In his response to my enquiry of the aforementioned D-notice, Mr
Vallance is quite dismissive; “The phrase ‘slap a D-notice on it’ is
commonly used by the media with great carelessness and to cover a
multitude of circumstances. Claims such as that made by Dave Barrett
carry no weight unless they can be supported by some form of
documentary evidence”. So the committee denies any D-notice was ever
served, or rather, no evidence of it exists. There is a subtle
difference. So has Dave Barrett lied? Unlikely, he stands to gain
nothing by concocting such a claim. He is not involved in the crop
circle phenomena as such, so gains absolutely nothing.
We can look at the definite facts: for some reason the live
broadcast from Operation Blackbird was cancelled. Swindon’s GWR
dedicated resources to this live broadcast so something significant
would need to happen to cancel this live broadcast. What this really
points to is that someone, somewhere can use the power of the D-notice
to cancel coverage of the crop circle phenomena, and can do it in a way
that leaves no paper-trail or subjects anyone to any level of
accountability for their actions. Again, the hidden-hand, the inner
circle, the nameless ones, who can control situations with impunity,
flex their muscle.
What this also highlights is that the MoDs ‘UFO desk’ is just a
mickey-mouse public front that does not have any idea of the true scale
of the UFO/Crop Circle phenomena. This also highlights the ‘expert’
status of the former MoD staff member Nick Pope. Nick had access to all
the files that are currently being released by the MoD, and Nick claims
no such D-notice was issued, so he has no knowledge of these inner
workings and therefore we have to question why he still seems to
publicise the official version of events when others such as Colin
Andrews can blow huge holes in the ‘official story’.
When I made a FOIA request to the MoD as to the extent of Nick
Pope’s role, the response was that Nick’s general role was to “answer
parliamentary enquiries, and correspond with members of the public on
matters to do with UFOs,” I believe that Nick’s role was to front this
public face of the MoD UFO desk, and broadly knows no-more than what is
being released by the MoD anyway. Once all these files are released we
will all know what Nick knows or had access to. The media views Nick as
some expert and is regularly consulted, but his knowledge on what the
MoD knows is very limited, so thus the information he provides the
media with still toes the MoD line, he continues to do what he did for
the MoD. And he generally plays down the MoD involvement with UFOs and
Crop Circles. I have always been doubtful of ‘game-keepers turned
poachers’, and I consider the media’s continual courting of Nick rather
than other researchers part of the conspiracy of silence. The files
being released are an attempt to fool the public, but as I have written
and lectured on previously, the evidence of an inner-circle
manipulating anything to do with UFOs and Crop Circles within the MoD
is over whelming.
The D-notice issue is not over yet, nobody is that good at
continually covering their tracks, and I will shortly show, through
‘their’ mistake, that the D-notice was indeed issued. Stay tuned…