Now and again I get asked about “missing government files” (or “hidden files”) on UFOs. It’s an issue that a lot of people don’t seem to understand – and it’s also something that demonstrates a great amount of naivety on the part of the questioner. I’ll explain what I mean. It relates to both those who believe there are UFO conspiracies and those who don’t – but for very different reasons. On many occasions, when I’m in debate with skeptics and debunkers, someone will say something like this: “There can’t be any truth to Rendlesham Forest or to Roswell because nothing of any significance has ever surfaced through the Freedom of Information Act.” That is such a pathetic and uninformed approach to take. And, it’s also a misinformed stance. A few day ago, I used the words “La La Land” in an article here at Mysterious Universe. I’ll use it again: “La La Land.” I use it because that’s where some of the debunkers and skeptics are happy to dwell.
On many occasions I’ve been asked about how we might go about finding files on issues like the Roswell incident of July 1947, the JFK assassination, mind-control and so on. I should stress that a lot of material on JFK’s murder
has been placed into the public domain. And the same applies to mind-control too. As for Roswell, well, we’ll come to that later in this article. There are, however, some files that will almost certainly
never surface. The main reason? They have been destroyed. Indeed, while the provisions of the Freedom of Information Acts of many nations have proved to be very useful, if the material that one might be looking for has been shredded or burned, there’s not much that can be done. If at all. And, with that said, let’s take a look at some perfect examples of how certain secrets will almost certainly stay that way forever. We’ll begin with the CIA’s “mind-control” programs, the most well-known being MK-Ultra, much of which involved the exper