I'm taking a break from my usual posts on the traits of narcissism to talk about a lighter topic.
In this post I discuss another narcissistic phenomenon: a government and other officials gaslighting the American public, and even elected officials on the UAP phenomenon.
This is a fairly short post compared to my other posts, but I may be adding to it later on. All new additions will be in GREEN. It is also the first published post in my newest series, "The Narcissistic Nation". I have other posts in the works such as why I think civil war in the USA is inevitable, why I think school shootings will continue to escalate, and other posts having to do with societal and cultural trends towards evermore toxic forms of narcissism, abuse and authoritarianism, but for now, I think this may be more appropriate considering the holidays are before us.
2021: THE YEAR OF UAPs
WHISTLE BLOWING
NATIONAL SECURITY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING UAPs
YEAR OF THE PENTAGON ENLIGHTENING CONGRESS
Apparently this year (2021) is the year of talking about UAP phenomenon (otherwise known as UFO phenomenon). Most of this post is about references at this point, with some embedded videos from You Tube below. I found out about this story from the 60 Minutes expose on this subject - the video of that is below.
Leading the effort to end the secrecy is whistleblower, Luis Elizondo. According to the post, William Morrow Sets Memoir Deal On Luis Elizondo, Former Head Of U.S. UFO Program - by Deadline administrators, Luis Elizondo is: "the former head of the U.S. Government’s UFO program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Elizondo was recently featured in a CBS 60 Minutes story about the potential existence of UFOs." The article goes on to say:
In December 2021, Congress ordered UFO response teams with the Pentagon. New legislation to collect data was also in bills led by five senators. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that "We'll be as transparent as we can" (about UAP phenomenon).
The problem with all of the Pentagon/Us Government secrecy and denial when a large group of people observe a UFO passing them by, some of them triangular, flying low and as large as several football fields, who then try to deny what people saw to convince them that they are just "high intensity flares" dropped by air force planes instead, it is not only a government form of lying, it is also a form of toxic gaslighting.
We think of gaslighting as only happening in toxic narcissistic families. Some "authority" of the family tells a lot of lies, and manipulates the lies in such a way that if you don't believe that these lies are the truth, then there is something wrong with you. We count on people who say they have the upper hand on the truth, who specialize in knowledge on a subject, but should we? Followers who "believe" the person espousing lies in the authority position "believe" these lies are "the truth", whereas those who believe in their own eyes and question the lies are seen by the group as crazy. They are derided in their own families. You either deny your own reality to belong to the group who believe in lies, or you don't. If you decide to believe in your own reality instead of the lies, you often become the laughing stock of the family. Then the abuse, the gossip, the ribbing, being down-graded to being insane, and the ostracism starts ...
How awful! But when we see gaslighting on a national government scale, are we surprised at the level of distrust in the government by the people? Are we surprised that citizens feel abused by their own government? Are we surprised that citizens are increasingly attracted to leaders who are mavericks, who want something different than the same-old, same-old kind of government (seemingly becoming more and more corrupt), who are attracted to candidates such as Trump or Sanders? The government that keeps secrets while trying to convince its citizens that they are insane (over what they are going through in their lives in terms of economic issues, private businesses not being able to compete with large corporations because of government subsidies of some of those corporations, and yes, for UAP phenomenon, some of which is reported for those who dare to report it). The government becomes a toxic inbreeding of lies, cover-ups and clearly dupes the public and the elected officials of local, county and state governments who are trying to calm their constituents about the highly unusual aerial phenomenon they are seeing.
Kevin Knuth on UFOs, Nimitz / Tic Tac video, and a new kind of Theory of Everything (Kevin Knuth is a Professor of physics at the University of Albany, a former NASA scientist, and the Editor-In-Chief of the Entropy journal. He has a unique Theory of Everything called Influence Theory.) - for "Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal"
New (since publishing): Pentagon officials testify on UFOs in rare House hearing | full video - CBS News
New (since publishing): Pentagon's UFO Report Sparks Serious Talk And Debate In D.C. - NBC News
New (since publishing): UFOs are ‘not a delusion’ as Pentagon releases papers on exposure effects - Sky News Australia
New (since publishing): History channel series 2022:
* UFO Secrets Revealed | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E1) | Full Episode
1. UFO Secrets Revealed | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E1) | Full Episode
description of the following video (2.):
A former U.S. Navy radar operator emerges from the shadows to reveal the terrifying day it rained UFOs. For the first time, U.S. Navy personnel unveil new details of the stunning encounter, in Season 1, Episode 2, "Raining UFOs."
2. Shocking UFO Sightings | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E2) | Full Episode
description of the following video (3.):
Former U.S. government insiders brought together by rock star Tom DeLonge team up to reveal what the government knows about UFOs. This groundbreaking effort is led by Luis "Lue" Elizondo. See more in Season 1, Episode 1, "The UFO Insiders." (requires you to purchase this one episode):
3. Chilling Evidence of UFOs | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E3) | Full Episode
description of the following (4.):
Evidence continues to mount and patterns emerge, as a group of former U.S. government insiders seek the truth behind UFOs. A shocking new encounter pulls them to another part of the U.S.A.
4. Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E4) | Full Episode
A Profile of UFO Expert Luis Elizondo - John Roberts
FURTHER READING
Luis Elizondo, ex-Pentagon UFO hunter: ‘We may not be alone’ - by Cheryl K. Chumly for The Washington Times (2017)
What’s Inside the Pentagon’s Long-Awaited UFO Report - by Matt Stieb and Chas Danner for Intelligencer
Watershed U.S. UFO report does not rule out extraterrestrial origin - Steve Gorman for Reuters
Transcript: UFOs & National Security with Luis Elizondo, Former Director, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program - by The Washington Post
"Last summer's UFO report raised more questions than answers and stunk of a government cover-up. The Pentagon's new office to collect information about UFOs cannot follow this pattern of secrecy. It needs to be transparent about its findings. Our country can handle the truth." - Representative Tim Burchett (includes official speech in the U.S. House of Representatives)
Why Would the Government Lie About Aliens? (Because there are so many potential answers, believers can choose the one that makes most sense to them.) - by Sarah Scoles for Slate.com
Ex-officials voice deep concerns over new Pentagon UFO unit - by Marik Von Rennenkampff for The Hill
UFO news: Pentagon whistleblower calls flying vessel sightings the worst 'intelligence failure' - by Nirmal Narayanan for International Business Times
I Want to Believe (What would religious leaders do if aliens showed up?) - by Josh Wilbur for Slate Technology
House Panel to Hold Public Hearing on Unexplained Aerial Sightings (A subcommittee of the House Intelligence Committee will hear testimony next week from two Pentagon officials.) - by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal for The New York Times - 2022
excerpt:
... Representative André Carson, Democrat of Indiana and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and counterproliferation, which is holding the hearing. “This hearing is about examining steps that the Pentagon can take to reduce the stigma surrounding reporting by military pilots, and by civilian pilots.” ...
... “The federal government and intelligence community have a critical role to play in contextualizing and analyzing reports,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He said the purpose of the hearing was to illuminate “one of the great mysteries of our time and to break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency.”
The report delivered to Congress last June was done by the intelligence community along with the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, which the Pentagon replaced in November with a new office, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. The group’s job is to “detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in Special Use Airspace and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security.”
... In recent years, intelligence reports and statements by officials have cited concerns about a national security threat from U.F.O.s through advanced technology hinted at by reports from pilots of, for example, vehicles traveling at extreme speeds without visible means of propulsion. Officials have voiced doubt that they could be tied to known adversaries. ...
Now Even NASA Wants to Talk About UFOs (The world’s top space agency has decided to lean into the discussion.) - by Marina Koren for The Atlantic
excerpt:
... The officials today said that the new UAP-research work is unrelated to NASA’s programs to find alien life beyond Earth but spoke of both efforts in the same breath. Zurbuchen even opened the press conference by talking up the very real ways NASA is searching for extraterrestrial life: A rover is currently looking for fossilized microbes buried in the surface of Mars. One NASA telescope is trying to discover new exoplanets, and another will soon peer into their atmosphere, searching for molecules associated with life. The space agency is planning to send a probe to a moon of Jupiter with an entire ocean beneath its icy crust. NASA is even serious about searching for signs of technologically advanced civilizations out there. And when officials discuss UAPs alongside their other search-for-alien-life programs, they’re planting a seed in people’s mind. Even as they assert that there’s no extraterrestrial explanation for UAPs, they lend credence to the claim that some connection exists. ...
Gillibrand’s Groundbreaking Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Amendment Included In Final NDAA (Gillibrand’s Provision Will Establish a Formal Office to Carry Out a Coordinated Effort on Collection and Analysis Related to UAPs) - Senator Gillibrand's website (gillibrand.senate.gov)
Plans for new UAP office pass Congress - by Administrators of the Roswell Daily Record
Dozens Claim They Spotted UFO in Texas - NPR (2008)
House votes to make it easier to report UFOs (“This legislation may open the floodgates,” said a former Pentagon official responsible for investigating the sightings.) - by Bryan Bender and Lawrence Ukenye for Politico (2022)
I Investigated UAPs at the Pentagon—Americans Can Handle the Truth - by Luis Elizondo for Newsweek 2024
Might be appropriate to this discussion ... A new favorite movie called Don't Look Up
My note:
This movie has an all-star cast.
We think of gaslighting as only happening in toxic narcissistic families. Some "authority" of the family tells a lot of lies, and manipulates the lies in such a way that if you don't believe that these lies are the truth, then there is something wrong with you. We count on people who say they have the upper hand on the truth, who specialize in knowledge on a subject, but should we? Followers who "believe" the person espousing lies in the authority position "believe" these lies are "the truth", whereas those who believe in their own eyes and question the lies are seen by the group as crazy. They are derided in their own families. You either deny your own reality to belong to the group who believe in lies, or you don't. If you decide to believe in your own reality instead of the lies, you often become the laughing stock of the family. Then the abuse, the gossip, the ribbing, being down-graded to being insane, and the ostracism starts ...
