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Sunday, May 29, 2022
Humans Approaching Intelligence Level Required for Interplanetary Life, Scientists Say ( Futurism )
We haven't even made it to first base yet.
Are We There Yet?
Humans might be smart enough to accomplish interplanetary life within the next 200 years, scientists said this week.
A team of eight researchers published a new study in the preprint journal Arxiv and said humanity could become a Kardashev Type I Civilization by the year 2371.
The Kardashev model was made in 1964, according to the study, to assess how close a civilization is to conquering space and interplanetary travel. It's largely based on the kinds of energy each civilization can use and store, and the researchers said humans have to learn how to harness renewable energy before we even hit the first milestone.
Below Average
A Type I civilization is a "planetary civilization" that has harnessed all of the major energy forms on its home planet. Humans, not having conquered nuclear and renewable energy sources yet, don't qualify.
Type II civilizations are "stellar civilizations" and must be able to obtain and store all the energy its parent star releases. Type III is called a "galactic civilization" and can access and control much of the energy the entire galaxy generates.
Two Birds
The study suggests humans will eventually need to escape Earth to survive a future cataclysmic event of some kind. If their warnings about Earth's limited resource abilities and the need to develop into an interplanetary species are true, it's just another reason to fight climate change and invest in new energy sources before it's too late.
To leave our planet for good, we'll need to harness renewable and nuclear energy. We equally need those investments to prevent bleaching coral reefs, mass extinction events and other climate disasters.
In this case we could actually save two birds with one stone.
Lonnie Lee Hood
Incursions at the Border: Homeland Security Agents Tell of Encounters With Unidentified Aerial Phenomena ( The Debrief )
Newly released video and direct testimony from a former Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent reveal that, much like U.S. Navy pilots who say they have regularly encountered unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), law enforcement officials defending America’s borders are also encountering unusual aerial objects with surprising frequency.
According to sources The Debrief has interviewed, these incidents include encounters with aerial objects that appear to perform maneuvers well beyond the capabilities of conventional aircraft. Some of these events, which were also captured on video, have left a number of veteran pilots and other personnel questioning the nature and origin of these objects.
Now in an exclusive to The Debrief, a former CBP agent is breaking his silence, offering significant details about his own experience with UAPs while patrolling the Mexican-American border. This, along with experiences and videos shared with him by fellow CBP and Department of Homeland Security officials, and his efforts to set up a process within the CBP for pilots and agents to report their sightings.
For much of the last century, people have reported seeing strange objects in America’s skies. Sometimes appearing to maneuver at considerable speeds and without discernible means of propulsion, these unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs, have remained an enduring mystery; one that ignores cultural and ideological boundaries with the same disregard they appear to show for territorial borders.
In recent years, the dialogue surrounding this long-taboo topic has been significantly elevated, particularly among lawmakers and defense officials in Washington. Several incidents, a majority of them reported in recent years by U.S. Navy personnel, have prompted questions about whether drones and sophisticated surveillance platforms operated by foreign adversaries–or perhaps something else entirely–could be involved in these aerial incursions into U.S. airspace.
Based on preliminary intelligence assessments, UAP-related legislation, official Pentagon investigative offices, and recent congressional hearings, one might get the impression that UAP incidents are entirely limited to America’s sprawling defense and intelligence apparatus.
Yet people from virtually all walks of life have claimed to have bewildering sightings of these aerial interlopers. And as some former government officials have recently told The Debrief, when it comes to U.S. government and UAP, the Department of Defense is hardly the only show in town.
“It’s not just the DoD encountering this stuff,” says Robert “Bob” Thompson, a recently retired Department of Homeland Security Agent.
In an interview with The Debrief, Thompson recounted how one of the roles he took on as a federal agent with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector Special Operations Group involved establishing the reporting requirements for Unexplained Aerial Phenomena within the Tucson Sector.
According to Thompson, just like the military, a number of these bizarre incidents involving UAP have been captured on sophisticated government systems, normally tasked with catching drug smugglers or staving off the flow of illegal immigration.
“We have guys out there 24/7 with their eyes to the sky looking for smuggling, but they see other stuff,” said Thompson. “I talked to dozens and dozens of agents that all had similar stories of seeing bizarre stuff, of having encounters with UAP.”
After serving for 11 years with the U.S. military and a stint with a Tucson area Fire Department as a Paramedic and Hazmat Technician, Thompson began his career with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency in January 2008.
As a federal law enforcement agent, Thompson would go on to spend the next 14 years guarding America’s southern borders, ultimately earning a spot on the Tucson Sectors Special Operations Detachment Mobile Response Team (MRT.)
“I gravitated, you know, almost right off the bat to the special operations side,” Thompson told The Debrief.
“As always, you just want to surround yourself with the best,” he said. “100% out for excellence all the time. I got on to what they call our mobile Response Team, which is one of the three tiers that make up the Border Patrol Special Operations Detachment.”
Within the Special Operations Detachment the primary focus was counter terrorism, counter weapons of mass destruction proliferation, and drug interdiction.
From 2020 to 2021, Thompson worked in the newly created Arizona Air Coordination Center, which was to become the brain for Air Operations within the Tucson Sector. While tasked in the center, Thompson worked on other projects including helping redesign the sector’s antiquated 911 system and redesigning reporting requirements for regular tracking of statistics for air support operations.
“Flying was kind of my forte. My responsibility was mainly helicopters, and some of the other aerial platforms that we work with and other partner agencies that we work with,” said Thompson in a phone call with The Debrief. “I was also a paramedic too. In fact, I was the senior paramedic, for all of the Border Patrol. I’d get pinged a lot as a subject matter expert when it comes to emergency management and preparation, emergency medicine, and counterterrorism.”
However, along with his official duties with the DHS, Thompson began investigating UAP sightings he learned about from within the agency, even collecting videos and images of bizarre encounters captured by sophisticated government systems.
“There’s other people that have concerns about [these objects] as well. You know, like it may be a foreign adversary,” said Thompson, describing them as “genuine objects that I couldn’t explain.”
Although Thompson admits to having a long-time interest in UFOs, it was only after the 2017 revelations of a quasi-secret Pentagon program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP), that he said he realized the DHS could provide equally valuable information in the organized study of UAP. Thompson said he began producing an “Issue Paper” in an effort to improve reporting and guidance for agents encountering UAP along the southwest border.
