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by Timothy Cooper
06-13-99
“Space is ... where wars
will be fought.”
Barry Goldwater
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INTRODUCTION
The controversy within the United States UFO community and to
some degree, the United States government itself, is whether in the late
1940’s a super-secret extraterrestrial technology intelligence
collection and research and development program was created by a special
classified executive order and whether such an entity exists today. One
could say that the military attempted communications with extraterrestrials
as early as 1924 with the Army’s Signal Corps radio experiment documented in
the archives of the National Security Agency when William F. Friedman,
father of American cryptology, first reviewed graphs and images taken
from a crude television recording device of what has been reported as coded
transmissions and images from the planet Mars.
Interest in extraterrestrial existence surfaced again when the
sensational story of flying saucers and crash recoveries made headline news
all around the world in July 1947. One year earlier, U.S. military
intelligence had investigated the strange “ghost rocket” scare in
Europe and kept their findings classified. In 1987, documents alleging
crashed alien spacecraft and dead bodies captured the
imaginations and consternation of UFO researchers and the
federal government. For three years the controversy raged between advocates
and debunkers alike. The center of the debate was the disclosure of a star
chamber of military icons and distinguished scientists known as
Majestic or MJ-12 who were assembled and tasked by
President Harry S. Truman with providing answers for the UFO
phenomenon that defied rational scientific explanation. Then in 1994 and
again in 1998, new documents surfaced onto the world scene that for some,
was conclusive proof that MJ-12 did exist and by extension,
extraterrestrial visitation.
In the absence of verifiable physical evidence of crashed
extraterrestrial spacecraft and dead bodies from
another world, the actions of the United States Air Force and the CIA,
and the NSA, and virtually every agency of the defense
establishment who have released some UFO intelligence reports
to the public, the real nature of UFO technology and their
builders suggests that they are withholding critical information from the
world. Excluding scanty circumstantial evidence in the form of artifacts and
non-terrestrial manufacturing processes, the story told in the
Majestic documents and the revelations of shadowy “insiders”
and video and still pictures are our only source of information. Past
efforts of noted researchers, journalists, and researchers when tracking
down paper trails have largely produced very little in verifiable
information that can be used in a court case against the United States
intelligence community. Even law suits have been quashed in the efforts of
one lawyer charging that the United States is under attack from the skies.
Past efforts to attract the attention of the United Nations Security
Council have failed to address the issue.
If the Majestic program existed in the time frame referenced
in the new documents which this author came into possession of and if the
acronym MAJIC was a code word for a multi-agency technology
exploitation and replicating program, then the secrecy and security
allegedly associated with it may explain the pains that the military and the
private sector of industry have taken to conceal one of the greatest and
most profound discovery since the invention of the wheel.
The report that follows reflects what has been learned by the author over
the last six months and by the valiant efforts of others especially Dr.
Robert M. Wood and Ryan S. Wood who undertook the challenge of
finding verifiable confirmation of the information you are about to read.
Though much work still lies ahead before it can be stated categorically that
MJ-12 did exist, the data points presented in this first of
several reports demonstrate the reliability and truthfulness of the
Majestic documents as either professionally done
disinformation—or calculated dissemination by “insiders” without
official sanction from the agencies responsible for UFO and
extraterrestrial intelligence collection.
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THE UFO THREAT AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947
In order to unravel the complexities attached to the Majestic
documents and the whole issue of government secrecy regarding the modern
UFO phenomenon, it is necessary to first examine the politics for
the passage of the National Security Act of 1947 for in this
document lay the beginnings of a
secret government
that has existed for over 50 years. It might also explain the basis for
classified national security projects believed by some to be linked with
technological advances associated with UFO studies conducted
in classified laboratories and test installations in the United States,
Australia, and the United Kingdom.
The catalyst that influenced President Truman and the Congress to
abrogate the Constitution with this illegal instrument has always
been somewhat of a mystery. The National Security Act of 1947 and the
more recent Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1974 have
allowed the U.S. intelligence community to engage in deception, cover-ups,
gross violations of civil and constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and
international law.
After World War II, fearing a intelligence monopoly by the military
the Truman Administration sought to develop and perfect a
reliable set of executive institutions to manage national security policy in
light of the Pearl Harbor disaster. The National Security Act of July 26,
1947, created the National Security Council under
chairmanship of the President, with the Secretaries of State and Defense as
its key members, to coordinate foreign policy and defense policy, and to
reconcile diplomatic and military commitments and requirements. This
landmark piece of legislation provided for a revamping of the office of the
Secretary of War and reconstituted it into several new institutions such as
the Secretary of defense, a National Military Establishment, Central
Intelligence Agency, and National Security Resources Board.
