NSA and UFO

      This has been a terribly weird period of time for ufology.  

Reports of abductions, EBE genetic experimentation on humans, 

the MJ-12 controversy, Lear.txt, etc. have dominated to subject 

in recent months.  Considering the strange possibilities raised 

by all of this brings to mind a FOIA document released by the 

NSA several years ago, which was titled, UFO HYPOTHESIS AND 

SURVIVAL QUESTIONS.  A lot of it applies to the present state of 

ufology.  On its, release, NSA disclaimed that the document 

represented NSA policy, but it is interesting that this one NSA 

analyst's opinion has remained for so long in NSA's files.  The 

document states:

     " It is the purpose of this monograph to consider briefly 

some of the human survival implications suggested by the various 

principal hypotheses concerning the nature of the phenomena 

loosely categorized as UFO.

     1.  All UFOs Are Hoaxes.  From the time when hoaxes were 

first noted in history, they were characterized by infrequency 

of occurrence and usually by a considerable restriction of their 

geographical extent.  Rarely have men of science, while acting 

within their professional capacities, perpetrated hoaxes.  The 

fact that UFO phenomena have been witnessed all over the world 

from ancient times, and by considerable numbers of reputable 

scientists in recent times, indicates rather strongly that UFOs 

are not all hoaxes.  If anything, rather than diminishing, the 

modern trend is toward increased reports, from all sources.  In 

one three month period in 1953 (June, July and August) Air Force 

records show 35 sightings whose nature could not be determined.  

If UFOs, contrary to all indications and expectations, are 

indeed hoaxes--hoaxes of a world wide dimension--hoaxes of 

increasing frequency, then a human mental aberration of alarming 

proportions would seem to be developing.  Such an aberration 

would seem to have serious implications for nations equipped 

with nuclear toys--and should require immediate and careful 

study by scientists.

     2.  All UFOs Are Hallucinations.  People, of course, do 

hallucinate.  Although groups of people hallucinating is rare, 

it has been known to happen.  Machines have their own form of 

hallucination; the radar, in particular, 'sees' temperature 

inversions.  But a considerable number of instances exist in 

which there are groups of people and a radar or radars seeing 

the same thing at the same time; sometimes a person and gun 

camera confirm each other's testimony.  On occasion, physical 

evidence of a circumstantial nature was reported to have been 

found to support witnessed sightings.  A continuing high 

percentage of reports of unusual aerial objects are being 

reported by people in responsible positions in science, 

government, and industry.  The sum of such evidence seems to 

argue strongly against all UFOs being halluciinations.  In spite 

of all the evidence to the contrarty, if UFOs did turn out to be 

largely illusionary, the psychological implications for man 

would certainly bring into stong question his ability to 

distinguish reality from fantasy.  The negative effect on man's 

ability to survive in an increasingly complex world would be 

considerable--making it imperative that such a growing 

impairment of the human capacity for rational judgment be 

subjected to immediate and thorough scientific study so that the 

illness could be controlled before it reaches epidemic 

proportions...

     3.  All UFOs Are Natural Phenomena.  If this hypothesis is 

correct, the capability of air warning systems to correctly 

diagnose an attack situation is open to serious question.

     a.  Many UFOs have been reported by trained military 

     observers to behave like high speed, high performance, high 

     altitude rockets or aircraft.  The apparent solidity and 

     craft-like shape of the objects have often been subject to 

     radar confirmation.  If such reports can appear to trained 

     military men as rockets or aircraft and if such objects 

     should come over the Arctic from the direction of Russia on 

     the United States, they could trigger 'false reports of 

     missle attacks.'

     b.  Many responsible military officers have developed a 

     mental 'blind spot' to objects which appear to have 

     charachteristics of UFOs.  Such an attitude is an open 

     invitation to the enemy to build a replica of the phenomena 

     in order to penetrate the 'hole' in his aversary's 

     defenses...

     c.  Sometimes the phenomena appear to defy radar detection 

     and to cause massive electromagnetic interference.  Surely 

     it is very important to discover the nature of these 

     objects or plasmas before any prospective enemy can use 

     their properties to build a device or system to circumvent 

     or jam our air and space detection systems--Any nation 

     certainly could use a system or device to penetrate enemy 

     defenses.--Was this the purpose of the lense shaped reentry 

     vehicle tested by the USAF in 1960?

