Wednesday, May 24th., 2017
Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting With Extraterrestrials:
The Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?
Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting With Extraterrestrials:
The Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?
Research Study #8
Revised Febuary 12, 2004, first published January 28, 2004,
http://www.exopolitics.org
© Michael E. Salla, PhD
ABSTRACT
On the night and early hours of
February 20-21, 1954, while on a ‘vacation’ to Palm Springs, California,
President Dwight Eisenhower went missing and allegedly was taken to
Edwards Air force base for a secret meeting. When he showed up the next
morning at a church service in Los Angeles, reporters were told that he
had to have emergency dental treatment the previous evening and had
visited a local dentist. The dentist later appeared at a function that
evening and presented as the ‘dentist’ who had treated Eisenhower. The
missing night and morning has subsequently fueled rumors that Eisenhower
was using the alleged dentist visit as a cover story for an
extraordinary event. The event is possibly the most significant that any
American President could have conducted: an alleged ‘First Contact’
meeting with extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force base (previously
Muroc Airfield), and the beginning of a series of meetings with
different extraterrestrial races that led to a ‘treaty’ that was
eventually signed. This astonishing First Contact event, if it occurred,
will experience its 50th anniversary on February 20-21, 2004.
This paper explores the evidence
that the First Contact meeting had occurred with extraterrestrials with a
distinctive ‘Nordic’ appearance, the likelihood of an agreement having
been spurned with this ‘Nordic race’, the start of a series of meetings
that led to a treaty eventually being signed with a different
extraterrestrial race dubbed the ‘Greys’, and the motivations of the
different extraterrestrial races involved in these treaty discussions.
The paper will further examine why these events were kept secret for so
long, the significance of the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower’s meeting
with extraterrestrials, and whether an official disclosure announcement
is likely in the near future.
Dr. Michael E. Salla has held academic appointments in the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC (1996-2001), and the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1994-96). He taught as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University, Washington DC., in 2002. He is currently researching methods of Transformational Peace as a Researcher in Residence in the Center for Global Peace (2001-2004) and directing the Center's Peace Ambassador Program which uses transformational peace techniques for individual self-empowerment. He has a PhD in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004); and The Hero's Journey Toward a Second American Century (Greenwood Press, 2002) and co-editor/author of three other books, and authored more than seventy articles, chapters, and book reviews on peace, ethnic conflict and conflict resolution. He has conducted research and fieldwork in the ethnic conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Sri Lanka. He has organized a number of international workshops involving mid to high level participants from these conflicts. He has an academic website at http://www.american.edu/salla/ and is the founder of the website: http://www.exopolitics.org
Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting With Extraterrestrials: The Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?
Introduction [1]
On the night and early hours of
February 20-21, 1954, while on a ‘vacation’ to Palm Springs, California,
President Dwight Eisenhower went missing and allegedly was taken to
Edwards Air force base for a secret meeting. When he showed up the next
morning at a church service in Los Angeles, reporters were told that he
had to have emergency dental treatment the previous evening and had
visited a local dentist. The dentist later appeared at a function that
evening and presented as the ‘dentist’ who had treated Eisenhower. The
missing night and morning has subsequently fueled rumors that Eisenhower
was using the alleged dentist visit as a cover story for an
extraordinary event. The event is possibly the most significant that any
American President could have conducted: an alleged ‘First Contact’
meeting with extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force base (previously
Muroc Airfield), and the beginning of a series of meetings with
different extraterrestrial races that led to a ‘treaty’ that was
eventually signed. This astonishing First Contact event, if it occurred,
will experience its 50th anniversary on February 20-21, 2004.
This paper explores the evidence
that the First Contact meeting had occurred with extraterrestrials with
a distinctive ‘Nordic’ appearance, the likelihood of an agreement
having been spurned with this ‘Nordic race’, the start of a series of
meetings that led to a treaty eventually being signed with a different
extraterrestrial race dubbed the ‘Greys’, and the motivations of the
different extraterrestrial races involved in these treaty discussions.
The paper will further examine why these events were kept secret for so
long, the significance of the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower’s meeting
with extraterrestrials, and whether an official disclosure announcement
is likely in the near future.
Circumstantial Evidence Supporting Eisenhower’s ‘First Contact’ Meeting with Extraterrestrials
There is circumstantial and
testimonial evidence supporting Eisenhower’s meeting with
extraterrestrials and the start of a series of meetings that culminated
in the signing of a treaty with a different group of extraterrestrials.
The most intriguing are circumstances surrounding Eisenhower’s alleged
winter vacation to Palm Springs, California from February 17-24, 1954.
Firstly, the ”vacation for the President” which was announced rather
suddenly and came less than a week after Eisenhower’s ‘quail shooting’
vacation in Georgia. According to UFO researcher, William Moore, all
this was quite unusual and suggested that there was more to the one week
visit to Palm Springs than a simple holiday. [2]
Second, on the Saturday night of
February 20, President Eisenhower did go missing fueling press
speculation that he had taken ill or even died. In a hastily convened
press conference, Eisenhower’s Press Secretary announced that Eisenhower
had lost a tooth cap while eating fried chicken and had to be rushed to
a local dentist. The local dentist was introduced at an official
function on Sunday February 21, as "the dentist who had treated the
president". [3]
Moore’s investigation of the incident concluded that the dentist’s
visit was being used as a cover story for Eisenhower’s true whereabouts.
