| Memo to George Marshall from FDR 27 February, 1942 (49k) This is the memo that links the UFO crashes with the Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942, since it occured only three days earlier. It alludes to "atomic secrets learned from study of celestial devices" and authorizes "Dr. Bush to proceed with the project without further delay." The reference to "this new wonder" is, to our knowledge, a unique phrase for the time. The writing of Source S-2 shows at the bottom of the page. Authenticity, for a retyped memo like this, is nearly hopeless to prove in court. Format details might be of some help if they are consistant with the style of the time. |
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| George C. Marshall to Franklin D. Roosevelt 5 March, 1942 (89k) On March 5, 1942, George C. Marshall writes a top-secret memo to the President, which states: "regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified air plane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation...This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery air planes are in fact not earthly and according to secret intelligeces sources they are in all probability of interplanetary origin." Marshall goes on to state: "As a consequence I have issued orders to Army G2 that a special intelligence unit be created to further investigate the phenomenon and report any significant connection between recent incidents and those collected by the director the Office of Coordinator of Information." The memo bears correct Office of Chief of Staff (OCS) file numbers and has "Interplanetary Phenomenon Unity" (IPU) typed on it at a later time by a different typewriter. It is logical to believe that this is the order that sets up the IPU. |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt Memo on Non-Terrestrial Science and Technology 22 February 1944 (117k) On February 22, 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt writes a DOUBLE TOP SECRET memo on White House stationary for "The special committee on non-terrestrial science and technology." Both the title and the content allude to extraterrestrial life, the former using "non-terrestrial" and the later talking about "coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life in the universe." Remarkably, the last four words are exactly the title of Sagan's book co-authored with the Soviet scientist Shklovsky. Clearly the situation was that we had recovered at least one craft by then, probably the Cape Girardeau crash of 1941, and came to realize the wealth of technology that lay there for the pickings. Apparantly the "Special committee for non-terrestrial science and technology" had been working some time in order to define a clear action. Dr. Bush had presumably presented a proposal from the Committee for an agressive separate program to apply "non-terrestrial know-how" to the war effort, but FDR thought that it would threaten the atomic bomb program. next page-----> |
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