American intelligence admitted: X-Files really exist
The CIA itself reacted to the release of the first episode of the 10th season of the cult series "X-Files" ("The X-Files"). US intelligence officials said they also have classified files on UFOs and aliens. In them - from among those already declassified, of course - and it was suggested to look. The "invitation" came on January 21, 2016 from the pages of the official CIA blog. It said:
“To help navigate the huge number of UFO documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act in our archive, we decided to highlight those that both skeptics and believers would find interesting. Here are five documents that we think Agent Fox Mulder would love to use when trying to convince people of alien activity. We also selected five documents that his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use … The truth is out there."
Mulder and Scully may have real prototypes.
Documents for Fox Mulder
1. Meeting with humanoids in East Germany
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Late in the evening of June 17, 1950, the aliens visited a man who had never heard of "flying saucers" before. Oskar Linke was mayor of Gleimerhausen for many years. When the town fell into the Soviet zone of occupation, the mayor fled to the West. There he told about what happened under oath:
“We lived a few kilometers from the border. To facilitate the crossing, my daughter Gabriella and I often rode a motorcycle to the border. I was driving, she was in the back seat. The Russian border guards were used to seeing us and were unaware of our true intentions.
We were returning home when suddenly a tire burst on a motorcycle near Hasselbacht. I had to go further on foot, and on the way Gabriella noticed something in the forest. It was getting dark …
I leaned the motorcycle against a tree, went there and saw that no further than 40 meters from me two people about a meter tall, bending over, were looking at something on the ground. Their clothes were aluminum or silver. One of them had a box on his chest, three packs of cigarettes, with a bright shimmering blue light on the front. What it was intended for, I don't know - it looks like they didn't use it.
Coming closer, I began to observe them from behind a small hedge, and then I noticed a large object, the diameter of which, in my opinion, was 13-15 meters. It looked like a huge frying pan without a handle and seemed to be phosphorescent. Along the edges, two rows of holes about 30 cm in size were visible. The distance between them was about half a meter. In the center of the object stood something like a square superstructure, slightly darker than the object itself, similar in color to well-polished aluminum.
They approached the object from the other end of the clearing. When they were 3-4 meters away, the one behind them touched the shiny glass-like front helmet. They stopped, and one of them, turning slowly, looked to our left. At that moment, my daughter called me, and the pilots hastily jumped into the ship through a hatch in the center of the square superstructure.
The side with the holes began to sparkle. At the same time, I heard a slight hum. The glow and hum intensified, and the superstructure in the center of the object began to "sink". The object slowly lifted itself up and began to spin like a top. It seemed to me that he was holding on to a cylindrical device that freely moved in a vertical plane and was now under the body of the object, which was hovering a few meters from the ground, surrounded by a ring of fire.
Then the object finally lifted off the ground. The cylinder retracted into the middle of the hull and extended from above - where the superstructure used to be. Takeoff speed has increased. At that moment we heard a whistle, reminiscent of the one that emits a falling bomb or shell. The object took a horizontal position, turned towards the neighboring town of Stockheim, gained altitude and disappeared.
I would have thought that we were all dreaming, if not for one circumstance: when the object disappeared, I approached the place where it landed, and found a rounded depression on the ground, which, by all indications, appeared quite recently. It was exactly the same size as the cylinder under the object. Then I was finally convinced that this was not a dream."
The agents drew up reports based on the investigation materials.
The mayor decided that it was a Soviet secret weapon. His story came to the CIA archives in 1952, when the Greek newspaper Kathimerini wrote about Linke's meeting with a UFO.
2. The CIA begins an investigation
A wave of UFO sightings sweeping across the United States in 1952 alarmed the Harry Truman administration. The White House wanted to know what was going on. Although the CIA has always followed UFO reports, the decision was made to create a dedicated research group under the Office of Science Affairs (OSI) and the Office of Current Intelligence Research.
The CIA's deputy director of intelligence operations, Robert Emory, Jr., appointed OSI's physics and electronics division to be responsible for UFO research. Ray Gordon was appointed as team leader. Each subdivision was supposed to contribute to the progress of research, and Gordon himself worked closely with the Air Force. Emory expressed the point of view of CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith, who believed that "if there is even one chance in 10,000 that a phenomenon poses a threat to the country's security, even that chance cannot be ignored."
The agents collected eyewitness statements.
The document that the CIA brings to our attention is notes taken during the discussion on the creation of the UFO team on August 11, 1952. It states that “all subdivision staff should familiarize themselves with the project and see how they can contribute to it,” listed by name the people who will be part of the team as representatives of the OSI subdivisions.
3. "Plates" over Spain and North Africa
As with Oskar Linke, the information here comes from third-party sources. These are English translations of reports from Spanish and Algerian newspapers.
