Understanding UFO Secrecy in the 21st Century

by Steven M. Greer M.D.

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Summary: The evidence regarding this subject is clear and overwhelming: It 
has not been difficult to make a compelling case for the reality of UFOs per 
se. What is a greater challenge is elucidating the architecture of secrecy 
related to UFOs (see the exposition of this matter contained in the paper 
entitled "Unacknowledged" by this author). But the greatest challenge is 
explaining the 'why'. Why all the secrecy? Why a 'black' or unacknowledged 
government within the government? Why hide the UFO/ET subject from public 
view?

Over the past few years I have had the responsibility of briefing senior 
government and scientific leaders both in the US and abroad on the 
UFO/Extraterrestrial subject.

The evidence regarding this subject is clear and overwhelming: It has not 
been difficult to make a compelling case for the reality of UFOs per se. 
What is a greater challenge is elucidating the architecture of secrecy 
related to UFOs (see the exposition of this matter contained in the paper 
entitled "Unacknowledged" by this author). But the greatest challenge is 
explaining the 'why'. Why all the secrecy? Why a 'black' or unacknowledged 
government within the government? Why hide the UFO/ET subject from public 
view?

The 'what' or evidence is complex but manageable. The 'how' or nature of the 
secret programs is more difficult, much more complex and Byzantine. But the 
'why' - the reason behind the secrecy'- is the most challenging problem of 
all. There is not a single answer to this question, but rather numerous 
inter-related reasons for such extraordinary secrecy. Our investigations and 
interviews with dozens of top - secret witnesses who have been within such 
programs have enabled us to understand the reasons behind this secrecy. They 
range from the fairly obvious and straight-forward to the really bizarre. 
Here, I wish to share some key points regarding this secrecy, why it has 
been imposed and why it is so difficult for the controlling interests within 
covert programs to reverse policy and allow disclosure.

In The Beginning

In the early days of the ET/UFO phenomena, military, intelligence and 
industrial interests had concerns regarding the nature of the phenomena, 
whether it originated from our human adversaries and once it was determined 
to be extraterrestrial, how the public would react.

In the 1930s and 1940s this was no small matter: If these UFOs were of 
terrestrial origin, they would be evidence of an earthly adversary with 
technological devices far in advance of US aircraft. And once it was 
determined to be extraterrestrial (some quarters knew this prior to the end 
of WWII) there were many more questions than answers. To wit: why were the 
ET s here? What are their intentions? How do the devices travel at such 
fantastic speeds and through the vastness of space? How might these 
technologies be applied to the human situation -both in war and in peace? 
How would the public react to this knowledge? What effect would the 
disclosure of these facts have on human belief systems? Political and social 
systems?

From the late 1940s through the early 1950s, a concerted effort was made to 
figure out the basic science and technologies behind these spacecraft, 
primarily through the direct study and reverse-engineering of the retrieved 
extraterrestrial objects from New Mexico and elsewhere. It was immediately 
recognized that these objects were using laws of physics and applied 
technologies far in advance of internal combustion engines, vacuum tubes and 
the like. In the climate of the Cold War and in a world where a relatively 
minor advantage technologically could tilt the balance of power in the 
nuclear arms race, this was no small matter.

Indeed, the theme of human geo-political dysfunction appears as a recurring 
feature of the secrecy related to UFOs - up to the present hour. More on 
this later.

From the Wilbur Smith top secret Canadian government document of 1950, we 
know that this subject was held in greater secrecy than even the development 
of the hydrogen bomb. There was a tremendous effort underway by the late 
1940s to study extraterrestrial hardware, figure out how it operated and see 
what human applications might be made from such discoveries. Even then, the 
project dealing with this subject was extraordinarily covert.

It became much more so by the early 1950s when substantial progress was made 
on some of the basic physics behind the ET craft energy and propulsion 
systems. The best we can estimate, it was then that the entire project 
became increasingly 'black' or unacknowledged.

The compartmentalization of the project dealing with UFOs was exponentially 
increased by the early 1950s when it was realized what it was that these 
covert projects actually had: Devices displaying physics and energy systems 
which - if disclosed - would forever alter life on earth.

By the Eisenhower era, the UFO/ET projects were increasingly compartmented 
away from legal, constitutional chain-of-command oversight and control. This 
means that -while we know from witness testimony that Eisenhower knew of the 
ET craft - the president ( and similar leaders in the UK and elsewhere) were 
increasingly left out of the loop. Such senior elected and appointed leaders 
were confronted with (as Eisenhower called it) a sophisticated 
military-industrial complex with labyrinthine compartmented projects which 
were more and more out of their control and oversight. From direct witness 
testimony we know that Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter and Clinton were 
frustrated by their attempts to penetrate such projects.

This is also true of senior congressional leaders and investigators, foreign 
leaders and UN leadership. This is indeed an equal opportunity exclusion 
project - it does not matter how high your rank or office, if you are not 
deemed necessary to the project, you are not going to know about it. Period.

Contrary to popular myth, since the 1960s concern over some type of public 
panic when faced with the fact that we are not alone in the universe has not 
been a major reason for the secrecy. Those in the know -notwithstanding the 
fantastic tales spun in UFO circles and on the X-Files -understand that fear 
of hostile ET s has also not been a significant factor. While there has been 
continued confusion in some covert circles over the ultimate purpose behind 
the ET phenomena, we know of no knowledgeable insiders who regard the ET s 
as a hostile threat.

By the 1960s - and certainly by the 1990s - the world was very familiar with 
the concept of space travel and the popular science - fiction industry had 
thoroughly indoctrinated the masses with the idea of ET s from far away 
being a possibility. So why the continued secrecy?

The Cold War is over. People would hardly be shocked to find out that we are 
not alone in the universe ( the majority of people already believe this - in 
fact most people believe the UFOs are real). Besides, what could be more 
shocking than to live through the latter half of the 20th century with 
thousands of hydrogen bombs aimed at every major city in the world? If we 
can handle that, surely we can handle the idea that ET s are real.

The facile explanations of fear, panic, shock and the like do not suffice to 
justify a level of secrecy so deep that even the President and his CIA 
Director could be denied access to the information.

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