“UFO’s”

Sometimes they appear in the form of an orb of light, high in the sky, that seems to pass through solid objects such as trees and buildings. Sometimes it’s a strange mist that descends out of nowhere. In an increasing number of cases, an object that can’t be seen with the naked eye shows up clearly in a photographic image.

These are examples of UFOs – literally, unidentified flying objects – that are spotted in UK skies every day. In the wake of the US shooting down a suspected Chinese spy balloon, plus three other objects it has yet to identify, experts say there are going to be a lot more of these kinds of sightings. As a UFO researcher, I treat these things with scepticism and scientific rigour, but part of me hopes they will never be fully explained.

As a former U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot who witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) on a regular basis, let me be clear. The U.S. government, former presidents, members of Congress of both political parties and directors of national intelligence are trying to tell the American public the same uncomfortable truth I shared: Objects demonstrating extreme capabilities routinely fly over our military facilities and training ranges. We don’t know what they are, and we are unable to mitigate their presence.

Former Navy Pilot Ryan Graves on His UFO Encounter

Graves now has his own podcast.

NEW ORLEANS — Logistics manager Nicholas Rehak was visiting his parents’ home in Baltimore County, Maryland, several years ago. He was standing on the back deck one night when he noticed a bluish white light.

“It was shaped in a damn near perfect oval and it started to rise,” Rehak told VOA. “I’m talking straight up vertical, no deviation. It sat there for nearly 30 seconds and then suddenly it vanished — like a lamp when someone pulls the plug. Just sudden darkness.”

Perhaps it was a drone. Rehak said that was his first thought.

DailyMail.com obtained an exclusive image of a metallic-looking orb flying over an Iraqi city, caught on video by a US spy plane.

The image, captured in April 2016 by an intelligence-reconnaissance plane, was included in a classified briefing video on UFOs shown to multiple US government agencies.

… It was obtained by journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, who have released the image on their new UFO podcast, ‘Weaponized‘.

The briefing describes and shows the UFO as moving from south to north, adding that it does not appear to descend.

In a four-second video titled ‘Mosul Orb’ included in the briefing, the UFO appears for one second as it flies alongside the MC-12 spy plane.

Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp break down the recent military image they received called the “Mosul Orb.” #ufotwitterweek #UFOSightings #UFOs #UAP pic.twitter.com/6sazDH3XQh

— ExiledEarthling (@OffWorldBound) January 24, 2023

I’d like official authentication, leaks always leave room for doubt, but it is interesting.

An amendment added to the National Defense Authorization Act in late December would require the Department of Defense to review historical documents related to an alleged 1945 unidentified flying object (UFO) sighting in New Mexico.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), created in July 2022, will lead the effort to identify any “unidentified anomalous phenomena that may pose a threat to national security.”

UFO expert shares stunning details about alleged 1945 alien encounter before Roswell

In an unusual turn of events, Nick Pope does an interview.#ufotwitter #uaptwitter #UFO #UFOs pic.twitter.com/VySNNZsSUP

— Mike Colangelo (@MikeColangelo) January 17, 2023

Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett thinks it’s time the government stops covering up evidence of UFOs.

The Republican representative told News Nation over the weekend that the US government has been perpetually participating in a ‘huge cover-up’ of potential alien life, adding that there is proof of UFOs in the Bible.

Recently, a report delivered to Congress showed a sharp uptick in military sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena – the new term for UFO.

The Defense Department’s annual spending bill requires it to review U.F.O. sightings dating to 1945, the year some believe an object from space crashed in the New Mexico desert.

For the casual student of U.F.O. history, the modern idea of life beyond our planet usually dates to 1947, when a top-secret U.S. military balloon crashed in the desert near Roswell, N.M. The wreckage prompted decades of conspiracy theories and gave rise to the idea that Roswell was the site of an alien crash landing.

Now, thanks to a new congressional spending bill, U.F.O. enthusiasts may look to 1945 as the beginning of that era.

An amendment tucked into this year’s $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which funds the Defense Department’s annual operating budget, requires the department to review historical documents related to unidentified aerial phenomena — government lingo for U.F.O.s — dating to 1945. That is the year that, according to one account, a large, avocado-shaped object struck a communication tower in a patch of New Mexico desert now known as the Trinity Site, where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated that July.

