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Government Agency Forces Writer to Remove Article

Friday February 15, 2008
In my last blog, I discussed the unceremonious dismissal of Angelia Joiner from the Empire Tribune. Ironically, at the time she was notified that she was would soon be out of a job, her and I were discussing an event that took place only a few days previously, and attempting to find a way to get the story published and still both have a job. This is what happened, and although it may seem fantastic, believe me, I know this is a true story.

A web master and writer for a large UFO site was researching the recent news about Stephenville. He receives a lot of information from his readers, and one of those contained some very interesting information. It seems that the route that the military jets allegedly took on the night of January 8, came within 25 miles of the "no fly" zone, which exists because of President Bush's ranch in Caldwell.

It would not be much of a stretch to deduce that if UFOs were flying that close to the no fly zone, jets would have been scrambled to intercept them, especially if the targets were "unknowns." The web master asked for more information, and within a couple of hours, several images were sent to him. These showed the no fly zone plotted on a map of Texas. The sender said that the images were available on the Net, if one knew where to look. The writer did a personal search for them, however, and came up empty.

Another blogger had, in the meanwhile, caught on to the story, and released the information, which was quickly picked up by other sites. Because of this, and the fact that he had images to substantiate the no fly zone on a map, he wrote an article with the images displayed. Within a couple of hours, he was contacted by a government agency, and told to immediately remove his article. He was told that the article might cause "public fear and unrest." After checking to make sure the email was really from the agency, and not a hoax, he removed the article. He was afraid that if he did not comply, he might lose his entire web site, which he has spent years to develop.

What the government does not know is that although they can control the public to a point, they cannot control our minds, and what we know. What they are doing is attracting more attention to the UFOs over Texas, not silencing our voices. I would like to know what our readers think about the events I have described, which I assure you really happened.

Comments

February 15, 2008 at 3:54 am
(1) jesse says:

there are no such things as aliens. there is no life out there. all these sightings and videos are fake. its all part of project bluebeam. look it up.

February 15, 2008 at 6:35 am
(2) Linda says:

Oh great jesse, another christianist paranoid NWO conspirationist. Some videos are certainly faked, and some sightings may be explainable in terms of natural phenomena or human-made craft. Are you saying that all these people who have seen something and/or filmed something they can’t identify are making it up. And what does your comment have to do with Mr. Booth’s post? Spam much, jesse?

February 15, 2008 at 7:11 am
(3) Saturna Brown says:

Bily, thanks for being who you are. I agree with Linda. Some things can not be explained. I wish I were a better night photographer, because I have some pics on my blog that you should see. I did my best in using infrared. Take a look. My blog is listed as the URL. Hope to hear from you. And…yes…I really did see something in my kitchen.

February 15, 2008 at 11:37 am
(4) fidgety_sam says:

I cannot believe anything from a “writer” who makes such an egregious error as “her and I were discussing”. If you want to convince me with your writing, start with good grammar. If you can’t do that I am forced to view you as some yokel with a 3rd grade education.

February 15, 2008 at 12:20 pm
(5) Kevin says:

Jesse, Live in the now man! That was in the 80’s.
Interesting article Billy. I’m not sure I understand why they made such a big deal out of it. Even if it was solid evidence, why bring all the attention to it? I understand the fear part is an excuse, but can there be more to it than that? I believe that it happened, but I have to think those picures must represent something more than a UFO in a no fly zone. That just doesn’t seem like a good enough reason for that kind of reaction.

February 15, 2008 at 12:46 pm
(6) Ray says:

Kevin, well said. Good blog Billy. I agree w/ Kevin.. here has to be more to the story than meets the eye. Very doubtful that there would be more public gitters simply because a UFO entered or came near a no fly zone set up around a ranch our president wasn’t even inside of at the time.

Jesse – you are truly of the narrow minded.

Sam – your argument oozes stupidity. Would you reject a lottery check because it misspelled your name?

February 15, 2008 at 2:38 pm
(7) Siani says:

Whatever happened to free speech and democracy? It sounds as if that ufologist touched a raw nerve somewhere, to have attracted such a reaction from a government agency.

February 15, 2008 at 2:48 pm
(8) txstevel says:

Hey Sam, isn’t grammar relative to the area where it is being spoken? Find something real to complain about. Perhaps this very sloppy attempt to shut people up has more to do with someone not wanting his “Boss” to know that something really big did fly near his ranch and there was nothing he or his fighters could do about it. Remember it makes the news when a small plane gets too close and is “escorted” and investigated,what about an air craft a mile long that can’t be caught? Someone wants it to have never happened!

February 15, 2008 at 4:48 pm
(9) Griznarf says:

Get a life people. Billy asked a question, on what you think about silencing those who have witnessed something strange. If all you can do is complain about spelling mistakes, I suggest you find another site to go to. i.e. English 101.
The fact is strange things are being seen and the public wants to know what they are and where they are from. It looks like the government does not want us to know either, so what are they hiding?

