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In this second ORIGINS file, the summary of historical references is continued from the first.

1363
The GRAYs begin building bases on the Earth's moon.
The Moon provides a good source of raw materials for the GRAYs plus an environment which was not contested by other biological forms. Soil characteristics were an advantage to their preferred subterranean nests (bases).

1561
In Germany, "the sky was filled with cylindrical shapes from which emerged black, red, orange and blue-white spheres that darted about."

1771
Insectoids, formerly from the Earth, acquire a population limiting virus on their new planet.

1783
During the year, the astronomer Herschel discovered bright lights in the middle of the dark Moon during an eclipse of the Sun.

1787
During the year, the astronomer Herschel again sees bright lights on the Moon.
He believed that some of the lights seemed to move above its surface.

1820
In the spring, Joseph Smith, in the state of Vermont, USA, had a "vision" while praying aloud secretly in a forest.

"I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and made such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.

But exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at that very moment when I was ready to ... abandon myself ... to some actual being from some unseen world, who had such marvellous power as I had never before felt in any being ... I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.

It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw 2 Personages, whose brightness and glory defy description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake to me, calling me by name, and said - pointing to the other - This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!" ...

I was answered (as to which sect to join) that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong, and the Personage who addressed me said that those professors were all corrupt; that 'they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; they teach for doctrines the commandments of men: having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.'

(After saying many other things to me) I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven."

1821
During the year, the astronomer Herschel again sees bright lights on the Moon.
He believed that some of the lights seemed to move above its surface.

1823
In September, Joseph Smith, after retiring to bed, prayed to God for forgiveness of all his sins and follies, and also for a manifestation of God as he had received earlier. In the interim years since his first "vision", without the guidance and support of belonging to a religious sect, and, that being a period during his teenage years, Joseph "frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature; which ... led me into divers temptations, offensive in the sight of God (yet none were of any great or malignant a nature):

"When I was in the act of calling upon God, I discovered a light appearing in my room, which continued to increase until the room was lighter than at noonday, when immediately a personage appeared at my bedside, standing in the air, for his feet did not touch the floor.

He had on a loose robe of most exquisite whiteness. It was white beyond anything earthly I had ever seen; nor do I believe that any earthly thing could be made to appear so exceedingly white and brilliant. His hands were naked, and his arms also, a little above the wrists; so, also, were his feet naked, as were his legs, a little above the ankles. His head and neck were also bare. I could discover that he had no other clothing on but this robe, as it was open, so that I could see into his bosom.

Not only was his robe exceedingly white, but his whole person was glorious beyond description, and his countenance truly like lightening. The room was exceedingly light, but not so very bright as immediately around the person. When I first looked at him I was afraid; but the fear soon left me. (The spacebeings from the Pleiades are very spiritually advanced compared to the highest spiritually inclined human and have the capability to assume whatever form is deemed positive to the individual human; they can communicate telepathically and "read" a subject's mind.)

He called me by name, and said that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken among all people.

He said there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this (North American) continent, and that the fullness of the everlasting Gospel was contained in it, as delivered by the Saviour to the ancient inhabitants.

Also, that there were two stones in silver bows - and these stones fastened to a breastplate, constructed what is called the Urim and Thummim - deposited with the plates: and the possession and use of these stones were what constituted "seers" in ancient and former times; and that God had prepared them for the purpose of translating the book.

After telling me these things, he commenced quoting the prophecies of the Old Testament. He first quoted part of the chapter of Malachi ... though with a little variation from ... our Bibles ... and other verses (from this and other chapters and books of the Bible).

After this communication, I saw the light in the room begin to gather immediately around the person of him who had been speaking to me, and it continued to do so until the room was again left dark, except just around him; when, instantly I saw, as it were, a conduit open right up into heaven, and he ascended till he entirely disappeared, and the room was left as it had been before this heavenly light had made its appearance. ...

I suddenly discovered that my room was again beginning to get lighted, and in an instant, as it were, the same heavenly messenger was again by my bedside. ... He commenced again and related (all that he had done in the previous visit) ... and informed me of great judgements which were coming upon the earth, with great desolation by famine, sword, and pestilence; and that these judgements would come on the earth in this generation. Having related these things, he again ascended as he had done before.

... re third time the messenger appeared from out of the heavens and repeated all that he had said before) and added a caution to me, telling me that Satan would try to tempt me (in consequence of the indigent circumstances of my father's family), to get the plates for the purpose of getting rich. This he forbade me saying that I must have no other object in view in getting the plates but to glorify God, and must not be influenced by any other motive than that of building his kingdom; otherwise I could not get them.

(The messenger) again ascended into heaven ... when almost immediately ... the cock crowed, and I found that day was approaching, so that our interviews must have occupied the whole night. ... (on going to work) I found my strength so exhausted as to render me totally unable (was instructed by his father to return home) and in attempting to cross the fence out of the field ... my strength entirely failed me, and I fell helpless on the ground, and for a time was quite unconscious of anything.

The first thing that I can recollect was a voice speaking unto me, calling me by name. I looked up, and beheld the same messenger standing over my head, surrounded by light as before. He then related to me all that he had related to me the previous night, and commanded me to go to my father and tell him of the vision and commandments which I had received."

Joseph Smith told his father.
He then went to the location where he was told he would find the plates and the interpreting devices. On attempting to take them out of their stone box, the messenger appeared again and instructed Smith to leave them where they were for another 4 years.

1862
Insectoids, originally from the Earth, now determine that they have acquired a population limiting virus which has become endemic. The eventual result will be a steady reduction of the population. They begin searching for a bioengineered solution.

1869
On August 7, Moving lights on the Moon were reported by American astronomer Swift. He observed several bright lights cross the dark disc along parallel lines as if moving in formations. French astronomers, Hines and Zentmayer observed the same lights, and formations during the same period. During the year, many other astronomers reported sightings. Many of the lights were seen in the Mare Crisium and many were reported moving above the surface in circular, triangular and rectangular formations, as if obeying a pattern of formation for some intended purpose.

1870
On May 13, moving lights on the Moon were reported by astronomers.
They observed several bright lights cross the crater Plato along parallel lines as if moving in formations. The groups of lights, varying from 4 to 28 in number, were moving above the surface. They appeared to rapidly switch on and off suggesting the transmission of a signal, the disappearance of the objects into hangers or shelters and their re-emergence, or of the light being interrupted on a frequent basis by other non-lighted objects passing between the light sources and the Earth.

1872
Insectoids, originally from the Earth, have now been searching for 10 years to find a bioengineered remedy to a population limiting virus which has become endemic to their species. They have determined that new genes are required and that these are neither in their own gene pool nor in any other on their planet. They decide that they will return to the Earth as their best known option. In the 293,128 years since they departed, they have developed better interstellar travel craft: more efficient, faster.

Originally, it took them 1,000 years to reach their current planet.
They will return in just 67 years with the use of multiple stage propulsion units capable of eventually reaching the speed of light. At the speed of light, time stands still: one may travel shorter to infinite distances in a moment of time. Most of the flight time will be taken in acceleration and deceleration. Because of the structural natures of their bodies, they can withstand gravitational acceleration forces easily capable of resulting in death to humans.

1874
The French astronomer Lamay saw many black spots crossing the Moon in a perfect geometric pattern.

1892
The Dutch astronomer Muller saw many black spots crossing the Moon in a perfect geometric pattern, similar to those seen earlier by Lamay.

1896
The American astronomer Brooks saw many black spots crossing the Moon in geometric pattern, similar to those seen earlier by Lamay and Muller. Many other astronomers would continue to see such lights in the years ahead.

1896
In November, large numbers of Piloted Aircraft carrying brilliant searchlights and human-like passengers, capable of flying against the wind, landing and then taking off when approached, first were sighted in California. They reappeared all over the western and midwestern United States in March, 1897. A wave of UFO sightings occurred over Texas during the year and was recorded also.

1903
A GRAY Exploration Team arrive and position themselves in Wales.
Their purpose is to observe and define the cultural patterns of the dominant lifeforms on the Earth: their potential opposition re: colonization of the planet.

1904
Mrs. Mary Jones, a poor woman who lived with her husband on an almost barren farm near the small town of Egryn in northern Wales, after receiving a vision of Jesus Christ, becomes inspired to preach in the local chapel. Strange lights appear over the chapel when she speaks, and accompany her to and from the chapel. Sometimes, the lights would manifest inside of buildings. The incidents are confirmed by thousands of observers including sceptical reporters and scientists.

The lights sometimes appeared suddenly, would flash forth an intense white light which illuminated the surroundings as if in full sunshine. Emitting from its whole circumference were dazzling sparklets like flashing rays from a diamond. Sometimes, as many as 3 lights might appear at once; usually white but the odd one would be red. At times, they appeared to move as if responding to statements made by observers; rushing quickly towards the observer, hovering, disappearing and reappearing. One reporter stated that he saw an oval mass of grey, as the source of the brilliant light.

During the same period, sheep were found slaughtered; sometimes they were drained of blood with the flesh left almost untouched. Tracking dogs refused to track anything from the sight of the mutilations.

This is the first concerted attempt by the GRAYs to communicate with and influence humans: an experiment. The GRAYs are extracting blood-type fluids from various Earth lifeforms to build an experimental resource DNA base for their bioengineering team which will arrive with the main colony much later.

1917
On Sunday, May 13, Maria Rosa (later known as Sister Lucy), Jacinta, and Francisco, had gone to the chapel of Boleiros to assist at the "Mass of the souls," celebrated for the souls in Purgatory, a treasured devotion in the piety of the Portuguese. After returning home, the children went to feed their flocks and at a property called Cova da Iria, they saw a flash in the sky which they took to be lightning. Half way down the slope on their return home, they saw another flash at the level of the top of a holm-oak tree; walked a few more steps and saw another flash of light. They then saw an apparition.

Above a small holm-oak, a hologram, projected from an invisible GRAY spacecraft, gave an image of a woman, dressed in white, more brilliant than the Sun, and radiating a light "clearer and more intense than a crystal glass filled with water pierced by the most burning rays of the Sun." Surprised, the children stopped and found themselves "so close that we found ourselves in the light ... or rather ... perhaps a metre and a half away." The image appeared to speak to them and noted that:

 1. Not to be afraid for no harm was intended;
 2. It was from heaven (space);
 3. They were asked to return 6 times at the same time of the month;
 4. All would go to heaven;
 5. One girl who had died recently was in heaven;
 6. Another girl was in Purgatory until the end of the world;
 7. Were they willing to offer themselves to God to save others?;
 8. They would have to suffer much, but hope would comfort them;
 9. They were to recite the Rosary every day to obtain world peace.

Toward the end of the communication, a light seemed to emanate from the hologram image to the children and to envelop them and disorient them ("penetrating our heart and even to the depths of our soul"). Then, a projected communication to their nervous systems ("moved by an interior impulse") caused them to relax and fall to their knees, where they prayed in astonishment. After the final statements, the image receded back into the sky and "disappeared in the immensity of the sky." Attempting to rationalise the process, the children later surmised that

"The light which surrounded Her seemed to open a path for Her among the stars, and for this reason we said sometimes that we had seen Heaven opening."

Such technical capabilities to project images and sound, induce hypnotic behaviour, and to make their craft invisible would be reported of the GRAY extraterrestrials by abductees during 1980s.

The image presented as an apparition was that of an accumulation of the characteristics which any observer to the Portuguese Roman Catholic rites would have noted as inspiring idolatrous reverence, particularly within imaginative, open-minded, emotionally sensitive children. The image had been one of a young woman, with a serene yet grave and sorrow-filled face, clothed in brilliant white, with her head covered with a white veil embroidered with gold. She was carrying a Rosary of white brilliant beads which terminated with a crucifix.

"Her whole person, surrounded by a splendor more brilliant than the Sun, radiated clusters of light, ...." Such characteristics meld the qualities of the regional pagan Heavenly Mother worship, with the sentiments of the church ceremonies reverently performed earlier in the day, and with the qualities of holographic projections which would be possible by humans in the 1990s. Humans, at this point, have been in a stage of rapid technical development for less than 100 years; GRAYs now have a rapid technical development history of 100,000 years!

Is there spiritual deception here? When God appears in the form of a physical image, why would it be necessary to present an image which was so hypnotic (bright, attention-demanding, indistinct)? Spiritually, an all-powerful God does not need to use images and dramatic presentations. Why approach easily impressed children rather than interested adults?

Spiritually, an avoidance of reverent and spiritually-guided adults is a cop-out: it avoids confirmation of one's truth or deception by the independent use of the spiritual skills of meditation and prayer. Why cloak the question of how long the war will continue in mystery when asked? An all powerful God , and any messenger involved, would be more direct and assertive than that. Why refuse to tell the children, who did ask, what you want?

Spiritually, the withholding of information when the opportunity to present it and there is sincere interest - is manipulation.

1917
On Wednesday, June 13, the Second Apparition near Fatima was seen by the three young sheepherders, Maria Rosa, Jacinta and Francisco. On returning to the location where they had seen the first apparition and (superstitiously) reciting the Rosary, a "reflection of the light which was approaching (what we would call lightning)" was seen, and the image of the young radiant woman appeared above the holm-oak again. Other persons were present this time, as observers. In response to questions, the following was conveyed to Maria Rosa:

 1. The children were reminded to return on the 13 of the next month;
 2. They were told to recite the Rosary daily;
 3. They were instructed to learn to read;
 4. The purpose of the visitation was again denied;
 5. The cure of a person was set at "within the year;"
 6. Jacinta and Francisco were to go to heaven soon;
 7. Salvation was promised to the worshippers of "My Immaculate Heart";
 8. The purpose was stated as establishing such devotion in the world;
 9. Maria Rosa was to put her faith and hope in the devotion.

The image appeared to open its hands and a shaft of light from it was such that "Jacinta and Francisco appeared to be part of that light which elevated itself to Heaven, and I in the part which spread itself on the earth." The vision continued to evolve such that in the palm of the woman there appeared an image of a heart surrounded by thorns which seemed to pierce it. The thought was telecommunicated into the minds of the children that this represented "the Immaculate Heart of Mary, outraged by the sins of humanity, which demanded reparation."

Is there spiritual deception here?
In addition to the earlier questions, why would the 13th of the month be chosen rather than the day of the week or some other factor? The number 13 held considerable superstitious significance amongst many Europeans of the time, particularly those who professed to be Christians. The purpose of the visitation is denied, and then revealed. Is God unsure of his agenda - inconsistent?

Why vaguely note the answer to a sincere question and defer the act for so long a period? There are many instances of immediate and spontaneous cures being enacted by the Jewish-Christian-Mormon God in the past. The response now appears to be one of little concern, not a very spiritual context. Yet to Maria Rosa's expression of insecurity at the possibility of being left alone to face the world without her two friends, the advice given to her is to place her faith and hope in an image - idolatry. The emphasis is growing in a materialistic direction, away from the ultimate spiritual concern of the teachings of Christ: living the "WAY."

1917
On Friday, July 13, the Third Apparition near Fatima appeared before a great crowd of people together with the chosen child trio. The vision appeared again soon after they saw a flash in the sky. Again the children asked for the purpose of the visitations. They were told to continue reciting the Rosary daily in order to end the war. When asked who the vision was, the children were told that in October they would find out.

When asked to perform a miracle so that everyone present could be influenced, it was communicated that this would also be done in the future. Other requests were made of the female vision and the children were told that such would only be possible if they said the Rosary and that by so doing their wishes would be granted throughout the year. A prayer was given for the children to say often, especially when they made a sacrifice for others:

"Oh Jesus, it is for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

Then, for the children, the vision and rays of light appeared to penetrate the earth and reveal a sea of fire. In this sea, there appeared what were assumed to be demons and souls in human form, which appeared to be both transparent and bronzed, at times floating about, and, at times ascending into the air with great clouds of smoke, as if billowed up by the flames. The sounds of shrieks and groans of pain and despair accompanied the vision. Yet this complete vision only lasted a moment. Maria Rosa was informed that they had seen

"... hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not stop offending God, a worse one will break out during the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father.

To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecution of the Church.

The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved; ... Do not tell this to anyone. Francisco, yes, you may tell him.

When you pray the Rosary, say after each mystery: O my Jesus, forgive us, save us from the fire of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are most in need."

Then the hologram was removed and the image of the young woman rose into the sky, from whence it had been projected, and disappeared in the distance.

