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Post by auntym on May 19, 2018 11:24:37 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2018/05/confidential-military-report-on-tic-tac-ufo.html Saturday, May 19, 2018
Confidential Military Report on 'Tic Tac UFO Event' | VIDEO I-Team Exclusive: Confidential report analyzes Tic Tac UFO incidentsBy: George Knapp / www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-exclusive-confidential-report-analyzes-tic-tac-ufo-incidents/1187688105 May 18, 2018 LAS VEGAS - Fuzzy videos captured by military pilots caused a media splash over the last six months, but what were those objects in the sky? Since the Pentagon's release of three UFO videos, armchair experts have speculated that maybe the objects are birds or balloons or something mundane. But now, the I-Team has obtained an in-depth report prepared by and for the military, and it analyzes the so-called Tic Tac UFO using the most sophisticated sensor systems in the world. (This image is from U.S. military footage of the Tic Tac.) Over a two-week period in late 2004, an unknown, 45-foot long Tic Tac shaped object played cat and mouse with the U.S. Navy off the coast of California. The mighty U.S.S. Nimitz aircraft carrier, and its support ships including the U.S.S. Princeton, carrying the most sophisticated sensor systems in the world, repeatedly detected recurring glimpses of the Tic Tac but were unable to lock on. On Nov.14, F-18s were ordered into the area and saw it up close. Veteran pilot Dave Fravor, commander of the elite Black Aces unit, says the Tic Tac reacted to the presence of the F-18s then took off like a bullet fired from a gun. "It takes off like nothing I've ever seen. One minute it's here, and off, it's gone," said retired Navy pilot David Fravor. In the explosion of media interest that followed the Pentagon's release of the Tic Tac video along with recordings of two other encounters, Commander Fravor expressed the opinion that the technology was far more advanced than anything known on earth. But in the months since the release, the Pentagon has clammed up. It has declined to release official documents about the Nimitz Tic Tac encounter, or similar incidents. (This image is from U.S. military footage of the Gimbal UFO incident.) "There are many many Nimitz incidences that are equally compelling, that are told from the eyes of people like Commander Dave Fravor," said Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon intelligence officer. Until last year, Elizondo ran AATIP, a secret Pentagon assignment that quietly evaluated UFO incident reports. He chafes at the armchair experts who claim the Tic Tac was a balloon or bird, a mistake by the pilots or a technical glitch. "Let the data speak for itself," he said. "Let the information we receive from electro optical data; electro mechanical mechanisms be the tool in which we look and compare what the eyewitness testimony is saying." Elizondo is not authorized to release such information, but the I-Team obtained some of it anyway. Earlier this year, we made a whirlwind trip to Washington for a debriefing arranged by former Senator Harry Reid. While in D.C., the I-Team obtained copies of unclassified documents related to the UFO encounters, including the Tic Tac. The analysis was compiled in 2009 with input from multiple agencies. It confirms the Nimitz group had several interactions with AAV's, Anomalous Aerial Vehicles. READ: Tic Tac UFO Executive Report The report lists the advanced sensors involved at the time, AN/SPY, capable of tracking a golf ball at 100 miles, the E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning aircraft, as well as shipboard radars and sensors on multiple F-18s which interacted with the Tic Tac, and with something else. Pilots reported a large disturbance just under the surface of the ocean, round and 100 yards across. It appeared as if the Tic Tac was rendezvousing with the underwater object. Among the key findings in the report -- the AAV is not something that belongs to the U.S. or any other nation. It was so advanced, it rendered U.S. capabilities ineffective. It showed velocities far greater than anything known to exist, and it could turn itself invisible, both to radar and the human eye. Essentially, it was undetectable, and unchallenged. (This image is from U.S. military footage of the Tic Tac.) The report including statements from seven F-18 pilots as well as radar operators on the ships. Despite the seriousness of the encounter, the pilots faced ridicule after their encounters. The Navy's initial report was buried, not forwarded to command. It was decided the AAV was not a threat. Five years later, a more comprehensive assessment was compiled but was never made public and has been seen by few, even inside the Pentagon. Former intelligence official Chris Mellon opined in the Washington Post that the Pentagon's unwillingness to discuss these encounters or share information with other military branches is a threat to national security, comparable to when the CIA and FBI failed to share information prior to 9/11 The analysis report is not dated and has no logo, but four separate people who are familiar with its contents confirmed to the I-Team it is the real deal and was written as part of a Pentagon program. Another highly classified version was also written but is unlikely to ever be released. READ: Harry Reid on what the government knows about UFOs / nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/harry-reid-on-what-the-government-knows-about-ufos.htmlFormer Senator Reid, now recovering following cancer surgery, hopes that Congress will act to create a new Pentagon program to study these incidents. You can be among the first to read the report, now posted on here. The only omissions are the names of some of the pilots. WATCH VIDEO: www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-exclusive-confidential-report-analyzes-tic-tac-ufo-incidents/1187688105
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Post by jcurio on May 20, 2018 15:05:54 GMT -6
Former Senator Reid, now recovering following cancer surgery, Read more: theedgeofreality.proboards.com/thread/7497/pentagons-mysterious-program?page=3#ixzz5G4shkMRG******** I hope he fully recovers. đ Not like I read everything about this âpentagon projectâ, but if true, this one is telling about how Bigelow got involved even more..... I wonder if we will ever hear any more about what caused Bigelowsâ fathersâ plane to crash..... that little tidbit kind of hangs in there... but I guess we are supposed to understand that young son Bigelow was then in the care of his grandparents a lot..... and was encouraged to âlook at things differentlyâ (something like that đ). It slightly expounds on the anomaly of âsw ranchâ (as we are still waiting on that second book).
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Post by jcurio on May 20, 2018 15:18:14 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 21, 2018 14:53:08 GMT -6
Leslie Kean @lesliekean
May 19
George Knapp just released an important document. This was provided to us at the NY Times by a source in 2017. It was not classified; I can confirm that it's legit.
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Post by jcurio on May 22, 2018 10:49:23 GMT -6
âREAD: Tic Tac UFO Executive Reportâ
(Click on this above in actual article. It is 13 pages!)
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Post by auntym on May 31, 2018 12:52:28 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/pentagon-ufo-research-also-studied-poltergeists-invisible-entities-and-bizarre-creatures/Pentagon UFO Research Also Studied Poltergeists, Invisible Entities, and âBizarre Creaturesâby Brett Tingley / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/bbtingley/ May 31, 2018 In years to come, UFO researchers may look back upon the Pentagon revelations over the last year as a turning point in government disclosure. Of course, it could also likely be that these are a clever smokescreen, a ruse, or a distraction intended to mislead the public as usual. Whatever the case may be, it seems that the government is taking an interest, at least on paper, in some of the higher mysteries of our physical reality. A trove of documents obtained by CBS affiliate KLAS-TV in Las Vegas have revealed that the Pentagonâs $22 million UFO program researched not only anomalous aerial phenomenon, but warp engines, dark energies, and exploring other dimensions. It doesnât stop there, it seems. In a page seemingly taken out of The X-Files greatest hits, a spokesperson for one of the Pentagon-funded research programs suggests that the government took an interest in a whole range of paranormal phenomena unrelated to space travel altogether. The statement was issued by a representative of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), a secretive aerospace firm headed by conspiracy-theory-target Robert Bigelow, a recurring figure in UFO and shadowy government research lore. According to the statement, KLAS-TV reports, the research project touched upon a wide range of mysteries: The investigations by BAASS provided new lines of evidence showing that the UFO phenomenon was a lot more than nuts and bolts machines that interacted with military aircraft. The phenomenon also involved a whole panoply of diverse activity that included bizarre creatures, poltergeist activity, invisible entities, orbs of light, animal and human injuries and much more. The statement also says that BAASS believes âthe UFO phenomenon was capable of manipulating and distorting human perception,â and that the human body can serve âas a readout system for dissecting interactions with the UFO phenomenon.â Placing the word âdissectingâ alongside the human body is a bit disconcerting, but macabre wordplay aside, the statement seems to suggest that a wide range of experimental psychological or medical research on human eyewitnesses could have been involved in this project. Do we really want to know how deep this rabbit hole goes? After all, it might go nowhere at all. Is this all a distraction intended to discredit the serious study of anomalous aerial phenomena, or might there be some truth hidden in these reports after all? mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/pentagon-ufo-research-also-studied-poltergeists-invisible-entities-and-bizarre-creatures/
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Post by auntym on Jun 5, 2018 17:34:51 GMT -6
alien-ufo-sightings.com/2018/06/believing-in-ufos-is-more-fun-when-youre-the-only-one/ Believing in UFOs Is More Fun When Youâre the Only OneBy Alien UFO Sightings June 5, 2018 Last week, the New York Times published a bombshell: The Pentagon really does have a secret UFO program. There really are mysterious metal alloys shoved into storage somewhere in Las Vegas (not all that far, Iâll remind you, from Area 51). There are audio and video recording of sightings, taken by credible Navy pilots. For a self-appointed ufologist and longtime X-phile like me, this story has everything Iâve ever wanted and more. Until now, Iâve had to get my UFO news from sources like the Daily Mail, the MUFON newsletter, and former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLongeâs Twitter. This week, UFOs are mainstream news. When I first saw the Times story (sent to me via three different platforms by three different friends), I was thrilled. Finally, here was validation for all those years in the conspiracy mines. But soon after, disappointment set in. I stopped feeling smug, and started feeling resentful, like a high-school junior whoâs mad the seniors have discovered her favorite band. I liked UFOs before they were cool. My mixed feelings took me by surprise. Shouldnât I want more people to care about my favorite thing? Shouldnât I be happy the Truth is out in the open? Wasnât it a bummer when I used to drop links to stories of UFO sightings in Slack with a thousand exclamation points, and nobody responded, and then someone changed the subject? A new study in Social Psychology has some theories as to why I feel the way I do. The researchers, led by Anthony Lantian (a professor of psychology at the University Paris Nanterre), set out to examine the link between belief in conspiracy theories and the need for uniqueness (ouch). Because previous research has shown people with a need for uniqueness prefer rare commodities over common ones, the researchers hypothesized that the same need might play a role in driving oneâs belief in unproven or little-substantiated entities like, say, aliens. In other words, what makes believing in a conspiracy feel special is the inherent fact that so few people do. If even the New YorkTimes says UFOs are real, what fun is it to believe? Hoping to find out I really was special and unique, I reached out to Roland Imhoff, a psychology professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany and the lead author of a similar study published last year. He told me that because conspiracies are seen by their adherents as a kind of privileged knowledge that only they, the very enlightened, can see, it feels better when the theory isnât the official story. âIf part of the fascination of conspiracy theories consists in displaying scarce knowledge, and insider information, it becomes dull if everyone has that knowledge,â he explains. Metal alloys stuck in a warehouse basement was an exciting idea when I read about it in self-published Roswell exposĂŠs, but when itâs in the paper of record it almost sounds like a bureaucratic red-tape issue. Maybe thatâs why so many people seemed to file it away in their general brain bucket reserved for bad news about our government. Seeing UFOs in the Times also makes them seem more real, and as it turns out, Iâm not sure thatâs not something I want. Whenever I got excited about a UFO sighting growing up, my dad always told me two things: (1) aliens arenât real, and (2) if they are, it wouldnât be good news for us. Historically speaking, being âvisitedâ by a foreign civilization has never gone well for the one that was there first, and thereâs no reason to think extraterrestrials would be any different. Despite what Close Encounters of the Third Kind has to say on the subject, aliens probably wouldnât just want music lessons. If UFOs are actually real, and one day they come for us, that will answer questions I didnât really want answered. I thought I wanted legitimacy, but maybe I didnât. I wanted superiority. I wanted to be special. But at least now I get to say: I told you so. Source www.thecut.com : www.thecut.com/2017/12/why-believing-in-ufos-is-more-fun-when-youre-the-only-one.htmlalien-ufo-sightings.com/2018/06/believing-in-ufos-is-more-fun-when-youre-the-only-one/
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Post by jcurio on Jun 6, 2018 8:33:07 GMT -6
phenomenon.â Placing the word âdissectingâ alongside the human body is a bit disconcerting, but macabre wordplay aside, the statement seems to suggest that a wide range of experimental psychological or medical research on human eyewitnesses could have been involved in this project.
