Bob Lazar Reveals What He Saw Inside the UFO at S-4

In one of the most discussed interviews on The Joe Rogan Experience, physicist and whistleblower Bob Lazar detailed his extraordinary claim of having seen the interior of an alien spacecraft during his time working at a secret U.S. facility known as S-4, near Area 51. Lazar’s account remains one of the most detailed and controversial depictions of non-human technology ever shared publicly.

An Unworldly Interior

Lazar recalled being allowed inside the craft on only one occasion, primarily to examine how its internal components were arranged. According to him, the layout was crucial, since the craft’s systems operated without any visible wiring or connections.

The moment he stepped inside, he said the environment felt profoundly alien. Everything was one uniform color — a dark, pewter-like tone — with no sharp angles or seams. It appeared, he said, as if “someone had molded the interior from wax and then heated it just enough to let everything melt slightly together.” Every surface flowed into another, giving the sense that the structure was fused or grown, rather than built.

Designed for Smaller Beings

Inside the craft, Lazar found it too small for an average human. At 5’10”, he could not stand upright except at the very center. The seats were tiny, clearly made for beings about half his height — roughly three feet tall.

There were no familiar features such as control panels, lights, or decorations. The space was minimal and utilitarian — only a few seats, a central reactor, and several rectangular components positioned symmetrically around it. “There was nothing you could recognize as human technology,” Lazar said.

Advanced Materials and ‘Smart’ Surfaces

While exploring, Lazar noticed archways that became transparent at times. He observed another team working on one of these archways as it shifted from opaque metal to see-through material. The phenomenon reminded him of “smart glass”, a real-world technology that changes opacity, but far beyond anything publicly known.

He described the craft’s material as cold to the touch, suggesting it was metallic or perhaps a form of advanced ceramic. The smooth, continuous design reinforced his belief that the entire object was a single integrated system, not assembled from parts.

Three Levels of Technology

Lazar stated the craft contained three internal levels:

1. Main Deck: Contained the reactor and three seats arranged evenly around it.
2. Lower Level: Housed “gravity amplifiers” and “emitters” — cylindrical devices resembling trash cans attached to pipes. These, he said, were responsible for the craft’s propulsion.
3. Upper Level: Believed to include navigation or control systems, with dark, sensor-like panels on the outer surface used for orientation in space.

He physically entered the main deck and leaned into the lower level to observe the positioning of the gravity amplifiers firsthand.

According to Lazar, the craft he entered was one of nine extraterrestrial vehicles stored and studied at S-4. Each had a different design, suggesting they came from different origins or time periods. One, he said, looked like a “Jell-O mold” with rippled sides, while another resembled a flat disc “like a straw hat.” At least one of them showed visible damage, possibly from being shot down or recovered after a crash.

The Enduring Mystery

Bob Lazar’s story has inspired decades of debate, skepticism, and fascination. Critics question his scientific background and lack of physical evidence, while supporters argue that his detailed technical descriptions of gravity manipulation and element 115 propulsion predate modern discussions of exotic energy physics.

Whether seen as revelation or fabrication, Lazar’s account remains one of the most vivid and technically specific portrayals of an alleged alien craft interior — a description that continues to shape popular culture’s image of reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology.

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08-10-2025 om 16:59 geschreven door peter  

New Study Reveals The Biggest Hot Spots For UFO Sightings In The United States And Canada

by Douglas Charles

As every good UFOlogist knows, aliens have two places where they prefer to construct their bases: deep underwater and inside of active volcanoes. We also know that there are certain sites around the world that seem to draw UFOs like bees to honey.

With that in mind, as part of World Space Week, a new study was conducted to determine where the biggest UFO sighting hot spots are in the United States and Canada. Using data from the National UFO Reporting Center, along with digital media coverage, Casino.ca was able to determine which states, provinces, and territories have reported the most unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

Hot spots for UFO sightings in the United States

Not surprisingly, two of the top four states with the most active volcanoes in the United States were also the states with the most UFO sightings. The state of Washington tops the list with one reported UFO sighting for every 1,021 residents. This is nothing new though. Since 1974, Washington has had 7,625 reported sightings.

The state of Oregon comes in second on the list with one UFO sighting for every 1,105 people. Oregon also has a long history of UFO sightings with 3,838 being reported since 1974.

The third state on the list, Florida, has slightly less UFO sightings per capita, but far more sightings overall. The Sunshine State has had 20,078 UFO sightings over the year, or around one for every 1,108 residents.

Delaware with one UFO sighting per 1,178 people and New York with one for every 1,236 residents come in fourth and fifth.

On the flip side, the state with the least amount of UFO sightings in America is Louisiana. Down in the Bayou State, there has been only one UFO sighting for every 3,583 people. Mississippi with one sighting for every 3,403 people and Alabama with one per 3,238 are the second and third least on the list of UFO sightings.

Hot spots for UFO sightings in Canada

In Canada, the province of Alberta is the UFO sighting capital with one sighting for every 568 people. Ontario is the second most likely Canadian province or territory where people have spotted a UFO, one for every 639 people. Manitoba (one per 853 people) and Quebec (one for every 527 people) round out the top five. Meanwhile, Newfoundland and Labrador is the Canadian province/territory where one is least likely to see a UFO at just one for every 7,451 people.

However, when it comes to the total number of UFO sightings, Ontario dominates the list with 22,860 reported encounters. British Columbia, which came in third on the list per capita (742) has had 7,927 reported UFO sightings. Not surprising considering the many active volcanoes in the province.

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07-10-2025 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story:

• A Congressional hearing recently looked at a mysterious orb that a U.S. military missile seemed to bounce off in midair. Speculation ran rampant that it was a UAP—traditionally known as a UFO—after the blurry video was released.
• In reality, the UAP was likely a balloon that was drifting in the wind, reportedly in the air near Yemen. Its pieces continued drifting after a Hellfire missile tore into it.
• The U.S. Army is not releasing information about the event, or about how the military decides to deploy a missile, but a missile physics expert explains what probably happened.

Few people could make sense of it: a video played at a recent Congressional hearing concerning “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP, seems to show a U.S. military missile bouncing off a mysterious orb in mid-air. The blurry and short clip, appearing as if filmed from a point above the intersecting objects, was released at a House Oversight transparency hearing on Sept. 9. It attracted national attention, but what many people thought they saw was an illusion.

So, what was it, really?

An Expert on Missile Physics Weighs In

A U.S. Army spokesperson said in an email that while the hearing and video are in the public record, the newly renamed Department of War “has not authenticated the video, or issued a substantive confirmation about the event. Press reports reflect no Pentagon verification.”

So we asked a missile physics expert for some help. Fred Lamb, PhD, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Illinois, chaired a ballistic missile report earlier this year for the American Physical Society. He cautioned by e-mail that any analysis requires “many, many assumptions” for experts such as himself who have “no independent knowledge of the event,” but said he would do his best proceeding on assumptions.

Lamb’s conclusion—based on the evidence below—was that the object was likely a high-altitude balloon being cut up mid-air by a special variant of a U.S. missile designed to eject blades. He emphasized that this type of missile strike is not what the public would expect to see from watching Hollywood movies or TV series of ballistic explosions. “The main reason for this is to make the movie or TV event loud, dramatic, and exciting—not because that is what the destruction of a target, such as a balloon, would look like in reality,” he said.

What We See Doesn’t Always Reflect the Facts

Press reports from the hearing suggested that the event occurred in the air near Yemen and involved a variant of the 100-pound-scale “Hellfire” missile. Generally speaking, the U.S. Army uses these AGM-114 missiles, the spokesperson said—primarily a laser-guided variant called “Romeo” for its serial number, AGM-114R.

