The Pentagon's latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena

According to the report, Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system is one increasingly common source as people mistake chains of satellites for UFOs

The Pentagon’s latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin. The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds and satellites as well as some that defy easy explanation, such as a near-miss between a commercial airliner and a mysterious object off the coast of New York.

While it is not likely to settle any debates over the existence of alien life, the report reflects heightened public interest in the topic and the government’s efforts to provide some answers. Its publication comes a day after House legislators called for greater government transparency during a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs – the government’s term for UFOs.

Federal efforts to study and identify UAPs have focused on potential threats to national security or air safety and not their science fiction aspects. Officials at the Pentagon office created in 2022 to track UAPs, known as the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), have said there is no indication any of the cases they looked into have unearthly origins.

“It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology,” the authors of the report wrote. The Pentagon’s review covered 757 cases from around the world that were reported to US authorities from May 1 2023 to June 1 2024.

The total includes 272 incidents that occurred before that time period but had not been previously reported. The great majority of the reported incidents occurred in airspace, but 49 occurred at altitudes estimated to be at least 100 kilometres (62 miles), which is considered space.

None occurred underwater. Reporting witnesses included commercial and military pilots as well as ground-based observers.

Investigators found explanations for nearly 300 of the incidents. In many cases, the unknown objects were found to be balloons, birds, aircraft, drones or satellites.

According to the report, Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system is one increasingly common source as people mistake chains of satellites for UFOs. Hundreds of other cases remain unexplained, though the report’s authors stressed that is often because there is not enough information to draw firm conclusions.

No injuries or crashes were reported in any of the incidents, though a commercial flight crew reported one near miss with a “cylindrical object” while flying over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York. That incident remains under investigation.

In three other cases, military air crews reported being followed or shadowed by unidentified aircraft, though investigators could find no evidence to link the activity to a foreign power. For witnesses who provided visual descriptions, unidentified lights or round, spherical or orb-shaped objects were commonly reported.

Other reports included a witness who reported a jellyfish with flashing lights. During Wednesday’s hearing on UAPs, legislators heard evidence from several expert witnesses who have studied the phenomena, including two former military officers.

The discussion included fanciful questions about alien intelligence and military research using alien technology as well as concerns that foreign powers may be using secret aircraft to spy on US military installations.

Legislators said the many questions about UAPs show the need for the government to closely study the issue – and share those findings with Americans. There is something out there,” said Republican Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee.

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15-11-2024 om 17:12 geschreven door peter  

“AARO has successfully resolved hundreds of cases in its holdings to commonplace objects such as balloons, birds, drones, satellites and aircraft,” the office’s director, Jon Kosloski, said in a news release. “Only a very small percentage of reports to AARO are potentially anomalous, but these are the cases that require significant time, resources and a focused scientific inquiry by AARO and its partners.” 

In the past, U.S. military and intelligence officials have suggested that some UAP sightings may be attributable to intrusions by rival powers such as Russia or China. The Chinese spy balloon that was intercepted and destroyed by Air Force fighter jets last year after crossing over the U.S. serves as a prime example.

AARO’s latest report says that U.S. military aircrews provided two reports over the past year that identified flight safety concerns, and three reports described pilots being trailed or shadowed by anomalous objects. “To date, AARO has no indication or confirmation that these activities are attributable to foreign adversaries,” the report says, but the office is continuing to work with the U.S. intelligence community to investigate the cases.

“None of the reports AARO received during the reporting period indicated that observers suffered any adverse health effects,” the report says.

AARO’s reporting system was established to encourage members of the U.S. military to let the Pentagon know about UAP sightings and take the stigma out of the process. Based on the latest numbers, the strategy seems to be working. Between May 2023 and June 2024, AARO received 757 UAP reports, compared with 291 reports for the period between August 2022 and April 2023.

Here are more statistics from today’s report:

• Of the 757 reports received over the past year, 485 relate to incidents during the yearlong reporting period, and the remaining 272 reports relate to incidents occurring in the 2021-2022 time frame.
• In addition to the 118 resolved cases, another 174 cases have been queued up for closure, pending a final review and approval by AARO’s director. All those cases were attributed to prosaic objects.
• Seventy percent of the closed cases in 2023-2024 were attributed to balloons. Sixteen percent were attributed to drones, 8% to birds, 4% to satellites and 2% to birds.
• AARO determined that 21 cases merited further analysis, based on reported anomalous characteristics or behaviors. Those cases are being studied by AARO’s experts as well as the office’s partners in the intelligence community and the science and tech community. “AARO will provide immediate notification to Congress should AARO identify that any cases indicate or involve a breakthrough foreign adversarial aerospace capability,” the report says.
• The remaining 444 cases received over the past year lacked sufficient data for further analysis. They’ve been placed in an archive and will be revisited if additional data comes to light. AARO says it has 1,652 UAP reports in all.
• In addition to reports from the U.S. military, AARO is receiving reports of sightings by civil and commercial pilots via the Federal Aviation Administration. AARO says 392 of the 757 reports received over the past year came from the FAA.
• AARO says unidentified lights or orb-shaped objects were mentioned most frequently in the subset of UAP reports that included references to visual characteristics. Other reports mentioned cylinders, disks, triangles, squares or exotic objects such as a “green fireball” or “a jellyfish with flashing lights.”

AARO’s global map of UAP reporting hotspots highlights four broad areas: the southeastern U.S. and Gulf of Mexico; the West Coast and Pacific Northwest; the Middle East; and northeastern Asia in the vicinity of Japan and the Korean peninsula. This doesn’t mean the aliens favor those regions. Instead, AARO says the distribution favors a “continued geographic collection bias based on locations near U.S. military assets and sensors operating globally.”

AARO says it’s getting an increasing number of cases that can be traced to sightings of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. “For example, a commercial pilot reported white flashing lights in the night sky,” the report says. “The pilot did not report an altitude or speed, and no data or imagery was recorded. AARO assessed that this sighting of flashing lights correlated with a Starlink satellite launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the same evening about one hour prior to the sighting.”

One of the reports received via the FAA mentioned a possible flight safety issue. “In this instance, a commercial aircrew reported a near miss with a ‘cylindrical object’ while over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York,” the report says. “AARO continues its research into, and analysis of, this case.”

AARO received 18 reports from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that related to UAP incidents near U.S. nuclear infrastructure, weapons and launch sites. NRC officials attributed all those sightings to drones. One of the incidents, in August 2023, involved the recovery of a crashed drone in the vicinity of the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan — but AARO provided no further information about the drone.

What more can be done? In today’s report, AARO says its ability to resolve cases has been constrained due to “a lack of timely and actionable sensor data.”

“AARO continues to address this challenge by working with military and technical partners to optimize sensor requirements, information-sharing processes, and the content of UAP reporting,” the report says. “AARO is also expanding engagement with foreign partners to share information and collaborate on best practices for resolving UAP cases.”

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15-11-2024 om 16:26 geschreven door peter  

Welcome to this week’s double-sized installment of The Intelligence Brief… today, the DoD released its 2024 annual report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), within 24 hours of the conclusion of a Congressional hearing on the topic. In our analysis of this week’s UAP double-hit combo, we’ll be looking at 1) significant takeaways from the latest official report on the DoD’s UAP investigations, 2) trends reported by the DoD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and then shifting gears, we’ll examine 3) what former officials told lawmakers on Capitol hill yesterday involving UAP and 4) how claims involving secret U.S. programs and Pentagon disinformation campaigns became a major focal point of yesterday’s hearing.

Quote of the Week

“Let me be clear: UAP are real. Advanced technologies not made by our government—or any other government—are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe.”

– Luis Elizondo

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With all that out of the way, it’s time to dive into the DoD’s latest report on its ongoing investigations into unidentified anomalous phenomena and what a group of lawmakers said about the topic during a congressional hearing earlier this week.

The DoD Just Dropped Its Latest UAP Report

On Thursday, the DoD released the Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, the Pentagon’s latest official annual installment detailing its progress in studying and evaluating unusual phenomena encountered by U.S. military personnel.

The new report covers incidents from May 1, 2023, to June 1, 2024, and any previously undocumented reports from earlier periods. According to the document, the DoD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) received 757 UAP reports, 485 of which occurred during the most recent reporting period (272 reports were from a period between 2021 and 2022).

Among the key takeaways from the new report, AARO received two reports indicating flight safety concerns, and “three reports described pilots being trailed or shadowed by UAP.”

“To date, AARO has no indication or confirmation that these activities are attributable to foreign adversaries,” the report states, adding that “AARO continues to coordinate with the Intelligence Community (IC) to identify whether these activities may be the result of foreign adversarial activities.”

The new AARO report also says 49 of the cases it received were resolved, 243 were recommended for closure and are pending peer review, and 444 lacked enough data for reliable analysis. Presently, no cases it resolved have been linked to suspected foreign adversarial technologies, nor do any appear to display evidence of advanced capabilities or other scientific or technological breakthroughs.

Unknowns, UAP Trends, and Further Analysis  

However, the report states that “AARO determined 21 cases merit further analysis by its IC and science and technology (S&T) partners,” which the office “is working closely with its IC and S&T partners to understand and attribute,” given that these cases appear to “merit further analysis based on reported anomalous characteristics and/or behaviors.”

The report also says observed UAP morphologies and other attributes remain consistent with traditional observations, with most reported UAP appearing as spherical objects. The report does include several examples of less conventional reported morphologies including descriptions of a “green fire ball,” “a jelly fish with [multicolored] flashing lights,” and a “silver rocket approximately six feet long.”

AARO’s investigations also reveal that the office “increasingly receives cases that it is able to resolve to the Starlink satellite constellation,” as well as sensor artifacts on various systems that lead to misidentification of birds and similar prosaic objects.

The report notes 392 reports AARO received from the FAA, only one of which involved possible flight safety issues arising from a commercial aircrew reporting a near miss with a “cylindrical object” it encountered off the coast of New York, one of several cases AARO is still analyzing.

The report also details the recovery of a crashed unmanned aerial system (UAS) near the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant, which was later provided to local law enforcement. As far as any more exotic crash retrievals, the report states that “AARO Possesses No Data to Indicate the Capture or Exploitation of UAP,” although protocols are currently in development in the event such capture were ever to occur. In the recent reporting period, AARO also says it received no reports involving adverse physiological or health effects.

Unclassified diagram detailing AARO’s GREMLIN sensor suite, which employs various sensor capabilities to detect and track UAP in areas of interest

(Credit: DoD/AARO).

AARO also reported that it has begun testing its new GREMLIN sensor system, which the office says “demonstrated functionality and successfully collected data during a test event in March of 2024.”

“The next step for GREMLIN is a 90-day pattern of life collection at a site of national security,” the report states.

UAP and Government Transparency on Capitol Hill

The release of the 2024 annual UAP report was preceded by a congressional hearing on Wednesday, the latest in a series that have recently addressed the UAP subject. Several former officials, including Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, former counterintelligence special agent Luis Elizondo, and former NASA UAP Independent Study Team member Mike Gold, along with independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, spoke before a bipartisan group of lawmakers, who expressed frustration over government secrecy surrounding the Pentagon’s investigations.

Luis Elizondo

(Credit: To The Stars Academy).

“Has the government conducted secret UAP crash retrieval programs, yes or no?” Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) pointedly asked Elizondo during the hearing.

“Yes,” Elizondo said, also responding in the affirmative to an immediate follow-up from Mace asking if such programs were designed to identify and reverse-engineer alien craft.

Secret Programs and Disinformation Campaigns

Also contributing to the discussion involving alleged secret UAP programs was witness Michael Shellenberger, an independent journalist and founder of Public, who published a report several weeks ago detailing the existence of an alleged secret UAP program called “Immaculate Constellation.” According to Shellenberger’s sources (all of which currently remain on background), the U.S. Executive Branch has concealed the existence of UAP programs for decades without congressional oversight.

Another notable highlight from the recent hearing involved assertions by Gallaudet and Elizondo involving disinformation campaigns carried out by the DoD. Specifically, Elizondo highlighted instances involving information management campaigns that he claims have aimed not only to mislead the public, but also to harm his credibility. Gallaudet also discussed a meeting he attended with AARO officials earlier this year, which he likened to being an “influence operation,” where officials appeared to try and convince him of the possibility that a famous 2004 UAP incident involving an object popularly known as the Tic Tac might have been secret U.S. technology.

When pressed on what UAP might represent, the witnesses offered diverse views. Gallaudet and Elizondo suggested non-human intelligence could be a plausible explanation, while Shellenberger and NASA’s Michael Gold were uncertain about what UAP might be. However, Gold warned against making assumptions, telling Rep. Mace that “the ultimate answer is going to surprise us all.” You can find The Debrief’s complete coverage of Wednesday’s Congressional hearing on our website.

That concludes this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief. You can read past editions of our newsletter at our website, or if you found this installment online, don’t forget to subscribe and get future email editions from us here. Also, if you have a tip or other information you’d like to send along directly to me, you can email me at micah [@] thedebrief [dot] org, or Tweet at me @MicahHanks.

• You can find the unclassified version of the annual UAP report here.

