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Views on the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis Part III

Synopsis: UFO Reports: A collection of NASA UFO Reports and views on the extraterrestrial hypothesis and Unidentified Flying Objects by military personnel and other informed sources.

Dr. Hermann Oberth, father of modern rocketry

Hermann OberthHermann Oberth headed a German Commission to study the UFO phenomena. The Oberth Commission found that "UFOs are conceived and directed by intelligent beings of a very high order, and they are propelled by distorting the gravitational field, converting gravity into useable energy. There is no doubt in my mind that these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort.

I and my colleagues are confident that they do not originate in our solar system, but we feel that they may use Mars or some other body as sort of a way station. They probably do not originate in our solar system, perhaps not even in our galaxy." (25) In the American Weekly of 24th October of that year Oberth was quoted as stating "It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system." (26)

Dr Walter Riedel

Dr Walter RiedelDr Riedel was a colleague of Hermann Oberth and former chief designer and research director at Peenemunde. After the war he entered the US as part of Operation Paperclip and gave an interview to LIFE magazine that appeared on 7th April 1952. He told LIFE "I am completely convinced that they have an out-of-world basis."

He based this on four key points. "First, the skin temperatures off structures operating under the observed conditions would make it impossible for any terrestrial structure to survive. The skin friction of the missile at those speeds at those altitudes would melt any metals or non-metals available.

Second, consider the high acceleration at which they fly and manoeuvre … In some descriptions the beast spirals straight up. If you think of the fact that the centrifugal force in a few minutes of such a manoeuvre would press the crew against the outside, and do likewise to the blood, you see what I mean.

Third… there are many occurrences where they have done things that only a pilot could perform but that no pilot could stand.

Fourth, in most of the reports there is a lack of visible jet. Most observers report units without visible flame …and no trail. If it would be any known type of jet, rocket, piston engine, or chain-reaction motor, there would be a very clear trail at high altitude. It is from no power we know of…" (27)

Stephen Hawking

On Friday 6th March 1998 Professor Stephen Hawking gave a talk at the White House on a stage shared with the President and Mrs Clinton in the White House’s Millennium Series entitled ‘Imagination and Change: Science in the Next Millennium’.

In the speech he admitted to the possibility of a cover-up. "Of course it is possible that UFO’s really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the Government is hushing it us." However he declined to explore this theme.

George Filer, Air Force Intelligence Officer 1958-1978

"It isn’t a question of whether of no flying saucers exist. The question is, what are they and who do they belong to?" (28)

Rear Admiral Delmar S. Fahrney, Former US Naval Missile Chief

Formerly head of the Navy’s guided missile programme, on 16th January 1957 at a press conference in Washington D.C. he stated that "Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds. No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve."

He added "an intelligence [directs such objects] because of the way they fly. They are not entirely actuated by automatic equipment. The way they change position I formations and override each other would indicate that their motion is directed." (29)

Robert Oechsler, NASA Mission Specialist 1974-1977

"I am convinced, based on my research and the individuals whom I have had contact in the US Intelligence community, that the US Government does indeed have craft that meet the description of many of the UFO reports." (30)

Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens, Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

"I am convinced beyond doubt that we have recovered aircraft, alien vehicles, that we have contact with aliens. That we are communicating with them in some way or form and that we have vehicles and bodies in preservation." (31)

Colonel Joseph J. Bryan III, founder and first chief of the CIA’s Psychological Unit and former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force as well as aviation advisor to NATO.

Bryan wrote the following in a letter to Major Donald Keyhoe in 1960. "I am aware that hundreds of military and airplane pilots, airport personnel, astronomers, missile trackers and other competent observers have reported sightings of UFOs. I am also aware that many of these UFO have been reported manoeuvring in formation, and that many were simultaneously tracked by radar. It is my opinion that: The UFOs reported by competent observers are devices under intelligent control. Their speeds, manoeuvres and other technical evidence prove them superior to any known craft or space devices now produced on earth. These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control or both (32).

Commander R. B. McLaughlin, in charge of team of scientists at White Sands, New Mexico.

‘True’ Magazine in March 1950 published an article entitled ‘How Scientists Tracked Flying Saucers’. The author, Commander R. B. McLaughlin described several UFO sightings made either by him or his crew at White Sands. He described one of these episodes; "I am convinced that it was a flying saucer, and further, that these disks are spacecraft from another planet, operated by animate, intelligent being." The story was all the more surprising in that it received complete military clearance despite the fact that it contradicted every military press release that had been made in the previous two years." (33)

Steve Lewis, former Air Force Intelligence Officer

"That movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind is more realistic than you’d believe. You can believe that or not." Lewis advised Timothy Good that the Air Force believe that the light associated with UFO sightings might be related to an advance propulsion system, enabling the craft to travel at the speed of light. Lewis was asked why he believed UFOs were extraterrestrial in origin rather than top-secret military aircraft. He replied, "The records, the information I saw while in my job. I no longer rule out what the possibilities might be." (34)

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, World War 1 ace.

"Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, they don’t have hallucinations." (35)

In addition to the above comments, the existence of UFOs appears to be confirmed elsewhere.

National Emergency Management Agency.

