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Inside the Military UFO Underground

(Vol. 16, No. 7, April 1994, pp. 48-59)

By A.J.S. Rayl

In 1969, Project Blue Book (the 16-year U.S. Air Force investigation of UFOs)
came to an end, and so did the government's interest in extraterrestrial flying
discs.  Or so the American public has been told.  In recent years, numerous
individuals and documents from various agencies have emerged from behind the
veil of government secrecy to tell a different story.  Their spin: that while
the government officially abandoned all interest in UFOs, a secret military
underground was hot on the trail of suspicious radar blips, saucers, and even
the aliens themselves.  What follows are the stories of three individuals
(two of whom come with impressive military credentials); they say they have
glimpsed what seems like evidence of a decades-old cover-up cloaked in the
guise of national security.  The third interviewee, a propulsion-system engineer,
claims he was hired by an independent military contractor to study the innards
of an extraterrestrial spacecraft being researched and tested on the Nellis Air
Range in central Nevada.

Omni cannot endorse the veracity of the stories told below.  In fact, we must
emphasize that extraordinary tales like these require extraordinary levels of
proof certainly not furnished in our pages, nor, we feel, anywhere else.  That
said, we'll get to the fun part.  In the pages that follow, you'll find strange
tales of alien intrigue and UFO woe.  Decide for yourself: Are these the ravings
of demented hoaxers and madmen or revelations of truth?  Their stories, delivered
in dossier format, have been edited from interviews conducted by author A. J. S.
Rayl during the past year.


NATO Meets E.T.

Name: Robert O. Dean, retired Army command sergeant major

Claim: Back in the Sixties, NATO issued a classified report stating that UFOs
were real, of extraterrestrial origin, and had visited the earth.  This
extraordinary report was said to come out of NATO's command center, the Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe (SHAPE), located then just outside of Paris,
France.

Background: Dean, a highly decorated veteran, served on the front lines in both
Korea and Vietnam.  In 1963, while assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Operations
Center (SHOC), SHAPE's war room, headed up by then-supreme allied commander of
Europe, Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, Dean claims he was able to read the detailed 12 inch
thick NATO report on UFOs.

The Story: ôSHAPE was one of those choice assignments.  You had to have a spotless
record and pass security background checks.  I applied on a whim and got it.
I was very proud and pleased.  At SHAPE, I was put through more security checks,
given a Cosmic Top Secret (yes, this is a real term) clearance, the highest NATO
has, and assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Operations Center, known as SHOC,
the NATO war room.  In those days, the activity would run hot and cold and much
of it would depend on how the Soviets wanted to play it.  The most intriguing
thing to me was that we were continually having a problem with large, metallic,
circular objects that would appear over central Europe; these were reported as
visual phenomena by our pilots and appeared on radar as well.  Some flew in
formation, and most of the time we spotted them coming out of the Soviet Union,
over East Germany, West Germany, France, and then they would often circle somewhere
over the English Channel and head north, disappearing from NATO radar over the
Norwegian Sea.  These objects were very large, moving very fast, at very high
altitudes-higher than we could reach at the time--and they seemed obviously under
intelligent control.

ôI was told this had been going on for some time and that in February 1961 there
had been quite a scare.  Fifty of these objects were spotted on radar and headed
in formation from the Soviet Union toward Europe, flying at about 100,000 feet.
The Soviets had closed all borders.  Everybody went to red alert.  All hell broke
loose.  We really thought æThe WarÆ had started.  We scrambled.  We knew the
Russians were scrambling.  It was the largest number of these objects that had
been seen.  Fortunately, and only by the grace of God, we didn't start bombing
and neither did the Russians.  In nine minutes, they were gone.

ôI was told that then-Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, Sir Thomas Pike,
had been repeatedly requesting information from London and Washington about these
objects, but nothing would ever come.  We found out later that the Columbine-Topaz
spy ring in Paris was intercepting everything and forwarding it to the KGB, which
often got intelligence information even before we did.  So Pike decided, I was
told, to develop an in-house study to determine whether these objects were a
military threat.

ôIn the meantime, the UFO matter literally brought about the establishment of
direct communication between the East and West in 1962, which I have always
found interesting and ironic.  We had pretty well determined by that time that
these were not Russian craft, and the Russians had determined they were not
ours.  So, we came to an understanding, and a direct telephone line was opened
between SHOC and the Warsaw Pact Headquarters Command.  Of course, a setup was
always a possibility, so we had backup ways of checking out whether the
Russians were being truthful.  But since we were both armed to the teeth and
World War III was just ticking away, it was a logical step in the right
direction.  That idea developed into the hotline between the president of the
United States and the soviet premier, following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

ôWell, by the time I arrived in 1963, everybody had been talking about the study,
and I had heard the rumors, seen the blips on radar, witnessed the commotions,
and some of us occasionally even talked about the possibilities.  But nothing
really prepared me for what I started to read in the early morning hours one
night in January 1964.

ôIt was about 2:00 a.m. and a relatively quiet night when the SHOC controller
on duty went into the vault and came out with this huge document.  æTake a look
at this,Æ he said.  The title was simply Assessment: An Evaluation of a Possible
Military Threat to Allied Forces in Europe.  It was numbered, #3, stamped Cosmic
Top Secret, had eight inches worth of appendices, dozens of photographs, and had
been signed into the vault by German colonel Heinz Berger, SHOC's head of
security.  I quickly learned that it was based on two and a half years of
research, was funded by NATO money, and that only 15 copies were published--
in English, German, and French. Each one was numbered.  All were classified and
ordered to be kept under lock and key.

