Although not
historically rigorously, but yes fairly speaking, the “Arnold case” was
undoubtedly the one that triggered this specialized task called Ufology.
Along the years there have been many and very
different explanations given to the case: reflections from the ice in the
mountains (Bluebook), mirages (Menzel), mistakes in the estimated distance and
the size of the objects (Hynek), “earth lights” (Devereux) and…American white
pelicans! (Easton & Kottmeyer).
The one who
approached really more to what happened was Hynek, who suggested that Arnold
saw a fleet of jet aircraft.
Nevertheless, the
precise descriptions given by Kenneth Arnold, his belief that those objects
were U.S. military aircrafts, the considerable delay of the official
investigators to interview him, all of that points out to the fact that
certainly Arnold saw nine brightly shining objects flying in a chain-like
formation, moving in such a way that caught his attention.
They were not discs
or saucers in their shape, as misinformed people repeat until today. Arnold
described the objects as “flat like a pan”,
and from a kinetic viewpoint he said that they moved “like speedboats on a rough water”, that is a waving movement.
And also Arnold said “they flew like a saucer
would do if you skipped it across the water”. It was from this
phrase that William C. Bequette, then a journalist working for the “East Oregonian” newspaper, in Pendleton,
Oregon, coined the unfortunate term “flying
saucers”.
The most possible explanation is that Arnold
saw a group of flying wings, very possibly Horten IX-29 jets. The other
alternative would have been a group of Northrop YB-49, but these jets were not
compatible with the shape of these flying wings.
Enough about what Arnold
saw.
What comes afterwards
is most interesting.
This comment made by
Arnold is ----from my viewpoint—very
important. He said:
“Even though I openly
invited an investigation by the Army and the FBI as to the authenticity of my
story or a mental or a physical examination as to my capabilities, I have
received no interest from these two important protective forces of our
country;…. if our Military intelligence was not aware of what I observed,
they would be the very first people that I could expect as visitors”.
But precisely that was not the case!
This fact of being aware of what Kenneth Arnold saw,
is going to be confirmed by Brigadier General John A. Samford, USAF Chief of
Intelligence, in his famous press-conference given on July 29, 1952.
In that press-conference at the Pentagon, Samford
started saying:
“We have as a to date come to a one firm
conclusion with respect to this remaining percentage: and that is that it does
not contain any pattern or purpose or of consistency that we can relate to any
conceivable threat to the United States”
And near the end of his speech, Brigadier General
Samford repeated the concept:
“I think that the highest probability is that
these are phenomena associated with the intellectual and scientific interests
that we are on the road to learn more about but that there is nothing in
them that is associated with material or vehicles or missiles that are directed
against the United States”
But there was something else Samford said in that
press conference. Something that the vast majority of the so-called ufologists
never take into consideration, and that results in a very significant
complement of what was ascertained before.
General Samford
said:
“many reports that we have received and we've been able to correlate and
put in their place we have been able to do so through association with an
activity we had somewhere, a jet aircraft line, a missile, certain balloons. We
could say, well, the report probably was associated with this thing which
we've done.”
This shows eloquently what I sustain in my book
“OVNIs: La Agenda Seceta” (UFOs: the Secret Agenda), which is that there were a
lot of intelligence and military activity that could be mistaken –or covered
up—with the idea of UFOs as extra-terrestrial vehicles.
And,….last but not least, a proof that the Pentagon
was behind the spread of the extraterrestrial idea, is the fact that after
Brigadier General Samford ended his press conference, his same place was used
by the most vociferous agent of the “alien” myth: no other than USMC Major
(Ret.) Donald Keyhoe!! (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ylsFJcfUo).
Milton W. Hourcade
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