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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.
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.
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(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday March 13 2018, @09:29PM (2 children)
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise perfectly valid and useful analogies weren't allowed.
Before the internet, a lot of people wouldn't even have known where to look to find out who to report a UFO sighting to. It would just have become a weird tale told down at the bar.
I didn't say either of those things. The point I'm discussing is whether sightings - as opposed to reports of sightings, and reports to one specific organisation at that* - have risen.
What the poster who mentioned cell phones was saying was not said altogether clearly by his own admission, but as long as you're not a zealous pedant (and I say that as a pretty zealous pedant myself) it's pretty obvious what was meant and that it is a sage observation.
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*To somewhat reiterate a point further up, the rise in reports to this one particular organisation could be solely down to the rise of said organisation's visibility (self-promoted or otherwise). If, say, a fast food chain reports that they've got 10 times as many customers as they did last year, do you assume it's because of a change in eating habits, or might you instead consider that it's because the chain opened 9 more locations?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:11PM (1 child)
The 1980s were something of a golden age for ufo data collection. With the 1977 release of Close Encounters and E.T. in 1982, there was no decade with a higher awareness of UFOs among the general public. I'll bet more people knew what MUFON was in the 1980s than know about it today.
If they're not reported, then how are you going to count them? How do you go about comparing unreported sightings by decade? Telepathy? I thought you were a skeptic.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday March 14 2018, @10:52PM
You're just being wilfully obtuse now.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk