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Footage recently emerged showing a 'jellyfish UFO' supposedly flying over a US military base in Iraq in 2018 - and now the Pentagon has issued a statement in response

The 'jellyfish' UFO, supposedly filmed in Iraq in 2018 

(Image: @JeremyCorbell/Twitter)

The US government has issued a statement in response to a video showing what has been dubbed the "jellyfish" UFO.

The video was shared by journalist Jeremy Corbell and appears to show a jellyfish-shaped object floating over a military base.

Corbell claims it was recorded over a US base in Iraq and dates back to 2018. He also said the object was officially designated as an "unidentified aerial phenomenon" (UAP) by the Pentagon.

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Corbell claims the object was officially designated as a UAP by the Pentagon 

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Corbell said on X/Twitter: "An incursion by an object of unknown origin was filmed at a United States joint operations base in Iraq. The object was designated UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), and was tracked for a durational period. The object moved through a sensitive military installation - and eventually traversed over a body of water, where it actuated a controlled descent - submerging into the water.

"After an observational period of about seventeen minutes - the UAP re-emerged from the body of water and shot-off at an extreme rate of speed - beyond the optical scope of the observation platform. The origin, intent and capability of the Anomalous Aerial Vehicle remains unknown. Official designation remains UAP."

The US Department of Defence has now responded, but refused to share details on "material that may have been leaked". The statement from spokeswoman Sue Gough reads: "We do not comment on the authenticity of alleged DOD material that may have been leaked. DOD takes public interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena seriously and is committed to openness and accountability to the American people.

"This commitment must be balanced with the department’s obligation to protect sensitive information, sources, and methods. To that end, AARO will provide updates to the public via its website as it resolves UAP cases, including sharing the analytic approach and method used for each case, as well as imagery, when approved for public release."

The Pentagon has previously released other videos leaked by Corbell and confirmed they were UAPs

Expert Ross Coulthart, special correspondent for NewsNation, said the Pentagon's response this time around was "very revealing for what it doesn't say".

"It doesn’t reveal a categorical denial," he told the news station. "It’s the last resort of governments and intelligence services when they don’t want to answer a question." He added that the video has proved to be a "very big issue" for the Pentagon.

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Webb Detects Oldest Black Hole Yet Known

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a small and vigorous black hole in GN-z11, an exceptionally luminous galaxy that existed just 420 million years after the Big Bang, more than 13 billion years ago. That this black hole with a mass of a few million solar masses even exists so early in the Universe challenges current assumptions about how black holes form and grow.

GN-z11, shown in the inset, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang.

Image credit: NASA / ESA / P. Oesch, Yale University / G. Brammer, STScI / P. van Dokkum, Yale University / G. Illingworth, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Astronomers believe that the supermassive black holes found at the centre of galaxies like the Milky Way grew to their current size over billions of years.

But the size of this newly-discovered black hole suggests that they might form in other ways: they might be ‘born big’ or they can eat matter at a rate that’s five times higher than had been thought possible.

According to standard models, supermassive black holes form from the remnants of dead stars, which collapse and may form a black hole about a hundred times the mass of the Sun

If it grew in an expected way, this newly-detected black hole would take about a billion years to grow to its observed size.

However, the Universe was not yet a billion years old when this black hole was detected.

“It’s very early in the Universe to see a black hole this massive, so we’ve got to consider other ways they might form,” said Dr. Roberto Maiolino, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge.

“Very early galaxies were extremely gas-rich, so they would have been like a buffet for black holes.”

Like all black holes, the young black hole in GN-z11 is accreting material from its host galaxy to fuel its growth.

Yet, this ancient black hole is found to gobble matter much more vigorously than its siblings at later epochs.

GN-z11 is a compact galaxy, about one hundred times smaller than the Milky Way, but the black hole is likely harming its development.

When black holes consume too much gas, it pushes the gas away like an ultra-fast wind.

This ‘wind’ could stop the process of star formation, slowly killing the galaxy, but it will also kill the black hole itself, as it would also cut off the black hole’s source of ‘food.’

“It’s a new era: the giant leap in sensitivity, especially in the infrared, is like upgrading from Galileo’s telescope to a modern telescope overnight,” Dr. Maiolino said.

“Before Webb came online, I thought maybe the Universe isn’t so interesting when you go beyond what we could see with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.”

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Welcome to this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief… here within the first weeks of 2024, we are already hearing about tantalizing hints that a major scientific discovery may be on the way. In our analysis, we’ll be looking at 1) why many experts seem very certain that the discovery of alien life will be confirmed sometime in 2024, 2) what we know about the potential evidence currently in-hand, and 3) why some aren’t so sure that it’s aliens… but there is more than enough reason to remain open to the possibility.

• QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

– ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Latest News: In recent coverage from The Debrief, Tim McMillan reports on how the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Threats Report identifies misinformation and disinformation as the top global risk, highlighting urgent need for action. Elsewhere, the United States Space Force has charged Microsoft with designing a cutting-edge space simulation program to train Guardians. You’ll find links to all our recent stories and other items at the end of this newsletter. 

