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Alien Craft Info and Government Secrets

Edgar Mitchell on gov't UFO secrets:

"in our briefing of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Group, it became very clear to us that they were naive. They did not really know any more about this effort than we do, if as much. That is because, as Bob Dean pointed out earlier, most of the people in government were not in government when I retired twenty five years ago, they are younger people. The files going back fifty years just no longer exist. They've either been purged, compromised or whatever. They don't exist. So when we blame government for not being forthright, they really don't have anything to be forthright about, at least at that level. Now, somewhere there's knowledgeable people, the question often comes up as to how they could have kept this a secret for so long. And friends they haven't. It's been around us all the time, but it has been denied, and obscured.  The prevalence in the modern era of so many events - the sightings, the continual mutilation events, the so-called abduction events  I find that quite alarming.  With regard to the technology itself, I work with folks who do know what is in our technological data base and what is available to modern armies. The so-called ET technology, the ability to have silent engines and flying machines that make no sound, flying machines that have the characteristics that are consistent with reproduction of UFO sightings, are not in any nations arsenal, but they do exist. So if there are back engineered technologies existing, they are probably in the hands of this group of individuals, formerly government, formerly perhaps intelligence, formerly,under private sector control with some sort of oversight by military or by government. But this (oversight) is likely no longer the case as a result of this access denied category that is now operating. I call it a clandestine group. The technology is not in our military arsenals anywhere in the world, but it does exist, and to me that's quite disconcerting."

A few key points

These objects are real machines, not merely projections of Jungian archetypes in the mind or intrusions of extra-dimensional beings. I am not denying that both of the latter may not also be playing a more subtle role. I am a bit puzzled now about exactly where Jacques Vallee stands on the metallic machine evidence for UFOs?
 

1. There are smaller disk-shaped craft that come from a larger cigar-shaped "mother ship".

2. Sizes range from 8 inches to a 1000 feet for the mother cylindrical craft. There is also a "dirigible" version of a few hundred feet. The disks are in range of 1 to 30 meters. Saturn-like vehicles with a "ring" are in 5 to 15 meter range. Conical hat types about 200 meters.

3. Color in daylight brightly polished silver to dull aluminum. Flat-bottoms are darker underneath in a central circular area or in annular ring near the rim. Running lights at night in many patterns. Blinking, theater marquee, Xmas tree. Solid lights in red, orange, amber, yellow, blue, blue-violet, brilliant white singly and in combinations. Solid colors resemble neon lighting.

4. Halos at night, neon-like, solid color luminescence emanating from an envelope of air around the metallic hard surfaces. Bullets ricochet from these surfaces. In saucers and saturns the halo concentrates near the "ring" rim more intensely below than above it. Sometimes an ice cream cone halo underneath the saucer. The big cylindrical mother ships sometimes have great white cloud.

5. Wakes: dirigibles and cylinders have plume-like wakes when accelerating rapidly or moving a high speeds. These wakes are gray to straw-colored in daylight, flame-colored at night. UFOs can move slow at 100 mph without generating a wake.

6. Jitter - at times they vibrate heavily. UFO motion is jerky and jittery at low speed. This could be an optical effect rather than a real jitter.

7. Absence of heat near a UFO. So not much infra-red emanations. Mild sensation of warmth. The surfaces of the UFO are not very hot. Nothing is at a red heat.

8. Maneuvers. Hovering at any altitude is common. UFOs hover close to the ground for long times instead of landing. The different maneuvers include:

a. falling leaf or UFO-rock like a coin falling in water

b. silver-dollar wobble - like a coin with a slow spin on a flat surface. This maneuver is consistently observed at the end of a rapid descent as the UFO initiates hovering

c. acute-angle turn with rapid stop at the vertex

d. sudden reversal of direction

e. bank and turn - exactly like conventional aircraft

f. straight-away speed run either horizontal or vertical!

g. tilt to maneuver

"UFOs tilt to perform all maneuvers ... they sit level to hover, tilt forward to move forward, tilt backward to stop, bank to turn"

9. Speed 9,000 mph at altitudes 60,000 feet, 18,000 feet,, 3,500 feet from military radar observations.

10. Accelerations are typically 100g, which is 10x larger than our fighting air machines, but less than our small anti-tank tube or gun-launched missiles whose internal computers and gyroscopes are designed to withstand 9,000g back in 1975. What would such a small missile do to a UFO at close range?

Note: this 100g figure is what is seen by external observers. The ship itself and its occupants may be in the local inertial frame (LIF) motion of "free-float" i.e. zero g just like our astronauts orbiting the Earth with rockets switched off and no spinning of the craft.

11. UFOs observed as high as 200 miles from surface of Earth. So they are space-capable.

12. Sound: hum, buzz, whine at close quarters. Sound rises in both pitch and intensity seconds before and during take-off. Steady motion either a light swish-of-air sound or running absolutely silent, with few exceptions. NO ROAR OR BOOM WHEN MOVING AT SUPERSONIC SPEED!

13. Weight 30 tons - for an ellipsoidal craft 6 meters axial, 3 meters cross diameter. This is 965 kilos per cubic meter, which is like our modern nuclear submarines, but is more than our jet airplanes. UFOs have retractable landing gear three 6"x12" rectangles in equilateral triangle of 6 meter sides with X-print 5" deep in hard soil, for a 10 meter disk.

14. Nests and rings: saucers land without extending their retractable gear in reeds or soft ground leaving nest-like imprints. They swirl down grass rings like the "crop circles" perhaps? Hovering saucers form chemically and physicall altered annular rings in the earth itself. Also charred roots and wilted plants are found.

15. Propulsion: no visible means. There is no jet propulsion. There is no ejection of propellant of any kind. The 100g accelerations would require conventional jet engines that are unattainable with known technology. This is not how they do it. Some kind of force field is involved. These fields bend and break tree branches, bump or slow automobiles spinning them out of control or tipping them over, stop people by force or knock them down.

16. High degree of nuclear radioactivity and X-rays near UFOs! This is not healthy.

17. Merging: spheres and saucers leave and enter large cylinders and dirigibles.

18. Occupants seen engaged in collecting plants, minerals, water, manually and using suction hoses.

19. EMP is strong. All electrical circuitry interupted, batteries are burned out, gasoline engines stop, diesel engines OK. Conventional fighter aircraft attacking UFOs at close quarters will be destroyed by EMP unless specially hardened.

20. Alien weaponry includes heat beams, paralyzing beams, force tractor beams both as tools and weapons. UFO occupants are apparently not mad dogs killing sadistically. Generally they use nonlethal levels for their weapons to defend against attacks. NATO forces should not initiate attacks unless attacked. UFOs have pattern of intruding on our defense bases and also key hydroelectric plants. They are also interested in getting close to water like lakes.