Goldwater UFO Files to be Released in Early March

Relative to your question about the accuracy of the details in the “Roswell Incident,” they are partially true, but not completely. I can’t give you any other answer than that so please don’t push it. Senator Barry Goldwater – then Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee - July 1981

In early March 100 pages of UFO douments from the Senator Barry Goldwater files will be posted at the Presidents UFO website. Goldwater was a long-time United States Senator, a Major-General in the USAF reserve, the 1964 Republican candidate for President, and the former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

 In these documents Goldwater makes a revealing reference to the UFO crash in Roswell, and in another document offers to set up a meeting for Dr. Steven Greer with Bobby Ray Inman, long rumored to have headed up the engineering program connected to UFO technology.

The Goldwater UFO documents consist of letters to and from people writing Goldwater about his long-standing interest in UFOs. In most of the letters Goldwater refers to his now infamous meeting in 1964 or 1966 with General Curtis Lemay where Goldwater requested access to the “Blue Room” at WPAFB, where alien bodies and hardware were rumored to have been held. In the letters Goldwater consistently states that he was refused entry by LeMay. “I have never been allowed to see what has been stored in that place at Wright-Patterson and neither has anyone else, as far as I know,” he told one letter writer.

Beyond this Wright-Patterson incident Goldwater stated that he did not know much more about UFOs than the man on the street. In a few of the letters, however, Goldwater indicates that government held  UFO material is probably  classified above top secret and that he sympathized with the decision if this was the case.

Despite Goldwater’s constant reference to the fact he was not in the loop he did not have inside information on UFOs he did made one interesting reference to the 1947 Roswell crash that indicated that he had asked questions and had been given some sort of briefing on what happened at Roswell.

This reference comes in a letter to a fellow ham operator in Australia - Sam Kaufman. The letter was written in 1981 when Goldwater was Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and just after the release of the book “The Roswell Incident” which put the Roswell story into the public mind.

In answer to the question of what really happened at Roswell, Goldwater made this revealing statement, “Relative to your question about the accuracy of the details in the ‘Roswell Incident,’ they are partially true, but not completely. I can’t give you any other answer than that so please don’t push it.”

This idea that Goldwater was aware of secret UFO information was reaffirmed in a 1988 interview given by Goldwater to Larry King where he said he did think information was being withheld. “I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about” said Goldwater, “and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.”

The final interesting revelation in the documents comes in correspondence between Goldwater and  Dr. Steven Greer, who at the time of the letter was the director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Based on the letters it appeared that Greer had a personal meetings with Goldwater on the subject of UFOs in early January 1994. This meeting occurred the month after Greer met to discuss UFOs and John Petersen from the Arlington Institute and then Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey.

In a letter to Goldwater dated November 1, 1994 Greer makes reference to the January 1994 meeting and to the fact that Goldwater had offered to set up a meeting for Greer with Bobby Ray Inman who was rumored to have been in charge of the engineering program surrounding recovered UFOs. Greer wrote, “Things have progressed to where I believe we should pursue a meeting with Admiral Bobby Ray Inman; you mentioned when we met in January that you could help setup this meeting.

A search of letters between Inman and Goldwater showed one non-related letter from Inman to Goldwater. There was nothing found to indicate whether or not Goldwater arranged the meeting between Greer and Inman.

Note: I will be discussing the Goldwater documents on UFO Undercover at 8:00pm Eastern on February 15, 2012

 

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Huge Defunct Satellite Falling to Earth Faster Than Expected, NASA Says

An artist's concept of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) satellite in space. The 6 1/2-ton satellite was deployed from space shuttle Discovery in 1991 and decommissioned in December 2005. CREDIT: NASA View full size image

Space.com- NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2-ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept. 23, a day earlier than previously reported.

The defunct bus-size spacecraft is NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS), which launched in 1991 and was shut down in 2005 after completing its mission. The satellite was expected to fall to Earth sometime this year, with experts initially pegging a weeks-long window between late September and early October, then narrowing it to the last week of this month.

That window, NASA now says, has been trimmed to just three days.

"Re-entry is expected Sept. 23, plus or minus a day. The re-entry of UARS is advancing because of a sharp increase in solar activity since the beginning of this week," NASA officials wrote in a status update today (Sept. 16). The projection is a day earlier than a previous forecast released by NASA yesterday.

NASA spokeswoman Beth Dickey confirmed with SPACE.com earlier today that the reason UARS is expected to fall early in its re-entry window is because of the sharp uptick in solar activity. Solar effects from the sun can create an extra drag on satellites in space because they can heat the Earth's atmosphere, causing it to expand, agency officials have said. [Photos: Space Debris & Cleanup Concepts]





Where will UARS fall?

But exactly where the UARS spacecraft will fall is still unknown.

NASA expects at least 26 large pieces of the massive satellite to survive the scorching temperatures of re-entry and reach Earth's surface. Titanium pieces and onboard tanks could be among that debris, but the UARS satellite carries no toxic propellant (NASA used up all the fuel in 2005).

The debris is expected to fall over a swath of Earth about 500 miles (804 kilometers) long, NASA officials said. [Video: Where Could UARS Satellite Debris Fall?]

There is a 1-in-3,200 chance of satellite debris hitting a person on the ground, odds that NASA says are extremely remote. Outside experts agree.

"Look at how much of Earth is covered with water," Victoria Samson, the Washington Office Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space, told SPACE.com this week. "There's a really good chance it's going to go straight into the ocean."

Constant satellite watch

NASA officials expect the UARS satellite to fall over a region somewhere between the latitudes of northern Canada and southern South America, which leaves a vast swath of the world open as a possible re-entry point. About 75 percent of the Earth's surface is covered in water, which makes an ocean splashdown likely, NASA and experts have said.

NASA and the Joint Space Operations Center of U.S. Strategic Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., are keeping a close watch on the falling satellite, but will only be able to pinpoint its actual crash zone to within about 6,000 miles (10,000 km) about two hours before re-entry.

As of Thursday, the UARS satellite was flying in an orbit of between 143 and 158 miles (230 to 255 km) above Earth. That orbit is dropping lower each day, NASA officials said. [Infographic: NASA's Falling UARS Satellite Explained]

NASA has advised the public not to touch any debris that may reach the surface, should it be discovered. Instead, the space agency says that anyone who finds satellite debris should contact their local law enforcement agency.

The $750 million UARS mission was designed to measure ozone and other chemical compounds found in Earth's ozone layer in order to better understand how the upper atmosphere affects our planet. It also recorded wind speeds and temperatures in the stratosphere, as well as the energy Earth received from the sun.

To follow NASA's UARS satellite updates, click here.

This report was updated to reflect new estimates of the UARS re-entry released by NASA after this story first appeared.


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Editor's Note: See the latest on the UARS satellite re-entry as of Sept. 19 here - NASA: Huge Defunct Satellite Will Fall to Earth This Week




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