Yeah, sure they're able to cover up something like that for that long. All they need is the will to keep doing it. That doesn't mean the info won't be available somewhere...to some slight extent. It just means it won't ever get general notice or sanction or any respect from the authoritative sources in society which are: the mainstream media TV and press and the government spokesmen and the official science community who appear on those media to tell us what to believe.

Therefore, most people won't hear about it and most of those who do won't believe it, because it didn't come from the mouth of Big Brother.

Dead simple, Bill. You don't need to silence everyone. You just need to control the main official sources at the top, and that is all. You do that the same way you bamboozle a passive and largely ignorant public dialy with phony propaganda about anything else...merely by omission and repetition. Thus people were fooled into the Iraqi WMD thing. Now the reason many are not fooled any longer is primarily this: the government only needed to fool them LONG enough to accomplish the initial attack ON Iraq. After that, they had what they wanted...so no particular reason to sweat blood over maintaining that story. It was only needed long enough to get the go ahead to launch the invasion. Afterward, who cares? It's a fait accompli. The UFO situation is not like that at all, it's an ongoing problem for them, and they wish to keep the lid on it.

I'm not saying there MUST be a conspiracy to cover this up, Bill, I'm saying there CAN be one. Easily. It can be done by any government that wishes to do it for as long as they decide to.

And there may be such a massive coverup as that going back to the 1950s. And you have no way of knowing, do you?

Just accept the fact that you don't know for sure one way or another about that and we will have no particular reason to continue arguing about this.

All the things you say are hypothetically possible and plausible from their own angle. So are all the things I say. Fine. What's the problem? I don't mind if you're not convinced by my assertions? What difference would it make if you were? Would anything change?

Nope. Life would go on just the same as ever.

I'm not waiting for someone to give me proof, Bill, because I SAW what was proof enough for me of one of two possible things:

1. Genuine ET vehicles of an alien design...or..
2. Secret government vehicles of a type and technology that the public knows absolutely nothing about.

My guess is that it was probably the former, but it could have also been the latter. I don't know, and there is no way for me to find out for sure one way or the other. I expect to die not knowing. I have my proof, Bill, that something unusual was out there. All the proof I need. You don't because you didn't share that experience. I don't expect you to believe my proof. Why would you? And that's perfectly okay.

My beef isn't with you, Bill, it's with the government and the media.