ufos interfering with nuclear weapons

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS166901+15-Sep-2010+PRN20100915

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15

Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles

Group to call on U.S. Government to reveal the facts

PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality.

One of them, ICBM launch officer Captain Robert Salas, was on duty during one missile disruption incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base and was ordered to never discuss it. Another participant, retired Col. Charles Halt, observed a disc-shaped object directing beams of light down into the RAF Bentwaters airbase in England and heard on the radio that they landed in the nuclear weapons storage area. Both men will provide stunning details about these events, and reveal how the U.S. military responded.

Captain Salas notes, "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it." Col. Halt adds, "I believe that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted—both then and now—to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation."

The group of witnesses and a leading researcher, who has brought them together for the first time, will discuss the national security implications of these and other alarmingly similar incidents and will urge the government to reveal all information about them. This is a public-awareness issue.

Declassified U.S. government documents, to be distributed at the event, now substantiate the reality of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites extending back to 1948. The press conference will also address present-day concerns about the abuse of government secrecy as well as the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons.

WHO: Dwynne Arneson, USAF Lt. Col. Ret., communications center officer-in-charge

Bruce Fenstermacher, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer

Charles Halt, USAF Col. Ret., former deputy base commander

Robert Hastings, researcher and author

Robert Jamison, former USAF nuclear missile targeting officer

Patrick McDonough, former USAF nuclear missile site geodetic surveyor

Jerome Nelson, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer

Robert Salas, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer

WHAT: Noted researcher Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, will moderate a distinguished panel of former U.S. Air Force officers involved in UFO incidents at nuclear missile sites near Malmstrom, F.E. Warren, and Walker AFBs, as well as the nuclear weapons depot at RAF Bentwaters.

WHEN: Monday, September 27, 2010

12:30 p.m.

WHERE: National Press Club

Holeman Lounge

Event open to credentialed media and Congressional staff only

SOURCE Former U.S. Air Force Officer Robert Salas, and Researcher Robert Hastings

