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Keyhoe's first article on the subject came out in True Magazine , January , and was a national sensation. His first book, Flying Saucers Are Real also came out in , about the same time as Frank Scully's book, and was a bestseller.
Keyhoe became its director and continued his attacks on the Air Force. Canadian radio engineer Wilbert B. Smith, who worked for the Canadian Department of Transport, was interested in flying saucer propulsion technology and wondered if the assertions in the just-published Scully and Keyhoe books were factual. In September , he had the Canadian embassy in Washington D. Smith was briefed by Dr. Other correspondence, having to do with Keyhoe needing to get clearance to publish another article on Smith's theories of UFO propulsion, indicated that Bush and his group were operating out of the Research and Development Board.
Canadian documents and Smith's private papers were uncovered in the late s, and by , other alleged documents emerged claiming the existence of a highly secret UFO oversight committee of scientists and military people called Majestic 12 , again naming Vannevar Bush. Sarbacher was also interviewed in the s and corroborated the information in Smith's memos and correspondence. Throughout the s and early s, Smith granted public interviews, and among other things stated that he had been lent crashed UFO material for analysis by a highly secret U.
A few weeks after the Robertson Panel, the Air Force issued Regulation , ordering air base officers to publicly discuss UFO incidents only if they were judged to have been solved, and to classify all the unsolved cases to keep them out of the public eye. These were deliberately siphoned away from Blue Book, leaving Blue Book to deal with the more trivial reports. After this station detected the first suspicious event, all data gained by this station was classified as secret, although the cameras of the monitoring station could not make any pictures because of fog. There has been continued speculation that the men in black are government agents who harass and threaten UFO witnesses.
During the show when Keyhoe tried to depart from the censored script to "reveal something that has never been disclosed before", CBS cut the sound, later stating Keyhoe was about to violate "predetermined security standards" and about to say something he wasn't "authorized to release".
Astronaut Gordon Cooper reported suppression of a flying saucer movie filmed in high clarity by two Edwards AFB range photographers on May 3, Cooper said he viewed developed negatives of the object, clearly showing a dish-like object with a dome on top and something like holes or ports in the dome. When later interviewed by James McDonald , the photographers and another witness confirmed the story. Cooper said military authorities then picked up the film and neither he nor the photographers ever heard what happened to it.
The incident was also reported in a few newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times. The official explanation was that the photographers had filmed a weather balloon distorted by hot desert air. Throughout much of the s, atmospheric physicist James E. McDonald suggested—via lectures, articles and letters—that the U.
Government was mishandling evidence which would support the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Clark notes that many UFO conspiracy theory tales "can be traced to a mock documentary, Alternative 3 , broadcast on British television on June 20, , and subsequently turned into a paperback book. Clark cites a encounter as perhaps the earliest suggestion that the U. This was supposedly not the first time the U. The ETs said no" Clark , Past, Present and Future narrated by Rod Serling containing only a few seconds of the Holloman UFO footage, the remainder of the landing depicted with illustrations and re-enactments.
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In , Shartle said that the film in question was genuine, and that he had seen it several times. In a televised documentary report UFOS: Some sequences were recreated based upon the statements of eyewitness observers, together with the findings and conclusions of governmental civil and military investigations. The late s also saw the beginning of controversy centered on Paul Bennewitz of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The so-called Majestic 12 documents surfaced in , suggesting that there was secret, high-level U. Linda Moulton Howe is an advocate of conspiracy theories that cattle mutilations are of extraterrestrial origin and speculations that the U.
In the s, Milton William Cooper achieved a degree of prominence due to his conspiratorial writings. Gradually, on closer examination and from having been shown multiple briefing documents, Lazar came to the conclusion that the discs must have been of extraterrestrial origin.
Another memo said "it would be nice if OSI could arrange to secure a copy of the film in some covert manner," but if that wasn't feasible, one of the Air Force scientists might have to negotiate directly with the newspaper. You can remove the unavailable item s now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel. Government was mishandling evidence which would support the extraterrestrial hypothesis. UIG via Getty Images.
He claims that they use moscovium , an element that decays in a fraction of a second, to warp space, and that he has since met Grey aliens from the " Zeta Reticuli " star system. On October 14, , actor Mike Farrell hosted U. Bill Moore ufologist was scheduled as the main speaker, and he refused to submit his paper for review prior to the convention, and also announced that he would not answer any follow-up questions as was common practice.
Unlike most of the convention's attendees, Moore did not stay at the same hotel that was hosting the convention. When he spoke, Moore said that he and others had been part of an elaborate, long-term disinformation campaign begun primarily to discredit Paul Bennewitz: Doty was also involved, said Moore, though Moore thought Doty was "simply a pawn in a much larger game, as was I. Moore said that he "was in a rather unique position" in the disinformation campaign: There was no way I was going to allow the opportunity to pass me by I would play the disinformation game, get my hands dirty just often enough to lead those directing the process into believing I was doing what they wanted me to do, and all the while continuing to burrow my way into the matrix so as to learn as much as possible about who was directing it and why.
Once he finished the speech, Moore immediately left the hotel. He left Las Vegas that same night. Moore's claims sent shock waves through the small, tight-knit UFO community, which remains divided as to the reliability of his assertions. Four years later, on June 12, , Ford was arrested and charged with plotting to poison several local politicians by sneaking radium in their toothpaste.
Critics say the charges are a frame-up. The Branton Files have circulated on the internet at least since the mids. They essentially recirculate the information presented above, with many asides from " Branton ", the document's editor. Philip Schneider of the patriot movement , an engineer and geologist formerly working for the U. He claimed to have played a role in the construction of Deep Underground Military Bases DUMBs across the United States, and as a result he said that he had been exposed to classified information of various sorts as well as having personal experiences with EBEs.
