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Roger Glassel inquired about the same thing and got the same answer.
There's an ideological war going on inside the DoD, and it seems that Christopher Sherwood is in (or conscripted by) the anti-confirmation wing of the DoD.
Roger Glassel inquired about the same thing and got the same answer.
If I could actually speak to Luis Ellizondo I'd like to ask how the contract with Bigelow Aerospace of about 30 theoretical papers became a UFO study group, and I'd love to see the files they collected in the process.
Look, the UFO field is littered with shady characters. Go to the UFO Watchdog website for a laundry list of them. Who is going to spend their precious time tracking down all these people? Elizondo is probably more honest than most. I find it is best to be ultra cautious when anyone makes claims about their UFO resume.
TTSA got a contract with Bigelow? To do what and was it for money?
https://fas.org/irp/dia/aatip-list.pdf
Yes. As I understand it AATIP put out an RFQ for two to three dozen research papers on various topics and Bigelow Aerospace was the only respondent. It mentions AATIP's mandate is "The purpose of AATIP was to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats from the present out to the next 40 years". Of those one is considered still classified and not for public consumption; "State of the Art and Evolution of High Energy Laser Weapons"
This is why I thought Paul Bennewitz and that whole sordid affair worth mentioning. He really did see something he should not have and became subject to a focused disinformation campaign from several agencies. In either Project Beta or X Descending (been a while since I read either) there was mention of high energy laser systems being tested in the very spot Bennewitz was snooping around in. This is also why I wonder what nearly two generations of technical advances would produce in that arena and with something like Leik Myrabo's light powered craft.
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I am quite familiar with prof. Leik Myrabo's work on laser propulsion, because Ray Stanford talked about him. NASA financed initial Myrabo's prototype. It's very well publicized, no secrets there. He just used relatively ordinary lasers.
It's hard to know what to believe.
So are you saying he's secretly still working for intelligence? Or are you saying the DIA, etc. are backstabbing him?Yeah, media is muddying waters. There are tons of journalists who are commissioned by intelligence community to spin anything that is required.
Put yourself into Elizondo's shoes. What he did is so self-destructive that no man or women would do it. How possibly he would be insincere. Everybody knows that there is no money in ufology. Just check youtube, a typical ufo channel can't pull in 40k-70k views in 5 years, while there are hundreds of channels in all other verticals that can pull 1 million in a week.
Or are you saying the DIA, etc. are backstabbing him?
Wow this does seem to be new information from Chris Mellon, I havent heard descriptions like this before...
Yes theres been talk that this is an operation. At ATS theres a huge thread that is basically arguing this.
Some people think that TTSA has been created as a front to test waters on drip disclosure, and they have left themselves a plausable deniability escape route via manufactured "errors" and back and forth denials.
Some others think this is a different kind of op, like wwkirk mentioned. One of bait and switch. They hype this up, then in the end they sink it, taking out a few reputations along the way and muddying the waters badly.