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Old 09-10-2016, 10:50pm   #1
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Default Mirage Men - you'll want to watch this.

History Channel.

2 hr show that blows the lid off a lot of the UFO conspiracy.

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Mirage Men is about how the US government used mythology to cover up their advanced technology. It prominently features Richard Doty, a retired Special Agent who worked for AFOSI, the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigation.
So, the Majestic 12 docs were fabricated, and so is the Dulce stuff (oh... there were some govt projects there, but they weren't ET related). The list goes on & on.
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History Channel.

2 hr show that blows the lid off a lot of the UFO conspiracy.

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So, the Majestic 12 docs were fabricated, and so is the Dulce stuff (oh... there were some govt projects there, but they weren't ET related). The list goes on & on.
Thanks for posting. I'm recording it now on my Direct TV DVR. I want to show it to my son-in-law. He is an otherwise perfectly intelligent person who absolutely believes in every UFO story he has ever heard. He thinks all of our defense technology is reverse engineered from captured alien spaceships.
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This new documentary Mirage Men, argues that for years the government has been misleading the public with fake UFO intel and evidence.

Mirage Men includes testimony from a former Air Force special investigations officer named Richard Doty, who was a real-life "man in black" for the U.S. government. In the documentary, Doty reveals he was instructed to infiltrate UFO circles and disseminate false information; others even planted fake alien evidence and encouraged ufologists to study them.
in a nut shell, this Richard Doty (retired Special Agent who worked for AFOSI, the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigation), said that there was a coverup of something extraterrestrial early on; but it was difficult to get people to fall for the false cover-up story due to the vast interest of UFO's and aliens.

Upon seeing this, the govt decided to use this UFO interest in their favor; anytime they had to coverup a special weapons project (that had nothing to do with ET's)... they would introduce UFO's into the mix... and the UFO community would easily run with it; thus distracting the public from discovering what was really there.

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my son-in-law... He thinks all of our defense technology is reverse engineered from captured alien spaceships
Then why are we still fooling around with aerodynamic propulsion? Why aren''t all the new fighter jets using anti-gravity drives? why do we still use rocket technology to send something into space?

It takes a lot of manpower, technology, and $$$$$$$$$$$ to launch a single satellite into orbit. It we truly had back-engineered alien spacecraft tech... we would of abandoned the use of rockets and jet engines - decades ago.
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So......we're alone then ??....
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So......we're alone then ??....
That was not the conclusion though; instead that there was something found at one time. But all the dis-info that was spread since then (and not for covering up ET stuff... but now to hide govt black projects) makes it impossible to pick the real from the fake - of all the things we have read about over the years.

In other words, "it worked"; operation successful.
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Whew....because I am waiting for them to pick me up and take me back !....

All kidding aside....I do believe we are not alone and have been visited ....will watch tho as I am an open minded person.....I think....
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in a nut shell, this Richard Doty (retired Special Agent who worked for AFOSI, the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigation), said that there was a coverup of something extraterrestrial early on; but it was difficult to get people to fall for the false cover-up story due to the vast interest of UFO's and aliens.

Upon seeing this, the govt decided to use this UFO interest in their favor; anytime they had to coverup a special weapons project (that had nothing to do with ET's)... they would introduce UFO's into the mix... and the UFO community would easily run with it (thus distracting the public from looking at what was really there).

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my son-in-law... He thinks all of our defense technology is reverse engineered from captured alien spaceships
Then why are we still fooling around with aerodynamic propulsion? Why aren''t all the new fighter jest using anti-gravity drives? why do we still use rocket technology to send something into space?

It takes a lot of manpower, technology, and $$$$$$$$$$$ to launch a single satellite into orbit. It we truly had back-engineered alien spacecraft tech... we would of abandoned the use of rockets and jet engines - decades ago.
I write databases for a living.

