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“The enemies are trying to conquer our planet in a very gradual and seemingly painless way, most of all working over our minds. Unfortunately, this is not science fiction. If only it were so! [And] this is not paranoia…. However, just hinting at these subjects leads to the discrediting of the person who says or writes them; and this is a powerful weapon in the hands of those who want to harm us.”

As to what the future will bring, I do not pretend to know. But I have been assured—by those who do know—that the alien situation presents the most profound dilemma facing humankind on Earth….

A letter from Laurance S. Rockefeller (1910-2004) to President Clinton's Assistant for Science and Technology, referencing a report prepared by leading researchers on the UFO subject.

“Don't worry General … I don't see them either.”
www.americanscientist.org 2009 March–April

A cartoon found in the OSTP package of documents. It was taken from the January 21, 1994
Albuquerque Tribune
, and included in a collection of articles dealing with the Congressman Schiff Roswell investigation.

INTRODUCTION

1.
Harnden, Toby, “Aliens targeted nuclear missiles, say ex-officers,”
The Daily Telegraph
, September 28, 2010.

2.
Brookes, Trevor, “UFO was inches from car, say elderly couple,”
Teesdale Mercury
, January 18, 2012. Mr. Brookes (the newspaper's editor) told me that the couple unfortunately were unable to recall the exact date of the incident, in January 2010.

3.
“UFO seen in Phear Park, Exmouth,”
Exmouth Journal
, February 11, 2010.

4.
“Close encounter had me running home, says Roy,”
Exeter Express & Echo
, February 13, 2010.

5.
“The Truth is in Here: The human mind, not alien life, is the source of UFOs and much other superstition,”
The Times
, in “Leading articles,” August 5, 2010.

6.
Beabey, Keith, “UFO Lands in Suffolk—and that's Official,”
News of the World
, London, October 2, 1983. As described in both
Above Top Secret
and
Beyond Top Secret
, on the afternoon of December 15, 1980, ten days prior to the first of the Rendlesham Forest incidents, an identical craft was observed for well over an hour by numerous witnesses (some with binoculars) over southeast London and northwest Kent. It alternately hovered for lengthy periods, and occasionally seemed to split into up to five separate elements before regrouping into a common element. All this took place in a completely cloudless sky. Thousands of people must have witnessed the display, and a video film was taken from Seal Chart, in the Sevenoaks area. I myself saw the object briefly (as a brilliant, large star-like object) as I was nearing my apartment building after a shopping trip. The time, I noted, was 16:07. Frustratingly, this was one of the rare occasions when I had neither binoculars, camera, nor ciné-camera with me. I dashed the remaining short distance home and opened the windows in preparation for observing the object through my telescope and taking both movie and still film if it turned out
to be unusual. But by now the object was no longer visible. It was 16:15. The next day, a journalist phoned to tell me that at least 40 witnesses in Orpington had observed the object since 15:00, some through 20x binoculars. The main object was described to me by one of the witnesses as of an elongated triangular shape—identical to that of the main object which landed in Rendlesham Forest. At 16:15 (the time I arrived home) it pointed itself toward the west and shot off vertically, seemingly dividing into two distinct objects. Curiously, this supportive evidence has been lacking in books on the Rendlesham Forest incidents, though Nick Pope hopes to include some of it in a new book (see below).

7.
For the definitive books on the Rendlesham incident, see
You Can't Tell the People: The Cover-up of Britain's Roswell
, by Georgina Bruni, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 2000, and
Encounter in Rendlesham Forest
, by Nick Pope, St. Martin's Press, New York, March, 2014.

8.
Wheatley, Gemma, “Brit Nuke Base Zapped by UFOs,”
Daily Star
, London, September 28, 2010. This remarkable conference at the National Press Club was hosted by Robert L. Hastings, author of
UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
, AuthorHouse, 2008.

9.
Henderson, Neil, “UFO files reveal ‘Rendlesham incident' papers missing,” bbc.co.uk/news/uk, March 3, 2011.

10.
Copping, Jasper, “There isn't something out there,”
The Sunday Telegraph
, London, August 7, 2011.

11.
Personal communication, August 8, 2011.

12.
Personal communication, August 9, 2011.

13.
“Charles Halt, Former Air Force Colonel, Accuses U.S. of UFO Cover-Up,” huffingtonpost.com, September 9, 2012.

