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Pentagon Has Finally Declassified Those Grainy UFO Videos From The US Navy:
After years of speculation, defence officials have now declassified and released three grainy videos from the Navy that have been circulating online for a while now, causing all sorts of speculation.
The mysterious footage was captured using infrared cameras in November 2004 and January 2015, and leaked to the public a few years ago.
[...] "DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos," the US Department of Defence said in a statement.
"The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterised as 'unidentified'."
But that characterisation is not for a lack of trying. For five years, from 2008 through 2011, the Pentagon had a top-secret program investigating UFOs and the potential threats they could pose to aircraft and other aerial activities.
See the linked story for the videos.
Also on the Beeb, The Guardian, even The Daily Beast.
Forbes Amidst The Insanity Of 2020, UFO Footage Feels Forgettable
Now that the month is coming to an end, we're due another world-shaking event, and an alien invasion seems to fit the apocalyptic theme.
Thus, the Pentagon officially released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots of UFOs. To clarify, nobody is claiming the footage shows alien spacecraft, but merely clarifying that the footage is legitimate and the subject is unknown.
[...] But the strangest thing about the footage, is that in the context of 2020, it almost seems boring. You'd think the Pentagon officially releasing UFO footage would break the internet (all it used to take was a photo of Kim Kardashian's bottom), but nowadays, the internet has become jaded to all but the most Earth-shattering event.
[...] The footage has inspired a few memes here and there, sure, but otherwise, the unidentified flying object hardly seems to have made a dent in pop culture; a collective shrug seems to be the general response. Although, only the most hardcore alien obsessives and Area 51-invaders seem to believe that the footage shows an actual alien spacecraft.
The Pentagon's decision to officially declassify three 'UFO' videos that have been circulating for years has triggered feverish speculation about what the famously secretive department is trying to distract Americans from.
[...] However, not all of the speculation had to do with the type of 'little green men' that might be piloting the objects. Even as hashtags like #aliensarereal and #ufo2020 dominated social media, many commenters were skeptical as to why the Defense Department had selected this particular moment in history to officially 'release' the videos. With the world in the grips of both a pandemic and an unprecedented economic depression – and with anger rising at government responses to both – the timing raised more than a few eyebrows.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30 2020, @04:47PM
They have, and have done so for quite some time.
Have a quick look at Jacques Vallée's works, it's been a couple of decades now since I last read any of his stuff, but ISTR his take on it was that basically 'something' is fucking with us, and has been doing so for a very long time (Fort had a similar theory, though he stated it as 'we're property'), so it's an idea that runs through certain schools of though on the subject.
The theory runs something along the following lines..
Whatever they are, they use UFOs/Religion/Apparitions/etc as a 'masque' for their actions, they use whatever cultural trappings are available to hide behind and use the belief in said trappings to manipulate humanity, in Celtic countries they were the fair folk, they are the jinn of Arabic lore, in the middle ages they were daemons, in countries today with a strong Roman Catholic presence in the population they become the Blessed Virgin Mary, they were the angel Moroni, they were Crowley's Aiwass, they may be the root cause of religion in general, they're not Gods per se, but they like being treated as such, both feared and worshipped.
As they're not quite corporeal, as well as manifestations, they can also exert influence on 'sensitive/sensitised-by-ritual' humans, they then either influence or show up in literature, they're the Macrobes of C.S. Lewis's 'That Hideous Strength' and as for Lovecraft and his works...(If you believe in that sort of thing, there's an occultist who makes a good case for whatever entity that was fucking with Crowley's mind also fucking with HPLs as well..) but, when it suits them, they're also 'nuts and bolts devices, they were the Airships of the late 1800s, they were the 'ghost planes' of the early 20th century, they're Saucers of today, etc. etc.
So, it's not so much an outré theory (UFOs themselves are actual entities) as you think..you'd have to expand your reading...and be prepared to wade through so much unmitigated bullshit...admittedly, some of it is entertaining bullshit, but still...
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Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast....' Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll