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No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public:
"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 every six months. 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 aviationtechnology 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.”" "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.”" See: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/u...reid-navy.html |
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‘Fast Movers’ and Transmedium Vehicles – The Pentagon’s Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena Task Force" "In an exclusive feature for The Debrief, U.S. military and intelligence officials, as well as Pentagon emails, offer an unprecedented glimpse behind the scenes of what’s currently going on with The Pentagon’s investigation into UFOs, or as they term them, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP). For the last two years, the Department of Defense’s newly revamped “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force” (or UAPTF) has been busy briefing lawmakers, Intelligence Community stakeholders, and the highest levels of the U.S. military on encounters with what they say are mysterious airborne objects that defy conventional explanations. Along with classified briefings, multiple senior U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter say two classified intelligence reports on UAP have been widely distributed to the U.S. Intelligence Community. Numerous sources from various government agencies told The Debrief that these reports include clear photographic evidence of UAP. The reports also explicitly state that the Task Force is considering the possibility that these unidentified objects could, as stated by one source from the U.S. Intelligence Community said, be operated by “intelligences of unknown origin.” Significantly, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general and head of RAND corporation’s Space Enterprise Initiative has—for the first time—gone on record to discuss some of the most likely explanations for UAP. His responses were surprising." "One of the intelligence reports, released in 2018, is said to have provided a general overview of the UAP topic and included details of previous military encounters. According to sources who had read it, the report also contained an unreleased photograph of an “aerial phenomena” categorized as “unidentified.” The Debrief was told the accompanying photo was captured from within the cockpit of an F/A-18 fighter jet with a pilot’s personal cell phone. According to three U.S. officials who had seen it, the photo showed an unidentified silver “cube- shaped” object. The report is said to have indicated the object was “hovering” or completely motionless when military pilots encountered it. All three officials agreed that based on the photo, the object appeared to be at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000 feet and approximately 1,000 feet from the fighter jet." See: https://www.thedebrief.org/fast-move...uap-task-force |
2020-12-07, 02:05 | Link #84 |
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Leaked reports from Pentagon UFO task force discuss 'non-human technology,'
mysterious objects "Pope said via email. "With my own defense background in this subject, three things stand out. Firstly, the description by one insider of the reports as 'shocking' — a word that begs the question what about UAP do these people find shocking. Secondly, the fact that the intelligence reports seem to have been given a surprisingly wide distribution in various intelligence agencies, and thirdly, the fact that the extraterrestrial hypothesis seems genuinely not to have been taken off the table." Pope added he expects further leaks, noting he believes there is "a faction within government clearly wants this information to be released to the public."" See: https://www.foxnews.com/science/leak...gy-silver-cube |
2021-06-06, 03:35 | Link #86 |
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‘There is stuff’: Enduring mysteries trail US report on UFOs:
"The U.S. government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects like this one. A report summarizing what the U.S. knows about “unidentified aerial phenomena” — better known as UFOs — is expected to be made public this month." See: https://apnews.com/article/science-g...81ecd0343d1f36 ============================= NASA is launching a further investigation into UFO sightings. The agency's chief says it can't rule out the possibility that sightings are of alien origin. "NASA's new chief, Bill Nelson, is setting up an investigation to further study the existence of unidentified flying objects within his first month in office, CNN Business reports. In an interview with the news outlet, Nelson said it's still a mystery to everyone - even those at the top of the space agency - what exactly the high-speed flying objects detected by US Navy personnel are." See: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-laun...121441046.html ============================= China Confirms It Has Its Own UFO Task Force: "With the looming release of a national intelligence report detailing U.S. military encounters with “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or “UAP,” the People’s Republic of China has announced there has been an increase of mysterious and unexplained aircraft in Chinese airspace, with the PLA establishing its own UFO task force to investigate sightings. The South China Morning Post reports Chinese analysts “have been overwhelmed in recent years by rapidly mounting sighting reports from a wide range of military and civilian sources” by what the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are calling “unidentified air conditions.” See: https://thedebrief.org/china-confirm...fo-task-force/ |
2021-06-24, 23:23 | Link #87 |
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Pentagon Likely Thinks UFOs 'Not Human,' Astrophysicist Says
Ahead of Report "It is "reasonable" to conclude that the U.S. government thinks some unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) are not human-made, a Harvard astrophysicist has said. This week, the U.S. government is expected to release a highly anticipated report into the existence of UAPs—essentially UFOs. Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard's Department of Astronomy, believes the existence of UAPs would not have been revealed to the public if their origins were from China or Russia and posed a national security risk, he wrote in an op-ed for Scientific American magazine. Loeb added: "Hence, it is reasonable to conclude that the U.S. government believes that some of these objects are not human in origin." The astrophysicist said this suggests two scenarios: That UAPs are natural phenomena; or that they are "extraterrestrial in origin."" See: https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-li...report-1603421 =============================== Lue Goes There "In a Canadian filmmaker’s podcast aired live Tuesday, the former head of the now defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Luis Elizondo, seemed to confirm that extraterrestrials — or some unknown non-human intelligence or life form — are the source of what the English-speaking world calls UFOs. His extraordinary remarks, which represented a striking shift in tone from what had been a lively, free-wheeling conversation with host Curt Jaimungal, were made toward the end