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14-11-2024 om 21:05 geschreven door peter  

Department of Defense Releases the Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)

This week the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence delivered to Congress the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena as required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, as amended by the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2023.  

Analyzing and understanding the potential threats posed by UAP is an ongoing collaborative effort involving many departments and agencies, and the department thanks the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other contributing departments and agencies for their collaborative efforts to produce this report.

The safety of our service personnel, our bases and installations, and the protection of U.S. operations security on land, in the skies, seas, and space are paramount. We take reports of incursions into our designated space, land, sea, or airspaces seriously and examine each one.

The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office is leading DOD's efforts, in coordination with ODNI and other government agencies, to document, analyze, and when possible, resolve UAP reports using a rigorous scientific framework and a data-driven approach. This year's UAP report covers UAP reports from May 1, 2023, to June 1, 2024, as well as any UAP report from previous time periods that were not included in an earlier report.  AARO received 757 UAP reports during this period; 485 of these reports featured UAP incidents that occurred during the reporting period. The remaining 272 reports featured UAP incidents that occurred between 2021 and 2022 but were not reported to AARO until this reporting period and consequently were not included in previous annual UAP reports.  This brought the total cases that AARO has been reviewing to over 1,600 as of June 1, 2024.

• You can find the unclassified version of the annual UAP report here.
  
• You can also find the report on odni.gov, and on AARO's website, aaro.mil.

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14-11-2024 om 20:45 geschreven door peter  

By MATTHEW PHELAN IN WASHINGTON DC FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Congress is set to hear testimony from four sworn witnesses on America's weird and troubling UFO problem starting at 11:30am Eastern Time, Wednesday morning — and DailyMail.com is on the ground with live updates from inside the US House of Representatives.

The House Committee On Oversight and Accountability has given Wednesday's open hearings the slightly over-egged, cable TV-ready title 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.' 

But it's no exaggeration to say that the pre-submitted testimony is rife with stark accusations of 'illegal and unethical DoD [Department of Defense] disinformation efforts,' a 'multi-decade, secretive arms race' to reverse-engineer crashed UFO tech and 'even threats.'

21:46

There was massive attendance by public citizens - all eager to see House Oversight's UFO hearing live

There was one anomalous phenomena in Congress that more than a few reporters clocked as it overtook today's House Oversight hearing: rabid public interest.

One civilian visitor to the Capitol building, who hoped to attend the UFO hearing, told DailyMail.com that he'd heard some people were preparing to start loitering outside as early as 4:30am in the hopes of getting one of the coveted 'first come, first serve' seats inside the hearing room.

The line filled at least one entire hallyway of the Rayburn House Office Building, where Wednesday's UFO testimony was sworn to.

'I've covered probaly hundreds of congressional hearings,' as NewsNation Joe Khalil Washington Correspondent put it. 'This doesn't happen.'

20:14

The House Oversight hearing on UFOs is over - spilling out into the halls of Congress

Citizen-scientists, non-profit advocates on the topic of UFOs, and various well-known names in the world of UFO journalism are all keeping the questioning going outside the House Oversight hearing room.

None of what's going on is under oath anymore, but many of the event's spectators and attendees don't appear to be done inquiring about the topic.

UFO documentary filmmaker James Fox, New York Times freelancer investigative reporter Leslie Kean (who helped first bring Lue Elizondo to public reknown), and the man who brought the 'Jellyfish UFO' to the public, Jeremy Corbell, were all observing the hearing, in the room, in person.

For more from the hearing's witnesses, read DailyMail.com's exclusive interview with Luis Elizondo, our coverage of Mike Gold's work with NASA's UFO advisory group and some of Rear Admiral Gallaudet's comments on underwater UFOs.

20:00

Intelligent life may not be green aliens

Government Cybersecurity and Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) took a philosophical or metaphysical direction in her final question: 'How would you define non-human intelligence, non-human biologics? What are we actually talking about.'

Gold was the last to provide his answer, to which he asserted that we must re-examine the idea with modest assumptions, but noted that an advanced visiting intelligence may not actually be biological.

When pressed about what 'non-biological intelligence' means,' Gold replied: 'Artificial intelligence, ML, machines.'

'We assume all intelligence would be like us, but when we look out into the universe we are humbled to what we don't know in terms of the form of intelligence.'

'I can't answer your question, but the ultimate answer will surprise us all.'

19:57

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert endorses 'Flat Earth' theory in unusual, self-deprecating grandstanding commentary

Colorado Rep Lauren Boebert — to some degree best known now for her attendence of 'Beetlejuice: The Musical' — spent her time with the witnesses in an extended, apparently satirical bit about her own reputation for conspiracy theories.

'Now that we have all been cautioned in this committee hearing that the mention of the Pentagon's "Immaculate Constellation" program could put us on a list, well I already find myself on many lists I am sure,' the congresswoman began.

'So, I speak my mind often. So why not now just keep going with it,' she said.

'I may just go all out and say it, "The Earth is flat. The birds are government drones. We never stepped on the moon and Joe Biden received 80 million votes in the 2020 presidential election,"' Rep Boebert told the assembled committee, witnesses and public viewers. 'Lets see how many lists we can get on today.'

19:41

Hearing co-lead grills witness on UFO crash retrievals and who has the craft now

South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace has just spent the past several minutes peppering Elizondo with a volley of questions in an effort to induce him to mention the name of the defense contractor who has long held crashed UFO material.

Rep Mace, who is co-leading this hearing, as chair of House Oversight's National Security Subcommittee, then pivoted to asking Elizondo generic questions about defense contractor Lockheed Martin.

Elizondo said he'd rather let Lockheed — whose 'Skunkworks' designed several of America's most sensitive stealth aircraft since the Cold War —speak for themselves.

19:32

Former NASA advisor raises national security concerns

Florida Rep Anna Luna — who has been very active on the UFO issues with fellow committee member Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett — raised a question to the witnesses about the sophistication of UAP technology.

'It seems that some aircraft are operating off of energy we don't have. If we did obtain it, would it impact humanity for the better or negative?' she asked.

Gold jokingly responded: 'It would certainly save us [i.e. NASA] some money on funding an Artemis,' referring to America's current race to return astronauts to the moon.

However, he put on a serious face to explain how such technology poses threats to America's national security.

'If there is such technology out there we may not be the only country that has access to it. We don't want to be on the wrong end of technological surprise,' he said.

(Mike Gold, at right, testifying during the during the hearing by the House Oversight)

19:27

Was there a failed, secret effort to change ownership of a crashed UFO?

Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison is pressing Luis Elizondo, effectively, on his recent comments on the late night paranormal radio show Coast-to-Coast AM.

When not under oath, Elizondo discussed failed efforts by defense contractor Lockheed Martin to 'divest' itself of a crashed UFO that it had struggled to reverse engineer for decades.

Under oath, Elizondo has been more reticent to name the company specifically, noting again the strictures of what was approved for release by Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR) for his new memoir, 'Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs.'

Rep Burlinson appears to be a fan of sometime DailyMail.com contributor Chris Sharp, referencing his reporting on this failed effort to move the alleged UFO crash parts to Budget Suites billionaire Robert Bigelow's Bigelow Aerospace.

This unsuccessful effort — made public by the Pentagon's AARO in the office's historic UFO report last March — was code named 'Kona Blue.'

(Elizondo, center, during his testimony on Wednesday)

18:55

Louisiana congressman presses reporter for details on anonymous author of 'Immaculate Constellation' report

Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins has been pressing Michael Shellenberger on any details he can provide on his anonymous source: the author of this report on 'Immaculate Constellation.'

'The person is a current or former US government employee,' Shellenberger said cautiously.

When pressed to get into more details, he declined.

Then, when asked by Rep Higgins if he 'can't say or won't say,' Shellenberger replied 'I won't say because I protect my sources.'

14-11-2024 om 16:56 geschreven door peter  

By MATTHEW PHELAN IN WASHINGTON DC FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Congress is set to hear testimony from four sworn witnesses on America's weird and troubling UFO problem starting at 11:30am Eastern Time, Wednesday morning — and DailyMail.com is on the ground with live updates from inside the US House of Representatives.

The House Committee On Oversight and Accountability has given Wednesday's open hearings the slightly over-egged, cable TV-ready title 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.' 

But it's no exaggeration to say that the pre-submitted testimony is rife with stark accusations of 'illegal and unethical DoD [Department of Defense] disinformation efforts,' a 'multi-decade, secretive arms race' to reverse-engineer crashed UFO tech and 'even threats.'

18:25

Michael Shellenberger has brought his anonymous whistleblower's classified report on the secret 'Immaculate Constellation' UFO program with him

I think many who read Shellenberger's investigative report on 'Immaculate Constellation' — or who heard him speak about it on Joe Rogan — might have assumed he was shown this classified congressional briefing at the heart of his story, but not allowed to hold on to a copy.

Apparently, there's no need to speculate on that now: Shellenberger's oral presentation of his pre-written testimony has now included the journalist and academic waving before the committee a copy of that report and a promise to share it with House Oversight.

Like a lot of what happens within Capitol Hill hearing rooms, there's a bit of theatrics to this, but nevertheless it was done under oath and carries weight.

18:02

Pentagon's former UFO boss, Dr Sean Kirkpatrick defends his record - and accuses Navy witness of being 'conspiracist'

Fresh controversy has already arrived before a word has been spoken at the hearing.

Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, former director of the Pentagon's current UFO investigations at the new All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has accused the committee's first witness of being a 'still bitter' prospective hire.

Responding to Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet's prewritten testimony, Dr Kirkpatrick accused the retired government official of harboring 'predisposed tendencies for conspiracies without evidence' which made him 'unsuitable for a job' at AARO that 'required objectivity and evidence-based reason.'

Rear Adm. Gallaudet's testimony accused AARO of targeting him for 'an hours-long influence operation' which attempted to convince him of 'the validity of [AARO's] severely flawed historical records report' as part of a 'disinformation' effort.

Unfortunately for Dr Kirkpatrick, the suspect quality of AARO's March 8, 2024 'Historical Records Report' on UFOs speaks for itself: the 45-page document cites a 'fandom.com' wiki on military history; misidentifies the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as a 'New Mexico' legislator (He represented Nevada.); and incorrectly named a 1955 Air Force-contracted study of UFOs 'Project BEAR' instead of its true name 'Project STORK' — apparently because AARO had relied on a mass-market paperback for its reference material, instead of declassified government files.

Further errors and omissions in AARO's short, unclassified report were documented by The Debrief and former Department of Defense official Christopher Mellon.

As Elizondo put it in his written testimony today: 'Most Americans would be shocked to learn that the Pentagon’s very own Public Affairs Office openly employs a professional psychological operations officer [Susan Gough] as the singular point of contact for any UAP-related inquiries from citizens and the media.'

(Dr Kirkpatrick, at right below, during a past public speaking event, accompanied by Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough, at left.)

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14-11-2024 om 16:52 geschreven door peter  

Is intelligent alien life darting around in space — and even in the skies above us here on Earth? Has the U.S. government been covering up unexplained phenomena, and using secret extraterrestrial discoveries to boost its own technology?

Those are among the questions members of Congress discussed Wednesday in a joint hearing by subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee. Its title: "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth."

The Pentagon issued a report in March saying that it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Four experts testified in Wednesday's public hearing. You can watch the proceeding here.

Extraordinary moments unfolded in a similar hearing last year, most notably when retired Maj. David Grusch, formerly part of the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, alleged that the U.S. government has recovered nonhuman "biologics" from crash sites and has long operated a secret reverse-engineering program to glean advances from recovered vessels.

Grusch isn't among the witnesses for the 2024 hearing.Four experts testified in Wednesday's public hearing. You can watch the proceeding here.

Instead, those testifying include:

Tim Gallaudet, retired rear admiral, U.S. Navy; CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, LLC

"Confirmation that UAPs are interacting with humanity came for me in January 2015," Gallaudet said in his written testimony.

He describes being part of a pre-deployment naval exercise off the U.S. East Coast that culminated in the famous "Go Fast" video, in which a Navy F/A-18 jet's sensors recorded "an unidentified object exhibiting flight and structural characteristics unlike anything in our arsenal."

He was among a group of commanders involved in the exercise who received an email containing the video, which was sent by the operations officer of Fleet Forces Command, Gallaudet said.

"The very next day, the email disappeared from my account and those of the other recipients without explanation," he said.

Luis Elizondo, author and former Department of Defense official

Elizondo's written testimony was brief and alleged that a secretive arms race is playing out on the global stage.

"Let me be clear: UAP are real," he wrote. "Advanced technologies not made by our Government — or any other government — are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe. Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries."

Elizondo is a former intelligence officer who later "managed a highly sensitive Special Access Program on behalf of the White House and the National Security Council," according to his official bio.

"By 2012, [Elizondo] was the senior ranking person of the DOD's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a secretive Pentagon unit that studied unidentified anomalous phenomena," his bio states, adding that he resigned in 2017.

Michael Gold, former NASA associate administrator of space policy and partnerships; member of NASA UAP Independent Study Team

Gold's written testimony stressed the need for government agencies and academics to "overcome the pernicious stigma that continues to impede scientific dialogue and open discussions" about unexplained phenomena.