nasa moon bombing may trigger war of worlds

. http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m6d19-NASA-moon-bombing-violates-space-law--may-cause-conflict-with-lunar-extraterrestrial-civilizations NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations June 19, 4:14 PM · Alfred Lambremont Webre - Seattle Exopolitics Examiner NASA: LCROSS bombing of Moon, Oct. 9, 2009 (Depic) The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater as an alleged water-seeking and lunar colonization experiment, is contrary to space law prohibiting environmental modification of celestial bodies. The NASA moon bombing, a component of the LCROSS mission, may also trigger conflict with known extraterrestrial civilizations on the moon as reported on the moon in witnessed statements by U.S. astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and in witnessed statements to NSA (National Security Agency) photos and documents regarding an extraterrestrial base on the dark side of the moon. If the true intent of the LCROSS mission moon bombing is a hostile act by NASA against known extraterrestrial civilizations and settlements on the moon, then NASA and by extension the U.S. government are guilty of aggressive war which is the most serious of war crimes under the U.N. Charter and the Geneva Conventions, to which the U.S. is subject. The U.N. Outer Space Treaty, which the U.S. has ratified, requires that " The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies shall be forbidden." 98 nations have ratified and 125 nations have signed the U.N. Outer Space Treaty. NASA's LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission The NASA LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission, which departed on Earth on June 18, 2009. According to one report, "Flying over the moon's southern hemisphere, LCROSS will use its high-precision instruments, as well as close-up images of the terrain gathered by the lunar orbiter, to seek out a crater just shallow enough and dark enough to be a prime bombing target. "There, acting as what the Ames team calls its "shepherding spacecraft," LCROSS will guide an empty Centaur rocket weighing two tons toward its target. The rocket will crash into the crater at 5,600 mph, creating a new crater - perhaps as large as 5 miles wide. The crash is scheduled to occur Oct. 9." The two-ton Centaur rocket qualifies as a space-based kinetic weapon. The reason alleged by NASA for the mission is that "the [LCROSS} probes will map possible landing sites and search for water sources that could be used by a future lunar colony." According to NASA, "The Mission Objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) include confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the Moon's South Pole. The identification of water is very important to the future of human activities on the Moon. LCROSS will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moon's polar craters with two heavy impactors in 2009 to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there. The impact will eject material from the crater's surface to create a plume that specialized instruments will be able to analyze for the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated materials." U.S. astronauts, NASA employees, Soviet scientists, NSA confirm the extraterrestrial presence on the moon (...) There are confirmed reports of an extraterrestrial presence on the moon, both from U.S. astronauts who have visited the moon, from NASA employees, from Soviet scientists and observers of the NASA moon visits, and from witnessed NSA (National Security Agency) reports on a moon based on the far side of the moon. (...) NASA photos, documents of an extraterrestrial base on the dark side of the moon Former USAF U.S. Sgt. Karl Wolfe, a Disclosure Project witness, describes photos, documents of extraterrestrial bases on the dark side of the moon that he witnessed at the NSA (National Security Agency), in the 1960s. One report states that "Sgt Wolfe was working with Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia in 1965. There, he was assigned to the lunar orbital project with the National Security Agency where he met an airman who confided in him that they had discovered bases in the far side of the moon." Sgt Wolfe's Disclosure Project testimony, in which he states that he is willing to testify under oath before the U.S. Congress, can be seen in the video below. One account states, "The airman told him (Wolfe) that all of the NASA photographs were sent to Langley, where they were enhanced, and eventually made into photographs to be sent to and studied by the different branches of the military. He was also told why security was of the utmost importance at the lab on this particular day-recent enhanced imagery had clearly shown structures on the far side of the Moon. These structures were definitely not created by natural forces-they were made by intelligent beings. "'We discovered,' the airman said, 'a base on the back side of the Moon.' Wolfe was in no way prepared for what he had just been told. When he airman saw Wolfe nearly shaking in disbelief, he reiterated: "'Yes, a base on the dark side of the Moon.' "Although Wolfe had