February 15, 2008 at 6:00 pm
(10) Chance metz says:

The truth or as many wil say the fac they know thet exsist and don’t want us to know or if we do know to shut up.

February 16, 2008 at 3:16 am
(11) Jimmy says:

In my opinion, sightings of UFOs and evidence of the sightings are so abundant that they should be the subject of serious investigation. An investigation that is ran by a panel of sincere, independent and professional people, unlike the type of people behind the infamous “Project Blue Book”.

The fact that we have highly developed vehicles flying around in our skies does not necessarily mean that they are extraterrestrials. We do not know whether they are aliens or not and I don’t think we should bother with that just yet. People seem to miss the point that these flying objects and the technology that they exhibit, may potentially pose a serious risk to our safety. What if their intentions are not good? Shouldn’t people be notified about UFO’s if they really exist? I mean citizens are warned about possible floods and tornadoes aren’t they?

The only sensible reason for the government to hide these phenomena is to avoid public panic and economic chaos. However, this is not the 50’s anymore. We are almost at 2010’s. I think people are ready to face the fact that UFOs are real.

What angers me the most, is the way the witnesses of these UFO sightings are treated. They are ridiculed, they are laughed at and their intelligence is being insulted. There is no way that thousands of normal everyday people from around the world would lie about this sort of thing. They simply saw somethin in the sky that they could not explain and when they want to share their experience with the world, they are being shut down. How can this be, when polls show that 50% of the population believe in UFOs?

The US government is definitely the one to be blaimed. Either they know something truly extraordinary and do not want to share it with us or they are simply turning a blind eye to an extremely important matter that concerns us all.

February 16, 2008 at 11:36 am
(12) anonymous says:

a simple google search gave me this site with a picture of the no fly zone by Bush’s ranch.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://cryptome.org/bush-no-fly-tx.gif&imgrefurl=http://cryptome.org/bush-no-fly.htm&h=443&w=590&sz=192&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=kVq9gddMOB_CiM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dno%2Bfly%2Bzone%2Btexas%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

February 16, 2008 at 4:12 pm
(13) Griznarf says:

Here, here Jimmy. I think we are all mature enough to be told the truth. We have advanced a great deal since 50 – 60 years ago, both mentally and technology wise. And why is it, in order to be a “Credible witness”, you have to be a Fireman, Police officer, Pilot, etc. Us normal people aren’t credible? We can’t be trusted?

February 16, 2008 at 5:53 pm
(14) Chance metz says:

For oen there ar alot of normal citizens and they don’t wnat us to gian up on them so the try to correl us like sheep.

February 17, 2008 at 7:18 am
(15) Thunar says:

People of Earth;
We are monitoring your blogosphere as a controlled experiment. We apologize for this seeming intrusion into your wonderfully active lives on your lovely, progressive and aware planet. However, we were blown off course by an interstellar quakestorm and mustt make up some research for our supervisors beyond the wormhole.

February 17, 2008 at 7:24 am
(16) thunar says:

Achtung Earthians;
Do not listen to the other Thunar for he is an impostor from our sister planet. They only seek your nubile android sheep. Pay no attention to these charlatans….message ends…

February 17, 2008 at 10:57 am
(17) gary says:

what was the name or email address of this so called government agency? failed to mention that.Boy oh boy if some government agency was harrassing me I would go to the grave fighting instead of being weak and scared. sounds like a bunch of crap. lets get pictures and names of this so called government agency. I do not understand, people show up at you door, you do not ask for names or proof of who they are yet you let them in your house or where ever and they supposedly threaten you, what a complete and utter joke.God damn it,if somebody showed up at my door with no proof of who they are i would not let them in and then slam the door in their face.This sounds like a big farce to me and billy please tell if this so called goverment agency comes and threatens you, will you also just go along with what they tell you or will you stand up and say where is your proof of who you are instead of being intimidated. Some times in life somethings are more important than your trivial existence in this universe.

February 17, 2008 at 4:01 pm
(18) JEFF BUCKINGHAM says:

Hey–I could be sarcastic and say- “It’s too bad whatever UFO’s went over Bush’s ranch didn’t bomb him out of existence.” BUT since I KNOW They exist (see “Exempt From Disclosure”) as former DCIA Richard Helms admits (he met Them), They have been here for 20-25,000 years, successfully keeping the morons of Capitalism AND Communism from blowing up our tiny fragile planet. And since I value human life more than our unelected Shadow Gov’t- which has covered up the UFO FACTS & ARTIFACTS sinced WW2 (see Maj Donald Keyhoe, USMC’s books), a/w/a killing leading American figures, and probably at least help create 9/11 to get that stupid War for Cheap Oil started… do I have go on?www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/flash.htm/

February 18, 2008 at 6:09 pm
(19) Chance metz says:

yeah they did cover up what really happend on 9-11 and they cover up anything that may show the goverment scrwed up.

