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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO Author Will Lead Exploration of Rendlesham Forest Encounters Site
    Representational image representing a UFO flying over Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. Source: fergregory / Adobe Stock

    UFO Author Will Lead Exploration of Rendlesham Forest Encounters Site

    One of the most celebrated and debated UFO incidents of all time took place in Rendlesham Forest near Suffolk, England just after Christmas in 1980. United States Air Force personnel stationed at two former Royal Air Force installations in the area, RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, told incredible stories about encounters with mysterious lights and metallic craft that seemed under intelligent control as they danced around and above the trees on the nights of December 26, 27 and 28 that year.

    Now, an ex-detective and the author of a recently released book entitled Non-Human: The Rendlesham Forest Incidents: 42 Years of Denial, Gary Heseltine, is organizing a special tour. The Sun reported that the aim of this tour to take UFO enthusiasts and other curious souls deep into the heart of Rendlesham Forest, so they can visit the exact locations where these strange and unexplained events occurred over the course of three nights more than four decades ago.

    On the nights of June 3 and 4, Heseltine will lead his tour group to various sites in the woods, as he relates the fascinating and frightening stories of the multiple witnesses to the UFO-related events that allegedly took place at those spots. It has been claimed that as many as 17 lighted objects were spotted by one or more witnesses, all of whom were serving in the US Air Force (USAF) at the time of the Rendlesham Forest incident.

    The supposed UFO landing site at Rendlesham Forest. (Simon Leatherdale / CC BY-SA 2.0)

    The supposed UFO landing site at Rendlesham Forest.

    (Simon Leatherdale / CC BY-SA 2.0)

    Gary Heseltine and the Rendlesham Forest UFOs

    Gary Heseltine is a retired British police constable and a UFO sightings field investigator who is currently the vice president of the International Coalition for Extra-terrestrial Research (ICER). He is widely recognized as one of the premier experts on the weird events reported at Rendlesham Forest.

    Heseltine’s new book has been praised by readers and reviewers for the immense amount of detail it reveals about what the witnesses experienced and about how the US and UK militaries have apparently tried to cover up the truth about this astonishing incident. “The Rendlesham Forest incident has often been referred to as ‘Britain's Roswell’, and in terms of its significance in UFO history the comparison is well made,” Heseltine wrote in the introduction to his new book.

    However, I have to say that in many aspects the RFI, as it has become known, is very, very different in certain key areas,he continued.After almost 14 years of public research into the RFI, I can think of no other case that has been subject of so much disinformation and damaging internal witness ‘political’ infighting.”

    Heseltine’s mission during his upcoming two-day summer tour will be to reveal the real story about the Rendlesham Forest incident. During the event, he aims to separate fact from fiction as relates to the supposed Unidentified Flying Object spotted there, not just for the benefit of the members of his tour group, but ultimately for the historical record as well.

    The USAF abandoned the installations at Woodbridge and Bentwaters in the 1990s, and while the former was eventually converted to a British army base, the latter is now closed and is the site of a public park. Rendlesham Forest is now open to visitors and is quite heavily trafficked, by picnickers, hikers, cyclists and UFO and alien enthusiasts who can visit the park on their own to follow a nature trail that traces the path USAF personnel followed on the nights they were chasing UFOs.

    Representational image of a UFO flying over a forest, much like the accounts of the events which took place at Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. (RookStuff / Adobe Stock)

    Representational image of a UFO flying over a forest, much like the accounts of the events which took place at Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk.

    (RookStuff / Adobe Stock)

    Aliens, a Hoax or an Elaborate Prank?

    It is fitting that the Rendlesham Forest incident is referred to as the British Roswell. The 1980 sightings on forest land adjacent to RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge have been vigorously discussed, debated and written about since the time they happened, and the alleged crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is the only UFO incident that has generated more public interest.

    The list of men who wandered through the woods chasing the lights and looking for landed craft on those remarkable nights included deputy commander Charles Halt and enlisted men Larry Warren, John Burroughs and James Pennington. These individuals are the most well-known of the Rendlesham witnesses, as all have been extensively interviewed and all have written their own books about the subject.

    Their stories differ in some of the details, and both skeptics and believers alike suspect there have been embellishments and distortions. Back in 2017, the Mirror reported that Larry Warren’s claims have proven especially controversial. Nevertheless, the eerie and otherworldly nature of their accounts is consistent.

    Interestingly, many suspect the Rendlesham Forest incident was real but did not involve aliens. They believe the sightings may have been a high-level hoax coordinated by the USAF itself, as part of a military psy-op meant to test the reactions of Air Force personnel when confronted with what seemed to be a real alien invasion.

    Some media reports on the Rendlesham incident, including an article about the UFO tour just published in the Daily Mail, have claimed that the purported alien invasion was actually a prank carried out by personnel from the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS).

    The 1980 UFO sightings took place near Royal Air Force installations, on forest land adjacent to RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, whose East Gate is pictured above. (Taras Young / CC BY-SA 4.0)

    The 1980 UFO sightings took place near Royal Air Force installations, on forest land adjacent to RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, whose East Gate is pictured above.

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    Was the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident a Prank?

    This claim comes from a letter sent to researcher David Clarke in 2018, purportedly from a former SAS airman who said he and others in his unit had concocted this elaborate hoax as a way to get revenge on US Air Force personnel for an earlier incident. It seems the Air Force men had treated them rudely following a secret security exercise that required SAS personnel to penetrate the defensive perimeter of the RAF Woodridge base without US Air Force permission.

    To perpetrate their UFO prank, the individual from the SAS said he and his cohorts had rigged lights and shot off flairs in Rendlesham Forest. The also claimed they had used remote-controlled kites and black helium balloons to carry lighted materials up into the sky. “A great deal of nocturnal Christmas fun was had at the expense of the USAF — and the matter should have ended there,” the anonymous source wrote.

    Unfortunately, a senior US officer (Lt Col Halt) led the US contingent out into the forest on the second night and took along his tape recorder,” he continued when discussing the Rendlesham Forest events.The hovering and whizzing lights were sufficiently impressive for him to send a report to the MoD.

    The letter writer told Clarke that the truth about the matter had been disclosed privately to the US Air Force, and that people at the highest levels in both the US and UK military knew what had really taken place.

    Many media sources, including the Daily Mail reporter, take this claim seriously and report it as a likely explanation for what happened at Rendlesham. But the Daily Mail failed to mention that David Clarke, who is an experienced professional journalist currently employed as an associate professor in the Media Arts and Communication Department at Sheffield Hallam University, investigated the claims of the anonymous letter writer and determined them to be without merit.

    It seems the letter’s assertions about what had been done didn’t match the eyewitness testimony about what had been seen. Additionally, military sources Clarke contacted said that SAS personnel would not have been able to pull off such a prank on secure air force grounds without being quickly apprehended. Topping it all off, David Clarke received the anonymous letter on April 1st, leading him to conclude (quite reasonably) that the letter writer’s revelations were an April Fool’s Day joke.

    The Rendlesham Forest Incident: The Truth is Out There

    The truth about the events at Rendlesham Forest will likely never be established with 100-percent certainty. Even if insiders or whistle-blowers were to come forward to reveal exactly what happened, they probably wouldn’t be able to prove their claims. Their statements would undoubtedly be rejected by skeptics if they said the events were caused by aliens and by many UFO researchers if they said they weren’t.

    The upcoming tour will be open to everyone, regardless of their opinions on the matter. With Gary Heseltine leading the way, they will have an educated and knowledgeable narrator to guide them. Although he personally believes in the possibility of alien visitation, he is perfectly content to allow each participant to draw their own conclusions about the events that occurred at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980.

    • Top image: Representational image representing a UFO flying over Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk.
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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Why is Antarctica a Magnet for UFO Stories?

    Why is Antarctica a Magnet for UFO Stories?

    Antarctica, Earth’s southernmost continent, is a vast, icy desert that has long captivated the imaginations of scientists and adventurers. Its harsh, frigid beauty is undeniable, but it’s the whispers and theories about extraterrestrial activity that have truly sparked a global intrigue. Could this isolated and extreme environment be more than just a barren wasteland? Could it actually be a secret outpost for alien life forms? Would we even know? And why is it okay to even speak out about this?

    At the heart of these theories is Antarctica’s extreme environment. The South Pole is a place of severe cold, with temperatures often dropping to a bone-chilling -56 degrees Fahrenheit. The howling winds can exceed 100 miles per hour, creating a landscape that is as beautiful as it is inhospitable. Despite these conditions, a handful of hardy souls reside here – researchers and scientists living in scattered stations, dedicated to understanding this unique ecosystem. But could they be unwitting neighbors to a hidden extraterrestrial presence?

    A Historical Perspective: From Nazi Expeditions to Military Encounters

    The lore surrounding an alien presence in Antarctica dates back several decades. In the 1930s, reports surfaced of Nazi expeditions to the continent, allegedly to explore hidden ice caverns and discover alien technology. These tales gained traction after World War II when the U.S. military reportedly embarked on similar expeditions. These missions, it is said, encountered more than just ice and snow; they stumbled upon unidentified alien crafts, suggesting a presence that went beyond earthly bounds.

    These historical accounts have been bolstered by numerous well-documented UFO sightings in Antarctica, particularly since the 1940s. These sightings describe a variety of unexplained phenomena, most notably unidentified flying objects emerging from the icy depths. Such reports have continued to surface over the years, each adding a new layer to the mystery and fueling ongoing speculation about extraterrestrial activity on the continent.

    Whistleblowers, Skepticism, and the Modern UFO Narrative

    In recent years, as the global conversation around UFOs has evolved, more individuals have come forward with their own stories. These whistleblowers, often people who have worked at Antarctic research stations, recount tales of mysterious structures hidden beneath the ice – massive bunkers, extensive tunnels, and more. While it’s important to approach these stories with a healthy dose of skepticism, they compel us to keep an open mind about what might lie beneath the surface of this enigmatic continent.

    Among the most intriguing aspects of these accounts are the descriptions of strange indentations in the ice and massive tunnel-like structures. These formations, sometimes described as leading to complex networks or deep underground facilities, raise the question: Are we looking at natural geological formations, or could these be evidence of an alien presence, hidden away in one of Earth’s most remote and unexplored regions?

    Embracing the Unknown

    The mysteries that shroud Antarctica are as deep and complex as the continent itself. Is it possible that amidst the ice and snow lies evidence of extraterrestrial life? Could Antarctica be more than a hub for scientific research – could it also be a gateway to discovering alien life on our own planet? As we continue to explore this remote and fascinating world, the possibilities seem as endless as the icy expanse itself.

    The continent’s extreme remoteness and harsh conditions have preserved it as one of the least disturbed places on Earth, making it an ideal location for any civilization seeking secrecy and solitude. If extraterrestrial beings were to choose a location on Earth, the logic dictates that it would be a place away from prying human eyes, where their presence could remain undetected for centuries, if not millennia.

    Antarctica, a land veiled in ice and mystery, offers more questions than answers. This vast, untamed wilderness, seemingly barren and lifeless at first glance, might be harboring secrets far beyond our current understanding. The possibility that beneath its miles-thick ice sheets and relentless snowstorms lies evidence of extraterrestrial life is a thought that ignites the imagination and challenges our perceptions of our own planet.


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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.EXCLUSIVE: Sighting of hovering black triangular 'UFO' is DEBUNKED as simply flares slowly descending over California military base in 2021

    EXCLUSIVE: Sighting of hovering black triangular 'UFO' is DEBUNKED as simply flares slowly descending over California military base in 2021

    • A black triangular shaped UFO with five red lights was seen hovering in the night sky at Camp Wilson in California on April 20, 2021 
    • DailyMail.com can reveal the 'UFO sighting' has been debunked and the lights were simply flares 
    • Smoke trails above the five lights indicate they were flares, and long exposure effects suggest they were not hovering but slowly descending, as flares do

    Videos of a 2021 incident some marines believed to be a triangular UFO hovering over their California base, have been debunked as simply flares.

    UFO researcher John Greenewald Jr. obtained dozens of photos, video and documents from the Pentagon last week which appear to explain the lights filmed on April 20, 2021 at Camp Wilson near Twentynine Palms, California, mistaken for a triangular 'craft'.

    In May, documentarian Jeremy Corbell and journalist George Knapp shared with DailyMail.com three photos and five videos from the 2021 incident, showing five lights appearing to hover in the sky.

    One of the photos appeared to show a solid triangular shape around the lights, and two marines who witnessed the incident said they believed it was a craft.

    Corbell and Knapp said they had investigated the incident for two years.

    But videos and photos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) this month by Greenewald – an expert in such requests – show smoke trails above the five lights indicating they were flares, and long exposure effects suggesting they were not hovering but slowly descending, as flares do.

    A black triangular shaped UFO with five red lights was seen hovering in the night sky at Camp Wilson in California on April 20, 2021

    A black triangular shaped UFO with five red lights was seen hovering in the night sky at Camp Wilson in California on April 20, 2021

    DailyMail.com can reveal the 'UFO sighting' has been debunked and the lights were simply flares

    DailyMail.com can reveal the 'UFO sighting' has been debunked and the lights were simply flares

    Smoke trails above the five lights indicate they were flares, and long exposure effects suggest they were not hovering but slowly descending, as flares do

    Smoke trails above the five lights indicate they were flares, and long exposure effects suggest they were not hovering but slowly descending, as flares do

    Veteran debunker Mick West, who often appears on UFO shows voicing a skeptical view on alleged exotic incidents, managed to match with precision the alleged UFO lights to a confirmed video of flares shot during a training exercise that evening on the military base.

    UFO researcher John Greenewald Jr. obtained dozens of photos, video and documents from the Pentagon last week which appear to explain the lights filmed on April 20, 2021

    UFO researcher John Greenewald Jr. obtained dozens of photos, video and documents from the Pentagon last week which appear to explain the lights filmed on April 20, 2021 

    In a video posted on YouTube, West explained the triangular shape around the lights in one of Corbell and Knapp's photos as 'just the color bleed, which you can see around other objects in the scene.'

    Flares often stay lit for between four and seven minutes, and the parachutes they hang beneath can descend slowly enough that they appear from a distance to hover.

    'The five lights start out in a nice formation that evokes a triangle, but they quickly separate into more random positions like flares do,' West said in his video.

    'John found footage of five flares that looks very similar, I realized this looked like it was taken from the other side. So I flipped it and overlaid it, and it's a near perfect match.'

    A mortarman who filmed some of the footage while serving at Camp Wilson spoke with Corbell days afterwards in 2021.

    In a recorded interview, he said the lights stuck around for about 10 minutes and left him and his comrades 'baffled'.

    'One of my buddies was outside. He was looking at the sky and said that it just kind of appeared out of nowhere,' he said. 'And we all came out and looked and then slowly like 50-plus people started coming out and looking. Those lights appeared out of nowhere.

    'If you look at the picture, you can see a black triangular shape.

    'With the picture I took with the black triangular shape underneath the lights, it's definitely not any type of flare thing or illumination rounds.'

    In May, documentarian Jeremy Corbell and journalist George Knapp (pictured together) shared with DailyMail.com three photos and five videos from the 2021 incident, showing five lights appearing to hover in the sky

    In May, documentarian Jeremy Corbell and journalist George Knapp (pictured together) shared with DailyMail.com three photos and five videos from the 2021 incident, showing five lights appearing to hover in the sky

    Marine Corps discusses training which features green lights

    However, military press releases show there was a large training exercise with many flares, aircraft flyovers and drones in the sky on the night of April 20 2021.

    The 'Night Air Assault' was conducted by '2nd Marine Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and aircraft attached to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1' according to a post published by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) that day.

    The matching footage of the flares, where a smoke trail is visible, was published in a compilation of background night vision video by DVIDS, and first unearthed by Greenewald.

    Veteran debunker Mick West, who often appears on UFO shows voicing a skeptical view on alleged exotic incidents, managed to match with precision the alleged UFO lights to a confirmed video of flares shot during a training exercise that evening on the military base
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    Veteran debunker Mick West, who often appears on UFO shows voicing a skeptical view on alleged exotic incidents, managed to match with precision the alleged UFO lights to a confirmed video of flares shot during a training exercise that evening on the military base

    The marine witnesses told Corbell that flares were fired to try to light up the alleged triangle object.

    Among the 128 photos Greenewald obtained this month via FOIA is a picture of two flares in the night sky, next to five smoke trails from extinguished flares which he believes were the source of the five mysterious lights – and could explain the marines' account.

    In the May 22 episode of Corbell and Knapp's podcast Weaponized, where they first revealed the footage, Corbell said: 'This was an object. The object was sitting there. I'm not going to say object anymore. It was a craft.

    'This is something that was a mass sighting of a UFO, an incursion over a military base. This was a craft.'

    But in an episode the following week, they backed off their claims, characterizing the publication as 'an effort to generate additional information'.

    'It was like a UFO crime not to have a case completely solved,' Corbell said in the May 29 episode. 'There are some great hypotheses that people have brought forward.'

    Knapp joked that they had not 'declared our belief that this is an alien spaceship from the planet Krondak', adding: 'What sold it for me, that it was interesting, was the photos taken with low light features that really do look like they substantiated triangular form.'

    In a statement to DailyMail.com this week, Corbell defended the marines' testimony as coming from 'trained military observers', but conceded that 'What appears to be smoke trails illuminated seems compelling and is now a leading theory.'

    'We now owe it to our brave service members to fully investigate further based on this new information and further updates can be expected,' the filmmaker said.

    Greenewald, who published the FOIA video and pictures on his website The Black Vault, told DailyMail.com that Corbell and Knapp have previously released footage of genuine unidentified objects that have been authenticated by the Pentagon, but that this incident was fully explained.

    'I'm confident there is something to these phenomena and I'm not afraid to call out the stuff that is over hyped or potentially even damaging to the UAP conversation,' he said.

    'There is ample evidence now the lights which matched the formation of the lights on the alleged 'UAP' were indeed flares.

    'I'd love to know why all that is. How have we gone from legitimate and even confirmed evidence being leaked, to this? It's a bizarre progression, and one I feel is far from fully revealed.'

    Electronics expert Craig Capel tweeted pointing out that the flares in one picture are purple, a color which can be created by burning cesium or potassium, but these are not usually used for military flares, which usually burn red using strontium

    Electronics expert Craig Capel tweeted pointing out that the flares in one picture are purple, a color which can be created by burning cesium or potassium, but these are not usually used for military flares, which usually burn red using strontium

    Despite the convincing debunk, others still argue that the lights have a different explanation.

    Electronics expert Craig Capel tweeted pointing out that the flares in one picture are purple, a color which can be created by burning cesium or potassium, but these are not usually used for military flares, which usually burn red using strontium.

    However, the colors may be affected by the iPhone camera adjusting for low-light conditions, and may not be an accurate depiction of their true color in the sky.

    'Given the coincidences with date and location, and the fact that these lights look and act like flares, I think we can safely say that these are the actual flares that were misidentified as a UFO,' West said in his video.

    'Military personnel are human, they are subject to the same illusions that we are. Sometimes when faced with something new, they might not be able to identify it. This happens perhaps more than we might like, but it's not something we should ignore, just because it seems impolite.

    'When looking at a UFO video, keep an open mind. Consider all the possibilities.'

    West writes about attempting to debunk alleged UFO incidents and other claimed conspiracy theories in his book, Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect, first published in 2018 and re-released in a revised copy last month.

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    5 Key Characteristics Unique to UFOs

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) have captivated the curiosity of experts and enthusiasts alike for many years, showcasing behaviors that challenge our conventional understanding of physics and technology.

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) have perplexed observers for years, exhibiting behaviors that defy our understanding of physics and technology. As a result, UFOs have become a popular subject for scientific study, attracting the attention of prestigious organizations like NASA. With increasing evidence and research, public perception has shifted significantly, moving away from the notion of UFOs as mere conspiracy theories and towards recognizing them as a real, unexplained phenomenon that warrants serious investigation.

    1. Astounding Acceleration: One of the unique characteristics of UFOs (UAPs) is that they can perform sudden, deliberate maneuvers, even changing direction instantaneously. These accelerations surpass the tolerance of known biological systems and challenge our current technological capabilities in material manufacturing.
    2. Silent Hypersonic Speeds: UAPs can travel at supersonic velocities without leaving any typical signatures behind. While modern military and reconnaissance aircraft produce detectable signatures like sonic booms, vapor contrails, and atmospheric ionization, UAPs leave no such traces.
    3. Elusive Observability: Whether viewed through electro-optical, electromagnetic means, or the naked eye, obtaining a clear image of UAPs remains a challenge, which is another key characteristic of UFOs. Witnesses struggle to describe them, radar returns are often nonsensical or jammed, and objects appear opaque and semi-metallic, making it difficult to see the object itself.
    4. Mysterious Trans-medium Travel: UFOs (UAP) can seamlessly navigate through various environments and conditions without compromising performance or lift. Unlike human-made vehicles designed specifically for space, air, or water, these objects can traverse all three mediums using the same design, baffling our understanding of physics.
    5. Unexplained Positive Lift: UFOs (UAP) can resist Earth’s gravity without the usual aerodynamic means for lift and thrust, such as engines, propellers, exhaust plumes, wings, rudders, ailerons, or fins. Despite lacking these features, they still move precisely in our atmosphere.

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) have captivated the curiosity of experts and enthusiasts alike for many years, showcasing behaviors that challenge our conventional understanding of physics and technology. This intrigue has led to a substantial shift in public perception, as UFOs are no longer dismissed as mere conspiracy theories but are increasingly regarded as a genuine, enigmatic phenomenon deserving of rigorous investigation.

    Prominent institutions such as NASA have recognized the significance of this shift, intensifying their efforts to explore these mysterious occurrences. With growing evidence and ongoing research, it is clear that the coming years will witness a heightened commitment to transparency and discovery, as we strive to unravel the mysteries surrounding UFOs.


