Timothy good reports: "Thousands of UFOs remain unreported"

REGARDING “Green Men Myth” (Cornwallis column, Evening Mail, August 7), the following should be noted.

The acronym UFO stands for unidentified flying object — NOT “alien spaceship” — and while the vast majority (about 95 per cent) of UFO reports are explainable, the rest are not, a fact conceded by defence ministries throughout the world.

Contrary to the statement that “there is not a scrap, not a shred of evidence for the existence of UFOs”, well over 4,000 military and civilian pilots (as well as numerous naval officers, astronauts etc) have reported encounters with unknown flying craft — frequently confirmed by radar — and thousands go unreported owing to military or other professional security restrictions.

In addition, thousands of previously classified intelligence papers (many Top Secret) prove how seriously the subject is taken by officialdom.

As former CIA director Admiral Hillenkoetter stated in 1960: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking air force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.”

Regarding film/video footage, most can be explained in terms of hoaxes or misidentifications, but certainly not all. As for hardware, plenty exists — including several vehicles recovered prior to the 1947 Roswell incident — though such hardware remains highly classified to this day.

“The classification was, from the outset, above Top Secret, so the vast majority of US officials and politicians — let alone a mere allied minister of defence — were never in the loop,” declared former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer two years ago.

As to “why do they not reveal themselves?”, thousands of witnesses throughout the world — including high-ranking military personnel — have reported encounters with extraterrestrial beings.

Again, probably the majority can be explained, but not all.

Readers may be interested to know that my latest book, Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence (published in July by Pan Macmillan) reveals all this information in depth.

TIMOTHY GOOD

(Source: http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=534010)