THE WORLDWIDE UFO COVERUP by Charles Tromblee 6/13

The Worldwide UFO Coverup

(Also see the companion article published simultaneously with this one in this blog: “Is Our Government Preparing Us for Disclosure?” It is a discussion on what strategy might be occurring which keeps the UFO Disclosure phenomenon from completely escaping the public awareness but which at the same time prevents it from rising to a high level of attention.)

It is easy to find many government released documents which address the UFO phenomenon in enough detail to show that the phenomenon is very real. It is not a well kept secret. Just read Richard Dolan’s excellent essay on the matter, “Twelve Government Documents.”* If this does not convince someone that the phenomenon is real, then there are myriads of other released documents that one can read from other sources which have punched through the veil of secrecy. Timothy Good’s books on UFOs are full of them. Even though UFOs are not a well kept secret anymore, there have been and continues to be other obfuscation activities which have been enacted to maintain the coverup of UFOs. It is not worth arguing whether there is a coverup anymore because it is so obvious. It is a coverup of extreme sophistication. To make it successful, the coverup requires more than just secrecy, which is imperfect. It contains misinformation, disinformation, intimidation, lies, bribes, propaganda, exploitation of ignorance, financial reprisals, misdirection, trained recovery teams, quick response strategies, management, organized discipline and processes, and even murders.

 

The success of the coverup is stunning. The coverup does have a secrecy component, but its main success stems from getting a gullible, malleable and otherwise uninformed public to disrespect the phenomenon. Hence, the giggle factor coverage given to it by the media. Hence, the continued skepticism applied to it even in the face of thousands of sightings per year. It is so successful that even intelligent people ridicule the phenomenon. Take astrophysicist Neal deGrasse Tyson for example. He is a smart and fascinating guy, but when it comes to UFOs, his opinions are simply ignorant, hiding behind the lack of physical proof and the speed of light/distance limitation. Maybe he should read about UFOs a bit more and then maybe he would change his mind. What causes the lack of physical proof? The coverup does. But, like in a trial by jury, there has to come a point where the cumulative evidence forces one to make the “real or not?” decision in favor of “real”.

Our government probably likes the position that they have put the UFO phenomenon into. It is now the “anti-religion” of humanity. This means that UFOs are disbelieved by most people despite there being plenty of evidence. Religion is believed in by most people despite there being no evidence. UFOs make people uncomfortable; religion comforts people.

But here is the main point of this blog opinion piece: To make the coverup successful, all of the activities described in the first paragraph above have to be applied to the whole world, not just the USA and a few other countries. Although it is not worth arguing about whether there is a coverup in the USA (and the UK, and Russia), it is worth arguing that there is a worldwide coverup, and that is the purpose of this writeup.

The coverup of the reality of UFOs is much more global than we realize.  I have never seen a leaked document that even hints at a worldwide coverup, yet I believe that the coverup must exist. When we think about the coverup, we always deal with evidence that shows its existence here in the USA and to a lesser extent, the UK. The evidence always points to countrywide coverups only. The USA constitutes only 7% of the habitable land area of the earth and 5% of the world population. There are about 196 countries in the world, and during the heyday of UFOs (say, 1947 to about 1980) there were many fewer than there are today. In 1990, there were 35 fewer countries than now, due to the spawning of 16 countries from the USSR in 1991, Yugoslavia generated 5 more in 1992, Czechoslovakia generated two more, and several countries dropped their colonial possession status and/or outright successfully declared their independence. We all know that these other places have had plenty of UFO encounters and sightings, and some are even are greater hotspots than the United States, such as Mexico and Argentina. One has to admit that the silence and denials by these other 190+ countries goes a long way toward making one think that the phenomenon is not real at all. But overriding this doubt should be the continued radar and visual sightings, some trace evidence, and those released documents. So what is going on? Why are these 190+ country governments silent?

The main reason for their silence is that UFOs are a non-issue for these countries. Most countries have never had a UFO crash or spectacular event. Some are so small that their whole government is about the size of the board of directors of a corporation or subdivision. They would not be sufficiently interested or able to invest in their own UFO apparatus to “control” the phenomenon. The bulk of the world’s countries fall into this category.

But what about the remaining  countries of the world; i.e. the ones which are large enough or “fortunate” enough to have experienced several UFO significant phenomena? Why are they silent? From the perspective of those who say that UFOs are real, there is only one possible answer and it is this: the coverup is worldwide. Timothy Good realized this by 1988 when he published his book, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up.  Timothy Good is a great researcher, but even this book does not present any documentation that even hints about such a unified, organized, global coverup despite its secondary title which is ‘The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up’. Such documentation just does not exist, and if it does, it has not leaked.  But wait, you might say, what about those several DEFCON alert incidents where the USA military went on high alert as a UFO fleet flew from the USSR toward the USA (and vice versa)? Both enemies knew that mistaken identity could trigger a nuclear war. The end result was that both countries signed a bilateral agreement (a treaty) in September of 1971 to communicate whenever an “unidentified object” would be detected flying from one country toward the other.** The agreement further stated that such communication would be invoked also when , “…in the event of signs of interference with these systems or with related communications facilities, if such occurrences could create a risk of outbreak of nuclear war…”. This last phrase indicates that both sides also knew of UFO interest in their defense facilities and their capability to interfere with the electronic control systems of those facilities. This agreement certainly showed that both countries acknowledged the truth of the phenomenon (although the term “unidentified objects” was also meant to include off-course airplanes and other harmless airborne bodies), and it was intended to avoid an accidental mutually assured destruction scenario. But it did not show that there is a worldwide coverup. This agreement was meant to last for all time even though both countries remained enemies after the treaty. The saying, “Politics makes strange bedfellows” applies here, but it could be modified to say, “UFO politics makes even stranger bedfellows, some of whom may not even be human.” This treaty is certainly not proof of a worldwide coverup, nor is it even evidence of such. I prefer to look at it as an indicator of about when the worldwide coverup started to solidify and recruit all countries of the earth into its purview; i.e. the 1965-1975 time frame or even sooner.

Despite the complete lack of documented evidence that there is a worldwide coverup, let us reason as to why no countries have come forward with their own UFO proof. For this thought exercise, let us divide the earth’s countries into small, medium, and large sizes.  Let us also admit to ourselves the following fact: to convert the whole world to a belief in UFOs (or to have your country believe a government “UFOs are real” announcement, a craft or alien body will have to be produced and announced to the world through official channels by a government. (This means that it is unlikely the aliens will do this themselves.) However, there are about 3 exceptions to the need to provide physical proof. These 3 exceptions are the leaders of Russia, China, and the United States. If any one of these people announced to the world that UFOs are extraterrestrial, they would be believed even without any physical proof being presented. No other world leaders would be believed even if they made the identical announcement without providing the physical proof.