“Tucson Sector Border Patrol (TCA) in conjunction with the Tucson Air and Marine Branch needs to develop a program to be able to Report, Identify, Catalog, and if needed; Interdict Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that are encountered along the Southwest Border,” Thompson wrote in the document, a copy of which was obtained by The Debrief.
“Whether or not some of these objects pose a threat to American Interests is not clearly understood and by establishing reporting requirements, it may serve as an early warning system for emerging threats when combined with technology assets already in place by DHS.”
A February 9, 2021 encounter by the Tucson Police Department Air Support unit with an object that “defied known drone/SUAS characteristics,” was highlighted in the document. The craft, described as a “highly modified drone,” was able to outmaneuver helicopters operated by both the Tucson Police Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
“This thing went on for 45 minutes over the city of Tucson,” Bob told The Debrief. “It was doing circles around (the police helicopters) then went up to 14,000 (ft).”
“Could [it] be something Raytheon related?” Thompson asked. “Absolutely. Could it be, you know, a Chinese drone doing some scouting? Absolutely.”
While trying to convince senior leadership to take the issue seriously, Thompson put the word out to the DHS aviation community that he was interested in any UAP encounters they might have had.
Continuing to carry out his full time duties at a DHS air coordination fusion center, it wasn’t long before Thompson says a stream of DHS and National Guard pilots started sharing accounts of encounters with aerial objects they could not identify. In some instances, the objects were also recorded on video by aircraft equipped with advanced imaging systems.
One striking example, made public now for the first time, depicts three fast-moving unidentified aircraft captured by the sophisticated targeting/imaging system of an Army AH-64 attack helicopter.
Captured by one of the U.S. military’s flagship attack helicopters close to midnight on November 6, 2018, roughly 40 miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona, the video appears to show several unidentifiable objects maneuvering unlike any known aircraft.
“Wow! Are those three really fast moving jets up there?” exclaims the Apache helicopter’s co-pilot and gunner as three objects suddenly appear, dashing across the sky as the aircraft prepares to take-off.
“Probably. Probably some A10’s or some F-16s,” the Apache’s pilot replies, before admitting, “but, I’m not looking up there.”
Although difficult to discern from the video alone, the three unknown aircraft initially appear to be flying in a loose triangular formation.
The co-pilot continues to follow the three objects with the aircraft’s multi-sensor imaging system, the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS).
“The M-TADS/PNVS’s advanced FLIR sensors enable Army Aviation Warfighters to see first, understand first, act first and finish decisively on the tactical battlefield,” reads a fact sheet provided by the system’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin. The sophisticated Apache Aviator Integrated Helmet (AAIH) worn by the aircrew allows the nose mounted IR imaging sensor to follow a pilot’s head movements.
As they approach the foothills of nearby Picacho Peak, the three unknown objects suddenly appear to rotate around each other, as if revolving around an unseen axis, all while maintaining a steady eastward trajectory.
After several rotations, the objects then resume an obtuse triangular formation before speeding out of sight as the Apache begins to take off.
Although the encounter only lasted a few seconds, the unusual maneuvers conveyed in the video suggests it could represent the first publicly available imagery of UAP displaying highly-unconventional flight characteristics, captured by military sensor systems.
To verify the video’s authenticity, The Debrief was able to obtain a complete, unedited copy of the imagery captured by the Apache’s gun camera during the entirety of its flight.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), unless there is a known air safety accident or incident, radar tracking information, air traffic control tape recordings, and data communications are only retained for 45 days.
Because the incident is more than three-years old, The Debrief was likewise unable to obtain any automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) transponder data from commercial aircraft tracking sources, capable of revealing any information on other aircraft that were operating within the vicinity at the time of the sighting.
It was noted that in the video the Apache pilot can be heard interacting with air traffic control and requesting permission to take off. There is no mention by air controllers to the pilots of any other aircraft operating in the area.
A check with aeronautical charts of the area using SkyVector.com also failed to provide any obvious clues, such as designated flight paths, low-level air-traffic lanes, or military operational areas that might help account for the objects.
In a video call with The Debrief, former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Chris Lehto said the objects certainly have the appearance of being anomalous.
“It looks like three definite objects, but at a distance. The first thing that stands out to me is the rate of acceleration,” said Lehto, who spent 20-years in the Air Force flying F-16s and holds a Masters degree in aeronautical science.
“If you see an airline out a distance, you’re just expecting it to move a certain amount of distance in a certain amount of time. Especially as a pilot, you just, you build that out more and you’re used to looking at planes and assessing how far away they are. And looking at objects, your brain just gets more and more attuned to that,” Lehto explained.
“And when I looked at this, the rate of acceleration just doesn’t make sense for any objects… I’ve seen in my life, as a pilot.”
Lehto says the objects appear to be moving faster than what he would expect to see even from high-performance aircraft, such as an F-16 or F/A-18 fighter jet.
“Without a doubt. I mean things do move that fast, but they’re constant because when they’re moving that fast they have a very large radius of curvature when they turn just based on centripetal force acceleration to be going that fast,” said Lehto.
When it comes to the bizarre sudden rotations, Lehto said, “How they fly, it doesn’t feel mechanical to me. They’re changing altitudes and headings, or it just doesn’t feel like how we would fly, how I would fly a plane. Basically, at a certain altitude maybe you’re descending, but you’re descending to go somewhere.”
“It’s just kind of willy nilly flying around,” said Lehto. “It just kind of gives me more of an organic rather than mechanical feeling.”
After completing his own analysis of the footage, Lehto provided The Debrief with several additional details that stood out to him, which have led him to conclude the objects display characteristics that appear to defy explanation.
“The tracking rate is exceptionally fast,” Lehto told The Debrief. “Even if they are only a mile away, I calculate they go approximately 1.28M. Well past the speed of sound.”
And according to Lehto, the unusual circular flight path the objects demonstrate near the end of the footage is the strangest aspect of the film.
“The circle-dance maneuver is just not possible,” Lehto said. “They do a full 360-degree turn in less than 3 seconds!”
