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Monday, November 29, 2021
Year Of The UFO Continues: Pentagon Launches Program To Investigate Sightings
TOPLINE
In the latest instance of the federal government showing it considers UFOs a very real threat, the Department of Defense late Tuesday announced plans for a new group to look into reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, as speculation grows over what is actually out there.
KEY FACTS
The new program, called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, will examine reports of UFOs in special use airspace (SUA), such as military operation areas, to “assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security,” the Pentagon said in a news release.
The announcement comes just over five months after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report on 144 UFO sightings by Navy pilots since 2004, with intelligence officials unable to explain 143 of the sightings, but concluding they are likely real objects that could pose a threat to national security.
Pressure has mounted for the government to ramp up its research to come up with some sort of explanation, with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) saying this summer: “When you have this much visual and radar evidence that there is something . . . we’ve got to get an answer.”
In January, the CIA released thousands of documents that it claimed amounted to all of its UFO research, but—much like the June report—it failed to provide an answer to the phenomena.
Public interest in UFOs also reached a fever pitch this year, with Google Trends data showing spikes in searches like “UFO” and “UFO sightings” through much of the year, though it has tapered off a bit in the fall.
A massive rise in sightings by the general public has coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic—sightings reportedly increased nationwide by 16% in 2020, with sightings in New York doubling.
BIG NUMBER
11. That’s how many times Navy pilots have reported near-misses with UFOs, according to the report released in June.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“Incursions by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges,” the Pentagon said.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
In its June report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence identified five categories that UFOs will likely fall into—airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, secret U.S. aircraft, foreign adversary systems or a catchall “other” category. The report didn’t make mention of the popular, yet unfounded, speculation that UFOs might be of extraterrestrial origin.
KEY BACKGROUND
U.S. government research on UFOs dates back decades, starting in the 1940s. The most comprehensive report thus far was called Project Blue Book, carried out from 1952–69. The investigation reviewed more than 12,000 UFO reports, but found most of the reports were explainable and determined at the time that UFOs weren't a threat to national security. Government UFO research largely fizzled out after Project Blue Book, until 2007, when a little-known project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program launched. The program ushered in the new era of increased government scrutiny on UFOs, but largely remained unnoticed until media reports on its existence appeared in 2017. It was replaced by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, which launched in 2020.
FURTHER READING
UFO sightings spike dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic (CNET)
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program (The New York Times)
Nicholas Reimann
Alieni in grado di infettare l’uomo e arrivare facilmente sulla Terra? Sì, è possibile ( Androiditaly )
A causa dell’aumento esponenziale delle missioni spaziali, i ricercatori non hanno escluso la possibilità di una possibile contaminazione biologica. Ovviamente non così disastrosa come quelle che vediamo nei vari film, però è sempre un bene pensare che possa succedere.Il motivo? Prevenire è meglio che curare a volte, ecco perché avvengono numerosi studi su come possa essere combattuta una situazione del genere. Una idea in mente potrebbero anche avercela, ma al momento preoccupiamoci di indagare a fondo e scoprire che cosa hanno pensato gli scienziati.
Le opinioni dei ricercatori
Anthony Ricciardi, l’autore di uno studio sul tema in questione – e professore di biologia alla McGill University of Montreal -, ha esposto le sue considerazioni al riguardo, dicendo che: “La ricerca della vita oltre il nostro mondo è uno sforzo entusiasmante che potrebbe portare a un’enorme scoperta in un futuro non troppo lontano. Tuttavia, di fronte all’aumento delle missioni spaziali, comprese quelle volte a riportare campioni sulla Terra, è fondamentale ridurre i rischi di contaminazione biologica in entrambe le direzioni“.
Ma questo cosa significa? Che anche noi, in un certo senso, potremmo essere degli alieni per altre razze. Attraccare su un pianeta abitato ed entrare in contatto con degli extraterrestri vulnerabili, magari, ad un virus che noi sconfiggiamo facilmente con il nostro sistema immunitario, potrebbe danneggiarli gravemente. Ecco perché è importante prestare attenzione pure a questo punto di vista.