not actually been told that some alien intelligence had made the aforementioned structures, who else could it have been? Although Russia had flown unmanned vessels around to the far side, no landing had been made, and the resources and technology needed to build a station there were far beyond that of Russia at the time. Had they made a landing on the Moon, the entire world would have known about it. And Wolfe knew America was still years from a Moon landing. "His anxiety reached a new level. He was looking at, and being told about, something that he should not have seen or known about. He was actually afraid of being arrested and a court martial. He only wanted to finish his job, and get out of there, and forget the whole incident. He would finish the repair he was called to do, but he could never forget what he had seen that day at Langley. He would tell not a soul for 30 years. "His release from the military also required that he not leave the United States for five years. This was a condition of his security status. He also was sworn to not reveal anything he had seen while performing his duties in the military. Wolfe would eventually put a report on what he had seen on video, which is now available on the Internet. There have also been several ex-NASA employees who have come forward telling of their experiences in air brushing structures out of NASA photographs of the Moon." NASA's lunar bombing violates space law and must be stopped NASA's use of a 2-ton empty Centaur rocket as a kinetic weapon violates space law in multiple ways and must be stopped, in flight or in lunar orbit, which the LCROSS lunar orbiter reaches on Tuesday June 23, 2009. The bombing of the moon with a kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile crater is a per se violation of the U.N. Outer Space Treaty, which the U.S. has ratified, irrespective of its being designed as part of an experiment related to lunar colonization. The U.N. Outer Space Treaty (Article III) provides that "States Parties to the Treaty shall carry on activities in the exploration and use of outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, in accordance with international law, including the Charter of the United Nations." The Moon Treaty (Agreement Governing The Activities Of States On The Moon And Other Celestial Bodies (1979)) addresses and bans the specific activity bombing of the moon carried out unilaterally by the U.S. The Moon Treaty prohibits disruption of the environment of the Moon. The LCROSS bombing constitutes a disruption of the delicate balance of the lunar ecology. Article 7 of the Moon Treaty states: Article 7 of the Moon Treaty "1. In exploring and using the moon, States Parties shall take measures to prevent the disruption of the existing balance of its environment whether by introducing adverse changes in that environment, by its harmful contamination through the introduction of extra-environmental matter or otherwise. States Parties shall also take measures to avoid harmfully affecting the environment of the earth through the introduction of extraterrestrial matter or otherwise. "2. States Parties shall inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the measures being adopted by them in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article and shall also, to the maximum extent feasible, notify him in advance of all placements by them of radio-active materials on the moon and of the purposes of such placements. "3. States Parties shall report to other States Parties and to the Secretary-General concerning areas of the moon having special scientific interest in order that, without prejudice to the rights of other States Parties, consideration may be given to the designation of such areas as international scientific preserves for which special protective arrangements are to be agreed upon in consultation with the competent bodies of the United Nations." Although the U.S. has not ratified the Moon Treaty, 13 nations have, and it can be construed as a relevant international standard of what constitutes "international law" under the U.N. Outer Space Treaty. Is NASA's LCROSS bombing of the moon a camouflaged attack or attempt to impose moon sovereignty by the U.S.? There is witnessed evidence, through the testimony of UASF SGT Karl Wolfe and through the statements of U.S. astronauts, NASA employees, former Soviet scientists that the U.S., and its agencies NASA and the NSA has had scientific evidence that the moon has extraterrestrial civilizations and present settlements on it for more than 40 years, since the 1960s. The U.S. has not attempted any public, peaceful diplomacy with the civilizations on the moon. In fact, the U.S. has imposed an embargo on public knowledge that settlements and an extraterrestrial presence exist on the moon. What is touted as a scientific experiment – the bombing of the moon – may in reality be an attempt to impose de facto U.S. sovereignty on the moon. Article II of the U.N. Outer Space Treaty, which the U.S. has signed, states: "Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means." Moreover, the LCROSS bombing of the moon may be an intentional hostile act by the U.S. (which has know the moon is