Marc Berry

Government UFOs

March 24, 2007 |  8 comments
Image Credit: JS Henrardi, 1990 We recently watched UFO: The Secret Evidence, presented by defense journalist Nick Cook. In the made for TV movie, Mr. Cook gives a fairly good overview of the modern UFO phenomenon, starting with Roswell and extending through the decades to our modern day. Overall, I found it quite good, except for one small point: Mr. Cook seems to have come to the conclusion that the vast majority of UFO sightings were manufactured by the American government.The rationale is roughly as follows: the Americans are continually working on top-secret projects, many of which are new aerial craft such as the stealth bomber. What better way to disguise and confuse the evidence of their existence, than to blame it all on space aliens? I know it sounds silly, but there is an element of believability to the case, especially as Nick Cook builds it. There is, however, one problem with his argument: it does not take into account historical UFO evidence that predates Roswell. Accounts and evidence that stretch back through the Renaissance, all the way into ancient Egypt and the early Mesopotamian civilizations.

So what then is the truth of the matter? Is Mr. Cook just another conspiracy theorist? Is the American government manufacturing UFO stories? Do interstellar space craft really visit our small planet? Probably all of the above. Here's what I think: I believe that these strange sightings are often alien visitors to our planet. I also suspect that Mr. Cook, as a defense journalist, could not have arrived at any other conclusion, subject to his own research in the matter. I also believe that the government (any government) is not above re purposing the truth to serve their own ends.

Allow me to give you a simplified version of my theory, starting with the assumption that UFO's are real. Now imagine that you are a nation developing new aerial craft, craft that you don't want your enemies to know about. What do you do? Simple, really: you just start a project or two to look into anomalous phenomenon, and at the project's conclusion you make some general denials, interspersed with phrases like "most of the objects could be explained by..." and "In most of the cases examined...", but remain absolutely silent on the other objects, the ones not encompassed by words like "most". That gets the ball rolling. Then, once in a while, a high ranking (anonymous) official comes forward and says, "You have been lied to!", and points a finger at a person or place that you can't possibly reach or verify, and cites it as proof. This official may or may not have been prompted by you (the government) to do this.Once the ball is rolling, it is virtually impossible to stop. Anything anyone says or does, or conversely, doesn't say or do, simply fuels the conviction that something is going on. Deny it, and you are a liar. Endorse it and it's proof. The believers will believe, no matter what, because you have tapped into their need to believe in something greater than themselves. And that's ok, just as long as that something does not involve your super secret spy plane project. The end result is the same, the truth of UFO's has been re purposed to hide your activities from your enemies.

I understand that countries need to keep secrets. As long as there are enemies and war, it will be such. It's just that, in my book, re purposing the truth is just another way of telling a lie. I may be naive, but I think that there must be a better way to keep a secret than using people's fears and beliefs against them, because the need to believe is fundamental to humanity. The fear in this matter is that if my theory is correct in even the smallest part, and a simple truth has been perverted into a lie, it then has clouded the field for research into legitimate UFO sightings, making it that much harder to reveal the greatest truth of them all: We are not alone.

MBerry is co-founder of NewBranes.com, a blog covering all aspects of the paranormal.
His ultimate long term goal is to discover the General Unified Theory of Everything Weird.
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