DRONES. Updated.

Someone asked - What's with the drones? Great question! 

I think that there are several things happening at one time and this overlap is creating the general chaos.  Here is the possibles as I see them.

NOTE: As a reminder people are seeing more than one type and size of object. The tendency is to bundle those together to form a single object group and thus explain away all of the sightings. People are seeing drone-like objects behaving in drone like manners, people are seeing glowing spherical orb like lights of a single color or a combination of shifting other colors, and people are seeing, and misidentifying, normal manned and unmanned aircraft.

 A. This is a Top-Secret military effort to search out infiltrated materials or craft for the purposes of surveillance, covert ops, or similar actions. This explains the objects/crafts that are unrecognized, silent, and the like. This explains the black out by FAA over crucial areas in NJ and NY and over W-P AFB in Ohio. It explains the clusters of reports along border areas of New England, the Pacific NW, Florida and TX. 

 B. There are regular drones being flown, perhaps part of the task of "A" or a diversionary process to allow officials to say, "see nothing here!"  

C.  There are objects seen, videoed, and reported that do not fit the descriptions of known craft, drones, or other objects. They do not have standard required FAA flight anti-collision lights or operate according to FAA standards as a drone or plane. These are being seen over military and restricted air space.  It is very easy to gather together an arm load of "reports" or "videos" and find one that can be identified and then use it to explain everything else. That was a tried-and-true method of the old Project Blue Book days. The time has come to be more transparent: if other countries are making incursions into the airspace and skies of this country without permission we need to know. 

The drone is everyone's headache. Most security measures are built on the standard plane sized and plane acting aerial objects. Radar and other security have not been designed to identify or respond to something the size of a bird - or smaller. This Smithsonian article details spy drones the size of hamsters or ones that can fit in the palm of a hand. 

Small drones have begun to be used in coordinated sky shows - like mechanical fireworks - they form huge colorful forms and move to music in choregraphed and graceful movements. If something is invented human history tells us that it will not be long before that innovation is used for entertainment or tactical warfare/covert operations applications.  These introduce gaps and holes in security and the potential for groups to infiltrate and subvert the safeguards keeping citizens and infrastructure secure.

The most common comments heard include "they are ours", "they all have FAA lights", and "they are mis-identifications."  If this was the case - why shut down air space? Why invoke the threat of force to shoot them down? Why are they all not properly displaying the lights, flags, colors required by the FAA? Why have people been videoing strange darting lights - usually all white and spherical - in vastly removed and often low populated areas for most of this year?

People are beginning to glance up from their phones into the sky and yes they are misinterpreting planets, meteors, stars, planes, Starlink, the ISS, and yes, even balloons.   They are also downloading apps to phones to identify what the Steller object is, what the plane is, etc. 

They are capturing grainy, poor, auto-focus images but they are also capturing crystal clear videos of lights moving in non-traditional ways and returning night after night. 

If unknown objects are flying around from who knows where - we need to know. 

If something is going on which could potentially impact the freedom and life of American citizens - we need to know.

If there is a need for widespread practice maneuvers over crucial installations, infrastructure sites, and other potential targets - we need to know.  Maybe not the details but just a statement to make people aware that there will be "things" flying around.

We need to be prepared, allowed to process, and to accept any new reality that awaits. We are not children, and our parents do not need to protect us - that is how we grow and how we can find who we are as people, as cultures, and as a species.

 #drones #UAPs

FAA Drone regulations page

MUFON Recaps Drone Events (Dec 12).

MUFON TV DRONE DOC

A thought provoking video - 

THE ROAD TO NOWHERE: Destroying Disclosure

 It has been said that the best way to destroy something is from within. This is the message of the story of the Trojan horse. It is also a familiar, yet well hidden tool, to subvert true investigation and progress in the area of UFOlogy. Let's look at some examples.

In the late 1950's there were approximately 500 or more UFO groups in the US alone. Some were based on the Contactee/Metaphysical views of the topic, some were based on a purely scientific examination of evidence and some a mix of both.

The first and last of those would eventually fade or break up remaining only in one or two lingering odd cults into the 2000's. The Contactee/Metaphysical view had merged with a growing drug culture by the 1970's causing many to drop away from the topic. Others, fell apart due to lack of funding, negative reports created in the wake of the Condon report, ridicule, and other similar reasons.

That leaves two of the major science based groups, NICAP and APRO, alone in the arena by late 1950's and through most of the 1960's.  Oddly, these two will collapse due to interior pressures that have led many to suppose they were infiltrated for the purposes of dismantling them. Some released government records appear to support that idea. That Trojan Horse approach. There were tensions of leadership, conflicting views on importance of data, needed goals, and necessary actions. The result was both would fold.

Fast forward to the 1990's and MUFON.  MUFON had emerged to occupy the void left in 1969 when Project Blue Book closed. In the decade of the 1990's there were concerns and rumors of infighting and other issues that included loss of records and reclassifications of previously accepted reports. The result many people - as witnessed by comments on bulletin boards, webpages, and in books - expressed a loss of trust in the organization to be objective and dedicated to the truth.  Currently, the organization has taken great strides to make sure reports are complete and through and investigated with a gratifying level of scientific yet open-minded professionalism from its volunteer field investigators.

Press that fast forward button again and it is today - now - with a new open attitude unlike anything since 1947.  Social media, online videos, podcasts, books, articles, and government hearings make the news and discussion highly accessible. 

The result?  There is clearly a cadre of debunkers who seem to have a detailed task to troll such sites making negative comments or off hand debunking without examining the evidence or exploring the topic.  There are people who post videos of objects that appear to be designed to merely confuse the issue through fake cgi generated images, obvious misinterpretations of sky objects any sixth grader SHOULD be able to identify, or who hold a blanket acceptance anything they see or view on a video.  The presence of these in any four pages or comment blocks appears to be abnormally high.   Plus, the presence of "gotcha" trolls, ugly commentors, debunkers and the like seem abnormally high. 

They are all unwilling to offer solid evidence or even to discuss their assaults. When pressed they often - turtle like - slink their heads back into their invisible online shells.

It is obvious from history that a successful tool to manipulate the topic of unknowns was the planting of individuals inside groups to cause disruption and bring about the destruction of the goals of the organization.  The field should be alert to the potential for that to be happening again, take measures to guard against in-fighting, to insure that open discussion is encouraged, and that all is done in an open and science-based manner to insure the best results. 

Project Blue Book set the template: dazzle with science, dismiss with ridicule, and infiltrate to weaken.  

It is time to be aware of the pattern and arrange the discussion in such a manner that we strive for the highest standards and hold one another there.