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CIA feared alien invasion more than Soviet nuclear attack

Friday, November 02 2007 @ 05:58 PM CDT

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A raft of newly unclassified CIA documents reveal that the remote possibility of alien invasion elicited greater fear than a Soviet nuclear attack.



More interesting still, the CIA documents show that despite decades of repeated public denials, behind the scenes there raged a series of inter-agency feuds which implicated the highest levels of the US government.

The subject of UFOs and dabbling in psychological warfare techniques not only focused the attention of the US elite levels for 50 years but some of the greatest scientific and military minds of the era were involved in the effort.

A Herald investigation shows that throughout the 1950s, CIA files clearly document an explosion of activity by US intelligence and military bodies concerned with studying every possible implication for the US, and Western democracies, of UFOs.

The phenomenon, so adored by the cinematic world - from mind control and space travel to extra-terrestrial life - was reflected in the CIA's fixations. Indeed, while highly educated CIA employees experimented by giving each other surprise LSD trips in 1953, there were others, in other parts of the agency, dealing with a huge flood of UFO reports.

Significantly, however, after a burst of intense scrutiny in the early '50s, the available documents effectively go cold. Why?

The quintessential Kafkaesque explanation provided is that few files were kept because these would only confirm that the CIA was investigating UFOs. But the wildly eclectic UFO files in fact cover everything from “flying saucers over Belgian Congo uranium mines” to Nazi “flying saucers”.

When The New York Times reported in 1979 that the CIA had investigated UFOs,the news report is said to have so upset the then-CIA director Stansfield Turner that he reportedly asked his staff: “Are we in UFOs?”

The answer then was yes - since the late 1940s apparently. But exactly how, what, when, why and who remained layered in mystery, leaving infinite grist for the conspiracy mill, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Pravda.Ru has previously published an article “5 reasons for governments to keep UFOs in secret”

Stanton Friedman, a physicist who once worked for such giants as Westinghouse and General Electric, has devoted much of his adult life to ferreting out clues in the UFO controversy.

Pitching his case before more than 600 campus audiences, Friedman concludes that alien aircraft have been around for decades and that governments have tried to keep an airtight lid on them.

He has five reasons for a massive and sustained cover-up that he labels “the cosmic Watergate.”

1. Government agents want to figure out how crashed aircraft work.

2. No one wants any enemy governments to know what has been discovered.

3. If some trusted public figures, say the queen of England and the pope, disclosed UFOs, society would be shaken up, and earthlings would begin thinking of themselves as such, rather than as citizens of individual nations.

4. The fourth problem is the fundamentalist Christian perspective that aliens are “the work of the Devil,” quoting 700 Club founder Pat Robertson and the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The two said earth contains the only intelligence life in the universe, he said.

5. A public confirmation would lead to economic chaos, and lastly, secrecy is a way of life in government.

pravda.ru

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UFOs kept secret by U.S. in nationalist fervor?

By Mannix Porterfield
Register-Herald Reporter

CHARLESTON, WV — Unlike legions of true believers who look to him for all the answers, Stanton Friedman has never seen a bonafide unidentified flying object.

Friedman jokes about his lack of encounter, even of the first kind.

“I have never seen one, except when I was a waiter in a restaurant and I dropped a whole tray of dirty dishes when I was a busboy up in the Catskills. Boy, were those saucers flying.”

That’s where the joshing ends.

“I’m a nuclear physicist,” he says.

“I’ve chased neutrons and gamma rays for 14 years. I never saw one of them. They’re real, too. I’ve never seen Tokyo. It’s there. Do I have to see something to believe it?”

Friedman brought substantial credentials to the table for this weekend’s 55th Flatwoods Monster Anniversary and Flying Saucer Extravaganza, as the marquee on the old Capitol Theater proclaims.

A physicist who once worked for such giants as Westinghouse and General Electric, he has devoted much of his adult life to ferreting out clues in the UFO controversy.

Pitching his case before more than 600 campus audiences, Friedman concludes that alien aircraft have been around for decades and that governments have tried to keep an airtight lid on them. He has six reasons for a massive and sustained cover-up that he labels “the cosmic Watergate.”

First of all, government agents want to figure out how crashed aircraft work. Secondly, no one wants any enemy governments to know what has been discovered.

