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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
21-06-2018
Study finds reason behind the formation of strange Martian rock
Study finds reason behind the formation of strange Martian rock
A strange rocky formation on the Red Planet had puzzled scientists for decades. Scientists, uncertain about the origin of this mysterious hilly landscape better known as the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF), regarded it as some extraterrestrial activity. However, according to a new study performed by a group of researchers, the MFF that extends up to three thousand one hundred miles across the planet’s equator, was formed some millions of years ago due to a volcanic event on the Martian surface.
The initial discovery of this peculiar rock formation, the MFF, dates back to the 1960s. The imagery of the MFF was first captured by the Mariner spacecraft of NASA. However, until now the different analysis performed in connection with the MFF failed to give any positive knowledge to the scientists about its origin.
The MFF’s scale is reportedly huge estimating near about 1/5th of the size of the entire United States. As per the study, the MFF comprises of sedimentary deposits, which are almost hundred times larger in comparison to the biggest volcanic deposit witnessed on the Earth.
Planetary scientist Lujendra Ojha, at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement, “This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale but also in terms of the solar system because we do not know of any other deposit that is like this.”
As a part of the study, the researchers analyzed a series of data received from different Mars orbiter spacecraft for estimating the density of the Medusae Fossae Formation. According to the study, the researchers noted the MFF as a “relatively porous unit” and theorized its evolution was the result of “explosive volcanic eruptions.”
Ojha explained, “The eruptions that created the deposit could have spewed massive amounts of climate-altering gases into Mars’s atmosphere and ejected enough water to cover Mars in a global ocean more than 9 centimeters (4 inches) thick.”
The findings of this new study were published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. As expected by the scientists, the inferences of this study would help them in further understanding of the Red Planet’s geology and also could yield clearer response to whether the Mars colonization could be possible.
Conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring dubbed the bump a “crashed spacecraft” partially buried in Martian soil, back in 2016.
But Dr Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins, has dispelled all conspiracies and UFO claims concerning the formation.
According to the space boffin, new research suggests the formation is entirely natural and was deposited near the equator after violent volcanic eruptions 3 billion years ago.
He said: “This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale, but also in terms of the solar system, because we do not know of any other deposit that is like this.”
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
Mars news: UFO hunters think this is a crashed alien spaceship
The Medusae Fossae Formation was first observed in the 1960s by NASA’s Mariner spacecraft.
New high-resolution photographs of Mars, captured by the European Space Agency, have given scientists a much clearer look at the formation.
Dr Ojha and Dr Kevin Lewis, Johns Hopkins, published their findings in the science journal Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
In the study, the scientists claimed the rock formation was formed when hot ash, rock and gas was ejected billions of years ago.
The report reads: “The Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) is one of the largest sedimentary deposits on Mars.
“The origin of the MFF is uncertain, though several processes including volcanic, eolian, and ice-related mechanisms have been proposed in its formation.
The Medusae Fossae Formation is one of the largest sedimentary deposits on Mars
Dr Lujendra Ojha, Johns Hopkins University
“Here we localise the gravity and topography signature of the MFF and place the first direct constraint on its density.”
The news comes after astronomers announced stargazers will be treated to the brightest display of Mars at night in years.
The so-called Mars opposition will take place on July 31 next month, offering an unprecedented naked eye view of the Red Planet.
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
Mars news: The Medusae Fossae Formation is a giant soft rock formation
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Mars news: The rock formation was formed during volcanic eruptions
During opposition, Mars will sit directly opposite the sun and approach its nearest orbital point to Earth.
Space experts at NASA said: “Like all the planets in our solar system, Earth and Mars orbit the sun.
“But Earth is closer to the sun, and therefore races along its orbit more quickly.
“So sometimes the two planets are on opposite sides of the sun, very far apart, and other times, Earth catches up with its neighbour and passes relatively close to it.”
NASA: Here's the big plan to protect the planet from 'near-Earth objects'
NASA: Here's the big plan to protect the planet from 'near-Earth objects'
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This image provided by NOAA/NASA on May 31 shows the Earths western hemisphere. NASA recently unveiled a new plan to protect Earth from asteroids.
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"Near-Earth objects" are hurtling toward and NASA has a plan to make sure they don't land in your lawn.
No, we're not talking UFOs. Near-Earth objects are comets (cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust the size of a small town) and asteroids (basically, space rocks smaller than planets) that pass within 28 miles of Earth’s orbit.
NASA Actually Helped Save The World — Here's How
Wednesday, NASA and the White House unveiled a "preparedness strategy and action plan" outlining five ways government agencies must keep them away: enhance detection and tracking, improve modeling and prediction, develop technologies for deflection, increase international cooperation, and strengthen impact emergency procedures. These changes involve a host of government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and are meant to happen over the next 10 years, according to the document.
The plan offers short and long-term goals but doesn't offer specifics on how the goals will be achieved. Also, no additional funding was set aside for the plan; officials said the measures can be implemented using existing resources.
Asteroid pieces — more than 100 tons — bombard the Earth daily, a past NASA report notes, but most disintegrate before hitting the surface of our planet.
"NASA and partners have identified 95 percent of asteroids large enough to cause global catastrophe and none will pose a threat in this century," Aaron Miles, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said, Fox News reports.
While it's rare for an asteroid to cause serious damage, it has happened. In 2013, a house-sized meteor (a part of an asteroid) injured more than 1,600 people in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
In 2016, NASA established a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to identify these objects and address possible hazards.
NASA's plan to save Earth from a giant asteroid
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The odd eight-mile by the Medusae Fossae Formation was seen as proof of alien life according to ufologists.
YouTuber Scott C. Waring, of channel UFOvni2012, previously claimed the formation was a crashed spaceship.
In 2016, he said of the NASA photographs: “If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO, which is approximately 190 miles wide, impacted the surface at a low angle ending up half buried in the Martian solid.
But, experts revealed in the Journal of Geophysical Research revealed the formation was something more natural.
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BIZARRE: The formation sparked fierce debate online
Images from the European Space Agency showed a different view of the strange shapes, which were then updated by researchers.
According to scientists the features are ancient volcanos that were once active on the Red Planet’s surface.
They claim they were formed when high winds carved strange shapes into the rocks.
Keen stargazers may be able to get a better view of the Martian surface over the next six weeks, it was revealed.
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MISSION: NASA is currently trying to find out more about the Red Planet
“If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO impacted the surface”
Scott Waring
That is because Mars will be at its closest point to Earth since 2003 throughout June and July.
On July 31, when Mars will be at its brightest, it will be 57.6million kilometres away from Earth, according to The Weather Channel.
A video captured by a New Zealand citizen has been recently submitted to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) for authentication and further probe. The eerie clip which was apparently shot on June 02, 2018 shows a glowing UFO flying across the skies. Interestingly, the shape of the possible alien ship seems very similar to that of men's condom.
"Looks like a star that follows me, but it is not a star. When I zoom, it changes its shape and gives menacing energy that messes with my head and brain hurts, causing anxiety and fear," wrote the eyewitness on the report submitted to MUFON.
The video was later shared on conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'UFOmania', where it has already racked up 5,000 views just in 24 hours. As the video is going viral, conspiracy theorists allege that the UFO spotted in the video might be a possible shape-shifting alien craft which might have come from deep space.
A section of other conspiracy theorists argues that aliens are preparing for a disclosure which could change the entire fate of the human kind on the planet. As per these theorists, aliens might be using an energy weapon, and this might be the reason why the eyewitness felt pain on the head resulting in anxiety and fear.
Soon, several viewers who watched this video put forward various theories explaining the weird sky phenomenon.
"It looks like a bioluminescent lifeform," commented Kevin Coffey, a YouTube user.
"Looks like overfocused planet close to the horizon (object never moved), because atmospheric interference will make anything change colors like that. Plus some parts of it look like a view through a closed hand.," commented Steve Pelt, another YouTuber.
Another YouTuber named Terry Hodge revealed that these bizarre appearances on the sky might be the result of 'Project Blue Beam'. Hodge revealed that the luminous UFO in the sky might be a hologram beamed on the skies to prepare the general public for a staged alien invasion.
Aliens on Mars or nature's feat? Unfolding mystery behind UFO on Red Planet
Aliens on Mars or nature's feat? Unfolding mystery behind UFO on Red Planet
The image of the object on Mars was initially snapped by NASA's Mariner spacecraft, and many conspiracy theorists claimed that it was a UFO on the Martian surface
In the 1960s, a strange structure which had a possible structure of a UFO was discovered on the Martian surface, and many conspiracy theorists then claimed that it could be a possible alien ship that had landed on the Red Planet.
However, a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research has refuted all these claims, and the researchers who took part in the study revealed that the mysterious structure is nothing but a weird rock formation.
Researchers Rule Out Alien Possibility
As per these researchers, volcanoes were very active on Mars in the ancient ages, and when it combined with hundreds of millions of years of wind erosion, these structures formed in a bizarre manner on the Martian surface.
The study report suggested that the porous rock was deposited roughly three million years ago, and Martian winds have played a crucial role in carving these structures into weird shapes. Researchers have named these strange shapes, 'Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF)'.
During the research, scientists made use of tools provided by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to get a clearer picture of the landscapes around the bizarre rock formation.
The image of this weird structure was snapped initially by NASA's Mariner spacecraft five decades ago. Back then, scientists were unable to explain the real phenomenon which could have caused these strange formations.
When looked from above, the ancient structure on Mars looks vaguely like a UFO landed on the Martian surface. Now, with this new explanation, the possible connection of these structures with extraterrestrials have been effectively refuted.
