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- UFO Update
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- Anonymous low-level informants have for years accused the U.S.
- government of hiding crashed UFOs. Since these sources are of
- uncertain reliability, the reports have been largely ignored.
- Now, however, ufologists must consider the testimony of Robert
- Sarbacher, whose entry in WHO'S WHO consists of more than 3
- inches of tiny print, including education at Princeton and
- Harvard and a stint as dean of the graduate school of the Georgia
- Institute of Technology. In the years after WWII, the story
- goes, Sarbacher served as a science consultant for the Defense
- Department's Joint Research and Development Board. He was in
- his Washington office on September 15, 1950, it seems, when he
- received a visit from Canadian electrical engineer Wilbert B.
- Smith. According to information released by Smith just recently,
- it was then that Sarbacher revealed the existence of crashed
- UFOs, apparently under investigation by Vannevar Bush, the
- government's top scientist.
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- In a recent interview, Sarbacher, now head of the Washington
- Institute of Technology, confirmed those remarks. He says
- that during his period of government service as one of a
- number of government scientists who served largely as
- volunteers, he was told that the vehicles were composed of an
- "extremely light and very tough" material, apparently intended
- to withstand tremendous acceleration and deceleration. At one
- point, Sarbacher says, he was even invited to a meeting at
- Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where officials
- related their findings to scientists connected with the Research
- and Development Board. Sarbacher had other commitments and did
- not attend the meeting, but he says that those who did, including
- Bush and noted mathematician John von Neumann, were told that the
- vehicles appeared to be spaceships from another solar system.
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- Asked about his reaction to the episode, Sarbacher seems oddly
- blase. He admits he hasn't given much thought to a matter most
- people would consider extraordinary -- he considers it simply a
- curious event in the course of a long scientific career. "After
- all," he says, "I had -- and have -- a great many more pressing
- scientific responsibilities. I wish I could refer you to someone
- who was more directly involved than I was," he adds.
- "Unfortunately, they're all long gone."
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- Writer William Moore, who has been chasing government UFO secrets
- for years, considers Sarbacher's testimony significant. "It's
- the first time someone with a reputation has come forward to
- state publicly that the Pentagon has a recovered UFO," he says.
- "This isn't proof, of course, but it fits in with information we
- have from other sources." Informed of these claims, Temple
- University history professor David M. Jacobs, author of THE
- UFO CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA, admits Sarbacher's credentials are
- impressive but observes, "Until somebody can produce an actual
- crashed saucer, this is hearsay evidence. And how can he talk
- so casually about something that would have to be the most
- sensational event in all of history?"
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