While you're over at Dave's blog, be sure to read his perceptive piece on UFO leaks, or rather the total lack of any. As we have pointed out many times (most recently in John Harney's review of Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden's book Science was Wrong, it is really only possible to keep secret those events over which one has total control. Wartime code-breaking, secret weapons systems, dodgy dossiers, can all be covered up, for a longer or shorter period, by controlling the number and nature of people who are shown them; and clearly it is easier to cover up secrets when everyone involved has a strong, common bond, as in wartime.
But UFO crashes and coverups aren't like that. If an extraterrestrial crash had happened at Roswell say, by now almost certainly hundreds of thousands of people across the globe would know about it. There would be a mass of paperwork, and not all of it would be controlled by the United States government.
So here's the challenge for Wikileaks: forget about Afghanistan, lets have the leaked documents about Roswell, and more importantly, Nick Pope's senior officers' assessments on how well he did his job as "Head of the British Government's UFO Project"!
Wikileaks has been a mighty hammer with which to shatter the rhetoric of disclosure nuts.
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