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Proof of Worldwide illegal Ufo Cover Up

+ Worldwide MAINSTREAM-MEDIA Self-Censorship!

by John_Kuhles

NOT all that is extraordinary (empowerfull)

& important ... is in the mainstream news ...

NOT all that is called 'mainstream news'

= extraordinary (empowerfull) & important !

Not ALL people in power are 'bad'

They disagree amongst each other (!)

If we are 'mentally prepared enough' for the truth

about UFOs, Black Projects & their agenda's

Some of the elite (puppetmasters)

HAVE even tried to WARN us... to INFORM us...

But do we listen ?

Worldwide illegal 'Ufo Cover Up'

Worldwide Mainstream-Media Self-Censorship!

NOT TAUGHT AT SCHOOLS & NOT REPORTED IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA:

WARNING !!!

'THIS FILE WAS NOT SCREEND FOR

PUBLICATION BY YOUR GOVERNMENT'

YOUR BELIEFSYSTEM MAY COLLAPSE !

greetings from the 'MATRIX-HACKERS'

READ AT OWN RISK

EXPLOSIVE INFO FROM:

ARGENTINA - NATO - BELGIUM - BRAZIL

CANADA - ENGLAND - FRANCE

HUNGARY - INDONESIA - JAPAN - SPAIN

USSR/RUSSIA - ZIMBABWE - IRAN- UN

US-Congressional Hearings & Military / Intelligence

Till now, the Majority of the ELITE were very succesfull mixing TRUTH & DISINFO-tactics

special arranged, staged, put up for you,to think: 'it is all science fiction'

MAINSTREAM-MEDIA can not keep us IGNORANT forever

keeping us in the DARK about rapid increasing verifiable facts:

amongst others from: Army - Navy - Government - High Ranking Military - Pilots - MP's Radar-controllers - Nuclear Missile ICBM Launch Control Operators - Air Traffic Controllers - US Air Force - Ministry of Defence - Security Officers Marine Corps - DIA Officials - Nasa - Aerospace Engineers - Astronauts Radar Technicians - US Navy Crypto Communications National Security Agency - CIA (Contractor) - The F.A.A. people - Nato Major General Wilfred de Brouwer - and list goes on and on and on !!!

IT IS UP TO YOU ! ... IF YOU WANT YOUR OWN AUTHORITY & SELF RESPECT BACK !

WITH NO NEED TO JOIN ... and i repeat, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO NEED TO JOIN ANY:

CULTLIKE GROUP, MOVEMENT, CLUB, RELIGION, POLITICAL PARTY,

SOCIETY, COMPANY, FOUNDATION, or whatever SYSTEM that trains you:

NOT to think for yourselves, but belong to THEIR (hidden) AGENDAs

if you have comprehension and / or breathing problems 'consult armchair (pseudo) sceptics'

they are like a mother telling bedtime stories to her child

so that you can sleep better in the night ...

OR YOU CAN CHOOSE TO 'WAKE UP' and

COME OUT OF OUR 'DEEP COMA MATRIX'

IT IS TIME TO SHINE LIGHT ON

DARK MATTERS,

ILLEGAL UFO-SECRETS & HIDDEN HISTORY !!!

CONCRETE verifiable tips, unexpected clues,

extraordinary indications, rapid increasing leads to

the HARD-EVIDENCE are overwhelming

and growing day by day!

NOT TAUGHT AT SCHOOLS & NOT REPORTED IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA:

THINK ABOUT IT:

'Media-Politics-Schools-Industry-Scientists-Religions etc.

Tell us ONLY, what THEY want YOU to hear about ...'

But actually WE the people are ALSO to blame... for letting it happen !

READ A SMALL SELECTION of the MOST IMPORTANT

Quotes from prominent World Government & Military Officials:

Read what the TOP WORLD officials have said

and continue to say about the UFO Subject!

don't be too surprised that the mainstream-media

has failed us, to investigate this thoroughly:

IGNORED SIGnals IN OUR RECORDED HISTORY:

selected by John Kuhles

UNITED STATES

Military / Intelligence

General Nathan D. Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957-1960).