Consequently, Eisenhower was
missing for an entire evening and could easily have been taken from Palm
Springs to the nearby Muroc Airfield, later renamed Edwards Air Force
base. The unscheduled nature of the President’s vacation, the missing
President and the dentist cover story provide circumstantial evidence
that the true purpose of his Palm Springs vacation was for him to attend
an event whose importance was such that it could not be disclosed to
the general public. A meeting with extraterrestrials may well have been
the true purpose of his visit.
Gerald Light’s Letter That Eisenhower Met With Extraterrestrials
The first public source alleging a meeting with
extraterrestrials was Gerald Light who in a letter dated April 16, 1954
to Meade Layne, the then director of Borderland Sciences Research
Associates (now Foundation), claimed he was part of a delegation of
community leaders to an alleged meeting with extraterrestrials at
Edwards Air Force Base. In a subsequent article, Meade Layne described
Light as a “gifted and highly educated writer and lecturer”, who was
skilled both in clairvoyance and the occult. [4]
Light was a well-known metaphysical community leader in the Southern
California area. The alleged purpose of him and others on the delegation
was to test public reaction to the presence of extraterrestrials. Light
described the circumstances of the meeting as follows:
'My dear friends: I have just returned from Muroc [Edwards Air Force Base]. The report is true -- devastatingly true! I made the journey in company with Franklin Allen of the Hearst papers and Edwin Nourse of Brookings Institute (Truman's erstwhile financial advisor) and Bishop MacIntyre of L.A. (confidential names for the present, please). When we were allowed to enter the restricted section (after about six hours in which we were checked on every possible item, event, incident and aspect of our personal and public lives), I had the distinct feeling that the world had come to an end with fantastic realism. For I have never seen so many human beings in a state of complete collapse and confusion, as they realized that their own world had indeed ended with such finality as to beggar description. The reality of the ‘other plane’ aeroforms is now and forever removed from the realms of speculation and made a rather painful part of the consciousness of every responsible scientific and political group. During my two days' visit I saw five separate and distinct types of aircraft being studied and handled by our Air Force officials -- with the assistance and permission of the Etherians! I have no words to express my reactions. It has finally happened. It is now a matter of history. President Eisenhower, as you may already know, was spirited over to Muroc one night during his visit to Palm Springs recently. And it is my conviction that he will ignore the terrific conflict between the various 'authorities' and go directly to the people via radio and television -- if the impasse continues much longer. From what I could gather, an official statement to the country is being prepared for delivery about the middle of May. [5]
Of course no such formal
announcement was made, and Light’s supposed meeting has either been the
best-kept secret of the twentieth century or the fabrication of an
elderly mystic known for out of body experiences. The events Light
describes in his meeting in terms of the panic and confusion of many of
those present, the emotional impact of the alleged landing, and the
tremendous difference of opinion on what to do in terms of telling the
public and responding to the extraterrestrial visitors, are plausible
descriptions of what may have occurred. Indeed, the psychological and
emotional impact Light describes for senior national security leaders at
the meeting is consistent with what could be expected for such a ‘life
changing event’. A further way of determining Light’s claim is to
investigate the figures he named along with himself as part of the
community delegation, and whether they could have been plausible
candidates for such a meeting.
Dr Edwin Nourse (1883-1974) was
the first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to the President
(1944-1953) and was President Truman’s chief economic advisor. [6]
Nourse officially retired to private life in 1953 and would certainly
have been a good choice of someone who could give confidential economic
advise to the Eisenhower administration. If Dr Nourse was present at
such a meeting, he did so in order to provide his expertise on the
possible economic impact of First Contact with extraterrestrials.
Another of the individuals mentioned by Light was Bishop MacIntyre.
Cardinal James Francis MacIntyre
was the bishop and head of the Catholic Church in Los Angeles
(1948-1970) and would have been an important gauge for the possible
reaction from religious leaders generally, and in particular from the
most influential and powerful religious institution on the planet – the
Roman Catholic Church. In particular, Cardinal MacIntyre would have been
a good choice as a representative for the Vatican since he was
appointed the first Cardinal of the Western United States by Pope Pius
XII in 1952. All Cardinal MacIntyre’s correspondence is closed to
researchers thus making it impossible to confirm what impact the visit
to Muroc had on him and what he communicated to other church leaders and
the Vatican. [7]
Cardinal MacIntyre had sufficient rank and authority to represent the
Catholic Church and the religious community in a delegation of community
leaders.
The fourth member of the
delegation of community leaders was Franklin Winthrop Allen, a former
reporter with the Hearst Newspapers Group. [8]
Allen was 80 years old at the time, author of a book instructing
reporters on how to deal with Congressional Committee Hearings, and
would have been a good choice for a member of the press who could
maintain confidentiality.
The four represented senior
leaders of the religious, spiritual, economic and newspaper communities
and were well advanced in age and status. They would certainly have been
plausible choices for a community delegation that could provide
confidential advise on a possible public response to a First Contact
event involving extraterrestrial races. Such a selection would have
constituted a ‘wise men’ group that would have been entirely in
character for the conservative nature of American society in 1954. While
Light may well contrived such a list in a fabricated account or ‘out of
body’ experience as Moore implies in his analysis, there is nothing in
Light’s selection that eliminates the possibility that they were
plausible members of such a delegation. [9] At face value then, the selection of such a ‘wise men’ group gives some credence to Light’s claim.