14.
Wheeler, Virginia, “UFO closes an airport,”
The Sun
, October 5, 2010.

15.
BBC Radio Five Live, August 4, 2011.

16.
Baker, Jennie, “‘Gobsmacked' by UFO sighting,”
Cambridge News
, August 4, 2011.

17.
Yang Jian, “Flying Saucers … or moths?” www.ShanghaiDaily.com, June 20, 2012.

18.
Namrata-Malhotra (reporters),“UFO Sightings At Indo-China Border Leave Indian Army Astounded,”
International Business Times
, November 7, 2012.

19.
“Aliens Among Us? Half of the entire Chinese population believes in UFOs,”
Pravda
, Russia, January 2004.

20.
Lin, Rosanne, “ETs Live Among Us Says ex-China Foreign Ministry Official,”
Shanghai Star
, ChinaDaily.com, July 20, 2002.

21.
“As U.K. Releases UFO Files, Former UFO Project Chief Apologizes for ‘Spin and Dirty Tricks,'” huffingtonpost.com, August 17, 2011.

22.
Pope, Nick, “The Calvine UFO Photo,” nickpope.net/calvine-ufo-photo.htm

23.
Brown, Craig, news.scotsman.com, November 14, 2012.

24.
Riley, Ed, “God? A greater chance of aliens,”
Daily Star
, October 13, 2012.

25.
For the definitive book on USOs, see
UFOs and Water
by Carl W. Feindt, Xlibris Corporation, 2010.

CHAPTER ONE: ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY

1.
Dworshak, Leo,
UFOs Are With Us—Take My Word
, Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, 2003. See also
Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials
, by Joan Bird, Ph.D., Riverbend Publishing, Helena, Montana, 2012.

2.
Personal communication, December 2010.

3.
Former NASA meteorologist Rubens Villela experienced a dramatic example of alien weather manipulation in Brazil, as described in my book
Unearthly Disclosure
.

4.
Similar phenomena have been reported. Jean-Gabriel Greslé, a former fighter pilot and Air France captain, related to me how, in November 1990, an enormous structured object flew low over him and other witnesses in a suburb of Paris, carrying what he described as its own “zone of silence” (see p. 290).

5.
Personal interview, Helena, June 10, 2004.

6.
Personal communication, December 2010.

7.
Personal interview, Helena, June 9, 2004.

8.
A similar process is reported in much later contacts. In November 1973, for example, when Enrique Castillo Rincón was “beamed” aboard an alien craft in Colombia, he was asked to undress completely. A blue-colored smoke, smelling similar to lemon or lime, issued from a joint between the walls and floor. He was informed that this process disinfected him from whatever microbes he might have brought in. See
Unearthly Disclosure
. See also the 1977 case reported by Barbara Beavers (Chapter 12).

9.
Ibid., Helena, June 2004.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Certificate of Discharge, March 31, 1937, supplied by Barry Potter.

12.
Personal communication, December 2010.

13.
Information supplied by Barry Potter.

14.
Axline, Jon, “UFOs Sighted in Helena,” published in
More from the Quarries of Last Chance Gulch
, Helena Independent Record, 1995, pp. 168–9.

15.
Personal interview, Helena, June 9, 2004.

16.
Testimonial, May 29, 2010, supplied by Barry Potter.

17.
Personal interview, Helena, June 9, 2004.

18.
Personal communication, November 2010.

19.
Good, Timothy,
Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence
, Pegasus Books, New York, 2007.

20.
Personal communication from Barry Potter, June 14, 2010. Leo also related to Barry that during his naval service he came to know John F. Kennedy, whom he described as “a sort of rich playboy who claimed he never had any money, expecting others to pay for his drinks, food, and entertainment.” Of incidental interest, Kennedy joined the staff of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1941.

CHAPTER TWO: GALACTIC GUARDIANS

1.
Monnet, Pierre,
Dossier Contacts et Synthèse
, translated by Anne Smith.

2.
Troadec, Jean-Pierre, at rr0.org/personne/m/MonnetPierre.

3.
Monnet, op. cit.

4.
Monnet, Pierre,
Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont Dit
, Lefebvre, Paris, 1978. (Monnet also wrote
Contacts d'Outre-Espace
, Amrita, 1994.)

5.
Dossier Contacts et Synthèse
.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Ibid.

CHAPTER THREE: ITALIAN DEVELOPMENTS

1.
Broken rocky matter or sediment, formed from boulders down to cobbles, gravel, sand and silt, which has been carried by a river or stream.

2.
The apparent “shrinkage” of alien craft—caused perhaps by the effects of a powerful gravitational field—was reported in a number of cases in later years, which adds credibility to Johannis's claim.