Bearing in mind that this “revamping” took place
in peacetime not war, the diplomatic and military leadership
were quick to view that the NSC had been created to coordinate
political and military questions (which would include the perceived
UFO threat) quickly gave way to the understanding that the NSC
existed to serve the President alone. This new situation
allowed the NSC to assume the role of fostering cooperation
among department heads and provided the means of successive Presidents the
use of the Council as a means of controlling competing departments.
Shortly after Operation CROSSROAD the U.S. military’s first
atmospheric atomic bomb experiments at the Pacific proving ground at Bikini
were conducted in July 1946, Europe began experiencing numerous UFO
sightings. U.S. military intelligence investigated and forwarded dispatches
to the War Department. Military Attaché’s in State Department legations in
Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, Austria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, and
North Africa dispatched over 800 sighting reports to the office of the
Secretary of State. Scientists and air intelligence experts feared that
the Soviet captured V-2 rockets and the Germans who designed the most
advanced ballistic missile had somehow increased its effective range and
were testing them over the skies of Europe in retaliation for the atomic
bomb tests. Ignorance of Soviet atomic weapons development was another
reason for worry by U.S. intelligence. By the end of July the State
Department classified UFO sightings TOP SECRET
and it can be assumed that the military did likewise.
Lack of reliable intelligence of Soviet intentions along the occupied
borders of Allied controlled Eastern Europe, British and American defense
establishments began considering restructuring as a way to face this new
menace. According to CIA historian Arthur B. Darling,
“American press carried dispatches from London, dated October 4, 1946,
announcing that British Army, Navy, and Air Command had been brought under a
Minister of Defense.” This move by the British Government may have been
spurred on by a report issued by the Swedish Defense Staff in that same
month that stated that they had been unable after a four-month investigation
to discover the “objects” and they “were not the V-type bombs used by the
Germans.” The May 29 accidental launching by the U.S. Army of an errant V-2
missile from White Sands, New Mexico, nearly killed many Mexican citizens
near the town of Juarez set off an immediate investigation from the State
Department and the Chief of Staff of the Army which may have given rise to
the “ghost rocket” scare over Europe that summer.
Wishing to avoid another sneak attack, President Truman approved a
joint recommendation sighed by Secretaries Patterson and Forestall
on January 16, 1947, which supported legislation establishing a council of
national defense, a national security resources board, and a central
intelligence agency.
As with the British Minister of Defense, Truman proposed a similar
plan to restructure the defenses of the United States. As Darling
noted in his historical work The Central Intelligence Agency
(declassified in 1989) that a “drafting committee” composed of Charles F.
Murphy, Administrative Assistant to the President, General Lauris
Norstad of the Army, and Admiral Forrest Sherman of the Navy,
wrote the details of the act for the National Defense Establishment
and the National Security Council. The National Intelligence
Authority (brainchild of General William Donovan, Director of the
Office of Strategic Services) whose members included the Secretaries of
State, Army, and the Navy with the Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief
General Eisenhower constituted the National Intelligence Authority
(NIA) came into being after the end of World War II. The National
Intelligence Authority and the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC)
composed of the intelligence chiefs of the military functioned as an illegal
spy agency of the President. It was first exposed in a story by the
Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times Herald but
was overshadowed by the Yalta Conference and the story quickly died.
The NIA and JIC continued their illegal
intelligence activities and in June 1946, President Truman appointed
General Hoyt Vandenberg to head up a cover organization for the
NIA and JIC called the Central Intelligence
Group (some believe it was really the Counter Intelligence Group for the
NIA and JIC) and one of its tasks was to collect as much
intelligence on Soviet offensive capabilities and possibly determine if the
UFO’s sighted over Europe were part of the Soviet ballistic
missile buildup (there are indications from other sources that military
intelligence may have had the answers much earlier). Vandenberg
pressed hard for the White House bill on intelligence in the
Senate. On February 26, 1947, President Truman sent the bill for the
National defense establishment to Congress. Appearing before the Senate’s
Committee on the Armed Services and the Committee of the House of
Representatives on Expenditures in the Executive Departments were
Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal, Generals Eisenhower
and Spaatz, Admirals Nimitz and King, Dr. Vannevar
Bush and General Donovan. During the hearings, representatives of
the CIG assured Senators that the proposed Central
Intelligence Agency would have no law enforcement powers, no subpoena
powers, and no domestic intelligence activities.