(This is from the B a a S article just before the last- this was posted May 31- I dont know why the âblue letteringâ that identifies this is not showing up)
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Post by jcurio on Jun 6, 2018 8:38:10 GMT -6
Seeing UFOs in the Times also makes them seem more real, and as it turns out, Iâm not sure thatâs not something I want. Whenever I got excited about a UFO sighting growing up, my dad always told me two things: (1) aliens arenât real, and (2) if they are, it wouldnât be good news for us. ******** (From last article- again, where is the blue lettering that identifies).
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Post by swamprat on Jun 7, 2018 10:14:27 GMT -6
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Post by jcurio on Jun 7, 2018 10:43:35 GMT -6
Yeah. I canât believe that this thread has made â3 pagesâ.
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Post by auntym on Jun 7, 2018 12:01:26 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2018/06/aatip-aawsap-tale-of-two-programs.html AATIP / AAWSAP - A Tale of Two Programs By parabunk.blogspot.com / 6-4-18 June 04, 2018 It's been a while since we first learned about the existence of the so called Pentagon UFO program. Initial reporting made it sound almost too good to be true with promises of high quality official government UFO evidence. Now that the dust has began to settle, it's unclear whether there is anything of any significance under it. This post is an attempt to piece together information from various and sometimes contradictory sources in order to evaluate what that program actually was and did. The combination of information from early articles with recent revelations seems to result in a reasonably consistent picture already. Initial revelation The existence of the program was initially revealed in connection to the TTSA launch event on October 11, 2017 and a pair of Huffington Post articles by Leslie Kean before and after the event. At the time, nobody revealed the name of the program but it was described as "sensitive aerospace threat identification program". However by far the most interesting effort I was involved with was the topic of advanced aerial threats. For nearly the last decade, I ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. It was in this position I learned that the phenomena is indeed real. -- Luis Elizondo, TTSA press conference, October 11, 2017. I was in charge of the advanced aerospace threat that deals with highly sophisticated unidentified phenomenon. In the last 10 years, weâve come a long way in our understanding of our place here in this universe. There are physics that we donât quite yet understand, doesnât mean that theyâre not real, just simply means that we donât have the capacity to understand those physics. -- Luis Elizondo, TTSA press conference, October 11, 2017. These insiders have long-standing connections to government agencies which may have programs investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP/UFOs). ... Luis Elizondo ... is also the former Director of Programs to investigate Unidentified Aerial Threats for the Office of the Secretary of Defense ... I asked him if these unidentified objects were considered to be threats. âThey did not exhibit overt hostility,â he said. âBut something unexplained is always assumed to be a potential threat until we are certain it isnât. ... He stated that he ran âa sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies.â -- "Fmr. Manager of DOD Aerospace Threat Program: âUFOs are Realâ" by Leslie Kean, Huffington Post, October 11, 2017. An unidentified aerial phenomena could of course be a foreign power, aliens, or something else, but for example saying the "phenomena is indeed real" certainly sounds like there's an implied common explanation, which the reporter above explicitly called UFOs. But nevertheless, while Project Sign, Project Grudge and Project Blue Book were explicitly about UFOs and extraterrestrials, Elizondo himself seemed to have avoided describing his program with such terms at the time. New York Times articlesThe program really hit the headlines with an article on the New York Times on December 16, 2017. While the above earlier media accounts emphasized the program was about unidentified aerial threats, the NYT article only mentions threats with one reference to "assessments of the threat posed by the objects" and as part of the program name, which was revealed for the first time (even though most likely incorrectly). The program was now described as being all about UFOs. It made some comparisons to Project Blue Book and reminded how Bigelow, whose company ended up receiving most of the money, was absolutely convinced aliens exist and UFOs have visited Earth. It also made various references to UFO sightings and indicated UFOs were the reason the program was initiated in the first place. The article also contained a number of somewhat conflicting statements, such as Elizondo protesting excessive secrecy while Reid wanted to make the program even more restricted even inside the department. It also described how Reid and a couple of fellow senators arranged the "black money" funding in secrecy, yet tries to give the impression it was "the Pentagon" wanting to have it that way. In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. Which was how the Pentagon wanted it. For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagonâs C Ring, deep within the buildingâs maze. ... He continued to work out of his Pentagon office until this past October, when he resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition. ... By 2009, Mr. Reid decided that the program had made such extraordinary discoveries that he argued for heightened security to protect it. âMuch progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings,â Mr. Reid said in a letter to William Lynn III, a deputy defense secretary at the time, requesting that it be designated a ârestricted special access programâ limited to a few listed officials. ... Mr. Reid said his interest in U.F.O.s came from Mr. Bigelow. In 2007, Mr. Reid said in the interview, Mr. Bigelow told him that an official with the Defense Intelligence Agency had approached him wanting to visit Mr. Bigelowâs ranch in Utah, where he conducted research. Mr. Reid said he met with agency officials shortly after his meeting with Mr. Bigelow and learned that they wanted to start a research program on U.F.O.s. Mr. Reid then summoned Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye to a secure room in the Capitol. ... None of the three senators wanted a public debate on the Senate floor about the funding for the program, Mr. Reid said. âThis was so-called black money,â he said. âStevens knows about it, Inouye knows about it. But that was it, and thatâs how we wanted it.â Mr. Reid was referring to the Pentagon budget for classified programs. -- Glowing Auras and âBlack Moneyâ: The Pentagonâs Mysterious U.F.O. Program, The New York Times, December 16, 2017. The program reportedly made the following bold claims already in 2009 (when Elizondo wasn't yet the director): A 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the program prepared by its director at the time asserted that âwhat was considered science fiction is now science fact,â and that the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered. Mr. Reidâs request for the special designation was denied. New York Times, December 16, 2017. NYT also published another article a couple of days later, detailing the story behind their first article. It explains how it all began with a tip and a confidential four hour meeting on October 4, 2017 between Leslie Kean, Luis Elizondo and "several present and former intelligence officials and a defense contractor", who were revealed by Leslie Kean as Elizondo's TTSA buddies Jim Semivan, Harold Puthoff and Christopher Mellon. Elizondo had reportedly resigned just a day before (and reportedly wrote his resignation letter on the same day as that meeting), which was said to be have been the reason for the meeting. That meeting happened a week before the TTSA announcement event and those Huffington Post articles by Kean, who then proposed to Ralph Blumenthal, another author of the NYT article and Kean's friend, that it would make a good story on NYT. The NYT authors interviewed Reid, Bigelow, Pentagon spokesperson (Thomas Crosson), and an unnamed "prominent skeptic for perspective". Joe Nickell revealed on Skeptical Inquirer that he was at least one unnamed expert behind this statement: Experts caution that earthly explanations often exist for such incidents, and that not knowing the explanation does not mean that the event has interstellar origins. -- 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That âAccelerated Like Nothing Iâve Ever Seenâ, New York Times, December 16, 2017. Nickell also stated that if he had known Leslie Kean was involved, he "would have warned the New York Times to tread carefully." He described Kean as "credulous flying-saucer promoter and writer." CONTINUE READING: parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/06/aatipaawsap-tale-of-two-programs.html
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Post by auntym on Jun 18, 2018 16:04:40 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jun 18, 2018 19:56:56 GMT -6
No media follow-up?NY Times is MIABy Billy Cox Monday, Jun 18, 2018
â 'Oh my god! Oh my god! Iâm engaged, Iâm engaged! S***!' Heâs screaming on the radio.â
Excerpts from the podcast testimony of radar operator Kevin Day, former senior chief petty officer aboard the USS Princeton, relaying the words he heard in real time from an F-18 pilot in hot pursuit of what may turn out to become the best-documented military UFO challenge ever. Day was being interviewed by Air Force veteran John Burroughs at KGRA.
