Editing UFO retrieval program

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The various '''UFO retrieval programs''' in the U.S. military and other countries have usually involved alleged [[UFO crash landing|crash-landed UFOs]] are sometimes collectively known as the '''the UFO retrieval program''' or "the Program". In terms of what they do, it consists of training for and conducting [[UFO retrieval]].

==History==
The modern U.S. government/intergovernmental UFO crash retrieval cooperative may have began in the Cold War, but  [[UFO]] [[UFO crash landing|crash]] [[UFO retrieval|retrieval]]s have allegedly occurred as early as the [[1890s]] and began in a government-sponsored, organized fashion around the 1940s or 1930s {{citation needed}}, including the alleged recoveries of the [[Roswell incident|Roswell]] [[Roswell crafts|crafts]] in 1947 and in [[Kecksburg UFO incident|Kecksburg, Pennsylvania]] in 1965, and allegedly earlier.

An early attestation of the U.S. government UFO crash retrieval program or unit (or one of them) circa 1961-1963 comes from a second-hand account from [[Milton William Cooper]] in the Foreward to ''[[Behold a Pale Horse]]'' (published in 1991, though he may have circulated the claim as early as 1988 in message boards). Cooper recounted that a couple of sergeants told him "several stories about being attached to a special unit that recovered crashed flying saucers". <ref name="Cooper1991">Cooper, Milton William (1991). ''Behold a Pale Horse''. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Light Technology Publishing. ISBN 978-0929385228. p. 14. PDF: [https://highlanderjuan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/William-Cooper-Behold-a-Pale-Horse.pdf Highlander Juan's archive]. Internet Archive: [https://archive.org/details/beholdpalehorse0000coop/page/n9/mode/2up "Behold a pale horse"]</ref>

==Process==
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In one instance, according to the recounting of the story from  "Sgt. Meese" in  ''[[Behold a Pale Horse]]'', an operation involved the transportation of a saucer so large that it required extensive logistical planning. According to Meese, a team traveled ahead to lower [[telephone poles]] and remove [[fencing|fence posts]], while another team followed to restore them. The craft was transported exclusively at night to avoid public attention and parked off the road during the day under heavy cover.<ref name="Cooper1991"/>

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