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UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE UNITED STATES
Alarm bells began to sound off and a sense of foreboding quickly took hold
among the members of the NIA and JIC when
reports from official intelligence channels that the same “rocket”
phenomena had surfaced over the United States and its territories beginning
in the spring of 1947. The Central Planning Staff of the CIG
according to Darling was “soon loaded with orders for investigation
and report of a variety of subjects that were intricate and sweeping.”
Admiral Sidney Sours, former Director of the CIG
instructed the Central Planning Staff “to make abroad survey of all
clandestine collection of foreign intelligence by agencies in the
Government” by making a survey “of the coverage of the foreign language
press in the United States.” No doubt U.S. intelligence was concerned over
the possibility that Soviet espionage agents were sending coded reports back
to Moscow of this situation and this was accomplished through the Foreign
Broadcast Intelligence Service. Any information of this type was included in
the Strategic Intelligence Digest which in turn was included in the
Strategic Intelligence Estimate prepared for the President.
Unknown to U.S. intelligence, the Soviet espionage project ENORMOUS
has successfully stolen the blueprints for America’s atomic bomb program
right out of Los Alamos through “moles” within the OSS and the
State Department. What was more critical was the design for the FAT
MAN implosion device that according to an alleged TOP SECRET/MAJIC
document known as the WHITE HOT ASSESSMENT (released to the public in
late 1998 by Dr. Robert M. Wood and Ryan S. Wood) the design
for the plutonium implosion device was based on technical studies taken from
a crashed space object recovered by the Army in 1941 that according
to the document allowed the Army to “exploit” the secrets of the atom to
“extend our technology beyond the threshold that we have achieved.” That “threshold”
was the MANHATTAN Project.
All the files that once was under the personal control of the MANHATTAN
Project director General Leslie R. Groves have not been
declassified and possibly the real story behind FAT MAN may
ultimately resolve that question. It may not be coincidence that work on the
shell design for FAT MAN began in the summer of 1942 before Los
Alamos scientists could imagine how big the bomb would be. Nuclear
physicists believed that separating isotopes was impossible. This did not
stop the Army from producing drawings for the implosion and shot gun bombs
and in June 1942 with the appointment of Colonel Groves (retired a
three star general in 1948) of the Army Corps of Engineers by General
Brehon Somervell to head the MANHATTAN project. Only six
Army personnel were permitted to study the spherical design of the nuclear
power plant recovered in 1941. Two were of general rank and the other four
were graduate students of lesser rank. Also unknown to the Los Alamos
scientists was the fact that the shell for the implosion device was
specifically designed to fit in the bomb bay of the B-29 Superfortress under
development by the Boeing Aircraft Company.
On May 9, 1947, the Planning Committee authorized the CIG
to establish the Intelligence Advisory Board whose members included Dr.
Vannevar Bush, head of the Research and Development Board, Admiral
John E. Gingrich of the Atomic Energy Commission, Admiral Thomas
Inglis of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and General Stephen
Chamberlin of Army Intelligence, all involved in collection of technical
intelligence and scientific data produced by the CIG for
UFO’s and Soviet military capabilities. Admiral Souers,
during his term as Director, Central Intelligence Group, recommended that
the Atomic Energy Commission should have permanent membership in the
Intelligence Advisory Board and would have “direct access” to other
intelligence agencies to secure scientific and technological guidance in the
event that items of interest regarding applications of nuclear energy for
either new weapons development or for aircraft and missile propulsion should
fall into U.S. hands.
According to unconfirmed sources there was a recovery of a “flying disc
bomb” near Los Alamos, New Mexico, on March 25, 1947, and
of another “disc-like object” on May 28 near the White Sands Proving
Ground. The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at Sandia Base
reportedly had possession and this was not reported to David
Lillienthal, Chairman of the AEC. General Groves had kept the
President and the AEC in the dark regarding the status of the
nation’s nuclear arsenal. On April 3, 1947, AEC Commissioner
David Lillienthal informed President Truman that the United
States had “no stockpile...not a single operable atomic bomb.” Truman
was also told that a nuclear defense against UFO’s or a Soviet
invasion of Europe “did not exist” to which Truman replied, “What
[do] we propose to do about it?” This discovery was so secret that it was
never committed to paper.
