Subject: I Like Ike. Part 2. May 19, 2008.
This tells when the alien spacecraft landed.
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Each deep in his own thoughts, each glued to a
window looking for something to break the monotony of
the barren landscape. At about 7,000 feet into the
landing, Major Bill D-aper, the pilot, started
reversing the engines, and the plane slowed measurably
and became louder. When the noise died down, the plane
was in a slow taxi towards the end of the runway. As
the sleek Lockheed reached the turn-around at the end
of the runway, Dr-per slowly put on the brakes of the
left set of dual wheels, and the plane pivoted around
to the ****t (left) side.
Air F-rce One taxied back up the runway about 75
yards and stopped.
All engines were shut down.
There were probably 300 people with a vantage point
on this side of the base, who saw Air F-rce One land,
and as it did, they called others to other windows,
work stations and vantage points. It must have seemed
very eerie for the president's plane to be seen sitting
out there almost a half mile away, alone and quiet. No
red carpet, no band, no honor parade, just a few horned
meadowlarks calling in the distance. Eventually, the
base workers returned to their stations, typists
resumed typing, stenographers turned on their
dictaphones, phones rang and were answered. And always
the question was asked:
Is Ike here? What's going on? The civilians and
m-litary on the base had been told that while the
p-esident was here, this would be a "business as usual"
day. It was hard, with so much excitement but everyone
carried on.
[Photo caption: Above Eisenhower's Columbine III with
a crew of 14.
Officer on far left is Major Bill Dr-per, Ike's pilot
since WW II days. Photo taken at Andrews AFB in 1954.]
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Constellation
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id
A few minutes earlier, Col. S-arp, the base
commander, and several officers had gone to the base
ops tower to see the pres-dent's plane land. The first
communication they heard about 8:10 was "HOLLOMAN
TOWER, THIS IS AIR FO-CE 7885, TEN MILES EAST OF
MARYHILL." They requested landing instructions, other
traffic in the area, and base wind direction. They
were assigned runway 13 (short for 130 degrees).
The Holloman runways in those days formed a gigantic
letter A, running northwest to southeast. The runway
they were assigned was the farthest away from the
hangars and workshops. It was obvious to base
personnel that what was happening or going to happen
was as far away as it could be. Little could be seen
unless one had a vantage point and binoculars.
Phones all over the base were very busy, many
questions were asked, is he still out on the runway?
What's he doing now? What's going on?
What's happening? And the invariable answer: We
don't know.
But about ten minutes after the plane landed, the
radar officers gave instructions to shut off all radar
controlled from a room under the control tower. The
enlisted men had been told only about five minutes
earlier about shut down. Col. Sharp could probably
hear some of the men in the stairwell mumbling about
the base being blind as the men headed outside to have
a smoke. Technically, the colonel was on leave today.
He had turned base operations over to his deputy
commander as long as the president was here. He felt
it his duty to be with him with no distractions.
There were a dozen visual patrols out around the base
and some of the up-range small radars were on, but the
larger base Doppler radar had been shut down by orders
from Wa****ngton. A phone rang in the tower with a
re****t of two unidentified objects passing over Range
Road 12.
Then a minute later the bogies were over Range Road 7
only a few minutes from the runways. Men in the tower
swung their gl***** to the north in the morning haze.
Then something glinted in the sun, then something else
just below it. A re****t came in of a third bogie five
minutes behind the first two. The tower personnel who
did not know what these were, were stunned. No tail,
no wings, no motors.
Just round objects approaching the pr-sident's plane
sitting alone on the far runway with a covey of base
officers in the tower, including Col. Sh-rp. They knew
something big was up. They re****ted the objects,
logged them and did their job which was "business as
usual."
The two objects stopped about 300 ft. over Air For-e
One, and one descended on the far side of the plane and
gently touched about 200 feet ahead of the plane. The
other hovered briefly and then came across the near
runway towards the big hangars and some shop buildings.
It took up a position somewhere above the buildings
over the tarmac.
The disc had a good vantage point of anything that
might come towards the pre-ident's plane and the disc
on the ground.
