Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation

nivek

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Here's a write-up on Dailymail news site...

'It looked like a giant Tic Tac': New TV series with the former head of the Pentagon's secret program that investigated UFOs and Blink 182's Tom DeLonge examines sightings, including USS Nimitz incident
  • Starting in 2007, the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program investigated unidentified flying object, UFOs
  • Luis Elizondo, who ran the program for about seven years, resigned in late 2017
  • Articles in The New York Times and Politico exposed the program, which cost about $22million and officials say ended in 2012, but it is unclear if that is case
  • Tom DeLonge, former guitarist and vocalist for Blink 182, co-founded To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a for-profit firm examining the phenomenon
  • Elizondo joined To The Stars, and along with former members of the government and the defense industry are looking to get data and information on UFOs
  • DeLonge and Elizondo are part of a new TV series, 'Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation' on A&E's HISTORY, which will premiere May 31
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The highly-trained military jet pilots were flabbergasted by the unknown object.

The afternoon sky was bright and blue when the two Super Hornets' exercise off the Californian coast turned into a real mission. Rerouted, they came upon 'a bizarre craft' poised over the water: It had no windows, wheels, or flat surfaces.

'Smooth. White…. No smoke trail. It looked like a giant Tic Tac,' one of the pilots said, noting that the unidentified flying object was around 40 feet. 'Large enough to scare the s*** out of me. It was so unnerving because it was so unpredictable.'

The pilots reported to the U.S. Navy what they encountered that late fall day in 2004, but for years they were not taken seriously. The first part of an upcoming TV series, 'Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation' on A&E's HISTORY, which premieres on May 31, examines what has become known as the USS Nimitz incident and video of the oval-shaped object taken that day.

(more on the link)

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nivek

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Former Navy pilot Lt. Ryan Graves recalls his experience encountering UFOs while on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Clip from HISTORY's "Unidentified: Inside America.

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Just set my DVR to record this tonight and took a look at today's schedule.

History Channel managed to interrupt their all day Ancient Aliens marathon with an Ancient Aliens Declassified immediately prior to Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation.
Afterward they go back to a few more hours Ancient Aliens.

I guess that's been done to add gravitas to what no doubt will be a groundbreaking series of revelations.
 

nivek

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation’ On History, Where Government Investigations Of Sightings Are Declassified

Opening Shot: A shot of a bean-like vessel on a fighter jet’s radar. Then a voice over comes on and talks about a New York Times report from 2017 that revealed the U.S. government’s secret agency that investigated UFO claims from military personnel.

The Gist: That agency is the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), and Luis Elizondo, the Special Agent In-Charge at the unit until he quit in frustration over the cases not being declassified. With the help of Tom DeLonge, former member of Blink-182 and the founder of the To The Stars Academy, and Chris Mellon, former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense and Intelligence, Elizondo is putting some these stories — at least the parts he can expose — on the public airwaves.

The first story is a 2004 sighting of a “Tic Tac”-shaped vessel by fighter pilots on a test run from the USS Nimitz just south of San Diego. Elizondo interviews the wingman, who wished to be anonymous, along with her commander, a combat veteran who went in to get a closer look. There was no explanation for this vessel, which hovered over the water, a smooth body with no wings or other flying surfaces, with the ability to dart back and forth and change direction in a way no one in the Navy had ever seen before. No government explanation has been forthcoming.

Elizondo knows this isn’t a fluke because a) the people reporting these sightings aren’t “believers,” they’re experienced military personnel and b) he has footage from three different instances, one as recent as 2015. He shows the footage to two experienced pilots, and they reluctantly agree that it’s could be a UFO.

Our Take: What separates Unidentified from other cable docuseries about unknown phenomena is that the people involved are discussing an actual secret government agency in AATIP, which was based in the Pentagon, investigating sighting claims. But even the people making the claims aren’t kooks getting probed after being abducted from their bedrooms. No, the people who are making these claims are experienced pilots and other military personnel who have seen just about anything and have no incentive to make things up. They know what they saw, and what they saw can be corroborated by their colleagues.

It was also surprising to see who was involved in this group, like former Clinton and Obama staffer John Podesta and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. It’s almost like a modern version of Project Blue Book, which investigated UFO sightings from the 1940s to 1960s, debunking the vast majority of claims. There seems to be no reason to discredit anyone on this show, including Elizondo and Mellon (we’re not sure what to think of DeLonge).

But it feels like DeLonge, who is the show’s executive producer, doesn’t trust the impressiveness of the Elizondo and the people he interviews, because he lards the show down with sensationalist music cues, repetitive scene resets from commercial breaks, and narration that is more suitable to a ghost-chasing reality series than one that is trying to say, “Hey, this is a real government thing! And it’s serious, people!”

Parting Shot: Elizondo tells a conference audience that we can either keep our heads in the sand or take them out. Either way, the extraterrestrials don’t care because they’re here.

Sleeper Star: Just an FYI about Christopher Mellon: He has never been a “me first” kind of guy, according to DeLonge. And the fact that he’s on camera talking about this, at great risk to his family’s reputation — yes, he’s from that Mellon family — makes his observations even more impressive.

