Is This The Result of a Perception Shut Off?

[Hervé]

Has ET gone home? Global UFO sightings slump (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-29/has-et-gone-home-ufo-sightings-slump)

Tyler Durden Zerohedge (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-29/has-et-gone-home-ufo-sightings-slump)
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:06 UTC

If you're wondering whether that strange light you saw zipping across the night sky was a UFO, you're not alone. According to the National UFO Reporting Center, more than 1,300 UFO sightings have been reported so far this year.

However, that number represents a decline in recent years.

While the organization only recorded 307 sightings back in 1990, they reached a peak of 8,619 in 2014, before falling slightly to 5,516 in 2016.


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You will find more infographics at Statista (https://www.statista.com/chartoftheday/) © Statista


But the decline in sightings doesn't mean interest in UFOs by both the public and the military has fallen off.

One recently leaked military report (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-31/leaked-military-report-ufo-rendezvoused-something-big-under-ocean) revealed fascinating new details about a 2004 incident involving what appears to be a UFO. The incident is better known as "the Tic Tac incident" due to the Tic Tac-like shape of the purported UFO.


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The Department of Defense released three separate videos taken of the AAVs (anomalous aerial vehicles) from the incident after a secret Pentagon program intended to find signs of alien life was revealed by the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html) to have been defunct since 2012.

However, the paper's sources said the program continues to exist in some form, despite being stripped of its explicit funding.

And why not? The American military - and the air force in particular - has been investigating incidences of UFOS for decades. In 1947, the Air Fore started investigating more than 12,000 claimed UFO sightings before the project ended in 1969. While the program concluded that most of the sightings involved conventional aircraft of spy planes, more than 700 inciden[t]s remained [un]explained.


Perhaps we'll learn more after President Trump launches his 'Space Force'.

(https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-18/trump-orders-pentagon-create-us-space-force)================================================

Indeed, unless interdimensionals/ETs and their crafts have gone home, the drop in reported sightings in spite of increased interest could mean either that people have their nose stuck to their TV/tablets/iPad/twitter/etc, and quit looking at the skies or, else, 'em not seeing no nothing anymore... i.e. less and less people are able to perceive wandering stars describe pretzel patterns on stary nights...


... you know... fluoridation, ritalin, opioids, vaccines, glyphosate, genetic pruning, mass hypnotic blindness (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?33129-CIA-Mind-control-Techniques......&p=342048&viewfull=1#post342048), etc....

[Bill Ryan]

I'd need to be convinced that's in any way significant. If I were out walking my dog this afternoon, and thought I saw a UFO, I'd not be rushing to the UFO National Reporting Center to tell them all about it.

First thing to check might be ease of reporting access on their website, whether anything's changed there in the last 12 months (like, maybe, asking for more personal information), how easy it is to find, how easy it is to find ANYTHING with any search engine to tell someone totally new to the subject who or where to go to report it, and so on. I'd suspect that there are maybe 100x as many UFO sightings (or maybe 1,000x, or even 10,000x) as are ever formerly reported to anyone at all.

And that's just in the US. America's land area (including Alaska) is just 6.6% of the total land area in the world. I wonder who's seeing UFOs in Mali, or Turkmenistan, or Iceland, or Estonia, or Tibet, or here where I live in Ecuador — and who might THOSE ever be reported to. :)

[boolacalaca]

Interesting decline in sightings, but why jump to the conclusion that "ET Went Home?" Here's a recent article, one that refers to the "tic-tac" sighting...

Shock Pentagon report reveals UFO 'with cloaking device' stalked US Navy ship for days before vanishing
The spooky encounter took place in the Pacific off the coast of southern California and Mexico
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/shock-pentagon-report-reveals-ufo-12606986

Also, it's highly probable that most UFO sightings at this point are "alien reproduction vehicles" as a result of dark USAP programs to reverse engineer captured alien craft.
If these dark USAP programs managed to add cloaking devices to these ARVs, then one would expect the sightings to drop.
Most alien vehicles have always been cloaked and only uncloak for specific purposes we can only guess at.

When I saw a TR3B-type silent black triangle float overhead on a clear afternoon in 1995, I witnessed it disappear behind a bright light it shone down from underneath it. It either cloaked or zipped away at warp speed when the bright light was on.