"As the saying goes, the truth is out there," Gold said, "we just need to be bold enough and brave enough to face it."

Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public, a news outlet on the Substack platform

Shellenberger's testimony ran to some 214 pages, including a lengthy timeline of UAP reports from 1947 to 2023.

Shellenberger pressed the White House and Congress to act, calling for the adoption of UAP transparency legislation and cutting funds for any related programs that aren't disclosed to lawmakers.

"UAP transparency is bi-partisan and critical to our national security," his written testimony stated.

Here are some key moments from the hearing:

U.S. accused of having UAP crash retrieval programs

An early exchange between Elizondo and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who led the hearing as chairwoman of the subcommittee on cybersecurity, IT and innovation, suggested that whatever UAPs are, the U.S. is intent on learning more about them — including efforts to recover any objects that might crash.

"Has the government conducted secret UAP crash retrieval programs? Yes or no?" Mace asked.

"Yes," Elizondo said.

"Ok. Were they designed to identify and reverse-engineer alien craft? Yes or no?" the lawmaker asked.

"Yes," Elizondo replied.

"Are you read into secret UAP crash retrieval programs?" Mace later asked.

"We would have to have a conversation in a closed session, ma'am," Elizondo said. "I signed documentation three years ago that restricts my ability to discuss specifically crash retrievals."

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., asked Elizondo about the document he signed with the Defense Department.

"You specifically said the document said you can't talk about crash retrieval," Moskowitz said. "Well, you know, you can't talk about fight club if there's no fight club."

"Correct," Elizondo replied.

Mace noted that in his testimony, Elizondo stated that advanced technologies "not made by our government or any other government are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe."

"If these technologies are not made by any government, who's making them?" Mace asked, adding later, "Are these private companies you're implying, or is this nonhuman intelligence?"

"It may be both," Elizondo replied.

Immaculate Constellation

Shellenberger's Public news site recently published a story alleging that the U.S. government is operating "an active and highly secretive 'Unacknowledged Special Access Program'" intelligence operation through the Department of Defense called Immaculate Constellation.
Shellenberger shared a document with lawmakers that he described as a whistleblower report about the program.

Shellenberger said the program uses high-quality imagery and other sophisticated tools to capture data about UAPs. Quoting from the report, he said that an F-22 plane encountered several orbital objects while on patrol in an unnamed place and at an unnamed date.

"The F-22 broke trajectory and attempted to evade but was intercepted and boxed in by approximately 3-6 UAPs," Shellenberger said in his testimony. He added that a source had warned him of tight secrecy controls around the program — a point also raised by Mace.

"Rep. [Anna Paulina] Luna [of Florida] just told me, if I say, 'Immaculate Constellation,' I'll be on some list, maybe [get] a FISA warrant," she said. "So come at me, bro, I guess."

Experts push for more transparency

Over the years, a number of unusual encounters have been found to have a reasonable explanation after they were reported, from weather balloons and atmospheric phenomena to drones, airborne trash and birds.

"I think probably the vast majority of UAP are drones, experimental aircraft, weather conditions," Gold, the former NASA administrator, said. "But there is a percentage that isn't."

Gold said agencies such as NASA should get funds to develop instruments to study UAP anomalies for potential new discoveries. As things stand, he said, researchers are relying on cellphones and fighter jets' cockpit gun cameras.

Repeatedly, Wednesday's witness panel stressed that the U.S. government — specifically, presidential administrations and the Pentagon — should be more transparent about UAP reports. And they called for ensuring that no one risks being stigmatized or intimidated for trying to report or study UAPs.

Elizondo said he believes many classified materials can be shared with Congress and the public.

When Elizondo was asked how he would characterize UAPs, he replied:

"An enigma, sir, and a frustration. We are talking about technologies that can outperform anything we have in our inventory. And if this was an adversarial technology, this would be an intelligence failure eclipsing that of 9/11 by an order of magnitude."

Reports of UFOs and UAPs are now more centralized

In 1977, President Carter asked NASA to look into resuming UFO investigations, but the agency and the Air Force believed "nothing would be gained by further investigation."

But in recent years, there have been increased efforts to compile and centralize the reporting of unexplained phenomena.

In July 2022, the U.S. government established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, to standardize reporting methods and data collection. It collects UAP reports from the military and from the Federal Aviation Administration including sightings reported by civilian pilots to air traffic control. The agency doesn't offer a way for the general public to file a UAP report. It does accept "reports from current or former U.S. Government employees, service members, or contractor personnel with direct knowledge of U.S. Government programs or activities related to UAP dating back to 1945."

The agency adds that potential filers should not submit "any information that is potentially CLASSIFIED, or unclassified information that is not publicly releasable (e.g. subject to export control regulations)."

Many historical records are also available

Because of intense public interest, a number of records related to UFO studies are available online, including a "case files" folder related to UAPs on the U.S. Navy's website. The FBI also has an online "vault" of records, covering the period from 1947 to 1954.

As for the famous Project Blue Book run by the U.S. Air Force from 1947 through 1969, documents related to the project are now kept by the National Archives, which holds 37 cubic feet of case files, along with at least 5 other cubic feet of records.

The bulk of the Blue Book investigations into 12,618 reported sightings were resolved, or explained, — but 701 remained "Unidentified," the Air Force has said. The service said that none of the incidents constituted a security threat or indicated abilities beyond modern science. It added, "There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as 'unidentified' were extraterrestrial vehicles."

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An 11-page document that’s attributed to a Pentagon whistleblower has provided new cases in the controversy over unidentified anomalous phenomena — also known as UAPs, unidentified flying objects or UFOs.

The document, released today in conjunction with a House subcommittee hearing on UAPs, lays out details about what’s said to be a special access program called Immaculate Constellation. It accuses officials in the federal government’s executive branch of a “criminal conspiracy” that has been managing issues surrounding UAPs and evidence for non-human intelligence “without congressional knowledge, oversight or authorization for some time, quite possibly decades.”

Over the past few years, the Department of Defense has become more open to discussing UAP reports publicly, while insisting that there have been no substantiated reports of alien visitations. During today’s hearing, lawmakers called on the Pentagon to be more transparent in its investigations.

“It is clear, from my experience and what I’ve seen, that there is something out there,” said Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn. “The question is, is it ours? Is it someone else’s? Or is it otherworldly? … We must know, and anyone who prevents us from gaining access to that information, I would consider that criminality, because we have U.S. personnel who may very well be in harm’s way.”

The document claims that the Immaculate Constellation program has imagery and other data relating to encounters with a variety of anomalous objects. “From 1991 to 2022, the most common UAP shapes reported in this [U.S. government] dataset were spheres/orbs, discs/saucers, ovals/tic-tacs, triangles, boomerang/arrowhead, and irregular/organic,” it said. The irregular objects were described as having a “floating brain” or “jellyfish” appearance.

Michael Shellenberger, an author and journalist who received the document from the purported whistleblower, said he verified the source’s credentials and assured lawmakers that the document was authentic. He also said he’s continuing to gather reports from other sources.

“Since my reporting on this Immaculate Constellation last month, another source came forward,” Shellenberger said. “He told me that they saw a roughly 13-minute-long, high-definition, full-color video of a white orb UAP coming out of the ocean approximately 20 miles off the coast of Kuwait. It was filmed from a helicopter. Then halfway through the video, the person said, the orb is joined by another orb that briefly comes into the frame from the left before rapidly moving again out of the frame.”

Shellenberger said there may be “hundreds, maybe thousands” of UAP reports in the Immaculate Constellation database.

Mick West, a retired software engineer who specializes in analyzing UAP reports, was generally skeptical of the claims made during the hearing, which was conducted jointly by two subcommittees under the aegis of the House Oversight Committee. Nevertheless, West was intrigued by the purported whistleblower report — and said the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, should follow up.

“The UFO document discussed in congressional testimony today contains descriptions of some interesting-sounding videos,” West said in a posting to the X social-media platform. “If these exist, I urge @DoD_AARO to make as many of these videos public as possible and share their analysis so we can get some clarity ASAP.”

In addition to Shellenberger, the witnesses at today’s hearing included retired Navy Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, who served as the acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during the Trump administration; Luis Elizondo, a former intelligence official who is now an advocate for UAP disclosure; and Mike Gold, a former NASA associate administrator who was a member of NASA’s independent UAP study panel and is now chief growth officer at Redwire.

In advance of the hearing, Gallaudet came in for some strong criticism from Sean Kirkpatrick, who was in charge of AARO in 2022-2023 and is now chief technology officer for defense and intelligence programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. “Mr. Gallaudet is clearly still bitter that I didn’t hire him into AARO when he came looking for a job,” Kirkpatrick said in a statement distributed on X. “His predisposed tendencies for conspiracies without evidence made him unsuitable for a job that required objectivity and evidence-based reason.”

Kirkpatrick and others involved in the UAP debate have suggested that the likeliest explanations for anomalous aerial sighting have to do with advanced technologies that are being secretly employed by rival nations, including Russia and China. But questions about potential alien intrusions, secret crash retrievals and exotic technologies repeatedly came up during the hearing.

In response to such questions, Gallaudet said he believed some of the reports about UAPs could be attributed to non-human higher intelligence. Elizondo agreed. “Although much of my government work on the UAP subject still remains classified, excessive secrecy has led to grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel and the public — all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos,” Elizondo said.

In contrast, Gold declined to weigh in definitively on questions about extraterrestrials. “I just don’t know,” he said. “I think we must be modest in our assumptions that we’re looking for intelligence that could be biological. It might not.”

For example, Gold said, some UAPs may be controlled by artificial intelligence. “We assume that all intelligence would be like us, and every time we look out in the universe, we are humbled relative to what we don’t know, in terms of the forms of intelligence and what it may take,” he said. “l probably can’t answer your question, but I think the ultimate answer is going to surprise us all.”

The witnesses and the lawmakers seemed unanimous in their support for greater transparency about UAP sightings. Congress is currently considering legislation that would strengthen current requirements for UAP disclosure and whistleblower protection.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., hinted that more information may be forthcoming when Donald Trump returns to the White House. “This has been bipartisan, bicameral,” Moskowitz said. “As we get into a new administration, the president-elect has talked about opportunities to declassify information on UAPs, and I hope he lives up to that promise.”

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Navy Rear Admiral to give bombshell testimony to Congress about underwater UFOs that have been tailing US nuclear subs

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By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A retired rear admiral, who served as the Navy's head oceanographer, will testify to Congress about the risks of UFOs that appear to traverse Earth's seas with impunity.

Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet (ret.) has attested publicly in the past to 'an interesting correlation [...] where we see so many potential interactions of UAP [i.e. UFOs] and nuclear ships' — but has never before discussed the issue under oath.  

And increasingly, Rear Adm. Gallaudet has also given voice to growing concern among military officials that these strange apparent craft possess 'capabilities [...] beyond our current understanding of science, technology as well as engineering.'

'We need to research these more, get a better understanding of them,' as he put it this week, 'both for the national security implications, as well as just the science.' 

But despite Rear Adm. Gallaudet's openness on the once-fringe topic of UFOs, the substance of what he plans to reveal on Wednesday before the House Oversight committee's latest public UAP hearing remains a mystery.

The naval oceanographer did, however, reveal two startling UFO encounters on Monday, as reported to him by Navy personnel ahead of his testimony.

One submariner told Rear Adm. Gallaudet of an encounter a US sub had with a bizarre underwater object in the 1980s, which stopped on a dime while speeding deep under the Atlantic Ocean.

'It had all the signatures of a Russian torpedo,' Rear Adm. Gallaudet said, 'because it approached a rapid rate. But then it slowed down, which torpedoes don't do.'

Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet (above) has attested publicly in the past to 'an interesting correlation [...] where we see so many potential interactions of UAP ['Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena' or UFOs] and nuclear ships' - but has never before discussed the issue under oath

Rear Adm. Gallaudet explained that this US Navy submarine — which was traveling 'at a deeper depth during a very significant North Atlantic storm' — had conducted evasive maneuvers to escape what its crew thought, at first, was a Russian torpedo.

'Because of its rapid rate of approach, they went to "crush depth." That was their SOP, standard operating procedure,' the retired rear admiral told NewsNation.

Sometimes known as 'collapse depth,' the term 'crush depth' is used to indicate a level of deep ocean where the density and pressure of water is a threat to the structural integrity of a particular submarine's design.

But, the dense water at 'crush depth' can also help a sub evade torpedoes following it, by helping to confuse the weapon's on-board sonar, used for 'acoustic homing.'

The sound waves emitted as sonar 'pings,' in other words, can be slowed, dissipated or otherwise disrupted when passing through dense water at these depths.  

'It was an old sub, too,' Rear Adm. Gallaudet said of the risky defensive gambit, which could have imploded the undersea vessel, killing its crew. 'So, they were not happy doing that and not comfortable.' 

'They really believed it was a Soviet sub,' he told NewsNation correspondent and veteran investigative reporter Ross Coulthart, 'launching an attack on them.' 

'And then, of course, this object, it stopped, and it went around to their stern and followed them,' he continued. 'Then it rapidly accelerated out of the scene.'

