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Originally posted by Egotosum
It's entirely possible that Zamora had the general details of the event committed to memory (the shape and characteristics of the craft, and the general look of the figures), but not the finer details of, for example, the height of the figures.
Originally posted by neformore
Originally posted by Egotosum
It's entirely possible that Zamora had the general details of the event committed to memory (the shape and characteristics of the craft, and the general look of the figures), but not the finer details of, for example, the height of the figures.
OK. For the last time, Zamora saw the figures standing upright next to a bush, and noted that they were no taller than it. When the bush was measured, its height was found to be approximately 5ft.
I don't know why you cannot get this, or work it out. A figure standing upright right next to a 5ft bush that is no taller than the bush is 5ft tall or less. It does not take a scientific qualification to understand this principle.
Originally posted by Atomic
This is going around in a circle.
Even if they are human...which I can accept for argument sake. You now have to explain the craft. The reason for why the craft was there. Why they were testing the craft during the day (since you say these US anti-gravity craft are hidden so well). And why the government was willing to draw attention to it by investigating it. I assume if they knew it was ours and it was top secret, you wouldn't send out people to draw attention to your anti-gravity aircraft. You would just discredit Zamora or play it off as a wayward test aircraft...end of story.
Originally posted by Egotosum
If the general public's come to accept that "out-of-the-ordinary" objects, that they might see in the sky, are probably "UFOs", then why wouldn't you risk testing out your hardware in broad daylight? I see little point in limiting one's testing abilities, of advanced military systems, when you've got the ultimate cover-story at-hand.
Originally posted by neformore
Originally posted by Egotosum
If the general public's come to accept that "out-of-the-ordinary" objects, that they might see in the sky, are probably "UFOs", then why wouldn't you risk testing out your hardware in broad daylight? I see little point in limiting one's testing abilities, of advanced military systems, when you've got the ultimate cover-story at-hand.
Because, as the USAF found out in Bosnia, one mistake, one lucky shot, human error, unforseen malfunction, pilot illness etc and the whole stack of cards comes falling down.
No military commander in their right mind tests a top-secret project in the public view because it sure as hell isn't going to stay secret for very long.
Originally posted by Egotosum
If the general public's come to accept that "out-of-the-ordinary" objects, that they might see in the sky, are probably "UFOs", then why wouldn't you risk testing out your hardware in broad daylight? I see little point in limiting one's testing abilities, of advanced military systems, when you've got the ultimate cover-story at-hand.
Originally posted by Atomic
Originally posted by Egotosum
If the general public's come to accept that "out-of-the-ordinary" objects, that they might see in the sky, are probably "UFOs", then why wouldn't you risk testing out your hardware in broad daylight? I see little point in limiting one's testing abilities, of advanced military systems, when you've got the ultimate cover-story at-hand.
I understand the promotion of UFOs to help use as a cover story, and I'm sure there is the occassional need to fly them once in a while in daylight...but to land a top secret anti-gravity aircraft near a small town in New Mexico in 1964 with unrestricted access is crazy! This is just two years after the Cuban Missle Crisis! Then the military is dumb enough to draw more international attention by sending photographers and investigators to the landing of your top secret aircraft AND disclose the contents of the burnt material that was left after the supposed anti-gravity craft "blasted off"?
So on one hand we are keeping this technology deep in secret areas to hide from foreign countries but we have no problem with test flights that land in public areas and put on a spectacle with bright lights, little men in spacesuits, and showing off how incredible these craft are? Was this the pattern with US Stealth technology? I don't remember a lot of public viewings of these craft and they aren't even anti-gravity, they just absorb and reflect radar!
Why is the military so reckless with the anti-gravity craft, yet I don't know of a single picture taken or personal encounter with the Aurora type craft that we all know exists? Sure they loved using UFOs to cover for SR-71 flights but landing your top secret aircraft near civilians makes no sense and I see no past pattern of the military ever doing this.
I think you are right about there being anti-gravity research, but I don't understand how you can say one thing and then turn it around and ok the blatant demostrations of these secret aircraft.
Originally posted by Atomic
Ok we have hundreds of UFO encounters that claim before and after 1964 that strange craft that have landed and had occupants that are very odd looking and in behaviour. This is reported worldwide (supposedly one just happened last month in North Dakota with 9 foot beings that I posted on).
You contend the best way to avoid attention to your top secret craft is to say "UFO-aliens" instead of "crashed test aircraft"? Which do you think has lasted in most people's memory longer? Is there a "Crashed Test-Flights" board on ATS I'm missing or TV shows talking about this? Why not just trot out another weather balloon story or scientific "hot air" balloon type thing and say: "Zamora is a great police officer, but what he saw was just a mishap of an off course test aircraft that works like a hot air balloon. For security reasons we can't go into details, but the craft is not dangerous". Why pull out a cover story about a UFO that is going to make international news, since similar stories had been reported around the world? There's no need to spin the story...it could of ended the next day, instead of still being talked about to this day and as we are doing right now.
Originally posted by Egotosum
Because who's going to question or, at the very least, critically analyse the notion that it wasn't an alien spacecraft? No-one, apart from anorak UFO-ologists and people like ourselves who frequent forums like this.
It's the perfect cover - hide what you're doing, in plain-sight. Most of the general public's never seen a "UFO" - and the message the mainstream media's been sending out for quite a while now, is that these sightings of UFOs and their "occupants" are either explained by natural phenomena, conventional commerical and military aicraft, hoaxes, sightings by fantasists or by the mentally-deranged.