But there are at least 10 variants of Hellfire, Lamb said. His video analysis assumes one of these variants was fired from an MQ-9 Reaper drone, based on media reports, and that the camera that took the footage was flying on a second drone far above, using a “very high magnification thermal imaging camera,” he said. This drone type has a reported operational altitude of 25,000 feet, a little lower than typical commercial airliner flight routes, he said.

Lamb named the altitude and the camera specifically to highlight all the uncertainties the public is working with: the distance from the camera to the background, what the background is (might be ocean or cloud cover), the path of the presumed missile, the distance from the camera to the target, and the direction the camera is pointing towards (relative to the ground.)

“We don’t know any of these things,” he emphasized, which means an untrained observer might make conclusions, such as assuming “that the missile and the target are both moving in the same plane,” or “that the camera is not rotating,” among other misperceptions.

So we can’t say what we are looking at for sure.

However, Lamb said one possibility is that the camera is zooming far down to the intersecting objects, creating an optical illusion known as “parallax motion.” In a restricted field of view such as a camera lens, the target may be appearing to move very quickly—and that would especially be the case when there are few background objects with which to judge the motion.

Other UAPs that have appeared to be moving very rapidly have been found to be moving not under their own volition, but only because a wind was pushing them along, Lamb said. He therefore suggested it is plausible—but not a slam dunk—that the “target” might be a balloon high in the air reflecting sunlight, which “appears to be moving rapidly mostly because of ‘parallax motion,’ but also because it is being carried along by a high-altitude wind.”

What Happens When You Fire on a Balloon?

Assuming it is a balloon, who makes the decision to fire on the object? When asked if it is a pilot, a commanding officer or somebody else, the U.S. Army said it was unable to release that information “due to operational considerations.” Lamb added that generally, “There are many possible reasons why the U.S. military might want to bring down a balloon that was floating in an area where a conflict is ongoing.”

Assuming the missile hit a balloon, the video shows what appears to be a number of pieces—flying away in parallel—after the missile strike. “The missile continues on its way, indicating that the missile was not significantly deflected by its interaction with the target,” Lamb added of what he could plausibly see. “This indicates that there was not much interaction, and/or that the mass of the target was small, consistent with the target being a balloon.”

More evidence for the target being a balloon includes “the fact that once the target is intersected, the resulting pieces of the target move apart slowly, as they would if they are drifting apart while continuing to be carried by a wind.” The camera’s optics, he noted, likely couldn’t pick up all the debris—what was visible were pieces that “all seem to have the same noncircular shapes and the same orientation.”

As for why the missile continued and did not appear to explode? Lamb said there are a couple of possibilities. Perhaps the Hellfire’s warhead did not detonate. Or more likely, it is a “type of Hellfire missile that … did not have a substantial explosive warhead—but could nevertheless cut or tear the balloon.” The most likely example would be the AGM-114R9X, he added, which pops out sharp blades with only a small amount of explosive.

Hellfire missiles have been used in multiple operations and by different branches of the military, according to the U.S. Army. They were deployed during the 1991 Gulf War operations—also known as “Desert Storm” in the U.S., and continue to be used through the ongoing “War on Terror.” Hellfire missiles have been launched from both drones and helicopters.

While the nature of the video means we cannot know if a Hellfire missile was ripping up a balloon—or draw any detailed conclusions about what was shown—it’s an opportunity for all of us to realize that sometimes, what we think we’re seeing in a visual recording may not be what’s actually in front of us.

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04-10-2025 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb has floated a bold new idea about the legendary “Wow Signal.” In a recent blog post, he suggested that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, now passing through our solar system, might have been the source of the mysterious radio burst picked up by Ohio State’s Big Ear telescope on August 15, 1977 

The Wow Signal was recorded at Right Ascension (RA)=19h25m=291 degrees and Declination (Dec)=-27 degrees.

At nearly the same time, on August 12, 1977, 3I/ATLAS was about 600 astronomical units (AU) from Earth, some 600 times the Earth–Sun distance, or roughly a 3-day light-travel time away. Its position then was RA 19h40m (295°degrees), Dec -19 degrees. 

Here’s the intriguing part: just three days before the signal was detected, ATLAS had been moving through nearly the same patch of space. The separation was only about 4 degree in RA and 8 degree in Dec, an alignment chance of just 0.6%. 

If the signal really came from 31/ATLAS, its transmitter would have needed the power of a nuclear reactor, beaming directly on the 1420 MHz hydrogen line, the frequency often dubbed the “cosmic calling card.” 

While it may seem far-fetched that 3I/ATLAS could have sent the Wow Signal, the object’s unusual behavior so far means nothing can be completely ruled out. Perhaps it’s worth scanning 3I/ATLAS for radio emissions. 

In time, we’re likely to learn much more about whether 3I/ATLAS is simply an odd interstellar comet or something far more advanced which could catch us off guard.

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02-10-2025 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

A swarm of UFOs was seen flying over an active volcano in Mexico this week, reviving a wild theory that the natural landmark could be an alien portal to space. 

A webcam pointed at Popocatépetl volcano unexpectedly captured what appeared to be multiple glowing objects streaking past the site near Mexico City on Monday.

In a time-lapse video that covered 30 minutes of surveillance, viewers could see dozens of small lights speeding by in all directions like shooting stars as Popocatépetl billowed with smoke.

The famed UFO hotspot has been a constant source of extraterrestrial speculation, with witnesses photographing strange objects appearing to fly into and around the volcano for decades.

While some on social media have dismissed the strange lights as insects in the camera's way, others pointed out that the objects could be seen flying behind the volcano's smoke clouds, arguing that proves they were much farther away.

However, Alejandro Rojas, an advisor at Enigma Labs, which analyzes reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), was not convinced the light swarm was an actual UFO sighting, noting that the nature of the video means everything caught on camera will seem strange.

'What looks to be moving swiftly is actually moving much more slowly. So, airplanes, satellites, or anything else coming into the frame will appear to be zipping past when they are not,' Rojas told the Daily Mail.

He added that those claiming it was just a trick of the light caused by insects may be right as well, explaining that webcams emit invisible infrared light at night, which often illuminates bugs and birds that fly close enough to the camera. 

A time-lapsed video, filming 30 minutes around Popocatépetl volcano, captured dozens of strange objects appearing to streak by the mountain

Luis Guerra, a resident in the central Mexico city of Atlixco, photographed this image of an apparent UFO above the Popocatépetl volcano in 2023

'You can see the stars in the background moving quickly, whereas their movement in relation to the Earth is not discernible to the naked eye,' Rojas continued.

'That means everything is moving much faster than its actual speed. I do not see anything in this video that is particularly anomalous that could not be explained,' the UFO investigator declared.

Despite skepticism that the light show over Popocatépetl was a fleet of alien craft, the sighting adds to a literal mountain of evidence that has been caught on camera at the volcano.

In 2023, Luis Guerra was in his backyard when he heard a blast from the volcano and looked up to see a saucer-shaped object hovering over the opening of Popocatépetl.

It's one of several reported UFO sightings when Popocatépetl was active, prompting UFO conspiracy theorists to claim extraterrestrials were studying Earth's geothermal activity to understand how it works.

However, noted UFO researcher Jaime Maussan has come up with an even more astounding theory of what's happening at Popocatépetl: aliens have been using the volcano as a 'wormhole' to a distant point in space.

According to Maussan, UFOs seen flying directly into the volcano have been entering an 'interdimensional portal' which could both leave our planet and serve as a doorway to return to Earth later.

The controversial journalist from Mexico cited years of webcam footage and photos showing glowing orbs and discs entering the crater, which would be too hot for any human technology to survive.

