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Originally posted by Arbitrageur
The documentaries about this case commonly claim that nuclear weapons are believed to have been stored at that facility, and that this is something that they would want to hide because there were not supposed to be any nuclear weapons there.
Originally posted by azureskys
What reason could the Military and Government have for keeping these records
hidden if there is nothing to hide ?
Now whether this is true or has any link to medical records of Burroughs or Penniston I have no idea. I'm just answering your question about something to hide that deals with possible radiation, though I think the Geiger counter was likely mis-read in the instance where elevated radiation was reported in relation to the Burroughs-Penniston incident.
That these men can't get their medical records inclusive of that time frame that the encounter happened, is a smoking gun by itself.
My gut feeling tells me that it's all covert ops monkeying around. ET craft, if such things exist, probably wouldn't radiate people. There are hundreds of close contact reports worldwide and none of them mention being radiated.
Originally posted by azureskys
What reason could the Military and Government have for keeping these records
hidden if there is nothing to hide ?
The day of reckoning is coming. The former Congressional representatives at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure wrote letters to the President of the United States and to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on our behalf. Our attorney is preparing a federal lawsuit. Our book will come out with a mainstream publisher and make Rendlesham Forest bigger than Roswell in the eyes of the media and the public. But there is a price to pay. Not the price that we, the witnesses, have already paid, but the price that has yet to be paid by those who have conspired to keep this secret, or, through their silence, have given tacit help to those who sought to cover up the truth. The chain of command left us, the witnesses, high and dry. People make statements about how we were "messed with", but then they fail to follow through with specific information. They make vague promises of help, but never deliver. The aforementioned developments will change all this. The lawsuit, in particular, will force key people in the chain of command to the table. Vague personal promises or cryptic comments on TV shows will no longer suffice. We are entering a time where sworn statements, subpoenas and judges will be more important. And the chain of command will realize that the loyalty demanded by senior officers is a two-way street, i.e. that these officers owe a duty of care to the men and women under their command. Some realize this and are on our side. For others, the time to chose is fast approaching. They would be well-advised to choose well, given the storm that is approaching.
DELUSION OR DECEPTION?
The English investigators have presented convincing evidence that the
various explanations offered to the public for the Bentwaters case—
allegedly caused by the beam of a distant lighthouse and some bright
stars—were utter rubbish. It is tempting to conclude that the military
were indeed confronted with an alien craft and its occupants. This may
well be the solution. But there are intriguing alternatives.
To me the most plausible theory is that the U.S. military has developed
a device or a collection of devices that look like flying saucers, that
they are primarily intended for psychological warfare, and that they are
being actively tested on military personnel. Thus, the persons who
control the experiment can always contain the repercussions if the story
leaks out. In such cases OSI may be used both to calibrate the observers—
hence the visit to the radar men and the collecting of all photographs—
and to cover up the exercise itself.
If the reports leak out, the cover story may be, very simply, that the
object was in fact a UFO. This is the ultimate explanation, the end of
the road: "What do you want us to do? This was an object we could
not identify. You know as much about it as we do . . . ." In other words,
OSI could be actually covering up the fact that such sightings are not
cases of actual UFOs! No wonder amateur ufologists are confused, as
they are confused by the observation of strange disk-shaped lights over
Area 51.
The mechanism of the cover-up seems to be consistent—moving
extremely rapidly, the intelligence agencies sweep all the evidence and,
if necessary, secure the key witnesses. If word of the event leaks out,
the normal military chain of command operates to keep any controver-
sial document out of public hands. If that fails, then the intelligence
agencies go into a confusion mode characterized by three simultaneous
interventions:
1. They trot out their team of debunkers (astronomers, skeptics or
"rationalists") who seize upon any available explanation; the more absurd
the better.
2. They "oversell" the UFO explanation, always emphasizing the
extraterrestrial interpretation. For example, if an object has been seen
on the ground, they will make sure the media give prominence to the
wild-eyed witness or the local contactee cult member who will claim
that he has received a message for mankind, so that the entire affair is
quickly blown out of proportion.
3. They start leaking some correct information to the investigators
but mix it with confusing elements regarding the date, the time, and
the identity of the witnesses.
All these elements are demonstrably present in the Bentwaters case,
and they can be found in other military cases as well.
Is there evidence that Bentwaters was in fact an instance of deception
rather than delusion? I believe the testimony of Larry Warren is
very interesting in that regard.
On a syndicated television program called Dimensions in Parapsychology,
Warren recalled his experience in detail. It had been eight
years since he had served at Bentwaters. He was now engaged in media
work, he said. A lean young fellow with long hair falling over his shirt
collar, he seemed very relaxed, his hands hooked in his belt as he spoke.
He was in the security police at Bentwaters, he said. On the evening
in question he was dispatched to the motor pool to get lighting equipment.
He did not know why. He obtained some "light-alls," loaded
them and drove to a designated point near the forest where the vehicles
were parked. There he was ordered to leave his weapons and he walked
half a mile into the forest with other personnel. They halted behind a
small stone wall. From that position he could see a lot of ground fog
or mist which was illuminated.
There was no UFO in view anywhere, yet an elaborate scene was
being staged. Guards, officers, and other personnel had been assembled,
unarmed in an area where some sort of fog—as in the Pontoise case—
had mysteriously developed. It is difficult not to imagine that they had
been brought there deliberately, not to guard anything, but to witness
a very special phenomenon, and that it was their reactions to the
forthcoming event that were being covertly tested.
Originally posted by azureskys
What reason could the Military and Government have for keeping these records
hidden if there is nothing to hide ?
Why are they being refused medical help by the VA ? They are Veterans.
It is very disturbing to find that anyone at all might not have acess to their own Medical Records
What about other troops that were in the area at the same time?
Were these two men the only ones to get up close to the UFO?