Podcasts: In podcasts from The Debrief, this week on The Micah Hanks Program I provide a complete breakdown of what we know about the recent classified briefing lawmakers on Capitol Hill received from members of the Intelligence Community about UAP. Elsewhere, on The Debrief Weekly Report, MJ, Steph, and Kenna Castleberry look at blue light technology that can help you fall asleep, why you probably hate vegetables, and new research into dark energy. You can get all of The Debrief’s podcasts by heading over to our Podcasts Page.

Video News: In the latest installment of Rebelliously Curious, Chrissy Newton is joined by Paul Root Wolpe as they delve into the world of genetic engineering and the fascinating intersection of science, ethics, and the future of life. Also, check out the latest episode of Ask Dr. Chance and all the other great content from The Debrief on our official YouTube Channel.

And now, it’s time that we shift our attention over to one of the most tantalizing questions humans have ever asked about the universe and our place in it… and whether an answer could finally be on the horizon.

ALIEN MUSINGS

“Have we just discovered aliens?” read the title of an eye-grabbing piece published by The Spectator on January 8, 2024.

Quoting respected members of the scientific community that included UK astrophysicists Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Becky Smethurst, as well as astronaut Tim Peake, all of whom seemed to strongly allude to a discovery currently still on the path toward peer review

“I think we are going to get a paper that claims to have strong evidence for a biosignature in an exoplanet’s atmosphere very, very soon,” Smethurst was quoted saying. “Let’s just say it’s on my bingo card for 2024.”

Peake had been even less ambiguous while speaking during a CNBC interview in the first days of the new year, where he said the prospects that alien life might have been discovered were looking increasingly good.

“Potentially, the James Webb telescope may have already found [it],” though also emphasizing that nothing conclusive had been released yet since scientists involved in the prospective discovery “don’t want to release or confirm those results until they can be entirely sure,” though adding cryptically that “we found a planet that seems to be giving off strong signals of biological life.”

In other words, if these observations are what they appear to be, then it seems like there’s a good chance that we may already be on course for a tremendous discovery this year; one that could potentially offer the most convincing evidence to date that life may exist on worlds beyond our own.

A POSSIBLE BIOSIGNATURE OF ALIEN LIFE?

In the Spectator article, author Sean Thomas offered that the intriguing series of statements “suggests they are referring to the same thing: namely a scientific paper, probably British in origin… which will provide firm evidence of alien life on an exoplanet”.

Thomas sensibly guesses that the discovery—if such a discovery has indeed been made—will involve biosignatures detected in the atmosphere of an alien world that strongly points to the presence of conditions where life could thrive.

“These biosignatures might be combinations of methane and oxygen, or methane and CO2, and so on,” Thomas wrote, adding that speculations (apart from his own) were already being aired on social media, where UAP enthusiasts were already “claiming that this is merely stage one of ‘disclosure’,” and part of a bigger role-out we’re all destined to see in the months ahead as the powers that be finally clue the rest of us in on the reality that we are not alone.

However, as promising as the collection of cryptic statements curated by Thomas for The Spectator article had been, it wasn’t long before others were chiming in with what seemed to be far less enthusiasm about the idea that a revelation about strong evidence supporting the existence of alien life was on the near horizon.

LIFE ON DISTANT WORLDS? NOT YET… WELL, SORT OF

Wasting no time weighing in on the matter, Eric Berger, the stalwart senior space editor at Ars Technica, was quick to pour some cold water on the alien life claims.

Reaching out to NASA about whether its James Webb Space Telescope had indeed made a discovery involving tantalizing biosignatures, Berger reported that the answer was essentially no, “But it was not a hard no.”

According to Knicole Colón, deputy project scientist for exoplanet science with the James Webb Space Telescope team, “JWST has not found definitive evidence of life on an exoplanet,” but it appears to be anticipated that observations made by the telescope could lead to “the initial identification of potential biosignatures that could make habitability more or less likely for a given exoplanet.”

Artist’s rendering of K2-18 b, an exoplanet suspected of being a location where alien life may soon be discovered

(Credit: ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser).

Adding a touch of context to the admittedly vague statement, Berger mused that “Colón is certainly referring to K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth that is 120 light years from our Solar System,” an exoplanet which is likely to possess oceans similar to ours, and an atmosphere rich in hydrogen and, even more intriguing, dimethyl sulfide.

Why is the presence of dimethyl sulfide of such interest? Primarily because it is a compound that, as far as any Earthling know, is only produced in the presence of living organisms. So even in the absence of definitive proof of life on another world, if dimethyl sulfide has been found on K2-18 b, it’s the surest bet we currently have in terms of places where alien life is likely to be found… and that discovery—if confirmed—would truly be a game changer.

