The truth is out there, but it might not be in this report.
The US intelligence community has not found evidence that unexplained aerial phenomena seen by Navy pilots are from outer space, but they can’t rule out the possibility or explain the mysterious vehicles, said officials who viewed a classified version of a report to Congress detailing everything the government knows about UFOs.
The report said most of the more than 120 UFO incidents examined over the past two decades were not the work of the US military or government, officials said, according to The New York Times.
The explanation means that the military eyewitnesses who encountered UFOs on an almost “daily basis,” off the coast of California in 2017, and shot footage that was verified by defense officials, were not seeing programs the US meant to keep secret.
Senior officials told the newspaper that there are few other conclusive finds in the report, an unclassified version of which is expected to be released to Congress by June 25.
Authors of the memo said it was difficult to explain the UFOs ability to accelerate, change direction and travel underwater, according to the Times.
A classified annex in the report is also likely to fuel speculation that the government had secret data about aliens, but officials with knowledge of the findings told the paper that is not the case.
One senior official interviewed for the article said officials had concerns that the sightings could be the work of Chinese or Russian hyperspace experiments.
The report examined video of the Navy’s 2004encounter with a “Tic Toc UFO” that witnesses said descended at 43,200 mph. Government officials later reportedly confiscated evidence of the vessel that gave off “a kind of a phosphorus glow.”
The report, ordered by Former President Trump to be attached in a December COVID-19 relief package, has added to renewed American interest in the supernatural and extraterrestrial.
“But what is true — and I’m actually being serious here — is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” the two-term Democrat said.
“We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory… they did not have an easily explainable pattern.”
Quelle: New York Post
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Whistleblower threatens run for Congress if Pentagon UFO report watered down
The hotly anticipated Pentagon report on UFOs may be nothing but space junk, warns a former Department of Defense employee.
Scheduled to drop on June 25, the groundbreaking document is designed to detail what the US government knows about Unidentified Flying Objects.
But Elizondo, who led the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), does not anticipate unvarnished truth. And if the report turns out to be as watered down as he thinks it will be, he’s planning on taking matters into his own hands with a run for Congress.
“If the Pentagon’s Public Affairs officers, and those who give them orders, continue to obfuscate and mislead the American people about the reality of UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, a k a UFOs] and what our government knows about them, I may have no choice but to put my boots back on and run for Congress,” Elizondo tells The Post. “If that’s what it takes to get the truth out, that’s what I’ll do.”
He also says UFO transparency isn’t the only platform goal of his.
“If I get a seat [in Congress], I will make sure [there is] total transparency on everything, not just UAPs, but all the other crap that I know that goes on behind these closed doors,” he said this week in an interview with John Greenewald at the Black Vault. “I can assure you that there are elements in the Pentagon right now that do not want a cat like me sitting in Congress.”
In response to Elizondo’s claims, a Department of Defense spokeswoman says “Luis Elizondo had no assigned responsibilities for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) while assigned to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.”
As for Elizondo’s Congressional ambitions, she declines to comment.
Elizondo believes the information in the UFO report will be misleading because the timeline to finish the report isn’t long enough.
“It takes, in some cases, longer to remodel a kitchen than to provide one 180-day report,” he says. “The last time we had an intelligence failure of this country, a major one, which was 9/11, it took us almost three years to come up with the 9/11 Commission Report.”
In the meantime, Elizondo hopes the report reveals what he claims is the truth: that “someone, from somewhere, [is] displaying beyond next-generation technology” — which allows craft to fly without wings or obvious airworthy construction — “in our controlled airspace,” he said.
When asked what he would reveal to the American public regarding UFOs, Elizondo replied:
“Everything that can be safely disclosed without harming our national security,” he said. “Our tax dollars have paid for answers. It’s about time the American people start to get them.”
Quelle: New York Post
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What Can We Expect From the Pentagon’s UFO Report?
