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Lee's avatar

These are not the files we have been waiting for.

Brian Dunning's avatar

I would SO love to be in a position to be handing Trump the documents to "disclose" to the UFOlogists. Imagine the fun on Xitter...

(I know, I'm evil, sometimes one just needs to imagine ways to have fun)

Alan's avatar

"Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) and its association with Skinwalker Ranch. When the details emerged, what we saw was not hidden alien hardware, but a Pentagon-funded investigation that wandered into the paranormal."

The AAWSAP program delivered monthly reports to the DIA over 2 years and created 11 databases organised into the CAPELLA data warehouse. Apart from multiple sightings, the most alarming features of this mass of information was health injuries from UAPs as spoken of extensively by Dr. Colm Kelleher one of the senior program managers. Details of all this can be found in Skinwalkers At The Pentagon.

You refer to the paranormal. The reality of paranormal phenomena is detailed in Prof. Etzel Cardena's peer-reviewed overview published in American Psychologist in 2018 "The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review" - something you are well are of.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29792448/

If you're going to comment on all this, do provide references, especially academic ones.

virtualcrane's avatar

Old hat, and frankly not very academic when looked at objectively All of this has been debunked by investigators like West, Greenstreet and others.

Atanu Dey's avatar

UFOs are real -- tons of flying objects that we cannot immediately identify. So what? But extraterrestrial visitors? Not a chance. John McCarthy used to say, "Those who refuse to do arithmetic are doomed to speak nonsense." The arithmetic they are unable to do is simple: how large the universe is, how slow the speed of light is, how far the stars and galaxies are (our nearest galaxy is 2.5 million light years away), etc. True that there are billions and billions of stars (as Sagan may have said but didn't) but the distances are too large for the possibility of earth being visited. Ever.

Alan's avatar

The Tic-Tac UAPs have been shown to have tremendous accelerations such that they have been described by Prof. Kevin Knuth as being "excellent interstellar craft". Why, he says?

Because they *behave* as interstellar craft would.

A moments thought clarifies this.

Huge accelerations in atmosphere imply drag forces do not apply to this technology. In open space even less issues. Maintaining such accelerations over not so long a time could get to relativistic speeds where time dilation applies, implying much reduced travel times between stellar systems.

For instance, one could travel to the nearest star, 4 light years away, in weeks, ship "proper time". However there is an ambiguity here as to what these objects are and strictly whether mass/energy in the relativistic sense applies But...it is very clear they do have tremendous accelerations and velocities.