By Keith Basterfield, 1 September 2016
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
New South Wales, Australia)
Quote from the article:
“Introduction
The late Professor James E McDonald often debated the
issue of whether or not there was a UAP ‘cover-up’ or a ‘foul-up.’ By this, he
meant was there an orchestrated campaign by officialdom to withhold information
from the general public? Or, was there simply lack of care within government
administrative processes? Put simply, ‘their left hand did not know what their
right hand was doing.’
Australian examples
Since the days of McDonald, many other researchers,
including myself, have pondered the same question. I’ll provide some Australian
examples, from my own experience. Are they deliberate actions of the cover-up
of events; or just bureaucratic errors?
(1) In 2004, I was informed by the Australian
government Department of Transport that their file on the disappearance of
pilot Frederick Valentich had been destroyed. In actual fact, the file turned
up in October 2011, during a routine search of the holdings of the National
Archives of Australia.
(2) Later in the 2000’s, I supplied the Australian
Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), through the National Archives of
Australia (NAA), with a list of certain Australian UAP groups (including the
Queensland Flying Saucer Research Society (QFSRS)). I sought any files ASIO
held, on any of these groups. ASIO advised they held no such files. About a
year later, an ASIO file on the QFSRS turned up in the NAA.
A new anomaly
Today, another such example was found. In 2004, I
submitted an FOI request to the Australian Department of Defence (DOD) for a
series of UAP files, for which I provided a list of file numbers.
Included in this list was a file numbered AF 84/3508.
The DOD advised that they were unable to locate this file.”
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