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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
08-11-2019
UFO -Final US Show Ever, Last Call Folks
UFO -Final US Show Ever, Last Call Folks
It is getting weird going to shows lately. All you seem to encounter in the lines to get in are 50th anniversary tour shirts. For UFO’s 50th anniversary tour, the final US date was actually a free show, and an odd one-the Wolf’s Den in Mohegan Sun Casino. Open on all sides, everyone in the casino is exposed to the assault of whomever is on stage.
The line to get into the seated area started well before 5 pm for an 8:00 show. Most of the people in line stood motionless for 2.5-3.5 hours before the line moved. As I cruised down the line (I already knew where the best place to stand on the outside perimeter was, so didn’t need to plant myself into that hellacious line), I perused the concert shirts folks were wearing: Yes 50th anniversary; Rolling Stones 50th anniversary; the Who 50th anniversary; Motorhead 40th anniversary; Iron Maiden 40th anniversary…..you get the picture. First, if you mentioned that any of these bands would be having astronomically large numbers attached to an anniversary back in ’81, you’d get some pretty funny looks. Because rock was so vibrant and changing, bands that had a decade long run were the exception rather than the rule. Hell in ’81, the Stones went on a massive tour, and were in their then mind boggling 18th year as a band. (Both Sabbath and Tull had some ‘come to jesus we are ancient’ self-reflection moments during interviews at their 10th anniversary in 1979-both bands turned 50 this year).
In 2019? Even derivative 6th (and the final) wave bottom feeders like Coldplay are only a year away from their 25th anniversary. Rock as a medium of social change and influence died in the early 90’s, and the pioneers are the only ones left making a dent in the consciousness of the psyche of the music world. (Granted this ignores the plethora of excsellent indie bands out there, but 99% of them are highly derivative of the grand parade of 1970’s -1980’s era rock bands that came before them, only a minuscule few are truly original musical affair). But I digress…
Like many bands before them, UFO seemed bewildered by this venue, in the center of a casino on a timber and fake stone boulder stage surrounded on all sides by acres of visible slot machines and tables. Mother Mary opened the set, and they seemed a little hesitant. I’d seen them two years ago in Worcester with Saxon opening, and they seemed disinterested in even being there. Mogg had said he’d seriously considered retirement at the end of 2016, and it looked then as if he’d wished he already had as Saxon blew them out of the club. (I had seen the full original band reunion in NYC in 1995, parked in a gas station lot and watched the drummer from Dream Theater get out of a car next to me. Mike Portnoy looked at us, and said “nah screw Dream Theater, I’m here for fucking UFOOOOOO!”)
A six song blast followed of post Schenker stuff that usually sends me to the bar, interspersed only by a fairly energetic reading of Lights Out. People started to get a little anxious. I mean, this was their last show ever, let’s break out some gems? Fighting Man from 2002’s Sharks might count as a rarity for some, but most were waiting for the classic material chronicled on the seminal Strangers in the Night live lp from 1979. (aside: I’d read an article in a local paper in 1979 reviewing two amazing live albums that had just come out from two relatively unknown bands, UFO’s Strangers in the Night and Head East’s Live! Both bands were mentioned as huge in the midwest and relatively unknown on the east coast. I’d never heard of either band. I knew a local store that carried brand new promo only pre-release copies of many new releases, and upon arrival found they had both. I only had money for one, and basically flipped a coin to get UFO. I chose wisely)
Back to the tale. The band now slipped into the meat of the set, and things quickly changed:
Vinnie Holds Candle
With that out of the way, the band picked up steam as they began to realize, ‘hey this is the final show of the tour’, and final US show ever. Only You Can Rock Me led into the signature bass intro to Cherry (one of their better tunes saddled with some of their most insipid lyrics in a career of eye rollingly bad lyric sheets). From there it was a full speed sleighride to the finish: Love to Love, Too Hot to Handle, Rock Bottom, Doctor Doctor….and the last song they’d ever play in America-Shoot Shoot. I’d seen Schenker earlier this year at Schenker fest, and getting to compare Vinnie Moore’s take on Rock Bottom with Schenker’s take was interesting. Many say that nobody in rock can hold a candle to Schenker, but you can take this for what it’s worth: Vinnie can hold candle. Moore is an underrated shredder that cut his teeth in the era of mega shredders: Satriani, Yngwie, Vai got the spotlights and the ink, but Vinnie quietly accrued credibility as one of the better guitarists in rock. He was able (Schenker fans look away for a second please) to pull off some modulated trills that even Master Michael is not capable of in Rock Bottom.
Neil Carter (rhythm guitar and keys from 1980-1983) replaced the long serving Paul Raymond who died in April while on the first leg of the tour. (Keys, an essential part of many UFO songs were far too quiet bordering on inaudible at times, a poor choice by the sound guy). Carter had been Raymond’s replacement back in 1980, and he kept up the pedigree of the band along with original drummer Andy Parker.
As the evening wound down, it became apparent that it was starting to sink in on Mogg that this was it. Always affable, and dressed like a dapper London barman, he stopped near the end to say the usual ‘we’ll see you next time’ but was forced to stop and said “we will sss…..uhhhhh…well whatever” and wiped mock tears away. But Phil Mogg is over 71 years old, and unlike Lemmy, doesn’t seem interested in dying onstage in front of all of us, he’d rather curl up in front of the fireplace with a cup of tea and a blanket. In the end, they did manage to squeeze in an extra 3 songs over their usual 11 song set. Setlist here.
Last Call Bell Rings
Before they came out for the last song, Shoot Shoot, Phil rang a British pub ‘last orders’ bell atop the amp stacks. Few in the crowd knew the real and poignant symbolism in this gesture: Last Call folks. It was a sad yet fitting way to end an amazing run in the country that broke them big. The band that other bands always namecheck as one of the best, but still relatively unknown in many circles to the end.
What Do We Really Know? Richard Dolan on Extraterrestrials
What Do We Really Know? Richard Dolan on Extraterrestrials
Richard Dolan is one of the world’s leading researchers and writers on the subject of UFOs and believes that they constitute the greatest mystery of our time.
UFOs or UAP definitely constitute a mystery in our society.
If that's true, it is much more true regarding people's claims of alien contact.
On October 22nd the UFO documentary Witness of Another World, premiered on Vimeo and Amazon Prime. (see 1:50 minute trailer below) Directed by Alan Stivelman, the film is distributed by 1091 Media, formerly the Orchard, which has an established line-up of documentaries that focus on the paranormal and ufological.
The writer, MJ Banias, likes this movie because it focuses on “the people at the center of the frenzy, and the trauma they experience.” He says it is “the best documentary on the subject that I have ever seen.”
