pe X D) e cere? Pepeler Sewers. 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TB Researching The Engergy Technology of UFOs Here’s Where We are Going e In 2002, Senator Hillary Clinton calls for Apollo- sized ‘Smart Energy’ project: ApolloAlliance.org ¢ April 25, 2003, Science magazine “Planning for Future Energy Resources” e July 25, 2004, LA Times, 18 sciéntists ‘search for entirely new carbon-free technologies’ a 2050 Project, 4000 remote viewers see 3’ x 3’ box providing decentralized power —Dr. Schwartz Integrity. Research Institute . 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Townsend Brown and Nikola Tesla for the design that includes an eric energy input Tesla coil 1 N ikola Tesla * Kents d Tesla Coil. _ ae Pie ax ~ 1896398 if ater oe eisai n net c ricity» . ra = pai ec tron Bins respond ed- Mi, ~ 1931 bik gu jet Lisp het i “The body of a person may be subjected without danger to electrical pressures vastly in excess of any producible by ordinary apparatus, for they may amount to several million volts, as has been shown in actual practice....will likewise prove to be of value in electro-therapy.” -The Electrical Engineer Nov. 17, 1898 Electromagnetic HV Energy Medicine * HF EMF penetrate several centimeters into body * Diseased cells have low transmembranc potential * Low TMP = low Na-K pump & ATP impairment * Membranes rectify AC producing DC electron flow * External HV EMFs can also increase TMP * Electroporation transmigrates ions & nutrients * Boosting TMP and creating electron transfer to fight free radicals helps the immune system “Electrons are antioxidants and HV strengthens immune response.” -vaione Researching The Engergy Technology of UFOs g A Hercules Machine - 1908 Dr Fred F. Stron g 3{A-—Application of vacuum electrode lated banii Photonic Rejuvenation Energizing Machine & Immunizing Electrification Radiator (PREMIER) Dr. Jacqueline Panting PREMIER Junior Dr. Richard Gerow Model 100 using Model 2500 with Model 200 mattress upon which the a of the d’Arsonval trans- 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference IRI Bioenergy Project: * Recreation of the Autocondensation Couch in a more compact form + Oudin circuit design for balanced opposite polarity * Whole body treatment * Under development Completed IRI Bioelectromagnetic Energy Proj Electric Energy Chair Similar to Integratron but more portable And Now 3 Miles from the Integratron is GIANT ROCK, Our Link to the Second Project: PERMANENT MAGNET MOTORS Homopolar Gencrators are “a subject worthy of further rescarch” THE HOMOPOLAR HANDBOOK Based on Sunburst: Return of the Ancients book by Norman Paulsen: Giant Rock, Calif, saucer, photo, & + policeman who took the photo “Magnets around the edge of a rotating disk” “generator would be self- Researching The Engergy Technology of UFOs “The outside perimeter of each disc carries twelve magnets...Here we can draw off electrical current from the central hubs on which they spin...The generation of a perpetual flow of electrical energy from each disc will continue as long as the discs rotate...this magnetic and gyroscopic effect creates its own gravity.” Ancient Elder on Mu Ship (from Paulsen’s Sunburst book, reprinted in ER) iige orient Mota It exists in the atoms and in electron motion from ZPE t lectrons have a gyromagnetie ratio | eh ae 2.0 42 Nonlinear. inhomouenceus magnetic fields Pre duce a gradient if tmey lncorenct in on ane | ao. 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In his paper The UFO Crash/ Retrieval Syndrome published in 1980 by the Mutual UFO Network, Leonard Stringfield referenced a case that very closely matched the story of the again, Kingman crash. Described in his paper as Case A-1 (and which is itself a more comprehensive version of Abstract 6 contained in Stringfield’s paper presented at the annual MUFON Conference in 1978, and titled Refrevals of the Third Kind), the following is Stringfield’s account of an interview he conducted in 1977 with a pilot who had knowledge of a UFO crash in Arizona in 1953 — significantly, both the year and location of the Kingman crash: “During the summer of 1977 1 was asked by a local business executive, a former Naval Intelligence Officer, to speak on the UFO at the September 1“ meeting of the Cincinnati Chapter of the World Wings held in the Administration Building at Lunken Airport. During the Question and Answer period, following my talk, one member of a group of 25 pilots arose and brought up the legendary subject of recovered alien UFOs and occupants. His comment, I thought, indicated that he was unusually well informed on the matter, so I asked that he standby for a chat later. When the crowd finally disassembled he led me to the privacy of a back room which was dominated by a huge topographical map of the United States. “Staring at the map he said bluntly, ‘I have seen the bodies.’ Still looking at the map and noting my protracted silence, he pointed vaguely to an area inside the State of Arizona. “There’s approximately where the saucer crashed,’ he said. ‘It was in a desert area, but I don’t know the exact location. I’m almost positive it happened in 1953.’ “The pilot was my first encounter with a firsthand witness. As he stood at the map with a straight-on glance, he impressed me as a person who is sincere and forthright, possessing a no-nonsense character. ‘I saw the bodies at Wright-Patterson,’ he said. ‘I was in the right place at the right time when the crates arrived at night by DC-7.’ “As we lingered at the map he recalled that he had stood inside a hangar at a distance of about 12 feet, peering at five crates on a forklift. In his judgment, the crates appeared to be hastily constructed and were made of wood. In three of these, little humanoids appearing to be 4 feet tall, were lying unshrouded [sic] on a fabric, which he explained prevented freeze burn from the dry ice packed beneath. As a number of Air Police stood silent guard near the crates, he managed to get a reasonably good but brief glimpse of the humanoid features. He recalls that their heads were hairless and narrow, and by human standards were disproportionately large, with skin that looked brown under the hangar lights above. The eyes seemed to be open, the mouth small, and nose, if any, was indistinct. My informant also heard from the crewmember that one of the entities was still alive aboard the craft when the U.S. military team arrived. Attempts were made to save its life with oxygen, but they were unsuccessful.” 41 3°39 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference In his February 1994 paper, UFO Crash/Retrievals: Search For Proof In A Hall Of Mirrors, Leonard Stringfield provided yet further data in support of the 1953 UFO crash at Kingman, Arizona. Stated Stringfield: “My new source, JLD, a resident of Ohio, north of Cincinnati, in a surprising disclosure claimed that a close relative, the late Mr. Holly, who had served in the top command (in a defense department capacity) at Wright-Patterson in 1953, told him about one of two crashes in Arizona. He also told him three bodies, one severely burned, and parts of the wrecked craft, were delivered to the base. On July 16, 1993, when JLD and his wife visited me in Cincinnati, he told me that Holly had seen the bodies, maintained in an off-limits building — and it was not the legendary Hangar 18. Of note, he also learned that the aliens were free of harmful bacteria and suffered no teeth decay. In trust, JLD gave me his relative’s name, title of his position at Wright Patterson and, that having the highest security clearance, was informed with ‘eyes only’ details of the Arizona incident. Said JLD, as a young teenager, when he was told about the crash, his interest was airplanes, making models of World War II aircraft and admitted that he had a curiosity about flying saucers. However, in later years when he asked for more details, his relative did not wish to discuss the subject.” While conducting research into alien abductions, the investigator Don Schmitt spoke with a woman named Judy Woolcott, who had an intriguing tale to tell concerning the Kingman crash and that centered on a strange letter that Woolcott had received in 1965 from her husband, who was serving in Vietnam at the time. Ominously, Woolcott’s husband felt that he would not be returning home — at least not alive. According to Woolcott’s memory, her husband told her that he had seen “something strange” twelve years previously. Woolcott shought that the incident dated from August 1953; and while she could not be certain of the month, she was certain that the location was Kingman, Arizona. Her husband was a military officer and was on duty in an air base control tower when something strange was picked up on radar. It began to lose altitude and disappeared from the screen. Woolcott informed Schmitt that her husband had said that various MPs began talking about something “being down,” and both her husband and a number of military personnel left the base in jeeps and headed for the location where the object was believed crashed. Finally, they located a “domed disc” that had evidently hit the ground with some force, embedding itself in the sand. There was no external damage to the object at all and no sign of debris on the ground. Before they had chance to close in on the object, however, Woolcott’s husband and his colleagues were escorted from the area and told never to discuss the incident with anyone. There was no indication as to what had caused the crash and Woolcott’s husband did not see any bodies; however, he did advise his wife that some of the military police had said there were casualties and that they were “not human.” He further advised his wife that, with regard to the bodies angle, he had only “heard the talk.” Schmitt stated that the letter to Judy Woolcott from her husband indicated that he knew more which he did not want to put onto paper. A week later he was killed. 42 The Kingman UFO Crash of 1953 One of the most intriguing figures to surface with regard to the Kingman affair was Bill Uhouse, a retired “mechanical engineer” from Las Vegas who claimed to have worked on classified projects at certain locations in Nevada that focused upon the reverse-engineering of crashed-and-recovered UFO technology. Uhouse’s story is a strange one and much of it is beyond the scope of the Kingman story. With specific regard to the Kingman crash and Bill Uhouse, however, the researcher Bill Hamilton has provided good background and commentary: “Engineer Bill Uhouse claims there was a crash of an Eben aerial craft near Kingman, Arizona in 1953 and that four entities survived. That would have been six years after the more famous Roswell crashes and retrievals of ‘interplanetary craft of unknown origin.’ In Kingman, according to Uhouse, two disabled Ebens, and two more that were in good condition, were retrieved by US Government units, specially trained for retrieval missions. The two non-humans in good condition were allowed to re-enter the craft and the disabled entities were taken to an unspecified medical facility. “He also states that a recovery crew that entered the craft to inspect it came down with a mysterious sickness. The craft was then loaded aboard a trailer and hauled off to the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas. Bill Uhouse claims that the events at Kingman eventually resulted in the project which employed him to design and construct a flight simulator that our airmen could use to learn how to fly a saucer.” That, in essence, is the Kingman affair. What began largely as a one-witness event has now become much more in terms of both data and sources, such as those cultivated by Leonard Stringfield. We also have the significant fact that the crash occurred during the Uphsot-Knothole atomic tests. Did one of the atomic tests possibly cause the object to malfunction in the air and crash at Kingman? I am currently digging deeply into the Upshot- Knothole angle of the case and will reveal more data if and when it surfaces. For now, we are left with an intriguing and slowly increasing body of evidence that strongly suggests something of a highly unusual nature did indeed occur at Kingman, Arizona in May 1953. Operation Upshot-Knothole Images, 1953: Ife i ay ‘F ; Upshot-Knothole Tower with atomic device being raised to the cab. 43 3a Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference 280 mm Cannon with atomic round, locked and loaded. Crew run for the safety of a nearby trench. 44 The Kingman UFO Crash of 1953 Dr. John C. Clark of Upshot-Knothole describes the experiments. The Upshot-Knothole tests also focused upon the effects of radioactive fall-out on civilian life. 45 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference The cover of the original Upshot-Knothole manual. 46 The Kingman UFO Crash of 1953 Military effects, atomic heat and shock overtaking parked military vehicles during the Upshot-Knothole tests. Railroad tank car was flattened and blown quarter of a mile from its track. 47 3'4 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Sampler aircraft, QF 80, remote-controlled and containing “crews” of monkeys were flown through the area to determine radiation levels and effects on both living organisms and aircraft. we rete Pret P pAs PIT ARS PEEEG TS al The military effects section of the original Upshot-Knothole manual. An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash and Burial Near Garrison, Utah Linda Moulton Howe Copyright 2005 Linda Moulton Howe SLIDE # 1 MAP — Wide shot from Kingman to DRES On May 20, 1953, some kind of unidentified aerial craft allegedly crashed in a desert site near Kingman, Arizona. Twenty-two days later on June 11, 1953, and 200 miles straight north on a dry lake bed east of the Fishlake National Forest ... SLIDE # 2 June 11, 1953 Aerial photo of triangular pattern ..an agency of the U. S. government took two dozen photographs of this large triangular feature in the dry lake bed. The triangle measured approximately 4,400 feet long and 2,700 feet wide. (Measurements from 1999 geologist’s written report.) SLIDE # 3 The location of this unusual triangle feature is 175 miles south of the highly classified Dugway Proving Ground. SLIDE #4 The nearest small town to the lakebed is Garrison, Utah. A few miles beyond is Baker, Nevada, where at least one local resident remembers a vivid explosion of something in the direction of the lakebed back around 1953. SLIDE #5 Linda standing in lake bed with DRES facility highlighted by yellow arrow. I’m standing inside the odd triangle feature in the lakebed on July 16, 2005. Three miles away beneath the yellow arrow is the U. S. Forest Service’s Desert Research Experimental Stauton known as “DRES.” 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference | n % i SLIDE # 6 DRES Map from plaque at facility The Desert Experimental Research Range was established in 1933 by President Herbert Hoover “as an agricultural range experiment station,” covering 87 square miles. SLIDE # 7 Cracked lakebed According to U. S. government history about the site, rangelands during the severe drought years of the 1930s had deteriorated, affecting survival of livestock and ranchers. No one knew how to manage desert shrub-lands, so the Desert Experimental Range was “created to help fill that knowledge gap.” 50 An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash SLIDE # 8 Fence-line with lakebed and DRES highlighted with yellow arrow in distance. In 1933, a large camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was established near the DRES rangeland. By 1935, the CCC had constructed 135 miles of fence around the outside boundary using hundreds of wire rolls and over 40,000 wood posts cut by hand from Utah juniper woodlands. Most of the original posts still stand — a testament to the dry climate there. In this photograph, the fence goes downhill to the dry lakebed that is inside the odd triangle pattern seen in the 1953 high altitude photographs. The yellow arrow marks the location of the Desert Research Experimental Station headquarters. SLIDE # 9 Stone obelisk gate and DRES By 1935, the CCC had completed the headquarters beyond an entrance of two stone obelisks. 5l 34 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference United Neriont Educational Scientific hed Colrcral Organization > Ny a ` g Fag Pirin TOM rand the Biotphere DESERT NTAL RANGE sannt cauritiw DALIRI SALLIS] hi ( ae See ot : SLIDE # 10 U. N. Plaque, UNESCO, Biosphere Forty-one years later on October 26, 1976, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization formally dedicated the “Desert Experimental Range” as part of the international network of biosphere reserves. This network of protected samples of the world’s major ecosystem types is devoted to conservation of nature and scientific research in the service of man. It provides a standard which the effect of man’s impact on his environment can be measured. Ordered by Amadon-Mahtai M’Bow, Director General of UNESCO on October 26, 1976, under the decision of the Bureau of the International Coordinating Council of the “Program On Man and the Biosphere.” Legal implications of biosphere status: TBA SLIDE # 11 Curved driveway and DRES buildings Today in 2005 from the outside, the DRES facility looks run down with paint peeling badly on all the buildings. 52 An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash SLIDE # 12 Outhouse and boarded up house But, there is a strange juxtaposition to all the peeling paint and boarded up windows on the buildings. Rygi . SLIDE # 13 Close-up new silver padlock There are new padlocks and many brand new doors... CU SLIDE # 14 New door locks on new doors surrounded by peeling paint. ... with brand new solid locks. 53 3'4 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference SLIDE # 15 Wide-shot new door and Schlage lock. The new doors and locks stand out as peculiar amid all the peeling paint and unkempt look of the buildings and grounds. SLIDE # 16 There is also fresh weather caulking around the doors. SLIDE # 17 Mono-directional antenna, solar powered 54 An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash From behind one of the decrepit-looking DRES buildings, a new solar panel- powered mono-directional antenna rises up. bh aan ta Sat SLIDE # 18 Solar panels behind chain-link fence and security barbwire es a moen- - . e a: SLIDE # 19 Solar panels and power poles going off to DRES buildings A new addition some distance from the DRES buildings is a series of solar panels surrounded by chain-link fence topped by security barbwire. SLIDE # 20 Electric wires/poles The power from the solar panels is transferred on power poles ... 55 eee 34 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference SLIDE # 21 ... into the buildings of the DRES facility... . where power-lines descend into what look like abandoned buildings backed by new heating fuel tanks. SLIDE # 23 Two large air ventilation shafts seen through trees in back Behind one of the DRES buildings are two large air ventilation shafts above what seems to be an underground room of cement walls against which are piled some flat boards. 56 An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash SLIDE # 24 Close-up 2 airshafts The two airshafts are large. SLIDE # 25 Airshafts on top of cement roof low to ground The underground space that the airshafts service is next to one of the DRES buildings that has a basement. Weta ee Se. ee SLIDE # 26 Wide shot of building and white coal chute In 1993, several curious UFO investigators lead by a now deceased Richard Miller, formerly with the U. S. Air Force and colleague of a Defense Intelligence Agent, opened up the white coal chute that you can see in the lower right and entered the basement. 57 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference SLIDE # 27 Close-up of white coal chute In the basement, the investigators found the two-dozen large high altitude aerial photos of the triangular feature on the dry lakebed. RESULTS OF GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS, VICINITY OF DESERT RANGE EXPERIMENTAL STATION, BAKER, MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH Prepared For Steve Jones & Co Elverta, Caora Prepares By LGS Goopryscs inc Sat Laxe Cay, Utah Aa 1999 SLIDE # 28 High altitude aerial image of triangle feature in lakebed, June 11, 1953 Again, the dimensions of this triangle pattern are about 4,400 feet long and 2,700 feet wide, and “not made by Nature” — according to a Salt Lake City geologist named Lamont Sorenson, who died earlier this year. An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash ae A eer ee SLIDE # 29 Cover of geologist’s 1999 report Mr. Lamont - through his company, LGS Geophysics - was hired in 1999 by Steve Jones to examine the aerial photographs of the peculiar triangle feature and to research the physical lakebed site with a magnetometer and ultrasound. In Mr. Lamont’s report entitled “Results of Geophysical Investigations, Vicinity of Desert Range Experimental Station, Baker, Millard County, Utah.” ore hee “re sf A ral] | \ it img \ Anetei TEL \ / \ / \ i \ / \ j \ j \ moe \ $ / \ t ee \ P n I keaton at magenta ire \ j / He wen of naarn 1ra \ { 7 SLIDE # 30 Diagram of triangle by geologist Mr. Lamont could not find any anomalies in the sections of the triangle that were searched for an underground anomaly, indicated in his diagram by the vertical straight lines. But he told Steve Jones that the triangle pattern, so vivid from the air and yet so difficult to detect on the ground, was not the result of natural events such as flooding or meteor impacts. The implication is that an artificial digging process might have taken place, perhaps to bury a large object that could not be transported? 59 34 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference ZLM NO paN Zanna ee A A Co {Vi ; Psar ot. - m at A. 4 . Aa oN, SLIDE # 31 DRES Visitor’s Logbook, 1980=1983 A logbook of visitors to the DRES site in 1980 to 1983 was also found in the basement along with the aerial photographs of the triangle. Stat Seem Keerd Bork SLIDE # 32 Close-up names and affiliations in logbook People that you would not expect to be traveling all the way to the remote Desert Experimental Range included: - Army Intelligence from Ft., Carson, À X D | 20/ ¥l Man 1p ater) afso Gene, Gatt h SLIDE # 33 - U. S. Air Force Headquarters, 60 An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash ILL Frm FA that SLIDE # 34 - The Naval Research Laboratory and U. S. Army Special Forces, Ft. Bragg, No. Carolina. SLIDE # 35 - EG&G from Nellis AFB, Nevada, | AAR AG hed bees us || mss a Pe | mt Staben L SLIDE # 36 - And a Vice President of Morton Thiokol, based in northern Utah, the company which built the external tanks for the NASA space shuttle. ól 3'4 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference SLIDE # 37 Steve Jones sitting on DRES porch steps July 17, 2005 A longtime California UFO researcher who became convinced that the DRES facility was being used by the U. S. government to “hide secrets in plain sight” is Steve Jones, a computer systems trainer in Dixon California. Steve is 60-years-old and received two bachelor degrees in 1974 from Sacramento’s California State University. One degree was in Anthropology; the other in Psychology. SLIDE # 38 Closer on Steve on DRES porch 62 In 1991, Steve talked with a former USAF Captain named Richard Miller who told Steve he had been in the control tower at Scott AFB Kentucky, when Thomas Mantell tried to chase a large silver disc over Simpson County, Kentucky, on January 7, 1948. [Editor’s Note: Captain Mantell was on a “ferry mission.” Four F-51 Guard planes of the 165th Fighter Squadron of the Kentucky Air National Guard, led by Captain Mantell, were on their way from Georgia to Standiford Air Force Base, Kentucky. Witnesses were describing a huge, round, whitish in color, object with a red light toward its bottom side. It was moving slowly toward the South. The object was about 250 to 300 feet in diameter. At 2:45 p.m. CST, at about 14,000 feet, Mantell radioed to the base that he had the object in sight. At 15,000 feet, Mantell reported: “The object is directly ahead of me and above me now, moving at about half my speed.” A half hour later Mantell radioed: “It appears to be a metallic object or possible reflections of sun from a metallic object, and it is of tremendous size. I’m still climbing; the object is above and ahead of me moving at my speed or faster. I'm trying to close in for a better look.” Just after 5.00 p.m., CST, on a farm near Franklin, Kentucky, the remains of Mantell’s F-51 were found scattered over half a mile. Mantell’s shattered body was found inside the cockpit and his watch had stopped at 3.18 p.m. It An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash is believed that he died from lack of oxygen at about 25,000 feet. The plane had continued to climb to 30,000 feet, but then leveled out before going into a high-speed dive.] Richard Miller told Steve Jones that Mantell’s plane did not crash, but looked like it had been dropped straight down to the ground hard enough to break the frame. Adding to the mystery, a large light was seen by Godman personnel in the same approximate position of the large disc object seen earlier. The microfilm copy of the investigation was mysteriously damaged and no Skyhook balloon launches could be found to coincide with the incident. Miller also told Steve Jones that he had received information from an intelligence source that there had been a UFO crash out in the Utah dry lakebed in the late spring of 1953, and that it was related to the Kingman, Arizona crash. Miller talked about the DRES facility that he thought was used for covert activity beyond its original agricultural mission. SLIDE # 39 Copy of original 1953 aerial photo Miller showed Steve the two-dozen high altitude photographs of the triangle pattern that Miller and a group of investigators had taken from a basement of one of the DRES facility basements. The many photographs formed a grid around the triangle. What aerial vehicle took the photographs and from which height is not known. Miller also showed Steve the 1980 to 1983 logbooks with entries by military, intelligence, and NASA personnel. In 1996, Steve Jones made his first research trip to the DRES facility. In the spring of 2005, Steve e-mailed me a summary of his discoveries and his hypothesis that something strange crashed before June 11, 1953, in the dry lakebed three miles from 63 34 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference the DRES buildings. And that the crashed vehicle was so big it could not be transported and was buried. We agreed to visit the site together on July 16 to 17, 2005. PowerPointFramePosition # 40 VIDEOTAPE SEGMENT # 1 (5:50) Steve Jones driving van on road toward the DRES facility, Utah, on July 16, 2005: “I think it’s a safe house. And I'll tell you it has every sign of being that. It has all the accoutrements. I mean, those kinds of directional antennas don’t just show up in the middle of a little U. S. Forest Service Research Station, for God’s sake! That’s actually the beginning of a satellite uplink.” AND THE FACT THAT AT 9/11 THIS PLACE CAME ALIVE? “This place came alive after 9/11. Three or four days later, we were here down on the lakebed and this place was lit up like a Christmas tree! In every single building, the lights were on.” DISSOLVE TO PAN FROM FLAGPOLE TO DRES BUILDINGS Steve was surprised to find new solar panels, new doors, new locks, NEW antenna, big air vents, and other signs that the seemingly abandoned, deteriorating, place is not so abandoned and deteriorating. STEVE RAISES ARM TOWARD SOLAR PANELS BEHIND FENCE “What we’re looking at here is a brand new solar panel array that has been installed on this facility out in the middle of nowhere. Just to give you an idea of cost on this — each one of these rectangles on these big panels here they are roughly 18 by 48 inches. Those are probably about $1500 a piece. So, in other words, each one of these bigger panels is approximately $50,000. So what you are looking at here is a little over $100,000 of solar panel array that is set up in the middle of this facility in the middle of nowhere. Why?” ZOOM ALONG POWER POLES FROM SOLAR PANELS TO DRES BUILDINGS CUT TO: STEVE IS SITTING ON PORCH OF DRES BUILDING COVERED WITH PEELING PAINT. BUT THE DOOR IS BRAND NEW WITH NEW LOCKS. “The aerial photographs were taken with the impact site over on this lake bed being the center of the aerial photographs.” OVERLAY: 1953 AERIAL IMAGE — ZOOM TO TIGHT CLOSE-UP 64 An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash “They took a grid pattern of aerial photographs on June 11, 1953, about 50 to 75 miles in every direction with this being the center, indicating to me they had a very keen interest on what’s going on in this particular area. It intrigued me. I thought there has to be some connection between this place (DRES) and that impact (triangle).” “STEVE, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE STRONGEST EVIDENCE THERE MIGHT BE AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL VEHICLE BURIED UNDER THAT DRY LAKE?” “Again, the size of the impact. If you take a look at not only the aerial photographs that were taken — I strongly believe these were taken by the U. S. Air Force because of what they look like. These photos were 24 inches x 24 inches, single shot aerial photographs on old photographic style paper and they were not cut and pasted together.” OVERLAY: TRIANGLE PA TTERN IN DRES LAKE BED — Wide ia. ia ies y T = 4 = F7 a3 i a A ay a SCY) “i . « a “Tve seen aerial photographs before as early as the early 1960s and I know what they look like. “I have personally seen the crash debris field of a B-52 which put down in Sacramento, California, in the 1980s. I know what an aircraft debris field looks like. This was not an aircraft. Whatever it was, was very large. What I suspect is that it had a shallow, round undercarriage to it and when it slid down this include into the lakebed, it created havoc. It really just rained debris down field in a massive way. I’ve taken a look at the terra server images — you can go on terra server to this day and take a look at this impact site. It has not substantially changed in over 50 years.” “WHY IS IT TRIANGULAR?” “Why is it triangular? My feeling is that it was the shape of the craft that dictated the way — and angle of impact, the way it hit the lakebed — is what created that V-shaped pattern.” OVERLAY TIGHT ON 1953 TRIANGLE AERIAL PHOTO 65 3'¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference 66 “And these were intelligence photographs, obviously from the way they were made up. That really impressed me and I thought, ‘Why would they make this kind of effort to document and observe this particular area?’ It’s out in the middle of nowhere! We are sitting in a valley that is probably one of the most desolate parts of the United States. This valley is 110 miles long, 20 miles wide, and there are only two ranches around here. You would have to go 50 miles to see another human being. “Out in the middle of this valley is this little village in which we are sitting that was set up Originally back in 1933, built as a CCC project, and it became a Desert Research Experimental Station. But yet, based on the logbook, we’ve got military intelligence people, for God’s sake, coming to this place. Why? I mean, that asks some big questions. “Talking to the locals, they know something is going on out here. I’ve actually interviewed a person in a little town about 30 miles from here who said he was awakened from a deep sleep when he was 12 years old, that would have placed it right around 1953, the middle of the night. The sky lit up, the ground shook for 15 minutes. It scared the heck out of his mother. She thought it was the end of the world. Something happened out here.” FREEZE FRAME END OF VIDEOTAPE SEGMENT # 1 PowerPointFramePosition # 41 — Audiotape Segment An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash Ty G HUMBOLDT NATIONAL FOREST SLIDE # 42 Map of DRES, Garrison and Baker LINDA INTRO TO AUDIO; In 1953, a boy named Bart Wright was about 12- years-old, living with his large family of a dozen siblings on the outskirts of Baker, Nevada. Baker was, and is, a small community about 45 minutes by car from the Desert Research Experimental Station. In 2001, Rex Leonard was manager of The Outlaw Bar in Baker. He hired Bart Wright to be a bartender. Bart told Rex about a haunting memory he had from around 1953. AUDIOTAPE (1:14) — Rex Leonard “It was after dark and this thing came flying across the valley and landed on the other side of the mountain which would put it down near where Steve (Jones) was looking at the crash site.” “DID HE DESCRIBE ANYTHING ABOUT THE COLOR?” “I think he said it had a kind of pervasive blue color, like an electric light, you know? I do remember him talking about it as a little kid when he saw this thing. And the time — the date, 1953, I think would coincide with the object Steve (Jones) is convinced landed, fell, hit or crashed out there in that dry lake on the other side of the mountain from where Bart was living then when he was growing up — that he (Bart) saw it in the eyes of a 12-year-old. It was just a bright light and when it hit, the ground rumbled and as you say, he probably did run to his mother. It seems like he said there were people from the government came around to talk to people all over the valley after that.” 67 3'9 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference SLIDE # 43 Linda over slide: One of the fourth generation settlers in the town of Garrison nearest DRES is 90-year-old Ladd Davies. He told Rex Leonard that once “long ago” while Ladd was riding at sunup, he saw “a UFO not more than a hundred yards away. It was making absolutely no sound and when it went by, the color was black as if light was being sucked into it. Ladd said it was like you could look into infinity looking inside of it. I don’t know exactly what that meant, but it was very vividly etched in his mind.” END AUDIO SEGMENT PowerPointFramePosition # 44 — Audiotape Segment VIDEOTAPE SEGMENT # 2 68 Steve Jones: “I have had a field geologist — the guy that came with us out here that had the EG&G ultrasound testing equipment. He was a petroleum geologist and he told me, ‘This is not a natural occurring feature. We showed him the aerial photographs. We took him out on site. He said: “This is not a naturally occurring feature.” “WHAT DID THE GEOLOGIST SAY ABOUT THE ARTIFICIALITY OF THE TRIANGULAR SHAPE?” Po, ROT ORE E A e ‘hare ie An Alleged 1953 UFO Crash OVERLAY: “He told me that it’s not something that was made by the weather, it’s not something that was made by — he’s seen bolides and a bolide crater. Those type of craters [sic] are a different pattern. It’s just that it was not made like if they had a flash flood come down the side of this valley and into the lakebed. It was not made that way. “I have tried various methods — we started out with the ultrasound. We have used field magnetometers on it. We have gone out and punched holes in the ground just to see how far down we could go before we hit solid hardpan or anything like that. It’s a tough nut to crack. It really is. But my guess is that the best way to do it would be thermal infrared and an over-flight to do an infrared of the area to see if there is anything buried out there that would show up. “Consider the logistics of the time, what they had to work with. If you have a craft, for example, that is made out of material like titanium and they did not have the plasma torches and that kind of technology to cut them up into pieces and haul them out. | mean, that’s about the only option they have is to dig a big hole and leave it there.” “STEVE, ISN'T THE IMPLICATION THAT IF SOMETHING SO BIG CAME DOWN ON THAT DRY LAKEBED NEAR THE DRES, THAT IT HAD TO BE BURIED? THEY WOULD HAVE TO BRING IN SCIENTISTS HERE. THEY WOULD HAVE TO BRING IN THE METALLURGISTS AND CHEMISTS HERE BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT TAKE IT ANYWHERE ELSE?” “Correct. My feeling was that they had to either build a very large underground facility or have access to it in stealth to keep the local population from talking about it. The logistics are doable. The impact zone is only 3 miles away (from DRES) and here you have a facility that is perfectly suitable for doing something like that. The plant biologists that come out here don’t come out that often. “All the government has to do is shut off access for a little while, bring in a group of scientists and even if they built a tunnel down there to get access to where they buried it. Logistically, it would be beautiful because they could keep it secret and prevent — I mean, you know that the Soviets were keeping an eye on us just as we were on them. Anything like this would have set off alarms — especially thinking the way the military does about this. They would really have to keep it under wraps. This is perfect. You have a station that is set up as a scientific research station. You could bring in engineers, biologists and physicist and house them in this facility and no one would know the better. I mean, they would not know.” CONCLUSIONS: In the conference presentation, I’ll share two recent updates about the DRES mystery: 1) Audiotape excerpts from a former USAF pilot who has asked for anonymity. He says he has knowledge of an underground facility that was connected by tunnel to the DRES buildings. He asserts that he has firsthand knowledge of a 30 foot vertical by 150 foot long oval-shaped “extraterrestrial vehicle” which crashed in the lakebed and was buried in 1953, inside and beneath the odd triangle ground pattern. According to the retired USAF pilot, the craft was still underground at the DRES lakebed as recently as 1995. 