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From: Ashley Rye <106064.3617@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 02:59:06 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 10:39:55 -0500
Subject: Stanton Friedman: The Coverup

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Let's ask Stanton Friedman if it is possible for the government to
completely cover up a story as earth-shaking as extraterrestrials?

SF:  I think it's extraordinarily easy.  In the first place, the good
tools for getting the best data all belong to the government.  They've
got the radar systems, the closed communication systems, the aircraft
loaded with instrumentation, the Air Defense Command and so forth.  And
all that data is born classified.  If you were to ask me as a physicist
what I'd like to do to find out about flying saucers, I'd say, well,
you've got to have a system to detect them, then you need another system
to monitor them once you've picked one up, then you want to communicate
back and forth and get guys up there with instruments as close as you
can when they're there.  The government's got all of that, and it's all
classified.  So, that's the first thing: they've got a closed system to
begin with.

Secondly, when we talk government, we imply--at least some people do
--that everybody knows and nobody's talking.  That's not how security
works at all.  I had a clearance for 15 years.  The "need to know"
concept is most important.  As an example of that, I was working on
radiation shielding for nuclear airplanes for General Electric.  I would
have liked access to secret restricted data on radiation shielding being
produced by Westinghouse for the nuclear submarine program.  I mean, a
shield is a shield.  You've got the same difficulties with light weight
and that sort of thing.  I didn't have a need-to-know for their data.  I
had the right level of clearance, but it got me nowhere.  So, the key is
compartmentalization, which was honed to a science during World War II
by some of the same people who were apparently involved with UFOs
post-War.  How did we keep the Manhattan Project secret as long as we
did.  Two billion dollars in 1942 money, tens of thousands of people
involved in the construction of enormous facilities that at one point
were using eleven percent of the electricity in the United States, to
blow uranium hexaflouride through little holes in a mile-long
building--and yet, it was kept secret.  Secrets are easy to keep, as
long as you control the detection systems, the communications systems,
and the interference systems, if you will.  I've talked to a number of
people who worked for Truman and Eisenhower.  Every single one agreed
that secrets could have always been kept, at least post-World War II.
No problem at all.

Perhaps UFO debunkers hope to protect the public from the disturbing
revelations that aliens have been here for as long as mankind has, or
longer. And that a certain faction of the Military and the Secret
Government have kept this information hidden from the public since at
least 1947.  The controllers of the UFO information must feel that it is
their patriotic duty to protect society from possible economic,
political and social disorder that would surely follow the Government
disclosures of ETs visiting Earth.

Although the case for the flying saucer reality is far better than the
case against most convicted criminals.  If you do it on an evidential
basis, you can look at things like Ted Phillips' collected information
on  over 4,400 physical trace cases from 66 countries.  These are cases
where the saucer is seen on or near the ground, and after it leaves, one
finds clear physical changes such as burn circles and burn rings,
landing gear marks, swirled vegetation, dried out soil, and so forth.
People say there is no physical evidence.  Well, if a footprint  and a
fingerprint are physical evidence, then the physical trace cases are
certainly physical evidence.  And the same things keep happening all
over the world.  The problem is most people are unaware of the evidence,
even though there is a preponderance of evidence.  Given the physical
trace cases, the radar sightings, the photographs and the eye-witness
testimony from people all over the world, we have quite sufficient
evidence to conclude that our planet is being visited by manufactured
objects behaving in ways that we Earthlings cannot yet duplicate, and
that therefore were produced someplace else."