February 19, 2008 at 1:04 am
(20) Charles Lynn Grubbs Jr. says:

Has anyone taken notice that since Bush has been in office a lot of people have been told to shut up and threatened with their jobs and livelihood. This has to stop, we live in America. Bush’s little Mafia has also threatened the Scientist that have tried to warn us about global warming, re-writing their reports and telling them they couldn’t publish that stuff. So now the cronies are putting the heat on the UFO watcher’s, what a joke he is. Yes, I want my freedom back and Bush can shut the F*** up. The only one that is causing “Public fear and Unrest” is the very government with their big feet stepping on our rights of free speech. So sorry for them, what the hell do they think mile wide UFO’s flying over little towns in Texas do anyway? They can’t shut the Alien’s up so they think they can shut the people up and we’ll all just look up in the sky and say “Boy oh Boy I didn’t see that”, lets hope the Alien’s are keen to this and pick up the guy warning everyone to shut up and take him for a little ride to a far and distant planet for a vacation. I want my right’s back, I want my free speech, this isn’t right…if you want something “Top Secret” you don’t go flying all over Texas with mile long UFO’s, sorry Mr. Bush, but we’re still American’s here and that’s the way it’s gonna stay, you can go live in Russia, you and your cronies, now go bury your head in the sand, mine’s looking up to the sky and I’ll report what I see come hell or high water!

February 19, 2008 at 8:56 am
(21) Chance Metz says:

Same here they can try but they can’t contorl me or what i think. Th problem with global warming though is this.it’s more to alarm people ten anything else and i don’t buy it. call it a doomsday senario I just don’ buy it and would belive a sceintist who looks for all the facts over someone like Al Gore who tries th scare everyone with things that have already been proven to be untrue.

February 19, 2008 at 6:12 pm
(22) scott says:

I don’t think the government has that much control over the situation. They can do what they can do, but if there are UFOs over texas and people see them and photograph them then there’s not very much they can do. The little bit of ’silencing’ they are attempting hasn’t prevented the increasing media coverge since the 80s and is unlikely to stop the interest in the future. I wouldn’t worry about the government so much. They have a reasons to want it quiet. The main reason is the desire to get techonology first without haven’t to explain it to the world. Can you imagine if the USSR got to it first? You know if they admit to anything the media would be all over it and would want details about everything from Roswell onward. And who knows, there might be a collaboration or mimicking going on. Some of the reports of helicopters or jets accompanying the signtings are interesting sometimes. The government influence has weakened since the roswell days.

February 20, 2008 at 5:13 am
(23) Tim says:

it would be nice to get email from others that have been onboard a UFO like I have & see if we have experienced similar side effects.
PS, in 1977, I was advised by the feds not to discuss my UFO experience.
ionizerusa@yahoo.com
{^_^}

February 20, 2008 at 9:59 am
(24) Chance Metz says:

prehaps but they still try hard to stop these reports from leaking out or at least change them.

February 20, 2008 at 9:02 pm
(25) scott says:

“prehaps but they still try hard to stop these reports from leaking out or at least change them.”

The bottom line I think is that the texas sightings have had better coverage than anything I’ve ever seen before. Unprecedented news coverage by major networks includign numerous Larry King live shows. The government can’t do too much to stop that juggernaut.

February 22, 2008 at 10:18 am
(26) Chance Metz says:

nope but they would censor the news if they could.

February 22, 2008 at 5:12 pm
(27) Carol says:

WHAT government agency?

That hasn’t been mentioned yet. Seems odd as the no-fly areas are on (government) FAA maps and pilots MUST know and MUST observe them — or suffer severe consequences.

So WHO exactly?

I’m put in mind of the 1952 buzzing of the US Capital, White House and Pentagon. These have ALWAYS been no-fly zones.

Nevertheless, something was flying there, identified on radar, visually from the ground (and visually by my father who was “paced” off the left wing of his small plane while flying over the Potomac and Mt. Vernon area). They flew at incredible speeds and fighter jets were scrambled out of Andrews AFB — to no avail.

Maybe a pride thing. Perhaps, now as then, someone feels that if you can’t DO anything about it, best to pretend it never ever ever happened.
Kind of like my cat.

February 25, 2008 at 9:14 am
(28) Chance Metz says:

But still to den it happened and go after all who claims to have seen them is wrong.

February 26, 2008 at 7:44 pm
(29) anonymousterry says:

The fact is it’s the same old excuse that gets trotted out to try to placate those who are concerned enough to ring the alarm bells.

It is the only excuse they have to keep the people quiet and if those, that the government has spoken to, look like persisting in ringing that bell, well they then get threatened with all kinds of nasty stuff!

