I had only seen a couple episodes of the X-files but I watched the final episode
and thought it interesting to note they ended the series on a spiritual note.
They said they believed in something bigger than the alien-government conspiracy
as Moulder held the Christian crucifix around Sculley’s neck. The Channel 2 10:00pm news
here in San Francisco following the program prominently featured a serious story concerning UFOs a.k.a.
UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon). Tom Vacar interviewed Linda Connel
from NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System who admitted that they do accept
and compile reports from pilots regarding sightings of phenomenon that have not
been explained. NASA referred Mr. Vacar to former 30 year NASA research
scientist and current Chief Scientist
Richard Haines of
NARCAP.
Mr. Haines acknowledged that about 20-30% of UAPs are unexplained objects that
interfere with air safety. Mr. Haines also said he has substantial reason to
believe that the US government has been collecting 'sensed' data regarding UAPs
and is indeed
withholding the data from the public.
UFOs: What to
Do?
RAND DOCUMENT,
For RAND Use Only
George Kocher, 27 November 1968
PART 1: UFOs -- HISTORICAL ASPECTS
Those familiar with the UFO literature are aware that reports of sightings did
not begin with Arnold's sighting in 1947, but that phenomenology much the same
as is reported today can be found in documents going back to the earliest times.
Vallee (2) gives a sampling of this; B.L.P. Trench (3) has made a more thorough
study and reports on the research of others able to study the original
documents.
What was reported? Luminous discs, shields, globes and elongated objects in the
sky, sometimes alone, sometimes in large numbers.
Occasional descriptions of interactions with the observers are also mentioned,
including landings, and seeing and communicating with
occupants. The latter events especially were almost always interpreted in a
religious context. A recent
example is the repeated appearance of a typical UFO phenomenology at Fatima,
Portugal on six successive months in 1917. The October 13 phenomenon was the
best reported and was witnessed by a crowd of about 70,000 persons, including a
number of scientists, reporters, atheists, and agnostics, as well as faithful
Catholics. One of the scientifically curious was Dr. A
Garrett of the University of Coimbra. Rain, which had been falling that
day, ceased and the crowd looked up to see the "sun" now visible through the
heavy clouds. Professor Garrett wrote,
"...I turned toward this (sun) which was attracting all
eyes and I could see it like a disk with a clear cut edge, with a vivid rim,
luminous and shining, but without hurting one. The comparison I have heard at
Fatima with a disk of dull silver, does not seem to me exact. It was a clearer,
more vivid, richer color and with shifting tints like the luster of a pearl. It
was not at all like the moon on a clear transparent night, for one saw and felt
it like a living star. Nor was it spherical like the moon, nor did it have the
same quality of lighter and less light. It looked like a burnished wheel cut out
of mother-of-pearl. Nor could it be confused with the sun seen through a fog --
there was no fog... This disc spun dizzily round. It was not the twinkling of a
star: it whirled round upon itself with mad rapidity... The sun, preserving the
celerity of its rotation, detached itself from the firmament and advanced,
blood-red, towards the earth, threatening to crush us with the weight of its
vast and fiery mass. These moments made a terrifying impression." (4)
The relationship of the old phenomenology to religion
are discussed by Thomas. (5)
THE ROPER POLL
UFOs & Extraterrestrial Life
Americans' Beliefs and Personal Experiences
Prepared for the SCI FI Channel
September 2002
Most Americans Psychologically and Spiritually Prepared
for Proof of Extraterrestrial Life
Most Americans appear comfortable with and even excited about the thought of the
discovery of extraterrestrial life. Three-quarters of the public claim they are
at least somewhat psychologically prepared for the discovery of extraterrestrial
life, and nearly half are very prepared.
Government Knows More Than It Is Telling
In the view of many adults (55 percent), the government does not share
enough information with the public in general. An even greater proportion
(roughly seven in ten) thinks that the government does not tell us everything it
knows about extraterrestrial life and UFOs. The younger the age, the stronger
the belief that the government is withholding information about these topics.
The Disclosure Project
“The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project working to fully
disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified
advanced energy and propulsion systems. We have over 400 government,
military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct,
personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up
that keeps this information secret.”
Edgar
Mitchell: US Covers Up Aliens For 50 Years.
by Tom Rhodes
The Sunday Times - (London)
October 11, 1998
NEW YORK -- There are no little green men on the moon. Edgar Mitchell knows this
because in 1971 he became the sixth man to walk on it. He is positive, however,
that aliens have landed on Earth.
Mitchell argues that life is almost certain to exist on any other planet with a
supportive environment. Some physicists, he points out, now believe it is
possible to travel faster than light, even if humble earthlings have yet to
achieve it.
