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OK! It’s time to take UFOs seriously (LA Times)
LA Times ^ | Dillon Guthrie

Posted on 12/16/2021 1:23:54 PM PST by RoosterRedux

Of all the year’s political drama, the most surprising may be the U.S. government’s actions on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs — better known as UFOs.

The opening act came in June, when the Pentagon and the director of national intelligence delivered an astonishing report to Congress addressing UAPs. Most of these phenomena turn out to have prosaic explanations — such as weather balloons, space debris and atmospheric effects in the sky — with a small percentage exhibiting unusual flight characteristics that suggest advanced technology.

The June report, however, found the opposite: It could account for only one of the 144 UAP sightings between 2004 and 2021 that it examined, including 80 observed with multiple sensors such as high-tech military radar and infrared cameras mounted on warplanes.

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Now Congress wants answers. In November, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) authored legislation creating an office to study UAPs government-wide and report to Congress. Then the Defense Department tried to stake its claim to the issue, shortly after announcing the formation of its own UAP unit. Its team would investigate only UAPs spotted in sensitive military airspace, and it would operate without congressional supervision. Some criticized the half-measure as a preemptive ploy to avert oversight, though the Pentagon denies those claims.

But Gillibrand and a bipartisan bloc of lawmakers, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), were not deterred.

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


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To: workerbee
shinything... LOOK!!!

21 posted on 12/16/2021 1:39:14 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: RoosterRedux
I was wondering who was making a mess of the break room...


22 posted on 12/16/2021 1:40:06 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: RoosterRedux

UFOs? They misspelled UIA......Unidentified Illegal Aliens


23 posted on 12/16/2021 1:40:39 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: RoosterRedux

24 posted on 12/16/2021 1:42:00 PM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: BushCountry

Another high resolution photo proving alien life.

Should have sent and iPhone up there China.


25 posted on 12/16/2021 1:43:11 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: RoosterRedux

What happens when we take them seriously?


26 posted on 12/16/2021 1:43:25 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: z3n

If anything, the advent of cell phones and cctv everywhere indicate no evidence of flying saucers.

Like many of you I’ve enjoyed this topic since the 60’s BUT

The idea that senator Gillibrand “wants answers!” Is laughable.

This has been going on since WWII and before, and if they are aliens we can’t snap our fingers and expect any answers.


27 posted on 12/16/2021 1:43:26 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: RoosterRedux

28 posted on 12/16/2021 1:43:30 PM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: workerbee

Somebody needs grant money fast.


29 posted on 12/16/2021 1:43:52 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: rlmorel

Oh lord, if they like fat as much as I do I’m dinner.


30 posted on 12/16/2021 1:44:31 PM PST by saturn
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To: BBQToadRibs2

I’m not saying it was space migrants

...but it was space migrants


31 posted on 12/16/2021 1:46:05 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: BBQToadRibs2

LMAO !!!!!!!!


32 posted on 12/16/2021 1:46:41 PM PST by saturn
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To: RoosterRedux

The next pile of political elite/deep state 🐃💩


33 posted on 12/16/2021 1:47:51 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: RoosterRedux

What happens when we take them seriously?

Besides government spending of course.


34 posted on 12/16/2021 1:47:57 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: RoosterRedux
In the old days in SF we used to call them BEMs - bug-eyed monsters. Adam Schiff, for example.

I do note that the incidence of alien anal probes has gone down once they figured out what we use that place for...

35 posted on 12/16/2021 1:48:51 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Vaquero

Yeah if that ain’t a Hail Mary I don’t know what is.


36 posted on 12/16/2021 1:49:33 PM PST by enduserindy (Brian Schnepf)
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To: saturn

Hahahaha...it just made me think of the movie “Zombieland” which was a real hoot! (and I am not into Zombie movies!)


37 posted on 12/16/2021 1:49:56 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: JonPreston

Reading George Adamski’s books at that time? So was I. I was also reading Ivan T. Sanderson and in the 1970s Erich von Däniken. What a waste of time and paper.


38 posted on 12/16/2021 1:50:45 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Oh great, another lockdown.
Is there a mask for this?
When will the UFO Experimental Vex be available?
Is it using the new Hyper-Warp-Speed method of $hot production?


39 posted on 12/16/2021 1:51:44 PM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: z3n
this is SRS BZNS? Psh

Sorry but I don't understand adolescent acronymiam. Could you translate that to adult language? Thanks

40 posted on 12/16/2021 1:53:41 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (My favorite word is Tweezer)
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