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Ex-CIA Chief Thinks UFOs Could Exist After Friend's Plane 'Paused at 40,000 Feet'
NewsMax ^ | Theodore Bunker

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: aatip; cia; fringe; jameswoolsey; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 04/07/2021 5:43:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Romulans having a little fun with the tractor beam, obviously.

Sorry, no pictures though.

2 posted on 04/07/2021 5:48:41 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Nucular combat, toe to toe with the Rooskies!")
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To: RoosterRedux

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!)


3 posted on 04/07/2021 5:49:23 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: OKSooner

Swamp gas... Venus was brighter than usual... pilot error...


4 posted on 04/07/2021 5:50:02 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Little Ray

I’m pretty confident that wasn’t a piper cub at 40,000 ft.


5 posted on 04/07/2021 5:51:18 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

Yeah, but a jetstream at that altitude might have slowed his jet to a standstill.
I would rather it be a UFO, though.


6 posted on 04/07/2021 5:54:15 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: RoosterRedux

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..


7 posted on 04/07/2021 5:59:22 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: RoosterRedux

Captain Nemo in the Twenty-First Century!


8 posted on 04/07/2021 6:00:18 AM PDT by larrytown (i like pie)
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To: RoosterRedux

Stay away from the Brown Acid!


9 posted on 04/07/2021 6:02:11 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (If your home doesn't reek of Hoppe's, you ain't paying attention.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Dis Wolsey take the red pill or the blue pill?

Sounds like his fried is toying with the Matrix.


10 posted on 04/07/2021 6:03:24 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: All

“Aircraft paused at 40,000 ft” is still a deflection, but it’s more interesting than “no comment.”


11 posted on 04/07/2021 6:04:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

A strong jet stream could make your plane go a lot slower or a lot faster.


12 posted on 04/07/2021 6:12:31 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Was this in the years that the CIA was experimenting with LSD?


13 posted on 04/07/2021 6:14:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: BlackbirdSST
Was the former CIA chief's friend a participant in any of those agency 1950's and 60's LSD tests?

Just kidding.

14 posted on 04/07/2021 6:15:34 AM PDT by katana
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To: Little Ray

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.


15 posted on 04/07/2021 6:16:42 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: RoosterRedux

Probably just a Star Trek tractor beam.


16 posted on 04/07/2021 6:17:08 AM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Sigh. If this fellow was really head of the CIA it explains a lot.


17 posted on 04/07/2021 6:18:52 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: RoosterRedux
He did not identify this person, but did note that it was someone he "respects."

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.

18 posted on 04/07/2021 6:19:12 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: RoosterRedux
He may respect his friend but he certainly did not do a complete diagnostic assessment on his friend. You can beleive Einstein or you can believe in UFOs. You can't believe in both. The idea that a biological or mechanical entity could travel the unimaginable distance of hundreds of light years is itself unimaginable.
19 posted on 04/07/2021 6:19:54 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Bon of Babble

Why is it always in the skies? They don’t want to come down and say hello ?


20 posted on 04/07/2021 6:21:20 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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