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1956 - HIGHLIGHTS:
Movies:
The Ten Commandments; Anastasia; The Eddie Dutchin Story; Picnic; The Kettles in the Ozarks; The Forbidden Planet; Away All Boats; D-Day; The Great Locomotive Chase; The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit; Miracle in the Rain; The Sixth of June
Songs:
Heartbreak Hotel; I Want, I Need, I Love You; Hound Dog; Don't Be Cruel; Love Me
Tender; My Prayer; Only You; The Great Pretender; Singing the Blues; Whatever Will Be, Will Be; Canadian Sunset; Allegheny Moon; I Almost Lost My Mind; Memories are Made of This; Heartbreak Hotel; I Walk The Line; I Was The One; My Lips are Sealed; There You Go; I Want You, I Need You; Blue Suede Shoes.
General News:
North and South Vietnam were granted their independence from France in July.
The Ed Sullivan Show and The $64,000 Question are the top rated TV shows.
Other TV favourites:
The Perry Como Show; I Love Lucy; The Red Skelton Show; Disneyland; December Bride; Talent Scouts; You Bet Your Life.
American prosperity is mirrored in the growth of the automobile industry.
The newest wonder in U.S. industry becomes the transistor.
"Prosperity psychology" grips the USA as ads plug the "two-car family".
Norma Jeane Baker (Marilyn Monroe) completes her sixth movie with a firm image.
Elvis Aaron Presley, a truck driver turned singer, becomes a media hit at 21.
Nikita Krushchev praises and condemns Stalin for his leadership and paranoia.
January, 1956
Devices are being implanted by the GRAYS into humans, exclusively adults at this time.
Kidnapping, dismemberment and surgical experimentation on humans had revealed
what was desired and was now increasing government annoyance and threatening to alert and
frighten average humans. The implants would be one of two versions; each would be placed in
proximity to, but not touching the pituitary gland in the centre of the skull and resting within the
lower perimeter of the brain.
It should be remembered her that the GRAYS are NOT of animal origin, and, while significantly
advanced in their knowledge of the universe, interstellar travel, positive settlement and lifestyle
for themselves, and, forms of technology which humans cannot conceive of in their fantasies -
they derive from an insect heritage. Consequently, their knowledge of and respect for human
and animal physiology and identity, at this point, are only slightly elevated to that of human
appreciation for insects. In large part, humans -
1. Are frightened, disgusted, and annoyed by insects;
2. Insects have lived on the Earth 400+ X longer than humans;
3. Insects are more varied, adaptable, and hardy than humans;
4. The reflex action of many modern humans is to kill insects;
5. 75% of the species on the Earth are insects (30 million kinds);
6. Humans will be familiar with only a few 1000 species by 1996;
7. Humans routinely kill, preserve, dissect and mount insects;
8. Most human technology has been developed over 100 years;
9. Insects had 400 million years of development BEFORE humans.
The GRAYS quickly recognize the benefits of using hypnotic "animal magnetism" as an
effective means of controlling humans with fear reduction, post-hypnotic, and, persuasion-deception-manipulation techniques. This process requires more patience, time, and effort
than the former "retrieve and dissect" missions; the rewards are now more relevant for them.
At this point, the GRAYS have been surveilling the Earth long enough to have made the
following decisions:
A. They can adapt to the Earth's environment, with mutation;
B. Humans are too self-obsessed to present serious opposition;
C. The powerful Pleiadian options have been rejected by humans;
D. Humans appear to provide the best gene pool for mutation;
E. Primary importance is to synthesize a viable cross-species;
F. Self-destructiveness by humans needs close examination;
G. The successful adaptation cannot be self-limiting by war;
H. Implants would enable monitoring, tracking, enslavement.
Insect species seldom kill or devour members of their own species.
Individual members of insect species will sacrifice themselves automatically if such actions lead to the safety and
preservation of the society, nest, city. Insects have exoskeletons (cosmic and heat radiation
protection) and the capability of intermittent breathing (protection in noxious environments).
Insects do not possess what humans understand as emotions, intellectualization, morals,
compassion or empathy.
Even more direct in lifestyle response than reptiles, insects follow genetically transfered behavioural patterns, utilize highly effective and specialized patterned "intelligence", and, have the capacity to modify these "patterns" if presented with problems, difficulty, or failure. A good verbalization of their "intellect" is: "Do what you have done in the past and knows works; if that fails, try something else - until you find a successful approach; record the new and successful behaviour, design, or appearance in your genetic
library."
Once a GRAY-human hybrid colony could be established which was proven NOT to possess
those genes which appeared to promote ... undependability (individuality), lack of species
loyalty (intra-species murder), erratic behaviours (negative emotions), and waste (of food,
resources, energy) - then, humans could be "modified" and enslaved, or, eliminated - either by
manipulating them into doing it themselves, or, by a slight "adjustment" in the ecology.
The implant target of the pituitary gland was chosen for several facts:
a) Inaccessible to humans for detection or removal;
b) Proximity to "thought"-awareness nerve transmissions;
c) Protected from destruction or loss unless subject dies;
d) Major hormonal control centre for humans;
e) Humans know little about their brain structure or hormones.
Control the human pituitary gland and you can exert control over what the individual feels,
sees, hears, thinks - and, whether they remember or forget, become ill or stay healthy, are
flexible or obsessive in selection of activities, socialize or robotize, are conscious or asleep,
live or die. The pituitary is the broadcast tower between the basic structures of the human
brain and the subsystems and individual cells of the human body. It is here that the messages
of the brain can be toned up or down by external interference as well as by malfunction.
Toning the pituitary function down immediately gets the attention of most humans.
They can become chronically weak and tired, impotent, slow in sexual development, susceptible to
illness, growth for height can slow or stop, low blood pressure may drain one's sense of
ambition and aggressiveness. The opposite malfunction too often simply appeals to the
vanity and pride of individual and group humans. The choice of which tactic to follow would
have been quickly determined. So subtle, so simple, so effective.
The sensors used would provide real-time immediate transmission to any GRAY receiving
station located within 1000 miles. The sensors were designed quickly. The GRAYS are
concerned with what works. There is no concern for the sophistication of the tool or its
mode of activation beyond that point of "Does it work?" Organic material was utilized for its
benefit of non-detection, cleanness of signal, reduced option of biological rejection. For
humans at this time, the concept of microminiature sensors, implants, and organic material
broadcasting -- were beyond imagination. Mistakes would be made in early subjects: their fear
would not be adequately controlled; their residual memory of the abduction examination and
implantation procedure would be too complete; their memory of their abductors would
almost blow the whole operation. There was a saving grace: human authoritarian civilization
itself.
Those with recall-memories were so totally unprepared to cope with such new revelations
that they experienced severe mental confusion (nervous breakdown) which was only
perpetuated by the rejection of their caregivers. Those who failed to escape insanity became
statistics: alcoholics, road accident fatalities, suicides, institutionalized schizophrenics,
paranoid delusionals, or, catatonic. Those who had escaped insanity and spoke the truth
were lobotomized, given shock treatment, or permanently dazed into oblivion with drugs.
Insectoid extraterrestrials "learn" quickly. Unattached to previous methodologies by
persuasion, intellectualization, emotional commitment, ego expression, or, moral correctness
- the GRAYS simply, directly, and immediately modified the procedure until it worked. In
all, perhaps 4500 human subjects were lost - mostly adults. But the sensors kept performing
- in new subjects.
There were factors involved with the implantation procedure.
The GRAYS possessed the technology to dissociate and recombine molecular densities of forms such that their own
bodies and those of their subjects could be "floated" through physical walls, permitting
abduction without the danger of detection by the use of hallways, stairways, doors and
windows. Also, it was simply more direct to take a straight path to the onboard examination
room than the normal roundabout human method. But the implantation of the "sensor" could
not be effected in the same manner: there was then a potential for strands of the organic
device to become "entangled" in the tissues of the person. That would make removal of the
device much more difficult and time consuming; it would also reduce the transmission clarity
of the sensor as well as its ability to receive signals. The devices had to be placed physically.
The nose and nasal cavity provided access almost all the way to to the target.
A small amount of tissue would have to be penetrated for the final placement only; bone was not in
the way. That final part of the placement would be painful - but so what, these were only
humans. Surgery was out of the question: it would leave noticeable evidence and removal or
exchange would be complicated. A professional spy does not close off the means for escape.
This was an experiment. Humans performed much more grotesque procedures on all forms
of life in their laboratories: thousands each year were imprisoned, injected, cut open, hooked
up to electrodes, sampled, ... eventually, after days or months of torture - murdered.
Absolutely barbaric. The GRAYS didn't imprison, were no longer dissecting or cutting open,
and only subjected their a few of the participants to pain for a matter of seconds. But the potential
blood loss afterwards in the form of a bad nosebleed was considered "unfortunate."
The severe nocturnal nosebleed, frequently but not always present in the first implanting
procedure for a human subject, would be the singular most easily identifiable symptom which
could draw suspicion to the event. If it occurred, the person would wake up with pillow and
bedclothes or bedlinen soiled. With some individuals, the nosebleed would happen later - the
disrupted tissues re-ruptured by hard exertion or a forceful sneeze or blowing of the nose.
The incident would almost always be dismissed as unfortunate but not unexplainable in
rationalizations. Longer-term effects would develop for many over the years that lay ahead.
Disruption of the nasal membrane and passage would encourage the chronic development of
sinus infections, cold-like symptoms and respiratory allergies. This would sometimes result,
especially later when children became subjects, in the person developing a habit of "mouth-breathing" such that they seldom breathed through their nose whether they were awake or asleep.
Physiologically, the individual's life system simply learned that the immune-enhancing
protective filtering nasal passages were usually blocked or restricted and the mouth and
throat were not. Such chronic symptoms could often take years to become manifest.
Humans are prone to adapt to such slow changes through a process of awareness denial. By
the time the symptoms have become clearly evident, the individual has usually rationalized
why they have them, or, the institutionalized medical profession has. Heredity has proven to
be a good excuse, uh, diagnosis. And, advantageously for the GRAYS, the human
destruction of their own atmospheric reality provided real justification for such chronic
symptoms to develop.
Beyond these minor difficulties, the sensors would prove effective.
GRAYS could transmit "motivating" signals to the subject. The sensors were signalled to vibrate the tissues in the
vicinity of the pituitary, effectively stimulating its production of certain hormones dependent
upon vibratory frequency, intensity, persistency, and, time of day. Symptoms of intermittent,
or continual, stimulation of the pituitary could result in any or a combination of these and
other behaviours: increased or obsessive or fluctuating sex drive irrespective of sexual partner
access; a feeling of strength and energy when the bodily system(s) were actually
compromised (leading to allergy and sensitivity formation as a result of obsessive or addictive
behaviours); premature development of primary and secondary sexual characteristics
(menstruation, breast development, testes maturity). There could be a tendency to tan or
sunburn more easily than previously. Higher blood pressure, higher level of anxiety and
degree of hyperactivity, and a tendency towards hypoglycemic development by increased
sugary foods all became possible, unless offsetting skills and habits happened to be chosen
and developed by the human subject. Most of these "symptoms" would be regarded in North
American and European cultures as "positive" and would receive little if any attention.
1956 - On January 2,
General Motors President, Harlow Herbert Curtice is made "Man of the Year" by Time magazine to honour the sale of 5,000,000 automobiles in the USA in 1955. More than half of the number had been manufactured by General Motors. Curtice had believed that the auto would make big sales in 1955 because of USA demographics: growing
population; growing bank accounts; growing suburbs; decentralizing industry; a consumer attitude supported by, and encouraged by marketing campaigns, that the boom would continue. Population statistics projected an additional 1,000,000 new families each year at the 1955 rate for
the USA. The two-car family had become a status symbol before the end of the year.
1956 - During the year
"The Exploration of Mars" by Willy Ley and Werhner von Braun was published by Viking, New York.
1956 - In January
the President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities (PBCFIA) was set up by President Eisenhower to head off closer scrutiny of intelligence gathering activities. It was composed of retired senior military and intelligence officials, ambassadors, secretaries to the military, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and others. It made administrative recommendations which were seldom carried out including criticism of Allen Dulles handling of the C.I.A.
John F. Kennedy would change the name and composition of the Board after the Bay of Pigs affair.
Members would include:
General Omar Bradley
General John E. Hull
General James Doolittle
David Bruce, Ambassador
William B. Franke, secretary of the Navy
Henry Wriston, President of the Council on Foreign Relations
Admiral Sidney Souers, First Director of Central Intelligence;
Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
Edward Teller, proponent and inventor of the hydrogen bomb
Edwin H. Land, engineer and president of Polaroid Camera
Dr. William O. Baker, electronics communications expert;
Vice-President in charge of research at Bell Laboratories
Nelson A. Rockefeller, psychological warfare and Latin American politics
John Connolly, governor of Texas and a "can-do" man
Clare Boothe Luce, Ambassador
Robert W. Galvin, chairman of Motorola
Leo Cherne, authority on refugees; Research Institute of America
James R. Killian, Jr., president of M.I.T. renown for resourcefulness
and others
1956 - During January
A Group of Chilean Scientists observe 2 cigar-shaped UFOs for 2 days off Robertson Island, Antarctica, where they are participating in the 2nd International Geophysical Year 1956-58 expedition.
1956 - During January
a Third Letter from Carl M. Allen (Carlos Allende) was received by Morris Ketchum Jessup.
It continued:
"Notes in addition to and pertaining to Missive.
(Contact Rear Admiral Rawson Bennett for verification of info Herein.
Navy Chief of Research. He may offer you a job, ultimately.)
Coldly and analytically speaking, without the Howling that is in the Letter to you accompanying this, I will say the following in all Fairness to you & to Science. (1) The Navy did Not know that the men could become invisible WHILE NOT UPON THE SHIP & UNDER THE FIELDS INFLUENCE. (2) The Navy Did Not know that there would be Men Die from odd effects of HYPER 'Field' within or upon 'Field.' (3) Further, They even yet do Not know Why this happened & are not even sure that the 'F' within 'F' is the reason, for sure at all. In Short The Atomic bomb didn't kill the experimenters thus the experiments went on - but eventually one or two
were accidentally killed. But the cause was known as to Why they died. Myself, I
'feel' that something pertaining to that Small-boat compass 'triggered' off 'The Flames.'
I have no proof, but Neither Does the Navy. (4) WORSE & Not Mentioned When
one or two of their Men, Visible-within-the-field-to-all-others, Just Walked into
Nothingness, AND Nothing Could be felt, of them, either when the 'field' Was turned
on OR off, THEY WERE JUST GONE! The, More Fears Were Amassed. (5)
Worse, Yet, When an apparently Visible & New-Man Just walks seemingly 'throo' the
Wall of his House, the surrounding area Searched by all Men & thoroughly
scrutinized by & with & under an Installed Portable Field developer AND NOTHING
EVER found of him. So Many Many Fears were by then in effect that the Sum total
of them all could Not ever again be faced by ANY of those Men or by the Men
Working at & upon the Experiments.
I wish to Mention that Somehow, also, The Experimental Ship Disappeared from its
Philadelphia Dock and only a Very few Minutes Later appeared at its other Dock in
the Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth area. This was distinctly AND clearly
Identified as being that place BUT the ship then, again, Disappeared And Went Back
to its Philadelphia Dock in only a Very few Minutes or Less. This was noted in the
newspapers But I forget what paper I read it in or When It happened. Probably Late
in the experiments, May have been in 1946 after Experiments were discontinued, I
can Not Say for Sure.
To the Navy this Whole thing was So Impractical due to its Morale Blasting effects
Which were so much so that efficient operation of the Ship was Drastically hindered
and then after this occurrence It was shown that even the Mere operation of a ship
could Not be counted upon at all. In short, Ignorance of this thing bred Such Terrors
of it that, on the Level of attempted operations, with what knowledge was then
available It was deemed as impossible, Impracticable and Too Horrible.
I believe that Had YOU then been Working upon & With the team that was Working
upon this project With yourself knowing what You NOW know, that 'The Flames'
Would Not have been so unexpected, or Such a Terrifying Mystery, Also, More than
Likely, I must say in All fairness, None of these other occurrences could have
happened without some knowledge of their possibility of occurring. In fact, They
May have been prevented by a far More Cautiously careful Selection of Personnel for
Ships officers & Crew. Such was not the case. The Navy used whatever Human
Material was at hand, Without Much, if any, thought as to character & Personality of
that Material. If care, Great Care is taken in selection of Ship, and officers and crew
AND If Careful Indoctrination is taken along with Careful watch over articles of
apparel Such as rings & Watches & Identification bracelets & belt buckles, Plus AND
ESPECIALLY the effect of Hob-Nailed shoes or Cleated-shoes U.S. Navy issue
shoes, I feel that some progress towards dissipating the fearfilled ignorance
surrounding this project Will be Most surely & certainly accomplished. The Records
of the U.S. Maritime Service HOUSE Norfolk, Va (for Graduated Seamen of their
Schools) Will reveal Who was assigned to S.S. Andrew Furuseth for Month of either
Late Sept. or Oct. of 1943. I remember positively of one other observer who stood
beside Me When tests were going on. He was from New England, Brown Blond
Curly Hair, blue eyes, Don't remember Name. I leave it up to you to Decide if further
Work shall be put into this or Not, and Write this in Hopes that there Will be.
Very Sincerely,
Carl M. Allen"
Several aspects should be noted from this letter by Allen/Allende. He:
1. continues to use the idiosyncratic punctuation style;
2. expresses the ignorance and desperation of such experimentation;
3. notes the lack of attention to longer-term consequences which had and would continue to typify human rationally constructed projects;
4. correctly notes the potential for antenna-like effects being derived from specifically shaped objects;
5. describes accurately how terrorizing fears within an authority
structured bureaucracy are magnified through ignorance to promote a concealment of the truth;
6. intuitively defines why many forms of interstellar travel are
inappropriate for most humans: degree of spiritual development required.
