Posted on 05/18/2015 6:22:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Formerly confidential files obtained by alien researchers detail the account given by senior senator Richard B Russell and two aides of seeing the "flying saucers" TAKE OFF.
At the time, Sen. Russell was on a Soviet-era train during a fact-finding mission to Russia, nearly 60 years ago.
Sen. Russell, was former chairman of the Armed Services Committee and one of America's most influential senators until he died in 1971 after serving for 38 years.
Documents obtained by the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) said Sen. Russell was travelling with his two aides in the Transcaucasus region on October 4, 1955 at about 7 pm, when the incident occurred.
He is said to have looked out of the window and spotted two disc-shaped UFOs 'taking off' from a spot near the railway tracks.
According to reports, the documents state how Sen. Russell hurriedly called over aide Lt Col Hathaway and interpreter Ruben Efron to the window, with them both seeing the two crafts 'take off'.
He and the aides reported the sighting to US Air Force and security agencies once at the US embassy in Prague, in then Czechoslovakia, but the account was kept strictly confidential.
Lt Col Thomas Ryan, air attaché at the embassy, filed a top secret Air Force intelligence report on the trio's sighting on October 14, 1955 after meeting them.
He wrote the report was "based on an eyewitness account of the ascent and flight of an unconventional craft by three highly reliable United States observers.
The document said Lt Col Hathaway told Lt Col Ryan: I doubt if you are going to believe this, but we all saw it. Senator Russell was the first to see this flying disc weve been told for years that there isnt such a thing, but all of us saw it.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
The timing and positioning would also cause major problems.
Just about the time Vladimir Putin was born.
You can't believe alien researchers. They lie constantly.
Pretty semi-documentary film in a straightforward "what-the-L-are-they" context. This was in the days when airline pilots could report what they saw without being fired and the military being pretty open about things.
I liked the comment one AF officer said: "Credible people reporting incredible things".
You mean like people who post anonymously on the internet?
I was making a funny about ‘alien researchers.’ Not to be taken seriously.
Alright then. Just so we're clear.
Tin foil firmly in place here. You can’t be too careful about alien researchers.
I never trust alien researchers. Only human ones.
I don't trust the human ones either, but that's another story entirely.
Depends on what the meaning of human, is.
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