Archival Interview: A Young George Knapp on UFOs and Government Secrecy

We've all seen so many people in this field where you've, you know, they want to convince you, you've got to believe. Uh I'm more of the opinion you put out the information and and let people make up their minds.

By Eyes On Cinema 9-8-2025

I wrote to President Carter to ask him a couple of questions and uh that that's another that's a whole other line is I never got through to him either. I wrote to virtually every NASA astronaut who has ever been associated with this phenomenon and never got a single response from any of them. You'd figure you'd at least get a form letter back and never got anything. I wrote uh I'm very disappointed with the Freedom of Information Act, how effective that is, too, because I didn't get diddly out of that. Wrote to NASA knowing that they had a certain body of information. I asked for all of it. Well, here it is. Here's all of it. And 6 months later, somebody else asks for all of it, and they got a lot bigger pile of all of it than I got. So, I I think, you know, there's very few checks and balances on that. They give you what they want in that system.

Some of the information is very disturbing. Um, it changes the way you view things. It changes the way you look at everything once this once it hits you, what really is going on? And uh I think the government could be right in a sense that that if the story came out in its entirety, if the president went on television and said, "They're here. We can't do anything about it." That it would shake our foundations. It would shake our belief in religion and shake our belief in in government. Maybe people would stop paying their taxes because it would change the way we view everything.

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