As Lieutenant General in charge of the Air Force Air Materiel Command at Wright-Field, Ohio,

he reported in 1947 on his investigation of UFO sightings to date:

a. The phenomena reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as a man-made aircraft.

c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.

d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically, or remotely.

(Letter to the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, September 23, 1947.)

--o-o--

J. Edgar Hoover, in response to a government request to study UFOs:

'I would do it, but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance, in the L.A. [or La.] case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.'

(Handwritten note to Clyde Tolson, July 15, 1947.)

--o-o--

General Walter Bedell Smith, Director of the CIA from 1950-53 stated:

'The Central Intelligence Agency has reviewed the current situation concerning unidentified flying objects which have created extensive speculation in the press and have been the subject of concern to Government organizations... Since 1947, approximately 2,000 official reports of sightings have been received and of these, about 20% are as yet unexplained.

'It is my view that this situation has possible implications for our national security which transcend the interests of a single service. A broader, coordinated effort should be initiated to develop a firm scientific understanding of the several phenomena which apparently are involved in these reports...'

(1952 memorandum to the National Security Council.)

--o-o--

General Douglas MacArthur:

'Because of the developments of science, all the countries on earth will have to unite to survive and to make a common front against attack by people from other planets. The politics of the future will be cosmic, or interplanetary.'

(The New York Times, October 8, 1955.)

'You now face a new world - a world of change. The thrust into outer space of the satellite, spheres and missiles marked the beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind - the chapter of the space age... We speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy... of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy... '

(Address by General Douglas MacArthur to the United States Military Academy at West Point, May 12, 1962.)

--o-o--

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Chief of Project Blue Book, from his book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, 1956:

'Every time I get skeptical, I think of the other reports made by experienced pilots and radar operators, scientists, and other people who know what they are looking at. These reports were thoroughly investigated and they are still unknowns.

'We have no aircraft on this earth that can at will so handily outdistance our latest jets... The pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, 'I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself,' knew what they were talking about. Maybe the Earth is being visited by interplanetary space ships.

His comments on the Lubbock lights case:

'When four college professors, a geologist, a chemist, a physicist and a petroleum engineer report seeing the same UFOs on fourteen different occasions, the event can be classified as, at least, unusual. Add the fact that hundreds of other people saw these UFOs and that they were photographed, and the story gets even better. Add a few more facts - that these UFOs were picked up on radar and that a few people got a close look at one of them, and the story begins to convince even the most ardent skeptic.'

(Ruppelt, Edward J., The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, New York: Doubleday, 1956.)

--o-o--

Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, first Director of the CIA (1947-50).

In 1957, he joined the Board of Governors of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon (NICAP),

a UFO investigating group. In 1960, he stated:

'Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is... '

(Maccabee, Bruce, 'What The Admiral Knew: UFO, MJ-12 and R. Hillenkoetter,'

International UFO Reporter, Nov./Dec., 1986.)

He ALSO recommended:

'It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.'

(Statement in a NICAP news release, February 27, 1960.)

--o-o--

General Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, in his 1965 autobiography, Mission With LeMay,

stated that although the bulk of UFO reports could be explained as conventional or natural phenomena, some could not:

'We had a number of reports from reputable individuals (well-educated serious-minded folks, scientists and fliers) who surely saw something.

'Many of the mysteries might be explained away as weather balloons, stars, reflected lights, all sorts of odds and ends. I don't mean to say that, in the unclosed and unexplained or unexplainable instances, those were actually flying objects. All I can say is that no natural phenomena could be found to account for them... Repeat again: There were some cases we could not explain. Never could.'

(Statement from 1965 autobiography Mission With LeMay, with MacKinlay Kantor, New York: Doubleday, 1965.)

--o-o--

Major General E.B. LeBaily, USAF Director of Information:

'Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from intelligent and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity cannot be doubted.' (September 28, 1965, letter to USAF Scientific Advisory Board requesting a review of the UFO project. Gillmor, Daniel S., ed. 'Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects'

(The Condon Report, New York Times Books, 1969.)

