Flying Saucer Review October 1984 [antikvár]

UFO or worse still a UFO occupant. Lives have been ruined, health has been wrecked, careers and jobs have been lost. Those who recall the history of these thirty-seven years of UFO research will know the bitterness so many have felt at this brutal and callous slander.Hitherto let us now confess it we had been ninnies, and naive enough fondly to imagine that, given Lenin's oft-repeated words in praise of lying asthe supreme art of life, the Kremlin and the Boys of the YMCA sorry, KGB! really HAD got everyone else licked into a cocked hat when it came to the noble skill of "terminological inexactitudinarianism", and that nobody else could dare to compete. But now we see how wrong we were! We see that in fact insofar as our subject is concerned there has never been any appreciable difference between the two camps.They are all "revolving double-breasted liars".MORE TELL-TALE PHOTOSTATSIn a recent issue (FSR 29/5) we gave several photostats of some very interesting American ofBcial documents relating to UFOs. They concerned a case that happened quite recently in 1980. But the five documents which we propose to reproduce below date right back to the period of 1947-1950 in other words right back to the very beginnings of the "UFO Problem".During the past few years between 3,000 and 4,000 pages of previously classified (many of them "TOP SECRET") documents have been released to indefatigable American civilian investigators by no less than eight major American Governmental Bodies, namely the State Department, the Departments of the Navy and of the Army and of the Air Force, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the even more secret National Security Agency (NSA), and the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA). What does this mean? It means that these eight bodies in America and possibly other top-secret organisations in America of which the public has as yet no inkling have all been busy, for at least the last 37 years, collecting and compiling secret reports about the sightings and activities of the "flying saucers" those objects which these same Governmental agencies have been telling us for the past 37 years do not exist and are merely figments of the addled brains of a horde of lunatics like ourselves.These more than 3,000 pages carry the expert testimonies of scientists, Military and Intelligence officers, law enforcement officers, and other responsible folk all on the subject of UFOs.Almost two-thirds of these documents have come to light through the unrelenting efforts of American civilian UFO researchers such as Larry W. Bryant, Charles Huffer, Dr Bruce Maccabee, Brad Sparks, Robert Todd, W. Todd Zechel and last but not least! Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood, joint authors of the most important book yet written on the UFO mystery, CLEAR INTENT, which was published this summer by Prentice-Hall Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, USA, Price $8.95 paperback.The Freedom of Information ActAll of these people operated by the laborious method of filing requests for UFO material, from these various bodies, under the terms of the American Freedom of Information Act. Approximately one-third of the documents thus winkled out were released as the result of lawsuits handled by attorney Peter Gersten on behalf of an Arizona UFO study organization, Ground Saucer Watch. Other suits for the release of UFO documents were filed against the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and various other American federal bodies.The NSA are claimed to have located 239 UFO documents in their files which they refuse to release, plus 79 more orginating from other Government agencies, all unnamed, and all of whom also refuse to permit their documents to be released.CAUS versus NCAThe most important of the lawsuits was heard in a U.S. District Court (CAUS Citizens Against UFO Secrecy versus The National Security Agency.) The NSA produced a 21-page top-secret Affidavit, which they permitted the Judge to read but not to divulge. In due course this Affidavit, which dealt with their UFO material, was indeed "released", but with virtually every scrap of information about UFOs censored out of it. And the U.S. Courts have ruled that the operations of the National Security Agency of the USA are EXEMPT from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.Nevertheless, enough has now been winkled out from the CIA, FBI and the other agencies to show that, for almost 40 years, the UFO Problem has been a cause for the gravest concern on the part of the American Government and therefore no doubt of other governments too, and is still regarded as carrying "serious implications for national security".In other words, the well-being, and even the future survival, of Homo Sap, may he in the balance.