Dwight D. Eisenhower

Henry W. McElroy Jr. Claims He Saw Eisenhower Briefing Document

2010-05-13T13:17:28Z

In a statement made on May 7th, former State Representative from New Hampshire and State Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs committee member, Henry W. McElroy Jr. went on the record with some startling claims about documents he saw during his tenure.

McElroy claims to have seen documents referring to knowledge of "benevolent" extraterrestrial visitation within the US and the possibility of setting up a meeting with President Eisenhower.

All of these claims are as yet unverified, but make for interesting listening / reading nonetheless. In the words of Nick Pope, "Interesting if True."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrK2YgfjnHo

Eisenhower UFO Sighting

2009-07-31T13:20:11Z

from New York Post June 18, 1997

The USS FDR, Sixth fleet flagship, 1952, a crew member writes: "We were north and east of England with the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic. About 1:30 a.m., through the stormy rain and lightening, this big blue-white light appeared right off starboard bow. It came down to 100 feet of the water and just hung there as we cruised by it."

"This UFO was easy to see when the lightening flashed. It then rose straight and left. Four of us saw it. Here's the kicker! General Ike, who'd flown over by chopper with the Admiral, had just come out on the signal bridge wearing PJ's and robe, looking for coffee."

"We were sitting and making small talk when the bright light came on. We all watched it ten minutes, then just stood there staring at each other. After a while, Gen. Eisenhower said, he better go 'check this out' and left. He also told us to 'forget about it for now.'"

"Next day and ever after, nothing was ever said about it. I don't know what it was or why it was hushed, but I saw it."

President Eisenhower

2009-07-31T13:24:51Z

President Eisenhower

34th President

January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, his wife Mamie, and first born son Doud rest in a chapel, outside the Presidential Library in Abeline, Kansas where his presidential papers are stored. Unfortunately, it appears that many of the Eisenhower presidential papers on UFOs are missing and may have ended up in other agencies such as the Secret Service.

Apparently someone is pulling someone's leg. It may be that it's mine that is being pulled, but if so I'm awfully gullible person, because the lady had the details down pat. Could it be that someone at the White House hasn't been telling quite all of the story? Washington reporter Drew Pearson writing to Eisenhower's Press Secretary James Hagerty about a story he was given that psychic Jean Dixon had visited the White House to read the future for the President and Mrs. Eisenhower.

Mars - Much more exciting. Conditions more similiar to earth -- Undoubtably some form of life, although probably not ones which we would recognize. From Outer Space Briefing given at the March 14, 1958 Eisenhower Cabinet meeting by Eisenhower Science Advisor Dr. James Killian.

Eisenhower article to be posted shortly.

Eisenhower UFO Mail Part 1

2009-07-31T13:32:59Z

AN INCIDENT AT THE EISENHOWER LIBRARY

During a June 2000 nine day research visit to the Eisenhower Library in Abilene Kansas, an incident occurred which might be of interest to UFO researchers.

Procedures differ at many of these archives. At the Eisenhower Library, a researcher will file a research proposal with the library prior to visiting the library. Once there, the researcher is assigned an archivist who will visit with you usually twice a day to see if you have any questions, suggest files that might be in the area of your research inquiry, and do minor searches for certain letters and documents based on his or her available time. Speaking for my archivist he was very helpful, particularly in light of the topic which was UFOs.

A few days into my stay I showed the archivist an FBI memo from 1954, which identified a particular letter that had been written to President Eisenhower. The archivist knew prior to his search the name of the person writing the letter, the general date of the letter, and the fact that the letter dealt with UFOs. I had searched for the letter for many days using the many finders guides provided without success. Figuring it might be in the "Alphabetical File" I asked the archivist if he could run a search. (The Alphabetical File contains almost 3,000,000 pages which is the largest of the unprocessed segments of the Central Files. It consists of letters from the public, letters referred to the government, and cross-reference sheets to documents in the other collections.)

The archivist disappeared and later in the morning returned while I was coping documents at the photocopier. He stated he had found on one piece of correspondence from the individual in question. The date of the correspondence he had found seemed to fit. The only problem he said is that the letter was transferred to the Secret Service.

I stated that I wanted to see the letter, along with enclosures that I believed had come with the document, so I wished to continue to pursue the letter. The archivist said "Ok. Hang on." He disappeared again and returned shortly with a White House Transfer Sheet. It identified the author of the letter, the date it was written, the date it was transferred, and the agency that the letter was transferred to. I stuck it in my file, and started planning an FOIA to Secret Service to recover the letter.

It wasn’t till at least a day or so later in rereading stuff I had copied that I noticed that the transfer date on the letter was 31 days after the letter was written. The letter therefore could not have been considered a threat on the President as it would have been transferred immediately. The fact that the letter addressed to the President had been held for up to 31 days indicated that the White House may not have seen the letter as a crank letter either, so I started to research the White House records for the date I guessed the letter had arrived and the date the letter was transferred. This included checking the Presidents schedule, the White House phone logs, and any records I could find on the Secret Service.

On the date of the transfer I found what appeared to be a significant meeting that took place in the President’s office from 11:15 to 11:45am. There was 4 people in with the President and one had a direct tie in with what would have been in the letter, so I started to attach my findings with a paperclip to the transfer sheet which I had in a file on my table. Each morning I would ask more questions of the archivist about what I had found.

