SIXTY ONE YEARS AGO TODAY...

HCB sent over the image, reminding me that, sixty one years ago today, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell. New Mexico. Later the same day, the somewhat irate Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that, in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, and definitely not a "flying saucer." And that’s how it went on for six more decades, with official explanations of weather balloons and marsh gas that insult our intelligence and do nothing to explain all the flying discs, EBEs, MJ-12, the fact that our pal from Pin Bush, NY is up to his ass in black triangles, and all the other alien stuff that paranoia to heir to. A new cycle of demands for full disclosure is currently thriving, and demands are being made for either a confirmation or denial from the government that Eisenhower made a secret treaty with the aliens in the early 1950s. Of course, the tendancy is to assume that the US government is the author of all this secrecy. If, however, it was the little grey bastards with the skinny fingers and big creepy eyes who wanted, and still want, to stay on the downlow, aren’t we kinda fucked?

The secret words are Zeta and Reticuli