{"collection":"UFO & Paranormal","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ufo/schmemo.htm","path":"ufo/schmemo.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/ufo/schmemo.htm","text":"* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *\n * * \n * L I T E R A R Y F R E E W A R E *\n * *\n * F O U N D A T I O N *\n * * \n * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *\n \n \n: 1947 Schulgen Memo\nFrom: [email\u00a0protected] (Brian Zeiler)\nDate: 15 Feb 1996 02:08:07 GMT\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin\nNewsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic\nFascinating! It's amazing how totally insane, deluded, and downright\nstark-raving *MAD* our intelligence community was in 1947. Look at all\nthe crackpots writing about such intricate details of flying saucer\nconstruction!\n_________________________________________________________________________\n[email\u00a0protected] wrote:\nBill Peterson recently reprinted the remarkable Gen. Nathan Twining\nmemo of Sept. 23, 1947, which, in regard to all the flying saucer\nreports of May-July 1947, stated that \"The phenomenon is something\nreal and not visionary or fictitious.\" He then went on to describe\nhow the saucers were large, metallic, highly maneuverable, evasive,\nflew in formation, and exhibited extreme rates of climb.\nTwining's memo had been prompted by Gen. George Schulgen, asst. Chief\nof Staff for Air Intelligence, who asked him for further information\non July 30, 1947. Schulgen and his staff, concerned about the massive\nsightings and their implications for national security, had already\nconducted their own preliminary investigation of the saucer reports\nduring July. The existence of this study was denied by Air Force\nspokesmen for the next 30 years until forced into the open by the\nFreedom of Information Act in 1976.\nThe study was made up of 16 of what they considered to be the best\nsightings (including Kenneth Arnold's famous June 24 case). Like the\nTwining letter, the July 30 study concluded that \"From detailed study\nof reports selected for their impression of veracity and reliability,\nseveral conclusions have been formed: This 'flying saucer' situation\nis not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena.\nSomething is really flying around.\"\nWhat then followed Twining's Sept. 23 letter was even more remarkable.\nSchulgen apparently asked for additional information from Twining, and\nthen on Oct. 28, 1947 issued a draft order (portions reprinted below)\nfor American intelligence operatives throughout the world directing\nthem to gather all potentially relevent information about flying\nsaucers. (This document was declassified and released under FOIA in\n1985.)\nWhat's remarkable about this order is that it goes into very specific\ndetails about saucer contruction. Unusual construction materials are\ndescribed including \"metallic foils,\" and \"balsa wood or similar\nmaterial\" and \"fabrication methods to achieve extreme light weight and\nstructural stability,\" which also included composite or sandwich\nconstruction.\nThose who have read the descriptions of crash debris by Roswell\neyewitnesses know that they also described extremely tough and\nlightweight metallic foils and balsa-wood like beams, possibly\nlaminated, with plastic-like properties.\nTo my mind, this can't be mere coincidence. The Air Force already had\nin its possession crash material of this description, despite\nTwining's denial in his Sept. 23 letter.\nSchulgen's memo further describes such saucer oddities as retractable\ndomes, unusual hatchways, tripod landing gears, lack of fuel storage,\nand a powerplant that wasn't separate from but an integral part of the\naircraft. These are truly remarkable details to comment on if all the\nAir Force had to go on were reports of distant lights in the sky told\nto them by civilian crazies.\nSkeptics ask for documentary proof of a Roswell saucer crash. The\nSchulgen memo is a virtual smoking gun that a crash occurred, and that\nTwining and the Air Force had examined a craft, or pieces of one, up\nclose and personal.\nPortions of Schulgen's directive follow:\n\"This strange object, or phenomenon, may be considered, in view of\ncertain observations, as long-range aircraft capable of a high rate of\nclimb, high cruising speed and highly maneuverable and capable of\nbeing flown in very tight formations. For the purpose of analysis and\nevaluation of these so-called \"flying saucers,\" the object sighted is\nbeing assumed to be a manned craft of unknown origin. While there\nremains he possibility of Russian manufacture, based on perspective\nthinking and actual accomplishments of the Germans, it is the\nconsidered opinion of some elements that the object may in fact\nrepresent interplanetary craft of some kind.\"\n\"Construction.\na. Type of material, whether metal, ferrous, non-ferrous or\n nonmetallic.\nb. Composite or sandwich construction utilizing various\n combinations of metals, metallic foils, plastics, and perhaps\n balsa wood or similar material.\nc. Unusual fabrication methods to achieve extreme light weight and\n structural stability.\"\n\"Arrangement.\na. Special provisions such as retractable domes to provide unusual\n observation for the pilot and crew members.\nb. Unusual feaures or provisions regarding the opening and closing\n of doors.\"\n\"Landing Gear.\na. Indicate type of landing gear--whether conventional, tricycle,\n multiple wheel, etc. or of an unconventional type such as tripod\n or skid.\"\n\"Powerplant.\na. 3. Nuclear propulsion (atomic energy). Atomic energy engines\n would probably be unlike any family type of engine, although\n atomic energy might be employed in combination with any of the\n above types (piston, jet). Aircraft would be characterized by\n lack of fuel systems and fuel storage space.\nb. The powerplant would likely be an integral part of the aircraft\n and possibly not distinguishable as an item separate from the\n aircraft.\"\n... \"It's not the years, it's the mileage.\" - Indiana Jones","title":"Schulgen Memo","type":"page"}