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The existence of UFOs had been "proved beyond reasonable doubt," according the head of the secret Pentagon program that analyzed the mysterious aircrafts.
In an interview with British broadsheet The Telegraph published on Saturday, Luis Elizondo told the newspaper of the sightings, "In my opinion, if this was a court of law, we have reached the point of 'beyond reasonable doubt.'"
"I hate to use the term UFO but that's what we're looking at," he added. "I think it's pretty clear this is not us, and it's not anyone else, so no one has to ask questions where they're from."
Since 2007, Elizondo led the government program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, investigating evidence of UFOs and alien life. It was shuttered in 2012.
Its existence was first reported by The New York Times last week.
Elizondo was not able to discuss specifics of the program, but told The Telegraph that there had been "lots" of UFO sightings and witnesses interviewed during the program's five years.
Investigators pinpointed geographical "hot spots" that were sometimes near nuclear facilities and power plants and observed trends among the aircrafts including lack of flight surfaces on the objects and extreme manoeuvrability, Elizondo told The Telegraph.
Previously: Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed
(Score: 5, Interesting) by khallow on Wednesday December 27 2017, @12:51PM (1 child)
No, it doesn't. It just takes a while. You're thinking present day human dudes with present day lifespans in tin cans with some sort of bogus propulsion system required so the dudes can retire on the planets they arrive at in a few decades. Needless to say, none of that needs to be true. Small, self-replicating robots tooling about at 0.001 C (that is, 300 km/s) could cover the entire galaxy in a 100 million years or so. Even humans who live to ten thousand years of age, could do that trick with a reasonable sized spacecraft and still be able to retire at their destination.
Science fiction has already covered the generational ship. Meaning one doesn't even need long life span.
Meanwhile it's not that hard for aliens from elsewhere to be living in the Solar System today, if they're stealthed. Maybe they're headquartered on a small, blackened asteroid in the Kuiper Belt (running fission plants and venting heat to the side opposite the Sun) and run careful, stealthed missions and observations of humans in the present day. It's hard, but far from impossible for a technologically advanced group to play that game. Sure, it's a "God of gaps" type of argument, but huge gaps exist at present.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:33AM
They could also be on a moon around Planet Nine, or on a Mars-sized Planet Ten. Or on any number of Kuiper belt/Oort cloud dwarf planets, the outer solar system centaurs [wikipedia.org], and asteroids, most of which we have shit imagery of. Many gaps to look at.
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