Steven Greer - Disclosure Project Presidential Briefing Documents

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Major E.R.T. Holmes, FLO, 1st Bombardment Squadron, to the Minister of Information 15, War Office, Whitehall, London, under date of October 24, 1943. (Mission No. 115 in the British records)47 Frank Edwards and others believed that an investigation into this phenomenon was initiated in Britain, although it was flatly denied by the British military. Further, no evidence for its existence, other than a few documents such as the Holmes report mentioned above, has been uncovered. The alleged report was known as the Massey Report, apparently named for a Lieutenant General Massey. But Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, the first Deputy Director of Air Intelligence to the Air Ministry in Britain, stated that there was no General Massey in the records of the British Army. However, a Hugh Massy was listed in the 1945 Who’s Who. Lieutenant General Hugh R. S. Massy was appointed eventually to the office of Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Was this Massy, who retired in 1942, the general who investigated the foo fighters? As with the nature and origin of these enigmatic flying objects, the report and its namesake remain a mystery to the present day.48

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New Mexico Crash Retrieval and Landing Cases

According to an article in the April 1, 1966 issue of Life magazine, between June 1947 and early 1966, 10,147 UFO sightings had been reported.49 The term "flying saucers" itself sprang from private pilot Kenneth Arnold’s experience on June 24, 1947 near Mount Rainier, Washington. He saw a formation of nine rapidly moving disc-shaped objects while flying in a small plane. In the wild publicity and wave of sightings that followed during the summer of 1947, the term "flying saucers" was coined by the popular press. The Roswell Incident: On July 2, 1947, an object crashed into a remote field on rancher William "Mac" Brazel’s land. Mr. Brazel reported hearing a loud explosion during a severe thunderstorm. The next morning, he discovered debris scattered over an area which may have spanned fifty acres. Mr. Brazel notified the local sheriff’s office who in turn called the Army. The case created a stir when the 509th Bomb Group at the Army Air Force Base at Roswell Field, New Mexico, officially released to the press the astounding story that a flying saucer had crashed near Roswell. The Public Information Officer at the base who released the story to the press was First Lieutenant Walter Haut, who still lives in Roswell. The Roswell Daily Record ran the story on the front page in bold headlines: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region." Two days later, the Army recanted, issuing a second press release claiming that only a weather balloon had crashed. Major Jesse Marcel, a staff intelligence officer at Roswell Field, was assigned to the recovery operation. To bolster the “validity” of the second press release, a press conference was held in Fort Worth, Texas, where the debris was first taken, and a photograph of Major Marcel kneeling to examine remnants of a torn, silvery weather balloon was released. This balloon was eventually declared by the Air Force to be a "Mogul balloon" — balloons which carried top secret acoustical apparatus designed to “listen” for evidence of Soviet nuclear bomb testing. The Mogul was actually designed so that a string of much larger balloons kept it airborne. It bore little resemblance to a sole weather balloon. However, a major military retrieval effort resulted from this alleged “crash” of a balloon. Teams of Army personnel combed the site for days, clearing it 47

Edwards, Frank, Flying Saucers--Here and Now!, Lyle Stuart, New York, 1967, p.77. Above Top Secret, p.28 49 “The Week of the Flying Saucers”, Bill Wise, Life magazine , April 1, 1966, 1966 Time Inc. 48

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9.1 Summary Review of Government Documents

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page 432

6.11 The United Kingdom Wave of the 1990s - Triangular Craft and More

2min
page 397

6.1 Introduction to the Best Available Evidence

2min
page 375

6.15 St. Clair, Illinois Sightings in Jan, 2000

51min
pages 404-423

8.2 COMETA Report: The French Report on UFOs and Defense

12min
pages 427-431

8.1 Sturrock/Rockefeller Report on Physical Evidence Related to UFO Reports

7min
pages 424-426

6.13 The Incident in Varginha – Extraterrestrial Life Forms captured in Brazil?

6min
pages 399-400

6.14 The Arizona Sightings - March 1997

9min
pages 401-403

6.12 The Mexico Wave - From 1991

3min
page 398

6.10 The Japan Air Lines Incident (1986

3min
page 396

6.9 RAF/USAF Bentwaters - Woodbridge - December 1980

9min
pages 393-395

6.7 Air Command Base Overflights

9min
pages 387-390

6.8 Military Chase Over Iran - 1976

6min
pages 391-392

6.6 The Summer of 1952: UFOs Over Many Areas Including Washington, D.C

9min
pages 384-386

6.5 Military Aircraft Encounter - 1951

9min
pages 381-383

6.4 New Mexico Crash Retrieval and Landing Cases

9min
pages 378-380

5.2 National Security Implications of the UFO/ETI Subject: A Brief Summary

10min
pages 367-370

A Brief Overview for the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works

10min
pages 371-374

4.6 Recommended Actions for the President of the United States

2min
page 358

3.8.5 Technology / Science

1hr
pages 325-351

4.5 Recommended Scientific Community Actions

4min
pages 356-357

4.4 Recommended Military Actions

2min
page 355

4.3 Recommended Congressional Actions

5min
pages 353-354

3.8.4 Government Insiders/ NASA/ Deep Insiders

6hr
pages 167-324

3.8.3 SAC/NUKE

1hr
pages 125-166

3.7 IMPORTANT EDITORIAL NOTICE

6min
pages 48-49

3.6 TESTIMONY THAT EXPLAINS THE SECRECY

35min
pages 37-47

3.8.2 Radar / Pilot Cases

1hr
pages 64-124

3.4 UNACKNOWLEDGED

28min
pages 27-35

3.2.2 Section II: The Government Speaks - Political, Military and Intelligence Figures

9min
pages 16-19

3.3 UNDERSTANDING UFO SECRECY

21min
pages 20-26
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