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Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic
Newly released secret files show that Winston Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber because he feared public panic. From the article: "Mr Churchill is reported to have made a declaration to the effect of the following: 'This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the Church.'"
FTFS:
This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the Church.
One can take the bolded section in one of two ways:
1. If you believe in god, why would the existence of aliens prove that god doesn't exist?
Or
2. Why would you deny evidence in front of you?
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Summary says:
It should say:
Kinda different.
and still the doctor never gets any credit.
If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'
True, the nation might be responding to bitter human enemy's nighttime heavy bomber raids with a stiff upper lip, but I say! An extrasolar tourist on a sightseeing holiday? That is really terrifying.
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The world is too caught up that the Earth is the one place for any type of life in the universe, we're not prepared to deal with other possibilities. I think that even the course that NASA is demonstrating now - proving that it's possible that there was water on Mars, opening up the possibility of a discovery of some type of life perhaps long extinct - is preparing the general public to slowly get ready to the idea that there's the existiance of extraterrestrial life. Tin foil hat time - Perhaps NASA already knows that this life exists, but they need to get the public ready for acceptance of it by slowly introducing more and more evidence so that society doesn't lose its marbles.
Winston probably called himself "the Church".
They told the London populace that German V-2 impacts were 'gas pipe' explosions to keep panic down.
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This could be:
a. Yet another part of the ever growing, ever large conspiracy to cover up the existence of seeming observational aliens
b. A maneuver by Churchill to silence a few pilots who didn't want to fly the channel anymore and made up a story to get out of getting themselves blown up. If the story had gotten out (true or not), it would've caused possible panic and more importantly a good reasons for pilots to refuse to fly, this with the backdrop of the a truly catastrophic war.
Read the article and find that the story is told by the grandson of a guard who overheard a conversation. Wow, that is just brilliant.
Bye!
Nope, no room for doubt here. From the article:
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Even assuming this nth hand story is true, UFO aliens. It could just as easily be one of Hitler's various secret experiments or any number of less exciting things.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Doctor who ?
Summary said: "t should say: Newly released secret files show that the grandson of Winston Churchill once claimed that Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber" Kinda different." And Summary is incorrect: the person making the claim is the grandson of one of Mr. Churchill's bodyguards. He, the grandson, is a respected physicist and an expert in Astronomy. Please re-read the link in the /. article.
"There are 11 kinds of people: those who know binary, those who don't, and those who could not care less!"
Also, the article annoys me greatly be implicitly equating UFOs with extraterrestrial spacecraft throughout:
Really? During a meeting discussing an unidentified flying object?
The comment about the Church implies that the object was assumed to be extraterrestrial, which is perhaps the least plausible bit: why would a group of military experts assume such a thing?
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
A non-trivial percentage of the human race freaks out if women don't cover themselves in a tarp. So yes, I think aliens may ruffle some feathers.
Except that never happened, at least not at that scale, at all. Just fantasy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)#Public_reaction
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Yes.
That is all.
Ahhh... But we must continue to wonder if aliens are secretly behind the sci fi scenes, molding us and educating us. But for what? Perhaps preparing us for the day when they will cook us and eat us. Perhaps our intelligence is just something their bio engineers built in as a way to insure that most of the biomass of Sol 3 is concentrated into six billion bite sized nuggets when they swing by three billion years later. "Hey Vorb! These are great. Just pull off the head and suck out the juice. Bitchin', dude."
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy
It's:
1) Atmospheric reflection(hmm five lights moving really fast can't be a five fighter formation?)
2) Many bombers encountered ball lightning in WWII but because of lack of science education classified them as UFOs
3) Astronauts aren't seeing aliens.
4) X Planes: Flying wings were classified as aliens but have been in development since WWII. Area 51 was just a base for testing classified military aircraft.
5) Alien abductions are a) mass hysteria and b) usually involve some sort of dream or psychotic episode.
6) Roswell was established as a military x-plane crash at a later date. (The aliens being test pilots in jump suits some drunken hick though were aliens.)
You might mention that to the religious right. They trott out the 'gays' or the 'immigrants' every election cycle to rile up the righteous. We see this all the time about someone claiming to be a 'proper' Christian in a forum, but where are you when religious extremists are spewing vitriol all over the screen, the headlines, and in church? Nary a peep.
I'm beginning to think you fear your own people, and you have lost all hope of control of your church.