A brief look at the public view of UFOs in 1955 would
not cause any eyestrain. Only a few scattered
newspaper re****ts since 1947 had made national news,
and in those days the mil-tary were likely to
bebelieved when they released cover stories. Kenneth
Arnold had seen only reflections. Everyone got a
chuckle at the Roswell balloon story, and the blips
seen on radar and over the White House in July of 1952
just sea gulls. Donald Keyhoe was just getting the
NICAP idea started and several books by Scully and
A-amski were considered just men's magazine
sensationalism. So it was with some disbelief that two
UFOs had come to Holloman AFB in Feb. of 1955. There
was little background for believing in them at all as
extraterrestrial. Some who saw or heard about the two
craft at the base that day thought they might be new
German innovations. Some thought they were ours,
others thought they might be Russian.
German scientists assigned to supervise missile
launches in Operation Paperclip* at the near by White
Sands Proving Grounds were highly respected, and some
German scientists were working in various labs at
Holloman. "Business as usual" may have been the motto
for the day, but many of those with a vantage point had
someone re****ting what could be seen. Soon after the
UFO landed in front of Air Force One, a man many
assumed to be the president, came to the doorway of the
plane, descended the ****table stairs and approached the
saucer on the ground.
Some sort of a hatch had been opened a few minutes
before and had folded down to become a small ramp. The
man walked up the ramp, stood briefly at the opening,
shook hands with someone, and went inside. Observers
thought the period of time to be about 45 minues.
When he emerged from the craft, he walked towards Air
F-rce One.
Part of this time he was facing the observers, and
most were sure it was Ike. He wore no hat, and many
recognized the hairline and his erect military walk.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Paperclip
Our main witness was Airman 2nd Class Wilbur Kirtland
(pseudonym) who was staioned at the base hosptial in
1955. His only actual sighting that day as of Air
For-e One taking off about 4:45 p.m. on Feb. 11th,
1955. Kirtland re****ts as follows:
"In the spring of 1955 I was assigned to the Holloman
AFB hospital.
In February we heard that the pres-dent was coming to
Holloman. It was general knowledge that there was
going to be an honor parade for him. Captain Re-ner
asked me if I wanted to participate in the early
morning parade. I declined and he said, OK, that I
would be on duty that day. The day before it was to
take place, it was called off.
We believe the secret nature of the visit was
probably not explained until several days before the
presid-nt's arrival. When this word was recieved, the
honor parade was then called off."
On or about Feb. 11 at 8:00 in the morning, Kirtland
began his ****ft at the base hospital. Another airman
named D-rsey was due to be there also. Kirtland said
that when I got there the nurse asked me where Do-sey
was. A clerk typist named Dorothea T-orenson replied
that she had seen him taking his wife to the commissary
(large shopping area) that morning. When Dors-y
finally arrived he asked me if I had seen the disc
hovering over the flight line. I told him I hadn't,
but I was visualizing something small you held in your
hand like a track and field disc. I asked him what it
was made of. Dorsey said it looked to him liked
polished stainless steel or aluminium. When I asked
about its size, he said twenty - thirty feet in
diameter, and did I want to see it. Of course I did.
Dorse- said it was there when he took his wife to the
commissary, and was still there when they came out
thirty minutes later. "Go out in front of the hospital
and look towards the hangars," he said.
I asked the nurse for permission. Nurse turns to
doctor, and then says, "No. Stay here." (Probably
about 9 - 9:15 a.m.) (Author - We are still seeking
Airman Do-sey, but do not have his first name).
Author: From several sources, we have learned that
the base department heads had been asked to keep normal
activities going that day. This may have been an
attempt to comply with this "business as usual" mode
during the presi-ent's visit. Another airman relates
his experience on the way to coffee later that
afternoon. He had been walking behind two officers.
One officer was the duty OD. The one dressed in khakis
asked the other officer why he was in his dress blues
that day. The other officer explained that he was
"officer of the day. I was at base ops (control tower)
when Air For-e One came in this morning. As soon as it
landed we shut down the radar."
Part 2.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I Like Ike. Part 3. May 20, 2008.
