I Can't Tell If This Guy Is Joking

...even though he steps back once in awhile to say that he is. Read it first so you can see where I'm coming from. It's short.

"Black Operations and Government Cover-Ups! The Catch-22 Of It All!" by Lyle Michel is full of so many exclamation points that I'm not sure if the guy has all of his ducks in a row. Maybe he's just getting into the subject. It sure reads like he's excited.

Michel takes it for granted that there have been many crashed UFOs and dead aliens retrieved by the government. He does not say that there is compelling evidence that this has happened, he states it as a fact. He says so numerous times.

Michel has probably not looked very far into the literature on "black ops" as he calls them. He assigns anything secret-government-wise that agrees with his preconceptions as truths and those that don't as disinfo. Strongly held beliefs translate into "facts," as he calls them. This is exactly what these shadowy people want him and other saucer enthusiasts to do. Actually, I do have a strong suspicion that some pretty strange hardware has fallen to Earth and that people have examined it. It might be non-human hardware. This sort of fence-sitting infuriates the hardcore, but I'm afraid I need to see something for myself in order to take more than a theoretical stock in its existence.

The lengths that counter-intelligence will go to to protect information, whether it has to do with UFOs or not, is almost beyond what most of us can imagine. Here's a simple example: The reason that supposed Area 51 physicist Bob Lazar saw caputred flying saucers might be that he was actually shown some sort of elaborate model with the idea that he would go and talk about it later. Maybe he knew he was supposed to talk about it. If it was so incredibly secret, we would probably never have heard from him. The whole affair stirs up the soup so that the intelligence people can see who sticks to whom and what floats and what doesn't.

Maybe we have perfected anti-gravity craft. The UFO/ aliens cover is just about as perfect a scenario to keep the press and serious academia away as you could imagine. I offer this as a suggestion, not a fact, becuase I have no idea if its true. Nick Cook's book The Hunt For Zero Point makes a compelling case that anti-gravity hardware was perfected decades ago, and to me this is more plausible than captured craft stored deep in caves or hangars. Maybe we captured something and back-engineered it, just as the believers say, but at this point I have more faith in humankind's ingenuity than in an unproven belief.

The argument that Roswell fans and others have used is that there has been enough witness evidence gathered from numerous cases to convince any jury that these events have actually happened. The trouble with this line of reasoning is that while everyone knows what a robbery or murder is, not many of us have seen or experienced a crashed flying saucer. That's one small step for a ufologist and one giant leap of faith for those they are trying to convince.

This tired game has gotten us nowhere, but some still continue to play it, and as a paranoid I once knew said "That's just what they want you to think!!"