Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
In 2002, after Timothy Cooper—a UFO researcher from Big Bear Lake, California, who is no longer involved in the subject—sold all of his UFO files to Robert Wood, I spent a week ensconced in an Orange County, California, motel room carefully logging every one of the items contained within Cooper’s vast document collection. One of those items was an eight-page extract from a longer document titled “UFO Reports and Classified Projects: The CIA Perspective.” Provided to Cooper indirectly by a CIA source at Area 51 that he referred to as the “Blue Boy,” it is this document that details an intriguing theory that links Roswell with down-to-earth (as opposed to extraterrestrial) biological warfare activities.
The document appears to be a draft of a briefing paper and provides a concise history of the role of the U.S. government and military with respect to UFOs. The opening pages, which would have provided us with a date, are unfortunately missing, but the document references issues that surfaced with regard to the 1990s, suggesting that it’s relatively recent. Like so many leaked documents, it’s incredibly difficult to say for sure whether it is the real deal or carefully crafted, Area 51-originated disinformation. The available portions of the document are provided in full and begin as follows under the heading of “Historical Perspective.” “Since 1969, the United States Government has taken the official position that unidentified flying objects (UFO) do not exist and do not pose a threat to national security.
This position is based on the conclusions reached by Project BLUE BOOK, the official United States Air Force UFO study program which began in early 1948 and was terminated in December 1969. According to General Charles P. Cabell USAF, and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, this view was not accepted until the successful moon landing of Apollo 11 and several scientific studies. In January 1953, the CIA conducted its own review of the UFO phenomenon known as the Robertson Panel chaired by Dr. H. P. Robertson, a CIA employee, and its conclusions are mirrored by Project BLUE BOOK files. The only threat was of UFO reports, not UFOs. “Freedom of Information Act responses by the CIA state that the only involvement by the CIA ended after the Robertson Panel submitted its report.
Since then, the Agency has not authorized any intelligence collection project nor has received a mandate from the National Security Council to continue UFO intelligence and operations at the scientific level. A review of declassified CIA and NSA intelligence documents suggest that this may not be the case which in either event, a re-examination of all CIA and NSA intelligence documents dealing with UFOs since 1953 is warranted. I might also add that continued reporting of UFOs and related phenomenon across the United States and foreign countries, most noticeably in China, Korea, Australia, and Russia, would require some form of surveillance as was done by the CIA up until 1991.
Based on past CIA conclusions, a positive identification was never reached.” We are then told: “The need for an American central intelligence and Coordinator of Information (COI) to advise the president of impending political and military developments among hostile governments arose in pre-and post- World War II era through the efforts of Sir William S. Stephenson of British Intelligence, General William J. Donovan, and President Roosevelt. In this case, technological advantages in unconventional aircraft and weapons systems of Nazi Germany became the focus of Military Intelligence Division (MID), Army Intelligence (G-2), Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and COI (later Director of the Office of Strategic Services) shortly after Germany’s capitulation in May 1945.
Interest in securing all available rocket and aircraft technology was generated from earlier reports of incursions over the United States by yet unidentified aerial objects believed to have been advanced aircraft from a foreign power. This technical intelligence collection effort was carried out through a vast and comprehensive manhunt known as Operation PAPERCLIP, whose purpose was to bring back to the United States leading German rocket and aircraft scientists and engineers to begin work on military defense projects while preventing the wholesale recruitment of remaining German scientists by Soviet military intelligence still in Germany.
“During the war OSS technical intelligence had secured reliable information that German advances in high speed, high altitude, long range fighters and bombers were all-wing, circular-shaped employing innovative airfoil designs capable of eliminating boundary layer restrictions achieved by their V-2 ballistic missile. Coupled with the fact that American and British intelligence were gravely concerned that such aerial machines could deliver atomic bombs anywhere in Europe and on the continental United States given the fact that Germany’s atomic bomb program had a two-year head start of the Army’s Manhattan Project.
1 January 1948, the Department of the Army circulated a classified intelligence document to all concerned intelligence chiefs that ‘the German High Command indicated a definite interest in the Horten type of flying wing and were about to embark on a rigorous campaign to develop such aircraft toward the end of the war.’ The report suggested that the Gotha manufacturing plant was the proposed site where such aircraft were to be built and warned: ‘This plant is now in the hands of the Russians.’
The report also indicated that such information was highly desirable and requested any additional intelligence on ‘aircraft whose shape approximate that of an oval, disc, or saucer’, including ‘boundary layer control method by suction, blowing, or a combination of both’ and ‘special controls for effective maneuverability at very slow speeds or extremely high altitudes.’ “The OSS had information regarding such developments as early as 1943 based on transcripts taken from the Flying Wing Seminar given by the Horten brothers at Bonn, Germany, on April 14, 1943, in which the newly created Central Intelligence Agency had classified and did not disseminate in 1947.
British intelligence also had this information and provided the CIA technical specifications for delta-shaped, right-angled triangle, tailless and semi-circular aircraft. Other specifications included designs for ‘boomerang’ shapes under development in Britain, Canada, and the United States which are enumerated in General Nathan F. Twining’s September 23, 1947, Air Materiel Command ‘Flying Saucer’ report to Air Intelligence headquarters after numerous UFO sightings subsided during the previous summer.