    The presence of these five unique observations forces us to reevaluate our understanding of UAPs. To unravel the mystery, we need more data and comprehensive research to better comprehend what we are witnessing. 


    23 Far Out Facts About UFOs

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    27-01-2025 om 21:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.See 10 Mysterious ‘UFO Sighting’ Photos From History

    See 10 Mysterious ‘UFO Sighting’ Photos From History

    After confusion swept Los Angeles early on Feb. 25, 1942, the report from Western Defense Command was vague: “Unidentified aircraft were reported in the Los Angeles area.”

    What was experienced on the ground on that day 74 years ago, however, was very specific. As TIME reported the following week, “Los Angeles citizens crawled out of beds and goggled at the moon. The city had been blacked out. Suddenly, from dozens of Army anti-aircraft posts, searchlights lanced the dark. Orange bursts blossomed in the sky. The city shook with the concussion of ack-ack guns. For almost two hours, except for one 15-minute interval of scary silence, batteries coughed steadily, spewed 1,430 rounds of ammunition into the night.”

    For residents for whom the memory of Pearl Harbor was fresh, the possibility of an attack—later dubbed the “Battle of Los Angeles”—seemed very real. But the shot-down plane that the L.A. Times reported on was never found, and the Secretary of the Navy announced that the whole thing had been a false alarm, though Army officials maintained that enemy planes had in fact been sighted in the area.

    Whatever did cause the air raid procedure to be launched, it’s no wonder that the Battle of Los Angeles is also a favorite event for UFO conspiracy theorists.

    Read more: This Is Why People Think UFOs Look Like ‘Flying Saucers’

    In fact, it wasn’t until years later, in 1947, that the common flying saucer image of a UFO would begin to sweep through American popular culture. But, in the years that followed, the reports poured in. Here are a few of the early images that captured the imaginations of those who wished—or feared—to discover that we Earthlings might not be alone.

    Claimed To Be The First Sensational Picture Of The Mysterious Objects Popularly Known As Flying Saucers, This Photograph Is Reproduced From The Issue Teenage Times In Dublin. The Photograph Is Accompagnied By A News Story Which States That The Flying Sauc
    The Mar. 25, 1950, issue of Dublin's TeenAge Times claimed that these mysterious objects were flying saucers.Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone
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    Flying Saucer Flying over Farm
    A picture of a flying saucer photographed by farmer Paul Trent, over his farm in Minnville, Ore., on May 11, 1950.
    Paul Trent—Bettmann/Corbis
    UFO over Mountain Above Skyline in Riverside, California in 1951.
    Guy B. Marquand, Jr., who made this picture on Nov. 23, 951, in Riverside, Calif., said the object above the skyline was a "flying saucer." Marquand claimed that he and two friends saw the object fly past at a very high rate of speed, and when it came back, he had his camera ready toGuy B. Marquand, Jr.
    Bettmann/Corbis
    Salem, Massachusetts, USA. 3rd August, 1952. This picture, taken through the window of a laboratory by a 21 year old U.S. coastguard, shows four unidentified flying objects as bright lights in the sky. Many American's believe them to be flying saucers.
    This picture, taken through the window of a laboratory by a 21-year-old U.S. coastguard, shows four unidentified flying objects as bright lights in the sky on Aug. 3, 1952, in Salem, Mass.Popperfoto
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    UFO Flying Over New Mexico 1967
    This light was photographed on Oct. 16, 1957, when it hovered for 15 minutes near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico. Bettmann—Corbis
    UFO Flying Low Over Trees in Los Angeles, 1963
    The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club of America, which headquarters in Los Angeles, released this photo taken by a member reportedly showing a flying saucer on June 16, 1963.
    Bettmann—Corbis
    UFO Flying over Windmill in Hillside, MI in 1966.
    This March 1966 photo was released on May 16 of that year by William Van Horn, the civil defense director of Hillsdale County, Mich., as part of a 24-page report challenging an Air Force conclusion that "swamp gas" caused supposed UFO sightings in the area. Van Horn said conditions at the time were too windy for swamp gas to form.
    Bettmann—Corbis
    UFO Flying Between Rocks In New Mexico 1967
    A New Mexico State University student took this photo of what he said was a UFO, while photographing land formations for a geology class on Mar. 12, 1967.
    Bettmann—Corbis
    UFO sighting in California, 1967
    This is one of three photos of a supposed UFO taken by Rex Heflin, on Aug. 3, 1965, near Santa Ana, Calif. 
    Rex Heflin—AP Photo
    UFO Over Barn In Snow Covered Field, 1966 Colorado
    Robert Rinker, a field technician at the mountain laboratory weather station on Chalk Mountain in Colorado, discovered this unidentified object on a March 22, 1966, negative after he processed it. "I haven't said it's a flying saucer yet," Rinker said when he released the image.
    Bettmann—Corbis

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Elizondo & Tom Delonge Found Photos Of Italian Helicopter Destroyed By UFO In 2004

    Italian Helicopter Destroyed By UFO In 2004

    Elizondo & Tom Delonge Found Photos Of Italian Helicopter Destroyed By UFO In 2004

    In 2003 and 2004, a series of unexplained fires broke out in Canneto di Caronia, Sicily, Italy. These fires were seen in household objects such as fridges, TVs, and mobile phones. The phenomenon attracted the attention of residents and dozens of experts, including scientists, electrical engineers, and military personnel.

    Investigations ruled out arson, and an amazed scientist reported witnessing an unplugged electrical cable burst into flames. Locals blamed supernatural forces, and the Vatican’s chief exorcist even weighed in, stating that the fires could be caused by demons occupying electrical goods. (Source)

    A leaked interim report by the Italian Civil Protection Department, conducted with the involvement of a NASA scientist and ordered by the government, concluded that the most likely cause of the fires was “aliens.” The report estimated the cost of the two-year investigation at $1.2 million.

    According to the report, the fires were caused by high-power electromagnetic emissions with a power of 12 to 15 gigawatts, which were not man-made. The report also cited a possible unidentified flying object (UFO) landing near the village, with burnt imprints found in a field that could not be explained.

    Francesco Mantegna Venerando, Sicily’s Civil Protection chief, stated that they were still working on their conclusions. He noted that while they were not claiming little green men from Mars caused the fires, they were considering the possibility of unnatural forces producing a large amount of electromagnetic energy. Another possibility being explored was the testing of top-secret weapons by an unknown power capable of producing an enormous amount of energy.

    In April 2004, when a series of mysterious fires broke out, the Italian Military became involved since there had been several reports by fishermen of luminous objects at night flying over and going into the sea. The Military detected a UFO on the radar, but they could not make visual confirmation from the ground. So, they sent a helicopter to investigate everything.

    Canneto di Caronia UFO
    Vedruccio showed Elizondo a photo showing the claimed UFO on the left and the helicopter in question on the right

    In the “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation” series (Season 1 Episode 6), former Director of Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) Luis Elizondo and Tom Delonge paid a visit to Rome, where they discovered shocking details about the 2004 Sicily UFO attack.

    Lt. Col. Clarbruno Vedruccio of the Italian Navy’s Special Forces shared a story about a series of spontaneous fires in Sicily in 2004 and how a UFO approached the helicopter and fired a beam forced the pilots to make an emergency landing.

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    “In 2004, in Sicily, a craft appeared a few hundred meters behind the copter tail and it shot an (electromagnetic) ray that destroyed the helicopter wings. The signal was absolutely directional. It was a beam. On a certain band of frequencies. Then we discovered that when they use their energy weapons, they must go outside stealth mode. We could see them on a certain band of (electromagnetic) frequencies.” […] “You could use the same frequency to provide a radio beacon to call them, to attract them. To show them that we have understood their technology,” said Lt. Col. Clarbruno Vedruccio.

    Once the helicopter approached the coordinates, the UFO revealed itself, coming out of stealth mode. Officials said the helicopter was chased by a saucer-shaped UAP that shot a powerful, focused electromagnetic beam at its rotors. It fried them enough to disable the helicopter and force it to crash land. They figured out that the source of the spontaneous fires was an electromagnetic frequency from the sea. About 80 kilometres offshore and deep underwater really surprised Elizondo, as he was quite aware of underate sightings.

    Elizondo said: “They were very pointed, in a matter of fact, that these things had been kind of plaguing them for some time. One individual, in particular, provided some very, very detailed information to include some analysis on frequency. I hate to say it, but they may have more information than we do, even in the US potentially.”

    Another incident involved Captain Achille Zaghetti and his co-pilot, who encountered a 10-foot-long, khaki-colored UFO while flying from Milan to Heathrow. Capt. Zaghetti, recounting the 1991 event above Lydd, Kent, told Italian journalists: “It was shaped like a cigar and passed very close about 300 meters on the right, or 1,000ft.” (Source)

    “The color was military beige. We guessed that it was around three meters long. It was approximately 8 or 9 p.m., when it was still bright at altitude but pitch black on the ground,” said Captain Zaghetti, who resides in Grosseto, Tuscany.

    “It could have caused a terrible accident. If you’re flying at 700 kilometers an hour, hitting an object of 1kg is like hitting something which weighs 700kg.” Air traffic controllers at Heathrow spotted the UFO on the radar while directing a British Airways jet into the airport.

    Capt Zaghetti claimed the object was not a weather balloon and resembled instead the sort of long-distance fuel tanks that fighter aircraft sometimes carry.

    He was later contacted by a counter-terrorism official from an American agency who asked for more details about the encounter. He said he was glad his co-pilot had seen the UFO as well, because he did not want to be accused of being a fantasist. “And we had to visit the doctors every six months,” Capt Zaghetti added, saying there were no doubts about his health at the time.

    “Had any foreign adversary attacked a military helicopter of another nation, that could surely be a sign of aggression, and maybe potentially an act of war. So that’s a big deal,” Elizondo said. So are the world militaries engaged in combat with UFOs? It was not the first time UFO attacked man-made crafts and missiles.

    For 18 years, Robert Jacobs, a former US Air Force officer, had been participating in the official United States Government-ordered UFO cover-up. The cover-up was about the UFO shooting down one of the ballistic missiles back in 1964 in Big Sur, California. He claimed that his colleagues had ridiculed him for writing about this cover-up that appeared in The National Enquirer. (Click here to read full article)

    According to him, the warhead was approached by a UFO and fired a beam of light from different directions. Subsequently, the warhead malfunctioned and tumbled out of sub orbit hundreds of miles short of its target. “This… unidentified flying… thing had apparently shot down an American dummy atomic warhead,” Dr. Jacobs said.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Prime Minister of Grenada’s Push for UFO Disclosure at the UN in 1970s
    Sir Eric M. Gairy, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Grenada, addressing the General Assembly on 12 October, 1978.

    Prime Minister of Grenada’s Push for UFO Disclosure at the UN in 1970s

    We are familiar with the government officials, scientists, former intelligence officers, air force and navy personnel, journalists, politicians, and others who have been pushing for disclosure about UFOs, particularly since 2017.

    However, the momentum for their current actions was built over decades, when similar clarion calls were issued for information about non-human intelligence by high-ranking individuals and influential personalities, often in the face of ridicule.

    A congressional hearing on July 26, 2023, under the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, with Ryan Graves, David Grusch, and David Fravor. 

    (U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability).

    One of those prominent voices was that of Sir Eric Gairy, the late Prime Minister of Grenada, who through his untiring and spirited efforts in the 1970s brought humanity closer to learning the truth about the existence of extraterrestrial life.

    Global Coalition for Disclosure

    Sir Eric M. Gairy was the Prime Minister of Grenada—an island country of the West Indies dubbed the “Spice Isle”—from the mid to late-1970s. He held a slew of portfolios, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defense.

    On November 27, 1978, Sir Eric made an unprecedented move for a head of state, then or in present times, when he led a group including scientists and an astronaut in addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the subject of unidentified flying objects. He had brought a short film along with him, which consisted of still and motion pictures depicting actual sightings of UFOs.

    An important milestone in the history of ufology, the official UFO Hearing held at the United Nations Special Political Committee witnessed the participation of notable international institutions, scientists, and military personnel.

    Prior to delivering his speech at the UN, during a bilateral meeting with President Jimmy Carter in Washington on September 9, 1977, Eric Gairy had mentioned the UFO topic. Carter was no stranger to UFOs, as he is one of the few presidents who had a personal sighting of a strange craft. In 1969, he had observed an unusual aerial object in Leary, Georgia, and then proceeded to file an official report with the International UFO Bureau in 1973—though he did not claim it was an alien craft.

    Moreover, during his 1976 election campaign, Carter told reporters that he would make public all reports of UFO sightings. But, once in office, he cited national security to distance himself from disclosure.

    Back to Sir Eric: alluding to a resolution he had introduced on the agenda of the UN. General Assembly proposing an international study of UFOs, as well as a study of psychic and other related phenomena, Gairy asked President Carter if he could support it. He added that he had no doubt in his mind that, "…planet earth is not the only one God created."

    Jimmy Carter, the President of the United States, meets Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada in September 1977.

    (White House) 

    During his address to the United Nations General Assembly, the Grenadian prime minister said that he had come before the august body because of a "deep personal conviction" that UFOs were of "worldwide importance and significance".

    Eric Gairy emphasized that the UN needed to, "...come alive to its responsibilities and take a serious look at the UFO phenomenon to which planet Earth has been conspicuously exposed since 1947". The prime minister then introduced a resolution, which would establish an expert group to formulate guidelines for a UN led study of unidentified flying objects.

    The United Nations General Assembly hall in New York City.

    (Patrick Gruban/CC BY-SA 2.0)

    Among other heavy-weight participants the UFO study panel included astronaut, Gordon Cooper; astronomer, J. Allen Hynek; astronomer and ufologist, Jacques Vallée; nuclear physicist, Stanton Friedman; astronomer and astrophysicist, Claude Poher; and Lieutenant Colonel Larry Coyne of the U.S. Army, who appeared in his private capacity.

    Later, after gaining the approval of the panelists, Dr. Hynek presented a statement on their behalf on the need to initiate a centralized United Nations authority on unidentified flying objects. Interestingly, the graphics in the presentation given by NBC Radio producer and UFO researcher, Lee Speigel, — who was sponsored by Grenada to guide the initiative at the UN — were prepared by Steven Spielberg, who was at that time putting the finishing touches on his pathbreaking film ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’

    Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Dr. Jacques Vallée.

    (United States Government)

    It should be stressed that this major recognition of the UFO topic by the United Nations was in many ways not just the culmination of the determined endeavors of Sir Eric, but also a recognition of the sentiments he had expressed a year earlier to the U.N. General Assembly. Back in October 1977, Eric Gairy astonished the audience when he revealed, "...I have myself seen an unidentified flying object and I have been overwhelmed by what I have seen."

    Sir Eric also noted, "...In the same way that this planet is the accepted inheritance of all humanity, knowledge is also to be shared for the benefit of all mankind... one wonders why the existence of UFO's continues to remain a secret."

    A UN Secretary-General Gets Involved

    It was no mean feat for Sir Eric Gairy to assemble a team of high-ranking experts from disparate fields, to impress upon the United Nations to grant the UFO phenomenon the importance it duly deserved.

    However, it must be remembered that prior to Sir Eric’s move for disclosure, U. Thant, the third Secretary-General of the UN from 1961 to 1971 too made similar efforts. According to Press reports, he is said to have confided to his colleagues that he considered “UFOs the most important problem facing the UN next to the war in Vietnam.”

    U Thant, Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations.

    (Anefo/CC BY-SA 3.0)

    To address the matter Thant invited University of Arizona physicist, James E. McDonald, to brief the UN Outer Space Affairs group in New York in 1967. And so, McDonald attempted to persuade the UN to undertake a global study on the UFO phenomenon, urging any member nation to sponsor the research. That call was answered by Sir Eric Gairy, nearly a decade later.

    A Chilling Extraterrestrial Encounter

    Even though Sir Eric purportedly had a bizarre experience with an extraterrestrial in his home country, Grenada, a sudden and wholly unexpected turn of events halted the late prime minister from ensuring complete disclosure about alien life. Here’s how these events came to pass:

    The tight-lipped approach regarding the subject of extraterrestrial life that governments across the world have adopted, primarily in the United States, is something that has flummoxed anybody who has ever pondered the need for such confidentiality on so vital a topic to humankind.

    It is worth digging further to understand what prompted Sir Eric’s determination to know "...why the existence of UFO's continues to remain a secret."

    These words gain great consequence when we learn they aren't merely exaggerated statements made by a world leader who was a UFO enthusiast, too. Strange as it sounds, well before his address at the United Nations and the eager push for UFO disclosure, Sir Eric claimed to have had his own personal encounter with an other-worldly being—albeit a dead one.

    Image of a classic, metallic "Flying saucer" sourced from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

    (Public Domain).

    On the night of the incident, Eric Gairy, who was spending his leisure hours in a popular Grenadian nightclub, the "Evening Palace", was taken aback to see a local fisherman burst in and excitedly say he'd come across an odd-looking humanoid that had washed up on the beach.

    Eric, who was heavily interested in paranormal phenomena, quickly arranged a small military unit and a photographer. He then asked the man to lead him to the spot where the entity was found. Eric alleged later that when the investigating team arrived at the scene shortly before dawn, they witnessed a couple of fishermen at the site standing guard next to something covered by a tarpaulin.

    An aerial photo of the island-nation, Grenada, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

    ( Drkreative/CC BY-SA 3.0) 

    When the men pulled the tarp back, Sir Eric and his group momentarily recoiled in horror, for their eyes beheld an inexplicable sight. An enormous humanoid creature nearly eight feet tall, with pale white skin and white braided hair, lay soaking wet and motionless. With the facial features of an adult human male, the bizarre being's hands had six digits each. This extraterrestrial entity was clothed in a dark blue, skin-tight, one-piece suit with footwear attached.

    As the sun rose, it became apparent to Sir Eric and the assembled crew that the entire beach was littered with weird metallic debris. Eight boxes were identified, of which only two could be opened with considerable difficulty. These boxes contained aquatic flora and fauna—as though the dead creature was on a mission to collect the specimens for study.

    Two trucks—one for the boxes and another for the giant—appeared on the scene, and the peculiar cargo was spirited away to an undisclosed location.

    Although Sir Eric spoke about the incident in an interview, he never disclosed where the body had been taken nor what became of the containers retrieved along with it. And of course, he wasn't forthcoming about the photographs they'd clicked onsite.

    Defeat in the Face of Victory

    Prime Minister Eric Gairy earned a massive victory on December 18, 1978, when the UN General Assembly adopted Grenada's resolution to study the taboo subject of UFO's.

    But, before any gains could be realized for the ufology community from the November 1978 UN resolution, Eric Gairy was dislodged from power in a bloodless coup in March 1979 - ironically, while he was away at the UN for further discussions with Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim, about the recently adopted UFO resolution.

    National flag of Grenada

    (Public Domain)

    The meeting was cancelled and subsequently, given the timing of the coup, conspiracy theorists blamed the UK for sabotaging Sir Eric's bid to gain transparency about unidentified flying objects (Sir Eric had been Grenada’s prime minister when the island gained its independence from the UK in 1974 ). At the UN Great Britain had raised objections to Grenada’s plan, stating, “The British delegation does not think that the establishment of an agency for research into unidentified flying objects is appropriate to the functions of the United Nations.” By and large the US remained neutral.

    Sir Eric Gairy passed away in 1997 at the age of 75, and his efforts at shepherding UFO disclosure through the United Nations are widely recognized as one of his most memorable accomplishments as a political leader.

    For now, all we are left with is speculation and great appreciation for Sir Eric's unwavering attempts to seek the truth. Or perhaps we have had disclosure all along; for as leading UFO researcher Grant Cameron observed, “Every leak by the government, every movie in Hollywood that has an alien theme, and every UFO joke by the president is a type of disclosure.”

    • Top ImageSir Eric M. Gairy, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Grenada, addressing the General Assembly on 12 October, 1978.
    • SourceUnited Nations.

    By Anand N. Balaji

    https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Prime Minister of Grenada’s Push for UFO Disclosure at the UN in 1970s
    Sir Eric M. Gairy, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Grenada, addressing the General Assembly on 12 October, 1978.

    Prime Minister of Grenada’s Push for UFO Disclosure at the UN in 1970s

    We are familiar with the government officials, scientists, former intelligence officers, air force and navy personnel, journalists, politicians, and others who have been pushing for disclosure about UFOs, particularly since 2017.

    However, the momentum for their current actions was built over decades, when similar clarion calls were issued for information about non-human intelligence by high-ranking individuals and influential personalities, often in the face of ridicule.

    A congressional hearing on July 26, 2023, under the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, with Ryan Graves, David Grusch, and David Fravor. 

    (U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability).

    One of those prominent voices was that of Sir Eric Gairy, the late Prime Minister of Grenada, who through his untiring and spirited efforts in the 1970s brought humanity closer to learning the truth about the existence of extraterrestrial life.

    Global Coalition for Disclosure

    Sir Eric M. Gairy was the Prime Minister of Grenada—an island country of the West Indies dubbed the “Spice Isle”—from the mid to late-1970s. He held a slew of portfolios, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defense.

    On November 27, 1978, Sir Eric made an unprecedented move for a head of state, then or in present times, when he led a group including scientists and an astronaut in addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the subject of unidentified flying objects. He had brought a short film along with him, which consisted of still and motion pictures depicting actual sightings of UFOs.

    An important milestone in the history of ufology, the official UFO Hearing held at the United Nations Special Political Committee witnessed the participation of notable international institutions, scientists, and military personnel.

    Prior to delivering his speech at the UN, during a bilateral meeting with President Jimmy Carter in Washington on September 9, 1977, Eric Gairy had mentioned the UFO topic. Carter was no stranger to UFOs, as he is one of the few presidents who had a personal sighting of a strange craft. In 1969, he had observed an unusual aerial object in Leary, Georgia, and then proceeded to file an official report with the International UFO Bureau in 1973—though he did not claim it was an alien craft.

