From: invalid@invalid.com   
      
   Re: Alexander's _UFOs - Myths, Conspiracies and Realities_ book:   
      
   Read it? I did. Just finished it a few days ago. Interesting. He quite   
   convincingly, I think, says that our and other governments/militaries are   
   ignoring UFOs and ETs as not a serious problem nor a threat. Too   
   expensive in time and personnel to research them just out of curiosity.   
   Here there are no hidden UFOs or wreckage at AF bases or elsewhere, no ET   
   interaction of any kind and never was, no ET bodies, no nothing! He seems   
   to agree that UFOs exist and have frequently been seen. The military used   
   to chase them sometimes. They interfered with ICBM silos in the US,   
   former USSR, etc. But in the past several decades we ignore them and they   
   mostly ignore the governments except for a little annoyance once in a   
   while. He, as I recall, says little about abductions and cattle   
   mutilations.   
      
   Don't ask me to describe his government indifference reasoning - it takes   
   up most of his book. Read the book instead, please.   
      
   I was a radar maintenance man in the USAF in very late 1950s and can say   
   that on the DEW Line (northern Canada) we ignored them when we picked up   
   what was obviously a UFO (usually because of their high speed or their   
   behavior) on the radar, never scrambled any interceptors that I heard of   
   or witnessed.   
      
   What, if you read the book, do you think? He seems to know what he's   
   talking about, despite what I've read about UFOs and ETs elsewhere. But   
   then again, I've often been wrong before.   
      
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