Mike Good: There are those who claim that a secret the magnitude of the UFO question cannot be kept from so many for so long. Perhaps they are right. For example, if the Roswell story actually happened (as so many witnesses claim it did) then the cat is already out of the bag.

Some thirty odd years after the incident, the wall of secrecy surrounding that story began to crack - and those compromising fissures have been spreading for another 30 years since then. Doubters are unwilling to consider the testimony of dozens of witnesses to be valid. Nevertheless the 'secret' has become common knowledge.

In fact, the Roswell story has become an icon of our cultural consciousness. If everybody knows about it, regardless of what one thinks of the story, nobody can claim the Roswell story is still a secret. Can they? Despite ever growing piles of UFO evidence, the cultural consciousness is still not ready to accept the idea that UFOs or aliens exist, much less visit us. In the face of this, Roswell and the many other evidentiary cases out there are considered 'fringe' ideas. The reason for this is a long established cultural bias against such ideas. There is an intellectual reluctance to consider such things on the basis of circumstantial evidence alone. In a culture that demands hard proof, things that go bump in the night are persona non grata: they are dead on arrival. The UFO still remains an outsider concept. The missing link in this equation is official acknowledgement and/or unequivocal hard proof. If the 'secret' (that everybody knows about) actually happened, then our government has been withholding official acknowledgement and concealing the evidence.

Given our pathological human addiction to endless serial warfare and the resultant governmental propensity for hiding technology that might give us an advantage over others, the reasons for burying such evidence are understandable - if not excusable. Supposed alien technology could be a military holy grail. But there are probably other reasons for obscuring the facts.  Full Article