So while the answer to the question “have we just discovered aliens?” officially still remains inconclusive, it is certainly sounding like much closer to being “maybe” than a flat-out “no”… and if the current speculations we’re seeing are any indication, then 2024 is indeed already shaping up to be a historic year in terms of our understanding of the universe, our place in it, and answers to some of the greatest questions we have about the cosmos.

That concludes this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief. You can read past editions of The Intelligence Brief 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.

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Aerospace Billionaire Claims UAPs & Consciousness Are Linked; G-LOC Makes Human Soul Enter Another Dimension

The entire reality of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) is extremely complicated, spread across numerous branches, and consciousness is somewhere entangled in this enigma, playing a significant role in understanding the phenomena. Human consciousness has become the subject of experiments, leading experts to believe that it is connected to UFOs. Astronomer Jacques Vallée developed an alternative hypothesis, suggesting that UFOs are part of a mechanism for controlling mankind.

In simple terms, “consciousness” is just an awareness of the human mind about its internal and external environment. For millennia, many have explained consciousness in psychology and scientifically. However, it is not entirely known how and where consciousness occurs and where it goes after life ends.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander believes there is a scientific revolution happening that will completely change how we see the world. According to him, the brain is not the creator of consciousness but acts more like a filter that lets consciousness in. He argues that the brain does not control consciousness; instead, consciousness is the fundamental force that creates and governs the entire universe.

Dr. Alexander mentions evidence for things like reincarnation and past-life memories, suggesting that if you believe the brain produces consciousness, it can not explain these phenomena. He points out the mystery of quantum physics, where experiments show that consciousness plays a fundamental role, and our free will affects outcomes, challenging the idea that everything is determined by chemical reactions and the laws of physics.

He introduces the concept of the brain being a “reducing valve,” allowing certain conscious states to exist. According to him, quantum physics emphasizes the importance of the observer, suggesting that awareness of existence is a deep mystery. In essence, he believes that we are conscious despite our brains, and when our physical bodies die, our conscious awareness expands significantly.

Leslie Kean, a respected journalist says that there is a bundle of evidence that posits that the UFO phenomena are linked with an “Alternate dimension.” She believes UFOs could be connected to “the afterlife” and “near-death experiences” and could come from another “dimension.”

In a podcast with Chris Letho, Leslie said that there are two distinct aspects of the UFO phenomenon. The first one is the physical aspect, involving UFOs being detected on radar and approached by the military in a traditional, empirical manner. However, Kean also highlights the second, more enigmatic layer of UFO experiences.

Leslie told Lehto that she is increasingly sure there is a connection between the supernatural, near-death experiences, and unexplained sightings. She said, “Certainly, the more paranormal elements of the UFO phenomenon seem to have some relationship to what people describe in near-death experiences and other types of activities that take place in terms of just consciousness-related anomalous experiences that people have, which are very varied. There just is some kind of crossover air, and I don’t know what it is. I mean, there is the whole component of UFOs, which is just purely physical.”

Leslie speculates that there might be a connection between UFOs and some form of alternate dimension that exists beyond the boundaries of our five senses. This dimension, she suggests, may overlap with our own, providing a possible explanation for the mysterious and often inexplicable aspects of UFO phenomena.

CIA Experimented on Human Consciousness

CIA was profoundly interested in understanding human consciousness. Below is the shocking official CIA document on human consciousness that states: Consciousness is not a part of our body at all; it is stored in our brain but not considered a part of it. Our consciousness, or “us,” is its own being — a ghost version of ourselves.

The document discussed the technique dubbed “the Gateway Experience,” which was essentially described as a training system to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres that would alter the consciousness, pushing it outside the physical space, escaping restrictions of time and space.

Basically, it was seen as a way to put minds in a different state of consciousness, controlling the human brain with the motive of interacting with non-physical aspects of reality. According to the CIA report, ranged from converting energy to heal one’s body to traveling across space and time to learn and access new information.

CIA approved testing for this under the eyes of US Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M McDonnell. The project was classified by the CIA until 2003, which allowed it to be accessed by anyone. In the 1980s, McDonnell was asked to work on the Gateway Experience project. This happened during a time when the United States was very curious about psychic research. The interest grew because the Soviet Union was also exploring things like psychokinesis and extrasensory perception (ESP) for their spy missions in the Cold War.

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To test his new method, independent brain specialists studied people who tried it. Surprisingly, the results showed up clearly on brain scans. Both sides of the brain were working at the same strength and speed. This showed that Monroe’s work was helping people reach different states of awareness.

Bigelow: UFOs & Consciousness Are Linked

In this interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, American billionaire Robert Bigelow talks about the possibility of having out-of-body experiences, which can be artificially induced. He learned about this from an Air Force general who experienced it while undergoing a process called centrifuge training. In this training, individuals get into a device called a G-LOC at around 7 to 7.5 Gs (gravitational force) without any other equipment. They try to hold their breath and stay conscious before passing out.