The former fighter pilot expressed confidence that an F-16 is indeed capable of turning at incredible speeds. According to Lehto, “in a level turn, at Mach 0.8, 7 Gs, and 14 deg/sec, the F-16 could turn 360 degrees in about 26 [seconds].”
But in Lehto’s opinion, no F-16—nor any drone or other aircraft in the current known inventory of the United States military—is capable of what the objects are seen doing in the video. He judges that they display “a turn rate that is an order of magnitude faster than one of the fastest turning fighters on earth,” which he estimates to be above 70 Gs.
“I’ve analyzed the video,” Lehto told The Debrief, concluding “it is without a doubt anomalous.”
The Debrief also spoke with former US Navy F/A-18 pilot Ryan Graves, who was one of the witnesses to the now-famous UAP encountered by Navy personnel aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt between the summer of 2014 and early 2015.
In a phone call, Graves said that at times the unknown objects pilots were encountering off America’s east coast during training exercises at the time would engage in similar bizarre, “non-mechanical” maneuvers.
“It’s hard to describe exactly, but sometimes they would appear to behave erratically. Like group together or change positions while in formation in ways that you wouldn’t see aircraft behave,” said Graves.
“This was in three-dimensional space too. Not just their vector, but sometimes they would also abruptly change altitude.”
To reinforce the need for a UAP task force within DHS, Thompson provided a copy of another 40-minute long UAP video to the nonprofit Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), an organization comprised mainly of scientists from various fields who are engaged in the study of aerial phenomena.
Popularly referred to as the “Rubber Duck,” the video taken from a DHS surveillance aircraft shows a misshapen object steadingly flying along near America’s southern border with Mexico.
Records reviewed by The Debrief verified Thompson had made supervisors at DHS aware of his UAP related side-project, as well as the fact that he had provided the purported UAP footage to the SCU for analysis.
“I’ve seen things,” Thompson said. I’ve seen things myself, but unfortunately, I’ve never been able to hit the record button, or have something that was just going to be mind blowing for people.”
“But this one, the ‘rubber duck video’ I thought displayed some really unique characteristics that I couldn’t explain. To me, it didn’t resemble a balloon [and] it didn’t resemble a drone.”
Skeptic Mick West has expressed the view that the object in the “Rubber Duck” video might nonetheless be a drone or runaway mylar balloon, although he acknowledges that conclusive identification based on information in the video alone would be difficult.
“We really don’t know what it is and we probably won’t ever know what it is,” West said in a video on his YouTube channel.
The Debrief reached out to the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies for comment about the footage, and although the video was pending analysis by an SCU team member, the results of that study had not been completed and made publicly available at the time of publication.
Previously, the SCU conducted an analysis of a separate video originating from within the DHS, filmed over the Rafael Hernandez airport at Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on April 25, 2013, and obtained by the group later that year.
According to the official who provided the footage to the SCU, who chose to remain anonymous, but whose background information was vetted prior to the analysis, the object appearing in the video produced no squawking transponder signal which would have alerted air traffic control nearby about its presence over the airport.
“Fortunately an airborne U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft captured the object on infrared video,” a portion of an extensive report on SCU’s findings states.
Rich Hoffman, an executive board member of SCU who has worked professionally as a defense contractor for more than two decades, says that analysis revealed characteristics about the object that weren’t easily explained.
“It doesn’t have any kind of thermal signature that you would expect,” Hoffman says, who noted that the characteristics displayed by the object in the footage are not consistent with how a balloon or bird would normally appear through thermal imaging systems.
“We got its flight path nailed down,” Hoffman says, adding that SCU “deduced that the speed varied… from about 80 to 85 miles per hour.” Hoffman also notes that the SCU had to account for the parallax effect regarding the object’s movement, which can give the appearance of a faster-moving object due to its relationship with the background based on the camera angle.
“It was a relatively small object,” Hoffman adds, noting that SCU’s analysis determined it had likely been between two and three feet in diameter. The SCU’s complete analysis can be read online at its website.
Thanks in part to the Department of Defense and Congress’s continued interest in collecting data on UAP, things seemed to be progressing–albeit at a snail’s pace typical of government bureaucracy–in Thompson’s attempt to establish similar efforts within the DHS.
However, following unforeseen medical circumstances, Thompson suddenly found himself facing early retirement from his more than 20 years of combined federal service.
Fearing his efforts to have a formal process within DHS to collect and investigate UAP incidents might see additional setbacks, Thompson took action similar to others who have faced such obstacles related to the often taboo topic: he chose to publicly release some of the videos he had obtained showing DHS or military encounters with UAP.
Tim Mc Millan
A Teramo si parla di alieni: “Scettico sugli avvistamenti, ma aperti ad altre forme di vita” ( ABRUZZOCITYRUMORS.it )
Questa mattina all’Università di Teramo si è parlato di “Mondi Alieni”, con il professor Roberto Ragazzoni, Direttore Inaf Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova.
Nel fare i complimenti all’Osservatorio Astronomico d’Abruzzo, a Collurania, (“È bellissimo”), il Direttore ha provato a rispondere a studenti e non, ed analizzato ciò che attualmente sappiamo su forme di vita sconosciute.
Alieni cattivi? Nella nostra galassia potrebbero esserci quattro specie ostili ( TODAY Scienze )
Le probabilità che una razza di alieni malevoli possa raggiungere il nostro pianeta, quindi, sono veramente minime, almeno stando ai calcoli di ricercatore spagnolo
Siamo soli nell’Universo? La risposta continua a sfuggirci. E dopo 70 anni trascorsi ad ascoltare le stelle, nella speranza di intercettare i segnali inviati da qualche civiltà aliena (il progetto Seti, o Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) una parte delle comunità scientifica ha deciso di prendere in mano la situazione. Nel 2022 ben due programmi di ricerca invieranno dei messaggi nello spazio, per segnalare la nostra presenza a qualunque alieno in ascolto si riveli abbastanza evoluto da ricevere e decodificare i nostri segnali radio. Non tutti però concordano sull'opportunità di queste iniziative: quanti rischi corriamo - si chiedono in molti - che gli alieni in questione si rivelino poi male intenzionati? Uno studente di dottorato spagnolo pensa di avere la risposta: secondo i suoi calcoli, nella Via Lattea possono esistere al massimo quattro civiltà aliene ostili con un livello tecnologico paragonabile al nostro, e meno di una con la tecnologia necessaria per raggiungere la Terra e conquistarla. I rischi – conclude il giovane ricercatore – sono quindi inferiori a quelli di essere distrutti da un asteroide.
