UFOs and Government Secrecy

I've been active in UFO research for many years. At one time I was the Photographic Adviser to a private organization (NICAP) which investigated reports of UFOs. I found many photos which turned out to be fake. Some people seemed to get their kicks out of sending in phoney pictures, claiming it was a UFO that they had seen and photographed. However there were many more photos and reports given by reliable people (astronauts, police officers, pilots, etc.) who reported seeing, and sometimes photographing these unknown objects.

It amazes me that there are still people who can doubt the reality of these objects. The reason most of the doubters give is that scientists say we can never live long enough to go from this planet to some other planet which is beyond our solar system and then return. This may be true considering our present level of knowledge about our universe. When it comes to space travel we are in the embryonic stage. Can you imagine what a cave man would have said if he saw a jet plane zoom over his head? He would have denied he had seen it and said it was impossible for a bird to fly so fast.

In our present embryonic stage of space travel it is not realistic for us to deny a reality we see, photograph, track on radar, just because we can't duplicate the event ourselves. The expanations that our government gives to explain away these sightings is harder to believe than the reports themselves.

FOR EXAMPLE: On April 30, 1962, America's ace test pilot, Major Joe Walker was behind the controls of the famed X-15. He was flying in excess of 2,000 miles per hour in the earth's upper atmosphere. After the flight, the film from his rear-view movie camera revealed that he had been followed by a group of five disc-shaped or cylindrical objects. Most of the time they were flying in echelon formation.

Major Walker mentioned this strange incident on an NBC broadcast from Seattle. The films were shown at a news conference there, however, no prints were released and Walker has not made any further public statements on the objects.

The official explanation which followed the broadcast was that the objects which had followed the X-15 at 2,000 M.P.H. and flew in formation were...
"ice flakes!"

The unbelievable nature of this official explanation is one of the things which has been causing UFO skeptics to take another look at Flying Saucers. One reporter shook his head incredulously upon learning of a recent official explanation for a UFO sighting. "If there's nothing to these UFO reports", he asked, "why do they issue such obviously impossible explanations?"

I welcome any resonse from people regarding this blog. I have many more examples I could give you which are even more outlandish.