From: Alan Bottomley <alanwbottomley@gmail.com>
Subject: August 27, 2023 Secret Update #6 -  Eisenhower "Beware the military industrial complex"
Date: January 25, 2025 at 7:34:25 PM EST
To: Alan Bottomley <alanwbottomley@gmail.com>

Hi All

In this update I want to talk about my second objection to the reality of UFO’s and aliens that I raised in update #4, namely:

“How could a conspiracy by the “military industrial complex” exist since the 1940’s and successfully keep secret the reality of UFO’s and aliens? Surely somebody would have come forward by now with proof of UFO vehicles and alien bodies.”

Of all the objections and doubts concerning the existence of UFO craft and alien bodies being in our possession this one troubles me the most. I can readily believe that there are alien craft, which could be drones, or could also have alien pilots that have been visiting us for thousands of years. But, I really wonder how we could have recovered crashed UFO’s and found alien bodies. If the aliens are so smart why would they crash anyways? I am sure many of you are now saying yes, Alan, you finally got it right! Stop now while you are ahead! However, I will continue.

If the government has kept this secret for over 70 years do we have any examples about the government being able to keep these kind of secrets for any long periods of time? Yes, there are several examples: 

Secret	Project Start	Disclosure Date 	How Long?	
Manhattan Project - atomic bomb	1939	1945 because they dropped the bomb!	6 yrs	
Area 51	1955	2013	58 yrs	
U2 spy plane	1955	1960 because plane was shot down by Russia	5 yrs but could have been much longer	
SR71 Blackbird	1960	1964	4 yrs but not considered as secret as the U2	
B2 Stealth bomber	1978	1988	10 yrs	
JFK Assassination	1963	2017 but many documents redacted	54 years but still secret	

So, indeed the government has shown that when the pressure is high it can keep secrets for many years. 

Interestingly, Area 51 was kept secret for 58 years but there were “leaks” or witnesses to this secret at various times. In fact there is a big overlap of Area 51 with the UFO secret because in 1989 Bob Lazar came forward with his controversial claim that he worked at Area 51 at site S-4 where 9 alien craft were being reversed engineered. You can set aside the Bob Lazar story for now and I will come back to it in a future update, but ignoring the UFO issue he did correctly identify the Area 51 secret, but was not believed by most at the time. Other witnesses too came forward about Area 51 and they too were ridiculed and not believed. Gradually over time more and more people tried to camp out at Area 51, took pictures etc. There was a very heavy military police force guarding Area 51 who threatened trespassers. Ultimately in 2013  the government (with it’s tail between it’s legs) confessed to Area 51 because there were just too many credible witnesses that saw it. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?

The “pressure” on all the above secrets was high with the highest probably being the Manhattan project. If the US did not drop the bomb in 1945 I wonder how long that secret could have been kept and what pressure tactics would the government have used to keep it secret?

Paul Helyer who was Canada’s defence minister in 1963-67 has publicly said that he talked with US officials at the time and has a letter from a US Air Force General that stated that UFO’s are real and that their secrecy is at a level higher than the Manhattan Project.

You may wonder why I have listed the JFK assassination above. What was the secret? Nothing if the Oswald story is the only answer. But there are many commentators who wonder why when the government originally said that ALL documents would be released in 2017 they were not. What else is there to hide after 60 years? 

So far, I have been referring to the government as the secret keeper. But many UFO researchers refer to a much broader group which is called the military industrial complex (MIC). This name was coined by President Eisenhower (a former 5 star general) who warned about the military industrial complex in his farewell speech in 1961. He never specifically mentioned the UFO issue but it is said that he was aware of the UFO craft and body recoveries and the existence of a conspiracy by the MIC that started in the 1940’s under President Truman. It is alleged that he became concerned because he had lost control over this group as they gained more and more power. 

The MIC is broader than just the government and it is alleged to have developed as follows:
	1	UFO’s crashed (I will discuss why this could happen in a future update)
	2	the Army recovered the craft and bodies (ie Roswell example)
	3	various scientists such as physicists and biologists and engineers were brought in to review the material, brought in from both the government and military contractors and others from certain industries - the MIC is now expanding by bringing in non-government players 
	4	as reverse engineering attempts are made certain discoveries about energy sources are made as the craft require enormous energy to power the electro magnetic anti gravity bubbles (per my last update)
	5	some call the alien energy source “zero point energy” which derives energy from ordinary space, in quantum mechanics it is known that theoretically there is enormous energy in the jiggling of virtual and non virtual particles in otherwise empty space, possibly a source for dark energy which we still have not solved (Bob Lazar claimed that the energy source was element 115 which was not known in 1989 but has now been discovered)
	6	as the ability to harness alien technology increases it becomes a competitive advantage and must be kept top secret
	7	soon there are manmade UFO’s 
	8	the military contractors have been receiving  billions of dollars
	9	there is a realization that if the energy source for the UFO’s was made public then it would make oil, coal, nuclear, utilities, solar and wind obsolete and solve the climate issue within two decades
	10	now the MIC expands to include the large oil and gas companies who have trillions of dollars of assets at risk and international bankers also have trillions of dollars of loans at risk
	11	the MIC essentially becomes a global secret government, an illegal conspiracy because laws are now being broken to bring in billions of dollars of illegal funding sources and stop any legal government oversight
Does the MIC really exist? I believe that at a minimum there is a part of the government along with some military contractors who are involved in this secret. Whether it expanded to include other industrial players such as oil and gas and bankers I seriously question. If it is as extensive as described above then I find this terrifying in it’s implications.