According to the Air Force general’s account, he had an out-of-body experience during one of these sessions. After completing twelve sessions (although there are now rules limiting it to three), he stepped out of the centrifuge capsule, and instead of being in his body, he found himself above it. He could see his body getting out and walking down a hallway, being aware of activities in adjacent rooms and hearing conversations he should not normally be able to hear. This was not a near-death experience but an artificially induced one.

The general continued his out-of-body journey, going down the hallway to his office. He passed through walls, hovered near the ceiling, and observed his body opening doors and performing actions. The out-of-body experience ended when his body sat in the chair at his desk, and at that moment, his consciousness slammed back into his body.

“A related event occurs to modern fighter pilots when they experience intense G forces during extreme combat maneuvers. It has been reported that pilots will lose consciousness during maximum G forces and undergo a brief out-of-body state of consciousness. The U.S. military has conducted extensive research into this potentially dangerous phenomenon and has officially named the experience “G-LOC.” The popular television show Sightings did an entire segment on G-LOC-induced OBEs that was titled “Simulated Out-of-Body Experiences.” Several U.S. military pilots participated in an experiment where G-LOC was created in a NASA centrifuge. Each interviewed pilot reported that he had passed out and then described a detailed out-of-body state of consciousness.”

— The Secret of the Soul: Using Out-of-Body Experiences to Understand Our True Nature by William Buhlman.

Bigelow is absolutely convinced that there is a presence of non-human intelligent life among us, perhaps there are other dimensions where such entities exist. He spent millions of dollars on this subject which allowed him to believe that [aliens] are here right in front of people. He even has his own close encounters.

In an interview with award-winning journalist George Knapp, Mr. Bigelow shared his own experiences that got him interested in life after death and UFOs. He discussed the possible connection between studying consciousness and UFOs, as well as the risks of trying to communicate with the unknown.

“That’s been mainly what I’ve been doing except for the skinwalker ranch thing for 20 years as the space world has been huge in my life to pursue the legitimate parochial kind of you know using fire engines rockets to get you there. We didn’t expect anything like this to happen and so there this is different. This is the holy grail and is different than the second holy grail. If the second one is ‘Beings’ (E.T.), then the first one: Is there any part of your consciousness that survives your bodily death? That’s a big deal. That’s a huge story. That’s gigantic.”

“Be a little careful about what you wish for. So on the face of it, communication sounds great and that by the way has been tried forever ever since the oracle of Delphi. I mean you can go back thousands of years and that’s been attempted. So It’s not now you know the last 100 years through electronics and using some kind of electrical apparatus to try to have some kind of communications. And you know communication can be at all different kinds of levels. There might be communication that just causes you an awareness.”

Mr. Bigelow’s investigative team, headed by Colm Kelleher, the institute’s scientific administrator and biochemist, documented their own paranormal events, according to a 2005 book “Hunt for the Skinwalker,” by Dr. Kelleher and Mr. Knapp.

Mr. Bigelow said he saw “interdimensional” forces at play through portals at certain paranormal hot spots like Skinwalker. But he also said he had frequently visited the ranch without experiencing the kind of chilling events others reported, as if some intelligence were selecting the people to act upon. “I slept like a log every single night,” he said. And no human was physically harmed, but he said he and other visitors often carried strange things home, like a sulfurous stink in a certain part of his house. His wife felt the presence of a faceless creature pressing down on her side of bed.

David Grusch made significant assertions regarding the NHI, stating that these entities might be extraterrestrial or interdimensional, or possibly both. Astronomer and UFO researcher Jacques Vallée states that UFOs and related events of a paranormal nature involve visitations from other “realities” or “dimensions.” The idea proposes that these alternate realities exist separately yet parallel to our own. In 1975 book “The Edge of Reality,” Vallée and Hynek considered the possibility of what they call “interlocking universes.”

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Two Republican Congressmen claim UFOs could be 'angels' sent by GOD as they say sightings are consistent with scriptures from the Bible

• Rep. Eric Burlison views 'angels' as synonymous with 'extradimensional beings'
• Rep. Burlison joins Rep. Tim Burchett in citing religious texts as answers on UFOs
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A second Republican congressman has publicly floated the idea that UFOs may be angels sent by God.

Missouri lawmaker Eric Burlison, who has been privy to classified briefings on the phenomena, advanced the sensational theory on an amateur podcast this week.

'They may not fit exactly the Biblical narrative, but whenever I use the term "angels,"'  as he told That UFO Podcast Tuesday, 'to me, it's synonymous with an extradimensional being.'

He added: 'In a lot of different scriptures, including the Bible and others, that's really the way that you describe messengers of God or angels.'

Rep Burlison's comments echo statements by fellow GOP Congressman Tim Burchett, who told reporters last year that he believes 'the first chapter of Ezekiel is pretty clear of a UFO sighting.'

