The Origin of the UFO Stigma

I've been studying quite reserved tonight what I've been studying UFOs did you know there are UFOs out here flying around unidentified this would be the place for him Southern California it could be aliens it could be balloons or it could be alien balloons President Obama says that there is footage and uh records of objects in the skies these unidentified aerial phenomenon and he says we don't know exactly what they are what do you think that it is I would ask him again thank you the reality of the unidentified aerial or submerged phenomena is not up for debate it is fact there are anomalous signatures that operate in our skies oceans and near Earth orbit that exhibit strange and astounding characteristics including instantaneous acceleration Hypersonic velocity anti-gravity low observability and transmedial travel whether you recognize the phenomena as nonhuman in origin or believe that these signatures are Advanced hidden human technology or any combination of these is up to you in all of these warrant future investigation but no matter what you believe you cannot deny the UFO study is looked at with ridicule disdain laughter and has historically been treated as a joke but where did this UFO stigma come from and why is studying anomalous signatures on this planet looked at as silly why have civilian and Military Pilots historically been advised not to share UFO sightings fearing revocation of their flight status why is serious scientific investigation into UFOs laughed at as seen as a fruitless Venture there are three things about this whole thing Tom that no one can deny they're incontrovertible points even the grossest skeptic can't deny them the first of all is that the UFO reports not only exist but persist see when I started with the Air Force I thought that this was a fad and a few years would just disappear all over okay and it's Global we have reports now from 140 countries I mean as many practically as many countries as there are in the United Nations and the most important of the three things is that many unfortunately not all but many of the reports come from highly highly credible technically trained people you see I am UAP ger guys and today I wanted to do a review on the history of the UFO stigma and highlight how this Narrative of UFO being nothing more than misidentified praic phenomena and only studied by tin foil conspiracists and wack jobs has in fact been pushed and perpetrated by our own United States government we could realistically start with the 1946 Kenneth Arnold saucer sightings or the Roswell crash of 1947 but you know me let's start where our paper trail leads us so let's take a peek at the first official USG program investigating UFOs project sign began in 1948 and ran until 1949 United States Air Force General Nathan twinning established this project initially naming sign project saucer due to Lieutenant General Twin's assertion that flying discs are quote real and not Visionary or fictitious as seen in this letter to aaf Commanding General George lugan the written sign report states that some UFO reports present actual objects but Origins are undeterminable Edward J Rupel future director of project Bluebook and Grudge claimed sign endorsed the interplanetary explanation for some of the Unexplained sign sightings if you know UAP gerb you know any official United States government UFO investig ation can be traced to the doe or parent the aec the atomic energy commission well get this all sign reports were required to be sent to the Army and Navy research and development board the USAF scientific Advisory Group and the atomic energy commission the program was shut down in 1949 by General Hoy Vandenberg for quote lack of proof but the next official investigation into UFOs was commissioned the exact same year project Grudge ran throughout 1949 when it was officially terminated but Grudge records were updated up until 1999 featuring a full published report in 1960 reviewing the grudge report is not the topic of this video but seen as it is 707 pages of case analysis maybe I'll do a most interesting cases on Grudge reports video someday anyways you USAF formed this program specifically intending to alleviate public anxiety over UFOs here we can see the first real breadcrumbs of the USG trying to alter public perception of UFOs Grudge was tasked to explain sightings away as balloons conventional aircraft optical illusions planets mass hallucinations Etc such as in the case of the leic lights where four engineering SL stem professors in leic Texas Witness multiple flights of 20 to 30 lights traveling at incredible speeds in a perfect semicircle formation Grudge infers and marks this case down to a flock of migrating birds even though this explanation is unsubstantiated and not shared with by the professor Witnesses Jay Allen heinik the future Blue Book scientific adviser stated that project Grudge was quote less science and more of a public relations campaign in my association with Project Blue Book I don't I know very well that it was not a scientific project also I also know that they never never would notify