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[UAP Disclosure] Imagine what you'll know, tomorrow

Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
edited November 18 in Social Entropy++
UAP and Non Human Intelligence

"[...] Sunlight’s the greatest disinfectant. Lots of people say, “they're disclosing it because they know something that we don't know.” Well, let [the whistleblowers] disclose it and we'll all know the truth and we'll be better off with the truth."

"I'm for the sunlight. And let's see what happens."
- Sen Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1735006291808969029
Sen. Leader Chuck Schumer
https://youtu.be/sMD7xcGj8Co?si=ImNW4nw9J7ZYHzjw
Whistleblower Comments

What is a UAP?
Any object operating or judged capable of operating in outer-space, the atmosphere, ocean surfaces, or undersea lacking prosaic attribution due to performance characteristics and properties not previously known to be achievable based upon commonly accepted physical principles.

Unidentified anomalous phenomena are differentiated from both attributed and temporarily non-attributed objects by one or more of the following observables:

 (i) Instantaneous acceleration absent apparent inertia.

 (ii) Hypersonic velocity absent a thermal signature and sonic shockwave.

 (iii) Transmedium (such as space-to-ground and air-to- undersea) travel.

 (iv) Positive lift contrary to known aerodynamic principles.

 (v) Multispectral signature control.

 (vi) Physical or invasive biological effects to close observers and the environment.

The term "unidentified anomalous phenomena'' includes what were previously described as:

 (i) flying discs;

 (ii) flying saucers;

 (iii) unidentified aerial phenomena;

 (iv) unidentified flying objects (UFOs); and

 (v) unidentified submerged objects (USOs).

A brief Timeline of Events
https://www.disclosurediaries.com/timeline/
^this timeline has sources, and the last two years of updates as well towards the bottom

Also, a not so brief Timeline
https://ufotimeline.com/

A new, more in depth UFO timeline project started by some redditors with information going back to 1561


What's Next?
In December of 2023, the original UAPDA amendment language was stripped down considerably by a conference committee. In light of this, the original sponsors of the bill – Sens. Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds – held a scripted colloquy on the Senate floor. These are some notable quotes:

Sen. Schumer: The United States government has gathered a great deal of information about UAPs over many decades but has refused to share it with the American people. That is wrong and additionally breeds mistrust.

We have also been notified by multiple credible sources that information on UAPs has also been withheld from Congress, which if true is a violation of laws requiring full notification to the legislative branch – especially as it relates to the four congressional leaders, the defense committees, and the intelligence committee.

Sen. Rounds: [...]the most significant shortcomings that I think we need to visit about as well, shortcomings of the conference committee agreement that are now being voted on were the rejection, first of all, of a government-wide review board composed of expert citizens, presidentially appointed and Senate confirmed, to control the process of reviewing the records and recommending to the President what records should be released immediately or postponed, and a requirement as a transparency measure for the government to obtain any recovered UAP material or biological remains that may have been provided to private entities in the past and thereby hidden from Congress and the American people. We are lacking oversight opportunities, and we are not fulfilling our responsibilities."

Currently, a 2024 version of the UAP Disclosure Act is being evaluated, but it will likely once again be watered down if not outright gutted.

There is a congressional hearing scheduled for this coming Nov, with first hand witnesses supposedly in attendance.

UAP transparency is a theme that neutrals, skeptics and believers alike can all rally behind. We need less stigma, better (and more) data, and a more open approach to the discourse.

To that end – for US citizens – I highly recommend the following websites:
https://declassifyuap.org/
https://www.uapcaucus.com/

Please, write your representatives. This is a uniquely bipartisan issue.

Links for US Citizens:
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
https://declassifyuap.org/action/
https://www.uapcaucus.com/enduapsecrecy

Resources
https://www.disclosurediaries.com/
^much of this OP is sourced from here, wealth of information and weekly updates

https://mufon.com/
https://nuforc.org/
https://www.metabunk.org/home/
https://www.nicap.org/
https://www.uapexpedition.org/
https://www.aaro.mil/
https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_and_Intelligence_A_Timeline_By_George_M_Eberhart
^900 page PDF of UFO timeline, going back decades
https://archive.org/details/bluebook
US National Archive full Blue Book report containing 10,000+ cases. 21gb.