From a religious context, one can again determine the difference between a truly spiritual experience and the one which was indicative of manipulation by the GRAY extraterrestrials. In addition to the earlier questions, consider these:

1. Didn't Jesus die for the sins of humanity ? - 
2. Wasn't His admonition that if one repented of one's sins, and,
                    took up His WAY of life, he or she would be saved;
3. Short complex images are difficult to cope with & encourage hysteria;
4. Wasn't the teaching of Christ to cure one's own spiritual ills first?;
5. Didn't God know that humanity was incapable of this request?
6. Why try to do the impossible if Her Heart was going to succeed anyway?
7. Wasn't Maria Rosa told not to tell anyone, yet she defied this;

In other words, in opposition to Christianity, the advice presented through the use of the visions calls for a substitution of reverence for the Virgin Mother rather than for Christ or His WAY of life. In accord with modern (1996) knowledge of hologram projections, the integrity of complex visuals is best maintained for short periods of time. By concentrating on curing the ills of Russia before a good example was present in one's own country could only be understood by the Communists as outright imperialism, and, lead to a stronger, paranoically defensive, anti-religious Russian administration.

A spiritual awareness of humanity would be able to acknowledge that with the changes made to humanity over the past 200,000 years, the likelihood of an almost immediate reversal of cultural trends would be impossible. The suggestion that the "Heart" will win in the end and change reality provide a lack of motivation for many humans: taking responsibility or not is made to seem urgent yet unnecessary, promoting confusion and apathy.

Finally, if Maria Rosa was told not to tell anyone by a representative of God, doesn't her sharing of this information become an act of sin. On the other hand, if you warn a child not to tell, don't you frequently create a sense of anxiety which many children cope with by telling of their concerns, and the information, to someone else?

1917
On Monday August 13, the Fourth Fatima Apparition was scheduled to happen.
The District Administrator, concerned that the 3 children involved were encouraging the development of a Christian heresy or satanic cult, detained them. ... he returned the children to Fatima on the 15th and released them.

Meanwhile, on the 13th, at the expected location and time, attended by many people in expectation, a thunderous sound was heard followed by a flash in the sky. Then, a small cloud appeared to form above the favoured holm-oak. Light reflected from, or emitted from, the concealed object projected pink, red, blue, and other colours from the faces and clothing of those present in addition to the branches and leaves of the trees and bushes. The ground was covered with squares of different colours. Metallic objects appeared to glow in gold. Then, the "cloud" rose into the sky and disappeared.

It is noteworthy that the sound was heard before the flash of light was seen: the opposite sequence to that of real thunder and lightning. The appearance of a cloud as an "acceptable" illusion to humans to conceal the true shape of an extraterrestrial craft has been reported in common and religious accounts for thousands of years. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, many UFO observers would report such cloud illusions accompanied by abduction experiences or other extraterrestrial related activity.

Both the patterns and the range of colours and their intensity of reflection from all of the surrounding materials at the location would also parallel observations made on numerous occasions during the 1950s and 1960s when UFO craft which were not concealed in shape were observed. The number of such reported incidents at that time would range into the hundreds.

1917
On Sunday, August 19, a Fourth Apparition before the selected trio of children from Fatima took place. After assisting in the local mass ceremonies, Maria Rosa, Francisco and his brother John took the road to Valinhos to feed their flocks. Maria came to expect that something supernatural would happen. Wanting Jacinta, the other member of the original trio, to be present, she asked John to return home and get her.

When he hesitated, Maria bribed him with money to have him leave to bring Jacinta. On his departure, the two remaining saw a flash in the sky. An instant later, the image of a young woman appeared over a nearby holm-oak. Maria asked what was now wanted of them, what to do with the monies which were being left by spectators at the Cova da Iria location each time now, and whether more sick persons could be cured. She was answered as follows:

"I want you to continue going to the Cova da Iria on the 13th, that you continue praying the Rosary every day. On the last month, I will perform a miracle so that all may believe. If they had not taken you to the city, the miracle would have been greater. Saint Joseph will come with the Child Jesus, to give peace to the World. Our Lord will come to bless the people. Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Sorrows will come also. ...

(For the money) Have 2 litters made. You will carry one with Jacinta and two other girls dressed in white; the other one Francisco is to carry, with three boys, like him, dressed in white. It will be for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. What is left over will help towards the construction of a chapel that is to be built ....

(For the sick persons) .. I will cure some of them during the year.

(And lastly,) Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to Hell because they have no one to make sacrifices and pray for them."

The vision was then withdrawn into the sky and disappeared.

Is there spiritual deception here?
Maria Rosa and the others were not adequately prepared such that all three would be present. A Supreme God has the power to communicate to multiple parties such that they arrive at a singular location, perhaps from multiple directions, at a pre-selected time. This incident appears to be poorly planned, rather than spiritually directed. It encourages Maria Rosa to bribe John into going to get his sister, Jacinta - a truly unspiritual approach. Would a highly spiritual representative of God make it necessary or encourage those whom were being mentored to commit sins?

Specific arrangements are made for the collection of the monies with a part of it going towards the expense of a new and exclusive chapel. While supportive of a materialistic approach to religion with the construction of and dedication of idolatrous articles and buildings, the consideration of self-worship as more important than service to the needy is definitely non-Christian. If the purpose of these visions was to stimulate a worldwide devotion to "Her Immaculate Heart" why not utilize the already constructed Christian churches and the Church institution to relay this purpose efficiently?

A small chapel would be an absurd solution to this task, unless, the task was to promote the idolatrous reverence of a human-made structure and focus idolatrous reverence on a location according to its superstitious relevance. God can appear anywhere at any time, thus the repetitive selection of the 13th day of the month and the Cova da Iria location suggest that the motive is more fundamentally one of the creation of idolatrous worship.

Again, vague statements such as curing some over a time frame of a year present a response familiar from charlatans who want an easy rational way in which to have unsuccessful cures justified. Over 60% of chronic illness symptoms in humans can be cured within a years duration by the power of suggestion: placebo use, positive affirmations, visualizations, prayer, forgiveness, activities which promote feelings of happiness and joy, and positive judgements and expectations offered by acknowledged authorities or mentors - hope.

The majority of the remainder who try and fail, either die and provide no later report of failure, or, shrink into anti-social and non-communicative behaviours from feelings of despair or the prospect of shame at having been "not good enough" to be worthy of a cure. The 2% who are vocal about the failure of their expected recovery are quickly socially shunned with the perception that their negativity, defensiveness, and presumed lack of faith - has left them deservedly ill.

Becoming a sacrifice for others was a "divine" choice for the Messiah; it was never suggested that his followers should seek to martyr themselves for the sake of others. Rather, if Jesus died for the sins of past humanity, and, provided an option to all who followed to receive the grace and forgiveness of God IF they repented AND sincerely took up the WAY of life which He and His disciples described and mentored - the responsibility for each individual's salvation remains with the individual.

The promotion of intervention by some human authority or self-appointed representative destroys the choice and responsibility of the individual - and supports the idolatrous reverence of the "saints" who deceive the follower into denying their own salvation by the misdirection of their intentions and their acts of reverence. By what is the purpose of these visits then?

1917
On Thursday, September 13, the Fifth Fatima Apparition took place.
This time there were differences which were major. The assembled spectators answered as Maria Rosa recited the Catholic Rosary aloud. Then, unlike the flashes of light seen on other locations, an unconcealed UFO came into view:

"A luminous globe, travelling from east to west, gliding slowly and majestically in space ... It floated in fact towards the holm-oak of the apparition. Then, the light of the Sun dimmed, the atmosphere became a yellow-gold, like the previous times. The day so darkened that some reported having seen the stars of the sky. It was then that (Maria Rosa) questioned ...."

Again the question was asked as to what the entity wanted of Maria and the others. The cure of a deaf-mute girl was requested. More discussion followed as to how to spend the monies being left by the visitors. Gifts which Maria Rosa had personally received were offered to the vision.

The replies received included:

"Continue to pray the Rosary in order to obtain the end of the war. In October, Our Lord will come as well as Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and Saint Joseph will appear with the Child Jesus in order to bless the world. ...

God is satisfied with your sacrifices, but He does not want you to sleep with the rope. Wear it only during the day. ..

(The child asked after was to be better in a year's time. Of the other requests, ...) I shall cure some, but others no, because Our Lord does not trust them.

(Of the monies collected) With half of the money received so far, they should make litters and carry them on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary; the other half can be used to build the chapel.

(Personal gifts of thanks were rejected as "unsuitable for Heaven.")

At the end of the communication the trio perceived three successive "pictures". The last was believed to be Our Lady of Mount Carmel calling to mind the "Mysteries" of the Rosary. Memory of some of the other visions would not return to Maria Rosa (later, Sister Maria-Lucia of the Immaculate Heart - known as Sister Lucy) until the late 1940s.

In addition to some of the earlier criticisms, the following may be considered:

1. Luminous globe UFOs would be popular between 1965 to 1996;
2. Saint Joseph, the Child Jesus, and Our Lord did not come as promised;
3. Half of the monies were to be spent for more efficient collection.

1917
On Saturday, October 13, the Sixth Fatima Apparition appeared.
At least 50,000 spectators had arrived to see the expected miracle. As the time of expectation arrived, Maria Rosa announced that she had seen the flash in the sky and appeared to fall into a trance of ecstasy, from which Jacinta nudged her. This time, the following is recorded to have been received from the apparition:

"I want to tell you that a chapel is to be built here in My honor. I am The Lady of the Rosary. May you continue always to pray the Rosary every day. The war is going to end and the soldiers will soon return to their homes. ...

(To cure some sick people?) Some yes, others no. They must amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. ... Do not offend the Lord Our God any more, for He is already too much offended!"

Of note:

 A. The special guests did not arrive as promised;
 B. No immediate miracle was performed which all could witness;
 C. Now the Christian principle of salvation through change and
    repentance is acknowledged, contradicting earlier suggestions.

Avelino de Almeida, the chief editor of O Seculo, a large circulation masonic daily of Lisbon, and an observer described the scene as follows:

"It must have been 1:30 pm when there arose at the exact spot where the children were, a column of smoke, thin, fine, and bluish, which extended up to perhaps two meters above their heads, and evaporated at that height. This phenomenon, perfectly visible to the naked eye, lasted for a few seconds. ... more or less than a minute. The smoke dissipated abruptly, and after some time, it came back to occur a second time, then a third time ...

... the huge crowd turn toward the sun which appeared at its zenith, clear of the clouds. It resembled a flat plate of silver, and it was possible to stare at it without the least discomfort. It did not burn the eyes. It did not blind. We could see that it produced an eclipse. Then a tremendous cry rang out, and the crowd nearest us were heard to shout: 'Miracle! Miracle! ...' the sun trembled, it made strange and abrupt movements, outside of all cosmic laws, 'the sun danced'...."

A heavy rain had fallen from about 10:00 am; it was windy; the sky had been darkened by heavy low clouds. Dr. Almeida Garrett reported that

"during the time of the apparition, the rain stopped totally. Abruptly the sky cleared: The sun triumphantly pierced the thick bed of clouds hiding it until then, and shone intensely. ..

... I could see the sun, like a very clear disc, with its sharp edge, which gleamed without hurting the sight ... It could not be confused with the sun seen through a fog, for it was neither veiled nor dim. At Fatima, it kept its light and heat, and stood out clearly in the sky, with a sharp edge, like a large gaming table.

The most astonishing thing was to be able to stare at the solar disc for a long time, brilliant with light and heat, without hurting the eyes, or damaging the retina. ... It turned on itself with impetuous speed. ... keeping its rapid movement of rotation, (it) seemed to free itself from the firmament (sky) and blood-red, to plunge towards the earth, threatening to crush us with its fiery mass. Those were some terrifying seconds."

Another observer, Maria do Carmo, reported in similarity: "Suddenly, the heavenly body began to tremble, to shake with abrupt movements, and finally to turn on itself at a dizzying speed while throwing out rays of light, all colours of the rainbow: The sun turned like a fire wheel, taking on all the colours of the rainbow.

Everything assumed those same colours: our faces, our clothes, the earth itself. ... I saw it perfectly descending as if it came to crash on the earth. It seemed to detach itself from the sky and rush toward us. It maintained itself at a short distance above our heads ... It seemed very near the people and it continued to turn in the opposite direction."

This description mirrors those of UFOs seen increasingly common from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Some considered the "dance of the sun" to be the expected miracle. All those people in attendance, who were for the most part soaked by the rain, later verified with joy and amazement how they had been dried by the heat of the silvery sun which had descended over them.

The anti-clockwise rotation, the rapid changes in colour - from a stable state of silver to blood red to a changing rainbow of colours, the heat radiated, the abrupt movements, the sharp edge, and the elliptical form - all are indicative of the GRAY saucer spacecraft and its propulsion system during the periods noted above.

Overview consideration of the Fatima Apparitions and Promises:
The GRAY Advance Force had arrived on the Earth 14 months before the first apparition and had set up a permanent base in the Pyrenees Mountains which occupy the border region between France and both Spain and Portugal. For the remainder of the century, this would be known as a region for UFO sightings. The intent of the GRAYs was to test their ability to control mass human behaviour and to use that control to destroy or enslave humanity. By observation of the Portuguese customs, the GRAYs drew the following conclusions:

1. Humans are taught to revere and become dependent on authority;
2. Humans are taught to distrust spiritual & intuitive decisionmaking;
3. Humans are taught to rationalize their fears and anxieties;
4. Humans tend to replace ignorance with superstitious reasoning;
5. Religion tends to unify and centralize human belief systems;
6. The older the human, the more suspicious and fixed mind they are;
7. Construct a religious reality and you can manipulate humanity.

The GRAYs set out to act on these cultures and area generalizations with a 6 month plan during which they expected that World War I would be ended, and, they could take religious credit for that. Beginning in January, 1917, both Germany and Britain proposed and offered peace; requests actually had begun in December, 1916. Other developments in Russia in March seemed to encourage peace further. The USA entered the War on April 6, 1917, before the first apparition. The pattern indicated that an end to the war should be imminent.

In March, the GRAYs noticed the abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II from Russia and the return of Lenin there from Switzerland. They understood that Lenin had modified his early political stance of idealistic socialism to realist communism and easily surmised that any perceived (belief) opposition would be responded to with paranoia, reacted to ruthlessly, and could become an ongoing source of human conflict.

To this end, they began advising the aggressive "consecration" of Russia in mid-July, after Lenin was empowered in Russia. Had the request been spiritually oriented, it would have been more constructive to make the request earlier. God does know the importance of timing. The GRAYs were playing the game on the run.

Whatever the outcome, the GRAYs could see a widespread political pattern of national and international abuses. The pattern indicated to them that it would only be a matter of time before the capital-based economic structure adopted by all the European nations (including Russia) would precipitate either international cross-imperialistic conflicts, or, intranational civil wars, or, both.

With this prediction in mind, they were safe in stating that another, and worse war, would break out during the reign of Pope Pius XI (1922-1939) - a 17 year period. Such a war would begin, just before the end of Pope Pius' reign. The judgement was a safe prediction. Humanity wasn't becoming more spiritual in its orientation; it had forgotten what spirituality meant! The possibility of a reorganization of human civilization, from an insectoid perspective, into one of creative harmony and unified strength was proven less likely with every day of delayed peace throughout the period of the apparitions.

More peace resolutions followed in July, 1917.
Information on purpose during the visitations from May-June-July-August-September suggested that by the 3 children and others saying the Rosary daily, peace would be granted. But to the dissatisfaction and disbelief of the GRAYs, the human political discussions of peace seemed to go nowhere fast: each side of the conflict blamed the other for starting the War and demanded that the other accept full economic and moral responsibility for same.

To the insectoid GRAYs, this was both destructive and wasteful behaviour in addition, from their perspective, to being "stupid." How could humanity survive with such massive disorder of their civilization? With such individualized and self-serving and self-denial actions, an insect civilization would self-destruct in a matter of days!

The GRAYs discovered relatively quickly that by institutionalized teachings, these Christians expected God to perform acts which they could perceive of as miracles - dramatic, believable, unusual events which were not understood. Curing people of illnesses seemed to be a highlight. The GRAYs were still not that familiar with human physiology to effect same on an immediate basis so they stipulated the longest possible time for such cures to take place, and remain dramatic - a year.

