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name='badeskov' date='Nov 21 2006, 02:20 AM' post='1433865']
Ain't that the truth

But here I seriously beg to differ. A cover-up of such proportions would be impossible to hide.
Not really! After all, the Air Force had no problem convincing many people for 47 years that a weather balloon was responsible for the Roswell incident and then in 1994, the Air Force admitted that no weather balloon was involved in the Roswell incident. It's 1997 Roswell report was yet another attempt to cover-up the Roswell incident and that report was so bad, I have to put in on the same level as the old Sci-Fi movie;
"Plan Nine From Outer Space" and that movie was so bad it became a classic for that very reason.
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And in addition it would spark a radical change geopolitics and defense politics. Who would care if Iran or North Korea obtained nuclear capabilities. We would suddenly have something that freely could roam our airspace without challenge and they could have hostile intentions.
If ET had hostile intentions, we would have known about it by now, but as the facts have it, it has also been mankind who has been firing the first shots, if the 'Battle of Los Angeles' and numerous other aerial encounters are to be taken into consideration in addtion to the headlined news back during the 1950's that the Air Force ordered its pilots to shoot down 'flying saucers.' Seems that it was the Air Force that wanted to play "shoot 'em up at high noon in Dodge City." but ET didn't want to play.
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<^>1952 Flying Saucer "Shoot Down" StoriesOn July 29, 1952, International News Service (INS) announced that the Air Force had ordered its jets to shoot down any flying saucers.
More on that storyhttp://roswellproof.homestead.com/ShootDown_INS_72952.htmlQUOTE
There would have been a massive buildup that has not occurred. It would most likely even dwarf the spendings during the cold war, and that is something that is not easily hidden. Secondly, as we have discussed before, where are the military assets looking beyond lunar orbit where ET would be found?
Actually, they don't need to look very hard, NORAD tracks hundreds of UFOs each year.
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Sorry, but this whole Government cover-up story simply doesn't make sense to me from a logical point of view.
It does to me because I was once part of a government cover-up but it didn't involve UFOs. I saw how easily the government was able to cover-up certain events surrounding the Korean Airliines 007 incident. It was a 'piece of cake' because all the government had to say was that it happen that way and the public would take its word regardless. Only those who were directly involved would know that it was a cover story for the real events.
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A similar situation would be when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit in 1957. The Soviet Union suddenly had the capabilities to put something in orbit, and could they put something in orbit they could also put it somewhere in continental united States. And there was a huge effort to catch up with the Soviets. In the ET analogy, it would correspond to the US government sweeping information of the Soviet capabilities under the rug and keeping it quite, while they at the same time would engage in no military buildup at all in this particular area.
Actually, the government summed it up with these few simiply words: UFOs do not pose a threat to the United States. The following are the Air Force's own words.
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Yes, they did. And it wasn't the first time, nor the last in which they have been caught red handed. However, they have to the best of my knowledge never been caught red handed with anything where a UFO could be ET. So either they are particularly good in this field or there is simply nothing to hide, except maybe to the UFO guise to draw the attention away from secret government crafts.
Want to see ET? Just ask the folks at Wright-Patterson AFB for a look
beneath the base but I don't know how far you will get because Senator Barry Goldwater tried and failed.
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<^>Senator Barry Goldwater's LetterMarch 28, 1975
Mr.Shlomo Arnon U.C.L.A. Experimental College 308 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, California 90024
Dear Mr.Arnon:
"The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request."
"It is still classified above Top Secret. I have, however, heard that there is a plan under way to release some, if not all, of this material in the near future. I'm just as anxious to see this material as you are, and I hope we will not have to wait too much longer."
Sincerely.
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