1956 - During February
Nikita Krushchev addresses the U.S.S.R. Twentieth Party Congress.
He described and lamented the abuses of Joseph Stalin, and of Beria
and his associates being careful to link the abuses to the individuals and not the system nor the
police as an institution. In the congress he stressed the unique relationships between the party and
the police and pointed out that the party and state control had been established. This was the
beginning of the theme that played up the KGB as the most faithful servant of the party, its "shield
and sword". This fused relationship was actually nothing new. It had been established by Lenin
and Dzerzhinskiy and it had made it easy for Stalin to savage the party and utilize the police as a
personal instrument. Despite the repentances at the Congress, neither Khrushchev nor Serov (the
KGB chief) could say they were innocent in the injustices which had preceded. KGB directors
historically have come from the Central Committee secretariat, a similarity to the appointment of
the CIA director. Krushchev essentially had a CIA with a National Security Agency directly
responsible to him with the "national security" rationale to cover their covert activities.
1956 - During February
A huge burst of Sunspot Activity occurs.
1956 - During February
"Operation Big City" was carried out in New York City by the U.S. Army.
A Ford Mercury automobile was modified so that bacteria could be
expelled into the air through the exhaust system as the car was driven through the streets of
Manhattan. Other Defense Department researchers entered subways and dispersed bacteria there
also. Both incidents were to test for the rapidity with which biological weapons could be
disbursed in urban areas. Over a period of more than 15 years, 30 such trials would be conducted
in major American cities by American researchers. They had begun as early as 1951.
1956 - On February 19
Radar at Orly Airport, near Paris, France, tracked UFO travelling at speeds of 2,250 miles per hour.
1956 - On February 27
The natural gas bill was vetoed by American President Dwight Eisenhower who stated:
"I am unable to approve (the bill).
This I regret because I am in accord with its basic objectives. ... since the passage of this bill, a body of evidence has accumulated indicating that private persons, apparently representing only a very small segment of a great and vital industry, have been seeking to further their own interests by highly questionable activities. These include efforts that I deem to be so arrogant and so
much in defiance of acceptable standards of propriety as to risk creating doubt among the American people concerning the integrity of government processes."
Eisenhower, the authoritarian paternal leader, spoke in generalities to "protect" his voters
from the reality of which he spoke; it also protected him from public support, or, criticism of
his decision or his value system. Lyndon Johnson, Texas Senator and Senate majority leader,
and Sam Rayburn, House majority leader had pushed the bill through the legislature.
Because Eisenhower was not open and specific with the media about his objections, unhappy
Democrats accused him of using his veto and idealistic words to signal that he had decided to
run for re-election.
1956 -
The USAF begin participation in the ZIP (High Energy Boron) "BLACK" high security research project.
Its share of participation receives $135,800,000 to provide delivery and testing of a beam weapon inspired by alien technology. The program is "cancelled" in 1959 so as to sever government bureaucratic involvement. A cancelled program cannot be audited or questioned and the "unsatisfactory" results can be "discarded".
1956 - On March 12
It becomes public that the U.S.S.R. is taking action to take control of the seas from the U.S. Navy.
The U.S.S.R. is building 50 to 60 submarines a year, and now has an in-service fleet of more than 400 submarines: almost 4 times as many as the U.S.A. The U.S. Navy has announced plans to build the first atom-powered, guided missile submarine, beginning the construction this year.
1956 - In mid March
First Party Secretary Nikita Krushchev of the USSR, at a secret session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in Moscow spoke for 3 hours about the
oppression by Joseph Stalin. In the early days, Stalin had been a devoted and truly great servant of the party, and in the decade after Lenin's death (1924) his leadership Krushchev considered indispensable. But in the last 19 years of his life Stalin had done enormous harm to the Party, the Soviet Union and the Soviet people. A drastic change had then come over Stalin - a "phobia" about treachery - and he had never been the same afterward. Krushchev went on to deliver a devastating indictment of what the congress in open session had heard described as Stalin's "20 years of dictatorship and lies." Stalin had contrived and falsified evidence against Party members whom he (in most cases wrongly) conceived to be his enemies. He murdered hundreds of old Bolsheviks, including 70 out of 133 members of the Central Committee in 1937. He had tortured people in order to wring confessions out of them. Even children had been tortured, said
Krushchev.
Stalin had placed complete faith in his pact with Hitler in 1939 and scorned warnings from Soviet diplomats in Berlin and from Britain's Churchill, that Hitler was about to attack Russia in June 1941. Stalin had erected memorials to himself all over Russia, including a Stalin statue at the entrance of the Volga-Don Canal, on which 35 tons of precious copper had been used. In his last days, Stalin had become paranoic. Krushchev said: "We never knew, when we entered Stalin's presence, whether we would come out alive." When asked why he didn't kill Stalin, Krushchev answered: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." The end had seemed to justify the means.
On a continent where the terror of human domination over and cruelty towards other humans had been a historical reality for over 1100 years, the survivors had learned to be followers, take orders, and forget about justice or dignity. In a land in which everyone had blood on their
hands for taking part in or looking the other way to allow the centuries of carnage, there had
emerged a ruthless leader. Like many of his countrymen, he began by carrying out the
immoralities asked of him by his superiors in expectation that some day the ideal of a just society
would emerge.
He intellectualized that the ruthlessness and deaths of the short-term would
enable the emergence of an orderly peaceful obedient union of diverse peoples in the long-term.
But once he had participated in atrocities and injustices as a means to an end, he had erected a
wall of distrust, vengeance and hatred against him. His only protection was the "sacrifice" of
the "intellectuals" and just and honest followers who knew what he had done and might someday
bring him to trial. That left the moral mercenaries, who for security or gain would trade their
loyalty to whomever held their favour. They too must die. No one to trust. No safety. Enemies
everywhere. Stalin had, with the assistance of the humans in contact with him, created a hell-on-Earth, for himself and many others .
1956 - During March
Jonathan P. Lovette, a USAF Sgt., E-6 classification, was abducted at the White Sands Missile Test Range in New Mexico. The event was witnessed by Major
William Cunningham of the USAF Missile Command from nearby Holloman AFB.
Both were out in a field downrange from the launch site looking for debris from a missile test
failure. Sgt. Lovette went over a ridge of a small sand dune and was out of sight to Cunningham
for a time. Major Cunningham then heard Sgt. Lovette scream in what was described later as
terror or agony. The Major, thinking that Lovette had been bitten by a snake or something ran
over the ridge to see Sgt. Lovette being dragged into what appeared to him to be a silvery disc-like object which hovered in the air about 15 to 20 feet off the ground. There appeared to be a
long snake-like form wrapped around the sergeant's legs dragging him into the craft. Admittedly,
the Major froze as the Sgt. was taken into the craft and as it ascended very quickly into the sky.
Major Cunningham quickly returned to his jeep and used the radio to report the incident to
Missile Control whereupon Missile Control confirmed a radar sighting. Search parties went into
the desert looking for Sgt. Lovette. Major Cunningham's report was taken and he was admitted
to the White Sands Base Dispensary for observation.
The search for Sgt. Lovette continued for 3 days at the end of which his nude body was found
approximately 10 miles downrange. It appeared to have been mutilated: the tongue had been
removed; an incision had been made just below the tip of the chin and extended all the way back
to the oesophagus and the larynx; the eyes and genitals had been removed; the anus had been
removed. Comments in the report indicated that a "plug" of flesh had been removed from the
genitalia and anal areas with an apparent surgical skill. There was no sign of blood within the
system and the initial autopsy report indicated that there was no sign of vascular collapse, as
would be found if death had resulted from bleeding.
This was unusual because in any human body
where death has resulted from a loss of blood or where a complete loss of blood is found, there is
vascular collapse. Also, a number of predatory birds were found near the body and indicated that
they had died after trying to partake of the Sgt's body. The body had obviously been exposed to
the weather elements for several days. It is noteworthy that the daily temperatures in this area at
this time of year are extremely hot and the rocky soil and lack of vegetative overgrowth intensify
the effect of the heat. A number of grotesque black and white photographs were included in the
report. William S. English first publicly presented a summary of the original report in 1987.
Major Cunningham was initially charged with the murder of Sgt. Lovette; the charges were later
dropped. There had been at least 10 of these types of abduction and mutilation events and most
had occurred near missile test ranges. On numerous occasions, again at least 10, a UFO had been
tracked alongside of a fired missile; in one instance, the UFO actually took a missile on board
while it was in flight. While these instances certainly increased the paranoia of the missile
development and associated armed forces security staff, it did not halt the missile development
programs. Incidents like the abduction-mutilation of Sgt. Lovette led to the creation of Project
Grudge and its general application to all spacebeings and all abductions - another frequent human
reaction - generalize and retaliate.
1956 - On April 7
Mrs. Elizabeth Klarer sees a flying saucer land near her home in Natal, South Africa.
She communicates with the occupant and takes a ride in the spacecraft.
1956 - In May
The U.S.A. ignores the Geneva accords of 1954 regarding southeast Asia by sending 350 additional military men to Saigon, South Vietnam, under the pretext of helping the
Vietnamese recover and redistribute equipment abandoned by the French. These men were
officially designated the Temporary Equipment Recovery Mission or TERM, yet they stayed on as
a permanent part of the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to help in intelligence and
administrative work.
The U.S.A. administration dispatched the TERM group "when it learned informally that the
Indian Government would instruct its representative on the I.C.C. to interpose no objection." The
I.C.C. is composed of representatives from Poland, India and Canada: India is usually considered
the neutral representative.
1956 - By May
Elvis Aaron Presley, a 21-year-old truck driver turned singer becomes known nationally in the USA for his rock n' roll music and stage style.
1956 - Dated May 25
Another Letter from Carlos Allende (Carl Allen) is received by Morris Ketchum Jessup.
In part he wrote:
"... You ask me for (evidence) ... I could NEVER possibly satisfy such an attitude.
The reason being that I could not, Nor ever would the Navy Research Dept. (The
under the present boss of the Navy, Burke) ever let it be known that any such thing
was ever allowed to be done. For you see It was because of Burke's Curiosity &
Willingness & prompting that this experiment was enabled to be carried out. It
proved a White-elephant but His attitude towards advanced and ultra-advanced types
of research is just 'THE' THING that put him where he is today. (Or at least to be
sure, It carries a great weight.) Were the stench of such an Experiments results
EVER to come out, He would be crucified. ...
However, I have noticed, that throo the ages, those who have had this happen to
them, once the vulgar passions that caused the reaction have cooled-off AND further
research OPENLY carried on, that these crucified ones achieve something akin to
Saint hood. ... I can be of some positive help to you in myself but to do so would
require a Hypnotist, Sodium Pentothal, a tape recorder & an excellent typist-secretary
in order to produce material of Real value to you.
As you know one who is both hypnotised cannot Lie and one who is both hypnotized
AND given 'Truth serum' ... COULD NOT POSSIBLY LIE, AT ALL. To boot, My
Memory would be THUS enabled to remember things in such great detail, things that
my present consciousness cannot recall at all, or barely and uncertainly that it would be of far greater benefit to use hypnosis. I could thus be enabled to not only Recall COMPLETE Names, but also addresses & telephone numbers AND perhaps the very important Z numbers of those sailors whom I sailed with them or even came into contact with. I could too, being something of a Dialectician, be able to thusly talk
exactly as these witnesses talked and imitate or illustrate their Mannerisms & Habits of thought, thus your psychologists can figure IN ADVANCE the Surefire method of dealing Most Successfully with these. I could NOT do this with someone with whom I had not observed at length & these men, I lived with for about 6 months, so you are bound to get good to excellent results. The mind does NOT ever forget, Not really, As you know. Upon this I suggest this way of doing this with Myself but further, the Latter usage of Myself but further, ....
It is my belief that were, Not the Navy, but the Airforce, confronted with such
evidence, (IE Chief of Research) there would be either an uproar or a quiet and determined effort to achieve SAFELY 'that which' the Navy failed at. They did NOT fail to, I hope you realize, achieve Metallic & organic invisibility nor did they fail to, unbesoughtedly, achieve transportation of thousands of tons of Metal & Humans at an eye's blink speed. Even though this latter effect of prolonged experimentation was (to them) The thing that caused them to consider the experiment as a failure, I BELIEVE THAT FURTHER EXPERIMENTS WOULD NATURALLY HAVE PRODUCED CONTROLLED TRANSPORT OF GREAT TONNAGES AT ULTRA-FAST SPEEDS TO A DESIRED POINT THE INSTANT IT IS DESIRED throo usage of an area covered by: (1) those cargoes and (2) that 'Field' that could cause those goods, Ships or Ship parts (MEN WERE TRANSPORTED AS WELL) to go to another Point. Accidentally & to the embarrassed perplexity of the Navy THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED TO A WHOLE SHIP, CREW & ALL. I read of this AND of THE OFF-BASE AWOL ACTIVITIES OF THE crew-Men who were at the time invisible in a Philadelphia NEWSPAPER. UNDER NARCO-HYPNOSIS I CAN BE ENABLED TO DIVULGE THE NAME, DATE & SECTION & PAGE NUMBER
of that Paper & the other one. ... Once on this track, I believe That you can uncover CONSIDERABLY MORE evidence to sustain this, ---- (what would you call it -- SCANDAL or DISCOVERY?) You would Need a Dale Carnegie to Maneuver these folks into doing just as you wish. .... The Idea Is, to the Layman type of person, utterly ridiculous. However, can you remember, all by yourself, the Date of a Newspaper in which you saw an interesting item more than 5 years ago? Or recall names of Men, their phone #s that you saw in 1943-44.
I do hope you will consider this plan.
You will Progress as Not possible in any other way. ... THE ULTIMATE END WILL BE A TRUTH TOO HUGE, TOO FANTASTIC, TO NOT BE TOLD. A WELL FOUNDED TRUTH, BACKED UP
BY UNOBFUSCATIVE PROOF POSITIVE. ... I, as first subject, Don't care to be Hypnotized at all. But too, feel that certain pull of curiosity about this thing that, to me, is irresistible. I want to crack this thing wide open. My reasons are simply to enable more work to be done upon this 'Field Theory.'
... IF HANDLED PROPERLY, I.E. PRESENTED TO PEOPLE & SCIENCE IN THE PROPER PSYCHOLOGICALLY EFFECTIVE MANNER, I feel sure that Man will go where He now dreams of being - to the stars via the form of transport that the Navy accidentally stumbled upon (to their embarrassment) when their EXP. SHIP took off .... Perhaps already, the Navy has used this accident of transport to build your UFO's It is a logical advance from any standpoint. What do you think ???
VERY RESPECTFULLY
Carl Allen"
Jessup had no background in engineering (the real utilization of known and suspected truths); astrophysics was still largely a theoretical endeavour (intellectualization of possibilities of explanation of reality) with no practical application (aerospace). Jessup was searching for (status quo) "acceptable" "scientific" explanations of UFOs. The increasing bulk of observer reports and interviews pointed to extraterrestrial sources for UFOs, not human ones. With the military background of Jessup and the coercive nationalism of the USA, which
discriminated against anyone who seemed possible to support Communism - anyone who
supported humanistic ideals of sharing, compassion, equality, ... - the last possibility which
Jessup would have wanted to entertain was that of a conspiracy by his own government
against its own citizens.
If, as Allen states, he was working for the Navy in 1943-44 on an
"Above Top Secret" classified research project, then his openness about the project now,
before the 30-year+ legal restriction expired - made him guilty of treason. Could Jessup
place his faith and support behind a man who could be convicted of treason and who asserted
that the American government was itself guilty of treason - in order to "prove" that UFOs
were of human origin? These suggestions were all too fantastic for Jessup who had a drawer
full of abduction and close encounter reports which were certainly not mediated by human
authorities. Several points can be noted here, nonetheless: Allen/Allende
1. accurately displays electromagnetic overexposure/trauma induced symptoms of hypersensitivity:
intense emotions, hyperactivity;
2. continues to express himself with the punctuation of intense expression:
overuse of capitalization and underlining of text;
3. correctly notes the historical pattern of the persecution of reactionary thinkers
by status quo authorities;
4. mirrors the popular assumption of the times that the results of hypnosis
are accurate and infallible;
5. correctly notes that the mind remembers all but does not recognize that
the mind can be "modified" to forget;
6. recognizes that the creation of the USAF, AFTER WWII,
makes it the logical centre of research and use of such technology;
7. betrays his almost complete ignorance (along with most other persons of the time,
scientists especially) of UFO "contact" reports.
The symptoms he expresses highly suggest a real exposure to high strength electromagnetic fields during a negative stress experience or set of same. These symptoms and the chronic hypersensitivity involved would not be recognized until the late 1980s. Status quo medical authorities would never acknowledge them.
The capitalization and underlining of many words and phrases serves to aptly illustrate 2
factors.
First, to the author, the words so treated hold a special significance as to their
correctness and importance. In status quo text, very words are afforded special treatment
beyond that necessary for regular orderliness and punctuation: most words are treated as of
equally significant or insignificant value; the logic of the text is supposed to convey
intellectually to the reader what the significance of the words, as concepts, are.
To the intense communicator, the significance is HIGH and NOW; it cannot wait until you the
reader figures it out; nor can the importance FELT by the intense person be presumed to be
communicated in any other manner. Secondly, the written portrayal of the intense feelings of
the author serves as a valve to dissipate the energy behind those feelings; otherwise, the
FELT importance of the information - directly proportional to the degree of trauma
experienced originally and through non-expression since - makes somewhat coherent
expression impossible.