    Moreover, during his 1976 election campaign, Carter told reporters that he would make public all reports of UFO sightings. But, once in office, he cited national security to distance himself from disclosure.

    Back to Sir Eric: alluding to a resolution he had introduced on the agenda of the UN. General Assembly proposing an international study of UFOs, as well as a study of psychic and other related phenomena, Gairy asked President Carter if he could support it. He added that he had no doubt in his mind that, "…planet earth is not the only one God created."

    Jimmy Carter, the President of the United States, meets Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada in September 1977.

    (White House) 

    During his address to the United Nations General Assembly, the Grenadian prime minister said that he had come before the august body because of a "deep personal conviction" that UFOs were of "worldwide importance and significance".

    Eric Gairy emphasized that the UN needed to, "...come alive to its responsibilities and take a serious look at the UFO phenomenon to which planet Earth has been conspicuously exposed since 1947". The prime minister then introduced a resolution, which would establish an expert group to formulate guidelines for a UN led study of unidentified flying objects.

    The United Nations General Assembly hall in New York City.

    (Patrick Gruban/CC BY-SA 2.0)

    Among other heavy-weight participants the UFO study panel included astronaut, Gordon Cooper; astronomer, J. Allen Hynek; astronomer and ufologist, Jacques Vallée; nuclear physicist, Stanton Friedman; astronomer and astrophysicist, Claude Poher; and Lieutenant Colonel Larry Coyne of the U.S. Army, who appeared in his private capacity.

    Later, after gaining the approval of the panelists, Dr. Hynek presented a statement on their behalf on the need to initiate a centralized United Nations authority on unidentified flying objects. Interestingly, the graphics in the presentation given by NBC Radio producer and UFO researcher, Lee Speigel, — who was sponsored by Grenada to guide the initiative at the UN — were prepared by Steven Spielberg, who was at that time putting the finishing touches on his pathbreaking film ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’

    Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Dr. Jacques Vallée.

    (United States Government)

    It should be stressed that this major recognition of the UFO topic by the United Nations was in many ways not just the culmination of the determined endeavors of Sir Eric, but also a recognition of the sentiments he had expressed a year earlier to the U.N. General Assembly. Back in October 1977, Eric Gairy astonished the audience when he revealed, "...I have myself seen an unidentified flying object and I have been overwhelmed by what I have seen."

    Sir Eric also noted, "...In the same way that this planet is the accepted inheritance of all humanity, knowledge is also to be shared for the benefit of all mankind... one wonders why the existence of UFO's continues to remain a secret."

    A UN Secretary-General Gets Involved

    It was no mean feat for Sir Eric Gairy to assemble a team of high-ranking experts from disparate fields, to impress upon the United Nations to grant the UFO phenomenon the importance it duly deserved.

    However, it must be remembered that prior to Sir Eric’s move for disclosure, U. Thant, the third Secretary-General of the UN from 1961 to 1971 too made similar efforts. According to Press reports, he is said to have confided to his colleagues that he considered “UFOs the most important problem facing the UN next to the war in Vietnam.”

    U Thant, Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations.

    (Anefo/CC BY-SA 3.0)

    To address the matter Thant invited University of Arizona physicist, James E. McDonald, to brief the UN Outer Space Affairs group in New York in 1967. And so, McDonald attempted to persuade the UN to undertake a global study on the UFO phenomenon, urging any member nation to sponsor the research. That call was answered by Sir Eric Gairy, nearly a decade later.

    A Chilling Extraterrestrial Encounter

    Even though Sir Eric purportedly had a bizarre experience with an extraterrestrial in his home country, Grenada, a sudden and wholly unexpected turn of events halted the late prime minister from ensuring complete disclosure about alien life. Here’s how these events came to pass:

    The tight-lipped approach regarding the subject of extraterrestrial life that governments across the world have adopted, primarily in the United States, is something that has flummoxed anybody who has ever pondered the need for such confidentiality on so vital a topic to humankind.

    It is worth digging further to understand what prompted Sir Eric’s determination to know "...why the existence of UFO's continues to remain a secret."

    These words gain great consequence when we learn they aren't merely exaggerated statements made by a world leader who was a UFO enthusiast, too. Strange as it sounds, well before his address at the United Nations and the eager push for UFO disclosure, Sir Eric claimed to have had his own personal encounter with an other-worldly being—albeit a dead one.

    Image of a classic, metallic "Flying saucer" sourced from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

    (Public Domain).

    On the night of the incident, Eric Gairy, who was spending his leisure hours in a popular Grenadian nightclub, the "Evening Palace", was taken aback to see a local fisherman burst in and excitedly say he'd come across an odd-looking humanoid that had washed up on the beach.

    Eric, who was heavily interested in paranormal phenomena, quickly arranged a small military unit and a photographer. He then asked the man to lead him to the spot where the entity was found. Eric alleged later that when the investigating team arrived at the scene shortly before dawn, they witnessed a couple of fishermen at the site standing guard next to something covered by a tarpaulin.

    An aerial photo of the island-nation, Grenada, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

    ( Drkreative/CC BY-SA 3.0) 

    When the men pulled the tarp back, Sir Eric and his group momentarily recoiled in horror, for their eyes beheld an inexplicable sight. An enormous humanoid creature nearly eight feet tall, with pale white skin and white braided hair, lay soaking wet and motionless. With the facial features of an adult human male, the bizarre being's hands had six digits each. This extraterrestrial entity was clothed in a dark blue, skin-tight, one-piece suit with footwear attached.

    As the sun rose, it became apparent to Sir Eric and the assembled crew that the entire beach was littered with weird metallic debris. Eight boxes were identified, of which only two could be opened with considerable difficulty. These boxes contained aquatic flora and fauna—as though the dead creature was on a mission to collect the specimens for study.

    Two trucks—one for the boxes and another for the giant—appeared on the scene, and the peculiar cargo was spirited away to an undisclosed location.

    Although Sir Eric spoke about the incident in an interview, he never disclosed where the body had been taken nor what became of the containers retrieved along with it. And of course, he wasn't forthcoming about the photographs they'd clicked onsite.

    Defeat in the Face of Victory

    Prime Minister Eric Gairy earned a massive victory on December 18, 1978, when the UN General Assembly adopted Grenada's resolution to study the taboo subject of UFO's.

    But, before any gains could be realized for the ufology community from the November 1978 UN resolution, Eric Gairy was dislodged from power in a bloodless coup in March 1979 - ironically, while he was away at the UN for further discussions with Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim, about the recently adopted UFO resolution.

    National flag of Grenada

    (Public Domain)

    The meeting was cancelled and subsequently, given the timing of the coup, conspiracy theorists blamed the UK for sabotaging Sir Eric's bid to gain transparency about unidentified flying objects (Sir Eric had been Grenada’s prime minister when the island gained its independence from the UK in 1974 ). At the UN Great Britain had raised objections to Grenada’s plan, stating, “The British delegation does not think that the establishment of an agency for research into unidentified flying objects is appropriate to the functions of the United Nations.” By and large the US remained neutral.

    Sir Eric Gairy passed away in 1997 at the age of 75, and his efforts at shepherding UFO disclosure through the United Nations are widely recognized as one of his most memorable accomplishments as a political leader.

    For now, all we are left with is speculation and great appreciation for Sir Eric's unwavering attempts to seek the truth. Or perhaps we have had disclosure all along; for as leading UFO researcher Grant Cameron observed, “Every leak by the government, every movie in Hollywood that has an alien theme, and every UFO joke by the president is a type of disclosure.”

    • Top ImageSir Eric M. Gairy, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Grenada, addressing the General Assembly on 12 October, 1978.
    • SourceUnited Nations.

    By Anand N. Balaji

    https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Extraordinary Document Reveals Sketch of 1933 Crashed Alien Craft, Shared by Italian Journalist for First Time

    1933 Italy UFO Sketch

    Extraordinary Document Reveals Sketch of 1933 Crashed Alien Craft, Shared by Italian Journalist for First Time

    In the ongoing investigation into the alleged 1933 UFO crash in Italy, a significant breakthrough has emerged. Italian journalist Roberto Pinotti reveals that he obtained crucial documentary evidence about the incident. Astonishingly, he got these documents from a mysterious source who claimed that they had been inherited from a family member involved in the top-secret program.

    Pinotti claimed that the reported UFO crash happened in Magenta, Lombardy, Italy, on April 11, 1933. This event took place 14 years before the well-known Roswell UFO incident in New Mexico. The crash itself revolved around a saucer-shaped object resembling a flying saucer. Its occurrence prompted an inquiry conducted by the “Gabinetto RS/33” (or RS/33 Cabinet), a clandestine intelligence division formed during wartime under the authorization of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

    In his book “UFO Contacts In Italy Volume Two,” Pinotti disclosed that the crashed UFO was stored in the hangars of SIAI Marchetti in Vergiate. Mussolini, perceiving the unorthodox aerial craft as a clandestine weapon belonging to France, Britain, or Germany, found it intriguing. Meanwhile, Sen. Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian Royal Academy of Sciences’ leader, purportedly speculated that its origin was extraterrestrial.

    Roberto Pinotti
    Roberto Pinotti (left) is a President of the Italian National UFO Center (CUN)

    Additionally, the former US intelligence officer David Grusch, who provided astonishing insights into secret UFO programs, has given credence to this story. Grusch disclosed that the United States and its allies engaged in covert programs for nearly ninety years, revealing that one of the recovered craft was found in Italy in 1933.

    Mr. Grusch plans to testify publicly in the near future, potentially happening soon. Journalist Ross Coulthart acknowledges knowing multiple witnesses and whistleblowers who support Mr. Grusch’s claims. Mr. Grusch has provided evidence under oath to Congress and the Inspector General.

    Coulthart also mentions that there are others waiting to observe how Congress treats Mr. Grusch before stepping forward. Simultaneously, an additional interview with Mr. Grusch has surfaced online, revealing previously undisclosed and astonishing details about the UAP topic.

    During an interview with NewNation, Coulthart commends US Senator Marco Rubio’s statement, highlighting its bipartisan nature. Senator Gillibrand and Representative Mike Gallagher have also expressed support for holding hearings on the matter. Coulthart believes that certain classified information may be preventing some members of Congress from discussing the issue publicly. He praises NewsNation for giving the story the coverage it deserves and speculates that other media outlets may be hoping the story fails. Coulthart draws a parallel to the Watergate scandal, emphasizing that legitimate stories take time to gain recognition.

    Pinotti disclosed in his interview with DailyMail that he received the original secret documents about the case in 1996 from an anonymous source who claimed to have inherited them from a family member involved in Mussolini’s supposed UFO program. The documents included telegrams from June 1933 demanding silence regarding the alleged landing of an unknown aircraft and threatening penalties for journalists reporting on it. The telegrams were said to be by the personal order of Mussolini himself.

    1933 Italy UFO Sketch
    Pinotti received handwritten memos with a sketch and description of a cylindrical aircraft with portholes and lights flying over Northern Italy. The memos were on paper with a government agency letterhead dated August 22, 1936.
    Credit: DailyMail

    Pinotti also mentioned other documents referring to the mysterious government department “Gabinetto RS/33,” supposedly headed by Nobel Prize-winning inventor Guglielmo Marconi, which was responsible for managing the retrieval and study of the alleged saucer wreckage and other UFO incidents. However, the existence of this department and Marconi’s involvement have not been verified by Italian historians or UFO researchers.

    arrow points to ufo in grainy sky photo

    Bettmann//Getty Images

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    Pinotti claimed that the alleged crash site was near Magenta, a satellite town of Milan, and he identified SIAI Marchetti in Vergiate, an aircraft facility in the area, as the likely site where the supposed wreckage was stored. According to Pinotti, the site miraculously avoided bombing raids during World War II and was secured by US and UK troops in 1945.

    Grusch stated that the craft was recovered by agents of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a former US intelligence agency, around this time.

    “In 1933, a bell-like craft, around ten meters in size, was recovered in Magenta, northern Italy. It was kept by Mussolini’s government until 1944 when it was recovered by agents of the OSS,” Grusch revealed in his interview with the French newspaper Le Parisien in June 2023.

    The authenticity of the documents related to the alleged 1933 UFO crash in Italy has been a subject of debate and skepticism. Pinotti claims to have authenticated some of them through forensic analysis.

    According to Pinotti, a forensic expert tested one of the documents dated 1936 and concluded that the paper and ink were from that period. However, it is important to note that this analysis focused on a single document, and the telegrams from 1933 have not been tested.

    Skeptics have pointed out that vintage paper and ink from the time could have been used to forge the documents. Furthermore, the lack of protocol numbers or official stamps on the papers raises doubts about their authenticity. Some critics argue that the documents resemble personal memos rather than official government documents.

    Pinotti himself, as well as his colleague Alfredo Lissoni, have been advocates for the authenticity of the documents and have conducted research on the alleged 1933 UFO crash in Italy. Additionally, British historian Graeme Rendall, who has written books on WWII UFO sightings, believes the evidence is inconclusive.

    Journalist Christopher Sharp of Liberation Times did extensive research on the Italy crash and found that alongside the crashed UFO, two human-like bodies were allegedly recovered at the site in Lombardy, Italy, in 1933. The bodies described by Mr. Sharp sparked intrigue and speculation due to their unusual characteristics and alleged extraterrestrial origin.

    Later, the retrieved unknown craft’s information was confided to Pope Pius XII by Mussolini himself, as they had good relations. However, after Mussolini allied with Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, the Pope became uneasy about the craft and leaked it to the US from the Vatican. Post-war, the craft was allegedly brought to the USA, where it supposedly remains today.

    Lue Elizondo, a former government official involved in UFO investigations, mentioned seeing “compelling” documents from Mussolini’s office, indicating that some pieces of the Italian craft were transported to the USA after World War II. Speculations suggest that the craft was not a typical unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) with advanced technology, but rather a vehicle powered by jet engines and rockets, resembling the flying wing designs of the Horten brothers. The exact purpose of this technology transfer to the Axis powers remains unclear but is likely linked to gaining a military advantage.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Pilot’s Bizarre Encounter With 30-Foot-Tall Triangular UFO Prompts Aviation Safety Concerns

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    Pilot’s Bizarre Encounter With 30-Foot-Tall Triangular UFO Prompts Aviation Safety Concerns

    A baffling incident unfolded in the skies above Frederick County, Maryland, last month as a private pilot reported a mid-air encounter with a 30-foot-tall triangular UFO, newly released audio recordings reveal.

    The pilot, flying a Piper Cherokee Arrow (P28R), registration N30024, was flying from Allegheny County Airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland at the time of the incident, which occurred on December 20, 2023.

    Approximately 50 miles northwest of his destination, the pilot contacted air traffic controllers (ATC) to report sighting an object he described as appearing to be “approximately 30 feet tall” as it passed him flying “at about 6500-6800 feet.”

    “Not sure what it is,” the pilot can be heard saying in an audio recording of the incident uploaded to the YouTube channel You Can See ATC, which specializes in reconstructions of non-standard and emergency situations that occur in flight.

    “It was 30 feet tall?” an obviously perplexed ATC operator can be heard replying.

    “It was pretty tall, probably about 30 feet tall,” the pilot confirms. “It was going opposite direction of us.”

    Asked if the object was moving at a fast pace, the pilot, just prior to entering his descent, also confirmed that the object appeared to be moving quickly as it passed him.

    “Arrow to 024, what does the object look like?” the ATC operator can then be heard asking.

    “It’s kinda hard to describe,” the pilot responds. “It was just, uh, tall and, uh, pointy.”

    “Like a triangle?” the ATC operator then asks.

    “It was in the shape of a triangle. It was bottom and flat on top. I’m not sure what it is.” Intriguingly, the pilot then adds, “[I] do have a picture of it,” clarifying that there “did not appear to be any danger” resulting from the appearance of the unusual flying triangle.

    “It was pretty far away from us. Just noticeable enough for caution to other aircraft,” the pilot says.

    Following this exchange, the ATC operator can then be heard advising the pilot to call his supervisor due to safety concerns that were raised after the pilot’s bizarre sighting.

    “Just wanna make sure everything is safe up there, uh, for future aircraft flying through that. So give him a call once you’re on the ground safely please.”

    The Debrief has reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for comment on the December 2023 incident. The pilot who reported the sighting of the strange object has not been identified, nor has the alleged photograph of the object the pilot references in the recorded communications with ATC surfaced.

    For decades, observations of flying objects of unknown origin, which the Department of Defense now calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), have often involved triangular UFO sightings. Beginning on November 29, 1989, a wave of sightings involving large, triangular aircraft erupted over Belgium, culminating in an intercept attempt involving two Belgian Air Force F-16s in the early morning hours of March 31, 1990. Sightings of the unusual craft continued until April of that year.

    UFO

    Artist’s concept based on an alleged photograph depicting a triangular UFO observed by U.S. Navy aviators.

    (Credit: Dave Beaty/The Debrief)

    Remarkably similar sightings involving large, triangular UFOs have continued to be reported for decades, including an incident involving observations by multiple law enforcement officers located in St. Clair County, Illinois, during the early morning hours of January 5, 2000.

    Given that few details apart from its estimated size and general shape were conveyed about the object reported in the December 20 incident, it is unclear whether anything beyond a superficial resemblance to these earlier sightings of large triangular UAP exists.

    Earlier this week, members of the House Oversight Committee were scheduled to receive a classified briefing on UAP conducted by Thomas Monheim, the current Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC IG).

    Last June, The Debrief was the first to report on a complaint filed to the IC IG by whistleblower David Grusch, alleging that secret U.S. government programs involved in the recovery of craft believed to be of non-human origin had been illegally withheld from Congress.

    Currently, the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is responsible for evaluating UAP incidents reported by U.S. military personnel and is expected to release the first installment of a two-part historical review in the weeks ahead.

    Established in 2022, the office received some criticism for the slow pace of its operations, with its official website having not appeared online until August 30, 2023. At that time, a congressionally mandated reporting mechanism for military personnel to report their sightings did not yet appear on the website. Although added sometime later, the site’s current reporting mechanism only accepts unclassified information related to possible knowledge of U.S. government UAP programs.

    Last November, Sean Kirkpatrick, the first individual named as director of AARO, announced he would be stepping down from his position. Currently, those duties are being performed by Timothy A. Phillips, who had only been named as AARO’s Deputy Director shortly before the Pentagon confirmed Kirkpatrick’s retirement.

    Kirkpatrick officially retired from his duties on December 1, 2023, and is currently employed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as its Chief Technology Officer for Defense and Intelligence Programs.

    If you have additional information about the December 20, 2023, incident over Maryland or have observed similar unexplained aerial phenomena, please consider contacting The Debrief

    • 3:44 PM ET, 01/10/24: This article has been updated to further clarify that the photograph of the object the pilot is heard referencing in the audio recordings of his communication with ATC operators has not surfaced, nor is the pilot’s identity presently known.
    • Micah Hanks is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief. He can be reached by email at micah@thedebrief.org. Follow his work at micahhanks.com and on X: @MicahHanks.

    The full conversation can be heard below…

    Triangle-shaped UFOs are one of the most common identified by witnesses, along with saucer-shaped and orb or sphere-shaped crafts.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.US Military Recovered UFO That ‘Distorted Space-Time’ & Craft Able To ‘Alter Our Reality’ As Mentioned In Bizarre Navy Docs

    Space time distortion UFO

    US Military Recovered UFO That ‘Distorted Space-Time’ & Craft Able To ‘Alter Our Reality’ As Mentioned In Bizarre Navy Docs

    Physicist Michio Kaku proposes the existence of other dimensions, also known as parallel universes, coexisting alongside our own reality. Within these dimensions, it is plausible that there are beings or entities living alongside us, despite our inability to perceive them. While the concept of alternate dimensions or universes may seem far-fetched to some, it is intricately connected to the subject of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), commonly referred to as UFO phenomena.

    We live in a four-dimensional world (if time is included), but scientists propose there are more dimensions. However, they do not believe there can exist more than 11 dimensions because conditions become unstable and particles naturally collapse back down into 10 or 11 dimensions. The 12th dimension, for example, introduces a second time.

    “Our understanding of reality is not complete, by far,” says Stanford University physicist Andrei Linde. “Reality exists independently of us.” If they exist, those universes are separated from ours, unreachable and undetectable by any direct measurement (at least so far). And that makes some experts question whether the search for a multiverse can ever be truly scientific.

    In the realm of science, our quest for understanding alternate or higher dimensions remains ongoing. However, within the field of UFOlogy, intriguing cases have emerged suggesting the existence of not just other dimensions, but also the presence of entities residing within them. These beings seem to possess the ability to manipulate a bridge connecting their realm to ours, enabling them to embark on regular visits to our world.

    Crashed UFO that ‘distorted space and time’

    A very strange UFO case has been shared by American attorney Daniel Sheehan with Daily Mail. Sheehan involved in bringing UFO whistleblowers to Congress, claimed that a whistleblower told him a mind-boggling tale about a recovered crashed UFO. He revealed that a crashed UFO recovered by the US military had distorted space-time and was “bigger on the inside.” The whistleblower has reportedly briefed Senate Intelligence Committee staff on the matter.

    Project Blue Book Classified Version
    Daniel P. Sheehan.
    Image credit: danielpsheehan.com

    According to Sheehan, one of the alleged recoveries described by the insider involved a 30-foot saucer partially embedded in the earth. When attempts were made to remove it using a bulldozer, the craft exhibited unusual behavior. As it was being pulled out, it seemingly detached in a pie slice-shaped section, suggesting that it was constructed in a unique way.

