{"id":1241,"date":"2008-08-17T20:57:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T20:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2008\/08\/17\/usaf-still-sile\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T20:57:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T20:57:54","slug":"usaf-still-sile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/usaf-still-sile\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF still silent on Stephenville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\"><strong>USAF still silent on Stephenville<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>By <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:billy.cox@heraldtribune.com\">Billy<br \/>\nCox<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Published: Friday, August 15, 2008 at 4:42 p.m. <br \/>Last<br \/>\nModified: Friday, August 15, 2008 at 4:53 p.m. <\/div>\n<div>It\u2019s been five quiet and patient days now since De Void<br \/>\nbegan pressing the U.S. Air Force for a response to MUFON\u2019s report on the UFO<br \/>\ntracked by FAA radar near Stephenville, Tex., on Jan. 8.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The unenviable man in the middle is Maj. Karl Lewis, the media chief for the<br \/>\n301st Fighter Wing at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Carswell<br \/>\nField. On Monday, Lewis said he hadn\u2019t read the analysis, released in July, so<br \/>\nhe couldn\u2019t address its conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>De Void sent him the link at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mufon.com\/documents\/MUFONStephenvilleRadarReport.pdf\">http:\/\/www.mufon.com\/<wbr><\/wbr>documents\/<wbr><\/wbr>MUFONStephenvilleRadarReport.<wbr><\/wbr>pdf<\/a>,<br \/>\nand followed up with phone calls. Lewis, who\u2019s already been burned once by<br \/>\ngetting caught outside the information loop, said Wednesday he was kicking it<br \/>\nupstairs for comment. On Friday, the major said he was still \u201chammering away\u201d<br \/>\nfor a response.<\/p>\n<p>De Void doesn\u2019t expect much; a simple \u201cno comment\u201d would suffice. Government<br \/>\nbureaucracies are all pretty much alike, and the Air Force\u2019s public position<br \/>\nthat it no longer collects UFO data is like the Drug Enforcement<br \/>\nAdministration\u2019s robotic insistence that marijuana is a Schedule I drug on par<br \/>\nwith heroin and crank. Never let massive evidence to the contrary alter policy<br \/>\npositions that might affect federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>The downside of such calcified obstinacy is that it makes loyal employees<br \/>\ncharged with disseminating official nonsense to the real world look<br \/>\nworthless.<\/p>\n<p>When Lewis was initially queried in January about witnesses seeing the UFO<br \/>\nbeing pursued by jet fighters, he said they probably mistook the planes for<br \/>\nairliners because the USAF had nothing in the sky that night. Nearly two weeks<br \/>\nlater, Lewis had to reverse himself and said there were 10 F-16s in the<br \/>\nvicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Because the MSM never follows up on UFOs, the USAF paid no penalty for its<br \/>\ninitial obfuscation. But last month, MUFON used civilian radar records to<br \/>\nprofile an aircraft without a transponder making a beeline for restricted<br \/>\nairspace over President Bush\u2019s \u201cWestern White House\u201d in Crawford. FAA data<br \/>\nindicates jet inteceptors never responded.<\/p>\n<p>Even though civilian agencies had no trouble complying with MUFON\u2019s Freedom<br \/>\nof Information Act requests, the military refused to release uncensored flight<br \/>\nlogs of its planes, and claimed it couldn\u2019t find its own radar records from that<br \/>\nnight.<\/p>\n<p>Memo to the brass: Do the right thing. Issue a \u201cno comment\u201d press release on<br \/>\nStephenville and quit hanging people like Karl Lewis out to dry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/article\/20080815\/BLOG32\/187004538&amp;title=USAF_still_silent_on_Stephenville\">http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/<wbr><\/wbr>article\/20080815\/BLOG32\/<wbr><\/wbr>187004538&amp;title=USAF_still_<wbr><\/wbr>silent_on_Stephenville<\/a>_<\/span><\/p>\n<p>VIEW\/COMMENT ON ARTICLE:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2008\/08\/usaf-still-sile.html\">http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2008\/08\/usaf-still-sile.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Article:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2008\/07\/post-2.html\">Dr. Michael Salla: Was the Secret Service Overruled in the Release of FAA Radar Data on the Stephenville UFO?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2008\/07\/post-2.html\">http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2008\/07\/post-2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2008\/07\/this-week-on--2.html\">This<br \/>\nWeek on EXOPOLITICS RADIO &#8211; EXOPOLITICS: 2008 ET Disclosure Update with<br \/>\nStephen Bassett &#8211; Part II; Is Stephenville an ET-Human Disclosure<br \/>\nManagement Ops? by Alfred Webre<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2008\/07\/this-week-on--2.html\">http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2008\/07\/this-week-on&#8211;2.html<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}