Truth is a wonderful idea in a friendly, warm and fuzzy context. In reality, seeking the truth in certain 'no access' contexts can get you killed...
The late Wendelle Stevens, was a retired USAF fighter pilot turned UFO investigator and researcher in 1949. Though the public is oblivious, purposefully so, to the name- every UFO researcher worth his or her salt knows the name Wendelle Stevens well.
There was no more knowledgeable, honest, no nonsense UFO investigator in the world. In his 54 years of study he collected more than 4000 actual UFO photographs. The most extensive collection on the planet.
What particularly distinguished Stevens in this field is his military experience and high rank. He wrote and co-authored over 18 books on extensive UFO contact cases. Stevens also appeared in numerous UFO documentaries.
When Col. Stevens made a controversial statement UFO researchers knew they could take to the bank. His credibility in the field was that unimpeachable. Moreover, he did not back away from taking controversial positions. Stevens was the primary investigator of the Billy Meier case and he endorsed the authenticity of the case.
I have been aware of him since 1980 and have had the greatest respect for his work since then. “During his long career in the military, one of his assignments was the supervision of a highly classified team of technical specialists who were installing hi-tech data collecting equipment aboard the SAC B-29s of the Ptarmigon Project – a research project which was photographing and mapping every inch of the Arctic land and sea area.
This equipment was designed to capture, record & analyze all EMF emissions in the Arctic, photograph all anomalous phenomena, and record all disturbances in the electrical and engine systems of the aircraft – looking for external influences caused by UFOs. The data was then couriered nightly to Washington.” (UFO Evidence)
This made the Colonel one of very few military insiders with direct experience of UFOs gained during military ops to speak out publicly. That was long before the disclosure of recent years. He was also the Director of the International UFO Congress.
During an exclusive interview prior to his death, He disclosed everything he knew and that was considerable. The most shocking concerned several strange deaths of prominent UFO researchers, in a no holds barred manner. This is subject that was hot years ago but has slipped below the radar.
The interview was conducted by Maurizio Baiazi (MBI, In the opening section of the interview the Colonel was asked about the early US government UFO studies:
MB: There were no reports related to the UFO crashes, then?
WS: No. All the UFO crash cases were classified above Secret. At a certain point Hynek objected that they could not give any feasible explanation to the public without being aware of the full Secret reports. That was when he left the office and became a consultant for the Air Force. Still, Hynek could not have access to the most important reports, it was a frustrating situation. Hynek wanted to get out of this control system, wanted freedom to investigate and to disclose. It was then that he suffered a brain tumor and died.
[His reference was to astronomer J. Allen Hynek who led the study, in fact, was the head of every study including Project Blue Book. Nonetheless, he was denied access to the above Top Secret files of the crash cases.When he pried he conveniently passed away.]
MB: Colonel, are you implying that you suspect something about it?
WS: For sure, and for many other suspicious deaths. Death by the same cause. Brain tumor. Which can be induced.
MB: New Mexico congressman Steven Schiff is suffering from a brain tumor. (Schiff died on March 25, 1998)
WS: Yes, it’s a dangerous game. I asked Colonel Corso if he feels his life is in danger. In his book The Day After Roswell, Corso mentions his friendship with Robert I. Sarbacher [physicist and consultant with the U.S. Department of Defense Research and Development Board (RDB).] Corso is a unique witness, we have nobody else like him. Others are too scared to talk publicly, they can only speak in paraphrases. For instance, Sarbacher said “Oh, these things are going back 25 years ago, today they have no importance at all.”
[There were a string of questionable UFO researcher and/or witness deaths back then. The McDonald case seems to be the only one that still comes up.]
…Whitley Strieber called me asking for Sarbacher’s phone number in Melbourne, Florida. You know what happened? He called on a Monday and they scheduled an interview for the next Friday, on the subject of UFO crashes and retrievals. On Thursday night Strieber was ready to leave. He phoned again to confirm the appointment and the wife’s scientist told him that her husband had died the previous night of a heart attack. Here’s how things go. You know how they do this? They use a powdery substance that can be placed on the steering wheel of your car, or on the door knob or the button flush, and by contact it enters the bloodstream. The substance can be triggered remotely using a very simple device, and virtually freezes the blood, causing the stroke. See, Sarbacher, had no heart problem and died just the day before the interview with Strieber.
MB: Can you refer to other suspicious cases known to you?
WS. Now, there’s another classic case of this type. Donald Keyhoe was head of NICAP. Frank Edwards was a broadcasting journalist in Washington that had already written in his book, that he was determined to pull off a sensational story about UFOs, along with Major Donald Keyhoe, bring it to the attention of Congress and propose the establishment of a committee to analyze the situation. So they turned to Indiana Congressman J. Edward Roush, who was interested in the phenomenon and who chaired some sessions of the committee [The congressional hearing initiated under the auspices of the House Science and Astronautics Committee on July 29, 1968].
