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358 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
There has been nothing further published on the matter. As Dr. Robert
Sarbacher has commented, von Braun was probably involved in the
recoveries of crashed UFOs in the late 1940s, and it is my opinion that he
was constrained from elaborating on the subject owing to the security oath
that he must have been subject to. I cannot prove this, of course, any more
than I can substantiate information I have received from a reliable source
that top secret contacts have been made by extraterrestrials with selected
scientists in the space programme. It must be admitted, though, that von
Braun's statement comes close to corroborating this. What else could he
have meant when he said, "We are now engaged in entering into closer
contact with those powers" The Soviets
NASA WITHHOLDS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
That NASA has been engaged in UFO research behind the scenes is alone
proven, to my satisfaction at least, by its shady involvement in the analysis
of metal samples discovered at the site where Sergeant Lonnie Zamora
encountered a landed UFO and occupants at Socorro, New Mexico, in
April 1964. On 31 July 1964 Ray Stanford and some members of NICAP*
visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland, in
order to have a rock with particles of metal on it analyzed by NASA scientists.
Dr. Henry Frankel, head of the Spacecraft Systems Branch, directed
the analysis. The particles had apparently been scraped on to the rock
by one of the UFO's landing legs. On first inspection of the rock through
a microscope, Dr. Frankel declared that some of the particles "look like
they may have been in a molten state when scraped onto the rock," and
expressed the desire to remove them from the rock for further analysis.
Stanford agreed to this, but said that he wanted to retain half of the particles
for his own use.
The researchers were invited to go to lunch while NASA engineers
conducted their analysis. After lunch, Stanford and the others (Richard
Hall, Robert McGarey and Walter Webb), returned to the laboratory building.
A NASA technician brought the rock over to the group. "As he handed
it to me," said Stanford, "I was able to carefully observe it in the bright
light inside the room. The whole thing had been scraped clean. Someone
had gone over that rock with the equivalent of a fine-toothed comb. There
was nothing, not a speck of the metal left. . . even the very few tiny particles
that I had known were rather well-hidden had been removed."
When Stanford complained, the technician insisted that half of the samples
were still on the rock, as promised, but seeing Stanford's disbelief hastily
left the room. Dr. Frankel then returned, and after Stanford had remonstrated
with him, explained what had happened. "Well, we tried to leave you
* National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena