Who Determines “Need to Know” about UFO’s?

Despite the overwhelming evidence of UFO's and the potential extraterrestrial connection with them, it is a common experience to have questions about UFO's brushed off by government channels. The average citizen is aware that they will generally get nothing more than the usual run-around and "not a threat to national security" line. The question is, how high in government ranks must you be in order to get a straight answer about UFO/extraterrestrial information? History has shown that it must be higher than the highest office in the land; even Presidents get the run-around.

Shortly after the Roswell incident, Harry Truman appointed General Robert Landry to coordinate with the CIA to keep him updated on the UFO phenomena. Even after the 1952 UFO sightings over Washington, D.C. Mr. Truman had to admit to a reporter of the New York Times that, "Oh yes we discussed it with every confidence that we have with the military an' they never had been or never were able to give me a concrete report on the subject!"

President Dwight Eisenhower tried to avoid the subject of UFO's as much as possible despite being possibly the first of our Presidents to actually see one in 1952. There is also the persistent rumor that his mysterious Palm Springs vacation in 1954 was to meet with alien diplomats and the "dentist" story was a cover for his overnight disappearance from view. Either way, "Ike" didn't say.

John F. Kennedy also asked about UFO's after allegedly seeing a 60 foot metallic object flying around while he was sailing near Cape Cod. His public response when asked about what he had found out was the ubiquitous, "The US Air Force assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security."

As the Vice-President in 1961, Lyndon Johnson had advised a Ufologist that he might have better luck asking NASA about the phenomena than the military. By 1969 this advice may have been outdated as he was filmed and photographed in attendance with not only the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of NASA, James Webb, but also the Governor of Pennsylvania the day after the supposed joint recovery of a crashed UFO near Texburg, PA by NASA and the Airforce. Everyone else was left with rumor and speculation.

Richard Nixon had indicated a desire to go public with UFO information and had commissioned the TV producer Bob Emenegger to research and use data from the archives of Norton Airforce Base to create a documentary exposing the truth of the phenomena. This film was to include what has been reported as a landing by a UFO at Holloman Airforce Base. Somewhere down the line the project was assigned to limbo.

Before becoming President, Gerald Ford had urged Congress to investigate the UFO phenomena for itself although he and Congress were ultimately led to the notoriously biased conclusions of the Condon Committee Report. As President, Mr. Ford's inquiries always met with the same results as President Kennedy before him. All those who could have enlightened the topic merely stated that there was no threat to national security. It should be noted though that among his sources were his then advisers, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, while George H. Bush was head of the CIA.

Mr. Bush continued his policy of information denial with President Jimmy Carter. Carter had gone on record publicly that he had seen a UFO personally and wanted to find and disclose all the government had on the subject. Mr. Bush, still at the helm of the CIA, told him that the information was on a "need to know" basis and the mere curiosity of a President of the United States did not constitute a "need to know." Despite this stonewalling by those who were supposedly in positions subservient to the Supreme Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the top Executive Officer of our country, Mr. Carter used the Freedom of Information Act to release a lot of UFO information and documentation. Roughly half of all the information available was made so during his Administration.

Ronald Reagan was another of our Chief Executive Officers who had witnessed UFO's in our skies. While he never disclosed whatever he may have discovered about the facts behind the phenomena, he did on numerous occasions make references to the possibility of alien existence and its potential repercussions on humanity. Bill Clinton was also interested but, as he answered a question about whether they had actually found alien bodies at Roswell, answered, "If the US Airforce did recover bodies they didn't tell me about it either."

President George H. Bush had already made his stance on what he felt people needed to know about UFO's abundantly clear while still Director of the CIA. His son, George W. Bush, obviously following his father's lead, made no comment while leaving it to his Vice President, Dick Cheney to provide this flippant response to a question about UFO information he might be aware of: "Well if I had been briefed on that I'm sure it would probably be classified and I wouldn't be able to talk about it!"

If the top power positions in our nation are not allowed to discuss the reality behind unknown craft that can come and go as they please, then who is it in a position of power above them that is issuing the planetary gag order? With the paranoia the military displays when even a small commercial aircraft wanders too close to restricted areas, how can the comings and goings of such mysterious craft as UFO's NOT be a concern of national security? If even our Presidents can be told to mind their own business about the UFO phenomena, how can we not feel there is a grave danger lurking behind the secrecy surrounding their origins and purpose with Planet Earth and its inhabitants?

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