Lo scienziato prosegue con il suo discorso, riferendoci le seguenti parole: “Le invasioni biologiche sono state spesso devastanti per le piante e gli animali nei sistemi terrestri, soprattutto quelli insulari. Noi sosteniamo che i pianeti e le lune potenzialmente contenenti vita dovrebbero essere trattati come se fossero quel tipo di sistema, vulnerabile e che non ha sviluppato protezione per un certo tipo di invasione“.Quello che viene raccomandato, in particolar modo, è di aumentare i protocolli di bio sicurezza per i viaggi spaziali, assicurandosi che, gli astronauti, non portino sulla Terra eventuali malattie sconosciute e che potrebbero mettere in pericolo gli esseri umani.
Sebastiano Spinelli
"Non capiamo tutto". E il Pentagono vara una task force anti-Ufo ( msn notizie )
Questi fenomeni, oggi per l'appunto denominati Uap (unidentified aerial phenomena), hanno causato un'interrogazione alla Cia da parte di alcuni politici governativi. Da aprile fino a giugno di quest'anno il Pentagono e la UapTf (Uap Task Force) hanno fornito un resoconto di cui uno solo, il più breve, è stato declassificato e reso pubblico. Quello più lungo e dettagliato, invece, è rimasto ancora secretato ufficialmente per la presenza al suo interno di informazioni di carattere militare. Dal rapporto risultano 144 avvistamenti reali e di natura sconosciuta. Per alcuni di questi è stata cercata disperatamente una spiegazione che potesse rientrare nelle 4 categorie note, vale a dire quella dei "disordini aerei" (ad esempio velivoli non segnalati, false segnalazioni o errori di sensori), quella dei "fenomeni atmosferici", quella della "tecnologia industriale" (ad esempio droni, palloni meteo) e quella dei "sistemi nemici" (tecnologia, cioè, di Paesi ostili agli Usa).
Nonostante questo immane sforzo, tuttavia, ben 80 fenomeni sono accostabili solo alla quinta categoria, quella definita "other", ovvero "altro", che riguarda una serie di oggetti fisici reali contraddistinti da inesplicabili e non convenzionali capacità tecnologiche di volo e da prestazioni aerodinamiche che stravolgono le leggi della fisica ad ora note. Avvistamenti effettuati direttamente da personale militare o segnalati da strumentazioni tecnologiche (ovvero contemporaneamente da radar da terra, o installati su navi o velivoli) in grado di rilevare anche tracce radiotrasmissive.
Avril Haines, Direttore dell'Intelligence Usa a livello nazionale (Dni) che sovrintende tutte le 16 agenzie di spionaggio comprese Fbi e Cia, è stata decisamente esplicita nelle dichiarazioni rilasciate in occasione del Congresso "Hour future in space: Ignatius Forum": "Ritorna sempre la domanda: 'C'è qualcosa che non capiamo e potrebbe avere origine extraterrestre?", si era chiesta. "Eravamo abbastanza sicuri che non saremmo riusciti a classificare ognuno di questi rapporti Uap nelle varie categorie che abbiamo identificato", ha ammesso poi Haines, "perché francamente non siamo stati in grado di capire tutto al riguardo". C'è stato spazio anche per l'ironia, dato che il Dni ha scherzato sulla possibilità che il Direttore venisse licenziato nel caso in cui avesse deciso di rivelare al forum "la cosa più bella" che l'intelligence sta facendo tuttora nello spazio.
Ribadendo il pericolo per la sicurezza nazionale di detti velivoli, pertanto, il vice segretario alla Difesa Kathleen Hicks ha emesso l’ordinanza per stabilire la creazione di una nuova task force.
Federico Garau
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Former Defense Officials Weigh-In On Proposed “UAP Legislation” ( The Debrief )
In early November, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) submitted an amendment for consideration in the F.Y. 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDDA, H.R. 4350), detailing expansive requirements for the U.S. military and Intelligence Community in addressing “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP), commonly known as UFOs.