[Bill Ryan]

Of course, there might be other reasons. :)

http://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smartphone.jpg

https://media.istockphoto.com/videos/hdcrowed-people-moving-on-escalator-in-shopping-mall-video-id462879066?s=640x640

http://cnnphilippines.com/incoming/5b2adk-Family-watching-TV_CNNPH.png/alternates/FREE_768/Family-watching-TV_CNNPH.png

[Michelle Marie]

Of course, there might be other reasons. :)

http://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smartphone.jpg

https://media.istockphoto.com/videos/hdcrowed-people-moving-on-escalator-in-shopping-mall-video-id462879066?s=640x640

http://cnnphilippines.com/incoming/5b2adk-Family-watching-TV_CNNPH.png/alternates/FREE_768/Family-watching-TV_CNNPH.png

It seems to be true. The answer is in the question.

Will this be reversed as more people awaken to deceptive practices and programming?
MM

[Bill Ryan]

It seems to be true. The answer is in the question.

Will this be reversed as more people awaken to deceptive practices and programming?
MM

My visual point was that maybe not too many people are looking up at the sky any more. :)

[Star Tsar]

I find it funny when folk you @ you lookin up! This past week over my neck of the globe has been busy...

[Michelle Marie]

It seems to be true. The answer is in the question.

Will this be reversed as more people awaken to deceptive practices and programming?
MM

My visual point was that maybe not too many people are looking up at the sky any more. :)

Yes, that's what I was referring to. The conditioning has turned a vast majority of people's attention to tv and other electronic devices. Programmed attention focus. It's narrowing and limits our perception.

So many aren't consciously controlling the direction of their attention.

It is critical to our awareness, development, and expansiveness of perception to pay attention to what we pay attention to.

I noticed on my last few walks and bike rides that everyone who I saw out walking had their phones with them. Some were using them at the time, and some were not.

I don't take my cell phone with me on walks or bike rides. I'm not contantly connected. Often, I forget to take it when I drive my car. I don't do text messaging. And sometimes, when I'm with people, I've noticed that text messaging takes more precedent than being present in a current conversation.

Usurped attention. Who looks up? Who looks in? Who looks around?

MM

PS. When I was in a march for geoengineering awareness, that's what some of our signs said: "Look up!"

[Tam]

I feel like Bill's on the right track. Smartphones are a relatively new thing, despite how ubiquitous they've become. In 2014, it wasn't unheard of to have a flip phone.

Nowadays, it is.

[Michelle Marie]

I feel like Bill's on the right track. Smartphones are a relatively new thing, despite how ubiquitous they've become. In 2014, it wasn't unheard of to have a flip phone.

Nowadays, it is.

Exactly. And not just having one, but it being the director of one's attention. THE main focal point.
And then, within that, the programming of the social media and perception deception.

I'm definitely in the minority!

MM

[Valerie Villars]

Talk about perception shut off. I take a Barre class which is an intensive workout if you are doing it properly. One must put one's total concentration into the body and mind over matter and there are dingbats actually flipping through their phone in the middle of the workout.

They are entirely missing the point of being in their own body and being aware. It drives me crazy. I just want to go over, grab their phone and tell them so. Then I refuse to let them distract me from my purpose.

[EFO]

1- Both observers and craft's occupant/s find out that reporting an event to acronymic organization/s became only a statistic justifying paid salaries.
2- Occurred event/s became too personal to be reported.
3- People forgot/don't know where to look to find interesting and captivating things,excepting advanced telephones (are not smart at all) and TV's.
3- Any other reason written above or not.
Personally I NEVER reported any event ever and during time I found out that other observers are much more interested in exchanging informations trying to find answers than oranization/s.

Not having multiple "Thanks",I give 1000 "Thanks" to each one of Herve,Bill Ryan and Star Tsar for thread and replies. :)

And some of my stories not reported :) ,but shared with Wes and Lesley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3dIV6JDMgk

[avid]

I love looking up in the night, especially as there is little light pollution where I live, however, most of the time these days there are hazy layers of chemtrails blocking the stars. As I live on top of a hill, the panorama on a clear night is fantastic.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Another possible reason>>

Perhaps, by now, the MIC have the infrastructure and the technology in place to track, repel, or even destroy foreign vehicles in the atmosphere. That wouldn't have been the case in the 1950s, or maybe even the 90s. But could it be that UFOs and their occupants are deliberately keeping a distance because our skies are no longer safe for them?? (or at least less safe).

