The Secret Cold War Project Behind the Roswell UFO Incident

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[@marcbeebee6969]

Who was those Americans having a Picknick and how did they manage to get killed by a baloon?! 6 of them now that is the actual Story here

[@dogwalker666]

But does it have dreadful tasting artificial sweeteners?

[@lisapop5219]

@@marcbeebee6969 it exploded.

[@marcbeebee6969]

@@lisapop5219 o crap and they did not expect it so they did not run away. Ok now I get it, very sad thx Lisa

[@BreakpointFun]

Zero grams of sugar doesn't mean there's no sugar in there it means they did not add more sugar, there could be artificial sweeteners and fruit nectar

[@RCAvhstape]

Cigarette Smoking Man: [lights up off camera] "Very good, Mr. Whistler, we're finished for today. Don't forget out conversation earlier, about your family's well-being."

[@billysgeo]

Bro, even if aliens did come around our corner of the wood they would have given less than zero shits about our primitive asses. In fact they would have given us a wide berth indeed!

[@RCAvhstape]

@@billysgeo That's exactly what an alien would want us to think.

[@FormedBox]

Can we just appreciate that the amount of shenanigans that went down during the Cold War is absolutely fucking *bananas*

[@SEAZNDragon]

And gives so much material for KZbin videos.

[@SisterMaryElephant]

They'll be saying the same thing about us in 60 years

[@Berengier817]

That's what happens when the military industrial complex takes over.

[@SupremeInvigilator]

Bananas, you say. Hmmm. I suppose we could retrofit them with listening devices, or, wrap them in mylar and drop them from high altitude. What kinda budget you need?

[@FormedBox]

@Scott Reynolds Why *not* ?

[@CaptainRudy4021]

As a Minnesota native, I never would have assumed that General Mills was in the business of making secret weather balloons for the government.

[@troyevitt2437]

Ever watch Company Man's uploads? G/M had a vested interest in cereal grain crops and one of the balloon applications was agricultural protection.

[@davidroddini1512]

I believe that General Washburn Crosby Mills was not the only general involved in this top secret military project.

[@vustvaleo8068]

meanwhile in an alternate timeline civilians mistook the Japanese Fugo balloons for alien spacecraft because of the Japanese writing stamped on them and mistook it for "alien language".

[@KeitieKalopsia]

Lol at least it would be a real language and not just children’s doodles

[@DocBree13]

😂

[@grimgrahamch.4157]

Considering the ignorant people in middle America at the time, I could totally buy this.

[@godemperorletoatreidesii7457]

"only a fool believes the official story" -Commander Sheppard 🤣

[@johnstevenson9956]

I don't think the "alien" theory of Roswell New Mexico would have gained so much traction if the government hadn't been so ham-handed in suppressing the story, thereby increasing suspicion. On the other hand, I imagine the government was laughing their ass off in knowing that so many foreign countries, (as well as Americans) believed that we just MIGHT have advanced alien technologies that they couldn't be sure we didn't have.

[@0BucketMask0]

To be a fly on the wall with thst one

[@ajstevens1652]

I believe the initial belief was that they could suppress knowledge of the incident altogether, but when that failed, the Government created the "Aliens" theory to divert attention from the fact it was a spycraft.

[@keithmoore5306]

well maybe someone figured out it was a great way to hide secret tests that might be caught sight of! i don;t think many reporters would go charging in and demanding answers about mork from ork at edwards air force base knowing full well they'd be considered raving jackass's!!!

[@DocBree13]

Good points! :)

[@kidwajagstang]

Can’t say this isn’t the reality of Roswell or not, but with the recent reveals and even the third party confirmation of the existence of S4, how Bob Lazar’s claims have only been confirmed with time, not debunked, it’s foolish to completely dismiss that the military doesn’t possess technology that is not originally from Earth..

[@ToyInsanity]

Lucky Charms at the time: pink hearts, silver balloons, and little green men

[@jesper112183]

I was wondering what Lucky charms were like back then

[@joedd215]

So then are lucky and Kazoo related?

