After issuing so many serious orders, directives and instructions, the American authorities, after the Condon report, of course, did not abandon further UFO research. The Compendium of Flight Information, published in 1972 by the US Department of Defense Cartographic Center, explicitly stated that Condon's research had no bearing on the Pentagon leadership. By the way, in the official statement of the US Department of the Air Force about the closure of the Blue Book project, made in December 1969, it was said: "With the end of the Blue Book project, the control of the Air Force over the UFO research program is canceled," that is, only the cancellation was reported control over UFO research by the Air Force, not the elimination of the research itself.
Designed to create the impression of a complete cessation of state-run UFO research in the United States, this statement generally achieved its goal, that is, it played the role of another disinformation event. In fact, the American authorities continued to collect data and research UFOs, which was soon confirmed. In May 1970, the head of the public relations department of the Ministry of the Air Force, Colonel Coleman, in a letter to NICAP, indicated that the Aerospace Defense Command (KVKO) was now responsible for unknown atmospheric phenomena, and the transmission and processing of messages was still carried out in the manner established by the directive JANAP-146 Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The statement that only KVKO is engaged in UFO research was not unexpected, because Hynek and Friedman wrote for a long time that many important materials on UFOs were always sent directly to KVKO and the National Security Agency, bypassing the Blue Book. The aforementioned 1969 Air Force Scientific Research Office memorandum also stated that after the elimination of Project Blue Book, UFO reports affecting national security should continue to be transmitted through Air Force channels specially created for this purpose. …
And local police departments should be responsible for messages falling within their sphere of responsibility. According to these instructions, the collection of data on UFOs in all branches of the US armed forces continues, and servicemen who observed UFOs, as before, fill out questionnaires of the established form and send them to the authorities, and data on fixing UFOs by means of reconnaissance continues to be transmitted as messages of primary importance. importance with the indices CIRVIS or MERINT, as stipulated by the current directive of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff "JANAP-146". Moreover, this data, as before, is prohibited from reporting to the press and the public.
In 1974, General Hill, the head of the public relations department of the Ministry of the Army, in a letter to Kevitsky, in particular, confirmed that the army continues to collect observer reports of UFOs, although he does not believe that they are necessarily extraterrestrial in origin. The Intelligence Directorate of the Department of Defense is engaged in the generalization and analysis of all UFO reports received from the services of the Armed Forces, KVKO, NASA, the Department of State and other departments of the United States, and the generalized analysis data is reported directly to the Secretary of Defense. For a long time, representatives of the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense have denied that they have at their disposal any generalized materials on UFOs.
But after the lawsuits against the CIA and the National Security Agency, the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense in 1985 issued 37 secondary documents on UFOs of 137 pages to UFO organizations, saying that it still had 16 documents that were not subject to declassification. Proof that the Pentagon is still interested in UFO operations not only over the territory of the United States, but also around the world, was the official documents of the Air Force and KVKO on UFO flights over strategic missile positions and bomber bases in November 1975 and on the incident with two " Phantoms "over Tehran in 1976, the content of which was published in the Washington Post (January 1979) after an accidental leak from the Pentagon. The data below indicates the continuing involvement of the CIA in collecting UFO material.
After the 1975 amendment to the Freedom of Information Act, American UFO organizations tried to gain access to classified CIA documents on UFOs, but the CIA refused to do so under various pretexts. Then the public organizations "Ground observation of flying saucers" and "Citizens against the secrecy of UFOs" filed a lawsuit against the CIA. At a District Court hearing in Washington, held in July 1978 in the presence of the US Attorney General, it was revealed that the CIA had a total of 10,000 pages of UFO documents. However, the CIA agreed to declassify only a small portion of these 1,000-page documents and declined to disclose the rest, claiming that some of them had already been destroyed, while others were still classified because of national security or because,that their declassification deadlines have not yet been released. The prosecutor took the CIA under the protection and accepted the claim only on those documents that the CIA agreed to declassify.
Incidentally, former CIA Special Assistant Director Marchetti confirmed in 1979 that there are classic signs of a cover-up over the CIA's interest in UFO research. As a result of the analysis of declassified documents, it turned out that the CIA collects the most important reports about UFOs from all over the world, and in 1975 alone, 8500 such reports were collected. This was confirmed by memoranda dated 1977, which appeared among the documentation on UFOs, which the CIA issued to the organization "Ground observation of flying saucers." In 1983, a CIA spokesman confirmed to Goode that the Central Intelligence Agency is interested in UFOs due to the fact that a potential adversary may develop new weapons systems that may look like unidentified flying objects.