Hypnosis, from the time when the state was first defined and described, has received little
understanding from the public. Non-medical, non-therapeutic and inaccurate portrayals of its
benefits and uses through circus entertainments and dramatic imagination have conveyed to
the majority of persons familiar with the word a totally fantasy and deception-based image.
The more specific realities of this state and its use would not become evident, or available, to
the public until the late 1960s, and, particularly, until the late 1980s. Even then, most
persons would shun the reality for the fantasy.
Hypnosis is a state of mind in which the perception of a human subject is focused, by oneself
or by a hypnotist, onto a particular event or period of time. Looking at a map or a forest,
one may perceive a great many aspects of the surrounding reality; however, the significance
of a particular dot on the map or of a specific tree in the forest is lost. Now, if one is directed
to focus one's attention on a particular area of the map and look for a specific feature, or, to
focus one's attention on a specific tree in the forest - a great many individual realities may be
further noticed by the individual than were possible with a wider field of view. In hypnosis,
the surrounding features of one's experience and perceptiveness are excluded, progressively,
until the reality of the individually targeted object becomes clearly perceived - apart from the
whole.
Accuracy of the revealed perception is dependent on a number of factors.
In addition to the true reality involved, perceptions may be skewed by the attitude of the hypnotist and
the questions presented in an effort to target the subject's recall or visualization. An
aggressive interviewer who in any way conveys signs of acceptance or disbelief or
expectation to the subject over a long period of time, either a long session or a long series of
sessions, will often obtain the response desired by the interviewer. This occurs because the
subject wishes to maintain a meditative harmony of calmness and openness with the hypnotist
and the expression of the hypnotist has broken that bond by introducing negative attitudes.
Allen/Allende proposes to strengthen the accuracy of the hypnotic sessions by the concurrent
use of truth serum drugs. Whether in a state of hypnosis or under the influence of truth
serum drugs, whatever the subject believes has occurred - that is what will be remembered as
fact. No allowance is made for acts of deception, manipulation, traumatic suggestion, and
other factors which are commonly used in political linguistics, disinformation programs,
crowd-induced perceptions, the movie industry, holograms, and status quo educational
programs. How many times have you accepted a piece of information as being true because
the mass media, your teacher, all of your friends and/or associates, your parent, your religious
adviser, your commander, or your employer confidently asserted that it was true (right)? In
an atmosphere of acceptance, patience, assertiveness, and openness, consciously unaware or
psychologically hidden memories can be retrieved. It is the environment that is rare, not the
capability.
The human mind has a normal manner of forgetting.
Anything which is not perceived with some form of significance by a subject is often relegated to the human unconscious and "forgotten." If humans continuously consciously recalled everything that their brain had
perceived through a multiple of senses, - within seconds, the brain would become catatonic
through overstimulation. Thus humans lose conscious awareness of everything which is not
in the "present". Those pieces of awareness which have imposed a special significance, or on
which a special significance has been superimposed, afford humans with reference points by
which to find and retrieve them. Often, humans remember specific information by targeting
their recall to reference points such as the date, time, or place which is connected to the
event. Aspects of a concept may be targeted for recall by a focusing upon the symbol or
word which represents the primary concept. Forgetting can also be controlled by a
psychological defense mechanism.
When humans experience traumatic (highly negative systemic or emotional events), their
mind often hides the memory from subsequent spontaneous or focused recall. First, it has
become a traumatic memory because of the lack of control which the subject has had over the
event. This lack of control would normally inspire the human brain to consciously obsess on
determining how to cope more constructively should such circumstances become present
again. If the event has also induced intense feelings of fear, recalling the event will replay the
negative emotions - which will alert human defense mechanisms: anger, withdrawal, violence,
paranoia, acting out, intellectualization, anxiety, ....
Many of these expressions are not
socially acceptable in large powerful human cultures, and, many are contributors to the
incidence of chronic illness; either can become fatal. Psychological forgetfulness is a survival
strategy for humans who live in non-positively stressed environments and experience
traumatic fear-tinged events for which they lack positive coping skills. A difficulty arising
from such a culturally mediated psychological pattern is that as a person ages within a
negatively stressed environment culture, his or her memory of their past will seem to
disappear. Eventually, one's memory of one's past may be minimal. These factors were not
widely recognized in North American culture until the 1990s, yet Allen/Allende appears to
make allowance for them in his letter. Such memories do not disappear; most of the time
they can be recovered by hypnotic or other therapies.
What cannot be recalled by humans is memory which has been destroyed.
Increasingly popular throughout the 1950s, though not popularly acknowledged, was the use of
lobotomies. Such operations called for the physical removal of part of an individual's brain.
Any memories contained therein were also removed. Also increasing in popularity at the time
was the use of electric shock treatment for the human brain. In modern computer language,
such a therapy does not only "erase" (conceal) the information - it "formats" (replaces it with
blanks) the brain such that the individual can never recall what physically is now represented
as having never been. In both of these instances, neither a truth serum drug nor the effective
use of hypnosis, nor the combination, will retrieve the memory.
Finally, Allen/Allende presents himself naively and directly as a person greatly troubled by the
horrors and wonders of his experience and honestly willing to sacrifice himself for the return
of his full memory and the positive advancement of his profession: engineering. He has
projected the fantasy-like characteristics of electromagnetic dematerialization - transfer -
rematerialization onto the then current fantasy-like characteristics of UFOs. This "error"
serves only to confirm the presence of identifiable electromagnetic hypersensitivity
symptoms, including incomplete or transient memories, and his state of confusion and
intellectual tendencies which encourage him to complete the picture of his reality and restore
him, hopefully, to a position of assured, orderly, contented sanity.
1956 - On June 4
It became public knowledge that a conflict existed between the branches of the U.S.A. military as to which should occupy the position of principal responsibility, leadership, power for the defence of the nation. The new thinking is that the USAF should hold the primary position with the Navy providing an auxiliary role and the Army participating less and less. Without the Berlin Wall and the escalation of the Vietnam war, the
Army would have been practically disbanded.
1956 - During the year
Marcel Vogel, a research chemist, sells his luminescence business and goes to work for IBM.
Back into research full-time, he studies magnetics, optic-electrical devices, and liquid crystal systems, developing and patenting inventions of crucial significance to the storage capabilities of computers. When first approached by a student who asked him about an article on Do Plants have Emotions?, he rejected the idea. Several days later he decide to take the question seriously.
With more prompting from his students, Vogel built reaction detectors to use with plants and had
his students run experiments to test the ability of the plants to anticipate actions of destruction
against them. Vogel, but not his students, detected stronger reactions from the plants which were
in threat of being burnt or uprooted than from those which actually were. Using his knowledge of
hypnosis and researching magic and spiritualism the response seemed to indicate that some form
of energy might be present throughout the universe, the disturbance of which explained health or
disease. Wondering if this energy could be stored like other forms of energy, Vogel asked a
spiritually gifted friend, Vivian Wiley, to test substances for that purpose.
Ms. Wiley picked several leaves from her garden and each day projected her will on the one to
live and paid no attention to the other. A month later she showed Vogel the leaves. The one
without attention had died and was brown; the other was radiantly vital and green. Vogel
performed a similar experiment with the same results. Vogel transferred his interest to the
experimentation of this "psychic" energy on liquid crystals at his IBM lab.
Vogel took hundreds of slides of the behaviour of the crystals and magnified them hundreds of
times to try and detect any changes. He found that by "relaxing his mind", he could sense activity
not visually revealed in the microscope field. "I was led by some form of higher sensory
awareness to adjust the lighting conditions to allow these phenomena to be optically recordable to
the human eye or to a camera." Vogel concluded that crystals are brought into a solid, or
physical, state of existence by pre-forms, or ghost images of pure energy which anticipate the
solids. Since plants could pick up intentions from a human, that intent produced some form of energy field.
1956 - During June
President Eisenhower authorizes personally U2 spy flights from Turkey over the Soviet Union to Norway for 10 days. Among other findings, the Tyuratam rocket and space flight launch site was found in Turkistan. Not even its existence had been
suspected by American military. Russian radar, superior to that of the U.S.A. tracked every flight
between 1954 and 1958; many complaints were made through diplomatic channels to the U.S.A.
In most cases, these were ignored. A total of 20 American flights were made with others being
made by the British. Most of the flights were made in 1956-1958; the last was made in 1960.
1956 - On June 18
U.S.A. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, said at his weekly news conference that the U.S. constantly asserted its neutrality in the first 150 years of its history. He continued, that if a neutral nation is attacked, world public opinion will be more favourably
disposed toward it than if it had "announced its military association with another great power".
These statements were quickly "clarified" by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who sought to
state the direction of American Foreign policy as one of strength-by-alliance:
"The principle of neutrality pretends that a nation can best gain safety for itself by being
indifferent to the fate of others. This has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except
under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. The free
world today is stronger and peace is more secure because so many free nations courageously
recognize the now-demonstrated fact that their own peace and safety would be endangered by
assault on freedom elsewhere."
1956 - During the year
The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (FIAB) is established by Present Eisenhower on the recommendation of the Hoover Commission.
Composed of prominent businessmen, scientists and other outside government decisionmakers, it
effectively provides capitalist-centred direction apart from the American legislature. With the
President's executive authority and control of unvouchered secretly appropriated taxation monies,
this action further decreases the democratic nature of the American government.
1956 -
A meeting of the Zionist World Congress results in an appeal to Communist European nations to allow Jewish emigration from their countries. Egypt (UAR) blockades the
Suez Canal and the port of Elath as a blockade against Israel. Soviet military aid continues to
increase to the Arab countries as do Fedayeen Egyptian terrorist attacks.
1956 - In late June
The Soviet KGB Department 7 begins covert operations to set up siphon skim sources for the purpose of making funds available to the Bilderburg Committee for extension of the goals of the Tri-Galaxy Government. The American CIA begin such operations
in 1957.
The intent is to find political idiosyncrasies which will allow large sums of money to be transferred
out of a sovereign country to a neutral banking center. There, such monies can be "safely"
embezzled from numbered bank accounts, or used to provide non-repayable loans - loans for
which there is no intent to repay. Agents seek personality weaknesses in the leaders of
developing countries and through destabilization of the politics of the country encourage such
leaders to transfer huge sums of money out of the country for safety or greed. Sometimes the
Soviets and the Americans will work together to bring about destabilization; sometimes they will
work independently. Other scenarios develop later to meet the needs of the market.
1956 - Early in July
Gamal Abdel Nasser, head of a 4-year-old military junta, celebrated the independence of Egypt.
The junta had overthrown a corrupt monarch, broken a feudal aristocracy's long-held power over Egypt's politics, disowned the fanaticism of the "Moslem Brotherhood" and driven British troops from Egypt after 74 years of occupation. Nasser had purchased arms from the Soviet Union earlier in the year and been promised the proposed billion dollar dam by the USA.
1956 - During July
Premier Diem of South Vietnam refuses to hold elections for reunification as defined in the Geneva agreement of 1954. He asserts that the South Vietnamese Government had not signed the Geneva accords and therefore was not bound by them. American State Department cables and National Security Council memos indicate that the Eisenhower
Administration wished to postpone the elections as long as possible and communicated its feelings to Diem.
1956 - During the summer
The Office of Naval Research (ONR), in Washington, D.C., which had received an annotated copy of Morris K. Jessup's book, "The Case For the UFO", called Jessup to their office. The notes hinted that the authors, supposedly 3 gypsies, knew all about the secrets of UFO beings called "S-Ms" and "L-Ms": the former were hostile to the human race. The notes had impressed some of the junior officers who wanted Jessup's opinion about the hostile
aliens. During the previous 12 months, Jessup had received 2 letters from a writer who identified
himself as Carl Allen in one and Carlos Allende in the second. As in the papers sent to the ONR,
the writer had declared that he knew all kinds of mysterious secrets including a "Philadelphia
Experiment" which purportedly happened in 1943. Jessup noted the similarity.
"The Varo Company" of Garland, Texas, ran a small printing of Allende's letters and the "Case"
notes, including an unsigned introduction written by ONR Special Projects Officers Commander
George W. Hoover and Captain Sidney Sherby. The introduction stated that:
"Because of the importance which we attach to the possibility of discovering clues to
the nature of gravity, no possible item, however disreputable from the point of classical science, should be overlooked."
The "introduction" was coached by the CIA department in charge of distribution of
disinformation about UFO sightings and was intended to provide a sense of credibility to a
sensationalistic unsubstantiated and uninvestigated report which was expected to later be
disclaimed, or, at the least, confuse the real findings about extraterrestrial being presence,
activity and intentions.
In 1969, Allen/Allende admitted to Jim and Carol Lorenzen, a Tucson, Arizona couple who
had founded and were directors of the "Aerial Phenomena Research Organization" (APRO)
that the letters he had written were "false .. the craziest pack of lies I ever wrote." He later
changed his mind, the Lorenzens's had given him little attention or thanks, and said that his
confession - had been a crazy pack of lies.
In 1980, the parents of Carlos Miguel Allende, born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, on May 31,
1925, confided to writer Robert Goerman, that their son had spent much of his life wandering
the United States, dwelled permanently in a world of fantasy, bragged that he had a fantastic
mind.
1956 - On July 16
The USA National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) concludes that atomic radiation is dangerous, and as the atomic age develops, the danger will increase. The media and the political establishment label all references and stated concerns, worldwide, as scare mongering, neuroses, and ridiculing any suggestion that radioactive rainfall could produce health, crop, or weather changes.
1956 - On July 16
A USA school aid bill to provide 300,000 desperately needed classrooms over the next 4 years at a cost of $1.6 billion, was defeated in the House of Representatives. The defeat was triggered by the amendment of Manhattan Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. which would have denied federal funds to school districts until they complied
with the Supreme Court's desegregation earlier decision. Each political party promptly accused the other of wrecking the bill. The truth was that both sides, by acting on politics and prejudice, had killed school aid.
Conversely, a $33 billion highway construction bill would be passed: the biggest public works
project in U.S. history.
1956 - During the year
"The Rockefeller Brothers Fund", established in 1940 (see Nelson Rockefeller, 1940) sponsored 6 reports on "specific areas of national life". The studies were designed to obtain feedback from societal leaders or persons of influence who were not then in government. Laurence Rockefeller wrote that those engaged in the project sought "to define the major problems and opportunities (that would) challenge the United States over the next ten to
fifteen years, clarify the national purposes and objectives that must inspire and direct the meeting
of such great challenges, and develop a framework of concepts and principles on which national policies and decisions can be soundly based." The project sprang from the brothers' and particularly Nelson's general sense of crisis about the state of the nation and its future prospects. Nelson headed the project until May 26, 1958, when he became an active candidate for Governor of New York State. Laurence presided after that.
Nelson and Laurence were close associates of past and present Presidents of the country,
military leaders, major corporate officers, community leaders, State Department heads, senior
Intelligence agency staff, and foreign affairs participants. They knew members of MJ-12, knew
of the recovery of the UFOs, knew of the prediction of armageddon which the REDS had
revealed to them, knew of the technological advance and intent of the GRAYS. They knew of the
agreements which their President and senior military leaders had made with the GRAYS and
were honestly concerned about how to enable the survival of the American culture, which had
given them so much.
One option was to aggregate as much capital as possible as quickly as possible, through
government funding and private profits to cover the cost of survival options. This could be done
through further exploitation of underdeveloped resource source nations in the Americas outside
the borders of the United States. In addition, they new that the government financing of BLACK
projects (secret military technology research and development activities) that millions of dollars
of taxpayer's monies and debt could be freely used to augment the capital pool (see Financing
Sources).
Also, especially Nelson, was aware that political "leadership" and public funds,
with the support of the media could be used to educate-manipulate the American public to do what was necessary for the survival of the largest number of people. They also assumed that the
perpetrator of armageddon would be the Soviet Union and that major civil defense measures
followed by a first strike attack on the Soviet Union would be the only hope for uncontested
peace.
Finally, the government and the Rockefellers had by now reached the reality that the
GRAYS had no wish to provide them with the knowledge of duplicating their technology, that the
Americans would work covertly with the GRAYS on the basis of the GRAYS not causing civil
unrest by their presence and "experiments", and that America would fundamentally have to take responsibility for the saving of humanity.
The most influential report produced was "International Security: The Military Aspect" prepared
under the direction of Henry A. Kissinger. Many who contributed to the reports became part of a
future "inner circle" of American politics. Besides Kissinger, there was Chester Bowles, Roswell
L. Gilpatrick, James R. Killian, Jr., Henry R. Luce, Jacob S. Potofsky, David Reisman, Dean
Rusk, David Sarnoff and Edward Teller. During the writing of the reports, a nation-wide nuclear
bomb shelter program was being debated in the U.S.A. House of Representatives.
1956 - By August
The Goodyear Rigid Inflatable Airship, GA-447, a 1-seater aircraft, had been designed, built, tested and was on the market. It could be assembled in 20 minutes by one person from the trunk of a car and proved to be quite safe and dependable. A 2-seater model was developed also and could be air dropped to a location in an 80 inch by 44 inch container. Beginning at a then reasonable single-engine, single-wing airplane cost of $18,000, mass
production could have reduced the per unit cost to $8,000. Success depended upon the acquisition of a military order.
Primarily considered by government services as a means for saving stranded or downed airplane
pilots or passengers, as well as for covert military actions, an order for 10 units was placed by
both the USAF and the US Army. Other models were proposed including a VTOL (Vertical
Takeoff And Landing) model (for self-rescue from forested areas), a rocket-powered model, and
various large lifting wings. Spare wings and ailerons on conventional aircraft were proposed as
the inflatable wing material could be packaged into the structure much like a parachute into its
container for deployment when required. With no working parts to wear, stick, or fail, and, with
immediate deployment, possibilities loomed. Large scale orders did not.
The GA series was adverse to military consideration for several major reasons.
First, whether in battlefield or covert action, the rubberized fabric was not bulletproof.