Entitled “Establishment of Structure and Authorities to Address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” Gillibrand’s proposal outlines the establishment of an Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking, and Resolution Office (ASTRO). The newly formed office would be responsible for extensive investigations into reputed sightings of UAP.
If passed, the Bill would represent
the most comprehensive legislation targeting the lingering mystery of
UFOs since the 1969 closure of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book.
Speaking on background, several current senior Defense and Intelligence officials expressed to The Debrief that the proposed Bill is significant and very necessary. Not all were convinced that UAP might represent anything “otherworldly.” However, officials said the mere fact incidents are being reported that defy explanation warrants serious investigation.
“It should be treated like any other intelligence issue,” an executive from the U.S. Intelligence Community told The Debrief under the condition of anonymity.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence for Presidents Clinton and Bush, Christopher
Mellon, says the proposed UAP legislation represents a landmark step in
solving the lingering mystery of UFOs.
“This is unquestionably the most significant legislation ever on the UAP issue,” Mellon told The Debrief. “This legislation, if enacted, will unshackle some at DoD who want to get to work on this issue, and it would compel the system to begin doing what it should have done long ago: establishing and implementing a serious plan to answer critical questions regarding the capabilities and origin of these objects.”
Mellon is no stranger to the topic of unidentified aerial phenomena. Since helping traffic the release of three DoD videos reportedly depicting UAP, Mellon has been one of the most prominent supporters for serious scrutiny into these mysterious events.
“It is public knowledge that I worked patiently for months with Lue Elizondo, the OSD official responsible for the UAP issue in 2017, to try to get this issue taken seriously within the department. It was only when that failed that Mr. Elizondo and I chose to stick our necks out by taking the UAP videos and the UAP issue to the press and to Congress,” Mellon recently wrote in a blog.
Mellon is hardly alone in saying that sightings of unexplained and inexplicable aerial objects are both occurring and potentially represent a threat to national security.
In the past few years, former defense and intelligence officials, including – a former CIA Director, Secretary of the Navy, notable lawmakers, an eminent Harvard professor, current head of NASA, current Director of National Intelligence, and numerous military veterans– have all gone on record saying the occurrence of UAP is very much real. A claim many likewise say is supported by data collected from some of the most sophisticated sensor systems in the world.
At the end of June, the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) released an unclassified “Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”
While the public had been previously aware of a handful of UAP events in recent history, ODNI revealed the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force and ODNI’s National Intelligence Manager for Aviation had examined 144 different incidents of reported UAP in the last few years. Of those cases, only one had been explained as likely a “large deflating balloon.” The other 143 reports remain unexplained.
Most striking, according to the ODNI report, 18 incidents or 21 reports demonstrated “unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics.” [ Read The Debrief’s detailed analysis of the ODNI report on UAP.]
Having previously discussed the topic of UAP with The Debrief,
former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said he supported the proposed
UAP legislation. Mabus, however, says the threat of aliens being
responsible for these sightings shouldn’t be the driving force behind
the Bill.
“I support this proposal in order to find out what, if anything, has been flying around our ships,” Mabus told The Debrief. “I don’t worry about aliens especially but about more earthly sources for some new technology.”
According to the proposed UAP legislation, in addition to collecting and analyzing UAP incidents, the newly formed Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking, and Resolution Office (ASTRO) would be tasked with investigating adverse physiological effects claimed to have been caused by UAP encounters.
Individuals’ claims of suffering
adverse health effects represent one of the least discussed but most
concerning aspects of claimed UAP encounters.
Mellon said he was encouraged to see that adverse health effects were explicitly mentioned in Sen. Gillibrand’s proposed UAP legislation.
“I was surprised but pleased to see the inclusion of the reference to “adverse physiological effects.” This is not commonplace, but like the ‘Havana syndrome,’ there have been some instances involving medical effects,” said Mellon. “Government cases are mostly confidential, but anyone curious about this might want to Google the extraordinary ‘Cash-Landrum’ incident as an example.”
The “Cash-Landrum” event mentioned by Mellon refers to a 1980 incident in which two women suffered severe medical complications after a claimed encounter with a UFO or UAP outside Houston, Texas.