âI found out later this thing did a barrel roll around him,â Day recalled during a two-hour Q&A last week on Phenomenon Radio Live. âAnd just basically kicked his butt in a dogfight.â
This is a new-witness angle to whatâs being called the Nimitz Tic Tac incident of 2004, an update to the story broken by the New York Times last December. Day said he was in charge of air defense for the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group as it conducted training exercises 80 miles off the coast of San Diego. And he was on duty in the second week of November when a pilot with the elite âBlack Acesâ captured the now-famous Tic Tac-shaped UFO with an infrared gun camera.
But Day wasnât the only Navy veteran to spill the beans last week about what he saw. On Wednesday, âExtraordinary Beliefsâ podcaster Jeremy Corbell bagged a 23-minute interview with an operations specialist who would give only his first name, Trevor. During nearly week-long interactions with the furtive UFOs, Trevor was watching the radar scopes aboard the Nimitzâs Combat Direction Center, the inner sanctum of the entire task force. Early on, he described watching high-flying blips dart across his grid in jerky movements that sound (to De Void, anyway) like a cursor on a computer screen. Trevor said he âcouldnât tag itâ because the thing(s) âkept jumping around.â
But the news peg here is Trevorâs claim about what he didnât see on radar. The day after the F-18s returned from their intercept mission, colleagues, including officers and a pilot, invited him to check out gun-cam footage that had been downloaded into the Secret Internet Protocol Routing Network (SIPRNet) system. This anomaly looked nothing like the Tic Tac. This was your classic flying saucer â flat below, rounded dome on top. The video resolution was sharper than the Tic Tac. Furthermore, when they slowed the action down, frame by frame, the UFO disappeared in sequential frames before reappearing in others. âAnd then boom,â says Trevor, âit was gone.â
Again, what set these new accounts into motion was the Timesâ original reporting six months ago. And what ultimately led to Dayâs interview is an enduring public appetite for more info on the Pentagonâs Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the $22 million UFO research initiative described by the NYT.
Less than two weeks ago, during a Society for Scientific Exploration conference in Las Vegas, engineer and research insider Hal Puthoff reminded listeners there were 38 related papers logged by the Defense Intelligence Agency, prepared by contractors as part of the Pentagonâs Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Project during 2007-12. Two of those broad theoretical reports, written in 2010, one by Puthoff himself (âAcquisition Threat Supportâ), went public in May.
But those were tame compared with the May release of yet another paper addressing the Nimitz incident specifically. Though its author was anonymous and it bore no government markings, the summary was detailed enough to create a firestorm of Internet speculation over who wrote it.
Known for co-authoring a bangup radar analysis the 2008 Stephenville Incident as well as bringing critical scrutiny to the infrared UFO footage shot by airborne federal Customs agents over Puerto Rico in 2013, Robert Powell had been keeping an eye on the Nimitz story long before the Timesâ coup. Working leads for volunteer researchers called the Scientific Coalition for Ufology, Powell located crew logs and started reaching out to potential Tic Tac witnesses. He recorded an interview with Kevin Day in either late December or early January; Trevor (âthatâs his actual first name, heâs real,â Powell says) never replied to his email.
Powell kept his SCU teammates looped in, aiming to publish a fuller accounting of the Nimitz thing online in August. But with the legitimacy of the âexecutive summaryâ of the Tic Tac being hotly contested, one of the SCU members jumped into a cyberdebate and speculated the author mightâve been the hitherto unknown Kevin Day â and dropped Dayâs name in the middle of it. Powell issued a WTF to his colleague, who deleted the post. By then, it was too late. Alternative media was hot on Dayâs trail. âOnce witnesses start going public,â Powell explains, âthey start getting contaminated. The more they tell their stories, they begin to change. Itâs weird how the mind works.â
Powell said he heard some contradictions between what Day told him several months ago and what he told Burroughs. For instance: Did the UFO(s) drop from 28,000 feet to sea level within the snap of a finger, as Day said last week, or did it/they go from 80,000 feet to 28,000 feet, as he told Powell? There are other discrepancies, most of them minor. âIt wouldnât matter to most people â this thing happened and thatâs all they care about,â says Powell. âBut the inconsistencies can create openings for debunkers to say it never happened.â
And what about Puthoff? Best known for his government research into the quantum mechanics behind things paranormal, the Vice President of Science and Technology for the To The Stars Academy was a key character in the Timesâ scoop. On June 8 in Vegas, among other things, Puthoff openly discussed the AATIPâs research into a very specific sample allegedly recovered from a UFO years ago. It was a âmulti-layered bismuth and magnesiumâ artifact that early investigators couldnât get to bond in the lab; furthermore, it served no discernible function.
âWell, years later, decades later actually, finally our own science moves along,â Puthoff told his audience. âWe move into an area called metamaterials, and it turns out exactly this combination of materials at exactly those dimensions turn out to be an excellent microscopic waveguide for very high frequency electromagnetic terahertz frequencies.â
De Void isnât sure what that means, exactly. But how is this not interesting?
Two days after co-authoring the Times piece on the AATIP, veteran reporter Ralph Blumenthal wrote how the story âhas dominated the most emailed and most viewed lists since.â He reiterated the point on MSNBC a day later, saying âThis is probably the most watched and looked-at story the New York Times has run in a long time, because people are fascinated by the subject.â Queried by the network host about what kind of UFO material the Pentagon experts had investigated, Blumenthal replied, âThey donât know, theyâre studying it, but itâs some kind of compound they donât recognize.â
That was six months ago. Where is the New York Times followup today? Are they really walking away from a story they started? Because?
Given the readership market for this information, as described by Blumenthal, this isnât just bad journalism. This is a bad business decision.
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Post by auntym on Jun 19, 2018 13:40:27 GMT -6
www.denofgeek.com/us/culture/ufo/274308/us-navy-had-a-ufo-encounter-according-to-leaked-military-report#disqus_thread U.S. Navy Had a UFO Encounter According to Leaked Military Reportby Alejandro Rojas / www.denofgeek.com/us/authors/alejandro-rojasJun 19, 2018 The reported UFO disturbance was said to descend rapidly from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in seconds.A recently leaked alleged military report details an incredible encounter between the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and an unidentified aircraft. U.S. Navy F-18 jet fighter pilots described the object as looking like a giant, white Tic Tac, and say it moved to evade them by shooting off at âsupersonicâ speeds. The USS Nimitz CSG encountered the objects over several days in 2004 off the coast of California. The most shocking parts of the report speculate that the UFO could have had the ability to ââcloakâ or become invisible to the human eyeâ and âpossibly⌠operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors.â Den of Geek contacted several individuals close to the case to confirm the documentâs legitimacy. Last December, The New York Times posted an article revealing a Pentagon project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) that was secretly investigating credible UFO cases. The world was tipped off to the existence of the project by the man who was recently in charge of the project, Luis Elizondo. Elizondo retired in Oct. 2017 because the government did not take the UFO situation seriously enough. He says there are âmany accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities,â and that âthere remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.â The New York Times article included two videos allegedly representing cases of UFOs caught on video by military aircraft. Little information about the videos is available. However, the other was said to be from an encounter between an unknown object and the USS Nimitz CSG off of the coast of San Diego in 2004. Soon after the New York Times article was released, there was a worldwide storm of press on the secretive UFO program. Elizondo and Commander David Fravor, one of the U.S. Navy jet fighter pilots who encountered the unidentified object, participated in several interviews. However, no official documents were released. On May 18, 2018, Las Vegas KLAS Channel 8âs I-Team posted an article about a leaked report they had obtained. The I-Team claims the report was âprepared by and for the military.â They obtained the report during âa whirlwind trip to Washington for a debriefing arranged by former Senator Harry Reid.â Reid had been instrumental in securing funding for the creation of AATIP. According to the I-Team, the leaked report was put together in 2009 âwith input from multiple agencies.â The report begins with an executive summary, makes several key assessments, describes the technology involved in the incident, and then describes the accounts of the personnel involved. The executive summary reveals encounters with what they call Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) occurred over several days, from Nov. 10 to 16, 2004 off the west coast, just before the USS Nimitz CSG left for the Arabian Sea. According to the report, âThe USS Princeton on several occasions detected multiple Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) operating in and around the vicinity of the CSG.â âThe AAVs would descend âvery rapidlyâ from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in a matter of seconds,â the report continues. âThey would hover or stay stationary on the radar for a short time and depart at high velocities and turn rates.â According to the report, on Nov. 14, 2004, they got a closer look at one of these AAVs. It was a bright day with âblue skies, no clouds, and unlimited visibility.â After completing their training mission, two F-18s, call signs FASTEAGLE 01 and 02, were directed by the USS Princeton, a guided missile cruiser in the USS Nimitz CSG, to an unknown target. The USS Princeton also asked what weapons they had onboard, which was unusual. One of the pilots, U.S. Navy Commander David âSexâ Fravor in FASTEAGLE01, says the first thing he noticed at the location of the AAV was a âdisturbance of waterâ in the sea. He scanned the area and noticed the AAV was just above the disturbance, which he said: âlooked like frothy waves and foam almost as if the water was boiling.â A U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel piloting an F-18 was also sent in to take a look. He was asked to stay above 10,000 feet as other planes were coming in lower. He also spotted the disturbance in the water. âThe disturbance appeared to be 50 to 100 meters in diameter and close to round,â according to the report. âIt was the only area and type of whitewater activity that could be seen and reminded him of images of something rapidly submerging from the surface like a submarine or ship sinking. It also looked like a possible area of shoal water where the swell was breaking over a barely submerged reef or island.â At around the same time, FASTEAGLE01 descended to about 12,000 to 16,000 feet to get a closer look. FASTEAGLE02 stayed back and maintained an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet. Fravor said the object hovered in place. He described the object as looking âlike an elongated egg or a âTic Tacâ and had a discernible midline horizontal axis. However, the object was uniformly white across the entire body. It was approximately 46 feet in length.