{NICAP was an early UFO research organization. Keyhoe, like Stevens, was an ex-military man turned UFO investigator. I was well aware of all these players back then]
WS…The three agreed to hold a press meeting. The plan was that Keyhoe would produce the evidence and the next morning Edwards would have sent a press release, while the congressman would call the press in its meeting room and suddenly he raised the volume of the radio so all the journalists could not miss the news. Then he would have said that it was a problem that the parliament should deal with. It was all planned, Keyhoe gave all the information to Edwards. But while Frank was preparing the press release he was struck down by a heart attack. Since Edwards could no longer make the announcement, Roush and Keyhoe knowing the contents of the release tried to repeat it three days later.
(WS)…They decided to entrust it to another journalist. Because of those unmistakable signs, Keyhoe resolved to retire. Too dangerous, and anyway, now he was alone, he had lost his friends. Other researchers began to fear the worst and to come forward publicly. They gave up. I had two of my colleagues with whom I worked on UFO crashes. We had a piece of metal retrieved from a UFO incident in the Baja peninsula and another fragment from New Mexico. A retired Army lieutenant colonel had managed to get hold of a fragment. He called me from San Diego saying he was ready to drive over with his car and meet me that same night in Tucson. Three hours later his wife called me and she told me that I would never see her husband. He was found dead in his car, just outside San Diego, with a gunshot to the head exploded by a left-handed person. He was right-handed and he never had a gun in his life. His briefcase was missing, and the car was clean.
[I have told people for years that deep UFO investigation and knowledge is dangerous business. But few have taken me seriously.]
MB: And who represents the most important case, ever?
WS: Of course, I have to talk about James McDonald, who I knew very well. He was among the recipients of five detailed reports that we prepared, with solid evidence, which were not included in Project Blue Book. He believed that all the reports and evidence will go over at the Blue Book, we proved him otherwise. He then realized that the cases which he had thoroughly re-investigated were real. Therefore he asked the Blue Book why they did not analyze them. They answered that they knew nothing. So he turned to various Generals, one of which confirmed to be aware of those reports and that they came from the Foreign Technology Division [the same of Corso].
[James McDonald was a highly respected and well known physicist. His fame came from his involvement and controversial positions on the UFO phenomenon. He was a vocal critic of the government studies and a proponent of the ET hypothesis.]
WS: …McDonald replied that he had just addressed the question to the FTD and they knew nothing. The general asked him “Who said that?” and McDonald replied “the Blue Book,” and the General, “But they know nothing, they are only a public relations office, you must speak with a [certain] Colonel.” McDonald tried that way but it was useless, so he went to the Pentagon, holding a couple of names mentioned by the general.
At that time the President, I believe was Johnson, used to invite for breakfast in his office, next to the Oval Room, a couple of congressmen and senators, along with his closest staff collaborators. According to the schedule, first the counselors made an introductory statement, followed by the others and they all summarized the day’s briefing. At that point the guests of the representatives and the senators could intervene, saying what they thought was more appropriate. McDonald was the guest of an Arizona Congressman who introduced him.
McDonald stood up and said to have in hand those five very substantial UFO reports that we provided to him, and that did not appear in the Blue Book, or elsewhere. Nobody replied. With a strange expression on their faces, all remained silent and, one after the other, left the office. The Presidential Breakfast was over. McDonald did not get anything.
MB: How did McDonald react to that situation?
WS: Within two weeks he realized that they knew nothing, but also that they did not want to do anything. It was politically unhealthy. He went home happy to have touched a nerve. He was an activist, a guy who took his students to visit the missile sites in Tulsa. But what about his suicide? The first McDonald suicide was in his car in the parking lot of the university. With a gun shoved in his mouth and the bullet penetrated up to the brain, without damaging the lobes, but severing the right optic nerve and blocking its peripheral visual function. He could only see blurred points ahead with his left eye. He was blind to 90 percent, and in critical condition. He was rushed to the hospital and they tried to remove the bullet from the skull and stabilize him. He was in the intensive care ward in a hospital bed being watched 24 hours a day. He had no clothes or shoes. In the middle of the night at two in the morning, McDonald disappears from his bed. He evaporated.
He was found in the desert, alone, this time with his skull pierced by a gunshot to his temple. Now, how can we explain that a nearly blind man, with no clothes, gets out of his bed, reaches the only entrance, constantly guarded, and leaves the hospital without arousing any suspicion. How can you do that? According to the version given by the press, McDonald would have left the hospital, reached his home, took a second gun he had hidden in a box in a closet in the bedroom while his wife was asleep, without waking her up.
Then, we don’t know if he was escorted by somebody, and how he would go to the desert, where he killed himself. Nobody saw anything. They found him lying there. No car, no other vehicle near the body. None. Why are we still talking about a suicide? There was no investigation, no suspect, the insurance refund was immediately provided. Here, we have another problem…
[Double suicide is that possible? The problem that Stevens was alluding was the fact that insurance do not issued immediate payments when the deceased committed suicide. Of course that is not what happened. If ‘they” can terminate a president on TV in broad daylight they can dispose of anyone else easily.]
Perhaps you see now why I waited to get a blog going to publish these kinds of facts,,? McDonald’s suspicious death has never been investigated and No autopsy was performed at the time. The final coup d ‘grace in this case is chilling.
The day after his death government agents showed up at his house and told his wife they needed her husbands research documents. She let them in they confiscated what they wanted and left…
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