Multiple UFO sightings around Popocatépetl have occurred during periods of volcanic activity

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02-10-2025 om 22:56 geschreven door peter  

Is pas ontdekte komeet mogelijk echt een ufo afkomstig van aliens? NASA geeft uitsluitsel

Een nieuw ontdekte komeet met de naam 3I/Atlas schiet met enorme snelheid door ons zonnestelsel en passeert volgende maand de planeet Mars. Harvard-hoogleraar Avi Loeb schreef in een wetenschappelijk artikel dat het misschien geen gewone komeet is, maar een technologisch artefact met zelfs actieve intelligentie. NASA haalt de angel uit deze boude uitspraken

Loeb, ook hoofd van het zogeheten Galileo Project, dat zoekt naar tekenen van buitenaards leven, wees er in het artikel op dat de komeet zich anders gedraagt dan de meeste kometen uit ons eigen zonnestelsel. Zo is er tot nu toe geen duidelijke staart van gas en stof waargenomen en volgt het object een opvallend ongewone baan. In zijn blog schreef Loeb: “Als toekomstige data het ontbreken van een komeetstaart laten zien, worden we geconfronteerd met de mogelijkheid dat dit object niet toevallig in ons zonnestelsel terechtkwam, maar hierheen gestuurd is.”

Loeb ging zelfs een stap verder en opperde dat de komeet tijdens haar passage achter de zon in oktober een geheime koerswijziging kan maken, met “kwaadaardige bedoelingen” richting de aarde. “De gevolgen, mocht deze hypothese juist blijken, zouden potentieel rampzalig voor de mensheid zijn”, schreef hij.

NASA blijft nuchter

Bij de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA klinkt er echter weinig paniek. Wetenschappers van de organisatie volgen 3I/Atlas sinds de ontdekking op 1 juli en zien vooral veel kenmerken die juist heel normaal zijn.

“Het ziet eruit als een komeet. Het doet wat kometen doen. Het lijkt in vrijwel alle opzichten op de kometen die we kennen”, zegt Tom Statler, NASA’s hoofdwetenschapper voor kleine hemellichamen. “Het bewijs wijst overweldigend op een natuurlijk object. Het is een komeet.”

Volgens metingen van de Hubble-telescoop is 3I/Atlas tot wel 5,6 kilometer breed en reist het met een snelheid van ruim 209.000 kilometer per uur, sneller dan ooit is waargenomen.

Statler benadrukt dat kometen sowieso grillig zijn: ze bestaan uit mengsels van ijs en stof die op onvoorspelbare manieren reageren op zonnewarmte. Soms lichten ze plotseling op doordat een 'ijszak' smelt en veel stof loslaat. Zulke verrassingen horen erbij, zegt hij, en zijn juist een kans om meer te leren.

Geen gevaar voor de aarde

Belangrijk voor wie zich zorgen maakt: 3I/Atlas komt de komende maanden niet dichterbij dan 270 miljoen kilometer van de aarde. Het object maakt wel nauwere passages langs Mars, Jupiter en Venus, maar vormt geen enkel risico voor ons.

Voor wetenschappers is de komeet vooral interessant omdat het pas de derde bekende interstellaire bezoeker is die ons zonnestelsel aandoet. Statler: “Dit geeft ons een unieke blik op de samenstelling van andere zonnestelsels.”

En Loeb? Die erkent inmiddels dat de eenvoudigste verklaring waarschijnlijk de juiste is: “De simpelste hypothese is dat 3I/Atlas een komeet is.” Toch houdt hij vast aan zijn motto dat we nieuwsgierig moeten blijven en alternatieve ideeën moeten onderzoeken, al is het maar “voor de lol”.

Bron: The Guardian

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01-10-2025 om 22:24 geschreven door peter  

Ufoloog Marin Vandercruyssen in 2004. Op 21 juli 1955 zag hij tien minuten lang vijf zilveren schijven vliegen.

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Op 21 juli 1955, zag de toen 18-jarige paracommando Marin Vandercruyssen 5 grote zilveren schijven geruisloos boven de toenmalige E5 (nu E40) zweven, in de buurt van Lotenhulle, Aalter. De schijven vormden een formatie van 3 vooraan en 2 achteraan, vergelijkbaar met het Olympische logo. Een 20-tal autobestuurders stopten in het midden van de weg en stapten uit om toe te kijken.

Schepen Dirk De Smul aan het opgeknapte ufomonument op de baan tussen Aalter en Deinze.

© Joeri Seymortier

Pas in 2004 kwam Marin met zijn verhaal naar buiten bij het gemeentebestuur. Dat was eerst wantrouwig, maar ging na andere getuigenverklaringen mee in het verhaal. Er kwam een monument langs de Steenweg op Deinze. De tekst op de gedenksteen vermeldde de datum, het aantal getuigen en de naam van Marin Vandercruyssen, met 5 ovale symbolen, en een foto van de jonge paracommando. 

Dit jaar nog gerestaureerd

In juli dit jaar werd het monument nog opgeknapt, maar nu is het toch verwijderd. De familie van Vandercruyssen, die in 2020 overleed, wilde niet meer in verband gebracht worden met de gebeurtenis. Via een advocatenkantoor stuurden ze een brief naar de gemeente Aalter met de dringende vraag om het monument weg te halen. Anders zou een schadeclaim volgen.

De gemeente wil geen verdere details geven, maar bevestigt wel dat er op de vraag is ingegaan. Het monument werd vorige week door gemeentediensten weggehaald. Daarmee verliest België haar enige UFO-monument. 

• Ik heb Marin jarenlang gekend als een optimistische UFO-onderzoeker en joviale collega. Een aantal jaren geleden is hij spijtig genoeg overleden... Ik vind het spijtig dat zijn erfgenamen en familieleden uit onbegrip, onwetendheid, onterechte schaamte of de publieke domheid dit eerbetoon aan Marin lieten weghalen. Het was een uniek eerbetoon in BELGIë EN EUROPA aan een integere ufoloog, die voor zijn mening en waarneming dierf uit te komen . Rust in vrede, dierbare vriend, ondanks het wegnemen van jouw eerbetoon...

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01-10-2025 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

01-10-2025 om 21:44 geschreven door peter  

What Do Scientists And NASA Actually Think Of Aliens And UFOs?

The truth is out there.

But what do scientists really think about UFOs, and aliens more generally? Are they interested in the phenomenon, and do they think it worthy of further investigation? And do they think alien life will exist at all? 

Fortunately, not only are scientists interested in studying the topic, they are even interested in studying whether they are interested in the topic. There are several surveys asking these kinds of questions, with some surprising answers, even if some of the results should be taken with a generous pinch of salt.

Let's start with the more general questions. In a study published in January 2025, researchers from Durham University surveyed 521 astrobiologists and 534 non-astrobiologist scientists on whether they believe life and intelligent life exists out there in the universe. 

"The results reveal that 86.6% of the surveyed astrobiologists responded either 'agree' or 'strongly agree' that it’s likely that extraterrestrial life (of at least a basic kind) exists somewhere in the universe," Professor in Philosophy of Science, Peter Vickers, explained in a Durham University blog post. 

"Less than 2% disagreed, with 12% staying neutral. So, based on this, we might say that there’s a solid consensus that extraterrestrial life, of some form, exists somewhere out there."

The team found that scientists were optimistic about intelligent life too. 67.4 percent of astrobiologists and 58.2 percent of non-astrobiologists agreed that complex and intelligent life exists out there in the cosmos, though as Vickers points out, given the sheer number of stars out there you could call these numbers quite pessimistic indeed.

How about UFOs and UAPs? These topics have been a little more taboo in scientific circles over the last century. Though scientists are slowly taking it more seriously, with projects like the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and its evil twin METI, for the large part scientists do not want to discuss the possibility that UFOs and UAPs could be alien visitors. Of course, this could largely be because there is little convincing evidence to suggest that they are, even if some video footage is intriguing and worthy of investigation.

