9.01.2022
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9.01.2022
Fakten-Check: Es ist in der Ufologie der USA eine gewisse Unzufriedenheit zu beobachten welche nach dem Medien-Hype um die "sensationellen UFO-Beweise in Form von NAVY FLIR-Aufnahmen" der Welt präsentiert wurden nicht das Wunschziel der Ufologen um die Hauptperson Elizondo erreicht wurde. Klar man hat im Pentagon ein "neues UFO-Büro" eingerichtet, aber man hat auch erkannt es sich scheinbar doch nicht um so eine große Gefahr für die Lufthoheit über den USA handelt. Es ist auch aus militärischer Sicht nicht nach zu vollziehen, das man über Wochen, zudem über einem Manövergebiet vor der eigenen Haustür von "unbekannten Flugobjekten" umringt und beobachtet und an der Nase herum geführt wurde, ohne wirklich zu Wissen was sich da abspielte. Der Ufologen-Gemeinde wurden schlechte FLIR-Aufnahmen vorgelegt und diese jubelte wie man es über Jahrzehnte her von dort kennt recht hoch. Doch was haben wir wirklich bekommen, doch nur Aufnahmen in einer Qualität die wir von Mexiko und Chile her kennen (und welche inzwischen als Fackeln von Öl-Plattformen und Ballons identifiziert wurden). Die Karte die Elozando zog, das die Sicherheit der USA gefährdet wäre hatte zwar ihren Anfangreiz für so manchen Politiker im Senat, aber verpuffte bei der Mehrheit.
Die Medien kochten ihr Süppchen über Monate und so wurden in die Öffentlichkeitsdebatte immer mehr abstruse Ufologie-Märchen und uralte UFO-Legenden von Seiten der Ufologie-Promoter gezielt eingebracht. Und so sehen wir den Abnutzungseffekt in der Öffentlichkeit wie wir es schon mehrfach in der Ufologie-Szene gesehen haben, angefangen von der Roswell-Story bis hin zu der Alien-Autopsie und Alien-Püppchen und jeweils immer zu einem weiteren Sargnagel der Ufologie wurden. Da hilft auch nicht den UFO-Begriff (welcher ja eigentlich schon immer recht neutral war, zumindest für die realen Untersucher des UFO-Phänomens) zu ersetzen durch UAP (welchen wir bei CENAP schon zusätzlich in den 80iger Jahren verwendeten, als wir die ersten Mini-Heißluftballon noch nicht kannten und von den Schilderungen der Beobachter von einem "unbekannten atmosphärischen Phänomen" ausgingen. Bis wir unseren Erfahrungsschatz in der IFO-Welt erweiterten und der UAP Begriff wieder in der Schublade verschwand. Und als UFO-Forscher und Ufologie-Kritiker war für uns schon immer klar, so lange die Ufologie die Augen verschließt vor der Bandbreite der IFO-Welt (identifzierte Flugobejekte), werden sie nie hinter das Phänomen der UFOs kommen. Wobei man sich nach Jahrzehnten die Frage stellen kann: Ob es überhaupt in der Ufologie-Gemeinde erwünscht wäre, gegenüber der Wunschvorstellungen aus der Alien-Welt die man so lange pflegt?
H.Köhler/CENAP Odenwaldkreis
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Fact check: A certain dissatisfaction can be observed in Ufology in the USA, which after the media hype about the "sensational UFO evidence in the form of NAVY FLIR recordings" was presented to the world, not the dream of the ufologists around the main character Elizondo was achieved. Of course, a "new UFO office" has been set up in the Pentagon, but it has also been recognized that there is apparently not such a great threat to air sovereignty over the USA. From a military point of view, too, it cannot be understood that one was surrounded by "unknown objects in flight" over a maneuvering area in front of one's own front door for weeks and watched and led by the nose without really knowing what was going on. Bad FLIR recordings were presented to the ufologist community and, as we know from there for decades, they cheered quite high. But what did we really get, but only recordings of a quality that we know from Mexico and Chile (and which have now been identified as torches from oil platforms and balloons). The card that Elozando drew that the security of the US would be endangered had its initial appeal for some politicians in the Senate, but fizzled out with the majority.