One of the many curiosities packed into the $2.3 billion omnibus spending and coronavirus-relief package passed by Congress in December was a stipulation requiring the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to deliver an unclassified report on unidentified flying objects to Congress within six months, compiling what the government knows about about UFOs rocketing around over American airspace.
The report — which comes after a slow, four-year drip of reporting and government admissions on UFO sightings — could be delivered to Congress as early as June 1. Regardless of what’s in it, the release will be the most direct and substantive U.S. government account of what officials call unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) ever made public. Below is a guide for those who want to believe — or at least understand what to expect from the Pentagon’s unprecedented act of transparency.
What does an early look at the report reveal?
On June 3, the New York Times reported that senior administration officials who were briefed on the UAP report had found no evidence that the objects seen by Navy pilots over the past decade are not of this Earth. Nevertheless, the Times states intelligence officials “still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientists and the military.”
According to the Times, the report also finds that the “vast majority” of 120 incidents analyzed did not involve U.S. military or government technology, which appears to “eliminate the possibility that Navy pilots who reported seeing unexplained aircraft might have encountered programs the government meant to keep secret.” Unfortunately for those hoping that the report will reveal a bounty of new information, the ruling out of U.S. technology “is about the only conclusive finding in the classified intelligence report.” A senior official briefed on the intelligence told the Times “without hesitation” that U.S. officials knew the technology was not American.
What could the report contain?
The legislation passed in December 2020 stipulates that the report must include “detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence” collected by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the FBI, and the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. (This is a program the Department of Defense created last summer to “detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.”) It goes on to call for “a detailed description of an interagency process” for how such data will be collected and analyzed going forward, and recommendations for further UFO research and funding.
The report will likely provide details on several UFO sightings by Navy pilots that were reported in the New York Times in 2017, and later declassified by the Pentagon. While the pilots were shocked by the contours of the aircraft — often referred to as Tic-Tac or cigar-shaped — most alarming were the high velocities and immediate stops, with no apparent propulsion systems identified.
Further details on the report’s contents are scant. In March, former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe offered some hints in a Fox News interview, saying it would describe events from “all over the world,” and that “there are a lot more sightings than have been made public.” As for what constitutes a sighting, Ratcliffe said, “we’re talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain.”
Earlier this month, former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves told 60 Minutes that he was “worried” about the objects that he says training pilots saw “every day for at least a couple years” off the eastern seaboard. “You know, if these were tactical jets from another country that were hanging out up there, it would be a massive issue. But because it looks slightly different, we’re not willing to actually look at the problem in the face. We’re happy to just ignore the fact that these are out there, watching us every day.” Graves claims that his squadron of super hornet fighter planes began to see UFOs over restricted airspace in Virginia just after they updated their jets’ radar system in 2014, allowing them to zero-in on a target with infrared cameras.
The law ordering the report says it must address whether these incidents pose any potential national security threat, and whether they may be “attributed to one or more foreign adversaries”; more specifically, whether there’s any indication that “a potential adversary may have achieved breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put United States strategic or conventional forces at risk.”
If the objects are, let’s say, next-generation planes or drones from China, it would certainly validate those who pushed for the report’s release, and modernizing the government’s approach to UFOs — even if that conclusion is more boring than the possibility of a presence from beyond our solar system.
Why is this coming out now?
Americans have, of course, long been fascinated by questions about what their government knows about UFOs, but several recent developments have driven lawmakers to push for more transparency. The issue gained momentum in December 2017, when the New York Timesreported on a $22 million Department of Defense program established in 2007 and championed by Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate majority leader. Known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, it was designed to examine military encounters with UAPs. (The story would have shaken the American public to its core in the UFO-obsessed 1990s, but barely rose above the din of daily news coverage in the first chaotic year of the Trump administration.)
