aliens are NOT real, page 3

Originally posted by Rubyteacup
It is my feelings that the reason that aliens and UFO sightings started in the 1940s was because of all the secret government projects. Being abducted by so-called aliens or creatures from outer space is a fantastic cover for CIA operations.

The documentation and actions of the CIA, Air Force and other agencies is not consistent with the theory that aliens are only a cover story, in my perspective.

In the late 40s, the CIA and Air Force were genuinely worried and interested in UFOs. We now know this thanks to declassified documents and FOIA requests. Not because the CIA/AF leaked it or made it's position known. In reality, they even tried to conceal it's interest in UFOs.

They also infiltrated and monitored UFO organizations; they visited witnesses and suggested that they would not make their sightings public; they set up panels and investigations with the real purpose of trying to explain away and debunk the sightings.

How did those actions help them building up "the alien cover story"?

CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90:

(1952) Although it had monitored UFO reports for at least three years, CIA reacted to the new rash of sightings by forming a special study group within the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) and the Office of Current Intelligence (OCI) to review the situation. Edward Tauss, acting chief of OSI's Weapons and Equipment Division, reported for the group that most UFO sightings could be easily explained. Nevertheless, he recommended that the Agency continue monitoring the problem, in coordination with ATIC. He also urged that CIA conceal its interest from the media and the public, "in view of their probable alarmist tendencies" to accept such interest as confirming the existence of UFOs.

Upon receiving the report, Deputy Director for Intelligence (DDI) Robert Amory, Jr. assigned responsibility for the UFO investigations to OSI's Physics and Electronics Division, with A. Ray Gordon as the officer in charge. Each branch in the division was to contribute to the investigation, and Gordon was to coordinate closely with ATIC. Amory, who asked the group to focus on the national security implications of UFOs, was relaying DCI Walter Bedell Smith's concerns. Smith wanted to know whether or not the Air Force investigation of flying saucers was sufficiently objective and how much more money and manpower would be necessary to determine the cause of the small percentage of unexplained flying saucers. Smith believed "there was only one chance in 10,000 that the phenomenon posed a threat to the security of the country, but even that chance could not be taken." According to Smith, it was CIA's responsibility by statute to coordinate the intelligence effort required to solve the problem. Smith also wanted to know what use could be made of the UFO phenomenon in connection with US psychological warfare efforts.

I'm not saying the CIA/AF didn't use (and uses) UFO sightings as cover stories for some of their secret operations and aircraft, but I think that only came after they (secretly) studied and investigated the phenomena, and eventually realized the potential of such cover as psychological warfare - especially when a lot of people were reporting the U-2 as UFO sightings.

Don't you find it strange that all the alleged military witnesses, from Roswell for example, during their military lives kept saying there was nothing to it, it was a weather balloon or military projects, and when they're out of the military or near their deathbeds decide to come out and say they actually witnessed alien aircraft and/or bodies?

Why didn't these people, while working for the military/intelligence agencies, helped building up the "alien cover story"? Why now that they're out of the their governmental jobs, at the end of their lives, decide to participate in the "Global Elite's alien cover story"?