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began pressing the U.S. Air Force for a response to MUFON’s report on the UFO
tracked by FAA radar near Stephenville, Tex., on Jan. 8.
The unenviable man in the middle is Maj. Karl Lewis, the media chief for the
301st Fighter Wing at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Carswell
Field. On Monday, Lewis said he hadn’t read the analysis, released in July, so
he couldn’t address its conclusions.
De Void sent him the link at http://www.mufon.com/
and followed up with phone calls. Lewis, who’s already been burned once by
getting caught outside the information loop, said Wednesday he was kicking it
upstairs for comment. On Friday, the major said he was still “hammering away”
for a response.
De Void doesn’t expect much; a simple “no comment” would suffice. Government
bureaucracies are all pretty much alike, and the Air Force’s public position
that it no longer collects UFO data is like the Drug Enforcement
Administration’s robotic insistence that marijuana is a Schedule I drug on par
with heroin and crank. Never let massive evidence to the contrary alter policy
positions that might affect federal funding.
The downside of such calcified obstinacy is that it makes loyal employees
charged with disseminating official nonsense to the real world look
worthless.
When Lewis was initially queried in January about witnesses seeing the UFO
being pursued by jet fighters, he said they probably mistook the planes for
airliners because the USAF had nothing in the sky that night. Nearly two weeks
later, Lewis had to reverse himself and said there were 10 F-16s in the
vicinity.
Because the MSM never follows up on UFOs, the USAF paid no penalty for its
initial obfuscation. But last month, MUFON used civilian radar records to
profile an aircraft without a transponder making a beeline for restricted
airspace over President Bush’s “Western White House” in Crawford. FAA data
indicates jet inteceptors never responded.
Even though civilian agencies had no trouble complying with MUFON’s Freedom
of Information Act requests, the military refused to release uncensored flight
logs of its planes, and claimed it couldn’t find its own radar records from that
night.
Memo to the brass: Do the right thing. Issue a “no comment” press release on
Stephenville and quit hanging people like Karl Lewis out to dry.
VIEW/COMMENT ON ARTICLE:
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2008/08/usaf-still-sile.html
Related Article:
Dr. Michael Salla: Was the Secret Service Overruled in the Release of FAA Radar Data on the Stephenville UFO?
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2008/07/post-2.html
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