Talk:Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

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Why so little information on this man?

While public interest in UFOs waxes and wanes according to the whims of the major media outlets and the entertainment industry, the real history of the United States involving UFOs continues to develop without interruption. It's there for anyone to see. The biggest irony is that disclosure has already happened many times over the years. This is one example- A CIA director advocates the government's disclosure of the existence of extraterrestrial spacecraft on earth to the public.

There's plenty of references to Hillenkoetter in the book "UFOs and the National Security State" by Richard M. Dolan.

Comment about link

(this comment moved from article space where the comment did not belong) - This link is a secondary, unverifiable source that cites as it's source a site you have to pay to access is not of enclyclopedic quality. There is no author listed and no way to verify it is from the NY Times. This link should be deleted and, therefore, the part of the article that it supposedly supports. Bmccarren (talk) 04:29, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

UFOs

This guy, the first director of the CIA, goes public saying the military knows about UFOs and is covering it up, and the Wikipedia article doesn't mention it until the 4th paragraph...

Do people just not want to admit that there's an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting UFOs? Are we trying to brush the whole UFO thing under the rug? Would having hundreds of people, miles apart seeing the same enormous object in the sky convince people? Stephenville, Texas#2008 UFO sightings. How about an ex-astronaut? Edgar Mitchell. --Calibas (talk) 22:52, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

New York Times Article Typo

I'd like to offer some assistance to help others who have commented in the past. It could be pointed out that reference 18 has a misspelling (AIR FORGE instead of the correct AIR FORCE) in the title of the New York Times article. This is because that is how it is spelled in the online version of the NYT database. However, the original paper version of the 28 February 1960 New York Times article has the correct spelling. The NYT has had plenty of time to correct this misspelling, and thus the misspelling may have been effective at limiting the number of times this article is presented to various search requests. TAOsaucer (talk) 21:24, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

9 September 1949 Memo to Harry Truman

On 9 September 2019, the National Archive released this article showing that Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter had briefed President Truman on 9 September 1949 about the detection of the Soviet detonation of RDS-1 on 29 August 1949. WB-29 aircraft had picked up radioactive samples.

Document 12 Memorandum from Director of Central Intelligence Rear Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter, 9 September 1949, Top Secret, Excised copy (currently under request for review at CIA)

In this closely held memorandum, DCI Hillenkoetter notified the White House of the detection of radioactive materials in the Northern Pacific but cautioned that the intelligence community was still trying to determine whether it had found evidence of “an atomic explosion” or of some other phenomenon (volcanic activities, effluents from the Hanford production reactor, or an atomic accident in Russia). According to George Elsey’s interview with NSC Executive Secretary Sidney Souers [See document 16B], the latter showed this document to President Truman. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TAOsaucer (talk • contribs) 21:22, 10 September 2019 (UTC)