tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post4194167649266087871..comments2024-03-19T11:13:40.642-07:00Comments on A Different Perspective: Another Part of the Levelland InvestigationKRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-40186584117391007742019-08-20T02:12:45.577-07:002019-08-20T02:12:45.577-07:00You seem to be the only person in Ufology who unde...You seem to be the only person in Ufology who understands that neither the military nor the federal government keep all records in perpetuity. They are routinely destroyed when no longer needed. As a federal contractor I shredded defunct files all the time. Everyone in the Department did. More was destroyed than was ever kept.<br /><br />There's nothing at all nefarious or suspicious about records being destroyed. There's not the space, the resources, nor the funding to maintain files forever. However, the lack of records is always (I mean ALWAYS) an automatic assumption of a conspiratorial cover-up. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just as corporations can't afford to keep every shred of paper or electronic file ever produced, neither can the military or government.purrlgurrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519835482606629362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-37428710108345728232019-08-16T08:34:47.555-07:002019-08-16T08:34:47.555-07:00Dear Kevin,
Thank you for posting your most recen...Dear Kevin,<br /><br />Thank you for posting your most recent articles dealing with the Levelland cases. I enjoyed reading them.<br /><br />Presently I have been going over the letter by Lt. Col. Donald Dessert (July 1963) to the Honorable Carl Vinson, generally in response to NICAP's constant encouragement to write their Congressmen about the USAF handling of the UFO program.<br /><br />What is most strikingly obvious in the letter, in my opinion, is the clear evidence of either the right hand not having a clue about the left hand or that the Air Force was indeed involved in a cover-up of the actual truth regarding what they knew about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.<br /><br />Lt. Colonel Dessert was an officer within the Office of the Chief of Staff/Intelligence (AFCIN) in which was housed the Office of the Assistant for National Indications, HQ USAF (AFNIN). To me this is the real proof of the seriousness actually afforded SOME of the sightings of UAP, at that time. To this day both AFCIN and AFNIN are seemingly discussed by AF personnel as being only unrermarkable references to AF Intelligence, when I can prove that this is NOT the case. In fact, AFNIN was the AF office which dealt directly with the CIA regarding the National Indications Center and our Advanced Reconnaissance System (ARS). Since 1950, the Air Force Assistant Chief of Staff/Intelligence (in actuality AFNIN) was directly connected to the National Indications or "Watch" Committee (NIC) as the Deputy Director was always chosen from AFNIN.<br /><br />The letter (actually said to have been in response to a Private John P. Speights) for example, claims that the Air Force had no records of pilots being tasked to intercept UAP, referencing a particular case where an AF pilot simply misidentified Venus to promote the idea that pilots make mistakes constantly.<br /><br />This alone was a patently false sentence, unless it was a purposefull "fudging" of the facts, i.e., that in reality the files resided in fact with Air Defense Command.<br /><br />The letter also uses Dr. Menzel as another reference. This would have to have been evidence of absolute desperation on the part of Colonel Dessert, in that previously, Dr. Menzel's ideas had been scoffed at by AF brass.<br /><br />In short, I believe there are many cases which patently disprove what is said in the letter and the Levelland cases are just some examples.<br /><br />Thank you again,<br />Best regards,<br />BobBob Kofordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04011405404835724736noreply@blogger.com