May 15, 2013 By admin
The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, organized by Steve Bassett, was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, from April 29 to May 3, 2013. It was an ambitious undertaking, involving forty speakers who provided statements to six former members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
I was there the whole week, and must say that the
overall quality of the people who presented information was high. In a group
that large, there will always be something or someone to quibble about, but
it’s fair to say that nearly everyone who attended came away impressed.
That goes for the six former members of Congress. It
was not difficult to see their own personal evolution regarding the topic of
unknown phenomena, eg. UFOs, engaging the militaries and populations of the
U.S. and the world. I spoke to many of them personally, and they were clearly
impressed.
Steve kept me busy. He asked me to create six
statements, which I believe was the most of anyone that week. In addition to
this, I gave a full-length lecture (which, I believe, was also the longest
lecture of the week).
All formal statements were supposed to be ten minutes
long, and all of mine were written out beforehand. Therefore, I have decided
simply to publish the text of each of them.
Richard Dolan
May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013
This was my first statement for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. Indeed, it was the first statement of the entire
week of the CHD. I adapted much of this statement from my first book, UFOs and the National Security State
(V1), especially the
Introduction. I thought it would be a good way to kick off the week.
—-
Richard Dolan: April 29, 2013
The UFO problem has involved military personnel around
the world for more than sixty years, and is wrapped in secrecy. Because this
subject is so widely ridiculed, it is important to stress why it is worthy of
serious attention.
Stories of strange objects in the sky go far back in
time, but from the 1940s to our own era, military personnel from the United
States and many other nations have encountered unidentified flying objects
visually and on radar, sometimes at close range. These events happened not scores
of times, but hundreds of times, and most likely thousands.
Sometimes, the encounter was nothing more than a solid
radar return of an object moving at an incomprehensible speed, performing
impossible maneuvers. Sometimes it included the violation of sensitive air
space. Often it involved the dispatch of one or more aircraft to intercept the
object. At times, crew members have claimed to see a metallic, disc-like
object, sometimes with portholes, sometimes with lights, frequently engaged in
what appeared to be intelligent, evasive maneuvers. In a very few cases, it
appears to have involved the military retrieval of a UFO. In a few others, it
involved injury and even death to military personnel. In a very large number of
recorded instances, military personnel who encountered UFOs were adamant that
they did not see a natural phenomenon.
This is clearly a serious development, and it has been
treated as such by those groups charged with maintaining national security. The
CIA, NSA, and all branches of military intelligence have historically received
UFO reports and discussed the matter as something of serious concern.
And yet, the military and other branches of government
have created the fiction, for public consumption only, that the UFO problem is
nothing to be concerned about – certainly not the result of little green men.
We are fortunate that, starting in the 1970s, the U.S.
Freedom of Information Act began to help researchers learn some of the truth
that lay behind the facade of propaganda. We learned, for example, that some
U.S. military analysts initially feared that the Soviet Union might be behind
the “flying saucer” wave of the 1940s and 50s. They studied this possibility,
but rejected it. They also rejected the possibility that these were secret
American technology.
Indeed, options quickly narrowed. Either this was
something real and alien, or it was something “conventional” but as yet unknown
or unexplained. Already, by the end of 1947, a contingent of analysts at the
Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
believed that UFOs were extraterrestrial. By the summer of 1948, this team
prepared what they called an “Estimate of the Situation” stating the
extraterrestrial thesis. The response: the team was dispersed and reassigned.
Yet, thanks to FOIA and the courage of a few senior
officials to go on the record, we have a collection of statements about UFOs
that are so numerous as to be impossible to mention all of them here. But a few
might give you an appropriate flavor of what I mean.
This one is from General Robert B. Landry, Air Force
Aide to President Harry S. Truman:
“I was called one afternoon [in 1948] to come to the
Oval Office – the President wanted to see me… . I was directed to report
quarterly to the President after consulting with Central Intelligence people,
as to whether or not any UFO incidents received by them could be considered as
having any strategic threatening implications … .”
Landry went on to say that he continued to brief
President Truman, in conjunction with the CIA, quarterly for the rest of the
Truman Presidency. That’s no less than sixteen briefings. We might want to know
why a man as busy as President Truman would take the time out of his schedule
to have so many meetings about UFOs? And yet, we have no official transcript or
record of these briefings.
This is a statement from a Top Secret 1948 Air Force
Intelligence report, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.”
“The frequency of reported sightings, the similarity
in many of the characteristics attributed to the observed objects and the
quality of observers considered as a whole, support the contention that some
type of flying object has been observed…. The origin of the devices is not
ascertainable.”
An Air Force Intelligence Report from 1951, relating
to an aerial encounter by a U.S. fighter pilot:
[Object] described as flat on top and bottom and
appearing from a front view to have round edges and slightly beveled … No vapor
trails or exhaust or visible means of propulsion. Described as traveling at
tremendous speed….
And, one more statement from the early years, this one
from a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, in
1960:
Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are
soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many
citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.
How much clearer a statement should responsible
citizens, academicians, media, and political leadership require before
demanding to get some reasonable answers as to what is going on behind the
scene in relation to the phenomenon of UFOs?
Because the problem certainly did not end during the
1960s, or 1970s, or 1980s. It has continued to the present day.
