Spanish Gov't completes UFO declassification
From: Stig Agermose <Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 20:48:56 -0800
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Source: alt.ufo.reports, October 8.
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Author: Pedro P. Canto
Email: ppcanto@ctv.es
Date: 1998/10/08
Forums: alt.ufo.reports
THE SPANISH AIR FORCE UFO FILES DECLASSIFICATION FINISHES
Lasts weeks was deposited in the of the Air General Headquarter
Library (Madrid), to arrangement of the public party, the last file of
the Spanish Air Force on anomalous observations related to
unidentified flying objets (UFOs). According to Vicente-Juan Ballester
Olmos, director of research in the FUNDACI"N ANOMALÕA (P.O.Box 5.041,
39080 Santander), "with this we must consider ended the process of
declassification of secret character UFO information from Defense,
that begun in September 1992 after the fact that the Junta de Jefes
del Estado Mayor (JUJEM) took a brave decision in this regard. Already
in December 1996 was freed the last case of what has been given in
calling the historical file of the Air Force, formed by 62 files
transmitted at the beginning of 1992 for the Air General Headquarter -
where during a thirtieth of years were guarded under the classified
matter stamp - to the Air Operative Command (MOA), organization
commisioned of management of the UFO information, located in the air
base of TorrejÛn (Madrid)." In the last year and a half have left to
the public light 21 new recaptured episodes of the forgetfulness in
various military facilities in Spain, as consequence of an intensive
documentation research by MOA. In total, 83 UFO files finally
facilitated public occupy almost 2.000 pages on anomalous appearance
events (exactly 122), occurred between 1962 and 1995. The process of
declassification of the UFO information was not developed under the
general consent of all the researchers. Instead of this, from its
beginning it received unjust critical from the sensationalist sector
of the national UFOlogy, that it has not saved affronts and
misrepresentations, in short, a real poisoning campaign, to tarnish
the outstanding success of this military opening process. And is that
with the declassification is ended one of the untruthful myths seated
between the UFO believers: the conspiracy and the official cover-up.
"Today we know -declared by Ballester Olmos, author of five books on
this subject - that the Air Force only investigated very slightly the
UFO phenomenon between 1968 and 1980. The reason of the secret has not
been, as compared to what some talkative maintain, that the Government
knows the "surprising truth" that is hidden after the UFOs and that
agrees to conceal to the citizens, but to the simple fact of "to
maintain reservation toward that whose nature is ignored". The
Valencian researcher has claimed also that "The Air Force Air has
finally been realized that the characteristics of the UFO topic are
more sociological than aeronautical and that they do not suppose any
risk for the National Security". V.J. Ballester Olmos is recognized as
the civil driver of this historical declassification, with no
preceding in Europe, and coordinates a multidiscipline researchers
team with the objective of analyzing the emerging information. This
expert has been forceful in his conclusions: "We can assert with
absolute guarantee that all the information on UFOs known by the Air
Force has been put at the disposal of the civil society without any
cover-up. Now the ball is in our roof: to evaluate the data to see if
there is or not unsolved cases".
By Ricardo Campo
More UFO News in http://www.ctv.es/USERS/ppcanto/newsof.htm
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