The Real Mystery Continues
However, alien enthusiasts have something to rejoice on the other side, as NASA, on June 07, 2018 revealed that they have found traces of organic compounds and methane on Mars. After the pathbreaking revelation, popular UFO researcher Tyler Glocker who runs the YouTube channel 'Secureteam10' claimed that aliens might have been living under the surface of Mars for hundreds of thousands of years.
A few days later, Tyler Glockner released a series of images taken by NASA's Curiosity Rover. He then put these snaps together, and strangely, it shows a bizarre body moving across the Martian surface. The object spotted moving in the surface also cast a shadow which rules out the possibility of lens flare.
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Wetenschappers bevestigen dat mysterieuze radiosignalen niet afkomstig zijn van de mens. Waar komen ze dan wel vandaan?
Wetenschappers bevestigen dat mysterieuze radiosignalen niet afkomstig zijn van de mens. Waar komen ze dan wel vandaan?
Het staat nu vast: mysterieuze radiosignalen zijn niet afkomstig van de mens, maar komen echt uit de ruimte. Tien jaar geleden werd de eerste zogeheten snelle radioflits opgepikt door de Parkes-radiotelescoop in Australië.
Deze vreemde signalen, intense pulsen radiostraling die slechts enkele milliseconden duren, lijken afkomstig van zeer verafgelegen bronnen en zijn miljarden keren helderder dan alles wat we in onze Melkweg kennen.
Er is ook regelmatig gesuggereerd dat het signalen zijn van buitenaardse beschavingen.
Aangepast
In eerste instantie werd aangenomen dat de ‘onmogelijke’ flitsen het gevolg waren van aardse storingen.
Met behulp van de Molonglo-radiotelescoop in Australië is nu echter vastgesteld dat de flitsen afkomstig zijn van buiten de aarde.
De telescoop is speciaal aangepast om snelle radioflitsen te kunnen waarnemen. Manisha Caleb van de Swinburne University of Technology ontwikkelde het computerprogramma dat daarvoor nodig was.
Drie nieuwe
Hij ontdekte zelfs drie nieuwe snelle radioflitsen, waarvan is vastgesteld dat ze uit een ver sterrenstelsel afkomstig zijn.
Onderzoekers van de Harvard-universiteit speculeerden onlangs dat deze radioflitsen weleens een aanwijzing kunnen zijn voor buitenaards leven.
Ruimteschepen
De flitsen zouden in theorie de ruimteschepen van buitenaards leven kunnen voortstuwen in verre sterrenstelsels.
Wanneer de aarde in de baan van die flitsen terechtkomt, zouden ze bij ons op aarde waargenomen kunnen worden, aldus de wetenschappers.
SPECTACULAIRE FOTO'S VAN UFO-LANDING IN VOORSTAD MOSKOU ( VIDEO )
SPECTACULAIRE FOTO'S VAN UFO-LANDING IN VOORSTAD MOSKOU ( VIDEO )
Na Zuid Amerika is Rusland bij uitstek het land waar op regelmatige basis buitenaardse waarnemingen worden gedaan.
Nu zijn er foto’s opgedoken die afkomstig zijn uit een uitzending van de Russische televisie in 1995, waarop de landing van een klassiek retro “vliegende schotel” is te zien in het noorden van Moskou.
Rusland is altijd al een mysterieus land geweest voor wat betreft UFO’s en buitenaardsen en waar men bij ons zich volkomen spastisch begint te gedragen wanneer zich iets dergelijks voor doet, zo is dat in Rusland heel anders.
Daar zie je ook op de gewone televisie regelmatig dingen die hier volkomen ondenkbaar zijn.
En zo kon het gebeuren dat Russische kijkers van het televisiestation T.V. Rusa Ostankino op een avond in oktober specatulaire beelden kregen voorgeschoteld.
Beelden waarop niets minder dan de landing van wat eruit ziet als een klassieke of ook wel retro vliegende schotel, te zien is.
De originele filmopnames zijn er niet meer, maar wel zijn er een drietal foto’s die gemaakt zijn vanaf het televisiescherm en waarop de landing te zien is.
Dit is de eerste foto en je ziet een paar mannen vol verwondering naar de lucht kijken en op de volgende foto’s zie je hoe dit ruimteschip daadwerkelijk landt.
De beelden zijn afkomstig van UFO onderzoeker Jaime Maussan die deze al enkele jaren geleden publiceerde, maar die toen door niet veel mensen zijn gezien en nu opeens wel in de belangstelling komen.
Hier volgt de video waarin meer achtergrondinformatie wordt gegeven over die bijzondere landing in Moskou Noord. In hoeverre die beelden echt zijn, weet je natuurlijk maar nooit, maar ze zien er in ieder geval behoorlijk indrukwekkend uit.
We hebben al eerder te maken gehad met een landing van een buitenaards ruimteschip in de buurt van Moskou en dat was zes jaar daarvoor in Voronezh, zo’n 200 kilometer ten zuiden van Moskou.
Eén van de meest bizarre Ufo verhalen is ongetwijfeld die uit 1989 waar er een landde in een park in Voronezh, 200 km ten zuiden van Moskou in Rusland.
Het verhaal werd, opmerkelijk genoeg, naar buiten gebracht door TASS, het officiële Russische persbureau wat niet bekendstond om haar gevoel voor humor.
Volgens het verhaal van Tass was er een Ufo geland op 27 september 1989 om half zeven ‘s avonds.
Een aantal jonge knapen die aan het voetballen waren, waren getuige van de gebeurtenis. Volgens hen was er een soort roze gloed voordat het vreemd uitziende schip naar beneden kwam. De roze gloed werd een diep rood toen het de grond raakte. De meeste getuigen omschrijven het object als plat en schotelvormig.
Er verzamelde zich al snel een menigte en men probeerde naar binnen te kijken door een luik wat zich opende. Ze zagen drie buitenaardsen van ongeveer drie meter hoog, met drie ogen, gekleed in een zilverkleurige overall en bronskleurige laarzen met een schijf op hun borst.
TASS wist verder te melden: “Een jongen schreeuwde het uit van angst, maar toen de buitenaardse hem aankeek met glanzende ogen, kon hij zich niet meer bewegen. De omstanders begonnen te schreeuwen en de Ufo verdween met haar inzittenden”. Volgens het bericht kwamen ze even later terug. De buitenaardse had toen iets wat op een pistool leek, richtte dit op een 16-jarige jongen die prompt verdween. De buitenaardse verdween weer in het ruimteschip en vertrok, waarop de jongen weer verscheen. “Alle kinderen die zijn ondervraagd vertelden allemaal afzonderlijk van elkaar hetzelfde verhaal. Sommige van de kinderen zijn nu nog steeds bang”. Ook in Nederland werd dit nieuws opgepikt en men wijdde er een flink aantal minuten aan in het avondjournaal van 12 oktober 1989. In het Journaal wordt gemeld dat het schip om half zeven 's ochtends landde. Volgens een aantal andere bronnen was het half zeven 's avonds.
Het voorval in Voronezh is er een die niet zomaar onder tafel kan worden geveegd. Honderden mensen zijn getuige geweest van dit voorval. De verhalen van de kinderen zijn gelijk en de tekeningen die ze later hebben gemaakt komen allen overeen. Talloze specialisten zijn ingezet in een onderzoek; psychologen, medici en zelfs criminologen. Deze kwamen allen tot de conclusie dat de gebeurtenis echt heeft plaatsgevonden en dat mensen niet hallucineerden.
In dezelfde periode zijn er nog veel meer waarnemingen geweest, bevestigd door grote aantallen getuigen. Een groep mensen had na de gebeurtenis last van slapeloosheid en velen meldden problemen en storingen met elektronische apparatuur zoals televisies. Onderzoek van de landingsplaats wees uit dat het schip minstens enkele tonnen moet hebben gewogen.
Tot op de dag van vandaag blijft dit één van de best gedocumenteerde ontmoetingen met buitenaardsen en een “rationele” verklaring is nooit gevonden.
If you hate to go to museums because you feel the eyes are following you around the room (I know it’s not just me), you may not want to visit Turin, Italy, and look at the image on the most famous shroud in history. A new study suggests that the image, believed by many to be that of Jesus, shows indications that the body was moving when it was transferred to the cloth. Was it the eyes? Are you sufficiently spooked?
New study: Christ figure moving in Shroud of Turin
The video (see it here) is from the International Institute for Advanced Studies of Space Representation Sciences in Palermo, Italy. Produced in 2008, it doesn’t seem to have generated much interest at that time, but a copy floating around the Internet recently has renewed interest in it, especially with the three-dimensional life-size representation of the “Man of the Shroud” revealed earlier this year. The institute was founded by Giuseppe Maria Catalano, who describes himself has an engineer, scientist, author, artist and scholar in the field of Space Representation Sciences. In this case, ”space” refers to the geometric rather than the outer kind. In a similar way to the 3-D representation, Catalano seems to have used his “science of representation” and an old technique called photogrammetry to recreate what may have been happening if and when the image was created from a human body.
Full length negatives of the Shroud of Turin
What did he find?
“The anatomic shape of the right hand in this position reveals a strong effort during traction of the ring around the thumb. It proves a conscious movement made by a quite fit man. The anatomic shape of the right hand in the other position, the one well known for centuries, proves the remarkable distance of the body from the Shroud plane. Like photo grams laid one upon the other, the linen shows not only these two extremes but also the intermediate positions of the hand. Finally the left hand, the left foot and the calecon belt are also surveyed each one in distinct positions, following and close, caused by regular bodily movements. For a few seconds a geometrically definite radiation, shed by the body, passing through objects, printed on the Shroud the images of a quite fit body in a conscious movement.”
In other words, Catalano claims that his science of representation shows evidence that both hands and one of the feet moved while the image was created. Was this a sign of the Resurrection or an involuntary movement by a recently deceased corpse? That’s open for discussion, arguments and possibly religious wars.
