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What I find interesting is that these documents were classified at all if there was nothing to them. I'm sure some of the documents can be tied to secret test
by wahsd 12y ago
What I find interesting is that these documents were classified at all if there was nothing to them.
I'm sure some of the documents can be tied to secret test flights, but why classify and keep secret the rest of the documents. I wish someone would ask that question, what if any justification was there for classifying them in the first place.
Edit: Looking at some of the documents, it seems that many of the reports of sightings are essentially people reporting celestial bodies, aircraft, or weather phenomenon. I am rather certain that there is really absolutely nothing in here to be found. This strikes me as the equivalent to clearing out filing cabinets of useless documents. It's probably a matter of finding the needle that may or may not have slipped through in a huge haystack.
Mildly amusing statement from one of the more interesting reports I cam across (Last Report, last page): "...leads me to believe, or at least to suspicion, that the accusations of NEGLIGENCE
heaped upon you (as individual officers in Bluebook and collectively by some independent investigators in recent years may not be entirely unfounded."
http://projectbluebook.theblackvault.com/documents/1960s/1967-06-7365317-Austin-Texas/1967-06-7365317-Austin-Texas.pdf http://projectbluebook.theblackvault.com/documents/1960s/196...
- jdietrich 12y agoInformation is classified by default, and only ever declassified when there is a high degree of confidence that the information is no longer sensitive. The concern almost certainly has nothing to do with the possibility that someone might have seen an alien spacecraft, but the risk of revealing information about military aircraft movements.
- Thrymr 12y agoIt has been alleged that the US Air Force actively encouraged UFO conspiracy theories to draw attention away from secret weapons programs. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_Men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_Men