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Roswell
Teletype, 8 July 1947 (50k)
Of the thousands of pages of official documentation that have
surfaced on the subject of UFOs under the terms of the U.S. Government’s
Freedom of Information Act, references to the Roswell and New
Mexico UFO crashes of 1947 are few and far between. But they do
exist. One such example is an FBI Teletype of 8 July 1947.
On 10 July 1947, Brigadier General George F. Schulgen (Chief
of the Requirements Intelligence Branch of Army Air Corps Intelligence)
met with Special Agent S.W. Reynolds of the FBI with a view to
determining if the Army Air Force could solicit the assistance
of the Bureau on a regular basis in its investigation of the UFO
mystery.
Declassified FBI memoranda shows that the Bureau had been monitoring
the UFO subject on an ad hoc basis in the wake of the Kenneth
Arnold sighting of 1947. It was this meeting between Schulgen
and Reynolds that cemented the way for a short-lived liaison between
the FBI and the military in the investigation of UFO reports.
Only forty-eight hours before this now-historic meeting took
place, however, the FBI was briefly implicated in what is certainly
the most-talked about UFO incident in history – Roswell.
On 8 July 1947, the FBI office at Dallas forwarded a 1-page teletype
message to FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, concerning the events
at Roswell. It is evident, however, that the FBI was in possession
of only half the story. That “half” having been supplied sometime
previously by Major Edwin M. Kirton (name deleted on the FBI record
originally released in 1976) of Army Air Force Intelligence at
Fort Worth, Texas.
According to the documentation released by the FBI, on the day
in question Kirton contacted the FBI at Dallas and informed them
that, yes, something “purporting to be a flying disc” had indeed
been recovered at Roswell. The disc, said Kirton, was hexagonal
in shape and was suspended from a 20-foot diameter balloon by
a cable. Kirton further advised the FBI that the object resembled
a high-altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector. A telephone
conversation between Kirton’s office and Wright Field had not
borne out this belief, however. Kirton informed the FBI that the
material was being transported to Wright Field for examination
and that he was passing the information on to the FBI because
of “national interest” in the case and the fact that the Press
was “attempting to break [the] story of [the] location of [the]
disc today.”
Kirton concluded his conversation by assuring the Bureau that
the results of the study of the Roswell material would be forwarded
to the FBI Field Office at Cincinnati. Interestingly and perhaps
not surprisingly, no further documentation on this aspect of the
Roswell affair has surfaced. If either FBI Headquarters or the
Cincinnati Office were informed of the results of the examination
of the Roswell debris, those papers have failed to surface via
the FOIA. It is also of interest to note that, according to the
INTERPLANETARY PHENOMENON UNIT SUMMARY of 9 July 1947: “…FBI interest
was curtailed and access to stored craft at Los Alamos was denied
upon request of Deputy COS Lt. General Collins.”
This accords well with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s hand-written
notes that appear at the foot of a 10 July 1947 FBI document pertaining
to UFOs, in which Hoover writes: “…we must insist upon full access
to discs recovered. For instance in the La [Los Alamos?] case
the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.”
Despite the relative lack of official FBI documentation in the
public domain on the Roswell events, there are indications of
deeper FBI knowledge on this matter:
- On 5 December 1950, the FBI was informed by Army Intelligence at Richmond,
that the military had “been put on immediate high alert for
any data whatsoever concerning flying saucers.” This was one
day before, according to the MJ12-Eisenhower Briefing Document,
a UFO crashed at El Indio-Guerroro area of the Texas-Mexican
border.
- On 30 November 1988, an arranged meeting took place between
representatives of the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special
Investigations in Washington, D.C., to discuss the MJ12 papers
that were in the public domain at that time. The Air Force informed
the Bureau that the papers were bogus. This is borne out by
the fact that any requests to the FBI for information pertaining
to MJ12 will result in copies of the MJ12 papers being dispatched
to the requester with the word BOGUS written across them in
heavy ink. The AFOSI has stated in response to FOIA requests
that nothing was committed to paper on their part with respect
to this meeting and they concede further that they undertook
no investigation into the authenticity or otherwise of the MJ12
papers, which begs an important question. How was the Air Force
able to inform the FBI with confidence that the MJ12 papers
were “bogus” if they had conducted no investigation into their
contents?
