Quote from: Warren Platts on 02/23/2016 06:13 pmQuote from: whitelancer64 on 02/23/2016 06:04 pmNASA does not and never has had a policy for dealing with aliens. Nor does any other spacefaring nation.So it's the Air Force's or USSTRATCOM's job?No, no US government agency has a set policy regarding the discovery of aliens or alien contact. Nor, so far as I'm aware, does any other nation or any other nation's agencies, nor nearly all other international agencies. The only (so far as I'm aware) international agency on Earth with a set policy of what to do if they discover evidence of or make contact with aliens is SETI. Basically their plan is to call in experts to triple-check to see if what they have is real and then they call up the UN to set up an international press conference. That's probably also along the lines of what would happen if NASA or any other government agency (or any other nation or their agencies) discovered evidence for aliens.
Quote from: whitelancer64 on 02/23/2016 06:04 pmNASA does not and never has had a policy for dealing with aliens. Nor does any other spacefaring nation.So it's the Air Force's or USSTRATCOM's job?
NASA does not and never has had a policy for dealing with aliens. Nor does any other spacefaring nation.
Quote from: Ronpur50 on 02/24/2016 10:10 pmI have just found this story, and I am a bit confused. I remember reading something about radio noise on Apollo flights behind the moon when I was about 12 or 13. That would have been the mid 70s. My memory is rather fuzzy on it, was a long time ago. Why is this suddenly being claimed to have been classified before now? I suppose I could be remembering something else......The noises heard on the VHF radio sets behind the Moon on the Apollo missions have been known -- not classified -- since at least 1973, when Mike Collins' book Carrying the Fire came out which described what he heard on Apollo 11.The transcripts of the on-board recordings were classified for several years, and were then declassified, something like 12 years after the flights. The recordings themselves weren't classified all this time, they just weren't archived in a publicly accessible format until relatively recently.The recording in question, from Apollo 10, has been linked to at the Apollo Flight Journal website for some time. So, it hasn't even been recently released.The furor is media-generated and exacerbated by poor reporting.
I have just found this story, and I am a bit confused. I remember reading something about radio noise on Apollo flights behind the moon when I was about 12 or 13. That would have been the mid 70s. My memory is rather fuzzy on it, was a long time ago. Why is this suddenly being claimed to have been classified before now? I suppose I could be remembering something else......
How do they have recordings from the dark side of the moon? I didn't know they carried tapes and recording equipment on the space craft. Seems like a lot of unnecessary weight if so.
The on-board recordings were transcribed and those transcriptions have been available online for literally decades. They make for some entertaining reading at times -- especially from more of the colorful crews, like Conrad's Apollo 12 crew...
Quote from: Warren Platts on 02/23/2016 06:41 pm Does anybody know anything about the 1977 study? Guess that would have been under President Carter. Strange...A report summarizing the events of 1977 can be found here: henry.pha.jhu.edu/aaaLibrary/ufosNASA.pdfCopies of the original letter from the White House and the subsequent correspondence from NASA start on page 17Basically, the White House wanted to shift the burden of dealing with UFO reports and inquiries from itself to NASA. NASA looked into the previous ten years of UFO reports, decided that there wasn't anything worth investigating, and declined, with the caveat that if there were any hard evidence of UFOs available in the future, then NASA would be only too glad to investigate it.
Does anybody know anything about the 1977 study? Guess that would have been under President Carter. Strange...
if a new element of hard evidence that UFOs exist is broughtto NASA's attention from a credible source, NASA will analyze theunexplained organic or inorganic sample and report its findings....There is an absence of tangible or physical evidenceavailable for thorough laboratory analysis. And, because ofthe absence of such evidence, we have not been able to devise asound scientific procedure for investigating these phenomena.To proceed on a research task without a sound disciplinaryframework and an exploratory technique in mind would be wastefuland probably unproductive....I wish in no way to indicate that NASA has come to anyconclusion about these phenomena as such; institutionally, weretain an open mind....