It may be concluded then that
following items all make up circumstantial evidence that a meeting with
extraterrestrials occurred. The first is Eisenhower’s missing night. The
second is the weak ‘cover story’ used for Eisenhower’s absence. The
third is Light’s description of actual events at the meeting in terms of
the psychological and emotional impact of the described meeting which
is consistent with what could be anticipated. The final is Light’s
description of the composition of community leaders or ‘wise men’ at the
meeting. These four items collectively provide circumstantial evidence
that a meeting with extraterrestrials occurred and that Eisenhower was
present.
Testimonies Supporting Eisenhower’s Meeting With Extraterrestrials
There are a number of other
sources alleging an extraterrestrial meeting at Edwards Air force base
that corresponded to a formal First Contact event. These sources are
based on testimonies of ‘whistleblowers’ that witnessed documents or
learned from their ‘insider contacts’ of such a meeting. These
testimonies describe what appears to be two separate sets of meetings
involving different extraterrestrial groups who met either with
President Eisenhower and/or with Eisenhower administration officials
over a short period of time. The first of these meetings, the actual
‘First Contact’ event, did not lead to an agreement and the
extraterrestrials were effectively spurned. The second of these meetings
did lead to an agreement, and this has been apparently become the basis
of subsequent secret interactions with extraterrestrial races involved
in the ‘treaty’ that was signed. There is some discrepancy in the
sequence of meetings and where they were held, but all agree that a
‘First Contact’ meeting involving President Eisenhower did occur, and
that one of these meetings occurred with his February 1954 visit to
Edwards Air force base.
The first version of
Eisenhower’s meeting is described by one of the most ‘controversial’
whistleblowers to ever have come forward into the public arena to
describe an extraterrestrial presence. William Cooper served on the
Naval Intelligence briefing team for the Commander of the Pacific Fleet
between 1970-73, and had access to classified documents that he had to
review in order to fulfill his briefing duties. He describes the
background and nature of the ‘First contact’ with extraterrestrials as
follows:
In 1953 Astronomers discovered large objects in space which were moving toward the Earth. It was first believed that they were asteroids. Later evidence proved that the objects could only be Spaceships. Project Sigma intercepted alien radio communications. When the objects reached the Earth they took up a very high orbit around the Equator. There were several huge ships, and their actual intent was unknown. Project Sigma, and a new project, Plato, through radio communications using the computer binary language, was able to arrange a landing that resulted in face to face contact with alien beings from another planet. Project Plato was tasked with establishing diplomatic relations with this race of space aliens. In the meantime a race of human looking aliens contacted the U.S. Government. This alien group warned us against the aliens that were orbiting the Equator and offered to help us with our spiritual development. They demanded that we dismantle and destroy our nuclear weapons as the major condition. They refused to exchange technology citing that we were spiritually unable to handle the technology which we then possessed. They believed that we would use any new technology to destroy each other. This race stated that we were on a path of self destruction and we must stop killing each other, stop polluting the Earth, stop raping the Earth's natural resources, and learn to live in harmony. These terms were met with extreme suspicion, especially the major condition of nuclear disarmament. It was believed that meeting that condition would leave us helpless in the face of an obvious alien threat. We also had nothing in history to help with the decision. Nuclear disarmament was not considered to be within the best interest of the United States. The overtures were rejected. [10]
The significant point about
Cooper’s version is that the humanoid extraterrestrial race was not
willing to enter into technology exchanges that might help weapons
development, and instead was focused on spiritual development.
Significantly, the overtures of these extraterrestrials were turned
down.
Confirmation that the First
Contact meeting involved extraterrestrials who were effectively spurned
for taking what might be considered a principled stand on technology
assistance and nuclear weapons comes from the son of a former Navy
Commander who claimed that his father had been present at the First
Contact event on February 20-21, 1954. According to Charles L. Suggs, a
retired Sgt from the US Marine Corps, his father Charles L. Suggs,
(1909-1987) was a former Commander with the US Navy who attended the
meeting at Edwards Air force base with Eisenhower. [11] Sgt Suggs recounted his father’s experiences from the meeting in a 1991 interview with a prominent UFO researcher:
Charlie's father, Navy Commander Charles Suggs accompanied Pres. Ike along with others on Feb. 20th. They met and spoke with 2 white-haired Nordics that had pale blue eyes and colorless lips. The spokesman stood a number of feet away from Ike and would not let him approach any closer. A second nordic stood on the extended ramp of a bi-convex saucer that stood on tripod landing gear on the landing strip. According to Charlie, there were B-58 Hustlers on the field even though the first one did not fly officially till 1956. These visitors said they came from another solar system. They posed detailed questions about our
nuclear testing. [12]
Another ‘whistleblower’ who
confirms that First Contact involved an extraterrestrial race being
spurned for their principled stand on technology transfer is the son of
the famous creator of the Lear Jet, William Lear. John Lear is a former
Lockheed L-1011 Captain who flew over 150 test aircraft and held 18
world speed records, and during the late 1960's, 1970's and early 1980's
was a contract pilot for the CIA. Lear developed a close relationship
with CIA Director (DCI) William Colby who was in charge of covert
operations in Vietnam before becoming DCI. According to Lear there had
indeed been a warning from another race prior to an agreement being
eventually signed, and he claimed they visited Muroc/Edward and the
following occurred:
In 1954, President Eisenhower met with a representative of another alien species at Muroc Test Center, which is now called Edwards Airforce Base. This alien suggested that they could help us get rid of the Greys but Eisenhower turned down their offer because they offered no technology. [13]
Cooper’s and Lear’s idea of more
than one extraterrestrial race interacting with the Eisenhower
administration is supported by other whistleblowers such as former
Master Sergeant Robert Dean who like Cooper, had access to top secret
documents while working in the intelligence division for the Supreme
Commander of a major US military command. In Dean’s 27 year
distinguished military career, he served at the Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers Europe where he witnessed these documents while serving
