“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. The inevitable result was that some of our planes were lost, but how many were due to retaliation, and how many were a result of our own stupidity, is a moot point.” – Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister (source)
If there is one thing that’s extremely obvious, it’s the fact that the UFO issue is an international matter which concerns each and every one of us. There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of military encounters with UFOs that we know of so far, though this only became known in the ‘mainstream’ world a few short years ago when dozens of governments around the world decided to release thousands of pages of UFO-related documents to the public domain. For example, here is the latest batch, released by the United Kingdom in June of 2013. Prior to this release, the presence UFOs was still thought to belong to the realm of conspiracy theories, but thanks to this release, more and more people are starting to take this issue seriously. According to former White House Chief of StaffJohn Podesta, the existence of UFOs is a “fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.”
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)
Again, large portion of these documents detail military encounters with UFOs. For example, a Defense Intelligence Agency document describes a UFO encounter reported by two F-4 interceptor pilots. Keep in mind, these objects are not only seen by pilots, but they are also tracked and confirmed by radar on the planes and on the ground. There is often visual confirmation by the pilots who are sent to check the object out as well. During this encounter, the pilots experienced critical instrumentation and electronics loss as they approached the object, and when they turned away from it all instrumentation and communications came back online.