From UFOs and the Limits of Science by Ronald D. Story c. 1981

Reproduced for educational purposes only.

The Secret Weapon Theory

This theory, which was more popular in the 1950s, refers to advanced
technological flying devices constructed by the U.S. government or some
foreign power. The proposition has some very serious problems. First,
UFOs were reported soon after World War II, when military jet aircraft
were barely operational. Had the U.S. had operational "saucers" capable
of the performance described, it would not have expended the hundreds
of billions of dollars that it has, since that time, in the development
of alternate and less efficient military weapons systems.

Secondly, even if such craft had been experimentally tested or even
operationally deployed, they would not have been permitted to approach
civilian airports, urban centers, and all the everyday places where
UFOs are reported. Also, they would not have been deployed to the
dozens of countries where UFOs are reported. On the other hand, such
craft would very probably have been revealed to the world as a major
technological breakthrough and as a warning to all potential
adversaries. The political advantages of the latter would have been
enormous.

A third problem would be the question of security. The development and
operation of such craft would have involved many thousands of persons
over a long period of time, and it is almost inconceivable that the
secret would not have eventually surfaced. These same arguments can, of
ocurse, be applied to a Soviet secret weapon, or one from any other
country. A British/Canadian Secret Weapon Theory, for example, was once
in vogue, and one organization has been promoting a Nazi Secret Weapon
Theory, interwoven with Adolf Hitler's possible survival and escape
from Berlin. The organization has published a book supporting this
claim and also makes available other Nazi-oriented books, posters,
bumper stickers, and tapes (such as "Beautiful Nazi Songs and Marches,"
"Songs of the Brownshirts," "Dr. Goebbels and the Third Reich," and
"Adolf hitler Speaks to the Reichstag"). As with all other "secret
weapon" theories, it is difficult to imagine how such craft could have
been operated for more than thirty years without political utilization
or without the truth emerging.

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