The Shroud of Turin: Detailed Analysis
In a review of the video in The American Conservative, Rob Dreher points out that the new hand position described resembles that of the 6th century Byzantine icon known as The Christ Pantocrator of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai, which is a gesture of blessing. A hand positioned to give a blessing on what could have been Jesus rising from the dead are two dots easily connected by those who want to believe that this is the actual burial should.
The Christ Pantocrator of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai icon
Or not. Why did the shroud capture so little movement? Why not something more obvious or expressive, like an arm sweeping it away? What if the shroud is a 13th century fake as many experts believe? Is this a sign that the fakers were putting in subtle details to really fool the masses at the Masses?
The Shroud of Turin is one of the most studied pieces of cloth in history and yet it’s still a mystery. Does this video prove anything? Does it disprove anything? Would you believe it more if it said the eyes moved?
Shroud of Turin Secrets That Continue to Baffle Scientists
As a follow-up to my article “The Many and Varied Balloons of Roswell,” I thought I would share with you another example of how and why the UFO phenomenon was – in the late 1940s – so tied to the matter of top secret balloon-based programs. It was primarily because, in many cases, they were one and the same! Today’s example has for many years been perceived as a ufological classic, but which also falls under the “secret balloon” category. It occurred just half a year after Roswell. It’s the strange and ultimately tragic affair of Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas P. Mantell, who, many UFO believers accept, lost his life chasing a UFO on the afternoon of January 7, 1948. He did not. Mantell died chasing a balloon.
Mystery Object Causing UFO Sightings Caught on Video
Matters began when personnel at Godman Army Air Field, Kentucky, caught sight of something in the sky they perceived as very strange: a large and extremely reflective object that appeared to be circular in design. No one could identify it. It was, then, hardly surprising that talk of flying saucers was quickly all-encompassing.
Fortunately, or so it seemed at the time, a squadron of four P51Mustang aircraft was heading towards Godman Army Airfield – a squadron under the command of Captain Mantell. One of the pilots was low on fuel, another one expressed concerns about pursuing the object due to his lack of an oxygen-mask, and a third was ordered to shadow to the ground the pilot who had worries about losing consciousness due to oxygen deprivation. That just left Captain Mantell to pursue the object.
At a height of around 15,000 feet, Mantell called into the base and said that he could see the “UFO” quite clearly. He pushed his plane further through the skies, ultimately reaching a height of approximately 25,000 feet. Then, nothing. Apart, that is, from death for the captain: having reached such an altitude without oxygen, Mantell passed out and his plane plummeted to the ground. For many in Ufology, the case is a UFO classic. No, it’s not. It’s a classic mistake.
Unbeknownst to many within the military, at the time of Mantell’s encounter, the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research had developed, and deployed, massive balloons into the skies of the United States. It was all part of a program called Project Skyhook. For the most part, the balloons captured meteorological data. That did not take away the fact, however, that the existence of the balloons was a well-kept secret. These monster-sized balloons were highly reflective, just as was the object that Mantell encountered. On the subject of Mantell, it’s very important to note that he did not have a need-to-know clearance about the work of Project Skyhook.
Staff at the Air Force’s UFO program, Project Sign, were told of Skyhook, however. This was something which placed Project Sign staff in a very awkward position. They had no desire to tell the world that Mantell had possibly been blown out of the skies by aliens, particularly so because he wasn’t. But, due to the highly classified nature of Project Skyhook, they could hardly reveal the truth without also compromising the Navy’s project. So, Sign staff offered unlikely suggestions that didn’t really convince anyone, such as that perhaps Mantell, in a confused and low-on-oxygen state, was mistakenly chasing the planet Venus. UFO researchers, history has shown, suspected that the military was engaged in a cover-up. Well, yes, it was. But, they weren’t hiding a UFO. They were hiding a highly classified balloon.
I bring the Mantell case to your attention for one particular reason. Not because it has a link to Roswell, but because it demonstrates that in terms of national security and secret military programs, in the early years of the Cold War massive balloons, flying saucers, and UFOs very often crossed paths in odd ways that many might think almost unimaginable. In the Roswell case, the truth was hidden behind a barrier of tales of UFOs, weather-balloons and Project Mogul balloons. In the Mantell case, the military couldn’t reveal what they really knew, because doing so would have opened up a large can of worms about the balloon-based Project Skyhook.
Indeed, and as Dr. David Clarke – the author of, among others, How UFOs Conquered the World– noted in 2015, with regard to Project Skyhook and Mantell: “In 2004 a former member of the project’s staff, Duke Gildenberg, revealed the Office of Naval Research had monitored press reports of flying saucer sightings to track the movements of their balloons. The Mantell incident was an early indication of the problems – and solutions – that mass belief in UFOs could provide for intelligence agencies.”
The last year has been an eventful one as far as UFO disclosure is concerned. Between the Pentagon owning up to running a high-level research program concerned with anomalous aerial phenomena and things far stranger and the declassified footage of Navy vessels being stalked for days by unidentified flying Tic Tacs, it’s becoming clear that world governments likely do in fact know more about the mysteries overhead than they typically let on. In this seemingly newfound spirit of disclosure, the FAA has acknowledged yet another incident in which pilots reported seeing strange, unknown objects in the skies.
Earlier this year, the FAA released recordings of a 2017 incident over Arizona in which the pilots of two separate aircraft spotted an anomalous, unresponsive object flying at high altitudes. This latest incident took place earlier this year on May 26 over Huntington, Long Island and was once again reported by Tyler Rogoway at aviation blog The War Zone. Rogoway confirmed the incident with an FAA spokesperson, but was told a Freedom of Information Act request would be needed for the FAA to release the official report.
Luckily, audio of the incident was recorded by air traffic control blog LiveATC.com. According to the audio, the pilot of a single-engine Piper Saratoga was en route to Old Bridge Airport in New Jersey when it spotted a strange object directly in front of his plane at around 12:59 p.m. local time. Both were flying at close to 6,000 feet.
The pilot immediately called air traffic controllers and stated “I have an object in front of me, I don’t know what it is.” Air traffic controllers immediately thought it could be a drone, but the pilot responded that it appeared much bigger and had lights on it. Naturally, air traffic controllers assumed the object to be a drone, but found nothing on their radar, prompting the pilot to respond “I know I’m not delusional.”
Neither is everyone else who knows there’s more going on above our heads than the proverbial they are letting on. Do these recently-released recordings merely show that our skies are becoming crowded with drones or unknown spy aircraft flown by adversarial nations, or might these finally be conclusive evidence of the unknown? It’ll take a lot more FOIA requests before the truth comes to light.
The latest images sent in recently show some very unique sky phenomena seen in the skies around the world.
One photographer captured a very strange glowing greenish object in the sky above Ottawa that looks like a TR3B craft but as far as we know, a TR3B craft does not emit such a green glow, so the object could be a UFO too.
Beside the UFO, the footage show images of unusual ring cloud formations and bizarre colored clouds which indicate the presence of toxins in the atmosphere.
It is amazing what barium, strontium, aluminum and lithium in the sky will do...
Natural News) The universe’s brightest signals are extraterrestrial in origin, Australian scientists have confirmed. Their report, published in Monthly Notices at the Royal Astronomical Society, was able to detect three specific radio emissions which definitely came from space.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first recorded a decade ago. These are pulses of light that are the brightest scientists have ever seen. However, their origin has always been a mystery. FRBs have been linked to everything from alien communication to errors in measurement to interference from Earth. In fact, these signals were thought to be little more than anomalies after a famous 2015 controversy showed scientists supposedly receiving “alien messages” only to find out these were just interference from their own microwave. However, this new report puts an end to all the controversy: These bizarre signals are not coming from our planet.
This was confirmed after data were gathered from a giant telescope located 40 km outside of Canberra. Three such FRBs were recorded using the Molonglo radio telescope. This specific telescope features an enormous focal length, having a collecting area of 193,750 square feet (18,000 sqm) and a field of view of around eight degrees of the sky. The telescope is able to produce 1000 TB of data every day.
The universe’s brightest signals are extraterrestrial in origin, Australian scientists have confirmed. Their report, published in Monthly Notices at the Royal Astronomical Society, was able to detect three specific radio emissions which definitely came from space.
Professor Anne Green of the University of Sydney added, “it is very exciting to see the University of Sydney’s Molonglo telescope making such important scientific discoveries by partnering with Swinburne’s expertise in supercomputing.”
Green is referring to the new software which allowed the scientists to sift through all the data collected from Molonglo and pinpoint these three FRBs. The Ph.D. student at Australian National University, Manish Caleb, who designed the software said, “because of the telescope’s characteristics, we’re 100 percent sure the bursts came from space. We have scientifically confirmed that FRBs are extraterrestrial…we expect Molonglo will do this for more bursts.”
Dr. Flynn agreed, stating, “local radio interference shows up in several of Molonglo’s beams. Cosmic signals never show up in more than three. That’s how we knew these signals were cosmic.”
The telescope data confirmed that all three FRBs came from space, but only one could be localized to a specific galaxy. “Figuring out where the bursts come from is the key to understanding what makes them,” said Caleb. “Only one burst has been linked to a specific galaxy.”
Extraterrestrial messages of what?
Despite confirming their origin, scientists still do not know what they mean. One hypothesis is that these bursts could be remnants of alien space probes or even alien megastructures. In order to leave a trail that bright or long-lasting, it is surmised that the transmitter would need to have a surface area twice the size of Earth. This would require not only more advanced technology, but massive construction effort. Still, the stutter “heard” from the star KIC 8462852 would need an almost inconceivably-sized alien megastructure. The only reason a civilization would need to build a structure that size, scientists said, is for interstellar travel.
