Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
One of the many curious aspects of the UFO phenomenon is that relative to so-called “waves” and “flaps.” Over the years, UFOs have intruded into our airspace to a significant degree on more than a few occasions. I’m talking about the likes of the summer of 1947; the Washington, D.C., invasion of July 1952; the wave of close encounters that hit the United States in 1973; the Belgian “Flying Triangle” encounters of 1989/1990; and the curious matter of the UFO/”phantom helicopter” wave of 1975. It’s not only curious but disturbing, too, chiefly because a great deal of concern was exhibited by the U.S. military, despite the fact that the Air Force’s UFO program, Project Blue Book, closed its doors six years earlier, in 1969. Notably, and thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, we can see just how seriously matters were taken.
Even a cursory examination of the history of the UFO phenomenon demonstrates that sightings of so-called “black helicopters,” “phantom helicopters,” and even “silent helicopters” abound. They were particularly in evidence during the cattle-mutilation wave of the mid-seventies. Alien abductees report being pursued and intimidated by such craft. Suspicions abound that at least some of the helicopters originate with so-called “black projects” that operate outside of the regular conventions of the military. Some even claim that the helicopters are “UFOs in disguise,” which is surely the most controversial of all the theories offered to explain the phenomenon!
All of which brings us back to that aforementioned wave of 1975. Given what we know about the black helicopters likely having been designed and constructed at Groom Lake, Nevada, it’s not at all impossible that those reported in 1975 were part of a quick-reaction team whose job it was to keep a careful and clandestine watch over the presence of the phenomenon as it spread.
Official documentation on the encounters has surfaced from the Air Force, the FBI, and the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). One particular document, titled “Suspicious Unknown Air Activity,” provides the following: “Since 28 Oct 75 numerous reports of suspicious objects have been received at the NORAD CC. Reliable military personnel at Loring AFB Maine, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, Malmstrom AFB, MT, Minot AFB, ND, and Canadian forces station Falconbridge, Ontario Canada have visually sighted suspicious objects. Objects at Loring and Wurtsmith were characterized to be helicopters. Missile site personnel, security alert teams and air defense personnel at Malmstrom, Montana report an object which sounded like a jet. FAA advised there were no jet aircraft in the vicinity. Malmstrom search and height finder radars carried the object between 9500 ft. and 15,000 ft. at a speed of seven knots.”
The odd saga proceeded to get even stranger: “Personnel reported the object as low as 200 ft. and said that as the interceptors approached the lights went out, after the interceptors had passed the lights came on again.… Minot AFB on 10 Nov reported that the site was buzzed by a bright object the size of a car at an altitude of 1,000 to 2,000 ft. There was no noise emitted by the vehicle.”
The relevant paperwork makes it very clear that the military was not only concerned with the phenomenon itself but also with the potential reactions on the part of the media and the public: “Be assured that this command is doing everything possible to identify and provide solid factual information on these sightings. I have also expressed my concern to SAFOI [Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Information] that we come up soonest with a proposed answer to queries from the press to prevent over reaction by the public to reports by the media that may be blown out of proportion. To date efforts by Air Guard helicopters, SAC [Strategic Air Command] helicopters and NORAD F106s have failed to produce positive ID.”
A notable document titled “Defense Against Helicopter Assault” reads, in part: “The past two evenings at one of our northern tier bases, an unidentified helicopter has been observed hovering over and in the near vicinity of the weapons storage area. Attempts to identify this aircraft have so far met with negative results.” In other words, something intruded upon the most secure part of the base, and no one was able to determine what was afoot or even why.