How awful! But when we see gaslighting on a national government scale, are we surprised at the level of distrust in the government by the people? Are we surprised that citizens feel abused by their own government? Are we surprised that citizens are increasingly attracted to leaders who are mavericks, who want something different than the same-old, same-old kind of government (seemingly becoming more and more corrupt), who are attracted to candidates such as Trump or Sanders? The government that keeps secrets while trying to convince its citizens that they are insane (over what they are going through in their lives in terms of economic issues, private businesses not being able to compete with large corporations because of government subsidies of some of those corporations, and yes, for UAP phenomenon, some of which is reported for those who dare to report it). The government becomes a toxic inbreeding of lies, cover-ups and clearly dupes the public and the elected officials of local, county and state governments who are trying to calm their constituents about the highly unusual aerial phenomenon they are seeing.
The government has said that they lied about UFOs for decades to protect the public, and to keep the public from going into a panic. Coverups required the entire Navy and it's officials too. And the officials in charge of overseeing our nuclear warheads and facilities, places that UFOs like going, are sworn to secrecy too.
Whether you can effectively report what you saw and what you experienced then becomes about the "beliefs" of the listener (whether they believe in UFOs or not) rather than about truth, reality and an open mind. It legitimizes "belief over reality and truth", just as in an abusive family, members decide, based on beliefs, whether someone is lying or not, or whether they are being abused or not being abused. Gaslighting a public that sees these extraordinary super quiet aerial vehicles that are the size of several football fields, so big that a B-52 bomber jet could land on them, that they were just flares and lights by U.S. jets is just wrong, but it also creates incredible blind spots for the keeper of the secrets in knowing what these UAPs are doing in our skies in the first place (because they are always deniable), and even dismisses possible national security issues and threats.
Is our species, and particularly those who are put into authority positions, too dumb and too drunk on their exceptionalism to illicit knowledge, that they do not care to look into how these highly maneuverable, ultra quiet, ultra fast UAPs function, and what the occupants' agendas are concerning our defenses and national security? Do our government officials care not to hear from the pubic when they are sighted by the public? Is the swarming of UAPs on our navy ships and giving into skepticism a good idea for our national security issues? We should be very concerned, as Christopher Mellon, Luis Elizondo and the navy pilots who see them every day say we should be.
The problem is that those who believe in their own exceptionalism and love the secrecy that comes with it, can actually hinder investigation. Exceptionalism is a narcissistic trait, and any time there is narcissism, you are going to face a less intelligent approach to any issue. Narcissism is always about power, control and dominance, not about promoting the truth. In fact narcissism is about lies, coverups, blame-shifting, gaslighting and derision of people who speak the truth. How are these narcissistic traits going to serve us with these highly advanced "aerial machines" in our world, perhaps so highly advanced that they can hinder any and all national security attempts?
The other issue here is that secrecy can work against us. Is the U.S. military planning on attempting to shoot these vehicles down? Can they inadvertently start a war? Can our species be inadvertently destroyed? And what about our nuclear war-heads and nuclear power facilities? If these can be turned off and on by an overhead vehicle we cannot identify, how does this impact how we defend ourselves?
We pay for our U.S. military to defend against foreign enemies and enemies from within. Their oath is to the Constitution, not the government, and not a government who does not follow the Constitution.
Whether you can effectively report what you saw and what you experienced then becomes about the "beliefs" of the listener (whether they believe in UFOs or not) rather than about truth, reality and an open mind. It legitimizes "belief over reality and truth", just as in an abusive family, members decide, based on beliefs, whether someone is lying or not, or whether they are being abused or not being abused. Gaslighting a public that sees these extraordinary super quiet aerial vehicles that are the size of several football fields, so big that a B-52 bomber jet could land on them, that they were just flares and lights by U.S. jets is just wrong, but it also creates incredible blind spots for the keeper of the secrets in knowing what these UAPs are doing in our skies in the first place (because they are always deniable), and even dismisses possible national security issues and threats.
Is our species, and particularly those who are put into authority positions, too dumb and too drunk on their exceptionalism to illicit knowledge, that they do not care to look into how these highly maneuverable, ultra quiet, ultra fast UAPs function, and what the occupants' agendas are concerning our defenses and national security? Do our government officials care not to hear from the pubic when they are sighted by the public? Is the swarming of UAPs on our navy ships and giving into skepticism a good idea for our national security issues? We should be very concerned, as Christopher Mellon, Luis Elizondo and the navy pilots who see them every day say we should be.
The problem is that those who believe in their own exceptionalism and love the secrecy that comes with it, can actually hinder investigation. Exceptionalism is a narcissistic trait, and any time there is narcissism, you are going to face a less intelligent approach to any issue. Narcissism is always about power, control and dominance, not about promoting the truth. In fact narcissism is about lies, coverups, blame-shifting, gaslighting and derision of people who speak the truth. How are these narcissistic traits going to serve us with these highly advanced "aerial machines" in our world, perhaps so highly advanced that they can hinder any and all national security attempts?
The other issue here is that secrecy can work against us. Is the U.S. military planning on attempting to shoot these vehicles down? Can they inadvertently start a war? Can our species be inadvertently destroyed? And what about our nuclear war-heads and nuclear power facilities? If these can be turned off and on by an overhead vehicle we cannot identify, how does this impact how we defend ourselves?
We pay for our U.S. military to defend against foreign enemies and enemies from within. Their oath is to the Constitution, not the government, and not a government who does not follow the Constitution.
And how many people have been fired, demoted from the Navy or Air Force, incarcerated in mental institutions, scapegoated and lost clout because they had an encounter with a UFO? Is this a good way to treat people who speak the truth, who tell what they saw? Is this a good way to get to the bottom of what is happening? And by the way, this is exactly how abusive families treat their members who are truth tellers: they just sideline them, tell them that they are crazy, so that the brainwashed clan of "believers" can continue to rib the abused, make fun of them, and continue to live in ignorance, hiding the truth.
In my own life, I have known two people (who did not know each other) who say they were abducted by aliens. One of them is a very close friend, and I know him to be absolutely sane. He's a critical thinker, highly educated, and not given to conspiracy theories at all. In fact, he's the least likely person to talk about an experience like this, so he has kept the secret to himself.
The thing about both of their stories is that they sound practically the same. They were sucked up into a "ship", one from her yard, and the other from a farm field, treated with something that immobilized them, received communications telepathically from the aliens, got some kind of medical treatment or tracking device (they don't know which). Both of them felt terrified, traumatized and lonely after the experience, lonely because they felt they couldn't tell anyone and be believed, terrified because they never wanted to experience it again and did not know if the experience was a "one-off" or something that would continue in some way. The only reason I was trusted is because I am known for having an open mind and being empathetic and that I would keep their identities to myself.
One thing we do know about human behavior is that being taken against your will, even by our own species, creates trauma. Having to keep a toxic secret about a traumatizing event that people don't "believe" also creates trauma, but it is long lasting precisely for the reason that it is a taboo subject. There is a reason why kidnapping is illegal: it does not respect the sanctity of freedom. Voluntary and autonomous decision-making about what you do with your own self at any given time is a right in democratic nations. At any rate, all of us feel most at peace in the world when our decision-making is our own, and not taken from us in terrifying or exploitive ways.
The fact that I know two people who went through an "other worldy" experience like this, tells me that there are probably many, many more, even among people that you know. The nature of secrecy and not wanting to be made to look foolish probably keeps an astounding number of people quiet. Meanwhile, the beings (or technologically advanced culture) who are doing this to our countrymen keep getting away with it, with no one looking into it because of the nature of the secrecy and gaslighting around this issue. Again, I ask you, how is this good for our country?
Even commander David Fravor, the jet flyer who is featured in CBS's 60 Minutes (video below), said he got excessively ribbed after seeing and chasing a UFO, even when so many of his fellow pilots had seen UAPs themselves.
Where have we heard this?
"Saying you see a UFO is something to be teased about."
"You can't say anything to anyone about UFOs without being thought you are crazy! Don't tell anyone if you know what is good for you!"
"That wasn't a UFO! You're just seeing things! You were just hallucinating that day. Did you have anything funny to drink?"
"The probability of that being anything remotely possible is so slim."
"Most UFO sightings can be explained away."
"You were abducted by aliens?! Give me a break! You need a mental health check-up!"
"I didn't know you were into conspiracy theories!"
"The one thing I can't respect is someone who believes in UFOs."
I'll tell you where we hear similar things. Just replace UFO and aliens with abuse and abuser. If you are abused in a toxic family who is seeking to cover up their abuses, this is the way they talk to you and others in the family. This kind of talk has no place in national security discourse, in government, in our military, on our navy ships, in our schools, or even in our homes.
We need less "know-it-all" perspectives who are tethered to "beliefs" and go along with a crowd without question, and more minds that are research-oriented and open. There is probably a lot of phenomenon in our world and in the universe that is simply not explainable with our present evolution.
If human beings could shed their narcissism to a point of mutual empathy and mutual respect, the knowledge we could obtain would probably be unprecedented; we would not have practices in place which keep us Medieval and unable to understand technological advances, and the reasons for certain happenings outside of our present human realm of understanding.
In my own life, I have known two people (who did not know each other) who say they were abducted by aliens. One of them is a very close friend, and I know him to be absolutely sane. He's a critical thinker, highly educated, and not given to conspiracy theories at all. In fact, he's the least likely person to talk about an experience like this, so he has kept the secret to himself.
The thing about both of their stories is that they sound practically the same. They were sucked up into a "ship", one from her yard, and the other from a farm field, treated with something that immobilized them, received communications telepathically from the aliens, got some kind of medical treatment or tracking device (they don't know which). Both of them felt terrified, traumatized and lonely after the experience, lonely because they felt they couldn't tell anyone and be believed, terrified because they never wanted to experience it again and did not know if the experience was a "one-off" or something that would continue in some way. The only reason I was trusted is because I am known for having an open mind and being empathetic and that I would keep their identities to myself.