By June the Army Air Force’s Air Defense Command at Mitchell Field, New
York, had compiled numerous UFO reports that were forwarded to
the Air Intelligence Requirements Branch, Headquarters, Air Force
Intelligence at the request of Brigadier General George Schulgen,
head of the Requirements Branch. In Occupied Germany General Arthur G.
Trudeau, head of the civil defense presented his assessment of the
Soviet attack strategy to General Clay of the High Command. The 509th
Composite Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force located at Roswell
AAF, New Mexico, has less than twenty B-29’s and crews that
knew how to handle and deliver atomic weapons and this fact caused a
heightened state of panic in Washington. Talk of Word War III was
privately being discussed among military leaders and the Secretaries of the
Army, Navy and, Army Air Force.
Fearing the worst, President Truman signed the instrument creating
the National Security Council called Public Law 80-253 on July
26, 1947, as a general reorganization of the U.S. national security
apparatus and thereby reconstructing the State-War-Navy Coordinating
Committee (SWNCC the forerunner of the NSC) which had
been established in 1944. Acting on the advice of White House Counsel
Clark Clifford who was dismayed by the disorder among the intelligence
agencies, Truman hoped by establishing the NSC,
institutional stability to national security would quickly come about.
The outcome of Public law 80-253 was the National Security Act of 1947 which
in effect, established the sweeping power of the intelligence community to
lie and deceive not only the Congress, but the American people regarding the
UFO invasion issue. The act did not resolve the bickering and
in-fighting that persisted among defense intelligence and hampered any real
progress in addressing a growing suspicion that something was going on in
the skies over the United States.
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UNIDENTIFIED SATELLITE STUDY
As the Army Air Force’s “rocket” investigations began to paint a
clearer picture of a real invasion over Europe, a crash study by the Army
Air Force’s RAND Project (REsearch ANd Development) was
ordered by General Curtiss LeMay, Director of the Office of Research
and Development, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, in April 1946. The study
published as the May 2, 1946 Preliminary Design for an Experimental World
Circling Spaceship was a 324-page analysis that concluded that it was
possible for a spacecraft to remain in earth orbit and would be undetectable
from then-existing radar systems. As early as 1945 the Army Air Force
Scientific Advisory Group reported to General Arnold, Chief of the
Air Staff, that a foreign power could position long-range rockets in space
and that they could be launched from orbiting satellites.
James Lipp, who at that time was head of RAND’s missile
division produced a working paper in February 1947 in which, among other
things, thought it feasible that such a satellite equipped with “television”
and long-range optics could “be placed upon an oblique or north-south orbit
so as to cover the entire surface of the earth.” With no conclusive proof
that the Soviets had made a breakthrough in rocket technology developed by
the Germans and lacking reliable intelligence of Soviet intentions and
capabilities, Army Air Force intelligence went on the assumption that the
UFO sightings in Europe and reports coming in from reliable
observers in the United States in May of that year, that satellites of
unknown origin were as the alleged Oppenheimer-Einstein draft
assessment states “are defacto.” This is the earliest known reference
to satellites prior to the Russian Sputnik satellite placed
into orbit ten years later.
After the “flying saucer” invasion from June-August 1947 the Air Materiel
Command issued the now famous September 23, 1947, Opinion letter
written by General Nathan F. Twining to Headquarters, Army Air Force,
in which Twining emphasized that the unidentified objects were “real”
aircraft and that a classified project to investigate, collect, and
disseminate all technical data was needed. Just two days later, the Air
Staff instructed the Air Materiel Command to re-evaluate the RAND
satellite studies. On December 13, 1948, James Lipp submitted a paper
titled Possible Places of Origin to General Donald Putt,
Director of Research and Development requested in February. RAND
was tasked with producing requirements for component and techniques for a
reconnaissance satellite based on “present knowledge” acquired through
physical examination of crash remains recovered in the New Mexican desert.
