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Old 03-May-2008, 11:19 PM
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Default Smoking Gun Case: UFO Officer and Code Red.

UFO HUNTERS new show this last week was about a rarely heard about event (at least for me..) involving a UFO being seen for hours over our airfields. The audio transcripts have just been released via FOIA and are pretty amazing. For the first time ever, they openly talked about a "UFO OFFICER" to help decide what to do about these objects. It appears the UFO OFFICER is probably from the FTD (Foreign Technology Division) and supposedly one was at every base. Of course, the Air Force does not study UFO's.

So why was this classified to begin with? To cover up stupidity? Watch the video below and take into account all the facts they go over. Thanks and enjoy.

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So why was the audio transcript classified at all? Also, doesnt this prove that the Air Force has been lying when it says it does not investigate UFO's and that they are not a threat?
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Old 04-May-2008, 12:43 AM
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A classified UFO incident.
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Old 04-May-2008, 12:55 AM
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You will have to provide better evidence than YouTube videos that are based on suspicion and paranoia about something these people are guessing, assuming and inventing things.
The videos include distorted evidence presented by a biased propagandist and twisted cherry picking in order to best support their claims.

Anyone who is not lacking critical thinking and wits can see through the smokescreen.
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Old 04-May-2008, 12:58 AM
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You will have to provide better evidence than YouTube videos that are based on suspicion and paranoia about something the people are guessing, assuming and inventing things.
The videos include distorted evidence presented by a biased propagandist and twisted cherry picking in order to best support their claims.

Anyone who is not lacking critical thinking and wits can see through the smokescreen.
Thanks for not watching the videos. Because if you had, you would know that they went over multiple mundane explanations and debunkery points. They even interviewed weather experts to say it WAS NOT "ANOMALOUS PROPIGATION".



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Thanks for not watching the videos. Because if you had, you would know that they went over multiple mundane explanations and debunkery points.



Thanks.
History channel sensationalism is called "debunking"? I think not.
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History channel sensationalism is called "debunking"? I think not.
Look, if your not going to watch the videos your just wasting my time.
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Look, if your not going to watch the videos your just wasting my time.
Whatever.

You are the one who chose to post them- ask for commentary- and chose to respond to my commentary. If you felt it's a waste of time- why did you do it?

Tell you what: Maybe I don't feel like wasting my time by watching a bunch of YouTube's sensationalizing UFO's as Space Aliens...

Maybe if you want to discuss what you perceive to be a conspiracy YOU might take the actual time and effort to do more than post links to videos. Maybe you could concisely list out the supposed "Smoking Gun" evidence that we can actually have a discussion about.

While we are talking YouTube- I can dig up some YouTubes disputing these videos you linked to!
I can link to YouTube video's about BigFoot.
I can link to YouTube Videos claiming that there is a conspiracy about Jackalopes too.

It just isn't impressive.

If you have evidence- Present EVIDENCE.

Incidentally, the military always has and will always do some investigating into UFO's. Do you know what UFO means?
UNIDENTIFIED Flying Object.

Your claim that the Air Force Denies investigating UFO's is false. Completely false.

They never denied that they investigate UFO's.

What the Air Force does NOT DO is investigate Alien Abduction claims, Investigate UFO/Alien Spacecraft Claims or investigate Alien Sightings.

Get your facts straight and don't try to manipulate the facts to make it appear that the military lied- when it never did.

Do we look like fools? Non thinkers that can't see through your cherry picked claim?
C'mon...
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UFO HUNTERS new show this last week was about a rarely heard about event (at least for me..) involving a UFO being seen for hours over our airfields. The audio transcripts have just been released via FOIA and are pretty amazing. For the first time ever, they openly talked about a "UFO OFFICER" to help decide what to do about these objects. It appears the UFO OFFICER is probably from the FTD (Foreign Technology Division) and supposedly one was at every base. Of course, the Air Force does not study UFO's.

So why was this classified to begin with? To cover up stupidity? Watch the video below and take into account all the facts they go over. Thanks and enjoy.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3


Video 4

Video 5

So why was the audio transcript classified at all? Also, doesnt this prove that the Air Force has been lying when it says it does not investigate UFO's and that they are not a threat?
I want to see some Alien Controlled Spaceships, not those ol' UFO's!
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Old 04-May-2008, 01:43 AM
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Whatever.

You are the one who chose to post them- ask for commentary- and chose to respond to my commentary. If you felt it's a waste of time- why did you do it?
Let me know when you watch the videos. (And have something to say about the content in those videos, or this UFO case overall).

Is it too much to ask you comment on what I posted? This has nothing to do with past UFO arguments, debates or cases. So let me know if you want to engage in a real discussion about this, or if you expect me to defend some broad UFO cases involving the last 100 years.
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UFO HUNTERS new show this last week was about a rarely heard about event (at least for me..) involving a UFO being seen for hours over our airfields. The audio transcripts have just been released via FOIA and are pretty amazing. For the first time ever, they openly talked about a "UFO OFFICER" to help decide what to do about these objects. It appears the UFO OFFICER is probably from the FTD (Foreign Technology Division) and supposedly one was at every base. Of course, the Air Force does not study UFO's.