One thing we do know about human behavior is that being taken against your will, even by our own species, creates trauma. Having to keep a toxic secret about a traumatizing event that people don't "believe" also creates trauma, but it is long lasting precisely for the reason that it is a taboo subject. There is a reason why kidnapping is illegal: it does not respect the sanctity of freedom. Voluntary and autonomous decision-making about what you do with your own self at any given time is a right in democratic nations. At any rate, all of us feel most at peace in the world when our decision-making is our own, and not taken from us in terrifying or exploitive ways.
The fact that I know two people who went through an "other worldy" experience like this, tells me that there are probably many, many more, even among people that you know. The nature of secrecy and not wanting to be made to look foolish probably keeps an astounding number of people quiet. Meanwhile, the beings (or technologically advanced culture) who are doing this to our countrymen keep getting away with it, with no one looking into it because of the nature of the secrecy and gaslighting around this issue. Again, I ask you, how is this good for our country?
Even commander David Fravor, the jet flyer who is featured in CBS's 60 Minutes (video below), said he got excessively ribbed after seeing and chasing a UFO, even when so many of his fellow pilots had seen UAPs themselves.
Where have we heard this?
"Saying you see a UFO is something to be teased about."
"You can't say anything to anyone about UFOs without being thought you are crazy! Don't tell anyone if you know what is good for you!"
"That wasn't a UFO! You're just seeing things! You were just hallucinating that day. Did you have anything funny to drink?"
"The probability of that being anything remotely possible is so slim."
"Most UFO sightings can be explained away."
"You were abducted by aliens?! Give me a break! You need a mental health check-up!"
"I didn't know you were into conspiracy theories!"
"The one thing I can't respect is someone who believes in UFOs."
I'll tell you where we hear similar things. Just replace UFO and aliens with abuse and abuser. If you are abused in a toxic family who is seeking to cover up their abuses, this is the way they talk to you and others in the family. This kind of talk has no place in national security discourse, in government, in our military, on our navy ships, in our schools, or even in our homes.
We need less "know-it-all" perspectives who are tethered to "beliefs" and go along with a crowd without question, and more minds that are research-oriented and open. There is probably a lot of phenomenon in our world and in the universe that is simply not explainable with our present evolution.
If human beings could shed their narcissism to a point of mutual empathy and mutual respect, the knowledge we could obtain would probably be unprecedented; we would not have practices in place which keep us Medieval and unable to understand technological advances, and the reasons for certain happenings outside of our present human realm of understanding.
"Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs"
from CBS's "60 Minutes":
from CBS's "60 Minutes":
"Pentagon announces plans to streamline UFO reports and analysis":
WATCH ON CNN (click)
WATCH ON CNN (click)
"Luis Elizondo, Former AATIP Director, on UFOs and National Security (Live, 6/8)"
by "The Washington Post Live":
by "The Washington Post Live":
"Luis Elizondo on unidentified aerial phenomena, extraterrestrials and the Pentagon's UFO programme"
by "British GQ":
"Luis Elizondo on UFOs, Skinwalker, Remote Viewing, and the Invisible College"
for "Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal"
You can also click on the video picture to be taken right to Curt Jaimungal's channel
for "Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal"
You can also click on the video picture to be taken right to Curt Jaimungal's channel
OTHER VIDEOS OF INTEREST
Kevin Knuth on UFOs, Nimitz / Tic Tac video, and a new kind of Theory of Everything (Kevin Knuth is a Professor of physics at the University of Albany, a former NASA scientist, and the Editor-In-Chief of the Entropy journal. He has a unique Theory of Everything called Influence Theory.) - for "Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal"
Avi Loeb on Aliens, Bob Lazar, Wormholes, Consciousness, SpaceX, and Many Worlds - (my note: Avi Loeb is a professor of Science in astrophysics at Harvard University) - for "Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal"
Was Earth visited by intelligent life? Astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes it was - Harvard professor weighs in (interview with Frank Buckley) for KTLA-5
The Strangest Encounters in Space | NASA's Unexplained Files (Full Episode) - the Science Channel
Note: Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy from the University of Nebraska at Omaha comments
Note: Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy from the University of Nebraska at Omaha comments
Luis Elizondo on Biological UFO Samples, Remote Viewing, and explaining Somber (#UFOamnesty) - for "Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal"
Unidentified: *REAL* UFO FOOTAGE & A COVER-UP EXPOSED (Season 2) | History - History Channel featuring Luis Elizondo and Christopher Mellon
UFO | Series Premiere | Full Episode (TV14) - Showtime production (August 8, 2021)
UFO TV Presents: UFOs the Best Evidence - The Government Coverup - Amazon (may be available on Amazon Prime)
Roundtable Outtake from The Observers (Exclusive) - You Tube interview from "Fade to Black" Radio.
WATCH: Navy pilot describes encounter with 'Tic Tac' shaped unidentified flying object - PBS (re-directed to You Tube)
Top Secret UFO Projects Declassified - Netflix (Petr Vachler, creator) - 2021
My note: some of the top people in the field are interviewed or talked about. The animation is low budget, but the series reveals everything that has been declassified up to 2021.
Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation - History Channel videos
I Know What I Saw - Amazon (originally History Channel - 2010) directed by James Fox. May be available on Amazon Prime. This video interviews airline pilots, military pilots, radar technicians, citizens, government and military officials. One of the more compelling videos that argues "for" rather than "against".
I Know What I Saw - Amazon (originally History Channel - 2010) directed by James Fox. May be available on Amazon Prime. This video interviews airline pilots, military pilots, radar technicians, citizens, government and military officials. One of the more compelling videos that argues "for" rather than "against".
"Tic Tac" UFO Sighting | Analysis of Cmdr. David Fravor Interview with Joe Rogan - Dr. Todd Grande (You Tube) - Skepticism video. This video is a bit of a spoof video (the usual humor and punch lines that we commonly see when someone analyzes someone else who has seen a UFO. Ribbing is quite common, and Dr. Todd Grande does plenty of it in this video).
"Tic Tac" UFO Sighting Update | Corroboration for Cmdr. David Fravor - Dr. Todd Grande (You Tube) - another skepticism video. Even after the 60 Minutes expose, Dr. Todd Grande gives a humorous look into UFOs as alien aircraft, but seems to give credibility to pilots who see something that is not identifiable. He talks a lot about optical illusions, as well as the typical characteristics of people who "believe" in UFOs. However, the 60 Minutes interview also featured Luis Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, who Grande makes no reference to.
Bob Lazar | UFO Conspiracy Theories | Mental Health & Personality - Dr. Todd Grande (You Tube)
Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified - Netflix
Out of the Blue (The Definitive Investigation on UFOs) - Amazon (may be available on Amazon Prime), narrated by Peter Coyote (who also narrates for Ken Burns) - 2012 production which maps out the history since the 1940s of unidentified objects
Out of the Blue (The Definitive Investigation on UFOs) - Amazon (may be available on Amazon Prime), narrated by Peter Coyote (who also narrates for Ken Burns) - 2012 production which maps out the history since the 1940s of unidentified objects
Jeremy Corbell on the June Report, Bob Lazar, and the Release of More Footage - for "Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal"
Mysterious Lights Interrupt Astronaut's Spacewalk | NASA's Unexplained Files (Full Episode) - Science Channel
Hangar I, the UFO Files - Netflix, Amazon Prime and The History Channel
Hangar I, the UFO Files - Netflix, Amazon Prime and The History Channel
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact Has Begun - Amazon (may be available on Amazon Prime) - perhaps more speculative oriented than the other videos I have listed here, discusses spirituality and spiritual evolution.
New (since publishing): The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates - Harvard University
excerpt:
Today the Galileo Project lead Professor Avi Loeb announced the additions of Mr. Luis Elizondo and Mr. Christopher Mellon to the project team as research affiliates. Noting their depth of experience investigating the subject of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), and their shared interest in open and transparent study of the phenomena, Loeb welcomed them as the latest members of a diverse and growing Galileo Project team.
“The Galileo Project will greatly benefit from the broad knowledge base and wisdom of Elizondo and Mellon,” said Professor Loeb. ...
... "The Galileo Project, under the leadership of Dr. Loeb, is precisely the direction our scientific and academic communities should be taking regarding this topic. Deliberate and methodical research, along with strict rigor will help ensure the tenets of the scientific method are followed and the spirit of science remains preserved,” said Mr. Elizondo.
“It is deeply gratifying to be associated with this unprecedented effort by leading academic scientists to rigorously assess a phenomenon that has for far too long suffered from inappropriate stigma and fear. It takes a renowned and courageous scientist of Dr. Loeb’s stature to confront orthodoxy and explore possibilities that genuinely have the potential to transform our understanding of the universe and humanity’s place within it. I’m thrilled to be part of the team,” added Mr. Mellon. ...
New (since publishing): The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates - Harvard University
excerpt:
Today the Galileo Project lead Professor Avi Loeb announced the additions of Mr. Luis Elizondo and Mr. Christopher Mellon to the project team as research affiliates. Noting their depth of experience investigating the subject of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), and their shared interest in open and transparent study of the phenomena, Loeb welcomed them as the latest members of a diverse and growing Galileo Project team.
“The Galileo Project will greatly benefit from the broad knowledge base and wisdom of Elizondo and Mellon,” said Professor Loeb. ...
... "The Galileo Project, under the leadership of Dr. Loeb, is precisely the direction our scientific and academic communities should be taking regarding this topic. Deliberate and methodical research, along with strict rigor will help ensure the tenets of the scientific method are followed and the spirit of science remains preserved,” said Mr. Elizondo.
