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"The document also makes it clear that the release of such information for public scrutiny would “seriously damage the ability of the United States to gather this vital intelligence information”." Of course it would have been harmful, countries such as the USSR might have realized how useful "ufo reports" in their own newspapers were in helping US analysts keep tabs on top secret Soviet missile and space weapons testing in the 1960s and later -- and stop publishing them. Major Russian UFO events of that era often were public misperceptions of these tests, with enough valid details to tell US analysts critical flight profile features. Examples [scroll down] here -- www.jamesoberg.com/ufo.html
originally posted by: IShotMyLastMuse
a reply to: JimOberg
i thought the NSA was busy spying our activity in terms of emails phone calls and so forth...why are they keeping tabs on the little green men too?
Did those cheeky aliens come all the way here to torrent those fapgate pictures??
anyways, while interesting, we would need something more than speculation...let's hope we will be able to add to this thread in the near future!
originally posted by: Xtraeme
Well looky at this (scroll right):
Now why on earth would GCHQ and the RAF be sharing documents, which conveniently disappeared down the memory hole, about Wing Commander Alan Turner's mass radar sighting with the NSA of all agencies?(original thread)
What could be so sensitive about this particular event that they blacked out the month to make it harder to identify?
Funny to think the NSA said they lost these documents. And guess what? The Ministry of Defense hasn't released them either, even though they've claimed they have released all the documents.
Something is not right with this picture.
“What I saw defied all logic and was, quite frankly, extraordinary. It wasn’t just me, more than 30 pairs of eyes of RAF staff and radar operators at Heathrow Airport witnessed the same thing. I instantly knew this wasn’t a convoy of military planes -the only craft with that rate of climb were supersonic lightning aircraft but they wouldn’t have been able to hold such a perfect formation".
RAF Wing Commander Alan Turner (MBE).
Don't think we will ever get to see or hear the unreleased physical evidence in the form of radar video/voice tapes in the Sopley case either but did think you asked an extremely important question about why GCHQ is sharing UFO documents with the NSA?
Funny the NSA should refer to the event as a: '"phenomena" in the sky'.
Why the double quotes?
Sounds to me like they know something a little extra.
originally posted by: Xtraeme
a reply to: karl 12
Now let's play fill in the blanks.
Who'd have thunk they'd use RADAR for communication.
www.dtic.mil...
Incredible.
Don't think we will ever get to see or hear the unreleased physical evidence in the form of radar video/voice tapes in the Sopley case either but did think you asked an extremely important question about why GCHQ is sharing UFO documents with the NSA?
I have been thinking about this all day and I think I have finally come up with a satisfactory answer.
David Clarke was right. The MoD had no idea what they were dealing with.
So what did they do? They pulled out the big guns and asked the NSA SIGINT team to take a crack at identifying what they picked up on their scopes. Funny the NSA should refer to the event as a: '"phenomena" in the sky'.
Why the double quotes?
Sounds to me like they know something a little extra.
originally posted by: DigitalJedi805
originally posted by: IShotMyLastMuse
a reply to: JimOberg
i thought the NSA was busy spying our activity in terms of emails phone calls and so forth...why are they keeping tabs on the little green men too?
Did those cheeky aliens come all the way here to torrent those fapgate pictures??
anyways, while interesting, we would need something more than speculation...let's hope we will be able to add to this thread in the near future!
This is records being brought up from the sixties if I'm not mistaken... Not the NSA's current activity...
"When they cannot identify a particular object, they report it as an unidentifiable object. In translating these messages, the U.S. cryptolinguist uses "unidentified flying object" as the equivalent of the [cipher] text."
originally posted by: 1ofthe9
Wouldn't it have been a English Electric Canberra vs a Martin B-57? Nifty radar link btw.
There were seven technically different radars all seeing exactly the same thing. Two radars at Southern radar, two radars at Heathrow, two at the fighter control establishment, and the airborne one with the Canberra bomber.
youtube.com...
Anyone know what the event in 1966 was?
originally posted by: Xtraeme
Who'd have thunk they'd use RADAR for communication.
www.dtic.mil...
