Of recent times there have been some startling revelations by the federal government regarding certain events and the governmen's involvement in some very controversial matters regarding UFOs.
In light of these recent developments I think it is time for congress to get involved and hold some hearings on exactly what is going on...what does our govenment know about UFOs extra-terrestrials etc.
I do think at one time here was a valid reason to classify a lot of things as top secret for several reasons--especially to avoid possible panic of the citizens.
At this time I do believe the citzenry has been conditioned to accept such information as the federal governmen has without panic.
The Pentagon, according to information gleaned through materials secured through a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, has admitted to testing wreckage from UFO crashes.
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EXCERPT:
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The
Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting occurred on June 24, 1947, when private pilot
Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny
unidentified flying objects flying past
Mount Rainier at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/hr). This was the first post-
World War II sighting in the United States that garnered nationwide news coverage and is credited with being the first of the modern era of UFO sightings, including numerous reported sightings over the next two to three weeks. Arnold's description of the objects also led to the press quickly coining the terms
flying saucer and
flying disc as popular descriptive terms for UFOs.
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Less than two weeks later was the Roswell Incident, which had brief flash in the press/media of the day, and then quickly "covered up";
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The
Roswell incident refers to the July 1947 crash of a
United States Army Air Forces balloon at a
ranch near
Roswell, New Mexico, as well as the subsequent conspiracy theories that claim the crash was actually that of a flying saucer, and that the truth was
covered up by the US government.
[1][2] On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell. The Army quickly retracted the statement and instead said that the crashed object was merely a conventional
weather balloon.
[3]
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Never the less, sightings of "flying saucer" and "flying disc" occurred hundreds of times in the years to come and numerous official and usually via the USAF investigations ensued. Within a few years of Arnold's encounter, the term UFO was adopted.
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Project Blue Book was the code name for the systematic study of
unidentified flying objects by the
United States Air Force from March 1952 to its termination on December 17, 1969. The project, headquartered at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio, was initially directed by Captain
Edward J. Ruppelt and followed projects of a similar nature such as
Project Sign established in 1947, and
Project Grudge in 1948. Project Blue Book had two goals, namely, to determine if UFOs were a threat to
national security, and to
scientifically analyze UFO-related data.
Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed, and filed. As a result of the
Condon Report, which concluded that the study of UFOs was unlikely to yield major scientific discoveries, and a review of the report by the
National Academy of Sciences, Project Blue Book was terminated in 1969. The Air Force supplies the following summary of its investigations:
- No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security;
- There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and
- There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles.[1]
By the time Project Blue Book ended, it had collected 12,618 UFO reports, and concluded that most of them were misidentifications of natural
phenomena (
clouds,
stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft. According to the
National Reconnaissance Office a number of the reports could be explained by flights of the formerly secret reconnaissance planes
U-2 and
A-12.
[2] 701 reports were classified as unexplained, even after stringent analysis.
[3] The UFO reports were archived and are available under the
Freedom of Information Act, but names and other personal information of all witnesses have been
redacted.
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One of the more informed and insightful examinations, sans physical evidence/"wreckage" is in the book;
Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis Paperback – December 1, 1995
by
Paul R. Hill
Amazon product ASIN 1571740279~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In recent years, UFO has been replaced by many with the term UAP = Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.