Nearly all of my experiences/sightings occurred in the 80s and 90s, very little since. I have never ceased looking at the sky. I think it's highly likely that phones and modern living does play a role in this, or that many do not know where or how to make a report. Yet a part of me also believes there might be some truth to a general decline of (ET) UFOs in our sky.

[Ernie Nemeth]

I pointed out Mars to some neighbours the other night. They refuted that it was Mars. I didn't argue beyond the obvious, what's the point? Orange-red, no flickering, sun's reflection on the disk...

[Mark]

I live in Texas and spend time out in the night occasionally, looking up. I don't see much and haven't seen any UAPs in years. When I lived outside of Montreal, used to walk every night and saw many then, and a few during the day.


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=38409&d=1530557737&thumb=1&stc=1

I think Bill's point is correct, in that nearly half of the American population (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-survey-shows-nearly-half-of-americans-believe-in_us_59824c11e4b03d0624b0abe4) believes in them and, globally, more than half do (http://www.newsweek.com/most-people-believe-intelligent-aliens-exist-377965). Maybe folks don't necessarily report it because they don't want the perceived stigma, or, people just aren't looking up as much anymore because their phones have them looking down instead of around when they're outside.


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=38410&d=1530557811&thumb=1&stc=1

[Hervé]

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https://www.sott.net/image/s23/475782/full/chartoftheday_8452_ufo_sightin.jpg



... letting the graph do the talking... assuming the same percentage of the North American population was inclined to reporting their sightings and which were in a somewhat steady increase up to 2014... then complete crash by 2017!

Something has happened!

Was it something like: "Oh, well, disclosure is around the corner, so, why report anything, anyway!?"

... or the Pentagon black OPs operating budget drying out with bounty hunters chasing their missing trillions of $$?

[CaptnNemo]

I live in Texas and spend time out in the night occasionally, looking up. I don't see much and haven't seen any UAPs in years. When I lived outside of Montreal, used to walk every night and saw many then, and a few during the day.


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=38409&d=1530557737&thumb=1&stc=1

I think Bill's point is correct, in that nearly half of the American population (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-survey-shows-nearly-half-of-americans-believe-in_us_59824c11e4b03d0624b0abe4) believes in them and, globally, more than half do (http://www.newsweek.com/most-people-believe-intelligent-aliens-exist-377965). Maybe folks don't necessarily report it because they don't want the perceived stigma, or, people just aren't looking up as much anymore because their phones have them looking down instead of around when they're outside.


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=38410&d=1530557811&thumb=1&stc=1

I am currently living outside Montreal, Laval to be precise and I lived also close to Mirabel. There is indeed a lot of activity around that area and going closer to the north. I saw myself 4 different sightings that made me go Hmmm!!?? 2 black balls during day time and 2 star like objects disappearing in front of my eyes also.

[Hervé]

UK feared Soviets, Chinese would acquire UFO tech according to declassified files (https://sputniknews.com/society/201807021065981008-declassified-files-uk-fear-cold-war-ufo-tech/)

Sputnik (https://sputniknews.com/society/201807021065981008-declassified-files-uk-fear-cold-war-ufo-tech/)
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:21 UTC


https://www.sott.net/image/s22/459526/large/1062717732.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s22/459526/full/1062717732.jpg)


Once-classified documents being called "Britain's X-Files" have revealed that the British Ministry of Defense spent half a century hunting UFOs, driven in some part out of concern that the Soviet Union or China had already gotten their hands on alien technology.

According to the cache of documents recently obtained by investigative researcher David Clarke, British intelligence services had two UFO desks between 1947 and 1997. One of the desks allowed people to phone in UFO sightings, while the other involved spies investigating UFO reports.

Earlier this month, Clarke, a research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, obtained copies of the Ministry of Defense's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) from the ministry following a freedom of information request.

According to the UAP report, which will be released to the public after being declassified, the Royal Air Force was "particularly interested in any novel technology... propulsion, stealth and any novel electromagnetic technologies," news.com.au reported July 2. The documents also reveal that the British government was interested in finding UFOs to use against their enemies during the Cold War, which took place between 1945 and 1990 between socialist countries allied to the Soviet Union and US-led Western powers.
"Even though they have been partly censored, they can't conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFO technology - or what they coyly refer to as 'novel weapon technology,'" Clark recently told the Sun.

