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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, Informative) by khallow on Tuesday March 13 2018, @08:11PM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 13 2018, @08:11PM (#651971) Journal

    That's the point, khallow. The original post said, "With all the cameras in cell phones, why have reported UFO sightings gone down?" In fact, they not only did not "go down" but they've increased three-fold.

    Actually no one said that. That earlier post [soylentnews.org] spoke of "sightings of UFOs" not "reported sightings of UFOs". I don't consider the latter to be representative of the actual number of supposed sightings of UFOs (particularly, since it's just US residents reporting UFOs - 300 times as many reports by roughly 4% of the global population means over 90% are coming from the US - probably from a small minority of the population as well).

    Here's the actual post:

    You don't find it weird that now everyone's got a 10MP camera in their pocket there are fewer and fewer sightings of UFOs? The best images we have are the ones of the flying soup bowl and dustbin lid from the 50s.

    To give you an idea of the problem here, we have amateurs imaging [nasa.gov] satellites in orbit to several meter resolution. We have somewhere around 15-25% of the entire world population carrying a cell phone, most with a camera attached. So where's the high quality photos of those UFOs?

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  • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Tuesday March 13 2018, @09:25PM (2 children)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Tuesday March 13 2018, @09:25PM (#652010) Journal

    That earlier post [soylentnews.org] spoke of "sightings of UFOs" not "reported sightings of UFOs".

    If he's not talking about reported sightings, then how does he know there are fewer and fewer of them?

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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:27PM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:27PM (#652050) Journal
      He already mentioned one way, high quality pictures of the alleged UFOs. If we're not getting them despite the alleged surge in reported sightings, then are we really getting an increase in reported sightings?
      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 14 2018, @02:11AM

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday March 14 2018, @02:11AM (#652115) Homepage
        Thank you for taking my somewhat hastily typed out argument and fleshing it out properly.
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