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years. The Cold War was very cold, but it Robert Lee, and I have a great regard and a had a chance of being very hot very soon! lot of respect for General Lee. He was a We almost started shooting at each other professional airman; he had served all several times. through the War; he was highly decorated, . This study took three years and it highly respected. General Lee was a good involved some of the top people in their friend of a general by the name of General fields in the world. This study was one of Curtis LeMay [Major-General Curtis E. the most thorough and complete analyses LeMay] who used to be the Commander of that I have ever seen, and I must tell you our Strategic Air Defense Air Command honestly and very bluntly, it changed my [SAC]. life! When the implications of this study hit The study itself was approximately one General Lee, his aide told me that the old inch thick. It was supported by ten sepa- man sat there with a cup of coffee, his rate annexes—documents that were about _ blouse (tunic) open and his hat on the table, eight inches thick altogether—and it was and he was looking through the conclu- classified "Cosmic Top Secret". I will just — sions of this thing. run down the list of annexes that supported He said, "My God, do you realise what this study: this means? Everything we have ever Radar and electromagnetic effects; opti- done, everything we've ever accomplished, cal and light analysis; photographic and all that we've got—our weaponry, our holographic analysis; historical research; machinery, our planes, our missiles, our metallurgical and technical analysis; nuclear weapons—it all means nothing!" atmospheric physics; and biological analy- It made such an impact on me that from sis of autopsies. that moment on I have devoted my life, all (In the report was the complete coverage those years remaining in the Military and of the crash and retricval of an object in all those years since I retired in 1976, to northern Germany in 1962 where twelve _ this kind of research. That was the begin- small bodies were retrieved.) ning for me, but it has certainly not been I have no need to tell you, I'm sure, that the end. That study opened my eyes to when this thing was published and 15 infinite possibilities and I continue to copies were produced—"Cosmic Top research UFOs. I continue to research the Secret”, only 15 were ever made—it had an implications. I have collected information, impact on the military leaders at SHAPE photographs, slides, reports, documents, Headquarters that was pretty impressive. testimony from people who were abducted, At that time, there was an American testimony from people who were contact- four-star general attached to SHAPE ed, and I am including air force generals, Headquarters, whose title was Air Deputy army generals, police officers all over the ” to General Lemnitzer, This was General United States. Bob Dean's talk at the Quest International UFO Conference, held in the UK during September '94, brought the audience to its feet. An extract follows: How can I begin to tell you how I got into this field? It's kind of strange. For most of my adult life I was a professional soldier. I spent twenty-seven years in the United States Army and most of those years were in the infantry. A big chunk of those years were in "special operations", “special forces". I was curious about the UFO phenomenon; it intrigued me. I was frankly a curious sceptic, which is a good place to begin from anywhere, I think. I remained a sceptic until I had the opportu- nity to be assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in 1963. At that time I was pleased to have a "Cosmic Top Secret" clearance, which was and still is the highest security level for NATO. When I was assigned to SHAPE Headquarters in 1963, I ended up being assigned to the operations division and my place of work was a place called SHOC [Supreme Headquarters Operation Centre]. I learned at that time that a study was underway. This study was classified "Cosmic Top Secret" and it was initiated by a British air marshal by the name of Sir Thomas Pike, who I understand is one of your great World War II heroes [Air Vice- Marshal T, G. Pike]. Sir Thomas, at that time, was the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Europe and he worked directly with and under my boss, General Lynham Lemnitzer, who was known as SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe). Apparently, this is what had been hap- pening in the ‘50s and carly '60s. Large numbers of metallic circular objects of enormous size, flying in formation at extremely high altitudes at high rates of speed, had becn sighted over Europe, repeatedly coming from the Soviet zone or over the Warsaw Pact arca, circling over France, Germany, tuming north and disap- pearing off of our radar over the North Sea. This was not once or twice, but six, seven or eight times. These ‘fly-overs’ very nearly triggered World War II between us and the Soviets several times! For a long time the Soviets thought that these objects belonged to us. We thought they belonged to the Soviets. As you know, we were ‘eyeball to eyeball’ in those SL NEXUS ¢ 67 UFOs AND THE FUTURE DECEMBER 1994 - JANUARY 1995