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153 April 1994 Inside the Military UFO Underground Le ATO NLA by A.J.S. Rayl NATO Meets E.T. Name: Robert O. Dean, retired Army command sergeant major Claims: Back in the Sixties, NATO issued a classified report stating that UFOs were real, of extraterrestrial origin, and had visited the earth. This extraordinary report was said to come out of NATO's command center the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe (SHAPE), located then just outside -£net. m2. of Paris, France. Background: Dean, a highly decorated veteran, served on the front lines in both Korea and Viet Nam. In 1963, while assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Operataions Center (SHOC), SHPAE's war room, headed up by then supreme allied commander of Europe, General Lyman Lemnitzer, Dean claims he was able to read the detailed 12 inch thick NATO reports on UFOs. and pass security background checks. I applied on a whim and got it. I was very proud and please. At SHAPE, I was put through more security checks, given a COSMIC TOP SECRET (yes this is a real term) clearance, the highest NATO has, and assined to the SHOC (the NATO war room). In those days, the activity would run hot and cold and much of it would depend on how the Soviets wanted to play it. The most intriguing thing to me was that we were continually having a problem with large, metallic, circular objects that would appear over central Europe; these were reported as visual phenomena by our pilots and appeared on radar as well. Some flew in formation, and most of the time we spotted them coming out of the Soviet Union, over East Germany, West Germany, France, and then they would often circle somewhere over the English Channel and head north, disappearing from NATO radar over the Norwegian Sea. These objects were very large, moving very fast, at very high altitudes--higher than we could reach at the time--and they seemed obviously under intellient control. I was told this had been going on for some time and that in February 1961 there had been quite a scare. Fifty of these objects were spotted on radar and headed in formation from the Soviet Union toward Europe, flying at about 100,000 feet. The Soviets had closed all borders. Everybody went to red alert. All hell broke loose. We really thought the War had started. We scrambled. We knew the Russians were scrambling. It was the largest number of these objects that had been seen. Fortunately--and only by the grace of God--we didn't start bombing and neither did the Russians. In nine minutes they were gone. I was told that then Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, Sir Thomas Pike, had been repeatedly requesting information from London and Washington about these objects, but nothing would ever come. We found out later that the Columbine-Topaz spy ring in Paris was intercepting everything and forwarding it to the KGB, which often got intelligence information even before we did. So Pike decided, I was told, to develop an in house study to determine whether these objects were a military threat. In the meantime, the UFO matter literally brought about the establishment of direct communication between the East and West in 1962, which I have always found interesting and ironic. We had pretty well determined by that time that these were not Russian craft, and the Russians had determined they were not ours. So, we came to an understanding, and a direct telephone line was opened between SHOC and the Warsaw Pact Headquarters NATO Meets E.T. Source: Omni Magazine A AAA The Story: "SHAPE was one of those choice assignments. You had to have a spotless record