Stivelman set out to make a different UFO documentary. But the film ended up being an allegory about the deleterious effect that a famous UFO sighting in South America in 1978 had on young boy named Juan Pérez. As the documentary shows, it marked him for the rest of his life and ruined Pérez’s life. Stivelman’s Witness of Another World is successful because it really isn’t about UFOs, but about the people who have alleged encounters with them.
What the film portrays is a man who is living alone, emotionally and socially removed from his peers and family, still haunted by his alien encounter and wondering “why he had to have lived through that.” Watching Pérez break down on camera is one of the film’s most powerful moments. Says Stivelman, “It’s deep, emotional, and filmed in a way that fully encompasses what the abduction experience must’ve felt like. The film’s also shot more like a feature than a documentary with beautiful reenactments. This really set the title apart from the rest in the genre…” said Jim Martin, Vice President of Paranormal Content for 1091 Media.
The film also features Jacques Vallée who interviewed Pérez when he was a boy, and has since held a firm conviction that the young gaucho had an encounter with a non-human intelligence. But since the film is about Pérez’s experience, it still works even if you don’t believe the UFO premise. Stivelman says that the audience is left “to draw their own conclusions.”
Editor’s Note - MJ Banias is right where the Deep State wants mainstream media journalists to be – admitting that there is too much evidence to deny the existence UFOs but not willing to admit to the bigger picture, i.e.: that UFOs are integral to the extraterrestrial presence. For the past seventy years, the Deep State has been actively denying and covering up the true existence of ET-controlled UFOs and our secret space program which interacts with these beings, and instilling this falsehood as ‘rational’. Apparently, Banias has been guzzling the Deep State’s rhetorical kool aid for so long that he is brainwashed, along with the majority of the public.
SCREENGRAB: YOUTUBE/INFAMOUSFANCLUB
Banias starts this article by stating: “I have seen a lot of UFO documentaries, and after a while, they start to get boring. They tend to tell the same old stories, or promote some snake-oil-selling UFO “expert.” Then Banias says, “UFO documentaries usually make the same mistake: they try to “prove” that UFOs are real, or that they are alien, or interdimensional, or paranormal, or something else. They all inevitably fail.” Here Banias reveals his bias against UFO researchers whom he compares to “snake-oil salesmen”.
Banias says that the movie is saved because it doesn’t focus on the silly notion of UFOs, but the people who’s lives are negatively affected because they believed in UFOs. The UFO, says Banias, is “really just a MacGuffin”, or a plot device, and the viewer isn’t required to believe any of it. The moral here is that believing in UFOs will end up ruining your life.
Not two weeks after this article was published, Banias again displayed his Deep State mindset in an October 29th Vice article titled: “QAnon and UFO Conspiracies Are Merging” in which he casts aspersions against UFO researchers such as Jordan Sather, Michael Salla and Steven Greer. In this more recent article, Banias attacks the government insider group known as ‘QAnon’ for spreading ‘disinformation’ that the Deep State is hiding the UFO/extraterrestrial presence from the public. Banias belittles both the “UFO conspiracy” and the “QAnon conspiracy”, branding their common link as “particularly dangerous”.
Banias says, “[Q] is beginning to find an audience among UFO hunters and people who believe the government is hiding aliens.” He touts the Deep State position that UFO and aliens are a figment of the imagination, that there is no such thing as a “secret space program”, and that the US government is innocent of any cover-up to prevent UFO/ET “Disclosure”.
According to Banias, it isn’t the Deep State government that has been using the media to mind-control the public into ridiculing and rejecting the UFO/ET reality, but it is this conspiracy movement itself that is “sewing discord and mistrust in established institutions, such as the government or military, [as] a known tool of psychological warfare and social engineering. Conspiracies, conspiracy theorists and those individuals who promote them can be far from harmless,” says Banias.
And then, incredibly, Banias employs yet another notorious Deep State tactic in its mind-control playbook by the triggering the public’s fear that the Russians are behind QAnon in order to “generate mistrust within [an American] populace”.
In rebuttal to Banias’ outrageous accusations, Jordan Sather responded to Banias’ article in an episode of Sather’s ‘Destroying the Illusion” YouTube channel (see 44:35 minute video below). Likewise, Dr Michael Salla posted a scathing article on ExoPolitics.org and ExoNews.org (see Salla’s article here) pointing out that QAnon has revealed how compromised “journalists” are compensated for following the “talking points” that the Deep State sends to journalist’s private email accounts at 4 am each morning to control their “news commentary”. Dr Salla also points out that the UK intelligence community, as well as the other “Five Eyes” nations’ intelligence agencies, regularly targets and destroys the reputation of anyone contesting the Deep State’s talking points. Indeed, this has been a Deep State policy since the CIA/Robertson Panel’s “Durant Report” in 1953, recommending that the mass media ‘evoke a strong psychological reaction’ by debunking so-called “flying saucers”.
As Dr Salla puts it, “Banias is merely providing a new twist to the decades-long psychological warfare policy of discrediting UFO researchers and reports.” These two recent articles by MJ Banias, both published on the Vice.com website, “suggests he is either simply naïve or has begun receiving 4 am talking points”.
44:35 minute rebuttal against MJ Banias by Jordan Sather (‘Destroying the Illusion’ Youtube channel)
I have seen a lot of UFO documentaries, and after a while, they start to get boring. They tend to tell the same old stories, or promote some snake-oil-selling UFO “expert.” Perhaps the biggest issue I take with UFO documentaries is that they never focus on what actually matters: the people at the center of the frenzy, and the trauma they experience.
By this measure, Alan Stivelman’s film Witness of Another World is the best documentary on the subject that I have ever seen. Witness of Another World tells the story of Juan Pérez, a lonely gaucho who, as a young boy, allegedly had an encounter with an anomalous aerial vehicle and the strange entities inside. In the 1970s, this incident made headline news in South America and, as the documentary shows, very much ruined Pérez’s life. The film dives into Pérez’s life 40 years later. Living alone, Pérez is still haunted by his alleged encounter.
“In the beginning, I proposed to make this film in order to decode the mystery behind the UFO phenomenon,” said Stivelman. “This mission was overshadowed by the acute sadness that Juan brought with him and the desire to understand why he had to have lived through that supernatural experience that marked him for the rest of his life.”
UFO documentaries usually make the same mistake: they try to “prove” that UFOs are real, or that they are alien, or interdimensional, or paranormal, or something else. They all inevitably fail. Stivelman’s Witness of Another World is successful because it really isn’t about UFOs, but about the people who have alleged encounters with them.
Yes, it is a movie about an alleged UFO encounter from 1978, but the UFO is really just a MacGuffin. Pérez is the real story here, and the conflicts he has with other people are really what the film is about. Watching Pérez break down on camera is one of the film’s most powerful moments. It is jarring and painful—a close up shot of his face, lined with wrinkles that don’t seem to match his boyish bravado in the previous scenes.
