It' s here! 2022 Annual Report On Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
a reply to: Outrageo

Would like to read entire article ……but the WSJ …,requires membership from what I could see.

Perhaps you could copy and paste pertinent paragraphs in a post to this thread?

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The old "archive" it first trick works in this case.

Try this link : archive.ph...

a reply to: mirageman

Thx…..


This is the synopsis I got from reading the WSJ article


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Man. I've been on this site for more than 20 years, lurking, reading, waiting and hoping that one day the US Government would finally release a report that confirms what they know about UFOs.

Guess I'll keep waiting.

a reply to: Ezekiel

The problem here is thinking we know what a tiny fraction of the US government knows and what should be revealed.

There are various situations that may or may not be the truth....

US Govt. has proof of aliens
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Depends on whether this is finding an artefact from long ago, either on Earth or out in space, maybe an intelligent signal or techno signature. To the Holy Grail of a spacecraft and even alien bodies on ice somewhere. Any revelation would be a game changer. But the latter is a common belief (at least amongst a small percentage of Americans). This also assumes a level of secrecy and competency that would be unprecedented in government. Any government.

Another country has proof of aliens but keeps it secret
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There is little point expecting any American government to be able to provide answers here. But if aliens have ever visited Earth than it is a lot more likely they didn't visit America and visited elsewhere. But this again assumes a level of secrecy and competency in government.

UFOs are actually the product of something weirdly anomalous
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Not aliens. But a new scientific discovery has been made. Although this would then pose the question of why the need for intense secrecy to keep this from the public. Would certain people even believe it? The discovery of swamp gas went down like a burst weather balloon in the past!!!

There is no proof of aliens anywhere on Earth
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The current status quo is eternally preserved until proof of aliens appears. The UFO grifters carry on grifting, US intel carries on bamboozling public with alien stories. Speculators carry on speculating what the US government really knows and won't tell.

a reply to: mirageman

UFOs are actually the product of something weirdly anomalous

but we can't admit that we don't know what that is so will try and satisfy congress with a report written by our newest staffer

Here’s the report synopsis vid…..source CNN

Hear the details of a new UFO report released by US government

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originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
Here’s the report synopsis vid…..source CNN

Hear the details of a new UFO report released by US government

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This video doesn't work for me?

originally posted by: RonnieJersey

originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
Here’s the report synopsis vid…..source CNN

Hear the details of a new UFO report released by US government

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This video doesn't work for me?

Perhaps it’s not available in your region of the world…..

It’s not on YouTube…..so it’s not embeddable here on ATS……others here may have access……sorry


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a reply to: Ophiuchus1

Did she say 300, not 500?

That makes it's worse.

I thought I read in the WSJ piece that it was 500, and 171 wasn't explained.
This CNN lady says 300 and 171 weren't explained. Big difference.


Maybe we are being invaded, and the all-powerful governments of the planet are clueless. And the top dog---the US of A is as useless as any of them.

originally posted by: peaceinoutz
a reply to: Ophiuchus1

Did she say 300, not 500?

That makes it's worse.

I thought I read in the WSJ piece that it was 500, and 171 wasn't explained.
This CNN lady says 300 and 171 weren't explained. Big difference.


Maybe we are being invaded, and the all-powerful governments of the planet are clueless. And the top dog---the US of A is as useless as any of them.

Yeah…..she did say 300 beyond the last report figures…….but ya gotta consider who’s talking and also it coming from CNN ….1+1 doesn’t always =2 😆

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a reply to: Ophiuchus1

Whatever CNN is there not stupid. It’s a simple matter a cub reporter should be able to report accurately. It might be the WSJ guy, who was so anti-UFO he might have deliberately distorted things.

Here's another report with different numbers from the BBC.

www.bbc.com...

This is starting to look strange, to say the least.

Apparently, its some kind of overlap with the 2021 report, and numbers are all over the place.

originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
a reply to: Outrageo

Would like to read entire article ……but the WSJ …,requires membership from what I could see.

Perhaps you could copy and paste pertinent paragraphs in a post to this thread?

