Good to see that the CIA has a little bit of a sense of humor about this kind of thing. What a PR coup by the X-files reboot, as well.
I love that part at the bottom that says "Do you want to believe?".
CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
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#12Honestly even if you don't believe in aliens visiting earth (and I do not), these documents are still an interesting read.
Just seeing how they investigated and the investigators opinions/thoughts/methods was quite interesting to me. Some more than others, some are very short and only contain a witness statement.
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#13If you want to understand the UFO story better, you should watch Mirage Men about Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent Richard Doty, a self-admitted UFO disinformation agent- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naKTTuBq14 The intelligence agencies aren't hiding anything about UFOs from my experience. And I don't really think the USAF is either. But the USAF did tell various people that UFOs were real and the…
You linked a different movie for the Mirage Men trailer. The correct link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naKTTuBq14
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#14You have to hand it to the CIA for taking advantage of the XFiles reboot to boost their social media a bit. Especially on 37 year old documents!
Re: CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
#15If you want to understand the UFO story better, you should watch Mirage Men about Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent Richard Doty, a self-admitted UFO disinformation agent- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naKTTuBq14 The intelligence agencies aren't hiding anything about UFOs from my experience. And I don't really think the USAF is either. But the USAF did tell various people that UFOs were real and the…
Here's my tin-foil-hat theory on UFO's.
The whole idea of a UFOs and flying saucers was a kooky ass idea from the US government to spook the Soviets into thinking, the US actually had in their possessions aliens, and futuristic alien technology.
It is too coincidental the first reports of flying saucers came in the late 40s. When the cold war first started to heat up.
I think the Soviets actually bought it up and the government (CIA?) kept running with it. Why not? It was probably a cheap and effective way psychologically mess with the Soviets.
Re: CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
#16If you want to understand the UFO story better, you should watch Mirage Men about Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent Richard Doty, a self-admitted UFO disinformation agent- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naKTTuBq14 The intelligence agencies aren't hiding anything about UFOs from my experience. And I don't really think the USAF is either. But the USAF did tell various people that UFOs were real and the…
When I was a kid, I asked my grandfather, who was at that time an AF Colonel (he's now passed away), whether UFOs were real and whether he has seen aliens. He just looked at me, took me aside, and told me that UFO stories were propagated by the "boys from Langley" as a way to hide experimental aircraft testing. That way, every report of some black plane that was seen by the public, would be chalked up to UFOs and Russians wouldn't know what to think of it. We had a good laugh and I never told this to anyone. I don't think it's even a big secret anymore.
Since then, I always laughed at all these UFO reports and reports of abductions etc. It's become a national meme that's ingrained into the minds of so many... yet it's a complete fabrication.
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#17Come on guys, stop conflating UFOs with alien spacecraft. UFOs are real, alien spacecraft are probably not.
Re: CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
#18If you want to understand the UFO story better, you should watch Mirage Men about Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent Richard Doty, a self-admitted UFO disinformation agent- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naKTTuBq14 The intelligence agencies aren't hiding anything about UFOs from my experience. And I don't really think the USAF is either. But the USAF did tell various people that UFOs were real and the…
When I was a kid, I asked my grandfather, who was at that time an AF Colonel (he's now passed away), whether UFOs were real and whether he has seen aliens. He just looked at me, took me aside, and told me that UFO stories were propagated by the "boys from Langley" as a way to hide experimental aircraft testing. That way, every report of some black plane that was seen by the public, would be chalked up to UFOs and Rus…
RE: Abductions, it's entirely possible that those stories could be, instead, related to MK Ultra [0] rather than Air force testing.
Re: CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
#19If you want to understand the UFO story better, you should watch Mirage Men about Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent Richard Doty, a self-admitted UFO disinformation agent- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naKTTuBq14 The intelligence agencies aren't hiding anything about UFOs from my experience. And I don't really think the USAF is either. But the USAF did tell various people that UFOs were real and the…
Here's my tin-foil-hat theory on UFO's. The whole idea of a UFOs and flying saucers was a kooky ass idea from the US government to spook the Soviets into thinking, the US actually had in their possessions aliens, and futuristic alien technology. It is too coincidental the first reports of flying saucers came in the late 40s. When the cold war first started to heat up. I think the Soviets actually bought it up and the…
That isn't particularly outlandish. The Red Mercury hoax is pretty well documented and very similar:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/the-doomsday-scam...
The whole thing might have been a great way to 'out' spies (by tracing information flow) and generally confuse and psych out the Soviets.
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#20I found the documentary "I know what I saw"[0][1] rather interesting.
In this Mercury 7 astronaut, former pilots, retired air force officers, Major Generals etc give account of UFO sightings.
Although produced by History Channel, it features only accounts of these distinguished people and recollect no spin (if my memory serves me right).
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTEZeY-fNCU [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1579236/