Notably, John said that a couple of files addressed the theory that all of this could have been the result of a series of ingenious hoaxes engineered by the Soviets.…
The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies: Area 51
The result was that when the man put the suit on, he had picked up on the apocalyptic images that flooded his mind. This led one and all to suspect that the aliens were deceptive, dangerous entities that wanted us, the human race, gone— hence the images of what looked like a worldwide nuclear war designed to wipe us out. Personnel from both NASA and the CIA expressed a deep interest in the suits, but John was unable to remember any specifics as to what the outcome of that angle may have been. Notably, though, the one thing that really stayed in John’s mind was the revelation that the suits were deemed to be somehow alive.
As a result, they were locked away, with clearance limited to only a very small group of people who knew how to handle them and who knew the potential dangers and hazards they promised.
John also recalled a large number of files that were focused on events in the summer of 1947 in New Mexico, which revolved around crashed UFOs, the remains of dead aliens, and much more, although John could not recall ever hearing the term “Roswell” used. Notably, John said that a couple of files addressed the theory that all of this could have been the result of a series of ingenious hoaxes engineered by the Soviets—which, as we will see later, is extremely similar to the data provided to author Annie Jacobsen by a source named Alfred O’Donnell while she was writing her 2011 book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base.
John continued his work out at Area 51 for a preplanned period of one year, after which he moved into the world of private security, specifically doing background checks on people who were seen as useful for the works of highly classified programs at Area 51 and within NASA. John continued with such work until 1981, when he retired. Rather notably, despite being exposed to a truly astonishing wealth of material out at Area 51, John slowly began to wonder if his whole time spent there was nothing but a ruse.
He speculated on the possibility that this was all some sort of intricate mind game to flood John’s mind with bizarre tales and documents relative to dead extraterrestrials, alien autopsies, and spacecraft from other worlds. Maybe, John suggested, it was a loyalty test to see if he would run to the Washington Post or to the New York Times. John did neither: he stayed quiet (at least until the 2000s, when he was well into his old age), and as a result of his silence, he was offered prestigious positions for another decade.
John also speculated on another possibility, a possibility that involved the Soviets. Although he was somewhat reluctant to address the matter in depth— which is intriguing—John said that he heard a few snippets of data suggesting that a small program was trying to convince the Russians that the U.S. government had not just alien bodies in their hands but extraterrestrial technology, even highly advanced, powerful alien weaponry. John wondered if all of this was a game—one designed to scare the Russians into thinking that we had something that we never really did but which the staff members at Area 51 were hoping the Russians would come to believe and to fear.
John died in 2013. His widow stated that in his final years, John came to believe more and more that what he saw and read out at Area 51 in the early 1970s was indeed a huge mind game, a fabrication to have the Russians running around like headless chickens, wasting their time on lies dressed up as incredible truths. Ingenious, Cold War-era disinformation, in other words.