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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: Government coverups
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:54:57 GMT
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- In article <C1Gw8H.KG@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk> u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk (N.M. Humphries) writes:
- >Michael Saleeba (zik@zikzak.apana.org.au) wrote:
- >> billp@mozart.amd.com (Bill Peterson) writes:
- >
- >> > 1) Something crashed. The Air Force doesn't want us all to know.
- >> > 2) The Air Force STILL doesn't want us to know. (Almost 50 years
- >> > later).
- >
- >> You see this sort of thing again and again, particularly in
- >> alt.alien.visitors - wild claims that the government or some part of
- >> it is trying to cover up information about UFOs. Now there's something
- >
- >It's not a question of what they have to _gain_ from a cover-up, rather what
- >they haveto _lose_. If the governments publicly acknowledge the existence of
- >UFOs there would be mass hysteria worldwide.
- >
- > Why? Let me put it this way. People will suddenly realise that all we
- >are are just little specks of dust when considering the universe. We're not
- >very advanced in our space travel or our defenses, so when we hear about UFOs,
- >we usually deduce that the things flying them are very advanced compared to us,
- >therefore have the weaponory to destroy us at the flick of a switch.
-
-
- Oh, ca-ca!! The vast majority of the world's population are
- religionists of one sort or another so they have ALREADY come
- to terms with the idea of beings in the universe VASTLY more
- powerful that us, and nearly incomprehensible in their motives
- and actions (God, or various gods).
-
- > And, unlike
- >nuclear weapons, we have _no_ defenses against UFOs _whatsoever_.
-
- More ca-ca. Since when do we have defenses against nuclear
- weapons? Get real - if there's a major nuclear war you and
- I both toast.
-
- Anyway, your comments are still mere speculation. You have
- provided not one shred of evidence for your views.
-
-
- ---peter
-