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

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. A Distraction by 0xG · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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

    Horse manure.
    It's yet another opaque way of distracting the public from the real sh*t they are up to.
    Like:

    NO CARRIER

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    1. Re:A Distraction by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Funny

      TRUST NO CARRIER

    2. Re:A Distraction by Xyrus · · Score: 1

      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

      Horse manure.

      It's yet another opaque way of distracting the public from the real sh*t they are up to.

      Like:

      NO CARRIER

      More like: NO CAREER

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    3. Re: A Distraction by ememisya · · Score: 1

      X-Files, CIA version:
      -The truth is out there!
      -Where? Over here? *booom*
      -The truth was over there...
      *special intervention*
      -The truth is I was wrong about everything.
      Profit

  2. Other dinnerware needs equal publicity by mark-t · · Score: 5, Funny

    I feel compelled to point out that most dinnerware manufactures make a full line of dinnerware options, including plates, breakfast bowls, cups, as well as cream jugs and sugar bowls, all of which are no less capable of achieving flight than their line of saucers, however briefly said flight might be.

    1. Re:Other dinnerware needs equal publicity by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      I feel compelled to point out that most dinnerware manufactures make a full line of dinnerware options, including plates, breakfast bowls, cups...

      It's those flying black blenders that make me nervous.
       

  3. Re:Nice to know tax dollars are at work flogging T by bruce_the_loon · · Score: 2

    Nope, not the same crew. Twas the geeks at the NSA that did the Star Trek thing, the assassins at the CIA actually wander out into the real world and do things.

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  4. The most dispappointing thing by MouseTheLuckyDog · · Score: 1

    the rules they set out are pretty much the top ten rules for investigating any kind of phenomena.

    No really specific advice like "if you see unusual pods lying around the area keep your distance".

    1. Re:The most dispappointing thing by Darinbob · · Score: 2

      Or "Do not shoot the robot."

  5. So... by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

    That guy with the weird hairdo works for the CIA?

    1. Re:So... by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

      I'm not saying that guy with the weird hairdo works the CIA...

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    2. Re:So... by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      No, The Donald's from the saucers. They forgot to trade him for J. Bieber. (Take 'em both, please)

  6. Tip #11 by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there's tentacles, contact Japan.

  7. Re:Nice to know tax dollars are at work flogging T by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Twas the geeks at the NSA that did the Star Trek thing

    Correct . . . the CIA command center is an exact copy of Deep Space Nine's Quark's Bar.

    Complete with a holodeck.

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  8. Tip #1 by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The term "little green men" is now considered racist. They should be called "humanness-challenged visitors" instead.

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    1. Re:Tip #1 by meglon · · Score: 1

      We've never been particularly concerned with the little green men, it's the large green motherfuckers we've been worried about... and you can call them anything you like, they'll still find a way to get you.

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  9. Left out some things by gurps_npc · · Score: 2
    1) Investigate any odd physical limitation limitations of all you talk to

    2) Make sure you look all interviewees in all eyes - no matter how many.

    3) Wear a locked chastity belt to protect your nether regions.

    4) Make sure you translate the ENTIRE book title.

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    1. Re: Left out some things by Lije+Baley · · Score: 1

      "HOW TO COOK FORTY HUMANS"

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  10. Re:trust them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    You seem a little insane based on your post and sig, so maybe you need someone to tell you that they're imaginary, or experimental aircraft. There are no aliens visiting us.

  11. Misunderstand what they were investigating by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They weren't looking for little green men. They were looking for:

    1) Intelligence related to secret Soviet and Chinese aircraft testing (CIA)
    2) Information on just how much the public actually knew about U.S. secret aircraft testing (the military and FBI).

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    1. Re:Misunderstand what they were investigating by Pseudonym · · Score: 2

      They were also interested in UFO enthusiast groups, because they were believed to be vulnerable to infiltration by foreign governments. True story.

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  12. Re:Nice to know tax dollars are at work flogging T by JazzLad · · Score: 1
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  13. Re:trust them by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump says there is. And he is going to send them back where they belong!!!

  14. ObXKCD by Deadstick · · Score: 5, Interesting
    1. Re:ObXKCD by Deadstick · · Score: 1

      Only insightful (or interesting) if you assume that absence of proof constitutes proof of absence.

      Of course it doesn't...and neither does faith constitute proof of presence. But a little evidence would help there.

  15. "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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  16. Re:trust them by Sir_Eptishous · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump says there is. And he is going to send them back where they belong!!!

    Send them back?!?
    F that!

    He's going to build a wall!

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  17. Another X-Files resurrection? by Viol8 · · Score: 1

    Its come back from the dead more often than one of its zombies. The series should be left in the past, by the end it had jumped more alien sharks than was good for it and had become a parody of itself.

    1. Re:Another X-Files resurrection? by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      I thought it's always been self-parodying. That was one of its fun points. You never knew what's real, what's imagined, and what's a gag.

      It had a fun way of mixing world-changing forces with mundane office politics and every-day situations: big, small, serious, and humorous all at the same time. It was a Rorschach show: you saw whatever you wanted to see.

      It was more fun to watch if you stopped trying to figure it out. The reaction of people to odd events is the key, in my opinion, and not the odd events themselves.