--o-o--

General George S. Brown, USAF Chief of Staff,

addressed the appearance of UFOs during the Vietnam War at a press conference:

'I don't know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren't called UFOs. They were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ [demilitarized zone] in the early summer of '68. And this resulted in quite a little battle. And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved but we always reacted. Always after dark. The same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in '69.'

(Department of Defence transcript of press conference in Illinois, October 16, 1973.)

--o-o--

Lt. Col. Lawrence J. Coyne, U.S. Army Reserve helicopter pilot with 3,000 hours of flying time.

He and other three airmen had a close encounter with a UFO on the night of October 18, 1973,

while flying in a U.S. Army Bell Huey utility helicopter in the vicinity of Mansfield, Ohio.

Lt. Coyne described his experience at a United Nations UFO hearing in 1978:

'With the aircraft under my control, I observed the red-lighted object closing upon the helicopter at the same altitude at a high rate of speed. It became apparent a mid-air collision was about to happen unless evasive action was taken.

'I looked out ahead of the helicopter and observed an aircraft I have never seen before. This craft positioned itself directly in front of the moving helicopter. This craft was 50 to 60 feet long with a grey metallic structure. On the front of this craft was a large steady bright red light. I could delineate where the red stopped on the structure of this craft because red was reflecting off the grey structure. The design of this craft was symmetrical in shape with a prominent aft indentation on the undercarriage. From this portion of the undercarriage, a green light, pyramid-shaped, emerged with the light initially in the trail position. This green light then swung 90 degrees, coming directly into the front windshield and lighting up the entire cockpit of the aircraft. All colours inside the cabin of the helicopter were absorbed by this green light. That includes the instrument panel lights on the aircraft.

'As a result of my experience, I am convinced this object was real and that these types of incidents should require a thorough investigation. It is my own personal opinion that worldwide procedures need to be established to effectively study this phenomena through an international cooperative effort. The establishment of a Transponder Code for aircraft flying worldwide is needed, to identify to ground controllers that a pilot is indeed experiencing a UFO phenomena and that pilot anxiety can be reduced to provide safe effective flying, knowing he is under radar control.'

(Statement to the Special Political Committee of the United Nations, November 27, 1978.)

--o-o--

Victor Marchetti, former CIA official:

'We have, indeed, been contacted - perhaps even visited - by extraterrestrial beings, and the U.S. government, in collusion with the other national powers of the earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.

'The purpose of the international conspiracy is to maintain a workable stability among the nations of the world and for them, in turn, to retain institutional control over their respective populations. Thus, for these governments to admit that there are beings from outer space... with mentalities and technological capabilities obviously far superior to ours, could, once fully perceived by the average person, erode the foundations of the earth's traditional power structure. Political and legal systems, religions, economic and social institutions could all soon become meaningless in the mind of the public. The national oligarchical establishments, even civilization as we now know it, could collapse into anarchy.

'Such extreme conclusions are not necessarily valid, but they probably accurately reflect the fears of the 'ruling classes' of the major nations, whose leaders (particularly those in the intelligence business) have always advocated excessive governmental secrecy as being necessary to preserve 'national security.''

(Marchetti, Victor: 'How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon,'

Second Look, Vol. 1, No.7, Washington, D.C., May 1979.)

--o-o--

U.S. Presidents

Harry S. Truman, at the time he was President, commented:

'I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth.'

(April 4, 1950, White House Press Conference.)

President Gerald Ford,

in a letter he sent as a Congressman to L. Mendel Rivers,

Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on March 28, 1966:

'No doubt, you have noted the recent flurry of newspaper stories about unidentified flying objects (UFOs). I have taken special interest in these accounts because many of the latest reported sightings have been in my home state of Michigan... Because I think there may be substance to some of these reports and because I believe the American people are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given them by the Air Force to date, I am proposing that either the Science and Astronautics Committee or the Armed Services Committee of the House, schedule hearings on the subject of UFOs and invite testimony from both the executive branch of the Government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFOs... In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.'

(Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives,

Eighty-Ninth Congress, Second Session, Hearing on Unidentified Flying Objects, April 5, 1966.)

--o-o--

President Jimmy Carter during his election campaign in May 1976:

'If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public, and the scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one... '

(The National Enquirer, June 8, 1976, 'The Night I Saw a UFO.'

Statement confirmed by White House special assistant media liaison, Jim Purks, in an April 20, 1979 letter.)

--o-o--

President Ronald Reagan was often quoted

referring to the possibility of an alien threat.

Describing discussions held privately

with General Secretary Gorbachev, he stated:

'... when you stop to think that we're all God's children, wherever we may live in the world, I couldn't help but say to him, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.'

(White House transcript of 'Remarks of the President to Fallston High School Students and Faculty,' December 4, 1985.)

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly in September 1987:

'In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.'

(Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Forty-second session,

'Provisional Verbatim Record of the Fourth Meeting', September 21, 1987.)

--o-o--

UNITED STATES Congress

Representative John W. McCormack, (D-Massachusetts),

Speaker of the House stated in a November 4,

1960 letter to Major Donald Keyhoe:

'Some three years ago, [1957], as chairman of the House Select Committee on Outer Space out of which came the recently established NASA, my Select Committee held executive sessions on the matter of 'Unidentified Flying Objects.' We could not get much information at that time, although it was pretty well established by some in our minds that there were some objects flying around in space that were unexplainable.'

(Hall, Richard, The UFO Evidence, NICAP, 1964.)

Representative Jerry L. Pettis, (R-California),

stated in 1968 during the House Committee on Science and Astronautics hearing on UFOs:

'Having spent a great deal of my life in the air, as a pilot... I know that many pilots... have seen phenomena that they could not explain. These men, most of whom have talked to me, have been very reticent to talk about this publicly, because of the ridicule that they were afraid would be heaped upon them... However, there is a phenomena here that isn't explained.'

(U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, Second session, July 29, 1968.)

--o-o--

Senator Barry M. Goldwater, Sr., (R-Arizona), Republican presidential candidate (1964).

In a letter to researcher Shlomo Arnon, dated March 28, 1975, he stated:

'The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago, I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied the request. It is still classified above Top Secret. I have, however, heard that there is a plan under way to release some, if not all, of this material in the near future. I'm just as anxious to see this material as you are, and I hope we will not have to wait too much longer.'

(Good, T., Above Top Secret, New York: Quill William Morrow, 1988; Frontispiece.)

In an April 11, 1979 letter to Mr. Lee M. Graham, he added:

'It is true I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson. Because I never got in, I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors.

'Apart from that, let me make my position clear: I do not believe that we are the only planet of some two billion that exist that has life on it. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have, so I can sort of argue either way.'

(Good, T., ibid.)

--o-o--

Representative Steven H. Schiff, (R-New Mexico),

in response to inquiries from his constituents in 1993 concerning a possible cover-up of

the crash of an alleged UFO outside Roswell, NM in 1947,

requested information from the Department of Defence. In a CBS radio interview in February 1994, he stated:

'I wrote to the Dept. of Defence, laying out these allegations and asking them if someone could come over with the file and brief me on it. My intent was to simply release this back to whomever inquired, which is very routine in Congress.

'The response I got was not routine. The response I got was a very brief letter from the Air Force saying that my request had been referred to the National Archives, without any further comment... and without any offer of any kind of assistance in retrieving it... So I went to the National Archives and the National Archives wrote a letter back to me saying they didn't have anything in their files on the Roswell incident... I just have to say this much: the way the Dept. of Defence has responded has not been routine.'

Having been given a 'runaround' in his search,

he instigated an inquiry by the GAO (General Accounting Office) in 1994 into the handling of

Air Force files relating to this matter.