At this point, let us take a look at the kind of people that run the coverup by telling two stories. In the early fifties, Eisenhower was trying to learn more about the UFO phenomenon and heard that Area 51 had captured saucers and alien beings. He called Area 51 and was told that he did not have the clearance needed to be given the answers he was seeking. You do not tell a 5 star general who is president that he does not have sufficient clearance! He told the coverup personnel at Area 51 that he was sending his representatives to the gates of Area 51 and that he expected them to let his representatives in and reveal their secrets to them. Otherwise, he said, he would invade the military base. Just imagine: here is the commander in chief of all US military having to threaten the arrogant coverup people that he was ready to invade his own base to wrest UFO secrets from them. You can see how in just a few short years from the formation of MJ-12 in 1947 how independent the MJ-12 cabal had become. Eisenhower had to take control of the UFO secrecy back to the presidency. Did he maintain that control? No, he did not. As an ex-general, he liked secrecy himself, so he missed an opportunity to reveal the truth to the world, and for that reason he belongs in every UFO Hall of Shame ever conceived.

The second story deals with the death of James Forrestal and what follows are simply opinions on what happened. Forrestal was the appointed leader of the first MJ-12 group. Only 20 months after his appointment to this position, he was murdered by agents who threw him out the window of a psychiatric ward. He was a patient in this facility due to his erratic behavior, and it is believed that he could not handle the UFO reality, so he had to be silenced. Undoubtedly, CIA agents did the murdering, but it was at the order of the MJ-12. They murdered their own leader after 20 months in order to keep the UFO secret! Clearly, the secret keepers are a despicable group who are willing to do anything it takes to maintain silence. I often wonder what would be done if a UFO crashed in an isolated town of about 5000 people. To preserve the secret, would they be memory erased or simply machine gunned, blaming something like a chemical spill? Or would this cause Disclosure?

It is probable that most of the people who are leading the worldwide coverup are not politicians. Clearly, the coverup is meant to be permanent, and we know that politicians are not. They are subject to elections and overthrows, so their jobs are short lived compared to the needs of the coverup. A consortium of rich dynasty families definitely seems more appropriate and logical to be the leaders of the worldwide coverup because they are well connected to corporations and to government officials.  The money from the reverse engineering part of the coverup helps maintain the family fortunes to perpetuate their dynasties. But even these people need the respective world governments to agree to their choices for receiving foreign aid and to provide military assistance during a UFO cleanup operation, to provide muscle for intimidation, spying, and to chase UFOs around in the sky so that aliens do not get the idea that we are getting friendlier to them and so induce them to land, reveal themselves, and negotiate.

Now let’s talk about why almost all countries in the world have no recovered crashes or alien bodies stored away which could assist in proving to the world that the phenomenon is extraterrestrial.

In a video presentation on You Tube a few years back, noted Brazilian ufologist A. J. Gevaerd was speaking about the Varginha incident of 1996, in which some strange aliens appeared in the town of Varginha, Brazil. This was well covered by Brazilian ufologists. Rumors about the story indicate that the United States officials visited Brazil and the wreckage and bodies were taken back to the United States. When Gevaerd addressed this rumor as to why Brazil let this happen, he speculated that it could have been that Brazil receives foreign aid from the United States. In other words, threats of its removal could have prompted Brazil to surrender its alien proof to the USA. Grant Cameron, noted Canadian ufologist, has heard that Brazil traded the Varginha evidence to the USA for a promise to include a Brazilian astronaut on an upcoming space shuttle mission, a promise which was kept. In a recent podcast by Grant Cameron, he told the story of a possible Canada UFO crash just above the USA border. When Canadian authorities arrived at the crash site, they were forcibly turned away at gunpoint by the US Military who had gotten there first. Cameron now believes that his country, the second largest in the world by land area, simply lets the USA do what it wants to/with the Canadians about UFOs. There have been about two or three UFO crashes just south of the US border in Mexico. In all of these crashes, it was the USA who got there uninvited onto foreign soil to move the wreckage back to its laboratories. In one of the crashes known as Mexico’s Roswell which occurred in 1974 in the state of Chihuahua, the Mexican recovery team had arrived first and then died under mysterious circumstances, and the USA wound up with the prize. Certainly, if these stories have merit, Canadian and Mexican high government officials must have been aware of these incidents. Therefore, a good reason that no countries can come forward with the truth and then prove it with physical evidence is that they have given away their proof, both willingly and otherwise.  But to whom? The obvious answers are the USA, Russia, and China.  They are the “800 pound gorillas” in the UFO knowledge and proof arena.

Regarding foreign aid, in 2012 the USA gave out 50 billion dollars in foreign aid to specifically named countries.  This includes both military (37%) and civilian (63%) “assistance”. (The actual number is higher because of broad regional aid projects which can cross borders.)  Such foreign aid is not given out altruistically. There are strings attached. It would make sense that a country receiving such aid would have to first agree to, say, “cooperate fully in dealing with matters of national and global security”, or some such broad and vague agreement under which could include surrendering one’s crashed UFOs and alien bodies. Notable countries receiving USA’s aid in 2012 were Brazil $17.25 million, Russia $63 million, Argentina $1.35 million, India $108 million, Chile $1.1 million, Mexico $330 million, Cuba $20 million, and Venezuela $5 million, and so forth. Not receiving any aid from the USA were UK, Ireland, France, All Scandinavia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, North Korea and South Korea. In 2010, Russia gave out only $472 million in foreign aid, but back in 1986 they gave $26 billion away. The UK gives about 11.2 billion pounds away in foreign aid, and China gives aid to Vietnam, North Korea, and African countries. But you see the point being made here: Foreign aid by the “800 pound UFO gorillas” could serve as a very persuasive cudgel in maintaining UFO secrecy by draining most of the world of its proof of UFOs. (I included the UK in the discussion because they allegedly have had a couple of crashes, yet it is widely known they are in a UFO coverup partnership with the USA.) It should be emphasized that outside of the big 3 or 4 foreign aid-supplying countries, the vast majority of the remaining other countries in the world are recipients of their aid. And last but not least, if the foreign aid temptation does not work, there are reprisal threats that can be made to achieve cooperation.

Based on existing UFO literature, better sightings and more crashes were known and leaked back in the earlier days of the phenomenon than what occurs today. This could be simply because the coverup still had not solidified into the near perfect veil that exists now, or it could simply be that there really were better sightings and more crashes than now.  Back in those earlier days, a UFO crash recovery by a small country was like finding a treasure. In those days, there were only a few large countries that had the technical and military capability to deal efficiently with a crash, and those same countries had the scientific expertise to attempt to analyze the wreckage and the bodies. The (lack of) development of almost all smaller countries at that time meant that if they had tried to keep the crash for themselves, then they would not have been able to do much with it, such as develop high technology from it. If they kept it, it would have been a “white elephant” possession. Naturally, with this type of scenario, the most logical thing an underdeveloped nation would do in the circumstance of a crash recovery would be to deal it to one of the 3 or 4 dominant nations of the world to reap a financial reward. It is obvious, however, that most small countries would have no physical UFO proof simply due to the lack of surface area in which to have a crash. Or, to put it another way, most countries in the world are of the small to intermediate size range so it is likely that nothing UFO-physical ever happened there.

 Most small to intermediate size countries have no influence either. On 9/9/1977, Eric Gairy who was the Prime Minister of the small Caribbean island nation of Grenada and also a fervent UFO believer, met with President Jimmy Carter to announce that he intended to address the U.N. to get them to formally commit to a study of UFOs. Details of the meeting have been suppressed, but it is known that Carter gave Gairy a copy of the 1969 Condon report to take with him. A roll of toilet paper would have been more valuable. Gairy addressed the U.N. on 10/7/77 with a UFO speech that Leonard Stringfield had helped write. Nothing came of Gairy’s efforts. No one seemed to care. He had tried to use the only process available then and to the present to call attention at the world level to the UFO question, and it completely failed. The USA did its best to suppress his efforts. It is tempting to think of this failed attempt as another indicator that the worldwide coverup was in effect by 1977. If a big country like, say, Germany, Brazil, or Argentina had tried the identical tactic, the result might have been much more successful.