UAP Gerb
https://youtu.be/EKEZ2BClIb0?si=x1P5_uZkN5o-Jt4c
Incredible, fully sourced channel full of information on the topic^

https://youtu.be/wANK4ZT_LYo?si=zDHQLVhzIZ5Fd_Es
^Eyes on Cinema is an archive of UFO videos, interviews and documentaries. Amazing stuff in here

https://youtu.be/Rpl0FrdJWfs?si=8dNo7COqvF8N5Ezo
^Karl Nell's SALT conference interview

https://youtu.be/ZSj7QsHRxHQ?si=60VGbWDYDhQupEKT
^NewsNation is a news org that also covers UAP news and has Ross Coulthart as a special correspondent, well known for his work in the UAP field
https://youtu.be/wgM5V44eQHU?si=pXUNUjf4KVAoNLzs

Further Reading
Whitley Strieber*

1. Communion: A True Story*

2. Transformation: The Breakthrough

3. Breakthrough: The Next Step

4. The Secret School: Preparation for Contact*

5. Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?

Budd Hopkins*

1. Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO

Abductions*

2. Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods*

3. Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions*

John E. Mack*

1. Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens

2. Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters

David M. Jacobs*

1. Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions

2. The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda

3. UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge

4. Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity

Nick Pope*

1. Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World's Best Documented UFO Incident co-authored by John Burroughs & Jim Penniston

2. Open Skies, Closed Minds: Official Reactions to the UFO Phenomenon*

3. The Uninvited: An Expose of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon

Philip J. Corso

1. The Day After Roswell co-authored by William J. Birnes*

Richard M. Dolan

1. UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover Up 1941-1973

2. UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover Up 1973-1991

3. The Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilization

4. UFOs for the 21st Century Mind: A Fresh Guide to an Ancient Mystery

Raymond E. Fowler

1. UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors: A UFO Investigator Reports on the Facts, Fables and Fantasies of the Flying Saucer Conspiracy

2. The Andreasson Affair

3. The Andreasson Affair, Phase Two

4. The Watchers

5. The Watchers II: Exploring UFOs and the Near Death Experience

6. The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention

7. UFO Testament: Anatomy of an Abductee

Linda Moulton Howe

1. Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilation and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms

2. Glimpses of Other Realities. Vol 1: Facts & Eyewitnesses

3. Glimpses of Other Realities: Vol 2: High Strangeness

4. Mysterious Lights & Crop Circles

J. Allen Hynek*

1. The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry

2. The Edge of Reality. Two Scientists Evaluate What We Know of the UFO Phenomenon co-authored by Jacques Vallee

3. The Hynek UFO Report

4. Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings

Jim Marrs*

1. Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us

2. Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?

Jacques Vallee

1. Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times

2. Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception

3. Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact

4. Dimensions: A Case Book of Alien Contact

5. Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers

6. Anatomy of a Phenomenon

7. The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influence on the Human Race

8. Challenge to Science The UFO Enigma

9. Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults

Stanton T. Friedman*

1. Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover Up of a UFO

2. Top Secret/MAJIC

3. Flying Saucers and Science: A Scientist Investigates the

Mysteries of Ufos: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups

4. Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, Co-author Kathleen Marden.

5. Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers. Co-author Kathleen Marden.

Karla Turner*

1. Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda*

2. Into the Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction*

Luis Elizondo*

1. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

Ingo Swann*

1. Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy

Miscellaneous:

• Dark Object: The World's Only Documented UFO Crash by Don Ledger & Chris Styles*

• The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know by Kal

K. Korff*

• Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell & Area 51

by Phil Patton Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the Governments Biggest Cover Up by Thomas J. Carey co-authored with Donald R. Schmitt & Edgar

D. Mitchell*

• Abductions & Aliens: What's Really Going On? by Chris A. Rutkowski co-authored with John Robert Colombo*

• Unsolved UFO Mysteries: The Worlds Most Compelling Cases of Alien Encounters by William J. Birnes co-authored with Harold Burt*

• Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I. T. by C.D.B. Bryan***

• Aliens in America: A UFO Hunter's Guide to Extraterrestrial

Hotspots Across the US by William J. Birnes • UFOs, ETs, and Alien Abductions: A Scientist Looks at the Evidence by Don Crosbie Donderi*

The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence by Peter

A. Sturrock

This OP is a work in progress, I'll be adding to it as I remember important stuff. Thank you in advance for not mocking me, and others, who take this topic seriously.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited November 5
    https://youtu.be/JwzrhuC4dXg?si=PwCHHJMivs7Vlqws

    https://archive.org/details/bluebook
    Full, 10,000 case report available here

    And some more for those who want to dig in deeper. Almost all these records have been released thanks to citizens making Freedom of Information Act requests
    https://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps
    https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/ufos-fact-or-fiction

    Law enforcement guidelines for handling UAP reports
    https://uapregister.substack.com/p/major-us-law-enforcement-organization
    Massive Navy FOIA Request Release

    This is a huge one folks, we just had a shitload of documents released (still pretty heavily redacted) but there's some really, really interesting stuff going on in here, including The Navy directly calling out the CIA for the stigma around reporting

