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.
It is void of evidence. I've read this history since it started appearing in the 1950s. No word of Paperclip being concealed under UFOs or Aliens. You have this idea that secrecy necessarily involves "cover stories." It only involves not mentioning a word about the secret topic. (Some cover stories have happened of course. The CORONA spy satellites were launched as "Discoverer" research satellites. But there's a whole lot of secret stuff that goes unknown because it is...wait for it...secret. But nothing involving our favorite fantasies.)
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.
Well, OP was a classified program, so there was some level of secrecy involved.
The theory I’m offering isn’t void of sauce.
It is void of evidence. I've read this history since it started appearing in the 1950s. No word of Paperclip being concealed under UFOs or Aliens. You have this idea that secrecy necessarily involves "cover stories." It only involves not mentioning a word about the secret topic. (Some cover stories have happened of course. The CORONA spy satellites were launched as "Discoverer" research satellites. But there's a whole lot of secret stuff that goes unknown because it is...wait for it...secret. But nothing involving our favorite fantasies.)