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originally posted by: karl 12
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
This subject really does take you everywhere doesn't it?
Am glad I keep this handy pie chart for emergencies.
Venn
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
if you haven't personally had a high strangeness encounter, studied yoga for half your life, or ohter qualifying experience it will sounds like bull#. Academically sourced bull#, but bull#.
• "To cut a long story short I would say that the beings that shamans call spirits; the beings that medieval Europeans called faeries and elves and the beings that modern Americans call aliens are all the same beings."
Graham Hancock.
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Before Twitter/Facebook, some UFO chat took place on Usenet (particularly in the 1990s and early 2000s). Messages on relevant newsgroups totalled in the hundreds of thousands. Frankly I was never a fan, but I've uploaded a sample of 300,000+ pages.
@Isaac Koi
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
YES, this subject does take you above & beyond, literally. I just wish the money train would crash 'n burn so real science can get back to work.
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
“The only new thing in this world is the history you don’t know.”
— President Harry S. Truman
• "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
Herbert Spencer, British philosopher
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
I could never have completed all my UFO study and thenattracted an internationally famous co-author to helpme write about it, if it hadn't have been for Joshha Cutchin
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
What I would hope to see, is a bit of a healing happening between 'creative thought' and 'rational thought'.
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
Some great quotes, especially Heinlein's. Those guys must be rolling in their graves based on today's circus show.
• "NORAD has been the retrieval agency for all of the UFO documentation made under JANAP 146(E)."
John Greenewald Junior - UFO Document archivist.
Video: 14:50
Elizondo Interview (2021)
Before you were approached to be part of AATIP, you were a counterintelligence special agent hunting terrorists and drug traffickers. Why did they approach you?
I have no idea. I think probably because I wasn’t prone to any flights of fancy. I wasn’t a particular fan of science fiction. I do have some background in advanced aerospace technology. When I was a young special agent, I did “tech protect” [counterintelligence work to stop US technology from falling into enemy hands] of advanced avionics and my background was a scientist. At university, I had three majors: microbiology, immunology and parasitology.
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
I think one has to go back to the late 40s and submerse oneself into all the documentation & archived footage, along with certain books and work your way forward to present to really understand what is going on.
• "The almost-600 page book is well-grounded with nearly 1,000 citations from government documents and other primary sources so it is 'bullet proof'. There is virtually nothing speculative in it. We document the response of governments from the 1940s forward to events they took quite seriously - and which readers, judging on the evidence and data, will take seriously as well.
A short op-ed cannot do justice to the complex narrative, but I can state a few facts."
• Any other domain of inquiry with hundreds of well-documented events would be considered worthy of scientific and historical investigation.
• Well-executed policies carried out with secrecy do not constitute 'a conspiracy', and we are not 'conspiracy theorists', a term used to attack investigators of unpopular subjects. Members of the military and intelligence community, from the early 1950s on, decided to learn as much as they could about UFOs - which they decided did not constitute a direct threat to national security - while at the same time playing down and dismissing reports from the public. The reports themselves were considered to be the primary threat by the CIA.
• The data illuminates a phenomenon that is global, persistent and sufficiently similar in small details to invite taxonomic classification as to vehicle types, the physics of force fields that power the objects and ionize the air around them, producing characteristic colors in relationship to speed and power, and diverse kinds of robotic or sentient beings associated with the objects.
• It is an astonishing sociological and psychological phenomenon that throughout the 20th century, despite reports by credible observers, corroborated on multiple radar sets on the ground and in jets, resulted not in public investigation but in an inability to get our minds around the mere possibility. Instead the subject is literally 'unthinkable'.
• One reason it is 'unthinkable' is the effective use of ridicule, the mocking of people who made reports or took the subject seriously, and a long silence from official authoritative voices in the face of credible testimony. When I delivered a speech and served on a panel recently at the National Security Agency, I was reminded by a veteran analyst that "the three legs of cover and deception are illusion, misdirection and ridicule. But the greatest of these is ridicule"— which discredits the person, not the testimony, and the testimony I have heard has come from military and civilian pilots, astronauts, even the intelligence head of a foreign military force. "This is what I saw, and I know what I saw" is what I am told, corroborating the statement in 1947 by Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining that "The phenomena is something real and not visionary or fictitious."
"So I'm out of the closet on a subject. As an older man with a solid track record of delivering insights into likely futures that have pretty much worked out over the years, a man who has spoken for security conferences all over the world (including NSA, the FBI, the Secret Service, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Pentagon, etc.), discussing the impact of new technologies, I can say without embarrassment that documented data supports the contention that many historical reports show exactly what they seem to show - anomalous vehicular traffic demonstrating aerodynamic capabilities and propulsion systems beyond the range of our own technology."
Richard Thieme.
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originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
I'm just a novice (not even a amateur) on this vast broad topic so my views may be totally off the mark.
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
The JPL and Silicon valley were largely founded by an offshoot Theosophy cult and influenced by what became Scientology..
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community
• "The stubborn debunkers conduct a different, but nonetheless detrimental, brand of bait and switch. They often try to lead newcomers to believe they promote skepticism and rationality when, in actuality, they can be among the most opinionated, dogmatic demographics one might ever encounter. Healthy skepticism is a very good thing - I would confidently say entirely necessary - but it is nowhere to be found among stubborn debunkers and despite their claims to the contrary.
They make fun of people who hold ideas and beliefs different than their own, employ sarcasm as a preferred mode of expressing themselves, and, by and large, do not even conduct research – they just criticize and make light of others who do, unless it happens to support their preferred perspective. They virtually never address a topic of which they are unwilling to offer speculative conclusions, and they fail miserably at asking the right, productive questions.
In his 1992 paper, 'CSICOP and the Skeptics: An Overview', writer/researcher George P. Hansen observed that facets of the organized skeptical movement opted to employ an extended public relations campaign rather than conduct research. "These activities display more parallels with political campaigns than with scientific endeavors," Hansen wrote..
Stubborn debunkers typically attempt to minimize reported experiences of high strangeness or conspiratorial implications by employing any number of explanations that might indeed be applicable in some circumstances, but do not necessarily apply to a case at hand. While the burden of proof indeed falls upon one asserting a claim, the fact of the matter is that a more discerning group of experiencers and researchers do not assert claims, but simply question. The bottom line - again - is that people of higher intelligence and emotional availability don't want other people trying to tell them what happened to them who have no idea and don't even know they don't. Same as with the unquestioning believers. Whether one's field of interest includes psychic phenomena, entities, the intelligence community or most anything else, they should prefer to allow facts lead them to conclusions, not lobbying techniques."
Jack Brewer.
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
As I'm sure you know, the UAP Hearings kick off in Congress today.
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
Flashback to UFO Cover-up? Live! [Oct. 14, 1988]
• "I suggest people go out and buy strawberry ice cream - if it's all gone maybe the UFO guy will go away."
Jim Oberg.
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
Difficult to wrap your head around I know, but all the signs are in plain sight.
Wernher von Braun wrote a 1952 novel in which man named 'Elon' colonized Mars.
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
However I would say, that humans first need to understand what they ultimately are..