    The anonymous whistleblower then entered the craft and was astonished to find that the interior was as large as a football stadium, while the exterior was only about 30 feet in diameter. The experience inside caused disorientation and nausea due to the vast size discrepancy. Furthermore, upon exiting the craft in a few minutes, the whistleblower found that four hours had passed outside, indicating time distortion as well.

    Sheehan mentions that the craft’s distortion of space and time is consistent with the theories proposed by physicists regarding advanced propulsion systems. These theories suggest that warping space-time could be used to counteract the effects of gravity and achieve advanced forms of propulsion. However, Sheehan does not provide further specific details, such as the location or date of the incident, and admits to being unable to provide concrete evidence to support these claims.

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    Moreover, on Jesse Michels’ show, astronomer and UFO researcher Jacques Vallee discussed another UFO case that includes experiencing another dimension by the witness. Valle said: “There was one case in San Jose. A woman had seen something over her house. It was a big disc, and I say, ‘How big was it?’ And she says, ‘Well, it was about the same size as her house. It was, you know, just like that.’ Then I say, ‘Well, when you went inside, you said, uh, you know, there was this being, and the being took you on a staircase.’ I say, ‘Where did the staircase go?’ Well, the staircase went up the side of this big round room. I say, ‘How would you compare it?’ Well, like a movie house, you know, like an M5 theater. I said, ‘That’s bigger than your house.’”

    Luis Elizondo, the man who managed the UFO program inside the Pentagon, explains how space-time distortion works and hints that we can manipulate this physics for technological advancement. In an interview with George Knapp in 2018, Elizondo explains:

    Space-time is something we observe in the natural world all the time, especially in relation to gravity and GPS satellites. The clocks on these satellites need constant calibration. Even though the clocks on the satellites are identical to the ones on the ground station, they still require regular calibration. The reason for this is the effect of Earth’s gravity on space-time. The clocks on Earth run slightly slower compared to the clocks on the platforms above Earth.

    How is this possible if the clocks are the same? Well, it’s because the closer you are to a massive object, like Earth, the more space-time warps. This phenomenon is explained by the theory of general relativity, which boils down to using the equation E=mc². Essentially, it means that a significant amount of mass or energy warps space-time. When you approach a supermassive object like the sun, the distortion becomes even greater. In fact, near a black hole, time becomes so distorted that it virtually stops.

    We have observed this phenomenon through gravitational lensing when studying distant galaxies. We can actually see the effects of gravity on space-time with our own eyes, so it’s a scientific fact, not fiction. The question now is how we can manipulate this physics for technological advancement. Potentially, we could warp space-time in a way that allows us to travel from point A to point B more quickly.

    Is it possible that an advanced extraterrestrial civilization has already accomplished this kind of technology and has been using it to visit our world? Or perhaps we already have such technology?

    In 2021, leaked documents revealed that the US Navy had conducted experiments on various far-fetched technologies, including a “space modification weapon.” These documents, disclosed by The War Zone, detailed the research carried out by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) between 2017 and 2019. The most interesting thing is that the technology written in those documents discusses propulsion system that defies gravity, or to devastating weapons that bends the laws of physics and craft that alters the fabric of time and space.

    The man behind all the patents is Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, who is an aerospace engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). He has four patents registered in his name that contain the source of technology that would change the world. In these patents, a “Spacetime Modification Weapon” (SMW, a weapon that can make the Hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in comparison) is mentioned.

    Dr. Salvatore Pais
    Dr. Salvatore Pais is a physicist and aerospace engineer with the US Navy. In 2019 his inventions of 3 highly advanced forms of technology were granted patents.

    Are these patents a cover for the reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology? The Navy’s objective in testing this conceptual system was to keep pace with similar programs being developed in China. The researchers believed that the space modification weapon could revolutionize power and propulsion systems. The technology was based on the “Pais effect” aimed to push the boundaries of science.

    Pais made ambitious claims about the potential of this technology, suggesting that it could lead to a propulsion system defying gravity or devastating weapons that bend the laws of physics. He even outlined plans for a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft” capable of altering the fabric of time and space.

    The Navy’s aerospace research enterprise supported Pais’s patents, stating that they filed them to keep up with similar technological advancements being pursued by the Chinese military. The “space modification weapon” described in the documents was envisioned to release extremely high energy levels, surpassing the destructive power of a Hydrogen bomb.

    However, the experiments conducted between 2017 and 2019 were inconclusive. The elusive Pais effect was neither observed nor disproven during this period. The Pais effect refers to a theoretical physics concept that involves the controlled movement of highly electrically charged matter. If proven possible, it could enable the creation of powerful energy fields capable of fundamentally engineering the fabric of reality.

    It is unclear whether the US Navy is continuing its experiments on the Pais effect or if the project has been discontinued entirely. None of the futuristic technologies described in the leaked UFO patents were developed, leaving the ultimate fate of the space modification weapon and related concepts uncertain.

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    What Are UAPs and Why Are They Gaining Global Attention?

    An illustration of what spherical UFOs look like.

    In recent years, the term “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAP) has replaced “Unidentified Flying Objects” (UFOs) in official discourse, reflecting a broader approach to unexplained observations not limited to airborne occurrences. UAPs encompass mysterious phenomena in the sky, underwater, and even in space, which defy conventional explanation.

    This change in terminology marks a significant shift in how these phenomena are perceived—moving from speculative to serious, scientific, and strategic investigation. Why are UAPs attracting so much attention, and what has changed in recent years to put them in the spotlight? I have been fascinated by this subject for over a decade, and in this article, I would like to explain, as best as I can recent developments in the field of UAP research.

    What Are UAPs?

    The term UAP includes observations of objects or phenomena that exhibit characteristics beyond current human understanding or technology. These may involve:

    • Aerial UAPs: Objects flying at extraordinary speeds, making sudden directional changes, or hovering without visible propulsion.
    • Underwater UAPs: Fast-moving objects detected beneath the ocean’s surface, often described as Transmedium vehicles capable of operating in air and water.
    • Space Phenomena: Unexplained movements or occurrences captured by satellites or astronauts.

    The shift from UFO to UAP was formalized by organizations like the U.S. Department of Defense to encourage a more scientific and unbiased investigation. This change also aimed to remove stigma, enabling pilots, scientists, and military personnel to report sightings without fear of ridicule.

    A Decade of UAP Developments

    The past ten years have brought a series of revelations and investigations into UAPs, transforming public and governmental attitudes. Key milestones include:

    2017: The AATIP Revelation

    In 2017, The New York Times exposed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a Pentagon initiative investigating UAPs. The report revealed:

    • Declassified Videos: U.S. Navy pilots recorded objects defying the laws of physics, including the now-famous “Tic Tac” UFO seen off the coast of California in 2004.
    • Pilot Testimonies: Pilots described objects moving without visible propulsion systems, executing instantaneous changes in direction, and disappearing at speeds beyond human capability.

    This disclosure marked a turning point, spurring global curiosity and demanding further investigation.

    2020: UAP Task Force

    The U.S. Department of Defense established the UAP Task Force (UAPTF) in 2020. Its mission was to evaluate UAPs as potential threats to national security, emphasizing military sightings near restricted airspace. This formal acknowledgment legitimized the study of UAPs.

    2021: Preliminary UAP Report

    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a report summarizing 144 UAP incidents reported by military personnel between 2004 and 2021. Key findings included:

    • 80 Cases Supported by Sensor Data: These sightings were corroborated by radar or infrared systems.
    • “No Single Explanation”: While some incidents were attributed to natural phenomena or human-made objects, most remained unexplained.
    • Recommendations for Study: The report stressed the need for additional data and a systematic approach to understanding UAPs.

    2023: NASA Enters the Arena

    In September 2023, NASA released its findings from an independent study on UAPs, focusing on how data could be collected to analyze these phenomena scientifically. The report concluded that while no evidence points to extraterrestrial origins, the lack of comprehensive data hinders definitive conclusions. NASA also announced a director to oversee its UAP research.

    Congressional Hearings and Whistleblower Testimonies

    In 2023 and 2024, U.S. Congress held hearings on UAPs, where former defense officials and whistleblowers claimed the existence of secret government programs retrieving non-human technology. Allegations included:

    • Reverse Engineering Efforts: Whistleblowers suggested attempts to study recovered materials from unidentified craft.
    • Public Transparency: Lawmakers emphasized the importance of sharing findings with the public to build trust and knowledge.
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    Why Are UAPs Attracting Attention?

    Several reasons explain the growing focus on UAPs:

    1. National Security Implications

    UAPs are often observed near sensitive military installations or restricted airspace, raising concerns about potential espionage or advanced foreign technology. The possibility of adversaries deploying hypersonic drones or surveillance systems has prompted governments to take UAPs seriously.

    2. Scientific Intrigue

    Some UAPs exhibit flight characteristics beyond known aeronautical capabilities. Studying these phenomena could:

    • Challenge our understanding of physics.
    • Lead to breakthroughs in propulsion technology and materials science.
    • Provide insights into new forms of energy or transportation.

    3. Growing Public Interest

    Declassified videos and transparent discussions have captured the public imagination. Social media platforms amplify sightings, while documentaries and media coverage make UAPs a topic of global fascination.

    4. Global Collaboration

    Other nations, including Canada, Japan, and Brazil, have reported UAP sightings and begun their own investigations. Collaborative efforts could unify scientific and technological resources to better understand these occurrences.

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    What Does Science Say About UAPs?

    While many theories exist, ranging from extraterrestrial visitation to advanced technology or atmospheric phenomena, the scientific consensus remains inconclusive due to a lack of consistent data. Some leading hypotheses include:

    • Advanced Human Technology: Hypersonic drones or experimental aircraft.
    • Natural Phenomena: Atmospheric anomalies, ball lightning, or meteors.
    • Extraterrestrial Origins: While no concrete evidence supports this, the possibility continues to fuel curiosity.

    NASA and other agencies stress the importance of collecting high-quality data through sensors, radar systems, and AI analysis.

    The Role of Government Transparency

    Governments worldwide are under increasing pressure to disclose UAP-related information. In the U.S., laws like the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024 mandate reports on UAP incidents, aiming to address public concerns about secrecy. Greater transparency is seen as essential to building trust and fostering collaboration between agencies and the scientific community.

    Looking Ahead: The Future of UAP Research

    As the study of UAPs moves from speculation to serious inquiry, key priorities include:

    • Improved Data Collection: Developing systems to detect, track, and analyze UAPs in real-time.
    • Scientific Partnerships: Collaborations between government agencies, universities, and private institutions.
    • Global Monitoring: Creating international databases to pool resources and insights.

    The next decade could redefine humanity’s understanding of unexplained phenomena and potentially open new frontiers in science and exploration.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Fact or Fiction: What Is The Truth Behind Alien Conspiracy Theories?

    Fact or Fiction: What Is The Truth Behind Alien Conspiracy Theories?

    Are aliens real? Is the government trying to cover them up? Learn how these popular alien conspiracy theories have become so fascinating.

    Woman and dog encounter an UFO

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    Every few years, an eerie cycle plays out in the news. Headlines report the sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs/UAPs). Then, a government agency issues a denial.  

    In 2006, employees at Chicago O’Hare International Airport described seeing an unidentified object hovering quietly near a terminal. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dismissed it as a weather event.

    Then in 2014, Navy pilots reported seeing a series of spinning saucers. The Pentagon did not comment at the time. Later in 2021, an American Airlines pilot said a long, cylinder-shaped object flew over his aircraft and resembled a missile. In response, the FAA said that no such object appeared on official radars.

    This cycle of UFO sightings and official denial has fueled conspiracy theories that the U.S. government is hiding alien information from the public. And in recent months, revelations from former government workers have prompted more people to believe these conspiracy theories might be legitimate. 

    What Is a Conspiracy Theory?

    A conspiracy theory is the belief that a small group of people are acting secretly, and their actions are meant to benefit their exclusive group. The idea that aliens exist is not a conspiracy theory. It becomes a conspiracy theory only when people believe that a small group — typically government insiders — are hiding information about aliens from the rest of us.

    When it comes to UFO conspiracy theories, the U.S. government tends to take the blame. More so, conspiracy theorists tend to merge the U.S. government into a singular identity, even though scholars argue there are millions of people who work for “the government.”

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    Have Alien Conspiracy Theories Increased?

    Conspiracy theories become more palatable to nonbelievers when trustworthy (or seemingly trustworthy) informants come forward with information. The last decade has seen an increase in credible-seeming people stating they have either witnessed UFOs or have evidence the government knows about aliens and is hiding them from the rest of the public.

    In 2023, a former official at the Pentagon, David Grusch, came forward as a self-described whistle-blower who once served on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. He claimed the U.S. had debris from a spacecraft of “nonhuman origin.”

    Grusch also said the U.S. has known about alien aircraft for decades, and his statements were helped by other government reports, including a 2021 report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that didn’t deny UFO sightings and instead admitted there were a lot of unanswered questions. 

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    UFO Crash Coverups

    One common UFO conspiracy theory, including the one proposed by Grusch, is that the government is hiding remnants of a UFO that crashed into the Earth. One of the first crash coverup conspiracies began in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, when reports of debris from a flying saucer were discovered near a military base.

    The U.S. military dismissed the debris as a weather balloon, not a flying saucer. As the decades passed, conspiracy theorists believed the government knew it was actually a UFO and intentionally hid the truth.

    It turns out the government was indeed hiding something — it just wasn’t a spaceship filled with little green Martians. In 1994, the General Accounting Office (GAO) audited the records related to the Roswell incident and released a report of their findings.

    In 1947, the U.S. worried about Russian nuclear capabilities. They were trying to monitor the upper atmosphere for evidence of Russian nuclear testing using a balloon device. When the balloon crashed, the U.S. military didn’t want the world to know what they were really doing. The UFO conspiracy theory was a helpful distraction. 

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    Another common UFO conspiracy theory is that the government not only has the remnants of an alien spaceship, but they also have the occupants in custody.

    Area 51, located in Nevada, has long been suspected of harboring crashed UFOS and extraterrestrial beings. One scholar described Area 51 as an “open secret” in which people understand the government is doing something but don’t know exactly what. 

    Area 51 is closed to the public, and the nearest public viewpoint is 12 miles away. In the 1980s, conspiracy theorists began promoting the idea that the government had aliens tucked away at Area 51.

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    Storming Area 51

    The theory was heightened in the late 1980s by an ex-employee who claimed he saw alien spacecraft with “gravity generators” when he worked at Area 51. He argued the U.S. government was hiding what they knew about extraterrestrial life from the American people.

    The ex-employee also boasted he held degrees from prestigious institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). When reporters researched his background and found no evidence he attended these schools, the ex-employee said the government erased his background so he would not exist on record because he was working with such highly-classified information.

    The ex-employee was eventually discredited, and the government seemed to ignore him. However, the Air Force’s tolerance for alien accusations has its limits. In 2019, a Facebook group developed the idea to “Storm Area 51” because they “can’t stop all of us.”

    More than a million people signed the pledge to show up at Area 51 and “see them aliens.” The Air Force issued firm warnings not to come, and the event was over before it began. 

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    How Did Our Fascination With Alien Abductions and Flying Saucers Transpire?

    About 75 percent of Americans believe in extraterrestrials. Find out why flying saucers and alien abduction stories are scattered throughout history, and where they came from.

    UFO

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    In September 1961, Barney and Betty Hill were driving late at night in the mountains of New Hampshire when they saw a flying object whizzing in the sky. Barney thought it was a plane until he saw it swiftly switch directions.

    According to The Interrupted Journey, the couple nervously continued driving until a spacecraft confronted them. They remembered seeing “humanoid-like” creatures and hearing pinging sounds reverberate off their car trunk. And then, they found themselves 35 miles further along on the highway with almost no memory of what had just transpired. They believed they had been abducted.

    The Hills reported their experience to the nearby Air Force base and it later became the subject of a book and then a movie. Their experience was widely considered the start of a collective fascination with extraterrestrials.

    It’s a captivation that persists, and 75 percent of Americans believe there are intelligent lifeforms elsewhere in the universe. But attitudes have changed, and most Americans no longer think aliens are hostile or a national security threat. Social scientists say our attitudes towards Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) have evolved with our acceptance of technology.

    Flying Saucers Fixation

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    Scholars mark 1947 as the start of the UFO fascination. A pilot flying in the Cascade Mountains in Washington state reported seeing disc-shaped objects. In the next decade, aliens were primarily seen as benevolent, intelligent beings who came to Earth to offer advice or warnings.

    In 1961, the Hills reported their abduction and stories about aliens became more sinister. Social scientists, like famed psychologist Carl Jung, analyzed the UFO obsession and found it fit neatly with humans’ long fascination with heavenly ascents. Whereas past societies looked for angels, saints or Gods to descend from the heavens, modern Americans were looking for “technological angels.”

    Starting in the 1960s, aliens were both benign angels and menacing demons, which prompted some religious scholars to see UFO fixation as a modern religious movement.

    Other scholars saw the popular fascination as a response to society dealing with rapidly changing technology. At the start of the 1950s, for example, most households didn’t have a television. That changed within the decade, and Americans were also aware that technological advancements would soon bring computers into our workplaces, households and even our bodies through devices like cardiac pacemakers.

    Most Americans now rely on technology for work and entertainment. People who call out to Alexa to add an item to the grocery list aren’t as technologically anxious as people were in the past. And for decades, that anxiety fueled books, TV and film about extraterrestrials.

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    E.T. in the Madame Tussaud wax museum, NYC.
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    The 1982 film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial dominated box office sales and was one of the few storylines to depict a kind alien. Most popular narratives featured frightening aliens. The long-running TV series X Files, involved a government coverup about alien life forms. Similarly, the 1997 film Men in Black, based on the comic book series, involved government agents protecting both alien allies and Earthlings from a variety of cosmic criminals.

    Stories about abduction were also common, which scholars have analyzed and identified consistent patterns and rhetorical devices.

    One scholar suggested that aliens were a stand-in for technological fears. Abductees described how the aliens controlled their bodies and minds. The aliens used high-tech, futuristic gadgets to conduct tests, many of which were described as stressful and painful. In the end, the person had lost time they could not account for.

    Another study looked at 130 accounts of alien abductions. The author found that the standard abduction story about aliens waking you from bed, transporting you into a spaceship and then subjecting you to medical tests was a modern myth in which the storyteller placed themselves as the hero. One abductee, for example, made himself a hero saying his “superior genetics” was the reason that aliens had abducted him multiple times.

    Abductee stories about humanoids communicating telepathically are outlandish, but compelling. And social scientists think they persuade people to listen.

    Investigating Alien Abduction Cases

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    In 2007, a psychologist interviewed and analyzed people who felt aliens once abducted them. The psychologist concluded these people were sane but created false memories that fictional accounts partly fueled.

    So why would anyone else believe their stories of aliens sucking them into a spaceship and then probing them in all the wrong places? The author found that the stories were compelling because the emotions expressed were both real and relatable. The stories followed a consistent pattern, which made them feel more valid. And, there were also many people willing to tell these tales.

    The large number of people who have described UFO encounters or abductions has prompted scholars to consider the belief a type of myth-making.

    And myths, one scholar notes, endure because they have both the appearance of truth and societal approval. Thus, UFO fascination flourished because the accounts seemed truthful and many people were willing to trust in a repetitive, but incomplete narrative and to believe there was much more to be learned. Just as they said in the X-Files, “the truth is out there.”

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    Historian Greg Eghigian looked at the history of reported UFO sightings. This is what he found.

    Iain Todd

    The history of reports of 'flying saucers' and 'UFOs' is fraught with alleged conspiracy theories and cover-ups, claims by believers and de-bunks from non-believers.

    Are people really seeing things in the sky that can't be explained? And if that is the case, does that necessarily mean they must be of extra-terrestrial origin?

    Whether we believe in the idea that alien craft are visiting Earth or not, it's a fact that there are numerous eye-witness accounts from across the world in which people claim to have seen something beyond belief in the sky.

    So what happens when you take a scientific, empirical look at reports of UFOs and flying saucers?

    What patterns emerge, and do they tell us anything about the cultural or geopolitical trends at the time the reports were made?

    Greg Eghigian is Professor of History and Bioethics at Penn State University in the United States and has written a book called After The Flying Saucers Came.

    It's just that: a history of UFO reports and what they can tell us about belief in the extra-terrestrial.

    We spoke to Greg to find out more about the flying saucer craze.

    Interview about the history of flying saucers and UFOs with historian Greg Eghigian
    Interview about the history of flying saucers and UFOs with historian Greg Eghigian

    What made you decide to look into the history of flying saucers?

    I’m an historian of science and medicine by speciality, and over the years have looked primarily at the history of how scientific and medical establishments and governments have understood ideas, feelings, people and thoughts that were marginal, or deemed to be outside the mainstream.

    I was led to the topic of flying saucers and UFOs in part by those interests, though it does deviate from what I normally work on.

    I was always fascinated with this stuff when I was growing up.

    I was a really voracious reader and consumer of anything about aliens and outer space visitors and things like that, though that interest waned as I got older and I grew interested in lots of other things unrelated to this.

    But I was talking with a colleague of mine, an historian who was working on a book project that involved looking at the renaissance of the occult right after World War II in Europe.

    I asked her: “was that whole flying saucer thing a craze in Europe at the time?”

    She said “I don't know, you ought to look into it and write something about it.”

    And I just dismissed it out of hand.

    But one summer I was ill, so I couldn't do traveling as I normally do, and I started going through digital databases of newspapers in Germany in the late 1940s and 50s.

    And bam: all these headlines about flying saucers.

    I wrote an article on it and I thought there must be so many historians who have done work on this.

    I found one. One sole book on the history of the subject in 1975 by a historian who, by the way, later becomes a subject in my own book because he becomes a true believer and a major figure in the alien abduction phenomenon.

    And that's how I got hooked. I thought, okay, I'm diving in.