In peacetime or uncontested airspace, it could prove to be a valable tool; not in armed forces conditions.
Secondly, the cost of all military contracts is expected to be high on a per unit basis. In addition
to rewarding the manufacturer with a guaranteed lucrative profit for designing and building an
"engine of war," additional monies must be present to cover -
1. additional design modifications;
2. salaries for government lobbyists;
3. bribes to legislative representatives;
4. increased levels of bureaucracy and regulation;
5. industrial espionage to maintain competitive superiority;
6. encourage favourable news stories in the mass media;
7. provide skim funds for covert program use.
There would never be the justification for this style of pricing for a craft which could only be used
for rescue and civilian use in peaceful surroundings. This was not the role of the military. Its role
was to create casualties, contest air space, evacuate under fire. A craft that could be modified to
work under such conditions would be found, and, it would cost much more than $8,000 per unit.
This is a typical example of why technological development is usually tied to military concerns,
and, military budgets.
1956 - On August 1
Senator John F. Kennedy stated:
"Vietnam represents the cornerstone of the Free World in Southeast Asia, the
keystone in the arch, the finger in the dike," and should the "red tide of Communism"
pour into it, much of Asia would be threatened. Vietnam's economy was essential to
the economy of Southeast Asia and its "political liberty" an "inspiration to those
seeking to obtain or maintain their liberty in all parts of Asia - indeed of the world."
In conclusion, Kennedy stressed, "It is our offspring, we cannot abandon it, we
cannot ignore its needs."
While some of the sentiments were simply rhetoric to inspire the masses and raise personal
political support, Kennedy had placed his confidence in the State Department paranoic
"domino" theory. In his impractical, ignorant, naive idealism - he now joined the Washington
establishment mind-set of the proud, powerful, rich American prepared to save the rest of the
world from itself while remaining in denial about the inequality and poverty that surrounded
him. Moving up in the American political culture did not mean taking a heretical position.
Business and professional interests had to be pleased enough to contribute to your election
campaign.
Business was making billions of dollars of sales on the existence of the war.
One-seventh of American employment was associated with the war. Military and professional
careers were on the verge of possibilities if the war continued. Most people told half-lies, or
wanted to believe them. After the depressed economic times of the 1930s and the anarchy of
war participation in the early 1940s and 1950s, more and more Americans were now
beginning to enjoy stable jobs and high incomes.
The war was an export: military production was exported so that others could fight the war
which Americans wanted. Human rationalization would make everything sound right.
Whatever the concern, rhetoric would be able to provide an acceptable idol of justification:
freedom, equality, democracy, anti-Communism, prosperity, brotherhood. Kennedy, like
many other Americans, sold his integrity for social acceptance - his was power; the motives
of others would range from wealth to economic stability. Spiritual decisions were NOT the
order of the day. Few Americans cared to ask the Vietnamese what THEY wanted.
1956 - Early in August
Egypt's political leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, while presiding over the dedication of a new refinery, expressed anger at the USA withdrawal of support for the building of the billion dollar Aswan dam. The USA had cited economic instability of Egypt as its reasons, although receipt of modern military supplies and economic support from the USSR were the political reasons.
In reaction, Nasser declared:
"We shall build the High Dam as we desire.
The annual income of the Suez Canal is $100 million. Why not take it ourselves?
In the name of the nation, the President of the Republic resolves that the "World Maritime Company of the Suez Canal" will be nationalized. At this moment some of our Egyptian brethren are taking over the Canal Company.
We shall rely on our own strength, our own muscle, our own funds. And it will be run by Egyptians! Egyptians! Egyptians!"
The canal would be funded by the Soviet Union.
Britain and France would be angered by the move as France had built the Suez Canal and British Middle East oil supplies now seemed in jeopardy. Meeting in London, England, 18 nations representing 95% of Suez shipping would
support the USA's John Foster Dulles' plan in which an association of nations using the canal would hire its own pilots, regulate traffic and collect the tolls on the Canal. Egypt would be asked to cooperate and would be paid for its facilities. Nasser would react by stating that the plan was a declaration of war.
1956 - During August
The SR-71 supersonic spy plane project was begun in the U.S.A..
Initially referred to as the A-12 project, and then the XF-12 project, it finally was given the name
of SR-71. The first deployment would be in 1966, after 10 years of development. The U2 had
been produced in 17 months. The SR-71 could fly at altitudes of 85,000 feet and at speeds
of Mach 3. Despite its technological sophistication, by the time it was produced, it could be shot
down by Soviet ground to air missiles, if so desired.
1956 - On August 15
Dr. Jonas, of Czechoslovakia, found a missing link to the success of a "Natural Birth Control Method for Humans" which involved the use of astrology and menstrual cycle calculations. Earlier in the year, Hungary passed a law legalizing abortion and this apparently facilitated the inclusion of enough couples in a research project to enable scientific tests to be carried out. Dr. Jonas began his work based upon the Ancient Papri
of Babylon, Assyria. It stated that:
"Each woman had her period of fertility at a set phase of the Moon."
The problem in successfully using this prescription was the fact that which phase of the Moon
was not specified in the remnants found. Dr. Jonas calculated the astrological natal chart of
each female subject from her time of birth. If the time was not exactly known, then a half day
was subtracted from each end of the "safe" period. On the natal chart, the aspect angle
between the woman's Sun and Moon placements was marked. Whenever this angle occurred
in the 29-1/2 day lunar cycle, it marked the final day of a 4-day fertility period. This meant
that a woman's fertile time could occur during her menstrual cycle. When the menses and
each fertility period occurred separately, a woman would only have 8 very safe days (besides
the menses) in a 29-day lunar month. This was only 85% or less, accurate.
Knaus Ozino had theorized earlier that the woman's fertile time began 15 days after the start
of her period (menses); this provided a "rhythm method" suggesting "safe" times during the
menstrual cycle. By marking a period extending between 6 days on either side of the 16th
day, one is left with a 13-day period in which conception is most likely to occur. Dr. Kurt
Rechintz, of Budapest, Hungary, extended this theory with the addition of the Jonas theory.
The result was that a human female had TWO fertile periods every month; they might run
consecutive or they might overlap. In reality, 15% of pregnancies were related to the so-called "safe" menses duration. The period of fertility coincided with a phase of the Moon,
but this was dependent upon the birth time of the mother.
This increased the accuracy of the calculation to 97.7%: comparable to the proper use of
condoms and the birth control pill but without any of the costs, inconveniences or side effects
of those or less effective methods.
If the astrological (cosmic) time of fertility coincided with the woman's menses, which are
then very fertile, or, with the rhythm fertility time - 18 out of 29 days would be relatively
safe; 12 of those days would be just about 100% safe. Mathematically, for a 2% additional
risk, a woman could stretch her 8-day period of safety to 14 days.
It was also found that the gender of the conceived child could be determined according to
which "type" of astrological sign the Moon was traversing at the time of conception. Once
the Sun/Moon angle had been established in the monthly cycle, if the Moon was in an ODD
sign at the point of conception, a male child would be born. If the Moon was in an EVEN sign,
a female child would be conceived. The gender of the child would be difficult to determine if
the Moon position was bent close to the cusp between signs when the Sun/Moon angle
occurred, or, if the astrological birth range coincided with any part of the rhythm method.
For a better determination of pre-conception gender, it would be advisable to wait for a more
favourable time than this.
Dr. Jonas also had found that women born during certain phases of the Moon, especially the
Full Moon, tend to have spinal difficulties in having children. This seems to be even more
apparent if the female conceives at the time of the same Sun/Moon angle, such as a Full
Moon, as existed at the time of their own birth.
These researches demonstrated that the errors in modern astrological analysis are largely, if
not entirely, due to the oversimplified and amateurish manner in which its concepts are
usually tested by so-called scientists. Typical to human history, Dr. Jonas method challenged
the status quo of medicine and his peers, rather than sincerely and professionally examining
his data, raised such a wall of criticism that he was forced to be examined by psychiatrists.
They proved him sane, and only then would the government permit him to continue his
research.
While the successful result of Jonas' 14 years of research was published before
1968, it would lay largely unknown in North America until 1982 - when it received a brief
overview in a specialty newsletter. While tiny sophisticated calculators would be designed
and marketed for the purpose of mediating rates of cigarette smoking, and small location
finders would be able to tell a soldier where he was on the Earth with an accuracy of several
feet - planned parenthood, elimination of unwanted pregnancies, and the problems associated
with further human population expansion were obviously much less important. Neither
widespread public awareness nor recognition of this research would ever be made. Today's
priorities determine the nature of tomorrow's problems.
1956 - On August 23
Over Fort MacLeod, Alta, at 36,000 feet, an intensely brilliant, oval-shaped object emitting a plasma-like glow is photographed.
1956 - On the night of August 23,
At RAF Bentwaters, near Ipswitch, England, a base leased to the USAF, a Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) radar operator picked up an object heading in from the sea at a speed of 2000 to 4000 mph. It passed directly over Bentwaters and continued on until it disappeared from the scope 30 miles to the west. Several visual sightings
were recorded including one by the pilot of a USAF C-47 aircraft flying at 4000 feet who saw a
fuzzy light flash between himself and the airport below. The UFO was heading towards
Lakenheath, another RAF airfield leased to the USAF, and immediate warning was given.
Ground observers at Lakenheath saw a light approach, stop, and then move swiftly out of sight to
the east. Some time after that 2 white lights were seen; they joined up and disappeared in
formation. The radar operators confirmed the visual sightings. The RAF Chief Controller at
Bentwaters scrambled a Venom night fighter from RAF Waterbeach, and his interception
controller, with a team of 3 highly trained personnel took over. The fighter closed in on the
object but after a few seconds, and in the space of one or two sweeps on the scope, the object
appeared behind the fighter. The pilot called out "Lost contact, need more help," and was told
that the target was now behind him. Meanwhile the Chief Controller scrambled a second fighter.
The first fighter maneuvered to try and get behind the object again. Until the Condon Report was
published in 1969, this sighting remained classified. The Report had to concede "the apparent
rational, intelligent behaviour of the UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the
most probable explanation."
1956 - on August 23,
RCAF Squadron Leader Robert J. Childerhose and Flight Lieutenant Ralph Innes, while setting a cross-Canada speed record with their F-86 Sabre jet, over Fort MacLeod, Alberta, at an altitude of 36,000 feet, sighted a bright luminous sphere below them, travelling parallel to them. Before it disappeared, they photographed it. A plasma-like glow was emitted from the craft's underside.
1956 - In the fall
Howard Menger, sign painter and machine shop owner, appeared on the "Tonight" show with Steve Allen as host. Journalist Jules B. St. Germain described the events as follows:
"The audience's original reaction, which ranged from snickering to outright laughter when it learned that Menger claimed to have ridden on a 'flying saucer', changed to a mood of perplexed wonderment and keen interest shortly after he started speaking. Amusement soon became interested silence. I rode through space in a Venusian scout
ship. It is a difficult feeling to describe, a feeling of no motion, of suspension in space. I was shown through some means of tele-projection, a view of life in a city on Venus. It was not too different from ours. More orderly, quiet, much more beautiful."
Menger told the audience that earlier that year the spacebeings had taught him to
communicate through telepathy, and had flown him to Venus where he saw "beautiful domed
buildings." He also had travelled to the Moon (of the Earth?) where he could breathe the air
with little difficulty. "most of the people who have contacted me have been from the planet
Venus, although I have seen others from Mars and Saturn. Some live on our Earth among
us.
After Menger's radio and television appearances, many thousands of people came to his home
in Highgate, New Jersey - as many as 300 on a single afternoon. Menger had 5 photographs,
one of a black mummy shape standing before a glaring round object - a Venusian in front of
his scout ship. Menger cut a commercial audio record called "The Sound From Saturn",
actual music that came from another planet. Menger wrote a book entitled "From Outer
Space to You" and was frequently on the early morning New York radio show of "Long John
Nebel". During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Menger said that spaceships arrived regularly to land at the back of his High Bridge house.
Menger and his family eventually went into intentional obscurity in order to attain a degree of privacy and to avoid threats which were made to him by telephone in the middle of the night as well as from "agents" of an unknown origin which kept visiting him and telling him to keep silent.
Menger spoke of this period later as
"fantastic times that I will never forget as long as I live ... The beauty and serenity of these (space)beings was absolutely something to behold. It was almost as if you were speaking with one of God's angels."
1956 -
Canadian Forces Radar Station, Gander, Newfoundland is a major maritime military base on the east coast of Canada. In the Fall of 1956, both the passengers and the crew aboard a U.S. Navy Super Constellation transport plane on a trans-Atlantic flight pattern, sighted a huge flying disc at approximately 50 miles NE of Gander. Over 30 pilots, navigators and flight engineers were passengers on their way home from special duty in Europe. The object was described as a huge flying disk with a glow around the rim, the craft being the size
of a football field.
At first, a cluster of lights was seen below the plane; these appeared to dim and
spread out, except one which seemed to be heading on a collision course with the transport. It
tilted sharply and shot to one side, swung around, drew abreast and seemed to pace them at 100
yards. Its diameter was 3 to 4 times the wingspan of the transport (350 to 400 feet) and it was at
least 30 feet thick at the centre. Seen at a distance, the glow along the rim was blurred and
uneven. Gradually, the object pulled ahead, tilted upward and quickly accelerated away. Gander
Airport had tracked something close to the transport but when they had attempted to contact the
transport they couldn't get an answer.
After landing at Gander, all the crew were thoroughly
interrogated by U.S. Air Force Intelligence officers. It was estimated that the craft had
accelerated at speeds in excess of 2300 mph. The intelligence officers refused to answer any
questions in return. The witnesses were again questioned at their destination: Patuxent Naval Air
Station in Maryland, by Naval Intelligence and Air Technical Intelligence. Later a government
scientist showed the navy pilot, Commander George Brent, UFO photos including one
portraying a disk like the one he had seen. Even though the sightings had occurred in Canadian
air space, Canadian authorities were evidently bypassed in the investigation.
1956 - By October
Separation Program Numbers (SPNs) were being assigned to all USA military discharge papers.
The numbers were in the "For Official Use Only" part of the form. Many of these
530 "spin code" numbers were character ratings of the person discharged. Some covered
desirable habit while others noted undesirable habits or attitudes, that some supervisor or
commander had reported. None of these had to be supported by any documentation,
corroborated by other personnel, or affirmed with the individual. These veterans were being
labelled for life and represented draftees which had ranged in mood from unenthusiastic to
resentful. One incident or statement in a long and active career might surface as dramatic to an
immature, intolerant or belligerent superior officer.
Close to a million honourably discharged veterans had been given discharge papers with spin
codes that were derogatory, or partly so, by 1973. Spin number 368 meant that the veteran had
been labelled as having an "anti-social personality." Number 265 alleged that the individual had a
"character disorder." Number 263 indicated that he had been reported for bed-wetting (perhaps
during combat). Number 41A charged the veteran with "lack of interest". Number 469 labelled
him as "unsuitable". In 1973, more than 35,000 honourably discharged veterans unknowingly
carried this "unsuitable" designation on their papers as they went for job or promotion or loan
interviews.
The translation of the SPN numbers was eventually made available, by a greedy person enacting
military-commercial espionage, to many major corporate employers including Firestone, Boeing,
Chrysler, and Standard Oil. At such companies, the veteran new recruit would show his discharge
papers, they would be read discretely along with his other application information, and if a
perceived negative spin number was present, the applicant would be denied employment. He had
failed a test, the job had been filled, the position had been withdrawn, etc. This abuse of this
confidential and questionable data was not discovered by the public until 1973; the use of SPN
numbers was not withdrawn until 1974. How much misery and hardship had been imposed on a
supporter of the state, who may have risked life and health, by an authoritarian bureaucracy?
The ultimate hypocracy of this "free society for the people" is that had the espionage resulted in
the data going to another country, whether used or not, the "spy" could have faced a penalty of
execution. Because the information WAS used WITHIN the country AGAINST the rights of loyal
citizens and to their DISADVANTAGE - no charges were ever laid. In the former instance, the
offending country which had received the information would have been publicly chastised before
the international community of their state peers. In the SPN instance, none of the companies
involved were fined, asked to issue apologies to, and reconsider employment of, applicants
disadvantaged by the abuse; none lost government contracts. To whom was the interest of the
state demonstrated; did it have an interest; what was its interest?
1956 - During October
Israel Attacks Egypt, disarms Egyptian troops, opens the port of Elath.
In 1957, the occupied territories of Gaza and Sinai will be occupied by UN troops.
1956 - By the fall
Dr. Eugene David Glynn published "Television and the American Character - A Psychiatrist Looks at Television".
In it he stated:
"Certain types of adult illnesses - particularly the depressions, the oral character neuroses, the schizophrenias - and the use they make of television can be most valuable here. Those traits that sick adults now satisfy by television can be presumed to be those traits which children, exposed to television from childhood (infancy, really!), and all through the character forming years, may be expected to develop. ...
They all demonstrate quite clearly the special set of needs television satisfies, needs centred around the wish for someone to care, to nurse, to give comfort and solace ... These infantile longings can be satisfied only symbolically, and how readily the television set fills in. Warmth, sound, constancy, availability, a steady giving without ever a demand in return, the encouragement to complete passive surrender and envelopment - all this and active fantasy besides. Watching these adults, one is deeply impressed by their acting out with the television set of their unconscious longings to be infants in mother's lap."
Glynn, and many others, noted that the form of the medium was more important than the content.
The positive features of television, such as information, education, and the broadening of horizons, would be strong counters to the development of traits that he found
detrimental to the national character, but these would require parental guidance and careful
monitoring of the child viewer. Such guidance was seldom provided. Can an addict be
expected to caution others near to them about the dangers of what they are addicted to?
Media dependency had become a fact to an increasing number of Americans.
