POLICY OF DEBUNKING UFOs BEGAN WITH ROBERTSON PANEL
Debunker Phil Klass writes, "This is to challenge the false allegation
by Jeff Chandler in FF #34 that there is a U.S. Government "policy of aggressive attacks on [UFO] witnesses," and your claim that "there really is a national policy to ridicule UFO reports." I herewith offer to contribute $1,000 to your favorite charity for each and every one of the many dozens of UFO reports publicized in Filer's Files since its inception--in response
to which ANY U.S. Government agency has issued a statement which "attacked"
the person(s) reporting a UFO sighting or "ridiculed" the report. Excluded
from my generous offer are the USAF reports which it issued in the mid-1990s
based on its investigation into the "Roswell Incident," which the USAF
conducted at the request of the General Accounting Office.
You err in claiming that the Robertson Panel of five top scientists
(including a Nobel Prize winner) "was formed at the request of the
White House to quell the situation." In fact, the Robertson Panel
was convened by the CIA to assess the best UFO cases to assist
that agency in deciding whether to request White House
approval to launch its own research into UFOs. This was disclosed
in documents declassified and released in late 1978--as reported
in my book "UFOs: The Public Deceived." (Chapter 3) You err
also in your claim that the Robertson Panel was "given several poor
UFO cases to examine." Among the many UFO cases presented
to the Panel were TWO home-movies of UFOs, taken by Coomamder
Delbert Newhouse and Nicholas Mariana. According to David
M. Jacobs' book "The UFO Controversy in America" (P. 92):
"The Project Blue Book staff believed the films were among the
best evidence it had to give credence to the extraterrestrial
intelligence hypothesis."
Reference your claim that "CIA documents reveal one of the
panel's recommendations was that a policy of debunking UFO reports
should be instigated." What a gross, perverse distortion of the
Robertson Panel's wise recommendations, highlights of which are
quoted below:
"(1) Pursuant to the request of the [CIA] Assistant Director for
Scientific Intelligence, the undersigned Panel of Scientific Consultants
has met to evaluate any possible threat to national security posed by
Unidentified Flying Objects (`Flying Saucers'), and to make
recommendations thereon. The Panel has received the evidence
as presented by cognizant intelligence agencies, primarily the Air
Technical Intelligence Center (USAF), and has reviewed a selection
of the best documented incidents.
"(2) As a result, the Panel concludes that the evidence
presented on Unidentified Flying Objects shows no indication
that these phenomena constitute a direct physical threat to national
security. We firmly believe there is no residuum of cases which
indicates phenomena which are attributable to foreign artifacts
capable of hostile actions, and that there is no evidence that the
phenomena indicate a need for the revision of current scientific
concepts.
"(3) The Panel further concludes that the continued
emphasis on reporting of these phenomena does, in these
parlous times, result in a threat to the orderly functioning of the
protective organs [i.e., Armed Services] of the body politic.
We cite as examples THE CLOGGING OF CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATIONS BY
IRRELEVANT REPORTS, THE DANGER OF BEING LED BY CONTINUOUS FALSE
ALARMS TO IGNORE REAL INDICATIONS OF HOSTILE ACTION [i.e.,
Soviet air attack], and the cultivation of a morbid national
psychology in which SKILLFUL HOSTILE PROPAGANDA COULD INDUCE
HYSTERICAL BEHAVIOR AND HARMFUL DISTRUST OF DULY
CONSTITUTED AUTHORITY. [Emphasis added.]
"(4) In order most effectively to strengthen the national
facilities for the timely recognition and appropriate handling of
true indications of hostile action, and to minimize the concomitant
dangers alluded to above, the Panel recommends:
"(a) That the national security agencies take immediate
steps to strip Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status
they have been given and the aura of mystery they have
unfortunately acquired.
"(b) That the national security agencies institute policies
on intelligence, training, and public education designed to prepare
the material defenses and the morale of the country to recognize
more promptly and to react more effectively to the TRUE
INDICATIONS OF HOSTILE INTENT OR ACTION.
[emphasis added.]
"(5) We suggest that these aims may be achieved by an
integrated program designed to reassure the public of the TOTAL
LACK OF EVIDENCE OF INIMICAL FORCES BEHIND
THE [UFO] PHENOMENA, to train personnel to RECOGNIZE
AND REJECT FALSE INDICATIONS QUICKLY AND
EFFECTIVELY, AND TO STRENGTHEN REGULAR
CHANNELS FOR THE EVALUATION OF AND PROMPT
REACTION TO TRUE INDICATIONS OF HOSTILE
MEASURES." [Emphasis added.]
In the early 1950s, when the Robertston Panel made these
recommendations, the U.S. was desperately trying to build a radar
network which could warn of possible Soviet nuclear attack. But we
were still largely dependent on volunteer human observers (of which
I was one: from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. on Tuesday nites). The Robertson
Panel wisely warned of the REAL threat to national security: spurious
UFO reports, clogging communications channels, etc. Also,
spurious UFO reports breeding "harmful distrust of duly constituted
authority." Thanks to Phil Klass.
Editor's Note: I certainly am aware of the former Soviet threat, but as a
former Intelligence Office I feel the US Government made a major mistake
in not handling UFOs in a forth right manner. They potentially lost
thousands of UFO sighting reports, and some could have been Soviet
aircraft, because their policy of ridicule. Major Keyhole tells of a
sighting by an Electra airline crew approaching Washington when a strange flying
object hurtled toward the plane. To the terrified crew they seemed only
seconds from a fatal collision in January 3, 1965. This started a flap of
reports and a huge lying disc flashed over NASA Wallops Island, Virginia
two days later. The satellite tracking chief , Dempsey Bruton, calculated
its speed at over a hundred miles a minute. According to the book
"Aliens from Space", Major Keyhole states, "Dempsey Bruton, and other Space
Administration observers at Wallops Island, were labeled
incompetent. Without the slightest investigation, AF Headquarters said the
Navy radar was found to be faulty, then for good measure it branded the
radar operators as inexperienced. Within forty-eight hours, dozens of other
factual reports were hastily explained as mistakes or hoaxes." I ask
anyone who has called a government agency and had them ridicule your UFO
report to please contact me. I personally have had this happen when
contacting Mc Guire Air Force Base concerning sightings near the base.
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