The Government UFO Files

Kevin D Randle

Description

Secrets and Suppressed Evidence. Hidden plots, cover-ups, and misleading statements. Coincidences or Lies?


Sifting through hundreds of historical and government documents, interviewing multitudes of participants, and tracking countless leads, a former army officer, trained as an intelligence officer, presents a case for government incompetence and, potentially, malfeasance. Shining a harsh light on the government and its secrets, The Government UFO Files: The Conspiracy of Cover-Up investigates what the government knows about encounters with UFOs, alien life, and mysterious activities.


The government has long collected information and assembled files on unidentified objects, extraterrestrial encounters, and strange convergences in the skies, but with new government secrets constantly being revealed (including finally admitting the existence of Area 51) is it too much to believe that it is hiding important information on close encounters, UFOs, and alien life? Combing FBI, FAA, and other government files, this revealing book thoroughly examined nearly 100 sightings and other occurrences, including …

Alien abductions and encounters

Foo Fighters

Silver Disks, Ghost Rockets, and Fireballs

The SETI search for extraterrestrial life

And much, much more

The Government UFO Files sorts through the information, sources, and it lets you decide whether the government is being deliberately misleading or whether the conspiracy theories have gotten out of control.

Sujets

• Unexplained Phenomena
• Conspiracy Theories
• Social Science
• Body (disambiguation)
• Condon Committee
• Bob Lazar
• Unidentified flying object
• Conspiracy theory
• Area 51
• Zone 51

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 21 avril 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9781578595143
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

A BOUT THE A UTHOR
K evin D. Randle retired from the military in 2009 as a lieutenant colonel. He flew combat missions in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and recently received the Bronze Star Medal for his service in Iraq. In 1974 he got his first credit as a freelance writer with an article about UFO landing traces. He has investigated such cases all over the United States, including the famous Roswell crash of 1947. Randle has written more than two dozen books on the topic, is a frequent guest on radio and television, and is one of the participants in Discovery Canada s newest UFO program. He continues to research the topic but at a most leisurely pace than before. He lives with his wife in Iowa.
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THE GOVERNMENT UFO FILES THE CONSPIRACY OF COVER-UP
THE GOVERNMENT UFO FILES THE CONSPIRACY OF COVER-UP
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Randle, Kevin D., 1949- The government UFO files: the conspiracy of cover-up / by Kevin D. Randle. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57859-477-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Unidentified flying objects-Sightings and encounters-United States. 2. Government information-United States. 3. Conspiracies-United States. I. Title. TL789.4.R359 2014 001.9420973-dc23 2013048353

C ONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
Introduction
The Foo Fighters
The Scandinavian Ghost Rockets
Project Saucer
The Estimate of the Situation
Projects Sign, Saucer, and Grudge
The Green Fireballs and Project Twinkle
Blue Book Special Report 13
The FBI Files
The Cisco Grove Physical Evidence Case and Other Alien Encounters
Belt, Montana, and the Minuteman Missile Crisis
JAL 1628
The Other Official Investigations
Project Moon Dust
The Washington UFO Sightings-2002 Version
The SETI Protocols
O Hare and Stephenville Sightings
Bibliography
Index
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
T he problem with acknowledgments is that someone important is almost invariably overlooked. A book is a project in which one or two people sit in rooms in front of a computer screen and attempt to put together something that is interesting and entertaining. But to pull this off it requires assistance from many others. Sometimes it is a simple email answer to a question and other times it is reviewing portions of the manuscript for accuracy. This work is no exception. Without the help of many people, great chunks of this book might not have been included. If there is an order to here, other than by chapter, it is unintentional.
Keith Chester and his work on the Foo Fighters was a wonderful resource. Clas Svahn reviewed the Ghost Rockets chapter, providing insight into that case and making sure that the Swedish names were spelled correctly. Wendy Connors and Rod Dyke told me about the early days of the unofficial investigation at Wright Field. Steven Bassett and his Paradigm Research Group provided the opportunity to meet with several of those interviewed for this book. Robert Hastings was helpful in understanding the intrusions at various military installations, and Robert Salas provided a first-hand account of his experiences at Maelstrom Air Force Base. Salas also provided an introduction to others who had witnessed similar activities at other Air Force installations. John Callahan, formerly of the FAA, gave me his personal account of his investigation into the JAL 1628 incident. Others who contributed by answering questions include Tom Carey, Jerry Clark, Michael Swords, Barry Greenwood, John Steiger, Don Ecker, Frank Warren, Mark Rodeghier, Nick Redfern, and probably a dozen others whom I have left out inadvertently.
P HOTO C REDITS
Analogue Kid: p. 151
Chad Kainz: p. 214
Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill: p. 309
Das Bundesarchiv: p. 26
European Southern Observatory/Y. Beletsky: p. 239
Fortean Picture Library: pp. 2 , 3 , 6 , 11 , 24 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 50 , 51 , 56 , 58 , 59 , 64 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 88 , 89 , 95 , 123 , 129 , 142 , 145 , 160 , 173 , 189 , 190 , 191 , 221 , 230 , 237 , 252 , 256 , 257 , 260 , 279 , 322
John Fowler: p. 107
Kevin Randle: pp. 184 , 209 , 238 , 270 , 274
Los Angeles Daily News: p. 157
Mary Evans Picture Library: p. 21
Mpegman: p. 317
NASA: pp. 22 , 125 , 194 , 277 , 327
NASA/JPL: p. 101
Ohio State University Radio Observatory and the North American AstroPhysical Observatory: p. 312
yvind Holmstad: p. 25
Philip Mantel: p. 149 .
Robert Sheaffer: p. 66
Roswell Daily Record: p. 93
Shutterstock: pp. 87 , 99 , 199 , 311 , 315 , 336
Swedish military photos: pp. 33 , 36
U.S. Air Force: p. 9 , 13 , 16 , 20 , 29 , 30 , 61 , 69 , 85 , 112 , 120 , 124 , 135 , 138 , 140 , 193 , 206 , 232 , 261 , 290 , 294 , 307
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: p. 168
U.S. Congress: p. 284
U.S. Department of Energy: p. 77
U.S. Geological Survey: pp. 136 , 226 , 249 , 273
U.S. Government: pp. 51 , 131 , 161 , 162 , 174
U.S. National Park Service: p. 116
U.S. Navy: p. 83 , 308
Public domain: pp. 4 , 49 , 54 , 57 , 234 , 258 , 265 , 293 , 299 , 319
I NTRODUCTION
M ore than 12,000 reports on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) exist in the government files known as Project Blue Book. Included among them are tens of thousands of pages of related material, reports, surveys, letters, and investigations that need to be reviewed and studied to gain a complete understanding of the Air Force program of UFO research.
There are thousands of pages of documents that relate to Project Moon Dust, an intelligence function that began in the late 1950s and continued until 1985, when the code name was compromised. At that point, rather than end the project, the code name was changed and classified, and those assigned to the various UFO projects went back to work.
The files of the U.S. Department of State, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Army, Navy and Air Force all have documents relating to UFOs, UFO investigations, and UFO activities that inhibited or affected their operations at various times. All of these documents tell a story of deceit, deception, and duplicity, leading the public away from the truth by wrapping it in ridicule, misinformation, and secrecy.
Buried deep in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., are additional documents in various files that are labeled in odd ways or located in strange places. The question is how to figure out where these documents are kept and finding a way to access them.
To end the discussions about UFOs by the public, in the late 1960s the Air Force dedicated more than half a million dollars to a civilian university to study UFOs. The government files reveal that rather than desiring a scientific investigation, the University of Colorado study, known as the Condon Committee, was actually a way to end Air Force investigation of UFOs and to stymie civilian interest in the topic. The mission was clearly stated in documents found in both Project Blue Book government files and those held by private institutions.