by Nick Redfern
He can be contacted at his blog: http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com
PHOTO SECTION
Senator Joseph McCarthy (Wikimedia Commons)
The site of the mysterious Roswell affair of 1947. Russian origins? (Nick Redfern)
Karl Pflock and UFOs: “Some sort of psychological warfare operation” (Nick Redfern)
A National Security Agency document refers to the Spitsbergen UFO crash of 1952 as a “Plant” (National Security Agency)
From magic to the military: Jasper Maskelyne, far right (Wikimedia Commons)
Beware of the Flatwoods Monster (Denise Rector)
The Aetherius Society: “It crusades for the suspension of the H-bomb tests” (Nick Redfern)
An extract from the Special Branch files on the Aetherius Society (Special Branch)
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, the People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR (Wikimedia Commons)
Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949 (National Library of Australia)
In the early 1960s, U.S. intelligence planned to fake a second coming of Jesus in the skies over Cuba. The purpose: to overthrow Fidel Castro (Library of Congress)
Alice Bradley Sheldon, pictured with her husband, Huntington. Alice wrote alien-themed sci-fi and worked for the CIA (Chicago Tribune, January 24, 1946)
Greg Bishop at the grave of Paul Bennewitz (Nick Redfern)
Nikola Tesla, who is referenced in the most recently surfaced Majestic 12 papers (Wikimedia Commons)