Posted on 03/08/2022 6:58:42 AM PST by RoosterRedux
In Oregon, a man said his health deteriorated after a glowing blue orb passed through his body. A family in California reported strange lights and a gray figure with spindly legs in their orchard. A werewolf-like creature allegedly prowled around homes in suburban Virginia.
All three incidents were probed as part of a secret Pentagon program investigating UFOs. The program, contracted by the Defense Intelligence Agency, plumbed the connection between the flying objects and the paranormal for two years, according to the men who ran it.
It was the beginning of a years-long effort by UFO advocates that eventually led to Congress passing legislation in December 2021 ordering the Pentagon to spend the next four years investigating unidentified flying objects.
The Pentagon's new office for what has been rebranded as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, has deep roots in the paranormal. Underneath the Washington defense talk about threats from China and Russia, there is a conviction among advocates that the strange objects glimpsed by troops and military equipment are part of a mysterious phenomenon that stretches back decades or, perhaps, throughout human history.
As the stigma over flying saucer talk lifts, and the military connection has taken UFOs mainstream, some have become more open about those beliefs.
"People say, 'Well, we're only going to look at the nuts-and-bolts machines.' Well, you better come up with a lot of physics. It's far more advanced than we're capable of now," said James Lacatski, a now-retired DIA intelligence officer who set up the UFO program that ran from 2008 to 2010. "And then there's others who say, 'Well, they're nothing more than ghosts. Part of the paranormal world.'
"No, they're a hybrid of both," he said.
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That Podesta is invovledmakes the entire matter tainted.
As an aside, the UFO/UAP stuff has taken a decidedly abrupt turn into the "woo"!
You haven’t been following this matter. Podesta is a tiny historic speck of dust in the rearview mirror.
As a follow-on comment...Stanford (Prof. Garry Nolan) and Harvard (Prof Avi Loeb) are leading the way now with others in the scientific community elbowing each other to climb aboard.
aliens, bigfoot and ghosts are surging on tv this year ..
Frankly, I like UFO’s a lot more when they weren’t tossed in the bucket with ghosts, bigfoot, and the paranormal.;-)
The real life X-Files has not really clarified anything.
Just like Ghost Hunters: “Didya see that? Didya hear that?”
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Yep. I’m an ultra-skeptic.
Like conspiracy theories, I think paranormal topics are interesting, but I always start from a position of disbelief and wait for my mind to be changed. The needle rarely budges.
Ancient Aliens and Finding Bigfoot are slightly mainstreaming what used to be kooky underground topics, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are fiction masquerading as documentary.
What is more, the people deep in the government with the job (and the resources and the clearances) to investigate the paranormal on a hardcore level will never be disclosing anything with any meat, or anything at all, and it’s the job of either themselves or others to put out disinformation as S.O.P.
Basically, the topic is a waste of time for any joe/jane on the street, except perhaps as entertainment, if it appeals to you.
“...the scientific community elbowing each other to climb aboard.”
First, I don’t know squat about aliens, UFOs or ghosts, but know that establishment type scientists / academics have poo poo’d the subject for the past 80 years. Yet as always, the scientific and academic communities don’t give two sh!ts about “science or academics” until the government funds it, then they pile on to the cause like a bunch of rabid ticks on a dog. Gotta get in on that government largesse. No different than the climate change scam.
It is certainly true that research is driven by grant money. But it is not true that all research is a scam like climate change.
People can embrace atheisms and agnosticism but human brains are the only ones that have a sophisticated capacity for mysticism. That capacity is exercised in many ways. Some people become fervent “greens” complete with rituals and holidays such as earth day. Other fervently believe in all knowing, advanced aliens who contrary to all the proven laws of physics not only visit but affect our lives. Always amused how even supposedly educated and “intelligent” people cling to these beliefs. Know a tenured Professor of English at a very prestigious university who won’t go anywhere near the “Bermuda triangle”.
I beg to differ. Climate change and it’s research IS a scam being funded by the government.
Pentagon’s New Hunt for UFOs = Slush Fund For Dark Money
I think you misread my comment.
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Chupacabra are butt-hurt that they were left out of that headline.
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