Don’t say I didn’t try to warn* you. (OK. Reference *here)
For the casual student of UFO history, the modern idea of life beyond our planet usually dates to 1947, when a top-secret U.S. military balloon crashed in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico. The wreckage prompted decades of conspiracy theories and gave rise to the idea that Roswell was the site of an alien crash landing.
Now, thanks to a new congressional spending bill, UFO enthusiasts may look to 1945 as the beginning of that era.
An amendment tucked into this year’s $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which funds the Defense Department’s annual operating budget, requires the department to review historical documents related to unidentified aerial phenomena — government lingo for UFOs — dating to 1945. That is the year that, according to one account, a large, avocado-shaped object struck a communication tower in a patch of New Mexico desert now known as the Trinity Site, where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated that July.
Experts said the bill, which President Joe Biden signed into law in December, could be a game changer for studying unidentified phenomena.
“The American public can reasonably expect to get some answers to questions that have been burning in the minds of millions of Americans for many years,” said Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence. “If nothing else, this should either clear up something that’s been a cloud hanging over the Air Force and Department of Defense for decades, or it might lead in another direction, which could be truly incredible. There’s a lot at stake.”
The amendment was introduced by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis. and a member of the Armed Services Committee. Gallagher, who declined an interview request, said in a brief statement that a “comprehensive timeline” of unidentified aerial phenomena in U.S. government records was needed and that the amendment would ensure a full review of “all U.S. government classified and unclassified information.”
“This is an important step that will give us a more comprehensive understanding of what we know — and don’t know — about incidents impacting our military,” he said.
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The U.S. government has dabbled in public-facing programs that have explored the possibility of alien life. In 2021, the Pentagon announced it would form a task force to look at the issue after a congressionally mandated report found that the government had no explanation for 143 sightings of strange phenomena by military pilots and others since 2004. NASA said in June that it would finance a study to look at unexplained sightings.
In 2022, the Defense Department established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which succeeded the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group after facing scrutiny from the public and lawmakers. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, a former chief scientist at the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, which is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was named director.
The introduction of drones and other airborne clutter has led to an increase in sightings of unidentified objects in recent years. The government, which delivered its most recent update Thursday, has found that weather balloons and surveillance operations by foreign powers accounted for most of the recent sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, though dozens remain officially unexplained.
The defense funding bill requires the new office to work with the intelligence community to identify any nondisclosure agreements related to possible UFO sightings. It also requires the office to create a process for people to share information, regardless of classification, and to share its findings with the highest levels of the Defense Department. It also mandates that the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office be fully staffed.
“This is an office now that has a voice and resources, and it has authority,” said Mellon, the former Defense Department official.
Susan Gough, a spokesperson for the agency, said in an email that “the department is reviewing the enacted legislation.”
Jacques Vallée, a longtime ufologist, astronomer and computer scientist, said the amendment’s inclusion in the defense bill was “an absolute turning point.”
“This is what all scientists and my colleagues have always dreamed of,” said Vallée, who has helped study reports of UFOs for the Centre National d’Études Spatiales, the French space agency. He said that the U.S. government’s agreement to dig into the past meant “the stigma has been removed.”
Vallée began studying the Trinity incident several years ago alongside a journalist, Paola Harris, and interviewed people who claimed to have witnessed the crash. Vallée and Harris chronicled their research in a book, “Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret,” including the details of the avocado-shaped object. They also spoke to witnesses who said they came across the object as children and found what they described as “little creatures.”
In the United States, Vallée said, “there has always been, on the part of the government, especially the Pentagon,” a sense that civilian sightings are unreliable. “The reason,” he said, “is that civilians don’t have the technology to really document what happens, and of course the Pentagon does.”
But, Vallée said, there’s no reason that “a farmer in his field” isn’t qualified to give a quality observation of a possible UFO. “The civilian observations tend to be longer. They tend to be more detailed. They tend to leave a trace that we can analyze,” he said.
