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| PHOTO: An unidentified flying object shown in a photo first obtained by the New York Times. (Obtained by ABC News) |
The US has a long history of apparent mysterious aircraft sightings, including the discovery of strange metal debris in 1947 by a rancher in Roswell, New Mexico.News reports at the time said it was a "flying saucer", but the military maintains it was just a crashed weather balloon. You have to explain to me why you'd want to keep this a secret in the first place and why it would only be your country who were in contact with those aliens. Then you have to explain to me how you plan to keep this a secret past any and all automatic declassification dates etc. The US Department of Defense has admitted that it used to fund a covert program to investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to multiple media reports.The so-called (1)>>Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ran from 2007 to 2012, with $22m in annual funding, according to a New York Times report published on Saturday. Although the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Programme ended five years ago, when US defence officials shifted attention and funding to other priorities, it remains unclear if it has continued to investigate sightings of mysterious vehicles. (2)>>The program ran from 2007 to 2012 with $22m (£15m) in annual funding, which was hidden in US Defense Department budgets worth hundreds of billions of dollars, The New York Times reported. Initial funding came largely at the request of former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat long known for his enthusiasm for space phenomena, the newspaper said. The “unidentified aerial phenomena” (3)>>claimed to have been seen by pilots and other military personnel appeared vastly more advanced than those in American or foreign arsenals. In some cases they maneuvered so unusually and so fast that they seemed to defy the laws of physics, according to multiple sources directly involved in or briefed on the effort and a review of unclassified Defense Department and congressional documents.The revelation of the program could give a credibility boost to UFO theorists, who have long pointed to public accounts by military pilots and others describing phenomena that defy obvious explanation, and could fuel demands for increased transparency about the scope and findings of the Pentagon effort, which focused some of its inquiries into sci-fi sounding concepts like "wormholes" and "warp drives." The program also drafted a series of what the office referred to as "queried unverified event under evaluation," QUEU reports, in which pilots and other personnel who had reported encounters were interviewed about their experiences. According to a Pentagon official, the AATIP program was ended “in the 2012 time frame,” but it has recently attracted attention because of the resignation in early October of Luis Elizondo, the career intelligence officer who ran the initiative. In his resignation letter, addressed to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Elizondo said the efforts of his program were not being taken sufficiently seriously. The Pentagon official could not confirm Mattis had actually seen the letter. He described scores of unexplained sightings by Navy pilots and other observers of aircraft with capabilities far beyond what is currently considered aerodynamically possible. Recently, a New York Times article asked why UFO sightings were more prominent than ever and much more numerous across the United States than anywhere else. Pope Francis, when once asked about the possibility of alien life, replied that it was a subject that he knew little about, but then joked about baptizing ‘little green men.’ What, however, if the subject was far from a laughing matter? What if, behind it, lay something with which we are all too familiar in the spiritual realm? What if the UFO phenomenon was part of a wider deception that, for some at least, has blurred the lines between reality and fantasy, science and pseudoscience, (4)>>confusing a vision of a God-created universe with one out of control—or, worse, in the hands of malignant forces? Either way the revelation is likely to provide some satisfaction to UFO enthusiasts, often dismissed as conspiracy theorists.
‘Oumuamu' STRANGE VISITOR .
