Randall
J. Randall Murphy
Sure it's a fair comparison. It deals specifically with nuclear missile silos and includes a section on readiness testing, plus it was a classified document. All issues that are relevant to this discussion.This is not a fair comparison by any means.
All documents can be considered historical, and the point in referencing the one in my previous post is that you were attempting to buttress Vallée's claim by assuming that no important and relevant secret information would ever be released to public about the nuclear silo program, and within a few minutes I was able to find one that includes even more sensitive information than a mere readiness testing scenario, but that also includes a section on readiness testing, and no mention is made of faking incursions by UFOs ( alien craft ).Your example is considered a Historical document, but the program I mentioned continued on into the 90's -at least. So, it is unreasonable to compare your 1965 Historical declassified document to a highly classified program that probably has run at least 30-40 years or more beyond 1965.
I also doubt that Vallée is fabricating the story. But UFO researchers have been fooled in the past. For example @Decker discovered that one of the sources ufologist Timothy Good quoted in his original printing of Above Top Secret, had claimed to be a military pilot, but was in fact a fraud. Does Vallée's give us a name that can be verified? Did he make any substantial effort to verify the source's credentials? I don't know.I'm only going by what Vallee knows, but I don't believe he is lying. I already posted previously there is secondary evidence these same type of UFO objects were used near Dulce and the cattle dissections! Eye witness accounts by Police officer Valdez and others I believe, and photos from Bennewitz add to that evidence. Also, Mirage Men mentions this same practice too. That is independent verification from more than two different sources. I choose to believe it, and I realize there will be no FOIA about this, imo.
It's true that I'm fairly skeptical for a ufologist, but it's not a matter of convincing me of something I won't accept. It's a matter of providing evidence I can have a high degree of confidence in. In that regard I'm not unreasonable. For example, I'm a proponent of evidence from reliable firsthand witnesses, whereas most skeptics I've debated issues with will flat out reject the testimony of witnesses. Also, although a summary of official firsthand reports by an author could be considered hearsay, there is still a chain of evidence that allows us to do some checking and assign it a high degree of confidence. For example Ruppelt's The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects is a book that I think we can assign a high degree of confidence to.Your standards of evidence are different. It may be very likely in the next 10-30 years the documents will be declassified, but I'm not here to convince you of anything you won't accept anyway. So much of the UFO & ET phenomena is based on witness accounts and second sourced information, so unless I can directly experience ET or a UFO... then it's all at least second sourcing whether FOIA or Vallee.
Most importantly, don't get me wrong here. We're just discussing the idea through a bit of friendly debate in the hope that it might shed some light on the issue or shake something loose. There's absolutely no intention to run you into the ground on it ( as some who have taken offense to my persistence in the past have incorrectly assumed ). Personally, I think that some sort of secret readiness testing involving faked UFOs is an interesting possibility, and I've even suggested a similar explanation for the high-strangeness goings-on at the Skinwalker Ranch. So who knows? I don't. It would certainly go down as an interesting facet of ufology history if it turns out to be true, and I have to thank you for mentioning it. It makes for some very interesting discussion.