According to a document acquired from an intelligence source in 1984, a highly secret panel, code-named Majestic 12, or MJ-12, was formed by President Truman in 1947 to investigate UFOs and report its findings to the President. The document, dated November 18, 1952, and classified Top Secret/Majic/Eyes Only, was allegedly prepared by Admiral Hillenkoetter for president-elect Dwight Eisenhower and includes the astonishing statement that the remains of four alien bodies were recovered two miles from the Roswell wreckage site.
Five years after the panel was formed, the committee wrote a memo to then president-elect Eisenhower about the UFO project and the need for secrecy:
Implications for the National Security are of continuing importance, in that motives and ultimate intentions of these visitors remain completely unknown…It is for these reasons, as well as the obvious international technological considerations and the ultimate need to avoid a public panic at all costs, that the Majestic 12 Group remains of the unanimous opinion that imposition of the strictest security precautions should continue without interruption into the new administration.
The official explanation of denial is that the document’s authenticity is questionable.
The National Security Agency is reported to be withholding more than one hundred documents relating to UFOs; the CIA, approximately fifty; and the DIA, six.
Major Donald Keyhoe, a former aide to Charles Lindbergh, publicly accused the United States government of denying the existence of UFOs in order to prevent public panic.
In August 1948, when a top secret Estimate of the Situation by the Air Technical Intelligence Center offered its opinion that UFOs were interplanetary visitors, General Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff at the time, ordered the document burned.
Is there a worldwide government conspiracy to conceal the truth from the public?
In the short space of six years, twenty-two English scientists who worked on Star Wars–type projects have died under questionable circumstances. All of them had worked on different facets of electronic warfare, which includes UFO research. A list of the deceased and the dates and circumstances of their deaths follows.
1982. Professor Keith Bowden: killed in auto crash.
July 1982. Jack Wolfenden: died in glider accident.
November 1982. Ernest Brockway: suicide.
1983. Stephen Drinkwater: suicide by strangulation.
April 1983. Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Godley: missing, declared dead.
April 1984. George Franks: suicide by hanging.
1985. Stephen Oke: suicide by hanging.
November 1985. Jonathan Wash: suicide by jumping from a building.
1986. Dr. John Brittan: suicide by carbonmonoxide poisoning.
October 1986. Arshad Sharif: suicide by placing a rope around his neck, tying it to a tree, and then driving away at high speed. Took place in Bristol, one hundred miles away from his home in London.
October 1986. Vimal Dajibhai: suicide by jumping from a bridge in Bristol, one hundred miles away from his home in London.
January 1987. Avtar Singh-Gida: missing, declared dead.
February 1987. Peter Peapell: suicide by crawling under car in garage.
March 1987. David Sands: suicide by driving car into café at high speed.
April 1987. Mark Wisner: death by self-strangulation.
April 10, 1987. Stuart Gooding: killed in Cyprus.
April 1987. Shani Warren: suicide by drowning.
May 1987. Michael Baker: killed in auto crash.
May 1988. Trevor Knight: suicide.
August 1988. Alistair Beckham: suicide by self-electrocution.
August 1988. Brigadier Peter Ferry, suicide by self-electrocution.
Date unknown. Victor Moore: suicide.
Coincidences?
In the past three decades, there have been at least seventy thousand reports of mysterious objects in the sky and countless more sightings, perhaps ten times as many, that have gone unreported.
Reports of UFOs have come from hundreds of countries all over the globe. In Spain, UFOs are known as objetos foladores no identificados; in Germany, fliegende Unter-tassen; in France, soucoupes volantes; in Czechoslovakia, letajici talire.
The eminent astronomer Carl Sagan has estimated that our Milky Way galaxy alone may contain some 250 billion stars. About a million of these, he believes, may have planets capable of supporting some form of civilization.
Our government denies the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, yet on Columbus Day, in 1992, in California and Puerto Rico, NASA activated radio telescopes equipped with special receivers and computers capable of analyzing tens of millions of radio channels at once to search for signs of intelligent life in the universe.