The following two cases demonstrates the fact that the U.S. Military already knew flying saucers were real and likely extraterrestrial. Of course we can be sure there are many many more not in the public record.

This first case took place in the late 1950s more then 60 years ago.

From Saucer News – June 1963

by Clyde W. Fitch

The date was Nov. 7, 1957 – right at the height of the well remembered 1957 Flying Saucer “flap”. As recounted in many newspapers at the time (and in the Feb-March 1958 “Saucer News”), Olden Moore made a close sighting of a Flying Saucer. Moore, then living in Lake County, Ohio, was driving his car along Route 86 near Montville, when he noticed what he at first took to be a bright shooting star or meteor moving rapidly across the sky from right to left in front of him.

Said Moore, as quoted in one of the local newspapers: “The object stopped when it got to the center of my side of the windshield, and then it split into two pieces. One part of it went upward. The part that remained then seemed brighter and bigger. I decided to pull my car off onto a side road, and I got out to take a look. The thing seemed headed straight at my car. As it approached, its color changed from a bright white to a green haze, and then to a blue-green color, as it stopped about 200 feet in the air above a nearby field. I didn’t hear any sound from it at all until it started to settle slowly to the ground. Then I noticed a whirring sound, something like the electric meter on the side of my house, only a little deeper in tone. I stood by the car watching the thing for some fifteen minutes before I decided to walk toward it. The object was about 500 feet away from me.”

Moore had walked about half the distance between the road and the landed UFO when he stopped and decided that he would go back to his car and return to the spot with witnesses, as no one would believe him otherwise. He could find no one else on the highway at the time, however. He went home to get his wife, and returned to the spot with her, but by that time the object was gone.

Moore said that the UFO was about 50 feet in diameter, disc-shaped and about 15 feet thick, with a cone on top, making its overall height between 20 and 30 feet. It was surrounded by a blue-green haze, like a fog, and the color pulsated slowly, alternating between bright and dim. The moon was unusually bright that night, and it was the moonlight that made it possible for him to distinguish the object itself from the haze. The UFO had a surface like mirrored sunglasses, but no windows or portholes of any kind.

County officials were notified of the sighting the following day, and Lake County Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke rushed to the scene. Said he, as quoted in a local newspaper: “There were prints in the field 1 ½ inches deep and holes in the ground like those made by spiked shoes.” He said that there were six prints in all, “coming from nowhere and going nowhere.” He and Lt. Reineck, assistant to the head of the Ohio 5th Area Civil Defense, returned to headquarters to get a Geiger counter. “When we came back,” said Mr. Locke, “we got a reading of approximately 150 roentgens in the center of the area, tapering off to about 20 to 30 roentgens at the perimeter.” Waiting a few hours, Locke and Reineck took another reading in the same areas. This time the meter showed only 20 to 25 roentgens in the center and no reading at all at the perimeter. Locke concluded: “Something must have been here, since this indicated that the reaction on the Geiger counter was not caused by minerals in the ground.”

Drawings of the UFO were made from Moore’s description, and were widely published at the time. The sketch below, however, is Moore’s own original drawing, which he gave to me, and is published here for the first time.

Moore moved from Ohio to New York in the fall of 1962, and has resumed his trade as a plasterer. I have lost contact with him since then, but I was among the first to interview him after his sighting in November 1957, and again after the initial excitement had died down. He had never believed in nor been interested in matters pertaining to UFOs before his sighting; but from that time on, he was very much interested. On numerous occasions I sat with him in his kitchen and discussed the details of his sighting, and I acquainted him with sightings made by others . . . I can definitely state that I got to know Olden well enough to form a respect for him as a religious and truthful man . . .

A few months after his sighting, Moore confided in me about having been flown to Washington and interviewed there for two days and returned home on the third. He said then that I was the first person he had told about it. Three men in particular figured in the picture . . .

THE AIR FORCE FLYING SAUCER FILE

Moore said that one of the military officers stayed with him every minute he was in Washington – even sleeping in the same room with him at night. They never let him out of their sight. They dined with him in a private restaurant in the same building where he was housed. He was well treated and afforded every courtesy, and he had no complaint on that score.

