While today, the American Government publicly denies the
existence of UFO's, or more specifically, extraterrestrial
crafts which originate from alien worlds, as you can clearly
see by the various examples I have provided throughout this
series, only a few decades ago, the mindset was considerably
different. Some government and military officials were more
open-minded, and were willing to consider this possibility.
Some people even embraced it as fact. The impression I have
received, is that to this day, the battle continues within
the government, between those who are for full disclosure,
and those who are not. Furthermore, I suspect that despite
its outward denial, the U.S. Government still remains very
much interested in the UFO phenomenon. If this were not the
case, it would not have initiated so many programs in order
to investigate the matter.

Across the ocean, in Europe, in the past, as well as in our
present day, there have likewise been certain individuals in
high places who have become convinced that some UFO's are in
fact spacecrafts which originate from other worlds. They too
question what this means for Planet Earth. One example is Air
Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, (also known as Sir Hugh Dowding),
who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Fighter
Command during the Battle of Britain. This battle occurred
during the early part of World War II, from July to October
of 1940, when the Germans fought to gain air superiority
over the Royal Air Force. In the July 11, 1954 edition of
the Sunday Dispatch in London, Lord Dowding is quoted as
having stated the following regarding the many UFO's which
have been observed:

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"More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority
of which cannot be accounted for by any scientific
explanation. I am convinced that these objects do exist, and
that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth. I can
therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that
they come from some extraterrestrial source."

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In August of that same year, upon being asked about the
reality of UFO's, and their origin from beyond the Earth,
Lord Dowding also stated:

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"Of course flying saucers are real, and they are
interplanetary."

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Another prominent British citizen who both spoke about, and
wrote about UFO's, was Peter John Hill-Norton, also known as
Baron Hill-Norton, and Lord Hill-Norton. Following military
service during World War II, Lord Hill-Norton swiftly rose
through the ranks. By the early 1970's, he had become Chief
of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom. In 1974, he also
became the chairman of the NATO Military Committee; a post
which he held until his retirement in 1977. It was during
his later years, when he served as a "cross-bencher" in the
British House of Lords, that Lord Hill-Norton became vocal
within Parliament regarding his views concerning UFO's. In
1988, author Timothy Good published a book entitled "Above
Top Secret". In the foreword to that book, Lord Hill-Norton
wrote the following:

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"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in
our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be
accounted for either as man-made objects, or as any physical
force or effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be
overwhelming."

"A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by
persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is
striking that so many have been trained observers, such as
police officers and airline or military pilots. Their
observations have in many instances been supported either by
technical means, such as radar or, even more convincingly,
by interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or
another."

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Some of you who are involved with UFOlogy will undoubtedly
recall the strange events which occurred in the skies over
Belgium in March of 1990. Commonly referred to by UFOlogists
as the "Belgian Wave" or "Belgian Flap", this event involved
mass sightings of triangular-shaped crafts of unknown origin.
The low-level, huge, silent objects were observed by local
townspeople, police officials, and Belgian Air Force radar
operators. In fact, Belgian Air Force fighter pilots made
various attempts to pursue the strange crafts, but were not
successful; because each time that the pilots would draw
close, the unusual objects would accelerate at a high rate
of speed.

The Belgian Air Force eventually released video footage of
the event, as had been recorded by their radar operators. In
their official report, the Royal Belgian Air Force concluded
that they were "unable to identify either the nature or the
origin of the phenomena". In 1991, SOBEPS, (Belgian Society
For Space Phenomenon Study), included the following comments
in their report, attributed to Major-General Wilfred de
Brouwer, who was the Deputy Chief of the Royal Belgian Air
Force:

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"In any case, the Air Force has arrived to the conclusion
that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been
produced within Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies
of ground observations compiled in this [SOBEPS] book,
reinforced by the reports of the night of March 30-31
[1990], have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain
number of unauthorized aerial activities have taken place.
Until now, not a single trace of aggressiveness has been
signaled; military or civilian air traffic has not been
perturbed nor threatened. We can therefore advance that the
presumed activities do not constitute a direct menace. The
day will come undoubtedly when the phenomenon will be
observed with technological means of detection and
collection that won't leave a single doubt about its origin.
This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the
mystery for a long time. A mystery that continues to the
present. But it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an
important conclusion."

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The "Belgian Flap" isn't the only UFO-related incident which
has involved triangular-shaped craft. According to my online
research, such sightings can be traced back to the 1940's.
However, in recent decades, some of the more "famous" events
include the Rendlesham Forest UFO event of December 27, 1980,
which we'll be discussing more later on in this series, the
so-called "Phoenix Lights" of March 13, 1997, the Moscow UFO
wave of March 12, 1990, and the Illinois UFO sightings of
January 5, 2000, which was featured on American television
several times. If you wish to learn more about these events,
I encourage you to conduct your own research on the Internet.

Belief in the extraterrestrial nature of some UFO's is also
shared by certain individuals within the French government
as well. In an interview conducted by Jean-Claude Bourret on
February 21, 1974, Robert Galley, who in December of 1980
became France's Minister of Defense, had this to say to his
radio listeners regarding UFO flaps in France:

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"I must say that if listeners could see for themselves  the
mass of reports coming in from the airborne gendarmerie,
from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie
charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of
which reports are forwarded by us to the National Center for
Space Studies, then they would see that it is all pretty
disturbing. I believe that the attitude of spirit that we
must vis-a-vis this phenomenon is an open one, that is to
say that it doesn't consist in denying a priori, as our
ancestors of previous centuries did deny many things that
seem nowadays perfectly elementary."

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Another comment comes from Dr. Claude Poher. Poher, who holds
a Ph.D. in astronomy, was the founder, and the first director
of GEPAN, which was a government initiated project developed
by the National Center for Space Studies, (or CNES), which,
similar to NASA, is the national space agency of France. The
primary goal of GEPAN was to assist French officials, both
civilian and military, in understanding the true nature of
Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena, or PAN. In 1988, about ten
years after its founding, GEPAN was renamed SEPRA; that is,
the Rare Aerospace Phenomena Study Department. Today, SEPRA
is known as GEIPAN, or "Groupe d'Etudes et d'Informations
sur les Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non identifies". It is now
headed by Yves Sillard, who is also a former director of
CNES.



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