In a leaked document purporting to originate with the U.S. Air Force
Office of Special Investigations [AFOSI] -- its authenticity denied to
me by both AFOSI and NASA --there is an intriguing reference to "Project
AQUARIUS."
Another leaked memo mentions "Project SIGMA," allegedly initiated in
1954 to establish communication with aliens.
"This Project met with positive success," the spurious-looking document
states, and goes on to describe how a USAF intelligence officer "met two
aliens at a prearranged location in the desert of New Mexico ... this
project is continuing at an Air Force base in New Mexico."
The same document lists "Project SNOWBIRD," allegedly established in
1972; its mission was to test fly a recovered alien aircraft. The
project is said to be continuing in Nevada. The second document looked
decidedly bogus to me, and yet there is evidence that the projects exist
(or existed).
A FOIA request to NSA by a researcher asking for details on the projects
brought this reply: "Please be advised that "Project AQUARIUS" does not
deal with unidentified aerial objects. We therefore have no information
to provide to you on the matter." The reply, from NSA's Chief of
Information Policy Dennis Chadwick, continues:
"In your letter, you also ask for information on Projects SIGMA" and
SNOWBIRD. The FOIA provides that a person has a right of access to
federal agency records, except to the extent that such records are
protected from disclosure by one of nine exemptions. It does not require
that an agency answer questions. As I mentioned in my letter of 29
February, SIGMA and SNOWBIRD are not NSA projects; therefore, we have no
information to give you on these topics."
The researcher accordingly narrowed down his FOIA request relating to
Project AQUARIUS, and in April 1986, Julia Wetzel, NSA Director of
Policy, responded:
"The document located in response to your request as stated in your 7
March letter has been reviewed by this Agency as required by the FOIA
and has been found to be currently and properly classified ... and
remains TOP SECRET.... The document is classified because its
disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave
damage to the national security ... no portion of the information is
reasonably segregable."
So, while there is no proof that Project AQUARIUS is related to UFOs,
there is at least some evidence now to suggest that it is. I remain
impressed with the leaked AFOSI document, part of which states:
"The official government policy and results of Project AQUARIUS is still
classified TOP SECRET with no dissemination outside official
intelligence channels and with restricted access to 'MJ Twelve.' "
NSA has now confirmed the existence of Project AQUARIUS and that it is
still classified "TOP SECRET." Will the existence of the top secret
Majestic-12 panel be similarly confirmed in due course?
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Choice passages/excerpts from the former bestseller:
ABOVE TOP SECRET: THE WORLDWIDE UFO COVER-UP – By Timothy Good,
Quill-William Morrow, June © 1998, ISBN# 0688092020, $12.95, 592 pp.,
pp. 425-426.
http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/reports/aquarius_ufos.htm
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