During the summer of 2002, just outside this city,
over the town of Waldorf, Maryland, dozens of witnesses reported an incredible
scene: multiple jet fighters chasing multiple, large, and unknown objects that
were of blue and orange coloration. All the witnesses, two of whom I
interviewed personally, and several of whom spoke to national media, described
the amazing performance capability of these objects. The Air Force itself
admitted it had scrambled F-16s to investigate unknowns, and admitted it had
tracked at least one UFO on radar. We were told that the UFO simply disappeared
from the radar. The Air Force conclusion: it could have been “any number
of things.”
Perhaps we might like to know… precisely which
things?
What blue object can descend at an 80 degree angle,
then stop, then reverse course, and then accelerate away from two F-16 jets?
Over Chicago’s O’hare Airport, in November, 2006, we
saw the same kind of situation. A dozen United Airlines employees, including at
least one pilot while on the ground, saw a hovering disc-shaped object below
the clouds. It then accelerated away so suddenly that it left a hole in the
cloud.
United ordered its employees to silence, but one of
them reported the event, anyway. After denials by United and the FAA, both
agencies were forced to acknowledge that, indeed, those individuals had made
UFO reports. Again, we might ask: what might this have been, over one of the
busiest airports in the world, and why the steadfast silence and denial?
These are only some of the better known recent cases.
There are, in fact, an overwhelming number of them. The two largest websites
for collecting North American UFO reports, the National UFO Reporting Center
and the Mutual UFO network, have a combined total of well over 10,000 reports
every year. Clearly, many or most of these would turn out to be something
prosaic. But go through some of these reports. Many of them are truly
incredible, and many of them have indeed received followup investigation. They
are unexplained, and — at least by our conventional wisdom — unexplainable.
The combination of astonishing performance, powerful
statements from selected senior officials, and steadfast silence and dismissal
by our political establishment point to a problem. This is not merely the
problem of cognitive dissonance. It is the problem a political system in which
the wheels have fallen off the machine.
It is imperative in the name of science and
responsible public policy that we get those wheels back on, and begin a
genuine, open, investigation of this phenomenon. We demand and deserve answers
from responsible officials who ought to be in the know. And if they are not in
the know, we all need to investigate and find out just who is.
Thank you.
I gave two statements to the former members of
Congress and the Senate on Monday, April 29, 2013. Both had to do with
historical background of UFO phenomena. This is the second of my statements,
and I think possibly the shortest of the six. Like the previous statement, and
like most of the others, I adapted some of my previous writing. In this case,
my article, Twelve
Government Documents that Take UFOs Seriously.
——
Richard Dolan, April 29, 2013
Researchers of UFOs have long argued about many facets
of the phenomenon, but one conclusion shared by all serious researchers is that
it has become a central, albeit covert, component of modern U.S. history, and
indeed of world history.
But as everyone knows, you can’t have much of a
history – that is, a reliable, factually based history – without access to
documents. It is the documents of the past that enable us in the present to try
to puzzle through the complexities, and find solid ground, as it were.
Yet, it’s easy for us to forget that access to most of
the key UFO documents we now have came to us by way of historical accident. And
it happened to be a fleeting one at that.
All through the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, and well
into the 1970s, there were many thousands of classified pages written about
UFOs. Of course, the general public did not know this. Neither, it appears, did
most members of Congress. But then came the end of the war in Vietnam and, of
course, Watergate. This was a certain key moment in American history, a moment
in which the United States Congress investigated the intelligence community,
when it reopened the investigation of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And it was a moment in which Congress dramatically
strengthened the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, enabling U.S. citizens to
petition their government for documents not merely relating to them personally,
but to the nation in terms of broad issues of public policy.
Little did members of Congress realize that, of all
subsequent FOIA requests, the most popular category would be related to UFOs.
Indeed, during the late 1970s, over 10,000 pages of
documents relating to UFOs were released. The party lasted until 1982, when a
Presidential order by Ronald Reagan made FOIA substantially less user friendly,
and did not require many agencies to reply in a timely manner. The result was a
major ballooning in costs to those people making requests. The Glory Era of UFO
FOIA documents was over. To this day, more than half of all U.S. declassified
UFO documents come from that period of time over thirty years ago. Great for
the Carter administration, shame on the subsequent ones.
And yet we remain fortunate. Because the documents we
have, thank goodness, tell us enough. They give us enough of a history to hold
on to. They give us enough solid ground.
And their aggregate message is startlingly clear: UFOs
have been the subject not merely of interest to our nation’s military and
intelligence community, but at times the subject of concern and even alarm. But
how could it be otherwise, when we have report after report of violations of
sensitive airspace by objects that defied any logical or conventional
explanation? Whether the scene was Los Alamos during 1948 and 1949, or Oak
Ridge from 1948 through much of the 1950s, or the many military bases during
the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, that reported such events, the question remains:
how could this not be a matter of grave concern to those
parties responsible for maintaining the integrity of their airspace? And, not
surprisingly, we find the tone of their memos and requests for information to
be appropriately concerned.
As one memo from 1949 put the matter: “Information is
desired if this was some new or experimental aircraft or for any explanation
whatsoever.”
Such a statement was, in fact typical.
Indeed, the situation became so stressful to the CIA
and elsewhere that, on December 2, 1952, the CIA’s Chief of Scientific
Intelligence, H. Marshall Chadwell, wrote a classified memo to his boss, the
Director of the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith:
“At this time, the reports of incidents convince us
that there is something going on that must have immediate attention…. Sightings
of unexplained objects at great altitudes and travelling at high speeds in the
vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are
not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.”