The raw power required to leave such a focused radio stream would be enough to propel a one million ton ship over vast distances.
“That’s big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances,” cited Manasvi Lingam of Harvard University.
Such a ship would need radio beams to “push” its sails. These beams then leave traces in space which are detected by human technology as bright pockets in the sky. To that end, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics researcher Avi Loeb stated, “science isn’t a matter of belief, it’s a matter of evidence. Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities. It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
Donald Trump Wants a 'Space Force,' But America Already Has One
Donald Trump Wants a 'Space Force,' But America Already Has One
By Brandon Specktor, Live Science Senior Writer
Donald Trump's proposed 'Space Force' will not be engaging in laser battles anytime soon — if it ever gets created.
Credit: Corey Ford/Stocktrek Images/Getty
In a meeting of the National Space Council yesterday (June 18), President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to get cracking on building a sixth branch of the U.S. military called the Space Force.
This ambitious project, which Trump has been teasing for several monthsnow, would result in the first new branch being added to the U.S. military since the Air Force was created in 1947. But what exactly will this Space Force do? Who will pay for it, when will it launch and — most important — will it involve lightsabers?
Donald Trump Wants a 'Space Force,' But America Already Has One
None of that is really clear yet. Since first bringing up the idea for a Space Force in March, Trump hasn't provided many concrete details about the project, save for some philosophical talk about recognizing space as "a war-fighting domain" and assuring "American dominance" there.
President Donald Trump: We Will Have The Space Force, ‘Separate, But Equal’ | NBC News
While this sort of language might conjure up images of interstellar laser battles or armadas of hovering battleships, the reality of American space security is far less scintillating. According to Laura Grego, a senior scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, space security mainly involves keeping other countries away from American satellites. [22 Weirdest Military Weapons]
"The U.S. military is strongly underpinned by a very capable satellite fleet," Grego told Live Science. "And the U.S. is in the middle of trying to figure out what its strategy should be to keep its satellites safe. I see this push to have a Space Force as just one other feature of doing this."
What is space security?
Since 1984, the U.S. Air Force has put more than 280 satellites into orbit. (The most recent one — a missile-detection satellite named USA-282 — was launched in January.) These satellites do everything from predicting the weather, to monitoring ballistic-missile launches, to helping soldiers call their families, Grego said. They are crucial for surveillance, reconnaissance, navigation and communication — and every branch of the military relies on them.
Certainly, preventing foreign nations frominterfering with these satellites — say, by jamming their sensors or hacking into their networks and stealing information — is a paramount national security concern, Grego said. A Space Force, presumably, would take charge of protecting and maintaining America's space capabilities.
The trouble is, the U.S. military already has an agency that does this.
"The Air Force does most of this," Grego said.
In 1982, the Air Force formed a new agency called The Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). According to the AFSPC's website, the command's mission is "to provide resilient and affordable space and cyberspace capabilities for the Joint Force and the Nation."
This portfolio includes commanding and controlling government satellites, helping NASA and private companies conduct rocket launches, monitoring space junk that could interfere with American space missions and generally "maintaining space superiority."
Today, the agency employs more than 35,000 people.
The final frontier of bureaucracy
Trump's calls for a "space force" a mistake?
So, why separate space security from the Air Force after more than 30 years? To Grego, the reasoning is not clear. If created, the Space Force runs the risk of adding another layer of bureaucracy to an already complicated system, she said.
"Space and space access right now are really part and parcel of the other things that the military does," Grego said. "Space Force holds them separate where they might be better integrated."
The Pentagon tends to agree.
"The Pentagon is complicated enough," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters last June, after dismissing an armed services bill that proposed the creation of a new space-based military branch. "This will make it more complex, add more boxes to the organization chart and cost more money. If I had more money, I would put it into lethality, not bureaucracy."
A brilliant fireball brought some out-of-this-world fireworks to a Foo Fighters concert in the Netherlands on Saturday (June 16).
While the rock band was performing at the Pinkpop Festival in the town of Landgraaf, the bright-green meteor came plummeting through the atmosphere at 11:11 p.m. local time (5:11 p.m. EDT, 2111 GMT), in the final moments of a drum solo by band member Taylor Hawkins.
Music fans were given an unexpected surprise when a fiery meteorite gatecrashed a set by the Foo Fighters during a Dutch music festival.
One festival attendee who was using his smartphone to record the show from the crowd managed to capture the meteor on camera. In the video, you can see a bright-green light flash in the night sky before the glowing light peters out behind the stage. [How to See the Best Meteor Showers of 2018]
While photographing the conjunction of the moon on Venus on June 16, 2018, astrophotographer Uwe Reichert captured this birhgt-green fireball meteor as it fell from space and exploded in Earth's atmosphere over Belgium.
Credit: Courtesy of Uwe Reichert
Pinkpop partygoers were not the only people who were treated to this stunning celestial sight. More than 170 sightings from around the region were reported to the International Meteor Organization, which states that the fireball "was widely observed from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and France."
"A bright #fireball lit up the night sky over Belgium on Saturday, June 16, 2018, 21:11 UT," astrophotographer Uwe Reichert tweeted along with a stunning photo of the meteor, Venus and the waxing crescent moon. "I caught it with my camera when I imaged the conjunction of the 3-day old Moon and Venus." In a zoomed-in view of Reichert's photo, you can see the space rock breaking into fragments as it burns up in the atmosphere.
A bright fireball was largely observed (more than 90 reports) and video recorded from Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands on June 16th, 21h 11 UT. If you observed it, please report it! Thanks in advance! http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo/report_intro …
All-sky cameras at the Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network, a meteor-spotting collaboration founded by France's National Research Agency, also caught sight of the fireball. Four all-sky cameras stationed around Francesaw the fireball, but the best view came from the camera in Charleville-Mézières, a town in northern France.
Fireballs happen when a very large meteor splatters on its way through the atmosphere, creating a big, bright flash. This fireball wasn't associated with any meteor showers; the next meteor showers will be the Southern Delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids, both of which peak at the end of July, according to the American Meteor Society's calendar.
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From the Farside: "The Most Controversial Secret on Earth" --Why UFOs are Now a Serious News Story
"You've seen it without knowing it. Remember that wild news in December about a secret Pentagon UFO program? And those grainy military videos showing radar images of unexplained phenomena — white, Tic-Tac-shaped objects that appear to fly at remarkable speeds, at impossible angles, without wings or exhaust?"
Tom DeLonge former Blink 182 rockstar helped ring the alarm about those things, as part of his new business venture: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science. For his advisory board, DeLonge recruited physicists, aerospace experts and former Department of Defense officials, who have been talking publicly about UFOs and arguing that the government has failed to fully investigate them.
DeLonge says he wants to build "a perpetual funding machine" to investigate UFOs and thereby advance our own species continues Dan Zak for the Washington Post. At a launch event for To The Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore "the most controversial secret on Earth."
In the past six months, DeLonge's associates have appeared on CNN and Fox News, written for The Washington Post and been cited in the New York Times — usually in the context of those eerie videos. "What the f--- is that thing?" a Navy pilot says in a video released by To The Stars in March, but perhaps the more pertinent question is: How did the guy from Blink-182 get wrapped up in it?
In a handout image taken from a video released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. UFOs have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. (U.S Department of Defense)
Rich men have the luxury of looking to the stars for investment and wish fulfillment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to make interplanetary travel cheap and routine. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, envisions moving industry off Earth and shipping products down from space.
DeLonge, who declined to comment for this article, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in "clandestine encounters" in "desert airports" and "vacant buildings deep within Washington D.C."
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
"The phenomenon is indeed real," Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of "overwhelming evidence" that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
UFOs are suddenly a serious news story. You can thank the guy from Blink-182 for that.
A rock star mustered a team of credentialed experts to put mysterious incidents on your radar. But does Tom DeLonge really have the goods? (Heads of State illustration for The Washington Post)
At the turn of the millennium, Blink-182 was everywhere. On the cover of the pop-punk band’s smash album, “Enema of the State,” a busty nurse with a lustful grin snapped on a latex glove. At MTV beach concerts, sunburned masses moshed to the No. 1 hit “All the Small Things.” But frontman Tom DeLonge — the one with the angsty, adolescent singing voice — had been nurturing an offstage hobby that was decidedly out of the mainstream.
Tom DeLonge in 2015. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
With his first record-deal payout as a fledgling teenage rock star, DeLonge had bought a computer to research the prospect of intelligent life beyond Earth. And after Blink-182 made him a fortune, he further indulged his fascination with the paranormal.
He co-wrote a 700-page novel about UFOs.
He brainstormed a film about skateboarders who become paranormal detectives.
He produced websites buzzing with stories about Bigfoot and disintegrating mummies.
Now in his early 40s, with his music career cooled but his financial resources apparently intact, DeLonge has channeled those bizarre passions into his next act.
You’ve seen it without knowing it. Remember that wild news in December about a secret Pentagon UFO program? And those grainy military videos showing radar images of unexplained phenomena — white, Tic-Tac-shaped objects that appear to fly at remarkable speeds, at impossible angles, without wings or exhaust?
Tom DeLonge helped ring the alarm about those things, as part of his new business venture: To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. For his advisory board, DeLonge recruited physicists, aerospace experts and former Department of Defense officials, who have been talking publicly about UFOs and arguing that the government has failed to fully investigate them.
In the past six months, DeLonge’s associates have appeared on CNN and Fox News, written for The Washington Post and been cited in the New York Times — usually in the context of those eerie videos.
“What the f--- is that thing?” a Navy pilot says in a video released by To the Stars in March, but perhaps the more pertinent question is: How did the guy from Blink-182 get wrapped up in it?