Above, Rep. Tim Burchett (left) next to fellow 'UAP Caucus' member Rep. Eric Burlison during a press conference held by members of the House Oversight committee last July ahead of the committee's public UFO hearing 

Congressman Eric Burlison told 'That UFO Podcast' Tuesday he believes 'non-human intelligences' described by UFO whistleblower David Grusch might be angelic: 'Whenever I use the term 'angels,' he said, 'to me it's synonymous with an extradimensional being'

Their comments highlight the frenzy of UFO speculation in Washington D.C. over the past seven months — provoked by whistleblower David Grusch's testimony that the Government is in possession of off-world craft.

Congressman and Marine veteran Mike Gallagher, who also serves on the House Oversight committee with Reps. Burlison and Burchett, suggested last June that UFOs might be time-traveling craft piloted by humans from the future. 

Rep. Gallagher compared the scenario to the plot of the 1984 film 'The Terminator.'

The Wisconsin Republican also floated his hypothesis that UFOs 'could actually be [from] an ancient civilization that's just been hiding here and is suddenly showing itself,' in this same June appearance on ESPN analyst Pat McAfee's sports talk show.

Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett, who serves on the House Oversight committee, told reporters last year 'the first chapter of Ezekiel is pretty clear of a UFO sighting'

UFOs and the Bible? Rep. Burchett claimed UFOs are mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel, citing the King James version of the Bible for his analysis (right)

Congressman Burlison made his statements Tuesday on a program devoted to the subject of these unsolved aerial mysteries, 'That UFO Podcast' hosted by Andy McGrillen in the United Kingdom.

Rep. Burlison had appeared for a 'special update pod' following House Oversight's classified UFO briefing last Friday, which covered a series of allegations made by former intelligence officer Grusch - who testified under oath that both the US military and its defense contractors are stonewalling on evidence of crashed UFOs, recovered 'beings,' and even UFO-related deaths.

'When I read Grusch's report, that's public, that anyone can read,' Rep. Burlison told McGrillen and his listeners, 'he described that one of the theories is that what we're encountering are beings that are extradimensional or interdimensional.'

While Grusch has publicly discussed theories that what are now called unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, might originate from the higher-order dimensions theorized by physicists, those concepts do not appear in the unclassified version of his complaint.

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President Biden signed into law a December 2022 amendment to investigate a UFO case from 1945. The 1945 UFO sighting was dubbed the 'Roswell before Roswell' and involved an 'avocado-shaped' craft that crashed in New Mexico. Jaques Vallée, a former contractor for the government's UFO office, wrote a book about the case and described the August 1945 crash to DailyMail.com. Vallée and his co-author interviewed witnesses who were just young children at the time of the crash, on the edge of the atomic bomb testing site near San Antonio, New Mexico - about 100 miles from the infamous Roswell crash two years later.

The 'extradimensional or interdimensional' hypothesis also does not appear in what has been made public from Grusch's written statements first submitted for approval to the Pentagon's Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR).

Nevertheless, Grusch did answer Rep. Burlison's questions on this theory under oath, during the House Oversight committee's public UAP hearing last July.

'An alien species that is technologically advanced enough to travel billions of light years gets here and somehow is incompetent enough to not survive, is something that I find a little bit farfetched,' as Rep. Burlison opined at the hearing.

'You have mentioned that there is interdimensional potential,' he continued, asking, 'Could you expound on that?'

Grusch noted first that 'regardless of your level of sentience, you know, planes crash, cars crash, and a number of sorties [...] a small percentage are going to end in "mission failure," if you will, as we say in the Air Force.'

'In terms of multidimensionality,' the UFO whistleblower said, 'the framework that I am familiar with, for example, is something called the holographic principle.' 

'It derives itself from general relativity and quantum mechanics and that is if you want to imagine a 3D object such as yourself casting a shadow onto a 2D surface that is the holographic principle.'

'So, you can be projected — quasi projected — from higher dimensional space to lower dimensional [space],' Grusch explained. 

'It is a scientific trope that you can actually cross, literally, as far as I understand, but there's probably guys with PhDs that could probably argue about that.'

Speculation linking UFOs to religious visitations and/or theories about interdimensional beings have been recurring features within the discourse on the topic since the early 20th Century. 

The concept gained its highest and arguably most reputable profile with the publication of the book 'Passport to Magonia: from Folklore to Flying Saucers' by the astronomer and Internet pioneer Jacques Vallée in 1969.

Vallée, who later served as the inspiration for François Truffaut's character in Steven Spielberg's UFO blockbuster 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' had spent years pouring over volumes of ancient texts for the groundbreaking tome.

He paired 1180 encounters with 'luminous' flying 'earthenware vessels' reported over Japan, Roman accounts of hovering 'shields' and Native American stories of 'baskets from heaven' to argue a continuity with modern 'flying saucer' cases. 

In more recent years, Vallée, now a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and computer scientist, published a study of physical evidence from a UFO crash in a peer-reviewed science journal, Progress in Aerospace Sciences. 

As he told Wired, Vallée hopes that research will become 'a template [...] for what serious UFO research could be in the future, if one plays by the rules.'

But similar arguments, linking UFOs to demonic entities or angelic miracles, have also been made in less scholarly form on cable TV shows like 'Ancient Aliens,' and online by conspiracy theorists and evangelical Christians, among others. 