But there have been anonymous surveys which have attempted to gauge scientists' beliefs on the topic. In 2023, a team from the University of Virginia did just this, asking scientists with tenure or on the tenure track at top research universities whether they or anyone close to them had witnessed "anything of unknown origin to you that might fit the U.S. government’s definition of a UAP".

The survey found that 18.9 percent of respondents said that they had, while a further 8.7 percent responded "maybe". The survey did not ask for further details of these incidents, but asked if there was anything else they would like the researchers to know.

“My entire family and I witnessed a UFO around 1976. It was over our house in the rural northeast (state redacted). Two of my siblings saw it, while the rest of us in the house felt it shake and heard a loud noise. We were eating dinner and the shaking was so intense that we all ran outside," one anonymous academic responded.

“I saw an unidentified flying object as a child in (state redacted) (with my sibling) – which my parents didn’t believe. The news reported that others saw it, too," another added, while a third said they had witnessed two UAPs.

“I used to tell people, but they thought I was crazy or lying – so now I’m silent," they added.

Though interesting that some academics do believe they have seen a UAP, it should be noted that the survey respondents were self-selecting and chose to fill in a survey about UFOs, and so perhaps are not reflective of the scientific community as a whole. In fact, the team reported that they received hostile responses to the survey email, with one even writing "tenure might be tricky for you – good luck.”

Despite the stigma, studies into the topics of UAPs are slowly making their way into the mainstream, particularly with the recent US government hearings on it. NASA, too has released its own reports on UAPs. While they did not find any evidence that UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin, they cannot say for certain what each UAP is, but they will continue to investigate.

"The mission of NASA is to find out the unknown," former astronaut Bill Nelson said as the report was released. "I've said several times in my comments today that we deal openly, and we will be transparent on this."

In short, scientists are interested in the topic too, and want to investigate further, even if the answer doesn't turn out to be "it's aliens".

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30-09-2025 om 22:22 geschreven door peter  

2nd UFO I summoned a glowing disk 400 meters across over Salt Lake City Airport, Sept 29, 2025 UAP sighting news

Date of sighting: Sept 29, 2025 7:09pm

Location of sighting: Over Salt Lake City Airport, Utah, USA

Source: Myself SCW

 

I recorded this today. I was mentally calling a UFO to appear. Five minutes later the triangle ufo (earlier video) appeared then this glowing disk appeared over the Salt Lake City Airport, Utah. It lasted about 7 minutes. Sept 29, 2025 at 7:09 pm. When calling the aliens mentally, I promised to record it and share it with my followers, so here it goes.  

 

Scott C. Waring- UFO sightings daily.

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30-09-2025 om 16:54 geschreven door peter  

1st UFO over Salt Lake, Utah Sept 29, 2025, UFO UAP sighting news. 👽 alien craft close to airport!

Date of sighting: Sept 29, 2025

Location of sighting: viewed from Bountiful, Utah, USA

Source: I recorded it, SCW

Yeah I did it. I admit it. I have practices summoning for several years now and I seem to be getting more powerful lately. This time I managed to get the first of two UFOs in five minutes time after summoning them using just pure focused thought out over the airport. And then this appeared. So you be the judge, but only those who have tried summoning should judge me. 

Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily 

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30-09-2025 om 16:46 geschreven door peter  

New footage of a mysterious object flying over Texas in broad daylight has been revealed by UFO hunters.

The sighting took place on September 8 in Trenton just after 8pm ET, when a pair of witnesses spotted the pyramid-shaped object moving eastward for at least two minutes.

The Texas resident, who was on their property at the time of the sighting, was able to zoom in and take clear video of the alleged craft as it emerged from a nearby tree line about 100 feet in the air.

The witness, who sent their footage to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), added that the dark-colored triangle seemed to be bronze and was either illuminated or had a pulsating light around its edge.

Although the person recording the UFO noted that the object changed shape, it was seen holding a straight edge and triangular or pyramid design throughout the more than 60 seconds the eyewitness was able to follow it with their camera.

NUFORC, a volunteer-operated nonprofit group that's been collecting UFO reports since 1974, noted that it's possible the object with simply a balloon, and US military officials have maintained that there is no definitive proof of extraterrestrial contact.

This incident was one of 10 in Texas alone that were reported to NUFORC in the last three weeks.

Moreover, it's the latest encounter with an alleged craft that was described as being a 'black triangle' seen flying over the US this year.

A resident in Trenton, Texas recorded a strange object which made no sound as it flew overhead on September 8

This particular triangle was reported flying around 20 to 30 mph as it moved higher into the sky and far off into the distance that night.

The witness added that the unidentified object did not make any sound at all as it flew through the air.

The object was estimated to be between six and seven feet long, making it relatively large if it was an ordinary balloon.

Meanwhile, silent black triangles have been reported flying over the US 20 times this year alone.

These sightings have ranged from triangles flying slowly over nearby witnesses to larger craft taking off at high speed at great altitudes.

In May, another Texas resident claimed they saw a large black triangle which was 'the size of a football field with pale green lights.'

Just a day before the incident in Trenton, someone spotted a similar UFO in Hudson Falls, New York around 30,000 feet overhead.

'There was no sound. It was a large black craft with white lights around the edges,' the witness reported to NUFORC. 

The strange triangle-shaped object was suspected of being a balloon, but no official explanation has been found

Triangle or pyramid-shaped UFOs have become one of the most common sightings by self-proclaimed UFO witnesses.

Matthew Brown, a former US national security official who became a government whistleblower, revealed in April that he had seen classified reports that allegedly documented military contact with this type of craft.

Brown claimed that a covert naval operation in the Pacific witnessed a large black triangle-shaped UFO 'decloak' out of thin air over several Russian vessels.

Texas has been one of the biggest hotspots when it comes to UFO sightings, now referred to as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

Among the thousands of sightings reported to NUFORC over the years, over 6,500 have taken place in Texas.

That's just behind Florida and Washington state in terms of the sheer number of sightings that have come from residents in these areas.

However, no state has logged as many UAP sightings as California, which has sent nearly 17,000 alleged sightings to NUFORC.

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30-09-2025 om 14:40 geschreven door peter  

Pentagon baffled by 8,000 mysterious UFO orbs hovering over US military bases

• MORE: Mysterious 'UFO' caught hovering over Disney World before vanishing into the darkness

By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

An invasion of small metallic orbs has been spotted hovering over the US in recent years, leaving the Pentagon scrambling to identify these mysterious UFOs.

A new report from the crowdsourced platform Enigma, which allows people to report sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reveals more than 8,000 sightings across the US between December 2022 and June 2025. 

Among these, 422 reports specifically describe metallic orbs, with the majority observed between 1am and 4am near military installations in New York, California, and Arizona. 

Eyewitnesses, including civilians, pilots, and military personnel, reported seeing the spheres hover silently before moving at extreme speeds, leaving no trace of their departure. 

Some of the sightings have been captured on video or radar, though many remain unexplained. 

'I was walking into work when I looked up and saw two metallic liquid-like objects hovering for about two minutes,' said one witness over Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton in June 2024. 

Another in California described seeing a metallic orb above Los Angeles shortly after a squadron of planes flew by. 

The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has been charged with investigating claims of UFOs and has dismissed many as natural phenomena like flocks of birds, conventional aircraft, drones, balloons, or other explainable objects. 

Military drone footage from the Middle east in 2022 revealed a metal sphere flying through the sky in broad daylight (circled in purple)

The crowdsourced platform Enigma reported that over 8,000 orbs have been seen over the US since December 2022

However, some cases have remained unsolved, reportedly due to a lack of data. Of the 757 UFO cases between May 2023 and June 2024 released in AARO's annual report, 21 cases were classified as unresolved sightings.