A third reason is that if some trusted public figures, say the queen of England and the pope, disclosed UFOs, society would be shaken up, and earthlings would begin thinking of themselves as such, rather than as citizens of individual nations.

“Nationalism is the only game in town, as far as I can see,” he said Friday as the weekend event began. “Everybody wants his own country.”

A fourth problem he envisions is the fundamentalist Christian perspective that aliens are “the work of the Devil,” quoting 700 Club founder Pat Robertson and the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The two said earth contains the only intelligence life in the universe, he said.

“Is there really intelligent life on earth?” Friedman asked. “Look at how we act. Isn’t that kind of an insult to the notion of an Almighty God that this is the best You can do?

“Look around the planet. The U.S. will spend half a trillion dollars on the military this year. Yet, 30,000 children will die needlessly this day, ever single day, of preventable disease or starvation.”

Fifth, Friedman averred, a public confirmation would lead to economic chaos, and lastly, secrecy is a way of life in government.

Friedman pointed to 300,000 pages of still-classified materials in the Eisenhower Library, unrelated to UFOs, and accounts of the government lying to families of downed military pilots, decades after they finally acknowledged their deaths but distorted the truth behind each one.

Without question, he said, thousands and thousands of sighting have been confirmed and kept secret by the government.

Friedman can only surmise why aliens are scoping out the planet, but said there are “a zillion reasons,” including mere scientific research or perhaps mining for precious metals since Earth is the densest planet known.

“Perhaps they’re trying to evaluate behavior,” he said.

More likely, with the rapid technological advances within the past 100 years and the arming by nations of nuclear firepower, Friedman suggested, aliens could be jittery about what’s going on in the galaxy, since they obviously have reached a superior level if they can reach us and we can’t travel to their turf.

“When you break it down, I make one assumption about every advanced civilization — namely, that it’s concerned about its own survival and security. You have to keep tabs on the primitives in the neighborhood but only close tabs on those primitives who show signs of being able to bother you.”

When World War II ended, aliens knew earthlings had achieved three basic steps that suggested they were ready for space travel — nuclear weapons, V2 rockets and powerful radar. Interestingly enough, all three were centered at Roswell, N.M., and in 1952, shortly after the legendary Flatwoods Monster in Braxton County, this country tested its first H-Bomb in the Pacific, a 10-megaton blast that produced a fireball three miles in diameter.

Friedman isn’t sure if the aliens are to be feared. Possibly, he suggested in jest, Earth is the ideal honeymoon capital for newlyweds in the galaxy. For more than six decades of known observance, they have yet to do anything harmful.

Yet, on the other hand, there is the analogy of the domestic turkey.

“Turkeys in mid-November probably say, ‘Look how lucky we are. We have these masters who give us all the food we can eat, more than we can eat, water to drink, and keep us warm when it’s cold inside. They’re nice guys.’ Then Thanksgiving comes along ...”

Frank Feschino, a Florida illustrator who has authored two books on the Flatwoods incident, says he has witnessed numerous UFOs while conducting research on the Flatwoods “monster,” which appeared almost 55 years to the day of the summit in Charleston.

A key witnesses still living, Freddie May, had planned to be a major part of the event until he was sidelined this week by a sudden illness.

Feschino’s second work, “Shoot Them Down,” chronicles what he says was a massive air battle between American fighter pilots and alien craft, one of which, disabled in the fray, strayed into Flatwoods.

In his exhaustive research of the incident and interviews with surviving witnesses, Feschino said he was impressed with the believability of the boys who scampered up the hillside that Sept. 12 evening in 1952.

“These were not city slicker, punk kids,” he said. “These kids were good, old-fashioned kids. They didn’t have money to buy comic books and read about this and that. They were good, old-fashioned people.”

http://www.register-herald.com

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KGB agents were making records of UFO observations in special Blue Folder

Files comprising the famous Blue Folder have been declassified a while ago. The prominent Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich got the folder from the KGB in 1991. These days Mr. Popovich holds the position of honorary president of the Academy of Informational and Applied Ufology. The folder contains numerous descriptions of UFO flights and reports on some (mostly failed) attempts taken by the military in order to catch the aliens.