of the podcast Theories of Everything. The program was live-streamed on YouTube at noon Eastern time, Tuesday, June 22. A polished, edited version is now available." See: https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-t...e-2cfd55707661 =============================== UFOs Are Going Through a Phase "Think about it. UFOs going back to 1947 have been showing off the same capabilities that the ones we are seeing now. China or Russia did not put those UFOs from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s in the air. If they’re real, if we don’t make them, if other nations don’t make them, then somebody else does. Might not be E.T., might be something stranger — ultra-terrestrials, time travelers, a simulation of reality, whatever. We are currently at Phase One. The UAP Report is probably going to escalate us to Phase Two. The next months or years will be devoted to sorting out Phase Three. Sometime in the 2020s we are going to get to Phase Four. People who know about such things probably believe that this slow steady roll-out is the best way to avoid War of the Worlds style panic. We’ll be like that frog in the jar as the temperature is slowly raised who never jumps out. One day we’ll all be able to look around and wonder what took us so long." See: https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-t...e-cdc1d1a0cb3f |
2021-06-27, 01:15 | Link #88 |
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Government Report On UFOs Offers Limited Answers While
Drawing The Public Spotlight "There were several curious references in the document. Despite the limited data, the UAPTF claimed it was possible to perform some clustering of data around "shape, size, and particularly, propulsion." It was unclear what kind of propulsion the report is referencing. Examples might include prop, rotor, lighter than air, jet or some unknown category. In areas like these, the report did not offer specifics. Further, the authors of the report stated that 18 incidents described in 21 reports involved "unusual UAP movement patterns." These unusual patterns are not described in detail, but are loosely characterized as involving abrupt maneuvering, remaining stationary against the wind, and moving at considerable speed without "discernible means of propulsion." Earlier in the report, the UAPTF notes that observations of unusual flight characteristics “could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis.” The report itself again provides no details about the data underlying the 21 reports. The UAPTF stated that a "small amount of data" supported UAP "demonstrating acceleration or a degree of signature management." The reference to "signature management" likely refers to some aspect of stealth technology, traditionally having to do with reducing a craft’s radar, infrared, visual, and/or audible signature. However, the report also cautioned that additional analysis would be necessary, including by multiple teams or groups of technical experts. The report states: "we are conducting further analysis to determine if breakthrough technologies were demonstrated." Although much of the underlying data appears in doubt, the report asserts one strong conclusion: "UAP threaten flight safety and, possibly, national security." The report again offered few details, but indicated that 11 incidents involved "near misses with a UAP." Further, the report acknowledged that there could be a broader danger from espionage against military activities and facilities, or from a potential "breakthrough aerospace technology." The UAPTF emphasized the need to standardize and consolidate reporting of incidents in order to deepen the analysis. The report mentions the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to "cluster and recognize similarities and patterns."" See: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...blic-spotlight |
2021-07-25, 01:54 | Link #89 |
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UAPs Aren’t Russian or Chinese — and the Pentagon Knows It
"In yet another example of a UFO puzzle piece hiding in full view and ignored by the mainstream media, emails published in 2016 by Wikileaks refer to regular tracking of UAPs that’s allegedly recorded them arriving from “deep space” and disappearing beneath the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. The emails — between Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman John Podesta and former IT contractor Bob Fish — were publicly available in 2016 as reporters Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal were working on a story for the New York Times disclosing that the Pentagon had been secretly studying UFOs for the past decade. However, neither that groundbreaking article, nor any subsequent reporting on the phenomenon by other mainstream media outlets has mentioned the Podesta-Fish emails." "Fish, however, didn’t let it go. He went on to claim that the federal government does collect hard UFO data with its Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites, which have orbited Earth since the 1970s. The U.S. Air Force describes these as “a key part of North America’s early warning systems” by detecting missile launches, space launches and nuclear detonations." "Fish wrote Podesta another email the next day, March 6. Reading some UFO material online had jogged his memory about another incident, which he says took place in the cafeteria building in El Segundo: “I had lunch with a senior USAF NCO who had worked for Project Blue Book in the 1970s (after it had been “officially disbanded). He was an ELINT technician (electronic intelligence) who flew in RC-135s from MacDill AFB in Florida. The ‘normal’ target was Cuba where they did lots of snooping and sometimes challenging the Cubans to turn on radar and other systems. He said there were times when they were diverted from these missions to track UFOs off the east coast of Florida. His claim was the UFOs had a landing and takeoff spot in the ocean east of Miami, north of Bermuda. He also claimed there was a specific electronic signature (frequency) emanating from them when they were going into or coming out of the water, so they were easy to track. On several occasions they filmed the UFO as it transitioned from water to air or vice versa.”" See: https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-t...t-8e7d563637cf |
2021-08-10, 01:30 | Link #90 |
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‘UFO’ First Episode Available for Free, Sneak Peek at Rest of the Season:
"From co-directors Mark Monroe (Icarus) and Paul Crowder (Riding Giants), UFO explores the sightings and theories surrounding them that made national headlines, sparking the interest of both government officials and average citizens. The docuseries is particularly invested in the American government’s secrecy surrounding their further investigations. Lovers of documentaries with a conspiratorial lean will likely enjoy the storytelling: the series breaks down the reports with eyewitness interviews and traces the government’s response (or lack thereof). Even if you don’t buy into UFOs yourself, it’s hard not to be fascinated by those who are. Where do the theories originate? How are they justified? What exactly did people see? The added layer of government interest only increases the intrigue." See: https://www.slashfilm.com/ufo-first-...of-the-season/ 1st Episode: |
2021-11-12, 02:13 | Link #91 |
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Luis Elizondo interview in GQ.
