John Alva Keel: March 25, 1930 - July 3, 2009

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Ten frames from a Mars Pathfinder video sequence, extracted by Tim Beech

"Old Weatherman rule 14-227. You can not have a restriction of visibility without something restricting visibility."

- Frank Yates aka Darwin

"We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity.. anything you can imagine we already know how to do."

- Ben Rich former CEO, Lockheed Skunk Works

"Of course the flying saucers are real and they are Interplanetary!"

- Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander, Royal Air Force, Great Britain, August 1954

DoD Directive, S-5200.13, implemented March, 1962.

Title: Security and Public Information Policy for Military Space Programs

Excerpt:

A. "Adequate protection of military space programs is vital to the security of the United States. This requires the capability to launch, control and recover space vehicles without public knowledge of the timing of these actions or the specific mission involved."

"We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we we had hitherto assumed, and whose base of operations is at present unknown to us."

- Werner von Braun, 1959

In 1961, a US Air Force document stated that:

In addition to their staff duty assignments, intelligence team personnel have peacetime duty functions in support of such Air Force projects as Moon Dust, Blue Fly and UFO, and other AFCIN directed quick reaction projects which require intelligence team operational capabilities.

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO): Headquarters USAF has established a program for investigations of reliably reported unidentified flying objects within the United States.

Blue Fly: Operation Blue Fly has been established to facilitate expeditious delivery to Foreign Technology Division of Moon Dust or other items of great technological intelligence interest.

Moon Dust: As a specialized aspect of its overall material exploitation program Headquarters USAF has established Project Moon Dust to locate, recover, and deliver descended foreign space vehicles

" [...] In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. [...]"

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
   Farewell address

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are:

'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

- Ronald Reagan

In 1947, Commander General Nathan Twining signed Air Material Command's message that UFOs were real.

As requested by AC/AS-2 there is presented below the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called "Flying Discs":

a. The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

b. There are objects probably approximately the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft.

c. There is the possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.

d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.

Signed,
Commander, General Nathan Twining.
1953 - 1957 Chief of Staff of the Air Force
1957 - 1960 Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

• Not Another Stupid Announcement
• Never A Straight Answer
• Nearly Always Slinking Away
• No Advanced Ships Allowed