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[Tiki Tom]

Today’s SCIF Briefing has apparently been postponed until the week of May 12.

https://x.com/RedPandaKoala/status/1917223140582916234

 

[Tiki Tom]

This is wild.
So, at a Congressional hearing about UFOs, a witness shows a photo of a cruise ship-sized ufo taken by a commercial pilot as the ufo hovers beneath the airliner.

https://mitechnews.com/industry-40/...zed-ufo-flying-underneath-commercial-us-jet/#

Why isn’t this big news?
I’m guessing it’s because we are desensitized to such stories. Whistleblowers are coming out almost weekly with fantastic stories but no “proof”. Photos without rock solid provinance are shrugged off because they could well be fake. It seems like it’s always the same ten (or so) people who are feeding us these far fetched stories. We have been around the block so many times with these stories that it is difficult to get excited since they never lead anywhere.

And yet… it seems like there might be something going on that we don’t understand. There are some solid reasons to wonder about it.

This can’t just be a giant folk myth, can it?

 

[Tiki Tom]

^^^^^^
…And… DEBUNKED. Thoroughly. Not a fake photo. But definitely not a UFO.
This is the second time this prominent UFO guy has been duped.

Sigh.

 

[Tiki Tom]

This sounds alarming…

https://www.iflscience.com/blackouts-around-the-world-as-x-class-solar-flare-hits-earth-79207

 

[Zombie_61]

This is wild.
So, at a Congressional hearing about UFOs, a witness shows a photo of a cruise ship-sized ufo taken by a commercial pilot as the ufo hovers beneath the airliner. *snip* Why isn’t this big news?

I think the average person living on this planet has become desensitized to a degree, especially since the Internet came into existence. Now, every crackpot and/or legitimate official Sentinel can share their latest blurry-beyond-belief "evidence" that UFOs and Aliens truly do exist, and by God they're gonna' get famous proving it. Our governments around the world will, of course, not allow that to happen because they're concerned that a planet-wide panic could set in and cause untold havoc, but their ham-fisted cover-ups are usually more ridiculous than the sightings themselves, hence tabloids like the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News "...reporting the facts the Government doesn't want you to know."

I tend to take it all "with a pinch of salt" myself. I don't want to waste time keeping track of information that may or may not be valid. As it is, I went through public schooling for 13 years (Kindergarten through 12th grade), received my diploma, became a member of the "working class", and now reports from semi-reliable sources are saying much of the information printed in Earth's "history" books is either mildly incorrect or just flat out wrong. And yet, again, our governments are trying to decide which of this "new" information should be shared with us, and which should be hidden away from us forever because it reveals too much about how our governments have been lying to us for decades.

So that's one public perception. The single source that leads me to believe there is indeed intelligent non-human life in the universe(s) is, or was, my older brother Pete. According to our mother, Pete was the one good thing that came from her first marriage, to a verbally abusive husband who joined the Navy less than six months after they were married, and, once he'd served his duty and was released from the navy, never saw her (or my brother Pete) again.

Pete, on the other hand, excelled in school, got good grades, graduated with flying colors...and joined the Air Force. He became a Radarman, served his time, was released from duty, and came home to begin a civilian life. He learned I had an interest in the American space program (Apollo), and he fostered that, perhaps hoping I'd join the military and follow in his footsteps, or perhaps try to become an Astronaut myself. None of that happened, but he did share a few stories with me about how he'd seen "unidentified spacecraft" on his radar screens regularly, and that he could only report them to his superiors through proper channels and not tell anyone about them. Sadly, follow-up at this time is impossible; Pete suffered a fatal heart attack in 1984 at the age of 48. I however, worked for a company that processed parts for the Space Shuttle program (most noticeably the sections that comprised the Solid Rocket Boosters that launched every Shuttle into orbit) so my name was on the paperwork for a number of those Rocket Boosters from 1989 to 2005.