69 ne ee L £- = a oe et et elit Sociologial Implications of Disclosure Richard M. Dolan Copyright 2005 Richard M. Dolan The Reality of “Them” We are currently dealing with undoubtedly the most portentous and complex issue of the contemporary era. Not only must we confront the reality of a new scienufic paradigm — the presence in our world and probably within our civilization of “others” — but the problem of how their presence has affected the development of our own society (whether in ancient times or today), and what may be the result of acknowledging this reality within the officially sanctioned bodies of power. Thus, the problem of “UFOs,” as we so typically call them, is one of the most profound scientific, social, and political questions we can confront. We should start, however, with a quick acknowledgment as to why we believe their reality is a given. I’ve written about this at length, most prominently in my book, UFOs and the National Security State, as well as several articles.’ What such research by myself and others has made clear is not necessarily that UFOs are definitely of alien origin — although this remains in my view easily the most likely answer — but that the phenomenon is real, that it is technological, and that great levels of official secrecy envelop the subject. Ordinary people are being kept in the dark, while a select few of the human power structure have gained at least some level of significant knowledge about what is going on. Luckily, years of official denial by the relevant U.S. agencies was met with definitive rebuke starting in the 1970s with the release of documents through the new and improved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Whereas, for instance, the CIA, FBI, DIA, or any number of other national security offices had been able to deny, year after year, any interest whatsoever in UFOs, the thousands of pages of FOIA documentation showed this to be a bureaucratic lie. It is true that none of the FOIA documents proved to be the single smoking gun, proving that UFOs are alien, but several came close. Moreover, taken together, the best of these documents sufficiently demonstrate extreme levels of concern about UFOs by all branches of the U.S. military and intelligence community.” No wonder, since quite a few of these documents describe disturbing violations of sensitive air space by objects that did not /sok normal (for example being described as ' Dolan, Richard M., UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973. Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2002. For additional articles on the theme of UFO coverup, see also http://keyholepublishing.com ? There are several good sources of UFO-related FOIA documentation on the web, most notably The Computer UFO Network (CUFON) at htrp://cufon.org and The Black Vault at htrp://blackvault.com. A good source of documentation in book form remains The UFO Coverup (formerly Char Intent), by Barry Greenwood and Larry Fawcett. 3'3 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference saucer-shaped) or move normally (zig-zag, stop, hover, instantly accelerate, etc.). Some of the military encounters described in the documents are simply extraordinary. A few include multiple witnesses, or radar plus visual confirmation, and demonstrate concern by the relevant authorities. After all, what person responsible for security of a major military base would of be concerned by unauthorized intrusions by such unusual craft as these? The examples are too numerous to mention in this paper, but in fact they are legion. A 1949 Army message from Kirtland AFB stating that “AEC, AFSWP, 4" Army, [and] local commanders perturbed by implications of phenomena.” In this case the phenomena being air space violations and “at least 100 total sightings.” Or, a 1949 FBI document stating that the matter of flying saucers was “considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” Or, a 1950 memo from the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission plant stating that “objects, round in form, have been sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant,” and that “Air Force jets attempted interception with negative results.” Or, a 1951 memo from Robins AFB in Georgia describing, in fascinating detail, a ten minute UFO encounter by the pilot of an F-51. His description of the craft was “flat on top and bottom and appearing from a front view to have rounded edges and slightly beveled.” The object was “solar white,” extremely fast, and the pilot felt a “bump” when the object passed beneath his plane. He was an experienced WWII fighter who was highly respected by his peers. Or, a 1952 memo to the Director of the CIA describing the problem in this manner: “Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and travelling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.” These sorts of memos continue through the remainder of the 1950s, through the 1960s, and the 1970s. They become scarce after that, but this is surely not because encounters slowed down. Rather, an Executive Order by President Reagan in 1982 severely curtailed the helpfulness of FOIA, for instance exempting NORAD entirely and in general making it more difficult for researchers to obtain the “good stuff.” Even so, most UFO documents released through FOIA are not of the Top Secret level, but of lower levels of secrecy. The few TS documents we do have are nearly entirely redacted, essentially useless from an informational point of view. There is one thing the FOIA documents do tell us, however: UFOs are real, they are technological, they are extraordinary, and they do not appear to be “ours.” As a side note, it is useful to recall that it is not only the U.S. military elite that is hiding informaton on UFOs. Whoever or whatever is behind all this does not appear to be forthcoming. People around the world see these amazing objects in the sky, sometimes at sea, and — more often than not — tell no one. Perhaps a friend or family member. Unquestionably, this is a phenomenon that operates by stealth. The intelligence behind it is not interested in dialogue or communication with most of us. True, if one considers testimony from alleged abductees as valid evidence, then we may consider that some people are selected for limited communication with these beings. 72 Sociological Implications of Disclosure Some of this “abduction testimony” does not give us the most pleasant window into > their world. Hybridization? Eventual replacement of “us” with some version of “them”? Such a scenario is possible, although we would do well not to lose our heads amid such speculation. There are many possibilities and end-results to the abduction game, and we can hope that more work will give us a clearer picture. The Human Side of the Equation But the issue of “disclosure” is really about us, not them. How will the process of obtaining official recognition of the presence of other beings affect us? That’s the question. To answer this, we need to understand our own civilization. For five decades, most UFO research has barely touched upon this question, other than repeating the most banal of platitudes. Within the United States, a country in which the word “freedom” has morphed into an ideological fetish, utterly divorced from reality; in which fundamental questions — such as “who owns what?” — is off-limits in any national discussion, it can be expected that widespread confusion occurs when it comes to analyzing political realities. During the 1950s, UFO researcher and activist Donald Keyhoe, believing unreservedly in the functionality of the U.S. representative system of government, pressed year after year for open congressional hearings on the matter of UFOs. After all, it was a free country, he argued, and the public had its logical tool in Congress to get to the bottom of the matter. His efforts failed repeatedly, and so has every following attempt to bring this matter public recognition via the formal political process. It is time to review some of our assumptions. After all, the UFO phenomenon has dropped into the lap of a very definite human social order. In America, as throughout most of the world, it is a highly stratified order in terms of wealth and power. There are many ways to look at this; all give the same essential graphic breakdown and conclusion: America exists as a group of very distinct classes. To envision the U.S. as a room of 100 people, with a total amount of wealth equaling $100 dollars, we would see that the wealthiest person owns more than $38 of those dollars; the next 19 would share $45 (averaging just under $2.50 per person); the next 40 people would share $16 (or $0.40 each); while the last 40 people would share about 20 cents (about half a penny each). This works out to four groups: I call them the owners, managers, worker bees, and expendables. Incidentally, over the centuries and across nations, these numbers have been remarkably stable, though with obvious local variations (for instance, the U.S. has markedly increased social inequality since 1979). Whether one thinks this is a good thing or a bad thing, the important thing is that our little room has many things that make it “go” — universities, banks, military, intelligence, the political process, the media, and so on. The question naturally arises, who is in the best position to manipulate and influence these institutions. The question answers itself. Those who qualify as “owners,” albeit with the assistance of manager class members (or hopefuls). 73 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference It is not hard to understand that, within such an economically stratified society, a certain measure of ideological conformity is necessary for those at the top. If you have a stake in keeping things just as they are (or at least believe that you do), you learn your interests quickly. You learn what issues to argue over, and what issues never to discuss. From ancient Egypt and Rome, to the British Empire and now the American, ruling elites have always been distinguished by their ability to close ranks and ensure ideological conformity on issues that matter. The reality of social stratification helps us to understand that there is really no such thing as “The Media,” or “Academia.” Rather, there are medias and academic niches, each catered to a particular market. There is a yawning social chasm dividing the New York Times and the Jim Lehrer News Hour on the one hand, and your local weekly and cable access programming on the other. Or between Harvard and Yale versus your local community college.’ Not surprisingly, on the issue of UFOs, the disconnect between official truth and actual truth is substanual. Year after year goes by, and the position of the United States government has never wavered. It repeats, mantra-like, that there is no evidence of UFOs being extraterrestrial or beyond our present day scientific knowledge; that no UFO case has ever affected U.S. national security. (The last is an especially blatant lie.) The national organs of media repeat this to the general public year after year. The academic establishment also helps to stifle public discourse by refusing to admit any legitimacy to the topic. Without significant institutional support, interested persons are left to their own intellectual and financial devices to investigate. Now, it is true that during the past decade, popular media has at times dealt with the issue of UFOs in a serious manner. Cable television channels, most notably the History Channel and SciFi Channel, have done this. Some people take this as a sign that the “powers-that-be” are slowly preparing the public for the truth. I do not believe this. When I see the topic handled seriously by the New York Times, or the major networks, 1 will have to reconsider my position. Indeed, the exceptions prove the rule. The ABC Special in February 2005, hosted by Peter Jennings, for instance. Some hailed this as a breakthrough of the topic into the mainstream media. Perceptive viewers, however, noted that it steered clear of the issues that would truly have made this subject challenge official dogma. Roswell was a “myth,” Area 51 was ignored completely, and much time was wasted on the irrelevant efforts of SETI. The program inflated the ufological balloon for the first hour, only to deflate it in the next. The fact is that attempts to pry the UFO topic out of the closet and bring it into widespread public discussion have failed for decades. What does this mean? One thing it should mean is that the major institutions of our society seem quite adamant about controlling the UFO topic in a certain, very safe, manner. On a topic as 3 I wrote about this theme at some length in “Understanding UFOs and the Media: Puncturing a Myth” (2004), at hrtp:// keyholepublishing.com/Understanding_UFOs_and_the_Media.htm 74 Sociological Implications of Disclosure important as this is — as I will continue to argue below — there is a fundamental lack of democracy when ordinary people cannot get ordinary answers from their allegedly responsible pubic officials. What happens when a society lives a fundamental lie for generation after generation? One obvious result is that there are winners and losers. Groups who perpetrate the lie have something to gain; in this case access to knowledge, technology, power, and presumably money. The rest sit on their hands waiting for the Czar to dispense his goodies. A less obvious result is that, as knowledge seeps out to contradict the lie, confidence in one’s government erodes — for some. Those, however, who obstinately deny such new information, must live with ever greater levels of “cognitive dissonance.” This might be a topic worthy of a trained therapist to investigate. The question of UFO disclosure cannot be divorced from such issues of politics and power. For one thing, it surely does matter whether you are attempting to obtain disclosure from a fundamentally democratic, representative political structure as opposed to an authoritarian one. In the second place, it is worth inquiring into how disclosure might affect a global infrastructure that is clearly teetering; also whether the current crop of crises will serve to hasten or impede disclosure. Thus, we would do well to ask another question: “does it matter that the presence of an apparent non-human intelligence is occurring at a time when our global civilization is in a state of major crisis?” For surely, our civilization is in such a state. What is Being Hidden? Here is where the story become more interesting, and the evidence less cut-and-dry. In a field such as ufology, it is essential to distinguish clearly between what we know — that is, with 100 percent certainty, with evidence that is undeniable — and what we ink. Among believers and doubters, there is not enough clarity on this matter. What we know for sure is that U.S. military (and the military of other nations) has encountered a large number of strange and apparently amazing craft in the skies. The reports of such encounters were seriously worded, and the common sense interpretation of many of these reports is that these technological objects (for “technology” they certainly appear to be) do not seem to be ours. These points cannot be reasonably countered. It is fair to say that we “know” it. Beyond this bare bones state of affairs, a few other things look reasonably clear, although not with quite the same level of certainty. This is regarding the acquisition of alien technology and bodies. Immediately most people would ask: “What is the evidence for such a claim?” But there is an even better question to ask, with a slightly different nuance, less narrow and lawyerly. It is, “On what basis do we make such a claim?” For while evidence is always important, so is logic. 75 3d Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference It is logical to deduce on the basis of UFO reports that another intelligence is operating these craft. For the sake of caution, we can call this “an intelligence not from our civilization.” For the sake of convenience, let’s call it “alien.” Furthermore, there is a large body of testimony from officials, scientists, and other responsible individuals leading us to believe that some of this alien hardware, and even bodies, are held in secrecy by humans. The testimony does not have the same evidentiary value as an authenticated government document, much less possessing the hardware itself. But the sheer quantity must force us to consider its probability of being true. For example, the body of testimony collected by Leonard Stringfield. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stringfield became something of a one-man clearing house of leaked testimony from more than 30 direct sources, and another 30 or so intermediaries (on behalf of original sources who were either deceased or who feared direct communication with him). Stringfield was cautious about the information he received, and honored requests for confidentiality. A few of his sources follow. 1. A woman whose husband was in the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1973. The man told his wife he had been blindfolded and taken to a secure location. There he saw high-ranking officers and a few scientists who were viewing three small humanoid bodies. His job was to stand guard. He said the beings had large heads, and were about 3 feet tall. 2. Word of a 1948 UFO crash from what Stringfield called “a well informed military source.” This informant had heard from other inside military sources that a metallic disk had crashed somewhere in a desert region. His only details indicated that the craft had suffered severe damage on impact and was retrieved by military units. 3. Direct investigation of, incredibly enough, an alleged shooting of an alien at Fort Dix/McGuire AFB in New Jersey in 1978. This was also investigated by Richard Hall and Air Force Major George Filer (who was assigned to the facility at the time). 4. A former Air Force Sergeant who discussed the retrieval of an alien craft in the southwestern U.S. in 1957 and humanoid occupants being maintained at Wright Patterson AFB. 5. An incident at Nellis AFB in 1968. A man claimed he had been shown a Top Secret memo by a general (in fact, the father of his girlfriend). It stated that a large UFO had hovered over Nellis for 3 days, that three small craft came out of the main craft, one of which landed on the air base grounds. A colonel and security detachment were sent to greet it. A “short and stocky” humanoid disembarked. Then a beam of light was directed at the colonel, who was instantly paralyzed. The security team >, During the 1980s, Stringfield published several monographs privately on his research. The following accounts are taken from his article, “Retrievals of the Third Kind,” published in two parts in the MUFON UFO Journal, July and August 1978. 76 Sociological Implications of Disclosure fired on the aliens, but their weapons jammed. The colonel was hospitalized and could only recall the event in terms of mathematics, as though an attempt of communication was conducted in this manner. The UFO retreated to its parent craft and left. Stringfield successfully confirmed the existence of the general, and also obtained “additional corroborative” information about this incident. 6. A person who contacted Stringfield about a crash retrieval in 1978. Stringfield’s book, said the man, “convinced me that I should tell my story to you about a UFO that landed or had maybe crashed at Ft. Riley, Kansas.” Stringfield determined this occurred on December 10, 1964. He also checked with “an intelligence source who was ‘aware’ of the incident.” 7. Stringfield’s son-in-law informed him that he had spoken with a person who had witnessed alien humanoids at Wright Patterson AFB in 1966. Stringfield met with this man, who formerly served in military intelligence. The man claimed to have seen nine deceased aliens preserved in deep freeze conditions. They were about four feet tall. The man had been told there was a total of 30 alien bodies at the base. While he did not see a craft, he was told this was there, too. He told Stringfield that “at certain military bases, highly trained mobile units were in a constant ‘ready’ state for dispatch to any area in the USA to recover downed or crashed UFOs.” Also, “since 1948, secret information concerning UFO activity involving the US military has been contained in a computer center at Wright-Patterson. At this base, a master file, written in computer language, is maintained, with duplicate support backup files secreted at other military installations.” And so on. Stringfield collected many of these. Others have spoken out, as well. A statement by Canadian government official and engineer, Wilbert Smith, of conversations with top American scientists about the reality of crash retrievals and alien beings, and confirmation of this information many years later (in 1983) by Dr. Robert Sarbacher. Sarbacher conceded that yes, he had been peripherally involved in such a government program to study this technology, and named more names (Vannevar Bush, Robert Oppenheimer). He stated that “certain materials reported to have come from flying saucer crashes were extremely light and very tough. I am sure our laboratories analyzed them very carefully.” He also repeated the scuttlebutt that these aliens seemed to be insect-like in their physical structure.” There are several statements from the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater. In addition to having been the Republican Party’s nominee for the Presidency in 1964, Goldwater was a General in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, and a friend of former Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay. Nevertheless, he was repeatedly rebuffed in his attempts to gain > Sarbacher, Robert. Private letter to William Steinman, 29 November 1983. 77 h è l l p i 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference access to the so-called Blue Room at Wright-Patterson AFB, where alien bodies were rumored to be. Writing in 1975, he stated: “About ten or twelve years ago 1 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 Secreta Six years later, Goldwater wrote in another letter that “this thing has gotten so highly classified, even though I will admit there is a lot of it that has been released, it is just impossible to get anything on it.” The “lot of it” was a reference to the then-recent flurry of government UFO documents released through the Freedom of Information Act. Even so, according to Goldwater, the important information remained unavailable even to him. ° Then there are the statements of the former head of Lockheed Skunkworks, Ben Rich. Skunkworks, of course, was and remains among the most elite of all aerospace organizations in the world. In July 1985, Rich wrote a handwritten note in reply to a question by John Andrews, a friend and associate of his. Indeed, Andrews was one of Lockheed’s leading engineers, and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation. Andrews wrote to Rich, “The topic is UFO. I ‘believe’ there are /ofs of UFOs. I am also tending to ‘believe’ they are of 2 categories: A. Manmade UFOs. B. Extraterrestrial UFOs. I believe with certainty in manmade UFOs. I am zending to believe there are also extraterrestrial UFOs. Having the highest respect for both you and Kelly [Johnson], Pd appreciate knowing if your belief covers Category B as well as the obvious Category A of the above? Purpose of question? Precision.” Andrews’ letter continued with a very interesting statement. “Dr. Sarbacher’s response was without question a statement of his belief in Category B. Do you also include Category B, Ben?” The reference to Sarbacher is very interesting, as it was less than two years since Sarbacher wrote his letter verifying — not merely reporting as personal belief — certain aspects of an alien technology research program. Word certainly got around quickly within the aviation and aerospace community. Rich’s reply was relatively short, and slightly vague, but nonetheless suggestive. “Yes,” he wrote to Andrews, “I’m a believer in both categories. I feel everything is possible. Many of our man made UFOs are Un Funded Opportunities. In both categories, there are a lot of books and charlatans. Be careful.” 7 Now, it could very well be that Ben Rich truly was expressing only belief, not knowledge, that “both” categories were real. On the other hand, it is at least conceivable that he would not wish to make such statements so nakedly in a signed letter. Caution, circumspection, and deniability are never far from one’s mind in circles such as those © Goldwater, Barry. Private letters dated 28 March 1975, 11 April 1979, and 19 October 1981. 7 Andrews, John. Private letter dated 10 July 1986; Rich, Ben, Private letter dated 21 July 1986. 78 EE EEE Sociological Implications of Disclosure —— EE ee occupied by Ben Rich. He clearly was familiar with Sarbacher’s statement. Andrews’ question to him was about as point-blank as could be, but Rich did not back away. The reference to “Un Funded Opportunities” is also interesting. Is this a wink at crash retrievals, or some form of technological “freebie”? Fight years later, in 1993, Rich spoke at the UCLA School of Engineering Alumni Association. According to one of the attendees, IBM executive (and MUFON member) Jan Harzan, Rich gave a fairly standard history of Skunkworks, but ended his presentation with the captivating statement: “We now have the technology to take ET home.” Amazingly, there are always people who lack any real curiosity about their world, and these people promptly filed out of the room. A few, including Harzan, stayed behind. They asked Rich if he would expand on his statement, and according to Harzan, his verbatim statements were as follows: “We now know how to travel to the stars.... There is an error in the equations, and we have figured it out, and now know how to travel to the stars and it won't take a lifetime to do it.... It is time to end all the secrecy on this as it no longer poses a national security threat and make the technology available for use in the private sector.” The last statement (a close paraphrase, according to Harzan): “There are many in the intelligence community who would like to see this stay in the Black and not see the light of day.” Incidentally, according to aviation journalist Nick Cook, from his book, The Hunt for Zero Point, Ben Rich once told him of a place where ideas that were too dangerous to transpose into hardware were locked away forever, like the Ark of the Covenant in the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Is this a hint at acquired crash retrieval technology? Of course, Apollo 14 astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, has on several occasions spoken publicly in this vein, most recently to my knowledge at a conference in Roswell in July 2004. Specifically, Mitchell — the sixth man to walk on the Moon — has said that two very elite individuals within the national defense community have confirmed to him the existence of a deep black program (or perhaps it is several programs), the purpose of which is to study alien technology and bodies. These sources came to him independently of each other, and are well known to him. One, indeed, was charged with overseeing deep black research and development programs, and apparently stumbled somehow into the alien-related program. Annoyed — as he felt this should have fallen under his direction, too — he eventually received the reply, in effect, that he did not have a need to know.’ Taken individually, statements from people like Ben Rich, Barry Goldwater, Edgar Mitchell, or any of Leonard Stringfield’s sources, might be dismissed, or at best kept in one’s “gray basket,” in a kind of intellectual limbo untl further confirmation is received. But it is : Harzan, Jan. Personal statement. ? Dr. Mitchell’s claims have been made several times over a number of years. See Cox, Billy, “Apollo 14 astronaut searches for the truth,” in Florida Today, 12 January 1996; also [no author citation] “Astronaut Mitchell Calls for Government to Acknowledge UFO Coverup,” MUFON UFO Journal, 11/98; Moore, Waveney Ann. “Astronaut: We've had Visitors,” St Petersburg Times, 18 February 2004. Also, public statement on 3 July 2004 in Roswell, New Mexico, attended by the author. 79 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference hard to deny their cumulative power, in particular when judging the quality of the men making these statements. Enough smoke is appearing; where is the fire? Testing, 1-2-3 Apparently it is in southern California and across the wastes of Nevada; indeed most likely many other places, too. Of course, the claims of Robert Lazar in 1989 of alien “back engineered” technology at places like S-4, near Area 51, were the first to receive public attention. Amazingly, after nearly twenty years, there remains a strong public debate among UFO researchers on the validity of his claims. Lazar has been called everything imaginable, ranging from American Hero to outright fraud. We should keep in mind, however, that Lazar was neither the first nor the last to have made such claims. For instance, we have the statements of James Goodall, an aviation journalist who has written several books on black-world technology, as well as articles for such publications as Jane's Defense Weekly, Aviation Weekly > Space Technology, and Interavia. Throughout the 1980s, Goodall conducted many direct interviews with “insiders” regarding programs at Nevada’s Groom Lake Facility. According to Goodall at that time, there were at least 8 black programs there, not counting the B-2 or other conventional-types of aircraft. At least two of these were very high speed aircraft being reported since at least 1982. One of these was small and extremely fast — Mach 4 to Mach 6. Another was very large, and since 1986 was tracked multiple times by the Federal Aviation Administration flying through controlled air space at speeds as high as 10,000 mph. Another craft at Groom Lake was a stealth, low electronic observable flying triangle, designed to fly very high, very slowly, and quietly. Then, during the early 1990s, at southern California’s Plant 42 (a government owned and contractor- operated facility with many production sites for very advanced aircraft), sightings of silent triangular aircraft began to be reported. These triangles were being launched from there. One of Goodall’s contacts had over a decade of experience at Groom Lake. During the mid-1980s, Goodall asked him, “Do you believe in UFOs?” The answer: “Absolutely, positively, they do exist.” When asked if he could expand on that, the source replied that he could not. Yet, a year later, he confided to Goodall that “we have things in the Nevada desert that would make George Lucas envious.” But he would not be able to tell all until 2025 (about 40 years later!) Another of Goodall’s informants, a Chief Master Sergeant with three tours at Groom Lake, told him during the mid-1980s that “We have things out there that are literally out of this world.... Better than Star Trek or anything you can see in the movies.” He would not expand on this statement.” 10 Goodall statement from “UFOs and Area 51: Secrets of the Black World,” film by Michael Hesemann (1994) 80 Sociological Implications of Disclosure A great deal of alleged insider testimonies have reached the world via other researchers and journalists: George Knapp, Norio Hayakawa, William Hamilton, and many others. This testimony suggests there is a great deal of very advanced aviation technology not only at the famous Groom Lake Facility in southern Nevada, but also in Southern California’s Antelope Valley, dubbed by some “Aviation Valley” for its heavy concentration of military and defense contractor facilities. Near the towns of Rosamond, Palmdale, and Lancaster are three mysterious underground facilities, operated as early as the 1980s by Northrop, Lockheed, and McDonnell Douglas. The Northrop facility is located near the Tehachapi Mountains. There are rumors that it goes down as many as 42 levels, and that there are tunnels linking it with other underground facilities in the area. There have been many reports of strange flying objects in the vicinity, of many shapes and sizes: spherical, triangular, elongated, boomerang, disk shaped, small and large in size. This facility has “runways” that are not used by any actual aircraft, with diamond shape openings through which huge pylons with strangely shaped objects mounted on them are raised to the surface. These objects sometimes resemble elongated disks or flying saucers and have been seen to glow and change colors. Glowing spheres have also been seen by people in the area at night. The nature and function of the spheres is not known. Similar descriptions apply to the McDonnell Douglas facility (located northeast of Llano, California) and the Lockheed installation (just north of Helendale, California) The Lockheed facility in particular also has an obvious underground entrance." There is something odd and unacknowledged that has long been going on at places like these. Indeed, at Norton Air Force base, also located in Southern California, up to four people claim to have seen an “Alien Reproduction Vehicle” in an enormous hanger, on November 12, 1988. These claims were made on a call-in radio show, and one of these individuals, Mark McCandlish, has given his testimony to the Disclosure Project, headed by Dr. Steven Greer. According to McCandlish, a science writer, his friend Brad Sorensen was attending an air show at Norton Air Force Base that day. Sorensen attended with an exceedingly well-connected friend — an individual who once held a very senior position in the U.S. Department of Defense, apparently at or near the top (it has been speculated that this is former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci). The friend told Sorensen to “follow me,” and they walked to an airfield away from the crowds. They arrived at an enormous hanger, were brought inside, where a private exhibit was at the same time being held for politicians and military personnel with sufficient clearance. They saw many highly advanced aircraft, including one of the B-2 prototypes and the Lockheed Pulsar, nicknamed “Aurora.” Behind a black curtain that divided the hangar was something even more exotic. Sorensen gave McCandlish a very explicit description of what he saw: “three flying saucers floating off the floor — no cables suspended them from the ceiling holding them up, no landing gear underneath — just floating, hovering above the floor.” There were small exhibits 11 Sauder, Richard. Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide? Adventures Unlimited Press, 1995, p. 67-68. 8] 3'°¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference with videotape running, showing one of the vehicles in the desert, making short, quick, hopping motions, and then accelerating straight up and out of sight in complete silence. Again, the year of the Norton Air Force Base demonstration was 1988." A Theory of Political Crisis and Disclosure There can be little question that significant new technology has been developed for several decades now, and which continues to remain unacknowledged officially. As discussed above, there are good reasons for concluding that this is connected to programs charged with studying recovered alien technology. In the absence of confirmation from the established structures of power, the gap between official and unofficial reality will only widen. Yet, history shows us that change is inevitable, even in the field of UFOs, even in the realm of government disclosure. There is a discernable pattern across nations over the past many decades relating to major political crises/transition periods and the release of ufologically sensitive information. In the United States, the continuing crisis of Watergate and years of social strife over Vietnam and civil rights led to a definite public mood that the executive branch of government needed to be reigned in. In 1974, Congress drove the President from office. Soon after, it reopened the investigations on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, then held hearings on excesses of the CIA. An important part of this flurry of populist activism was the strengthening of the Freedom of Information Act, which enabled citizens to demand and obtain critical information on a wide range of important government activities that had hitherto been beyond public oversight. Almost immediately, key UFO documents began to be released into the public domain. Although the initial hope of UFO researchers that this would lead to the crashing of secrecy’s wall did not materialize, there is no question that the release of these documents has made an important difference in helping us to reclaim our lost history. Other national crises have similarly led to the release of substantial amounts of UFO documentation. The death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 led within a year to the release of several hundred Spanish military UFO reports. The death of Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1976 led to the release of many previously concealed UFO reports, and also led directly to the birth of China’s large and sophisticated UFO research community. Most spectacularly, the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s and early 1990s led to the release of a great deal of openness regarding UFO information, including much that related directly to the Soviet military. The United States in the early 21" century is poised for a similar political crisis. Widespread public discontent over foreign wars revealed to have been based upon a fig leaf fe Greer, Stephen M., Md. Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History. Prepublication Rush Edition, 2001, Carden Jennings Publishing Co., p. 497-510. 82 Sociological Implications of Disclosure of lies, fiscally ruinous policies resulting from same, the decades-long export of the U.S. labor force to nations abroad, the increasing likelihood that the petroleum crisis is something structurally serious and not simply a war spike, and the spreading realization that the U.S. government has been transforming into something very different from the democratic, republican form of government people thought they had. It will now take only a sufficient spark to set the town ablaze. During periods of great change and uncertainty, dangers and opportunities arise together. What ufologically significant revelations await us? What will be our dangers and opportunities? Effects of Disclosure The secret keepers have very little maneuvering room. The discrepancy between the official and the real is so large that a “correction” could easily be violent, in both the figurative and literal sense of the word. A limited release of information seems out of the question. If you admit to the black- world technology programs, you would have a very hard time holding back the admission of an alien presence — since it certainly appears that the one has derived at least in part from the other. The smallest of openings could quickly widen to something in which it would be impossible to predict the outcome. When one considers the likelihood that the UFO technology program has probably been going for generations, and that select groups have achieved obscene profits derived from their convenient access to such technology and research; when one considers the likelihood that black research into this field could well be connected (in spades) to illegal sources of funding (e.g. narcotics trafficking, weapons trafficking, securities fraud); when one considers that ¿f some UFOs are indeed alien, shen quite possibly some alleged alien abductions are real; when one considers that there may be a genuine replacement for petroleum as a source of energy for the world economy; then a range of possibilities arises that is too great for any single prognosticator. Except to say that, the proverbial shit will hit the fan. There is one consideration I confess I have underplayed for many years, which Pve lately been thinking about. This concerns the possibility of public panic. I don’t think the secret-keepers are especially concerned over most of us will jump out of tall buildings in fright; but certainly they are concerned over the political and social ramifications of such panic. A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a woman at a local public library; a mom out with her kids, just as I was out with mine. We chatted about our careers, and I told her what I write about. Her interest in the topic of UFOs was strong, but primarily as a kind of intellectual exercise. After a few minutes of discussion, she began to realize that I seriously believed in the likelihood of non-humans — that is, a/ens — existing down here on Earth. This caused her, possibly for the first time, to consider that all this might in fact be real. She 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference wanted to stop the conversation altogether. She asked me, “why do you think it’s a good idea to tell the public? Why frighten people?” Because she was clearly frightened. I’m not sure my answer gave her any comfort: “Because truth has its own value; and because l cannot believe that a society based on a foundational lie can be a good thing.” I don’t think that meant much to her. ] then added, “and because there could well be answers in the UFO phenomenon that can help us crawl out of our current, insane, plunge into the mess that we are obviously crawling into.” That resonated perhaps a little bit more, though I have to wonder how much. The fact is the idea of aliens here on Earth scared her, and such fear is probably a strong factor in the resistance that many people have to the whole topic of UFOs. Yet, I maintain that while fear would be real, at least in the early stages following an official disclosure, it would also be temporary. Big things take ume to settle in, and this is very big. Eventually, critical faculties would return. When that happens, watch out. The final question, 1 suppose, is, “what will bey add to the mix?” That is, while disclosure has the potential to reveal the criminal nature of humanity’s power structure for what it is, how would the aliens themselves change our world, once they were acknowledged? Some believe they know this answer, but I am not one of them. I do not believe that the path toward uncovering the truth is served by unprovable or unfalsifiable assertions, which is what all such claims about alien intentions happens to be. We can put as many pieces together and give ourselves a good idea of what things look like, but we are fools if we conclude that we therefore have knowledge. Let us be strong enough to be comfortable with uncertainty. 84 Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs Peter Robbins Copyright 2005 Peter Robbins All of Wilhelm Reich’s many books begin with this particular quotation: “Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our Life. They should also govern it.” This lecture is dedicated to living that idea. It is fair to say that the past century saw more scientific advances than any preceding it. But perhaps its most important single, unified body of scientific knowledge remains its most controversial. The common functioning principle unifying this science, which its pioneering founder, Dr. Wilhelm Reich, named orgonomy, is the study of how energy functions in the living and the non-living realms. Orgonomy offers us groundbreaking applications in fields as diverse as biology, psychology, meteorology, cancer research, sociology, human sexuality, child rearing, political science and ufology, among other areas of study. But orgonomy was not well received into the times it was born. Some of its key findings challenged the basic precepts and physical laws our existing scientific order is built upon, while its bio-energetically based critique of mystical and mechanical thinking would have made it anathema to the majority of people in Western culture. So, it should not surprise anyone to learn that orgonomy has been ignored, distorted, attacked and confounded since it was first codified, by both the scientific mainstream and by establishment thinking. The perceived threat it represented was so pronounced during the Eisenhower Administration, that more than eight tons of Reich’s hardcover books, monographs and other original literature were consigned to government incinerators because bureaucrats at the Federal Drug Administration had targeted him as a medical fraud. This, to the best of our knowledge, without ever having attempted to replicate any of his published experiments — the prevailing thinking being: Why bother? He was a “quack.” During his lifetime Dr. Wilhelm Reich was the target of attacks from both the right and the left; but his work and his findings were especially reviled by uncomprehending liberals, communists and active Soviet agents, who more than understood the danger his work represented to their cause, especially as articulated in such books as The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Reich’s blasts at Soviet-style communism have often been dismissed as the paranoid delusions of a great mind finally unhinged, but we can confirm that such observations were hyper accurate, and some even prophetic. But it was Reich’s acceptance of UFOs as a physical reality that dealt his professional reputation its most stunning blow. When you study the progression of his scientific work and thinking, it becomes obvious that his investigation into the phenomenon was merely the logical extension of a common functioning principle that had guided him throughout his 3'¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference almost forty years in professional life; that is, how energy functions in the living and non- living realm. Nonetheless, one of ufology’s most significant chapters continues to remain one of its least known: in the early nineteen fifties Reich developed the cloud-buster, a simple yet effective apparatus which, when properly employed, was capable of altering weather patterns in the surrounding atmosphere. More, some of these weather modification operations attracted UFOs - first over southern Maine in 1953, then above Arizona in 1954. On December 14 of that year, this series of cloud-busting operations culminated in what can only be characterized as a “battle” in the skies over Tucson. Wild as these allegations may sound, they were well documented and multiple-witnessed. What were the scientific dynamics that allowed such a deceptively simple apparatus to alter entire weather fronts? And why did this activity seem to attract the appearance of UFOs? What were the documented specifics of his contacts with the United States Air Force, and of his relationship with Albert Einstein? Is there any reason to suspect that MJ-12 was aware of — or interested in — Reich’s work? And are there any realistic reasons to suspect foul play in his death? This paper draws from a number of printed, archival and human sources (all noted), including correspondence with A.S. Neil and Albert Einstein; Reich’s final book, Contact With Space; and Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War, by my friend and colleague Jim Martin, who is also founder of Flatland Books. I am also indebted to Reich biographer Dr. Myron Scharaf, and to Reich’s long-time first assistant, Dr. Elsworth F. Baker, for having taken the time and for having had the patience to answer many of my questions. Jerome Eden was an author, educator and ufologist, and used to refer to UFOs as the idiot child of the media. If this characterization is accurate, and many of us would maintain that it is, then I respectfully submit that the truth about Dr. Reich’s UFO-related observations, findings and conclusions are the idiot child of ufology. The intention of this paper is to help familiarize the reader with the specifics of this remarkable episode in Post- War History. To best appreciate this account, however, it is important that we view it in some context. More, that we have a basic understanding of how Reich came to arrive at that quietly historic moment in 1953 when he first pointed a series of long metal pipes at an unknown object high above his rural Maine property and observed that the object reacted as a direct result, then upon re-aiming, react again, and again. Background Wilhelm Reich was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1897. His father was a stern government bureaucrat, his artistic mother, was a piano teacher. “Willi” and his brother Robert grew up on the family’s rural estate observing nature and natural-functioning first hand on a daily basis; and both received educations from private tutors. In 1914, the Balkans erupted in flames, and over the next four years World War One swept the empire and the 86 Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs rest of old Europe into oblivion. Reich served with distinction as an artillery officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army until war’s end. With all of the family’s property and holdings vaporized in the empire’s defeat, Reich made his way to Vienna where he enrolled medical school, supporting himself as a tutor for the duration of his studies. Reich was drawn to Vienna in part because of his intense interest in the pioneering work of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Following his graduation from medical school he became a pupil of Freud’s, then went on to work as Freud’s assistant for the next six years. They parted ways in 1929 when Reich, after much clinical work and observation in the early psychoanalyuc tradition, presented case findings to Freud supporting his view that literally all human neurosis were, at the deepest levels, rooted in some form of sexual dysfunction, a radical notion for Victorian Vienna and mental health professionals of the 1920s. Freud and his followers believed that many neuroses had a sexual basis, but certainly not all of them. Reich’s radical view that the social problems of individuals and governments were caught up in the dynamics of sexual repression estranged him from his analyst colleagues. Reich’s departure from the Freudian ranks created a backlash of resentment and the origin of the myth of his mental instability. After all, why else would he have split with the great Freud? The rumormongering and the innuendo begun by former psychoanalytic colleagues would follow him for the remainder of his life. It was about 1927 when Reich first became involved with the Austrian Communist Party, his intention being to marry the revolutionary mission of their already-existing mental health clinics to those of healthy sexual functioning for workers. Here, responsible sex- education and contraceptives were freely disseminated. The popularity of these “Sexpol” (sex/politics) clinics extended into Germany and then the Soviet Union, and, for a time, they were allowed to thrive. Much to the disappointment and upset of the communists, however, sexually healthy workers and party members tended to put their personal happiness and goals above those of the party, a travesty that could not be allowed to stand: by 1934 Reich had been expelled from the Communist Party, their rationale for his expulsion being that, yes, the once-brilliant young scientist was now manifesting symptoms of insanity. The essence of his alleged mental illness is reflected in this obviously unhinged statement: “This is what 1 am fighting for: the prevention of emotional human misery by the establishment of a normal and natural - that is, orgastically satisfying - human life in the masses of people.” To any group or individual intent on controlling the lives and thoughts of others, these are the words of a truly dangerous man. The party never forgave him this travesty and efforts to damage his reputation and impugn his work became commonplace from 1934 on. Later that year, Reich immigrated to Scandinavia. Here he continued with his experiments and therapeutic practice with a core group of colleagues, devoting much of his experimental work and study to the dynamics of cancer formation. His outstanding books The Impulsive Character, Character Analysis, People In Trouble, The Mass Psychology of Fascism and The Cancer Biopathy all came out of this period. Reich immigrated to the United States in 1939 and was invited to join the faculty of New York City’s New School for Social Research the 87 a ie T a daai 3'¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference following year. He settled in Forest Hills, a then-quiet district in the Borough of Queens where he went into private practice, wrote, and refined his character analytic therapy, or medical orgone therapy as it became known. Energetic functioning in people was now his primary interest and his key efforts were directed toward dissolving the chronic muscular contractions of his patients: this human “armoring” served to block natural feeling and hold neurotic behavior in place. The Orgone Energy Accumulator It was during this time that he discovered the specifically biological energy that he called orgone, and a deceptively simple therapeutic and experimental device that could concentrate the energy and allow it to be measured in a laboratory setting. He named it the orgone energy accumulator, or ORAC. Thinking individuals in many cultures had long pondered this energy. Early Hindu texts referred to it as the “Prana,” while Victorians named it the “ether,” but the former tended to mystify the concept while the latter mechanized it. The size of the accumulators Reich and his associates constructed over the years varied, from that of a small box up to a large room. However, the ORAC most people are familiar with was designed to hold a single person and was about the size of a small phone booth. A properly constructed accumulator is made up of alternating layers of organic and inorganic material; steel wool and fiberboard were found to be ideal for the purpose. The non-metallic (organic) material tends to attract and hold the atmospheric energy, while the metal (inorganic) also attracts the energy, but unable to absorb it, rapidly reflects the energy. Simply put, the accumulator works on the basis of what Reich termed the orgonomic potential. That is, unlike the conventional energy systems we are accustomed to thinking in terms of, i.e.: electromagnetic energy moves from the stronger system (the source) to the weaker — orgone energy flows from the weaker system to the stronger one. Sitting in an accumulator has a most perceivable result for many, including myself. The weaker energy field radiating from the inner layer (organic) is drawn to the stronger field of the individual inside. The flow of the field is experienced as a warming or tingling sensation. An individual with a naturally high energetic charge may begin to feel uncomfortable fairly quickly, possibly experiencing some dizziness, or the sensation of some pressure in the head. Any such feelings quickly dissipate when you exit. A person with a low energy charge, however, can remain in an accumulator much longer while feeling little if any difference. The number of layers used in the device’s construction contributes to its relative power; the more layers, the higher the energetic potential. Depending on the person, effects can be felt within a few minutes. A small accumulator can be used to germinate plant seeds at an accelerated rate while a slightly modified version speeds the healing time of wounds and burns. I speak here from many well-documented user and investigative accounts, as well as from personal experience. Therapeutically, sitting in an ORAC has an expansive effect on the organism, especially in terms of the blood vessels. It also increases the bio-energetic level of the person 88 Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs undergoing the experience by charging the tissues and the blood. There is no set or prescribed length of time for its use, though fifteen minutes to half an hour once or twice a day is not an unusual routine. Reich persevered with experiments designed to isolate and confirm the reality of orgone energy, but, aware of the controversy the announcement of such a discovery might create, he continued to verify his findings without fanfare or public acknowledgement. One of the experiments was calculated to measure the heat inside an ORAC and compare it with the temperature inside a control box. The experiment was named To-T (T oh minus T). Reich and his colleagues observed that a change in the atmosphere would alter the temperature differential, and To-T is a reliable predictor of changes in the weather. If there is a conventional explanation for this temperature differential, one that can be demonstrated under laboratory conditions, I am not aware of it. The Einstein Affair In late December 1940, Reich sent a carefully worded letter about his work to Albert Einstein. The letter, written in German, said, in part: “Several years ago I discovered a specific biological energy which in many ways behaves differently from anything that is known about electromagnetic energy. The matter is too complicated and sounds too improbable to be explained clearly in a brief letter. I can only indicate that I have evidence that the energy, which I have called orgone, exists not only in living organisms, but also in the soil and in the atmosphere; it is visible and can be concentrated and measured (emphasis his), and I am using it with some success in research on cancer therapy.” The physicist responded by letter six days later, apparently intrigued enough to invite Reich to demonstrate the existence of this energy in person. The meeting was arranged through Einstein’s secretary-assistant, Helen Dukas, and set for January 13, 1941. The two men met for more than four hours that afternoon to discuss Reich’s work and findings. He had brought several experimental devices with him to demonstrate his findings, and Einstein observed the glowing orgone energy for himself through a laboratory apparatus designed for that purpose. Seemingly unwilling to believe his own eyes, the great physicist acknowledged the decided glow, but refused to rule out what he described as “the subjective element.” It was toward the end of their meeting that Reich told Einstein of the measurable heat created inside the ORAC. Conversation then shifted to the implications of such a discovery, something not lost on either scientist. Reich noted in his diary that Einstein’s reaction had been: “That is impossible. Should this be true, it would be a great bomb (to physics).” An understandable reaction, given that the heat differential that had been repeatedly observed by Reich and his assistants during To-T violated the Second Law of Thermodynamics — that is, that equal volumes tend to equalize in temperature. In anticipation of the meeting Reich had noted in his diary: “Orgone constitutes the ‘field’ that Einstein is searching for. Electricity, magnetism, gravitation, etc., depend on its functions.” 89 3d Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Einstein wanted to verify this temperature differential for himself, and Reich returned to Princeton the following week to deliver the necessary equipment. We do not know what Einstein wrote about this meeting, or about Reich. Author Jim Martin noted that Einstein’s archives never responded to any of his information requests, making them the only archive to ignore a research inquiry during the preparation of his book, W/helw Reich and the Cold War. It is fair to say that in 1941 Albert Einstein was the best-known scientist in the world; he had been so since his Theory of General Relativity first began to make worldwide scientific news in 1919. Einstein arrived in America from Germany in 1933, along with his assistant and secretary Helen Dukas. While the FBI was aware of the physicist’s left-leaning sympathies, they strongly suspected Ms. Dukas of being an active asset of Soviet intelligence since at least 1929. Both Ms. Dukas and Dr. Einstein were put under fairly close observation by the FBI from the time that they entered this country. (The FBI would soon begin to build a huge file on Reich as well). Surveillance increased following his joining other physicists in signing a secret letter dated December 30, 1940 advising President Roosevelt to authorize development of an atomic bomb project, this as the Germans might be moving ahead on just such a venture (they were). Einstein spent a week conducting and studying To-T, and on February 7 wrote Reich that he had confirmed (and reconfirmed) that the accumulator registered an average 0.3-0.4 degree temperature (centigrade) higher than the control box, confirming Reich’s assertion, and the observations of numerous others of the past sixty years. But then one of Einstein’s assistants offered a simple explanation. The differential was caused by “convection” - that is, the difference berween the air temperatures under and above the table the accumulator had been placed on: Einstein had set one box on a table and suspended another in the air. He closed the letter, “I hope this (explanation) will awaken your sense of skepticism, so that you will not allow yourself to be deceived by an illusion that can be easily explained. Please have someone pick up your instruments, since they are of some value. They are undamaged. With friendly greetings, A. Einstein.” Stung, Reich wrote back imploring Einstein to re-conduct the experiment, but this time following the strict protocols devised to eliminate such a false explanation. Reich even describes his having repeatedly and successfully conducting To-T with both boxes buried underground, thus eliminating any possibility of “convection,” but Einstein would hear none of it. Reich thought it as memorable that Einstein had been so willing to accept the first rationale that had come along, as his expressing no interest in re-conducting the experiment under more controlled conditions. The letter ended with a moving plea for some respect and consideration, but no direct response was ever forthcoming. We do not know if Einstein even saw this letter: at the time, all of his mail would have been screened by Helen Dukas, who may have had her own reasons for not wanting Einstein to confirm Reich’s findings. Letters from Reich and his colleagues, and Einstein and his assistants continued to change hands over the next few years, but no resolve was ever achieved. 90 — -rra BEER ERE ont EE eee Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs Jim Martin writes in IVi/belm Reich and the Cold War. “Reich’s letter to Einstein in response to ‘convection’ is the most eloquent example of scientific dialogue I have ever read. Indeed, Reich’s description of the issues involved, the experimental protocols to test the objection, and the design of new experiments to shed light on the question, so inspired me when I first read The Einstein Affair that I set up the experiment at home. I confirmed the basic fact, for myself, and have sought a rational explanation that fit into established physical science, without success. Like so many of Reich’s discoveries, this has been completely ignored, but never experimentally refuted.” Anyone interested in learning more about this equally compelling and frustrating footnote to the scientific history of the Twentieth Century can secure a copy of The Einstein Affair from the Wilhelm Reich Museum bookstore in Rangeley, Maine. The publication, which contains the complete Reich-Einstein correspondence, includes all the protocols necessary for conducting the To-T experiment; it is written in a manner that will allow any interested layperson to conduct the experiment for his or herself. Mrs. Brady and the FDA The Federal Drug Administration began to build its case against Reich in 1947. The red flag that alerted them to the danger Reich and his work posed to the American people was an extraordinarily vicious smear article written by a far-left-leaning journalist, Mildred Edie Brady. The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich appeared in the May 26, issue of The New Republic, other biased and distorted articles followed. Time Magagine’s offering was entitled The Marvelous Sex Box. Brady’s article was a masterpiece of distortion that attacked Reich’s “sex racket;” while trumpeting an out-and-out lie - namely, that he had stated the orgone accumulator was a cure-all. Mrs. Brady was not your routine freelancer; she was, among other things, a respected member of the drug regulation elite and actively helped to create FDA legislation as early as 1938. She was also a founder of Consumers Union, a communist- dominated organization that had broken away from Consumers Research, Inc. in 1935. Brady was also professionally associated with one of Reich’s lawyers: Arthur Garfield Hays was a Sponsor of Consumers Union. Former Consumers Research board member, J.B. Matthews, wrote that in the nineteen thirties Hays was known to support the Communist Party via its “united front” organizations. Reich was unaware of his attorney’s politics, and of his association with Mrs. Brady. There is no question that The New Republic article was clearly libelous, and Reich instructed Hays to initiate libel action against Mrs. Brady and the magazine. His medical colleagues agreed and likewise wrote to Brady in support of Reich’s decision. Incredibly, Hays talked his client out of pressing the action, and the scientist, unfortunately, took his counselor’s advice. This proved to be a crucial misstep and other scurrilous articles followed over the years that the FDA quietly went about building its case. Hays never told Reich that he knew and worked with Brady, but in an equally pronounced travesty of justice, one of 91 3d Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Reich’s other lawyers, Peter Mills, would go on to become the prosecuting attorney when Reich finally came to trial. But there were greater factors at play here as well. Jim Martin’s tenacious investigative scholarship has established that The New Republic's owner, Michael Straight, was deeply connected to the members of the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring, and a legal action against Brady and the publication might well have put Straight on the stand. With Hays successfully convincing Reich to waive any legal action, a trial-based opportunity to reveal the degree to which Soviet intelligence had penetrated British intelligence was lost. Wilhelm Reich and UFOs ”What do they want for Proof? There is no proof. There are no authorities whatsoever. No president, no academy, court of law, congress or senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying to prove something that is unknown to someone who is ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power. Only the good, old rules of learning will eventually bring about understanding of what has invaded our earthly existence.” Wilhelm Reich: Contact With Space Reich moved from New York to an area just outside the town of Rangeley in rural southern Maine in the early nineteen fifties. Here he built a new home and laboratory personally designed to integrate home and laboratory into a single, brilliantly practical building, now the home of the Wilhelm Reich Museum. Another laboratory was added soon after for students. This structure was the setting for the so-called Oranur Experiment, a chilling example of the accumulator’s undeniable ability to concentrate energy. The experiment called for the placing of a very small amount of radium in an accumulator, the unexpected result of which was to toxify a surprisingly large area of southern Maine surrounding his home and laboratory, one that took several months to dissipate. And so we come to it: Reich’s interest in UFOs dates from 1953. Why did he become interested in them, and how did he arrive at his conclusions concerning them? Until 1953 there is no written or anecdotal indication that he had paid any attention to all the publicity surrounding “flying saucers,” even when, in 1952, some visitors to his home and laboratory reported seeing shining objects in the sky that were decidedly not stars. In November 1953, though, he read one of the best books available on the subject at the time, Fhing Saucers from Outer Space. The author, a retired Marine Corps Major named Donald Keyhoe, was a highly respected and decorated World War II fighter pilot and pioneered much of the basis for modern scientific UFO studies. Reich’s writings indicate he was intrigued by Keyhoe’s observation that the maneuverability, speed and silence of the unknowns repeatedly defied conventional laws of mechanical flight. At the time, Reich wrote: “I had not studied anything 92 Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs on the subject: I knew practically nothing about it. But my mind, used to expecting surprises in natural research, was open to anything that seemed real.” Keyhoe’s book was followed by E. J. Ruppelt’s book: The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Ruppelt was a retired USAF Captain who had headed the Air Force’s ongoing UFO record-keeping (and public relations) program, Project Blue Book, and his book prompted Reich to note: “The Ruppelt Report on UFOs clearly reveals the helplessness of mechanistic method in coming to grips with the problems posed by the spacemen. The cosmic orgone energy, which these living beings are using in their technology, is beyond the grasp of mechanistic science since cosmic laws of functioning are not mechanical but what I term ‘functional.’ The helplessness of mechanical thinking appears in the tragic shortcoming of our fastest fighter jets to make and hold contact with UFOs. Being unavoidably outdistanced is not a flattering situation for military pride. The conclusion seems correct: Mechanistic methods of locomotion must be counted out in coping with the spaceship problem.” One night as he sat on the steps outside his home in Maine, something flashed by at great speed, its behavior not suggestive of a comet, meteorite, or shooting star. Reich reported the sighting to the Air Force Base at Presque Island, Maine; it was the first of many sighting reports he would forward to the Air Force. Following his report, he was asked to fill out an official questionnaire. In March 1954, Reich sent a copy of his survey on UFOs to the Air Force. The survey was actually a manuscript detailing his theoretical conclusions of them as spacecraft. The questionnaire came out of AFR 200-2, the Air Force’s regulation regarding the reporting of UFOs that had gone into effect in August of that year. Reich had filled out copies of the form following a number of sightings. His daughter, Dr. Eva Reich, now a retired physician living in Maine, recalled that: “The interest of the Air Force in UFOs was being totally suppressed at that time. When you reported a UFO, they came to you with this questionnaire, and told you it was secret, and had you fill it out. Then they took it away; what happened with it, nobody knows. When Reich published the questionnaire in Contact With Space, he revealed a big secret.” Basic to this scientist’s understanding of the universe was the pervasive presence of energy (which he termed orgone energy), implying the possibility of life in space. At this ime his questioning encompassed the galactic currents, the formation and destruction of star systems, and the origin of the universe itself. Along with his deepening involvement in cloud-busting, Reich now began a careful examination of the stars and set about proving that some “stars” did not behave like others. The method he used was nocturnal, time-lapse photography. In this investigative technique, the camera is carefully set to face the night sky with the shutter open: the experiment proceeded with unexpected results. Some of the stars did not produce the white lines caused by the Earth’s rotation. These stars simply vanished indicating they were something else. He now began to wonder in earnest what they might be, and specifically what they were doing in the skies over Maine. 93 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Reich saw the Oranur Experiment, with its massive pollution of the Maine area, as the cause of their immediate interest in the region. Considering his own observations, those of a number of co-workers, and independent reports of UFO acuvity over Maine, it was hardly egoistic that he should assume that his activities might be the subject of their special attention. If these craft had harnessed the sea of energy pervading the universe, what might be the effect of training a cloud-buster on one? . The results of this action were both profound and disturbing. He writes in Contact With Space: “I hesitated for weeks to turn my cloud-buster pipes toward a ‘star’ as if I had known that some of the blinking lights hanging in the sky were no planets or stars but space machines. With the fading out of the two ‘stars,’ the cloud-buster had suddenly changed into a space-gun. When | saw the ‘star’ to the west fade out four times in succession, what had been left of the old world of human knowledge after the discovery of orgone energy, tumbled beyond retrieve. From now on everything, anything, was possible. Nothing could any longer be considered ‘impossible.’ I had directed the draw-pipes connected with the deep well towards and ordinary star and the star had faded out four times. There was no mistake about it. Three more people had seen it. There was only one conclusion: The thing we had drawn from was not a star. It was something else — a UFO. The shock of this experience was great enough not to repeat such an action until 10 October 1954.” Preceding this, on October 5 and 6, three large, yellow UFOs hung low over the southern horizon with another over the observatory on Reich’s property. On October 10, a large reddish UFO hovered just to the south of the property. At this point, the cloud-buster was trained on it and it moved. The unknown became less red as the device kept its aim, then moved higher, and later sank down below the horizon. Shortly thereafter, a second light (yellow) appeared in the west. After two minutes of direct drawing, it faded, came back, flashed, pulsated, and wobbled while moving irregularly from south to north. There was for Reich the distinct, subjective impression of a struggle. It came back again shortly after, and again, became fainter and smaller after drawing on it. The remaining four unknowns (to the north, south and west) then removed themselves, disappearing from sight. On October 10, for a second time, Reich dimmed “stars” and induced them to move, “as if in flight in different directions.” He again concluded they were machines, and not ones of terrestrial origin. While it might seem naive to some, Reich choose to direct his written concerns regarding this likelihood directly to President Eisenhower. The White House response asked him to send such communications to the Air Force, and to the CIA. As a result, a letter articulating his observations of, and concerns about UFOs was sent to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a career Naval Intelligence officer named Roscoe H. Hillenkotter. Reich would have had no way of knowing, but in more rarefied circles the Director was sometimes referred to by another ttle: MJ-1. Not only had Reich inadvertently made contact with a member of the President’s Ultra Secret UFO working group, he had reached out to its top man. Was the information Reich supplied a contributing factor in Hillenkoetter’s becoming such a vocal opponent of UFO 94 Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs secrecy following his stepping down as Director, or was this simply part of a plan to allow an extremely highly placed operative to insinuate himself smack in the center of civilian UFO counterculture? I cannot say, but I am convinced that if the members of MJ-12 were not aware of Reich’s UFO-related activities prior to October 1954, they were from that time on, and would have identified him as a man whose actions bore monitoring, and possibly worse. In Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War, jim Martin identifies one other plausible link between Reich and MJ-12, and his name was Lewis W. Douglas. Reich refers to him briefly in Contact With Space as the Director Savings and Loan, and as a close associate of President Eisenhower. He was also Director of Research for the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Tucson and a man very interested in weather control. Their first contact dates from 1954 when Reich had his assistant, William Moise, attempt to contact Douglas and arrange a meeting with him. It had not been Reich who suggested to Moise that he get in touch with Douglas; it had been Charles Gardner, Jr., Executive Secretary of the Advisory Committee on Weather Control for the government; and the National Weather Bureau’s liaison with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics. Gardner had actually written to Moise on March 21, 1955 saying: “We appreciate being informed of your activities.” Douglas’s secretary wrote up Moise’s calls in the form of memos. The first one read in part: “He {Moise} had just come from Washington and had spoken to people in the Dept. of Agriculture, Weather Bureau and in Mr. Gardner’s office about weather control. They suggested that Mr. D {Douglas} might be interested in information he had.” But no answer was forthcoming until July 27 when Douglas cabled Moise, and Reich and Douglas began to correspond. They likely would have met in Tucson later that year, but Douglas had to be hospitalized for major surgery during the time Reich visited Arizona. My colleagues Jim Martin and Kenn Thomas (archivist, author and conspiracy-related publisher) have engaged in some educated speculation on the possibility of a link between Lew Douglas and MJ-12, and it is worth relating here. I draw directly from Martin’s published comments in doing so. Douglas was known to be very close to Eisenhower and had a well-known interest in weather control. The Douglas-Moise Memo is dated July 14, 1954, only ten days prior to the seminal National Archives’ MJ-12 document, the Cutler- Twining Memo. Thomas reminds us that Robert Cutler had been with the CIA as a psy-ops (psychological operations) expert, and instrumental in bringing Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” to completion. In his memo, Cutler informs USAF General Nathan Twining (MjJ-4) that a scheduled meeting is being changed, and that the “Special Studies Project” would now meet “during the already scheduled White House meeting of July 16, rather than following it as previously intended.” What the actual reason for this change, it insured that President Eisenhower would be in attendance. Quoting Martin: “Thomas suggests that the timing of this sequence of events might indicate that Douglas, as a member of Eisenhower’s ‘kitchen cabinet,’ may have been privy to or associated with the MJ-12 group. I agree that Douglas, one of the most powerful men in American politics at the time, would have known about MJ-12 if it existed. Thomas argues 95 3rd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference that Douglas, having been briefed about the meeting of MJ-12 members on July 16 at the White House, developed a mote serious interest in Reich’s planned operations in Tucson on the basis of Reich's observations of UFOs. This would have explained the sudden change in attitude on July 27, 1955, when Douglas sent a telegram to Moise inviting further correspondence. After all, Douglas had hired a ‘UFO nut,’ James E. McDonald, to head the IAP in 1954.” Freewheeling conspiratorial musings or grounded, informed speculation? Personally, | subscribe to the latter. For the record, Martin establishes that Reich drove through Roswell on his way to Tucson. There is some intriguing anecdotal evidence that he returned there, but it is not inconclusive. Reich’s point of view on UFOs shifted between 1953 and 1957. At first he theorized they were benign observers, but gradually became convinced that, either by intention or accident, they were contributing to the pollution accumulating in the atmosphere. Contact With Space, privately published after his 1957 death, documents early weather modification, or CORE (cosmic orgone engineering) operations and the 1954-55 cloud-busting expedition to Arizona. The book, published in an edition of only five hundred, details a great deal more information than this paper is designed to cover, and it is not my intention here to synopsize this sweeping text, only that Reich’s scientific observations of, interactions with, and findings on UFOs chronicled in Contact With Space made it indispensable in the preparation of this article. The following day, October 11, Reich authorized his friend, research associate and son- in-law (who was a trained cloud-buster operator), to call the Air Technical Intelligence Command (ATIC) in Dayton, Ohio, and make an appointment to discuss the disabling of the UFOs the previous day. Moise was in Ohio on his way to Arizona at the time. A meeting with a General Watson was agreed upon on for October 14. Over the phone Watson asked Moise, if necessary, could their conference be continued into the evening, and how did Reich know that the UFOs had been disabled? Moise arrived at the facility early on the 14", where he was met by a Dr. Byers, who was a physicist employed by the command. Byers escorted Moise to the conference, also attended by a USAF Captain Hill and a civilian named Harry Haberer (6:8). Asking where General Watson was, Moise was told that he was unable to attend. Angered, Moise left and returned to his Dayton motel. The next day Moise received a phone call from Captain Hill conveying Watson’s apologies, and was asked if the report could be made to ATIC Deputy Commander Colonel Wertenbaker. Moise agreed and they met later that day. Present were Captain Hill, Dr. Byers, Haberer and the Colonel. Moise gave an oral presentation and all took notes except the Colonel. Feeling that this had been a significant meeting, that at least some breakthrough had been made in interesting a branch of the government in Reich’s observations of the involvement with UFOs, Moise wrote that: “The contact with Col. Wertenbaker was excellent throughout the conference. He was serious, intent and looked at me while I talked. He was the only one who did. His excitement increased as the report progressed.” 96 a a SSS Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs Several days later, the Colonel wrote to the Director of Intelligence for the Air Force — somehow this note ended up in the Food and Drug Administration’s case file on Reich. It read in part: “General Watson did not talk personally to Mr. Moise, I am happy to say, but I interviewed this person...the information given us by Moise defies description and I'll not attempt to give you the details...the Air Force will do well to avoid entanglements but what is absolutely necessary from the standpoint of good public relations.” Dr. Byers, the physicist, told Moise that he was familiar with Reich’s work. Harry Haberer, the civilian in attendance, was described as working on the history of UFOs with the Air Force. Leaving Ohio, Moise continued on to Arizona. Meanwhile, Reich, his son Peter, and several others were driving west as well. Each vehicle carried an appropriate assortment of laboratory equipment and had a cloud-buster in tow. They arrived at the leased property ten miles outside of Tucson on October 19, 1954. Once settled in, they commenced drawing operations, regularly observing the atmosphere with their meteorological instruments. Records were kept in accordance with strict scientific method. Individual journals were also kept. Robert McCulloch, another trained cloud-buster operator, assisted Reich and Moise in the operation. Drawing began at the end of October and many UFOs were observed during the nights of October 31 and November 1 over the area. By November 7, moisture in the atmosphere had risen from the usual 15% to 65%, an unheard of relative humidity for Tucson. Drawing continued, mostly from the southwest direction. On November 7, the first clouds were forming thickly and soon covered the sky, indicating rain. Then, without apparent explanation, the clouds began to decompose. That evening, a large, bright UFO was seen coming up from the north. It moved slowly southwest until it stopped and hovered for several hours ten to fifteen degrees above the southern horizon. A connection between the dissipation of clouds and the presence of UFOs in the skies seemed unavoidable after this sequence of events continued to repeat. Weather modification was a subject of genuine interest to a number of military and civilian offices within the Eisenhower Administration, and the Tucson-based Institute of Atmospheric Physics was founded in 1953 as a direct result of the President’s 1953 Advisory Committee on Weather Control. An atmospheric physicist with a background in Naval intelligence was appointed to the committee as Associate Director, and at some point during that November or December he might have met Reich. His name was Dr. James E. McDonald, and we know him to be another scientist of great courage and passion, one who, like Reich, had the temerity to work toward bringing the subject of serious UFO studies to the American public, much to the detriment of both their careers. Eva Reich recalled that McDonald had visited the cloud-busting site when a TV crew came to film their operations, and that both he and Reich had been interviewed for the report. But the footage was never aired. From what we know of Dr. McDonald, there is likelihood that he would have had cause for serious interest in at least two areas of Reich’s work. Still, we do not know conclusively whether the two actually met, and possibly talked that day, or whether their 97 3'¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference paths had merely crossed on the edge of that desert. But there is the additional factor to consider as well - that at the time McDonald was working closely with, and for, the previously discussed Lew Douglas. By November 13, the relative humidity had risen to 67% and rain seemed imminent in a location that had seen none in five years. But by that evening the humidity had dropped twenty points to 47%, The next day, two bright, pulsating and flashing UFOs were seen low in the eastern sky. Upon direct draw, the first dimmed after an initial stronger blinking, then remained dim. The second wobbled, then it too, dimmed markedly. Suddenly, a third came up in the east, as if from nowhere. Early on the morning of the 18th, a UFO was seen on the horizon and within two hours an Air Force aircraft was seen circling the area. More UFOs continued to be observed in direct relationship with the destruction of the relative humidity. On the morning of November 29, Reich, looking at the eastern sky through a three- and-a-half inch refracting telescope, observed a fully articulated cigar-shaped craft. In his notes he writes that he first refused to accept the notions, but windows were clearly observed on the object and recorded in his drawings. The ship was observed, as cloud cover would allow, off and on between December 1 and December 17. Charts of its movements were kept. By December 14, the atmosphere in the area of the base camp, and indeed, in Tucson itself was oppressive and deadening. Just prior to this Reich’s associate, Dr. Silvert, had transported a small amount of radioactive material that had been exposed in an accumulator from Maine to the Tucson site. The material had to be towed on a cable one hundred feet behind a hired airplane, as its lead shielding was unable to contain its altered reaction. At about 4:30 PM, a huge black cloud formed over the Tucson area, gradually turning deep purple with a somewhat reddish glow. The background radiation count in the area jumped to an alarming one hundred thousand counts per minute. The usual background count had been holding at six to eight hundred counts per minute. Twelve Air Force planes over flew the base camp and their contrails (made of water vapor) quickly dissolved. Twenty minutes after both cloud-busters began drawing, the skies cleared. At 5:30 PM, four B-56 bombers flew in low over the area. Reich felt that this “cloud” masked the presence of other UFOs. If so, this incident was indeed properly categorized as a battle. Interest in the newly arrived and highly aggravated radioactive material was a suspected cause of their appearance. As these historic events were transpiring, the University of Arizona’s weather modification study was ongoing and in process. Part of the study involved the time-lapse photography of jet planes contrails. As recorded, Reich had observed and reported their presence during various cloud-busting operations, and had observed the disintegration of their contrails during operations in Arizona. He even wondered: “Whether the Air Force had actually such problems in mind, 1 cannot tell.” Investigative author Jim Martin was able to locate color film from the fifties in the University of Arizona’s Physics and atmospheric Science Building showing Air Force jets being used in weather modification experiments, as Reich himself had wondered about. 98 Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs These and other such findings led me to believe that our government had a very real interest in Dr. Reich’s UFO observations and findings, as well as in his weather modification work - from the President on down. By way of one last example (or coincidence) we should take note that on November 22, 1955, President Eisenhower’s proposal for the peaceful use of atomic energy was accepted by the United Nations. It was called “Atoms for Peace.” Some months prior to this, Reich had sent Eisenhower a copy of his paper documenting the Oranur Experiment, and the operations and experiments that had sprung from it. The paper was entitled “Atoms for Peace.” The literature generated about Reich’s contempt trial is considerable and any treatment here must oversimplify its many complexities. While interested readers should try and locate a copy of Jerome Greenfield’s book, Wilhelm Reich versus the USA, among other works on the subject, the basics are as follows. The Federal Drug Administration had begun accumulating information toward building a case against the scientist shortly after Mildred Brady’s article appeared in 1947, but it had been slow going. None of Reich’s past or current patients or any of those with the physicians he’d trained in medical orgone therapy had registered a complaint with the FDA, or any other authority for that matter. Reich and his associates had broken no laws, but given that the FDA knew he was a quack and orgonomy a fraud, it stood to reason there was no need to put any of his alleged experiments to the test. Their responsibility was to bring this sex-obsessed medical menace to justice and they remained undeterred in their efforts. And so the FDA went to the federal court and brought a complaint against the interstate shipment of accumulators or any components thereof. Their break came in 1955 when one of Reich’s physicians, Dr. Michael Silvert, did just that, and Reich, then involved in the Tucson cloud-busting operation, took legal responsibility for the injunction’s violation. Silbert felt that allowing the matter to go to court would be the equivalent of admitting they were in the wrong. Reich, after due consideration, agreed and wrote to the judge explaining his decision noting that his argument might be rejected; they did, and the complaint became an injunction. FDA agents began showing up on Reich’s property, but he refused to allow them access to any of his apparatus, or written materials, and continued with his experiments. This resulted in a contempt of court citation; and while their original legal parry had been civil, it had now graduated to a criminal and a court date was set. Given the betrayal of his lawyers, Reich decided to represent himself, and against the advice of some of those closest to him, chose to make the trial a forum for the validity of his research and findings. Eloquent though he was, the judge would have none of it and he was convicted and sentenced to two years in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He was fifty-nine years old. Once in prison Reich underwent psychiatric evaluation. Staff psychiatrists noted that he “gave no concrete evidence of being mentally incompetent,” but diagnosed him as being a paranoid schizophrenic, this while admitting their finding was “not based on physical evaluation.” Early release was denied and the Supreme Court chose not to comment on his 99 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference final writ. He was found dead in his cell on November 3, 1957, just seven days before his scheduled release date. Conclusions Since his death, most accounts of Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s life and work, be they supportive or otherwise, follow a similar logic: that the level of importance which he ascribed to his UFO observations (and his allegations that the communists were out to get him) were, in themselves, a means of “proving,” or at least suggesting that he had gone quite mad during his last years. Such material is often presented in a manner suggesting that a good deal of “fairness,” objectivity and patience were spent in “sorting all this out’ for the reader. Some writers don’t even bother. With no real interest in fair scientific inquiry or method, and no serious grounding in UFO studies, orgonomy, or the documented specifics of the conspiracy to destroy his reputation and discredit his work, Reich’s detractors accuse and rant, exposing the madness they perceive. Often written in angry displays of public-spirited concern, they warn the good reader away, like police at the scene of an accident. Other accounts are simply inaccurate. In Contact With Space, Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s reflections on the possible implications of an extraterrestrial reality are often moving, profound and disturbing. He dares, as a scientist, to exercise a most precious right: the right to challenge an established and accepted belief, the right to think a thought, no matter how others might perceive it, recording that thought for publication and standing by it in the face of almost universal criticism. Read out of context — that is, without benefit of any serious study of his previous writings, methodology or discoveries — even the most intelligent and perceptive reader may find it preferable to dismiss his observations and conclusions as bearing witness to a great mind finally derailed, rather than even considering them seriously. The very act of claiming to have observed UFOs, and, over time, their behavior, interacting with them via the cloud-buster, ascribing to them intelligence and intention, keeping the Air Force, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Bureau and the Office of the President appraised of his activities, and finally, the posthumous publishing of Contact With Space, proved intolerable to all by a few. Even A. S. Neill, the distinguished British educator who was Reich’s loyal friend and colleague of many years, seemed convinced these findings would only prove to be an embarrassment to orgonomy. But not at first: in March of 1955, Neill wrote to Reich as follows, “Thanks for the saucer book which came a few days ago. It sure made me sit up. So much Air Force testimony can’t be ignored. Inclined to accept your opinion that they are benign (an opinion which changed markedly), the only problem I can imagine would be their arrival here to stop the inevitable atomic destruction of all life. Mutual fear won’t stop war. Almost looks as if Freud was right in saying there is a death instinct when one sees the whole mass of people thinking of football and radio etc. at a time when the sinking of a U.S. aircraft carrier off Formosa or the enthusiasm of a U.S. pilot might set the light to the 100 Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs gunpowder barrel. Hence I say: let the spacemen come; they might save us and if they came as destroyers they could not be more dangerous than man himself.” I should stress here that Reich had few friendships or professional relationships of such duration and depth; and it is not my intention to put a particular cast on Neill here. It is just that he articulated the prevailing attitude so well. In December 1957, a month after Reich’s death, Neill wrote this to Ilse Ollendorff, Reich’s former wife and co-worker: “The difficulty will not be to separate what’s valuable from what isn’t. The idea that the trial was orchestrated from Moscow is just bunkum, and we have no proof of flying saucers anyway. Why should Reich’s great work be mixed up with either factor? That Reich later had some illusions I think right, but they don’t so anything to lessen his work. We all have illusions and maybe the greater we are, the greater the illusions. But that Eva {Reich’s daughter}, Moise (his son-in-law) and Steig (cartoonist and illustrator of Reich’s book Listen Little Man, and a financial backer of the Arizona expedition) should go on having illusions is bad, bad for the future of Reich’s acceptance as a scientist.” And there’s the rub: “Bad for the future of Reich’s acceptance as a scientist?” — a consideration not taken lightly by Neill and others deeply concerned about the future of orgonomy. | can only wonder how Neill would have reacted had he been in the room when students and faculty members at his beloved Summerhill school described the UFO sightings they had had from the Summerhill property in Leiston, Suffolk on the occasions | was a speaker there. Author David Boadella sums the conundrum up: “Why did the orthodox scientists and psychologists condemn Reich? Why did they dismiss him as a paranoiac while Raknes (a Norwegian colleague) and Dr. Hoppe of Israel and lots of the sane American surgeons and physicians and I thought him to be the most important thinker of our time? I must face the question that was so often raised by his enemies - his sanity...Apparently he believed that flying saucers were from other worlds without due proof. Yet when the judge ordered him to be examined by a board of psychiatrists, they pronounced him sane.” They were not alone. The great Reich scholar, Professor Paul Matthews of New York University observed in his 1973 review of Boadella’s book, Wilhelm Reich: The Evolution of His IWork: “Reich’s scientific integrity, creativity, and genius, even to the end of his life, need no defense or confirmation from me; nor does his sanity need defense in the opinion of those who were closest to him and in a position to gauge his mental status, character structure, and work capacity at that time.” But does all this really come down to a question of Wilhelm Reich’s sanity? Medical researcher Ludwik Flek notes in his 1979 book, The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact “What we are faced with here is not so much a simple passivity or mistrust of new ideas as an active approach which can be divided into several stages. A contradiction to the system appears unthinkable. What does not fit into the system remains unseen. Alternatively, if it is noticed, either it is kept secret, or discredited. Laborious efforts are made to explain an exception in terms that do not contradict the system. Despite the 101 3'3 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference legitimate claims of contradictory views, one tends to see, describe, or even illustrate those circumstances which corroborate current views and thereby give them substance.” Thus the unacceptable - or the unacceptable theory - is excluded. The individual who persists in putting forth such a theory may ultimately be excluded and, in a number of historic incidences, declared to be out of touch with “reality” or insane. You may have the knowledge of a master scientist and still not be able to analyze or even see beyond the accepted theories of your own era. Reich’s work demands that we do just this. Do Dr. Reich’s observations, deductions and conclusions concerning UFOs all conform to the best contemporary knowledge on the subject? Many of them do, and are virtually identical to those of countless other individuals. Can we say with certainty that his death was the result of a conspiracy or foul play tracing back to MJ-12, the FDA, the Communist Party, the “Hoodlums In Government” (“HIGS,” as Reich termed them) employed by the FDA, or to that powerful segment of society who tend to mystify biology, then mechanically attempt to impose their own sex-negative morality on the rest of us? No. The fact is that at the time of his death Dr. Reich had high blood pressure, was overweight, and a chronic smoker. But based on what he represented to such diverse and powerful groups, would any (or all) of the aforementioned have desired his death and had the will and means to implement it? Oh yes: without a doubt. And with the official cause of death listed as a heart attack, the question of murder is likely to remain an open one. Regardless of whether he was murdered or died of natural causes, humanity lost a brilliant and courageous thinker in November 1957, and one whose UFO-related work remains an extremely significant area of study for any student of ufology. 1 hope this paper will encourage readers to seek out the truth of this matter for themselves, through reading and practical application. While the most recent of the events described here linger in the mists of history nearly fifty years past, they continue to remain as shattering and relevant as if they had occurred last week. Knowledge is often its own reward and anyone who takes the time to understand Reich’s work will only benefit from it. To ignore the profound truths it embodies affirms the actions of those who array themselves against all that is life affirmative, and again sets the stage for the worst aspects of history to repeat themselves. Remember: “Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our Life. They should also govern it.” References Boadella, D.: Wilhelm Reich: The Evolution of His Work. London: Vision Press, 1973. Croall, J. (ed.): Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence Between Wilhelm Reich and A.S. Neill. New York: Farrar & Giroux, 1981. Croall, J. (ed.): AX the Best, Neill. London, Watts, 1984. Eden, J.: Planet in Trouble: The UFO Assault on Earth, New York, The Exposition Press, 1973. Greenfield, J.: Wilhelm Reich VS. The U.S.A., New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974. 102 Orgone Energy, Wilhelm Reich and UFOs Martin, J.: Wilbelm Reich and the Cold War. Ft. Bragg, California, Fort Bragg Books, 2000 (Note: Like Reich’s Contact With Space, Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War was published in an edition of 500 copies, with all copies of Martin’s book going to subscribers who underwrote the cost of his research. I am hopeful that we will see another edition of this important book in the not too distant future.) Matthews, P.: Book Review, Journal of Orgonomy, 7(2), November 1973. Reich, W.: Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the Discovery of the Life Energy (American Period, 1939-1952), Documentary Volume A - XI - E, The Einstein Affair. Rangeley, Maine: Orgone Institute Press, 1953. Reich, W.: Contact With Space. Rangeley, Maine: Orgone Institute Press, 1957. Reich, W, and edited by Boyd Higgins, M., and Raphael, C.: Passion of Youth: An Autobiography. New Y ork, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998. Reich, W, and edited by Boyd Higgins, M.: American Odyssey: Letters and Journals, 1940-1947, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. Robbins, P.: Wilhelm Reich and UFOs. The Journal of Orgonomy, Volume 24, Number 2, New York, Orgonomic Publications, Inc, 1990. Robbins, P.: Wilbelw Reich and UFOs, Part II: Examining Evidence and Allegations. The Journal of Orgonomy, Volume 25, Number 1, New York, Orgonomic Publications, Inc, 1991. Scharaf, M.: Fury On Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich, New York, St. Martin’s Press/ Marek, 1983. Westrum, R.: The Blind Eye of Science, The Whole Earth Review, No. 52, Fall, 1986. And conversations with Dr. Elsworth F. Baker, DrReich’s former first assistant; Reich biographer Dr. Myron Sharaf; author and scientist, scientist and author Dr. Jim DeMeo, and investigative writer and author Jim Martin. 103 New Archeological Evidence from the Mac Brazel, July 1947 Debris Site Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer Copyright 2005 Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer Extraterrestrialology Extraterrestrial: adj: originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere: “is there extraterrestrial life? (noun) - form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere [syn: extraterrestrial being, alien. Archeology: \Ar'che*ol“o' gy \n., Archeological \vr'che*o* log ict all. The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures. Same as Arch]acjoloyy, ete, ~ Archeology: Grecks used this ward over 2000 years ago. This word, “archeology” comes from two ancient Grech words; archaios, defining ancient or old, and “logos” meaning word of speech. In ancient Greece archaeology meant a “discussion” or “study” of ancient things. The word “Anthropology” from the Greek word “anthropos” (“human”) and “logia” (“study”) the study of humankind, from millions of years ago to the present day, -Extraterrestrialology: n : (ET-ology) the proposed branch of anthropology which is the imatolog study of Extraterrestrial entities which have visited or are visiting Earth. Human along with animal and vegetable intervention can be associated with Extraterrestrialology. Only ET- vlogy seeks to understand the whole panoramic aspect associated in geographic space, evolutionary time, along with human contact of non earthling entities visiting this planet. - Extraterrestrialology, although not wholly new to scientists and nonscientists who seek to investigate the reality of non-human existence, Extraterrestrialology will follow the same methodologies which current Archeologist use to explore the many different avenues on non-Earth dwelling entities who have left trace evidence of their existence while visiting, migrating, or accidentally impacting on this planet, The Skip Site 3°¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference The Roswell Incident RAAF Captures Flying Bae son aia mn KEEA PAi 106 The Road to Roswell First Investigation 2000 107 3'¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference First Test Pit ma Y; t be t GK paca g uÈ TAFE KAS 108 The Road to Roswell Strip Dig HMUO 109 3'3 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference The Unveiling Local Media Dedication Marke we, WE: wok oN ae a MS sse ` N PA Looking For New Dig Sites Walking the Eencelin Wind Direction, _ 110 The Road to Roswell 111 YAN Will the Rocket Engine Go the Way of the Dodos? Jim Marrs Copyright 2005 Jim Mars Majic Eyes Only: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrial Technology Ryan S. Wood Copyright 2005 Ryan S$. Wood Excerpts from the book Majic Eyes Only: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrial Technology Preface This historic book is the most complete public inventory to date of human encounters with nonhuman technology fallen to earth. Future readers will understand what officials today do not admit: humankind is not the only marvelous mind in the Milky Way. It is fascinating to seek the truth of this astonishing claim. It is also difficult. The phenomena themselves are rare, and often authorities ridicule the facts and impede research. In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn describes how “normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties,’ and conventional research is often “a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes...” How much more this must be true when new data—rarified but compelling evidence— violates not only academic dogma but also subverts political, economic and moral assumptions. If these anomalous data are true, the earth is not ours alone. This is not a unique claim. After all, if most religious believers believe what they say, this is the message they profess. But very few take it seriously. Yet it may be easier to accept the spiritual intangibles, which culture accepts, than to acknowledge the surprising, unorthodox tangibles that culture rejects. While less than divine, perhaps other intelligent life has touched our planet. How ridiculous! So say the keepers of convention. They give little tme to uncomfortable facts and numerous case histories; they ignore or belittle the evidence. Ryan Wood has paid close attention to the evidence. In partnership with his father, accomplished aerospace physicist Dr. Robert Wood, Ryan has worked with clarity and persistence to tell us what we must consider in the next phase of human development. For good or for ill, other minds in the galaxy have come to visit. Will this change one's route to work or lower one's household bills? Not today. Yet what if possibilities in a wider community would realign power on earth? And beyond escapist speculation, what if this encounter with new technology and culture requires a new level of responsibility and human maturity? This might be difficult. As you read Ryan Wood's summary of cases where visitors have faltered to earth, allow yourself to draw your own conclusions. Ask yourself three questions: 1) Do you think human science and culture are the highest possible in the universe? 2) Do you think trillions of ancient stars—whose far planets are just now being found ! The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (3™ edition). 3rd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference by science—can grow no civilization with the cleverness and desire to launch voyages of discovery, acquisition, enlightenment and sometimes error? 3) Do you think governments tell all the truth all the time and allow such truths to loosen their grip on authority and undermine their assertions of reality? You can hone your thoughts about these questions against the reports by competent persons of evidence that nonhuman craft have come to earth—some now in possession of institutions. Consider the motives of such institutions faced with the hints of vast technologies and the dilemma of uncertain intentions. Ask yourself finally: What is next for our beautiful planet and the emerging human mind? John S. Hale Shepherdstown, West Virginia July, 2005 Forward “Do Flying Saucers come from Mars or Venus?” This was the burning question in the 1950s, at least for those who were paying close attention to the “flaps” over spherical discs reported in the skies across America. By the 1960s and 70s, we had become more sophisticated. The question became, “Do UFOs come from Alpha Centauri or Zeta Reticula 4?” Now, early in the 21" century, we are even more sophisticated. The question has now become, “Do UFOs come from another galaxy or another dimension or even another time period?” The answer to all of these questions appears to be “Yes”. Perhaps all of the above is true as well as some other sources we haven’t even imagined as yet. Due to the government’s policy of denial and ridicule imposed on the American public since at least the ume of World War II, few people and even fewer credible scientists have been willing to make a serious study of the ubiquitous UFOs. In fact, for many years, many people, including this writer, gave serious consideration to the claim that UFOs did not exist at all, that they were simply hallucinations or perhaps some mass psychosis. Of course, if UFO sightings represented some heretofore undiagnosed and contagious mass psychosis, that certainly should have qualified as a big news story and the object of intense scientific scrutiny. But this did not happen since, with the advent of the personal camcorder, hardly a day passes without someone somewhere in the world taking clear video of UFOs. And we all know that you cannot take a photograph or video of a hallucination. Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining of the U. S. Air Material Command summed it all up as far back as September, 1947, when he wrote, “The phenomenon reported [UFOs] is something real and not something visionary or fictitious.” 116 Majic Eyes Only Between 1947 and today, the list of official and credible sources speaking to the reality of UFOs has grown weighty. Astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, one of the first scientists used as a government-sponsored debunker, came to understand that he was dealing with something out of this world. “Those who still hold that the entire subject of UFOs is nonsense will be sorely challenged if they have the courage to take an honest look...” he Wrote. Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Brian O’Leary have publicly told of UFO experiences, while Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has even stated that some of our current technology has been gained from reverse-engineered extraterrestrial craft and artifacts. Even presidents have weighed in on the subject. “One thing’s for sure,” stated President Jimmy Carter, who spoke openly about his own UFO experience, “Pll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified flying objects in the sky.” After decades of public conditioning through books, periodicals, movies and TV shows following the path of Star Trek and Star Wars, current national polls indicate that those who do not believe in life outside this Earth are significantly dwindling. Most polls indicate that more than 80 percent of the U.S. population now believes there is life outside our planet. Most people, however, still hesitate to confront the UFO issue head on, largely due to the fact that the corporate mass media steadfastly refuses to present UFOs as a serious issue. And we all know that if the network and cable talking heads are not addressing a subject, it must not exist. One person who has been talking about it for several years now is Ryan Wood. Ryan, along with his father Dr. Robert M. Wood, has done significant work in recent years by acquiring, analyzing and verifying the infamous Majestic 12 documents leaked to the public over a lengthy period of time. This collection of controversial secret government documents outlines the carefully constructed effort to not only seize and sequester grounded UFOs but also to deny their very existence while inciting ridicule against anyone who would claim otherwise. With the publication of this work, Majic Eyes Only, Ryan has done a valuable service to all UFO researchers by cataloging and presenting the extraordinarily large number of reported UFO crashes and their retrievals. Ryan himself admits that some, perhaps many, of these reports are thinly supported by the evidence. But if even half of the more than 75 cases addressed by Ryan Wood are genuine, this represents an incredible number of opportunities for the U.S. Government to possess, study and duplicate UFO technology. UFO literature is rife with accounts of UFO experiences which point to secret government test craft. From the many sightings over Area 51 in Nevada to the well- documented Cash-Landrum case near Houston, Texas, in which a large floating globe was seen escorted by military helicopters, it seems clear that secret work on UFOs continues within hidden and secure government facilities. Yet, secret government test craft does not explain all UFO reports, such as the 1897 crash of a large, silver cigar-shaped object in Aurora, Texas, a story well covered in the Dallas and Fort Worth newspapers. This craft was sighted over most of the western United 117 tt 3'3 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference States by thousands of citizens—and this was six years before the Wright brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, NC. It should be noted that none of America’s most prestigious newspapers carried any notice of the Wright brothers’ achievement for almost two years after the fact because their “experts” assured the editors that man could not fly. Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge physicists offer speculation of deep space “worm holes” and the use of zero point energy. Addressing the notion that the famous Roswell crash was precipitated by lightning, others argue that no species would build a spacecraft that would be susceptible to mere lightning bolts. On the other hand, some researchers can clearly see that unexpected energy such as a lightning storm might well disrupt a flight propulsion system based on electromagnetic energy, particularly if the craft came from a world that has no lightning. Supporters of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program claim that since their radio messages have not clearly been answered, there must be little or no life in the universe. Critics counter that any civilization advanced enough to develop interstellar space travel would be too advanced to notice crude radio signals which are almost obsolete in Earth technology. Still others ask whether any one of us could recognize, much less translate, Morse Code signals directed at our homes. The universe is vast and humankind has barely cracked open the door on all of its wonders. For now, we could not do any better than to study the following accounts of UFO crash retrievals and ponder what a reality that includes diverse intelligent life outside of our planet might mean for us and future generations. Jim Marrs Springtown, Texas August, 2005 Introduction There are all sorts of UFO stories—lights in the sky, daylight discs, landed craft, alien abductions and crashed UFOs. All these are worthy of rigorous study. However, the focus of this book is on the nuts and bolts of the matter, the evidence for crashed UFOs. I choose this because it directly addresses the essential public relations problem of ufology: without clear physical evidence in the form of crashed extraterrestrial hardware or alien bodies, there is little progress in fully exposing the Cosmic Watergate. At the heart of this book is the notion that Unidentified Flying Objects—-UFOs—have crashed to earth for a variety of reasons and that selected military and world governments have taken a keen interest in capturing, retrieving and exploiting these “celestial gifts,” as General George C. Marshall called them in a 1942 memo. Why such advanced extraterrestrial craft would travel so far—presumably across our galaxy—only to foul up so 118 Majic Eyes Only badly as to crash on planet earth is a reasonable question. There is no definitive answer to this question, only speculation as to why UFOs sometimes crash. Yet this book provides data that there have been at least seventy-five UFO crashes, and it is data that cannot be ignored or dismissed. Certainly, the cases in this book vary in quality and detail. Some are astonishing, and serious readers can proceed from these summaries to detailed accounts in the sources cited. These cases are much more substantial than popular opinion leads us to believe. Other cases have uncertain merit, where witnesses, documents, overall quality, length, sophistication and believability may be lost to time or simply mistaken. Some, however, give tantalizing hints—part of the larger pattern that this book unveils—where research may discover further proof that extraterrestrials and their vehicles have been crashing to earth. So why might UFOs crash to earth? The simplest thought is that highly advanced civilizations are not perfect, and accidents occur during perilous flights—just as human spaceflight suffers accidents and crashes. Generally accepted theories in the UFO literature include that large lighting strikes are a form of powerful raw energy that could overwhelm the sensitive instrumentation and navigation technology of the extraterrestrial (ET) craft. The primary case of this type is the famous Roswell crash (in fact, multiple crashes) in the middle of one of New Mexico’s ferocious desert lightning storms. Or perhaps our early development and deployment of high-power radar, particularly in New Mexico (where we developed guided missiles and atomic bombs), could have interfered with normal craft operations, Nor can we rule out man’s deliberate attempts to shoot them down using proximity-fuse antiaircraft shells that were innovated to devastating effect in World War II, and later guided surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), even conceivably with tactical nuclear warheads.” Beyond this, the idea of deliberate “seeding” of super-advanced technology on emerging “kindergarten” planet earth cannot be ruled out. Nor the uber-logic of cybernetic alien biological entities willing to explore the cosmos irrespective of their life, costs or consequences. In fact, the anti-aircraft shell scenario seems to have been at work during the event referred to as the “Los Angeles Air Raid.” At about 2:25 a.m. on February 25, 1942 air raid sirens awoke thousands throughout Los Angeles, who for nearly an hour observed the 37" Coast Artillery Brigade fire antiaircraft guns at a large unknown aerial object suspended in the beams of searchlights. This event was so spectacular that it appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times? > “Air Force Orders Jet Pilots to Shoot Down Flying Saucers if they Refuse to Land,” Seattle Post- Intelligencer, July 29, 1952; similar articles in San Francisco Chronicle July 29, 1952, Sydney Australia New Herald, July 31, 1952 3 Preliminary photo analysis by optical physicist and UFO researcher Dr. Bruce Maccabee concludes the searchlights are illuminating an apparently ovoid or circular object about 50 to 100 feet in diameter. (http:brumac.8K.com/battleofLA/battleofLA.html) 119 34 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Reprinted from an original negative from the Los Angles Times In the aftermath, we now have a leaked photocopy of a document mailed to researchers postmarked Sacramento, California, with a return address of the Police Officers Association. The contents are dated March 5, 1942, in which General George C. Marshall, then chief of staff of the armed forces, writes a Top Secret Memorandum to President Roosevelt stating: As indicated in my February 26 memorandum to you regarding the air raid over Los Angeles, it has been learned by Army G-2 that Rear Admiral Anderson, Director of Naval Intelligence, has informed the War Department of a naval salvage of one unidentified airplane off the coast of California [that], unlike the raid, has no bearing on conventional explanation. Further investigation has revealed that the Army Air Corps also recovered a similar object in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, which cannot be identified as conventional aircraft. This Headquarters has come to a determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and according to secret intelligence sources they are in all probability of interplanetary origin. As a consequence, I have issued orders to Army G2 that a special intelligence unit be created to further investigate the phenomenon and report any significant connection between recent incidents and those collected by the director of the Office of Coordinator of Information.’ t Office of Coordinator of Information (OCI) was later renamed the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which conducted World War II foreign espionage and later evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 120 Majic Eyes Only I have further ordered a thorough investigation of all War Department files regarding unconventional aerial phenomenon reported since 1897 and what exists in public domain on the subject. At present, GHQ has no further information, which would invalidate this conclusion. Pending any further notification, investigation into this matter shall be limited to those who have been authorized by you. The memo states not only that multiple craft were recovered five years before the now- famous Roswell incident but cites “unconventional aerial phenomenon reported since 1897.” This date is unexpected. It was not until 1972, thirty years after the Marshall memo, that research by distinguished journalist and author Jim Marrs began to lay out the true dimensions of the crash reported in the small community of Aurora, Texas on April 17, 1897. That is the first case presented in this book. Marshall’s memo in question is shown on the next page. From a questioned document perspective, other hallmarks of authenticity should also be mentioned—the unique Office of Chief of Staff (OCS) file numbers in the upper-left corner, including numerical reference to another document known to be authentic and released through official channels about the Los Angeles Air Raid—just two weeks before this OCS file numbering system changed to the War Department numbering system. The line spacing, typeface, carbon-paper smear and formatting are all consistent with Marshall’s correspondence of the era. This is an inflection point in history and begins the process of creating one of the most secret enterprises the world has ever seen—including the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU). It is important to note that the IPU is not speculation. On September 25, 1980, the Army’s director of counterintelligence replied to veteran UFO researcher Richard Hall’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. In a moment of candor, the reply stated “the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit of the Scientific and Technical Branch, Counterintelligence Directorate, DA [Department of the Army] was disestablished during the late 1950's... All records pertaining to this unit were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations....” Later in 1984—in the odd manner that rare UFO admissions can lead to retractions and stonewalling—a new director of counterintelligence replied to another researcher that the IPU “was never a “unit” in the formal military sense ... and may not even have had any formal records at all.” Then again, on April 9, 1990, in reply to yet another researcher’s FOIA request (regarding the ‘no-records’ from this ‘non-unit’), the Army Intelligence and Security Command at Fort George G. Meade, MD, revived the first story: regarding “the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, Scientific and Technical Branch, Counterintelligence Directorate, Department of the Army ...records pertaining to the unit were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations in conjunction with > GHQ, or General Headquarters, was General Marshall’s highest headquarters office. 121 3ra Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Operation ‘Bluebook’.”6 y _Gte3! CUS TNF wget fd rine : AS indians: n'ev feeraary F memorandum to vnw mearuing the 4 fee Las met 86 ee intima Dy Army tS nat Sear ete st ARO art ok Sed trating er, tes tormad ime War Demren +. cava wi age ot cee mident anle otf the rou of Carrores coder unt Widen ede ne beer oo comentbonal DUI nara AF $6 Roe Aus res cake thal the Anny Air Comms ako memnu sere art Ut Sue Gorm nc .ne Moumams east of tom URS «tn Cone T Magtiticd as Conventional aircran. 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The issue of whether IPU was a unit in the military sense can be further assessed from two leaked documents from 1947. First, in Top Secret Field Order # 0862 transmitted on July 4, 1947 from IPU headquarters, the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence ordered a team (specified as an Officer-in-Charge, Noncommissioned-Officer-in-Charge, Aeronautical engineer, Scientist, Security and Medical Doctor) to depart Andrews Army Airfield (AAF) 6 One might ask: why would such a unit be situated in the area of counterintelligence? Perhaps it is for the same reason that the CIA placed intelligence operations on Israel in the counterintelligence (CI) office of James Jesus Angleton—because CI is one of the most secure and secretive units in any intelligence structure. If one speculates that UFOs were assigned to CI for some arcane “disinformation” operations, then one must ask: why were the records turned over to Project Blue Book? It was a publicly announced, rather low-security investigation of the actual UFO topic, so CI files or highly sensitive disinformation files would never have been turned over to Project Blue Book. 122 Majic Eyes Only outside Washington, DC to Condron AAF near White Sands, NM.’ The IPU team was ordered to report directly to the War Department G-2, head of intelligence; coordinate with the head of 4" Army Counter Intelligence Corps; “make any inquiry ... cleared for ‘need to know.”’; then return to Washington from Alamogordo, NM, and make a final report by July 28. Such a report appeared on July 22, 1947, marked “Top Secret Ultra” under the authority of Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Gen. Stephen J. Chamberlin. The report (full document in the Appendix), is tiled “INTERPLANETARY PHENOMENON UNIT SUMMARY: INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT.” In 1960, according to markings on the report, it was re-affirmed as top secret by Lt. Gen. John A. Samford, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Allen Dulles, Director of CLA, and was kept in the files of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Some of the security markings are blacked out, but on the cover in large letters is stamped “MAJIC.” The report cites a stellar list of officials and scientists of the day, including Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, Army Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Carl Spaatz, Gen. Dwight Eisehhower, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Dr. Detlev Bronk—as well as Wernher Von Braun, one of the German scientists smuggled by American intelligence into the United States after World War Il under “Project Paperclip” to co-opt Nazi science and keep it from the Soviets." It is worth noting here that in 1998, UFO researcher Tim Cooper received a reply to his FOIA request for Paperclip information from the CIA. Included was a 12 Apr 1949 Paperclip-related document from Adm. Hillenkoeter, then Director of Central Intelligence, to the Director of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency—with file distribution annotated in the lower corner: “CIA Top Secret MJ-12.” (Mj, MJ-12, MAJIC, MAJESTIC, MAJCOM, MAJSEC, MAJESTIC-12/33 and MAJIC EYES ONLY are among the references and markings in leaked UFO documents.) What we do know is that the IPU existed. In turn, the leaked IPU intelligence assessment, later stamped MAJIC, unveils startling contents.” Near midnight on July 3, 1947, radar units in Texas and White Sands “tracked two 7 While popular lore now focuses on references to Area 51 in Nevada (perhaps correctly) or the town of Roswell, NM—many memoranda and other evidence point to a large area in the state of New Mexico known as the White Sands Missile Range. Established on July 9, 1945 as the White Sands Proving Ground (its name was changed in 1958), a launch complex was quickly set up and used for the site’s first “hot firing”, of a Tiny Tim missile, on September 26, 1945. Soon this complex was the focal point for captured V-2 launches and, in time, the developmental testing of such missiles as Nike, Viking, and Corporal. It remains a major facility that supports missile testing and development for the United States armed services, NASA and other government agencies, and private industry. It occupies almost 8,300 square kilometers in the Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico and is the largest military installation in the country-larger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. In its vicinity: the Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was tested; Alamagordo Army Air Field (AAF), now Holloman Air Force Base (AFB); Kirtland AAF, now Kirtland AFB; Los Alamos Research Center (built in 1943); Sandia (where the Sandia National Laboratories were built in 1949) and other sites that arise in UFO discussions. 8 Project Paperclip has been brilliantly researched and discussed by Linda Hunt, former CNN investigative editor, in her hard-to-find book Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990, St. Martin’s Press, 1991. 9 Prior to CIA release to Tim Cooper of the MJ-12 reference in 1998, another reference appeared from a file in the National Archives and Records Administration in about 1985. Found in Box 189, Records Group 341, Entry 267 was a memo in carbon on ‘onion skin’ paper from Robert Cutler, who was a special assistant to 123 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference unidentified craft until they dropped off radar” on July 4. Radar officers from the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories verified that Station “A,” which was preparing to track a V- 2 rocket launch, had been “tracking these objects on-and-off since June 29”—along with at least six other radars, including ones at Alamogordo AAF and Kirtland AAF. Following radar tracks, the objects were found at two crash sites near the White Sands Proving Grounds: landing zone LZ-1 on a ranch near the town of Corona about 75 miles northwest of Roswell; and LZ-2 southeast of the town of Socorro, west of Oscura Peak and very near the Trinity test site of the first atomic bomb. While early reports speculated that debris came from a top secret MOGUL balloon project, the report states, “When scientists from the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory arrived to inspect LZ-2, it became apparent to all concerned that what had crashed in the desert was something out of this world.” After a “special radiobiological team ... and security detail” from the nearby Armed Forces Special Weapons Project instituted “stringent security measures,” investigators recovered wreckage and, reportedly, five alien bodies. A few recovery personnel suffered “nervous breakdowns,” and “ground personnel from Sandia experienced some form of contamination resulting in the deaths of 3 technicians” and another taken to the hospital. (A later document—Annex A of the 1952 first annual report, classified Top Secret Majic—states that all four technicians died from seizures and profuse bleeding, despite wearing protective suits, after contacting the occupants’ body fluids. Tissue samples were later kept at Ft. Detrick, MD.) Unauthorized civilian witnesses “were detained under the McNabb law ... and warned of the consequences of talking to the press.” The report concluded: Our assessment of this investigation rests on two assumptions: 1) Either this discovery was an elaborate and well orchestrated hoax (maybe by the Russians), or; 2) Our country has played host to beings from another planet. The risks and challenges of such a recovery would certainly call for dedicated staff and careful procedures. The risk of contamination alone, as cited above, is terrifying. Reason dictates that formal methods for such recoveries would be developed and documented. This is the backdrop for the roll of undeveloped Tri-X film that appeared in aviation writer and UFO researcher Don Berliner’s mailbox on March 4, 1994. Perhaps Berliner was selected to receive this film because the year before, at the 1993 Mutual UFO Network International President Eisenhower, to Gen. Nathan Twining. Dated July 14, 1954, this top secret memo notes: “SUBJECT: NSC/MJ-12 Special Studies Project” and indicates that the President wished the “MJ-12 SSP briefing should take place during the already scheduled White House meeting of July 16 ... .” It is further important to point out the difficulties that arise in confirming UFO research. When a second CLA FOIA was submitted, the reply excluded the MJ-12 related memo released to Tim Cooper originally. And the usual crew of debunkers have questioned details of the Cutler memo, which nevertheless remains as official contents closely controlled in the National Archives files. 10 In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case regarding convicted members of the McNabb family, leading to a doctrine for police and official conduct in holding prisoners and taking evidence. Since testimony from living Roswell witnesses cites military threats, it is plausible that the official report might include a “cover your backside” statement that detention and interrogation tactics were proper. 124 Majic Eyes Only Symposium in Richmond Virginia, he spoke on “A Hypothetical Plan for Crash / Retrieval” and invited feedback from anyone who might have direct knowledge.'' The film was mailed from a small grocery and pharmacy chain in La Crosse, WI, owned by the Quillin brothers. When the film was developed it revealed a document of great relevance to UFO crashes and military retrievals. “Majestic 12 Group Special Operations = Manual— EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENTITIES AND TECHNOLOGY, RECOVERY AND DISPOSAL.” (The manual’s cover is shown on the next page with the complete text in the appendix.) mane OM 1-0 | TO 1201—3—11—1 MAJESTIC —12 GROUP SPECIAL OPERATIONS MANUAL EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENTITIES AND TECHNOLOGY. i RECOVERY AND DISPOSAL *| TOP SECRET MAJIC EYES ONLY NG!’ [has ts a DOW SECRET] MAJIC EYES ocun Combating compartmentalized malon essential to the natonal security of mial States EYES ONLY ACCESS to the tol herein ds steny lunte to personnel iny MAMO 12 CLEARANCE LEVEL Ditton er ase by unauthensed personnel ts Hy berbidden oad as punishable by federal APRIL [954 Cover of the Top Secret / Majic Eyes Only manual for UFO recovery Placing this manual in an historical contest, creation of the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) by President Roosevelt and Gen. Marshall was followed by further research interest at the end of World War II. This is indicated in a leaked memo from February 1944 (marked “DOUBLE TOP SECRET’—a highly unusual but known usage for topics well beyond normal security) by President Roosevelt to the “THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON NON-TERRESTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.” Addressing matters raised by 1! Don Berliner has since stated that he does not believe the SOM1-01 manual is authentic due to formatting questions. Intensive research led by Dr. Wood has answered these objections and weighs toward the document’s authenticity. 125 3rd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Dr. Vannevar Bush, America’s chief defense scientist, and Professor Albert Einstein, the President writes: It is my personal judgment that, when the war is won, and peace is once again restored, there will come a time when surplus funds may be available to pursue a program devoted to understanding non-terrestrial science and its technology which is still greatly undiscovered. ... I appreciate the effort and time spent in producing valuable insights into the proposal to find ways of advancing our technology and national progress and in coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life in the universe.” That this came to fruition is consistent with a further leaked document titled “BRIEFING DOCUMENT: OPERATION MAJESTIC 12—PREPARED FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: (EYES ONLY), 18 NOVEMBER, 1952” telling about President Truman’s establishment of a top secret research and intelligence operation, prompted by the dramatic events of 1947. Subsequent Majestic- related activities are described in the “SOM1-01 MAJESTIC-12 GROUP SPECIAL OPERATIONS MANUAL.” The SOM1-01 manual introduces personnel of “Majestic-12 units” to the history and purpose of the operation; describes “UFOBS”®? (UFOBS equals UFObjects) and extraterrestrial entities; then directs detailed security, recovery and shipping procedures for recovered material as well as living and non-living organisms from downed craft. The document emphasizes: “MJ-12 takes the subject of UFOBS, Extraterrestrial Technology, and Extraterrestrial Biological Entities very seriously and considers the entire subject to be a matter of the highest national security.” It is restricted to persons cleared for “TOP SECRET / MAJIC EYES ONLY”—described in the manual as “a security level two points above that of Top Secret”: The reason for this has to do with the consequences that may arise not only from the impact upon the public should the existence of such matters become general knowledge, but also the danger of having such advanced 12 This memorandum and, by far, the most extensive archive of such materials can be found online at the website www.majesucdocuments.com. '3 This acronym, not publicly used, was also found in a CLA document from 17 December 1953 released in response to a Freedom of Information Act Request; its subject is “Current Status of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOB) Project.” 14 This statement about classified controls beyond top secret is supported in numbers of other documents. In one—an authentic former Top Secret memorandum dated November 21, 1950—Wilbert Smith, senior radio engineer for the Canadian Department of Transport stated: “a. The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. b. Flying saucers exist. c. Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Doctor Vannevar Bush. d. The entire matter is considered by the United States authorities to be of tremendous significance.” 126 Majic Eyes Only eee technology as has been recovered by the Air Force fall into the hands of unfriendly foreign powers. Accordingly, the manual provides strict instructions concerning the “need for absolute secrecy in all phases of operation” including a “Press Blackout”: Great care must be taken to preserve the security of any location where Extraterrestrial Technology might be retrievable for scientific study. Extreme measures must be taken to protect and preserve any material or craft from discovery, examination, or removal by civilian agencies or individuals of the general public. ... It should be remembered when selecting a cover story that official policy regarding UFOBS is that they do not exist. ... The most desirable response would be that nothing unusual has occurred. ... Witnesses will be discouraged from talking about what they have seen, and intimidation may be necessary to ensure their cooperation. If witnesses have already contacted the press, it will be necessary to discredit their stories. This can best be done by the assertion that they have either misinterpreted natural events, are the victims of hysteria or hallucinations, or are the perpetrators of hoaxes. Authenticating such material is challenging, but it is similar to forensic investigation of questioned legal documents. Exhaustive research by Dr. Robert Wood" has demonstrated both that the manual is formatted exactly like manuals of the same period archived at the Army War College and that it displays unique characteristics of hot-lead presses used in the 1950s, unlike computer programs that might fake such a document today. The 32-page document, dated April 1954, has been shown to be consistent with the 1953 style manual that guided printing in all government agencies, including classified printing at the CIA. Even the change control pages were on the film showing ongoing updates from “MJ” sources in a fashion typical of government procedure. And text stamped onto one inside page associates the document with a unit KB-88, Building 21, Kirtland AFB, NM (building 21 did exist at the time). The document’s appendix cites other military manuals perfectly down to the last letter and comma, some of which changed just months latter. The manual’s reference to a “UFOB Guide” section on pages 22-25 corresponds to a document released in 1985 under FOIA to Mr. Brian Parks from the Air Force Historical Research Center at Maxwell AFB. In reply to requests for UFO records of the 4602 Air Intelligence Service Squadron, there emerged a “UFOB Guide” dated 15 March 1955—with text identical to the guide included in the SOM1-01 Special Operations Manual. Other word usage subtleties are also compelling such as “screw driver” being two words and “Kraft tape” being called for 15 See Appendix for detailed summary statement about the authenticity of the Special Operations Manual. This paper both responds to criticism of skeptics and provides powerful logic for SOM1-01 authenucity. 127 yrr hed 3d Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference instead of the modern “duct tape”. The list of authenticity points is very long;'® and anachronisms such as “use the cover story of a downed satellite” three years before a satellite went to space turn into points of authentication, since major print and TV outlets widely covered artificial satellites starting in 1952. At least three witnesses have come forward to state that they have seen the manual. U.S. Navy Yeoman 2™ Class Dale Bailey, who served in a Crystal City, VA building that housed Navy offices outside Washington, DC, reports that in 1976 he was assigned to shred documents from the vault of Admiral Frederick H. Michaelis, who was Chief of Naval Materiel from 1975 to 1978. Bailey stated that the admiral was a personal friend of Admiral Bobby Inman (who, between 1974 and 1982, served as director of naval intelligence, vice- director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency). Bailey recalled that Admiral Michaelis’ duties also included intelligence-related matters and periodic service at Raven Rock, sometimes called the “underground Pentagon,” located six miles north of the presidential retreat at Camp David and near Fort Ritchie.” Bailey states that in order to create more room in the inner vault of the admiral’s office, old files were destroyed. As he helped to shred documents, he saw a copy of the top secret UFO briefing document for President Eisenhower, as well as a version of the top secret SOM1-01 Special Operations Manual (whose instructions on materiel handling would be consistent with the mission of Navy materiel). Recent investigation also shows that Admiral Michaelis himself had once commanded the Naval Air Special Weapons Facility at Kirtland AFB from 1951-1954. The jargon “special weapons” refers to atomic energy—a subject closely associated with UFOs, since sightings and crashes have occurred near nuclear installations. Recovered UFOs have reportedly been secured and analyzed at nuclear laboratories and UFO propulsion may derive from atomic reactors. Those with access to “special weapons” programs are already cleared and presumably trustworthy to protect other great secrets. In addition to operational duties (including command of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise), Michaelis’ senior staff assignments included the Strategic Plans Division of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO); Director of Development Programs, Office of the CNO; Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Air); and Commander, Naval Air Force, Atlantic Fleet. He was certainly in a position to have dealt with aircraft encountering UFOs, handling of recovered UFO materiel, related issues of atomic power, and implications for Naval strategy. Skeptics to the authenticity of SOM1-01, such as Richard Hall, a former congressional aide, typically say, “I’ve looked at countless numbers of official documents and it looks fake to me.” In general, what our team has observed is that people who have had security clearances or been in positions of authority and were not aware of the extraterrestrial matter 16 See authentication section of www.majesticdocuemnts.com for Dr. Robert Wood’s papers—Validating the New Majestic Documents and Mounting Evidence for the Authenticity of the MJ12 Documents. 17 In 1950, President Truman approved Raven Rock Mountain, PA, as the site for the Alternate Joint Communications Center, Site R; construction began in 1951 and the site became operational in 1953. 