“Little Green Men”, “Martians”, “Outer Limits” ! That is what people think about when aliens and UFOs come to mind. Aliens have been around, as far as we can see, since 1561. The question is now asked, How come because they [UFOs] have been sighted, encountered, and taken hostage; Why have we been kept in the dark by our governments? “Since UFOs were considered a security risk, the report on these sightings was originally classified as secret (Kadrey 22). ” The name ‘flying saucer’ was ‘coined’ by a Air Force pilot in 1947, when he stated that he had saw something that looked like a ‘flying saucer’.
The government knew about UFOs and have been tracking them since 1947, which is to be believed when the ‘Age of UFOs’ started (Stacey 55). So, through the next pages the theory that UFOs are real because of evidence the government has covered up, the number of sightings, and the uncountable number of abductions, will become a reality. The first reason that is going to be addressed, is the secrecy and Government coverup of UFOs. “National Security Agency, or NSA, an acronym often assumed by insiders to mean ‘NEVER SAY ANYTHING’ , (Stacey 40) ” has been blamed for millions of UFO governmental cover-ups around the nation.
Our problem is with government secrecy, because it widens the gap between citizens and the government, making it much more difficult to participate in the democratic process (Stacey 40),” says Steven Aftergood while addressing UFO secrecy. The UFO enigma, or as it is formerly know as the “‘Cosmic Watergate’ : the ongoing cover-up of the government’s knowledge about extraterrestrial UFOs and their terrestrial activities (Stacey 36)” is believed to be started during the Nixon administration, which is still under alot of scrutiny.
The Nixon Administration also established the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] in the 970s’, it opened the door to alot of truth and more coverups. ” I don’t think they would do a 300-page report on everything they detect,” says Joe Stefula who is a UFO researcher. The “military would far rather have people blame such things on flying saucers than them (Brookesmith 14). ” Several secret UFO Projects have proven the existence of UFOs. One of the more popular ones was ‘Project Blue Book’ which “was organized by the Air Force. The panel employed a number of scientists, including phycists, engineers, meteorlogists, and an astronomer. It had three main goals : 1) To explain all reported sightings of UFOs. ) To decide if UFOs posed a threat to the national security of the United States. 3) And to determine whether UFOs were using any advanced technology that the Unted States could use ( Kadrey 25 ) . ”
Another less popular two were also organized, ‘Project Moon Dust’ and ‘Project Blue Fly’. Project(s) Moon Dust and Blue Fly was “efforts aimed at retrieving man-made space objects that re-enter the atmosphere and crash (Kadrey 38). Even with all this evidence, the authorities often “dismiss such experiences with desperate ‘rational explanations’ ranging from ‘spots before the eyes’ to ‘fireflies’. and that old stand-by hallucinations’ (Brookesmith 21) . ” Although, not all UFOs are UFOs to the government. Such things as weather balloons, pie plates, and Venus have been proven to cause people to see things, but it still does not give bearing for what is out there and the numerous life witnesses of extraterrestrials.
The UFO enigma is “the most ‘well- kept and explosive secret in world history (Stacey 36). The next issue that is going to be covered to prove the existence of UFOs is Sightings of UFOs. ‘Flying Saucers’ , ‘fireballs’ , or ‘Unidentified Flying Objects ‘. Whatever the name, people just seem to exactly know what your saying. A private pilot named Kenneth Arnold “spotted nine weird, cresent-shaped disks flashing through the air as he was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, USA. Accounts of Arnold’s experience were flashed around the world by the news media, and triggered a wave of ‘flying saucer’ reports across the United States.
By 4 July 1947, there had been sightings in every state but Georgia and West Virginia; by 16 July 1947, the United States Army Air Forces had received over eight-hundred fifty reports. (Brookesmith 19)” Then the ‘Age of UFOs’ was born on 24 June 1947. Although, “many other UFO sightings turned out to be such bjects as weather balloons, satellites, aircraft lights, or formations of birds (Kadrey 24), ” it still does not give light to all of the other sightings that do not turn out to be such things.
Its only when ‘Venus’ suddenly executes an abrupt right-angle or divides into two smaller lights that streak away at high speed that we find our attention attracted and realize we may, in fact, be in the middle of a UFO sighting (Huyghe 50). ” “During World War II, especially after 1943, there were many reports of balls of light, varying in color and in size from several feet to a few inches across, flying in pursuit of warplanes. Because these ‘fireballs’ never attacked aircraft, Allied pilots assumed they were enemy inventions – either reconnaissance drones or psychological – warfare weapons.
When captured enemy aircrew were interrogated it became clear that both German and Japanese fliers had also been pursued by ‘Foo Fighters’. The same phenomenon was also reported during the Korean War, between 1950 and 1953 (Brookesmith 17). ” Although, “many UFO sightings have dated back from the year 1561 (Jueneman 25). Many people still believe that something is out there and also it seems like the egyptians had too, it has been proven that the egyptians may have thought aliens’ to be ‘gods’. Its 6:05 A. M. on the morning of 6 February 1966 at Nederland, Texas.
Three witnesses witnessed a famous UFO event for approximately five minutes. The primary witness described the event, “the neighboorhood has lit up in a red glow. My first thought was that a police car was parked nearby or a fire truck. I called to my wife that something must be wrong in the neighboorhood and to come and see. Suddenly I realized the light was coming from overhead [Fig. 1 ] . I looked up andsaw the outline of an object moving out past the pitch of my roof, approximately two-hundred fifty to five-hundred feet high. The red glow was coming from beneath the object, about center.
It appeared as a stream of light coming from inside a hole (Huyghe “UFO Crime Lab” 60). ” Many UFOs are described such as this. Is it a UFO or something else? Remember, a UFO is only a UFO if not explained. “On the same day, but at 11:50 A. M. , five technicians, including a Colonel and a Major, were watching two P-82 and an A-26 aircraft conduct an ejection-seat experiment at 20, 000 feet (6100 meters). They viewed a circular object, a color of aluminum, and at first “resembled a ‘parachute canopy’ come into view. The ejection-seat canopy opened 30 seconds later.
The UFO, clearly nearer to the ground, descended three times faster than the parachute, rotating or oscillating. The men noted no smoke, flame, propellar arcs, engine noise, or other means of propulsion. The UFO reacheaced ground level and then rose again (Brookesmith 19),” this clearly states either UFOs are more more advanced or are not UFOs, but secret military project ‘screwups’, that would raither have people like us blame things on extraterrestrials; just so they don’t look stupid. The next topic that is going to be covered is the alien abductions and overnment encounters with them.
During the period of 1969-1971, MJ-12 representing the U. S. Government made a deal with these creatures, called EBEs (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities, named by Delev Bronk, original MJ-12 member and 6th President of Johns Hopkins University). The ‘deal’ was that in exchange for ‘technology’ that they would provide to us, we agreed to ‘ignore’ the abductions that were going on and suppress information on the cattle mutilations. The EBEs assured MJ-12 that the abductions (usually lasting about 2 hours) were merely the ongoing monitoring of developing civilizations.
