In post 157 I wrote:
* That the global intelligence community/communities and mainstream media share a relationship. So even a spectacular incident may be reported in a local paper, but won't go on to be reported in national or global news. (This is true.) So people say "But surely we'd have heard?" - not understanding how the media works.
I must add to this that there was a clear case of a clear UFO filmed by either a national or local channel 3 team in England. It was either in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I just didn't write down details at the time, and so long has passed. And it DID get national airing over and over for a whole day.
Basically it was a Channel 3 (ITV) team in a field doing a routine local news spot on farming. Sounds mundane so far. But suddenly a glowing object appeared above them at low-cloud level. It was clearly no plane etc. The presenters were astonished, and the cameraman swivelled up and zoomed in somewhat. The object, from a complete standing start above them, then suddenly zoomed off leaving a thick film of vapour in its wake. Because their own TV crew had filmed it, this footage was shown over and over on national TV in the UK for at least one day.
But it's still only footage, not anything concrete you can hold in your hands. Nevertheless it was a professional film crew with presenters in England, and they knew very well they were seeing and filming something extraordinary.
I mention this as it was before the internet, before YouTube, etc, so I've been able to find no reference to it at all, let alone the nationally-televised footage. Call it between maybe 1976 to 1983. I'd really appreciate it if anyone had a lead on this.
But these things do happen. Skeptics simply don't know the vast history going back decades.
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Air France Crew Saw 800-foot Saucer Near Paris
Here, the pilot of an Air France airliner attests in public that his crew witnessed a disc-shaped craft at 35,000 feet, which can be estimated at 800 to 1,000 feet in diameter. It was radar-confirmed. This was near Paris, and later the pilot realised the object had been directly over an important French military base.
This is an experienced pilot and his crew (Judy please note! 🙂 ).
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Alien implants into people
The UFO subject is not just about "lights in the night". It goes far beyond that. Thousands of cases now recorded by researchers include alleged (often with good evidence) sightings of occupants. These, after discoursing with prime researchers in the field, are what Spielberg based the movie "Close Encounters Of The First Kind" upon. Though nothing specifically like that film happened, it's based upon the kind of global encounters that have been recorded.
Beyond mere encounters of occupants, in thousands, and especially hundreds of truly core cases from many nations dating back at least to 1961, people from all walks of life, who never usually believed in or had any interest in UFOs, report being abducted for a few hours overnight (a few in the day). Abductions are usually repetitive: the same person encounters them over life more than once.
And beyond that, abductees exhibit physical evidence of the abduction - anything from strange otherworldly surgery to high-tech biological-mineral objects "implanted" into their bodies. Are these implants "tracers"? Who knows. That's just a human 'take' on the objects. Anyway, here's just the first few minutes of a presentation about a recent implant. (Implants have been studied at renowned labs, and found to have minerals of "meteoric-like" consistency, but also often with an unknown biological component too):
P.S. It may sound wacky, at the end of this clip, that attendees are invited to be scanned for implants at this conference. But it's logical. As in Spielberg's fictitious film based roughly upon real-life events, abductees do get attracted to UFO events out of a search for truth.
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Stanton Friedman on Roswell and MJ12
This is a short interview in two parts of Stanton Friedman, a UFO researcher for over five decades, on the early (1947) Roswell, USA, saucer crashes, and on MJ12 (the 1947 organisational body of engineers and administrators allegedly set up to investigate Roswell, other such events, and to manage public non-knowledge):
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Great posts David, lots of good info there. Whilst looking up Gordon Cooper I came across this page http://www.WantToKnow.info/ufocover-up10pg#cooper which is a summary about the witness testimony from the book Disclosure. Some interesting quotes:
US Navy Pilot, Lieutenant Frederick Fox
There is a publication called JANAP 146E that had a section that says you will not reveal any information regarding the UFO phenomenon under penalty of $10,000 fine and ten years in jail.
Mercury & Gemini Astronaut, Colonel Gordon Cooper
At Edwards Air Force Base I was having some of the cameramen film precision landings. A saucer flew right over them, put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. They went out there with their cameras towards the UFO. It lifted off and flew off at a very high rate of speed
.I had a chance to hold it [the film] up to the window to look at it. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth.
Mexico City Senior Air Traffic Controller, Enrique Kolbeck
When you have the view of the airspace and the radar screen [and] you see the UFOs go around twenty or thirty miles a second that is very real. They can turn suddenly almost 90 degrees in a second or half a second. The UFOs can go vertically straight up very quickly.