Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter
Former CIA Director

"It is time for the truth to be brought out... 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.... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects. " Former CIA Director Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, signed statement to Congress, August 22, 1960.

General Douglas MacArthur- Oct. 8, 1955

"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets."

Victor Marchetti
Former Special Assistant of the CIA,
Article written by him for Second Look
"How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon",
Vol 1, No 7, Washington, DC, May, 1979.

Churchill asked his air minister Lord Cherwell to investigate in 1952, "What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? "

He was told 12 days later there was no evidence flying saucers existed.

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

Major General Wifred de Brouwer
Deputy Chief, Royal Belgian Air Force,
"Postface "in SOBEPS' Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique
Un Dossier Exceptionnel, Brussels: SOBEPS, 1991.

"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 nor threatened. We can therefore advance that the presumed activities do not constitute a direct 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 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. "

Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding
Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force
Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain
Article from Sunday Dispatch, London, July 11, 1954.

"More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any "scientific" explanation... I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth. "

"I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source. "

Lord Hill-Norton
Chief of Defense Staff, Ministry of Defense,
Great Britain, 1973
Chairman, Military Committee of NATO, 1974-77
"Above Top Secret"
by Timothy Good, Morrow Co's Quill Books, 1988.

"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be overwhelming... A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances... been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by... interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another.... "

General Lionel M. Chassin
Commanding General of the French Air Forces
General Air Defense Coordinator of the Allied Air Forces of NATO
Aime Michel's "Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery", Criterion Books, 1958.

"The number of thoughtful, intelligent, educated people in full possession of their faculties who have "seen something "and described it, grows every day... We can... say categorically that mysterious objects have indeed appeared and continue to appear in the sky that surrounds us. "

M. Robert Galley
French Minister of Defense
Radio by Jean-Claude Bourret, February 21, 1974.

"I must say that if listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from the airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are forwarded by us to the National Center for Space Studies, then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing. "

Dr. Claude Poher
Ph.D. in astronomy
Founder and first director of GEPAN
(French government's National Center for Space Sciences)

"Taking into account the facts that we have gathered from the observers and from the location of their observations, we concluded that there generally can be said to be a material phenomenon behind the observations. In 60% of the cases reported here, the description of this phenomenon is apparently one of a flying machine whose origin, modes of lifting and/or propulsion are totally outside our knowledge. "

Dir Marshall Roesmin Nurjadin
Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian Air Force
Letter to Yusuke J. Matsumura dated May 5, 1967, reprinted in Good ibid.

"UFOs sighted in Indonesia are identical with those sighted in other countries. Sometimes they pose a problem for our air defense and once we were obliged to open fire on them. "

Toshiki Kaifu
Prime Minister, Japan
Letter to Mayor Shiotani of Hakui City, dated June 24, 1990

"First of all, I told a magazine this past January that, as an underdeveloped country with regards to the UFO problem, Japan had to take into account what should be done about the UFO question, and that we had to spend more time on these matters. In addition, I said that someone had to solve the UFO problem with far reaching vision at the same time. Secondly, I believe it is a reasonable time to take the UFO problem seriously as a reality... I hope that this Symposium will contribute to peace on Earth from the point of view of outer space, and take the first step toward the international cooperation in the field of UFOs. "

General Carlos Castro Cavero
General in the Spanish Air Force
Former Commander of Spain's Third Aerial Region
Interview with J. J. Benitez, La Gaceta del Norte, Balboa, Spain, June 27, 1976.

"I believe that UFOs are spaceships or extraterrestrial craft... The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world. "

Admiral Delmer S. Fahrney
Former head of the Navy's guided-missile program
Printed in New York Times.

No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve... there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds. "