Post by cligg on Dec 27, 2017 17:07:22 GMT -5
url: www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2017/12/26
In the first half, retired U.K. Ministry of Defense official Nick Pope discussed the latest developments in the NY Times report that uncovered a secret $22 million government UFO investigation run by the Pentagon from 2007 to 2012. Exploring "anomalous aerospace threats" the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was organized by former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. The Times story was featured on the front page of their Sunday, December 17th print edition, and was subsequently picked up by other prominent media outlets such as the Washington Post, Politico, and the BBC. The most significant revelation to Pope was that the US government had denied for years that it was actively investigating UFOs, and this turned out to be false.
"I don't think there's ever a time," he remarked, "that the government, the Air Force would have stopped looking at anomalous phenomena in US airspace." Other research was piggybacked into the funding to make it appear that their interest was not strictly about UFOs, he explained, such as possible secret prototype drones or technology of foreign countries, and "atmospheric plasma phenomena...that science doesn't yet understand." The central player in the news story, Luis Elizondo, is a former Pentagon official who confirmed the revelation, while Robert Bigelow, the aerospace entrepreneur was the one who won the contract to conduct the Pentagon's study. Just as how the private sector has become the driving force in space research and development, we are now seeing that in UFO investigations as well, Pope reflected.
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In the first half, retired U.K. Ministry of Defense official Nick Pope discussed the latest developments in the NY Times report that uncovered a secret $22 million government UFO investigation run by the Pentagon from 2007 to 2012. Exploring "anomalous aerospace threats" the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was organized by former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. The Times story was featured on the front page of their Sunday, December 17th print edition, and was subsequently picked up by other prominent media outlets such as the Washington Post, Politico, and the BBC. The most significant revelation to Pope was that the US government had denied for years that it was actively investigating UFOs, and this turned out to be false.
"I don't think there's ever a time," he remarked, "that the government, the Air Force would have stopped looking at anomalous phenomena in US airspace." Other research was piggybacked into the funding to make it appear that their interest was not strictly about UFOs, he explained, such as possible secret prototype drones or technology of foreign countries, and "atmospheric plasma phenomena...that science doesn't yet understand." The central player in the news story, Luis Elizondo, is a former Pentagon official who confirmed the revelation, while Robert Bigelow, the aerospace entrepreneur was the one who won the contract to conduct the Pentagon's study. Just as how the private sector has become the driving force in space research and development, we are now seeing that in UFO investigations as well, Pope reflected.
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