@Hollywood Tomfortas, the Devoid article you posted is very good. Especially this part:
". . . To get a feel for how bad this looks, check out John Greenewald’s updates at his Black Vault website. In an effort to verify statements made by retired intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who oversaw the AATIP before retiring in frustration last October, Greenewald has pursued every lead for substantiation. And at every turn, his FOIAs have been answered with no-records-found snubs. Although it’s still a little early to go all X-Files on these denials, it doesn’t look like TTSA much cares about following up, either.
Robert Powell, the researcher who co-authored the ground-breaking, radar-based evaluation of the 2008 Stephenville Incident, and anchored the investigation into the equally intriguing 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, encounter, offers another disappointing twist. Following his appearance on one of Rojas’ podcasts, Powell was contacted by a radar operator aboard the USS Princeton, the flagship for the Nimitz group during the 2004 encounter.
“He’s retired now, and he said nobody had ever contacted him about what happened,” recalls Powell. “And he wanted to talk.”
The radar guy told Powell the UFO(s) that mystified the carrier pilots were tracked by five separate military systems, which included two destroyers and an airborne E-2 Hawkeye. Powell says the Navy veteran commented for the record, and his credentials passed the smell test. Given the military’s inability to produce radar data for his FOIAs, Powell says his source’s perspectives are invaluable.
“You can’t really conclude anything from video, and that’s why radar returns are so important because they’re primary sources,” says Powell who, like Greenewald, is having little luck on the FOIA front. “They say they don’t have any radar records, but why would our government keep the video and throw away everything else? That doesn’t make sense. They could easily release the video and put this to bed without revealing any national security secrets."
Of course "our government" hasn't "thrown away everything else" but the videos. The cross-agency and half-corporately-controlled apparatus of the US national security state is paranoid as well as cumbersome and lacking in intelligent and responsible leadership. Instead of still bitching and moaning about this after seven decades, the rational response (to sustain our own mental health) is to follow Heidegger's advice to "let being be" regarding this situation. Accept what-is among the insiders and continue to do what is possible with the information we already have and that which we can discover by ourselves as time goes by.
"Like the Aguadilla footage, the Navy F-18s followed the UFO(s) using the same sort of infrared optics employed by Border Patrol agents in the skies above coastal Puerto Rico five years ago. Unlike the Navy incident, radar records from Aguadilla helped Powell’s team — called the Scientific Coalition for Ufology – render a more accurate accounting of a smallish object that not only buzzed a city at treetop level, it dipped into the Caribbean and split in two when it re-emerged."
Powell and his Scientific Coalition for Ufology do excellent work to the extent that evidential resources are available to them, as with the Aguadilla footage and radar records. We should follow everything this group does and continue to put this puzzle together among ourselves, in forums like this one. One thing wanting that should be done every day is for all those with widely visited ufo websites to encourage people having significant experiences, especially pilots and seamen, to contact Powell and his associates and also NARCAP.
ETA, one further response, to this line from the Devoid column:
"it doesn’t look like TTSA much cares about following up, either."
I think that statement is unreasonable and also unfair. Those involved in TTSA are blocked from obtaining critical information the same way we are, and they are further limited from publicly sharing everything they do know by security oaths. Let's calm down and get real.
". . . To get a feel for how bad this looks, check out John Greenewald’s updates at his Black Vault website. In an effort to verify statements made by retired intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who oversaw the AATIP before retiring in frustration last October, Greenewald has pursued every lead for substantiation. And at every turn, his FOIAs have been answered with no-records-found snubs. Although it’s still a little early to go all X-Files on these denials, it doesn’t look like TTSA much cares about following up, either.
Robert Powell, the researcher who co-authored the ground-breaking, radar-based evaluation of the 2008 Stephenville Incident, and anchored the investigation into the equally intriguing 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, encounter, offers another disappointing twist. Following his appearance on one of Rojas’ podcasts, Powell was contacted by a radar operator aboard the USS Princeton, the flagship for the Nimitz group during the 2004 encounter.
“He’s retired now, and he said nobody had ever contacted him about what happened,” recalls Powell. “And he wanted to talk.”
The radar guy told Powell the UFO(s) that mystified the carrier pilots were tracked by five separate military systems, which included two destroyers and an airborne E-2 Hawkeye. Powell says the Navy veteran commented for the record, and his credentials passed the smell test. Given the military’s inability to produce radar data for his FOIAs, Powell says his source’s perspectives are invaluable.
“You can’t really conclude anything from video, and that’s why radar returns are so important because they’re primary sources,” says Powell who, like Greenewald, is having little luck on the FOIA front. “They say they don’t have any radar records, but why would our government keep the video and throw away everything else? That doesn’t make sense. They could easily release the video and put this to bed without revealing any national security secrets."
Of course "our government" hasn't "thrown away everything else" but the videos. The cross-agency and half-corporately-controlled apparatus of the US national security state is paranoid as well as cumbersome and lacking in intelligent and responsible leadership. Instead of still bitching and moaning about this after seven decades, the rational response (to sustain our own mental health) is to follow Heidegger's advice to "let being be" regarding this situation. Accept what-is among the insiders and continue to do what is possible with the information we already have and that which we can discover by ourselves as time goes by.
"Like the Aguadilla footage, the Navy F-18s followed the UFO(s) using the same sort of infrared optics employed by Border Patrol agents in the skies above coastal Puerto Rico five years ago. Unlike the Navy incident, radar records from Aguadilla helped Powell’s team — called the Scientific Coalition for Ufology – render a more accurate accounting of a smallish object that not only buzzed a city at treetop level, it dipped into the Caribbean and split in two when it re-emerged."
Powell and his Scientific Coalition for Ufology do excellent work to the extent that evidential resources are available to them, as with the Aguadilla footage and radar records. We should follow everything this group does and continue to put this puzzle together among ourselves, in forums like this one. One thing wanting that should be done every day is for all those with widely visited ufo websites to encourage people having significant experiences, especially pilots and seamen, to contact Powell and his associates and also NARCAP.
ETA, one further response, to this line from the Devoid column:
"it doesn’t look like TTSA much cares about following up, either."
I think that statement is unreasonable and also unfair. Those involved in TTSA are blocked from obtaining critical information the same way we are, and they are further limited from publicly sharing everything they do know by security oaths. Let's calm down and get real.
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