The Photographs Seen By William Cooper
And Artworks By Enrico Baj
In 1972, while he was working as a quartermaster with an intelligence briefing team for U.S.Admiral Bernard A.Clarey, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Milton William Cooper saw two top secret reports that documented alien involvement with the human race and this planet. According to the account he gave to Linda Moulton Howe 17 years later - recorded in 'An Alien Harvest' - these were: MAJORITY document and PROJECT GRUDGE/BLUE BOOK REPORT No.13.
Project Grudge/Blue Book Report No.13 included about 25 photographs of aliens and information about them.
Three photographs described by William Cooper to Linda Howe (see pages 202-212 'An Alien Harvest') were of an alien race he called the "big nose greys." Here are two quotes describing these aliens Mr.Cooper saw in the b/w photographs, in 1972:
"In profile, the nose stands out like the Rock of Gibraltar..."
"..But it's the nose that's very pronounced. You'd almost trip over the nose looking at the photographs..."
In one of the photos Mr.Cooper saw there were five big nose aliens standing against a wall.
In another, there were three standing against a wall (on January 20th 1989 he made a drawing based on this photo - see p.202 'An Alien Harvest.').
A third photograph showed a bunch of these big nose aliens "..in a group in a stark, concrete room. They looked almost bewildered, if you can use a human term. Or very upset."
Thirty years before William Cooper came out with this information, the Italian artist Enrico Baj was involved with creating what was termed 'Interplanetary Art.'
'This Personage Comes From Outer Space' (Baj, 1959)
'Beings From Other Planets Were Violating Our Women' (Baj, 1959)
Quite a few works by Enrico Baj depict figures with prominent/exaggerated noses. Some of the most remarkable of these in terms of comparison with the drawings/account of William Cooper regarding photographs of Big Nose Aliens, date from the year before Mr.Cooper has claimed he saw the photographs - that is 1971.
It is interesting to note that William Cooper said that the aliens' hands "..looked clumsy," as in two or more of the Enrico Baj pictures he also makes the hands of his figures look that way. And, can the titles of these works really just be coincidental to the report and photographs seen by William Cooper in the following year?
Decorated Personage (Colour etching, 1971)
War Council (Colour etching, 1971)
Secret Service (Colour etching & collage, 1971)
Military Secret (Colour etching, 1971)