The Real Flying Saucers - Channel 5 9.00pm 16/6/04

The Real Flying Saucers - Channel 5 9.00pm 16/6/04

The premise of this programme was to suggest that the U.S. military
are involved in the promotion of belief in UFO's to create a
smokescreen for their own secret technology. I will go along with the
first part of that premise but the secret technology bit I'm less
certain about, and what really interests me in these debunking
programmes is the internal logic which starts to tie itself in knots
in it's attempts to keep the thrust of it's arguement going. However I
make no judgements on the validity of the information presented.
OK so it rather controversially suggests that what Arnold saw, which
kick started the whole UFO movement and coined the phrase 'Flying
Saucers', were not clouds or geese or whatever in odd lighting
conditions. But they were what Arnold said they were - UFO's, albeit
of terrestial Russian design. This then interestingly, refutes a
whole host of sceptics of various denominations, nationalities over
the last fifty years or so, who've pontificated on this particular
famous sighting, many of whom I assume having no connections with the
American military. Thanks for that one, because that enables me to
cast doubt on all the rest of these sceptic's elaborate explanations
for UFO sightings in general,
But let's look at that claim that what Arnold saw was supposedly
made by the Russians. Now I'm no engineer but I kinda get the feeling
that a round object might be a bit unstable, but these UFO's flew in
formation, avoiding any radar all the way from Russia... quite a feat
and all made with 1940's technology ! Now this is something the
Americans tried to do with 50 - 60's technology and couldn't get it
off the ground and nobody has, so far as we know it, done so since.
However if the Russians did manage to do it, what have they also
done with it since ? Such a technological advance would have given
them a tremendous miltary advantage during the cold war. And surely we
would have discovered by now that Flying Saucers emanate from Russia
and once the secret was out, Russia would have been proud to show off
it's technological prowess to the rest of the world.
So concerning man made flying saucers, there's nothing, zilch, no
evidence to reliably show flying saucers have ever worked, in fact the
opposite is true. This programme's featured U.S. experiments suggest
that Flying Saucer design is a none starter. This absence of any
reliable proof that man made saucers exist at all was the reason why
they had to, somewhere in the programme, point to some famous sighting
and suggest that the UFO was real (but terrestial) and thus 'proving'
within the programme the reality of the man made flying saucer.
The programme's logic also drove it to find other 'proofs' that
there were other weird man made objects out there, besides flying
saucers, to explain for the multiplicity of UFO phenomena. So they
found some expert to argue that the famous Gulf Breeze sightings were
man made objects. But in doing so they have suggested that US military
deliberately and irresponsibly put on a display for the witnesses many
times over. Allowing them to take many pictures and videos of them and
leading them to believe that some kind of extra terrestial contact had
occurred. Infiltrating the Ufological commnity to muddy the water is
'OKish' if there are 'reasons of national security' to do so. But
this, if true, was wreckless and was cruelly messing with people's
minds.
And if that's what the US military and intelligence have been up to
over the last century then we are wandering into areas of human rights
abuse and in the litigation culture of the U.S. ......... somebody
might sue !
''I was duped into believing in ET's by the American government and so
I gave all my money to Space Brothers Inc''
Now that's one court case I wanna see.
Clive
http://www.geocities.com/clivemcgee/index.html
P.S. Yes I won't argue that triangular UFO's might have been the F-117
stealth fighter.
First we had circles, triangles......so what next, squares ?