This may be of interest to some readers of SN:
For decades, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) kept a record of all of its investigations into extraterrestrial activity in one extensive report called Project Blue Book ( http://www.archives.gov/foia/ufos.html ). Up until last week Project Blue Book's massive catalog of over 10,000 UFO and extraterrestrial reports from the 1940s to the 1970s had only been accessible by visiting the National Archives in Washington. Now the archives are available online. ( http://projectbluebook.theblackvault.com )
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 23 2015, @12:23PM
I can't get my rocks off unless I empty my white hot load into a cold green alien anus.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by sudo rm -rf on Friday January 23 2015, @01:27PM
I randomly picked one report [theblackvault.com] and in it the reporter was sitting in an Apollo Space Craft (1965!) at the time of spotting an UFO.
Turns out he was an engineer working on the Project Apollo!
(Score: 2) by E_NOENT on Friday January 23 2015, @02:33PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O. [wikipedia.org]
"We believe you think you saw something, ma'am...."
I'm not in the business... I *am* the business.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 23 2015, @07:21PM
Loved that show. I was only about 7 years old, and I don't remember anything about it other than loving it.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 23 2015, @02:42PM
As in, I completely believe that there are lots of people who have seen flying objects they haven't been able to identify.
The problem is that they jump from "I have no idea what that was" to "There must be little green men in flying saucers". It's a false pattern recognition, frequently primed by classic science fiction films (the ET-believers tend to describe and/or draw ETs that bear a striking resemblance to the known-fictional ETs from popular culture).
Now, if there were actual hard evidence for any of what the ET-believers are saying, I'd take it a bit more seriously. But right now ETs on Earth are about as likely to exist as the Loch Ness Monster.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 23 2015, @04:05PM
Aliens in the conventional sense are less likely to exist than the Loch Ness Monster. The Loch Ness Monster and Sasquatch are equally more likely to exist. Though, if you believe in the Bible. You also believe in Aliens. I.E. Angels, they aren't exactly Human or from this world.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 23 2015, @04:26PM
Explain your logic here.
Lots of people have explored Loch Ness looking for Nessie. They've used all sorts of interesting ways to try and find him - underwater cameras, sonar, and so forth. There have been similar efforts for lake monsters in other places, all of which have turned up empty.
By contrast, nobody has had the ability to explore most of what's in space. The nice folks at SETI are continuing to look, but they've explored only a tiny fraction of the information that's coming our way. If, as seems perfectly reasonable to guess right now, interstellar travel is incredibly difficult and risky, and interstellar communication takes a really really long time, then it's there's no real surprise that we haven't found aliens or they haven't stopped by to say hello.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 23 2015, @04:45PM
Yeah, I just have to go to the next airport to see lots of unidentified flying objects. Sure, I can tell it's an airplane, but I cannot identify them (as in, determine their identity; I can't tell one Boeing 747 from another, at least if they are from the same airline), therefore about every airplane that starts of lands is, from my view, an unidentified flying object.
I however hope the tower can identify them quite well, ;-)
(Score: 1) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday January 24 2015, @11:53AM
...they jump from "I have no idea what that was" to "There must be little green men in flying saucers"...
They're not green; they're actually grey.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 23 2015, @06:16PM
The NAZIs built a stealth fighter made mostly out of wood, with radar-absorbing graphite on the leading edges of the wings.
If someone sees something in the sky that Air Traffic Control doesn't know about, especially during the Cold War, the Air Force needed to know about it.
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(Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Saturday January 24 2015, @02:43AM
I suspect you are referring to the Horten 2-29
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090625-hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane.html [nationalgeographic.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:29AM
... futuristic secret weapons.
I don't know but speculate that Hitler could have won had he picked just a few reasonably successful types of weapons then persisted with them throughout the war. That's what the Soviets did - they designed only five different types of bombers during the war.
The germans made substantial progress towards producing plutonium with a heavy water reactor but lacked the electric power required for the calutrons, which were the choice at the time for refining uranium (uranium hexafluoride turbines had not yet been developed). It's easy to design a uranium bomb but hard to refine the uranium. It's hard to make a plutonium bomb but it's easy to synthesize plutonium.
The german atom bomb effort was defeated by fifteen Norwegian commandos who were towed from England in a glider, landed in a snowy field, blew the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant to meaty chunks, then when Adolf tried to make off with his last jug of moonshine, the commandos sunk a fully-loaded passenger ferry.
Adults could swim but won't somebody think of the children? "Children your attention please! Life jacket drill! Everyone on with your life jacket! Here let me help you BANG!"
Shortly after the war, the allies found a deep underground heavy water reactor, one-third filled with heavy water. That ferry didn't have enough heavy water but heavy water is easy to distill (sort of). Had they kept the water on the ferry, the chances are pretty good that Hitler would have vaporized London and Moscow, possibly New York and Washington DC as well.
When I was a grad student at UC Santa Cruz, an elderly Physicist spoke at our colloqium. He told us that when he himself was but a grad student, he tended bar at a cocktail party in which British, American and German Physicists openly discussed nuclear weapons design.
Go to any University library then look through the Physics journals from the late 1930 - Physical Review and such. Look for well-known names like Leo Szilard, Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. I did that once and my eyes popped out. Those journals are full of work that I would have thought should have been classified Top Secret, however war had not broken out yet.
I don't think Heisenberg himself was a NAZI - I really don't know - but he led that German A-Bomb effort.
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