The media cooked their soup for months and so more and more absurd ufology fairy tales and ancient UFO legends were brought into the public debate by the ufology promoters. And so we see the wear and tear in public as we have seen it several times in the ufology scene, from the Roswell story to the alien autopsy and alien dolls, each of which has become another coffin nail in ufology. It doesn't help to replace the UFO term (which has actually always been quite neutral, at least for the real investigators of the UFO phenomenon) with UAP (which we at CENAP also used in the 80s when we made the first Mini - Didn't know the hot air balloon and based on the observers' descriptions of an "unknown atmospheric phenomenon", until we broadened our wealth of experience in the IFO world and the UAP term disappeared back into the drawer, and when we were a UFO researcher and ufology critic It has always been clear to us, as long as ufology closes its eyes to the spectrum of the IFO world (identified flight objects), they will never get to the bottom of the UFO phenomenon Ufology community would be desirable, compared to the wishful thinking from the alien world that has been cultivated for so long?
H.Köhler / CENAP Odenwaldkreis
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Blick in die US-Presse:
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Pentagon’s New UFO Office Worries Some Ufologists
Just before the New Year, the Pentagon established a new office that will study UFOs — or unidentified aerial phenomena, as they’re now known — and report its findings to Congress. However, the move — the most significant UFO legislation ever passed — is contentious to many in the UFO community, reports NBC News.
“This is a subject with a provable history of secrecy, and anything that lacks a new openness about the information is subject to more, possibly inappropriate control,” Ron James, a spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network, which bills itself as “the oldest and largest UFO organization in the world” told NBC News. “We don’t see that this means new resources will be dedicated to the matter. We believe that considerable resources have always been dedicated to the matter at some level inside deep government and industry.” Ufologist Steven M. Greer told NBC News that UAP shouldn’t even be considered a national security threat worthy of special Pentagon attention.
Luis Elizondo, a former government insider who helped spark renewed interest in unidentified aerial phenomena by publicizing video from military aircraft, wrote in an op-ed in the Hill that the Pentagon’s decision to place the new UAP office inside the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security could mean“70 more years of secrecy on this topic.”
Elizondo also told the Hill that he’s “not convinced [that] burying this [issue] in the deep, dark bowels of the Pentagon under an intelligence organization is the best way to shed light on a topic that needs a whole-of-government approach.” Instead, he likens the UFO problem to climate change, about which the government has brought in and relied on outside experts.
Meanwhile, lawmakers who spearhead the legislation — like New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand — argue it brings new resources and legitimacy to the investigation and tracking of potential national-security threats. “Our national security efforts rely on aerial supremacy and these phenomena present a challenge to our dominance,” Gillibrand said. “The United States needs a coordinated effort to take control and understand whether these aerial phenomena belong to a foreign government or something else altogether.”
Quelle: Intelligencer
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Disclosure or deception? New UFO Pentagon office divides believers
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is finally getting back into the UFO business.
And depending on which UFO believer you ask, it's either a historic step forward to getting to the bottom of conspiracies or a ploy to regain control of the narrative — and possibly even prepare for interplanetary war.
The establishment of a new office, signed into law just before New Year's, to study “unidentified aerial phenomenon” has divided the loose community of activists, researchers and pseudo scientists who hunt for proof that we are not alone in the universe.
Some hail the legislation creating the new office, tucked into section 1683 of the massive National Defense Authorization Act, for bringing new resources, rigor and officialdom to the investigation of a phenomenon — and a potential national security threat — that has long been stigmatized in a way that makes it difficult to study.
“Our national security efforts rely on aerial supremacy and these phenomena present a challenge to our dominance,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who spearheaded the bipartisan measure. “The United States needs a coordinated effort to take control and understand whether these aerial phenomena belong to a foreign government or something else altogether.”
