In recent days, The Debrief looked at the evolving views on the subject of unidentified aerial phenomenon expressed by the Air Force beginning in the late 1940s. The Air Force’s silence in dealing with this topic was also the subject of a recent analysis by Christopher Mellon, which seems to continue into the present.
While the views of many United States federal and military agencies when dealing with UFOs have evolved considerably over time, what of the National Security Agency (NSA), arguably one of the most secretive groups inside of America’s military and security apparatus?
Prying historical documents out of the NSA and challenging its decisions to classify information on any subject, including UFOs, is a daunting task on the best of days. This is a fact that researchers attempting to gather this type of data, such as John Greenewald jr of the Black Vault run into regularly. When Greenewald attempted to have a heavily redacted set of UFO-related NSA documents reviewed as part of a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR), he was eventually informed that the original, unredacted documents could not be found. The NSA is apparently so skilled at protecting the nation’s deepest, most critical secrets that they can even hide them from themselves.
But a few NSA documents dealing with the subject of UFOs have survived. One of these is a 1968 report on the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects, what the most common theories regarding their origins were, and what implications they might hold for matters as weighty as the survivability of human civilization. The document, produced by an author whose name remains redacted, was titled “UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions.” The NSA was looking at the question seriously and considering the long-term implications of the possible existence of UFOs and how the nation might be best prepared for what such encounters could entail.
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