This is yet again another example of 'Press exaggeration'. Martin Gilbert confirms the following:
After a Joint Intelligence Report on flying saucers Churchill (then Prime Minister) minuted to Lord Cherwell on 28 July 1952: 'What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.' Lord Cherwell replied on 9 August 1952 that Intelligence estimates considered 'flying saucers' to be either known astronomical or meteorological phenomena, mistaken identification of conventional aircraft, balloons and birds, optical illusions, psychological delusions, or deliberate hoaxes. Maybe if the press concentrated more on the facts and less on the fantastical, we might get a good story now and then. The debate about the existence of UFOs has been going on since the 1940, (if not before). Question: If we are not alone in the universe, does it really matter? Will it change anything? Are we going to do something different simply because we know? If UFOs did land on this planet at one stage, they obviously have little interest in us or they would have come back. However, not to disregard the possibility that UFOs might exist, one can reflect on Churchill's warning that the next war would be based on science. I don't think we need to worry, if Aliens are out there and decide to take over the planet, in my opinion, I don't think they can do any worse than we have. On Aug 6, 9:06 am, "Editor/Finest Hour" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the news so slow that they have to regurgitate stuff Martin Gilbert > took care of years ago? > > Finest Hour 115, Summer 2002 Datelines: > London, October 21st— "What does all this stuff abut flying saucers > amount to?"......WSC's advisers produced a six-page report [which] > played down the phenomenon.... later an order went out expressly > banning all RAF personnel from discussing sightings. —The Observer > > Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06, Around & About, p 10— > Tizard saw no threat from UFOs. All sightings, he reported, were > explainable by natural events such as the weather or meteors, or were > normal aircraft. But Britain followed the American lead in > underplaying the sightings, and a few months later an order went out > expressly banning all RAF personnel from discussingUFOreports with > anyone not in the military. Roberts and Clarke believe that theUFO > sightings were the product of "mass hysteria".... > > Some cover-up. Almost makes you pine for a resurrection of the much > better stories that WSC knew about Pearl Harbor and planned the 1929 > Market Crash.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
