http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/10-09-2007/96923-ufo_secret-0

 Top 5 reasons for governments to keep UFOs in secret

      Stanton Friedman, a physicist who once worked for such giants as
Westinghouse and General Electric, has devoted much of his adult life to
ferreting out clues in the UFO controversy.

                  Top 5 reasons for governments to keep UFOs in secret

Pitching his case before more than 600 campus audiences, Friedman
concludes that alien aircraft have been around for decades and that
governments have tried to keep an airtight lid on them.

      He has five reasons for a massive and sustained cover-up that he
labels "the cosmic Watergate."

      1. Government agents want to figure out how crashed aircraft work.

      2. No one wants any enemy governments to know what has been
discovered.

      3. If some trusted public figures, say the queen of England and the
pope, disclosed UFOs, society would be shaken up, and earthlings would begin
thinking of themselves as such, rather than as citizens of individual
nations.

      4. The fourth problem is the fundamentalist Christian perspective that
aliens are "the work of the Devil," quoting 700 Club founder Pat Robertson
and the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The two said earth contains the only
intelligence life in the universe, he said.

      5. A public confirmation would lead to economic chaos, and lastly,
secrecy is a way of life in government.

      Click here to read the full text of the interview with Stanton
Friedman

      As Pravda.Ru previously reported KGB agents were making records of UFO
observations in special Blue Folder
      Files comprising the famous Blue Folder have been declassified a while
ago. The prominent Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich got the folder from the
KGB in 1991. These days Mr. Popovich holds the position of honorary
president of the Academy of Informational and Applied Ufology. The folder
contains numerous descriptions of UFO flights and reports on some (mostly
failed) attempts taken by the military in order to catch the aliens.

      Aliens acknowledged back in 1968

      In 1968, 13 leading aircraft designers and engineers of a brand-new
aircraft section of the Soviet Committee on Space Technology and Exploration
forwarded a letter to the Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. Actually, it
was a request to set up a special organization for the study of UFOs. A
reply to the letter was signed by Academician Shchukin. It is an amazing
document per se:

      "A number of competent organizations of the Presidium of the USSR
Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Chief Directorate of
Meteorological Service, Defense Ministry and a few other agencies considered
the issue of nature of the so-called flying objects. The organizations
involved in the study of the atmosphere and space have been instructed to
register and do research on any cases of UFOs for identification purposes.
The USSR Academy of Sciences is charged with general monitoring of the
phenomena, and therefore a special organization for the study of UFOs is not
required."

      Click here to read the full text of the article "KGB's secret UFO
files finally made public"

      Prepared by ALexander Timoshik
      Pravda.Ru

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