Blink-182’s 1999 hit “All the Small Things,” via YouTube
Rich men have the luxury of looking to the stars for investment and wish fulfillment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to make interplanetary travel cheap and routine. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, envisions moving industry off Earth and shipping products down from space.
Tom DeLonge says he wants to build “a perpetual funding machine” to investigate UFOs and thereby advance our own species.
At a launch event for To the Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore “the most controversial secret on Earth.”
DeLonge, who was unavailable for comment, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in “clandestine encounters” in “desert airports” and “vacant buildings deep within Washington, D.C.”
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
Footage shows an encounter between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.”(To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)
“The phenomenon is indeed real,” Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of “overwhelming evidence” that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
Elizondo had overseen the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, quietly created in 2007 by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) with the encouragement of a reclusive Nevada billionaire named Robert Bigelow. Like DeLonge, Bigelow made his fortune through earthly pursuits (real estate) but was fascinated by the otherworldly; he had funded research into crop and cattle mutilations. After he got Reid’s attention, Bigelow’s aerospace company then won the $22 million contract to run the Pentagon’s secret program, as first reported by the New York Times late last year. (Reid and Bigelow did not respond to requests for comment.)
Despite its peculiar mandate, Bigelow Aerospace’s output was typical of federal bureaucracy: It produced paper. There was a 490-page report on alleged UFO sightings, and a series of studies on experimental physics. One study written for the Defense Intelligence Agency (“Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy”) urged federal research into interstellar travel and was illustrated with a childish drawing of a dinosaur greeting Albert Einstein through a hole in the space-time continuum.
But the secret program’s collection of weird military videos was what made headlines, starting with the December New York Times article. Whatever is in the videos “isn’t human, it’s not natural, it’s under artificial control,” says Eric W. Davis, the astrophysicist who wrote the study on wormholes and stargates. “We don’t know where it comes from. But it’s here, and has been here for some time.”
Davis, who works for a Bigelow subcontractor called Earthtech International, is but one player in the web of UFO enthusiasts who are interconnected by the secret Pentagon program and To the Stars Academy. There is also Earthtech’s chief executive, Stanford-trained physicist Harold Puthoff, who once devoted serious study to the work of self-described “mystifier” Uri Geller, the 1970s “Tonight Show” guest who claimed he could bend spoons with his mind.
When Puthoff heard about DeLonge’s interest in extraterrestrial phenomena, he reached out — and, like Elizondo, ended up with a new job after Pentagon funding for UFO research dried up. He’s now vice president for science and technology for To the Stars. Elizondo is its director of global security and special programs.
Elizondo and Puthoff were among the key voices quoted in the blockbuster front-page Times article that revealed the covert existence of the Pentagon’s UFO program. The story drew millions of readers online, with the videos of flying shapes and incredulous pilots murmuring “My gosh!” and “Look at that thing!”
Though DeLonge’s new venture got a nod in the article, the rock star himself was not mentioned. Nonetheless, To the Stars was ready for its moment.
“STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGE EXPOSE” the company declared in a news release. The homepage of its new website featured a button labeled “INVEST.”
"What if people knew that these were real?" DeLonge sang on the 1999 track "Aliens Exist." In fact, most Americans believe in extraterrestrial life. Still, the subject carries the odor of crazy, so the recent news coverage of the videos was "huge," says Jan Harzan, director of the Mutual UFO Network, a group that investigates sightings.
“Basically, it made UFOs go mainstream,” Harzan says. “UFOs are real. And it represents advanced technology in our skies. If we want to advance as a civilization, this is something we have to focus on.”
The 2004 video highlighted by the Times is a touchstone for To the Stars, which put out its own report that, with its blacked-out passages, resembled a declassified government document. The report described how the unidentified object off the coast of California moved "in a manner that seemed to defy the laws of flight physics" and how the F/A-18 pilots, greeted upon their return by TVs playing "Men in Black" and "The X-Files," felt their observations were not taken seriously. One pilot, furious at the ridicule, sent detailed notes to an aunt. "Keep this because this is important stuff," the pilot wrote.
Yet the report from To the Stars is not a government document, according to a Pentagon spokesperson. Dated Sept. 7, 2017, it was created 13 years after that UFO incident, as To the Stars geared up to court investors.
When the Times article appeared in December, astronomer Jill Tarter thought to herself: “Here we go again.” Co-founder of the SETI Institute, Tarter has spent her career searching for signs of life beyond Earth, and over the years she has repeatedly encountered the same names — people who believe we’ve been visited by aliens. Tarter is not so convinced.
Jill Tarter, of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., in 2011. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
The Times article cited Bigelow and Puthoff, whose interest in the paranormal is no secret. Tarter says Bigelow once pitched SETI on a project to investigate alien sightings and offered to fund it.
“It’s hard to walk away from money,” Tarter says, but Bigelow “was so very convinced that we have been visited, and I couldn’t find it credible, and he didn’t offer any evidence.”
And the article, co-written by two Times veterans, also gave a byline to freelancer Leslie Kean. The author of books on UFOs and the afterlife (which received blurbs of praise from Puthoff), Kean had previously been given an exclusive on the To the Stars launch for a laudatory HuffPost article about DeLonge’s start-up: “Inside Knowledge About Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Could Lead To World-Changing Technology.”
“I just hope they have success,” Kean later told Open Minds UFO Radio. “I think what Tom [DeLonge] has done is extraordinary.” (Kean and the Times declined to comment.)
On its website, To the Stars bills the UFO videos as “the first official evidence” of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (while promising “THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING”). But an online community of skeptics has swarmed the videos, noting that the “glowing aura” in one video resembles a common infrared effect caused when a hot object, such as a jet engine, is seen against a cold background, such as high-altitude clouds.
“DeLonge had been promising so much for such a long time” and “people were either becoming very cynical or gathering a sense of real expectation,” says Robert Sheaffer, a former Silicon Valley engineer and former chairman of the Bay Area Skeptics. Now, he says, To the Stars has simply put forward a “a couple more blurry videos that are similar to the blurry videos we’ve had before this.”
The latest blurry video, released by To the Stars in March, features a blip zooming at low altitude off the East Coast in 2015. Some debunkers reasoned that it was a big, slow-moving bird that looked fast only because of the angle and movement of the observing jet.
(To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science)
An official with the Defense Intelligence Agency maintains that the hype over the secret Pentagon UFO program is misleading.
“Some out there seem to be making this into more than it really is,” said the official, who was granted anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The program, he said, was not created to investigate unearthly technology but simply to prepare for aerospace advances by foreign adversaries — and was shuttered in 2012 because “there was limited value in what was produced.”
But that, argues Christopher Mellon, is exactly the problem.
Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, is another adviser to DeLonge’s team. Mellon says there have been numerous other incidents along the East Coast in which unidentified flying objects have apparently penetrated U.S. defenses. There are more videos yet to be shared, he says, and “hard technical data corroborated by no-nonsense military personnel.”
Are these things Russian? Chinese? Or from some alien civilization? Whatever they are, the government has not been taking it seriously enough, Mellon argues. (The Pentagon declined to comment.) The situation reminds him of the muddled period before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Instead of being intrigued or even electrified by worrisome data,” he says, “various agencies and "departments are failing to share information or take action."
DeLonge performing with Blink-182 in Las Vegas in 2011. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
This is why Mellon, Elizondo and other credentialed individuals with advanced degrees and decades of high-clearance government service have attached their reputations to a semiretired rock star with a sideline in paranormal fiction. At least someone, they argue, is taking their concerns seriously.
“I think people look at him as a rock-’n’-roller turned pseudo-scientist,” says Elizondo, “but once you get to know who he is, Tom is more of a scientist who happens to be a talented musician.” His endeavor “is about telling the American people the truth.”
For Elizondo, transparency on this issue is paramount. “We trust the American people to know that Kim Jong Un has thermonuclear weapons pointed at L.A.,” he says. “We trust the American people to know there’s a potential Ebola pandemic that could come out of Africa. And yet we don’t trust the American people with information that there is unidentified phenomena in our airspace, and that we don’t know how it works?”
DeLonge’s goals, though, reach beyond national security. To the Stars promises to develop “next-generation” concepts for propulsion in space, according to its prospectus, and harness “warp drive metrics” and telepathic powers.
There is also a somewhat mystical mission: “to present a positive and unifying message to all generations, in every country, in every belief system, that the growth of consciousness that we all desire can start here, right now,” DeLonge said at his October launch.
It seems to be getting off to a slow start. As of mid-March, To the Stars had raised $2.5 million from a few thousand investors — not quite enough to achieve faster-than-light travel or to solve whatever mystery is unfolding in the skies. DeLonge lent To the Stars $600,000 to get off the ground, and the company is required to pay him $100,000 in yearly royalty fees.
For now, To the Stars’ only deliverables are DeLonge’s novels, some branded coffee mugs and clothing, and swag from his current rock band, Angels and Airwaves. The latest news from the company was an April 3 news release touting the upcoming sequel to DeLonge’s novel “Sekret Machines.” The release hyped Elizondo and Mellon’s involvement in the company, lending a dash of national-security authority to a niche-market entertainment product. The novel is about explorers who “locate an ancient tablet that may hold the answers to humanity’s greatest question”: Are we alone in the universe?
The novel — “based on actual events” — is available in September, starting at $24.95.
From the Farside: "The Most Controversial Secret on Earth" --Why UFOs are Now a Serious News Story
From the Farside: "The Most Controversial Secret on Earth" --Why UFOs are Now a Serious News Story
"You've seen it without knowing it. Remember that wild news in December about a secret Pentagon UFO program? And those grainy military videos showing radar images of unexplained phenomena — white, Tic-Tac-shaped objects that appear to fly at remarkable speeds, at impossible angles, without wings or exhaust?"
