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". . . let me tell you a little about myself and the basis
on which I ask your credence. I am a graduate of the U.S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis. Before and during World War II I
was a flying officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. My whole life
has been involved with aircraft, either flying them or
writing about them. I mention this to show that I'm in a
position to assess the facts when a pilot tells me about
something he has seen in the air. I'm familiar with mirages,
sundogs and other optical phenomena encountered by pilots,
and I know which optical illusions fool you and which don't,
and when."

"After the war I became a writer on technical aspects of
aviation. One day I was approached by the editor of TRUE. He
wanted me to investigate the so-called flying saucers that
were just then beginning to get into the news. Frankly, I was
skeptical. Flying saucers were just illusions, I thought. I
investigated anyway, out of curiosity. And after talking to
scores of people who had sighted UFO's - government officials,
pilots, scientists - I came away convinced that UFO's are in
truth what they seem to be: visitors from somewhere else in
the universe. I was so thoroughly convinced, that I became
director of an organization called NICAP, the National
Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, whose sole
purpose is to get to the bottom of the UFO mystery."

"The truth is, there is no longer any reasonable doubt that
alien spacecraft are visiting the earth. The statement may
sound startling at first, but when you think about it, it
actually becomes quite mundane. It is not much more startling
than the statement that, if you stand on a street corner,
sooner or later somebody will pass by."

"It would be arrogant of us to suppose that we are the only
intelligent beings in the galaxy, and just as arrogant to
think that we are the first to develop space travel.
Civilizations far older than ours may have orbited their
first satellites when human-kind was just learning to light
fires. Such a civilization would eventually send its
astronauts out to explore nearby space, and if they found a
planet that harbored intelligent life - a planet such as our
own - they would undoubtedly hang around and study it at
length."

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In that same article, Major Keyhoe also explained how the US
Government resorts to ridicule, intimidation, and if it deems
it necessary, a complete news blackout when all else fails.
Following are a few portions of said article. You can find
the article in its entirety by searching the Web. It is quite
an astounding piece of work:

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". . . in the past three years, unknown to the general
public, there has been a tremendous new wave of incidents in
which unidentified flying objects (UFO's) have been sighted
around the world, often near rocket test ranges, satellite
orbital pathways and airfields. The U.S. Government has been
aware throughout that time that enigmatic alien craft of
some kind are watching our outer-space operations. The new
wave of UFO appearances fully matches in magnitude the great
"flying saucer" scare of the late 1940's and early 1950's,
when it wasn't unusual for dozens of UFO sightings to be
reported in a single week. UFO activity slowed down somewhat
in the late 1950's. But now, suddenly, the UFO's are back -
their numbers greater, their origin as obscure, their
purpose as unfathomable as ever before."

"You haven't heard or read anything about this great new
wave. No. Back in the early 1950's the Air Force, charged
with investigating UFO's, adopted the posture of "debunking"
flying-saucer stories and ridiculing anybody who claimed to
have seen an alien craft. Now the tactic has changed. The
tactic is total suppression of news. By a strict Air Force
order, entitled AFR 200-2, Air Force personnel are forbidden
to talk in public about UFO sightings, and information about
UFO's is to be withheld from the press unless the thing seen
"has been positively identified as a familiar or known
object." The U.S. government can also exert indirect pressure
on employees of companies working in missile projects, on
airline pilots, and on others subject to some measure of
government control. Result: news blackout."

"Why the blackout? I can only guess. Perhaps the government
knows something so startling that it fears the public would
be panicked. Perhaps the Air Force is afraid that the public,
fed too many UFO stories, might come to believe UFO's are
unbeatable new Russian war weapons. Maybe the Air Force now
regrets a long-ago decision to hide the true nature of UFO's,
but fears that to admit the long cover-up would bring on a
storm of public anger."

"I don't know what the Air Force's motives are. But I do know
- I know beyond any possibility of doubt - that a great new
wave of UFO's has arrived to patrol our skies and our space
neighborhood. I don't know any more about these inexplicable
craft than anybody else. I know only that they are under
intelligent control and appear to have been produced by some
technology more advanced than our own. They are real. Whether
the Air Force admits it or not, they are definitely, patently,
inescapably here."

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Allow me to remind you again that the previous remarks aren't
the ravings of a madman, or of some questionable UFO fringe
lunatic. They were made by a man who held a high position in
the U.S. Government, and who was respected by many people. He
was an educated, disciplined man, not given to fancy. Surely
Keyhoe was capable of distinguishing fact from fantasy; and
given his military background, he knew how to differentiate
between one aircraft and another. He also knew which were of
Earthly origin, and which were not.

Another example is General Nathan F. Twining. Following his
WW II service time in the South Pacific and Europe, Twining
served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, and later
as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the mid
to late 1950's. On September 23, 1947, at the request of Gen.
George Schulgen, who was then the Assistant Chief of Staff
for Air Intelligence, Twining is said to have sent a secret
memo to Pentagon officials. It's alleged that the memorandum
dealt with the UFO waves which had occurred from May to July
of that year, including the Kenneth Arnold sightings in June
near Mt. Rainier in southern Washington State, as well as
the now-famous Roswell crash incident. In that memo, Twining
stated in part:

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"This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or
seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is
really flying around . . . The phenomenon is something real
and not visionary or fictitious."

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One man who apparently agreed with General Twining was Dr.
Gerhard Kulper, who in 1947 was the director of the Yerkes
Observatory, located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA. In a
United Press article published on June 6th of that same
year, Kulper refuted the idea that all UFO's were natural
phenomena. He stated:

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"The description of their flight suggests radio-control . . .
If these things are real and not imagined, they must be man
made. There is absolutely no correspondence between the
descriptions given by any astronomical body, such as a
meteor."

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In that same memo, General Twining described how the flying
discs were large, metallic objects. He went on to explain
that they exhibited high maneuverability, were evasive, that
they flew in formation, and that they were capable of
extreme rates of climb.

General Twining was not the only American general to have a
keen interest in the UFO phenomenon. Another one was General
James "Jimmy" Doolittle, who served in the United States Army
Air Forces during World War II, and was rewarded the Medal of
Honor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Doolittle tested a
number of American aircraft, and is regarded as a pioneer of
the American aviation program. However, what many people may
not know, is that he had a direct hand in the investigation
of downed UFO's.

As we have already seen, the year 1947 was a very important
year insofar as UFOlogy in America is concerned; but strange
UFO-related events were happening outside of the US as well.
One such event occurred in Spitzbergen, Sweden. In May of
1947, journalist Dorothy Kilgallen reported that scientists
and airmen from Great Britain were excavating the wreckage
of a mysterious flying ship. According to the story, which
appeared in the American news media for only one day before
it mysteriously disappeared from public view, the Swedish
military acknowledged that the craft was of extraterrestrial
origin. Furthermore, seventeen bodies are alleged to have
been recovered from the crash site.



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