The quote you are probably looking for is based on a presentation Ben Rich gave at Wright Patterson airbase and UCLA in 1993. The text fragment below is part of an interview conducted by Linda Moulton-Howe.

“Ben Rich passed away in 1995 and before he passed away, he dropped a number of bombshells. This took place at Wright-Patterson AFB back in 1993. He gave a slide presentation there and also at the UCLA School of Engineering Alumni speech – he gave on March 23, 1993. At the very end of his presentation, in both of these venues, he completed his slides with the following quote: `The U. S. Air Force has just given us a contract to take E. T. back home.'

He also mentioned, "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… …anything you can imagine we already know how to do."

And he also mentioned at the UCLA speech, `It is time to end all secrecy on this as it no longer poses a national security threat and to make the technology available for use in the private sector.' That's exactly what we're talking about here.

He was telling us about a whole level of aircraft, of spacecraft, of advanced propulsion systems that are so far advanced. He even mentioned technologies that are 50 years beyond even what we could possibly dream of. Now, when you hear that coming from the Director of the Skunk Works, I think it is important to really take that to heart. This gentleman knew something and he was trying to tell us something. And I think this is the space program that none of us have a clue about in the civilian sector. This is what Ben Rich was trying to tell us about.”

It was Ben Rich’s opinion that the public should not be told about UFOs and

extraterrestrials. He believed they could not handle the truth — ever. Only in

the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the “international

corporate board of directors” dealing with the “Subject” could represent a

bigger problem to citizens’ personal freedoms under the United States

Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.”