Eyes Only: The Story of Clifford Stone and UFO Crash Retrievals

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Investigative photojournalist Paola Harris first met Stone at the 50th Roswell UFO Crash Anniversary in July 1997, where she began a decades-long friendship with Stone. Harris was among the first UFO/exopolitics researchers that personally interviewed Stone and got to spend time at his home, where she saw documentary and physical evidence of his involvement in projects Moondust and Bluefly. Harris’ interviews with Stone appear in his autobiographical book Eyes Only – The Story of Clifford Stone and UFO Crash Retrievals (2012). Some aficionados believe that U.F.O.s have been documented since Biblical times; in “ The Spaceships of Ezekiel,” published in 1974, Josef F. Blumrich, a NASA engineer, argued that the prophet’s heavenly vision of wheels within wheels was an encounter not with God but with an alien spaceship. In “ The UFO Controversy in America” (1975), David Jacobs wrote about a series of “airship” sightings across the country in 1896 and 1897. Spaceships, in our descriptions, have always displayed capabilities just beyond our technological horizon, and with our own wartime advances they grew staggeringly impressive. It’s generally agreed that the modern U.F.O. era began on June 24, 1947, when a private aviator named Kenneth Arnold, while flying a CallAir A-2, saw a loose formation of nine undulating objects near Mt. Rainier. They had the shape of boomerangs or tailless manta rays, and in his estimation they moved at two to three times the speed of sound. He described their motion as that of a “saucer skipped over water.” A newspaper headline conjured “flying saucers.” By the end of the year, at least eight hundred and fifty similar domestic sightings had been reported, according to one independent U.F.O. investigator. Meanwhile, scientists asserted that flying saucers didn’t exist because they couldn’t exist. The Times quoted Gordon Atwater, an astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium, who attributed the flurry of reports to a combination of a “mild case of meteorological jitters” and “mass hypnosis.” Some aspects of the “official” version of events was, to some, very much open to debate. Not least some of the main witnesses themselves. When the Halt Memorandum entered the public arena, there was no doubt whatsoever that at least certain aspects of the incident had not been put across to the public in their fullest. Clifford served honorably in the United States Army for over 20 years as an Administrative/Legal Specialist. He served during the Vietnam War and met his beautiful and supportive wife, Hanh. He was assigned at Fort Bliss, Fort Campbell, Hanau, Keesler AFB, and New Mexico Military Institute. During that time he received: M16 Expert Badge, Overseas Service Ribbon with Bars, Meritorious Unit Citation, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation with Palm, Noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal.

When it came out that CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his hagiographer, I got punked… WIRED decided to debunk the 1950 FBI memo to J Edgar Hoover, “What the FBI’s UFO Memo Shows About American Intelligence”. The memo says that three vehicles with advanced technology crashed in New Mexico. The dead occupants were not exactly human. Hopefully they were not neo-cons. It is an excellent peek into, not only the authenticity of the incident, but the genuine anxiety and occasional fear of the men involved in the encounter. And what’s more, Halt’s dialogue certainly does nothing to “discredit” the incident. And furthermore, it was during this encounter that the object rose into the air and “broke into five separate white objects and disappeared”. Much like, if we will recall, how the craft over Kent did two weeks previously. In what is already a bizarre incident, coincidence surely can’t be considered a serious explanation. “It’s Definitely Coming This Way! Pieces Of It Are Shooting Off!” Upon uploading his clip to YouTube, he would claim he noticed “three balls of light in the sky” while walking. He would also claim to have received a sudden and:It would “release a puff of vapor” before moving to the east a little more. It then remained motionless once again. The object would “turn on its own axis” shortly after. And again at 3:20 pm and 3:35 pm. Then, it would shoot off “towards the Moon at fantastic speed”. A short time later it returned and remained motionless once more. And that is perhaps being very kind. Of course, the fact that the authorities involved felt the need to downplay and “discredit” the incident, should surely make us question why. As does why key witnesses would have to sign “secrecy oaths” for a period of thirty years. Of course, once the three-decade time period had elapsed, each could speak of their encounter with no threat whatsoever of criminal charges. Or worse. Which is exactly what they did. It’s coming this way. It’s definitely coming this way. Pieces of it are shooting off. There is no doubt about it. This is weird…now we are observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground. This is unreal! I was involved in situations where we actually did recoveries of crashed saucers. There were bodies that were involved with some of these crashes. Also some of these were alive,” he said. “While we were doing this, we were telling the American public there was nothing to it. We were telling the world there was nothing to it,”

The government may or may not care about the resolution of the U.F.O. enigma. But, in throwing up its hands and granting that there are things it simply cannot figure out, it has relaxed its grip on the taboo. For many, this has been a comfort. In March, I spoke with a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force who said that about a decade ago, during combat, he had an extended encounter with a U.F.O., one that registered on two of his plane’s sensors. For all the usual reasons, he had never officially reported the sighting, but every once in a while he’d bring a close friend into his confidence over a beer. He did not want to be named. “Why am I telling you this story?” he asked. “I guess I just want this data out there—hopefully this helps somebody else somehow.” We should note Halt’s conduct, his openness and even his use of words in his report have all contributed to the incident being as well-documented as it is. Investigative journalist/UFO researcher and author of Exopolitics – Stargate to a New Reality and Connecting the Making Sense of the UFO RealityThe military, I know for a fact, has established what’s called “disinformation programs”. Officially sanctioned deception programs. This is covered by a regulation at Department of Defense level that’s secret. This is the case with the Unidentified Flying Objects. Or might the connections prove to be more direct? And darker? Is this an example of some kind of “collusion” between shadow governments and an alien race from another world? We have examined such claims on several occasions. Whatever we might think of them, they are certainly in abundance. And usually with great detail.

The object he’d encountered was about forty feet long, disobeyed the principles of aerodynamics as he understood them, and looked exactly like a giant Tic Tac. “When Commander Fravor’s story came out in the New York Times, all my buddies had a jaw-drop moment. Even my old boss called me up and said, ‘I read about the Nimitz, and I wanted to say I’m so sorry I called you an idiot.’ ” ♦Sgt. Stone is coming forward with his story to encourage citizens and our elected officials to open investigations and end this Constitutional bypass by a powerful and covert organization operating under our noses and in our skies.

The F.A.A. claimed that it must have been a “hole-punch cloud”—a cirrocumulus or altocumulus cloud crisply perforated with a circular gap, which occasionally appears in below-freezing temperatures. According to meteorologists whom Kean interviewed, it was much too warm that day for hole-punch clouds to occur. The episode sparked Kean’s indignation. As she put it in her book, “Those who do know the facts about the O’Hare incident continue to mistrust our government, which has demonstrated, once again, that it will avoid dealing with UFO incidents at all costs.”Cahn does not seem to have done any other debunking. But it is interesting that he was an “associate member” of Bohemian Groves. Bohemian Groves is a California hideaway for some of the most important people in the world. They go there to network, and to worship a thirty foot giant owl, and to plot world domination. The revelations of Clifford Stone are also worth examining somewhat. If only as they also appear to confirm that something of significance was taking place. Stone at one time worked for military intelligence. All of these individual reports and results would go towards a final report. Official, and largely internal for certain eyes only. According to Clifford Stone, the final report for the Rendlesham Forest incident makes for interesting reading. For example, it would find that witnesses very much saw “real objects”. That were the “result of highly evolved advanced technology”.