O. H. (Harry) Turner’s May 27, 1971 Joint Intelligence Organization minute and accompanying assessment argue that American UFO investigations combined public discouragement with serious intelligence interest. The report reconstructs SIGN, GRUDGE, BLUE BOOK, the Robertson Panel, gravity research and the Condon study, criticizes RAAF case identifications, and recommends a scientifically competent Australian investigation. Its claims about covert programs and motives are Turner’s interpretations, not admissions by the agencies discussed. This 19-page release includes duplicated printed page 4 and a 1947–1969 chronology.
Hoyt Vandenberg
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PersonThis post covers a never-before-seen declassified July 1947 letter to General Hoyt Vandenberg from General George Stratemeyer, Commanding General of Air Defense Command (ADC)—the one and only Air Force Command solely focused on US continental defense in 1947 (unlike SAC and TAC). Roswell, at its core, raised existential continental defense issues for the Air Force. ADC, therefore, would have logically played a key role responding to what was ultimately viewed in the Pentagon as the first Pear...

This post covers a July 1947 letter to General Hoyt Vandenberg from General George Stratemeyer, Commanding General of Air Defense Command (ADC)—the one and only Air Force Command solely focused on US continental defense in 1947 (unlike SAC and TAC). Roswell, at its core, raised existential continental defense issues for the Air Force. ADC, therefore, would have logically played a key role responding to what was ultimately viewed in the Pentagon as the first Pearl Harbor-type “surprise attack”...

On July 24th, 1948, two experienced commercial pilots, Clarence Chiles and John Whitted, were flying at night over Alabama when they encountered what they described as a cigar-shaped object, perhaps 100 feet long, flying faster than any aircraft they had ever seen. https://t.co/U0UmPiTcWQ [Quoted] The Airforce has known that we are not alone, and visited, since at least 1947 and general Hoyt Vandenberg suppressed the 1948 conclusion of the 'Estimate of the Situation' drawn by his own personne...

