This set of "Sedge Masters" articles also had nearly the longest write-up of any "PUBLIC DOMAIN" story in the 177 page document that leaked last week, with five separate notes sections added to it. That 177 page document may have been associated with the Congressional hearings. Clipping of relevant portion of that document is available here.
Some notable claims from the first Sedge Masters article:
Military in Europe was experiencing UAP sightings pre-World War II. The Nazis allegedly recovered a saucer-like craft of indeterminant origin in the days immediately preceding Germany's invasion of Poland. (aligns with some of the Europe/Italy claims)
The program "has always been included within the classified mission statements of the various agencies and military branches comprising the intelligence community since before the formation of the Agency in 1947."
Roswell was a UAP crash-recovery involving two distinct UAP. One was a "deltoid wing lifting body." The other craft had completely disintegrated either before or upon impact.
Working theories for the craft at the time were: (1) secret Soviet craft, (2) craft from "some other dimension", or (3) craft from our own future.
"It soon became clear that these craft were from some planet or solar system other than our own, as they were occupied by two kinds of beings which clearly were not of earthly origin."
There were 5 occupants of the deltoid craft, all of whom were largely intact. Two occupants were alive initially, one died shortly after. The other survived thirty days. All efforts to communicate were inconclusive, although it appeared to understand it was being held in captivity by intelligent being like itself. The three other occupants were dead upon arrival. Their appearance fits with "recently published 'investigative' books" ("deltoid craft": greys?)
The occupants of the second craft were longer in dimension than the ones of the deltoid craft, and all were dead when found. Animals that had eaten their corpses had also died. (fits with Varginha infection death?) It appeared the second group of aliens could not survive if exposed to Earth's atmosphere.
"The autopsy of the deltoid craft's occupants showed they were of very light build, clearly not from this planet. The simplicity of their brain structures and non-communication in the face of stalwart efforts by researchers led investigators as the time to conclude that they were not the original designers and builder's of the craft involved in the incident. Rather, it seemed they were "biological robots," designed and bred for the purpose of undertaking such a dangerous missions as flying through the atmosphere of an alien world. The survivor finally died when its body accumulated toxic waste products from its metabolism. There were no apparent excretory system or sexual organs." (fits with some of the 4chan "leaker" narrative, as well as the r/aliens EBO narrative)
Those in control of the information decided who to share it with, including sometimes choosing not to share it with certain Presidents, including Nixon and Ford. Jimmy Carter was kept well informed. (fits with what Ross Coulthart has claimed about some Presidents not being briefed)
"The popular literature bandies about the name of 'Majestic 12' or 'MJ-12' for this special, secret task force formed by the President. Other names by which it has been identified in the public mind through disinformation programs are "Project Saucer" or "Aquarius." While it is possible that any one or more of these was the name of the group at one time, for most of it's existence the code name for the group and the extensive program which it spawned has been and still is "Zodiac," with each of its operational subdivisions known by the name of a different zodiacal sign, including Acquarius."
As of the early 1980s, the Agency (CIA) exercised complete control over ZODIAC, with cooperation of the rest of the intelligence community and military branches, particularly the Air Force and the Navy. (notably, these two branches of the military seem to still be the most involved in disclosure [Navy] and lack thereof [Air Force] today)
From 1947-1980s, ZODIAC recovered eleven other alien craft in various states of disrepair, from a diminutive single-seat flying wing to a rather large craft that had to be trucked into Wright Patterson by dead of night. (fits with the twelve craft claim from Grusch)
Some craft were turned over to our government by friendly powers, most notably Denmark, which allowed the U.S. to retrieve a rather large disk that had submerged off the Danish coast.
Occasionally, a live craft occupant was recovered as well (fits with Grusch claims)
There seem to be at least four types of occupants, the two described previously, as well as "humanoids that appear to be almost human and Nordic in appearance," and "small, strong, hairy ones." It is possible that one or more of these type
s represent only a sub-type of the others. (fits with Grusch claims of multiple-NHIs)
There is no evidence of telepathic communication abilities of these creatures. There is some type of empathetic manipulation and thought control ability.
The crash-recovery team was composed of 67 well-trained men, as of the late 60s. By the late 70s they had "perfected the tasks of completely and thoroughly documenting all actions and cleaning up any debris remaining after these incidents."
Some notable claims from the second Sedge Masters article:
During one one of the crash-retrievals, a "big ship" "20 times larger than the one they were recovering" showed up overhead, hovered above, and tried to scare the retrieval team away from the wreck. They apparently did not want them recovering that wreck.
The crash retrieval team claims they could "feel their hostility" even though it was "not telepathy." They describe it as "empathy."
The big ship eventually flew away on its own, and the crash retrieval team proceeded with their recovery.