The military officers, after questioning him about his sighting at considerable length on several occasions, showed him some slides, projected on a screen. These slides were of various UFO still photographs. They even ran off a UFO movie film, which had apparently been taken from inside a military plane. Moore said he was told that about 30% of the UFOs on which they had information, were of the type with a pointed dome, such as the one he had seen.

After being shown these slides and motion pictures, Moore was asked to sign papers (with witnesses’ signatures attached to them) to the effect that he would not reveal the fact that he had been shown this evidence of the existence of UFOs. Moore told me that he asked where these objects are from. He was told by the military officials that they are not ours or Russia’s, and that they must therefore be from another planet, coming into our atmosphere from outer space. He was also told that the public has not been informed about this because the Military themselves do not yet have all the answers . . .

This next case took place in 1956 aboard the Super Constellation– excerpted from Flying Saucers, Top Secret by Major Donald E. Keyhoe:

“It happened in 1956. Cruising at 19,000 feet, a Navy R7V-2 transport (plane) – a four engine Super-Constellation – was flying west across the Atlantic Ocean. The next stop was Gander, Newfoundland. Final destination, Naval Air Station, Patuxent, Maryland.

“The night was clear, visibility unlimited. In the senior pilot’s seat, Commander George Benton was checking the dim lit instruments. (Since the commander and most of his crew are still on active duty, names have been changed.) At thirty-four, Benton had a decade of Navy flying behind him. He had made the Atlantic crossing more than two hundred times.

“Back in the cabin were two extra Navy air crews, en route home from foreign duty. Most of these men were asleep. Including Benton’s regular and relief crews, there were nearly thirty airmen – pilots, navigators and flight engineers – aboard the Constellation. As Commander Benton finished his cockpit check, he glanced out at the stars. Then he leaned forward, puzzled. A few minutes before, the sea below had been dark. Now there was a cluster of lights, like a village, about twenty-five miles ahead. Benton looked over at his co-pilot, Lt. Peter J. Mooney.

“’What do you make of those lights?’

“’Looks like a small town!’ Mooney peered down, startled.

“’That’s what I thought.’ Benton quickly called the navigator, Lt. Alfred C. Erdman. ‘We must be way off course. There’s land down there.’

“’It can’t be land.’ Erdman hurried forward from his map table. ‘That last star sight shows –’ He broke off, staring down at the clustered lights.

“’Well?’ said Benton.

“’They must be ships,’ said Erdman. ‘Maybe a rendezvous for some special operation.’

“’They don’t look like ships,’ said Benton. He called Radioman John Wiggins. No word of any unusual ship movements, Wiggins reported. And no signals from the location of the lights. If they were ships, they were keeping radio silence.

“’Wake up those other crews,’ Benton told Erdman. ‘Maybe somebody can dope it out.’

“In a few moments, two or three airmen crowded into the cockpit. Benton cut off the automatic pilot, banked to give them and the men in the cabin a better view. As the transport plane began to circle, the strange lights abruptly dimmed. Then several colored rings appeared then began to spread out. One, Benton noticed, seemed to be growing in size. Behind him, someone gave an exclamation. Benton took another look. That luminous ring wasn’t on the surface – it was something rushing up toward the transport.

“’What the devil is it?’ said Mooney.

“’Don’t know,’ muttered Benton. He rolled the Constellation out of its turn to start a full-power climb. Then he saw it was useless. The luminous ring could catch them in seconds.

“The glow he now saw came from the rim of some large round object. It reached their altitude, swiftly took shape as a giant, disc-shaped machine. Dwarfing the Constellation, it raced toward them.

“’It’s going to hit us!’ Erdman cried.

