Despite Congress, UFOs Remain… Unidentified
People who report seeing Unidentified Flying Objects face scorn and derision. Even when they are professionals… pilots, doctors, military personnel and even police.
Now UFOs are verified by the US government. It’s true.
There are flying objects we see which can be filmed, measured and observed…and are yet unidentified. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence in USA said as much in their official report to Congress.
This report from the American intelligence community insists we now call these objects Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
To distinguish them from the crazy reports of UFOs, I suppose. National Intelligence want to rename UFOs after they have spent decades discouraging any open talk by deliberately creating the public stigma around UFOs.
Why rename now? Because Congress added a clause into the bill that funds Office of the Director of National Intelligence. They must write a report, follow the incidents and report to Congress on the results. Having been forced to study the phenomena, those agencies want to be sure no one associates UFOs with their work.
They can agree these are Unidentified. But they aren’t necessarily flying (which implies “intelligent control” and the authors are still holding out for feral balloons or other inflated explanations.) They are in the air (actually in the sea, too), so they are Aerial. They might not be objects (that would imply they were “made” or “built”; so they are Phenomenon. It’s UAP (not UFO) in a re-casting that only Hollywood could appreciate.
Their report notes the public stigma of UFO but doesn’t explore the history or source of the derision. For the same reasons they avoid mirrors in the intelligence community.
This latest UFO report is called “landmark” by some because it officially acknowledges the sightings of mysterious objects in the sky by credible sources with cameras and sensors like radar.
Yet the Pentagon already did that in April 2020 when it released three videos.
If you read the Office of the Director of National Intelligence report instead of the news headlines, it reads like the report on Summer Vacation the teacher forced on a teenager. It tells you just enough to complete the assignment. The long-awaited official acknowledgment ran all of seven pages (with two further pages of appendices). That report was supposed to be a total summary of its intelligence community investigation into what the US governments knows about UFOs. I mean, UAPs.
The new report noted 144 incidents viewed mostly by Navy pilots in last two decades. 80 of those were recorded.
The U.S. Air Force had previously conducted a previous investigation called Project Blue Book — that ended in 1969 with a list of 12,618 sightings. 701 officially remained “unidentified.”
This new intelligence report went to the Navy instead of the Air Force: a Navy-led task force created by the Pentagon assisted this research by the Director of National Intelligence. (If the government wants a report on unidentified submersibles, there’s always the chance they will turn to the Air Force as experts.)
In their “landmark” report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence acknowledges four categories for unidentified aerial phenomena sightings:
1-airborne clutter such as birds and balloons
2-natural atmospheric phenomenon like thermal fluctuations
3-governmental or industrial developmental programs or foreign-adversary systems
4-“other” — brief encounters for which there is too little information for more exact categorization.
Contrast those categories from this Congress-funded “intelligence” with how the former AATIP Director Luis Elizondo explained the five categories of observables that the US Department of Defense now associates with “UAPs.”
- hypersonic velocity
- the ability to change directions instantly
- ‘cloaking’ or low observability
- trans-medium travel, the ability to not only fly in our atmosphere (low and high altitudes) but also in a vacuum like space or even underwater
- some sort of intersection between these UAP or UFO sightings and our nuclear technology, whether it’s nuclear propulsion, nuclear power and generation, or nuclear weapons systems
As a Staff member for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Luis joined and eventually led the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Their mission was to conduct scientific-based, intelligence investigations of unidentified incursions into controlled U.S. airspace.
AATIP was an $22 million unclassified (also unannounced and unpublicized) investigatory effort funded by the United States government for five years until the available appropriations ended in 2012.
Nine years later, Luis resigned his position to raise awareness of the UAP issue, “to dismantle the bureaucratic silos and stovepipes hindering the conversation about this important topic.”
Unlike reports from Luis, this new “intelligence” report to Congress fails to report to Congress that we’ve “had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities.”
Let that sink in for a minute.
This report also doesn’t say the US has data which suggests UAPs have also interfered with nuclear technology in other countries. (I think we can all agree turning on nuclear power plants— or putting those facilities online — qualifies as “interference.”)
My guess is that this might have made the report if it went over 10 pages.
The only useful news in this report is out of 144 sightings, officials were able to explain only one. They admit to not really knowing anything about these other 143 instances — which probably means, despite the titles UFO and UAP that divide believers and non-believers, all parties can at least take solace in agreeing these objects are indeed “Unidentified.”
Defense and intelligence analysts behind this Congressional report explain they lacked sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by American military pilots. It’s not the pilot’s fault, the report clearly states, they have no equipment especially designed for this task.
It’s Catch-22: military have only equipment to identify identifiable objects that fly.
The intelligence report also stresses it is not suggesting these unexplained cases could be alien contacts.
In 143 cases out of 144, the best of the best intelligence officers couldn’t explain to Congress what their own pilots or staff observed, reported on and sometimes even recorded. U.S. military pilots have observed objects moving at hypersonic velocity, more than 5X the speed of sound, and conducting maneuvers that are impossible using publicly known technology.
5X the speed of sound. I think we can rule out birds and balloons. Even helium balloons.
Bob’s List of Possibilities
1) They are alien. Just because the government won’t admit it, that doesn’t make this hypothesis wrong. It doesn’t make it right, either. But an open mind says it needs to stay on the list.
2) A natural phenomenon that we simply have no way to explain-- yet. We can’t even imagine what it is because it is outside our realm of experience. But one day science will catch it and explore the phenomena.
3) Time-travelers. Nope, not kidding. Some scientists insist we can’t rule this out.
4) Unknown aircraft of superior capabilities. Some country has developed technology far superior to our own. (Or maybe an unknown country. I am guessing Wakanda here.)
5) Extra-dimensional activity. A few scientists think it may be a thinning between parallel universes. We haven’t proved it, but a majority of physics geniuses believe in string theory which suggests we live surrounded by 10 dimensions. Sounds crazy? But quantum physics shows us weird actions definitely exist, actions where even looking at a particle can alter its behavior.
6) It’s us. We have a superior technology that is top secret. A secret within a secret.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence report is pleased to suggest more funding might help. Of course, it will! And the Office even shared their willingness to dig deeper to report on the progress of further investigation.
After covering the Navy experience with flying objects, the ODNI will probably next interview the Army and we can expect a more insightful report: UAPs, According to the Infantry.
Next time we might even get a report with 10 whole pages.
Read the report for yourself, note it calls itself “Preliminary Assessment.”
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf
