A Secret, Above All
In 1947, General Nathan Twining confirmed the existence of flying saucers. The “Sign” Commission, later renamed “Blue Book,” investigated UFOs, but secrecy and cover-ups hindered full disclosure, revealing potential extraterrestrial origins.
In July 1947, General Nathan Twining, chief of the Air Force’s technical services, based at Wright Field (today Wright-Patterson), submitted a report to his superiors stating: “Flying saucers are not the least bit imaginary; they cannot be explained by misinterpreted natural phenomena.
Something is flying… Other documents with similar statements followed. As a result, on January 22, 1948, under Twining, the commission of inquiry called “Sign” was officially launched at the Wright base.
Consultants from various fields were called to participate, including Dr. J. Allen Hynek, professor of astronomy at the Ohio State University in Columbus. In March 1948, the project had “more than 300 reports, which have not been published in the press, coming from very competent people”. The “Sign” Commission drafted, at the end of September 1948, an ultra-secret report in which the hypothesis that the observed vehicles were extraterrestrial ships was not excluded. The report…