He said he was working with a team at Stanford University to analyze samples of minerals and debris that were left after UFO crashes or landings.
“I would hope that the new project would continue to do that because I think we’ve shown the way to do that scientifically,” Vallée said. He added, “We don’t have proof that a biologist can look at, but we have considerable statistical and now observational evidence that there must be life out there, that the Earth is not unique.”
At 83, Vallée still holds out hope for tangible evidence in his lifetime.
“Science is a moving frontier,” he said. “I want to have the right answers, even if they are small answers, rather than more speculation.”
Perhaps they should require that aliens carry accident insurance.
Or proof of vaccination…
Indeed …. then they could pay damages for all the crop circles they make. Remember that silliness 😉
What’s this got to do with James Carville, and why he eats mice?
Ok… I’m leaving now.
OBEY
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Just sayin.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2017/07/james-carville.html
fc, I think it’s a nod to James’ looking like an extra from the Tv series “V” from the mid-late 80’s … which I remember because I was enormously attracted to the gal in this scene and I don’t recall being put off by the rats, I believed as I do for most gals, they just need a decent foot massage at the end of the day.
V, “it pleases me to serve our leader”
ffwd to 2 minutes… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RqVOn-pJsY
Clever Reference! Totally forgot about “V.” When you think about it, that miniseries could have been a warning. I’m not talking about the aliens part and eating mice, but instead, I’m referring to the plot to “convert humanity”, turning us into slaves to serve dear leader… come to think of it, they want us eating bugs now, don’t they?
that miniseries could have been a warning
It was a warning. It was the end result of years of development hell that began with Sinclair Lewis’ novel It Can’t Happen Here.
She really swallows.
80’s women were hot.
You like that big hair thing, doncha… 😉
The government is building up an alien threat to use as another tool to control the lemmings in the future. Like the vax fanatics the UFO nuts will brand you an enemy of the human race if you don’t follow the alien mitigation laws. Also a good opportunity for budget appropriations and graft.
Exactly, this doubles as a ” look , over there nothing to see here” and a training guide as to what is to come. My take on alien life. We are a fluke. Alone in the universe and , if the majority dont wake, extinct as fast as we were here.
The intelligence community will only disclose what they want they want you to see, for the real juicy bits you’ll have to pry it from their cold dead hands.
Want me to believe the release of the ‘tic tac’ video of a ufo chasing Lt.Fraynor around the Pacific was because the Navy forgot to stamp it as “classified”?? Nah, it doesn’t work that way.
It’s either part of an information drip program because everyone’s brother has a camera these days and they can’t keep a lid on it anymore or a huge distraction from some other evil shit they’re doing and want to hide.
there has always been, on the part of the government, especially the Pentagon,” a sense that civilian sightings are unreliable.
My goodness, could you be any more naive???. That isn’t it at all in my opinion – it’s because they were reliable and why they spent millions funding studies to inform us that what we were really seeing was swamp gas and the planet Venus.
Show me.
The last big revelation was that, yes indeed, there are actual UFOs and, guess what? The U in UFO remains the only thing we know for sure.
Speaking of Carville – the riddle I’d like to see solved is how Carville’s wife, Mary Matilin, remains married to that rodent eating creepazoid.
The guy makes the hair on my neck stand on end just seeing him on TV which thankfully isn’t much these days.
Mary Matilin worked for George H. W. Bush, not exactly a conservative’s conservative.
No matter what your stance, take, belief or desire, its just another reason to own guns and lotsa ammo!
For most of our lives pop culture entertainers have been dumping space science fiction comics, books, TV shows, movies on us. We’ve all seen it or read it with our own eyes, over and over again, just jump in your space ship and pop on over to another planet. With half the population below average intelligence, and most of the population ignorant and intellectually degenerate, I guess speculation about aliens is expected. I work hard on “live and let live”, people can spend their time and energy thinking whatever they want, go ahead, learn to speak Klingon. My opinion is there are certainly life forms out there in the trillions of galaxies each with their billions of stars but, alas, OUTER SPACE IS JUST TOO DAMNED BIG for any form of significant travel.