inhabited for at least 40 years by other civilizations), a kind of "shot across the bow" to mark turf against other intelligent civilizations on the moon. The U.N. Outer Space Treaty prohibits non-peaceful activities on the moon. Article IV states, "The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies shall be forbidden." NASA's LCROSS bombing of the moon must be stopped, while the lunar orbiter is in orbit, before the bombing occurs on October 9, 2009. Twitter Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Centre, to stop LCROSS bombing If you are interested in stopping NASA's LCROSS bombing, please write Pete Worden, Director of the NASA Ames Centre, which oversees LCROSS. You can twitter Worden at http://twitter.com/worden. For more info: Space Preservation Treaty: www.peaceinspace.org Alfred Lambremont Webre, J.D., M.Ed. is an author, futurist, international lawyer, peace advocate, environmental activist, space activist, and radio talk show host who has worked for years to prevent the weaponization of space. Alfred is the International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) [www.peaceinspace.com], dedicated to transforming the permanent war economy into a peaceful, cooperative, sustainable, New Energy-based Space Age society, preventing the weaponization of space, and supporting cooperation amongst Life in the Universe. He is a co-architect of the Space Preservation Treaty to ban all space-based weapons and warfare in space, and establish an independent outer space peace-keeping agency to monitor outer space and enforce the ban. Alfred has been a delegate to the UNISPACE Outer Space Conference and NGO representative at the United Nations (Communications Coordination Committee for the UN; UN Second Special Session on Disarmament). Alfred is known as the founding father of Exopolitics [www.exopolitics.com], the new political science of outer space, the science of relations between human society and other intelligent civilizations. His book EXOPOLITICS: POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND LAW IN THE UNIVERSE [www.universebooks.com] is the evolution of Alfred's groundbreaking work as a Futurist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), where in 1977 he directed a proposed extraterrestrial communication study project for the Carter White House. Exopolitics turns the dominant view of our Universe upside down. Exopolitics reveals that we live on an isolated planet in the midst of a populated, evolving, and highly organized inter-planetary, inter-galactic, and multi-dimensional Universe society. It explores why Earth seems to have been quarantined for eons from a more evolved Universe society. Exopolitics suggests specific steps to end our isolation, by reaching out to the technologically and spiritually advanced civilizations that are engaging our world at this unique, challenging time in human history. Alfred is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School in International Law, and a Fulbright Scholar in International Economic Integration (Uruguay). He has taught in the Economics Department at Yale University, and Constitutional Law in the Government Department at the University of Texas. Alfred has been General Counsel of the New York City Environmental Protection Administration, and environmental consultant to the Ford Foundation. Alfred is a Member of the Pro Tem Committee of the Kuala Lumpur International War Crimes Tribunal [www.perdana4peace.org]. He has been a Speaker at 2007 Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Conference; the Canadian Conference on Preventing Crimes Against Humanity [www.aplconference.ca] and a Sponsor and Moderator at the World Peace Forum, held in Vancouver, BC CANADA (23-28 June 2006). He is on the Board of Advisors of the New Energy Movement [www.newenergymovement.org] and the Exopolitics Institute [www.exopoliticsinstitute.org]. Alfred has deep experience with ground-breaking media. His program, "The Instant of Cooperation" was the first live radio broadcast in history between the USA and the then Soviet Union (now the Russian Federation), was carried live by Gosteleradio (USSR) and NPR (USA) satellite in 1987, and was nominated for an award to be given at the U.N. General Assembly. Alfred is co-host of The Monday Brownbagger, an innovative public affairs talk show on Vancouver Coop Radio CFRO 102.7 FM. He is host of EXOPOLITICS RADIO [www.exopoliticsradio.com], a weekly public affairs program on relations with advanced Extraterrestrial civilizations that is heard in over 80 countries, all 50 states of the USA, and 492 cities around the world. Alfred is Chairman of MARS, the Mars Anomaly Research Society, a non-profit organization that will spearhead the international effort to research, disclose, and educate the public about life on Mars and craft public policy related to the discovery of Life on Mars. Contact Information: Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd 3339 West 41 Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6N3E5 CANADA TEL: 604-733-8134 FAX: 604-733-8135 Email: alw@peaceinspace.com URL of this article: http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2008/10/post.html

