the cover-up… yet the military still manages to keep it going, by releasing the same sort of denials and disinformation we’ve been hearing for decades. I’m sure they believe it’s necessary to maintain that narrative, in order to avoid a panic and allow classified programs to continue unhindered. The problem is, once it becomes known that UFOs actually do exist, it begs the question of what they’re doing here. The idea that they’re just flying around… and nothing else… is ridiculous.

Intelligent beings naturally tend to travel and explore in order to find something of value. Our planet is clearly a desirable commodity… it offers a habitable environment, a readily available source of nutrition, and the opportunity to collect some useful genetic material. Indeed, these creatures might be mining DNA, rather than gold… which they could transport to other colonies to create reliable new food sources from. In that case, the many diverse forms of life found on this planet could very well be it’s most attractive feature… especially to an expanding race of aggressive predators.

It’s really not hard to understand. We see examples of predatory behavior in nature all the time… in fact we survive that way ourselves. We breed animals simply to slaughter and consume. Technology gives us the power to do such things, just as it does for these aliens. It stands to reason that any civilization with the capability of interstellar travel would use it to seek out planets they could exploit for their own benefit… and what could be better than to find a fresh unspoiled world, full of natural beauty, and an abundant supply of tasty local cuisine ?

Unfortunately for us, we happen to be “on the menu”.

The Obligatory Deception

Following the Second World War, an attitude of blind trust and dependence on the US military prevailed among the civilian population. Under the National Security Act of 1947 various intelligence agencies were given greater authority, as nuclear weapons and the cold war with Russia came to dominate the national consciousness. Such was the tenor of the times in post-war America… and it was in this climate of apprehension and fear that the most significant deception in human history was about to begin.

No one knows exactly when the military first became aware of the alien presence on our planet, but the Roswell incident in July of 1947 stands out as a point in time where we can be absolutely certain of it. When local rancher Mac Brazel reported finding strange debris in a remote area about 70 miles north of town, Maj. Jesse Marcel of the Roswell Army Air Field was sent to investigate. Upon arriving at the scene, he quickly realized that the material had properties far beyond anything that human technology was capable of producing.

Jesse Marcel was an intelligence officer, and was very familiar with every type of material in use at the time. He brought some of it back to the base and showed it to the commander, Col. William Blanchard, who regarded it with amazement. Blanchard informed his public information officer, Lt. Walter Haut, who issued the now-famous press release stating that a flying saucer had been recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. In fact the material actually was from such a craft, but it only consisted of bits and pieces of the external superstructure.

The Roswell incident wasn’t just a simple crash. If that had been the case there would have been an impact crater, and the entire craft would have been found in that area. Indeed, the large and widely scattered debris field tells us that it must have been the result of some event which occurred at a fairly high altitude. One theory holds that the craft suffered a malfunction and exploded, while another contends that there was a mid-air collision. In any case, the main portion of a craft was found several miles away, along with the bodies of 4 grays. This far more significant discovery was successfully concealed from the public at the time… which meant that only Lt. Haut’s original press release required any official explanation.

To accomplish this, Marcel was ordered to fly some of the foil-like debris to 8th Army Air Force headquarters in Ft. Worth (now Carswell AFB). Upon arriving, he was informed by Gen. Roger Ramey that a cover-story was to be concocted, to the effect that the material was only the wreckage of a weather balloon. Ramey then had material from a genuine weather balloon scattered on his office floor, and invited the press to come in and take photographs.

This ruse proved effective, and public attention subsided for several years. However, in one of the photos taken that day, computer enhancement now enables us to decipher most of a teletype message that Gen. Ramey happens to be holding in his hand. Because the source of this information is an actual photograph which was published by a major newspaper at the time, it constitutes an extremely significant and irrefutable piece of evidence. The original negative can still be seen, in the archives of the University of Texas at Arlington.