      I used to play pranks on my siblings as a kid, and their reaction was the real pay-day. (Yes, they still hate me :-)

  18. Re:trust them by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Personally, I find it works better the other way round.

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  19. Official US Airforce Aircraft Identification Chart by amorsen · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cannot believe that no one has posted this yet:

    Official US Airforce Aircraft Identification Chart

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  20. Just three steps by GuB-42 · · Score: 1

    - Look inside flying saucer, you should find a flying cup and a flying spoon
    - (optional) put flying sugar in flying cup, stir with flying spoon
    - Drink flying coffee

  21. 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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  22. Re:Nevermind CIA malfeasance and coverups and such by turbidostato · · Score: 1

    !Let's talk about the fucking X-files reboot instead!"

    Yes!

    For instance, why is a public institution expending its resources making the marketing campaign for a private company?

  23. Re:trust them by mcswell · · Score: 1

    Really, no aliens visiting us now? I knew tourism had gone down, but... Does that mean the MiB are out of a job?

  24. Re:trust them by rtb61 · · Score: 2

    How's this for tip number one. Logically if they have the technology to make it here, they will also likely have the technology to hide being here (as evidenced by slow but sure advances in our own stealth technology), so logically if they are seen it is only because they want to be seen. The only logical reason for them being here, of course the great show we are putting on, now that's some real reality TV, assuming advances in technology, 3D sensorama, feel what the short hair crested rock throwing monkey people feel. As for communicating look up into the sky and https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., try to avoid the stabby bits but don't forget to be entertaining.

    All in all still really childish to be scared into denial (please on please let there be no aliens in a universe of galaxies, or so sillily arrogant, oh yeah we are so special only we can exist in an entire fucking galaxy, uh huh ). Where life can exist it will and where environmental conditions promote the advantage of the adaptability of intelligence over slower physical evolution it will. When societies can advance sufficiently to travel the stars without destroying itself they will. Our location and the age of the galaxy, means the math puts us very, very (billions of years) late in the game. Suck it up and grow up, what does it mean, not much at all, live, eat, work, fuck, sleep, die. You can bet, logically they will not want the show to end, that mass carnage without being directly involved in it, would be a thing of fascination. What will the crazy monkey people do next, blow themselves up with nukes, GMO themselves to death with a bad mutation, render their planet uninhabitable for themselves, maybe they take bets, maybe they have their favourites, maybe they can pry right in there with quantum remote sensing at a distance (in that case giddyup dobin and make the ride interesting).

    Then again just http://johnfenzel.typepad.com/..., if it makes you feel better, so be it. Likely wont alter the entertainment value at all, just make it last longer and just like us, we never want our favourite shows to end, our favourite characters dying off (even when the emotions are so fulfilling) and then love to discuss what has happened and tried to guess what will happen next. A possible audience of trillions, which mean thousands might find any one of particular one of you fascinating, still likely dibs for the best rides.

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  25. Re:Nice to know tax dollars are at work flogging T by elrous0 · · Score: 1

    the assassins at the CIA actually wander out into the real world and do things.

    Actually, the CIA learned a long time ago that character assassinations work a lot better than the kind with bullets. Just ask the former head of the IMF, who dared to challenge the U.S. Dollar as a standard world currency.

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  26. Re:trust them by elrous0 · · Score: 1

    Any species with the level of technology needed to cross the vast distances of interstellar space would probably have very little reason to hide from us. We would probably be about as much a threat to them as ants.

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  27. Re: Nevermind CIA malfeasance and coverups and suc by ememisya · · Score: 1

    Public, yes.

  28. Re: Nice to know tax dollars are at work flogging by ememisya · · Score: 1

    This is true, and it's not cheap either.

  29. Re: Nice to know tax dollars are at work flogging by ememisya · · Score: 1

    Well yea, where does action start from? Starts as a priming wave pattern in the brain. Why stop a man from punching you, when you can make him believe he shouldn't? Things are a lot easier to control at the neural electricity stage before they turn into undesirable expressions, contractions of vocal sorts, and collection of ATPs exploding in a certain pattern. Ya know, think before you act.

  30. Re:trust them by rtb61 · · Score: 1

    They hide to keep the show going and not corrupt it. Flip side of the argument, we get one chance in the total history of the galaxy to make it, to reach out to the stars, to become our own advanced society and to interfere would be steal that chance, to deny us our own identity and to express our own culture. Just because we routinely do that shitty stuff to each other does not mean that a far more mature stable race would do it to us, supplant their culture upon us by force. You can readily imagine how strict the rules would be about interference about ruining a once in the history of the galaxy show, about taking away something they likely will not have experience for millions of years, the stuff of legend, from primitive creature to space colonising society. A thousand advanced societies setting the rules for restricted interaction with the species (staving off possible extinction events to keep it going), mind you they will have practised this, in terms of ancient history many times. Stop thinking of aliens as some kind of blob. Think of them as individuals, curious, creative, imaginative individuals, who thrive upon feeding that, just as we do. So argument is whether to help and minimise suffering or allow us the opportunity to do what they have done become our own galactic species (watching the spectacle of that of course has a very powerful impact on the balance of helping or not helping).

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