According to accounts by Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum, the women were driving home to Dayton, Texas, on December 29, 1980, when they encountered an “intensely bright diamond shaped object” hovering at treetop level near Texas state highway, just south of Inland Road. As the mysterious craft began to depart the area, the women said it was joined by nearly two-dozen Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopters.
Shortly after the encounter, both women experienced nausea, vomiting, weakness, a burning sensation in their eyes, and feeling as if they had suffered a sunburn. The women would later experience lingering malaise, skin sores, and hair loss. Medical reports suggest the women suffered from acute radiation exposure or chemical contamination.
Cash and Landrum eventually sued the
U.S. Government, accusing the military of being responsible for their
health issues. However, the case was dismissed
in 1986 after the women could not provide proof that the helicopters
they witnessed were associated with the U.S. government and military
officials testified that the U.S. did not possess any large
diamond-shaped aircraft.
Curiously, 24-hours before the “Cash-Landrum” incident and a continent away, another well-known and controversial UFO incident occurred: “The Rendlesham Forest Incident.”
On December 26-28, 1980, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, had repeated sightings of a glowing metallic object with colored lights, including at least one close encounter.
While none of the Airmen claimed to
suffer immediate adverse effects from the encounter, several witnesses
say they ultimately suffered later health issues, which they attributed
to the event. After a protracted legal battle, the U.S. Veterans
Association (V.A.) finally granted
full benefits to former Airman and Rendlesham witness John Burroughs
for heart issues said to be the result of the 1980 UFO encounter.
During the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) 2008-2012 quasi-secret UFO research program – the “Advanced Aerospace Systems Applications Program” or “AAWSAP” – a research paper was prepared, entitled “Clinical Medical Acute & Subacute Field Effects on Human Dermal & Neurological Tissues.”
In an interview published in Popular Mechanics, the paper’s author, former CIA Officer, forensic clinician, and neuroscientist, Dr. Christopher “Kit” Green, confirmed the archival study was “focused on forensically assessing accounts of injuries that could have resulted from claimed encounters with UAP.”
Speaking with The Debrief, Dr. Green praised the proposed UAP legislation’s mention of adverse physiological effects associated with UAP encounters.
“I would like to associate myself in the strongest possible way with the language concerning physiological effects and sometimes adverse health effects, specifically mentioned in Sen. Gillibrand’s proposed legislation,” said Dr. Green.
“It is time that direct veridical observations by numerous credible witnesses of anomalous encounters by militaries or any persons should be treated sanely,” emphasized Dr. Green. “To deny investigating early and with complete medical attention of demonstrated injuries is terrible.”
“The time for the invention of false
alternative realities, memes, or narratives, as excuses for denial,
distraction, and delay for providing help should end. As with all
forensic medical concerns…realities of the physically harmed should be
first, not excused with disdain. The time to identify perpetrators
whether off-target, off-world or imaginal should be after treatment of
those for whom we first respect, care and love.”
The proposed UAP legislation also includes a section detailing the establishment of a 20-person “Aerial and Transmedium Phenomena Advisory Committee.” Committee members would include persons from other U.S. government agencies, such as NASA and the FAA, along with academic organizations, like the Galileo Project at Harvard University.
“I strongly support the Gillibrand
amendment and hope that it will bring better coordination within the
different sections of government regarding the analysis and
interpretation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,”said the head of the Galileo Project and Harvard University professor Dr. Avi Loeb. “It
will also help to remove the stigma from discussions on UAP and enable
additional reports that were previously suppressed by prejudice.”
Speaking with The Debrief, Dr. Loeb pointed out that during the recent Ignatius Forum on “The Future of Space,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines both discussed UAP and the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations in the cosmos. When asked by David Ignatius of the Washington Post, “What is the most exciting project in your organization?” Nelson and Haines both replied, “It is classified.”