This statement bears very close scrutiny. Here is yet
another comment by a high-level U.S. official that UFOs were real, probably
artificial, probably intelligently operated, and not apparently ours. Nor was
there serious consideration that these were Soviet.
If not American, if not Soviet, if not natural phenomena,
and if they appeared to be technological and under intelligent control, we
begin to run out of viable options.
It is access to documents such as these that enable us
to know with certainty that UFOs were a matter of serious concern to
individuals at the highest level of U.S. national security. This is important
because such levels of concern were consistently voiced within the classified
world, but never given out publicly.
Today, official pronouncements about UFOs by U.S.
government and military officials follow the exact same tone as fifty-plus
years ago. Unfortunately, we lack the kind of access to classified information
on UFOs that we once, briefly, obtained in the past. Yet, enough genuine and
recent UFO accounts have become known to us, many of which involve U.S.
military, that we can see very little has changed. Something important is
happening behind the veil of the classified world.
My question to you is: How long will current members
of Congress, and the public at large, be content to roll over and be spoonfed
nonsense by responsible officials, when in fact they deserve the truth?
Thank you.
I was asked to participate in the panel concerned with
UFOs and nuclear tampering. In fact, I was asked to prepare two statements,
although as it turned out, the Panel decided to combine the two separate
sessions into one, and therefore I only delivered the one below. (The second
statement, although not delivered orally, remains part of the record of the
proceedings.)
—-
Richard Dolan, April 30, 2013
From the beginning of the atomic age, there have been
good reports of unknown objects with extraordinary capabilities being in the
vicinity of our most advanced nuclear facilities. They certainly appear to be
interested.
We are fortunate in having obtained a few items of
interest via the Freedom of Information Act. It is obvious that much remains
beyond our reach, but what we have is certainly of interest. I’m going to
describe a few of these documents for you, but first I want to describe an
event that is not in a declassified document, but a written account from a
credible witness that really is quite fascinating.
This is from a U.S. Navy officer named Byron D.
Varner, who wrote a privately published book called Living on the Edge: An American war
hero’s daring feats as a Navy fighter pilot, civilian test pilot, and CIA
mercenary.
This book includes a UFO encounter by another Navy
Pilot, Rolan Powell. Both of these gentlemen was interviewed at length by the
then-head of the Mutual UFO Network, Mr. Walter Andruss.
Here’s what happened:
In July 1945, near the close of the Pacific War, the
Hanford Atomic Facility, located in the State of Washington, was one of the key
elements of America’s new nuclear infrastructure. Although by now no one
thought the Japanese could threaten it, there were still standby aircraft,
armed and ready at all times, just in case.
At noon, an alert was sounded. Radar had detected a
fast-moving object that was now in a holding pattern directly above the Hanford
plant. It was extremely high, and no one can see it at first. Six pilots,
flying Grumman F-6F Hellcats, were sent up. Finally, they saw it and flew to
intercept it. It was estimated to be at 65,000 feet. Extremely high.
No one could recognize it. It had what the book
described as “a saucer-like appearance,” bright, extremely fast, and very high.
The pilot Rolan Powell later described the object to be as large as “three
aircraft carriers side by side, oval shaped, very streamlined like a
stretched-out egg and pinkish in color.” It emitted a kind of vapor, he said,
around the outside edges, from portholes or vents. He speculated that the vapor
was being discharged to form a cloud for disguise.
The pilots were baffled and told to go higher. They
replied, “if we go much higher we can ruin these engines.” The answer came
back: “Blow the engines if you have to, but use full military power, full
throttle injection, maximum, continuous. Go for it!”
They were told that if the engines quit, they were to
“glide back towards the airport and hope that you make it.”
Even so, no one could get close enough to the object.
It didn’t seem to do anything. It merely hovered there, as if observing,
staying well enough out of reach. The pilots could not believe its ability to
hover like this. Finally, some of the engines did begin to fail, fuel
consumption got critical, and the planes returned to base. After this, the
strange craft disappeared as quickly as it came. It did not return.
The pilots had pushed their aircraft up to 42,000
feet, well above their maximum ceiling of 37,000 feet. A rather serious event.
Not surprisingly, there was no press coverage of any
of this.
Now, some might quibble that this is just a story,
unconfirmed by any government or military document. But this was a detailed
story from an experienced World War Two pilot, and you can take from it what
you will. We do, however, have a number of declassified government documents
that describe UFOs being seen over America’s nuclear facilities during the
early atomic era.
Several from the FBI describe a series of events over
and near Los Alamos, a central component of America’s nuclear program.
One document, from January 31, 1949, and other from a
year and a half later, August 1950, describe what can only be called invasions
of sensitive airspace by unknown and very extraordinary objects.
The first document gives specific dates for the
initial sightings when they began in December 1948. In that month, they
occurred on the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 20th, and 28th. The
witnesses were nearly all of very high calibler: Special Agents of OSI, Airline
Pilots; Military Pilots, and Los Alamos Security Inspectors. There was some
speculation that the objects were Soviet, but no reasons or evidence were
offered. Meteorites were ruled out.
The provisional conclusion was that this was either a
previously unknown natural phenomena or something man made. Except that no one
seemed to know of any project, anywhere, that could have caused the sightings.
After more than sixty years, we still don’t.
