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CIA: 10 Tips When Investigating a Flying Saucer (cia.gov)

Posted by Soulskill on from the only-record-video-when-you-have-the-shakes dept.

coondoggie writes: You may not associate the Central Intelligence Agency with historical UFO investigations, but the agency did have a big role in such investigations many years ago. This week the agency posted an article called 'How to investigate a flying saucer." The release is part of a series of old documents dredged up as a nod to the return of The X-Files to TV this weekend.

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  1. "Disclosure" project call bullshit by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1, Informative

    So after "5. Eliminate False Positives", and "7. Examine Witness Documentation" how many **true positives** _still_ remain?

    Because the Disclose project calls bullshit:

    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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  2. Trust us, we're from the government by RubberDogBone · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is only one step:

    Visit "witnesses" and tell them "You didn't see anything strange in the sky, did you?" in a menacing manner. Thus there are no "sightings" to worry about.

    In truth, they brought in J.Allen Hynek as a Project Bluebook skeptic. And he was deeply involved in debunking sightings and reports. But by the time he left Bluebook, he had begun to see patterns of evidence he could not dismiss or ignore, and became convinced he had been wrong and something actually was happening. The man walked in a scientist with a closed mind and by the time he left, he'd changed his mind completely. That doesn't happen without a good reason. Hynek remained a UFO believer for the rest of his life.

       

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