Corn­wall, UK: That’s not a Spitfire!

COMMENT: A video has been posted of the demon­stra­tion of a small, sphere-shaped fly­ing machine built for the Japan­ese Defense Min­istry and pro­jected as a recon­nais­sance device.

Clever in design, the tech­nol­ogy is rel­a­tively sim­ple and the device was built from com­monly avail­able stock for a ridicu­lously low cost ($1400 U.S.)

Over the years we have exam­ined the polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions of the UFO phe­nom­e­non, as well as mate­r­ial indi­cat­ing that disc-shaped fly­ing machines date back to the clos­ing stage of World War II.

With 42% of col­lege grad­u­ates in a poll stat­ing that they believed earth had been vis­ited by space aliens in the past, the issue of UFO’s war­rants seri­ous exam­i­na­tion within a polit­i­cal and soci­o­log­i­cal context.

Unfor­tu­nately, with an intim­i­dat­ing land­scape of dis­in­for­ma­tion and the gen­eral view that the entire topic of UFO’s is either vul­gar and/or silly, seri­ous exam­i­na­tion of the polit­i­cal and social aspects of the inquiry are sparse.

In a fun­da­men­tal way, the video of this rel­a­tively  sim­ple, inex­pen­sive fly­ing machine should edu­cate as to the fact that the notion of a “round” or disc-shaped air­craft is rel­a­tively down-to-earth.

Disc-shaped fly­ing machines (per­haps mar­ried to other clan­des­tine, advanced tech­nolo­gies) could be used for decep­tion, intim­i­da­tion and manip­u­la­tion of large pop­u­la­tions for the pur­poses  of polit­i­cal and eco­nomic control.

Such a strat­a­gem could prove par­tic­u­larly effec­tive with an igno­rant, des­per­ate, economically-deprived pop­u­la­tion liv­ing in a time of impend­ing or ongo­ing eco­log­i­cal collapse.

The Japan­ese device informs us of the need to be aware of the poten­tial for such manip­u­la­tion. The pos­si­bil­ity that larger and more sophis­ti­cated machines of this type have been man­u­fac­tured by capa­ble nation-states should be care­fully considered.

There cer­tainly is rea­son to be vig­i­lant in this regard:

“Expert Says Sal­vaged Police Drone is ‘Highly Spec­u­la­tive’ rea­son for UFO Sight­ing over Widnes“by Oliver Roy,  [Run­corn & Widnes Weekly News];  Run­corn & Widnes Weekly News; 11/10/011.

A respected ufol­o­gist has sug­gested that a mys­te­ri­ous craft sighted over Widnes could have been a sal­vaged police drone.

Jenny Ran­dles was respond­ing to a recent Liv­er­pool Echo story that revealed a £13,000 unmanned aer­ial vehi­cle (UAV) belong­ing to Mersey­side Police had crashed and was thought to be at the bot­tom of the Mersey.

She believes the machine could be respon­si­ble for a sight­ing of a ‘stealth orb’ over Liv­er­pool Road in Widnes in May.

Art stu­dent Lau­rence Baker, 17, of Milling­ton Close, had told the Weekly News that a black spher­i­cal craft with an anten­nae had zoomed overhead.

Lau­rence was con­fi­dent the craft was not from outer space but prob­a­bly mil­i­tary. [Ital­ics are mine–D.E.]

Although the police drone was offi­cially lost in Feb­ru­ary 2010 Jenny believes some­one could have recov­ered and repaired the wreck­age then put it back into action. She said a drone is ‘basi­cally a highly-sophisticated model heli­copter and not beyond the means of some­one with the skills to make it work’.

Mersey­side Police has since decided not to invest fur­ther in drones.

Jenny said: “I guess it is pos­si­ble that some­one did find it and was able to fix it up and is secretly fly­ing it about and as a result gen­er­at­ing UFO scares like the one at Widnes this May.

“It is basi­cally a highly-sophisticated model heli­copter so not beyond the means of some­one with the req­ui­site skills to get work­ing. But that is, of course, highly spec­u­la­tive. [Ital­ics are mine–D.E.]

“How­ever, the only way the drone could be the cause of the Widnes sight­ing is if it had been miss­ing from Mersey­side Police.