"Look At That Thing!" - The NYT Reveals The Pentagon's Mysterious UFO Program | Zero Hedge
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# "Look At That Thing!" - The NYT Reveals The Pentagon's Mysterious UFO Program

by Tyler Durden
Dec 16, 2017 11:55 PM
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When tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theories cross paths with massive 'defense' budgets and excited politicians, "stranger things" happen.

Welcome to The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

As The New York Times exposes, within the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the program was almost impossible to find.

Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.

For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.

The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.

The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena.

Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.

And while the clapping of crony capitalism screams alod from those two last sentences, one watch of the following video (just one of many), suggests the boondoggle may be based in some kind of reality after all... (the footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet showing an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves. The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident.)

Mr. Reid, who retired from Congress this year, said he was proud of the program.

> “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Mr. Reid said in a recent interview in Nevada.

> “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”

While not addressing the merits of the program, Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at M.I.T., cautioned that not knowing the origin of an object does not mean that it is from another planet or galaxy.

> “When people claim to observe truly unusual phenomena, sometimes it’s worth investigating seriously,” she said.

> But, she added, “what people sometimes don’t get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained.”

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holdbuysell Dec 16, 2017 10:18 PM

Probably nothing to do with any frontrunning to get ahead of this:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-10/pentagon-undergo-first-ever-aud...

Which may have been prompted by this:

https://missingmoney.solari.com/

God Emperor holdbuysell Dec 16, 2017 10:23 PM

Look at that thing !

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO, is just a darn good looking pussy worth of doing some Hunger Games over it.

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RedPillGirl God Emperor Dec 16, 2017 10:30 PM

Now I need a bigger tinfoil hat.

ParticularlyStu... RedPillGirl Dec 16, 2017 10:31 PM

No tarts needed. Please leave. This is a male safe space. #MGTOW

RedPillGirl ParticularlyStupidHumanoid Dec 16, 2017 10:35 PM

Ohh, so you identify yourself as a male.

How diverse of you.

ParticularlyStu... RedPillGirl Dec 16, 2017 10:51 PM

I'm not interested in transsexual "opinions."

Save_America1st ParticularlyStupidHumanoid Dec 17, 2017 3:01 AM

I saw and watched and witnessed a black triangle ship one night in Florida in 2003. Saw it perfectly. At first I thought it was an alien ufo, but once I was able to see it more clearly at the time and then after I found that others had seen the same thing I realized that it wasn't an alien ufo, but it was most likely one of ours that has either been reversed engineered from alien technology or just something "we" created and haven't told the world about yet.

but I saw one flying one night and it was amazing and out of this world...so I still don't know what it really was. But it was fucking crazy big and crazy fast. Like light speed fast.

It was a black triangle ship...probably 80 feet or more on each side. And most likely some kind of anti-gravity propulsion system because it moved from hovering a few miles away to shooting light speed towards my location to then a slow landing trajectory in a split second while I was watching it that night.

Nothing normal that we know about can move at the speed I saw that thing do that night. It was incredible like movie effects but it was real.

jaxville Save_America1st Dec 17, 2017 3:09 AM

Back in the eighties I used to read a publication called International Defense Update. I loved the magazine as it basically offered no nonsense articles pertaining to military systems and capabilities. I remember seeing pics of the SU27 Flanker for the first time in that magazine. Also read about other Soviet weapon systems as well as NATO systems I knew to be classified. It was cool to be reading about stuff like that and I often wondered about their sources.

One of the last issues I remembered reading had a short column claiming that the US airforce was experimenting with technology they obtained from a crashed UFO. Talk about creating cognitive dissonance.

That was before I was up on the JQ or even heard of Jonathon Pollard. The magazine was an Israeli publication. Might still be in print. I don't care to look.

Pinto Currency Save_America1st Dec 17, 2017 3:15 AM

This is all the next bullshit story.

Yes advanced tech exists. Been developed for deccades.

https://twitter.com/GalacticRedPill/status/942164142864994304

Don't defocus. Lock here up (and Comey, and Mueller, etc.).