“It is deeply gratifying to be associated with this unprecedented effort by leading academic scientists to rigorously assess a phenomenon that has for far too long suffered from inappropriate stigma and fear. It takes a renowned and courageous scientist of Dr. Loeb’s stature to confront orthodoxy and explore possibilities that genuinely have the potential to transform our understanding of the universe and humanity’s place within it. I’m thrilled to be part of the team,” added Mr. Mellon. ...
New (since publishing): Pentagon officials testify on UFOs in rare House hearing | full video - CBS News
New (since publishing): Pentagon's UFO Report Sparks Serious Talk And Debate In D.C. - NBC News
New (since publishing): UFOs are ‘not a delusion’ as Pentagon releases papers on exposure effects - Sky News Australia
New (since publishing): History channel series 2022:
* UFO Secrets Revealed | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E1) | Full Episode
1. UFO Secrets Revealed | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E1) | Full Episode
description of the following video (2.):
A former U.S. Navy radar operator emerges from the shadows to reveal the terrifying day it rained UFOs. For the first time, U.S. Navy personnel unveil new details of the stunning encounter, in Season 1, Episode 2, "Raining UFOs."
2. Shocking UFO Sightings | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E2) | Full Episode
description of the following video (3.):
Former U.S. government insiders brought together by rock star Tom DeLonge team up to reveal what the government knows about UFOs. This groundbreaking effort is led by Luis "Lue" Elizondo. See more in Season 1, Episode 1, "The UFO Insiders." (requires you to purchase this one episode):
3. Chilling Evidence of UFOs | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E3) | Full Episode
description of the following (4.):
Evidence continues to mount and patterns emerge, as a group of former U.S. government insiders seek the truth behind UFOs. A shocking new encounter pulls them to another part of the U.S.A.
4. Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E4) | Full Episode
description of the following video (5.):
An encounter in the American heartland indicates a disturbing twist to the UFO phenomenon. The team follows a trail of evidence connecting UFOs to the most destructive weapons in human history, in Season 1, Episode 5, "The Atomic Connection."
An encounter in the American heartland indicates a disturbing twist to the UFO phenomenon. The team follows a trail of evidence connecting UFOs to the most destructive weapons in human history, in Season 1, Episode 5, "The Atomic Connection."
5. UFOs Linked to Atomic Bomb | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1 E5) | Full Episode
description of the following video (6.):
The investigation has uncovered shocking video evidence, patterns, secret coordinates, and jarring eyewitness testimony about UFOs. The question now is what are they, and are they dangerous? Find out in Season 1, Episode 6, "The Revelation."
6. UFOs: The Truth Revealed | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E6) | Full Episode
description of the following video (6.):
The investigation has uncovered shocking video evidence, patterns, secret coordinates, and jarring eyewitness testimony about UFOs. The question now is what are they, and are they dangerous? Find out in Season 1, Episode 6, "The Revelation."
6. UFOs: The Truth Revealed | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1, E6) | Full Episode
description of the following video (2. season 2):
Former intelligence officer Chris Mellon spearheads an investigation into one of the UFO phenomenon's great mysteries. Giant triangles allegedly capable of incredible acceleration and speeds.
2. UFO Triangle Mystery | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S2, E2) | Full Episode
Former intelligence officer Chris Mellon spearheads an investigation into one of the UFO phenomenon's great mysteries. Giant triangles allegedly capable of incredible acceleration and speeds.
2. UFO Triangle Mystery | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S2, E2) | Full Episode
description of the following video (1. season 2):
The team investigates an alarming pattern of UFOS allegedly appearing near U.S. Air Force bases that house nuclear weapons, and nuclear-powered US warships.3. Nuclear UFOs Revealed | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S2, E3) | Full Episode
description of the following video (5. season 2):
U.S. airline pilots are reporting near mid-air collisions with UFOs. Elizondo hears a never-told-before account from a major legacy airline pilot who reports of a glowing orange sphere.
description of the following video (5. season 2):
U.S. airline pilots are reporting near mid-air collisions with UFOs. Elizondo hears a never-told-before account from a major legacy airline pilot who reports of a glowing orange sphere.
description of the following video (6. season 2):
In 2017, Tom Delonge and Lue Elizondo helped engineer the release of 3 videos captured by U.S Navy fighter pilots of "Tic Tac UFOs." The strange objects had no wings.
6. The UFO Conspiracy | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S2, E6) | Full Episode
description of the following video:
An encounter in the American heartland indicates a disturbing twist to the UFO phenomenon. The team follows a trail of evidence connecting UFOs to the most destructive weapons in human history, in Season 1, Episode 5, "The Atomic Connection."
UFOs Linked to Atomic Bomb | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1 E5) | Full Episode
In 2017, Tom Delonge and Lue Elizondo helped engineer the release of 3 videos captured by U.S Navy fighter pilots of "Tic Tac UFOs." The strange objects had no wings.
6. The UFO Conspiracy | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S2, E6) | Full Episode
description of the following video:
An encounter in the American heartland indicates a disturbing twist to the UFO phenomenon. The team follows a trail of evidence connecting UFOs to the most destructive weapons in human history, in Season 1, Episode 5, "The Atomic Connection."
UFOs Linked to Atomic Bomb | Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (S1 E5) | Full Episode
NEW IN 2023:
- Directed by James Fox and Narrated by Peter Coyote for Unidentified (2023)
Note: the site reports that it is considered the best document on UFOs.
Note: the site reports that it is considered the best document on UFOs.
others:
* Former Navy Pilot Ryan Graves on His UFO Encounter PowerfulJRE
* Former Navy Pilot Ryan Graves on His UFO Encounter PowerfulJRE
* 7News - Ross Coulthart - UAP / UFO - Full documentary - Aug 21 2022 (Australia) - really interesting video!
* UFO & UAP 'Need to Know' News Documentary with Coulthart & Zabel | 7NEWS Spotlight
description of the above video:
The world is watching as the US Congress looks into the UAP phenomenon. Here, veteran investigative journalists Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel break down the news, and speak with credible experts and insiders.
* Physicist Michio Kaku on the Shift in the UFO Phenomenon PowerfulJRE
* Unidentified: STUNNING ARCTIC UFO SIGHTING (Season 2) | History
* UFO & UAP 'Need to Know' News Documentary with Coulthart & Zabel | 7NEWS Spotlight
description of the above video:
The world is watching as the US Congress looks into the UAP phenomenon. Here, veteran investigative journalists Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel break down the news, and speak with credible experts and insiders.
* Physicist Michio Kaku on the Shift in the UFO Phenomenon PowerfulJRE
* Unidentified: STUNNING ARCTIC UFO SIGHTING (Season 2) | History
* UFO Hunters: Shocking Alien Genetic Experiments (S2, E15) | Full Episode History Channel
* UFO Hunters: Humans vs. Aliens (S1, E7) | Full Episode History Channel
* UFO Hunters: Humans vs. Aliens (S1, E7) | Full Episode History Channel
Decades of declassified memos, internal reports, and study projects create the sense that the government doesn’t have satisfying answers for the most perplexing sightings. - by Garrett M. Graff for The Atlantic
FURTHER READING
‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean for The New York Times - 2019
excerpt:
... WASHINGTON — The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.
“These things would be out there all day,” said Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years, and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”
In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were videotaped, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching.
Navy Reports Describe Encounters With Unexplained Flying Objects (While some of the encounters have been reported publicly before, the Navy records are an official accounting of the incidents, including descriptions from the pilots of what they saw.) - by Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean for The New York Times - 2020
excerpt:
Navy fighter pilots reported close encounters with unidentified aerial vehicles, including several dangerously close, in eight incidents between June 27, 2013, and Feb. 13, 2019, according to documents recently released by the Navy.
Two happened on one day, according to one of eight unclassified Navy safety reports released in response to requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act by news outlets, including The New York Times.
Last month the Defense Department authenticated three videos of aerial encounters previously published by The Times, accompanying accounts of Navy pilots who reported such close encounters. ...
... One incident, on March 26, 2014, over the Atlantic Ocean off Virginia Beach, involved a silver object “approximately the size of a suitcase” that was tracked on radar passing within 1,000 feet of one of the jets, according to the report.
Some of the incidents involved fighter squadrons aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. One of the former F/A-18 Super Hornet pilots, Lt. Ryan Graves, last year described a close encounter off Virginia Beach with what looked like a flying sphere encasing a cube, as recounted by a fellow pilot and later reported to the squadron safety officer. ...
excerpt:
... WASHINGTON — The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.
“These things would be out there all day,” said Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years, and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”
In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were videotaped, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching.
Navy Reports Describe Encounters With Unexplained Flying Objects (While some of the encounters have been reported publicly before, the Navy records are an official accounting of the incidents, including descriptions from the pilots of what they saw.) - by Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean for The New York Times - 2020
excerpt:
Navy fighter pilots reported close encounters with unidentified aerial vehicles, including several dangerously close, in eight incidents between June 27, 2013, and Feb. 13, 2019, according to documents recently released by the Navy.
Two happened on one day, according to one of eight unclassified Navy safety reports released in response to requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act by news outlets, including The New York Times.
Last month the Defense Department authenticated three videos of aerial encounters previously published by The Times, accompanying accounts of Navy pilots who reported such close encounters. ...
... One incident, on March 26, 2014, over the Atlantic Ocean off Virginia Beach, involved a silver object “approximately the size of a suitcase” that was tracked on radar passing within 1,000 feet of one of the jets, according to the report.
Some of the incidents involved fighter squadrons aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. One of the former F/A-18 Super Hornet pilots, Lt. Ryan Graves, last year described a close encounter off Virginia Beach with what looked like a flying sphere encasing a cube, as recounted by a fellow pilot and later reported to the squadron safety officer. ...
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public (For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings.) - by Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean for The New York Times - 2020
excerpt:
Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.
Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, which is not classified but deals with classified matters. Yet it appeared last month in a Senate committee report outlining spending on the nation’s intelligence agencies for the coming year. The report said the program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, was “to standardize collection and reporting” on sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles, and was to report at least some of its findings to the public within 180 days after passage of the intelligence authorization act. ...