The later document said that a total of roughly 150
observations had been made. It noted that there had been three types of
objects.
First, the type known as Green Fireballs, which were
“objects moving at high speed in shapes resembling half-moons, circles, and
discs emitting green light.”
The second type were a bit more of the in-your-face variety,
that is, “Discs, round flat shaped objects or phenomena moving at fast velocity
and emitting a brilliant white light or reflected light.”
Third, the author writes “Meteors,” at which the
reader might breathe a sigh of relief. Except that he then writes: “aerial
phenomena resembling meteoric material moving at high velocity and varying in
color.” Colors noted were white, amber, red, and green. Quite a range.
Another key place where the U.S. developed its atomic
technology was at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Here is where the Manhattan Project had
established a pilot plant for the production of plutonium. UFOs were reported
from here, as well.
A declassified teletype from October 13, 1950 stated
that, the night before, an Air Force radar installation picked up eleven
unknown objects or perhaps more, traveling across Oak Ridge. These were slow
moving, and at low altitude, from 1,000 to 5,000 feet. Fighters were scrambled
but the pilots saw nothing. The teletype stated that “no reasonable explanation
for radar readings yet developed although operators are experienced reliable
personnel and radar set is in perfect operating condition.”
This was only the beginning at Oak Ridge. An FBI
teletype of December 5, 1950 wrote of six unidentified objects over Oak Ridge
from the previous day. It’s clear that people were scratching their heads, and
some wondered if there was a possible weather phenomenon going on. Yet another
teletype from the FBI’s Richmond Office, dated December 8, 1950, stated: “This
office very confidentially advised by Army Intelligence, Richmond, that they
have been put on immediate high alert for any data whatsoever concerning flying
saucers.”
Violations of air space there occurred on the 15th and
16th of December 1950, and quite a few over the next few months.
Recall that this was during the Korean War. A major
crisis was occurring on the other side of the world, monopolizing the efforts
of the U.S. military, and yet we have this statement.
Odd craft were seen for quite some time over Oak
Ridge. A fascinating document from late 1953 described a visual sighting of a
UFO seen over the facility. An F-86 fighter aircraft had just flown by, after
which a black object was seen to appear out of a high white cloud, about 12,000
to 15,000 feet altitude. It began to travel in large circles very rapidly for
at least five minutes. Sometimes it looked cigar shaped, sometimes round. Now,
in the words of the report:
“Object was extremely black in color, having an
appearance of a deep black metal exterior with a fine gloss. It did not leave a
vapor trail …. No sound was heard. The object flew east at a tremendous speed
for what appeared to be three miles where it stopped. The object was then
joined by two more of these same objects. A formation similar to a spread “V” was
formed and the objects, at a tremendous speed flew in an eastward direction.”
Rather extraordinary.
Incidentally, there is one more document describing a
UFO over the Hanford Nuclear Plant, which came up at the beginning of my
statement. We have an Air Force memo from August 8, 1950, which shows us that
Hanford continued to be a place of interest. Listen to this brief statement:
“Since 30 July 1950 objects, round in form, have been
sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant…. Air Force jets attempted interception with
negative results. All units including the anti-aircraft battalion, radar units,
Air Force fighter squadrons, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been
alerted for further observation. The Atomic Energy Commission states that the
investigation is continuing …”
All I can say is, good grief. Do you think they were
taking this seriously? Yes, I think they were.
These events were more than mere accident or
coincidence. Anyone charged with security over these vital installations would
have to take these events very seriously. Indeed, not to do so would be a grave
violation of one’s sworn duty to protect and defend such installations. And it
would not be hard to see why deep secrecy would dominate the subject of UFOs.
There are other incidents regarding UFOs and nuclear
installations that occurred in later years. I will discuss some of those in the
next panel shortly. There is even evidence that these types of events
have continued to occur much more recently, although they are harder to confirm.
And yet, the events which took place so long ago not
only demand a scientific analysis, but also cry out to be understood for what
they were: a key component in the implementation of secrecy so profound, so
serious, that they contributed to the creation of a state within a state, not
bound by the traditional American goals of public openness and responsiveness
to the people.
One might argue that such events are so serious that
the public really doesn’t have a need to know. Well, I beg your pardon, but I
do think that citizens in a free republic, if they are to govern, which is the
basic idea, do have a need to know the important things in their world.
Thank you.
This was my second statement on the subject of UFOs
and Nuclear Tampering for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. However, because
the two panels on this subject were combined into one, I never got to read this
to the Panel. It is, however, in the permanent record of the proceedings, and
is now here, as well.
—-
Richard Dolan, April 30, 2013
Earlier, I spoke about the appearance of unknown and
extraordinary objects engaging in what appeared to be some sort of monitoring
or observation of key American nuclear facilities during the very early Cold
War. I need not point out that this is a serious development, and one would
think that academic historians would find this to be something noteworthy of
study. And yet, to this day, there is not one single academic monograph or book
length study on any of this. There are a few serious works on the matter,
including my own, but none that come from a university setting.
This, despite the fact that the accounts of such
events are right there in the public record, courtesy of the declassification
process, and can easily be obtained not merely by going to the National
Archives repository in College Park, Maryland, but simply by going online and
hunting them down. It’s not hard to do.
One of these reports describes an extraordinary event
at Minot Air Force Base, in North Dakota, on August 24, 1966.
This base was a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base
at the time, with nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well
as manned bombers and aerial refueling aircraft.
