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originally posted by: alldaylong
a reply to: Sundog1
by an new name, the UAPs
Hardly that new. The British Ministry Of Defence have been using that terminology for about 30 years.
originally posted by: TechnoAssassin1
originally posted by: alldaylong
a reply to: Sundog1
by an new name, the UAPs
Hardly that new. The British Ministry Of Defence have been using that terminology for about 30 years.
Not disbelieving you, but can you show a 30 year old document or link to that effect?
Material that was held back from the original FOI release of the Project Condign report, but which was published in October after an appeal, suggests that the MoD suspected that this scientific knowledge came from studying UFOs - or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) as the MoD prefers to call them. "Russian, former Soviet republics and Chinese authorities have made a co-ordinated effort to understand the UAP topic. Several aircraft have been destroyed and at least four pilots have been killed 'chasing UFOs'.
It's not really so much a name shift, as an abbreviation shift. Even the US has used the term "unidentified aerial phenomena" as far back as 1952, and that is interchangeable with "objects" in this 1952 reference:
originally posted by: Sundog1
The reason for the name shift is that they want us to accept the acknowledgement of this new side-stepping procedure of scientific manipulation of the very basic features of mass/inertia/gravity without upsetting their whole world built upon their formerly unalterable rules about mass.
When Navy spokesperson Joseph Gradisher was asked by Law & Crime he stated “That’s because we want to destigmatize the reporting for our aviators, so they don’t hesitate to tell us what they have seen. Our aviators are not above ribbing the pilots who have spotted something that cannot be identified.”
Maybe they had to spend some money on it to try to convince China to spend some of their resources on it? I don't understand the game they are playing exactly, but, I do understand they are playing games, even if I don't know the purpose of the games.
Despite every physicist we have spoken to over the better part of two years asserting that the "Pais Effect" has no scientific basis in reality and the patents related to it were filled with pseudo-scientific jargon, NAWCAD confirmed they were interested enough in the patents to spend more than a half-million dollars over three years developing experiments and equipment to test Pais' theories.
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Sundog1
The term "UFO" has acquired a lot of baggage over the years so Using the term "UAP" makes sense if you want Unidentified objects to be taken seriously.
UAP has been used for years by those who want to break away from the stigma attached to UFOs.
A rose is still a rose.
originally posted by: Lucidparadox
a reply to: Sundog1
In the Larry King interview with Bob Lazar not to long ago, that was Bob's theory.
Bob said he really didnt understand the secrecy.. He said he understood that it can easily be weaponized and that probably had to be kept protected... but the whole notion of being able to control gravity would change the world and change energy as we know it and that is dangerous.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
The over-simplified answer to what holds the atmosphere up is pressure, not anti-gravity. The clouds are an atmospheric phenomenon, and don't forget, the air has mass too even if there are no clouds. Every square centimeter of Earth's surface has about 1.03 kilograms of air mass above it. It's not held up by anti-gravity but by gas pressure, what we measure with barometers.
Phenomenon
1. an observable fact or event
2. ...c: a fact or event of scientific interest susceptible to scientific description and explanation.