Interesting video uploaded at youtube on May 8,2008:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=w2zLTRixEeA

One of the few serious discussions of UFOs by mainstream media in the 1950s.

Thanks for posting that video. It confirmed everything I have been asserting over the years.

Major Donald Keyhoe was aware of these two documents that I have brought up from time to time right here on this message board.



In the video, Major Keyhoe confirms what I have been asserting for years, that the reason for the UFO cover-up is because the government is very concerned about the panic.

I also was delighted that Major Keyhow brought up the 1938 "War of the World" panic, which is what I have also brought up a number of times as one of the reasons for the government cover-up. The other is the 1960 Brookings Institute's report to NASA, which painted serious consequences should ET reality be revealed to the world.



I have also stated that Major Keyhoe was cut off in the interest of national security.

Cool video. With a good explanation for why a government would want to withold information from the people.

Good lord. Some of you are just now realizing the social upheaval wrought by announcing we are not alone?
Civilization as we know it would panic, wither and die.
Imagine how many Christians would see aliens as minions of Satan? How many Jews would denounce aliens as agents of Satan, or as the Messiah? Muslims would surely denounce aliens as insults to Mohammed. The list goes on, to include atheists. On the flip side, some religions would worship them. And our world would tear itself apart as the arguments became violence.
Stock markets would crash. Millions would commit suicide out of fear or despondency. Allegations of aliens using humans as food, slaves or for medical experiments would run rampant.
And still, I see documentaries and internet posts where people demand their government "tell the truth" about UFOs and aliens. They don't have a clue what such a proclamation would do to the world.
If extraterrestrials have visited us, and perhaps they don't exist but I believe they do, I hope we don't know for sure until humans can accept it without going whacko. That will take decades yet, if ever.
Thank god the governments of the world are hiding the truth, if extraterrestrials exist.
Without their wisdom and discretion, billions would die from hysteria, disease, starvation and anarchy.
I just wish people would realize this. Remember, be careful what you ask for -- you just might get it!

I'm so glad that we have wise governments to decide what information I should have and what information would not be good for me. NOT

2 corrections. The program is from 1958,not 1953,and was filmed at ABC studios,not CBS.

You lose all credibility!!! J/k, thanks for the correction, even though I would not have noticed.

Are you serious? This was filmed in the 1950s, and confirms what you've been saying for years?! Considering the date it was made, I think it's the other way around!

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc850.htm
Check out that link, specifically this paragraph:

1/3 of those responding said they could handle it, but 1/4 thought everyone else would panic. The fact is, no one knows how we would react. But we do have some sort of precedence with paradigm shifts, if I can use that old buzzword, and one is when Copernicus brought about the heliocentric theory. The world didn't end, and people adjusted. I believe, unless something like an ID4, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or V sort of invasion comes about, we'd (meaning the world as a whole) adjust to the knowledge just fine. Certainly individual people would panic, but then individual people might panic when their favorite celebrity is voted off of Dancing with the Stars.

Sky, let me ask you this: you bring up all sorts of links and information from the 1940s-60s. Do you honestly believe the world hasn't changed since then?

I think the idea that civizilation would disintegrate into chaos at the proof of superior aliens is 100% totally ludicrous.

If the some government announced tomorrow that that they are in contact with aliens, the vast majority of people would say "WOW!" -- and then they would go right back to worrying about the price of gas, and their credit card debt.

In about one year, the alien story would be showing up on Page 11 of the newspaper.

It's true that there was some "Panic" during the War of the Worlds broadcast-- but they were telling people that the earth was being invaded in a violent manner. They would have panicked just the same if the show had told them we were being invaded by Mongolia.

But if it was announced tomorrow that we have proof of a superior alien race -- it would all depend on the nature of the contact. And even then, people would go right on livng their lives in a normal matter if there seemed to be no immediate ramifications, other than a few heated philisophical arguments about what it all means.

Personally, I think that people can take the truth, but in Alaska, an FAA official was told the reason for the secrecy was to not cause public panic. That, after the CIA sought to confiscate all documents, communication, and data tapes after a gigantic flying saucer, which the captain described that was larger than two aircraft carriers and smaller objects were visually observed and tracked on the radar systems of the Air Force and of the FAA. Two months later, an Air Force KC-135 encountered a similar object, which the aircrew also described that was larger than a ship. Later, another commercial aircraft encountered the object.

I think the President of the United States doesn't want to take responsibility for any possible conseqences once ET visitation is finally carried revealed because once he does so, there can be no turning back the clock and from that point on, the world will be changed forever; whether good or bad.

Currently, the govenment is coninuing on with its cover-up and I have predicted that within 15 years or less, that revelation will be made, but there are now government and former government workers who are distancing themselves from their own government and going public with what they know about UFOs because they don't want to wait 15 years for the truth about ET vistitation to be revealed.

It is just a matter of time before the government throws in the towel and make it public what it has been keeping from the public's eyes for decades, a point that I have been making for years after my own sighting over an Air Force base in 1968 in Vietnam that came from over the sea. Since then, General George Brown confirmed the objects over Vietnam.



I was sent on temporary duty (TDY) at Pleiku Airbase, Vietnam in 1969 from Hill AFB, UT, but left before that UFO incident took place months later. I might add that my base at Hill AFB was involved in the investigations regarding the Minuteman missile shutdowns that were caused by UFOs, so I know from firsthand experience that the govenment has been keeping the truth from the public about the reality of ET vistitation.

Once again, I'd asserted that I have been saying for years, that the government cover-up is in effect because it fears mass panic, but there are still government and former government workers such as myself who want the truth to be brought out and eventually, it will.



If you had checked it out, I have also asserted that I feel the public can handle the truth, but the government doesn't feel as I do.



Of course it has changed over the years, but is that going to change the fact that George Washington was our first president? Some things do not change over time.