I calcoli di Caballero, lo precisa lo stesso autore, vanno presi con le pinze: si basano infatti su una lunga serie di assunzioni non dimostrabili, e rappresentano quindi più un elaborato esperimento mentale che una ricerca scientifica vera e propria. Ma va bene così. Lo scopo non è infatti quello di dimostrare scientificamente quante chance abbiamo di veder spuntare uno sciame di bellicosi ufo alle porte del nostro Sistema Solare. Si tratta piuttosto – chiarisce intervistato da Vice – di un tentativo di stimolare il dibattito sui programmi Meti (Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), e fornire qualche numero su cui ragionare per tentare di mettere i rischi in prospettiva.
Non bisogna fare, d’altronde, l’errore di pensare che si tratti di elucubrazioni astruse. Scienziati serissimi considerano i pericoli fin troppo concreti. Lo stesso Stephen Hawking era un fervente avversario dei programmi Meti, ed è ricordato per aver profetizzato che: “se mai gli alieni ci visitassero, penso che il risultato sarebbe molto simile a quello della prima visita di Cristoforo Colombo in America, che non finì proprio benissimo per i nativi americani”.
Tornando a noi, i calcoli di Caballero si basano su una versione aggiornata dell’equazione di Drake, la formula matematica che tenta di stimare quanti alieni esistono nella nostra galassia considerando il numero di pianeti abitabili disponibili, e le probabilità che su di essi si sviluppi una forma di vita intelligente. Stando all’astronomo italiano Claudio Maccone, autore di una versione statistica dell’equazione di Drake pubblicata nel 2010, è possibile stimare tra le 0 e le 15.785 forme di vita intelligente nella Via Lattea, con una media approssimata di 4.590.
Per valutare le chance che qualcuna di queste riveli intenzioni malevole, Caballero ha deciso di rifarsi alla storia della nostra specie, analizzando il numero di stati che hanno invaso altre nazioni negli ultimi 50 anni, e calcolando quindi prima le probabilità medie che ha una nazione terrestre di invaderne un’altra, e poi quelle che avrebbe la nostra specie di invadere il pianeta di una civiltà aliena se, a parti inverse, fossimo noi a scoprire la loro esistenza. A questo punto, Caballero ha calcolato in che modo le probabilità di invasione sono correlate al consumo globale di energia, un parametro che definisce lo sviluppo tecnologico di una civiltà nella cosiddetta scala Kardashev. In questo modo ha ottenuto le probabilità di aggressione di una civiltà con livello tecnologico di tipo 1, cioè capace di utilizzare per intero l’energia irradiata dalla propria stella, e quindi (ipotizza il ricercatore) in grado di effettuare viaggi interstellari almeno nei sistemi stellari circostanti. Senza questa capacità – d’altronde – nessuna specie aliena potrebbe venire a disturbarci, malevola o meno che sia.
Prendendo quindi come base di partenza il numero massimo di specie aliene intelligenti che possono abitare la galassia (tanto per stare sicuri), Caballero ha completato i suoi calcoli: nella Via Lattea esistono 0,22 civiltà di tipo 1 che potrebbero invadere il nostro pianeta. Considerando anche le specie con una tecnologia paragonabile alla nostra (cioè ancora di tipo 0), il numero di civiltà malevole sale a 4,42, ma ricordiamoci che nessuno di questi alieni cattivi di tipo 0 avrebbe i mezzi per causare problemi sulla Terra.
Secondo i calcoli di Caballero, per ogni pianeta abitabile della galassia verso cui inviamo un messaggio, le probabilità che questo provochi una reazione ostile sono quindi inferiori di ben due ordini di grandezza rispetto a quelle che ha la Terra di essere colpita da un asteroide delle dimensioni di quello che provocò l’estinzione dei dinosauri. Le chance quindi sono veramente minime, ma visto che la posta in gioco è la sopravvivenza dell’intera specie umana la risposta non è scontata: il gioco vale davvero la candela?
Simone Valesini
Commento di Oliviero Mannucci: ammirevole lo studio di questo ricercatore, ma come consulente militare ed esperto di EBE, UAP, tecnologie spaziali non convenzionali, posso tranquillamente affermare che le tipologie di alieni potenzialmente ostili sono molte di più, e parlo di quelle che si conoscono fino ad ora. Il ricercatore in questione dimentica che anche nella nostra galassia esistono degli equilibri che impediscono alle specie meno pacifiche di attuare i loro progetti imperialistici di espansione e assoggettamento di specie senzienti meno evolute come la nostra. Tanto e vero che fino adesso sono stati proprio i terrestri ad utilizzare a scopi distruttivi e sperimentali ordigni atomici.
La NASA e partecipa alle indagini sugli UAP ( futuroprossimo.it )
L'audizione sugli UAP del 17 Maggioha scoperchiato un vaso di Pandora: oltre 400 avvistamenti accertati, diversi senza spiegazione. La NASA daraà il suo contributo alle indagini.
Il 2022 è stato (fino ad ora) decisamente un anno sorprendente, in negativo. La pandemia ha continuato a funestare il pianeta, e si sono aggiunti i colpi di un conflitto in Europa, gli echi di uno tra USA e Cina e altre simpatiche minacce ambientali.
Considerato il quadro generale, il fatto che ci sia stato un rinnovato interesse per il fenomeno degli UFO (o dovrei dire UAP, visto che la parola UFO ha uno stigma ed è vista come poco seria?) è da considerarsi un piacevole diversivo per scacciare l’ansia. La disclosure che ha portato al Congresso americano video e testimonianze ufficiali sugli avvistamenti è riuscita a sollevare un velo.
Quello che da anni si poggia su un fenomeno reale e assolutamente non spiegato: ci sono dei velivoli dalla tecnologia non conosciuta e in grado di violare a piacimento lo spazio aereo di diverse nazioni. Questo è quanto.
