OSS and the Origins of Engineered Aerial Phenomena

A remarkable 1943 OSS-NDRC project shows that U.S. intelligence had already grasped the strategic value of the staged unidentified aerial phenomenon.

The problem with laughing off the idea of a staged “alien” event is that American intelligence was already experimenting with the same general concept during World War II. A declassified May 21, 1943 letter shows the Office of Strategic Services proposing a device that would drift through the night sky, develop an eerie luminescence with no visible ligh…