When it comes to conspiracy theories there are two that have been unshakeable over the past 50-60 years.
The UFO or then the “flying saucer” secrecy issue and the JFK assassination.
I’ll stay away from the JFK assassination because it goes in two different areas and far too many tangents. Lee Harvey Oswald either shot JFK and the governor sitting in the front seat or he did not. It’s that simple. If he did not then we have an issue still worthy of interest at the highest levels.
As for UFOs, that issue has been investigated to within an inch of it’s life. Recently the British Government released more UFO files once a secret pile of documents to the public. It will take months for the experts to rifle through these files for tidbits that will break off into books and lectures on the UFO circuit as well as the talk show circuit. The public however via the polls are in the overwhelming majority in the belief that we indeed are being visited by extraterrestrials which is just one explanation of some UFO reports. The other explanations go by the wayside as they’re not as spectacular as what is referred to as the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis or ET Hypothesis.
People and unfortunately the press ask incorrectly ” Do you believe in UFOs? “.
It’s not a belief issue. A UFO is only an Unidentified Flying Object but it’s become sloppily synonomous with extraterrestrial spacecraft. Mr. Stanton T. Friedman the most prominent UFOlogist in the field over the past 30-plus years and a bona fide nuclear physicist often states during his popular worldwide lectures that some UFOs are someone’s extraterrestrial spacecraft, emphasis on the word some.
That’s important to note for more than just one reason. The subject of UFOs encompasses every science we know of and as new sciences emerge they become applicable to the topic. Government stonewalling is so commonplace that it has now become legendary. I never ask government contacts regarding UFOs because I know exactly what to expect. I instead ask about the technical end of things and put those pieces together to get a framework and then more for a full bodied operating conclusion.
In the old days, well on up to the late 90’s, mentioning UFOs often led to one being hauled off to some psychiatric institution. While studying UFOs I noticed thousands of people I’ve spoken to personally who’ve suffered psychiatric incarceration and abuse for discussing UFOs. Now some persons needed attention I assure you as they were indeed not stable as mentally healthy, but to those who had no symptoms and were unlawfully incarcerated and fired on the job or had their businesses threatened they need to stand up.
There are a number of top notch organizations that effectively fight for the rights of persons treated harshly by psychiatric institutions. The biggest and best is CCHR or the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights www.cchr.org . They’ve been around forever and have done an awesome job at fighting for the rights of people who’ve suffered psychiatric abuse. They’re not a UFO organization by a long shot so don’t go piling in asking UFO debate jargon.
That’s one tool. The biggest shock to the psychiatric villains was when the late Harvard professor John E. Mack decided to investigate the UFO issue and in particular the alien abduction stories. Mack, head of the department at Harvard discovered after a thorough, scientific, field investigation that the people he’d investigated weren’t lying nor delusional. His findings can be found in his books and at his website. Here’s the quick Wikipedia version, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Mack.
Dr. Mack’s research came from a tenured professor of Harvard Medical. Harvard even went to the lengths of an unprecedented investigation into a tenured professor which led to Dr. Mack’s being allowed to continue his research. He was also very well funded, a rarity amongst UFO researchers. His life and work are musts if one investigates UFOs.
Why all the secrecy about UFOs? Two arguments here. One is that some UFOs are experimental government air and spacecraft. Loose lips sink ships, as the old saying goes. The second argument here is that far too many of we humans have such primitive belief systems in place that the overall conflict of ideals and realities of a foreign culture or foreign cultures from other worlds would de-stabilize us as a species causing disruptions in our lifestyles of an unprecedented level.
What kind of disruptions? You’ll have to wait for part 2 of this essay.
