Secret CIA documents reveal how US prepared to defend against an alien invasion

A resurfaced papers suggests the CIA was preparing for a imaginable alien penetration amid wide sightings crossed the nation, galore of which were successful Washington DC.

A conception successful the study titled 'US Official Attitude to UFOs' says unexplained sightings were much than 20 times the mean complaint successful the summertime of 1952.

Some Air Force members believed they were 'interplanetary spaceships astir to marque person contact,' starring the CIA to transportation the subject to usage Project Blue Book to negociate the situation.

Project Blue Book, which ended successful 1969, was developed to analyse reports of aerial phenomena and find if they posed a menace to nationalist security.

'To hole the nationalist for [the anticipation of contact], 41 antecedently classified reports were released for work betwixt August 1952 and February 1953,' the papers states.

The CIA past moved to wantonness the probe successful the eyes of the American people, utilizing Project Blue Book 'as a means of nationalist 'debunking' UFOs.'

The group attributed astir sightings to misidentified earthy phenomena similar upwind balloons, craft lights oregon atmospheric conditions, and utilized TV shows and newspapers to dispersed the word.

'By erecting a facade of ridicule, the US hoped to allay nationalist alarm, reduce the anticipation of the Soviet taking vantage of the UFO wide sightings for either intelligence warfare oregon existent warfare purposes,' reads the document.

The study states that the cover-up besides allowed Project Blue Book to make craft 'that emulated UFO performances,' specified arsenic anti-gravity which creates a unit to counteract gravity and lets objects interval oregon determination without being pulled.

The document, 'Scientific Intelligence - General - Unidentified Flying Objects,' discussed however the US and Australia collaborated to analyse unusual sightings. 

It was precocious shared connected X by idiosyncratic 'Disclosure Party' who wrote: 'Documents from the National Archives of Australia bespeak the U.S. was intentionally withholding accusation astir UFOs from the nationalist successful 1953.'

The archetypal leafage explains that 'the early analyses of UFO reports by the US Air Force (USAF) quality indicated that existent phenomena were being reported which had formation characteristics truthful acold successful beforehand of US craft that lone extraterrestrial root beryllium envisaged.'

A technological sheet chaired by Howard P Robertson met successful mid-January to formulate 'future enactment connected the UFO problem,' pursuing the merchandise of the 41 reports. 

The gathering included the showing of 2 then-classified films of UFOs and aboriginal results of the 3,200 reports that were shared with the public.

The sheet suggested education programs to debunk UFO sightings and thatch the nationalist however to place definite phenomena.

That included utilizing articles, TV shows and movies to dispersed the word, the History Channel reported. The sheet adjacent contemplating asking the Walt Disney Corporation to transportation in.

'Such a programme should thin to trim the existent gullibility of the nationalist and…their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda,' the sheet concluded.  

 On February 16, 1953, the CIA made it look the probe had been abandoned, allowing the bureau to survey of the cases successful secret.

Seven months later, the bureau gutted the Project Blue Book squad to conscionable 10 qualified unit operating astatine a top-secret level and past down to conscionable a azygous officer, sergeant, caput and part-time consultant.

To power nationalist consciousness astir the project, the CIA threatened would-be whistleblowers with up to 10 years successful jailhouse and a $10,000 fine.

But the papers states erstwhile work unit resigned oregon retired, 'it was imaginable to uncover USAF attitudes [toward UFOs] oregon opinions adjacent if existent information was inactive restricted.

The study names Major D Fournet, who was a Project Blue Book serviceman astatine the Pentagon until 1952 and Former CIA manager Admiral Hillenkoetter, on with 'many intelligences officers associated with the UFO problems, arsenic 'publicly stating that the US authorities knew UFOs were extraterrestrial but was withholding the information from the public.'

Those statements led to a revised punishment for would-be whistleblowers, making the discourtesy federally amerciable nether the Espionage Act. 

The determination meant individuals who exposed the enactment faced up to 20 years successful prison  and $10,00 successful fines.

Project Blue Book continued its work, analyzing thousands of reports to weed retired what were misidentified objects oregon extraterrestrial craft. 

'Consultants statistically tested the chartless entity colonisation to find the likelihood that it was akin to the colonisation of identified objects and recovered that the probability was little than 1 successful 10 1000 trillion trillion to 1 against chartless being the aforesaid arsenic knowns,' reads the document.

By 1957, the squad claimed lone 14 retired of 1,006 sightings remained unidentified. 

However, the CIA was besides said to usage authorities backing to proceed UFO information postulation to money different projects similar the Canadian Avros saucer. 

The Avrocar was the effect of a Canadian effort to make a supersonic, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter-bomber, and the CIA opted to plan it to look similar a 'flying saucer.'

In 1952, the Canadian authorities provided archetypal backing but dropped the task erstwhile it became excessively expensive. Avro offered the task to the US government, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force took it implicit successful 1958.

The papers continues to accidental that the US authorities past allocated much backing to analyse gravity and a means of controlling it. 

'Despite the information subject had not attained a level of competence to woody with either gravity oregon anti-gravity problems,' according to the report.

'It is important astatine this clip the existent theories connected UFO propulsion were a substance of gravity power and electro-magnetic propulsion.'