    At Fort Worth Army Air Field on 8 July 1947, Brigadier General Roger M Ramey (left) and Colonel Thomas J Dubose, identify metallic fragments found at Roswell as pieces of a weather balloon. Credit: Bettmann / Getty Images
    At Fort Worth Army Air Field on 8 July 1947, Brigadier General Roger M Ramey (left) and Colonel Thomas J Dubose, identify metallic fragments found at Roswell as pieces of a weather balloon.
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    You don't have to believe the reports are true in order to  factually catalogue the history of it, do you?

    No, I come at this from that very perspective.

    I make it very clear from the start, I'm not here to try to present evidence that aliens have been visiting us.

    But I also don't come from the perspective of the debunker who's here to tear down every opinion.

    I wanted to take the general ethos of most historians and say, I'm here to chronicle the way we've come to think about and talk about and debate this subject.

    Especially in this day and age with a lot going on when it comes to discussions about exoplanets and SETI and things like that.

    It seems to me it's the time to revisit that history and think about how we got to the point where we are now.

    Does it all begin with Roswell?

    No, it doesn't begin with Roswell! In fact, Roswell is a blip, a really minor blip. It's a very tiny footnote.

    When you look at it in the wider perspective, it actually starts a little earlier than that with a private pilot by the name of Kenneth Arnold, who's flying around Washington State, around Mount Rainier, looking for a crashed plane.

    And he sees these strange pan-shaped objects flying at high speeds.

    He comes back, lands on the ground and tells people he’s seen some weird stuff, and reports it to the authorities and also the media.

    And the media starts asking him questions about it. They ask him, how did these things fly? How would you describe it?

    He said they flew like a saucer might if you skipped it over water.

    And a very enterprising journalist knew a headline when they saw one and called them flying saucers.

    Within 6 weeks, a survey said 9 out of 10 Americans had heard the term flying saucer.

    Roswell pops up as a story for about 2 days and then disappears and is never heard of again, until you get into the late 1970s and early 80s.

    (L-R) Pilots E.J. Smith, Kenneth Arnold and Ralph E. Stevens look at a photo of an unidentified flying object they sighted en route to Seattle, Washington. Credit: Bettmann / Getty Images

    (L-R) Pilots E.J. Smith, Kenneth Arnold and Ralph E. Stevens look at a photo of an unidentified flying object they sighted en route to Seattle, Washington.
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    When you hear a report like that from a pilot, someone who’s an expert in aviation, do you find yourself struggling to remain neutral?

    Yeah, reports like that pop up all the time and there are lots of head scratchers.

    And there are times you read something and you say, this doesn't pass the sniff test.

    When you're talking about historical cases where you can't talk to anybody anymore, you're left saying, geez, I wish there was a little more information about this, or I wish somebody had a camera at the time.

    But when you hear seasoned pilots, for instance, who are very knowledgeable, talk and describe things that they see, that is really arresting and it makes you pause.

    The great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung put it really, really well. He said "things are seen in the sky, but we don't know what".

    And even the authorities, whether it's the UK Ministry of Defence or the United States Air Force, all have historically fully admitted there are cases we can never explain.

    They make us scratch our heads; we're sort of left with a big question mark.

    How do you approach a topic like this as an historian?

    There are a couple of things that it's important to keep in mind.

    One is that the language that's often used in the UFO world, if you will, is often very sloppy.

    Just think of something like the term ‘UFO’: Unidentified Flying Object.

    Even though it sounds precise, it was meant to replace ‘flying saucer’, because ‘flying saucer’ was seen as a kind of biased term.

    ‘UFO’ is biased in its own ways.

    Is that really an object? Flying implies piloting and it implies design.

    It's fair to say the same thing holds true with the distinction between sightings and reports.

    A sighting is an experience that someone has, but we know that the vast majority of people who see something odd never say anything, not to officials, to the media, the police or the Air Force.

    Something has to lead somebody to actually report it to some institution – it might be a UFO group, it might be authorities – and they then write it down in some form.

    It could be in a messy form, it could be a police officer who's ho-humming it all the time.

    So what I'm interested in is reports, these documents that we have.

    They oftentimes aren't very detailed. So as an historian we are ultimately left with trying to work with records and documentation.

    That can be a recording, that can be an interview, but it oftentimes it’s self reports and also reports by others.

    How do we discuss reports of flying saucers? How have different institutions and different groups grappled with it?

    And how have they made that into something that they see as worthy of a conversation, and sometimes worthy of some sort of action on the part of people who can take action?

    Flying saucer
    The term 'flying saucer' has now entered our common vocabulary.
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    Do you find any narrative consistency throughout reports of UFOs?

    What's interesting is that's one of the things that changes.

    When you look particularly in, say, the first decade or decade and a half of the phenomenon, there is a lot of diversity, in terms of what's reported.

    The most common thing that people see are lights. Maybe it's different colors. Maybe they flash off and on, but lights: very vague, very blurry.

    Not much more detail than that.

    You hear people talking about cigar-shaped things, saucer-shaped things, globes, hexagonal objects.

    But you really see the diversity when people say they actually saw the occupants of these vehicles.

    In the 1940s and 50s into the early 60s, it's a very wide range, very diverse group of beings that are talked about.

    Everything from little men under four feet tall, sometimes as small as under 12 inches.

    Other times they're large, hairy monsters that sort of look like Sasquatch.

    There are robots, there are males, there are females, there are androgynous beings, there are bulbous heads.

    Some are absolutely gorgeous and look like fashion models, all sorts of things.

    What happens over time, and this is what's interesting to me, is that those images start to winnow down, and there becomes a kind of a homogeneity to it all, kind of a standardisation, if you will, in descriptions.

    And that to me, in part, is something that signals a role that culture is increasingly playing in terms of helping to shape those images into images that are familiar to everyone.

    Well, again, what I love about this history is it confounds every preconception I had.

    I, like most everybody else, was ready to think there must be so much influence of pop culture on UFO sightings and reports and the way people describe things.

    And in part there is. There's no question that the pulp science fiction of the first half of the 20th century had a direct impact on the early alien visitor story, the way people engaged with it.

    It's not a surprise that most all of those first few years of people pushing the UFO narrative, there seems to be inspiration from the pulp science fiction world.

    But where you see something that doesn't quite connect that way is with film.

    The idea has been always that films must have a real profound influence on, say, upticks in the number of sightings.

    And that doesn't really bear out. You have a very big wave of sightings and reports in the United States, for instance, in 1952.

    But there's no major big UFO film from that time period that takes place.

    Or you could take something like Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters.

    I talked to one of the folks who leads one of the big organizations that were looking into UFOs at the time, and I asked him about it.

    And he said, what we saw at the time was not an uptick in new sightings.

    People weren't seeing UFOs right after the film, but what they did see an uptick in was the number of people coming forward saying "five years ago, or three years ago, I saw something that seemed like that".

    So it triggered that.

    And we know from the UK, for instance, that following Spielberg's film E.T., there was actually a downward movement in the number of UFO sightings.

    So it doesn't neatly map on to popular culture as much as we like to think at times.

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Popular UFO movies don't necessarily cause an increase in reported UFO sightings. Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Popular UFO movies don't necessarily cause an increase in reported UFO sightings.
    Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images

    You hear people say it's not a coincidence it all kicked off during the Cold War and Space Age.

    I definitely would argue that the Cold War plays a critical role in this.

    The UFO as we know it is unimaginable without the Cold War, and it's a spectre that haunts the entire history.

    People are constantly making references to UFOs.

    For instance, in those early years, one of the questions that comes up is, okay, the flying saucers are here, they're aliens.

    Why are they here in 1947, 1948? Why now and not five years earlier, 500 years earlier?

    And the argument that starts being put forward is, well, the aliens have seen the atomic bomb explosions.

    They've seen that we have unlocked the key to atomic energy and they are scared.

    They're either scared for us or they're scared of us, but they realise we have reached this level of civilisation that makes us a qualitatively different species.

    What I don't see is a lot of what some people have argued is the case, that bad times promote more flying saucer panics or flying saucer reports.

    That seems to me a bit of a problematic argument because it seems to me prone to cognitive bias.

    Pick up a newspaper from any time period you like, and outside of maybe when the Berlin Wall fell, you will see mostly bad news.

    Journalists are very good at reporting bad news and sometimes have a hard time knowing how to make good news interesting!

    Do you find a large majority of sightings and reports are from the US? And does that suggest it's to do with the culture of the society?

    I would say the evidence shows that the United States plays a very critical role. It's a hub.

    It's a hub in that the news emanating out of the United States is what triggers the UFO phenomenon.

    Throughout the history of flying saucers and UFOs, whenever there's a new development, like the events occurring since 2017, it is something that gets reported everywhere else.

    That said, it's very clear within a few years that there are hubs popping up throughout the world and other places, and the influence actually goes in the other direction at times.

    There are places in Europe, in South America, where you see a really pronounced concentration, not only of sightings and reports, but also activities by UFO organisations.

    So I would say in Europe, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain all played a very, very big role.

    Whereas in Germany, for instance, it was a much more muted phenomenon.

    In South America, Brazil and Chile, Argentina play major roles.

    And my argument would be, it has to do with whether or not you have a civilian UFO organization infrastructure.

    In places where that gets built up and is sustainable, that's where you see this ability to articulate these narratives and lay out these programs to study the phenomenon, but also to have an impact worldwide on how these things are understood and viewed.

    Some argue it's not a coincidence that UFO sightings increased during the Cold War. Photo by Camerique/Getty Images
    Some argue it's not a coincidence that UFO sightings increased during the Cold War.
    Photo by Camerique/Getty Images

    Did you come across attempts to  explain the strangest cases away?

    Oh, I see that all the time.

    Over the years I've been working on this, I've gotten to know lots and lots of 'ufologists', as they're called, UFO researchers of various kinds, and talked with people who say they've had experiences having contact with aliens or other kinds of beings.

    It's a pretty diverse group of people.

    I think there's a lack of appreciation just how many diverse perspectives there are when it comes to the flying saucer and UFO phenomenon in terms of how people approach it.

    A lot of folks I know are not really altogether different from the people, say, over in the UK defence ministry who were very sceptical about this.

    They themselves will tell you 95% of sightings, if not more, are easily explained.

    And in fact, many UFO investigators I talk with, this is one of the things they do all the time.

    They get a phone call or they get an email, they look into the case and they find out it's a rather mundane explanation.

    Somebody was floating Chinese lanterns or somebody saw Starlink satellites which, if you see those things in the sky and don't know what that is, I would call that a UFO sighting.

    One of the things I talk about in the book is the motivation for why people get involved in this stuff.

    It’s that ability to be a detective, to crack a case.

    It's really not altogether different from your favourite true crime podcast where everybody's invited to chime in and crack the case.

    It keeps you going in the hope that maybe one day, a case is going to come along that makes you think “this is not going to go away”.

    A group of SpaceX Starlink satellites in the night sky over Uruguay. Photo by Mariana SUAREZ / AFP via Getty Images
    A group of SpaceX Starlink satellites in the night sky over Uruguay.
    Photo by Mariana SUAREZ / AFP via Getty Images

    After you finished the book, was it hard to leave the subject alone?

    Yeah, it is hard to leave it alone. I won't be leaving it alone because now I get a lot of people wanting to talk with me and contact me about discussing it.

    And I'm going to be working on a new project, writing a book about the controversy surrounding the alien abduction phenomenon that was particularly lively in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

    So no, once you've met the UFOs, they don't leave you alone!

    What do you think about the argument that smartphones mean we should have irrefutable proof by now?

    The ‘everyone carries a camera now’ argument is one I've heard a lot, and it's actually convinced some old-time UFO investigators that maybe there is not much to this anymore.

    I've gotten a response from other UFO researchers who say, we know our smartphones are good at taking a picture of nice food at a restaurant or your friends at a party.

    It's not a very refined or precise instrument for tracking something as complicated as a UFO.

    Left to right: Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, and Retired Navy Commander David Fravor at the US Congress hearing ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency’, on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, 26 July 2023. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
    US Congress hearing ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency’, on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, 26 July 2023.
    Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

    How do you feel about more recent reports like those that have occurred since 2017 with the US Navy footage and Pentagon briefings in the US?

    First of all, the fact that intelligence officials in the United States have come forward to say unequivocally, these pilots saw real objects, these are not computer glitches, these are not optical illusions, something is there.

    That's unusual. That you didn't tend to get over the decades, that kind of admission.

    And also their admission that they have maybe been derelict in taking seriously the reports of pilots, that they've ridiculed them, that a certain amount of peer and hierarchical pressure has really influenced people not to report things.

    From my position as an academic, what I really find exciting and interesting is NASA's intervention.

    NASA getting this independent UFO panel and saying okay, we think this deserves and warrants investigation, let's go about this in a serious fashion.

    Because, you know, NASA is about civilian science, it's not about classified projects.

    So adding that legitimacy to me seems to be the really unprecedented step.

    That's the thing that I think opens the pathway for people from all sorts of disciplines to begin having conversations about what research projects might look like.

    I think we'll see over the next, say five to 10 years, where this takes us.

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    It Goes Back Centuries: UFO and Alien Encounters from Before the Modern UFO Era

    It Goes Back Centuries: UFO and Alien Encounters from Before the Modern UFO Era

    Marcus Lowth


    When most of us think of UFOs, we likely cast our minds no further back than the late 1940s, which is widely considered to be the start of the modern UFO era. Likewise, when the subject of encounters with aliens and alien abduction are discussed, we almost certainly think of cases from the 1970s, eighties, or even 1990s. The fact is, though, there are many encounters on record that appear to clearly describe strange aerial objects, as well as some that even suggest interaction with otherworldly entities long before the mid-twentieth century.

    Perhaps a good place to start would be with the Tulli Papyrus, and what some people have claimed is one of the earliest documented sightings of a UFO somewhere around 1500 BC. This intriguing document, it is claimed, records the appearance of a strange object over the land of ancient Egypt. The document was first discovered in 1933 while the Director of the Egyptian Museum at the Vatican, Alberto Tulli, was working in Cairo, although what makes it particularly controversial is that no one – other than Tulli, that is – has ever seen the original. According to Tulli’s account, he came across the ancient papyrus, which was written in hieratic script, while in an antique shop. However, he didn’t have enough money to purchase it. Instead, he made a copy and then translated the hieratic scripts into hieroglyphics. Of course, this has led some people to contemplate just how accurate the translations are and whether the document ever existed at all. Whatever the truth, the full translation of the document – according to Tulli – reads as follows:

    In the year 22, in the third month of winter, in the sixth hour of the day, the scribes of the House of Life noticed a circle of fire that was coming from the sky...From the mouth it emitted a foul breath. It had no head. Its body was one rod long and one rod wide. It had no voice. And from that the hearts of the scribes became confused and they threw themselves down on their bellies...then they reported the thing to the Pharaoh...His Majesty ordered...has been examined...and he was meditating on what had happened, that it was recorded in the scrolls of the House of the Life. Now after some days had passed, these things became more and more numerous in the skies. Their splendor exceeded that of the sun and extended to the limits of the four angles of the sky...High and wide in the sky was the position from which these fire circles came and went. The army of the Pharaoh looked on with him in their midst. It was after supper. Then these fire circles ascended higher into the sky and they headed toward the south. Fish and birds then fell from the sky. A marvel never before known since the foundation of their land...And Pharaoh caused incense to be brought to make peace with Earth...and what happened was ordered to be written in the Annals of the House of Life so that it be remembered for all time forward.

    It is easy to see how such a translation would be interpreted as a UFO encounter. It is claimed that once Tulli had translated the document and realized the true importance of what he had read, he disclosed the findings to the Vatican, who agreed to fund the purchase of the papyrus. However, by the time he returned to the shop, the ancient writing was no longer there – it had mysteriously disappeared. The tale, though, would take another turn two decades later in the early 1950s.

    In 1953, an Italian man, Prince Boris of Rachelwiltz, claimed to have found a torn version of the ancient papyrus in a book that had once belonged to none other than Alberto Tulli. He claimed that he also translated the ancient writing and, much like Tulli, revealed a description of a disc or circle of fire. Interestingly, the Vatican denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of the apparent original document.

    A decade and a half later, in 1968, the Tulli Papyrus was featured in the US Air Force-commissioned Condon Report when Samuel Rosenberg asked the Vatican to comment on the claims of the original document and translation. The Vatican offered the document was “not the property of the Vatican Museum” and that Tulli had “disappeared and was never found”, which is perhaps ominous in itself. They also stated they had discovered that Tulli was not an Egyptologist and, as such, was not qualified to have translated the document, if indeed it ever existed. Even more remarkable, they further claimed that “Rachelwitz, in a confidential letter, admitted that he had never seen the original document or Tulli’s original notes”. In short, the Vatican was not only distancing itself from the Tulli Papyrus, but they were also ensuring there was considerable doubt cast onto both Tulli and Rachelwitz.

    As we might imagine, some researchers and investigators are suspicious of the Vatican’s comments, believing them to be nothing more than a cover-up of their knowledge regarding the document’s existence and authenticity. However, as intriguing and thought-provoking as the alleged document is, we need to treat the alleged documentation with a considerable pinch of salt.

    While there might be doubt regarding the Tulli Papyrus, the records of ancient Rome are much more solid, especially given the meticulous procedures involved in record-keeping in the Roman Empire. And surprisingly or not, there are several documented incidents that sound very much like UFO encounters.

    In the book Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times, Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck relay just such an incident from 343 BC. The account is found in the writings of Diodorus Siculus, who documents the journey of Timoleon from Corinth to Sicily and who, ultimately, suggested that a strange light in the sky guided his route. He would write that “all through the night he was preceded by a torch blazing in the sky up to the moment when the squadron made harbor in Italy!” The insinuation that the light in question remained until Timoleon reached his destination upon which it disappeared might very well suggest some kind of purposeful interaction.

    Just over a century later, between 218 to 201 BC, during the Second Punic War, the Pontifex Maximus of Rome documented several sightings of “gleaming round shields” in the Annales Maximi. Just under a hundred years later, in the year 122 BC, over the skies of Ariminium in modern-day Italy, when there were several reports of “three moons” appearing in the sky overhead. Furthermore, these “moons” were visible not only at night but also for several hours during the day. The incident was one of several documented by Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturallis volumes, who wrote, “Three moons have appeared at once in the consulship of Gnaeus Domitius and Gaius Fannius”.

    Just under 50 years later, in 74 BC in what is modern-day Turkey, a truly remarkable incident was documented by Roman historian Plutarch. According to his writings, on the day in question, under bright sunshine, Roman and Turkish soldiers were advancing toward each other in anticipation of a bloody battle when a sound like the rumble of thunder was heard, followed by a bright flash of light. The two battalions stopped their advances and looked upwards to the sky, where they saw a “huge flame-like body” that proceeded to “fall between the two armies!” Plutarch wrote that the object was shaped like a “wine jar” and was silver in color. Incidentally, both armies retreated a short time later, which perhaps should make us contemplate whether the intention of the landing was to cause the battle to be abandoned, and if that was true, it would suggest a definite interference in human affairs by the intelligence behind the object.  

    There is another interesting sighting documented from the year 12 BC, and while there is not a great amount of detail, it features a detail that has been witnessed several times in UFO sightings of our contemporary era. According to the ancient report, residents of Rome witnessed the appearance of a “comet-like” object that hovered over the city for several days. After this, it then “melted”, with witnesses stating that pieces that melted away looked similar to flashing torches. What is interesting is that in the twenty-first century, there have been several sightings of glowing objects hovering overhead that then emit several “drips” that look similar to pieces melting from it. Whether these objects are extraterrestrial vehicles or not, it is interesting to see a report detailing an almost identical event.

    A particularly thought-provoking incident was documented by historian Josephus and took place in Judea in the year 65, where the residents of the city witnessed what can only be described as a battle between aerial objects. In fact, Josephus would write that the account would “likely have been deemed a fable were it not for the narratives of eyewitnesses!” He continued that on the day in question, “armed battalions (were) hurtling through the clouds”, which then forced the ground to shake. Another historian, Tacitus, also documented the remarkable affair, writing that “in the sky appeared a vision of armies in conflict, of glittering armor!”

    Documented reports of what we would determine from a modern perspective as being a battle between UFOs can be found a millennium and a half later on two separate occasions. The first occurred on April 14th, 1561, in the city of Nuremberg in Germany and was documented in an illustrated broadsheet the following week by Hanns Glaser, a “letter-painter” of the city. Glaser offered that the residents of the city were witness to “a very frightful spectacle” overhead as globes of “blood-red, bluish, or black” hung in the sky. Among these globes were “plates and blood-colored crosses”. Glaser continued that several of these objects were “three in a row”, which perhaps suggested they were in some kind of formation. Also mentioned was the presence of huge tube-shaped objects from which further “globes” emerged, perhaps suggesting they were motherships. Glaser went on to detail how these strange aerial vehicles went on to “fight one another” until “they all fell…from the sun and sky down to the earth as if everything was on fire!” When the flames died down all that was left was “immense smoke”.

    Just over five later, during the course of several weeks between late July and early August 1566, in Basel, Switzerland, further apparent aerial battles were witnessed. These sightings would culminate just before dawn on August 7th, when “many large black globes were seen in the air, moving before the sun with great speed!” The incident was documented by Samuel Coccius, who stated that the black globes were “turning against each other as if fighting. Some of them became red and fiery and afterward faded and went out!” We might conclude that the “red and fiery” refers to some kind of aerial explosion that caused these craft to fall to the ground.

    According to an account that can be found in the book Best UFO Cases – Europe by Illobrand Von Ludwiger, at around 2 pm on the afternoon of April 8th, 1665, in Stralsund, Germany, near the Baltic Sea, several fishermen noticed what they thought was a particularly large swarm of birds over the water. However, the longer they watched this swarm, the more they noticed that they “changed to battleships in the sky!” Clearly, we can conclude that no physical transformation took place, but that the birds were, in fact, aerial vehicles that simply became clearer to the fishermen the closer they got. The strangeness, though, was just beginning.

