Is this a scam at Phuket arrivals?

[rooster59]

Does Pentagon still have a UFO program? The answer is a bit mysterious

 

The Pentagon is shown with the Air Force Memorial in the foreground in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., September 11, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon acknowledged on Saturday that its long-secret UFO investigation program ended in 2012, when U.S. defense officials shifted attention and funding to other priorities.

 

But as to whether the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program has continued to investigate UFO sightings since its funding ended five years ago could rank as an unexplained phenomenon.

 

The New York Times reported on Saturday that the hush-hush program, tasked with investigating sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, ran from 2007 to 2012 with $22 million in annual funding secretly tucked away in U.S. Defense Department budgets worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

 

Its initial funding came largely at the request of former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat long known for his enthusiasm for space phenomena, the newspaper said.

 

Yet according to its backers, the program remains in existence and officials continue to investigate UFO episodes brought to their attention by service members, the newspaper said.

 

The Pentagon openly acknowledged the fate of the program in response to a Reuters query.

 

"The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ended in the 2012 timeframe," Pentagon spokeswoman Laura Ochoa said in an email.

 

"It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change," she said.

 

But the Pentagon was less clear about whether the UFO program continues to hover somewhere in the vast universe of the U.S. defense establishment.

 

"The DoD takes seriously all threats and potential threats to our people, our assets, and our mission and takes action whenever credible information is developed," Ochoa said.

 

What is less in doubt is former senator Reid's enthusiasm for UFOs and his likely role in launching the Pentagon initiative to identify advanced aviation threats.

 

"If you've talked to Harry Reid for > 60 seconds then it's the least surprising thing ever that he loves UFOs and got an earmark to study them," former Reid spokeswoman Kristen Orthman said in a message on Twitter.

 

Or as Reid himself said in a tweet that linked to the Times' story: "The truth is out there. Seriously."

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-17

[BuaBS]

Trump could shed some light on that ... but it would be a question of "national security" again .

[impulse]

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Or as Reid himself said in a tweet that linked to the Times' story: "The truth is out there. Seriously."

 

I'm beginning to like Mulder's other gem even better:  "Trust no one"

 

Edited December 17, 2017 by impulse

[Get Real]

No, they don´t have a program no more. Now it´s enough to study the astronomical effects of Trump.

[LPCustom69]

It would be stupid not to have a program.

[Bigfarang1948]

If anyone trusts what the idiots in the Pentagon say about UFO's more than they trust hundreds of thousands of eye witness sightings and photographs of UFO's, I believe you are very gullible and dumber than the average retired GI living in LOS

[ballpoint]

I heard they are now looking closer to home, to try to find evidence of intelligent life in the White House.

[ilostmypassword]

8 hours ago, Bigfarang1948 said:

If anyone trusts what the idiots in the Pentagon say about UFO's more than they trust hundreds of thousands of eye witness sightings and photographs of UFO's, I believe you are very gullible and dumber than the average retired GI living in LOS

Actually, the idiots might be the people who didn't look at the UFO footage that was released by the Pentagon. Maybe there's an explanation for it that accords with what is the official world view, but that seems dubious.

[EVENKEEL]

Long ago I read "Chariots of the Gods" as a youngster, good read.

[thaibeachlovers]

21 hours ago, LPCustom69 said:

It would be stupid not to have a program.

Perhaps they don't have a program because they know the truth.

If anyone ever looked up at the stars on a clear night and thinks we are alone in the universe they are a bit ....................................

[coulson]

15 hours ago, Bigfarang1948 said:

If anyone trusts what the idiots in the Pentagon say about UFO's more than they trust hundreds of thousands of eye witness sightings and photographs of UFO's, I believe you are very gullible and dumber than the average retired GI living in LOS

It's less lucrative to end speculation, everyone needs to believe in something.

[wabothai]

10 hours ago, ballpoint said:

I heard they are now looking closer to home, to try to find evidence of intelligent life in the White House.

they will only find space cadets

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎12‎/‎18‎/‎2017 at 1:13 PM, EVENKEEL said:

Long ago I read "Chariots of the Gods" as a youngster, good read.

Anyone thinks that the structures were built by primitive humans with no technology needs to wake up and educate themselves.

 

The propaganda campaign to discredit the author worked really well, but he was right, IMO.

[LPCustom69]

They know some of the truth. "Things" are seen quite frequently from the space station, and previously the space shuttle.

 

Google Nasa ufos

 

The truth is out there!

[Rhys]

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