UFO: Hidden In Plain Sight

by Creative Commons

The White House ordered a complete truth embargo on all information and personnel conneted with the Roswell event. Marcel was ordered to return to base immediately. The claim that had been prematurely released to the public had to be played down and the UFO genie had to be stuffed back into the bottle.

At a staged news conference later that day, they had Major Marcel in a room holding up some metal scraps and claimed it was from a common weather balloon. The Army debunked the whole thing and the press bought the lie lock, stock and barrel.

There was some speculation the wreckage was from a Russian spy device but that was quickly disproven, If this UFO crash gets out of the bag and people of America are afraid of a “War of the Worlds” scenario where aliens are blasting our cities to bits with laser cannon and scooping up humans for their next meal, complete chaos might be the result. Given the circumstances of the time, it is not surprising that an initiative arose within the Pentagon to establish a program to investigate the UFO enigma. The foundations were laid for the longest and most comprehensive investigation of flying saucers—Project Blue Book.

Blue Book was managed by the United States Air Force and was the best known of the three UFO investigations programs the military had in the early days, beginning with Sign, then Grudge. Blue Book began as a genuine attempt to understand UFO sightings. They needed to get as much information as they could from private citizens who might reveal what kind of craft they observed, any occupants, if they were taken aboard the craft and, if so, what they observed while inside.

Sign and Grudge were merely attempts by the government to debunk and discourage any interest in UFOs, both of which failed miserably.

305 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2021