As time passed, they perceived that numerous humans who were sick harboured guilt and did not feel worthy, spiritually, of becoming well. They immediately exploited this "loophole" in their qualification of cure times. And as previously noted, the human capability for self-healing under positive conditions of hope are substantial and would work to the surprise and favour of the GRAYs. Even the negative social attitudes toward the sick and vocal held by many humans would work in favour of the GRAYs.

When September arrived and peace was still not declared, the GRAYs were dumbfounded and annoyed and they expressed this uncertainty with their vague indications of when the War would end. Sooner or later, all wars have to end, if only temporarily. To assert their frustration, they conveyed to the innocent children that God was "already too much offended." They had made their play, an initial one. More would follow. The Series approach had proven limiting and had revealed critical weaknesses in their approach. They had time to observe and plan. The main colonizing force would not be arriving for some time yet.

Technically, the end of the war never arrived.
During October and November, 1918, numerous countries would offer and sign armistice agreements. Some treaties would be signed both before and after this date. A peace conference would open in January, 1919. On June 28, 1919, representatives of the German government would sign the Versailles Treaty; it would later be disputed as having been signed by traitors. Other peace treaties would follow through late 1919 and throughout 1920.

God is never off the mark.
If some entity or vision declares to be God, miracles can be performed instantaneously, promises are kept, there is no deception or manipulation involved, guidance is given directly, predictions are exact, and activities promoting idolatrous behaviour are never requested. Will you remember this?

1922
In County Donegal, Ireland, a circular, glowing, metallic craft was seen ascending into the sky by 6 soldiers when they emerged from a cave in which they had taken refuge. Reported much later by Irish Republic Army man, Lawrence Bradley, he had come upon a cave with vegetation at the entrance being scorched, while he was fighting a scattered rear-guard in the mountains of Donegal.

He found a number of sick and wounded inside the cave being looked after by 6 able-bodied soldiers who said they had been awakened early pre-dawn by a whirring noise outside of the cave. Thinking that the noise was an armoured car, they had fired their rifles in the direction of the noise. (Is this not a typical human reaction!) The object appeared to retaliate by firing jets of flame at the cave entrance. After near suffocation, the soldiers ran out to see the flame-throwing UFO leaving.

1928
In late April or early May, Floyd Dillon, a 17-year-old was driving along an unpaved country road about 10 miles west of Yakima, Washington at about 4.00 P.M. As he reached the top of a slight rise, he saw an object come into view about 75 feet off the ground and hardly moving. It appeared to be a metallic hexagon with a domed top, olive drab in colour, about 22 feet wide and 7 feet high. The underside was rounded and smooth. He could see rivets along a vertical section, and also a two-by-three-foot window set in a metallic frame. In that window he observed the head and upper torso of a man dressed in a dark blue uniform, who "would pass for an Italian in this world." When he drew the being later, it had a perfectly human character with normal hair, parted in the middle

Floyd did not feel afraid of the ship.
The object moved slowly but did not stop. The occupant looked intently in the direction of the car; then the object rotated, flew across the road, and abruptly went off at a "terrific speed." The object was swinging silently as it followed the terrain. There was no effect on the Model T Ford car, no sound, no smell, nor unusual taste.

This incident was not reported to a ufologist until 1978.
Mr. Dillon stated that he had never used drugs or even cigarettes at any time. He has been interested in astronomy ever since he was 9 or 10 years old. He had not mentioned the incident to anyone until about 1958 finding that "People just don't believe anything that they don't understand."

Mr Dillon finished his high school, picked fruit, made boxes, worked in canneries and warehouses, enlisted in the armed forces during WWII, worked for McDonnell Douglas as a machine tool operator for 22 years in Los Angeles and retired to Redding, California.

1930
Ege Tilms, wrote a science fiction story Hodomur, Man of Infinity which would be published four years later. Because of the many similarities with later abduction cases, there is some question as to whether the story is based on the recollection of a true encounter or is just imagination.

Mr. Belans, the main character, is a Belgian who suffers missing time and amnesia following an encounter with a flying craft. The incident occurred at dusk, as he was walking in an isolated area of Brabant where suspicious traces - notably crushed vegetation - had been noticed by farmers in their wheat fields. At the site he saw a man dressed in black waiting for something under a tree. Intrigued, Belans stopped and watched.

Soon a strange feeling of tiredness came over him, as if another entity had taken control of his actions. He heard a buzzing sound, soon followed by a very bright light, as an elongated craft landed near him. A door opened over a faintly luminous rectangle, and the man in black climbed into the object. A force impelled Belans to follow. He found himself in a room that was evenly lit but without any observable source of light. A faint vibration was felt and the craft took off. An opening then became visible in the wall of the room and a very tall man entered. He seemed to "guess" Belan's every thought and was able to answer him in French. He revealed that he came from a faraway star.

"Why don't you establish open contact?" asked Belans.
"Because we do not wish to force the rapid evolution of elements that are foreign to our own civilization," the tall man responded.

Belans was eventually returned to earth, with a significant period of time missing.

1933
By October, Morris Ketchum Jessup had completed and published his doctoral dissertation in the field of astrophysics. .... An archaeological expedition was organized to study Mayan ruins in Central America. From there, his work took him to the Inca and pre-Inca ruins in Peru. He would observe the massive size of some of the stone ruins and the intricacy, exactness, and finesse of the construction techniques employed and consider the virtual impossibility that such work could have been accomplished by hand without the aid of draft animals.

He speculated that one possible explanation for these huge stone constructions was that, rather than having been constructed by the Inca, they were built in antediluvian times with the aid of levitating devices operated from sky ships of some sort. This, was a heretical consideration to be voiced by a scientist during this era. To protect his academic career and reputation, Jessup found it necessary to remain quiet on the subject until he was prepared to continue independent of funding institutions and employers.

1935
In October, the BLONDS arrive on Earth for an exploratory space mission.
They find the planet still capable of supporting their species. They are the only survivors of a planet which was destroyed when approached by another larger planet, the gravitational pull of which resulted in massive geological disturbances resulting in massive climatic changes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.

Initially, they consider working with the Germans, whom they resemble closest of the human races, and they assess that position during 1936-1942. A small group of Germans are put to work to try and engineer the construction of a "flying saucer" circular aircraft to resemble the craft of the BLONDS but have no understanding of its propulsion design.

Beginning in 1941, the BLONDS considered negotiating joint ventures with the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. The BLONDS declined association with the U.S.S.R. until after the death of Josif Stalin in 1953. Stalin's awareness of their existence, his early work in the Tiflis Observatory (1900), and his paranoia, prompt him to place an urgency on the development of space technology from 1946. They would begin working with and infiltrating joint spacebeing-human underground bases in the United States in 1948.

1937
During the year, Howard Menger, born February 17, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York, and his brother, saw bright shinning, circular objects skipping about the sky. One day, a metallic object landed not far from them. Unafraid and curious, he approached the object only to have it fly away. Later, a spacewoman contacted Howard.

He knew immediately that she was not an earthling because

"she was an exquisite woman with long blond hair which cascaded around her face and shoulders ... she seemed to radiate and glow as she sat on a rock before me, and I wondered if it were due to the unusual quality of the material she wore, which had a shimmering, shiny texture, not unlike but far surpassing the sheen of nylon .... she wore no makeup and her skin had pinkish undertones while her eyes were opalescent discs of gold. She first said,"Howard, we have come a long way to see you and to talk to you."

Over the next several decades, scientific and technical data would be imparted to Menger.

1938
In May, the REDs receive lifeform distress signals from the Milky Way Galaxy to their own Andromeda Galaxy. They study the reception for about a year of our time and then decide to investigate as the signals indicate increasing distress. Lifeform distress signals move at 1/5th the speed of light and cross great distances in the universe. They are picked up here by a RED exploration group and relayed to their home planets at the speed of light. Those picked up and relayed at this time indicated the distress of the earth's biosphere (living organisms, plants, animals, birds, reptiles, insects, etc.) from the period of human history beginning in the 1850s.

In May, 1939, the RED civilization sent 10 exploration groups to investigate the source, which had been pinpointed as the Earth. They began arriving at the Earth in 1943. The travel capability of the REDs in terms of distance covered would be incomprehensible to humans until the year 2015. It can be represented by a factor which is double that available to the Pleiadians; theirs would be incomprehensible until the late 1980s.

1939
In July, GRAY-Insectoid and GRAY-Reptoid spacebeings arrive on Earth from a base on the Moon. The Insectoids have set out from their previous planet in 1872 to search for a new gene pool from which to find a key to bioengineer protection from an endemic "genetic" disease. It is actually a dual-virus; they are unaware of viruses. Symptoms of the "disease" are alarming to the insectoids: a reduced lifespan from an average of 48 Earth-years to an average of 24; fertility reduction from 100% to 50%.

Initially, they consider humans too "primitive" socially to utilize as a gene pool. They are much to ethnocentric in terms of lifeform to consider any gene pool so different from their own. They choose to experiment with Earth-origin insects initially. They live on a nutrient base derived from the fermentation of animal tissue in vats.

They are also in search of new sources for their resources and another location to colonize and expand their civilization. Gray-Insectoids are highly developed in their apparent technology yet have a physiology similar to insects. Underground colonies or bases are their natural locations for nests or homes and have provided protection from harmful cosmic radiation as well as wide temperature fluctuations on other planets, moons or asteroids.

They also have bases on Venus.
They found humans to be of as much interest as humans have found insects to be. They have little concern for human welfare beyond determining if and how humans might be utilized as workers or slaves for them, and, whether any human genes may be advantageous to them.

The Gray-Insectoids coexist with the GRAY-Reptoids in a mutually beneficial relationship. The Gray-Insectoids are the more powerful and the more technologically advanced while the GRAY-Reptoids are more spiritually advanced and have more sophisticated language for communication. It represents a tenuous union of brawn and intelligence on which the survival of both rests. Each possess their own systems of social organization and they cannot interbreed.

Gray-Insectoids grow to a height of about 3 feet, have somewhat humanoid form with thin bipedal arms and legs, have a diamond-shaped face with large eyes, dislike sunlight, work together for the survival of the "nest", and, have a GRAY shape. Their main activities are colony building, food gathering, manufacturing, procreation, defense of the group.

The propulsion systems of their transport craft are made of materials foreign to the earth and not dependent on magnetic forces.

GRAY-Reptoids grow to a height of 2-1/2 feet to 3 feet on their arrival and are of heavy build, gray in colour. Over the next decades, mutants derived from cross-breeding and bioengineering, would grow as high as 10 feet. The Gray-Insectoids supply them with older technology craft dependent upon magnetic and gravity forces for propulsion - yet much advanced to human transportation. Subservient to the Gray-Insectoids who possess the power of technology, it is uncertain what beneficial functions they provide to the Gray-Insectoids other than as labourers. They have no specific motivations of expansion or colonization beyond the desire to live comfortably and orderly.

As both GRAY types always work together, they will be referred to from this point on as GRAYs rather than separately as Gray-Insectoid and Gray-Reptoid, unless the situation warrants otherwise.

The GRAYs first sought an area in which to build their first underground base or nest. They looked for a location which was remote from human lifeforms and in temperate zones rather than arctic or equatorial regions for comfort. Both are usually only away from their bases under cover of darkness and both have hypnotic abilities much beyond that of the skilled human. It is possible for them to easily stun a human into a trance following which the horror of the experience, not having been prepared for, is usually coped with by human neurological defenses as a blank in memory - a traumatic block.

GRAYs initially sought to learn from investigating samples of humanity what physiological factors might make them more suitable to life on Earth. They had little interest in human social and political systems which they viewed as self-destructive, useless, and abysmally primitive to their own. They see humans as we have viewed their earthly representatives for centuries. They did envy humans for their ability to survive on the Earth given their apparent heavy "drawbacks" of emotion, destructive habit structures, and, in terms of insectoid perception - extremely poor "learning" mechanisms.

1939
During the year, the planet Mars comes close to the Earth.
Some astronomers report surface markings estimated at up to 20 miles wide and 3,000 miles long. Up to 40 such markings would be called "canals" by some astronomers, as they seemed to become more apparent when the ice caps shrunk. Kuiper detected no oxygen in the Martian atmosphere; others suggested an equatorial temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit; some saw green vegetation developing at those times when the "canals" became predominant.

1940
Americans Enrico Fermi and Herb Anderson conclude that a chain-reacting pile could be built of graphite and natural uranium. German scientists wrongly concluded that it could not and attempted to use the extremely rare isotope deuterium as a moderator, which slowed their development. The U.S.S.R. scientists did not seriously consider carbon as a moderator and the French were committed to deuterium. This one factor could have changed the outcome of which country would develop an atomic weapon first.

Anderson was assisted by contact with the GRAYs in formulating his thesis and taking a position on the graphite. Sometimes, leaps forward in technology come from trying something which all conventional theory and practice suggest will fail. The "idea" can come by intuition, "divine guidance", contrarian thinking, "planted" visions, Walk-ins, or direction from spacebeing advanced intelligence. The decision here could not be taken with ANY possibility of error. Such could have been fatal, time consuming, and economically disastrous.

1941
Throughout the war, globes resembling Christmas Tree ornaments were seen hanging in the air over Germany. These "Foo Fighter" balls would race alongside Allied Fighter aircraft, appearing suddenly and accompanying the aircraft for miles. It was believed at the time that these orbs were radio-controlled from the ground and were some sort of German secret weapon. Alien technology flying discs were also seen and possibly captured by the Germans, who mounted a program to construct such craft under the code name "Project V-7".

Designs for the flying disc were undertaken by the German experts Schriver, Habermohl and Miethe, and the Italian, Bellonzo. Habermohl and Schriver chose a wide-surface ring which rotated around a fixed, cupola-shaped cockpit. The ring consisted of adjustable wing-discs which could be brought into appropriate position for takeoff or horizontal flight. Working in Prague, they flew the first flying disc on February 14, 1945. Within 3 minutes, they climbed to an altitude of 12,400 meters and reached a speed of 2,000 Km/h in horizontal flight. Miethe developed a discus-shaped plate 42 meters in diameter in which adjustable jets were inserted.

Victor Schauberger, an uneducated but innovative genius, designed a flying disc which he built in 1941. It had a diameter of 2.4 meters and was operated by an electric motor, obtained by courtesy of the Luftwaffe. It climbed up into the air so suddenly that it hit the workshop ceiling and crashed in pieces to the ground. The design used a suction-screw impeller, which revolved from the outside to the inside along a cycloid spiral space-curve, to generate a cyclonic lifting effect that imparted a tremendous thrust in flight.

1941
During May, the BLONDS complete their consideration of cooperative efforts with the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.. These considerations began in December 1940. BLONDS can communicate by mind reading and have carried out their investigations by situating themselves close to political, religious and military leaders in the countries of focus.

After the suicide of his wife in 1932, Stalin became an alcoholic, the only consistent symptoms of which were an inability to consider abstract questions and answers. Consideration of questions became an authoritarian leap of imagination based on internal anxieties surrounding suppressed feelings of guilt - over the suicide of his wife and the iron fist approach he followed to "save" his country. Innuendo, suspicions and behavioural or verbal suggestions of concern by others were interpreted frequently as opposition leading to some form of exile or execution of the parties concerned.

Almost before the situation was fully described, Stalin had decided whether the person was guilty or not; no amount of investigation or testimony could change the intolerance of his imaginative decision. The BLONDS quickly detected this trait plus the fact that he was the only person in a position of leadership in the U.S.S.R. capable of making a political agreement with them. They declined further association with U.S.S.R. leaders until after Stalin's death in 1953.

The U.S.A. government would be considered, with caution, until 1948.
The BLONDS became awareof the hypocracy of their idealism as historically demonstrated in their broken treaties and agreements with the aboriginal tribes and nations as well as towards the afro-americans and the intolerance of "melting pot" ethnic solutions. To the BLONDS, ostracism on the basis of a contrived ideal, Americanization, was almost as negative as privilege by virtue of Germanic appearance.

1942
On February 26, UFOs appeared over Los Angeles, California, according to a Secret Memo to the USA President from Chief of Staff, C.G. Marshall:

"UFOs appeared over Los Angeles, CA, yesterday morning. The 37th Brigade (AA) expended 1430 rounds of ammunition against them. No bombs dropped, no casualties among our troops, no planes (UFOs) shot down, no AA (Anti-Aircraft) or Navy planes were in action."

Obviously, no one thought to ask or consider whether the "visitors" might be friendly!

