reply to post by internos
Be that as it may, I do take issue with his following, sort of naive statement:
Considering the many precedents to date, this compiler’s recommendation is that active local UFO students formally contact their air force or
defense staffs to provide the following arguments:
Skeptical Ed: "What's a local UFO student? Most UFO enthusiasts are us, already 'older' people. We're not really student as I graduated a
million years ago(!) and you ATS members of this forum are not local nor students. And who do we contact? Ghostbusters? C'mon, there are no air
force or defense staffs for us to contact to provide any arguments. We are not listened to which is why the 'Disclosure' movement sprang up and
it's composed mainly of professionals. The 'Disclosure' is a little late since Lawrence Fawcett, Barry J. Greenwood started the 'movement' in
1984 by bugging the gov't agencies with FOIA requests which resulted in the book 'CLEAR INTENT.'"
(1) UFO phenomena represent no threat to national security; therefore it is not a military concern
SE: "Do you really think that Uncle Sam doesn't think that the airspace above the U.S. is free and open to just anyone that wants to violate it?
Uncle Sam hasn't been able to do anything about UFOs but I'm sure it wishes it could. As far as our military, UFOs are a military concern.
They're just helpless."
(2) UFO investigation must be left exclusively to science, by methodology, approach and instrumentation
SE: "And just what are scientists going to investigate? There's nothing to bring to the lab. UFOs are not amenable to allow scientists any
headroom and they're not going to sit around and wait for scientists to approach them. They're not approachable! UFOs are here one moment and gone
the next. They don't stand still!"
(3) To withhold information is hardly compatible with a democratic policy
SE: "This is pure ideological thinking and plain naive. First, we are not a democracy, we are a republic (...and the republic for which it stands.)
And the government sets policy much to our dismay. We don't make policy, it's out of our hands. If we're not happy with the policies the U.S.
gov't enacts, tough!"
(4) Many countries in the world, both large and small, have already made public their UFO records
SE: "Except there's no way of knowing just how much they release and how much they don't release. Our gov't has released tons of
documents, usually involuntarily. But they're out there in books and on the Intenet."
[edit on 31-10-2009 by Skeptical Ed]
[edit on 31-10-2009 by Skeptical Ed]






