The story of how the phrase "I can neither confirm nor deny that," came about is an interesting one. It's known as the GLOMAR response. There's a whole RadioLab episode on it if you're interested.
The story of how the phrase "I can neither confirm nor deny that," came about is an interesting one. It's known as the GLOMAR response. There's a whole RadioLab episode on it if you're interested.
Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program since 2007, said that, in some cases, examination of the materials had so far failed to determine their source and led him to conclude, “We couldn’t make it ourselves.”
The constraints on discussing classified programs — and the ambiguity of information cited in unclassified slides from the briefings — have put officials who have studied U.F.O.s in the position of stating their views without presenting any hard evidence.
Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
why?
If something revelatory did turn up, I'd be as interested in how that secret was kept as the secret itself.
I believe they have mentioned being in the military?
The story of how the phrase "I can neither confirm nor deny that," came about is an interesting one. It's known as the GLOMAR response. There's a whole RadioLab episode on it if you're interested.