under the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe. Dean claimed:
The group at the time, there were just four that they knew of for certain and the Greys were one of those groups. There was a group that looked exactly like we do. There was a human group that looked so much like us that that really drove the admirals and the generals crazy because they determined that these people, and they had seen them repeatedly, they had had contact with them, there had been abductions, there had been contacts… Two other groups, there was a very large group, I say large, they were 6-8 maybe sometimes 9 feet tall and they were humanoid, but they were very pale, very white, didn't have any hair on their bodies at all. And then there was another group that had sort of a reptilian quality to them. We had encountered them, military people and police officers all over the world have run into these guys. They had vertical pupils in their eyes and their skin seemed to have a quality very much like what you find on the stomach of a lizard. So those were the four they knew of in 1964. [14]
There is some discrepancy in the
testimonials as to which Air force base the spurned extraterrestrials
met with President Eisenhower and/or Eisenhower administration
officials. Cooper claims this occurred at Homestead Air force base in
Florida, and not Edwards. [15]
On the other hand Lear and Suggs suggest it occurred at Edwards. In his
letter, Gerald Light pointed to intense disagreement amongst Eisenhower
officials in responding to the extraterrestrials at the Edwards AFB
meeting. Such intense disagreement may predictably have occurred if
national security officials were responding to an extraterrestrial
request to abandon the pursuit of weapons technologies. Given the
intensity of the Cold War, the national security officials present may
well have decided it was more prudent to seek better terms before
agreeing to the extraterrestrials request. Light’s testimony implies
that the meeting at Edwards did not result in an agreement, but instead
resulted in intense disagreement between Eishenhower officials.
Consequently, I will conclude that the Lear and Suggs version is more
accurate, and that the ‘First Contact’ meeting occurred at Edwards Air
force base in February 20-21, 1954.
The Subsequent 1954 Agreement with Extraterrestrials
According to the testimonies
examined so far, the February 20-21, 1954 meeting was not successful,
and the extraterrestrials were spurned due to their refusal to enter
into technology exchanges and insistence on nuclear disarmament by the
US and presumably other major world powers. Cooper describes the
circumstances of a subsequent agreement that was reached after the
failure of the first meeting. While Cooper has a different version of
dates and times for the 1954 meetings, he agrees that there were two
sets of meetings involving different extraterrestrials meeting with
President Eisenhower and/or Eisenhower administration officials. [16]
Later in 1954 the race of large nosed Gray Aliens which had been orbiting the Earth landed at Holloman Air Force Base. A basic agreement was reached. This race identified themselves as originating from a Planet around a red star in the Constellation of Orion which we called Betelgeuse. They stated that their planet was dying and that at some unknown future time they would no longer be able to survive there. [17]
The meeting at Holloman Air
force base in New Mexico has reportedly been the site of subsequent
extraterrestrial meetings with the same extraterrestrials who it will be
shown signed the 1954 treaty. In 1972-73, for example, the producers
Robert Emenegger and Allan Sandler, had allegedly been offered and
witnessed actual Air force film footage of a meeting involving Grey
extraterrestrials that occurred at Holloman Air force base in 1971. [18] Cooper explained the terms of the 1954 treaty reached with the Grey extraterrestrials as follows:
The treaty stated that the
aliens would not interfere in our affairs and we would not interfere in
theirs. We would keep their presence on earth a secret. They would
furnish us with advanced technology and would help us in our
technological development. They would not make any treaty with any other
Earth nation. They could abduct humans on a limited and periodic basis
for the purpose of medical examination and monitoring of our
development, with the stipulation that the humans would not be harmed,
would be returned to their point of abduction, would have no memory of
the event, and that the alien nation would furnish Majesty Twelve with a
list of all human contacts and abductees on a regularly scheduled
basis. [19]
Another whistleblower source for
a treaty having been signed is Phil Schneider, a former geological
engineer that was employed by corporations contracted to build
underground bases worked extensively on black projects involving
extraterrestrials. He revealed his own knowledge of the treaty in the
following:
Back in 1954, under the Eisenhower administration, the federal government decided to circumvent the Constitution of the United States and form a treaty with alien entities. It was called the 1954 Greada Treaty, which basically made the agreement that the aliens involved could take a few cows and test their implanting techniques on a few human beings, but that they had to give details about the people involved. [20]
Schneider’s knowledge of the
treaty would have come from his familiarity with a range of
compartmentalized black projects and interaction with other personnel
working with extraterrestrials. Yet another whistleblower source for an
agreement being signed is Dr Michael Wolf, who claims to have served on
various policy-making committees responsible for extraterrestrial
affairs for twenty five years. [21]
He claims that the Eisenhower administration entered into the treaty
with an extraterrestrial race and that this treaty was never ratified as
constitutionally required. [22]
Significantly, a number of
whistleblowers argue that the treaty that was signed involved some
compulsion on the part of the extraterrestrials. Don Phillips is a
former Air force serviceman and employee on clandestine aviation
projects who testified having seen documents describing the meeting
between President Eisenhower and extraterrestrials, and the background
to a subsequent agreement:
We have records from 1954 that were meetings between our own leaders of this country and ET’s here in California. And, as I understand it from the written documentation, we were asked if we would allow them to be here and do research. I have read that our reply was well, how can we stop you? You are so advanced. And I will say by this camera and this sound, that it was President Eisenhower that had this meeting. [23]
Col Phillip Corso, a highly
decorated officer that served in Eisenhower’s National Security Council
alluded to a treaty signed by the Eisenhower administration with
extraterrestrials in his memoirs. He wrote: “We had negotiated a kind of
surrender with them [extraterrestrials] as long as we couldn’t fight
them. They dictated the terms because they knew what we most feared was
disclosure.” [24]
Corso’s claim of a ‘negotiated surrender’ suggests that some sort of
agreement or ‘treaty’ was reached which he was not happy with.
