UFO News Article: “Experts Criticize Air Force’s Handling of Flying Saucer Facts”

23 December 1958

(The Newport Daily News, Rhode Island)

Source: theufochronicles.com, 7 July 2016

Frank Warren comments:

“Rear Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, USN, (ret) headed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947-1950. The Flying Saucers began appearing in that first year and it can be assumed that Admiral Hillenkoetter obtained all the available information and deductions about them.”

http://www.theufochronicles.com/2016/07/experts-criticize-air-forces-handling.html

Newspapers.com (article at the top of the page):

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57462887

Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter rose to the rank of Vice Admiral on 
9 April 1956, and on 1 August 1956 he became the Inspector 
General of the Navy. He retired from the U.S. Navy on 1 May 1957.

Wikipedia article: “Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_H._Hillenkoetter

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Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, former CIA Director & Member of NICAP’s board of governors from about 1957 until 1962 (wikimedia.org photo)

UFO News Article: 
“Saucers Questioned -
Private Research Group Disputes Answers”,
14 February 1962 (Reading Eagle, Pennsylvania)

NICAP challenged the U.S. Air Force’s verdict that ‘there’s no such thing as a flying saucer,’ according to this article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mW4rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VpwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6640,5214146

Quote from the article:
“The letter said two of NICAP’s Directors – Vice Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter (Ret.), former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, and President J. B. Hartranft of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assn. – were willing to meet with Air Force officials and ‘submit for evaluation factual evidence that UFOs are real and under intelligent control.’ ”

The late Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter was a U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, the third director of the post-WWII U.S. Central Intelligence Group (CIG), and the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency created by the National Security Act of 1947.

Wikipedia article: “Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_H._Hillenkoetter

Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, former CIA Director & Member of NICAP’s board of governors from about 1957 until 1962 (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)

UFO Article: “The CIA’s Actual Involvement with UFOs: The Agency’s Public Statements are Deliberately Deceptive”

By Robert L. Hastings, 8 December 2015

(The UFO Chronicles, 10 December 2015)

Quote from the article:

“ ‘It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings...Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs, but through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel.’

—Vice Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter (Ret.)

Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency

The New York Times, February 28, 1960

Thank you, Admiral Hillenkoetter. I guess we should be thankful that even one former CIA director chose to be truthful about UFOs after leaving the agency. But that was nearly 50 years ago, so don’t hold your breath waiting for the next one. Unfortunately, Hillenkoetter later reversed himself—under pressure from the agency, according to respected UFO researcher Major Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC Ret.)—and withdrew his support for congressional hearings.”

http://www.theufochronicles.com/2015/12/the-cias-actual-involvement-with-ufos.html

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UFO News Article:
“Air Force Order on ‘Saucers’ Cited”,
28 February 1960 (The New York Times)

The New York Times reports on the new U.S. Air Force UFO regulations that were issued by Major General Richard E. O’Keefe, the U.S. Air Force Inspector General, on 24 December 1960:

http://www.wanttoknow.info/600228nytimes

The U.S. Air Force document was revealed by NICAP.

Quote from the article:
“The U.S. Air Force has sent its commands a warning to treat sightings of unidentified flying objects as ‘serious business’ directly related to the nation’s defense, it was learned today.

Vice Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter (Ret.), a committee board member and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said in a statement that a copy of the inspector general’s warning had been sent to the Senate Science and Astronautics Committee.”

Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, former CIA Director & Member of NICAP’s board of governors from about 1957 until 1962 (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)

UFO News Article:

“Results Of ‘Saucer’ Hearings Reportedly Kept Secret”

16 October 1957 (United Press International)

Source: theufochronicles.com

The article was presented by The UFO Chronicles on 30 September 2012:

http://www.theufochronicles.com/2012/09/congressional-committees-have-conducted.html

Quote from the article:
“A group (NICAP) which includes a former Central Intelligence chief reported Saturday that congressional committees have conducted super-secret hearings on ‘flying saucers’ but have never made their findings public.”

Wikipedia article: “Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_H._Hillenkoetter



Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral (Ret.), former CIA Director & Member of NICAP's board of governors from about 1957 until 1962 (wikimedia.org) 
(wikimedia.org photo)

UFO Report: “The 1962 UFO Chronology”

Created: 27 April 2006

Updated: 26 March 2017

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This is a chronology of UFO incidents for 1962. Most notable was the reported crash of a UFO on April 18 near Las Vegas, Nevada. A high speed brilliant maneuverable object was tracked by radars and sighted visually across the continent by numerous military and civilian witnesses. Next was the NE New Jersey mini-flap of Sept. 15-28. Across the Hudson River from New York City, was the scene of a definite flurry of sightings of UFOs, with the heaviest concentration in the Oradell-Hawthorne area. In October (18-29) the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. It was the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war. Right in the middle of this crisis an F-106, armed with nuclear-tipped missiles, was scrambled from Palermo AFB to intercept a UFO over New York.