new declassified cia ufos documents

source: sydney morning herald

November 3, 2007

In January 1979, The New York Times reported that despite repeated, feverish denials, the CIA had indeed investigated the UFO phenomenon: « CIA Papers Detail UFO Surveillance » screamed the headline. The report is said to have so upset the then CIA director, Stansfield Turner, that he reportedly asked his staff:
« Are we in UFOs? »
The answer was yes - since the late 1940s, apparently. But exactly how, what, when, why and who remained layered in mystery, leaving grist for the conspiracy mill.
But this year a raft of newly unclassified CIA documents revealed that the remote possibility of alien invasion elicited greater fear than the threat of a Soviet nuclear attack.
More interesting still, the CIA documents show that despite decades of repeated public denials, behind the scenes there raged a series of inter-agency feuds that involved the highest levels of the US government.
The subject of UFOs - and dabbling in psychological warfare techniques - not only focused the attention of the US government elite for 50 years, but of some of the greatest scientific and military minds of the era.
Throughout the 1950s CIA files clearly document an explosion of activity by US intelligence and military bodies concerned with studying every possible implication for the US, and other Western democracies, of UFOs. The phenomenon, so adored by the cinematic world, was reflected in the CIA’s fixations. Indeed, while highly educated CIA employees experimented by giving each other surprise LSD trips in 1953, there were others, in other parts of the agency, dealing with a flood of UFO reports.
But significantly, after a burst of intense scrutiny in the early ‘50s, the available documents effectively go cold. Why? The Kafkaesque explanation provided is that few files were kept because these would only confirm that the CIA was investigating UFOs. A 1995 CIA review stated: « There was no formal or official UFO project within the agency in the ‘80s, and agency officials purposely kept files on UFOs to a minimum to avoid creating records that might mislead the public if released. »
But the wildly eclectic UFO files cover everything from « flying saucers over Belgian Congo uranium mines » to Nazi « flying saucers ».
A 1953 memo shows that the physicist John Wheeler, while critically involved with Edward Teller in the creation of the hydrogen bomb, was available to the « CIA attack on the flying saucer » problem. The urgency of the H-bomb race was his priority, but he « would be pleased at any time to discuss the issue briefly », the memo said.
Wheeler recommended two « foreign nationals » who could help with the « problem », including the « mysterious problems of ion paths and magnetic focusing » and « cosmological electrodynamics ».
A secret 1995 report was titled: CIA’s role in the study of UFOs 1947-90: a diehard issue. Collated and written by Gerald Haines, the CIA’s National Reconnaissance Office historian, its detailed summary of CIA involvement inadvertently undermined its « UFOs-don’t-exist » conclusion. The document begins with a June 24, 1947, report from the pilot Kenneth Arnold, who spotted nine unidentified objects near Mount Rainier, Washington state, travelling at an estimated 1600 kmh. Haines did not mention that days later, on July 8, 1947, the Roswell Daily Record reported a US Army press release below the headline « RAAF captures flying saucer on ranch in Roswell region ».
The report noted that that controversy, coloured with Byzantine denials, dogged the CIA and its UFO investigations for decades. Using operational names like Project Blue Book, Story, Grudge, Sign, Saucer, Moon Dust and Twinkle, the US Air Force and other entities always looked into UFO sightings with the CIA peering over their shoulders.
The US Army, of course, promptly retracted the Roswell story but it and the « flying saucers » spotted by Arnold triggered a flurry of sightings and conspiracy theories that continue to this day.
The US Air Force finally admitted in 1994 that there had been a cover-up at Roswell - of a secret project known as Mogul, created to monitor Soviet nuclear tests using high-flying balloons - and that the « aliens » were crash-test dummies.
« Ufologists », naturally, were sceptical of this belated explanation. For 50 years now, right across the globe, people have been reporting sightings of giant, luminous flying saucers, cigars, globes, triangles and doughnuts. Aliens have allegedly abducted, probed and impregnated scores of hapless earthlings. Some believe that a top-secret entity, called Majestic-12, was formed in 1947 by the then president, Harry Truman, in an attempt to deal with the Roswell event. It was supposedly established to aid interaction with aliens. The FBI labelled the Majestic-12 documents a hoax, but the story persists to this day.
Intriguingly, the unclassified documents show that within the CIA, there was an uber-intelligence group called ONE, created by a CIA director, General William Bedell Smith. His tenure spanned the period between October 1950 and January 1953. These documents confirm that ONE was concerned with UFOs.
In 1978 the CIA came under strong pressure from a series of freedom of information requests about UFOs and reluctantly released about 800 documents. The reasonable claim by The New York Times at the time was that the files confirmed intensive government concern about UFOs.
This was branded by the CIA as the press being sensationalist. According to the CIA’s self-critique on the issue, bureaucratic clumsiness, charges that witnesses were being asked to keep sightings secret, and CIA officers talking to civilians about UFOs while wearing air force uniforms, had added « fuel to the growing mystery surrounding UFOs and the CIA’s role in their investigation ». The 1995 Haines report concluded: « The belief that we are not alone in the universe is too emotionally appealing and the distrust of our government is too pervasive to make the issue amenable to traditional scientific studies of rational explanation and evidence. »
My painstaking review of hundreds of unclassified documents reveals that the CIA at the highest level, far from being incompetent, displayed good faith in its efforts to examine the mystery of UFOs over a period of decades. These investigations covered a gamut of inquiries: scientific, political, cultural and military.
And although the air force was the agency given the task of investigating UFOs from 1948 onwards, the CIA remained deeply involved. This is best reflected in a memo to the agency’s deputy director for scientific intelligence, titled Flying Saucers and dated August 3, 1952: « It is recommended that CIA surveillance of subject matter (flying saucers), in co-ordination with proper authorities of primary operational concern at the Air Technical Intelligence Centre (ATIC), be continued. It is strongly urged, however, that that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probable alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as ‘confirmatory’ of the soundness of ‘unpublished facts’ in the hands of the US government. »
