UFO photos in latest release of Snowden documents

[Skywizard]

Posted by: Alejandro Rojas February 26, 2014


I found this on the openminds web site (don't much about them).Thought I would post just to get some input on this.


The latest release of Edward Snowden’s leaked NSA documents includes a PowerPoint from a British communications department regarding online covert operations and deception. A few of the slides inexplicably include pictures of UFOs.

The documents were released by The Intercept, a website created to report on NSA documents provided by Snowden. The presentation with the UFO pictures was created by the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). It is titled “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations.”



The Intercept article which includes the release of the documents describes their significance:

Over the last several weeks, I (?) worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about “dirty trick” tactics used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group). These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking “Five Eyes” alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”

By publishing these stories one by one, our NBC reporting highlighted some of the key, discrete revelations: the monitoring of YouTube and Blogger, the targeting of Anonymous with the very same DDoS attacks they accuse “hacktivists” of using, the use of “honey traps” (luring people into compromising situations using sex) and destructive viruses. But, here, I want to focus and elaborate on the overarching point revealed by all of these documents: namely, that these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.

Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums.



The UFO pics are found on slides 35 – 37, (in order below) in a section called “Influence and Information Operations.” It is difficult to decipher why they are there, except perhaps to discuss online memes, or misidentifications. The Daily Grail speculates that the images may be there for reasons “from pointing out people’s belief systems, through to them possibly being part of actual psychological operations (psy-ops).”

The pictures include a UFO photograph from Redbud, Illinois taken in 1950, a screenshot of a UFO video captured by Arturo Robles Gil in Mexico, and a picture of an alleged UFO that is suspected to simply be a bird and its droppings.






Source: http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-photos-i...ocuments/26201


peace...
skywizard

[Atlas]

Slide 36 is from Arturo Robles:

Posted by Arturo Robles

This object was spectacular and I got clear images with my camera applying the zoom you can see it's structure. The object looked like a craft who was rotating exhibiting some white lights around it's sphered body.

To my surprise the UFO changed dramatically it's shape when rotating and adopted a dark triangular form with three lights that changed position in a random sequence. Then again changed shape while continuing rotating. It never made any sound. The sighting lasted several minutes till the UFO dissapeared in the horizon. It was amazing and I stayed in the roof sometime wondering if another one would come.

[Atlas]

Slide 35 is from Dean Morgan:

Posted by Flying Saucers magazine
Although this photo was taken on April 23, 1950, it has not been publicized until this date because of the original ridicule to which the photographer was subjected by his friends. At 'FLYING SAUCERS' request, he has made a print available to us.

On April 23, 1950, I was walking through the woods in the hills near Red Bud, Illinois. I was a part-time photographer, hoping to get some wildlife shots. Of course, crashing through the brush in broad daylight was no way to get wildlife pictures; I really just wanted to hike through the woods. However, I took my camera along for appearances' sake. As I came down the south side of a hill, the woods broke away into a clearing on a gentle slope. Utility lines snaked their way across this clearing and on down the hillside on telephone poles. From here, I could see the green-and-brown hills about bathed in bright sunshine. It was then that I noticed that the clearing in which I stood was shaded, as though a small cloud were just overhead: I looked up.

I got the shock of my life. Suspended at what seemed a height of no more than twenty feet directly over me, with no visible means of support, the huge, round, shaded, metallic bottom of what proved to be a disc hung motionless in midair. I wouldn't dare to hazard a guess at how big the thing was. It looked enormous.

Very slowly, then, the huge disc began moving away from me, Southward. The bottom seemed convex and the upper surface likewise, but it seemed that the upper surface reached up to form a dome atop the middle of the circle formed by the disc's edge. This top semi-sphere was reddish in color, and the rest of the thing, below a distinct line where the dome started, seemed to be of clear metallic substance. The object stopped moving, and hovered, motionless, out over the hills After a few seconds, it again started moving slowly, this time to my left, east ward. Once more it stopped and hung in mid-air out over the hills. Only now did enough shock wear off to permit me to move consciously. I shoved my camera up to my face, caught the object in the viewer, and snapped the shutter.

Immediately, the thing took off There was no discernable sound or exhaust. It was just gone in a flash beyond the horizon. I 'wondered about the heat of the day, and my exertion in walking, and imagined that perhaps I hadn't really seen anything at all. My arm was trembling violently as I looked at my watch. It read 3:58.

I did not then know what I am about to relate, but this is the story they tell in De Soto, Illinois, about fifty miles roughly southeast of where I'd made my sighting.

It was about four o'clock of the same day. A newsboy named Donald Gene was, as usual, peddling his bicycle down U.S. Route 51- to make some deliveries south of town. He stopped before the Greene residence. which was right next to the highway in the open countryside. Mrs Greene was puttering with some plants in the yard beside the house. Mr. Greene was up on the roof, presumably fixing a leak. It was noticing Mr. Greene that caused the newsboy to look up. In the blue sky above, he saw what he later described as looking like the bottom of a silver saucer.