     4.  Some UFOs Are Secret Earth Projects.  The above-

referenced U.S. Air Force reenetry vehicle and an often 

publicized Canadian 'saucer' project leave little doubt as to 

the validity of this hypotheseis.  Undoubtedly, all UFOs should 

be carefully scrutinized to ferret out such enemy (or 

'friendly') projects.  Otherwise a nation faces the very strong 

possibility of being intimidated by a new secret 'doomsday' 

weapon.

     5.  UFOs Are Related to Intra-terrestrial Intelligence.  

According to some eminent scientists closely associated with the 

study of this phenomenon, this hypothesis cannot be 

disregarded.  (The well documented sightings over Washington, 

D.C. in 1952 strongly support his view.)  This hypothesis has a 

number of far-reaching human survival implications:

     a.  If 'they' discover you, it is an old but hardly invalid 

     rule of thumb, 'they' are your technological superiors.  

     Human history has shown us time and again the tragic 

     results of a confrontation between a technologically 

     superior civilization and a technologically inferior 

     people.  The 'inferior' is usually subject to physical 

     conquest.

     b.  Often in the past, a technologically superior people 

     are also possessors of a more virile or aggressive 

     culture.  In a confronttion between two peoples of 

     significantly different culture levels, those having the 

     inferior or less virile culture most often suffer a tragic 

     loss of identity and are absorbed by the other people.

     c.  Some peoples who were technologically and/or culturally 

     inferior to other nations have survived--have maintained 

     their identity--have equalized the differences between them 

     and their adversaries.  The Japanese people have given us 

     an excellent example of the methods required to achieve 

     such survival:

          (1)  full and honest acceptance of the nature of the 

          inferiorities separating you from the advantages of 

          the other peoples,    

          (2)  complete national solidarity in all positions 

          taken in dealing with the other culture,

          (3)  highly controlled and limited intercourse with 

          the other side--doing only those things advantageous 

          to the foreigner which you are absolutely forced to do 

          by the circumstances,

          (4)  a correct but friendly attitude toward the other 

          people,

          (5)  a national eagerness to learn everything possible 

          about the other citizens--its technological and 

          cultural strengths and weaknesses.  This often 

          involves sending selected groups and individuals to 

          the other's country to become one of his kind, or even 

          to help him in his wars against other adversaries,

          (6)  Adopting as many of the advantages of the 

          opposing people as you can, and doing it as fast as 

          possible--while still protecting your own identity by 

          molding each new knowledge increment into your own 

          cultural cast.

     6.  Comment:  Although this paper has hardly exhausted the 

possible hypotheses related to the UFO phenomena, those 

mentioned above are the principal ones presently put forward.  

All of them have serious survival implications.  The final 

answer to this mystery will probably include more than one of 

the above hypotheses.

     Up until this time, the leisurely scientific approach has 

too often taken precedence in dealing with UFO questions.  If 

you are walking along a forest path and someone yells 'rattler' 

your reaction would be immediate and defensive.  You would not 

take time to speculate before you act.  You would have to treat 

the alarm as if it were a real and immediate threat to your 

survival.  Investigation would become an intensive emergency 

action to isolate the threat and to determine its precise 

nature.  It would be geared to developing adequate defensive 

measures in a minimum amount of time.  It would seem a little 

more of this survival attitude is called for in dealing with the 

UFO problem.

     Observations of chimpanzees while in a captive environment 

have shown that the animals tend to become confused and 

disoriented.  Since they do not usually have adult chimps to 

teach them how to be good apes, they are not even sure of their 

behavior.  Often their actions are patterned after human 

behavior and would have virtually no survival value in the 

wild.  Lacking the challenge of environmental adaptation, the 

bodies of the animals atrophy and become subject to may diseases-

mostly unknown in their wild counterparts.  Reactions to 

stimulus usually become less responsive and suitable.  Sex 

becomes a year-long preoccupation instead of a seasonal madness.

     Do the captivity characteristics of modern civilization 

cause a similar lessening of man's adaptive capability, of his 

health, of his ability to recognize reality, of his ability to 

survive?

     Perhaps the UFO question might even make man undertake 

studies which could enable him to construct a society which is 

most conducive to developing a completely HUMAN being, healthy 

in all respects of mind and body and, most important, able to 

recognize and adapt to real environmental situations.