    As the fishermen looked on, the object began fighting “one against the other” which caused a “lot of smoke” to develop. Even more amazing, further objects arrived in the sky, each joining the aerial battle that was clearly taking place. The fishermen watched this bizarre show for several hours. According to the 1680 writings of Erasmus Francisci (who was one of Ludwiger’s sources for his account), these aerial battles “were frequent in the medieval age” and were regarded as “air visions” that were often seen as a warning.

    Then, the battle seemed to come to a stop and the objects dispersed before a huge object suddenly appeared overhead. Francisci described this “flat round form” as looking very much “like a plate” or “like the big hat of a man” and was “the color of the moon!” It proceeded to move slowly across the sky before coming to a stop directly over St. Nikolai Church. It remained there for several hours with multiple residents of the area now aware of its presence. While many witnesses at the time – who already, according to Francisci, believed these aerial displays were divine visions – believed its decision to stop over the church was a further sign of divinity, we should perhaps consider that as one of the tallest buildings of the times, it is understandable that apparent aerial visitors would focus on them as a point of interest. Whatever the truth, the large object eventually left the region and disappeared.

    The following day, however, the main witnesses to the bizarre events, the fishermen, became suddenly ill, with descriptions offering that they were “trembling all over and (had) pain in (their) head and limbs!” One detail states that one of the men had even been physically sick “on his feet!” Two of the fishermen were eventually “interrogated” by local authorities, and it was determined that the entire episode had been a vision from God. Today, though, we can see the event for what it seemingly was: some kind of aerial battle involving vehicles that very well could have been from another world.

    There are several things for us to quickly consider here. We have already examined two similar encounters from the previous century that took place in the same region of Europe. As bizarre as it might sound, should we contemplate that there was some kind of aerial conflict taking place on Earth between two warring cosmic visitors from elsewhere in the Universe, and if so, why had such potential alien civilizations chosen the Earth for this battle? Or might we consider that these futuristic vehicles belonged to two civilizations already present on Earth, and if this was the case, who were these advanced civilizations and where did they go?

    Just over four centuries earlier, in 1180 in Kii Province in Japan, as documented in The Book of Ghosts, UFOs, and the Unexplained by James Paton, several fishermen witnessed a bright object they described as an “earthen-ware vessel” in the night sky. An earthen-ware vessel, incidentally, is similar to a soup bowl or saucer – similar to how objects were often described at the start of the modern UFO era. The fishermen offered that the object had first appeared from the direction of Mount Nyoigadake before suddenly changing direction and disappearing into the distance with great speed.

    Just over half a century later, also in Japan, in 1235, according to an account documented in the medieval Japanese text, the Azuma Kagami, General Yoritsune ordered what could possibly be regarded as the first UFO investigation on record. The orders were issued after Yoritsune and his men witnessed several strange lights dancing in the night sky as they camped for the night. They watched them for several hours as they performed bizarre maneuvers overhead. Following the lights vanishing, Yoritsune gathered his most intelligent men and ordered them to investigate what the lights might have been and report their findings to him. Incidentally, his men insisted that the lights were “completely natural” and that the aerial anomaly was likely the result of “the wind making the stars sway!”

    Another account detailed in James Paton’s The Book of Ghosts, UFOs, and the Unexplained occurred just short of 20 years later, on New Year’s Day 1254 in St. Albans in Hertfordshire, England. On the night in question, several monks had gathered at the local church in order to celebrate the New Year festivities and witnessed “a kind of large ship, elegantly shaped and of marvelous color!” According to the writing of the incident – documented by Matthew of Paris – hovered silently over the church, clearly standing out against the stars in the early evening sky. The object remained where it was for several minutes before ascending high into the sky and disappearing from sight. Whatever the object was, it is widely agreed by UFO investigators and historians alike that they most certainly saw something very strange.

    Across the Atlantic in the New World that would become the United States of America, we find many more sightings of strange, out-of-place aerial objects. Arguably, the first recorded sighting of what we would today call a UFO occurred on the banks of the Muddy River near Boston, Massachusetts, one evening in 1638. Jeff Belanger relays the account in the book Picture Yourself Legend Tripping: Your Complete Guide to Finding UFOs, Monster, Ghosts, and Urban Legends in Your Own Backyard, offering the incident was first recorded in the journal of Governor John Winthrop. Winthrop wrote that a local man named James Everell – widely regarded as a “sober, discreet” man – along with two other unnamed men, witnessed a large, bright light moving across the night sky on the evening in question. Further, according to the report, the object stopped and hovered momentarily – where it would “flare up” – before moving once more, when it “took on the shape of a swine” (we might imagine that the object Winthrop was trying to describe was cigar or tube-shaped). The report continues that the witnesses followed the object for around a mile, noting that it was “swift as an arrow”, before it eventually disappeared into the distance.

    At around 9 pm on the evening of June 30th, 1790, in the Schoharie County region of New York, a “bright shining light” was witnessed by a local German immigrant to the United States while sitting on his porch, who would eventually speak of the incident in 1823 in an official statement to the Historical Philosophical Society of the State of New York. At the same time that he noticed the light, he heard a “great roar” that seemed to come from the glowing object. The brightness of the object continued to increase, so much so that the witness stated it appeared as though he was sitting in the “noonday sun!”

    To begin with, this strange craft moved across the sky in a similar fashion to a meteorite. However, after several moments, it leveled out somewhat and maintained the same altitude as it carried on its path just above the treetops before it ascended slightly with the speed of a “galloping horse” as it went over Owelus Sowless Hill. The witness further described the object as being around 300 yards long and a similar shape to a snake but with a shape similar to “the roots of a tree plucked up by force” where the head should be. The exterior of the object, according to the witness’s statement, “closely resembled a welding hot iron and sparked similar to it!” Even more remarkable, the witness claimed to have felt a considerable heat coming from the craft, despite being a significant distance away from it. In fact, such was the heat coming from the object that it warmed his entire house. What’s more, an aroma of burning sulfur and tar permeated the air around him and remained until well into the next day long after the object had gone.

    Around half a century later, in the November 26th, 1846, edition of the Official Gazette of the Empire of Brazil newspaper, we can find what is widely agreed to be Brazil’s first officially documented UFO encounter. Furthermore, and lending immediate credibility to the case, the writer of the article, who was also the main witness, was a highly respected and decorated member of the Brazilian Navy, Augusto Lerverger.

    The incident unfolded just before 6 am one morning in June 1846, when Lerverger was leading two gunboats down the Paraguay River, which runs between Paraguay and Brazil’s Matto Grasso area, on their way to Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay (the expedition was said to be a “military muscle-flexing” exercise on the part of the Brazilian government). They were just under 20 miles away from their destination when they witnessed a “phenomenon never seen before!” Lerverger wrote that out of the clear and calm sky, a “luminous globe performed with instant speed a 30-degree curve” ahead of them. He continued that a “light band” was connected to this globe, along which were “three bodies whose brightness was much more lively!” This object – as well as the three separate objects – continued to increase in brightness. Lerverger further stated that the three objects were separate from each other and were different shapes – one being circular, one an “irregular quadrangle” and the last “an arc of a circle” – with a “ribbon of very faint light” moving around them in a zig-zag motion.

    The crew watched the object as it moved, noting that it began to change shape once more, this time appearing like a “flat elliptical shape” before it disappeared into the distance. In total, it was in view for around 25 minutes. By the time they arrived at their destination a short time later, it was clear to all onboard – including the Brazilian Ambassador, Dr. Jose Antonio Bueno, who was also present - that many other people had also seen the aerial anomaly. Lerverger speculated whether they had witnessed a meteor or some other kind of atmospheric phenomena. However, certainly, when examined from a modern perspective, it would appear the crew witnessed some kind of nuts-and-bolts mechanical craft.

    As strange as it might sound, 1846 appears to have been quite the year for UFO sightings, with several others on record around the world. A little over a month later, at around 2:30 am on August 25th, 1846, in Saint-Apre, France, Dr. Moreau was making his way home following a late-night house call to one of his patients. As he walked along, a strange light suddenly appeared and enveloped him. When he looked up, he saw a mysterious globe that opened. A moment later, “hundreds of star-like objects” emerged from the globe and went into the air. This bizarre display continued for five minutes before the object disappeared back into the night sky.

    Several weeks later, also in France in La Salette on September 19th, 11-year-old Maximin and 14-year-old Melanie Calvat were herding cattle when they reported seeing a suddenly appearing bright light flash across the sky. Although the sighting unfolded during the middle of the day, Melanie offered that the object was “shining more brightly than the sun!” Melanie recalled that she was immediately captivated by the strange glow, stating that as she watched, “something inconceivably fantastic passed” through her. Then, things turned even stranger. Melanie recalled that she witnessed a “lady” emerge from the light, a lady that she claimed was the “Virgin Mary” and that her appearance was a warning or omen.

    In November 1846, on the Rangoon River in China, several people onboard a ship making its way down the river noticed a strange light suddenly appear in front of it. The main witness, the ship owner’s wife, and her four-year-old child, along with the ship’s captain, were standing at the front of the vessel when the light appeared. They recalled how the light had the appearance of a “compact flame” which appeared to move for several moments along the water’s edge.

    According to another account in the book Wonders in the Sky, several months later, at around 8:30 pm on the evening of March 19th, 1847, in London, England, a witness referred to only as “A”, along with a friend, was walking down Albion Road when the evening took a most unusual turn. The pair suddenly noticed what they believed to be a balloon descending out of the night sky. However, as they watched it, and the lower it got, they quickly realized from “its intense brightness” that the object was “not an Earthly thing!” They continued to watch, noting that every now and then, several “fiery coruscations” were projected from the object as it took on the appearance of an “intensely radiant cloud!” The witness further offered that the object was so bright that it “cast a brilliant light on the houses” below. Both looked on as a second object appeared and descended to the same altitude as the first one. They both hovered in the air for around two minutes before the first object “absorbed” the second one and then began to ascend and disappear into the night sky.

    In a letter to the Scientific American, Professor A.C. Carnes relayed another account of a strange aerial object that unfolded in the early hours of June 1st, 1854, on the campus of a Tennessee college. According to the report, several students awoke on the morning in question to see two strange objects hovering in the sky overhead. The witnesses claimed that one of the objects appeared moon-like while the other appeared like a star. The moon-like object began to decrease in size until it eventually disappeared. Then, the other object began to grow. Eventually, it began to change form, first into a globe or spherical object and then into an elongated shape.

    In his letter, Carnes wrote, “The first (object) became visible again, and increased rapidly in size, while the other diminished, and the two spots kept changing thus for about half an hour!” After watching the objects until they disappeared, the students sought the advice of their professors, including Carnes, but none of them could offer an explanation. The incident remains a complete mystery today.

    Another intriguing incident occurred a little over half a decade later, in March 1861, a short time after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln’s first term as President of the United States, once more in New York, a city still far from the sprawling metropolis it is today, but still a jungle of tall buildings that was a “cramped urban setting” for the people who resided there. On the night in question, in an area known as Five Points, Mrs. Kinder was looking out of her bedroom window at the church near her upper-floor apartment when she saw a “cross-like object with a flaming luminosity” moving across the sky. She immediately woke her husband, who also saw the bizarre aerial anomaly. The pair watched the object at the window until it disappeared into the distance. Mrs. Kinder would speak of the encounter to her priest at St. Peters Church in Jersey City, who would document the report in his Baptismal records. Also of interest, around the same time as the sighting, only six blocks from Kinder’s apartment, an entire block of buildings was brought to the ground by a raging fire. Whether there is a connection between this brutal blaze of the fiery object witnessed by Kinder remains open to debate.  

    While there have undoubtedly been apparent encounters with alien entities long before the twentieth century (some of which we will examine shortly), there is little doubt that an encounter from early 1917 – an account I relay in From Deep Within The Archives Of UFO Insight: History’s Most Bizarre, Outlandish, And Controversial UFO And Alien Encounters -  is worth our time exploring here, not least as it features some of the specific details of the alien abduction phenomenon that would sweep the planet decades after the start of the modern UFO era.

    According to most sources, the account first appeared in the June 9th, 1978, edition of the Finnish newspaper Kurkijokelainen, in an article written by Latomaen Aino, and documents what appears to be a classic case of alien abduction. According to the account, somewhere between January and Easter of 1917, in the North Karelia region of Finland, a local woman, Anni Lattu, who lived in a small house near the church of Kurkijoki, disappeared for several days before reappearing just as mysteriously. Although many of the local villagers thought it strange that she had seemingly left without saying anything to anyone, they assumed she had gone to visit family, and so no alarm was raised. When Anni returned, however, she did so with a bizarre tale.

    She claimed that one morning, while going about her usual chores, a “large apparatus, like a big wash basin” appeared in the sky overhead and descended to the ground near her home. It is worth noting straight away that Anni’s description of this apparent aerial object is disc-shaped, just like many of the objects that would be reported over the second half of the twentieth century, as wash basins in Finland during this time were shaped like large soup bowls. That, though, was far from the only detail that resonated very nicely with close encounters of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

    She stated that several moments after the strange object landed on the ground outside her house, a ladder emerged from the side of the craft and stretched slowly to the ground. A moment after that, several “small creatures” that she referred to as “little devils” appeared on the ladder. They walked down it and over to where she was standing. Although she wasn’t certain how, she knew that these creatures wanted her to go with them, and although she attempted to resist, the figures forcibly took her aboard. She stated that the walls of this futuristic craft shone brightly and that a moment after stepping foot inside, the object was moving. She stated it “traveled very quickly” and that “many wonders were shown to her!” Perhaps most interesting of all, in terms of details that can be found in UFO and alien abduction reports decades later, was that this strange vehicle was silent and “did not make any noise as in the train!” There were, though, further revelations from her remarkable tale.

    She went on to describe being taken “above the world” and “between the stars”, clearly indicating she had left the planet and was taken into space. She further claimed that although she didn’t at all know their language, she understood everything the strange entities said to her, leading some researchers to question if her apparent abductors were using telepathy to communicate, something else that often shows up in other alien abduction encounters. The next thing she recalled was standing outside her house. To Anni, she had been gone only a short time. It was only when she spoke to friends and neighbors that she realized several days had passed.

    According to the article, Anni was happy to speak to anyone who would listen about her fantastic adventure. However, as we might expect, most of the villagers dismissed her account, suspecting she had hallucinated the entire thing, perhaps as a result of suffering an intense fever from exposure to the cold, they reasoned. Or perhaps she had suffered a mental breakdown. Anni, though, never wavered from her version of events.

    Several months after the publication of the article in the summer of 1978, Finish UFO investigator Mauritz Heitamaki took an interest in the case. So much so, in fact, that he ventured to the village where the apparent abduction had taken place. Even more remarkable, during his investigation, he managed to track down a witness who claimed to have known Anni shortly after the abduction happened.

    The witness – referred to in Heitamaki’s report only as NM – claimed that when she was seven years old, her mother was Anni’s neighbor, and the pair would often speak. NM would listen to these conversations and clearly remembered hearing Anni speaking of the bizarre affair with her mother on several occasions. As was reported in the newspaper article, NM insisted that Anni always told the exact same story, never once differing in her account.  NM also offered that despite reports that Anni was a widow, she was, in fact, married, although her husband often left Anni alone for weeks at a time. Further, according to NM, Anni remained in the same village where the encounter took place until her death in 1930.

    It is also worth our time to examine an account of an alien encounter that occurred in the small town of Lodi in California. According to reports, one evening during the summer of 1896, Colonel HG Shaw was traveling to Fresno by horse and carriage with a friend for an upcoming exhibition that they were to organize. However, out of nowhere, their horse would suddenly come to a complete stop. Not only would it refuse to move forward, but it was clearly in a severe state of fright and stress.

    At this point, Shaw and his friend decided to investigate, and upon looking ahead of the horse, they could make out three tall figures standing a little way off in the middle of the road. The description Shaw gave of these creatures – large, hairless heads with large dark eyes and legs and arms that appeared too thin and out of proportion to their frames – is the same as many of the descriptions of grey aliens from throughout the Modern UFO era, and we should keep in mind, this report came six decades before the Roswell incident.

    The two men watched the three figures for several moments and noticed how, every so often, they would place a bag with some kind of tube attached to their mouths, perhaps suggesting that it was some kind of breathing aid or apparatus. On the other hand, each figure carried some kind of glowing lamp. Furthermore, the two men could hear these mysterious creatures speaking to each other in a language they were unfamiliar with.

    Several moments later, the three figures suddenly turned around and walked toward a nearby bridge. The two men watched them go, the light from their lamps revealing a hovering, metallic object close to the bridge. The three figures entered the hovering craft, which then began to ascend, eventually disappearing into the night sky. Although he wasn’t entirely sure what he and his friend had seen that night (although he stated in his report these figures could have been from Mars), he was certain they had witnessed something quite extraordinary.

    There have been many other apparent encounters worth exploring. On the morning of August 5th, 1608, in Nice, France, for example, multiple residents of the city witnessed three glowing objects overhead. According to the reports, the objects revolved in the air as they moved in the direction of the city fortress. The three aerial vehicles continued across the fortress and headed out toward the Mediterranean Sea. They eventually came to a stop where the witnesses claimed to see them float on the water. Even more remarkable, as the witnesses watched the object, they could clearly see two humanoid figures emerge from one of them, a tube connected to their bodies from inside the craft. They each had a “large head” with “luminous eyes” and wore silver and red clothing. It appeared the entities were carrying out repairs of some kind before they reentered the craft. Following this, the three objects ascended high into the sky and then sped off into the distance.

    A particularly intriguing account that could very well be a case of alien abduction in the seventeenth century can be found in the 1841 publication by Charles McKay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. The case in question features Major Thomas Weir, a respected Scottish soldier and commander of the Edinburgh Town Guard who, in 1670, while gravely sick and bed-ridden, seemingly confessed to bizarre activities involving his sister, Jean Weir, to the Lord Provost, activities that appeared to be ground in the Occult. When his sister was confronted with her brother’s confession, she broke down, claiming they had been involved in a lifetime of strange and bizarre events.

    Of most interest to us here, though, is an account offered by Jean that took place at some time in 1648, when a mysterious stranger arrived out of nowhere in a “fiery coach” and proceeded to take her brother away. During this journey, this mysterious stranger imparted “supernatural intelligence” to Thomas, including information about a battle taking place at Worcester, a battle, incidentally, that the Scots lost. We might consider that the “fiery coach” described by Jean was, in fact, some kind of aerial object – essentially, a UFO – and this mysterious journey he embarked on was actually an alien abduction. Furthermore, the “lifetime of strange and bizarre events” could very well be an indication of repeat alien abduction. We might also consider the fact of this “supernatural intelligence” passed to Thomas. In many cases of alien abduction, many abductees speak of being given information, sometimes about future events. Could that have been the case here? Whatever the truth, the confession of Thomas and Jean would have tragic and unfortunate consequences for the siblings.

    To begin with, the apparent confession of Thomas Weir was not taken seriously, not least because of Weir’s noble standing, but also because it was suspected he was suffering from senility. However, following his sister’s statements, both were arrested and eventually tried for practicing witchcraft. Both were found guilty, although Thomas’s conviction was on the much lesser charges (for the times) of incest and beastiality. Both, however, were sentenced to death.

    Another bizarre encounter unfolded in October 1847 in the Saratov region of Russia when local residents witnessed “four fiery columns of light” overhead. These columns remained in sight for almost two hours and sparkled between shades of white and blue. Then, without warning, the four columns simply disappeared. The strangeness, though, was far from over. As the next few hours, days, and weeks progressed, residents of Saratov began commenting on several “bizarre-looking strangers” seen walking around the area. In fact, several people even approached these strangers and attempted to talk to them, although it was clear they didn’t understand them, and nor could residents understand the strangers.

    These strange figures were described as looking similar to “elderly men” with “yellow-greenish faces” and without a beard (something that almost all male residents of the area sported). Most of the locals determined that these strangers were likely “eccentric travelers” who were friendly enough with those who encountered them. These strangers would appear regularly, each day in a different part of the region, always disappearing before nightfall. The last recorded sighting of them was on the evening of October 6th, 1848, almost a year after the strange columns of light appeared over the region. On this night, at around 9 pm, a bright light suddenly appeared overhead lighting up the entire area. At the same time, a low thunder-like rumbling sound could also be heard. This went on for around an hour before a “blood red colored spot” appeared within the light, which then morphed into an “elongated form” before finally splitting into several columns of sparkling light. These columns remained until around 11 pm when they suddenly disappeared – as had the strangers, who were never seen again.

    Might we assume that these “eccentric travelers” were connected to the strange columns of light witnessed that October evening, and that they might have traveled from much further away than most would imagine?  Could it be that the columns of light transported them from the ground to an aerial craft overhead? Or might they even have been some kind of portals or gateways to another realm or part of the universe? The incident remains completely unexplained.

    As we can see, then, it is clear that UFO sightings and encounters with alien entities, including apparent alien abductions, have been happening throughout human history. And the incidents we have explored here are just some of the many encounters on record from across the centuries. Indeed, to examine them all would likely take an entire volume. We can only imagine how many other sightings and encounters went undocumented and, as such, are now lost to history, buried under the sands of time. Or how many from antiquity were recorded in the records that were destroyed during such episodes as the burning of the library of Alexandria, and the wiping out of records of many of the North and South American native populations by European explorers. We might also consider how many cases have been documented but now reside in locked-away vaults in various destinations around the world. Perhaps the one certain thing is that our history is littered with these strange accounts, which should alert us to the fact that our collective reality and place in the universe are far different from what most might think.  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.U.S. Experts Testify Before Congress on Secret UFO Programs

    Mr Shellenberger holds up the whistleblower report at the UAP Congressional Hearing.