1942
In April, the BLONDS declined further consideration of the German government as possible partners for the future. The German government had been under surveillance by the BLONDS from 1936. During the period, the BLONDS found the political environment very unstable with growing dissention and intolerance within the ranks of the German military and government. Both dissention and intolerance suggested a plus to the BLONDS for persons with such attitudes are easily manipulated.

The major intent of the BLONDS should be remembered here as peaceful colonization of the Earth, preferably by a "reservation" status within a geographic domain established by agreement. In the absence of that alternative, they would seek infiltration into a culture which would accept them as equals and in which they would lead a somewhat positive lifestyle. The destruction and aggressiveness of humanity's Second World War questioned whether either option would be possible with any human culture.

The BLONDS were having difficulty finding a human culture which not only voiced peace and toleration but could actually live such a lifestyle. The BLONDS could easily have been assimilated within the German culture based on physical appearance. The problem was that they would not engage in the increasing atrocities being committed by some of the German people against non-Germans and psychologically ill or genetically ill Germans.

1943
In June, the REDs begin to interact with humans.
They are disheartened by the amount of strife existing between human groups. They are limited by their spiritual ethics from manipulating the circumstances in the context of forcing specific outcomes but can take actions such that humanity is encouraged to grow spiritually and to have choices for their future. To this end they begin to enter and contribute to human society as Walk-Ins.

By time travel, a technology they possess, they are able to move forward or backward in time to determine the predestined and accomplished history of the location they are at. In doing this for a number of positions on the Earth they learn that - without humans changing their awareness level - humanity is first doomed to be destroyed by a nuclear war.

"Foo fighters" are seen, particularly over Germany, during July to October 1943 as the REDs survey the actions and destruction humans are doing to one another and to the environment. The foo fighters are described by pilots as "balls of light" moving exceedingly fast past them and able to stop and change direction in an instant. In communication with their home planet, a strategy is devised:

a. A record of past, present, and future development is accumulated by way of time travel. The most positive intent is to show civilizations in other galaxies an example of how the choices made by a civilization can lead to self-annihilation.

Humans are approached, usually on an individual basis, examined, interrogated, informed somewhat and shown a brief scenario of the future. The hope of the REDs is that those so exposed will consciously become aware of the meaning of the arrival of the REDs and the pictures they display of the future.

They find that most humans have high degrees of fear and insecurity and are not very spiritual compared to the REDs. This makes communication and transference of thought difficult. It was hoped that if such information and warning could be communicated to other humans, that humanity would join together to prevent the foretold disasters.

The REDs had hoped that such humans as they chose would become respected mentors of humanity: none did. It only confirmed to the REDs the degraded level of the human civilization. Many humans were afraid to reveal their experiences to others in case of ostracism; others tried, but were regarded as psychiatrically ill, or had their rights abused by human authorities.

b. The use of "Walk-Ins" to try and stimulate the spiritual growth of humanity.
All living things possess a spirit. The spirit of humans is more complex than most other lifeforms on the Earth, but usually primitive by RED standards.

WALK-INS are individual RED spirits which volunteer to "walk into" the lifeform of a human whose spirit is being given up. Persons who are committing suicide or are immediately dying from an acute injury or disease are candidates for Walk-ins.

If the capabilities of the physical body, the mind and the emotions are seen as a workable package by the volunteer RED spirit, then as the "human" weak spirit is leaving the RED spirit replaces it in the human lifeform. Challenges in the human environment which exhaust and defeat the human spirit for lack of spiritual or other coping skills or due to the influence of a deteriorated environment brought on by humans lead to such human spirit defeat. Walk-ins "revive" the human body-emotions-mind with positive spirituality as the sick or suicidal spirit of despair is leaving.

Walk-ins extend the capability of the original personality by contributing a positive spirituality to the physical and emotional qualities and sometimes increasing the intellectual capacity of the person. The person appears to have a "new lease on life", to be "a new person". Their new positive self-directedness and improved self-esteem, increased reverence, increased awareness, and openness to receipt of guidance and strength from God (whom the REDs acknowledge) enable them to become genuses, by human standards.

They are committed to positive contribution within the social and occupational field occupied by the previous "human" personality. The Walk-in remains susceptible to the acute risks of any human: accident, disease, assassination or murder.

The intent of the REDs in introducing Walk-ins is to provide positive influences to humanity to lessen hardship and suffering and enable humanity to develop more spiritual approaches to problem resolution by example. The volunteer RED spirit seeks to gain strength and greater purity in its existence by work and involvement which benefits both influential individuals and the masses. The main strategy of non-interference means that REDs choose not to change the effects of human decisions in order to reverse catastrophes.

The logic is that if you do not want to learn, you will not learn, and if you do not learn, you will repeat the error with impunity. Whomever corrects an error to negate its influence is then responsible for the influence of that negation. Greater disharmony may be the result. If humanity chooses not to learn from the mentoring example of the Walk-ins, the outcome is not a responsibility of the REDs: Walk-ins are judged on their ability to set a good example, a choice, to humans.

17 Walk-Ins per year will become a standardized number of arrivals.
By the year 2000, there will have been 969 Walk-Ins; 542 will have been terminated by a "natural" human death of accident, disease, or murder. Many will occupy social positions of influence in human society: teachers, doctors, scientists, ministers, actors, diplomats, negotiators, military officers, engineers, social workers, assistants to politicians, researchers, and others. While REDs are of vastly higher spiritual development than humans, they are not perfect.

c. The third strategy of the REDs is to retrieve examples of all Earth lifeforms into a "Noah's Ark" kind of space base from which they can be transplanted into more positive environments in the universe, should destruction of the Earth by humans become irreversible. The REDs revere life and diversity; they worship the God which the religions of most humans purport to revere; their civilization lives in a spiritual Eden. Until the year 2000, the REDs will remove 75 humans per year from the Earth to a life of increased peace and awareness aboard one of their mothership bases (4200 persons in total).

The high spiritual development of the REDs prevented them from understanding the frequent response of the more material-dependent and passionate emotional humans which they intended to influence in a positive manner. Their demonstration of their spiritual "energy" forms to the pilots of bombers and fighter escorts on their way to obliterate civilian targets roused fear. Particularly when humans are in groups, the survival of a fearful experience promotes a form of self-confidence and self-worship which encourages the expression of pride.

Many who had seen the "foo" fighters, and survived, would now return to their bases convinced that "god" had protected them in their mission from these fearful aspects; thus, the mission was sanctioned by God and they could adopt their part in it as an expression of faith that it was morally good and correct. A being from a more spiritually advanced culture or species would have expressed wonder and fascination at the appearance of the "energy" bodies, rather than fear, and would have reflected and meditated upon their meaning or relevance.

Before reaching their target, such beings would have uniformly discovered the non-spiritual and immoral nature of their mission, and with spiritual strength, would have aborted their mission and returned en masse to chastise their commanders and leaders. This error of projection and hope would serve to deter a number of well-intentioned actions on behalf of the REDs and confirm the universal law of interstellar space of not interfering with other beings capable of self-direction.

1943
By November, Foo Fighters had been reported by American and British pilots near Truk Lagoon in Japan. B-29 bomber crews reported strange objects that flew at fantastic speeds and glowed from orange to red and white, and back to orange again. One pilot saw 15 of them during one day, describing them as 5-foot golden spheres that shone with a metallic glitter. Near Truk Lagoon, B-29 crews reported the balls came up from below their cockpits, hovered over their tails, winked their lights from red to orange, then back to red, then to white. One pilot said they glowed with an eerie red phosphorescence and had no wings, fins or fuselage.

Allied fighter pilots thought they must be secret German experimental devices designed to cause fear and confusion. Intelligence officers figured they were radio-controlled objects launched to baffle radar. The Germans and Japanese thought they were secret weapons launched by the Allies. Scientists in New York City surmised that everyone had been seeing "Saint Elmo's lights," small balls of luminescence often connected with metal during electrical storms. The Army Air Forces dismissed the whole episode as a result of "war nerves" and "mass hallucination".

1944
New developments at Los Alamos Laboratory necessitated that the bomb would have to be constructed of a hollow sphere of plutonium-239 with explosive lenses placed around it to implode it quickly to the centre and produce a chain reaction nuclear event. Plutonium-240 was a byproduct of reactor production and could not be chemically separated out. Its presence meant that shooting two lumps together would not provide the force to overcome the diffusiveness provided by the P-240.

The new method had been proposed by Seth Neddermeyer a year earlier; he had received the idea from the GRAYs. So primitive was the understanding surrounding the process that before the Trinity Test of the first bomb, its yield was estimated at between 5 and 20 kilotons! The prediction of yield would still not be very accurate by 1980.

1944
By April, a landed circular craft was discovered by E.L. (initials), serving as USA Carpenter Mate, A5,B3-C 1st Class, Hqt. Co. 112th Construction Battalion, near the beach of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. He described it as 50 feet in diameter; metallic; looking like an igloo; topped with a clear glass dome about a foot high with a gold coloured weather vane-like device spinning inside.

1944
Example of a Walk-in: (87) David Paladin , Albuquerque, New Mexico

... born on a Navajo reservation in Arizona ...
exhibited few abilities ... running away from home ... hustled into uniform in WWII ... in the secret service ... captured by the Germans ... left for dead ... in a deep coma ... mumbled Russian ... fingerprints identified him as an American ... sent to Battle Creek, Michigan, ... after 2-1/2 years ... regained consciousness. Asked his name, he promptly replied,
"I'm an artist. My name is Vasili Kandinski."

... his fingerprints were those of David Paladin; and Kandinski, the Russian artist ... had died in France at the age of 78 in 1944, when David would have been 18. ... as David became more alert he admitted that he had never heard of Kandinski and knew no Russian until he heard himself speaking it.

... began to paint ... compared favourably with the paintings of Kandinski ... teaches at universities, conducts workshops and seminars in the parapsychology field, and continues ... paintings that some critics feel surpass those of Kandinski.

... David is the Walk-in soul of the famous Russian Artist.
... "David is a highly developed soul who comes from Sirius, ... Kandinski in later life had also been a Walk-in from Sirius, and when the soul who is now called David Paladin was no longer able to keep the artist's body alive "he briefly returned to Sirius and then found the body of the soldier that he was able to revive for his work ... the preparation of earthlings for the New Age.

He needed a body which would serve him in the setting where he could do the most good. That was in the body of an American with Indian roots." ... David ... was in Sirius ... during the long period of coma ... until ready to resume an active earth life in a well-functioning body.

1944
During the summer, the Sighting of a Flying Saucer occurred at Blovice, Czechoslovakia. It was later described in Henri Chaloupek's Observations en Tchecoslovaquie et en Bulgarie.

1944
One day in September, Eduard Albert Meier, 3 or 4 miles from home, walking alone in a meadow, heard telepathically from Sfath, his spaceperson contact, to stand his ground. Eduard then saw something falling down from the sky, very, very slow and it became bigger and bigger. It was something like a metallic pear. Then this ramp opened out, going down like an elevator. He entered the ship and they went up very high above the Earth.

"There was a very old man who looked to Eduard like a patriarch: his name was Sfath. He was a human being, like each other one here on Earth, only very old. We talked for hours, then he brought me back to the ground. The funny thing was, he knew my mother tongue better than I."

Sfath told Meier that he would remain his mentor only through the early 1950s, when a much higher form of life would assume the responsibility for further teaching. Meier had been selected for a mission, but Sfath revealed only that decades would pass before the boy knew its nature. Until that time, Meier had to be prepared to meet with many things, some that would cause him again to question his sanity, others that might bring physical harm. At the end of 4 hours, Sfath returned Meier to the meadow and departed, never to be seen again, although he continued to transmit thoughts to Meier. Eduard is NOT an example of a Walk-in.

1945
On July 16, the Trinity Test was the first experimental nuclear bomb detonation. It was to test the more sophisticated plutonium device of the two which had been prepared.

Oppenheimer fulfilled the perfect image of a Walk-in.
He was not. Addicted to the ecstasy of new revelations he was skilfully recruited by the BLONDS. It was unfortunate and mistakenly believed by the BLONDS that if one political entity on Earth possessed the power of nuclear energy and destruction, the remainder of humanity would band together with the superior force in peaceful unity and the more powerful nation would in return develop the spiritual attributes of reverence, humility, compassion and sharing. For Oppenheimer:

"It seems hard to live any other way than thinking it better to know something than not to know it; and the more you know the better, provided you know it honestly ...."

In return for displays of technology and capabilities that were hard to imagine, he was able to plant suggestions in the minds of those around him which led to "discoveries" which became the difference between success and failure.

Much of the bomb's development would, in reality, be futile, as the REDs knew. Japan was trying to surrender when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. Other scientists, who shared Oppenheimer's idealism, decided against the intended military and political imperialism of the time which advocated eventual control by the U.S.A. which would force peace on the world under American political and economic structures.

The GRAYs were in favour of this world homogeneity which would make easy their eventual control. Later they would encourage global nuclear war as a means of eliminating troublesome unpredictable human resistance to overt servitude. As the REDs would point out repeatedly, it is not a question of knowing, but one of responsibility, that determines positive self-direction, the capability of which only comes with spiritual skills and strength.

1946
During the year, Wendelle Stevens, U.S.Army Air Corp., was assigned to briefing and debriefing air crews of the Ptarmigan Project, a weather reconnaissance program in which B-29 crews mapped and photographed the polar surface.

Stevens had joined the Army in 1940 and graduated from the Army Air Corps' first test pilot training school. At age 20 he had been a project officer for the development of the P-47 fighter plane; during WWII, he had commanded an aircraft maintenance squadron.

After the war, in 1945, Stevens was assigned to the Air Technical Intelligence Centre at Wright Field, where he screened 1000's of documents and aeronautical blueprints captured by the Americans when the Germans fled their factories and air design centres. Many of the drawings had been seized from the Nazi drawing board revealing details of exotic flying machines and rockets.

Now, with his involvement in Ptarmigan, his interest was focused on the encounters and strange circular aircraft reported by the returning crews. Dozens of sightings were reported to him by the returning B-29 crews, flying at unheard of altitudes, flying faster than anything imaginable, doing maneuvers which seemed to be in the area of fantasy. The B-29s used in the project carried both still and movie cameras, and many times when there was a sighting, the witnesses captured the craft and their maneuvers in photos and on film.

But by procedures, the film and the crew chief were sent directly to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, as soon as they arrived back at the project base. From Andrews AFB, the film and officer met Pentagon intelligence and were taken elsewhere. Stevens himself would calculate the speed of one such object which he sighted as 7,000 mph. He was convinced that "there was no Earth technology capable of producing air vehicles that could fly at such high speeds, stop, and even reverse instantly, stand still in the air, descend and ascend vertically at low and high speeds, land on the ice and water, and submerge underwater and emerge again and fly away."

Stevens would retire in 1963.
The deception which Stevens encountered in the military, with officers denying the existence of material he had forwarded on to them only increased his interest further.

"And I was running into trouble trying to tell my stories to somebody else. That piqued my curiosity, because of all the energy used to suppress the information. Why were they covering it up? If there was nothing to it, why worry about it? Then when I got to investigating my own cases, I found that witnesses had turned pictures over to the authorities, and they never knew really who these authorities were, and nobody could ever find the pictures again, I began to worry. Where were they all going? Who the hell was doing this and how?"

Never having access to most of the information on file in the military, Stevens became an avid collector of UFO articles and books, became a UFO incident investigator and exchanged information worldwide with other interested parties. Later he would begin to write on the subject of UFOs. He had held a top-secret clearance while in the military.

1946
Joao Prestes Filho and Salvador dos Santos, sometime during the year, were returning from a fishing trip near the Brazilian village of Aracriuama and reached the village at about 7.00 P.M. An hour later, Prestes arrived at his sister's home with the following description.

A beam of light had hit him as he was reaching his front door. It stunned and blinded him. He fell to the ground, without losing consciousness and then managed to get up and make his way to her house.

That same evening, Preste's condition deteriorated rapidly.
Witnesses said that his flesh literally detached itself from his bones.
It was as if it had been boiled in hot water for a long time, so that his skin and the underlying tissue fell off.

Prestes was not in pain but was understandably in an increasing state of terror. Soon he was unable to speak. The villagers placed him in a cart, intending to take him to the hospital, but he died enroute, about 6 hours after having been hit by the beam of light. He remained conscious until the end.

When his body was brought back, the flesh had fallen off to the point where the corpse looked "decomposed". Nothing unusual was found near his house. The weather at the time was clear, thereby ruling out lightning. This incident was not uncovered by investigators until they entered the region forty years later!

