UFO's Are Not Flying Saucers Part 2

UFO's Are Not Flying Saucers
Part Two
By the Numbers

Part one can be found -->> here.

I came across an article that explains so much about why there is an uptick in reporting of UFO's recently.  It is on the website Skeptoid, https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4787 and it's being driven by just a few people with vested interests.

This handful of people has an agenda to promote their belief that both flying saucers and poltergeists are extra-dimensional beings, and not aliens from another world in our galaxy, but breaking though the dimensional walls that separate the multiverse.  This group has been at it for 50 years.  Then tend not to mention the poltergeists because even they know that sounds loco.  So they are just trying to get the general populous to accept flying saucers first.

And to a large extent, they have been successful.  

Flying Saucers  33% believe, 7% unsure.
Poltergeists       45%
Vampires           11%

Lets just accept that 10% of the population are going to believe anything.  So getting 33% of the general populous to believe is quite a feat.  But that number had been waning, for quite a while, because of decades of no proof.  Still, it is quite an accomplishment.  Though it looks like they would do better if they went with poltergeists instead.  Of course there is even less evidence for poltergeists than flying saucers, and there is zero chance the US government would fund poltergeist research, and so now we have our motivation.

The current kerfuffle on UFO's started in 2017 with a New York Times article.  It talked about the Navy videos mentioned and the pilots radio chatter.  The Navy has not and will not comment on these videos.

The article was written by Leslie Kean.  Who has several books written on the UFO's, and so has a vested interest.

The article was backed by Hal Puthof and Chris Mellon.  They were on the CIA's "Stargate" Project, testing psychic's ESP powers in the 70's.  The project was canceled due to a lack of evidence and it sounded like a foolish waste of money when trying to explain it to Congress.

After the project was canceled, they left the CIA, and found a home in Skinwalker ranch, owned by Robert Bigelow, a hotel magnate and afterlife enthusiast.  They formed a company called the National Institute for Discovery Science, and talked Harry Reid, US Senator, Nevada, into funding their Institute with 22 million dollars for a project called Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program.  Another vested interest.  The project had one employee, Luis Elizondo, and ran for 5 years.  After that they hired Leslie Kean to write the article for the New York Times in 2017.

Capitalizing on the increased interest in UFO's, this group floated 50 million dollars in stock on their next venture, "To the Stars Academy", and entertainment company, which funded the series, Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation for HISTORY channel.  

Luis Elizondo is currently forming a company called SkyFort, with the intention of interpreting UFO videos for the US Government.

So there you have it.  Not only are there no flying saucers, the main promoters keeping the idea alive have strong vested interests in keeping it so.