Tom DeLonge former Blink 182 rockstar helped ring the alarm about those things, as part of his new business venture: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science. For his advisory board, DeLonge recruited physicists, aerospace experts and former Department of Defense officials, who have been talking publicly about UFOs and arguing that the government has failed to fully investigate them.
DeLonge says he wants to build "a perpetual funding machine" to investigate UFOs and thereby advance our own species continues Dan Zak for the Washington Post. At a launch event for To The Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore "the most controversial secret on Earth."
(Heads of State illustration for The Washington Post)
In the past six months, DeLonge's associates have appeared on CNN and Fox News, written for The Washington Post and been cited in the New York Times — usually in the context of those eerie videos. "What the f--- is that thing?" a Navy pilot says in a video released by To The Stars in March, but perhaps the more pertinent question is: How did the guy from Blink-182 get wrapped up in it?
In a handout image taken from a video released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. UFOs have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. (U.S Department of Defense)
Rich men have the luxury of looking to the stars for investment and wish fulfillment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to make interplanetary travel cheap and routine. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, envisions moving industry off Earth and shipping products down from space.
DeLonge, who declined to comment for this article, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in "clandestine encounters" in "desert airports" and "vacant buildings deep within Washington D.C."
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
"The phenomenon is indeed real," Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of "overwhelming evidence" that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
UFOs are suddenly a serious news story. You can thank the guy from Blink-182 for that.
A rock star mustered a team of credentialed experts to put mysterious incidents on your radar. But does Tom DeLonge really have the goods? (Heads of State illustration for The Washington Post)
At the turn of the millennium, Blink-182 was everywhere. On the cover of the pop-punk band’s smash album, “Enema of the State,” a busty nurse with a lustful grin snapped on a latex glove. At MTV beach concerts, sunburned masses moshed to the No. 1 hit “All the Small Things.” But frontman Tom DeLonge — the one with the angsty, adolescent singing voice — had been nurturing an offstage hobby that was decidedly out of the mainstream.
Tom DeLonge in 2015. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
With his first record-deal payout as a fledgling teenage rock star, DeLonge had bought a computer to research the prospect of intelligent life beyond Earth. And after Blink-182 made him a fortune, he further indulged his fascination with the paranormal.
He co-wrote a 700-page novel about UFOs.
He brainstormed a film about skateboarders who become paranormal detectives.
He produced websites buzzing with stories about Bigfoot and disintegrating mummies.
Now in his early 40s, with his music career cooled but his financial resources apparently intact, DeLonge has channeled those bizarre passions into his next act.
You’ve seen it without knowing it. Remember that wild news in December about a secret Pentagon UFO program? And those grainy military videos showing radar images of unexplained phenomena — white, Tic-Tac-shaped objects that appear to fly at remarkable speeds, at impossible angles, without wings or exhaust?
Tom DeLonge helped ring the alarm about those things, as part of his new business venture: To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. For his advisory board, DeLonge recruited physicists, aerospace experts and former Department of Defense officials, who have been talking publicly about UFOs and arguing that the government has failed to fully investigate them.
In the past six months, DeLonge’s associates have appeared on CNN and Fox News, written for The Washington Post and been cited in the New York Times — usually in the context of those eerie videos.
“What the f--- is that thing?” a Navy pilot says in a video released by To the Stars in March, but perhaps the more pertinent question is: How did the guy from Blink-182 get wrapped up in it?
Blink-182’s 1999 hit “All the Small Things,” via YouTube
Rich men have the luxury of looking to the stars for investment and wish fulfillment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to make interplanetary travel cheap and routine. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, envisions moving industry off Earth and shipping products down from space.
Tom DeLonge says he wants to build “a perpetual funding machine” to investigate UFOs and thereby advance our own species.
At a launch event for To the Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore “the most controversial secret on Earth.”
DeLonge, who was unavailable for comment, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in “clandestine encounters” in “desert airports” and “vacant buildings deep within Washington, D.C.”
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
Footage shows an encounter between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.”(To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)
“The phenomenon is indeed real,” Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of “overwhelming evidence” that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
Elizondo had overseen the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, quietly created in 2007 by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) with the encouragement of a reclusive Nevada billionaire named Robert Bigelow. Like DeLonge, Bigelow made his fortune through earthly pursuits (real estate) but was fascinated by the otherworldly; he had funded research into crop and cattle mutilations. After he got Reid’s attention, Bigelow’s aerospace company then won the $22 million contract to run the Pentagon’s secret program, as first reported by the New York Times late last year. (Reid and Bigelow did not respond to requests for comment.)
Despite its peculiar mandate, Bigelow Aerospace’s output was typical of federal bureaucracy: It produced paper. There was a 490-page report on alleged UFO sightings, and a series of studies on experimental physics. One study written for the Defense Intelligence Agency (“Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy”) urged federal research into interstellar travel and was illustrated with a childish drawing of a dinosaur greeting Albert Einstein through a hole in the space-time continuum.
But the secret program’s collection of weird military videos was what made headlines, starting with the December New York Times article. Whatever is in the videos “isn’t human, it’s not natural, it’s under artificial control,” says Eric W. Davis, the astrophysicist who wrote the study on wormholes and stargates. “We don’t know where it comes from. But it’s here, and has been here for some time.”
Davis, who works for a Bigelow subcontractor called Earthtech International, is but one player in the web of UFO enthusiasts who are interconnected by the secret Pentagon program and To the Stars Academy. There is also Earthtech’s chief executive, Stanford-trained physicist Harold Puthoff, who once devoted serious study to the work of self-described “mystifier” Uri Geller, the 1970s “Tonight Show” guest who claimed he could bend spoons with his mind.
When Puthoff heard about DeLonge’s interest in extraterrestrial phenomena, he reached out — and, like Elizondo, ended up with a new job after Pentagon funding for UFO research dried up. He’s now vice president for science and technology for To the Stars. Elizondo is its director of global security and special programs.
Elizondo and Puthoff were among the key voices quoted in the blockbuster front-page Times article that revealed the covert existence of the Pentagon’s UFO program. The story drew millions of readers online, with the videos of flying shapes and incredulous pilots murmuring “My gosh!” and “Look at that thing!”
Though DeLonge’s new venture got a nod in the article, the rock star himself was not mentioned. Nonetheless, To the Stars was ready for its moment.
“STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGE EXPOSE” the company declared in a news release. The homepage of its new website featured a button labeled “INVEST.”
"What if people knew that these were real?" DeLonge sang on the 1999 track "Aliens Exist." In fact, most Americans believe in extraterrestrial life. Still, the subject carries the odor of crazy, so the recent news coverage of the videos was "huge," says Jan Harzan, director of the Mutual UFO Network, a group that investigates sightings.
“Basically, it made UFOs go mainstream,” Harzan says. “UFOs are real. And it represents advanced technology in our skies. If we want to advance as a civilization, this is something we have to focus on.”
The 2004 video highlighted by the Times is a touchstone for To the Stars, which put out its own report that, with its blacked-out passages, resembled a declassified government document. The report described how the unidentified object off the coast of California moved "in a manner that seemed to defy the laws of flight physics" and how the F/A-18 pilots, greeted upon their return by TVs playing "Men in Black" and "The X-Files," felt their observations were not taken seriously. One pilot, furious at the ridicule, sent detailed notes to an aunt. "Keep this because this is important stuff," the pilot wrote.
Yet the report from To the Stars is not a government document, according to a Pentagon spokesperson. Dated Sept. 7, 2017, it was created 13 years after that UFO incident, as To the Stars geared up to court investors.
When the Times article appeared in December, astronomer Jill Tarter thought to herself: “Here we go again.” Co-founder of the SETI Institute, Tarter has spent her career searching for signs of life beyond Earth, and over the years she has repeatedly encountered the same names — people who believe we’ve been visited by aliens. Tarter is not so convinced.
Jill Tarter, of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., in 2011. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
The Times article cited Bigelow and Puthoff, whose interest in the paranormal is no secret. Tarter says Bigelow once pitched SETI on a project to investigate alien sightings and offered to fund it.
“It’s hard to walk away from money,” Tarter says, but Bigelow “was so very convinced that we have been visited, and I couldn’t find it credible, and he didn’t offer any evidence.”
And the article, co-written by two Times veterans, also gave a byline to freelancer Leslie Kean. The author of books on UFOs and the afterlife (which received blurbs of praise from Puthoff), Kean had previously been given an exclusive on the To the Stars launch for a laudatory HuffPost article about DeLonge’s start-up: “Inside Knowledge About Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Could Lead To World-Changing Technology.”
“I just hope they have success,” Kean later told Open Minds UFO Radio. “I think what Tom [DeLonge] has done is extraordinary.” (Kean and the Times declined to comment.)
On its website, To the Stars bills the UFO videos as “the first official evidence” of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (while promising “THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING”). But an online community of skeptics has swarmed the videos, noting that the “glowing aura” in one video resembles a common infrared effect caused when a hot object, such as a jet engine, is seen against a cold background, such as high-altitude clouds.
“DeLonge had been promising so much for such a long time” and “people were either becoming very cynical or gathering a sense of real expectation,” says Robert Sheaffer, a former Silicon Valley engineer and former chairman of the Bay Area Skeptics. Now, he says, To the Stars has simply put forward a “a couple more blurry videos that are similar to the blurry videos we’ve had before this.”
The latest blurry video, released by To the Stars in March, features a blip zooming at low altitude off the East Coast in 2015. Some debunkers reasoned that it was a big, slow-moving bird that looked fast only because of the angle and movement of the observing jet.
(To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science)
An official with the Defense Intelligence Agency maintains that the hype over the secret Pentagon UFO program is misleading.
“Some out there seem to be making this into more than it really is,” said the official, who was granted anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The program, he said, was not created to investigate unearthly technology but simply to prepare for aerospace advances by foreign adversaries — and was shuttered in 2012 because “there was limited value in what was produced.”