the media when an interesting case came up they did everything they could to keep it down so they definitely withheld information you know when I first interviewed Allan years ago there was a theory going around that anybody who saw a flying saucer was probably befuddled by swamp gas somewhere in Louisiana and didn't know what he or she we've had a lot of documentation one of the main things that uh has come out here that Peter has done is to substantiate The credibility of many of the civilians now Project Blue Book ran from 1952 to 1969 and is where the true UFO stigma was born Bluebook of course is the most well-known USG official UFO study and was founded to determine if UFOs were in fact a threat to National Security and to scientifically analyze UFO data fun fact from 1952 to 1969 Bluebook analyzed 12,618 UFO reports 701 of which were classified as unexplained after extensive analysis I've talked at length before about how Jay Allen heinik stated Bluebook was essentially a disinformation project and a distraction tool used to cover up and gloss over the UFO issue so we won't tread on heinik too much but who was hinck astrophysicist Dr J Allen heinik served as the public advisor and scientific adviser to Project Blue Book and lives in infamy for self-admittedly participating in the UFO coverup during the tenure of Project Blue Book heck's dissatisfaction for the ridicule and planned debunking of credible UFO reports was a quote Open Secret but the doctor spoke openly about this after leaving Blue Book if you think back to the class classic Mis explanations of swamp gas and weather balloons heinik was one of the key individuals who pushed to deliver these hypotheses on a national stage but how did project Bluebook do this and how did they warp the entire American public perception on UFOs in December of 1952 one of the most famous Mass UFO sightings in American history occurred over Washington DC our nation's capital over a series of nights a group of Lights accompanied with radar signatures appeared over Washington DC many reported physical craft were seen including the pilots of a B-52 bomber and at the time serious consideration was put towards this case being the craft of ET origin this event often referred to as the invasion of Washington or the Washington National Airport Sans took the nation by storm leading to 148 National newspapers covering the event in the the following 6-month period what followed captivated our country even more on July of 1952 USAF Major General John Samford USAF director of intelligence and USF director of operations Roger M Ramy yes the same general Ramy that ordered Jesse Marcel to pose with fake wreckage to curb the Roswell crash held a press conference at the Pentagon during the conference Samford explains away the bulk of UFO reports quote to their own satisfaction as hoaxes erroneously identify friendly aircraft as meteorological or electric phenomena or as light apparation however he goes on to quote there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports that have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things Samford then referenced the DC incident by saying that in no way were the sightings related to any secret development by any Department of the United Music States but in 1953 the USG and CIA walked back and flipped samford's statements on their head by forming the Robertson panel under the guise of mass panic and to alter public reaction to UFOs as stated by Dr heinik himself physicist and CIA consultant Howard P Robertson was directed to review all Air Force Case Files on UFOs from Project sign Grudge and blue book oh and by the way at this same time behind the scenes battel Memorial Institute who has a stored connection to UFO especially material analysis around the 50s was commissioned to separately review all Air Force Case Files anyways the panel met for a series of four formal meetings and conducted such riveting analysis as reviewing 23 of 2331 provided USAF UFO cases on record watching two films of UFOs and comparing them to to seagulls discussing the problems inherent to monitoring UFO sightings and finally meeting with USAF major dwey J forette forette spoke to the panel that for a year he had coordinated UFO Affairs for the Pentagon and supported the Extraterrestrial hypothesis for some unexplained cases the panel spent the rest of that fourth day discussing that meeting the Robertson panel concluded that all national security agencies should strip UFOs of quote special status and suggest to the public that there is no legitimate evidence of their existence however signatory to the report thoron L page admits on the 3rd of October 1993 that the chairman told members ahead of the meeting to debunk all UFO reports presented to them and to quote reduce public concern and what's also really important to note is that the Robertson panel was held a month after USAF Colonel Donald L Bower forbade Captain Edward J Rupel from visiting visiting the CIA office of special investigations to share information on compelling UFO data so what we can derive here is the Robertson's panel's conclusions were