A dependent has surrendered part of their time and freedom which otherwise would be available for the
more spiritually oriented interpersonal presence and support of those around them.
Advertising, fantasy and voyeurism had "bought" the soul of these Americans. It told them
what was important, how to think, what to buy, where to go, how to respond to negative
stresses - and, it did so in such a hypnotic manner that the viewer was unaware that they had
been brainwashed.
It had happened and would continue to happen under the authority of the political and social
leaders of the country. The social leaders, persons who made great amounts of money from
manipulative advertising in the marketplace, would effectively lobby politicians to keep the
government from interfering in their monopoly. Those supporting politicians would sell their
vote for the financial consideration of subsidiary employment by the ad and marketing
agencies as "advisors", who in the performance of this second job would be required to
attend "conventions" and meetings at resorts, entertainment spas, and social high spots - with
all and any expense being paid for. In return, they would gladly frustrate this human system
of rational government by justifying everything with their capacity to confuse with words any
decision attempted.
1956 - Before the end of October
The Polish United Workers' Party had reinstated previous leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, previously imprisoned by Stalin, and placed in command of the armed forces General Waclaw Komar, who had been arrested earlier for Titosim. Krushchev had warned the new leaders, seeking to separate Poland from USSR influence:
"I will show you what the road to Socialism looks like ! ... If you don't obey, we'll crush you!
We are going to use force to kill any uprising in this country. Russian soldiers were slain on this ground. We will never permit this country to be sold to the Americans and the Zionists."
An assertive Polish leadership would calm the Russians with statements of confidence representing the disgruntled workers of the country who for 11 years had lived in increasing destitution working in an economy designed to serve the USSR military and the USSR people. The family of Zofia, Gomulka's wife, had been "purged" by Stalin many years before. Under the demands of public protest, Gomulka released Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who had been under house arrest since 1953.
In early November, students in Hungary expressed support for the Poles in a protest march.
Demonstrations grew. Arrests were made. Students and workers stormed a radio station
and broadcast that security police were arresting the demonstrators. The building was
stormed. People were killed. Hungarian tanks arrived. The news reached Moscow. 80
Soviet tanks and 280,000 USSR troops converged on Budapest. An armed resistance ensued
for 5 days at the end of which over 20,000 people were dead and perhaps 50,000 wounded.
Many Hungarians expected the Americans to come to their aid. The UN debated the
legitimacy of the invasion by the USSR but got nowhere. USSR troops became "production
police", ensuring the return to work of the Hungarians.
1956 - On October 29
Adlai Stevenson, nominated Democratic party candidate for the upcoming USA presidential election in August, linked his demand for an end to A-bomb tests with his proposals to end the (military) draft:
"We don't want our boys to be drafted. ... We don't want to live in the shadow of the
mushroom cloud."
In a speech before a crowd of 10,000 he noted that the draft, with its rapid turnover of manpower was a wasteful, needlessly expensive and unsuited to an "age of complex new weapons and new military needs."
1956 - By November
The U.S.A. WS-117L Program was in operation to build America's first spy satellite.
WS was the abbreviation for "Weapons Systems". From the beginning, the space effort had little to do with the romantic and idealistic media hype that would be used to deceive and pacify the American public: its primary aim by those in the government was for military superiority.
1956 - By November
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt had published his book "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects".
As head of "Project Blue Book" for its first 2 years, Ruppelt had created the term "UFO" for "Unidentified Flying Object" to replace "flying saucer". After resigning his commission, he had gone to work for Northrop Aircraft Company as a research engineer. During his work with the Project, Ruppelt had talked to pilots, engineers, generals, and scientists, and his book contained many sightings, experiences, and other things he could not explain. In the forward he wrote:
"The report has been difficult to write because it involves something that doesn't officially exist.
It is well known that ever since the first flying saucer was reported in June 1947 the Air Force has officially said that there is no proof that such a thing as an interplanetary spaceship exists. But what is not well known is that this conclusion is far from being unanimous among the military and their scientific advisers because of the word, proof; so the UFO investigations continue.
The hassle over the word 'proof' boils down to one question: What constitutes proof?
Does a UFO have to land at the River Entrance to the Pentagon, near the Joint Chiefs of Staff Offices? Or is it proof when a ground radar station detects a UFO, sends a jet to intercept it, the pilot sees it, and locks on with his radar, only to have the UFO streak away at phenomenal speed? Is it proof when a jet pilot fires at a UFO and sticks to his story even under threat of court-martial?"
1956 - Early in November
The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, following an ultimatum to Egypt by France and Britain
regarding operation of the Suez Canal, began. 30,000 Israeli troops and considerable armour mobilized quickly; before the war was ended, 1/4 of Israeli population, 1,800,000 persons, would be under arms. The Egyptian army was routed and its air force withdrew. A British and French force of 30,000 commandos acted in complicity with the
Israelis. France had been angry with Nasser for his support of the rebels in Algeria, who were
fighting for independence, and for the Canal nationalization. The French persuaded the British to
join with them after Nasser received support from Jordon, leaving the British feeling that they
were losing "colonial" control over the Arabs. Then, Israel had been approached. France
immediately shipped Israel an extra 30 Mystere jet fighters. The war begun, the Soviet Union
pledged "rocket weapons" and "other modern and terrible means" in support of Egypt and sent
24 Russian manned MIG-17s, accompanied by Soviet transports bringing technicians, radar and
ground equipment - to Syria. The USA, in replying to the threats of the USSR against Britain and
France, declared that it would retaliate with nuclear weapons against the USSR if the latter made
good its threat. After some hostilities and much negotiation, the UN brought in a peacekeeping
force, the Israelis withdrew, Egypt took over the Canal.
The Suez Crisis had a significant impact upon current and future British foreign policy.
British senior politicians were continuing to respond in their decision-making as if Britain was still a
major world power in terms of persuasive power. Fear of weakening Commonwealth links, an
aggressive attitude towards France, and hopes for the development of a European Free Trade
region which included Britain, and which many Britons were adverse to, all served to encourage a
defensive response. Britain acted without consultation with its Commonwealth partners and in
turn the Commonwealth failed to unit in support of the British stance.
Rather than maintaining a united front in the Suez with the French, the British military withdrew at the behest of the USA. To France, Britain appeared to have deserted the French much like they had done in 1940 at
Dunkirk. Additionally, Britain's sterling (capital) reserves plummeted and the embargo placed on
petroleum shipments to Britain demonstrated the dependency of Britain in the global capitalist
arena. Britain was no longer the imperial capitalist leader which it had been and which it was in
denial of having lost. It had become capital dependent upon the USA in the subtle ways
connected to military strategic power. The appearance and political strutting of power would no
longer be enough to influence other nations. The Suez exposed Britain's economic, political and
strategic weaknesses for what they were.
1956 - On November 12
U.S.A. President Dwight D. Eisenhower wins re-election despite concerns for his health.
Somewhat unexpected was the 10 million plurality vote (58% of the USA vote) which Eisenhower received against Adlai Stevenson. Richard M. Nixon would be the new Vice-President.
1956 - Nov 26
A report on the American Civil Rights Movement noted the following:
"To the 50,000 Negroes of Montgomery, Alabama, the week dawned "darker than a thousand midnights."
For more than 11 months, in a mass movement combining Christian fervour with Gandhi-like passive resistance, they had mounted and sustained in the "Cradle of the Confederacy" an almost total boycott of the city's segregated buses. Led by a handful of well-educated and young Negro leaders - notably by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., pastor of a local Baptist church - they had efficiently put together and operated a car pool of some 200 vehicles to ferry themselves to and from work. Now the leaders and lawyers sat glumly in the Montgomery courthouse waiting for the state circuit court to outlaw the Negro car pool on the charge - made by the city commission - that it was actually a business enterprise operating without a franchise.
Then, in the middle of the proceedings, the news was out: the Supreme Court had unanimously upheld a district court's ruling that the "separate but equal" doctrine was now as legally dead for segregated public transportation as it had already been declared dead for public schools and public recreational facilities.
The next night 10,000 Negroes jammed two of Montgomery's largest churches and
adjacent streets to savour their triumph. Appearing before each group in turn was the
spiritual architect of that triumph, the Rev. Dr. King. He was too wise to be
triumphant; he read to each congregation a statement that should loom large in the
Negroes's long, patient fight for equality: 'All along, we have sought to carry out the
protest on high moral standards ... rooted in the deep soils of the Christian faith. We
have carefully avoided bitterness. Our feet have often been tired and our automobiles
worn, but we have kept going with the faith that in our struggle we had cosmic
companionship, and that, at bottom, the universe is on the side of justice.'
When the court order comes through, Dr. King urged his followers, act sensibly but
without pride. On the one hand, 'we have been going to the back of the bus for so
long that there is danger that we instinctively will go straight back there again and
perpetuate segregation. Just sit down where a seat is convenient.' On the other hand,
'I would be terribly disappointed if any of you go back to the buses bragging, "We the
Negroes, won a victory over the white people." If you do, our struggle will be lost all
over the South. Go back with humility and meekness.'"
On December 31, the Negro boycott against the Montgomery, Alabama city bus lines came to an end - 381 days after it began.
1956 - On November 26
Harold Macmillan, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking in Parliament during the European Trade Policy Debate, stated:
"I believe that we all agree that it is quite impracticable for the United Kingdom to
join ... a Customs union ... such an arrangement would be wholly disadvantageous ...
our interests and responsibilities are much wider ... this objection would be quite fatal
to any proposal that the United Kingdom whould seek to take part in a European common market."
1956 - Late in the year
A.A. and J.R. (names withheld by request) were flying F-86 interceptors near Modesto, out of Castle AFB, California, on alert duty to civilian UFO reports in a nearby town. The base instructed them to return because there was a UFO that near the control tower. With afterburners on they closed rapidly on the luminous elliptical UFO that moved above and below the cloud cover at 10 to 12 thousand feet as if to elude them. The two pilots played cat-and-mouse with the UFO until they ran low of fuel and returned to base. Local citizens that
witnessed these events were told by the USAF that the pilots had been chasing ducks or geese (at
600 mph? - some duck).
1956 - On November 26
USSR leader Nikita Krushchev, at the final reception for Polands' visiting leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, declared the political position of the Soviet Union:
"We are Bolsheviks!. We stick firmly to the Lenin precept - don't be stubborn if you
see you are wrong, but don't give in if you are right. (Addressed to the capitalist
states) It doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us, don't
accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or
not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
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Memory Stimulators.
1957 - HIGHLIGHTS:
Movies:
Bridge on the River Kwai; Twelve Angry Men; The Blackwell Story; The River's Edge; Tammy and the Bachelor; Night Passage; The Tin Star; Old Yeller; A Farewell to Arms; The Helen Morgan Story; Throne of Blood; April Love; Jet Pilot; The Abductors; Iron Sheriff; Reach for the Sky
Television: Perry Mason
Songs: Bye, Bye Love; Problems; Love Letters in the Sand; April Love; Don't Forbid Me; Loving
You; Teddy Bear; All Shook Up; That's When Heartaches Begin; Little Darlin'; Searchin; Young Love; Silhouettes; Gone; So Rare; White Sport Coat; Great Balls of Fire; Teddy Bear; Geisha Girl; 4 Walls; Jailhouse Rock; Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On; All Shock Up.
General News: An all-time record for solar activity occurs.
1957 - By this year
The efforts of "The Phage Group" had gained some understanding of virus which had been termed "bacteriophage".
Formed in the 1940s, a group of microbiologists, chemists, and physicists from all over the world had met each summer at a laboratory in Cold Spring Harbour, New York, USA to share their studies and insights about this lifeform. Bacteriophages were viruses which consumed bacteria.
Using an electron microscope, scientist's could see the shape of the virus but could not determine
what it was made of or how it was constructed. Using a technique called X-ray crystallography,
in which high-powered X-rays are used to produce hundreds of images of a crystallized virus,
images were obtained and input into a computer. The computer was then programmed to
produce a picture of the complete atomic structure of the virus from these images. By this
method, scientists were able to determine how the molecules on the outer skin of the virus enable
the virus to enter and infect only specific cells.
Every cell is surrounded by a membrane made of protein and fat molecules.
Some of these protein molecules have specific shapes into which specifically shaped virus dovetail.
Viruses which do not "mate" exactly with the target cell do not gain entry.
All of the resources that must enter a cell for it to grow, reproduce, and carry out its function in a body must fulfill this requirement of matching the shape of the protein and fat molecule shapes covering the skin of the
cell.
While every virus has a unique pattern of action, the end result is the same: it becomes a parasite.
Whether it forces its genetic material into the cell or finds the door opened for it to pass it in, the
genetic material of the invading virus colonizes the cell: it takes over the cell's functions and uses
its processing abilities to grow new virus genetic material. When the cell becomes overloaded
with the new viral offspring, they burst the cell wall, destroying the cell - as in exploding a
factory, and disperse to attack more healthy cells. Some viruses may remain inactive in the human
body until some catalyst triggers it into activity.
1957 - By this year
The GRAYS reconsider humans as a Gene Pool in their search for a bioengineered antidote to their "disease". Having arrived collectively in 1939 and sought for a
gene transfer or substitution from Earth-based insects, they have now deduced that another gene
source must be investigated. They are still unfamiliar with the concept of viruses because the
planet they came come from and their Moon base was devoid of viruses until the incident on their
planet which introduced the dual-virus infection which they have. Having determined that the
disease appears to be genetic and that it appears to be a threat to the survival of their lifeform,
they have come to Earth to modify their genetic code and terminate the illness and its spread.
With Earth-based insects not providing a "match" and with their now longer association with
humans, they have decided that the human size, capability for emotional expression, and upright
stature might have some advantages. As insectoids, they are aware of the power of hypnotic
induction. They have become aware that human defenses are usually at their lowest during sleep;
that humans are often easily persuaded by the use of flattery; that humans have a low coping
threshold for confusion, anxiety, and the abstract. To this end, most of their abductions will take
place during the night. They will overlay the perceptions of the individual involved with
holographic projections, a doctor's bedside sympathizing, and memory overlays. In most
instances, the human defense mechanism of traumatic shock-induced amnesia will be adequate to
the exclusion of the memory of such an abduction from the victims. Experimentation begins,
often with implanted individuals.
Children aged between 10 and 17 years of age become the most frequently targetted near mature
subjects. In addition to their near adult size and organ and system maturity, teenagers are chosen
because they appear to be the least trusted and least believed of the human age groups by their
more powerful adult contacts. At this stage, small amounts of blood and tissue are extracted for
the purpose of gene analysis and substitution. Unknowingly, in numerous instances, the dual-virus of the GRAYS is transferred to the human subject.
Symptoms of GRAY dual-virus infection in humans are as deceptive and chronic to humans as
they have been to the GRAYS. Reacting somewhat differently to the neurotoxins released by the
viral infection, the human is likely to experience greater-than-normal feelings of sexual obsession
and depression. Resulting behaviours - in the extreme - range from a rising frequency of suicide
attempts, suicides, sexual assault (including rape, insest and child molestation), and a higher-than-previous need (obsession) for sexual activity. The combination of sexual obsession and human-induced religious beliefs of sexual abstinence and sexual exclusivity encourages the development of individual intense environments of personal anxiety. These promote both suicide attempt and
chronic depression.
Separately, manic depressive states intensify feelings of frustration and anger
into feelings of hatred and revenge and the subject may begin to experience day-dreams of mass
violence and acting out. These feelings become a different foundation for suicide attempts: the
individual believing that only by killing themselves can they save society from the harm they
appear obsessed with fantasizing about. None of these symptoms are an exclusive result of the
viruses. Rather, they are the intensification of feelings and anxieties already promoted by human
social dynamics. The major difference between the influence of the viruses on the insectoids
versus the humans is based on the structural neurological reality that insectoids are incapable of
emotional expression - as defined by humans, and, humans are.
1957 - On January 5
Selwyn Lloyd, Foreign Secretary for the British Eden administration, and soon to be reconfirmed as the new Macmillan government, stated:
"An industrialized country with 50 million inhabitants is no longer large enough or powerful enough to produce and man the weapons required for modern war. ... Britain by herself cannot go the whole distance. If we try to do so we shall bankrupt ourselves. The choice is therefore clear ... If we are to be a first class power with thermonuclear capacity, it can only be done in association with other countries."
Selweyn Lloyd argued in favour of pooling Britain's resources with those of the six WEU members and creating a powerful continental sub-group within NATO.
1957 -
International Geophysical Year (IGY), begins the first serious study of the oceans and the Antarctic in a multi-country cooperative research project stretching into 1958. At this point, the Antarctic was not divided politically amongst nations. The Van Allen belt and the ozone layer holes at he poles were first discovered during this time.
1957 -
The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, a 2000 mile radar, high security, military defense perimeter connected with the North American Air Defense Command, NORAD, began operation in August, at the height of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A.. It comprises 31 stations from Greenland to Alaska, with 21 being situated in Canada.
The sites will be abandoned by the USA in the early 1960s when satellite and longer distance
radars take over the surveillance task. Built in a poorly understood and unappreciated climate and
ecology, little respect is afforded the environment. The attitude of the humans involved would
largely be one of grudge against the assignment projected not on the military officers and
politicians who have initiated the program out of fear, but on the environment. When turned over
to the Canadian Government defense department between 1989 and 1993, an estimated cost of
CAN $200 million would be suggested as required to cleanup the sites. Abandoned vehicles,
spills of PCB transformer fluid, leaded fuel spills and other chemical spills comprise the 21 site
inventory.
1957 - In January
Major Donald Keyhoe, a graduate of Annapolis, retired Marine Corps pilot, and former aide to Charles Lindbergh, became head of a privately organized group called
the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). Formed only several
months earlier, NICAP would produce a membership of over 12,000, including many politicians,
scientists, and high-ranking military officers. Keyhoe established NICAP headquarters in
Washington, D.C., and appointed prominent people to its board of governors, one of whom was
Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, a Naval Academy classmate of Keyhoe's and the first director
of the CIA in 1947.
