To almost all of us --particularly those who have already dedicated decades investigating UFO reports, analyzing them, and come to a valid conclusion, as well as those who have read a lot of books on the subject, and also have written books and pieces of elaborate thought, the issue of UFOs started with the Kenneth Arnold case, on June 24, 1947.
I started my personal journey with this subject at the end of 1957, and, in a more organized way, on April 29, 1958, when the Center for UFO Investigation (C.I.O.V.I., its acronym in Spanish) was founded in Uruguay.
Since then, we have developed worldwide relationships with individuals and organizations dedicated to a similar objective, from our near neighbors Argentina, Chile, and Brazil to the United States, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan.
This relationship comprised the exchange of letters and publications, during which, for 22 years, no one heard of, knew of, or published any reference to something called Roswell, a little town in a rural area of the United States.
Someone considered it convenient from the point of view of U.S. military intelligence to make public something that apparently happened there.
In the maelstrom of those times of the 40s, when every day dozens of people were claiming they had seen "flying saucers", to publish that the United States Air Force had captured one was a bombshell, a monumental revelation that would cause enormous repercussions.
But if there were repercussions in the United States, we in a foreign country didn't get any of them until an Intelligence Officer named William L. Moore, sponsored by the well-known author Charles Berlitz, published the book The Roswell Incident in October of 1980. That is 33 years and 3 months after the Air Force published its first report in a local newspaper in July 1947.
This simple fact reveals how much silence followed the incident.
The USAF quickly acted to dismiss the importance attributed to the tale that a "flying saucer" crashed in a certain place near the Roswell AFB and that the Air Force got it.
The first and immediate explanation was given by USAF Lieutenant General Roger M. Ramey, who proclaimed that what had fallen and been recovered was "a weather balloon".
But a weather balloon does not crash, just fall.
And here, a confusion begins that persists to this day.
I am fed up with seeing TV reporters talking about the Roswell incident and confounding rubber and metallic bars fallen in Mac Brazel's ranch, with the craft crashed on a field, miles away from that ranch.
According to certain reports, there were quite a number of other crashes, which made them a familiar sight during that time of serious confrontation with the Soviet Union, and made us think that someone was testing different kinds of flying craft that were not easily identifiable.
When the Arnold case happened, there was a last object with a different shape from the others, and at the time it made me think of a very advanced German airplane, the Gotha Go 229, which was the first stealth flying-wing jet in the World. It was also a fighter and a bomber.
Just 3 months after the Arnold case and only 5 days after the USAF was created, the Joint Chief of Staff of the Army, General Nathan F. Twining, sent a letter to the Commander General of the USAF, Brigadier General George Schulgen, at the latter's request.
General Twining wrote: "Due consideration should be given to the following:
--The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin - the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command.
-- The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion, possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.
It was just on the basis of this letter that Brig. Gral. Schulgen wrote on September 28, 1947, a Memorandum saying, among other things:...."For the purpose of analysis and evaluation of the so-called "flying Saucers" phenomenon, the object sighted is being assumed to be a manned aircraft, of Russian origin, and based on the perspective thinking and actual accomplishments of the Germans."
And a little bit later, General Schulgen wrote:
"There is also a possibility that the Horten brothers' perspective
thinking may have inspired this type of aircraft --particularly the
"Parabola," which has a crescent plan form”.
Taking these words of General Schulgen, they open the possibility thought by the historian Joseph Farrell when he writes about a "breakaway civilization".
A group that will develop a psychological war: the idea of "interplanetary" pushed by Donald Keyhoe, or the idea of "aliens" proposed by Dr. James Lipp, an analyst in the Missile Division of the Rand Corporation, in an extensive letter to Brigadier General Donald Putt, Director of Research and Development of the USAF.
Before I go on, I would recommend viewing a video of the lecture given by Walter Bosley, historian and writer, at an international conference in 2015, under the title: "Origins: Emergence of the Breakaway Civilization" (https://thebreakaway.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/secret-space-program-presentation-2015-walter-bosley-origins-emergence-of-the-breakaway-civilization/).
After seeing the video, some of you will remember things described by Charles Fort in his famous "The Book of Damned" of 1919.
Reached to this point I find particularly important to reproduce the words written by USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the foremost known leader of Project Blue Book, in his book "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" published by Doubleday & Company, INC.in1956 on page 39 where he wrote: "When World War II ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and guided missiles under development. The majority of these projects were in the most preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even approach the performance of the objects reported by UFO observers"
After all, I think honestly it is not out of place to pose the question about what relationship could maybe be between people reporting "flying saucers" starting in 1947, and the more than 1,600 Germans who came to the United States in the so-called "Project Paperclip".
Take note of this: "Originally initiated as "Project Overcast" in 1944, its goal was to secure advanced German military technology—particularly regarding rocketry, jet engines, and aerospace medicine. As the Cold War intensified, the U.S. government sought to harness these "chosen, rare minds" to maintain a technological advantage and to prevent the Soviet Union from capturing them."(taken from Wikipedia)
"The name "Paperclip" originated from Army Ordnance officers attaching paper clips to the security folders of the experts they wanted to employ, signaling investigators to expedite background checks and ignore any disqualifying findings." (taken from National Air and Space Museum).
The disqualifying findings, obviously, were that these Germans had been Nazis.
Finally, a note that looks like the strawberry on top of a beautifully decorated cake.
In the Ufology environment, we have known for years what came to be called "The Aviary". One of those "birds" has been the USAF Special Investigation Agent, Richard Doty.
Doty is well known for the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Paul Bennewitz, a physicist, Engineer, and Ufologist.
After years of silence, there are many videos in which Doty gives a lot of information (or disinformation) related to UFOs.
Among them, there is one in which Doty is asked about the beings seen by abductees, and he says that those are human beings with deformities who were used to appear as aliens. And that was a work done at Fort Belvoir.
Fort Belvoir is a major U.S. Army installation in Fairfax County, Virginia, primarily known as a strategic logistics, intelligence, and administrative hub for the Department of Defense (DoD). It houses over 145 agencies, including the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), and the National Museum of the U.S. Army.
Take note of this and connect the dots.
Milton W. Hourcade
July 8, 2026
