How UFOs Became a Cold War National Security Issue

Описание: What is the hidden geopolitics behind the so-called “Age of Cover-Up”? In this episode of Emergent, host Reed Summers speaks with former intelligence officer and researcher Geoff Cruickshank to examine how Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) became embedded within Cold War national security frameworks.

For over 80 years, a parallel history has existed alongside the official record. Moving beyond sightings and speculation, this conversation analyzes why information related to UAPs has been tightly controlled by military and intelligence institutions—and how nuclear weapons, space policy, and geopolitical power shaped that secrecy.

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Topics explored include:

01:18 Setting the frame: JFK, UAPs, and Cold War power dynamics

10:41 The JFK Connection — JFK’s WWII exposure and early knowledge of UFOs

15:08 JFK, Forrestal, and the post-war race for non-human technology

24:20 JFK vs the CIA — secrecy, “need to know,” and institutional resistance

27:46 Nuclear Base Encounters — Operation Dominic and Bluegill Triple Prime

33:22 Nuclear tests, UAP shoot-downs, and recovery operations

42:08 Undersea Anomalies — Navy diver testimony and submerged objects

59:46 Declassification & Power — altered records, buried evidence, and cover-ups

01:17:46 What meaningful disclosure would actually require

Primary Source Documents & References

The materials referenced in this discussion are drawn from public archives and are provided for independent review.

JFK Administration, Space Cooperation & NHI
• National Security Planning Meeting — May 1963
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-view...

Bluegill Triple Prime (1962 Nuclear Test Anomalies)
• Recovery & Salvage Operation
https://www.oceanstl.com/recent-media...
• Diver Records & Documented Anomalies
https://www.oceanstl.com/recent-media...

Castle Bravo USO Incident (1954)
• Oral History — G. Nicholas Stuparich Jr. (2006), UNLV Archive (Page 9)
https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark:...
• Corroborating Oral History — Robert William Mackenzie (2005), UNLV Archive (Page 14)
https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark%...
— Both Marines served in a special detachment with Q clearances. Stuparich states he was warned that disclosure would result in execution under the Espionage Act (Page 32).

EG&G, Nuclear Weapons & the “Five Year Miracle”
• Barney O’Keefe (CEO of EG&G, 1965–1985) — Castle Bravo firing bunker incident
https://archive.org/details/nuclearho...
• The “Five Year Miracle” — William L. Laurence
https://archive.org/details/nuclearho...
• Same Meeting — Discussion of NHI
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-view...
• Maxwell S. Hunter Rebuttal (July 1963)
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
• NSAM 271 — Cooperation with the USSR on Outer Space Matters (Nov 12, 1963)
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-view...
• CIA Memo — Lyman Kirkpatrick to Dr. Bud Wheelon (Nov 13, 1963)
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/...

CIA, OSS & Donovan Files
• CIA Review of OSS Gen. William Donovan’s Files (Jan 19, 2017)
• Spellman → Donovan Memo (March 24, 1948)
(Note: previously cited year corrected; the Aztec, New Mexico incident occurred the following day.)

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