'I did not ask the General Accounting Office to try once and for all to resolve this matter... What I asked the GAO to do was to assist me in locating whatever Air Force and Defence Department files would have existed on the subject, or an accounting of what happened to them.

'To me the issue is government accountability. I think that people who want to see government records are entitled to see government records or to get an explanation of what happened to them, regardless of their reason, regardless of the subject matter. It was my intention simply to make that information public if I could... unless there is a present security reason why not - and I have to add real fast if the matter is classified 'military secret,' we members of Congress can't just go monkeying around in there anytime we want. There are procedures for us too and that's fine with me.

'I was not told that we have a file that's classified. I was simply referred to an agency which I have to believe - now that I know the prominence of the Roswell incident - I have to believe the Dept. of Defence knew very well that I wasn't going to find anything in the National Archives when they sent me there twice.

'It's difficult for me to understand even if there was a legitimate security concern in 1947, that it would be a present security concern these many years later. Frankly I am baffled by the lack of responsiveness on the part of the Defence Dept. on this one issue, I simply can't explain it.'

(Excerpts of Congressman Schiff's remarks on CBS radio's The Gil Gross Show, February 1994.)

--o-o--

ARGENTINA

In the 1960s, the Argentine Navy was charged

with the official investigation of UFO sightings,

particularly those reported by its own personnel.

A 1965 Official UFO Report prepared by Captain Sánchez Moreno from the

Naval Air Station Comandante Espora in Bahía Blanca, revealed that:

'Between 1950 and 1965, personnel of Argentina's Navy alone made 22 sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects that were not airplanes, satellites, weather balloons or any type of known (aerial) vehicles. These 22 cases served as precedents for intensifying that investigation of the subject by the Navy. In the past two years, nine incidents have been recorded that are being studied by Captain Pagani and a team of military and civilian scientists and collaborators. Likewise, a meticulous questionnaire was drafted, printed and distributed to different bases. In a short time, the Service of Naval Intelligence was in possession of a stack of highly significant reports of testimonies. On the basis of this important documentation, it was possible to obtain a coherent overview of the problem.'

(Captain Sánchez Moreno, Informe Oficial O.V.N.I., Sumario

S# A. 02778-DTO. OVNI, Naval Air Station Comandante Espora,

in ICUFON Project World Authority for Spatial Affairs (W.A.S.A.), New York, 1979.)

--o-o--

Captain Engineer Omar R. Pagani, Director of the Argentine Navy UFO investigation team in the 1960s.

As a result of a series of observations at Argentine and Chilean meteorological stations on Deception Island,

Antarctica, in June and July 1965, Captain Pagani disclosed at a press conference that:

'The unidentified flying objects do exist. Their presence and intelligent displacement in the Argentine airspace has been proven. Their nature and origin is unknown and no judgement is made about them.'

(Sánchez Moreno, ibid.)

In addition, the Argentine Navy Bulletin #172 of July 7, 1965 reported:

'From the Navy post at the South Orkney Islands comes a message of extreme importance: during the passage of the strange object over the base [earlier the same day], two magnetometers in perfect working condition registered sudden and strong disturbances of the magnetic field (at 17:03 hrs.), which were recorded on their tapes.'

(Perissé, Captain D. A., 'Deception Island UFO Sightings,'

in the MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, Washington, D.C., June 1987.)

--o-o--

NATO-BELGIUM

Nato-Major-General Wilfred De Brouwer,

Deputy Chief, Royal Belgian Air Force:

'In any case, the Air Force has arrived to the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced within Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations compiled in this [SOBEPS] book, reinforced by the reports of the night of March 30-31 [1990], have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorized aerial activities have taken place. Until now, not a single trace of aggressiveness has been signalled; military or civilian air traffic has not been perturbed or threatened. We can therefore advance that the presumed activities do not constitute a concrete menace.

'The day will come undoubtedly when the phenomenon will be observed with technological means of detection and collection that won't leave a single doubt about its origin. This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the [UFO] mystery for a long time. A mystery that continues to the present. But it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion.'