“I was fortunate to represent the Galileo Project which embodies a different answer to this question: ‘It is unclassified,’ remarked Dr. Loeb. “The Galileo Project is only interested in openly available scientific data and a transparent analysis of it. Thus, classified (government-owned) information, which can not be shared with all scientists, can not be used. Such information would compromise the scope of our scientific research program, which is designed to acquire valid scientific data and provide transparent (open to peer review) analysis of this data.”
The specific mention of “transmedium” phenomena, or objects which appear capable of operating in and out of water, was another intriguing tidbit in the proposed amendment. In an exclusive, last year The Debrief revealed that occurrences of “transmedium” phenomena was a particular area of interest for DoD’s UAP Task Force.
In a recent interview with Politico, Sen. Gillibrand explained the importance of the proposed UAP legislation. “If it is technology possessed by adversaries or any other entity, we need to know,” said Gillibrand. “Burying our heads in the sand is neither a strategy nor an acceptable approach.”
Gillibrand, a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, told Politico’s Bryan Bender she was motivated to craft the legislation after hearing credible eye-witness accounts and “repeated reports over the last two or three years of these increased sightings by Navy pilots and Air Force pilots.”
One of those credible eye-witnesses, former Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot Ryan Graves, says he’s encouraged at seeing Congress finally take some serious action towards investigating UAP incidents.
“For the first time ever, Sen.
Gillibrand’s proposed legislation would create an office with the
ability to meet their potential namesake and find a resolution for this
mystery,” Graves told The Debrief.
“Just as important, the proposal calls for the formation of a public
communication channel via the ATAC to ensure this process involves the
wider community. I am very happy with the contents of the amendment, and
I would urge others to contact their legislators to voice their
support.”
In 2014 and 2015, Graves and fellow Naval Aviators said they had repeated encounters with bizarre unidentified airborne contacts off the East Coast of the United States. At least two of these encounters were captured by the F/A-18’s ATFLIR targeting pod. The footage was subsequently released in what has colloquially become known as the “Go Fast” and “Gimbal” videos.
Fellow former Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot and eye-witness to the 2004 “Nimitz Incident,” Alex Dietrich, told The Debrief she hadn’t read the proposed UAP legislation yet; however, she’s similarly supportive of a more rigorous investigation into the UAP issue.
“Whether the UAP we are encountering during military ops are lurking adversaries, natural phenomena, or something sci-fi worthy, I support a systematic approach to investigating and establishing standard observation & reporting protocols,” said Deitrich. “We should be concerned about the safety of flight for the aircrew in close proximity to the UAPs and potential National Security implications in general. I hope this won’t become political or sensationalized. But yes, I do support this development.”
In past conversations with The Debrief,
both Graves and Dietrich have been steadfast in their concern that UAP
represents a safety hazard to fellow aviators, rather than mere idle
curiosity that these events may represent visiting aliens.
So far, the amendment appears to have strong bipartisan support amongst lawmakers.
First mentioned by researcher Douglas Dean Johnson, the proposed UAP legislation has already garnered several notable sponsors and cosponsors including, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO).Johnson, who closely follows UAP Congressional action, has become a foremost source for current updates on UAP action on Capitol Hill – providing frequent updates on his blog and Twitter.
“In the 435-member House, 860 amendments were proposed to the National Defense Authorization Act — but not one attacked the Gallego UAP section,” Johnson told The Debrief. The “Gallego UAP section” mentioned by Johnson was an earlier September amendment to the FY2022 NDAA by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), which called for establishing a permanent UAP office within the DoD.
Johnson says the bipartisan support for the legislation is encouraging but not uncommon with national security matters.
“In the Senate, a far more robust proposal was filed by Gillibrand, a liberal Democrat, but the prime cosponsor is the conservative Republican Marco Rubio, ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee,” Johnson explained. “So far, they’ve been joined by two other conservative Republicans and one Democrat. What all five sponsors have in common is that they serve on committees with purview over national security.”
Johnson, however, cautions that enactment of the “Gillibrand-Rubio Amendment” is far from a foregone conclusion.
