UFO's- Visitors from Space? Food for Future Thought

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# UFO's-Visitors from Space?

# Food for Future Thought

By DAVE GIBSON Times Aviation Editor

While the Russians are getting indignant about U-2s, maybe all of us, including the Soviets, should watch out for UKOs spying on the world.

## Flight Lines

UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects, but better known as plain "flying saucers") are, according to the former head of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), "operating under intelligent control."

Vice Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter speaks as a member of the board of an organization which has long been taken lightly, but is getting more of a serious hearing since the dawn of the space age some three years ago. the NICAP, or National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.

WE CONTACTED Richard Hall, a former Hartford area resident and now secretary of the NICAP down in Washington, and asked why the admiral, who hasn't expressed himself publicly before on the UFOs, now comes out with an opinion.

It's based upon official sighting reports in World War II and the years following when he headed CIA. Mr. Hall explains: "The formations, changes in position (in the sky) and pacing of airliners" in many cases where there is no other explainable reason.

As for the possibility of "secret weapons" here on earth, the admiral states, in what the NICAP bills as a "special bulletin," that "I know that neither Russia nor this country had anything even approaching such high speeds and maneuvers."

## UFO Evidence

The NICAP board also maintains the same conclusion as the Admiral, and what the NICAP terms "documentary proof" of the "cover-up" by the Air Force on UFO reporting has been prepared for seven Congress committees. This report, which NICAP wants to use to start official hearings on the subject, includes these points:

The Air Force "secretly ordered" an airliner carrying passengers to leave its assigned course and chase a UFO.

A statement by an Air Force Reserve officer, Major Dewey Fournet, who as an intelligence officer assigned to monitor the UFO project, "Blue Book" for the Air Force headquarters and now a NICAP board member, who says that there is a "top secret" intelligence estimate, drawn up by the Air Force in 1948, concluding that the UFOs "were interplanetary spaceships." Existence of this has never been admitted by the Air Force.

"Hidden" UFO sightings "from confidential sources," including: An encounter with a "giant flying disc" by a Navy plane over the Atlantic; a "close-up observation" by a Navy commander who "admitted the sighting had scared him"; a sighting by a "well-known scientist and some of his staff"; an encounter with "a mysterious UFO by pilots of

The NICAP says some of the above items are in a new book written by Donald E. Keenor director of the organization which "details" the story of the NICAP's "fight to end UFO censorship and determine the facts."

a Navy squadron, with subsequent orders by the Air Force to keep it secret."

Whether the "facts" will ever be determined is a question. The apparent lack of guidance criteria in estimating what is "real", "probably real", or what is the result of imagination or "natural phenomena" makes it difficult to have a "meeting of minds" on the subject - aside from the Air Force's reluctance to discuss it much beyond a few bare bones of information.

## Flight Developments

Atomic plane: Survey by committee of Air Force Scientific Advisory Board on nuclear plane program will start with visit by members to Pratt & Whitney Aircraft facilities at CANEL (Connecticut Aircraft Nuclear Laboratory) June 15. P&WA is making one of two types of powerplant systems, a final choice of which is expected by Fall.