James Oberg on 'other' gov't UFO secrets
From: Francisco Lopez <d005734c@dc.seflin.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:20:25 -0800
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Subject: OTHER gov't UFO secrets
By: jamesoberg@aol.com
Date: 26 Apr 1997 14:15:43 GMT
Open letter to CSETI:
I applaud CSETI's efforts to strip away the "government secrets
prosecution" barrier to the disclosure of people's stories about
UFO experiences and I fully support the call for a government
declaration that all legal constraints against disclosure be
dissolved. I've always felt that claims of fear of such
prosecution as an excuse by people not to "go public" was often
merely a gimmick not to have to take responsibility for the
authenticity of such stories, since as far as I've been able to
tell -- and through OMNI's "Project Open Book" we searched far
and wide for examples -- nobody has ever been arrested or charged
-- much less convicted and sentenced -- for actually doing so.
But don't stop merely with legalizing disclosure of all -- if any
-- government secrets about "real UFOs". I believe there is a far
more valuable body of "secrets" that will help understand the
decades of UFO phenomena that the world has experienced. This
deals with government-related activities which directly or
indirectly led to public perceptions that UFOs might be real when
they weren't. Sometimes these actions were carefully orchestrated
in advance, sometimes they were localized impromptu ad hoc damage-
limitation tactics. But from my own experience, they seem to have
played a tremendous and widely unappreciated role in inciting and
enflaming public interests in UFOs while deflecting public
attention from real highly-classified government activities.
I'm referring to situations where government representatives --
officials, military officers, any employees -- used "UFO" as a
convenient camouflage for other official classified activities
(such as retrieval of crashed aircraft or nuclear weapons or other
objects), or used artificial "UFO stories" (in oral, written,
photographic, film, etc.) form as "tracers" in studying the
function of security safeguards and personnel psychological
responses, or used "UFO" as an excuse (either intended or
accidental) to cover-up improper, forbidden, or diplomatically
delicate activities (such as aviation incidents involving dangerous
accidental or deliberate close passes or intercepts of civilian
airliners, or overseas excursions of agents on intelligence
missions where deflection of local perceptions was useful, or
to conceal from the country of origin the possession of foreign
military hardware), or played pranks and jokes on intended or
accidental targets, or any other activity that the government
-- or any part of it -- wanted to keep hidden, knowing that having
it thought of as "UFO-related" would consign it to the never-never-
land of myth and nuttiness, thus keeping mainstream media attention
to a minimum. And it's worked!!
Please include such "UFO secrets" in your list of disclosure
demands, and ask that any government personnel involved in the
use (or misuse and abuse) of such practices be immune from any
government prosecution for the actions which led them to take
such measures. Once such immunity is verifiably granted, I have
my own list of people who have privately talked to me over the
years and who were involved in government activities leading to
a number of well-known "UFO cases", which can be released and
which can help understand where and how much of today's UFO
mythology originated.
This is a serious proposal deserving of serious consideration,
and promises immensely fruitful results.
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RELEVANCE OF THIS MESSAGE: Gov't UFO involvement
Index: James Oberg (#11)
Index: Government UFO Cover-Up (#13)
Created: Sep 23, 1998