One morning after pulling the transfer sheet out, and asking questions, the room monitor

( there are room monitors in the research room who act much like Grade 3 teachers. They carefully watch what is going on in the room, and quickly point out things you are doing that you shouldn’t be doing) came to me and said "Where did you get that transfer sheet. You shouldn’t have it." I asked her what she was talking about and pulled it out of my file. "Did you get it from (my archivist). We are not allowed to give those out. The war was on.

I told her that this was a White House record, and the only difference was that it was held by another agency. It told her I had clearly identified the document, I knew it was there, and that I had clearly identified the subject of the letter. She stated "You should have been told we don’t have the document. That wouldn’t have been lying. We would have been telling the truth. You have it now so there is nothing we can do. You won’t get that document out of the Secret Service anyway." She asked what the document was about..." not that I care" she said....so I told her.

She asked for permission to make a copy of the transfer sheet and said that she was going to call up ( my archivist) on it. She headed to the phone and a couple minutes later one of the other archivists (the archivist happened to be the same archivist who had told me in an e-mail a month earlier that he couldn’t find the letter. One of the comments he made to the monitor was " I remember seeing this" ) appeared in the room, and they quietly began to discuss the transfer sheet. I listened carefully as I was at one of the front tables. It appeared that the other archivist agreed with her. After the five minute discussion, the archivist left the room clutching the transfer sheet. I was very angry, both over what had just happened, and over visions of my archivist being fired for actually helping me. I left the library and walked around the grounds for 30 minutes.

The next morning I was determined to fight with the room monitor about what had happened. I started two minutes after I was in the room with a question to her. "If Bill Clinton had transferred Monica Lewinsky’s letters to the President to the Secret Service as soon as the story broke, claiming to the Secret Service that she was stocking him, would that transfer be covered up? Would those documents be gone forever? Are you not allowed to tell us about a transfer to the Secret Service or a transfer to any department? What’s to stop the President from pulling a three ton truck up to the back of the White House, loading it full of documents and transferring it to some obscure agency?"

"We haven’t decided yet she said. We had a meeting, but haven’t decided yet. Don’t talk to me. The assistant director is right here. You talk to him." She quickly took off, and the assistant director came up and introduced himself.

He stated the same thing as the monitor. The library had a meeting and no firm decision had been reached about what the policy on transfers would be. "It’s a matter of confidentiality," he said. When we see something go to Secret Service we assume trouble."

I pointed out that in Mamie Eisenhower’s official files there are two files identified as "crank letters", and that James Hagerty had transferred a letter written by a woman in a state penitentiary directly to the FBI. In both cases no names were withheld and in Mamie’s case you could even read the letters complete with name and address of the person sending the letter. He responded, "I realize it appears we haven’t been very consistent."

I pointed out to him that the library by withholding the transfer was buying into what Ufologists have claimed for years - that is that documents are being withheld. He said the library took no position on any topic and only provided the documents to researchers for review. The researchers can come up with any interpretation of the documents they choose, and he referred to some researcher who comes to research who writes books denying the holocaust.

I pointed out that if Eisenhower had sent one UFO letter to the Secret Service, he could have considered all UFO people reporting things as crazy and there could be thousands of UFO reports in the Secret Service. The assistant did not disagree.

I pointed out that with UFOs that is not the case especially related to MJ-12 where the Eisenhower Library is on record claiming that Ufologists are circulating a fake briefing document I did not mention this review I had been given of UFO material so as not to get another archivist in trouble.. I stated researchers can now claim that all the MJ-12 documents were transferred to MJ-12 and the Eisenhower library can claim there are no MJ-12 documents without lying. He said there would be a transfer in the file if this had happened. I replied but the policy is not to release the transfer. That’s about where it ended. No decision was made on transfers that I was told about, and I was told to take up my document with the secret service.

What is to be learned from this. There are probably loop holes where agencies and libraries can play the "depends what the definition of the word ‘is’ is" game. This case study is just one example that has come to light. Also learned from this experience is - sometime you just get lucky and get a good archivist.

Note:

I was provided by my archivist a review of UFO Sources at the Eisenhower Library that was prepared by some archivist inside the archives. It is quite obvious that the library holds a strong bias against Ufology. Terms such as "UFO buffs allege" and "UFO crowd is circulating a fake briefing document"are used in the document.

The document identifies only five UFO documents in the entire 22,000,000 pages of files. They are 1) Special Report No. 14, Project Blue Book, Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects, May 5,1955. (100 pages) 2) CIA report on UFOs, January 17,1953 (8 pages) 3) Air Force memo, 10-13-55 re sighting in Soviet union, ( 1 page) 4) A reply to a question by a reporter in the Dec. 15, 54 news conference...in which Eisenhower states he knows an Air Force person who doesn’t believe UFOs are extraterrestrial 5) A telegram from G.W. Van Tassel re a space craft convention in 1954. The archivist made sure to note the telegram was not seen or answered by the President.

I did not mention this review I had been given of UFO material so as not to get another archivist in trouble.