Some notable claims from the third Sedge Masters article:
The crash retrieval program appears to be headquartered at Wright Patterson AFB
"There are UFOs... the government was recovering them, had been doing so for decades, and that there was a secret network within the government, Zodiac, that seemed to be able to skirt the chain of command with impunity, spend money earmarked for other projects, and generally do whatever it damn well pleased, all in the name of UFOs and their importance to national security" (fits Grusch claims)
The government was tapping the phones of UFO organizations to source leaks/research.
Mentions an "underwater submerged object" off the coast of Palos Verdes, near Catalina island, where the USO had become a UFO and proceeded to fly over their heads (fits with the "water" connection which has frequently been coming up now, as well as the trans-medium claims from Grusch)
"Trust me on this Sedge. They are not ours. Indeed, they are not anyone else's. They are something of a mystery, really."
"They also told him that humankind is the product of millions of years of scientific experimentation." (note this is a claim made by two men who may have been on drugs)
Wright Patterson has a database of over 2,000,000 reports starting in 1945 of UAP related sightings from the public. Many involve small glowing balls of various colors. They believed the balls are some sort of scanning device.
Masters claims he was driven out to a full craft in a hangar at WPAFB. It had a small cockpit with a seamless clear canopy that would fit "a seven year old." It was allegedly a recovered craft from 1972. A single-seater flying wing craft, similar to the protype developed by the Germans and US during WWII. Just a wing, no tail, no fuselage, no props, no jets, no ailerons.
"For all we know, that little guy was bred just to deliver this little plane to us. The way it's scaled down, some of the engineers have taken to calling it 'the Scooter.'" They speculate the intent of the craft is purely for one creature to come down to gather samples, but they are not sure. They claim they don't even know how to turn it off, and only accidentally turned it on in the first place.
Masters was then driven to another hanger, with a 50 foot wide, and 23 foot tall "ovoid disc." He was told it was alien. This allegedly was the Denmark craft, where it had allegedly sunk in relatively shallow water. The Danish government cooperated with US, getting the thing out and to WPAFB was difficult. They had to 'truck it through the city on a lowboy in the dead of night, covered with a tarp and flanked by plenty of security.' The hull was smooth and cool to the touch, like a sculpture or porcelain."
Japan wasn’t making earnest attempts at a reasonable surrender. It was hoping it could get a conditional surrender where it would be able to preserve at least some of its empire (the hyper focus on them supposedly merely wanting assurances they could keep their Emperor is really downplaying what they hoped to negotiate). It was still occupying large portions of East Asia by late 1945. That was simply unacceptable to the Allies, and very understandably so. Russia wouldn’t tolerate a conditional surrender either, and all of Japan’s hopes at such a negotiation were done via a Moscow that it turned out was just leading Japan on while assembling an invasion.
There’s just no compelling historical evidence for this claim. The paragraph following it contains the actual explanation, and in fact is hard to square with any claims that it was a demonstration for the Soviets. It’s hard to square on the one hand the idea that mass casualties had been normalized, while also implying that the nukes were viewed as a uniquely horrible thing and everyone wanted to avoid personal responsibility while also sending a warning on the other.
The nukes were developed and deployed as an extension of the conventional strategic bombing program. Strategic bombing was the ultimate military fetish of the era. The Manhattan Project wasn’t the most expensive weapons project of the war: the B-29 bomber was, costing at least a third more. The Norden bombsight cost another 2/3 of the total budget for the nuclear bomb, only it never worked well, necessitating the use of mass bombing raids. Nukes were developed and deployed as a way to effect the same level of destruction with far fewer planes and bombs.
You could interpret the eschewing of responsibility as all the players knowing the horror they were unleashing and trying to avoid accountability, but another interpretation is that no one viewed the nuclear bomb as anything other than an especially powerful explosive, so it wasn’t something where anyone agonized over the first deployments. There’s a lot of evidence that the military was very slow to appreciate the uniquely dangerous aspects of nuclear weapons even after Hiroshima, as evidenced by the cavalier attitude towards testing right through the 1950s. When the military talked about how a single atomic bomb was as powerful as X amount of TNT, that’s genuinely how they were viewing and using them: as an easier way to get X amount of high explosive on target.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (which was a backup target; Kokura was the original objective) were targeted because they were significant military targets that would have been bombed sooner or later anyway as part of the preliminary phase for the invasion of Japan (and contrary to revisionism that invasion was very much in the planning. In fact Japan was counting on it and hoping to bleed it dry on the beaches in order to force the US to agree to a conditional surrender).
Personally, I view the nukes as war crimes, but as sub-components of the overarching war crime that was strategic bombing in general. Ultimately there was a rationale that went into the development of the strategic bombing concept that stretched back to the interwar years. It turned out to be massively, horrifically wrong, but there was a coherent thought process to it.