Flying Saucer Review October 1985 [antikvár]

TOP U.S. SCIENTIST ADMITS CRASHED UFOsGordon CreightonI?n his UFO UPDATE Section of OMNI Magazine (Vol. 7, No. 11, (August 1985) Jerome Clark reports that one of the USA's top scientists, Dr. Robert Sar-backer, "whose entry in Who's Who consists of more than three inches of tiny print, including education at Princeton and Harvard and a stint as Dean of the Graduate School of the Georgia Institute of Technology", and who at present is Head of the Washington Institute of Technology, has recently admitted in an interview that he knows about the crashed craft held by , the U.S. Government, and has confirmed that it was he who, in his Washington office, on Septemer 15, 1950, (when he was serving, as one of the Government's "dol-lar-a-year-men", as a Science Consultant to the U.S. Defence Department's Joint Research and Development Board) received a visit from the Canadian electrical engineer Wilbert B. Smith,' and told him all about the crashed UFOs then being held by the U.S. Government and being investigated by its leading scientist. Dr. Vannevar Bush, and others. 'Dr. Sarbacher has revealed that, during those years inthe Government Service just after World War II, he learned that the crashed vehicles "were composed of an extremely light and very tough material,^ apparently in-' tended to withstand tremendous acceleration and deceler-; ation".At one point, says Dr. Sarbacher, he was invited to attend a meeting at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, at Dayton, Ohio, where officials reported on their findings to scientists connected with the Defence De- partment's Joint Research and Development Board. Sarbacher had other commitments at the time, and says he therefore did not attend that particular meeting, but he says that those who did attend it, including Dr. Vannevar Bush and the noted mathematician John von Neumann, were told that the vehicles "appeared to be spaceships from another solar system."Jerome Clark goes on to say: "Writer William Moore, who has been chasing Government UFO secrets for years, considers Sarbacher's testimony significant 'It's the first time', says Moore, 'that someone with a reputation has come forward to state publicly that the Pentagon has a recovered UFO. This isn't proof, of course, but it fits in with information that we have from other sources.'"As we all know now, thanks to the investigative work of Leonard Stringfield and William Moore and others, it is precisely at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that most of the crashed craft and small corpses held by the Americans are allegedly being kept.-^notes and references(1)For a full photostatic copy of Wilbert Smith's report of November 21, 1950, to his superiors regarding his talks in Washington with the Americans about their crashed UFOs, see FSR 30/1, published last year (pages 10 and 11).(2)For descriptions of the amazing strength and toughness of the material of which these machines were constructed, see chapter 12 of Frank Scully's classic work, BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS (1950- British editions in 1950 and 1955), and chapter 4 of THE ROS-WELL INCIDENT, by Charles Berlitz and William Moore (1980 British edition by Granada Publishing, also 1980). It is of course still fashionable to laugh off Scully's book and dismiss it as a ridiculous hoax. Which only goes to show how effective the official campaign of debunking and brainwashing has been, because in 1953 Captain Edward Ruppelt (who had just retired from his post as Head of U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book and subsequently wrote The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects, 1956) made an astonishing admission when talking to Scully. It was late in 1953, as Mrs Scully has testified, when Ruppelt said to her husband:"confidentially of all the books that have been published about flying saucers, your book was the one that gave us the most headaches because it was the closest to the truth".(N.B. Captain Ruppelt, as will be recalled, was later forced by the U.S. authorities to issue a fresh edition of his own book, with several chapters re-written, and the whole tenor of the original deleted.)(3)For those who seek a handy list of all the important material published so far on crashed craft and dead occupants, the following items will be found to Just about cover the whole story so far as it is known to us up until now:I.Frank Scully: Behind The Flying Saucers (1950). U.S. edition. British editions by Gollancz in 1950 and again in 1955.)II."UFO Crash in Britain?" In FSR Vol. 1, No. 3 (July/ Aug. 1955, p.6). U.S. syndicated columnist Dorothy Kil-gallen reported from London {Los Angeles Examiner and many other papers) on May 22, 1955 that "a British official of Cabinet rank who prefers to remain unidentified" had just informed her that a crashed UFO had been found in Britain, and that investigation of the wreckage indicated that it had been crewed by "small men, probably under four feet tall". She said that the British Government was withholding any official report on the matter "became it does not wish to frighten the public". (Our assumption at the time, and in later years, was that the official in question may very likely have been Lord Mountbatten. I wrote to Dorothy Kilgallen at once, seeking further information, but never got a reply from her, and she died a few years later. We may take it as certain that she had been effectively silenced G.C.)