Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» "The Navy has confirmed that videos did capture UFO sightings but they call them "unidentified aerial phenomenon". A rose by any other name?
You have to admit the US military generally, and NASA, do like to coin the oddest terms and use the most mangled language, for simple things!
Nevertheless, "unidentified aerial phenomena" is more accurate than "unidentified flying object", because the latter certainty that the object is actually "flying" like an aircraft - or space-craft. A good many have been traced to such things as unusual cloud formations.
On this, it amuses me to read of the conspiracy-fantasists wanting to break into some military base they imagine holds UFOs. It can't because the moment any such object might have been captured and studied, it ceases to be "unidentified" even if little is known about it!
That infamous AREA 51 in Nevada will always be mysterious. Any time an area is fenced off with signs warning folks to go away go back don't proceed the mind can't help but wonder WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? I don't know how many such FORBIDDEN ZONES there are worldwide. They don't advertise them for obvious reasons. Imagine going to work every day researching investigating poking other-world entities? Or whatever it is they try so hard to hide? Maybe one day all will be revealed! Thank you for your thoughtful reply Durdle and Happy Friday! :
Most countries have military bases closed to all but authorised personnel. Some place them remotely, but those in the British Isles are all in plain sight because we don't have the room to put them miles away from anywhere! They are still closed, of course, with guard forces and other, strong security measures. Anything secret is simply hidden inside buildings, or on ships, aircraft or vehicles according to Service.
I once spent a happy late-evening hour ambling along Northern Siberia and over to Novaya Zemlya, thanks to Google Maps' satellite images. A lot of the countryside is actually quite attractive, but the place has a sprinkling of very untidy, derelict Cold War installations, half-demolished presumably to remove anything classified or of scrap value.
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There was a rather curious Earth-bound version of this, nothing to do with alien space-craft fantasies, in the UK in the late 1960s and early 1970s. State-owned British Railways, as it was then, had replaced its steam locomotives with diesels in indecent haste, withdrawing the last in 1968. This was very much to the dismay of railway enthusiasts; and one of their glossy magazines revealed a "theory" had sprung up with the weeds in the scrap-yards, that the Government had secretly hoarded a selection of engines in good condition (some were withdrawn not long after major overhauls!), hiding them in military bases with railway connections. There was no truth in it. The magazine had investigated, soon found the locomotives allegedly "missing" from withdrawal lists had been broken up; and commented to the effect that "It only takes a barbed-wire fence and a few rusty sidings for such rumours".
Durdle 