[@christopherleveck6835]

I'm 49 years old I've been eating Lucky Charms for pretty much my entire life two or three times a week.....

[@christopherleveck6835]

@@joedd215 no, no they're not....

[@egnielson]

One pilot didn’t have fuel, the rest forgot their oxygen masks, one said “hold my beer” and ended up dead…yep, sounds like Kentucky.

[@JoseSilva-bg3uz]

Also he later says that Russian and Chinese shoot them down easily lol

[@tomc.5704]

@@JoseSilva-bg3uz Yeah, but we're comparing leftover P-51 mustangs in 1948 to what were probably early MiGs in 1956 (MiG 17 seems likely)

[@keithmoore5306]

stubborn and determined oh yeah that's my kin!! they'd chase the devil to the far side of hell to get the job done!!

[@semaj_5022]

As a Kentuckian I am deeply offended by this And how true it is.

[@syprus3687]

I'd like to see your ass get in a p 51 mustang and then talk about being a hillbilly

[@BuzzKiller23]

Wow. I learned more about the Roswell incident from this video than I had from every TV show I've ever seen about it. The TV shows conveniently leave out the facts that the exact balloon was identified and that the "alien hieroglyphs" came from a toy store in New York. The state of modern TV programming is very depressing.

[@SuperSpidey313]

Ppl really need to stop watching TV

[@ninja.master]

damn right. he just watched some bad documentaries :D

[@RedRocket4000]

@C M Best Air Force pilots have seen is flying blurs and various other stuff but none clearly enough to say it was a actual artificial craft. We have confirmed Unidentified "flying" Objects but no confirmed flying craft. And good evidence the governments of the world have been trying to hide how little they actually know.

[@zykom1]

@@RedRocket4000 What exactly makes you say they haven’t seen one in close enough proximity? TicTac UFO was described in great detail with radar confirmation.

[@mikey20is]

@@RedRocket4000 not true, but I'm not going to try and convince you. There is way too much creditable proof, if you don't believe that you won't believe anything I say.

[@rayraudebaugh5395]

As a kid in northern Arizona in the mid 1950's it was a relatively common occurrence to see weather balloons floating along high in the sky. Assuming of course that they actually were "weather" balloons and not test beds for spy technology.

[@timdeathly]

Any UFO occurrence

[@TheLumberjack1987]

If you ever feel unlucky for rolling a nat 1 in dnd, just imagine how unlucky you'd feel if you go picknicking and get killed by a japanese balloon which was just randomly sent across the pacific.

[@dichpheltman7368]

Simon. That cereal may be delicious, but it will never be legendary enough for that insane dollar amount.

[@jafo1970]

Given that "cereal" means "grain" (deriving from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain), one could probably call the sponsor's product a cereal-free cereal.

[@scottbishop7899]

Or synthetic nutritionally unbalanced goop!! lol

[@ginnyjollykidd]

As long as it's sugar free but still tastes good and doesn't screw with any diet type, I'm cool with it.

[@petenielsen6683]

This is why it is so expensive. The company needs the money to defend itself from lawsuits from governments when they find out.

[@tobyarmbrust8260]

Yeah I really don’t understand the reason for low carb cereal, the whole point of cereal is that it has long-lasting carbs so it keeps you full for a long time

[@ginnyjollykidd]

@@tobyarmbrust8260 Maybe it's because obesity is an epidemic in America? And carbs appear everywhere and in everything. If you stop eating so many carbs, then insulin won't have to pack it away in the liver. Then the opposite hormone, glucagon, can work to bring your stored carbs into the bloodstream to keep up with carbs necessary to feed the brain. When sugar is not available so much, the body turns to other stored energy: fat. When fat is metabolized, it produces more molecules of ATP than carbs do. When you rest and digest, you are using more fat. When exercising, more energy copy for g.

