The big differences between John and Alfred O’Donnell is that the former concluded that the Russian story was a fake, whereas the latter believed it.…
Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
The big differences between John and Alfred O’Donnell is that the former concluded that the Russian story was a fake, whereas the latter believed it—or was deliberately and knowingly deceiving Annie Jacobsen—or, of course, the story might be 100 percent true.
The next part of the story comes via the notorious “leaked” MJ-12 documents—MJ-12 supposedly being a highly classified group within the U.S. government that handled the most sensitive parts of the UFO issue as far back as 1947. I’m not talking about the original documents that first publicly surfaced in Timothy Good’s May 1987 book Above Top Secret that shortly afterward surfaced just about here, there, and everywhere. Rather, I’m talking about the even more controversial collection that came to researchers Dr. Robert Wood and Ryan Wood via UFO researcher Timothy Cooper in the mid-to late 1990s— a man who you became acquainted with in an earlier chapter.
The four prevailing theories regarding the Cooper documents are as follows: (a) they are the real thing (extremely unlikely); (b) they are government disinformation (highly likely); (c) they are the work of someone in the public UFO arena acting alone, who—by creating the documents—was intent on helping to champion Roswell as an alien event (interesting and plausible); and (d) they were still the work of someone within ufology but was getting the data for inclusion in the documents from old-timers who wanted to spill the beans but in a fashion that would not come back and haunt them and provoke a government-driven backlash (not at all impossible).
Of the documents that Cooper had in his possession, one is a highly controversial paper titled “Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary” of 1947. As you might guess by its title and date, the IPU summary describes the events that have come to be known collectively as the Roswell incident. It provides names, dates, places, and events that tell an extraordinary story—and it’s a story that some support, many dismiss as outright fabrication, and even more have forgotten two decades after the files surfaced.
One entry in the document is very intriguing. It appears in the next-to-last paragraph of the IPU report and is presented as, essentially, the tentative conclusions of officialdom regarding what did, or did not, come down outside of Roswell in 1947. It states: “Our assessment of this investigation rests on two assumptions: 1) Either this discovery was an elaborate and well-orchestrated hoax (maybe by the Russians) [italics mine]; or 2) Our country has played host to beings from another planet.”