Area 51 LI: Three of the Navy's, Uh, UFO Videos Are Released For Official Use Only

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Watch the UFOs on video.  And “crazy” commentary from Deep Prasad we must believe now in UFOs as well As Al(I)ens 

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DENSITY KILLS. MASS TRANSIT KILLS. URBANIZATION KILLS. Coronavirus Lingers in Air of Crowded Spaces, New Study Finds.

UFO sightings happen in clusters. The same is true of books about UFOs. While clusters of UFO sightings are called “flaps,” there is no similar term for clusters of UFO books. I propose calling them a “Sagan” (despite the risk of implying that there are billions and billions of them).

Sarah Scoles’s “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers,” David J. Halperin’s “Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO” and Keith Cooper’s “The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” take a similar approach to the question of UFOs. Maybe we have been visited, maybe not (probably not), but regardless, what does it mean that so many of us have these experiences and beliefs?

The Pentagon on Monday released three declassified videos that show US Navy pilots encountering what appear to be unidentified flying objects.

The grainy videos, which the Pentagon says depict “unexplained aerial phenomena”, were previously leaked, with some believing they show alien unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

The Pentagon said it released the footage to “to clear up any misconceptionsby the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real or whether or not there is more to the videos,” a statement on the Department of Defense website said.

“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,” the statement said.

The videos had been “circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017”, the statement said, adding that “the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified’”.

The three videos show what the pilots saw during training flights in 2004 and 2015. Two of the videos were published by the New York Times and Media Dragon in 2017. The other video was released by the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science group, a media and private science organization. 

MEdia Dragons at Pentagon release three UFO videos taken by US Navy pilots

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Three of the Navy's, Uh, UFO Videos Are Released

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THE CHINA COVID COVERUP: Chinese internet users who uploaded coronavirus memories to GitHub have been arrested.

A group of volunteers in China who worked to prevent digital records of the coronavirus outbreak from being scrubbed by censors are now targets of a crackdown.

That aspect of our restart dilemma made me pay attention to an article in the Wall Street Journal on the challenges facing the beer industry (Saabira Chaudry, 3/26).  During March alone, cancellation of events like March Madness and St. Patrick’s Day have left 10 million gallons of beer stranded in bars and restaurants.  Beer spoils in 2-6 months, and can’t simply be poured down the drain.  That volume of beer will upset pH balance and reduce oxygen content if dumped into any body of water.  One company hopes to defoam and pH-balance their stock, then seek permission for dumping.  Sam Adams is exploring ways to extract the ethanol for use as a gasoline additive.  Another is trying to convert the ethanol to hand sanitizer.  There is debate over whether and how the losses should be shared between producers, distributors, and bars.  Does that sound familiar?  Each keg represents $100-$120 of sunk cost, and companies will want to show possession of those assets on their balance sheets if they enter bankruptcy.  A final twist—since they want them back, how do producers reverse-ship full kegs?  The industry has well established routines for shipping back empty kegs, but not full ones—it takes three times as many trucks to ship full kegs 

Surely, we beer drinkers could pitch In to help with that beer. COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 4/26/20 | Columbia University Department of Surgery