What Do We Know of the Grey Extraterrestrials that signed the Treaty?
According to Cooper, the Grey extraterrestrials signing the treaty were not trustworthy:
By 1955 it became obvious that the aliens had deceived Eisenhower and had broken the treaty…. It was suspected that the aliens were not submitting a complete list of human contacts and abductees to the Majesty Twelve and it was suspected that not all abductees had been returned. [25]
Similarly, Lear argued that the Grey extraterrestrials quickly broke the treaty and could not be trusted:
… a deal was struck that in exchange for advanced technology from the aliens we would allow them to abduct a very small number of persons and we would periodically be given a list of those persons abducted. We got something less than the technology we bargained for and found the abductions exceeded by a million fold than what we had naively agreed to. [26]
Other whistleblowers also
suggested that the extraterrestrials who signed the Treaty with
Eisenhower couldn’t be trusted. Schneider claimed that despite the
treaty’s provisions on the number of humans who would be ‘abducted’ for
experiments, “the aliens altered the bargain until they decided they
wouldn't abide by it at all.” [27]
As mentioned earlier, Col
Phillip Corso similarly believed that the extraterrestrials that the
Eisenhower administration entered into agreements with couldn’t be
trusted. Corso believed these forced a ‘negotiated surrender’ suggesting
an extraterrestrial agenda that was suspect. While General Douglas
Macarthur didn’t directly mention any government treaty with
extraterrestrials, he gave a famous warning in October 1955 suggesting
that some extraterrestrial presence existed that threatened human
sovereignty:
You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy." "The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets. [28]
Macarthur may well have been
alluding to the same extraterrestrials that Corso, Cooper and Lear
believed had entered into an agreement with the Eisenhower
administration.
Significantly, reports of
contacts with extraterrestrials began to change once the alleged treaty
began to be implemented. The friendly ‘space brothers’ reports involving
contactees of the 1950s changed as reports of abductions began to
emerge after the first recorded case in 1961 involving Barney and Betty
Hill:
Another apparent pattern that has occurred in Ufology is the dominance of the space brothers in the 1950's who were kind, interacted with people who became known as contactees, and took people for rides in their space crafts. This pattern changed dramatically with the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill in the early 1960's. The space brother human types of the 1950's seemed to fade away, and they were replaced in the UFO literature with another type of alien. In the early sixties the first abduction of the Hills began a new pattern where the aliens were grey "evil" aliens who would abduct people against their will, and perform medical procedures on them. There were, as far as this author is aware no confirmed cases of "classic" abductions in the 1950's. Unlike the "good" space brothers of the 1950's these grey aliens were described by all, who were unfortunate enough to have met with them, as being distant and without emotions. [29]
According to Wolf, the
extraterrestrials were Greys from the fourth planet of the star system
Zeta Reticulum, while Cooper claims they were tall Greys from
Betelgeuse, Orion. Wolf’s and Cooper’s differing versions likely reflect
a close relationship between Greys from Rigel and Betelguese, and that
more than one species of extraterrestrials may have been covered in the
treaty. Wolf has described the Greys as having positive motivations in
regard to their presence on Earth, but have been inhibited and targeted
by rogue elements in the US military. [30] Similarly, Robert Dean believes that the extraterrestrials visiting Earth are friendly. [31]
This contrasts with the testimonies of Cooper, Lear, Schneider, Corso
and arguably even Macarthur over the true motivations of the Greys. It
is worth repeating Gerald Light’s claim of a “terrific conflict between
the various 'authorities'” on whether to inform the general public or
not. It is likely that these differing perspectives on the motivations
of the Greys reflected an uncertainty that has continued to intensely
divide policy makers up to the present on how to best respond to the
extraterrestrial presence and what to tell the general public. [32]
Maintaining Secrecy and Witness Credibility
The uncertainty over the
motivations and behavior of the Grey extraterrestrials appears to have
played a large role in the government decision not to disclose the
extraterrestrial presence and the treaty Eisenhower signed with them.
