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From: "Joe Gillaspie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MICHAEL SPITZER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Conspiranoia!] Classified Secrets Of the Sky.
FYI:
"Classified Secrets Of the Sky"
From: The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
By Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen.
What crashed in Roswell, New Mexico?
Something large and silvery wobbled through the air and ploughed into the
desert dirt with a tremendous ka-boom. That much, generally speaking, goes
without dispute. The date was July 2, 1947.
It is also a fact-on-record that the government took an immediate interest
in . . . well, whatever it was. The air force dispatched a team to scoop up
the wreckage - one metallic chunk was about four feet long - and flew some
back to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, for scrutiny.
General Roger Ramey, the officer in charge, ordered his men not to talk to
the press. But before Ramey could clamp a lid on the affair, the base's
public information officer issued a press release announcing government
acquisition of a "flying disc." An Albuquerque radio station picked up a
leak of the story. As it broadcast a report, a wire came through from the
FBI.
"Attention Albuquerque: cease transmission. Repeat. Cease transmission.
National security item. Do not transmit. Stand by..."
A day later, the air force held a press conference and announced that what
crashed at Roswell was a balloon.
The UFO saga actually began a few days earlier when businessman and
avocational aviator Kenneth Arnold chased a squadron of nine "bobbing and
weaving" objects as he flew in his private plane. He described the objects
as "saucer shaped." Some pithy wag, at an AP bureau, dropped the phrase
"flying saucers" into a wire dispatch and, forever, into the English
language. The air force said that Arnold had pursued "a mirage."
There have been innumerable UFO reports though out known (and not so known)
history. Some have been captured on film, still and moving (the UFOs and
the film). They pop up all over the world, even in outer space. NASA
astronauts have reported seeing weird objects, and UFO scribe Sean Morton,
co-author of The Millennium Factor, says that NASA photos of the so-called
"dark side" of the moon remain, for some reason, classified.
The myth that UFOs only reveal themselves to corn huskers and residents of
trailer parks is easily dispelled. A quick scan of UFO history books shows
the air corps of one nation or another pursuing unidentifiable "blips" on a
regular basis.
On November 23, 1953, an F-89 interceptor was chasing a UFO over Lake
Superior when, according to radar operators, the two blips on the screen
seemed to merge into one which then blinked off the screen. The jet and its
pilot, Lieutenant Felix Moncla, were gone without a trace. For some reason,
the air force file on the vanishing contains just two pages. One of them is
a page from a book debunking UFO theories.
Nevertheless, Roswell (which among the UFO-intrigued has achieved one-word
status) remains the most important landmark in the UFO coverup because,
apparently, it has actually been covered up. There is no mention of the
crash in the air force's Project Blue Book files. Blue Book recorded all
[?] UFO reports that crossed an air force desk along with their various
"scientific" explanations. Generally considered the Warren Report of the
UFO phenomenon - a coverup posing as an investigation - Blue Book gives
Roswell increased prominence by its omission.
Some might write the whole incident off as unlikely, noting that a
spacecraft capable of navigating the firmament and, engineered to endure
the rigors of interstellar travel is unlikely to crash like so many
Cessnas. But then there is Majestic 12 (MJ-12). Among many UFOlogists,
there is strong belief in the existence of MJ-12.
A committee of twelve eminent military, intelligence, and academic
personages, the group was allegedly chartered to manage and conceal the
most important event in world history - contact with aliens. Albeit dead
ones.
According to the MJ-12 "eyes only" briefing paper prepared for Dwight
Eisenhower when he was still president-elect, four "Extraterrestrial
biological entities," or EBEs, turned up two miles from the crash site.
According to some accounts, two of the aliens were still alive at the time
and one put up a struggle. The EBE carcasses are now allegedly kept on ice
in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
The problem with the Majestic 12 document - the only hard evidence that
MJ-12 ever took a meeting - is that it may well be a hoax. No one in a
position to do so has ever authenticated it.
There is only one mention of MJ-12 in any other official paper, a November
1980 air force analysis of a UFO film that outlines in minute detail how
the government is "still interested" in UFO sightings, which it
investigates through "covert cover."
That document, like the original MJ-12 paper, somehow seems too good to be
true - the smoking gun that every good conspiracy theory needs and lacks.
It would be as if some researcher combing through CIA/JFK files suddenly
produced a memo reading, "Assassination of president scheduled for
11/22/63, Dallas. After consultation with FBI, director recommends
triangulation of crossfire be utilized." It would kind of make you wonder.
Real or not, MJ-12 has spawned no shortage of legends and speculation,
primarily that it still exists and is still administering the UFO coverup,
coping with each alien abduction and saucer crash as it comes up.
"Suicided" journalist Danny Casolaro included MJ-12 as a tentacle in his
postulated secret government "Octopus." In some versions of the tale, MJ-12
is in charge of cooperation and negotiation with the alien race among us.
Or should that be "races"? John Lear, a self-described former intelligence
agent who is now one of the leading voices on the UFO circuit, charges that
the government is aware of a veritable Rainbow Coalition of EBEs.
The existence of the Robertson Panel, unlike that of MJ-12, is not dubious.
Convened by the Central Intelligence Agency in January 1953, this board of
scientists issued a report that was not fully declassified until 1975.
Chaired by one Dr. H. P. Robertson, the panel met secretly in the Pentagon
for five days. They looked at the UFO cases that appeared to be the most
credible - and dismissed every single one of them.
Merely denying the existence of unexplainable or extraterrestrial UFOs, as
the Roberston panel did, hardly constitutes a coverup, except under the
most circular logic. The panel, however, moved considerably beyond
debunking. It recommended that the government take pains to squelch UFO
reports, to the point of promulgating an anti-UFO "education" campaign.
"This education could be accomplished by mass media such as television,
motion pictures, popular articles," the CIA panel's report said. It went on
to suggest using "psychologists familiar with mass psychology" to help
assemble the program and even wondered if Walt Disney Studios might be
interested in producing anti-UFO cartoons.
The report went on to recommend that UFO enthusiast groups should be placed
under surveillance due to "the possible use of such groups for subversive
purposes."*
* The Aviary
Do the Robertson Panel's rather conspiratorial musings prove that the
government really has something to hide? Perhaps so. One thing, they do
give a depressing clue as to how institutions respond to ideas that they
deem, in the words of the panel report, "a threat to the orderly
functioning of the protective organs of the body politic."
MAJOR SOURCES:
Andrews, George C. Extra-Terrestrial Friends and Foes. Lilburn, GA:
IllumiNet Press, 1993.
Good, Timothy. Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up. New York:
Quill William Morrow, 1988.
Good, Timothy. Alien Contact: Top Secret UFO Files Revealed. New York:
William Morrow, 1993.
Randle, Capt. Kevin D. The UFO Casebook. New -York: Warner Books, 1989.
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