"How the CIA Tried to Quell UFO Panic During the Cold War" Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Feb 2020 8:53 p.m. PST |
"In January 1953, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency had a thorny situation on its hands. Reports of UFO sightings were mushrooming around the country. Press accounts were fanning public fascination—and concern. So the CIA convened a group of scientists to investigate whether these unknown phenomena in the sky represented a national security threat. But there was something else. At a time when growing Cold War anxiety about the Soviets ranged from psychological warfare to wholesale nuclear annihilation, the U.S. government worried about the prospect of a growing national hysteria. In the previous year, UFOs had begun to figure prominently in the public conversation. In April 1952, the popular magazine LIFE published a story titled "Have We Visitors from Space?" that promised to offer "scientific evidence that there is a real case for interplanetary saucers." In July that year, newspaper headlines around the country blared reports of flying saucers swarming Washington, D.C. Between March and June that year, the number of UFO sightings officially reported to the U.S. Air Force jumped from 23 to 148. Given all the attention UFOs were getting, the CIA decided it needed a "national policy" for "what should be told the public regarding the phenomenon, in order to minimize risk of panic," according to government documents…"
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 Legion 4   | 02 Feb 2020 8:38 a.m. PST |
I watch all those shows on Histroy Chan about UFOs. Seems the gov't may actually beginning to take some of this seriously. E.g. revealing the recent AATIP initiative. As said on one of those shows. I don't know which is more concerning, if they are ETs ? Or probably more so, someone on Earth here has this tech !?!? |
| Tango01 | 02 Feb 2020 3:20 p.m. PST |
The truth is out there… (smile)
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| Thresher01 | 02 Feb 2020 9:14 p.m. PST |
Alas, the total cover up was not a complete success, as seen here: YouTube link |
| Legion 4 | 03 Feb 2020 8:17 a.m. PST |
Oh sure it's all fun and games until UFOs land on the WH lawn … Talk about illegal aliens !!!!  |
| Tango01 | 03 Feb 2020 11:29 a.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 03 Feb 2020 9:50 p.m. PST |
"As said on one of those shows. I don't know which is more concerning, if they are ETs ? Or probably more so, someone on Earth here has this tech !?!?" I lean toward Trans-Dimensional, and estimate their tech is only about 200 years ahead of us (but we're closing the gap rapidly and will eventually surpass them… ;-) |
| Legion 4 | 04 Feb 2020 9:26 a.m. PST |
We'll have to wait and see … but my $ is on ETs/aliens/EBEs …  |
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