It was there, as a filmmaker, that I had to make a crucial decision for the rest of the shooting. To continue with the investigation of the UFO phenomenon, to stay only in the phenomenological aspect, or to attend to Juan, to his suffering, and to look for a way to help him,” Stivelman said.
The film is distributed by 1091 Media, formerly the Orchard, which has an established line-up of documentaries that focus on the paranormal and Ufological.
1:50 minute trailer for “Witness of Another World” documentary (Humano Films YouTube)
“It's deep, emotional, and filmed in a way that fully encompasses what the abduction experience must've felt like. The film's also shot more like a feature than a documentary with beautiful reenactments. This really set the title apart from the rest in the genre and why 1091 picked it for distribution,” said Vice President of Paranormal Content Jim Martin.
Apart from Pérez and Stivelman, the film also features computer scientist and author Jacques Vallée, a venerated figure within UFO and paranormal circles. Vallée interviewed Pérez when he was a boy, and has since held a firm conviction that the young gaucho had an encounter with a non-human intelligence.
“This film does not attempt to reveal the UFO mystery but to lead the audience by the hand to walk beside it, to perceive it with their own consciousness and to draw their own conclusions,” Stivelman explained.
The fundamental reason as to why the film works is that you don’t need to believe any of it. No one can truly confirm Pérez’s story. What the film portrays is a man clearly hurt by a traumatic event, who is emotionally and socially removed from his peers and family, simply because he nor they can cope. It shines a light into trauma itself.
UFOs aside, the audience watches a man search, not for validation, but for healing. It is a very human story.
Witness of Another World is available worldwide on Vimeo and Amazon Prime since October 22nd.
One of the more famous UFO videos just got another 15 minutes of fame courtesy of new technology and that plus all of the attention being given to the Navy UFO videos warrants giving this one another look.
In 2009, Haktan Akdogan, a leading Turkish UFO researchers and founder of the Sirius UFO Space Science Studies Centre, made that observation about a video taken in 2007 by Yalcin Yalman, a night security guard with time on his hands and a video camera in them. In August 2007, May 2008 and September 2008, Yalman recorded crescent-shaped UFOs which appeared over the Marmara Sea near the resort village of Kumburgaz. Marmara is an inland sea connecting the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea. According to media reports from 2007-2009, the 1990s and 2000s were a time of many UFO sightings in Turkey – hence the need for the Sirius UFO center.
“These are the most remarkable images taken in Turkish history. The authorities can no longer turn a blind eye to this phenomenon.”
Why did Haktan Akdogan feel so strongly about Yalcin Yalman’s videos of UFOs? For one, the camera he used (yes, a camera, not a smart phone – sometimes old tech is better) had a powerful lens that allowed him to zoom in tight and see what looked like a window on the front of the craft and what appear to be heads peering out. Unfortunately, that powerful zoom meant the video was affected by the most minute hand movements, making it quite shaky. (See many videos and images here.)
Unidentified object witnessed by multiple residents of Istanbul and filmed over the sea 6-12-08 Footage
Enter the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena YouTube channel. Recently, its unidentified owners used modern software to stabilize the Kumburgaz video and posted the results on YouTube. The new-and-improved segment (shown on the Russian site yaplakal.com and others) showing the ‘heads’ in the ‘window’, while still blurry, showed more detail of the heads and eyes and they seemed to have the shape which causes wild-haired paranormal television hosts to exclaim, “Aliens!”
Over the years since the Kumburgaz videos first appeared, attempts have been made to verify them or debunk them. A detailed analysis was done by the National UFO Center in the US and it could not debunk the video but instead offered pictures to show a resemblance between the heads and insects – insectoids? On the other hand, one of the more interesting theories (by Metabunk and tothers) is that Yalman was looking at lights from the deck or upper floor of a passing cruise ship – common in the Marmara Sea – which was distorted by darkness, distance, mist and camera quality. This theory has been the one most debunkers use.
What do you think?
“I see them as the world’s policemen, up there to keep an eye on us. I only wish they’d come down for a chat. Then we could drink tea and play a few rounds of backgammon.”
In 2009, Yalcin Yalman believed he saw aliens. He still believes it today and posts more UFO sightings on his own YouTube channel. Comments on the new stabilized video cover the full range from supportive belief to derogatory skepticism. One thing the stabilization has done is pull this interesting story into 2019 for another look.
It’s too bad there were no Turkish Navy ship in the Marmara at the time, or pilots scanning the skies with their radar.
One of the first US Navy pilots to have encountered the famed tic-tac UFOoff the coast of San Diego has said there are tapes “missing”.
Commander David Fravor was flying one of the two F/A-18E/F Super Hornets that had taken off from the USS Nimitz, during a combat exercise on November 14, 2004.
They were directed to change course and investigate an unidentified object spotted on another carrier’s, the USS Princeton, radar.
To their amazement, the two fighter jets saw a tic-tac shaped object flying at incredible speeds above a mysterious turbulent area of water below.
When they returned to the USS Nimitz, a second team was sent out to investigate and again saw the object – and this time it was all caught on camera.
The UFO spotted by pilots from the USS Nimitz(Image: YOUTUBE/TO THE STARS ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCE)
The footage was made famous by a 2017 New York Times article, but Fravor has since suggested there may be more information out there.
He appeared on The Fighter Pilot Podcast earlier this year to recount his experience, where he made an interesting revelation.
“All the radar tapes from the Princeton are missing and they can’t find,” Fravor told host and former US Navy pilot Vincent Aiello.
“I was chatting to someone at the archives and they’ve said someone has taken that page from the logbook.”
He then explained that, soon after returning from their encounter, he made copies of the tapes which also disappeared.
“We copied the tapes and wrapped them up and stuff them in the space,” Fravor added.
“They were put in a safe on the Princeton and they stayed there.
“We came back from a cruise and they were there.
“But then, somehow, they disappeared – no one knows where they went.
“There have been several COs (Commanding Officers) since then, no one knows where they went.”
Commander Fravor has previously said a mysterious “ dark mass ” was spotted emerging from the ocean and swallowing a torpedo – some 10 years before the Nimitz incident.
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The news comes just days after another witness of the encounter suggested there was clearer footage of the UFO that had not been released.
Jason Turner - a Petty Officer on the USS Princeton at the time – said the video showed the craft had legs protruding from it.
And a former US Navy Senior Chief Operations Specialist has since come out saying the UFOs were “ always there” .
Pilot Who Chased The UFO: Some Of The Tapes Are “Missing”
Pilot Who Chased The UFO: Some Of The Tapes Are “Missing”
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Another interesting tidbit has surfaced in the story of U.S. Navy Cmdr David Fravor (Ret), the pilot who engaged in the now-infamous encounter with the “tic-tac” UFO in 2004. While flying his F/A-18F Super Hornet, he was sent to observe unidentified craft showing up on radar, flying from the USS Nimitz carrier battle group, leading to the bizarre run-in with the tic-tac. This encounter produced one of the three Navy UFO videos that have been making the rounds in the media for the past couple of years.
