Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 23:49:58 GMT 1
Hello All,
Recently something has been bothering me a bit. It started with the emails concerning an inquiry by members here WRT the Rendelsham files supposedly in the National Archives in the UK. Allow me to bring you up to speed as it were.
If you remember, there was an attempt to get the files but only one page out of 18 or so could be located. The rest had been "destroyed" as part of a policy of cleaning house. THAT is what is bothering me. The government keeps copious amounts of even the most trivial of things but for some these files have found a status of being LESS important than say, your vehicle,s make, model, and license plate number. Less important even than what street you were on the last time you visited London or which way you were going on the toll road.
None of that ever goes away. Everything about you since you were born whether you are 6 yrs. old or 66 is on record. records from 2-300 years ago are archived as genealogy's and taxes paid and whatever else. That being said can anyone tell me a reasonably convincing story as to why UFO investigation and sighting records are disappearing?
In my mind the UFO subject has been a large and very real part of not only everyone's life since 1947 and beyond but a very real part of the lives of the military as well as the government itself for over 60 years...... So what's the deal? Where is it all going and why?
The fact that a lot of the files are still classified is one thing and that's not the real issue here. The issue is that the files that are not classified are ending up in the National Archives and from THERE they are being culled out of your history as a people and a nation. And just in the UK either. The idea of government accountability is being sidestepped and the connection to it and it's culpability in the systematic destruction of what I consider historical records is effectively been severed. So there is no longer recourse to stop the process. Indeed, WRT to ufology, the Freedom of Information Act is being slowly rendered ineffective by such methods.
There are those that work for the MoD past and present that are in a sense covering their tracks and are succeeding in placing the UFO phenomenon into a time frame of being a past occurrence when in actually UFOs are actively being seen everyday. I think petitioning the National Archives to halt the systematic wiping out of an important historical legacy that is not over yet by any stretch is perhaps an important first step in preserving these files for austerity and for generations after us to research and do with as they may as the rightful public access deems.
If there are things that the FOIA allows public access to then it should be up to the public who actually owns that data to determine the fate of any files it deems relevant to it's own historical significance.
Recently something has been bothering me a bit. It started with the emails concerning an inquiry by members here WRT the Rendelsham files supposedly in the National Archives in the UK. Allow me to bring you up to speed as it were.
If you remember, there was an attempt to get the files but only one page out of 18 or so could be located. The rest had been "destroyed" as part of a policy of cleaning house. THAT is what is bothering me. The government keeps copious amounts of even the most trivial of things but for some these files have found a status of being LESS important than say, your vehicle,s make, model, and license plate number. Less important even than what street you were on the last time you visited London or which way you were going on the toll road.
None of that ever goes away. Everything about you since you were born whether you are 6 yrs. old or 66 is on record. records from 2-300 years ago are archived as genealogy's and taxes paid and whatever else. That being said can anyone tell me a reasonably convincing story as to why UFO investigation and sighting records are disappearing?
In my mind the UFO subject has been a large and very real part of not only everyone's life since 1947 and beyond but a very real part of the lives of the military as well as the government itself for over 60 years...... So what's the deal? Where is it all going and why?
The fact that a lot of the files are still classified is one thing and that's not the real issue here. The issue is that the files that are not classified are ending up in the National Archives and from THERE they are being culled out of your history as a people and a nation. And just in the UK either. The idea of government accountability is being sidestepped and the connection to it and it's culpability in the systematic destruction of what I consider historical records is effectively been severed. So there is no longer recourse to stop the process. Indeed, WRT to ufology, the Freedom of Information Act is being slowly rendered ineffective by such methods.
There are those that work for the MoD past and present that are in a sense covering their tracks and are succeeding in placing the UFO phenomenon into a time frame of being a past occurrence when in actually UFOs are actively being seen everyday. I think petitioning the National Archives to halt the systematic wiping out of an important historical legacy that is not over yet by any stretch is perhaps an important first step in preserving these files for austerity and for generations after us to research and do with as they may as the rightful public access deems.
If there are things that the FOIA allows public access to then it should be up to the public who actually owns that data to determine the fate of any files it deems relevant to it's own historical significance.