Declassified Pentagon and Air Force documents showing the true attitude of the American authorities towards UFOs.
Back in September 1951, the Committee of Chiefs of Staff (the highest military body, similar to our General Staff) issued a secret directive "JANAP-146b" on measures to prevent an armed attack on the United States, which ordered to immediately report the appearance of unknown submarines via military communication channels, warships, UFOs and aircraft. Moreover, for the disclosure of this data in the press, on radio or television, the servicemen were threatened with a fine of $ 10,000 and imprisonment up to 10 years.
In March 1954, the JANAP-146 directive was reissued with the suffix c. Now it indicated that data on all unknown objects, including UFOs, should be transmitted as messages of paramount importance and, if they relate to observations in the air, then at the beginning of the report should be put the symbol "CIRVIS", and if at sea, then the index " MERINT ". At the same time, it was emphasized that reports with such designations contain information related to national defense, and the disclosure of their content in any way is prohibited and punishable by the law on espionage. It is also characteristic that in the appendix to this directive an example was given of the transmission of a message about a UFO by radiotelegraph, which looked like this:
MERINT 5125 14 230. 3 unidentified flying objects heading northwest, 17,000 feet, cigar shape 50 feet, 2 miles. Checked by the navigator, unlimited visibility. 211 513 Jones.
After this directive was issued in 1954, pilots of civil airlines were also prohibited from disclosing information about their UFO sightings.
In March 1966, the Committee of Chiefs of Staff issued the fifth version of the directive "JANAP-146" with the index "e", which indicated that UFOs should be considered among enemy targets approaching the United States and Canada, and detailed the data that were to be included in every UFO sighting report. The Air Force headquarters has issued a number of classified documents specifically on UFOs.
The first of these was the secret instruction "AFR 200-2", developed in August 1953, according to which UFO research was concentrated in three organizations: - Air Force Intelligence in the Pentagon; - the 4602nd scientific support squadron, which had its representatives at all air bases; - Air Force Science and Technology Center at Wright-Patterson. At the same time, even senior Air Force officers were forbidden to try to extract from these organizations any information about UFOs or probe the results of the first stage of research. At the same time, all Air Force units were instructed to reduce to a minimum the amount of information about UFOs issued to the public, and to give mainly joking or erroneous messages. And all genuine messages were declared secret and had to be sent to the appropriate authorities. Moreover, parts of flying saucers,and photographs of radar screens showing the maneuvers and speeds of flying saucers, or genuine photographs of the saucers themselves were to be sent immediately to the Air Force Science and Technology Center.
In August 1954, the AFR-200-2 instruction was reissued, and it additionally indicated that the Air Force's interest in the problem should cover the following aspects: first, a possible threat to US security; second, the determination of the technical characteristics of these objects, since, apparently, on their basis, aircraft of a fundamentally new design can be created.
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The instructions also emphasized that all Air Force units in their investigations of UFO sightings should not go further than what the 4602 Squadron of scientific support requires.
Instruction "AFR.-200-2" was reissued in September 1959 under the heading "UFO Operations and Actions - Serious Business." At the same time, it emphasized that the commanders of airbases can give the press or the public information about the observation of a flying object only if it is identified. And if the observation is inexplicable, then evasive statements should be made that it is being double-checked and the data will be released later.
In September 1966, the instruction "AFR-200-2" was replaced by the new instruction "AFR.-80-17", in which all air base commanders were instructed to establish observation points for UFOs and investigate each case of their appearance in order to establish what reality was observed.
In the US Naval Headquarters instruction "OPNAV … 94-p-3", issued in July 1959, the captains of merchant and fishing vessels were also ordered to give immediate radio reports with the code group of letters "MERINT" about the approach of unknown missiles, UFOs to the American continent, ships, submarines and aircraft, and in the appendix to the instructions were placed images of a disc-shaped and oblong UFO.
It is also known that in order to speed up the identification of UFOs, images of the main types of UFOs were placed on most US warships.
The US Air Defense Directory also featured a disc-shaped UFO with lights.
Of particular interest are the various orders of the American authorities regarding the interception and opening of fire on UFOs.
Until the spring of 1948, the US Air Force had orders to shoot down UFOs, and after the death of Captain Mantell in the spring of 1948, they were ordered to “detain but not fire” at UFOs unless there was a direct attack from their side.
Following the July 1952 raids on Washington, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, General Bradley, with Truman's approval, again issued orders to open fire and shoot down any unidentified objects that appear over US territory and refuse to comply with landing requests.
In May 1955, an order was again issued prohibiting the opening of fire on UFOs, and the new commander of the air defense, General Ramay, at a meeting of pilots, said: "Be very careful when meeting UFOs, but never shoot them."
In 1957, a Pentagon spokesman, Major General Kelly, responding to an inquiry from Congressman Lee Metkaffe, admitted that the country's Air Force fighters were pursuing UFOs for the country's security and for technical study.
In 1959, the Supreme Commander of the NATO Armed Forces, American General Norsted, ordered all NATO air forces to closely monitor UFOs, photograph them, if possible, and conduct radar tracking.
In 1963, the Air Force command instructed all aircraft crews to pursue UFOs, but open fire only in the event of hostile actions on their part.
The 1966 JANAP-146 Chiefs of Staff directive instructed US and Canadian Air Force commanders to report UFO interception activities.
Thus, all classified documents of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff and the US Air Force regarding UFOs, published before 1969, convincingly prove that the American authorities have always taken UFOs very seriously. This was confirmed, in particular, by President Kennedy, who pointed out in his letter to NICAP at the end of 1961 that "UFOs are the subject of research of exceptional importance."
It should also be mentioned that the US Air Force Academy textbook, published in 1968 and intended only for students of the Academy, described UFOs in detail on 14 pages and recommended: “The best thing when meeting them is to be vigilant, attentive and not to take any extreme measures.
