MacArthur and the UFOs

By Jonathan Abel

Author's work has won Emmy's, CLIOs, TELLYs, and will have two Grammy entries in 2014. This action-packed WWII tale is "Patton" meets the "X-Files" and now has its own online trailer and is available as an AudioBook.

The author's uncle, a battle-promoted hero, was General Douglas MacArthur's personal bodyguard during desperate days…during the Occupation of Japan…a smashed civilization.

Flying saucers were daily headlines and wartime President Roosevelt actually saddled General Douglas MacArthur with solving the growing UFO question – who and what were they? Can we retrieve and back-engineer a crashed alien spacecraft for battle before the enemy could!

This eBook and dimensional radio drama AudioBook, read by the author, reveal --

Documented origins of the heroic Men in Black amidst global warfare!!

The Phoenix Lights…the Double-Double-cross at Pearl Harbor…Mac's own UFO sighting…the Last Luzon Banzai Charge…Foo Fighters…Retaking the Philippines…the Deadly UFO Invasion of Los Angeles…Roswell…the Great UFO Trap at White Sands…

And the TWO greatest secrets of WWII!

Why did the author take on this topic?

He was compelled to track down the origins of this incredible statement - in a speech at a 1955 West Point graduation, General Douglas MacArthur actually spoke these words --

"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathan Abel
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310197727

Jonathan Abel

His work has won multiple gold Emmy's, Telly's, CLIO's, Addy's and the New York Film Festival. His first job out of school was as News Director of KHAI Radio, Honolulu. Jonathan Abel's newsroom window on the 3rd floor faced Pearl Harbor and as he wrote news copy, he could imagine the Japanese planes approaching over Ewa Beach, over cane fields and the little village of Aiea on that sweet, Sunday morning in 1941...the "sneak attack" that drug America into WWII. In 1970, he took a job offer from the news department of KGMB and covered the filming of Tora! Tora! Tora!. It was that station's powerful radio signal the Japanese aggressors had used to guide them to Pearl. Currently, he writes and produces media for the Department of the Interior…our national parks, dams, power plants…the Air Force Academy, Grand Canyon National Park, and pieces for the Apache, Navajo, Hopi and Nez Perce Nations. He values his trips to the reservations and meeting those incredible people. He was Creative Director for Motorola while they were the largest high-tech corporation in the world and actually invented the term "Multi-Tasking" to promote the VME-10, the first computer in history that would do two things without completely rebooting. A few years later, in 1985, he wrote a script that meant renting Stonehenge for three days to produce a documentary on his notions of it being a multi-tasking star computer. An accomplished actor and commercial voice talent, he has written and produced commercial mass communications projects in 19 countries for hundreds of clients. He's hiked and photographed the Andes, Alps, Smokies, Cascades and Rockies, climbed volcanoes and pyramids, forded fjords, tracked tracks and photographed dangerous and endangered species. Most recently, Jonathan Abel spent a month and a half in a research station in the Amazon cloudforest successfully photographing and documenting three varieties of Poison Dart Frogs and the mating of rare, Glasswing Butterflies.

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MacArthur and the UFOs

by

Jonathan Abel

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Author has performed sixty-two different celebrity voices and twenty-two dialects for radio, television and live standup…winner of multiple Gold Emmy’s, CLIOs, Telly’s and the New York Film Festival International Gold

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MacArthur and the UFOs

Chapter Summary

Forward

The incredible West Point speech that led to the writing of this historic narrative.

01 The Phoenix Lights

A mile-wide triangle over the author’s house on his 50th birthday.

02 Uncle John in the Philippines

What his company of Flying Tigers faced in the cloudforest.

03 Landing on Luzon

The amazing and bloodless beach landing at Langayen Gulf.

04 First Blood

Getting a grip…new rules of survival in a hostile environment.

05 Sacred Smoke

The Arizona Apache shaman and the Brotherhood of Battle.

06 Hot Rocks

Reflections on Mt. Suribachi…bloodiest battle of the war…Iwo Jima.

07 New York City

A stand-up study in leadership…in comedy…in buddies bonding.

08 The Last Banzai Charge

The final use of the ancient tactic against Uncle John’s machine gun.

09 The Silver Cross

A matter of morality and visions of Armageddon incarnate.

10 We Never Used to Lock Our Doors

What just stirred the chickens…then closed his farmhouse door? Too scary.

11 Under MacArthur’s Eye

MacArthur speaks of war to an unconscious hero, the author’s Uncle John.

12 About Face

A proposition that changed directions for both the general and John.

13 Supreme Allied Commander in the South Pacific

Jimmy Doolittle’s incredible Tokyo raid…Mac’s reassignment to compassion.

14 The Bombs

The Enola Gay story…Japan in disarray…MacArthur saves Japanese lives.

