Blue Book: The 22 Year Regrettable History

For 22 years, the military seemed to spare little expense in chronicling humans’ reported otherworldly encounters with glowing orbs, spinning spheres, and flying triangles.

All of it had been hidden away in archive files until the government dumped 130,000 documents worth of BLUE BOOK material in a free online database for the first time last month.

The project launched in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and just as the Cold War was gearing up. It concluded in 1969 without offering definitive proof of either aliens visiting the Earth or advanced spy craft launched by our enemies. But the goldmine of reports — witness names redacted — provides a snapshot of a nervous, suspicious era that drove our government to consider even the most outrageous reports.

Now with the articles and the top secret files no longer top secret we are now beginning to see a resurgence in interests about UFO’s and we are also beginning to see ultimatums by governments and indications that top ranking US officials are more than ready to make the announcement that we are not alone and that we have been seeking information from these alien beings and it is with that information we have advanced in many technical leaps.

The public’s imagination went wild with UFOs, in the forties and fifties and even though we are in the present are looking for disclosure, President Truman had already acknowledged the presence of UFO’s.

He never really went on the record to disclose who was piloting them, but he most certainly knew of their existence and the hysteria that they were causing around the country.

Between 1947 and 1957 radio and television broadcasts were interrupted by various saucer reports provided by Blue Book. It simply was the government doing a good job with public relations assuring the public that while there were many of these craft that could be explained there were still several that were very mysterious and most certainly had contact with the air force pilots that flew over the United States.

It was a serious attempt to find if there was any validity to a UFO crisis or just mass hysteria.

For the Air Force, it was driven more over concerns that the Soviets created a super secret weapon than if there were little green men. However that did not stop reports of flying craft landing in various areas with occupants walking out of their various flying craft to see the earth.

In the end, many of the more than 12,000 sightings diligently investigated by the Air Force were chalked up to weather phenomena, meteors, satellites, a bright planet, balloons, birds or overactive imaginations.

The latter category would seem to fit the story told in 1964 by the lost hunter near Lake Tahoe, who swore he spent the night in a tree, firing arrows at three white “robot”-looking creatures, setting scraps of his clothing afire and hurling the pieces at the glowing aliens below.

Although the BLUE BOOK documents suggest the military’s time commitment was considerable, it wasn’t enough to please everyone. In 1966, then-Michigan congressman and future president Gerald Ford complained that the Air Force was dismissing scores of UFO sightings from his constituents as “swamp gas” and called for a Congressional inquiry into the phenomena.

He wasn’t the only famous politician to get an earful from his constituents about UFOs. In a letter to President John F. Kennedy, 63-year-old Alice Reynolds of San Mateo, Calif., said she was out feeding bread to the birds when she saw two stationary white balls, one with a tail, in the early morning sky Nov. 13, 1961.

She complained that she tried to contact the Civil Defense Control Center in Belmont, but it wasn’t open, so she called the police: “They were more curious as to why I (was) up at that time than what I called about,” she wrote to the president.

The UFO witnesses ranged from grandmothers to amateur astronomers and even military pilots, who should have known a weather balloon when they saw one.

Several reports included sketches, charts and purported photographs of the objects.

By 1969 the UFO reports had dwindled and while reports were still coming in, reports now included stories of being abducted and harmed by the occupants of these flying craft.

There were also saucer parties that were organized where average everyday people would gather in remote areas to try and catch a rogue UFO on film. The footage would show lights in the night sky executing some extraordinary maneuvers.

In Dec. 17, 1969, the Air Force terminated the project, citing conclusions from a University of Colorado report titled, “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects.” Researchers determined there was no threat to national security, additional scientific knowledge or extraterrestrial vehicles uncovered by Project BLUE BOOK. However, 701 sightings remain “unidentified.”

After that it seemed that the military no longer wanted anything to do with UFO sightings and yet the sightings continued and stories of abduction were now being told with the first being told by Betty and Barney Hill.

In 1961 Betty and Barney Hill reported seeing a UFO and experienced a period of missing time while on a long car journey. Under hypnosis they both separately described how they were abducted by aliens and shown around the spacecraft before undergoing medical examinations. Betty also spoke of the origin of the aliens which were of the Zeta Reticuli system but at that time it wasn’t discovered until 1969.

Of course this spun several similar tales of marauding aliens entering into homes and terrorizing people.

This raised questions as to what the aliens wanted. Were they truly here to help humanity or were they truly a threat.

According to some surveys nearly 2% of Americans believe that some strange intruder has abducted them. The abduction scenarios read like a recipe in most cases and there is also the same amount of people within the set of reported cases that are determined to be psychotic or delusional. The fact is that not every case is a true abduction case. This does not mean however that the phenomenon is not happening.

The handful of accounts that have no explanation are horrifying and deserve investigation.

If this kind of kidnapping and torture was carried out by a human agency there would be a consensus demand for an investigation into who or what was responsible.

Since such a small amount of people claim that these events are happening, governments have not investigated them.

There has also been the theory that world governments are involved with the abduction processes and that perhaps a collusion with aliens exists or the most horrifying of all, humans are carrying out these experiments and using the alien stories as a cover. After all, an “alien” would not be able to stand trial for these crimes against humanity. Abductees were claiming for many years that invasive procedures were being used for some higher purpose and that DNA was being sequenced in order to study humans. The invasive procedures included the removal of sperm, Ova, DNA, and human fetuses.

Abductees for many years were saying that they have seen firsthand that these aliens were able to extract sperm and ova from them but many claimed that they saw clones of themselves and clones of several other mammals in labs that were on ships. Many abductees made claims that the aliens were using their DNA to replicate alien hybrids. These cases were best known and heard in the early seventies and eighties.