This man ran the Pentagon's secretive UFO programme for a decade. We had some questions "A lot. Let me give you a notional... I’ve got to be careful, I can’t speak too specifically, but one might imagine that you get a report from a pilot who says, “Lue, it’s really weird. I was flying and I got close to this thing and I came back home and it was like I got a sunburn. I was red for four days.” Well, that’s a sign of radiation. That’s not a sunburn; it’s a radiation burn. Then [a pilot] might say, if [they] had got a little closer, “Lue, I’m at the hospital. I’ve got symptoms that are indicative of microwave damage, meaning internal injuries, and even in my brain there’s some morphology there.” And then you might get somebody who gets really close and says, “You know, Lue, it’s really bizarre. It felt like I was there for only five minutes, but when I looked at my watch 30 minutes went by, but I only used five minutes’ worth of fuel. How is that possible?” Well, there’s a reason for that, we believe, and it probably has to do with warping of space time. And the closer you get to one of these vehicles, the more you may begin to experience space time relative to the vehicle and the environment." See: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politi...interview-2021 |
2021-11-24, 16:00 | Link #93 |
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Pentagon Stands Up New Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Group As
Congress Pushes For Even More Action "Late last night, the Pentagon released a memorandum outlining the creation of a new organization focused on the issue of so-called unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, more commonly referred to as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, and the threats they might pose to national security. This group will replace the existing UAP Task Force within the U.S. Navy and will be focused entirely on encounters in areas designed as Special Use Airspace, or SUA, such as warning areas off America's east and west coasts where many reported incidents have occurred in the past. Separately, a number of members of Congress are calling for the U.S. military to take much broader action, including in a proposed amendment to the Senate's draft of the annual defense policy bill for the 2022 Fiscal Year. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks issued the memorandum, seen below, regarding the establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) under the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, or USD(I&S), on Nov. 23, 2021. Though publicly available, the memo is specifically directed to senior Pentagon leadership, commanders of the U.S. military's combatant commands, and defense agency and field activity directors. The latter category would include intelligence agencies within the Department of Defense, such as the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Security Agency (NSA), and National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA). A copy was also forwarded to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who oversees the U.S. Intelligence Community." See: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...en-more-action Last edited by AnimeFan188; 2021-11-24 at 17:11. |
2021-12-04, 23:43 | Link #94 |
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New Pentagon Office Criticized as Effort to Control UFO
Investigations, End Transparency "American officials and analysts globally are raising alarm about a new Defense Department office that will handle the U.S. government’s examination of unidentified flying objects, warning that the move indicates the military wants to end a brief spell of transparency and shove UFO reports back into a closet under lock and key. The Pentagon quietly announced the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving that it had formed the esoteric-sounding Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. Working with the intelligence agencies, it serves as the follow- on to a government-wide effort earlier this year to document and analyze reports of encounters with unidentified objects – “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or UAPs in Pentagon jargon – predominantly from military pilots. The new office, which reports to the undersecretary of defense for Intelligence and Security, will now oversee the entire government’s study of UFOs, focusing on sightings within restricted military airspace and will also “assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security,” a spokeswoman says. The Defense Department has since justified the composition of the office as necessary to provide uniformity to the reporting process and subsequent analysis. But some researchers characterize the Pentagon’s latest move as an “insulting” attempt to run around specific efforts by civilian organizations and leaders in Congress to exercise greater oversight over the government’s study of UFOs. “It represents a brazen step towards completely stifling the burgeoning demand from both the public and Congress for increased UFO transparency,” says Peter Whitley, a researcher based in Japan and a member of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, which considers itself one of the largest and oldest of its kind. “Clearly, the DOD is attempting to reverse course on this trend and shut the door on further disclosure of any kind.” See: https://www.usnews.com/news/national...d-transparency |
2021-12-11, 23:37 | Link #95 |
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Set to make history on UFOs, Congress revives the '1 percent' doctrine