... Mr. Reid, the former Democratic senator from Nevada who pushed for funding the earlier U.F.O. program when he was the majority leader, said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied.
“After looking into this, I came to the conclusion that there were reports — some were substantive, some not so substantive — that there were actual materials that the government and the private sector had in their possession,” Mr. Reid said in an interview.
... Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program since 2007, said that, in some cases, examination of the materials had so far failed to determine their source and led him to conclude, “We couldn’t make it ourselves.”
The constraints on discussing classified programs — and the ambiguity of information cited in unclassified slides from the briefings — have put officials who have studied U.F.O.s in the position of stating their views without presenting any hard evidence. ...
... Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
Mr. Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later. ...
... Public fascination with the topic of U.F.O.s has drawn in President Trump, who told his son Donald Trump Jr. in a June interview that he knew “very interesting” things about Roswell — a city in New Mexico that is central to speculation about the existence of U.F.O.s. The president demurred when asked if he would declassify any information on Roswell. “I’ll have to think about that one,” he said.
... Either way, Mr. Reid said, more should be made public to clarify what is known and what is not. “It is extremely important that information about the discovery of physical materials or retrieved craft come out,” he said.
Why Are We All Talking About U.F.O.s Right Now? (U.F.O.s were once a taboo topic for the U.S. government, but not anymore. A long anticipated report was released.) - by Jennifer Jett for The New York Times
Pentagon announces plans to streamline UFO reports and analysis - by Oren Liebermann for CNN
With a recently released UFO report, more people are asking about extraterrestrial life. Here's what that question could reveal - by Travis Caldwell for CNN
Navy ‘Tic Tac’ UFO witness demands public apology for years of ridicule - by Steven Greenstreet and David Meyer for New York Post
Excerpt:
“I and others deserve a formal public apology and a redress for the costs I/we paid.”
In an earlier post Saturday, Day said he could not find words “for the vindication I now feel” after the report acknowledged that “sociocultural stigmas” in the armed forces and intelligence community “may keep many observers silent, complicating scientific pursuit of the topic.”
UFOs and the Boundaries of Science (This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds) - by Greg Eghigian for Boston Review
Excerpt:
Over the last fifty years, the mutual antagonism between paranormal believers and skeptics has largely framed discussion about unidentified flying objects. And it often gets personal. Those taking seriously the prospect that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin have dismissed doubters as narrow-minded, biased, obstinate, and cruel. Those dubious about the idea of visitors from other worlds have brushed off devotees as naïve, ignorant, gullible, and downright dangerous.
This kind of mudslinging over convictions is certainly familiar to historians of religion, a domain of human existence marked by deep divisions over interpretations of belief.
How UFO Sightings Went From Conspiracy Theory To A Serious Government Inquiry - by Bill Chappell for NPR
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public (For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings.) - by Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean for The New York Times
100 Reasons to Love America in 2021 - People Magazine
excerpt:
66 of 100: Luis Elizondo
Once viewed as something discussed only by crackpots, UFOs have recently gone mainstream — and one of the people responsible is Luis Elizondo. From 2010 to 2017 he served as director for the Pentagon's secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. "The amount of stigma and taboo that was placed on UFOs for so long has really paralyzed the conversation," says Elizondo, who investigated sightings by fighter pilots and other military personnel. "But these things are real. We don't know what they are yet, but they are real, so we should probably take them seriously."
excerpt:
Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.
Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, which is not classified but deals with classified matters. Yet it appeared last month in a Senate committee report outlining spending on the nation’s intelligence agencies for the coming year. The report said the program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, was “to standardize collection and reporting” on sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles, and was to report at least some of its findings to the public within 180 days after passage of the intelligence authorization act. ...
... Mr. Reid, the former Democratic senator from Nevada who pushed for funding the earlier U.F.O. program when he was the majority leader, said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied.
“After looking into this, I came to the conclusion that there were reports — some were substantive, some not so substantive — that there were actual materials that the government and the private sector had in their possession,” Mr. Reid said in an interview.
... Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program since 2007, said that, in some cases, examination of the materials had so far failed to determine their source and led him to conclude, “We couldn’t make it ourselves.”
The constraints on discussing classified programs — and the ambiguity of information cited in unclassified slides from the briefings — have put officials who have studied U.F.O.s in the position of stating their views without presenting any hard evidence. ...
... Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
Mr. Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later. ...
... Public fascination with the topic of U.F.O.s has drawn in President Trump, who told his son Donald Trump Jr. in a June interview that he knew “very interesting” things about Roswell — a city in New Mexico that is central to speculation about the existence of U.F.O.s. The president demurred when asked if he would declassify any information on Roswell. “I’ll have to think about that one,” he said.
... Either way, Mr. Reid said, more should be made public to clarify what is known and what is not. “It is extremely important that information about the discovery of physical materials or retrieved craft come out,” he said.
Preliminary Assessment:Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - from the OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (dni.gov)
Congress revives the '1 percent' doctrine - by Marik Von Rennenkampff for The Hill
Year Of The UFO Continues: Pentagon Launches Program To Investigate Sightings - by Nicholas Reimann for Forbes (November 24, 2021)
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record - by Leslie Kean (published by Random House - Amazon link)
Pentagon Forms a Group to Examine Unexplained Aerial Sightings (The announcement follows a report that failed to clarify strange phenomena observed by military pilots and others over the past two decades.) - by Julian E. Barnes for The New York Times (November 24, updated November 25)
Why Are We All Talking About U.F.O.s Right Now? (U.F.O.s were once a taboo topic for the U.S. government, but not anymore. A long anticipated report was released.) - by Jennifer Jett for The New York Times
Pentagon announces plans to streamline UFO reports and analysis - by Oren Liebermann for CNN
With a recently released UFO report, more people are asking about extraterrestrial life. Here's what that question could reveal - by Travis Caldwell for CNN
Navy ‘Tic Tac’ UFO witness demands public apology for years of ridicule - by Steven Greenstreet and David Meyer for New York Post
Excerpt:
“I and others deserve a formal public apology and a redress for the costs I/we paid.”
In an earlier post Saturday, Day said he could not find words “for the vindication I now feel” after the report acknowledged that “sociocultural stigmas” in the armed forces and intelligence community “may keep many observers silent, complicating scientific pursuit of the topic.”
Defense Department Forms New Group to Examine 'Threats' Posed by UFOs - by Aila Slisco for Newsweek (November 25, 2021)
‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean for The New York Times
‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects - by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean for The New York Times
Former Navy pilot says crews observed UFOs daily (Report on unidentified aerial phenomena to be delivered to Senate next month) - by Graeme Massie for the UK publication, Independent
RECOMMENDED: HOW THE PENTAGON STARTED TAKING U.F.O.S SERIOUSLY (for decades flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. Government got over the taboo) - by Gideon Lewis Kraus for The New Yorker
The Unexplained Phenomena of the U.F.O. Report (A new intelligence document examines a hundred and forty-three sightings that might have been caused by errant balloons, foreign drones, or “Other”—a reserved way of saying aliens.) - by Gideon Lewis-Krause for The New Yorker
The Unexplained Phenomena of the U.F.O. Report (A new intelligence document examines a hundred and forty-three sightings that might have been caused by errant balloons, foreign drones, or “Other”—a reserved way of saying aliens.) - by Gideon Lewis-Krause for The New Yorker
UFOs and the Boundaries of Science (This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds) - by Greg Eghigian for Boston Review
Excerpt:
Over the last fifty years, the mutual antagonism between paranormal believers and skeptics has largely framed discussion about unidentified flying objects. And it often gets personal. Those taking seriously the prospect that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin have dismissed doubters as narrow-minded, biased, obstinate, and cruel. Those dubious about the idea of visitors from other worlds have brushed off devotees as naïve, ignorant, gullible, and downright dangerous.
This kind of mudslinging over convictions is certainly familiar to historians of religion, a domain of human existence marked by deep divisions over interpretations of belief.
UFOs are about to make their way to the U.S. Senate. Here's what to know. (Decades after flying saucers first captured Americans' imaginations, Navy videos that defy explanation have sparked legitimate inquiries — some of them from senators.) - NBC News
Pentagon announces new group to investigate reports of UFOs near certain military sites (A Pentagon report compiled in June could not explain 143 incidents.) - by Luis Martinez for ABC News
Pentagon announces new group to investigate reports of UFOs near certain military sites (A Pentagon report compiled in June could not explain 143 incidents.) - by Luis Martinez for ABC News
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public (For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings.) - by Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean for The New York Times
100 Reasons to Love America in 2021 - People Magazine
excerpt:
66 of 100: Luis Elizondo
Once viewed as something discussed only by crackpots, UFOs have recently gone mainstream — and one of the people responsible is Luis Elizondo. From 2010 to 2017 he served as director for the Pentagon's secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. "The amount of stigma and taboo that was placed on UFOs for so long has really paralyzed the conversation," says Elizondo, who investigated sightings by fighter pilots and other military personnel. "But these things are real. We don't know what they are yet, but they are real, so we should probably take them seriously."
UFOs are real, feds’ cover-up fueled by fear: ex-Pentagon whistleblower - Michael Kaplan and
Steven Greenstreet for NY Post
UFOs buzzing US warships may be aliens: Top spy chief - by Henry Holloway for The Sun and New York Post
The new reality of UFOs: An interview with journalist Leslie Kean - by Leonard David for Space.com - (August 2021)
excerpt:
It mystified me why just about everyone was not impacted by the potential implications of the evidence for this phenomenon. It didn't take long for me to realize that most people in a position to make a difference were uninformed and understandably had other priorities. Still, given how fascinated I was with this and given what it might mean if even one UFO was extraterrestrial, I found this apathy and disinterest hard to understand.
