reply to post by ignorant_ape
I will give my personal example again...
I saw a UFO while in flight, while WORKING. I'm a airline pilot. Me, and my crew, witnessed the whole thing and it was real, for all of us.
After that event, upon landing, I asked "should we send the UFO report out so they can handle it?".
The response from my captain at the time was cold and simple:
No. Shut up.
You know why? Because if I opened my mouth, this could bring media attention. I would be in interviews, giving my face and testimony, putting my pilot
expertise in jeopardy, and my personal mental integrity, and the integrety of my crew.
Maybe I would be clapped, and people would marvell at my case. Maybe I would be humiliated. If so, do you know what my employer would do? Dismiss
me.
I have the stripes on my shoulders and I REPRESENT my company. I have to look good, with nice shoes, nice shirts and very well handle cloaths.
Do you think my company would keep in service a pilot that is considered a joke?
Just look at the JAL case, and you'll see what happened to the
CAPTAIN who is only a
CAPTAIN. When you are a pilot...you are a pilot.
But a captain has a different status quo in any company, and he was fired from that cargo company.
I love my child, and I love my wife. I don't want to have them in some type of hard time just because I reported a UFO and media looked into it.
But when I'm retired, and I have a secure paycheck at the end of the month, every month, and they can't take that way from me, and when my child is
grown up and have their own paycheck and can't be fired because they have nothing to do with the case, maybe I will speak up. I have nothing to
loose.
Now? I have. I have a lot to loose. I'm a young pilot, with a LOT to prove, and I have some medals on my chest, and I still have that much to prove.
Something like being considered a "UFO guy" would RUIN my career.
Why is that so hard to understand?
Is easy for you to judge when you are in a forum, behind a PC. But when your life(job/reputation) is on the line, its not easy to take the decision of
coming forward and take such a huge risk.
That's why I applaude standing up ANYONE that speaks up regarding the consequences.
But that means that the ones who don't speak when the things happen, are cowards? No. Not at all.
Althouth it is important to mankind, it's not worth it for you to fall in humiliation and misery just because you told a UFO sighting/story to the
public.
[edit on 7/10/09 by Tifozi]
[edit on 7/10/09 by Tifozi]
