Posted: Jun 24, 2017 10:33 pm
There is a simple problem with disclosure, something that's likely to keep coverup theories continuing.
Some UFO-case details may be kept secret because the UFO's are some of *our* stuff.
Oberg, Jim -- Jim Oberg suspects that:
I'm referring to situations where government representatives -- officials, military officers, any employees -- used "UFO" as a convenient camouflage for other official classified activities (such as retrieval of crashed aircraft or nuclear weapons or other objects), or used artificial "UFO stories" (in oral, written, photographic, film, etc.) form as "tracers" in studying the function of security safeguards and personnel psychological responses, or used "UFO" as an excuse (either intended or accidental) to cover-up improper, forbidden, or diplomatically delicate activities (such as aviation incidents involving dangerous accidental or deliberate close passes or intercepts of civilian airliners, or overseas excursions of agents on intelligence missions where deflection of local perceptions was useful, or to conceal from the country of origin the possession of foreign military hardware), or played pranks and jokes on intended or accidental targets, or any other activity that the government -- or any part of it -- wanted to keep hidden, knowing that having it thought of as "UFO-related" would consign it to the never-never- land of myth and nuttiness, thus keeping mainstream media attention to a minimum. And it's worked!!
In space age myths and legends, he has "Soviet Saucers and Space Secrets" mentioning the Soviet Government covering up some of its own missile tests by calling them UFO's. JO goes into a lot of detail in The Great Soviet UFO Coverup
What was true of the Soviet Union is likely also true of the United States, and true of other nations with advanced military aviation.