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SUBJECT: SHOULD THE PUBLIC KNOW ALL ABOUT UFOs ? FILE: UFO3119
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(The following article was published in Baltimore, Maryland in the March
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2nd, 1993 Baltimore Sun newspaper:)
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Should the government tell the public all it knows about UFOs?
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by Tom Keyser, Staff writer
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The concept of life elsewhere in the universe-- visitors from space, UFOs,
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extraterrestrials, aliens, tantalizes earthlings. Yet in the United States no
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top government official has ever said publicly that such activity exists.
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"What's out there" consumes many researchers with sound academic and
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professional credendials. Books and hundreds of papers on the subject have
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been written, films have been made, and researchers meet occasionally to
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discuss their opinions.
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One such meeting last month in Silver Spring dealt with the question of
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U.S. government disclosure. Assuming that the government has evidence of UFOs
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four specialists gave their answers forandagainst official government
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acknowledgement of the reality of unidentified flying objects.
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Favoring government disclosurewere Bruce Maccabee, a civilian research
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physicist for the Navy from Sabillasville who has long been a leader in UFO
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research groups, and Elaine Douglass, director of the Washington Chapter of
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the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
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Tell the public all
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Dr.Maccabee: a large portion of human society either knows or suspects
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that at least some of the things reported as UFOs are in fact alien craft.
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The increased interest is beginning to have an impact on society in the
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form of public speculation, both trivial and serious, about the activities
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and the intent of the aliens.
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What is the true characteristization of the aliens?
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In the absence of valid information, people speculate wildly. But the
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government could end the wild speculation by releasing valid information--
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even if it released only part of the available information.
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Anyone who knows about the reality of identified alien craft (IACs) is
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likely to agree with President Clinton's favorite song, which says, "I can't
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stop thinking about tomorrow".
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When will the IAC problem bubble up to the surface?
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Will The people be ready?
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Will the shock stop civilization in its tracks?
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Is it better to wait for something to happen that nobody has thought about
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that drops on us like a load of bricks fropm above, or is it better to bite
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the bullet now-- and make some kind of announcement that causes people to
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start thinking about what's going on so that we'll be prepared?
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Ms.Douglass: The very worst outcome would be if the alien disclosed
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itself and the government had stone-walled to the end.
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So I ask our government: Do you want your own plan of disclosure, or the
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aliens' plan? We get up one morning and turn on the TV and there's an alien
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face and he says: People on Earth, be calm.
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Dr.Maccabee: The UFO problem has been nipping around the heels of our
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civilization for the last 45 years or so. For most people it has been at the
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bottom of the list of things to think about, ranking below such all-pressing
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problems as "Will Di really get a divorce?".
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The government should come clean. This could legitimize the subject for
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study by leading thinkers of the human race. The top quantum mechanics, or the
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relativistic theorists, or the top world philosophers don't discuss the
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subject. Why? Well [the subject's left to] kooks and nuts like those guys
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at a hotel in Silver Spring on Saturday Feb 6.
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Keep The Lid On
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Not all those interested in UFOs favor government disclosure of what's
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known "officially". Their arguments were made at the Silver Spring conference
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by Robert Durant, a commercial airline pilot and ex-Navy helicopter pilot
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from Pennington, N.J., and Michael Levintow, a computer analyst from
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Washington. Both are UFO researchers.
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Mr.Durant: We have collected a great mass of UFO sightings, photographs,
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movies, videos, radar trackings, physical traces in recent decades. The
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evidence is overwhelming.
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But look at this thing from the eyes of the president of the United
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States and his national security advisors. If the government releases its
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files-- and the logical conclusion of those files-- the public will demand to
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know not just the physics of the matter, but who the aliens are, where they
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come from and why they are here.
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The result would be chaos. The economic life of the country would be
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paralyzed. there would be only one topic of discussion: The aliens.
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Mr.Levintow: In addition to the risk of generating social chaos, or even
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public panic, a political firestorm wouyld most certainly build for the
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government to expel the aliens. This would put the U.S. on a collision course
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with space aliens, who appear to be vastly technologically superior to humans.
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Why risk provoking such a confrontation, since nothing whatsoever is
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gained by politicizing the UFO-extraterrestrial matter, quite possibly the
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biggest secret of all time?
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Mr.Durant: You have had the luxury of slowly, over a period of many years,
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absorbing the awesome secret that UFOs are real. But you want to hit the public
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right between the eyes with this psychological bomb? We had the radio broad-
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cast of "The War of the Worlds" in 1939 that caused a panic. Is this a
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precedent we ought to pay attention to or not?
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Mr. Durant: If we look historically at the UFO reports, they've mainly
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been hit-and-run affairs.
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Beginning in the 1980s, we've seen a shift to the long-duration, low-level,
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multiple-witness sighting. The great risk is that we're going to have a
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landing in a shopping mall someplace.
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Mr.Levintow: If the government makes an official statement, will that
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legitimize it or simply lead to more controversy as to whether the government
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is telling the truth, or whether it is simply more cover-ups and deceptions
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on their part?
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It may be impossible to legitimize the subject of UFOs and extra-ter
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restrials, because it is such a radical departure from traditional modes of
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thought that have prevailed for the last 2,000 years.
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How can you legitimize as subject that is so latent with fear and anxiety
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on the part of virtually every individual on this planet-- the prospect of
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meeting a superior or more powerful intelligence that somehow came into
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existence elsewhere in this universe?
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The alien agenda is basically unknown to humans. From a cosmic standpoint,
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they're clearly a superior force, and they have powers far in advance of
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anything humans can muster at this point.
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We really aren't in a position to do anything about it, because we don't
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have the ability to control the situation. The aliens have control of the
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agenda. It is their program. They proceed with it.
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Those who are seriously interested in the subject can research until
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their heart's content and learn all sorts of interesting things about UFOs
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and ETs.
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