A fascinating passage has surfaced in the newly published memoir of Colonel Richard E.

A fascinating passage has surfaced in the newly published memoir of Colonel Richard E. “Butch” Sheffield, an SR-71 crewman who later worked closely with Lockheed’s Skunk Works and reportedly held hundreds of codeword clearances. According to Sheffield, Ben Rich once brought him into his office, closed the door, and asked him to quietly investigate whether the government possessed anything connected to UFOs. Rich had apparently heard that individuals within the aerospace industry had organized...