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ANOTHER LUDICROUS TEXT FILE FROM THE LIBRARY OF
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BULLSHIT COLLECTED BY THE {{ REPOMAN }}
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The subject is Unidentified Flying Objects and possible U.S. government
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coverups of their existence. The data, presented succinctly by Robert Hast
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ings, comes from years of research and papers obtained under the Freedom of
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Information Act.
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The conclusion is that something akin to the so-called Star Wars space
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defense plan already exists, only it's aliens who control the machinery.
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Hastings, an independent civilian researcher presented his "UFOs: The Hidden
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History" lecture to an overflow audience at Idaho State University recently.
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In it, he portrayed an ongoing coverup by the Air Force, FBI and CIA which ha
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s come to light since over 600 previously classified documents were obtained by
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Bruce Maccabbee, an optical physicist working for the U.S. Navy, and W. Todd
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Zechel, a former National Security Agency employee.
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The documents include interna l memos, reports from air traffic controllers
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and pilots and North American Air Defense directors' logs which Hastings says
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"document a pattern of overflights and interference by UFOs at military nuclear
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installations since the late 1940s."
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The most provocative document is a memo from Guy Hottel, now deceased, to FBI
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Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1950 discussing the recovery of three flying
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saucers, "Each one occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet
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tall," recovere d in New Mexico.
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Other papers from the CIA discuss the need to get information on UFOs to
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determine national security implications and overflights and landings by
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saucers at Air Force bases, attempted intercepts by Air Force fighters and
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eyewitness accounts from security personnel.
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Hastings says incidents at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., in 1966-67 and
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1975, Loring AFB in Maine, Los Alamos Research Facility in New Mexico and other
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overflights, "expressed clear interest (by UFOs) in nuclear bomb storage
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hangars."
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The latest document, dated August, 1980 describes, "a round disk-shaped craft
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sighted by security forces near Kirtland AFB, New Mexico."
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The object apparently sat down next to a storage ar ea with 400 nuclear
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warheads. Hastings says he has eyewitness accounts of triggering mechanisms
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malfunctioning and fires of unknown origin taking place after overflights at
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other installations.
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"They may be selectively sending signals that they have the power to shut
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down a nuclear launch," Hastings said. "Whoever is flying these things has an
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interest in our nuclear weapons capabilities. I've had maintenance personnel
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who corroborated that when the missiles have been inspected ( following UFO
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over-flights) they were found to be non-operative."
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Hastings added that Zechel contacted Air Force Col. Robert B. Willingham
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who swore out a deposition that he had first-hand knowledge of a crash recovery
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operation on the Te xas-Mexico border in 1950, headed by Col. John Bowen.
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Bowen would neither confirm nor deny the incident, Hastings added.
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"I have two other NSA sources, neither of them who know each other, who were
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told that alien bodies are stored at Bro oks Aeromedical Laboratories in San
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Antonio, Tex," he continued.
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"Why would these people swear out affidavits attesting to something so crazy?
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They haven't made any money off it and they appear to be publicity-shy."
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Hastings said reports indicate saucer remains are stored at the facility.
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Other reports range from a saucer that buzzed an Atlas Intercontinental
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Ballistic Missle which later malfunctioned in 1964 to then CIA executive
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assistant Victor Marchetti (who lat er wrote a book on the subject) stating for
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the record that he came across information that indicated saucers had crashed,
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been secretly recovered and involved, "very sensitive operations."
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Hastings says he's not out to "get the government. " He says he simply is
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presenting the facts, which have been routinely denied by the Air Force, CIA
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and NORAD for years. He says he has no answers and that he is not making very
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much money lecturing 40 times per year at $750 plus travel expenses per talk.
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Critics and skeptics of the program are numerous, from intelligence and
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military personnel to scientists like Cornell University's Carl Sagan, who says
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that until he sees phyisical evidence of UFOs, he concludes that they do not
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exist.
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"Sagan has missed the boat," said Hastings. "He has not been prepared to
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review the type of data that has come forth. The most vocal critics are the
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persons who have never studied the data."
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