There is another process going on in the world which is lessening the attention that countries pay to UFOs, and it is a very important but unstudied phenomenon regarding UFOs. It is also a natural process. The importance of this process cannot be over emphasized. This process is the loss of UFO historical knowledge that naturally has been occurring over the years because the coverup is so successful and because the early experiencers have been dying off. I have read somewhere that back in the heyday of UFOs, every single country in the world knew of UFOs and of the concern that they were causing. Every single world government had been contacted about the “threat” that they might pose. Nowadays, things have calmed down and it is generally agreed that they do not pose a threat, so why maintain any paid personnel to deal with the issue at all anymore?  The point attempting to be made here is that UFO knowledge and dedicated personnel within a government will inevitably diminish, and this I have called the “loss of UFO heritage” (addressed in my book, Alien Radix.) Over a time span of decades, some agencies/governments will forget that they ever knew about UFOs at all. As author Howard Blum states at the end of his book, Out There, “Even the government doesn’t know what it knows.” Maybe a country still has an old forgotten file cabinet somewhere with information about an old UFO coverup visit from the United States, or maybe all records have been destroyed over the years. No significant UFO documents have been released in the United States for over 20 years. A recent MUFON meeting that I attended had no one there below the age of 40. This loss of UFO heritage and interest in the subject is adversely affecting any possibility of Disclosure and scientific study. Another generation of this decline will find UFOs relegated to a footnote in history books. When taken to the limit, the loss of UFO heritage within a government (and its constituents) will inevitably cause that government to not know anything about UFOs, so there would be no need to deeply involve them in a worldwide coverup.

This writeup attempts to make a case for a worldwide coverup of UFOs based simply on the strange and complete silence from almost all countries of the world about the very real UFO phenomenon.  Grant Cameron has noticed that none of these countries has any UFO leaks, unlike the USA which has experienced several. He is one of the top ufologists in the world, and if he says that this is true, I tend to believe it. However, he also says something else that I partly disagree with. It is that the CIA is releasing information about UFOs ( i.e. the CIA is the source of the leaks) to keep up the awareness level in the minds of the general public. He believes that this awareness level is maintained in order to prepare the public for disclosure in case an uncontrollable UFO event was to occur, such as a revelation by a rogue country that UFOs are real and that they have the proof to back it up, a big crash in a populated area, a mass landing, etc. It would minimize any panic that would occur when the public learns the truth. {Digression: It is my opinion that no panic would have ever occurred due to leaking the secret, and this applies from the 1940’s to the present day. The present day coverup exists for the power and money that are derived from reverse engineering of alien technology. Other lesser possibilities for the coverup could be an out of control abduction program by some of the alien races, cattle mutilations, the rumors of finding human body parts on some UFO crashes, and military aircraft that went missing after chasing a UFO. Even if any of these negative possibilities is true, the truth should still be revealed.}

However, it is my belief that the leaks are to maintain the coverup! Yes, this seems non-sensical, but here is the reasoning. These leaks contain truth and disinformation chosen make the phenomenon appear ridiculous and to cause divisive factions to arise within the “believers”.*** This causes the coverup to maintain itself with a minimum of effort/cost despite the fact that sightings are occurring across the world all of the time. It continues to generate the disrespect for the phenomenon on which the coverup over most of the world depends. Other countries maintain their part of the coverup with less sophisticated techniques. For example, in a dictator-led totalitarian country, a UFO organization or pro-UFO newspaper could be suppressed with a law or some assassinations, but here in the USA, the appearance of democracy must be maintained so the UFO organization would be infiltrated by a secret agent who would try to destroy it from within (this has already happened several times.) Rest assured that the USA will resort to brutality whenever needed to maintain the coverup even though it has developed many new and equally effective ways to deal with unauthorized leakers, such as economic reprisals and memory erasure. It does not have to threaten families and assassinate its own citizens anymore to continue its program.

There is now something happening in the world which has to be making the keepers of the worldwide coverup nervous. Take Brazil for example. It is an emerging nation with its own sophisticated military and well educated scientific community. Plus they really do not need foreign aid anymore. They want to be recognized as important world leaders. Do you think that they would willingly give up another UFO crash to the bully nations if a crash happened tomorrow? Probably not. Recently, Brazilian ufologists met with their own government officials who seemed open to the idea of releasing its files. Time will tell. Brazil has had about four major UFO events and projects which are still classified, and if these still remain classified, then the government only gave lip service to disclosure. Two of these UFO events were the Night of the UFOs in 1986 and the Varginha incident in 1996. But the main point here is that there are quite a few nations in this emerging category, many of them in South America. In general, Latin countries seem to be more open to the idea of UFO disclosure than just about anywhere else.

Some writers at this point would invoke the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group (founded 1954), or the Trilateral Commission (founded 1973) to support the premise of a worldwide coverup. That will not be done in the writeup because there are so many books written about these alleged and real world control secretive organizations. Those two founding dates of 1954 and 1973 sure look about right for the inception of a worldwide UFO coverup treaty. If there is something like a worldwide UFO coverup treaty, a worldwide MJ-12, or a secret world government, it is being very successful.

* http://www.keyholepublishing.com/kp1/richard-dolan/articles-by-richard-dolan/twelve-government-documents/

** http://www.cephasministry.com/ufo_russians_worried_about_starwars.html and

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ufo_briefingdocument/agree.htm

***In his book, The UFO Phenomenon   Fact, Fantasy, and Disinformation, c 2009, skeptic John Michael Greer categorizes UFO believers into 12 categories (!), ranging from psychological hallucinations, to beings from a hollow earth, to demons, to geophysical phenomena, to etc. No wonder there is constant bickering and in-fighting within the ranks of believers. This dissension retards progress within ufology and no doubt provides great satisfaction to those responsible for the coverup.

IS OUR GOVERNMENT PREPARING US FOR DISCLOSURE? by Charles Tromblee 6/13

IS OUR GOVERNMENT PREPARING US FOR DISCLOSURE?

One thing that is repeated very often in UFO literature and documentaries is that the government is preparing us for Disclosure. It is being done gradually to reduce the shock of the truth. This is said so often that it is now presented not as a question, but as a given fact. To all this I say “Bunk!” If you are even half way toward this belief, then I’d like to meet with you and sell you some of my magic beans. For sure, the government used to be in charge of the coverup, but my belief is that the government may now be no longer in charge of the Disclosure decision. That decision is now in the control of either an international group of governments, a worldwide MJ-12,  OR it is controlled by private sector corporations. I do not know which; it may even be a combination of all three. But one thing is apparent: our government alone will not and cannot (meaning that it is able to but not permitted to) make the Disclosure decision though it is still very much participating in the coverup as is proven by military jets chasing UFOs and the obvious lies that still are issued about major sightings.

