Top 5 reasons for governments to keep UFOs in secret

10.09.2007 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/96923-ufo_secret-0

Stanton Friedman, a physicist who once worked for such giants as Westinghouse and General Electric, has devoted much of his adult life to ferreting out clues in the UFO controversy.

Pitching his case before more than 600 campus audiences, Friedman concludes that alien aircraft have been around for decades and that governments have tried to keep an airtight lid on them.

He has five reasons for a massive and sustained cover-up that he labels “the cosmic Watergate.”

1. Government agents want to figure out how crashed aircraft work.

2. No one wants any enemy governments to know what has been discovered.

3. If some trusted public figures, say the queen of England and the pope, disclosed UFOs, society would be shaken up, and earthlings would begin thinking of themselves as such, rather than as citizens of individual nations.

4. The fourth problem is the fundamentalist Christian perspective that aliens are “the work of the Devil,” quoting 700 Club founder Pat Robertson and the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The two said earth contains the only intelligence life in the universe, he said.

5. A public confirmation would lead to economic chaos, and lastly, secrecy is a way of life in government.