'Back in the '80s, we know of no technology that could have done that. What was that?' as the rear admiral put it rhetorically to Coulthart. 'I can't explain it either.'

In his appearance on NewsNation, Rear Adm. Gallaudet also discussed 'an extraordinary story from a chief petty officer on the USS Eisenhower' in which an entire carrier strike group of multiple ships witnessed a giant UFO. Above, a fighter jet onboard the Eisenhower

Still images from a leaked video showing a spherical UFO diving into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell says the video shows 'FLIR [forward looking infrared] data' that is complimented by the unreleased US Navy radar footage

Above, Rear Adm. Gallaudet when he was a a deputy administrator to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), touring a National Weather Service office

In his appearance on Coulthart's NewsNation program, Rear Adm. Gallaudet also discussed 'an extraordinary story from a chief petty officer on the USS Eisenhower' in which an entire carrier strike group of multiple ships witnessed a gigantic UFO.

'On an earlier deployment about 20 years ago, the senior leadership, this chief petty officer, all witnessed a UAP in the middle of the strike group,' he said.

 The retired rear admiral, who also spent three years as a deputy administrator to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), also noted that he has begun 'a correspondence with Robert Hastings.' 

Hastings, author of a doorstop book on the subject, titled 'UFOs and Nukes,' has helped bring public many US military witnesses to the similar UFO events in the past.

But, Rear Adm. Gallaudet noted that several of the most persuasive witness accounts, that he has heard about, are tied up with the classified sensitivities of America's nuclear submarine fleet.

'I've heard there's others,' he said, 'but submarine information and operations are so highly classified, with nondisclosure agreements signed by everybody on the force that they're hard to come out and find.'

Rear Adm. Gallaudet will speak Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at the UAP hearing hosted by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee is planning to host the hearing on Nov. 13,

According to a committee spokesperson: 'The Cyber Subcommittee and National Security Subcommittee will hold a joint hearing on UAPs on November 13. Cyber Subcommittee Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-WI) will co-chair the hearing,'

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13-11-2024 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

Congress is revisiting UFOs: Here's what's happened since last hearing on extraterrestrials

UFO testimony via military recounts 'nonhuman' pilots and 'superior tech'

More than a year has passed since elected leaders in Congress last heard from experts about mystifying objects outmaneuvering our military and claims of shadowy government programs to study alien spaceships.

The now-infamous congressional hearing was one filled with sensational claims about UFOs. Despite the government's rebranding of UFOs with a less-stigmatized acronym – unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP – the hearing still captivated a public long obsessed with ideas of flying saucers and little green men.

So, when military officers spent hours providing compelling testimony about not just strange craft whizzing unchecked through U.S. air space, but about a concerted effort of our government to capture and study those craft, the public was hooked.

The hearing served to reignite long-held public suspicions that the U.S. military and other high levels of government are suppressing information about extraterrestrial activity and galvanized a movement for transparency. Now that a little more than a year has gone by, the government has signaled that after years of secrecy, it's slowly coming around to the idea of sharing more information publicly.

But some lawmakers and advocates say it hasn't been enough. And now, they're on the verge of delving into the topic of UAP once again Wednesday.

Ahead of the next congressional hearing, here's what has happened since Congress' last foray into UFOs.

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July 2023: Military officials testify about UFOs at last congressional hearing

David Grusch, a former National Reconnaissance Officer, testifies July 26, 2023 before Congress about an alleged Pentagon program to retrieve and study downed UFOS. The … Show more   

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In the July 2023 hearing, House members heard testimony from two former Navy pilots who came forward with information about objects routinely violating U.S. airspace.

Lt. Ryan Graves and Cmdr. David Fravor each provided accounts of specific incidents they had either witnessed over the years or heard about from other pilots they deemed credible. Some of the accounts they described were of aircrafts displaying capabilities they believed were beyond any known human technology.

Fravor himself was among Navy pilots who spotted the now-famous Tic Tac-shaped object that was captured in 2004 on video during a flight off the coast of Southern California. In testifying about the well-known sighting, Fravor described the oval object as "perfectly white, smooth, no windows," and displaying flight capabilities that were unheard of.

But the most sensational part of the hearing came when former Pentagon intelligence official David Grusch offered testimony about an alleged shadowy "multi-decade" Pentagon program to retrieve and study not only downed spacecraft, but extraterrestrial pilots. Without offering hard evidence, Grusch accused the Pentagon under oath of being aware of extraterrestrial activity since the 1930s and hiding the program from Congress while misappropriating funds to operate it.

The Pentagon has repeatedly denied that such a program exists.

August 2023: Pentagon unveils UFO website with declassified info

Within about two months of the hearing, the Pentagon's office to investigate UFOs revealed a new website for the public to access declassified information about reported sightings.

The site, operated by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) – a relatively new Pentagon program established to analyze UAP reports – also has a mechanism for military pilots to report sightings.

More than a year after launching, the site includes a handful of videos, some of which have been explained as commercial craft and some of which have been labeled as "unresolved." Each video contains a short description with an explanation by AARO of where it was captured and what characteristics the object was exhibiting.

Those who visit the site can also access an assortment of laws, memos, congressional briefings and press releases related to UAP.

But if you're going to the site to look for evidence of aliens, you'll be disappointed. In January, outgoing AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick – since replaced by Jon T. Kosloski – appeared on a podcast and made one thing clear:

"There is no evidence of aliens and there's no evidence of the government conspiracy," he said.

September 2023: NASA releases UAP report, appoints research head

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson reveals the space agency's report on UAPs, the government's new term for UFOs, during a press conference Sept. 14, 2023 in … Show more   

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Weeks later, NASA released a long-awaited UFO report affirming that no evidence existed to confirm that alien spaceships have visited Earth.

However, in what Administrator Bill Nelson described as a signal of the agency's transparency, NASA appointed a director of UAP research.

Because of the potential threat posed to national security and air safety, NASA embarked in 2022 on the space agency's first-ever study of UFOs, For the report, experts commissioned by the the space agency outlined ways in which NASA can partner with the U.S. government and private commercial organizations to better study and understand unidentified flying objects.

Legislation aims to declassify records, make reporting easier

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-TN) attend a news conference on Nov. 30, 2023 calling for more transparency … Show more   

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In the wake of the hearing, Congress has sought to take action in the form of bipartisan legislation to demystify UFOs for the public.

Last December, President Joe Biden signed into law a watered-down version of a bill seeking the release of the executive branch's UFO records, which was included in an annual defense policy bill.

However, lawmakers like Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and many UFO transparency advocates derided the legislation as disappointment. While the measure directs the government to disclose to the public at least some records about UAP, it grants various agencies wide latitude in concealing certain information.

Did America get 'ripped off'? 

• UFO disclosure bill derided for lack of transparency

Then, under a House bill introduced in January, commercial airline pilots who witness crafts flying through the skies in unexplainable ways would be able to report the UFO sightings to the federal government. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California) and Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wisconsin) both sponsored the bill, which would create a mechanism for civilian pilots and other airline workers to report sightings to the the Federal Aviation Administration.

However, the bill appears to have since stagnated since its introduction.

Alien renaissance in pop culture

The fiery Congressional hearing served to reignite a public obsession with UFOs that first came to focus after the infamous 1947 Roswell incident.

In the past year, Netflix released a docuseries. Brands like MoonPie jumped on the bandwagon. And conspiracy theories flourished. Even the tourism bureau in Lexington, Kentucky, capitalized on the craze with a tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign to encourage extraterrestrials to vacation in the city.

The idea that, absent any immediate logical explanation, strange crafts sighted whizzing through our skies must surely be alien visitors seems to only continue gaining momentum – even as astrophysicists caution that the absence of obvious natural explanations for UFOs doesn't make extraterrestrial ones likely.

Some experts even see the UFO hoopla as "a widespread societal problem."

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UFO whistleblowers tell Congress 'we are not alone in the cosmos' (video)

UFOs came to Washington again today.

Like previous congressional UFO hearings, today's event featured testimony from current U.S. military personnel who claim the American government has for decades hidden evidence of advanced technologies and otherworldly visitors from the public. A multitude of anecdotes were presented about flying orbs coming out of the ocean, disc-shaped objects, and craft "exhibiting flight and structural characteristics unlike anything in our arsenal." While such claims are nothing new, what is noteworthy about today's hearing are the pedigrees of some of the whistleblowers who testified, including a former U.S. counterintelligence officer, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and a former NASA associate administrator. All of them stressed the need for more government transparency, less stigma about the UFO topic and new policies to bring UAP data out of the "black" classified world and into the public domain.  

This isn't the U.S. government's first attempt to investigate the recent wave of UFO claims that began in 2017. A similar hearing was held last year, in which a whistleblower told Congress the U.S. government is hiding evidence of 'non-human intelligence.' 

The Pentagon also created the All-Doman Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022 to investigate UAP reports and government data about UFOs, but critics, including some government officials, are skeptical of the office's aims and methods. 

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"AARO is unable, or perhaps unwilling, to bring forward the truth about the government's activities concerning UAPs," Representative Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) said during the hearing's opening remarks today. "I'm disturbed that AARO itself lacks transparency; even its budget is kept from the public. So if there is no 'there' there, then why are we spending money on it? And by how much? Why the secrecy?"

Other representatives stressed the need for transparency and data analysis today, a common theme of other recent UAP studies. "We have evidence that what we are detecting things, and we know that we don't understand them, and this is worth investigating," Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said. "I believe we can always be more transparent. To me, this hearing and others are simply about the truth and getting to the facts of what these UAPs actually are."

Luis Elizondo, a former U.S. counterintelligence officer who has been vocal about such claims in recent years, told the assembled representatives at the hearing that "excessive secrecy has led to grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel and the public — all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos." 

We are "in the midst of a multi-decade, secretive arms race  — one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies," Elizondo stated during his testimony. 

Elizondo, who claims to have previously investigated UFOs as part of a secret Pentagon program, suggested that the U.S. government create a "whole-of-government" approach to studying UAP, create a national UAP strategy and offer protections so that whistleblowers who are "desperate to do the right thing can come forward without fear."

During questioning, Elizondo was asked if some of the "advanced technologies" that have been seen monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe could be operated by aliens or private companies. "Maybe both," Elizondo replied.

Elizondo also stated point-blank to Rep. Mace's questioning that the U.S. government has programs to retrieve crashed UAP and reverse-engineer them, but avoided giving any specifics in an unclassified public setting such as the hearing.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) then questioned Elizondo, asking the former counterintelligence agent about a document he signed that limits him from speaking publicly about crash retrieval programs. "The document said you can't talk about crash retrieval. Well, you know, you can't talk about Fight Club if there's no Fight Club, correct?"

Like other witnesses, Elizondo stated that the alleged excessive government secrecy around UFOs harms national security. In response to questioning from Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Elizondo stated that, if UAP sightings turned out to be technologies operated by adversarial nations, it would be "an intelligence failure eclipsing 9/11 in order of magnitude."

Retired U.S. Navy rear admiral Tim Gallaudet offered similar testimony as Elizondo. "We know from last year's UAP hearing and recent statements and publications by credible whistleblowers that UAP, NHI [non-human intelligence], and their technology of unknown origin (TUO) represent a new realization that we are not the only advanced intelligence in the universe," Gallaudet said on Wednesday, according to his published remarks. 

"Unelected officials in the U.S. government do not have an exclusive right to this knowledge about the nature of reality. The American people have a right to that knowledge," Gallaudet said. The retired rear admiral also stressed the national security and airspace safety concerns related with UAP sightings, calling them "extensive."

When Rep. Garcia asked Gallaudet and other witnesses what UAP might represent, the retired rear admiral said he believes they are evidence of a "non-human higher intelligence."

Former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships Michael Gold also testified at today's hearing, and previously served on NASA's UAP study team. Gold's testimony was more grounded; for example, he stressed the need for NASA to contribute its authority and expertise toward analyzing what UAP data it might already possess and helping dispel the stigma associated with the UFO topic. 

"Our best tool for unlocking the mystery of UAP is science, but we cannot conduct a proper inquiry if the stigma is so overwhelming that just daring to be part of a NASA search team elicits such a vitriolic response," Gold said during today's hearing. "Therefore, one of the most important actions that can be taken, relative to exposing the truth of UAP, is to combat the stigma, and this is where I believe that NASA can be eminently helpful."

Gold added that NASA has a massive archive of data that could possibly contain evidence of UAP, and suggested that artificial intelligence/machine learning algorithms could help sort through the agency's trove of data to help shine light on the UFO phenomenon. In addition, the former NASA associate administrator said the agency should develop specialized instruments that might be able to gather useful data about UAP.

Related:

• NASA UFO report finds no evidence of 'extraterrestrial origin' for UAP sightings

Journalist Michael Shellenberger also testified today, telling the representatives that there's a "growing body of evidence that the government is not being transparent about what it knows about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly called UFOs, and that elements within the military and IC [intelligence community] are in violation of their Constitutional duty to notify Congress of their operations." 

