James Carrion's slide presentation posted Oct. 25th in which he walks viewers through his hypothesis that flying saucer stories were planted in 1947 newspaper articles as part of a deception operation for the purpose of breaking the Soviet diplomatic code:
Flying Saucers An Opening Salvo of the Cold War?
Super interesting and concisely explained!
Here's the longer discussion going into his hypothesis:
Discussion topics and timestamps:
0:00 James Carrion's latest paper, "Flying Saucers – An Opening Salvo of the Cold War?"
6:30 1940s German researchers envisioned an intercontinental hypersonic bomber
8:20 Project Seal misrepresented to media as R&D of an airborne weapon bigger than the atomic bomb, two weeks later flying saucers hit the news, 1947
16:15 Why would the U.S. do this?
21:00 The state of UFO research
30:28 Intelligence aspect of UFO research and manipulation of the media
32:34 Key components of Carrion's thesis and discussing Project Shamrock
38:27 "Gardening," an intelligence gathering technique
41:39 Three layers of Russian security in sending coded messages & ambiguity inherent to UFO stories
53:35 Human deception is the common thread running through the UFO topic
57:57 Important aspects of James Carrion's research of 1946-47
1:03:46 Contradictions in press releases and anomalies in newspaper clippings
1:05:32 Glossing over or marginalizing inconsistencies
1:12:00 MUFON, Robert Bigelow and the AAWSAP
1:16:02 BAASS & AATIP go back to Skinwalker Ranch myth-making machine
1:27:00 Media, motives, and the current UFO situation as a controlled narrative
1:29:22 Data mining and privacy issues
1:34:13 2017 big splash
1:38:56 Military inaction may in itself be a telling sign
1:41:00 Controlling a narrative that doesn't exist, NICAP, and plausible deniability
1:45:22 Final thoughts
James Carrion is an independent researcher with a focus on Cold War and Intelligence history. He earned an M.A. in International Studies and B.A. in Russian Language from Florida State University. As an enlisted member of the U.S. Army, he served as a Russian Linguist and Intelligence Analyst from 1983-1989.
Flying Saucers An Opening Salvo of the Cold War?
Super interesting and concisely explained!
Here's the longer discussion going into his hypothesis:
Discussion topics and timestamps:
0:00 James Carrion's latest paper, "Flying Saucers – An Opening Salvo of the Cold War?"
6:30 1940s German researchers envisioned an intercontinental hypersonic bomber
8:20 Project Seal misrepresented to media as R&D of an airborne weapon bigger than the atomic bomb, two weeks later flying saucers hit the news, 1947
16:15 Why would the U.S. do this?
21:00 The state of UFO research
30:28 Intelligence aspect of UFO research and manipulation of the media
32:34 Key components of Carrion's thesis and discussing Project Shamrock
38:27 "Gardening," an intelligence gathering technique
41:39 Three layers of Russian security in sending coded messages & ambiguity inherent to UFO stories
53:35 Human deception is the common thread running through the UFO topic
57:57 Important aspects of James Carrion's research of 1946-47
1:03:46 Contradictions in press releases and anomalies in newspaper clippings
1:05:32 Glossing over or marginalizing inconsistencies
1:12:00 MUFON, Robert Bigelow and the AAWSAP
1:16:02 BAASS & AATIP go back to Skinwalker Ranch myth-making machine
1:27:00 Media, motives, and the current UFO situation as a controlled narrative
1:29:22 Data mining and privacy issues
1:34:13 2017 big splash
1:38:56 Military inaction may in itself be a telling sign
1:41:00 Controlling a narrative that doesn't exist, NICAP, and plausible deniability
1:45:22 Final thoughts
James Carrion is an independent researcher with a focus on Cold War and Intelligence history. He earned an M.A. in International Studies and B.A. in Russian Language from Florida State University. As an enlisted member of the U.S. Army, he served as a Russian Linguist and Intelligence Analyst from 1983-1989.
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