Glossary

This is a list I compiled for the UFO Neophites and as an introduction to the subject. The definitions comes from various sources. Submit corrections and comments to my main email adress please.

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency: an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council.

NSA: National Security Agency. A United States agency within the US Department of Defense responsible for signals intelligence, encryption, cryptography, and related topics. NSA was established by a still classified executive order. Thus the full scope of its powers and responsibilities remains secret. NSA is involved in computer security policy and setting computer and communications security standards within the United States.

NRO: National Reconnaissance Office (or National Recon Organization). The task of NRO is to monitor and oversee international communications and the operation of the nations spy satellite system. NRO is a classified top secret intelligence agency with a budget of over $2 billion a year. It is also responsible for security for all alien or alien crafts connected projects.

FAA: Federal Aviation Administration; the agency of the US government regulating aviation, including skydiving.

DOD: The US department that is in charge of ensuring national security and regulating military moves.

SDI: A defense system begun by the Reagan administration and nicknamed “Star Wars” that combined computerized radar monitoring of incoming missiles and shooting them down with automated interceptor missiles. Controversial from the start about its feasibility, the program is being dismantled in the 1990s.

Project Paperclip: Originally called Operation Overcast, Operation Paperclip was the codename for the operation by the US intelligence services and military to extract scientists specialising in rocketry (e.g. V-1, V-2), chemical weapons (e.g. Zyklon-B),chemical reaction technology and medicine from Germany after the collapse of the Nazi government during World War II. These scientists and their families were secretly brought to the United States, without State Department review and approval.

Project Grudge: Short-lived project by the U.S. Air Force to investigate unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Grudge succeeded Project Sign in February, 1949, and was then followed by Project Blue Book. The project formally ended in December 1949, but actually continued on in a very minimal capacity until late 1951.

Project Sign: An official U.S. government study of unidentified flying objects undertaken by the United States Air Force in late 1947 and dissolved in late 1948. Sign officially came to claim that UFO’s were of extraterrestrial origin, most of the project’s personnel came to favor the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

Project Bluebook: Project Blue Book was one of a series of systematic studies of Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force. It was the second revival of such study, started in 1952, and was active up to January 1970, as it had been ordered for termination in December 1969.

UFO: Unidentified Flying Object. This UFO replaces “flying saucer” from 1952 at first in USAF documents, later in books and articles. Edward Ruppelt used “UFO” in Blue Book to cut short with jokes about flying saucers.

ETV: Extraterrestrial Vehicle. Craft controlled by extraterrestrial intelligence.

UAP: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

ARV: Alien Reproduction Vehicle. Vehicles manufactured in secret organisation that replicates recovered crashed extraterrestrial vehicles propulsion system using reverse-engineering.

Exopolitics: Exopolitics is the politics related to what should happen if intelligent extraterrestrial life is found and we are able to communicate with it. The people of the world and their governments will need to determine how to manage those interactions. The development of policy guidelines for dealing with extraterrestrial beings and territory has been considered by authors such as Michael Salla and Alfred Webre.

MJ-12: The name of the secret control group. President Eisenhower commissioned a secret society known as THE JASON SOCIETY (Jason Scholars) to sift through all the facts, evidence, technology, lies and deception and find the truth of the alien question. The society was made up of 32 of the most prominent men in the country in 1972 and the top 12 members were designated MJ-12. MJ-12 has total control over everything. They are designated by the codes J-1, J-2, etc. all the way through the members of the Jason Society.

NWO: The term New World Order refers to a belief among apocalyptic religious and various political groups, especially in the United States, that some powerful secret group has created a secret plan, known as the New World Order (NWO), to rule the world via a world government. The belief may stem – at least partly – from the phrase New World Order, which has been used in politics for much of the Twentieth Century.

MIC: The term military-industrial complex usually refers to the combination of the U.S. armed forces, arms industry and associated political and commercial interests, which grew rapidly in scale and influence in the wake of World War II, although it can also be used to describe any such relationship of industry and military. It is sometimes used to refer to the iron triangle which is argued to exist between weapons makers/military contractors, The Pentagon and the United States Congress.

More to come…