Ed è un problema che con la fantascienza ha poco a che vedere
Gli USA intendono indagarlo più seriamente, perchè contemplano una possibilità molto più concreta di quelle che contemplano degli omini grigi. La possibilità che un’altra nazione sia riuscita ad ottenere un grande vantaggio tecnologico.
È per questo che documenti e audizioni si moltiplicano, e in un anno abbiamo assistito alla prima audizione pubblica sul tema (in 54 anni): si è tenuta lo scorso 17 maggio.
Oggi, a 10 giorni da questa audizione, la NASA (che aveva precedentemente manifestato intenzioni diverse) intenderebbe unirsi ufficialmente alle indagini sui fenomeni aerei non identificati. La notizia viene da una fonte interna: l’ente americano si sarebbe consultato con più enti governativi ed ora “valuta come fornire la sua esperienza nelle osservazioni spaziali della terra per migliorare la comprensione degli UAP”.
Cosa hanno visto gli stakeholders nell’audizione sugli UAP del 17 maggio?
Messa in sordina dalla pletora di notizie su guerra e pandemia, l’udienza del Congresso americano tenuta ad inizio mese ha fatto diverse rivelazioni scioccanti sugli UFO. Un funzionario dell’intelligence della Marina ha fornito documentazioni su oltre 400 avvistamenti di UAP.
I video degli UFO sono stati riprodotti ai membri del Congresso come parte dell’audizione. Uno mostrava un oggetto sferico in rapido movimento. Un altro mostrava quella che sembrava una perfetta forma triangolare che scintillava nel cielo con un vistoso colore verde.
Gli esperti non hanno alcuna spiegazione scientifica per questi oggetti o il modo in cui si muovono.
Qui un estratto dell’audizione, seguito da un servizio della CNN che riassume ulteriormente:
Cosa farà la NASA per studiare il fenomeno UAP?
Come saprete, gli USA hanno approvato una nuova legge che autorizza una task force UAP del governo, la AOIMSG (Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, questo è il suo nome ufficiale).
Dopo quelle dei piloti raccolte dall’aeronautica, l’agenzia spaziale statunitense potrebbe raccogliere prove e testimonianze dagli astronauti. Testimonianze oculari di prima mano di dipendenti e astronauti della NASA, revisioni di vecchi filmati d’archivio e altri elementi che possano aiutare AOIMSG nella sua indagine.
Si tratta di un grande sviluppo, non solo perché sembra che il governo statunitense stia prendendo sul serio il fenomeno UFO, ma anche perché altri governi studiano come seguirne l’esempio.
Possiamo solo sperare che questo porti a una migliore comprensione di cosa siano questi oggetti e quale sia la loro origine.
Gianluca Riccio
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Commento di Oliviero Mannucci: che vi avevo detto? Adesso prego tutti gli scettici che avevo informato a proposito di questa cosa e che ridevano a crepapelle di non rompere più i coglioni al sottoscritto per il lavoro che sta svolgendo. Sarete trattati esattamente come voi avete trattato me, a pesci in faccia. Studiate e aprite la mente piuttosto, capre!
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
UFOs are a threat to national security ( The Washington Times )
The possibility of laser plasma technology mounted to a jet
Last week, the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation held a hearing on UAPs — unidentified aerial phenomena — more commonly known as UFOs. The hearing, which was the first of its kind in decades, comes two years after the Office of Naval Intelligence established the new Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and nearly a year after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a preliminary assessment that examined 144 events from 2004 to 2021, concluding UAP could “possibly” threaten national security.
Of 18 incidents described in 21 reports, the ODNI said, “observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics,” including the ability to “maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speeds, without discernible means of propulsion.” There were also 11 reported “near misses” with U.S. aircraft.
During last week’s hearing, top Pentagon intelligence official Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray said the number of events examined had increased from 144 to 400, and Rep. Andre Carson echoed ODNI’s concerns that UAPs were a “potential national security threat” to the U.S. “and need to be treated that way.”
For background, the UAP Task Force was created after several mysterious close encounters with U.S. military pilots were captured on video. Some of these events were published by The New York Times and aired by CBS’ “60 Minutes,” and the pilots interviewed were uncertain whether their origin was terrestrial or extraterrestrial. In that “60 Minutes” segment, Sen. Marco Rubio told CBS, “I don’t think we can allow the stigma [of UFOs] to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question … I want us to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously.”
Mr. Rubio’s concern most likely arises from the fact that many of the incidents under review occurred in restricted airspace near military installations or amidst aerial and naval exercises. This raises serious questions about the intent of the phenomena — or whatever controls it. For all these reasons and more, I believe UAPs are a national security threat to the United States.
Shortly after the ODNI report was published, I wrote an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal titled “UFOs May Be Earthly and Dangerous,” which centered around something that was not included in the ODNI assessment — a 2018 U.S. Navy patent application, Publication No. US2020/0041236A1.
The patent application describes a new laser-plasma technology wherein laser systems would be mounted to the back of a jet and “configured to generate a ghost image such that a plurality of air vehicles appear to be present.” The technology is described as, “a method where a laser beam is configured to generate a laser-induced plasma filament (LIPF), and the LIPF acts as a decoy to detract a homing missile or other threat from a specific target.”
Forbes technology journalist David Hambling also wrote about this technology in a piece titled, “U.S. Navy Laser Creates Plasma ‘UFOs.’” writing, “This technology … create[s] phantom images with infrared images to fool heat-seeking missiles … the laser creates a series of mid-air plasma columns, which form a 2D or 3D image … similar to the way old-style cathode-ray TV sets display a picture.”
A diagram on the patent application shows a drawing of a fighter jet projecting a laser that generates a holographic image resembling a “ghost” aircraft — an image of a UFO. Such technology could explain why many of the recent pictures of UAPs are blurry, and the purported unidentified flying objects moveerratically while suddenly appearing and disappearing without any sign of taking off, landing or leaving exhaust contrails — or purportedly arising from and submerging into the ocean.When asked directly by committee members, DoD officials said they believe most UAPs are probably physical objects. This is most likely because 80 of the 144 incidents referenced in the 2021 ODNI assessment were detected on advanced military systems and radar. But there might be explanations for this. A foreign adversary may have learned to deceive our sensors or they could be detecting a small, hard-to-spot physical drone that is projecting UAP imagery. In 2017, Alexandru Hening, the lead researcher on the aforementioned Navy patent application told IT magazine “with the next generation of lasers you could produce a filament of even a mile.”
