The Rand Corporation and UFOs

[cottonzway]

In general, the point of aerospace military contractors being questioned is not looked at with a broad enough scope. People look to the "gubmint" for answers that they don't have, yet are if there is a clue to answers this is where it would come from.

 

[Darkly Brooding]

Well, Anthony Bragalia also wrote this article:

The UFO Iconoclast(s): ROSWELL DEBRIS CONFIRMED AS EXTRATERRESTRIAL: Lab Located, Scientists Named by Anthony Bragalia

Which states that "Newly discovered documents reveal..." and then "Recently obtained documents reveal..." But, later in the story he states that the documents don't exist. What???

So, these documents that do not exist most likely confirm that the Roswell metal, which also does not exist, was extraterrestrial in origin.

Great reading and probably as close to a definitive paper trial to admission of existence, if ever there was one.

"the First Progress Report (authored in 1947 or 1948 probably relates to the actual analysis of "Roswellian" memory metal."

I'm thinking it's more a case of "no longer exist" than don't/didn't,...
Simply stating that there is a Second Progress Report, infers that there was a First Progress Report, that remains either secret or has long since been destroyed. I'm inclined to believe the latter is the case for anything that was tangible and related to Roswell.

And this pretty much summarizes why any & all evidence from there on forward has been bottled up and/or destroyed (again I'm leaning towards the latter for self-preservation of all involved)

"J. E. MacDonald suggests that the UFO phenomena lie somewhere in the following categories of explanation:

1. Hoaxes, fabrications, and frauds.
2. Hallucinations, mass hysteria, and rumor phenomena.
3. Misinterpretations of well known physical phenomena
4. Poorly understood physical phenomena
5. Advanced technologies
6. Poorly understood psychic phenomena.
7. Extraterrestrial probes.
8. Messengers of salvation and occult truth.
Perhaps, to play it safe, an additional category should be listed:
9. Other

Clearly, the explanation of UFOs will interest someone. Psychologists have an interest in 1, 2, 3 and 6; theologians in category 8, scientists in 4 and 7. Therefore, whatever the explanation, it is a problem of at least average interest. If, by chance, the explanation is 7, or even 8 (and possibly 6) the value to society would be profound and significant. In this sense, an identification of the phenomenon would be a task of highest potential urgency."

If there is no physical or notary evidence for "interested" parties to discover, the problematic conclusions can never be proven.

Link: The RAND Corporation on UFOs !