Nature of the Alien : ET's, Demons or Gov't Plot? : Pt 12

NATURE OF THE ALIEN : ET's, DEMONS OR GOV'T PLOT? : PT 12

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Condon Report Critics, Project Blue Book, J. Allen Hynek And
James E. McDonald Criticize The Condon Report, Albert M. Chop
General Nathan Twining And Project Sign, Project Grudge, 1952
Washington D.C. UFO Waves, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, John Samford,
Eyewitness Testimonies Of July 1952 UFO Event, Capt. Ruppelt,
Testimonies From Other Pilots/Air Traffic Controllers, U.F.O.
Acronym Is Born, Robertson Panel Sham, US Air Force Campaign
To Debunk & Ridicule UFO Believers, Joint Army-Navy-Air Force
Regulation 146, Project Blue Book Demise & Final Conclusions,
Battle Of Los Angeles, Kenneth Arnold, Washington DC, Roswell

This diverse body of critics has included physicist James E.
McDonald, noted astronomers J. Allen Hynek and Frank Drake,
Major Donald E. Keyhoe, electrical engineer Norman Levine,
and many other high-profile, credible individuals. But the
overall result is that the conclusions of the Condon Report
have allowed the U.S. military to go underground with their
research concerning the alien-UFO phenomenon, while at the
same time, the belief in the existence of alien-guided UFO's
has been viewed with even more derision and skepticism. But,
not everyone was fooled by the U.S. Government's deception.
In a 1967 article, which we will discuss more at length in a
moment, even Major Keyhoe himself had this to say regarding
Project Blue Book, and the government's claim that it was no
longer interested in the UFO phenomenon:

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"The fact is, the Air Force seems seriously concerned about
UFO's and is still investigating them intensively. The Air
Intelligence group that is charged with checking up on UFO
reports (its code name is Project Blue Book) is still in
existence and still active, despite protestations that the
book is closed."

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After the Condon Committee released its findings concerning
the UFO phenomenon, Dr. J. Allen Hynek lamented the negative
effect that the Condon Report would have on serious research
regarding said phenomenon, and stated:

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"[The Condon Report was] surely the kiss of death to any
further investigation in the name of the quest for
knowledge."

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In his 1972 book "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry",
Hynek was also quite scathing of the Condon Report. Some of
his remarks included:

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"The Condon Report settled nothing . . . singularly slanted
. . . avoided mentioning that there was embedded within the
bowels of the report a remaining mystery; that the committee
had been unable to furnish adequate explanations for more
than a quarter of the cases examined."

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Physicist James E. McDonald also expressed his objections to
the Condon Report's conclusions. In a 1969 lecture he gave
entitled "Science In Default", Mr. McDonald had this to say:

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"The Condon Report, released in January, 1968, after about
two years of Air Force-supported study is, in my opinion,
quite inadequate. The sheer bulk of the Report, and the
inclusion of much that can only be viewed as 'scientific
padding', cannot conceal from anyone who studies it closely
the salient point that it represents an examination of only
a tiny fraction of the most puzzling UFO reports of the past
two decades, and that its level of scientific argumentation
is wholly unsatisfactory. Furthermore, of the roughly 90
cases that it specifically confronts, over 30 are conceded
to be unexplained. With so large a fraction of unexplained
cases (out of a sample that is by no means limited only to
the truly puzzling cases, but includes an objectionably
large number of obviously trivial cases), it is far from
clear how Dr. Condon felt justified in concluding that the
study indicated 'that further extensive study of UFOs
probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science
will be advanced thereby."

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If you would like to learn more about the history, work and
failures of the Condon Committee, I encourage you to visit
the Wikipedia web site. You will find a lot more detailed
information there, as well as on other web sites. I am just
including some of the key facts concerning the Condon Report
in this series, for the sake of brevity.

Major Keyhoe was not the only person associated with Project
Blue Book, who dared to speak the truth. Albert M. Chop was
at one time the U.S. Air Force's spokesman for Project Blue
Book. He was also the deputy public relations director for
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA.
On one occasion, Mr. Chop stated:

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"I've been convinced for a long time that the flying saucers
are real and interplanetary. In other words, we are being
watched by beings from outer space."