Over the next few years, lawmakers and Defense officials began to take interest as more Navy pilots shared their accounts of frequent run-ins with UFOs, and several videos of the encounters were released. By June 2019, senators were reportedly “coming out of the woodwork” to be briefed on the phenomena, which resulted in a vote by the Senate Intelligence Committee in June 2020 that first green-lit the idea for a UFO report. A provision — which set the six-month timeline and added some additional funding for the project — was tucked into the Intelligence Authorization Act for the 2021 fiscal year, which passed as part of the December stimulus package.
As the senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee wrote last year, they were “concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the federal government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat.” At the time, Marco Rubio was the chair of the Committee, so he will deliver the report when it is ready.
When exactly will the report be made public?
The legislation President Trump signed on December 27 said intelligence officials should submit their report within 180 days, which would fall in late June. But as the Washington Post reported, it may not arrive on time:
Two factors might delay the report’s release: Agencies have missed similar congressional reporting deadlines in the past; and the provision is not technically binding, as the language was included in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the bill, not the bill itself.
“In other words, it isn’t statute, but the agencies/departments generally treat report language as bill language,” said one senior Senate aide familiar with the legislation.
Since the Senate Intelligence Committee called for an unclassified analysis, the report should eventually be available for all Americans to see. (A representative for committee chairman Mark Warner’s office could not provide an answer on how long the delay might be between the report’s delivery to the Committee and its release to the general public.) However, the legislation states that the report “may include a classified annex,” which could frustrate amateur UFO enthusiasts.
What do skeptics say about the Pentagon’s UFO report?
Science writer Mick West is generally considered the leading voice of the group asserting that the UFOs spotted by the military are likely technology we already understand. In an appearance on CNN last week, he summarized his argument: The images we see in the military UAP videos could easily be the result of mis-calibrated instruments or various camera distortions. While West thinks the videos released so far “can all be explained,” he does support further research on the subject.
“If pilots are reporting things that they can’t identify, then yes we need to figure out what’s going wrong there,” he said. “Is it something new or is it some failure of the system. Is it a failure of personnel or technology? Let’s figure that out.”
In a recent and exceptionally long story in the New Yorker detailing the history of the movement to take UFOs seriously, a former Pentagon official pushed back on West’s skepticism, saying that he “doesn’t have the whole story. There’s data he will never see — there’s much more that I would include in a classified environment.” (Of course, that argument isn’t very satisfying for those of us who will never have access to classified UFO data.)
On the left, a non-scientific reason for UAP skepticism has emerged: Perhaps after wasting over $1.6 trillion on the disastrous F-35, spending over $2.26 trillion on the war in Afghanistan, and facing a flat budget for 2021, the Pentagon simply wants a flashy reason to demand more money.
Where do recent presidents stand on UFOs?
President Joe Biden has successfully dodged recent attempts to get him to weigh in on unidentified aerial phenomena. “President Obama says there is footage and records of objects in the sky … and he says we don’t know exactly what they are — what do you think?” a reporter asked the president at a May 21 press conference. Biden deflected, saying “I would ask him again,” before smiling and leaving the podium.
Since leaving office, Obama has been more open about his interest in the topic. Days before the question to Biden, the ex-president appeared on The Late Late Show With James Corden, where the show’s music director Reggie Watts asked him about his theories on the paranormal. “When it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can’t tell you on-air,” Obama quipped.
“Look, the truth is, when I came into office, I asked, ‘Is there the lab somewhere we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceship?’ They did a little bit of research and the answer was no,” Obama continued. “But what is true — and I’m actually being serious — is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory, they did not have an easily explainable pattern. I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”
For his part, Donald Trump never took UFOs all that seriously while in office. In the few instances when he commented on the matter, he usually deflected, promising to “take a good, strong look” at the matter, and telling George Stephanopoulos that if there was any evidence of aliens, “you’ll be the first to know.”
Quelle: Intelligencer
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UFO reports are not definitive.Chinese and Russian tech potential
The New York Times reported Thursday that the next U.S. government report on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) only concludes that the objects observed by the U.S. military are not of U.S. origin. Reported on Thursday.
