CONTROVERSY CONTINUES UNABATED

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From:hatch@CompuTech.reno.nv.us
Title:CONTROVERSY CONTINUES UNABATED
Source:Electronic Engineering Times
Date:March 04, 1996


page 97:

On the heels of landmark UFO sightings in Washington State in late June

1947, a report two weeks later that an unidentified spacecraft had crashed

in Roswell, N.M., made worldwide front-page news. Though the U.S. Air Force

issued the report -- "remnants of a flying disk had been recovered" -- one

day later it officially changed that to say instead that an "errant weather

balloon" had been found. The controversy stirred up by those events

continues unabated.

"Ufologists" believe that there have been continuing and far-reaching

government cover-ups concerning just what U.S. and other worldwide security

agencies and their armed forces know.

And the Roswell incident continues to provide grist for their mill. The

Air Force helped by again changing its story in 1994, this time claiming

that the weather balloon was a sophisticated device involved in Soviet

satellite detection for a mysterious "Project Mogul." Before that, the late

1970s saw more witnesses come forward to discuss the so-called Roswell disk

as well as another "crash" in nearby Corona, that one apparently involving a

handful of dead or dying aliens.

A recent television special, "Alien Autopsy," shows what it said was

one of those dead aliens being autopsied. For 17 minutes, grainy,

out-of-focus black and white film showed either the real thing or one of the

better hoaxes of modern history, according to Hollywood special effects

people.

Similar controversy in UFO circles centers on Area 51, known as

"Dreamland." Government land about 95 miles north of Las Vegas, it is

surrounded by the Nevada Test Site and the Nellis Air Force Range.

Within the area is a large Air Force base that the government keeps

ultra-secure -- off-limits to even most military pilots.

The base has traditionally been America's testing ground for "secret"

aircraft, including the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes and the F-117A stealth

fighter.

But that's not what brings hundreds of travelers from around the world

to set up camp (and telescopes) to watch the skies there. Rather, it is

rumors of captured aliens, underground bases and alien-government technology

tests -- all of which have been claimed to take place in Area 51.

What is very real, however, is that when unauthorized visitors wander

across the unfenced military borders they are arrested by the "Cammo Dudes,"

the private security force that patrols the military border, wearing

camouflage fatigues and driving white Jeep Cherokees with government plates.

One answer to the question of why government agencies haven't produced

one shred of hard evidence of alien visitations or related technologies

could be the most obvious: there isn't any. But Stanton Friedland, a noted

Ufologist, said there are reasons for the authorities to keep a lid on such

information. "Governments," he said, "want to study the technologies they

find before the other guy does."

Or, he adds, there could also be an "economic discombobulation," where

new methods of ground and air transport, communications, agriculture, energy

and industrial production could begin development due to newfound alien

technologies. --- Larry Lange