In 1995 the US National Emergency Management Agency issued a book ‘Fire Officer’s Guide to Disaster Control’ which gave advice to its employees on how to handle extra-terrestrials encountered in the line of duty. The sections in this manual include headings such as ‘The UFO Threat – A Fact’ ‘UFO Hazards’, detailing powerful electrical fields and the psychological impact of encounters, ‘Force Field Impacts’ and ‘UFOs – Emergency Action.’

Disney

Walt Disney with Wernher von BraunThe Robertson panel recommended that companies such as Disney should be enlisted to encourage viewers to believe that UFOs are not real. (Left, Walt Disney with Wernher von Braun in 1954). Yet on the weekend of 18-19th March 1995, Disney broadcast a documentary on UFOs in five states: Connecticut, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and California with no prior announcement. The documentary, introduced by the company’s Chief Executive himself, was entitled "Alien Encounters- From New Tomorrowland."

The documentary began with video footage of an apparent UFO with the commentary, "piloted by alien intelligence, one sighting from tens of thousands made over the last fifty years on virtually every continent on the globe. Intelligent life from distant galaxies is now attempting to make open contact with the human race. And tonight we’ll show you the evidence." Strong enough claims, but fronted by Michael Eisner, the entire corporation’s Chief Executive?

The documentary included the following quotes. "Mankind is in the midst of the most profound event in history: Actual contact with intelligent life from other planets." "From beyond the boundaries of our perceptions, intelligent beings are beckoning mankind to join the galactic community. It’s an invitation which is both wondrous and terrifying."

"Alien ships seem to arrive in waves, and if the last few years are any indication, planet Earth is experiencing a tsunami of sightings." "As early as 1947 the large alien ships began to arrive, navigated by living creatures. Their advanced physics allowed them to traverse the galaxy and pierce Earth’s atmosphere with amazing speed. More than one alien craft crashed and was recovered for secret US military research."

"This is the actual site where the Roswell saucer was discovered along with the bodies of three extraterrestrial missionaries who didn’t survive the collision. The debris and the dead were impounded and taken away for top-secret study. The debris and the dead were impounded and taken away for top-secret study." "A classified investigative committee … was organised by President Truman and a government cover-up was initiated with a calculated disinformation campaign."

"For governments determined to maintain their authority, extraterrestrial contact is pure dynamite." "When [Jimmy Carter] assumed the office of President of the United States, his staff attempted to explore the availability of official investigations into alien contact… [however] there are some security secrets outside the jurisdiction of the White House." "In November of 1975, essentially every SAC [Strategic Air Command] base in the United States was visited by UFOs."

Laws

It is interesting to note that the year in which Armstrong first set foot on the moon, Congress passed a Federal law in which it was made illegal to any American to have contact with an extra-terrestrial punishable by a $5000 fine or a year in prison.

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References:

(1)    Cooper, Gordon ‘We Seven’ P53.

(2)    Ibid.

(3)    Cooper, Gordon, Col USAF (ret.): Letter to Ambassador Griffith, Mission of Grenada to the United Nations, New York 9th November 1978.

(4)     National Enquirer 14th January 1997.

(5)     The People [London] 25th October 1998.

(6)    Strange But True? UFO TV Special 1997.

(7)    Los Angeles Times, 6th January, 1973.

(8)     Shatner Video

(9)     In forward to Aime Michel’s ‘Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery’, Criterion Books, 1958.

(10)    In an article by Attila Lenart entitled ‘Ask a Question To the Minister of Defence: George Keleti, Are You Afraid of a UFO Invasion?’, Nepszava Budapest, 18th August 1994.

(11     From his forward to "Above Top Secret", Timothy Good, 1988, Morrow & Co’s Quill Books.

(12)    Interviewed on radio on 21st February 1974 by Jean-Claude Bourret.

(13)    Letter to Yusuke J. Matsumura, 5th May 1967 (Good)

(14)    Letter to Mayor Shiotani of Hakui City, 24th June 1994, endorsing an upcoming Space and UFO Symposium.

(15)    Interview with J J Benitez, La Gaceta del Norte, Balboa, Spain 27th June 1976.

(16)    X Factor p. 124, No 5

(17)    Sovietskaya Molodezhi, 4th May 1990.

(18)    UFO Magazine September 1996 p. 16

(19)    New York Post 27th June 1967.

(20)    Yale Scientific Magazine (Yale University) Volume XXXVII No. 7, April 1963.

(21)    From ‘UFOs: A Scientific Debate’

(22)    Ibid.

(23)    Ruppelt, Cpt. Edward, ‘The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects’ p. 8 Doubleday, New York 1956.

(24)   ‘Life’, 7th April 1952

(25)    Edwards, Frank, ‘Flying Saucers: Serious Business’ and ‘Flying Saucers Here and Now’

(26)    American Weekly of 24th October

(27)   ‘Life’ 7th April 1952.

(28)   Sightings; UFOs

(29)   New York Times, 17th January 1957 p. 41

(30)   AREA 51 Video

(31)   Ibid.

(32)   Edwards, Frank, ‘Flying Saucers – Here and Now!’, pp 42-43 Lyle Stuart, New York 1967.

(33)   ‘True’ Magazine, March 1950 ‘How Scientists Tracked Flying Saucers’.

(34)   APRO Bulletin, p. 5 Vol. 30 No. 7 1982.

(35)   Hall, Richard H., ed. ‘The UFO Evidence’, Washington, D.C.: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon (NICAP), 1536 Connecticut Avenue, NW (1964) p. 23.