posted about this last week in a ufo thread and couldn’t find it, searched long enough it finally turned up again.
So here you go. Air Force Space Command in 2005, from Brigadier General Elaine L Knight:
>mission area of Joint Warfighting Space and/or Near Space
Jeez thank god I’m not in the military and have to adhere to orders. The cat is much more of a chill nigga
There are no classification markings on document.
That’s because it’s not classified, Sherlock
Disciplinary documents like an LOR typically aren't classified anything beyond for official use only.
It’s kind of weird that an 8 year old post which barely got any attention and was up for at least 6 years was removed at some point in the last two years, isn’t it?
That’s a small subreddit and it’s not normal for mods to go back through content from EIGHT YEARS AGO and suddenly decide to delete it
critical thinking here good job heres a you
sounds like they didn't want anyone mucking around in their operating theater.
Can you provide more context? This is essentially a LOR (letter of reprimand), but without context I don't understand why its significant or relates to UFOs. Did this individual comment on UFOs and then get hand slapped over it?
Spoilers : the military sees the area of Near Space (defined as 12-62 miles) as a potential war point so they’re gonna spend them dollas. Considering that’s essentially how high of that Chinese balloon it’s not hard to imagine there’s been shit in that area for years. Doesn’t mean it’s UFOs or black ops craft, it’s a defined term and conforms to international law of sovereign airspace.
Space/near-space has officially been a war-fighting domain for the department of defense for at least 50-60 years now. It's literally part of the Air Force and Space Force's mission statement.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0705near/
From 2005
> At present, this region is a “no man’s land.” Air is too thin to support flight by most operational military aircraft, and yet gravity is too strong for a satellite to sustain itself in orbit. As a result, very little flies there.
So what was Edward Herlick talking about that got him shut down, and who was he talking to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT
From 1984
I've heard they do a lot of fun stuff these days, like if you hit a satellite with a missile you're just going to create a bunch of dangerous orbital debris (the risk and long term nature of which depend on the altitude at which the satellite was orbiting). So instead they can do things like fire a laser into the camera to burn out the spy satellites optical systems. That way you don't get any space debris and the nation that owns it now has a worthless piece of space junk they're forced to de-orbit.
Debris from that test was still a concern for the ISS in the late 90s
If there are alien UFOs you gotta wonder what they think about all our space trash
I'm also not really seeing the connection between this and and UFO activity or intel.
It reads like he stepped on somebody's toes about some kind of public relations thing.
Someone in the thread it was first brought up in had been discussing secret space program stuff. I said it’s a fact that there’s a secret air force space program, so here it is. This guy’s specific project was related to LTA craft and was axed but it’s clearly not the only thing they had going on in that domain.
The UFO connection is just that this implies some UFO sightings could indeed be secret military and intel projects, and also that the Air Force probably knows a hell of a lot more than they admit
>*yawn*
>*sip*
Some guys get *all* the luck.
>An actual "memo"?
All I ever get are nasty-grams...
; )
I have a friend in the AF and he says this is bullshit... sounds like this guy did something wrong; thus needing to be court martialed, especially for such documents to be returned (in court with a WITNESS) and even then, they would never address such things in a fucking email.
It wasn’t an email
> sounds like this guy did something wrong; thus needing to be court martialed,
Obviously it wasn’t severe enough for a court martial, they just wanted him to shut up and give his work over to Volz.
It takes a lot to court-martial a Colonel.
I think your AF friend is full of shit
Did they have a publisher that also had downs? Why the fuck are those two word quotes?
Like when you publish you can recommend a cover and cover quotes, but the publisher decides what it actually will be almost entirely; it's part of the publishing rights not author's rights in almost every contract, and Downy the Special Kind of Hero doesn't seem like he would be able to negotiate special contracts.