UFO retrieval program

This article is about the alleged UFO crash retrieval program. For the process of UFO retrieval itself, see UFO retrieval. For retrieval of conventional downed craft, see Retrieval of downed craft.

UFO retrieval programs in the U.S. military have usually involved alleged crash-landed UFOs.

History

The modern U.S. government/intergovernmental UFO crash retrieval cooperative may have began in the Cold War, but UFO crash retrievals have allegedly occurred have allegedly happened as early as the 1890s and began in a government-sponsored, organized fashion since the 1940s or 1930s , including the alleged recoveries of the Roswell crafts in 1947 and in 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".

Process

Main article: UFO retrieval

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 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.