What they aren't telling us is that long ago when the English came to the united states they brought along with them a wizard to guide them along their journey. Legend has it that the wizard left his staff along with his spell book behind in a cave, a couple hundred years later the artifacts were recovered and brought to the Area 51 Facility in Nevada where its mysteries were decoded.
It is said that the government is using the wizard knowledge to train soldiers in battle. So for all you aspiring witches and wizards out there, there is still hope, you just have to have very high security clearance and probably a damn good ASVAB score.