Operation Paperclip had no "cover." It was the program to appropriate the aeronautical technology (including rocketry) developed by the Third Reich, and to employ its practitioners. Nothing to do with UFOs or aliens.
I think you're missing my point a bit. They couldn't let the American people know they shipped a bunch of Nazis' over here to our homeland to test their tech. "Aliens" and "UFO activity" was used as a cover for the tech they were testing out in the deserts.
That's just nonsense. There was no particular secret about the presence of the Germans. After a temporary posting at El Paso, Texas, they settled into Huntsville, Alabama, and joined the community. White Sands was a missile test range, and all they were doing was launching captured V-2s and derivative vehicles. By 1952, they were developing the Redstone intermediate-range ballistic missile. I'm familiar with this history, read about it as a boy, and recall nothing whatsoever about a "cover" involving UFOs and Aliens.
You remember the term Foo Fighters during WWII? They were glowing objects that flew next to and around the pilots during the war. They didn't attack or bother the pilots or their aircraft, just showed up and observed.
The Allies thought it was some top secret vehicle that the Germans or Japanese had, and the Germans and Japanese thought it was a top secret vehicle that the Allies had. Nope. Below is from Wikipedia about them:
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
Though foo fighter initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period.[1] Formally reported from November 1944 onwards, foo fighters were presumed by witnesses to be secret weapons employed by the enemy.
According to Desmond Leslie, UFO sightings have been recorded in the 19th century. World War II was a point in time when the largest number of eyeballs were aloft to see things that weren't observable from the ground. It was also an occasion that might well have drawn the attention of any intelligent surveillance.
But UFOs....aliens? Or some secret squirrely govt bullshit? Doesn't seem like a coincidence that it lines up with ww2
You're over the target.
Area 51 "UFO sightings" and "Aliens" were a cover for Operation Paperclip.
Operation Paperclip had no "cover." It was the program to appropriate the aeronautical technology (including rocketry) developed by the Third Reich, and to employ its practitioners. Nothing to do with UFOs or aliens.
I think you're missing my point a bit. They couldn't let the American people know they shipped a bunch of Nazis' over here to our homeland to test their tech. "Aliens" and "UFO activity" was used as a cover for the tech they were testing out in the deserts.
That's just nonsense. There was no particular secret about the presence of the Germans. After a temporary posting at El Paso, Texas, they settled into Huntsville, Alabama, and joined the community. White Sands was a missile test range, and all they were doing was launching captured V-2s and derivative vehicles. By 1952, they were developing the Redstone intermediate-range ballistic missile. I'm familiar with this history, read about it as a boy, and recall nothing whatsoever about a "cover" involving UFOs and Aliens.
Xzactly
You remember the term Foo Fighters during WWII? They were glowing objects that flew next to and around the pilots during the war. They didn't attack or bother the pilots or their aircraft, just showed up and observed.
The Allies thought it was some top secret vehicle that the Germans or Japanese had, and the Germans and Japanese thought it was a top secret vehicle that the Allies had. Nope. Below is from Wikipedia about them:
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
Though foo fighter initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period.[1] Formally reported from November 1944 onwards, foo fighters were presumed by witnesses to be secret weapons employed by the enemy.
According to Desmond Leslie, UFO sightings have been recorded in the 19th century. World War II was a point in time when the largest number of eyeballs were aloft to see things that weren't observable from the ground. It was also an occasion that might well have drawn the attention of any intelligent surveillance.