    DDNI Brief:
    https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/NASA Brief Redacted.pdf

    HASC Brief:
    https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/HASC Brief Redacted.PDF

    USMC Brief:
    https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/UAP Brief USMC Redacted.PDF

    UAP Taskforce HPSCI Brief:
    https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/UAPTF HPSCI Brief Redacted.PDF

    USAC Brief:
    https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/USSC Referred Redacted.pdf

    Newly Added "Range Fouler" Reports:
    https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/RF Reports Redacted (202404).PDF
    (Range Fouler is when an unknown craft enters restricted airspace)

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    Document Highlights:
    These documents were all released three days ago as you can see from the FOIA Reading Room screenshot.

    [**"DDNI Brief Redacted" highlights:**](https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/DDNI Brief Redacted.PDF)

    * Page 1 of the slide has the classification level redacted. We've seen this before, but seems interesting to me that they are classifying the classification level. Maybe someone has more familiarity with this than I do and can add thoughts.
    * Page 2 talks about UAP being a "safety of flight" and "national security" concern.
    * Page 3 confirms that DoD has the lead for public affairs on UAP, which we've seen (hello Susan Gough)
    * Page 4 highlights that UAPTF refers to UAP as "range foulers." Definitely should let the FOIA requests fly to every agency with this term.
    * Page 5 somewhat interesting. Mostly blacked out. Says "What is non-traditional or anomalous aerospace technology? Those technologies that are not usually associated with current aircraft design, capabilities, or performance and may include manned or unmanned platforms. Those technologies span a wide range of sophistication, sponsors, and purposes."
    * Page 6 has examples - fully redacted.
    * Page 7 has radar examples - fully redacted.
    * Page 8 is fully redacted, does not appear to be optical or radar examples due to title blacked out. Wonder what type of sensor this was?
    * Page 9 has an example we all are familiar with, but the caption is redacted for national security. If it was just a plane as Mick West thinks, I doubt that would continue to be redacted.
    * Page 10 has additional examples, fully redacted.
    * Page 11 has interesting language on UAS. ***Is that a new UAS incident on the left?*** Caption: "\[redacted\] observed 3x UNK UAS, seemingly triangular in shape from the observation, hovering approximately \[REDACTED\]. Two of the UAS are pictured above." The pictures are NOT REDACTED.
    * Page 11 also has an example I think we've seen before of UAS on the right, with the caption (still interesting): "\[REDACTED\] observed a possible UAS, spherical in shape moving towards the surface of the water and then disappearing. \[REDACTED\] assessed the object has sunk. Attempts to search the water for wreckage were ineffective." This is the first I've heard of a search for the object?
    * Page 12 looks like more examples, fully redacted including title, no idea what they are.
    * Page 13, 14 looks like analysis -- fully redacted.
    * Page 16 has a screenshot of UAPTF partners. Note, as we've previously seen, there's at least one (and looks like more) agencies with their participation redacted. *CIA is that you? DOE?*
    * Page 17-20 do not seen particularly notable.

    **"**[**HASC Brief Redacted**](https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/HASC Brief Redacted.PDF)**" highlights:**

    * Similar overall document to DDNI brief, but not exactly the same
    * Page 10 under the title "Data Driven Analysis" has a caption "what appears to the human eye to be moving very fast is actually stationary, or moving slowly..." *is this the UAPTF acknowledging that this UAP sighting was in fact parallax driven?*
    * Page 15 - two of the three next actions ("Formalize Task Force" and "Develop a Security Classification Guide") are not redacted, but the third action is. Also, "upcoming intelligence product" is redacted.

    [**"UAP Brief USMC Redacted"**](https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/UAP Brief USMC Redacted.PDF) **highlights:**

