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From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs

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By Greg Eghigian

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In the 1940s through 1960s the USAF built and flew disc winged aircraft with very advanced performance. It is highly likely that these are what people saw as "flying saucers"

https://thecryptozoologist.webs.com/apps/blog/show/6335018-are-u-s-built-flying-wing-disc-aircraft-an-explanation-for-many-ufo-sightings

http://www.laesieworks.com/ifo/lib/USDiscWing.html

My bet is the more advanced "UAP"s being talked about today are highly advanced US tech the US will never publicly reveal, at least not willingly. The physics behind some of these seems doable if you have enough energy and a small reactor could have the energy. Even the "Tic Tac" seen by the Navy F/A-18 pilots is supposedly 40 feet long, the size of a Douglas Skyhawk or five times the height of the average residential ceiling. My own supervisor has seen one of the so-called TR-3B Astras in the desert in broad daylight near Yuma. He's an engineer and not prone to flights of fancy. I am pretty sure I have seen one at night, same light pattern, no sound whatsoever, just kind of floating along over our valley. Here is a description of the possible/probable (?) physics behind these.

https://rense.com/general30/yrb3.htm

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The bimonthly “Lifestyle” media rotation for ‘clicks’ continues: LGBTQ+, Conspiracy Theorists, QAnon, UFO’s, …repeat.

Oh, wait! While the author here is writing for a non-profit like The Conversation, Greg Eghigian will also be selling his book on the history of the UFO phenomenon shortly, according to Online.

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The article will be incomplete without mention of the top secret US government project known as Purity Control, the intent of which was to create alien-human hybrids.

https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Purity_Control

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Read your physics and astronomy schoolbooks and other learning materials again. It’s highest improbable considering the time windows have to fit and it’s energetically, physically as well biologically impossible that ‘they’ come here or we can go to ‘them’ one day. But of course, enjoy the theories, movies and all such entertainment.

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The article will be incomplete without mention of the top secret US government project known as Purity Control, the intent of which was to create alien-human hybrids.

Ah yes, that famous documentary, The X-Files.

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The recent US Navy videos that kicked off the latest enthusiasm are on another level from previous 'evidence', for a number of reasons, notably the source and the admission of ownership.

Still, there is a lot of pushback from the scientific community. Most scientists putting up objections seem concerned with reading too much onto videos without the datasets they'd need to investigate further.

But there is also a self-preservation aspect, it seems. I know two rather high level theoretical physicists on both sides of the Atlantic who are VERY dismissive of the videos, and ridiculing of people who don't share their dismissive views. They claim to be 100% certain this has absolutely NOTHING to do with anything elsewhere.

The holy baseline of modern physics is Einstein's rules on space/time that hold as an absolute certainty that nothing can travel faster than light. If something came along that proved Einstein wrong, it would also nullify much of the work these physicists have done in their own careers, and in much of the work they're doing now.

It isn't hard to see why this is being written off as "a bug on the windshield" by most physicists. For the sake of their careers, they'd better darn well hope it's just a bug on the windshield.

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Descriptions of unidentified objects in the sky go back over a thousand years. Some people claim that they are even in ancient cave paintings. Obviously, the authors of the cave paintings are not around to be interviewed.

Many decades ago, I had a conversation with a college astronomer who told me about his experiences with trying to document UFOs. He and a colleague from another college separately took pictures of very large objects which were hovering over Los Angeles, for days at a time, at an altitude which they determined to be about 50 miles. They sent the pictures to the US Air Force's Operation Blue Book. The USAF told them, "thank you very much," and that was the end of the discussion. The professor did not go to the public. To have done so would have put his job at risk. Nevertheless, when asked directly, he was willing to talk about his experiences.

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They sent the pictures to the US Air Force's Operation Blue Book. The USAF told them, "thank you very much," and that was the end of the discussion. 

If it is the USAF operating these things of course they would say nothing. Imagine you have these craft that everyone dismisses as a "bug on a windshield" or a "weather balloon" as people including many scientists refuse to acknowledge there really is something up there that is both very unusual and blindingly fast. The possessor of such craft can cruise around over adversary terrain, even their capital, more or less with impunity collecting intel while being dismissed by those on the ground as something that really isn't there.

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Hi DT

While I agree that the USAF does not let us in on all their secrets, the incident took place about 70 years ago. The USAF probably did not then have the technology to hover with a large craft at an altitude of 50 miles, something which they cannot do even today.

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The current altitude record for a NASA unmanned balloon is 160,000 feet, far short of the altitude needed to reach 50 miles, 265,000 feet.

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While I agree that the USAF does not let us in on all their secrets, the incident took place about 70 years ago. The USAF probably did not then have the technology to hover with a large craft at an altitude of 50 miles, something which they cannot do even today.

That time frame is about when the USAF started flying disc winged experimental aircraft. They didn't hover but could approach the limits of what is defined as space. Read the articles I linked in my first post here. Those disc winged aircraft were pretty advanced for their day and blazingly fast.

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The best are the one's that flew over Washington, D.C. The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap, the Washington National Airport Sightings, or the Invasion of Washington, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington, D.C.  This led to alot of cover up and some really great sci-fi...

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