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kept from disclosing to the public at that time. I personally believe he was threatened with the loss of his retirement if he would not remain quiet. His interest in UFOs also may have impacted his NASA career." kept from disclosing to the public at that time. I personally He said, "Yes, I have met him. A very impressive man." believe he was threatened with the loss of his retirement if he Icommented that I wondered why I had not heard about this would not remain quiet. His interest in UFOs also may have case prior to this ONI meeting, perhaps from NICAP in impacted his NASA career." Washington, DC. Icontinued my story. "Captain Bergholz said I had not yet ONI Interest in UFOs been approved to have a 'need to know’ by the US Navy. Senator Goldwater then asked about sightings during other Apparently, now I had that need, but why? During the meeting, space missions. I mentioned several during Gemini and Apollo Captain Bergholz finally sprung the reason: I was to investigate and then IJ asked him if he had heard anything about a 1956 US and verify, through those German scientists at Cape Canaveral, Navy aircraft and the huge UFO that many crew members and who those Paperclip scientists were that had come to the USA others observed over the Atlantic Ocean. He said he had not. with Dr Wernher von Braun in 1946 and who had been assigned I said, "I am not surprised, Senator. It apparently was also kept to the AMC [Air Materiel Command] Foreign Technology secret by the Pentagon, as was that incident with Senator Russell. Division at Wright Field, Ohio. Bergholz, being my My initial muster [the US Navy term for a meeting] with the US commanding officer, delegated the job to me because of my Navy ONI Unit 6-69 at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, was in association with many German scientists at Cape Canaveral. I early 1959. I was introduced to several later informed Bergholz that I had highly ranked officers—Admirals, Captains, discovered at least three Paperclip scientists etc.—who immediately swore me to who were assigned to Wright Field secrecy, Bible and all, concerning what I following their arrival with Dr Wernher von was presently about to view and other data I Braun: one named Siegfried Knemeyer, would experience in the future concerning former Third Reich Luftwaffe pilot and confidential and secret information. I As we all watched RLM Director..." agreed, and volunteered to operate the the ONI film, it Senator Goldwater interrupted me and asked, "Mac, what's RLM?" I told him it was the German Air Ministry group's movie and slide projector. "My being an investigator of UFOs and a described the sighting member of NICAP for many years was of a huge, 400-foot or that created the various planes, like the apparently well known by this group of US 4 Messerschmitt and Junkers, and may have Navy officers. I had presented talks on the larger, saucer shaped influenced the V1 and V2 rockets at subject of ‘Space Flight and UFOs' at the object that was Peenemiinde. Philadelphia Naval Base a few years prior, encountered by a I continued. "Two other Paperclip and was presently seeking information on additional UFO encounters within the space program. I realised that would be my value to this ONI unit, along with my friendship with many NASA astronauts. Captain Rudy Bergholz, a technical manager at NASA KSC, opened a large film canister and handed it to me. The film can was marked 'Confidential', with other taped notes of instructions and warnings. "I began rolling the film and I found it to be an amazing disclosure of a UFO incident that occurred in 1956. scientists at Wright Field were Dr Hans Amtmann and Dr Alexander Lippisch. I believe all three are still at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Senator. Perhaps you can try and contact them there." The Senator quickly replied, "No, not after that experience with General LeMay, Mac!" I said, "Senator, you are aware of the military rivalry to gain the upper hand over other areas of the United States military that has been an ongoing practice throughout our national history?" US Navy R7V-2 four-engine Super Constellation aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean. The officers were excitedly talking among themselves, as it He replied, "Yes, I am, having been associated with the described the sighting of a huge, disc-shaped UFO—400 feet in military budgets in the Senate." diameter—by a US Navy flight crew in a Navy R7V-2 transport, I continued, saying, "There was and still is a great rivalry which was a four-engine Super Constellation travelling west over tween the US military services, and since the USAF and the the Atlantic Ocean towards Gander, Newfoundland, an apparent US Army ABMA [Army Ballistic Missile Agency] were playing refuelling stop for its eventual landing at the Naval Air Station at the same game between them at Wright Field, the AMC Foreign Patuxent, Maryland. [Note: This was the base where several Technology Division of the USAF had captured alien technology astronaut crews would eventually be trained for secret DoD and the US Navy wanted it shared with the ONI. Another missions, STS-48, UFOs, etc. during the future Space Shuttle, or abitual US military squabble. Can you imagine the Soviet Space Transportation System, program.] I immediately noted a Union having such squabbles? Not on your life. Admirals and familiar name, Admiral Delmar S. Fahrney, being mentioned in Generals would have been marched to a wall and executed. In the film." fact, Stalin did just that to several of his military officers." Goldwater injected a comment. "Yes, I have met Admiral Goldwater agreed. Fahrney, Mac." I continued to explain the film. "As we all watched the ONI I said, "Yes, sir." I continued. "Another comment was made film, it described the sighting of a huge, 400-foot or larger, in the film, recognising NICAP and Major Donald E. Keyhoe, a saucer-shaped object that was encountered by a US Navy R7V-2 former US Marine fighter pilot." four-engine Super Constellation aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean. I asked the Senator if he knew Keyhoe. As many as 40 military personnel and air crew observed it as it As we all watched the ONI film, it described the sighting of a huge, 400-foot or larger, saucer-shaped object that was encountered by a US Navy R7V-2 four-engine Super Constellation aircratt over the Atlantic Ocean. JUNE — JULY 2006 NEXUS * 55 www.nexusmagazine.com