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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 ilPapa on Wednesday March 14 2018, @12:57AM (3 children)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Wednesday March 14 2018, @12:57AM (#652089) Journal

    Let's consider the workflow here. Pre-1990, one would bug an operator or a librarian to get said long distance number.

    Actually, no. The pre-1990 workflow started with looking in a great big book that everybody had. It was called a "phone book", and yes, MUFON was in the phone book.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 14 2018, @03:57AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 14 2018, @03:57AM (#652144) Journal

    MUFON was in the phone book

    There was no "the" phone book, but many phone books unique to each region and municipality. MUFON would not be in every phone book.

    • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Wednesday March 14 2018, @04:55AM (1 child)

      by ilPapa (2366) on Wednesday March 14 2018, @04:55AM (#652155) Journal

      There was no "the" phone book, but many phone books unique to each region and municipality. MUFON would not be in every phone book.

      Believe it or not, it was in most phone books in the 800- section (there actually was one).

      But generally, people who reported UFOs back then called their local police, who didn't want to deal with it so they passed the calls on to MUFON by giving out their phone number. One of the first things that MUFON after they were formed was liaise with local law enforcement down to county sheriff's and local municipal police.

      Even the extremely popular "real" UFO TV shows of the 1980s and early 90s would show the MUFON number at the end of every episode.

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      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 14 2018, @07:26AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 14 2018, @07:26AM (#652196) Journal

        But generally, people who reported UFOs back then called their local police, who didn't want to deal with it so they passed the calls on to MUFON by giving out their phone number. One of the first things that MUFON after they were formed was liaise with local law enforcement down to county sheriff's and local municipal police.

        Definitely just as simple as googling for their website.