Eyes Opened Pinto Currency Dec 17, 2017 6:50 AM

Oh look !! ... A flying squirrell... he has his nuts in his mouth !!.... lol

RayKu Save_America1st Dec 17, 2017 3:17 AM

I'm guessing it had no lights, moved without sound, and when it took off fast, it was more like an angular cut than a smooth transition into the speed.

ft65 Save_America1st Dec 17, 2017 4:02 AM

>> I saw and watched and witnessed a black triangle ship

Do you use hallucinogenic drugs? Genuine question. We live in a time where nearly every person carries a high quality high resolution auto focusing camera. Surveillance and vehicle dash cameras are ubiquitous constantly recording and yet there are not credible focused recordings of anything remotely credibly alien.

I would so love if we made contact with alien life that had technology to travel to this tiny back-water planet orbiting an unremarkable star in one of a billion galaxies dotted about the unimaginable vastness of space. An alien able to advance to such a level would have no concern about making itself known, even if it found the taste of human flesh the most delicious thing that entered their alimentary canal. UFO's and alien contact etc. are just trick of our vivid imagination, drug induced delusion or human psychosis. "Alien" lifeforms have undoubtedly evolved throughout space-time and the massive universe. But will have undoubtedly hit the many evolutionary, psychological and physical brick-wall's we have.

Oh how, so much, humans need to find a higher level of conciousness and leadership, but our idiocy dooms us to an inevitable fate of self extinction.

seataka ft65 Dec 17, 2017 5:23 AM

You are part of the problem,
Have a nice day

Nameshavebeench... ft65 Dec 17, 2017 8:54 AM

You are definitely part of the problem. It's the absolute and sheer arogance of your type of thinking & denial of plain facts that has stalled humans from breaking free from the insanity hamster wheel we've been on for over 10,000 years.

People like you really are the problem. What makes it worse, is that the power structures are thoroughly infested with cowardly, arrogant, ego-maniacal psychopaths like yourself

Yet, you will stupidly and arrogantly try to deny that fact.

seataka Save_America1st Dec 17, 2017 5:31 AM

Yes, Im in Georgia, north of you, see em twice a week here.
The Anti-grav 4 years ago had a low rumble, alerts my dog so I go outside and look up... they make better ones now..
Lately they have been testing smaller ones, and they have red plasma balls that come around occassionaly but havent seen that since last Christmas.
There is one huge triangle that has some kind of 3d projector to make em look like whatever,...
The little ones were out last couple of nights around 7:30 and again at 9 (Now they will change the schedule, again after mentioning this online like they did last time I mentioned it)

Cost of shipping heavy stuff and visiting the moon will be going way down shortly, glad I lived long enough to witness it, wish it wasnt secret and I had one floating out front...

XWeatherman seataka Dec 17, 2017 5:32 AM

Next time, bring a camera, take some pictures, and not some pictures of some out-of-focus light in the far distance that could be anything.

seataka XWeatherman Dec 17, 2017 5:44 AM

Hey, smartguy, you try taking pix of a black thing at night with a blinding red slow strobe, I tried several times...
I'd rather steady the binoculars on the fence and get long good look at WTF is doing flight testing in extremely rural georgia.

Tarzan seataka Dec 17, 2017 7:36 AM

Glad you confirmed Georgia is still North of Florida.

Funny how all these aliens photographed are ALWAYS poor quality. Funny also, all the moon landings were filmed the same way, low quality pixelated shots. It's not as though we don't ALL carry high rez cameras in our pockets these days.....

Makes me wonder if hedgeless_horseman and my Great Grandmother, who refused to watch the moon landings claiming them to be Hollywood, are right. Isn't it at least a little odd that NASA had high quality cameras, a didn't use them on the moon, or that Seataka watches alien craft every week and can't get a quality pic of it?

There are over a $Trillion$ missing from the DOD budget. My guess is at least a portion of that money went to building aircraft the public only gets glimpses of.

We're told in the last days there will be signs and wonders in the heavens above that will fool the world. I'm thinking the DOD will be the wizard behind that trickery, and that the US Gov is the evil we're warned of - that great whore who turns on God, the unfaithful women who torments the world, who the Lord himself will destroy!

sjb XWeatherman Dec 17, 2017 8:23 AM

And a tripod.

tmosley RedPillGirl Dec 16, 2017 10:52 PM

I think it is more likely someone has a very advanced drone program than this being aliens.