“As Sen. Gillibrand herself remarked
in her interview with Politico’s Bryan Bender, ‘I don’t see opposition
to this at any level,'” Johnson remarked. “However, that doesn’t
necessarily mean that the Gillibrand-Rubio Amendment will simply sail
into law. The shoulders of the legislative roadways are littered with
ideas that had bipartisan support, but that we were well far down the
priority list for most lawmakers. The voices of those who think UAP is a
very important issue are as yet barely audible on Capitol Hill.”
As of November 22nd, there have been four minor revisions to the amendment since its initial November 4th introduction. The most significant revision being a change of name for the new UAP office from the “Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office” (ASRO) to the “Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking, and Resolution Office” (ASTRO). Three separate sources from Capitol Hill, who are intimately familiar with the legislation, told The Debrief that they expect the name of the new UAP office to be again changed in upcoming revisions.
Speaking on background, officials from the DoD and Intelligence Community told The Debrief that reaction inside the Pentagon has been predictably mixed, but largely supportive of the proposed legislation.
Officials said that some of the major
players in the U.S. National Security world- such as the Director of
National Intelligence (DNI), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO),
National Security Agency (NSA), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Army, and Navy- were in favor of establishing a new permanent body to specifically investigate UAP.
Conversely, the branch of the military with the most significant historical involvement with UFOs, the Air Force, was said to be standoffish to the idea of a new UAP office.
Even if the proposed UAP legislation passes, defense and intelligence officials say there will still be an uphill battle in trying to thoroughly investigate reported UAP incidents. “To comprehensively examine the issue, you’ve got to have involvement from agencies outside just the DoD or IC- like the FAA, Homeland Security, the FBI, just to name a few,” explained an official from the U.S. Intelligence Community.
The Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation Homeland Security (FBI), and
Department of Homeland Security, each fall under differing Executive
Departments, outside the Department of Defense. Each of those agencies
are said to be supportive of the current UAP efforts and have assisted
the DoD’s UAP Task Force. However, those department’s involvement has
been at-will, and not mandated by formal policy.
For now, advocates of the proposed UAP legislation will anxiously await to see if the amendment will be included in the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, ultimately being signed into law by President Joe Biden.
The Bill’s backers, including longtime D.C. stalwarts like Christopher Mellon, urge the public to reach out to their Congressional representatives and express their support for the proposed UAP legislation.
“This legislation is absolutely extraordinary and unprecedented. Not only will it get the government moving at long last, but it builds bridges to the civilian UAP research community,” Mellon stressed to The Debrief. “The only proper response to my mind is extreme gratitude and thanks to members of Congress willing to courageously set aside fear of ridicule to do the right thing for national security and science.”
Tim McMillan
Defense officials announce new UFO task force
Washington is stepping up efforts to probe possible alien activity after officials admitted they could not explain the phenomena of UFO sightings.
The Department of Defense is rolling out a new group tasked with finding and identifying UFOs in restricted airspace, officials said Tuesday.
The new outfit comes after the intelligence community verified a series of unexplained aerial phenomena sightings by the military earlier this year, but said it could not identify the mysterious vehicles, in a report to Congress detailing the government’s knowledge of UFOs.
The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group will succeed the Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, an arm of the military started last year to “improve its understanding of, and gain insight into” UFOs, according to a press release.
“Incursions by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges,” the department wrote.
“DOD takes reports of incursions – by any airborne object, identified or unidentified – very seriously, and investigates each one.”
Earlier this year, officials confirmed they had investigated 144 UFO sightings reported by government sources since 2004, including unexplained vehicles that traveled at speeds of up to 43,000 miles per hour and changed direction on a dime.
Most of the incidents — such as the near daily sightings of UFOs harassing a warship near San Diego in 2017 — were not part of US programs that it meant to keep under wraps, according to the task force’s Congressional report.
While the report offered little extraterrestrial insight, it did recommend that the government improve the policies, training and tech needed to further investigate and understand unexplained aerial phen
Anche la Russia ha la sua Roswell ( SuperEva )
L'incidente di Roswell è uno degli eventi più conosciuti dagli appassionati di UFO e alieni, ma sapevate che ne esiste una misteriosa versione russa?
