By George LoBuono, writer and investigative researcher in Davis, CA
“I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.” - President Harry Truman, April 4, 1950, White House press conference.
Official portrait, c. 1947
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View full-sizeDownload Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly in 1945 as the 34th vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated Congress.
“For the next two or three days the saucers passed over the base daily.
Sometimes they appeared in groups of four, other times as many as sixteen.
They could outmaneuver and outflank us seemingly at will.
They moved at varying speeds—sometimes very fast, sometimes slow—and other times they would come to a dead stop as we zoomed past underneath.” - Astronaut Gordon Cooper, describing his first direct encounters with UFO’s while serving as a military pilot in Germany.
Cooper in 1964
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View full-sizeDownload Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as a child, and after service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1949. After service as a fighter pilot, he qualified as a test pilot in 1956, and was selected as an astronaut in 1959.
“These (gray aliens) were living, breathing creatures, just as mortal as you and I.
They had feelings, they had families.
They had a cultural society.
The one thing they didn’t have was hate, hostility.
They had anger, from what I observed—and I don’t know how to explain it better than stating—it was an intellectual anger.
They could not... comprehend how a species such as us, that had such great potential to do such wonderful and marvelous things, could do such horrible and nightmarish things to one another.” - 2001, Master Sgt. Clifford Stone, ret., who testified that he encountered “gray” aliens while working in a US Army unit that retrieved crashed extraterrestrial vehicles.
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View full-sizeDownload Master Sergeant Clifford Stone (1949 - 10 February 2021) was a UFO researcher and a whistleblower. He spent twenty-two years serving in the U.S. Army (1969-1990) where he says he was covertly assigned to elite UFO crash retrieval teams known as projects Moon Dust and Blue Fly.
“I suspect that we have, indeed, been contacted—perhaps even visited—by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.” - former CIA official Victor Marchetti quoted in “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon,” Second Look, vol. 1, no. 7. Washington, D.C. 1979.
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View full-sizeDownload Victor Leo Marchetti Jr. (December 23, 1929 – October 19, 2018) was a special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency who later became a prominent critic of the United States Intelligence Community and the Israel lobby in the United States.
“We alone cannot take credit for our recent advancement in certain scientific fields.
We have been helped.”- Dr. Hermann Oberth, NASA German rocket scientist.
Oberth in the 1950s
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View full-sizeDownload Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross (1st Class) in 1943.
When asked to identify the helpers, Oberth replied,
“The people of other worlds.”
Imagine the following.
You go to a science museum and proceed to the hall of ancient civilizations.
There, you walk among scenes of primitive life:
crude shelters
fires
rudimentary handicraft
As you bend close to look at semi-apes with small skulls and big jawbones, a powerful stench overwhelms you.
Suddenly, it hits you---this is no ordinary museum.
When you approach the displays they turn to life, transporting you to the actual scene of such events:
the smoke, the fear and the passions of a cruel but beautiful landscape.
How would you feel?
Your experience would be similar to what aliens might feel when visiting the planet Earth, with one exception.
Some aliens could be expected to have advanced to a level that is many times beyond the difference between you and the semi-apes in the museum.
How could aliens be multiply more advanced than laser surgery, semiconductors and jet flight?
Wouldn’t they at least sympathize with our literature, our legal institutions and our charity?
They probably would, yet some might be pained to see humans make the same mistakes that they, themselves, made thousands, if not billions of years earlier.
They might want to hint at a better way of life. No doubt, some would want to help us evolve more peaceably.
Other less-advanced aliens might try to take advantage of our backwardness in order to expand their sphere of influence, to have access to our vicinity’s resources.
In some cases, that would go against the larger off-world grain, but if the offending aliens were formidable intruders from another galaxy, for example, there might be little that Earth’s neighbors could do to turn them back.
The dangers of conflict would be too severe. Instead, neighboring aliens might try to educate humans to be more responsible for themselves and for the larger universe.
They might find us a stubborn breed, prone to superstition and a reluctance to explain Bronze Age religious concepts scientifically.
On the other hand, an alien visitor might be impressed by the intellectual movements of our last 20 to 30 years.
For example:
1) feminist thinking that distinguishes between biological gender and exaggerated popular ideas about gender.
2) a global movement to recognize both the rights and the human resources of native peoples.
3) a deepening awareness of our finite global ecology.
4) a delayed but important popularization of both the concepts and the logic of quantum physics.
*Although most people haven’t fully assimilated the fundamental weirdness of quantum physics, we use computers that are based on such phenomena daily.
No doubt, one further trend in human thought would stand out sharply.
A large number of the world’s peoples have been exposed to, if not deeply influenced by, portrayals of extraterrestrial life.
Unlike the world of fifty years ago, most people now recognize that large-headed figures with almond-shaped eyes represent a certain kind of alien.
High tech companies run ad campaigns comparing their innovations to the otherworldly, and the all-time list of top-grossing movies is thick with films about extraterrestrials.
The alien theme runs much deeper.
According to recent opinion polls, more than 40 percent of the people in the United States think there’s a government plot to cover up the facts of UFO’s.
That’s nearly 100 million people (more than voted in the last US election).
About one-third of those polled think that humans have actually made contact with aliens.
Believe it or not, other nations’ news outlets regularly feature footage of UFO’s moving across their skies.
For example, millions have seen large formations of non-human objects passing behind clouds on Mexico’s version of “60 Minutes,” anchored by Jaime Maussan.
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View full-sizeDownload José Jaime Maussan Flota (born 31 May 1953) is a Mexican journalist, television personality, and ufologist. He has promoted claims of supposed alien remains that have turned out to be hoaxes.
Defense ministry commissions in both France and Britain recently published reports concluding that their governments should prepare for the high “probability” that aliens visit the earth, and that downed alien technology has found its way into a black budget structure within the United States.
Just a few years ago Russia’s chairman of its joint chiefs of staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, announced that his government regularly observes alien craft and has possession of downed alien technology.
Chinese officials speak openly about the subject, as have officials in numerous other nations.
In fact, what were once known as UFO’s are increasingly described by generic type, or as “IFO’s” instead:
