"After looking at the [Roswell crash] material [on the Foster ranch], I walked over to the military men. They said they were from RAAF and were just looking around to see what they could find. They said they were going back to Roswell and would talk with me further there. They had a very casual attitude and did not seem at all disturbed that the press was there. They made no attempt to run us off." - Jason Kellahin, reporter for The Roswell Daily Record, affidavit, 9/20/1993
"When challenged to supply the real names and backgrounds of his informants, Redfern [Roswell conspiracy author] protests that his publisher's attorneys forbid such disclosure. Though that strains credulity, at the very least, each 'source' should provide an explanation why, especially at their advanced age, they refuse to go public.
In 1971, military analyst Daniel Ellsberg gave the New York Times 7,000 pages photocopied from top secret Defense Department documents. These papers documented U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 through 1968 and showed that senior government officials, including the President, had systematically lied to the American public about Vietnam. Ellsberg became the object of an FBI manhunt and was charged with 12 felony counts after he gave himself up, but his case was dismissed in 1973 on the grounds of governmental misconduct against him.
The point is, Ellsberg remained a free man, even having admitted perpetrating a security violation hugely damaging to the executive branch, and in fact became a hero in many quarters, today [2005] holding a prestigious teaching position. When evaluating Redfern's sources one must ask, what are they saying that would result in any retribution at all, 60 years after the fact? And why don't they go to the New York Times with their story, instead of planting it in the quarantined intellectual ghetto of ufology? Ellsberg did not take the Pentagon Papers to Jane Fonda or some minor anti-Vietnam War group. (And of course the same goes equally for the rest of the disinformers, from the MJ-12 hoaxers, to the Alien Autopsy hoaxers, to the 'we have a film of aliens landing at Holloman AFB' hoaxers.)" - Robert Durant, "Doty & the Body Snatchers," International UFO Reporter 30.1 (2005)
"I highly doubt DoD or any other government agency is concealing UFO information. I participated in a comprehensive review of DoD's black programs and spent over a decade conducting oversight of the national foreign intelligence program, an almost totally separate world of secrets. I visited Area 51 and other military, intelligence and research facilities. During all those years, I never detected the faintest hint of government interest or involvement in UFOs... I can think of one lengthy UFO report that is classified only due to concerns over sources and methods. In fact, it identified a convincing conventional explanation for the pilot sightings in this particular case. There are lots of classified documents related to activities at Area 51, where high security is needed. But this is all legitimate stuff the American people would support. They have nothing to do with UFOs, to the best of my knowledge." - Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; Leslie Kane interview, Huffington Post, 5/9/2016
“There are a lot of rumors out there that [the Nimitz incident] was classified and the ship got locked down. No, it wasn’t. Men in suits did not show up. No one told us not to talk about it" ... "I did not have to be quiet; the superiors knew, everyone on the ship knew...[the story] just kinda went away and I really didn't talk about it for years.” – Commander David Fravor, US Navy; Joe Rogan interview, 10/2019
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