That night, an airman radioed to the base about a
multicolored light, very high in the sky. A team went to the location,
confirmed the original unknown, then saw a second, white object pass in front
of clouds. The base radar tracked the object, which was as high as 100,000 feet
(almost twenty miles). The object rose and descended several times; each time
it descended, an Air Force officer in charge of a missile crew found his radio
transmission interrupted by static, even though he was sixty feet below the
ground. The object eventually descended to ground level ten to fifteen miles
south of the area. The Air Force sent a strike team to check. Apparently, they
saw the object either on the ground or hovering very low. According to the
official report:
“When the team was about ten miles from the landing
site, static disrupted radio contact with them. Five to eight minutes later,
the glow diminished, and the UFO took off. Another UFO was visually sighted and
confirmed by radar. The one that was first sighted passed beneath the second.
Radar also confirmed this. The first made for altitude toward the north, and
the second seemed to disappear with the glow of red.”
The incident lasted nearly four hours and was
confirmed by three different missile sites.
As with all good UFO reports, there are some serious
questions here. What kind of object could make the dramatic changes in altitude
that were noted? What was the mission involved in these unknown objects? That
is, what were they doing?
And — a real puzzler — who could have been
manufacturing them? The Russians? Really?
Of course, in nearly 50 years, nothing has turned up
to point to such a conclusion, but the real question is, what kind of
technology could have done that. In particular with the ability to jam the
radio transmissions? Certainly, what it looks like is that some agency with
tremendous technology was snooping around one of America’s key ICBM sites. Then
it just … left.
We have a few more nuggets, legacies of the Glory Era
of the American Freedom of Information Act.
On the evening of October 27, 1975, a low-hovering
object invaded the airspace of Loring Air Force Base in northern Maine. This
object penetrated the perimeter just three hundred feet above the ground.
Personnel inside the base said it had a white strobe light and what appeared to
be a red navigation light. It circled inside the base and came to within 300
yards of the nuclear weapons area, By that time, it was only one hundred and
fifty feet above the ground. For about an hour, while the object was being
observed, the base was on high alert status. All attempts to identify the
object failed. It then left and went north toward Canada.
Twenty-four hours later, the scene was repeated.
Security personnel saw an object approaching from the north at an altitude of
3,000 feet. It had flashing white lights and a solid amber light. Even though
it was under constant radar and visual observation, it somehow disappeared
several times. On the previous night, the base commander had been denied air
support; this time he received permission for a National Guard helicopter to be
dispatched.
Before the helicopter arrived, however, this object
did something rather impressive. It had been keeping a distance of at least
three miles from the base all the while; now, somehow, it penetrated the base
perimeter and appeared over the end of the runway, not more than one hundred
and fifty feet off the ground. Personnel nearby described it as red and orange,
and resembling a stretched out football. The object hovered in mid-air, then
turned out its lights and seemingly disappeared. Its lights went on and off
several times. When, on one occasion, the lights turned back on, the object had
gotten very close to the weapons storage area.
By now, it was 1 a.m., which means the encounter had
been going on for more than five hours. There is a record stating that the
National Guard helicopter unsuccessfully attempted to contact and identify the
object at this time. Then, for another two hours, the object remained inside or
very close to the base, as it was seen over the weapons storage area once again
at 3 a.m., completely unlit but visible to ground personnel.
Consider how ominous and provocative this action was.
When the helicopter again arrived to investigate, its crew members could not
see the object, even though the frustrated ground personnel plainly saw both
objects. Shortly after, the unknown craft flew off. It had been inside the base
for seven hours.
Those who insist upon conventional explanations to
this event might consider the possibility of the intruder being a helicopter.
The problem is that no one heard any sounds from the object, despite its low
altitude. Moreover, several times, personnel could see its shape, yet none
described it as a helicopter. As with the other incursions of this period, the
identity of this intruder has never been confirmed.
Equally fascinating were the events of November 7 and
8, 1975 at Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base. The base contained ICBMs over a
very large area. At 3 p.m., electronic sensors detected an intrusion at
one of the missile sites. A Sabotage Alert Team was ordered to investigate, and
when the members came to within a mile of the site, they reported by radio that
they could see a bright glowing orange disk, as large as a football field. It
was simply hovering there, over the missile site. It was apparently an
unsettling sight to behold, because when they were ordered to proceed to the
site, the men refused to go any further.
The object soon began to rise, whereupon it was
registered on NORAD radar. F-106 interceptors were scrambled, but the object
continued to rise to the incredible altitude of 200,000 feet. This is more than
double the ceiling of the ultra-high flying U-2 spy plane, and the intercepting
jets never saw the object. Upon inspection, a missile at the site showed
indications that its computerized targeting system had been tampered with, and
it had to be removed. It would appear that the UFO was responsible.
More UFOs were reported the following night at the
base. Once again, two F-106s were scrambled, whereupon ground personnel
observed a cat-and-mouse game during which the UFOs turned off their lights
each time the jets approached. When the jets departed, the objects would turn
their lights back on. Clearly, these objects were able to outclass American
intercepting jets with ease.
There are other stories indicating UFO interest in
nuclear technology and weapons. The problem is that many are unconfirmed. They
may well be true, and the people describing the events often have high
credibility. But again, our efforts are hampered, frankly, by an excess of
restrictions that have been placed upon the public’s legitimate right to know.