During an interview earlier this year, however, Fravor indicated that there were more tapes, including video and radar tracking information, that simply “disappeared” after the event. And so, the mystery deepens further. (Daily Star)
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One of the first US Navy pilots to have encountered the famed tic-tac UFO off the coast of San Diego has said there are tapes “missing”.
Commander David Fravor was flying one of the two F/A-18E/F Super Hornets that had taken off from the USS Nimitz, during a combat exercise on November 14, 2004…
“All the radar tapes from the Princeton are missing and they can’t find,” Fravor told host and former US Navy pilot Vincent Aiello.
“I was chatting to someone at the archives and they’ve said someone has taken that page from the logbook.”
The conversation comes from this episode of the Fighter Pilot Podcast where Fravor was a guest. (It’s also where we learn that his pilot call sign in the Navy was “Sex”. You’ll have to listen to the last few minutes of the interview to learn where it came from, but it’s not as salacious as you might guess.) This interview is revealing and enjoyable because the host is another fighter pilot who actually served with Fravor back in the day. The lingo gets a little technical for the layman here and there, but they really dig into the details.
An interesting takeaway from this interview as to how Fravor got the tapes originally is revealed. After landing, he went down to CVIC (Carrier Information Center) and told them to give him the tapes. And if they refused he was going to “tear this place apart.” He told them to go get their boss and he would tell him the same thing. They gave him the tapes.
Fravor goes on to say that he made copies of the tapes which were kept in a safe on the USS Princeton. He said the tapes were still there when they returned from the cruise, but when he checked on them later they had simply “disappeared.”
This testimony is in keeping with what we’ve heard from other sailors. Two of them from the Princeton who provided video interviews to The Nimitz Encounters described how the “cleanup” after this cruise was taken care of. Shortly after the exercise and long before they returned to port, some men in either civilian clothes or jumpsuits with no military insignia showed up and collected data recorders, radar and video records from the days when the tic-tacs were being seen.
The odd part is that many of those devices and recordings were regularly not even looked at unless the airplane or radar manufacturers wanted test data for product development. Most commonly, planes’ recorders were locked in a safe after use for a time and then wiped and reinstalled for another mission. But after the tic-tac encounters, officers came around and collected them all with or without the unnamed civilians who arrived.
With that in mind, it’s probably not at all surprising that Fravor’s tapes would have gone “missing” as well. The real question is, what was on those recordings and would it provide the public with a better view and understanding of what these objects looked like and what they might have been up to. Unless Uncle Sam is feeling generous and cares to release any more of them to the media, we may not get those answers, but it would be extremely helpful if they would agree to do so.
Commander David Fravor, who was flying one of the F/A-18 Super Hornets that were engaged with the tic-tac shaped UFO off the coast of California in November of 2004, came out with another startling fact. He claims that there are some missing tapes of the encounter.
In an interview with The Fighter Pilot Podcast earlier this year, he said, “All the radar tapes from the Princeton are missing and they can’t find [them],” adding, “I was chatting to someone at the archives and they’ve said someone has taken that page from the logbook.”
He went on to say that after his encounter with the tic-tac shaped UFO, he made copies of the tapes, which oddly enough, also went missing. “We copied the tapes and wrapped them up and stuff them in the space,” he explained, “They were put in a safe on the Princeton and they stayed there.” He said that after they returned from a cruise, the tapes were still there, but then they went missing and nobody knows where they ended up. “There have been several COs [Commanding Officers] since then, no one knows where they went,” he stated.
This isn’t the first time that Commander Fravor has been in the news, as just last month he appeared on the Joe Rogan show and made some pretty startling revelations. He said that whoever was controlling the UFO was able to block the pilots’ radar systems so that they couldn’t lock in on it. He also mentioned that in the 1990s, another Navy pilot witnessed an unexplained “kind of dark mass coming up from the depths” of the water that was not a submarine. The object sucked the Navy’s torpedo underwater before disappearing into the depths of the water.
Another recent news story involved a U.S. Navy veteran who came forward with claims that shortly after the infamous UFO encounter, secret officials boarded the USS Princeton in order to take “something” off the ship. In an interview with The Nimitz Encounters, Lead Petty Officer Ryan Weigelt said that the officials took “something” off the helicopters that made them unable to fly.
USS Princeton
And as for the UFO itself, there have been claims that there were protruding legs coming out from the bottom of the craft. In an interview with The Nimitz Encounters, Petty Officer Jason Turner said, “The shape of it [was odd] as it had some protruding objects at the bottom of it.” He went on to say, “I couldn’t tell if they were curled back or straight down because I was a good five or ten feet from the feed,” adding, “But there were definitely legs on it. It was oblong, like a tic-tac.”
With all of these new revelations, the mystery of the tic-tac shaped UFO encounter in 2004 is deepening, creating more questions than answers.
A video purportedly showing a bizarre-looking object or craft of some kind hovering in the sky over Cuba was uploaded to YouTube in July by a user named "Joel H." According to the comments, the video was sent to "Joel H" by a friend's mother. It's not clear right now if this video was filmed recently, or if it was filmed by the friend's mother. Or if it's authentic!
At first, the object is blurry...
Then it becomes clearer...
Many have been quick to call the footage a CGI hoax, wondering why the UFO was only filmed for 40 seconds.
So far, I haven't been able to find other recent UFO reports out of Cuba to corroborate this one, but many things happen in other countries that never make it to the US news media. Case in point - the witness commentary in this video appears to be in Spanish, so English-speaking researchers may have a difficult time learning about this sighting.
If you speak Spanish and can help translate the comments made in this video, or if you have any more information to share about this Cuba UFO sighting, let me know!
A strange circular object has been captured “tracking” a plane that the cameraman claims was spraying substances over Colorado.
Marc Abell was filming a plane he thought was spraying chemtrails over Vail when the incident happened
The chemtrail conspiracy refers to the bizarre belief that high-flying aircraft often spray chemical or biological agents in the sky for purposes undisclosed to the public.
In the footage, Marc can be heard saying: “Please don’t tell me they’re not spraying – that’s going to spread out across a whole cloud.”
Suddenly, a white flickering object comes into view from the bottom right of the screen.
The strange object 'following' the plane over Colorado(Image: YOUTUBE/MARC ABELL)
It appears to head directly towards the plane before hovering near its contrail.
“What is that it’s following it?” Marc says behind the camera.
“You guys, that is too crazy, what is that?”
The YouTuber, who is a self-proclaimed Bigfoot tracker, returned to the site where he made saw the incident unfold soon after.
“I was following it with my camera, I think it was hovering and then it moved,” he said.
“The silver discs do that.
