The Mike Wallace-Major Donald Keyhoe Interview
By
Robert D. Morningstar
(Copyright 2008, RDM*- All Rights Reserved)
WALLACE: Just accidents… Why don't they try to communicate with us?
What's your theory about that?
KEYHOE: Well, I'll follow some of the theories the Air Forces people have said... they suggested to me back in '52 and '53, at which time we were cooperating, I had a lot of very good friends in the Air Force at that time --- and the policy was to give out the information --.
They were about to tell the people everything they had. And the theory was then that perhaps these beings were so much different from us that communication would be a very hard thing.
They might not, for instance, have speech sounds like ours.
That's one answer. And another thing: they might not be able to exist in our atmosphere. We're going to land on the moon, we'll have to wear space suits, or else build air-conditioned buildings up there…air pressured.
And there could be lots of factors like that.
WALLACE: Well, do you think they're down here, when we do see them, to look at us?
KEYHOE: I think that it's probably a long-range survey.
WALLACE: A long-range survey?
KEYHOE: That's right.
M* Photo Restoration of Oregon UFO Photo, circa 1927
WALLACE: And yet, no attempt, as far as we know, in any case, of communication with us.
KEYHOE: There have been claims of communication, but those, most of those, have been by individuals. The Air Force has not admitted that there's ever been one and I don't know...
Our committee hasn't found any cases that we would accept as absolutely verified.
WALLACE: All right. Now, let's go at it from another point of view, if I may, the Air Force point of view. They agree, undoubtedly, objects have been seen in the sky, but the Air Force has said, time and time again --- this is a quote from Richard Horner, assistant secretary of the Air Force for research and development --- "All, but a small percentage of these reports --- of unidentified flying objects --- have been definitely attributed to natural phenomena that are neither mysterious nor dire." End quote.
Weather balloons, mirages, ordinary sky phenomena like meteors or airplanes themselves. What about that?
KEYHOE: I'll answer that, but I'd like to make several points in doing it.
In 1947, the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Dayton, that's the top Air Force intelligence men and scientists under contract, sent the secret documents to the Commanding General of the Air Force, saying that whatever these things were, they were real.
In 1948, ATIC, the same group, sent a top-secret estimate to the Commanding General, Hoyt Vandenburg, that these were "interplanetary spaceships."
In 1952, there was an intelligence analysis of the maneuvers of these things, as seen by radar, triangulation, radar photographs.
And in '53, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Air Force had a special panel of scientists meet at the Pentagon, to tell them what to do.
And after they got through, this group said, "You don't have proof that these things exist, not scientific proof, but you have a very strong circumstantial case.
We suggest you quadruple investigations, set up special observation posts and in the meantime release everything you got the American people."
Now, you've got four documents there; they've been sitting on all this time. Now, that... and they have been spending a lot of money investigating flying saucers.
If they don't exist, why the money?
Why did the intelligence team rush out every time there's a sighting?
WALLACE: Now then, you have mentioned four documents that you claim exist.
We've heard, in the past, that you have claimed that these documents existed. We've seen your literature in which you talk about the existence of those documents. So, we spoke with the Air Technical Intelligence Center at the Pentagon earlier with this week, and this is what we're told officially by them,
"Three of the four documents Major Keyhoe refers to, simply do not exist. The fourth document does exist, you can have a copy of it, Mr. Wallace, and you can see that it doesn't say what Major Keyhoe claims it says." We have a copy of it and I quote to you from the copy.
The Air Force document says just this:
"The panel recommends that the national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the UFOs of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired."
Time out!… Red Flag! Editor's note:
At this juncture, Mike Wallace is putting up a "Smokescreen." filtering the information. In March 1957, with source information hidden away, compartmentalized "secret," Wallace could easily get away with misinforming the public, but today with FOIA=released CIA files in public view, the truth comes out.
When Wallace, quoting an Air Force spokesman, earlier said to Maj. Keyhoe, "Three of the four documents Major Keyhoe refers to, simply do not exist…", the reporter was disseminating a official government disinformation. At least 3 of the 4 documents referred to by Keyhoe, The Robertson Panel Report, JANAP 146 and Air Force Regulation 200-2 did exist and were known to exist by CIA, USAF and former US Navy personnel like Major Keyhoe and Admiral Sidney Souers and Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkotter.
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