Do you trust your government? There are many conspiracy theories out there today. Rather than presidential birth certificates and fake pentagon pictures, perhaps we had better concentrate on this one. Not only is our government involved but also the Brits and other governments around the world. The UFO question has been surfacing and resurfacing for years. Roswell is perhaps our best known incident as well as the reported UFOs circling the Capitol in 1952. Rendlesham Forest UFO incidents are also famous to most people who give any credence to UFOs.
Regardless of what people think about the possibility of alien beings, it should concern us that governments of the world want to protect us by withholding information. Apparently the governments want to protect us from mass panic.
UK National Archives is loaded with good information and a very interesting podcast.
From Huffington Post:
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an alleged UFO incident in the 1950s be kept secret to prevent “mass panic,” according to claims made public in the UK on Thursday.
According to reports, the grandson of one of Churchill’s personal bodyguards, wrote to the British Ministry of Defense in 1999 hoping to learn more about the incident. His account, along with Churchill’s claimed reaction, were among a new batch of files released from Britain’s National Archives, though the man’s
identity was not released.The letter describes how the man’s grandfather, who served with the RAF in World War II, was present when Churchill went to discuss a UFO sighting with Dwight Eisenhower. The incident involved an RAF reconnaissance plane, returning from France or Germany, that was said to have been intercepted by an unidentified metallic object near the English coastline.
As the Daily Mail reported, the letter read as follows:
“During the discussion with Mr Churchill, a consultant (who worked in the Cumbria area during the war) dismissed any possibility that the object had been a missile, since a missile could not suddenly match its speed with a slower aircraft and then accelerate again.
He declared that the event was totally beyond any imagined capabilities of the time. Another person at the meeting raised the possibility of an unidentified flying object, at which point Mr
Churchill declared that the incident should be immediately classified for at least 50 years and its status reviewed by a future Prime Minister.”A Defense Ministry official’s response from September, 1999 was also among the files. It reads: “It was generally the case that before 1967 all UFO files were destroyed after five years as there was insufficient public interest in the subject to merit their permanent retention.”
According to another note found among the new files, however, such claims were taken extremely seriously by Churchill and his staff. By 1957, ministers were commissioning weekly reports on UFO sightings from a committee of intelligence experts.
Six out of 16 reported sightings were still under investigation, though one was dismissed for lack of evidence while another was thought to be a weather balloon.
That note states:
“The remaining four incidents still under investigation are all radar sightings. In each, unusual behavior of the radar blips in terms of course, speed and heights were reported
Attempts are being made to trace the cause of these sightings to aircraft known to have been near, inexperienced operators or spurious echoes of unexplained origin.”
Great, more illegal ALIENS! ; )
Yup! There seems to be an endless supply from all directions.
SA, do you go to work this early every day?
No, I just lurk on the internet before getting ready to go. My brain is too drained to deal with it in the evening after ‘rush hour’ (now that’s an oxymoron).
I hope you don’t have a long commute and that you will retire soon. Then you will have longer lurking time.
When I was working, I was amazed at how much more time I had in the day when I transferred back to Manassas. It was like a new lease on life.
What intrigues me more about the possible existence of UFOs is the technology that would have to exist to make such craft possible. If real, then the ability to seemingly defy gravity is more mind boggling than the thought that other beings inhabit the universe. Living things are chemical based, and given billions of years those abundant base chemicals could combine by chance to produce a living substance that may eventually evolve, but technology is created by living beings and can’t happen by chance. We as living beings should at some point be able to duplicate the same technology, if it truly exists. The question still remains, does it exist?
That is intriguing. Mathematically, it makes sense that we aren’t the only sentient beings out there. But the idea of the technology being possible is mind-boggling. Of course, probably our ancestors circa civil war would probably think the same thing about our times.
I always wonder about other dimentsions that we haven’t yet discovered. I am a believer there.
@Moon-howler Amen to that. I’m finally working close to home again (and sometimes right at home), and I feel like I’ve gotten a chunk of my life back.
Speculating about extraterrestrial life is definitely more entertaining than the real news is lately.