1946
During the summer, hundreds of Scandinavians watched ghost rockets in their night skies: speeding balls of light that resembled meteors but behaved in what was described as "unmeteorlike fashion". USA intelligence suspected that it might be Russian experiments at the captured German missile centre at Peenemunde, but no evidence existed, and eventually the ghost rockets ceased flying without offering a clue as to what they were or from where they came.

1946
A large cigar-shaped craft was sighted during the year accompanied by a number of satellite discs which were sometimes seen to be leaving the larger mother ship.

1946
In June, the GRAYs set up their first permanent underground base near Dulse, New Mexico, U.S.A. While well selected for security, underground temperature preference and open airspace, the GRAYs did not expect that humans would continue setting off nuclear explosions "for no constructive benefit".

In the years to follow, they would lose 10 craft to propulsion and flight stabilization malfunctions as a result of unexpected EMP (electromagnetic pulse) signals from atomic weapons tests. The EMP made the atomic-electronic systems of the craft most used by the GRAYs make much more noise than normal, raise the temperature of the shell, lose inertial capacity - and glide to the ground without much control. It became a negotiating factor between the GRAYs and humans by 1949.

1946
In July, the U.S.S.R. Space Program is initiated by Stalin.

It begins following contact with Stalin by the GRAYs and in response to his paranoia about the intentions of the U.S.A. and his fascination for the travel craft which the GRAYs demonstrated. Stalin's first intent was to build a spacecraft capable of carrying either a huge atomic bomb or a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb into position over the U.S.A. for a first strike capability. Like all politicians and scientists of the time, the consequences of nuclear fallout pollution to areas beyond the blast area were unknown.

Stalin had determined that the British and Americans could not be trusted because of their waffling on sharing technology, reconstruction aid and economic exchange. They were enemies who would take the future position held only recently by Germany and Japan. The only way to prevent the Soviet Union from being attacked once more, in the mind of Stalin, was by the use of nuclear weapons, was to use them first to immobilize the enemy. To him, this was the lesson of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Americans had shown him how to beat themselves - if he could only make enough big bombs and place them in a position of delivery faster than them.

1946
During the summer, many UFOs are sighted over Scandinavia.
They become referred to as Swedish Ghost Rockets.

1946
In August, a large flying saucer is found east of Aztec, New Mexico.
Its arrival had been seen by two military spotters as it entered the Earth's atmosphere. They tracked it until it landed and within a few hours Air Force officers reached the flying field at Durango, Colorado State.

When they found the craft, it was in a very rocky, high plateau area.
They placed a guard around it. A group of 8 magnetic propulsion scientists were called in to examine the craft. After arriving, they decided that the best thing to do would be to study the ship from a distance. This they did for two days, testing it for various forms of radiation and with other non-destructive instruments. As nothing seemed to have happened inside the craft in the interim, it was approached for closer inspection.

The craft did not appear to have any doors or exits.
It did have portholes, and through one of these there was a hole the width of a pencil thickness. Gases might have rushed in or out of this hole with such force as to result in the interior firestorm. The scientists took a large pole and rammed a hole through this porthole to make access easier. Inside they could now see the bodies of 16 spacebeings. By pushing the pole through the window a distance, they were able to push a button located on another button on the wall of the cabin. A door opened in the side of the ship where non could be seen before, and the researchers could now enter.

The 5 spacepersons ranged in height from 36 to 42 inches and were proportionate in form to humans excepting that their heads were oversized. They were assumed to have suffocated. They had no bad teeth, no fillings. The bodies were taken out and laid out on the ground. One of the scientists remarked that their clothes "looks like the style of 1890." Their skin seemed to be charred a dark chocolate colour. (The climate in this location is such that the daytime high could have been 100 degrees Fahrenheit - enough to bake anything organic within a metallic container)

One of the scientists thought the spacebeings must have come from Venus. Food found in the ship appeared to be dried wafers and two containers of water which weighed twice that of water commonly found on Earth. One of the scientists thought it might be heavy water like that found at the time in Finland and used in nuclear reactor design later. When some of the wafers were fed to guinea pigs in the laboratory, they seemed to thrive.

The craft was 99-99/100 feet in diameter, perfectly circular, with a cabin in the centre. The cabin measured 18 feet across, 6 feet high and 45 inches of it protruded above the circular wing. There were bucket seats and push button consoles: new ideas to that era. Two timepieces were found within the craft. They were the size of silver dollars and they worked on a 29 day cycle equal to that of a magnetic month. There were no maps, only several booklets with pictorial script in them. There were no weapons of destruction in evidence and none of the crew had any firearms of any sort. As the ship had settled down safely onto the land, it was presumed that some form of automatic pilot - a new concept at the time - must have landed the ship after the fire killed the crew.

Against the protests of the magnetic research scientists, the craft was dismantled by the Air Force. To facilitate movement of the disc, the private property was purchased by the government.

1946
On September 4, a USA government Top Secret Memo to Mr. Morgan, from Mr Lyon stated:

"800 reports (of UFOs) have been reported with new ones coming in daily from Sweden. Full details of these reports have been forwarded to Washington, D.C. by our Military and Naval Attaches."

1946
Beginning as early as August, the First GRAY Earth Base is begun construction 2-1/2 miles northwest of the small New Mexico town of Dulce. It would be a multi-level research laboratory, housing, and administration site. Most of the facilities would be located 1/2 km to 1 km deep within the Archuletta Mesa.

This would become one of four major bioengineering labs used by the GRAYs in an attempt to make humans more GRAY-like: more suitable for space travel and for drone-like utilization.

1947
In January, W.H. (initials) came upon a crashed disc-shaped craft half buried in sand. While still serving in the US Navy, W.H. was on leave with C.C. who was just out of the US Army. While they were looking for desert property to buy, they came to the Papagos Indian Reservation, north of the rugged Superstitious Mountains, west of Globe, Arizona.

While travelling on a dirt trail, they came upon a group of military personnel guarding a crashed saucer with a domed top, about 30 feet in diameter with 2 rings on its outer edge which seemed to have windows between them. There was no evidence of an encampment or heavy equipment.

1947
On May 19, three railway workers at Manitou Springs in Colorado observed some small silvery objects through binoculars.

1947
During June and July, More Than 850 Sightings of UFOs were reported. They occurred in 48 states, the District of Columbia (D.C.), and Canada. Most were reported in the newspapers.

1947
During June, a UFO is sighted off the Straits of Madagascar.

1947
On June 21, Harold Dahl, three other men, Dahl's son and a pet dog (perhaps fictitious names), had been in the area of Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington about noon. It was a bleak, overcast day with a relatively low cloud cover. Everyone's attention was suddenly drawn to 6 doughnut-shaped objects that appeared just below the clouds. The objects dashed towards the boat, stopping only 500 feet above it. One of the objects seemed to be in trouble as the other 5 circled it. While they hovered everyone got a clear description of them: they were 100 feet in diameter with a hole 25 feet in diameter in the centre. The surface appeared to be bright metal and no one heard any noise or saw any type of trail behind the craft.

While the UFO hovered, Dahl took pictures including one when one of the craft maneuvered to the disabled craft and appeared to make contact. Minutes later, when the contact was broken, there was a dull thud, and the UFO began to spit "sheets" of light metal from the hole in the centre. As the metal floated down, the object began to throw off a harder, rocklike, "hot slag" substance and this fell to the beach on Maury Island. When Dahl had turned the boat towards the island some of the rocklike slag had fallen onto the deck, damaging the boat, burning the arm of Dahl's son, and killing their dog. Dahl returned to the harbour, reported the incident to a harbour patrolmen, Fred Chrisman, who returned with him to the site.

On the beach, the men gathered samples of the "slag" and kept an eye on the UFOs that were leaving the area at high speed. Dahl radioed for help but the reception was so bad that he couldn't make contact. After gathering the samples, the men returned to the harbour, obtained first aid for the burns, and reported it to their supervisor. The supervisor didn't believe the story until he went to the island and saw the metal. That convinced him.

The next morning, a man in a dark suit came to see Dahl, described the incident to him and suggested that he forget all about it. Later that day, Dahl had the pictures developed, but they were badly "fogged" and spotted. One man later suggested that the film had been exposed to radiation.

Kenneth Arnold, a pilot who had witnessed a sighting, found out about the reported sighting when Ray Palmer, a Chicago editor of 2 science fiction magazines asked Arnold to write about his own experience earlier in June and casually asked if he would look into the Crisman story. Palmer did not mention that Crisman had approached him before with reports of alien encounters.

Crisman had declared in an earlier letter that he had been involved in a gun fight with an alien creature in a cave. Arnold flew to Tacoma, Washington state to interview Crisman and Dahl. The latter identified himself as a harbour patrolman and reported his experiences of June 21. When Arnold inspected the metal which had "spewed out of" one of the objects, he recognized its similarity to lava rock.

E.J. Smith, a United Airlines pilot who had also had a recent UFO experience was contacted by Arnold. Smith flew in the next day to participate in a joint interview with the 2 men. After the interview, which took place in a hotel room, Smith and Arnold received a telephone call from a local reporter who said he had received a word-by-word report of the secret discussion they had held with Dahl and Crisman. Smith and Arnold searched for microphones in the room and found none.

The next morning, Crisman and Dahl showed the 2 pilots their samples of Lva-like substance and aluminum-like metal. Arnold believed that the metal was "ordinary aluminum which certain sections of all military aircraft are made of." Dahl said he had given the film he had used to record pictures of the crafts to Crisman. When Crisman was approached, he said he had "misplaced" the film. Arnold, not having done any investigations to this point felt he should call in better expertise and on July 31st,

Arnold called Lieutenant Frank Brown of the intelligence unit at Hamilton Air Force Base, California (until 6 months later they were Army Air Corp. until the Air Force came into existence) regarding the incident. Within an hour, Brown, with a Captain William L. Davidson left for Maury Island. Brown and Davidson, when they saw the fragments, immediately suspected that they were simply looking at junk and politely excused themselves. They had to get back to duty so they returned to McChord Air Force Base in Washington and while waiting for their plane told the intelligence officer that they thought the story was a hoax.

Brown and Davidson boarded their B-25 to return to California and within an hour's flight-time, the plane engine caught fire. Both died in the crash near Kelso, Washington. Good pilots as well as incompetent or careless pilots die in aircraft accidents. Without a thorough investigation and a release of the full results, the public is always left to wonder as to whether there might have been negligence involved or "foul play."

At that point both military intelligence and the F.B.I. entered the picture.
It would seem peculiar for these organizations to begin an investigation at this point unless they suspected that foul play had resulted in the airplane crash, or, unless they were convinced as to the truthfulness of the report and were seeking to keep the details secret, for matters of national security, or confuse them with disinformation. They concluded that analysis of the fragments showed them to be from a Tacoma slag mill, although the composition of the material was never released and both it and the silvery foil-like material were "misplaced". Information released for publication at the time included the following:

A Chicago publisher had wanted to hear about the rock fragments so Dahl and Crissman included him in the initially notified group. The incident had originally started as a joke, but it had snowballed. They had written to a man, Palmer, and enclosed a piece of rock. Palmer had then called Arnold and asked him to investigate. Neither man ever produced any photographs. One of the perpetrators was the mysterious caller from the newspaper.

Neither Dahl nor Crissman were harbour patrolmen.
They owned a couple of beat-up salvage boats and salvaged floating lumber from the sound. The airplane crash was just that, an accident, perhaps. The metal fragment on file, later, was confirmed to be worthless slag. Neither Dahl nor Crissman were prosecuted for the hoax. In fact, both disappeared?

The records show that the incident was seriously considered by the Air Corp and that the two men had not wanted to cause trouble, but the story which may have started as a joke, snowballed. When the story was finally released, it was old news, and the public was left with the suspicion that the Air Corp simply didn't have the answers to the Maury Island story.

This "hoax" seemed to be successful in producing a media humiliation of the Air Corp. It was certain to colour the attitudes of government staff in the future. It was also certain to intensify the scepticism of those who seriously sought to explain the observations. Some viewed all sightings as hoaxes; some of the public began to distrust the military and to view the whole area of UFO information and aliens as a plot against humanity. The Air Force never officially informed Arnold of their finding nor their conclusions.

The "records" were part of an elaborate CIA disinformation cover-up.
CIA operative, Clay Shaw, alias Clay Bertram was on the scene before the officers headed back by plane. Remember his name. He would later be implicated in the assasination of John F. Kennedy, President of the USA. Former directors of the Central Intelligence had been head of military psychological warfare during World War II. Similar sightings have been reported since: 1952; 1957; December 17, 1977; two in July 1978; November 1978, and others.

Was this a hoax or the start of a later confirmed government disinformation program. Due to the ridicule brought on the witnesses by the media, a possible instrument of the government, together with the loss of photos and materials, and the secrecy and loss of government reports on the case, no more can now be verified.

1947
On Tuesday, June 24, Kenneth Arnold, a 32-year-old fire equipment salesman and business owner, private pilot and deputy sheriff from Boise, Idaho, was flying his small Callair model plane. He had left Chelalis in Washington State to head SE home. He was taking a long detour on his flight to Yakima to search for a missing US Marine Curtis C-46 Commando transport. Cruising at 9000 feet, a bright flash glinted on his canopy. The strong sunlight was reflecting off something far in the distance, which was heading rapidly south. He guessed it was 18 1/2 miles away. He was near Mount Rainier.

Looking more closely, he observed a line of flattened, crescent-shaped discs.
There seemed to be nine of them, in an V-echelon fashion. They were linked in some strange fashion as they ducked and bobbed and then rose as they moved, in unison. It was this movement that caught the sun resulting in the flashes. Arnold judged their wingspan to be at least 100 feet across; flat like a pie-can; so shiny that they reflected the sun like a mirror; about 3 feet in height. Using his navigational skills he gauged their speed in excess of 1000 mph, perhaps even 1700 mph. Arnold had also turned his airplane sideways, opened his window and observed the objects without sunglasses. After landing at Yakima airport, he sketched a series of diagrams of what The USAF later classified it as a mirage.

The story made news in 150 newspapers.
Arnold's description of the flight of the craft as "like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water" prompted one reporter to coin the term "flying saucer". Fifteen other sightings were seen within a month.

John C. Ross, a military consultant with access to military research bases, notably the Guided Missile Centre at Point Mugu, California, and the two rocket testing centres at Muroc, California, was one of the persons asked to investigate the incident. Ross did not believe that the U.S.A. had any craft that ever reached the speed of 1,200 mph, at that time. Nor did he believe that any country on Earth had a supersonic craft at the time. He acknowledged that the U.S.A. had missiles that had attained a speed of 1,200 mph and that both the German V-2 rocket and the bazooka shell was capable of 3,000 mph.

The U.S.A. did have aircraft manned by pilots, and even missiles, that roughly resembled a doughnut in shape, but these had no speed approaching sound, which at sea-level is 760 mph. One was the rocket-propelled Bell XS-1 and another was the Douglas D-558, a transonic jet plane. The X-1, under development by the Army during that summer, and developed by Bell Aircraft Corporation, was a bullet-shaped fuselage with a rocket engine, powered to exceed the speed of sound, 760 mph. Chuck Yeager would not break the sound record for another 4 months after this sighting. Very conservatively, Arnold's figures indicated that the shiny disks were travelling almost Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound.
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1947
Between June 25 and July 10, UFO Sightings are reported in 43 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.). Pictures of some of the sightings appear in Life magazine, July 21, 1947 issue.

1947
William T. Walsh writes that 3 shepherd children from Sierra da Aire, Portugal, reported six times in 1917 that they had seen a circular globe of light descend from the heavens and had spoken with a lady -- later thought to be the Virgin Mary -- who had stepped from inside it (Our Lady of Fatima).

1947
Early in the summer, increased sightings of UFO's led to a consideration of them as secret weapons, and a concern over weather they were alien or Soviet. The possibility of the Soviet Union testing such craft over the United States encouraged fear and terror.

The FBI was involved to check out witnesses for communist sympathies and the Army-Air Force was recruited to study the flight characteristics of these "weapons". Paranoid secrecy would prevail for decades.

1947
On July 2, in the evening, Dan Wilmot and his wife saw a large glowing object in the sky over New Mexico. It was seen to head NW for the desert near Corona. A thunderstorm was raging with fierce lightning occurring.

William Brazel, a local farmer, heard an explosion unlike thunder, but assumed that it had to be. The next day, the desert was scattered with debris - peculiar light-coloured metal fragments. Part of something had been blown out of the sky before continuing its flight.

