Author: Robby Berman / Source: Big Think
- A just-unclassified Department of Defense reading list on UFOs is stunning.
- The DOD is wondering if the truth lies in some of the most far-out theories.
- Science fiction has nothing on science fact.
The public finally had a chance in 2017 to see some of the government’s tightly guarded UFO footage — never mind the sudden admission that it existed in the first place.
The handful of clips that were de-classified were eye-popping, depicting flying somethings with ridiculous maneuvering capabilities, far beyond anything we’d seen in human craft. Sure, we wondered where they came from and who was driving those things, but just as urgent was a desire to wrap our heads around how they were doing the things they were doing. Apparently, the Department of Defense (DOD) was right there with us, because their recently published reading list suggests their suspicions went in some seriously sci-fi directions.The reading list
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The first page of the DOD reading list. (Full list here.)
We’re seeing this list because of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. It was released to Congress in January 2018.
At the top, as you can see, it’s somehow both “UNCLASSIFIED” and “FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.” And, if you’re not confused yet, both phrases are crossed out.
The DOD’s possible explanations for UFO behavior
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Hugh Marlowe and Joan Taylor in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
What’s on this reading list jumps right into the theoretical and even quasi-fictional (Star Trek’s warp drive?). After all, any explanation for both the presence of UFOs and their observed behavior would have to solve two currently unanswerable riddles.
- If these are aliens, how did they successfully traverse the massive distances between Earth and, well, basically anywhere?
- How are these whatever-they-ares moving the way they do with such startling agility and speed?
The DOD seems to be looking…
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