â The name of the pilot in FASTEAGLE02 was redacted from the report, but he had a similar description. He said the AAV was âsolid white, smooth, with no edges. It was uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons, or wings.â He said it did not glow or reflect sunlight, and âit looked like it had a white candy-coated shell, almost like a whiteboard.â His report did differ slightly from Fravor in that he says the object did appear to be moving. Fravor decided to make a close pass of the object to try and identify it. He says as he approached, the AAV seemed to ârecognize us.â He said the object realigned itself and âpointedâ in his direction. The disturbance on the water also stopped. As Fravor continued his approach, the object suddenly shot up at âa supersonic speed.â Fravor asked if the USS Princeton still had the AAV on the radar, and at first was told âno.â Soon after, the USS Princeton told Fravor, âyouâre not going to believe this, it's at your CAP.â The CAP was the area Fravor had been training in earlier in the day. The USS Princeton added, the AAV âhad climbed to approximately 24,000 feet.â They tried to locate the object, but it and the disturbance in the ocean were gone. Although the AAV was not seen by Fravor again, this was not the last of the anomalous activity for the day. During training exercises, the USS Nimitz CSG acquired a weak radar target. The pilot of the F-18 attempting to track the object said, it âjust appeared the radar couldnât hack it.â However, he was able to spot the object using his Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera. The pilot was at 20,000 feet traveling at 300 knots, and estimated the object was at about the same altitude or a âfew thousand feet below.â The object appeared to be stationary on the FLIR camera, then moved out of the cameraâs field of view and contact with the object was lost. A portion of this video was released in the New York Times article, although the pilot said he was not sure if it was the same object Fravor saw earlier in the day. He also said he only caught it on camera and never saw it with his own eyes. After he lost contact with the object, the pilot returned to his training mission. The USS Nimitz CSG included the USS Louisville Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine. Researchers asked a USS Louisville officer if their sonar caught any of the disturbance reported. The officer replied they had received âno unidentified sonar contacts in the vicinity of the aerial sightings or at any time during operations off the coast of California.â Thus the report concluded, âBased on the lack of detection of any unidentified sonar contacts it is highly unlikely that an AAV operated below the surface of the ocean.â Then the report continued with some shocking speculation. âIt is possible the AAV demonstrated the ability to be cloaked or invisible to the human eye based on pilot reporting of the water disturbance with no visible craft,â the report explains. âBased on the assessment of Mr. [withheld] if the AAV did operate underwater undetected it would represent a highly advanced capability given the advanced capability of our sensors.â The report also made note of a significant amount of ridicule the pilots involved with the AAV incident received once back on the carrier. Fravor said when he was back onboard he reported to the Carrier Intelligence Center (CVIC). Once he got there, he says, âCVIC had donned tin-foil caps and wanted to know about the âUFO flight.ââ CVIC completed a mission report (MISREP) on the incident, but the Carrier Air Wing Intelligence Officer was not taking the situation seriously. Out of respect for Fravor, who is described as âa very experienced and highly respected squadron commanding officer,â the report was sent up to the Commander of the Air Wing, who also did not take the incident seriously. According to the report, âWhen asked what [the Commander of the Air Wing] thought the AAV was he replied that he believed it was part of a counter drug operation based on the area of operations.â The author of the leaked report disagreed and wrote these âkey assessments.â The Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) was no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any foreign nation. The AAV exhibited advanced aerodynamic performance with no visible control surfaces and no visible means to generate lift. The AAV exhibited advanced propulsion capability by demonstrating the ability to remain stationary with little to no variation in altitude transitioning to horizontal and/or vertical velocities far greater than any know aerial vehicle with little to no visible signature. Since KLAS leaked this report, there have been some doubts as to whether the military wrote it. Doubters have claimed the report does not follow the correct format, is speculative, and lists Wikipedia as sources in a couple of instances. I-Team member George Knapp, who wrote the article releasing the report, said he was not able to share more information about his sources at the time we contacted him. However, Leslie Kean, one of the authors of the December New York Times article, tweeted the report and wrote, âThis was provided to us at the NY Times by a source in 2017. It was not classified; I can confirm that it's legit.â When we contacted Kean, she said she doesn't know for sure, but she thinks the group contracted by AATIP, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), put it together. She is probably right. The New York Times article reported Bigelow Aerospace was contracted to perform UFO investigations for AATIP. Robert Bigelow, a Las Vegas businessman and owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America, founded Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow has had a lifelong interest in UFOs and the paranormal. He is also interested in space. He founded Bigelow Aerospace in 1995 and it has become a significant player in the commercial space industry. BAASS is the division in Bigelow Aerospace dedicated to exploring the unknown. Dr. Eric Davis is an astrophysicist who has worked with BAASS and he recently responded to comments on social media that were criticising the format of the leaked Nimitz report. âThe 2009 Nimitz Tic-Tac UFO report is a typical sensitive-but-unclassified Navy component agency field investigation report, and I know the investigators/authors,â Davis wrote on Facebook. âThe report followed the investigatorsâ own document/report format as there was no requirement for them to use any specific [Department of Defense] or [U.S. Navy] component agency document format.â Further confirmation came from documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. Corbell is currently working on a project with Knapp regarding BAASS investigations and has been researching the Nimitz UFO event for several years. Corbell has been in contact with Fravor and he told Den of Geek that, according to Fravor, the report leaked by Knapp and KLAS is the most accurate account of the events he has seen. Corbell also says he has spoken with military sources who say the Tic Tac object actively jammed the F-18s radars. There was a large round object spotted under the water at the disturbance that some believe the Tic Tac object docked with, and that the large round object was seen leaving the water. Corbell says he will be releasing more information on his investigation sometime in the future, but even without Corbellâs claims, the Nimitz report is mind-boggling, and according to Elizondo, there are more UFO cases in the Pentagon files just as juicy. "There are many, many Nimitz incidences that are equally compelling, that are told from the eyes of people like Commander Dave Fravor," Elizondo told KLAS. According to KLAS, âAnother highly classified version [of the Nimitz report] was also written but is unlikely to ever be released.â When contacted by Den of Geek, Elizondo said he had seen a military report on the Nimitz incident but had not yet seen the report released by KLAS, so he is not sure if it was the same report. However, Elizondo said Knapp is a professional journalist, and he is sure Knapp would use credible sources. When we commented to Elizondo on the shocking nature of the Nimitz report, he replied, âYou ain't seen nothing yet, baby!â
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Post by auntym on Jun 23, 2018 21:59:08 GMT -6
George Knapp @g_knapp
New details about Tic Tac UFO encounter from Navy fighter pilot who saw it up close. 2004 Nimitz TIC TAC UFO / Cmdr. David Fravor / Part 1 / Jeremy Corbell Published on Jun 23, 2018 Commander David Fravor is a badass Top Gun fighter pilot, and in 2004, the Cmdr. Officer of VFA-41 - the Black Aces. On November 14th of that year began a typical Sunday for Cmdr. Fravor. About 100 miles S/W off the coast of San Diego, it was 70 Degrees and clear skies and an average wind speed of 3 mph. But this wasnât a typical day. Not at all. The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was preparing for deployment to the Arabian Sea, with routine pre-deployment workups. Starting on November 10th the USS Princeton had been detecting multiple AAVs (Anomalous Aerial Vehicles⌠UFOs), operating in and around the vicinity of the Strike Group. The vehicles of unknown origin and function were tracked on radar, with returns descending from far above the radarâs scan volume - somewhere higher than 80,000 ft. The targets would drop from above 80,000 ft to hover roughly 50 ft above the water in a matter of seconds. An impossibly fast rate of decent. And from what Iâve been told, at ICBM trajectories. On the 14th, Cmdr. Fravor launched with his WSO (Weapons & Sensors Officer), into the clear blue sky. Their Call Sign was FASTEAGLE 01. Cmdr. Fravor was flying a F/A-18F Super Hornet when he received vectors to an unknown contact. A controller on the USS Princeton with the call sign âPOISENâ asked, âWhat ordinance do you have on board?â. This was an odd request, due to the fact Cmdr. Fravor was NOT in an active combat area, a hot-zone. He replied that he had no live ordinance. This was real-world tasking. He then preceded to the location of the contact, located it visually⌠and went after it. The Anomalous Aerial Vehicle outmaneuvered anything imaginable by modern / advanced human technology. The craft of undetermined origin and unknown operators⌠displayed flight characteristics far beyond current propulsion technology known to man or even understood within current physics. This event has become one of the best documented UFO close encounter cases in history. Iâve been working on this case for a long time, years before it became the tip of the spear about government confirmation or acknowledgment of UFOs. Before this case was publicly known, I was hunting for the truth and establishing dialogue with the key witnesses involved⌠most of which I have never spoken about publicly. Cmdr. David Fravor is included in that. Over that time we have developed a rapport, and this interview is an important aspect of my efforts to find detailed clarity on this case⌠extinguishing the noise and raising the signal. Cmdr. Fravor IS the primary witness to this astonishing UFO event series. Over the years, I have come to understand and appreciate his integrity, professionalism, humor and candor. We should listen to what Cmdr. Fravor has to say, as his testimony has become part of the fabric of our time. Cmdr. Fravor is the real deal; and thatâs just something youâre gonna have to come to terms with. For those of you who remember, the Tic Tac UFO case is one that I reported on, on Coast to Coast AM with George Knapp, both in May and October of 2017. As you will recall, on December 21st, 2017 there was a tectonic shift in secrecy around the subject of UFOs. The Department of Defense authorized two videos of fighter pilots engaging UFOs to be released to the public, and the New York times published a story about our governmentâs involvement in studying the subject. One of those videos was of the UFO Cmdr. David Fravor saw and chased. Jeremy -- Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell www.ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com
