Friday, March 4, 2011

UFOs, Grenada, and the British

We already discussed Astronaut Cooper and his UFO encounters. We also discussed his lobbying effort at the United Nations on the UFO Issue. He was working with Sir Eric Gairy, Grenada’s Prime Minister. According to the British press, Sir Eric was convinced that the objects he thought he was seeing were hostile alien aircraft from outer space. Eric said, “persons from outer space are studying us, or perhaps living among us as earthlings.”


According to the British press, one British government official said, that this attempt was a ridiculous proposal that will only bring the United Nations into disrepute if this campaign to persuade the United Nations to form an agency to investigate U.F.O.’s were to succeed. While the Grenada Prime Minister was campaigning for his UFO passion, the British Government was secretly keeping their UFO information quiet.

On Thursday March 2, 2011, the British Government declassified secret UFO information. According to the British press, the files contain a trove of observations from British citizens about unexplained phenomena they observed in the sky and reported to the Ministry of Defense, including peculiarly flashing lights, oddly shaped or strangely behaving aircraft or things that just looked as if they did not belong there. Photographs and detailed diagrams of supposed alien spaceships that some U.F.O. spotters included with their letters were found. There are government briefing papers; details of a House of Lords debate about U.F.O.’s in 1979; American documents prepared in the 1950s; and a copy of a report produced in 1951 by the Flying Saucer Working Party, a Defense Ministry group convened to brief Prime Minister Winston Churchill on flying saucers.

Grenada’s Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy flying saucers campaign destroyed his government. He successfully persuaded the United Nations to hold a debate on the subject in 1979. Eric flew to New York to take part in the debate. However, when he did, his enemies back home staged a coup and overthrew him.

Just across the sea from Grenada lies Puerto Rico with its history of sightings. Their sightings began in 1492 and still goes on to this day. We will devote a full blog to their sightings in a future issue.

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