[@richardstephens3327]

Interesting take on this. I remember the report that was released on the 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident that covered several other projects that were using such balloons at the time. I am kind of surprised that you did not mention any of them since they tie into some of your earlier videos on space exploration.

[@giselematthews7949]

Don't know if you have seen Magic Spoon at the grocery store, but it is friging' expensive.

[@404-Error-Not-Found]

Huh, I thought it was just an online brand. Very expensive though. Mind as well eat steak and eggs each morning.

[@aurorajones8481]

And gross. I tried it. Blah returned it. They were nice enough to refund my money but not good at all.

[@bagheerab278]

Throw away contents. Eat the box.

[@petenielsen6683]

Because it contains no cereal and governments might put them out of business for advertising it as such. So they want as much money as possible while they can continue the fraud.

[@julianbrelsford]

Remember, a flying balloon is, by definition, a UFO until someone identifies it

[@raidermaxx2324]

any object in the sky, that isnt identified is a UFO, by definition

[@danysheply527]

Oblivious smh

[@Enigmatic220]

@@raidermaxx2324 yep that means a new shaped helicopter may be UFO

[@Enigmatic220]

@@raidermaxx2324 and im reality aliens maybe not use flying saucers Just some other flying things that drent even round

[@aujax1]

why must everyone point out what the “U” in ufo stands for??? its repeated ad nauseum. we know u stands for unidentified.

[@nobodyimportant5417]

We all know this is a lie, Simon. Everybody knows it was a time-traveling group of Ferengi and one grumpy changeling with a sabotaged shuttle and a hold full of kemocite.

[@davidallenjade]

It is interesting enough that, that episode was on H&I last night.

[@k0smon]

No///// Not to mention kryptonite.

[@flightmedic7634]

Hahaha 😁

[@aurorajones8481]

Sure make fun of something that should be very serious. If aliens are real that's the most important piece of news to humanity. And you think its a joke. Well done. Foolish human.

[@honeysucklecat]

@@aurorajones8481 yeah except there are no aliens coming here. None. Ever. All hoaxes, mistakes, lies. Wake up little child.

[@joanfregapane8683]

People are still keen on immediately assuming alien technology when faced with any UFO situation.

[@ajstevens1652]

It's that people are programmed to believe that it was Aliens before they believe it was government spy-craft. It's quite shocking.

[@julianbrelsford]

Meanwhile ONE of the likely explanations is - militaries freely admit they engage in secret "flying object" projects, ones that they won't reveal to the public until they see fit, possibly after the technology has long since ceased to be 'cutting edge'

[@mbryson2899]

General Mills used to make O Gauge model trains with the Lionel branding. Their thumbs were everywhere...

[@mrwupy]

Look, I'm not saying it was aliens......but it was aliens.

[@Nesseight]

Could the balloon conspiracy theory just be an elaborate plot by the air force that's just covering up for greylings, bigfoot, and reptile people?

[@EduardoLopez-km6qy]

Ur high

[@danij5055]

😂 Yes, I'm sure you're right... 😂

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Who, do you think, sectetly owns General Mills?👽

[@bbirda1287]

It's amazing how American industry was so diversified back in those days. You could go to Dayton and get anything built.

[@joeyr7294]

Ahhh yess, just finished frying two eggs and toasted some bread. Let's sit down to some Simon ☕

[@iamnotbillclinton7680]

Dunkin Donuts only serves one purpose and that's to direct people to Starbucks until to inevitable collapse of the sun

[@terryenby2304]

I have salsa and Doritos 🎉

[@stevechance150]

I had Butter Chicken with Basmati Rice. A frozen meal from Sprouts grocery chain.

[@terryenby2304]

@@stevechance150 sounds good!

[@markrowland1366]

Balloons inflated with coal gas, were the only way out of Paris during the fighting 1870. Letters and important people rode out at night. A system of transporting goods into Paris was to make waterproof packages that were almost able to float, which were carried and netted at night.