"Congress is days away from enacting historic legislation on UFOs. As first detailed by researcher Douglas Dean Johnson, a must-pass defense bill will force the U.S. government to mount a sweeping effort to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena. Among a litany of groundbreaking requirements, Congress is set to mandate the establishment of rapid UFO response teams, initiate a scientific study of objects that “exceed the known state of the art in science or technology” and require investigations of health-related effects associated with UFO encounters. Perhaps most importantly, following seven decades of Cold War-induced secrecy, denial and obfuscation, the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act will mandate unprecedented government transparency on UFOs. Robust bipartisan support for the bill’s expansive provisions amounts to a stark rebuke of years of official ineptitude and inaction on UFOs. Moreover, congressional assertiveness is reviving the “one percent” doctrine, which holds that if there is even a slight chance that a particular threat is real, the government must act as if it is a certainty." See: https://thehill.com/opinion/national...rcent-doctrine |
2022-03-07, 12:17 | Link #96 |
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How government over-classification may hide UFO videos and harm
our security "Remember those videos taken by U.S. military pilots showing unidentified objects flying at incredible speeds and executing impossible maneuvers? They’ve appeared widely in various media since 2017, but soon — if DOD gets its way — you may not be able to watch them, thanks to a move to classify all such videos and other materials relating to UFOs, officially known as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs)." See: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-ho...s-and-harm-our |
2022-03-24, 13:26 | Link #97 |
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Activist Publishes Redacted Version of Classified Military UFO Report
"John Greenewald, the government transparency virtuoso behind the Black Vault, however, has a gift for us today: A redacted version of the classified report, obtained by filing a mandatory declassification review. This version of the report is longer and much more interesting—detailing, for example, the most “common shapes” of UFOs spotted by the military." See: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dn...ary-ufo-report & https://thedebrief.org/analysis-newl...nvestigations/ |
2022-04-07, 13:26 | Link #98 |
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UFOs sightings have left witnesses with radiation burns, brain
damage and 'perceived time suspension', according to interviews in newly released Pentagon report from 2010: "US intelligence officials have evidence that UFO sightings have lead to adverse health effects like radiation burns, paralysis and even brain damage, according to a newly released report from a shadowy Pentagon program that closed in 2012. The study classifies different types of encounters with unidentified objects, including ones accompanied by sightings of ghosts, yetis or spirits and others that result in injury, death and even 'permanent healing.' It also includes a summary of UFO-induced effects that was compiled by a private nonprofit in 1996, ranging from the most common one - abduction - to paralysis, eye injuries, electrical shocks and even sexual encounters. The 2010 report compiled 42 cases of adverse effects from medical files and 300 from 'unpublished' cases." See: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uspension.html & https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-uf...states-1695531 & https://www.the-sun.com/news/5053632...ufo-programme/ Last edited by AnimeFan188; 2022-04-07 at 15:49. |
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Maybe we'll see more progress on UFO/UAP disclosure now that Garry Reid is out:
Sex, Lies, and UFOs: Pentagon’s Head of Counterintelligence and Security Ousted "the Pentagon’s inconsistent messaging on Elizondo’s involvement in AATIP and general aversion to being open about its interest in UAP is in large part due to one person: Luis Elizondo’s former boss at OUSD(I&S). Or as one current senior Intelligence Official worded it when speaking with The Debrief, “Garry Fucking Reid.”" "A “clearly upset” Reid wanted to know what he should do with Elizondo’s resignation letter and demanded he come to see him at the Pentagon. When Elizondo declined the invitation, Reid reportedly threatened him, saying he would “tell people you are crazy, and it might impact your security clearance.” By November, Elizondo said he received several phone calls from former colleagues at OUSD(I&S) warning him that Reid and “Employee 1” (from the IG complaint) were “coming after him.” This could be written off as an apparently emotional and volatile former boss blowing off steam. However, it would seem, Reid indeed did attempt to make good on his threats." See: https://thedebrief.org/sex-lies-and-...curity-ousted/ |
2022-05-10, 15:13 | Link #100 |
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Congress To Hold First Public UFO Hearing In Over 50 Years Next Week
"Two senior U.S. military officials are scheduled to testify next week at the first open Congressional hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years. “Americans need to know more about these unexplained occurrences,” Indiana Democrat Andre Carson announced Tuesday morning in a tweet. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security Ronald S. Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray are scheduled to testify May 17 before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation Subcommittee." See: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ress-next-week |
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