Quotes
A collection of quotes from high-ranking officials speaking out.
2023
Garry Nolan Stanford Professor
The creation of a whistleblowers program specifically, that allows people from within - and I'm going to say this - who have been working on the reverse-engineering programs, reverse engineering of objects, so that they can come in and break their oaths, but specifically just to talk to congress and give that information in classified settings. The most recent one that happened was just last weekend and it created quite a hornets nest in Washington.
Bill Nelson NASA Administrator
Steven Spielberg American Film Director
Tim Burchett US Congressman
Marco Rubio US Senator
Ryan Graves Navy Fighter Pilot
2021
Avril Haines Director National Intelligence
Mitt Romney US Senator
Bill Nelson NASA Administrator
Barack Obama President
What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.
John Ratcliffe Director National Intelligence
Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things… Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public. Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom… Technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.
2019
Christopher Mellon Deputy Assistant Secretary
Bryan Bender National Security Correspondent, Politico
2017
Luis Elizondo Director AATIP
2016
Hillary Clinton US Senator
2008
Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14 Astronaut
1998
Stephen Hawking Professor
Philip Corso Colonel
Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of the integrated circuit chip, laser and fibre optic technologies, particle beams, electromagnetic propulsion systems, depleted uranium projectiles, stealth capabilities, and many others. How do I know? I was in charge! I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it.
1996
Harold Puthoff Parapsychologist & Electrical Engineer
Hill Norton Baron, British Chief Of Defense Staff
The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be overwhelming. A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable.
1995
Donald Slayton Mercury Astronaut
I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. […] It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me – and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.
Stanton Friedman Nuclear Physicist
1994
Brian O’Leary Astronaut
1990
Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet President
1979
Victor Afanasyev Cosmonaut
It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineered structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away.
1978
Gordon Cooper Mercury & Gemini Astronaut
1976
James Irwin Apollo 15 Astronaut
Jimmy Carter President
I don’t laugh at people any more when they say they’ve seen UFOs. It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists.
1975
Barry Goldwater Senator
1974
Ronald Reagan President
I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, “Nope.” And I said to him: “Let’s follow it!” We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.