[@maryellencook9528]

Ahhh, Roswell! Fact Boi, I could almost accuse you of being a Buzzkill. A Killjoy even, except the information in this video is very interesting. Since I have visited Roswell, N.M. and the UFO Museum I can forgive you this. The whole town is so kitschy and quirky with UFO mania and memorabilia that it is worth a visit. You would find it amusing. Now, a challenge for you...have you considered a video about the Marfa Lights out in West Texas?

[@PeriLlwynog]

Apologies in advance for also being a buzzkill: There’s really not much to say about the Marfa lights. They’re distant highway headlights and that’s been clear for a long time. Trying to claim them as supernatural for tourism just hasn’t worked as well as other UFOlogy destinations. Beautiful area with plenty of mysterious feelings to be had just from the desert, though.

[@maryellencook9528]

@@PeriLlwynog one of my dear friends from university grew up in Odessa, TX and said the same thing.

[@killi4n796]

@@PeriLlwynog If it's been clear for a long time, where's the source to the investigation confiming this? I only believe in science, so unless you have a paper stating all that was found in such expensive research and proving that there can't be any other truth... then you're a lier that believes in fairytales.

[@tarataratara4901]

10:52 😆 Simon, hardly able to contain his laughter ... since this isn’t business blaze or the casual criminalist, makes me wonder how many tangents he went on laughing at it, how many takes he had to do to say that with a straight face and lastly, if this was the best most serious one 😆

[@Kieran_Martin]

That makes a lot of since. Thanks for the video Simon Whistler!

[@dannelson9034]

I really hope the email you got from them actually said 'yo yo yo fact boy' on it

[@johndavis6119]

From weather balloon to spy balloon. This story is so odd it actually makes saucermen more plausible. But given how wacky the CIA under “wild Bill” was in those days this whole idea does not surprise me.

[@ajstevens1652]

Remember, this is the same government that kept the U2 program a secret for decades, encouraging misinformation by letting people believe they were seeing UFOs.

[@keithmoore5306]

that was Allen Dulles not wild Bill Donavon he retired when the OSS was dissolved at the end of 45 the CIA wasn't formed until the NSA of 47!

[@keithmoore5306]

@@ajstevens1652 and why not easier to do that knowing full well whoever would be considered a loon and generally ignored than try to explain a secret plane you didn't want anyone nosing around on as something innocent!!

[@johndavis6119]

@@keithmoore5306 thanks for the correction. I hear he was rather ging ho himself too.

[@keithmoore5306]

@@johndavis6119 not a problem a lot of misinformation over time one writes one thing and another gets it backwards 5 years later easy to get mixed up , and i'd say dedicated more than gung ho!!

[@ericshelby8813]

In case anyone's wondering, Magic Spoon is made of whey protein and casein, so if you vegan, you're out of luck. Don't know if it contains lactose.

[@sarahgray430]

So basically, it's a cereal made from milk?

[@julianbrelsford]

Sarah - sounds like it. Maybe you can pour oat milk on it, and you'll end up with something that, nutritionally, has some things in common with Cheerios (mostly oats) and cow's milk

[@RedRocket4000]

@@julianbrelsford Oat milk is not a dairy replacement and the term milk in non dairy does not mean the same thing at all which is why the EU has banned the use of the term with non dairy products. There are Vegan replacements but they not the "milk drinks' which are nutrition but not dairy type nutrition.

[@EPICADVENTURESTEAM]

Great video brother!!

[@tkskagen]

Thank you Simon for your Video's! Food for my brain, they all are. 👍

[@harlequingnoll5]

Suddenly reminded of someone somewhere saying to an x files fan: "the truth is subjective. YOU'RE out there!"

[@kolbyblount6620]

Gold

[@willmfrank]

"The truth is out there, man...like, Wa-a-a-y out there!"

[@TheFreshPrinceOfSaiyans]

I’m currently visiting Roswell, so this seems like a perfect time to watch this, lol.

[@Pepsi_Addicted]

great one as always

[@missheadbanger]

I really enjoyed this video, the general Mills connection to project mobile in interesting. It'd be cool to see more videos about famous ufo sightings than were actually top secret aircraft.