The first UFO was spotted on the morning of May 17, 1952 over Barcelona. Valentin Garcia, a correspondent for the Tangier newspaper, saw him with his own eyes:
“Crossing José Antonio Avenue on my way to the office, I saw a strange object flying at high altitude from the Prat airport two kilometers above the ground, leaving a wide smoky plume. It did not look like an airplane (Prat and Sabadell airports deny that they know anything about this object) and, unlike the so-called flying saucers, flew in a straight line, emitting no flashes of light and not rotating on an axis. It seemed to me that it was in the shape of a rocket. The smoke came from two closely spaced points, merging into a single plume. My colleagues at the editorial office saw the smoke, but not the object itself. Above Badalona, about 10 km from here, he stopped emitting smoke and disappeared for a few seconds, and then reappeared several kilometers away, continuing to emit smoke. The editorial office was soon inundated with phone calls from people who saw the object. A friend of ours took a picture of the smoky plume."
In the picture taken by Francisco Andreu, only a diagonal stripe in the sky is visible.
Reports from North Africa were even more succinct. The CIA agents did not do the full translation, limiting themselves to short excerpts from the Echo d'Alger and Journal d'Alger for 1952:
“An unusual object over Tunisia. At about 8 pm on June 3, many residents of Sousse saw an object flying at breakneck speed from east to west, emitting a pale green light.
Flying saucer over Meknes, Morocco. Two eyewitnesses reported that a flying saucer appeared over Meknes at 13:00 on June 7. One of them said that he saw a bright spot in the sky, flying at the speed of lightning. The T-33s flying near the Meknes airbase were very slow compared to him. The unknown device was silent and emitted a white plume of smoke. He flew closer, describing a parabola in the sky, stopped and then disappeared south towards Ifran.
Burning disc over Taorirt, Morocco. On the morning of June 15, a strange phenomenon was observed over Taorirt, French Morocco. For 30 seconds, dockers saw a disc of white flame surrounded by two circular stripes. A smoky plume trailed behind him. The fiery object descended and quickly disappeared from sight.
Plate over Casablanca. After observations in Meknes and Marrakech, Casablanca also received its flying saucer. She was seen on June 15 by Andre Assorin, a former pilot. The Meteorological Office said they did not see an unusual phenomenon over the city."
There are few photos in the CIA archives, but they are.
4. Review of UFO reports, August 1, 1952
Edward Tauss, head of OSI's weapons and special equipment department, in a letter to OSI Director Todos Odarenko stated:
“The US Air Force has received between 1,000 and 2,000 UFO reports, most of which are fake. An equally large part of them can be satisfactorily explained by the flights of existing US technology (airplanes, meteorological balloons, etc.), and many others are certainly related to natural phenomena …
Fewer than 100 credible messages currently remain “unidentified”. They have no commonalities regarding size, shape, flight characteristics, maneuvers, or observation sites. Their sources are usually no more or less credible than those who report cases of other categories. Perhaps, if complete information was available about the now "unexplained" messages, they could also fall into the above categories of explained objects.
Despite these empirically obtained facts, since some of the messages remain "inexplicable" (not completely excluding interplanetary prospects and their extraterrestrial origin), foresight requires that intelligence continue to consider this issue …
It is highly recommended that the CIA's interest or concern be kept secret from the press and the public about their likely propensity to panic, as they may mistake such an interest for "corroborating" rumors that the US government has "unpublished facts."
Fox Mulder would be happy to have a document in his hands confirming that the CIA was hiding from the public the very fact of its interest in UFOs.
5. UFO over uranium mines in the Belgian Congo
In the archives of the CIA there was an article from the Vienna newspaper "Die Presse" for March 29, 1952, translated from German:
»Recently, two fire discs were seen over uranium mines located in the southern part of the Belgian Congo (in Elizavetville County, east of the Luapula River, which connects Lake Meru and Bangweolo). They glided across the sky, drawing graceful curves, changing their tilt many times. From below, they seemed to be plates, now ovals, now just dashes. Suddenly, both discs stuck in place and flew northeast in a strange zigzag pattern. Those looking from below heard loud hissing and buzzing sounds. The whole performance lasted 10-12 minutes.
Pierre, commanding a small airfield at Elizabethville, immediately flew in a fighter to intercept. During the first approach, he flew about 120 meters to one of the disks. According to the pilot, the disc-shaped "saucer" had a diameter of 12-15 meters. Its inner part remained absolutely motionless, so that a protrusion in the center and several small holes could be seen. The outer rim, completely enveloped in fire, must have been spinning at a tremendous speed. Its metal was similar in color to aluminum.