This explains why the large radar was turned off.
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The first officer asked why they would turn off the
radar and learned that they were ordered to from higher
up. We think the Doppler* radar may interfere with the
saucer's guidance system or something. Both came in
over the p-esident's plane. One landed on the active,
and the other hovered for awhile, and then moved over
to the flight line. (This one was apparently seen by
Airman D-rsey and an electrician earlier in the day.)
The pr-sident left his plane and went towards it. A
door opened, a ramp came down and he went inside for 45
minutes. The first officer asked who all saw this; the
other officer said the personnel in the base ops
control tower as they had binoculars. When asked if
anyone saw who was inside the saucer, the officer
replied, "No, it was faced pretty much away from the
tower at a sort of oblique angle."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_radar
It would be appropriate here to bring in a rather
interesting re****t received from a lady whose father
was a civilian electrician at the Holloman base. He
worked out during the day on the base with the
electrical crew, out of the base electrical shop. He
had been an electrician in the army in Korea and had
gotten the job in 1953 or 1954 because he was a vet.
She said, "We were in Albuquerque at the time. Dad
worked there in '54 and came home on weekends. We
moved down there in the summer of '54 when I was in the
fourth grade. Mom wanted us together. Sometime after
Christmas of 1955 Dad came home one night kind of shook
up. He would tell the story for years when we'd ask
him to, and later on, to the grandchildren as well. We
called it 'When Dad became a fireman.' I asked the
daughter if the story got better with the telling each
time. She said no, but as he got older, we enjoyed it
more because of the gestures.
They worked out of a 3/4 pickup with a telephone co.
truck bed (lots of compartments.) Dad told us, "They
could see the pre-ident's plane for most of the
landing. At first it circled, getting lined up for the
runway. We had a view of the runway between some
buildings where we were working. They could see about
400 or 500 feet of it. The plane landed, came through
the part they could see. They expected to hear it taxi
up to unload, they all wanted to see the pres-dent.
He [said] they waited and waited. It just stayed out
there someplace and shut down its engines. They saw
others looking out that way, and some men on the roof
of a hangar looking to the SE.
One of the crew suggested that someone climb a pole
to re****t what was going on, so Dad volunteered. He
strapped on his steel climbers.
Dad said he had learned to always keep the sun at his
back while climbing a pole in order not to get blinded.
Dad said he got near the top of the pole and heard
someone shout, but did not heard the words. He then
saw the truck driving off and some of the crew running
back away from the front of the hangar, and one
pointing out towards the flight line. Dad swung around
on the pole to look out on the airfield and see what
all the commotion was about.
Then he said he saw it...this "pie tin like thing"
heading towards him about 150 yards away. "And coming
right at me," he said. Dad always said he felt very
lonely up there with that thing, and decided to come
down fast, as he was about 40 feet up. He said he
looped his climbing strap out and got down that 40 feet
in about five seconds, his steel spikes hitting only
occasionaly to slow him down."
Back at the shop when the story was told, he was
nicknamed "the fireman" for getting down that pole so
fast. Apparently, soon after this incident, the saucer
just stopped and hovered about 300 feet over the flight
line while the meeting took place on the far runway
near the UFO. Dad said once the people there got over
the initial shock, many just stood and watched it. He
said it was a beautiful sight, and it had an occasional
wobble. He recalled that later that day many neon
lights needed replacing. (Author: This was apparently
the saucer that hovered over the flight line that
Do-sey and his wife saw around 8:45-9:00 a.m.) His
daughter said they all thought it was one of our s-cret
aircraft and the presi-ent had come to see. Dad said
he never considered it anything but ours until years
later when the UFO shape got publicized more (in the
1960s or so). He told us "it was then that he
understood what was so se-ret."
Our main witness, Airman Kirtland on or about Feb.
11, 1955 was on duty at the base hospital. He
continues the events as he experienced them from this
date. Airman Kirtland returned from lunch about 12:50
p.m., Dor-thea the civilian typist and the nurse asked
him if he had seen Dor-ey. "I said I hadn't. At 2:30
p.m., coffee break time, I walked down the hall and saw
Do-sey coming in. I asked where he had been. He
replied, at a meeting. I told him to tell the nurse
and Do-othea that I was headed for coffee. After
supper I noticed the lights still on in the flight
surgeon's office and went over to turn them off.