predetermined in order to devalue UFOs and attribute them to nonsense and misidentified prosaic phenomena in fact Dr heinik quotes that the panel was handed down the unwritten law of the Air Force Don't Rock the Boat play it cool and don't get the public excited what is awfully curious here is that after UFOs had been publicly denounced the subsequent year 1953 USAF issues regulation 200-2 this piece restricts UFO reporting procedures and supersedes the former AFL 2000-5 this means all confirmed UFO reports were to be sent to the Air Force intelligence and not Bluebook this included reports by USAF personnel and this keeps credible sightings from both Congress and the American people on the 5th of April 1966 Congress held its first closed session on UFOs in a hearing by the house armed services committee former president and at the time Congressman Gerald Ford noted the ridicule he received for arranging the hearings quote as I expected some persons have ridiculed my call for a congressional investigation into to unidentified flying objects part of Ford's reasoning for calling for the hearings was dissatisfaction in hex's explanations of UFOs as swamp gas or weather balloons particularly the 1966 Dexter Michigan Mass UFO sighting heck devalued as swamp gas on the panel at Blue Book head from 63 to 69 USAF major Hector Quintanilla J Allen hinck and Secretary of the Air Force Harold D Brown on this panel Quintanilla tells the house armed services committee that project Bluebook had quote no radar cases that are unexplained explaining the vast majority of radar detections away as temperature inversions or just misidentified phenoma this was an irrefutable lie seen as blue book reports show numerous radar unknowns alongside corroborating witness testimony this lie was later pointed out by Dr huk himself who pointed out several anomalous radar Det sections that stumped Bluebook including 1951 Goose Bay 1956 Laken Heath and 1957 shrevport due to his dissatisfaction as being used as a quote puppet of the Air Force Who quote only says what the Air Force wants me to say heinik prepared a surprise statement for the hearings requesting the USAF commission a civilian panel of physical and social scientists to examine the UFO problem critically for the Express purpose of determining whether a major problem exists both heinik and physicist James E McDonald requested but were denied a seat on this panel instead in the summer of ' 66 physicist Edward Condon of the University of Colorado Boulder my rival University uh so I don't like them was selected Condon was well known amongst the scientific Community for his tenacious work on the house American Activities Committee and a suitable candidate for the job and I'm sure the modest sum of $313,000 for a Year's work didn't hurt Condon received multiple requests to brief the committee by retired USMC major Donald kho arpo the aerial phenomena research organization naikap McDonald and hinck all of whom agreed to share any and all research files on UFOs Condon deced many of these offers the committee moved very slowly hampered by the apparent lack of funds and methodology lacking subject matter expertise and strangely enough committee members usually worked without coordination with one another in late 1967 Condon stated in a public lecture he thought the government should not study UFOs because the subject matter was nonsense adding quote but I'm not supposed to reach that conclusion for another year this is a very strange statement seen as in this time Conan has been contracted to investigate UFOs not have a conclusion in 1967 the aforementioned James E McDonald made public a 1966 memo written by the conon committee second in command Robert J low who wrote to two University of Colorado admins that they could expect the study to demonstrate that UFO observations had no basis in reality conclusions before findings this trick Momo was written by low who was a hardened skeptic heading into the committee and a paper trail does in fact exist that he served in the CIA before teaching at CU Boulder quote the trick would be I think to describe the project so that to the public it would appear a totally objective study but to the scientific Community would present the image of a group of non-believers trying their best to be objective but having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer one way to do this would be to stress investigation not the physical phenomena but rather of the people who do the observing the psychology and sociology of persons and groups who report seeing UFOs if the emphasis were put here rather than on examination of the old question of the physical reality of the saucer I think the scientific Community would quickly get the message this trick by the alleged CIA asset and second in command to the Condon committee Robert low perfectly details the UFO stigma and how it would operate moving forward forget the sighting no matter how credible question the psychology of the Observer the final Nails in the coffin of serious UFO study would be hammered in by the release of the Condon report and subsequent Condon report