Who was Joseph A. Cybulski

July 21, 1983.

I am a retired Air force Lt. Col., having served in the military for 21 years. Following my
retirement at that time, 1961, I began working for the State Department and was assigned
to various embassies around the world - Madrid, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Lima.

Retired from the service in 1973, and returned to the States. We purchased a
condominium in Coral Springs, and that's where we live. We have two children - a son,
who lives in Coral Gables, and a daughter, who is a captain in the Air Force, stationed in
Anchorage, Alaska. My wife was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was also in
the military and that's where we met in 1944.

Following a lengthy Russian language course in 1953, I was assigned to an intelligence
squadron in Colorado Spring, Colorado. In spite of the fact that I was 40 years old, I was
sent to parachute school.

Because the squadron had russian language and parachute capabilities, the Air Force
decided to transfer the UFO investigation responsibilities from Wright-Patterson Air Field
in Ohio, to our organization in Colorado Springs. The reason was very simple and made
sense. Our basic mission at that time was created on the premise that if we were attacked
by Soviet bombers, some of the bombers would land due to mechanical problems or
possibly shot down. There would be a possibility of survivors. As soon as we would
receive information of such a downed enemy aircraft, our squadron would immediately
send a 3 man team to the area of the crash. The 3 men would parachute as close as
possible. One of the men would be an aircraft mechanic, one would be a radio specialist,
and one the language specialist. The mission was to interrogate any survivors, and if there
were no survivors, examine written information about the Soviet mission, and any
information about the flight and targets, assuming of course that such survivors, i.e. "what
was your target" "How many aircraft in the mission" "would there be others attacks", etc.
etc. This information would be radioed to the aircraft that dropped our parachutists, and
the radio operator on our plane would radio the info to Washington immediately.
Depending on the nature of the info, the Pentagon would either send more questions, or
would send out other interrogators.

Please, forgive me for taking up so much of your time, but I believe it was necessary to lay
the groundwork that explains how I and the Air Force became directly involved in the
investigation of UFOs.

Back to 1953. The Air Force decided that Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who supervised the
investigations, out of his office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, was not capable of
investigating many of the sightings because of the time and distance factors. For example;
About the time he would arrive in California to investigate a reported UFO, another would
be reported in Florida, or Maine, or Alaska.
Obviously, it was an impossibility to investigate many of these sightings. Someone in the
Pentagon got the bright idea to transfer the investigations to our squadron in Colorado
Springs. First, because we had the language ability; second, because we had the parachute
capability, and third, because we had 21 teams located throughout the States, all near
military industries, such as Boeing aircraft plant in Seattle, Lockheed in California,
Detroit, where tanks and other military equipment was manufactured. The Pentagon
assumed that any of all of these industrial areas would be soviet targets in the event of a
war.
Whoever came up with the idea, decided that our 21 units, located throughout the States,
would be in a far better situation to investigate UFOs than Dr. Hynek with his small staff
and stationed in Dayton, Ohio, thousands of miles from the West Coast, and substantial
distances from other areas in the South and up and down the East Coast.

I was send to interview Dr. Hynek, and after a period of weeks, some of the files were
transferred to Colorado Springs, where we studied past investigations but most of the files
were packed and shipped to the Pentagon, where they remain to this day. Dr. Hynek of
course knew then, and remembers today the contents and findings of many reports he
compiled during his assignment to Project Blue Book, the name given to his
investigations.

Knowing what was in these reports, and particularly those that had come substances to the
reality of UFO identifications, Dr. Hynek was for years attempted to obtain copies of
those significant reports, but was always told the reports had been classified SECRET, and
are not available to the public.
Dr. Hynek persisted, especially under the ruling that permitted anyone to request such
information, but to no avail. Finally, the Pentagon ruled the reports would remain
classified SECRET forever, and for the present at least, issued a press release that future
requests for those reports or other information on UFOs would not even be considered.
Why the secrecy? There were reports the Pentagon would not release the information
requested by Dr. Hynek, because the public wasn't ready, that it did not want to alarm the
public, etc.

Initially, those of us who investigated hundred of UFOs, including myself and Dr. Hynek,
came to the conclusion that there was nothing to these reports. But as the years and
investigations rolled on, we became more convinced that there most certainly are grounds
for accepting the reality that UFOs are for real. I am convinced some of the information
Dr. Hynek forwarded to the Air Force people in the Pentagon, would support the
contention that there is a definite possibility of terrestrial life on other planets, and that
people from those planets probe our planet even as we do with our interplanetary space
vehicles.

It would be most interesting and helpful to continued investigation if the President and / or
the Pentagon released the secret reports - if not to the general public, at least to security
cleared investigators, such as Dr. Hynek.

I believe that with the information contained in this letter, we may be able to do the
interview via telephone, but of course if I know I'll be in your area on Saturday the 30th, I
would join you at the station. I should know definitely by next wednesday.

Sincerely,
Joseph. A. (CY) Cybulski