Hillenkoetter was also a dominant member of Majority-12, and, along with
several of the governors appointed, NICAP became a listening post for the CIA and MJ-12 as
well as a disinformation debunking organization intended to both discount and confuse
information collected on UFOs and contact with spacebeings. Keyhoe was unaware of these
background developments and was sincere in his purpose. Between 1957 and 1966, Keyhoe and
other NICAp members appeared on television and radio programs as speakers 900 times.
Because of close and reliable contacts within the military, Keyhoe had been privy to some of the
early and secret information concerning the USAF UFO projects. He knew that many sightings
had been made by impeccable witnesses who had reported fantastic things, and that lacking
feasible alternatives many intelligence analysts had leaned towards "interplanetary" as an
explanation. In 1950, he had concluded that the USAF knew the origin of these craft, and that
official statements, "contradictory as they appear", were simply "part of an intricate program to
prepare America - and the world - for the secret of the disks." Seven years later, the secret was
still a secret.
Keyhoe was the perfect candidate to support the establishment while appearing to champion the
rights of freedom and democracy. Seeking to verify everything on a human (and therefore
rudimentary and realist) scientific basis, Keyhoe refused membership to anyone who professed to
have contacted spacebeings. Keyhoe tried to maintain a standard of integrity within the
approach of NICAP which would garner respect from the establishment which was intent on
keeping information secret from him, together with protecting their, and his, concept of reality
and possibility.
1957 - In January
A nuclear bomb shelter program bill was introduced into the U.S.A. House of Representatives.
It called for a Civil Defense Department to be created to oversee the
construction of shelters to protect 170 million people. The National Academy of the Sciences estimated that the programs' cost would be $24 billion, or 10% of the total defense budget for the next 6 year period. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund had spent 4 days in conference discussing the bill. A description of the plan was organized by Henry Kissinger and published in "Life" magazine, March 18 edition.
According to "Life" magazine, the urban shelter would cost $300 per person (1957 dollars) protected and was designed to withstand direct nuclear attack. A network of concrete tubes, 20 feet in diameter
- built in 500 foot long sections with enough space in each section for 1,000 people - would be
sunk deep enough underground so that the occupants would be shielded from atomic blasts. Each
section would have its own commissary, medical facilities, air-conditioning machinery, emergency
supply of electric power and water storage tanks. Sub-basements of office buildings adjacent to
the tubes and subway tunnels would be used as auxiliary shelters. The tubes would extend to the
outer edge of a city in order to provide underground evacuation routes. A separate description
was provided for suburban shelters, intended to protect family groups from less devastating
effects.
1957 - On January 27
Nikita Krushchev addressed the U.S.S.R.'s 21st Congress:
"Indeed, when the USSR becomes the leading industrial power of the world, when
the Chinese People's Republic becomes a mighty industrial power and all the socialist
countries together will produce more than half of the world industrial output, the
world situation will change radically. The successes of the countries of the socialist
camp will doubtlessly serve to strengthen the forces of peace throughout the world.
By that time the countries working for lasting peace will no doubt be joined by new
countries that have thrown off colonial oppression. The idea that war is inadmissible
will take still firmer root in the minds of men. This new balance of forces will be so
patently evident that even the most die-hard imperialists will clearly see the futility of
starting a war against the socialist camp. Backed by the might of the socialist camp
the peaceful nations will then be able to compel militant imperialist groups to abandon
their plans of a new world war."
1957 - In April
British Defence Strategy changed with the introduction of the Macmillan administration's
(in office from January 13, 1957) White Paper on the "Future Policy of Defence".
The paper stressed the fact that technological advances had accelerated the
obsolescence of existing weaponry. The nature of the Soviet threat no longer required large scale
conventional forces. Priority would now be given to the development of nuclear weaponry,
including ballistic missiles and other high tech devices. Such were highly expensive for an
industrial though diminished capital nation. By extending its NATO commitment and accepting
nuclear missiles from the USA, British high command officers and statesmen believed their
position of advantage with the USA would be stronger. For the Americans, deployment of
nuclear missiles in Britain, directed at the USSR, encouraged their feelings of security against the
possible threat of an invasion of Western Europe by the USSR or of a direct attack on the USA
with retaliation possible from Britain. Britain could draw closer to the USA or to Western
Europe: by itself, Britain would never again be more than a second rate power.
1957 -
Frank Edwards claims that in April 1957, five major aeronautical companies were engaged in anti-gravity research projects. Alleges that the U.S. Air Force has a multi-million dollar plant equipped for investigation of anti-gravity and counter-gravitational forces.
1957 - In April
Chester Bowles, a long influential U.S.A. government officer, recognized the consequences of the American policy of containment directed at the Soviet Union:
"The harder the Soviet Union is pressed, the more vigorously her people will rally behind
their leaders. If the Kremlin is forced to the wall it will almost certainly strike out with all its
formidable nuclear capacity."
Bowles could point to a great deal of evidence in support of his observation, including such items
as the speed of Russia's industrial recovery and improvement after the war, its own program of
economic aid to other countries, its ruthless countercontainment in Hungary and Czechoslovakia,
and the Sputniks. But neither Bowles nor the handful of other men who grasped the same point
made much impression on the majority of America's policy-making elite. By and large, those men
stressed the urgency of maintaining unquestioned supremacy over Russia.
Startling as it may seem, in view of the constant emphasis on Soviet military power, the central
fact confronting any past or present Russian leader is the imbalance of the economic and political
development of the nation. Czarist and Soviet history is a record of a continuous, all-pervading
struggle to reach a minimum level of material well-being, let alone relative prosperity or actual
wealth. The U.S.S.R. is big, but much of its territory is inhospitable to organized society, and
other large sections are at best but marginally productive agriculturally and industrially.
1957 - During the year
Henry Kissinger wrote the conclusions of a study group set up by the Council on Foreign Relations.
It was titled: "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy". Kissinger answers the American trauma of the Korean War with the phrase, "Never Again". His proposition is to be prepared for limited war situations in which American-supported armies, capable of rapid deployment, would engage the Chinese and the Soviets along an arc stretching from Turkey to Korea and defeat them decisively with combined physical and psychological weapons. Tactical nuclear weapons, employed in such an environment, were viewed with an
expectation of eventual and profitable use.
1957 -
The United Kingdom explodes its first thermonuclear weapon, followed by a series, at Christmas Island, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.
1957 - In the late spring
The USA Congress held hearings on the effects of radioactive fallout, for 10 days.
By the tenth day, strontium 90, an entirely new chemical element, the product
of the H-bomb, had entered common speech. Near the same time, the British Atomic Energy
Authority noted, by its calculations, that the nuclear and thermonuclear tests already conducted
there would create 50,000 cancer cases; for every megaton exploded in the future, there would be
an additional 1,000 cases.
In response, the AEC Chairman, Lewis Strauss, made light of such fears by asserting that
atmospheric testing was essential; otherwise, the USA would not be able to learn how to make
"clean" (less radioactive) bombs. Dr. Willard Libby, the only scientist on the AEC, admitted that
strontium 90 was a danger to life - but on the same order that cosmic radiation is a danger to
people who live on mountaintops. The Federal Civil Defense Administration continued the lies
with its printing and distribution of a million copies of a booklet called "What You Should Know
About Radioactive Fallout". The pamphlet described fallout as something created during an enemy
attack.
Slight mention was made of the fact that fallout resulted from nuclear testing in the upper
atmosphere, and then, "By the time [the radioactive particles] reach the surface of the Earth -
perhaps days or even months later - most of their radioactivity has been given off harmlessly into
the air." Accompanying diagrams suggested that Americans several hundred miles from a major
attack would be safe; true estimates were closer to 1,000 miles from either coast. Many civil
defense plans were encouraged by the office of the President but little money was contributed.
The expectation was not that war would happen but that the common people needed to be kept
distracted and preoccupied so that funds could be skimmed from projects so as to feed the
Underground Base construction programs and maintain high defense spending.
The British writer Nevil Shute published "On the Beach", which described the last days of human
existence following a thermonuclear war fought in 1963. It was later made into a movie. The
story pictured a fallout cloud killing all life in its path. It was an enormous public success. The
movie appeared shortly before Christmas, 1959.
1957 - In May
The Shah of Iran, with General Fazlollah Zahedi as Prime Minister, who had been placed in power in 1953 with the considerable assistance of the American CIA, agreed to a plan to transfer considerable amounts of gold bullion and capital to Geneva, Switzerland for safekeeping by the Bilderburgers.
The Shah had negotiated his OIL royalties from the Americans, British, French and Dutch earlier and arranged for a portion of the state's share to be sent to a private numbered bank account in Switzerland. These monies continue to be sent to Geneva until 1967. Approximately 1 ton of gold was sent each year: more than 10 tons of gold had arrived by the end of 1967.
1957 - During May
High-level nuclear waste explodes at Kyshtym, U.S.S.R., a plutonium production site near the city of Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains, when solutions in a concrete
tank submerged in water got so hot that they blew off a 3 foot thick concrete lid. 70-80 metric
tons of radioactive waste are released into the atmosphere. Some 217 towns and villages in the
area, with a combined population of 270,000 were so radioactively contaminated that they had to
be evacuated. The accident was suspected by international observers but was not publicly
revealed until Zhores Medvedev, a dissident Soviet scientist publicly revealed it in 1976.
Authorities still did not confirm the accident until 1989. Four times as much radioactivity was
released as at Chernobyl in the 1980s.
1957 - On July 18
75 players and parents attending a Little League baseball game in Paris, Illinois watch 2 shiny, disc-shaped objects pursue a jet plane across the sky.
1957 - On July 20
A glowing domed object is observed to hover over a field for almost a hour.
Three-toed footprints and a 30 foot circle of wilted grass is found.
1957 - On July 30
Jack Stevens, a 15-year-old Canadian, watched a UFO hover over a cornfield near Galt, Ontario, Canada for 45 minutes. Further investigation revealed a 35-foot diameter circle burned into the field and 18-inch long depressions.
1957 - In August
The U.S.S.R. tested the first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Over the months to follow, NSA and CIA intelligence estimates would produce havoc
in the senior political and military establishments. In the period between 1957 to 1961, during the
second Eisenhower Administration, it was assumed that the U.S.S.R. was producing missiles at a
rate held pessimistically low by American intelligence estimates (meaning they should be higher).
The commonly accepted belief was that by 1961-62, the U.S.S.R. would have between 1,000 and
1,500 ICBMs; the U.S.A. would only have 130 or so.
In September 1961, it would be revealed
that U.S.A. intelligence had then revised their figures on existing U.S.S.R. ICBM numbers to
reflect only 3-1/2% of the estimates made in the late 1950s! So, instead of having 1,000 to 1,500
ICBMs, the U.S.S.R. had between 35 and 52. The level of technology suggested that only 1 of 3
would hit its target. That would mean that any attack by the U.S.S.R. would have been met with
a devastating counter-strike. By 1962, the U.S.A. had 50 ICBMs; 80 Polaris missiles on roving
submarines; 90 IRMSs (intermediate range) missiles in Great Britain, Italy, and Turkey; 1,700
long-range bombers ... clearly the balance of terror was heavy, on the side of the U.S.A.
Quantitative analysis with subjective assumptions were the greatest instigator of mass emotional
trauma culminating in paranoia, distrust and fear. In many instances, empty or other-use
buildings, identified by aerial reconnaissance were assumed to hold maximum capacity missile
production facilities. The primary focus of research and intelligence would have been to know
WHAT was in the warehouse space that had been constructed. This error in approach was set
into the CIA fabric from the beginning by William Donovan. Errors had occurred before. The
capacity for "intelligence" to be purposely or incompetently used to incite politicians and the
media, leading to an economic "recovery" on a war budget in peacetime was effective in
manipulating the voter completely.
The end result was a national distrust and hatred for the U.S.S.R. and Communism, justification
of massive increases in defense budgets, greater likelihood of nuclear accident and nuclear war,
greater social distress in the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. through diversion of resources to
armaments. Lies, deception, distrust was rising on a political scale. Induced personal hardships
and stresses were encouraging individuals to act out in despair - the future would see less
responsible sexual relationships, emphasis on immediate gratification of pleasure, relief from
anxiety and pain, and economic want - by drugs, "popular" music, and credit cards. Capacity
for spiritual awareness and constructive coping skills would fall to such depths that a few people
would be motivated to search them out. The biggest question would be was this incident an error
or a premeditated plot?
1957 -
During this Solar Maximum, there is an all-time record for observed sunspot activity.
SUNSPOT INFLUENCE CHARACTERISTICS
- intense solar storms, extensive Aurora Borealis
- major influenza outbreaks
- produced by intense solar magnetic activity
- heats the Earth's atmosphere: creates more frictional drag on low-orbit satellites
- 70% more events are observed in the Northern Hemisphere than the South
- cause the magnetic field surrounding the Earth to wobble and vary in strength **
- satellite navigation systems are affected by **
- electric power transmission lines are affected by **
- long-distance undersea cables can be affected
1957 - On August 31
"Smoky", a 44 kiloton atomic bomb was exploded, in Utah, as the second of 21 detonations comprising "Operation Plumbob", which would see as many as 8 detonations per month through 1957. It was an atmospheric shot, and more residents received radiation "sunburns" which years later would result in death from cancer.
1957 - On August 31
USA Senator Barry Goldwater, in a letter to a constituent about the issue of UFOs writes:
"I frankly feel there is a great deal to this."
1957 - During the year
U.S.A. General Douglas MacArthur commenting on American disinformation programs and manipulation of the public stated:
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede
of patriotic fervour - with the cry of a grave national emergency .... Yet, in retrospect, these
disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
1957 -
The Asian Influenza Epidemic kills 80,000 people in the USA alone.
More would have died if antibiotics had not been used to limit the influence of secondary diseases.
1957 - By September
The concept of Thyroid blocking was known but never adequately utilized to prepare or protect North American or Soviet populations from the radioactive fallout resulting from their own nuclear weapons tests or the fallout to be expected following a nuclear bombardment. Only a military, scientific and political elite were informed as the civilian population continued to be treated as children: ignorant, irresponsible, immature.
After a nuclear detonation, isotope 131 of iodine is released as part of the fallout dust.
This is typically absorbed by bacteria in the soil. In the process of filtering the iodine out of the soil, they
greatly concentrate it within their own life forms. These bacteria may then be absorbed by
legumes and other biological forms higher in the human food chain until it reaches the human.
Each step in the food chain further concentrates the iodine 131.
A frequent pattern is that when it reaches dairy cattle through grass, the iodine is concentrated
and passed on as food to humans and young cattle. Human children tend to accumulate greater
amounts of the iodine-131 in their systems than adults and in Utah, after atomic weapons testing
nearby, a significant number of children were born retarded or developed weight, digestive and
emotional imbalance difficulties. This could have been prevented; however, the military and the
government would have had to admit that the tests which they were conducting were, in reality,
more dangerous to their own citizens than to anyone else in the world - dangerous enough to
result in a delayed epidemic of chronic illnesses including mental illness and cancer.
The human tyroid will only absorb so much iodine.
After that, it excretes any additional iodine which has been ingested out through the kidneys.
If the thyroid is therefore primed with "clean" iodine, the "dirty" iodine will be passed through the system. Potassium iodide is one such substance. Available from the local drug store, it is not harmful unless excessive amounts are taken. In Denmark, Sweden and the USSR, where apparently they believe their adults are less
likely to panic at the thought of preparation, pills are provided to the populace. The USA
Department of Health would eventually prepare a brochure for the use of potassium iodide - to be
distributed only during times of disaster(!) such as a nuclear power plant meltdown, or leak, or, an
attack by a foreign nation. Military personnel at missile bases would be supplied with them in
case of a local "accident".
To prepare and measure a reasonable dose, pour the chemical into a 2 ounces of water until it no
longer dissolves. Using an eyedropper, or a soaked piece of paper, add 4 drops of the solution
onto a small piece of bread for an adult, or, 2 drops for a child. Several times that quantity is not
unhealthy. Large quantities can be. To help conceal the bitter taste, the bread could be covered
with butter or other substance before swallowing. If a situation of hazard arises, it is
recommended that you continue the process, once a day, for 100 days.
DO NOT use tincture of iodine as a substitute: it is a poison to humans when taken internally.
Also do not expect that you could ingest enough iodine by eating iodized salt. You would get salt
poisoning long before you had taken enough iodine to effect a thyroid blocking process.
1957, in early September
Ubatuba, Brazil, several fishermen, contacted a Rio de Janeiro columnist writing that a flying disc had approached them at high speed. The object dived at them, made a tight turn, began a rapid climb and then exploded. They and the beach were showered with thousands of fragments. The men picked up dozens of the smaller pieces, and sent some to the columnist. Spectroscopic analysis later showed that the metal was 99.9% magnesium: a purity incapable for the technology of the time to produce.
Contact with local chemists, the APRO, the USAF, and AECL was made to assist in the analysis and
its confirmation. When the columnist tried to find the witnesses, he could not. Suggestions of contact by Brazilian Intelligence requesting their silence on behalf of the USAF were later made.
Without contact with them the beach area could not adequately be determined. While
government sources suggested that the metal composition and purity (99.9% magnesium) was
nothing unusual, the fact that it was from a cast process and that its purity was humanly
impossible to duplicate with 1957 technology tends to confirm the stories of the fishermen.
Later, after 1969, Dr. Robert W. Johnson and Dr. Walter W. Walker reported to the APRO
that the fragments were directionally solidified castings. Walker stated
"This might be interpreted as meaning that the samples are from a more advanced culture."
