The X-Files, one of tv's most popular science-fiction series with a recent reboot, follows the adventures
of Agents Mulder and Scully as they unravel a plot for global domination by aliens- with
the US government's help.
Well, 'help' may be too strong a word, in reality the US government realizes that it
is completely powerless to stop the alien's plans, and instead attempts to go along with
them in order to secure a better place for itself in the new, alien friendly world order-
while also secretly trying to undermine said alien plans.
It's a cloak and dagger show that explores the very fringes of real science, and has
no shortage of monsters.
Yet you may be surprised to learn that the real-life FBI and CIA also have their own,
very real X-files.
The Flying Saucer Swindler
Silas M. Newton made a small fortune for himself in the first half of the 20th century thanks
to his career in oil and natural gas.
One of the hardest, most expensive parts of the oil business however is the exploration
phase, with companies spending tens of millions of dollars just to find a suitable oil field
to drill into.
In the 1950s though, Mr. Newton came up with a brilliant answer, and it may have been based
on flying saucer technology.
In 1950 the world was on fire with news of flying saucers.
Just three years earlier a mysterious crash in Roswell, New Mexico led to a military official
making the shocking claim that a flying saucer from another world had been recovered.
Just days later though the military reversed its statement, claiming that no such saucer
had crashed, and instead a weather balloon had been recovered.
The world wasn't buying it, and soon news of UFOs and alien bodies being recovered by
the US government were all the rage.
Then, a bombshell announcement hit newspapers all across the US:
SCIENTIST SAYS FLYING SAUCER PILOTS WILL LAND WITHIN YEAR
'LITTLE MEN IN SAUCER' DUE SOON TO EXPLORE EARTH, SAVANT SAYS
GEOPHYSICIST SEES SAUCERS LANDING SOON- Thinks pilots from other planet about ready to visit
earth.
The stories spread like wildfire, fueled along by the credibility of the man behind the claims:
a professional scientist.
Only there was one problem, the 'scientist' or 'geophysicist' as some papers called him,
was none other than oilman Silas M. Newton, who definitely had no formal scientific training.
Instead, given his knowledge of the oil business, it seems that one newspaper gave Mr. Newton
an honorary degree and the rest sort of ran with it.
As the story evolved, it was claimed that the predictions came from a real scientist
named “Dr. Gee” whom Newton was friends with.
This scientist also claimed that the saucers flew using magnetic propulsion, utilizing
the earth's magnetic field to zoom around.
Newton soon took things a step further and claimed that the same technology flying saucers
were using, he had learned to harness in a special device that could be used to detect
oil.
Unfortunately for Mr. Newton, the story had reached the desk of one J. Edgar Hoover, who
when he wasn't busy secretly cross-dressing or trying to dismantle the civil rights movement,
occasionally took time to do his job and investigate crime.
Newton and his device were exposed as a hoax by the FBI and Newton would end up facing
prosecution for his elaborate flying saucer scam.
Or at least that's the official story.
After all, if Newton really had discovered world-changing technology based on flying
saucers, surely the powers that be wouldn't want him to make it available on the free
market....
Our next X-file comes from the CIA, and could truly have been out of this world.
The Soviet UFO Incident
July, 1952, and the CIA station in West Germany receives a stunning report- a local may have
just inadvertently stumbled upon a secret Soviet craft in the woods on the American-controlled
West German countryside.
The man is brought in for questioning, as agents immediately move out to verify his
story.
The man is a 46 year old German from East Germany, and a former mayor, Oscar Linke.
Linke has just only recently escaped from East Germany along with his wife and six children,
and on the day in question is on his way home with his daughter when the tire on his motorcycle
blows out.
Unable to repair it, he and his daughter walk on foot to the nearest town, when suddenly
his daughter points out something strange near the trees about 140 meters away from
them.
Catching a glimpse of... something... Locke tells his daughter to wait and moves closer
to get a better look.
Once he's about 55 meters away, he spots what appears to be two men dressed in shiny metallic
clothing, investigating something on the ground.
Curious, Locke approaches the men and gets within ten meters when he suddenly spots a
large object on the other side of a small fence.
The object appears to be a craft of some sort, something like a flying frying pan, and about
13 to 15 meters in diameter.
The top of the object tapered so as to become a large conical tower.
It was like nothing Locke- or anyone else on earth for that matter- had ever seen.
At that moment, Locke's daughter calls out to him, and the men in the metallic suits
whip around and realize they're being watched.
They immediately climb inside of the strange craft and disappear inside.
The object begins to glow and rise into the air with a loud whistling sound, flames shooting
out the bottom of it as it lifts up and away over the trees.
Locke was initially terrified that he had stumbled across a secret Soviet craft, as
he recalled in his testimony to CIA agents, he had known of people in East Germany that
the Soviets had placed on travel restrictions for accidentally knowing too much.
The CIA investigation into the matter revealed that at the exact same time as Locke's sighting,
many other people in the local area reported seeing a 'falling star' like object in the
sky, with one shepherd noting that he had seen what he thought was a comet moving at
very low altitude over the forests.
