The Government Releases the UFO files 🥱

[Burnt State]

Well it's what we've all been waiting for, the government comes clean with their UFO files and posts it all online for everyone to gawk at and be amazed:

Release 01

And if that's not enough to keep you satiated then there's always:

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

I spent about an hour or so trolling through these sites and caught myself falling asleep while on the hunt for something that would blow me away.

Sure they've got some reports that are drawings instead of actual media but the majority of it is the actual still photos or aerial visuals of objects. In almost all cases we have nothing but a lot of tiny lights in the distance, or a far away sketchy blob and all the detailed reporting is basically around orbs. There is nothing startling or amazing about any of it.

As I've mentioned in another post, UFO's in our era are basically orbs and tic tacs. There's really nothing that makes you say, "Wow - that's really something that comes from outer space!" There's no Calvine photo here anywhere to be amazed by that's for sure.

Yes, when you read the reports there's some healthy weirdness being reported by official witnesses i.e. orbs appearing in the sky that release different coloured orbs that fly about and then repeat the dance. And there are other reports of people seeing an instance of something large and metallic in the sky that just as quickly disappears.


There was this great photo of what is labelled as a "flying disc" from 1947 in a rather extensive file dump of old tattered papers that included a detailed report about how a character named Richard Shaver may in fact know the source location of flying saucers. Those files are probably the most interesting to peruse through as the reports make for fascinating reading.

I haven't seen any big "a ha!" articles based on any of these releases. Perhaps someone better in the know can point me to some files that have some real meat on the bone. I haven't found anything yet....

And so far, from what I can tell, we've moved into an era of being bored by UFO's, especially these tiny lights in the sky and orbs that disappear. Perhaps even the phenomenon is content to also just be an orb and nothing much more exciting than that. I was really hoping for some pics of those fabled football field sized motherships floating in the sky instead of just a tiny white dot.

 

[Burnt State]

There's a large volume of material there to sort through. I don't see anything we don't already know or haven't heard before. The public media discussion with officials praising Lazar, Elizondo and Trump makes me doubtful of this being anything but the usual smoke and mirrors show with a few carrots to gnaw on. This has always been the UFO pattern in America.

I think culturally it's interesting as the US has always been seen as secretive and controlling of the data, denying there's anything significant or troubling going on in our skies. This releases of info gives the appearance of the US taking a more open and accepting stance towards the phenomenon, as do many other countries around the globe. To say, "have at it and make up your own minds", could be seen as a democratic approach to the phenomenon or socially irresponsible.

UFOs and aliens have always commanded a pretty large media broadcast at unique moments across Ufological history. North American entertainment media is a celebration of all the many possibilities UFOs and aliens could be. The industry is saturated with a spectrum ranging from amateur crap to multi-million dollar productions. There's a wide array of religions and cults that host large memberships of believers.

How does this governmental release of info and admission that there is a phenomenon taking place, that is not explainable and is doing things technologically that is highly anomalous, change things? Is this a significant step forward to normalizing UFO studies and discussion as seen increasingly in different areas of academics: University courses, publications by professors and wider public discussion by academics? Will there be even more open scientific examination of the phenomena to follow?

Does any of it matter when the majority of the media message is conspiratorial, true believer BS fantasy? The stuff that's crowding TUBI is just ridiculous.

 

[Tyger]

I was really hoping for some pics of those fabled football field sized motherships floating in the sky instead of just a tiny white dot.

@Burnt State You and me both. It's the romantic in me. Hope springs eternal - but 70 years of this stuff just makes of one a cynic. IMO.

Thank you for posting this. Unlikely I would ever bother to peruse those files.

And yet, even with saying all that, there remain incidents that one cannot shake - especially that involve groups of children - like the school children at Westall High School in Clayton South, Melbourne, Australia, and the Ariel School incident in Zimbabwe, Africa. Mass hallucination? or mass hoax?

 

[Burnt State]

Oops...was trying to edit my post and it duplicated.

