Alien spacecraft are regularly overflying our skies, and the governments of the world are aware of the phenomenon. Below are a number of quotes directly from government sources around the world - people 'in the know' - which show the extent of their acceptance of the reality of UFOs. The significance of their comments is that they are people who have held key military and government positions.
United Kingdom, 1954
More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation… I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source. (Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, reprinted in the Sunday Dispatch, London, 11 July 1954).
USA, 1957
No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve… There are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds. (Admiral Delmer S. Fahrney, former head of the US Navy's guided-missile programme, reported in the New York Times, 17 January 1957).
France, 1958
The number of thoughtful, intelligent, educated people in full possession of their faculties who have 'seen something' and described it, grows every day… We can… say categorically that mysterious objects have indeed appeared and continue to appear in the sky that surrounds us. (General Lionel M. Chassin, Commanding General of the French Air Forces, and General Air Defence Co-ordinator of the Allied Air Forces of NATO, in a foreword to Aime Michel's Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, Criterion Books, 1958).
USA, 1960
It is time for the truth to be brought out… Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense… I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects. (Former CIA Director Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, in a signed statement to Congress, 22 August 1960).
Indonesia, 1967
UFOs sighted in Indonesia are identical with those sighted in other countries. Sometimes they pose a problem for our air defense and once we were obliged to open fire on them. (Air Marshall Roesmin Nurjadin, Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian Air Force, in a letter to Yusuke J. Matsumura dated 5 May 1967, reprinted in Timothy Good, Beyond Top Secret
Spain, 1976
I believe that UFOs are spaceships or extraterrestrial craft… The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world. (General Carlos Castro Cavero, General in the Spanish Air Force and former Commander of Spain's Third Aerial Region, in an interview with J J Benitez, La Gaceta del Norte, 27 June 1976).
France, 1978
Taking into account the facts that we have gathered from the observers and from the location of their observations, we concluded that there generally can be said to be a material phenomenon behind the observations. In 60% of the cases reported here, the description of this phenomenon is apparently one of a flying machine whose origin, modes of lifting and/or propulsion are totally outside our knowledge. (Dr Claude Poher, founder and first director of GEPAN, the UFO investigative office of the French government's National Centre for Space Sciences, which analysed reports from the Gendarmerie from 1974 to 1978, writing in the GEPAN Report to the Scientific Committee, June 1978, Vol 1, Chapter 4)
USA, 1979
We have, indeed, been contacted - perhaps even visited - by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public. (Victor Marchetti, former Special Assistant to the Executive Director off the CIA, in an article for Second Look entitled 'How the CIA views the UFO Phenomenon', Vol, No 7, May 1979)
United Kingdom, 1988
The evidence that there are objects which have been seen inour atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force of effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be overwhelming … A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances… been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by… interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another… (Lord Hill-Norton, Chief of Defence Staff, United Kingdom, 1973 and Chairman, Military Committee of NATO, 1974-7, in his foreward to Timothy Good's Above Top Secret.
Japan, 1990
First of all, I told a magazine this past January that, as an underdeveloped country with regards to the UFO problem, Japan had to take into account what should be done about the UFO question, and that we had to spend more time on these matters. In addition, I said that someone had to solve the UFO problem with far reaching vision at the same time. Secondly, I believe it is a reasonable time to take the UFO problem seriously as a reality… I hope that this Symposium will contribute to peace on Earth from the point of view of outer space, and take the first step toward the international cooperation in the filed of UFOs. (Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister of Japan in a letter to the Mayor of Hakui City, dated 24 June 1990, endorsing a forthcoming space and UFO symposium).
Belgium, 1991
In any case, the Air Force has arrived at the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced within Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations compiled in this book, reinforced by the reports of the night of 30-31 March [1990], have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorized aerial activities have taken place. Until now, not a single trace of aggressiveness has been signalled; military or civilian air traffic has not been perturbed nor threatened. We can therefore advance that the presumed activities do not constitute a direct menace.
The day will come undoubtedly when the phenomenon will be observed with technological means of detection and collection that will not leave a single doubt about its origin. This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the mystery for a long time. A mystery that continues to the present. But it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion. (Major General Wilfred de Brouwer, Deputy Chief, Royal Belgian Air Force, in 'Postface' in SOBEPS Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique - Un Dossier Exceptionnel, Brussels: SOBEPS, 1991)
Hungary, 1994
Around Szolnok many UFO reports have been received from the Ministry of Defence, which obviously and logically means that they [UFOs] know very well where they have to land and what they have to do. It is remarkable indeed that the Hungarian newspapers, in general newspapers everywhere, reject the reports of the authorities. (George Keleti, Minister of Defence, Hungary, in an article by Attila Lenart entitled 'Ask a Question of the Minister of Defence: George Keleti, Are You Afraid of a UFO Invasion?' Nepszava, Budapest, 18 August 1994)
