James Oberg [Excerpt from: 'Everything is Under Control' by
             Robert Anton Wilson - 1998 ISBN 0-06-273417-2]

James Oberg, a longtime skeptic of the extraterrestrial 
interpretation of the UFO  phenomenon, has more than once 
suggested a rather conspiritorial countertheory.

   In June 1980, Moscow had a major UFO flap. People saw a
giant light and some claimed that aliens were chasing cars 
and drilling holes through house windows. Tens of thousands 
of citizens allegedly saw some or all of this weirdity. 
In _Omni_ magazine, Oberg proposed that the KGB was behind 
it: "The KGB, eager to muddy the waters and cover up public
recognition of the military space center at Pietsk, is only 
too happy to promote scintillating stories about aliens
chasing cars and boring nasty holes in windows."
   More recently, Oberg has pointed an accusing finger at
agencies of the U.S. government:

   ... Government representatives--officials, military
   officers, etc.--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... or any other activity that the
   government--or any part of it--wanted to keep hidden.

   Oberg made these charges in an open letter to Dr.
Steven Greer of the _CSETI_ organization, who is trying
to force the government to release UFO secrets. Oberg 
supports Greer in wanting the secrets given to the public, 
even though Greer expects the hidden data will support the
extraterrestrial hypothesis and Oberg believes it will just
show that the government lies to us a lot of the time.
   Most conspiritologists would certainly like to see the
release of any alleged "UFO secrets" dealing with lost
nuclear weapons and "improper, forbidden, or diplomatically
delicate" activities.

See also:
William Cooper, Crop Circles, NASA, Nazis and JFK, UMMO Letters

References:
KGB lies--
  _Omni_, September 1982

U.S. government lies--
  _Saucer Smear_, Vol. 44, No. 6, June 1997 
  (P.O. Box 1709, Key West, FL 33041)

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Robert Anton Wilson may be found at http://www.rawilson.com
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 "As Thomas Huxley said, the universe acts a lot like a chess game
 in which the player on the other side remains invisible to us.
 By analyzing the moves, we try to form an image of the intellect
 behind them. Images that have seemed almost believable to me at
 various times have included the gods and goddesses of ancient
 Greece (if you develop a Classic Poetry habit, that kind of
 neurolinguistic programming can happen...) and also, of course,
 those extra-terrestrials who have so much popularity these days.
 I have also considered the player on the other side as more
 impersonal, like the Tao, or more bizarre, like Shiva Dancing,
 or more abstract, like Philip K. Dick's Vast Active Living
 Information System (VALIS.) Mostly, though I think of the player
 on the other side as a pookah -- a resident of Ireland, in rabbit
 form, who may at any time dump a truckload of the Unknown and
 Inexplicable right on your doorstep." --Robert Anton Wilson
   http://www.rawilson.com

  "What is necessary for man is to free himself from
  the entire past of mankind, not only his individual
  past. That is to say, you have to free yourself
  from what every man before you has thought, felt
  and experienced -- then only is it possible for you
  to be yourself. The whole purpose of my talking to
  people is to point out the uniqueness of every
  individual. Culture or civilization or whatever you
  might call it has always tried to fit us into a
  framework. Man is not man at all; I call him a
  'unique animal' -- and man will remain a unique
  animal as long as he's burdened by the culture."

  The "Anti-Krishnamurti":
  -- Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (Born 9 July 1918)
  http://www.well.com/user/jct/mystiq1.htm