Eisenhower UFO Mail Part 2

2009-07-31T13:37:59Z

Eisenhower Answers His UFO Mail

The CIA's Robertson UFO panel met during the last few days of the Truman administration. It ended the UFO discussion, and any plans for future UFO investigations, only days before Eisenhower took office. The report filed by the CIA committee was sent not to the Truman administration, for whom the study was done, but to the new Eisenhower administration. (It is found in an NSC file at the Eisenhower library)

Along with the CIA-sponsored report sent to the Eisenhower White House, came the revisionist opinions that had been arrived at by the panel. The panel had called for active debunking of UFOs in the public mind. It also called for surveillance of public UFO groups. "It is believed that such organizations should be watched because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent irresponsibility and possible use of such groups for subversive purposes should be kept in mind."

It appears from the available evidence that President Eisenhower chose to adopt the negative views toward public UFO groups, which had been recommended by the CIA. At least that appears to be the way President Eisenhower responded to the UFO mail that arrived at the White House.

In public, Eisenhower portrayed the good natured and trusted father figure. Behind the scenes he had targeted many people to be watched by the Secret Service and the FBI. One of the targeted groups were people who believed there was a UFO mystery, and had written the President for help or to make recommendations.

Documents inside the National Archives show that as of 1963, just shortly after Eisenhower left office, the Secret Service had a million names in its "threat" files. These were names of people who were seen as a threat to the President, and who had to be watched lest they harm the President. Included in this list was anyone who had dined at the White House, obtained a press pass, or anyone who had been introduced to the President on a trip.

The threat list included left wing types like Jane Fonda, and most black people up to and including Muhammad Ali, Joe Lewis, and Harry Belafonte. It also included UFO researcher Len Stringfield, flying saucer contactee George Van Tassel, and retired Vice-Admiral Herbert Knowles.

Len Stringfield’s threat to the President came first from the December 17, 1954-letter (mentioned above) to President Eisenhower following Eisenhower’s press conference statement on December 15, 1954 where he stated "the last time I heard this talked to me, a man who I trust from the Air Forces said that it was, as far as he knew, completely inaccurate to believe that they came from any outside planet or otherwise." Stringfield questioning of the opinion of the Air Force man who had supposedly advised the President on UFOs ended Stringfield on the "threat list."

A second letter written from Len Stringfield to the President on March 31, 1956 was also seen as a threat to the President and was also sent to the Secret Service. This letter has not been recovered yet, so we do not know what it said that was deemed a threat by the White House.

A third letter from Len Stringfield to President Eisenhower, dated June 10, 1960, was not acknowledged by the White House, but was forwarded almost a month later by an Assistant to the President to the Defense Department. For some reason it was not seen as a threat, and sent to the Secret Service.

The letter was an appeal to President Eisenhower to release "all vital information relative to UFOs" to the news services. Stringfield also proposed a system of dealing with UFO through the United Nations. "The United Nations serving in this new capacity," wrote Stringfield, "should remind man-on-earth he must forget his boundaries and ideologies and work together in this new era of challenge."

Springfield had sent similar two page letters to Prime Minister Harold MacMillan of Great Britain, President Charles DeGaulle of France, Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, and both major wire services.

Another person whose UFO correspondence to the President seemed to go everywhere but to the President was George Van Tassel. Van Tassel was one of the major contactees of the 1950's. He claimed to have been in contact an alien by the name of Ashtar.

Van Tassel’s first letter to President Eisenhower was "critical of the proposed acquisition of additional land by the 11th Naval District." This letter was forwarded for action to the Department of the Interior.

The second item sent to Eisenhower was a telegram which is one of the five items the Eisenhower Library lists as part of its collection of UFO documents. It was written just after Ike’s famous February 1954 Palm Springs vacation, where it is rumored he slipped off to Edward’s Air Force Base on alien business.

The telegram was a report to the President about an April 4, 1954 space craft convention that Van Tassel had hosted at Giant Rock, California. Van Tassel had written to the President to tell him that the convention "had voted to recommend the transfer of UFO investigations from the military to the elected branch of government." As the Eisenhower library stated of this item, "the telegram was never answered and there is no evidence that the President ever saw it."

The third item sent to Eisenhower was the most interesting. It was an item dated May 25, 1957, signed by George Van Tassel and three other members from the College of Universal Wisdom, Yucca Valley, California. It was transferred by someone within the White House to the Secret Service on June 4, 1957, and the Eisenhower Library has no record of what the correspondence was about.

Fortunately, based on an interview that George Van Tassel did about this time in 1957 on the Long John Party Line Show on WOR Radio in New York City, we know what the letter was about, and why it may have been sent to the Secret Service.

According to what Van Tassel said on the show, he had written President Eisenhower telling him that he would be in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 1954, and would be stopping into the White House for a visit. This was a very strange request, even for 1954, when most people knew that a special appointment was needed to see the President. Further, it was common knowledge that Eisenhower was so busy, that very few people actually got to see the President.

Van Tassel, however, claimed to have been "close enough to him (Eisenhower) the time he came to Palm Springs to know what was going on." It appeared, therefore, that Van Tassel had some connection with Eisenhower, or someone inside the White House, that he thought all he had to do was send a letter telling the President that he was coming.

