I’m guessing that the “optics” of touting–several times during the recent press briefing–their declared commitment to an “open and transparent” approach to researching UFOs, while, at the same time, keeping the name of the official who was supposed to be in charge of that research secret did not play well.

I’m wondering if the old idea that NASA really stands for “never a straight answer” has more than a little truth to it.

It seems you have already confirmed my prediction.

Am I a “UFO Denier?” The social stigma and shame must be out there. 🙂

Like UFOs.

If such improved cell phones were to be put into the hands of citizens, no matter how anomalous whatever such citizens happen to record is–say, for instance, a triangular UAP that’s as big as a Walmart, staying stationary, or slowly and soundlessly gliding, at low altitude, over some location–the scientists will decide that whatever the camera recorded, it cannot be what it seems to be, and they will find some excuse to discard those images.

And if the ap for smartphones is funded by the Feds and pushed out there let me predict what will happen.

1. No UFOs are caught zipping around.

2. No exterrestrials are caught alive or dead.

3. The UFO “community” will seize on the absence of evidence as proof of a deep dark government conspiracy and coverup.

Faith and hope for UFOs endures forever.

Actually, at the recent NASA briefing on their approach to UFO research —despite the panelist’s general dismissal of civilian UFO reports as lacking necessary “scientific “ data—the dour head of their research team proposed creating new programs to upgrade the capabilities of ubiquitous cell phones to enable them to better capture data on UFOs I.e. “crowdsourcing.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EML_Lembit

and

https://meremuuseum.ee/lennusadam/en/

“Lembit” was built and launched at the Vickers-Armstrongs shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness in 1935-1936 and commissioned into the interwar Estonian navy in 1937. She survived WWII and was the oldest submarine afloat until she was moved to the museum in 2011. The torpedo room was surprisingly spacious. The captain’s quarters had mahogany cabinetry with plush upholstery. Fascinating.

Nowadays everyone wants some monetizable video.

Keep your smart phone handy Snow. You never know when you might have an opportunity. Until then it is all just a leap of faith.

To judge from his facial expressions at the Hearing, and his later online statement, Ryan Graves was and is not happy, he is pissed.*

He was a guest and presenter at this Hearing, and was supposed to talk about UFOs as a threat to aviation safety.

I gather that he feels that he was taken advantage of, that his presence and credentials were used to add stature and legitimacy to the Hearing, and that he was made an unwilling participant in a “stunt,” in what he views as a hoax.

However, the presentation of these supposed “Alien” bodies does present an opportunity.

If these are supposedly irrefutably “Alien” bodies, let well qualified members of the world-wide research community have complete access to them plus the location where they were found, and let these scientists run whatever non-destructive tests they want. (I do realize that some source of funding must be found to pay for all of these, very likely, very expensive tests.)

And then, we will have proof that likely all or most can accept, one way or the other.

* See https://twitter.com/uncertainvector/status/1702023350803959988