Why after over 50 years of UFO sightings and abductions, we still have no concrete physical evidence ?

Answer 1

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Editor's Note: Mark Rodeghier is director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. This article is from The International UFO Reporter, Spring 1998, vol 23, number 1.
Goverment UFO Documents on the Internet
By Mark Rodeghier

In the middle to late 1970s, several individuals, mostly associated with the group Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel various U.S. government agencies to release their files on the UFO phenomenon. The FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the CIA eventually complied with the law and released documents relating to UFOs, although the NSA did so only after a lawsuit was filed by CAUS. In addition, with the help of FOIA, the air force was forced to make available UFO documents which it had collected or produced after Project Blue Book closed in late 1969.

These documents do not contain a smoking gun to prove that the U.S. government has a secret UFO project. They did show that many agencies had an ongoing interest in the UFO phenomenon that was often independent of the air force’s UFO project, and that the interest continued after it ended.

Many of these documents have been made available to the public by UFO groups, including CUFOS and the Fund for UFO Research. It was also possible to obtain these documents directly from the agencies involved, which undoubtedly has increased their workload on a subject they consider to be unimportant.

The growth of the Internet has now provided at least two agencies--the FBI and the NSA--with a resource which they can use to reduce their workload. In the past few months, both agencies have placed all their released UFO documents on their Web sites. I assume that, in the future, people who contact the FBI and NSA for copies of UFO documents will first be referred to the Web sites, thus placing the burden of retrieval on the public.

Nevertheless, this arrangement is an excellent opportunity for all those who wish to directly read FBI and NSA UFO documents, at only the cost of a phone call to your Internet provider. The address (or URL) of each site is listed at the end of this article.

FBI Documents

The FBI’s involvement with UFO investigation was bief. After Kenneth Arnold’s sighting and the public furor it caused, the FBI became quite active in UFO investigation in a parallel effort to that of the air force. The FBI worked in an unsystematic fashion for a couple of months, mainly interviewing witnesses to sightings.

Then in September 1947, the FBI learned from a source in the air force that the military wanted the FBI to investigate cases of disks found on the ground, which were essentially hoaxes (or so the FBI thought). This didn’t sit well with J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, who didn’t want his men wasting time looking into obvious hoaxes while the air force investigated reports of UFOs in the air. Consequently, Hoover wrote to Major General George C. McDonald on September 27, 1947, and told him that the FBI was immediately discontinuing its investigative activity. This letter is shown in Figure 1.
|Fig. 1. J. Edgar Hoover letter to Air Force that ended FBI UFO investigations, Sept. 27. 1947._

Since then the FBI has done little to investigate UFO reports, although it did allegedly investigate some UFO witnesses and investigators, especially during the 1950s, when concern about the Soviets and subversion was widespread.

The section of the FBI Web site with the UFO documents is entitled "Unusual Phenomena" because it also contains documents concerning the FBI investigation of animal mutilations in the southwest. The investigation was begun because of several mutilations in New Mexico and political pressure at the federal level to find the culprits. The FBI eventually concluded that the mutilations were the work of predators, a judgment that was hotly disputed by some ranchers and local law enforcement officials.

NSA Documents

The number of UFO documents from the NSA is more extensive. This is not because the NSA conducted UFO investigations, but instead because the nature of the NSA’s work is to monitor communications around the globe that might affect U.S. security. At times, these communications concern the sighting of unusual objects or phenomena, which the NSA collects as part of its routine duties.

Although the agency was forced to release most of its UFO-related documents (some are still withheld for national security reasons), many of them are covered with deletions. I’ve chosen one at random from communications intelligence reports to provide an example (see Figure 2). All identifying details as to time, place, witnesses, and report source have been removed, leaving too few details to make research feasible.
|Fig. 2 NSA sanitized communication concerning a possible UFO sighting.__________________

The list of NSA documents includes, amazingly enough, some articles from UFO journals, such as The U.S. Government and the Iran Case from IUR. Many airgrams from the Department of State reporting on UFO sightings overseas are listed; these documents were essentially internal telegrams used to communicate quickly between agencies. There are also some Roswell documents from the Air Force’s latest investigations.

The NSA Web site includes a speculative article, written in 1968, entitled UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions. This document, which was originally classified secret, discusses various hypotheses for the UFO phenomenon, including hoaxes, natural phenomena, secret government devices, and extraterrestrials, and considers the implications for security if each is true. It concludes by noting that a study of UFOs may provide an pportunity for man to "recognize and adapt to real environmental situations." A portion of the first page of this seven-page document is shown in Figure 3.
|Fig. 3. NSA draft report on UFOs and the man's survival.______________________________

There is no evidence that this draft report was ever completed, or that it began as part of an official NSA UFO investigation, but it does make for interesting reading. It also shows how seriously the UFO question was viewed by some in the intelligence community in the late 1960s.

The files on both Web sites are in PDF, or portable document format. You must download (for free) the Adobe Acrobat Reader program to view them. The files can be viewed online or downloaded for later viewing. However, you should be forewarned that many of the files are quite large, as much as seven megabytes in size, so you’ll need a relatively fast Internet connection to make the wait less than interminable.