“Yeah well like that’s just your opinion man.”
“Aliens from another planet” is just the modern version of “Angels and Demons”, ie a sop for our ignorance.
Not only is it “too damned big” but there’s no noise in a vacuum ffs.
Try voicing that fact and see the lobotomized start sputtering.
” In space nobody can hear you scream “.
Giant Squirrels from Outer Space!
“Look! Squirrel”.
“Government Experts say…..”.
Of course “Unidentified” to whom?
If there are actual craft and technology involved,I suspect they are quite clear as to their identity.
They just might consider their “identity” to be none of the governments business.
Or if actual “Government secret craft” ..Nah,these parasites could never hold a weapon and not use it..
They are too stupid and evil,why do you think they are so frightened by your possession of guns?
If there were space aliens regularly visiting our planet, we would have solid evidence of it, government coverup or no government coverup.
But after 75 years we don’t. Not one irrefutable piece of evidence. Just allegations and suspicions and theories.
It’s all so tedious.
IMHO … the obsession with Alien’s visiting the earth is akin to worship of Hollywood Stars … just something to keep your mind occupied while you hurtle toward mortal death
“If there were space aliens regularly visiting our planet, we would have solid evidence of it, government coverup or no government coverup.”
Yet another dogmatic assertion that is patently unprovable.
Fact: There are events that have been caught on film, and reported by extremely reliable witnesses, and corroborated, events that defy any explanation that we can understand. Invoking space aliens to “explain” them is no different than invoking angels and demons to “explain” them; both are just expressions of ignorance.
It’s like if you showed a stone age man a smart-phone, and he said “magic”, and you told him “science.” As far as the stone age man is concerned, its just another label for the incomprehensible, exactly as “space aliens” and “angels and demons” are.
“There are events that have been caught on film, and reported by extremely reliable witnesses, and corroborated, events that defy any explanation that we can understand.”
And yet you give no examples.
I’ve seen a few hoax films purporting to show alien bodies being autopsied. Would those do?
If we catch something on film that we can’t explain, we can take one of two approaches:
1. We haven’t managed to figure it out.
2. It was caused by space aliens.
Given human limitations, #1 is the better bet.
The Drake equation broke everyone’s brain.
Don’t care about the story behind it.. I want the technology behind the UFOs or whatever we call them now.. Although free energy (is it free) would be the last thing our? eyedropper of a ruling class would want us to have..
Blooming deserts tends to upset the balance of things.. How else are they going to keep us and other foreign nations inline if not for the short energy leash..
Here is my take on the Roswell thing. My husband and I went to the museum in Roswell. There is a statue there, a perfect replica of what the alien looked like according to eyewitness testimony of the people who found them. It’s quite different from the stylized big eyed creature we usually think of as an alien. Speaking as a human geneticist who did my thesis on neural tube defects what I saw was an absolutely perfect human child with untreated hydrocephalus. At the time Roswell happened such individuals were locked in asylums, with brain damage from the undrained fluid on their brains and buggy eyes from the pressure. However they were alive. That was also an era when ethics were a lot, shall we say looser, than today. I think the military was testing some kind of saucerlike ship using untreated hydrocephalic children plucked out of a nearby mental institution to test the effects on humans they considered expendable. The ship crashed. The children died in or shortly after the crash. The military moved in and covered it all up. The alien story was how locals who wouldn’t recognize untreated hydrocephalus assumed they were aliens.
Before I heard the term ‘UFO’, I remember hearing about ‘Flying Saucers’.
Earth vs the Flying Saucers | 1956 Sci-fi Movie
That was a thing, back then.
Foo Fighters date back to 1944.