US to Recognise UFOs

[Magnus McGinty]

He had already been told more than once what they are and how to identify them, as explained in the video.

Fair enough, I don't tend to watch the videos as they're usually in the conspiracy orbit (Geddit?)

 

[Signal 11]

Mussolini's Aliens: How an old Italian UFO hoax became proof of alien visitation to the US Congress

Spoiler: TLDR / Summary paragraph

The anonymous originator, in an effort to duplicate the American Majestic 12 hoax, sent fake documents telling a fictional story to Pinotti. Brophy, pursuing his lifelong habit of making up new chapters of old UFO stories starring his late father, invented and sent Pinotti the rest of the story. Pinotti told it to Lue Elizondo, Lue Elizondo told it to David Grusch, and David Grusch told it to the United States Congress — and all of this happened without a shred of evidence, credibility, or corroboration. Even most other UFOlogists had dismissed this story as a hoax more than a quarter of a century before.

Now, researching this episode took me the better part of a week, because I had to track down every part and verify each with solid references. If I was a US Congressman, like Tim Burchett who is the one most responsible for putting Grusch on this stage, I would have at least assigned a staffer (an intern, an aide, anyone) to spend at least a day or two on the Internet to verify this guy Grusch's story just to make sure I wouldn't end up looking like a fool. Well, Burchett felt confident enough not to do that, and now he looks like a fool — because a lot of people like me can do this research, and we have easy platforms to get it out there.

 

[Signal 11]

Amazing revelation today in the Mexico City Congress. There was a ceremonial unboxing of actual* alien bodies. They were presented by the notorious UFO con artist Jaime Maussan.

Spoiler: spooky alien

And there is a connection to this thread. Maussan was supported by Ryan Graves who was a witness at the recent US Congress hearing - the former pilot who is very professional* and is motivated by his sincere* concerns about aircraft safety, rather than by publicity for his new UFO "nonprofit".

More details here including video of the unboxing.

*not.

 

[Indeliblelink]

NASA is releasing the results of it's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report [ie UFOs] today.
Media conference at 3PM, UK time


Guaranteed to be not as exciting as some are hyping it to be.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Here's their report

https://science.nasa.gov/science-pink/s3fs-public/atoms/files/UAP%20Independent%20Study%20Team%20-%20Final%20Report_0.pdf

Nasa's UFO report: What we learned from UAP study

Nasa's long-awaited report aims to demystify how it investigates unexplained phenomena.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[T & P]

Does anyone know which specific cases are the "small handful [of UAP incidents] which cannot be immediately identified as "known human-made or natural phenomena" ?

 

[Flavour]

Does anyone know which specific cases are the "small handful [of UAP incidents] which cannot be immediately identified as "known human-made or natural phenomena" ?

The Nimitz sightings, I imagine

 

[Signal 11]

Here’s What I Learned as the U.S. Government’s UFO Hunter

A forthcoming investigational report from an office of the Pentagon has found no evidence of aliens, only allegations circulated repeatedly by UFO claim advocates
[...]
During a full-scale, year-long investigation of this story (which has been told and retold by a small group of interconnected believers and others with possibly less than honest intentions—none of whom have firsthand accounts of any of this), AARO discovered a few things, and none were about aliens.

Second, this narrative has been simmering for years and is largely an outgrowth of [...] a group of individuals associated with businessman and longtime ufologist Robert Bigelow [...] In 2009 then senator Harry Reid asked the secretary of defense (SECDEF) to set up a SAP (special access program) to protect the alleged UAP/UFO material that AATIP proponents believed the USG was hiding. The SECDEF declined to do so after a review by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSDI), and DIA concluded that not only did no such material exist, but taxpayer money was being inappropriately spent on paranormal research at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah.
(details as posted earlier)

One of my last acts before retiring was to sign AARO’s Historical Record Report Volume 1, which is currently being prepared for delivery to Congress and the public. The report demonstrates that many of the circulating allegations described above derive from inadvertent or unauthorized disclosures of legitimate U.S. programs or related R&D that have nothing to do with extraterrestrial issues or technology. Some are misrepresentations, and some derive from pure, unsupported beliefs. In many respects, the narrative is a textbook example of circular reporting, with each person relaying what they heard, but the information often ultimately being sourced to the same small group of individuals.