The Gillibrand-Rubio Amendment Must Pass: Pilots Aren’t The Only Ones Seeing Things Going Bump In The Night - by Bob Plissken (Former Intelligence Analyst in the U.S. Marine Corps) for Liberation Times
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program - by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean - 2017
How the Pentagon learned to start worrying and investigate UFOs (The government’s UFO report has landed: It concludes that strange aircraft have been haunting U.S. warships for years, marking a new era for "unidentified aerial phenomena.") - National Geographic
Steven Greenstreet for NY Post
UFOs buzzing US warships may be aliens: Top spy chief - by Henry Holloway for The Sun and New York Post
The new reality of UFOs: An interview with journalist Leslie Kean - by Leonard David for Space.com - (August 2021)
excerpt:
It mystified me why just about everyone was not impacted by the potential implications of the evidence for this phenomenon. It didn't take long for me to realize that most people in a position to make a difference were uninformed and understandably had other priorities. Still, given how fascinated I was with this and given what it might mean if even one UFO was extraterrestrial, I found this apathy and disinterest hard to understand.
The Gillibrand-Rubio Amendment Must Pass: Pilots Aren’t The Only Ones Seeing Things Going Bump In The Night - by Bob Plissken (Former Intelligence Analyst in the U.S. Marine Corps) for Liberation Times
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program - by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean - 2017
How the Pentagon learned to start worrying and investigate UFOs (The government’s UFO report has landed: It concludes that strange aircraft have been haunting U.S. warships for years, marking a new era for "unidentified aerial phenomena.") - National Geographic
Alleged Tic Tac UFO Recorded Above Space Force Base - by Gaia Staff for Gaia
'A total lack of focus': Lawmaker on a mission to compel Pentagon to take UFOs seriously - staff writers at Politico
excerpt:
Gallego insists, however, that another objective of creating a permanent intelligence-gathering effort is to ensure that military personnel feel comfortable coming forward if they experience something they can't explain.
"We needed to continue to break down the stigma of reporting these phenomena," Gallego said. "There are a lot of people who are afraid of reporting this because they're afraid ... it's going to cost their careers. People think they're crazy."
Only by reducing the stigma, he said, will more useful data be available. "We're not going to be able to get to the bottom of this unless we collect information, get enough information to figure out exactly what's going on [and] the pilots and other people who have seen it actually feel comfortable talking about it."
excerpt:
Gallego insists, however, that another objective of creating a permanent intelligence-gathering effort is to ensure that military personnel feel comfortable coming forward if they experience something they can't explain.
"We needed to continue to break down the stigma of reporting these phenomena," Gallego said. "There are a lot of people who are afraid of reporting this because they're afraid ... it's going to cost their careers. People think they're crazy."
Only by reducing the stigma, he said, will more useful data be available. "We're not going to be able to get to the bottom of this unless we collect information, get enough information to figure out exactly what's going on [and] the pilots and other people who have seen it actually feel comfortable talking about it."
Luis Elizondo, ex-Pentagon UFO hunter: ‘We may not be alone’ - by Cheryl K. Chumly for The Washington Times (2017)
Surrounded From All Sides, The Pentagon Will Lose Its UFO Battle - And That Starts This Week In Congress - by Christopher Sharp for Liberation Times
Transcript: UFOs & National Security with Luis Elizondo, Former Director, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program - by The Washington Post
"Last summer's UFO report raised more questions than answers and stunk of a government cover-up. The Pentagon's new office to collect information about UFOs cannot follow this pattern of secrecy. It needs to be transparent about its findings. Our country can handle the truth." - Representative Tim Burchett (includes official speech in the U.S. House of Representatives)
VIRGINIA BEACH IS APPARENTLY A UFO SIGHTING HOTSPOT - by Michael Walsh for Nerdist
‘Credible’ UFO sightings spotted by jet pilots are being ‘ignored by government’ - by Felix Allen for The Sun
Retired Navy pilot recalls Tic Tac encounter, wants to ‘normalize’ UFOs - Reuters (republished by New York Post)
Showtime’s ‘UFO’ Docuseries Includes a Dogfight Right Out of ‘Independence Day’ - by Brett White for Decider
Navy ‘Tic Tac’ UFO witness demands public apology for years of ridicule - by Steven Greenstreet and David Meyer
What flies in the in the air, zips through the ocean, and splits in two? Scientifically investigating the Aguadilla UFO incident - by Duncan Phenix and George Knapp for WJBF
Pentagon Watchdog to Examine How the U.S. Military Handles UFOs - by Brandi Vincent for Nextgov
The truth is still out there: why the current UFO craze may be a problem of intelligence failings - by Kyle Cunliffe for The Conversation
Pentagon whistleblower says UFOs have meddled with secret US nuclear weapons facilities and even forced some offline - calling actions a 'global threat'
* Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said UFOs have interfered with U.S. nuclear technology
* Several UFO sightings have been above secret nuclear weapons facilities and almost every major nuclear power across the globe has reported these sightings
* Elizondo said that the phenomenon is a national security 'concern,' and said that the same observation has been made in other countries, making it a 'global issue'
* Elizondo said considering the huge nuclear footprint the U.S. has there should be nothing surprising about increased interest by the UFOs
* The Pentagon's UAP Task Force is set to reveal their findings when they submit a long-awaited report on UFOs to Congress on June 25 - by Gina Martinez for The Daily Mail
Pentagon Consultant Briefed Senators on Discovery of ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’ - by Brittany Bernstein
U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but new report finds no evidence of alien life - by Shane Harris and Missy Ryan
“I HOPE THE MINDSET HAS CHANGED”: JOHN PODESTA IS THRILLED THAT CONGRESS FINALLY CARES ABOUT UFOS (The Clinton adviser has been on a decades-long mission to get the real skinny on aliens. With a report due to be released to Congress this week, his time has finally come.) - by Abigail Tracy for Vanity Fair
"We can't ignore this": UFO sightings spark concern from more than just conspiracy theorists Congress-sanctioned UFO report to detail 'unexplainable sightings all over the world' ... The director of national intelligence and secretary of defense were tasked with the UFO report for Congress expected in June - by Joel Shannon for USA Today
Showtime’s ‘UFO’ Docuseries Includes a Dogfight Right Out of ‘Independence Day’ - by Brett White for Decider
Navy ‘Tic Tac’ UFO witness demands public apology for years of ridicule - by Steven Greenstreet and David Meyer
What flies in the in the air, zips through the ocean, and splits in two? Scientifically investigating the Aguadilla UFO incident - by Duncan Phenix and George Knapp for WJBF
Pentagon Watchdog to Examine How the U.S. Military Handles UFOs - by Brandi Vincent for Nextgov
The truth is still out there: why the current UFO craze may be a problem of intelligence failings - by Kyle Cunliffe for The Conversation
Pentagon whistleblower says UFOs have meddled with secret US nuclear weapons facilities and even forced some offline - calling actions a 'global threat'
* Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said UFOs have interfered with U.S. nuclear technology
* Several UFO sightings have been above secret nuclear weapons facilities and almost every major nuclear power across the globe has reported these sightings
* Elizondo said that the phenomenon is a national security 'concern,' and said that the same observation has been made in other countries, making it a 'global issue'
* Elizondo said considering the huge nuclear footprint the U.S. has there should be nothing surprising about increased interest by the UFOs
* The Pentagon's UAP Task Force is set to reveal their findings when they submit a long-awaited report on UFOs to Congress on June 25 - by Gina Martinez for The Daily Mail
These 5 UFO Traits, Captured on Video by Navy Fighters, Defy Explanation Called the '5 observables' by a former Pentagon investigator, they include hypersonic speed, erratic movement and the ability to fly without wings. - by Greg Daugherty and Missy Sullivan for History.com
U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but new report finds no evidence of alien life - by Shane Harris and Missy Ryan
“I HOPE THE MINDSET HAS CHANGED”: JOHN PODESTA IS THRILLED THAT CONGRESS FINALLY CARES ABOUT UFOS (The Clinton adviser has been on a decades-long mission to get the real skinny on aliens. With a report due to be released to Congress this week, his time has finally come.) - by Abigail Tracy for Vanity Fair
"We can't ignore this": UFO sightings spark concern from more than just conspiracy theorists Congress-sanctioned UFO report to detail 'unexplainable sightings all over the world' ... The director of national intelligence and secretary of defense were tasked with the UFO report for Congress expected in June - by Joel Shannon for USA Today
UFO news: Pentagon whistleblower calls flying vessel sightings the worst 'intelligence failure' - by Nirmal Narayanan for International Business Times
I Want to Believe (What would religious leaders do if aliens showed up?) - by Josh Wilbur for Slate Technology
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House Panel to Hold Public Hearing on Unexplained Aerial Sightings (A subcommittee of the House Intelligence Committee will hear testimony next week from two Pentagon officials.) - by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal for The New York Times - 2022
excerpt:
... Representative André Carson, Democrat of Indiana and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and counterproliferation, which is holding the hearing. “This hearing is about examining steps that the Pentagon can take to reduce the stigma surrounding reporting by military pilots, and by civilian pilots.” ...
... “The federal government and intelligence community have a critical role to play in contextualizing and analyzing reports,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He said the purpose of the hearing was to illuminate “one of the great mysteries of our time and to break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency.”
The report delivered to Congress last June was done by the intelligence community along with the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, which the Pentagon replaced in November with a new office, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. The group’s job is to “detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in Special Use Airspace and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security.”
... In recent years, intelligence reports and statements by officials have cited concerns about a national security threat from U.F.O.s through advanced technology hinted at by reports from pilots of, for example, vehicles traveling at extreme speeds without visible means of propulsion. Officials have voiced doubt that they could be tied to known adversaries. ...