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Never Mind, Say the U.S. Government’s UFO Hunters

Operation clean-up is easy to explain, but why the five years of taunting the Roswell crowd?

The Pentagon’s UFO hunters seem to coin new acronyms at a rate of about one a year, and may now need another—unexplained delayed object.
The UDO in question is the intelligence community’s second annual report on military sightings of what are now called unexplained aerial phenomena. Originally expected in October, then promised by year-end, it appeared Thursday, sticking another pin in the five-year UFO belief bubble fostered by the U.S. government itself.

In an irony the world will be slow to appreciate, 60 years of Roswell paranoia has been stood on its head. The intelligence the U.S. was hiding is intelligence that suggests UFOs are not alien spacecraft but ordinary drones, balloons, wind-blown plastic bags, etc. The government’s desire to keep its own secrets was a key inflator of the UFO bubble.

In the new report, all hints of woo-woo and uncanniness are gone, in favor of worry about the hazard airspace “clutter” poses to air traffic. Unsurprisingly, the reported sightings increased with the increased attention. Of 195 incidents that could be explained, 100% were not due to alien visitation. Of course, the genie won’t go back in the bottle easily because 171 remain unexplained. But the truth is out there: If 100% of explained events don’t involve aliens, what is the assumed rate of alien involvement in the unexplained events? If thousands of incidents are examined over decades and none yield proof of alien visitation, what should we assume about the background incidence of alien visitation?
On the flipside, if aliens ever do visit, expect the evidence not to be ambiguous or hiding behind a pile of ordinary unexplained events.
Ukraine perhaps accounts for the change in tone. Suddenly, it was no longer suitable to have the world believing the Pentagon either had lost its mind or was using UFOs to hide its own possession of uncanny, destabilizing military capabilities. The risk of a mass-hysteria outbreak also couldn’t be ruled out. Suppose, in a context of widespread belief cultivated by the government, a military pilot were to crash after chasing a UFO, as happened in 1948 to a Kentucky air guardsman who crashed his P-51 while pursuing what was later judged to be a secret U.S. government balloon?

One puzzle remains: why the U.S. government for so long seemed pleased by its role in propagating the UFO frenzy, before turning on a dime a year ago—a shift paralleled by the overnight shift from credulous to skeptical of its chief stenographer, the New York Times.
Interesting now is to chart the progress from misleading to non-misleading. A previous national intelligence report, issued in June 2021, implying dozens of unexplained sightings by military pilots of “physical objects” exhibiting “advanced technology”—clearly misleading.
John Brennan, the Obama CIA chief who in a 2020 podcast pointed to a “type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life”—misleading.

John Ratcliffe, President Trump’s intelligence czar, who ruled out an earthly explanation for apparent “technologies . . . that we are not capable of defending against”—misleading.

NASA Chief Bill Nelson, who invoked the possibility of parallel universes and added, “We hope it’s not an adversary here on Earth that has that kind of technology”—misleading.

Any doubt that Operation Clean-Up is now under way should have been dispelled in late November. The Pentagon’s intelligence undersecretary and its UFO office chief held a briefing to sing in unison that the U.S. has no information to support the alien-visitation hypothesis. NASA is in repentance mode too, letting the media know its own forthcoming study won’t point to extraterrestrial explanations.

Kudos are due a relative few, such as Popular Mechanics, the Intercept and Reason magazine. Since the suggestive leak of Navy pilot videos in 2017 indicating unexplained encounters, they have been nearly alone in upholding the standards of American journalism in an unpopular cause, namely not assuming that every passing mystery that eludes explanation is due to alien spacecraft.

Then there’s PBS, which last week aired a part-documentary, part-docudrama on the alien-visitation thesis. In the end, PBS was also a non-misleader if you stuck around long enough. Just before the closing credits, its panel of astronomers and astrobiologists was allowed to emphasize that, for time and distance reasons, humans are unlikely ever to have a direct encounter with an alien civilization. At best, we will discover they existed long after they’re gone, or vice versa.

Appeared in the January 14, 2023, print edition of the Wall Street Journal as 'Never Mind, Say the U.S. Government’s UFO Hunters'.