- Two of the premier investigators of the Roswell crash – Stanton
Friedman and William Moore (who co-wrote the book, The Roswell
Incident, with Charles Berlitz) have been the subject of FBI
investigations. In the case of Moore, by 1993 the FBI file on
him was running at 61 pages, of which Moore was able to gain
access to only six.
As all of the above information shows, the Roswell Incident and the FBI have
at various times between intimately connected. How much more information
pertaining to Roswell, MJ12 and the many and varied investigators
that have researched the case and that remains unseen outside
of official circles is unknown at this time. |
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Wilbert
B. Smith Memo, 21 November 1951 (original and replica)
(99k)
Perhaps the most important document ever released in Canada is
the Top Secret memo of November 21, 1951 from Wilbert B. Smith,
senior radio engineer with the Canadian Department of Transportation.
Smith was a highly respected employee, with a Masters degree in
Electrical Engineering and several patents to his credit. The
memo was sent to the Controller of Telecommunications and recommended
that a research project be set up. "We believe that we are on
the track of something which may well prove to be the introduction
of a new technology," Smith wrote.
"The existence of a different technology is borne out by the
investigations which are being carried on at the present time
in relation to flying saucers." Smith goes on to state that:
- The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States government,
rating higher than the H-bomb,
- Flying saucers exist,
- Their modus operandi is unknown but a concentrated effort
is being made by a small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush,
and
- The entire matter is considered by the United States authorities
to be of tremendous significance.
Here is an unarguable link between Vannevar Bush and UFO reverse-engineering
which the Majestic documents describe. |
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Project
Silver Bug, 15 February 1955 (2.4 MB*)
*please note this file may take up to 30 min. to
download on a slow connection
This 30-page FOIA release of a formerly Top Secret "Project Silver
Bug," developed at Wright-Patterson AFB, was made to Tim Cooper
in October '97. All the "release information" is printed on the
cover page for the reader to see. This "saucer" designed aircraft
uses "gas turbine engines," a conventional power source. The report
is a preliminary design document that includes sectional drawings,
performance characteristics, weight breakdowns, control systems,
and problem areas.
This 1955 report does, however, fit into another story relating
to U.S. Air Force interest in testing saucer designs. According
to a now retired AF Lt. Col., in 1954, while a 2nd Lt., he and
a few other 2nd Lt.'s came across a table full of "wind tunnel
test model saucers" while in a wind tunnel test building of Area
"C," Wright-Patterson AFB. It is illogical to assume that USAF
as well as foreign militaries do not have modern versions of this
type of craft.
Some have argued that reported UFOs are U.S. government or even
Nazi experimental craft. However, those arguments can't account
for the extreme maneuverability and accelerations seen in UFO
reports. The right angle turns, the over the horizon disappearances
in seconds; no conventional power source could provide the performance
characteristics described. |
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President
Kennedy: National Security Action Memorandum No. 271, 12 November
1963 (185k)
President Kennedy signed this declassified memo dated 12 November
1963. It is a National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) No. 271
directed to the administrator of National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), James Webb. The subject matter is surprising,
namely “Cooperation with U.S.S.R. on Outer Space Matters.” It
opens with, “I would like you to assume personally the initiative
and central responsibility with the Government for the development
of a program of substantive cooperation with the Soviet Union
in the field of outer space, including the development of specific
technical proposals. I assume that you will work closely with
the Department of State and other Agencies as appropriate.” It