Hard to imagine aliens being in any way interested in us or Earth. Lots of matter to assimilate out there, and we just aren't that interesting.

Doña K tmosley Dec 16, 2017 11:08 PM

About the missing money: It is not visible, as it was just printed and the USD is the reserve currency of the world. Once the petro-euro-dollar is no longer the reserve currency, fasten your seat belts. Two things can happen. Dollar collapse/hyperinflation or wwiii or both. Well maybe then are three things.

Keep stacking on PM's

ft65 Doña K Dec 17, 2017 5:10 AM

Dollar collapse/hyperinflation or wwiii.

Mass starvation / zombie apocalypse / chaos. Seven billion hungry mouths to feed - an organizational structure to produce, package and distribute. Should the ship start leaking, it will be horrific. We no longer have common cultural ties / community spirit. The world is now one enormous cesspool of hatred ready to turn in on itself as reflected by the political sideshows being played out in every aspect of life.

Putrid_Scum ft65 Dec 17, 2017 7:15 AM

Yes, this is true.

The Reset shall be entertaining.

Dapper Dan tmosley Dec 16, 2017 11:09 PM

Fermi's paradox

Adahy Dapper Dan Dec 17, 2017 3:58 AM

Thank you.
In the extremely unlikely event that other intelligent life exists 'out there', we are seperated by inconceivable distances that are too vast to ever overcome considering that there are hard limits on speed that fundamentally can never be overcome.

ebear Adahy Dec 17, 2017 7:26 AM

"In the extremely unlikely event that other intelligent life exists 'out there'"

I look at it this way:

For life to exist on Earth, the planet had to form in a stable orbit with enough mass that water and atmosphere would not boil off or permanently freeze. It had to rotate at a fast enough rate that water didn't freeze on the night side. It had to be hit by a planetoid that deposited enough iron in the core to effect a magnetic field capable of shielding the surface from hard radiation. The remains of that collision, the moon, would be necessary to create the tides which allowed life to eventually emerge from the sea.

That's an awful lot of stuff that had to go just right to get to where we are now. Now look at Mars and Venus. There's probably lots of terrestrial type planets in our galaxy, but I'll bet most of them look like Mars or Venus: a bit too far or too close, not enough mass, no iron core, incorrect rotation.

It may actually take an entire galaxy of random collisions and chemical reactions to produce a single planet like Earth. We may in fact be the only ones here.

Dontblamethegoat Adahy Dec 17, 2017 8:38 AM

Alcubierre drive ... the math has been worked out .... the physicists need to work out the dark matter interactions, and the engineers have to work out the containment schemes.

A true long shot, but if you think 'anti-gravity' drive exists now, space-time displacement may bejustaround the corner.

My money is on a advanced drone program in GA.

Ms No tmosley Dec 16, 2017 11:44 PM

The problem is that it goes too far back to all be tech, unless somebody has been hiding somewhere with tech, but why would they? Example one, example two. If you ever read any really old demonological texts nothing has changed except the form it takes changes with our belief systems and modern culture. The fairy lore is identical too. Like that awesome and creepy line from the movie Mothman prophesies which was based of a John Keel book:

"What do you look like?" "It depends on who is looking."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQRCdynVST8

Urban Roman tmosley Dec 17, 2017 12:06 AM

True dat.

If they want minerals/energy, and if they have sufficiently advanced technology to navigate the cosmos, it makes a lot more sense to extract 'em from the asteroid belt. It's not in such a deep gravity well. They could swing by Jupiter and catapult it in any desired direction.

cheka Urban Roman Dec 17, 2017 1:29 AM

please ignore the pizza and hot dogs....and the judeo-bolsheviks being exposed for their treason

Eyes Opened cheka Dec 17, 2017 6:59 AM

What... u can't manage to hold more than one thought at a time in that little mind of yours ?? LOL

random999 tmosley Dec 17, 2017 1:39 AM

doesnt mean they cant go for some safari trip. Everything is not always about having gain.

