By Steve Hammons
For the
past several decades, robust secrecy and security have allegedly been in place within
the U.S. and international defense and intelligence communities about UFOs and extraterrestrial
visitation to Earth. Military pilots and others who had close encounters or
were curious about these topics were often told they did not have a "need to
know" about what might be going on.
Now,
however, that situation may have changed. Today, our duty might be to learn
more and become appropriately informed about extraterrestrial visitation and
other leading-edge research topics.
In the
past, national and global security may have depended on total secrecy. Or at
least that was a viewpoint for many years. If you didn’t have a need to know, you were probably expected to deliberately remain uninformed for national
security reasons as well as for your own personal career.
Yet, in
November 2012, it’s possible that national and global security could be
enhanced by greater awareness and understanding about UFOs and related
subjects. People in the defense and intelligence communities certainly bring
important and valuable skills and perspectives to these challenges.
What is
the current situation report or “sitrep” about UFOs and extraterrestrial
visitation?
TRYING
TO HANDLE THE SITUATION
This
past summer, a respected 35-year veteran of the CIA went public with his claims
of seeing materials at CIA headquarters that demonstrated to him that the 1947
Roswell incident really was the crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
This
CIA officer’s statements follow several years of increasing public discussions
and forums involving retired military personnel who have reported multiple
close encounters involving apparent intelligent spacecraft or other objects interfacing
with military aircraft, personnel and facilities.
But
these kinds of reports are not new. Several high-ranking military officials
publicly stated decades ago that UFOs are real. During World War II, glowing
orbs flying near U.S. military aircraft were dubbed “foo fighters” and
reportedly were photographed and investigated. The Army’s alleged
Interplanetary Phenomena Unit (IPU) was reportedly formed to research the
situation further.
Another
group, often said to be called Majestic-12, was allegedly formed at the highest
levels of the U.S. government following the Roswell incident. This group of
scientists and defense leaders coordinated investigations and secrecy on the
UFO topic, according to many researchers. When military personnel or others had
close encounters of some kind, reports were sent through certain chains of
command to Majestic-12, researchers allege.
Witnesses
were sometimes told to keep quiet and that the incidents they encountered “never
happened.”
Even
the Air Force’s Project BLUE BOOK, formed in 1952 and based in southwestern
Ohio at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, was actually somewhat of a cover for
other levels of activities regarding UFOs, according to some investigators. Reports
sent to and investigated by Project BLUE BOOK personnel may have been forwarded on
to Majestic-12 for further analysis.
Certain
military and intelligence personnel may have been screened and recruited to be
part of the efforts to handle the extraterrestrial visitation situation. People
involved in special operations, search and rescue/recovery, covert/clandestine
activities as well as scientific experts may have been brought into the
compartmented loop of UFO and extraterrestrial activities, and given an alleged
MAJIC security clearance level.
AWARENESS
AND UNDERSTANDING
While
previously there may have been a perceived duty of military and intelligence
personnel to ignore and not know about UFOs, today our duty may lie in gaining
greater awareness about this important area. This is probably true for the
general public as well.
But beyond
simple awareness that something very interesting is apparently going on, the
task of understanding what it all might mean seems to be a greater challenge. How do
the puzzle pieces fit together to give us some reasonably comprehensive picture
of the current situation? What do we have a need to know, or not know?
It has
been widely speculated that U.S. aircraft and spacecraft development may have
been enhanced by what has been learned in the study of UFOs that may have been
obtained and examined. Naturally, the details of secret aircraft development
are not appropriate for public disclosure. However, the broader overview of
this possible scenario might be worthwhile for us to be aware of.
Are
there dangers or risks to average people that are somehow related to the UFO
phenomena or other outside-the-box discoveries? That seems to be an area where
we would have a need to know.
Likewise,
can our lives be improved – maybe very significantly – by greater understanding
about these kinds of developments? Certain advanced technologies and knowledge
could help human understanding about a number of crucial issues facing humanity
and Planet Earth.
Thanks
to valuable research by people associated with and within the defense and
intelligence communities, we seem to be more ready to move forward to the next
stages of disclosure and education about UFOs and other advanced knowledge.
Our
duty to not know may have morphed into a duty to know … and understand.