Good for you, Emma. It really made a huge difference in my overall well-being. I was spending 2 extra hours a day commuting and didn’t even realize the stress it was causing me until I quit doing it.
I agree about the ET life. I had to take a break from reality. Although if Churchill was in on it, who knows. I found out several years before my mother died that my father said he saw a UFO. My father was not given to that kind of fancy. I asked why I was never told and she said he didn’t want to scare me. I was a kid at the time of this sighting.
Lots more crop circles recently also. I guess those are hoaxes.
Yes, with the innovation that we fund in China, India and other places, we will discover new technologies. Unfortunately, we will not find those discoveries in the US, as we oursource all those jobs that create innovation.
Just look at the battery and solar industry, we have created the innovation outside the US.
MH, I have a very long commute, and couldn’t agree with you more about the liberating effects a shorter commute would provide. I don’t understand why companies haven’t applied today’s technologies to avoid the road congestion by telecommuting whenever possible. All we keep doing is building more roads. The corporate mindset must change. I travel miles to sit in front of a computer sometimes, DUH!
SA, why is it that employers can’t see how much money they would save if you just had to go in once or twice a week? Ridiculous to drive that far, sit in traffic, when you are on a computer anyway.
My husband used to always say he wanted to move every last agency and department out of Washington and out into the burbs and near burbs.
I think employers – who are generally older and often technological Luddites – are leery of telecommuting because they picture their employees watching soaps, drinking coffee while lounging in their pjs, and walking the dog. They don’t realize that work can be done efficiently while doing those very things. They’re afraid that someone will fail to do ten dollars worth of work and that they’ll be blamed. It’s easier to have the employee waste two hours in traffic. (They don’t realize that the guys/gals in the UFOs up there are having a good laugh at their expense.)
We just finished watching the X-files series–all nine seasons–through Netflix.
I hate how they ended the series, killing off the three lovable, loony conspiracy theorists.
Still…..I WANT TO BELIEVE!!!!!!!
@Moon-howler
Suburbs? Heck, lets move the Dept of Interior to Nebraska. Dept of State to Texas. Defense stays in DC, because of the Pentagon. Congress can telecommute. They can stay in their home districts. They just have to log on every day to vote. Executive and Justice stays in DC. Farm out the rest of the agencies to other states. Spread the wealth.
Watch the cost of government go down. And all of the incumbents decide to leave.
There really is no need for them to all be clustered in a federal city with telecommuting and messengers if need be. There is also that old fashioned device, the telephone.
Getting all the agencies and departments out of DC would also solve untold transportation problems.
And yet the Government is doing just the opposite – moving more and more feds to DC and into federal facilities and compounds like McNair, Belvoir, St. Elizabeth’s and others here and in say Indianapolis and Houston – the is list goes on. The two fundemental reasons are security and getting out of more expecnsive leased buildings.
I wonder if Obama as been to Area 51 yet — or if they let him go there yet. It would be one of my first trips eliminating plausible deniability.
PWC,
That’s where he keeps his birth certificate.
@PWC Taxpayer
Yet we would have more security if they were decentralized. And the MidWest has cheaper buildings. I know! Move them all to Pittsburgh. Lots of empty buildings there……
I, for one, welcome our secret alien overlords. As long as they eat me last.
TP, did other presidents go to Area 51? I know Jimmy Carter said he saw a UFO.
How about moving them to Detroit also.
Cargo, you are probably tough as shoe leather.
And I taste bad.
But crunchy and good with milk.
Its the crunchy part that gets me. Crispy or original?
Should all United States UFO information be released?
So bloggers, is our UFO data evidence of extra terrestials? Are people who say yes nut-burgers? Would extra terrestials necessarily want to harm us?
I’m truly an original……
but, I’m like a Kit Kat….crunchy on the inside.
Would ET’s want to harm us…..hmmm…..heck, ignoring us and taking our stuff would be harming us. Do we INTEND to harm bugs when we plow, harvest, or mine? They don’t have to even notice us to be dangerous. But if they really wanted to do us in, they don’t even need to show up to do it. Just toss a rock at us from orbit.
Is our data evidence of ET’s? Who knows? I mean, except for Elvis…….