Almost a year prior to the United States 1947 Flying Saucer wave, State Department military attachés reported similar sightings over Sweden and other parts of northern Europe.…”
The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies: Area 51
Turning away from Roswell, the Blue Boy continued: “Prior to the August 1949 Soviet atomic bomb experiment, Army, Navy, and FBI intelligence officers had classified flying saucer sightings in the United States as TOP SECRET as indicated in a January 31, 1949, FBI memorandum, which located Los Alamos as an active area of investigation by USAF Office of Special Investigations and described the UFOs as an ‘unconventional type without wings’ and resembled ‘rocket ship’ configurations similar to the German V-2.
Almost a year prior to the United States 1947 Flying Saucer wave, State Department military attachés reported similar sightings over Sweden and other parts of northern Europe and it was assumed that the ‘ghost rocket’ phenomenon was of Soviet origin and was in response to U.S. atmospheric tests of atomic weapons in the Pacific. “In March 1949, the CIA did a review of flying saucer sighting data conducted by the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) and based upon submitted reports from Air Force Project SIGN did not concur with the extraterrestrial hypothesis reached by project officers.
Dr. Stone of OSI drew other conclusions suggesting that ‘many of the objects may be free meteorological sounding balloons’ and that if the sightings were classified projects they would not be launched from many locations across the United States and would be ‘closely coordinated with USAF or commercial designers.’ Stone also ruled out foreign aircraft reconnaissance flights because of the great distances involved and ‘guided aircraft’ lacked the range required for such flights and was beyond technical capabilities of any government at that time.
The CIA had the best intelligence available on Soviet capabilities and for security reasons would not discuss classified ‘secret weapons’ programs that were under development within secret establishments in the U.S. which would be compromised if Stone made some obscure disclosure to Project SIGN staff officers. And, for the same reasons General Twining did not elaborate on ‘physical evidence’ for recovered wreckage of failed rocket launches conducted at White Sands.
“The CIA paid particular attention to reports originating out of New Mexico as indicated in a April 24, 1949, CIA intelligence report detailing a theodolite track of a ‘white spherical object’ that was traveling too fast to be a balloon described as ‘an ellipsoid about 2.5:1 slenderness ratio’ at an altitude of 60 miles with a course heading that would have covered White Sands, Holloman Air Force Base and Los Alamos. At this point, the CIA did not comment on such reports and drew no conclusions without disclosing the existence of classified programs to un-authorized agencies. “SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE: UFO Identification and Analysis: The sharing of scientific intelligence between British and American agencies in missile and atomic weapons research was instrumental in defeating Japan and Germany in World War II.
In exchange of aviation advances and electronics, the OSS supplied technical and scientific intelligence and kept General Groves appraised of German scientific activities in atomic fission. The use of atomic weapons in war and the spread of scientific knowledge was anticipated and magnified by the Soviet penetration of U.S. atomic secrets enlarged the horror of a nuclear Pearl Harbor.
With the growing possibility that some UFO sighting reports collected by the CIG were Soviet devices, Admiral Sidney Souers in 1946 undertook the task of coordinating scientific intelligence with the Office of Scientific Research and Development and directed the Central Planning Staff to look into the problem of surprise attack by unconventional means and recruited Dr. H. P. Robertson as his scientific consultant and established the Interdepartmental.…” The remaining pages of the document were not found within the files of Tim Cooper. While the data imparted by the Blue Boy concerning the Roswell crash and biological warfare is certainly provocative, can it be substantiated?
With respect to the theory that a Mogul balloon was responsible for creating the legend of the UFO crash at Roswell, the U.S. Air Force firmly embraced, and still does embrace, this particular explanation. Mogul was a project that utilized balloons to carry radar reflectors and acoustic sensors aloft for the purpose of determining the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research.
As far as the reference to I. G. Farben is concerned, this, too, is provocative: I. G. Farben was the company that made the Zyklon-B gas that was utilized in the Nazi death camps of the Second World War. Indeed, at the height of its production in 1944, I. G. Farben ran a slave labor plant at Auschwitz using no fewer than eighty-three thousand people. Arguably, any “biological” work undertaken at White Sands involving people allied to I. G. Farben would have created intense controversy and been subject to stringent security measures— particularly if a V-2 rocket with such a “deadly cargo” had indeed strayed off course and crashed near the town of Corona.
It is quite true that a wealth of tests of captured Nazi V-2 rockets were undertaken at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in the period between 1946 and 1952. Indeed, in total, sixty-seven V-2 rockets were assembled and tested at the range and ultimately provided the United States with valuable experience in the assembly, preflight testing, handling, fueling, launching, and tracking of large missiles. The scientific experiments conducted aboard the rockets also yielded significant information about the upper atmosphere. One series of tests, the Blossom Project, was responsible for undertaking the first biological experiments in space.
Interestingly, in its July 1994 document titled “Report of Air Force Research Regarding the Roswell Incident,” the Air Force did address the question of whether or not a V-2 rocket was to blame for the monumental fuss at Roswell: “A crashed or errant missile, usually described as a captured German V-2 or one of its variants, is sometimes set forth as a possible explanation for the debris recovered near Roswell.
Since much of this testing done at nearby White Sands was secret at the time, it would be logical to assume that the government would handle any missile mishap under tight security, particularly if the mishap occurred on private land. From the records reviewed by the Air Force, however, there was nothing located to suggest that this was the case. Although the bulk of remaining testing records are under the control of the U.S. Army, the subject has also been very well documented over the years within Air Force records. There would be no reason to keep such information classified today.
The USAF found no indicators or even hints that a missile was involved in this matter.” To this day, the Blue Boy’s controversial revelations—shared with Tim Cooper a couple of decades ago—remain steeped in controversy. Whether or not the papers told the truth of Roswell and other UFO-themed events or if personnel at Area 51 concocted them to try to deflect Cooper away from the idea that UFOs have extraterrestrial origins is an issue that remains wide open, years after Cooper received the documents.