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Post by auntym on Jun 27, 2018 22:24:26 GMT -6
2004 Nimitz TIC TAC UFO / Cmdr. David Fravor / Part 2 / Presented by Jeremy Corbell 2004 Nimitz TIC TAC UFO / Cmdr. David Fravor / Part 2 / Presented by Jeremy CorbellJeremy Corbell / Published on Jun 27, 2018 This is PART II of my interview with Cmdr. David Fravor. If you havenât listened to PART I ... go do that now. You need to understand who Cmdr. Fravor is, and the nature and historical importance of his UFO encounter. In this discussion, we get into the details. We talk about the different witness reports on the TIC TAC UFO encounter, and we talk about the nature of observation and how it can be flawed. This highlights the important role of a good investigator, and how event witnesses canât be compared as âApples to Applesâ. Cmdr. Fravor even relates a couple stories that provide deeper meaning into the feelings he has on, why intelligent observation and study into the UFO topic is important. Daveâs quite candid in this interview. His hope is that you understand the importance of serious UFO encounters, being investigated seriously. That thereâs so much to gain but also so much to lose, if we donât openly investigate observed UFO technologies. That heâs hopeful, due to renewed government interest. -------------------------------------- Commander David Fravor is a badass Top Gun fighter pilot, and in 2004, the Cmdr. Officer of VFA-41 - the Black Aces. On November 14th of that year began a typical Sunday for Cmdr. Fravor. About 100 miles S/W off the coast of San Diego, it was 70 Degrees and clear skies and an average wind speed of 3 mph. But this wasnât a typical day. Not at all. The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was preparing for deployment to the Arabian Sea, with routine pre-deployment workups. Starting on November 10th the USS Princeton had been detecting multiple AAVs (Anomalous Aerospace Vehicles⌠UFOs), operating in and around the vicinity of the Strike Group. The vehicles of unknown origin and function were tracked on radar, with returns descending from far above the radarâs scan volume - somewhere higher than 80,000 ft. The targets would drop from above 80,000 ft to hover roughly 50 ft above the water in a matter of seconds. An impossibly fast rate of decent. And from what Iâve been told, at ICBM trajectories. On the 14th, Cmdr. Fravor launched with his WSO (Weapons & Sensors Officer), into the clear blue sky. Their Call Sign was FASTEAGLE 01. Cmdr. Fravor was flying a F/A-18F Super Hornet when he received vectors to an unknown contact. A controller on the USS Princeton with the call sign âPOISENâ asked, âWhat ordnance do you have on board?â. This was an odd request, due to the fact Cmdr. Fravor was NOT in an active combat area, a hot-zone. He replied that he had no live ordnance. This was real-world tasking. He then preceded to the location of the contact, located it visually⌠and went after it. The Anomalous Aerospace Vehicle outmaneuvered anything imaginable by modern / advanced human technology. The craft of undetermined origin and unknown operators⌠displayed flight characteristics far beyond current propulsion technology known to man or even understood within current physics. This event has become one of the best documented UFO close encounter cases in history. Iâve been working on this case for a long time, years before it became the tip of the spear about government confirmation or acknowledgment of UFOs. Before this case was publicly known, I was hunting for the truth and establishing dialogue with the key witnesses involved⌠most of which I have never spoken about publicly. Cmdr. David Fravor is included in that. Over that time we have developed a rapport, and this interview is an important aspect of my efforts to find detailed clarity on this case⌠extinguishing the noise and raising the signal. Cmdr. Fravor IS the primary witness to this astonishing UFO event series. Over the years, I have come to understand and appreciate his integrity, professionalism, humor and candor. We should listen to what Cmdr. Fravor has to say, as his testimony has become part of the fabric of our time. Cmdr. Fravor is the real deal; and thatâs just something youâre gonna have to come to terms with. For those of you who remember, the Tic Tac UFO case is one that I reported on, on Coast to Coast AM with George Knapp, both in May and October of 2017. www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news-2/2017/12/24/perspectivesAs you will recall, on December 21st, 2017 there was a tectonic shift in secrecy around the subject of UFOs. The Department of Defense authorized two videos of fighter pilots engaging UFOs to be released to the public, and the New York times published a story about our governmentâs involvement in studying the subject. One of those videos was of the UFO Cmdr. David Fravor saw and chased. Jeremy
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Post by jcurio on Jun 27, 2018 22:54:38 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jul 29, 2018 12:40:49 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2018/07/senator-harry-reid-fought-to-keep-pentagon-ufo-program.html Sunday, July 29, 2018 Senator Harry Reid Fought To Keep Secret Pentagon UFO Program Going By Harry Reid / United States Senate 6-24-09 Beginning this past September, the U.S. Senate has mandated that the Defense Intelligence Agency assess far-term foreign advanced aerospace threats to the United States. The scope of program interest covers from the present out to forty years and beyond. In order to further our effort in recognizing emerging disruptive aerospace technologies, technical studies are being conducted in regard to advanced lift, propulsion, the use of unconventional materials and controls, signature reduction, weaponry, human interface and human effects. Since the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (AATIP) and study were first commissioned, much progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings. Given the current rate of success, the continued study of these subjects will likely lead to technology advancements that in the immediate near-term will require extraordinary protection. Due to the sensitivities of the information surrounding aspects of this program, I require your assistance in establishing a Restricted Special-Access-Program (SAP) with a Bigoted Access List for specific portions of the AATIP. www.theufochronicles.com/2018/07/senator-harry-reid-fought-to-keep-pentagon-ufo-program.html
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Post by auntym on Jul 30, 2018 11:56:13 GMT -6
The UFO Show đ˝ â @ufoshowliveWE ARE LIVE ON TWITCH with Luis Elizondo
Luis Elizondo (at MUFON press conference): "Mr. Bigelow has done some amazing things for this country that most people will never know about"
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Post by auntym on Oct 16, 2018 13:44:59 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/10/navy-air-controller-says-ufo-incident-gave-him-psychic-powers-and-visions/ Navy Air Controller Says UFO Incident Gave Him Psychic Powers and Visionsby Brett Tingley / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/bbtingley/October 17, 2018 The biggest UFO story of the last year has been without a doubt the disclosure of the Pentagonâs now-defunct Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program and several pieces of allegedly declassified footage which appear to show U.S. military craft being stalked by unidentified and advanced aircraft. Among that footage was a video depicting an unbelievably fast and agile âTic Tacâ shaped UFO playing a two-week game of cat and mouse with the U.S.S. Nimitz supercarrier off the coast of California in 2004. The unidentified objects were able to easily outmaneuver the Navyâs F-18s and displayed flight and cloaking capabilities far beyond anything the U.S. armed forces possess. Might U.S. air superiority be challenged by technology operated by unknown non-state actors?The true nature of that object has not yet been determined â at least publicly. Was it an extraterrestrial observer? An incredibly advanced drone flown by a rival superpower? Or perhaps some sort of natural phenomenon which played tricks with the Navyâs instruments and cameras? Who knows. A heavily redacted report of that incident was made public by that pop punk rocker guyâs weird UFO research thing and can be read here. To add to the mystery surrounding that incident, the air intercept controller serving aboard the USS Princeton during the Tic-Tac UFO encounter recently made comments in an interview which seem to suggest that the sighting had strange effects on his psyche similar to other documented UFO sightings, giving him psychic abilities and apocalyptic visions. A still from the incident. In an interview with Mike Damante, former air intercept controller Kevin Day recounts that the high strangeness he experienced during those encounters left him âstruggling to make sense of what had happened.â For years after the incident, Day has experienced apocalyptic dreams of the world ending, dreams so vivid that they have given him anxiety attacks: The dreams I began to have in 2008 can be loosely described as eschatological; world-wide disasters, comets causing tsunamis, epic floods, earthquakes, plane crashes, (and) end of the world scenarios. I remembered the ânightmaresâ the next day and those dream-memories would trigger acute anxiety, which I experience daily even now many years later.Day adds that since he left the Navy, he believes he has been stalked by unknown individuals or groups: I do know that somebody has been watching me for years now⌠like the spooks told me âKevin, the government spent millions training you and now they are spending millions watching youâ ⌠they want to know what Iâm going to do.The interview takes a strange turn from there, with Day adding that he believes that high-frequency radiation from the Tic Tac sighting gave him a âstrange psychic abilityâ which gives him the ability to control reality with his thoughts: As it also turns out, the spooks already knew everything about me and what I had been going through before they met me. They even acknowledged the strange physic ability that I seem to have â which is, I seem to be able to manifest things and situations, hence their stated fears. What I think about has a weird way of becoming reality. It has happened now too many times to be just coincidence. In fact, I now manifest things on purpose. I also seem to have been advantaged with what I now know is called âdownloaded informationâ.Similar reported cases of post-effects following UFO sightings and close encounters are fairly common, and some contactees claim they were intentionally given special abilities or knowledge by visitors from other dimensions, galaxies, or what have you. Letâs not even get into the probes.While I tend to remain skeptical about claims made without concrete proof, one thing is clear: encountering such an unexplained and otherworldly phenomenon like the Tic-Tac would have a profound impact on anyone. Could there be something to Dayâs claims? mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/10/navy-air-controller-says-ufo-incident-gave-him-psychic-powers-and-visions/
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Post by auntym on Nov 25, 2018 18:16:25 GMT -6
www.sightings.info/2018/11/25/huge-ufo-disclosure-release-its-official-aliens-are-definitely-real/ Huge UFO Disclosure ReleaseâŚ.Its Official Aliens Are DEFINITELY RealNovember 25, 2018 MTK Much new information has recently come to light regarding the Pentagonâs secret UFO program. This includes the knowledge that actual artifacts have been studied, and scientists have even studied the biological effects of UFOs on human beings. These things have been known to researchers for years, but now itâs official. Historian Richard Dolan unpacks the tremendous implications of what this means, as well as giving a fresh analysis of the global UFO situation in the Trump era.
