<story><title>Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwqp5/tom-delonges-ufo-research-center-is-making-politicians-demand-answers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonblack</author><text>I reckon it&amp;#x27;s misdirection. &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ll say it&amp;#x27;s a UFO, but really it&amp;#x27;s a hypersonic plane in development.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Just like the SR71 had a cover story during its development phase. &amp;quot;The wreckage was recovered in two days, and persons at the scene were identified and requested to sign secrecy agreements. A cover story for the press described the accident as occurring to a F-105, and it is still listed in this way on official records.&amp;quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cia.gov&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;center-for-the-study-of-intelligence&amp;#x2F;kent-csi&amp;#x2F;vol15no1&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;v15i1a01p_0001.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cia.gov&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;center-for-the-study-of-intellig...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>Its probably a system for &amp;quot;jamming&amp;quot; FLIR sensors an allowing the attacker to project targets onto the system.  The pilots were guinea pigs.  Which is made more plausible by the fact that the USS Princeton asked the Nimitz pilots first if they were armed, and only after they informed the Princeton that they were not that they were given the orders to investigate.  There probably was a real object -- since one was sighted but it was a drone with the advanced jamming equipment (that they didn&amp;#x27;t want to accidentally get shot down).  It did not move at supersonic speed, but it projected an image onto the FLIR sensor which did.  The submerged object was probably a submarine that the equipment was launched from.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwqp5/tom-delonges-ufo-research-center-is-making-politicians-demand-answers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonblack</author><text>I reckon it&amp;#x27;s misdirection. &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ll say it&amp;#x27;s a UFO, but really it&amp;#x27;s a hypersonic plane in development.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Just like the SR71 had a cover story during its development phase. &amp;quot;The wreckage was recovered in two days, and persons at the scene were identified and requested to sign secrecy agreements. A cover story for the press described the accident as occurring to a F-105, and it is still listed in this way on official records.&amp;quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cia.gov&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;center-for-the-study-of-intelligence&amp;#x2F;kent-csi&amp;#x2F;vol15no1&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;v15i1a01p_0001.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cia.gov&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;center-for-the-study-of-intellig...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burnte</author><text>I hate to be the pedant, but UFO really does just mean unidentified flying object. Everything is a UFO before you know what it is, so this isn&amp;#x27;t even a lie.</text></comment>