In these years immediately after World War II, few Americans knew how serious the 'official' military attention was to the topic of 'flying saucers'. The behind-the-scenes policies and programs for extraterrestrials have been deliberately kept secret from most of our people. Yet the impact of these secrets could have affected our lives for decades to come…

AIR TREATMENTS: SERIOUS ...

General Nathan Twining ...

“This reported phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictional. There are probably objects that are approximately the shape of a disk, of a larger size, which seems to be as large as the aircraft produced.
The reported operational characteristics, such as extreme climb speeds, maneuverability, and actions that must be considered evasive when spotted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, give us the possibility that some objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely. ”

CIA Director of the Vice-Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter ...
“Behind the scenes, senior Air Force officers are seriously concerned about UFOs. But despite official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense. ”

USAF Air Force Press Officer Al Chopp, “The Blue Book Project is a civilian spokesperson…
"We were instructed to develop a national campaign against disclosure, placement of magazine articles and broadcasting to make UFO news sound like nonsense."

"Well, if there's a bright center of the universe somewhere, you're on the planet that is furthest away ..." [Luke Skywalker]

I could not fully appreciate the lonely sentiment of a galactic farm boy from "long, long ago and far, far away." I was born from the post-war "baby boom" into the lowlands of northwest Ohio; brought up on provincial, small-town perceptions of the middle class. Our humble village was the convergence of state roads and railways - the island of humanity was lost in a sea of ​​corn, wheat and soybean fields. Life there was indistinct work-and-day boredom. The most excitement of my rural childhood had to offer me watching the weeds grow. So you can guess how electrifying the notion of "flying saucers" visitors to space, was as keen on the teenage imagination of Ohio crunchy as I am! UFOs were a big problem in the "fifties", and somehow I knew it was real!

Hello, my name is Jim Nichols and I would like to invite you to see me back in those days when the idea of ​​visitors from the stars represented such a charm ...! Was life really easier, back in 1950, or were we more free? Our generation was the first to dominate the everyday life of an incredibly new, electronic device called ... television.

This magical box in the corner of our living rooms has been delivered to us, with a hypnotic visual flood of news and entertainment that has fully defined our perception of daily reality. And yet, when we were happily anesthetized with such videos as Ozziea and Harriet, I Love Lucy and Mickey Mouse Club, the cruel truth was that our euphoric post-war culture could instantly disappear in the blinding flash of nuclear fission ...

Since 1950 we have actually lived our everyday life in a sci-fi reality. So the term "flying saucers" seemed to fit naturally into our world of "atomic bombs", supersonic planes, missiles, and Sputniks. It was as much a part of growing up as hot dogs, fries and soda.

Even Davy Crockett and Pinocchio made room for space rockets when Walt Disney featured the famous German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who predicted the future of manned space expeditions, in his TV show "Man and the Moon".

In essence, it was Hollywood that mostly deeply inspired my fascination with flying saucers… XNUMXs filmmakers, encouraging to keep a pot of foamy sci-fi movies that were rich in food for my hungry young imagination, suffering in a cultural “valley of death”…

Invaders from space seemed to reflect the unrest of our nation with the growing threat of Soviet communist aggression. Of course, in 1956, global politics was a vague abstraction for a child like me. Instead, I was happily dazzled by MGM's wide screen and a blockbuster from Technicolor's "Forbidden Planet," at a local movie theater watched from a car.

I loved the sleek plate of the "Forbidden Planet," although the Hollywood plates were the only one I have ever seen. But even as a school kid, I realized that adults were really worried that something that was flying in our sky couldn't be explained.

There were too many stories and photographs of circular flying machines, the physical work of intelligent design that could not be taken into account, given our understanding of the 20th century, aerodynamics — without wings, propellers, jet engines and rockets! But still, these machines were able to 'fly' using unknown earth physics. So, if they were not built by Earthlings - the inevitable conclusion was that they must be built by "someone" from "somewhere" elsewhere! And that could only mean that these flying machines were probably piloted by intelligence from other worlds in outer space!

However, despite the enthusiastic public expectations, no official explanation has been given to our leaders. The President and all his military advisors refused to give a definitive answer to this mystery. On the contrary, UFOs were rejected with official military perversion, such as mass hallucinations and Cold War nervousness. Still, the flying plates remained a mystery that they simply did not want to go away ... So I created my own answers to the UFO secrets. Because it was obvious that the one who piloted these flying plates, did not want war with humanity, to take over the planet Earth by military conquest, must be accidental, curious explorers anonymously looking into our ways of life.