Aliens acknowledged back in 1968

In 1968, 13 leading aircraft designers and engineers of a brand-new aircraft section of the Soviet Committee on Space Technology and Exploration forwarded a letter to the Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. Actually, it was a request to set up a special organization for the study of UFOs. A reply to the letter was signed by Academician Shchukin. It is an amazing document per se:

“A number of competent organizations of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Chief Directorate of Meteorological Service, Defense Ministry and a few other agencies considered the issue of nature of the so-called flying objects. The organizations involved in the study of the atmosphere and space have been instructed to register and do research on any cases of UFOs for identification purposes. The USSR Academy of Sciences is charged with general monitoring of the phenomena, and therefore a special organization for the study of UFOs is not required.”

“It was a real breakthrough,” says Vladimir Azhazha, president of the above academy and keeper of the Blue Folder. “The authorities not only acknowledged the existence of UFOs for the first time, they also showed their great interest in the issue,” adds he.

“We got hold of the Blue Folder only in 1991,” says Mr. Azhazha. “Pavel Popovich was given the folder after requesting reports on the cases of UFOs. I received the folder from Popovich, it was a 124-page compilation of reports about the encounters with UFOs. The reports filed by authorities, military units COs and eyewitnesses. It took us a long time to get rid of some doubts before making the folder public,” says he.

Mr. Popovich saw an UFO only once while flying in a passenger plane from Washington to Moscow. According to him, the object looked like a shining triangle that popped up out of nowhere, for awhile it flew near the plane at about 1,000 km per hour before vanishing without a trace.

Despite the cover letter that effectively denied any special program by the KGB for monitoring the UFO activities, the contents of the folder indicated the opposite. It is quite obvious that the Soviet secret police launched thoughtful investigations in several cases e.g. an anomaly observed near the village of Burkhala of the Magadan region on October 21, 1989. The report on the incident says: “The eyewitnesses claim to have watched a red shining sphere circulating above the village for half an hour.” The northern lights are reported to have shone extremely brightly all night long following the incident.

The flying disks vanished in thin air after the explosion

KGB agents looked high and low trying to figure out what happened at the airport of the city of Mineralnye Vody on December 15, 1987. According to the airport dispatchers, at 23.15 the flight No 65798 reported an incoming “object resembling an aircraft with its headlights on.” The radars showed no aircraft whatsoever. Three minutes later the UFO was gone as reported by the flight No 65789.

The crew of another plane also observed the UFO flying in that area. The clock read approximately 23.20. According to crewmembers, the UFO left a fiery trail in the air. The crews of the both planes reported that the UFO had disappeared after the flash resembling an explosion. A villager reported a burning plane flying over his village at 23.30. The eyewitness said the plane then disappeared. The eyewitness found no wreckage or other evidence of a plane crash.

No manholes found in the “Martian” spacecraft

From time to time the military made attempts to deal with UFOs independently. In August 1987, servicemen of an antiaircraft unit based on the Tiksi Peninsula tried to “get to know better” an unidentified flying object that appeared on a radar screen. The report from Colonel Lobanov, a duty officer of the military unit No 45038, said: “An unidentified target detected by the radar station of the commandant’s office of the antiaircraft unit at 05.45 Moscow time.” The target moved at a speed varying from 0 to 400 km per hour. At 06.55 a helicopter MI-8 took off for a closer examination of the object. Suddenly, the object became invisible. Another aircraft, the AN-12 was flying in the vicinity at the time. At 3600 m the crew reported an emerald cloud with a few traces of purple and dark spots visible in the middle. Two inverse trails were reported behind the cloud.

An incident occurred in the Leningrad Military Region in early August of 1987. Five officers were dispatched to the northern part of Karelia to accompany an object of unknown origin that had been located near the city of Vyborg. The object was said to be 14 m long, 4 meters wide and 2.5 m high. The military failed to open the “extraterrestrial can.” Eventually, the object disappeared from the hangar late September.

On July 28, 1989, the arrival of an UFO spread panic among the personnel of a military unit stationed in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, in the Astrakhan region. Corporal Valery Voloshin was on duty in the communications center at the time. He filed the first report on the case.

Researchers believe the Blue Folder is an invaluable source of information. According to Mr. Azhazha, all reports and evidence on record indicate that intelligent life forms control the objects that mean no harm to human beings. At least no case of an attack by UFO against man was found in the folder.

pravda.ru

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