Innovation of Nano Patent: Air Force Declassifies UFO Documents, See Them Yourself

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Air Force Declassifies UFO Documents, See Them Yourself

The Air Force has secrets – and now you can see them for yourself.

Documents pertaining to UFOs, nuclear issues, conflicts, Strategic Air Command, and Combat Search & Rescue are now declassified, along with photos, videos, and other historical artifacts.

Here is a snip from one former USAF officer to Air Force Intelligence from 1950.

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The Air Force Declassification Office (AFDO) is not only responsible for declassifying Air Force information, but actually publishes a list of physical locations where these items can be found. They’ve also shared a treasure trove of information line that is easily accessible by the public.

NASA Viking saucer

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The Secretary of the Air Force Declassification Office (SAF/AFDO) is responsible for the declassification and safeguarding of classified permanent historical National Security Information (NSI) Air Force documents. AFDO serves as the Air Force focal point for inter-agency coordination within the Federal Government of all Air Force declassification issues and is lead agent for inter-agency and inter-service declassification working groups.

The areoshell of a NASA VOYAGER-MARS space probe just prior to launch at Walker AFB, New Mexico (formerly Roswell AAF)

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AFDO has a unique mission – it is responsible for the declassification and safeguarding of classified permanent historical National Security Information documents produced by the Air Force. AFDO is identifying the location boxes of historically significant documents which have been declassified and are located at the National Archives and other sites. The purpose of the Secrets Declassified Web Site is to identify as many records as possible that fall into these categories in an effort to capture more thoroughly the full history of the U.S. Air Force.

Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any apparent aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified by the observer. The United States Air Force, which coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though today the term UFO is colloquially used to refer to any unidentifiable sighting regardless of whether it has been investigated.

Sierra Sam Dummies

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UFO reports increased precipitously after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting, reported by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in June 24 1947, that gave rise to the popular terms "flying saucer" and "flying disc." The term UFO is popularly taken as a synonym for alien spacecraft and generally most discussions of UFOs revolve around this presumption. UFO enthusiasts and devotees have created organizations, religious cults have adopted extraterrestrial themes, and in general the UFO concept has evolved into a prominent mythos in modern culture.

Aero Car

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Some investigators now prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to avoid the confusion and speculative associations that have become attached to UFO. Another widely known acronym for UFO in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian is OVNI (Objeto Volador No Identificado, with variant regional spellings).

Viking Probe

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Based on President Obama's Transparency objective the Air Force Declassification Office is identifying the location boxes of historically significant documents which we have declassified and are located at the National Archives and other sites. According to historians and other researchers, the following categories of information have been judged "significant" to Air Force history. The purpose of the Secrets Declassified Web Site is to identify as many records as possible that fall into these categories in an effort to capture more thoroughly the full history of the U.S. Air Force. The records captured can be unclassified or declassified.

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