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Authors: Len Kasten
Tags: #UFOs/Paranormal
Introduction
The Secret History
My interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials was started, as it was for so many people, by a “sighting.” At least that was what I have always believed it to be. But several people in the world of “ufology” (the study of UFOs) have since pointed out to me that my experience sounds more like a “close encounter” and that I may have actually been taken on board the craft. I was in the U.S. Air Force at the time. It was rather strange and uncharacteristic that I would suddenly wake up at 3 a.m. and run to the window of my barracks room to look out. But I did that, while my roommate remained sleeping soundly, just in time to see the craft flashing by, almost at eye level and no more than one thousand feet away.
Glowing with a green and gold phosphorescence, it flew silently by at a very high speed, and I watched it disappear out over the Gulf of Mexico with my face pressed to the window. The next morning, the tower operators on the night shift returned to the barracks and reported that they had four UFOs on the radar that night, hovering over the end of the runway at about 2 a.m. I told them what I had seen apparently coming from the runway, and they suggested that I report my experience to the UFO office. At that point, I had no idea what a UFO was, but I found the office. I was somewhat amazed to find a captain there with a multipage questionnaire. He didn’t seem at all surprised at my report, nor was he very impressed with my estimated superspeed of the craft.
The next day I became very ill with flulike symptoms and had to spend three days in the base hospital. I have since learned that such a reaction to being on board an alien craft is not uncommon. So, while I have never been hypnotized to find out what happened that night, it now seems very likely that I had been a guest of some cosmic visitors. I have no idea what I might have learned on board the craft, since the memory is evidently buried deep in the recesses of my subconscious, as is the case with most abductees.
However, a few years later, while working for IBM in Washington, D.C., I found myself inexplicably drawn to join the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the first widely known UFO organization in the country. And my interest in ufology and extraterrestrial visitation has never flagged since. I later learned that the founder of NICAP had been T. Townsend Brown, the pioneer scientist in the development of antigravity technology. The director at that time was retired WWII naval aviator Major Donald E. Keyhoe, author of the book
The Flying Saucers Are Real
and now recognized as one of the illustrious names in early ufology. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who had been an original member of Majestic-12 (MJ-12; see appendix), was on the board of governors. MJ-12 was the top-secret committee assembled by President Harry Truman in 1947 to deal with all matters relating to UFOs and extraterrestrials. In those early days, Hillenkoetter pushed for UFO disclosure to the public. In a letter to Congress in 1960, he wrote, “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Also on the board at that time was journalist Frank Edwards, best known for his book
Flying Saucers—Serious Business
. NICAP was absorbed into the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in 1978, and all of its very valuable files have been preserved in that organization.
I have been the primary UFO/extraterrestrial (ET) feature writer for
Atlantis Rising
magazine since its inception over fourteen years ago. I have written over fifty published articles for the magazine, most of which were focused on these and other related subjects. I found that, when taken as a whole, my articles, while not written in any historical sequence, do represent a unique body of research into the secret history of our contact with aliens, primarily in the modern era, and do, in fact, constitute a rough summation of that history as well as what we have learned from those contacts. Consequently, it was very easy to reassemble my articles to provide a coherent narrative in book form. This introduction is intended to give a more smoothly flowing, brief history of extraterrestrial contact to show the reader how each chapter fits into the big picture and to fill in some of the gaps. Also in this introduction, I have taken on the formidable challenge of attempting to explain why a virtually impenetrable blanket of secrecy has been thrown over this history for more than sixty years.
The human race in the twenty-first century finds itself in a strange place. It is slowly dawning on us that the world we see around us is a cleverly designed illusion and that we have been expertly manipulated to believe it to be reality. And believing in it, as we do, we are thereby led to behave in certain ways. These behaviors are basically simple, repetitive, and essentially mindless, and primarily geared to economic survival and primitive enjoyment. Underneath the seemingly placid surface, there are continual frustrations and angry rumblings that frequently break through to manifest as violent recriminations against each other. We blame each other for our predicament, so we go to war. But new technologies and gadgets continue to keep us entertained and distracted and less likely to challenge the status quo. So we are kept on our treadmill. And always there is the overarching fear of death.
