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SUBJECT: OMNI MAGAZINE: GOVT KEEPS UFO DOCS SECRET FILE: UFO1888
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OMNI ARTICLE
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Government agencies still have hundreds of UFO documents that they refuse
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to release to UFO researchers. The National Security Agency (NSA) admits to
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withholding more than 100 UFO-related documents, the CIA refuses to release
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about 50, and the DIA says it's withholding six. This is black-and-white
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proof of a cover-up, says Greenwood. "In a literal sense, information is
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being covered up in being withheld."
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The most tantalizing of all the withheld UFO documents are those belonging
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to the NSA, the supersecret agency whose primary job is eavesdropping on
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military communications. No one really knows what UFO information its
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documents contain, but Friedman has an idea what one may be about. Someone
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working for the agency told Friedman that in March 1967 a listening post
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picked up communications between Cuban radar installations and two MiG-21
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jets sent to intercept a mysterious, bright metallic sphere in Cuban
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airspace. When the MiG pilots failed to make contact with the object, they
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were instructed to shoot it down. "Suddenly there was this shrieking from
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the pilot in the second plane," says Friedman. "The first plane had
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disintegrated." Friedman's contact says that NSA headquarters was sent a
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report on the incident.
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UFO researchers took the NSA to court for its UFO documents in 1980, but
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federal district court judge Gerhard Gesell, the same judge who presided over
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the Oliver North case, ruled in the NSA's favor. The agency refuses to
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release any of its UFO-related documents because to do so would reveal
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sources and methods, and that would be a violation of national security. But
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Friedman believes that there is something about the phenomenon itself that
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the agency regards as a threat to national security. These objects are
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violating our airspace, he points out, and they show the powerless response
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of our military systems to such intrusions. Friedman has a name for all
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this. He calls it the cosmic Watergate.
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Philip J. Klass, an aerospace journalist and the field's foremost skeptic,
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says there is no such thing. He points out that many of the communications
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intercepted by the NSA come from potentially hostile nations and many of them
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are coded. So the agency's rationale for not making these documents public
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is actually quite simple. "They might reveal the location of certain
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listening posts," he explains, "and even more important, they would reveal
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that we have cracked and were able to decipher certain codes."
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So if the question is whether the withheld documents contain any answers to
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the UFO mystery, the answer is, Probably not. "Long ago a lot of us used to
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think that the government was covering up a knowledge of extraterrestrials
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and their craft," says Greenwood, who six years ago coauthored 'Clear Intent:
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The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience'. "But we've had a change of
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attitude. We just don't see the government as having any answers. If they
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knew what UFOs were all about, I think history would have been a little
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different than what we now see."
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This argument gains power, oddly enough, from the Roswell incident itself.
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"If it was a UFO that crashed in Roswell," says Jacobs, "a whole series of
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events would have been set in motion in the government. There would be major
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studies of it. Hundreds of scientists would have been involved with it over
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the past forty years. The government would be acting very differently about
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UFOs than they do now. All of UFO history makes sense if there was not a
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crash, and none of UFO history makes sense if there was a crash." Jacobs
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adds, "It's still possible that one could have crashed and there's an
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entirely different scenario at work."
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If the craft at Roswell had been an E.T. craft, insists Klass, then the
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United States would have wanted to know just how many of these craft were
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passing overhead. At the very least, he says, we would have established a
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space-surveillance system similar to the one that was set up three years
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after the launch of Sputnik. Klass cannot imagine the government doing
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nothing and simply hoping the aliens are friendly.
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Never in his 24 years of UFO investigation has Klass encountered a
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government cover-up of significant information. If you think there's a
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cover-up, he says, call your local air base and report that a saucer has just
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landed in your backyard and that strange-looking creatures are getting out of
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it. If the government really were trying to keep things under wraps, he
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says, the voice on the other end would ask for your address and a SWAT team
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would be there within minutes. Instead, what will happen, says Klass, is
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that the voice on the other end will simply thank you for calling and suggest
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that you report your sighting to the local police department or to one of the
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national UFO groups.
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That's too simplistic, says Bryant. If they really have hard evidence
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about aliens and flying saucers, what would they care about what's in your
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backyard? For the past several years Bryant, who happens to be a Pentagon
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employee, has been placing ads in military newspapers encouraging anyone with
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UFO information to come forth and blow the whistle on the government
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cover-up. So far no one has come forward to reveal what he calls the
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"ultimate secret" that will motivate the general public, the press, and
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Congress to resolve the issue. He's not surprised. "So few people in the
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government really know about UFOs," he says. "And those who don't know are
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covering up because it's just the way of doing things. It's the bureaucratic
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way. When in doubt, don't let it out. Don't even let out that you don't
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know."
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