The Roswell UFO Crash and President Harry S. Truman

Since the Roswell incident, in which it is alleged aliens from another solar system crashed in the desert, the U.S. Army got its hands on all things alien and has been trying to hide it all ever since. Rumors have abounded about what U.S. presidents knew or did not know about the crash and the alleged recovered alien bodies. You would think that with an incident as huge as this, at the very least, the presidents of the United States of America should know something, if not all, of the truth.

During Harry S. Truman's administration, the UFO issue moved from a question to a problem. Until Truman, the whole thing had been hushed up and was not a public debate. There had been reports and inquires but not a full-scale public outcry about what was going on and what the government was planning to do to protect the public.

Truman was the intelligence president. He created the CIA in 1947 and the NSA in 1952. He would have been the man to know what was going on if something was brewing. An invasion from outer space would have fallen under the intelligence umbrella. Truman would have known.

However, Truman would act ignorant and almost disgusted at the very idea of someone asking an UFO question when one was posed. He would often do a song and dance during press conferences in an attempt to throw reporters off the UFO scent. Ufologists of the Truman era thought Truman acted absolutely negatively at the mention of the issue. Even today, some researchers think Truman was clueless about the issue since no documents referring to UFOs exist in the Truman Presidential Library. This is a ruse.

Truman's military aide to the White House, General Robert B. Landry, was under Presidential orders to report to Truman on the UFOs. So much, I would point out, for the incredulity Truman feigned. To avoid classified security leaks, the General was to give oral reports to Truman directly. Nothing was to be in writing.

One has to stop and ask the question: why? If there was nothing to the reports, nothing to Roswell, why all the cloak and dagger stuff over something that did not exist? But, I digress.

The Roswell Crash happened on Truman's watch. This had to be the impetus which prompted the cloak-and-dagger reports from General Landry to Truman. Just imagine having just won a war against the Nazis and Japanese, then find you might now have to fight a war against a technologically-advanced civilization against whom you had no hope of winning a war. Nerves were raw. Truman wanted total secrecy on the matter.

One military general implied that Truman might have been in on the top-secret group quickly formed to deal with the crash, the debris, the alien bodies, technology, and the American public.[1] In 1949, Truman set up another study group to investigate the UFO "Foo-Fighters" encountered during the war. General James Dolittle, who headed up the investigation, told Truman that the Foo-Fighters were of extraterrestrial origins. Finally, in 1950, Truman was alleged to have sent this message:

"I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth." [2]

In 1952, the nation's capital was rife with reports of UFO sightings.

"A massive build-up of sightings over the United States in 1952," wrote Gerald K. Haines in an article for the CIA, "especially in July, alarmed the Truman administration." It led the Truman administration to give the order that the flying saucers be shot down. On July 26, 1952, the Air Force obeyed and gave the order to "Shoot them down!" [3]

(I just have to ask if it was weather balloons and swamp gas, the usual "let's-now-insult-American's-intelligence" UFO explanations, they were going to shoot down?)

Before the day was over, Truman would rescind that order based on some amazing events.

A selection of very impressively credentialed scientists, including Albert Einstein, appealed to Truman and said that in the interest of intergalactic peace and universal laws of hospitality, perhaps it would not be a good idea to shoot down and piss off another planet full of advanced beings. I think maybe vaporization of the earth is what was being strongly hinted at in the following quote:

"Several prominent scientists, including Albert Einstein, protested the order to the White House and urged that the command be rescinded, not only in the interest of future intergalactic peace, but also in the interest of self-preservation: Extraterrestrials would certainly look upon an attack by the primitive jet firepower as a breach of the universal laws of hospitality." [4]

Just how did good ole Albert and his scientists cronies know that there was an "intergalactic peace" to be had, much less know about "universal laws of hospitality"?

Did they have a book? Did they hang out with the aliens at some bar called The Blue Galaxy and exchange tips? Is there an alien version of Miss Manners on Zeta Reticuli? Just how did they know this fact? If, for the sake of argument this is a true story, what did Einstein and his pals know that others did not?

I mean, think a minute: Would you put your scientific reputation on the line before the President of the United States by going out on a limb for a bunch of geese, weather balloons, and swamp gases? Can you imagine? This is what our government has come up with to explain away these sightings.

They want us to believe that for the sake of intergalactic peace with a flock of geese, we probably should think twice about shooting them down. And if that wasn't enough: For the interest of self-preservation, we should be nice because those geese might wipe out the Earth because we failed to obey the universal laws of hospitality.

It was the 1952 Washington UFOs that over flew the capitol repeatedly before disappearing that prompted Truman to take this phenomenon as a serious threat. These fly-bys could not be explained away as some sort of mistaken identity. The public wanted answers. Cover-up was now impossible.

An investigative panel was formed at the behest of the CIA and was called the Robertson Panel[5]. Only days before the end of Truman's presidency, this panel apparently met to assess the threat to national security. The five scientists, all with top-secret clearance, concluded there was no threat to national security. Results of this study found their way into the hands of the newly elected President Eisenhower.

Flocks of geese? Swamp gas? Wayward weather balloons?

I bet Truman ended up wishing it was so.

[1]http://www.presidentialufo.com/harrys.htm

[2] Ibid

[3] Ibid

[4] Wrote Gerald K. Haines in an article for the CIA: http://www.presidentialufo.com/harrys.htm

[5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Panel