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- U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater (Arizona) is a retired USAF
- General, with TOP SECRET CLEARANCE, who attempted to gain
- access to a storage facility alleged to contain dead aliens at
- Wright-Patterson AFB. He was refused entry since he did not
- have, believe it or not, a high enough security clearance.
-
- On December 3, 1974, Goldwater wrote the following letter:
-
- "...I made an effort to get in the room at Wright-Patter-
- son Field where the information was stored and I was denied
- this request, understandably."
-
- On March 28, 1975, Senator Goldwater wrote again:
-
- "...The subject of UFOs has interested me for some time.
- I 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 denied this
- request. IT IS STILL CLASSIFIED ABOVE TOP SECRET..." (Emphasis
- Added).
-
- Other prominent Amercans have also gone on record that
- the UFO phenomena is worthy of serious study, for example:
-
- 1. President Carter asked NASA to explore the
- possibility of investigating UFOs.
-
- 2. When he was in Congress, President Ford called for
- Congressional investigations of UFOs.
-
- 3. Astronaut Gordon Cooper said, "I believe that these
- extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this
- planet from other planets."
-
- 4. General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
- of Staff and reputed member of MJ-12, wrote a secret memo on
- September 23, 1947, in which he stated to the Commanding
- General of the Army Air Forces on the subject of "Flying
- Discs":
- " a. The phenomenon reported is something REAL and not
- visionary or fictitious.
- b. There are objects probably approximating the shape
- of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to
- be as large as a man-made aircraft.
- c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents
- may be caused by natural phenomena, such as
- meteors.
- d. The reported operating characteristics such as
- extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly
- in roll), and action which must be considered EVASIVE
- when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and
- radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the
- objects are controlled either manually, automatically
- or remotely." (Emphasis in Original).
-
- It is now clear that the U.S. Air Force Project Blue
- Book was merely a public relations effort to show something
- being "done" about UFOs. It is equally clear that the real
- effort was, and continues to be conducted elsewhere.
-
-
- Lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act have
- obtained significant official documentation verifying an on-
- going uninterrupted concern with UFO investigations by the Air
- Force, belying its publicly stated position on the matter.
- A Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication (JANAP 146)
- requires reports of any sighting which could be a threat to
- national security. UFOs continue to be sighted by military
- personnel and are reported under this regulation.
- Indeed, important UFO sightings and reports, even before
- 1969, were not processed under Project Blue Book, but were and
- are collected and investigated elsewhere by the military. An
- Air Force document dated October 20, 1969, which proposed
- termination of Project Blue Book, states, "Reports of
- Unidentified Flying Objects which could affect national
- security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force
- Manual 55-11, AND ARE NOT PART OF THE BLUE BOOK SYSTEM
- (Emphasis Added)...reports of UFOs which could affect national
- security should continue to be handled through standard Air
- Force procedure designed for this purpose." This document is
- signed by Brigadier General C.H. Bolender, USAF Deputy
- Director of Development, and had sixteen attachments which the
- Air Force has not released.
- JANAP 146 E (1977) states:
- a. Sightings within the scope of this chapter...
- are to be reported as follows:
- 1. While airborne and from land based observers.
- (a) Hostile or unidentified single aircraft
- or formations of aircraft which appear
- to be directed against the United States
- or Canada or their forces.
- (b) Missles.
- (c) Unidentified Flying Objects.
- (d) Hostile or unidentified submarines.
- (e) ...etc...
-
- The regulation draws a clear distinction between
- "Unidentified Flying Objects," "missles," and unidentified
- single aircraft or formations of aircraft." In other words,
- UFOs which may be deemed to constitute a threat to national
- security under JANAP 146, are considered by the regulation as
- something different than missles and aircraft.
-
- Moreover, the term "UFO," as used in these regulations,
- is given very clear definition. Illustrations in Air Force
- Intelligence manuals at least as far back as 1953 represent
- UFOs as large, disc-shaped craft with transparent domes and
- portholes around the edges. A U.S. Navy publication (OPNAV 94-
- P-3B), titled "MERINT Radiotelegraph Procedure," shows UFOs as
- a separate class from missles and aircraft. In fact, an
- illustration under the UFO heading shows a Saturn-shaped disc.
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