Now, in the age of the Internet and thanks to hundreds of books about conspiracies and UFOs as well as fifty years of science-fiction (sci-fi) movies, our mass consciousness has started to expand, and we have begun to examine our cosmic situation objectively and free from religious bias. As we begin to awaken, we discover that there are some who know the truth but choose to keep it secret. They are our controllers. They ask the questions: Are you not happy as you are, and why do you need to know more? This leads us to believe that the controllers are basically benign and that perhaps we, like sheep, must stay in this world and continue to graze because we are not suited for anything better. Whereas they, because they are superior, can live in, and enjoy, the “real world.” But to some who are awakening, this is not an acceptable situation, and there is a growing suspicion that we are deliberately being kept in the dark and manipulated by the controllers because they are somehow gaining from our placid ignorance.
Just as we periodically shear the sheep and at the end turn them into mutton, perhaps we too are somehow, in some way, being sheared and will eventually become lamb chops for those who control us. So a nagging question arises: Are we really sheep, or are we something more, and have we been tricked into believing that we are sheep? Now, at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, more and more spiritually aware people are asking that burning question, and it is becoming increasingly urgent to find the answer. But the controllers are heavily invested in keeping us from learning about our true nature. It is beginning to appear that this may be the reason we are not being told about the extraterrestrial presence on Earth. If we were to be informed that we are now being visited by advanced aliens and that they have the ability to pull us out of our darkness and to shed light on our origins and our spiritual potential, then we would no longer settle for being gentle grazers in the meadow. We too would travel to the stars. It would be “goodbye sheep, goodbye wool, goodbye mutton.”
In the beginning, it was both logical and necessary that the UFO phenomena remain a military matter. Those at the highest levels of government knew that there had been alien intervention in World War II—on both sides. In fact, there was believable evidence that the war itself was an attempt at an overt alien conquest of the planet using the Axis powers as pawns in what was really a cosmic confrontation. German experiments in time travel began in the 1920s, with alien assistance. In 1922, German scientists created the so-called Other World Flight Machine. Saucer-shaped, it was designed to create an intense electromagnetic field in order to open up an interdimensional portal to the Aldebaran star system, thus providing a channel for direct extraterrestrial communications. Hitler’s flying saucers were based on antigravity technology supplied by the aliens. If the Allied powers hadn’t bombed the German factories into oblivion, the saucers would have entered the fight, and the Allies probably would have lost the war.
Consequently, all of the amazing technology that came out of that epic struggle was viewed only in terms of military application. The Philadelphia Experiment in 1943 involved teleportation of humans and a U.S. Navy ship, time travel, and invisibility. Nikola Tesla, who claimed to have “off-planet” connections, was instrumental in that project. It was later claimed by one of the participants that the experiment opened a “time portal” that permitted a group of hostile extraterrestrials to come through to Earth. That fantastic incident, of course, had to remain top secret. After the war, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) became convinced that the Nazis had moved all their antigravity research and development operations to their base inside a mountain in Antarctica. This was in the vast territory they had laid claim to in 1938 and had named Neuschwabenland. All the key German scientists, engineers, and technicians not rounded up by our Operation Paperclip were believed to be there, continuing to build flying saucers and developing space ships. Consequently, in December 1946, secretary of defense James V. Forrestal launched Operation Highjump, a military invasion of Antarctica under the command of Captain Richard H. Cruzen and led by war hero Admiral Chester Nimitz and intrepid Arctic explorer Admiral Richard Byrd. Consisting of an international fleet of thirteen ships, including an aircraft carrier, and 4,700 marines, the objective was to wipe out the Nazi base. Originally scheduled as a six-month mission during the Antarctic summer and autumn, the operation was aborted three months early, reportedly because the flying saucers from the base repelled the attack.