The Air Force put its first ten Minuteman ICBMs on operational alert at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, in October 1962. Deployment proceeded at an equally furious pace, and within 5 years (the 1967 UFO sighting wave) 1,000 of the solid-fuel missiles stood poised in their silos.

Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Last, but not least, our thanks to Jean Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves.

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

Hillenkoetter Resigns From NICAP

Vice-Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter resigned from NICAP in Feb 1962 and was replaced on the NICAP Board by a former covert CIA high official, Joseph Bryan III, the CIA’s first Chief of Political & Psychological Warfare (Bryan never disclosed his CIA background to NICAP or Keyhoe).

April 30, 1962, Edwards AFB, Cal.

X-15 flight, piloted by Joe Walker; Photograph (no visual sighting) of 5 or 6 ‘disc-shaped or. . .cylindrical’ objects. Slides later shown in Seattle conference. NICAP unable to obtain prints. [NICAP UFO Evidence]”

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1962fullrep.htm

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Runways on and near Rogers Dry Lake, at Edwards Air Force Base.
Located in the Mojave Desert, California. (text by Wikipedia) 

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Google Website Searches: Focus On UFO News Articles From the Year 1957

A big thanks and kudos must go to Ancestry.com LLC and all the people who have done the newspaper article clipping job.

Website: Newspapers.com (owned by Ancestry.com LLC, Lehi, Utah):

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Unidentified+Flying+Object”+“1957”+-1967+site:newspapers.com/clip/

(Search term: “Unidentified Flying Object” “1957” -1967)

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(“Unidentified Flying Objects” “1957” -1967)

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(“UFO” “1957” -1967)

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(“UFOs” “1957” -1967)

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(“Unidentified Object” “1957”)

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(“Flying Saucer” “1957” -1967)

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(“Flying Disc” “1957”)

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Flying+Discs”+“1957”+site:newspapers.com/clip/

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UFO news article:

“ ‘Saucers’ Reported On Coast”

12 July 1957

(Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:

“A private investigative committee said Thursday that Civil Aeronautics Administration control tower operators have tracked four ‘flying saucers’ over California, operating at speeds up to 3600 miles an hour.

Eight members of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, including Rear Adm. Herbert B. Knowles, USN (ret.), certified they had seen the signed radar report.

Admiral Knowles criticized the veil of secrecy that surrounds unidentified flying objects (UFO). He declared: ‘There is a real need to break through the official Washington brush-off and get the truth to the people.’

New Members Named

The NICAP, a private organization, also announced the names of five new board members: Vice Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, USN (ret.), former director, Central Intelligence Agency; Lt. Gen. P. A. Del Valle, USMC (ret.); Maj. Dewey Fournet, former air force UFO investigator; J. B. Hartranft Jr., president of the 65,000-member Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assn., and Dr. Marnus Bach, noted author and professor of religion, Iowa State University.

These and other new UFO developments were disclosed Thursday in the first issue of the ‘UFO investigator,’ the NICAP’s magazine report to members. Copies also were sent to all members of Congress.

Appeared in March

The radar report certified by the NICAP was made at an airport in the Los Angeles area. The first of the four UFO’s appeared on the tower radarscope shortly before midnight, the night of March 23 [1957].

The NICAP also proposed to Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas and eight-point plan of cooperation to end controversy and public confusion over flying saucers.”

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31446845/saucers_reported_on_coast_1957/

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Map of California (lib.utexas.edu)

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UFO News Article:
“Washington Report by Fulton Lewis”,
22 February 1965 (Reading Eagle, Pennsylvania)

The article focuses partly on the November/December 1964/January 1965 Virginia UFO flap:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JcgtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iJwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3732,3332323

Quote from the article:
“Maj. Keyhoe has some impressive support. Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter (retired), a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, says: ‘The unknown objects are operating under intelligent control. It is imperative that we learn where they come from.’

An official of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Deputy Public Affairs Director Albert M. Chop, has ‘been convinced for a long time’ that the saucers are interplanetary.

The Air Force does not deny that certain UFOs may have

been operated by creatures from outer space. It says only that no

UFO ‘has ever given any indication of a threat to our national 
security.’ ”

Albert M. Chop, NASA Deputy Public Affairs Officer (in 1965)