It has been over thirty years since FOIA was truly convenient to UFO
researchers, in which new and fresh information could be obtained.
We are so busy congratulating ourselves on being a
free society, that many people have forgotten actually to look long and hard at
what kind of system has been evolving over the years. Former President
Eisenhower warned, many years ago, of the dangers posed by the growing
Military-Industrial complex.
Indeed, our nation and world have transformed so
radically since that time, yet we still use the same terminology as before: we
talk about democracy and republican institutions. But, as long as citizens
are shut out from what they need to know if they are to govern, these are
meaningless words today. By removing such key information, the result is that
citizens become infantilized, ignorant, dulled, distracted, and no longer able
to fulfill the critical role they need to in order to maintain a free society.
The appearance of unknown craft and highly advanced
technology is something that affects not merely national security interests,
but the entire world and everyone in it. We are not served by dealing with this
in an atomized, isolated manner. We need to organize, we need to share data, we
need to share ideas, and mostly we need to act intelligently in a coordinated
fashion. And yet, every step of the way, there has been a silent, yet
overpowering, player, embedded somewhere in the U.S. national security
structure, that is immune to public inquiry, and certainly does not support the
public’s legitimate interest in learning the full truth of what I believe to be
the most important existential development of our time. The appearance of … let
us call them Others, here on planet Earth, interacting in some
manner with humanity.
Thank you.
I gave two statements to the panel members of the
Citizen Hearing on Disclosure for its final day, May 3, 2013. Personally, they
are my two favorite statements. This one is on the Truth Embargo, a phrase
coined by the Hearing organizer, Steve Bassett. I ran out of time before I
could read the last few paragraphs of this statement. The statement in its
entirety is below.
—-
Richard Dolan, May 3, 2013.
One of the striking thing about UFOs is the
discrepancy between the quantity of astonishing sightings on the one hand, and
the lack of responsible treatment of it by our major media, our academic and
scientific institutions, and our political system.
This is a shame, because there is very good research
is being done every day. Many of those researchers have been here this week.
Others are out there, too, such as the National Aviation Reporting Center on
Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), which collects and analyzes encounters that the
aviation industry has with unknown objects. There are thousands of such cases.
Another group is Project 1947, which has done documented UFO phenomena during
the early cold war years. There are outstanding research websites, such as
UFOevidence.org. There are also many excellent research groups in Europe and
elsewhere in the world.
None of them get any love from America’s dumdum media,
which prefers to lump the whole subject into a big tin foil hat and instead
write about the latest escapades of Kim Kardashian.
But this is a symptom of a deeper problem. To
understand why there is a truth embargo we need to come to terms with the fact
that America’s major media groups lost their independence a long time ago. We
all know about media consolidation, we all know about the intimate
relationships that have existed for years between the elite members in the
corporate media empire and the political leadership, and particular with the
military and intelligence community.
Last year — one example only — it was learned that the
Pentagon spends some $4 billion a
year to sway public opinion. Aside from asking just why Americans ought to be paying their own
government to brainwash them — I mean, talk about getting shafted both ways —
this is simply one facet of many that highlights a revolving door through which
passes the military-industrial complex, the media, the academic community, and
more. National Security money, which is our nation’s greatest and most
egregious waste of all, has infiltrated everything, and that certainly means
the once-upon-a-time integrity of our journalists and media corporations.
This is repugnant to any freedom loving people. But
those individuals benefitting from this system are not freedom loving — unless
they mean their own freedom.
The bottom line is that, because UFOs are a definite
matter of national security, those national security decision makers have made
it certain that this subject remains out of sight as much as possible. Is this
not obvious, by now?
Why would they do this? Well, many reasons.
Let’s touch on the matter of oil. Because even a child
can understand that that these objects do not need oil to travel from Point A
to Point B. Whatever powers flying saucers is something different, something
better. So if the President were to announce the reality of these things, how
long do you think it would be before scientists openly begin to study the
nature of the propulsion and power system of UFOs? This would immediately
challenge oil, not simply as the world’s leading source of power. But it would
severely threaten the entire global financial system, which is based on oil.
Probably 90 percent of the value of any product you can think of is determined
by the energy that went into making and transporting it. In most cases, that
means oil. To say nothing of the millions of jobs that rely on the petroleum
industry. We’re talking One. Big. Overhaul. Of everything that matters in the
global economy.
Can we think for an instant that those individuals “in
the know” haven’t thought about this?
Especially if there is that Holy Grail involved: some
form of free energy. What if this new form of energy can’t easily be monetized?
What if? Could the global financial structure afford free energy? A perverse
question, to be sure, but one that has to be important to those individuals at
the top of the human power structure.
And of course, there is the political nightmare. Any
announcement of this reality would come at the cost of worldwide public anger.
No one wants to learn they have been lied to for an entire human lifetime. They
would want to know just how this secret was kept. That’s a big key right there.
That would lead inevitably to questions about why Congress was kept out of the
loop, why our major institutions missed the boat, and just who has been
managing the secret.
That would lead, obviously, to a wholesale
investigation of Black Budget America. Shining sunlight into a very dark place.
What might we find? Well, consider, just consider,
that Roswell was indeed what the researchers here two days ago discussed so
eloquently and cogently. That it was the retrieval of alien technology, and
perhaps bodies. In fact, there are a number of well researched UFO crash
events. Suppose for a moment that it happened.