    * Page 1 - another classification level redaction on the title page. This briefing also appears to be entirely different than the prior two.
    * Page 2 - some interesting stuff here. "BLUF \[REDACTED\]: Any aerial phenomena that cannot be immediately be identified is a UAP. These phenomena occur \[redacted\] within the US and our operating areas around the world." Wonder what this BLUF redaction is?
    * Page 2 - Also, "\[CLASSIFICATION REDACTED\] Congressional directive: ONI leading a joint, interagency task force (OCT 19)" Is this classification redacted just the same classification level redaction? The classification level of the congressional directive is redacted? Anyone able to chime in - this mean this was supposed to be a USAP or something?
    * Page 3 - "**Nature, origin and function are still fundamentally unknown.**" Generally are "visible to human eye, self-powered (verified by land / naval / airborne collections), RADAR/IR significant. This slide seems to confirm they don't know where they come from and that these are spotted by multiple sensors as well as humans.
    * Page 4 - Highlights intelligence gaps. "Who owns/produces these UAPs? What are their capabilities/limitations? What is their means of propulsion? What is their purpose?"
    * Page 5 - Sightings trends and examples: Some objects appear to be weather balloons (often with item attached beneath). Some objects appear to be emitting, and IR devices or NVDs will often register a pulse or "blink" from the silhouette (often triangular). Some appear as simple orbs or blimps.
    * Page 6 - fully redacted. Guessing it is examples of sightings based on prior page listing examples with illustrations.
    * Page 7 - "ATFLIR FOOTAGE"
    * Page 8 - Sightings - Trends & Examples: Fully redacted.
    * Page 9 - Triangle ATFLIR image? I'm guessing that they know what this one was given they're not redacting the image.
    * Page 15 - "Misconceptions & Stigma: ONI's concerns": Regular interactions have continued since 2015. **ONI task force has revealed that US aircrew are actually encountering UAP daily. Most common on east cost. Not reporting because of stigmas and perceived indifference.**
    * Page 16 - Range Foulers are perceived to be highly maneuverable depending on the surrounding environment. (personal note: that does NOT sound like balloons/aerial clutter)

    **"**[**UAPTF HPSCI Brief Redacted**](https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/UAPTF HPSCI Brief Redacted.PDF)**" highlights:**

    * This also looks like a different presentation than the prior ones.
    * Page 3 - "Nine organizations on UAPTF; eight additional strong partnership agencies work with UAPTF director plus five full time employees, 12+ maxtrixed employees from across USG". DoD, Navy, Air Force, USMC, NASA, FAA, FBI, DARPA, \[REDACTED\], NRO, NGA engaged
    * Page 3 - Multi-sensor detections make up 55% of 144 reports form USG over past 16 years. Not all UAP are of the same origin or purpose. UAP detections are most common around US training and testing areas. Geographic clusters may be explained by aircrew reporting and advanced sensors (ie - "it's where we're looking.")
    * Page 4 - What are UAP? Why does it matter? Safety of flight, possible adversary surveillance \[REDACTIONS\], potential technological surprise. Airspace increasingly cluttered, sensors increasingly effective = increased UAP encounters.
    * Page 5 - History of UAP encounters. Current dataset begins in 1990s, intentionally limited USG controlled data. (this is interesting, who intentionally limited it and why?)
    * Page 5 - \[REDACTED\] Often encountered in sensitive US airspace. Multiple shapes, sizes, speeds, altitudes. 2004: USS Nimitz CSG in SOCAL. Over \[REDACTED\] observations since 1990s, over half are multi-sensor collections. Over 40 reports to date in 2021.
    * Page 6 - **Slide on UAP shapes. Every image redacted.**
    * Page 7 - entire page redacted.
    * Page 9 - UAPTF established by Navy at DepSecDef direction August 2020. \[REDACTED\] Task Force led by Naval Intelligence; ODNI, NSA, USAF, Army, STRATCOM, USMC, NAVAIR, US Fleet Forces Command members. Partnerships with NASA, SMDC, FBI, \[REDACTED\], NORTHCOM, INDOPACOM, SSDP. Requirements for report to Congress in June 2021.
    * Page 10 - Progress to date. Reporting: destigmatize, standardize, and increase volume. Data architecture: Standardize and clean the data. Collection: Increase the volume of data. Advanced analytics: \[redacted\]. Data scientist engaged full time; background in accident investigations. Partnership with research, development and acquisition community. Analysis and production: initial baseline product, report to congress (June 2021).
    * Page 11 - Initial Assessments/Key Judgments: *Almost entirely redacted page*. "Potential explanations: 1. Airborne clutter. 2. \[REDACTED\]. 3. Blue/Industry \[REDACTED\] Conflict. 4. Sensor artifact, weather, or other natural phenomena. 5. Unidentified/Unknown."
    * Page 12 - Next steps. Sizable redactions here.
    * Page 14 - UAPTF Org Chart

    **"**[**USSC Referred Redacted**](https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/USSC Referred Redacted.pdf)**" Highlights:**

