• On September 25, 1980, UFO researcher Richard Hall was told by Colonel William B. Guild of the Director of Counterintelligence, Department of the U.S. Army that the IPU was ‘disestablished’ during the late 1950’s and was never reactivated. All records were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force. Except that Hall was never able to locate any such records in the official Air Force archives.
• So by the mid-1980’s, UFO researcher Bill Steinman made an inquiry and was told by Lt. Col. Lance R. Cornine, Department of the Army, that the IPU was ‘disestablished’ and turned over the Air Force. But it was never a formal investigative ‘unit’ of the Army and may not have had any records to produce. Therefore there was no one in command of the ‘unit’ and the Army had no further comment.
• So which was it? Were the records turned over to the Air Force or were there no records at all? In any event, the Army receives so many inquiries on the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit that they have an official three-level FOI/Privacy Act Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) form letter for such inquiries, saying in part: “… we have conducted an in-depth check of the files and indices maintained by this office. We regret to inform you that there is no record concerning UFOs within this office…” If the person makes a second request, the official reply is that it is a matter for the Air Force and not the Army.
• For any repeated request thereafter, the Army’s official reply is: ‘As stated in our previous letters of [insert date] and [insert date], the Department of the Army is no longer in possession of the records you seek and we cannot locate any information on the unit. Unfortunately, for that reason alone, we are simply unable to answer your questions.’
• [Editor’s Note] It has long been rumoured that the during World War II, Army Air Corps pilots had reported over 2000 UFOs in the Pacific theater, and as a result General Douglas MacArthur secretly established an office to study these reports and investigate UFO crashes. By 1947 this had become the ‘Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit’. Supporting evidence of the existence of an IPU that began with the Army and was turned over to the newly-created Air Force is an alleged IPU report to MJ-12 detailing the 1947 Roswell crash and the actions of military heads including Gen Thomas Handy, Lt Gen Nathan Twining, and Gen Dwight Eisenhower; scientists such as Robert Oppenheimer and Wernher von Braun; Sec of Defense James Forrestal, and Massachusetts Congressman John F. Kennedy. Also, in 1955 Gen MacArthur told the Mayor of Naples, Achille Lauro, that the nations of Earth would have to “make a common front against attack by people of other planets”. In 1962 MacArthur told the cadets at West Point that the ultimate military conflict would be between “a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy”.
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