Posted on 11/06/2022 10:01:09 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Intelligence agencies in the U.S. have spent the last few years analyzing footage of hundreds of recent UFO encounters, and they want the American people to know: It's still not aliens.
According to several U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials who spoke anonymously to The New York Times last week, many recent sightings of UFOs — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), as the government prefers to call them — are likely just observations of foreign surveillance operations or airborne clutter, such as weather balloons.
Several UAP incidents have been officially identified as "relatively ordinary" Chinese surveillance drones, the anonymous officials said. China has previously stolen plans for advanced U.S. fighter planes, and is interested in how the U.S. trains its pilots, the DoD officials added.
Other UAP sightings recorded by military aircraft, which appear to show airborne objects moving in seemingly physics-defying ways, are likely the results of optical illusions. This includes the infamous video known as "GOFAST," which was recorded by a U.S. Navy aircraft and leaked to the media in 2018. (The video, along with two other leaked films of military encounters with UAPs, was eventually declassified by the government.)
While the object in the GOFAST video appears to be zooming over the water at incomprehensible speeds, this is just an optical illusion created by the angle of the recording relative to the water, the DoD officials told The Times. In reality, the object is moving at no more than 30 mph (48 km/h), the officials added.
A classified UAP report delivered to Congress this week by the DoD's intelligence agencies likely includes the findings reported by The Times. The new report adds new details to cases described in a document that officials publicly released in June 2021, describing 144 alleged UAP incidents reported by U.S. government personnel between 2004 and 2021.
The 2021 report acknowledged that, due to a lack of high-quality data, most alleged UAP encounters could not be conclusively explained. However, the report offered several blanket explanations for UAP in general, including "technologies deployed by China, Russia, another nation, or a non-governmental entity," as well as "airborne clutter" such as birds and weather balloons.
Nowhere in the report were aliens or extraterrestrials mentioned — however, that did not stop alien conspiracy theories from arising, due in part to the government's general lack of transparency about UAP incidents.
Sue Gough, a DoD spokesperson, told The Times that the government was committed to sharing whatever UAP information it could without putting national security at risk. Government officials also tend to refrain from discussing UAP incidents publicly because there is simply not enough data to conclusively explain them, Gough added.
"In many cases, observed phenomena are classified as 'unidentified' simply because sensors were not able to collect enough information to make a positive attribution," Gough told The Times. "We are working to mitigate these shortfalls for the future and to ensure we have sufficient data for our analysis."
As the DoD continues its investigation into UAP sightings, NASA has also launched an independent UAP study team, which will operate from October 2022 to mid-2023. According to NASA, the team will focus on collecting and analyzing as much UAP data as possible, in order to develop new methods for identifying the unidentifiable objects in America's skies.
Oh, I feel so much better now.
Do you know what the “five observables” are that define a legitimate UFO?
Here they are:
1. Anti-gravity lift.
2. Sudden and instantaneous acceleration
3. Hypersonic velocities without signatures (= no vapor trails and no sonic booms)
4. Low observability, cloaking capability
5. Trans medium travel = space, atmosphere, water—and no splash in the water and no wake in the water
If China has these it is game over.
HOW DO THEY EXPLAIN the incredible speed of the UFOs described by Military pilots?
Radar doesn’t get fooled by optical illusions.
What are the range of Chinese drones? Of the coast of Mexico and Puerto Rico?
““...Pentagon officials reveal...”
Well, now we know what it’s not”
My first thought as well!
It's scary stuff if real (and these pilots and Aegis radar operators believe it is).
Lots of confirmation biases and "appeals to improbability" fallacies ("it's impossible therefore it cannot be") coming from people who still can't get their minds around this stuff. That said, some folks are going to have a hard time with what is going on here.
But when a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence says (I paraphrase) "whatever they are...they're here," something big is going on. Something in addition to Chinese drones and clutter.
“For any discussion on this, the UFO-groupies swarm and shout down anybody that talks sense.”
Similar to the way anti-UFO-groupies swarm and shout down anybody who thinks there’s a chance they might be real.
My personal experiences have been with twilight missile launches from Vandenberg. I was in the squadron that launched the Minuteman missiles and I can't count the times I have been confronted by people who claim they were extraterrestrial events.
People made claims that they were tears in the time space continuum or wormholes opening up. When I confronted them that these are theoretical phenomena mostly promoted by science fiction, they melted down almost to the point of violence. They can be a scary bunch.
If they *DO* we’re in serious trouble.
There was an amazing event in 1962 at Loring AFB in Maine.
A huge craft (larger than a football field) hovered over the main air-strip with dozens of witnesses.
The people from the tower watched in shock as the airmen on the field were “turned into zombies” for several minutes.
The source for this information is this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Confession-Hidden-Alien-Encounters-Revealed/dp/1695688856
One of the authors also wrote this book that lists dozens of incidents at nuclear sites:
https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Nukes-Extraordinary-Encounters-Nuclear/dp/1544822197
We are talking many witnesses, all kinds of radar, jets scrambled to intercept the craft etc etc etc. for decades over dozens of these sites.
Oh absolutely. They know it is something much bigger than we can imagine or comprehend.
“My personal experiences have been with twilight missile launches from Vandenberg.”
I grew up with a great view of those. There was never a question of what they were. No question what the parachute flares were either. Everybody was hip.
What I saw two different times were not those or anything like those. They were physically impossible with our technology then or now.
Some people are just going to take time dealing with this. I suspect that's a big reason the DOD and ODNI are reluctant to say very much.
I think they realized that they got too patently ridiculous with their UFO claims.
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Tell you what... It took 2 days to fully grasp what had happened the first time. Two days of being sure it could somehow be explained. There were four of us saw it. And after those two days we realized were never going to be able to explain it and just didn’t talk about it except for side looks at each other when the topic of UFOs was mentioned.
So I understand why folks are having trouble accepting the possibility. Even when you do see it for yourself it is still hard to accept possibility for quite awhile. Until you have a second experience like I did, then you know for sure without question what you witnessed the first time. Solid irrefutable confirmation.
Any Chinese scientist working at Area 51 or S-4?
They’ve both drones for decades? Interesting.
My father was an Air Traffic Controller during WWII (China/Burma/India) and during the Korean War. Dad told he saw a UFO out over the Gulf of Mexico while out fishing during the 1960’s. My father knew his aircraft and, if he said it was a UFO, I believe what he said.
I also used to email and talk to Jesse Marcel Jr. I believe totally that there are UFO’s.
The story’s “clutter” would purport to explain away what has seen by non-military folk, if I understand it correctly.
Military folk have far too long by attacked for their honest, qualified observer reporting of UFO’s. Pilots’ otherwise stellar careers have sometimes been inappropriately damaged as they reported their accounts against a backdrop of twilight-zone catcalls, which surely sent the wrong message, usually. Their stories have oftentimes been suppressed out of existence and our body of intelligence has been robbed of data, mystifying the truth into rumors.
Fortunately, many military sightings can nowadays be corroborated via detailed recordings.
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