    * This is an email chain + a briefing. Email chain is about NYT exposing the existence/mission of UAPTF in July 2020.
    * Page 6/7 - Almost entirely redacted email talking bout UAPTF, however, it's interesting as it appears to be sent by the "Director of Intelligence (J2)" showing high-level involvement in UAP issue for the Navy, and these emails are addressed to "Admiral,"
    * Page 7 - USSTRATCOM on the chain discussing being briefed on UAP
    * Page 11 - briefing title slide, classification level redacted again
    * Page 14 - Tic Tac case of 2004.
    * Page 15 - "Pilot reporting" "Aircrew see the UAP, in this case they photographed the UAP..." \[REDACTED\]
    * Page 16 - Nearly entirely redacted, assuming more photos.
    * Page 17 - "**UAPs are not easily explainable**, can quickly overwhelm our aircrew..."
    * Page 18 - entirely redacted, assuming more photographic examples
    * Page 19 - UAS observations previously mentioned in this post
    * Page 20 - redacted
    * Page 21 - Potential explanations: "1. \[REDACTED\]. 2. Unknown weather or other natural phenomena. 3. \[REDACTED\]" **(note #1 is redacted for B(1), #3 is redacted for B(5))** These are not the same redaction reasons.
    * Page 22 - Next actions - redacted, b(1), b(5)

    **"**[**Range Fouler Reports**](https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP INFO/UAP DOCUMENTS/RF Reports Redacted (202404).PDF)**" highlights:**

    * These range fouler reports are almost entirely redacted under national security exemptions
    * Page 1/2 isn't: "In \[REDACTED\] the pilot was the flight lead of a \[REDACTED\] on a \[REDACTED\]. They entered the \[REDACTED\] from the East. There was a flight of \[REDACTED\] entering the range from the west as aggressors. Upon entering the range complex the flight of \[REDACTED\] experienced intermittent \[LONG REDACTION\]. They contacted ATC to complain of something in the range, ATC did not see anything on their scopes. \[LONG REDACTION\]. Upon returning to \[REDACTED\] the pilot was the only one in his \[REDACTED\] to have activated his \[REDACTED\] to support terrain following, found that the \[REDACTED\] had captured two Range Foulers \[REDACTED\] during one of his \[REDACTED\]. He saw the Range Foulers on his pull up/safe escape. Things we know: \[REDACTED\]."
    * Page 3 - Video submitted, report entirely redacted.
    * Page 4 - All details redacted
    * Page 5 - All details redacted
    * Page 6 - All details redacted
    * Page 7 - \[REDACTED\] seen by \[REDACTED\] as \[REDACTED\] altitude. \[REDACTED\]
    * Page 8 - All details redacted
    * Page 9 - Object seen \[REDACTED\]
    * Page 10 - \[REDACTED\] 3 objects \[REDACTED\]
    * Page 11 - UAP near \[REDACTED\], \[REDACTED\]
    * Page 12 - \[REDACTED\] Multiple \[REDACTED\] objects appear.
    * Page 13 - \[REDACTED\], \[REDACTED\], object \[REDACTED\]

    These range fouler reports are generally very short with almost entirely blacked out redactions. Makes me think they're mostly videos attached, or the air crew can't be bothered to write long writeups.

    Back to the USO incident on page 8 of the HASC slides:
    Is this a new USO incident or has this previously been disclosed and I just missed it?

    Local H Jay on
  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    edited October 30
    I got abducted by aliens and the aliens were bigfoot

    there is a documentary airing on this subject

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4na2opArGY

    SCREECH OF THE FARG on
  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    I got abducted by aliens and the aliens were bigfoot

    We have barely discussed UFOs and you're trying to involve cryptids too?

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    You can't spell Cryptid without UFO

    "Oh Xaquin, that's not right!"

    no, that's what they taught you isn't right

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited October 30
    If the weird camera/sensor glitches aren't gonna fix the climate or make it so I ain't gotta pay rent, can they at least just out themselves so there's not three TVs at the gym playing the same ancient aliens episodes every morning?

    Weaver on
  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    UFOs are a successful public misdirection from fighter jet test flights and weapon launches, as well as a nice bit of theatre to keep the peasants happy when the real problems are down here in the mud. It’s indicative that most sightings and experiences within UFOs are told by the most unimportant people with the most boring lives. Alien intelligence? I’m still looking for human— *vanishes in a beam of light from overhead*

  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    UFOs are a successful public misdirection from fighter jet test flights and weapon launches, as well as a nice bit of theatre to keep the peasants happy when the real problems are down here in the mud. It’s indicative that most sightings and experiences within UFOs are told by the most unimportant people with the most boring lives. Alien intelligence? I’m still looking for human— *vanishes in a beam of light from overhead*

    I don't really blame you for feeling this way, but if it is misdirection from the military as to our own capabilities - they've shot themselves in the foot. They have now opened the door to more congressional oversight into military spending, something that everyone knows is wildly out of control and basically unaccounted for. Even if this all turns out to be *nothing,* it'll still have been worth the effort to get a better look at where this fucking money is going

    On another side, the quality of people coming forward since the 2017 NYT article has been extraordinary. Military higher ups, generals, Pentagon officials, former heads of private contractors like Lockheed, the list goes on and on. These aren't experiencers, but people saying they personally hold or have interviewed individuals with information on a government UAP recovery and reverse engineering program. The sands have shifted, and we can just focus on the facts. There is something up there, flying around and diving into our oceans with impunity, and we either don't know or are playing dumb.

  • GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    There is something up there, flying around and diving into our oceans with impunity, and we either don't know or are playing dumb.

    Yeah.

    Pelicans.

    This post was sponsored by Tom Cruise.
  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    Grislo wrote: »
    There is something up there, flying around and diving into our oceans with impunity, and we either don't know or are playing dumb.

    Yeah.

    Pelicans.

    Me next time I see one of these "pelicans"
    https://youtu.be/EPvmIxu-LSA?si=KBE4IpCgbKKtmOBk

  • Typhoid MannyTyphoid Manny Registered User regular
    this stuff is real fascinating. the vast majority of lights in the sky seem to have pretty mundane explanations, but even if 99.999 whatever percent are satellites and swamp gas bouncing off venus, that still leaves a lot of shit that isn't as easily explained. i think governments doing weird shit is more likely than visitors from beyond, both because that's the direction my crackpot tendencies lean toward and because of the general arguments about the unlikelihood of aliens coming here, but past a point i don't think it really matters

    then we can get into the shit the government is confirmed or might as well be confirmed as having done. cattle mutilation stories got their start in the 50s and 60s when some agency or another did clandestine radiological experiments out west and harvested samples from livestock without telling anyone, and kept going as a way for big cattle ranches to dispossess smaller (usually not-white) ranchers so they can keep expanding and consolidating. there's air force intelligence scumbag richard doty driving a guy genuinely insane by spinning a bunch of UFO stories, after the guy picked up some encrypted air force radio transmissions. and my favorite, barney and betty hill getting kidnapped and doped up with a bunch of LSD and fed a story about getting abducted by aliens to discredit their civil rights work

    so yeah basically i think people genuinely see weird shit in the air that doesn't have any neat explanation, but human perfidy is the likeliest explanation by a pretty long way in my opinion

    from each according to his ability, to each according to his need
    hitting hot metal with hammers
  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    I absolutely agree with the take that it's likely something prosaic or maybe even naturally occuring- I just don't like the line of reasoning that we shouldn't go find out. Especially the really strong stigma around the topic... Even just earnestly expressing interest, not belief, earns you derision. Things can and are getting better over time.

  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    I think it's probably a bunch of bad sensor readings and misunderstandings, although it would be cool if it was aliens, but I'm not really worried about figuring it out to do something about them, because if those aliens are traveling around the galaxy they're so far ahead of us technology wise that we're fucked.

  • MachwingMachwing It looks like a harmless old computer, doesn't it? Left in this cave to rot ... or to flower!Registered User regular
    Neil Armstrong backwards is Gnorts Mr. Alien. Makes ya think

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    I think it's probably a bunch of bad sensor readings and misunderstandings, although it would be cool if it was aliens, but I'm not really worried about figuring it out to do something about them, because if those aliens are traveling around the galaxy they're so far ahead of us technology wise that we're fucked.

    The issue I have with bad sensor readings is that well, the US government has some of the most sophisticated sensors in the world. They have to, really.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillance_Network
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Surveillance_System

    This system is so good, it can detect an object the size of basketball 19,000 miles into space

    If these sensors are faulty, we'd be on the edge of launching nukes all the time.

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited October 30
    UFOs are a successful public misdirection from fighter jet test flights and weapon launches, as well as a nice bit of theatre to keep the peasants happy when the real problems are down here in the mud. It’s indicative that most sightings and experiences within UFOs are told by the most unimportant people with the most boring lives. Alien intelligence? I’m still looking for human— *vanishes in a beam of light from overhead*

    I don't really blame you for feeling this way, but if it is misdirection from the military as to our own capabilities - they've shot themselves in the foot. They have now opened the door to more congressional oversight into military spending, something that everyone knows is wildly out of control and basically unaccounted for. Even if this all turns out to be *nothing,* it'll still have been worth the effort to get a better look at where this fucking money is going

    On another side, the quality of people coming forward since the 2017 NYT article has been extraordinary. Military higher ups, generals, Pentagon officials, former heads of private contractors like Lockheed, the list goes on and on. These aren't experiencers, but people saying they personally hold or have interviewed individuals with information on a government UAP recovery and reverse engineering program. The sands have shifted, and we can just focus on the facts. There is something up there, flying around and diving into our oceans with impunity, and we either don't know or are playing dumb.

    Oh, what’s that? The people that test fighter jets and launch weapons told you about the UFOs?

