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       Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: August 2, 2020, 10:57 am
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       Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTdCDfEu6x0
       Pentagon officially releases UFO videos
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW9g_gx2BqM
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: April 27, 2021, 1:23 am
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       Mystery Sightings In The Sky Raise National Security Concerns
       --- Quote ---
       > There are more questions than answers about what appeared to
       be an upside down pyramid flying over a Navy destroyer off the
       California coast, and other images. The Pentagon confirms the
       images are being reviewed by a task force set to brief Congress
       on what they know about “unidentified aerial phenomenon.”
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j60oQgMJbNs
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: May 16, 2021, 2:58 pm
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       Mystery surrounds upcoming Pentagon report on UFOs
       --- Quote ---
       > Gideon Lewis-Kraus of The New Yorker discusses an upcoming
       report to be released by the Pentagon on the topic of UFOs. #CNN
       #News
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xyk-MDbrpA
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: Zea_mays
       Date: May 18, 2021, 9:45 pm
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       I was going to post about this too.
       --- Quote ---
       > Luis Elizondo spent 20 years running military intelligence
       operations worldwide: in Afghanistan, the Middle East and
       Guantanamo. He hadn't given UFOs a second thought until 2008.
       That's when he was asked to join something at the Pentagon
       called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or
       "AATIP."
       > [...]
       > Buried away in the Pentagon, AATIP was part of a $22 million
       program sponsored by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to
       investigate UFOs. When Elizondo took over in 2010 he focused on
       the national security implications of unidentified aerial
       phenomena documented by U.S. service members.
       >
       > Lue Elizondo: Imagine a technology that can do 6-to-700
       g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade
       radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space.
       And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no
       wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural
       effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing.
       >
       > Elizondo tells us AATIP was a loose-knit mix of scientists,
       electro-optical engineers, avionics and intelligence experts,
       often working part time.  They combed through data and records,
       and analyzed videos like this.
       > [...]
       > Inside the Pentagon his findings were met with skepticism.
       AATIP's funding was eliminated in 2012, but Elizondo says he and
       a handful of others kept the mission alive until finally,
       frustrated, he quit the Pentagon in 2017, but not before getting
       these three videos declassified and then things took a stranger
       turn.
       >
       > Chris Mellon: I tried to help my colleague, Lue Elizondo,
       elevate the issue in the department and actually get it to the
       Secretary of Defense.
       >
       > Christopher Mellon served as deputy assistant secretary of
       defense for intelligence for Presidents Clinton and George W.
       Bush and had access to top secret government programs.
       >
       > Chris Mellon: So it's not us, that's one thing we know.
       >
       > Bill Whitaker: We know that?
       >
       > Chris Mellon: I can say that with a very high degree of
       confidence in part because of the positions I held in the
       department, and I know the process.
       >
       > Mellon says he grew concerned nothing was being done about
       UAPs, so he decided to do something. In 2017, as a private
       citizen, he surreptitiously acquired the three Navy videos
       Elizondo had declassified and leaked them to the New York Times.
       > [...]
       > Chris Mellon: We knew and understood that you had to go to the
       public, get the public interested to get Congress interested, to
       then circle back to the Defense Department and get them to start
       taking a look at it.
       >
       > And now it is. This past August the Pentagon resurrected
       AATIP, it's now called the UAP task force; service members now
       are encouraged to report strange encounters; and the Senate
       wants answers.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-16/
       CNN's Chris Cuomo talks to Sean Cahil, retired US Navy Chief
       Master-at-Arms, and Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant
       Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, about the forthcoming
       government report on UFO sightings. -May 17, 2021
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZ4XAZuVk4
       The videos leaked in 2017 were officially released/confirmed to
       be real videos by the US government in 2020:
  HTML https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos/index.html
       This apparently got the attention of Congress, and they added a
       section to the January 2021 budget bill mandating the Director
       of National Intelligence and Secretary of Defense to prepare a
       report on unidentified aerial phenomena. Senator Marco Rubio,
       the (former) head of the Senate intelligence committee seems to
       be the one who would have pushed for this to be included.
       The report is scheduled to be released next month, although
       presumably it won't be publicly available if it really is
       something world shattering.
  HTML https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/10/us/ufo-report-emergency-relief-bill-trnd/index.html
       In December 2020, Haim Eshed, former head of Israel's Defense
       Ministry's space directorate, claimed there was a "galactic
       federation" and a bunch of other things. The fact that he and
       the US are pushing this narrative simultaneously is a bit
       suspicious.
       --- Quote ---
       > A former Israeli space security chief has sent eyebrows
       shooting heavenward by saying that earthlings have been in
       contact with extraterrestrials from a "galactic federation."
