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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: 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.