128 Majic Eyes Only me ee Y just can’t believe they were out of the loop. It’s ego. Furthermore, we have not found any skeptics to interview who had top secret codeword access in the 1950’s. Archives don’t have any remotely relevant top secret codeword documents declassified. Potentially more significant is the fact that we rarely get specific, logical, scientific arguments identifying anachronisms that question the authenticity of SOM1-01. Potentially, the most compelling evidence concerning provenance of the SOM1-01 Special Operations Manual are findings from direct investigation on behalf of this book’s author. An investigator conducted direct interviews in LaCrosse, WI, with people involved with the Quillin Pharmacy, leading eventually to meeting an individual who had the SOM1- 01 manual. The investigator stated, “I held the original in my hands, was able to thumb through it, the paper and ACCO binder looked old and when I asked to have an original page for forensic analysis the document owner refused to provide it.” What begs to be accomplished, of course, is testing of the paper and ink. Yet with limited resources accorded to the “politically incorrect” UFO topic, as well as fear among witnesses of penalties or ridicule, this is work that remains to be done. For the sake of history, one can only hope that the original document does not vanish, as have photographs and other UFO evidence handed over to authorities or ransacked from private files. The FBI is urged to invesugate this leak of classified documents. Another important witness to the topic of UFO crashes is the late June Kaba. Born as June Crain, she provided extensive, consistent and verifiable information about her work at Wright Field, Ohio between 1942 and 1952. Known as a respected philanthropist in her community in Washington State before her death in 1998, she came forward in June 1977— upset by press releases from the Air Force denying recovery in early July 1947 of crashed alien craft and non-human bodies near Roswell, NM. Speaking with police detective and UFO investigator James Clarkson, June provided extensive documentation of her work at the Wright Air Development Center. She gave detailed testimony about frequent sightings of UFOs over the White Sands missile test range; accounts of at least three UFO crashes; as well as her discussion with an Air Force master sergeant who had arrived in a military transport from New Mexico, delivering “two little men ... non-humans ... described as greenish-blue ... and put them in the ice box.” Later in about 1951 or 1952, an officer in her classified research unit showed her a piece of metal about “half the size of a business card” that he told her was “a piece of a space ship.” She stated that it was “light as a feather,” returned to its original form when bent and couldn’t be cut or marred with her scissors no matter how hard she tried. This is exactly like material described by first-hand witnesses to the so-called Roswell incident. Her testimony with many other details, just months before her death, included recollection of discussions among engineers in her branch about the exceptional acceleration and G-forces demonstrated by UFOs, which were far beyond any human technology or human ability to withstand. 129 3'4 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Early photograph of witness June Crain, who worked at the Wright Air Development Any thoughtful person at this point must consider whether documents, multiple witnesses and detailed descriptions of UFO crashes and retrievals are simply woven from lies and delusions. What about hoaxes? After all, some hoaxes grow inevitably from human foibles: ego, greed and delusion. Another motive might be to “muddy the waters” by officials discrediting the UFO subject, as advised in the SOM1-01 manual. Dr. Robert Wood notes that some hoaxers create a false claim. For example, plant the claim with a researcher; await the researcher’s public statements; then announce it was a hoax to discredit the researcher. Dr. Wood mentions a few probable hoaxes. One was a report alleging that in 1946 a UFO was seen in a hangar in Yuma, AZ; another alleging that in 1979 an alien body was found in the Pocono Mountains and placed in a freezer; and another in 1989 alleging recovery of an alien vessel in Carp, Canada. Accomplished author and international UFO researcher Nick Redfern has carefully examined reported UFO crashes and does find instances of apparent deception. He writes: Detailed study of the history of the crashed UFO subject reveals a number of cases that can be considered hoaxes, or suspected hoaxes, at least. Interestingly, however, hoaxing purely for the sake of creating a bogus story is very rare. Indeed, there are good indications that many of the spurious cases have been created by the murky world of officialdom to confuse the true nature of the crashed UFO mystery. For example, with regard to the infamous UFO crash at Aztec, New Mexico in 1948 that many people believe to be a hoax, a fascinating piece of documentary evidence relative to the case has surfaced, thanks to the work of the investigative author Karl Pflock: namely, extracts from the alleged personal diary of Silas Newton (one of the key sources for the Aztec story) from the 1970s. In the diary, Newton revealed that, in the early 1950s, he was contacted by military officials that wished to speak with him about his crashed UFO story. Newton was told 130 Majic Eyes Only that the military knew that his UFO-crash-at-Aztec story was bogus. Incredibly, however, they wanted him to continue spreading the story far and wide and to whoever would listen. Newton asserted in his diary that while he might not have known too much about crashed UFOs, he had no doubt that his mysterious contacts certainly did know a great deal about the subject. However, according to witnesses that Linda Moulton Howe has interviewed, there was a 1948 Aztec crash. This raises a number of important questions. Was Newton (as a convicted and known con man) asked to conunue telling his largely discredited tale because it acted as a convenient smokescreen for the military to hide a real crashed UFO behind? Or is there another reason why the military would want to spread fake stories about the U.S. Government being in possession of a crashed UFO? Possibly. The U.S. Intelligence community is known to have made use of the UFO controversy as a tool of psychological warfare in the 1950s. It is conceivable that such stories were purposefully spread —at the height of the Cold War—to try and convince the Soviets that the U.S. had access to a technology the like of which the Soviets could only dream about. A further example of “official hoaxing” can be found in the Spitsbergen saga of 1952, when it was alleged that a UFO crashed on the European island of Spitsbergen. Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, the National Security Agency has declassified a translation of a Russian Novosti Press Agency article on UFOs titled “Flying Saucers? Theyre A Myth!” Contained within the article is a small section that reads thus: “An abandoned silvery disc was found in the deep rock-coal seams in Norwegian coal mines on Spitsbergen. It was pierced and marked by micro-meteor impacts and bore all traces of having performed a long space voyage. It was sent for analysis to the Pentagon and disappeared there.” Notably, prior to its declassification, the section of the article translation that referred to Spitsbergen was carefully circled with a pen by an unknown source at the NSA with the word “Plant.” Although many researchers have (with some justification) dismissed the Spitsbergen case because of the proven fact that several of those cited in then-contemporary newspaper articles on the case were outright products of fiction, the “Plant” reference suggests that the case may have really been a hoax perpetrated by U.S. Intelligence—designed to cloud and confuse even further the foggy world of UFO crash-retrieval accounts. Similarly, following the collapse of Nazi Germany, several of Hungary’s national treasures, including the Crown of St. Stephen, were handed over to the United States military for safekeeping. They were duly delivered (in the 131 —— w 3 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference early 1950s) to Fort Knox in an elaborate operation codenamed Klondike. The treasure was eventually returned to Hungary in 1978. This would be just another story of political and historical intrigue were it not for the fact that, according to a memorandum in the files of the State Department, the soldiers designated to guard the treasure were told that the boxes contained “the wings and engine of a flying saucer.” As researcher and author William Moore notes: “Unsubstanuated stories about parts of a flying saucer being stored at Fort Knox continue to be part of the UFO crash/retrieval rumor mill to this very day. How many other similar rumors have a similar origin is anybody’s guess.” Perhaps the most infamous case was the story of an alleged UFO crash in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, in May 1989. The details were first revealed publicly in September 1989 at the annual conference of the now- defunct British UFO Magazine. According to the story, a UFO was shot down by South African forces, alien bodies were recovered, and the material evidence was transferred to the United States for study. British researcher Tony Dodd was provided with documents that purported to originate with the South African Air Force, that looked official, and that seemed to corroborate the story. However, they were riddled with errors and the case quickly collapsed as nothing more than a simple hoax. The cases cited above, however, are important in the sense that they demonstrate when it comes to crashed UFOs and hoaxes, the hand of officialdom can often be found at work. And of course, if there were nothing to hide, there would be no need for the Intelligence world to spread such tales in the first place." The cases presented in this book span the spectrum of quality, credibility, sources and evidence—that is the harsh reality at present. It would be ideal if they were all highly credible, with unimpeachable sources and physical evidence, but they are not. However, with more money, resources and sophistication, virtually all of these cases could be advanced and moved much closer to a firm authenticity conclusion. Many of the cases have reached this point, with multiple investigators working over years with highly consistent evidence, despite the personal expense of time and money. Some crash incidents have collectively absorbed hundreds of thousands of dollars in research. Some cases are authentic almost by definition; they came from essentially unimpeachable sources like the National Archives or from military records. There are several such cases in this book. But if we infer more than what is literally documented, then the case must be treated more cautiously. Given the varying quality of each case, it is important to provide an objective methodology to rate the authenticity of the crash retrieval event for the reader. New UFO 18 Private correspondence to the author. 132 Majic Eyes Only aoo ee EY crash incidents start at a neutral position until evidence is gathered. Authenticity is a manifold function; it is not as simple as true or false, hoaxed or real. Furthermore, each of the key vectors of authenticity has different weighting factors: for example, an eyewitness to a crash event is less probative than, say, a tissue sample of an extraterrestrial. Hence, authenticity of a crash retrieval incident involves examining the answers to many questions. Where did the case come from? How many direct first-hand witnesses are there? What is their relative consistency, credibility and relevancy to the case? What are the results of investigations into any physical evidence, such as soil variations, wreckage, original government documents? If there are original documents, what are the results of the forensic tests of paper, ink, watermark, typewriter and handwriting? Are there official, publicly released documents that are relevant to the case, such as FBI files, Presidential or Natonal Archives material? If there are clandestinely leaked documents that support the case, what unique and obscure content markers do they contain that are accurate for this type of document? Have independent forensic experts examined the evidence? How difficult is the incident to hoax or fake? Who might fake the incident or document, and why? All of these factors, as well as other related sub-questions, weave their way into a score for each key category and ultimately generate an authenticity rating for the UFO crash incident. To deal with such a wide variety of aspects, we need a structured process to fairly and effectively rate each case for authenticity. We have developed a weighting factor for each authenticity category under consideration, as shown in the table below. Within each category there is five point scale which, when multiplied by the weighting factor, results in a maximum total score of 125 points. A discussion of criteria in each class follows. The use of weighting multipliers helps the analysis be objective for each UFO crash incident. Weighting Authenticity Class Multiplier Sources (provenance of case, number of sources, internal consistency, source credibility) Zingers (obscure facts or actions, rare verifiable subtlety, accurate oddness) Content (The key data of the story and its verifiability) Chronology (Is the timeline of the events and data consistent, believable and accurate? No Anachronisms (specific issues or aspects of the case that are substantially at odds with case itself or with other known facts of history) Forensics (physical trace testing, paper and ink testing of documents, forensic linguistics) 133 Ba rasg 3d Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Eyewitness: First-hand witness(es) that were directly involved with the crash incident, ie. they saw it either on site, in transport, or in storage. Was the witness a trained observer? Witnesses are fallible, their memories change with time and can be influenced. Second-hand witnesses count also, i.e. those that hear the story directly from a first-hand witness. Eyewitnesses are given a weighting factor of 3.0. Sources: How did the case or document surface? Was it officially found in the National Archives or equivalent? Is it logical or normal for the source to have been involved? Are there multiple independent sources corroborating the same event? Sources are given a weighting factor of 5.0. Zingers: These are aspects of any of the key authenticity metrics that go far beyond the norm. In essence, a zinger is a verified rare subtlety of the case or document that is exceptionally obscure, weird, or odd—an anomaly. A document example would include typographical anomalies associated with the printing process of the era. A witness example might be a civilian describing and sketching a military insignia patch seen at a crash site that is later verified as accurate and appropriate to the period and circumstances. Zingers are given a weighting factor of 5.0. Content: Refers to all the informational data of a case, including locations, details of the event, official and leaked documents. Are the dates, descriptions, document references, and individuals mentioned appropriate and consistent? What does the case or document say in relation to what was known then and now? Are there obscure facts that were classified then that were declassified or became public after the case was exposed? Content is given a weighting factor of 2.0. Chronology: Is there a detailed, verifiable timeline consistent with the reported facts of the crash retrieval event? Is the placement of document content with respect to organizational history accurate? Are the people reportedly involved in the event supposed to be there? In the case of well known persons, do their documented meeting and travel schedules coincide with involvement in the event? Is the document or incident procedure consistent with other documents or military procedure of the era? Chronology is given a weighting factor of 2.0. Forensics: This can include several types of testing, for example soil testing, materials testing, testing of original paper, verifying watermarks, and testing of inks against known authentic standards. If relevant, typography aspects such as typewriter style, typesetting, laser printing, photocopying, mimeography—any technique that creates writing on paper—may be germane. Are there new forensic technologies that can validate the case? The use of forensic linguistics falls in this category, i.e. the examination by language experts of sentence structure, spelling, punctuation and writing style, employing sophisticated computer tools as well as hand analysis, to pinpoint style markers that uniquely define authorship. Forensic tests are typically expensive and done by independent professionals. Forensics are given a weighting factor of 5.0. 134 Majic Eyes Only ee ee ee ee Anachronisms: These are problems with the case or document—stories that don’t remotely match, evidence that is out of place in time or space; in documents, formats that are wrong, similar handwriting or content possibly copied from other documents. These issues can be significant or minor depending on what is known about the frequency of such an anachronism. For example, addressing a military general by his first name in a document may seem like a major mistake in the modern era, but 50 years ago in the company of other generals, this anachronism could in fact be a hallmark of authenticity. The goal is to have no anachronisms. The weighting factor for anachronisms is 5.0. Combining the weighted scores associated with these seven categories, then normalizing the result to a percentage, yields five possible levels of authenticity for each case, as follows. High Level of Authenticity — 80-100% sa This means that virtually all of the available investigative channels and ideas have been pursued, and with each test the case or document has shown to be authentic or nearly problem free. At this level, multiple witnesses are present that have seen the crash or aftermath, or read a document about it in an “official” capacity, and have signed or will sign an affidavit to that effect. Physical evidence is available; for example, rocks to test, scarred trees, photographs or direct ET materials. Forensic tests of paper, ink, obscure content, handwriting, period typography and fonts, correct formatting, forensic linguistics (along with no sign of anachronisms), all indicate the highest level of authenticity. At least several researchers are in substantial agreement about the core evidence of the case, often for many years. Medium-High Level of Authenticity — 60-80% gn The medium-high level means that a considerable amount of investigation has been completed. Witnesses are present, stories appear genuine, a few anachronisms may be present but have reasonable explanations. Forensic testing, if possible, has been partially completed, and there are strong signs of case validity. If a document case, there exists persuasive content, correct typography and zingers. Medium Level of Authenticity — 40-60% gA The medium level is the starting point for most UFO crash retrieval cases or leaked documents. In essence, these cases are under-researched. They need research and answers to the many questions posed by the weighting factors to move higher or lower. This level shows both signs of positive authenticity and worrisome questions as detailed in the seven attributes of authenticity cited above. Medium-Low Level of Authenticity — 20-40% AD The medium-low level means the case or document has been studied by many individuals or organizations and there are stubborn anachronisms that cannot easily be resolved. Forensic tests are not available or the results are damaging to the case. There are aspects of the case 135 —— 3:6 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference (or pages or paragraphs of the document) that show signs of authenticity, but on balance there are more damning points than good. Low Level of Authenticity — 0-20% AD A low level means that significant irresolvable anachronisms have been identified that cast doubt on the entire case or document. Virtually all investigative avenues have been pursued and show little or no sign of internal consistency. Witness stories don’t match and differ from the direct evidence. A credible motive for faking the document or hoaxing an event may be identified, along with likely perpetrators. The reader will notice the authenticity graphic near the title of each case. It is important to weed out false cases, and this places a special burden on the honest UFO researcher whose search continues. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in the pioneering work of Leonard Stringfield, arguably the world’s premier collector and disseminator of data on the subject of UFO crash-retrievals. Born on December 17, 1920, he was nicknamed “Webster” in high school, due to the astonishing fact that he actually memorized the entire dictionary. After graduating from college in 1939, Stringfield joined the 5" Air Force directly out of Wright Field, OH, and subsequently served in Australia, the Philippines and Japan, first as a journalist and then later in the fields of intelligence and counter-intelligence. Following the Second World War, he worked for 31 years at the DuBois Chemical Company, where he retired in 1981 as their Director of Public Relations. But it was on August 27, 1945 that Stringfield was thrust into the mysterious world of the UFO, when—at Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theater—he encountered three “Foo Fighters” (as pilots were calling UFO sightings) flying perilously close to his aircraft. As Stringfield himself noted: “The orderly world I thought I knew was no more.” Leonard Stringfield, pioneering UFO researcher Between 1953 and 1957, Stringfield developed his UFO studies and served as Director of CRIFO—the Civilian Research Interplanetary Flying Objects group. Beginning in 1954, Stringfield worked cooperatively with the Air Defense Command of the U.S. Air Force (USAF). Until 1957, he regularly screened and reported to the USAF details of UFO activity 136 Majic Eyes Only EE in the tri-state area of southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana. As Stringfield himself recalled: At that time, many UFO sighting reports came to my home from police departments, sheriffs offices, state police, the media, and citizenry. I was assigned a code number—Fox Trot Kilo 3 Zero Blue—which would identify me at the telephone exchange to report, by phone, to the Air Defense Command Air Filter Center at Lockbourne AFB, in Columbus, Ohio. If my screened UFO report was confirmed by radar, or other means, Air Force interceptors were scrambled. At this point, 1 was told that the resultant actions were classified. The Air Force paid my phone bills. Stringfield’s first book, Inside Saucer Post 3-0 Blue, was published in 1957. He served from 1957 until 1970 as Public Relations Advisor for the Washington, D.C.-based NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. He also served on the Board of Directors of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network; as an Associate Investigator for CUFOS, the Center for UFO Studies; and as President of the Cincinnati UFO Society. In a landmark development, in 1977 he served as advisor to Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy of Grenada, who proposed to the United Nations a plan to establish an agency specifically designed to undertake UFO research. Also, in 1977 Doubleday Books published Stringfield’s second book, Svtation Red: The UFO Siege, that chronicled his investigations from the 1950s to the 1970s and included references to the crashed UFO controversy. Interest stirred by Stringfield’s book Situation Red spurred him to dig deeper into reports of UFO crashes, and ultimately led him to focus exclusively on this particular aspect of the UFO phenomenon. Between 1978 and 1994, Stringfield self-published seven well-received Status Reports on crashed UFO incidents that revealed a wealth of data from numerous named and confidential sources. Collectively there were hundreds of pages of previously unseen and vitally important data. As Stringfield noted in his final Satus Report published in February 1994: “If this should be my last monograph on UFO crash / retrievals, I feel a warmth of satisfaction that my contributions have made a dent into the credibility that UFO’s have had fatal failures.” Sadly, on December 18, 1994, after a long bout with cancer, Leonard Stringfield died in his sleep one day after his 74° birthday—yet not before adding immeasurably to what history must show is a new stage in human understanding. Some skeptics of Stringfield will say that he played an active role in the U.S. government’s disinformation efforts. This is possible, but not very logical or likely. The best strategy for minimizing the impact of crash retrieval stories would be to say nothing and let the whole issue fade from memory. Instead, Stringfield was a forceful advocate to the end, writing books, speaking at conferences and stirring the pot of public interest. Dr. Robert Wood, respected researcher of leaked UFO documents after 43 years as an 137 a Pee a 3d Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference aerospace physicist for McDonnell Douglas Corporation,” reports: I had the good fortune to meet with Len at MUFON symposia, and I think in about 1990 or 1991 I introduced myself, and asked him the question: ‘Len, if you had to make an even-money bet and let me pick high or low, what, in your opinion is the number of crashes that we have recovered? My recollection is that he said ‘Ten.’ This was much larger than I had expected at the time, since I hadn’t studied the topic much. Actually, I think he was low. His own data argue for on the order of 30 crashes, especially if you include those that he may not have known about such as the L.A. air raid cases, since none of those documents had leaked at that time. Len’s insight into the phenomena, provided by his merely listening to the witnesses and assessing their integrity and circumstances, permitted him to figure out long before most of the rest of us that we had a healthy crash retrieval program underway for years, hiding the truth from everyone without a need to know. His reports, together with research now done on leaked documents—covering the Majestic 12 group, the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit and “captured” and “downed” craft—are suggestive of an aggressive plan to get them into our laboratories. My conclusions, based on active work in this area since 1967, point to many craft and alien occupants recovered and captured. At one time in the early Cold War so much military action took place, perhaps firing on these craft, one might have described some of the actions as an interplanetary war. I feel that one of the most important reasons for continuing secrecy is the strong desire of those in charge not to reveal such enormous control that has been exerted over what the public thinks. In contrast, Leonard Stringfield’s work has proven excellent, and surprisingly, offers many leads even today for checking up on some of those reports. We can only hope that his files receive the further research they deserve. 19 The most extensive trove of leaked documents, supporting materials and analysis by Dr. Bob Wood and Ryan Wood can be found at the website www.majesticdocuments.com. 138 Majic Eyes Only For those who still dismiss the exceptional research of Leonard Stringfield and Dr. Robert Wood, it is instructive to summarize what we know about Project MOON DUST, an activity that updated UFO recovery intelligence from its origins in the 1940s to recent decades. As context, Air Force regulation AFR 200-2, dated 12 August 1954, clearly stated: The Air Defense Command has a direct interest in the facts pertaining to UFOB’s (UFO reports) reported within the ZI [Zone of the Interior” or the continental U.S.] and has, in the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS) the capability to investigate these reports. The 4602d AISS is composed of specialists trained for field collection and investigation of matters of air intelligence interest which occur within the ZI. This squadron is highly mobile and deployed throughout the ZI. ... The Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) will analyze and evaluate: All information and evidence within the ZI after the Air Defense Command has exhausted all efforts to identify the UFOB; and all information and evidence collected in Overseas areas. It certainly makes sense that the Air Force would recover foreign satellites fallen out of orbit and other space debris. Yet would this also include unidentified spacecraft that have impacted earth? Clifford Stone, UFO researcher after retiring from the Army, has unveiled intelligence, military and other documents, as well as airgrams (electronic cables) declassified from the State Department referencing Project MOON DUST. These airgrams make clear that there have been expeditions by government teams to retrieve not only conventional objects, but also crashed UFOs. In 1992, U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman wrote the Air Force concerning Stone’s inquiries about Project MOON DUST and a related Operation BLUE FLY. The Air Force replied to the Senator emphatically: 139 3rd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference There is no agency, nor has there ever been, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, which would deal with UFOs or have any information about the incident at Roswell. In addition, there is no Project Moon Dust or Operation Blue Fly. Those missions have never existed. This reply would contradict not only references to MOON DUST in declassified State Department cables, but the revealing instructions in an Air Force memorandum titled “AFCIN Intelligence Team Personnel” dated 13 Nov 1961: In addition to their staff duty assignments, intelligence team personnel have peacetime duty functions in support of such Air Force projects as MOON DUST, BLUE FLY and UFO, and other AFCIN directed quick reaction projects which require intelligence team operational capabilities... Headquarters USAF has established a program for investigation of reliably reported unidentified flying objects within the United States. AFR 200-2 delineates 1127" collection responsibilities [an Air Force intelligence unit at Ft. Belvoir, VAJ” Operation Blue Fly has been established to facilitate expeditions delivery to FTD [Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB] of Moon Dust or other items of great technical intelligence interest. ... Peacetime employment of AFCIN intelligence team capability is provided for in UFO investigations (AFR 200-2) and in support of Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) Foreign Technology Division (FTD) Projects Moon Dust and Blue Fly. Confronted with evidence, the Air Force wrote to Senator Bingaman to correct the record. It said that in the Korean War, intelligence teams were deployed to recover downed enemy equipment and that these activities evolved into Project MOON DUST to recover space vehicle debris and Operation BLUE FLY to retrieve downed Soviet Bloc equipment. “These teams,” wrote the Air Force, “were eventually disbanded because of lack of activity; Project MOON DUST and Operation BLUE FLY missions were similarly discontinued.” From outright denial, to limited admission of a conventional project that faded out due, allegedly, to lack of activity. Some may not be comforted to hear that the Air Force disbanded missions to recover space debris and foreign equipment. Some may wonder how the “lack of activity” comports with approximately 1,000 pages of official documentation on MOON DUST and BLUE FLY that have now been released into the public domain by the Department of State, Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency and CIA. One nearly illegible report from 1965 is titled: "FRAGMENT METAL, RECOVERED IN THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, ORIGIN BELIEVED TO BE AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT." One MOON DUST case from Bolivia, presented later in this book, was gleaned from a FOIA request to the U.S. Department of State. The case concerned a crashed object 20 Over the years this unit has been redesignated several times. In July 1957 the 4602 Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS) became the 1006 AISS; in April 1960 it became the 1127 USAF Field Activities Group; this became the 7602 Field Activities Group; and today it exists as the 696 Air Intelligence Group located at Ft. Belvoir, VA. 140 Majic Eyes Only ——— a ee eee recovered at Taire Mountain, Bolivia, in May 1978. A formerly-Secret State Department airgram asserts: “Preliminary information provided has been checked with appropriate government agencies. No direct correlation with known space objects that may have re- entered the Earth’s atmosphere near May 6 can be made; however, we continue to examine any possibilities.” The possibility that the object was a meteorite can almost certainly be discounted, primarily because the Department of State’s airgram of 15 May states: “The object was...egg-shaped, metal and about four meters in diameter.” CIA reports of May 1978 on the same topic have also surfaced; and veteran journalist Robert Pratt conducted extensive research on-site in Bolivia surfacing many unexplainable details. In 2003, sources contacted this author about the Bolivia case, prompted by the cable television Sci-Fi Channel’s reference to MOON DUST documents. These sources were surprised to see public reference to the Bolivia event about which they had secret official knowledge. They confirmed MOON DUST operations, which usually involved retrieval of downed satellites or aircraft, but sometimes involved UFOs. Sources stated that the object recovered by the U.S. in Bolivia was “not big—fifteen feet max, dirty white and oval.” No one seemed to know what the object was, as it had no markings, entry points or seams and was extremely light. It was delivered to Wright-Patterson AFB. One source stated that the Bolivia case was “the strangest that he had been involved in....” Information since that time indicates public disclosure of MOON DUST led to renaming the activity, though its functions must certainly continue unless we believe the military has no further interest in downed satellites or aircraft—not to mention UFOs. We believe that MOON DUST itself was only the surface of a much more deeply concealed intelligence, research and development infrastructure. No doubt the modern equivalents of the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, the Special Committee on Non-terrestrial Science and Technology, and the Majestic 12 Group have also taken new and different forms in recent decades. Yet the fundamental phenomenon that called these organizations into existence— as shown by the cases that follow—persists. Put simply: on rare occasions craft from nonhuman sources crash into earth, and governments jealously retrieve and exploit these finds in greatest secrecy. Nevertheless, the secrecy has begun to erode. The natural urge for honest minds to seek the truth has begun to reveal as much about ourselves and our own history as it does about the capabilities and intentions of space visitors and their technology. This research, however thinly supported in today’s culture, has begun to shed light on official acts performed in our name. To explore these matters is not unpatriotic, to commend them for research is not irrational; and to publish them openly is not zany and foolish. As we begin to comprehend this secret of the past and its meaning for the furure—it is time for “MAJIC EYES ONLY” to enlighten our eyes also. 14] Alien Autopsy Film: A Decade Later Philip Mantle Copyright 2005 Philip Mantle In 1995, London-based businessman Ray Santilli created what has become arguably the biggest controversy in the entire history of UFO research, when his Alien Autopsy film hit the front pages of numerous magazines and the TV screens of over 20 different countries. By far the most popular TV documentary made at the time was the Fox Network’s Aen Autopsy - Fact or Fiction? For those who are unaware of this controversial film, a brief recap might be in order. Video-producer Ray Santilli claimed that in 1992 he was in Cleveland, Ohio, looking for vintage film clips of rock-n-roll performers from the 1950s. People like Elvis Presley and Pa Boone were at the top of his list. Santilli claimed that he met an elderly gentleman from who he purchased a rare clip of the late Elvis, live on stage. The elderly man had filmed the piece himself while working as a freelance cameraman in the 1950s. Shortly before returning home, Santilli was again contacted by the elderly cameraman, who this time had something different to offer. The story he told was that prior to being a freelance cameraman, he was a cameraman with the US Army and that in 1947 he had been flown to Roswell, New Mexico, on a special assignment. Initially, the cameraman was informed that he was to film the crash of a Soviet spy-plane; but, on arrival, it became clear that this was no Russian plane. Instead he claimed to have filmed the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947 - and not only that, but the actual autopsy of two of the dead aliens. Above: an image from a video-interview with the alleged Alien Autopsy cameraman. Do you recognize this man? Quite naturally Santilli expressed great interest; and, at a later date, he visited the cameraman at his home to view this other footage. To his amazement it did indeed appear to show the autopsy of an alien. Santilli immediately agreed to buy the film for cash, the only other condition being that he was never to reveal the identity of the cameraman himself. Santilli, not having the amount of money needed to complete the deal - reported to be atound $150,000, but never confirmed - eventually turned to his German business partner, Volker Spielberg, for assistance. (i Dahesh 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference A pre-dissection image from the controversial Alien Autopsy film. Over the next couple of years, Santilli purchased the film and transported it to the UK where it was transferred to video. In 1993, Santilli contacted me to see if 1 might be able to assist in the making of a UFO documentary. Eventually he told me about the film he had purchased and of his plans to commercialize it. It was not until early 1995 that I first saw any of the film. My wife, Sue, and I visited Santilli’s offices in London on several occasions to view the film. At the time, I was the conference organizer for the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), and I already had a conference planned for August 1995. I asked Santilli if he would show the film at the conference and he agreed to do so. In the meantime, after a private screening organized by Santilli in London for an invited audience only, he set about selling the rights to the film to a wide variety of publishers and TV companies around the world. First to publish stills from the film was VSD in France and copies were soon flying around the world via the Internet. The day after our conference in August 1995 saw the film broadcast on TV around the world. And the rest, as they say, is history. There have been numerous claims and counter-claims made surrounding this film and there simply is not enough room to cover all of these here. However, a brief look at one or two of them is included. Santilli has always claimed that the film had been tested and dated as being 1947 vintage. This is incorrect, however. Snippets of film have been seen and tested, but none of them had any scenes on them from the film that was broadcast on TV or seen on video. Therefore, the exact date of the film still remains open to question. Claims made by Santilli about other scenes shown on the film - such as the crash site - have also proven to be unfounded. Most UFO researchers have dismissed the film as a fake, usually accusing Santilli of being the hoaxer; and in some instances even with my assistance. The fact remains, however, that there is no proof that Santilli is a hoaxer; and there may even be some evidence to the contrary. For the last 3 years, I have received assistance in further research into the so-called Alien Autopsy film from my colleague Tim Matthews. Tim is a well-known UFO skeptic in Britain as well as an author and lecturer on the subject. In order to keep the research into 144 Alien Autopsy Film: A Decade Later ee Ea this film balanced, | felt that Tim was the ideal researcher to ask for assistance. Prior to this, I had worked with the German researcher Michael Hesemann and together we co-authored the book Beyond Roswell that featured some of the early research into the film. What I am attempting to do now is to look at both new and old information to see if it either supports the authenticity of the film, or adds weight to the theory that it is a fraud. When US researcher Steven Greer held a special event in the United States as part of his Disclosure Project, many military personnel stood up in front of an audience made up of the media, telling of their involvement in - or knowledge of - the UFO phenomena. One such witness was Set. Clifford Stone, US Army (Retired). Stone was interviewed in 1996 by US researcher Ted Loman and claimed that in 1969 he was stationed at Fort Ley, Virginia as part of a Quick Reaction Team. While at Fort Belvoir he and another person, an airman with the USAF, went for a walk around the base. While on a tour of the base, they came across an auditorium, a bit like a small theater. They were looking down through a Plexiglas window into the auditorium. It was filled with military personnel who seemed to be watching films of UFOs. Stone and his colleague thought that they had to have been watching trailers for Science-Fiction movies of some kind. Stone also saw a film depicting bodies of creatures that were not human. Eventually Stone and his colleague were caught and subsequently “debriefed” in an extremely firm manner. Basically, they were ordered not to reveal anything and were told that they had seen nothing. Reluctantly, both parties agreed to this. It was not until 1995 when Stone saw the Alien Autopsy film that he made the connection between it and what he had seen back in 1969. Stone was convinced that the film he saw in 1969 and the Santilli film were one of the same. Obviously, if Santilli had faked the film, Sgt. Clifford Stone could not have seen it in the apparent ownership of the US military in 1969. Sgt. Stone is only one of several former US military personnel who claim to have seen the film while on active duty long in advance of Sanulli’s ownership. Above: Sgt. Clifford Stone (US Army retired) who claims to have viewed scenes from the Alien Autopsy film while serving with the US Army in 1969. 