George Filer のインタビュー記事＋和訳

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1978年1月18日、McGuire 空軍基地：滑走路で ET を射殺、多数の UFO が出現　（途中2） (2021-03-20)

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Ref: http://ufology.wikia.com/wiki/George_A._Filer_III

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DeepL(2024-07 model)

GF：私はジョージ・A・ファイラー3世です。米空軍に所属し、最終階級は少佐でした。様々な航空機やタンカー輸送機のナビゲーターを務めました。私はキャリアの大半を情報将校として過ごし、その間に将軍や議会議員に、我々の能力と我が軍に対する脅威について頻繁にブリーフィングを行った。

私はブリーフィング担当官で、朝の4時くらいに出勤していた。1978年1月18日の朝、私はマクガイアのメインゲートを車で通り抜け、滑走路に赤いライトが出ていることに気づいた。[私が勤務していた第21空軍司令部に着くまでは、あまり深く考えなかった。私は第21空軍の情報副長官で、大統領やさまざまなVIPをミシシッピ川からインドまで飛ばす軍用機の半分を管理していた。私たちは300機ほどの航空機を所有し、あらゆる種類の任務をこなしていました。

その朝、私が司令部に行くと、司令部の責任者が出迎えてくれた。彼は、とてもエキサイティングな夜だった、一晩中マクガイア上空にUFOがいて、そのうちの1機がフォート・ディクスに着陸したか、あるいは墜落したらしいと言った。そして私は、外国人、エイリアン？私は彼が外国人と言ったことに少し戸惑った。すると彼は、「いや、宇宙から来たエイリアンだ 」と言った。彼は、宇宙から来たエイリアンがフォート・ディクスで撃たれ、負傷して逃げ出し、マクガイアに向かったという事実をとても具体的に語った。マクガイアとフォート・ディックスの間にはフェンスがあり、このエイリアンはフェンスを登り、あるいは潜り抜け、マクガイアにたどり着き、滑走路の端で息絶えたらしい。保安警察がそこにいて、いわば死体を捕獲して守っていた。ライト・パターソンからC-141が遺体を引き取りに来ると言っていた。ライト・パターソンがC-141を持っているとは知らなかったからだ。C-141を所有しているのは軍用空輸司令部だけだと思っていたからだ。彼は、「今朝のアップアップ・ジェネラル・ブリーフィングで、みんなに何が起こったか説明してほしい 」と言った。そして、トム・サドラー将軍と司令部のみんなに、エイリアンを捕獲したことを伝えてほしいと言ったんだ！

彼らは 「そうだ、今朝ブリーフィングしてほしい 」と言った。それで、第38軍空輸航空団司令部に電話して、私が聞いた話と同じかどうか確認したんだ。彼らは、そうだ、同じ情報を聞いたことがあると言った。彼らは、これは実際に起こったことで、エイリアンが基地内で発見されたのだと言った。

その日の朝、私はブリーフィングを行わなかったと聞かされた。その日の朝、私はサドラー将軍のオフィスにその合言葉を届けた。すると、そこで何か騒ぎが起こっているのに気づいた。サドラー将軍は全員が完璧に見えることにこだわる人だったので、明らかに髭を剃る必要があり、軍服を着ている人たちを見たときは驚いた。

ブリーフィングの後、私は写真室に行った。ほとんど毎日、写真室に行った。ブリーフィングでは、4つのスクリーンがあり、きれいな写真などですべてを埋め尽くさなければならないからだ。そこで、彼らは何か特別な写真を撮ったことを示した。軍曹がそれを私に渡そうとしたとき、彼の曹長が「彼はそれを見ることはできない」と言ったので、私が知っていたのは、彼らが私に見せてはいけない写真を持っているということだけだった。しかし、通常、将軍のブリーファーである私は、彼らが持っている写真を見ることを止められたことはなかった。

非常に深刻な作戦だった。基地内には核兵器があり、ヨーロッパとの往復に使われていた。彼は、基本的に子供のような小さな体を見たが、頭部は普通より大きかったようだ、と言った。

ひとつ興味深いのは、この事件と関係のあった当時の基地の要人の多くが、翼長以下、すぐに異動させられたことだ。これは数週間のうちに行われた。実際、彼は1日か2日のうちにライト・パターソンに連れて行かれ、何人かの人から報告を受け、基本的にそれ以上話すなと言われた。

彼らはラジオでこの出来事を聞いていて、追跡中であること、エイリアンがフォート・ディックスで撃たれたことも聞いていた。そして、州警察と軍警察の両方が、UFOのようなものからやってきたこの人またはエイリアンを追っていた。私の理解では、それは円盤型の機体だった。

彼らは、UFOがその日の夕方からかなり長い間その地域にいて、レーダーに映っていて、管制塔のオペレーターがそれを見たと言っていました。管制塔のオペレーターも見たことがあると言っていた。

遺体を守っていたのは6、8人で、警備警察の司令官と、司令部にいた私たち数人が（この出来事を知っていた）。サドラー将軍はこの件について説明を受けたと思う。

原文

GF: My name is George A. Filer, III. I was in the U.S. Air Force and my final rank was major. I was a navigator in various aircraft and tanker transport aircraft. I was an intelligence officer most of my career, and in that period, frequently briefed generals and congressmen on our capabilities and the threat to our forces.

