“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof” — Carl Sagan
Sensor package on high altitude balloon
Two lifetimes ago (circ 1983) I had access to a low level classified library while waiting on a higher clearance. I poured over the documents dealing with Soviet military hardware and found a few interesting items. The chief of which was an explanation for the celebrated 'Roswell Incident'.
The specific document was guidance provided in the mid '50s for Soviet MIG-15 pilots on how to engage US surveillance balloons over Soviet territory. Now discussed in 'open source' documents (1)
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They //MIG-15s// also had encounters with Western spy balloons set adrift over Eastern Europe and the USSR. The balloons usually floated much too high for aircraft to reach, but occasionally they fell down to altitudes where they could be fired on, as well as become a hazard to air navigation. The story of the balloons is obscure: the US sent over hundreds for a few months in early 1955, and sent three improved balloons over the USSR in 1958 -- but the exercise proved ineffectual, the Soviets complained very loudly, and the effort was given up. Russian sources still insist that reconnaissance balloons were sent over the USSR into the 1970s; whether they were part of some program that was never declassified and was forgotten, or if the Soviets were just getting upset over stray weather balloons, is unclear.
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Among the program names associated with this effort in the late '40s and '50s are: the US Army Air Force/Air Force (Project Mogol (2)) and CIA (Project Grandson(3,4))
Because of the source document I had to keep this gem to myself but now, 4 decades later, it appears to be common knowledge with the Smithsonian weighing in to debunk the 'little green men' explanation for Roswell (5).
All the above comes to mind given the latest flurry of 'UFO' sightings and videos of 'UFOs' being released by DOD and individuals who were embarked on ships in the area.
Fox News ran with a video purported to show a pyramidal UFO observed and recorded using low light level TV (6). Given even a modicum of knowledge about developments in UAVs, the attribution of the observed aircraft to extraterrestrial entities seems rushed, even forced.
“Pyramidal UFO”
Our Navy has had a long program to develop submarine launched UAVs, many of which necessarily do not look like the common aircraft. For example, the Cormorant sub-launched UAV – a derivative of which may well be the culprit.
Cormorant developmental submarine launched UAV
Oh, and watch the first 11 seconds of the Fox News clip. Blink, blink ... blink. Doesn't it seem a little odd that little green men have equipped their space ship with what easily appears to be an anti-collision strobe light?
Bottom line, while it makes sense that there is intelligent life 'out there', the current pig's breakfast of short, poorly explained clips from a host of sensors – many with entertaining idiosyncrasies - doesn't amount to much by way of proof.
1. http://airvectors.net/avmig15_1.html
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul
3. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89B00708R000500110002-1.pdf
4. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R002500100004-2.pdf
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OTaxiBE-TQ
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