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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, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday December 27 2017, @02:10PM (3 children)
U means "unidentified". It doesn't mean "space aliens". Lots of people have seen things and can't figure out what they are, and some of those things are up in the sky.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 27 2017, @06:13PM (1 child)
In this context the "U" actually means "undefunded", which is why this stuff is in the news. It's only received $22 million in the last few years and we all know that you can accomplish anything meaningful with only $22 million. As an example, just look at how much money Mozilla spends on Firefox.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday December 28 2017, @01:05AM
In this context the "U" actually means "undefunded", which is why this stuff is in the news. It's only received $22 million in the last few years and we all know that you can accomplish anything meaningful with only $22 million.
Huh?
"Defunded" means that something had funding, and that funding was removed or reduced. "Undefunded" isn't really a word I don't think, but if it were, it would mean to restore full funding to something that was previously defunded.
And yes, you CAN accomplish meaningful things with only $22M: you're right, and I'm agreeing with you, because you just wrote that.
So what exactly is your point here? It makes no sense at all. Unless, of course, you meant to write "undeRfunded", and "...that you can`T accomplish anything...", in which case this post is a prime example of why Soylent needs to stop stupidly aping Slashdot and allow post editing, to avoid all this confusion, from simple typos.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 28 2017, @05:59AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/23/existence-ufos-proved-beyond-reasonable-doubt-says-former-pentagon/ [telegraph.co.uk]
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