145 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Many so-called experts have argued against the authenticity of the film, stating that it was filmed on video and not 16mm film as claimed. All of the genuine film-and- photographic-experts that we have been in contact with disagree, and are more than convinced that there is enough evidence to suggest it was indeed shot on 16mm. One man outside of Santilli’s company who knows this for sure is Frank Salas. The reason why Salas is so sure is because he is the technician who transferred the original 16mm film onto video at his place of work in London. We have two tape-recorded interviews with Salas, and he informed us that, at the request of Sanulli's company, he was sent the film and he transferred it to video. It was transferred on to both VHS and Betacam. Salas told us that some of the film was in pretty poor quality but other parts of it were not too bad at all. Salas gave us detailed information of how he transferred the 16mm film onto video including the types of equipment he used. He was in no doubt that it was indeed 16mm; but he would not guess at its age, as this was not his area of expertise. Salas went on to state that it was indeed the Alien Autopsy film that he transferred and that he was under no added pressure to keep this secret other than the normal client confidentiality. In fact, Salas would only agree to answer our questions after receiving a fax giving him permission to do so by Ray Santilli himself. Santilli did this at our request. As far as Salas was concerned, if this was a hoax, it was a very, very good one. But he did not think that it was. So, for the first time we have someone outside of Santilli’s company who actually handled the 16mm film and saw the autopsy images on it. This, according to many, was not possible, as it was a contemporary hoax filmed only on video. So, we have a military witness from 1969 and a civilian film technician. But is there anyone else who can support either of these stories? Mike Maloney, a professional photographer, who claims to have viewed scenes from the Alien Autopsy film while working at the Disney Corporation in the 1970s. Mike Maloney is the Group Chief Photographer at Mirror Group Newspapers in England, and is the only working press-photographer to be awarded fellowships from both the Royal Photographic Society and the British Institute of Professional Photographers. To date, Maloney has collected ninety-six major photographic awards including Press 146 EEE" Alien Autopsy Film: A Decade Later eee Photographer of the Year three times. He is, in fact, the most highly awarded photographer in the UK. He has mingled with the powerful and the famous, having dined in the Kremlin with President Gorbachev, at The White House with President Reagan, in Monte Carlo with Grace Kelly, and with Jackie Onassis in New York. Maloney has informed us on tape that, in the 1970s, while dining with the head of the Disney studios, he was introduced to four of the original Disney animators. While chatting with them, he was introduced to another person who in turn invited him to the viewing of some most unusual films. He was invited to this man’s house and, on an old projector, was shown film clips of UFOs and, you guessed it, scenes from the Alien Autopsy film. It was 16mm film and the film was not created by Disney or by anyone else for that matter. It was the genuine article. Maloney claims to have seen other reels of film from the same batch, rather than exactly the same scenes that the Santilli film shows. He is in no doubt, though, that they are of the same thing. We asked him whether he felt the Santilli film was a fake. He replied: “l am convinced, Philip, it's not a fake. I am convinced it’s not a hoax.” To-date in my files I have testimony from eight separate individuals who claim to have seen the Alien Autopsy film long before its ownership by Ray Santilli. This comes from both civilian and military witnesses. All that is required is for one of them to be correct and a whole new area of research could open up to us. One group of people that has been most vocally against the authenticity of the film is the Special Effects — or FX -industry. Most, but not all, are convinced that we are dealing with rubber and latex and not flesh and blood. Again, our research has brought us into contact with many FX experts and their expert testimony cannot be ignored. One FX expert to comment on the film is Rob Townshend, who worked in New Zealand on the blockbuster movie Lord of the Rings. Having an interest in the UFO subject, he happened across my book with Michael Hesemann Beyond Roswell while in New Zealand, and has made these comments with regard to the Alien Autopsy film: “As for the alien itself, this would be a huge undertaking for the special make-up effects crew. I have spent quite some time thinking over many ways that this could be created. Once the look of the creature had been established it is then a fairly standard procedure to build. From the completed moulds its outer skin and all other internal anatomy can be made. For most its outer skin and ‘guts’ gelatin could and would make a very realistic and organic appearance [sic]. It would also behave like flesh, as it can be tinted to whatever color is needed, and has the translucent quality of real skin and flesh. There are many materials available to the effects artist; gelatin and its formulas have been around and in use in the film industry for many years. Also it would be one of the most cost effective options in terms of part of the materials budget.” Townshend continues: “Having been asked over the years to supply horror and gore effects, it is a point to note that the ‘real thing’ on film, and in life for that matter, looks like a badly made dummy. About 10 years ago I supplied the make-up effects for a film titled Seven Days under Mavis. It told the true story of a macabre depiction of love in the autumn 147 3rd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference years. The bond between a married-couple is tested in the extreme when Mavis collapses and dies on her husband, pinning him to the floor for a week. 1 made all the prosthetic body bits to look real with the color being matched, and yet it looked faked. I had to re-do the cosmetic look of the make-up so that it would ‘read’ better on film, so it looked ‘cool.’ Here was decompositional make-up copied from life, or death for that matter, and yet it still looked faked. The point I'm making is that the Santilli creature could very well be real due to the fact that it does tend to behave in the way a real cadaver would.” A recreation of the Alien Autopsy film, made by the Canadian special effects company TWIN FX for a Canadian TV documentary, in an attempt to show how the Alien Autopsy film could have been faked. Special effects experts like Rob Townshend and others can only base their opinions on what they see on the film; and no one can be sure which one of them is right and which of them is wrong. It the film is a hoax, then what did Stone and Maloney see and why has no one involved in its creation yet stepped forward? Not knowing what our research would uncover has indeed dealt us a few surprises: A former US Army Sergeant who observed the film on a US military base in 1969; the UK’s highest-award-winning professional photographer, who viewed other scenes from the film in the 1970s in the United States; the film technician that confirmed the footage was on 16mm film before he transferred it on to video; and a UK special effects artist who disagreed with many of his colleagues and stated on the record for he first time that the creature could well be a real cadaver. But Ray Santilli is the man who started all of this controversy in the first place. In August 2001, I caught up with him and interviewed him on tape for the first time in many years. I asked Santilli if he stuck to his story of how he obtained the film. He replied: “Yes I do. Absolutely. There’s no reason to change it because the story is the truth.” Santilli went on to state, yet again, that he believes the cameraman’s story, and that he is hopeful that either the cameraman or members of his family will eventually go public. Until they do, Santilli will not reveal his identity. 148 EEE Se Alien Autopsy Film: A Decade Later nn Ee The film is housed in Europe and Santilli and his colleagues are not against releasing the remainder of the film to a TV company should they receive the right offer. Santilli did, however, impart some further information that he had not previously made public, as far as I'm aware. I asked him if he had any other film that he had not shown or discussed with anyone. He told me: “Well, the only film that most people want to have access to, and I think it will probably have more interest to the UFO community, is obviously the footage from the debris site itself. There are many reels and pieces of film that haven’t been examined yet even by us. You know, that is something that can be commercialized at a later date. We've always made it clear that we have many reels of film and that some of it is relevant and some of it is not. Some of it has got material on the film that does not relate to the alien but helps to qualify the period of time and what the cameraman was doing during those few weeks.” And what does Santilli himself believe the film depicts? “I think there are only two possibilities. One is that it is the real thing: that this creature is from a vehicle that comes from another world. Or the other explanation is that it was an experiment that was being conducted by the Americans in that area after the war using German expertise and shows some kind of biological experiment and that the creature is a deformed or created creature for the purpose of testing secret weapons. In my opinion these are the only two possibilities.” While most UFO researchers and members of the public alike have assigned the Alien Autopsy film to the hoax bin, my research has shown that it is not as clear-cut as some would have you believe. The comments from Salas, Maloney and Townshend are publisher here for the very first time; and this only represents the tip of the iceberg as far as on-going research into the film is concerned. My colleague, Tim Matthews, and me have compiled all of research into a book titled Alien Autopsy Inquest that is now available, and research into the film will continue. Siss i Ray Santilli pictured in 1995 holding a canister of the alleged Alien Autopsy film. 149 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference If anyone has any information concerning Ray Santlli’s controversial Alien Autopsy film, they can contact Philip Mantle in confidence at: 1 Woodhall Drive, Batley, West Yorkshire, England, WF17 7SW; or by emailing him at: philip@mantle8353.fsworld.co.uk About the author: Philip Mantle is the former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) and MUFON Representative for England. An international lecturer and broadcaster he is the co-author of the books Without Consent, UFO- USSR; and Beyond Roswell. His new book Alen Autopsy Inquest is available in e-book form from: www.filamentbooks.com ALIEN AUTOPSY INQUEST ALIEN AUTOPSY INQUEST ALIEN AUTOPSY INQUEST ALIEN AUTOPSY INQUEST or HIL 150 San Antonio, NM August 1945 Crash Retrieval Reme Baca Copyright 2005 Reme Baca Reme Baca and Jose Padilla were young boys living in San Antonio, New Mexico in August 1945 when, they say, they literally stumbled across the remains of what they believe to have been an alien spacecraft.’ Their personal account of the case displays many of the key ingredients of crashed UFO lore. Reme Baca recalls that New Mexico in 1945 was more like the Third World than middle-class America—a state where a very small percentage of the population controlled a very large amount of the wealth, while about eighty percent lived at or below the poverty line. Baca’s father was a sharecropper, responsible for the crops from tilling to harvest, for which he got a small share. Jose Padilla’s family lived on a ranch to the south of the town, in a traditional adobe house with a well in the front yard and a nice shiny pickup truck that Jose was allowed to drive, since he was the only male in the family not serving in the armed forces at the ume. San Antonio, a small desert town on the main highway between Albuquerque and El Paso, Texas, is located some twenty miles northwest of the Trinity site where the first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945. Jose was nine years old when he and his mother Inez experienced the birth of the nuclear age at Trinity. Inez had just seen her husband Faustino off to work. Jose was drinking a cup of hot chocolate when the flash, the sustained roar and the heat wave came. When his mother peeked through the door at the flash of light, she sustained permanent loss of sight in one eye. lt was not until three weeks later, on August 6, that the terrified residents of San Antonio learned, along with the rest of the world, that the Trinity event was not a mishap involving “an ammunition magazine containing high explosives and pyrotechnics,” as the military had reported. It was an atomic bomb, also referred to as—“Death, the destroyer of worlds,” in the words of project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. In this atmosphere of suspicion, denial and apathy born of fear, a small contingent of the U.S. Army passed almost unnoticed through San Antonio in the latter part of August 1945 on a secret assignment. Little or nothing has been printed about the mission. But the military detail apparently came from White Sands Proving Grounds to the east. It was a recovery operation destined for the mesquite and greasewood desert west of old U.S. Highway 85, at what is now milepost 139, the San Antonio exit of present day Interstate 25. There, over the course of several days, according to Baca and Padilla, soldiers in Army fatigues loaded the shattered remains of a flying apparatus onto a huge flatbed truck and ' Born On the Edge of Ground Zero, Living In The Shadow Of Area 51, Remigio Baca & Jose Padilla, 2005. pouan 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference hauled it away. “That such an operation took place between about August 20 and August 25, 1945, there is no doubt,” Baca says. He and Jose were looking for a lost cow when they accidentally came upon the crash site. “What we saw was a long, wide gash in the earth, with a manufactured object lying cockeyed and partially buried at the end of it, surrounded by a large field of debris. We believed then, and believe today, that the object was occupied by distinctly non-human life forms which were alive and moving about on their arrival minutes after the crash.” They reported their findings to Jose’s father Faustino, on whose ranch the craft had crashed. Shortly thereafter, Faustino received a military visitor asking for permission to remove it. During their school years, Baca and Padilla would sometimes whisper about those strange events, but they didn’t talk to others about it on the advice of parents and a friend in the state police. In time, they grew up and moved away—Baca to Tacoma, Washington, and Padilla to Rowland Heights, California. They lost touch with each other and never discussed the significance of what they had seen, even as tales of UFOs and alien encounters multiplied across the country. More than four decades later, in the year 2002, they were brought together through the Internet. Baca had been doing research on his genealogy and made contact with Jose’s son, who provided him with Jose’s phone number. It was then that their mutual interest in the most intriguing event of their childhood was rekindled. Baca and Padilla combined their memories of that long-ago event, and a remarkable picture emerged. Baca writes: The pungent but pleasing aroma of greasewood was in the air as Jose and 1 set out on horseback one August morning in 1945 to find a cow that had wandered off to calf. Despite minor perils associated with being away from adults, it was a routine outing for us. We decided to tether the horses, as the terrain seemed too rough for their hooves. As we moved along, grumbling about the thorns, the building thunderheads decided to let go. We took refuge under a ledge above the floodplain, protected somewhat from the lightning strikes that suddenly peppered the area. The storm passed, and as we began to move out, another brilliant light, accompanied by a crunching, rumbling sound, shook the ground around us. The sound seemed to come from the next canyon. Jose noticed smoke coming from a draw adjacent to Walnut Creek, a main tributary from the mountains to the Rio Grande. We headed toward it, walking down towards the bottom of the hill. The ground was hot from the weather and the humidity. The first thing we saw was a kind of giant-sized gouge, like when a road grader goes in with a blade, about a hundred feet wide, deeper than a foot 152 mo toe eee a O San Antonio, NM Crash Retrieval and a good football field long. It was scary. The gouge crossed this old road. Jose pulled out his binoculars, and through them he could see that the gouge ran into a ridge and then stopped. We could see that there was something there, an object that had dug itself into the sandy soil. The dust and the heat were unbearable. We retreated briefly, then returned, worried that there might be casualties in the wreckage Jose convinced me that everything was going to be all right. He led the way; | followed. I asked if it might be an airplane. Jose said, “I don’t think so.” Things got eerie as we began examining the remnants at the periphery of a huge litter field. I picked up a piece of thin, shiny material that reminded me of the tinfoil in the old olive green Philip Morris cigarette packs, the brand my mom smoked at the time. It was folded up and lodged underneath a rock. When I freed it, it unfolded all by itself. I refolded it, and it spread itself out again. We finally worked our way to within yards of the wreckage, fearing the worst and not quite ready for it. It was tough walking through there; we were short guys. I had my hand over my face, peeking through my fingers. Jose, being older, seemed able to handle it better. Jose described what he saw through his binoculars: three strange looking creatures, moving fast, seemingly under stress, shadowy, almost as if they could will themselves from one position to another. They seemed not to be able to hold their balance. We were 100 to 200 feet from them. Sounds were coming out of the object, like a jackrabbit in pain, or like a baby crying, really sad. Jose wanted to get closer; I wanted no part of it. Jose wasn’t afraid of much, but I told him we should get out of there. I just had this feeling. We could see that there was a very large piece missing from the craft, and pieces of metal scattered around several hundred feet. It was getting late, so we backtracked. It was dark when we reached the Padilla home. Jose’s dad got a brief report on the object and the Hombreatos (little guys). “We'll check it out in a day or two,” Faustino said, apparently not worried in the least about survivors or medical emergencies. “It must be something the military lost, and we shouldn’t disturb it.” Two days later, at about noon, State Policeman Eddie Apodaca, a family friend who had been summoned by Faustino, arrived at the Padilla home. We directed Apodaca and Jose’s dad toward the crash site in two vehicles, a pick-up and a State Police car. When they could drive no further, they parked and hiked to the overlook where we had initially spotted the wreckage. For a second time, we were dumbfounded. The wreckage was nowhere to be seen. “Somebody must have taken it,” Jose said defensively. 153 3 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference We headed down the canyon nonetheless, and suddenly, as if by magic, the object reappeared. Apodaca and Faustino led the way to the craft, then climbed inside, while we were ordered to stay a short distance away. The huge field of litter appeared to have been cleaned up. The main body of the craft, however, remained in place with odd pieces dangling everywhere. We didn’t hear any sounds of the Hombrecitos anymore. When Apodaca and Faustino came out of the object, they had a different attitude. They appeared more serious now. “Listen carefully: don’t tell anyone about this,’ Faustino said. “Reme, your dad just started working for the government. He doesn’t need to know anything about it. It might cause him trouble.” “The Government calls them weather balloons,” Apodaca said. “They’ll want this thing back.” “But this isn’t like the weather balloons we’ve seen before,” I said. “And the Hombrecitos?” “Maybe you just thought you saw them,” Faustino said. “Or maybe somebody took them, or they just took off.” We headed home. The recovery operation started about two days after our visit to the site. It was then that a Latino Sergeant named Avila arrived at the Padilla home. We joined Faustino in the conversation with the soldier. Sergeant Avila said to Faustino, “I have been sent here by the United States Army to get your permission to tear down part of the fence adjoining the cattle guard on your property. We need to install a metal gate in order that we may drive in a flat bed truck to recover one of our experimental weather balloons that was reported to have accidentally crashed there.” Avila and Faustino reached an agreement on the recovery, and the soldier left. It wasn’t long before the Army was on the scene with road building equipment. Although we were warned by Faustino to stay away, Jose and I sometimes watched from our hiding place, sharing a pair of binoculars, as the military graded a road and soldiers prepared for the flatbed’s arrival.? Before the road was graded, however, soldiers were at the site carrying scraps of the mangled airship to smaller vehicles that were able to immediately get close. According to Jose, four soldiers were stationed at the wreckage at all times, with shift changes every 12 hours. The soldiers would throw some of the pieces of material down a crevice—so they wouldn’t have to carry them up the hill, I guess. Then they would kick dirt, rocks and brush over them. ? It is not clear how close Jose and Reme were to the crash site or military perimeter. Either they were very lucky not to be discovered by the military perimeter guards, or they were very far away. 154 San Antonio, NM Crash Retrieval n rE Once the flat bed was in place, the soldiers used winches and a crane to hoist the intact portion of the wreckage into an L-shaped frame that was tilted to fit the object into the trailer. The ripped portion of the craft was to the bottom outside of the frame. The object was covered with a tarp and prepared to haul away. Lying in a trench, we observed all of this. When the soldiers left, we took a closer look. The object appeared larger than when we had first discovered it—we hadn’t seen the part that was underground. Jose untied some ropes while I held the canvas; then he climbed in. Finding a piece of pipe, he used that to undo a piece of metal about a foot long and handed it to me. It reminded me of an ancient Sun Dial that I had seen in some schoolbooks, a very light and cold piece of metal. We went back down the hill, climbed on our horses and headed for home. Off the object went, shrouded under tarps, through San Antonio and presumably to Stallion Site, on what is today White Sands Missile Range. Two weeks after the recovery, four soldiers showed up on the Padilla Ranch, searching the road where the object had been loaded onto the trailer, as if they were looking for something. They did not make this known to Faustino Padilla. As this was taking place, Jose brought the piece we had taken to me, saying he did not want to get his dad in trouble with the government if the soldiers found it on their premises. We buried it in the corner under the flooring in the old house that my dad used for storage. According to Jose, the soldiers came to their house and went through room-by-room, looking for something. They asked Faustino if he had anything that might belong to them. He directed them to a room in the back of the house, a storage room where he kept weather balloons he had found. The soldiers went through and checked everything, including voter registration papers. They took with them the weather balloons and other odds and ends that they found. A piece of apparent crash debris retrieved from the site by Reme Baca and Jose Padilla has since been subjected to independent scientific analysis and is still the subject of additional, planned studies. Baca explains: Since the research has not yet been completed, we have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of the facilities and scientists who are involved. In addition to local tests conducted in Washington State, we began working with “Dr. Smith” of the metallurgy department at an international facility, where three different scanning electron microscopes were used to look at the metals and analyze their elemental makeup. The first thing we found was that the metal appears to be essentially an aluminum silicate. à 155 3'¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference However, right from the onset, Dr. Smith pointed out the unusually high percentage of carbon. Later, we cut some samples and polished others in order to take a more detailed look. We got some great pictures of very weird structures in the metals. They look like litte skeletons of bugs squashed into the metal. Also, there are short strands of some other material that we believe may be carbon fibers. This sort of “hairiness” about the metal provoked a lot of questions from the academics and electron microscope operators. Our next step was to get further analysis from a separate laboratory and different people, including a geneticist and a scientist with a metallurgical background. Their analysis confirmed what we had seen in the first results. There is certainly something unusual about that metal. Our analysis demonstrated the ability of this metal to transfer heat from one end to the other, thus preventing or retarding meltdown, a bit like the tiles on the space shuttle. It apparently does not melt when subjected to the 2000-degree flame from an oxy-acetylene torch for up to two minutes, despite the fact that aluminum silicate would be expected to melt at about 700 degrees, and this sample, being eutectic in nature (a form of the material with the lowest possible melting point), should melt at closer to 500 degrees, within seconds. A blend of carbon and some other trace materials is used which dramatically increases the conducting power, eliminating the resistance to electricity, while at the same time a transference of heat takes place. There appears to be the potential for heat shielding, or computer-chip manufacturing. Baca and Padilla say they are planning an expedition to investigate and unearth the remains of whatever crashed in the desert near San Antonio in August 1945. Was it just a weather balloon, or something far more mysterious, worthy of recovery by a clandestine military operation? Baca and Padilla intend to prove that it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 156 Analysis of Metal Fragments from a UFO Roger Leir Copyright 2005 Roger Leir Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics William F. Hamilton III Copyright 2005 William F. Hamilton The alleged recovery of a flying disc near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947 has sparked discussions, opinions, and reports that the U.S. Army and Air Force studied the remnants of the disc, especially the methods and modes of its propulsion with the intent of “reverse engineering” the advanced technology found in the alien craft. Is it even possible to comprehend such advanced technology much less to attempt to duplicate its function? We will examine these possibilities in this paper and try to sum up what has been learned to date. Alien astronautics is a subject predicated on the existence of intelligent alien life forms, whose evolution occurred on an extraterrestrial world and who developed means to travel from their world to other worlds in spacecraft. Reverse engineering is predicated on the fact that we have acquired alien hardware through flight systems failure of an alien spacecraft, or through communication and negotiation. Reverse engineering of mechanical parts requires extraction of information about an instance of a particular part sufficient to replicate the part using appropriate fabrication techniques. A human-fabricated spacecraft consists of many sub-systems integrated through various operational parameters. Our first search in the case of an alien spacecraft would be for recognizable systems and parts; foremost among these would be some sort of propulsion system. The most prominent UFO crash-retrieval case, of course, is Roswell. But other UFO crash events have been reported, and a few investigated lend support to the idea that some UFOs have malfunctioned and crash-landed on earth despite advanced technology. Some of our most advanced aircraft, including the F-117A stealth fighter, have malfunctioned and crashed. Sensitive electronic systems, when exposed to sources of electromagnetic radiation, have been known to fail or receive anomalous signals that caused the system to malfunction. It is not inconceivable that alien technology could have vulnerable, sensitive systems, especially when operating in foreign environments. 