My personal view on the matter of abductions and sightings of "aliens" is that we're dealing with people who are either attempting to get noticed by the wider world, who get a hard-on from making stuff up, out and out fantasists or individuals with psychological conditions - but I'm not comfortable with dismissing, out of hand, the thousands of sightings, since the late 1940s, of "UFOs", by individuals ranging from pilots (both commercial and military), police officers like Lonnie Zamora to the John and Jane Doe's of this world.
Since there's little to no verifiable evidence to suggest that we're not currently alone, in this neck of the Universe, i'm more inclined to believe that these "UFOs" are purely of terrestrial origin. Hell, we know for a fact that the Nazis were pouring money and other resources (even in the closing stages of WWII) into exotic-weaponary research (including anti-gravity research) and that in the late 1940s, people all over the US suddenly started seeing all types of UFOs in the skies.
Oh come on. Who is going to critically question the minds of those who think the Nazi's were some kind of quasi-gods who managed to develop anti-gravity while the rest of the world were struggling with crude jet engines?
And besides, it HAS been questioned, and all you have done is stonewall it. We have mentioned that there is no need to test an airframe out in the US without taking it anywhere near the borders of a restricted area, and asked why anyone in their right mind would need to fly it so close to a populated area.
We have pointed out the size of the occupants, and the correlating bushes that size meaurements were taken against. We have referred to the physical ground trace evidence that was measured by Zamora's colleagues in the police force. We have told you about the corroborating witness stories and yet you still dismiss it all and go back to your theory.
What we're dealing with is a closed mind here. There is plenty of evidence of UFO's, and science accepts the fact that there is a high percentage that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. We do not know that the Nazi's were researching anti-gravity at all. Its hearsay. Yes they had a lot of things on the drawing board and alot of it was impressive but you appear to be indulging in some kind of fantasy about how far ahead they were.
Originally posted by Egotosum
If the general public's readily come to accept that the unidentifiable objects they're seeing in their skies, are UFOs (possibly of extra-terrestrial origin) what are they most likely to think about cases such as the Lonnie Zamora one? That Zamora saw some sort of classified military craft, or a craft of extra-terrestrial origin? Plus, to argue that "there is no need to test an airframe out in the US without taking it anywhere near the borders of a restricted area" belies the fact that it's done all the time. Ever heard of "Aurora". The 1980s and 1990s were filled with sightings of a triangle-shaped craft flying over the European continent (in one case, spotted by an RAF-trained observer who alleged that the triangle-shaped craft was being escorted by F-111s).
Ask yourself, what's the most likely explanation for the "Foo-fighter" phenomena and the sudden explosion of UFO sightings in the 1940s (sightings quite different in nature to one's in previous centuries that can, in large part, be explained away as natural phenomena such as shooting stars and other astronomical events)? That little green men (if, indeed, we are not alone in this neck of the universe) inexplicably started taking interest in us Earthlings? Or that the Nazis tinkered with anti-gravity technology, developed test craft (partially automated UAVs) and that the US built on that technology throughout the mid to late 1940s?
What Chris Gibson saw in 1989 was interesting, but really has no relevance to this. Why? Because he saw it being refulled by a KC-135 and accompanied by two F-111's, which kind of points to the fact that it is/was a USAF project.
That having been said, other than the shape there was nothing to point out that the object was anything but conventionally powered. It may have been an extension of the F-117 technology that is subsonic (i.e. the often rumoured Black Manta). Even if it was even more interesting than that - in the case of Aurora - powered by PDE Engines (and he never reported an unusual sound, or a donuts on a rope contrail from it by the way), then that type of engine, whilst exotic, is a logical extension of technology currently in use. Its not anti-gravity.
As for flight testing, speed dictates that a larger area is required. When the U2 was tested civilian radars could not see that high. When the SR71 was tested air traffic controllers were briefed on the fact that there may be high speed traffic. I'm sure that similar things happen today with high-speed projects. In both cases the vehicles themselves were never seen in public. Tacit Blue, the F-117, and the B2 were not seen in public until such time as the military wanted them to be seen. You however are arguing about a case from 1967, using - so you say - a vertical takeoff anti-gravity craft powered by captured nazi-technology, which the US military decided to land in a publicly viewable area to have a look at. Your argument simply doesn't make sense.
Originally posted by Egotosum
Au contraire - you said, and I quote, "And besides, it HAS been questioned, and all you have done is stonewall it. We have mentioned that there is no need to test an airframe out in the US without taking it anywhere near the borders of a restricted area, and asked why anyone in their right mind would need to fly it so close to a populated area." That's simply incorrect - as Chris Gibson's 1989 sighting of a triangle/delta-shaped craft over the North Sea clearly demonstrates.
There's also the case of an F-117, in the 1980s, that crashed near a bunch of campers who were quite a distance from any restricted areas.
Whatever the nature of the airborne weapon's project, there's little reason why you wouldn't test it outside of restricted areas - such relatively small "test" areas end up restricting testing of the operational capabilities of your weapon's platform.
Originally posted by Strawberry_Icecream
One cannot ignore the size of the occupants reported by Zamora…
Zamora stated that the humanoids he saw were “two small figures in what resembled white coveralls”. He states that they were “the size of boys”, and noted that the heads of the figures fell noticeably below the bushes that were around the landing site. Among the indentations found at the landing site were small footprints.