The following passage from an ‘alleged official document’ leaked to UFO
researchers describes the official secrecy policy adopted in April 1954,
two months after Eisenhower had ‘First Contact’ with extraterrestrials
who were spurned by the Eisenhower administration:
Any encounter with entities known to be of extraterrestrial origin is to be considered to be a matter of national security and therefore classified TOP SECRET. Under no circumstances is the general public or the public press to learn of the existence of these entities. The official government policy is that such creatures do not exist, and that no agency of the federal government is now engaged in any study of extraterrestrials or their artifacts. Any deviation from this stated policy is absolutely forbidden. [33]
Penalties for disclosing
classified information concerning extraterrestrials are quite severe. In
December 1953, the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued Army-Navy-Air Force
publication 146 that made the unauthorized release of information
concerning UFOs a crime under the Espionage Act, punishable by up to 10
years in prison and a $10,000 fine. [34]
According to Robert Dean, this draconian penalty is what prevents most
former military servicemen from coming forward to disclose information. [35]
The strategies for dealing with
those former servicemen, corporate employees or witnesses brave or
‘foolish’ enough to come forward to reveal classified information is to
intimidate, silence, eliminate or discredit these individuals. This
policy involves such strategies as removing all public records of former
military service men or corporate employees, forcing individuals to
make retractions, deliberately distorting statements of individuals, or
discrediting individuals. Bob Lazar, for example, claimed to be a former
physicist employed with reverse engineering extraterrestrial craft. He
described the disappearance of all his university and public records
indicating how military-intelligence agencies actively discredit
whistleblowers. [36]
In the cases of the witnesses
cited so far, Cooper, Schneider, Lear, Wolf, all have been subjected to
some or all of these strategies thereby making it difficult to reach
firm conclusions about their testimonies. Since the creation of
controversy, uncertainty, and confusion is the modus operandi of
military-intelligence agencies in maintaining secrecy of the
extraterrestrial presence, then the testimonies of former
officials/employees/witnesses need to be considered on their merits.
While issues of credibility, credentials, disinformation are important
in the study of the extraterrestrial presence, a rigorous methodology
for dealing with the efforts of military-intelligence agencies to
discredit, intimidate or create controversy around particular witnesses,
has yet to be developed. For example, numerous efforts to discredit
Cooper in particular by referring to inconsistencies in his statements,
retractions, egregious behavior and stated positions, may be due in part
or in whole to the policy of military-intelligence officials to
discredit and/or intimidate Cooper from leaking classified information
that he may very well have witnessed in his official capacities. Since
Cooper’s military record does indicate he did serve in an official
capacity on the briefing team of the Commander of the Pacific Fleet, it
is most likely that much of his testimony is credible. Whatever
inaccuracies exist in terms of his recollections of the timing of
meetings between the Eisenhower administration and extraterrestrials may
either have been due to memory lapses or perhaps deliberately
introduced as a self-protective mechanism. It has been pointed out by
some ‘whistleblowers’ that making retractions or sowing inaccuracies in
testimonies is sometimes essential in disseminating information without
being physically harmed. [37]
The controversial Cooper had been subjected to undoubtedly the longest
and most intense military-intelligence efforts to discredit or
intimidate any whistleblower revealing classified information.
The non-disclosure policy
developed for the extraterrestrial presence is most likely due to a
profound policy dilemma on the part of responsible national security
officials. This dilemma comes from uncertainty over what the true
benefits of the purported 1954 treaty were, and what the consequences of
the treaty would be. While the signing of the treaty provided US
national security agencies an opportunity to study extraterrestrial
technologies, and to observe the extraterrestrial biological program
with abducted civilians, it appeared the treaty was not as beneficial as
was first thought due to excessive abductions of US civilians.
The subsequent behavior of the
Greys in their interactions with US national security agencies was the
most likely reason for deferring a decision to release news of the
treaty and the extraterrestrial presence to the global public. According
to Lights’ testimony, Eisenhower had indicated to those present on
February 20-21, 1954, that an announcement would be made soon after the
First Contact event. Since this didn’t occur, and a treaty was
eventually signed with a different group of extraterrestrials, the
Greys, this suggested that the national security agencies were deeply
divided over the wisdom of disclosing this information, and alarmed by
the possible public reaction to the Grey activities.
At his farewell speech in 1961,
President Eisenhower was possibly alluding to the growing power of
national security agencies that dealt with the extraterrestrial presence
and were gaining great power as a result of the dilemma over what to do
with the extraterrestrial presence:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
If the President was
dissatisfied with the non-disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence,
then his speech was indicating that the responsible national security
agencies were both dominating public policy and taking a ‘hard-line
approach’ that was inconsistent with American democratic ideals.
In the subsequent decades, it
appears that on a number of occasions, official disclosure was seriously
contemplated. For example, Robert Emenegger and Allan Sandler claimed
they were approached by the Pentagon in 1972 to produce an officially
sanctioned video that would be used for official public disclosure of
the extraterrestrial presence. When the offer was later withdrawn, the
reason given was that the time was no longer suitable due to the
Watergate Scandal. While it is undoubtedly true that political factors
would impact on making a formal disclosure announcement, it is more
likely the case that non-disclosure was caused by lack of clarity over
what the true motivations of the extraterrestrials were, and the impact
an announcement would have on extraterrestrial activities. Making any
announcement of the extraterrestrial presence would naturally have lead
to questions concerning the extraterrestrials’ motivations and
activities. If officials couldn’t agree on appropriate answers, they
most likely decided that it was better to defer disclosure rather than
threaten national security by making inaccurate announcements.
The precise nature of the extraterrestrial
abductions and the medical programs implemented by the Greys has been
extensively researched and discussed by a number of UFO researchers.
Their conclusions vary widely suggesting that the deep disagreement
among private UFO researchers over the motivations and activities of the
Greys, very likely mirrors that of official government sources. [38]
As long as such uncertainty continues, it appears that disclosure may
continue to be deferred until key global events no longer makes the
non-disclosure policy viable.
