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The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care? (washingtonpost.com)
15 points by DanielBMarkham on March 11, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



"UFOs" are most certainly experimental US craft and airframes, and the UFO myth is fueled by Air Force psychological warfare, disinformation, and the public's vulnerability to it.

A good read is Mark Pilkington's Mirage Men, there's also a documentary to accompany the book[1][2].

As far as this article, however, it seems to be advertising for Tom Delonge's "To The Stars" media company[3].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mirage-Men-Adventure-Espionage-Psycho...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Mirage-Men-Robert-J-Durant/dp/B00IXPQ...

[3] http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Crowdfunding-New-...


Probably because someone high enough up the chain knows what they are (alien or not) and is killing investigation of them. Maybe they’re experimental US tech, but whoever knows isn’t saying, and doesn’t want others to know.


The author should probably frame it as a national security threat.

We can be almost certain we won't be able to predict exactly what exactly a will UFO will look like or how they will approach, which creates enough insecurity where it's worth having a team or small agency dedicated to looking at these anomalies where it possibly won't be a total surprise when it does happen...

It wouldn't take much of the countless billions spent on random DoD projects to build a simple cross-agency database for tracking events with comparable parameters and a single liaison/analyst person representing each major branch (army/navy/space) to keep track of this stuff and compare notes.

It's at least as plausible a scenario as many of the more radical DARPA research projects which get approval and would be popular among the tax paying public who finances these projects.


Because they are a waste of time. Either they're ours or something else entirely. If these were "little green men from another planet", we'd have figured that out a long time ago and we'd all be a space-faring species by now (maybe we already are?). I want to believe but perhaps this whole phenomenon is a mirage...sure, evidence of "something" but maybe not what we think at all.





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