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Project Blue Book was not the American Government's first
attempt to find a plausible explanation for the UFO's which
flew over American skies, as well as in the skies of other
countries around the world. Following the widely-known UFO
waves of 1947, in particular the Kenneth Arnold sightings in
Washington State, and the Corona-Roswell incident in July of
that same year, Air Force General, Nathan Twining, who again,
we will discuss more at length in just a moment, ordered that
a UFO study be initiated. This study was assigned the name of
"Project Sign", and was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, located outside of Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.

While years later, the Condon Report would claim that all UFO
sightings had plausible explanations, Project Sign was really
inconclusive. It should be noted, however, that according to
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, who about four years later would
become the first director of Project Blue Book, Project Sign
did in fact make some solid determinations. First of all, it
arrived at the conclusion that "flying saucers" were actual
spacecraft. Second, UFO technology was neither American, nor
Russian, in nature. Third, UFO's were probably not of this
world. They were of extraterrestrial origin.

Amazingly, this Earth-shaking news would never reach the ears
of the American public. In fact, there's evidence that it was
intentionally buried by Pentagon officials. According to one
story floating on the Internet, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, who was
the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff during that time, ordered
that the report be destroyed, because there was no physical
proof to substantiate the report's conclusions. Vandenberg
then had Project Sign discontinued. My guess is that the real
reason why Vandenberg terminated Project Sign, wasn't because
there was no physical proof, but rather because the Air Force
was desperate to suppress the truth that Project Sign had in
fact concluded that UFO's were probably the product of alien
technology. Perhaps the US military was concerned that making
such knowledge public might result in widespread panic; or
maybe they had other motives.

If we accept the previous point as being true, then it makes
it easier to understand why the next US Government-sponsored
UFO study project, which was dubbed "Project Grudge", which
lasted from late 1948 to the end of 1951, concluded that all
UFO's had logical explanations; such as misidentifications,
naturally-occurring phenomenon such as marsh gas, meteors,
comets, etc. This was precisely what some of the Air Force
top brass wanted to hear.

But not all USAF officials were content with the conclusions
reached by Project Grudge. Thus, as we've already discussed,
under the direction of Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, Project Blue
Book was initiated in early 1952.

As a point of reference, it was also in July of 1952 that the
startling Washington, D.C. UFO waves occurred. This UFO flap
was observed by a wide range of people in both a professional
and non-professional capacity; including radar personnel at
Andrews and Bolling Air Force Bases, the pilots of several
Air Force F-94 interceptor jets, at least three Air Traffic
Controllers, and a civilian pilot. This UFO event was heavily
reported in the American news media, and in other countries
as well. Publications carried all kinds of eye-popping, bold
headlines, such as "'Saucer' Outran Jet, Pilot Reveals", "ET
Armada Over Washington DC", "Saucers Swarm Capital", "Jets
Chase D.C. Sky Ghosts", and "Aerial Whatzits Buzz D.C.
Again!".

One man who has gone on record concerning the Washington, DC
UFO flap of 1952, is Dr. Bruce Maccabee. A physicist employed
by the U.S. Navy, and also a well-known researcher within UFO
circles, Maccabee is convinced that the UFO's which flew over
Washington, DC were solid objects, and not just the result of
temperature inversion, as the Air Force had been insisting.
Dr. Maccabbee stated:

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"They [the U.S. Air Force] proved in their own study that
there wasn't enough temperature inversion to cause this
effect. The Washington sightings cannot be explained as a
radar mirage."

"And I think those solid objects were not made by us; and by
us, I mean human beings."

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In the end, as concerned as they were about not knowing what
the UFO's were, the Air Force brass took a rather confusing,
neutral stand, and stated to the American news media:

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"We have no evidence they are flying saucers. Conversely, we
have no evidence they are not flying saucers. We don't know
what they are."

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However, the following afternoon, a Tuesday, even though no
one, not even President Truman, had any idea what the objects
were, the Air Force decided to pull a public relations stunt.
Major General John Samford, who was the Air Force's Director
of Intelligence at the time, called a press conference at the
Pentagon. According to the memoirs of Edward J. Ruppelt, who,
as you may recall, headed the newly-formed Project Blue Book,
Samford rambled on for over an hour, offering an explanation,
and the military's rebuttal, but never really saying anything
substantial. In the end, some reporters left the conference
convinced that the objects were not really alien spacecrafts,
but merely the result of temperature inversion; and that is
what they chose to print.

