By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. Declassified documents from the US National Archives paint a picture, not of extraterrestrial intelligence, but of strategic deception in the opening shots of the Cold War. October 10, update. After an effort of many years, I have prepared a comprehensive timeline of UFO history that will be useful to UFO researchers and historians.
Readers will discover or rediscover many events, people, and UFO cases they may not be familiar with. Some will find it useful for current or planned research projects. Military cases, those involving commercial aircraft, close encounters involving physical traces and other evidence, reports involving occupants or entities, and events surrounding military and sensitive nuclear sites are emphasized, but this timeline covers the full spectrum of UFO history, from contactee experiences to misidentifications of mundane phenomena and notorious hoaxes.
Links to online sources are given, and links to biographical information are provided when available. A timeline like this allows us to view events from a different perspective, letting us make connections we might not otherwise see. It forces us to view the big picture, amid the grand flow of UFO cases, military security decisions, a vast swathe of personalities, and world history.
The investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects is not and never has been a matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI" Redfern 9. Edgar Hoover, explicitly denied that FBI had ever investigated extraterrestrial beings or unidentified flying objects, recently disclosed files point to the contrary. In a Bureau Bulletin No. The Army Air Force guaranteed "the Bureau complete cooperation in these matters and in any instances where they fail to make information available to you or make the recovered discs available for your examination, it should promptly be brought to the attention of the Bureau" UFO File, 1: Edgar Hoover turned his collection of secret files into a source of incredible power.
He created an elite force of highly professional and like-thinking detectives who would aid the local police with their scientific methods of investigation, a vast collection of fingerprints, and files containing exclusive information on both criminals and radicals. Director Hoover, taught by his early experience in the Library of Congress, where he was in a position to observe the organizational work of such a famous empire builder as Herbert Putnam, must have been aware that the very access to controversial information,.