While this X-file is declassified, what's most telling is that the CIA's official conclusions
on the matter are not, only the initial report.
Whatever the CIA discovered after investigating the story, and its conclusions on the origin
of this mysterious craft, remain to this day unknown.
FBI's X-Ray Vision
The fifties were apparently a pretty crazy time, because our next X-File also comes from
the 1950s.
In 1957 two individuals from the federal government who's names remain redacted in declassified
papers, attended an event hosted by a Mr. William Foos at the American Legion headquarters
in Washington D.C.
Mr. Foos made an extraordinary claim- he could teach the blind to see using extra-sensory
perception.
At the demonstration, Mr. Foos used his own daughter whom he had blindfolded and wowed
the audience as she was able to read from newspapers brought by reporters, the bible,
and various other bits of literature.
What's more, Mr. Foos' daughter was able to distinguish color and even move around the
room without bumping into objects.
After the demonstration was over, the two government agents questioned Mr. Foos privately,
who revealed that he could teach the technique to others and that with some work, even greater
feats could be accomplished- such as seeing through walls or into envelopes.
The agents were so impressed by the event that they recommended the FBI look into Mr.
Foos, citing the obvious benefits his abilities could be in counterintelligence and criminal
investigation.
What followed was a firestorm of federal, military, and even CIA investigation into
Mr. Foos and others like him.
While the demonstration by Mr. Foos daughter was believed to be genuine, and no trickery
could be determined by the agents who witnessed it, another demonstration by Mr. Foos son
where he attempted to determine what specific card a face-down playing card was saw only
a 50% success rate, which was only a little bit better than when he attempted the same
feat without a blindfold on.
Officially while not disproving Mr. Foos' abilities, the declassified FBI files show
that they recommended the government not pursue Mr. Foos as a national security asset.
However, what may be most revealing about these files is one single line in one of the
reports which states, “...the actuality of extra sensory perception has long been
recognized- though not to the degree of perfection claimed by Mr. Foos.”
Perhaps Mr. Foos was officially discredited so that unofficially, he could work for the
US government as an extra-sensory spy- a phenomenon the Federal Bureau of Investigation seemed
to acknowledge was possible.
Our next X-File comes from the CIA, which seemed to reach some startling conclusions
about what's really flying around in our skies.
Flying Saucer Showdown In The Congo
In the early 1950s the threat of atomic war was very real, and both the US and the Soviet
Union took security of its precious uranium mines extremely seriously.
That's why when two UFOs appeared over a uranium mine over the Belgian Congo, the CIA immediately
lept into action.
For the start of its nuclear program, the United States sourced most of its uranium
from mines in Belgian controlled Congo, naturally leading to a CIA presence in the region.
The threat of espionage or sabotage by Soviet agents was all too real, though the CIA desk
in the congo could never have expected a threat from outer space.
On an unspecified day in 1952, two flying disks made an appearance over uranium mines
over the southern congo in the Elisabethville district.
The disks were witnessed by dozens of observers on the ground, and were seen to glide across
the sky in elegant curves, and change positions so frequently that from below they were seen
as plates, ovals, and sometimes just lines as they turned edge-on to on-the-ground observers.
Suddenly before the shocked onlookers, the disks came to a complete stop and a hissing
and buzzing sound was heard as the disks flew off in a zigzag flight towards the northeast.
A Belgian military officer identified as Commander Pierre hopped into a fighter plane and set
off in immediate pursuit, taking off from a nearby airfield.
He managed to come within 120 meters of one of the disks, estimating that the saucer had
a diameter of 12 to 15 meters and was shaped like a discus.
It had an inner core which seemed to remain completely still, while the outer part of
the craft spun at incredible speed, being completely veiled in flames.
Both crafts seemed to be constructed out of an aluminum-like material.
The UFOs flew together in an extremely precise manner, though Commander Pierre could not
believe that the disks were manned as the incredible heat and sudden acceleration and
deceleration would have no doubt killed any human occupant.
The disks could make changes in elevation as great as 1,000 meters in just a matter
of seconds, and they would often shoot down to skim just 20 meters above the treeline.
Finally, the disks took off with a loud whistling sound at an estimated speed of 1,500 kilometers
per hour (932 mph), leaving Commander Pierre completely in the dust.
Commander Pierre and his report was thoroughly investigated by the CIA, which concluded that
Pierre was considered an extremely dependable officer and a well-trained and experienced
pilot.
While no further conclusions can be gleaned from the declassified document, one line at
the end of the report certainly raises a lot of eyebrows.
“He gave a detailed report to his superiors which, strangely enough, in many respects
agreed with various results of research”.
Clearly the CIA was inclined to believe Commander Pierre's statement on the flying saucers and
his reported observations, as they seemed to closely match other eyewitness accounts
investigated by CIA agents.
Who was really flying those disks though we may never know, as any further conclusions
remain classified.
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