Many of us have heard about the possible meeting of President Eisenhower and a group of ETs in 1954 - perhaps more so due to the accompanying story of the faked dental appointment meant to cover the covert arrangements up. But just how much of this is real? Steven Greer claims to have seen 2 distinct forms of documentation suggesting just this. If indeed the meeting did take place - does it not put a whole new spin on the process of political and human history since that moment?
Alfred Webre talks to Michael Salla about what Dr Salla has found out when he has looked into the case.
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.
Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting With
Extraterrestrials: The Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?
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
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.
[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.
[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
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