Randle,K. Conspiracy of Silence. 1998
Randle, Kevin D. Conspiracy of Silence. New York: Avon Books, 1998.
368 pages. Foreword by Jack Anderson.
Kevin Randle, a captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and a former Air
Force intelligence officer, has been writing about UFOs for 25 years. This
one offers a history of official investigations of the UFO phenomenon, as
well as tantalizing hints of what was really happening behind the scenes.
One chapter is about the "Washington Nationals," the UFOs that appeared over
Washington DC in 1952. They were tracked by three radar sites, spotted
visually by numerous people, and an F-94 was scrambled to intercept. After
the report came out of committee, the incident was explained as weather
phenomena. Shades of the famous Roswell weather balloon cover story!
This pattern was repeated by most of the official committees that have
studied UFOs, whose final reports were scripted before the evidence was even
considered. Simultaneously, there was ongoing, secret investigative activity
by the government, and teams have been established that specialized in
"collection responsibilities" and the "retrieval of space fragments." The
two worlds were entirely separate. Amazingly, one UFO researcher, William L.
Moore, even admitted to a UFO convention in 1990 that he had been helping
the government spread disinformation. (Regrettably, the infighting among UFO
researchers has become as time-consuming and debilitating as the infighting
among JFK assassination researchers -- and probably for the same reason.)
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