If we Earthlings had spaceships to visit other planets, isn't that what we would do too? I got the idea by watching a program like "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas". Here was a famous, fearless world explorer who broadcast films from his expeditions to the Congo, Borneo, New Zealand or the upper reaches of the Amazon, which show the strange ways, customs and cultures of the indigenous people. Wouldn't it seem natural for inquisitive space visitors to do the same? This is how I created my earliest, untouched, fuss-free "models of theory" that playfully explained the sensational secrets of UFOs — they were just curious visitors from other planets who flew in really super ships!

And the stories told by George Adamski seemed to prove my theory. This Californian man, who lived near the famous Palomar Observatory, claimed to have contact with beings from the planet Venus. In a number of popular books, Adamski shared his visiting account with friendly, human-looking Venusians who shared a message of peace and urged people on Earth to end their dangerous nuclear weapons experiments. Perhaps no individual has succeeded more in making flying saucers popular in the crazy fifties than George Adamski, but ultimately he was described as a fraud. The definitive answers to the UFO mysteries remained elusive. So far my stubborn interest in the field has kept pace until my high school years. At that time, the topic was popular, a retired weekly TV series ... "Attackers"!

And in those days, the radio announcer Frank Edwards had a personal campaign to persuade an unbelieving world. He published bizarre stories about paranormal phenomena and UFOs in the best-selling paperbacks such as "Strange than Science" and "Flying Plate-Serious Thing"; blending with bills that again blurred on the tangible, immediate excitement that the secrets of UFO would be revealed at any moment.

And for 1960, it seemed Edwards was right! The airplane eventually featured a flying saucer 's own invention ... Avro disk! However, despite its appearance as an elegant, silver, Hollywood plate, this clumsy mace was bubbling and tilting, barely rising from the runway.

As a dandy-lion trimmer, the Avro disk was unsurpassed, but after ten years of expectation that US inventiveness and technology would eventually reveal its antigravity propulsion systems, the Air Force, instead, revealed another fake UFO by proving that the circulating air-propellant could not fly , and it was therefore an unjustified waste of taxpayers' money and public attention. No further research was justified ...

For the rest of the sixties, silly plates could not equal the amazing space of America's missile program!

The growing fears of Soviet rocket supremacy and the threat of a nuclear attack sparked an obsession with a rocket design competition that dominated the world's attention until the end of this decade. Space-Race Started!

He established that the United States should win this super-strong race, President John F. Kennedy announced in May 1961, a thrilling mandate that within the decade the United States would send men to the moon! But it is time to live. I was really born into an era of real science fiction! With or without flying saucers, we were balancing on the threshold of a rich era with seemingly unlimited potential. The idea was stunning. We can do anything! For one, short, shining moment 'we were on a wave of euphoria - Perhaps mankind will finally find a joint effort, much more meaningful, uplifting and more beneficial than war!

Well, so much to the boundless idealism of youth ...

Optimism died. John Kennedy has never seen the culmination of his exciting mandate to land on the moon. After the murder on the streets of Dallas, much of America's gross national product - funding that could advance space exploration - was wasted in the Vietnam War in a senseless massacre.

We watched as Neil Armstrong entered the Moon in 1969, but three years later, until the end of the Apollo crew, the bored American public had already demanded soap operas. Flying Saucers - The faded 1960s, which seemed so full of promise, was lost in excuses. The United States government has continued its mocking campaign. UFOs have been described as 'temperature inversions', 'swamp gas' or 'planet Venus'… stupid fantasies of justifiable 'fools' or unconscious parcels - more urgent questions distracted the public, such as Vietnam, the Cold War and civil rights riots.

In 1968 it was clear that UFOs are a secret that will NEVER be revealed! Tragically the most important event in all human history - the real proof that we share this universe with other intelligent forms of life, remains behind a stone wall, surrounded by practically impenetrable government obstruction, media hostility and general public apathy! Is it possible that the most strange creatures in the universe are not aliens ... but people of the planet Earth?

Even later, Dr. J. Alan Hynek, a former Air Force Bluebook consultant, eventually interrupted the UFO military investigation program by arguing for a deliberate study of cleaning work with selective evidence and predetermined conclusions. Hynek complained. “What kind of scientific research is that it assumes an answer before it starts? “The government's attitude was then and remains today that… Nothing beyond the ordinary exists!