3'¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference The first objective in the military recovery of foreign vehicles is to examine the vehicle for new and advanced technology with a view toward reproducing that technology through devising methods of fabrication and manufacturing. If this technology comes from another off-world culture, the objective has an even higher priority - as such a culture has demonstrated a feat beyond the capability of our own technology. The military thinking on this is to treat such incursions by alien technology as possibly hostile and a threat to our national and global security. We must act to even the odds as soon as possible, in an effort to develop counter-measures to a possible military threat to our systems of defense. This is why reverse engineering becomes imperative. Some of the systems that would be studied include: the energy or fuel the spacecraft uses for power; the propulsion system; the navigation system; the information system(s); the life-support systems; the communication systems; and the weapon systems In addition to these systems, the actual material structure of the spacecraft would be studied. If the aliens were found wearing flight suits, a study would be made of the material and methods of fabrication. If the spacecraft had the ability to defend itself through high- speed aerobatic maneuvering or using defensive shields or counter-measures, an assessment of these capabilities would be of prime importance. The study would have to eventually extend into other scientific fields to obtain a broader picture of the alien’s origin and mission, which would include autopsies of alien bodies and a profiling of the alien psychology and mouvation. In fact, every clever way that you could think of would be used to study the alien and the technology. And all of this would have to be conducted in utmost secrecy so as to maintain a decided advantage in the scheme of things in the global, political arena. Reverse Engineering is the process of figuring out how a system was made without having instructions or diagrams. Unless the system is very complex, it is often possible to do this without actually having a sample of the system. Some of the engineering disciplines that exist today that would engage in reverse engineering are culled from a list: Bioengineering; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Biotechnology; Computer Technology; Adaptive Systems and Artificial; Life — Artificial Intelligence; Computer Mediated Communication and Control Systems; Computing - Alien — Computer; Interaction - Image Processing; Information Retrieval and Categorization; Real time Systems — Robotics; Design Methodologies; Electrical Engineering; Electronics Engineering; Materials Science; Materials 160 SEE le Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Computational Mechanics; Nanotechnology — Robotics; and Aerospace Engineering Additionally, unknown systems that may enhance alien psionic interfaces or alien teleportation systems may not even be conceived of within our own technological framework. Some of these systems may be less amenable to reverse engineering until the time we make appropriate scientific discoveries. First, a word about reverse engineering and then we will examine some of the claims that have been made and what we can infer about the evolution of our own technology based on testimony given by a number of sources, some of which sull prefer to remain anonymous. We must also understand how secret projects are classified and conducted in the Black World. What distinguishes reverse engineering from forward engineering? In a sense most engineering starts as reverse engineering as inventors puzzled out how to imitate nature. Some of the first designs for flying machines imitated the flapping wings of birds to obtain lift. Nature is a large inspiration to engineers and inventors. Science may try to wrest the secrets of nature, but it is engineering that attempts to imitate or even surpass the works of nature. We mustn’t forget that termites and moles have constructed underground structures and beavers have built dams. Certain fish propel themselves through water using jet propulsion. As soon as science uncovers more secrets, engineers attempt to put them to use. Forward engineering proceeds from there and attempts to improve on the original inspired work. In a sense, the arguments against reverse engineering alien technology are similar to the arguments against ancient astronauts engineering ancient buildings. Essentially that argument is that humans are and were smart enough to conceive, design, and build all of the technological wonders that we enjoy. While this may be true we must bear in mind my former statement that much of what man has built is inspired by his observations of nature. We are not discrediting man’s accomplishments by saying that certain technological developments may have been inspired by other preceding technological developments, whether human or alien. The tales of reverse engineering alien technology are based on the reports of UFO crashes and military recovery efforts. Here is a partial list of UFO crashes that have been uncovered from the years 1941 through 1953: 1941, Cape Girardeau, Missouri; May 1947, Spitzbergen, Norway; 31 May 1947, Socorro, NM; June 1947, Maury Island, Tacoma; 4 July 1947, Roswell, NM; 5 July 1947, Plains of San Augustin, NM; 13 August 1947, NM desert; October 1947, Paradise Valley, AZ; 13 February 1948, Aztec, NM; 25 March 1948, White Sands, NM; April 1948, Aztec, NM; 7/8 July 1948; 1949, Roswell, NM; January 1950, Mojave Desert, CA; 6 December 1950, El Indio/Guerrero area, Tex-Mex border; June 1952, Spitzbergen, Norway; 20/21 May 1953, Kingman, AZ. A friend of mine met Charlie in a photocopy shop in the summer of ninety-four. Charlie was contacting OMNI magazine about their article on the UFO cover up. I met Charlie later after writing a letter to him that he never received. Instead, I received a reply 161 3'4 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference from a veteran’s organization that warned me not to contact Charlie anymore. According to the letter of reply the subject of UFOs was classified permanently. It stated that UFOs and aliens should be the responsibility of the military and that civilians had no business delving into military secrets. Nevertheless, Charlie contacted me later through our local MUFON group. Charlie had been in the Marines and aboard the USS Oriskany aircraft carrier in 1958 during the early Vietnam era. His father was a commander in the Navy and was stationed with the Pentagon’s Research and Development Board. His father had been with President Eisenhower at Edwards AFB in 1954 when an extraterrestrial spacecraft had landed. The base had already been renamed Edwards at the time of the occurrence and was no longer known as Muroc (Corum spelled backwards — after one of the early families who settled in the Mojave Desert). Charlie said that the aliens at Edwards were human types with flaxen hair and pale blue eyes. Charlie’s first experience occurred when he was assigned to a special Operations team that retrieved a crashed disc in Vietnam and that was stowed aboard the aircraft carrier. According to Charlie, this disc was 10 meters in diameter and lighter than a Volkswagen. It had a crew of two aliens. The recovery team transported the disc back to the Oriskany where it was stored on the flight deck between mattresses that were used to cushion the craft on deck. A tarpaulin was thrown over the disc; and when the Oriskany put into port in San Francisco, the cover story told by the Captain was that a special water tank was being brought in for maintenance and that the tarpaulin was used to protect it from storms at sea. Charlie referred to this disc as the IRC-10. IRC is an abbreviation for Instellar Reconnaissance Craft. Charlie refers to the Sports Model as an IRC-16 because it is 16 meters in diameter. It is not known whether these metrics are exact. Charlie explains that not all UFOs or discs are from another planet. Some are from a parallel world. These parallel worlds exist in another time dimension. It’s as if our universe runs on the beat on one clock and another on the beat of another clock. Normally, the two are out of phase and there is no interaction between universes; but, occasionally, there are locations where the two universes synchro-phase and a portal opens up between the two allowing passage from one to another. Many discs originate from another dimension and use a Tran spatial field resonator to bridge the gap between their universe and ours. The aliens project their thoughts into a thought amplifier plate that carries signals to the avionics controls via optical fibers. Another saucer scientist, Bill Uhouse of Las Vegas, says that he designed flight simulators for our pilots because our pilots had difficulty controlling the aliens’ avionics. Bill worked at Los Alamos in conjunction with an alien scientist on designing a simulator using our own avionics technology. Bill said that General Electric built the antigravity engines for US discs and Westinghouse provided the nuclear reactors to power the engines. ] asked him if he knew of any reason why US discs could not fly in space and he replied that he thought they could. Bill was a Mechanical Design Engineer when he was recruited for this highly secure position. 162 ee Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics On September 23, 1990 I was introduced to a man named Ozzie who related a detailed story of his participation in two crash-retrievals while he was in the Army stationed at Roswell in 1948 and 1949. This is a single-witness story that has not been corroborated by other witnesses. He doesn’t know the exact dates of the crashes, but believes the first one occurred in the desert near Socorro, New Mexico. His recounting of this incident took place inside of a locked car with rolled-up windows, which seemed a little paranoid to me. There was no doubt that he came across as sincere, answering all my questions without hesitation and to the best of his knowledge. His attitude was one of not caring whether he was believed or not, as he claimed he had already been the butt of much ridicule. He currently held a job at a large aerospace company and did not want to publicly divulge his background. I found this to be the case with other witnesses | have interviewed. One night in 1948 he was called out of his barracks to climb aboard a bus that looked like an old school bus with darkened windows. After hours of riding through the desert on a generally westward course, the bus came to a stop during the very early hours of the morning and he could see a disc standing on the desert sands illuminated by floodlights. It was like a movie set, but there were no movie cameras or directors barking orders. The disc was silvery and about 30 feet in diameter. He learned that two aliens were recovered from the disc. One was alive. White-coated doctors walked the live alien around the site. It lived for 12 hours. The disc had one compartment with a shaft running up the center of the compartment. The exterior hull of the craft felt smooth and slippery to the touch. Ozzie said that only 3 men lifted the lightweight craft onto a flat bed truck. Men went ahead and scouted a back roads transport of the truck away from the site. Ozzie accompanied a scientist who caravanned along the back roads until they reached their ultimate destination at a little auxiliary airfield on the edge of Groom Lake in Nevada. There were only five buildings at this airfield and they arrived at night. The truck drove up to one of the buildings and Ozzie saw two living aliens standing by this building. One of the doors of the building opened, and he could see that six other discs had already been retrieved and placed inside the building. The whole recovery team was taken into a room in another one of the buildings and debriefed. Ozzie saw pictures on the wall of the room that depicted six different types of aliens. He remembers that one of the aliens looked human. Short grays were also in one of the pictures. He did not say whether these were photos or drawings, but he called them pictures, so I assume they were photos. At one point during the debriefing, a small alien appeared to pass through one of the walls of the room. He was holding a small black box that Ozzie called an “augmenter.” Ozzie made some interesting detailed observations, but it is admitted that his story has bizarre elements to it. But, when we compare some of these bizarre elements to stories told by abductees they seem less bizarre, by far. We find it hard to believe that the military had such a high degree of involvement with aliens as early as 1948. 163 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Ozzie claims that he was called out on a second retrieval in 1949 at close to the same site as the first retrieval. The second disc was 100 feet in diameter and ten, dead crewmembers were found at the site. Their skin had turned a purplish color. These beings were about 5’ 8” in height. Ozzie had to carry one of the aliens and estimated its weight at only 55 pounds. He was very emotional about this incident. The aliens were dressed in one- piece coveralls that had a Velcro-type fastener at the back. Of course, Velcro-type fasteners did not exist in 1949 and Ozzie is only comparing what he saw to what we know today. The big disc had a conveyor on the floor that transported the crew from one control center to another. There was also an instrument that contained colored fluids. A central column ran through the center of the craft, which had multiple rectangular compartments. When inside the control room of the craft, Ozzie said you could plainly see through the sidewall of the craft, and the desert was plainly visible even at night. The metal of the craft could not be marred with any of our tools. This disc was also transported to the site at Groom Lake. That ended Ozzie’s involvement in crash-retrievals though he has kept in contact with others he had met during his involvement. He also claims that he has a photo of the second retrieval locked in a vault for safekeeping. He does not know when it might become safe enough to bring out this photo as evidence. So, we are left with another story and no corroborating evidence, but a pattern begins to emerge from the details as we talk to other witnesses. A man named Frenchie was stationed at Edwards AFB in 1951 when he was called out of his barracks along with others because something had crashed just south of the air base. When he got to the site, he was not allowed to get any closer than an outer established security perimeter, but could see men lifting up large chunks of metal. Sheets of metal were all over the crash site, but no engine or fuselage was visible. Frenchie said they had to cut out a piece of a C-47 to enlarge its door to fit a large piece of the retrieved material into the plane for transport. The large piece was lightweight and was lifted by two men. Frenchie never found out what the object was. A lot of this crash debris was supposedly transported to the Air Material Command at Wright Field. However, craft recovered in one piece were probably shipped elsewhere, perhaps Groom Lake. The engineering division at Wright Field called T-3 had already concluded that the UFOs were advanced aircraft or spacecraft, which used non-conventional methods of propulsion and were constructed from composite layers of lightweight material. It was the opinion of the General staff that the unidentified objects were interplanetary spacecraft. There are more reports that can be added to the list up to the present year. However, investigators have obtained little information on most of these, little to no corroboration by multiple witnesses, and questionable physical evidence. Yet the stories persist and the list has gotten longer over the years. The Roswell incident has been the most compelling of the crash-retrieval stories because of the sheer number of witnesses who have testified to this event, albeit there are discrepancies when trying to recreate the actual scenario of events. 164 S Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics Without publicly available records and mostly human testimony, the actual events around these early crashes may never be known. The military agenda for recovered alien vehicles was to learn as much as possible about the technology. To do this, they had to turn to the experts in corporate America, to companies they had a long-standing relationship with, and which had the facilities to conduct studies and maintain the vow of silence on their findings. The engineering of secret technology to satisfy DoD requests is conducted under a classified umbrella of programs and projects, the most secretive of which are known as Special Access Programs. There are even unacknowledged SAPs. This is what has been referred to as The Black World. Lockheed Skunk Works developed the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes in the Black World. The money for financing these projects is part of a black military budget that recently exceeded $14 billion. This does not include the cost of operations and construction. Two of our famous stealth aircraft, the B-2 and the F-117, were born in the Black World, but have become a part of the white world. The existence of the so-called Aurora spy plane was denied by the Air Force. The expenditure of these funds is in itself a secret and a mystery. We now know that Area 51, the Nevada flight-test base has been the home of classified aircraft projects since 1955. Engineers, technicians, and security personnel generally do not talk about their experiences in the Black World. In some cases, workers have reported that security was oppressive. I have had engineers tell me that not only were their activities at work monitored, but that their leisure-time activities and their conversations with friends were monitored, too. The back engineering of alien space technology would probably rank as the deepest Black World project in terms of secrecy and security. It also carries with it a natural cloak of security — it sounds too incredible to be true. Many would not believe it without an overwhelming presentation of evidence; and, yet the intense security surrounding these projects makes it nearly impossible to obtain that evidence. Researchers have attempted to obtain what little evidence they can from testimony, leaked documents, and direct observations of secret sites outside the security perimeters of these sites. With the handicap of limited disclosure we can still try to reconstruct an overview for alien astro-nautical systems and, from this, learn something about the aliens who developed this artful handiwork. In 1997 (Ret) Colonel Philip J. Corso’s book hit the UFO book market with a splash. The Day After Roswell contained some eye-opening revelations. The Colonel divulges how he spearheaded the Army’s super secret reverse-engineering project that “seeded” extraterrestrial technology at American corporations such as IBM, Hughes Aircraft, Bell Labs, and Dow Corning - without their knowledge. He describes the devices found aboard the Roswell craft, and how they became the precursors for today’s integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, night-vision equipment, super-tenacity fibers (such as Kevlar plastic armor), and classified discoveries, such as psychotropic devices that can translate human 165 3'd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference thoughts into signals that control machinery, Stealth aircraft technology, and Star Wars particle-beam devices. He also discusses the role that extraterrestrial technology played in shaping geopolitical policy and events; how it helped the United States surpass the Russians in space; spurred elaborate Army initiatives such as SDI (Star Wars Projects), Project Horizon (to place a military base on the Moon), and HARP; and ultimately brought about the end of the Cold War. Colonel Corso also said that captured UFOs were/are kept at Norton, Edwards and Nellis (Area 51) Air Force Bases. Many UFO researchers have found discrepancies in Colonel Corso’s accounts and have discarded his testimony as authentication of reverse engineering. If they are right, it doesn’t negate the possibility of reverse engineering, but it does emphasize the minefield that this subject presents to those who are trying to ferret out the truth about our black world efforts. In 1989, Robert Lazar had come forward with the claim that he had worked on a reverse engineering project at S-4, a site 10 miles from the Groom Lake test site. Although Lazar’s credentials were questioned and no record of his claimed educational degrees as a physicist could be found, Colonel Corso’s credentials were a matter of public record. Others have spoken out as witnesses to captured UFOs or reverse engineering projects. The case of the Kingman UFO retrieval involved an engineer who took preliminary measurements to assess the momentum of a crashing craft, measurements useful to any reverse engineering efforts. The engineer who brought this story to light was Arthur G. Stansel (previously known by the pseudonym Fritz Werner). Stansel graduated from Ohio University in 1949 and was first employed by Air Material Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, as a mechanical engineer on testing Air Force aircraft engines. Dr. Eric Wang who was suspected of leading a reverse engineering team on alien craft headed the Installations Division within the Office of Special Studies where Arthur worked. Stansel was loaned out to the Atomic Energy Commission and was designated as a project engineer on some atomic bomb tests referred to as “Operation Upshot Knothole”’. The location of these tests was at Frenchman’s Flats at the southern end of the Nevada Test Site. The test director was a Dr. Ed Doll. On May 21, 1953 Stansel was told to report for a special assignment at the Indian Springs Air Force Base where 15 other specialists joined him. They were flown by military plane to Phoenix, Arizona where they boarded a bus with blacked-out windows and rode for an estimated four hours. When they arrived at their destination somewhere southeast of Kingman in one of the washes of the Hulapai Mountains, they were met and briefed by an Air Force Colonel who told them they were to investigate the crash of a super-secret test vehicle. Stansel’s job was to determine the forward and vertical velocities of the vehicle when it impacted in the sand. Stansel was escorted to the site by military police. Two spotlights illuminated the saucer, which appeared to be two convex plates inverted over each other, approximately 30 feet in 166 Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics ——— EE eee diameter. The saucer was embedded in the sand about 20 inches. From this Stansel had determined that the saucer crashed at a velocity of 100 knots yet it had no dents, marks, or scratches on its burnished aluminum surface. The disc was oval and looked like two deep saucers inverted over each other. It was constructed of dull silver metal like brushed aluminum. Another specialist had gotten a look inside the craft: a 1.5 x 3.5 foot hatch was open revealed an oval interior cabin with two swivel seats and many instruments. Stansel saw one body recovered from the crash. It was humanoid, about 4 feet tall, with brown skin and wearing a silver-metallic flight suit. Stansel worked for Raytheon in Sudbury, Massachusetts in the early seventies on avionics systems. It is unknown as to whether he had further involvement with alien technology, especially since it is likely that he worked for Dr. Wang at some point. Dr. Wang was an Austrian-born graduate of the Vienna Technical Institute, and a close associate of Victor Schauberger, who had developed a concept of a flying disc and worked on the German flying disc program as early as 1941. Wang taught structural and metallurgical engineering at the University of Cincinnati from 1943 to 1952. Dr. Wang supposedly examined some of the recovered crashed discs and compared them to the vehicles tested in the German V-7 program, but found the retrieved craft to be different in nature. In 1949, he became Director of the Department of Special Studies at Wright-Patterson where he worked long hours in cooperation with scientists from the Office of Naval Research and with Dr. Vannevar Bush and others from the Research and Development Board. Dr. Wang relocated his research from Wright-Patterson to Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He passed away on December 4, 1960. Bill Uhouse served 10 years in the Marine Corps as a fighter pilot, and four years with the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB as a civilian doing flight-testing of exotic experimental aircraft. For the next 30 years, he worked for defense contractors as an engineer of antigravity propulsion systems: on flight simulators for exotic aircraft - and on actual flying discs. 167 3rd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference H denen dI | rnm, “rmita tam aha marga copita | Creu : Imusa at Rest berinemsdop meni ngue J ri drevse iw appre Arran) j men amts naenin Sev no bets KEE fs © H maan parsa Smulor Cnergrea = ilg pia mea owen 13i ewe panan 18 ere yey MI Ne ea p AA paer epre Set IA Gan tng Wer dectiode mima a atrai He testifies that that the first disc they tested was the re-engineered ET craft that crashed in Kingman, Arizona in 1953. He further testifies that the ET’s presented a craft to the US government; this craft was taken to Area 51, which was just being constructed at the time, and the four ETs that accompanied the craft were taken to Los Alamos. Mr. Uhouse’s specialty was the flight deck and the instruments on the flight deck - he understood the gravitational field and what it took to get people trained to experience antigravity. He actually met several times with an ET that helped the physicists and engineers with the engineering of the craft. Strange as it seems it was during the 1950s that various aircraft companies started research projects on the control of gravity and electro-gravitational propulsion. It is possible that these projects constituted some of the first reverse engineering projects on extraterrestrial propulsion systems. American physicist and inventor, T. Townsend Brown discovered an effect of highly charged disc-shaped capacitors. When the capacitors were charged in excess of 50 KV, they would have a tendency to accelerate in the direction of the positive pole. Suspending a 168 L ee _ ll _ Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics —_—.$— EE Ee ee eee number of these disc capacitors from a freely rotating carousel would cause, when charged, the entire assembly to rotate. These charged capacitors could also levitate. According to the Air Force Manual from Wright-Patterson AFB on Electrogravitics, we have this description on the Thomas Townsend Brown discovery: Electrogravitics might be described as a synthesis of electrostatic energy used for propulsion - either vertical propulsion or horizontal or both - and gravitics, or dynamic counterbary, in which energy is also used to set up a local gravitational force independent of the Earth’s. Electrostatic energy for propulsion has been predicted as a possible means of propulsion in space when the thrust from a neutron motor or ion motor would be sufficient in a drag-less environment to produce astronomical velocities. But the ion motor is not strictly a part of the science of electrogravitics, since barycentric control in an electrogravitics system is envisaged for a vehicle operating within the Earth’s environment and it is not seen initially for space application. Probably large scale space operations would have to await the full development of electrogravitics to enable large pieces of equipment to be moved out of the region of the Earth’s strongest gravity effects. So, though electrostatic motors were thought of in 1925, electrogravitics had its birth after the War, when Townsend Brown sought to improve on the various proposals that then existed for electrostatic motors sufficiently to produce some visible manifestation of sustained mouon. Whereas earlier electrostatic tests were essentially pure research, Brown’s rigs were aimed from the outset at producing a flying article. As a private venture he produced evidence of motion using condensers in a couple of saucers suspended by arms rotating round a central tower with input running down the arms. The massive-k situation was summarized subsequently in a report, Project Winterhaven, in 1952. Using the data some conclusions were arrived at that might be expected from ten or more years of intensive development - similar to that, for instance, applied to the turbine engine. Using a number of assumptions as to the nature of gravity, the report postulated a saucer as the basis of a possible interceptor with Mach 3 capability. Creation of a local gravitational system would confer upon the fighter the sharp- edged changes of direction typical of motion in space. The essence of electrogravitics thrust is the use of a very strong positive charge on one side of the vehicle and a negative on the other. The core of the motor is a condenser and the ability of the condenser to hold its charge (the k-number) is the yardstick of performance. With air as 1, current dielectrical materials can yield 6 and use of barium aluminate can raise this considerably, barium titanium oxide (a baked ceramic) can offer 6,000 and there is promise of 30,000, which would be sufficient for supersonic speed. The original Brown rig produced 30 fps on a voltage of around 50,000 and a small amount of current in the milliamp range. There was no detailed explanation of gravity in Project Winterhaven, but it was assumed that particle dualism in the subatomic structure of gravity would coincide in its effect with the issuing stream of electrons from the electrostatic energy source to produce counterbary. The Brown work probably remains a realistic approach to the practical realization of electrostatic propulsion and sustentation. Whatever 169 3°59 Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference may be discovered by the Gravity Research Foundation of New Boston, a complete understanding and synthetic reproduction of gravity is not essential for limited success. The electrogravitics saucer can perform the function of a classic lifting surface - it produces a pushing effect on the under surface and a suction effect on the upper, but, unlike the airfoil, it does not require a flow of air to produce the effect. The Department of Defense was not ignoring these ideas, but was more intent on turning theory into practice. In June 1957 G. Harry Stine wrote for Mechanix Illustrated magazine that: “there is a good chance that the rocket will be obsolete for space travel within 50 years.” This was at a time when the multi-stage rockets were being fired from White Sands Army Proving Grounds in New Mexico. Though Werner von Braun saw the multi- stage rocket as a solution to space travel, able to boost a payload beyond the pull of Earth’s gravity, the DoD had other purposes in mind. The rocket was the dream of the future, and yet Stine was predicting its obsolescence. That was because he was aware of T.T. Brown’s work on electro-gravity and the DoD contractors that were working on anti-gravity - the Glenn L. Martin Company, Bell Aircraft, General Electric, and Sperry-Rand, just to name a few. In July 1957 another article appeared in the same magazine: This one written by Michael Gladych. He begins by describing the following: “The spherical craft squatting on a concrete strip emitted a faint hum. A ghostly glow surrounded its shell. The strange craft rose and hovered momentarily while its landing gear retracted. Then the hum increased and the craft shot eastward and vanished beyond the horizon before the witnessing scientists could click their stop watches.” Sounds like a typical UFO sighting, but he goes on to say that the Canadian government’s Project Magnet had been working on a gravity-defying vehicle powered by electromagnetic forces. He also states that at least 14 United States universities and other research centers were hard at work cracking the gravity barrier and also mentions the Glen L. Martin Company and Bell Aircraft, as well as others. Even the late Lawrence D. Bell said that they were on the threshold of amazing new concepts (beyond the Bell research rocket planes). Bell said, “We are already working with nuclear fuels and equipment to cancel out gravity instead of fighting it.” This article concludes by saying, “Make no mistake about it, anti-gravity motors and G-ships are coming.” And, we are still waiting! Or, have we developed anti-gravity spacecraft in secret? 170 ee Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics Sa ee ee Donald Keyhoe looked into this possibility and found that our government had set up forty-six different research projects on various aspects of gravity control. The Air Force ran thirty-three of those projects. Experiments and research were conducted at two Air Force laboratories: Flight Dynamics and General Physics Research. Other labs involved were RCA, MIT and several engineering centers. A large number of corporations were involved in gravity research of the fifties: Bell Aerospace, General Electric, Hughes Aircraft, Boeing, Douglas and others. There were at least 65 to 70 projects going on. Dr. Oberth believed that “energy, inertia, and gravitational fields are only aspects of one and the same thing.” William P. Lear agreed with him and predicted that future US vehicles will also use artificial gravity. He said: “People on board would probably not feel any more effect than they do from the tremendous speed of the Earth as it rotates and orbits the sun.” It is certain that Lear’s son, John, is prepared to fly such a craft. Years ago, Glenn Martin’s vice-president of advanced design, G.S. Trimble, predicted that by 1985 practically all airliners would be using artificial gravity, yet the 1995 debut of Boeing’s most advanced jetliner, the 777, still uses turbojet propulsion. One of the leading physicists of the German Institute of Field Physics at Goettingen, Germany, Dr. Burkhard Heim had been searching for the answer to the riddle of gravity. He said that he had discovered a positive lead to antigravity. The discovery involved an intermediate field, neither electromagnetic nor gravitational. The results, applied to space flight, would be direct levitation, conversion of electricity into kinetic energy without any waste, and “immunizing the occupants and the structures of such vehicles against any effects from acceleration of the vehicle, however great or violent.” The Martin subsidiary that investigated gravity control was RIAS Inc. Now, the Glenn Martin Company through a series of evolutionary mergers has absorbed GE Aerospace and merged with Lockheed to become the Martin-Lockheed Company, a company known to be in the forefront of classified aerospace craft. In a book entitled Spacepower (1958), fusion, photon, and anti-gravity propulsion techniques were considered to be accomplished facts beyond 1990. If they are secret accomplished facts, why are we still flying that flaming torch called the STS? Was Project Outgrowth a secret Air Force project that attempted to utilize the knowledge gained in field propulsion research? Twenty-eight members of the Air Force Systems Command at Edward’s Air Force Base published a technical report dated June 1972 that covered such categories as: electrostatics effects, Alfven wave propulsion, electromagnetic spacecraft propulsion, super-conducting particle accelerators, and anti- gravity propulsion. The Air Force Systems Command also has a presence at Groom Lake in Area 51. I asked a colleague, Randy Koppang, to see if he could get a hold of this document. He contacted the Edwards AFB library. The librarian informed Randy that the report was removed from the library and was not available to the public. According to Bill Jenkins who hosted the Open Mind talk-radio show a few years ago, there was a secret showing of our own antigravity aircraft at Norton AFB on November 12, 171 3'¢ Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference 1988. Norton was also home to the Air Force's Audio-Visual Division for the investigation of crashed aircraft (or UFOs). A flying saucer was put on display in a guarded hangar: the electro-gravity engine in the craft was built by GE Aerospace; and the composite skin structure was supposedly made by AMOCO. Was this craft a result of back engineering of alien spacecraft? Dr. Woolman received his doctorate in 1976 in theoretical physics following his receiving his BS in aerospace engineering in 1973 and was requested to join the Air Force where he continued his studies along with his special and highly classified assignments. He worked for the US Air Force Systems Command, Aeronautical Engineering Division (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH) for 7 years and then after resigning, co-started several very successful high-technology businesses, focusing on new product design and automation in the computer industry. After an extremely successful career, he retired in 1989 to raise his 2 adopted children with his wife Roberta where they live a quiet and secluded life near their children’s school. Dan told me that the Air Force would give him some object and just ask him to study it. Rarely was he given an answer. They wanted to know what he could find out as a physicist. Dan worked on a reverse-engineered craft that had layered material that acted like a super- capacitor. The amount of charge could be varied on selected plates and allow the operator to control the vectoring of the craft. Dan flew one of these craft using a specially constructed helmet interface that picked up his voice command and translated them into flight commands. The craft was capable of trans-atmospheric flight and interplanetary travel. Dan had a license to fly both single and multi-engine aircraft, but this aerospace craft was unique and developed after years of study. CEO Ben Rich, the handpicked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth fighter, its half-pint prototype the HAVE BLUE, and the top secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, he confirmed: 1. There are two types of UFOs — the ones we build, and ones THEY build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual “Hand-me-downs.” The government knew and, until 1969, took an active hand in the administration of that information. 172 ee Reverse Engineering and Alien Astronautics After a 1969 Nixon “Purge,” administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector. 2. “An item” - as opposed to “'The' item” - was recovered near the world’s only combat operational atom bomb base (Roswell AAF) in 1947. Hull design, aerodynamic measurements and propulsion info was passed directly to Jack Northrop and Kelly Johnson, beginning in 1950, with a major block of data being passed on from The Working Group at Wright Patterson AFB’s Foreign Technologies Division in 1952. “The item” refers to the top secret designation of Kelly’s original variant of the U-2 (TR-1) spy plane in Congressional and Pentagon budgets in the 1950s. Nearly all “Biomorphic” aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft, from Kelly’s SR-71 Blackbird onward to today’s drones, UCAVs, and aerospace U3 craft. On March 23, 1993, at an engineering conference in Los Angeles, Dr. Ben R. Rich stated to the future Section Director of the Mutual UFO Network of Orange County, California, engineer Jan Harzan, that we already had in our possession the technology to take us to the stars, saying that “we now have the technology to take ET home.” This was in a conference room full of aerospace and computer engineers from many different aerospace and software companies. The late Ben R. Rich, a UCLA School of Engineering alumnus who is known as the “Father of Stealth” is recognized as one of the best aircraft engineers in the world and led development of the heralded F-117 stealth fighter. 173 Arizona, 1998: Landed UFO, Military, & Murder? Ken Storch Copyright 2005 Ken Storch