The late Robert O. Dean spent twenty-seven years of active duty in the US Army, where he retired as Command Sergeant Major. He also served in Intelligence Field Operations and was stationed at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the military arm of NATO, from 1963 to 1967. He spoke about his time in FEMA and a program for "continuity of government" that would provide political leadership in the event of a catastrophe like a nuclear exchange. His other duties included working in the NATO war room where "World War III was only minutes away," and that some of the close calls were due to UFO incursions.
Dean claimed that the US had recovered several crashed alien ships and "healthy, walking-about aliens from somewhere else" because he had seen photos and documents about these events. Dean said he read the autopsy reports of a UFO crash in Germany in 1964, and that he was cleared to see this evidence when he was upgraded to "cosmic level access" in NATO. Dean asserted that the Russians and Americans had been prevented from going to war by their knowledge of an extraterrestrial presence.
He suggested that the revelation of this presence would be "the biggest thing in history," as well as the idea that humans had been "seeded" on this planet by an alien civilization. He discussed "Stargte International," his worldwide organization spreading information about UFOs and evidence for a cover-up of the subject by the US government, and how "we are members of an infinite community of intelligent life in the universe." Halfway through the program, Dean answered calls and messages from listeners.