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The US Navy is drafting new rules to report UFO sightings
Are we alone in the universe? The question has been debated for ages. Most recently, US Navy pilots who think they spotted a UFO will be getting guidelines for logging what they've seen.
The US Navy began drafting the new forms after multiple sightings of highly advanced aircraft trespassing on military formations, Politico reported on Tuesday.
"Pilots are upset, and they're trying to help wake up a slumbering system," Chris Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and a staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told The Washington Post. Mellon and other pilots reportedly think a new streamlined reporting system could make it more acceptable to report UFOS and ultimately remove the stigma.
The Navy and the United States Air Force said they're taking each report seriously.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 27 2019, @03:37AM (1 child)
Clean the lenses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 27 2019, @11:54PM
No 1: 1970 Disc shaped light between two cloud layers travelling rapidly north (Note: not point light, but Disc shaped..)
No 2: 1974 Craft resembling something like an old Gloster Meteor in side profile, but with a large elongated mirrored cockpit mid fuselage, polished metal finish body, totally silent.
No 3: 1977 Disc hovered over school for 15 minutes, seen by at least 500 people including myself.
No 4: 1981 Nine orange spherical lights in formation, stationary and in motion, 20-25 minutes, seen by at least 9 people.
No 5+6: 1985 One silent brilliant light stationary over a forest for half an hour, one large 'Christmas Tree Mothership' stationary over the North Sea for 7 minutes
No 7: 1998 One large 'shape' covered in multiple coloured lights stationary 10ft or so over a tree beside the motorway
No 8: 1999 Something best described as looking like the F-19 from below heading in the direction of Machrihanish...of course the F-19 doesn't really exist as such..
I don't know if I should count this one, but
No 9: 2006 found one on a picture I took with one of my camera phones a couple of years after the event, I only spotted the thing when I transferred the images off the phone and on to the fileserver
Ah, If it were only that simple...
none of the above are positively identified, but that doesn't mean I'm going to start going all Giorgio [wikipedia.org] about them, for the record, bit of an aircraft nerd and have been a member of the amateur astronomer ranks now for several decades, though sadly with increasing local light pollution it's getting more difficult.
If you want more fun, albeit of the second-hand variety but from people I don't think were bullshitting me
as I'm typing this, through the window I can see a house over which a large black triangular object hovered silently over for a good 15 minutes or so back in 1997, seen by about 12 people, including my sisters and my niece (who, being them, took time out to make a cup of tea and then got right back to watching it) curiously sitting perfectly in a 'radar shadow area' created by the nearby hills with a view of a couple of naval bases..
Or the BOAC Comet pilot who hit the bottle a bit harder (hey, he was flying a Comet..) after something he saw in the air..
Or the old guy who flew Mossies during WWII and who saw Foo fighters..
Or the guy from Rhodesia who saw Foo fighter type lights within his house investigating various items in his living room..
Or the two people who spotted Foo fighter type lights playing 'tag' in the woods, but who then got chased by the things when they were spotted.
Point is, objects which fly, and can't be readily identified do exist, but just because certain people are far too quick to equate UFOs with Aliens, don't be too quick to dismiss all reports of the buggers out of hand.