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The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?
WaPo ^ | March 9, 2018 | Christopher Mellon

Posted on 03/12/2018 7:10:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

In December, the Defense Department declassified two videos documenting encounters between U.S. Navy F-18 fighters and unidentified aircraft. The first video captures multiple pilots observing and discussing a strange, hovering, egg-shaped craft, apparently one of a “fleet” of such objects, according to cockpit audio. The second shows a similar incident involving an F-18 attached to the USS Nimitz carrier battle group in 2004.

The videos, along with observations by pilots and radar operators, appear to provide evidence of the existence of aircraft far superior to anything possessed by the United States or its allies. Defense Department officials who analyze the relevant intelligence confirm more than a dozen such incidents off the East Coast alone since 2015. In another recent case, the Air Force launched F-15 fighters last October in a failed attempt to intercept an unidentified high-speed aircraft looping over the Pacific Northwest .

A third declassified video, released by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science , a privately owned media and scientific research company to which I’m an adviser, reveals a previously undisclosed Navy encounter that occurred off the East Coast in 2015.

Is it possible that America has been technologically leap-frogged by Russia or China? Or, as many people wondered after the videos were first published by the New York Times in December, might they be evidence of some alien civilization?

Unfortunately, we have no idea, because we aren’t even seeking answers.

I served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and as staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and I know from numerous discussions with Pentagon officials over the past two years that military departments and agencies treat such incidents as isolated events rather than as part of a pattern requiring serious attention and investigation.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aatip; davidfravor; fringe; nimitzencounters; ohsomysteriouso; sanclemente; santacatalina; thenimitzencounters; tictac; ufo; ufos
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The author, Christopher Mellon, served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
1 posted on 03/12/2018 7:10:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?

'Cause they're OURS?

2 posted on 03/12/2018 7:14:20 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The “U” means “unidentified.” Unable to categorize. Does not mean advance probe from hostile civilization. There is nothing more known about them than the fact that they cannot be categorized.

Without useful information, nothing more can be done.

Did they say all this while bammy was president? No.


3 posted on 03/12/2018 7:15:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: RoosterRedux

They’re “dreamers,” so “catch and release.”

The military uses spread-spectrum radios to communicate how the aliens can sign up for EBT cards and register to vote Democrat.


4 posted on 03/12/2018 7:15:42 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (They never thought that she would lose - God had other plans)
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To: RoosterRedux

Mind you, I have absolutely no military background, but I will go ahead and say when I looked at (this - I think it was the same one) earlier today, I immediately knew it was some sort of remote control object, quickly moving.

Very obviously.

Now if I’m wrong, and you know that, but you aren’t supposed to say that, then of course don’t.

But I think very clearly, this was something either radio, remotely, or maybe even autonomously guiding itself in a flight.

That is my (not an expert) opinion, and I’m sticking to it.

:D


5 posted on 03/12/2018 7:16:45 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: JimRed
The author of this article was deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

Wouldn't he know that?

6 posted on 03/12/2018 7:18:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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To: RoosterRedux

William Cooper had much to say re The Hoax of UFO/Alien Invasion, Secret GubMint, etc. he questioned when the hoax would be sprung, etc...........?


7 posted on 03/12/2018 7:19:20 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: RoosterRedux

The “U” in “UFO” is for “unidentified” not “extraterrestrial”.
If they were from outer space the designation would be “EFO”.
And they’re probably from super secret project of ours.


8 posted on 03/12/2018 7:19:31 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: RoosterRedux

It is obvious he had no “need to know”. :-)


9 posted on 03/12/2018 7:20:23 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: RoosterRedux
If military planes encounter these things wouldn't commercial and/or private aircraft encounter them also?

ML/NJ

10 posted on 03/12/2018 7:20:57 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: RoosterRedux

I told the people at the Pentagon these UFO’s carry my family who come over to earth to visit me and then they were cool with it.


11 posted on 03/12/2018 7:22:32 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: I want the USA back

Bammy funded it and the money when to a crony friend of Harry Reid.

It was even declassified awhile back by a UFO group’s request.

Nothingburger.

By WashPoo thinks this is all Donald Trump’s “fault”.

Why didn’t the WashPoo care about Obama and Holder running guns to narcoterrorists in Mexico? Guns that have been traced to thousands of murders?


12 posted on 03/12/2018 7:22:33 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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....has anyone else seen “I Know What
I Saw”...a documentary. I think it was
done by National Geographic....I was doubtful, but it makes you think. The way I look at it is....our universe is
only one of many,and just way too many
“sightings” by creditable people.
Check out that DVD


13 posted on 03/12/2018 7:24:08 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: RoosterRedux
Search for "Steven Greer" on YouTube and watch his documentaries on The Disclosure Project.

But then he might be a lizard being posing as a human. Or he might be a deluded new ager who is being manipulated by devils. There are YouTube videos supporting both of those claims as well.

Or it could just be very sophisticated quantum swamp gas.

14 posted on 03/12/2018 7:24:36 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: cba123

Doesn’t look remote control to me at all. Flight path to linear(straight Line). Looks to me as some sort of missile, or torpedo(underwater?). Hypersonic?? Scale of size would be nice to know.


15 posted on 03/12/2018 7:25:15 AM PDT by bantam
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To: ml/nj

I was told one time by a commercial pilot that yes, they do see such things, they are usually experimental “secret” aircraft and some are truly unexplainable. He also said they don’t report them because the FAA might relieve them of duty pending psychiatric evaluation.


16 posted on 03/12/2018 7:26:25 AM PDT by laconic
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To: ml/nj

....many airline pilots have had sightings


17 posted on 03/12/2018 7:27:14 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: RoosterRedux

I think the answer is

” If we admit it- we have to tell the entire global population what we can and should do about it”’


18 posted on 03/12/2018 7:27:15 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: RoosterRedux

This is getting weird.


19 posted on 03/12/2018 7:29:30 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Fred Nerks

The plot thickens, and thins. Catching one shouldn’t be all that difficult.


20 posted on 03/12/2018 7:31:07 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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