Tutti gli appassionati di UFO, spazio e alieni conoscono la storia dell’Incidente di Roswell, che avvenne quando negli Stati Uniti precipitò al suolo un oggetto non identificato che alcuni classificarono subito come “disco volante” e che a distanza di quasi 75 anni continua a far discutere. Quello che in molti non sanno è che anche in Russia esiste una “Roswell sovietica”, un mistero del tutto analogo a quello americano ma meno conosciuto. E per questo, forse, molto più affascinante. Siamo già a quasi quarant’anni dopo l’incidente di Roswell e, nell’Unione Sovietica del 1986, sulla Cima 611 del monte Izvestkovaja (che si trova nel Dal’negorsk, una regione dell’estremo oriente russo), precipitò un oggetto non identificato, molto simile a quello che si era schiantato negli Stati Uniti. Quello che i russi videro cadere sui monti fu un disco rossastro molto luminoso che, però, non lasciò alcuna traccia se non un cratere dal diametro di oltre tre metri. Fu inoltre rinvenuta una scia di terra bruciata, nella quale furono identificati elementi estranei al suolo locale.Il mistero, da allora, circonda con il suo alone tutta l’area del Dal’negorsk, alimentato anche dalla riservatezza e dalla poca trasparenza da parte del governo sovietico prima e di quello russo successivamente. Etichettato come uno dei misteri UFO più grandi del XX Secolo, viene di tanto in tanto tirato fuori, accompagnandolo con l’ipotesi che possa esistere una sorta di Area 51 sovietica. Qualcosa di verosimile, senz’altro, ma sulla quale non c’è alcuna conferma ufficiale. Ma allora? In cosa consisteva l’incidente della Cima 611 del monte Izvestkovaja? Nel 1993 lo scienziato russo Gennadij Belimov affermò che si potesse trattare di un semplice pallone sonda militare. Secondo altri poteva essere un veicolo militare sovietico pilotato a distanza, un frammento dello Space Shuttle Challenger caduto in territorio russo, oppure addirittura un piccolo meteorite. In quanto a noi: sappiamo solo che la Roswell russa esiste e ci affascina tutt’oggi con il suo mistero.
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Friday, November 19, 2021
2024 NASA LANDING TO EXPLORE MYSTERIOUS MAGNETIC “SWIRL” ON MOON ( futurism.com )
UNDERSTANDING IT COULD BE KEY FOR OUR SURVIVAL ONCE THERE.Enigmatic Features
NASA is sending a spacecraft to the lunar surface to explore “one of the most distinctive and enigmatic natural features on the Moon.”
The agency has awarded Intuitive Machines a new contract to send its Nova-C lander to the Moon, as part of its IM0-3 mission, which is tentatively scheduled for 2024.
The lander will be attempting to land in the Reiner Gamma, a mysterious lunar swirl — and, hopefully, greatly expanding our understanding of Earth’s natural satellite in the process.
Lunar Swirls
There’s still a lot we don’t know about these swirls, including how they form or how they might be related to the Moon’s magnetic field.
Up until 1966, scientists thought the swirls were craters, according to NASA. But NASA’s Lunar Orbiter II spacecraft got close enough ascertain that they weren’t, causing scientists to scratch their heads. In 1972, scientists then discovered that the swirls were magnetized, with one swirl on one side mysteriously causing other swirls to form on the opposite side of the Moon.
“This delivery to the Moon will help the US expand our capabilities and learn more about this interesting region,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, in a statement. “Observing lunar swirls can give us information about the Moon’s radiation environment and perhaps how to mitigate its effects.”
Understanding levels of radiation on the Moon is key for NASA’s plans to establish a sustainable presence on the lunar surface.
The IMO-3 mission will send over 200 pounds of payload to Reiner Gamma, including equipment to measure the Moon’s magnetic field. A swarm of smaller robots will also be deployed from the lander to create a 3D map of its surroundings.
