Re:The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program
by codeonfire on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:51PM
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This sounds like a sponge operation to gauge how much experimental flight testing programs may impact the public, how secret it is being, collect debris that falls into public hands, etc. Obviously if it was done under the auspices of a military operation that would lead to questions. But no one questions the motives of people posing as UFO investigators.
Prosaic bits of metal and rock, perhaps, spun to be containing some sort of unknowable potential for unknowable purpose.
There's also "unexplained aerial phenomena" as the generic cover for materials recovered from the secret research programs of other countries.
But come on, if US intelligence agencies recovered metallurgy from Russian hypersonic missiles or something like that, why would they use UFO for cover? And why would they store it outside of AFRL? I think it's just a way to funnel taxpayer money, there is nothing real being investigated. Not extraterrestrial tech, not foreign tech, not even domestic tech.
Re:The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program
by StanislavPetrov on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:55PM
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>I think it's just a way to funnel taxpayer money
They only spent $22 million on the whole program. Accounting errors in the Pentagon literally amount to trillions of dollars. $22 million is about 20% of the cost of a single F-35. They have much better ways to funnel taxpayer money - $22 million isn't even pocket change for the Pentagon.
$22M could have meant a lot to Reid’s retirement plan.
Yeah, and didn’t the Pentagon say they’d lost track of $6.5Tn in spending or something? This is nothing compared to that.
Re:The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program
by alfiedotwtf on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:28PM
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"Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire and longtime friend of Mr Reid's"
This.
See Glomar Explorer for other examples.
Re:The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program
by alfiedotwtf on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:35PM
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Yep. Pretext is everything.
>Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.
>“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic signals involved or its function.”
They claim to have physical evidence? Seems like a buried lede if even remotely true.