National Security Implications of the UFO/ETI Subject:
A Brief Summary
National Security Implications of the UFO/ETI subject are profound and far-reaching, albeit
currently largely unrecognized.
These implications may be considered in separate but related aspects: those intrinsic to ET
activity and those arising from current covert management of the issue.
Historical Background:
Early National Security considerations dealt with concern over public panic arising from the
detection of near earth and earth-landed extraterrestrial spacecraft (ETS)and from the
technological implications of advanced Extraterrestrial material as it may impact the arms race
and cold war. Additional concerns were related to the impact on religious belief systems, the
political order and economic systems.
Importantly, once actual ETS were retrieved in 1947, thereby allowing Extraterrestrial hardware
to be studied and back- engineered for possible human military applications, the need for
complete secrecy regarding the matter was deemed paramount by authorities at that time. Given
the tensions of the early atomic era and the mounting 'cold war' with the USSR. it is
understandable that the introduction of Extraterrestrial technology was thought to be destabilizing
to an already dangerous situation. Moreover, given the history of technological secrets related
to atomic and hydrogen weapons being stolen by agents of the USSR, there was understandable
concern that any technological breakthrough related to Extraterrestrial technology might find its
way into Soviet hands. If such an event enabled the USSR to produce actual military
applications before the US, obviously this would have placed the US military capability in a
potentially catastrophic disadvantage.
Since the I 970's, we have reason to believe that a degree of cooperation on this matter has
evolved with the USSR and the US and perhaps other nations. Certainly the end of the cold war
has largely removed earlier concerns vis a vis technological breakthroughs and the fear of Soviet
aggression.
Moreover, the psychological reasons for secrecy related to public panic are not valid today. At
least 57% of the population accept that UFOs are real and are of Extraterrestrial origin. And 30-
40 years of space exploration by human society has prepared the population for the possible
existence of other Extraterrestrial civilizations capable of space travel. In short, the previous
concerns motivating secrecy are not relevant today.
Intrinsically, there is no reason to believe that the Extraterrestrial presence poses a threat to the
national or world security. If hostility and aggression were related to their purpose here, it is
likely that events congruent with hostility would have transpired long before now. It is our
assessment that the Extraterrestrials are not hostile, but are very concerned with human capability
related to warfare and the militarization of space. Activity by Extraterrestrial assets related to