Although most reports were « phoney » or explainable, it said, « caution requires that intelligence continue coverage of the subject ».
On July 28, 1952, Winston Churchill wrote to his secretary of state for air: « What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? » The minister’s response on August 9, 1952, provided the ground rules for most official responses that continue until today. These were that a 1951 study had found that all reports could be explained by astronomical or meteorological phenomena, mistaken identification of aircraft, balloons, birds, optical illusions and psychological delusions, or were deliberate hoaxes.
But in the CIA at the time, two other responses were countenanced: the need for vigilance and caution because extraterrestrial life could exist, and the potential for « psychological warfare », including fears that popular hysteria could be exploited by an enemy.
The sceptics are best represented in a memo in March 1949 from a Dr Stone in the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence to a Dr Machle that states: « A rapid perusal of your [flying saucer] documents leaves one confused and inclined to supineness. »
Yet with a deluge of UFO reports over the next four years, the matter suddenly assumed a modicum of gravitas, reflected in many top-secret documents. General Smith said: « There was one chance in 10,000 that the phenomenon posed a threat to the security of the country, but even that chance could not be taken. » On July 1, 1952, there was an about-turn: General Smith wrote to the director of the Psychological Strategy Board established by Truman the previous year: « I am today transmitting to the National Security Council a proposal in which it is concluded that the problems associated with unidentified flying objects appear to have implications for psychological warfare as well as for intelligence and operations. I suggest that we discuss at an early board meeting the possible offensive and defensive utilisation of these phenomena for psychological warfare purposes. »
Searching for this « proposal », I found versions addressed also to the secretary of defence. Some of their highlights, quoting directly from the documents, include: « [Since] 1947 there have been about 1500 official reports of sightings and [of these] the air force carries 20 per cent as unexplained. » And:
« Operational problems are of primary importance and should be attacked at once [including] determination of what [use could] be made of these phenomena by US psychological warfare planners and what … defences should be planned in anticipation of Soviet attempts to utilise them. »
This memo suggested a plot that transcends Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove: the CIA, in the face of unknown phenomena - or even an attack from outer space - was seemingly more concerned about what the Russians might do with UFOs than with the objects themselves. The CIA’s interest in the Soviet and Chinese study of UFOs continued for decades. But on October 2, 1952, General Smith received this ominous note from his Office of Scientific Intelligence: « Flying saucers pose two elements of danger which have national security implications. The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns the vulnerability of the US to air attack. » In January 1953 the Office of Scientific Intelligence convened a committee to review the UFO « problem ». Its members reviewed « 75 case histories of sightings », taking intense interest in a Tremonton, Utah, sighting that included a Kodachrome movie of « 1600 frames ».
At the air force’s request, the US Photo Interpretation Laboratory spent 1000 hours making « graph plots » of the film frames, concluding that the objects were not birds, balloons, aircraft or reflections and that they were « self-luminous ». In a tone of reasonable scepticism, it suggested that the public be educated to avoid hysteria.
But the Office of Scientific Intelligence panel dismissed the military conclusions, suggesting instead that the mysterious objects were seagulls reflecting sunlight.
On January 21, 1953, another memo concluded that the panel had found no evidence of « physical threat to the security of the US ». The convoluted memo stated: « The subject UFO is not of direct intelligence interest. It is of indirect intelligence interest only insofar as any knowledge about innumerable unsolved mysteries of the universe are of intelligence interest. » But it also noted the potential for « interference with air defence by intentional enemy jazzing », the possibility of interference by « overloading communication lines », or the possibility of « psychological offensive by the enemy timed with respect to an actual attack ».
This report and the original Tremonton « seagull » film were then made part of an Office of Scientific Investigation briefing on January 29, 1953, to the entity known as ONE. The air force briefed ONE on UFOs the next day and its 11 members included « Dr Edgar Hoover [sic], William Bundy, General H. Pull and Admiral B. Bieri [Eisenhower’s chief of staff] ».
These documents reveal that ONE was an elite think tank within the CIA and that General Smith created the Office of National Estimates on the issue.
But it was said its « ultimate approval should rest on the collective judgment of the highest officials in various intelligence agencies ». This was to give it the prestige of the best available and most authoritative advice from the government.
General Smith created the Office of National Estimates under the auspices of the National Security Act of 1947. His opinion was that ONE would form the « heart of the CIA and of the national intelligence machinery ».
William Langer, a Harvard historian, was its chairman, and while there is no record of whether ONE thought the Tremonton film showed seagulls or UFOs - or of what the air force told them the next morning - ONE is as close as we get to a documented version of the rumoured Majestic-12 group.
With the Cold War in full swing, the CIA was also watching for UFO activity behind the Iron Curtain. Field stations were to be alerted to any mention of flying saucers by Iron Curtain countries and the CIA discovered that the Soviet establishment mirrored its own ambiguity about UFOs.
The files spotlight Soviet articles in 1968 that show some scientists thought they were real, while others ridiculed the sightings as US propaganda.
One Soviet sceptic noted, with tongue firmly in cheek:
« The number of saucers always grows sharply on the eve of presidential elections. This is difficult to explain.
« Maybe people on other planets lay bets on who will win in the next elections - the Republicans or the Democrats. »