[@GEORGE-jf2vz]

The government is just mad they can't fine the aliens for littering.

[@Mii.2.0]

LITTERally! L🤣L

[@johnlord8337]

As growing up in the Pacific NW, we are STILL finding (active and dud) Japanese fire bombs, and some have created post-WW II forest fires in Washington and Oregon.

[@thirstfast1025]

Ah yes, I can still hear that chilling call to "let float the balloons of war"

[@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy]

Or, at least the government wants you to BELIEVE the Roswell craft was a balloon....

[@LikaLaruku]

As enticing as Magic Spoon's low carbs & sugar may be, it costs an obscene amount of money.

[@WormholeJim]

On a side note - Steven Spielberg have produced a great mini series called "Taken" depicting two families pitched in opposition to eachother trying through five decades and four generations to find out exactly what happened. It's a little on the rosy-red side of narration style (as is a lot of mr. Spielberg's work) but it's still pretty good for watching while waiting for new year's to come around.

[@iLLeag7e]

good vid simon :)

[@studiolezard]

That beard is really coming along... how about a doc about that? Not just yours, but beards in general. ie. Why are so many of the great minds of our past never put blade to hair? Cmon. It'll be fascinating.

[@twocvbloke]

Sadly, my dad's one of them who thinks it's all aliens, even when he described the shiny thin material that when crushed in the hand would open back up again, I did just that with a deflated mylar balloon (you know, the cheap shiny things they shove on a stick), which did as described, and I was 9 at the time... :P

[@tolfan4438]

That piece of metal that could scrunched up and takes its shape literally came out of a toy product that was available at the time

[@goodoldbubba6620]

Uh huh.

[@fromulus]

I mean, cool, but the pentagon in the last few years has acknowledged there are objects out there of unknown origin that defy our current understanding of aeronautics. Could it belong to another nation? I guess it's possible, though unlikely.

[@tolfan4438]

@@fromulus the simplest answer is usually the correct one. Like the story of Velcro. It was invented by a guy hiking in the woods that noticed the birs hold his flannel shirt pockets and cuffs closed . The real story is that it's recovered alien technology

[@tolfan4438]

@@fromulus yeah but Roswell wasn't one of them I think is the point

[@whollylostandgone]

Try the Simon Whistler "Cocaine frosted flakes" =)

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@Dodgevair]

"I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." J. Edgar Hoover-Director of FBI The security guard called and said, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I’ve got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.” We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs were in the area… (A high ranking Air Force officer) said, “Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final report. I heard that many of the guards that reported the incident were sent off to Vietnam." Captain Robert Salas, USAF, during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program. "A few insiders know the truth...and are studying the bodies that have been discovered." -Dr. Edwin Mitchell Apollo 14..the 6th NASA employee to walk on the Moon. "Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.” CIA Director, Allen Dulles, 1955. “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960. “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” -William Casey, CIA director, 1981 “Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out. ” ― Edgar D. Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds MEANINGFUL congressional hearings, ala the Watergate hearings, including aerospace/defense contractors and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson must be held to address a vital issue that transcends politics and we will never properly advance until it happens: The 75+yr ongoing-constitutionally illegal, EXTRATERRESTRIAL cover-up. How can we truly believe anything our elected officials say? The dog n pony shows must cease.

[@hankhillsdisappointedsigh]

I low-key hate you for this.. but excellent reporting and research.

[@funnyusername8635]

I thought I knew this story but this video was full of details that I hadn't heard before. Thank you! This was fascinating.

[@_OZZIE_RASCAL]

To quote Al Gore on south park. " I am Super Cereal "

[@chriswolfe403]

Came for the confirmation bias. Was not disappointed. If it were fuel, this comment section could power Roswell.

[@william16845]

Did the US government sponsor this video? lol..

