Billy Cox a un langage direct et assez moqueur..
Bienvenue à celui ou celle qui voudrait s'amuser à le traduire :
http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/The Herald Tribune
December 10th, 2009 09:38am
MoD draws the blindsby Billy Cox
The way in which the British Ministry of Defence shut down its UFO hotline last week drew almost as much attention as the abrupt announcement that it was terminating the thing after a 50-year run.
As former MoD agent Nick Pope pointed out in The Guardian, the military took the sublime route, finessing the move as an amendment to the Freedom of Information section on its Web page rather than issuing a full-blown press release. Pope, who worked the UFO desk in the early Nineties, is clearly skeptical of the breezy dismissal.
“(The announcement) is a clear sign that the MoD wanted the policy to go unnoticed for as long as possible,” he wrote in an e-mail to De Void. “Had it not been picked up by January 1, the media would have been much less likely to run the story, as it would have been regarded as last year’s news. Having been media trained by MoD myself, I have no doubt this was deliberate and was an attempt to kill any story.”
After all, the MoD’s official statement is illogical. Especially in this age of terror. In arguing that “no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom” in the last half century, the statement adds, “There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources.”
To the extent that none of the UFO documents the military has uploaded into the public domain for nearly two years have borne a high security classification, the first part is true as far as it goes. But “no defence benefit” in evaluating documented intruders that can outpace, outmaneuver, and outfly anything in the British arsenal? Intruders without transponders, that don’t bother to file flight plans before piercing restricted air space? What were the famous last words of the nympho in Disneyland? “Tell me another one, Pinocchio”?
British intelligence has 50 years of data on UFOs and still can’t do anything to stop them from happening. What could additional lights-in-the-sky eyewitness reports contribute at this point, besides reinforce the obvious? So the MoD has apparently decided to drop the pretense and follow the American model.
“While I think it’s a mistake, all that’s really happened is that the public have been cut out. I have no doubt that uncorrelated targets tracked on radar and UFOs seen by pilots will continue to be looked at,” Pope writes. “But this will take place outside a formally-constituted UFO project. The trick would be, I think, to describe such things as ‘unusual aircraft.’”
And just like that, with a twist of semantics - poof! - problem solved.
