US Pentagon spent $132m on UFO research!!

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17 Dec 2017, 7:39 pm

Yes folks...$132 million of your tax funds was spent by the Pentagon between 2007-2012 on investigating UFOs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... five-years
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/p ... -reid.html
The reason I post this is because it contradicts the outcomes following publication of the Condon report in 1968 that the the UFO phenomenon does not warrant further investigation - the exact words of the Condon committee "no high priority in UFO investigations is warranted by data of the past two decades." (past two decades was mean't to mean the 1950s and 1960s)

This appears to be the first admission that infact the US government does take UFOs seriously enough to dip into your tax dollars.



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18 Dec 2017, 3:15 am

And it was replaced by the russia-gate investigation.



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18 Dec 2017, 3:21 am

and that wasn't even in the "black budget" which [some in the know claim] comprises TRILLIONS of dollar$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.



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18 Dec 2017, 8:19 pm

auntblabby wrote:
and that wasn't even in the "black budget" which [some in the know claim] comprises TRILLIONS of dollar$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Yes remember there was a congressional inquiry that was set to meet over missing money on Sept 10 2011
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest ... deep-space

Seems like taxpayers have some right to transparency if there is something the government knows but they "ain't" revealing



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18 Dec 2017, 8:44 pm

cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
and that wasn't even in the "black budget" which [some in the know claim] comprises TRILLIONS of dollar$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Yes remember there was a congressional inquiry that was set to meet over missing money on Sept 10 2011
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest ... deep-space

Seems like taxpayers have some right to transparency if there is something the government knows but they "ain't" revealing

uncle sam thinks john q. public can't handle the truth. and he may be right.



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18 Dec 2017, 9:24 pm

Uncle Sam seems to have declassified some x-files
http://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-rec ... d=51856514



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18 Dec 2017, 9:46 pm

oofohs are America's most open state secret.



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18 Dec 2017, 10:00 pm

auntblabby wrote:
oofohs are America's most open state secret.

conveniently bundled up within the national security state



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18 Dec 2017, 10:02 pm

cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
oofohs are America's most open state secret.

conveniently bundled up within the national security state

some say JFK was murdered over it.



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19 Dec 2017, 6:08 am

auntblabby wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
oofohs are America's most open state secret.

conveniently bundled up within the national security state

some say JFK was murdered over it.

debating this today - either he went to far with taking the US to the brink of nuclear war or he was using the oval office as a bordello?

But since you mention it JFK might have opened the lid on UFOs



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19 Dec 2017, 6:18 am

cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
oofohs are America's most open state secret.

conveniently bundled up within the national security state

some say JFK was murdered over it.

debating this today - either he went to far with taking the US to the brink of nuclear war or he was using the oval office as a bordello?

But since you mention it JFK might have opened the lid on UFOs

he wanted to open the files and share the technology with the Russians. that was the last straw for his [anti-communist psychopathic] assassins.



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19 Dec 2017, 8:24 am

How much for each anal probe?


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19 Dec 2017, 9:11 am

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19 Dec 2017, 10:48 am

Former Pentagon UFO official: 'We may not be alone'

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(CNN)A former Pentagon official who led a recently revealed government program to research potential UFOs said Monday evening that he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth.

"My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone," Luis Elizondo said in an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."

A pair of news reports in The New York Times and Politico over the weekend said the effort, the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was begun largely at the behest of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who helped shore up funding for it after speaking to a friend and political donor who owns an aerospace company and has said he believes in the existence of aliens.

Elizondo told The New York Times he resigned from the Department of Defense in October in protest over what he called excessive secrecy surrounding the program and internal opposition to it after funding for the effort ended in 2012.

He said the program sought to identify what had been seen, either through tools or eyewitness reports, and then "ascertain and determine if that information is a potential threat to national security."

"We found a lot," Elizondo said.

The former Pentagon official said they identified "anomalous" aircraft that were "seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics."

"Things that don't have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological," Elizondo said.

Ryan 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.

Politico reported that after Elizondo stepped down from the Department of Defense, he went to work for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, a company co-founded by former Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge that says it looks into issues surrounding government secrecy and unidentified objects.


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19 Dec 2017, 11:02 am

I don't really believe our gov't will ever come clean about it to us. it is higher a state secret than the real story behind JFK's assassination.



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19 Dec 2017, 4:20 pm

auntblabby wrote:
I don't really believe our gov't will ever come clean about it to us. it is higher a state secret than the real story behind JFK's assassination.

The national security state operates outside of the government much like the KGB used to operate outside of the Soviet communist party. It's autonomy ensures national security is maintained and minimizes being compromised by a loose cannon which (I suspect) Kennedy might have been.

We had our own strange event when prime minister Harold Holt mysteriously drowned while being watched by a full contingent of secret service on Cheviot beach during the height of the cold war.