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Post by jcurio on Nov 25, 2018 20:35:25 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Dec 7, 2018 14:53:51 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/12/are-ufos-and-et-the-same-thing-heres-why-making-that-presumption-is-a-problem/
Are UFOs and ET the Same Thing? Hereâs Why Making That Presumption is a Problem. by Micah Hanks / December 7, 2018 Itâs been almost a year since the New York Times dropped a bombshell last December, which detailed the existence of a secretive UFO study program overseen by the Pentagon. The news was shocking for many, as it was the first public confirmation of taxpayer-funded UFO studies undertaken by a U.S. Government agency since the conclusion of Project Bluebook, the United States Air Force study that ended in 1968 (although there are whispers of other, smaller-scale studies that may have occurred since that time). Few details were given about the program, apart from its nameâThe Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programâand confirmation of its existence by the likes of Luis Elizondo, the former head of the program, as well as politicians like Harry Reid who helped secure funding for it. It was also revealed that much of the funding allocated for the programâa meager $22 million, according to the NYTâwas funneled to aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, who used it to outsource UFO research to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Some of the funding may have also been put toward the furtherance of scientific studies of alleged paranormal activity at a ranch southeast of Ballard, Utah, known as Skinwalker Ranch. Plenty of questions remain about all of this, of course. Despite Elizondoâs entry into the private sector (he now works for Tom DeLongeâs To the Stars Academy, along with a number of other scientists with similar backgrounds in the unexplained), few additional details have been forthcoming about the Pentagonâs UFO interests. There were a few videos that were released, however, reportedly made with Raytheonâs Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) system; but as with most UFO videos, these leave much to the imagination, and remain far from being satisfactory âproofâ capable of resting the doubts of the more skeptical among us. In other words, nothing conclusive about UFOs themselvesâvideo or otherwiseâhas emerged with the knowledge of the Pentagonâs ongoing UFO studies. Nothing akin to further evidence for their existence was even needed, of course, in order to stir the proverbial pot of public interest. A recent article at The Daily Beast, commenting on a summary of the original New York Times piece that appeared in The New Yorker, quoted the latter as saying that, âThe internet went slightly more bananas than usual last weekend over The New York Timesâ story implying that extraterrestrials are real and the U.S. government has been tracking them for years.â As The Daily Beast notes, âThe [New York Timesâs] reporting was long-awaited validation for anyone who has ever claimed a UFO sighting, or an inexplicable encounter with the beyond. Not so fast.Did the New York Times really imply, as The New Yorker suggests, âthat extraterrestrials are real?â In short, the answer is no: the New York Times article never even used the term âextraterrestrialâ (nor itâs acronym form, E.T.)⌠not even once. This was by design, of course: one of the articleâs co-authors, Leslie Kean, has long championed the case for renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon by scientific and government organizations. She has also warned against conflating the terms âUFOâ and âextraterrestrial,â and even addressed this specifically in the introduction of her 2010 book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record, where she noted: Itâs extremely important to establish at the very beginning that neither I nor the other writers are claiming that there are alien spacecraft in our skies, simply because we do not deny data showing a physical presence of something there. The term âUFOâ has been misused and has become so much a part of popular culture that its original (and accurate) definition has been nearly completely lost. Almost everyone equates the term âUFOâ with extraterrestrial spacecraft, and thus, in a perverse twist of meaning, the acronym has been transformed to mean something identified rather than something unidentified. The false but widespread assumption that a UFO is, of necessity, an alien spaceship is usually the reason the term generates such an exaggerated and confusing range of emotional responses. A recognition of the extraterrestrial hypothesis as being a valid, although unproved, possible explanation worthy of further scientific scrutiny is something entirely different from approaching the subject of UFOs as if this discovery had already been made. I doubt that Leslie Kean would call the conflation of terms like UFO and extraterrestrial a âperverse twist of meaningâ if she secretly meant âextraterrestrial spacecraftâ every time she talked about UFOs. Hence, why itâs all the more important to address the problem she brings to light in the passage above. No matter how carefully we attempt to frame discussions on the UFO subject, it is often difficult to escape the insinuation that UFOs are synonymous with extraterrestrials. In my own experience, there have been occasions where I have proposed ideas like time travel, interdimensional, or psychosocial phenomenon as alternative hypotheses to explain aspects of the UFO situation (these are speculative ideas, of course, and in my opinion, some are even less likely than the ever-popular âextraterrestrial hypothesisâ or ETH. Nonetheless, I have at least been willing to entertain and write about these ideas, though never committing to them in the absence of solid evidence). In such cases, the conversations have often tended to come back around to something like, âso youâre saying that aliens are time travelers from the future?â In essence, the âextraterrestrialâ stereotype prevails, even in cases where other theories are on the table. Even when proposing alternatives like advanced âblack budgetâ or military programs and experimental aircraft as possible sources for some UFO sightings (an idea that should seem entirely plausible, and perhaps even most likely in several cases), the stigma seems to remain. All too often, the idea that our government could have built some of these aircraft becomes attached to shadowy stories of âcrash retrievalsâ and other similar things. In other words, we might be building them⌠but we couldnât have learned to do something like that on our own: we must have stolen our ideas from the aliens! Note the similarity here between the âback-engineered crash retrievalâ theories, and the myriad ancient astronaut ideas that have emerged over the years. Whether itâs UFOs we see buzzing around in our skies today or ancient monuments that seem impossible to build even with modern engineering knowledge, the intellectual black hole that is the ET hypothesis remains ever-present. Of course, the very fact that there are several competing âtheoriesâ about what UFOs are points to the bigger problem: that despite the popularity of the âextraterrestrialâ idea, rational-minded thinkers who have looked at the subject all realize that there simply isnât enough evidence to support this idea, or any other theory about them, for that matter. We literally do not yet have enough evidence to tip the scales in favor of any single theory about what UFOs are, despite the accumulation of anecdotal evidence suggesting that they might exist⌠whatever âtheyâ might be. The best we seem to be able to do is acknowledge that some theories appear to be more likely than others. Arguably, the ETH could be seen as being more likely than fantastic alternatives like time travel, interdimensional gateways, or notions that UFOs are âquantum-topologicalâ points of intersection between our perceived reality and the âMatrixâ exterior to the simulation in which we operate, to paraphrase something cool that David Bowie once supposedly said about a UFO he saw. Humans like to deal in absolutes, and nobody ever said that getting to the bottom of something like UFOs would be easy. At least on the civilian level, we appear to still be in the mode of trying to determine if there actually is a phenomenon, apart from all the anecdotal data that implies it. If⌠and thatâs a big if⌠there is a provable phenomenon here worthy of study (as many have argued over the decades), then perhaps some of it could be of extraterrestrial origin. Itâs not impossible, but it remains unproven. We have a ways to go before we can make any firm conclusions about what UFOs are⌠and thatâs why making presumptions about them in the meantime becomes a real problem. mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/12/are-ufos-and-et-the-same-thing-heres-why-making-that-presumption-is-a-problem/
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Post by jcurio on Jan 17, 2019 8:40:14 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/10/navy-air-controller-says-ufo-incident-gave-him-psychic-powers-and-visions/ Navy Air Controller Says UFO Incident Gave Him Psychic Powers and Visionsby Brett Tingley / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/bbtingley/October 17, 2018 The biggest UFO story of the last year has been without a doubt the disclosure of the Pentagonâs now-defunct Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program and several pieces of allegedly declassified footage which appear to show U.S. military craft being stalked by unidentified and advanced aircraft. Among that footage was a video depicting an unbelievably fast and agile âTic Tacâ shaped UFO playing a two-week game of cat and mouse with the U.S.S. Nimitz supercarrier off the coast of California in 2004. The unidentified objects were able to easily outmaneuver the Navyâs F-18s and displayed flight and cloaking capabilities far beyond anything the U.S. armed forces possess. Might U.S. air superiority be challenged by technology operated by unknown non-state actors?The true nature of that object has not yet been determined â at least publicly. Was it an extraterrestrial observer? An incredibly advanced drone flown by a rival superpower? Or perhaps some sort of natural phenomenon which played tricks with the Navyâs instruments and cameras? Who knows. A heavily redacted report of that incident was made public by that pop punk rocker guyâs weird UFO research thing and can be read here. To add to the mystery surrounding that incident, the air intercept controller serving aboard the USS Princeton during the Tic-Tac UFO encounter recently made comments in an interview which seem to suggest that the sighting had strange effects on his psyche similar to other documented UFO sightings, giving him psychic abilities and apocalyptic visions. A still from the incident. In an interview with Mike Damante, former air intercept controller Kevin Day recounts that the high strangeness he experienced during those encounters left him âstruggling to make sense of what had happened.â For years after the incident, Day has experienced apocalyptic dreams of the world ending, dreams so vivid that they have given him anxiety attacks: The dreams I began to have in 2008 can be loosely described as eschatological; world-wide disasters, comets causing tsunamis, epic floods, earthquakes, plane crashes, (and) end of the world scenarios. I remembered the ânightmaresâ the next day and those dream-memories would trigger acute anxiety, which I experience daily even now many years later.Day adds that since he left the Navy, he believes he has been stalked by unknown individuals or groups: I do know that somebody has been watching me for years now⌠like the spooks told me âKevin, the government spent millions training you and now they are spending millions watching youâ ⌠they want to know what Iâm going to do.The interview takes a strange turn from there, with Day adding that he believes that high-frequency radiation from the Tic Tac sighting gave him a âstrange psychic abilityâ which gives him the ability to control reality with his thoughts: As it also turns out, the spooks already knew everything about me and what I had been going through before they met me. They even acknowledged the strange physic ability that I seem to have â which is, I seem to be able to manifest things and situations, hence their stated fears. What I think about has a weird way of becoming reality. It has happened now too many times to be just coincidence. In fact, I now manifest things on purpose. I also seem to have been advantaged with what I now know is called âdownloaded informationâ.Similar reported cases of post-effects following UFO sightings and close encounters are fairly common, and some contactees claim they were intentionally given special abilities or knowledge by visitors from other dimensions, galaxies, or what have you. Letâs not even get into the probes.While I tend to remain skeptical about claims made without concrete proof, one thing is clear: encountering such an unexplained and otherworldly phenomenon like the Tic-Tac would have a profound impact on anyone. Could there be something to Dayâs claims? mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/10/navy-air-controller-says-ufo-incident-gave-him-psychic-powers-and-visions/ Iâd like to hear more about this individual.
