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John S., a good friend of mine now passed, was a businessman and retired foreign intelligence operative under deep cover for the CIA and military intelligence. Reflecting his wife's views, he was also a casual UFO believer and knew Hal Puthoff well as a friend and business associate. As John told me, Puthoff used to tell him that he wanted one thing above all: access to captured UFO technology and test data. With that, Puthoff believed that he could complete his theoretical physics work on faster than light travel.

Yet, as my friend John explained, despite his and Puthoff's security clearances and high level connections, he could make no progress on the subject because of its classification level. Even referring to the UFO subject generated an adverse reaction. For John, this was confirmation of sorts that UFOs were real in some sense. Just as a closely guarded building indicates something of value is present, intense security is not imposed on a subject because there is nothing to it.

Fortuitously, John happened to be at Los Alamos for a business meeting just after the Phoenix sightings. The scientists he met with were preoccupied with analysis of the video and other data they had procured. Their firm conclusion was that the sightings were of an actual UFO. John's takeaway was that the event would help shift opinion toward eventual recognition of the reality of UFOs.

In a Coast to Coast AM radio interview, DeLonge explained that insiders in the know felt trapped by UFO secrecy and wanted to gradually end it. They viewed the elaborate secrecy as oppressive and no longer justified or useful. DeLonge also expressed his respect for what the US government had accomplished in easing public alarm on the subject through secrecy while also intensely researching UFOs until they were understood.

I do not know if DeLonge will succeed, but I wish him well.