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/02/1193619145400.html

us army has secret spaceships

http://www.rense.com/general67/hackerfeelsUSnavyhas.htm

Hacker Feels US Navy Has Spaceships, Crews In Space

7-15-5


He did a few trial runs, hacking into Oxford University’s network, for example, and he found the whole business « incredibly exciting. And then it got more exciting when I started going to places where I really shouldn’t be. »
« Like where? » I ask.
« The US Space Command, » he says.
« What was the most exciting thing you saw? »
« I found a list of officers’ names, » he says, « under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’. It doesn’t mean little green men. What I think it means is not Earth-based. I found a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers’, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t US Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet. »
« The Americans have a secret spaceship? » I ask.
« That’s what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe. »



The Nerd Who Saw Too Much

The Guardian - UK

7-15-5

Terrified Gary McKinnon says his forays into secret Pentagon networks were never politically motivated.
A computer geek faces 70 years in jail for hacking into the top levels of US defence. He tells Jon Ronson how, hooked and stoned, he landed himself in such hot water.
In 1983, when Gary McKinnon was 17, he went to see the movie WarGames. In the film, a geeky computer whiz-kid hacks into a secret Pentagon network and, inadvertently, almost instigates World War III. Sitting in the cinema, the teenage McKinnon wondered if he, too, could be a hacker. « Really, » I say to him now, « WarGames should have put you off hacking for life. »
« Well, » he replies, « I didn’t mean it to actually come true. »
WarGames ends with the Pentagon officials telling the young nerd how impressed they are with his technical acumen. He’s probably going to grow up to have a brilliant career at NASA or the Department of Defence. This is an unlikely scenario for McKinnon. He faces 20 charges in the US, including stealing computer files, obtaining secrets that might have been « useful to an enemy », intentionally causing damage to a protected computer, and interfering with maritime navigation equipment in New Jersey.
Last month he attended extradition proceedings at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London. He had, the US prosecutors said, perpetrated the « biggest military computer hack of all time ». He « caused damage and impaired the integrity of information. The US military district of Washington became inoperable and the cost of repairing the shutdown was $700,000 US. » These hacking attacks occurred immediately after September 11, 2001, they said.
This is McKinnon’s first interview. He called me out of the blue last week, just as I was screaming at my child to stop knocking on people’s doors and running away. « Your son sounds like a hacker, » he said. Then he invited me to his home in Bounds Green, north London.
He is good-looking, funny, slightly camp, nerdy, a chain-smoker - and terrified. « I’m walking down the road and I find I can’t control my own legs, » he says. « And I’m sitting up all night thinking about jail and about being arse-f---ed. And, remember, according to them I was making Washington inoperable ‘immediately after September 11’.
« I’m having all these visions of « McKinnon puts on a redneck prisoner voice, « ’What you doing attacking our country, boy? Pick up that soap.’ Yeah, it is absolutely f---ing terrifying. »
The sentence the US Justice Department is seeking - should McKinnon be extradited - is up to 70 years. What McKinnon was hunting for, as he snooped around NASA, and the Pentagon’s network, was evidence of a UFO cover-up.
McKINNON was born in Glasgow in 1966. His parents separated when he was six and he moved to London with his mother and stepfather, a bit of a UFO buff. « He comes from Falkirk, » McKinnon says, « and just outside Falkirk there’s a place called Bonnybridge, which is the UFO capital of the world. When he lived there, he had a dream that he was walking around Bonnybridge seeing huge ships. He told me this and it inflamed my curiosity. He was a great science-fiction reader. So, him being my second father, I started reading science-fiction, too, and doing everything he did. »
McKinnon read Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein - « the golden age of science-fiction ». When he was 15 he joined Bufora, the British UFO Research Association, which describes itself as « a nationwide network of [about] 300 people who have a dedicated, non-cultist interest in understanding the wide-ranging extent of the UFO enigma ».
Then he saw WarGames, and he thought: « Can you really do it? Can you really gain unauthorised access to incredibly interesting places? Surely it can’t be that easy. » And so, in 1995, he gave it a try.
He sat in his girlfriend, Tamsin’s, aunt’s house in Crouch End, and he began to hack. McKinnon was looking for - and found time and again - network administrators in high levels of the US government and military establishments who hadn’t bothered to give themselves passwords. That’s how he got in.
He did a few trial runs, hacking into Oxford University’s network, for example, and he found the whole business « incredibly exciting. And then it got more exciting when I started going to places where I really shouldn’t be. »
« Like where? » I ask.
« The US Space Command, » he says.
And so, for the next seven years, on and off, McKinnon sat in that aunt’s house, a joint in the ashtray and a can of Foster’s next to the mouse pad, and he snooped. From time to time, some NASA scientist sitting at his desk somewhere would see his cursor move for no apparent reason. On those occasions, McKinnon’s connection would be cut. This would never fail to freak out the then-stoned McKinnon.
When I ask if he is brilliant, he says no. He’s just an ordinary, self-taught techie. And, he says, he was never alone. « Once you’re on the network, you can do a command called NetStat - Network Status - and it lists all the connections to that machine. There were hackers from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Thailand. »
« All on at once? » I ask. « You could see hackers from all over the world, snooping around, without the spaceniks or the military realising? »
« Every night, » he says.
« What was the most exciting thing you saw? »
« I found a list of officers’ names, » he says, « under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’. It doesn’t mean little green men. What I think it means is not Earth-based. I found a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers’, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t US Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet. »
