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Serving as an object lesson to us all; towards the finale of the classic 1950’s Sci-Fi film, ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’, in which an alien spacecraft lands in an American city park, the line of dialogue, ‘Clatu barada nicto’, uttered by the heroine saves the Earth. By using this phrase from an alien language Brian Allan:
The Politics of the UFO
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an impassioned farewell speech delivered by the altruistic ET from the rim of the saucer immediately prior to his departure, earnestly pleading with us to abandon our aggressive tendencies, internecine rivalries, and most importantly the nuclear arms race, and live in harmony. The picture was very much of its era making a point that was, in turn, derived from the bone-chilling paranoia and fear generated by the Cold War. It admirably demonstrated that if we cannot coerce, defeat or understand something, we must of necessity fear and if possible destroy it. Sadly, over time and irrespective of how much we learn very little changes, except that we become even more proficient at killing one another.
One thing that sets the events depicted in the film apart from run of the mill accounts of other paranormal events, and make no mistake about it UFOlogy is exactly that, a manifestation of the paranormal, was its malleability to the needs of government bodies. While this is especially true of the almost obsessive, labyrinthine secrecy of the military machine, it is also an accepted fact that the United Kingdom possesses, in spite of fervent claims to the contrary, one of the most secretive governments in the free world, but even
taught to her by the hero, an alien but human looking intergalactic ambassador named Clatu, the heroine instructs a robotic enforcer/ bodyguard/policeman called ‘Gort’, that rather than systematically laying waste to the planet, to rescue and reanimate his by now dying charge, the ambassador. The film ends with
while all countries have secrets that, in the interests of national security require to be kept under wraps, there are some ‘secrets’ that can be deliberately moulded to serve a variety of purposes.
This is particularly true of the large-scale use of reported UFO sightings to conceal the development of very real, cutting-edge, weapons technology from a variety of sources. The worst offender was undoubtedly the government of the United States of America who concealed an entire generation of stealth aircraft from the public gaze by promoting, and to some extent encouraging, the belief in extraterrestrial spacecraft. The system was simple, drip-feed a subtle blend of half-truth and lies to gullible and credulous dupes then stand back and watch the disinformation solidify into hard facts; facts that had the dual benefit of discrediting both the reputations of the person promoting them and by implication, the entire subject of UFO research.
The system of disinformation was repeatedly used to good effect on the Soviet Union, although in fairness they too were also masters of this arcane art, especially in the early days of the Cold War when they managed to convince the USA that they were far more advanced in their long-range, strategic bomber capability that they actually were. This of course caused the US government to channel prodigious sums of money into its arms related space and weapons programmes, which resulted in the first moon landing in 1969. Whether or not the moon landings actually took place is, for the present, neither here nor there, neither is what was allegedly witnessed during the flights and during the excursions on the surface of the moon, what is important is what was learned from it. We can only hope that the planned manned mission to Mars capitalises on the lessons learned and is successful and many of the enigmas associated with this most enigmatic planet are revealed...we can only hope!
The reason that cutting edge space projects were curtailed, and to a large extent still are, was not entirely due to a lack of funding, but, rather, for safety reasons. The flights leading up to, and including, the Apollo Project were horrendous affairs that imposed such intolerable levels of risk and danger upon the crews that they simply would not be countenanced now. However, at the time, for political expediency the safety fears were to a large extent either played down or brazenly denied. Among other factors it has been stated publicly that the level of computer technology used on board Apollo 11 was unreliable and technologically similar to a hybrid between a digital watch and a mobile phone, but probably closer to the digital watch. In fact it has now been admitted by those who were part of the space programme at the time, the computers used, both on board the spacecraft and at mission control, were in fact ‘data loggers’, rather than what we now think of as state-of-the-art computers.
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within this ingrained culture of secrecy there are pockets of reticence that beggar belief. Even the much needed, recently introduced and much vaunted British Freedom of Information (FOI) Act is currently being watered down to conceal the misdoings and incompetence of government ministers and the sheer scale of waste and inefficiency that occurs within officialdom. The intense secrecy over the past and present (mis)deeds of the House of Windsor is yet another example of this mania for concealment. However,
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