(Conspiracy Nation, 4/27/04) -- The U.S. Air Force is perceived as topmost investigator in the question of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), but speculation advanced by journalist Jay Rath points to the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) as the more true insiders.
The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) was born in 1882, long before the Air Force or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The ONI (unlike the CIA) is authorized to conduct investigations within the U.S. The U.S. Air Force, born just after World War II, was a toddler compared to ONI, a 60-plus-year-old veteran at the time. Yet the still-wearing-diapers Air Force was officially designated as UFO investigator when the modern UFO era began in 1947.
Behind the mask of the Air Force, however, Rath, in his book, The I-Files, argues for ONI as the one doing deeper, more meaningful investigations of the UFO phenomena. For instance, Rath cites a 1967 Air Force memo complaining about unknown persons impersonating Air Force personnel. These unknown persons kept mysteriously contacting UFO witnesses. "Fielding disguised personnel in Air Force uniforms was certainly beyond the capability of anyone but an intelligence agency." Sure, an individual hoaxter might dare such an impersonation. But what was happening was routine, ongoing, organized, and required a fair number of people to pull it off. Might the mysterious "Men In Black" actually be Naval Intelligence agents in disguise?
Many people have heard about Nevada's top-secret base, "Area 51." Far fewer are aware that there is an "Area 5" just north of Chicago. Area 5 is the recruiting district of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. It is immense, with 59 miles of road and 44 miles of waterline.
What we have heard about supposed alien spacecraft at Nevada's Area 51 comes mostly from a single source: Bob Lazar. Almost all of Lazar's credentials are fuzzy, except for one: the Social Security Administration's records show that Lazar is a "former" employee of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Tall tales about Area 51 are just that: disinformation obscuring where the deeper, more meaningful research is being done.
On January 11, 1950, an article in Variety reported that "the dead occupants of a UFO crash in New Mexico had been sent to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry." Obviously the reported occupants were not displayed to the public. From the museum, the alleged organisms could easily have been forwarded to Area 5, the Great Lakes Naval base.
Rath gives other hush-hush testimony pointing to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center as a major hub catering to crashed UFOs shipped there by rail. The U.S. Navy is "a whole lot more than boats." Beneath the surface are the Office of Naval Intelligence and, possibly, the "Men In Black."
"It has been not the Air Force but the Office of Naval Intelligence that has been conducting the real research into UFOs, and the truth has been here all along, in plain view. It has been obscured by a careful campaign of disinformation."
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