Most Pilot-y Line: The overall cheesiness of the show’s production takes away from the level of experts and former government officials that are involved in this show.

Our Call: STREAM IT. If you can get past the show’s production values, Unidentified may give you new evidence that we’re not alone in the universe.

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
he lards the show down with sensationalist music cues, repetitive scene resets from commercial breaks, and narration that is more suitable to a ghost-chasing reality series than one that is trying to say, “Hey, this is a real government thing! And it’s serious, people!”


Yup. Only caught about 15 minutes last night before I experienced Time Travel - zonked out on the couch exhausted.
This review seems to fit like a glove.
 

nivek

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Yup. Only caught about 15 minutes last night before I experienced Time Travel - zonked out on the couch exhausted.
This review seems to fit like a glove.

I haven't watched it yet but have it recorded for viewing this morning or today sometime...

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wwkirk

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Former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge talks his quest to prove aliens exist

Most people know Tom DeLonge from his days performing as a member of the band Blink-182 but the musician has found another calling: proving UFOs and extraterrestrial life are real.

DeLonge quit the pop-punk group in 2015 and started the To the Stars Academy with the mission of "advancing our current understanding of scientific phenomena and its technological implications," per its website.

Now he's executive producing a new show on the History channel called "Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation" and wrote an op-ed about why he believes aliens must exist.

The 43-year-old says his interest was piqued while reading Timothy Good’s "Above Top Secret" while on tour with the band.

"Before reading that book, I thought the idea of E.T. and unknown flying vehicles were confined to the realm of science-fiction, which I’d always loved as a kid. But I had no idea these crafts were real and in fact interacting with nuclear missiles, NASA missions and facilities, astronauts, and even civilians," he wrote in Newsweek.

"The book opened my eyes to the enormity of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), filling me with curiosity and propelling me on a hunt for knowledge that quite literally changed the course of my life. I became consumed with questions about UAP: How do they travel at such incredible speeds? Who or what are they? Who actually knows the facts and holds the most credible evidence?" he continued.

DeLonge said he started to consult "legitimate sources" and that his investigation has led him "to believe it’s naïve to think that UAPs don’t exist."

"The more I’ve been able to share my ideas with people I respected, the more sense of community I felt. And I want other people to feel that way too," he added.

DeLonge explained that now he's in "regular communication" with high-level intelligence agencies and people of the military and they encouraged him to create his academy and then his TV series.

His hope is that the non-fiction show will give the "public an opportunity to see newly authenticated evidence and footage; learn the common characteristics of how these UAP move and operate; and perhaps, most significantly, see interviews from eyewitnesses and former military personnel who have never spoken out before."

"Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation" premiered on May 31 at 10 pm on History.
 

nivek

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I still haven't watched this first episode yet, meant to yesterday afternoon but have been busy with chores around the house...Will view it today, no doubt...

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nivek

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For any others who haven't seen it yet:

 

nivek

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Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation: Raining UFO’s (S1EP2 HISTORY Fri 7 Jun 2019)

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Raining UFO’s: A former U.S. Navy radar operator speaks up about a peculiar day when UFOs seemed to be raining from the sky, but as the team encounters evidence of a military coverup, they follow a lead ton island with a rich history of UFO activity.

Hosted by Luis Elizondo, Tom DeLonge, Christopher Mellon and Steve Justice.

Airdate: Friday 7 June 2019 at 10.00pm on HISTORY.

Season 1, Episode 2

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nivek

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06-07-19 Luis Elizondo Discusses HISTORY Channel's Unidentified



SPECIAL EVENT: Live interview with Intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, who served as the former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), an initiative launched in 2007 to study reports of UFO encounters. Luis will discuss the new HISTORY Channel series, Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Any takers on what we'll see tonight?

W.A.G but I'd say we'll hear from Col.Halt. Rendlesham will be trotted out, dusted off and waved around at the uninitiated. Get your binary decoder ring ready.

Then more 'wow' moments from the various Navy videos, with maybe a Navy equipment operator's account of 2004 tossed in.

Will be home late tonight but hope to watch it.
 

nivek

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Any takers on what we'll see tonight?

I heard it was a good episode, I haven't seen it yet myself, I'll do so tomorrow afternoon...

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Any takers on what we'll see tonight?

W.A.G but I'd say we'll hear from Col.Halt. Rendlesham will be trotted out, dusted off and waved around at the uninitiated. Get your binary decoder ring ready.

Then more 'wow' moments from the various Navy videos, with maybe a Navy equipment operator's account of 2004 tossed in.

Will be home late tonight but hope to watch it.

Well I was wrong about Halt and Rendlesham and Thank God for that. That said, I think this will be my new drinking game. Every time Chris Mellon's former title is used or when Luis says he was head of AATIP we have to take a drink. And maybe also when Tom DeLonge gives us that look of wonder.

The part I was right about was more WOW from the Navy incidents and the equipment operators - no spoilers in there. Seems like we saw the same thing more than once last night, and a lot of it in the previous episode. Repetitive.

What's Luis got in that big Cabela backpack - that little notebook? A snack for later?
 

nivek

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I am very disappointed with this show, I haven't even watched episode 2 nor episode 3, seems like a rehashing already known information, nothing new to see...

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