The report, due out later this month, does not rule out the origins of aliens and extraterrestrial life, sources told the Times.
The only definitive conclusion made by US intelligence is that most of the 120 UAP incidents in the last 20 years in confidential reports are not due to US military or other advanced US government technology. about it.
The report will be released to Congress by June 25, but senior Biden administration officials who were briefed on the report provided some insight into the Times.
US intelligence and military officials are concerned that China and Russia may be experimenting with hypersonic technology.
A senior official who was briefed on the report told The Times that it cannot rule out the extraterrestrial or foreign origin of UAP, which was observed primarily by the US Navy and recorded in the US media.
The Pentagon has acknowledged the establishment of an unidentified aerial phenomenon task force in the last few years and continues to investigate “intrusions” into restricted airspace and training areas.
Unexplained sightings have become an important issue in US national security.
“We will not disclose details of UAP observations, task forces, or investigations,” Pentagon spokesman Sue Goff said in an email to Reuters.
UFO reports are not definitive.Chinese and Russian tech potential
Quelle: TEXAS NEWS TODAY
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PENTAGON FORSCHTE AUCH
US-Ufo-Report: Es gibt keine Belege für Aliens
Der von der Ufo-Fangemeinde mit großer Spannung erwartete Bericht der US-Geheimdienste über unbekannte Flugobjekte enthält laut der „New York Times“ keinerlei Belege für außerirdisches Leben (Aliens). Wie die Zeitung am Donnerstag berichtete, haben Regierungsvertreter zwar keine Erklärung dafür, worum es sich bei von US-Militärpiloten gesichteten unidentifizierten Flugobjekten (Ufo) handelt - ebenso wenig gibt es demnach aber belastbare Hinweise darauf, dass sie von Aliens stammen könnten.
Experten sei es nicht gelungen, die mysteriösen Bewegungen der Flugobjekte zu erklären, schrieb die „New York Times“ unter Berufung auf ranghohe Regierungsvertreter. Insgesamt widmet sich der bisher geheim gehaltene Bericht mehr als 120 Ufo-Sichtungen aus den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten. Einige der unidentifizierten Flugobjekte fielen demnach durch irrwitzig hohe Geschwindigkeiten und ihre Wendigkeit auf. Der Bericht soll dem Kongress spätestens am 25. Juni vorgelegt werden.
(Bild: YouTube.com)
Keine geheime US-Militärtechnologie Ausgeschlossen werden konnte dem Bericht zufolge immerhin, dass es sich bei den Objekten um Produkte geheimer US-Militärtechnologie handelt. Allerdings sprach ein ranghoher Regierungsvertreter gegenüber der „New York Times“ von wachsenden Befürchtungen, dass die Objekte im Zusammenhang mit chinesischen oder russischen Experimenten im Bereich der Hyperschallgewindigkeits-Technologie stehen könnten.
US-Marine veröffentlichte 2020 Ufo-Videos Im vergangenen Jahr vom Pentagon veröffentlichte Videos von drei als „nicht identifiziert“ eingestuften Flugobjekten hatten zuletzt Gerüchte angeheizt, wonach die US-Geheimdienste über Informationen über intelligentes außerirdisches Leben verfügen könnten.
Report: U.S. finds no evidence UFOs are alien crafts, but can’t discount it
A U.S. government report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), or what used to be called unidentified flying objects (UFOs), did not find evidence that they are alien spacecraft, though the report also does not exactly say they aren’t, The New York Times reported.
Citing unnamed government officials, the Times wrote that the UFO report, commissioned by Congress and set to be released in a few weeks, does not reach a definitive conclusion about what U.S. military pilots and hundreds of others have reported seeing or have filmed over decades.
The officials told the Times that the report could not link the majority of the 120 incidents it researched during the past 20 years to anything the U.S. military or any other U.S. agency would employ. CNN reported that unnamed sources familiar with the report suggested that the objects seen could have been developed by Russia or China.
