Jenny Randles - The UFO Conspiracy - The First Forty Years

(a most unusual event for a man who is always followed where he goes).

The dentist's family seemed remarkably reluctant to confirm this story.

And according to sources at Muroc Air Force base, Eisenhower went there and saw dead aliens! Comedian Jackie Gleason also later told his wife (and she said he was ashen-faced and seemed to be serious) that his friend Eisenhower had let him in on the truth, and shown him the proofof UFO reality.

Stories like these are all very well, but they are just stories. Far better is the written testimony of one of the scientists supposedly involved! Yet this man, Dr Robert Sarbacher, has admitted to Californian investigator William Steinman that he did know about the secret UFO project, and has since confirmed details to Jerome Clark - who as editor of lnternacional UFO Reporcer, one of the most prestigious journals in the field, was formerly highly sceptical of all such claims. His view has altered dramatically .

Sarbacher's 'Who's Who' listing is large and impressive. He is termed an expert on 'instrumental physics and communications engineering' who worked with the Navy Department, researched guided missiles for the Pentagon and now ranks high at the Washington Institute of Technology.

This man has so much to lose by making false statements it is hard to believe that he is not being honest. Yet what he says is incredible.

Supposedly, in the mid- 1 9 50s MJ- 1 2 was in possession of real dead aliens! He was invited to participate in the top-level project to learn all about them. He says, 'John Van Neuman was definitely involved. Dr Vannevar Bush was definitely involved, and I think Dr Robert Oppenheimer also.' These are big names - exactly the sort you would expect to be chosen for such a monumental task.

Bush, in particular, has already been associated with the study by others.

Dr Wilbert Smith, a prominent radio engineering scientist with the Canadian Department of Transport, had headed their 'Project Magnet' in the 1 9 50s. This had examined UFO-related propulsion systems, and he claims that during his work he knew about MJ- 1 2, saw part of a crashed UFO, and spoke to Dr Vannevar Bush (the project head).

These could all be fabrications, but it is hard to understand why famous scientists should make such claims unless there is substance in them, particularly as they do seem consistent with one another.

Notice also that whenever scientists are involved in official UFO projects they are rocket experts, engineers, propulsion researchers, nuclear physicists and so on. This seems to suggest that, regardless of the public pronouncements that the subject was the province of the psychologist or sociologist (i.e. misperceptions and hallucinations), several different official bodies had individually concluded quite the opposite.

Sarbacher further tells us that, during the Eisenhower administration, 'I 52