The editor for Phenomena Magazine, Brian Allan, to cite one account, spoke to Anglican Pastor Ray Boeche who claims that a faction within the Pentagon deeply believes that UFOs are the product of demonic forces.

'The Defense Intelligence Agency were looking at this demonic element, and they labelled these sorts of aliens as 'non human entities,' Allan said. 

'They believed that there was a demonic component to the UFO phenomenon: they are not invading us, it's Biblical.'

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Two Republican Congressmen claim UFOs are 'angels' sent by God

By MATTHEW PHELAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A second Republican congressman has publicly floated the idea that UFOs may be angels sent by God. Missouri lawmaker Eric Burlison, who has been privy to classified briefings on the phenomena, advanced the sensational theory on an amateur podcast this week. 'They may not fit exactly the Biblical narrative, but whenever I use the term "angels,"' as he told That UFO Podcast Tuesday, 'to me, it's synonymous with an extradimensional being.' He added: 'In a lot of different scriptures, including the Bible and others, that's really the way that you describe messengers of God or angels.'

Rep Burlison's comments echo statements by fellow GOP Congressman Tim Burchett, who told reporters last year that he believes 'the first chapter of Ezekiel is pretty clear of a UFO sighting.' Their comments highlight the frenzy of UFO speculation in Washington D.C. over the past seven months — provoked by whistleblower David Grusch's testimony that the Government is in possession of off-world craft. Congressman and Marine veteran Mike Gallagher, who also serves on the House Oversight committee with Reps. Burlison and Burchett, suggested last June that UFOs might be time-traveling craft piloted by humans from the future. Rep. Gallagher compared the scenario to the plot of the 1984 film 'The Terminator.'

The Wisconsin Republican also floated his hypothesis that UFOs 'could actually be [from] an ancient civilization that's just been hiding here and is suddenly showing itself,' in this same June appearance on ESPN analyst Pat McAfee's sports talk show. Congressman Burlison made his statements Tuesday on a program devoted to the subject of these unsolved aerial mysteries, ' That UFO Podcast ' hosted by Andy McGrillen in the United Kingdom. Rep. Burlison had appeared for a 'special update pod' following House Oversight's classified UFO briefing last Friday , which covered a series of allegations made by former intelligence officer Grusch - who testified under oath that both the US military and its defense contractors are stonewalling on evidence of crashed UFOs, recovered 'beings,' and even UFO-related deaths.

'When I read Grusch's report, that's public, that anyone can read,' Rep. Burlison told McGrillen and his listeners, 'he described that one of the theories is that what we're encountering are beings that are extradimensional or interdimensional.' While Grusch has publicly discussed theories that what are now called unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, might originate from the higher-order dimensions theorized by physicists, those concepts do not appear in the unclassified version of his complaint . The 'extradimensional or interdimensional' hypothesis also does not appear in what has been made public from Grusch's written statements first submitted for approval to the Pentagon's Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR).

Nevertheless, Grusch did answer Rep. Burlison's questions on this theory under oath, during the House Oversight Committee's public UAP hearing last July. 'An alien species that is technologically advanced enough to travel billions of light years gets here and somehow is incompetent enough to not survive, is something that I find a little bit farfetched,' as Rep. Burlison opined at the hearing. 'You have mentioned that there is interdimensional potential,' he continued, asking, 'Could you expound on that?' Grusch noted first that 'regardless of your level of sentience, you know, planes crash, cars crash, and a number of sorties [...] a small percentage are going to end in "mission failure," if you will, as we say in the Air Force.'

'In terms of multidimensionality,' the UFO whistleblower said, 'the framework that I am familiar with, for example, is something called the holographic principle.' 'It derives itself from general relativity and quantum mechanics and that is if you want to imagine a 3D object such as yourself casting a shadow onto a 2D surface that is the holographic principle.' 'So, you can be projected — quasi projected — from higher dimensional space to lower dimensional [space],' Grusch explained. 'It is a scientific trope that you can actually cross, literally, as far as I understand, but there's probably guys with PhDs that could probably argue about that.'

Speculation linking UFOs to religious visitations and/or theories about interdimensional beings have been recurring features within the discourse on the topic since the early 20th Century. The concept gained its highest and arguably most reputable profile with the publication of the book 'Passport to Magonia: from Folklore to Flying Saucers' by the astronomer and Internet pioneer Jacques Vallée in 1969. Vallée, who later served as the inspiration for François Truffaut's character in Steven Spielberg's UFO blockbuster 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' had spent years pouring over volumes of ancient texts for the groundbreaking tome.

He paired 1180 encounters with 'luminous' flying 'earthenware vessels' reported over Japan, Roman accounts of hovering 'shields' and Native American stories of 'baskets from heaven' to argue a continuity with modern 'flying saucer' cases. In more recent years, Vallée, now a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and computer scientist, published a study of physical evidence from a UFO crash in a peer-reviewed science journal, Progress in Aerospace Sciences. As he told Wired, Vallée hopes that research will become 'a template [...] for what serious UFO research could be in the future, if one plays by the rules.' But similar arguments, linking UFOs to demonic entities or angelic miracles, have also been made in less scholarly form on cable TV shows like 'Ancient Aliens,' and online by conspiracy theorists and evangelical Christians, among others.

