The site had evidently been chosen with care. The pillar was dramatically situated at the base of a slot canyon, encircled by sheer walls in a geometric arrangement. It looked like the setting for some ancient ritual, or at least the set of a "Star Trek" episode. Framed against the vast desert sky and towering red rocks, the sleek pillar was an intruder from another world, like a sculpture that had fallen off a truck on its way to Art Basel. Was it a work of landscape art?
Add a foreboding soundtrack, and this could be the opening scene of a sci-fi movie, the eerie discovery that sets the plot in motion. That's more or less what happened: When the D.P.S. announced its discovery on the 20th, the pillar became a sensation. Believers in U.F.O.s insisted that it " fell out of the sky " and aired conspiracy theories about government cover-ups. The government, for its part, winked at the idea of aliens. The D.P.S.
This may worth something:
Pentagon releases UFO videos for the record - BBC News
.css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;} The US Department of Defense has released three declassified videos of "unexplained aerial phenomena".
The Pentagon said it wanted to "clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real".
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After they were first leaked, some people claimed the videos showed alien unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
According to the New York Times, a clip from 2004 was filmed by two navy fighter pilots and shows a round object hovering above the water, about 100 miles (160 km) out into the Pacific Ocean.
Pentagon admits UFO program still exists. But Navy's alien sightings don't quite add up.
Is it vindication at last? The New York Times has recently reported that a supposedly canceled Pentagon project to investigate strange aerial phenomena is still showing a pulse. The clandestine effort, originally known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was said to have ended in 2012. But, apparently, it's still doing its thing under the auspices of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, and with a new name: the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.
What's behind the Pentagon's new UFO task force, UAPTF? | Explainer
And here's another article:
The US military has officially published three UFO videos. Why doesn't anybody seem to care?
Adam Dodd does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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On April 27, 2020, the US Department of Defense issued a public statement authorising the release of three "UFO" videos taken by US Navy pilots.
The footage appears to depict airborne, heat-emitting objects with no visible wings, fuselage or exhaust, performing aerodynamically in ways that no known aircraft can achieve. The DoD doesn't use the terms "unidentified flying object" or "UFO" but does clearly state "the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified'."
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public - The New York Times
[radio transmission] "Whoa, got it — woo-hoo!" "Roger —" "What the [expletive] is that?" "Did you box a moving target?" "No, I took an auto track." "Oh, OK." "Oh my gosh, dude. Wow" "What is that man?" "There's a whole screen of them. My gosh." "They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots from west." "Dude." "That's not — is it?" "[inaudible]" "Look at that thing."
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Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.
2020 may show us that even aliens are no longer an impossibility
That's the tagline of a famous internet meme based on Giorgio Tsoukalos' History channel show, " Ancient Aliens ." But now it seems to be the official United States government line, too.
Just this past week came the latest slow-roll disclosure about UFOs and aliens in The New York Times , which, in the words of tech blog Gizmodo , "casually drops another story about how aliens are probably real."
There are even reports that the Pentagon has obtained vehicles or parts of vehicles "not made on this Earth," though former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was either misquoted confirming the story or walked back his comments to that effect later.
Three books on UFOs. - The Washington Post
UFO sightings happen in clusters. The same is true of books about UFOs. While clusters of UFO sightings are called "flaps," there is no similar term for clusters of UFO books. I propose calling them a "Sagan" (despite the risk of implying that there are billions and billions of them).
Scoles successfully navigates between otherizing (making people into bizarre, foreign objects) and going native (becoming one of the group observed). She is charitable, treating those she meets as rounded individuals full of hope and pain, not as a motley collection of rubes and charlatans to be mocked. Yet, she maintains her position as an outsider journalist making sense of the intricate stew of conspiracy theory, spectacle and kitsch.
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