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The Suppression of UFO Technologies and Extraterrestrial Contact 317
of control and into a spin as he reached 45 miles per hour, obliging him to
give up the chase. He returned to town and reported the incident.
How did Chief of Police Greenhaw's old friends react to his adventure
By firing him from his job, dynamiting his car, and burning down the trailer
in which he lived. His wife divorced him, and he was driven out of
town. He has since disappeared.
These two cases are not isolated. One could easily fill a book with the
many cases of UFO contactees who have been obliged to leave their homes
and change their names because of hostile social pressures. As our history
clearly indicates, such witch hunts are nothing new. The average citizen's
tolerance of diversity has increased only minimally since medieval times.
What sets the Schirmer and Greenhaw cases apart from the hundreds, if not
thousands, of other cases of contactee harassment is the secure social position
they both enjoyed, until they reported their UFO encounters.
Being the Chief of Police in a small town one has grown up in implies
widespread respect and trust from a closely knit group of people who have
known you since childhood, and is about as secure a social position in the
hierachy of the American system as it is possible to attain. The fact that
one encounter with the unknown could in one day transform the role
model for an entire community into a despised outcast demonstrates the
extreme extent to which the average citizen feels insecure, and therefore
fears the unknown.
This is true on the national level as well as on the individual level. The
thousands of documents that the government has been obliged to release
under the Freedom of Information Act demonstrate that its internal policy
concerning UFOs and extra-terrestrials is extremely different from its
publicly stated policy. To put it bluntly, our government has been lying to
its citizens about UFOs and extra-terrestrials for over 40 years.
To point out merely one example of this duplicity: Air Force
Regulation 200-2, JANAP-146* provides a penalty often years in prison
plus a $10,000 fine and a forefeiture of pay and pension for any member
of the Armed Forces who makes an unauthorized statement about UFOs.
If you write to the Library of Congress and ask for a copy of this regulation,
you will get an answer stating that no such regulation exists. Air
Force spokesmen blandly deny that any such regulation exists. However,
if you write to the Library of Congress and ask for a copy of The UFO
Enigma by Marcia Smith and David Havas, which was published by none
other than the Library of Congress itself in 1983, you will find in it a
statement that Major Donald Keyhoe was the first to make public reference
to the previously secret JANAP-146.
Further details are to be found in a book by a well-known French
* Joint-Army-Navy-Air Forve Publication