That would mean that the coverup involves much more
than mere knowledge of other beings here on Planet Earth. It would mean there
is possession of such advanced technology as to be nearly incomprehensible, at
least at first. Hard to consider, right? And yet, an inevitable conclusion.
So, what happens when teams of brilliant scientists,
with total secrecy, and nearly limitless black budget funds, are able to study
recovered alien technology for many years, and even decades?
Could it not be that, given enough time and effort,
even if they couldn’t replicate what they found, they might have learned a few
things. Such claims have been made, and it is reasonable to suppose that
breakthroughs would have been made. Breakthroughs such as solid-state
electronics, fiber optics, high-tensile fibers, lasers, and an array of other
money-making opportunities for the defense and other industries. None of this
has been proven, but it is also true that the private research undertaken in
classified environments is not easy for outside researchers to observe. In
fact, it would be be very easy to hide the Roswell connection in the historical
treatment of these and other technologies.
Another relevant consideration of such breakthroughs
is that they would reduce to zero any incentive to reveal the secret to the
public. Why give up the goose that lays golden eggs?
But now matters become even more interesting. Because
what if some of the breakthroughs were even more significant? What if they
included secrets to what is known as field propulsion or electrogravitics? What
if they led to a new source of energy, something that could replace petroleum?
To those managing these Special Access Programs, they
could never allow such breakthroughs to see the light of day. Of course, those
scientists doing the research would need to continue and learn everything they
could about electrogravitics, antigravity, new sources of energy, and any
related topics.
Consider also, what happens when such breakthroughs
become classified? We know it happens, all too frequently, that public science
has become hostage to national security. What we are looking at is a situation
in which the classified, black budget world — at least part of it — has gone so
far ahead of the rest of us, that we may with justice almost look upon them as
a separate society. Something I have sometimes called “a breakaway
civilization.”
How far ahead might some of that classified world be?
Those of us on the outside, trying to peek in, can only make educated guesses —
or investigate occasional leaks. My own conclusion, at least for now, is that
they are very far ahead indeed, with the ability even to enter and leave Earth
orbit with much greater ease than people suspect, perhaps a clandestine space
fleet, most likely a significant built infrastructure, a large portion of which
is deep underground. And even — why not? — interactions or encounters with
non-human intelligences. Why would that be so impossible?
To what extent would such a group even answer to the
President of the United States? Do they, rather, answer to private
international financial powers, which is basically how the entire world already
operates?
I had a long conversation once with a retired senior
intelligence official. He had given briefings to President Reagan. This man
knows a very great deal about UFOs. He told me that he has spoken to 18 former
Presidents, CIA Directors, and DoD Secretaries about UFOs. Their attitudes fell
into three categories. One group, of roughly 3 or 4 of them, said essentially,
“what’s wrong with you? why wasted your time with that nonsense?” Another
equally small group made it clear that they had been briefed on the matter and
knew this was very serious. But the largest group, at least half of these
individuals, who had been at the pinnacle of power, said, “you know about UFOs?
I would love to know about that but got nowhere. Can you share what you know?”
In other words, our top political leadership, with a
few exceptions, is locked out of this subject. Because they come and go, but
the programs managers are lifers. They seem to answer to someone else.
Recall the words of the late Senator Daniel Inouye
from 1987.
“There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force,
its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own
ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free
from the law itself.”
He was onto something.
The things that are real are the things that are denied
to us. The things that we see in our corporate-controlled media are the most
illusory. This is no accident.
But not everyone can sit passively, avoiding the difficult questions.
It is up to those people who care enough to become warriors for truth. I don’t
pretend this is easy. It can be maddeningly difficult. In so doing, we find
ourselves at odds with a formidable structure of power.
Still, in the context of something as brief and
ephemeral as a human life, what can be more rewarding, what more worthy, than
an unswerving dedication to the fight for Truth?
Thank you.
This was my sixth and final statement to the Panel for
the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, which ran from April 29 to May 3, 2013. All
week long, the panel members, who were all former members of the U.S. House of
Representatives and Senate, had listened to testimony and statements that
clearly shocked them at times, and prompted them to want to learn more. I did
not feel I could have made my two final statements until the very last day,
when I felt they would be more likely to be ready for them. Fittingly, my final
statement was on Disclosure.
—-
Richard Dolan, May 3, 2013
I’ve often felt that disclosure on the matter of UFOs
and possible ETs is a paradox. It is impossible, but it is inevitable.
Impossible because there is no political motivation
for it. Period.
Inevitable, however, because our leaders are not the
only factor in the equation. There are the other beings, after all. But mainly,
there’s us. The People. Who are going through the greatest social, cultural,
and especially technological transformation in the history of humanity. In
fact, we are the game changers.
Someday, and it won’t be too long in the future,
something is going to force someone’s hand. It could be a major sighting, a
major leak, something. Something that can no longer be denied. After all, we
are fast approaching what experts in artificial intelligence call the
Singularity, when computing intelligence exceeds our own. In such a future, can
we really think we will still be stuck in neutral on this issue?
Something will force the President’s hand. He or she
will finally hold that long awaited press conference and make that bombshell
understatement:
“I have been advised by the national Security Council,
and heads of our intelligence community that there is a reality to some of the
UFO phenomenon, in that some UFOs are real physical craft not manufactured by
any known civilization on earth.”
Or, words to that effect. It’s the kind of statement
that many proponents of UFO disclosure would like to hear, but the real
question is, what next? Because there will be quite a few follow-up questions.