3.
Creighton, Gordon, “The Villa Santina Case,”
Flying Saucer Review
, Vol. 13, No. 1, January–February 1967, pp. 3–8.

4.
Johannis, Professor R.L., “Ho visto un disco volante,”
Clypeus
, No. 2–5, Centri Studi Clipeologici, Turin, May 1964.

5.
Letter from Professor R. L. Johannis to Gianni Settimo, Director, Centri Studi Clipeologici, Turin, March 20, 1964.

6.
Johannis, Professor R. L., “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” translated by Gordon Creighton from
Clypeus
(see ref. 4) and appearing in “The Villa Santina Case: An important early contact claim” by Creighton,
Flying Saucer Review
, Vol. 13, No. 1, January–February 1967, pp. 3–8.

7.
A localized silence usually surrounded Leo and Mike Dworshak during their encounters.

8.
Monguzzi used a Kodak Retina 1 (probably the 1A model) with a Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 50mm f/3.5 lens, set at f/8 and 1/500 second shutter speed, and Ferrania 24mm
3
36mm black & white film, 100ASA/21DIN.

9.
Epoca
, November 1952, translated from the Italian by Lou Zinsstag, Basel.

10.
Letter to Lou Zinsstag from the Direktion der Militärflugplätze, Betriebs-Gruppe Buochs/Ennetbürgen, June 28, 1958.

11.
Zinsstag, Lou, “Monguzzi Takes Saucer Photos of the Century,”
Flying Saucer Review
, Vol. 4, No. 5, September–October 1958, pp. 2–4.

CHAPTER FOUR: EISENHOWER AND THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS

1.
Stringfield, Leonard,
UFO Crash/Retrievals: Amassing the Evidence—Status Report III
, 1982, p. 34, citing a copy of letter from Antonio Ribera to Richard W. Heiden.

2.
Ibid., p. 34.

3.
ufocrashbook.com/eisenhower.html

4.
Hastings, Max, “The Defence of the Realm,”
The Sunday Times
, Culture section, p. 42, July 11, 2010, reviewing
The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945–2010
by Peter Hennessy, Allen Lane, 2010.

5.
On June 22, 1965, Godfrey recounted on one of his coast-to-coast programs how he and his co-pilot, Frank Munciello, had encountered a brilliantly lit object which suddenly
appeared off the starboard wing of their twin-engined Convair plane on a night flight from New York to Washington, D.C., forcing Godfrey to take evasive action. He contacted the FAA tower at Philadelphia, who said nothing could be seen on radar. At that instant the object reversed its course and circled the plane, coming up seconds later behind the port wing. Godfrey's continuing evasive maneuvers were met with duplicated moves by the UFO, before it eventually veered upward and disappeared. No date is given for the incident. (From
Flying Saucers—Serious Business
by Frank Edwards, Lyle Stuart, New York, 1966, pp. 130–1.)

6.
Kittinger, Jr., Capt. Joseph W., “The Long, Lonely Leap,”
National Geographic
, December 1960; Wikipedia. See also
Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joseph Kittinger
, by Joe Kittinger and Craig Ryan, with a foreword by Neil Armstrong, University of New Mexico Press, 2010. More recently, Col. Kittinger advised Felix Baumgartner's October 14, 2012 record-breaking free fall from 128,100 feet and served also as capsule commander (CAPCOM).

7.
Good, Timothy,
Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence
, Pan Books, London, and Pegasus Books, New York, 2007, p. 187.

8.
McAndrew, James,
The Roswell Report: Case Closed
, Headquarters United States Air Force, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, 1997, pp. 176–7.

9.
Ibid., pp. 103, 174–7.

10.
Clarkson, James E.,
Tell My Story: June Crain, The Air Force & UFOs
, Black Triangle Press, P.O. Box 12328, Olympia, WA 98508, 2010, pp. 42–3, 61–2, 121–2.

11.
Art Campbell points out that Kittinger's service record indicates that he was at Holloman AFB from the fall of 1954 to the summer of 1955.

12.
Search online for “President Eisenhower UFO aliens Henry McElroy.”

13.
Valor
magazine, October 9, 1954, and confirmed to the author by Desmond Leslie.

14.
Rivas, Juan A. Lorenzo, “President Eisenhower's ‘ET' Encounter: What Really Happened at Muroc Base?”
Flying Saucer Review
, Vol. 44, No. 3, 1999, pp. 2–5.

15.
Picton, John, “Eisenhower Was Visited by UFO, British Lord Claims,”
Toronto Star
(date not available, but the story was confirmed to the author by Lord Clancarty).