ECCO LO ZOHAL: IL NUOVO DISCO VOLANTE IRANIANO

L'agenzia stampa iraniana filo governativa "Fars News Agency" sostiene che il paese mediorientale abbia sviluppato e messo in produzione un nuovo veicolo UAV, utile a spiare silenziosamente il territorio. La cosa curiosa è che è stato descritto come un disco volante e l'immagine di repertorio dell'articolo è questa:

In attesa di scoprire le vere fattezze dell'oggetto volante è facile immaginare quanti presunti avvistamenti ufologici deriveranno da questo veicolo. Ma soprattutto viene da pensare: se gli iraniani che non brillano certo per innovazione tecnologica, hanno costruito un velivolo simile ad un classico disco volante, quanti oggetti del genere possono essere stati già creati e sguinzagliati nei cieli di tutto il mondo? E quanti di questi hanno contribuito ad inquinare le già melmose acque dell'ufologia? Ed inoltre: perchè scegliere proprio le fattezze di un disco volante? Forse per passare meglio inosservati, giocando con la confusione esistente sulla natura degli ufo? Comunque si spera che lo "Zohal" (questo è il suo nome) presto sarà identificabile da immagini autentiche, che prima o poi verranno divulgate, così da diminuire la possibilità di scambiarlo per un vero ufo. E' questa la vera dannazione per gli ufologi, dover avere a che fare con tutta una serie di oggetti che non fanno altro che aumentare la persistente confusione, certamente sfruttata e creata ad arte da chi ha interesse a mantenere tutta questa incertezza, sia per rendere un po' meno facilmente identificabili i propri velivoli speciali, sia per alimentare il dubbio sulla possibile natura esogena di certi oggetti volanti.

VERO UFO RIPRESO IN PRIMO PIANO. MA E' VERO?

Sembra davvero che il video sia autentico, per lo meno non è stato manomesso, e non è stato creato ad arte con software appositi. Che dire.. sembra troppo facile, eppure.. Ma cosa ritrae questo video?
Qui la versione commentata dall'autore delle riprese, che spiega come è avvenuta la scena.

UFO SOPRA VULCANO IN COLOMBIA

La notizia arriva dal sito "Colombia Reports" il quale l'ha presa con tanto di foto da un giornale locale, il "Diario del Huila" .
 Effettivamente sono parecchi giorni che la popolazione delle regioni di Huila e Cauca assistono alle evoluzioni di numerosi oggetti volanti non identificati, apparentemente interessati al recente risveglio del vulcano Nevada del Huila, situato appunto a cavallo dei due distretti.
A detta dei giornalisti colombiani che sono riuscito a contattare, nessuno avrebbe ritoccato la foto e il fatto sarebbe stato testimoniato da numerosi abitanti della zona, anche perchè dal momento che il vulcano è in attività e potrebbe eruttare all'improvviso, è normale che gli occhi della gente del luogo siano costantemente rivolti verso il cratere sommitale, sul quale appunto volano questi oggetti misteriosi.
C'è chi parla di veicoli segreti americani, chi dei soliti extraterrestri, onnipresenti ormai nel folklore sudamericano, i quali a detta di alcuni, sarebbero attratti per motivi diversi dall'enorme energia che si sviluppa dal vulcano in attività.
Qualunque sia la natura di questi velivoli resta comunque questa foto, che insieme a tante altre scattate nel medesimo contesto, ritraggono uno sconosciuto oggetto volante discoidale sulla sommità del vulcano. Non sembra un'uccello, nè un elicottero, nè un aereo, ma l'ennesimo indizio che se confermato, rafforzerebbe una volta di più la convinzione che qualcosa di molto strano si aggira nei cieli di tutto il mondo, oggetti su cui l'uomo della strada non può far altro che ipotesi. Tra l'altro non è la prima volta che gli ufo sono stati visti e ritratti in prossimità di un vulcano in eruzione, soprattutto in America Latina, come in Cile, ad esempio nel 2010 e nel 2005.