1957 - On September 13
The U.S.A. an underground tested atomic device was detonated in an artificial cave which had been hollowed out of solid rock 800 feet down, at the end of a zigzag corridor 2000 feet long. The explosion was registered by seismographs all over the world. At first there was no examination of the underground site: scientists had calculated that access to the cave would be impossible for a hundred years because of the heat absorbed by the rock! But then soundings were made by means of special instruments which showed that this safety margin had
been greatly overestimated. Work was begun on clearing the corridor leading to the cave and in
1961 three specialists entered the cave (see 1961).
1957 - On September 19
Major L.D. Chase skippered an RB-47 photo reconnaissance aircraft which took off from Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas, on a training flight. It was
equipped for electronic counter-measures (ECM), including location of enemy based ground radar
units, and identification of the systems employed, such as carrier frequency, pulse rate and width,
scan speed and bearing. This mission involved gunnery exercises and navigation over the Gulf of
Mexico, and an ECM exercise over southern central United States.
On the return trip from the Gulf of Mexico, the RB-47 crossed the Mississippi coastline near
Gulfport and headed for Jackson, Mississippi, at an altitude of 30,000 feet, and a speed of 500
knots. Captain McClure picked up an unexpected signal on a monitor employing back-to-back
antennae spinning in a housing beneath the rear fuselage of the plane, the signals of which were
processed in a radar receiver and pulse analyzer. The signal he was receiving was at 2800 Mhz
and its position changed from the forward left to the right rear and on around to the front of the
plane. The RB-47 changed course at Jackson and headed westward towards Fort Worth and
Dallas.
The pilots saw a white light in front of them; the crew were warned to prepare for evasive action.
The light traversed quickly from left to right across in front of the plane. McClure tuned
the monitor used earlier to 2800 Mhz, immediately picked up the object and noticed that it was
now maintaining a constant position relative to the aircraft. After being followed for more than
100 miles, McClure called Carswell AFB whose Ground Control Intercept radar operator
confirmed the presence of an object at 10 miles distance from the plane. The object moved
forward in front of the plane such that the pilots could then see it as a glowing red object bigger
than a house.
Between Fort Worth and Dallas, the UFO changed course and the RB-47 obtained permission to
follow it. Immediately, the plane began closing on the object which now showed a stationary
reading. The light blinked out and the trace disappeared from the screens. Major Chase put the
plane into a left turn and the light and its trace reappeared at a lower altitude of about 15,000 feet.
McClure dived his aircraft towards the object and on reaching 20,000 feet, the light and the traces
blanked out again. The UFO reappeared again, this time following at a distance of 10 miles, into
southern Oklahoma and then disappeared again. The UFO had stayed with the plane for a
distance of more than 800 miles during a period exceeding one hour. Officers from the USAF,
Project Blue Book, Dr. Allen Hynek and others could not assign the incident to known causes.
1957 - In the autumn
A uranium fire started in the nuclear reactor at Windscale, England.
No public warning was issued as the huge stack spewed out I-131 and other radioactive products.
The police immediately contacted 150 farms in the area, confiscated their
milk production for several days, and dumped it into the Irish Sea.
1957 - During September
"Project Prometheus" would be initiated by the U.S.S.R. "Group 17" .. set up in 1946 to determine the nature of UFOs and search for world peace through political
domination based on nuclear weapons superiority. In the interim, the aims of the Group had
radically changed. Stalin was dead, nuclear armageddon was possible, U.S.S.R. scientists and
military professionals of high rank did not trust politicians to respond to political conflicts or
environmental hazards "intelligently", and UFOs had been accepted as representations of higher
intelligence spacebeing's presence or monitoring of the Earth. Contact had been made to
presumed authorities expecting to represent large groups of humanity: persons who possessed
access to vast amounts of physical power (nuclear weapons and nuclear power generation).
Participants in "Group 17" now headed "Project Prometheus", a hidden government, elitist by virtue
of their level of authority in the nuclear industries, "forward-thinking" in the space, national
security and environment industries. The goals now centred around how to save "Some" of
humanity from eventual self-destruction. Political structures were seen as inflexible, bureaucratic
and unsuited to the global problems threatening the planet. The world of the laboratory, nuclear
submarine, political intelligence agency, and space futurist held great promise for solutions
through an age-old strategy of humanity: leave the mess behind and start anew elsewhere, with
the hope that old mistakes would not be perpetuated in the new environment. The idealism was
to take the best that humanity had to offer and start anew.
In mythology, Prometheus was a powerful god that lived on the Earth before humanity.
Prometheus "took some of this earth and kneading it up with water, made man in the image of the
gods. He gave them an upright stature, so that while all other animals turn their faces downward,
humans turn theirs upward to the heavens and gaze at the stars. He took pity on humanity when
his god-brother Epimetheus, gave away his greatest gifts to the animals, and, Prometheus gave
fire from the god's own domain and shared it with humanity.
1957 - On September 19
From Jackson to Fort Worth to Dallas, Texas - a glowing red object the size of a house circled and tracked a USAF RB-47 photo-reconnaissance 6-engine jet equipped for electronic counter-measures (ECM) for a distance of more than 800 miles over more than an hour. It was recorded on radar from the plane and ground stations and when flown towards it disappeared to reappear at another altitude or in another direction. A major concern to the military investigators was the question of who was controlling it.
1957 - On September 27
Capelinhos Volcano in the Azores is born a few hundred yards from the island of Fayal in the Azores.
Thousands of glowing lava bombs were expelled half a
mile into the air by the accompanying gases and a plume of water vapour billowed 20,000 feet
above it. A month later Ilha Nova (new island) had grown to a height of nearly 300 feet above
the ocean. A kidney-shaped cone would develop, only to disappear during the night of October
29-30. On November 4, the volcano would again appear above the water, only to founder the
following day. On November ? a second island would appear and it would grow to a half-mile long
peninsula.
1957 - On October 04
Sputnik 1 was launched as the first announced Earth-originated spacecraft.
It was placed in orbit by an SS-6 Sapwood ICBM, under the direction of the "Sergei
Korolev group". It weighed 184 pounds and was intended to sense internal temperatures,
pressures, and "other data". It was a 58 cm diameter polished aluminum spherical shell carrying 4
whip antennae. Battery-powered transmissions continued on 20 & 40 MHz for 21 days.
Suppression of the Hungarian uprising only a year earlier encouraged a conclusion that such
efforts were not only in the interest of science and fear ran high. Worldwide, countries accused
the USA of becoming primarily a "refrigerator technology" based on consumer luxuries;
technological confidence was placed by many in the direction of the Soviet Union. During the
McCarthy era several years previous, the image of scientists had fallen. The USA media, which
had shown little concern over education, now highlighted it in criticism.
Sputnik provided the incentive for the formal USA political establishment to now support a
change in defense policy. Previously, the Eisenhower-Dulles policy of "massive retaliation" had
been based upon the defence of Europe on the deterrent value of a NATO nuclear response in the
event of a large-scale conventional Soviet attack in Europe. Designed in the early period of
western nuclear monopoly, when the USA could extend its nuclear umbrella over Europe from
military bases leased to it by NATO countries, there was no risk to its own territory of direct
attack or nuclear accident. This policy was made before Stalin's death and continued afterwards
in ignorance of the ability of the USSR to drop an atomic bomb on the USA from space as early
as 1953. But now the evidence of a possibility of such a capability was out in the open. With the
launch and acknowledgement of Sputnik, the USA was no longer invulnerable to nuclear attack
by virtue of geography. Major changes would have to be made.
Bombers and interceptors were no longer going to be adviseable deterrents nor effective delivery
systems. Missiles and "satellite bombs" were now the modern implements of war. Continuing to
offer protection to Europe at the expense of a good possibility of one's own direct attack with
nuclear weapons would eventually be seen by American politicians as untenable.
1957 - By October
EURATOM had been established by the "Treaties of Rome" to coordinate the use of Atomic Energy production in Europe. Also, the European Economic Community (E.E.C.) was set up to enable trade between the participants on the basis of a customs union to be completed by 1970. In 1952-3, a plan for political union had failed. The more fundamental economic "Mantan Union" of 1951 concerning raw material industrial resources had proven
successful and led to a conference of foreign ministers in Messina to discuss expanding the
community. The formation of the E.E.C. became the result.
The EEC was founded to establish an economic association based upon free trade, joint social,
commercial and financial policies, the internal abolition of restrictive trade practices and the free
circulation of labour and capital within the community and to facilitate transfers of capital
between this community and other federations of states.
"A Council of Ministers" would be given authority over guidelines and budget.
It would later appoint the E.E.C. Commission, headquartered in Brussels and consisting of 9 members and a
president who would hold office for 4-year terms.
1957 - On October 05
Antonio Villas-Boas, while working in his farm field at night, near San Francisco de Sales, Brazil, was abducted aboard a luminous egg-shaped object by 5 small beings; which made slow bark and yelp sounds; who stripped him and took blood samples from him; which wore suits with helmets and 3 hoses. Several days earlier, Antonio and his brother had noticed a strange lighting phenomenon in the middle of the horse corral. It seemed to
sweep upward into the sky hovering over the roof of the house first, but no object could be seen.
Several days later, Antonio was working in a field when he saw another bright light, about 300
feet in the air, shaped like a wheel, which he proceeded to chase from one end of the field to the
other until he tired. As he moved towards it, the big, round light would move swiftly to the
opposite end of the field, as if playing with him. As he was leaving the area, he noticed that it was
throwing off rays like the setting sun. Then it disappeared. The next night it returned and
Antonio first saw it as an extremely bright large red star overhead.
It grew larger as it approached and changed into an egg-shaped luminous craft which hovered 50
yards over him. After 2 minutes, the UFO dived toward the ground, landing 15 yards in front of
him. The whole field became as bright as if in daylight. The rounded object had a distinct rim
that was apparently clustered with purple lights. A huge round headlamp on the side facing him
appeared to produce the "daylight" effect. Three telescoping legs slid out under it and as it made
to land the frightened Antonio turned his tractor to drive away. Several feet later the tractor
stalled and its lights went out. The craft now looked like an elongated egg; a bright red light
seemed to come from the top of it. There were purple lights near the red one, and there was a
small red light on a flattened cupola on top of the craft, that spun rapidly. As Antonio got down
from the tractor to run away, he had only taken a few steps when something touched his arm.
He turned to find himself facing a being that was only shoulder height to Boas.
He pushed it away and as it fell, 3 others grabbed him and lifted him from the ground.
He called for help as they carried him and his voice seemed to fascinate them as they stopped and peered attentively into his face before continuing. A door had opened in the craft and a narrow metal ladder
extended to the ground. The beings forced him into the craft and he found himself in a square
room. It had metallic walls and was brightly lighted by small, high lamps. He was set down on
his feet and became aware of 5 beings, two of whom held him tightly. One signalled that he
should be taken through to the next room and he was. It was oval and had a pole which ran from
floor to ceiling in the middle and an odd shaped table surrounded by backless chairs.
After several
minutes, during which they talked amongst themselves in sounds he described later as slow barks
and yelps, neither very clear or very hoarse, some long and some shorter, at times containing
several sounds at once, and at other times ending in a quaver, they approached him and removed
his clothing carefully so as not to tear it. Whenever he yelled, they stopped to peer at him, and
although they seemed to be using force, at no time did they hurt him. When he was naked, one of
the beings approached him with what looked like a wet sponge and began to wash him with a
liquid that was as clear as water but felt thick, although it did not leave his skin oily; he shivered
as it dried.
He studied the aliens as they walked around him and noticed that they wore tight-fitting jumpsuits
made of soft, grey, unevenly striped cloth. The cloth reached up their necks and over their heads
like the hoods on skin diver's wet-suits. The "helmets" seemed to be twice as tall as the head,
reinforced with bands of metal at the back and front; he could see their light-coloured eyes
through apertures. Three tubes emerged from the top of each helmet, the central one running
down the back and entering the clothing in line with the spine; the other two curved away to enter
the clothes, one below each armpit. The sleeves ended in thick gloves, which seemed difficult to
bend at the fingers. The trouser part fitted closely over the seat, thighs, and lower legs, and the
footwear seemed an integral part, the soles being as much as 2 inches thick. On the chest of each
being, there was a breastplate-like shield about the size of a slice of pineapple, which seemed to
reflect light and was joined to a belt at the waist by a strip of laminated metal. They all appeared
to be about 5 feet tall.
Three of them moved him to another small square room through a swinging door that fit so
snugly into the wall that he could not see it when it was closed. At the entrance, above the door
was an inscription in red, perhaps similar to Aztec, but unlike any other earth culture writings.
Two others entered carrying a large vessel with rubber hoses attached. A hose, capped at the end
like a child's suction arrow, was attached to his chin while the other tube was pumped up and
down; he felt a scratching, and saw the clear, glass vessel fill with his blood. The procedure was
repeated and then the beings gathered up their equipment when they finished and left the room.
Inspecting the room, he found a large couch in the middle of it.
He felt tired so he sat on it. Then he noticed a strange smell in the air.
From the walls, about head high, he noticed a gray smoke pouring into the room through perforations in metallic tubes. Its thick, oily smell made him sick; he ran to a corner and in several minutes he vomited.
After what he thought was 30 minutes, he heard a sound at the door, and turning saw a naked
woman unhurriedly coming towards him who was more beautiful than any woman he had ever seen
before. She was under 5 feet in height, blond or light-coloured hair, almost white. Parted in the
middle, it reached halfway down her neck, with ends curling inwards. She was light-skinned, had
large, blue slanted eyes, a wide face with high cheekbones (which were soft and fleshy to the
touch) and a very pointed chin. Her nose was straight, neither pointed nor turned up. She was
slim, with high, well separated, very pointed breasts. Her lips were thin, the mouth being almost
like a slit. The ears were normal, but small. Her waist was slender, her hips wide, her stomach
was flat and her thighs were large. Her feet were small and her hands looked normal in shape and
small.
After the door closed she caressed and stimulated him sexually; they had sexual intercourse,
petted more, and then engaged a second time. He tried to kiss her, but she refused, preferring to
nibble his chin once. After the second time, she seemed to tire and refused further advances.
Although she never spoke, at times she made grunting noises which almost quelled his passion
with the impression that he might be with an animal. As she stood up, the door opened and one
of the alien men stepped in, calling to her. Before she left, she smiled at Antonio, pointed to her
stomach and then to the sky. This gesture alarmed Antonio for 4 years with the suggestion that it
might mean that they would return and take him away. Dr. Fontes, suggested later, that it more
probably meant that she was going to bear their child on her planet. He noticed she had flaming red pubic hair and armpit hair.
He was then instructed to get dressed. Then, he was shown around the craft.
Another room seemed to have the crew members sitting and talking amongst themselves.
On a table near them was a square box with a glass lid and a clocklike face. There were markings corresponding to 3, 6, 9, and four marks at the 12 position. He tried to steal it as a keepsake and proof of his
adventure but was caught. One of the beings took him to the open entrance door but instead of
going down the ladder, they stepped onto a platform that went around the ship and the alien
pointed out various features of the craft including machines with purplish lights. He glanced at
the cupola that emitted a greenish light and that was making a sound like a vacuum cleaner as it
slowly spun. When the tour was over, he was taken to the entrance and motioned down to the
ground. When he reached the bottom of the ladder, he looked back and the being pointed to
himself, then to the ground, and finally to the sky. He signalled Antonio to step back as he
disappeared inside.
The ladder telescoped into itself, the door vanished, the lights began to brighten and those on the
cupola began to spin faster and faster until the ship lifted quietly into the sky. It stopped to hover
about a hundred feet above the ground. The buzzing from it increased as it spun faster, until it
was revolving at a blurring speed. The colours flashed through the spectrum before settling on a
bright, blinding red. As it changed colour, it changed direction, causing a loud roar, shot off and
disappeared seconds later. He had been on the craft for 4 hours.
He returned home hungry and weakened, slept to 4.30 a.m., awoke feeling normal, fell asleep
again, and woke up shouting about the incident. Next day he was troubled by nausea and a
violent headache. When that left him, his eyes began to burn. Unusual wounds with infections,
appeared on parts of his body. When they dried up, they left round, purplish scars. Dr. Fontes
later described the symptoms as similar to radiation poisoning.
Because of the unusual nature of the experience, Villas-Boas did not tell anyone other than his
mother about it until February, 1958. Because it was believed too bizarre at the time, it was never
seriously investigated until February, 1958. The first investigators, Joao Martins, a Brazilian
Journalist, and his medical friend, Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, of Rio de Janeiro, proceeded to keep the
incident secret for several more years to prevent a rash of "copycat" cases being reported,
invalidating the original. In 1961, Dr. Walter Buhler began to make his own investigation, and the
report appeared publicly for the first time in January 1965.
1957 - By October
the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was brought into development by the USAF with the assistance of Canada, the UK, and other countries. It
extended the then existing range of tracking radars from a few hundred km to about 5000 km.
The most probable path of a USSR ICBM attack would be rationalized as over the Arctic, so 3
BMEWS radar stations were built at Thule in northern Greenland, at Clear in Alaska and at
Fylingdales, in northern England. Each had antennas the size of a football field (Fylingdales had
3) to detect a missile as it rises above the horizon. Trackers and computers would then calculate
its trajectory and indicate its impact point.
The sighting of a single missile was rationalized to mean a satellite launch or test firing and was
regarded as having a low "threat value"; multiple launches indicated a high threat value. BMEWS'
400-450 MHz trackers, even when they are satisfied that a launch is not hostile but a routine
operation, still automatically feed the details to the Missile Warning Center in Cheyenne
Mountain, USA.
It was believed that by the early 1970s these stations would become obsolete due to further
technological developments. Instead, at Fylingdales, for example, the antennas were shifted in
direction to point south so as to detect, compute and predict the re-entry and impact of space
debris. Both the USA and the USSR fitted their military satellites at that point with self-destruct
mechanisms to prevent their most sophisticated technology from being retrieved by their enemy.
