Kan dit een bolbliksem geweest zijn? Of was het toch een UFO?
Something Serious Turned Ridiculous Has Been Seriously Missing From The News Media
The Missing Times - News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up
"When UFOs Appear,
National News Agencies Fall
Silent..." Terry Hansen
Very few if any books written about the mass media and the UFO cover-up display the insight and hard hitting critical analysis as that provided by Terry Hansen in his book The Missing Times - NEWS MEDIA COMPLICITY IN THE UFO COVER-UP.
Although it was published nearly 14 years ago Hansen's research has withstood the test of time by sustaining and keeping relevant the incestuous relationship that exists between the American intelligence agency infrastructure and the news media.
Hansen describes it best when he quotes Joseph DeTrani, former CIA Director of public affairs:
"In many cases, we (the CIA) have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold or even scrap stories that could have adversely affected national security interests..."
Hansen uses an enthralling assortment of examples to illustrate how the US military and its co-terminus intelligence agencies have constructed a well-orchestrated political strangle-hold on the news. He graphically depicts how exquisite governmental manipulation of public perception is used to under-mind democracy while at the same time deftly sustain the facade of a free press. This theme flows consistently through his work.
President Kennedy - A Media Master
Hansen uses President Kennedy's interaction with the New York Times as a classic exemplar of government and media complicity.
Little known to the public, President John Kennedy cleverly attempted to utilize covert censorship when he contrived to restrain Times publisher Orvil Dryfoos from publishing details of a controversial CIA program to recruit and train Cuban exiles in Guatemala for what eventually became the disaster known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. Kennedy’s glowing and almost saint-like persona would have been severely tarnished had this kind of news been allowed to seep into the public domain. Moreover, the political price Kennedy would have had to pay had the Times not complied was reason enough to impose his will on Dryfoos.
In another startling revelation Hansen also reveals that during the development of the atomic bomb in the 1940’s, government and military and government officials contrived to have the media communicate to an unwitting public that the horrendously huge first test of the A-bomb was a ‘munitions dump explosion’ that caused little or no damage and; that claims by some journalists about radiation poisoning were nonsense - both as it turned out were blatant government lies.
Somehow they got away with it. Eventually this kind of historical deception in journalism has become an accepted way of doing business among those in the media and between the government interests they are persuaded to protect.
Katherine Graham - A Media Mistress
In altering public opinion by manipulating facts and perceptions over the decades, it has become almost impossible to distinguish the truth from treachery. Regrettably this kind of complicity between the news media and the American political system has continued unabated for decades. It leads any inquiring mind to question the kind of 'democracy' we really have - or, even more disturbingly - is there a democracy at all? Hansen provides more specific clarity on this point with a poignant illustration that many may feel borders on sedition.
The one-time matriarch of the American press industry Katherine Graham is quoted as saying, before select members of the CIA, "There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't."
This kind of editorial philosophy by a leading American newspaper should be of real concern to the American public.
Hansen goes on to quote Graham in the same address - "I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." This unambiguous statement by a media giant does more than imply complicity between government and media – it guarantees it!
Members of the press who may read Hansen’s work might need to pause to re-assess their role as journalists when they hear one of their own describe how those in the upper echelons of government and media contrive to control the news and succeed at institutionalizing it. The question occurs to this author – what was Katherine Graham doing talking to the CIA in the first place?
Methods of Media Mendacity
As Hansen discusses later in his book, it is of little surprise that US intelligence agency's propensity to feign disinterest in the UFO phenomenon gives mainstream press carte-blanche to do exactly the same. Even though some foreign news agencies do a fine job of exposing UFO related stories - the powerful American mainstream media seems to be able to pulls its influential trump card to manage UFO news – thus keeping foreign press stories on UFOs from reaching international wire services.
Hansen suggests several methods have been and are used to manage news about UFOs: recruiting influential journalists, monitoring and intercepting UFO-related news, instilling fear through the film industry about ‘evil aliens’, surveillance of UFO organizations, propaganda, misleading information or disinformation or, recruitment of influential people as media spokespersons to name a few.
Hansen goes into great detail to illustrate how these strategies are regularly used to pummel UFO news or evidence of it into oblivion so that no reputable news agency will touch it.
The result is a woefully uniformed and indolent citizenry that ensures the success of an institutionalized form of control through mendacity and complicity.
Hansen also goes to great lengths in pointing out that some of the historical media-control strategies used to manipulate public opinion during the second world war, the war in Vietnam and the Gulf war were re-cycled to tackle the ‘new media-menace’ called UFOs and extraterrestrials. The fact that the UFO issue has never become the massive mainstream story of the century is a testament to the success and over-all effectiveness of these strategies.
Monster Media-Machine
Ultimately what we learn from Hansen’s research is that this mendacity has created a two headed monster media-machine; one funded by tax dollars and one funded by billions in commercial advertising revenues.
