[costamarianavia]

When it comes to UFOs---both "the powers that be" and much of their media machine did a pretty good job of "debunking" the whole idea of UFOS, ETs, etc.

Very rarely does the media take such topics seriously---it always has to be done with a wink and a smirk. It seems like that the anchors always have to mention "Did they see any little green men, Gretchen?" To that--I yell at the screen: "Dude---little green men is so 1950s!!! Everyone knows that they are the GREYS now!! At least get with the latest stuff!!"

Surely--the government has done their best to scare, intimidate or otherwise ward off people like pilots, law enforcement officers, their own people and others from often saying anything about the subject at all---how many cases have we heard about a pilot making an initial report of something strange or even an ATC person calling a plane asking if there traffic out at some point along their flight line---if the pilot says "Roger, Detroit Center--the thing looks like a flying disc with glowing lights and from this distance it looks to be the size of several football fields, Oh sh*%, the thing just took straight off at like Mach 8!!!" "Uhh copy that United 7295, do you wish to make a report?" "Detroit center, this is United 7295, negative on that, no freaking way!" "Roger that, United 7295, resume your original course and contact Des Moines center at the outer marker." "Copy that Detroit center."

In other words--if you are a pilot and you don't want a bunch of grief--if ya see a "UFO"-- ya keep your mouth shut about it----it might be one the size of a small city, make moves that nothing from this world could do and at such speeds, and be on every radar for a thousand miles--- BUT---you never saw a thing and neither did anyone else for that matter!!!

When I was a kid--we lived in a community that had a ton of Air Force personnel and many of them were pilots of B-52s that carried nukes in their bellies during the height of the Cold War. I recall them talking all the time about "last night's mission up over Greenland or Iceland" with them once again seeing UFOs following them. For those guys--it was standard ops, par for the course, business as usual to see UFOs following along--and they said they weren't Soviet aircraft dogging them!! But---they may have talked about it at home--but they said they never actually reported it--as much as anything because it was so routine and the things pacing them---never apparently acted in a threatening or aggressive manner.

When they actually did have a Soviet MiG or maybe see one of the "Russian Bear" nuke bombers come near them while on one of those missions---those guys could not stop talking about that!!!

I have to say that while I have never seen a UFO (at least directly)--I am very convinced that they do indeed exist and I will be posting up something about that topic.