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Why UFO witnesses wait so long to report a sighting
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Pittsburgh, Pa, - It's amazing, but there are many UFO sighting cases that are never reported until 20, 30, sometimes 40+ years after the fact! I was recently assigned a case where a middle-aged woman was coming forward for the first time to report an incident she encountered as a second-grade student back in the 1960's. What makes this case so fascinating, even with the passage of time, is that it included a downed craft, and an entity! Stan Gordon, noted UFologist, has been the key investigator into the famous UFO crash mystery that occurred in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1965. This has become one of the most widely covered UFO events in history, garnering huge media coverage that continues even to this day. Notwithstanding all the media attention, it took twenty years for several key witnesses to finally come forward and tell their story. Some of these witnesses were among the very few who actually made it into the woods on that December night to see the downed craft prior to the arrival of the military.
Why do people wait so long to divulge what they know? First, and foremost, it is the result of a basic human fear of being ridiculed. For many years, the average UFO witness was stereotyped as an un-educated country bumpkin, who saw a flying saucer on his farm, out in the middle of nowhere. However, as we field investigators have come to discover, this is simply not so. There are now thousands of cases on file that have been reported by extremely credible people (i.e. law enforcement officers, ex-military personnel, commercial airline pilots, etc.). People who through their education, knowledge, and expertise can reasonably be expected to discern what they are looking at in the sky. Many former commercial airline pilots came forward years later, as they feared losing their jobs had they reported the incident at the time it happened.
Government, and military, involvement in UFO cases is another major reason why people haven't come forward over the years. Many witnesses claimed they, or members of their family, were threatened if they ever divulged what they knew. Reports of "men in black" are frequently described a this mysterious clandestine group that intimidate UFO witnesses shortly after a major incident has occurred.
UFology has slowly evolved from a little-respected "pseudo-science", to a respectable field of scientific research. This is due, in large part, to the compelling evidence that we now have from credible witnesses who are beginning to exhibit more courage and a willingness to come forward. We may never know the truth, but with each incident that occurs, with each piece of evidence provided by witnesses willing to testify, we may finally, piece-by-piece, be able to put the pieces of the UFO puzzle together and solve the mystery.