Lipp had studied the possibility that since the “flying objects”
sighted over the United States beginning in the Spring of 1947 after five
atomic weapons were detonated could have been the result of an overhead, low
altitude reconnaissance activity by foreign power. Lipp presented two
possibilities: that the “spaceships” would arrive in a “group” for a
“full-dress contact”; and that “numerous small craft might descend from a
mother ship” or a orbiting “satellite” launching “rockets”. Lipp also
speculated that vertically descending “rockets” would appear as “a
luminous disk” to a ground observer. He also observed from reports
provided to him by the ATIC that the distribution of reports was
“peculiar” in that it if an invasion was in progress, the sightings would be
global in nature. Since the sightings were focused largely on the United
States (particularly in New Mexico), the localization of the sightings, to
his reasoning, suggested that some foreign power may have, in his words, “feeling
out” U.S. defenses.
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THE CIA AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE
During the “rocket” scare of 1946 Admiral Sidney Souers as Director
of the CIG requested the services of Dr. H.P. Robertson
to coordinate scientific intelligence with the Office of Scientific Research
and Development after the Bikini atomic bomb tests were completed. On August
1, 1946, the newly formed Atomic Energy Commission took control of the
Manhattan Engineer District form the War Department in which intelligence
activities of foreign atomic research would come under the jurisdiction of
the CIG and later the CIA. Robertson
became scientific consultant to the CIA on problems associated
in the field of scientific intelligence.
On April 29, 1947, CIA Director Hillenkoetter received
estimates from a subcommittee created by General Vandenberg before he
left the CIG called the Special Studies and Evaluation (SSE).
SSE had prepared a plan to deal with the possible surveillance
of U.S. atomic weapons research installations by “foreign” satellite objects
and how to deal with the growing anxiety that prevailed on the U.S. defense
intelligence agencies that Spring. On September 30, 1947, SSE
concluded that if war, or the threat of war was determined by the President,
the Director of Psychological Warfare should control and direct an “authoritative”
coordination. The SSE was operated by military intelligence
and that by an “executive action” the President could establish the
existence of a national emergency and “take steps to maintain national
security” apart from the authority of Congress.
On September 24, 1947, prior to the first meeting of the NSC,
CIA Director Hillenkoetter submitted a classified
memorandum to Admiral Souers, Executive Secretary of the NSC
Staff urging the NSC to take “immediate steps” to “centralize”
an organization which would conduct “vitally needed psychological
operations”. This organization (possibly Majestic Twelve)
would have “interdepartmental representation” at the “policy-forming level”
under the “guidance” of the Council. Though Hillenkoetter’s memo did
not elaborate upon the “functions” of the CIA’s participation
in the “centralized organization” he later confided with his Assistant
Director for Special Operations, Colonel Galloway, that he was
personally opposed to involving the CIA in psychological
warfare.
It would seem that the “centralized” organization composed of scientific
intelligence and the propaganda machinery of the U.S. came together in the
common goal of appraising the threat of war posed by the crisis of the “flying
saucer” invasion and keeping the Soviets off balance as to what was
occurring. It would appear that the alleged September 24, 1947 Truman
memorandum to Secretary of Defense Forrestal authorizing the
CIA to commence Operation Majestic Twelve may have
relevance here in light of the above. It may also shed light on the alleged
Special Operations Manual prepared for Majestic-12 teams that
suggests that not only was collecting extraterrestrial
technology of vital concern but maintaining security seems to be the
overriding issue all of which will be discussed in Part Two below.
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MJ-12 Report Part II
The Question
Opinions of a Air Intelligence Staff Member The high level confusion over
just what was flying over the United States that summer did not prevent some
at Wright Field from expressing personal views and opinions of what had been
recovered in New Mexico. In an unofficial BLUE BOOK document
that was written in 1954 by an unnamed civilian staff member, the confusion
existed there as well as reflected in the following you are about to read.
What are flying saucers? Are they a secret, terrifying weapon of the United
States? Are they the weapon or photographic reconnaissance device of another
power? Are they spacecraft of visitors from Venus, Mars,
or from still other planets outside our solar system? Are they robots,
operated by remote control from somewhere beyond our atmosphere? Are they “thought
forms” given substance and projected by higher intellects than our own?
Are they angelic forms from Heaven, come to warn the world of
impending catastrophe?. Or are they one of the most colossal hoaxes ever
foisted off on a gullible [military]? All of these questions—and more—have
been asked and answered, often quite vehemently, by a great many people
[here].
Practically everybody has gotten into the act of
explaining, debunking.... Many have tried to peer behind the curtain of
security that cloaks the real nature of the saucers. All kinds of theories
have been advanced, ,most of the theories being of a contradictory nature.