goes on to mention: “…broader cooperation between the United States
and the U.S.S.R. in outer space, including cooperation in lunar
landing programs. …In this connection the channel of contact developed
by Dr. Dryden between NASA and the Soviet Academy of Sciences
has been quite effective, and I believe we should continue…” This
memo cross checks with a Top Secret memo of the same date that
is part of the leaked Majestic documents cache (John
F. Kennedy to CIA, November 1963) which states that with the
joint cooperation efforts, make sure to explain in a credible
way the impact of knowns (terrestrial aircraft), and unknowns
(UFOs). |
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Concepts for
Detection of ET Life, NASA, 1965
This NASA document written in 1965 is titled "Concepts for Detection
of Extraterrestrial Life" (NASA SP-56). This copy was released
from the U.K. via Nick Redfern. Note the stamps on the cover that
mention the University of Warwick and A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd. Weapons
Research Div. Woodford, Wilkshire. |
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Col. William
Guild FOIA Response to Richard Hall Re: IPU, 25 September
1980 (145k)
This FOIA response to Richard Hall dates 25, September 1980 clearly
confirms the existence of the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit part
of the Scientific and Technical Branch of the Counterintelligence
Directorate was disestablished during the late 1950’s and allegedly
never reactivated. Their files were surrendered to the Air Force
Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). |
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Citizens
Against UFO Secrecy vs. The National Security Agency In Camera
Affidavit, 9 October 1980 (557k)
This Top Secret UMBRA document, specifically Civil Action lawsuit
No. 80-1562 Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) versus the National
Security Agency (NSA) clearly confirms deep and widespread government
involvement with UFOs. This document was released and declassified
as a result of a FOIA process and shows numerous blackout areas
related to COMINT (communications intelligence) and SIGINT (signals
intelligence). This in camera affidavit for Judge Eugene F. Yeates
is simply a justification by the NSA to withhold the information
that CAUS was seeking. Furthermore, the key agency or organization
that performed the analysis and search is blacked out. |
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Dr.
Robert Sarbacher to William Steinman Memo, 29 November 1983
(original & replica) (233k)
This two-page memo is a response to William Steinman’s original
memo of 18 May 1983 in which Steinman names nine scientists that
took part in the 1948 UFO crash retrieval 12 miles Northeast of
Aztec, New Mexico. Dr. Sarbacher, of the Washington Institute
of Technology, confirms that John Von Neuman, Vannevar Bush, and
Robert Oppenheimer were definitely involved. The letter goes on
to state: “…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… I remember in talking
with some of the people at the office (Pentagon) that I got the
impression these ‘aliens’ were constructed like certain insects
we have observed on earth…” The reality of the Aztex crash is
not well established. |
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Steinman
Letter Re: IPU, 16 May 1984 (25k)
This letter dated May 16, 1984 from Lt. Col. Lance R. Cornie
to William S. Steinman provides more official evidence that the
Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) did exist and that their
records were transferred to the Air Force. The memo is suspicious
in its categorical denials and claims based only on "institutional
memory." For example, it states that "It was never a 'unit' in
the military sense, nor was it ever formally organized or reportable,
it had no investigative function, mission or authority and may
not have had any formal records at all." Yet the unit "was formed
as in-house project purely as an interest item of the Assistant
Chief of Staff for Intelligence." Note that from 1941 to the late
50's when it was allegedly disestablished there have been many
Assistant COS-G2, most of which have been directly linked to the
MJ-12 program, such as Stephen J. Chamberlain or George C. McDonald.