The editor for Phenomena Magazine, Brian Allan, to cite one account, spoke to Anglican Pastor Ray Boeche who claims that a faction within the Pentagon deeply believes that UFOs are the product of demonic forces. 'The Defense Intelligence Agency was looking at this demonic element, and they labeled these sorts of aliens as 'non human entities,' Allan said. 'They believed that there was a demonic component to the UFO phenomenon: they are not invading us, it's Biblical.'

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UFO seen over Beijing Divides Into Three Craft, Jan 15, 2024, Video UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Jan 15, 2024

Location of sighting: Beijing, China

Source: 

• https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3248504/ufo-seen-over-beijing-could-have-been-spacex-rocket-astronomer-says
   

Guys, this is odd, a UFO was seen in a cloudless sky in China a few days ago. The object soon broke into three separate objects. With all this happening apparently it didn't show up on radar because no military jets were seen trying to investigate the UFOs. Now thats strange. Yes Musk does launch a lot of rockets, but over China? I guess only Elon Musk could answer that big mystery. To me this looks, acts and moves like an alien craft. It doesn't look at all like a rocket. It's an interdemensional craft, which phases in and out. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

News states: 

People in the capital and other parts of China saw ‘glowing object’ that flew rapidly from west to eastResidents of Beijing and other parts of China reported seeing a UFO on Sunday evening, The unusual sighting caused a stir on Chinese social media – by noon on Monday it was the fifth most searched topic on Weibo, with more than 900,000 threads about it. Posts started appearing on social media after people saw and photographed an unidentified flying object in the sky just after 6pm on Sunday.Another gave a more detailed description, saying the weather in Beijing was “very clear, with no clouds, and then I saw a glowing object looming, but the light was not flashing”. The luminous object “had three light sources and was shaped like an isosceles triangle”, the person wrote, adding that it eventually “dissipated like a mist and disappeared without a trace”. The UFO was reported by people in a number of places in China, including the nearby city of Tianjin, as well as in the central province of Shanxi and Shandong in the east. They described the object as “a misty ball of light” that flew rapidly from west to east and made no sound. Many who saw it noted that there were no flashing lights so it was not likely to be a plane.

 

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Searching for anomalies in Antarctica using Google Earth I found an unidentified device measuring 4 meters by 4 meters by 2 meters in height in a remote area near Rothschild Island in Antarctica. It appears that some form of energy is being released from the device leading to the observed emission of light. 

A remarkable detail is that the device is placed directly in front of what appears to be two stone walls. 

Rothschild Island is an island which is surrounded by mystery, with rumors suggesting covert operations occurring in the vicinity. Interestingly, Google Earth has blacked out the island by overlaying simulated snow. 

I don't know what the object could be, but is it plausible that it serves as a power generator providing electricity to operate an unknown underground (alien) device or system in Antarctica, as it appears as if the device is placed above a large opening in the ice crust, and that this supposed power generator plays a role in an operation managed from the island?

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Accounts of Alleged UFO Abductions and Hybridization Theories

In recent times, a rather extraordinary claim has emerged in the realm of UFOlogy and extraterrestrial studies. Various individuals have come forward with personal narratives suggesting that they were victims of alien abductions, purportedly for a purpose as bizarre as it is fascinating: the creation of hybrid human-alien offspring.

Among these individuals are two women whose stories, though unique, share eerie similarities. They recount experiences of being taken aboard spacecrafts, subjected to medical procedures, and the sensation of information being implanted in their brains. These accounts often involve descriptions of stark, sterile environments, advanced technologies, and encounters with beings of otherworldly origin.

One of the women describes her ordeal as lasting approximately three hours, during which she was exposed to an intense information transfer. The narrative takes an even more intriguing turn with the claim that her father, a man with a background in aeronautics and connections to government projects, was also part of this so-called hybridization program. This connection to her father’s work suggests a multi-generational aspect to the abductions, weaving in elements of deep government involvement and secret experiments.

The entities reportedly behind these abductions are identified as the Pleiadians, a group often mentioned in UFO circles. The Pleiadians are described as humanoid with distinctive physical features, and they are alleged to be conducting these abductions as part of an interspecies hybridization initiative.

What could be the motive behind such a program? The answer remains shrouded in mystery and speculation. Some suggest that these extraterrestrial beings view humans as a lesser species, useful only for their genetic material, similar to how humans might view animals used in agricultural breeding. Others ponder the possibility of a more benevolent agenda, perhaps an attempt to enhance human evolution or to create a new species altogether.

