Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2024
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UFO Stupidity
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Those of us who keep up on the news about UFOs, called AAP (Anomalous Aerial Phenomena) by the US government, are always disappointed when we’re promised revelations by the government. This was once again true of the two recent Congressional hearings on the subject.
There were no revelations in those hearings. The witnesses who were questioned by some incredibly stupid representatives and senators told is nothing we hadn’t heard before, multiple times.
Too often we heard, “I cannot answer that in an open session.” Why the hell not? Oh, they’ve signed nondisclosure agreements with the government. Doesn’t Congress have the power to lift those restrictions? Why is the subject always hidden behind closed doors? Don’t we the people have the right to know what our government knows? This is democracy?
Time after time, presidential candidates have promised disclosure if elected, and time after time they have reneged on that promise once elected.
The answer may lie in what a retired Airforce ‘bird colonel’ told me in 1996 while I was researching ‘Beyond Roswell,’ the 1997 book I coauthored. When I asked him about debris from the Roswell crash, he said, “We’ve had that goddam stuff for over fifty years and we still don’t know what the f*** it is or where it came from!” Now that might be a good reason for secrecy.
We know that the first government to have a UFO research program was Mussolini’s, instituted in 1933 after a UFO crash in northern Italy. Documents pertaining to that crash and subsequent research have recently come to light. We don’t know what became of the wreckage from that craft, but Italian researchers believe Mussolini gave it to the Germans. Some of the Nazi’s more unusual projects may have sprung from that, notably the Glock (German for bell). Much has been written about the Nazi Bell, so I won’t go into it here. I’m sure Google will bring up many stories.
My own speculation as to why the US government won’t tell us what they know is that they don’t know much. What government wants to admit that there are things using its airspace which that government does not know the origins of, and to which it has absolutely no defense.
The questions asked at those hearings showed that the congressmen and congresswomen didn’t do their homework. If they had, they’d have known that UFOs are not technology from China, Russia, Iran, or any other country. One man actually asked, “What country do they come from?” with a straight face. These things have been around for thousands of years! They are not the technology of any human country. The hearings should have interviewed someone like Jacques Vallee, someone who has researched the phenomenon for many years and knows the historical background. Instead of saying that the phenomenon has been around for decades, as they did, they need to realize it has been around for centuries, millennia.
Will our world governments ever come clean to their citizens? I wouldn’t bet money on it.
My father, Jim Shell, was a TV news reporter who took UFOs seriously and did stories about incidents. He always hoped to find out the truth. He went to his grave in 2001 without getting answers from the government he fought for in World War II. He deserved better, we all deserve better.
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About The Author: Bob Shell is a professional photographer, author, former editor in chief of Shutterbug Magazine and veteran contributor to this blog. He is currently serving a 35 year sentence for involuntary manslaughter for the death of Marion Franklin, one of his former models. He is serving the 17th year of his sentence at Pocahontas State Correctional Facility, Virginia.
On September 16, 2024 Shell’s release date got moved up six years due to new “mixed charges” law to February 2, 2030. It was 2036.
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