tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1071963771262525979.post8952357946069398042..comments2024-01-22T18:18:17.236-06:00Comments on Blue Blurry Lines: MUFON vs. APRO, Allegations, Accusations & CounterchargesCurt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1071963771262525979.post-11868323830359431692014-01-23T12:30:37.071-06:002014-01-23T12:30:37.071-06:00Purrlgurrl, thanks for your comments. I think you ...Purrlgurrl, thanks for your comments. I think you are absolutely right about the pebble analogy.<br /><br />Your question about a private sector operation is a good, one that can't fully be answered. Although there was an attempt to bring this case to court, unlike most legal cases, there was not a police or any official investigation. There was a private sector investigation, and ironically these VISIT/MUFON reports are not publicly available for us to see what avenues of investigation were pursued.<br /><br />Also, it's very hard to know what to look for when investigating the UFO itself. All we know is that it was big, it flew, and was apparently malfunctioning. All the other described actions may have been related to a systems failure, the production of heat, light, flames etc. Without knowing what it was designed for or supposed to be doing, we don't have much to go on. The best lead is to look for a military critical need, (surveillance, weapon, troop transport etc) and cross-match it with the typical aviation development time of about five years. That puts us squarely in to the developmental period of stealth airplane projects, and while I don't feel this would have been connected, the contractors involved would be prime candidates to examine. <br /><br />If such a thing were being tested, it must have been deemed a failure, since nothing like it has emerged from the black projects to even begin to match it. But then, they say there are many unmarked graves for failed projects around Groom Lake, so maybe our UFO suffered a similar fate.Curt Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1071963771262525979.post-10036039982604130152014-01-23T11:53:33.919-06:002014-01-23T11:53:33.919-06:00This just goes to show that infighting and nasty a...This just goes to show that infighting and nasty allegations are nothing new in Ufology., If UFOs were used at one time as a cover story for clandestine government/military operations, all that was needed to churn up the waters was to occasionally toss in a pebble. Ufologists would thrash about going after each other, instead of the truth, and blindly do all the heavy lifting themselves.<br /><br />Has anyone investigated whether this could have been a private sector operation? After all, many defense industry firms don't work exclusively for the US government or military and have commercial and international customers as well. Some of these firms are very big (and were exponentially larger during the Cold War) and would have had the resources to carry out a test on this scale without any direct involvement by the military or government. It could still be a test vehicle of some sort gone astray, but critical records of it would be locked away in a company's proprietary files and nothing substantive would ever come from FOIA requests. purrlgurrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519835482606629362noreply@blogger.com