Although the Pentagon and civilian groups like the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) have also been cataloging these incidents, many have continued to baffle military officials, who have no way of explaining what was seen.

While the new report focused on the thousands of sightings in the US over the last three years, strange orbs have been documented all over the world, from Puerto Rico to the Middle East.

Moreover, these tiny craft have apparently been visiting our skies for decades, with pilots during World War II reporting similar orbs over the skies of Europe.

Enigma revealed that more than 360 'metallic orb' reports took place within a few miles of military bases here on US soil.

In three of those cases, witnesses revealed that the orbs got within five miles of Fort Hamilton in New York, Papago Military Reserve in Arizona, and Los Angeles Air Force Base on multiple occasions.

These mystery orb sightings include one shocking encounter revealed by Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of AARO, which was captured on a MQ-9 Reaper drone's camera in the Middle East in 2022.

Enigma revealed that witnesses spotted strange orbs flying above Fort Hamilton military base in New York multiple times

Even more close calls were documented around Los Angeles Air Force Base in California between 2022 and 2025

Kirkpatrick warned that if these videos didn't prove that aliens exist, then they're evidence that a rival foreign power could be 'doing stuff in our backyard.'

Some theories have suggested these orbs could be surveillance devices from foreign powers like China or Russia.

Government officials believed they might be advanced drones, due to their tremendous agility and ability to avoid radar, according to a 2022 report in the New York Times.

This theory exploded into rampant paranoia last year, when countless drones were spotted flying over the East Coast, including over key military sites and President Trump's property in New Jersey.

As for Enigma's report, many of the orb sightings have been concentrated in Texas and Florida. 

In fact, visitors at Disney World's Epcot in Florida got an unexpected sight this month, when a glowing orb appeared over the amusement park.

After searching online and finding no information about drones or satellites in the area, Morgan Huelsman, digital director of The Bobby Bones Show, described the object as a 'UFO,' adding, 'definitely a UFO with aliens.'

The Enigma platform has also received sightings from all over the US, over critical infrastructure such as power plants, and over naval vessels at sea.

The Buga Sphere recovered in Colombia (pictured) remains one of the only pieces of physical evidence tied to metallic orb sightings worldwide

However, the most convincing proof of this invasion of mysterious orbs has been found in Colombia, where locals actually recovered a metallic sphere that was seen hovering over the town of Buga in March.

The 'Buga Sphere' has become a major topic of discussion among UFO researchers, with scientists claiming the object contains a maze of fiber-optic wires that suggest it can send and receive signals.

After striking a power line and crashing to the ground, the object also appeared to have somehow dehydrated the field it landed in, killing all the grass and soil where it touched down.

Scientists suggested this was proof that the object produced some kind of energy field, but researchers had not attempted to forcibly cut the object open so far. The sphere has since been taken to Mexico for further analysis.

However, UFO researcher Dr Julia Mossbridge from the University of San Diego is among the many who doubt the authenticity of the Buga Sphere, calling it a 'man-made art project.'

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28-09-2025 om 23:31 geschreven door peter  

Yorkshire resident spots mysterious collection of ghostly UFOs near Leeds – including one that looks like a SPOON 

• READ MORE: Saucer-shaped 'UFO' spotted flying though the hills near Skipton

By JONATHAN CHADWICK, ASSISTANT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR 

Yorkshire may be swiftly becoming Britain's 'UFO' hotspot.

Several remarkable new photos reveal a flurry of so-called 'unidentified flying objects' in Headingley in Leeds, West Yorkshire. 

Local resident and photographer Jesse Gallagher snapped the strange collection of unearthly bodies over several months using his iPhone.

The snaps, shared exclusively with the Daily Mail, were all taken after dark around midnight, making their ghostly light easier for the camera to detect. 

And they certainly form an eerie motely crew of strange shapes and sizes, several deviating a lot from traditional depictions of a UFO. 

'When zooming in, the orbs are either white or multi-coloured and can be seen pulsating,' Mr Gallagher told the Daily Mail. 

'One recording has the moon as a backdrop which provides some interesting perspective.

'I have seen other videos of similar objects around the world.'  

They make up an eerie motely crew of strange shapes and sizes, deviating a lot from traditional depictions of a UFO. Pictured, the spoon-shaped entity 

Another entity in a deeper shade of blue seems to form a very rough sphere or orb and be emitting a faint ring of light

Mr Gallagher said his footage was captured around midnight in Headingley between August 2021 and November 2023. 

Bizarrely, one of the UFOs with a ghostly slivery-blue tint resembles a spoon or a spade – with a narrow stream of light connecting a fainter circle.

Another entity in an even deeper shade of blue seems to form a very rough sphere or orb and be emitting a faint beams of light. 

Meanwhile, the third snap shows a bright white ball of brilliant light, almost perfectly circular, with the moon as a tiny blob in the background. 

But perhaps most intriguing photo shows a textured grey object with an unusual level of detail – a possible cone or horn, with what seems to be a hole in the middle. 

Clues from its appearance suggest it could be a discarded piece of machinery or a fragment of disused spacecraft.

But, in such an instance, rules of physics surely dictate that it would hit the ground. 

Philip Mantle, a British UFO researcher, said the images show some kind of 'distant light source that is out of focus'. 

The third snap shows a bright white ball of brilliant light, almost perfectly circular, with the moon a tiny blob in the background

A piece of spacecraft? Perhaps most intriguing of the four pictures is this one, showing a textured grey object with an unusual level of detail

'The out of focus image makes the light look very different from what the naked eye would see,' he told the Daily Mail. 

'They could well be simple lens flares as seen in the photo of the moon.' 

But Mr Mantle stopped short of calling them 'UFOs' – a term that may or may not describe an object thought to have an extraterrestrial origin.

Only last week, another Yorkshire resident revealed  photos of a bizarre saucer-shaped object just outside of Skipton. 

John Tunnah took about 10 or 12 photographs from his vantage point near the hills, but the object only appeared in one of them.

The object is remarkably similar to the classic UFO saucer shape depicted in popular culture, with a distinctive round and elongated shape. 

Nick Pope, a UFO expert formerly with the UK's Ministry of Defence, offered a number of explanations for Mr Tunnah's photo. 

'When photos show an anomaly that wasn't seen at the time, I suspect either a glitch with the camera, or a fast-moving object like a bird or an insect, close to the lens,' Mr Pope told the Daily Mail. 

This bizarre saucer-shaped object was snapped with a Pentax Optio SVi camera by Yorkshire photographer John Tunnah

The man's attention was drawn by a perfectly formed arch of cloud over the trees (centre) - and only later did he notice the saucer-shaped object on the left

UFOs became a major subject of interest after World War II and were thought by some researchers to be intelligent extraterrestrial life visiting Earth. 

In the US, the government's Department of Defense, commonly known as the Pentagon, now refrains from using the term UFO at all.

This is largely because it is commonly associated with wind up conspiracy theories and paranoia.

Instead, the Pentagon uses UAP – 'unidentified aerial phenomenon' – although in most places this has low usage and is yet to enter common parlance.

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28-09-2025 om 23:11 geschreven door peter  

When I was growing up, I watched a lot of sci-fi movies about aliens that come to Earth. The extraterrestrials in popular culture, however, always looked so familiar that I found them far-fetched. What are the chances that E.T., the Predator, or ALF would develop arms and legs, a humanlike face, and opposable thumbs? Perhaps as a result, I associated alien life more with fantasy than with science, and I never gave much thought to what a visit would really look like. But my attitude started to change in 2020, when I read Liu Cixin’s “The Three-Body Problem” and its two sequels. In Liu’s books, creatures called Trisolarans send a scouting mission of supercomputers to spy on and subtly disrupt human affairs. Although Trisolarans could do seemingly impossible things, such as program protons, Liu’s rigor got me thinking about aliens from a scientific perspective. Suddenly, I could imagine a sophisticated civilization coming into contact with humanity, perhaps in ways that we don’t immediately understand.

