Robert Dean, 1964

The part where the audio cuts out you can still read with subtitles.

SHAPE is Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe.

It is apparently the case that this guy retired after 28 years in the Army as a Command Sergeant Major. That’s as high a rank as an NCO can get, and guys that make it to that rank usually have well earned reputations for efficiency and bluntness.

Here is his short Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dean_(ufologist)

And these flyovers—please watch the video before reading further—definitely seem to have happened. We nearly went to war with the Soviet Union several times—nuclear war—because we didn’t know what these things were. Both we and the Soviets assumed they belonged to the other side and were a clear and present threat.

This study is pretty famous in UFO circles. Paul Hellyer makes reference to it in another talk of his I have seen.

And I will say again that I GET why this topic makes people uncomfortable, not least by introducing a sense of unreality into a world most of us thought we mostly understood. But all of us shape our reality bubbles by ignoring most of reality. If you draw a line up from your front lawn, it goes on forever. Can you understand that? No matter your metaphysics, death is an unknown realm.

What most of us do of emotional necessity is create a well lit area under a lamp post, where we congregate with our friends. A shared light—here a metaphor for culturally shared assumptions about Life and the World—is a pretty practical way of defining a community.

But we and our friends and neighbors and colleagues also ignore the darkness outside our light together, which is all the other behavioral and metaphysical possibilities. This may well be essential for sanity, but it is a terrible method for learning new things.

Logic goes where logic goes. If something seems to have happened—like high level high speed flyovers over nations that were on relatively high levels of alert—then it logically had a cause. Once we eliminate impossible causes, then whatever remains, however improbable, is what we must assume to be the truth, pending more information.

Put yet another way, logic doesn’t care what your feelings are. I personally think feelings are often a faster way to truth than logic, but you have to use both to cross correlate; and as we all well know, feelings can and do often lead us astray, into various realms of stupidity and even obsession that helps no one, least of all ourselves.

My logic tells me there is SOMETHING here. But it cannot tell me what. Yet. I have a list of possibilities, to which I am happy to add. Still, that is more than most people have who reject this whole thing entirely.