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