Paradoxically, it was Hollywood, which finally revealed the motives behind the utter UFO.

In 1968, just a year before Apollo's trek to produce the monthly movie Stanley Kubrick joined Arthur C. Clarke's talent to create a science fiction episode of the decade, 2001: Space Odyssey; An inspired vision of space travel that would set the Hollywood standard for all film adventures. Originally relaxed in Cinerama's widescreen widescreen, Kubrick sought to capture a dynamic visual experience and the amazing grace of space flight. But in this film he also revealed how politically "sensitive" the issue of revealing extraterrestrial "reality" would be for the government. As it turned out, this was more than Hollywood fiction.

The screenplay deals with the discovery of an "extraterrestrial" artifact - an impressive black monolith - on the lunar surface and the social dilemma it presents to federal agencies. The whole public was not considered ready to face the reality of life from other worlds, and the truth of the monolith was obscured.

"I am sure that you all know the extremely serious potential of the cultural shock and social disorientation contained in the current situation if the facts were prematurely and suddenly disclosed without adequate preparation and modification". In 2001, we paid attention to the real attitudes and policies that our national leaders led to the discovery of extraterrestrial life. In the year 1960, like NASA's emerging National Air and Space Administration, ready to launch manned missile launches, a government study concluded that, despite our technological advances, part of the public was generally unable to face the possible discovery of extraterrestrial life - the inherent risk of space exploration .

A group of scientists and sociologists at the Brookings Institution reported "Proposed Studies on the Impact of Peaceful Space Activities on Human Affairs," which suggests that the human race was still too medieval, primitive, and reactionary to cope with cosmic "aliens." many examples of societies, certain of their place in the universe, that disintegrated when they had to unite with hitherto unknown societies that hold different ideas and different ways of life. Others who have survived such an experience have usually done so by paying the price of changes in values, attitudes, and behavior. ”Perhaps Kubrick's paranoid computer, the HAL, acted wisely in 2001, when he expelled his ship's crew. Perhaps the emotionally unbalanced "human" is obsolete.

"This mission is very important to me so that I can endanger you." In 1979, the former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the CIA, Victor Marchetti very openly declared the agency's official attitude towards extraterrestrials ...

“… We have indeed been contacted - perhaps even visited - by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in secret agreement with the other national powers of the country, is determined to keep this information from the general public. The aim of the international conspiracy is to maintain working stability among the peoples of the world and to maintain for them institutional control over their respective populations. So, to admit that there are beings from space ... with mentality and technological capabilities apparently much better than ours, they could, once fully aware of the average person, disrupt the foundations of traditional earthly power structures. Political and legal systems, religious, economic and social institutions could soon be meaningless in the mind of the general public. National [government] facilities, even civilization, as we know it, could collapse into anarchy… ”So here you are, my boy's excitement to finally discover all the secrets of a“ flying saucer ”was condemned from the beginning.

By the end of 1970, I was a military proposer. The youthful optimism of the 1950s and 1960s was gone. Interest in UFO activity faded. And yet, do people really want to know the country? I guessed innocently that everyone wanted to know about the astonishing reality of beings from outer space. But after all these years I'm not so sure. I think my fellow citizens are too busy living from pay to pay, satisfied with their Wal-Marty, their Super Bowls, Disneylands and their predictable little lives ...

Or, as the movie "MIB" calls it…

Jones: “People usually have no idea. They don't want each other. They are happy. They think they have good things. ”

Smith: “Why is the big secret? People are smart, they can do it. ”

Jones: “The person is smart. People are stupid, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. 1500 years ago everyone knew that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everyone knew that the earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago you knew that people were alone on this planet. Imagine what you will know tomorrow! ”

The “flying saucer” take-off makes a 60-year legacy of circumstantial evidence, crammed with endless anecdotal eyewitness accounts — unfortunately, not proof at all. Ergo: UFOs don't exist!

So after so many years, I came to the exhaustive, exhausting conclusion that my lush youthful expectations for full disclosure of UFO information are probably never realized - but at least I finally know ... why!

Investigating other reasons for UFO secrecy has become a major concern for me as a researcher before UFOs themselves. My efforts to uncover the motives and meanings behind the social barriers that hinder the serious UFO investigation continue today and in this context I invite you to visit many of the essays published on my website to find out where my over 30 years of research has led me ...