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Pentagon Science:
1952 Government attitudes:
Still cruising across the military intelligence handling of UFOs problem.... here is a thumbnail on where we are in mid-1952:
1). The Air Force, despite public comment to the contrary,was quite concerned about these violations of American airspace about which we apparently can't even detect in a timely manner let alone do anything about;
2). The Pentagon was now full of highly placed officers who were taking this issue very seriously; this included the Assistant Director of Intelligence, who had seen a UFO himself, and the spooky Stefan Possony, the psychological warfare expert with an office desk right in General Samford's own DI spaces;
3). Hypotheses for the nature of these objects in the reports were: a]. they don't exist; everyone is making mistake after mistake; b]. these things are ours, but someone isn't bothering to tell The Pentagon about them, despite being directly asked; c]. these things are Soviet very high-tech devices of a completely unsuspected development, the breakthroughs required being very difficult to conceive; d]. these things are Soviet, but of technical capabilities less than what some of the reports might envision; they are tricky but more conventional than we think, and are likely some vast Soviet psychological warfare scheme; e). these things are exactly what they are reported to be and therefore beyond the current capability of Earth technology.
4). In 1952, despite some Pentagon analysts wanting to believe "a", the two prominent guesses were "d" and "e";
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Originally posted by karl 12
The subject in question being "MILITARY and INTELLIGENCE-SPONSORED UFO RESEARCH: Was Science on the Agenda?", the discussion really does contain a few gems and covers topics such as the behind the scenes goings on at the Pentagon, Project Sign, Project Grudge, Project Bluebook and the Robertson panel as well as the 1947/1952 UFO flaps and the Green fireball sightings over secret Atomic labs like Los Alamos and Oak Ridge.
Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
reply to post by karl 12
And here we are still years down the line waiting on them openly discussing the very real phenomenon of UFOs.
How exactly does a government who have openly lied and tried to just forget about this stuff still have trust from the people? Boggles my mind sometimes, and not just that but they're illegally spying on us?
The term "for the people" doesn't apply here.
Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
How exactly does a government who have openly lied and tried to just forget about this stuff still have trust from the people? Boggles my mind sometimes, and not just that but they're illegally spying on us?
RODEGHIER Tells You What You Need To Know: SSE Meeting 2103
Mark Rodeghier presented a lecture titled “Pattern Changes In The UFO Phenomenon,”
link
sealing
That's some high up intelligence in 1952
concentrating on Venus and Swamp Gas.
I believe they were fascinated by the
genuine phenomena of Unknown Flying Objects, just like the public.
"In June 1952 the Air Force was taking the UFO problem seriously. One of the reasons was that there were a lot of good UFO reports coming in from Korea. Fighter pilots reported seeing silver colored spheres or disks on several occasions, and radar in Japan, Okinawa, and in Korea had tracked unidentified targets."
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, head of Project Blue book, in his book "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
UFO Reports during the Korean War.