In just June and July of 1952, the U.S. lost NINETY-FOUR fighter jets Worldwide and 51 men confirmed killed. Planes were falling to the ground two and three at a time in some cases. The entire month of September records are missing. According to the NY times ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO aircraft vanished or were destroyed between the years 1951 and 1956.
Quotes:
Donald Keyhoe, 1955… “In 1949 the Air Force told me they had been ordered to ‘get’ a flying saucer by any possible means. This was admitted by an intelligence officer at the Pentagon …Major Jere Boggs. In front of General Sory Smith, Boggs told me that one Air Force pilot had fired at a saucer over New Jersey.”
The San Francisco Examiner. July 29 1952… “The Air Force revealed today that jet pilots have been placed on twenty-four-hour nationwide ‘alert’ against ‘flying saucers’ with orders to ‘shoot them down’ if they refuse to land.”
The Louisville Courier-Journal. July 30, 1952… “Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey, deputy Chief of the Air Force Staff for Operations, told the news conference [July 29] that interceptor planes have raced aloft several hundred times as a result of reported sighting of unidentified objects. He said that was just standard procedure.”
Robert Farnsworth, President of the U.S. Rocket Society…Telegram to President Harry Truman, July 29, 1952: “I respectfully suggest that no offensive action be taken against the objects reported as unidentified which have been sighted over our nation. Should they be extraterrestrial – such action might result in the gravest consequences, as well as possibly alienating us from beings of superior powers. Friendly contact should be sought as long as possible.”
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956… “Other assorted historians point out that normally the ‘UFOs’ are peaceful, [fighter pilots] Gorman and Mantell just got too inquisitive, ‘they just weren’t ready to be observed. If the Air Force hadn’t slapped down the security lid these writers might not have reached this conclusion. There have been other and more lurid ‘duels of death.’”
Leonard Stringfield, 1977… “Back in the early 1950s, when I knew of the jet scrambles that sometimes led to disaster, I agreed wirh Major Keyhoe’s writings that in these we may know the intent of the UFO. I also agreed that ‘losing our aircraft to the UFO’ may have been the reason for official secrecy, fearing that the public would panic if they knew the truth.”
General Benjamin Chidlaw, Head of Air Defense Command…
Uncontested quote, as told to investigative writer Robert Gardner in February of 1953. “We have stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.”
CIA memorandum – “Subject: Flying Saucers.” Dated Sept. 24, 1952… H. Marshall Chadwell, Asst. Director of Scientific Intelligence: “A world-wide reporting system has been instituted and major Air Force Bases have been ordered to make interceptions of unidentified flying objects.”
The Fullerton News-Tribune, CA July 26, 1956… “The United States Navy will not publicly admit that it believes in flying saucers, but it has officially ordered combat-ready pilots to ‘shoot to kill’ if saucers are encountered, OCNS [Orange County News Service] has learned. The information was first learned when Navy pilots navigating trans-Pacific routes from the United States to Hawaii were ordered in a briefing session to engage and identify ‘ any unidentified flying objects.’ If the UFOs (saucers) appeared hostile the briefing officer told the pilots of Los Alamitos Naval Air Station reserve squadron VP 771, they are to be engaged in combat… It was found that the orders are not unusual.”
Donald Keyhoe, 1973… “In the late 1950s, as a number of futile US chases mounted, some pilots were convinced that the UFOs were immune to gunfire and rockets. Several Intelligence analysts believed the aliens might be using some negative force linked with gravity control to repel or deflect bullets and missiles. But the top control group disagreed. In a special evaluation of US. and foreign reports they found evidence that UFOs were not invulnerable. Some had been temporarily crippled, apparently from power or control failures, and a few others had been completely destroyed by strange explosions. In one or two cases, it appeared that missiles or rocket fire could have been the cause.”
In just June and July of 1952, the U.S. lost NINETY-FOUR fighter jets Worldwide and 51 men confirmed killed. Planes were falling to the ground two and three at a time in some cases. The entire month of September records are missing. According to the NY times ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO aircraft vanished or were destroyed between the years 1951 and 1956.
