SUBJECT: AMERICANS ASK FOR EXPLANATIONS ON UFOs FILE: UFO2934 U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater (Arizona) is a retired USAF General, with TOP SECRET CLEARANCE, who attempted to gain access to a storage facility alleged to contain dead aliens at Wright-Patterson AFB. He was refused entry since he did not have, believe it or not, a high enough security clearance. On December 3, 1974, Goldwater wrote the following letter: "...I made an effort to get in the room at Wright-Patter- son Field where the information was stored and I was denied this request, understandably." On March 28, 1975, Senator Goldwater wrote again: "...The subject of UFOs has interested me for some time. I made an effort to find out what was in THE BUILDING AT WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE WHERE THE INFORMATION IS STORED THAT HAS BEEN COLLECTED BY THE AIR FORCE, and I was denied this request. IT IS STILL CLASSIFIED ABOVE TOP SECRET..." (Emphasis Added). Other prominent Amercans have also gone on record that the UFO phenomena is worthy of serious study, for example: 1. President Carter asked NASA to explore the possibility of investigating UFOs. 2. When he was in Congress, President Ford called for Congressional investigations of UFOs. 3. Astronaut Gordon Cooper said, "I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets." 4. General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and reputed member of MJ-12, wrote a secret memo on September 23, 1947, in which he stated to the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces on the subject of "Flying Discs": " a. The phenomenon reported is something REAL and not visionary or fictitious. b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as a man-made aircraft. c. There is a 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." (Emphasis in Original). It is now clear that the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book was merely a public relations effort to show something being "done" about UFOs. It is equally clear that the real effort was, and continues to be conducted elsewhere. Lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act have obtained significant official documentation verifying an on- going uninterrupted concern with UFO investigations by the Air Force, belying its publicly stated position on the matter. A Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication (JANAP 146) requires reports of any sighting which could be a threat to national security. UFOs continue to be sighted by military personnel and are reported under this regulation. Indeed, important UFO sightings and reports, even before 1969, were not processed under Project Blue Book, but were and are collected and investigated elsewhere by the military. An Air Force document dated October 20, 1969, which proposed termination of Project Blue Book, states, "Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, AND ARE NOT PART OF THE BLUE BOOK SYSTEM (Emphasis Added)...reports of UFOs which could affect national security should continue to be handled through standard Air Force procedure designed for this purpose." This document is signed by Brigadier General C.H. Bolender, USAF Deputy Director of Development, and had sixteen attachments which the Air Force has not released. JANAP 146 E (1977) states: a. Sightings within the scope of this chapter... are to be reported as follows: 1. While airborne and from land based observers. (a) Hostile or unidentified single aircraft or formations of aircraft which appear to be directed against the United States or Canada or their forces. (b) Missles. (c) Unidentified Flying Objects. (d) Hostile or unidentified submarines. (e) ...etc... The regulation draws a clear distinction between "Unidentified Flying Objects," "missles," and unidentified single aircraft or formations of aircraft." In other words, UFOs which may be deemed to constitute a threat to national security under JANAP 146, are considered by the regulation as something different than missles and aircraft. Moreover, the term "UFO," as used in these regulations, is given very clear definition. Illustrations in Air Force Intelligence manuals at least as far back as 1953 represent UFOs as large, disc-shaped craft with transparent domes and portholes around the edges. A U.S. Navy publication (OPNAV 94- P-3B), titled "MERINT Radiotelegraph Procedure," shows UFOs as a separate class from missles and aircraft. In fact, an illustration under the UFO heading shows a Saturn-shaped disc. ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************