Flying Saucer Review August 1982 [antikvár]

A WARNING TO ALLF. LagardeMonsieur Fernand Lagarde is editor of the esteemed French journal ^LTd^n'CreiShion""" that follows is his editorial leader of LDLN for May-June 1982. Translation from French by Gordon Creighton.I HAD hitherto lept silent, despite numerous warnings from various quarters. Being, as I suppose I am, basically honest and indeed somewhat naive into the bargain, I had persistently relied upon the authorities of our country, including GEPAN, to keep us (at least in those cases where we had asked thein to do so) informed about UFO sightings that were already known to us and on which we ourselves had already taken part in the investigations.But today I can no longer be silent. 1 am constrained to record the fact that, like so many other investigators, I find my requests for information blocked absolutely, from start to finish. The replies they give us are various, and all of them are sufficiently revealing, such as, for example:-"The document in question is not available.""The report is held up.""We can't tell you anything.""We have no information.""Enquiries are not yet completed.""We have our orders."And, moreover, if our investigator arrives on the trail after certain officials have been that way, he hears the eyewitness say: "I have been forbidden to talk about it." We all know of course WHO has done the forbidding.On the other hand, if you are hoping to receive a few snippets of reports in exchange for the valuable documents which you have supplied to officialdom in furtherance of their investigations documents that have cost you money, and have cost you effort, then you will be disappointed, of that we can assure you. You will receive nothing for all your labours. Thev have no objection to taking froin you. But they don't like giving anything in exchange. The "Collaboration" is strictly one-way only.A new era has now begun. The Open Door Policy that began a few years ago, and that had given us grounds for hoping that it would lead to some fruitful collaboration, is well and truly over. Wc have now to face the fact that a lid, the lid marked secret, has come down on all official research. Sighting reports likely to be of interest to us no longer find their way to us. Allthat they give us now, from time to tiine, are reports of no possible interest whatsoever, that is to say, reports of cases wherein the eyewitness may possibly have been mistaken. We are already familiar enough with this technique, which had its beginnings in the USA, and today we are seeing, here in France, the satne sort of attempt to stifle all information about the UFO Phenomenon.This Policy of silence proves two things, at any rate:-(1) ft proves that something truly strange is indeed happening something that THEY don't want the public to know about, and something that Science is incapable of explaining.(2) It proves that every possible means is being employed to ensure that all those who devote themselves to the study of the UFO Phenomenon are cut off from all reports of any value. This is probably being done in order to squeeze them out, in the hope that they will finally get tired and will pack up and disappear, and leave the field free for the inisinforrnation and brainwashing tactics of officialdom.I have no idea who is responsible for all this, or to what length they will go with this stupid "scorched earth policy" of theirs, but it is becoming ever more clear that in fact we can no longer rely on anyone but ourselves, on our own efforts, on our own reporting network, and that, more than ever before, we are going to have to protect as much as we possibly can the anonymity of those few officials who do continue to supply us with information.We must not get discouraged, though, for freedom of expression still exists. Let us show these Masters of Silence that we are quite capable of getting along without any collaboration from them, and that we know perfectly well how to do so.So, let us bend to the task, and redouble our efforts, if we want to be coi rectly informed about this UFO enigma, this greatest mystery of all times and all ages, with which mankind finds itself todav confronted.