"I wrote the President for a meeting on the 22nd at his convenience," said Van Tassel. "I have not so far received an answer from the White House, which leads me to believe that the way I wrote the letter, led them to believe that I would be there in Washington anyway, and upon a phone call will be fitted into his schedule sometime that day. Because of the (President’s) recent sickness, I suppose all our schedules were upset. They certainly had time to answer my request and tell me no, if they were going to turn me down. I don’t feel that I am being brushed off or ignored. In the event that I am, I will certainly publish that."

Appointment calendars stored at the Eisenhower library show that the meeting didn’t take place. At this point we still don’t know how Van Tassel did about the rejection.

The final UFO letter transferred to the Secret Service was one written by retired Vice-Admiral Herbert Knowles who had written to President Eisenhower in early May 1954. The letter remained in the White House for one month, till early June 1954, when it was transferred. In the letter Knowles notified the president of a woman by the name of Frances Swan who lived in his town of Elliot, Maine.

Knowles told the President that Mrs. Swan had exhibited the ability to answer scientific questions well beyond her education, and claimed that the questions were being answered for her by an alien by the name of AFFA. Knowles further notified Eisenhower that the Navy, and the Canadian government were investigating the strange powers being exhibited by Mrs. Swan.

The timing of the Knowles letter to President Eisenhower is critical to understanding why the Knowles letter may have been moved out of the White House, and why it took one month to move it to the Secret Service. It might also explain why the FBI, USAF, and the CIA joined in on the investigation of the strange case of Mrs. Swan and AFFA the alien.

The UFOs that had invaded the Capitol in 1952, forcing the largest news conference since World War 11, were back. The CRIFO Newsletter for June 4, 1954 described the situation in a front page story:

Not since July 29,1952, when General Samford was forced to make a public statement to check the rising tide of alarm... has the Pentagon been faced with such a climax of events. The men of decision were now before the wall of decision... the blind alley they themselves created through years of ambiguity, contradictions, and silence. At this point of no return these men must now face all of us and either 1) tell us all, or 2) deny everything.

The first sighting in the new Washington wave, was reported by radio journalist Frank Edwards, who received information about a May 13 sighting from a number of the electronic specialists who were involved. Edwards was living in Washington at the time, and some of the specialists involved in the sighting were friends of his. Edwards described the sighting:

On that day, shortly before noon, a team of experts were putting the final touches on a new type of radar. They noticed that it was recording some type of object at great altitude - something of unusual size. They doubled checked by switching on another unit, and it too began tracking the same object. They were able to determine that it was at least two hundred and fifty feet in diameter, about 15 miles above Washington, and that it was moving from point to point around a rectangular pattern in the sky at about 250 miles per hour. After three hours of this maneuvering, under the scrutiny of several government radar installations, the object finally moved toward the west and disappeared from the screens.

At 12:45 the same afternoon, another two objects were sighted by two police officers at the National Airport. The two large glowing objects which approached the airport and flew over the airport and Washington across the Potomac river. The two objects continued to be seen intermittently for the next hour and fifteen minutes. Newsmen at the Pentagon questioned the Air Force spokesman about the object, but the Washington Post only mentioned the objects flying over the White House in only their first edition. In the second edition of the next day, the story had disappeared. As Edwards described it "The lid was on." Edwards carried the story on his nation wide broadcast from Washington that evening.

There is no doubt that President Eisenhower was aware of the objects flying over his office and home.

In addition to the new sighting wave over Washington, D.C., the month before had featured many media stories about the very close approach to the earth of the planet Mars.

It was known by most UFO researchers that in 1954 that since 1948, every 26 months Mars had made a close approach to earth, and that with every approach there was an increase in UFO sightings. Also being reported by astronomers were mysterious clouds and color changes which many interpreted as vegetation.

In 1954, as Mars closed in on earth, an International Mars committee was established with the cooperation of the National Geographic. It was headed by Dr. E.C. Slipher, the world’s greatest authority on Mars, from Lowell Observatory. The "Mars Patrol" increased the public consciousness about the unresolved question of whether or not there was life on Mars. The committee with it experts from 17 countries, according to Keyhoe, gave the Air Force great concern.

Dr. Slipher , speaking for the committee was asked in a news conference what he would do if they found proof of life on Mars. He quickly stated, "I’ll announce it to the world." He further stated that the committee would put out Mars Patrol Bulletins to inform the public of the twenty-four hour a day watch on Mars. The bulletins would be put out every day if required.

Having gone through a massive wave of sightings in 1952 when Mars last approached, daily bulletins could not have made the UFO censors happy. So it appears from the evidence that they took matters into their hands and did something about the situation. Not one Mars Patrol bulletin was ever published!

The number of articles about Mars in early1954 publications increased, and again the UFO sighting numbers started to rise. The type of articles that were being printed also did not please the Air Force. The normally conservative Readers Digest for example came out with an article in April 1954, only two months before the closest approach of Mars.

Rather than debunking the alien angle, the Digest suggested that Martians might actually be creatures similar to humans. The article stated that it appeared Mars was a dying place, but suggested that they might have learned to manufacture oxygen. Most unnerving to the Air Force censors according to Keyhoe was the statement;

And presumably the Martians, an intelligent race, would be feverishly hunting around for other planets to which they could migrate. Earth was the closest, most suitable planet.

The earth had already gone through one "War of the Worlds" during a close approach of Mars in 1939, so suggestions about Martians choosing our planet was not music to the ears of those who controlled the UFO data. Most disturbing was the fact that not only was the number of UFO sightings increasing in 1954, the sizes of the objects being seen were increasing.