[@wilbur9416]

I love the mentality of the military keep the first letter G to change the rest of it. The truth is out there but you have to dig through the garbage to find it

[@warrenpierce5542]

Now the balloons are shaped like tic-tacs and they can dodge navy jets.

[@stevendaniel8126]

Looking good, Simon..

[@GeoffCostanza]

I expect a lot of rational discussion in the comments section.

[@keithmoore5306]

really i expected the loons out in force!!!

[@LindaGailLamb.0808]

BOOGA BOOGA !!

[@alwaysluvedtobeluved]

Who would have thought that spy balloons was made by a cereal company

[@photosbyjf]

amazing to hear the mention of Madisonville, KY. I live 45 miles away and never had heard of this

[@thebrigglit7173]

And they are like " yo yo yo fact boy" 😂😂😂

[@christophsherburne6792]

You just Decimated My Childhood. 🤨 Thanks.

[@404-Error-Not-Found]

Can we talk about how the pentagon released that UFO's are real and they've known about them for a longgggg time?

[@scockery]

No, because it doesn't fit his narrative.

[@404-Error-Not-Found]

@@scockery Yeah, just seems like a GIANT oversight if we're going to talk about UFO's. Lol

[@musicbruv]

Any flying objects that are unidentified are real UFO'S as they are unidentified.

[@404-Error-Not-Found]

@@musicbruv NO dude... Pentagon released footage of fighter jets chasing a legit UFO. flying saucer type shit. Look it up.

[@404-Error-Not-Found]

@@musicbruv kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGG9e4RqfpySaa8

[@mitchelleva]

I love how BrainBlaze Simon is seeping into all the other channels

[@LDN_MZK]

"Yo, yo, yo! Facts Boy!" HAHA! that's so you Simon. Great line!

[@AdamIsUrqed]

Magic Spoon tastes better the more you eat. The consistency is slightly off from normal sugary deliciousness. Anyone who has had a variety of cereals from Weetabix to granola to bran to Cinnamon Toast Crunch (texture varieties) will easily dig it. If you have younger children that occasionally eat cereal before school, the cost is worth it, especially if they are already used to skim/1% milk or nut juice (like almond "milk"). If you, and/or they, eat cereal daily, the second mortgage on your house may not be worth it.

[@dannypope1860]

Aliens could land on Simon’s front lawn and wave, yet he’d still deny it.

[@scottjgray83]

They could come in his house and slap him on his q'ball coupon, and he'd still deny it. This BS cover story was debunked a decade ago. The photos with the tin foil was a set up, one of the photos had a letter in the guys hand, using computers we can read some of it. It basically ordering him to lie and spout the wether balloon nonsense. The actual material recovered was not a foil. It felt abit like mylar but it was thicker and could not be creaced, it was more like a metal, when crushed it would reform perfectly. It looked nothing like the mess in the photo. But that's just conspiracy nonsense to Simon so we wont mention that or the credibility of the wisnessed or the fact they had indefinite gag orders put on them. Seem abit extreme for an obsolete spy balloon.

[@joshyoung1440]

1. Simon does not write these videos. Jesus christ 2. What are you talking about?

[@cornellkirk8946]

Nahhh I think what’s more logical is an intergalactic super advanced race in a suave craft navigating the galaxy then accidentally crashing in a desert

[@maxheadrom3088]

This makes the documentary "Mirage Men" a lot more respectful - and also the older UFO commnunity. "Mirage Men" is from 2013.

[@BEder-it4lf]

Parabolic Microphones covered in Mylar looked like Flying Saucers. Mylar is Aluminum Oxide coated plastic. Thick Mylar looks like metal.

[@MW-sw7so]

Ok, you got the balloon thing down. Now what about the UFO that crashed in Roswell?

[@TelikiMouse]

My guy that is literally what the video is about

[@shawnweil7719]

Lmao 🤣

[@MW-sw7so]

@@TelikiMouse i made the comment early in the video.😁☮.🥺please dont hit me.