While the report will not link the incidents of unidentified aerial phenomena to aliens, it cannot provide an explanation for the way some of the objects move and the speed at which they seem to accelerate.
China and Russia have both invested heavily in hypersonic technology, according to the Times.
An unclassified version of the report is expected to be released to Congress by June 25.
What did Congress ask for in the report?
The call for a government-sanctioned report was in the Intelligence Authorization Act for the 2021 fiscal year, which passed as part of the 2.3 billion COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress in December. It directed the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to produce and deliver an unclassified report on unidentified flying objects to Congress within six months.
The wording in the December COVID-19 relief bill says the report must include “detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence” collected by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the FBI, and the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The task force was created last year by the Department of Defense to “detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.”
The report must also include a detailed description of an interagency process that shows how the government will move forward in collecting and analyzing reports of unidentified objects, or UAP (“unidentified aerial phenomena”), as they are now called.
The law also says the report must speak to whether incidents of unidentified objects pose a potential national security threat, if they pose a threat to U.S. military assets and installations, and whether they may be “attributed to one or more foreign adversaries.”
A detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, including data and intelligence reporting held by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force;
A detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by geospatial intelligence; signals intelligence; human intelligence; and measurement and signals intelligence;
A detailed analysis of data from the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace;
A detailed description of an interagency process for ensuring timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the federal government, regardless of which service or agency acquired the information;
Identification of an official accountable for the process described in paragraph 4;
Identification of potential aerospace or other threats posed by the unidentified aerial phenomena to national security, and an assessment of whether this unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries;
Identification of any incidents or patterns that indicate a potential adversary may have achieved breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put United States strategic or conventional forces at risk;
Recommendations regarding increased collection of data, enhanced research and development, additional funding and other resources.
The report will be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex, meaning that the general public should eventually be able to see most of the report, with some parts likely to remain classified.
What prompted the call for the report?
While the government has investigated reports of UFO sightings for decades, anticipation for the release of the report has grown in recent years. Christopher Mellon, deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, spoke to “60 Minutes” last month about how his growing knowledge of reports of unidentified craft sparked his desire to see a public conversation on the objects.
Mellon talked about Navy pilots’ encounters with UFOs, and a Pentagon initiative called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which investigated such incidents. The AATIP was originally part of a $22 million program sponsored by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to investigate UFOs. The program was discontinued in 2012.
In 2017, after he left government service, Mellon acquired three U.S. Navy videos that showed pilots’ interactions with unidentified crafts, and leaked the declassified material to The New York Times.
“It’s bizarre and unfortunate that someone like myself has to do something like that to get a national security issue like this on the agenda,” Mellon told “60 Minutes.”
“We knew and understood that you had to go to the public, get the public interested to get Congress interested, to then circle back to the Defense Department and get them to start taking a look at it,” Mellon said.
Last month, former CIA director James Woolsey told Black Vault, a website that collects information on paranormal events, that he is “not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly,” about UFOs, and that “something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent aircraft, experienced pilots.”
According to astronomer Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, “Most UFOs have mundane explanations.
Impey says he believes people see the objects, but what they are seeing is more likely to have a down-to-Earth explanation.
“Scientists dismiss these beliefs as not representing real physical phenomena. They don’t deny the existence of intelligent aliens, but they set a high bar for proof that we’ve been visited by creatures from another star system.”As Carl Sagan said, ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.’”
Quelle: FOX23News
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Update: 5.06.2021
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Opinion: America’s New Interest in UFOs a Sign of Escapism in Troubling Times
Take a hard look at the video. You may see space alien vehicles, but I’m not so sure. In fact, I’m almost certain recent news of an unidentified flying object off the coast of San Diego is not evidence of visitors from outer space or even Chinese/Russian advanced technology, but timely escapist fare that helps us ignore the harsh realities of 2021.
