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This NSA file preserves pages from a May-June 1981 magazine that include the article "Is the CIA Stonewalling?" by Richard Hall, a former NICAP Assistant Director. Using 892 pages of CIA documents released to lawyer Peter Gersten, Hall argues that the CIA's claimed lack of interest in UFOs is untrue and that the agency monitored reports over many years. Other pages argue that the government misinformed the public about UFO threats to national security and quote a 1968 NSA report on UFOs and survival.
iGr Force bases from Guam to w-
foundland.z Another AF doc1.1 ••• ent
reveals that the Air Force conducted
an iitvestigation into the incidents but
found no explanation for their occur-
rence.
It appears Air Force "security
measures" provided no protection
against the "invasion." One month
later, on January 21, 1976, UFOs "25
yards in diameter, gold or silver in col-
or with blue light on top. hole in mid-
dle, and red light on bottom" were
observed "near the flight line of Can-
non AFB, N.M." Ten days later, on
January 31, a UFO was observed near
a radar site at Elgin A~B. Flqrida. On
July 30, 1976, a UFO was observed
"over the ammo storage area" at Fort
Richie, Maryland.3
The above accounts have numerous
historical precedents. From 1948
through 1950, an FBI document
reveals, UFOs were sighted by "per-
sons whose reliability is not ques-
tioned," near highly sensitive military
and government installations, in-
cluding nuclear weapons design, con-
struction, testing and stockpiling sites.
Securify officials were greatly
alarmed by these incidents.'
A CIA document reveals that in 1952
"sightings of unexplained objects at
great altitudes and travelling at high
speeds" were reported in the vicinity
of major U.S. defense installations and
posed a threat to national security.
The evidence is clear and convinc-
ing that the Federal government has
systematicall~ !Disixμ'ormed the
American people about the real threat
to our national security posed by such
UFO encounters.
UFO As Advanced
Technology
The Government's position:
"There has been no evidence sub-
mitted to or discovered by the Air
Force that sightings categorized as
'unidentified' represent technolog-
ical developments or principles
beyond the range of present-day
scientific knowledge."
-Air Force, 1980
The official documents reveal hun-
dreds of sighting reports- many con-
firmed by tadar and other tracking
devices- that describe·-- unconven-
tional objects exhibiting advanced
performance characteristics involving
maneuverability. speed, size a.
shape.
A Defense Intelligence Agency
document reveals that on September
19, 1976, American-made Iranian jets
encountered several UFOs that
exhibited a technology beyond
present-day development. During the
night-time encounter, one F-4 jet,
upon approaching one of the UFOs,
lost all instrumentation and com-
munications functions. Another F-4's
weapons-control panel became in-
sophisticated technology- a technolo-
gy beyond our present development-
seems obvious. Why is it being ig·
nored by our government?
A Question of Survival
"It would seem a little more of this
survival attitude is called for in
dealing with the UFO problem."
-National Security Agency. 1968
The evidence indicates that some
unconventional aerial objects could
The Federal Government has system-
atically misinformed the American
. people about the real threat...
operable when the pilot attempted to provoke, either · intentionally or
fire at the object. unintentionally, an international in-
The DIA evaluation· (October 12, cident-with serious repercussions.
1976) refers to this incident as "an In March 1967, an intercept techni-
outstanding report" because the ob- cian with the USAF Securitv Service
jects were seen by many witnesses of intercepted a communication be-
high credibility; the visual sightings tween the 1lot ot a Russian-made ·
had radar confirmation; similar elec- uban · 1 an his command con-
tromagnetic effects were reported by cermnga OFOencounter. 5 Thetechni-
three separate aircraft; and CJ.all his smce stated that when the
physiological effects were reported by puot attempted to fire at the object, the
some of the crew members. Further· ,., MIG and its pilot were destroyed by
more, the UFOs displayed an "inor- the UFO. Furthermore, the technician
dinate amount of maneuverability.• alleges that all reports, tapes, log en·
A State Department message {March tries, and notes on the incident were
7, 1975) from the American Embassy forwarded to the National Security
in Algiers tells of "strange machines" Agency at their request.
seen near Algerian military installa- Not surpnsmgl~, several months
tions by "respectable people." Some of ~ter, the agency rafted a report en-
the sightings were confirmed by titled UFO H othesis and Survival
radar. uestion. Released in ctober 1 79
And another State Department under the U.S. Freedom of Informa-
message from our embassy in Kuwait tion Act, the report states that ~the
reports that during November 1978, a leisurely scientific approach has too
series of UFO sightings caused the often taken precedence in dealing
Kuwaiti government to appoint an in- with the UFO question." The Agen~
vestigatory committee from the concluded that no matter-what UFO
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Re- hypothesis is considered, "all of them
search. One UFO appearing over the have serious survival implications."
northern oil fields "seemingly did Comparing the UFO problem to a
strange things" to the automatic pump- rattler on a forest path, the NSA report
ing equipment. The equipment is says, "you would have to treat the
designed to shut itself down when any alarm as if it were a real and
failure occurs that could seriously immediate threat to your survival. ln-
damage the petroleum-gathering and vestigation would become an inten-
transmission system; when such an sive emergency action to isolate the
event occurs, the pumping equipment threat and to determine its' precise
must be restarted manually. When the nature. It would be geared to develop-
UFO ·appeared, the pumping system ing adequate defense measures in a
automatically shut down. But when minimum amount of time. It would
the UFO "vanished," the. system seep a little more of this survival at- ,
started up again, automatically. titude is called for in dealing with the •
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