1947
On July 3, a man named Barnett, working out at Magdalene, about 150 miles away from the Wilmot sighting, discovered something shiny in the sand.

He discovered the wreckage of what seemed to be a disc, 30 feet across. Later a military truck arrived and supervised the investigation of the crash site. Barnett had seen bodies in the area, thrown from the craft, wearing silvery suits and only 3 feet tall.

1947
On July 3, at Wright Field, Ohio, officers of the air research and development section of the Air Materiel Command (AAF) were asked by General Carl Spaatz, the Army's air commander, to try to ascertain what the "flying saucers" were.

Lt. William C. Anderson, public relations officer at the field, downplayed the suggestion that they might be guided missiles and said that without further evidence it would appear that the phenomenon was imaginary.

1947
On July 4, near Boise, Idaho, Captain Smith, United Airlines pilot, with co-pilot, First Officer Stevens, reported "three to five" disks at an altitude of 7,000 feet, 15 miles southwest of Ontario, Oregon. The first photograph taken of the mystery saucers was claimed by Yeoman Frank Ryman. Ryman's estimate was that the saucer was 9,000 to 10,000 feet in the air and travelling 500 mph.

1947
During the July 4 weekend, numerous UFO sightings are reported, from coast to coast, over the USA.

1947
On July 4, at 5 P.M., Dan J. Whelan and Duncan Underhill of Hollywood, California, saw a disk above them at 2,000 feet, near Santa Monica. The fliers were about 7,000 feet in altitude themselves. The object was described as disk-shaped, not spinning, but resembling a rifle practice disk target, 40 to 50 feet in diameter and travelling at about 400 to 500 mph.

On July 6, Brazel drove to the nearest town, told the local sheriff, who in turn contacted Roswell Air Force Base. Major Jesse Marcel, officer in charge of intelligence at Roswell, elevation 3570 feet, made the trek to the remote Brazel ranch about 30 miles north of Roswell. On his return, notified his commanding officer the next day. Marcel was very excited on returning to his family in the evening and showed parts of what he had found to his family. Some of it appeared to by small I-beam structures with some form of symbolic writing on it. There was metal which when dropped on the table spread out as if it were water. The men tried to cut it without success. They tried to burn or melt it with a cigarette lighter but had no success. They could not dent it or make any change in it.

Ms. Frankie Rowe, a 12-year-old witness at the time, scrunched the material up in her hand, then watched as it spread back out to its seamless creaseless original form. While she was holding it in her hand she couldn't feel it, as if she were holding air.

Frankie Rowe's father, the Roswell fire chief, had been called to the crash site initially for what had been reported to him as a plane crash. When he arrived, he found "little people" outside the disc. One was still alive and walking around; two others lay covered on the ground.

Ms. Rowe was approached several days later by a uniformed man and told: "Don't you understand, you did not see anything!" He carried a nightstick on his belt like a military policeman and he withdrew it and slapped his hand with it for emphasis as he spoke to her. He continued: "If you say one word about this for the rest of your life, we will split up this family and if that's not enough, you know this is a big desert out here. We can take you out in the desert and no one will ever find your bodies."

1947
On July 7, The Roswell Incident began.
A spacecraft and extraterrestrial beings were taken to Roswell Air Force Base and placed in hanger 84, under the supervision of Brigadier General Roger Ramey, with all information being concealed from the public. Within a short period of time, all the pieces were crated and sent elsewhere.

Roswell Army Air Force Base, 509th Bomb Group, Public Information (Press) Officer First Lieutenant Walter G. Haut received a press release and was instructed to release it to the radio and newspaper media. It noted that parts of a crashed flying saucer had been found on a ranch north of Roswell; no further details were revealed. The 509th was the ONLY nuclear weapons air bomb group in existence at that time in the USA.

After the media release was changed, Haut resigned his commission in April 1948 on learning that he was about to be transferred and on that willingness was promoted to captain before he left the service. Others who knew him were puzzled by his departure and attested to his integrity. He much later openly testified that what was to follow was "one of the slickest coverups - We had the material and then one of the higher ups says, 'No you don't.'"

Major Marcel was sent with the wreckage, which filled a bomber plane, to Wright Field (later Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio). Situated there was the Foreign Technology Division of the Army/Air Force. Brigadier General Ramey ordered a cover-up story to be provided to the media. Marcel was ordered to pose with air balloon wreckage tell the press that he had been mistaken in his earlier observations and that only a balloon had crashed. Marcel told his wife that he had been ordered not to talk with her, their son, or anyone else further about the incident. He later admitted to his son, Jessie Marcel, Jr. that he had been ordered to be part of a coverup.

Major Curtan advised Wright Field to contact the FBI with the results of their examination. Official documents would only begin to be released 53 years later. Project Bluebook staff would not even know about it.

It seemed that an explosion had occurred and debris was scattered, yet the craft continued for 125 miles to the west, towards Socorro, before setting down. Sixteen spacebeings, ranging in ages from 35 to 40, relative to human aging, were taken from the craft. The craft measured 72 feet in diameter and was proportional in dimensions to the 99-99/100 foot craft discovered in August of 1946, near Aztec, New Mexico. In this case, the ship access door was open.

The spacebeings appeared to have died on coming into contact with the atmosphere of the Earth. They had a fair complexion, and they looked like caucasian humans except for an absence of beard. Some had a fine fuzz in place of a beard. They wore uniforms which used closures which humans would produce commercially, after several decades, and call Velcro strips. The thread used to sew the buttons on the jackets of the beings was tested and found to take 450 pounds of weight to break: similar to Kevlar, also to become available commercially in several decades.

The scientists involved in the investigation decided that the mathematical system of the operators of this and a formerly discovered craft was similar to ours "because mathematical law should follow for all the planets in this solar system." Their reason for thinking this was because they were struck with the fact that when the measurements of the ship in all its parts were broken down they found that it followed what was termed "The System of 9's".

There was an ingenious device which when they discovered how to operate it, turned out to be the sleeping quarters. Pushed back into the wall was what turned out to be a collapsible or accordion type screen, and as it was pulled out, it moved around in a half circle, so that by the time it reached the wall of the circular cabin little hammocks had dropped down from this screen or accordion-like wall, and there were the sleeping quarters for these beings. There were toilet facilities inside the sleeping quarters.

Some sort of radio communicator, the size of a pack of cigarettes, had no tubes or wires and appeared to have been torn from a corner of the craft during the crash. It was rigged with an antenna and broadcast a high c sort of note at 15 minutes past every hour. Humans were building massive sized computers at the time which were totally dependent upon electronic tube devices. The transistor radio was still years into the future.

Gears were discovered which had no play nor lubrication.
The Swedish gear system, used by humanity, with a ratio of 3 to 5 was different from that of the spacecraft gears which had a ratio of 3 to 6, giving no allowance for lubrication or play or wear or expansion under heat. The metallic composition of the gears could not be discovered in more than 150 tests. The visitors appeared to show improvement in each craft which was discovered: technical improvements to make them more suitable for landing on the Earth.

1947
On July 07, Vernon Baird, a pilot, reported, to the Grand Rapids Gazette, Montana, that he had knocked down a pearl gray, clam-shaped (or yoyo-shaped) airplane with a Plexiglas dome on top. The story was datelined Bozeman. Mr. Baird, a pilot of a commercial photographic plane flying at 32,000 feet and travelling at 360 miles an hour had been hired by the USAF to search for and photograph any discs in the area, following the Roswell incident.

The plane, a P-38, was flying over Montana, near the Tobacco Root Mountains due west of Bozeman and south of Butte. The pilot turned and saw a formation of objects flying along behind him. Mr. Baird described them as 15 feet in diameter and 4 feet thick. One of them broke away from formation and flew up close behind the P-38. As it did, it seemed to fly apart like a clamshell and fall into themountains below.

A report described the pilot of the downed craft as a 10 year-old boy, meaning that it was 3-1/2 to 4 feet tall and of slender build. Information leaks on the story were quickly hushed and even this amount of the story did not become clear until 1988. Baird was accompanied on his photographic missions by George Suttin, who later claimed that he didn't think of his camera until after the objects disappeared. Both men had worked for Fairchild Photogrammetrics Engineers Company.

1947
On July 8, the capture of a crashed saucer-like craft was accorded the Roswell Army Air Force, New Mexico, according to Major J.A. Marcel as reported in the Roswell Daily Record. The discovery was also broadcast on radio stations. Major J.A. Marcel was the intelligence officer at RAAF at the time.

1947
On July 8, an Urgent FBI Memo from General Roger Ramey concerning "flying disc information read:

"Maj. Curtan, HQ 8th AF, telephonically advised this office that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, this date. Information provided this office because of national interest in case and fact that (certain media forces) attempting to break story of location of disc today ... (the recovered disc was) being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination ... Maj. Curtan advised would request Wright to advise (FBI) results of examination."

1947
On July 9, the Los Angeles Examiner, a California newspaper, carried a photo of a flying saucer and the statement that "Residents in almost every section of Kentucky reported seeing these luminous disks streaking across the sky last night." Earlier references had wondered if there was a connection between the atomic weapons tests and the saucerian curiosity.

1947
On July 10, an FBI Memo notes that General George F. Schulgen organizes top scientists to determine if the flying disks are indeed fact and whether or not they are a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. He desired the assistance of the FBI in locating and questioning the individuals who first sighted the disks.

Col. L.R. Firney of MID indicated that it had been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or Navy experiments and should be of interest to the FBI.

1947
After July 10, Apparent censorship by newspapers of reports of UFO sightings was noted by Kenneth A. Arnold and so stated in an article he wrote for publication in the Spring, 1948 issue of Fate.

1947
On July 12, Kenneth Arnold, in a since declassified statement, noted:

"I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned by plane sideways where I could open the window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view (without sunglasses)."

1947
In a USA Navy briefing paper on UFO phenomenon, written by U.S. Navy Physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, and completed at a later time it was stated:

"... the Air Force knew by the middle of July, 1947 that saucers were real and not manmade ... the technology represented by the (recovered) disc ... was so far beyond our own that it could not be understood immediately ... Therefore it would be necessary to treat the disc as a military secret. This would mean containing all information about it within some small group."

This authoritarian and elitist rationale was to severely disadvantage much of humanity from any constructive awareness about the existence of other beings visiting the Earth from other parts of the universe and possessing a variety of motives, forms, and technologies. The less truthfully informed a human is, the more easily the person can be deceived, manipulated, terrorized, and enslaved - for an inability to acknowledge and accept reality allows the human imagination to accept whatever information is placed before it in its effort to dispel the anxiety of mental confusion and to avoid the nervous breakdown typified by mental terror.

Only two factors can provide a human with the strength to cope with reality in a constructive manner: the knowledge of reality and the faith established by experience in spiritual direction in decision making. Few humans seem to ever develop the latter and no mass human culture and political structure in human recorded history has provided support for the values which would limit its concentration of authority - spiritual strength and decision making.

1947
On July 15, a handwritten note from J.Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, and a memo to a Mr. Ladd stated:

"... before agreeing (to investigation of crashed saucers) ... we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the Soc. (Socorro, N.M.) case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination."

1947
In the conclusion of an FBI/Army Intelligence Report, declassified in 1976, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following was stated:

"Based on detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/47) and 15 other UFO encounters during the first month of the 'flying saucer' mystery the conclusion is 'this flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomenon. Something is really flying around.'"

1947
During the last week in July and the first week in August, a phenomenal increase in the sightings of UFO's in the USA encouraged flying saucer headlines.

1947
Early in August, two pilots from Bethel, Alabama, told investigators that they had spotted a huge black object which seemed bigger than a C-54 transport aircraft. The pilots further qualified their description as "without motors, wings, or any visible means of propulsion, and was smooth surfaced and streamlined." It stood out against a brilliant evening sky.

To avoid collision, the pilots had to pull up to an elevation of 1,200 feet. The object crossed their path at right angles. They swung in behind it and followed at 170 mph until it left them far behind and about 4 minutes later disappeared from sight.

1947
By September, the U.S.A. Magnetism and Propulsion Project had learned a great amount about magnetic forces. After 5 years of study under the utmost of security measures, over 1,600 scientists had made fantastic discoveries.

Meteors were composed of metals which actually make them giant magnets.
A rain of meteorites sometimes accompanies a comet's sweep past the Earth.

The scientists had found 1,257 magnetic lines of force to the square centimetre. Atomic explosions could disturb magnetic lines of force. It had been shown in the laboratory that magnetic forces could lead to material disintegration, time suspension, immobilization of instrument boards. Material form itself could be attributed to the existence of magnetic forces. No two lines of magnetic force had ever been known to cross each other naturally. If forced to do so, or if crossed "by accident" disintegration and fire were the expected result. The potential for propulsion and for weapons of military destruction were awesome.

Around certain areas of the Earth had been found places known as magnetic fault zones. Here "blow-outs" occur, similar to the perpetual eddying forces of permanent whirlpools in certain areas of the oceans and rivers. Areas around the states of Oregon and New Mexico represent such anomalies in the U.S.A. and may have contributed to some of the UFO crashes, past, present and future.

A craft, on automatic pilot, entering such a region without warning could be expected to behave as if its instruments were indicating to the crew conditions which did not exist and masking those which did require acknowledgement. Spacepersons relatively new in their discovery, or rediscovery, of the Earth may have been caught unawares in such regions of magnetic confusion, and, in seconds faced changes which disoriented their craft long enough to result in a crash.

1947
On September 23, a US Government Secret Briefing Document was sent to Brig. General George Schulgen from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4), Commanding Officer, AMC, stating:

"Flying saucers are REAL! Concerning 'Flying Discs' the phenomenon reported is something real, not fictitious. These objects approximate the shape of a disc and appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. They have operating characteristics such as extreme rate of climb and manoeuvrability. Under a Security Code Name copies of this information will be sent to Army, Navy, AEC, JRDB, SAG, NACA, RAND and NEPA Projects."

1947
On September 24, Majestic-12 (MJ-12), a covert operation and a panel of experts, was formed to define the meaning of and the significance of UFOs and spacebeings including the wreckage recovered from Roswell, New Mexico, on July 2, 1947. It was classified as Top Secret by President Harry Truman.

1947
On November 30, Extraterrestrials are classified as EBE's (Extra Biological Entities) in a Top Secret Document issued by Dr. Bronk's scientific team.

In the document, a reference is made to September 19, 1947 ... The recovered crashed saucer in New Mexico is determined to be a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship).

1947
On December 30, Brigadier General George Shulgen, an order with a class 2A classification security initiated "Project Sign" with Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, being given responsibility for the project. This had been the response to the request by Lt. General Nathan F. Twinning, Chief of Staff of what was still the U.S. Army, to have assigned a security coding for "The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious".

1948
On January 7th, Captain Thomas Mantell, while commanding a flight of F-51's, Mustang interceptors, over Godman Air Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky, was asked to investigate an object which had been observed in the area for 1-1/2 hours by a selection of people.
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Captain Mantell was in one of the 4 National Guard F-51 jets which arrived over Godman at about 2:40 pm. He began a spiralling, climbing turn to 220 degrees and 15,000 feet. As the flight passed through 15,000 feet, two of the wingmen turned back. At that altitude, they were supposed to be on oxygen, but not all the aircraft were equipped with it and none had a full supply. The wingmen attempted to contact Mantell but were unsuccessful.

In the tower, Mantell was heard to broadcast from 15,000 feet that the UFO was

"above and ahead of me and appears to be moving at half my speed". Later he said that it was "metallic and it is tremendous in size". Continuing, he noted that "It's going up now and forward as fast as I am. That's 360 mph ... I'm going up to 20,000 feet and if I'm no closer, I'll abandon chase." Finally, he said the UFO was just above him and "I am trying to close for a better look."

At 22,000 feet, the remaining 2 wingmen, Lieutenant A.W. Clements and Lieutenant B.A. Hammond, were forced to turn back. The oxygen supply of one of the fighters wasn't working correctly, and military regulations require oxygen above 14,000 feet. Mantell had no such equipment. Hammond radioed, at 3:10 P.M., that they had to abandon. Mantell continued to climb and didn't respond. Five minutes later all radio and visual contact was lost of him.

A search began and 1 hour and 45 minutes later the plane was found strewn over half a mile on a farm near Franklin, Kentucky. Mantell died in the crash; his watch read 3:18 P.M. An investigation was begun and an extensive report concluded that a weather balloon or Venus or some visual illusion had resulted in the tragic accident.