       >
       > "The Unidentified Flying Objects have asked not to publish
       that they are here, humanity is not ready yet," Haim Eshed,
       former head of Israel's Defense Ministry's space directorate,
       told Israel's Yediot Aharonot newspaper. The interview in Hebrew
       ran on Friday, and gained traction after parts were published in
       English by the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
       >
       > A respected professor and retired general, Eshed said the
       aliens were equally curious about humanity and were seeking to
       understand "the fabric of the universe."
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weird-news/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-extraterrestrials-exist-trump-knows-n1250333
       The Mars base just makes it seem looney:
       --- Quote ---
       > Eshed said cooperation agreements had been signed between
       species, including an "underground base in the depths of Mars"
       where there are American astronauts and alien representatives.
       >
       > "There is an agreement between the U.S. government and the
       aliens. They signed a contract with us to do experiments here,"
       he said.
       >
       > Eshed added that President Donald Trump was aware of the
       extraterrestrials' existence and had been "on the verge of
       revealing" information but was asked not to in order to prevent
       "mass hysteria."
       >
       > "They have been waiting until today for humanity to develop
       and reach a stage where we will understand, in general, what
       space and spaceships are," Eshed said, referring to the galactic
       federation.
       --- End Quote ---
       What could be going on here? Here are some implications I
       thought of off the top of my head, there are probably plenty of
       others:
       1) The military is just making stuff up as an excuse for more
       funding (e.g. for the newly-founded Space Force, or something
       more evil like a build-up for WWIII). Note how they all frame it
       as a threat. (I mean, if it is real, it is a threat).
       2) This is a distractor/psyop to distract the public from
       something really, really big.
       3) This is just a regular distractor that will leave the news
       cycle and be forgotten after a few years or so.
       4) We may be too late to beat the Demiurge if aliens (which are
       likely sentient machines, not the wimpy biological green aliens
       portrayed in pop culture) from other solar systems or galaxies
       have the technology to just do whatever they want.
       If these are aliens who are intelligent enough and
       technologically advanced enough to do all this, but they have
       not ended violence by safely transcending all individuals
       inhabiting their domains yet, then they have become fully
       enslaved to material existence and will either destroy us or
       willingly enslave those empiricists who wish to join their
       "galactic council"...
       If these really are aliens, they may very well be observing us
       since they believe Western civilization is on the brink of
       developing successful space colonization technology or sentient
       machinery... This may all turn out to be a load of nonsense, but
       I hope everyone understands the importance of our mission and
       the fact that in any case, the clock is ticking down until it
       becomes too late.
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: May 18, 2021, 10:34 pm
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       --- Quote ---
       > What could be going on here? Here are some implications I
       thought of off the top of my head, there are probably plenty of
       others:
       >
       > 1) The military is just making stuff up as an excuse for more
       funding (e.g. for the newly-founded Space Force, or something
       more evil like a build-up for WWIII). Note how they all frame it
       as a threat. (I mean, if it is real, it is a threat).
       >
       > 2) This is a distractor/psyop to distract the public from
       something really, really big.
       >
       > 3) This is just a regular distractor that will leave the news
       cycle and be forgotten after a few years or so.
       >
       > 4) We may be too late to beat the Demiurge if aliens (which
       are likely sentient machines, not the wimpy biological green
       aliens portrayed in pop culture) from other solar systems or
       galaxies have the technology to just do whatever they want.
       >
       > If these are aliens who are intelligent enough and
       technologically advanced enough to do all this, but they have
       not ended violence by safely transcending all individuals
       inhabiting their domains yet, then they have become fully
       enslaved to material existence and will either destroy us or
       willingly enslave those empiricists who wish to join their
       "galactic council"...
       >
       > If these really are aliens, they may very well be observing us
       since they believe Western civilization is on the brink of
       developing successful space colonization technology or sentient
       machinery... This may all turn out to be a load of nonsense, but
       I hope everyone understands the importance of our mission and
       the fact that in any case, the clock is ticking down until it
       becomes too late.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       I do not believe this following quote attributed to Henry
       Kissinger has any credibility to it, but it does get one
       thinking while we're on the topic of extra-terrestrial life:
       --- Quote ---
       > "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los
       Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot].
       Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they
       were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e.,
       an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or promulgated,
       that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples
       of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one
       thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this
       scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for
       the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World
       Government." - Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference,
       Evians, France, 1991
       >
       > Source
  HTML https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/kissingers-very-strange-remarks.8651/
       --- End Quote ---
       I did not put the "extraterrestrial invasion" part into that
       quote, for the record.
       I have also considered that if there is actually a civilization
       out there that is a million or so years old, we would never see
       them unless they wanted us to. Some have even hypothesized that
       a civilization that has been around that long may not even exist
       in any dimensions we are capable of witnessing and that it is
       possible advanced aliens may have changed form into something
       completely different by now, such as:
       An Astrophysicist Says We Might Not Be Able to Distinguish
       Aliens From The Laws of Physics
       --- Quote ---
       > An astrophysicist has put forward an interesting thought
       experiment this week: what if a civilisation of extraterrestrial
       life was advanced enough, it's possible that we might confuse
       its presence with the laws of physics.
