The modern-day UFO era celebrates the half-century mark this year with the 50th anniversary of the Roswell, New Mexico crash and pilot Ken Arnold's sightings in Washington. At the National UFO and Unexplained Phenomena Conference in October in Minneapolis-St. Paul, UFOlogists pondered the government coverup and secrecy in a variety of fascinating presentations.
Speakers cautioned the audience not to believe everything they see and hear from the government about UFOs as further admissions come out. Just because Bill Clinton says it on television, don't believe it, warned Robyn Quail, abduction researcher.
Author-researcher Kevin Randle finds it odd that the government is now putting more manpower into its UFO public relations efforts. Three or four years ago the government didn't care what we, as a bunch of UFO nuts, believed.
Suddenly, they're actively working to convince people Roswell was nothing more than a balloon. We've actually gotten their attention and interest, and they're working to refute what we say, he said, adding If Roswell isn't the event that we think it is, why do they care what we believe?