The Doctor Posted 10 July 2012 Posted 10 July 2012 Now I've got El Empty's attention - what's all this about: http://www.huffingto..._n_1657077.html Happy anniversary, Roswell, N.M. It was 65 years ago today that the Roswell Daily Record blasted an infamous headline claiming local military officials had captured a flying saucer on a nearby ranch. And now, a former CIA agent says it really happened. "It was not a damn weather balloon -- it was what it was billed when people first reported it," said Chase Brandon, a 35-year CIA veteran. "It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don't doubt for a second that the use of the word 'remains' and 'cadavers' was exactly what people were talking about." Brandon served as an undercover, covert operations officer in the agency's Clandestine Service for 25 years, where he was assigned missions in international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He spent his final 10 years of CIA service on the director's staff as the agency's first official liaison to the entertainment and publication industries. It was during this time, in the mid-1990s, that he walked into a special section of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., called the Historical Intelligence Collection. "It was a vaulted area and not everybody could get in it," Brandon told The Huffington Post. "One day, I was looking around in there and reading some of the titles that were mostly hand-scribbled summations of what was in the boxes. And there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell. "I took the box down, lifted the lid up, rummaged around inside it, put the box back on the shelf and said, 'My god, it really happened!'" What exactly did the box contain that had such a powerful impact on Brandon? "Some written material and some photographs, and that's all I will ever say to anybody about the contents of that box," he said. "But it absolutely, for me, was the single validating moment that everything I had believed, and knew that so many other people believed had happened, truly was what occurred," None of this comes as a surprise to Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear-physicist-turned-UFOlogist, who was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident. In the late 1970s, Friedman began to uncover former military eyewitnesses who had been involved with the original events that took place at Roswell in 1947. Despite the fact that the military changed its story overnight, saying on July 8, 1947 that a flying disk had been captured but claiming on July 9 that a weather balloon had been recovered, Friedman's early investigative efforts prompted many Roswell witnesses to come forward and tell their stories. Numerous researchers have dug up more facts in the years since. "It's been 65 years since things took place at Roswell," Friedman told HuffPost. "How much more widely known could it be -- everywhere I've spoken in the world, they ask about Roswell." "What we really need now is the Woodward-Bernstein of the UFO world to bring out the disclosure," said Friedman. "Maybe Chase Brandon is a foresight of something going on. "It's time for the retirement of the mythical part -- where we don't have all the pieces -- to be replaced by the true story of what happened, all the details, and we certainly don't have them." Brandon is currently promoting his book, "The Cryptos Conundrum," a science fiction story about the history of Earth, contact with extraterrestrials and imagined cataclysmic events on our planet. He remains steadfast about the pieces of the Roswell puzzle he's willing to share, and he emphasizes there's no internal CIA policy that prevents him from revealing any details of what he saw in that box at the agency headquarters. "Nobody tells any of us that we can't say anything about sources, methods, classified information having to do with working for the Central Intelligence Agency," Brandon said. "We all sign a secrecy agreement that says we understand we are forbidden to do that by law, and that is an inherent part of keeping and safeguarding what we do, how we do it, why we do it, out of national security concerns. "I'm not reluctant to talk about it -- I won't talk about it. I'm telling you there was a box that had stuff in there having to do with Roswell, and I looked through it, and it validated everything I believed in, and that's all I have to say about it. I will go to my grave being mindful of the two hats that I wear: My personal one and the one that will forever reside on my head as a former CIA officer."
Jordan Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 StanSP's reply is a perfect illustration of how much today's internet sucks and how stupid the modern Western man is.
purpleronnie Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 Aliens crashing on earth....people believe this mumbo jumbo....brilliant.
Captain... Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 Aliens crashing on earth....people believe this mumbo jumbo....brilliant. I know, they have developed the technology to travel light years through space, and yet don't know how to land. They are up there laughing at us for being so stupid.
Leicfox Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 The CIA's liaison officer to the entertainment and publication industries. Sure I believe him like I believe I haven't got a hole in my arse.
Rincewind Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 A lot of people like to think there is more to the universe and everything besides being born, living an instant of time then dying. Aliens and invisible friends is a much simpler answer than thousnds of years of calculations. I don't want to be cynical but.... Brandon is currently promoting his book, "The Cryptos Conundrum," a science fiction story about the history of Earth, contact with extraterrestrials and imagined cataclysmic events on our planet.
