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US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

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Re: US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

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Anything to distract public from important things! Last week it was sub, now UFO. Did anyone even noticed Watergate^2?

What scandal are you referring to…?

The president's son allegedly committed quite a few crimes, including offering access to his father (The US President) for money. He has been charged for some of these crimes recently.

Re: US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

#23

If you believe the government is capable of covering this up for decades then you must also believe they're just as capable of lying about UFO's existing for some other reason. I heard some guy saying they were actually demons, which I found quite funny/entertaining. Supposedly these aliens smell like sulfur badly. Maybe aliens/demons are the same thing? I guess we're gonna need the Doom Slayer.

Shor's stone! So the Plane of Oblivion does exist.

Re: US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

#24

If you believe the government is capable of covering this up for decades then you must also believe they're just as capable of lying about UFO's existing for some other reason. I heard some guy saying they were actually demons, which I found quite funny/entertaining. Supposedly these aliens smell like sulfur badly. Maybe aliens/demons are the same thing? I guess we're gonna need the Doom Slayer.

That sounds like a reference to Childhood's End:

https://www.syfy.com/videos/childhoods-end

Re: US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

#25

If you believe the government is capable of covering this up for decades then you must also believe they're just as capable of lying about UFO's existing for some other reason. I heard some guy saying they were actually demons, which I found quite funny/entertaining. Supposedly these aliens smell like sulfur badly. Maybe aliens/demons are the same thing? I guess we're gonna need the Doom Slayer.

Religion was born based on primitive humans observing aliens, which were interpreted as "angels" and "demons". It's as good of an explanation as any.

Either way, we will need to make great technological leaps to develop proper demonslaying equipment.

Re: US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

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I believe in aliens/ufos/"something else out there" thanks to Graham Hancock's interesting book Visionary. Do I trust the government to tell me the truth about them at a time where institutional trust is at all time low? No freaking way.

Hancock is clearly a kook.

Re: US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

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I am wondering how much of this is fueled by the change in the word alien from simply meaning foreign to meaning extraterrestrial and people misreading the former for the latter.

The research into foreign weapon technology is in one of those gray areas where not only does some of those activities border really close to industrial espionage against companies in potentially allied countries, or might contradict stated US State Department positions on international law it's usually classified and spoken off in hushed tones

It's very likely that an alien(as in foreign) technology evaluation program exists without there being anything extra-terrestrial about it as legalese can trail popular changes to terms by several decades. And that mentions of those in wider circles might fuel some rumors and misconceptions among those "who wants to believe".

Re: US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

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What I find most fascinating about aliens and UFOs is that they always seem to be heading for America. If a UFO arrived from another galaxy it might choose any place to land, but talk is always America-centric. Do other countries feel so UFO special?

One of the most notable UAP/UFO encounters ever took place in South Africa at an elementary school.

Re: US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

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The government has previously used UFOs to divert attention.

> Over half of all U.F.O. reports from the late 1950's through the 1960's were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights'' over the United States, the C.I.A. study says. ''This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-...

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