These statements reflect quite accurately the secret September 23, 1947
Air Materiel Command Opinion letter written by General Twining to
Air Force headquarters. You recall that Twining stated that the
phenomenon “reported” by military intelligence units that it “is something
real and not visionary or fictitious.” His also expressed the opinions of
the AMC investigators that the “possibility” that the
“objects” were of “domestic origin” or of a “high security project” that his
command was not made aware of. Twining alluded to the “lack of
physical evidence” from which to describe the actual “shape” of the “crashed
recovered exhibits” that could, in his words, “prove the existence of these
objects.”
Other writers have suggested that Twining
was deliberately withholding some sensitive information regarding the finds
recovered in New Mexico. This may be true. If true, what. In 1995, my
elusive and secretive source, the infamous Thomas Cantwheel, orally
stated to me an unbelievable account of what transpired during Twining’s
unscheduled trip to Alamogordo Army Air Field in July 1947.
Though I cannot vouch nor confirm what you are about to read next, I present
it as a matter of record. You be the judge. According to Cantwheel,
he and his IPU team arrived at Alamogordo sometime on July 5th
where, according to the late retired Colonel Paul F. Helmick, USAF,
at that time the base commander, a “atomic-powered aircraft” was brought
onto the base and stored in a B-29 hanger located at Area 2.
When Twining and his senior staff arrived
on July 7, Helmick had made arrangements for Twining to
personally inspect what was brought onto his base by a rocket recovery team
(it has been established that the 9393rd Technical Services Unit did exist
and was located at Alamogordo AAF at that time and was the
only rocket recovery unit qualified for recovery of V-2 warhead components).
The AMC staff was driven to the hanger which was under tight
security by base MP’s and Twining, his staff and some junior officers
went inside where a near “wingless” aircraft was resting on a wooden
carriage supporting the fuselage off the ground. As Twining and his
group approached for a close look, some of the junior officers began talking
too loud and Twining ordered them outside for fear the MP’s would
overhear what was being said. The senior staff touched the outer skin and
walked around the aircraft without saying too much only muttering awe and
amazement at its design and construction. It appeared to be undamaged and
intact.
Though Cantwheel (who said he was there) did not give me a physical
description, he likened it to what he refers to as a “lifting body of
sorts”. It was approximately 90 to 100 feet long with a chime about its
centerline and exhibited a dark glossy finish. It appeared to be a single
piece, that is, it had no sections. Towards its rear, a small, delta-shaped
wing was observed. Absent was a canopy, observation windows, exhaust or
intake units, or doors. Twining allegedly said it was “the damnedest thing”
he’d had ever seen. According to Cantwheel, it was found near the
White Sands Proving Ground just south of the town of Socorro buried in
the desert sand. No one knew how long it had been there or where it came
from. After Twining and his staff had finished there inspection, he
wanted to talk to the “pilot” who was being kept under armed guard at a
building that housed Norton bomb sights (the exact location was not given).
Twining ordered everyone to stay outside
and entered the building where an Army medical doctor and one guard where
stationed near a security cage (Cantwheel claims he accompanied
Twining at this point). The medical doctor was asked if the “pilot” was
“OK” and could he be interrogated to which the MD said “yes,” but did not
indicate that the “pilot” had said anything yet. Twining then ordered
the guard to unlock the security cage and then ordered the guard and doctor
to exit the area. After Twining assured himself that no one else was
in the building, he entered the security cage where he saw a human-like
figure sitting motionless on a cot dressed in a one-piece flight suit
staring at a wall. Before Twining could say anything, the “pilot”
described by Cantwheel turned his eyes towards Twining, at
which Twining just stood there without saying anything. Then the “pilot”
seemed to almost float to his feet and approached Twining within
inches, at which, Twining became afraid and quickly exited the cage
and yelled for the guard to come back and lock the cage. Cantwheel
stated that Twining said nothing and quickly exited the building
looking scared and was white as a sheet.