A couple weeks ago, the Pentagon released grainy video of blurry UFO images captured by Navy aviators; the footage subsequently produced many wild theories from UFO enthusiasts. However, I contend this desire to believe in imaginative UFO scenarios, or as the Pentagon now prefers to call them—unidentified aerial phenomena —merely reflects our society’s underlying need to distract attention from the wearisome and more pressing issues we must face on a daily basis.
To some UFO fans, for example, the grainy footage represents proof of highly advanced extraterrestrial technology capable of transporting aliens across the universe at speeds that defy what we deem to be the laws of physics. But I see this news of UFOs off the coast of San Diego, playfully evading the reach of our Navy’s aircraft carriers and submarines, as a highly ironic distraction from reality, considering that each night human smugglers play a deadly cat and mouse game evading our maritime Homeland Security forces with low tech panga boats to bring in aliens of the undocumented kind.
San Diegans enjoy speculating about the technology that allows a mysterious UFO to maneuver through the sky and water like a Star Wars Millennial Falcon, but we yawn when reading about one more Panga boat (developed by Yamaha way back in 1970) found deserted on our shores. We prefer our aliens super-fast and nimble, not slow and sneaky.
On the other hand, many people do not associate these UFOs as national security threats emanating from outside our solar system. Rather, they see these fast moving objects as evidence of Russian or Chinese leaps in technology, and they worry what this portends for any future conflict with such global rivals.
How will we able to defend ourselves against a country possessing this level of technology? Imagine what kind of harm this advanced technology would inflict on our U.S. Navy carrier battle groups. They call for upping our national defense budget and thereby closing the UFO technology gap. In this sense, UFOs become effective lobbying tools for the military-industrial complex.
And yet, I think back on the last time one of our Navy ships was severely damaged. The USS Bonhomme Richard went up in smoke, damaged beyond repair, as the result of a fire that occurred here in San Diego back in July 2020. Investigations to determine the cause of the fire are still ongoing, and arson has not been ruled out.
I like to think of myself as an open-minded guy, so I’m tentatively leaving open the ever-so-slight possibility that mischievous spacemen had something to do with the fire, but when the mystery is solved I believe the origins will be more homegrown. Chances are good Russia, China and voyagers from all other planet in the universe will be exonerated, and someone will eventually evoke the famous Pogo saying…”We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Speaking of the military, the other great disaster that occurred in nearby San Diego waters—off of San Clemente Island—was the July 30, 2020, sinking of a Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicle that resulted in the deaths of eight Marines and a sailor. The preliminary investigation found fault with serious AAV maintenance, safety and training issues that went overlooked by the chain of command.
Military maintenance, safety and training requires countless hours of hard work, planning, and diligence. These countless hours are rarely associated with anything exotic or worthy of a sci-fi action movie. No wonder we choose to be distracted by UFOs. Galactic visitors joy riding off our coast in cool high speed vehicles are never hobbled by bothersome maintenance problems, even after traveling millions of light years through heavy radiation and pesky asteroid showers.
After all, when is the last time anyone filmed a UFO being towed by the equivalent of a UFO tow truck? We assume these spacemen have all received the appropriate safety certifications required by their respective planetary bureaucracies. No one ponders the tedious task of inspecting their safety paperwork. In their own unique way, UFOs serve as convenient escapist symbols of what travel would be like if we didn’t have to worry about the current limitations of our own transportation technology.
Finally, many fans of UFOs favor portraying the blurry objects captured on video as the vanguard of a future alien invasion. That’s somehow more alluring and dramatic than viewing them as renegade flying saucer jockeys, or alienated leather jacketed teen aliens, tooling around the universe with no other purpose than to recklessly rev up their anti-matter fueled engines.
However, I want to take it a step further and propose one other mundane possibility. I have recently noticed a significant increase in the number of RVs and vans parked daily alongside Old Sea World Drive, a strip of road located parallel to the San Diego River near where it empties into the supposed UFO-infested waters of the Pacific Ocean. These are the kind of RVs and vans—along with their “houseless” inhabitants—featured in the Oscar winning movie Nomadland.