The prime example was the tracking of two objects that were reportedly revolving around the earth in early 1954. It is one thing to file a sighting that involved a 20-foot saucer with maybe six aliens checking out the local vegetation. It was another thing to talk about objects miles across just outside the atmosphere that could contain thousands of invading Martians. Major Keyhoe through his government sources had confirmed that U.S. authorities were closely monitoring the objects.

For this reason, the military pushed to put the spin on the revolving satellites as non existent - or if existent, as only "moonlets," or natural asteroids that had become captured by the earth’s magnetic field. The alternative would be an apparent large scale migration by Martians or some other alien force to the earth.

The two large orbiting objects discovered in early 1954 had to be a fact that was known to President Eisenhower. Therefore, when Vice-Admiral Knowles wrote in May 1954, that he had a local woman who was in contact with an alien who was commanding one of these two orbiting objects, it must have startled the White House.

May 1954 was also a critical month to receive a letter in light of two other major events that were occurring in that month. Firstly, whether orchestrated by Eisenhower or the Air Force, Eisenhower’s friend, Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Nathan Twinning, made a surprising digression in a speech in Amarillo, Texas, less than forty-eight hours later to talk about the UFO problem. "The best brains in the Air Force are working on this problem of Unidentified Flying objects," he stated, "trying to solve this mystery."

Secondly, in a more conspiratorial note, just before the Eisenhower White House transferred the Knowles letter out, Ike’s CIA Director, Walter Bedell Smith, along with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, David Rockefeller, and many of the world’s top financiers convened for the inaugural meeting of the Bilderberg Group. Rumored as one of the items on the agenda of the organization in the early days was "extraterrestrial contact."

The Knowles letter was held for a month till the White House could plan what was happening, and what it should do. It was then transferred over to the Secret Service, and a major investigation of Mrs. Swan was started by a number of federal agencies.

Mars May have Orbiting Space Base, says Eisenhower White House Advisor

2009-07-31T13:49:03Z

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

UFO Articles Related to his White House Administration

The following is a historical look at the information the Eisenhower administration was receiving during the time they were making negative comments about UFOs and space travel.

Mars May have Orbiting Space Base, says White House Advisor

March 1960: The Martian moon Phobos, generally accepted as a celestial body, actually may be an artificial satellite launched long ago by an advanced Martian race, according to Dr. S. Fred Singer, special advisor to President Eisenhower on space developments. No mention was made of the other Mars moon, Deimos.

In his published opinion, Dr. Singer backed a claim first made by the Soviet astrophysicist Shklovsky. The Russian scientist's announcement that Phobos was a hollow, artificial satellite, proving the existence of a Martian civilization, set off heated arguments among astronomers. Shklovsky based his decision on a long study of Phobos' peculiar orbit, which other astronomers have noted. The Russian claim has calculations and those of earlier astronomers prove Phobos cannot possibly be an ordinary moon.

Though Dr. Singer said the figures still had to be proved, his Phobos statement in the February Astronautics, rejected other astronomers' objections.

"I would be very disappointed if it turns out to be solid," said the white House advisor. If the figures were correct, he stated, then Phobos undoubtedly is a hollow, artificial satellite. If it is, he said, its purpose would probably be to sweep up radiation in the Mars' atmosphere, so that Martians could safely operate around their planet. Dr. Singer also pointed out that Phobos would make an ideal space base, both for Martians and earthlings.

In light of this article, there was an interesting assessment of Mars given during a space briefing presented during an Eisenhower cabinet meeting. The briefing, by Eisenhower Science Advisor Dr. James Killian, was given March 14, 1958 -- "Mars - Much more exciting. Conditions more similar to earth -- Undoubtedly some form of life, although probably not ones which we would recognize."

In 1963, Raymond H. Wilson Jr., Chief of Applied Mathematics at NASA, joined Shklovsky and Dr. Singer in their Martian conclusions. He stated that "Phobos might be a colossal base orbiting Mars." He also stated that NASA itself was considering the possibility, and was planning for special probes that would answer the question.

Dr Iosif Shklovsky based his conclusion on calculations that had been done by the U.S. Naval Observatory (rumored in the 1980s to have been the home of the elusive MJ-12 group). Shklovsky stated Phobos was being "slowed by electromagnetic drag and tidal friction more than was possible was an actual solid moon."

Shklovsky is also famous for having written a 1966 book on SETI called Intelligent Life in the Universe. A famous astronomer by the name of Carl Sagan was asked to edit the book. When he had finished adding all his viewpoints the book had doubled in length and he became a co-authored with Shklovsky. Their views on extra-terrestrial life still remained at odds. During the Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects - Hearing before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, Sagan was asked by Congressman Roush if Shklovsky shared his views. Sagan replied:

I think he shares my restraint. I think both of us would say we think this is an extremely important subject, that we are on the frontier of being able to find out, but that neither of us knows whether there is or isn't life out there. Let me say if it turns out there isn't life on Mars, that is almost as interesting as if we find there is life on Mars, because then we have to ask, what happened different on Mars than on the Earth, so that life arose here and not there. That will surely give us a very profound entry into the question of follow-up of evolution and the cosmic context.