In order for a secret to be kept there must be something really important involved that creates “pressure” in the system to try and contain the secret. The more signifiant the secret is the more pressure that will be used to keep it secret. 

If the MIC exists I believe that the “pressure” of the secret it is keeping is as high as anything that I can imagine. So if the pressure of the secret is the highest possible what would be the expected pressure tactics to keep it secret? Here is a list of potential pressure tactics:
	1	non disclosure agreements
	2	extremely high security to prevent cell phones, cameras etc from being brought into or out of a secret location
	3	for pilots who report UFO’s they have had significant negative assignment changes and demotions
	4	armed guards everywhere
	5	wire tapping of communications, monitoring of texts, emails
	6	following/tailing/spying on people
	7	creating a culture of making fun of the topic and ridiculing anybody (including witnesses) who talk about it (Ok, I still agree that I am crazy)
	8	media articles debunking UFO sightings (eg. the laughable swamp gas explanation)
	9	financial incentives in the millions of dollars
	10	warnings of personal safety up to and including death
	11	threats to the family
	12	if anyone shows any hint of disclosing then the severest threats are applied 
The list could be endless. Essentially the MIC will act like any criminal organization where many of the tactics above are used. 

You may have heard about “black ops” used by the government to fund secret programs. There are two possible kinds of black ops. One is the legal government approved and supervised black ops that have been used to build the atom bomb, the U2 spy plane, the SR71 Blackbird, the B2 stealth bomber and many other secret projects. The government approves the overall black ops budget. But only people with the highest security clearance with a “need to know” can see the details. The government frequently uses military contractors to build the projects. Anyone working at the contractor will be subject to secrecy provisions (tactics) such as some on the above list. For example, Lockheed Skunk Works has built the U2 and SR71 aircraft. 

The other kind of black ops are the ones that are off all the books. Not approved or supervised by the government but still involve certain government and contractor staff. These off the book black ops piggy back on to the legal black ops. One military witness has testified that when he was in charge of one of the legal black ops he would know that he only spent $700 million on his project but his black op budget showed that $2 billion had been spent. When he asked about the extra spending above actual costs he was told that he didn’t have a “need to know”.  Government officials have admitted that up to $2 trillion of defence spending over the past few decades cannot be identified or traced to specific assets.

Ben Rich was the Director of the Lockheed Skunk Works and wrote a letter to a friend where he stated that UFO’s are real and that there are two kinds - ET and manmade. One UFO researcher claims that Lockheed actually built the tic-tac UFO that was in the video that the Pentagon released in 2017.

Despite all the of the pressure tactics surely someone with credibility would have come forward by now? Yes, they have. The question is are they credible and where is their provable evidence? One UFO researcher, Steven Greer, has compiled the most extensive list of witnesses of any researcher and many have been interviewed and recorded on video. He has listed over 750 witnesses which are the source for his UFO/alien claims. Only 150 have their names disclosed due to fear for their safety/lives. However, I admit that Steven Greer has some extreme views that are not shared with the bulk of the UFO community. In a future update I am going to summarize the video witness testimony and you can decide if any of them are worth watching. I have already given you links to two of them plus David Grusch who was in the recent congressional hearing. 

Why do witnesses come forward? In many respects they have a great job that involves fascinating and highly paid work. Some have grown tired of the extreme scrutiny that they experience. Some believe that secrets that could be of great benefit to mankind are being kept secret by greedy evil psychopathic people. They are trapped in the MIC system but want to try and get the information out without risking their lives. Many have talked privately to people like Steven Greer and others who are trusted to maintain their secrecy. Now with the new UFO whistleblower protection legislation more are now talking on the record to Congress staff. We will hear from more in due course.

In closing, I have tried to describe why and how a MIC could evolve since the 1940’s, how power and greed motivate them, how difficult it can be for witnesses to come forward with evidence, and how there are several examples of secrets being kept for years including up to six decades. The UFO/alien secret is arguably the biggest secret in the history of mankind.

Until the next update,

Alan