UFO SOPRA LIMA, PERU', RIPRESO DA 2 POSTAZIONI DIFFERENTI

ECCEZIONALI E DETTAGLIATI VIDEO UFO IN PRIMO PIANO (2008) (AGGIORNATO IL 18 AGOSTO)

In questi 2 video non si vedono i soliti puntiformi oggetti indistinguibili, e non sono le solite riprese mosse malfatte che spesso fanno ridacchiare e voltare lo sguardo dall'altra parte agli scettici, per quanto reali.
Sono vivide immagini di dischi volanti, ravvicinate, dettagliate, ma soprattutto reputate autentiche.
Personalmente sono il primo ad avere dubbi sulla natura degli ufo, non per forza devono essere extraterrestri, magari sono il climax tecnologico della disinformazione, o una truffa molto ben organizzata.
Ma almeno che non dicano più che non esistono immagini serie.
Per il resto come dicono gli anglofoni: you look, you decide.

18 AGOSTO
Dunque, in seguito ad alcune polemiche relative alla pubblicazione di questi video, è necessario purtroppo, mettere i puntini sulle "i", per tutti coloro che giustamente, possono non conoscere lo spirito di questo blog e la sua posizione nei confronti del tema Ufo.
Questi video, in particolare il secondo, ritraggono oggetti  che sono chiaramente di dubbia origine, se non falsi.
Ammetto: ho sbagliato a postarli in questo modo ambiguo, cusa la fretta. Chiedo venia.
Chi mi conosce avrà capito e per gli altri spero che ora le cose saranno più chiare.
Il fatto è che nonostante la mole storica di immagini davvero interessanti e casi deltutto credibili, la frangia degli scettici ad oltranza domanda maliziosamente come mai non esistano ritratti di ufo in primo piano, foto nitide e via dicendo, alludendo con questo alla possibilità che non sussistano basi condivisibili oggettivamente, per considerare la questione scientificamente.
Volete i dischi volanti in primo piano? Beccatevi questi. Continuate ad ignorare il vero fenomeno, voi studiosi ansiosi di pubblicare l'articoletto sulla rivista di turno? Lasciate pure tutto in mano agli ufologi, loro sì che possono trovare la verità, visto che la categoria comprende notoriamente un ricercatore serio e 99 ciarlatani di media.
Questi video per chi lo ignora, sono definiti come AUTENTICI da siti considerati solitamente seri!
Rifletteteci.

IL "TETHER INCIDENT" COME NON L'AVETE MAI VISTO

Vorrei tanto che qualcuno desse una spiegazione razionale plausibile. Davvero: cosa sono questi, detriti spaziali? Che curvano a 180°? O si dimostra chiaramente il come e il perchè si tratta di un fenomeno spiegabile, e una volta per tutte si chiuda questa pagina, o basta, voi che negate e ridete: zitti, coda fra le gambe, e col capo cosparso di cenere esponetevi al pubblico ludibrio.
Che sia chiaro per tutti: non sono dischi volanti di 5 miglia di diametro, perchè è ovvio che quelli che appaiono come tali sono con tutta probabilità causati da un'aberrazione ottica dovuta alla non messa a fuoco che ingrandisce a dismisura le dimensioni di una fonte luminosa (infatti anche il laccio appare molto più spesso che nella realtà): si tratta comunque di oggetti riflettenti luce, in movimento, con apparente moto non lineare. Per la NASA sono normalissimi particoli di ghiaccio, e secondo i soliti incalliti negazionisti, siccome a quell'altitudine non vi è propriamente il vuoto cosmico, è normale che i pezzi di spazzatura ghiacciata se ne vadano avanti e indietro a velocità folli, e quelle che sembrano "U turns", curve a gomito, o deviazioni di 180° o meno, sarebbero inganni ottici dovuti all'attrazione gravitazionale e alla prospettiva.
Aspetto una risposta sensata ed una spiegazione razionale per i movimenti di questi "space debris".