Shellenberger stated that there is a secret program within the U.S. government known as "Immaculate Constellation" whose sole purpose is to collect UFO and UAP reports from military personnel and sensor data and quarantine them away from the rest of the government and military. While he noted that a Pentagon spokesperson has stated no such program exists, Shellenberger recounted prior examples in which the Department of Defense has initially denied knowledge of UAP-related information only to later change its stance and either admit the information exists or release it to the public. 

"The U.S. government appears to know significantly more about UAPs than it is revealing," Shellenberger said at the hearing. "But even those who believe the U.S. government has revealed all that it knows should have no objection to Congressional demands for greater transparency."

To conclude the meeting, Rep. Mace asked each of the witnesses to define what non-human biologics or non-human intelligence mean to each of them.

"I don't think it's a stretch, when you look at the diversity of life on this planet and the size of this universe, to think that there will be more diverse, higher-order, non-human intelligence throughout the universe, and that's probably what's visiting us," Gallaudet said.

Elizondo stated he would take a scientific approach: "The definition would be the ability to react to a stimulus in a manner that requires an intellectual thought process."

Gold, meanwhile, questioned whether non-human intelligence necessarily implies life, suggesting sophisticated artificial intelligence might be responsible for some UAP encounters. Shellenberger simply stated he did not know what they might be.

Related: 

• The search for alien life

In today's hearing, as in other UFO hearings, there was a lot of telling and not a lot of showing. One of the core tenets of these whistleblower testimonies is that much of the credible UFO data is classified and can't be revealed to the public based on the military capabilities that some of that data could reveal. 

Whistleblowers have attested for years that, because advanced or classified sensors and satellites sometimes capture footage or photos of unexplained phenomena or advanced craft, those photos or videos are likewise classified by the U.S. government in order to not reveal America's full surveillance or sensing capabilities. 

Such was the case in 2023 when U.S. military aircraft shot down a mysterious object off the coast of Alaska. The American government has yet to release any imagery from the event, but a Canadian freedom of information request unveiled a photograph earlier this year of a balloon-like object.

Those incidents and others like it, such as a weeks-long drone incursion above Langley Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., were discussed in today's hearing. "The origin of these drones and their operators remains a mystery," Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) said. "This incident and other sightings near sensitive military installations highlights the complexity of the UAP challenge facing our intelligence, defense and homeland security committees."

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13-11-2024 om 22:17 geschreven door peter  

Read the chilling testimony of Navy veteran due to testify on UFO cover up: 'We're being visited'

• READ MORE: Ex-Pentagon official claims US has recovered alien bodies

By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Expert witnesses plan to testify before Congress about a 'constitutional crisis' posed by government secrecy on UFOs — and even 'threats' to scientists investigating these mysterious phenomena.

One, Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, will also speak about secret 'satellite imagery' from a 2017 UFO case that has been illegally hidden from congressional oversight.

'Elements of the government are engaging in a disinformation campaign,' the rear admiral stated in his prepared written testimony submitted ahead of this Wedneday's hearing, '[including] personal attacks designed to discredit UAP whistleblowers.'

Scientists, policymakers and others have adopted 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena' (UAP) to more precisely describe UFOs and better incorporate all cases, including startling undersea encounters with apparent 'transmedium' craft.

Another witness, former NASA legal advisor Mike Gold, plans to speak on behalf of scientists, pilots and others who have faced 'negative consequences to their career' for openly pursuing answers to these enigmatic and unusual incidents.

'It's disconcerting when members of the academic community are vilified for even having the temerity to attempt to study UAP,' Gold wrote in his own testimony.

Also slated to testify: Decorated ex-counterintelligence officer Luis Elizondo, who investigated UFO cases while at the Pentagon, and Michael Shellenberger, a reporter who went viral last month with claims from a new UFO whistleblower.

Above, eerie UFO footage captured by hurricane remediation worker William Guy in September 2019 - documenting strange lights off North Carolina's Outer Banks, not too far from the Atlantic Ocean training areas where US Navy pilots reported UFOs in 2014 and 2015

Rear Adm. Gallaudet, who also served as deputy administrator to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), offered to help Congress obtain the wrongfully withheld UFO satellite data in a classified briefing. 

'I would be happy in a closed setting to provide the dates involved if that would help the committee to formulate a specific request for access,' he stated in his testimony.

The rear admiral has become a prominent voice calling for wider transparency on the topic of UFOs over the past three years, as well as a defender of once senior US intelligence officers, like David Grusch, who have come forward on the issue.

Late last year, Rear Adm. Gallaudet said he found Grusch's account of a decades-old, highly classified UFO crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to be credible.

'We're being visited by non-human intelligence with technology we really don't understand,' Gallaudet confirmed, 'and with intentions we don't understand either.'

In his prepared testimony to Congress, expected to be followed by detailed questions from House Oversight, the retired Navy and NOAA official explained that he has witnessed the dangers of government UFO secrecy firsthand.

In January 2015, according to Gallaudet, he received an 'URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE' inquiry on the Navy's secure internet network from the operations officer of the Navy's Fleet Forces Command — only to have that message just disappear.

'The text of the email was brief but alarming,' he testified, 'with words to the effect [of] "We are having multiple near-midair collisions, and if we do not resolve it soon, we will have to shut down the exercise."' 

'This incident disturbed me,' he added, 'for the remainder of my government service, including my time as an Under Secretary of Commerce and NOAA Administrator.'

Retired Rear Admiral Gallaudet (left), a PhD oceanographer who also served as deputy administrator to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will testify on UFOs this Wednesday in Congress. Joining him will be ex-NASA legal advisor Mike Gold (right)

According to a committee spokesperson, Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace (above), chair of House Oversight's Cybersecurity Subcommittee will co-chair the new UFO hearing

'Attached to the email was what is now known as the "Go Fast" video, captured on the forward-looking infrared sensor onboard one of the Navy F/A-18 aircraft participating in the exercise,' he added. 

What the rear admiral found most disturbing about this disappearing Navy email was that clear implication that the need for secrecy surrounding these UFOs — whatever they were — had trumped the very lives of America's fighter pilots. 

'It highlighted a dangerous culture of over-classification, where even pressing safety-of-flight issues could be swept aside under the pretense of secrecy,' he noted.

Based on his own naval experience, the rear admiral inferred that the absence of answers on these life-threatening UFOs meant that the explanation was unlikely to be a 'classified technology demonstrations' by the US Department of Defense (DoD). 

'Because DoD policy is to rigorously deconflict such demonstrations with live exercises,' Rear Adm. Gallaudet wrote, 'I was confident this was not the case.' 

'I concluded that the UAP information must have been classified within a special access program managed by an intelligence agency,' he continued, 'that even senior officials, including myself, were not read into.'

Gallaudet plans to describe these and other episodes of UFO secrecy as 'an absolute outrage' during his upcoming, in-person testimony. 

The retired senior-level official also plans to call out former leadership of the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) for what he characterizes as 'illegal and unethical DoD disinformation efforts.'

Above, a still from the 'Go Fast' UFO video - captured by Navy Pilots off the coast of Florida in 2015. Rear Adm. Gallaudet plans to testify about receiving a 'brief but alarming' official email regarding the 'Go Fast' incident that mysteriously disappeared from secured Navy servers

Republican congressman Glenn Grothman (above), chair of House Oversight's National Security Subcommittee, is expected to co-lead the UFO hearing Wednesday with Rep. Mace. Above, Rep. Grothman seen entering a secured room for a classified UFO briefing last year 

His assessment will join public comments by ex-NASA scientists, US Air Force personnel, and other UFO whistleblowers who have criticized AARO's performance of its duty to create a historical records report on past UFO cases.

'AARO needs to explain the inaccuracies and incompleteness of AARO's first historical records report,' according to Rear Adm. Gallaudet.

Submitted testimony from former NASA legal advisor Mike Gold praised House Oversight's 'devotion to truth and scientific openness regardless of the ridicule and even spite that the discussion of UAP can engender.'

Gold also served on the US space agency's UFO advisory council last year in a volunteer capacity alongside his official duties as Chief Growth Officer for RedwireSpace a private aerospace company.

'Stigmatization of UAP prevents the gathering of invaluable data that represents our best and only chance to understand the phenomena,' Gold wrote in his testimony.

NASA legal advisor Mike Gold (top right) - who also served on the US space agency's UFO advisory council last year - praised House Oversight's 'devotion to truth and scientific openness regardless of the ridicule and even spite that the discussion of UAP can engender'

This stigma issue, he noted, has resulted in malformed and maladapted official policies that are slowing down the quest for answers on these increasingly controversial debates of these seemingly otherworldly phenomena. 

The ex-NASA official cited decades of poor reporting standards for private pilots who see UFOs.

For years civilian and commercial aviators were told not to report UFOs to federal flight safety regulators but to private citizen UFO hunters, including the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) in Washington state. 

'Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) instructions on the matter are difficult to find, provide obsolete advice (e.g., referencing organizations that no longer exist), and are not generally known or understood by the civilian pilot community,' he said.

Based on his submitted testimony, Gold plans to also credit the efforts of NASA's UFO advisory panel, 'particularly those who encountered ridicule and even threats due to their participation.'  

'The stigma prevents scientific inquiry,' Gold warned in his statement, 'the best tool that we have to understand anomalies, from being fully applied.'

'Moreover, science is driven by anomalies,' he noted. 'The Theory of General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, virtually all of our scientific progress has been based on discovering and studying anomalies.'

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13-11-2024 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

By NIKKI MAIN SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Mysterious objects were spotted falling from the sky and breaking apart over several states, leaving thousands baffled by the cosmic display.

Streaks of glowing lights appeared over parts of Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, leaving people questioned were a possible fireball or part of a series of meteor showers.

Dozens of people reported the phenomenon at about 9pm ET, saying the lights streaked through the sky for up to 60 seconds before disappearing.

Witnesses captured the show, revealing what appeared to be a red and orange meteor shower shining bright as it broke up into several parts before it slowly dimmed and disappeared from the night sky.

A Texas resident reported that it 'first seemed like it was going straight up toward the sky then went directly over our head and we could see it breaking up as it traveled directly over us.'

Another person in the Lone Star State described it as 'by far the brightest meteor event I have ever witnessed.'

However, astronomer and orbital debris expert Jonathan McDowell confirmed the light show was caused by a SpaceX Starlink satellite breaking up as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere. 

A Starlink satellite set off a fiery display as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on Saturday night

People across Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and Texas speculated whether the lights in the night sky (pictured) were caused by fireworks

SpaceX has thousands of its Starlink satellites orbiting Earth to provide internet access to remote areas around the world, launching 98 this year as of mid-October.

At the end of their mission, internet satellites are designed to re-enter the atmosphere to avoid cluttering Earth's orbit with space debris. 

McDowell told Space.com that these satellites 'are dominating' the clutter in Earth's atmosphere, adding that 'there is now a Starlink reentry almost every day, sometimes multiple.'

The satellite re-entered over Washington state and continued southeast before disappearing over northern Texas.

An Oklahoma resident described the satellite as a 'bright fire ball heading southeast, slow moving, looked like it split into 3 parts,' while another called it 'the coolest thing I've seen.'

Some people speculated that the satellite was part of a series of three meteor showers - the Leonids and Southern and Northern Taurids - that reached peak activity this month.

The number of Starlink satellites that have reentered the atmosphere has drastically increased over the last fiver years, jumping from between 50 and 100 per year to around 300 annually. 

'We are seeing a similar increase in the number of satellites now that hundreds of Starlink satellites are starting to come down,' McDowell told Space.com.

The satellite entered over Washington state and flew southeast across the US before fizzling out over northern Texas

Researchers have found that burning up satellites in the atmosphere could destroy the ozone. Pictured: Starlink satellite burning up as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere

Although satellites burning up as they re-enter the atmosphere has become standard practice, researchers have questioned whether the metal particles could destroy the ozone over time.

This is because the satellites are so large and burn up slowly, releasing aerosol particles that are less than one micrometer in size.

A 2023 study found that satellite re-entries have already begun to change the stratosphere's composition.

A NASA WB-57 aircraft found 500,000 single aerosol particles that contained 20 different elements including lithium, aluminum, copper and lead.

Out of all the elements found, aluminum was the most concerning because it could react with the hydrogen chloride - a pre-existing component in the stratosphere - causing it to split apart and destroy the ozone.

Pierre Lionnet, the managing director of ASD Eurospace, a space industry trade association told Science.org that the number of satellites returning to Earth does matter.

SpaceX accounts for more than 6,000 satellites in orbit and the company has already applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to launch another 30,000 in low orbit.

Because of the mass volume of Starlink satellites, Lionnet said: 'You have to wonder whether [SpaceX] is creating a major problem 30 years from now.'

Astronomer and orbital debris expert Jonathan McDowell revealed that the mysterious light show was the result of the breaking up of a SpaceX Starlink satellite when it re-entered Earth's atmosphere. 

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13-11-2024 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

Witnesses Announced for Landmark UFO Congressional Hearing

Written by Christopher Sharp  

The names of four witnesses set to testify at next week's Congressional hearing on government transparency and reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) have been confirmed.