    U.S. Experts Testify Before Congress on Secret UFO Programs

     Gary Manners

    In a rare joint hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth," members of the U.S. Congress recently convened to explore whether the government is hiding information about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), also known as UFOs.

    The hearing, led by the House Oversight Committee’s cybersecurity, IT, and innovation subcommittees, came as public and political pressure mounts for the government to address the increasing reports of unexplained aerial objects. While the Pentagon has consistently found no evidence of alien technology in UAPs, new witness testimonies point to a deeply classified and potentially wide-ranging investigation into these phenomena, reports NPR.

    Explosive Testimonies from Four Key Experts

    Four experts provided written and oral testimonies at Wednesday’s hearing, each stressing the need for greater transparency. Journalist Michael Shellenberger, author Luis Elizondo, former NASA administrator Michael Gold, and retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet offered distinct insights and called for an end to secrecy around the U.S. government’s UAP investigations.

    Michael Shellenberger presented a 214-page document chronicling UAP incidents from 1947 to 2023 and cited sources alleging that the Department of Defense operates a covert project, code-named “Immaculate Constellation,” dedicated to tracking and studying UAPs. Shellenberger argued that secretive programs like this could erode public trust and demanded transparency legislation from Congress to provide clarity on UAPs.

    Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, asserted that some UAPs are not of human origin and that governments worldwide are engaged in a high-stakes arms race to reverse-engineer these technologies. In his written testimony he writes:

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

    When asked directly by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) if the U.S. is running secret crash retrieval programs designed to reverse-engineer alien craft, Elizondo responded, "Yes."

    Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduction speech at the hearing.

    (YouTube screenshot)

    Retired Admiral Tim Gallaudet recounted his personal experience with UAPs, referencing the “Go Fast” video, a 2015 Navy recording showing a fast-moving, unidentified object that displayed "flight characteristics unlike anything in our arsenal." He further alleged that the video file mysteriously vanished from Navy accounts soon after it was shared.

    Michael Gold, a former associate administrator at NASA, emphasized the need to normalize scientific inquiry around UAPs, lamenting the stigma attached to discussing such phenomena. He called for NASA to receive dedicated funding to develop new tools for examining UAPs, which could lead to groundbreaking discoveries.

    The Daily Mail comments:

    It's hard to imagine four people this different passionately agreeing on something as controversial and career-jeopardizing as a massive, government cover-up on UFOs — and yet they do.

    “Immaculate Constellation”: A Secret Program with Far-Reaching Implications?

    Shellenberger’s testimony revealed that “Immaculate Constellation” allegedly utilizes advanced tools to capture high-quality imagery of UAPs and even coordinates with fighter jets like the F-22 to intercept these objects.

    According to Shellenberger, a whistleblower report alleges that an F-22 was once surrounded by a group of UAPs that boxed in the jet, suggesting an organized response from the unidentified objects.

    The entire report on 'Immaculate Constellation' - the allegedly illegal 'Unacknowledged Special Access Program' (USAP) about UFOs that was leaked to Shellenberger — has now been posted online. Shellenberger told his followers on X that the hearing's co-lead, Rep Nancy Mace, was responsible for the decision to release this eleven-page document [PDF], reports the Daily Mail.

    Shellenberger underscored the dangers of secrecy surrounding such incidents and argued that UAP transparency aligns with both national security interests and bipartisan values.

    Congressional Pressure and the Push for UAP Transparency

    Lawmakers, led by Rep. Nancy Mace, pressed for answers on secret UAP programs and crash retrieval efforts. Mace and other committee members questioned witnesses on the origins of these objects, asking if private companies, adversarial nations, or nonhuman intelligences were responsible. Elizondo hinted at a multifaceted answer, suggesting that some technologies might originate from private entities, while others could stem from extraterrestrial sources.

    Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) also questioned Elizondo about the Defense Department’s handling of UAP data, underscoring concerns about a possible cover-up. Moskowitz drew a parallel to “Fight Club,” referencing its code of silence and secrecy, saying, "You can’t talk about Fight Club if there’s no Fight Club.” quotes NRP.

    Elizondo affirmed that a substantial portion of UAP information remains classified and argued for controlled declassification to allow more robust scientific inquiry and public awareness.

    Shifting Public and Institutional Attitudes Towards UAPs

    The recent hearing reflects a growing shift within U.S. agencies and public institutions towards serious consideration of UAPs. In 2022, the Pentagon established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to centralize UAP reporting from the military and FAA. The creation of AARO follows historical efforts to study UAPs, including Project Blue Book, a 1947–1969 Air Force project that collected over 12,000 reports, many of which were later explained by conventional means, though 701 incidents remained unexplained.

    With agencies such as NASA now directly addressing UAPs, the stigma surrounding the study of unexplained phenomena is slowly diminishing. Gold argued that government agencies require dedicated tools to properly study UAPs, moving beyond the limited use of cellphone videos and fighter jet gun cameras. He and other witnesses emphasized that more funding and open scientific research would help establish whether UAPs have terrestrial or extraterrestrial origins.

    A Call for Greater Accountability

    The hearing concluded with an appeal for accountability from the witnesses, who reiterated that the secrecy surrounding UAPs could be detrimental to national security, public trust, and scientific progress. Elizondo warned that if UAPs represent foreign adversarial technology, it would mark an intelligence oversight “eclipsing that of 9/11 by an order of magnitude.”

    Public pressure and bipartisan support for transparency legislation on UAPs continue to grow. As Congress seeks answers, the recent testimonies have raised new questions about the nature of UAPs, whether they stem from human or extraterrestrial origins, and the true scope of the U.S. government’s investigations into these mysterious phenomena.

    • Top image: Mr Shellenberger holds up the whistleblower report at the UAP Congressional Hearing.   
    • Source: YouTube Screenshot

    By Gary Manners

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.“Surprising Link” Between UAP Sightings and Economic Conditions Revealed in Controversial New Research

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    “Surprising Link” Between UAP Sightings and Economic Conditions Revealed in Controversial New Research

    New research reveals a surprising connection between Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings and financial conditions across the United States, according to a study by a team with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    Dr. Ohad Raveh of Hebrew University and Dr. Nathan Goldstein of Bar-Ilan University have introduced innovative methods of measuring public interest by analyzing UAP reports, which they say has revealed “a surprising link between UAP sightings and macroeconomic conditions at the U.S.-county, state, and national levels.”

    Their findings challenge conventional metrics for assessing economic behavior, revealing how UAP sightings align with financial trends, inform policymaking, and provide insights into public adaptation to economic shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and shifts in monetary policy.

    In an email to The Debrief, Dr. Raveh explained what motivated he and Goldstein to explore the potential connection between UAP sightings and economic conditions.

    “As a social scientist fascinated by the UAP phenomenon, I was disappointed by the grave scarcity of studies that examine the social aspects of it,” Dr. Raveh explained, “especially as official reports (by NASA and others) confirm that about 95-98 percent of UAP sightings have conventional explanations, thus suggesting that patterns of UAP sightings are rooted in human and social behavior.

    “This inspired undertaking a deeper examination, pursuing an unconventional hypothesis which ties sky viewing to economic attention,” Raveh said.

    Key Findings on UAP Sightings

    The researchers analyzed data from The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which spans over 20 years and is tracked across the United States. Raveh and Goldstein discovered that UAP sightings tend to occur more frequently in wealthier areas, but also tend to increase during economic downturns and decrease during periods of economic stability in those same regions.

    This, they say, suggests that interest in unusual events like UAPs fluctuates based on broader societal conditions, especially during times of uncertainty.

    “The counter-cyclicality on its own may point at various behaviors, ranging from, say, mental breakdowns, to extended leisure time; i.e., when unemployment rises, for example, the extent of UAP sightings increase because people may have more time on their hands, or otherwise they may be affected by the mental stress involved with unemployment,” Raveh explains.

    “The key point, however, is that the patterns of UAP sightings are not only counter-cyclical, but they also exhibit a positive correlation with wealth cross-sectionally; i.e., at any given point in time, the extent of UAP sightings tend to be higher in wealthier regions, going against a mentally-related hypothesis,” he added.

    “This opposite correlation across the two dimensions (cross-sectional and temporal) is rather consistent with patterns observed using traditional measures of economic attention, and hence supports an attention-related interpretation,” Raveh said.

    When asked why NUFORC data was used for this study rather than other UAP databases, Raveh said the NUFORC data “is one of the two major reporting centers of UFO sightings in the U.S., reporting the details of sightings across the U.S. for decades; in addition, as noted in the paper, it is also the source that the FAA recommends reporting to when observing an unexplained phenomenon in the sky, strengthening its validity.”

    Raveh emphasized that this study does not claim UFO data is inherently more important than other data sources. “We do show that other possible attention measures, such as, for instance, Google searches, do not match the patterns observed via traditional measures of macroeconomic attention,” Raveh said.

    “However, we encourage the application of our proposed approach to other potential measures that may be useful in the attempt of measuring public attention.”

    UAP Sightings During COVID-19 Lockdowns

    The study also highlights how the COVID-19 lockdowns affected UAP reporting. During periods of restricted movement, UFO reports increased, suggesting that people’s limited mobility led to greater attention on unusual phenomena.

    “Previous studies have shown that COVID-19 lockdowns represent quasi-natural experiments for shifts in public attention. Observing corresponding changes in UAP sightings via these quasi-natural experiments strengthens the hypothesized nexus between these sightings and public attention,” Raveh explained.

    The study found that in regions where UFO sightings are more common, people reacted less strongly to changes in economic policies. This suggests that shifts in public attention can influence economic outcomes. The researchers propose that tracking UFO reports can offer unique insights into how public attention fluctuates over time and across different regions.

    Raveh believes policymakers could use insights from this research to better understand national and regional economic responses during periods of heightened stress or uncertainty.

    “This research introduces a new potential measure for public attention, which has geographic and temporal coverage that goes beyond those of traditional measures. To the extent that policymakers seek to account for public attention in their analyses, especially at specific locations, or at relatively high frequency over time, our approach may help them do so,” Raveh said.

    Criticism and Alternate Perspectives

    While the study suggests a correlation between UAP sightings and economic trends—including the idea that wealthier areas might have more expendable time for skywatching—critics may argue that the connection is not necessarily causal, and that data limitations and the potential impact of false sightings could distort the findings.

    Dr. Eric Haseltine, a former intelligence officer and neuroscientist, voiced skepticism about the study’s findings in an email to The Debrief.

    “During times of upheaval, such as pandemics, wars, and recessions, conspiracy theories abound for two reasons,” Haseltine said. One, he argues, is because “Humans hate uncertainty, which causes major anxiety, and are thus drawn to anything that makes sense of what is happening.”

    Secondly, Haseltine said that “Humans hate feeling out of control, as happens during upheavals, so they are attracted to anything that creates the illusion of understanding, predictability, and controllability.”

    While Haseltine and others may find flaws in the reasoning behind the research, overall, Raveh maintains that similar to research detailed in past studies on public attention, “ours as well supports the notion that increased public attention helps mitigate negative economic shocks,” adding that “a better understanding of public attention, to which our study seeks to contribute, may help in coping with the impact of future economic shocks.”

    The recent paper by Raveh and Goldstein, “Looking up the sky: unidentified aerial phenomena and macroeconomic attention,” appeared in the journal Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications on December 18, 2024.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Where The Second UAP Disclosure Act Failure May Now Steer The Ark of Human History

    UAP Disclosure Act

    "The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy," by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Public Domain).

    Where The Second UAP Disclosure Act Failure May Now Steer The Ark of Human History

    J.P. Hague, Barrister-at-Law, returns to address the ongoing legislative path and outcome of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act, initially proposed in 2023 and also known as the “Schumer Amendment,” following an initial commentary published with The Debrief last December.  

    The Greek myths surrounding the Trojans, made famous by Homer’s Iliad, were likely set in modern-day Turkey, near the Dardanelles strait on the northwest coast of Anatolia. The city that corresponds to the time of the Greco-Trojan War in the epic poem is the legendary Troy, which dates to the late Bronze Age (circa. 1,200 BCE). These stories touch on the theme of people and gods at odds with one another or being ignored, often with dire consequences. They transmit the importance of heeding legitimate warnings, respecting the will of the gods, and paying attention to important signs or omens.

    The tale of Cassandra, a Trojan princess, emphasizes the powerlessness of truth, fate, and prophecy. She is gifted the power of prophecy by Apollo. However, when she spurns Apollo’s advances, he curses her so that no one will ever believe her predictions, whereby she foresees the fall of Troy and warns the Trojans about the Greek warriors hiding within the Trojan Horse. Apollo’s curse means no one believes her, and the city of Troy is ultimately doomed.

    The story of Laocoön, a Trojan priest, conveys the themes of divine retribution and the moral ambiguity of the gods. He warns his people not to accept the Greek ‘gift’ of the Trojan Horse, famously declaring, “beware of Greeks bearing gifts!” To reinforce his warning, Laocoön throws a spear at the horse, which strikes it and produces a hollow sound, showing evidence that something might be hidden inside. Shortly after Laocoön makes his warning, he and his two sons are unexpectedly attacked by two giant sea serpents. The serpents, sent by Athena or Poseidon (depending on the version), emerge from the sea, coil around Laocoön and his sons, and kill them. The Trojans misinterpret their deaths as a divine punishment for disrespecting the Trojan Horse, further convincing them to bring the horse into the city. Consequently, the Trojans do not heed the warning, and tragedy strikes when the horse enters the city walls, assuring their destruction.

    In the case of Niobe, the queen of Thebes (Luxor), the tragedy revolves around her hubris and the severe punishment she receives from the gods. She proudly boasts of her superiority to the goddess Leto, claiming that she is more deserving of worship, having born more children than Leto, who only birthed two: Apollo and Artemis. Niobe ignores the warnings of others to honor the gods, and in retribution, Apollo and Artemis ruthlessly kill all of Niobe’s children.

    In the Greek flood myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, humanity has become wicked, and the god Zeus plans to destroy the world with a great flood. Only Deucalion and Pyrrha, who are righteous, are warned by Prometheus (Deucalion’s father) and build a boat to survive the flood. The rest of humanity, ignoring the growing signs of impending catastrophe, is wiped out by the flood.

    Lastly, few can forget Hesiod’s “Pandora’s Box,” the Greek mythos on the origin of human suffering. Pandora is the first woman created by the gods to punish mankind under the orders of Zeus, the king of the gods (now a usual suspect for humanity’s plight), to counteract the actions of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. Prometheus’s act of defiance enables humans to advance and thrive, which is what, predictably, angers Zeus. Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths, melds her out of clay, and each god endows her with a particular gift or quality. This is reflected in her name, Pandora, meaning “all-gifted.” A box (or jar) is given by the gods with the instruction never to open it. Driven by curiosity and ignorance, Pandora inevitably opens the box and releases all the evils and catastrophes into the world, including plague, sorrow, and war, leaving only hope behind. Nothing personal, of course.

    In December 2023, the author wrote in an editorial published here at The Debrief [1] about the historical and significant process leading to the valiant fall of a substantial US legislative initiative bearing information, opportunities, and warnings about the presence of Non-Human Intelligence (NHI). The worlds of a modern superpower republic and archaic Greek mythologies united in a draft law. True to human frailty, essentially, most of the provisions of The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA) of 2023 proposed by Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Rounds (R-SD) failed.

    The UAP Disclosure Act ‘ship’ was destined to sail not into the harbor of Troy but that of the US National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA) 2024, an annual bi-partisan and bicameral defense budget and provisioning legislation. However, due to the ensuing Congressional storm, the UAP Disclosure Act smashed into the rocks.

    What washed up in the legislative tide were the remains: the preservation of and making available national archives records on UAP and window-dressed funding restrictions for unreported phantom defense programs harboring recovered NHI materials and reverse-engineered technology.

    Efforts nevertheless continued.

    The 2024 UAP Legislative Oar Work

    On 16th May 2024, US Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced the short UAP Transparency Act bill, which was referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, calling for the declassification of all federal documents related to UAP. Representatives Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and Eric Burlison (R-MO) were the cosponsors of the bill. The group endearingly names itself the “UAP Caucus.” The UAP Transparency Act would require the US president to direct all federal agencies and departments to make all documents relating to UAP available to the public within 270 days. It would also require the president to provide a quarterly report to the US House of Representatives detailing the progress made toward declassifying these records by every federal agency. To date, the bill has remained only introduced within the House, and has a long way to go.

    However, of greater concern was the demise of a second consecutive attempt at the Schumer-Rounds cosponsored UAP Disclosure Act for inclusion into the NDAA 2025. Once again, the bill lacked sufficient wider bipartisan political awareness and support, failed to be included in the omnibus “managers package,” and ran aground. Concerns around PR management in what was a US election year would have had a part to play despite revelations made in the run-up to the election by President-Elect Donald Trump, who openly commented and inferred a connection between the JFK files and the UAP mystery, both of which he pledged to “open up” due to strong public interest [2].

    The ostensible tragedy of the UAPDA is the setting aside of a middle line of government-led disclosure. The UAP Disclosure Act alluded to significant technological, scientific, and democratic opportunities and the potential societal dangers of lacking a plan to responsibly disclose the presence of NHI associated with certain UAPs.

    As the author raised in his last article, the primary post-mortem focus on the UAP Disclosure Act’s double failure has been eminent domain. This is the government’s constitutional right and prerogative over any recovered materials, biologics, and putative resulting technologies developed in the private sector. However, the less discussed and perhaps more potent “spanner in the works” of the legislation may have been the review panel of nine experts who had been democratically appointed to review and recommend the information to be released to and by the US president. Whereas the former would have potentially meant the appropriation of contractor-held and/or derived and developed technologies for shielded government-led industry research and development, the latter signaled a fundamental right of control over and public transmission of scientific, technological, social, cultural, religious, economic and political truths acquired on this complex subject from the aptly named “shadow government” or “deep state.”

    Soft & Hard Lobbying for Government Action by a Motivated Flagstaff

    Government confirmation of the phenomena surrounding UAP and associated NHI formally occurred in June 2021 through the US Department of Defence issuing an infamous and relatively sparse ODNI report. The confirmatory process has since continued with flesh added to the bones through the legislative initiatives previously outlined, prominent political figures narrating such developments as they happened, and, encouragingly, military and intelligence community commentators speaking of the presence at conferences and on talk shows, playing to how the wider public consume information. The pinnacle of the revelations came from the highly experienced and credentialled Col. Karl Nell (Ret.) at the prestigious SALT iConnections New York 2024 event in a conversation with Alex Klokus, Founder and Managing Partner at the SALT Fund. Colonel Nell stated:

    Non-human intelligence exists; non-human intelligence has been interacting with humanity. This interaction is not new, and it’s been ongoing, and unelected people in the government are aware of that.” [3]

    When Klokus asked Col. Nell how confident he was in the statement, Col. Nell responded, “There’s zero doubt.”

    The year’s highlights revealing the “real X-files” continued in the year’s final months. On 13th November 2024, the US Congress held a significant follow-up hearing [4] to the July 2023 UAP hearing in which the Pentagon was outed for running a secret multi-decade UAP retrieval program by a former intelligence officer, whistleblower David Grusch, whose claims were stated to be “credible and urgent” by the Inspector General of the US Intelligence Community. Ironically, the author enjoyed viewing the latest hearing alongside the award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, who released an exclusive interview with Mr. Grusch on NewsNation before last year’s July hearing. Our viewing consisted of huddling around a tablet in Cairo, Egypt, before leading a group and discovering tangible historic anomalies at the ancient archaeological sites that genuinely confront Egyptological doctrine and dogma and attempting to reconcile such connections from pre-dynastic Khemet (or kmt, the ancient name for Egypt, meaning “the black land” due to the rich, black soil left behind along the Nile River after annual flooding).

    The latest hearing placed retired US Navy Rear Admiral Dr. Tim Gallaudet, former Department of Defense (DoD) official Luis Elizondo, NASA UAP independent study team member Michael Gold, and journalist Michael Shellenberger at the forefront of the disclosure stage.

    Dr. Gallaudet echoed aspects of the previous Congressional hearing’s tone, namely, that UAP poses a safety risk for Navy pilots. He was the acting chief meteorologist for the US Navy when the 2015 “Go Fast” encounter occurred between a Navy pilot and a UAP, with the official footage released in 2020. Dr. Gallaudet fearlessly accused “elements of the government” of engaging in a disinformation campaign designed to discredit UAP whistleblowers.

    In contrast, Mr. Elizondo outlines in his gripping 2024 memoir “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs” that the US has advanced technology made off-world by NHI. During the hearing, he confirmed under oath to the Chair, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, the existence of crash retrieval programs and aerospace contractor reverse-engineering of the same. Still, he could not publicly respond about whether he may have been read into such programs due to classification restrictions.

    Michael Shellenberger reported in the hearing that the Pentagon has a secret UAP retrieval program called “Immaculate Constellation.” To add further telegraph icing on the cake, Mr. Shellenberger outlined that government officials had told him that the program had potentially thousands of pieces of evidence showing UAPs, including high-resolution images.

    The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the DoD agency that is charged with investigating and resolving UAP cases, has previously denied the existence of any secret government programs to retrieve UAPs, stating that no evidence of these programs has ever emerged. However, a degree of renewed optimism around AARO has arisen since the appointment of new director Jon T. Kosloski in August 2024, albeit it might be unrealistic to expect a full tillering away from a hitherto DoD culture of several ‘D’s: delimiting data, denial and disparagement. This tact has been seen through a series of highly questionable AARO periodic reports from inception and claimed gaslighting of bona fide intelligence community witnesses whose interactions with AARO have been denied to have occurred, belittled publicly, or simply ignored under the previous AARO director.