Laser plasma technology may sound like science fiction, but both the U.S. and Soviet Union began exploring the concept early as the 1970s. The U.S. began investigating the use of lasers to intercept ICBMs during Project Excalibur, which led to President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, more commonly known as the Star Wars program. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. learned that the Soviets took Reagan’s initiative seriously and explored the use of laser-plasma, microwave and photon technology.
In 2017 the Russian Federation declared it had achieved laser-based energy-directed weaponry. In 2019 it was revealed the U.S. Navy was developing a program to project false fleets from drone swarms. While such technology could be used to distract enemy missiles, it could also be used to disorient fighter pilots in combat scenarios and even exploited as a psychological operation to create doubt within the ranks of the world’s greatest superpower that it is vulnerable — while creating panic within its civilian population.
It is possible that not all UAPs have the same origin, and while some may be physical objects, others may not. Whatever UAP’s origin or intent — terrestrial or extraterrestrial — we must consider all possibilities and regard any unknown phenomena that enter U.S. restricted airspace as a threat to our national security until we can identify its origin and intentions.
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
• Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is an investigative journalist who has reported on Russian aerospace and political affairs. He served as a senior U.S. official at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, 2017-2021.
Mutual UFO Network Releases Statement on UAP Hearing ( DIGITAL JOURNAL )
CINCINNATI – May 24, 2022 – (Newswire.com)
MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, applauds members of the United States
House of Representatives and, specifically, the House Intelligence
Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation (C3)
Subcommittee for holding a hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
(UAP). MUFON is dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs and UAP in
order to benefit humanity. MUFON is the longest-serving organization of
its kind, having been in existence since 1969. As an organization, MUFON
has long investigated UAP sightings and has collected the critical data
needed to educate the public on the UAP phenomenon and its potential
impact on society.
“I am excited that Congress is taking this
critical first step in disclosing what is known,” MUFON Executive
Director David MacDonald said. “Through our knowledge and database of
sightings, we know that there are many unanswered questions. We hope
that Congress and the Department of Defense continue to be transparent
with the American people. MUFON stands ready to assist the government in
any capacity.”
With more than 10,000 reports a year, MUFON has a 92 percent rate of being able to explain the sightings.
After many years of being taboo, discussions regarding UAPs are becoming mainstream. The hearing held on May 17 was the first Congressional hearing since a push in 1969 by then-Congressman Gerald Ford that led to an Air Force report and hearing. In advance of the hearing, MUFON has spoken with numerous Congressional officials, providing individuals with information and answers to questions they might have on UAPs. MUFON has always worked closely with Congress. For example, information from MUFON has been instrumental for years in unfolding the process of disclosure. Information from the MUFON database was instrumental in convincing Harry Reid to seek funding for the AATIP program.
MUFON’s 1,100 volunteers nationwide, and 46 international chapters
with 4,600 members globally, tuned in to watch the hearings this week.
Now that the conversation regarding UAPs is mainstream, a more
significant bipartisan collective effort is needed to push for better
legislation and more in-depth information to be released to the public.
MUFON stands ready to assist the federal government on UFO sightings and
the best way to collect and handle the data from those sightings. More
information can be accessed at www.MUFON.com.
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No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public ( The New York Times )
For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings.
Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.
Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, which is not classified but deals with classified matters. Yet it appeared last month in a Senate committee report outlining spending on the nation’s intelligence agencies for the coming year. The report said the program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, was “to standardize collection and reporting” on sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles, and was to report at least some of its findings to the public within 180 days after passage of the intelligence authorization act.
While retired officials involved with the effort — including Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader — hope the program will seek evidence of vehicles from other worlds, its main focus is on discovering whether another nation, especially any potential adversary, is using breakout aviation technology that could threaten the United States.
Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who is the acting chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told a CBS affiliate in Miami this month that he was primarily concerned about reports of unidentified aircraft over American military bases — and that it was in the government’s interest to find out who was responsible.
He expressed concerns that China or Russia or some other adversary had made “some technological leap” that “allows them to conduct this sort of activity.”
Mr. Rubio said some of the unidentified aerial vehicles over U.S. bases possibly exhibited technologies not in the American arsenal. But he also noted: “Maybe there is a completely, sort of, boring explanation for it. But we need to find out.”
In 2017, The New York Times disclosed the existence of a predecessor unit, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Defense Department officials said at the time that the unit and its $22 million in funding had lapsed after 2012.
People working with the program, however, said it was still in operation in 2017 and beyond, statements later confirmed by the Defense Department.
The program was begun in 2007 under the Defense Intelligence Agency and was then placed within the office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, which remains responsible for its oversight. But its coordination with the intelligence community will be carried out by the Office of Naval Intelligence, as described in the Senate budget bill. The program never lapsed in those years, but little was disclosed about the post-2017 operations.
“It no longer has to hide in the shadows,” Mr. Elizondo said. “It will have a new transparency.”
Mr. Elizondo is among a small group of former government officials and scientists with security clearances who, without presenting physical proof, say they are convinced that objects of undetermined origin have crashed on earth with materials retrieved for study.
For more than a decade, the Pentagon program has been conducting classified briefings for congressional committees, aerospace company executives and other government officials, according to interviews with program participants and unclassified briefing documents.
In some cases, earthly explanations have been found for previously unexplained incidents. Even lacking a plausible terrestrial explanation does not make an extraterrestrial one the most likely, astrophysicists say.
Mr. Reid, the former Democratic senator from Nevada who pushed for funding the earlier U.F.O. program when he was the majority leader, said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied.
“After looking into this, I came to the conclusion that there were reports — some were substantive, some not so substantive — that there were actual materials that the government and the private sector had in their possession,” Mr. Reid said in an interview.
No crash artifacts have been publicly produced for independent verification. Some retrieved objects, such as unusual metallic fragments, were later identified from laboratory studies as man-made.
Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program since 2007, said that, in some cases, examination of the materials had so far failed to determine their source and led him to conclude, “We couldn’t make it ourselves.”
The constraints on discussing classified programs — and the ambiguity of information cited in unclassified slides from the briefings — have put officials who have studied U.F.O.s in the position of stating their views without presenting any hard evidence.
Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
Mr. Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later.
Committee staff members did not respond to requests for comment on the issue.
Public fascination with the topic of U.F.O.s has drawn in President Trump, who told his son Donald Trump Jr. in a June interview that he knew “very interesting” things about Roswell — a city in New Mexico that is central to speculation about the existence of U.F.O.s. The president demurred when asked if he would declassify any information on Roswell. “I’ll have to think about that one,” he said.
Either way, Mr. Reid said, more should be made public to clarify what is known and what is not. “It is extremely important that information about the discovery of physical materials or retrieved craft come out,” he said.
An earlier version of this article inaccurately rendered remarks attributed to Harry Reid, the retired Senate majority leader from Nevada. Mr. Reid said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied; he did not say that crashes had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades. An earlier version also misstated the frequency with which the director of national intelligence is supposed to report on unidentified aerial phenomena. It is 180 days after enactment of the intelligence authorization act, not every six months.
Scientists hope to track aliens with global satellite web ( msn )
Scientists are convinced that the best way to find aliens is by throwing a satellite web across the world.
Boffins say that global censor coverage is the best way to discover the truth about extraterrestrials with Jacob Haqq-Misra calling for "a world network of detectors".
The scientist, from the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science in Seattle, said: "If you want to understand a particular set of data you need to know something about the instrument that collected the data.
"What you would need is to set up a network of detectors all around the world. Ideally, you'd have ground-based sensors and you'd have satellite coverage."
The claims follow military chiefs in the United States confirming that unidentified objects had been spotted in the sky in the first public hearing about UFOs for decades.
Aliens exist in the 'observable universe', says English physicist Brian Cox ( msn )
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English physicist Brian Cox believes that aliens exist somewhere in the known universe.
Last week, US Congressman Andre Carson’s caused a stir when he claimed that UFOs were real and posed a “potential national security threat” that needed to be investigated.
Professor Cox backed Carson’s claims to an extent by stating that statistically there must be other sentient life in the "two trillion galaxies" that exist in the "observable universe", but he does not believe they are a threat.
Speaking on BBC’s Sunday Morning programme, he said: “There are two trillion galaxies in the observable universe, I’m sure there are others out there.
“It looks like we have good evidence life was present 3.8 billion years ago, and the first civilisation to appear on Earth was about now.
“So it took the best part of four billion years to go from the origin of life on Earth to a civilisation.
“That’s a third of the age of the universe, and that is a long time, so that may indicate that microbes may be common, but things like us maybe extremely rare.”
According to Monica Grady, professor of planetary and space sciences, we should not rule out the possibility of life existing considering we live in an infinite universe.
She said: “Our galaxy is so vast, with so many different types of stars with planets orbiting them, it is statistically possible for life to have arisen on another planet.
“We know that there is no civilisation, apart from ours, in the Solar System - so any life that has evolved to develop interstellar travel would have to journey across billions of miles.”
This article originally appeared on the US Sun and was reproduced with permission ( brobible )
- Army veterans say they were told to keep quiet after a frightening encounter with UFOs.
- The incident took place in the desert at a Middle East military base in 2014.
With Congress holding its first meeting on UFOs in more than 50 years on Tuesday and with more and more military veterans and former government officials coming forward, the lid has been lifted on the truth and it’s not going back on.
Everyone from Navy personnel to Air Force technicians and pilots to civilian pilots and airline passengers are now more than willing to risk the scorn that was previously associated with speaking out about UFOs.
Three such men, former cavalrymen in the United State Army, recently spoke to DailyMail.com about their experience in dealing with UFOs.
The three Army veterans claim that while stationed at a American military base in the Middle East in 2014 they saw eight bright objects in the sky over Sinai, hovering and flying at speeds they had never seen before.
The three cavalry scouts, who are trained in identifying aircraft, believe the objects they witnessed were of non-human origin.
One claims he was told ‘keep your mouth shut’ by a senior officer after word spread among his regiment about the sighting.
The men said they were afraid to make official reports about the incident for fear of being sent for a career-damaging psychological evaluation, and said there was no proper process to make such a report anyway.
Sergeant Travis Bingham, E4 Specialist Vishal Singh and Private First Class Dovell Engram of the 3rd Cavalry, part of a Multinational Force and Observers mission, say their UFO encounter took place at Observation Post 3-1 in Sinai near the south end of the Israel-Egypt border.
The three Army veterans described their encounter with a UFO in the desert
Engram says the incident had him “scared s—less” by the craft in the sky that “appeared to be spinning, as smaller lights emerged from it, which seemed to spiral like fireworks,” reports DailyMail.com.
Another outpost, located 200 miles away, also said they had seen the object in the sky.
“I would describe it as a big object with several smaller objects, which appeared to be communicating, or scuffling, like a dogfight in the air. We knew it wasn’t our military and it was baffling,” said Bingham.
“The objects were glowing – you could clearly see them with the naked eye, and it was clear how fast they were moving.
“To this day, I’ve never seen anything like the craft, covering such distance with extreme speeds.”
Singh said he tried to identify the UFO using night vision goggles, but said that the edges of the UFO seemed blurry.
“The craft and smaller objects began moving like fireflies, left, right, up and down,” he said.
“I cannot imagine any military that has this type of technology. We’re talking u-turns while at hypersonic speeds.”
He estimated the craft was traveling at several thousand miles per hour.
“All of a sudden the smaller objects rejoined the craft. The craft appeared to shrink smaller and smaller until it just disappeared. It didn’t fly into space, it just disappeared gradually,” Singh added.
Bingham said that because they never could identify what the craft was they couldn’t officially report it.
“We could have reported an aircraft sighting, but how could we have described the fuselage when it had none?” he pointed out.
Hopefully, now that Congress appears to be taking UFO sightings such as these more seriously, future military personnel won’t run into that problem.
Douglas Charles
US recovered UFO wreckage, Congressman claims as public hearing gets under way ( news.com.au )
Tim Burchett (left) with defence undersecretary for intelligence and security Ronald Moultrie. Picture: Jose Luis Magana/AFP
As a landmark public hearing on UFOs begins in Washington, a member of Congress claims the US has recovered wreckage from one.
