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The Suppression of UFO Technologies and Extraterrestrial Contact 355
dence with the CIA," he stated. Following another enquiry by CAUS,
NASA's Associate Administrator for External Relations, Kenneth
Chapman, explained that the NASA report had been prepared solely by
NASA employees but that the CIA had been consulted by telephone to
determine "whether they were aware of any tangible or physical UFO evidence
that could be analyzed; the CIA responded that they were aware of
no such evidence, either classified or unclassified."
NASA's statement in the 1978 information sheet that it was not engaged
in a research programme involving UFOs, "nor is any other government
agency," is demonstrably false, as is its denial of Air Force investigations.
In a leaked secret document purporting to originate with the Air Force
Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) headquarters at Boiling Air
Force Base, DC, there appears an intriguing reference to clandestine
government UFO research, led by NASA. The document is dated 17
November 1980, and includes this relevant passage:
SEVERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, LED BY NASA, ACTIVELY
INVESTIGATE LEGITIMATE SIGHTINGS THROUGH COVERT
COVER. . . . ONE SUCH COVER IS UFO REPORTING CENTER, U.S.
COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, ROCKVILLE, MD 20852. NASA
FILTERS RESULTS OF SIGHTINGS TO APPROPRIATE MILITARY
DEPARTMENTS WITH INTEREST IN THAT PARTICULAR SIGHTING.
"We have no information relative to the contents of the document,"
NASA told me in 1985. "Additionally, we have been informed that [it] is
not an authentic AFOSI document." In this case, NASA is right. Although
substantially legitimate, the document is a re-typed version containing
errors, including the reference to NASA, which should be NSA—the
National Security Agency.
PRESIDENT CARTER SEEKS TO
RE-OPEN INVESTIGATIONS
During his election campaign in 1976, Jimmy Carter revealed that he had
seen a UFO at Leary, Georgia, in 1969, together with witnesses, prior to
giving a speech at the local Lions Club. "It was the darndest thing I've ever
seen," he told reporters. "It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors,
and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but
none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure; I'll never
make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky."
Carter's sighting has been ridiculed by skeptics such as Philip Klass and
Robert Sheaffer. While there appear to be legitimate grounds for disputing
the date of the incident, Sheaffer's verdict that the UFO was nothing more