 

[Tiki Tom]

^^^^ Thanks for this, Zombie.
I have never seen a UFO myself (or anything else unexplainable). But, like you, I have spoken with reliable, level-headed people who have told me stories that I find hard to brand as lies. The husband of a former boss was a senior career diplomat. Over dinner one night, he told me how —in the American Midwest— his brother and several other witnesses saw a UFO land and then take off. It was a classic saucer-shaped craft. The weird thing about the story is that none of the witnesses (other than his brother, who told him the story) ever came forward or said anything publicly.

This story is second hand. Yet it came from the diplomats brother, and the diplomat clearly believed it. What am I to make of such a tale? I am left scratching my head.

Right now there is a frantic buzz in the so-called “UFO Community”. And the stories seem to be louder and crazier than I’m used to. (Psychics summoning balls of light?). What can I say? I’ve been interested in the topic since high school almost fifty years ago. I monitor the chatter —-supposedly that SCIF meeting Was held in Washington yesterday. I will report if anything credible pops up. But I’m starting to fear that I will go to my grave not knowing any more than I did when I was 17.

 

[Zombie_61]

^^^^ Thanks for this, Zombie.
I have never seen a UFO myself (or anything else unexplainable).

In the classic sense of that sentence, I can't say I've ever seen a UFO either. Taken quite literally, i.e. an Unidentified Flying Object, living in southern California I've seen quite a few things flying overhead that I could not identify; whether or not they originated from this planet or another is an entirely different matter. I'm no expert in such things, and there are almost always reports in the news about someone with relatively unlimited resources who has had some form of "flying" craft built for him, so who can really say? I'm not always willing to be the first person to jump onto the "extraterrestrial" bandwagon, but I have a very difficult time believing the various life forms residing here on this planet we call "Earth" are the only life in the vast emptiness we call "The Universe".

But, like you, I have spoken with reliable, level-headed people who have told me stories that I find hard to brand as lies. The husband of a former boss was a senior career diplomat. Over dinner one night, he told me how —in the American Midwest— his brother and several other witnesses saw a UFO land and then take off. It was a classic saucer-shaped craft. The weird thing about the story is that none of the witnesses (other than his brother, who told him the story) ever came forward or said anything publicly.

This story is second hand. Yet it came from the diplomats brother, and the diplomat clearly believed it. What am I to make of such a tale? I am left scratching my head.

I give you credit for not dismissing the story immediately, and also for not blindly accepting it as truth. You could be branded as a "crackpot" (for lack of a more accurate term) for some of the things you believe, and so could I, and yet millions of humans go about their days on this planet believing that somewhere out there in space is a very elderly man with white hair and a white beard, sitting on a throne, wearing robes while controlling each and every thing that happens in the known and unknown universe, and keeping an impeccable record of it all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They can't prove it, I can't disprove it, so we're at a stalemate of sorts. That's not exactly keeping me awake at night.

Right now there is a frantic buzz in the so-called “UFO Community”. And the stories seem to be louder and crazier than I’m used to. (Psychics summoning balls of light?). What can I say? I’ve been interested in the topic since high school almost fifty years ago. I monitor the chatter —-supposedly that SCIF meeting Was held in Washington yesterday. I will report if anything credible pops up. But I’m starting to fear that I will go to my grave not knowing any more than I did when I was 17.

I'm in the "Take it seriously with a pinch of salt" crowd, simply because I've known people who sincerely believed some strange things were happening here on Earth, but they had zero evidence to support their beliefs. So I'm just riding this watery rock through space day after day after day, trying to cause as little collateral damage as possible before this body stops functioning and I learn, finally, what, if anything, happens after that. I personally don't believe in a literal "Heaven" or "Hell", but I'm putting my money on some form of reincarnation simply because I've had memories of a life other than this current one I'm experiencing, and I have no other explanation for them. We'll see. And, if not? Well, I'll be dead, that energy within my body will, I imagine, dissipate, and that'll be that. Passed on! This human will be no more! He will have ceased to be! Expired and gone to meet his maker, if such a thing exists. A stiff! Bereft of life, I suppose I'll rest in peace! If my body hadn't been cremated I'd be pushing up the daisies! My metabolic processes will become history! Off the twig! Kicked the bucket, shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! An ex-human!!!

Or something like that.