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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday July 27 2020, @02:27AM (7 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday July 27 2020, @02:27AM (#1026923) Journal

    Well, start here. It's not the best collection nor the most correct deduction but you will find there lot of pointers to other resources.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo/comments/doc9g3/important_memo_they_may_try_to_convince_the_world/ [reddit.com]

    And, there is always TheBlackVault. I really didn't expected there is someone existing on the net who never reached it.
    Everyone I know got all the files long time ago.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 27 2020, @01:04PM (6 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 27 2020, @01:04PM (#1027047) Journal

    It's times like these I really wish the official Unicode character set included the equivalent of SomethingAwful's "jerking-off" emoticon...

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    • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday July 27 2020, @01:50PM (5 children)

      by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday July 27 2020, @01:50PM (#1027079) Journal

      I affiliate with the dimensional hypothesis of EME, since it is most coherent with the knowledge base of the faction I am a member of.
      We have our own original research in Dimension Dynamics since the 80's, based on theoretical work of our predecessors.

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      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 27 2020, @02:33PM (4 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 27 2020, @02:33PM (#1027109) Journal

        Uh-huh. Right. And I actually am a time-jumping immortal schoolgirl with a magical letter opener that turns into a sword when necessary. Pull the other one, chuuni, it's got bells on.

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        • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday July 27 2020, @04:52PM (3 children)

          by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday July 27 2020, @04:52PM (#1027170) Journal

          You yourself qualified as EME, then. Welcome. And, stay careful, this world is really dangerous.

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          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 28 2020, @01:05PM (2 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 28 2020, @01:05PM (#1027582) Journal

            This is what we, in the world I come from, call sarcasm. That is my avatar's backstory. She is not real. She is ink on paper. Even if I do look and sound a spooky amount like her, she does not exist.

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            • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday July 28 2020, @06:11PM (1 child)

              by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Tuesday July 28 2020, @06:11PM (#1027714) Journal

              I see. Disney does that to people for about a century. Just try to read those mkultra papers mentioned above about consciousness fragmentation technique, it is very related to your self-identification situation. She does exist, within you. She even has a backstory! Maybe you'll find even more other interesting avatars in yourself you like.
              I call that conceptual affinity in my model of consciousness synthesis. Conceptual affinity is not a fixpoint. It is a tunable.

              Sticking to just one outward personality is... boring. That's why my presence in tengu form is limited to just Soylentnews. However, letter opener sword is intriguing. Perfect mental disguise of a weapon. I approve that. I prefer my collection of real swords and daggers, though.
              Have you ever tried to obtain a real sword? Not just some harmless plastic or blinkenlights cosplay toy or kitchen tool, but lenghted, weighted, hard, cold, sharp piece of shiny metal able to draw blood?

              I tell you what: a challenge. Let's both write a short fiction story featuring some of our favourite characters, putting that in SN journal. No timed deadline. There is no global risk of shame by that, journals are not indexed by webspiders. But it may change the local culture of Soylentnews. When I joined SN a year ago, I did it because of nostalgia on Kuro5hin, defunct and content lost long ago. And its full spectrum culture of posts, including underground, dissent and fiction articles on mainpage.

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              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 29 2020, @01:20AM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday July 29 2020, @01:20AM (#1027918) Journal

                If you're really interested in the source material, it's an obscure, vaguely creepy-fanservicey piece of animation (it had to be, it ran at otaku-o'clock and would have been a standard yuri soap opera otherwise...) that I found out was based on an even more obscure, waaaay creepier, outright x-rated choose-your-own adventure thing. The animated version is sort of...imagine one part The L Word crossed with 5 parts Quantum Leap and throw in a few squares of brown blotter acid and you're close. It's terrible, honestly. Pretty, but terrible, and the ending(s?) is a complete wallbanger.

                The "real" Hazuki is not a person. She does not exist except as ink on paper and maybe some CGI. There are some seriously probability-defying correspondences between my life and the plot (in other words, a lot of people and events metaphorically match up), but all that means is 1) art mimics life and 2) there are fewer stories out there than people think.

                Is there a creepy physical resemblance too? Yes. But there are far more differences than similarities: I grew up poor, have probably 30-40 IQ points on the "real" one, come from NYC and not Tokyo, speak English, have a Caucasian background, etc. If you're wondering about the letter-opener/sword thing, the paper cutter got splashed with the elder sister's blood and then exposed to that odd green aura she gave off before disappearing (like I said...brown blotter acid), so it doesn't keep its normal shape. It's not intentional, and Hazuki doesn't know how to swordfight; the thing seems to act of its own will.

                You are not a tengu either, for that matter. For one thing, the "tengu" archetype you have in mind--long nose, flight, storm-causing fans, bad attitude, and love of drink--does *not* match with the source material. Which is Chinese, not Japanese: tian(1) gou(4) = "dog of heaven" more or less. How the Japanese got crows out of that I will never know.

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