Incredible.
originally posted by: Xtraeme
The MoD had no idea what they were dealing with.
originally posted by: Xtraeme
So what did they do? They pulled out the big guns and asked the NSA SIGINT team to take a crack at identifying what they picked up on their scopes. Funny the NSA should refer to the event as a: '"phenomena" in the sky'.
The curves are all swinging upward fairly rapidly. So we look at what we know about the technology we are using for surveillance, just the USA, not other countries, what we do and what we know and the kind of surveillance we can do. There is no doubt in my mind that today if not many times over the past fifty years we have had the surveillance capabilities to completely monitor the activities of certain UFO flights –and know exactly when they’re going, where they’re going, how they’re going, where they appear form and leave to, all the characteristics about them – we have radar based devices that will not only show the distance, direction and azimuth of an object and all that but will also how shape. We have devices the army has developed for tracking projectiles – they check the acoustic wave and when something crosses over they can immediately track that data and go back to the source. That’s how they track where a mortar is or a howitzer. We can use that same technology – and its portable – for tracking UFOs.
I don’t believe any of these things fly over our country today without being known and if somebody wanted the UFO mystery to completely disappear they could in five minutes release enough data to show exactly what’s going on and is not going on.
link
originally posted by: karl 12
Can't really blame them mate - never forgot this statement made by John Schuessler about surveillance capabilities and maybe the National Reconnaissance Office played its part as well..
Secret US Intelligence Agency Holds UFO Answers
A US intelligence agency that denied its very existence for decades has likely already determined the true nature of the UFO phenomena, and has kept its discoveries from the public for over a half-century.
This agency has the ability to “see” anything anywhere at any time as it is happening - even outside of our atmosphere. They have detected airspace intrusions of all kinds – including most assuredly, those of Unidentified Flying Objects..
THE AGENCY THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
Though it has been active for over 50 years, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was only officially acknowledged about 15 years ago. Before this acknowledgement, its employees could be imprisoned or even put to death under the Espionage Act if they were to reveal its name or even its mere existence. Since 1961 the NRO has quietly employed tens of thousands of people and it has spent hundreds of billions of dollars.
Officially part of the US Department of Defense, its stated mission is to design, build, operate and maintain global spy satellites and to control and to collect the information and images that are gathered from them. It tracks and monitors all traffic entering and leaving the Earth’s atmosphere. The agency secretly constructs and launches these ultra-advanced satellites in cooperation with NASA. The NRO also maintains a planetary-wide network of ground stations which process and analyze signals, photos and filmed images..
The agency is unquestionably the one arm of government that is the most uniquely positioned to possess close-up images of UFOs in airspace or in orbit - or that have perhaps even landed. Objects that are unidentified have surely been encountered buzzing our skies - or upon entering or leaving the atmosphere - on innumerable occasions. And they may have even spotted landings. More than that - given the advanced optics systems onboard these satellites - these UFOs have to have been filmed by NRO and later analyzed by ground station photographic experts. The NRO has acknowledged recently that its first orbiting satellite (called Corona) alone collected more than 800,000 images. With the dozens of such satellites rumored now in orbit, the sheer volume of images captured by the NRO must be in the multiple millions..
Link
originally posted by: JimOberg
Hundreds of Foreign UFO Sightings Intercepted by NSA According to Yeats Affidavit – GabriellePickard // 13 October 2014
originally posted by: Xtraeme
This is a clear admittance that the National Security Agency uses "unidentified flying object" as a catch-all to describe anything that they can't identify.
This is pretty damn smart.
Since most people interpret UFOs to mean alien spaceships. The average person's reaction is to either immediately discard it as nonsense or to immediately jump to the conclusion "alien spaceships — no need for further investigation."
The NSA is basically using it as a device to throw people off the scent.
It also explains why the military has spent so much time inculcating an atmosphere of derision, obfuscation, and silliness towards the subject whenever it comes up.
So my point here is if the NSA is using UFO as a codeword, and as a serious one at that (by their own admittance). I doubt they would be so dismissive of a phrase that they use to internally label unidentified targets and to mask their own covert operations. Therefore, similarly, I don't that think someone who is at the level of the Chief of the Office of Policy at the NSA would use double quotes around "phenomena" to mean it in the pejorative sense (remember this is a Top Secret Umbra document), but rather to suggest they know something extra that they are not letting on about in the affidavit.