Astronomers Duped On UFOs?

[AlienSun]

I take issue with the general theme of this thread that seems to give astronomers an excuse for not being aware that strange things in our skies were exactly what they appeared to be.  Given the times--anytime along the way as the "flying saucers" become noteworthy, they could have started a drum-beat toward recognizing the challenge that the observations and hard data tended to indicate.  Obviously, their positions made them extremely vulnerable, if not by direct control, by governmental control by funding, then by a host of other angles problematic to simple common reasoning.
 
Things have not changed.  A blanket silence was and is still the order of the day as the battle to control the nexus of the UFO situation is on tighter and more expansive than it ever was.  The problem today is a shifting of knowledge and awareness as intricate details of human existence are coming to be within focus from other fields.    Our very beginning as a species is being questioned, while on the other hand we have today's largely fanned, senseless outside studies, reports or discussions, from the public side and even from the (joke) governmental side of the matter as the arguments continue over the reality of ETs here or not.
 
Everybody of any value to science or government knew.  The more they knew, the more they had to control.  And the more they had to cover and deny.  Such as it is....

I decided to augment my reply above with an anecdote that rounds out this thread.
I was given an old, brass telescope with a 3.5in. Lens.  I found a buyer on the internet.  He represented a small group of mostly retired astronomers from my old school that were rebuilding the school's observatory from back around the turn of 1900.  It seemed like a nice deal on both sides.  They said they didn't have much funds at that point and offered me $250 for the unit.  We exchanged a couple of letters and I said that I would accept the offer with a stipulation.  The following paragraph is a quote from my letter.

"I would add one stipulation to our potential sale which is rather benign but will be weird from your perspective.  That would be that you share with the members of your group (9) an article I prepared several years ago about Phobos, the inner satellite of Mars done, shall we say, in the manner of Tom Van Flandern.  The article is an original work not much suited for typical outlets and too lengthy for the internet."

I never heard another word from them.  I assume he had passed my message along and all chose to refuse my offer.  Maybe they found a better deal? 

(They knew. What they refused to accept was Viking data that proved that Phobos had been manipulated into its precise orbit by explosive charges in the Hall crater, and that the "grooves" are just that, created by the movement of loose materials on the surface.  I have the NASA CDs that prove that assertion.  But I doubt that the dedicated NASA software is still available online as it once was, and also doubt the availability of the full sets of the images from NASA on the internet.)