<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>Art Weingartner wrote:
Anyway, I always believed the authorities were loathe to tell the public what they had because of the impact on religion.<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>
Ahh, but if an impact on religion was the point, wouldn't the Soviets, with as large and as vigilant a military as any on the planet at the time and thus highly likely to have such evidence, have happily trotted out this evidence of alien existence to put the final nail in the coffin of the "opiate of the masses"?