Military and government leaders assumed that as both the United States and the Soviet Union possessed nuclear weapons, any war between the countries would likely involve nuclear attacks on major cities with hundreds of thousands of people likely suffering heavy radiation exposure. government prepared for possible war with the Soviet Union by attempting to determine the effects of radiation on the human body. In 1957, Wilson resigned his office and retired to Michigan. The Wilson-Eisenhower effort to curb defense expenditures provoked criticism from military leadership and Congress. He also implemented Eisenhower's New Look program for the military that reduced conventional weapons and increased the number of nuclear weapons in an effort to do more with less money. Wilson reorganized the Department of Defense and attempted to run the Pentagon like a business corporation with much authority decentralized to allow for greater civilian control. As a business executive of some note in the administration of a former United States Army general, Wilson was expected to concentrate on defense management rather than formulation of basic national security policy. Wilson (1890–1961) left the presidency of General Motors to serve as Secretary of Defense for President Dwight D. "DOE: Openness: Human Radiation Experiments." 〈〉 (accessed November 29, 2005).Ībout the Author: Charles E. Whether it’ll be another five decades before Congress holds another such hearing remains to be seen.Use of Human Volunteers in Experimental Research Numerous national security experts and researchers have also dismissed it as a hoax. Thomas Wilson, has reportedly denied it all. The claims have been hotly debated among ufologists but never corroborated. The document, which emerged publicly in 2019, purports to reveal a secret meeting with the then-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency outlining a labyrinth of secret government programs hidden from top officials and congressional oversight committees about crashed UFO materials and efforts to reengineer the technology.
Milbank added, “As a result, the hearing record now includes mentions of: an alien ‘cabal,’ ‘crashed UFOs/alien bodies,’ autopsies of alien bodies in Roswell, N.M., alien-derived technologies and, yes, alien abductions.” Politico also noted: Gallagher also inquired about an unverified 2002 document known as the “Wilson-Davis memo.” As Milbank’s column described it is "a document of dubious provenance that purports to reveal information about government UFO programs.”īray and Moultrie said they were unaware of the memo, so the Wisconsin Republican entered it into the official record. Nevertheless, the GOP congressman told the witnesses, “I would like you to look into it.” They said they would. At the same time, a glowing red orb was observed overhead.” Gallagher seemed entirely sincere, for example, about the Pentagon examining a 1967 “incident” that “allegedly occurred at Malmstrom Air Force Base, in which 10 of our nuclear ICBMs were rendered inoperable. In case this isn’t obvious, it’s important to emphasize that these questions and answers were taken quite seriously during the hearing. One of the most eye-popping moments during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on UFOs on Tuesday was when the Wisconsin Republican pressed Pentagon officials on claims that a “glowing red orb” once shut down nuclear weapons in Montana and that a recently leaked document revealed that other-worldly vehicles - and possibly even extraterrestrial bodies - are being kept from government leaders and the public. Politico took note of the inquiries of Republican Rep. The line of questioning from one subcommittee member, however, stood out as especially notable. Milbank added that the panel “emphasized that such things are real, if not exactly evidence of space invaders,” and stressed “that they have nothing ‘that would suggest it’s anything non-terrestrial in origin,’ and they cautioned against conspiracy theories.”
As Dana Milbank noted soon after in a column, the subcommittee and its witnesses “did their best to keep things rational.” There were references to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), for example, instead of unidentified flying objects.
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