Posted on 06/07/2025 5:15:42 PM PDT by lasereye
A tiny Pentagon office had spent months investigating conspiracy theories about secret Washington UFO programs when it uncovered a shocking truth: At least one of those theories had been fueled by the Pentagon itself.
The congressionally ordered probe took investigators back to the 1980s, when an Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51, a top-secret site in the Nevada desert. He gave the owner photos of what might be flying saucers. The photos went up on the walls, and into the local lore went the idea that the U.S. military was secretly testing recovered alien technology.
But the colonel was on a mission—of disinformation. The photos were doctored, the now-retired officer confessed to the Pentagon investigators in 2023. The whole exercise was a ruse to protect what was really going on at Area 51: The Air Force was using the site to develop top-secret stealth fighters, viewed as a critical edge against the Soviet Union. Military leaders were worried that the programs might get exposed if locals somehow glimpsed a test flight of, say, the F-117 stealth fighter, an aircraft that truly did look out of this world. Better that they believe it came from Andromeda.
This episode, reported now for the first time, was just one of a series of discoveries the Pentagon team made as it investigated decades of claims that Washington was hiding what it knew about extraterrestrial life. That effort culminated in a report, released last year by the Defense Department, that found allegations of a government coverup to be baseless.
In fact, a Wall Street Journal investigation reveals, the report itself amounted to a coverup—but not in the way the UFO conspiracy industry would have people believe.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
J Allen Hynek was an astronomer who worked on three Air Force projects to study UFO sightings. From Wikipedia:
When Project Sign hired Hynek, he was skeptical of UFO reports. Hynek suspected that they were made by unreliable witnesses, or by persons who had misidentified man-made or natural objects. In 1948, Hynek said that "the whole subject seems utterly ridiculous," and described it as a fad that would soon pass.
As UFO reports continued to be made, some of the testimonies, especially by military pilots and police officers, were deeply puzzling to Hynek. He once said, "As a scientist I must be mindful of the lessons of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time."
In a 1985 interview, when asked what caused his change of opinion, Hynek responded, "Two things, really. One was the completely negative and unyielding attitude of the Air Force. They wouldn't give UFOs the chance of existing, even if they were flying up and down the street in broad daylight. Everything had to have an explanation. I began to resent that, even though I basically felt the same way, because I still thought they weren't going about it in the right way. You can't assume that everything is black no matter what. Secondly, the caliber of the witnesses began to trouble me. Quite a few instances were reported by military pilots, for example, and I knew them to be fairly well-trained, so this is when I first began to think that, well, maybe there was something to all this."
But the colonel was on a mission—of disinformation.
"Well, duh." UFOlogy is a muddled mess of disinfo and psyops.
Ever since the appearance of good digital cameras the frequency of ‘imagery’ has really taken a nose dive ... I had a really nice Canon S3-IS in 2006 that I carried with me everywhere ...
The “flying saucer” was probably a photo of the Avro Car they were testing.
It didn’t even make. a good hovercraft.
For later
Except for maybe the unexplained ancient disinof and psyops?
” UFOlogy is a muddled mess of disinfo and psyops.”
Probably not the first instance. The Roswell “saucer crash”. My theory is the crashed object was a V2 rocket from White Sands. The saucer story was the cover up and the weather balloon story was the first layer. In 1947 the Army had just smuggled the Nazi rocket scientists in from Mexico. It would have caused a huge stink if that had been revealed at that time. Also, the 509th Bombardment Group was also operating at Roswell, our only nuclear bomb group at the time. My alternate theory is a B-29 with a nuke on board crashed. As the Cold War was getting started, we wouldn’t want the Soviets to get wind of that.
UFO ping
The WSJ story is, itself, disinformation.
Not according to deathbed witness from several who were there at the time.
Supposedly in the early days of Area 51 the test pilots wore gorilla masks so that if commercial airline pilots or passengers saw them the stories would be dismissed as insane.
The Deep State plays dirty.
I think the article does debunk the notion that Area 51 has alien spacecraft
—
No one can do that unless they were there at the time and have photographic evidence that proves their assertion. Else its just speculation, assumptions, conjecture, unfounded theories, and hot air.
Bob Lazar.
In the 90's the USAF had a mixed squadron of operational MiGs out there at Groom Lake.
No photographic evidence - just his word, believe it or not. An he was in no position to tel if it was aliens from another solar system/dimension or from an old Earth civilization.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.