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The declassified CIA documents also revealed that a certain portion of the UFO documents were sent to another important government agency - the National Security Agency. Then the organization "Citizens Against UFO Secrecy" turned to the NSA with a requirement in accordance with the law on freedom of information to disclose the documents it had on UFOs, but was refused, citing the fact that the NSA had nothing to do with UFOs. After the refusal in 1979, the organization sued the NSA, and in considering this issue, the NSA spokesman was forced to admit that they had at least 239 documents related to UFOs.
However, the district court ruled that these documents should not be disclosed on the pretext that it could harm national security. The Supreme Court upheld the District Court's ruling. FBI and UFO. The FBI director from 1966 to 1972 repeatedly stated that UFO research was not the responsibility of this bureau. But after the declassification of 2,000 pages of FBI documents on this issue, it turned out that it was from the 1950s to the early 1979s. actively collected and accumulated information about UFOs, corresponded with the Air Force and the Navy about them, and forced eyewitnesses to keep their mouths shut. In June 1977, the FBI notified the Science and Technology Department of the White House that, with no legal authority to investigate UFO sightings, it would forward all information on the matter to the Air Force, NASA and UFOs.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's External Relations Department issued a statement in 1978 indicating that although NASA is the primary source for responding to public inquiries to the White House on UFO issues, it is not itself involved in UFO research; however, NASA knows that reports of UFOs infiltrating US airspace are of particular interest to the military. An Air Force Special Research Office document on UFOs issued in 1980 indicated that several NASA-led organizations were also actively engaged in related research under the distraction of the Coastal Survey UFO Reporting Center. At the same time, NASA sifts the received observations and distributes them to the appropriate military departments in accordance with their interests.
NASA's instructions issued for the Kennedy Space Center back in 1967 instructed Center personnel to respond as soon as possible to reports of spacecraft and UFO sightings, but not under any circumstances to discuss the origin of these objects. The ruling circles of the United States have always paid special attention to the study of the wreckage of crashed UFOs and the bodies of their crews, which is called the "Project" Aquarius ". However, all attempts by ufologists to obtain at least some information about this project from state bodies on the basis of the law on freedom of information ended in vain.
And yet, American ufologists managed to get a copy of a largely censored top secret government document "Project Aquarius", which says that this project was created on the orders of President Eisenhower and is part of "Operation Magic 12". The project contains 14 cases of documented information collected in the United States as a result of evaluating reports of research on UFOs and extraterrestrial spacecraft (ESP). The goal of the project is to collate all scientific, technological, medical and intelligence information about all UFO sightings, VKK and contacts with extraterrestrial life forms.
Information is being used for development … "censored" by the United States. The document also provides brief information about other top secret projects: - Project "Sigma", which became independent in 1976, aims to establish communication with aliens and is carried out at one of the air force bases in New Mexico; - the project "Snowbird", created in 1972 with the aim of carrying out a test flight of the surviving extraterrestrial spacecraft; carried out in the state of Nevada; - Project Pones, created in 1968 to evaluate all UFOs in order to obtain information on technology related to space travel.
An Air Force Special Research Office document issued in 1980 also stated: Official government policies and results from Project Aquarius are still top secret, do not allow their disclosure outside certain intelligence channels, and imply limited access to Madzhichesk. 12.
Julia Wetzel, director of critical policy at the NSA, also confirmed in 1986 that the documents related to the Aquarius project remain top secret, as the disclosure of information contained in them could harm national security. A declassified Air Force Office of Special Research document analyzing UFO footage over Kirtland Air Force Base in 1980, a copy of which appears in Goode's book, refers to Madzhic-12. References to Operation Aquarius and Magic 12 in documents drawn up in the 1980s indicate that these operations seem to continue to be carried out today.
At the same time, successive directors of the CIA, apparently, are automatically included in the Majestic-12 group, and each new US president, before assuming office, probably just like Eisenhower, receives relevant highly secret information on Operation Majestic -12 . However, in Goode's attempts to get confirmation from two former US presidents and former CIA director Admiral Turner regarding their knowledge of Operation Magic 12, all three evaded answering.
