Evidence is overwhelming that UFOs are real, retired US Army colonel says

Robin Leach
Las Vegas Weekly
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:26 UTC

Retired Army Col. John Alexander is one heckuva guy with an amazing background in and out of the military. He's a former Green Beret commander happily married to Victoria Alexander, a film critic for Films in Review magazine. They live quietly here in Las Vegas, a few miles west of the Strip, and we've often run into one another at various events. Just a regular Las Vegas power couple?

Not so fast because John has just published a new book about UFOs and extra-terrestrials that's bound to upset people. UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities also is en route to becoming a bestseller.

My longtime good friend Lee Spiegel, an AOL editor in New York, tipped me to the fact that the highly decorated officer had used his military savvy and high security clearance to spend a quarter of a century going through the top levels of the U.S. government and military searching for the group of people who were allegedly responsible for UFO information and the supposedly decades-old UFO cover-up. His conclusions: Not only is there no such group and no cover-up, but also disclosure about UFOs has already occurred on official levels.

Lee told me: "Whether you believe or disbelieve the notion that UFOs are visitors from another planet, he's come forward with information that may infuriate those on both sides in the ongoing debate. UFO disclosure has already occurred, and the ultimate solution to UFOs is more complex than most people think.

"With so many people crying out these days for the U.S. government or the United Nations or even The Vatican to issue some sort of 'we are not alone in the universe' disclosure statement, John says the information has been dripping out all around us, over decades, with top officials casually making statements about UFOs.

John points out the 1950 remark by President Harry Truman: "I can assure you the flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth."

"Disclosure has happened! It starts with former Presidents Truman, Carter, Reagan and the Soviet Union's Gorbachev. I've got stacks of generals, including Soviet generals, who've come out and said UFOs are real. My point is, how many times do senior officials need to come forward and say this is real?" John told Lee at AOL News and confirmed that former military officers have come forward to discuss their experiences when UFOs reportedly tampered with U.S. nuclear missile sites.

"At one time, before a lot of this information was released, I could see both the classified and the unclassified material. And I will tell you that 98 percent of the information was already in the public domain. The only things that weren't there was stuff like sources and method, which is protected, but the information about the incident was already out there. Despite overwhelming evidence of interaction, nothing was done. It's like a number of things that simply get put in the too-tough-to-handle bin. If it happens again, we'll get nervous, but since it didn't happen, put it aside."

The 74-year-old one-time A-Team commander and weapons developer at Los Alamos, N.M., will speak and present his views at this weekend's International UFO Congress taking place in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lee told me: "He takes issue with both true believers who assume any strange light in the sky is from another planet and hard-nosed skeptics who debunk any and all UFO reports and evidence to the contrary."

In his new book, John says categorically: "UFOs are real! With no prevarication or qualification of terms, there are physical objects of unknown origin that do transit our universe. The evidence that supports those statements is simply overwhelming. The problem is, when you discuss UFOs, we are talking everything from little balls of light to hard craft a mile or more across, and everything in between. So what is it? I argue that, not only are we not solving the problems yet, we're not even asking the right questions because we approach this wrong."

Lee told me that John is a frequent radio talk show guest, and Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and weekend Coast to Coast host George Knapp praises John's stance and suggests that his book "will almost certainly infuriate zealots on both ends of the UFO spectrum." In his review of John's book, George wrote: "Alexander's military mind instinctively gets to the heart of UFO cases and issues, makes quick work of charlatans and fools, and will likely inspire a new round of speculation about his presumed role as an MIB-type spook who spies on the UFO community."

In the early 1980s, John, with top-security clearance, created a behind-the-scenes government UFO study group called Advanced Theoretical Physics made up of members of the military, scientific and intelligence communities. He says that ATP looked at many UFO cases and concluded that there was sufficient evidence supported by high-quality data to know that some UFO cases were real anomalies -- not just poor observation or misidentification, and that there were cases involving military weapon systems that posed a significant threat and should be investigated.

Additionally, multisensory data supported observations of physical craft that performed intelligent maneuvers that were far beyond any known human capability. There also were cases that involved trace physical evidence.