15 Foo Fighters

UFOs buzz aircraft, sea and ground operations…an invasion?

16 White Hot

Crash retrieval on a Missouri farm…and a country preacher’s confession.

17 The Great Pearl Harbor Cover-Up

Money meets power and war becomes the third partner. FDR’s dark heart…

18 Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!

The secret sneak-attack double-cross that won the war.

19 Request for Declaration of War on Japan

Roosevelt’s speech…irony based on lies…a master orator uses radio in deception.

20 The Battle of Los Angeles

Twin brothers discuss the greatest sighting of all time. CBS news coverage.

21 The Crash at Dreamy Draw

Secrecy surrounds the retrievals in Phoenix…and keeping the public in the dark.

22 Back Engineering

Truman creates the deepest and most sweeping covert operation in history.

23 What Happened to Dad?

A visitation on the old homestead goes wrong for the alien intruders.

24 Patio Home

Was it an alien invasion or just an electrical phenomenon from overhead?

25 Alter Your Belief

Full circle…a third sentient dream…alien rescue and a challenge.

26 Geronimo and the Coyote Woman

The author’s great-grandmother faces Geronimo and becomes Coyote Woman.

27 Not a Man in Black

John wasn’t a spook…but they did start turning up…and a journal is found…

28 The Seven Thunders

Experiencing the atomic bomb face to face.

29 Dad on Board

Leaving Seattle for Operation Downfall - millions more would die.

30 The Great White Sands UFO Trap

Actual scheme to catch undeniable evidence of UFO flyovers at missile tests.

31 Nixon, Gleason and Cronkite

Cronkite tells his UFO story…Gleason’s incident was a tricky night with Nixon.

32 Birth of the Men in Black

Late night with the generals…cigars, Scotch and UFOs…a plan is hatched.

33 Team Phoenix

Mac’s Intergalactic Phenomenon Unit and investigation/retrieval files.

34 But If You Did Know

What went on in China that drew both generals and Team Phoenix?

35 Retrieval at Chongqing

Russky radio silence…a monstrous mother-ship crash…the alien lure.

36 It’s Nuclear – Not Nucular!

Alien assault on MacArthur…and the empire’s horrid, hungry plague.

37 Long, Delirious, Burning Blue

Phasers-on-Stun and John’s Old Trick rescue…

38 Command Decision

Broken-field running and the Foo Fighter Fleet.

39 Five Survive

Our greatest heroes still live…

Forward

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What terrible secrets did the old soldier know?

Why did MacArthur create the first Men in Black under his direct command?

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You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy. The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

General Douglas MacArthur -- West Point Graduation Address -- October 8, 1955

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A legendary general of the U.S. Army. A soldier who said, I heard the bugle before I could walk. I knew it was my calling to life. Born in a military camp to a father, also a general, who had also won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War…

Here was a man who had brought Japan to its knees. Between fighting world wars, MacArthur had been the youngest superintendent of West Point in history. He turned down the presidency – brought us into the Atomic Age – established America as the leading world power. And at the end of the war, he was the most popular man in the world. Here was this five-star general saying our real enemy is from other planets. I had to know why.

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And my uncle. The bravest man I ever met. Uncle John became MacArthur’s personal bodyguard for six years after we dropped the atomic bombs during the Japanese occupation. MacArthur and his people literally lived with the enemy, with his office in full view of the Japanese Imperial Palace. As I pull up uncounted hours of public domain war movies, I see my uncle…mostly saluting...in archival war photos and newsreels, tagging along behind the general, four steps to the right-rear, eyes scanning ahead, a bulky, black pistol holstered but ready.

But what warmed my heart and raised my eyebrows was black and white archival 16mm Signal Corps footage of the general first arriving ceremonially by long car at the old American Embassy, where he set up Japanese Occupation Headquarters. This was a major moment in world history as, after the surrender on the battleship Missouri, these particular Five Stars rated higher with the American public than a double room at the Ritz.

As the sleek, black, diplomatic vehicle and MacArthur’s motor retinue pulled to a pre-planned camera position to cadres of appropriate ten-huts, mass salutes and probably from somewhere off-camera, band music (the old, government footage is maddeningly silent), my uncle steps forward and opens the limousine door, followed by a smart three military steps back and a snappy salute. The general gets out of the car, throws my uncle a casual salute, and with a huge grin, gives him a beefy hug! Ha! It fit with everything I’d heard in family stories.

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He was good with a pistol, my uncle. Strong, steady, farm-boy hands and an ability to focus his concentration to breathe, aim, squeeze in what one could call an altered mental state. His M1911A1 Browning design, 45-caliber kicked like a mule and loved to bite, but was the standard service pistol of the American forces till replaced by Beretta’s in the late 80’s.