Then, in 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report on unidentified anomalous phenomena (U.A.P.)—essentially a rebranding of U.F.O.s. Several Navy videos had been made public a few years prior. In the so-called GOFAST video, recorded off the coast of Florida in 2015, a Navy pilot with an infrared camera follows an object zooming above the water and asks, over the radio, “What the fuck is that?” Another clip, deemed GIMBAL—“Look at that thing, dude”—showed a similar shape above some clouds. A third video, known as FLIR, was taken in 2004 from an aircraft in California. Navy pilots in two planes saw what looked like a large Tic Tac hovering over the water; it seemed to zip away at thousands of miles per hour. Military whistle-blowers subsequently claimed that the government knew more than it was admitting, leading to congressional hearings in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Last month, House Representative Eric Burlison, a Republican, introduced the U.A.P. Disclosure Act of 2025, aimed at preserving and eventually releasing U.F.O. reports.

None of the government’s disclosures demonstrated that Earth had welcomed interstellar house guests. And yet, after the releases and hearings, it seemed more acceptable to explore the possibility. In 2022, roughly fifteen hundred university faculty members replied to a survey about U.F.O.s; a majority said that recent governmental and journalistic reports had increased the topic’s credibility, and three-quarters said that it was of average importance, very important, or essential for academics to conduct more research about it. Tyler Cowen wrote about U.F.O.s for Bloomberg and Ross Douthat wrote about them for the New York Times; they compared notes on Cowen’s podcast. On the prediction platform Polymarket, the odds that the U.S. will “confirm that aliens exist in 2025” have ranged between four and fourteen per cent. (The detection of aliens on a faraway planet would count.)

I started to ask myself, How likely is it that we’ve ever been visited by aliens or their technology? It seemed improbable yet plausible. I wondered how scientists, engineers, and other thinkers would approach the question. What would count as evidence, and what kinds of educated guesses could we make? I decided to call Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester and the author of “The Little Book of Aliens,” which looks to differentiate between science and fiction.

Frank doesn’t put much stock in U.F.O. videos, and he told a story to explain why. In February, 2023, photographs of a Chinese spy balloon over Billings, Montana, prompted speculation about aliens. The Air Force eventually shot it down, but first the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane flew past and took a selfie that showed the balloon out the window. “You can see it in exquisite detail,” Frank told me. “Where are all those pictures? Every U.F.O. picture is a fuzzy blob. Everybody carries a high-resolution camera in their pocket now, and it’s always fuzzy blobs.”

There are potential answers to Frank’s question, but most of them raise questions of their own. Maybe there’s a coverup. But, if so, wouldn’t whistle-blowers have turned up something by now? “Color me extremely skeptical that any government could keep a secret like this effectively for a week, let alone decades,” Austin Carson, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has written extensively about government secrecy, told me. Steven Aftergood, who directed the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, pointed me to a 1970 report produced by a government task force on secrecy: “It is unlikely that classified information will remain secure for periods as long as five years, and it is more reasonable to assume that it will become known to others in periods as short as one year.”

Maybe the aliens are coy and want to stay hidden. If that’s the case, though, why are we seeing them at all? Mark Rodeghier, the scientific director of the Center for U.F.O. Studies, which is headquartered in his basement, told me, “They’re actually trying to slowly acclimatize us to the idea that aliens, in fact, exist.” Robert Hampson, a neuroscientist at Wake Forest University who has written over a dozen science-fiction novels, speculated that, perhaps, “what we’re detecting are the alien equivalent of graduate students who have been given an assignment to go and watch the humans and report back.” Plenty of human graduate students have been tasked with researching other worlds—and they don’t always get the best equipment.

The elaborateness of these explanations, in Frank’s view, is a reason to be skeptical of them. “If you’ve got to go through all those contortions to make your story work, you’re not doing science anymore,” he said. He noted that, when humans send spacecraft into the solar system, they tend to land safely. Alien craft, in contrast, “would have managed to cross interstellar distances, and these things seem to crash every fifteen minutes. It’s like everybody’s sending us their 1987 Dodge Omnis.” The 2021 national-intelligence report on U.A.P.s said that it could not explain a hundred and forty-three U.F.O. reports, but that many were probably “airborne clutter,” weather, or terrestrial technology. “Sometimes they’re hard to explain because we just don’t have the data,” Frank said. In his opinion, high-quality data (high-resolution photography, for example) has never “showed us that anything required an extraterrestrial hypothesis.”

Our galaxy contains at least a hundred billion planets, and biology finds a way in extreme environments on Earth, so it’s not unreasonable to suppose that life thrives elsewhere in the Milky Way. But if aliens wanted to visit us they would have a long way to go. The closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is roughly 4.2 light-years away. NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe would take more than seventy-five thousand years to get there, if it were headed in the right direction. The closest inhabited solar system could be much, much farther away. Could aliens, or at least their tech, survive that journey?

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, thinks they may have already. In 2014, military satellites observed a half-metre-long meteor in the sky near Papua New Guinea. Several years later, Loeb and a student, Amir Siraj, concluded that the meteor had been travelling too fast to be orbiting the sun, and that, therefore, it was interstellar. Loeb went on to argue, over the objections of many experts, that it may have been alien technology, and that debris he recovered on a Pacific expedition was from the meteor. “Think of it as Amazon delivery service, but from interstellar space,” he told me during the expedition, from a ship that was incidentally called the Silver Star. He and numerous collaborators wrote up their findings in Chemical Geology last year. (Cosmochemists questioned the claim that the debris was interstellar; one told Science, “I’m surprised anyone would take it seriously.”) Loeb currently leads the Galileo Project, which is erecting ground-based sensors to look for anomalous phenomena.

U.F.O.s could contain biological aliens or machines powered by artificial intelligence. Either way, they might travel much faster than Voyager 1—but that would require a lot of energy. Les Johnson, a retired chief technology officer at NASA who has written fiction and nonfiction books about interstellar travel, gave me an example. To accelerate a pineapple to just a tenth the speed of light, he said, would require the energy of seven Hiroshima explosions. You would need the same quantity of energy to decelerate at your destination. “Suddenly, you’ve got the energy of fourteen Hiroshima bombs on a pineapple,” he said. “So I look at that, and I think it just doesn’t pass the giggle test.” At that speed, a speck of space dust would also have the impact of T.N.T. “I’d love to think we’re in a ‘Star Trek’ universe,” Johnson said. “But I don’t know if we are.”

Logically speaking, the chance that aliens are here right now must be slimmer than the chance that they have been here at some point in the past. Garry Nolan, a biotech founder and an immunologist at Stanford, has a hunch that we’ve been visited by aliens—he had an eerie experience as a child—and speculates that they or their technology may have been on Earth for millions of years. “So the open question might be, Is this even our planet?” he asked me. As outlandish as his theory is, it’s tricky to firmly disprove. If they came long ago, and left or died, would we even know? In 2018, Frank and a co-author published a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology titled “The Silurian Hypothesis.” (In “Doctor Who,” Silurians are advanced reptilian humanoids who predated us on Earth.)

“Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?” Frank and his colleagues ask. Organisms can turn into fossils that last tens of millions of years, but most organisms don’t become fossils; metals and plastics might not stick around at all. And the planet’s surface constantly erodes and churns. “Our claim was that, after about a couple million years, anything on the surface is gone,” Frank said. “Even if some aliens came and built a pretty intense civilization, you wouldn’t have any evidence of it.” The best evidence one might hope for, he argued, was indirect: for example, an unusual proportion of certain isotopes at particular depths of rock. (In a 2019 paper, a physicist suggested that we should look for old probes, or “Lurkers,” on space rocks near Earth.) So far, humans haven’t found anything like that.

Science fiction often explains interstellar travel by imagining some kind of warp drive. Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but, in 1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre found an exception: Einstein’s theory of general relativity actually allows for a craft to outpace light by squeezing space-time at its bow and stretching it at the stern. Nolan, who is a fan of this idea, likened the Alcubierre drive to “creating your own sub-universe, a warp bubble around yourself.” Of course, it is not at all clear that such a thing could be constructed. Alcubierre invoked what physicists call negative energy; later theorists thought that lots and lots of regular energy could be used instead. Nolan speculated that, maybe, sufficient energy could be harvested from space-time itself, using the zero-point field and quantum tunnelling. But he quickly admitted that “those are just fancy words that we throw at the unknown.” (On the plus side, a warp drive might quote-unquote explain the Navy’s U.F.O. videos; one paper estimated that the objects in the videos appeared to be pulling up to five thousand Gs, using no visible propulsion and leaving no wake. Stunt pilots max out at around ten Gs.) Other U.F.O. enthusiasts argue that aliens could reside in dimensions beyond the four that we know and love. Or maybe they’re time travellers.

I ran these notions by Arlan Andrews, a retired mechanical engineer and author who is the founder and director of SIGMA, a think tank of sci-fi writers that advises the government and N.G.O.s. He responded by throwing up his hands in exasperation. “If you start to do the woo-woo stuff with interdimensional and time travel, I can’t say they’re wrong, but there’s no place to start,” he told me. “As an engineer, I like to have a starting place.”

Acivilization that’s millions or billions of years ahead of us would probably know physics that we don’t yet comprehend. Its technology might seem like magic to us. In that case, practically anything is possible. A NASA report on U.F.O.s, released in 2023, acknowledges that “it is difficult to put physical constraints on them at present.” How would you turn something without constraints from woo-woo into science?

The Society for U.A.P. Studies (SUAPS) is a think tank attempting to define U.A.P. studies as a field. “Not only is there not a science but there’s no academic field,” Michael Cifone, a philosopher of science at St. John’s University and one of the group’s founders, said. “How do we study this phenomenon? Who’s involved? What are the methodological principles that should guide us?” He cares less about people’s out-there theories than about what steps should be taken to resolve U.F.O. cases. He wants to avoid “endless, unconstrained, undisciplined speculation.” In his view, we’re at “a crucial transition point between the older ‘ufology,’ ” akin to forensic investigation, and modern scientific methods.

The first step to making something a science usually involves data. NASA’s report focusses on the agency’s potential role in collecting data, and in using A.I. to analyze it. According to the report, the agency’s sensors could be supplemented with crowdsourced data from apps; one example is Enigma, which uses algorithms to rate the credibility of people’s sightings and triangulate objects using video recordings. UAPx, a Florida nonprofit, has developed a suite of sensors specifically for analyzing odd aerial phenomena. And then there’s the data contained in past reported sightings, which could be regularized and collated somehow. Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who testified about U.F.O.s in Congress, founded Americans for Safe Aerospace, which encourages pilots to report U.F.O.s. The group vets the cases and has brought them to Congress; the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which is part of the Department of Defense; and, lately, to an F.B.I. working group. But, as some argue, the plural of anecdote is not data. “I don’t trust pilots’ sightings,” Matt Mountain, the president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, told me. “They’re on a mission, not doing scientific exploration.” We should keep in mind, Mountain told me, that most criminal convictions that are overturned by DNA evidence were based in part on eyewitness testimony.

Graves said that he was agnostic about aliens. “I’m not jumping to conclusions,” he told me. “But I want to figure it out, damn it.” Still, he seemed skeptical of expert analysis. In November, 2024, AARO announced that it considered the GOFAST video mystery resolved; the object’s altitude, it said, gave it an exaggerated appearance of speed. “Through a very careful geospatial intelligence analysis and using trigonometry, we assess with high confidence that the object is not actually close to the water, but is rather closer to 13,000 feet,” the agency’s director told CBS. Graves wasn’t satisfied with that explanation. “Some of these cases aren’t quote-unquote debunked or no longer of interest,” he has said.

When I spoke to people who supported an alien hypothesis, I was often struck that relatively patchy evidence—what Frank had described as fuzzy blobs—had inspired such in-depth theories. I’m as puzzled by the U.F.O. videos as the next guy, but, as far as I can tell, nothing in them requires us to accept the existence of warp drives or time travel. Until someone produces high-definition videos of flying saucers and little green men, the evidence might not be extraordinary enough to demand such extraordinary explanations. And to the extent that U.F.O.s do need explanations it’s worth asking whether aliens are the best one. People have seen weird stuff in the sky for thousands of years, and only in the last eighty have flying saucers been a popular interpretation. Before that, we tended to credit the supernatural.

After all my conversations, I thought the odds that aliens or their tech had visited Earth were probably south of five per cent. Most U.F.O.s. are likely balloons, airplanes, weather events, visual illusions, or technical glitches. Even so, there are enough unknowns, and unknown unknowns, that the margin of error seemed enormous. A person who thinks the odds are much higher, I’d argue, shouldn’t be met with ridicule.

One more question: Why would aliens even visit us? Coming up with an answer forces us to speculate about alien motives. “I’ve always said that aliens are going to alien,” Andrews, the sci-fi writer who founded SIGMA, told me. “We have no idea what an alien person or being or intelligence or machine would be motivated by. . . . We don’t know what motivates the Kremlin, for God’s sake.” Extraterrestrials, he suggested, could be as different from us as we are from centipedes. (That could be an understatement.) Robert Powell, a chemist who serves on the board of the Scientific Coalition for U.A.P. Studies, has argued that some U.F.O.s are intelligently controlled and do not come from Earth. But, in his view, we shouldn’t try to study extraterrestrials as if they’re lab rats. “We’re the rat, and we’re trying to figure out what the doctor is doing,” he said.

It’s reasonable to think that there would be commonalities among intelligent species. One is the drive for self-preservation, which motivates the Trisolarans in “The Three-Body Problem.” Hampson, the neuroscientist and sci-fi writer, didn’t think that was a very good reason to come to Earth. “If they’re after resources, there are easier ways to get them,” he said. “Why would you go to an already inhabited world?” Meanwhile, a warlike species would probably just wipe us out. “If the idea is conquest, then I think we would already know,” he said. But he could imagine another reason: curiosity.

Nick Pope, who ran the U.F.O. program at the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense from 1991 to 1994, told me that the ministry had considered three main motives for alien visits: military reconnaissance, scientific study, and tourism. It’s not a given that aliens would enjoy travel. Maybe we’ve never met them because they’re homebodies. Still, what kind of intelligent life form wouldn’t want to see a sunrise on another world? “This might be the only place in the universe to see an elephant,” Pope said. “How many planets have a Stonehenge or a Machu Picchu or a Great Pyramids?” Aliens might want to survey the galaxy for all life forms—including us. They might even be having the same debate we are. Are we alone in the universe? The truth—whatever it may be—is still out there.

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27-09-2025 om 22:08 geschreven door peter  

archieffoto van Amerikaans ministerie van Defensie van een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend voorwerp

"VS verbergt informatie over buitenaards leven": ex-officieren getuigen voor Amerikaans Congres in "UFO-hoorzitting"

De drie getuigen, Ryan Graves, David Grusch en David Fravor leggen de eed af voor de hoorzitting

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27-09-2025 om 21:48 geschreven door peter  

The U.S. Government’s Top UFO Scientist Has an Open Mind about Alien Visitation

By Leonard David edited by Lee Billings

27-09-2025 om 21:21 geschreven door peter  

Viktor Hovland´s great pursuits: A perfect golf swing and the truth about UFOs

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Viktor Hovland´s golf swing clicked at the right time. His search for the truth about UFOs? That's still a work in progress.

