Very thoughtful assessment I must say. Blaming funding or lack there of is just an excuse IMHO. Funding has never been a problem for government programs that line the pockets of the biggest contractors involved.
I'm now thinking the blackbird was leaked to provide cover for a new project .
You've heard of the tictac uap I'm sure .
That project goes back to 1967 and I don't think you read about it in popular science.
In your business "compartmentalization"is an unescapable reality that keeps you busy busy busy but in the dark .
The space program funding was all out in the open. The budgets were debated in Congress. Major programs have been terminated, to the contractor's distress. The SST (Boeing) was canceled. The F-22 (Lockheed/Boeing) was canceled. The Space Shuttle (Boeing/Rockwell) was retired. The X-33 (Lockheed) was canceled before completion. The YAL-1A (Boeing/Lockheed) was canceled. I could go on, but my point is that you are wrong in saying "funding has never been a problem for government programs." The Blackbird was public knowledge before 1970; what "new project"? Then along came the F-117, disclosed around the time of the Gulf War. Clever, but not alien technology.
Where did you read that the "tictac" UFO was a project, going back to 1967? Nobody knows what the "tictac" is, or even if it was real. You can't explain the inexplicable by inventing a pipe dream. And it amuses me to see how people can expound in such a lofty way about compartmentalized activities---that they haven't been part of. I have been part of them. There is no alien technology, only clever work. So, don't bother to look down. All you will see is my bald spot.
Being in compartmentalized programs means Being in the dark by their nature.
If all that funding was so open then the pentagon wouldn't have trillions unaccounted for , per Rumsfeld 9/10/2001.
Still adding up to this day , don't doubt me batman
The compartmentalized activities are budgeted by Congress, a few members of which are read into the activities for oversight purposes. They are not funded by embezzlement from other programs. That would be a disclosure vulnerability. Ever heard of the big cross-charging scandal between the B-1 and Space Shuttle program back in the 1980s? That gave rise to onerous accounting reporting requirements.
You can imagine all you want, but I've been there. You haven't.
Black projects are inevitable and onerous accounting is how they stay black.
Here's a little story;
2 people working on the atomic bomb eventually met and married.
They both worked on the fuse mechanism without ever knowing what they were working on or that they were working on the same project.
The people on the inside are especially kept in the dark without ever knowing
Very thoughtful assessment I must say. Blaming funding or lack there of is just an excuse IMHO. Funding has never been a problem for government programs that line the pockets of the biggest contractors involved. I'm now thinking the blackbird was leaked to provide cover for a new project . You've heard of the tictac uap I'm sure . That project goes back to 1967 and I don't think you read about it in popular science. In your business "compartmentalization"is an unescapable reality that keeps you busy busy busy but in the dark .
The space program funding was all out in the open. The budgets were debated in Congress. Major programs have been terminated, to the contractor's distress. The SST (Boeing) was canceled. The F-22 (Lockheed/Boeing) was canceled. The Space Shuttle (Boeing/Rockwell) was retired. The X-33 (Lockheed) was canceled before completion. The YAL-1A (Boeing/Lockheed) was canceled. I could go on, but my point is that you are wrong in saying "funding has never been a problem for government programs." The Blackbird was public knowledge before 1970; what "new project"? Then along came the F-117, disclosed around the time of the Gulf War. Clever, but not alien technology.
Where did you read that the "tictac" UFO was a project, going back to 1967? Nobody knows what the "tictac" is, or even if it was real. You can't explain the inexplicable by inventing a pipe dream. And it amuses me to see how people can expound in such a lofty way about compartmentalized activities---that they haven't been part of. I have been part of them. There is no alien technology, only clever work. So, don't bother to look down. All you will see is my bald spot.
Being in compartmentalized programs means Being in the dark by their nature. If all that funding was so open then the pentagon wouldn't have trillions unaccounted for , per Rumsfeld 9/10/2001. Still adding up to this day , don't doubt me batman
The compartmentalized activities are budgeted by Congress, a few members of which are read into the activities for oversight purposes. They are not funded by embezzlement from other programs. That would be a disclosure vulnerability. Ever heard of the big cross-charging scandal between the B-1 and Space Shuttle program back in the 1980s? That gave rise to onerous accounting reporting requirements.
You can imagine all you want, but I've been there. You haven't.
Black projects are inevitable and onerous accounting is how they stay black. Here's a little story; 2 people working on the atomic bomb eventually met and married. They both worked on the fuse mechanism without ever knowing what they were working on or that they were working on the same project. The people on the inside are especially kept in the dark without ever knowing