Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter
In 1947 Rear Admiral Hillenkoetter was Truman's first director of the CIA, which,
most likely only coincidentally, had been newly created the same month as the alleged
MJ-12 group.
In 1956, four years after the MJ-12 document was allegedly, NICAP was founded by
former Navy physicist Thomas Townsend Brown. Hillenkoetter joined NICAPs board
of directors following his retirement from the Navy in June 1957. During his tenure as
a director, Hillenkoetter made a number of extraordinary statements attesting to the
reality and seriousness of the UFO phenomenon. He was convinced that UFOs were unknown objects
operating under intelligent control and that the
'Air Force is still censoring UFO sightings. Hundreds of authentic reports written
by veteran pilots and other technically trained observers have been ridiculed or explained
away as mistakes, delusions or hoaxes....It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come
from and what their purpose is. The public has a right to know'