Quote:Dulles preferred gentlemen spy craft and disliked technology in general, which was why he’d delegated control of the U-2 spy plane to Richard Bissell in the first place. As for the UFO problems, Dulles assigned that job to a former OSS colleague named Todos M. Odarenko. The UFO division was placed inside the physics office, which Odarenko ran. Almost immediately Odarenko “sought to have his division relieved of the responsibility for monitoring UFO reports,” according to a CIA monograph declassified in 1997. And yet the significance of UFOs to the CIA could not have had a higher national security concern.

The case file regarding unidentified flying objects that Allen Dulles had inherited from the Agency’s previous director, General Walter Bedell Smith was, and remains, one of the most top secret files in CIA history. Because it has yet to be declassified, there is no way of knowing how much information Bedell Smith shared with his successor.

By 1957, according to the CIA monograph “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs,” the U-2s accounted for more than half of all UFO sightings reported in the continental United States. Odarenko had been unsuccessful in his bid to be “relieved” of his UFO responsibilities and instead got to work creating CIA policy regarding UFOs. He sent a secret memo to the director of the Office of

Scientific Intelligence outlining how he believed the Agency should handle reports of UFOs.

“The concealment of CIA interest [in UFOs] contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up,” wrote Gerald K. Haines, the historian for the National Reconnaissance Office and someone who is often introduced as the CIA’s expert on the matter. But to get the UFO monkey off his back, Allen Dulles began a “psychological warfare” campaign of his own. When letters came in from concerned citizens about the sightings, the CIA’s policy was to ignore them. When letters came in from UFO groups, the CIA’s policy was to monitor the individuals in the group. When letters came in from congressmen or senators, such as the one from Ohio congressman Gordon Scherer in September of 1955, the CIA’s policy was to have Director Dulles write a polite note explaining that UFOs were a law enforcement problem and the CIA was specifically barred from enforcing the law.

Quote:At 91, he's still sharp as a tack.

Admiral Inman: "No alien life in our galaxy" - claims all UFO cases can be explained as glitches, mis-identifications and foreign adversarial drones.

(10-24-2022, 06:17 AM)727Sky Wrote:

Quote:At 91, he's still sharp as a tack.

Admiral Inman: "No alien life in our galaxy" - claims all UFO cases can be explained as glitches, mis-identifications and foreign adversarial drones.

He he believes that I would say he needs a new tack !! We barely know what is in our own solar system and yet he can claim he knows what is in the galaxy with over 4 billion stars ?? Idiot

Quote:NASA announces its unidentified aerial phenomena research team to examine mysterious sightings

A 16-person team — including an astronaut, a space-treaty drafter, a boxer, and several astrobiologists — will soon begin its review of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) for NASA.

The space agency announced Friday the members of the team, who will labor over the course of nine months starting on Monday to analyze unclassified data on UAPs, peculiar sightings of objects behaving unlike anything we’re familiar with. But until the full report is released to the public in mid-2023, NASA says everything will be kept a secret.

NASA says their work will “lay the groundwork” for future UAP studies. This first phase is a brainstorm, to see how observations that civilian government entities and commercial data have gathered could be analyzed. And then, they’ll look at how future data can be collected.

NASA will hold a public meeting after the report is released to discuss the study’s findings, an event that curious onlookers might want to earmark.

The space agency says officials are excited to see what the team uncovers. “NASA is going in with an open mind,” the space agency writes in a Frequently Asked Questions webpage devoted to UAPs. “And we expect to find that explanations will apply to some events and different explanations will apply to others. We will not underestimate what the natural world contains, and we believe there is a lot to learn.”

Is it aliens? The short answer is, NASA doesn’t know. The space agency chooses to highlight its search for extraterrestrial life when it publishes new information about the new UAP study. But agency officials have also been candid about where the data stands. They explicitly stated back in June that, “there is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in origin.”

