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"There are unimaginable wonders [out there], for those who can remove some of Truth's protective layers" - Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing

"Around Szolnok many UFO reports have been received from the Ministry of Defence, which obviously and logically means that they [UFOs] know very well where they have to land and what they have to do. It is remarkable indeed that the Hungarian newspapers, in general newspapers everywhere, reject the reports of the authorities. George Keleti, Minister of Defence, Hungary, in article by Attila Lenart entitled "Ask a Question to the Minister of Defence: George Keleti, Are You Afraid of a UFO Invasion?", Nepszava, Budapest, August 18, 1994.

"In any case, the Air Force has arrived to the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced within Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations compiled in this [SOBEPS] book, reinforced by the reports of the night of March 30-31 [1990], have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorized aerial activities have taken place. Until now, not a single trace of aggressiveness has been signaled; military or civilian air traffic has not been perturbed nor threatened. We can therefore advance that the presumed activities do not constitute a direct menace. The day will come undoubtedly when the phenomenon will be observed with technological means of detection and collection that won't leave a single doubt about its origin. This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the mystery for a long time. A mystery that continues to the present. But it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion. Major-General Wilfred de Brouwer, Deputy Chief, Royal Belgian Air Force, "Postface" in SOBEPS' Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique - Un Dossier Exceptionnel, Brussels: SOBEPS, 1991.

"The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously." Former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev gave this reply to workers in the Urals. (Soviet Youth, May 4, 1990).

"But I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet," President Ronald Reagan said. "Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?" the president asked. He made the comment Wednesday in Chicago during a question-and-answer session after a speech about human rights and the Soviet Union. - May 5, 1988.

"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?" President Ronald Reagan, to the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations, September 21, 1987.

"I couldn't but - one point in our discussions with General Secretary Gorbachev - when you stop to think that we're all God's children, wherever we may live in the world, I couldn't help but say to him, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings on this earth together. "Well, I don't suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us...." President Ronald Reagan, to the students of Fallston High School in Fallston, Maryland, on December 4, 1985.

"We have, indeed, been contacted - perhaps even visited - by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public. Victor Marchetti, former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the CIA, in an article written by him for Second Look entitled "How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon", Vol 1, No 7, Washington, DC, May, 1979.

"Taking into account the facts that we have gathered from the observers and from the location of their observations, we concluded that there generally can be said to be a material phenomenon behind the observations. In 60% of the cases reported here, the description of this phenomenon is apparently one of a flying machine whose origin, modes of lifting and/or propulsion are totally outside our knowledge." Dr. Claude Poher, Ph.D. in astronomy, founder and first director of GEPAN, the UFO investigative office under the French government's National Centre for Space Sciences which analysed reports from the Gendarmerie from 1974 through 1978, writing in the GEPAN Report to the Scientific Committee, June, 1978, Vol 1, Chapter 4.

"I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more . . . advanced than we are. . . ." Colonel L. Gordon Cooper, Mercury 7 Astronaut (in a letter to the United Nations, 1978).

"I believe that UFOs are spaceships or extraterrestrial craft... The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world. General Carlos Castro Cavero, General in the Spanish Air Force and former Commander of Spain's Third Aerial Region, in an interview with J. J. Benitez, La Gaceta del Norte, Balboa, Spain, June 27, 1976.

"I must say that if listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from the airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are forwarded by us to the National Centre for Space Studies, then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing. I believe that the attitude of spirit that we must vis-à-vis this phenomenon is an open one, that is to say that it doesn't consist in denying a priori, as our ancestors of previous centuries did deny many things that seem nowadays perfectly elementary. M. Robert Galley, French Minister of Defence, interviewed on radio by Jean-Claude Bourret, February 21, 1974.

"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be overwhelming... A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances... been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by... interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another. Lord Hill-Norton, Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Great Britain, 1973; Chairman, Military Committee of NATO, 1974-77; quoted from his foreword to "Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good, Morrow & Co's Quill Books, 1988.

"We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from." Captain Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, 1971.

“UFOs sighted in Indonesia are identical with those sighted in other countries. Sometimes they pose a problem for our air defence and once we were obliged to open fire on them.” Air Marshall Roesmin Nurjadin, Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian Air Force, in a letter to Yusuke J. Matsumura dated May 5, 1967.

"I have absolutely no idea where the UFO's come from or how they are operated, but after ten years of research, I know they are something from ourtide our atmosphere." Dr. James E. McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric physics, University of Arizona. 1967.

"In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation [of the UFO phenomenon]." Congressman [later President] Gerald Ford, 1966.

"I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources." John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. January 1965.

"Based upon unreliable and unscientific surmises as data, the Air Force develops elaborate statistical findings which seem impressive to the uninitiated public unschooled in the fallacies of the statistical method. One must conclude that the highly publicized Air Force pronouncements based upon unsound statistics serve merely to misrepresent the true character of the UFO phenomena." Yale Scientific Magazine (Yale University) Volume XXXVII, Number 7, April 1963.

"I know that neither Russia nor this country has anything even approaching such high speeds and manoeuvres. Behind the scenes high ranking officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs, but through official secrecy and ridicule many citizens are led to believe that the unknown flying objects are nonsense." This quotation is from Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, first director of the CIA. It was taken at a 1962 NICAP press conference.

It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects. Former CIA Director Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, signed statement to Congress, August 22, 1960.

"The number of thoughtful, intelligent, educated people in full possession of their faculties who have "seen something" and described it, grows every day... We can... say categorically that mysterious objects have indeed appeared and continue to appear in the sky that surrounds us. General Lionel M. Chassin, Commanding General of the French Air Forces, and General Air Defence Coordinator of the Allied Air Forces of NATO, in foreword to Aime Michel's "Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery", Criterion Books, 1958.

"No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve... there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds. Admiral Delmer S. Fahrney, former head of the Navy's guided-missile program, printed in New York Times, January 17, 1957.

"Of course flying saucers are real -- and they are interplanetary." Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, former head of Royal Air Force during World War II; August 1954.

"The least improbable explanation is that these things UFO's are artificial and controlled. My opinion for some time has been that they have an extraterrestrial origin." Dr. Maurice Bilot, one of the world's leading aerodynamicists and mathematical physicists. Life, April 7, 1952.

"The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. Flying saucers exist. Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush." Wilbert Smith, in a formerly classified Canadian government memorandum dated November 21, 1950

"I can assure you the flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth." President Harry S. Truman - Press conference, Washington DC, April 4, 1950.

"The flying saucer situation is not all imaginary . . . Something is flying around." From a July 1947 FBI/Army Intelligence Report (declassified by the United States Freedom of Information Act in 1976).

"We must insist upon full access to disks recovered. For instance, in the La case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." Long time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wrote this in a July 10, 1947 office memorandum.

"RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION No Details of Flying Disk are Revealed" "The many rumours regarding the flying disk became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disk through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County." From the Roswell Daily Record, July 8, 1947.

"Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939". General James H. Doolittle went to Sweden in 1946 to inspect a flying saucer that had crashed there in Spitzbergen.

"I've been convinced for a long time that the flying saucers are real and interplanetary. Another words we are being watched by beings from outer space." Albert M. Chop, deputy public relations director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and former United States Air Force spokesman for Project Blue Book.

"Highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about." Senator Barry Goldwater.