IL DISCO VOLANTE RUSSO

L'Amministrazione di Ulianovsk, città russa della Regione del Volga, ha finanziato un progetto quinquennale per la costruzione di un vascello aereo, a metà fra una dirigibile ed un elicottero, che avrà, dalle prime foto distribuite, chiaramente la forma di un disco volante. Questo mezzo è in grado di volare grazie ad un sistema aerostatico ad elio, alimentato da motori elettrici, e sarà capace di trasportare in futuro 11.000 persone e svariate tonnellate di carico. La sua peculiare forma a "saucer" ovvero a scodella, o meglio a 2 piatti uno rovesciato sopra l'altro( la classica forma da ufo), non è stata scelta per caso o per simpatia verso tale foggia, ma è il risultato di studi areodinamici approfonditi. Infatti, come ben avranno già intuito gli appassionati di ufologia, la forma discoidale oltre ad essere l'ideale per una superiore manovrabilità, grande stabilità, e per capacità di galleggiamento nell'aria, permetterà al "Lokomoskayner" (da: Lokomosky, colui che lo ha progettato e sviluppato) di operare e di trasportare qualsivoglia carico in punti e luoghi difficilmente raggiungibili dagli altri mezzi di trasporto. Grazie alla sua capacità di stazionare in aria e di atterrare dolcemente in verticale, potrà intervenire in posti e situazioni impossibili per gli altri mezzi di soccorso, diventando così probabilmente in futuro sempre più diffuso, potendo garantire ammaraggi e consegne ove prima era impensabile. D'altronde da anni si studiano gli ufo e chi lo fa sa benissimo di cosa sono capaci: era scontato che prima o poi (sempre che non sia già stato fatto) qualcuno avrebbe sfruttato le mirabili possibilità aerodinamiche che la loro forma permette, applicandole a qualche aeromobile. In effetti quello russo riuscirà a raggiungere la velocità di 100 km/h. Bellissimo e utilissimo, casualmente tutto argentato: inevitabile che a breve questo mezzo identificabile sarà responsabile di chissà quanti avvistamenti di oggetti non identificati, e chissà quante volte un ufo vero e proprio sarà liquidato come un Lokomoskayner. Una prova ulteriore del fatto che gli ufo sono reali? Alludendo allo sfruttamento della forma a disco volante che così ben si presta a mirabili possibilità di manovra? Chissà, il sospetto è lecito quanto implicita è la risposta, e non è da sottovalutare la comodità della scusa sempre pronta che avranno le autorità russe, per spiegare eventuali, imbarazzanti incontri del I tipo.

DICHIARAZIONI AUTOREVOLI SULL' ESISTENZA DEGLI UFO (aggiornato 16/05/2011)

“Before we could do anymore, the army, after conferring with (US) officials, ordered the investigation stopped."
Dr Paul Santorini regarding UFOs seen over Greece in 1946.

"Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.”
CIA Director, Allen Dulles, 1955.

“I have discussed this matter with the effected agencies of the government, and they are of the opinion that is it not wise to publicize this matter at this time."
Senator Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee, following his sighting of a UFO during an official trip to the Soviet Union in 1955.

“Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds and controlled by thinking intelligences.”
Navy Admiral Delmar Fahrney in a public statement during 1957.

“Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest… Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.”
Congressman William H. Ayres, 1958.

“Saucers exist (I saw two). They were intelligently flown or operated (evasive tactics, formation flight, hovering). They were mechanisms, not United States weapons, nor Russian. I presume they are extraterrestrial.”
Lt. Colonel Richard Headrick, radar bombing expert, 1959.

“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 that unknown flying objects are nonsense.”
Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960.

“My own present opinion, based on two years of careful study, is that UFOs are probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very tentatively be termed ‘surveillance’.”
Dr James McDonald before Congress, 1968.

“These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the Earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.”
“Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.”
Colonel Joseph J. Bryan III, founder member of the CIAs psychological warfare staff, advisor to NATO.

“This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.”
Air MarshallAzim Daudpota, Zimbabwe speaking about a UFO sighting over the country in 1985.

“More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any ‘scientific’ explanation, eg that they are hallucinations, the effects of light refraction, meteors, wheels falling from aeroplanes, and the like…. They have been tracked on radar screens… and the observed speeds have been as great as 9,000 mph. I am convinced that these objects do exist and they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from an extraterrestrial source.”
Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, Commanding Officer of the RAF during WWII.

“I am convinced there was thought behind the thing’s manoeuvres.”
Lieutenant George Gorman, F51 pilot after being in a 30 minute dogfight with a small UFO in 1948.

“UFOs are real and they may come from outer space…photographs and various materials show scientifically that there are more advanced people piloting the saucers and motherships.”
General Kanshi Ishikawa, Chief of Air Staff, 1967.

“Air Force interceptors still pursue UFOs as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.”
Major General Joe W. Kelly, 1957.

