Corporate Avenger
08-11-2005, 07:59 AM
HIDDEN files, cover-ups and pressure on witnesses to "forget" the UFOs they say they saw – these are the Queensland X-Files.
Australian UFO Research Centre investigator Dominic McNamara has spent two years uncovering restricted files from the Federal Government's top-secret national archives.
For the first time, The Sunday Mail is able to disclose three sightings previously marked classified and deemed to be a matter of national security.
Mr McNamara said there was little doubt the files – detailing UFO sightings between 1950 and 1970 – were deliberately hidden or made difficult to find.
"We are under the impression that some files are yet to be found or they are in something deeper that we are never going to get a look at," he said.
Mr McNamara said Queensland had a spate of sightings for which there did not seem to be much explanation.
"It's a bit of a hot spot," he said.
"The bureaucratic solution is to contain it, especially if your mandate is to be able to explain what goes on in the sky.
"There were a number of sightings in that time, where there was something really strange going on in Queensland.
"The best evidence we have are the witnesses who have risked their social lives, their career and their sanity to come forward at a time when it was extremely difficult to do so and make a report."
The engineer said there was too much unexplained activity to simply discount extra-terrestrial life.
He said sightings tended to peak around the time humans extended their push into the skies, with events such as rocket launches or nuclear bombs.
Mr McNamara said a lot of people thought he was "mad" and compared his work as a UFO investigator to that of TV character Fox Mulder of The X-Files.
"It's hard for people to consider that there's such a thing as alien life, but it's harder to accept that their can't be any," he said.
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Australian UFO Research Centre investigator Dominic McNamara has spent two years uncovering restricted files from the Federal Government's top-secret national archives.
For the first time, The Sunday Mail is able to disclose three sightings previously marked classified and deemed to be a matter of national security.
Mr McNamara said there was little doubt the files – detailing UFO sightings between 1950 and 1970 – were deliberately hidden or made difficult to find.
"We are under the impression that some files are yet to be found or they are in something deeper that we are never going to get a look at," he said.
Mr McNamara said Queensland had a spate of sightings for which there did not seem to be much explanation.
"It's a bit of a hot spot," he said.
"The bureaucratic solution is to contain it, especially if your mandate is to be able to explain what goes on in the sky.
"There were a number of sightings in that time, where there was something really strange going on in Queensland.
"The best evidence we have are the witnesses who have risked their social lives, their career and their sanity to come forward at a time when it was extremely difficult to do so and make a report."
The engineer said there was too much unexplained activity to simply discount extra-terrestrial life.
He said sightings tended to peak around the time humans extended their push into the skies, with events such as rocket launches or nuclear bombs.
Mr McNamara said a lot of people thought he was "mad" and compared his work as a UFO investigator to that of TV character Fox Mulder of The X-Files.
"It's hard for people to consider that there's such a thing as alien life, but it's harder to accept that their can't be any," he said.
http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16173946%255E2765,00.html