“There are no stars in the sky – there’s no way that was a star.”
Marc posted his bizarre footage to YouTune on November 2, where it has since been seen more than 3,000 times.
Viewers were quick to voice their thoughts in the comments section, with many believing the YouTuber had captured a UFO.
“My theory was the UFO was cleaning up the chemtrail,” one wrote.
“My theory was the UFO was cleaning up the chemtrail,” one wrote.
Another commented: “That is a UFO! Maybe UFO is trying to shoot it down?”
A third agreed, adding: “Looks like a UFO, very strange but cool.”
Fellow YouTube conspiracy channel TheHiddenUnderbelly re-posted the footage and claimed it was “up there with some of the best” UFO videos he’d ever seen.
But there were some who were more sceptical, suggesting it was simply a bird.
In what can be considered an unusual convergence of conspiracy theories, a man who runs a Bigfoot videos YouTube channel was chasing chemtrails when he claimed to have recorded a UFO chasing them as well. If you’re playing Conspiracy Scrabble, ‘Chemtrail’, ‘Bigfoot’ and ‘UFO’ is a triple-word score. However, if your game is Skeptic Chutes and Ladders, the spinner is pointing at a slide. And if your rolling the dice in Glenn Beckgammon … is there really a Glenn Beckgammon and where can you get one (asking for a friend)?
“I got him. He’s spraying. Look at that, you guys, this is what they’re doing to us.”
According to his commentary during the video (you can watch it here), Marc Abell –the CEO of Colorado Bigfoot, a provider of Bigfoot videos – was recording a plane making a contrail over a snow-covered terrain in Vail, Colorado, and believed the color and shape changes in the contrail were signs that the plane was actually spraying something rather than just trailing the usual water vapor and jet exhaust. To the untrained or disbelieving eye, it looks like just another contrail. However, there’s no mistaking that a white object suddenly appears in the video near the contrail.
“What is that it’s following it? You guys, that is too crazy, what is that?”
“You guys” is future listeners to his commentary on YouTube. Abell decides to abandon following the plane (he later expresses a bit of skepticism himself about the alleged ‘chemtrail’ because the contrail quickly dissipated) and ‘follows’ the UFO. ‘Follows’ is difficult to discern, since the white object is too high above the horizon to see whether it’s moving or hovering when he zooms out. Abell watched until he couldn’t see it anymore, but he anticipated what you’re thinking and claims he returned the following day to the same spot at the same time.
This is the kind of sky that gets chemtrail believers worried
“There are no stars in the sky – there’s no way that was a star.”
‘No way’ is pretty strong, but at least he considered it. A satellite – which could explain why it wasn’t there the following night – is another possibility. OK, but what else could it have been? Abell gives one answer.
“The silver discs do that.”
That’s a flying disc or saucer reference. If this really was an alien or secret military aircraft, it appeared from the video to move under the vapor trail, making it much smaller than the plane. While some commenters speculated it was something analyzing or ‘cleaning up’ the contrail (like in a similar sighting in 2016 where a UFO seems to pass through a hole in the trail), this one doesn’t seem to come near enough to it. ‘Bird’ and ‘lens flare’ are some of the other usual culprits suggested by commenters. Needless to say, there’s no agreement on any one explanation.
It certainly sounds from his commentary that Marc Abell is concerned about ‘chemtrails’. From his other videos, it looks like he’s pretty serious about tracking Bigfoot as well. While it would have improved his score in Conspiracy Scrabble, he didn’t try to link Bigfoot to his Chemtrail/UFO sighting. However, he’s definitely the kind of person you want scanning the skies and the woods for unusual stuff – observant, quick with the camera, steady of hand and willing to consider alternatives.
Marc Abell is also willing to attach his name to his observations of controversial conspiracy theories … something that’s becoming increasingly rare in this world. Whether you agree with them or not, that gives him some bonus points and an extra spin in Skeptic Chutes and Ladders.
Now, to hunt for a Glenn Beckgammon game … for a friend.
As I have written two articles in the last couple of days on the connections between UFOs and computer-systems (and, primarily, on the subject of computer-hacking), I thought I would go ahead and turn it all into a 3-part article. Collectively, it serves to demonstrate the strange nature of this very controversial aspect of the UFO subject. My first article of this “trio” was on the controversial matter of Gary McKinnon and his most unwise hacking of NASA in the early 2000s. The second feature was on the equally weird affair of alleged alien autopsies, NBC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and, of course, hacking. As for this third and final article on this topic, it will focus on other aspects of the UFO-computer subject, but not ignoring the hacking issue. We will begin with an account from the late UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield, who died in 1994. His research primarily revolved around the “crashed UFO” angle. We’re talking about the Roswell controversy of 1947 and similar alleged incidents. In the summer of 1978 Stringfield was able to speak with a U.S. Army source that Stringfield referred to only as “J.K.,” Stringfield’s informant revealed a great deal about crashed UFOs, dead aliens, and autopsies of extraterrestrials. And, there was more, too.
Among the many revelations was this one from J.K.: “Since 1948, secret information concerning UFO activity involving the U.S. military has been contained in a computer center at Wright-Patterson AFB. At this base, a master computer file is maintained with duplicate support backup files secreted at other military installations. Get the complete ‘dump file,’ both the master and the support backup files and you’ve got all the hidden UFO data.” Interesting, but the fact that the data came from an anonymous source didn’t help much at all when the story was published by Stringfield in January 1980 – in the pages of his 38-pages-long booklet, The UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome. Moving on…
In my November 2018 book Top Secret Alien Abduction Files I revealed the many and varied ways and means by which Whitley Strieber (of Communion fame) had clearly been placed under surveillance by one or more agencies of the U.S. government and the intelligence community. In terms of the computer-based angle to all of this, it begins as follows: it was in late 1993 that Strieber found himself the recipient of an email that contained data revealing the alleged coded locations of Top Secret UFO-themed material on U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) computer systems. Strieber explained what happened next: “Spooks started prowling around my neighborhood upstate. A business associate was accosted on an airplane by a group of young men who flashed badges, claimed to be with the National Security Agency, and questioned him about our activities for a couple of hours. They alleged that they were responsible for investigating intrusions into the Defense Department’s secure computer systems.” Now, onto yet another case of computers.
Back in 1991, Kevin Randle’s and Don Schmitt’s book, UFO Crash at Roswell, was published. In the book, the pair told an interesting but brief story of a man “who said he worked at NORAD in Colorado Springs.” Schmitt and Randle added: “In the course of computerizing some of the files, he came across one labeled: USAAF (United States Army Air Force) Early Automation. The file dealt with the recovery of several small bodies and included black and white photographs of them. The man said the bodies were small, no more than four or five feet tall, with big heads.”