review by the National Academy of Sciences the Condon report released as a book both hard cover and soft to be consumed by the public in his conclusions and recommendations Condon stated quote our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby he recommends that the Air Force and USG at large shut down and prohibit any investigation into UFOs the report seemingly does away with the scientific method to explain all cases away as conventional or natural explanations James E McDonald calls the report inadequate and said quote it represents an examination of only a tiny fraction of the most puzzling UFO reports of the past two decades and that its of scientific argument is wholly unsatisfactory both McDonald and hinck publicly stated that the committee ignored key evidence and could not explain 25 to 30% of the cases examined because the condom committee was unable to explain one quarter of the cases that were submitted that they studied I'm curious and I think everyone is now thinking the obvious question how did they handle that in their report the ones they couldn't explain well very nicely and very adly I the word uh Dr Condon wrote this the summary and completely neglected the contents of the report the report received almost Universal praise from the news media with many magazines journals and newspapers publishing approving reviews or positive editorials of the content report some of these compared any continued belief in UFOs to those who believe the Earth is flat or believe in ghosts and Bigfoot or other Supernatural or unsubstantiate phenomena others predicted that the interest in UFOs would die in a few generations and only be dimly remembered as a candle flick in the darkness science the official publication of the American Association for advancement of science said quote the Colorado study is unquestionably the most thorough and sophisticated investigation of the nebulous UFO phenomena ever conducted in 1969 the National Academy of Sciences wrote a review of the committee citing condon's work as sound approving of his methodology and agreeing in his assertions that there should be no more formal investigation into UFO in 1970 the American Institute of Aeronautics and astronautics made official statements agreeing with gan's suggestion that little of value had been uncovered by scientific UFO studies UFOs were now lumped in the same boat as ghosts Bigfoot and other Fringe topics or conspiracy a subject to be scoffed and laughed at instead of discussed and studied UFO was now synonymous with tinf foil hat conspiracists instead of the accredited physicists like heinik and McDonald who wished for nothing more than to study UFO sign Grudge Blue Book the Robertson panel and the Condon committee were all guised a serious investigation into UFOs truly used to publicly discredit the phenomena while real research went on behind the scenes all of these tools culminated in 1969 so the USG could say quote UFOs do not exist and we do not study them however of course we know that this is not true and this stigma was created for the purposeful distraction to take eyes off the UFO study hey guys thank you so much for joining me today for this little documentary if you're watching this channel you at least have a passing interest in the study of UFOs and I'm willing to bet any amount of money there have been times in your life where you have been worried to speak to a certain person or peoples about UFO or judge somebody because they've brought up UFO or thought uh maybe I shouldn't talk about this it's no secret the UFO phenomena has a massive stigma around it associated with conspiracy y with wack jobs with ghosts and Bigfoot and as we've seen in this video that's very real and very planned the sophisticated disinformation campaigns grush talks about here is those in effect project sign project Grudge Blue Book the Robertson panel the Condon committee all of these have been used as tools to ridicule the study of anomalous things in our skies it's absurd absolutely absurd all under the guise of scientific research I hope you learned something today I certainly did making this video there was a ton of research to go into it I got to read the whole Grudge and blue book reports ton of interesting cases I want to cover but I will put every case I can in the video description many of them I have are PDFs so if you'd like to get them all yourself please email me at uapb gmail.com or join my Discord in the description I will actually have a channel for all of the Case Files but did I miss anything in this video is there anything else I should have covered how did you beat the UFO stigma in your personal life how did you overcome this woo and begin talking about it freely I know that I overcame this stigma from very early on when I pieced together that hey UFOs are being studied by the United States government both publicly and in the shadows so why are they being shamed it's fascinating and unfortunately the sck has been wildly successful so thank you guys I appreciate you joining me please remember to like And subscribe and I will catch everybody on the next UAP gerb show bye