I've noticed UFOs are becoming a more acceptable part of discourse lately, maybe moreso than they've been in any decade since the 1950s when the phenomenon assumed its modern form. The weird thing isn't Navy guys talking about reporting anomalous aerial phenomenon (they'd kinda have to) it's passages like this:The U.S. Navy is drafting new guidelines for pilots and other personnel to report encounters with "unidentified aircraft," a significant new step in creating a formal process to collect and analyze the unexplained sightings — and destigmatize them.
The previously unreported move is in response to a series of sightings of unknown, highly advanced aircraft intruding on Navy strike groups and other sensitive military formations and facilities, the service says.
"There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years," the Navy said in a statement in response to questions from POLITICO. "For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.
We know from that situation in 2017 when this Elizondo asshole from the story above went on CNN and justified his expensive, Pentagon-backed UFO research program by saying that aliens are real that there's money to be made by intimating that we're being visited by aays:That office spent some $25 million conducting a series of technical studies and evaluating numerous unexplained incursions, including one that lasted several days involving the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. In that case, Navy fighter jets were outmaneuvered by unidentified aircraft that flew in ways that appeared to defy the laws of known physics.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics ... index.htmlRyan Alexander of Taxpayers for Common Sense expressed dismay about the program and cast it as a waste of money in a piece that aired on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Monday.
"It's definitely crazy to spend $22 million to research UFOs," Alexander said. "Pilots are always going to see things that they can't identify, and we should probably look into them. But to identify them as UFOs, to target UFOs to research -- that is not the priority we have as a national security matter right now."
For his part, Fravor said the money spent on the program was a drop in the bucket relative to the military's over half-a-trillion-dollar annual budget.
Stories like this just bum me out. A whiff of the supernatural used to justify a small but apparently lucrative vein of military overspending... and promote some crappy netflix documentary:
I find it totally ridiculous that people laugh at Alex Jones and then take places like Politico and CNN seriously when they publish self serving conspiratorial dreck. I guess you're allowed to believe in extra-dimensional beings as long as you're on the Pentagon's list of approved contractorsElizondo will be featured in an upcoming documentary series about the Pentagon UFO research he oversaw. He said the six-part series will reveal more recent sightings of UAPs by dozens of military pilots.
Hillary, of course, would clean up this alien situation as quickly and efficiently as she cleaned up north Africa!!!