Uncle John was an astonishing hero in the retaking of the Philippines, and so was chosen to keep MacArthur safe during postwar Japanese food riots, radiation dangers, political upheaval, displaced and angry population and the slow intrigue of the famous war crimes prosecution of Emperor Hirohito. How did that cheerleader of atrocities escape hanging?

Promotional stories say Hirohito’s non-prosecution is explored in the major motion picture, Emperor, starring Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur. How coincidental that Jones has classically portrayed a charismatic chief investigator among the Men in Black and will now play the part of the very originator of that covert UFO organization, General Douglas MacArthur!

I’ve never put much stock in coincidence, have you?

1947…these were the glory days of Foo Fighters, Ghost Rockets, UFO sightings, crashes and retrievals…thousands of alien spacecraft were being seen and reported in the sky all over America and around the globe…sightings were in the papers every day…our own government wondered if an invasion from outer space was well under way.

These were also the days of Roswell. I’m a Baby-Boomer and was born just before Kenneth Arnold’s famous 9-craft Flying Saucer sighting over Mt. Rainier which barely preceded those most famous crashes and retrievals of flying vehicles and alien corpses near our top secret, most closely guarded, nuclear facilities in New Mexico. There were even three crashes reported here in Phoenix at the time. Someone on TV last night said our desert valley is a hotbed of UFO activity. Do tell…

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The Roswell-based 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force was the only outfit in the world with atomic bombs on board…and their Chief Intelligence Officer did announce that they had retrieved a flying disk that had crashed near the base in a thunderstorm.

That’s still good enough for me. But he was quickly ordered to retract the statement and make like he goofed and it was really a weather balloon. In a letter to be opened after his death, he testified that he personally saw a crashed craft in Building 84 (Hangar P-3). It was egg-shaped, with no portholes, windows or wings, just 12-15 feet long and not quite as wide. He said he also saw four-foot-tall dead bodies of aliens.

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1. The Phoenix Lights

There ARE things out there! There absolutely is!

Major Robert White (NASA Astronaut, from his radio transmission about a UFO encounter on an X-15 flight at 58 miles high – he later stated it was 30 or 40 feet from his plane, a dull grey color, and that he had no idea what it was, 1962

And I turned 50 the very night of the 2nd most famous sighting of all time, the Phoenix Lights. You might think I would have the common courtesy to have witnessed the mile-wide, silent, boomerang that drifted over my house at the very timeframe I left a private birthday dinner at the fish place and was walking to my truck. But no. I might have been kind enough to at least lie about it and cook up a good tale with adjectives nobody’s used yet on the news. I very possibly drove back home from dinner with my wife while the machine floated overhead, tracking south to where we had just left the restaurant.

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But we’ll have to settle for the word of over a hundred thousand Nevada and Arizona residents, who were out with binoculars scanning the clear, desert air that night looking for the Hale-Bopp comet, which was visible for a record-breaking 18 months and was dubbed the Great Comet of 1997, with a nucleus six times the size of Halley’s Comet. This magnificent perihelion spectacle had its closest approach to earth the night of March 22nd, so there were hundreds of thousands of Phoenix residents outside that exceptionally dark, moonless night of March 13th. Mr. Bopp, himself, had a comet-viewing party out on his driveway for the neighborhood kids here in town. He had co-discovered the comet looking through a friend’s telescope…he didn’t even own one, himself at the time. Hale was an amateur, too.

The local ten o’clock news was abuzz that night, and not about the comet. Only in researching this story have I compared locations of eyewitness accounts. People around 2 miles due north of me, in the old community of Sunnyslope, said it silently floated south (over my home), later turning west and hovering over 35th Avenue at Indian School Road before zipping downstate to the Old Pueblo of Tucson. Whole neighborhoods saw it…phones rang all over the state…slow, silent, seven large, inset-globe lights and a wingspan blotting out open newspaper portions of the sky overhead. Some say the wingspan was over a mile wide. One kid gives an account of seeing a slightly, bristling, wavy effect around the edges of the ship, Like the wavy lines coming off the road in the summer. One of his neighbors, living on this raised, north lip of our valley, said it came directly overhead so close, he was tempted to hit it with a rock.

Our former Arizona governor has come forward and appeared on a variety of flying saucer documentaries as an eyewitness, and is also pivotal on the UFO speaker circuit these days - and more power to him. He reports what seems to be an accurate depiction of what hordes of Valley of the Sun residents had seen and publicly sworn to have witnessed in 1997. This mass spectacle ensued over my house while I dined on most excellent fried oysters up the street.

I have uncovered a rich trove of absolutely irrefutable news interviews with excited, close-up Phoenix Lights eyewitnesses. As Spock often said to Kirk, Fascinating, Captain. (Raised eyebrow goes here)

As I decided how to tell you this real-life, epic, wartime UFO story, it rolled out like a movie in my mind. It came with cuts and zooms and slow dissolves played against a decidedly philharmonic score. Flash-backs, flash-forwards, dreams and diabolical dialogue. Pop some popcorn and don’t spare the butter.