“Something is going on in the skies… that we do not understand. If all the airline pilots and Air Force pilots who have seen UFOs and sometimes chased them… have been the victims of hallucinations, then an awful lot of pilots should be taken off and forbidden to fly.”
Captain Kervendal, French Gendarmerie.

“The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.”
Major Donald Keyhoe, during a live TV broadcast on CBS in 1958 in which he was pulled from the air when he began to deviate from the prepared format of the programme."

“It appears to be a metallic object...tremendous in size… directly ahead and slightly above… I am trying to close for a better look.”
Captain Thomas Mantell, USAF. These were his last words as he closed in on a UFO in 1948. Minutes later his plane was to crash and he was to lose his life.

“I was amazed at what I saw. The amount of debris that was scattered over such an area...The more I saw of the fragments, the more I realized it wasn’t anything I was acquainted with. In fact, as it turned out, nobody else was acquainted with it...There was a cover up some place about the whole matter.”
Major Jesse Marcel. US Army Intelligence Officer. Extract taken from a video interview. This testimony is a direct contradiction to the testimony of the Air Force regarding the nature of the recovered debris at Roswell in 1947.

“Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don’t have hallucinations.”
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. World War I air ace.

"UFOs sighted in Indonesia are identical with those sighted in other countries. Sometimes they pose a problem for our Air Defence and once we were obliged to open fire on them.”
Air Marshall Nurjadin Roesmin, Commander in Chief of the Indonesian Air Force in 1967.

“The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno’s confrontation in Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.”
Air Commodore J. Salutun, National Aerospace Council of Indonesia, and a Member of the Indonesian Parliament in 1967.

“And don’t tell me they were reflections, I know they were solid objects.”
Lieutenant D. A Swimley, USAF in 1953 following the sighting of 8 UFOs that were confirmed on radar and witnessed numerous other people including commercial pilots and police officers.

“Headquarters wouldn't let us go after it and we played around a little bit. We got to watching how it made 90 degree turns at this high speed and everything. We knew it wasn’t a missile of any type, so then we confirmed it with the radar control station, and they kept following it, and then it crashed somewhere off between Texas and the Mexico border.”
Colonel Robert Willingham, USAF from an affidavit in the 1970’s when discussing a sighting of a UFO whilst he was navigating an F94 jet on September 6th 1950.

“A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their cameras toward the UFO…. I had chance to hold (the film) up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth.”
Colonel Gordon Cooper, Mercury and Gemini Astronaut describing an incident he witnessed during the 1960’s during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure Program.

“The UFO was bouncing around the 747. (It) was a huge ball with lights running around it… Well, I’ve been involved in a lot of cover-ups with the FAA. When we gave the presentation to the Reagan staff, they had all those people swear that this never happened. But they never had me swear it never happened. I can tell you what I’ve seen with my own eyes. I’ve got a videotape. I’ve got the voice tape. I’ve got the reports that were filed that will confirm what I’ve been telling you.”
John Callaghan, FAA Chief of Accidents and Investigations during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program.

“I have frequently been asked why a person of my background—a former Chief of the Defence Staff, a former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee—why I think there is a cover-up (of) the facts about UFOs. I believe governments fear that if they did disclose those facts, people would panic. I don’t believe that at all. There is a serious possibility that we are being visited by people from outer space. It behoves us to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want.”
Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, British Royal Navy, former Chief of Defence during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program.

The security guard called and said, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I’ve got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.” We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs were in the area… (A high ranking Air Force officer) said, “Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final report. I heard that many of the guards that reported the incident were sent off to Vietnam."
Captain Robert Salas, USAF, during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program.

“It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colours, and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure: I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified flying objects in the sky.”
Former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter following his sighting along with many others of a UFO at Leary, Georgia in October 1969.

“The phenomenon of UFOs is real. I know that there are scientific organisations which study the problem.”
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on 26th April 1990.

“This is the first sighting in Zimbabwe where airborne pilots have tried to intercept a UFO. As far as my Air Staff is concerned, we believe implicitly that the unexplained UFOs are from civilizations beyond our planet.”
Air Commodore David Thorne, Director of General Operations for the Zimbabwe Air Force in 1985.

