alien race that might have posed a threat to our national security. Consequently, it was appropriate that the cassettes remain in the custody of the Department of Defense. The tapes were declassified in 2007 after the completion of the mandatory twenty-five-year waiting period for the nondisclosure of classified government documents, and they were released into the public domain.
President Ronald Reaganâs 1987 UN speech, when he mentioned a possible alien invasion.
The transcript of one of these sessions was published by Victor Martinez as âRelease 27aâ on the Serpo website, www.serpo.org (e-mail messages from Anonymous to Martinez about Project Serpo were initially referred to as âpostings.â This convention prevailed for Posting One through Posting Eighteen. After that point, they were called âreleasesâ and were numbered sequentially with numerics by date received beginning with Release 19). This session was conducted during the March 1981 briefing by someone who refers to himself as âthe Caretaker.â
Martinez precedes the transcript with the following declaration.
THIS RELEASE HAS BEEN APPROVED BY and AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT as part of a continuing public acclimation program.
Others present at the briefing were William Casey, the CIA director at that time, and three advisors, as well as a female CIA transcriber. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and presidential staffer Michael Deaver were present at the beginning, but then bowed out. The following segment of the briefing concerns the Roswell incident, and should be considered to be the most authoritative account of what happened at Roswell.
The CARETAKER: Good morning, Mr. President. First of all, I would like to give you a bit of information on my background. But before that, please, Mr. President, if you have questions during this briefing, just interrupt me, sir. I have been employed by the CIA for the past 31 years. I started the caretaking status of this project in 1960. We have a special group of people whom we call âGroup 6,â that cares for all this information.
PRESIDENT: Good morning, I hope, well, I believe I will ask questions. Bill briefed me back in January, but . . . Bill didnât tell me all âcause we only had about one hour.
WM CASEY: Mr. President, I only gave you a quick briefing for the NSDD (National Security Decision Directives) that we want to incorporate into the overall action directives about this subject. ADVISER #3, Caspar and I have details far beyond what I knew before January. The last administration wasnât too keen on making all of this stuff accessible to us during the briefings in November and December.
PRESIDENT: Well, I knew a little about this subject before. Back in 1970. Nixon had all of the good stuff and wanted to share it with some of his friends. Nixon showed me some papers. Not sure about who authored them, but . . . well something about New Mexico and other places. Nixon was pretty . . . fascinated with it. He showed me something, some kind of object or device that came from one of their craft. Something that was taken from the New Mexico crash site. I donât know if, well . . . do we know what it was? I donât think we knew or maybe now, after 11 years, we might know.
The CARETAKER: Mr. President, I can answer some of those questions. Do you wish for me to begin?
PRESIDENT: Oh, well, what level is this? I mean, what was it called? I donât remember what they called this.
WM CASEY: Mr. President, codeword. Itâs called Top Secret Codeword. This information is beyond Top Secret as I said before. It has its own classification. It is very compartmentalized.
PRESIDENT: Well, I guess just the minimum. Are we recording this?
The CARETAKER: Mr. President, no, unless you wish.
WM CASEY: Yes, it is [CIA FEMALE TRANSCRIBER] who is doing that. I think we should. I donât want to make any mistakes later about this.
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