Perhaps the strangest, relevant story of all – one of a definitively surreal nature – was one that I addressed some time ago (July 15, 2015), here at Mysterious Universe. You can find the story at this link and which is focused on a man named Matthew Williams. He is a UFO researcher and Crop Circle-maker whose computer was confiscated by the U.K. government’s National Cyber Crime Unit for controversial reasons. It’s a very weird story – one that is absolutely filled to the brim with tales of strange formations found in corn-fields, of a well-known computer-hacker, and of much, much more. What all of this demonstrates – along with the material that is included in the two, previous articles on UFOs and hacking – is that the matter of government computer systems, UFOs, the military, government agencies, and hackers (and their hacking) goes far deeper than most people realize.
My previous article – on Gary McKinnon and his disastrous attempts, in the early 2000s, to try and find the U.S. government’s UFO secrets by hacking NASA – demonstrated one thing, more than any other. Namely, that such activity provokes massive media coverage. It was big news in both the United States and the U.K. There was similar such media coverage (chiefly in the U.K., though) when a Welshman named Matthew Bevan did something near-identical in the 1990s. Just like McKinnon, Bevan ended up in big trouble. In 1997, Bevan found himself arrested and in court. Luckily for Bevan – and just as was the case with Gary McKinnon, too – he walked free when the court-case collapsed. Although these two examples of “Hacking for UFOs” are without doubt the most well-known ones, they certainly are not the only ones. In many respects, the example I’m going to share with you today is even more intriguing than that of Bevan and McKinnon combined.
The story goes back to 1992 – and to the popular TV show Dateline NBC. Specifically, it goes back to October 27 of that year. That was when NBC ran a segment of its show with the eye-catching title of “Are Your Secrets Safe?” It was a good, solid piece that demonstrated the very real, growing threat that computer-hacking posed. To get its point across, the show’s producers secured interviews with a number of hackers. It’s no surprise at all that their identities were not revealed to NBC’s viewers. After all, they were breaking the law. Although “Are Your Secrets Safe?” was not intended to fly the flag of Ufology, in a very strange and highly controversial fashion, it did exactly that. Of the various hackers that NBC spoke with, one of them revealed that he had illegally accessed certain computerized files held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Where those files might be now is just about anyone’s guess. As a reader of Mysterious Universe, you will know all too well that Wright-Patterson AFB has a long and deep connection to the UFO phenomenon.
During the show, and to provide the viewers with intriguing visuals, a highly notable image appeared on the screen. The section that was discernible read as follows: “WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB/Cataloged UFO parts list, an underground facility of Foreign...” It’s possible that the words which came after “Foreign” were “Technology Division.” The reason being that the USAF’s Foreign Technology Division (FTD) had its home at Wright-Patterson for many years. In 1992, however, the FTD was renamed and revamped as the Foreign Aerospace Science and Technology Center (FASTC). Given the time-frame in which NBC ran the show (twenty-seven years ago), and the age of the documentation that the hacker had obtained, the missing words almost certainly referenced either the FTD or the FASTC. The now-defunct newsstand magazine, UFO, said in its Volume 9, No. 3 issue that data concerning alien autopsies at Wright-Pat was in the hands of the same hacker that NBC had on the show.
The producer of the “Are Your Secrets Safe?” portion of the October 27, 1992 Dateline episode was Susan Adams. In the wake of the broadcast, she said that NBC was surprised by the large response from viewers. Adams expanded more: it was revealed that the hacker’s name could not be revealed, primarily because he had – technically speaking – committed a felony. Adams did say this, however: “The hacker is aware of the interest his apparent UFO data has provoked, but does not wish to respond.” Adams also said that the production had been carefully addressed “with a fine-tooth comb” by NBC’s attorneys.
This was a big – and amazing – story that was told on a hugely popular show on NBC. Yet, aside from the initial flood of interest, it was soon forgotten. Unlike the cases involving Matthew Bevan and Gary McKinnon, there was no attempt by U.S. authorities to hunt the hacker down and have him/them arrested. In fact, the whole thing faded away. Of course, to a significant degree this is understandable: 1992 was before The X-Files had been broadcast. No one had even heard of Mulder and Scully. And TV shows like UFO Hunters and Ancient Aliens wouldn’t surface for years and years. In other words, the interest that much of the public and even the mainstream media has in “the unexplained” today, didn’t exist back then.
Who was that hacker? How had he got his hands on what were seemingly highly-classified files on UFOs held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base? What did those files state? Why did the authorities not follow-up on all this, as they did with Bevan and McKinnon? Close to three decades after this strange-but-largely-forgotten story surfaced, it’s likely we’ll never know.
US Government Information on ETs is Hidden Really Well, According to Whistleblower Edward Snowden
US Government Information on ETs is Hidden Really Well, According to Whistleblower Edward Snowden
One of the most popular subjects among conspiracy theorists in forums and YouTube channels is the existence of aliens and UFOs. Claims on ET existence are usually supported with more than some grainy video of a light in the sky.
However, there’s one man who is significantly better positioned than most conspiracy theorists to expose a government cover-up of extraterrestrial life: that man named Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who now lives in exile in Russia.
Snowden revealed that he had searched the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) databases for proof of alien life. He said that he had ridiculous access to the networks of the military, the CIA, the NSA, all these groups. Unfortunately, he found nothing.
Snowden concluded that the information on aliens is hidden really well even from people who are on the inside.
Conspiracy theorists agree that the ET information is hidden really well, and it only means one thing to them, keep looking.
Snowden had leaked highly classified NSA information from his position as a CIA employee. He fled to Moscow after he was charged with two counts of espionage and theft of government property. He spent more than a month living in Sheremetyevo Airport terminal before eventually being granted asylum.
A strange video circulating online shows a strange cloud formation that has turned many confused observers upside down.
The video footage was reportedly shot last week in Florida by a person named "Grey Garcia" and then released on a popular YouTube channel dedicated to anomalous videos.
Unfortunately, apart from this background information, no further details about the video are available.
An odd video circulating online shows a strange cloud formation that has left many bewildered observers scratching their heads. The footage was reportedly filmed last week in Florida by an individual going by the name of 'Grey Garcia' and subsequently wound up being posted on a popular YouTube channel devoted to anomalous videos. Unfortunately, aside from that bit of background information, no other details about the video are available.
Be that as it may, the footage is rather interesting as it shows several evenly spaced stick-like clouds stretching in a long line across the sky. Dubbed a 'stairway to heaven' by some, the origin and nature of the weird formation is unknown. While it may simply be a natural meteorological phenomenon, one online viewer offered the intriguing suggestion that perhaps the series of clouds are the remnants of a skywriting message that was slowly fading away. What's your theory on what could have created the puzzling formation? Let us know at the Coast to Coast AM Facebook page.