Quote: Several recent UFO sightings reported by pilots over the Pacific Ocean
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Numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects have been reported by dozens of pilots flying across the Pacific Ocean over the last two months, according to a UFO researcher.
Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent and the host of Discovery+ show “UFO Witness,” obtained new footage and air traffic control recordings that reveal baffled pilots struggling to describe their bizarre midair sightings.
He compiled accounts of pilots from Southwest Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and others between Aug. 6 and Sept. 23. In one captivating account, a former military pilot reported seeing multiple aircraft flying above him.
“We’ve got a few aircraft to our north here and he’s going around in circles, much higher altitude than us. Any idea what they are?” pilot Mark Hulsey radioed in on Aug. 18 while flying a charter jet off the Los Angeles coast. 
The confused controller responds, telling the pilot that he was not sure.
Hulsey called back 23 minutes later to say that the three aircraft he had originally reported had increased to seven, flying between 5,000 and 10,000 feet above him.
nullUFO sightings were reported by multiple pilots and captured on video in August and September, according to Hansen.Hypocenter 101/YouTube nullPilots struggled to describe their encounters with strange objects to air traffic officials.DoD/AFP via Getty Images
“They just keep going in circles. I was an F-18 pilot in the Marine Corps, and I’m telling you, I’ve done many intercepts, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Hulsey says in the recording.
According to Hansen, the strange lights that some pilots reported as possible aircraft were “seen by upwards of 15 different commercial flights. And at least six pilots are willing to go on record with their names and everything if asked to do so by any investigative agencies,” he said.
“In this case, we have a global phenomenon from as far west as Japan, to as far east as possibly Miami. Whatever it is, pilots are seeing it from halfway across the world.”
Currently, Hansen said, there is no official protocol for reporting strange sightings for civilian pilots “because they don’t think the FAA will follow up, or worse, they will be ridiculed.”
An FAA spokesperson told the Daily Mail that it documents strange sightings “whenever a pilot reports one to an air traffic control facility.
nullBen Hansen, host of Discovery+ show “UFO Witness,” compiled accounts and footage of UFO sightings reported in August and September.Getty Images
“If the pilot report can be corroborated with supporting information such as radar data, it is shared with the UAP Task Force.”
Veteran pilot Chris Van Voorhis told the Daily Mail he also saw three to five bright objects flying in a circular motion like a “race track” for hours while flying over the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu to Los Angeles in August.
The 63-year-old, who’s racked up over 32,000 hours of flight experience, said the objects he saw appeared to be within Earth’s orbit but could have been out in space.
Other airlines radioed in to Van Voorhis to ask him if he was seeing the same objects he was.
“It had to be in a very, very high orbit, or actually even out in space quite a ways away from anything that a satellite would be, because every time we were seeing it, it was in the lower right-hand corner of the Big Dipper, no matter where we were in the world,” he told the outlet.
“It lasted for such a long time that it actually became boring, almost.”
He said it could not have been a satellite, such as Elon Musk’s Starlink system, because they were moving in different directions instead of the same direction.
Van Voorhis’ employer, whose name was withheld, forbade him from speaking about the incident.
He told the Daily Mail about half of his pilot friends “have seen some type of an anomaly” in the sky.
nullFormer F-18 pilot Mark Hulsey reported a UFO sighting in August.Hypocenter 101/YouTube
Van Voorhis also claims to have seen three flying discs from his cockpit in 2004 while flying from Japan to Honolulu for Japan Airways. The discs appeared to form a triangle formation before disappearing.
“It wasn’t like they accelerated. They were just at speed and gone over the horizon. The whole thing took about 15 seconds,” he told the Daily Mail.
“The aircraft in front of us saw it too. They said, ‘Are you going to tell anybody?’ and we said, ‘No.'”
Last year,  the Department of Defense launched a new outfit tasked with finding and identifying UFOs in restricted airspace after Washington officials admitted they could not explain the phenomena of UFO sightings.
The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group was announced after the intelligence community verified a series of unexplained aerial phenomena sightings by the military earlier this year, but said it could not identify the mysterious vehicles, in a report to Congress detailing the government’s knowledge of UFOs.

Quote:EXCLUSIVE: New classified report to Congress says only HALF of UFO sightings can be properly explained,
leaving nearly 200 mysteries unsolved – as critics say investigators 'glossed over' unknown cases

*Sources tell DailyMail.com a classified report due to be sent to Congress this week lists more than 150 cases
of unexplained UFO encounters in the past year
*The 22-page report was compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and analyzes 366 cases
*Only about half of the UFO encounters could be explained
*Examples include video shot by Reaper drones conducting surveillance that caught 'orbs' flying around then 'suddenly
bolting off'
*Among the explained cases are 'brand new surveillance by foreign adversaries,' including Chinese spy drones
attempting to gather information on the US
*The ODNI source was critical of their department's dossier, saying it glossed over the many intriguing and worrying
unexplained cases
*'They don't want to talk about this stuff, because they really, really don't know what the hell they are. That's the truth,'
the source said

'A classified report due to be sent to Congress Monday lists more than 150 cases of unexplained UFO encounters by military
and government officials in the past year, sources told DailyMail.com exclusively. The 22-page report, compiled by the Office
of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), analyzes 366 cases –and only about half of them could be explained, two sources
close to the department said.

Examples include video shot by Reaper drones conducting surveillance in the Middle East that caught 'orbs' flying around then
'suddenly bolting off the screen'. Others, an ODNI source said, are similar to famous encounters by Navy F-18 fighter pilots who
saw, filmed and registered on radar 'tic tac' and 'gimbal' shaped craft flitting near training areas off the US east and west coasts,
moving at supersonic speeds and performing incredible maneuvers with no apparent means of propulsion.

The G-forces from the sharp turns at eye-watering velocities were so extreme they would have crushed the skull of a human pilot
trying to perform the same maneuver. Some cases had explanations as mundane as weather balloons.

But among these are 'brand new surveillance by foreign adversaries,' the source said, including Chinese spy drones trying to gather
information on US military pilot training. A public version of the report, stripped of classified information, is due to be published by
ODNI Monday but sources say both the classified and unclassified versions have been delayed by a few days.

The UFO dossier is the debut of an annual report mandated by last year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), part of a
slew of new legislation forcing more government transparency on unexplained phenomena in our airspace and seas.


Scott Bray on the case.