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Post by swamprat on Jan 19, 2019 10:28:08 GMT -6
HEY! It's a LOT more fun than politics!Here's The List Of Studies The Military's Secretive UFO Program Funded, Some Were JunkThe reports were a real grab bag of research on topics including invisibility, warp drives, dark matter, stargates, fusion reactors, lasers, and more.
By Joseph Trevithick, January 18, 2019
More than a year after its existence became public, the details surrounding the U.S. militaryâs Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, continue to be as fascinating as they are bizarre. We now know the titles of all of the nearly 40 studies the project funded in roughly four years of operation, as well as their authors and who they worked for. These reports cover a far wider breadth of topics than previously known, ranging from invisibility cloaks and warp drives, to fusion power and laser weapons, to more general advanced physics and materials science work. Some of the work appears to have been legitimate, but thereâs at least one instance where the U.S. government almost certainly paid for junk science.
Steven Aftergood, who leads the Federation of American Scientistsâ (FAS) Project on Government Secrecy obtained a copy of the list on Jan. 16, 2019, along with a cover letter, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which you can see below. The original five-page document is available here: fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2019/01/aatip-list/
The Defense Intelligence Agency had originally put together the list at the request of the offices of the late Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona and his ranking Democrat colleague on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Rhode Islandâs Jack Reed. Author's note: It has come to our attention that George Knapp's I-Team, part of Las Vegas CBS affiliate Channel 8 News, had obtained and published a near-complete list of the report titles and authors in July 2018. Nick Pope also obtained the same five-page document that FAS did earlier this month.
âBased on interest from your staff regarding the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)âs role in the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP) please find attached a list of all products produced under the AATIP contract for DIA to publish,â the cover letter reads. âThe purpose of AATIP was to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapons threats from the present out to the next 40 years.â
That second statement is interesting in of itself given what is otherwise known about the program, which officially began in 2007 as the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program. Between 2008 and 2012, DIA spent approximately $22 million on the program, which eventually became known as AATIP, and produced a total of 38 reports.
Robert Bigelowâs Bigelow Aerospace had won the AATIP contract and managed its research. Bigelow, who made his money in the hotel and real estate industries, is well known for his interest in unidentified flying objects (UFO), fringe science, and the paranormal. Individuals who worked for the program, including Luis Elizondo, who was head of the project for DIA, have since said publicly that investigating reported UFO sightings was a particular focus of the efforts.
As we at The War Zone have noted before, this actually makes good sense in many ways, since UFO sightings can turn out to be very real advanced and top-secret aviation programs. At least outwardly, DIA appeared to be taking the work of AATIP seriously, placing it under its Defense Warning Office, which has been monitoring for âthreats to U.S. interests in critical regionsâ since its creation in 2002.
We know that AATIP definitely did do some investigating of UFO sightings. The disclosure of the program's existence has led to the emergence of a detailed report on a 2004 sighting of an object commonly known as the "Tic-Tac," as well as video footage that F/A-18 Hornets shot using their Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) targeting pods during that incident. You can view those clips below:
But it has also already been clear that AATIP sponsored research into a much wider array of topics beyond UFOs. Based on the list that FAS obtained, much of the research does appear to have come from reputable sources, even if the topics sound highly theoretical or outlandish in some cases. Of the 38 studies, more than half were the work of individuals working at academic institutions, such as the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, University of Nevada-Reno, The Ohio State University, and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. You can find a good rundown of different authors and their known work at The Black Vault, which collects previously classified government documents and makes them available online.
One report from the University of St. Andrews may sound particularly fanciful with its title âInvisibility Cloaking,â but came by way of German scientist Dr. Ulf Leonhardt, who has been publishing papers on that topic since 2006 and is a noted expert on the topic. Though widely thought to be still far away from being practical, his research is grounded in real science to do with quantum physics and the behavior of light.
There are two more reports from Lockheed Martin, one of which is explicitly about fusion power and another that appears to be related to that topic. That firmâs legendary advanced projects division, the Skunk Works, has been publicly working to make fusion a reality since 2014. A third report from the company is simply titled âAir Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applicationsâ and sounds well in line with its known work on advanced propulsion technologies, including hypersonic aircraft and missiles.
Virginia-headquartered Directed Technologies, Inc., which has been receiving government contracts since 1985, appears to have provided a report so legitimate on high energy laser weapon development that AATIP published two versions, one of which was classified Secret with instructions not to release it to foreign nationals. This is the only one of the 38 studies that is classified in any way. All of the others are simply labeled âFor Official Use Only.â
But the full list also exposes more dubious projects based on more questionable science from a network of individuals with close ties to Bigelow. The largest single source of these reports is EarthTech International of Austin, Texas. EarthTech's CEO Harold âHalâ Puthoff, Ph.D. and another one of the companyâs employees, Eric Davis, Ph.D. both have ties to the Nevada business mogul's now-defunct National Institute for Discovery Science, or NIDSci. An archived copy of that organization's website is available here and features information UFO sightings, extraterrestrials, and other fringe topics: web.archive.org/web/20071007111321/http://www.nidsci.org/
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Post by swamprat on Jan 19, 2019 10:30:34 GMT -6
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Puthoff and Davis were the primary authors on six of the 38 reports in total between them. Davis is also the co-author on another report from independent consultant Richard Obousy. Since the list FAS received only notes the primary author, itâs impossible to know how many of the studies EarthTech may have actually had a hand in.
Three of these reports are available online and we at The War Zone have examined their contents previously. In late 2017, after news of the program first broke, Corey Goode posted copies of two of the reports online, one covering âAdvanced Space Propulsionâ and another delving into âWarp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions.â A third report, dealing with âTraversable Wormholes, Stargates, And Negative Energy,â is available separately:
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All three of these works rely on what is, at best, borderline fringe science. All three individuals have direct links to Bigelow himself. The list contains additional reports from Dr. George Hathaway of Hathaway Consulting, another person with clear ties to Bigelow and his more fringe and paranormal interests, including Paul Czysz, a retired Air Force officer and McDonnell Douglas engineer, another known name in the UFO watcher community, was also among the contributors to AATIPâs research.
Marc Millis, a former NASA propulsion engineer who founded the non-profit The Tau Zero Foundation, which works on various efforts related to novel spaceflight concepts, including faster-than-light travel, is also among the authors. Millis left NASA following an apparent scandal for attending a venture capital event that Joe Firmage hosted in 1999. (Firmage is a Silicon Valley tech millionaire who says he was abducted by aliens.)
In addition, there is at least one instance where the work that DIA, or Bigelow acting on their behalf, agreed to fund is especially suspect. Robert Bakerâs GravWave company supplied AATIP with a report on high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGW). However, a 2008 report from the JASON group, a collective of expert scientists who advises the U.S. government, questioned the very scientific grounding of separate work Baker had done for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on this topic.
âThe proposed applications of the science of HFGW are fundamentally wrong,â the JASON review said of Bakerâs work. âNo foreign threat in HFGW is credible.â
With all of this in mind, the newly released list of reports that AATIP funded paints a newly complex picture of the organization and its research efforts. It also further calls into question what its exact objectives were and how focused its work was in meeting those goals â or not.
Hal Puthoff and Luis Elizondo both have gone on to work for the To The Stars Academy, which former Blink 182 front man-turned-UFO enthusiast Tom DeLonge founded in 2015. This private enterprise is continuing to pursue similar work as what had occurred under AATIP, albeit in the unclassified realm, as well as entertainment-related projects and extremely exotic aeronautics programs of questionable merit.
