The US Central Intelligence Agency has released new declassified UFO documents from its previously unavailable database to the general public. There are millions of documents. There are sensational ones.
Disaster in Nepal
Nearly all UFO sightings published today are from the Asia-Pacific region. The CIA closely monitored what was flying in the skies over India and the Himalayas. The report “Details of Bright Objects Observed over South Ladakh, Northeastern Nepal, North Sikkim and West Bhutan” cites seven cases - mainly sightings of bright objects with plumes. Nothing special. Except that some objects did not fly in a straight line, but in circles. But the last case is simply out of the ordinary:
“March 25, 1968, 10:15 p.m. local time. Nepal, Kaski region. A bright object flying from north to south, emitting flashes of light, collapsed in the sky with a loud crash. In Baltichaur, five miles northeast of Pokhara, a large disc-shaped metal object was discovered in a crater, 6 feet at the base (1.8 m) and 4 feet (1.2 m) high. Parts of a similar object have been found in Talakot and Turepasala.
Nothing is known about the further fate of the wreckage. There is only a note stating that on June 18, 1974, the report was issued at the request of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base - the place where from 1947 to 1969 the US military studied UFOs as part of the Sign, Discontent and Blue book". And where, according to numerous rumors, the military took the "flying saucer" which allegedly crashed in 1947 in the town of Roswell.
The note proves that UFO research at the base was not stopped in December 1969, despite loud statements about it.
Flying saucer crash in Nepal
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In China, the "eyes and ears" of the CIA also worked. One of the documents reads: “On July 17, 1968, seven UFOs were seen over the provinces of Fukien, Kangsi and Kwantung. From the air force base in Xinjiang (coordinates are unknown) two MiG planes were lifted, but the interception attempt failed."
Some objects were identified. A pilot from the Thai Air Force Base Nakhon Fanom on August 24, 1969 saw a strange object on the ground and took it for an alien helicopter or a UFO that had landed. Object directed a beam of light towards the plane. Inquiry soon found out the true reason for the observation:
“The Thai army searched the area, but found nothing there. Further checks, however, revealed that a religious procession was going on there at that time. The pilgrims carried two giant drums fixed between two long poles. One of the participants in the night procession carried a powerful electric torch and directed it into the sky when the plane began circling above them.
Ufologists worked for intelligence
From the declassified documents, it follows that the CIA had a UFO study commission at the University of Colorado - the "Condon Commission," as it was called in honor of its leader - physicist Edward Y. Condon, the former director of the National Bureau of Standards. The CIA's Photo Interpretation Center, headed by Arthur Lundahl, assisted the commission in examining UFO photographs.
The collaboration was secret. According to the existing agreement, “any work performed by the Center as an aid to research will not be marked as work performed by the CIA … The Center will not make written comments, analyze information in order to make any conclusions or prepare written reports … The Center's work will be strictly technical using equipment not available anywhere else."
On February 20, 1967, Condon gave the Center staff photographs of UFOs taken on November 13, 1966 by hairdresser Ralph Ditter of Ohio. During the next meeting, held on May 5, 1967, CIA officers demonstrated the capabilities of their "equipment not available anywhere else." They found that the captured object was at a distance of about a meter from the lens and was no more than 10 centimeters in diameter, not 10 meters, as Ditter claimed.
Ralph Ditter, hairdresser, demonstrates his so-called "first" photo of a "flying saucer"
The most surprising thing: the CIA somehow mysteriously established that Ditter was shooting with a long break - about 70 minutes passed between shots. And first the "second" picture was taken, and then the "first" one.
Having seen the results of the analysis, the hairdresser immediately "split". Like, he faked pictures to entertain his daughter. The role of the UFO was played by a polished cap from a wheel of a baby carriage, suspended on a fishing line.
Ditter's "second photo": the CIA brought the hairdresser to clean water
Plate! Jitter is large: alas, she turned out to be a fake
By the way, declassified documents show that the staff of the Center for the Interpretation of Photographs, it seems, were seriously interested in UFOs. And we would like to understand the problem. They even prepared a 2-page UFO Shooting Manual for distribution to US citizens. But this “instruction” was never made public. Because the commission had no "task" to get to the bottom of the truth.
Shrouded in mystery
It turns out that back in 1966, a memorandum was drawn up, according to which the Condon commission, instead of an honest study of UFOs, should only depict violent activity and come to a negative result:
"The research will be carried out almost exclusively by 'unbelievers' who, even if they cannot prove the correctness of negative conclusions, will still significantly expand the circle of evidence that the observations have no real basis …"
Not surprisingly, the final report of the Condon Commission was fully consistent with the memorandum. The experts did not accept the reality of UFOs. And they concluded that further research on the phenomenon is unlikely to enrich science.
Nevertheless, about a third of the cases that came to the attention of the commission remained unexplained.
The author of the memorandum, a certain Robert Lowe, was the closest collaborator with the CIA. He even tried to contact Soviet astronomers to find out the details of UFO research in the USSR. He didn't succeed, but other spies still found the source of the information. The agent (who exactly is crossed out), being in Moscow, "fished out" from two astronomers (their names are also crossed out) that they personally saw the UFO.
According to the CIA, another astronomer announced his interest in "flying saucers", who said that he was well aware of observations in the USSR. However, it is possible that he specifically fooled the agent's head. Because he assured that the "plates" come from Venus.
The CIA's interest in UFOs began during Stalin's lifetime
The CIA has promised to release new declassified documents every year. Therefore, new surprises await us in the next million pages from the "collected works" of the most powerful US intelligence service.
BREAK
Contact with aliens
Alas, the declassified papers still do not contain, perhaps, the most anticipated document - a report on successful contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, a copy of which is held by the then head of the Blue Book UFO research project, Air Force Major Robert Frank.
For the first time the text of the report, with censorship withdrawals, was published by enthusiasts in 1974. From the text it followed that the intelligence of the US Navy for five years studied the abilities of a certain Mrs. Guy Swan, who claimed to be in contact with "cosmic beings." During this time, the intelligence officer of the Navy, Captain 2nd Rank Julius Larsen, mastered all the techniques that the contactee used when communicating with aliens. And he himself learned to receive "messages from above" with the help of automatic writing.
On July 6, 1959, Larsen and his colleague, Captain 3rd Rank Robert Neasham, were in the Washington office of Arthur Lundahl, director of the CIA Photo Interpretation Center, which we have already mentioned. Larsen went into a trance and began to "contact". The partner from the “other side” was a certain “Affa from Uranus”. When asked, “Is it possible to look at his spaceship or a flying saucer?” He suggested going to the window.
There was indeed a UFO hanging outside the window. The three scouts saw a disc-shaped object with clear outlines and a dark middle. Neasham called the radar center and heard that, for unknown reasons, the radar signals were not getting through in this sector of Washington.
Three days later, a joint meeting of the CIA and Navy intelligence officers took place. Major Friend, who was also invited to the meeting, asked Julius Larsen to contact Affa again. But he refused to talk, explaining that "the moment is now unfavorable."
"Undoubtedly," it said at the end of the report, "the object that was seen on that July day in 1959 over Washington was a flying saucer."
REFERENCE
More than 13 million declassified documents are now available on the CIA website, collected since the agency was founded in 1947. Among them is information about UFOs, for some reason not included in the previous release of UFO papers. Read more about the then declassified documents. The CIA has a story to tell about UFOs.
The now declassified documents are posted on the CREST database, which previously only allowed CIA officers to search for the necessary information by keywords among millions of digitized documents. Now ordinary mortals can also do this by contacting either the CIA directly or the so-called CIA reading room.
Mikhail GERSHTEIN