A lesser consideration was that larger debris would then not fall on ships, houses or persons.
1957 -
Robert Moudy, on October 15, was in his fields near Foster, Indiana, when he saw a large flat oval object shoot overhead. As the screaming ball passed, the engine of his combine died. When the UFO disappeared, the engine sputtered back to life. Widely reported, the USAF
ignored it.
1957, on October 16th
Ella Louise Fortune was travelling near Holloman AFB, near White Sands, New Mexico, when she saw a large white, cigar-shaped object. She took a colour
picture of it and analysis showed that it was a lenticular cloud.
1957 - On October 19
USA President Dwight Eisenhower gave a commitment to British Prime Minister Macmillan that he would repeal the McMahon Act of 1946. The Act prohibited USA personnel from sharing any information about the design or construction of nuclear weapons with any other nation, including Britain. On this occasion, assisted by the USSR launch of Sputnik I, Macmillan was able to convey that the American pride in its nuclear superiority was
perhaps not adequate without the strategic addition of Britain to its regions of nuclear missile silos
and launch pads.
1957 - During the last quarter of the year
There were 30 armed terrorist incidents in Saigon, South Vietnam.
At least 75 local officials were assassinated or kidnapped. On October
22, 13 Americans were wounded in three bombings in Saigon. There was only sparse evidence
that North Vietnam was directing, or was capable of directing, that violence. Unknown at the
time, American covert forces under the direction of the NSA were responsible for 29 of the
incidents with the intent of provoking war between the South and the North. One incident was a
copycat murder.
Bilderberger directors had determined at this point that classified military expenditures were the
easiest to skim funds from. Research carried out in the psychology, sociology and political
science departments of United States universities for the benefit of the C.I.A., indirectly or
directly, indicated that mobilization of a population for the purposes of increasing totalitarian
control would increase the ease with which war could be entered into. Threats to public safety
would increase citizen fear and vengeance calling for increased restrictions on public freedoms
and rights. The mass media would be an important ingredient in its sensationalization of the
incidents and its graphic representations. It could be easily manipulated by playing on the
immaturity of most reporters and the idealism of editors plus the competitiveness of the industry.
The same plan of destabilization would later be expanded for use in the United States itself.
1957, on November 2
Pedro Saucedo, and others, saw a large red glowing UFO sweep across the highway in front of his truck while he was driving toward Levelland, Texas. As it
landed, the lights of the truck went out and the engine stopped. Saucedo dived out the door and
rolled out of the way. His passenger, Joe Salaz, sat terror-stricken, his eyes fixed on the UFO.
The blue-green glow faded into a red so bright that he could no longer look at it. During the 3
minutes the object sat on the highway, both men thought they heard noises coming from within.
Suddenly, the 200 foot long torpedo-shaped object shot silently into the sky. Saucedo was so
scared that he drove to the small village of Whiteface, Texas and phoned in the report to the
Levelland police. The deputy sheriff, officer A.J. Fowler, mistook the hysterical call as due to
drunkenness.
1957 -
Jim Wheeler, near Levelland, Texas, saw a red, glowing UFO on the road ahead.
As he drove closer, his car engine died and the lights went out. The egg-shaped object, almost
200 feet long, then rose and left quietly and swiftly. He called the Levelland, Texas police an hour
after Saucedo.
1957 - On November 2nd
Just before midnight, Jose Alvarez phoned the Levelland police department.
He was 10 miles north of the town and had almost run into a glowing ball of fire in
the middle of the road. His car lights and engine had failed only to return when the UFO rose
away from the car.
1957 - On November 2-4
A huge, glowing, cigar-shaped object was reported near Levelland, Texas, Elmwood Park, Illinois, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico and the Fiji Islands. A silvery metal had apparently fallen from the sky at the time of the sightings and appeared on the ground in conjunction with its presence.
During 1957 to 1959
"The Transosonde Project" was conducted.
100 balloons were floated across the Pacific at 300 millibars (9000 metres) and were tracked by radio direction
finders. This type of balloon was largely made possible by the development and utilization of
polyethylene clear plastic which diminished the cooling influence of the loss of sunlight after
sunset. Most crossed the Pacific and all provided useful weather data. The project was
abandoned with the advent of commercial jet transportation, since the scientific benefits could not
offset the hazard of a 300 kg gondola colliding with a plane.
Near this time, 3 technical advances were developed by humanity.
New, strong, high modulus plastic films, microminiature electronics and Earth satellites were developed. When these would be sufficiently put together and combined, new possibilities would arise.
1957 - Later that evening, at 12:30 A.M. on November 3
Ronald Martin, nearing Levelland in his car, noticed his ammeter jump to discharge, then back, as the engine quit and the lights went out. He got out to check the engine, found nothing wrong, and turned around to see a
red, cigar-shaped object on the road. Unsure what to do, he got back into his car; several minutes
later, the object rose silently and when it was of sight his car would start again.
Martin contacted the Levelland sheriff's office.
1957, later that night, on November 2nd
James Long, had been driving on a country road northwest of Levelland, when he came upon a landed, bright red UFO. His truck engine stopped and its lights went out. He got out and started toward the object, but it took off before he got more than a few feet from his truck. After it was gone, the truck started easily again. He called the Levelland sheriff's office. Sheriff Weir Clem and his deputy sped to the area and at about
1.30 am themselves saw an enormous egg. Clem described it as "looking like a brilliant red sunset
across the highway. It lit up the whole road in front of us for about 2 seconds." A second patrol
vehicle (with officers Lee Hargrove and Floyd Gavin) witnessed the same from a position behind
Clem. Ahead of them was fire marshall Ray James, who saw the object as well and had electrical
malfunctions with his car. After his retirement in 1975, Sheriff Clem gave a more specific
description of what he saw as "The object was shaped like a huge football and had bright white
lights. No living human could believe how fast it travelled. The thing was as bright as day. It lit
up the whole area."
1957 - on the evening of Nov 2/3
After receiving 4 calls in quick succession, the Levelland sheriff, Weir Clem decided to investigate.
Within an hour of leaving the office he, a
deputy, and a second group consisting of 2 highway patrol officers and a Constable all saw the
glowing object at a distance. The sheriff called Reese AFB in nearby Lubbock, Texas, and they ,
in turn, relayed the sightings to Project Bluebook. Officer Fowler estimated that he had received
at least two dozen calls that night from people seeing something. In 1977, Sheriff Clem said that
after the publicity over the next few days, the number of witnesses rose to about a hundred.
Sheriff Clem remembered the weather that evening as "a few thin, whispy clouds in the sky, but
not enough to obscure the moon." The official weather records show "clouds were thin, at 8000
feet, with a temperature of 50 degrees F and a light wind of 8 knots". A fair bit of rain and
lightning did arrive in a storm on November 4th, 24 hours after the sightings. The investigators
from Project Bluebook arrived on November 5th and interviewed two people, not including any
of the above.
Shortly later, the USAF had rationalized the sightings to a streak of lightning during a heavy
electrical storm and the loss of power to the car and truck engines as the driver's fear resulting in
them unconsciously turning the engine off. This explanation was unsatisfactory and movement in
the form of a call for a scientific investigation began. Within days, Donald Menzel, a Blue Book
Project supporter primarily interested in mirage effects, proposed "ball lightning" as the
explanation. Most people outside of Levelland trusted their government, so the official word was
never questioned by the media. Thirty years later, most atmospheric scientists do not support
anything more than that ball lightning is very rare, does not form repeatedly, is never as wide as a
road, or stable for minutes on end, and has no effects on car engines and lights. When the
Condon Committee investigated reports 10 years later, the Levelland sightings were not
investigated.
1957 - On the morning of November 3
Newell Wright, a college student, called in his report at the insistence of his parents.
He had been east of Levelland, Texas, at 12.05 am, driving,
when his ammeter jumped to 'discharge', then fell back to normal as his car engine stopped.
Thinking something was wrong with the engine, he got out and looked under the hood to find
nothing apparently wrong. Closing the hood, he then noticed a greenish oval on the road in front
of him. He hurriedly tried to reverse his car, but it still would not respond. Several minutes later
the UFO rose and headed north (towards where Frank Williams had his encounter), and Wright
drove home. At the time of his report, in the morning, he was unaware of any other reports made
during the night.
1957 - Early on the morning of November 3
Two men on patrol at White Sands, New Mexico reported they saw a bright egg-shaped ball of fire, 'two hundred feet long and seventy-five feet
wide' falling in the sky, the light went out, then just before the object either hit the ground or
hovered just above it, the light came back on. It took off at a 45 degree angle. That evening
another patrol, unaware of the first report, witnessed and reported a second occurrence. The Air
Force put the sightings down to the imagination of the young and impressionable minds of the
officers involved. The site was beside some bunkers which were the remnants of the July 16,
1945, Trinity first experimental atomic bomb blast. It had formed a depression a half-mile wide
and broke windows 120 miles away. It is 37 miles southeast of Socorro and the public are now
allowed access through a part of the year. The White Sands' public affairs office is at (505) 835-0424.
1957 - On November 3
Sputnik II, a USSR satellite weighing 1120 pounds was announced launched for the purposes of cosmic ray detection, solar ultraviolet and x-ray radiation sensing, temperature and pressure monitoring and the demonstration that life could live in an artificial environment in space. It becomes the first public demonstration of life being sent into space from the Earth by humans. Laika, a dog, remains alive for about 10 days, until its oxygen supply finishes. Re-entry occurs April 14, 1958 after 162 days.
1957 - Between November 4-11
US Air Defense Command Headquarters at Colorado Springs received 130 reports of sightings of UFOs.
1957 - On November 4th
James Stokes was driving towards El Paso when near Orogrande, New Mexico, the engine of his car began to sputter and the radio faded out. As the engine quit,
Stokes guided the car to the side of the road. Ahead he could see a group of people talking and
pointing to the sky. Looking up, he saw a large, oval-shaped object shooting towards the road.
It buzzed the highway, turned to the northwest, and then reversed for another pass at the cars
before disappearing. As the object had passed over the cars, Stokes could feel its heat. He
thought it had been 3000 feet above them and estimated the speed of it at 760 mph. Hours after
the sighting, Stokes noticed an itching on his face, hands, and wrists. The areas that had been
exposed during the passby reddened as if they had been sunburned. Stokes was an employee of
the Air Force Missile Development Center at the Holloman Base, and had been in the Navy for 24
years and was believed to be a very competent observer.
1957 - On November 5th
R.O. Schmidt walked into the Kearney, Nebraska, police station to describe his experience.
While he had been inspecting a field of grain, he had come upon what
he first thought was a wrecked balloon. When he was 30 feet away, he was stopped by a beam of
light which paralysed him. Two men from the object searched him for weapons, then invited him
on board. Inside he saw 2 women and 3 men working on instrumentation and was told that the
people meant him no harm. They couldn't tell him where they were from but did say that they
might announce their presence in the near future.
When Schmidt left, there was a flash of light and the object was gone.
Police searched the area and only found a greenish oil-like substance
that they took to the Kearney College for analysis. A rash of occupant reports followed in the
next few days which were very similar and did not show any other connection or communication
between the observers. By November 20th, authorities had psychiatrists examine Schmidt; they
concluded that he was unstable and very ill and committed him to a mental institution. After he
was released, he made many more UFO "contacts" and joined the lecture circuit.
1957 - On November 6th
Everett Clark saw a landed object in a field near his home in Dante, Tennessee.
Four men and a woman were near it and Clark spoke to them briefly before
they got back into the UFO and it disappeared quickly and quietly into the sky. Neighbours and
friends said Clark was intelligent and honest and they didn't think he had made up the story.
1957, on November 6th
Several hours after Clark had seen the UFO, Richard Kehoe, who was driving to work, near Santa Monica, California, when the engine of his car died. Kehoe noticed that there were two other cars stalled, and when he got out, he could see a brightly lighted object on the beach. Kehoe and the men from the other vehicles, Ronald Burke and Joe Thomas, were talking when two humanoids got out of the egg-shaped object and walked over to
them. The beings were yellowish-green in colour and although they tried to speak with the men,
the observers could not understand them and were terrified. Unsuccessful, the beings returned to
the object and took off. One of the men reported the incident to the police, but no-one was
interested. There had been over 100 reports on November 6th.
1957, on November 6th
Edwin Leadford, reported that he had taken a picture of a cigar-shaped craft over Anaheim, California.
Because Leadford had called the police on 6 separate occasions to report others had damaged the gas station where he worked or had stolen his car keys, the USAF tried to suggest that he was a poor witness ?
1957, on the evening of November 6th
Four campers at Lake Baskatong, near Ottawa, Canada, saw a bright sphere hovering over a hill.
The light was so bright that it lit the clouds
above it. Their shortwave radio failed shortly after the object appeared and would only work on
one frequency, giving off a strange Morse-like code. When the UFO disappeared 15 minutes
later, the radio began to work normally again.
1957, on November 6th
Rene Gilham, address unknown, saw a UFO hovering over his farm.
After it left, he began to itch and his skin began to redden. Before the rash disappeared, he had to
be hospitalized for 11 days.
Over 5,700 sightings were reported in the U.S.A. on one day, November 6th.
1957, on November 7th
Melvin Stevens, was driving near Meridian, Mississippi, when he saw an object on the highway.
As he approached, 3 men, about 4-1/2 feet tall got out of the
object and came towards him. They wanted to talk but he couldn't understand what they were
saying. After what seemed a long time, they gave up, re-entered the object, and took off.
Stevens made his report in Memphis minutes later.
1957 - Also on November 7th
Mr and Mrs. Linsey Trent while driving near Orogrande, New Mexico, noticed that their speedometer jumped from 60 to 110 and back. To the south they saw a bright, metallic oval object flying high. It had well-defined edges and was in sight for several seconds. When it disappeared, the speedometer returned to working normally.
1957 - During November
Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister, met with USA President Eisenhower in an effort to bring the two nations closer in political and military co-dependency. During the period, British diplomacy with France had been minimal and such would annoy the French. Britain was also arranging to reduce its troop commitment to European
defense bringing its contingent down from 80,000 to 50,000. This further annoyed the French for
it suggested that Britain was abdicating its part in the defence of Europe against the USSR. In
reality, Britain was too poor to afford the troops and was looking to cut costs. The final agreed
upon reduction was in the range of 13,000 troops.
1957 - On November 10
A Madison, Ohio, woman said that she had been gardening when she saw a very bright triangle-shaped object over her house. She watched it for 30 minutes but finally
had to look away because it irritated her eyes. A few days later, a rash developed over her body
which was like a burn.
1957 - By November
The RADINT (Radar Intelligence) Program had been set up by the USA government to detect and observe Soviet ICBM tests.
1957 - During the week of November 11
Cherokee Indians reported sighting a UFO resembling a fireball that settled on Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee, North Carolina.
1957 - On November 11
A Civilian Engineer with the US Army in Japan sighted a UFO on Lake Imba-numa on the Bozo Peninsula about 50 miles from Tokyo.
1957, dated November 12
An FBI status report, stated
"Ever since the Russians released 'Sputnik' there has been a great increase in the number of flying saucers and other UFO's reportedly seen by people all over the US."
1957 - On November 14
The power in Tamaroa, Illinois, failed for about 10 minutes over a four-mile area while a hovering UFO flashed brightly.
1957 - After November 20
The number of sightings began to drop off.
As the public became more aware of the antagonism and ridicule which was likely to be directed towards them
by government officers who were to protect them, few wanted to be accused of creating a hoax,
mistaking a mundane occurrence for a UFO, or having their credibility and sanity questioned.
During the period November 2 through 15, there were 100's of sightings worldwide.
1957 - During the year
"Precon Process and Equipment Corporation", of New Orleans, USA, announced that it was in the business of placing subliminal images in movies, on billboards, and in taverns. The firm was set up by a psychologist and a neurologist with engineering training. They said they had been experimenting for several years and had applied for patents. Later, they stated that they had doubled the consumption of a beverage advertised subliminally on the premises where it was for sale.
Soon afterward, television stations across the USA began using the technique, followed by movie
producers, newspapers, and magazines. While the process was eventually banned in Great
Britain, few regulations restricted its use in North America. Over a short period of time,
considerable interest was expressed against the process in North America, such that the public
actually believed that the technique had been stopped. In reality, admen and media producers
simply stopped bragging about the technique, stated that they were not using it, cast doubt on
print claims on the basis that the untrained eye could not detects its use, and, that a person
consciously trying to find background images could "imagine" such which were not present.
Over the next several decades the process would become much more sophisticated than simply
inserting frames showing specific motivational phrases, words, or images in movies - to weaving
specific focus words mutely into image backgrounds such that only a relaxed eye could lift the
fabrication out of a textured background. Once sought "smooth" pictures of clothing, carpeting,
the sky, a person's skin, grass, etc. - became textured - to show reality and provide a base in
which to insert subliminals. Words with high emotional overtones such as Whore, raped, sex,
fuck, bitch, penis, and others were increasingly used. The word "sex" was subliminized as many
as 60 times into the background of some pictures. The use of an amber photographic filter was
sometimes helpful in increasing the contrast of the photo to reveal the subliminals to the
conscious eye .
1957 - On December 2
A Circular Object is seen between Royere and Bourganeuf, France.
1957 - During December
Armaments were Supplied to Tunisia during the height of the war with France, by both the USA and Britain.
It was no secret that such arms often ended up in rebel hands in Algeria - to be used against the French government forces (Algeria was still a French colony). The French media enlarged the participation and responsibility of the British almost to the point of stating that the British were intentionally supporting the Algerian rebels. French leaders feeling betrayed by the British, drew closer to the Germans.
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