[Famous UFO quotes]
Famous people from around the world, talking about the UFO fenomenon.
It is time for the truth to be brought out. . . 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.
Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Director of the CIA (1947-50)
in a letter to Congress, 1960
quoted in Above Top Secret
After "detailed examination of thousands of reports and interrogation of hundreds of witnesses" Dr. Hynek concludes that the unexplained [UFO] cases "do not specify any known physical event . . . [or] any known psychological event or process."
in UFOs: A Scientific Debate
It isn't a question of whether or not flying saucers exist. The question is, what are they and who do they belong to?
George Filer, Air Force intelligence officer, 1958-1978
quoted in Sightings: UFOs
I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.
President Gerald Ford
In a letter he sent as a congressman
to the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee
March 28, 1966
More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth.
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander-in-Chief
of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, 11 July 1954.
quoted in Above Top Secret
I speak not only from intimate knowledge of the past investigations, but also from three years of detailed personal research, involving interviews with more than five hundred witnesses in selected UFO cases, chiefly in the United States. In my opinion, the UFO problem, far from being the 'nonsense problem' it has been labeled by many scientists, constitutes an area of extraordinary scientific interest.
Dr. James McDonald
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Senior Physicist
quoted in UFOs: A Scientific Debate
I had the evidence that a crash did happen... I ask [you] this, were you there with me? Did you have the clearances? They can't answer these questions, they simply criticize with no evidence.
Colonel Philip Corso
Former head of the Foreign Technology Desk
for United States Army Research and Development
National Security Council member, Eisenhower Administration
on camera shortly before his death, 1998
Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base [Germany, 1951] and we tried to get close to them, but they were able to change direction faster than our fighters. I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.
Gordon Cooper, former USAF pilot and NASA astronaut
United Nations UFO debate, 27 November 1978
quoted in Above Top Secret
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not contructed by any power on Earth.
President Harry S. Truman
April 4, 1950, White House Press Conference
For thirty years I've held that image in my mind. What I saw was a circular object that looked like two pie plates put on top of each other with a golf ball on top. It was a classic flying saucer, and it shot a beam of something at our warhead.
Lt. Robert M. Jacobs, U.S. Air Force
quoted in Sightings: UFOs
Blue Book was now under direct orders to debunk. . . I remember the conversations around the conference table in which it was suggested that Walt Disney or some educational cartoon producer be enlisted in [the] debunking process.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
in The Hynek UFO Report
I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
Senator Barry Goldwater
In a letter dated March 28, 1975
Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details of strange flying craft seen over territories of the Soviet Union. This is a serious challenge to science and we need the help of all Soviet citizens.
Professor Felix Zigel of the Moscow Aviation Institute
Moscow Central Television, 10 November 1967.
quoted in Above Top Secret
I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself.
President Jimmy Carter
remarking on his sighting January 1969
ABC News, January 22, 1999
The Air Force has never denied the possibility that interplanetary spacecraft exist. There are many people in the Air Force who believe in UFOs.
Al Chop, former press liaison, United States Air Force
quoted in Sightings: UFOs
The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. Flying saucers exist. Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Doctor Vannevar Bush.
Wilbert Smith
in a Top Secret Canadian government memorandum, 21 November 1950
quoted in Above Top Secret
The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.
Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell
UFOs: 50 Years of Denial
aired on The Learning Channel, March 4, 1999
It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range scientific investigations of our earth for centuries.
Professor Hermann Oberth
published in UFO News in 1974
quoted in Above Top Secret
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel, either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.
Dr. Harold Puthoff
Director, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin
in Physics Essays, Volume 9, No. 1, 1996
author of Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics
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