Well, I was a briefing officer, and I would come to work [at] 4:00 or so in the morning. On the morning of January 18, 1978, I drove through the main gate at McGuire, and I noticed that there were red lights out on the runway, and that probably something was going on out there. [I] didn’t think too much about it until I got to the 21st Air Force Command Post, [which] was where I worked. I was the Deputy Director of Intelligence for the 21st Air Force, which controlled half the military aircraft that flew the presidents and the various VIPs from the Mississippi River around to India. We had some 300 aircraft, and we were flying all kinds of missions ? almost anything that had to do with military airlift, we accomplished.

This particular morning, when I went into the command post, I was met by the head of the command post, and he said that it [had] been a very exciting evening ? that [we’d] had UFOs over McGuire all night, that one had apparently landed or, possibly, crashed at Fort Dix, and that when a military policeman came upon the alien, that he had pulled out a gun and shot him. And I said, foreigner, [that kind of] alien? I was a little bit confused by him saying alien. And he said, “No, an alien from outer space.” He was very specific about the fact that an alien from outer space had been shot at Fort Dix, and that he had run away after being wounded, and headed for McGuire. Now McGuire and Fort Dix just have a fence between them, and this alien apparently climbed the fence or went under it, and got to McGuire and died out on the end of the runway. The security police were out there and had captured the body, so to speak, and were guarding it. He said that a C-141 from Wright-Patterson was coming in to pick up the body. That made me stand up, because I didn’t realize that Wright Patterson had C-141s ? I thought Military Airlift Command was the only one who owned C-141 aircraft ? so I was like, my gosh, what’s going on here? He said, “We want you to brief us at the standup general briefing this morning and explain what happened to everybody.” And, I said you want me to tell General Tom Sadler and everybody in the command post that we captured an alien?!

They said, “Yes, we want you to brief [them] this morning.” Well, I did some checking around, and I called the 38th Military Airlift Wing Command Post to check with them to see if the story was the same as I was given. They said, yes, that they had heard the same information; they said that this actually did happen ? that an alien was found on the base.

Later that morning, I was told that they decided not to brief it in the standup briefing, so I didn’t actually brief it. Later that morning, I carried the code word down to General Sadler’s office, and I noticed some commotion going on in there, and that some of the security police people were there, looking rather disheveled. Since General Sadler was a stickler for everyone looking perfect, it was surprising to see these people that obviously needed shaves and were in fatigues, so then I knew that this might tie into the story that I had heard.

After the briefing I went to the photo lab; almost every day I went to the photo lab, because in these briefings, you have four screens and you have to keep them all filled up with pretty pictures, and so on. There, they indicated that they had taken pictures of something extraordinary, and I said, well, let me see them. The sergeant was handing them to me, when his master sergeant said, “He can’t see those,” so all I knew is that they had some pictures that I wasn’t allowed to see ? but normally, being the general’s briefer ? I had never been stopped from seeing any pictures that they had.

It was a very serious operation. There are nuclear assets on the base ? they used to carry nuclear weapons back and forth to Europe ? and I talked to one of the security policemen who [claimed] to have been out there. He indicated that he essentially saw a small body that could have been like a child, but it seemed to have a larger-than-normal head.

One interesting thing is that many of the key personnel on the base at that time who had a connection with this event, were quickly transferred ? from the wing commander on down ? indicating that if you knew something, they tended to split you up, so to speak, so you couldn’t talk about it. This was done within a matter of weeks. The security policeman told me that he was transferred within a few days ? as a matter of fact, he was taken to Wright Patterson within a day or two, debriefed by a number of people, and essentially told not to talk about it anymore.

I also heard that they listened to this going on, on the radios, and they heard that this chase was on; that the alien had been shot at Fort Dix. They were chasing it towards McGuire ? for whatever reason, it chose to run towards McGuire Air Force Base ? and that both the state police and the military police were chasing this person or alien that came from what looked like a UFO. As I understand it, it was a disc-shaped craft.

They indicated to me that the UFOs had been in the area for quite some time that evening, that they had [them] on radar, and that the tower operator had seen them. Some of the other aircraft in the area had apparently seen them as well.

There were six or eight people guarding the body; then there was the commander of the security police, and a few of us in the command post [who knew of this event]. I assume that General Sadler was briefed about it.