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"What if we’ve been lied to about UFOs?"
Guardian UK
‘It only takes one to be real and it changes humanity for ever’: what if we’ve been lied to about UFOs? guardian
"It would finally have revealed the facts about UAPs. But most of these stipulations have now been struck out. All that remains is the archive, but it will not be administered by an independent body."
People have been seeing unexplainable things in the sky for millennia. While it is easy to dismiss them as hallucinations or flights of fancy, it is much harder to ignore photographs and videos from reputable sources. This is exactly what the office of the director of national intelligence in the US released in 2021. Its report Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena detailed that the US Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena task force was investigating 144 UAP reports made between 2004 and 2021, mostly by military personnel. It also released three declassified videos of some of these UAPs in action.
At the end of last year, a US government bill that would have mandated the controlled release of all classified documents and artefacts relating to UFOs was significantly watered down at the last minute so that it would get through Congress.
Not only has the act done little to improve transparency – it is already driving the suspicion that the US government really does have something to hide.
team found three bright “stars” on a plate dated 19 July 1952 that have since vanished. Provocatively, this is a date burned into the diaries of UFO enthusiasts around the world because it coincides with a famous incident in which pilots and radar operators saw lights they could not explain in the skies above Washington DC.
“There is still a stigma around this topic; people are so frightened about discussing it,” he says. “But it only takes one account to be real and it changes the narrative of humanity for ever.”
This is why the Disclosure Act was seen as important, and its altered version is such a disappointment, even potentially dangerous..theguardian.com
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John Oliver on UFOs: ‘There needs to be room for honest inquiry’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into speculation, study and cover-ups about unidentified flying objects in the US
John Oliver took on the tricky, potentially fun topic of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) on Sunday evening – a “difficult subject to talk about”, the Last Week Tonight host noted, “because UFOs tend to get discussed in one of two ways”. The first is “wildly speculative”, such as claiming Renaissance painters depicted alien invaders. And the second way is outright dismissal “with borderline contempt.
2017, the beginning of “a cascade of revelations”, said Oliver, including the DoD revealing that it had 11 reports of documented instances in which pilots had near misses with Unidentified Flying Objects.
“So if a subject is this ubiquitous with such major questions being asked, now might be a good time to – and I cannot believe I’m about to say this – talk about UFOs: what we know, what we don’t know, and some of the problems with how we’ve gone about finding out more,” Oliver explained.
talking about UFOs doesn’t necessarily mean talking about aliens, just unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). “While you can believe aliens exist or not, when it comes to UFOs, belief doesn’t really come into it,” he said. “Whatever they are, people are seeing them.”
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The US government should tell the public what it knows about UFOs
The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, introduced a UFO transparency bill, which some Republicans want to kill. Even sceptics should oppose their efforts
"For decades, both military and commercial pilots have logged countless sightings of UFOs while flying that defy conventional or scientific explanation. The US government has studied the UFO phenomenon on and off since the 1950s and has kept at least some of what it knows secret. (Read journalist and author Garrett Graff’s meticulously researched and very fact-based new book on the subject.) Recently the US government itself has released several videos of these incidents, which has further fueled public interest and speculation about whether the incidents were extraterrestrial." theguardian
Neil deGrasse Tyson:
‘Share the data’ on alleged alien life
For one, he believes Congress and the rest of the government need to be more forthcoming about what they know, like what’s happening in Mexico.
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‘We live in a golden time of exploration’: astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life
Austrian astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger has spent her life hunting for signs of life in the universe. Here she talks about aliens, space exploration
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Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations
Sufficiently advanced aliens would be able to capture vast quantities of energy from their star using a massive structure called a Dyson sphere.
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Chinese Spaceplane Trailed By Six Mysterious Objects Transmitting Repeating Pattern www.iflscience.com/...
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Strange lights in the sky reported by pilots around eastern Colorado on Thursday
Pilots on different routes that crossed the state Thursday night reported seeing strange lights in the sky above eastern Colorado, audio recordings of air traffic communications show.
Colorado public radio
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One pilot of a Southwest flight traveling from Phoenix to Minneapolis told air traffic controllers around 11 p.m., he saw bright lights appear, move from left to right and disappear in the sky outside the plane
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Our Universe wasn’t empty, even before the Big Bang
All of the matter and radiation we measure today originated in a hot Big Bang long ago. The Universe was never empty, not even before that.
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Spectator uk
Have we just discovered aliens?
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"The philosopher Karl Popper argued that scientific beliefs must be falsifiable: there must be some experiment you can perform that puts your beliefs to the test. A belief which cannot be criticised cannot be falsified, and so cannot be science. The silencing of critics is an anathema to science: a scientist must subject their ideas to the severest scrutiny and must welcome the scrutiny of others. The reward is that the greatest discoveries in science arise when we admit that what we once believed is wrong."
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