The location of the FBI files is http://www.fbi.gov/foipa/ufo.htm [link is dead] .The location of the NSA files is http://www.nsa.gov:8080/docs/efoia/released/ufo.html [link is dead] Also check out the Black Vault at http://www.blackvault.com

The CIA has finally made its UFO documents available to the public. They may be viewed at http://www.foia.ucia.gov/scripts/popdoc.asp?docType=ufo [link is dead]

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Answer 2

Because the same people hid Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Why if you really believe what you say do you continue to post questions like this? It would be interesting if a really huge ship had to land somewhere that our governments couldn't hide or cover up with dirt.Maybe they would call it a mobile super dome anyway. I've had some personal experiences with what others would refer to as extraterrestrials that even I still wonder about. The medications don't change that either.Believe what you want though if that's what makes you happy. There are a few interesting web sites with a few possible credible witnesses.But, even the best of us can be delusional at times.Maybe not believing the possibility is also?

http://realufos.blogspot.com/

Answer 3

There have been numerous UFO crashes on our world...Its the governments that take control of the situations and hide all the evidence..You don't have to be a conspiracy type person to see, this..it is all very obvious ..even to the most simple of persons..

The one thing the government cannot hide from us is the truths about sightings and the truths about alien abductions..There are millions and millions of sightings ..thousands if not hundreds of thousands of alien abductions that have occurred and still do..
People are more aware..they are able to talk more freely about it because of the Internet..and the truths can be talked about here.

The truth will be revealed soon to all of the world by extraterrestrials..then..the governments will not be able to lie to us..and the story from our governments..will then become "they are a real and they are a threat to us"...
Don't believe the governments..look and see for yourself...millions of sightings..hundreds of thousands of abductions...do your own research..it will take your breath away..and leave you felling very numb..because our governments are so very deceitful to us.

By the way....UFO sightings are far from being new to us..certainly more than 50 years..They have been here for the entire recorded history of mankind..They are in our history.. they are in our art..They are everywhere..including our present day sky..
click on A.D. and B.C. links on the left of this page..just as an example for you http://www.ufoartwork.com/

Also..a short bit for you as a history example:

During his invasion of Asia...the Greek leader, Alexander the Great was chronicled having seen UFOs.
He was crossing a river in 329 B.C.
He and his men witnessed what they called "gleaming silver shields in the sky"
The objects repeatedly swooped down on the column of soldiers and caused the men and horses to scatter and run.

7 years later while attacking the Phoenician city..Attire(?).. in the eastern Mediterranean..anyway.. Alexander encounters more UFOs.
Quoted by observers from both sides of the conflict. "One of the disc objects shoots a beam of light at one of the city walls, causing it to crumble. Allowing Alexander and his troops access, and they easily defeat and take the city.

They are not new to man..its the governments and so called religions that suppress the truths.

Answer 4

nicely, the concept some thing that someone won't be able to as we talk perceive interior the sky is an alien spacecraft is a group of hype perpetuated with the help of morons. Alien abductions are frequently believed to be the outcome of sleep paralysis, a elementary sleep situation in which a persons' options wakes up, besides the indisputable fact that the body continues to be snoozing. actual the concept extraterrestrial beings are vacationing earth interior reason a procedures fetched, even although a bulk of human beings trust it. yet I have this one element to say about alien deliver's and alien abductions........definite, 50 million elvis followers can certainly be incorrect.

Answer 5

When are we going to follow the money trail and deductively realize what the UFOs really are.

The most expensive thing in the Universe is ant-matter.

Planets that were formed when our Universe was formed are so advanced today that their primary energy source is just that; Anti-matter.

Where do you get anti-matter. You mine it, just like you mine anything else. Except it is located in the Air throughout the universe. What is the problem? It is very scarce.

So mining vessels from advanced planets roam all over the universe mining anti-matter.

When one comes in our atmosphere it is there simply to extract that small scarce chunck of anti-matter that just so happened to be near roswell or other such places.

I am running out of ink. - Good bye and Good night.

Answer 6

Because these "sightings" and "abductions" are all fantasies or the product of a deranged mind.
Never mind the incredible expenditure of energy needed to push a spacecraft through space from the closest of stars, would be an utter waste to keep it secret.
If ET's would come here, they'd announce their presence and their intentions to the whole world.
The fact is, we have never been visited by a non-earthly intelligence.

Answer 7

There is plenty of physical evidence, It is just not release for the consumption of the general public. Why? Because our government in spite of it all has to maintain the public faith that they can protect us from the seen and the unseen. and admitting that UFOs can come here at will and take what they want can cause the collapse any government.................................

Answer 8

It was "known" for decades that the coelacanth (a primitive fish) had disappeared about 20,000 years ago and there was no phhysical evidence of the animal's existence after that. Until one showed up alive in a fishing net in the Indian Ocean recently.

Answer 9

The U in UFO means Unidentified for a reason.

Answer 10

You should have asked this under "Religion and Spirituality" - and got the same answers as atheists give about G-d!
Because there is no 'concrete evidence' after all this time, G-d doesn't exist!" (Just substitute "UFOs don't" for "G-d doesn't"!)

Answer 11

While the average person does not have evidence it does not mean that their is no evidence. I have met high ups in the Military that are certain that there is something to the area 51 rumors.