The CIA’s unregulated control in government policy regarding UFO reporting and criminal retribution against military personnel and pilots.
[The strictures on UPO information were further tightened by a regulation which made any release of information on UFO sightings by any of the military services or, in some cases, commercial airlines, a crime punishable with fines up to $10,000 and imprisonment up to 10 years. “These regulations,” Dr. McDonald Said, “have not only cut off almost all useful reports from military pilots, tower operators, and ground crews, but even more serious from a scientific viewpoint has been their drastic effect on the availability of military radar data on UFO’s.” Prior to 1953, significant radar sightings were disclosed, but now they are explained away as natural phenomena, he said.]
[The strictures on UPO information were further tightened by a regulation which made any release of information on UFO sightings by any of the military services or, in some cases, commercial airlines, a crime punishable with fines up to $10,000 and imprisonment up to 10 years. “These regulations,” Dr. McDonald Said, “have not only cut off almost all useful reports from military pilots, tower operators, and ground crews, but even more serious from a scientific viewpoint has been their drastic effect on the availability of military radar data on UFO’s.” Prior to 1953, significant radar sightings were disclosed, but now they are explained away as natural phenomena, he said.]