Surprisingly, Dr. Re-ner was there and was talking to a
Lt. Colonel. The Lt. Colonel was telling him that he
had heard the presid-nt and Col. S-arp speaking to
about 225 people at the supply hangar." He said there
were m-litary personnel and civilian workers including
a few female office workers. Dr. Re-ner wanted to know
what the presid-nt said.
The Lt. Colonel said that he just gave them a pep
talk and said to keep up the good work, etc. He only
spoke five minutes or so, and then Col. Sh-rp spoke for
another twenty minutes or so. His speech included
warnings such as, "What you see here stays here" and
something about the "fine s-curity traditions," etc. at
the base. Dr. Rein-r's friend also said the
commander-in-chief and Col. Sh-rp spoke once or twice
more at the base theater which held over 200 people.
Apparently, Ike told each group that he wasn't supposed
to be there that day. Kirtland re****ted to the author,
"If the pr-sident of the U-ited States did not know
where he was supposed to be, how could we?"
The author believes that there was considerable
pressure on the Holloman base personnel in the short
run, not to let the pres-dent's visit be known. This
sec-ecy was probably aimed at the press in Thomasville
as well as the national press, so that Ike would not
receive embarrassing questions later or when he got
back to Thomasville, the next day the ruse worked, as
there was not a hint of Eisenhower being away from his
cottage in Thomasville in the 36 hours he was away from
the journalists' view.
It is more than likely that this meeting at Holloman
AFB was not Ike's first visit with the ETs. The
meeting was too short. It is possible that there were
some negotiations going on and that something had to be
clarified that took just a little time. There is some
cir***stantial evidence that Presid-nt E-senhower met
the ETs at Muroc* (later Edwards AFB) a year before.
The press said, "Ike went missing for a few hours"
which would give him the op****tunity to meet with or
see ET craft or dead bodies which were believed to be
at Edwards in Feb. of 1954. (JW I heard quite a few
years ago an account or rumor that a reqular person
from our Earth was aboad a UFO setting around a table
and he saw Ike on the UFO, at the table sitting across
the table. The story gave the person's name but that
was during times when you were not very popular if said
you went aboard a UFO. I've have since that time
forgotten what the person's name was.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base
http://www.exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-8.htm
Grant C-meron, a Canadian UFO researcher and expert
on pr-sidential associations with UFOs, told the author
that there was an entourage of some 250 people with Ike
the year before at Muroc. It is thought that to
simplify things, Ike slipped away from the press at
Thomasville, this time with the immediate goal of
keeping the press off his trail. The second
consideration might have been to keep other countries,
including the Russians and the Communist bloc out of
the loop in regard to the rendezvous with the UFO at
Holloman.
Why Holloman? It was remote, it was secure, and
above all, it was away from the press. Apparently, the
Holloman sec-et from 1955 did not begin to be revealed
until forty years later, six years after the Soviet
Union collapsed. To the author's knowledge, Kirtland
is the first to bring this story out, naming witnesses.
To be sure, the story has blanks, but most good
plausible stories do. All that can be expected of
anyone is that they simply tell with honesty what they
know, heard, and saw. Kirtland has done this, and his
story checks out. I asked him once why he had come
forward. He replied that the main reason he shared his
recollections and memories was that he was tired of
gov-rnment secr-cy. He said that if he hadn't shared
it, he would be part of the cover-up. Kirtland is now
a retired inspector for the US Dept. of A-riculture,
living in the Midwest.
Kirtland related one other story about when Ike left
the base. This was to be Kirtland's only actual
sighting that day. The balance of what is written here
was what had been told him by others. Kirtland's words
are as follows: "After work I was in my barracks room
when I was called out to see Air F-rce One fly
overhead. It flew over the residential area of the
base. This is a NO FLYING zone for all mi-itary
aircraft. Only the Pre-ident could get away with it."
Part 3.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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