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Home » Topics » News » The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology

The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology

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  • June 8, 2025 at 8:12 am #46509
    Phillip BeallPhillip Beall
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      All,

      I periodically get asked if I have ever seen a “UFO”?  In my flying career I have seen a couple of things that were odd, but nothing that I would characterize as definitively a flying saucer or otherworldly.  If asked my opinion about the whole topic (UFO’s, intelligent life other than us) I just honestly state that flying above the pollution at night, the number of stars visible to the naked eye is simply breathtaking.  If anyone looking out at that thinks there is no chance for intelligent life other than us, their opinion is not one based on facts I know.  So “perhaps” or even “probably” such things exist, but I have not seen anything I would attribute to being otherworldly.  I have heard pilots inquiring about things, but I didn’t see what they were asking about from my vantage point.

      Throughout the years I have had conversations on the topic with people that I have flown with.  I have flown with people that had flown stuff they could not tell me about.  One told me that he accompanied a senior enlisted guy with a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.  The briefcase held many millions of dollars in US currency and they went to an undisclosed location and bought an undisclosed aircraft that he knew how to fly.  I suspect a MIG 29 or something similar.  They would come closest to knowing about such things and none of them gave me even the hint of a vibe other than saying they had flown some stuff they could not talk about.

      This Wall Street Journal article – The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology – U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs – is part one of a two part article that really does a nice job with explaining some of the things we are all curious about.  This link (click here) is to an unlocked copy of the article.  I personally found it a fascinating read and I think you will too.  I will follow up with a link to part two whenever it is published.

      73

      Phillip Beall (W5EBC)

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