As in the movie, this increase may represent the widening economic disparities between America’s haves and have-nots, or it may just represent the growing desire to lead an alternative lifestyle free of traditional middle class accouterments. Nevertheless, I want to suggest those UFOs flying off our coast could be independent-minded space nomads in search of a cheap place to live. And who can blame them? The fact that they remain off the coast and never make land is understandable considering the recent jump in San Diego real estate prices.
Needless to say, we’ve been experiencing a tough time. Reality is one tough hombre. The UFO/UAP diversion may just be the salve needed to ease us into a brighter post-pandemic world, or at least until such time that Oprah distracts us by conducting another interview with Prince Harry and Meagan Markle.
Quelle: Times of San Diego
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Report Disappoints, As Expected
What did you expect from an intel community/Defense Department report? Something interesting?
After a nail-biting few months, the essential findings of the much-anticipated (by some) report from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) is now unofficially out there. Consistent with Liberty Nationreporting on the subject, the conclusions are as expected; not much there. The hype-induced excitement has infected everyone who had the slightest interest in knowing more about the plethora of unexplained objects in the atmosphere.
Legitimate UAP investigators want to see what the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) would add to the list of UAP facts and information. Others expected new insights to fuel their fantastical extraterrestrial mind-musings. Both parties will, no doubt, be let down.
Inconclusive Conclusions
Though the official IC-DoD collaborative report has not been officially released, as a teaser, TheNew York Times on June 3 published a report on information provided by unnamed “senior administration officials briefed on the findings of the highly anticipated government report.” The sneak preview shows that:
“American intelligence officials have found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft.” Rats, there goes the space aliens theory.
“…they still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientist and military.” Well, that sucks. They still won’t tell us what the objects are.
“The report determines that a vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced US government technology.” Uh-oh. There goes the super-secret, faster-than-light, area 51 clandestine, revolutionary, fighter aircraft conspiracy story.
And that, folks, as the briefing suggests, “is about the only conclusive finding in the classified intelligence report.” The early results presented in a classified session to Congress validated Liberty Nation’s view: “People have seen flying objects that they cannot explain. We should study these sightings more thoroughly.”
And now we have the views on the yet-to-be-released unclassified IC-DoD assessment and, well, if you were expecting something meatier, you will be disappointed. Yet, not wishing to be a total buzz-kill, despite the snoozer of the UAP “findings,” there just might, possibly, be some glimmer of hope for those crushingly depressed over the “no space aliens” conclusions.
Writing for Fox News, Thomas Barrabi stoked the fires a bit for the diehards desperate to keep alive the notion of visits from outer space. Barrabi writes: “[T]he document may yield more questions than answers. The officials said that was ‘about the only conclusive finding’ from the report, which does not definitively rule out the possibility that the sightings were alien spacecraft.”
Defense Dept. Side-Step?
Oddly, though, the Defense Department, a collaborator on the report, has been eager to pass all the UAP-generated public interest to the DNI.
Consequently, the public is left wondering how much ownership of the report the Defense Department had or wanted. In a June 1 Pentagon press briefing, John Kirby, the assistant to the Secretary of Defense for public affairs, when asked about the report, dismissed the question on the timing of the release: “It will be DNI who will be making that report, obviously DoD has a role in helping flesh out the information that will be in that report, but as for specific timing I’d refer you to the DNI.”
Kirby explained the relationship between the DoD and the DNO in greater detail in an interview on ABC News, saying:
“We’re providing context and information that we have on these phenomena, and our focus is on, again, on supporting the DNI’s efforts to produce this report…The protection of methodologies is an important part of how the UAP Task Force operates…This is an intelligence-driven effort, and in intelligence matters, you always try to protect the sources and methods used in order to prevent potential adversaries from getting an idea of how we learn things.”
