Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
The angle of using UFOs as a means to influence people should be noted. For example, the weird saga of a man named Bernard Newman, to a degree, echoes the Stalin/Mengele angle—namely, to create a staged, alien event to influence and provoke government concern and response. Published in Britain in June 1948, Bernard Newman’s novel The Flying Saucer was the first in the world to deal with the emotive topic of crashed flying saucers. The book tells the tale of an elite group of scientists who decide to “stage” a series of faked flying saucer crashes with the express purpose of attempting to unite the world against a deadly foe that, in reality, does not exist.
The Flying Saucer begins with a series of worldwide “UFO crashes” (involving distinctly terrestrial vehicles built for this specific task): the first in England, the second in New Mexico, and the third in Russia. The “crash sites” are carefully chosen and involve all of the three major powers that emerged out of the carnage of the Second World War, but the work of the scientists is only just beginning.
Not content with creating its bogus UFO crashes, the team takes things one step further and constructs a faked “alien body” that is pulverized in one of the crashes and is then presented to the world’s scientific community as evidence of the alien origin of the creatures that pilot the craft. As a result of these events—and with remarkable speed—the many and varied differences between the governments of the Earth dissolve under the “Martian” threat, and the final chapter of Newman’s book sees practically every international political problem hastily resolved.
More is to come.
We cannot state for sure that Alfred O’Donnell was deliberately spreading disinformation when he told Annie Jacobsen that the Roswell affair was the result of a secret operation to try to convince the U.S. government that an alien invasion was underway. The fact is, though, that a number of other fictional stories eerily parallel the tale O’Donnell shared with Jacobsen, and they all originate in the world of science fiction: novels, TV shows, and short stories.
They do not begin and end with Bernard Newman’s novel The Flying Saucer from 1948.
If we can say for sure two things regarding reports of alleged crashed UFOs, it’s that (a) a lot of them exist and (b) many are highly controversial in nature. One of those cases that falls firmly into category “b” is alleged to have occurred off the coast of Norway on the island of Spitsbergen in mid-1952. It’s a case that a few UFO researchers accept as being genuine but that a great many believe to be nothing less than a complete and outrageous hoax. Another possibility is that the story was a deliberate, government-created “plant” to confuse the truth about tales of UFOs crashing to Earth, whatever that truth might really be.