Our government is responsible for setting up the original apparatus which has prevented Disclosure, and this coverup has now evolved to a state of near perfection. The now defunct USSR government almost certainly set up their own parallel coverup program as well. The government’s control of the coverup now has mutated to include private sector interests and other governments, and this includes the Russians. These additional elements have now taken control of the decision. My opinion is that with the exception of a few emerging and/or rogue nations, the coverup is now worldwide.

Why would we be being prepared for the great revelation when whichever group that controls the decision has complete control of the truth? What advantage to the government would there be to reveal the truth?  They would not disclose because reverse engineering of alien technology is a source of technological money through product development.  It is also a source of military technological superiority; i.e. power. Thus, it is about money and power, and not about preparing an ignorant populace for the great reveal. Why would our government and the corporations that it is now in bed with kill their goose that lays such nice golden eggs when they do not have to? They would not.

Noted leading ufologist, Grant Cameron, gave his opinions on UFO leaks in a couple of podcasts on which he was the guest on 3/22/13 (Kate Valentine UFO Show and Veritas) to promote his new book, UFOs, Area 51, and Government Informants: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals. He believes that the CIA is intentionally leaking a trail of breadcrumbs which contain the core story, but at the same time they want to retain the secret of the technology for back engineering and to continue to suppress what might be going on with human abductions. They are doing this so that the ultimate revelation that aliens are here and visiting will be anticlimactic.  But notice that he says that they are leaking the “core story” (his words.) The “core story” means the truth that aliens are visiting earth. He is correct in saying that there have been leaks and most were probably intentionally done by the CIA. One has only to look at many of the Majestic-12 documents to see how sophisticated they are. They are expertly done, even the ones that have been proven false. It is hard to imagine a UFO hobbyist creating these hoaxed documents. They appear to have been done by professionals, and the only professionals that would be paid to do something like these documents have to be government employees. Given that these leaked documents contain lies mixed in with truth, this does not seem to be a legitimate attempt to leak the “core story.” Clearly, the lies indicate that the government is playing a deeper game than simply gradually leaking the truth. The deeper game is this: the lies mixed with truths keep the whole UFO subject in a state of continuous argumentative turmoil and chaos. This allows phonies and charlatans to keep earning a living on the UFO lecture/book circuit, and they generate further turmoil, chaos and disrespect for the phenomenon. Net Result: the fact that aliens are visiting earth continues to be disbelieved by the majority of the public even in the face of thousands of sightings per year.

I do not doubt for a minute that there have been and still are individuals and factions in the “UFO-in-the-know” camp in the United States who believe that the coverup is the wrong thing to do. Not only is it morally wrong, but maintaining the secrecy is a very big expense on the USA’s black budget. In the long history of UFOs, a few federal individuals undoubtedly contacted some people to do the right thing by revealing the truth to the American public. These contacts were made intermittently and sporadically, I’m sure, and most were made by ethically and morally high individuals. However, once the secrecy apparatus learned of each new threat against their directive to maintain UFO secrecy at all costs, these individuals were easily over-powered by the evolved apparatus to prevent the truth from coming out.

But you might say, we have FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) which forces the secret keepers to reveal the truth.  Just take a look at Richard Dolan’s essay on the 12 documents which, when considered collectively, prove that our government not only knows about UFOs but is also covering up this knowledge.* Notice that the most recent USA document of the 12 is dated 1988! It is now 2013! 25 years have gone by with nothing new of significance. What has happened?  Well, for sure FOIA is now considered a minor irritant within the government. It gets lip service now and is not the force it once was. Secondly, the government has sealed the leak holes where UFO literature might escape, such as passing legislation to prevent commercial pilots from speaking out, and routing all aeronautical sightings to a place that is outside FOIA coverage.  Then there are the great lies which are that the truth is a national security issue, and that its revelation would also reveal our intelligence apparatus of “sources and methods.” Stanton Friedman has pointed out that sources and methods could not possibly account for a 95% redaction of the verbiage of a FOIA released document, which is what he has experienced.** For all practical purposes, FOIA is dead.  (I also believe that the American populace never did need to be prepared for Disclosure. It is true that in 1938 the War of the Worlds radio broadcast panicked a lot of people, but contrast that with the 1947 radio broadcast of the UFO recovery at Roswell plus the newspaper headlines which were widely broadcast west of the Mississippi and which caused no panic whatsoever before the lie to suppress it came out about several hours later.)

Many formerly third world countries have had UFO crashes.  The USA’s generosity in providing foreign welfare was possibly the main reason for their forced silence and the “consented” confiscation of their UFO physical evidence. Now that several of these countries are emerging from third world status, we no longer have the influence over them that we once had. Given our inept foreign policy, that might be a good thing. Regarding UFOs, it definitely is a good thing. These nations really never experienced the cold war threat as we did as we performed our self appointed and necessary role as the bulwark of the free world, so these nations are not as paranoid about releasing their own UFO evidence. Therefore, it is likely that when Disclosure occurs, it will not be the USA that does it; rather, it will be another country or the aliens themselves (unlikely).

Having said all of this, I still believe that Disclosure is inevitable --but it may take a century or two, not a decade or two.

*“Twelve Government Documents”:    http://www.keyholepublishing.com/kp1/richard-dolan/articles-by-richard-dolan/twelve-government-documents

**For more information, please read “CIA Redactions” in this blog.

I GUESS I WAS OBNOXIOUS by Charles Tromblee

I Guess I Was Obnoxious

I was in my doctor’s office two weeks ago, and he asked me about my hobbies. I told him I was into UFOs. This prompted him to ask me some pretty good questions: How many races are visiting? Are they hostile? Why the coverup? I did my best to field these good questions.

Then he said something which prompted me to make an obnoxious comment. If you are reading this blog, then you probably are into UFOs yourselves so you might understand why I got irritated. He said that certainly the universe is so large that there must be intelligent life other than ourselves. To me, that response regarding the probable existence of alien races is like saying daytime has more light than nighttime. Talk about stating the obvious!  I have heard this response many times in my life. It is the response that uninformed people use to politely back away from confronting the UFO reality without looking closed minded. Although he was being polite, my next remark was not. I said that when someone says what you just said, they are not saying anything. Everybody knows that what you just said is true. What really says something is to say that aliens exist, they are visiting earth, and the UFOs are their crafts.  

The doctor did not seem offended, but now that I think about it, he has not called to discuss my test results with me yet. Hmmmm.

MAGNETIC ENGINEERING AND AZTEC by Charles Tromblee

Magnetic Engineering and Aztec

4/2013

In my book, Alien Radix, there is a paragraph about Frank Scully’s 1950 book, Behind the Flying Saucers. I state that the book is a god awful mess, but also state that the 1948 UFO recovery story of a UFO in Aztec, N.M. is likely to be a true event.  My criticisms of this book certainly are not the same as any of its other criticisms by any other reviewer, and I believe their criticisms to be inaccurate, unresearched, and unfair. One of my criticisms is that it reads like a tabloid article in its style (which reduces its believability). My other criticism is about its emphasis on magnetism as the motive force for UFO propulsion. Having just read The Aztec Incident: Recovery at Hart Canyon c 2011 by Scott and Suzanne Ramsey, I felt agitated enough by its references to “magnetic engineering” to write this blog opinion piece. The Aztec Incident is a very good book and makes me more sure about my initial conclusion that the Aztec incident really did happen. The Ramsey’s book may not hit a home run, but it did register an extra base hit in my opinion. The authors racked up a lot of expenses (~$500k) in the 2+ decades of research that it took to do their book, and it sounds like these expenses were mostly for travel and lodging. The “strongest” artifact remaining to the general public that shows that this really did happen is a 39” square concrete pad which is surmised to have provided a solid base for a lift crane used when the saucer was being removed by the crash cleanup crew. I wish that some of that travel money had been used to do a deeper analysis of that slab. Other artifacts, not from the saucer, but probably from the personnel who removed it, were buried rifle magazines and K-ration boxes, but these could have been from hunters who were using military surplus gear. These artifacts were buried 18” deep which seems a lot deeper than any hunter would likely dig to bury his garbage. The other compelling verification to the story is just how well the independent first, second and third hand witnesses’ stories all agree in their detail. It is really impressive.