In a press release, the House Oversight Committee named the witnesses scheduled to appear before its two subcommittees: Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation; and National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs as:

• Tim Gallaudet
  Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (RET.)
  Chief Executive Officer, Ocean STL Consulting, LLC

• Luis Elizondo
  Author, and Former Department of Defense Official

• Michael Gold
  Chief Growth Officer, Redwire Corporation, and Former National Aeronautics and Space Administration Associate Administrator

• Michael Shellenberger
  Founder of Public

In a joint statement today, Republican Representatives Nancy Mace and Glenn Grothman, who chair the two committees, expressed hope that the witnesses testifying on 13 November 2024 will provide valuable insights and help bring greater accountability to the UAP issue.

The statement read:

“This is our second hearing on the topic of UAPs and the American people are tired of the obfuscation and refusal to release information by the federal government.

“Americans deserve to understand what the government has learned about UAP sightings, and the nature of any potential threats these phenomena pose.

“We can only ensure that understanding by providing consistent, systemic transparency. We look forward to hearing from expert witnesses on ways to shed more light and bring greater accountability to this issue.”

The hearing is expected to cover a range of topics, from submerged UAP sightings reported by submariners to alleged legacy programs focused on retrieving and reverse-engineering advanced non-human materials and craft. 

Journalist Michael Shellenberger's presence suggests that the hearing will also address his recent story about an alleged Unacknowledged Special Access Program run out of the Secretary of Defense’s Office, known as IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION. It was reportedly established to detect and quarantine the military’s most compelling UAP imagery, videos, eyewitness accounts, and electronic sensor evidence.

However, the Department of Defense (DoD) has denied the existence of the alleged program, with spokesperson Susan Gough telling Liberation Times:

“The Department of Defense has no record, present or historical, of any type of SAP called ‘IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION.’”

Liberation Times followed up with the DoD, asking whether it had at any time in the past or present, operated any programs that utilised the codeword ‘IMMACULATE’ or any variation thereof.

In response, Susan Gough stated:

“The department has no record of any use of the word ‘IMMACULATE’ for any DoD Special Access Program or Alternative Compensatory Control Measure.”

Distinguished oceanographer Gallaudet has previously recounted accounts from submariners who encountered unidentified submerged objects, also characterised as UAP, which are transmedium devices or objects capable of moving through water, air and space. 

According to Gallaudet, one 1980s incident involved a U.S. submarine that detected an unidentified, fast-approaching object mistaken for a Russian torpedo, which then slowed, circled, and trailed the vessel before quickly departing. Gallaudet noted that this object’s behaviour and characteristics couldn’t be explained by current or past technology.

The presence of Luis Elizondo, former Director of the U.S. government's previous UAP program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), will provide him with an opportunity to discuss the threats he has faced since leaving government service and publicly sharing his experiences of UAP interfering with sensitive U.S. defense assets.

Speaking to Liberation Times, Elizondo stated:

“The time has come for our elected officials to be informed of the reality regarding the UAP issue and the long-standing campaign by some in our Government to hide the truth.

“To do this, we will need everyone’s support so we can clear a path for more whistleblowers to feel safe and come forward with what they know. Whether you agree with my position or not, I consider the 13th of November to be YOUR day! I want to also thank the members of Congress for their courage and tenacity, and my fellow witnesses who will be testifying under oath.”

A new name for those following the UAP topic is Michael Gold, a member of NASA's independent study team on UAP. Gold was NASA’s Associate Administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships between 2019 and 2021. Of note, between 2003 and 2016, he was Bigelow Aerospace LLC’s Director of D.C. Operations & Business Growth. 

Gold’s former boss, Robert Bigelow, played a key role in efforts to transfer materials of advanced, non-human origin from Lockheed Martin to a program within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) known as the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). 

When efforts failed, those involved in AAWSAP helped establish a Prospective Special Access Program (PSAP) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as an alternative means to accomplish the transfer. That effort also failed.

Speaking to Liberation Times, multiple sources claimed that these material transfer efforts were blocked by former CIA Director of Science and Technology, Glenn Gaffney, when he held the position.

Gaffney’s alleged interference in the material transfer left those involved—including the now-deceased James Ryder, former Vice President of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, who is said to have led efforts within Lockheed Martin—feeling threatened due to the harshness of exchanges with CIA officials. 

Ultimately, Liberation Times understands that the transfer was blocked by Gaffney, as the CIA’s Directorate of Technology remains the original custodian of the alleged non-human materials, which Lockheed Martin may still possess to this day.

At next week’s hearing, insiders hope that witnesses are pressed on Gaffney’s alleged involvement as a UAP legacy program gatekeeper. 

Liberation Times understands that next week’s hearing is expected to be the first of many on the UAP topic in the House of Representatives, with the aim of establishing a process similar to the Church Committee, which investigated Intelligence Community abuses in the 1970s.

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11-11-2024 om 20:27 geschreven door peter  

• READ MORE: Pentagon UFO chief confirms 'alien tech' crash retrieval program

By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Scores of new witnesses have emerged with more footage of the eerie 'drone' UFO swarms buzzing key US military sites, including 'a big fireball in a cube' over Area 51.

The Las Vegas-area witness who reported this bizarre cube-shaped object claims to have observed similar strange aerial lights in the area 'over 100 times' since June 2020, adding that these craft 'always seem to head towards Nellis Air Force base.'

Nevada's Nellis base and its sprawling complex about 40 miles northwest of Vegas — including top secret Area 51, now legendary within UFO lore — appear to have faced incursions by craft similar to those that plagued the Air Force in Virginia. 

For at least 17 nights last December, swarms of noisy small UFOs were seen 'moving at rapid speeds' and displaying 'flashing red, green, and white lights' within the highly restricted airspace over Virginia's Joint Base Langley–Eustis.

Vegas natives have posted videos confirming they too have seen more than one red, green or white UFO that 'wasn't flashing like a regular aircraft [or] like a satellite.'

Another witness, who documented one September 4, 2024 case from their own 60-night experience with the odd lights, hoped coming forward might help get answers.

'I live approximately 7 miles from Nellis,' they said. 'Past two months, every single night, I've seen numerous different things going on. Just wondering what it all is.'

General Glen VanHerck of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), has pled with the US Secretary of Defense to authorize a full battery of electronic eavesdropping tools to get to the bottom of the Langley swarm and others like it.

One Las Vegas witness, who documented their own months-long experience with the odd lights near Area 51 on Sept. 4, 2024, hoped coming forward might end their own confusion: 'Just wondering what it all is.' Above, a still from that witness's video, dubbed Enigma #298748

'I lived under a commercial flight pattern near the airport, so I'm very familiar with what airplanes and conventional aircraft look and behave like,' one observer to a September 13, 2022 case (above) stated. 'This was not conventional,' they said of the 'very bright light'

The general, who led the mission to takedown the infamous Chinese spy balloon in February 2023, described Langley's 'drone swarm' wave as unlike any other reported.

And speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee this past March, General VanHerck's successor as the head of NORAD, Air Force General Gregory Guillot, told lawmakers that still more baffling UFO cases over US bases continue to mount.

'I wasn't prepared for the number of incursions that I see,' General Guillot confessed.

While the new witnesses to the UFO sightings near Nellis were all civilians — working with consumer phone cameras and not the military-grade radar, infrared and NASA imaging tech deployed at Langley — their reports echo the Air Force's own.

'They were flashing weirdly not [like] the normal navigation lights,' one witness reported in their submission to a UFO-spotting app run by start-up Enigma Labs. 

The UFOs during this April 16, 2024 encounter, they said, 'were red in color' and 'traveling very close together.'

Another witness, who documented a November 21, 2023 event, stated that they saw an object that looked deceptively monochromatic until they re-examined the video.

'If you zoom into the actual recording various times, you'll see that it's a round shape and it's spinning and it's multicolored, not just green,' as they described it to Enigma.

Both Vegas witnesses said their sightings appeared to be near Nellis Air Force Base.

General Glen VanHerck (above), the commander of the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) from August 2020 to February 2024, said: 'If there are unknown objects within North America [we need to] go out and identify them'

For at least 17 nights in December 2023, swarms of small 'drones' were seen penetrating the highly restricted airspace above Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Above, a photo taken by an eyewitness of one (or more) of these drones as provided to the Wall Street Journal and others

Above, two USAF F-22 Raptors fly over Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia on June 14, 2018

The repeated appearance of terms like 'drones,' 'unmanned aerial vehicles' (UAV) and 'unmanned aerial systems' (UAS) in the Pentagon's own official reports on these unexplained cases has pointed many observers toward terrestrial explanations.

'Typically sightings near bases such as Nellis and Area 51 where there are a lot of experimental aircraft being tested are assumed to be advanced technology under development,' Enigma Labs consultant Alejandro Rojas told DailyMail.com.

'However, given the admission that UAV are flying in secured airspace over other Air Force bases,' he noted, 'we need to take a closer look at these.' 

Rojas, a seasoned UFO expert and cofounder of the nonprofit , told DailyMail.com that Enigma has received 'a lot of reports near Nellis Air Force Base.'

'Civilian reports and videos of potential incursions by unknown objects from the public are essential,' he added. 'The Pentagon is scratching its head over these.'

'Most cases we receive include videos, along with descriptions of how they move, what they look like, and the directions they come from and are headed to.' 

Although many wished to remain anonymous, several of Enigma's witnesses offered details that spoke to their own credibility, as well as to their efforts to find more prosaic explanations for the odd airborne phenomena that had left them stumped.

'I lived under a commercial flight pattern near the airport, so I'm very familiar with what airplanes and conventional aircraft look and behave like,' one Vegas-based observer to a September 13, 2022 case stated. 

'This was not conventional,' they said of the 'very bright light' they witnessed 'for at least 20 minutes' in the wee hours of the morning, around 4:45am Pacific time.   

Above, one still from Enigma #298748, a case documented on September 4, 2024. 'I live approximately 7 miles from Nellis,' the witness said. 'Past two months, every single night, I've seen numerous different things going on. Just wondering what it all is'

Above, a second still from Enigma #298748, documented on September 4, 2024

'The light was extremely bright, yellowish orange,' they noted. 'It was pulsing and it remain[ed] stationary [...] it seemed to be situated near Nellis Air Force Base.' 

'It was strange,' the witness continued. 'I also checked to make sure it wasn't a star or a planet or any atmospheric phenomenon. Two days later at the exact same time I saw the same object in the same airspace.'

Yet another witness also had repeat sightings around their own December 15, 2023 green light UFO, which made 'erratic movements' before 'just stopping in midair.'  

Only one of these half a dozen or so Vegas-area witnesses reached for otherworldly notions to explain what they saw: the witness to the 'big fireball in a cube' who taped a seemingly distant and very different amber-orange UFO, the night of May 6, 2024.

'They always seem to head towards Nellis [AFB],' the witness wrote. 'I don't believe they are man-made, probably in cahoots with the Air Force.' 

'I feel they are trying to communicate with me,' the woman continued in her report.

Only one these half a dozen or so of these Las Vegas-area witnesses reached for an otherworldly explanation to explain what they saw: the witness to the 'big fireball in a cube' who taped a different amber-orange UFO on video (above) the night of May 6, 2024

Nevada State Route 375 near Area 51 was named 'the Extraterrestrial Highway' in 1996 by the Nevada Commission on Tourism hoping to drawing tourists to this remote part of the state

'They zoom up and down sometimes [...] back and forth sometimes. They're very playful, and they always know where I am,' she added. 

Late last month, the deputy test director for US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) Jason Mayes, explained some of the policy hurdles facing America's domestic defense against any enemy drones encroaching upon sensitive US airspace. 

Mayes, commenting during the counter-drone experiment 'Falcon Peak 2025' at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, spoke to both legal and civilian safety issues that have plagued defensive measures to combat UAVs on US soil.

The entire phalanx of potential anti-drone tech available for US bases abroad — including surface-to-air interceptors, gun systems, lasers and high-power microwave weapons — are all currently 'off limits' for bases like Langley and Nellis.

'They're not appropriate for the homeland,' Mayes told reporters with The War Zone. 

More troubling still, even less drastic techniques like signal-jamming have proven tricky for domestic use, over understandable concerns about where a jammed UAV might crash or what other civilian systems nearby might fail due to 'friendly fire' from that jamming. 

'Given the impact of GPS denial, just across infrastructure and all that stuff,' Mayes noted, 'it is a very, very difficult capability to get permissions to utilize.' 

Above, the Area 51 Center in Nye, NV

Out of any of these methods, Mayes noted that blasting drones out of the sky with a focused laser might prove to be the method that meets with policymaker's blessing soonest. 

'I think that we could get to a point where we have approval for that here in the homeland,' Mayes told reporters.

'The biggest thing right now is the impact of the laser when it moves beyond its target. You know, how far is it going? What's that going to do? How long does the laser need to remain on target before it begins to inflict damage and so on, right?'

NORTHCOM's tests, of course, presume the solution to these events are all likely to be earthbound tech — or technology at all — an open question for many observers.

'These incursions highlight the need for a process to identify the objects and get data to the right people, whether that be foreign materials analysis groups inside the military [or] law enforcement,' Rojas told DailyMail.com. 