ôEvery time I got the chance, from then until I left, I would read a section or
two in it.  It was the most intriguing document I'd ever read.  It was put
together by military representatives of every NATO nation and also included
contributions from some of the greatest scientific minds.  These objects were
violating all of our known laws of physics, and the study team had gone to
Cambridge, Oxford, the Sorbonne, MIT, and other major universities for input
on chemistry, physics, atmospheric physics, biology, history, psychology, and
even theology, all of which were separate appendices.

ôI read about theories on Einstein's sought-after unified-field theory, the
high radiation at various landing sites, and UFO reports that dated back to
the Roman era and up to our own F105 pilots' sightings and encounters, and on
and on.  I had always been a skeptic, but this report, well...it concluded
that this stuff was not science fiction.

ôI read about contact encounters.  One incident that had just happened in 1963
involved a landing on a Danish farm.  According to the report, the farmer went
aboard with the two little beings and two more human-looking men who spoke to
him in Danish.  The report included parts of his interrogation by government
authorities and their conclusions that he was telling the truth.  In another
incident, according to the reports, a craft landed on an Italian airfield and
offered to take an Italian sergeant for a ride.  He wet his pants--that's
what it said--and was so scared, he didn't go.

ôThe appendix that really got to me was titled æAutopsies.Æ I saw pictures
of a 30-meter disc that had crashed in Timmensdorfer, Germany, near the
Baltic Sea in 1961.  The British Army, according to the report, got there
first and put up a perimeter.  The craft had landed in very soft, loamy
soil near the Russian border and so hadn't destructed, but one-third of
it was buried in.  We and the Russians, who also quickly showed up,
had both tracked it.

ôInside, there were 12 small bodies, all dead.  There were pictures of the
bodies, which looked like the beings known as the ægrays,Æ being laid out and
then put on stretchers and loaded into jeeps, and autopsy photos, too.  Some
of the little grays appeared to not be a reproductive-capable species.
The autopsy guys concluded, according to the report, that it looked as if they
had been cut out of a cookie cutter--clones with no alimentary tract.  They did
not ingest or process food as we know it, nor did it appear that they had any
system for elimination.

ôThe craft itself was cut up like a pie into six pieces, put on lowboys and
hauled off. Scuttlebutt was that it was given to the Americans and flown to
Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio.  I looked at these pictures and
couldn't believe it.  My skin got cold and I thought, My God.  I had never
really believed we were all alone in the universe, but this was hard to
swallow.

"The major conclusions in the NATO report blew me away.  There were five:
The planet and human race had been the subject of a detailed survey of some
kind by several different extraterrestrial civilizations, four of which they
had identified visually.  One race looked almost indistinguishable from us.
Another resembled humans in height, stature, and structure, but with a very
gray, pasty skin tone.  The third race is now popularly known as the grays,
and the fourth was described as reptilian, with vertical pupils and
lizardlike skin.

These alien visitations had been going on for a very long time, at least
200 years--perhaps longer.

The extraterrestrials did not appear hostile since if that were their intent
they would have already demonstrated their malevolence.

UFO appearances and quick disappearances as well as the flybys were
demonstrations conducted on purpose to show us some of their capabilities.

A process or program of some sort seemed to be underway since flybys
progressed to landings and eventually contact.

ôI wanted so badly to copy this thing.  I did take a photograph of the cover
sheet, which wasn't in and of itself classified.  But I didn't want to wind
up in Fort Leavenworth.  So instead I would go to the bathroom and take
notes--surreptitiously, very carefully.

ôI have been through an awful lot in my life, but I've never been able to just
walk away from that report.  I know that I'm taking a chance by violating
my oaths.  But this is the most important issue of our times--so damn
important that I can't think of anything more important, and the public has
been deceived and completely kept in the dark about all of this for all these
years.  It's the biggest scientific, political scandal ever.  Besides, what
have I got to lose?  I'm 64 years old now.  Are they going to bump me off?
I have told the truth.  My integrity and credibility stand.  When is our
government going to tell the truth?ö

Update: After 27 years of military service, Dean retired and began another
14-year career with the Pima County Sheriff's Department Emergency Services
in Tucson, Arizona.  In 1990, he gave a lecture at the University of Arizona
in which he talked about UFOs.  The talk garnered local media coverage.
Afterward, he was denied a promotion at the Sheriff's Department, because,
he alleged, he believed in UFOs.  Dean filed suit and won an out-of-court
settlement in March 1992.  Now retired, Dean has become a member of
several UFO organizations and has begun giving occasional lectures.  He is
working through "any and all legitimate channels" to uncover a copy of the
NATO document and to gather witnesses for an open Congressional hearing on
the subject of UFOs.

Official Response: ôOur list of classified documents generated by SHAPE at
that time does not include any with titles similar to that cited by Mr. Dean,ö
says Lt. Col. Rainer Otte, German Air Force, deputy chief, media section of
the public-information office at SHAPE.  ôFiles on military personnel are in
all circumstances kept under national control.  Information on the security
clearance that Mr. Dean held may (if ever) only be released by U.S. authorities.ö

The Critics' Corner: ôThis is a fascinating story, but fantastic claims like
these need more than one man's testimony to be credible,ö says Jerome Clark
of the Center for UFO Studies.  ôUnless independent verification comes forth,
this remains only an intriguing anecdote, not unlike many others that have
circulated since the early UFO era.ö