    Naw I’m sure there could be something out there, but until we’ve stopped all the needless wars, genocides, apartheids and all that we should probably leave them to it.

    Besides, it’s clearly the work of the seelie and unseelie fae.

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  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    I used to be really into the idea of UFOs, but for some reason I stopped being interested in them and all my interest in the unknown went to cryptids.

    I read so many UFO books as a young teen.

  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    I don't think whataboutism has solved many problems like, ever.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    ^that book has an excellent cover 👌

  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    aliens never wear a damn shirt

  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    aliens never wear a damn shirt

    Stupid sexy aliens

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  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    oh fuck. elephants are behind it all

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
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    UAPs and Nuclear Instruments
    https://youtu.be/-DK2u8HlhDE?si=Qxe-CRjORH0wJTVU

    UAPs most alarming trait is that they often seem attracted to facilities holding nuclear weapons, nuclear testing sites and nuclear power plants. In one famous instance, a UAP appeared over Malmstrom Air Force Base and disarmed several nukes.
    On the night of March 24, 1967, Robert Salas was a 26-year-old U.S. Air Force lieutenant cocooned 20 metres below the Montana prairie overseeing weaponry that could obliterate millions.

    Instead, without any warning, Salas said his menacing cluster of 10 Minutemen 1 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) burrowed beneath the Malmstrom Air Force base a five-hour drive southeast of Calgary seemed to be prey.

    “I felt we were under attack,” said Salas in a phone interview from his home near Ventura, Calif.

    But the assailants, he said, weren’t any Cold War foes. Soviet technology couldn’t have abruptly disabled the missiles’ guidance and control systems, which is what happened that night.

    “You would have to have sent individual signals to each missile and within seconds, we had (no power),” said Salas, 82. "This had never happened before and we have nothing that could do that now.”

    Salas said what transpired above his concrete and steel bunker holds the answer, or at least one of them.

    Just moments before the systems failure, a non-commissioned security officer on the surface made a series of increasingly frenzied phone calls to Salas, describing an oval-shaped form within pulsating, glowing orange-red lights hovering over the installation.

    The NCO had also described the approach of the silent object which “was making unusual, controlled maneuvers, such as flying very fast, coming to a dead stop, then reversing course and making ninety-degree turns,” said Salas, who was locked into the subterranean capsule for security reasons.

    “He was screaming in the phone, terrified . . . I told him to secure the facility at all costs.”

    Responding to his orders, other security guards scrambled to other launch sites in the complex, only to see glowing objects hovering over them, said Salas.

    “It was reported they lost radio contact with the flight security controller and were very shaken by the experience,” he said.

    Less than a minute after the pulsating object had arrived over his launch control centre, it had quickly departed, said the U.S. Air Force veteran.

    The dumbfounded officer soon found himself in a meeting with his squadron commander and a special investigations officer and was told the incident didn’t involve any kind of air force exercise.

    Salas said he was also told to never speak of the incident as it was now classified. “I signed a non-disclosure agreement . . . I didn’t start talking about it until 1996,” he said.

    He recalls at that time in 1967 his colleague, Col. Fred Meiwald telling him there’d been an earlier, similar incident at Malmstrom but only discovered decades later it had occurred just eight days before his own experience.

    He also learned 10 ICBMs had been disabled under identical circumstances in September 1966 at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

    “Within a span of six months, we lost 30 nuclear missiles to UFOs,” said Salas, who provided an air force document declassified in 1996 regarding the March 16 incident at Malmstrom, east of Great Falls.

    The March 17, 1967 communication contains clear expressions of alarm and bewilderment.

    “All ten missiles in Echo Flight at Malmstrom lost strat(egic) alert within ten seconds of each other,” it reads.

    “The fact that no apparent reason for the loss of 10 missiles can be readily identified is cause for grave concern at this headquarters.”

    During his remaining two years on missile duty at Malmstrom, Salas said he never once heard the incidents mentioned but added he rebuffed security officer witnesses’ agitated pleas to discuss March 24 soon after it happened, out of fear of breaching an order.

    But with the release in recent years of U.S. Navy videos of pilots’ encounters with unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAPs) and a trickle of other evidence, that taboo has thawed and last year, the U.S. Department of Defence created the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which Salas describes as a conduit for whistleblowers.

    “The mission of the AARO will be to synchronize efforts across the Department of Defense, and with other U.S. federal departments and agencies, to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security,” states a July 20, 2022 press release. "This includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects.”




    https://calgaryherald.com/news/seminal-montana-ufo-events-pentagon


    Another incident in Ukraine, the opposite happened; a UAP *armed* a Russian warhead
    https://m.jpost.com/omg/article-753288
    "UFOs appeared over the base, performed astonishing maneuvers in front of stunned eyewitnesses and then somehow took control of the launch system. The missiles were aimed at the US and were suddenly fired up. Launch control codes were somehow entered, and the base was unable to stop what could have initiated World War 3. Then, just as suddenly, the UFOs disappeared, and the launch-control system shut down."