Conclusion
Conclusion
An examination of the evidence
presented in this paper in terms of whistleblower or witness testimonies
raises tremendous problems in terms of coming to a conclusive opinion
over: first, the truth of the alleged ‘First Contact’ meeting between
Eisenhower and extraterrestrials; second, claims of more than one set of
extraterrestrials meeting with the Eisenhower administration; and
third, the various policy issues that arise from the meetings and
subsequent treaty that was allegedly signed. Most perplexing is how to
view the testimonies of whistleblowers who appear sincere, positively
motivated and have plausible stories, yet are plagued by controversy,
allegations of fraud, inconsistency and other irregularities. Due to the
official secrecy policy adopted towards the extraterrestrial presence,
it may be concluded that some if not most of the controversy surrounding
these individuals has been caused by military-intelligence agencies
intent on discrediting whistleblower or witness testimonies.
While there continues to be
uncertainty caused by the controversy surrounding whistleblower
testimonies and the role of military-intelligence agencies in generating
this controversy, the bulk of evidence points to a ‘First Contact’
meeting having occurred during Eisenhower’s Palm Spring vacation on
February 20-21, 1954. The testimonies suggest that the extraterrestrials
in the First Contact event, a race of tall ‘Nordic’ extraterrestrials
were spurned due to their reluctance to provide advanced technology in
an agreement. A subsequent meeting and treaty was then signed with a
different set of extraterrestrials, commonly called Greys, who did not
have the same reluctance in exchanging extraterrestrial technology as
part of an agreement.
Most of the available evidence
that has found its way into the public arena suggests that the
extraterrestrial race with whom the treaty was signed, the Greys, are at
best an enigma and at worst simply untrustworthy in their treatment of
abducted civilians. The subsequent shift in witness reports from
friendly extraterrestrial ‘contacts’ to disturbing ‘abductions’, suggest
that the Eisenhower administration had signed a treaty with
extraterrestrials whose motivations and activities are an enigma as far
as the general public interest is concerned. The activities of the Grey
extraterrestrials apparently continues to raise uncertainty for US
national security agencies in terms of an appropriate strategic
response. [39]
On the contrary, the friendly Nordic ‘space brothers’ faded from the
scene since the Eisenhower administration saw them as not sufficiently
motivated to serve the technological and strategic goals of US national
security agencies.
The question of when disclosure
of the treaty signed by Eisenhower and of the extraterrestrial presence
might occur is one that has long been anticipated. A recent economic
event might be a signal that some form of disclosure is possible in the
near future. According to Craig Copetas, Bloomberg News correspondent in
Paris, the World Economic Forum at Davos Switzerland from January
21-25, 2004, discussed extraterrestrials at one or more closed sessions.
In a story published on January 21, Copetas claimed that "forum
officials maintain their five-day program on Partnering for Security and
Prosperity requires an unambiguous examination of extraterrestrial
presence on Earth.” [40]
The Davos Forum is a gauge for trends in the global economy and
discusses various topics that have a long term effect on business. The
inclusion of conspiracy theories of an extraterrestrial presence and
technologies on the formal agenda has significance well beyond the
hypothetical nature of the discussion. Various national governments may
well be tacitly letting the word out to their ‘friends in the business
community’, that they had better start exploring how a future disclosure
of an extraterrestrial presence and technologies will influence the
business world. Given the discussion at Davos on January 21, 2004, of a
possible extraterrestrial presence, and the forthcoming 50th anniversary
of Eisenhower’s treaty on February 20-21, it might be speculated that a
disclosure announcement may soon be made.
As we approach the 50th
anniversary of a First Contact meeting between the US and an
extraterrestrial race, we must do so with wonder at the awesome nature
of this occasion. At the same time, we must do whatever necessary to
make public the full details of the meeting, and the apparent spurning
of what appears to be a principled extraterrestrial race that rejected
technology transfers while dangerous weapons programs were in place in
the US and elsewhere on the planet. The subsequent signing of a treaty
at a later date with an extraterrestrial race willing to trade
technology in exchange for ‘limited medical experiments’ with civilians
will surely go down in history as a deeply significant event whose
effects continues to reverberate through human society. Finally, we must
be alert to the mounting evidence that while a treaty was signed after
the 1954 ‘First Contact’ event, it may well have been with the ‘wrong
extraterrestrials’, and that this might adversely impact on humanity if
not dealt with in an open, transparent and truthful manner. We live on
the verge of a bold new future with many uncertainties over the secrecy
surrounding the extraterrestrial presence, what best prepares us as this
information enters into the public arena are our faith, democratic
values, and dedication to truth.
ENDNOTES
[1]
I sincerely thank H.M for his generous support of my research and
providing the intellectually stimulating environment for many of the
ideas in the paper to be developed. Grateful thanks also to George
Arnold and two other librarians at American University’s Main Library
who provided research assistance. I am also grateful to William Hamilton
for permission to cite his personal notes of a 1991 interview with Sgt
Charles L. Suggs. Finally thanks to Clay and Shawn Pickering for
arranging interviews with individuals who had personal knowledge of
meetings between the Eisenhower administration and extraterrestrials.
[2] William Moore, “UFO’s: Exploring the ET Phenomenon,” Gazette (Hollywood, CA., March 29, 1989). Available online at: http://www.presidentialufo.com/ike&the.htm
[3] William Moore, “UFO’s: Exploring the ET Phenomenon,” http://www.presidentialufo.com/ike&the.htm
[4] John Spencer, “Light, Gerald,” The UFO Encyclopedia: Inexplicable Sightings, Alien Abductions, Close Encounters, Brilliant Hoaxes (Avon Books, 1991) 188.