He claimed to have survived the Dulce Base catastrophe and decided to tell his tale. Others believe that Schneider did not take his own life and that he was actually murdered by the government. The files are correspondence from the public sent to government officials, such as the MoD and Margaret Thatcher.
The information can be downloaded. Halt's letter regarding the sighting at RAF Woodbridge see above [ where? Ministry of Defense were routinely released without addition comment by the USA's base public affairs staff throughout the s until the base closed. In the early s, the concept of "disclosure" became increasingly popular in the UFO conspiracy community: In , Steven M. Greer founded the Disclosure Project to promote the concept. C that demanded Congress hold hearings on "secret U. C from 29 April to 3 May The group paid former U. Allegations of suppression of UFO related evidence have persisted for many decades.
An Army Air Force intelligence officer and an FBI agent interviewed Rhodes on August 29 and convinced him to surrender the negatives, which he did the next day.
He was informed he wouldn't be getting them back, but later he tried, unsuccessfully, to retrieve them. Randle, 34—45, full account [19]. Another memo said "it would be nice if OSI could arrange to secure a copy of the film in some covert manner," but if that wasn't feasible, one of the Air Force scientists might have to negotiate directly with the newspaper. In another movie incident from Montana, Nicholas Mariana filmed some unusual aerial objects and eventually turned the film over to the U.
Air Force, but insisted that the first part of the film, clearly showing the objects as spinning discs, had been removed when it was returned to him. According to some conspiracy theorists, during the military investigation of green fireballs in New Mexico , UFOs were photographed by a tracking camera over White Sands Proving Grounds on April 27, They claim that the final report in on the green fireball investigation claimed there was insufficient data to determine anything.
Conspiracy theorists claim that documents later uncovered by Dr. Bruce Maccabee indicate that triangulation was accomplished.
The conspiracy theorists also claim that the data reduction and photographs showed four objects about 30 feet in diameter flying in formation at high speed at an altitude of about 30 miles. According to conspiracy theorists, Maccabee says this result was apparently suppressed from the final report. During the show when Keyhoe tried to depart from the censored script to "reveal something that has never been disclosed before," CBS cut the sound, later stating Keyhoe was about to violate "predetermined security standards" and about to say something he wasn't "authorized to release.
Good, —; Dolan — [17] [31]. General Hewitt Wheless, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, stated that unverified information indicated that unknown individuals, impersonating USAF officers and other military personnel, had been harassing civilian UFO witnesses, warning them not to talk, and also confiscating film, referring specifically to the Heflin incident.
AFOSI was to be notified if any personnel were to become aware of any other incidents. After the briefing, one of the CIA agents told everybody they "were never there and this never happened," adding they were fearful of public panic. According to one theory related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy , the CIA killed Kennedy in order to prevent him from leaking information to the Soviet Union about a covert program to reverse-engineer alien technology i.
Nick Cook , an aviation investigative journalist for Jane's Information Group and researcher of Billion Dollar Secret [72] and author of The Hunt for Zero Point [73] claims to have uncovered documentary evidence that top-secret US Defense Industry technology has been developed by government-backed Defense Industry programs, beginning in the s using research conducted by Nazi scientists during WWII and recovered by Allied Military Intelligence, then taken to the U. Cook's conclusions, alleging suppression of evidence of advanced human technology instead of alien, together with what he presents as declassified top-secret documents and blueprints, and his interviews of various experts some of doubtful reliability , was developed and broadcast as a feature documentary on British television in as "UFOs: The History Channel program teaser promised " Greer founded the Disclosure project to promote the concept of disclosing allegedly suppressed evidence of extraterrestrials.
C that featured "20 retired Air Force, Federal Aviation Administration and intelligence officers" who demanded that Congress begin hearings on "secret U. Mike Gravel claimed that the government was suppressing evidence of extraterrestrials. Benjamin Radford has pointed out how unlikely such suppression of evidence is given that "[t]he UFO coverup conspiracy would have to span decades, cross international borders, and transcend political administrations" and that "all of the world's governments, in perpetuity, regardless of which political party is in power and even among enemies, [would] have colluded to continue the coverup.
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He was a campaign contributor to Sen. Reid and some of Reid's causes and persuaded Reid that the military budget ought to include funds for the study of UFOs. Funding for the AATIP activity was discontinued in , Sheaffer said, "because it was not producing any results, just reams of paper, although the investigation is reported to still be continuing, but without funding, if that is possible. Sheaffer said that what is really interesting is the statement in The New York Times story that, under Bigelow's direction, the aerospace company "modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr.
Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. If that's true, Bigelow supposedly has actual artifacts from UFOs, Sheaffer said, "and in fact has such a large quantity that he needs to modify his buildings to accommodate them? That is just utterly bizarre. We need an explanation of exactly what buildings were modified at federal expense, and what do they contain? This impression, he said, is reinforced by the fact that a constituent of Sen.
Reid Robert Bigelow received funding through the program. The center was started by Hynek, who served as the astronomical consultant to Project Blue Book.
Hynek himself was initially dubious of the whole UFO business, but after culling through hundreds of reports by witnesses, he became convinced UFOs were worthy of serious study. In broad terms, the outing of the AATIP and its investigation of military UFO sightings "confirms something that has been believed for many years … that these sightings are still happening," Rodeghier said.
Rodeghier said he hopes the core of AATIP information that has been gathered can be released to the public and made available for scientific analysis. We need high-quality data about UFOs to do better science," Rodeghier said. Leonard David is author of "Mars: The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars. Originally published on Space. By Leonard David, Space.