Presidential UFO Disclosure?
By Alfred Lehmberg
Harry S. Truman was the President of the United States on that fateful day of September 12, 1952! He would come to order, in an official UFO disclosure when the reader thinks about it... and because his advisors would have wanted one? He would order that UFOs be shot down.
We digress a moment to point out that, at the time, sentient people would react strongly to that... as we've pointed out before...
Scientific sanity would not prevail... |
Disclosure? Well, UFOs festooned America's skies that summer and especially on the night in question! The constant reader will recall that on our fateful September day, Frank Feschino, Jr., as a result of his painstaking research, his inordinate personal courage*, and his extreme due diligence**... discovered there were 21 hours of sustained UFO sightings occurring over the United States that night, and that these timestamped observations could be linked into "chains" of "direction" and "speed." The president had ordered that these UFOs, unabashed violators of Prohibited airspace ...apart from the fact that he wanted one, the reader is reminded, be shot down!
For an example of that hostility, perhaps, on this evening four different and damaged UFOs accounted for 13 repeated crash-landings in the eastern United States of West Virginia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. These were the reports of a concerned local citizenry as it was reflected in the newspapers of the time and well BEYOND the official "tamp-downs" imposed by State and Federal government and alluded to in our preceding article.
It remains that one of the most memorable incidents occurred over Washington, D.C. at approximately, 7:00 p.m. EST! Just ONE of those damaged UFOs flew West over the Capitol at a very low altitude and badly scared the local Washingtonians. A meteor?
It was called, "The Flame Over Washington," and was later written off as a meteor by a disingenuous Government... only it was too damn low and too damn slow! In our suspected and data-based opinion on the existential of this tracked object?
That alleged "meteor" was actually the "Flatwoods Monster" craft! It would continue flying West and land in West Virginia at about 7:25 in the evening. Then? Then all hell broke loose. Verily, Flatwoods would accessorize as a new American zeitgeist, all thanks to Frank Feschino!
See, shortly after this thing alerted the citizenry with its flyover? A 12-foot-tall alien occupant emerged from its damaged craft and encountered a group of the alerted Flatwoods residents! You know that story... Back to Harry Truman?
The serendipitous seven! A real close encounter? |
Well, he would have his hands filled that entire day and night during what is now known as the biggest "UFO flap" in American (human?) history! The "Flatwoods Monster" incident! As we've pointed out, it was the end of the "Summer of Saucers"!
The president was neck-deep in saucers and their attendant teacups! How could a president NOT be to his elbows in the affair? How do we know this?
During Frank Feschino's research into the UFO events of that day, Stanton T. Friedman assisted and worked with Frank on the case via Friedman's contacts regarding White House and Congressional records. On one occasion, Friedman spoke to Feschino and said he was curious about the telephone calls President Truman must have received on that day... Ding!
Mr. Friedman informed Feschino that there were actually daily "TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM" documents, which logged and recorded the incoming "WHITE HOUSE" phone calls. The particular document that Friedman wanted was the "Sep 12, 1952" memo for "The President."
Friedman told Feschino he would try to obtain the September 12, 1952 document for him as an aid to his research and then made a phone call. Mr. Friedman was successful! A few weeks later he obtained President Truman's White House telephone memorandum for that day and read it.
Would this capture a president's attention for the day? |
Shortly after, he called Feschino with the good news, then sent a copy to him, which Feschino reviewed. Feschino and Friedman talked about the memo at length, and both agreed that they would not have wanted to be in President Truman's shoes on that day! Wait... yes, they would have, is the bet! See... it's information not earth-shattering on its face; it's the implications of such raisin' the hair on the back of THIS old soldier's neck.
This interesting and informative document is transcribed in its entirety and appears in Feschino's "Braxton County Monster" book. The upshot on the down-low? President Truman was wholly unavailable at the critical time to talk to anyone. ...One wonders why that would be.
The man who shot at UFOs!
*There were consequences for a lanky Yankee boy wandering around those West Virginia Hills with a video camera asking questions no one wanted to answer... based on their expectation of FURTHER ridicule! One can smell the coffee...
**One could have asked the late Stanton Friedman. He would have attested to Feschino's extreme due diligence. He posted fore AND aft in all of Feschino's books.
***These would be interior military sites associated with nuclear weapons production and delivery, so capturing official "interest."