The Pentagon and UFO's Assessing the Revelations
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Richard Dolan (https://www.facebook.com/richard.dolan.37)·Monday, January 1, 2018 (https://www.facebook.com/notes/richard-dolan/the-pentagon-and-ufos-assessing-the-revelations/1560719750715615/)
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These were not the vacuous, snarky pieces that typically emanate from the newspaper that publishes “all the news fit to print.†These were, in fact, two good articles that gave genuine information.
The main article, “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program,†offered several bombshells. Mainly, that the Pentagon, from the end of the George W. Bush presidency and through at least the first term of Barack Obama, spent millions of dollar investigating UFOs. Granted, $22 million over roughly five years is less than a pittance in Pentagon numbers. But that anything was spent at all is significant. We are talking from 2007 until (officially) “the 2012 time-frame,†in the imprecise words of a Pentagon official.
The program’s name was also typically vague---Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification (AATI). It was managed by a career intelligence officer named Luis Elizondo, who has been very straightforward about the program and the incredible nature of what it analyzed. According to Politico (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fmagazine%2Fstory%2F2017%2F12%2F16%2Fpentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111&h=ATMG4JesKEtpx0MJsOAbnQw7szXa4WIG36J5_XDLav9-vSCpSTkLs_OtlN5Tq7M-5qmaJDR3zskfsemp_mdZCWStvsG5390AdQX937A_44ub72d_ICEGw2NmQFTv0jFhUDnOn4xLaukIcg), which also published an article on this that came out soon after the Times pieces, Elizondo “described scores of unexplained sightings by Navy pilots and other observers of aircraft with capabilities far beyond what is currently considered aerodynamically possible.†Moreover, he said, these occurred near nuclear facilities, ships at sea, and power plants. Clearly, this is not random but intelligent. According to Elizondo, "We had never seen anything like it."
Recovered UFO Materials
UFO skeptics, as ever, wave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sebpiPariAA) all this away. Still, isn’t anyone curious about the revelation that the program contracted out to Bigelow Aerospace to study “metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo [who managed the program] and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.â€
In any normal world, this would prompt a massive, collective, “whoa.†But the bland statement is buried within the article in the Times. Most people seem to have missed it. For years, researchers have argued that U.S. military agencies (and several other national militaries) have recovered and studied UFOs. Indeed, a number of declassified documents, to say nothing of a virtual avalanche of testimony, have at least supported this claim. So now we have it acknowledged in the New York Times itself, although couched in disclaimers (“Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said...â€).
Even with the disclaimers, however, don’t we want to ask what exactly constitutes these “metal alloys and other materials� This is a reasonable question. We are talking about, quite literally, recovered UFOs. What, if any, were the conclusions generated by Bigelow Aerospace regarding these materials?
Effects of UFOs on Human Biology
That revelation was followed by another one: “Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes.â€
There has been a lot of quiet talk about this over the past few years. Former U.S. Airman First Class John Burroughs, from the well-known Rendlesham Forest case of December 1980, has experienced documented and life-threatening physical after-effects from his encounter with a landed UFO. He was also the investigator who first recognized the immense value of the declassified U.K. report from the late 1990s known as the Condign Report (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fufoevidence.org%2Ftopics%2Fprojectcondign.htm&h=ATPbFrv3eoKWf35MW8bNJqsr-r75ehkxRfpB24RRyPAp4hDFNj481sikc4Jfd67lAc8Sblp81k_nXsw2UO5VFoXtTjr6lQObXViup_pcSmGrxkrg8vLSQj91QSzSyUwMX3Opm4b6nDtvpg), which discussed at length physical effects on human beings from UAP --- that is, UFOs.
So, these are things that researchers essentially already knew, but now the New York Times confirms that U.S. taxpayers funded, via the Pentagon, studies of such physiological and biological effects. Again, we want to know: what conclusions, if any, were found? More to the point, wouldn’t it be worthwhile to flesh out this story?
An Extraordinary Encounter
We don’t yet know all the UFO cases studied by the AATI Program. But at least one high profile encounter has now reached us: the November 2004 incident involving the USS Princeton one hundred miles off the coast of San Diego. This was the theme of the other article published by the New York Times on December 16.
Briefly, Commander David Fravor and Lt. Commander Jim Slaight were each flying F/A-18F Super Hornets on a routine training mission. It turned out that for the previous two weeks, the Navy had been tracking extraordinary unidentified objects that would appear at 80,000 feet, dive to 20,000 feet, stop and hover, then drop out of radar range or shoot straight up.
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Not a great lot new in this article. It does, however, point out some important aspects which too many slide too glibly past.
I think it's worth a good read.