The FBI-CIA-UFO Connection: The Hidden UFO Activities of USA Intelligence Agencies by Maccabee Bruce

Author:Maccabee, Bruce [Maccabee, Bruce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Richard Dolan Press
Published: 2014-09-14T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18 - I’ve Been Lied To!

The FBI’s “X-file” has few entries for the year 1951, probably because this was a down year for UFO sightings. The Blue Book master list has 240 sightings in 1950 but only 171 in 1951.

In January 1951, the FBI added to its file a copy of a LOOK magazine article based on interviews with ATIC director, Colonel Harold Watson. Recall that Colonel Watson was the person who had virtually shut down Project Grudge in 1949. He did this in spite of orders from General Cabell to carry out a good investigation. Perhaps he downplayed Project Grudge because it was poorly funded. Perhaps he just thought that saucer investigation was a waste of time. For whatever reason, during the interviews Colonel Watson followed the party line: all sightings were explainable and saucer investigation was a waste of time. The magazine article, written by Robert Considine, didn’t give the witnesses an even break. Entitled “The Disgraceful Flying Saucer Hoax,” the article characterized UFO witnesses as “true believers,” “members of the lunatic fringe,” “gagsters,” and “screwballs,” and claimed that the sighting reports were a result of “cold war jitters,” “mass hysteria,” hallucinations” and “mirages.” This was like a recycling of Shallett’s article almost two years before.

The FBI memorandum which mentions this article indicates that it was filed “for information purposes.” One can only imagine what the FBI officials thought about this article after what they had been through in the previous two years, with the frightening information from Colonel Gasser, the many unexplained sightings near “vital installations” in New Mexico and the sightings over Oak Ridge. To add to the confusion, during the month after Considine’s article, Time magazine carried an article by Navy scientist Dr. Urner Liddel in which he claimed that all credible sightings were Skyhook balloons. This was followed by several newspaper articles in which Dr. Anthony Mirarchi rebutted Liddel and said the saucers were Russian missiles (see Chapter 15).

The only FBI teletype message about a sighting in 1951 was received at FBI headquarters on September 20. It discussed an important series of radar sightings at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. These sightings, which occurred on September 10 and 11, involved detections of objects which could alternately hover or move at high speed. Not mentioned in the FBI teletype is the report of a pilot in a training aircraft who saw a UFO moving in the area at the same time. There is no evidence that the FBI responded in any way to these events. However, the Air Force certainly did respond and in a big way. In fact, as a result of immediate top level interest, these sightings played an important role in the history of the Air Force UFO project.

Major General Cabell, the Director of Air Force Intelligence, learned of the sightings soon after they occurred and asked ATIC/Project Grudge for a special briefing. Following the lead of Colonel Harold Watson, whose opinion had been expressed in the January LOOK magazine, the few staff people still working on Project Grudge did not take the sighting seriously.

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