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The most interesting part to me >Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials
by akhilcacharya 9y ago
The most interesting part to me
>Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.
>“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic signals involved or its function.”
They claim to have physical evidence? Seems like a buried lede if even remotely true.
- WaxProlix 9y agoProsaic bits of metal and rock, perhaps, spun to be containing some sort of unknowable potential for unknowable purpose.
- crooked-v 9y agoThere's also "unexplained aerial phenomena" as the generic cover for materials recovered from the secret research programs of other countries.
- wolf550e 9y agoBut come on, if US intelligence agencies recovered metallurgy from Russian hypersonic missiles or something like that, why would they use UFO for cover? And why would they store it outside of AFRL? I think it's just a way to funnel taxpayer money, there is nothing real being investigated. Not extraterrestrial tech, not foreign tech, not even domestic tech.
- StanislavPetrov 9y ago>I think it's just a way to funnel taxpayer money They only spent $22 million on the whole program. Accounting errors in the Pentagon literally amount to trillions of dollars. $22 million is about 20% of the cost of a single F-35. They have much better ways to funnel taxpayer money - $22 million isn't even pocket change for the Pentagon.
- alfiedotwtf 9y ago"Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire and longtime friend of Mr Reid's" This.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoSee Glomar Explorer for other examples.
- alfiedotwtf 9y agoYep. Pretext is everything.
- inks 9y agoWhy would the CIA use Howard Hughes and a barge large enough to house a stealth boat to recover a Soviet sub?
- codeonfire 9y agoThis sounds like a sponge operation to gauge how much experimental flight testing programs may impact the public, how secret it is being, collect debris that falls into public hands, etc. Obviously if it was done under the auspices of a military operation that would lead to questions. But no one questions the motives of people posing as UFO investigators.
- starrychloe 9y agoWell how did they get it? Did they shoot one down? Did one crash? How can it travel light years yet run into a mountain?