So why was this classified to begin with? To cover up stupidity? Watch the video below and take into account all the facts they go over. Thanks and enjoy.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3


Video 4

Video 5

So why was the audio transcript classified at all? Also, doesnt this prove that the Air Force has been lying when it says it does not investigate UFO's and that they are not a threat?
If I recall correctly, this is the Edwards AFB incident back in 1965.
UFO officers were common during the bluebook era, which is when this incident supposedly happened and, at that time, the AF did investigate UFO events. Therefore, you claim that they were lying when they did not investigate UFOs is false. Each base had a UFO officer to deal with UFO reports made. It was part of the system that had been developed. When bluebook went away, the UFO officers did too.

As far as "UFO officers" being part of FTD, that is not exactly correct. At one point bluebook may have been part of the FTD/ATIC but that changed as bluebook became a political nightmare. By the mid-1960s, the staff at bluebook was pretty small. I believe it was headed by a Major and had one sergeant as well as a few secretaries by then. My guess (based on my past experience in the military) is many of the base UFO officers were officers filling the position because somebody had to be the "UFO officer" on base. I would not be surprised that some of them were "the new guy" who had reported recently and got stuck with it until another "new guy" showed up. The amount of training they probably received was minimal. Some probably took their job seriously and others may have chose to be complacent.

UFO incidents got classified for many reasons and maybe not for the reasons suggested by these videos. You can speculate all you want but if the AF were to say it was classified because of a classified project, you would not believe them anyway so what is the point of asking the question? You already have the answer you want. It may not be the right answer but it is the one you choose to believe.

BTW, despite claims to the contrary by UFO groups, no UFO has been positively shown to have posed a threat to any military installation. In this case nothing was ever threatened or destroyed.
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I don't have time to sit here and watch all the videos. I got most of the way through the first video- Which uses implications, dramatic music and Visual Effects Strongly Suggesting an alien UFO even though the declassified recording wasn't describing an object that looked like the "orb" the History Channel stuck in there as a special effect.

Enough of that...

I have a better idea. Let me know when you are ready to Type Out Your Presentation of the Evidence Yous Seem to be Claiming this Has.

Then I will discuss it- Point For point.

I'm not going to sit here watching your Heavy Sensationalism to make you happy.
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BTW, despite claims to the contrary by UFO groups, no UFO has been positively shown to have posed a threat to any military installation. In this case nothing was ever threatened or destroyed.
Oh Heck- this Video BEGINS by claiming Edwards was "invaded."
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I don't have time to sit here and watch all the videos. I got most of the way through the first video- Which uses implications, dramatic music and Visual Effects Strongly Suggesting an alien UFO even though the declassified recording wasn't describing an object that looked like the "orb" the History Channel stuck in there as a special effect.

Enough of that...

I have a better idea. Let me know when you are ready to Typ Out Your Presentation of the Evidence Yous Seem to be Claiming this Has.

Then I will discuss it- Point For point.

I'm not going to sit here watching your Heavy Sensationalism to make you happy.
Amazing. Nowhere in that video does anyone call it "alien". So, ironically you seem to be saying that what little you watched lead you to conclude it was alien. That is fair enough, it is an odd case.

But.. again I can't get into this if you don't watch the videos. You wanna blanket condemn this UFO case because of the "Music" in the first video. Give me a break.
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Amazing. Nowhere in that video does anyone call it "alien". So, ironically you seem to be saying that what little you watched lead you to conclude it was alien. That is fair enough, it is an odd case.

But.. again I can't get into this if you don't watch the videos. You wanna blanket condemn this UFO case because of the "Music" in the first video. Give me a break.
The music, the sensationalism and the Visual Special Effects depicting something that looks like a Classic Alien UFO.

Guy, Look. I'm not stupid ok? Your implications that I'm assuming it's about aliens are absolute utter nonsense.

THE VIDEO is depicting some Paranormal Mysterious Unexplained -Whatever.

I repeat:
When you are Ready To Type Out Your Claims in Clear English- THEN you can expect a discussion.

In the meantime- it's just another video...


I'm beginning to think that you have not watched the videos yourself from your refusal to Type Out Your Claims For The Discussion.

When will you be ready to Type Out Your Claims For discussion? Because when you Type Out Your Claims For discussion, then those who respond will KNOW what to respond to.

Do you realize yet that you Need To Type Out Your Claims For Discussion yet?

Or do I need to type out that you need to "Type Out Your Claims For discussion" again?
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Most military secret-keeping occurs in order to conceal the capability of the equipment involved and the nature of military procedures. It prevents a potential enemy from using public information to craft an attack around our limitations. My experience with classified information suggests that it is almost never kept secret for the reason that other people suppose.
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Most military secret-keeping occurs in order to conceal the capability of the equipment involved and the nature of military procedures. It prevents a potential enemy from using public information to craft an attack around our limitations. My experience with classified information suggests that it is almost never kept secret for the reason that other people suppose.
That, and add to that that if there is this huge conspiracy about UFO's- why did this tape get declassified if it's supposedly this "smoking gun" in the UFOlogists favor?
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