About 20 years ago, I was sitting at a little pier-side bar down on Topsail Island having a bite and a cold one. At the bar sat about a half-dozen grizzled old fisherman getting hammered and going on about UFO's and how computers are all alien technology, government conspiracy, etc. Eventually (and imminently) they drew me into their conversation.
Now, there were more old fisherman than there were programmers at that bar, and even way back then I had lived long enough to know which battles are worth fighting and which are not. So my response? "Yep, and you know those alien's buddies are gonna be looking for them. What are they gonna do if they get here and find out we're using their technology? Are they gonna take a closer look at us? And what happens if they find their dead buddies and a busted up ship that the government has been taking apart? What are they gonna do then?"
Well that got them all nodding in approval. And yeah, I knocked down quite a few beers and went full retard with the locals that night.
But I had a lot of fun.
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What does the government have that is triangle shaped, completely silent, can go one way and then without turning around go back the other way? No engines or propellers visible.
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What does the government have that is triangle shaped, completely silent, can go one way and then without turning around go back the other way? No engines or propellers visible.
Now you've opened up Pandora's box.
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C8 Corvette. I hear it's mid-engine.
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Ouija Board planchette (that thing that the ghosts slide around)
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I don't know exactly what is meant by "triangular craft,

but the F117a:


and the B2

are triangles when looked at from below.

They are not "silent", but are quiet. I've been underneath both during a flyover, and you don't hear them at all until they get past you (and this is under 1500' altitude. Up at altitude, they are quiet - no matter what the orientation.

The flat matt black makes these planes seem a lot closer to ground level than they really are.
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They are not "silent", but are quiet. I've been underneath both during a flyover, and you don't hear them at all until they get past you (and this is under 1500' altitude. Up at altitude, they are quiet - no matter what the orientation.

The flat matt black makes these planes seem a lot closer to ground level than they really are.
Same here. First time I saw one, it literally snuck up on us from behind, flying at about 500 feet. We were at an airshow and the announcer had us all looking north (this was planned) while a B2 came from the south. Someone tapped me on the shoulder and pointed at it. Literally at first I didn't know what I was looking at. Then it dawned on me and it was extremely eerie because it was just...silent. No other planes were in the sky at the time, and other than ambient crowd noise there wasn't any other sound to block out the noise of the B2's engines. Yet I heard nothing. Then it got right over the crowd and he goosed it, scared the shit out of about 80% of the crowd that was still unaware of its presence.
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Same here. First time I saw one, it literally snuck up on us from behind, flying at about 500 feet. We were at an airshow and the announcer had us all looking north (this was planned) while a B2 came from the south. Someone tapped me on the shoulder and pointed at it. Literally at first I didn't know what I was looking at. Then it dawned on me and it was extremely eerie because it was just...silent. No other planes were in the sky at the time, and other than ambient crowd noise there wasn't any other sound to block out the noise of the B2's engines. Yet I heard nothing. Then it got right over the crowd and he goosed it, scared the shit out of about 80% of the crowd that was still unaware of its presence.
This happens with most planes approaching Mach speeds, not just a stealth bomber. It literally takes a bit for the engine sound to catch up.
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Then why are we still fooling around with aerodynamic propulsion? Why aren''t all the new fighter jets using anti-gravity drives? why do we still use rocket technology to send something into space?

It takes a lot of manpower, technology, and $$$$$$$$$$$ to launch a single satellite into orbit. It we truly had back-engineered alien spacecraft tech... we would of abandoned the use of rockets and jet engines - decades ago.
So far we've been able to reverse engineer their localized maneuvering thrusters. We're still trying to reverse engineer their anti-gravity drives. Once we do that we will be able to travel through worm holes into the Delta quadrant.
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This happens with most planes approaching Mach speeds, not just a stealth bomber. It literally takes a bit for the engine sound to catch up.
If you were traveling at the speed of light, what would happen if you turned on your headlights?
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This happens with most planes approaching Mach speeds, not just a stealth bomber. It literally takes a bit for the engine sound to catch up.
It was flying in very slowly, just above stall speed it looked like. Then the pilot hit the throttle.
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If you were traveling at the speed of light, what would happen if you turned on your headlights?
a deer would jump out in front of you.
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