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posted by martyb on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-shadow-knows... dept.

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.

Previously: Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed
UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program
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US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @07:21PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @07:21PM (#1026699)

    Who told you imaginary == doesnt exist?

    Big corporate government science daddy?

  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:46PM (6 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:46PM (#1026749)

    Are you really arguing that scientific explanations for our origins are wrong, therefore it must be god?

     

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:40PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:40PM (#1026786)

      All scientific theories came from someones imagination. Or do you think they were communicated psychically by god/aliens or something?

      • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:19PM (3 children)

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:19PM (#1026817)

        Wow.

        That is really dumb.

        I mean sometimes on this site people post things that are silly, or poorly thought through but that is some real top level idiocy.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:36PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:36PM (#1026831)

          Thats a theory that came from your imagination. Chill out.

        • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday July 27 2020, @03:26AM (1 child)

          by MostCynical (2589) on Monday July 27 2020, @03:26AM (#1026935) Journal

          so now we need a +0 "huh?' mod..

          --
          "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @01:12PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @01:12PM (#1027056)

        All scientific theories came from someones imagination. Or do you think they were communicated psychically by god/aliens or something?

        I know you're trolling, so here's a snack:

        If those scientific hypotheses aren't borne out by *evidence*, we reject them as false.

        There is no *evidence* that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent creator exists. In fact, all the evidence we do have points to natural processes for everything around us.

        Provide convincing evidence to the contrary and I'll change my mind. Good luck with that.

        Savor this little snack under your bridge, as this is all you're getting.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @01:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @01:08PM (#1027052)

    Who told you imaginary == doesnt exist?

    Merriam-Webster [merriam-webster.com]

    1 a: existing only in imagination : lacking factual reality
    b : formed or characterized imaginatively or arbitrarily [emphasis added]

    You could replace dragons with "God" in the quote below and it makes just as much sense. [goodreads.com]:

    “Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each non-existed in an entirely different way.”

    --Stanislaw Lem