Why Now? Yes, the Pentagon is still denying, but that’s the default mode… How about:
- FINANCIAL—Keane & others mentioned (but I haven’t verified) that keeping this UFO stuff secret now takes more $ than the research of the artifacts—I wouldn’t doubt it;
- CONTRACTUAL—companies like Battelle (near Wright-Patterson) have been involved since Roswell; and, IIRC, Lockheed proposed “opening up” the research to a wider pool of scientists (reverse the stove-piping), but DOD rejected it for security reasons. Sounds like Schellenberger got some of his best intel from contractors—maybe some self-serving leaks / leakers;
- THE INTERNET—makes keeping secrets much much harder now than 75 years ago.
* Is this a “soft-landing” or battle-space preparation? Maybe. I read & re-read Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” many times, so who knows? But, to be 100% selfish, I hope we find out before I depart this mortal coil...
The Event of a Millennium, and no one noticed...
Why Now? Yes, the Pentagon is still denying, but that’s the default mode… How about:
- FINANCIAL—Keane & others mentioned (but I haven’t verified) that keeping this UFO stuff secret now takes more $ than the research of the artifacts—I wouldn’t doubt it;
- CONTRACTUAL—companies like Battelle (near Wright-Patterson) have been involved since Roswell; and, IIRC, Lockheed proposed “opening up” the research to a wider pool of scientists (reverse the stove-piping), but DOD rejected it for security reasons. Sounds like Schellenberger got some of his best intel from contractors—maybe some self-serving leaks / leakers;
- THE INTERNET—makes keeping secrets much much harder now than 75 years ago.
* Is this a “soft-landing” or battle-space preparation? Maybe. I read & re-read Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” many times, so who knows? But, to be 100% selfish, I hope we find out before I depart this mortal coil...