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The Startling True Story of the Incident That Began the Modern UFO Era— By the Premier Investigator of the Case Stanton Friedman’s painstaking investigation of the 1947 crash of flying saucers in New Mexico, including accounts of dozens of witnesses and information gathered from recently de-classified documents, reveals the U.S. government’s knowledge and concealment of this and other UFO events over the past half century: “On October 28, 1947, a draft order was prepared for American intelligence operatives throughout the world, directing them to get all potentially relevant information about flying saucers. The order was an intelligence collection memorandum from Brig. Gen. George Schulgen, chief of the USAF’s Air Intelligence Requirements Division and was based on a summary of flying-saucer characteristics supplied him by Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, commander of the Air Material Command. “Within the order was the first known official mention of the possibility that some of the flying saucers might be extraterrestrial spacecraft: This strange object, or phenomenon, may be considered, in view of certain observations, as long-range aircraft capable of a high rate of climb, high cruising speed and highly maneuverable and capable of being flown in very tight formations. For the purpose of analysis and evaluation of these so-called “flying saucers,” the object sighted is being assumed to be a manned craft of unknown origin. While there remains the possibility of Russian manufacture, based on perspective thinking and actual accomplishments of the Germans, it is the considered opinion of some elements that the object may in fact represent an interplanetary craft of some kind. [Emphasis added] “Moreover, within the order are several references that make little sense unless read in the context of presumed knowledge of a flying saucer that crashed months earlier in New Mexico.” from Chapter Three Cover design © 1992 Howard Grossman