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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. 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.

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

    If there's tentacles, contact Japan.

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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.

  9. 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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  10. ObXKCD by Deadstick · · Score: 5, Interesting
  11. Re:The most dispappointing thing by Darinbob · · Score: 2

    Or "Do not shoot the robot."

  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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