Phobos

Eisenhower Administration - UFO Witness Disclosure Testimony

2009-07-31T13:53:29Z

UFO Witness Disclosure Testimony

Eisenhower Administration

General Andrew Goodpaster

Interview conducted by George Filer

George A. Filer's interview on June 10, 1998, with General Andrew J. Goodpaster at the Eisenhower Institute, Washington, DC. Goodpaster was the former Strategic and Policy Staff Secretary for President Eisenhower from 1954-61. Later he was Commander-in-Chief U. S. Forces and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 1969-74. He genuinely seems to have liked the President and enjoyed working closely with him. We discussed the Air Victory Museum and its advisors such as Admiral Moorer, most of whom he knew. I handed him the Case Statement concerning the Museum and he took about five minutes to flip through all the pages commenting on many items. He was amazed we were building a ME-262 German Fighter for the museum. He commented we were really frightened by that aircraft at the end of World War II.

He had worked with General Eisenhower during World War II. He felt that we had to keep the Russians off balance with frequent over flights, penetrations, and similar actions during the Eisenhower Administration. If we maintained a comparatively defensive posture as under the Kennedy Administration, they would advance as shown by the Cuban crisis. General Goodpaster was in charge of the day to day coordination on all military and intelligence matters for the White House. We talked extensively about the U-2 over-flights. The President approved each flight on a need basis. He only allowed a few days for the flight to be launched or it was canceled. They knew the Soviets were launching fighters and firing missiles at the U-2's, so it was just a matter of time before they destroyed one. He felt, they handled the actual shoot down of Gary Francis Powers rather poorly. He thought the British were also launching some of their flights with Canberra's and other aircraft.

President Eisenhower wanted civilian intelligence organizations to provide most of the intelligence rather than the military intelligence services. He felt there was too much competition between the military branches to provide accurate data. Eisenhower wanted the Navy to get going with the first satellites, but the Vanguard had a series of failures. He was not aware of any disc aircraft being built by our government. I showed him the plans for the Silverbug Disc aircraft and he seemed surprised. He mentioned the Navy had a large research program that may have built some kind of disc. I asked about the President's announcement in the New York Times on December 16, 1954, stating that the Air Force had informed him that UFOs were not from outer space. The General claimed was not aware of the announcement.

I asked about Eisenhower drawing both triangle and disc shaped craft on his meeting agendas? He explained that the President was an artist and doodled with a pencil almost continuously. Another little known fact is that Eisenhower had also been a pilot.

I asked the General, if he knew Lt. Col. Corso? He indicated he had heard of him in regards to the Korean prisoners of war. He my have met him. He thought he dealt with the psychology of prisoners of war. I showed him Corso's book, and he laughed as he read the cover. He claimed he had no knowledge of the book, UFOs, aliens, or crashes. He also knew General Trudeau, who had been Corso's commander. He had no knowledge of a file cabinet with alien artifacts. He handed the book back without opening it. I asked him if General Eisenhower had met with aliens? He laughed, and assured me that he would have known if that happened. He could affirm that no such meeting had ever taken place. He seemed amused by the book but did not seem to take it seriously.

He did state, that important people from other countries had queried him with a similar set of questions about UFOs, He implied his answers to them were similar to mine. He indicated the only other groups who might have knowledge would have been the National Security Council or the Research and Development Group under Dr. Killian.

General Goodpaster has an excellent grasp of history, politics, military, engineering and foreign affairs. His complete lack of knowledge concerning UFOs was unexpected, and seemed almost over done. He kept pointing to the fact his work was the daily hands-on-control of the military, and not with long range planning.

I also brought up formally highly classified information concerning our raids, sabotage and intelligence collection forays behind Soviet lines using foreign nationals. These former defectors that went to work for us were known as Cobra Teams. He acted somewhat uncomfortable about these missions and avoided confirming these raids.

He was gracious, friendly and open concerning every subject, but UFOs and the raids. He was in daily contact with the JCS and most of our intelligence agencies. He did not deny the existence of UFOs. However, his demeanor implied the government felt UFOs did not exist or were of little importance. Less likely is the possibility this subject is the highest classified program in the government, and key personnel have been taught to avoid discussing at any cost. It's probable he would not provide me with classified data unless I had a need to know.

He seemed to enjoy talking and stated he wanted me to stay longer. We talked for almost two hours. He liked telling little stories about him and Eisenhower. He encouraged me to return in the near future. He was very much a gentleman with high moral standards and concepts of how a President and officers should act. It was apparent he was upset with the decline in behavior in high places.

He mentioned Dr. Killian several times and that the Navy had a whole series of special programs under development. His attitude implied he felt UFOs were of little significance. The only hint he provided was that they may have been part of a Research and Development program probably with the Navy. It's possible he had heard something about this and was not sure, if had been declassified. Frankly, based on the conversation even this is rather doubtful. Also, it is apparent he felt he knew what the Army and probably the Air Force had under development. Additional, meetings might prove more fruitful if he could be shown declassified documents concerning the subject.

Regards,
George A. Filer

Steven Lovekin Interview

2009-08-01T02:29:09Z

July 21, 2003 Interview of Stephen (Steven) Lovekin and Grant Cameron conducted by phone.