William S. Steinman’s book on Aztec, co-authored with Wendelle Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec A Well Kept Secret, c 1986, reveals that its author, Steinman, found above ground human-type debris at Aztec, such as a welder’s gauge and a rebar support frame in his 1982 visit to the site. Unfortunately, none of this debris apparently remains at Aztec, especially rebar from the site because Ramsey says that rebar is date coded. Steinman has a photo of the rebar in his book, but must not have taken a sample. The time span between Steinman’s visit to the crash site until Ramsey’s first visit was about 17 years, so souvenir hunters may have removed the above ground stuff during that interval, or equally likely, the government, induced by Steinman’s book, made another clean up trip to the site to clean up the area even more. Another possibility is that each author was at a different site. The only reason to mention this possibility is that Steinman mentions a 4’ high x 5’ x 6’ monolith made of concrete at the site which he believed to be a marker, and which Ramsey did not mention (I do not have his book in front of me anymore and I am writing this from memory.) Steinman also mentions that the site is surrounded by a barbed wire fence which Ramsey also does not mention, but which easily could have been removed during the interval of their visit. Ramsey mentions (as I recall) talking to Steinman about the debris burial and Steinman confirms that he, too, found debris buried at 18” depth, but his book mentions only a 6” depth. Anyhow, Steinman’s book make a good case for the Aztec incident being real just as Ramsey’s book does. This crash probably did happen. Our government is now expert at handling UFO crashes, so much so that now I am sure that there have been several crashes that have occurred without anyone in public even knowing about them.

The person who placed the Aztec saucer into the public consciousness was Silas Newton through Scully’s book. Scully’s book follows his story closely. Both men firmly believed that the saucer story was true until their dying day, as is shown by their unpublished works which were dug out and read by the Ramseys. Newton was accused of being a swindler because he lost a law suit about an invention which was supposed to detect oil. One of the investors in this invention was induced by journalist named J.P. Cahn to file this lawsuit which Newton ultimately lost under very suspicious circumstances. All the rest of the customers that bought the invention (about 34) were satisfied with its performance but they were not allowed to testify. It appeared to be a setup to discredit Newton to tell what he knew about the saucer but was mainly implemented because Newton would not reveal the source names for the saucer information that he had publicized not only in Scully’s book but also in a lecture at a Colorado university

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But back to magnetism. Silas Newton’s invention was known as a doodlebug. It may have used seismic echo analysis or magnetic anomaly detection to find oil. The invention may have used technology from WWII submarine detectors which at the time of 1950 was still classified. The developers of this technology were the founders of a company which later became Texas Instruments. It is believed that Newton worked with these technocrats to come up with his own doodlebug invention. The Ramseys also speculate that in working with these people he got to know them quite well (Newton was an excellent golfer too, so maybe he golfed with them) and they told him that they were knowledgeable about the 1948 Aztec landing; i.e. they had worked on analyzing it for the government. Mind you, this is in 1948 and 1949. In the early days of UFOs, the government and its scientists had no idea as to what propelled these things. Undoubtedly and inevitably, magnetism was thought to be a good candidate. After all, that rotating outer rim is highly suggestive of the motion of electric motors and generators, both of which are magnetically based. What better people could they hire to investigate the saucer than a team of already-security-clearanced submarine detection expert scientists who were experts in magnetic anomaly detection? My guess is that these guys talked to Newton about the disc before it slowly dawned on the UFO intelligence agents and other scientists after a few more years that UFO propulsion was probably due to a source other than magnetism. Interestingly, a few months after Scully book was published, Wilbert Smith of Canada convinced his government to fund Project Magnet which was based on Smith’s belief in magnetism as the motive force for UFOs. At that time, Smith was already very much aware of Scully’s book. So, as you can see, magnetism, which we all would agree is a pretty neat and mysterious phenomenon, had its proponents early on in the UFO story.

One of Smith’s project justification memos in 1950 mentions that he had extracted 50 milliwatts of power from earth’s magnetic field, which is an amount which he found “promising.”  Because earth’s magnetic field is so weak, it is curious that Smith did not know that sufficient power for the obvious UFO high energy operation could not be extracted from it. On an even larger scale, the 1996 NASA tether STS-75 project proved this. This is the project in which a 10+ mile long tether cable in orbit above the earth broke, and this apparently attracted a lot of UFOs. At least, that is what a lot of people think, but this was refuted by scientists, and their explanations were upheld even on the pro-UFO “UFO Hunters” TV show. What most people do not concentrate on is that this was an experiment to extract power from earth’s magnetic field by deploying a 13 mile long conductor 160 miles up in a low earth orbit. Its orientation was positioned to cut through earth’s magnetic field at 17,500 miles per hour. When any conductor is moved through a magnetic field, a voltage is generated across that conductor, and the size of the voltage is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field and the speed of the conductor as it cuts through the magnetic flux lines. When the conductor had been almost completely deployed, it broke and this is what most people remember, along with the “UFOs” that gathered around it (which are thought to be ice crystals attracted by the charge on the cable.) But before it broke at about the 10-12.9 mile length, it was generating 3500 volts and “up to” 0.5 amperes. These readings show that it was only generating up to 1.75 kilowatts, which might be enough to power some satellites, a toaster, etc. but hardly enough to power a UFO. By 1958, Wilbert Smith had authored several papers on gravity, indicating that he likely had realized that his initial 1950 hypothesis was wrong, and that gravity was a more likely suspect, or so it appears. Nowadays, every modern book that I have seen that dares to discuss the motive force of UFOs believes that it is gravity, not magnetism, that is key. Books by Paul R. Hill (Unconventional Flying Objects, c 1995), Robert L. Schroeder (Solving the UFO Enigma c 2011),  Robert Ferrell (The Science Behind Alien Encounters c 2012), and Paul LaViolette (Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion c 2008) are but a few examples. Having said all of this, it must be pointed out that magnetism, or at least electromagnetism, may still lie at the heart of artificial gravity field generation as the means by which such fields are achieved.