“The Air Force has arrived at the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced in Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations….reinforced by the reports of the night March 30-31 (1990) have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorised aerial activities have taken place.
The day will undoubtedly come when the phenomenon will be observed with the technological means of detection and collection that won’t leave a single doubt about its origin.
This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the mystery for a long time; a mystery that continues to be present.
But it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion."
Colonel Wilfred De Brouwer, Chief of Operations for the Belgian Air Force in 1990 following a spate of sightings over the country witnessed by hundreds of people. Many of the sightings were confirmed on radar.


"It is impossible for any man-made machine to make a sudden appearance in front of a jumbo jet that is flying 910 kilometers per hour and to remain in steady formation paralleling our aircraft. ... Honestly, we were simply breathtaken."
Japan Airlines pilot Kenju Terauchi in 1986

It is time for the truth to be brought out. . . Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.
— Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Director of the CIA (1947-50) in a letter to Congress, 1960 quoted in Above Top Secret

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After "detailed examination of thousands of reports and interrogation of hundreds of witnesses" Dr. Hynek concludes that the unexplained [UFO] cases "do not specify any known physical event . . . [or] any known psychological event or process."
— in UFOs: A Scientific Debate

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It isn't a question of whether or not flying saucers exist. The question is, what are they and who do they belong to?
— George Filer, Air Force intelligence officer, 1958-1978 quoted in Sightings: UFOs

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I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.
— President Gerald Ford In a letter he sent as a congressman to the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee March 28, 1966

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More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth.
— Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, 11 July 1954. quoted in Above Top Secret

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I speak not only from intimate knowledge of the past investigations, but also from three years of detailed personal research, involving interviews with more than five hundred witnesses in selected UFO cases, chiefly in the United States. In my opinion, the UFO problem, far from being the 'nonsense problem' it has been labeled by many scientists, constitutes an area of extraordinary scientific interest.
— Dr. James McDonald Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Senior Physicist quoted in UFOs: A Scientific Debate

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I had the evidence that a crash did happen... I ask [you] this, were you there with me? Did you have the clearances? They can't answer these questions, they simply criticize with no evidence.
— Colonel Philip Corso Former head of the Foreign Technology Desk for United States Army Research and Development National Security Council member, Eisenhower Administration on camera shortly before his death, 1998

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Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base [Germany, 1951] and we tried to get close to them, but they were able to change direction faster than our fighters. I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.
— Gordon Cooper, former USAF pilot and NASA astronaut United Nations UFO debate, 27 November 1978 quoted in Above Top Secret

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I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not contructed by any power on Earth.
— President Harry S. Truman April 4, 1950, White House Press Conference

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For thirty years I've held that image in my mind. What I saw was a circular object that looked like two pie plates put on top of each other with a golf ball on top. It was a classic flying saucer, and it shot a beam of something at our warhead.
— Lt. Robert M. Jacobs, U.S. Air Force quoted in Sightings: UFOs

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Blue Book was now under direct orders to debunk. . . I remember the conversations around the conference table in which it was suggested that Walt Disney or some educational cartoon producer be enlisted in [the] debunking process.
— Dr. J. Allen Hynek in The Hynek UFO Report

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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
— Senator Barry Goldwater In a letter dated March 28, 1975

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Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details of strange flying craft seen over territories of the Soviet Union. This is a serious challenge to science and we need the help of all Soviet citizens.
— Professor Felix Zigel of the Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow Central Television, 10 November 1967. quoted in Above Top Secret

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I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself.
— President Jimmy Carter remarking on his sighting January 1969 ABC News, January 22, 1999

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The Air Force has never denied the possibility that interplanetary spacecraft exist. There are many people in the Air Force who believe in UFOs.
— Al Chop, former press liaison, United States Air Force quoted in Sightings: UFOs

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The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. Flying saucers exist. Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Doctor Vannevar Bush.
— Wilbert Smith in a Top Secret Canadian government memorandum, 21 November 1950 quoted in Above Top Secret

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The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.
— Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell UFOs: 50 Years of Denial aired on The Learning Channel, March 4, 1999

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It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range scientific investigations of our earth for centuries.
— Professor Hermann Oberth published in UFO News in 1974 quoted in Above Top Secret

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The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel, either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.
— Dr. Harold Puthoff Director, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin in Physics Essays, Volume 9, No. 1, 1996 author of Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics