reply to post by Lil Drummerboy
If it ever does come out in the open it will be by mistake and i doubt the person who who finds the smoking ray gun, as it were, will even be that
interested in UFOs. it will, i suspect come about when someone somewhere in the world has to apply for some form of permit for fishing/agriculture
whatever and it is such a rare request the civil servants dealing with it have to dig deep to find the relevant forms.
Whilst going about this the civil servant or the person themselves, maybe even in tandem, will most likely, end up in some obscure building rooting
through a filing cabinet stiff with age. In it stuffed at the back will be an innocent looking manila folder with a red stripe across the corner
marked Top Secret. Human nature will take over and the file will be opened and it will contain the details of some sighting, probably long forgotten
and most if not all of its' witnesses are now long gone or retired.
Reading the file will seem like something from the X-files but somewhere in that document there will a single sentence or quote that says something
to the effect of. "This was undoubtedly what is termed a UFO, a craft under intelligent control that is beyond any known human technology". There
might even be some sort of photograph that pretty unequivocally shows some sort of craft. There will be a short list of witnesses and possibly the
report will have been singed off by some , now long dead, member of the military...
The finders will know they have something potentially of huge importance or maybe think it is a joke. Whatever, the report will be slipped out of the
office and advice about it sought. It willl, in pretty quick time, find its' way onto the net after being scanned and someone will recognise the
names in the report.... at that point the whole thing will become a huge story. Depending on the country the files were discovered in will depend how
the Brass react. If it is Europe but not the UK, chances are that will be it. There will be a press conference and some ranknig officer will deliver
the news that... Yes.. on the .. of.... a craft was observed and the conclusion was..it was a genuine UFO and was of a technology unknown on earth at
the time. If it's the UK or the USA we will have the amusing sight of the military and politicians running round like headless chickens till someone
says. Sorry, we can't diss this one without totally losing all credibility and the good will of the public at large and eventually a press
conference will be called and they will begrudgingly confess it is genuine and yes it was a UFO...
The reason it will be found in some totally obscure ministry's office, is because it is the classic avoidance tactic used by Governments to avoid
handing papers over. Just in case someone demands the right to see a file and is granted that right, maybe by a court, they will hive off parts of
documents and whole files to some other ministry's archives using some nifty lateral logic for storing it there. They know that the chances of it
ever being found are minimal and they can technically tell the truth if asked for the file by saying .." We no longer have it". which is true as
their particular ministry doesn't have it as it was moved to another ministry's archive.
By the time it is discovered it will have been forgotten by all but possibly, the odd surviving witness. No one in current military, save for maybe
one or two will even know of the incident ever happening and none of the current crop of politicians will have clue it happened. I very much doubt any
Ufologist will have ever heard of the incident *officially*. although, it is a possibility one remembers being tipped off, many years ago, about an
incident they would be interested in involving the military... but nothing more was ever said to them.
So there you have it, how i think , if it happens, disclosure might come about.