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Extra Terrestrial Biological Entity

EBE is an abbreviation for the term Extra Terrestrial Biological Entity.

In the 1940's several alien spacecraft were allegedly recovered by the U.S. and other countries, along with a few dead aliens and one live one. These beings were referred to as EBEs (a name suggested by Dr. Vannevar Bush).

The term was first made reference to in 1986 when Jenny Randles interviewed a military soldier named "Robert" about some stolen Top Secret US Military papers. The term was first made public in 1987 with the release of the Majestic 12 documents by Timothy Good (a)(b):

"Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk's team has suggested the term "Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities" (EBEs), be adopted as the standard term of reference for these creatures until such time as a more definitive designation can be agreed upon."  (b)

In a letter to researcher William Steinman, Dr. Robert I. Sarbacher who was with the Washington Institute of Technology, confirms that some of the scientists involved in the study of recovered flying discs from Roswell were Dr. Vannever Bush, John von Neumann, and Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. (c) Steinman also discovered that one of the scientists working on saucer technology from the early days was Dr. Eric Henry Wang who became Director of the Department of Special Studies, within the Structures Division, of the old Wright Air Development Center, near Dayton, Ohio. 

This term has been often used in the TV series X-files.

References

(a) - Above Top Secret (1987) by Timothy Good.

(b) - Cosmic Crashes (1999) by Nick Redfern.
 
(c) - UFO Crash at Aztec (1986) by William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens.

See Also

Majestic 12

Rendlesham Forest Incident

List of major UFO movies/tv shows

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