UFO researchers have long alleged that the U.S. military is hiding crashed flying saucers and alien bodies while lying to the public to cover it up, but skeptics always counter that the government would never be able to keep such a secret when leaks are so commonplace. It turns out the skeptics are right - the ultimate secret has been leaked and is now available to anyone.
At the UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Nov. 14-16 in Las Vegas, Nev., Robert Ryan, Ph.D., presented a detailed slide presentation proving the authenticity of a top-secret Special Operations Manual with its attention-getting title, "Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology - Recovery and Disposal." The manual gives detailed instructions on how to recover debris and biological material from downed alien craft, how to properly package the material, where to send the various items recovered, and how to deceive the public about it.
The manual was sent in a drug store prescription box to UFO researcher Don Berliner in 1994 on a roll of film manufactured in 1954. The developed film showed pages of the manual, often with the hand of the person taking the photographs. The metered stamp on the package, postmarked March 7, 1994, was traced back to Quillin's Drug Store in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Berliner gave copies of the manual to researcher and author Stanton Friedman, who showed them to Wood, who had retired in 1993 from his career as an aeronautical engineer to research UFO documents full time. From Berliner's negatives, Wood made high-quality copies that he then turned into a precise replica of the SOM (see picture at left) as it would have appeared in reality. Copies of this replica were sold at the conference and can be ordered from Wood's
Majestic Documents website.
"If you are satisfied that we might have had several recoveries prior to 1954, then it is quite logical that a manual of instructions should have been produced," Wood said. The document is a Special Operations Manual (SOM) classified Top Secret with the code word MAJIC and Eyes Only designation.
The manual is clear about the extraterrestrial nature of UFOs and the entities operating them, as well as for the need for secrecy and on keeping the public in the dark. It justifies secrecy on the grounds that the knowledge would adversely affect the public and that the advanced technology could fall into the hands of U.S. enemies. Significantly, the Soviet Union is seen as a greater threat to national security than the aliens themselves.
The manual is very specific and practical about shipping instructions, including details about packaging both technological and biological material, where to send the different kinds of debris, even how to fill out the shipping label. All these details fit precisely into what is known about government operations of that era, Wood said.
The manual describes the different kinds of alien craft, including sketches of four shapes - the classic saucer, the cigar-shape, the cone and the triangle. Wood noted that the cone-shaped craft resembles the one seen in the well-documented 1980 Cash-Landrum close encounter case in Texas. It notes that "Air Force and Central Intelligence" are the source of the data based on wreckage collected form 1947-1953 inclusive.
It also describes two types of Extraterrestrial Biological Entities (EBEs). Forensic artist Bill McDonald provided renderings of both types based on the manual's detailed descriptions as well as other sources. Wood said the descriptions are consistent with reports from other documents and contactees, although other entities not described in the manual have also been reported.
Type I is described as a small humanoid 5 feet to 5 feet four inches tall, "Oriental"-looking with chalky yellow skin, small, wide-set eyes, and small hands with four long slightly webbed digits. Type II appears to be the typical "gray" entity with large wraparound eyes, grayish skin and long arms.
Security comes first in the manual. There is a security warning on every facing page. "Section 12 on press blackout makes it very clear that virtually any deceptive step is fair, whether it is official or unofficial, true or false, ethical or unethical - and by inference - legal or illegal," Wood said. Some of the explanations suggested are a "downed satellite" or toxic spill. Section 13 has a specific plan for securing the area, establishing a perimeter, securing communications, and "debriefing" individuals to ensure their silence.
Wood said the methods he used to authenticate the document "are tried and true, and used by professionals all the time for legal or copyright issues." While the owner of the original manual is still unknown, members of his family have been interviewed and one researcher claimed to have held it in his hand, noting that it was "old paper," Wood said. In addition, a Navy yeoman interviewed separately said he saw a copy of the manual amid UFO documents he was destroying for an admiral in 1976.
Wood said the type font used in the printing fits the Monotype printing method then used by the Government Printing Office, even to the slightly raised "z" that is a signature of that method. The control numbers and mailing destinations in the manual all correspond to other government documents. Subtle differences in phrasing and etymology also point to the document as true to the era.
Wood concluded "there have been no credible and specific arguments supporting fakery. Therefore, the alternative is the conclusion that it is almost certainly genuine. … If this Manual is genuine, then almost everything the government has told us about UFOs has been deceptive, although I will concede that so few people know the true story that most of the government people are sincere in what they say - they just don't know!"
Wood also concluded that while the secrecy may have been justified in the Cold War for national security, in 2003 the main reason has become to "avoid criminal prosecution" because of the illegal methods used for more than 50 years. That provides the strongest reason to end the secrecy, because "the price of secrecy has been illegal, unethical acts to ensure silence," he said.
Copies of the manual can be ordered from Wood's
website, or send $8.00 plus postage to Dr. Robert Wood (Wood & Wood Enterprises), 14004 Quail Ridge Drive, Broomfield, CO, 80020, rswood@majesticdocuments.com, 720-887-8171, fax 720-887-8239.