EMP and the Chinese balloon

[EndtheMadnessNow]

In September 2020, US Airmen conducted Reaper drone drills off the coast of California wearing these patches.



I think the re-emergence of UFOs into the public consciousness was always intended to prep the public for a new Cold War, and it appears to be working...



I suddenly remembered this goofy New Yorker article from 2021:

By September of 1947, incoming reports of sightings had become too profuse for the Air Force to ignore. That month, in a classified communiqué, Lieutenant General Nathan F. Twining advised the commanding general of the armed forces that “the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.” The “Twining memo,” which has since gained ecclesiastical stature among ufologists, articulated concerns that some foreign rival—say, the Soviet Union—had made an unimaginable technological breakthrough, and it initiated a classified study, Project Sign, to investigate. Its officials were evenly split between those who thought that the “flying discs” were of plausibly “interplanetary” origin and those who chalked up the sightings to rampant misperception. On the one hand, according to a memo, a full twenty per cent of U.F.O. reports lacked ordinary explanations. On the other hand, there was no dispositive evidence—the wreckage of a crashed saucer, perhaps—and, as a scientist at the RAND Corporation reasoned, interstellar travel was simply infeasible.
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The following January, the C.I.A. secretly convened an advisory group of experts, led by Howard P. Robertson, a mathematical physicist from Caltech. The “Robertson panel” determined not that we were being visited by U.F.O.s but that we were being inundated with too many U.F.O. reports. This was a real problem: if notices of genuine incursions over U.S. territory could be lost in a maelstrom of kooky hallucination, there could be grave consequences for national security—for instance, Soviet spy planes could operate with impunity. The Cold War made it crucial that the U.S. government be perceived to have full control over its airspace.

Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation S02E03 "UFOs vs. Nukes" (July 25, 2020)






A hyper-militarized "red scare" rehash History channel show in which the gang acts like AATIP/TTSA invented UFO studies and a career spook giving hundreds of interviews and saying absolutely nothing new or of note.


From November 1969 to March 1971, the United States used supersonic Lockheed D-21B titanium reconnaissance drones launched from a B-52H bomber to spy on China’s remote Lop Nur nuclear test site, located some 2,000 miles inland near Mongolia. All four operational missions ended in failure.

Codenamed SENIOR BOWL (and earlier TAGBOARD when paired with the supersonic A-12 reconnaissance aircraft), the top secret program was conceived in 1962 in response to the termination of U-2 overflights in 1960 following the politically embarrassing capture of Francis Gary Powers.

The D-21B drones were designed to take numerous photographs of places of interest along a programmed route, return to their launch point, eject their avionics packages and film capsules—which would be retrieved by a HC-130H aircraft or, as needed, a Navy vessel—and self-destruct. 17 years later, in 1986, a portion of this drone, which was recovered by a shepherd, was presented by a KGB agent to a CIA operative as a Christmas gift.

During the fourth operational mission on March 20, 1971, the drone was lost about three-quarters of the way into its flight (China later put the wreckage on display in an aviation museum in Beijing. SENIOR BOWL was abruptly terminated on July 23, 1971.


Partial translation from Chinese:

The story of the destruction of the American D-21 drone

On March 20, 1971, a mysterious aircraft crashed in the forest of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China. The wreckage was scattered widely, and the main body fell on a slope in a forest clearing and was broken into several pieces. Among the large amount of scattered debris collected by the masses is a nylon cloth "hat", which is half the size of a basketball. Some people wonder how the driver's head can be so big.

Judging from the flight performance at that time, Chinese searchers thought it was a US military SR-71 high-speed reconnaissance aircraft, and the "hat" was an obvious evidence. If the SR-71 crashed, the pilot must have landed in our country! The local area sent hundreds of border militiamen to search for the pilot and the two large engines of the SR-71.

The last time the United States attempted to use high-altitude balloons for surveillance-related purposes, it inadvertently created the enduring myth that an alien spacecraft crash-landed near Roswell, New Mexico.

That time Greenpeace tried to fly a hot air balloon into the Nevada Test Site to stop an underground nuclear weapons test!