The 366 cases sources described in the classified report represent a large increase from the 144 covered in a 'preliminary assessment'
published last year by the ODNI. The June 2021 dossier said one case had been explained as a balloon, and of the remaining 143
unexplained cases dated between 2004 and 2021, 80 reports 'involved observation with multiple sensors'.
All cases came from 'US government sources'.

Members of the intelligence community who are eager for the government to address the issue of unexplained craft in our skies,
were disappointed by the report's focus on cases investigators were able to solve...'

Quote:'They're patting themselves on the back that they've resolved over half of them,' the ODNI source said. 'But we don't give a crap about
the ones they've resolved. Yeah, there's balloons up there, and balloons are sometimes mistaken for UAP. 'But there are s***loads of
classified videos that are pretty profound and pretty clear. 'They don't want to talk about this stuff, because they really, really don't know
what the hell they are. That's the truth.'...'

Quote:'The classified report has been sent to the Armed Services, Appropriations, Foreign Affairs or Relations, and Intelligence committees
of the House and Senate. The 2022 NDAA, signed into law last December, requires the government to release a public report on UFO
incidents each year by October 31, with a classified annex sent only to lawmakers with security clearance.

But sources told DailyMail.com that ODNI instead wrote a single, classified report and is running a few days behind schedule delivering
it to Congress and creating a public, declassified version. The ODNI source said there are dozens of classified UFO videos on government
servers filmed by MQ-9 Reaper drones abroad.

'These drones operate 20-25,000 feet up in the air and they're flying around. We're keeping an eye on bad guys all over the world,'
they said. 'An operator will be zoomed in looking at a town in Syria. And all of a sudden, a little orb will go flying through the viewfinder.
'The operator's like, ''What the hell?'' And so he starts focusing on it and he just watches the orb for a while. We might get it for 30 seconds,
we might watch it for 10 minutes. And then it will do something remarkable, like suddenly bolt off the screen.'

One tape seen by the source shows a UFO diving into the ocean 'without making a splash.' 'There's some pretty spectacular videos,' they said.
The ODNI source was critical of their department's dossier, saying it glossed over the many intriguing and worrying unexplained cases.
'It was not as detailed as you might hope. It spent a lot of time jumping into the foreign surveillance that was discovered, which has nothing
to do with UAPs,' the source said. 'There's a lot of attention to that and just about nothing about the other 49 per cent that were not resolved.'

Ryan Graves, one of the Navy F-18 pilots who encountered 'gimbal'-shaped objects pulling high-gravity turns and showing no propulsion heat
signature on infra-red cameras, tweeted on Friday about the danger of ignoring such cases. 'Expect to continue seeing periodic attempts to
cling to the social high ground used to mock those who broach the topic of UAP,' Graves wrote. 'Conclusive commentary on UAP undermines
[national] security, aviation safety, and common sense. It's okay to be wrong; ignoring the issue is not acceptable.'

The ODNI source said the classified report promised lawmakers better data in future due to improved systems for military personnel to report
UFO incidents, and a more proactive approach from the recently revamped UFO task force which operates out of the Office of the
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.

'We didn't go out searching for them. We accidentally stumbled into them,' the informant told DailyMail.com. '[Now] they're actually creating
collection plans to go out and try to learn more, for the first time. That's something that's been happening just in the last six months.
'We're probably seeing five a month, maybe 10 a month. In a single report you might have 10 incidents.' 'There was a section that said that,
because this effort is growing, future reports would be vastly more detailed, and contain much more data.
'I am more hopeful than not that we're heading in the right direction.'

The news comes after Nasa announced its own team of 16 experts will begin an 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study' lasting nine months.

The 2023 NDAA, set to be voted on before the year end, includes whistleblower protections for officials disclosing previously secret government
projects involving UFOs to the task force, and creates a system for intelligence officials to report highly classified incidents to the task force
without violating their security oaths...'

(11-04-2022, 08:48 AM)727Sky Wrote: We have another Blue Book farce developing ... And people wonder why faith in getting to the bottom of this stuff is futile if you expect the government to do a proper job of getting to the bottom of this and releasing an honest evaluation.

Quote:Paranormal Mississippi Case Files: Case File #4: The Pascagoula Abduction

On the evening of October 11, 1973, 42-year old Charles Hickson and 19-year-old Calvin Parker went fishing on the west bank of the Pascagoula River. As dusk fell, they heard a whirring/whizzing sound and saw flashes of blue light on the water. They looked up to see an oval-shaped object approximately 30-40 feet across and 8-10 feet high.  Three creatures came gliding out of the craft and took them aboard.  Completely paralyzed but still conscious, the two men were subjected to a medical exam by a giant robotic eye. They were then returned to shore, and the craft sped away. 



Hickson and Parker promptly reported the incident to Keesler AFB and the Jackson County Sheriff's Department. A secretly-made audio recording revealed that they were traumatized, worried about their families, and had no intentions of deceiving anyone. Hickson reportedly passed a polygraph examination. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Professor of Astronomy at Northwestern University, studied the case and concluded: "There is no question in my mind that these men have had a very real, frightening experience."