Turn off your cell-phones, the show has begun and we are Up from Black on a historic account of the most amazing days of the Greatest Generation. The stuff nobody knew at the time. But we knew it a little around the edges, didn’t we? Only a select few knew it in the middle, though

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I found that to tell you the truth, the real truth behind the astonishing facts, I would have to tell it as a story. The truth is bolder and cleaner for the license I have taken after prodigious but fascinating research. The reader is assured I am connecting longstanding, documented facts from around those known edges to what may have happened in the middle.

Because I will not filibuster my margins with bibliography and factual references, I don’t suggest you rely on my every word. Truth with no proof is story is a phrase I woke up saying to myself one morning after beginning this account. I ran to write it in my journal.

That’s when I stopped amassing links and files and reference numbers for you and decided to just tell the story following established signposts…and let’s enjoy the most obvious countryside along the way. Isn’t everything we see, all that we perceive, of our own making at some level?

This has been the realm of storytellers through the ages. And old souls have told stories around campfires since before there were campfires. Story told with truth was all the proof offered.

So from family accounts, personal encounters, eyewitness testimony and official government documents, I am taking you there if you are willing. I could either re-verify old government files or offer a real glimpse of those wondrous and desperate wartime days in a way that makes sense to you.

May you take away sepia snapshots flickering with truth projected against old newsreels of battlefields and generals, airplanes, presidents, bombs, genuine heroes, pompous villains and flying saucers.

Let us also trace motivation and follow the money to a forensic certainty. With enough incentive, can a conspiracy that kills over 78 million people take place between two Americans in one business meeting? What do recent Freedom of Information Act files say about the incredible secrets behind WWII?

Davie Crockett’s motto was Then go ahead…and you know where that got him. But let me go ahead anyway, and tell you of different heroes in a different time. It immediately involves gunfire and graphic accounts of incredible, historic moments both good and bad. Some, forgive me, I feel are horrific…other passages may strike some as racially inappropriate in today’s culture…but these are also among the known signposts that directed those times. I have rummaged the archival images of those wartime days, and some I wish I could forget.

Our story begins deep in a cloud forest.

2. Uncle John in the Philippines

"When you…stop and think…that we’re all God’s children wherever we live in the world…well…just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings we held…if suddenly, there was a threat to this world from another species from another planet…outside in the universe…we’d forget about all the little, local differences that we have…between our countries. We would find out that we really are all human beings…here on this earth…together. President Ronald Reagan speaking to the United Nations about a private talk with the Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, 1988

The very heart of darkness is no moon in a brutal rain under a jungle canopy.

It is blackness laid edge-to-edge against white noise and fear. But at least it wasn’t cold. The rainforest was a tropical hell that steamed and rained and hated you in a million ways. The ants – they welcome you to their world with open jaws – if you stand still long enough they will find you and are as painful as taking a bullet. Some don’t sting but just quietly cut you up and carry you underground bit by bit. It doesn’t even hurt, they are so covert and surgical about it. Blood running down your leg may be the first thing you notice as they dissemble your calf. Stand still in the bush longer than 30 seconds and the ants will find you.

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The mosquitoes follow you in a stinging cloud through the undergrowth and inflict a bite right through your shirt that might not just itch like hell for three weeks…their malaria can kill you.

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There are five kinds of tarantula in the Philippines that can also end your life…these weren’t nice, Arizona Sonoran Desert tarantulas packing less than a bee sting. They were nimble, plentiful, aggressive and they could jump a country mile. Shake out your boots, soldier, before you even think about putting them back on. All spiders are poisonous but these guys ranged in size from the span of your hand to the size of a dinner plate, most with black, angry fangs they wore outside their mouths. They loved to crawl into warm, dry, blankets and even under the inside webbing of helmets and they readily cast irritant hairs off their bodies that could blind you once they got dug into your eye.

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And there were monstrous –Bug-Zilla’s that looked like a radioactive cockroach the size of your fourth-grade lunchbox. John was standing by a bush with his head not six inches from one of those things and his buddies yelled, Freeze! Which, of course, is the last thing you do when somebody yells it. John was spring-loaded and jumped suitably high to gain the laughing but genuine admiration of his colleagues. The killer cricket was brown and oily with foot-long feelers and it had tiny, gargoyle wings way too small to have ever lifted the monster off the ground…and, ye gods, what a hellish beastie if it had flying skills to boot!

The snakes loved dry gear and little ones could be found coiled into a tight little knot most anywhere…all they said on the troop ship was to stay away from snakes, because on the archipelago there were 30 poisonous varieties,

Reviews for MacArthur and the UFOs

[Cruiser1977 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A reasonable read with a mix of fact and fiction