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SUBJECT: DR. SARBAUCHER ON GOVERNMENT & UFOs FILE: UFO1812
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UFO Update
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Anonymous low-level informants have for years accused the U.S. government
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of hiding crashed UFOs. Since these sources are of uncertain reliability,
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the reports have been largely ignored. Now, however, ufologists must
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consider the testimony of Robert Sarbacher, whose entry in WHO'S WHO
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consists of more than 3 inches of tiny print, including education at
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Princeton and Harvard and a stint as dean of the graduate school of the
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Georgia Institute of Technology. In the years after WWII, the story goes,
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Sarbacher served as a science consultant for the Defense Department's
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Joint Research and Development Board. He was in his Washington office on
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September 15, 1950, it seems, when he received a visit from Canadian
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electrical engineer Wilbert B. Smith. According to information released
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by Smith just recently, it was then that Sarbacher revealed the existence
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of crashed UFOs, apparently under investigation by Vannevar Bush, the
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government's top scientist.
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In a recent interview, Sarbacher, now head of the Washington Institute of
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Technology, confirmed those remarks. He says that during his period of
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government service as one of a number of government scientists who served
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largely as volunteers, he was told that the vehicles were composed of an
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"extremely light and very tough" material, apparently intended to
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withstand tremendous acceleration and deceleration. At one point,
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Sarbacher says, he was even invited to a meeting at Wright Patterson Air
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Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where officials related their findings to
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scientists connected with the Research and Development Board. Sarbacher
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had other commitments and did not attend the meeting, but he says that
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those who did, including Bush and noted mathematician John von Neumann,
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were told that the vehicles appeared to be spaceships from another solar
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system.
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Asked about his reaction to the episode, Sarbacher seems oddly blase. He
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admits he hasn't given much thought to a matter most people would consider
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extraordinary -- he considers it simply a curious event in the course of a
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long scientific career. "After all," he says, "I had -- and have -- a
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great many more pressing scientific responsibilities. I wish I could
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refer you to someone who was more directly involved than I was," he adds.
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"Unfortunately, they're all long gone."
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Writer William Moore, who has been chasing government UFO secrets for
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years, considers Sarbacher's testimony significant. "It's the first time
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someone with a reputation has come forward to state publicly that the
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Pentagon has a recovered UFO," he says. "This isn't proof, of course, but
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it fits in with information we have from other sources." Informed of these
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claims, Temple University history professor David M. Jacobs, author of
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THE UFO CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA, admits Sarbacher's credentials are
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impressive but observes, "Until somebody can produce an actual crashed
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saucer, this is hearsay evidence. And how can he talk so casually about
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something that would have to be the most sensational event in all of
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history?"
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