At the top of the list will be questions about who
these other beings are and what their agenda might be. This will be a very
difficult question for any President to answer. In the first place, there is a
likelihood that even the leaders of the black budget/breakaway society that
have been on top of this for years, they may not even know. Or at least not
fully. And what if they do know? And, moreover, what if at least some of that
answer includes information that might be deeply upsetting?
Divining the intentions of non-human visitors–or
permanent residents–might not be the easiest thing to do, but it’s entirely
possible, judging from the data we do have, that some of them don’t really care
very much about humanity. Some may, some may not. What if an agenda has been
determined within the intelligence community, and this agenda includes
something to do with alleged abduction phenomena? And even if that isn’t true,
does any President honestly believe he or she can contain rampant speculation
along these lines?
Even if the intentions of these other beings are said
to be neutral or positive, there will clearly be tremendous suspicion by large
swaths of humanity. This will not be an easy sell. There will already be a
sizable number of people predisposed to interpreting these other these beings
as nothing less than demonic. Short of bringing one of these entities to a
podium and subjecting it to hours and days and weeks of questions by an
insatiable public, it is very likely that any moment of disclosure will not satisfy
the public the way it would like to be regarding these alien motivations.
That’s only the beginning of the problems. One early
and obvious question that will arise, one which will have deep, profound
political implications, will be the very simple “how have you managed to keep
this secret all these years?”
Consider that our entire society has been told that
UFOs do not represent anything truly anomalous, that ET’s or aliens are
definitely not here on Earth interacting with us, that UFO believers may be
well-meaning but had been mistaken about all of that. This has been a mindset
embedded within all of our major institutions. Our educational institutions
from primary school through universities and postdoctoral levels. Throughout
our major news organizations, in which an open belief in UFOs is a third rail for
one’s career. Throughout our scientific establishment for sure, and also
throughout our political structure.
Political careers have been destroyed, or at least
severely undermined, by the UFO taint. Remember what happened to Dennis
Kucinich in 2008 after it became known that many years before he had seen a
UFO. Never mind the fact that the two witnesses he had been with came out and
corroborated the sighting. They saw the same thing.
All of these institutions and others have treated the
UFO topic as nothing more than a joke, something suitable for immature minds.
Can it really be that professors throughout the United States uniformly have
dismissed this phenomenon without any cooperation from the intelligence
community? Ditto with the world of science, politics, and media? Well, no, not
when the most modest amount of research shows strong intelligence community
influence over all of those institutions.
In other words people will see very clearly that the
national security apparatus has created a global culture that has suffocated
the truth. Researchers will begin to investigate in a serious way just how
these relationships have undermined the credibility of all of those
institutions, and undermined our apprehension of truth.
The result will be a major cultural and institutional
housecleaning. But it won’t stop there. Citizens will naturally want to know
specifics about the structure of secrecy itself. That is, they will want to
know, if the US president has been out of the loop all these years, as it
seems, then who exactly has been in the loop? Who has been running the UFO
cover-up?
If the answer is anything along the lines of my own
research so far, it will show that the cover-up has long ago gravitated away
from formal presidential authority into international and private hands. It’s
not that the U.S. President is a non-player in all of this, but rather is more
like the public face of the true power elite that stands behind. We all have
come to understand this when it comes to power in general, and this will likely
be the case when we begin a sophisticated analysis of UFO secrecy.
In other words, the moment of disclosure will trigger
an intellectual revolution worldwide relating to the true structure of power on
planet Earth. It will be a moment in which the world sees and acknowledges that
the Emperor is wearing nothing at all.
The political fallout will be tremendous, and a great
battle will develop within the first year of Disclosure. Think of it this way.
Just because the president has been forced into making an announcement doesn’t
mean that the CIA and all the other intelligence groups that had been managing
this will simply walk away from the table. There has been a concerted effort
spanning an entire human lifetime to control this topic. A great deal has been
invested, and mere disclosure is not going to change that. The real issue in
the immediate post-disclosure world will be: who controls the spin on the
story?
Because right away there will be a great divide, a
chasm. Once this topic is available for open discussion, you can be sure that
people around the world will be demanding answers. You can be just as sure that
on the other side of the fence, information will be handed out as sparingly as
possible. Government spin doctors will be out in great numbers trying to
control the situation according to national security policy, but this time
independent UFO researchers may very well get a public hearing that they had
never gotten before. If the official spokespersons are making misleading or
false statements, it’s going to be much easier, post-disclosure, for
independent researchers to point this out. Because this time, the world will be
much more likely to listen. And there will be many, many more investigators
into this topic after disclosure than there are today. How all that will turn
out only time will tell.
There are so many other messy issues relating to
global finance, energy, truth commissions, lawsuits, cultural transformations,
cultural wars, religious/spiritual changes, scientific paradigm shifts, and
ultimately geopolitical changes that will allow us to meet the challenge of
“others” here on Planet Earth in some sort of coordinated, hopefully logical
manner, and even more hopefully, in some way that answers to the people rather
than a handful of elite human players.
For that, we will need a groundswell of public
pressure from below, and tremendous political energy, ethics, and courage to
take on the black budget culture that has dominated this subject for so long,
and begin a long, hard fight to reclaim some measure of freedom and dignity for
humanity while we begin a new, better, and more mature phase of our existence.
Thank you.
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