Question: Hello. I am a researcher who runs the presidential UFO website, and I had a couple of short questions. I was wondering if you could answer them? I am doing a story in connection with Mount Weather and UFOs, and I believe you described UFOs and Mount Weather. Can you tell me what the connection was?

Lovekin: There was no connection. The only thing is that I had been there. I spent some time there.

Question: On one of the tapes you had something to the effect that they were tracking them from there.

Lovekin: Well that seemed to be the case. I certainly didn’t see any evidence to that effect. There was talk about it. Yes.

Question: OK, I guess I just don’t know where you got that. Someone had told you that?

Lovekin: Someone told me that – yes.

Question: You were there one time?

Lovekin: I was there probably a dozen times.

Question: With Signals Intelligence you are dealing with the President’s communications and stuff like that?

Lovekin: That is right.

Question: The person that I was looking at was the guy who ran Mount Weather. This would be 1965. Did you have any contact with this person named Bourassa?

Lovekin: No, I was there in 1960 and 1961.

Question: And who was the military advisor that you were under Eisenhower?

Lovekin: Ah…gees…Colonel…I’m trying to recall his name. I can’t think of his name sorry. He was a Colonel.

Question: He was a general military advisor, or he was with one of the services?

Lovekin: He was the military advisor to the President. Colonel Schulz.

Question: Some of them had an Air Force advisor, and an Army advisor.

Lovekin: That’s right.

Question: Do you remember the guy that was under Kennedy? Did Kennedy know what was going on?

Lovekin: He knew what was going on.

Question: So Kennedy knew.

Lovekin: Yes.

Question: Even though he was a Democrat?

Lovekin: Yes.

Question: And Eisenhower. You never heard Eisenhower. You just heard people talking about Eisenhower knowing about this? You were never there when Eisenhower was talking about it?

Lovekin: Yes I was.

Question: Oh you were. I didn’t know that part of the story.

Lovekin: Yes.

Question: When was this? At Mount Weather or…

Lovekin: No, this was at Camp David.

Question: And that was one occasion?

Lovekin: Probably a couple occasions.

Question: Can you tell me what the situation was? Was someone talking to him about sightings, or how did this subject come up?

Lovekin: Well he was waiting for a phone call on one occasion, and he started doodling. That was one of his favorites.

Question: I have seen some of his doodlings.

Lovekin: (Laughs) Anyway, he was doodling UFOs. Anyway, somehow or other he got to taking about UFOs in 1952 shortly before he took office.

Question: What was that?

Lovekin: Those were the sightings in Washington DC.

Question: I see, yes, over the capitol.

Lovekin: Yes. But he was talking about some other things as well. He just kind of rambled on. There wasn’t too much that was specific, but he did discuss it. It was a very very important concern of his. I think one of the things that he was concerned about was, we were going through a serious recession back then, and the government had to let go of a lot of its control to the military industrial complex. He was much concerned about that. It just wasn’t something that the government could tackle at that moment. Didn’t want to tackle I guess would be a better way of putting it. But yes, he was very much into it. He believed in them. He realized the concern. He realized the concern for the American people, and I think that he honestly wanted to do something that was positive, but somehow or other his hands were tied. I am not sure why, but I have an idea.

We would sit around with him when we were at Camp David, and he knew who each and every one of us by name. That was the great thing about being under him. I was just a sergeant at the time. I was still privy to some stuff that some people wouldn’t be privy to.

Question: I’m not sure about what Signal Intelligence deals with…I know communication, but Mount Weather had direct communication links to the White House. What would you be doing for Signal Intelligence?

Lovekin: Well there were a number of places that the President would go in case of attack. Camp David was one, Fort Ritchie was another, there was a special area set aside for him and congressional leaders at Fort Ritchie, and then there was another one right by Fort Ritchie, which was known as concrete. That was the code name. Then there was another one in West Virginia at Martinsburg. Let’s see. Then we know about the one in West Virginia at the Grand Hotel.

Question: What was your particular job as a Sergeant.

Lovekin: Well our job was to maintain the integrity of all the lines, to make sure they weren’t tapped – to make sure that whatever he said was either recorded or not recorded correctly.

Question: And how many people would be in a group working around him to perform this job.

Lovekin: Probably was many as 4 or 5. Sometimes there would be more, but that was generally the case. He felt comfortable with small groups and he was a great guy. He was terrific. I would have done anything for that man. He treated everyone with the utmost respect, and I think he was basically a man of integrity. He was a man who was very honest, which is a rare commodity. He would discuss his beliefs yes.

Question: Why do you think that there is a cover-up – why the President doesn’t speak out about it? Like a lot of them say that their hands are tied. What’s your gut feeling?

Lovekin: Well because so much of the authority was given away to private firms.

Question: Do you think that this was going on already in the Eisenhower administration?

Lovekin: Yes I do. When he said the main thing we have to fear is the military industrial complex, he wasn’t kidding, and he had the subject matter we are talking about in mind. He was quite explicit about that.

President Eisenhower Meets the Aliens?

1999-07-29T06:00:00Z

The Smoke Tree Ranch where President Eisenhower spent his February 1954 California "vacation." The home was owned by Eisenhower business friend Paul Helms. The Ranch was chosen because it offered enough room for the Presidential party, as well as some Secret Service officers. It also offered better security than other options.