    Following the 13th November 2024 Congressional hearing, Mr. Kosloski testified at a Senate hearing on 19th November 2024 [5] before Chairwoman Gillibrand of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities denying that AARO had any verifiable evidence of activity, technology, or NHI. Kosloski also disparaged the anomalous nature of the Go-Fast event footage submitted in the previous hearing to which Dr. Gallaudet has publicly responded [6].

    With ongoing skirmishes over data flowing from government to the public on a vertical “top-down” basis, there is a horizontal grassroots reality that is dealing with a UAP-NHI reality on the ground at a time of increasing mistrust of institutional dogma and an often-perceived absurdity of agenda-driven traditional sources of information.

    Official Disclosure (Capital “D”) vs. disclosure Citizenry

    While government confirmation of phenomena operates through a controlled aperture to maintain public order, social and economic stability, and the interests of national security, the deeper reality, implications, and societal work from broader forms of disclosure is another matter. Indeed “disclosure” is whatever information is prepared or predetermined and released and can be restricted or repurposed to dynamically suit those that have influence over the process.

    The golden opportunity of the UAP Disclosure Act bridging government Disclosure to the broader societal disclosure worlds over decades would have been and could be the review panel of nine cross-disciplinary experts. The concept achieves an early proportionate democratic measure that creates the conditions for a responsible and society-friendly educational process on a fraught path of sequential truth from the current perspective of organizational thinking.

    However, there is much more to be done.

    As matters stand, the role of government is being fulfilled by earnest private citizen initiatives. Prominent examples led by eminent individuals of which the public ought to be made aware include the following:

      • The Sol Foundation [7] is a US policy-focused foundation that serves as a credible and academic research center on the broader cosmological and political implications of the UAP reality. The foundation aims to rigorously investigate UAP through interdisciplinary research and public education while promoting transparency and responsible policy development. The foundation organizes leading academic symposiums and collaborates with experts in the fields of astronomy, physics, sociology, and government to explore UAP phenomena.
      • uNHIdden [8] is a not-for-profit foundation led by doctors and clinical psychologists whose mission is to encourage better conversations about UAPs and promote more effective support for people who have had ‘exceptional experiences’. The organization is focused on improving mental health and reducing the anxiety and disorientation—referred to as “ontological shock”—that can arise from encounters or the growing awareness of NHI. Key activities of uNHIdden include promoting public health strategies, raising awareness about the potential implications of NHI, and advocating for thoughtful, compassionate disclosure policies.
      • The Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) [9] project is a scientific initiative focused on astronomical research. Its primary goal was to search for stars and celestial phenomena, known as “transient events,” that have either disappeared or emerged over the past century by comparing historical sky survey data with modern observations. One of the most intriguing discoveries from this project is the identification of groups of transients that appear and vanish within an hour in pre-Sputnik photographic plates. These events bear a striking resemblance to typical short flashes associated with space debris and artificial objects in geosynchronous orbits around Earth. Interestingly, the most notable of these events also coincide with the 1952 Washington UFO sightings. Currently, the project is focused on identifying similar satellite-like signatures in pre-Sputnik-era images, i.e., in images before the first human satellite was launched.
      • The European Crash Retrievals Initiative (ECRI) [10] was founded in collaboration with UAP Sweden and the Ocean X Team and is supported by the VASCO Project (above). The initiative seeks to independently study UAP crash sites, bypassing reliance on any eventual government disclosures. Their activities include identifying credible sites using forensic and scientific techniques, examining them for potential materials, and transparently sharing findings with the scientific community and the public. ECRI seeks to empower ordinary citizens to contribute to UFO research, offering a platform for people to report potential crash-related evidence. The project operates independently and is funded by volunteers working pro bono.
    • The UAP Disclosure Fund [11is a nonprofit political organization advocating for greater government transparency regarding UAP. It focuses on promoting legislation, supporting whistleblower protections, and encouraging scientific research to bring UAP-related information to light. The fund fosters public awareness, lobbying for the declassification of UAP records and protecting individuals who come forward with relevant disclosures. The fund’s initiatives include collaboration with government agencies, legal assistance for whistleblowers, and public education campaigns. Their mission is to ensure informed public discourse about UAPs, emphasizing the intersection of science, policy, and national security.
    • The Non-Human Intelligence Research (NHIR) Institute [12] focuses on advancing scientific understanding and policy development surrounding UAP and its potential connections to NHI. NHIR aims to foster a serious and methodical exploration of UAP, with emphasis on transparency, scientific rigor, and collaboration with leading researchers and policymakers. The institute’s initiatives include supporting research projects, such as the investigation of anomalous phenomena in diverse environments such as space, air, and underwater domains. It also promotes the concept of NHI as broader than extraterrestrial life, considering interdimensional or unknown terrestrial possibilities. NHIR works to reduce the stigma surrounding UAP, advocates for the declassification of relevant data, and encourages international cooperation in this field.
      • Citizens for Disclosure [13] is an initiative by the New Paradigm Institute, a grassroots movement focused on advocating for transparency and public disclosure of government-held information on UAP. The program encourages individuals to participate in educational events, engage in local advocacy efforts, and pressure policymakers to release UAP-related data. It aims to ensure that governments operate with accountability and in the public’s best interest regarding this topic. The initiative also supports legislative actions, including protections for whistleblowers who provide information about UAP and campaigns urging Congress to pass relevant disclosure laws. Additionally, they promote international cooperation by petitioning the United Nations to address UAP issues on a global scale.

    In the coming years, the list of eminent organizations will undoubtedly increase, as will the need for collaboration, conglomeration, and government funding to support governments from a “bottom-up” perspective and society on a horizontal level.

    Uncontrolled and Catastrophic Disclosure of Greater Intelligent Life vs. Exotic Technologies

    “Catastrophic” is a highly charged word that has been used by several commentators and thinkers on the subject of UAP. The author’s view is that it is a term that is designed to shock with positive intent. It appears to be used to stress to the putative ‘gatekeepers’ and those read into hidden programs or projects, who continue to perpetuate the cycle of secrecy that it is time to release the valves. The implied message appears to be that the disclosure process is coming with or without “their” blessing and/or influence. It implies alternative uncontrolled methods to government-controlled disclosure, but to achieve what?

    Considered moral declassification.

    A distinction needs to be made between thoughtfully and truthfully informing global society of hitherto unknown sophisticated, intelligent life and its relationship to and meaning for us as opposed to open-source revelations on how the technological capabilities attained by the NHI work. The former seeks to build upon the human birthright of self-knowledge and resulting wisdom, whereas the latter implies new modes of societal functioning with potential aspects of liberation. Prospective NHI technologies also present a harrowing corollary for potential misuse and devastating harm if placed in the wrong hands and in the absence of strict and effective regulation.

    An apparent long-thought-out plan conceived by a group of highly motivated and potentially guided military and intelligence community officials has been in continual motion since 2017 despite the inevitable obstacles and delays along the way, including the two-time thwarted UAP Disclosure Act. The progress of recent years demonstrates that they are applying continual pressure on the government and private entities and have demonstrated that they are not bluffing.

    The focus on whistleblower protection is an inevitable outcome in what must ultimately be a reconciliatory process to advance civilization as a whole. Much of the tightly held classified information is so specific that any leaks will likely be quickly identified by the federal government and the classified stakeholder(s) of the information.

    The DoD Inspector General whistleblower complaint submitted by Mr. Grusch and some forty “legacy program” members clearly included compartmentalized and detailed classified information. With reports of reprisal threats and harassment, it is reasonable to assume that such complaints are and can be fed back to relevant programs and private industry counterparts with the real potential for lives being taken from those who do not reach the whistleblowing or public publications surface through intelligently exploiting loopholes in clearing information through the likes of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR).  Public release is predicated on the assumption that the stakeholders of the information in issue would be unwilling to admit its veracity by virtue of blocking the publication thereof, thereby potentially placing further lives at risk. A brutal system is at play, unscrupulously shrouding an unparalleled value of secrecy.

    If the information released remains classified, the persons responsible for holding the information and clearance risk being prosecuted. A major peacetime example is the trial and conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American married couple, for spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about US radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. The sentence resulted in their execution in 1953. It is questionable whether the alleged UAP-NHI technology is suitably comparable to the nuclear secrets, but the cited case is example enough to show why it is unconscionable to expect security-cleared operatives and officials to make unauthorized and uncontrolled disclosures, albeit in the higher-pressure context of “catastrophic disclosure.”

    In the US, servicemen swear an oath to defend the nation against enemies foreign and domestic, which is a lifetime commitment for most. Where the enemy or enemies lie may be a far more complex matter than in the conventional geopolitical world, and, in turn, the tightrope balance of protecting national security and sovereignty despite the underlying subject matter affecting humanity as a whole and without borders.

    We live in truly extraordinary times whereby events suggest that all possibilities on the “bigger picture” are on the table unless and until they are demonstrably ruled out and excluded. H.G. Wells’ novel, War of the Worlds, is a chilling meditation on humanity’s vulnerability in the face of superior forces and the unforeseen consequences of imperialism and scientific progress.

    On the basis that (i) UAP are real, (ii) the capabilities or observables are unknown to current physics and the state of the art, (iii) they are intelligently controlled by NHI, and (iv) humans have and are deriving these technologies, it is not inconceivable to perceive that the twice-fallen UAPDA and its provisions on eminent domain were missed as an uphill effort to democratically offer up the NHI materials and biologics referred to and buried in the aerospace contractor world or elsewhere. While the Courts issuing “Taking Under Orders” would force a means of establishing broader ground truth to benefit human society and pre-empt a highly controlled transparent technological study and use in end applications, it would also satisfy any NHI that may have taken issue with a potential decades-long procurement of original and derivative technologies. It should be recalled that at this year’s SALT investor event, Colonel Nell referred to the possibility of non-public agreements potentially reached with forms of higher NHI.

    Might there be a requirement for a putative offering up and confiscation through our societal democratic processes while the NHI remains hidden in the background? Would such a hypothetical not place the route of “catastrophic disclosure” in a new light whereby government(s) are on borrowed time to deliver what may be impossible? If not, how and when might one or more NHIs decide to conduct direct interventions?

    If, at any point, key events or impacts do occur and NHI is responsible, it seems plausible that wider society may not understand who or what is behind them.

    At the time of writing, there are mass reports and documented sightings of swarms of unknown and unidentified “drones” over the East Coast (and local sensitive sites) and elsewhere across the US. The sightings have flummoxed the local authorities, FBI, and the DoD, who are unable to explain the inconsistent nature of the objects or their origin other than negating potential foreign adversarial sources, such as Iran, [14] while oddly claiming that they pose no threat to public safety [15]. Some of the reported objects are distinct from regular aircraft and artifacts (or misinterpreted artifacts) that might be expected from recording them. Instead, the anomalous objects reported display rapid speeds and avoid detection.

    If the DoD can neither track, capture high-resolution imagery nor intercept them, then the US is, by definition, vulnerable to a potential threat of unknown and unidentified origin. The fact of the matter is that this ongoing episode has been occurring over several weeks and on a massive scale. The picture is extremely confusing and concerning. There are reports and footage that suggest anomalous behaviors and unusually large-sized objects [16], albeit absent the unification of all “five observables” [17] to the best of the author’s knowledge. There have been claims of adversarial foreign government advanced drone technologies, but as previously alluded to, the DoD has to date ruled this out.

    Prosaic explanations and case by case analysis of the plethora of objects reported are important to establishing the truth as to the source(s) and origin(s) of the observed objects. Regardless, recent events have renewed the author’s interest in the concept of ‘UAP mimicry’ of conventional objects as a known but unusual aspect associated with UAP, having witnessed such a phenomenon himself on 27th October 2018 over the central plateau in Mauritius. Similar sightings were reported the same evening in both the local [18] and French [19] press concerning the neighboring Mauritian sister islands of Rodrigues and Reunion (France). A meteor is not a meteor when it travels at a visibly consistent altitude, takes a 90-degree turn over one’s home, and maintains the same altitude despite appearing as a meteor. UAP mimicry has been the subject of an October 2003 paper by Dr. Jacques Vallee and Dr. Eric Davis entitled “Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness: A 6-Layer Model for Anomalous Phenomena”. The scientists, who combine expertise in astronomy, science computing and physics, postulate that we have incomplete models of physical reality that cannot account for the complex UAP data such that we may be witnessing as the year closes.

    They outline that:

    UAP visiting Earth would find it necessary to hide themselves from our detection mechanisms until they have assessed our technological layer or potential threat and hazards. They would employ an adaptive multi-layer risk program to avoid danger. Low observable stealth such as simple camouflage through mimicry, which works well in nature, may be the technique of choice for visiting UAP experienced in surveillance. Examples of mimicry techniques are UAP entering the atmosphere with either the look or trajectory of a meteor or hidden within a meteor shower, behaving like dark meteors without the associated optical signature, hiding within an artificial or natural cloud or a satellite re-entry, behaving as pseudo-stars sitting stationary over certain regions, or mimicking man-made aircraft’s aggregate features.”

    AARO has been silent regarding the ongoing drone events and may not have been solicited by other agencies on the assumption that drones were the established presence and were, therefore, identified. However, while the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act was set to be the lightest on UAP provisions in recent years, following on from an updated Congressional Research Service report in October 2024 [20], the ongoing situation has caused the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to submit a bill on 7th December 2024 reinforcing the DoD’s capabilities for detecting and defeating unmanned aerial systems through a Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems Task Force. The provisions [21] would require AARO to partner via one or more employees with the new “counter-drone” task force lawmakers wish the military to establish.

    The very fact that AARO has been earmarked in this latest legislative proposal speaks volumes. As ever, the 2025 NDAA must be passed by the full House and Senate and signed by the president to become law at the close of the year.

    It is also pertinent to note here the potential use of Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADS) in the control of UAP information being released to the public. The classified PEADs are designed to implement extraordinary presidential authority in response to extraordinary situations such that they are not subject to Congressional oversight. In other words, there is no requirement to disclose the PEADs to Congress. They have never been disclosed to Congress, and no PEADs have been briefed outside of the Executive Branch to the author’s knowledge.

    According to Dr. Eric Davis, who recently spoke at the November 22nd to 23rd Sol Foundation Symposium [22], PEADS was what one or more US president(s), in the past, have issued to keep the UAP crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program(s) highly protected (waived unacknowledged Special Access Programs), outside of Congressional oversight, and outside of Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Dr. Davis confirmed to the author that the use of PEADS in this manner began with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, under whose administration PEADS originated.

    What is clear to those who are noticing is a need to accept greater uncertainty and to get comfortable with the uncomfortable. Earlier this month, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon, stated:

    The fact that the U.S. government is finally acknowledging the existence of anomalous objects that appear to be intelligently controlled craft is a historic development. Like a drunk who must first admit they have a drinking problem, acknowledging the issue is a critical first step. No one should any longer doubt the validity of the UAP issue or the importance of getting to the bottom of it.” [23]

    Beyond a publicly presentable idea of extraterrestrial beings from other worlds inhabiting and traveling in this physical universe, the decades-long study of UAP by private researchers, organizations, and tenured academics alludes to a more complex system at play operating within this reality or our world. The data goes beyond technological vehicles produced by advanced races on other planets. It has perhaps been best expressed by one of the greatest contributors to the study, Dr. Jacques Vallée. He aptly suggests that the high strangeness the phenomena presents may also be explained as “physical manifestations that simply cannot be understood apart from their psychic and symbolic reality” and a byproduct of a “spiritual system that acts on humans and uses humans” [24]. The author is inclined to fully agree with his learned colleague based on the sum total.

    Alternatively, in parallel to the words of Sir Winston Churchill spoken during a radio speech in October 1939 to describe the confusing situation around the start of the Second World War: “it’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”For now. Much like in the Trojan wars, the existence of the gods to the people was not an issue but the delineation between their will, the effectiveness of the messenger or message, and the resulting degree of comprehension by mortal men.

    • UAP

    • J.P. Hague is a dual-qualified and practicing lawyer who relocated from the United Kingdom to Mauritius. He has closely followed developments on unidentified anomalous phenomena, in addition to having observed and investigated them.

    FOOTNOTES

    [1] https://thedebrief.org/a-dramatic-dilution-of-the-disclosure-process-a-temporary-shore-break-against-the-waves-of-change-schumer-amendment/

    [2] Joe Rogan Experience #2219 – Donald Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY

    [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpl0FrdJWfs

    [4] https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-exposing-the-truth/

    [5] https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-activities-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office?sourceid=1066340&emci=1dbe5c43-05a6-ef11-88d0-6045bdd62db6&emdi=af6df343-0aa6-ef11-88d0-6045bdd62db6&ceid=2419778

    [6] https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5032795-uap-hearings-congress-ufo/

    [7] https://thesolfoundation.org/

    [8] https://www.unhidden.org/

    [9] https://vascoproject.org/

    [10] https://www.ecr-initiative.org/

    [11] https://uapdisclosurefund.org/

    [12] https://www.nhir.org/

    [13] https://newparadigminstitute.org/take-action/cfd-demand-uap-transparency/

    [14] https://youtu.be/Lltd9rhNiEs?t=338

    [15] https://thedebrief.org/mystery-drones-invading-new-jersey-airspace-are-keeping-officials-on-edge-as-feds-probe-for-answers/

    [16] https://thehill.com/opinion/5043276-drones-baffle-authorities/

    [17] (1) Instantaneous acceleration absent apparent inertia, (2) Hypersonic velocity absent a thermal signature and sonic shockwave, (3) Trans medium (such as space-to ground and air-to-undersea) travel, (4) Positive lift contrary to known aerodynamic principle, and (5) Multispectral signature control.

    [18] https://lexpress.mu/amp/341900

    [19] https://imazpress.com/actus-reunion/un-meteore-un-ovni-ou-un-morceau-de-fusee

    [20] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12418

    [21] Section 1089 of the NDAA FY 2025.

    [22] https://thesolfoundation.org/event/sols-2024-symposium/

    [23] https://x.com/ChrisKMellon/status/1865138535524655215

    [24] Dr Jacques Vallee, “Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact” (1988).

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.President Jimmy Carter swore he saw a UFO and vowed to reveal the TRUTH… but he never did. So what happened, asks SHANE CASHMAN

    President Jimmy Carter swore he saw a UFO and vowed to reveal the TRUTH… but he never did. So what happened, asks SHANE CASHMAN

    One Georgia night in 1969, Jimmy Carter looked up over the pine trees and saw a moving orb, as bright as the moon.

    He was standing outside the local Lions' Club in Leary, where he was planning to address the meeting. But local politicking quickly vanished from his mind. The orb 'seemed to move toward us from a distance, stop, move partially away, return, then depart,' he said later, describing it as 'bluish at first, then reddish, luminous, not solid.' He called it 'the darndest thing I've ever seen.'

    Carter's encounter with a UFO may pop up as a line in some of his obituaries, sandwiched between the sober analysis of his presidency and notable humanitarian work since. And like all politicians, he should be judged for his successes and failures, in office and out. But more than just an amusing footnote, this story gives us important insight into who he was as a man.

    We have almost forgotten what it's like to have leaders capable of marveling at the unknown. For all the problems the country may have faced during his presidency, Jimmy Carter would openly consider the mysteries of life – before, during, and after his time in the White House – and he should be remembered for that.

    Carter wasn't embarrassed to talk about his UFO sighting. In 1973, while serving as governor of Georgia, he filed a report documenting the sighting with the International UFO Bureau. He later said that after his own encounter, he would never again make fun of anybody who reported a similar experience.

    His open-mindedness was rooted in the scientific training he received at college in Georgia, at the US Naval Academy, and later with his work on nuclear submarines. Carter maintained that just because something may be a UFO didn't mean it is extraterrestrial. Ultimately, he believed that what he saw - while unexplainable - was likely man-made.

    Regardless, the encounter stayed with him for years. On the campaign trail in 1976, he made a point of promising that, as president, he'd release all UFO-related documents. By some accounts, after his election, he did in fact meet with then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush to make that request. Whatever may or may not have been said at that meeting, Carter never seemed to mention UFOs again - at least not publicly in his official capacity as a president.

    He would later tell the American public that releasing such information would harm the interests of national security.

    Jimmy Carter on his peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, in 1976

    Jimmy Carter on his peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, in 1976

    A file photo of a UFO in 1951

    A file photo of a UFO in 1951

    However, Carter's interest in UFOs didn't fully disappear. In 1977, with the help of Carl Sagan, NASA sent the Voyager spacecraft into deep space with a golden record that held recordings of greetings and music from various nations and cultures.

    President Carter sent a message that read, in part: 'This is a present from a small distant world… We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.'

    It's hard to imagine many of his successors using such language. No other president has even attempted to address UFO sightings head-on. Clinton reportedly said that if he'd seen any evidence, he would tell the people - but never did. George W. Bush joked to late night host Jimmy Kimmel that such a disclosure 'might spin you into orbit.' Obama seemed to give up on the cosmos altogether, basically halting NASA funding. President Trump created Space Force - but for the purposes of national security rather than space exploration. On UFOs, Trump said, 'I'm not a believer, but anything's possible.'

    Carter's fascination with the unknown stayed with him long after he left the White House. In 1994, he published a poem called 'Considering the Void' - a meditation on the images the Voyager spacecraft sent back to Earth.

    Nearly twenty years after he sent his letter into space, the 'void' still haunted him: 'When I behold the charm of evening skies, their lulling endurance… the skyscape of our Milky Way holding in its shimmering disc an infinity of suns (or say a thousand billion)... knowing that this galaxy of ours is one of multitudes in what we call the heavens, it troubles me. It troubles me.'

    If he was troubled by the vastness of the cosmos, at least it's because he had the will to try to comprehend it – and that's something to be admired in a leader.

    Shane Cashman is a writer for Timcast News and author of the new book Tales From the Inverted World: Ghosts of the Civil War.

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