The discs easily made precise maneuvers both horizontally and vertically. They could change their flight altitude from 800 to 1000 meters in a few seconds. The disks often dived up to 20 meters above the treetops. Pierre does not consider it possible that there could be a pilot in the disk, since a chaotic change in speed and heat would make it impossible for a person to stay in its motionless core. The pilot stopped pursuit after 15 minutes, when both discs with a loud whistling sound (which he heard despite the noise of the aircraft) flew in a straight line towards Lake Tanganyika. He estimated their speed at 1,500 kilometers per hour."
Sectional "plate": this one flew over the Congo.
The journalist Fritz Sitte drew an alleged diagram of the "disc" construction. In his opinion, this is a completely earthly device. In the stable middle there are explosives and devices for controlling the "disk" by radio, and in the rotating rim are fuel tanks and jet engines.
Documents for Dana Scully
CIA Internal Memorandum, March 15, 1949 (Document # 2)
Dr Stone, one of the OSI researchers, sharply criticized his colleague's UFO report:
“If we are talking about man-made 'flying saucers', it is extremely unlikely that they can be seen over the United States, because
(1) American developments are done in close cooperation with the United States Air Force or commercial aircraft manufacturers, (2) foreign aircraft development is unlikely to be tested at such a distance from home territory, even if refueling is possible, and
(3) radio-controlled aircraft thousands of miles away are beyond the reach of anything, including ours.
What is the psychological likelihood that any object glimpsed against an unsupported background will appear round or oval?
Has anyone commented on the strange timing of the observations?
Is there some kind of mid-summer madness here? Are asteroids more noticeable at this time of year? Etc."
The peak of UFO sightings that surprised the CIA.
Robertson Commission, January 14-17, 1953 (documents No. 1, 3-5)
In January 1953, the CIA convened a group of eminent scientists to assess the UFO phenomenon. It was led by Howard Robertson, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology. The team also included Samuel Goldsmith, a nuclear scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Luis Alvarez, a high-energy physicist, Thornton Page, a radar and electronics expert, and Lloyd Berkner, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, a geophysicist.
OSI Deputy Director Marshall Chadwell stated in a written memo dated October 2, 1952, that “flying saucers create two elements of danger that affect the national security of the United States. The first involves massive psychological consequences, and the second concerns the vulnerability of the United States to an air attack. He advised the CIA director to develop “a public information policy that should minimize the anxiety and panic that could erupt from multiple sightings of unidentified objects” (Document # 3).
His recommendations were fully used during the work of the Robertson Commission. The task of the commission was to review the available evidence of UFOs and assess the possible threat to US national security. The commission worked from January 14-17, 1953, studying Air Force data on selected UFO sightings. After spending 12 hours researching the material, the panel stated that reasonable explanations could be offered for most, if not all, UFO sightings.
The Commission concluded that the UFO phenomenon does not pose a direct threat to US national security. Nor did they find any evidence that the objects could be of extraterrestrial origin. The Commissioners noted that the flood of UFO reports could jeopardize the "proper functioning" of government structures by clogging communications lines with unnecessary messages and provoking "hysteria among the masses" that undermined the credibility of the authorities. The Commission also worried that the enemy might use UFO reports to disorganize the air defense system in an attempt to attack the United States (Document # 1).
To address these problems, the commission recommended exposing UFO reports and initiating a public education policy to convince the public that there was no real basis behind the reports. It was supposed to be conducted through the media, schools and even the Disney Corporation:
“The purpose of 'debunking' is to reduce public interest in 'flying saucers', which today are causing a strong psychological reaction. The media - television, film, newspapers and magazines - should take over the education of the community. Television broadcasts, popular articles should tell about cases that actually took place, which at first glance seem mysterious, with their subsequent explanation. When the “secret” is known, then, as with exposing circus tricks, interest in it is greatly reduced. The implementation of such a program will reduce the current gullibility of the public, and, consequently, the susceptibility to skillful enemy propaganda."
All this took place at the height of McCarthyism, and the commission also recommended that private UFO groups be monitored to find out if they were engaged in anti-American activities.
Paper # 4 is a short summary of all of the above, written in February 1953. Document No. 5 once again emphasizes the need to classify the funding of scientists from the CIA budget.
Following the Robertson Commission's report, CIA officials pushed the UFO topic into the background, returning to the topic only sporadically. It was mainly studied to determine what UFO sightings have to say about the successes of the Soviet Union in the field of rocketry. If there is any organization in the United States that secretly studies UFOs, it is unlikely to be associated with the CIA.
The truth is somewhere near…
Useful links:
1. Original CIA blog post:
2. All declassified UFO documents:
3. The official history of UFO studies at the CIA:
4. More about the Robertson Commission:
Mikhail GERSHTEIN