Since we got their records after we won the war, yes, that is a stretch.
If intelligent life from another corner of the universe has made it here, chances are we’re well and truly fucked. That’s because their technology is centuries if not millennia ahead of ours, and whatever they want, they’re going to take. Unless, of course, they came here strictly in the interest of science. Either way, revealing that to the general public is almost certainly going to cause widespread panic.
Concerning UFOs that come from other worlds, there is nothing to know - they don’t exist.
Wrong. There is also ‘misunderstanding what you are seeing’ and intentional hoaxes.
Disagree. This is an old trope with no basis in fact.
And experimental aircraft they have good reason to lie about.
Yep, that too.
Looking at the lies told about earth-bound aliens from other countries, I’m not so sure.
I think he meant was it at stretch at the time to think they might have another project we didn’t know about yet.
Well, the actual information that was presented at this meeting was minimal, and three of the speakers gave no actual evidence for any of their claims. (The fourth speaker was Michael Gold of NASA, who had no outlandish claims to publicise, but made a simple plea for funding to research these events).
This is a game that has been played over and over again in the last six years. So-called whistle-blowers say they have information about unusual events and sightings, but when directly asked about these events they refuse to say anything, citing non-disclosure agreements and national security.
That is ridiculous - if you are a whistle-blower, you can’t hide behind non-disclosure agreements.
Here’s Jason Colavito on the subject.
Boring UFO Hearing Featured UFO Advocates Saying Nothing of Substance
Trump has promised to declassify it all. Might be interesting. But I doubt it.
UFO aren’t possibly of extra-terrestrial origin.IMHO, including most scientists. Yes, alien life likely exists, and intelligent alien life is possible. But the distances involved are impossible.
Since aliens is not possible, it has to be either natural (including hoaxes, lens issues, etc) and it well could be Russian, Chinese (remember those balloons?) or even American top secret stuff.
Right.
Mind you they did have a 'flying saucer" of sorts, and several flying wings.
We had the Vought V-173. That is a flying saucer. And the The Avrocar. There were others.
I concur.
The USAF ran Project Blue Book in the 50s and 60s to assess UFO sightings. They later released some data. Overwhelmingly, most “sightings” were misidentifications, some hoaxes, US test aircraft the USAF didn’t want to discuss, etc. Out of 12,618 reports only 701 were never explained. That’s about 5.5%.
The logically challenged claimed that those 5.5% were “proof” that UFOs (in the sense of aliens) were real.
Nope, there just wasn’t sufficient info to assign one of the common explanations.
Given the astonishing amount of video taken by the US military means that there’s going to be a ton of oddities seen. Like with Project Blue Book, almost all can be given a normal explanation. But there’s always going to be a small number whose explanation cannot be assigned due to a lack of information.
It would, in fact, be extremely suspicious if there weren’t many such unexplained oddities.
People can “analyze” the videos all they want. They can claim high speeds, weird turns, dipping into water, etc. But it’s probably just some combination of mundane things lost in a fog of poor information.
It’s Project Blue Book all over.
(Pilots, even experienced ones, have been shown repeatedly to be foolable by mundane phenomena. So “eyewitness” testimony on such sightings is going to be a problem.)
It should be noted here that shape (flying saucer) was a misquote of Kenneth Arnold, regarding his original post-WW2 sightings. He was describing their flight characteristics, not their shape:
“Arnold claimed he told [reporter] Bill Bequette that “they flew erratic, like a saucer if you skip it across the water.” Arnold felt that he had been misquoted since the description referred to the objects’ motion rather than their shape.”
The next day in a much more detailed article (and again mis-quoting), Bequette wrote, "He described the objects racing over the Cascade mountains with a peculiar weaving motion ‘like the tail of a Chinese kite.’ …He also described the objects as saucer-like and their motion ‘like fish flipping in the sun.’
The Russians just ran with it.
I won’t completely rule out the possibility that aliens exist and are capable of traveling to (or sending probes to) Earth. But they’re still not UFOs. Any civilization capable of that has technology far beyond ours. Either they want us to know they’re here, or they don’t want us to know they’re here, and either way, they most assuredly have sufficient technology to make sure that happens. We’d either see them landing on the White House lawn or something equally dramatic, or we’d never see them at all. What we wouldn’t see is vague glimpses and blurry videos of things we couldn’t quite make out.
Right.
To reply to the OP…
The populace doesn’t need to know…something…can successfully penetrate United States airspace.
If we were in contact with alien races Trump would have blurted it out on January 20th, 2017. The fact that there was a Trump presidency and nothing came out is the greatest proof that there have never been any visitors from space.
UFOs are not classified. After going through image processing, any mysterious sightings that haven’t been identified are released. This happens every few years and has been since at least the 90s.
Given that they failed to be identified they are, by definition, unidentified objects.
Anything with enough detail to identify are either not interesting (e.g. pictures of Venus, solar flares, etc.) or too interesting (enemy aircraft, secret aircraft, close-ups of our aircraft that may reveal the quality of our instruments, etc.) These identified images are classified.
If we had any photo of aliens, Trump would have Tweeted about it. From that, we know that everything that’s identifiable from the images is of terrestrial origin.
Which leads to some questions…
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Is there anything that is so secret that not even the president can be told about it?
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Is there a secrets briefing that US Presidents get when the first get into office where government classified secretes are revealed, or is that information provide to the president on a need-to-know basis, assuming the president asks about them?
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Is it lawful for the president to talk about classified secrets publicly? If caught doing so is the only punishment available impeachment?
There may be some nuclear secrets that, by Congressional law, can’t be revealed to the President. But most classification originates in the Executive Branch as Executive Orders, so even if the President was excluded from something, he could just write himself back in at any time he wanted.
I’m unaware of any legislation that restricts knowledge of extraterrestrial things from the President.