Who was responsible for promoting UFO beliefs? The Pentagon! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 08:06:09 pm
content: Read all about it:https://archive.is/V6FYT(article from theWall Street Journal, hardly a hotbed of conspiracy theory)

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 08:32:27 pm
content: Who ispromoting UFO beliefs todaysteve quayle book promotions & other sciencefictionmarketing or books on speculation about aliens not from Mexico

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 08:43:27 pm
content: OMG, another post bashing the USA. In the modern era, the first report of UFO's in NA had nothing to do with the Defense Department. There's no denying the US and every other government on Earth has kept investigations of such reports secrete. But, that doesn't prove the validity of anything. Hey, AK, do extraterrestrials exist here? How did they get here?This belongs in dodgy technology at best -- more appropriately trolling. What does the TS intend to accomplish by it?

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 08:45:45 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on June 10, 2025, 08:43:27 pmOh, sorry:USA! USA! USA! #1! Fuck yeah!Happy now?Besides: USA-bashing ... by theWall Street Journal? Who'da thunk it?

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 09:15:52 pm
content: One comment from the article casts a certain amount of doubt on the (alleged) Pentagon motivation for the disinfo campaign:Quote

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 09:20:54 pm
content: I attended a guest lecture by E U Condon in the late 1970s. Obit:https://history.aip.org/phn/11404002.htmlLong before current nonsense, he had been fired from the National Bureau of Standards for attending a party at the Yugoslav embassy, accused by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952 as being "one of the weakest links in our atomic security."He had a long career in both the private and government sectors, specializing in atomic structure. An early classic work is E U Condon and G H ShortleyThe Theory of Atomic Spectra, Cambridge (1935), a masterpiece of quantum accounting.The Air Force picked him to head their investigation, since he had a good reputation amongst scientists. The result was E U CondonFinal report of the scientific study of unidentified flying objects, Dutton (1969).Original, printed by Univ of Colorado Press:https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0680975.pdfIn the epistle dedicatory (my term) by the university president:"There has never been the slightest suggestion of any effort on the part of the Air Force to influence either the conduct of the investigation or the content of this report."Anyway, this was a popular lecture, open to the general public, illustrated with slides. Condon had a good sense of humor, and discussed sightings of aliens who looked like penguins and other claims the committee had investigated. Of course, the UFO fans were in attendance, all sitting in the front row with identifying haircuts. Unfortunately, during the time for questions, they did not use the interrogative mode, but made long statements without question marks, until Dr Condon grew tired of the discussion.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 09:21:25 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on June 10, 2025, 08:45:45 pmDitto, troll.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 09:26:46 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on June 10, 2025, 09:21:25 pmYeah, I'm a troll. And you know what?I gotcha! Gotcha!bwahahahaha ...

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 11:29:17 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on June 10, 2025, 09:26:46 pmAnd you just got your own thread locked.