In 1984 President Ronald Reagan, who was also a Commander in chief with an obsession with apocalyptic matters admitted during a Presidential debate against Walter Mondale to having “philosophical discussions” about Armageddon in the White House with some well known evangelical ministers.

Reagan seemed to be speaking ex cathedra on four different occasions about extraterrestrial threats before the end of his presidency. Reagan even spoke with General Secretary Gorbachev in Geneva about world wide differences dissolving if we had to face of a universal extraterrestrial threat. Reagan’s statements were confusing when on one hand he declared that the alien threat was already among us and that their agenda is war:

I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask is not an alien force ALREADY among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?

While many of Reagan’s comments were interpreted as ramblings about an alien attack, it can also be theorized that Reagan had his mind couched in apocalyptic thought and the possible threat of an asteroid or comet hitting the earth and causing a worldwide catastrophe. A threat from space would definitely humble the planet. It would be hoped that it would humble our leaders into becoming more aware of just how fragile our existence on this planet truly is. At the forty-second session of the UN General Assembly on September 21, 1987, President Ronald Reagan said:

In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.”–

In the 1988 article, “Ronald Reagan’s Obsession with an Alien Invasion,” A. Hovni wrote:

Gorbachev himself confirmed the conversation in Geneva during an important speech on February 17, 1987, in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, to the Central Committee of the USSR’s Communist Party.

Gorbachev was further quoted as saying:

At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extra-terrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion….

It is interesting to point out that Gorbachev never spoke of how weird the conversation was; he only commented that it may be too early to talk about such an event as an alien invasion. Did this indicate that perhaps there is a date when it would be more appropriate to discuss these things? Or have the governments of the world been planning on a date where they announce to the world that “life is out there in space” — or have they been planning on a date where they would stage an alien invasion?

On December 7th, 2012 Russian prime minister Medvedev during an on-camera interview with reporters in Moscow, continued to respond to reporters and made some off-air comments without realizing that his microphone was still on. He was then asked by one reporter if “the president is handed secret files on aliens when he receives the briefcase needed to activate Russia’s nuclear arsenal.” Medvedev responded:

Along with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the president of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet… Along with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country… More detailed information on this topic you can get from a well-known movie called Men In Black… I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic.

Western news sources reporting on Medvedev’s shocking reply about aliens stated that he was “joking” as he mentioned the movie Men in Black, which they wrongly assumed was a reference to the 1997 American sci-fi adventure comedy about two top secret agents battling aliens in the US.

Medvedev, however, wasn’t referring to the American movie but was, instead, talking about the famous Russian movie documentary Men in Black which details many UFO and alien anomalies.

Where Western news sources quoted Medvedev as saying “More detailed information on this topic you can get from a well-known movie called Men In Black,’” his actual answer was, “You can receive more detailed information having watched the documentary film of the same name.”

The reason(s) for Western propaganda news outlets deliberately distorting Medvedev’s words become apparent after his shocking statement, and as evidenced in just one example of their so called reporting on this disclosure of alien life already being on our planet where the title of one such article was “Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev makes a crack about aliens, and conspiritists promptly lose their minds.”

There was also some commotion in 2014 when the honorable Canadian minister of defense Paul Helleyer claimed that the United States are working with at least 4 types of aliens and that a Synarchy exists in the U.S. as he claimed government leaders are in touch with what he called “the tall whites.”

On February 12th, 2014, outgoing senior Obama adviser John Podesta reflected on his latest White House stint, listing his favorite moments and biggest regrets from the past year. Chief among them: depriving the American people of the truth about UFOs.

Podesta’s longtime fascination with UFOs is well-documented, as his brief political hiatus following four years as President Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff freed him up to pursue his otherworldly passion.

At a 2002 press conference organized by the Coalition for Freedom of Information, Podesta spoke on the importance of disclosing government UFO investigations to the public.

On Friday the 13th, 2014 Podesta tweeted his regret about the nondisclosure of UFOs and The Washington Post immediately recalled an exchange one of its reporters had with Podesta in 2007. Karen Tumulty had asked Podesta about reports that the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas had been bombarded with Freedom of Information Act Requests specifically seeking email correspondence to and from the former chief of staff including terms like “X-Files” and “Area 51.” Podesta’s response, through a spokesperson, was “The truth is out there,” the tagline for the TV show “The X-Files,” of which Podesta was known to be a fan.

A 2010 editorial in Missouri’s Columbia Tribune disparaged reports that Podesta had asked an outspoken UFO photographer to stop discussing his knowledge of extraterrestrial activities in public.

“One wonders why Podesta would do such a radical reversal, given his former plea for UFO disclosure,” the editorial implored.

But contrary to the Columbia Tribune’s concerns, Podesta had clearly not abandoned the cause. He wrote an introduction to the 2010 book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, by Leslie Kean. Unfortunately, Podesta will likely have little time to fill out FOIA requests in his new job at Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

However, Bill Clinton also reflected the same attitude Ronald Reagan had about UFOs and confirmed Podesta’s reports when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

After all of the new information that is out there, all of the data dumps and statements’ by officials. From Truman to Eisenhower to other presidents that have been upfront about UFOs what more evidence do you need that this phenomenon is real and that the alien disclosure was made at various times throughout history?

It seems that the information is now blatant and that there are most certainly unknown aerial phenomena that needs to be discovered and reported.

Tonight, Clyde talks to UFO expert and author Timothy Green Beckley, as well as Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center about the future of Disclosure.

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