We also learn how large corporate-media interests are permitted, in an unrestrained manner, to flood or dilute the essence of the political and national security implications of the UFO matter with fantasy, delusion and, what many call - the ‘giggle-factor’. Fundamentally the UFO issue is the most openly talked-about government secret in history – yet few in the public domain take it seriously.
Under these nearly perfect set of circumstances Hansen depicts why there is little wonder the authentic nature of the UFO phenomenon has virtually no chance of ever being fully disclosed in American mass media.
[Ed. Note: This feature of UFO secrecy has changed significantly since Hansen first published his book. Today - global efforts by many activists and groups to bring UFO/ET Disclosure into the political arena for the public have met with good success but continue to fall short of full government disclosure.]
Hansen goes on to suggest news stories about UFOs circulate with vigour within American intelligence channels. Hansen’s assertion is clearly corroborated by many UFO analysts who have often written about how validated information about UFOs is routinely supplanted by stories on terrorist bombings, war in the Middle-East or the waist size of Jennifer Aniston.
Routinely, the general public satiates itself on a feast of celebrity trivia, the banality of local news and the tireless on-slot of an expensive war economy. With little or no resistance, this news media-monster has come to life. It tramples on the US constitution by employing obfuscation, diversion and censorship as key tools in the dumbing-down of public awareness.
This is the world of the American news consumer - and quite frankly - they seem to gleefully accept it all as a way of life.
The Hansen Alternative
In The Missing Times Terry Hansen reminds us that all information - regardless of how unpalatable or uncomfortable it may be, must be accessible by the public. This is especially true when the source and holder of this information is the elected body known as the ‘government of the people and by the people’. Any other standard for or use of information that restricts the public’s right-to-know is an abrogation of authority and an illegitimate use of power.
Most if not all of Hansen’s book is quite familiar territory to UFO researchers and analysts. However to those unfamiliar with the UFO issue or with the historical techniques used by military and intelligence agencies to control public perceptions about everything from weapons of mass destruction to Monsanto’s influence within the American pharmaceutical industry, what Terry Hansen has to say about government/media complicity may appear quite unbelievable even mind-boggling to the average consumer of news who accepts at face value what the media spews out on a daily basis.
Hansen offers a thoroughly different worldview.
For those who may wish to venture beyond the edge of the worldview of Nightly News, Dancing with the Stars, Kate and William’s baby and who might win the World Series, Terry Hansen has drawn a picture of an alternative, uncomfortable yet very authentic new worldview about our place in the universe - among off-world civilizations who are knocking at our door and, more importantly - why the US government and media refuse to answer the door. The adventure of reading this powerful and professionally researched work by an accredited journalist is as energizing as it is painless for those who wish to know more than what’s on TV or Facebook.
As one reads Hansen’s entire work, the complicity of the diversionary brand journalism he describes so articulately becomes readily apparent in the very first chapter. The careful reader will discover two essential ideas from Hansen’s analysis. First, the UFO cover-up is real and second - the truth is free - not open to negotiation, attack or control by elite factions that seek to define reality for their own purposes.
In its infancy, the press served to protect such attacks on the truth. As the watch-dog for the people the press at one time exposed and challenged attempts by government to control news.
According to Terry Hansen - it appears this is no longer the case.
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NOTES: For those who are interested in gaining a full appreciation of how the media has become an unofficial arm of government propaganda with respect to the UFO issue - The Missing Times by Terry Hansen is a must read.
Sample Topics in The Missing Times:
- Sources of Silence
- A brief History of Lies
- Editing History
- Perception Management
Web site: http://www.themissingtimes.com/
For a CHAPTER SYNOPSIS go to: http://www.themissingtimes.com/synopsis.xhtml
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Victor Viggiani is the news director of ZNN - the ZlandCommunications NewsNetwork
https://sites.google.com/site/zlandcommunications/
ZNN Press Room - http://zlandcommunications.blogspot.ca/















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forum is one support to the social aspect. The UFO Connect application and MUFON
website should help us with the mobile and certainly there has been progress so
far in going global.
agency anywhere has put out their hand to a private
organization with the intent of cooperation. French pilots and US military
pilots are required to report UFOs. I phoned Dave and thanked him for his great
service to MUFON over the last two years. He wanted to thank all the hard
working field investigators and various directors for their hard work. He is
ready to go back to doing more flying in the future.
I graduated in 1968 and was classified as 1A.
My father was a Navy man in WW II so he told me to get down and join the Navy
before I got drafted. I went to boot camp in the Great Lakes and then was sent
to Jacksonville, Fla. I only stayed three days at Jax and was sent to PEWR
(Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range 90 miles south of Jax on Rt. 19, just 1
mile from the intersection of Rt. 19 and 40 , in the Ocala National Forest.