Mantell, an aggressive, young, combat experienced and decorated pilot had approached too closely to the combined high energy electrostatic and electromagnetic field surrounding the UFO. On doing so, his own plane had entered the gravity-absent envelope surrounding the UFO while at the same instant acting like a lightning receptor to receive an electric discharge from the UFO shell which approximated a charge of 1 million volts and a current of 20,000 amperes: his plane disintegrated into more than 1,000 pieces and he was killed instantly.

At best, what had occurred was not understood, could not be theorized at the time, and was considered impossible. At worst, this incident became one of a few which would be noted as evidence of the hostile intentions of visiting extraterrestrials, all of whom were considered to represent one species or civilization.

1948
On February 14, near Aztec, New Mexico, U.S.A., a disk-like alien aircraft is discovered on a Mesa. 16 human-like beings were found dead aboard the crashed craft. According to Jerome Clark, Dr. Gee (Gebauer) and Silas Newcomb were later arrested for talking about the recovery and were charged with trying to sell "worthless" UFO hardware.

One of the beings was photographed during autopsy and revealed the following:

The body was a little shorter than 4 feet in height.
It was completely heterous, head was a rounded cranium, slightly enlarged (compared to humans), no genitalia, eyes almond-shaped, slits where nose would be, extremely small mouth, receding chin line, holes where ears would be expected.

The eye placement and shape suggested an oriental appearance.
The left hand was longer than in human proportion with the wrist extending to within 2 or 3 inches of the knees. The wrist appeared to articulate in a fashion which allowed a double joint with 3 digit fingers. The wrist was very slender. There was no thumb. A palm was almost non-existent with the 3 fingers appearing to extend directly from the wrist.

The colour of the skin was a dark bluish gray.
The lower part of the body was darker suggesting that decay had set in from exposure after death. Also body fluids appeared to have settled to the base of the body following death.

Photographs of the beginning stages of the autopsy showed that the body had been slit open from just under the chin down to the crotch. A green viscous liquid was evident and was later verified as being chlorophyll-based. At least 2 hearts appeared to be in the body, or it was a small cluster of a multi-valve heart. No stomach or digestive tract appeared obvious. The Grudge/Blue Book #13 Report would later theorize that nourishment was taken in through the mouth and excreted through the skin.

1948
On March 25, in Hart Canyon, near Aztec, New Mexico, U.S.A., a disk-like alien aircraft was found. The Army OSI and the IPU put on Red Alert and the ADC activated the local military units. When the saucer-shaped craft had got into range of a Special High-Powered radar at the Four Corners Range (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter and wobble from side-to-side and took a trajectory towards the ground. Apparently, the beam from the radar disrupted the guidance or propulsion of the craft, it was suspected.

The disc was found to be 100 feet in diameter.
A total of 16 humanoid bodies were recovered from this crash and the one on February 14. A large number of apparent human body parts were found stored within the vehicles. These findings resulted in the USAF Project Sign (1947) being upgraded to Project Grudge (1948). It had crash landed on Mr. H.D.'s property and he and his family were sworn to secrecy about the event.

1948
On April 3, Lt. Robert W. Myers of the U.S.A. 67th Fighter Wing, 18th Fighter Group, Philippine Islands, leading a group of four F-47s, saw an aerial object 3 miles away, turned around to check on it and watched it make a 90 degree turn and disappear within 5 seconds. It was silver-coloured and left no exhaust trails.

1948
During May, a 36 foot diameter flying saucer was found in Paradise Valley, near Phoenix, Arizona state. It had landed near, or just inside the boundaries of one of the proving grounds (an Air Force gunnery range is south west of Phoenix). It was eventually dismantled and taken to Dayton. A crew of two appeared to have died in this craft: one was slumped over the control panel; the other was going through the exit. Again, there was a note of no weapons, and a use of push button controls.

No apparent sleeping or toilet facilities were found suggesting that the smaller ship was working from a mother ship or able to make round trips from and to their origin faster than earlier. A 3-point landing gear on this craft held steel balls in vacuum cups which permitted the balls to revolve. While the balls were moving in one direction, nothing could tip the ship, but when they were motionless a child could tilt it.

It was suggested by some scientists that because of the high level of secrecy involved, the whole investigative procedure tended to make them hoard what they knew instead of sharing it, lest he or she be charged with giving away the nation's security, or what some fallible and unidentified authority has decreed for the moment to be the nation's security.

The fact that the saucer-shaped craft whirls was believed to be only for the purpose of balance. Propulsion was believed to be the result of the disturbance of magnetic lines of force, there being 1,257 magnetic lines of force to the square centimetre.

"What actually happens is that, even though the wing part is whirling, the saucer actually crawls forward from one crossed magnetic line to another. ... The successive crossing of these magnetic lines of force under control makes possible the speeding up of the whirling action of the plate or wing part of the saucer, because the saucer is attempting to get to the next succeeding line of force; seeking to get back in balance.

... What we have here is energy existing and created without a wire and actually in the lines of force themselves. The saucer being so regulated magnetically is eternally trying to get away from its disturbed magnetic points, as a person prodded from behind by a needle might try to get away from the disturbance, and thereby movement is created.

... The simplest of all mechanical motions is that of rotation. ... dynamos or generators are fundamentally nothing but devices for moving a conductor through a magnetic field and drawing off the current thus produced. However, the electrical energy is produced only when the motion takes place in such a manner as to cut the lines of magnetic force."

It appears that the death of the crewpersons was the result of overenthusiasm and professional carelessness. It is likely that the air temperature in the immediate region on the date was much higher than the beings were accustomed to. In addition, the composition of the Earth's atmosphere with relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide and relatively high amount of oxygen may have asphyxiated them if their life supporting gas was carbon dioxide rather than the oxygen which humans require. It would have been like a human stepping into an atmosphere of safe pressure but of a composition of 1% oxygen and 20% carbon dioxide and a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit!

1948
On June 7, Ed Wilson was piloting an open Waco airplane with a Continental engine, equipped for 12-hour flights, engaged in shallow-bottom treasure hunting by air when he experienced the following:

"I was about 45 miles northeast of Miami and flying at about 250 feet above sea level when a hissing, smashing updraft hit me. It bounced the plane about 1000 feet upward. Now I have been in updrafts and downdrafts, but nothing like this. After I got back to more or less normal I noticed that the water had become bright and silvery. I noticed something big under the water and thought it was a wrecked ship.

It was not far from the surface. Something was causing the water to rush past it at a fast rate (or, it was moving through the water at a fast rate). It (the water) curled around it and made a deep channel. The ocean seemed to be opening up. I was now flying low in a sort of trough in the water with both sides of it along the wingtips.

I suddenly realized that what I was looking at was not a ship at all, but seemed to be a huge building down in the water. The water seemed to get shallower around it (as if it were coming to the surface). I could see a slanting side of a building that looked like a mountain. I was down at about 50 feet from the surface and could see it in the water. I circled around it for a minute and a half. I could even see barnacles on it and water running past the top of it.

At my point of angle and from my position I could clearly see it was a monstrous building. The sun was radiating in such a way that its rays I could see this huge building clearly visible down under the water. I thought i saw other buildings around it (or shadows on the bottom) but I could not see them well. The one I was looking at must have been 100 to 250 feet high according to the pattern I could get.

I started to time myself on the leg out (of this region back to home) to get readings of the location when out of the blue clear day another strange incident occurred: all my magnetics (compass) had gone to zero. Then a strange hue occurred all around me. At about 600 feet above the water in the air that bright crimson hue simply baffled me.

That 240 H.P. Continental began to be the most crazily running engine (effected by strong low frequency electromagnetic radiation) I have had the experience to feel. It became motionless (stopped) no matter what I did with the throttle and pumps. It glided and floated smoothly for at least two miles. Then the engine simply started itself. I could not dive (to pick up airspeed) because I was already on top of the water. Then I realized that some force was pulling towards a westerly direction.

Now, after all this I finally got back to the airport with my Bendix (radio) blasting hell out of everybody but not one single band would respond. After landing and getting inspection of Radio Communications and units, every last unit (electronic tube) was blown, shorted out by some high frequency electronic shock, or mysterious high voltage in the air. They said I might have run through a magnetic belt or something (underwater mothership UFO preparing for takeoff). ..."

Over the next 30 years, last messages from ships and planes which have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle region have held certain indications in common. These include compass spinning, sudden power failure, malfunction of navigational equipment, flight-indicator radar blackout, electronic drain, inability to control altitude of planes, light anomalies seen at night in the air and below the surface of the sea, the sudden appearance of enveloping, sometimes glowing fog over a small area at sea level or as a cloud in the sky (witnesses, sometimes hundreds at a time, have seen planes vanish into such a phenomenon - and not reappear), stress on the metal or wood construction of planes and ships, and strong magnetic pulls of planes and surface craft towards the sea and beneath it. These reports would not be related to sudden storms but are ALL related to some source of electromagnetic energy (a UFO).

1948
During the summer, at Goose Bay Air Force Base, Labrador, a radar sighting was made of a UFO travelling at a speed of 9,000 mph ! The incident was publicly reported in 1961 to NICAP by Major Edwin A. Jerome, a retired USAF pilot and one-time intelligence officer. During the incident, high ranking officers were at the site inspecting the then important Ground Control Approach radar (GCA) at this servicing and refuelling outpost for all military and civilian aircraft crossing the North Atlantic.

Both the USAF and RCAF equipment showed a target that moved at up to 9,000 mph at an altitude of 60,000 feet. As the object maintained altitude and dramatically changed velocity patterns, it could not have been a meteor. The next day, an object was again recorded on both radars hovering over the base at 45,000 feet and travelling from a speed of 10 mph and up.

1948
On July 1, Major Hammer, Rapid City Air Base, reported seeing 12 disks over the base. These flying discs were oval-shaped and about 100 feet in diameter, speed in excess of 500 mph. They made 30 and 40 degree climbing turns, accelerating very rapidly out of sight.

1948
On July 17, Kirtland AFB reported 7 UFOs flying a "J" formation in the vicinity of San Acacia, New Mexico, at an altitude of 20,000 feet. The formation varied from a "J" to "L" to "O" after passing zenith. Estimated speed was 1500 mph.

1948
On July 24, two civilian pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, were flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3 out of Houston bound for Atlanta. They nearly collided with a cigar-shaped object over Montgomery, Alabama. They saw it very clearly as it flashed by with a turbulent wake and they followed emergency evasion procedures.

They sighted the object 4 times through scattered cloudcover and unlimited visibility, travelling at high speed and high altitude. It appeared wingless, had two decks, and made a sound similar to that of a V-2 rocket. Meteors do not create turbulence and are usually seen by hundreds of people. This was not.

1948
In August, the BLONDS decided to set up an association with the Americans.
It would not take an overt political format.
The Germans and Soviets had been disqualified from choice for political and cultural reasons. Oriental nations were disqualified by the ethnocentricity of humans and their low standard of living and political stability following humanity's Second World War.

Direct approach to American politicians was seen as hazardous based on past American cultural expressions of intolerance, increasing paranoia within the culture directed at socialists and communists, both real and imagined, and the evident inability of American political leaders to understand the possibilities and responsibilities of "transplanted" technology - like nuclear energy.

The BLONDS knew who they were dealing with for their primary mode of communication was by mind reading. They were restricted in the use of this medium to the reading of human minds and thought transference amongst themselves. Humans were incapable of communicating with the BLONDS on this level. The BLONDS knew at this point that the GRAYs had established an underground base in New Mexico state in 1946.

The BLONDS determined that their best strategy for colonization at this point was to infiltrate the American scientific, military, political and industrial communities, or to leave the Earth and search for a base elsewhere.

The magnetic forces of the Earth were ideal for the propulsion systems used by their spacecraft and their space life support resources were low, so the Earth option deserved persistence. Access to facilities and positions of authority would be obtained by their demonstration of apparent creativity and ingenuity in the technical environments of armaments and biotechnology. In reality, they simply tried to "invent" primitive forms of their own technology for human use, or misuse, and used their access to biotechnology labs to try successful crossbreeding with humans and to bioengineer themselves for better long-term survival on either the Earth or Mars.

1948
On August 3, a UFO was sighted over Moscow, Soviet Union, which was described similar to that sighted on July 25th, 1948, by 2 Eastern Airlines pilots. It was a space rocket test, like the American one.

1948
On September 12, a bright white glowing UFO was seen approaching by the pilot and co-pilot of a Pan Am aircraft en route from Midway to Honolulu, Hawaii. It changed to a reddish glow upon withdrawal. Est. speed: 1000 knots.

1948
During September, an abandoned flying saucer was seen by armed forces personnel near a government proving ground in New Mexico. At first it appeared unoccupied until several small humanoids ran back to it, entered and took off.

1948
On October 1, Lt. George Gorman, was flying a F-51 preparing to land at Fargo, North Dakota, Air National Guard field, when he saw a light 1,000 yards below him while he was flying at 4500 feet. It resembling the tail light of another plane. The flight tower told him there was a Piper Cub aircraft below him which he could see, and which was not associated with the light. He started an intercept to determine what the mystery light was.

The light was small, clear, and white and seemed to be blinking off and on. As he approached, the light became sharp and steady and pulled into a sharp left banking turn. Gorman dived his plane after it raising his manifold pressure to 60 inches but could not catch it. It started gaining altitude and made another left turn. Gorman put his F-51 into a sharp turn, and tried to cut off the light in its attempt to escape. By then they were at 7,000 feet.

The light made a sharp right turn, and they were heading straight at each other. When it seemed they were about to collide, Gorman took his plane into a steep dive and the light passed over his canopy at about 500 feet. Then, it made a left circle at about 1,000 feet above, and Gorman gave chase again. He found himself playing a game of 'cat and mouse' with the light.

When it looked as though they were headed for a collision again, the object shot straight up. Gorman followed it to 14,000 feet, when his plane went into a power stall, and the lighted object turned to the northwest and disappeared. He told the government agents

"I had the distinct impression that its maneuvers were controlled by thought or reason."

Several people on the ground, the pilot of a plane flying nearby, and his passenger, all saw the UFO. The official explanation was that it was a "lighted Balloon".

1948
During October, AEC funding of covert developments began.
Due to the confidential nature of many of the programs undertaken by the AEC, it was easy for MJ-12 to siphon off funds for attempts to reverse engineer the propulsion systems found in crashed UFOs.

The position always taken by the GRAYs relative to their crashed ships was: "Why should we give you anything? What have you got to give to us?"

Eventually, the only negotiating stance which MJ-12 could present was that secure underground base locations could be provided to the GRAYs. At first, the locations offered were set aside within large military reserves.

1948
On October 15, a UFO was tracked and pursued over Japan by an F-61 "Black Widow" fighter. Six attempts to intercept the object failed as it sped up from 200 mph to 1200 mph, leaving the interceptor behind. It was described as shaped like a bullet and apparently 20 to 30 feet long.

1948
On November 18, an oval UFO was sighted by Lt. Henry G. Combs while he was flying a North American T-6 Texan lining up to land at Andrews Air Force Base, near Washington, D.C. Following instruction, including turning his lights off and on, brought no response from the UFO. As he tried to close in, the light accelerated over him speeding up from 80 mph to 500 or 600 mph. Combs described it as displaying "evasive controlled tactics and an ability to perform tight circles, quick variation of air speed, vertical ascents and evasive movements." After 10 minutes of "cat and mouse" chase, it veered East and headed towards the Atlantic. The pilot described it as "a dark grey oval-shaped object smaller than my T-6".

The base officers and ground crew at the base witnessed the whole event.
It was originally reported to Project Bluebook as a report from Project SIGN as incident 207. Chief of Staff, General Hoyt Vandenberg, ordered all copies of the report to be destroyed. Project Sign completed its case analyses several weeks later, calling for a more detailed study of UFO sightings. Shortly afterwards, Project Sign was closed down and its team members transferred elsewhere.

1948
On November 23, a Wire Report from Germany to Project SIGN noted that an experienced and completely reliable pilot, while flying an F-80 over a US Air Base in the Fursten-Feldbruck area of Germany, had radar and visual contact with a circling red-lighted UFO at 2200 hours at an altitude of 27,000 feet.