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Further complicating the narrative are accounts of collaboration between different alien species, such as the Pleiadians and the Greys, another commonly cited group in alien abduction stories. This cooperation, if true, hints at a much larger and more complex interstellar agenda involving multiple extraterrestrial civilizations.

Despite the compelling nature of these accounts, they remain controversial and largely unverified. The scientific community requires empirical evidence and rigorous methodology to substantiate such claims, which these abduction stories lack. Nonetheless, they continue to intrigue and bewilder, occupying a significant space in the study of paranormal phenomena and the search for extraterrestrial life.

In conclusion, while these tales of alien abductions and hybridization programs captivate the imagination, they also underscore the vast unknowns of our universe and the ongoing quest to understand our place within it. Whether these stories are grounded in reality or are the products of human imagination, they undeniably contribute to the ever-evolving narrative of humanity’s relationship with the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

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'UFO' reported over China with 'three light sources' that moved quickly without emitting any sound - and witnesses say it was not an aircraft

• Thousands of people reported seeing a UFO in the skies over China on Monday
• Reports described the object having three light sources shaped like a triangle
• READ MORE:  Air stewardess films pink 'UFO' during flight from Luton to Poland

By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Reports of a UFO in China are circling the web, with residents of Beijing and nearby towns claiming to have seen 'a moving cloud-like object' with three light sources.

Images and videos of the observation flooded Chinese social media platforms Monday, with many users commonly describing it as a 'misty ball of light' that moved from west to east without emitting any sound.

More than 900,000 threads about the sighting surfaced online Monday afternoon. 

One person shared on Weibo that the weather was clear in Beijing when they witnessed 'a glowing object looming' and determined it was not an aircraft because there were no flashing lights.

Reports of a UFO in China are circling the web, with residents of Beijing and nearby towns claiming to have seen 'a moving cloud-like object' with three light sources.

The ball of light appeared Monday morning above the nation's capital and as far as Tianjin and the central province of Shanxi and Shandong in the east.

One user shared the object had three light sources and [being] shaped like an isosceles triangle' and disappeared 'like a mist and disappear without a trace.'

Another posted on Weibo: 'There were three light sources flying very fast.

'At the same time, there was a large halo on the east side of the light group. There was no sound.' 

Images and videos of the observation flooded Chinese social media platforms Monday, with many users commonly describing it as a 'misty ball of light' that moved from west to east without emitting any sound

One person shared on Weibo that the weather was clear in Beijing when they witnessed 'a glowing object looming' and determined it was not an aircraft because there were no flashing lights

A Beijing resident commented: 'What is this thing? And it flies very fast, and it is in front of me all of a sudden.' 

An astronomer also weighed in on the sightings, theorizing the UFO could have been a Space rocket used to launch SpaceX's Starlink satellites on Sunday - but the suggestion has yet to be confirmed.

Wang Zhuoxiao, a researcher at the Centre for Astronomy Technology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, also posted online with his speculation, according to the South China Morning Post.

Zhuoxiao suggested the glowing object was excess fuel released by a SpaceX rocket that launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Sunday  at 3:59am ET.

The statements align with what is known as the 'Twilight phenomenon,' which is produced when unburned particles of propellant and water left in the vapor trail of a launch vehicle condenses, freezes and then expands high up in the less dense upper atmosphere.

Zhuoxiao noted that the circular shape was likely formed as the rocket was performing a tumbling motion to release unneeded fuel to help it climb to orbit, 

The ball of light appeared Monday morning above the nation's capital and as far as Tianjin and the central province of Shanxi and Shandong in the east. More than 900,000 threads about the sighting surfaced online by Monday afternoon

New Zealanders witnessed a nearly identical event in 2022 when a glowing blue swirl appeared in the night sky, which was created by a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster

• READ MORE: Bizarre footage shows several UFOs hovering above Philadelphia

A witness uploaded the bizarre video of the sighting on Reddit and described the large cluster of lights as 'spinning and darting back and forth.' 

An anonymous astronomer from the Beijing Planetarium also said it could have been a rocket launched from the US.

The astronomer mentioned a similar sighting in China on September 13, 2023 that was later found to be linked to a rocket cloud formed by a previous SpaceX launch.

New Zealanders witnessed a nearly identical event in 2022 when a glowing blue swirl appeared in the night sky, which was created by a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster.

The rocket spun to vent its fuel, it created a vapor trail that reflected the sunlight and produced a visible blue swirl that eyewitnesses said moved 'serenely' across the night sky.

The plume lit up the sky over Nelson, a city at the tip of New Zealand's south island, and travelled 466 miles (750km) south to Stewart Island by about 7:30pm.

The two-stage rocket had been launched on Sunday morning from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

It was carrying a communications satellite for the Louisiana-based company Globalstar, which SpaceX said was deployed about 1 hour and 50 minutes after launch as planned.  

After dispatching its payload, the Falcon 9 began venting its fuel, while the rocket's first stage returned to Earth for a vertical landing on SpaceX's droneship.

However, the recent event in China has not been confirmed to be linked to a SpaceX rocket just yet.

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