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(4357)  Sat 4 Jan 92 11:48a
By: Charles Mcgrew
To: All
Re: Re: Why Would Gov't Hide Info.
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From: mcgrew@porthos.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
Date: 4 Jan 92 06:19:20 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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        yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff) writes:
        Why would the U.S. government hide info regarding UFOs from
        the public?

        What would they gain?


... well, there are many levels of answers; here are a few:

1) The US government classifies many things, some for non-obvious
reasons (some would argue for no reason at all).  The White House food
menus are classified ("Secret"), for instance.  They might classify it
merely because someone decided it should be done.

2) Presuming that crashed and/or retrieved UFOs existed, on a purely
planetary level, the government would not want other governments (e.g.
Soviet, Iraqi, Libya) to know that the US has "the goodies", or what
the goodies are.  In this country, with an unsupervised press, to keep
things from the bad guys, one must also keep it from one's own people.
The government does this with Stealth technology, and spy satellite
technology for instance.

3) Other contributors to this list have pointed out the "cultural
shock" aspects (to which past terrestrial examples wouldn't hold a
candle).  Consider the technical aspects (imagine you were a molecular
biologist who had been working all your life on a problem, to get
close, and then be handed the answer literally from out of the blue --
kind of make you feel like your whole life was a waste, wouildn't
it?); the political aspects; even the religious aspects.  It might be
that the powers-that-be are waiting, holding back such information
until the time is right (whenever that is).  You might think of this
as a sort of a "Prime Directive" in reverse.

4)  It might be that there is some sort of threat associated with
UFO's (though I tend to doubt this), and such information is being
withheld to avoid useless panic and upheaval.

5) The government might keep evidence and documentation (and perhaps
even witnesses) secreted in a remote location (descriptions of various
Cheyenne-Mountain-like places have surfaced from time to time).  The
government is certainly capable of construction and operation of
facilities that are unknown to the public; underground, on islands,
in Alaska, etc..

... it might seem that some sort of "right to the truth" would
override such, but it always depends on your point of view.


        Secondly, how would they hide this info, without people
        hearing the truth from other goverments around the world?

... well, it might be that the ONLY crashed/retrieved UFOs were within
the USA, in which case there wouldn't be any other government's
information to find out.

    Or, it might be that all governments "in on the secret" are
keeping what they have and know to themselves so that other
governments don't know (or are not sure) what they've got.

    Or, it might be that all the governments concerned have agreed
amongst themselves not to release whatever is held.

    All this is not so unplausible.  A recent example is the existance
of  "Ultra", from WWII, whose existance was rumored but unproven until
the automatic-declassification-rules came into effect.

Charles

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