bibliotecapleyades | The connection between Antarctica and
the UFO phenomenon was sealed with claims made by one Albert
K. Bender who stated that he “went into the fantastic and
came up with an answer and I know what the saucers are.”
Bender ran an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) a small UFO organization based in Connecticut, USA and he also edited a publication known as the Space Review which was committed to the dissemination of news about UFOs. In truth, the organization had only a small membership and the publication circulated amongst hundreds rather than thousands, but that its members and readers valued it was in little doubt. The publication itself advocated that flying saucers were spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin.
However... in the October 1953 edition of Space Review, there were two major announcements.
Bender ran an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) a small UFO organization based in Connecticut, USA and he also edited a publication known as the Space Review which was committed to the dissemination of news about UFOs. In truth, the organization had only a small membership and the publication circulated amongst hundreds rather than thousands, but that its members and readers valued it was in little doubt. The publication itself advocated that flying saucers were spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin.
However... in the October 1953 edition of Space Review, there were two major announcements.
The first was headed Late Bulletin and
stated:
A source which the IFSB considers very reliable has informed us that the investigation of the flying saucer mystery and the solution is approaching final stages. This same source to whom we had referred data, which had come into our possession, suggested that it was not the proper method and time to publish the data in 'Space Review'.
The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by order from a higher source. We would like to print the full story in Space Review, but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we have been advised in the negative.
The statement ended in the sentence :
We advise those engaged in saucer work to please be very cautious.
These announcements were of little
significance in and of themselves.
Bender’s publication was
considered “fringe”, at best, even at the time... However... what
gained them wider attention was the fact that immediately after
publishing this October 1953 issue, Bender suspended further
publication of the magazine and closed the IFSB down without any
further explanation.
This is completely consistent with the
“prudent” approach, shown by many who have been “gently” warned to
“cease operations” by
the Majestic 12 Group and other
agencies involved in “keeping a lid” on any real investigation into
the Unidentified Flying Object phenomenon.
Bender might very well have known “what the flying saucers” were, at least a portion of them... but he later revealed in a local newspaper interview that he was keeping his knowledge a secret following a visit by three men who apparently confirmed he was right about his Unidentified Flying Object theory, but put him in sufficient fear to immediately close down his organization and cease publication of the journal.
It has been argued that the story of being visited by three strangers and being warned off was a front to close a publication that was losing money, however the fact that Bender had been “scared to death” and “actually couldn’t eat for a couple of days” was verified by his friends and associates. It is also widely known that such “stories” are often spread by the United States, and other governments to discredit those who might just have the truth, or at least a portion of it.
In 1963, a full decade after his visit from the three strangers, Bender was seemingly prepared to reveal more of his story in a largely unreadable book entitled Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black. The book was scant on facts, however, it described extraterrestrial spacecraft that had bases in Antarctica.
This was apparently the truth Bender was terrorized into not revealing.
Bender might very well have known “what the flying saucers” were, at least a portion of them... but he later revealed in a local newspaper interview that he was keeping his knowledge a secret following a visit by three men who apparently confirmed he was right about his Unidentified Flying Object theory, but put him in sufficient fear to immediately close down his organization and cease publication of the journal.
It has been argued that the story of being visited by three strangers and being warned off was a front to close a publication that was losing money, however the fact that Bender had been “scared to death” and “actually couldn’t eat for a couple of days” was verified by his friends and associates. It is also widely known that such “stories” are often spread by the United States, and other governments to discredit those who might just have the truth, or at least a portion of it.
In 1963, a full decade after his visit from the three strangers, Bender was seemingly prepared to reveal more of his story in a largely unreadable book entitled Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black. The book was scant on facts, however, it described extraterrestrial spacecraft that had bases in Antarctica.
This was apparently the truth Bender was terrorized into not revealing.
Bender also provided images of the
saucers he was aware of. He produced drawings of Unidentified Flying
Objects that he was aware of... not saucers, as were the common
depictions of the time, but rather “flying wings” which showed three
bubble-like protrusions on the underside, reminiscent of the German
designed
Haunebu II (which was allegedly
only in the “design stage” at the end of the Second World War)
alongside a cylindrical, cigar shaped object.