In view of this military experience dealing with antigravity aircraft, it comes as no surprise that when an alien craft crashed into a hillside near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947, only three months after the Operation Highjump debacle, all the alarm bells at the Pentagon went off, and a tight lid of secrecy was clamped down on the event, especially since Roswell Army Air Field was the home of the 509th Bomb Group, the B-29 squadron charged with the delivery of atomic bombs. The military necessity of secrecy continued after that incident because so much knowledge about advanced technology applicable to weaponry came from the crashed disc and from questioning the lone ET survivor. As we entered the fifties, our top government officials, the military, and top defense contractors were already interacting with extraterrestrials on several levels. But now the Cold War was upon us, so there was a new and cogent reason to maintain secrecy.
By the fifties, the decade of decision, the story had spun so far out of control and believability that it became virtually impossible to reveal the details to the public without causing social chaos. The lessons of
The War of the Worlds
radio broadcast by Orson Welles in October 1938, during which people ran screaming into the streets, was ever in the consciousness of the top echelons of government.
By the early fifties, the scientific and technological fruits of ET contact were already mind-bending. Furthermore, by 1952, the survivor of the Roswell crash, Extraterrestrial Biological Entity #1 (EBE #1), was now in contact with his home planet, Serpo, and communications in English between Serpo and scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico were beginning. But the ruling clique now in charge, the MJ-12 group, thought it better to keep it all under wraps. Then came that fateful mass UFO flyover of Washington, D.C., in July 1952, in which pursuit jets were sent up to try to encounter the alien craft and engage them in combat. The paranoia and fear of invasion that this incident engendered set the movement for disclosure way back, with the Pentagon now applying massive pressure for secrecy. The contact pace picked up on February 20, 1954, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower met with an extraterrestrial contingent at Edwards Air Force Base in California, then called Muroc Air Base. That was the most critical event of the entire decade and, in fact, of the entire secrecy-disclosure debate then raging in the secret precincts of government. The intensity of this debate was noted by Gerald Light, one of the many witnesses to that historic meeting, in the now-famous letter that he sent to Coral Lorenzen afterward. Lorenzen and her husband Jim were the founders of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), of which Light was a member. He wrote, “During my two days’ visit I saw
five separate and distinct types of aircraft
being studied and handled by our Air Force officials—with the assistance and permission of the Etherians! I have no words to express my reactions. It has finally happened. It is now a matter of history. President Eisenhower, as you may already know, was spirited over to Muroc one night during his visit to Palm Springs recently. And it is my conviction that he will ignore the terrific conflict between the various ‘authorities’ and go directly to the people via radio and television—if the impasse continues much longer. From what I could gather, an official statement to the country is being prepared for delivery about the middle of May.”
That announcement never came because we made no agreement with the aliens. We turned down their offer of assistance in the development of incredible new technology. All we had to do in return was to “beat our swords into plowshares,” that is, give up our nuclear weapons. Apparently the top generals at the Pentagon believed this to be some sort of ruse that would leave us defenseless in very dangerous times. So we had to say “no thanks.” It seems evident now that the president and his advisors had their conclusions confirmed, at that point, that one or more of the extraterrestrial groups that had reached Earth were hostile and that we had to assume a defensive posture against a possible interplanetary war. After all, Eisenhower, as supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe, had undoubtedly been privy to the information about extraterrestrial involvement in World War II. That defensive posture, of course, required ultrasecrecy, just as in wartime. That basically sealed the deal as regards disclosure. From that point on, all negotiations with extraterrestrials of every stripe were deemed too sensitive for public consumption, and the curtain of secrecy descended for the foreseeable future. The argument as to whether that conclusion was justified still rages, but of course we don’t have all the facts. Certainly U.S. Army Colonel Philip J. Corso believed that to be the case, as stated in his book
The Day After Roswell,
cowritten with William J. Birnes.