In the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress ordered the Pentagon to establish a new office to replace the UAP Task Force and investigate and “resolve” sightings of UFOs. Of course, we’re not supposed to call them UFOs anymore (too bad! I’m a rebel!), instead referring to them as UAP. That used to stand for unidentified aerial phenomena, but now they’ve changed it yet again to mean “unidentified anomalous phenomena.” (The nomenclature changes a lot, so bear with me.) The word “aerial” implies only objects flying in our atmosphere. The new name takes into account sightings of objects in space and even under the water, including some that can apparently travel between two or even all three environments, also known as “transmedium” objects.

2022-Annual-Report-UAP

The remaining 171 reports “uncharacterized and unattributed UAP reports” defy easy explanation, the report said: “Some of these uncharacterized UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis.”

A newly released government UAP report details the latest findings in the Defense Department’s ongoing investigations into aerial incursions within military airspace, and other incidents involving objects the DOD now calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”

Although several weeks late on arrival, the report presents the latest findings on the efforts of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which the document characterizes as “the DoD focal point for UAP.”

2022-Annual-Report-UAP

My statement in response to today's ODNI #UAP report. pic.twitter.com/7rha3P4r6o

— Ryan Graves (@uncertainvector) January 12, 2023

A BOEING 747 captain with some 9,500 hours of flight time at controls has told of his bizarre encounters with UFOs while taking to the skies.

Christiaan van Heijst explained he has witnessed objects which appear to exceed all known technology as they appeared to hit hypersonic speeds of up to 23,000mph.

The 39-year-old, from The Netherlands, is a respected airman and an an award-winning aerial photographer – and yet he has seen things he cannot explain.

UFOs are traditionally a highly stigmatised topic – often being dismissed off hand as nothing beyond conspiracy theories or something for the world of cranks.

But in recent years the conversation has moved, with even the US government confessing their are things in the sky which they as of yet cannot or will not publicly identify.

Only a few years ago this could have cost him his job.

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’

The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with their powerful telescopes, they spot something that makes them gasp. Amid the feeble rays from distant galaxies lies a weak but persistent signal: a message from an advanced civilisation.

It would be a transformative event for humankind, one the world’s nations are surely prepared for. Or are they? “Look at the mess we made when Covid hit. We’d be like headless chickens,” says Dr John Elliott, a computational linguist at the University of St Andrews. “We cannot afford to be ill-prepared, scientifically, socially, and politically rudderless, for an event that could happen at any time and which we cannot afford to mismanage.”

I see “The Authorities” are already behaving far worse than is expected of the general population if contact is made.

A reader pointed me to one of the stranger articles to ever grace the pages of the Wall Street Journal last night. Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the WSJ’s editorial board who reports on business and financial matters. But the subject he weighed in on yesterday had little to do with those matters. The title was, “The UFO Crowd Wants an Alien Invasion for Christmas.” The even more curious subtitle reads, “The Pentagon discovers it’s not the flying saucers but their admirers who may be the real security threat.”

The Pentagon discovers it’s not the flying saucers but their admirers who may be the real security threat.

Reader Lex Fridman apparently has an extensive knowledge of and enthusiasm for UFO sightings, and also an appreciation of ants judging by his personal email address and avatar.

And yet he assures me he’s not Lex Fridman the MIT computer scientist and webcaster who also has a deep knowledge of and enthusiasm for UFO sightings, and has exhibited an admiration of ants in his social-media posts.

He asks some questions, though: “How much did they pay you to write this trash? Do you still have a gag reflex or did they take that along with the journalistic integrity?” He closes with a scatological insult, which, in an undeserved favor to him, I don’t repeat.

I’d say you could call this guy a skeptic.

Under one provision of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon’s UFO (or UAP) investigative office was ordered to produce a report on their activities to Congress, presumably with an unclassified version for the public by Halloween of this year. It turns out that the trick was on us because that particular treat still hasn’t shown up nearly two months later. That office, currently known as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), may have noticed that people were beginning to speculate as to what was causing the delay, so they held a conference call yesterday to take questions from the press. They attempted to assure everyone that they weren’t stalling on purpose or engaging in yet another coverup when it comes to the subject of UFOs. The office has only barely gotten on its feet and they’re trying to get up to speed as quickly as they can. But they still revealed a few interesting tidbits during the call. One of those was an admission that they have received literally hundreds of new UFO reports from both military and civilian witnesses since opening their doors.