It is also interesting how the views of some American statesmen changed dramatically after they gained access to important sources of information. During his 1976 presidential campaign, Carter, then governor of the state, said he believed the US government was overly concerned about keeping UFO information secret and promised reporters that if he became president, he would make everything available to the public. information available in the country about UFOs, provided that the declassification of this information does not harm the interests of the country. This, however, did not happen, since what Carter, the presidential candidate, wanted to do, could no longer be done by Carter, the president, for he was apparently convinced that this would harm the interests of the United States.
The examples below show that the highest levels of the American administration continue to pay serious attention to the UFO problem. In February 1978, NASA confirmed that UFOs are the focus of the National Security Council, the highest government body whose permanent members are the president, vice president, secretary of state and secretary of defense. This was again confirmed in 1981, when the director of IKUFON von Kevitzky sent two memoranda to President Reagan, expressing concern about the threat posed to our planet by UFOs. These memorandums included twenty declassified government documents and materials on the actions of the armed forces of different countries against UFOs.
In November 1981, von Kewitzky received a reply on behalf of the National Security Council (on his letterhead), signed by Major General Schweitzer, Chief Adviser to the President of the United States, which said: The President is well aware of the threat that you have so vividly documented and is doing everything that it is in his power to as quickly as possible and at the same time carefully to find an opportunity in the field of national defense to ensure security. This answer, of course, is of great interest, firstly, because it is the official recognition that the UFO problem in the United States is now being dealt with by the highest state bodies, and secondly, the recognition that the American state associates the UFO problem with national defense, then is interested in it primarily militarily.
It is also very significant that after the content of this answer was leaked to the press, Schweitzer was immediately fired. This story is summarized in the journal Nature and Man. The thought of the threat of a possible invasion from outer space and subsequently did not leave Reagan. This was confirmed by his words spoken by M. S. Gorbachev during the Geneva talks: “Imagine that the Earth is threatened with invasion by hostile aliens. How easy it would be for us to find then a solution to the differences existing between our countries”(Truth. 1986, January 6). By the way, Reagan, being the governor of California, in 1974 himself witnessed a UFO.
While flying in his plane to Backersfield, he saw a bright source of light moving in a zigzag pattern and instructed the pilot to pursue it. But after a while this source rushed upward and disappeared. After the story of the shooting down of a UFO over South Africa, von Kevitsky sent in January 1990 to the US Presidents D. Bush and the USSR M. Gorbachev a new memorandum in which he proposed “to ensure the security of our planet”: - to create an international congress on security in connection with global activities alien forces (UFO); - to create a world department of space affairs to search for contacts and communication with alien forces (UFOs); - to establish official contact with the "Galactic Authority" before the armed defense of earthlings provokes a fatal space war; - make authoritative statements to the public,concerning this acute and dangerous problem.
Attached to this memorandum are descriptions of the UFO shootdown over South Africa and the contacts of the Apollo 11 crew with UFOs on the Moon. Confirmation that the top military leadership of the United States continues to conduct deeply classified UFO research even now, the data given in the recently published book by G. Blum “There is far, far away. Secret government surveillance of aliens. In this book, Blum writes that on Christmas Eve 1986, NASA monitors detected unidentified flying objects in US airspace performing “completely impossible” maneuvers in the air. Two months after that, a new highly classified UFO study group was created at the Pentagon, consisting of 17 representatives of military intelligence, the National Security Agency and the CIA, headed by Colonel G. Phillips (Leningradskaya Pravda. 1990. October 24).
Also known are the statements of statesmen and prominent scientists, testifying to the preservation of all UFO research in deep secrecy. The National Enquirer (1976) published a statement by the already mentioned Senator Goldwater that, in his opinion, “the US government is conducting extremely secret UFO research, but we do not know anything about this and, apparently, will not find out until then. until the Pentagon reveals it. " The same idea was expressed in 1979 by the renowned American nuclear power engineer Professor McCampbell, who stated: “The US Federal Government has always denied its interest in the UFO problem, but recently it became known that it was continuously engaged in research on these objects, and the FBI and CIA have been involved for decades."
Thus, the fragmentary data on ongoing UFO research in the United States, which became known to the public, apparently are only the tip of the iceberg, which does not allow judging the true scale of the Pentagon and the CIA in this area at the present time. But even this information that has become available to us testifies to the fact that the United States of America continues to engage in classified UFO research at the state level and attaches great importance to this problem.
Author: Kolchin German Konstantinovich. "UFO, FACTS AND DOCUMENTS"