Watch: Former Barack Obama Pilot On Encountering A UFO
Watch: Former Barack Obama Pilot On Encountering A UFO
JAZZ SHAW
Ever since the bombshell 2017 New York Times report about strange, unidentified craft flying in our military airspace, a number of pilots have been coming forward with their own stories. Many were military pilots of fighter jets or members of their shipboard support crew, but an increasing number of commercial pilots have been going public with their own experiences. Andy Danziger is one of the latter. The one aspect of his career that gives this story a special hook is that he used to fly Senator Barack Obama around sometimes on the campaign trail when he was running for president.
Sadly, the encounter he describes with Kennedy on Fox Business didn’t take place when the future 44th President was a passenger. (How great of a story would that have been?) This happened back in 1989 when he was a pilot on a regional airline. What he saw at fairly close range is amazing to hear him tell the tale.
For a long time, pilots were afraid to report such things officially because it could represent the end of their careers. (You don’t want crazy people flying commercial jets.) But now the atmosphere has changed and they’re less fearful of telling their stories. This is a fairly short interview, so enjoy it!
Remember Harry Reid? The former US senator from Nevada and Senate Majority Leader from 2015 – 2017 is best known in some circles for his support of UFO research and full disclosure while in office, including securing secret funding for the secret study known as ATTIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program). After retiring due to a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, Reid has continued to fight both against the cancer and for the UFO cause and to clear up misinformation that has been distributed by the government about ATTIP and UFOs. He recently sat down for an exclusive interview with George Knapp, the acclaimed journalist and UFO investigator. Here are some of the highlights.
“I don’t understand what we’re seeing around the world with all these unidentified flying objects, and I want to be able to have an intelligent conversation in this regard.”
Reid is longing for the days when he was a government insider, authorizing the black budgets for ATTIP and its predecessor AAWSAP (Aerospace Weapons System Application Program). While ATTIP officially ended in 2012, there are many who believe it secretly still exists – Reid is one of them. ATTIP members ended up in Tom DeLong’s To The Stars Academy for Arts and Sciences and were responsible for the release of the Navy UFO footage in 2017. Apparently, Reid doesn’t (or can’t) talk to them intelligently about it and no one on the inside in Congress has Reid’s guts to go public.
Harry Reid
“Well, let them say something about it. I’m tired of all this, they’re getting briefings and all that. Let them step up to the plate like I did and do something publicly.”
It’s not that easy, as Reid should remember. He couldn’t get any info on what alleged UFO materials some corporations may have had in their possession. Then again, Reid himself isn’t that forthcoming with information these days either, as Knapp found out when he questioned the former senator about UFO discussions during his recent visit with Bill and Hillary Clinton. The former president expressed an interest in UFO disclosure while in office and the former presidential candidate promise she would do it if elected. Reid told Knapp that they promised to give him more dirt on their next visit – not exactly a risky promise to make to someone who’s 79 and being treated for pancreatic cancer.
“Nope, nope, but he, I didn’t want to push him, but he was very interested.”
Reid was also evasive with Knapp about a UFO conversation he had with the late astronaut and former senator John Glenn. Unfortunately, it seems all that’s available to talk to is what Reid refers to as “a fringe group of people out there who want to control this. The so-called conspiratorial folks.”
“They don’t want anybody that’s based on facts involved in this. So what do they do? They go online and try to belittle Elizondo and me and anybody else that is trying to do it in a scientific way. Elizondo is a man with a great record serving our country and people should leave him alone. And one thing about him, he’s not backing off and I appreciate that very much.”
Luis Elizondo headed ATTIP and is currently Director of Global Security and Special Programs at To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. Reid describes him as a fighter for the UFO disclosure cause and he’s encouraged by the mainstream media coverage he gets. He’s also encouraged by the willingness of the Navy to received and review UFO reports from its pilots without fear of punishment.
It would have been nice if Reid had shared more of what he knows with George Knapp, especially with his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Fortunately, it’s in remission so he can continue to fight for UFO disclosure despite the “fringe group” and “conspiratorial folks.” Let’s hope his next conversation with George or some non-conspiratorial folks tells us more.
NASA researcher presents his catalogue of UFO pilot sighting
NASA researcher presents his catalogue of UFO pilot sighting
This is a great listen. Dr Haines, has for 30 years complied an extensive catalogue of UFO sightings from both military and commercial aviation pilots. In this interview, he talks about some of his cases.
In what could be a precursor to further stunning developments, the U.S. Navy has publicly acknowledged that the advanced aircraft depicted in several recently declassified gun-camera videos are UFOs, or what the Navy prefers to call “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon” (UAPs). “The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena,” acknowledged Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations, referring to the bizarre vehicles that have brazenly operated in restricted U.S. military airspace.
Strangely, this shocking announcement seems to have scarcely been noticed by Congress or the Trump administration. Is the information too jarring and radical to process? Are U.S. government officials in denial? One can only wonder, given the glaring disconnect between the Navy’s announcement and the limited government actions to protect U.S. military personnel and the nation as a whole.
The vehicles observed and recorded by U.S. Navy fighter pilots seem impervious to altitude or the elements; they are able to maneuver above 80,000 feet; they can hover and then instantly accelerate to supersonic and even hypersonic speeds; they have very low radar cross-sections and use a means of propulsion and control that does not appear to involve combustion, exhaust, rotors, wings or flaps.
I’ve interviewed numerous active-duty and retired military personnel who have encountered these mysterious vehicles. Without exception they express grave concern for their colleagues and near disbelief that our government is not reacting more vigorously.
This situation is not altogether unprecedented. Some 60 years ago Americans were shocked when the Soviet Union orbited Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. Sputnik garnered sustained front-page coverage, however, and Congress promptly acted on Americans’ concerns by approving increased space and defense expenditures and enhanced education programs for math and science. The concerns roused by Sputnik spurred America to enter “the space race.” The nation rallied to the cause and the commitment paid off when astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon a mere 12 years later.
Consider by contrast our government’s tepid response to the latest news about UAPs. Some congressional oversight committees have asked for and received briefings, but none has held a hearing, either open or closed; none has appropriated funds for collection or analysis; none has even asked for a report or a threat assessment. Nor have Congress members expressed concern over apparently being kept in the dark on this issue for years by the executive branch, a situation that changed only after a small private organization — To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, which I advise on national security affairs — made Department of Defense gun-camera footage available to the press and to Congress.
Why are we not analyzing the vast quantities of data already collected by America’s vast sensor networks, already bought and paid for, to see what light that data might shed on the issue? Government paralysis is something we’ve grown accustomed to on domestic matters but, when it affects national security as well, we truly are a nation at risk.
Indeed, examination of major US intelligence failures — from Pearl Harbor to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Iraqi WMD — shows that, in each case, we had information that, properly analyzed and acted upon, could have prevented disaster. We’re at a similar place today, with ample warning lights flashing but no effective effort to pool relevant data from the myriad services and agencies that possess it.
