The FBI has quietly removed from its website (fbi.gov) a large collection of its PDF-based official documentation on a
whole range of UFO-related and Fortean subjects. Instead, all you now get is a summary of the files in question.
For example, up until very recently - but no longer, sadly - you could download in PDF format the FBI's 135-page
surveillance file on Silas Newton, who was a key player in the legend of the alleged UFO crash at Aztec, New Mexico in
March 1948.
Also: the FBI's 42-page file on Philip Corso, co-author with William Birnes of The Day After Roswell, has been
completely deleted from the FBI's site. All you get now is a name check listed in the "C" section of the Bureau's online
research page.
The 179-page FBI surveillance file on maverick scientist and Aleister Crowley disciple Jack Parsons is no longer
available; the 287-page file on scientific genius Nikola Tesla is completely gone; as is the 789-page collection on
Wilhelm "cloud-buster" Reich.
Some of the FBI's files on weird phenomena - such as its UFO papers, its animal mutilation files, its MJ12 reports, and
its Project Blue Book records - are still available, however.
But this deletion of what amounts to thousands of pages of "strange secrets" that the FBI had previously posted
online in a handy, downloadable format is very curious indeed.
Of course, you can still get the files by filing a written request with the FBI; but that can take time, and for some of
the larger files, it can cost significant amounts of money too.
Luckily, I downloaded all the now-missing files onto a CD some time ago...
whole range of UFO-related and Fortean subjects. Instead, all you now get is a summary of the files in question.
For example, up until very recently - but no longer, sadly - you could download in PDF format the FBI's 135-page
surveillance file on Silas Newton, who was a key player in the legend of the alleged UFO crash at Aztec, New Mexico in
March 1948.
Also: the FBI's 42-page file on Philip Corso, co-author with William Birnes of The Day After Roswell, has been
completely deleted from the FBI's site. All you get now is a name check listed in the "C" section of the Bureau's online
research page.
The 179-page FBI surveillance file on maverick scientist and Aleister Crowley disciple Jack Parsons is no longer
available; the 287-page file on scientific genius Nikola Tesla is completely gone; as is the 789-page collection on
Wilhelm "cloud-buster" Reich.
Some of the FBI's files on weird phenomena - such as its UFO papers, its animal mutilation files, its MJ12 reports, and
its Project Blue Book records - are still available, however.
But this deletion of what amounts to thousands of pages of "strange secrets" that the FBI had previously posted
online in a handy, downloadable format is very curious indeed.
Of course, you can still get the files by filing a written request with the FBI; but that can take time, and for some of
the larger files, it can cost significant amounts of money too.
Luckily, I downloaded all the now-missing files onto a CD some time ago...
THE STRANGE TALE OF THE MISSING FILES by Nick Redfern
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| Copyright © 2009 JFS |
NICK REDFERN has
investigated UFOs at Area
51; chased the
Chupacabras across
Puerto Rico; searched for
the truth about the Men
in Black, and much more
of a ufological nature.
He is the author of many
books, including A Covert
Agenda; The FBI Files;
Cosmic Crashes; Strange
Secrets; Three Men
Seeking Monsters; Body
Snatchers in the Desert;
On the Trail of the Saucer
Spies; Celebrity Secrets;
Memoirs of a Monster
Hunter; Man-Monkey;
and There's Something in
the Woods.
His website is
nickredfern.com
investigated UFOs at Area
51; chased the
Chupacabras across
Puerto Rico; searched for
the truth about the Men
in Black, and much more
of a ufological nature.
He is the author of many
books, including A Covert
Agenda; The FBI Files;
Cosmic Crashes; Strange
Secrets; Three Men
Seeking Monsters; Body
Snatchers in the Desert;
On the Trail of the Saucer
Spies; Celebrity Secrets;
Memoirs of a Monster
Hunter; Man-Monkey;
and There's Something in
the Woods.
His website is
nickredfern.com
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