Now Even NASA Wants to Talk About UFOs (The world’s top space agency has decided to lean into the discussion.) - by Marina Koren for The Atlantic
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... The officials today said that the new UAP-research work is unrelated to NASA’s programs to find alien life beyond Earth but spoke of both efforts in the same breath. Zurbuchen even opened the press conference by talking up the very real ways NASA is searching for extraterrestrial life: A rover is currently looking for fossilized microbes buried in the surface of Mars. One NASA telescope is trying to discover new exoplanets, and another will soon peer into their atmosphere, searching for molecules associated with life. The space agency is planning to send a probe to a moon of Jupiter with an entire ocean beneath its icy crust. NASA is even serious about searching for signs of technologically advanced civilizations out there. And when officials discuss UAPs alongside their other search-for-alien-life programs, they’re planting a seed in people’s mind. Even as they assert that there’s no extraterrestrial explanation for UAPs, they lend credence to the claim that some connection exists. ...
... NASA officials said they would make all of their findings available for anyone to see. No secrets! But that doesn’t mean that NASA will be able to control the public narrative surrounding this effort, or any discoveries. Once NASA starts talking about UFOs—well, like it or not, it’s a whole different conversation. ...
What the UFO Discussion Really Needs. Some context. - by Marina Koren for The Atlantic (may 2022)
excerpt:
... Many of the stories, Scoles said, took certain people’s credentials—say, the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program—as face-value evidence that their claims about the extraterrestrial origins of UFOs were true. Similarly, part of the reason that the astrophysicist Avi Loeb receives so much coverage for his alien-tinged discussion of weird-shaped interstellar objects is because he is a tenured Harvard professor. So when people see a UFO story in The New York Times, they’re inclined to trust the paper. But these articles appear without much-needed context: The Times’ go-to reporters on the UFO beat, who broke the story on the Pentagon’s previously undisclosed program, are long-time UFO activists who have advocated for the idea that such objects might have extraterrestrial explanations. ...
What the UFO Discussion Really Needs. Some context. - by Marina Koren for The Atlantic (may 2022)
excerpt:
... Many of the stories, Scoles said, took certain people’s credentials—say, the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program—as face-value evidence that their claims about the extraterrestrial origins of UFOs were true. Similarly, part of the reason that the astrophysicist Avi Loeb receives so much coverage for his alien-tinged discussion of weird-shaped interstellar objects is because he is a tenured Harvard professor. So when people see a UFO story in The New York Times, they’re inclined to trust the paper. But these articles appear without much-needed context: The Times’ go-to reporters on the UFO beat, who broke the story on the Pentagon’s previously undisclosed program, are long-time UFO activists who have advocated for the idea that such objects might have extraterrestrial explanations. ...
Gillibrand’s Groundbreaking Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Amendment Included In Final NDAA (Gillibrand’s Provision Will Establish a Formal Office to Carry Out a Coordinated Effort on Collection and Analysis Related to UAPs) - Senator Gillibrand's website (gillibrand.senate.gov)
Pentagon UFO Rapid Response Teams Ordered Up by Congress - by Travis Tritten for Military.com news.
Was That a Dropped Call From ET? (A spooky radio signal showed up after a radio telescope was aimed at the next star over from our sun.) - by Dennis Overbye for The New York Times
Was That a Dropped Call From ET? (A spooky radio signal showed up after a radio telescope was aimed at the next star over from our sun.) - by Dennis Overbye for The New York Times
Defense Spending Bill Contains ‘Most Significant’ UFO Legislation Since 1960s - by Brandi Vincent, Defense Technology Correspondent
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Will we soon rewrite textbooks on our place in the universe? - by Rear Admiral (RET.) Tim Gallaudet, PH.D., and Avi Loeb, PH.D. for The Hill
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DOD has a long and very complicated history addressing objects in the sky that appear to perform ways that transcend the capabilities of today’s technology. Still, there are heaps of credible reports spanning decades from current and former military personnel who claim to have seen—and at times been put at risk by—what they’ve perceived as UAP.
“We need a meaningful collection strategy and innovative and iterative analysis to support it,” former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon told Nextgov via email this week.
Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies Applauds new UAP Law in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act as "Historic," Urges Government Collaboration with Civilian Experts - by the Scientific Coalition for UAP studies
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"This legislation is historic - The legislation directs the Secretary of Defense to develop a 'science plan' and to bring the full resources of the military and intelligence agencies to bear on this elusive but very real set of phenomena." Mr. Richard Hoffman, an SCU Executive Board Officer further expanded on this new effort to express the need for oversight controls to be in place. "I hope that considerations related to oversight of this effort are being discussed such as having the ODNI serve as the Original Classification Authority for UAP data, the Information Security Oversight Office perform classification management inspections of organizations handling classified UAP data, and the ODNI Inspector General having the authority to formally investigate allegations of suppression against reporting/analyzing the UAP issue."
Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies Applauds new UAP Law in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act as "Historic," Urges Government Collaboration with Civilian Experts - by the Scientific Coalition for UAP studies
excerpt:
"This legislation is historic - The legislation directs the Secretary of Defense to develop a 'science plan' and to bring the full resources of the military and intelligence agencies to bear on this elusive but very real set of phenomena." Mr. Richard Hoffman, an SCU Executive Board Officer further expanded on this new effort to express the need for oversight controls to be in place. "I hope that considerations related to oversight of this effort are being discussed such as having the ODNI serve as the Original Classification Authority for UAP data, the Information Security Oversight Office perform classification management inspections of organizations handling classified UAP data, and the ODNI Inspector General having the authority to formally investigate allegations of suppression against reporting/analyzing the UAP issue."
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Almost overnight UFOs have gained acceptance by the government and some in academia as worthy of scientific study. With this shift came a new label from the U.S. military: unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Now, they are increasing the target of dedicated research, including Harvard University’s Galileo Project in search for extraterrestrial equipment near earth as well as Stanford University's independent research program on unusual materials. They are also the reason behind the establishment of a new office in the Pentagon charged with establishing a science plan to:
1) Account for characteristics and performance of UAP that exceed known science or technology, including propulsion, aerodynamics, materials, sensors, countermeasures, weapons, electronics and power generation
Astronomy’s Most Dazzling Era Is About to Begin (The James Webb Space Telescope is now about 1 million miles from Earth, and almost ready to scan the cosmos.) - by Marina Koren for The Atlantic
Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He’s Not Kidding (In conversation, the Harvard University professor explains his shocking hypothesis—and calls out what he sees as a crisis in science) - by Lee Billings for Scientific American
Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb Set to Explore Pacific Ocean for Potential ‘Alien’ Meteor Fragments - The Harvard Crimson
AS A FORMER FIGHTER PILOT WHO ENCOUNTERED UAP, WE NEED SCIENCE—NOT STIGMAS AND CONSPIRACIES—TO SOLVE THIS MYSTERY - by Ryan Graves for The DeBrief
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... President Obama, Senators Romney, Rubio, Gillibrand, and Heinrich, Directors of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines and John Ratcliffe, and former CIA Director John Brennan are among the long list of leaders who also have had access to classified data, and agree that these phenomena exist and that we do not know what they are.
Congress is also taking aerospace safety issues related to UAP seriously. President Biden just signed the 2023 NDAA with far-reaching UAP provisions into law including 1) having AARO report directly to DoD leadership, 2) an audit of government involvement in UAP since 1945, 3) establishing a UAP whistleblower program that waives all public and private non-disclosure agreements, and 4) directing AARO to develop a collection and science plan.
Additionally, recent Congressional hearings in the Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation (C3) Subcommittee of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence highlighted significant flight safety incidents involving UAP. In his testimony, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray stated that there were 11 near misses reported by military aviators under the new reporting system. ...
Elizondo Insists That UFOs Aren’t Ours, Theirs, or Alien - by Bhaswati Guha Majumder for Exo News
Luis Elizondo Says UFO Anti-Gravity Technology Almost Understood - staff writers at Gaia
Government UFO report is the product of years of military infighting over whether to take sightings seriously - by Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen for CNN
What Psychology Can Tell You About Your Extraterrestrial Beliefs (Who believes in UFO’s, and why?) - by Susan Krause Whitbourne, Ph.D. for Psychology Today (2012 article)
Do portfolios have a UAP risk? (The truth is out there, and markets probably need to begin accounting for it.) - by Izabella Kaminski
Almost overnight UFOs have gained acceptance by the government and some in academia as worthy of scientific study. With this shift came a new label from the U.S. military: unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Now, they are increasing the target of dedicated research, including Harvard University’s Galileo Project in search for extraterrestrial equipment near earth as well as Stanford University's independent research program on unusual materials. They are also the reason behind the establishment of a new office in the Pentagon charged with establishing a science plan to:
1) Account for characteristics and performance of UAP that exceed known science or technology, including propulsion, aerodynamics, materials, sensors, countermeasures, weapons, electronics and power generation
Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He’s Not Kidding (In conversation, the Harvard University professor explains his shocking hypothesis—and calls out what he sees as a crisis in science) - by Lee Billings for Scientific American
Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb Set to Explore Pacific Ocean for Potential ‘Alien’ Meteor Fragments - The Harvard Crimson
AS A FORMER FIGHTER PILOT WHO ENCOUNTERED UAP, WE NEED SCIENCE—NOT STIGMAS AND CONSPIRACIES—TO SOLVE THIS MYSTERY - by Ryan Graves for The DeBrief
excerpt:
... President Obama, Senators Romney, Rubio, Gillibrand, and Heinrich, Directors of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines and John Ratcliffe, and former CIA Director John Brennan are among the long list of leaders who also have had access to classified data, and agree that these phenomena exist and that we do not know what they are.
Congress is also taking aerospace safety issues related to UAP seriously. President Biden just signed the 2023 NDAA with far-reaching UAP provisions into law including 1) having AARO report directly to DoD leadership, 2) an audit of government involvement in UAP since 1945, 3) establishing a UAP whistleblower program that waives all public and private non-disclosure agreements, and 4) directing AARO to develop a collection and science plan.
Additionally, recent Congressional hearings in the Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation (C3) Subcommittee of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence highlighted significant flight safety incidents involving UAP. In his testimony, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray stated that there were 11 near misses reported by military aviators under the new reporting system. ...
