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SUBJECT: THE SECRET WEAPON THEORY FILE: UFO2766
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From UFOs and the Limits of Science by Ronald D. Story c. 1981
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Reproduced for educational purposes only.
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The Secret Weapon Theory
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This theory, which was more popular in the 1950s, refers to advanced
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technological flying devices constructed by the U.S. government or some
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foreign power. The proposition has some very serious problems. First,
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UFOs were reported soon after World War II, when military jet aircraft
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were barely operational. Had the U.S. had operational "saucers" capable
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of the performance described, it would not have expended the hundreds
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of billions of dollars that it has, since that time, in the development
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of alternate and less efficient military weapons systems.
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Secondly, even if such craft had been experimentally tested or even
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operationally deployed, they would not have been permitted to approach
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civilian airports, urban centers, and all the everyday places where
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UFOs are reported. Also, they would not have been deployed to the
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dozens of countries where UFOs are reported. On the other hand, such
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craft would very probably have been revealed to the world as a major
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technological breakthrough and as a warning to all potential
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adversaries. The political advantages of the latter would have been
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enormous.
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A third problem would be the question of security. The development and
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operation of such craft would have involved many thousands of persons
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over a long period of time, and it is almost inconceivable that the
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secret would not have eventually surfaced. These same arguments can, of
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ocurse, be applied to a Soviet secret weapon, or one from any other
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country. A British/Canadian Secret Weapon Theory, for example, was once
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in vogue, and one organization has been promoting a Nazi Secret Weapon
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Theory, interwoven with Adolf Hitler's possible survival and escape
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from Berlin. The organization has published a book supporting this
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claim and also makes available other Nazi-oriented books, posters,
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bumper stickers, and tapes (such as "Beautiful Nazi Songs and Marches,"
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"Songs of the Brownshirts," "Dr. Goebbels and the Third Reich," and
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"Adolf hitler Speaks to the Reichstag"). As with all other "secret
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weapon" theories, it is difficult to imagine how such craft could have
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been operated for more than thirty years without political utilization
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or without the truth emerging.
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