"And the files reveal they were desperate to capture this technology - wherever it came from - before the Russians or the Chinese got hold of it first," he added.
In an email to Sputnik on July 2, Nick Pope, a former civil servant who worked for the UK Ministry of Defense from 1985 to 2006, said that he has been working with his former employers to ensure that files from the British government's UFO project would be revealed to the public.
"I ran the British government's UFO project and I'm pleased that a number of 'UFOlogists' have acquired documents about my old job, using the UK's Freedom of Information Act. Actually, this is part of what's been a wider 10-year program to declassify and release these files, and I've been working with my former employers to try to ensure that the final files are made available to the public as soon as possible, as part of our wider commitment to open government and freedom of information," Pope told Sputnik Monday.
Pope also confirmed that the British government was aware of Russian and Chinese research into UFOs and was attempting to develop its own alien military technologies.
"I can confirm that we were aware of Russian and Chinese research into UFOs and into parapsychology more generally. We didn't take a definitive view on the true nature of the UFO phenomenon (we remained open-minded but noncommittal about the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation) and so we looked at the issue in terms of threats and opportunities. Even if UFOs were just exotic atmospheric plasma phenomena - as one of my colleagues in intelligence believed - we thought we might be able to derive some 'novel military technologies' from this, and weaponization formed part of our speculation, particularly the idea of some sort of directed-energy weapon," Pope added.

"If such a thing was possible, self-evidently we didn't want the Russians or the Chinese getting there first. While I don't characterize any of this as being a race to acquire 'alien weapons', what we did was probably as strange as anything you can see in an episode of The X-Files," he noted.
According to UFO investigator John Tenney, national director of Mufon, the mutual UFO network,
"one aspect, to which very little discussion has been made, with the UK's Ministry of Defence's the newly released documents concerning 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' (UAP) exposes that while the major governments of the world, even to this day, continue to tell the general population that there is no reason to be affected by the UFO phenomena the governments themselves are indeed interested and actively engaged in a continuing process of research and discovery."

"For decades governments, officials and the media have tended to portray those interested in UFO phenomena as irrational, delusional and/or paranoid while at the same time spending millions of taxpayer dollars investigating the same phenomena and the implications which those phenomena may contain," Tenney told Sputnik via email Monday.

Related:

UFO Files: Declassified U.K. Documents Released, Reveal Tony Blair Was Briefed On UFO Sightings (https://www.sott.net/article/248360-UFO-Files-Declassified-U-K-Documents-Released-Reveal-Tony-Blair-Was-Briefed-On-UFO-Sightings)
Secret Discussion of UFOs in UK Military: Spooky Stuff Behind Closed Government Doors (https://www.sott.net/article/127536-Secret-Discussion-of-UFOs-in-UK-Military-Spooky-Stuff-Behind-Closed-Government-Doors)
UFO sightings: Files explain why MoD closed down special desk (https://www.sott.net/article/263411-UFO-sightings-Files-explain-why-MoD-closed-down-special-desk)

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Anyone not floored by the implications from the red portion of this statement:


"I can confirm that we were aware of Russian and Chinese research into UFOs and into parapsychology more generally.... in conjunction with the dropping off of the UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) appellation to favor the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) one?

[genevieve]

EFO--

Thank you so very much for sharing the interview about your
experiences with us. Both you and your interviewers were
delightful to listen to.

Peace Love Joy & Harmony,
genevieve

P.S. I was also WOWed by your broad English vocabulary.

[EFO]

October 2017 Danube delta (it's not my video)

Danube Delta UFO's
(6:37 min.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIm5riaLBNw

[DeDukshyn]

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https://www.sott.net/image/s23/475782/full/chartoftheday_8452_ufo_sightin.jpg



... letting the graph do the talking... assuming the same percentage of the North American population was inclined to reporting their sightings and which were in a somewhat steady increase up to 2014... then complete crash by 2017!

Something has happened!

Was it something like: "Oh, well, disclosure is around the corner, so, why report anything, anyway!?"

