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From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:01:46 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:52:55 -0500
Subject: Project 1947: Reasons for Historians to Look at


What effects did UFOs have on national policy or mainstream
defense thinking in the 1940s and 1950s. Here are some topics
that could prove interesting if examined by historians.


1.  The Fugo balloons were suspected of carrying biological
   agents. One would expect that this war time experience might
   have an effect on defense thinking. (News stories mentioned
   that flying saucers might be a manifestation of a potential
   enemy testing out a biological delivery system.) To what
   extent was this possibility considered?

2.  The "ghost rockets" had previously been considered all the
   way up to the President Truman. Similar interest was reported
   at all levels of the French government by Hillenkoetter when
   he was Naval Attache there. (The Menzel/Condon correspondence
   had Menzel wanting to write the CIA about the GRs. His thesis
   was that previous concerns about GRs had trapped the Air Force
   in a state of mind that prepared it to take flying saucers too
   serious.) To what extent had the GRs influenced later attitudes
   on UFOs?

3.  In June of 1947, prior to Arnold, the US Military Attache
   in Moscow picked up a report that the Soviet were
   manufacturing a large fleet of Horton-like aircraft for
   reconnaissance and/or attack on the US.

      a.  what effect would this have on US intelligence when
          what seem like a prophesy is fulfilled by the
          appearance on the scene of "flying saucers."

      b.  was there thinking within the government similar to
          the FBI's opinion which seemed to consider that UFOs
          might be a psychological operation against the US by
          either internal or external agents? (Some early
          documents on UFOs are filed under "Rumors" or
          "Propaganda" in the HQ, AAF Intel Files.)

4.  To what extent were UFOs used in the offensive/defensive air
   controversy? Early in on 1947 the Press noticed the lack of
   air defense represented by flying discs. (Much of this air
   defense controversy was not visible to the public.) (The
   arguments against a strong air defense were:

             1) a good offense is the best defense,

             2) it would cost billions and divert needed
                resources to nonproductive areas,

             3) the system if built would be obsolete in
                5 years.)

   (Senator Albert Gore accused the military of concocting or
   spreading stories of flying saucers and to scare people into
   supporting higher defense budgets in 1952.)

    5.  (Maybe a subtopic of four.) To what extent did the ADC,
   FEAF, and possibly the Alaska Air Command, view UFOs as a
   Soviet reconnaissance? (Some evidence of this is in the
   exchanges between White, FEAF, and the ADC Commander.) Some
   of the "reconnaissance" reports later would end up at in UFO
   files.

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Obviously the above would take some high powered research. Much
of the material needed is not in official sanctioned publicly
available versions of events.

Some examples of leads include:

The fact that the Fugo balloon recovery teams were issued
biological protective gear was not declassified until years after
the Fugo records were first declassified.

COL Friend told me that balloon recovery teams were kept in
place until 1953. They did investigate some UFO accounts. (See
also JUFOS #4). (The 555th Inf Regt (Para), a Fugo balloon
recovery unit in the Northwest, organizational history was not
declassified for years after the war.)

The large amount of reserved data in the USAF files in the 1947
era is astonishing compared to other time periods  (Even the Top
Secret control sheet are reserved so the titles of documents
cannot be read.)

The Navy records for ONI are really sparse. Routine to Secret
ONI correspondence for all 1947 is missing. In contrast there are
100s of pages of GR information. The only available Technical
Air Intelligence Center documents are completed "Air Power
Studies."

--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.iufog.org/project1947/