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8 takeaways from the government's big UFO report
CNN ^ | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 06/27/2021 7:45:04 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

[T]here were a number of interesting tidbits in the report [...]

1. "Our analysis of the data supports the construct that if and when individual UAP incidents are resolved they will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or U.S. industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall 'other' bin."

OK, so there are five basic categories for UFOs according to the report: Random airborne, uh, stuff (like birds), weather phenomenons, defense prototypes -- either from the US or "foreign adversary systems" and then the "other bin." And, yes, I (and the rest of the world) am most interested in the "other" bin.

[snip]

4. "[There were] 144 reports originated from USG sources. Of these, 80 reports involved observation with multiple sensors."

This line establishes the universe, ahem, that the task force examined. [...] [M]ore than half were confirmed by "multiple sensors."

[snip]

6. "In 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics. Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings."

Eyes emoji!!!! Like, this seems like a big deal! A total of 18 incidents where UFOs "appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion." In plain English, that means that military personnel spotted unidentified aerial phenomena that appeared to be unaffected by wind, move in ways that can't be explained and be propelled in ways that can't be explained. Which is very, very interesting.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: military; tictac; uaps; ufos
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To: RoosterRedux
the cost of figuring out what these things are
We - i.e. the gubmint - have been looking since the 1950s ... about 75 years, with nothing to show for it. Time to quit.
It's like NASA wanting to go back to the moon. Been there, done that - there's nothing there. Time to quit.
21 posted on 06/27/2021 8:22:03 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: RoosterRedux

The take away? The media needed a shiney object to distract us from real issues....................


22 posted on 06/27/2021 8:22:05 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Who wrote this report an 8th grader? #1 made me lol, 5 categories and the last one is a “catch all bin”? So really there’s not five categories, there’s infinite.


23 posted on 06/27/2021 8:22:42 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: RoosterRedux

In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.”

that’s the one i want to see...


24 posted on 06/27/2021 8:26:30 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: HighSierra5
Not the ones I know. And I know plenty.

They believe evil is a superstition of ignorant deplorables.

25 posted on 06/27/2021 8:27:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Chode

What could that mean? I’m not familiar with it.


26 posted on 06/27/2021 8:29:07 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux; Fred Nerks

#9) The alien invasion will be a false flag operation by the Democrats to use as an excuse for totalitarian take over of the United States and control the population into submission
because it needs to be “protected” and “unified” in the false battle with the alien invaders.

This report is prep work propaganda.

There are no aliens, unless they can produce a captured craft or an alien body that bleeds green.


27 posted on 06/27/2021 8:31:29 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: LambSlave

Don’t know about this report but Air Force studies conducted between 1948 and 1969 featured astronomer Dr. J Allen Hynek as a consultant.


28 posted on 06/27/2021 8:32:16 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: VTenigma
I've read the report several times. It appears that the only real category for all the unidentified stuff is "other."
29 posted on 06/27/2021 8:33:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The Report results confirm my argument that we will never know as much as we don’t know.

How many Millions of Dollars did this so called Report cost and why are parts of it still Classified?


30 posted on 06/27/2021 8:35:13 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Parts are classified so as to not reveal our collection/detection methods and technologies/sensors to our enemies.


31 posted on 06/27/2021 8:39:38 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

All the other points in the article:

2. “After carefully considering this information, the UAPTF focused on reports that involved UAP largely witnessed firsthand by military aviators and that were collected from systems we considered to be reliable.”

The UAPTF is short for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, of course. (There’s nothing that the government likes more than acronyms.) And, what this line says is that the task force decided to give precedence to UFO reports “witnessed firsthand by military aviators.” Which is rightly read to mean that these reports are a) serious and b) credible.


3. “No standardized reporting mechanism existed until the Navy established one in March 2019. The Air Force subsequently adopted that mechanism in November 2020, but it remains limited to USG reporting.”

Amazing! There was no formal way within the government to record UFO sightings until the Navy started one in 2019!!! And the Air Force didn’t follow suit until, roughly, six months ago! Which reveals a) how resistant the government has been to acknowledging UFOs and b) how many sightings were almost certainly missed


5. “Narratives from aviators in the operational community and analysts from the military and IC describe disparagement associated with observing UAP, reporting it, or attempting to discuss it with colleagues. Although the effects of these stigmas have lessened as senior members of the scientific, policy, military, and intelligence communities engage on the topic seriously in public, reputational risk may keep many observers silent, complicating scientific pursuit of the topic.”

Important stuff here - an acknowledgment that the number of reports of UFOs may have been kept artificially low because of the stigma long attached to reporting these sorts of things, particularly among the military and intelligence community. That, according to the task force, has lessened somewhat as “senior members of the scientific, policy, military, and intelligence communities engage on the topic seriously in public.”


7. “With the exception of the one instance where we determined with high confidence that the reported UAP was airborne clutter, specifically a deflating balloon, we currently lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations.”

So, one time the thing that people thought was a UFO was a “deflating balloon.” But, ALL the other times the military and intelligence community can’t explain what the heck the UFO actually was. Which, again, BIG DEAL.


8. “Although most of the UAP described in our dataset probably remain unidentified due to limited data or challenges to collection processing or analysis, we may require additional scientific knowledge to successfully collect on, analyze and characterize some of them.”

Most of these episodes remain mysterious, according to the report, because there simply isn’t adequate information on hand to explain them. Then, however, there are some incidents that “may require additional scientific knowledge to successfully collect on, analyze and characterize some of them.” Like, advanced science beyond our current capacity. Interesting!


32 posted on 06/27/2021 8:43:20 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: RoosterRedux

That sounds reasonable. #;^)


33 posted on 06/27/2021 8:45:45 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Sounds to me like there was some sort of radio communication coming from these objects, but what it actually was seems to be classified as no explanation is in the report.

We will have to wait for more of the report to become unclassified - whenever that may be.


34 posted on 06/27/2021 8:47:31 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Sounds like another useless whitewash report.

9 pages of vague generalities. I just have to wonder how much taxpayer money was wasted for each page.

35 posted on 06/27/2021 8:50:12 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: RoosterRedux

What I have wondered about UFOs.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
“The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie”

Could it be UFOs land and “aliens” come out and proclaim there is no God because we have been here billions of years.


36 posted on 06/27/2021 8:53:26 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: antidemoncrat
Yep.

Or all the human/alien hydrid efforts of these so-called aliens is aimed at producing a really great leader (i.e., the AntiChrist) who will coalesce the two groups.

37 posted on 06/27/2021 9:00:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Another perspective on the report:

Government Report On UFOs Offers Limited Answers While Drawing The Public Spotlight
While there were no major revelations in the task force's report, it could act as a stepping stone to real action being taken on the issue.
By Adam Kehoe June 26, 2021

38 posted on 06/27/2021 9:03:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

To route attention away from Biden’s failures


39 posted on 06/27/2021 9:03:33 AM PDT by SMARTY (In most places in the country, voting is...a right and a duty...in Chicago it's a sport. D. Gregory)
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To: RoosterRedux

Aliens stopped talking to America when Biden was put in charge? No more cooperation, no more technical gifts?
They obviously are advanced enough to see who is really the real leader....Trump.


40 posted on 06/27/2021 9:12:34 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (17)
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