As of the time of my departure, none, let me repeat, none of the conspiracy-minded “whistleblowers” in the public eye had elected to come to AARO to provide their “evidence” and statement for the record despite numerous invitations. Anyone that would rather be sensationalist in the public eye than bring their evidence to the one organization established in law with all of the legal process and security framework established to protect them, their privacy, and the information and to investigate and report out findings is suspect.

 

[Signal 11]

^ The Report Volume 1 is available now. 45 pages plus footnotes. Just picked out a few bits.

SECTION II: Executive Summary
AARO found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology. All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification.
[...]
Although many UAP reports remain unsolved or unidentified, AARO assesses that if more and better quality data were available, most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena. Sensors and visual observations are imperfect; the vast majority of cases lack actionable data or the data available is limited or of poor quality.
[...]
AARO assesses that the inaccurate claim that the USG is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology and is hiding it from Congress is, in large part, the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals who believe this to be the case, despite the lack of any evidence.

SECTION IV: Accounts of USG UAP Investigatory Programs Since 1945
[...]
CIA Special Study Group (1952)
Results: The Study Group assessed that 90 percent of the reports were explainable and the other 10 percent amounted to “incredible” claims but rejected the notion that they represented Soviet or extraterrestrial technology. The group also studied Soviet press and found no reports of UFOs, leading the group to assume that the Soviets were deliberately suppressing such reports. The Study Group also believed that the Soviets could use reports of UFOs to create hysteria in the United States or overload the U.S. early-warning system.

SECTION V: Assessment of Interviewee Claims of USG Involvement in Hidden UAP Programs
[...]
Allegation that a Former U.S. military Service Member Touched an Extraterrestrial Spacecraft
An interviewee stated that a former military member, who was also an interviewee, had stated that he had touched an off-world aircraft. AARO contacted and interviewed the former military member who denied any knowledge of off-world technology in possession of the USG, a private contractor, or any other foreign or domestic entity. The former military member attested that he could not remember if this encounter with the original interviewee had ever occurred, but opined that if it had happened, the only situation that he might have conveyed was the time when he touched an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter at a facility. The former military member signed an MFR attesting to the truthfulness of his account.

SECTION VI: Investigation into Named USG Sensitive Programs
AARO concludes many of these programs represent authentic, current and former sensitive, national security programs, but none of these programs have been involved with capturing, recovering, or reverse-engineering off-world technology or material.

SECTION VII: Historical Context of UAP Investigatory Efforts Since 1945
AARO assesses that the incidents of UAP sightings reported to USG organizations, the claims that some constitute extraterrestrial craft, and the claims that the USG has secured and is experimenting on alien technology, most likely are the result of a range of cultural, political, and technological factors.
[...]
Differences between 20th and 21st Century UAP Investigations
Polling data on public trust reflects Americans’ changing views over time. According to the Pew Research Center, polling on this topic began in 1958, when about 75 percent of Americans trusted the USG “to do the right thing almost always or most of the time.” Since 2007, however, that figure has not risen above 30 percent.

SECTION VIII: Testing and Development of U.S. National Security and Space Programs Most Likely Accounted for Some Portion of UAP Sightings
We assess that the majority of UAP sightings in the earlier decades of UAP investigations were the result of misidentification of ordinary phenomena and objects, based on AARO’s findings of its own cases to date and the findings of all past investigatory efforts. However, we assess that some portion of these misidentifications almost certainly were a result of the surge in new technologies that observers would have understandably reported as UFOs.

 

[Humberto]

I'm sure the USA have gone through AI with their trillion dollar budget and guaranteed their hegemony.