« The Americans have a secret spaceship? » I ask.
« That’s what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe. »
« What were the ship names? »
« I can’t remember, » he says. « I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect. »
This was November 2000. By now, McKinnon was hooked. He quit his job as a systems administrator for a small business, « which hugely pissed off my girlfriend, Tamsin ».
« It was the last straw, » he says. « She dumped me and started seeing this other bloke because I was such a selfish waste of space. Poor Tamsin. And she was the one paying the phone bill because I didn’t have a job. We were still living together. God, have you ever tried living with someone after you’ve split up? It’s bad. »
So, while Tamsin was trying to get on with her new relationship, McKinnon was in the living room of her aunt’s house, hacking. He snooped around all the forts - Fort Meade, Fort Benning, and others - reading internal court-martial reports of soldiers getting imprisoned for rape and murder and drug abuse.
« You end up lusting after more and more complex security measures, » he says. « It was like a game. I loved computer games. I still do. It was like a real game. It was addictive. Hugely addictive. » It was never really politically motivated.
Yes, he was hacking immediately after September 11, 2001, but only because he wanted to see if there was a conspiracy. « Why did the building fall like a controlled series of explosions? » he asks. « I hate conspiracy theories, so I thought I’d find out for myself. »
He strenuously denies the Justice Department’s charge that he caused the « US military district of Washington » to become « inoperable ». Well, once, he admits - but only once - he inadvertently pressed the wrong button and may have deleted some government files.
« I thought, ‘Ooh, bloody hell.’ And that’s when I stopped for a while. And then my friend told me about DARPA. And so I started again. »
DARPA is the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, an intriguing collection of brilliant military scientists, funded by the Pentagon. DARPA has been widely credited with inventing, among other things, the internet, the global positioning system, the computer mouse, and - somewhat more boneheadedly - FutureMAP, an online futures market designed to predict assassinations and bombings by encouraging investor speculation in such crimes. The US Senate once described FutureMAP as « an unbelievably stupid idea ». DARPA has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists because it is semi-secretive, bizarre and occupies that murky world that lies between science and war.
McKinnon was caught in November 2002. He says it was inevitable because he was « getting a bit sloppy ». He pauses. « I’d never have envisaged this happening to myself, but I did get a bit megalomaniacal, as well. It got a bit silly. I ended up talking to people I hacked into - I’d instant-message them, using WordPad, with a bit of a political diatribe. You know, I’d leave a message on their desktop that read, ‘Secret government is blah blah blah. »’
McKinnon was tracked down because he’d used his email address to download a hacking program called Remotely Anywhere. « God knows why I used my real email address, » he says. « I suppose it means I’m not a secretive, sophisticated checking myself every-step-of-the-way type of hacker. »
On the night before his arrest, McKinnon had been up playing games. « Maybe I’d been doing a bit of weak, fun hacking, too, » he says. « I’d had one hour’s sleep, and I woke up completely muddled, and suddenly at the bottom of my bed there was this voice: ‘Hello, my name’s Jeff Donson from the National High Tech Crime Unit. Gary McKinnon, you’re under arrest.’
« They put Tamsin and me in the meat wagon. They took my PC, Tamsin’s PC, three other computers I was fixing for friends. They went upstairs and took my girlfriend’s aunty’s daughter’s computer. »
McKinnon was kept in a police station overnight. Then the Americans offered him a deal, via his British solicitor. « They said, ‘If you incur the cost of the whole extradition process, be a good boy, come over here, we’ll give you three or four years, rather than the whole sentence.’
« I said, ‘OK, give me that in writing.’ They said, ‘Oh, no, we can’t do that.’ So they were offering a secret trial, no right of appeal on the outcome, no comment to the newspapers, and nothing in writing. My solicitor, doing her job, advised me to take it, and when I said no, she was very ‘Ooh, they’re going to come down heavy’. »
In return, McKinnon offered a somewhat harebrained counter deal, via a Virginia public defender. « I made a sort of veiled threat to them. I said, ‘You know the places I’ve been, so you know the stuff I’ve seen,’ kind of thing. » He pauses and blushes slightly.
« You know, the, uh, Non-Terrestrial Officers. The spaceships. ‘The whole world thinks it’s co-operating in building the International Space Station, but you’ve already got a space-based army that you refer to as Non-Terrestrial Officers. »’ There is a silence. « I had very little evidence. It’s not a very good bargaining chip at all, really, is it? »
Given the Justice Department has announced the information McKinnon downloaded was not « classified », and he was stoned much of the time, perhaps we can assume NASA is not too worried about his « discoveries ».
McKinnon hasn’t spoken publicly before, but now, with the extradition proceedings, nothing is left open to him. For a while, he thought he might end up like the computer nerd from WarGames, having a brilliant career working for the Americans. « They need people like me, » he says. « But that’s not going to happen. »
He and Tamsin have split. He no longer lives in Crouch End, but in the nearby, slightly more down-at-heel Bounds Green, and has given up smoking dope. He is not allowed near the internet, is not allowed a passport, and spends a lot of time reading and sitting in the pub, awaiting his fate.
Nothing much happened in the years since his arrest in 2002 under the Computer Misuse Act - no charges were brought against him in Britain. Then, on June 8, he found himself in front of Bow Street magistrates, the target of extradition proceedings. That’s when the panic attacks kicked in again, the horror visions of life in a US jail. He had poked around, he says, but he hadn’t broken anything, besides that one mistake. He thought he was going to get a year, max. Now they’re talking about 70 years. « You know, » he says. « everyone thinks this is fun or exciting. But it isn’t exciting to me. It is terrifying. »

The extradition hearing will resume on July 27.

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