If you're looking for good UFO quotes from military personal and government officials, check this out:

http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/QuotesPage.html

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Realy enjoyed reading them,thanks for the link.:ship:

Meshuggah!This is a good one from former CIA director Admiral Hillenkoetter:

"Behind the scenes,high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs.But,through official secrey and ridicule,many citizens are led to beleive that unknown flying objects are nonsense".

Heres another taken from FBI director J Edgar Hoover's 1949 UFO debreifing document:

"Recent observations have indicated that the unidentified phenomena travel at a rate of speed estimated at a minimum of 3 miles per second and a maximum of 12 miles per second.."

Once again thanks for the link-I think you've won post of the week!
Cheers Karl

Thanks for sharing the link to this very special website. My favorite quote is:

"UFO sightings are now so common, the military doesn't have time to worry about them...when a UFO appears, they simply ignore it...Unconventional targets are ignored because we are only interested in Russian targets, possibly enemy targets.

"Something that hovers in the air, then shoots off at 5,000 miles per hour, doesn't interest us, because it can't be the enemy. UFOs are picked up by ground and air radar, and they have been photographed by gun camera all along. There are so many UFOs in the sky that the Air Force has had to employ special radar networks to screen them out."

Lee Katchen, NASA atmospheric physicist, June 7, 1968

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'Any editor or reporter who can read these quotes and not see a major story to be covered is no journalist.'

I love it! Thank you

"You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy. The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets."

General Douglas MacArthur - Oct. 8, 1955

MacArthur never made that speech in 1955. That's an urban legend. I sincerely hope someone has the time to go through EVERY 'quote' on that website, and try to independantly confirm whether the wording in those speeches are accurate, or if they were spoken/written at all.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/macarthur.asp



Douglas MacArthur - Farewell speech @ Westpoint May 12th, 1962...

You now face a new world, a world of change. The thrust into outer space of the satellite, spheres and missiles marked the beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind - the chapter of the space age. In the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us it has taken to form the earth, in the three or more billion years of development of the human race, there has never been a greater, a more abrupt or staggering evolution. We deal now not with things of this world alone, but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. We are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier. We speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy; of making winds and tides work for us; of creating unheard synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our old standard basics; of purifying sea water for our drink; of mining ocean floors for new fields of wealth and food; of disease preventatives to expand life into the hundred of years; of controlling the weather for a more equitable distribution of heat and cold, of rain and shine; of space ships to the moon; of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all time.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/MacArthurFarewell.html
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My personal favorite quote:

"We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity.... Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do."

BEN RICH
Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
Lecture just before he died

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Dear Abadaka,

I first heard this quote while watching one of the hundreds of programs I've recorded from TV programs during the past 25 years. Unfortunately I did not make a special note of it when I listed the title of the program in my catalog so I will be unable to easily locate it again.

Soon after I saw the program I called the local library and had the reference librarian look up the speech. He read to me what Noone lists as the actual speech MacArthur gave and as you can see it bears little resemblance to what you have quoted.

I seem to recall, from my library, other references that MacArthur made in regard to his experiences of and beliefs about UFOs. If these recollections of mine are accurate it would not seem far fetched for him to have made the statements you cited.

If MacArthur did indeed make the statement of 1955, which I believe is more direct than what was allegedly similarly stated in his speech at West Point, it would give a hint regarding the depth of the conspiracy to obliterate statements from the history books of a man who might have become our President.

My belief in the existence of UFOs from other worlds does not hang on what MacArthur or any other lone person has said. But it would be nice to know the truth of it.

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"Curiosity is the greatest virtue of man." Anatole France

The Snopes article referenced in my post has more information on that. He has made other statements, but not the supposed 1955 speech.

"Much evidence tells us UFOs have been tracked by radar; so, UFOs are real and they may come from outer space... UFO photographs and various materials show scientifically that there are more advanced people piloting the saucers and motherships."

Speaking of good UFO quotes, click on this link and watch the short video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z93PrwYURkk

Dick Cheney - "If I had been briefed on that I'm sure it was probably classified and I couldn't talk about it."

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"The phenomenon of UFOs does exist,and it must be treated seriously".
Mikhail Gorbachev
Premiere of Soviet Union,1989

Here is a quote from; Senator Daniel K. Inouye. It underlines what I have been suggesting to people who are open-minded enough to consider.
"There exists a shadowy Government with it's own Air Force, it's own Navy, it's own fundraising mechanism and the ability to pursue it's own ideas of the National Interest, free from checks and balances and free from the Law itself".
Now tell me that the U.S.A. is part of the great Democracy that all you Americans believe in. The U.S. Government is lying to you all on a day to day basis. For that matter, I believe that the U.K. Government is treating it's own citizens in a like-wise despicable manner.

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JV.Good post,many other people seem to think so too.
The "Richard Dolan UFOs and the National Security state" thread shows why many prominent people beleive this to be the case.
Cheers Karl

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I know your big on calling people to get information you should call his family and ask for a copy of one of those lectures he did when he made that statement...

SC Russ that is indeed an amazing quote by a prominent scientist -in a far better position than us to know if the UFO subject has any credibility or not.
I know people like to cherrypick individual statements but,taken together,the sheer number of quotes advocating the reality of UFOs by educated,intelligent,sober,rational professionals (in full possession of all their faculties) is quite staggering.
There is obviously some element of truth to this subject and even the most narrow minded cynic would have trouble explaining why so many prominent,highly trained,highly credible individuals think UFOs are exotic,non human aircraft.
Of course many debunkers just blatantly ignore this and other testimony (instead preferring to 'pre-judge' and assume its all nonsense) but to the objective,impartial ,dispassionate observer it looks like the subject has basis in reality.
Incidentaly its worth noting that people have been put to death in America for far less credible circumstantial evidence than this.
Cheers Karl

Dear Karl 12,

I am in complete agreement with your ideas! What you have said is very true. What is more to the point, I like the way you say it! You express yourself in a very intelligent and insightful manner. I'm going to have to read your previous posts in order to come to a better appreciation of the depth of your knowledge as well as your manner of thinking. I wish you much success!
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"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." Louis Nizer

SC Russ,I appreciate the kind words-all the best to you and yours too (I particularly like your signature).
As for UFOs,heres some more quotes about the reality of the subject by very prominent people:

http://netscienta.com/ufo_quotes.html

Perhaps the most telling is:

"We must insist upon full access to discs recovered.For instance,in the LA case, the army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination".
J Edgar Hoover

More good ones,

"In my official status,I cannot comment on ET contact.However personaly,I can assure you,we are not alone".
Charles J Camarda (PhD),
NASA astronaut.

"Of course its possible that UFOs realy do contain aliens as many people beleive,and the government is hushing it up".
Professor Stephen Hawkings.

"Given the millions and billions of earth like planets,life elsewhere in the universe,without a doubt, does exist.In the vastness of the universe we are not alone".
Albert Einstein

Cheers Karl