"Hey," he said, pointing at the object, "look at that!"

Puzzled, Mr. Greene from the root and Mrs. Greene from the ground first looked at him, and then followed his indication. They caught sight of the thing in the sky. The three observers stared with one accord as the saucer remained set in the air. After a short while, it took off, to quote the newsboy, "faster than any jet, straight south for Carbondale."

Later (I was still ignorant of this incident), my photographic print proved that what I'd seen from the hillside had not been a bizzare hallucination, but a bizzare fact.

I was, of course, most enthusiastic about my flying saucer. The first person with whom I conversed after my experience was a portly friend, whom I shall not name here, who came over to my house in East St. Louis for a visit one evening. He was seated on the couch, I on a chair across the room from it. After some small talk, which I determinedly kept to a minimum, we sat in silence for a few seconds while I collected my thoughts. How should I say what I had to say?

At length I blurted out: "Do you believe in ... uh ... flying saucers?"

"Of course," replied my stout associate in his booming voice, as though I'd asked him whether he believed in automobiles. I was stunned. This had been too much to hope for. I had certainly never believed in flying saucers myself before my unexpected revelation; and of all people I could not have visualized my friend as a "saucerer".

"Wait," I said, leaving the room in an excited rush. I returned with my photograph, handed it to him, sat on the couch beside him and rattled off my report with missionary zeal as he gazed soberly at the picture.

"You don't seem surprised," I said after the conclusion of my account.

"I'm not," he said softly. "I saw one of these once."

"You?" I was flabbergasted.

"Yes," he said. "It was purple, and orange. A ray gun shot out of its porthole and rayed me, and- that's what made such a mess of me. You must believe me!" He stared at me with a wild look in his rounded eyes.

I felt my face flush as I realized what he was doing. "All right!" I said hotly. "Knock it off!"

His mouth suddenly split his fat face open as he shook with roaring laughter. He gave his watch a glance that was too quick, and said, "I'm sorry, Dean Morgan old boy, I'd better go now." He got up to leave, handing me the photo. "I'll see you around."

"Yeah," I said, sitting where I was. He left.

He's never "seen me around" socially again. I'd never been so angry; nor so frustrated, for my anger was force without direction. I couldn't blame him; I would have behaved in a similar manner had our situations been reversed. I showed my photo to two more friends after that, and the responses it evoked were enough to make me shove the picture into a drawer and will myself into forgetfulness. At least, I tried to forget.

In 1956, the Reverend Don Holt became pastor of B u n k u m Road Baptist Mission, of which I was a member. Under his pastorage I became the mission's song leader. One day, after the morning services, I saw him talking with some of the members in the yard, as he was wont to do. When one of the members made a pointless joke about flying saucers and people who see them, I noticed that he did not laugh with the group, but assumed an unusually solemn expression After those members had left him, I ambled over and casually asked why he hadn't laughed at the joke I'd overheard.

He was reluctant to answer, but finally said, "I wouldn't lie to you," and revealed the following: He had lived in De Soto, Illinois at the time of my sighting. It was now, from him, that I learned of the newsboy's sighting I have described. I was greatly edified to hear that this had occurred on the same day as my sighting; in fact, just a little afterward. But there was more to

his story than that. My pastor, a man of irreproachable character.. had himself seen the object! He had been going south on U.S. Route 51. North of Carbondale city limit, he had seen the object hovering in thesky for an instant before streaking away before him in the same manner in- which the newsboy and his husband-and-wife confirmants described it as streaking away from De Soto. I managed to contact the erstwhile newsboy, whose story was as described.

My enthusiasm was revitalized, and I tried desperately to get my findings published. They were rejected by all popular magazines. It was in August, 1957, that I discovered "Flying Saucers" magazine.

I realized that here was a publication that was open-minded, to say the very least. However, I was reluctant to write anything for it, because most of the things I found therein seemed so .... I hope the faithful will pardon my saying this .... crazy.

But I now feel duty-bound to tell my story, for I know the flying saucer legend is based on absolute fact. and if that hard truth is ever to be bared from beneath the layers of myth, those of us who have access to fact must disclose it.

The photograph was taken from a hillside, not far from Red Bud Illinois, facing south-southeast. The lines in the upper left foreground are utility wires, and the things in the lower right are the tops of bushy trees. The tops of two telephone poles can be seen as the ines wind down the hillside. The "saucer" is hovering, just prior to taking off.

I get a weird, creepy feeling every time I look at this picture. To para phrase something Editor Ray Palmer once said, "What have I seen? An Unidentified Flying Object."