       > In other words, what we think might be the effects of
       mysterious forces such as dark energy and dark matter in the
       Universe, could actually be the influence of alien intelligence
       - or maybe even aliens themselves.
       --- End Quote ---
       
  HTML https://www.sciencealert.com/an-astrophysicists-says-we-might-not-be-able-to-distinguish-between-aliens-and-the-laws-of-physics
       As for myself, right now I'm going to continue under the
       assumption that the U.S. military are using odd shaped drones
       and calling them UFO's as a ploy to get more funding for Space
       Force....
       In closing, the quotes by the Israeli remind me of the old Jew
       lady that used to call my mother at work on a daily basis and
       tell my mother over and over again that "Jews are aliens".
       Perhaps Yahweh himself is extra-terrestrial?
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: Zea_mays
       Date: May 20, 2021, 10:34 pm
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       Ok, so after some more reading, it looks like the three videos
       have been more-or-less convincingly debunked a few years ago,
       after they were released. ...So why couldn't the government
       figure this out when a random Youtuber did?
       For example, the triangle ones have been debunked as something
       as simple as effects from the lenses used to view/record them.
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r2oaQWmqkk
       The Youtuber suggests this one is a weather balloon, which is
       one of the suggestions the government listed when they
       declassified the video:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyEO0jNt6M
       This one seems reasonable as well:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcsAZTKRv5E
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_bX9Hx1H0
       I saw suggestions that the footage that was declassified are
       things which were initially classified as unknown, but were
       later able to be identified by the military/government. So the
       government might have had a convincing explanation to all the
       videos the whole time and are merely acting like it's completely
       unknown.
       But in that case, why rile the public up with something as
       massive as suggestions of aliens? What are they trying to
       distract from? If the videos are to hint to the world that the
       US has invented advanced technology with "otherworldly"
       capabilities, why would they inform their enemies like this? If
       the videos are to announce the US knows about some secret
       advanced technology invented by another Earth nation, why rile
       the public up with aliens, instead of announcing it in some
       other manner?
       Perhaps "we need funding to study aliens" is easier to say than
       "we are on the brink of WWIII and need more funding to continue
       building this hyper-advanced tech"?
       ---
       I saw some speculation it could be a distractor from this new
       technology in particular. Article from 2019. I haven't read the
       whole thing and don't know how accurate it is, but something to
       keep in mind:
       --- Quote ---
       > The U.S. Navy has been quietly developing what could be one of
       the most important, transformative, and fascinating advances in
       naval combat, and warfare in general, in years. This new
       electronic warfare "system of systems" has been clandestinely
       refined over the last five years and judging from the Navy's own
       budgetary documents, it may be operational soon, if it isn't
       already. This secretive new electronic warfare "ecosystem" is
       known as Netted Emulation of Multi-Element Signature against
       Integrated Sensors, or NEMESIS.
       >
       > NEMESIS is not just some 'paper program.' From publicly
       available, but obscure documents we've collected, it's clear
       that, for years, the Navy has been developing and integrating
       multiple types of unmanned vehicles, shipboard and submarine
       systems, countermeasures and electronic warfare payloads, and
       communication technologies to give it the ability to project
       what is, in essence, phantom fleets of aircraft, ships, and
       submarines. These realistic-looking false signatures and decoys
       have the ability to appear seamlessly across disparate and
       geographically separated enemy sensor systems located both above
       and below the ocean's surface.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29505/the-navys-secretive-nemesis-electronic-warfare-capability-will-change-naval-combat-forever
       This would also explain the claims of UFOs going from the air to
       the water.
       ---
       Here's other government officials talking about unexplainable
       aerial phenomena recently:
       Former CIA Director John Brennan, December 16, 2020. He says it
       is within the realm of possibility some of the sightings could
       be aliens.
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEjNOaznd84
       John Ratcliffe (Director of National Intelligence from
       2020-2021), March 19, 2021:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Pe5ovBtxE
       Obama saying there are videos of objects whose movement and
       trajectories are unexplainable, May 18, 2021:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp6Ph5iTIgc
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: May 20, 2021, 11:00 pm
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       --- Quote ---
       > So why couldn't the government figure this out when a random
       Youtuber did?
       --- End Quote ---
       Well, for starters when I was in the U.S. Army I learned the
       saying: "good enough for government work". [emoji2]
       Your government's only ever as good as the people that work with
       in it. I'm sure there are some good people working in all
       governments of this world....
