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The UFO Secrets: Who Really Knows?
March 6, 2014
by Nick Redfern
One question that I am often asked when it come to the matters of UFOs, cover-ups and conspiracies is how, specifically, can monumental secrets concerning alien life, Roswell, crashed UFOs, etc., be successfully hidden by “the government,” when countless other sensitive issues – such as Watergate, Iran-Contra, and even the Monica Lewinsky affair – surface on a regular basis? Is it really feasible that the truth about UFOs could remain successfully buried when all manner of other data of a secret and significant nature comes tumbling out?
Well, my answer to that question is: it very much depends upon who is hiding the secrets. When it comes to UFOs, maybe it’s not “the government,” after all, that is hiding the UFO truth – whatever the truth may be. Incredibly, maybe the government (as an elected body), the military, and the collective intelligence community, don’t actually know. But, here’s the thing: just perhaps, someone else knows. And who, precisely, might that someone else be? Let’s take a look.
We’ll start with Roswell. In 1994, the U.S. Air Force published a report stating that, in its opinion, what crashed on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947 was a Mogul Balloon – actually a large balloon-array involved in the monitoring of early Soviet atomic-bomb detonations. Three years later, the Air Force concluded that the stories of “alien bodies” found in the same area were born out of nothing stranger than parachute experiments involving crash-test-dummies.
Now, when the USAF reports surfaced, many within the arena of Ufology were very quick to paint the Air Force as the bad guys. Time and again, claims were made that those involved in the creation and dissemination of the reports secretly knew what really happened at Roswell and were trying to bury the other-worldly facts behind a mass of data on Mogul balloons and dummies.
I, however, take a different approach. In fact, I take a very different approach. Having carefully read the approximately 1,000-page Air Force report on Mogul, and having studied in-depth the crash-test dummy report, my opinion is that both documents represent the Air Force’s best attempts – and, more importantly – the Air Force’s honest attempts to explain an enigmatic event that lacks pretty much anything in terms of official documentation to explain what happened.
Now, while I think sufficient arguments have been made to suggest that the Mogul and dummy scenarios do not adequately explain what happened at Roswell, I still don’t believe those involved in promoting the Mogul or dummy theories had any classified knowledge of what really happened.
When, however, officialdom denies something of a UFO nature, the finger of guilt is very often pointed at the messenger. In such cases, little thought is given to the possibility (or, as I see it, the likelihood) that the messenger (in this case the Air Force) is as mystified as we are, but does its best to try and demystify the situation by coming up with an explanation.
It’s very much the same with the British-based Rendlesham Forest UFO affair of December 1980. In May 2011, and thanks to the British Government’s Freedom of Information Act, it was revealed that eleven years earlier the British Ministry of Defense received a request, from a member of the public, for copies of its own records on the incident.
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The UFO Secrets: Who Really Knows?
March 6, 2014
by Nick Redfern
One question that I am often asked when it come to the matters of UFOs, cover-ups and conspiracies is how, specifically, can monumental secrets concerning alien life, Roswell, crashed UFOs, etc., be successfully hidden by “the government,” when countless other sensitive issues – such as Watergate, Iran-Contra, and even the Monica Lewinsky affair – surface on a regular basis? Is it really feasible that the truth about UFOs could remain successfully buried when all manner of other data of a secret and significant nature comes tumbling out?
Well, my answer to that question is: it very much depends upon who is hiding the secrets. When it comes to UFOs, maybe it’s not “the government,” after all, that is hiding the UFO truth – whatever the truth may be. Incredibly, maybe the government (as an elected body), the military, and the collective intelligence community, don’t actually know. But, here’s the thing: just perhaps, someone else knows. And who, precisely, might that someone else be? Let’s take a look.
We’ll start with Roswell. In 1994, the U.S. Air Force published a report stating that, in its opinion, what crashed on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947 was a Mogul Balloon – actually a large balloon-array involved in the monitoring of early Soviet atomic-bomb detonations. Three years later, the Air Force concluded that the stories of “alien bodies” found in the same area were born out of nothing stranger than parachute experiments involving crash-test-dummies.
Now, when the USAF reports surfaced, many within the arena of Ufology were very quick to paint the Air Force as the bad guys. Time and again, claims were made that those involved in the creation and dissemination of the reports secretly knew what really happened at Roswell and were trying to bury the other-worldly facts behind a mass of data on Mogul balloons and dummies.
I, however, take a different approach. In fact, I take a very different approach. Having carefully read the approximately 1,000-page Air Force report on Mogul, and having studied in-depth the crash-test dummy report, my opinion is that both documents represent the Air Force’s best attempts – and, more importantly – the Air Force’s honest attempts to explain an enigmatic event that lacks pretty much anything in terms of official documentation to explain what happened.
Now, while I think sufficient arguments have been made to suggest that the Mogul and dummy scenarios do not adequately explain what happened at Roswell, I still don’t believe those involved in promoting the Mogul or dummy theories had any classified knowledge of what really happened.
When, however, officialdom denies something of a UFO nature, the finger of guilt is very often pointed at the messenger. In such cases, little thought is given to the possibility (or, as I see it, the likelihood) that the messenger (in this case the Air Force) is as mystified as we are, but does its best to try and demystify the situation by coming up with an explanation.
It’s very much the same with the British-based Rendlesham Forest UFO affair of December 1980. In May 2011, and thanks to the British Government’s Freedom of Information Act, it was revealed that eleven years earlier the British Ministry of Defense received a request, from a member of the public, for copies of its own records on the incident.
CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/03/the-ufo-secrets-who-really-knows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ufo-secrets-who-really-knows