[5] “A Covenant With Death by Bill Cooper,” http://www.alienshift.com/id40.html Also in William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse (Light Technology Publishing 1991), 203.
[6] For biographical details on “Edwin G. Nourse, Ph.D. (1883-1974)” go to: http://www.coopheroes.org/inductees/nourse.html
[7] For closure of Cardinal McIntyre’s records, see regulations governing access to the Los Angeles Catholic Archives http://www.archivalcenter.org/Archival_Regulations/arcreg.html
[8] Franklin Winthrop Allen was author of Instructions for Reporters for Hearings Before the Interstate Commerce Committee (Dispatch Press, 1918).
[9] See William Moore, “UFO’s: Exploring the ET Phenomenon,” http://www.presidentialufo.com/ike&the.htm
[10] Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,” http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/maji007.html
[11] Personal notes from Bill Hamilton from a 1991 interview with Sgt Suggs.
[12] Personal notes from William Hamilton from a 1991 interview with Sgt Suggs. See also William Hamilton, Cosmic Top Secret (Inner Light, 1992).
[13] “John Lear Disclosure Briefing,” Coast to Coast Radio (November, 2003) http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/11/02.html
[14] 21st Century Radio's Hieronimus & Co. “Transcript of Interview with Bob Dean, March 24, 1996,” http://www.planetarymysteries.com/hieronimus/bobdean.html . See also Larry Lowe, “Perspective on Robert O. Dean: Let's Listen to the Man," (CNI News, 1995) http://www.reptilianagenda.com/research/r110199j.html
[15] Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,” http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/maji007.html . See also Cooper, Behold A Pale Horse, 202.
[16] Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,” http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/maji007.html
[17] Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,” http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/maji007.html
[18] “1972 Film Disclosure Offer,” http://www.presidentialufo.com/disclosure_72-75.htm
[19] Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,” http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/maji007.html, also in Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse, 203-04.
[20] Phil Schneider, “MUFON Conference Presentation, 1995,” available online at: http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/schneid.html
[21] See Chris Stoner, 'The Revelations of Dr Michael Wolf on the UFO Cover Up and ET Reality,” (October 2000) http://www3.mistral.co.uk/futurepositive/mdrwolf.htm
[22] See Richard Boylan, “Official Within MJ-12 UFO-Secrecy Management Group Reveals Insider Secrets,” http://www.drboylan.com/wolfdoc2.html
[23] “Testimony of Don Phillips,” Disclosure, ed., Stephen Greer (Crossing Point, 2001) 379
[24] Phillip Corso, The Day After Roswell (Pocket Books, 1997) 292.
[25] Milton William Cooper, “Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12,” http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/maji007.html, also in Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse, 209.
[26] “John Lear Disclosure Briefing,” Coast to Coast Radio (November, 2003) http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/11/02.html
[27] Phil Schneider, MUFON Conference Presentation, 1995, available online at: http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/schneid.html
[28] “UFO Quotes by Astronauts and Cosmonauts,” http://ufos.my100megs.com/ufoquotes.htm
[29] “’Good’ versus ‘Bad Alien’, http://www.presidentialufo.com/good_bad_alien.htm
[30] See Chris Stoner, 'The Revelations of Dr Michael Wolf on the UFO Cover Up and ET Reality,” (October 2000) http://www3.mistral.co.uk/futurepositive/mdrwolf.htm
[31] 21st Century Radio's Hieronimus & Co. “Transcript of Interview with Bob Dean, March 24, 1996,” http://www.planetarymysteries.com/hieronimus/bobdean.html
[32]
For description of Wolf’s association with the Greys, see Chris Stoner,
'The Revelations of Dr Michael Wolf on the UFO Cover Up and ET
Reality,” (October 2000) http://www3.mistral.co.uk/futurepositive/mdrwolf.htm
[33]
Majestic 12 Group, “Special Operations Manual, SOM1-01 -
Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal,” April
1954 Part 2 http://209.132.68.98/pdf/som101_part2.pdf
[34] 21st Century Radio's Hieronimus & Co. “Transcript of Interview with Bob Dean, March 24, 1996,” http://www.planetarymysteries.com/hieronimus/bobdean.html
[35] See 21st Century Radio's Hieronimus & Co. “Transcript of Interview with Bob Dean, March 24, 1996,” http://www.planetarymysteries.com/hieronimus/bobdean.html
[36] “Bob Lazar on the Billy Goodman Happening” December 20, 1989 http://www.swa-home.de/lazar3.htm
[37] Author interviews with anonymous whistleblowers.
[38]
See Michael Salla, “Disinformation, Extraterrestrial Subversion &
Psychological Reductionism – A Reply to Dr Richard Boylan,” www.exopolitics.org January 7, 2004. http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-11.htm
[39]
For discussion of US strategy in dealing with extraterrestrials, see
Michael Salla, The Failure of Power Politics as a Strategic Response to
the Extraterrestrial Presence – Developing Human Capacity as a Viable
Global Defense Strategy, www.exopolitics.org (January 1, 2004). http://www.exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-7.htm
[40] A. CRAIG COPETAS, “Extraterrestrial edge helps the balance sheet,”
Bloomberg News (01/21/04). Available online at: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2365195
Bloomberg News (01/21/04). Available online at: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2365195