From: spani@mprgate.mpr.ca (Leonard Spani)
Date: 29 Jul 93 01:11:40 GMT
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada

You never know...

Here is some more *speculation* that has come out of my insomnia induced
stupor. As before, this is just off the top of my head and I haven't done
any research to back it up in any way. It's just food for thought.

I was pondering the reasons that the US government could possibly have
for creating/encouraging belief in UFOs, and I came to the conclusion
that they would have lots of *very* good reasons for doing so. They must
absolutely love UFOs and the people that *believe* in them.

Here is my reasoning (please remember this is *pure* idle speculation):


Let's say that the US government created the following "events", or
at least gave them a little spin afterwards:

  - Gulf Breeze and the Gulf Breeze 6 
  - Roswell and/or other crashes
  - Bentwaters
  - certain abduction cases (Budd's latest? ;^)


Then they creates the following to support/rewrite the above events:

  - the MAJESTIC-12 papers 
  - various FOIA releases 
  - "witnesses"


At the same time they could prevent the subject from ever being
taken seriously (by scientists, politicians and other people that
could "hurt" them) by:
 
  - planting UFO tabloid stories (I think that some of the tabloids
    must be on their payroll ;^)
  - encouraging/supporting "bad" UFOlogy groups/lecturers
  - paid "debunkers" (as opposed to skeptics)


This entire approach could produce a general belief in UFOs (read 
flying saucers in this case) in the general public, while scaring off
most people who could really mess things up for them. In short, most
people would believe that UFOs are alien craft, but nobody would really
take the subject seriously.


Here are some of the benefits the US government could recieve from such
a disinformation program:

  - "black" aircraft projects that behave/look in any way like a UFO
    are protected from discovery. (Hudson Valley?)

  - they can violate any other nations air space if they can look/act enough
    like a UFO. (At least any other nation that believes in UFOs - like
    Belgium for example) 

  - they can test dangerous technology secure in the knowledge that UFOs
    will get the blame, and little official investigation. (i.e. the
    Cash/Lundraum (sp?) incident, the guy in Manitoba(?) who was "grilled"
    by a UFO -- sorry I don't have any references with me)

  - if a secret project does crash, all they have to do (if they are lucky)
    is close off the area, truck away the debris, throw a few little grey
    dolls around, create a witness, start some rumours, and be sure to 
    say "Wright-Patterson" really loud a few times.

  - abductions (even if they are real) could provide plenty of cover for
    any number of illegal kidnappings and/or experiments in psychological
    or electronic warfare. 
 
  - they could test lethal electronic beam weapons on human beings in poor
    third world countries without fear of getting blamed (i.e. in one
    of Vallee's books he documents some Brazillian cases that sound like
    maser weapons tests.)

  - the small part of the government that was in on the UFO conspiracy
    would find their extremely high security clearances very useful in
    hiding "things" from the rest of the government. They could do virtually
    anything they wanted with no accountability. (sorry - I'm really stretching
    it on this one ;^)

  

I better stop now. ;^)


Leonard.