Benton had known normal fear, but this was a nightmare. Numbed, he waited for the crash. Suddenly, the giant disc tilted. Its speed sharply reduced, it angled on past the port wing. The commander let out a sigh of relief. He looked at Mooney’s white face, saw the others’ stunned expressions. Watching out the port window, he cautiously started to bank. He stopped as he saw the disc. It had swung around, was drawing abreast, pacing them at about one hundred yards. For a moment he had a clear glimpse of the monster.

“Its sheer bulk was amazing; its diameter was three to four times the Constellation’s wing span. At least thirty feet thick at the center, it was like a gigantic dish inverted one on top of another. Seen at this distance, the glow along the rim was blurred and uneven. Whether it was an electrical effect, a series of jet exhausts or light from openings in the rim, Benton could not tell. But the glow was bright enough to show the disc’s curving surface, giving a hint of dull reflecting metal.

“Though Benton saw no signs of life, he had a feeling they were being observed. Fighting an impulse to dive away, he held to a straight course. Gradually, the strange machine pulled ahead. Tilting its massive shape upward, it quickly accelerated and was lost against the stars. Commander Benton reached for his microphone, called Gander airport and identified himself.

“’You show any other traffic out here?’ he asked the tower.

“’We had something on the scope near you,’ Gander told him. ‘But we couldn’t even get an answer.’

“’We saw it,’ Benton said grimly. ‘It was no aircraft.’

“He gave the tower a concise report, and back at Gander, teletype messages were rushed to the U.S. Air Defense command, the Commanding Officer, Eastern Sea Frontier, the Director of Air Force Intelligence and the Air Technical Intelligence Center.

“When the Constellation landed at Gander, Air Force Intelligence officers met the transport. From the start, it was plain they accepted the giant disc sighting as fact. For two hours, Benton and the rest were carefully interrogated, separately and together: How close did the object come? What was its size . . . estimated rate of climb . . . any electrical interference noted . . . what happened to the other luminous rings?

“From the answers to scores of questions, the majority opinion emerged. The flying disc was between 350 and 400 feet in diameter, and apparently metallic. No interference with ignition noted; instruments not observed and radio not operating during this brief period. Time for the giant disc to climb to the transport’s altitude, between five and eight seconds, indicated speed between 1,400 and 2,200 knots; the disc had accelerated above this speed on departure.

“Not all the men in the cabin had seen the luminous rings. Of those who had, most were watching the huge disc approach and did not see the ‘rings’ disappear. If they, too, were flying discs, in a rendezvous as some suggested, they apparently had raced off while the other one was checking out the Constellation.

“At one point an Intelligence captain asked Benton if he had seen any indication of life aboard the disc.

“’No, but it was intelligently controlled, that’s certain.’ Benton looked at him closely. ‘That size, it would hardly be remote-controlled would it?’

“’I couldn’t say,’ replied the Air Force man. Nor would he tell what the Gander Airport radar had shown about the disc’s speed and maneuvers.

“’What’s behind all this?’ demanded Mooney. ‘Up to now, I believed the Air Force. You people say there aren’t any flying saucers –’

“’Sorry, I can’t answer any questions,’ said the captain.

“’Why not? After a scare like that, we’ve got a right to know what’s going on.’

“The Intelligence officer shook his head. ‘I can’t answer any questions,’ he repeated.

“As quickly as possible, Intelligence reports with full details were flashed to the four Defense commanders already notified, with an extra message for the Director of Naval Intelligence. After the Constellation reached Patuxent, the air crews were interviewed again, by a Navy order. Each man made a written report, with his opinion of what he had seen.

“Five days later, Commander Benton had a phone call from a scientist in a high government agency. ‘I’m informed you had a close-up UFO sighting. I’d like to see you.’

“Benton checked, found the man was cleared by the Navy. Next day the scientist appeared, showed his credentials, listened intently to Benton’s report. Then he unlocked a dispatch case and took out some photographs. ‘Was it like any of these?’

“At the third picture, Benton stopped him. ‘That’s it!’ He looked sharply at the scientist. ‘Somebody must know the answers, if you’ve got photographs of the things.’

“The other man took the pictures. ‘I’m sorry, Commander.’ He closed his dispatch case and left.”

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