Practicing on the driving range two days before the Ryder Cup begins Friday, the 28-year-old Norwegian said he suddenly felt freed up. When he reviewed his swing on video, "it looked definitely better than other swings that I´ve made lately."

"Obviously this is a golf course that you have to drive it really well, and I've been kind of struggling with the driver," Hovland said Thursday at Bethpage Black. "It´s been a long time since I´ve been able to stand on the range and just kind of beat balls fluidly, effortlessly without trying to feel like I´m steering it."

That bodes well for Europe, which enters tournament play on Friday as underdogs on the U.S. team´s turf in front of what´s sure to be a raucous New York crowd. President Donald Trump will be there for part of it, adding to the frenzy.

About the UFOs: it's a subject Hovland says he´s gotten deeper into in the last couple of years, piquing the curiosity of teammates and fans alike. The seven-time PGA Tour winner said it´s one way he takes his mind off golf.

And, he insists, the truth is out there.

Europe's Viktor Hovland watches his tee shot on the 12th hole during a practice round for the Ryder Cup golf tournament, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, on the Bethpage Black golf course, in Farmingdale, N.Y.

(AP Photo/Robert Bukaty)

"The more you go into it, you just get more questions," Hovland said. "It´s one of those things that you don´t really find any more answers, but it´s very interesting to go in there and kind of challenge some of your beliefs that you currently hold."

"You kind of have to expand your mind a little bit," he said.

Hovland, one of golf's most popular and affable stars, was eager to get back to practicing after rain soaked the course on Thursday morning. He said he wanted to make sure his newfound swing feel didn't disappear overnight.

"I think we´ve all been there," Hovland said. "We find a feel and think we´re back, and the next day it all falls apart."

Acknowledging "some major struggles" with his game in recent seasons, Hovland desperately wants to return to the form he had in 2023, when he won three times on the PGA Tour and claimed the season-ending FedEx Cup.

He dropped from No. 4 in the world rankings the week of the last Ryder Cup, a win for Europe in Rome in 2023, to No. 12 currently. But, he said, "I feel like despite that, I can still overcome that and play some really good golf."

Hovland is frequently blunt and introspective, and his session with reporters Thursday volleyed from questions about his swing to his fascination with the prospect of otherworldly beings, spurred by a comment his friend and teammate Ludvig Åberg made to reporters on Wednesday.

"Ludvig said that you like to talk about UFOs. What´s up with that?" a reporter asked.

"What´s up with that?" Hovland responded, smiling and prompting laughs. "Yeah, that´s the question, isn´t it? What is up with that?"

Åberg, for his part, said that while he indulges Hovland's UFO talk, "I´m not quite down that road just yet. If I hang out with him long enough, I might be."

"He´s a funny guy to have funny conversations with," Åberg said. "They can go in any direction that you don´t really expect."

In some ways, pursuing a perfect golf swing and eternal questions about flying saucers and extraterrestrial life are a lot alike, both requiring curiosity and patience.

In golf, he said, "you just look at your golf swing and you´re trying to practice hard and you don´t really get the results that you want, it can be quite frustrating."

As a Ryder Cup rookie in 2021, Hovland went 0-3-2 en route to a 19-9 European loss at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. In 2023, he went 3-1-1 as Europe prevailed 16.5 to 11.5.

"I felt like I was maybe more timid as a rookie playing on foreign soil," Hovland said of his first Ryder Cup. "I think I played just a bit more insecure maybe but after 2023, my best season of my career, I felt just more excitement."

This time there's the added factor of a New York crowd - famously loud and ruthless toward opposing players, whether from the Boston Red Sox or Team Europe. Hovland, quirky as ever, said he has an antidote for that.

"If you play well, you know, there´s going to be some comments here and there," he said. "They won´t really come close to the thoughts that I have in my own head. So I think I´ll just laugh it off for the most part."

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25-09-2025 om 22:22 geschreven door peter  

Black Pyramid UFO Over Trenton, Texas Sept 9, 2025 Video, UAP Paranormal Sighting News.

Date of sighting: September 9, 2025

Location of sighting: Trenton, Texas, USA

 

This report just in at NUFORC. A black pyramid shaped UFO was seen moving across the sky in Texas this week. The UFO was silent and flying low at 30 meters from the ground. The object really appears to be rotation very slowly scaling the area around it...turning to get a better view of its surrounds. Texes is a UFO hotspot in the US and this sighting is defiantly a top ten in videos from the states. I wonder if it was heading to the Bush Ranch which is George W. Bush's House in Texas. In 2008, the "Stephenville UFO incident" involved dozens of people seeing a large, fast-moving object, which radar data suggested was heading south-southeast, or toward President George W. Bush's Crawford ranch. Was Bush an alien himself...getting visits from family and friends from distant worlds?

Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily 

 

Source: NUFORC

 

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24-09-2025 om 22:24 geschreven door peter  

Ludvig Aberg spills the secrets on Europe's UFO-loving partnership as Luke Donald mulls Hovland-Aberg reunion after mauling of US pair in Rome

By RIATH AL-SAMARRAI, CHIEF SPORTS FEATURE WRITER

For all Viktor Hovland's recent difficulties in predicting the outcomes to his shots, his partner on the course, Ludvig Aberg, has faced an identical battle in trying to second-guess the direction of their conversations. From aliens to philosophy, that can be a diverse road.

It remains to be seen if Luke Donald will follow conventional wisdom by pairing them here at Bethpage Black, reprising the relationship that pulled off a 9&7 foursomes mauling of Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka in Rome two years ago.

To that end, there has been a mild surprise in the fact they have not yet been grouped together in two practise sessions across Tuesday and Wednesday. Keeping them apart so far might be interpreted as an early sleight of hand by Donald, or even a breather for Aberg, who has supplied an insight into those wild chats with his Norwegian friend, one of the most eccentric characters in golf.

'We get along,' said Aberg on Wednesday. 'He's a funny guy to have funny conversations with. They can go in any direction that you don't really expect.

'He's always into sort of the UFO deals and all those things, so it's quite interesting. I'm not quite down that road just yet. If I hang out with him long enough, I might be. Again, you never really know where it's going to go, which is quite interesting.'

Hovland, whose most recent readings have included the works of Plato, spoke earlier this month about the challenges in his game. A fifth-placed finish at Wentworth on his last outing suggests the world No 12 is in good shape, but he admitted there that his 'soul' was aching over the frequency with which he was struggling to control his shots.

Luke Donald is mulling over whether to use Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Aberg (pictured) as a pairing in the Ryder Cup

Aberg revealed his 2023 partner (pictured) has a love for UFOs and carries out some interesting conversations

Aberg added: 'We had a good time in Rome, and we've played multiple practice rounds since, and our caddies get along great, too. He's a good friend to have on Tour and in the team room here.'

The Swede was a breakthrough star in Rome, scoring two points from four just months after turning professional.

He said: 'I think the biggest thing that I take away from those couple days, and maybe especially that morning (against Scheffler and Koepka), was just the validation for myself, that I'm able to do that. Because obviously before I played in Rome, I hadn't even met those guys. I had never shaken their hands. I had never had a conversation with them.

'For me to get there and to bring out a result like that was a big deal for me personally, to know that I'm able to beat those guys at times. I had a really good partner that day, which always helps. But it was a cool experience and probably something that I won't forget.'

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