Scully’s book talks about magnetism too much, especially when viewed from a more modern perspective than he had. It is so obviously wrong that it weakens the real truth of the primary storyline; i.e. a UFO really did land at Aztec, N.M. in 1948. The Ramsey’s book, on the other hand, had to talk a lot about magnetism in order to establish the linkage between magnetic detection, oil detection, submarine detection, and classified information because it this linkage that makes sense of oilman Newton’s learning about the UFO from a group of scientists whose specialty is magnetic anomaly detection. In the sixties, a typical college electrical engineering curriculum (Wilbert Smith was an electrical engineer) did not have a “magnetic engineering” major; instead it had a power major, and I assume the same was true in the twenties and thirties which is when these scientists went to college. In the 60’s electrical engineering curriculum, the closest one could come to “magnetic engineering” was a very few courses in transformers, electric motors and generators, and Maxwell’s equations. A physics course would teach the student about permeability, BH loops, and basic magnetism. Somewhere it states in Ramsey’s bio that he owns a company that produces “magnetic wire”, which I assume means “magnet wire” which is a wire coated with a thin, tough, flexible electrically insulating coating suitable to use the wire for relay, transformer, and toroidal windings around a magnetically permeable core. So he must know something about magnetism and about the current thinking in ufology that magnetism is probably NOT the source of UFO propulsion. I kind of wish that he had addressed this in the book, but it is probably not a big deal.

I recommend that you read the Ramsey’s book.

TWO WILBERT SMITH STORIES by Charles Tromblee

TWO WILBERT SMITH STORIES

 April 2013

Here are two observations about the work of Wilbert Smith, Canadian UFO scientist, 1910-1962.

One: In my book, Alien Radix, there is a sub-chapter that theorizes that the military must have some additional means over and above radar to detect UFOs. This is because 1) UFOs have the means to render themselves invisible to radar, and 2) the military has almost uncannily quick responses to UFO close encounter events. The sub-chapter was written before I was thoroughly aware of Grant Cameron’s “Presidential UFO” website*. This website contains confirmation of my theory about an additional technology(gies) to search the sky for UFOs. Radar is NOT the only means for UFO detection, and it is a100% sure thing that our government is using all technologies available to detect UFO incursions in our atmosphere.

In 1953, the Canadian scientist, Wilbert Smith, created a UFO detection project as part of his Project Magnet which detected one UFO (or perhaps something else), after which the project was cancelled two days later. The instruments used for this were a gravimeter imported from Sweden to measure the earth’s gravity, a magnetometer to record the variations in the earth’s magnetic field; a radio set running full volume at 530 kilocycles to pick up any radio noises, and a counter to detect atomic rays (gamma rays) from the outer atmosphere. There was also an ionospheric reactor(?) to determine the height, pattern, and conduct of the ionized layers of gases several hundred miles in the atmosphere. The equipment operated from October 1953 to August 10, 1954.

Prior to the largest and final reading that occurred on 8/8/1954, the equipment had reacted several times due to over-flying large aircraft. (my own emphasis added) The last and largest reading was of something different than a conventional aircraft, but when the equipment operator ran outside to see what caused the instruments to react, the cloud ceiling was down to 1000 feet, so nothing was seen. This could be explained by no known atmospheric phenomenon. Mr. Smith was on duty at the station when a set of alarm bells tripped by the deflection of the gravimeter rang. "I dashed over to look at the instrument," Smith said. "The deflection in the line (drawn by an electronically operated pen) was greater and more pronounced than we have seen seven(sic) when a large aircraft has passed overhead.” Smith pointed out that his station’s electronic devices would not detect meteors unless they were of "great mass" and passed very close. Smith later said, "I didn’t know then what caused that strange and fascinating instrumentation," he recounted, "and I don't know now...but the possibilities are interesting." Also, "We now are attempting to find out if there was a failure somewhere in the instrument," he said. “If it turns out that there was no failure then I don't know what it was that passed overhead." Mr. Smith said it is not possible for anyone to state that the gravimeter recorded the presence of a flying saucer.* 

Here are two main conclusions that can be drawn from Mr. Smith’s results:

1.     Wilbert Smith searched for anomalies in the sky using techniques other than radar, and he was successful in that he was able to detect mass flying in the sky (and the word “mass” would include apparent mass; i.e. artificial gravity sources.). Notice that the instruments used for this experiment were all passive, meaning that they did not project any sort of signal to look for bounceback like radar does. They were 1953 technology (!), repurposed for UFO detection, but probably unrefined. Also, notice that large airplanes were successfully detected by the gravimeter. What this mean is that it is an absolute certainty that UFO detection does not just depend on radar and visual sight and perhaps infrared; additional means of detection were proven to be possible by Project Magnet. It also means that using today’s technology, much more sensitive non-radar UFO detection instruments certainly exist so that even small UFOs could be detected. 

2.     The unknown object that was detected was larger than a large 1954 aircraft. Most UFOs are dimensionally smaller than a large aircraft, but their weight (mass) is open to question. There are many landing indentations that prove a very heavy weight, and at least one was calculated to give a weight of 30 tons for a football shape UFO that was 6 meters long and 3 meters in diameter (i.e. about the density of water and much denser than an airplane.) This is a dimensionally small UFO. On the other hand, there is the lightweight Roswell debris, plus the 100’ Aztec UFO which could be moved to a level position by a couple of men pushing on its outer rim. Certainly, the light weight is not needed for energy savings as their observed flight around our atmosphere indicates an almost unlimited supply of energy. Paul R. Hill speculated that mothership UFOs might be intentionally designed to be light weight so that as they travel between stars, they can get closer to light speed as their mass rises, so due to having lower mass than a dense and heavy UFO would, they can achieve a higher velocity as the mass rises thereby lowering the voyage time.

Two: The second Wilbert Smith story is equally interesting. He apparently developed a good understanding of how gravity works, and he attributed some of his knowledge to psychic contact with aliens. He designed a gravity experiment using a rotating disc at 18,000 rpm. He claimed to have received a psychic or telepathic message that he should shield the experiment, so he did. Shortly after this, the disc shattered under its high centrifugal forces and would have caused injury were it not for the shielding. In a series of recorded 2004 interviews with Evegeny Podkletnov available on YouTube**, Podkletnov reveals that in his own 1992 gravity experiments, the gravity shielding property of his experimental setup was discovered by accident. He too used a rotating a disc at high rpm (5000 rpm initially, later used 20000 rpm to 30000 rpm discs with special strengthening), such that he also became fearful of the shattering of the disc. What is interesting is the similarity of both of their the gravity experimental setups, the observation that both men made about the disc shattering due to high speed, and the startling ~35 year difference between Smith’s gravity experiment to Podkletnov’s initial setup. As far as the psychic contact between Smith and the aliens goes, you are free to draw your own conclusion.

*All of this info is from Grant Cameron’s Presidential UFO website:

http://www.presidentialufo.com/the-canadian-cover-up

** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQBb76Snx50

A CLUE FROM A SHAVED GORILLA by Charles Tromblee

A CLUE FROM A SHAVED GORILLA                                                                   

March, 2013

One sadly neglected area of ufology is the study of alien species. The only good data available is from close encounters of the 3^rd and 4^th kinds, and these encounters occur only at about once every 300-1100 UFO sightings, and are usually at a distance. The best data base for study of these encounters is the website created by Albert Rosales*; the other extant databases are virtually unusable for broad UFO alien study. I am aware of two published books which use data from Mr. Rosales’ excellent website: one is 60 Years of Neglected Evidence: Analysis of global Humanoid Encounter Reports by Ahmad Jamaludin, and the other is my own book, Alien Radix: The Shape of Things That Come. One feature of Mr. Rosales’ data is that it comes from many filtered and unfiltered sources (meaning “investigated” and “not investigated”), and many of the sources are completely disconnected from UFOs. This is not a criticism of his website. It contains over 9,000 humanoid encounter short descriptions, a few of which do not have humanoids in them, and most of which do not even have a UFO in them. In addition to alien study, this website would be useful for a variety of studies which are independent of UFOs, such as by a psychiatrist who is studying hallucinations, religious visions, bigfoot studiers, and so forth. It even has some vampire, werewolf, and fairy stories. I found it necessary to filter the UFO data out from the other stories using rigid, pre-determined objective criteria, and the filtering process resulted in only about 10% of the data being used. After all, if one is baking a cake using flour that has 90% pebbles in it, that person had better sift that flour a few times to purify it. Mr. Jamaludin, on the other hand, did no pre-filtering under the theory that core truths could still emerge even though corrupted data was being processed. This is true but only if there is a sufficiently strong signal embedded in all that non-UFO noise. However, that noise can introduce false secondary pseudo signals as well.  With this information in mind, let us continue to the main point of this writeup.

