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Originally posted by ROTJ6
But the technologies described in their briefing document are real and worth looking in to.
Originally posted by Starwatcher
Well Sept. 11th happened.
Then some stupid videos of a moth and rods which destroyed all credibility. Very sad as he had some very credible people willing to testify in front of congress.
[edit on 9-3-2009 by Starwatcher]
Originally posted by ROTJ6
As far as I can tell, the Orion Project is legit. The technologies they are talking about are real.
Greer has brought the highest level of theatrics to UFO calling, but he
isn't the first to try it. Ever since the UFO age began, eager-beaver
contactees have felt the need to reach out and touch. The granddaddy of
them all was a 1950s-era occultist named George Adamski, who claimed that
he met a handsome Venusian in the California desert and even had an
assistant take plaster casts of the being's footprints. While Greer is
less bold than Adamski in his claims, he inspires the same question:
What's the motivation here?
Lately, several ex-CSETIans and former employees, put off by what one
calls Greer's "bullying" style, have defected and started talking. The
portrait they paint is of an egotistical fraternity president, the type of
guy who believes mawkishly in the values he represents but doesn't much
care about his pledges except as dues payers.
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Originally posted by ROTJ6
No, that is not it at all. They are asking the Obama Administration for funding and support for the technologies, not calling them evil.
"It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects."
Former CIA Director Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, signed statement to Congress, August 22, 1960.
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Originally posted by karl 12
Its revealing that many cynics enjoy attacking Stephen Greer (who did quite a good job of collating all the reports and accounts from professional US Air Force personnel and high ranking officials) but are actualy loathe to address any of the actual testimony given.
Originally posted by karl 12,Roscoe Hillenkoetter was also calling for sworn testimony to be given in US Congressional hearings as far back as 1960...
Originally posted by SaviorComplex
We have addressed the testimony. Perhaps you would like to go back and read the opening posts of this thread; while we did not address specific cases, we did address the testimony in general.
Do you have a link so we can read the full letter and understand its context?
"Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitude and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major US defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles."
Dr .H Marshall Chadwell, former assistant director of the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence, in a December, 1952 memo to then-director of the CIA, General Walter B. Smith.
“Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.”
Allen Dulles CIA Director, 1955.
Letter to the Commander of the Army Air Forces on the subject of "Flying Discs" dated September 23, 1947 from Commander of the Air Materiel Command, Lieutenant General Nathan Twining:
a) The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
b) There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as a man-made aircraft.
c) The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.
Also from a declassified Canadian government document about how the United States regards the UFO subject:
a) The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.
b) Flying saucers exist.
c) Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Doctor Vannevar Bush.
d) The entire matter is considered by the United States authorities to be of tremendous significance.
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Originally posted by karl 12
No seriously- please feel free to 'actualy address' some of the testimony in the two hour interviews...
Originally posted by karl 12
then go on to the many other trained professionals, officers, diplomats, colonels, pilots, FAA Officials etc...
Originally posted by karl 12
Yes theres a comprehensive history of these and other authenticated documents in the book...
Originally posted by SaviorComplex
There is nothing to say about them. What we have are ancedotes, nothing more. Without evidence we can neither confirm nor deny their stories. Whether you believe them or not is a matter of faith.
In the absence of evidence, why should we believe them over the other officials who deny the existence of such things? Again, it is a question of faith.
You are dodging the question and attempting to derail by making the subject about me.
Originally posted by karl 12
Not realy-some of the incidents have radar evidence and government documentary evidence to back them up...
Originally posted by karl 12
As mentioned above,this is you again epousing the popular misconception that 'there is no evidence for UFOs'.
Originally posted by karl 12
I've seen you attempt to derail many threads in my time by using
childish,emotion enflaming tactics (whilst also conveniently never addressing major points) -these traits are very predictable and are probably just the sign of a weak,evasive argument.
Originally posted by Gazrok
Greer has definitely gone over to the fringe side, but even I'm not about to compare him to Adamski....