A member of Congress in the US has claimed his country has wreckage recovered from a UFO – as the subject takes centre stage in Washington.
US politician Tim Burchett told The US Sun he has been informed by reliable sources that “material” has been recovered from the objects or craft that have been reported in skies over the US.
The Tennessee Republican declined to elaborate further as he said the information had been passed to him in a “classified setting”.
“I’ve been told by multiple sources we have recovered something from these [crafts or objects],” Mr Burchett told The Sun Online.
He was speaking just hours before the first UFO hearing in Washington in decades as the topic steps from the fringe into the mainstream.
UFO discussion in the US has shifted from conspiracy theories to a genuine national security concern after a string of servicemen and defence officials came forward regarding their strange encounters.
And the most striking of these was the trio of leaked videos showing UFOs operating near US warships and being pursued by fighter planes, known as the Tic Tac, Gimbal and GoFast.
Mr Burchett however warned he does not have faith in the upcoming congressional hearing, believing that whatever the US knows will continue to be covered up by institutions in Washington D.C.
And he said full disclosure that revealed evidence of alien life visiting Earth could change the world – saying he believes it would help people put terrestrial differences to bed.
“It would do away with the ‘bogeyman from overseas’,” he told The Sun Online.
His view is an echo of the 1987 speech by US President Ronald Reagan, who famously said: “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
Mr Burchett believes the public “need[s] to know” the truth about what is going on with UFOs.
“All we do is cover up. Let’s just be transparent. What is wrong with telling the world and saying, ‘We’ve got this, we are going to share it and we can figure out what it is together,’” he said.
“I don’t think a lot is going to come from the hearings. It’s bringing in the people who created the problem to fix the problem.”
He blasted recent “bogus” Pentagon reports on UFOs as being like “Swiss cheese” due to the amount of redactions.
Mr Burchett said: “We need full disclosure. This is what we know and this is what we don’t know.
“We can and should do better.”
The issue also stretches beyond the US – with the Congressman adding he has heard Russia and China are also interested in the UFO topic, having had their own encounters.
He said he does not believe the objects are advanced technology from Moscow or Beijing, as some have suggested.
And he added there is still a lot of resistance among politicians who don’t want to touch the issue with a “10-foot pole” for political reasons.
“I don’t care if they abuse me. I think the American people need to know.
“I even put out a T-shirt on my website saying, ‘More people believe in UFOs than in Congress.’ And that’s the truth.”
US deputy director of naval intelligence Scott Bray shows a video of unidentified aerial phenomena to the House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing. Picture: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP
However, Mr Burchett added he does believe the stigma around discussing UFOs is starting to break down.
And he called for a blanket amnesty for officials currently restricted by nondisclosure agreements from talking about UFOs.
Mr Burchett told The Sun Online the game-changing moment in the UFO debate was the US navy videos.
And he has personally spoken to US pilots who have encountered the mysterious phenomena.
“The only reason we are talking about this right now is the leaked US navy videos and the pilots who saw them,” he said.
“I’ve talked to other pilots as well [who have seen things] – and these people are some of the best in the world and very patriotic.
“These are people in their 20s who are very confident in their abilities – a lot of them just laughed about it as they simply had no control.
“It’s wild stuff, the [objects] turn on a dime, and accelerate at an incredible rate with no heat trail. It’s miraculous.”
The Congressman believes there can only be two explanations for the encounters: Either it is of alien origin or it could be US black technology, but he is doubtful of latter due to the ways the objects appear to move.
He told The Sun Online: “According to our technology, a human couldn’t survive inside that – he would be turned into a ketchup packet.
“There is no heat from the front end from friction or at the back from propulsion, which is obviously something we currently can’t do and can’t control.”
And he doesn’t believe what some experts have suggested that the revelations about alien life could damage society and the world’s religions.
“In God’s vast universe, if you think we are the best God can do you hold God in low esteem,” he said.
“Even if you believe in God, there must be something else out there; we can’t just be it. Infinity is a long way.”
The Congressman said he has been interested in UFOs since the 1970s, and he said there have been reports of strange objects in the sky since the dawn of humankind, pointing to examples in the Bible and in Ancient Egypt.
This week the House Intelligence counter-terrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation subcommittee is holding a landmark public hearing on UFOs.
Ronald S. Moultrie, undersecretary of defence for intelligence and security, and Scott W. Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, will both answer questions on the highly controversial topic.
US Congressman Andre Carson, the committee’s chairman, said: “The American people expect and deserve their leaders in government and intelligence to seriously evaluate and respond to any potential national security risks – especially those which we do not fully understand.”
US Congressman Adam Schiff added: “There’s still much to learn about UAP and the potential risks they may pose to our national security.”
He described the issue as “one of the greatest mysteries of our time” and said he hopes to “break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency”.
What is going on with UFOs in the US?
UFOS have stepped from fringe conspiracy theories to a genuine national security debate in the US.
Pentagon officials took the unprecedented step to confirm a trio of remarkable videos which showed US encounters with UFOs.
The debate is still open as to what the phenomena caught on film were – but it made clear to everyone, something is in the skies.
Perhaps the most striking was a video known as the “Tic Tac” (named due to its shape) – which showed an unidentified object being pursued by fighter planes.
The US also confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) – a $US12 million ($A17 million) Pentagon program set up to study UFOs before being disbanded in 2012.
Eventually, it was replaced by the UAP task force in June 2020 after a vote by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
Defence chiefs have since confirmed a number of leaked UFO videos and photos which were submitted to the task force for investigation.
Why this sudden rush for transparency? No one outside the secretive wings of the US government currently knows for sure. And as a tacked on addendum to a 5500-page Covid relief bill passed in December, the Director of National Intelligence’s office was ordered to compile a report on UFOs within 180 days.
The UAP report dropped as expected on June 25, and while not giving much away – it did not rule anything out either as much of it remains classified.
The US appear to have acknowledged that UFOs – or whatever they are – are real and are a potential threat to national security as they appear to be able to enter restricted airspace with total impunity.
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have both discussed the topic and seemed to acknowledge something is going on – a massive turnaround from previous total denial the government had regarding anything to do with UFOs.Is it aliens? Officially the US position is simply, “We don’t know yet.”
This article originally appeared on the US Sun and was reproduced with permission