Ground Project SIGN radar determined that it was going over 900 mph and that it climbed quickly to 50,000 feet in a matter of minutes, then disappeared.

late 1948
Green fireballs were seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From 1948 into 1951 numerous sightings of fireballs over the U.S.A. supersensitive Atomic Energy Commission installation at Los Alamos, travelling at an estimated speed of 27,000 mph were reported. Dozens of scientists, Air Force special agents, airline pilots, military pilots, and Los Alamos security inspectors submitted over 200 reports of huge half moons, circles, and disks flying at extreme velocities and emitting a green light so bright it caused the contours of surrounding mountains to glow momentarily at night. Some of the witnesses reported watching flat, disk-like objects travelling at equally high speeds and varying in colour from brilliant white to amber, red, and green.

A private pilot flying one night north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, encountered one of the fireballs and described it this way:

"Take a softball and paint it with some kind of fluorescent paint that will glow a bright green in the dark. Then have someone take the ball out about 100 feet in front of you and about 10 feet above you. Have him throw the ball right at your face, as hard as he can throw it. That's what a green fireball looks like."

The REDs were expressing their displeasure at the continued development of nuclear weapons even as they had tried to deter the use of bombers and nuclear weapons towards the end of the War during which time the majority of casualties were civilian. They knew that Japan was on the verge of surrendering before the nuclear bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Committed not to physically interfere with human history, they were treading a fine line in attempting to slow the reactionary and vengeful policies of those human participants for whom mass deaths were a balm for their hatred. They had hoped that the U.S.A. and Britain would have earlier shared their nuclear power technology peacefully with the U.S.S.R. thereby foregoing a nuclear power struggle.

America had chosen otherwise.
Now, it was possible that if the Americans stopped their development of the hydrogen superbomb, the Russians would also. Humanity chose otherwise through the decisions of those they allowed to speak for them: cold war.

The USAF hired Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, an expert on meteors, to solve the mystery, but LaPaz concluded that the phenomena were not of meteoric origin. He thought the fireballs were guided missiles being secretly tested nearby.

1948
On Dec 05, just east of the Las Vegas,New Mexico, radio range, the crewmen on a military C-47 and those on a commercial airliner, were startled when they saw a brilliant green object flash by them. Those in the C-47, saw the object appear slightly below them, arc upwards, level, and then streak by them. It was the second such object that they had seen that evening, so after discussion, they reported it to the control tower at Kirtland Air Force Base. They were on their way to Albuquerque.

A few minutes later, the crew of the Pioneer Airlines DC-3 contacted Kirtland. The observers from it reported that the object had been red-orange in colour and had changed to a brilliant green and then headed straight for them. The pilot, afraid the object would hit them, forced the DC-3 into a tight, spiralling turn. When the object was abreast of the plane, it began to fall away, growing dimmer until it disappeared. Dozens of other reports were made that evening.
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Reported sightings continued frequently over the next few days
On Dec 08, two intelligence officers at Kirtland Air Force Base took off just before dark with a flight plan circling north of Albuquerque looking for the fireballs. At 11,500 feet, 20 miles east of Las Vegas, New Mexico, radio station range, they sighted an object, approaching them at a high rate of speed. It shot past, lost altitude quickly and disappeared. It had a brilliant green colour, the same as that of military flares, but much brighter.

1949
On January 6, a rocket-shaped UFO was observed over Los Alamos, New Mexico.

1949
In January, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover received a cable sent from the San Antonio field office which noted that at weekly conferences involving military intelligence the main topic was "the matter of 'Unidentified Aircraft' or 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena', otherwise known as 'Flying Discs', 'Flying Saucers', and 'Balls of Fire'. This matter is considered top secret by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Force (emphasis in the original).

1949
On January 13, a Confidential Memo to Operation Blue Book from 4th Army Colonel Eustis L. Poland stated:

"'Unconventional Aircraft' have been sighted. Possible Radiological warfare tests are being made over sensitive Bases in New Mexico area. A foreign power may be making 'sensing shots' with some super-stratosphere device designed to be self-disintegrating."

1949
On January 31, a Confidential Army Staff Message to Project Blue Book read: >{?

"Approx. 30 people sighted UFOs on Jan. 30, 1949. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. Sightings reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and other locations. All sightings appear to be of the same object viewed from possible CRASH different angles. Will attempt to locate the impact point, if any.

1949
On January 31, Memo, Director of FBI:

Flying saucers have been discussed by the OSI, FBI and the 4th Army and is 'considered Top Secret by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.' It was thought that the first AEC UFOs over Sweden were of Russian origin.

The Memo also makes reference to the Eastern Airlines sighting of July 25, 1948. Also, on 10 different days, between 12/05/48 and 01/06/49, sightings of UFOs were concentrated over B1-G,30 the AEC plant at Los Alamos, New Mexico. (Circulation of the Memo went to El Paso, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma City.)

1949
During the year, Majestic 12, the high level intelligence group assembled by U.S.A. military leaders to confront the UFO question, expanded its activities and influence. By now, the prospect of substantial technological advance, either by reverse engineering of found spaceships, or by hoped for negotiations with spacebeings was viewed in the positive. The latter was doubted and lack of any progress on the former meant that substantial funding would be required for the former.

At the same time, a reaffirmation was made that the public could not be informed of the finding and nature of the "saucers" as such would compromise the armed forces' responsibility for national security and widespread political and economic disruption would likely ensue. For obvious reasons, the mass media had to remain muzzled both through non-access to the information, by the provision of disinformation, and by the recruitment of key media staff who would cooperate in the "editing" of "politically sensitive" information for the purpose of national security.

All politicians not closely connected to MJ-12 participants were not informed: they were security risks by the nature of their public exposure and scrutiny as well as by the often demonstrated desire they seemed to have for media attention and popularity. Security was best served by secrecy.

To effect these ends, as well as the covert extension of the economic "Open Door" policy, new military-political research, espionage and enactment organizations were created. The C.I.A. and N.S.A. were added to the Department of Defense (D.O.D.), and the A.E.C. Those, in turn, formed covert business corporations as fronts for some of their activities or for the purpose of more appropriately receiving government funding for their activities and programs. Only a small number of officers in these organizations were privy to the real purpose or concerns of the MJ-12 extended group.

1949
During February, the Final Report of Project SIGN, written by Professor George Valley, of MIT stated, in part:

"If there is an extraterrestrial civilization which can make objects as are reported, then it is most probable that its development is far in advance of ours ... such a civilization might observe that on Earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they would be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations."

The report, USAF Report F-TR-2274-1A, used the term "Unidentified Aerial Objects (UAOs) as its term of preference for description of its subject.

1949
In mid-Feb, a conference about the green fireballs was called at Los Alamos. Included were Dr. Edward Teller, Dr. Joseph Kapland, and Dr. La Paz, amongst others. Dr. La Paz affirmed that the shade of colour of the fireballs did not match that of previously observed meteorites. Some speculated that the fireballs are some type of observation craft that was "fired" from a high altitude, orbiting ship. This suggestion came up often. The attendees ended by recommended that a project be established to identify the fireballs.

Project Twinkle was begun with the intention of 3 specialized 35mm movie camera sighting stations being set up. The Air Force never provided sufficient funding and only one station was set up and it was never stable in its location. The beginning of the Korean War marked the end of Project Twinkle. During the next several years, sightings were mainly in the southwest desert, with some over mid-America as far east as Pennsylvania.

1949
In late March, near Roswell AFB, in New Mexico state, the Army was alerted to another flying disk crash. Like the 1947 crash, this had happened during a severe and infrequent thunderstorm. One live humanoid being was retrieved from the craft out of a crew of 9.

It was named EBE, a name suggested by Dr. Vannevar Bush as short for Extraterrestrial Biological Entity. Its digestive system was chlorophyll based and it processed food into energy much as plants do. Wastes were excreted also as plants do, mostly as an expiration into the air. It had a perceived tendency to lie as for over a year it would only answer questions with the answer expected by the interviewer: it could read the minds of humans, a factor never considered. In reality, it was only defending itself from those who had captured and imprisoned it by not telling its captors facts which would frighten them, or, anger them due to their considerable pride and ignorance.

At some point in late 1950, it would begin to reveal unknown knowledge which became the foundation of a report termed the "Yellow Book". (see December, 1951)

Consider that in most industrialized and "advanced" nations, mass awareness of plant structure and requirements did not begin in the schools until the 1950's with dissection being a frequent method of investigation. Plant "intelligence was not being considered until 1970 and was still widely believed to be a foolish concept by most humans as late as 1980, THIRTY YEARS AFTER THIS INCIDENT.

No human-organized, institutionalized religions suggest morals or intelligence in any living being beyond the human form with perhaps the exception of Buddhism. This observation could shock a "normal" person by calling question to all he or she believed made up their reality.

EBE had come from the "T" star system in the Bootes Constellation.
This star was first noticed by Joseph Baxendell in April, 1860, while he was looking for new variable stars. The brightness of the star continued for several days but by April 22, the magnitude had fallen considerably and the following night it could not be seen. It has not been seen since although it is considered to possibly be a recurrent nova star (one that explodes) and several additional outbursts may have occurred in the past century.

"T" was located 39 light years from the Earth, so it actually exploded near 1821.
EBE and his culture were considerably technologically advanced beyond the human level. After millions of years of development on a "vegetation only" planet, they were sufficiently technologically and scientifically progressed to understand their star system, much of the universe, the benefits and peace of a spiritually-based lifestyle, and, interstellar travel. They had planned ahead of their star's explosion and had left their system in a synthesized planet, much larger than a "mother ship", in our year 1550 in search of new habitation locations.

The Earth was their 6th stop, the previous 5 proving to have unsuitable atmospheres. The atmosphere on the Earth was suitable. The craft which had crashed was a scout ship.

1949
On April 24, a UFO was tracked at a speed of up to 25,000 mph.
Near Arrey, New Mexico, aerologist Charles B. Moore, Jr., while tracking a weather balloon for General Mills Co. with a theodolite suddenly noticed a UFO rapidly crossing the sky. He and 4 other technicians turned the 25 power theodolite to track the UFO.

It was a featureless ellipse, its length about 2-1/2 times its width. After about 60 seconds the object disappeared in a sharp climb. Based on measurements with the mountain range behind it, it was calculated to be going between 18,000 mph and 25,000 mph.

1949
On April 26, it was publicly reported that the Air Materiel Command had contributed a crew of technical intelligence agents to a USAF project to track down reports of UFOs. A total of 240 domestic and 30 foreign incidents of saucers reported had been investigated. 30% of these were found to be due to conventional objects such as weather, meteors, and cosmic ray research balloons. Commonplace answers were alleged to be the explanation for a further 30% with 40% remaining a mystery.

"It is believed very unlikely that any other nation of the Earth could have knowledge so far above the level of ours (U.S.A.)."

1949
The Soviet Union during the cold war, regarded UFO observations as a psychological warfare ploy masterminded by the Pentagon and the CIA, deliberately planted to create fear, decrease worker productivity and create unhealthy agitation.

In the late 1940's and early 1950's, many people suspected these craft to be of Soviet origin. As a result, Canadian and U.S. military officials felt compelled to launch interceptors to chase them. It soon became apparent that these flying objects could not be the product of Soviet technology. This only heightened the concern with the strategy becoming how to capture one.

1949
During May, Commander Robert B. McLaughlin of the U.S. Navy, sees a flying disk.
Heading guided missile research at the time, he would later state in a popular magazine article (in 1950), that such flying saucers were really "space ships from another planet".

1949
On the morning of May 22, James Forrestal, USA Defense Secretary, died of a reported suicide; evidence now suggests that members of the Office of Policy Coordination, a covert C.I.A. group, had been ordered to discretely silence him.

He had experienced a "nervous breakdown" and had been taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital. He was well aware of the forces of disinformation being used by covert U.S.A. intelligence groups to manipulate the American public as well as other nations into military alliances. He knew that the Soviets would take such actions as aggression in threat to their security. He knew that the Soviets were near testing their own nuclear bombs. He fully feared that such a continuing political policy would push the U.S.S.R. into reacting with the possibility of a war fought with nuclear weapons.

Forrestal had seen the reports on the UFOs found and suspected that they might be of Soviet origin. He had not been briefed on the bodies found with the crafts. His greatest fear was that the U.S.A. would push the Soviets over the edge and they would respond with air transport and nuclear technologies superior to the Americans leading to defeat and resulting in America becoming a Russian concentration camp. Fact, suspicion, and imagination took him over the edge of sane control into insane desperation and terror. He wanted to tell the public what was really happening.

He was endangering "national security" by talking indiscriminately about extraterrestrial airships and alien beings; he was also a prominent officer who was followed by the media. Intelligence officers tied a sheet around his neck, attached it to an appliance in the hospital room and threw him out the window from a height of 16 floors, either hoping that the shock would bring him to his senses (!), or possibly intending to kill him in a staged suicide. The sheet tore and he fell to his death. He was shouting "We're being invaded!", shortly before he fell to his death.

It should be remembered that the stage of understanding mental illness in the world was still very primitive. The movie, The Snake Pit was the first somewhat scientific and understanding illustration of mental illness available through the mass media and had only been released in 1948.

Sophisticated "brainwashing" techniques would only begin to be seen during the Korean War, after 1950; most would not be understood in the U.S.A. until after 1957. This was a time of "terrors" and fears with primitive tools at hand. It revealed the departure from spirituality which most powerful nations were following in acknowledging the military anti-spiritual education and experience of their political leaders.

1949
A large oblong aircraft, estimated to be a mile in length, was sighted off the east coast of the U.S.A.

1949
On June 10, during a missile test at White Sands, New Mexico, scientists tracking the test missile at 2,000 ft/second suddenly picked up 2 small circular UFOs that paced the missile. One of the UFOs passed through the exhaust of the missile, rejoined the second, and together they accelerated upwards leaving the missile behind. Commander McLaughlin received reports from 5 observation posts: ALL had witnessed the performance of the 2 circular UFOs.

1949
During August, the GRAYs negotiated an agreement with MJ-12.
In return for notice of all nuclear tests and access to protected regions in the U.S.A. for colonization, the GRAYs would not alarm the American public with their presence thereby maintaining political order. The EMP of the American nuclear tests had downed 10 GRAY UFOs.

The GRAYs saw the tests as useless for they could see nothing constructive being done with the use of the energy. They had continually expected the tests to cease since the Second World War of humanity had been declared ended.

The first crashes were assumed to be the result of human accidents and stupidity leading to the explosions. The EMP from the explosions disrupted the atomic-nuclear propulsion system and the inertial systems long enough for the craft to glide to the ground with little control and crash. By this time, the GRAYs were getting annoyed, and MJ-12 did not know how much longer they could keep the presence of spacebeings secret without cooperation from them.

The GRAYs agreed to limit their flights to night with the further request for underground base locations. Such would enable MJ-12 to establish security to keep other humans from finding out or interacting with the GRAYs and creating a national panic, and the GRAY nests would be safe from attack or interference by humans.

1949
On August 29, at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico state, U.S.A., flying saucers were seen by the service personnel. One officer believed the objects to be spaceships. Weather balloons, familiar to the observer, were therefore disqualified. Observation was made through a photo theodolite, and showed the object to be egg-shaped, fantastic in size, travelling at possibly 3 to 4 miles per second.

1949
On August 31, Bob Hanley, pilot, reported an object over Mint Canyon, California. Airport towers and CAA monitors at Lockheed Air Terminal, Palmdale and Long Beach received the report from Hanley and his two passengers. The giant object trailing a blue flame exhaust nearly a mile long and cruising at 50,000 feet flew over the Muroc Air Force base.

1949
In December, the U.S.S.R. Space Program was extended by Stalin.
The KGB had confirmed that the American MJ-12 UFO concerns were real and that the U.S.A. was intent on building the technology to position massive nuclear weapons over the Soviet Union.

The GRAYs had declined to work with Stalin from 1946 and he was now sure that they were assisting the Americans to build a delivery craft. Funding to the Space City for development was increased considerably. Stalin's first goal was to build a space capsule or satellite large enough to carry and position a massive nuclear weapon over the U.S.A.

1949
During December, Unidentified Flying Objects - Project Grudge, a 600-page technical report, #102-AC49\15-100, was issued as an "Above Top Secret" report detailing information gathered on UFO sightings, crashes, spaceperson cadavers and live beings as well as incidents of apparent human abduction and mutilation.

1949
On December 28, the USAF closes Project Saucer, citing

"no verification whatever of UFO reports and contributing the sightings to misinterpretation of conventional objects, a mild form of mass hysteria or hoaxes."