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Project
Moondust: Somali Explosion, 25 January, 1996 (52k)
This 3-page document, titled Somaliland President Egal Speaks
on Mysterious Bomb Blast, dates from January 1996 and concerns
a series of "mysterious explosions" that had occurred in the same
month and year in the eastern part of Somaliland. The report (that
originated with the CIA and that was forwarded to the State Department,
Defense Intelligence Agency and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
among others) states that in some quarters the explosions had
been attributed to UFOs. Interestingly, the document also states
that the physical and mental health of both animals and people
in the region had been adversely affected by whatever it was that
had exploded. Symptoms included dementia, skin rashes, boils on
the skin, aching stomachs, and skin shedding. The document states
that the object that crashed or exploded was moving at supersonic
speed but due to the size and remoteness of the area, a search
for debris had been unsuccessful. The reference to people having
physical reactions is not unlike the references in the Majestic
12 1st Annual Report and the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit document
about individuals having adverse (and fatal) reactions to an alien
virus at the scene of a UFO crash site in 1947. |
Project Moondust Files
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Project
Moondust: Agadir, Morocco, 18 January 1967 (24k)
A one-page Department of Defense document dated
18 January 1967 discusses a UFO incident at Agadir, Morocco, and
again makes a clear and undeniable link between UFO studies and
Project Moondust investigations. It states in part: "…this sighting
demonstrates a high level of local interest in the subject of
UFOs and presages future reporting which could be valuable in
pursuit of Project MOON DUST." |
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Project
Moondust: UFO Sighting at Kasba Tadla, Morocco, 6 April 1967
(22k)
A one-page Department of Defense document dated 6 April 1967
and titled UFO Sighting at Kasba Tadla, Morocco makes a
clear link between UFOs and Project Moondust. In part, the document
states that: "…it indicates continued local interest in UFOs"
and directly references Project Moondust as being relevant to
the investigation. |
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Project
Moondust: 42 Page Package, 18 November 1973 (973k)
Additional documentation demonstrating a link between UFOs and
Project Moondust comes via a package of 42 pages of documentation
that were all released as a result of a Freedom of Information
Act request to the State Department for files on Moondust. The
first entry is titled Project Moondust and dates from November
1973 and concerns the recovery of what may have been Soviet satellite
debris. However, also included in this 42 page package are: (a)
documents on a 1978 discussion concerning the potential of having
the United Nations undertake UFO investigations; (b) UFO sightings
in Afghanistan; (c) a UFO encounter in Kuwait in 1980 that "shut
down" the pumping system of a local oil pumping device; (d) the
recovery of a spherical object in Buenos Aries in 1984; and (e)
a 1984 report titled Unidentified Objects Observed on Radar Screen
at Grantley Adams International Airport. |
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Project
Moondust: Santa Cruz, Bolivia Object Recovery, May 1978 (212k)
These 2 pages of documentation were forwarded to the State Department
by the CIA and detail the crash of "an unidentified object" in
Bolivian territory in May 1978. The object was reportedly 4 meters
in diameter and Bolivian authorities had sealed off an area of
200 km around the crash site. |
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Project
Moondust: Santa Cruz, Bolivia, August 1979 (476k)
In April of 2007 Air Intelligence Agency, part of the US Air Force through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) confirmed that in August 1979 a pair of weird spheres crashed near Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The documents not only verify what Ryan S. Wood has already revealed in his book Majic Eyes Only, but also provides additional intriguing details and references to “MOON DUST,” the prominent governmental space debris and UFO retrieval program designed to locate, recover, and deliver descended foreign space vehicles back to Wright Patterson Foreign Technology Division headquarters for analysis and exploitation.
According to several eye-witnesses, two “balls of fire” fell from the sky and softly landed in the cities of Santa Cruz and Cotoca on August 8th, 1979. The story behind these fallen objects is continuously growing with intensity and credibility. The spheres—almost identical in nature—were about “80 centimeters in diameter and ~2 meters in circumference with a hole in one side and a metal skin covering approximately one-half inch thickness…The spheres weighed about six kilograms with half-inch thick skin and the outside metal was similar to copper with dark and light spots …the plants near the objects were burned.” First hand witnesses mentioned in the official documentation of this incident include Colonel Ariel Coca, Campesino Gonzalo Menacho Viveras, and Nathaniel Mendez Hurtado. Most of the mystery associated with these incidents is in the practically impossible landing of these objects. The two objects were reported to be on fire, made a loud whistling sound and then exploded. However, “in the area where they’ve been found, there were no signs of the impact and it looks as though the spheres landed smoothly.” How did the spheres negotiate a smooth landing? Certainly they are not terrestrial space debris. More mysterious yet, is the presence of a “silent aircraft” with three lights that appeared later the same evening, hovering above the explosion area. What was the craft doing? Who contracted it to be there and why? Was it an extraterrestrial craft or man-made?
The incidents’ association with project MOON DUST intensifies these questions; what was the level of involvement of MOON DUST personnel and what did they hope to gain or hide in Bolivia? Where are the spheres today?
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