I have been told on a number of occasions by various different officials, some of them credible and others less so, that the US government harbors its secrets in this area for an urgent reason that cannot be disclosed and must be hidden at all costs or the welfare of the whole world may be placed in jeopardy.

The secret has been described to me in various ways. One has been that there has been a threat on the part of aliens to destroy the world if their presence is disclosed or their activities hampered. Another has been that the military is completely helpless to prevent the abductions, and that knowledge of the fact that they are going on, that nobody knows what they mean, and that they cannot be stopped, would cause public terror. A third is that by admitting the existence of our visitors we also somehow admit them to our world, ending up in the same situation that confronts primitive tribes when they are faced with technologically more robust civilizations, and that the government has agreed to keep everything secret until our species is ready to cope with the aliens effectively, without losing its sense of independence and innovation.

I don't know which, if any, of these claims reflect the true situation. But I do know this: there is a great deal of secrecy surrounding the UFO and abduction problems, and it has led to an extremely bizarre public ituation, where open and obvious evidence is being denied by a process of propaganda and lying that is completely unprecedented in this society.