Captain... Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 A lot of people like to think there is more to the universe and everything besides being born, living an instant of time then dying. Aliens and invisible friends is a much simpler answer than thousnds of years of calculations. I don't want to be cynical but.... I thought that too. There are almost certainly other life forms out there, I know the criteria needed for life to exist are quite specific, but they have already found a planet in the known universe that looks like it is capable of supporting human life. It is safe to assume there will be thousands more like it around, and some of them may be uninhabited and at the earliest stage of life, some may be further down the line than this planet, but if there had been any contact we would know about it, and yet we all know about Roswell, so does that mean there was contact or not? Don't know, but what I do know is the odds of us being the highest form of intelligence in the universe is pretty slim, but something has to be.
Rincewind Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 From what I gather and unlikely and remarkable as it sounds, I see it as the best expalanation so far, life on Earth began by accident. Molucles atoms elements all merged in just the right quantities to form life. The criteria on other planets may be different. Scientists and other experts say how we are formed is the only way yet we do not know that other planets may have life with a combination we are unaware of. If we were a million to one chance there is still 999,999 (?) to one chance of a different combination of elements plus those we have not discovered. An alien may have body parts in different places. Humans like other animals evolve because of the enviroment they live in. We have hands in convenient places for building, working and fighting. Other parts may not be so well placed but whose to say on other planets arms would not be longer if they had further to reach. Eyes in back of head or on a peroscope. The combinations are endless. And calling somebody a big dickhead would not be offensive.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 ...the odds of us being the highest form of intelligence in the universe is pretty slim, but something has to be. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be me! I had to have a good sit down, I can tell you
Captain... Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be me! I had to have a good sit down, I can tell you So you are god then? Lay forth on me your stone tablets bearing the 10 commandments by which we should live our lives, oh mighty, malevolent deity.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 So you are god then? Lay forth on me your stone tablets bearing the 10 commandments by which we should live our lives, oh mighty, malevolent deity. Alas no, God's down the corridor in accounts. He's a bright one but could do better. There are only three commandments, this whole thing about ten is typical of the over-complication that's crept into religion over the last couple of millenia. They are: Be nice Eat plenty of Tunnocks And one for all you folk on the internet - don't get too cross about stuff you don't really understand They've got me where I am today! (i.e. nowhere in particular)
Zingari Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 It may seem ridiculous to believe in alien landings etc , but it’s no more ridiculous than most, if not all, religious beliefs. Should we respect them and their beliefs or should we be disrespectful to those with religious beliefs ? I don't know if there is a god or if aliens have landed , both seem equally plausible or implausible
Zingari Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 I know, they have developed the technology to travel light years through space, and yet don't know how to land. They are up there laughing at us for being so stupid. We've got the technology to sent rockets to other planets , but people still crash cars into trees and fall off ladders .
Captain... Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 We've got the technology to sent rockets to other planets , but people still crash cars into trees and fall off ladders . Ah, so you are saying it was a woman alien.
Zingari Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 Ah, so you are saying it was a woman alien. you might have a cat thrown at you for that comment
Rincewind Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 Talking about how good aliens were at driving inspired my creative urges me at lunchtime. Roswell The inhabitants of Quintar V Were in many ways like Man They evolved from legless blobs And from the unkind sea Ventured onto land. Their technology advanced In only a few thousand years. Hyperspace was soon available. So the greater minds left to search the stars. For many light years they travelled. Through universes and galaxies galore Generations grew up on their ships The young were taught space ship skills And prepared in peace to greet new life. Eventually they came upon Earth. And at Roswell began their descent. But despite all the knowledge gained. The spaceship into the ground crashed. The brainiest creatures in all the Milky Ways Did not know how to land.
The Doctor Posted 11 July 2012 Author Posted 11 July 2012 The CIA's liaison officer to the entertainment and publication industries. Sure I believe him like I believe I haven't got a hole in my arse. Aah, so you work for the New Yorker?
Zingari Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 It's just reminded me that Neil Armstrong had never landed the LEM successfully on earth , and had to eject after it went violently out of control and almost costing him his life, but he did it with consummate ease on the alien environment of the moon , and without even a hint of trepidation in his voice. What a guy ! Smoke him a kipper .
purpleronnie Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 It's just reminded me that Neil Armstrong had never landed the LEM successfully on earth , and had to eject after it went violently out of control and almost costing him his life, but he did it with consummate ease on the alien environment of the moon , and without even a hint of trepidation in his voice. What a guy ! Smoke him a kipper . Humans are great aren't they?
Zingari Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 Humans are great aren't they? Yes indeed Humans are great at all sorts of things . They've made whole populations believe in gods monsters miracles etc Who knows what they are capable of making us believe if they really try . But I think we modern folk are too clever to be fooled by anything these days
Rincewind Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 If you are told something often enough it becomes true despite it being ridiculous. Humans tend to take the safe option where gods and monsters are concerned.
The Quick Brown Fox Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 How do we know we ain't the aliens on this planet? Evolution is just a cover up? Listen to Tom cruise
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