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‘This is urgent’: Bipartisan proposal for UFO office pushA bipartisan proposal to create a more expansive military and intelligence program to study UFOs is urgently needed to determine whether unexplained sightings by Navy and Air Force pilots pose a threat or are evidence of some “other entity,” the lead sponsor said Wednesday.es new boundaries ( yhaoo! news )
A bipartisan proposal to create a more expansive military and intelligence program to study UFOs is urgently needed to determine whether unexplained sightings by Navy and Air Force pilots pose a threat or are evidence of some “other entity,” the lead sponsor said Wednesday.
“If it is technology possessed by adversaries or any other entity, we need to know,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said in her first interview about the effort. “Burying our heads in the sand is neither a strategy nor an acceptable approach.”
Gillibrand is behind an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that is being debated this week to create an ‘‘Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office” with authority to pursue “any resource, capability, asset, or process of the Department and the intelligence community” to get to the bottom of the sightings of “unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAPs.
It would also require regular public reports about sensitive topics that until recently were considered to be on the fringe, including whether the government has any materials from the incidents of UFOs or data on any biological or health effects linked to any encounters.
“We’ve not had oversight into this area for a very long time,” Gillibrand said. “I can count on one hand the number of hearings I had in 10 years on this topic. That's fairly concerning given the experience our service members have had over the last decade.”
The measure goes well beyond a similar provision that was adopted as part of the House version of the bill, or previous public efforts to study UAPs.
Gillibrand, a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said she was heavily influenced by the “repeated reports over the last two or three years of these increased sightings by Navy pilots and Air Force pilots.”
She believes the fact that the possible explanations are so varied is why a dedicated effort is required.
“You have a million questions that must be answered for a million reasons,” she said, citing “the entire spectrum of unidentified aerial phenomena.”
“You're talking about drone technology, you're talking about balloon technology, you're talking about other aerial phenomena, and then you're talking about the unknown,” she said. “Regardless of where you fall on the question of the unknown, you have to answer the rest of the questions. That’s why this is urgent. That’s why having no oversight or accountability up until now to me is unacceptable.”
Her amendment also would create a separate “aerial and transmedium advisory committee” made up of experts from NASA, the FAA, the National Academies of Sciences, the head of the Galileo Project at Harvard University, the director of the Optical Technology Center at Montana State University, the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, and the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics.
“You have to have the smartest, most informed minds from the world convening on these issues so you know what you’re up against,” Gillibrand said.
The increased attention follows a preliminary assessment from the director of national intelligence in June that reviewed more than 140 UAP incidents that could not be readily explained, including 18 that maneuvered in ways that appeared to defy known aerodynamics.
“There’s always the question of ‘is there something else that we simply do not understand, that might come extraterrestrially?’” DNI Avril Haines said during a public forum last week.
Gillibrand, who chairs the personnel subcommittee on Armed Services, said she is also concerned for military service members, who she contends have often been ostracized, including some who have reported what they believe to be related health effects.
“When you tell people, ‘don’t report a sighting of something that’s odd or out of the norm because people will say ‘you’re crazy,’ or you’ll lose your credibility as an airman or as a naval aviator, you’re obviously not going to report it if something is wrong with your health. The same response was received with people who were experiencing Havana Syndrome,” she said, referring to the recent mysterious injuries experienced by diplomats and other personnel.
“The treatment with which our service members have been subjected is unacceptable,” Gillibrand added. “When this happens over and over in the military, people learn to keep their mouth shut.”
She has enlisted several co-sponsors from both parties, including Republicans Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Roy Blunt and fellow Democrat Martin Heinrich. “I don't see opposition to this on any level,” she said.
While she mostly couches her effort in national security terms, the former presidential candidate also acknowledges that the “sci-fi” implications of UFOs also compelled her to take action.
“The first question I got when I got on the Intelligence Committee was ‘Mom, tell us about the aliens.’ I go, ‘I know nothing about it,’” she recalled conversations with her two sons. “I’m getting the coolest mom jersey for sure this year.”
Indeed, she is clearly enjoying her role, joking how Congress’ oversight may lead to a congressional delegation visiting new destinations or dimensions.
“And then as soon as we plan a CODEL, I’ll let you know,” Gillibrand quipped. ”The outer space CODEL is coming.”
Bryan Bender