The National Reconnaissance Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, CIA, Air Force and Navy, FBI and National Security Agency — there is no place in the U.S. government where all UAP information comes together. In that regard, the present situation is akin to counterterrorism before the establishment of the National Counterterrorism Center. Thankfully, new military spending is not required; we simply need to implement an effective strategy for collection and analysis using existing resources.
President Eisenhower, renowned for his military accomplishments as well as his valuable warning about the military-industrial complex, gave a speech in 1958 in my hometown of Ligonier, Pa., commemorating the 200th anniversary of Fort Ligonier. Referring to the Americans who settled the frontier, he said: “They were not turned back by terror of the unknown; they did not succumb to the tensions and privations encountered beyond the fringes of civilization. They moved ahead as companions in adventure, well-knowing that danger is often the inseparable partner of progress and honor.”
Thankfully, most of us no longer suffer the intense hardships and privations our forebears endured. However, we must still confront the unknown. Policymakers should pay close attention to the experiences of U.S. military personnel, investigate thoroughly, and respond effectively. If they fail to do so, our country may again pay a tragic price.
Christopher Mellon served 20 years in the federal government and was deputy assistant Defense secretary for intelligence, 1999-2002, and for security and information operations, 1998-99. From 2002 to 2004, he was minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence under Sen. John Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). He is a national security affairs adviser of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and is a consultant and contributor to HISTORY’s nonfiction series, “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.”
Soviet Air Force Colonel & Cosmonaut Marina Popovic (pictured above) was one of multiple to express that something extraterrestrial may have happened to the soviet 'space probe' designed to explore the moons of mars after communication was lost.
Reflect On:
Reflect on the fact that there is so much evidence showing we are not alone--it's overwhelming--yet, to a certain extent, society still ignores the biggest story in human history.
What’s really going on in space? What have ‘the global elite’ tried to do in space? The truth is many people are starting to realize that we live in a very sheltered world, inside a bubble that people are now trying to desperately pop. We’ve been fed a lot of disinformation about discoveries that would change the way we view the very nature of our reality and what it means to be human. Discoveries that would have us ask the deep questions about life, our purpose, why we are here, and where we come from. Discoveries that would literally change human consciousness forever.
We knew that the Earth was flat, we knew that we were the center of the universe, and we knew that a man-made heavier than air piece of machinery could not take flight. Through all stages of human history, intellectual authorities have pronounced their supremacy by ridiculing or suppressing elements of reality that simply didn’t fit within the framework of accepted knowledge. Are we really any different today? Have we really changed our acceptance towards things that won’g fit the frame? Maybe there are concepts of our reality we have yet to understand, and if we open our eyes, maybe we will see that something significant has been overlooked.
This ‘something’ significant is the fact that we are not alone. Whether it be a former Chairman of the Royal Navy telling us that “there is a serious possibility that we are being visited, and have been visited by people from outer space,”or an Apollo 14 astronaut saying that “there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered,”we have no shortage of high-ranking insiders attesting to the reality that some UFOs may be extraterrestrial. There have been some very interesting leaks over the years that suggest the same thing.
General Carlos Cavero told the world in 1979, “everything” has been “in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world.” On a global scale, “the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon” and there is “an international exchange of data.” (source)
Phobos
Phobos II was the last space probe designed by the Soviet Union to explore the moons of Mars. Unexpectedly, we lost communication with it, and multiple insiders have said we weren’t told the truth about what really happened. In a new segment of the CE show, a platform we created to combat the demonetization and censorship we are experiencing as a result of presenting the information we present, founder Joe Martino and I go deeper into the Phobos topic, which you can watch below. The CE Show airs multiple times per week on CETV. Membership proceeds from CETV go towards supporting our journalism and future broadcasts. You can start a free 7 day trial here.If you do that you’ll be able to access the full episode.
A Bit More About UFOs
Today, UFOs are no longer taboo. For years, we’ve experienced, as I’ve said many times before, an “official campaign of ridicule and secrecy” (Ex-CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter) of the phenomenon. The establishment in many ways was responsible for the foolish articles that would constantly appear in mainstream media publications, absolutely ridiculing a topic that is actually very real.
But the tables have now turned. One of the biggest mouthpieces for “the establishment,” The New York Times, admitted something that the establishment, or facets of it, have been concealing for years: UFOs are real. A former high-ranking federal government employee, Christopher Mellon, also wrote a Washington post article that detailed a number of UFO encounters with the military with extreme credibility. But again, this isn’t new information. In the 1950s, President Harry Truman went on national television announcing to the world that UFOs are real, and that they discuss the topic at every conference that they have with the military, that “there’s always things like that going on, flying saucers and they’ve had other things.” (source)
In this case, the pilots were flying in a formation of four F86 Sabre jet aircraft. One of the pilots described the phenomenon as a “bright light which was sharply defined as disk-shaped” that looked like “a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” Another pilot managed to photograph the object, as you can see above.
There are millions of pages of documents to go through, and thousands of statements from high ranking people that have been attesting to the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon for a very long time. That being said, the topic is going ‘mainstream’ and it’s always important to note that the establishment, and media outlets like the New York Times, CNN etc have been intelligence agency mouthpieces. They have fed the world a lot of disinformation and the type of controlled disclosure we are seeing on this subject is probably no different.
There is much more going on than what we get from the mainstream–they always try to control the narrative for their own selfish purposes. It’s always important to keep that in mind for anybody who delves deep into this subject. Are they trying to control the narrative and spread more disinformation? Are they trying to present a threat narrative in order to justify certain measures? Similar to how ‘terrorism’ was used and financed by the west to justify the infiltration and takeover of other countries in order to bring them ‘democracy?’
These are important questions to ask ourselves as this topic gains more popularity. What is presented by the mainstream is far from the available truth that’s already out there.
Exclusive Interview: The Black Vault Founder John Greenewald Talks About TTSA, UFOs, and Existence of Aliens
Exclusive Interview: The Black Vault Founder John Greenewald Talks About TTSA, UFOs, and Existence of Aliens
This week, Jazz Shaw sat down for an interview with The Black Vault founder John Greenewald. The Black Vault is a site containing an archive of several government military documents collected from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. John digs into every dark corner of government activity involving UFOs and aliens.
Like many UFO and alien enthusiasts, Greenewald has been keenly interested in the recent military revelations about unknown aircraft in the U.S. airspace and activities of To The Stars Academy (TTSA) founded by Tom DeLonge. However, as usual, Greenewald has gone a few steps further than most people who just get their information from the mainstream media.
He has been beating up the military and the Department of Defense with FOIA requests from the day the story of the military encountering UFOs first broke in 2017. And Greenewald has really turned up some exciting discoveries.
In a recent interview with Greenewald, he also talks about the difficulties in trying to get reliable information out of the government when it comes to UFO and alien topics. See the interview.
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