Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:25:01 -0500
From: Francis Ridge <nicap@insightbb.com>
Subject: TOP SECRET USAFE Document, 4 Nov. 1948 & Why This Docment Is Important
To: A-Team
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On September 15, of 2005, Jan Aldrich published
Project 1947 Research Notes, in which the USAFE document was shown.
Here is the actual document and the report mentioned in it.
The transcription of the document for word-search purposes is provided here, followed by "Why this document is important", by Jan Aldrich. --------------- TOP SECRET
USAFE
14
TT
1524
TOP
SECRET
4 Nov 1948
From 01 OB
For some time we have been concerned by the recurring
reports on flying saucers. They poriodlcally continue to pop up; during
the last week, one was observed hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for
about thirty minutes. They have been reported by so many sources and
from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be
disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps
slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking.
When officers of this Directorate recently visited the
Swedish Air Intelligence Service. This question was put to the Swedes.
Their answer was that some reliable and fully technically qualified
people have reached the conclusion that "these phenomena are obviously
the result of a high technical skill which cannot be..credited to any
presently known culture on earth." They are therefore assuming that
these objects originate from some previously unknown or unidentified
technology, possibly outside the earth.
One of these objects was observed by a Swedish technical
expert near his home on the edge of a lake. The object crashed or
landed in the lake and he carefully noted its azimuth from his point of
observation. Swedish intelligence was sufficiently confident in
his observation that a naval salvage team was sent to the lake.
Operations were underway during the visit of USAF officers.
Divers had discovered a previously uncharted crater on the floor of the
lake. No further information is available, but we have been promised
knowledge of the results. In their opinion, the observation was
reliable, and they believe that the depression on the floor of the
lake, which did not appear on current Hydrographic charts, was in fact
caused by a flying saucer.
Although accepting this theory of the origin of these
objects poses a whole new group of questions and puts much of our
thinking in a changed light, we are inclined not to discredit entirely
this somewhat spectacular theory, meantime keeping an open mind on the
subject. What are your reactions?
TOP SECRET
(END OF USAFE ITEM 14)
-------------------- USAF Top Secret Document which went to both the CIA and
Wright Field. It is not in either's files.
WHY THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT-US AIR FORCE EUROPE
The US Air Force Europe (USAFE) document was one of a number
of intelligence items dictated to stenographers over the telephone.
Each item received from USAFE was typed up as a separate document and
distributed to various agencies that would be interested in the
material.
This document was found at the National Archive II in
College Park, Maryland in the USAF HQ intelligence Top Secret files for
1948.
Another related document found at the USAF Historical
Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, identified the
"technical expert" in question as General H. Jung, Commander-in-Chief
of the Swedish Defense Forces. The other document also describes
assistance that Swedish forces had rendered to the USAF in the effort
to gain intelligence on the Soviets. Since last was a violation of
Swedish neutrality, such items would be routinely also classified Top
Secret.
Nothing in ufology is easy though. Not only did General Jung
witness a strange "ghost rocket" like he had also witnessed a fireball
meteor during the same month.
Researchers in Sweden, found a file on this report in the
Swedish archives. Also, General Jung's diary is available. General
Jung's diary describes the sighting in some detail.
So research currently continues on both sides of the
Atlantic.
This document reveals that the CIA was informed of the
incident. However, a FOIA request to the CIA concerning the contents of
the document received a "no record" answer.
Since the document also was sent to Wright Field, this
establishes that there were indeed Top Secret files on UFOs at Wright
Field.
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