UFO update

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UFO Update

Anonymous low-level informants have for years accused the U.S.

government of hiding crashed UFOs.  Since these sources are of 

uncertain reliability, the reports have been largely ignored. 

Now, however, ufologists must consider the testimony of Robert

Sarbacher, whose entry in WHO'S WHO consists of more than 3    

inches of tiny print, including education at Princeton and 

Harvard and a stint as dean of the graduate school of the Georgia

Institute of Technology.  In the years after WWII, the story 

goes, Sarbacher served as a science consultant for the Defense

Department's Joint Research and Development Board.  He was in

his Washington office on September 15, 1950, it seems, when he

received a visit from Canadian electrical engineer Wilbert B. 

Smith.  According to information released by Smith just recently,

it was then that Sarbacher revealed the existence of crashed 

UFOs, apparently under investigation by Vannevar Bush, the 

government's top scientist.

In a recent interview, Sarbacher, now head of the Washington 

Institute of Technology, confirmed those remarks.  He says 

that during his period of government service as one of a 

number of government scientists who served largely as 

volunteers, he was told that the vehicles were composed of an 

"extremely light and very tough" material, apparently intended 

to withstand tremendous acceleration and deceleration.  At one 

point, Sarbacher says, he was even invited to a meeting at 

Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where officials 

related their findings to scientists connected with the Research 

and Development Board.  Sarbacher had other commitments and did 

not attend the meeting, but he says that those who did, including 

Bush and noted mathematician John von Neumann, were told that the 

vehicles appeared to be spaceships from another solar system.

Asked about his reaction to the episode, Sarbacher seems oddly 

blase.  He admits he hasn't given much thought to a matter most

people would consider extraordinary -- he considers it simply a

curious event in the course of a long scientific career.  "After

all," he says, "I had -- and have -- a great many more pressing

scientific responsibilities.  I wish I could refer you to someone

who was more directly involved than I was," he adds.  

"Unfortunately, they're all long gone."

Writer William Moore, who has been chasing government UFO secrets

for years, considers Sarbacher's testimony significant.  "It's 

the first time someone with a reputation has come forward to 

state publicly that the Pentagon has a recovered UFO," he says.

"This isn't proof, of course, but it fits in with information we

have from other sources."  Informed of these claims, Temple 

University history professor David M. Jacobs, author of THE 

UFO CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA, admits Sarbacher's credentials are

impressive but observes, "Until somebody can produce an actual

crashed saucer, this is hearsay evidence.  And how can he talk 

so casually about something that would have to be the most 

sensational event in all of history?"