The Air Force's explanation certainly flies in the face of
what other first-hand witnesses to the DC event were saying.
Mr. Harry G. Barnes, who at the time headed the Air Traffic
Controllers at the Washington National Airport, being the
chief of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, also went on
record and stated:

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"For six hours . . . there were at least ten unidentifiable
objects moving above Washington. They were not ordinary
aircraft."

"They acted like a bunch of small kids out playing. It was
helter-skelter, as if directed by some innate curiosity. At
times, they moved as a group or cluster, at other times as
individuals."

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Howard Cocklin was one of several Air Traffic Controllers
working on the glass-enclosed top floor of the Washington
National Airport control tower that night in July of 1952.
Even though so many years have passed, he remains convinced
that what he saw in the sky was a real UFO. He states:

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"I saw it on the screen and out the window. It was a
whitish-blue object; not a light; a solid form; an object; a
saucer-shaped object."

". . . round with no distinguishing marks such as wings or a
nose or a tail . . . like a saucer."

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That same night, Captain S.C. "Casey" Pierman, an experienced
pilot with seventeen years of experience under his belt, was
conducting Capital Air Flight 807 from Washington, D.C. to
Detroit. During a fourteen minute period, he observed a total
of six objects streak across the night sky at an incredibly
high rate of speed. He described them as ". . . like falling
stars without tails".

At this time, I should mention that there were two major UFO
waves over Washington, DC in July, 1952. The first of these,
which we have been discussing, occurred on the night of July
19th; and the second one occurred a week later on the night
of July 26th. In addition to these primary UFO waves, other
secondary sightings also occurred in the general vicinity of
Washington, D.C., from about July 13th to July 29th. These
secondary sightings, which were observed by both civilians,
and by government and military personnel, involved one or a
few UFO's, whereas the larger UFO flaps involved as many as
eight to twelve objects in a single sighting.

One of the U.S. Air Force pilots who flew a F-94 interceptor
jet on the night of July 26th was William Patterson. He tried
to pursue one of the strange objects, but it was to no avail.
In describing his unusual experience, he later related to the
investigators:

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"I tried to make contact with the bogies below 1,000 feet. I
was at my maximum speed but . . . I ceased chasing them
because I saw no chance of overtaking them."

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As you can imagine, Captain Ruppelt and other serious members
of Project Blue Book were both flabbergasted and disappointed
by the silly yarn that Major General John Samford had spun
that day at the Pentagon. Aside from the unanswered question
of what really flew over Washington, DC during those weeks in
July of 1952, what really intrigues me, and undoubtedly many
others as well, is that in his 1956 memoir, "The Report On
Unidentified Flying Objects", Captain Ruppelt shares a very
interesting incident which occurred just a few days prior to
the first UFO wave over Washington. According to Ruppelt, he
interviewed a government scientist, whom he doesn't identify,
who made a rather startling prediction. In his own words,
Captain Ruppelt wrote:

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"Within the next few days," the unidentified scientist said,
banging his hand on his desk for emphasis, "you're going to
have the granddaddy of all UFO sightings. The sighting will
occur in Washington or New York -- probably Washington."

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How could anyone possibly have predicted what was about to
happen? Personally, I can only think of a few possibilities.
First, the Washington UFO waves were man-made events; which
means that someone in-the-know decided to give Capt. Ruppelt
advanced warning of what was going to occur. Second, the UFO
waves of 1952 were actually a natural phenomenon, such as a
predictable meteor shower, and thus a scientist, such as an
astronomer, could have given Ruppelt forewarning of the same.
Third, the UFO waves were real, and had been spotted in space
by an astronomer who then informed Ruppelt of their impending
arrival. Fourth, the informer was either a human who was in
direct contact with the UFO's, and thus had prior knowledge
of their arrival in a few days time, or else the informer
was in fact an alien himself. Which one do you believe; or
is there possibly another explanation?

Over the decades, a considerable number of pilots and air
traffic controllers have witnessed strange happenings in the
sky. However, the general public usually doesn't hear about
them; because like JAL's Captain Terauchi, these people are
afraid that they might be ridiculed; or worse yet, they may
even be suspended from their jobs if they decide to talk. As
one California air traffic controller stated in testimony to
the National UFO Reporting Center, in a letter dated the
20th of February, 1997:

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"In my [only] six years at the Center, I have personally
been part of three bizarre encounters, non-military and
non-civilian. I'm just one of 15,000 controllers, too, so
there *have* to be many more that go unreported."