It is logical that Darwin’s evolutionary principles work on other planets too. These principles apply to all developing life via survival of the fittest and result in a species always heading toward greater consciousness and adaptation.  BUT they apply only until a species’ technological/social development advances to a point where it overwhelms the “survival of the fittest” after which some back sliding occurs in consciousness and adaptation. We see this occurring today in the human race.  In this writeup, a couple of earth’s animal species will be used to make a guess at the original planetary environment of the Grays. One’s initial reaction might be that making this guess would be a blind stab in the dark, but we are not totally denied any clues with which to make our guess.

Gray skinned aliens dominate alien sightings. Jamaludin says 48.79% (345/707) of all sightings are gray colored, but this could include their clothing. When skin color is specifically given, 24.68% (159/644) had gray skin. Alien Radix says 30.79% of sightings from 2000-2009  were grays, and only 2.96% of the sightings in the 1950’s were grays. Shown below is a great ape with all his hair and a great ape with no hair.  (The 1^st is a gorilla and the 2nd is probably a chimpanzee with a skin condition which caused hair loss. These facts are not important.) The chimpanzee has evolved in a hot sunny climate for a few million years, yet its skin has not seen the light of day for all of that time because its hair has blocked all light for all of that time (except for face, hands, soles of feet.) The end result of its evolution is a gray skin (unless that gray skin is a symptom of mange, which it can be.)

It is now widely believed by scientists that modern, functionally hairless humans emerged from Africa 70,000 to 120,000 years ago in either one or two waves. What is not widely discussed is that these people had very dark skin; they were for all practical purposes black. As they moved into more temperate and less sunny climates, their skin got lighter plus they probably started wearing more clothing due to the lower temperatures. Thus the color variation of the peoples of the earth is an evolutionary development of only 70,000 to 120,000 years.  The reduction of light exposure has lightened our skin, although no human race has gray skin like the great apes’ skin which has never been exposed to the sun. Thus, we can reach about 3 possible scenarios for the origin of the grays: 1) They evolved on a planet with dim sunlight, or 2) They were an underground species which was primarily nocturnal, or 3) The race is so old and has been wearing clothing plus living indoors for so long that its skin has since developed its gray hue.

Using another of our animal species as a clue, we can eliminate number 3 as impacting the origin of the grays (although it could still be true.) Grays have large eyes compared to humans. Jamaludin says 95.18% (1067/1121) of humanoid sightings have large eyes when the size was reported. Alien Radix says 33.8% (22/65) have large eyes. This big difference is undoubtedly related to using filtered vs non-filtered sightings. Below is a picture of a lemur which a nocturnal animal. Animals which evolve in low ambient lighting tend to have large eyes.   

The giant squid which lives several thousand feet down in the black depths of the ocean has eyes which measure several inches across.  Unlike skin color which is a minor characteristic, eye size is not; it probably would take a lot longer to evolve away from large sized eyes. The large eye size of the grays likely indicates that they probably evolved either nocturnally (most UFOs are seen at night) or are from a dark planet. However, if a planet is dark, it would tend to be cold, and there is nothing to suggest that UFOs and alien sightings are more prevalent in colder climates. Plus grays do not show any other cold weather adaptations such as fur, long noses, large and/or spherical compact shapes. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that grays evolved nocturnally and still prefer low ambient lighting. Maybe those one or two stories about large sun glasses contact lenses for those big alien eyes are not so far-fetched after all.

* http://www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/index.shtml

THE UFO INSTITUTES by charles Tromblee

THE UFO INSTITUTES

2/2013

 I just saw a picture of a small, dried out creature that was about 9” tall, and is reputed to be a dead alien. This can be seen on Dr. Steven Greer’s blog website. This specimen was discovered in the Atacama Desert in Peru, and has actually been handled by a couple of medical doctors, one of whom is Dr. Greer himself. It would be a bit difficult for a fake creature or an actual dried out animal to fool an experienced medical doctor like Dr. Greer, so we can conclude that the investigation of this specimen is off to a good start and is worthwhile. On Oct 18, 2012, Dr. Greer reported that DNA had successfully been extracted from the specimen, and in mid December, he reported that the DNA test setup had been completed and was then ready to start on the analysis. This is kind of surprising, given that many DNA test facilities already exist throughout the world, so why would a new test facility have to be created? Furthermore, for something of potential importance like this test could turn out to be, why not submit a second sample to another independent test lab as well? After all, scientific teams are well known to contain scientists who, when confronted with things that may conflict with their mainstream belief system, become non-scientific nut jobs who throw science out the window (think of the Shroud of Turin investigations, for example, or those scientists who believe in intelligent design.) Anyhow, the specimen is now in the possession of an “Institute” which I presume is in South America.

 This “Institute” was not named, but the use of this word piqued my memory that throughout the history of UFOs, several institutes have been involved.

But first, some background is in order about “institutes” in general. There are thousands upon thousands of institutes in the world. From Wikipedia, an institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. In the British Isles the term "institute" is a protected word and companies or other organizations may only use the word if they are "organisations which are carrying out research at the highest level or to professional bodies of the highest standing". Furthermore, if a company is carrying on a business under a different name to the company name, that business name must comply with the Business Names Act. Use of the title "institute" requires approval from the British Secretary of State. Failure to seek approval is a criminal offence. In some countries, such as South Korea and Japan, private schools are sometimes called institutes, rather than schools. In Spain secondary schools are called institutes. In some countries, including the USA, they can be an educational body; for example, the Illinois Institute of Technology. An institute can also exist as part of a university; for example, there exists Stanford Research Institute which did a lot of work on remote viewing which is reputed to be a practice which keeps bumping into UFOs. An institute can also be a professional body. An institute can be a research organization created to do research on specific topics. Therefore, one can conclude that throughout the world, an institute can be simply a special purpose unregulated, unprofessional organization all the way up to a large, regulated very professional organization. In the USA, this whole range of institutes exists.

 There used to be (and maybe still is) the Spontaneous Human Combustion Institute. I stumbled across the Lulu Institute for Portable Explosives located in Syria, but this “factoid” is from a website that occasionally makes up humorous stories, kind of like the Onion does. If it were to exist, it would be appropriate for that neck of the world. There is also the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, for whom Dr. Lincoln La Paz worked as director back in the early fifties while he analyzed the early green UFO fireball sightings.

