Re:The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program
by wolf550e on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:48PM
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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.
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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.