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However, now and then, a few of these people will take the
chance and step forward, and share what they have seen or
experienced. Captain John Baldwin, a former military and
commercial pilot, was a witness to some of the strange UFO
happenings of July, 1952. He stated:

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"The object seemed to back away from us and change shape. It
was perfectly round and still at first. Then it seemed to
back away from us and change shape. It became flat, gained
speed and then disappeared quickly."

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Two years earlier, in 1950, Captain Willis T. Sperry, a
pilot with American Airlines, shared this UFO encounter
which had been experienced by himself and his companions:

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"Three of us, Gates, Flight Engineer Robert Arnholt (also a
pilot) and I all got a good look at it. Silhouetted against
the moon, it appeared to be the shape of a torpedo or
submarine, except that there were no protruding fins or
external structure of any kind. It appeared to be a perfectly
streamlined object of a dark metallic color, but at night it
could have been pink or any other color and looked the same."

"In comparing the speed of this object with jet aircraft,
(which I have observed many times at close range), I would
say without a doubt that the speed of the object was far
beyond the limits of any known aircraft speeds that we know.
In comparison, the speed was fantastic."

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In 1966, an unnamed pilot of American Airlines Flight 387,
which was on a flight from St. Louis to Los Angeles, made
the following comments while passing over Farmington, New
Mexico, at an altitude of 33,000 feet:

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"I have never seen anything like it before. Other planes in
the area have also seen it, nor can they identify it."

"Please look off the left wingtip if you want to see a
flying saucer."

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Ulf Christiansson, (not the founding member of the Swedish
rock group "Jerusalem"), was a former World War II fighter
pilot for the British Royal Air Force. Later, he became a
commercial pilot in his home country of Sweden. In 1958,
Christiansson and his engineer had an encounter with an
unusual object which sped by their craft, as they flew in
the skies over southern Sweden. In describing their UFO
encounter, Christiansson said:

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"This object was completely symmetric and I would say it had
a spherical appearance, in a way. It was metallic white and
left no vapour trail as it went by just above the clouds."

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Many people consider Project Blue Book to have been the most
honest, and the most earnest attempt, to discover the truth
behind the UFO phenomenon. This was due in large part to the
fact that a number of very high-level, serious-minded people,
including generals, were involved with it, as well as noted
astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. While Hynek was initially a
vocal skeptic, after seeing some of the evidence, even he was
later forced to re-evaluate his position concerning UFO's. As
a matter of historical record, it was during the period that
Project Blue Book was active, that the commonly-used acronym
U.F.O., or "Unidentified Flying Object", was assigned to the
strange aerial objects which had previously been referred to
as "flying discs" or "flying saucers".

Sadly, as I mentioned earlier, in spite of the intentions of
some of the more honorable men who were involved with Project
Blue Book, just like its predecessors, Project Blue Book was
destined to be destroyed by powerful forces within the U.S.
Government, who apparently did not want the truth concerning
UFO's to come to light. While we have discussed the Condon
Report, the demise of Project Blue Book started much earlier
than the late 1960's when the Condon Report was released. In
1952, following the much-publicized Washington, DC UFO wave,
the C.I.A. established a study panel comprised of individuals
from a variety of fields, including physicists, engineers and
meteorologists. Dr. J. Allen Hynek was also on the panel. The
panel was headed by Dr. H. P. Robertson, a physicist from the
California Institute of Technology, and was thus referred to
as the Robertson Panel. This panel first convened in January
of 1953.

Some critics assert that by any account, the Robertson Panel
was a complete sham, just like Project Grudge before it, and
the Condon Report which would follow it years later. Even
though Captain Ruppelt, Dr. Hynek, and other serious-minded
individuals presented some of the most convincing evidence
which had been collected to date by Project Blue Book, after
investing only twelve hours to study more than six years of
UFO data, the Robertson Panel determined that the majority
of UFO sightings could be attributed to logical and normal
explanations. Concerning the small percentage of UFO cases
that remained unexplained, the Robertson Panel stated that
further investigation would resolve those cases in a normal
fashion as well, but that no more time or effort should be
invested in them. In short, the government should just stop
wasting time investigating UFO sightings.