But: 'With more mysterious situations, like any determined to be dealing with material not made on this planet,' the longtime UFO researcher noted that 'getting that data to scientists who can transparently analyze the cases' will be paramount.

'This last group is the exciting stuff,' Rojas said. 'These are the cases where we will discover something new.' 

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11-11-2024 om 18:48 geschreven door peter  

Four Chilling UFO Encounters That Changed History

For as long as humans have gazed up at the stars, questions about extraterrestrial life have captured the human imagination. While most UFO sightings have been easily explained, a few remain unexplained and have sparked curiosity, debate, and wonder. This article dives into four landmark UFO sightings—the Roswell crash, the Battle of Los Angeles, the Rendlesham Forest incident, and the Marfa Lights—that continue to challenge our understanding of the universe. These iconic encounters, filled with gripping eyewitness accounts and intriguing expert analyses, have inspired countless theories about the mysteries that may lie beyond our world.

The Roswell Crash: The “Cosmic Watergate”

The Roswell Incident of 1947 remains one of the most famous UFO cases in history. When an unknown object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, the U.S. military initially reported it as a “flying disc.” However, this statement was quickly retracted, with officials claiming the debris was from a weather balloon. This reversal only fueled public suspicion, leading many to believe that the government was hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life. Witnesses reported strange materials at the crash site, including what they described as “memory metal” that would return to its original shape. Over the years, Roswell has become synonymous with UFO lore, spawning countless theories about what actually crashed in the desert and whether it was truly extraterrestrial in nature.

The Battle of Los Angeles: An Unsolved WWII Mystery

In the early hours of February 25, 1942, less than three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the city of Los Angeles was gripped with fear. An unidentified object appeared on military radar, sparking an intense anti-aircraft barrage that lit up the night sky. Thousands of rounds were fired at the mysterious object, which remained undamaged and eventually disappeared without a trace. The official explanation later suggested the object was a weather balloon, but the public was not convinced. Some witnesses described a large oval shape caught in the crossfire, a detail that continues to fuel theories of an extraterrestrial encounter. The Battle of Los Angeles remains one of the most intense and well-documented UFO sightings, and its mystery continues to resonate with historians and UFO enthusiasts alike.

The Rendlesham Forest Incident: Britain’s Roswell

Known as “Britain’s Roswell,” the Rendlesham Forest incident took place over several nights in December 1980 near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England. Military personnel reported seeing strange lights in the forest, and some claimed to have encountered a triangular craft emitting beams of light. Deputy Base Commander Colonel Charles Halt recorded his observations on an audio device, describing the eerie red and blue lights in detail. Radiation was reportedly detected at the landing site, and broken tree branches suggested something had indeed descended through the forest canopy. While some skeptics attribute the lights to a nearby lighthouse, many witnesses, including Colonel Halt, insist that what they saw was not a lighthouse but a structured craft of unknown origin. This high-profile case has led to extensive investigations and remains a prominent event in British UFO history.

The Marfa Lights: An Enigmatic Light Show in the Texas Desert

For over a century, mysterious lights have appeared in the desert near Marfa, Texas. Known as the Marfa Lights, these orbs have mystified locals and scientists alike. Witnesses describe seeing colorful lights that move against the wind, change direction, and sometimes vanish suddenly. While some scientists speculate that the lights may be caused by atmospheric conditions or natural gases, no theory has fully explained this phenomenon. Reports of the Marfa Lights date back to the late 1800s, before modern technology or vehicles could have been responsible. The lights have become a popular tourist attraction, drawing thousands of visitors each year to watch the glowing orbs dance across the dark Texas sky. The Marfa Lights continue to puzzle scientists and remain one of the most enduring mysteries in UFO lore.

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Each of these four iconic UFO encounters has captivated the public’s imagination, challenging what we know—or think we know—about the universe. The Roswell crash, the Battle of Los Angeles, the Rendlesham Forest incident, and the Marfa Lights each provide compelling evidence that there may be more to the UFO phenomenon than meets the eye. Whether these incidents are proof of extraterrestrial visitors or natural phenomena beyond our current scientific understanding, they continue to inspire questions about the mysteries of the cosmos. With new advancements in science and technology, perhaps one day we will finally uncover the truth behind these chilling encounters. Until then, these events remain a reminder of the boundless mysteries that lie in the unexplored realms of space and in our own understanding of reality.

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11-11-2024 om 17:18 geschreven door peter  

Trump pledged to reveal the 'truth' about JFK, UFOs and Jeffrey Epstein... which secret will he expose first?

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By NIC WHITE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Donald Trump promised to get busy remaking the US in his image from his first day in office after his election victory over Kamala Harris.

Many policies on his wide-reaching agenda, though radical, cover bread-and-butter issues like immigration, the economy, and education.

He vowed mass deportations for undocumented migrants and asylum-seekers, a worrying purge of the public service, and controversial tariffs on China.

But Trump also made other promises from the unconventional to the bizarre that he may or may not implement, but will certainly be talking points from day one.

Donald Trump declares victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 election

Declassifying JFK assassination files

The assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, has fascinated the American public for decades - even after the Warren Commission ruled shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

The secrecy around the investigation and claims of other gunmen and plots by the CIA, Cuba, and the Soviets fueled persistent conspiracy theories.

In 1992, a law was brought in which declared that all the documents about the assassination should be made publicly available by 2017, by which time Trump was in the White House.

About 320,000 files were supposed to be released, but the law allowed officials to postpone some of them on privacy and national security grounds.

Trump delayed the release of some documents until 2021 for those reasons, and released another 19,045 in 2018 with redactions.

President John F Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas on November 22, 1963. This is his motorcade minutes before he was shot

The Warren Commission ruled shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, but there are persistent conspiracy theories

Joe Biden again delayed the release of those files, but made about 13,000 more public over the course of his presidency so far.

But after securing the endorsement of Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is JFK's nephew, Trump promised to make all the rest public and pledged to do so 'early' in his presidency.

'This is a tribute in honor of Bobby. I will establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts, and they will be tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,' he said at a rally in Phoenix in August.

RFK Jr believes the CIA was involved in his uncle's murder and wants the files made public to prove it.

Trump said the new commission would investigate all presidential assassination attempts, including his own.

He reiterated his plan to release the JFK documents on a podcast with right wing personality Lex Fridman on September 3.

'They also are pushing me on Kennedy, and I did release a lot, but I had people come to me and beg me not to do it. But I'll be doing that very early on,' he said.

'Kennedy's interesting because it's so many years ago. They do that for danger too, because it endangers certain people, etc etc.'

Trump previously said he got a lot of pushback in his efforts to declassify the files when he was president.

Gerald Posner, who wrote the 1993 Kennedy assassination book Case Closed, said wasn't so sure Trump would follow through.

'You had an opportunity to do it, you said you were going to do it, and you didn't do it,' he told the Washington Post. 

'Now, with the RFK Jr endorsement, maybe that's a quid pro quo, and maybe this time he'll actually do it.' 

Exposing the 'truth' about UFOs

Trump claims the question he is asked most about his time in office is what he learned about extraterrestrial contact.

He was asked on the Fridman podcast if he would 'help push the Pentagon to release more footage (of UFOs), which a lot of people claim is available'.

'Oh yeah, sure, I'll do that. I would do that. I'd love to do that. I have to do that,' he replied.

Trump's comment, along with his history of giving credence to UFO theories, sparked excitement about what he would expose.

UFO 'expert' Nick Pope claimed there was a 'strong possibility of bombshell UFO information being released' next year.

'It's the perfect storm: a maverick, populist President in his second term, and – thus – not up for re-election,' he told The Mirror.

'For those in the UFO community who believe there's been a decades-long conspiracy to cover up the truth about an alien presence, Trump in his second term offers the best-ever hope for pushing back against the Deep State and delivering Disclosure.

'I believe Trump views the subject in the same way as he views the JFK files, where, if there's top secret information still being withheld, it should be declassified and released.'

Trump has on several occasions claimed American military pilots shared UFO sightings with him that they couldn't explain.

'I have met with pilots... they are not conspiratorial, they are not crazy, and they tell me stories that they've seen things that you wouldn't believe,' he said in June.

He told influencer Logan Paul that he believed there was something out there.

'It's very possible there is something. And why wouldn't there be? You look at the universe and you see all of the different planets and you see... look, here we are, one relatively small planet. 

'Why wouldn't there be, on a planet that's 400 times the size? Why wouldn't there be something, somebody?' 

This position is still very different to believing aliens have actually visited Earth, and the CIA's official position is still that they have not.

Trump elaborated on his UFO thoughts in his podcast with Joe Rogan, again citing conversations with pilots.

'I interviewed a few people, it's never been my thing, I have to be honest. I have never been a believer,' he said.

'So I interviewed jet pilots that say they saw something. If you saw them you'd love to have them [on your show]...that were solid people, perfect, great pilots, everything. 

'And they said, 'we saw things sir that were very strange, like a round ball that wasn't a comet or meteor, it was something and it was going four times faster than an F22, which is a very fast plane. 

'And it was round, which in theory is a great shape [for flying].'

Trump added that while the sighted UFOs 'could be' drones or Chinese spy balloons, he remained swayed by the eyewitness accounts of the fighter pilots he spoke to. 

He added: [They are] solid, beautiful people. [They said] this is something sir, this is something. They're not conspiracy guys.'

Releasing the 'Epstein files'

Many Trump fans, including Elon Musk, want him to release all documents relating to the investigation of billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein, who hung himself in jail, flew numerous well-heeled friends to his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, where some of them sexually abused children.

The billionaire was known to have many famous friends and acquaintances in Hollywood, politics, and business, and many Americans want to know their level of involvement in his dealings.

Some documents became public last year from a defamation case with his alleged victim Virginia Roberts in 2015, but no one famous was incriminated.

There are rumors of a 'client list' but it has never been proved to actually exist.

Many Trump fans, including Elon Musk, want him to release all documents relating to the investigation of billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein (pictured in jail)

Trump was asked abut released Epstein-related documents during the Fridman podcast, including if the supposed 'client list' would be made public.

'It's very interesting, isn't it? It probably will be, by the way, probably,' he said.

'I'd certainly take a look at it. Now... Kennedy is very different from the Epstein thing but I'd be inclined to do the Epstein. I'd have no problem with it.'

Trump appeared more cautious in another interview, wary that people could be smeared by potential lies contained in the files.

'Yeah, yeah, I would. I guess I would because... I think that less so because, you know, you don't know you don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there because it's a lot of phony stuff with that world,' he said.

'But I think I would or at least... Yeah I don't know about Epstein so much as I do the others (the JFK assassination and 9/11 files).'

Trump himself knew Epstein and was photographed with him (this one at Mar-a-Lago in 1997), but has consistently downplayed his involvement

Trump with Melania, Epstein, and the billionaire sex offender's right-hand women Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago club on February 12, 2000

Trump himself knew Epstein and was photographed with him, but has consistently downplayed his involvement.

'I'm not involved. I never went to his island, fortunately, but a lot of people did,' he said on the Fridman podcast.

However, hours of recorded interviews with Epstein by author Michael Wolff, who interviewed the billionaire for his Trump book Fire and Fury - well before his hideous crimes were exposed - told a different story.

Epstein, in the recordings given to the Daily Beast, called Trump his 'closest friend' and spoke extensively of their relationship. 

'Freedom cities' and flying cars

Trump, in a March 2023 campaign ad, said he planned to build 10 new cities on federal land he referred to as 'freedom cities'.

'In other words, we'll actually build new cities in our country again,' he said. 

'These Freedom Cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact, the American Dream.'  

Trump waxed lyrical about how past generations had 'big dreams' and pursued impossible projects, but the country had 'lost its boldness'.

'Under my leadership, we will get it back in a very big way. If you look at just three years ago, what we were doing was unthinkable, how good it was, how great it was for our country,' he said.

'Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living.'

The freedom cities plan hasn't been mentioned since then, and may go the way of another bizarre idea from Trump's first term - buying Greenland from Denmark.

In the same video Trump said he planned to fill American driveways with flying cars and declared 'America, not China, leads the revolution in air mobility'.

'Dozens of major companies in the US and China are racing to develop vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles for families and individuals,' he said.

'Just as the United States led the automotive revolution in the last century, I want to ensure that America, not China, leads this revolution in air mobility. 

'These breakthroughs can transform commerce, bring a giant infusion of wealth into rural America, and connect families and our country in new ways.' 

Some companies are working on these projects, but they are a lot further off than the end of Trump's second term, if they are ever feasible.

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10-11-2024 om 17:28 geschreven door peter  

By ALEX HAMMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Footage from a new docuseries that seeks to prove the existence of aliens appears to show an unidentified aircraft descending into the English Channel.

Netflix's Investigation Alien follows journalist and ufologist George Knapp as he assembles a crack-team to prove their existence - and it has yielded evidence such as this. 

An expedition commissioned for the Knapp docuseries captured the clip - their second sighting that night.

First, as they operated an ROV off the French coast of Normandy, they saw an illuminated object roughly 200 yards in the distance, first stationary, then speeding away.

