Posted on 09/16/2023 4:18:28 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
NASA on Thursday evening released the name of its new point person for UFOs, hours after refusing to do so over concerns he would be harassed.
The announcement of the newly created position came the same day the agency published a report by a group of experts calling for a “government-wide approach” to collect data on UFOs, urging the public to use smartphone apps to help identify mysterious aerial craft.
Mark McInerney, who was previously NASA’s liaison to the Defense Department, will become the research director for UAP — unidentified anomalous phenomena, the government’s preferred term — overseeing the space agency’s work on the topic and serving as a communicator between federal agencies on UFOs.
During a briefing with reporters earlier Thursday, NASA officials initially declined to disclose the director’s identity, citing potential threats.
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But when directly asked whether she could name the official, Fox was blunt: “We will not give his name out.”
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Several members of the study were ridiculed on social media, received hate mail and said their colleagues were “warned” to stay away from researching such topics because it could damage their scientific credibility and potential for promotions, according to the report.
“That’s in part why we are not splashing the name of our new director out there, because science needs to be free,” Evans said. “Some of [the incidents] rose to actual threats.”
It’s unusual for a public official to remain anonymous, but NASA officials repeated that a major component of the study was to remove the stigma around those who want to report UFO sightings.
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You need to take some deep breaths. The response to coverups is not seriousness but ridicule to express obvious disbelief and contempt.
My personal view is that there is nothing there but some efforts to keep folks from finding out about "the crown jewels" which are usually technologies that are 20-40 years obsolescent.
UFO>united fools organization.
If anybody out there knows about UFO's, it's likely this Carrot Top.
I’m thinking someone outside the “system” with a degree in some discipline of Physics would have been the best choice. Promoting from the ranks (someone already indoctrinated and “enlightened”) always seems to be the preferred method in these circumstances. Disturbing the established narrative or asking uncomfortable questions not allowed.
Your comment is more insightful than you can know. The new guy is a NASA politician. Nothing controversial will come from this “study” unless it benefits the govt. For example, an occasional distraction.
He’d be a good 2nd in command.
...and taste like chocolate cake...yum.
Yeah, the DOD liason does not fill me with confidence.
But, it’s movement. I think, whether you hold pro or con vis a vis UAP, any motion to disturb the Deep State to declassify is in the Republic’s favor. No more secrets.
I’m no scientist or theoretician, but it seems to me, that 99% of the value of secrecy, is in the secrecy, not the actual content. All freedom seekers from the conservative side should be seeking to loosen fedgov’s monopoly on data. It benefits us all.
Like mail-in and ballot harvesting, we need to strss the system ‘til it breaks. All of it.
I can’t argue your point, I’ve never read Schaeffer. However, wouldn’t his assumption have been that the deterministic, materialist scientific method was the problem? We may be on the cusp of understanding the role of consciousness in the universe, and our observations of it.
I think both religion and science might benefit.
That just not true.
Testimony was given to Congress that physical threats have been made against civilian and military whistleblowers. One whistleblower who ran a DOD program similar to the NASA program testified in unclassified and classified Congressional hearings and even in a complaint made against the DOD and Intelligence Community (filed--under oath--with Intelligence Community Inspector General Thomas A. Monheim) that, among other things, his house was broken into and his family was threatened.
Here's a bit from NASA (Source):
Dan Evans, an assistant deputy administrator at NASA, told reporters Thursday that members of the independent report committee received threats...Not social media ridicule. Threats...presumably of harm to property or person or career.“That’s in part why we are not splashing the name of our new director out there, because science needs to be free,” Evans said. “Some of [the incidents] rose to actual threats.”
I see it differently. Adding missions like ufo investigations just grows government. Lets look at ufo’s after we get rid of departments of education, housing and urban development, ATF, and IRS.
The genesis of materialism is in ancient Egypt, China, and Greece. It was Greek nature sages, the Atomists, who systematized Atomism which today is materialism, and little changed from that time.
It was the Atomists (Epicureans) and Stoics (today's mystical pantheist New Age) who mocked Paul:
"A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. 19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.” 21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
According to all nature systems from Hinduism, Buddhism, modern naturalism, modern materialism, New Age Luciferianism, and Wicca, for example, there is only one dimension...the space/time dimension...which some believe contain interior dimensions, or astral planes.
The Creator God of the Bible does not exist within the space/time dimension but outside of that dimension, beyond the reach of man, his science, and his instruments.
Think of the space/time dimension as a snow globe. All around the snow globe, unseen and unreachable by the globes miniscule lifeforms is the supernatural dimension, the realm of the Creator God who is personal, conscious, omniscient, all-powerful.
We live because He is Life. We are conscious because He is conscious. We are souls (source of our personality) embedded within physical matter because that is how He created us, as beings who interact with both the physical and spiritual dimensions posited by modern materialists (all that exists is matter) and by mystical pantheists (all that exists is Mind)
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So you get everyone investigating the hoaxes and the conspiracies about covering up the hoaxes and no one gets near the real stuff because they are so busy on the conspiracy to cover up a hoax that it all goes nowhere.
We don't yet know what we are dealing with.
If you have convinced yourself that you have the answer, you are rushing to judgment based on speculation...perhaps because of a preconceived or wishful bias.
BTW, calling other people “nut cases” (i.e., getting personal), reflects more on you than other people. And it is not a good reflection (looks petty).
I have reached certain conclusions based upon everything I know about it and the utter lack of any convincing evidence on the other side and my too vast knowledge of how govenment bureaucracies really work. Your mileage may differ. To date I have suffered no untoward consequences of disbelief in the reality of extra-terrestrial visits involving observable aerial transportation mechanisms.
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