owntheissue
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Yes but, this assumes many people who are supposed to be identifying foreign spy balloons are instead looking for UFOs. I suspect this would be a very small group as eventually people are supposed to do their assigned job.
Good point.
In fact - I've never seen any evidence "UFO analysts" even exist.
All the evidence points to specialised conventional threat analysis teams getting the data/telemetry first - and if anything- this is an ongoing bun fight as the assets capturing data are all territorially enforced by departmental budget holders seeking to justify their existence at upcoming financial reviews.
2 interesting bits that stuck in my head from investigating this :
1: As far as I can tell- the Head Honcho of the CIA MASINT activity (a tier 1 intel recipient of possible "UFO" related stuff) was (or is) none other than "Avian" (and boyfriend of inter dimensional princess) - Ron Pandolfi.
2: One of the more interesting "pro UFO analyst" claims on this topic was that there's a pre analysis activity which utilises advanced tech to receive and scrub data/telemetry before the conventional recipients get a look.
Person who made the above claim wrote a blog so included for skeptical review (as its one of the most detailed claims I've encountered and is well worth a read even if you only are interested in IT): https://astroengineer.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/a-curiosity-of-spirit-full-document/
LLM summary of the above link in case people dont want a long read:
After the Mars rover Spirit experienced an unexplained glitch in 2009 involving missing memory and ignored commands, NASA software engineer "Rich" analyzed a memory dump and discovered hidden telecom code tied to an unknown hardware device on the rover. This secret system was automatically compressing Spirit's images into thumbnails and routing them to a low-power "mystery radio," which Rich and the narrator traced to deleted files in a JPL Quantum Sciences and Technology Group server account. Weirdly, analyzing the reception timestamps for these hidden transmissions revealed that the data was arriving on Earth almost instantaneously—defying the expected 20-minute light-speed delay from Mars.
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