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The United States government has a very reasonable and logical stance on UFOs, and it has moved its might to carry out its desires. Of course, this has nothing to do with extra-terrestrials and everything to do with maintaining national secrets.

The beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon in the United States really begins with in 1938 when Orson Welles produced and aired his wonderful radio adaptation of War of the Worlds. At a time when America was watching the doings of those crackpots in Europe, the threat of an extra-terrestrial invasion fit in so well with our general paranoia that this radio drama caused a panic and was labeled a fraud.

During World War 2 pilots reported Foo Fighters, UFOs that were invariably put down to natural causes. In 1946, ghost missiles, silent and slow rockets were reported in Sweden. In 1947, two years after the war, there is a rash of UFO sightings, especially near air bases, as well as the infamous crash of the Roswell weather balloon. Now, the truth seems obvious if one considers it. The Axis powers were engaged in all manner of rocket experiments. The Soviets were engaged in the most esoteric physics research, which availed them nothing but fancy light shows. And we, the USA, were engaged in our own race to produce weapons of mass destruction.

The United States government's stance has always been consistent. It has been a four-pronged systemic pattern to hide the truth. 1) Encourage the conspiracy theorists with lots of publicity that sounds suspicious, 2) explain phenomena away as natural occurrence, 3) throw a little money at extra-terrestrial research and claim the results found nothing of value, 4) deliberately hide any evidence as long as possible, and then when forced, show the evidence in whole and encourage the conspiracy theorist by making the full-throated explanation as inept as possible.

Let's examine the Roswell story. First Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a flying disk. That's step one. The government released the information. They didn't have to. They could have just ignored the sightings. They could have just cleaned up the mess. Nope, THEY reported it. The result is that the media descended and began a feeding frenzy publishing conflicting stories, cluttering up everyone's memory, planting suggestions that others embellished.

Step 2, Roswell Army Air Field issues a retraction stating that the debris was just a weather balloon. This is patently ridiculous, and further

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