Monday, March 11, 2024

Main Stream Media and the ARRO Report

 

As predicted by many of us in the UFO community, the MSM did not read the entire AARO report though they would comment on its 64 page length. As happened in the past, such as with the Condon Committee “scientific study,” they just read the Executive Summary. They didn’t bother wading through the evidence, some of it quite technical. The MSM just decided they didn’t need to understand what had transpired. They were only interested in the end, never considering that the end might not be supported by the internal documentation.

Congressional Hearing on UAP


As I said, we all predicted what would happen with this new report. I happened on one of the news channels when the host of the program mentioned the latest on the UFO (UAP) front. The host threw the question to the reporter, mentioning the Pentagon and their assessment of UAP (yeah, really UFOS). That reporter, I believe, did mention the length of the report and then said:

To date, AARO has not discovered any empirical evidence that any sighting of a UAP represented off-world technology or the existence a classified program that had not been properly reported to Congress. Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the result of misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena. Although many UFO reports remain unsolved, AARO assesses that if additional, quality data were available, most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena.

That is, of course, the last statement in the AARO report. There was, of course, no commentary on the accuracy embodied in the report. No comment about the trivial, such as the claim the Kenneth Arnold sighting was on June 23, 1947, when it was actually on June 24. And analysis that Mogul explanation for the debris recovered near Roswell had nothing to do with the balloon launches. Just an acceptance of the AARO report.

But the real point here, is that we see the lack of reporting. I doubt the reporter even read the report but instead, flipped to the rear and read the conclusions. He never considered that this latest AARO report might be the same sort of misdirection that we have been fed for more 70 years.

How hard would it be to get comment from the other side? There are dozens of us out here who could have suggested that the conclusion had little to do with the history of the UFO phenomenon. A phone call or email might have provided some context. Instead, we hear just a single quoted paragraph from the report with no questions about the accuracy of it.

More to follow…

2 comments:

Sky70 said...

I believe that the gist of this post is that Ufologists (and what college did they go to, to earn their UFO degrees at?) was not invited to give their side of the UFO mystery in the report, and they are hurt. I understand that and would feel hurt too, if I was left out of the final report. I see nothing of value discussing these old UFO reports and sightings at all. I would be looking for new ET reports where the evidence would be fresh and new, since they are visiting our little earth.

KRandle said...

Sky70 -

Nope... a mere suggestion that an invitation to some of the old hands in UFO researcher (or as Rich Reynolds would call us... geezers) could have saved them some of the errors that are found in their report.

And wouldn't a better question have been, "What colleges did they go to earn their science degrees?"

Since it was AARO that brought up these old reports and cases, shouldn't we be able to comment on it... and how many discoveries have been found in the basements of museums where the old research and materials are stored?