But that, argues Christopher Mellon, is exactly the problem.
Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, is another adviser to DeLonge’s team. Mellon says there have been numerous other incidents along the East Coast in which unidentified flying objects have apparently penetrated U.S. defenses. There are more videos yet to be shared, he says, and “hard technical data corroborated by no-nonsense military personnel.”
Are these things Russian? Chinese? Or from some alien civilization? Whatever they are, the government has not been taking it seriously enough, Mellon argues. (The Pentagon declined to comment.) The situation reminds him of the muddled period before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Instead of being intrigued or even electrified by worrisome data,” he says, “various agencies and "departments are failing to share information or take action."
DeLonge performing with Blink-182 in Las Vegas in 2011. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
This is why Mellon, Elizondo and other credentialed individuals with advanced degrees and decades of high-clearance government service have attached their reputations to a semiretired rock star with a sideline in paranormal fiction. At least someone, they argue, is taking their concerns seriously.
“I think people look at him as a rock-’n’-roller turned pseudo-scientist,” says Elizondo, “but once you get to know who he is, Tom is more of a scientist who happens to be a talented musician.” His endeavor “is about telling the American people the truth.”
For Elizondo, transparency on this issue is paramount. “We trust the American people to know that Kim Jong Un has thermonuclear weapons pointed at L.A.,” he says. “We trust the American people to know there’s a potential Ebola pandemic that could come out of Africa. And yet we don’t trust the American people with information that there is unidentified phenomena in our airspace, and that we don’t know how it works?”
DeLonge’s goals, though, reach beyond national security. To the Stars promises to develop “next-generation” concepts for propulsion in space, according to its prospectus, and harness “warp drive metrics” and telepathic powers.
There is also a somewhat mystical mission: “to present a positive and unifying message to all generations, in every country, in every belief system, that the growth of consciousness that we all desire can start here, right now,” DeLonge said at his October launch.
It seems to be getting off to a slow start. As of mid-March, To the Stars had raised $2.5 million from a few thousand investors — not quite enough to achieve faster-than-light travel or to solve whatever mystery is unfolding in the skies. DeLonge lent To the Stars $600,000 to get off the ground, and the company is required to pay him $100,000 in yearly royalty fees.
For now, To the Stars’ only deliverables are DeLonge’s novels, some branded coffee mugs and clothing, and swag from his current rock band, Angels and Airwaves. The latest news from the company was an April 3 news release touting the upcoming sequel to DeLonge’s novel “Sekret Machines.” The release hyped Elizondo and Mellon’s involvement in the company, lending a dash of national-security authority to a niche-market entertainment product. The novel is about explorers who “locate an ancient tablet that may hold the answers to humanity’s greatest question”: Are we alone in the universe?
The novel — “based on actual events” — is available in September, starting at $24.95.
U.S. Navy Had a UFO Encounter According to Leaked Military Report
U.S. Navy Had a UFO Encounter According to Leaked Military Report
The reported UFO disturbance was said to descend rapidly from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in seconds.
A recently leaked alleged military report details an incredible encounter between the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and an unidentified aircraft. U.S. Navy F-18 jet fighter pilots described the object as looking like a giant, white Tic Tac, and say it moved to evade them by shooting off at “supersonic” speeds. The USS Nimitz CSG encountered the objects over several days in 2004 off the coast of California. The most shocking parts of the report speculate that the UFO could have had the ability to “‘cloak’ or become invisible to the human eye” and “possibly… operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors.”
Den of Geek contacted several individuals close to the case to confirm the document’s legitimacy.
Last December, The New York Times posted an article revealing a Pentagon project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) that was secretly investigating credible UFO cases. The world was tipped off to the existence of the project by the man who was recently in charge of the project, Luis Elizondo. Elizondo retired in Oct. 2017 because the government did not take the UFO situation seriously enough. He says there are “many accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities,” and that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
The New York Times article included two videos allegedly representing cases of UFOs caught on video by military aircraft. Little information about the videos is available. However, the other was said to be from an encounter between an unknown object and the USS Nimitz CSG off of the coast of San Diego in 2004.
Soon after the New York Times article was released, there was a worldwide storm of press on the secretive UFO program. Elizondo and Commander David Fravor, one of the U.S. Navy jet fighter pilots who encountered the unidentified object, participated in several interviews. However, no official documents were released.
On May 18, 2018, Las Vegas KLAS Channel 8’s I-Team posted an articleabout a leaked report they had obtained. The I-Team claims the report was “prepared by and for the military.” They obtained the report during “a whirlwind trip to Washington for a debriefing arranged by former Senator Harry Reid.” Reid had been instrumental in securing funding for the creation of AATIP.
According to the I-Team, the leaked report was put together in 2009 “with input from multiple agencies.” The report begins with an executive summary, makes several key assessments, describes the technology involved in the incident, and then describes the accounts of the personnel involved.
The executive summary reveals encounters with what they call Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) occurred over several days, from Nov. 10 to 16, 2004 off the west coast, just before the USS Nimitz CSG left for the Arabian Sea. According to the report, “The USS Princeton on several occasions detected multiple Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) operating in and around the vicinity of the CSG.”
“The AAVs would descend ‘very rapidly’ from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in a matter of seconds,” the report continues. “They would hover or stay stationary on the radar for a short time and depart at high velocities and turn rates.”
According to the report, on Nov. 14, 2004, they got a closer look at one of these AAVs. It was a bright day with “blue skies, no clouds, and unlimited visibility.” After completing their training mission, two F-18s, call signs FASTEAGLE 01 and 02, were directed by the USS Princeton, a guided missile cruiser in the USS Nimitz CSG, to an unknown target. The USS Princeton also asked what weapons they had onboard, which was unusual.
One of the pilots, U.S. Navy Commander David ‘Sex’ Fravor in FASTEAGLE01, says the first thing he noticed at the location of the AAV was a “disturbance of water” in the sea. He scanned the area and noticed the AAV was just above the disturbance, which he said: “looked like frothy waves and foam almost as if the water was boiling.”
A U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel piloting an F-18 was also sent in to take a look. He was asked to stay above 10,000 feet as other planes were coming in lower. He also spotted the disturbance in the water.
“The disturbance appeared to be 50 to 100 meters in diameter and close to round,” according to the report. “It was the only area and type of whitewater activity that could be seen and reminded him of images of something rapidly submerging from the surface like a submarine or ship sinking. It also looked like a possible area of shoal water where the swell was breaking over a barely submerged reef or island.”
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At around the same time, FASTEAGLE01 descended to about 12,000 to 16,000 feet to get a closer look. FASTEAGLE02 stayed back and maintained an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet. Fravor said the object hovered in place. He described the object as looking “like an elongated egg or a ‘Tic Tac’ and had a discernible midline horizontal axis. However, the object was uniformly white across the entire body. It was approximately 46 feet in length.”
The name of the pilot in FASTEAGLE02 was redacted from the report, but he had a similar description. He said the AAV was “solid white, smooth, with no edges. It was uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons, or wings.” He said it did not glow or reflect sunlight, and “it looked like it had a white candy-coated shell, almost like a whiteboard.” His report did differ slightly from Fravor in that he says the object did appear to be moving.
Fravor decided to make a close pass of the object to try and identify it. He says as he approached, the AAV seemed to “recognize us.” He said the object realigned itself and “pointed” in his direction. The disturbance on the water also stopped. As Fravor continued his approach, the object suddenly shot up at “a supersonic speed.”
Fravor asked if the USS Princeton still had the AAV on the radar, and at first was told “no.” Soon after, the USS Princeton told Fravor, “you’re not going to believe this, it's at your CAP.” The CAP was the area Fravor had been training in earlier in the day. The USS Princeton added, the AAV “had climbed to approximately 24,000 feet.” They tried to locate the object, but it and the disturbance in the ocean were gone.
Although the AAV was not seen by Fravor again, this was not the last of the anomalous activity for the day. During training exercises, the USS Nimitz CSG acquired a weak radar target. The pilot of the F-18 attempting to track the object said, it “just appeared the radar couldn’t hack it.” However, he was able to spot the object using his Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera. The pilot was at 20,000 feet traveling at 300 knots, and estimated the object was at about the same altitude or a “few thousand feet below.”
The object appeared to be stationary on the FLIR camera, then moved out of the camera’s field of view and contact with the object was lost. A portion of this video was released in the New York Times article, although the pilot said he was not sure if it was the same object Fravor saw earlier in the day. He also said he only caught it on camera and never saw it with his own eyes. After he lost contact with the object, the pilot returned to his training mission.
The USS Nimitz CSG included the USS Louisville Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine. Researchers asked a USS Louisville officer if their sonar caught any of the disturbance reported. The officer replied they had received “no unidentified sonar contacts in the vicinity of the aerial sightings or at any time during operations off the coast of California.”
Thus the report concluded, “Based on the lack of detection of any unidentified sonar contacts it is highly unlikely that an AAV operated below the surface of the ocean.”
Then the report continued with some shocking speculation.
“It is possible the AAV demonstrated the ability to be cloaked or invisible to the human eye based on pilot reporting of the water disturbance with no visible craft,” the report explains. “Based on the assessment of Mr. [withheld] if the AAV did operate underwater undetected it would represent a highly advanced capability given the advanced capability of our sensors.”
The report also made note of a significant amount of ridicule the pilots involved with the AAV incident received once back on the carrier. Fravor said when he was back onboard he reported to the Carrier Intelligence Center (CVIC). Once he got there, he says, “CVIC had donned tin-foil caps and wanted to know about the ‘UFO flight.’”
