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.
yep ......
Why doesn’t this stuff ever happen post-1975?
No joke. UFO people have screamed forever how the govt. is damn born liars, always have, always will. Any skeptic is a government stooge. As soon as the big bad guv slips them a little something they want to hear, “Dude, big guy, I Looooooooooove yooooooooouuuu!!!!!” Lots of people setting themselves up for one hell of a disappointment. It’s proving to be an interesting experiment in mass-psychology, though.
“It’s proving to be an interesting experiment in mass-psychology, though.”
It certainly is. Whenever government orthodoxy is challenged, government-trained monkeys in media and academia pour out and spew the latest government-approved propaganda. They don’t like it when their false government gods are challenged.
Propaganda works.
We saw this coming from a mile away.
Ignore the fact that the videos are backed up by supporting data from other platforms. It was recorded on radar as well as video. It was seen by eyewitnesses. Nope, skeptics will now jump on the DoD claim that the video “really” shows something moving at 35 mph. Those experienced pilots that physically saw it? They were just seeing a mylar party balloon or Chinese drone…that moved 60+ miles in less than 30 seconds…
At the same time the DoD has said they will not release any more videos in the name of “national security” which means they can now use that label to squash any further investigations.
Add Starlink satellites, Chinese drones, and mylar balloons to the time honored list of swamp gas, the planet Venus, and distant car headlights.
Anyone here who is posting the skeptical line at this point is either woefully ignorant or purposefully spreading misinformation.
“Why doesn’t this stuff ever happen post-1975?”
Good question—and here is the answer.
Pre 1975 we now have a lot of data because FOIA requests have been honored for many incidents that are now “aged” enough that they are not (all) considered “national security”.
If you follow the field closely you will realize that crazy UFO stuff happens at nuclear bases constantly—up to this day.
Witnesses are told to keep it secret—often told to sign additional non-disclosure agreements—and they are threatened with prosecution, termination and/or loss of military pension if they violate their security oaths.
That is why Congress has just included in the current defense authorization act an exemption for military witnesses that testify before them in future hearings.
In UFO discussion groups naive folks often ask:
“How do I get to see a real UFO?”
My answer:
“Sign up for the military. Get assigned to a base with stored nuclear weapons. Have a job that gets you outside (truck driver, outside maintenance etc.)”
If you are around for a couple of years the odds of a solid sighting are very good—probably in the 50% range.
Here’s the problem, I don’t just believe stuff that people say. Why the hell would an extraterrestrial travel a kazillion light-years to fly circles around an F-18 and harass Earth shipping traffic? Your gullibility is the problem. How much money did you send to the Nigerian prince?
Sad to be you...never believing anything anyone ever tells you.
I sure didn't say they traveled a kazillion light years to get here. Heck, I don't even know what they are...that is why they are "Unidentified".
They could be lots of things. What I am pretty sure they are not is conventional technology or misidentified common atmospheric phenomena. The pilots that have seen these things are well trained. The radar operators are well trained. They know the difference between a Mylar balloon and an object traveling several times the speed of sound.
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