The UFO Museum in Roswell, N.M.

John said that the Roswell, N.M., UFO case of 1947 was not, in fact, a crashed alien spacecraft but a top-secret military project called Mogul. "It was a real incident, no doubt about it. Project Mogul wasn't a weather balloon -- it was something really quite different. It was designed to listen to the Soviet Union. It was super secret, but it didn't involve UFOs."

Lee summed up for me: "After many years of deep research into UFOs, Alexander is convinced from both a personal and military point of view that it's a much more complex issue than the idea of Earth being visited by extraterrestrials." John explained: "The public is interested but ambivalent in general. The public believes in UFOs, but it doesn't affect their daily lives. In the military, you learn very quickly it is not career-enhancing to bring up anomalies that you don't have good answers for."

I am fascinated with the subject, and you can be certain the next time I run into the retired colonel, we'll share a glass of fine champagne and maybe a little caviar and talk a little more about the phenomena. Why am I never surprised who we find living next door to us in Las Vegas?

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world's premier platinum playground.

Reader Comments

gore · 2011-02-27T20:30:57Z

Speaking of anomalies...

...the mention of project mogul raises more than a few eyebrows.

Of course this story was cooked up as an "explanation" for the Roswell Incidence back in the 90's after renewed interest in Roswell. Remember, it was first announced to be that of a crashed "flying saucer" then shortly thereafter to be that of the wreckage of a "weather balloon". Now we're supposed to believe that it was a top secret spy balloon, used primarily to detect atomic explosions by the Soviets? All this,first told to us by the U.S. Air Farce, and now by another military dupe? And the Soviets,who weren't able to detonate their first test nuke until the fall of 1949, catching U.S. Intelligence, off guard, and with no "real" detection in place, frantically came up with Project Mogul. All this clearly more than 2 years after the Roswell Incidence. I knew this back in 1995, when the U.S. Air Farce announced the "real" cause of Roswell was not a weather balloon, but super, secret "Project Mogul". I laughed at the latest explanation, especially since it was shortly after I had finished reading Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes Which within those pages, discusses project Mogul in depth, and how it came about.All written before 1995, when the U.S. Air Farce announced the "Real" story of Roswell

Project Mogul did not exist back in July,1947, the time of Roswell. Coming from the military, including "retired" Military makes it even less believable, COINTELPRO anyone?

V3_Exceed · 2011-03-01T10:53:45Z

Timelines

As much as I like to listen to US military talk about what they "know" most of these guys simply cannot speak for fear of being "silenced" by their peers.

Lets have a look at this logically. Since 1947, we have had the great technology revolution. Sure we can say mankind invented kevlar, the microprocessor and a host of other cool things, except that the average person cannot even think in the range of the numbers were talking about.

The fastest computer today, can process at 20 petaflops. A "flop" is a floating point operation. Flop(s) includes the per second notation. Now a single Peta flop is 1000 Tera flops which is 1000 Gigaflops which is 1000 Mega flops which is 1000 Kilo flops which is 1000 flops. So what does all that mean?.. 1 000 000 000 000 000...10^15.... floating point operations per second. So if you were to imagine adding 1+1=2 a thousand times for each person on the planet, you would still be short. If you really believe a human, like your neighbor or the guy that can't setup outlook to check his email invented this, your seriously mistaken.

Now consider that a true human invention the internal combustion engine is essentially operating the same as it has for the last 100 years, or the light bulb, no real advances there..... most of what humans have created is well, very "B" technology when compared to what already exists.

Since 1947 Some areas of advancement have been astounding, others stagnant. Sometimes, people suggest that humans did create all of this technology, that we are in fact this intelligent. So I ask them why do we all spend so much of our time working so hard for so little generally in the pursuit of energy?

The bottom line here, is that humans trolled along for some 10k years, farming, hunting basically surviving. Then, shortly after 1947 we became the super conscious, uber intelligent mass of thinkers that can spew technology like it's average. I could believe this, but I provide technology support for a lot of average people. Without "help" we would still be primarily farmers, working day to day for food.