The Pentagon's about to start testing a new spyplane

[ecosophia]

Here we go again, skywatchers...

Today the New York Times splashed a supposed UFO research program at the Pentagon all over the news. No doubt in the months and years ahead we'll get the rest of the usual package -- neatly photoshopped images, breathless claims of imminent alien landings, leaks from Air Force intelligence, if you know your UFO history you already know the whole story. 

The last time this happened in a big way, it was the era of the "black triangles." Funny how much they looked like the first generation of stealth planes, which started flight testing right about the same time...

Ahem. 

The UFO phenomenon was manufactured in 1947 by US military intelligence as protective cover for tests of high-altitude reconnaissance balloons. It's been deployed over and over again since that time to provide the same service for U-2 and SR-71 flights, the first generations of spy satellites, and a galaxy of other activities that our military (and, to be fair, other militaries that borrowed the gimmick from us) didn't want to make public. This current flurry of feux news simply means that the new Pentagon budget will cover tests for a new round of spyplanes, or some similar gimmick. Pay attention to the "UFO sightings" that will get splashed over the internet in due time, triangulate that with the latest trends in aerospace technology, and you should be able to figure out pretty clearly what the folks at the "Skunk Works," the famous Lockheed secret-airplane facility, have come up with this time. 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's very good to have at least one online place to go that's sensible about this subject when it comes up, so thank you for that. And your book pictured there is the best researched and most clear headed I've ever read on the subject, so thanks for that as well. (And I would say the same for you book on Atlantis. And your book on monsters ... )

-Jeff H.

[dufu]

This guy is in agreement with you:

https://runesoup.com/2017/12/flying-saucy-keep-your-heads/

[ecosophia]

It astonishes me that this is even controversial. The recently declassified history of the U-2 program admits in so many words that roughly half the "unidentified" objects tracked by Project Blue Book were U-2 flights, and the Air Force officials involved knowingly lied about it to cover the CIA's nether cheeks. The UFO phenomenon originally hit the newspapers *three years* after the US military engaged in a spectacular (and spectacularly successful) project of deception to bamboozle the Germans about the location of the D-Day invasion; of course they'd think of the same thing to try to hide our surveillance balloon program from the Russians, and use it again and again as needed. Since people keep falling for it, why not?

Excellent / last mention of Guthrie

[mbdowd]

You have me fully convinced on this issue, John Michael, through your previous writings on the subject. Thanks for this quickie review.

btw... on a separate note: You do know that my recommendation of Guthrie's "Faces in the Clouds" had nothing to do with wanting you to compromise or move in that direction. It had to do with genuine understanding, nothing more. It represents the best scholarship on the subject of why human beings have an innate propensity to give human characteristics to what is more than human and have never survived long without an I-Thou relationship to reality.

I'll drop the subject now, I promise. :-)

Lockheed Martin F-35 II

[(Anonymous)]

Remember how Lockheed Martin has also been developing the F-35? How it has gone incredibly, stupendously over-budget? Well, if Skunk Works has simultaneously been developing a new plane that they now want to test, the F-35 budget issues make perfect sense.

Re: Lockheed Martin F-35 II

[ecosophia]

Hmm! That would make sense -- although the US military industry is perfectly capable of wasting vast amounts of money on inferior hardware without benefit of black-budget spyplanes, of course.

fake news litmus test

[(Anonymous)]

If you type UFO into a search engine and check out the list of news feeds right now you can see which publications have the most deep state tentacles wrapped around them. Never been easier to see the REAL invisible hand at work.

[avalonautumn]

Heh heh heh!

Yeah, I noticed a sudden spate of "maybe UFOs" (oh, I'm sorry, it's UAP or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon now!) in governmental releases, and raised my eyebrows a mite.