BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE
By Don Berliner
( Funded By Laurence Rockefeller, Summary By Dave Vetterick
( April 13th, 1996 )
Roughly 1,000 copies of this 168 page document were delivered to President Clinton, U.S. Congress, Heads of State and other potentially influencial people around the world. The purpose of this briefing is stated in the cover page as follows:
"While several Governments of the world have dealt with this (UFO) problem, as you can see from this report, we believe these Governments should make available NOW all the UFO evidence they have collected for a thorough and open inquiry by the scientific community."
The report has three main parts:
PART 1. OVERVIEW
PART 2. CASE HISTORIES
PART 3. QUOTATIONS
The Table of Contents shown at the end of this summary lists most of the case histories used to support the position of this report. I'll paraphrase the basic position.The real truth regarding these many instances of UFO encounters has been kept from the scientific community, who is the better equiped to evaluate these, by perhaps well intentioned government employees proclaiming this information "TOP SECRET" or "ABOVE TOP SECRET". They do so with the self bestowed wisdom that it's an issue of national security.
The power of these employees is absolute. Such power lends itself to abuse. Quoting directly:
"Behind the shield of secrecy, it is possible for an agency or service to avoid scrutiny and essentially operate outside the law. Accountability to the taxpayers and Congress can be conveniently avoided.""The President himself is not fully briefed on matters classified as above top secret. Such information, allowing access only on the strictest need to know basis, is not even given to senior elected officials who come & go and are therefore regarded as temporary, political, and unreliable."
"What gives NON-ELECTED government employees the right to keep this information to themselves? Such ELITISM by officials of any government, which is supposed to be based on the principles of democracy and individual rights, is a gross injustice, not only to it's own people, but to mankind."
"Is it possible a few privileged individuals have access to this information while denying it to the electorate for National Security reasons, so it can be privately studied? SHOULDN'T THIS DECISION BE MADE BY OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND BASED ON AN INFORMED DISCUSSION ?
I don't know about you folks, but this sums up extremely well the opinion I've had for years. I just recently decided to get on the NET to do whatever I could to help get the government to end this unjustified big brother protectionalism. Which is exactly the thrust of this excellent report.Whatever semi-valid reason the government may have had for this extraordinary secrecy and disinformation evaporated with the collapse of the traditional communist block.
The report elaborates to a great extent on the ideas expressed above. In support of this the rest of the report employs quotes from high ranking officials all over the world, including Truman, Ford, Carter, and Ronald Reagan, former astronauts, and scientists like Sagan, Friedman, and Margaret Mead. This is in addition to the thorough summaries of eye witness accounts and case histories as listed in Part 2.
I CALL ON EVERYONE TO CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM THE PRESIDENT ON DOWN TO MAKE SURE THEY READ THE FULL REPORT, AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO MAKE PUBLIC ALL RELATED SECRET FILES.
I invite your thoughts and comments.
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Part 1. Overview....................................................3
Government Secrecy.........................................................5
The Case for UFO Reality.................................................7
The UFO Cover - Up.......................................................15
Summary of Quotations..................................................19
Part 2. Case Histories.........................................25
Introduction....................................................................27
1944-45: Foo Fighters Over Europe and Asia...................31
1946: Ghost Rockets Over Scandinavia...........................33
1947: First American Sighting Wave................................37
1952: Second American Sighting Wave............................41
1956: Radar/Visual Jet chase Over England.....................45
1958: Third American Sighting Wing...............................47
1964: Brazilian Navy Photographic Case.........................51
1967: Landing Case At Socorro, New Mexico..................57
1975: Strategic Air command Bases UFO Alert................61
1976: Multiple Witness Case The Canary Islands.............65
1976: UFO Dog Fight Over Tehran..................................69
1980: UFO Incidents At Rendlesham Forest, Eng............79
1981: Physical Trace Case Trans-en-Province, Fr............85
1986: Jet Chase Over Brazil............................................93
1986: Japan Airlines 747 Case Over Alaska....................99
1989: Multiple Witness Case Russian Missile Base........103
1989-90: UFO Sighting Wave In Belgium......................109
1991-94: Recent Cases...................................................115 Summary......................................................................117
PART 3. Quotations..........................................119
Appendices
Characteristics of IFO's and UFO's...............................159
Terminology of UFO's...................................................160
International Agreements and Resolutions....................161
Recommended Reading.................................................166
Resource Catalogs.........................................................167
CUFOS, FUFOR and MUFON.......................................168
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