If you know how to travel the universe in a spaceship you probably dont need to learn a lot more. But it could still be fun seeing it.

cheech_wizard tmosley Dec 17, 2017 2:49 AM

They're after our crypto-currency.

jaxville tmosley Dec 17, 2017 3:23 AM

I don't believe in aliens from other planets visiting us. Space is too vast and traveling those distances are pointless. People only imagine space as finite in science fiction. Something also very difficult to grasp is the concept of how much space is around us. For example if all the space were removed from physical matter, the space between atoms, molecules and the components of atoms; the entire planet would fit in about a five gallon pail.

When you get your head around that it opens the possibility that life exists on other planes (dimensions) within the space we share. That is where I believe extra terrestrials come from.

So send the guys with the straight jackets over....

Eyes Opened tmosley Dec 17, 2017 6:54 AM

If it IS aliens... I bet they're eating popcorn....

Stackers RedPillGirl Dec 16, 2017 10:53 PM

Always been skeptical of "Aliens", but there are dozens and dozens of reported sightings by military and airline pilots.

any_mouse Stackers Dec 16, 2017 10:57 PM

Does not prove extraterrestial entities are the source.

We could just be highly developed roaches on the surface the Earth.

JuliaS Stackers Dec 17, 2017 2:48 AM

The clip is awfully shot. Here's some more footage that pre-dates it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBVnOFD1oyw

old naughty JuliaS Dec 17, 2017 3:24 AM

now why is it so hard to looking at that thing, triangular or round?
NASA (+goog) "discovered" new solar system same as ours so are we still thing we are the only ones?

Presidents and Admiral/generals looked at them so you may say aliens around and among / beneath us...

no big deal if they are amicable, unlike what the guy in wheel chair says.

Eyes Opened ParticularlyStupidHumanoid Dec 17, 2017 6:45 AM

''No tarts needed. Please leave. This is a male safe space. #MGTOW''

That right there is funny dude.... some of our most knowledgable & intuitive ZH members are female.... u must have mommy issues ??

Fightclubtm is not meant to be "SAFE" or "MALE ONLY".... now cuck off & die...

buttmint RedPillGirl Dec 17, 2017 8:52 AM

USA has a $21 trillion USD budget shortfall...which is about the cost of US Military reverse engineering and making these things.

Coincidence? I think not.

As taxpayers---we all demand a right to shit our pants travelling about the Milky Way at near light speed!

Please advise how I can get my pass stamped!

IH8OBAMA God Emperor Dec 16, 2017 10:35 PM

This is just the short version of the story linked on Drudge.

If the aliens aren't friendly, you better hope they at least have a hands off policy or we are toast (literally).

Duc888 IH8OBAMA Dec 16, 2017 10:36 PM

We've got a lot more to worry about with the human break-away civilization(s) than "aliens". If you think DC fucks with us.... you're in for a big surprize there....

We're just someones Happy Meals. We're being farmed.

IH8OBAMA Duc888 Dec 16, 2017 10:51 PM

"We're just someone's Happy Meals"

Kim Jung Un's?

cbxer55 Duc888 Dec 16, 2017 10:59 PM

It's a cook book!!

Things that go bump cbxer55 Dec 17, 2017 12:42 AM

+++ for the old Twilight Zone reference from the episode titled "To Serve Man."

kellys_eye God Emperor Dec 17, 2017 5:55 AM

Look! A UFO!

Quick, grab the shittiest, most useless camera you can - we gotta get this on film......

chubbar holdbuysell Dec 16, 2017 10:22 PM

Anyone who doesn't believe in UFO's hasn't spent one fucking second investigating it. There is so much evidence of alien presence in our world that you almost have to be a fucking idiot to not see it. It's right up there with 9/11 deniers, they think steel framed buildings collapse into their own footprints from office fires. It's astounding.

booboo chubbar Dec 16, 2017 10:26 PM

yea, no shit, how does a big tall building fall down from a small smoldering trash can fire in Nurelmans corner office. Like crazy huh

ParticularlyStu... booboo Dec 16, 2017 10:30 PM

> mocking people who audaciously, with eyes observe the truth

Conspiracy theory? More like hate-facts.

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