Inspired by Gene's October 17th newsletter....
I once asked Dick Hall about a passage in Edward Ruppelt's [FONT=Verdana,sans=serif]'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects' [/FONT]regarding his seeming happiness that a scientific committee that was to be formed to examine the subject of UFO's. Dicks response was that this same group that Ruppelt was so excited about was actually what evolved into the 'Robertson Panel" that convened in 1952 to officially examine (and eventually debunk) the UFO phenomena. This however, IMO, was incorrect. If one reads Michael Swords 'The CIA (“Robertson Panel”) UFO Study of January 1953' one will note the existence of a loosely formed committee at MIT that became known as the "Beacon Hill Group", a group whose members consisted of the some of the elite in the scientific community of the day. Also formed was an "advisory group". The members of this advisory group consisted of such well known personalities as Edward Teller, James Van Allen (the "Van Allen Belt guy) and other notables. None of these names show up in the list of Robertson Panel group members.
In essence, what I am putting forth is that there indeed existed a "Silent Group" that was tasked to study (and report) to some other group that had no correlation to the Robertson Panel as Dick Hall had assumed.
I think this history is quite important and has been somewhat lost to the fog of history. I'd like to open up for discussion, the importance of the tasking of these various scientist and will put forth the hypothesis that these various groups/ advisory panels were not what became known as the Robertson Panel and were in fact the basis of what we know today as the historical UFO myth known as MJ-12.
Discuss...
Gene said:
I once asked Dick Hall about a passage in Edward Ruppelt's [FONT=Verdana,sans=serif]'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects' [/FONT]regarding his seeming happiness that a scientific committee that was to be formed to examine the subject of UFO's. Dicks response was that this same group that Ruppelt was so excited about was actually what evolved into the 'Robertson Panel" that convened in 1952 to officially examine (and eventually debunk) the UFO phenomena. This however, IMO, was incorrect. If one reads Michael Swords 'The CIA (“Robertson Panel”) UFO Study of January 1953' one will note the existence of a loosely formed committee at MIT that became known as the "Beacon Hill Group", a group whose members consisted of the some of the elite in the scientific community of the day. Also formed was an "advisory group". The members of this advisory group consisted of such well known personalities as Edward Teller, James Van Allen (the "Van Allen Belt guy) and other notables. None of these names show up in the list of Robertson Panel group members.
In essence, what I am putting forth is that there indeed existed a "Silent Group" that was tasked to study (and report) to some other group that had no correlation to the Robertson Panel as Dick Hall had assumed.
I think this history is quite important and has been somewhat lost to the fog of history. I'd like to open up for discussion, the importance of the tasking of these various scientist and will put forth the hypothesis that these various groups/ advisory panels were not what became known as the Robertson Panel and were in fact the basis of what we know today as the historical UFO myth known as MJ-12.
Discuss...