[@KeithenX]

So General Mills can make high attitude balloons, but they can't put ziplock bags in their cereal boxes? FML! Lol 😆

[@johnnys3487]

That's funny your sponsor was a new cereal company then during video like the biggest cereal company general Mills is talked about 😂😆

[@octopusgoodness1909]

It's always hilarious when the conspiracy theorists are actually right.

[@mugwump7049]

Beard is getting a little wild. Are you ZZToping it?

[@troyevitt2437]

Today I Found Out Every Girl's Crazy 'Bout a Sharp-Dressed Man.

[@thescarletandgrey2505]

I had forgotten this, but the B-52 was originally going to be named the Cheeriofortress. That was before Gen Mills got out of the aerospace industry.

[@mwatson7474]

As usual the actual history is even more fascinating than the myth.

[@YouWillBeOffended]

I live in Oregon and lived near one of the Japanese balloons crash sites for a while. I thought it was planes that made it over. Thanks for the information.

[@lisapop5219]

I wonder if the "German emigree " scientist was part of operation paperclip

[@newname4785]

my thoughts exactly. That and whether MOSAD had anything to do with his death.

[@ajstevens1652]

@@newname4785 Wouldn't be surprised. The ol' "it was a suicide/accident". Same thing as James S Patten mysteriously dying in a freak car crash at the time he was criticising Zio nist policy in Germany.

[@keithmoore5306]

does it matter? he was on our side that's what does!!

[@keithmoore5306]

@@ajstevens1652 hey sometimes shit happens!!

[@gazbags9136]

Plenty of aliens in Grimsby!!

[@nobbynoris]

They're the locals. Get it right.

[@tomandrene]

How about doing a bit on the grid pattern on your glasses. The reflection from the light makes it look like you are looking through a screen. My glasses have never had that appearance.

[@adamc1966]

Yes people of Earth, a craft made from tin foil and tape traveled thru interstellar space and entered our atmosphere. Too bad that after all that way, it "crashed" upon reaching the planet it sought out among the cosmos :)

[@LazarOrthodox04]

I'm just wondering how much is he paid to say such a stupid thing and yet people are still believing him

[@Bacopa68]

I am almost certain I have seen the "hieroglyphic tape" I used to collect fancy paper kites made in Hong Kong. They had tails made out a paper tape with intricate designs. I just looked up the kites. They were made by the Tientsin company. I bet that tape that came from a toy company was made in China.

[@postminchoppa]

(casually reading comments before watching) daym this gona be good

[@squidracerX]

Magic Spoon is all over KZbin. But until its in stores and cheaper, ill just skip cereal! Way too expensive to even try to see if i like it.

[@muzzaball]

Extremely well researched and very interesting, thanks.

[@protestagain]

I'm sure I saw one of these, or similar balloons, 50 years ago being sent over the Soviet Union.

[@wmffmw1854]

Those balloons you mentioned had a very specific purpose. I belonged to the same organization you speak of. It was still highly classified well above top secret in the 1970's. Ultimately we were directly credited with preventing WW3. Some of those later balloon flights were a diversion, to keep public attention, away from the monitoring site we were deploying all over the word. Along with there identical Soviet Sites and the back channels we used to keep tensions from getting out of control. We all bought the equipment from TI.

[@ckl9390]

@Dog boy Structural rigid dirigibles can be made into approximate disc shapes to reduce lateral wind resistance from all directions while still achieving the necessary displacement volume. Decades ago, the Canadian Government looked into using zeppelins for routine high arctic supply flights and one of the potential winners was essentially a disc because is would resist sheer winds pushing it off course.

[@maartentoors]

"roccoons"... Yep, I learned a new word today xD

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

_~sigh~_ It's sad how so many are still arguing, here in the comments, about how it *has* to be aliens, because "da gummint" always lies. 🙄 Even though the pictures from the time, and the recently declassified files on the whole era weren't redacted enough to make an anthill of a difference, yeah, sure... it's _still aliens._ Ugh... "Of course it is, Uncle Bob." While thinking, 'yeah, whatever.' _~facepalm~_

[@fromulus]

What about the multiple instances from the past decade or two of video footage of craft taken by navy pilots that have been confirmed by the pentagon as authentic and of unknown origin?

