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Originally posted by zaiger
Wow the pictures of the little alien toys really top it off. You could have mentioned that MUCH earlier. Can we move this to the hoax section now?
Originally posted by Mayan_Soul
So I just called Dr. Vincent Russo, and he tried to make it very clear to me that it was a "Hoax by somebody". He asked me if I was the one that had emailed him on the subject, and I replied no.
He continued to say "I don't have time to talk about that, it was a hoax by somebody."
There was a strange vibe in the conversation as if he would have done anything to convince me it was all just to be disregarded.
Maybe he was paid off to never mention it again after his retirement.
Sorry guys, I tried my best to find out if Dr. Russo had any information on this topic that seems to put him at the head of it, but whether or not I was lied to or told the true answer, it is disappointing.
Originally posted by FTD Brat
Crap, I was really disappointed to find that this was only an elaborate hoax. My dad worked at Wright Patterson in the Foreign technology division, and I swear he knows or knows someone who has had access to info on UFO's and ET's.
Besides that, it leaves me with one question though- Why? Why would the author or authors even include something like this? To confuse the heck out of us? That's all it seems to have been written to do.
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Originally posted by Brothers in Arms
Something has been bugging the back of my mind on this thread.
The article says the found this "petrified alien" buried at the
old McCook site.
Now, if it was actually buried, and it was a toy, I thought the concept
of aliens, their appearance, didn't come out until the late 30's, early 40's.
Why would a toy be buried that looks like an alien when they hadn't formed
an opinion on what aliens look like back in the 20's.
Can someone help me wrap my mind around this one?
Originally posted by hikix
did the OP perpetrate this hoax, or did he happen to find it and post it (not knowing it was a hoax)?
Originally posted by Brothers in Arms
Something has been bugging the back of my mind on this thread.
The article says the found this "petrified alien" buried at the
old McCook site.
Now, if it was actually buried, and it was a toy, I thought the concept
of aliens, their appearance, didn't come out until the late 30's, early 40's.
Why would a toy be buried that looks like an alien when they hadn't formed
an opinion on what aliens look like back in the 20's.
Can someone help me wrap my mind around this one?
McCook was a small field and its missions quickly outgrew the facility. In 1927, Its functions were transferred to Wright Field, now a part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Major organizations at Wright-Patterson that trace their history to McCook include the Aeronautical Systems Center, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Force Research Laboratory, National Air and Space Intelligence Center and National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Originally posted by slyceNow how does the National Air and Space Intelligence Center trace it's roots to a base that existed in the 1920's? We didn't even have a space program until the 50's. Am I missing something here?
Originally posted by WarrenPiece
Anybody look in the Table Of Contents? You might find that the piece was listed under fiction.
Tells the story of how Dayton, Ohio and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base became America's "Cradle of Aviation".
Originally posted by slyce
Now how does the National Air and Space Intelligence Center trace it's roots to a base that existed in the 1920's? We didn't even have a space program until the 50's. Am I missing something here?
at the beginning of World War I, the U.S. Army aeronautical division was woefully unprepared to gather intelligence in or on aircraft. To redress this shortcoming, the Army Signal Corps established an air technical intelligence (ATI) facility at McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio. There, in July 1917, they studied their first foreign aircraft, a British DeHaviland-4.
By 1920, the Army ATI facility in Dayton had become the Technical Data Section (TDS), which relocated in 1927 to Wright Field (today known as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) near Riverside, Ohio. TDS studied more than 300 captured German aircraft, as well as hundreds of British, French, and Italian planes. Weapons, parachutes, and various airplane parts were also among the materials examined by TDS.
With the ever increasing need to gain information about foreign aircraft, Materiel Division de-emphasized the Museum function at Wright Field, renaming its air intelligence function the Technical Data Branch in February 1940. This became the Technical Data Section in a July 1941 reorganization. From less than 100 people assigned in July 1941, the mission would grow dramatically during the war years until nearly 750 people were assigned by December 1945.
In 1942, the TDS became the Technical Data Laboratory (TDL).
T-2 Intelligence, established on 1 July 1945, began the move toward a balanced integration of engineering and intelligence. The administrative offices of T-2 moved to Building 262 in Area A (today, part of the Air Force Materiel Command headquarters building). A July 1947 T-2 study articulated a three-fold mission for air technical intelligence:
On 21 May 1951, the United States Air Force established the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) as a field activity of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence. After ten years, on 1 July 1961, ATIC was inactivated and the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) established. The 1950s, then, provided the backdrop against which ATIC performed its mission.
As part of its service-wide reorganization, the Air Force established the Air Force Intelligence Command (AFIC) on 1 October 1991.
HISTORY - NASIC traces its heritage back to 1917 at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio. The Foreign Technology Division (FTD) marked the beginning of NASIC history in 1961. The Air Force redesignated the unit as the National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) in October 1993 and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center in February 2003. NASIC unitized into groups and squadrons on 15