CVIC completed a mission report (MISREP) on the incident, but the Carrier Air Wing Intelligence Officer was not taking the situation seriously. Out of respect for Fravor, who is described as “a very experienced and highly respected squadron commanding officer,” the report was sent up to the Commander of the Air Wing, who also did not take the incident seriously.
According to the report, “When asked what [the Commander of the Air Wing] thought the AAV was he replied that he believed it was part of a counter drug operation based on the area of operations.”
The author of the leaked report disagreed and wrote these “key assessments.”
The Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) was no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any foreign nation.
The AAV exhibited advanced aerodynamic performance with no visible control surfaces and no visible means to generate lift.
The AAV exhibited advanced propulsion capability by demonstrating the ability to remain stationary with little to no variation in altitude transitioning to horizontal and/or vertical velocities far greater than any know aerial vehicle with little to no visible signature.
The AAV possibly demonstrated the ability to ‘cloak’ or become invisible to the human eye or human observations.
The AAV possibly demonstrated a highly advanced capability to operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors.
Since KLAS leaked this report, there have been some doubts as to whether the military wrote it. Doubters have claimed the report does not follow the correct format, is speculative, and lists Wikipedia as sources in a couple of instances.
I-Team member George Knapp, who wrote the article releasing the report, said he was not able to share more information about his sources at the time we contacted him. However, Leslie Kean, one of the authors of the December New York Times article, tweeted the report and wrote, “This was provided to us at the NY Times by a source in 2017. It was not classified; I can confirm that it's legit.”
When we contacted Kean, she said she doesn't know for sure, but she thinks the group contracted by AATIP, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), put it together. She is probably right.
The New York Times article reported Bigelow Aerospace was contracted to perform UFO investigations for AATIP. Robert Bigelow, a Las Vegas businessman and owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America, founded Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow has had a lifelong interest in UFOs and the paranormal.
He is also interested in space. He founded Bigelow Aerospace in 1995 and it has become a significant player in the commercial space industry. BAASS is the division in Bigelow Aerospace dedicated to exploring the unknown.
Dr. Eric Davis is an astrophysicist who has worked with BAASS and he recently responded to comments on social media that were criticising the format of the leaked Nimitz report.
“The 2009 Nimitz Tic-Tac UFO report is a typical sensitive-but-unclassified Navy component agency field investigation report, and I know the investigators/authors,” Davis wrote on Facebook. “The report followed the investigators’ own document/report format as there was no requirement for them to use any specific [Department of Defense] or [U.S. Navy] component agency document format.”
Further confirmation came from documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. Corbell is currently working on a project with Knapp regarding BAASS investigations and has been researching the Nimitz UFO event for several years. Corbell has been in contact with Fravor and he told Den of Geekthat, according to Fravor, the report leaked by Knapp and KLAS is the most accurate account of the events he has seen.
Corbell also says he has spoken with military sources who say the Tic Tac object actively jammed the F-18s radars. There was a large round object spotted under the water at the disturbance that some believe the Tic Tac object docked with, and that the large round object was seen leaving the water.
Corbell says he will be releasing more information on his investigation sometime in the future, but even without Corbell’s claims, the Nimitz report is mind-boggling, and according to Elizondo, there are more UFO cases in the Pentagon files just as juicy.
"There are many, many Nimitz incidences that are equally compelling, that are told from the eyes of people like Commander Dave Fravor," Elizondo told KLAS.
According to KLAS, “Another highly classified version [of the Nimitz report] was also written but is unlikely to ever be released.” When contacted by Den of Geek, Elizondo said he had seen a military report on the Nimitz incident but had not yet seen the report released by KLAS, so he is not sure if it was the same report. However, Elizondo said Knapp is a professional journalist, and he is sure Knapp would use credible sources.
When we commented to Elizondo on the shocking nature of the Nimitz report, he replied, “You ain't seen nothing yet, baby!”
The Pentagon’s UFO Research Project, and Its Incremental Migrations into the Public Mainstream
The Pentagon’s UFO Research Project, and Its Incremental Migrations into the Public Mainstream
The hand remains hidden
The latest insights into a 14-year-old UFO incident “prepared by and for the military,” according to KLAS-TV investigative reporter George Knapp, read like the dry first chapter on the beginning of a new era. That’s probably wishful thinking from a malcontent exhausted by the predictability of despair. On the other hand, a mere glimmer of an alternative future is worth a little applause. Or at least a Mexican dog dance.
BY Billy Coxx De Void 5-24-18
Newly Leaked Pentagon Analysis of "Tic Tac" UFO [REPORT]
Count ‘em: 13 single-spaced pages of a wonkishly detailed narrative about what happened during an unscheduled military rendezvous with a cosmic hot rod off the coast of southern California in November 2004. Included is an itemized rundown of every feature of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG-11), as well as profiles of tracking hardware wired for astonishing capabilities. (The AN/SPY-1 phased array radar system, for instance, can scan for more than 100 targets simultaneously and, as Knapp put it last Friday, is “capable of detecting a golf ball at 100 miles.”) And nothing sounds more official than the clutter of arcane acronyms, none more significant than AAV – Anomalous Aerial Vehicle.
This “Executive Summary,” which Knapp said was compiled in 2009, revisits the mystery that CSG-11 found itself confronting over a six-day period five years earlier when AAVs, UFOs, UCTs, UAP, EFOs or whatever we’re calling them these days decided to introduce the U.S. Navy to its limitations. In three separate incidents, the AAV easily outpaced/outmaneuvered the fleet’s attempts to make the intruder’s license plate. “Given its ability to operate unchallenged in close vicinity to the CSG,” concluded the summary, “it demonstrated the potential to conduct undetected reconnaissance, leaving the CSG with a limited ability to detect, track, and/or engage the AAV.”
The centerpiece of the encounter, as we all know now, is the so-called Tic-Tac video, showcased to great effect in December by the New York Times. Approximately 46 feet long, the breath mint-shaped UFO effectively evaded every approach by carrier fighters, eluded radar, showed evidence of invisibility cloaking, reversed course at a bone-sloshing angle, and plummeted within “a matter of seconds” the height of two Mount Everests stacked atop each other. Navy pilots got halfway decent glimpses of Tic-Tac only after it appeared to slow down to let them catch up. Also: Tic Tac and/or something associated with it churned the otherwise glassy ocean surface below into what looked like water displacement. Then it beat our warplanes back to their original vector point.
Tyler Rogoway, the War Zone defense industry reporter who has raised the bar in this field over the past couple of months with stellar FOIA work on two recent U.S. incidents, is unambiguously impressed with the quality of the witnesses and the overall level of detail in the accounting.
“Regardless if you think the AATIP program was totally legit or some type of elaborate misinformation mechanism dreamed up in the darkest corners of the defense-industrial complex,” Rogoway wrote on Tuesday, “during that week in November of 2004, something totally strange did indeed occur. And it didn’t just happen in a blink of an eye, it happened over days, with the object in question being examined by a multitude of the U.S. Navy’s front-line sensors as well as by the human eye of one of the best-trained and reliable observers one can imagine.”
A worthy debate over the provenance of the documents is ongoing. Between now and whenever the authenticity issue is resolved, the military’s characterization of the intruder(s) – “no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any other foreign nation,” “advanced aerodynamic performance,” “advanced propulsion capability,” and “possibly … a highly advanced capability to operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors” – is making an implicit but revolutionary concession: not only can’t we compete with Tic Tac, the thing appears to be mocking our illusions of absolute control.
Meanwhile, conversations generated by the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, unmasked by the Times late last year as the Pentagon’s erstwhile UFO research project, continue their incremental migrations into the public mainstream.
Last month, Politico celebrated the addition of space news coverage by sponsoring a bipartisan discussion joined by Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA), Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL), and Mary Lynne Dittmar, advisor to Donald Trump’s space policy council on behalf of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration. In a pleasantly surprising move, the Politico moderator asked them to weigh in on the recent UFO dustup. Both pols advocated for hearings before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. “Look,” Bera added, “if you want to boost our C-Span ratings, a lot of people would be really interested.”
Gee. Wonder why nobody ever thought of that before? Maybe it’s time to trot out of some of 2016’s greatest disappointments and ask once again: Could The Great Taboo become a campaign issue? Raise your hand if you thought three years ago that Trump could ever get elected president. And what role does the veracity of these Tic Tac documents play in moving forward? After all, they are, ahem, devoid of government imprimatur or release dates. There are no signatures or code numbers to tell us where this buck stops. And those familiar with the secret sharers are playing it close.
Strike Fighter Squadron 41 Top Gun pilots aboard the USS Nimitz were vastly out-performed by the Tic Tac UFO in 2004/CREDIT: naval-technology.com
Leslie Kean, co-author of The Times piece, says her team reviewed the documents last October, and the accounting was essential to convincing them to pursue the AATIP story. “We … were given them by confidential sources who provided them to us under the agreement that they were for us only and not for public release,” she states. “We don’t release documents provided in this way.”
Mr. Knapp isn’t spilling the beans, either. “The report has never been ‘released’ in a formal sense,” he writes in an email. “I can’t say how anyone else got a copy, but mine was leaked, as opposed to being released. I obtained it— along with other materials– back in March. My plan all along was to write a couple of news stories to air in May, which allowed me enough time to verify the contents and also to put together a few news reports to air on KLAS. My primary audience is the viewing public of Las Vegas, not the UFO community.”
So what’s going on backstage? Whoever is controlling this material appears deeply conflicted. Or maybe there’s a fissure in the bureaucracy, or whatever passes for containment walls these days. Given the halting, piecemeal release of documents and videos, which might’ve packed an even bigger wallop were they all bundled together in December, it’s pretty clear that that no one is really in full command of this storyline, at least not yet. And in these fact-challenged times, maybe that’s not an entirely bad thing.
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