Bernard Schriever and Wright Field technical intelligence
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| Date | 1956 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Government programs (topic) |
| People | Bernard Schriever |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 55 |
| Year | 1956 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1956 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
Gen. Bernard Schriever (1910–2005), who led the U.S. Air Force's crash programme to build intercontinental ballistic missiles, discussed his early work with technical intelligence people at Wright Field in an interview transcript held by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The testimony uses this as the starting point for a theory linking Air Force technical intelligence, missile contractors and UFO crash-retrieval claims.[1][2]
Schriever
Born in Bremen, Germany, Schriever moved to the United States as a boy, graduated from Texas A&M in 1931, trained as a pilot and earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Stanford in 1942 before flying bombers in the Pacific. In 1954 he took charge of the Western Development Division in Inglewood, California, which developed the Atlas, Thor, Titan and Minuteman missiles using the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (later TRW) as systems engineering contractor and a management approach modelled on the Manhattan Project. He later led Air Research and Development Command and, from 1961 to 1966, Air Force Systems Command, and is often called the father of the military space programme. Schriever Air Force Base was named after him in 1998.[2]
Wright Field technical intelligence
Wright Field, later Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, was home to the Air Force's technical intelligence organisation, which evolved from the wartime T-2 Intelligence department into the Air Technical Intelligence Center in 1951 and the Foreign Technology Division in 1961, analysing captured foreign aircraft and equipment. It also housed the Air Force's UFO investigations, Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book, and by 1968 had an "Aerial Phenomenon Office".[3][4]
The theory
The testimony connects Schriever's work with technical intelligence to an effort it calls "Project West Wing", and suggests links between Wright-Patterson's foreign technology office, Ramo-Wooldridge, TRW and the Aerospace Corporation and the handling of recovered UFO material. Schriever's role and the links between those contractors are well documented, but the idea that this network handled non-human technology rests on interpretation and later allegations, not on the transcript itself.[1][2][3]
People and topics
- Bernard Schriever — Air Force general who led the ballistic missile program and Air Force Systems Command.
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- NASA — The U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
- TRW — A U.S. aerospace and defence contractor often named in UFO claims.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- Foreign Technology Division — The Air Force unit at Wright-Patterson that analysed foreign technology.
- Project Moon Dust — An Air Force program to locate and recover fallen foreign space objects and debris.
- Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
On the Timeline
- Herald Tribune "Conquest of Gravity" series (20 November 1955) — A newspaper reports on research into the 'secret of gravity' at top U.S. laboratories.
- Afghanistan saucer reports (1956) (24 January 1956) — Wright-Patterson monitors a reported saucer landing in Afghanistan and plans an overflight.
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References
- Bernard Schriever interview transcript, National Air and Space Museum (PDF) · si.edu · archived copy
- Bernard Adolph Schriever — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Foreign Technology Division — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Project Blue Book — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Bernard Schriever oral history (1999) — NASA · historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov · archived copy
- Bernard Schriever — Wikipedia · en.Wikipedia.com · archived copy
- si.edu · si.edu · archived copy
Further reading
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Hangar 18 (the legend and 1980 film) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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