UFO Crash Confirmed By Hoover Handwritten Note

Actually, this is a topic of which you might say I have had a very "special" interest in for many years. The crux of my point here is that within some circles, what looks like a duck, quacks like a duck or moves like a duck is really not even close to being a duck at all. Imitating ducks, or using decoys, is classic among governments to conceal secrets. And as mentioned in my many posts regarding this topic, the self-perpetuating UFO hoax is perhaps the most successful decoy in history as a cover for clandestine operations.

It is inherently characteristic for those engaged in espionage to use distractive devices, subterfuge, propaganda, disinformation, and even leveraging mass histeria to accomplish sensitive missions. A study of WWII history will show how effectively these methods worked, on both sides. Disguise is the ultimate weapon for concealment.

The events surrounding the end of WWII precipitated the most dangerous times in history, which continues on to this day. We as a people developed the capacity to destroy all civilization through nuclear holocaust. During the Cold War between the US and then Soviet Union, nuclear weapons profilerated on such a massive scale that there would be enough explosive power to destroy the world hundrds of times over. A doctrine emerged during this period with the acronym MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction.

During this period of mutual enmity, suspicion and madness emerged some of the most advanced feats of engineering in aeronautical design and space flight innovation. Early stealth technology was used for successfully gathering sensitive imagery over denied access areas such as the Soviet Union. Much of that technology was developed covertly at "non-existent" sites such as Area 51 and remote testing facilities at what is now Edwards AFB in California as well as among other strategic locations.

A famous example of how deeply ingrained "UFOs" are within our culture is the practical joke aired on radio of an adaption from H. G. Wells' book "War of the Worlds", narrated by Orson Wells. The hour-long broadcast in 1938 was presented as a news bulletin and led to widespread histeria; many really had believed the event to be real.

This fascination with the possibility of alien visitors is apparently wired in to our psyche. As noted in my first post in this thread, people reflexively assumed a sighting of a revolutionary stealth drone was a UFO from somewhere else far, far away. Such ingrained beliefs (encouraged by pseudoscientific "ufologists") have been exploited extemely successfully for clandestine purposes as well as commercially. My conclusion is that people have indeed been "taken" by aliens - perhaps in many different ways.

However, here is some recommended reading that could be helpful:

Revealed: How Area 51 Hid Secret Craft

U.S. Navy reveals stealth plane mistaken for UFO on Washington D.C. highway

NASA: High altitude aircraft tracking space shuttle often mistaken for UFOs:
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/167722main_LaunchImagery06.pdf

"Humanoids Reported In UFOs, Religion, and Folktales: Human Bias Towards Human Life Forms?" by Malmstrom and Coffman

"The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and Other Clinical Tales", by O. Sacks

"Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base", by Annie Jacobsen

Why People Believe Weird Things

"The Evolution of the Martians, by Jack Williamson

"Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials", by George Basalla

"The Martian Chronicles", by Ray Bradbury

"Don't pee on my leg then try telling me it's raining."
- Judge Judy (Judith Sheindlin)