We Have a Real UFO Problem. And It’s Not Balloons. (America’s fixation on the recent objects floating over the country overlooks a much more serious problem with advanced technology aircraft that we can’t explain.) - by Ryan Graves for Politico
NASA Learns the Ugly Truth About UFOs (Talking about mysterious sightings in the sky can be a nasty business.) - by Marina Koren for The Atlantic
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... NASA has historically steered clear of anything involving UFOs, leaving the matter up to other federal agencies, which operated clandestine UFO programs for military and national-security purposes. The world’s top space agency was more concerned with searching for alien life far beyond Earth’s atmosphere—around planets orbiting other stars, for example—than weird things in our own sky. But UFOs have been popping up in the news quite a bit in recent years, thanks to newspaper reports on those secret government programs and the resulting congressional hearings. But last year, NASA’s administrator, Bill Nelson, seemed to succumb to the pull of UFOs and directed the agency to form a panel of experts. ...
... Despite the high emotions surrounding UFOs, nearly all public meetings on the subject are quite anticlimactic, and distinctly lacking in someone unfurling a giant sign from the ceiling that declares, once and for all, we found the aliens. I’ve covered the space industry for years, and to me, the most surprising result was how absorbed NASA seemed to be in the discussion. Last year, a NASA official said a dedicated UAP-research effort would pose a “reputational risk” for the agency. But yesterday, this committee was advising NASA to approach UFOs in a way that the agency has not done in its nearly 65-year existence. Instead of opting out, the panelists said that NASA should help reduce the stigma surrounding UFOs; one expert from the Federal Aviation Administration said that the agency should “leverage its brand image” to do so. Evans, the NASA official, was also on board, saying, “It’s now our collective responsibility to investigate these occurrences with the rigorous scientific scrutiny that they deserve.” ...
... Despite the high emotions surrounding UFOs, nearly all public meetings on the subject are quite anticlimactic, and distinctly lacking in someone unfurling a giant sign from the ceiling that declares, once and for all, we found the aliens. I’ve covered the space industry for years, and to me, the most surprising result was how absorbed NASA seemed to be in the discussion. Last year, a NASA official said a dedicated UAP-research effort would pose a “reputational risk” for the agency. But yesterday, this committee was advising NASA to approach UFOs in a way that the agency has not done in its nearly 65-year existence. Instead of opting out, the panelists said that NASA should help reduce the stigma surrounding UFOs; one expert from the Federal Aviation Administration said that the agency should “leverage its brand image” to do so. Evans, the NASA official, was also on board, saying, “It’s now our collective responsibility to investigate these occurrences with the rigorous scientific scrutiny that they deserve.” ...
What the UFO Discussion Really Needs. Some context. - by Marina Koren for The Atlantic
excerpt:
... Many of the stories, Scoles said, took certain people’s credentials—say, the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program—as face-value evidence that their claims about the extraterrestrial origins of UFOs were true. Similarly, part of the reason that the astrophysicist Avi Loeb receives so much coverage for his alien-tinged discussion of weird-shaped interstellar objects is because he is a tenured Harvard professor. So when people see a UFO story in The New York Times, they’re inclined to trust the paper. But these articles appear without much-needed context: The Times’ go-to reporters on the UFO beat, who broke the story on the Pentagon’s previously undisclosed program, are long-time UFO activists who have advocated for the idea that such objects might have extraterrestrial explanations. ...
... Many of the stories, Scoles said, took certain people’s credentials—say, the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program—as face-value evidence that their claims about the extraterrestrial origins of UFOs were true. Similarly, part of the reason that the astrophysicist Avi Loeb receives so much coverage for his alien-tinged discussion of weird-shaped interstellar objects is because he is a tenured Harvard professor. So when people see a UFO story in The New York Times, they’re inclined to trust the paper. But these articles appear without much-needed context: The Times’ go-to reporters on the UFO beat, who broke the story on the Pentagon’s previously undisclosed program, are long-time UFO activists who have advocated for the idea that such objects might have extraterrestrial explanations. ...
Elizondo Insists That UFOs Aren’t Ours, Theirs, or Alien - by Bhaswati Guha Majumder for Exo News
Luis Elizondo Says UFO Anti-Gravity Technology Almost Understood - staff writers at Gaia
Government UFO report is the product of years of military infighting over whether to take sightings seriously - by Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen for CNN
What Psychology Can Tell You About Your Extraterrestrial Beliefs (Who believes in UFO’s, and why?) - by Susan Krause Whitbourne, Ph.D. for Psychology Today (2012 article)
Dozens Claim They Spotted UFO in Texas - NPR (2008)
House votes to make it easier to report UFOs (“This legislation may open the floodgates,” said a former Pentagon official responsible for investigating the sightings.) - by Bryan Bender and Lawrence Ukenye for Politico (2022)
Humans Are Ready to Find Alien Life (We finally have the tools we need. Now scientists just need to watch and wait.) - by Adam Frank for The Atlantic (2023)
Intelligence Officials Day U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-human Origin - by Leslie Kean and Raph Blumenthal for The Debrief (2023)
House UAP hearing a ‘win-win’ for America: UFO investigator - by Rich Johnson for The Hill (2024)
excerpt:
Luis Elizondo (who worked for the Pentagon) said:
... “Hopefully, the public is getting an understanding of how long our government has actually been involved in this topic, despite decades of denial,” he said.
Intelligence Officials Day U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-human Origin - by Leslie Kean and Raph Blumenthal for The Debrief (2023)
House UAP hearing a ‘win-win’ for America: UFO investigator - by Rich Johnson for The Hill (2024)
excerpt:
Luis Elizondo (who worked for the Pentagon) said:
... “Hopefully, the public is getting an understanding of how long our government has actually been involved in this topic, despite decades of denial,” he said.
Elaborating on what he told lawmakers, the former head of the Defense Department’s now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, shared a history lesson, comparing the technology of confirmed UAP sightings in the 1950s with the technology of that time.
“Documents have been submitted to Congress that show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we’ve been dealing with this issue since the early 1950s,” Elizondo said. “I’m talking about objects that, still to this day, can operate beyond any type of performance characteristics of our modern aircraft.”
“These aircraft were captured on radar (in the 50s) doing 10,000, 13,000 miles an hour … and are able to execute an immediate right-angle turn, do 180 degrees, pop in and out of our atmosphere and even underwater,” he continued. “Where were we in the 1950s? We had barely broken the sound barrier and hadn’t even made it into space.”
Elizondo’s mandate at AATIP was to investigate the national security implications of military encounters with UAP — a mission he said was as important as anything else taking place at the Pentagon.
“We have absolutely been able to confirm the existence of some sort of technology that has the ability to operate with anonymity (in) controlled U.S. airspace, operate over our sensitive U.S. military installations, and possibly … interfere with our nuclear equities,” the former Defense official said. “Now, if that’s not a national security concern, I don’t know what is.”
“Documents have been submitted to Congress that show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we’ve been dealing with this issue since the early 1950s,” Elizondo said. “I’m talking about objects that, still to this day, can operate beyond any type of performance characteristics of our modern aircraft.”
“These aircraft were captured on radar (in the 50s) doing 10,000, 13,000 miles an hour … and are able to execute an immediate right-angle turn, do 180 degrees, pop in and out of our atmosphere and even underwater,” he continued. “Where were we in the 1950s? We had barely broken the sound barrier and hadn’t even made it into space.”
Elizondo’s mandate at AATIP was to investigate the national security implications of military encounters with UAP — a mission he said was as important as anything else taking place at the Pentagon.
“We have absolutely been able to confirm the existence of some sort of technology that has the ability to operate with anonymity (in) controlled U.S. airspace, operate over our sensitive U.S. military installations, and possibly … interfere with our nuclear equities,” the former Defense official said. “Now, if that’s not a national security concern, I don’t know what is.”
Might be appropriate to this discussion ... A new favorite movie called Don't Look Up
My note:
This movie has an all-star cast.
The gist of the story: Scientists discover that a comet is headed towards earth, but the weight of the discovery is lost when government, a banal media, entertainment stars and corporate interests take over the story and initially turn it into a nothing-special event that is top secret. Facts become non-facts and non-facts become facts and are spun to the point of the absurd on social media. As usual there is division in the population about whether the comet is real or whether it is fake, whether it will destroy earth or be a money-making opportunity. The president starts a publicity campaign called "Don't Look Up" in order to sway opinion that it will be more about mining special minerals needed for cell phones than a life-and-death matter. Even though it is a comedy and a spoof on our present times (2020 - 2021), you can almost see how an event like this might play out in this way. And it has in a way (with UAPs).
I was really looking forward to more new posts about narcissism and see that you have gone off into an area that is pretty esoteric in the scheme of things. Please bring back the usual kinds of posts you write. You say these are part of a new series. These are not going to be nearly as helpful and you may lose readers.
ReplyDeleteThe next post I publish will be more of what you are used to (assuming you are one of my regular readers). I just did not want to publish it before the holidays, and this one was finished, so I decided to publish it instead.
DeleteHowever, I will be publishing the new series here and there. It won't be the main "fare". It has more to with being on the same page as Dr. Ramani Durvasula that narcissism (and the effects of narcissism - PTSD) is the mental health crisis of our times. This is a cultural issue.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Note: grammar error which I cannot edit:
Delete5th sentence should read: "It has more to do with on the same page as Dr. Ramani Durvasula ...." (I neglected to put the word "do" in the sentence and did not catch it when publishing).
Note: grammar error which I cannot edit:
Delete5th sentence should read: "It has more to do with being on the same page as Dr. Ramani Durvasula ...." (I neglected to put the word "do" in the sentence and did not catch it when publishing).
So much for screwing up grammar twice! Ugh.
DeleteGood to see the cartoons again!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was my main interest when starting the blog, but it drifted more into writing and research. I hope to get back to cartooning and other art sooner rather than later as I think in many ways you can hit home with the truth in a more succinct way with a visual medium.
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