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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: Trailerpark Badass
Please don't tell me there are any Freepers who believe in aliens.

Do angels and demons count?

61 posted on 12/16/2021 2:44:18 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: MercyFlush

“Myself I am love to say what the source of these things are. I don’t know. But obviously they are indeed something. Maybe they’re worthy of investigation. And maybe that might happen if we take them seriously.”

My too subtle point was that they’ve been taken seriously for decades. I was a MUFON Investigator for a while.

Here’s what I smell in this article: The PTB want to gut the defense department, so they will look to declare UFOs a security threat and divert funds from defense into UFO “research” which will line pockets while accomplishing nothing.

If aliens are nearby and want to contact us, they will. If they want to destroy us without contacting us, they will. If they don’t want to be contacted, contact won’t happen.


62 posted on 12/16/2021 2:46:09 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: MercyFlush

The problem is that the government (Deep State) is a gang of pathological liars that have a history of using UFO stories to spread disinformation.

Here is one well documented case:

https://www.amazon.com/Project-Beta-Bennewitz-National-Security-ebook/dp/B000FCK0KI


63 posted on 12/16/2021 2:47:23 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What if they just want slave labor?


64 posted on 12/16/2021 2:47:49 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“We just don’t believe they would really do it.”

Cuz we think “no way they would try that, and if they did people aren’t stupid enough to fall for it.”

Meanwhile they have been doing sociological studies for decades that tell them exactly how stupid people are and how much they will fall for.


65 posted on 12/16/2021 2:53:07 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Given what I now know about humans, if I were a technologically advanced being, I would prefer a bunch of attractive fembots as slaves.


66 posted on 12/16/2021 2:54:48 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Boogieman

https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/01/alien-invasion.html


67 posted on 12/16/2021 2:55:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Boogieman

It would have to be easier and more pleasant to be an alien slave than to work at Amazon or Walmart.


68 posted on 12/16/2021 2:56:09 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Steven Greer is one source in your link.

The guy is really bad news.

He is known for ripping off “UFO tourists” by taking them on field trips to find UFOs.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/did-steven-greer-fake-a-ufo-with-flares

His prominent place in the “UFO movement” is one reason I cannot take them seriously.


69 posted on 12/16/2021 3:04:29 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SaveFerris

What a great way to explain the rapture to those left behind. The aliens did it!


70 posted on 12/16/2021 3:06:41 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Trailerpark Badass
Please don't tell me there are any Freepers who believe in aliens.

I most certainly do, especially after years of reading and conversations with actual observers.

I can only assume you jumped to your conclusion.

71 posted on 12/16/2021 3:40:45 PM PST by GingisK
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To: cgbg
Steven Greer no longer holds a prominent place in the UFO community.

Something happened to him...he snapped.

72 posted on 12/16/2021 3:41:07 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Do angels and demons count?

ETs are most likely neither.

73 posted on 12/16/2021 3:42:26 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Government studies to this date have been designed to discredit observers and diffuse interest.


74 posted on 12/16/2021 3:48:50 PM PST by GingisK
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To: SaxxonWoods

Old UFO lore concludes that once a single world government is established, formal contact will be made. The story goes that ETs aren’t about to establish 300 embassies on a shit-hole planet.


75 posted on 12/16/2021 3:51:19 PM PST by GingisK
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To: flamberge

There is a school of thought that holds that the “aliens” are in fact demons and if you look at what happens to those who have encountered them, it is easy to see why some would think such.


76 posted on 12/16/2021 3:53:50 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: JonPreston

He was very pleasant to converse with, and never failed to reply. I once asked him how he copes with nobody believing him. He shrugged it off saying something like, “It has gone on so long that I just don’t care what the uninformed narrow-minded think. They’ll get caught up one day or go insane”.


77 posted on 12/16/2021 3:56:34 PM PST by GingisK
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To: RoosterRedux

U...FO


78 posted on 12/16/2021 3:57:39 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Indy Pendance

There are some who believe that is how the rapture will be explained away.

Considering the timing of the release of this I formation, it makes you wonder....


79 posted on 12/16/2021 3:57:40 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: GingisK

Well, yeah, of course, hard to prove a negative. But what convinces me is that so many people either assume/assert there HAS to be alien life, with absolutely no evidence. Also, so many people wish so fervently for it to be true, without any real thought as to what that might mean, that it almost assuredly isn’t.


80 posted on 12/16/2021 4:06:48 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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