Posted on 04/24/2019 9:30:53 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The U.S. Navy is drafting new guidelines for pilots and other personnel to report encounters with "unidentified aircraft," a significant new step in creating a formal process to collect and analyze the unexplained sightings — and destigmatize them.
The previously unreported move is in response to a series of sightings of unknown, highly advanced aircraft intruding on Navy strike groups and other sensitive military formations and facilities, the service says.
There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years," the Navy said in a statement in response to questions from POLITICO. "For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.
"As part of this effort," it added, "the Navy is updating and formalizing the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognizant authorities. A new message to the fleet that will detail the steps for reporting is in draft."
To be clear, the Navy isn’t endorsing the idea that its sailors have encountered alien spacecraft. But it is acknowledging there have been enough strange aerial sightings by credible and highly trained military personnel that they need to be recorded in the official record and studied — rather than dismissed as some kooky phenomena from the realm of science-fiction.
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Glad to see they’re spending their time on something productive.
Well, when you observe flying objects that show up on radar too there’s obviously something there. It’s stupid to pretend it isn’t there.
The Nimitz Encounters (well done video about UFO's encounter by the Nimitz in 2004)
“there have been enough strange aerial sightings by credible and highly trained military personnel”
IOW pilots and air crew are seein’ stuff they can’t explain.
Good.
Jimmy Carter once saw a UFO.
Why would you the government admit they are seeing objects in the sky they have no control over???
People might start thinking that government is NOT all powerful and might start appealing to higher powers....
The most plausible reason the govt is so tight lipped about UFOs is because it is a thteat to the illusion of power they have over us peasants....
Sighting of things unexplained happens all the time. Potentially threatening unexplained things might be an enemy. If you can't report it because it might be embarrassment, that might lead to missing something deadly.
In retrospect, it's hard to believe this can gone on as long as it has.
This reminds me of the old Sherlock Holmes mystery about the dog that didn't bark. The fact that pilots and radar operators were prohibited from reporting certain unknowns speaks to the magnitude of the "UFO" problem within the military. In other words, the importance of something "off limits" can be measured (perhaps imprecisely) by just how off limits it is.
I remember the "UFO" sighting at O'Hare seen by many civilians, pilots, and other professionals. Professionals were told that they "saw nothing" or else (per physicist Stanton Friedman). Makes one wonder about the source of that order.
Not saying that military is afraid of actual aliens, but they sure as hell were nervous about UFO's.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan also saw a UFO.
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