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The Suppression of UFO Technologies and Extraterrestrial Contact 351
above the skies of Fort Monmouth [New Jersey] in clear view of visiting
military brass, contributed to the Air Force's new found enthusiasm.
Ruppelt first became aware of the CIA's unwanted presence after the
Washington UFO "invasion" of July 1952, when he was hampered from
doing his job, and witnesses to the sightings were intimidated into changing
their reports or simply remaining silent.
The person who most worried Ruppelt was Chief of Staff General Hoyt
S. Vandenberg. It was Vandenberg who had buried Project Sign's official
UFO "Estimate" report, caused its incineration, and had the project renamed
Project Grudge. It is not clear just how much Vandenberg was influencing
top military officials responsible for implementing the Air Force's UFO
projects. Vandenberg had been head of the Central Intelligence Group (later
the CIA) from June 1946 to May 1947, and his uncle was once chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee, then the most powerful committee in the
U.S. Senate. Clearly, Vandenberg still had great influence in those areas—
and according to Ruppelt, pressure was always coming from them to suppress
the results of official UFO investigations.
Thus, Ruppelt was not surprised when the CIA and other high-ranking
officers including General Vandenberg convened a panel of scientists to
"analyze" all the Blue Book data. Nor was he too surprised when the
Robertson Panel found that no further study was necessary.
The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle started to fall into place. It was clear to
Captain Ruppelt and other members of Project Blue Book, that the purpose
of the Robertson Panel was to enable the CIA and Air Force to state
in the future that an impartial body had examined the UFO data and found
no evidence for anything unusual in the skies. Subsequently, the Air Force
embarked upon a public relations campaign to eliminate UFO reports
totally. The CIA decided not to declassify the sighting reports and to tighten
security even more while continuing to deny "non-military personnel"
access to UFO files.
One month later CIA director Walter Smith classified all UFO documentation
and all subsequent directors continued to endorse the policy.
INITIATION OF A COVER-UP
In August 1953 Ruppelt left the Air Force out of disgust and because of
the limitations placed on his work by the CIA. The same month the
Pentagon issued the notorious Air Force Regulation 200-2, that prohibited
the release of any information about a sighting to the public or media,
except when it was positively identified as natural phenomenon. The new
regulation also ensured that all sightings would be classified as restricted.
In December 1953 the much worse Joint-Army-Navy-Air Force Publication
146 made the releasing of any information to the public a crime