... or the Pentagon black OPs operating budget drying out with bounty hunters chasing their missing trillions of $$?


Rather than seeing a massive drop, maybe the graph should be seen as a massive spike ... considering we have a relatively short time-frame on the entire graph and current levels are ~ 1997 levels. Maybe the question is, why was there a huge spike the first fifteen years of of the third century?

[petra]

Will this be reversed as more people awaken to deceptive practices and programming?
MM

It sure will!
And why do I think that? Because NO ONE would choose to live in an illusion. I'm positive.

[lilac]

Well, I would not be at all surprised if they have given up on us.

[amor]

If I plainly saw an exotic armada of UFO doing hijinks in the sky, I would be the last person to tell the government about it. They are up to their backsides in it from every possible point of view. Here is a piece of information that no one has mentioned as yet. Often when I am listening to that old fashioned thing, the radio, there are sudden gaps in transmission which sound as though large flying crafts have interrupted the signal, often, one after another. Things are buzzing over our heads. Of course, chemtrails don't even allow you to see stars any more. However, all these craft have cloaking devices. The government has loads of technology to monitor these things and there probably is nothing moving up there which they have not allowed in or out or are aware of but think not worth the worry.

[Hervé]

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https://www.sott.net/image/s23/475782/full/chartoftheday_8452_ufo_sightin.jpg



... letting the graph do the talking... assuming the same percentage of the North American population was inclined to reporting their sightings and which were in a somewhat steady increase up to 2014... then complete crash by 2017!
[...]

Rather than seeing a massive drop, maybe the graph should be seen as a massive spike ...

[...]I guess the graph refuses to talk to you :bigsmile:

[DeDukshyn]

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https://www.sott.net/image/s23/475782/full/chartoftheday_8452_ufo_sightin.jpg



... letting the graph do the talking... assuming the same percentage of the North American population was inclined to reporting their sightings and which were in a somewhat steady increase up to 2014... then complete crash by 2017!
[...]

Rather than seeing a massive drop, maybe the graph should be seen as a massive spike ...

[...]I guess the graph refuses to talk to you :bigsmile:

Oh I hear the graph based on a single small dataset talking, but maybe I am just interpreting the words slightly more objectively. Fireball sightings have pretty much the exact same trend. Maybe it's just that there have been a larger influx of "fireballs" (meteors) in the last 15 years and these get reported as "UFOs". There's plenty of other possibilities as well ...


EDIT: Here's a more recent graph on "fireball" sightings - exact same trend ...

http://1ut4jnm5m10oxrax2wal0104-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Fireball-1990-2016-NUFORC-650x276.png

[DeDukshyn]

If I consider this a little more deeply (re: my post just above), I can explore two possibilities for the apparent "drop" - some sort of immediate "perception shutoff" - something that might apply to both "fireballs" and "UFOs" might be plausible. But at the same time you have to consider that meteor sightings are often more dramatic, seen by more people and are very often captured on dashcams, and security cams, CCTV recordings etc. While UFO reports are usually anecdotal.

If "Perception shutoff" of some type is what is responsible for the "fireball" reports decline, does this also close our perception as to what is captured on video? Not likely. It is more likely that "fireballs" have actually spiked in the first 15 years of the third century (along the lines of what I proposed the OP graph may be telling), than an actual overall decline. This isn't too hard to believe as fireballs often have cycles of activity.

So it would be more plausible that fireballs (meteors or large meteors) actually did spike and then drop, as the graph suggested, and not just a perception thing. If we then consider that the trend correlation between "UFO" reports and "Fireball" reports is a result of people reporting meteors as UFOs, and that meteors actually did spike in the last 15 years, then recently dropped - the OP graph makes sense. But it certainly isn't telling a very broad nor detailed story on its own.

I'm sort of with Bill (referring to his initial response here) in that the graph is probably not that significant, but I have just slightly differing reasoning as to why.

Also, with what I explained, it is likely a spike in a larger trend graph, the "drop" is a result of the spike normalizing - probably due to the varying rate of large meteors hitting the atmosphere, that most likely follows longer term cycles.

[Foxie Loxie]

A quick aside.....none of us totally understand the agendas of the various groups involved here on this planet; that could play into it as well? :ufo:

[Star Tsar]

Darin with a report of NUFORC reporting a slump in reports :eyebrows:


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