There is research being done in all of the temporal aspects of the UFO subject. But, with all respect to those who are doing, and have done, some very important work in other time lines, it has occurred to your humble hosts at times that a vague profundity, with official regard to the subject, may have occurred in the period roughly encompassing 1945 through 1965. It is within these decades that, from all appearances, a polarity of the issue seemed to be born.

For those willing to take a serious look at the phenomenon, and willing to engage in "the dig," sometimes the legwork pays off, in the discovery of a shard of evidence that may help us understand better, or question more deeply, what we have come to visualize as probability.

It takes determination to keep up the search for clues. It has occurred to us that searching government and civil records quite possibly makes the search for the proverbial "needle in a haystack" seem like pretty good odds. With that said, we want to commend those who have taken it upon themselves to do just that, because, sometimes things turn up that really do tug at the gray matter, through the efforts of these industrious souls.

One person that has accomplished this is researcher Bill LaParl. Mr. LaParl obtained the following documents through Freedom of Information Act inquiries. They contain a letter from Colonel H. B. McCoy of the USAF Chief Intelligence Office, describing "Flying Saucer Incidents in the United States" in 1948. The letter is addressed to the Chief of Staff, United States Air Force [General Hoyt Vandenburg, at the time], and apparently was a high level correspondence between people who [one would think] would have been in the position to know about what the real situation was regarding Unidentified Flying Objects during that time period.

The most compelling aspects of this particular letter are statements made by Colonel McCoy that might bring up some very important questions. A bit of perspective posturing might be in order to realize the full impact of the McCoy letter.

Foremost, and this is a potential bombshell, so to speak, is that it brings into question whether or not a UFO was recovered during the alleged Roswell crash of 1947. In his letter, Colonel McCoy states the following:

"Although it is obvious that some types of flying objects have been sighted, the exact nature of those objects cannot be established until physical evidence, such as that which would result from a crash, has been obtained."

The glaring question here obviously becomes, if Colonel McCoy, of the Air Force's Chief Intelligence Office, could make the statement above, is he intimating that we did not have physical evidence of just such a crash? It seems extremely unlikely to your writers that a man in the colonel's position, who reported to the Air Force Chief of Staff, would not have known, a year later, in 1948, about the recovery of a disc at Roswell in 1947.

Also included is another FOIA document counting minutes of a USAF Scientific Advisory Board meeting from March 1948 in which Colonel McCoy briefly mentions "Project Sign." During this meeting, the colonel briefly states:

"We have a new project - Project SIGN - which may surprise you as a development from the so-called mass hysteria of the past summer when we had all the unidentified flying objects or discs. This can't be laughed off. [......] I can't even tell you how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they are."

These statements, both in the letter and the SAB minutes, loom immensely significant, if they reflect the true official known situation about UFOs at that point in history, because we all know that the famous Roswell UFO Incident allegedly took place in July of 1947.

The second potential bombshell in this scenario now beckons us onward. Was Colonel McCoy in a position to know the truth about UFOs? It seems as though he would have been, but TOP SECRET information is normally handled on a NEED TO KNOW compartmentalized basis. So it is a viable argument that perhaps Colonel McCoy, his rank and position aside, may not have been in the NEED TO KNOW loop.

While exploring that possibility, we must also consider that Colonel McCoy, because of the gravity of the material, may have been compelled to cover up the truth, as he actually knew it, about the situation. Could he have misled the SAB to protect the TOP SECRET status of this highly compartmentalized information?

With this thought in mind, one nagging fact remains... If Colonel McCoy was "in the loop," it seems highly illogical and unlikely that his superior, General Vandenburg, would not have been, as well. So the inconsistencies with the scenario should be weighed in full. It seems doubtful to us that the correspondence could have been generated as a cover, within official environs at least, at that stage in the government's handling of such matters.

We are extremely interested in what our readers have to say about this new information. What are the ramifications? Is Roswell fictitious? Is this part of an extraordinary coverup, engineered at an unlikely point in history?

We are anxious to hear responses to this.

Thanks for your attention.

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