All the people there would see an object come out of a
lake at night but couldn`t tell what it was. We set up a special mission; we had
two F-4 Phantoms on call at Jacksonville, and all our radars up and running, as
well as a remote radio truck at the scene. Just like clockwork, up it popped. I
called Jacksonville to scramble the two jets and we locked on to the object
with our MSQ102 radar and a few others of our radars locked on too.
As the F-4's got closer they confirmed that they had locked
on with their radars. As the two F-4's slowed down and got close to the bogey my
tracking radar started to move and my digital read-outs were showing the same.
It moved slow at first but was picking up speed. All of this action was being
documented on voice recorders and paper charts for the record books. The two
pilots were now doing a good speed, but the object stayed the same distance away
from them. The lead pilot said they were going to kick in their afterburners to
see what this thing is made out of. A second later my tracking radar, which
is hooked on the top of the radar van right above me, shook the whole van and my
digital read-outs were going around so fast that you couldn't read the numbers!
by Geraldo Fuentes for viewzone (2012)
Other than a direct hit from an asteroid, China's Air Force
can withstand almost anything anyone can hurl at it. While America has been
fighting expeditionary wars and
seemed to be an "invisible critter" of some kind darted
out from a yew bush but it was invisible, even though it left a shadow in the
full moonlight on December 30, 2003. 
Ruins older than Giza, bigger than Los Angeles
Winnipeg -- Chris Rutkowski and Geoff
Dittman recently released their analysis of the leap in UFO sightings in Canada
— 986 reported in 20l1; 1,981 last year, or about five each day. Ontario has
more sightings than any other province, but it also has the largest
population.
Laurentian University’s Michael A. Persinger — has long
proposed that luminous events that people call UFOs are natural phenomena, tied
to tectonic strains on the Earth that precede earthquakes.
Temperatures are as low as -15C in the
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Rehoboth beach -- My friend and I were
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watched because we thought they may have been
Clark Center
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pond on Route 40 between Noon-1:00 PM, on April 29, 2013.
LEXINGTON – I saw a silver elongated oval
object a few miles west of Bluegrass Airport flying east
between Lexington and Versailles on July 29, 2013. It was a few thousand feet
high below any cloud cover. I live in the flight path of an airport and would
have thought it was an airliner, but it had no discernible wings or sound. 
Two nights ago as I was about to go to sleep,
I saw something in my room. I woke up in a metal room and I was tied to a metal
bed.”
KEARNY -- We were sitting on the porch
when we noticed a bright orange object flying above in July. I never saw
anything like the object before. It was spherical in shape and emitted an orange
glow. The object was moving steadily from the SW to the NE at variable speeds,
at times ascending and then descending. Four objects were seen in total
traveling in the same direction approximately a minute or two apart in similar
paths. The objects disappeared from our field of view. All of us were stunned
and surprised as we had never observed anything like this. Thanks to MUFON
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Okmulgee -- I was watching commercial
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August 2, 2013. I told my sister to check it out as the object was hovering
vertical. It looked like a hovering skyscraper
Coventry -- My
friend and I were driving. We noticed red lights in the sky in a diamond
formation on 11:30 PM June 8, 2013 –. I took a video with my
Pennsylvania
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SAINT FRANCIS – On July 27, 2013, a single prop plane
crashed into Lake Michigan with the Coast Guard responding. My girlfriend Pam
and I went out to look at 5 PM after hearing about the plane crash. I noticed up
in the sky a black “Mickey Mouse eared” floating black object near, but not
directly above, the boat activity. It was very difficult to capture with my
girlfriend’s Olympus camera. The object slowly moved up and away. 
Abbotsford -- I
heard what I thought was the sound of a high flying jet on July 26, 2013, but
when I looked for it, all I could see was a faint a of light reflecting of
something. I snapped a photo in the general direction and got this photo. I did
photograph some jets flying with 

New Delhi -- On the 19th of January 2011, at 2:02 AM, 7.2
magnitude earthquake waves were felt due to the earthquake that had struck
Pakistan. That same night at 4:41 AM, I saw a fireball/plasma orb at a spot in
the sky where I have never seen anything stationary before. I clicked its
pictures at different ISO sensitivities for next half hour. Well, I doubt
if it’s a UFO.
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clear and I was watching Jupiter and its four moons in my Barska 25x100
Binoculars with tripod mount. Earlier I attached a Logitech Webcam C600 to one
eyepiece of this binocular to be able to record a view of Jupiter on August 15,
2012. I saw a strange looking not pulsating light. It was orange ambient-like
light. I took a recording that by naked eye was just an aura object. Through
binoculars I saw some moving gradients of ambient light and circular windows or
portholes.
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