Churchill and UFOs
Even forty-five years after he died, Winston Churchill still keeps on making the news. If not because of his triumphant dentures, it’s possibly because of his cover-up of a UFO sighting. Years ago, Britain’s Ministry of Defense released a surprising batch of UFO-related documents to the National Archives, and those 5,000 pages include letters, written in 1999, from a family member of a Royal Air Force (RAF) member, who served as a former Prime Minister’s bodyguard.
The writer of the letter was a scientist who had heard this story from his own mother, and he described how the bodyguard claimed that during WWII, Churchill tried to avoid a possible “mass panic”, and ordered the 50-year classification of a certain encounter between an RAF aircraft and an unknown flying object. It is considered that Churchill discussed this problem with U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Even if the Ministry of Defense doesn’t have any documentation of the episode, its UFO files written before 1967 have disappeared.
CIA and their mind-control experiments
During the Cold War, the CIA is responsible for conducting illegal scientific research on humans. Also known as Project MK-ULTRA, the program was based on subjecting humans to experiments with different drugs, like LSD and barbiturates, hypnosis, and even radiological and biological agents.
Back in 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms wanted all those documents from Project MK-ULTRA to be destroyed. Even so, later the same year, the New York Times managed to get those documents and report on the illegal activities. In 1975, the Church Committee, which was headed by Senator Frank Church, and a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, started to investigate the matter.
They discovered that over more than twenty years prior, the CIA had a budget of $20 million for this project, conducting experiments on humans without their knowledge. Some of the research took place in Canada. There are a couple of historians who strongly believe that the CIA wanted to create a mind-control system through which they could program people to conduct assassinations.
AREA 51
Let’s be honest, this list wouldn’t be complete without a nod to Area 51. The secret military base is about 75 miles, or 120 km, northwest of Las Vegas, and it has been considered by many just a tale, as it should be.
After all, we’re talking here about a zone where the rumors say it has been used for alien experiments. However, after listening to what a couple of CIA veterans have to say, you’ll understand that these extraterrestrial experiments weren’t a part of the job.
They recalled how in the 1960s, the site was basically just a testing ground for spy planes, such as the A-12 and its record-breaking speedy successor, known as the SR-71 Blackbird.
A certain group of fellows known as Roadrunners, who wanted to count themselves as Area 51 workers, said that they were paid in cash or by checks issued by unrelated companies such as Pan American World Airways. The base is probably still testing super-top-secret planes and weapons systems, but they’re still covered in mystery.
UFOs in the U.S.S.R.
Back in 1967, a Soviet astronomer asked for “the joint effort of all the scientists in the world”, in order to understand the nature of some unidentified flying objects. The scientist, known as Feliks Zigel, was extremely convinced that flying saucers (as he called them) really exist. “Unfortunately, some scientists that are both Russians and Americans deny the existence of the problem, instead of trying to help and fix it.”
His real concern was then prompted by 200 reported sightings of “a very luminous orange-colored crescent with a surface that’s a little duller than the Moon’s”. He also said that “they were throwing jets, sometimes with sparks”. These suspicions eventually raised eyebrows, and a study commissioned by the Soviet authorities in 1978 started.
