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Ex-official who revealed UFO project accuses Pentagon of 'disinformation' campaign
The former Pentagon official who went public about reports of UFOs has filed a complaint with the agency's inspector general claiming a coordinated campaign to discredit him for speaking out — including accusing a top official of threatening to tell people he was "crazy," according to documents reviewed by POLITICO.
Lue Elizondo, a career counterintelligence specialist who was assigned in 2008 to work for a Pentagon program that investigated reports of "unmanned aerial phenomena," filed the 64-page complaint to the independent watchdog on May 3 and has met several times with investigators, according to his legal team.
The claim that the government is trying to discredit him comes weeks before the director of national intelligence and the Pentagon are expected to deliver an unclassified report to Congress about UFOs and the government's strategy for investigating such encounters. The report is expected to include a detailed accounting of the agencies, personnel and surveillance systems that gather and analyze the data.
"What he is saying is there are certain individuals in the Defense Department who in fact were attacking him and lying about him publicly, using the color of authority of their offices to disparage him and discredit him and were interfering in his ability to seek and obtain gainful employment out in the world," said Daniel Sheehan, Elizondo's attorney. "And also threatening his security clearance."
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday May 27 2021, @08:58PM (4 children)
They are careful not to use the A-word too much.
Basically, military pilots are observing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Could be advanced drones, ball lightning, other lighting tricks [wikipedia.org], whatever. Some people think they are definitely technological, which if true pretty much narrows it down to secret U.S. drones, foreign drones, or aliens. And would be considered a security threat if it's not us.
One of the goals of this is to erase the stigma so that more pilots report the sightings. Shouldn't be too hard if "drones" is the default explanation.
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(Score: 2) by dwilson on Friday May 28 2021, @03:18AM (1 child)
Not quite. As a human being resident on Planet Earth, the US (-any- country, honestly) having advanced tech as described would definitely be considered a security threat by the rest of us.
It's like atomic weapons: If you've got them, you're a threat to everyone, including yourself.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 28 2021, @03:33AM
Hypersonic missiles on steroids.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday May 28 2021, @06:10PM (1 child)
Missing an obvious capitalist category of drug smugglers. I'm not kidding either and this has already been partially public from the DEA.
Now think about something interesting: The DEA only reports on captured drug smuggling drones that fail. Not the ones that never get caught and never fail.
Mix with another interesting technological anecdote: You can't release sensor data, optical or radar, that doesn't inherently give away the max range and max resolution performance of the sensor.
So the coast guard releases optical scan sensor "UFO" data, 15000 different reports, coincidentally all on objects only 2 meters in wingspan or larger and only 10 degrees C warmer than ambient. Maybe to prevent infinite false triggers off birds. Maybe that shitty performance is the best they can afford to deploy and maintain long term. Doesn't matter we know their sensor performance data now.
Meanwhile the DEA only catches failed drones that are larger than 2 meters in wingspan and hotter than 10C above ambient. So you know the coasties are working with the DEA. As if that wasn't literally their job, we know they're actually being productive doing that and its a second tier proof of sensor performance "where the rubber meets the road" rather than in theory.
The streets are not exactly lacking in drugs so we now know WRT UFO sightings that everything out there flying around smaller than 2 meters wingspan and less than 10 C above ambient temp is probably a cartel logistics drone full of heroin that is not going to be intercepted.
Everyone laughed at the idea of drug smugglers using submarines until the DEA and coasties caught one. I'm pretty sure "a lot" of UFO sightings are drug smuggler related.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @12:47PM
Everything and a lot? But why would drug smugglers use glowing or even brightly flashing stuff to smuggle drugs?
Now if they were decoys then maybe it makes sense. Everyone look at the bright flashing thingy... Don't notice all that dark grey flying stuff that's practically blending with night sky (dark grey coz the night sky in many areas is usually not that black).
But wouldn't it still be better to not have any decoys and have fewer people looking at the sky?