#Alien invasion 2017 hoax professional#
It is offered as professional data, collected by highly skilled practitioners.Įven if we fail to fully understand everything on the plane’s Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) display, or even how the video was made, it seems data-driven and authentic – an impression reiterated by the grainy, monochrome quality of the image itself.Īs observers, we are led to believe that, despite the somewhat visually disappointing resolution, we are watching authentic footage. The Navy UFO footage is presented as something more than a photograph, however. Within this paradigm, even the poorest photograph is always more “legitimate” than the most refined and accurate painting. In her widely influential 1977 polemic, On Photography, Susan Sontag observed “the images that have virtually unlimited authority in a modern society are mainly photographic images and the scope of that authority stems from the properties peculiar to images taken by cameras”. More specifically, what would an authentic representation of a UFO look like? Who would have the authority to afford it that authenticity? And how would that authentication proceed? What would ‘legitimate’ UFO footage look like? When it comes to phenomena that may not fit into our framework of what is real – phenomena like UFOs – what kind of representations of them will we regard as authentic? Norton Wise has argued, “to make something visible is to make it real, or to try to”, then the question of whether UFOs exist or not largely hinges on debates about representation and authenticity. But neither are they utterly immaterial products of the cultural imagination, like werewolves, vampires or fairies. UFOs are clearly not ordinary objects, like rocks, chairs or smartphones. The modern figure of the UFO maintains an uneasy residence on “the margins of the real”. The UFO world on the internet is a simulation of a hall of mirrors.” Not ordinary, but not entirely inventedĭespite the maddening refractions of the UFO rabbit hole, we can be certain of one thing. As the technoculture critic Richard Thieme has astutely observed, “the UFO world is a hall of mirrors.
Whether this happened by accident or design, we may never know. Its gradual, staggered confirmation by the DoD mirrors the entrance of the footage itself into the public consciousness. The UFO footage in question, then, has appeared less like a shot out of the blue, and more like an echo in the night. This development was quickly reported by the Washington Post. In September 2019, Joseph Gradisher, claiming the title of “spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare,” confirmed the authenticity of all three videos in an email to a well-known UFO blog called The Black Vault. After resigning from the DoD, Elizondo immediately joined To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, a UFO research collective founded by former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge. That program was allegedly headed by Luis Elizondo, who claims to have been instrumental in the 2017 leaks, although his background has been credibly called into question. The three videos released by the US Department of Defense show ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’. Whether such objects are vehicles of alien invasion or not, their mere presence would seem to indicate a national security threat, which is partly what makes the Pentagon’s recent announcement so puzzling. Only a small fraction of UFO reports collected globally over the past seven decades seem to describe such objects, but the Navy footage appears to fit the bill. However, a workable, conservative definition is: “intelligently-controlled airborne objects not apparently made by humans”. Thoughts about what UFOs are vary widely – from illusions to alien spacecraft. The DoD doesn’t use the terms “unidentified flying object” or “UFO” but does clearly state “the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified’.” The footage appears to depict airborne, heat-emitting objects with no visible wings, fuselage or exhaust, performing aerodynamically in ways that no known aircraft can achieve. On April 27, 2020, the US Department of Defense issued a public statement authorising the release of three “UFO” videos taken by US Navy pilots.
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