The 'TR3B Manta' comes to mind.
Posted on 02/19/2023 3:57:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux
At a time when growing Cold War anxiety about the Soviets ranged from psychological warfare to wholesale nuclear annihilation, the U.S. government worried about the prospect of a growing national hysteria. In the previous year, UFOs had begun to figure prominently in the public conversation. In April 1952, the popular magazine LIFE published a story titled “Have We Visitors from Space?” that promised to offer “scientific evidence that there is a real case for interplanetary saucers.”
In July that year, newspaper headlines around the country blared reports of flying saucers swarming Washington, D.C. Between March and June that year, the number of UFO sightings officially reported to the U.S. Air Force jumped from 23 to 148. Given all the attention UFOs were getting, the CIA decided it needed a “national policy” for “what should be told the public regarding the phenomenon, in order to minimize risk of panic,” according to government documents.
To this end, the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence collaborated with Howard Percy Robertson, a professor of mathematical physics at the California Institute of Technology, to gather a panel of nonmilitary scientists. The Robertson panel met for a few days in January 1953 to review Air Force records about UFO sightings going back to 1947.
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The panel did actually see a potential threat related to this phenomena—but it wasn’t saucers and little green men.
“It was the public itself,” says John Greenewald, Jr., founder of The Black Vault, an online archive of government documents. There was a concern “that the general public, with their panic and hysteria, could overwhelm the resources of the U.S. government” in a time of crisis.
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Now China (and probably others) have used that stigmatization of "things" flying under the radar to cover our country with inexpensive intelligence-gathering balloons.
Funny how things work out.
[M]any in President Harry Truman’s administration were indeed concerned that UFOs were a safety hazard. Whether the sightings were real or just mass hysteria, reports from panicked citizens ran the risk of choking federal communications channels. Some in the CIA even believed the Soviets could stage a UFO incident to help screen an attack on the United States.In January 1953, the CIA convened a group of experts under the direction of CalTech physicist H.P. Robertson to review the flying-saucer issue. This “Robertson Panel” concluded that most UFO sightings could be easily explained away as harmless optical illusions or weather phenomena. Still, the group suggested the government should take steps to debunk UFO events to help prevent a potential public uproar. In a move that would provide fuel for conspiracy theorists’ fires for years to come, they also suggested that the feds soothe the national consciousness by using mass media, celebrities and even the Walt Disney Company to ridicule and discredit UFOs.
The CIA has been quelling UFO hysteria by having Hollywood relentlessly pumping out UFO hysteria.
I have heard good arguments for both the above.
Actually, the government's suppression of the topic of UFOs (by debunking ALL sightings) would increase public curiosity and appetite for movies on the subject. This is similar to how a lack of government comment on the recovery of the current "objects" shot down results in the growth of conspiracy theories.
The audience is lucky that the government didn't fire $400,000 sidewinders at those UFOs.
The 'TR3B Manta' comes to mind.
Hasn’t that been thoroughly debunked as photoshop?
>> Do we know that the CIA is behind most of the Hollywood movies on UFOs? Or is a matter of Hollywood simply going where the money is? <<
A little of both? I also believe that Hollywood loves UFOs as a way of simultaneously displacing and discrediting religious belief. “Oh, you believe in the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima? That crazy believes in Roswell, NM! Same thing!!!”
From “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to “ET” to “Contact,” UFO blockbusters always have HEAVY, deliberate parallels to religious experience.
CIA knew they were doing it to test out psy-ops.
This is a stunningly complex subject.
Hollywood has had the full range from “aliens are wonderful” to “aliens are evil” to everything in between.
Then when you add the CIA (and other .gov) propaganda to the mix it is the next order of confusing and complicated.
Grant Cameron and others have argued it is part of a long term .gov “disclosure” process, getting the populace ready for the day when their belief systems will have to change based on new and blatant facts.
I am not totally convinced that is correct since there have been so many starts and stops over the decades.
My point wasn't that there were off-budget DOD programs, although there certainly are.
My point was that the CIA along with its MockingBird operation puts out disinformation to place a public fog over the off-budget programs.
Ergo, if that photo is shopped.. maybe it is, maybe it isn't, does not matter. It adds to the fog, as we discuss it right here for example. Consider the shopping, the story planting, as part of ClownsInAmerica regular operations.
UFOs are no longer about nuts and bolts saucers buzzing about in our atmosphere (though there's that too). It's moved into the paranormal/extradimensional realm (in fact, it's now known as the "Phenomenon." There's even a rather powerful group of generals in the Pentagon that have argued against investigating the matter because it is demonic. And frankly, there is a very strong similarity to the Biblical narrative.
And then you have all those different factions within the government, some of whom might want disclosure and some--like the USAF--who don't even want to share with other branches of the military.
As I'm sure you know, Twitter and Youtube podcasts have been aflutter with the news that disclosure is about to happen because the government and the military have lost control of the narrative. Given that the government & military have lost control of the narrative, I'm not quite sure who it is that is supposed to be in charge of disclosure.;-)
UFOs and little green men no longer frighten me. The real threats are right here on earth and we are living it. Little green men can only rival the humans here on earth at killing us.
The Great Monkey Hoax of 1954.
Happened in Georgia. 2 barbers and a butcher. Bored folks.
LOL
I hesitate to bring this up here because the credibility of some of the sources is debatable for sure, but there is the “breakaway civilization” theory put forward by Michael Salla, Catherine Austin Fitts and most recently supported by Richard Dolan which could explain why “disclosure” is so weird.
For those who want to explore that topic there is Richard Dolan’s primer:
https://www.amazon.com/Program-Breakaway-Civilization-Richard-Lecture/dp/1537132555
Michael Salla has his own podcast for those who want to get into the weeds:
https://podbay.fm/p/exopolitics-today-with-dr-michael-salla
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