by Timothy Good

In a publication of Borderland Sciences Research Foundation in 1967, an article on the infiltration of the U.S. government by aliens, based on a lecture by one Gordon Shandley, created a stir. “Those familiar with this field took Mr. Shandley’s entertaining revelations in their stride,” explained the writer, “but the ‘newcomers’ received the shock of their lives as they listened to this Army Air Corps pilot (1941 clearance Top Secret) expound matter-of-factly on the various types of UFOs as casually as though he were discussing the latest models put out by General Motors.

Full excerpt from The Journal of Borderland Research – May/June 1967 Issue:

Because of an ever-increasing number of UFO sightings a heretofore complacent public, whether it likes it or not, is finally being obliged to take a good look at this phenomenon. Judging from the number which turned out to hear Gordon Shandley relate his experiences in flying-saucer research, the topic is attracting widespread interest.

Those familiar with this field took Mr. Shandley’s entertaining revelations in stride but the “newcomers” received the shock of their lives as they listened to this Army Air Corp (1941 Classification, Top Secret) pilot expound matter-of-factly upon the various types of UFOs as casually as though he were discussing the lastest models put out by General Motors.

Most of Mr. Shandley’s research in this field stresses the scientific and technical side; but his association with George Adamski, prior to the latter’s death some time ago, acquainted him with the philosophical and religious framework of space. This caused him to adopt a view of the solar system that recognizes the existence of 12 planets. All of these are inhabited by members of the human race in a considerably higher state of spiritual and scientific evolvement than the denizens of this “dark planet” with its wars and bigotries.

Mr. Shandley’s elaboration upon the nature of the space ships revealed that the large mother ships rarely come into the earth’s atmosphere. The saucers are contact disks operated by remote control from the main ship. A great deal of the mystery surrounding UFOs is rooted in our as yet partial understanding of magnetic fields, ionization processes, and various force fields which play such an important part in maneuvering the space craft. An ionization force is placed around the ship to protect it. A magnetic screen will plow a path ahead of the ship in its course through space, clearing the way of dust. Apparently the space people have gained comprehension of an unbelievably complex array of one-inch thick invisible lines of force, none of which touches one another.

If these lines do cross a death ray is produced inimical to anything in its path. Although earth has been visited by beings from other planets since the time higher forms of life first developed here, their most recent attention has been sparked by our atomic explosions and the radar we bounced off the moon. To them this constituted a distress signal.

SPACEMEN IN OUR GOVERNMENT

It seems that our government is as infiltrated by spacemen as it is supposed to be by Communists, only with better intentions. Their purpose is to aid us spiritually and technically. Mr. Shandley spoke of having consulted personally with at least six individuals from other planets who in an unobtrusive way volunteered information aiding him in his research.

Scientific laboratories have also received the benefit of extra-terrestrial knowledge. Mr. Man-From-Venus will pose as a second or third laboratory assistant. Then when his suggestions have been adopted he will quietly melt away and move on to some other spot.

Every planet has a radiation field around it. Clarion is a planet on the other side of the sun from us, orbiting proportionately so we can never perceive it or know of its existence.

As these gems of information were divulged, John Q. Public, though conceding God’s place in heaven, was nevertheless jolted on learning that said heaven was more thickly populated than was formerly suspected. A goodly number of skeptics in the audience started to squirm, while several brisk questions were directed to Mr. Shandley regarding the credentials of these interplanetary visitors. How did he know these men were from Mars, Saturn, etc.? What were their qualifications?

Mr. Shandley calmly replied that their identity was confirmed by Government top brass, and more than this he could not part with as things were coming dangerously near to trespassing on Top Secret territory! The U.S. Government, while completely cognizant of interplanetary beings, has formulated a 20-year educational program of the public as regards to UFOs. The idea is to break everybody in gradually, by emphasis on outer space exploration, rockets, etc., through news and TV media, which will in time lead to an admission of the true nature of these strange objects which are gracing our skies. Until this period is up the Air Force officially will continue to manifest a state of amnesia on UFO reports.

As all of this was revealed that segment of the American public present at this lecture began to conceive of itself as a group of kindergartners being told by teacher that when they get a little older certain things can be explained to them better. – End of Article

One of my sources served with the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972. “In my initial six months of service,” he reported to me, “I was assigned to the Pentagon in a position that was reasonably uninteresting. During that time, living in and around Washington, D.C., I met with a gentleman who was working the electrical side of hot-rodding VW Beetles. Mine was one of his projects….

“One evening, over a couple of beers, he showed me photos of a ‘hot-rod’ version of a flying saucer he took at White Sands Missile Range. He had been employed by a contractor involved in a construction project there in the late 1960s, and the photos I was shown were less than three years old. The photos depicted the saucer-shaped craft maneuvering at about two thousand feet, then flying and hovering at fifty to a hundred feet, and landing. The closest shot was taken from about thirty feet away, when the hatch opened.

“There were no images of the personnel piloting the saucer, but he made it clear to me that these vehicles were ours, or at least under U.S. military control. The craft parked gave one the impression that the disc was about eighteen feet in diameter. My presumption here is based on my calculation from a three-foot-wide hatchway. It was a medium silver/gray color. The surface skin had a texture—not a rough profile texture, but a smooth and sort of porous-looking texture. To me, it looked like a sheet of aluminum or titanium that had been overheated, then cooled slowly rather than quenched. I recall that the sunlight reflected oddly on the craft, [giving] a pale orange-ish/silver-ish appearance. I drew my rendition in PowerPoint [see below], which has limited tools.”

“Could you help me to distinguish between the types of craft that are constructed here, ‘under license’ as it were, and the ‘real McCoy’?” I asked Fred Steckling in 1976.

“Well, as far as I have found out from my sources,” he replied, “the Air Force has managed to build several types of these scout ships, and they are not quite as sophisticated as the ones that they have on other planets. They look the same, and they do move around in our atmosphere, but they are not capable of going twenty thousand miles per hour in our atmosphere, because the knowledge that we have so far is to extend force-fields around this vehicle to protect it from any friction, and blend it. Actually, when the spacemen move with this spacecraft, it blends with our atmosphere; it does not force itself into the air, like a jet does, and we do not quite have this knowledge.

“I only know that what we have at the moment is a craft that uses mirror systems … we have a craft that looks like a doughnut: it has a hole in the center and it has a different arrangement of mirrors built in, so that when the craft is up about two, three hundred feet, hovering, they can, by reflecting the light around it, camouflage it with the background well enough so that if you really didn’t know, you wouldn’t see it….

“George Adamski said to me, before he passed on [in 1965], that ‘the Boys’ [as he called his alien friends] had just returned from Russia and they told him that the Russians had developed a scout ship that looked like the one from Venus. It could move around in our atmosphere quite well, and they were going to work on a modification which would take approximately nine months and then they could go to the Moon with it. By 1966, the ship should have been ready to go to—we had not yet landed an astronaut there so, technically speaking, the Russians were capable of visiting the Moon long before we had our astronauts up there….

“I know that nations work closer together than we think. This atmosphere of ‘communism’ as the enemy, the escalation of war material, and so on, are a clever set-up to keep our industries from going bankrupt. In other words, ‘no breakage, no makeage.’ So you know they’re working together….”

Excerpt from Earth: An Alien Enterprise