"The UFO phenomenon being reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious." – General Nathan Twining Chairman, Joint chiefs of staff (Memorandum to Commanding General of the Army, September 23, 1947)
"The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating even higher than the H Bomb. Flying saucers exist. Their Modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being made by by a small group headed by Doctor Vannevar Bush." – Wilbert Smith (in a top secret Canadian Government Memorandum, November 21, 1950)
"Mr. President, anyone who can cross millions of miles of space will be able to take care of themselves when they get there. Don’t start something you can’t finish." – Albert Einstein (talking to President Truman about the “shoot-them-down” order of UFOs flying over Washington DC on July 19, 1952 - As quoted by national radio host Frank Edwards, date unknown*)
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” – Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Letter to Congress, 1960)
"In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject." – President Gerald Ford (letter to the House Armed Services committee and House Science and Astronautics Committee, 1966)
"I've been asked [about UFOs] and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization." – Commander Eugene Cernan, Commanded the Apollo 17 missions (Los Angeles Times article, 1973)
"It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range scientific investigations of our earth for centuries." – Dr. Herman Oberth, NASA father of modern rocketry (UFO News, 1974)
"The flying saucer situation is not all imaginary... something is flying around." – July 1947 FBI/Army Intelligence Report (declassified by the United States Freedom of Information Act in 1976)
"It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the Moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky." – President Jimmy Carter (remark during Presidential campaign, remark during 1976 Presidential campaign, 1976)
"It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors (concerning a captured UFO and crew members). I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have." – Barry Goldwater, US Senator, Air Force General and Presidential candidate (quoted from a letter dated April 11, 1979)
“I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth. I feel that we need to have a top level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion... For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public.” – Colonel Gordon Cooper, Former NASA Astronaut, Aeronautical Engineer and test pilot. One of the seven original Astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States (in an address to the UN, 1985)
"I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, 'Nope.' And I said to him: 'Let's follow it!' We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it." – President Ronald Reagen (Describing his 1974 UFO encounter to veteran newsman Norman C. Miller, then Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, date unknown*)
"After the plane from Roswell arrived with the material I asked the base commander to personally transport it in a B-26 to Major General McMullen in Washington DC. The entire operation was conducted under strictest secrecy. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press." - Brigadier General Thomas Dubose, Commanding Officer of Wright Patterson Air Force Base (Affidavit, September 16, 1991)
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (Interview, July 2000)
"In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone." – Charles J. Camarda (Ph.D.) NASA Astronaut (date unknown*)
"While working under President Eisenhower, I discovered that Eisenhower had a keen interest in UFOs, but that he came to realize that he had lost control of the subject." – Brigadier General Steven Lovekin, (video interview, 1999*)
“Well, if I had been briefed on that [UFOs], I am sure it would have been classified.” – Vice President Dick Chaney (Diane Rehm Talk Show, April 2001)
“I saw some lights that seemed to be in a line and it was almost like an upside-down check mark, and I saw them fly by and thought it was awfully strange. It wasn’t just one, but a line of them strung out along the South American coast ... I’m skeptical of claims that we’ve been visited by aliens from another planet or other dimensions, but I don’t rule it out 100 percent. I have an open mind and I do believe there’s other life in the universe.” – Leroy Chiao, commander of the International Space Station (Interview, 2005)
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” – Apollo 14 Astronaut and Air Force Captain, Dr. Edgar Mitchell (At the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, 2013)
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. Trillions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have deliberately been kept in the dark.” – Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister (Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, 2013)
"Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere cc: @NYTimesDowd" - John Podesta, former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and Counselor to President Barack Obama (Final tweet before stepping down from the Obama administration, February 13, 2015)
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