I believe that all “think tanks” are institutes. Two broad categories for institutes are research institutes and policy institutes. In the history of UFOs, both types have been used to provide research. The policy institutes are the ones that are less credible in that they offer up opinions to those who hire them that are usually in line with what the employers want. Otherwise, they won’t be rehired for anything else. In what follows, some of an institute’s employees may have independently written about UFOs as a personal hobby, and this has caused their institute to bear some responsibility for what they have written in the mind of the public, perhaps unfairly so. By the same token, this may have caused that institute to have reacted unfairly to that employee.

Cato Institute: Charles Koch, one of the Koch brothers of Tea Party fame, helped found The Cato Institute in 1977. It espouses libertarian and Tea Party principles and is recognized as about the fifth most influential think tank in Washington. It is probably unfair of me to point out the oxymoron of it being a Tea Party think tank, and they do criticize both major political parties. Plus they have written favorably about same sex marriage and drug decriminalization. They did have an employee in the role of a 20 year adjunct scholar named Don Armentano who has always been interested in UFOs, so in 2008 he wrote and published a paper which advocated UFO Disclosure by the government. He was fired the next day with his boss telling him, “…for now this strikes us as not an issue that we want to have as part of Cato’s research agenda.” So much for government transparency and free speech, which are supposedly the cornerstones of Cato’s founding.

RAND Corporation: The most well known UFO related publication by RAND Corporation (stands for Research ANd Development) is one that they do not officially take responsibility for. It is entitled, UFOs: What to Do?, and it was written in 1968 by George Korcher. On page 3 of this publication, it says, “This paper was produced as an internal document; it was not prepared for or delivered to any of RAND’s clients. Peer review has not been undertaken, nor has it been edited for publication. It is being released at this time as a matter of public interest.” It is only 42 pages of text and is very well written. Apparently, George Korcher was very interested in UFOs and wrote this paper on company time on his own without being asked to by his employer. At least, that is what RAND wants you to believe. Because it was written on company time, it is the property of RAND, it is in their archives, and RAND is selling copies of it for $18.40. It was written just before the long awaited Condon report was released. As you know, Condon did a great disservice to UFOs and truth in general, and the media fell for it hook, line and sinker as they always do. You can read this paper for free on the internet at http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/drafts/2007/DRU1571.pdf
Anthony Bragalia discusses RAND’s involvement with UFOs on his excellent website, The Bragalia Files, in his archived report, “Deep Secrets of a UFO Think Tank Exposed”, published in 2007. The aforementioned paper, he reports, was stamped “’for RAND Use Only.” It further instructs on its cover page: “Do not quote or cite in external publications or correspondence.’” The website that I referenced which contains this paper does not have those revealing comments on the paper. One has to admit that it is odd for a company to allow an employee to write a hobby paper on company time that obviously took at least a few man-months of effort to complete unless, of course, the company wanted the paper written in the first place. Bragalia’s article shows that RAND has a deep history with UFO that precedes this 1968 paper by about two decades.

Battelle Memorial Institute: Battelle is a research institute, not a policy institute. I once worked for a company that used Battelle to do some research, and as a result I have a very high opinion of them. Battelle is the institute that wrote Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 for the Air Force in 1955. Stanton Friedman sells this report so I bought one. I have to take his word for it that Battelle wrote it because I can’t find the word “Battelle” in it anywhere. Mr. Friedman also includes a copy of the press release (not written by Battelle) that attended its publication. The press release is clearly a bunch of lies intended to fool the public as to the actual contents of the report. Evidently, the Air Force knew of the laziness and gullibility of the journalism community as far back as 1955 when the report was published. The UFO researcher Anthony Bragalia has presented evidence which shows that Battelle was also the research body which was supplied Roswell crash material for analysis, resulting in the patents for Nitinol memory metal. Given that Battelle did so much work on UFOs, it is likely that they also authored the permanently missing Project Blue Book Special Report No. 13 which only about two people ever claim to have seen, and which therefore may never have existed. It probably did exist because why skip number 13 in the numbering sequence? It is likely that Battelle did write report number 13 because they did write number 14. Number 13 allegedly contained absolute proof of alien visitation because it contained pictures of UFO crashes and aliens. If there ever was a report number 13, the only reason that I can think of that Battelle may not have written it is that the Air Force did not want any single outside organization to learn too much about the alien contact that was occurring so they farmed out no. 13 to a different research organization. My opinion is that there was indeed a Special Report Number 13, and that Battelle wrote it.

 Another involvement with UFOs by Battelle was with an early UFO project called Project Stork, which ran from 1947 until at least 1954. The project was known to both Edward Ruppelt and J. Allen Hynek and appears to duplicate the effort of Project Grudge and early Bluebook. It was run by Battelle. This project collected UFO sighting data on preprinted forms and did a UFO survey of astronomers. Not a whole lot is known about Project Stork.

Brookings Institution: In 1960 NASA commissioned the Brookings Institution to write a report which was named “Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs”. This report, usually referred to as the “Brookings Report”, generally gets bad publicity in the early annals of ufology because many people blame it for the justification of the coverup of UFOs. In reality, the report contains many scenarios of possible reactions and responses to those reactions of hypothetical discoveries of our space exploration activities. The 219 page report clearly presents its ideas on each scenario as possibilities and leaves it at that. It can be read at http://www.nicap.org/papers/brookings.pdf . It mentions the words “saucer”, “UFO”, “unidentified flying object”, “sighting”, and “alien” zero times. Because this report was written toward the end of the “golden age of UFO sightings”, to me it has the appearance of avoiding the real issue of alien visitation (or at least keeping it at arm’s length) and that this certainly had to have been a conscious decision. Negativity arose in the UFO world when subsequent journalists emphasized a couple of statements in the report which mentioned withholding information as a way to contain any reaction to the discovery of alien life.

Brookhaven National Laboratory: All English speaking people who are interested in UFOs certainly have heard of the Robertson Panel, whose ignorant recommendations set progress back in ufology even to this day. All the members of this body, which met for 4 days in January of 1953, were physical scientists of one sort or another, yet the most damaging of their recommendations pertained to controlling the thought processes of the American public. This certainly was not their area of expertise. The USA would have gotten better results from consulting the local dog catcher or milk man. This panel simply regurgitated the goals of their founder (the CIA) back to the CIA, and then disbanded. One of the members of this infamous group was nuclear physicist Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, an employee of Brookhaven National Laboratories. It presently has 3000 permanent employees and is co-operated by Battelle Memorial Institute and Stony Brook University according to Wikipedia. Back then, however, it was operated by Associated Universities, Inc. (Notice that the word “institute” is not in its title although it performs pretty much the same work as Battelle. “Brookhaven Institute” is another organization altogether.)

Brookhaven was also implicated in a UFO crash that allegedly occurred very close to the labs on 11/24/1992. Supposedly Brookhaven personnel were witnessed being given special access to the cordoned off crash site, and the wreckage was removed to the labs. This event, now believed to be a hoax, was given special coverage on 5/20/2009 on the now defunct UFO Hunters tv show.

In conclusion, this blurb shows that the government readily used private sector resources to find answers to the UFO question even in the earliest days of the phenomenon. It also suggests that when a UFO leak by an institute occurs, it is probably just the tip of an iceberg of extensive history and deep UFO files that probably still reside at that institute