This has been going on since 1947! Never mind that we are all far more sophisticated than the folks were in the 1940s and can now handle the truth!

They don’t want to tell us the truth because they have something to hide which was classified in the 1950s as more secret than the H-Bomb. Now what could have been more secret than the H-Bomb in the 1950s?

I am a 56 year old male who has had two sightings that I have not been able to explain during my lifetime. I am very familiar with aircraft, both rotary and fixed wings and their percularities during flight. I am also a retired cop. So I guess I can speak with some authority when I say that we are being visited by extraterrestrial beings, up to eleven different species in all, and have been for centuries. Yet nobody in authority anywhere in the world wants to tell us about it! Terry.

February 28, 2008 at 8:43 am
(30) Chance Metz says:

And what are the 11 species? greys,repitilains,vegans,hybrids are the big ones I know of.

February 29, 2008 at 3:37 am
(31) Terrence Odgers says:

Chance Metz….I guess that I am being asked to answer for my assertions?

I don’t have a direct answer for you but would suggest that you have covered in your generalized descriptions, most of them. But, having read many eyewitness accounts of close encounters, I am convinced that there are many sub-species, which although fit into the general description of say, Grays, have their own characteristics. Does this mean they that are the same species? I don’t believe so and have accordingly mentally classed them as different.

Let us not leave out the Humanoids which seem to feature so prominently in the higher intelligence encounters, ie, scientists etc. of which there are many reports which vary in their descriptions. Is this just witness variation, maybe, but given that the witnesses are very intelligent people I tend to believe them. Also let us not forget to mention the insect type of alien which according to witnesses seems to oversee the grays tasks.

It is also interesting to mention here, that the MJ12 papers have only mentioned two species of alien as having come here. I challenged Stan Friedman on this last year in a letter I sent him. I have at this time not received a reply. Terry

February 29, 2008 at 3:58 am
(32) Terrence Odgers says:

Chance Metz….I forgot to mention. Paul R. Hill was a NASA physicist in the 1950,60s and partway into the 1970s before he retired and wrote a book called, Unconventional Flying Objects, a scientific analysis, which is now out of print. You may get an ex library copy as I did from one of the Web sites.

In this book he has listed TEN different type of alien craft. Going on the fact that the American and Russian space program produced almost identical space ships would that not support the hypothesis that different shapes mean different species? Terry

February 29, 2008 at 8:46 am
(33) Chance Metz says:

yeah I guess it would and you know where I could a copy of the book? If so I will appreciate it.

March 1, 2008 at 4:03 am
(34) Terrence Odgers says:

Chance Metz….try Amazon or other similar sellers on the web. You might also try your local library.Terry

March 1, 2008 at 6:52 pm
(35) Chance metz says:

thansk. Is there any way to get a free copy or no?

March 4, 2008 at 9:13 pm
(36) Terrence Odgers says:

Chance Metz…not unless you steal it! Terry

March 5, 2008 at 8:31 am
(37) Chance Metz says:

Well I don’t want it that bad. lol Being thrown in jail for stealing a report on ufo’s would be kinda silly.

March 23, 2008 at 3:49 am
(38) Vicky says:

Keep it.it must be a joke abt ufo sighting if ever the evidencer forces to talk abt this matter

March 23, 2008 at 3:57 am
(39) Rupendra says:

Frist of all we know that everything in 2days world is money this is all fake. This is 2 earn money thats all they need

March 23, 2008 at 3:57 am
(40) Rupendra says:

Frist of all we know that everything in 2days world is money this is all fake.

June 21, 2008 at 12:56 am
(41) ZenaV says:

I believe you; after what I saw on the morning of June 8th. I was up late and happened to look outside across the street and saw a strange light at the neighbor’s door. I kept watching it and it started acting strangely…then I realized it wasn’t a reflection but was emitting light all on it’s own. I was mezmerized with it for a while and finally the thought hit me to grab my cam, so I did…it looks even stranger on the cam as it turns ALL kinds of colors. Later after I re-watched it, I realized there were two of them. One of them was in the window to the left of the screen…it was blinking and turning colors too. But in person it looked like a steady light coming from inside the house…the color of a florence light which couldn’t be, it’s not that kind of house and I’ve never seen a light come from those windows. I have the vids posted on LiveLeak if u wanna see them. BTW; they didn’t make any sound, it was really strange. The one seemed to be trying to get in the house. I haven’t been able to gather my thoughts yet about them to explain it as I am still kinda freaked by the experience. I never leaned one way or another about ufos. I just always said I’d have to see one before I believed. Have I seen some now??

Link:

Its called: Beings-of-Light

http://www.liveleak.com/user/ZenaV

BTW; is there somewhere specific where you could report them, or does the gov. still deny?

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