 

[Burnt State]

And yet, even with saying all that, there remain incidents that one cannot shake - especially that involve groups of children - like the school children at Westall High School in Clayton South, Melbourne, Australia, and the Ariel School incident in Zimbabwe, Africa. Mass hallucination? or mass hoax?

I was just going to post in the Pet Case thread about a larger Welsh triangle flap in Pembrokeshire that started with a school sighting at Broad Haven in 1977. All of Ufological history can't be mass hallucination, and these stories carry some significant similarities amongst witness reports and drawings. Kids aren't going to plan a hoax like that. It's a real thing alright those UFO's and weird humanoids that pop out of them. I really don't know what to make of it all. It remains an inexplicable and absurdist human experience IMHO. Look at these images...I have no doubt that this is what those kids saw among the trees in Wales one day in February. That's some serious flying saucers from outer space jazz for sure.

 

[Tyger]

Kids aren't going to plan a hoax like that. It's a real thing alright those UFO's and weird humanoids that pop out of them. I really don't know what to make of it all. It remains an inexplicable and absurdist human experience IMHO. Look at these images...I have no doubt that this is what those kids saw among the trees in Wales one day in February. That's some serious flying saucers from outer space jazz for sure.

@Burnt State Children are suggestible, as are adults. One would have to do an exhaustive investigation into what kind of books these kids were reading, the imagery they were looking at, the kind of conversation topics they were indulging - and who were the alphas among them, who would the children follow, be influenced by. With the passage of years reconstructing the situation - particularly the 'societal information environment' at the time of the incidents - would be hard to do, though not impossible. What were the science fiction films out at the time, or preceding the incidents?

Children will go along with the dominant child, an older child, with whoever is charismatic in the situation. Imagination can be powerful. False memory is a real phenomenon - how we interpret a startling, maybe traumatic, encounter. Consider the college experiment where a professor stages an event in the classroom and then asks the class members to write out what they saw - a demonstration of how unreliable eye-witness accounts can be. Consider the Mandela Effect. So it goes.

What I'm suggesting is a hoax in this kind of situation with a group of children may not be an intentional orchestrated deception. It would be far more complex, more layered.

Anyway, I don't think I ever read anything about the Wales incident. I'll look it up. Might you have a link to a good YouTube video on it?

 

[Burnt State]

Children will go along with the dominant child, an older child, with whoever is charismatic in the situation. Imagination can be powerful. False memory is a real phenomenon - how we interpret a startling, maybe traumatic, encounter.

Each of the major school UFO sightings are in the pre-internet era making it pretty darn hard for a bunch of grade schoolers to manufacture a UFO conspiracy plot with contingencies built into it. Documentaries interviewing the witnesses as adults decades later demonstrate the veracity of their statements and support their initial claims and drawings as kids. In all these cases There's never been a witness to step forward to say it was all a sham. There's no motivation for kids in rural areas to create a master plot to promote a UFO landing. Adults in these cases were either witnesses or promoted independent drawings of what they saw. It is very hard to doubt what they saw thanks to the very interesting investigations into each of the major school cases at the time as well as many, many years later.

 

[Tyger]

Each of the major school UFO sightings are in the pre-internet era making it pretty darn hard for a bunch of grade schoolers to manufacture a UFO conspiracy plot with contingencies built into it.

What I'm presenting as a possibility to explain the individual 'sightings' (not them as a conspiratorial cluster) has naught to do with the internet - it has to do with the nature of how children operate amongst each other. I was not suggesting a conspiracy. Like you I'm trying to understand how these sightings might be explained short of being actual events in the 3D world. That's all.

I'd like to believe they are 'real' - it's why I said they were hard to shake - the narratives are a darn good read - but I can't help but wonder what we are missing. I am skeptical as I've learned to be across the years in this genre. Do you have a video link to the Wales episode?

P.S. @Burnt State, Did you see I finally figured out the easy-peasy way to copy-and-paste the desired sections of quote? Liberation Day!