Secrecy was chosen instead of openness, honesty, because, in my view,
it was the default option in the face of questions like:  How would
the populace react if it were told the truth?

Supposing they panicked?  What would they do with the religion (that
would be greatly challenged by releasing such information)? How would
they behave towards the government?  

Then too, it seems, by my reckoning that the USA was not exactly an
innocent bystander when those TWO saucers crashed (Roswell).  A
sergeant of the time let loose a tiny bit of information not generally
appreciated, that they (the military in Roswell) had a very powerful
radar system.  Why?  Why have any kind of radar in the middle of
nowhere?  

Now, UFO reports, "saucers" were being seen and talked about,
apparently, quite a lot around Roswell BEFORE the events that are now
well written about.  So what was going on with the military and that
radar system?

I tend to suspect that the military shot down a couple of saucers
using radar to aim and control the weapons and also to upset the
saucers navigation system.  Now this is just my own far fetched idea
based on the little evidence that in is the public domain.

Robert Lazar says that he noticed that some of the saucers he saw had
what looked like missile damage, my words, I am paraphrasing.  So
there is some supportive evidence for my outlandish theory.  Also
there is film that has been shown on TV years ago which shows what
looks very much like an attempted missile strike upon a UFO.

If my suspicions are correct then these are of course acts of war
against beings that so far as we can tell have been entirely benign
towards us - when we are 'abducted' we are always very carefully
returned it seems to me. So these acts of war can hardly be proclaimed
as necessary acts can they?  

But, for all that, you know, the US was not being unwise to fear the
results of telling the people.  Do you know that about a decade ago a
group known as the "Heavens Gate" group committed mass suicide in the
belief that UFOs would come and collect them - they had bags packed
beside their dead bodies already to be collected.  

So these factors are serious reasons for keeping such momentous
knowledge secret. I believe it was a big mistake - the full
information could and should have been released gradually together
with massive public education. That obligation is still valid despite
the decades that have elapsed. 

Just a day or so after the Heavens Gate mass suicide the USA
announced, it being the 50th anniversary of Roswell, that yes there
had been a cover up but that the real reason for it was that they were
using a secret detection system for monitoring the air for any Russian
threat to the US.

The explanation isn't really very plausible simply because of the
geographical area that Roswell is in.  Alaska, yes.  Panama, possibly.
But watching out for Russians at Roswell?  Hardly likely - in my view.
One has to ask why the US didn't stick to it's guns and simply
reaffirm their story about 'weather balloons'.

Now, I am no special person in this, no special knowledge and no extra
access to anyone or anything any more than any other person that is
interested in this topic; I just like to think things out calmly, for
myself alone.  And that is my opinion and it is based on the
information that we all have access to about this.



Paul E. Coughlin
November 2005


On 12 Nov 2005 01:40:22 -0800, "mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi.

This is my theory about the UFO Secrecy, and why it is bad.

The secrecy of UFOs has several reasons, and the reasons for secrecy
have changed over time --
finding more reasons allows for contiued secrecy.

The first reason, I suggest, is military purposes. For example, when
the crash of a  UFO in Roswell,
New Mexico, happened in 1947, it was covered up because of the
possibility of it being of some sort
of military significance -- perhaps it could be used to develop a
secret weapon of some sort, and if
you disclose that then your weapon won't give you any more advantage.
Such a program of developing
secret weapons might still continue today, and hence would provide

fuel

for continued secrecy. Or maybe
it was thought to be a secret weapon of some sort, and hence

disclosure

might

The next reason is the fact that big businesses, including the oil
companies, control the government
(yep, that's right -- I believe the government is ultimately

controlled

by BIG BUSINESSES). Disclosure
of UFOs could provide free energy technology that would elimiate the
need for oil, and the greedy oil
industry would be toast. This could have been realized as the
technology was studied more thoroughly,
and it's free-energy potential was realized.

The third reason is ego & self-image. The USA wants to think of

itself

-- actually, wants others to think
of it, as the top entity in existence,  evidenced in the phrases

"proud

America", etc., which it is, at least
in regards to technology. Disclosing UFOs would reveal the existence

of

a more advanced technology
than the ones here on Earth and especially, that of the USA,
demolishing that proud image.

The fourth reason is information is power. That says it all.
Information is power, and in order for it to be
so, it must be controlled. Disclosure means loosing control of the
information, and loss of that power.

Now, do I think UFOs should be disclosed? Yes, and especially if they
contain free energy technology.
Oil will run out within our lifetimes (some models suggest major
hardships in ~25 years), so the UFOs
must be disclose *within our lifetimes* and *before oil runs out* to
provide a replacement source of
energy. And, also, another critical reason for disclosure is the fact
that if these technologies are allowed
to be held under Government control, they could develop some sort of
superweapon that could potentially
lead to our extinction if used. If the information is in the hands of
the public, and everyone in the world
has access to it then there would be no military advantage to

building

such a weapon because ANYONE
could build it and figure out how to defeat it. Considering how

greedy

and corrupt the US Government is
(look at what they did with Hurricane Katrina, for example, delaying
aid like that, or the serious mis-
management of the war in Iraq -- which in fact should never have even
started! And, according to the
Constitution we should not have a standing army, etc.), continued
secrecy is more likely to result
in a potential catastrophe.

What do you think?