    After these incidents, the Russian Defense Ministry supposedly issued a hands-off order for UFOs, which they said should be left alone since "they may have incredible capacities for retaliation."

    All of this is alarming enough, but it also flies in the face of claims the US has made about UFOs since the late 1960s.

    "Since 1969, the position of our military has been that UFOs pose no threat to national security and are not worthy of further study. This dismissive attitude is directly at odds with what was revealed in documents, reports, and internal memos," Knapp wrote.

    "High-ranking military officers considered the UFO mystery to be 'serious business.' The paper trail revealed via FOIA requests documents how military leaders knew that UFOs were 'real, not fictitious,' that they were metallic craft, capable of incredible maneuvers far beyond any known technology on Earth, and that there were a disturbing number of incidents wherein UFOs seemed to demonstrate an intense interest in our military assets, in particular nuclear weapons. If this is not a matter of national security, what is?"

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  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    edited October 31
    Chall was warned for this.
    Hello I'm a rube who will believe anything anyone says about aliens being real, but will react negatively if anyone even suggests that there might not be aliens visiting us / running the government / broadcasting signals in my brain

    This seems like the thread for me! Keep up the good work!

    Sterica on
  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    Something about this topic really incenses folks, and idk I'm not really sure how me being interested in this topic like, hurts you personally. If you think it's silly, stupid, a waste of time, more power to you? I certainly don't spend my time wading into threads I have no interest in to insult people for their interests or beliefs.

    If you think me liking UFOs is weird, wait until i get into the connections between them and organized religion 😉

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Machwing wrote: »
    Neil Armstrong backwards is Gnorts Mr. Alien. Makes ya think

    I didn't believe in aliens until right now

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited October 30
    Go on.

    Actually very interested in hearing your views about religion.

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    I just wanna meet and/or seduce some aliens

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Chall wrote: »
    Hello I'm a rube who will believe anything anyone says about aliens being real, but will react negatively if anyone even suggests that there might not be aliens visiting us / running the government / broadcasting signals in my brain

    This seems like the thread for me! Keep up the good work!

    Shitty post imo

  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Chall wrote: »
    Hello I'm a rube who will believe anything anyone says about aliens being real, but will react negatively if anyone even suggests that there might not be aliens visiting us / running the government / broadcasting signals in my brain

    This seems like the thread for me! Keep up the good work!

    Shitty post imo

    Alien haters coming out of the woodwork in this thread, I don't know why my love of aliens triggers you so much

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    stop being a dick

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Chall wrote: »
    Solar wrote: »
    Chall wrote: »
    Hello I'm a rube who will believe anything anyone says about aliens being real, but will react negatively if anyone even suggests that there might not be aliens visiting us / running the government / broadcasting signals in my brain

    This seems like the thread for me! Keep up the good work!

    Shitty post imo

    Alien haters coming out of the woodwork in this thread, I don't know why my love of aliens triggers you so much

    Hilarious. I should mention that I don't believe that there's anything particularly nefarious or wild about UFOs but I also feel like being a dick in someone's pretty harmless personal hobby thread is uncool.

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Chall wrote: »
    Solar wrote: »
    Chall wrote: »
    Hello I'm a rube who will believe anything anyone says about aliens being real, but will react negatively if anyone even suggests that there might not be aliens visiting us / running the government / broadcasting signals in my brain

    This seems like the thread for me! Keep up the good work!

    Shitty post imo

    Alien haters coming out of the woodwork in this thread, I don't know why my love of aliens triggers you so much

    This is lame. Just say what you actually think directly instead whatever edgy ironic attempt at "humor" this is

  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    Chall wrote: »
    Solar wrote: »
    Chall wrote: »
    Hello I'm a rube who will believe anything anyone says about aliens being real, but will react negatively if anyone even suggests that there might not be aliens visiting us / running the government / broadcasting signals in my brain

    This seems like the thread for me! Keep up the good work!

    Shitty post imo

    Alien haters coming out of the woodwork in this thread, I don't know why my love of aliens triggers you so much

    This is lame. Just say what you actually think directly instead whatever edgy ironic attempt at "humor" this is

    Okay, y'all aren't any fun anyway

    It's not "harmless" to have a thread dedicated to spreading conspiracy theories and shouting down anyone offering rationalism. I thought we had the end of these threads but all of you playing along with this nonsense make me sad

    Bye

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