Posted on 04/07/2021 5:43:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Former CIA Director James Woolsey believes UFOs could exist after a plane belonging to a friend of his was "paused at 40,000 feet," which he said he could not explain, he revealed during a recent interview.
"There have been over the years now events of one kind of another, usually involving some kind of aircraft-like airframe," Woolsey told the YouTube channel for the Black Vault, an online archive of declassified government documents.
"I never thought there was anything to all this; it always seemed pretty far out to me," he continued. "But there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft."
He did not identify this person, but did note that it was someone he "respects."
Woolsey said, "What was going on? I don’t know. Does anybody know? There had just been enough things like that that have occurred that I think there will be a lot of examination of what’s going on over the course of several months or years."
He added: "I’m not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly, but something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent aircraft, experienced pilots."
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Sorry, no pictures though.
Well, I have heard of Piper Cubs flying backwards...
(Cubs have such a low speed that a high wind can blow them backwards even while their poor little motors are thrashing away at full power!)
Swamp gas... Venus was brighter than usual... pilot error...
I’m pretty confident that wasn’t a piper cub at 40,000 ft.
Yeah, but a jetstream at that altitude might have slowed his jet to a standstill.
I would rather it be a UFO, though.
The new threat is coming from above.
We must get the military right on this, the new Space Force!
Keep your eyes on the sky - and not on the massive “alien” invasion going on on our Southern Border..
Captain Nemo in the Twenty-First Century!
Stay away from the Brown Acid!
Dis Wolsey take the red pill or the blue pill?
Sounds like his fried is toying with the Matrix.
“Aircraft paused at 40,000 ft” is still a deflection, but it’s more interesting than “no comment.”
A strong jet stream could make your plane go a lot slower or a lot faster.
Was this in the years that the CIA was experimenting with LSD?
Just kidding.
Gulfstream V cruises at Mach 0.8 at 41,000 ft. That’s a heckuva jetstream if it can cause a jet speed across the ground to stand still.
A British Airways 747 once set a record for a NY to London flight when it clocked a ground speed of 825 mph. That’s close to a 300 mph tailwind (jetstream). Still not enough to “stop” a corporate jet going the other way. It would get the pilot’s attention, I’m sure.
Probably just a Star Trek tractor beam.
Sigh. If this fellow was really head of the CIA it explains a lot.
If something like that really happened, "this person" would have reported it after he landed the plane. IMO, alien obduction will be the explanation for the disappearance of believers after the Rapture.
Why is it always in the skies? They don’t want to come down and say hello ?
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