Doubters are unwilling to consider the testimony of dozens of witnesses to be valid. Nevertheless the "secret" has become common knowledge. In fact, the Roswell story has become an icon of our cultural consciousness. If everybody knows about it, regardless of what one thinks of the story, nobody can claim the Roswell story is still a secret. Can they?

Despite ever growing piles of UFO evidence, the cultural consciousness is still not ready to accept the idea that UFOs or aliens exist, much less visit us. In the face of this, Roswell and the many other evidentiary cases out there are considered "fringe" ideas. The reason for this is a long established cultural bias against such ideas. There is an intellectual reluctance to consider such things on the basis of circumstantial evidence alone. In a culture that demands hard proof, things that go bump in the night are persona non grata: they are dead on arrival. The UFO still remains an outsider concept.

The missing link in this equation is official acknowledgement and/or unequivocal hard proof. If the "secret" (that everybody knows about) actually happened, then our government has been withholding official acknowledgement and concealing the evidence.

Given our pathological human addiction to endless serial warfare and the resultant governmental propensity for hiding technology that might give us an advantage over others, the reasons for burying such evidence are understandable - if not excusable. Supposed alien technology could be a military holy grail.

But there are probably other reasons for obscuring the facts. Faced with a technology that most probably eclipses anything we have available to us - a militarily inclined race might find themselves with their metaphorical trousers bunched uncomfortably around their ankles. This cannot be good news for tribal warriors bent on dominating others through high-tech violence. A reactionary and xenophobic race would naturally look at anything that is "not us" as a potential threat. The fact that we are little more than a technological inconvenience to a potential enemy is not just troubling: it is down right humiliating.

So, apart from any militarily justified reasons for concealing the truth, we also have a psychological one. Perhaps the biggest reason for obfuscating the facts is a deep seated inferiority complex. The UFO dudes are clearly technologically superior to us. The military would see them as a potential threat, despite the fact that they do not seem to have any overt designs on us (paranoid conspiracy theories not withstanding). The War of the Worlds just ain't happening. So the only war going on here is the psychological one inside the minds of our fear addled leaders.

Cases like the Malmstrom incident (http://www.ufocasebook.com/1967malmstrom.html) show not only the superior technology of the UFO, but their open disdain for the crown jewel in our bully arsenal: nuclear weaponry. Our most sophisticated weapons can be defeated openly, without any consequence to the UFOs. It is fitting that the ultimate militant phallic symbol - the nuclear missile - has been rendered impotent. An emasculating flaccid ‘missile' cannot sit well with military types puffed up with feelings of self importance and testosterone pumped adolescent machismo.

One way of dealing with feelings of inferiority or impotency is lying. A pathological liar masks their deep seated insecurity by concealing their perceived handicaps or making up stories which tend to glorify themselves. It becomes an endless game of compensating for feared inadequacies. The lying becomes habitual because it masks the greatest fear of them all: that their inadequacies might be exposed.

In light of these forces of enforced military secrecy, how does this square up with disclosure? Certainly disclosure is something we all wish to happen. The right to know the truth about our place in the universe should be a given. But what would the government or military "get" out of it - a black eye? - A further loss of already flagging credibility? What is in it for them?

Do we really have to ask this? They would get nothing positive, not even a pat on the back. Disclosure would be, at best, an embarrassment for the government. At worst, it would be the end of their credibility. Although I certainly sympathize with the efforts of Steven Greer and many others to get the government to reveal their secrets, this is a quixotic pipedream of the highest order. It has about as much chance of happening as a snowball does of surviving in a really hot place.

I cannot imagine any scenario where revealing this secret would benefit those who keep it suppressed. Can you? It is the military - not the politicians - that hold our bag of technological secrets. As Micah Hanks' recent posting here "Will the Next US President be Forced to Disclose UFO Evidence?" pointed out: with this secret, if it is genuine, even the President may be "outside" the monolithic "need to know" loop. This puts the rest of us so far outside that our chances of looking in are practically nil.

It is my belief that disclosure will not be a voluntary act of military or government. As long as they hold the cards, their hand will be played as close to the chest as possible. It will take a turn of the tables for this secret to be revealed. And that is why I think that disclosure will only come at the behest of an open act of revelation by the UFO beings themselves.

To that I say: "Bring it on!"

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