It’s been decades since Washington formally studied UFOs in any kind of comprehensive way, so one might expect the news would be cause for celebration among so-called ufologists.
But the movement has long believed the government is covering up the greatest secret in history, so many are having a hard time believing the feds want to do anything other than clamp down again after several years in which it became socially acceptable for former presidents and CIA directors to talk publicly about weird things they’d seen in the skies.
On social media and forums like AboveTopSecret, a hub of ufology and conspiracy theories, debates have raged about whether the new office represents the beginning of the end of the alleged cover-up or its revival.
“This is a subject with a provable history of secrecy, and anything that lacks a new openness about the information is subject to more, possibly inappropriate control,” said Ron James, a spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network, which bills itself as “the oldest and largest UFO organization in the world.”
“We don't see that this means new resources will be dedicated to the matter. We believe that considerable resources have always been dedicated to the matter at some level inside deep government and industry,” James added.
Luis Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, the former government insiders who helped spark renewed interest in Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, as they are more commonly known now, by publicizing video from military aircraft, applauded Gillibrand’s amendment — but worry it was watered down before final passage and will be buried by the Pentagon.
In an op-ed in The Hill, Elizondo criticized the Pentagon’s decision to place the new UAP office inside the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security, which he said is the “perfect place to put it” if “we want 70 more years of secrecy on this topic.”
Activists complain about the lack of civilian involvement in the new Pentagon office and assume it will simply classify anything interesting it finds, so that its unclassified reports to Congress will be little more than fig leaves.
Dr. Steven Greer, who retired from the emergency room to pursue the hunt for aliens as the self-described “world’s expert on UFOs,” objects to the notion that UFOs should be treated as a national security threat at all.
As he sees it, aliens are here to help us and the military-industrial complex is hyping their danger and creating the U.S. Space Force to prepare for interplanetary war, arguing movies like “Independence Day” are part of “a false narrative created by covert groups striving to generate fear of ETs.”
But Stephen Bassett, the only lobbyist in Washington dedicated to the “formal acknowledgement by the U.S. government of an extraterrestrial presence,” as his official lobbying disclosure puts it, sees this moment as the culmination of everything he and others have been working toward.
“No, this isn't a new psyops program. It is a planned effort to end the truth embargo,” Bassett said. “While I appreciate those who are skeptical, that group has tried to find the dark side of every development — the hidden hand.”
Instead of a renewed cover-up, Bassett views the new office as one piece of a multiyear plan by a faction of insiders to finally force the government to reveal that it has had contact with aliens for decades.
“This is a sea change brought about by the work of thousands of people and activists over 70 years,” he said. “But some of these people can’t help but see it as a clever black ops mission.”
Meanwhile, the national security apparatus has more terrestrial concerns.
The Department of Defense moved quickly to set up the new Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, which will “synchronize efforts across the Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests,” according to the Pentagon.
The military has made it clear it's mainly focused on incursions into restricted airspace, such as military bases, and has talked more about drones and new technologies developed by the Russians, Chinese and other earthlings.
The language of the legislation itself goes a bit further, calling for rapid field investigations of UAP incidents, including “adverse physiological effects.” It envisions the “testing of materials, medical studies, and development of theoretical models,” as well potential future investment, to “replicate any such advanced characteristics and performance” discovered.
To Mick West, a prominent UFO debunker and villain of the ufologists, the believers have “kind of hijacked real issues,” which is that military pilots have seen things they can’t explain.
“If you read the text of this legislation, it seems to reflect concerns of the extraterrestrial hypothesis believers,” he said. “Now the military is sort of forced to jump through some slightly silly hoops while doing serious work.”
Whatever the new office reveals, he worries it will only further convince those who want to believe — whether because they’ll say the government is finally acknowledging the truth about aliens or because it’s still covering up the good stuff.
“I think it's going to clear some things up, but also going to add some fuel to the fire,” he said.
Quelle: NBC News