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(1)>>Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program . In some of the most important UFO news to be released in years, the New York Times and Politico have posted stories on a secret UFO program ran by the Department of Defense, who worked with Bigelow Aerospace. The program was initiated by Harry Reid who was convinced to undergo the project by Robert Bigelow, and partially influenced by a pro-UFO comment made to him by astronaut John Glenn. Reid told the New York Times he is in no way embarassed by funding this important project. The public first heard of the project during the press conference announcing the To The Stars Academy (TTSA), created by Tom DeLonge. Luis Elizondo, who ran the UFO department, retired in October to join TTSA and revealed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the progam to look into UFO reports. The VIDEO { https://youtu.be/tf1uLwUTDA0} shows the UFO on target taken from the cockpit camera, shows a glowing object traveling at high speeds while rotating and includes audio of Navy pilots struggling to process what they are seeing. In an interview on the Times “The Daily” podcast, he said that these videos are just a small sampling of the evidence the Defense Department has collected while documenting alleged UFO activity. (2)>>The program ran from 2007 to 2012 with $22m (£15m) in annual funding. This is an area vastly, and intentionally under reported, just looking at some of the testimony at the national press club conference on UFOs in 2012 tells us this much. Many of the witnesses and their statements would be headline news, but it has long been apparent that what the important news should be is dictated to the media. As for them saying they were no longer investigating UFOs- from the wealth of contemporay examples to learn from, this can only mean "we are investigating really intensely and it is so important, and not the business of the public, that we are also doing it in secret". We also know, judging from Rumsfelds statement in 2001 that the Pentagon couldn't account for over 3 trillion, yes, 3 trillion dollars- something that never got followed up or investigated, there is plenty of spare cash for secret operations and investigations. (3)>>claimed to have been seen by pilots and other military personnel . Cmdr. David Fravor on Saturday amid breaking news that, for the first time, a spokesperson confirmed that a program to research UFOs existed at the Pentagon. Fravor’s encounter was one the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was investigating, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.This is what Fravor says happened. He and another pilot were with the USS Nimitz training in F/A-18F Super Hornets about 100 miles out in the Pacific Ocean when someone on the Navy cruiser USS Princeton contacted them by radio about mysterious aircraft.The ship had been tracking objects that were described as being white, 40 feet long and shaped like Tic Tacs that would appear suddenly 80,000 feet up, then descend toward the ocean and hover at 20,000 feet before dropping out of radar range or blasting back up.The ship and the pilots worked together to track one of the aircraft and when Fravor got close enough to examine one, it peeled away.“It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he told The New York Times. “I have no idea what I saw.”(4)>>confusing a vision of a God-created universe with one out of control— Contrary to the popular idea that , God only created life on one planet for me limits god . While , think this , if the creator put life on other planets , would that alone be more "proof" of intelligent design? If they {creationists} say that would not be possible , we are limiting the creation process to one planet , Creationists have then given more credence to the evolutionary model how life got here . It works like Ockham's razor, Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the simpler one is usually better. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is. 5)>>FOO FIGHTERS . Sorry not the rock band here . Originally Foo Fighters , was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations. Though "foo fighter" initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period. Formally reported from November 1944 onwards, witnesses often assumed that the foo fighters were secret weapons employed by the enemy. Interestingly enough, with all the sightings and reports, and all the qun cameras and high altitude photographs, no truly GOOD pictures of Foo Fighters from the period have surfaced. The photo at the top of the page showing what is alledged to be both a wedge-shaped and spherical-shaped Foo Fighter together with two Japanese planes is perhaps the most often depicted when citing Foo Fighters. The photo, from the 1975 photo-history by G. De Turris & S. Fusco, "Obiettivo sugli UFO," has both its supporters and detractors. If the picture was taken by Japanese photographers, which it surely must have been, it would seem, except for a quest for truth, they would have no vested interest in continuing or falsely perpetrating a myth. If, however, the photo was altered after the fact that would be another story. The question to be asked, if you were going to alter a picture, why start with such a dumb photograph when there must be thousands upon thousands of other pictures one could select? So what were these UFOs? The military decided they might be an unusual electrical or optical effect that might be related to ball lightning or St Elmo's fire. St. Elmo's fire is known to form as an electrical glow around the wing tips of planes, but is not known to form into the shape of a sphere. Ball lightning is spherical and has been observed near aircraft, but it is short-lived and is not known to fly in formation with planes.(6)>>speaking, weird as hell—and that’s precisely why some scientists think it’s not a natural object. At the moment there is still no "consensus" on the origins of Oumuamua. Professor Stephen Hawking said: "Researchers working on long-distance space transportation have previously suggested that a cigar or needle shape is the most likely architecture for an interstellar spacecraft, since this would minimise friction and damage from interstellar gas and dust."Oumuamua means "a messenger from afar arriving first" in Hawaiian. Commenting on the results, Andrew Siemion, director of Berkeley SETI Research Center, told the Mail Online: "To find technologically advanced life elsewhere could suggest that intelligence is a defining characteristic of the universe. (7)>>''Oumuamua could be an artifact." According to reports, the object's official name is A/2017 UI. It was spotted by the Pan-Starrs project at the University of Hawaii back in October and is currently spinning on its axis every seven hours. It's also travelling at up to 196,000mph. Its high speed suggests that it's not gravitationally bound to the sun but instead is destined to head back out of the solar system. After examining how the object reflects sunlight, scientists found that the strange rock,is probably coated with a carbon-rich schmutz in a layer that’s more than a foot thick. The residue likely formed as interstellar radiation bombarded the object’s surface as it tumbled through the void.The results, published on Monday in Nature Astronomy, could help explain why the object—likely an amalgam of rock, ice, and dust—didn’t spew out plumes of water vapor as it flew by the sun, even as its surface reached hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit.
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