He ordered his staff to say nothing about what
they had seen and not to discuss it with anyone or among themselves until a
full report was made. Cantwheel also stated that General Spaatz
had secretly flown in and he and Twining had a private meeting at the
base. It is not known what Twining had told him and it is
Cantwheel’s belief that he told him little or nothing about his face to
face encounter with the “pilot”. Then Twining took Spaatz
to the hanger and showed him what was found and possibly briefed him on the
whole situation as much as he was aware of. Though I had spoken to
Colonel Helmick on several occasions before his death in 1993, I did not
have this information until a few years later, so I could not question him
on this story. When I broached the subject of Roswell and
White Sands, Helmick became defensive and hostile over the
phone denying completely the Twining visit. I later sent him a Xerox
copy of the Alamogordo paper detailing Twining’s tour of the base to
which Helmick denied that he knew of anything of Twining’s
visit, all of which is not surprising in light of what is alleged to have
happened.
As bizarre as this must sound, there are
circumstantial evidence that something of an unusual nature did occur there.
Cantwheel then laid an even more bizarre account that transpired
shortly thereafter. When AMC requested a technical report for
headquarters, supposedly the “aircraft” and the “pilot” had disappeared.
When I asked Cantwheel what he meant by “disappeared”, he
said, “they were gone...vanished...without a trace.” He speculated that some
“authority” had removed all physical evidence from the base but did not
elaborate any further. The “lack” of “physical evidence” alluded to in
Twining’s September letter may explain this in spite of the fact that he
did not have a detailed report describing the “shape of crashed recovered
exhibits.” And so, the question began to taunt the air intelligence experts
at Wright Field. ‘What are we dealing with?’ I think the views
of the unnamed writer of the “riddle” is appropriate here. Trying to
understand the attitude and actions of the USAF with regard to flying
saucers is like trying to unravel the riddle of the Sphinx.... trying to
understand the actions of our Air Force is part of the problem of trying to
understand the nature of the saucers.
Every year since 1947, USAF has stated
regularly that, while the possibility that some of the “unknowns” sighted
might drift in from outer space, there exists no tangible evidence to prove
or disprove this possibility. The writer goes further by addressing what was
the current thinking at Wright-Patterson. ...in spite of
contradictions, in spite of seeming double-talk, in spite of seeming
foul-ups in press releases, in spite of seeming inconsistencies between
stories issued by different branches of the services, USAF has hewed
to a pretty consistent official line. This line, with waverings here and
there, with deviation here and there, is as follows:
1. The Air Force does not know what
flying saucers are.
2. The Air Force has no [physical]
evidence to indicate that they are the products of a foreign power.
3. Whatever they are, they pose no
threat to the security of the skies of the U.S.A.
4. The Air Force has never ruled out
the possibility that, if they exist, they may drift in from outer
space, although no tangible evidence exists to prove or disprove
this idea.
According to the Air Force, there have been no
fallen saucers, no fragments, no little men, either alive or dead. Also,
according to the Air Force, no good movies, no good still photographs of
saucers exist. Captain E.J. Ruppelt, officer who was head of [Blue
Book]...wrote in... that it is his belief that “some saucers are not
a hoax, then they have to be from some other planet or planetary system.”
This is the closet to an official statement of belief by the Air Force...to
indicate that there is some reason for [the] thinking that saucers do come
from outer space.
What would you have done, faced with the
problems of safeguarding the security of the nation, knowing...of secret
work on aircraft, guided missiles, and who knows what else, yet faced with
the puzzling phenomena of continuing reports of craft evidently not of this
country or any other country on earth? No saucer reported—according to
official [intelligence] statements—ever stayed around.... Are you going to
risk trying to shoot them down—and hazard swift and unknown forms of
retaliation? And how are you going to shoot down something that can outspeed
even the fastest experimental rocket—in fact, that can fly rings around the
rocket? Supposing they were extraterrestrial aircraft? What
could you do about it? And how could you announce them positively as such
unless you had irrefutable [physical] evidence—fragments, landed craft,
bodies either alive or dead, temperature readings, exact speeds and
altitudes measured under completely scientific conditions, photographs,
charts, diagrams and all the other evidences of believability. Or, supposing
you announce that these craft—if craft they are—are either flown or guided
by extraterrestrial intelligences, only to discover that they are something
else?
Whether the comments of the unnamed writer
and the story given me by Cantwheel have any connection to the
Roswell case or not, whether the stories of a crashed spacecraft and
dead bodies is true, or whether the official disclosures by the Air Force
are true or not, one thing stands out. The question,
‘Did “Something” come to
earth and was that “something” beyond our ability to comprehend?’,
remains. Whether this question had an answer
then or now, the highest levels of power in the government wanted to know.
Starting here, is where the MJ-12 legacy begins.
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