Thereâs still nothing official to confirm the more outlandish claims of work that AATIP may have been doing on the side, including accounts of having mysterious material from downed objects in storage lockers. But what is clear is that there is still much about the program that we donât know.
Some would say that this information remains squirreled away out of concern that it would reveal an actual threat to national security, or alternatively, it would be overly embarrassing to disclose. The nature of a number of the reports the program generated would seem to lend evidence to the latter.
Contact the author: jtrevithickpr@gmail.com
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Post by swamprat on Jan 24, 2019 21:17:39 GMT -6
De Void
Thinking we need a bit more infoBy Billy Cox Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019
So â who makes the next move?
The almost laughably weird information released last week by the Defense Intelligence Agency in response to FOIA requests from former British MoD researcher Nick Pope and Federation of American Scientists budget watchdog Steven Aftergood indicates that selected members of Congress have had access to some fairly bizarre material linked circumstantially to UFOs. Or rather, those who didnât get swept aside by Novemberâs Democratic wave have. In De Voidâs lame and largely futile efforts to appeal to crossover readers above and beyond my beloved hardcores, letâs review who received this five-page briefing document on the DIAâs sponsorship of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
Less than three weeks after the NYT broke the $22 million UFO story in December 2017, the DIA responded to Senate Armed Services Chair John McCainâs ensuing request for details by releasing a list of 38 report summaries âassociated withâ the AATIP program. Also on the distribution list was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. As well as: the House Armed Services Committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Senate Appropriations Committeeâs Subcommittee on Defense, and the House Appropriation Committeeâs Subcommittee on Defense.
For the hardcores, the list wasnât new. KLAS-TV reporter George Knapp posted those very same report titles last summer, which he obtained from back-channel sources. But last weekâs official release, accompanied by the DIA cover letter to McCain et al, got a lot of attention. With titles like âTraversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy,â âAntigravity for Aerospace Applications,â âField Effects on Biological Tissues,â âWarp Drive, Dark Energy and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensons,â and â most intriguing â âInvisibility Cloaking,â it sure smells like The Great Taboo. And most of those reports have yet to be released. John Greenewaldâs Black Vault offers a good rundown on what we do and donât know about them.
Given the massive 2017 tax cuts that have exploded the national debt, the DIAâs allotted $22M for UFO research from 2007-2012 is chump change. But if 38 research papers is all the DIA has to show for the effort, that works out to over half a million bucks a paper. And that does sound a little over the top. For long-time accountability advocates like Steven Aftergood, who runs the FASâ Project On Government Secrecy, the bait proved irresistible. In January 2018, I wanted his take on AATIP. He was initially dismissive.
âI see it as a story about contemporary American culture and its eagerness for distraction and diversion,â he stated in an email last year. âI donât think it is an important national security story, considering that the Pentagon pulled the plug n the program. And I donât think it is a notable scientific story, since it doesnât lend itself to replication. So, dust in the wind.â
I wondered if his research into other shielded government projects suggested there might be parallel UFO sleuthing operations underway. âIt is conceivable that related or overlapping programs in addition to this one might also exist,â he wrote. âWe just donât know â but Congress should.â
Aftergood lodged his FOIA last August after getting wind that the DIA had, in fact, forwarded a listing of research papers to Congress. He, and Pope, got what they were looking for, sort of, on Jan. 16. âI donât know how widely the information was shared, or what level of interest there was in Congress,â Aftergood wrote. âIt may not have outlasted Senator Reidâs tenure.â
Well, one thing we do know is that several Navy witnesses to the Tic Tac UFO event of 2004 â the cornerstone of the Timesâ 12/16/17 reporting coup on AATIP â were summoned to Capitol Hill last year. But what else do we know about AATIPâs work, above and beyond what was provided to lawmakers?
âConsidering that most or all of the 38 research papers are âtheoreticalâ and probably did not involve any acquisition or development-related costs, they should not have cost an average of half a million dollars or so each,â Aftergood ventured. âI presume that there must have been other costs associated with the program that were unrelated to the 38 papers. But I donât know about that for sure.â
Yesterday, in an effort to find out, De Void sent queries to every congressional office ccâd on the DIAâs distribution list. So far, only Barron Youngsmith at House Armed Services has replied: âWe havenât done anything further.â Well OK. Considering that De Void isnât the NYT, De Void isnât holding De Voidâs breath for additional feedback. However, unless someone produces evidence to the contrary, it looks like us taxpayers got pinched for, oh, letâs say $578,947 apiece for a bunch of presumably theoretical research papers.
Ouch!
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/author/cox/
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Post by auntym on Jan 26, 2019 13:05:04 GMT -6
in.news.yahoo.com/pentagon-secretly-researched-stargates-alternate-dimensions-ufos-120210494.html
Pentagon secretly researched âstargates, alternate dimensions and UFOsâby Rob Waugh / www.yahoo.com/author/rob-waugh-20161026Yahoo News UK24 January 2019 The truth is out there (Getty) Declassified documents have revealed that the Pentagon spent millions researching subjects which make the X-Files look tame â including wormholes and alternate dimensions. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released 38 research titles in January after a Freedom of Information Act request. The research included Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions; Invisibility Cloaking and Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy. The research was funded as part of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), by Americaâs Department of Defense. MORE: Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond arrested and charged by police MORE: Tory MP Michael Fabricant hits back at âunknownâ colleague over wig jibe UFO expert and former British Ministry of Defence employee Nick Pope said, âThe DOD and the DIA have previously sought to spin AATIP as being a program looking at âforeign advanced aerospace weapon threatsâ, but the attachment to the DIAâs letter to Congress is difficult to reconcile with this. âThe âproducts producedâ under the AATIP contract are listed as including reference papers on topics which seem more concerned with space travel. âThe smoking gun is the paper about the Drake Equation, which is used to estimate the number of civilizations in the universe. This supports the suggestion that AATIP was indeed a UFO program, as has been claimed, and not an aviation program looking at aircraft, drones and missiles.â in.news.yahoo.com/pentagon-secretly-researched-stargates-alternate-dimensions-ufos-120210494.html
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Post by auntym on Feb 14, 2019 14:25:09 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/new-evidence-of-pentagons-longtime-ufo-research-discovered/ New Evidence of Pentagonâs Longtime UFO Research Discoveredby Brett Tingley / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/bbtingley/February 15, 2019 In late 2017, the UFOlogy and conspiracy circles were somewhat vindicated by the not-so-surprising revelation that the Pentagon operated a secret research program to investigate anomalous aerial phenomenon. While some of us are beginning to believe that those so-called ârevelationsâ about the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, may actually be a smokescreen or publicity stunt, the programâs former director Luis Elizondo continues to hint that more secrets will soon be revealed. mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/12/pentagon-ufo-chief-says-more-disclosures-are-coming-in-2019/The latest revelation about Pentagon UFO research didnât come from Elizondo or anyone else at the âTo the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences,â but instead were brought to light by Keith Basterfield at the blog âUnidentified Aerial Phenomena â Scientific Research.â With so many headlines being written about the Pentagonâs UFO research program, Basterfield began digging through older texts and documents to see if AATIP might be the tip of a much older iceberg. Basterfield may have found something, if his sources are to be taken at their words. After re-reading the 1990 book Out There by New York Times reporter Howard Blum, Basterfield discovered a few anecdotes concerning Major General James C. Pfautz, Chief of Air Force Intelligence who oversaw a $5 million UFO research program within the Pentagon. ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/02/was-there-us5-million-aatip-style.htmlMajor General James C. Pfautz, USAF According to Blumâs book, the program ran from 1983 to 1985 and was kept off the Air Forceâs official books to hide its massive price tag. Pfautz reportedly told Blum that the program was established to study and identify the many anomalous phenomena the Air Force regularly encounters as it carries out its principal mission of protecting Americaâs skies: In 1983, six months after taking command of Air Force Intelligence [Pfautz] decided to investigate the heavens. To Pfautzâs way of thinking, the decision to establish this secret UFO task force was not that extraordinary. The primary job of the Air Force of the United States of America was to protect and defend the airspace of this country. No intrusions could be tolerated. It was his job, he reasoned, to investigate whether unidentified objects of any sort, of any origin, were penetrating this airspace. He was simply fulfilling the responsibility of his office. According to anonymous sources Blum cites, Pfautz was invited to address the Defense Intelligence Agencyâs alleged âUFO Working Groupâ which went by the characteristically uninteresting name âAdvanced Theoretical Physics.â While addressing the group, Pfautz is said to have become emotional in describing the threats Earth faces from unknown phenomena, even going so far as to suggest attempting to forge an alliance with the extraterrestrial beings visiting Earth. Pfautz was eventually outed from his leadership post at Air Force Intelligence for what can be described as political reasons. Blum writes that Pfautz had initially agreed to a private interview with him to discuss the program, but cancelled suspiciously at the last minute after allegedly beinhttps://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/new-evidence-of-pentagons-longtime-ufo-research-discovered/g notified that the programâs research remained classified. The fate of the alleged program is ultimately unknown, but it could be that it in some ways morphed into the more recent AATIP. Whatâs to be made of Howard Blumâs tale? On one hand, this is merely an unconfirmed anecdote, but then again Blum is one of the most respected journalists in America and has published several New York Times best-selling works of non-fiction including Out There. Could this 1990 book contain one more crumb of truth which suggests our government may actually know more about anomalous aerial phenomena than theyâre letting on? Be sure to head over to Basterfieldâs blog and read the full account for yourself. ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/02/was-there-us5-million-aatip-style.htmlmysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/new-evidence-of-pentagons-longtime-ufo-research-discovered/
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