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No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public (archive)
Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.
Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, which is not classified but deals with classified matters. Yet it appeared last month in a Senate committee report outlining spending on the nation's intelligence agencies for the coming year. The report said the program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, was "to standardize collection and reporting" on sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles, and was to report at least some of its findings to the public within 180 days after passage of the intelligence authorization act.
While retired officials involved with the effort — including Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader — hope the program will seek evidence of vehicles from other worlds, its main focus is on discovering whether another nation, especially any potential adversary, is using breakout aviation technology that could threaten the United States.
The lede has been buried for your protection. Do not RTFA.
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(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @06:11PM (9 children)
"its main focus is on discovering whether another nation, especially any potential adversary, is using breakout aviation technology that could threaten the United States."
If this is true then this has been around for a while now.
I've personally witnessed a UFO with incredible flight capabilities around 1999.
I was inside the house and my dad was outside smoking and he calls me outside and says to look up.
This thing was a large egg shaped object about three light polls high at first hovering over my house. My house was under its shadow and its size was so large that the area above me covered part of the street, covered my house and back yard, and reached over into the area over some of the neighbors houses.
The thing pulsated between an unlit or not very light bland almost greenish gray color that didn't really stand out relative to the sky around it to a bland (not that bright) yellowish color and back. The thing made no noise.
Shortly after like five helicopters started chasing it. They were tiny specs compared to this thing. As they approached it the thing sharply ascended for a distance and stopped. As the helicopters continued to ascend to approach it again it would sharply ascend again for a distance and stop. This happened three consecutive times. Finally the thing just flew into the horizon at an incredibly fast speed (it was gone within like a second or two from a total standstill, way faster than any plane or jet) leaving the helicopters in the dust.
Didn't make any noise whatsoever (you can hear the helicopters though).
Later on that night the news had an image of it and mentioned that people reported sightings of it. They said the Airforce(? I can't remember) had no comment but like a day or two later the news said that the Airforce was testing a balloon.
Yeah right. Not even close. What I saw was the most incredible, intelligently guided, craft that I have ever seen. Nothing we have that I know of even comes close.
So did the U.S. government have this technology in 1999? Did other governments? Was it aliens? I have no clue. But I do know this tech existed back then, I've seen it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @06:15PM
Yeah sure. And in Rand-McNally, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @06:39PM (2 children)
Here is the thing. Everything you describe makes perfect sense if you assume the object was much, much lighter than its size implied.
So basically, yea it was some type of military balloon, zepplin, blimp craft. You are conditioned to think balloons are boring.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:31PM (1 child)
I thought of that possibility. Yeah, if you fill a balloon with air and let it go it can do some wild crazy things.
Two alternative possibilities kinda I thought of is it could really have been a balloon or maybe a hologram of some sort? Maybe the helicopters were somehow projecting a hologram?
The problem is that neither of those possibilities are really good ones or really come close to explaining what I saw. Just that they are possibly the best explanations other than it being some sort of advanced air/space craft. Being the best explanation doesn't make it a good or a probable explanation. At the end of the day I have no clue what it was.
Maybe some kind of advanced U.S. military balloon with a way to guide its path. But nothing I've ever seen before. I don't know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @11:02PM
Exactly my thoughts about a lot of these ufo sightings.
(Score: 3, Touché) by fyngyrz on Sunday July 26 2020, @07:23PM (1 child)
Enquiring minds want to know:
Thank you for your kind attention to this matter.
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Remember: If we get caught, you're deaf, and I don't speak English.
(Score: 3, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:56PM
I was wondering what his Dad was smoking. He may well have been very high.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:13PM (1 child)
Nice Fiction
The Airforce would send jets, it is the Army that operates helicopters
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:20PM
I can't remember exactly what the news said at first had no comment and then later said they were testing a balloon. I was relatively young.
My dad smokes cigarettes ;(
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @12:59AM
I know people who I trust not to BS me who saw some odd shit. Perhaps it was mistaken identity, but they were definitely freaked out by it.