However, to add injury to insult, the Robertson Panel also
recommended that the U.S. Air Force embark on a campaign to
purposely de-emphasize the importance of the UFO phenomenon.
The panel specifically suggested that the Air Force adopt a
policy to shape public opinion by debunking UFO's via the
mass media. The Robertson Panel also encouraged the USAF to
ridicule anyone who professed the belief that UFO's were of
extraterrestrial origin. Furthermore, civilian UFO research
groups were vilified, and targeted as potential subversives.
Some people are convinced that the Air Force has continued
to implement some of these same tactics, even in our current
day. Not only that, but in spite of the FOIA, (Freedom of
Information Act), it is still very difficult to obtain any
truly meaningful UFO-related data from the U.S. Government.
So much information is either missing from the files, or
censored with black ink, that what is left does not tell us
very much at all.

To help you to fully grasp how intent the U.S. Government
was on clamping down on all UFO leaks by military personnel,
consider that in December of 1953, Joint Army-Navy-Air Force
Regulation 146 was put into effect. This regulation made it
a crime for any military personnel to discuss classified UFO
reports with unauthorized persons. Violators faced up to two
years in prison, and/or fines of up to $10,000. Now, that is
getting serious! But there is an odd paradox here. If UFO's
don't really exist, as the government claims, then why would
the military go to such extremes to keep everyone quiet? It
just doesn't make sense, does it; unless . . .

Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Regulation 146 was only one of a
number of restrictive steps which were taken to squash the
public's interest in UFO's, and to chastise those who would
dare to contradict the mandates of the U.S. military. While
Project Blue Book continued to exist, at least as far as the
American public was concerned, the truth of the matter, is
that following the recommendations of the Robertson Panel,
and in the years leading up to its demise after the release
of the Condon Report, Project Blue Book became less and less
of a real UFO investigative entity. By the time that Project
Blue Book was shut down, it had lost all credibility in the
eyes of many serious UFO researchers, and it had become the
object of severe criticism, including widespread accusations
of being a U.S. Government cover-up operation.

As new military procedures and policies continued to strip
Project Blue Book of its investigative power, important UFO
sightings where siphoned to the recently-formed 4602nd Air
Intelligence Squadron of the Air Defense Command. In short,
Project Blue Book became another intentional sham to deceive
the American public into thinking that the US Government was
doing its duty to seriously investigate UFO sightings; while
in reality, Uncle Sam never released any significant info to
the American public.

Even though certain people like Captain Ruppelt, Dr. Hynek,
Major Robert J. Friend, et al, made some attempts to return
Project Blue Book to its more productive days, they failed.
Each new director was more anti-UFO than the previous one.
Clearly, some powerful forces within the government wanted
to put a tight lid on the entire UFO affair, and they were
quite successful. If you are wondering exactly what were the
final conclusions of Project Blue Book after so many years
of researching the true nature of UFO's, consider this list:

1. A mild form of mass hysteria.

2. Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a
hoax or seek publicity.

3. Psychopathological persons.

4. Misidentification of various conventional objects.

While I can certainly agree with that list, nevertheless, I
still find it rather amazing, that in spite of the evidence,
and so many testimonies from highly credible individuals, in
its final days, the Project Blue Book staff was not willing
to consider that perhaps a small percentage of UFO sightings
might actually be true extraterrestrial vehicles from other
planets. I am not saying that they are, or were, from other
worlds; but to totally dismiss this possibility in light of
the evidence, does seem rather close-minded in my view. Even
as a Bible-believing Christian, I do not totally reject the
possibility; because as I have said before, I really don't
know what God may or may not have created, in other parts of
the Universe. Perhaps that is one of the many mysteries He
has left for us to figure out on our own.

If what Project Blue Book states is true, then I suppose the
people who witnessed the mind-boggling Battle of Los Angeles
on February 25, 1942, must have all been suffering from mass
hysteria. Countless people watched that day as the military
fired shell after shell at a huge disc which hung silently
in the sky over the suburbs of Los Angeles. Despite attempts
by the Army to bring the strange craft down, (many people
insist that the strange object suffered a lot of direct hits
from the Army's 37th Coast Artillery Brigade), there was no
detectable damage to the UFO, and it eventually went on its
way.

I suppose that Kenneth Arnold, who was a trained pilot, also
let his imagination get the better of him when he saw nine
disc-shaped craft flying in formation near Mount Rainier in
Washington State. And how do we explain the many UFO'S which
flew across Washington, D.C. in 1952, or the many people who
witnessed first-hand the Roswell event of July, 1947? Were
all of these people having hallucinations, or is the U.S.
Government lying through its teeth?

Please go to part thirteen for the continuation of this
series.

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