Ramey tips his hand, July 8, 1947

The message is signed by Gen. Ramey himself, and is in fact a copy of something that he had previously dispatched. As deputy base commander Col. Thomas DuBose later stated in a sworn affidavit he made shortly before his death, he and Gen. Ramey were acting under orders from Gen. Clements McMullen, Chief of Staff of the Strategic Air Command. The document Ramey is holding is apparently a progress report to his boss, providing details about how the operation is going. It is marked Urgent and Top Secret, and addressed to Army Air Force Headquarters in Washington, attention Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg (second in command to McMullen at the time, and previously the Director of Central Intelligence). The subject is simply “ROSWELL”.

The body of the text reads as follows: “FWAAF ACKNOWLEDGES THAT A DISK IS NEXT NEW FIND WEST OF THE CORDON. THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK YOU FORWARDED TO …illegible… AT FT WORTH TEX …illegible… DISK THEY WILL SHIP FOR …illegible… ON B29-ST OR C47 WRIGHT AF… ASSES AIRFOIL AT ROSWELL… ABOUT THAT, CIC TEAM SAID THIS: MIS-STATE MEANING OF STORY, AND SAID LATER TODAY OR NEXT SEND OUT PR OF WEATHER BALLOON. WOULD WORK BETTER IF…illegible…”

For those not familiar with military jargon, “FWAAF” means Ft. Worth Army Air Field, while “the cordon” likely refers to the restricted area established around the debris field that Maj. Marcel had reported. A B29-ST is a bomber assigned to special transport duty, while a C47 is a more conventional transport aircraft. “CIC” means Counter-Intelligence Corps, a unit of the US Army that specialized in covert wartime operations… and “PR” of course means press release.

Now that we can read most of this message, there can be no doubt that an alien craft and bodies were being recovered to the west of the debris field. Furthermore, they were to be transported to Wright AF (now Wright-Patterson AFB), and Ramey was to release the weather balloon story in order to explain the original flying saucer report from Roswell.

At that time Wright AF was the military’s most advanced aviation research facility. The base commander was Gen. Nathan Twinning, who would have been responsible for analysing the recovered items. In a memo dated 23 Sept 1947 he advised Gen. George Schulgen, commander of Army Air Force Intelligence, that “flying disks are something real, not ficticious or imaginary”. He went on to describe the disks in some detail, then asked Schulgen to report any new sightings that might occur. This memo is not a hoax… it was released by the National Archives in Washington D.C. many years later, as a result of a FOIA request (Freedom of Information Act).

Meanwhile, the public continued to spot UFOs, and concern was mounting… so even as Twinning was alerting Schulgen to the fact that UFOs were indeed real, he was ordered to perform a study which would refute their existence and quiet things down. Therefore in 1948 Gen. Twinning initiated Project Sign, to be run by Air Force Intelligence at Wright-Patterson AFB. As might be expected, they concluded that all UFOs had perfectly normal explanations, and did not represent any threat to national security.

This attempt to alleviate public anxiety was not especially successful, so a more persuasive report was deemed necessary. Once again, the unpleasant task fell to Gen. Twinning. He therefore initiated Project Grudge in 1949, which concluded that there was absolutely no evidence that UFOs were real, and all such reports were the result of misidentifications, hoaxes, or people suffering from mental illness. This finally had the desired effect, and a strong reluctance to report UFOs became the norm for many years to come… although of course it did nothing to stop the actual events.

Public concern continued to build into the 1950s, especially following several mass overflights of the US capitol in 1952. Consequently, yet another sham UFO investigation was initiated, under the name of Project Blue Book… and of course it was to be managed by Air Force Intelligence at Wright-Patterson. During the time the project was active (1952-1969) it became obvious that it’s only real mission was to debunk reports of UFOs by providing quasi-scientific explanations for them. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the project’s senior scientific consultant, later admitted that the study had been a deliberate fraud… and after much investigation he had come to believe that UFOs were in fact of extraterrestrial origin.

Considering the number of UFO encounters the military was having during the 1960s, it should have been impossible for Blue Book to overlook them… but as we learned from a 1969 memo written by Gen. Carroll Bolender (obtained by FOIA) any reports which could have national security implications were not included in the Blue Book study… and of course those reports contained the only truly important