(4357) Sat 4 Jan 92 11:48a By: Charles Mcgrew To: All Re: Re: Why Would Gov't Hide Info. St: Sent Reply to 4301 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @UFGATE newsin 1.27 From: mcgrew@porthos.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew) Date: 4 Jan 92 06:19:20 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Message-ID: Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors 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 --- ConfMail V4.00 * Origin: Paranet(sm) - The world's leading UFO Investigative News Network @SEEN-BY 104/422 428 605 107/816 30163/100 150 1012/3 @PATH: 30163/150 104/422 (1:30163/150)