Retired NavAir here. This has been an issue for DECADES. For most of the last 80+ years if an aviator reported any anomalous incident they were told to STFU. If they insisted on asserting what they encountered their career was destroyed.
The message was loud and clear. STFU.
Some refused and insisted on establishing what they witnessed was a fact, regardless of the consequences, on principle. Those few aviators who insisted on what they saw was real and insisted it be taken seriously were targeted for ridicule and personal destruction.
Thanks for that.
Thanks for clear thinking post on this. I was really impressed with the daughter of the man who was forced by the US Government to change his story on the early Area 51 era crash. She remembered as a middle aged adult her memory as a little girl being upset at one of the few times she saw her father cry. He was discussing how the government forced him to make up a cover lie story and say he never saw the UFO crash scene and it was aluminum foil made to look like alien metal and so on.
Others chose “nutjob loony who hallucinated seeing a flying saucer” and lost his career or “officer recanted and admits no one saw a ufo.”
“Retired NavAir here. This has been an issue for DECADES.”
Thank you for sharing this. Many have shared this same with me before.
And the ridicule can be found right here on this site every time the topic is mentioned.
But I know, you know, and many others know. There is no going back once you have experienced it.
My dad and older brothers and their neighbors saw one in 1967 or 68 in Montgomery Alabama. My dad called up the local television station to see if there were other reports and they asked if they could get his name. He was still in the Air Force at this point and no way was he going to go on record about a UFO. I think they came out the next day and said it was a bread advertisement. Lol. A bread advertisement that had oscillating lights made no noise, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
I understand the STFU culture. I had an uncle who worked in a police department near Wright-Patterson in Dayton. Him and another officer were working graveyard shift and patrolling an industrial plant that bordered the base for vandalism that had been occurring at night. Around 2:00am they were doing a walk around and turned the corner and out on the base was a flying saucer about 200-300 feet off the ground just hovering. They said it sat there a bit and then zap shot straight up into space and disappeared. My uncle looks at the other cop and said did you see anything? No, me neither lets get the hell out of here. This was in the 1960’s and he told me this in the 1980’s and has long since passed on, but they practiced STFU as well.
Does not any of these pilots ask what are the ships they are encountering? 80 years of this means it isn’t the Russians or Chinese and if we are that advanced why are we wasting trillions of F35’s, B2’s and Ford class aircraft carriers? I think something fake and dangerous is about to be exposed to mankind and DOD will have some explaining to do. This will not be good for humanity.