Early Sunday morning, February 21, 1954, Eisenhower appears at a church service at the Community Church in Palm Springs. He is seen here shaking hands with the pastor, Rev. James H. Blackstone, Jr. Even though he is seen smiling, Eisenhower, according to his secretary Ann Whitman, hated church. "I don't know how he ever put up with Billy Graham," she said.

Hours before Ike's church appearance, he was reported missing from the Smoke Tree Ranch. Countless stories have circulated that Ike made a quick trip to nearby Edward's Air Force base where he met with landed aliens.

The story about Eisenhower's February 1954 trip to Palm Springs for a winter holiday, and his subsequent late Saturday night disappearance, has fueled rumors that Eisenhower traveled to nearby Edwards Air Force Base to meet with aliens.

One of the best recounting of this rumor was done by William Moore a prominent California researcher who traveled to the Eisenhower Library to do research and actually interviewed the wife of one of the key witnesses to the story.

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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE DATE OF ARTICLE: March 29, 1989

SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Gazette LOCATION: Hollywood, California

By William L. Moore

One of the first conclusions an impartial observer must make about the subject of UFOs is that rumors and circumstance play far too great a role in what ought to be a more exacting quest for knowledge. It is just such an observation which once led Dr. Carl Sagan to comment dryly that UFOs "are more a matter for religion and superstition than they are for science."

While this dismissal is perhaps unscientific in its own right, the point is well taken. Attend any gathering of "UFO people" you want, and simply listen. Rumors abound. Perhaps worse, however, is that some of these rumors manage to circulate for years (even decades) without anyone making a reasonable effort to get to the bottom of them.

One of the most persistent of these is a story that President Eisenhower visited Edwards Air Force Base in early 1954, and either viewed the bodies of dead aliens and the wreckage of their craft, or met with live aliens on some sort of diplomatic mission to earth.

The story takes many forms, with the common thread being that Ike mysteriously disappeared one evening while on a vacation to Palm Springs, and that he was spirited to Edwards to view (or meet) aliens. It is said that he returned by dawn and shortly thereafter ordered absolute secrecy about anything having to do with UFOs.

No doubt one of the reasons that this particular rumor has continued to circulate for such a long time is that there are a number of verifiable facts associated with it--some of them rather curious.

For example, President Eisenhower did indeed make a trip to Palm Springs between February 17th and 24th, 1954, and on the evening of Saturday, February 20th, he did disappear! When members of the press learned that the president was not where he should be, rumors ran rampant that he had either died or was seriously ill.

The story even managed to get onto a press wire before being killed moments later. To quell the fuss, White House Press Secretary James Haggerty called an urgent late evening press conference to announce "solemnly" that the president had been enjoying fried chicken earlier that evening, had knocked a cap off a tooth, and had been taken to a local dentist for treatment.

When Ike turned up as scheduled the next morning for an early church service, the matter seemed ended. Although the Palm Springs trip was billed as a "vacation for the president", the trip appears to have come up rather suddenly.

In addition, it is a matter of record that Ike had returned from a quail shooting vacation in Georgia less than a week before leaving for Palm Springs.

While the incidence of a local dentist being called upon to treat a president of the United States is unusual enough that it should constitute a rather memorable event for those involved, the dentist's widow, in a June, 1979 interview, was curiously unable to recall any specifics relating to her husband's alleged involvement in the affair--not even the time of day it had occurred. Yet her memory appeared flawless when asked to relate details of her and her husband's attendance (by presidential invitation) at a steak fry the following evening, where her husband was introduced as "the dentist who had treated the president".

This would appear to suggest a cover story, the details of which would have easily been repeated at the time, but quite naturally forgotten 25 years later. Research at the Eisenhower Library has uncovered two other facts inconsistent with the dentist story.

The first is that while the library maintains an extensive index of records relating to the president's health, there is no record of any dental work having been performed at all during February, 1954. A file on "Dentists" contains nothing concerning any such incident either. Secondly, there is a large file containing copies of all sorts of acknowledgments which were sent by the White House to people who had something to do with the Palm Springs trip.

There are letters, for example, to people who sent flowers, people who met the airplane, people who had offered to play golf, etc. There is even a thank you letter to the minister who presided over the Sunday service Ike attended. Yet there is no record of any acknowledgment having been sent to "the dentist who treated the president."

If the matter were as routine as Haggerty attempts to make it appear, then the absence of these records seems strangely inconsistent. The rumor of the president's alleged visit to Edwards is not a new one. UFO contactee fringe writers began making unsupported claims about it less than two months after Ike's trip.

So did a bizarre fellow from the Hollywood hills named Gerald Light, who, in an April 16, 1954 letter to the head of a Southern California metaphysical organization, actually claimed to have been at Edwards where he saw Ike, the saucers and the aliens. Light's letter has been controversial for years and copies of it have turned up in all sorts of places, including the National Enquirer.

Investigation into Mr. Light's background, however, turned up the fact that he was an elderly mystic who believed that psychic "out-of-body-experiences" were a logical extension of the reality of life and should be treated as such. In the final analysis, Light's alleged visit to Edwards was just such an experience.

And so the story ends. Clearly something unusual occurred involving the president on the evening of February 20, 1954. Whether it was a trip to the dentist, a trip to see flying saucers, or something altogether different and unrelated, no one can say. It's the stuff rumors are made of.