UFOs & Unit 731
This is interesting: this link at the official website of the ultra-secret National Security Agency will take you to a section of their site that deals with Freedom of Information Act requests.
As you’ll also note, the NSA has titled the section: “UFO Related Information (No Records Exist).”
Notably, it’s all listed alphabetically; and if you scroll down to the “U” section you’ll see that someone requested information from the NSA on Japan’s notorious Unit 731 - whose “work” formed the crux of my Body Snatchers in the Desert book.
How intriguing that the NSA should list the Unit 731 FOIA request in the “UFO Related Information” section.
Did the requester ask for any documentation that specifically linked Unit 731 with Roswell? And if so, was that the reason why the Unit 731 data was listed on that particular UFO-related web-page by the NSA?
Or, does the NSA have its own reasons, and knowledge, for linking UFOs and Unit 731 under one banner…?
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Dec 28 2007 
December 28th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Some vindication for Mr. Redfern?
December 28th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Ben
I’m not sure it’s vindication as such, but it would definitely be interesting to know what prompted the NSA to list the Unit 731 request in that section.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:49 am
I’m wondering if there are any other entries with consiprational associations that are listed under the ‘UFO’ banner/classification. And if not, are there any other ‘conspirational’ type categories under which this could be listed, to designate some of its features and status in that realm? In other words, I’m wondering if it is listed under UFO as a default to designate it in reference to its place in popular culture (x-files alien hybrid story, etc.)
It may not necessarily be an admission of true alien/UFO affiliation, such as with the NASA designation of the face on mars originally being tagged ‘face.’ Rather, there is an undeniable association, so it may (perhaps carelessly) get tagged.
Also, could it likewise be categorized in more than one place?
December 29th, 2007 at 8:55 am
And ‘conspirational’ in this case may be the wrong word–obviously, the entire matter of these events were all about true conspiracy.
What I meant by that word is that these events have taken on extraneous ideas of speculation and investigation that involve other motivations than are commonly portrayed as historical truth.
December 29th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
“How intriguing that the NSA should list the Unit 731 FOIA request in the ‘UFO Related Information’ section”
There is nothing intriguing about it. Apparently someone who did not know any better, thought that the NSA would have information on something where clearly “no records exist”. The NSA should have titled that search page, “UFO Related Information (silly search terms submitted by the public that returned no records because there are no records)”, that way there would be no misunderstandings. Obviously the listing is of SEARCH TERMS used by an uninformed PUBLIC, not what the NSA considers credible or legitimate.
December 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
After looking at the link, nick’s question again, and sage’s response–I think I understand the question better; although this page is simply a listing of search terms in which no records exist, exactly how (at what stage–were they mixed in with these search terms an x amount of times, is there something innately UFO-y about them, etc.) did these terms become associated with UFOs?
December 31st, 2007 at 12:28 pm
As I remember from my reading of BODY SNATCHERS, Nick himself points out that
the notion of some causul link between
731 and the Roswell crash has been around in some form since the early ‘ninties, and that it arose in UFO-logical circles. So its not that far-fetched for someone at the NSA to
have placed it thus because thats where
they expected the inquiries to originate…
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Craig
To the best of my knowledge, the first time that something was published in a book which suggested a link between Roswell and human experimentation using Japanese people in 47, was in 1991 in the pages of Leonard Stringfield’s “Inner Sanctum” book on crashed UFO stories.
In the previous year, John Keel had discussed in “Fate” mag the idea of a Japanese angle to the Roswell debris.
Keel also confirmed in a later “Fate” article that he had info on file from people who had contacted him concerning rumors of manned-versions of the Japanese “Fugo Balloons”.
Then in 1997, “Popular Mechanics” published a story that linked Japanese wartime research with Roswell.
I have an article in the first issue of Stuart Miller’s forthcoming “Alien Worlds” magazine that updates on what I’ve uncovered since publication of “Body-Snatchers,” including officially declassified files on 1940s events at Lincoln County, NM (where Brazel found the wreckage) that refer to Japanese balloon flights and biowarfare, and the death of a young boy in the area by what was suspected of being biowar that was Japanese in origin.
The issue in question is published in early February.
These are official files declassified via the FOIA that I suspect will create a lot of controversy.
January 6th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Wow Nick — great follow-up for your book. I burned a lot of online calories defending your research over at unexplained-mysteries.com but then I got banned for crossing that “nuts and bolts” line straying into the tantric technology vein which is, of course, oh so Japanese.