Military versus diplomatic responses to UFOs
Capt. Thomas Mantell Intercepting UFO: Photo:Wikimedia
The
existence of UFOs has long been denied to be a national security
concern by spokespersons of the U.S. military and its major allies. For
example, a U.S. Air Force fact sheet
updated in 2003 says: “No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by
the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national
security.” Such a claim lacks credibility as evidence continues to
emerge of secret shoot down orders issued to Air Force pilots who
engage with UFOs.
The latest evidence comes from Nick Pope, a retired
22 years civil servant for Britain’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) who for
three years headed its UFO desk. Pope has for the first time revealed that in the early 1980s, a highly classified directive had been issued for shooting down UFOs:
We know of cases where the order has been given to shoot down — with little effect to the UFO.
Pope
further revealed that the rules of engagement had been drawn up after
dozens of encounters, and the attacks on UFOs were “not automatic but
happen when something in our airspace is deemed to be a threat.”
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