It returned hours later, however, when everyone except the night crew was asleep - before plummeting into the waters below. An eagle-eyed mariner was able to capture it on film - seemingly leaving the minds behind the new series at a loss.

Footage filmed by an expedition commissioned by Netflix's Investigation Alien appears to show an unidentified flying aircraft descending into the English Channel

The brief clip appears to show an unidentified 'flying' object transforming into an unidentified 'submerged' object in real-time, experts said

'[This was] with everybody sleeping, with the exception of our night watch guy,' underwater archaeologist Rory Kremer tells Knapp of the clip, which appears to an unidentified 'flying' object transforming into an unidentified 'submerged' object in real-time

'Don't tell me it's going to go in the water,' Knapp says in response, as the orb descends.

'I'll be damned,' he adds after it happens, showing real confusion.

The series' main investigator and narrator, Knapp proceeds to ask for Kremer's professional opinion.

The archaeologist with over 20 years of experience admits he is equally stumped, despite his crew being the ones to capture the clip, 

 'So this is what it does when it thinks that nobody is watching?' Knapp asks before turning to Kremer. 'Have you ever seen anything like this?'

'A willy peter flare is the only thing I know like that that will hang up in the air, but that's not a flare, because there's no smoke going off of it,' the archaeologist says, admitting he has no real answers - at least ones that involve human technology.

'Look at that. It's under the water,' he goes on to exclaim, conceding to Knapp he does not know the craft's nature.

Underwater archaeologist Rory Kremer is seen speaking about the footage his crew caught off the Channel Islands with journalist and ufologist George Knapp, the series' main investigator

'I don't got any answers - do you?' he asks - leaving Knapp to posit that it could be evidence of a subterranean base. 

'You think it's got a base down there?' Knapp asks his friend.

'It could be. It could be.'

The two begin to speak about previous sightings in the region, which stretch back hundreds of years.

'Archaeology is your thing,' Knapp asks Kremer at this point. 'What do you think?'

Kremer responds by pointing to the native tribes that once inhabited the region - and their tales of unknown objects flying.

'All have oral histories of lights they cannot explain,' the expert said, telling Knapp how these sightings off the Channel Islands were 'usually attributed it to gods.'

'It has gone on a long time,' he continued, before touting the clip's importance.

'Archaeology is your thing,' Knapp asks Kremer at this point. 'What do you think?' Kremer responds by pointing to the native tribes that once inhabited the region - and their tales of unknown objects flying.

'I think we really scratched the surface here. There could very well be something underwater.'

Knapp, in a narration provided after the exchanged, agreed.

Pointing to previous reports of undersea anomalies seen skirting the skies as well,  he accused the government of keeping similar evidence under wraps, despite them likely being extraterrestrial in natured.

'I'm going to share this with some insiders I know [to] hopefully get more videos like this released to the public, to get to the bottom of what non human intelligence might be doing in our oceans,' Knapp said of the footage, which has yet to be released to the public.

'This is not us. It's from somewhere else,' he maintained.

The video, meanwhile, does not show the unidentified craft exiting the water after seemingly lowering in.

Investigation Alien - a 'paranormal docuseries [where] renowned UFO reporter [Knapp] investigates new evidence, interviews an array of experts and meets with emerging witnesses who are finally willing to go on the record' - released Friday.

It's now streaming on Netflix. 

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10-11-2024 om 17:03 geschreven door peter  

Congress promises to 'pull back the curtain' on secret UFO research as whistleblowers prepare to testify

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By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

US Congress has promised to 'pull back the curtain' on secret UAP research programs conducted in the shadows of the government in a court of law.

A second slew of hearings into UFOs is scheduled for November 13, led by the House Oversight Committee, with former military officials and an aerospace expert set to testify about their knowledge of secret US programs.

Lawmakers have promised 'to explore firsthand accounts of [UFOs]' and 'assess the federal government's transparency and accountability regarding their 'possible threats to national security.'

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), a member of the subcommittee, said: 'The Pentagon and Washington bureaucrats have kept this information hidden for decades, and we're finally going to shed some light on it. 

'We're bringing in credible witnesses who can provide public testimony because the American people deserve the truth. We're done with the cover-ups.'

There will be four witnesses set to testify under oath, including former Department of Defense Official Luis Elizondo and former NASA Associate Administrator Michael Gold.

Congress is set to hold a second hearing about UAPs that it promised will expose the truth to the American public, specifically about the research programs within the government. Pictured is the famous Tic Tac-shaped object seen in the sky over California on November 10, 2004 

Next week's hearing, set for 11:30am ET, will be a joint effort by Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Rep Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.).

'This is our second hearing on the topic of UAPs and the American people are tired of the obfuscation and refusal to release information by the federal government, they said in a shared statement.

'Americans deserve to understand what the government has learned about UAP sightings and the nature of any potential threats these phenomena pose.

'We can only ensure that understanding by providing consistent, systemic transparency. We look forward to hearing from expert witnesses on ways to shed more light and bring greater accountability to this issue.'

The committee has not released details on cases to be presented on Wednesday but provided the list of witnesses.

Elizondo, a career US Army counterintelligence specialist, previously ran the military's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

He recently hosted a private event in Philadelphia on October 28 to reveal an image of an alleged UFO 'mothership.'

There will be four witnesses set to testify under oath, including former Department of Defense Official Luis Elizondo (pictured)

Elizondo recently hosted a private event in Philadelphia on October 28 to reveal an image of an alleged UFO 'mothership.'

'There's a whole lot more here folks,' Elizondo told the audience in a leaked clip. 'I just want to give you kind of a small taste of what's going on 'behind the scenes.''

'We're having pilots, military pilots and civilian pilots in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, report what unimaginably seems impossible,' as Elizondo explained his 'real photo' of a UFO.

'They described it literally 'the mothership,' Elizondo said.

Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger will also be sworn under oath.

Shellenberger — who is also an academic and a two-time candidate for California governor — went viral last month after publishing one of his anonymous whistleblower's accounts of an alleged UFO data collection program.

That classified UFO data retrieval effort, dubbed 'Immaculate Constellation,' was established in 2017 to 'detect' and 'quarantine' the military's best UFO imagery, along with its best videos, witness testimonies and electronic sensor evidence.

Dr Tim Gallaudet, former rear admiral in the US Navy, launched a probe in March into unidentified submersible objects (USOs), specifically strange sightings on the seabed off the coast of California.

Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger will also be sworn under oath. He went viral last month after publishing one of his anonymous whistleblower's accounts of an alleged UFO data collection program

Gold is a former NASA Associate Administrator who was part of the agency's UAP study in October 2022, which focused solely on unclassified data.

Over nine months, the independent study team will lay the groundwork for future studies on the nature of UAPs for NASA and other organizations.

The hearing follows the bombshell case last year that was held by Burchett and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla).

David Grusch - a former high-ranking intelligence official - was one of three military whistleblowers who testified under oath that they had firsthand encounters or knowledge about secret government programs involving technology that is 'non-human.'

He claimed that the US has been in possession of UFOs since 'the 1930s' and has been secretly back-engineering them and carrying out a public disinformation campaign to prevent the details from leaking publicly. 

Ryan Graves, a former pilot, Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch and Navy veteran fighter pilot Commander David Fravor spoke at the first hearing in 2023

During the hearing, Burchett asked Grusch: 'Personally, have you heard anyone [has] been murdered?' 

Grusch replied: 'I have to be careful answering that question. I directed people with that knowledge to the appropriate authorities.'

He was sworn in Wednesday, along with Ryan Graves, an esteemed former pilot, and Navy veteran fighter pilot Commander David Fravor, who witnessed the 2004 'Tic Tac' UFO.

Graves, a former F-18 pilot with over a decade of service in the US Navy, was the first to give opening statements.

'My testimony is based on information I've been given by individuals with a long-standing track record of legitimacy and service to this country, many of whom have shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official documentation and classified oral testimony to myself and many various colleagues,' Graves told lawmakers, stating he was driven to share it by a 'commitment to truth and transparency.'

Burchett described the 2023 hearing as 'historical.' 

'I'd like to thank these three brave witnesses here. They took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and, dagnammit, they're doing it,' he continued.

'We're not bringing little green men or flying saucers into the hearing — sorry to disappoint about half of y'all — we're just going to get to the facts.

'We're going to uncover the cover-up, and I hope this is just the beginning of many more hearings and many more people coming forward about this.'

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09-11-2024 om 21:00 geschreven door peter  

Archons: Cosmic Manipulators Shaping Humanity’s Reality

Throughout history, the existence of cosmic entities influencing the affairs of humankind has been a recurring theme across cultures. Among these are the Archons—a mysterious alien race described in ancient texts and expounded upon by modern thinkers like John Lash and David Icke. According to Lash and Icke, these entities are not only real but deeply entrenched in manipulating humanity, influencing our perceptions, and controlling human souls. Lash, a scholar of Gnosticism, and Icke, an author and theorist, delve into the mechanisms by which these beings exert their power, describing them as masterful manipulators of reality who use illusion to keep humanity under control.

The Origins of the Archons in Gnostic Texts

The concept of the Archons finds its roots in ancient Gnostic writings, particularly the Nag Hammadi texts discovered in 1945. In these documents, the Archons are depicted as malevolent entities that arose during the creation of the solar system. According to Lash, Gnostic seers—ancient shamans and spiritual teachers—observed that the Archons were an inorganic species that emerged alongside the formation of the cosmos. Unlike organic life on Earth, the Archons are thought to be beings of a lower, “inorganic” realm that possess limited creative abilities but excel in imitation and deception. This distinction places them as beings “of the solar system but not of the Earth,” a cosmic presence that exists on the fringes of human experience.

Cosmic Puppeteers and the Power of Illusion

One of the Archons’ defining traits, as described by Lash, is their ability to create illusions and distort human perception. They use a power that Gnostic texts term Hal, or simulation. Through this, the Archons can implant false realities and manipulate our beliefs, steering human thought and emotion in directions that feed their agenda. This aligns with Icke’s idea of a “holographic internet” through which entities can manipulate human perception by broadcasting frequencies that influence the mind. Both Lash and Icke argue that these manipulative powers are especially potent in moments of fear and division, which the Archons exploit to maintain control over humanity.

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Lash explains that Archons are envious of humanity’s creative spark, emotional depth, and evolutionary potential. This envy drives them to intrude upon the human psyche, feeding off the energy of fear, chaos, and confusion. Gnostic texts even go so far as to describe the Archons as engaging in psychic intrusion and inducing experiences akin to modern-day abduction narratives. By generating fear and confusion, the Archons maintain their hold on human consciousness, effectively preventing humanity from achieving higher awareness and self-realization.

The Archons as Cosmic Engineers

In addition to their role as manipulators, the Archons are also portrayed as engineers of the physical universe. Lash interprets the ancient Gnostic texts as suggesting that the Archons are somewhat like “cosmic technicians,” beings who sustain the inorganic structures of the solar system. They lack the vitality of organic life and cannot thrive in the biosphere of Earth, but they inhabit and influence the outer realms. This alien nature makes them capable of extensive mental intrusion but limits their physical interactions with humanity. They operate primarily through telepathic influence, distorting human perception from a distance.

A Dual Reality: Manipulation of the Five-Sense World

According to Icke, humanity lives in a “five-sense prison,” where the material world is a narrow bandwidth within a much larger, multidimensional reality. He posits that the Archons manipulate this limited reality by controlling the flow of information and perception through external systems like the media, education, and societal structures. These entities, Icke asserts, operate from a frequency just beyond visible light, presenting themselves as human but possessing a distinctly different form in realms beyond our perception.

This “illusory” nature of reality is key to understanding how the Archons control humanity. By manipulating beliefs and perceptions, they create a false sense of limitation, preventing people from realizing their true potential as infinite, interconnected beings. Icke refers to this as a “holographic internet” where our beliefs and perceptions are shaped by outside influences that keep us within a narrow understanding of reality.

Overcoming Archonic Control: Awareness as Liberation

Both Lash and Icke emphasize the importance of awareness and self-realization as a means to break free from Archonic control. Recognizing the influence of the Archons allows humanity to regain autonomy over the mind and spirit, stepping out of the cycle of fear and illusion. Lash believes that the Gnostic texts were preserved as a warning and a guide for humanity to recognize these intrusions and to consciously resist their influence.

For Icke, understanding that reality is fundamentally illusory and manipulated is the first step toward liberation. He argues that by embracing our true identity as expressions of infinite consciousness, we can transcend the Archonic influence and reshape our reality. This shift in perspective allows us to see beyond the limitations imposed by external forces, enabling humanity to reconnect with its divine potential.

The Ancient Knowledge for Modern Times

The insights of Lash and Icke provide a framework for understanding how unseen forces may influence human behavior and beliefs. By examining the ancient teachings of Gnosticism alongside modern theories of consciousness and perception, they offer a pathway to liberation from cosmic entities that seek to control the human experience. Ultimately, exploring the Archons serves as a reminder that humanity’s greatest power lies in self-awareness, resilience, and the pursuit of truth beyond ordinary awareness.

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08-11-2024 om 20:45 geschreven door peter