[@TelikiMouse]

@@fromulus yeah but even then ufo just means unidentified flying object nothing more nothing less. Even if it is unidentified it could be a plethora of just mundane explanations.

[@TelikiMouse]

@@fromulus the correct answer is usually the more mundane option. Not the fantastical

[@fromulus]

@@TelikiMouse sure, usually. Not sure if you're totally familiar with that words meaning. Personally, I see the probability that all of these different navy pilots and their advanced imaging equipment, radar operators, and officers being completely fooled on repeated occasions, then submitting all info to some of the highest command in the military, also slipping past them, then publicly confirming some of it due to leaked footage, without the usual claims of naturally occurring phenomenon, to be pretty damn close to zero. I'm simply being logical, I'm not saying it's aliens, I don't know what it is. I'm also fairly unsure the technology required to do the things that were seen and recorded would be currently possible, but that's a guess, obviously, because nobody really knows for sure. That's you too, nobody knows for sure. You can play occams razor all you want, that's not a solution to the problem, many questions remain. You're now also arguing against the US military, if you're determined to maintain your stance that there's a reasonable explanation, that is. There's little to support your argument, again, aside from referring to occams razor, so yeah.

[@tpl608]

While I am not a believer of aliens being here, I do have a brother who saw something that was probably a military thing. I also note that there are released government documents pre Roswell that are fair game to ask what is being referred to.

[@voteindependentforindepend7181]

Wow, i love just how convoluted the cover story has become.

[@killi4n796]

Mental gymnastics to end up with "it was a toy!" ffs lmao

[@kyledamron]

We should have gone with the UFO theory. Imagine the ussr believing we had alien technology in our possession that might have scared the crop out of them and kept them from getting too froggy

[@andyhelliwell4955]

I think this too.

[@glarryg2318]

That Captain Mantell looks like he could be played by a Hemsworth brother in the movie adaptation.

[@theenzoferrari458]

Rather that than captain SJW britard lardson

[@michaelfoley9904]

So you know the truth, that thousands of others tried for years to find out. You are scraping the barrel.

[@Altoonawiseman]

No matter How You look at it, You still have to make the Jump that ALL these High Ranking Military Personal Couldnt tell a Metal Disk from a Piece of Foil or a Balloon.🤔

[@QBCPerdition]

No, the high ranking military personnel knew exactly what it was, but could not say because it was classified.

[@MrKittles1123]

@@QBCPerdition …and yet they wound up saying exactly that. 😂

[@QBCPerdition]

@@MrKittles1123 not exactly. They tried to pass it off as some mysterious disc, then said it was a weather balloon. Neither of which was true. Not until the declassification of Project Mogul did the truth come out.

[@stephenhood2948]

We aren't really interested in your cereal, but tell us about your spy balloons. LOL

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I gues aliens keep coming to Earth just to have Magic Spoon

[@gdaylilpiggy]

I want a magic spoon. Also some Magic Spoon.

[@d_clarence6174]

Damn, I got here a good bit earlier than usual

[@asabovesobelow5683]

I asked my elementry school chess instructor about aliens. He was a german rocket scientist whom was brought here to Huntsville, Alabama for NASA. I was in 5th or 6th grade maybe 40 years ago or so. He told me that Roswell was a Japanese balloon that had finally made it over the pacific. It had stayed up in the upper atmosphere and slowly made its way over. The 3 bodies they said were aliens were actually Japanese children whom had died and had decomposed somewhat and had high altitude conditions of damage to their bodies. Apparently the Japanese had a plan to bomb the US during WW2 by balloons across the pacific. I don't know if this is true but he definitely thought it was true. He said the US didn't want to scare the country of this during WW2 that they knew of this and that later after WW2 when this happened they just covered it up still.

[@LazarOrthodox04]

There is a thing called LYING