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posted by martyb on Monday March 12 2018, @07:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the doo-dah-dee-dum-duum dept.

A group linked to Luis Elizondo, the former leader of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, as well as other former military and government officials, has released a video showing a 2015 UFO encounter involving U.S. Navy pilots:

A newly-released video which shows U.S. Navy pilots encountering an unidentified flying object (UFO) in 2015 has garnered calls for more research into what these mysterious objects could be. "What the f--- is that thing?" one pilot can be heard saying in the video. "Wow, what is that, man?" the pilot adds. "Look at that flying!"

The footage was released Friday by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA), a private scientific research and media group. It is led by Dr. Hal Puthoff, a NASA and U.S. Department of Defense adviser and James Semivan, a former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency service member. The clip is said to be "an authentic DoD video that captures the high-speed flight of an unidentified aircraft at low altitude" and "reveals a previously undisclosed Navy encounter that occurred off the East Coast in 2015," according to a statement from TTSA.

Editorial by Christopher Mellon, deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations

From my work with To the Stars Academy, which seeks to raise private funds to investigate incidents like the 2004 Nimitz encounter, I know they continue to occur, because we are being approached by military personnel who are concerned about national security and frustrated by how the Defense Department is handling such reports. I am also familiar with the evidence as a former Pentagon intelligence official and a consultant who began researching the issue after the Nimitz incident was brought to my attention. On several occasions, I have met with senior Pentagon officials, and at least one followed up and obtained briefings confirming incidents such as the Nimitz case. But nobody wants to be "the alien guy" in the national security bureaucracy; nobody wants to be ridiculed or sidelined for drawing attention to the issue. This is true up and down the chain of command, and it is a serious and recurring impediment to progress.

Also at USA Today and NextBigFuture.

Related: UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 13 2018, @02:28AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 13 2018, @02:28AM (#651633) Journal

    A cursory search seems to contradict your claim that there are fewer sightings today. One link claims that there are fewer sightings in Italy, while the remainder of the hits on different combinations of search terms seem to show an increase. I wonder if your claim of fewer sightings is just a perception, based on the fact that the news stations don't push those stories. Have you looked at Youtube? Mexico City had something strange in their skies, March third, this year. Another in Rio de Janeiro in January, 2018.

    Of course, browsing the results of a Youtube search for ufo sightings, you'll find an awful lot of just plain stupid bullshit. There are no filters on Youtube, or on news sources, for credibility.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 13 2018, @08:10AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday March 13 2018, @08:10AM (#651725) Homepage
    I should have included the adjective "credible" or should I say "not immediately dismissable" in my statement, I apologise. People are communicating a thousand times more, it's natural that the UFO babble in the noise floor would be increased proportionally too. But *we're missing the photos/videos* - which should be 10 times higher resolution than they were before. Maybe those clever aliens know about our camphones, and are deliberately staying 10 times further away from the potential observers?

    Aliens!
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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 13 2018, @01:45PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 13 2018, @01:45PM (#651810) Journal

      staying 10 times further away from the potential observers?

      That's probably it. I mean, they've got to be pretty smart to fly here from wherever the hell they flew in from.

      "Oh, looky, Brzzldip, the humans have smartphones now! Isn't it cute? We obsoleted our smartphones about 30 millenia ago, and they have just discovered them!"