He is 90% certain that many of the thousands of UFOs recorded since the 1940s
belonged to visitors from another planet. Although some have been delusions and
others natural phenonema, too many remain unexplained, he said. "This suggests
there are humanoids manning craft which have characteristics not in the arsenal
of any nation on earth that we know of. That is very alarming," he said. It was
a startling departure for a scientist who, up to now, has been wary of appearing
with ufologists widely regarded as cranks. "Until recently I was very cautious
about such conferences," Mitchell, 68, admitted before the opening of an annual
convention entitled the UFO Experience. "But now I believe there is sufficient
circumstantial evidence to warrant a scientific understanding in this area."
Mitchell, who holds a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
does not fit easily into the ranks of the UFO fanatics. Although he acts as a
consultant to The X Files, the cult television series, he is scornful of
"disinformation" about aliens and flying saucers that emanates from the Internet
and marginal UFO organisations in America.
Mitchell says his research - including conversations with people who have worked
in intelligence agencies and military groups - has convinced him that the
American government has covered up the truth about UFOs for 50 years. He is
trying to persuade Congress to grant his sources immunity to tell "the real
story" of events such as the so-called Roswell incident - the alleged crash of a
flying saucer in New Mexico in 1947.
"Many of these folks were under high-security clearances, they took oaths and
they feel they cannot talk without some form of immunity," Mitchell said. "It
takes a brave person to come out on something like this."
Welcome to the Coalition
for Freedom of Information Web site.
According to a 2002 Roper poll, 72% of Americans believe the federal
government is not telling us everything it knows about UFOs. In keeping with our
society's interest in an open government, the independent alliance CFI was
formed. Its goals are to support a new research effort into what has come to be
known as the UFO phenomenon, as well as to promote more government disclosure
about UFOs.
Since 1947, the United States government has put up roadblocks to prevent the
release of information it possesses on UFOs. In fact, most UFO researchers
believe that significant classified information is being withheld. The Coalition
for Freedom of Information seeks to bring together those who have both studied
and been exposed to this phenomenon and who believe it to be worthy of further
investigation....
Still In
Default
By
Bruce S.
Maccabee, Ph.D.
Copyright 1986 by Bruce S. Maccabee
Updated version copyright 1998 by Bruce S. Maccabee
This was originally Published in the Proceedings of the 1986 MUFON INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM, pg 131
[UPDATES TO 1998 IN SQUARE PARENTHESES]
ABSTRACT
For nearly 40 [more than 50] years, the science establishment has ignored the
UFO problem, relegating it to the domain of "true believers and mental
incompetents" (a.k.a. "kooks and nuts" [according to the former editor of
Applied Optics magazine]). Scientists have participated in a "self-cover-up" by
refusing to look at the credible and well reported data. Furthermore, some of
those few scientists who have studied UFO data have published explanations which
are unconvincing or just plain wrong and have "gotten away with it" because most
of the rest of the scientific community has not cared enough to analyze these
explanations. The general rejection of the scientific validity of UFO sightings
has made it difficult to publish analyses of good sightings [in refereed
journals of establishment science]. Examples are presented of the
scientific-self-cover-up involving erroneous explanations, refusal to look at
the data, and rejection of papers for publication. How long will this situation
last? Forty [fifty] years is long [too long].
UFOs and the National Security State - Richard M. Dolan
“This is a thorough and monumental undertaking. I applaud your effort.”
- Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
Commentary: UFOs and the National Security State - by
Joe Firmage
"Because of the developments of science, all countries on Earth will have to
unite to survive and to make a common front against attack by people from other
planets. The politics of the future will be cosmic, or interplanetary."
–
General Douglas Macarthur, October 8, 1955, New York Times
“Are scientists and journalists aware that the chief scientific consultant
in the Air Force’s Blue Book study of UFOs later characterized the project
as a publicity maneuver to mollify the public, himself convinced by the
evidence he saw that genuine, unexplained aerospatial phenomena are in our
midst?” - Dr. J. Allen Hynek on camera shortly before his death in 1985
"Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative
that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is... Behind the
scenes high ranking military officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But
through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the
unknown flying objects are nonsense." – Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, first
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, public statements in 1960
"The trick would be to describe the project so that, to the public, it would
appear a totally objective study, but to the scientific community would present
the image of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective but
having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer." - Robert Low, University
of Colorado senior administrator, former intelligence officer, and assistant
director of the Condon Committee, in a confidential 1966 memo suggesting the
approach of the Condon UFO study
"I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not
manufactured by any nation on Earth." – Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding,
Commander-in-Chief, Royal Air Force Command, London Sunday Dispatch, July 11,
1954