(De Brouwer, W., 'Postface' in SOBEPS' Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique -

Un Dossier Exceptionnel, Brussels: SOBEPS, 1991.)

--o-o--

BRAZIL

Brigadier General João Adil Oliveira,

Chief of the Air Force General Staff Information Service

led the first official military UFO inquiry in Brazil in the mid-50s.

In a 'Briefing' to the Army War College

in Rio de Janeiro on November 2, 1954, Col. Oliveira stated:

'I wish to give you a summary of what is known in the world about 'flying discs,' of what is known about the opinion of qualified experts who have dealt with this matter. The problem of 'flying discs' has polarized the attention of the whole world, but it's serious and it deserves to be treated seriously. Almost all the governments of the great powers are interested in it, dealing with it in a serious and confidential manner, due to its military interest.'

(Col. Oliveira's Briefing included short summaries of several UFO incidents in the USA and Brazil.

The full text was published in O'Cruzeiro magazine,

Rio de Janeiro, December 11, 1954; reprinted in Martins, João, As Chaves do Mistério, Rio: HUNOS 1979.)

Later promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, he was interviewed by the Brazilian press on February 28, 1958:

'It is impossible to deny any more the existence of flying saucers at the present time... The flying saucer is not a ghost from another dimension or a mysterious dragon. It is a fact confirmed by material evidence. There are thousands of documents, photos, and sighting reports demonstrating its existence. For instance, when I went to the Air Force High command to discuss the flying saucers I called for ten witnesses - military (AF officers) and civilians - to report their evidence about the presence of flying saucers in the skies of Rio Grande do Sul, and over Gravataí AFB [Air Force Base]; some of them had seen UFOs with the naked eye, others with high powered optical instruments. For more than two hours the phenomenon was present in the sky, impressing the selected audience: officers, engineers, technicians, etc.'

('How to doubt?,' O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, February 28, 1958;

cited in Fontes, Olavo, M.D., 'UAO Sighting Over Trindade,' The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, May 1960.)

--o-o--

System of Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Objects (SIOANI).

In 1969, the IV Aerial Zone in São Paulo

(changed in 1973 to the IV Regional Aerial Command, IV COMAR)

established a specialized UFO bureau called SIOANI,

under Major (later Colonel) Gilberto Zani.

A letter signed by Colonel João Glaser from the IV COMAR to the Brazilia UFO group CPDV,

dated November 28, 1984, gives a summary of SIOANI's functions:

'From 1969 to 1972, the ufological activities of this organization (SIOANI) were most varied, including the elaboration of information bulletins, a draft of SIOANI regulations, contacts with interested parties, panels, catalogs of contacts and others, always attempting to contribute in this field of research that was already well known in Brazil.'

(Os Documentos Oficiais da Forįa Aérea Brasileira,

Centro para Pesquisas de Discos Vaodores (CPDV), Campo Grande, 1991.)

Ministry of Aeronautics. A letter signed by Air Force Colonel Sergio Candiota da Silva,

Assistant to the Minister of Aeronautics,

to Brazilia UFO researcher Irene Granchi, dated December 19, 1988,

acknowledges that the Ministry investigates UFO reports:

'His Excellency recognizes the importance of the [UFO] matter, to the extent that within the Ministry of Aeronautics there exists a Bureau in charge of studying the matter, receiving, analyzing and archiving chronologically the phenomena observed in Brazilian airspace that comes to the attention of this Ministry.'

(Os Documentos Oficiais da Forįa Aérea Brasileira,

Centro para Pesquisas de Discos Vaodores (CPDV), Campo Grande, 1991.)

CANADA

Wilbert B. Smith, Senior radio engineer with the Department of Transport,

headed Project Magnet, the first Canadian government UFO investigation in the 1950s.

He stated in a declassified Top Secret Memorandum:

'The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. Flying saucers exist. Their modus operandi is unknown but a concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Doctor Vannevar Bush. The entire matter is considered by the United States authorities to be of tremendous significance.'