SUBJECT: THE SECRET WEAPON THEORY                            FILE: UFO2766







   From UFOs and the Limits of Science by Ronald D. Story c. 1981

   Reproduced for educational purposes only.

   The Secret Weapon Theory

   This  theory,  which was more popular in the 1950s,  refers to advanced
   technological flying devices constructed by the U.S. government or some
   foreign power.  The proposition has some very serious problems.  First,
   UFOs were reported soon after World War II,  when military jet aircraft
   were barely operational. Had the U.S. had operational "saucers" capable
   of the performance described,  it would not have expended the  hundreds
   of billions of dollars that it has, since that time, in the development
   of alternate and less efficient military weapons systems.

   Secondly,   even  if such craft had been experimentally tested or  even
   operationally deployed,  they would not have been permitted to approach
   civilian  airports,  urban centers,  and all the everyday places  where
   UFOs  are  reported.  Also,  they would not have been deployed  to  the
   dozens  of countries where UFOs are reported.  On the other hand,  such
   craft  would very probably have been revealed to the world as  a  major
   technological   breakthrough   and  as  a  warning  to  all   potential
   adversaries.   The  political advantages of the latter would have  been
   enormous.

   A third problem would be the question of security.  The development and
   operation  of such craft would have involved many thousands of  persons
   over  a long period of time,  and it is almost inconceivable  that  the
   secret would not have eventually surfaced. These same arguments can, of
   ocurse,   be applied to a Soviet secret weapon,  or one from any  other
   country. A British/Canadian Secret Weapon Theory, for example, was once
   in vogue,  and one organization has been promoting a Nazi Secret Weapon
   Theory,   interwoven  with Adolf Hitler's possible survival and  escape
   from  Berlin.   The organization has published a book  supporting  this
   claim  and  also makes available other Nazi-oriented  books,   posters,
   bumper stickers, and tapes (such as "Beautiful Nazi Songs and Marches,"
   "Songs of the Brownshirts,"  "Dr.  Goebbels and the Third Reich,"   and
   "Adolf  hitler  Speaks to the Reichstag").  As with all  other  "secret
   weapon" theories,  it is difficult to imagine how such craft could have
   been  operated for more than thirty years without political utilization
   or without the truth emerging.




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