In addition to publishing reports which deny the existence of
aliens and UFO's, another tactic used by the U.S. Government,
is to discredit the source. In other words, if any credible
person, such as a government employee, or military personnel,
or a respectable scientist, steps forward to share the truth,
the government implements immediate damage control, whereby
the individual is ridiculed, painted as a fraud, or made to
appear emotionally unstable. UFO believers are convinced that
this strategy was used against Bob Lazar, which, according to
them, is why he cannot prove any of his claims of ever having
worked at Papoose Lake, Area 51 S-4. This very same strategy
was used with the Roswell incident, and it's undoubtedly been
used with many other UFO-related incidents as well.

To add weight to my previous comments, consider the fact that
in a signed statement to Congress, dated August 22, 1960, the
former Director of the C.I.A., (Central Intelligence Agency),
Vice Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, had the following to
say, which clearly proves that the American Government, and
the U.S. military, rely upon ridicule, and other tactics, to
silence credible UFO witnesses:

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"It is time for the truth to be brought out . . . Behind the
scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned
about the UFO's; but through official secrecy and ridicule,
many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects
are nonsense . . . I urge immediate Congressional action to
reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying
objects."

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One thing is for certain: Hillenkoetter was convinced that
the UFO phenomenon is real; although he candidly admitted
that he didn't know from where they originated, or what
their objective might be. He stated:

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"Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control. It
is imperative that we learn where UFO's come from and what
their purpose is."

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Vice Admiral Hillenkoetter was by no means alone in exposing
the U.S. Government's strategy of ridiculing any government
official who dared to speak publicly about their experiences
with UFO's. Another important military figure to step forward
was Major Donald E. Keyhoe of the United States Marine Corps.
He was a prominent figure within UFO research circles during
the 1950's through the 1970's. He authored five books on the
subject, including "The Flying Saucers Are Real", "Flying
Saucers From Outer Space", "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy",
"Flying Saucers: Top Secret" and "Aliens From Outer Space".

In early 1957, Keyhoe was appointed as the director of NICAP,
or the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
NICAP was founded by physicist Thomas Townsend Brown. While
NICAP was a civilian organization, its membership included
some very professional individuals, including scientists of
various fields, military personnel, doctors, journalists, etc.
Vice Admiral Hillenkoetter was a member of the board of NICAP
as well.

While there is considerable debate regarding the real purpose
of NICAP, some people believe that Major Keyhoe's motivations
were pure, and that he earnestly sought to bear pressure on
the American Government, so that it would reveal everything
that it knew about the UFO phenomenon. In fact, some people
believe that it was Keyhoe's insistence on discovering the
truth regarding UFO's, that resulted in his dismissal as the
director of NICAP in 1969. NICAP was ultimately disbanded,
at least publicly, in 1980; however, a lot of people remain
convinced that the U.S. Government continues to thoroughly
investigate serious UFO sightings to this very day.

In fact, if we look back even further, it becomes apparent
that the U.S. Government has a propensity for attempting to
deceive the public when it concerns UFO investigations. Back
in 1952, the United States Air Force initiated a similar UFO
study called Project Blue Book; the purpose of which was to
ascertain whether or not UFO's pose a national security risk.
What I find rather ironic, is that on one hand, the American
Government insists that UFO's are not real; yet on the other,
it initiates these various programs to determine if UFO's do
pose a national threat. By the very act of investigating the
UFO's, is it not in fact suggesting that they're real, or at
the very least, admitting that there's something concrete to
the phenomenon? So as I stated earlier, the U.S. Government
appears to be playing both ends of the field.

According to one Internet source, a January 1953 CIA report
included the following revealing statement concerning the
deceptive and manipulative nature of the American Government,
when it comes to the alien-UFO phenomenon. I was unable to
locate the source of this piece of information:

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"We've been ordered to work up a national debunking campaign,
planting articles in magazines and arranging broadcasts, to
make UFO reports sound like poppycock."

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During the late 1960's, with the support and encouragement
of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the USAF approached the faculty of
the University of Colorado with the idea of having some of
their scientists conduct a study of UFO's. The basis for the
study would be the many UFO files which had been collected
by Project Blue Book, as well as files from NICAP and APRO,
or the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. APRO was the
parent organization of MUFON, or Mutual UFO Network. This
UFO study would eventually become officially known as the
"University of Colorado UFO Project", but is more commonly
known as the "Condon Committee".

The project was directed by noted physicist Edward U. Condon,
and coordinated by Robert J. Low, who was an assistant dean
at the university. The committee consisted of approximately
fifteen key members who would change over the course of the
next three years, 1966 to 1968. In addition to Edward Condon
and Robert J. Low, these members would include psychologists
William A. Scott, David R. Saunders, Michael Wertheimer, Dan
Culbertson and James Wadsworth; astronomer Franklin Roach,
astronomer William K. Hartman; chemist Roy Craig; electrical
engineer Norman Levine; physicist Frederick Ayer; and Mary
Louise Armstrong, who served as the administrative assistant.
There were other people involved with the project as well,
who served as consultants, or in part-time capacities, such
as James E. McDonald, J. Allen Hynek, Dr. Jacques Vallee and
Gordon David Thayer.

Due to the questionable and highly controversial nature of
the study, it required some manipulation on the part of the
Air Force, in order to convince some of the university's
faculty to join the study. Naturally, they were concerned
about their reputations. In fact, a string of universities
had refused to take up the study for this very reason. To
ease the university's concerns, on August 9, 1966, Robert
Low sent a private memorandum to Thurston Marshall, who at
the time, was the university's vice president. In the memo,
commonly known as the "Trick Memo", Mr. Low spelled out the
real objective of the Condon Committee's study when he said:

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"Our study would be conducted almost entirely by
non-believers who, though they couldn't possibly prove a
negative result, could and probably would add an impressive
body of thick evidence that there is no reality to the
observations. The trick would be, I think, to describe the
project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally
objective study but, to the scientific community, would
present the image of a group of non-believers trying their
best to be objective but having an almost zero expectation
of finding a saucer."

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While the "Trick Memo" has been the subject of considerable
debate, many people remain convinced that the context of the
memo is that while the Condon Committee would pass itself
off to the American public as conducting a true scientific
study of the UFO phenomenon, in reality, it was destined to
reach a foregone conclusion: UFO's simply don't exist. In
fact, in the final report that was issued by the committee
about three years later, which is commonly referred to as
the "Condon Report", but which is known in official circles
as the "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects",
Edward U. Condon clearly states:

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"Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the
study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to
scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as
it is available to us leads us to conclude that further
extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the
expectation that science will be advanced thereby."

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