Candace

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November 26, 2007

UFO Coverup: If We Know, We’ll Realize Government Can’t Protect Us

When Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich confirmed that he has seen a UFO, he joined the many millions of U.S. adults – 14 percent, according to a very recent AP/Ipsos poll – who say they also have seen UFOs.

Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, a Republican, is among this bipartisan group as well. During a recent news conference sponsored by the Coalition for Freedom of Information (www.freedomofinfo.org), Symington, also once a pilot, says he saw a UFO in 1997.

Coalition members include pilots, former top-level U.S. and other government officials, scientists and retired military officers. They are not tinfoil hat-sporting crazies by any stretch of the imagination. And they urge the U.S. government to take UFOs seriously enough to reopen Project Bluebook, the Air Force’s ostensible investigation into the reality of UFOs that ended in 1969 with a (surprise) negative finding.

The problem? Project Bluebook investigated UFOs in the same manner that the Warren Commission probed the assassination of President John. F. Kennedy. Each group began with a conclusion and culled only those “facts” that supported this preordained outcome, ignoring, dismissing or denying any and all other “facts” that pointed strongly to a different reading of events.

Another problem: The U.S. government continues to track and analyze reports of UFO sightings. Project Bluebook may have announced a public ending, but the investigation never stopped. It’s just that the government refuses to make its findings public and tries to discredit anyone who reports seeing a UFO or, even worse, being abducted by mystery beings.

It’s not hard to conclude that UFOs are genuine and point to the existence of beings other than humans who probably possess superior technology. It’s not even difficult to credit many claims of abduction by strange beings. An open-minded review of such claims reveals many credible stories.

Besides, human beings routinely “abduct” other species and keep them in laboratories or zoos to study. Why could not the same thing happen to us? The arrogant assertion that human beings are the only intelligent species in the entire universe is belied daily as we learn more about the high levels of intelligence and problem-solving capabilities in primates and cetaceans like dolphins and whales.

Nor is it tough to explain why the U.S. government would deny the existence of UFOs – or of the conspiracy to murder Kennedy. No government wants to admit to its own people or the rest of the world that it is powerless to protect its citizens from unidentified aircraft or a coup d’etat. Perish such heretical thoughts!

And we continue to experience and suffer from our own government’s powerlessness. Witness the initial Keystone Kops reaction to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Witness the widespread devastation of Hurricane Katrina that remains two years later. Witness the lack of results in locating those responsible for disseminating deadly anthrax germs in the fall of 2001. (This could be another instance of not wanting to investigate too thoroughly.) Witness the problems in coping with the recent outbreak of massive wildfires in Southern California.

How many more of these messages do we need until we realize that we cannot expect much help from the government in the event of calamity?

Truly, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. There are ways to prepare both practical and spiritual. Getting to know our neighbors is one prudent step. The only thing that does not serve us well is to deny what is right in front of our faces, rightfully demanding to be acknowledged and respected.

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