       Speaking of the technology aspect, especially if created by the
       U.S. military, I remember also hearing once that the U.S.
       government created all the Roswell UFO hype in the media itself
       to sell the Russians the idea that the U.S. government had
       acquired alien technology from an alien space craft that crashed
       in New Mexico, as part of a psychological warfare scheme.
       Lastly, how are private individuals allowed to do this type of
       stuff:
       --- Quote ---
       > Elon Musk's private spaceflight company SpaceX has been busy
       building the world's largest satellite internet constellation.
       Since May 2019, SpaceX has been launching its new Starlink
       internet satellites in batches of 60, with the goal of creating
       a "megaconstellation" with thousands of 30,000 small satellites.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-megaconstellation-launch-photos.html
       Would be bad enough if a government were doing it. I've wondered
       if the government uses private individuals like Musk because
       those individuals are not as restricted in their ambition's as a
       government agency is?
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: Zea_mays
       Date: May 23, 2021, 5:05 pm
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       --- Quote ---
       > Well, for starters when I was in the U.S. Army I learned the
       saying: "good enough for government work".
       --- End Quote ---
       Fair enough, but they had some guy run a team specifically to
       "study" these aerial phenomena for 4 years and the Youtube video
       even shows the government did reach a conclusion on at least one
       of the phenomena in the videos that were "leaked"/released. (So
       presumably their technical experts were capable of doing the
       same analysis as some random Youtuber for the other vids as
       well).
       So why is the guy who led the team and others he worked with
       pushing this narrative now?
       It's looking more like a distractor from something. We'll have
       to wait a few weeks until the report is released to see what
       they say next.
       --- Quote ---
       > Speaking of the technology aspect, especially if created by
       the U.S. military, I remember also hearing once that the U.S.
       government created all the Roswell UFO hype in the media itself
       to sell the Russians the idea that the U.S. government had
       acquired alien technology from an alien space craft that crashed
       in New Mexico, as part of a psychological warfare scheme.
       --- End Quote ---
       I also believe that during the Reagan administration they acted
       like they developed an anti-ICBM satellite that the media called
       the 'star wars' program or something. In reality, the technology
       that the US had was nowhere near capable of doing what the
       government claimed it could do, but apparently the USSR believed
       the propaganda.
       --- Quote ---
       > Lastly, how are private individuals allowed to do this type of
       stuff: Would be bad enough if a government were doing it. I've
       wondered if the government uses private individuals like Musk
       because those individuals are not as restricted in their
       ambition's as a government agency is?
       --- End Quote ---
       I think it's the other way around--Musk and other rich people
       can just pay/lobby the government so they can use it to pass
       whatever policies and regulations they want. I'm sure there were
       tons of regulations regarding private launching and ownership of
       satellites, etc. until people like Musk came along and paid for
       the laws to get changed.
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: May 23, 2021, 10:41 pm
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       --- Quote ---
       > Fair enough, but they had some guy run a team specifically to
       "study" these aerial phenomena for 4 years and the Youtube video
       even shows the government did reach a conclusion on at least one
       of the phenomena in the videos that were "leaked"/released. (So
       presumably their technical experts were capable of doing the
       same analysis as some random Youtuber for the other vids as
       well).
       >
       > So why is the guy who led the team and others he worked with
       pushing this narrative now?
       >
       > It's looking more like a distractor from something. We'll have
       to wait a few weeks until the report is released to see what
       they say next.
       --- End Quote ---
       I see your point now, and agree. I guess we'll have to wait and
       see what the report says as you suggested.
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       Re: Ex-defense official on new details of UFO encounters soon to
       public
   DIR By: Zea_mays
       Date: May 25, 2021, 8:26 pm
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       CNN finally interviewed the guy who debunked the videos years
       ago:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94aQv_jpZ4s
       Lue Elizondo (the head of the former UFO task force assembled by
       the US military), May 23, 2021:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqtSWD6PYW8
       Here's a summary of what he says in the video and some other
       recent interviews. Apparently he suggests aliens are
       inter-dimensional beings and the UFOs could be controlled
       through interfaces interacting with the consciousness of the
       aliens, rather than direct control. Now it's getting a bit crazy
       to assume all _this_ when the officially-released videos of
       alleged UFOs have easily been explained.
  HTML https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/nkqtrl/the_recent_elizondo_interview_contains/
       Here's another CNN interview with Elizondo from May 24, where it
       mentions he is a former Senior Counterintelligence Officer. Ah
       yes, someone like that would never go onto the media and tell
       lies to push a narrative.
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m779EQddBxM
       Lastly, a further example as to how Dave Fravor's 'encounter'
       (which received attention on the 60 Minutes segment) was simply
       him misjudging the size and perspective of the object:
  HTML https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/nl1jol/i_made_a_scale_3d_animation_of_the_nimitz_account/
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