Posted on 01/20/2020 3:37:27 AM PST by Kaslin
I’m as much a Sci-Fi fan as most anyone. I’ve read my fair share of Orson Scott Card books, seen all the Men in Black movies, think it’s a travesty that Firefly got canceled, and have sat through every cringy second of every lame attempt to improve on the original Star Wars trilogy, but until the past few months, I’d never seriously considered even the remotest possibility that humans may not be alone, at least on this planet and in this solar system.
But here we are, and if anything should unite humanity in an era seemingly as divided as ever, it’s the desire for an answer to this burning question: What in the world (or out of it) is going on with these UFO sightings? Yep, you read that right, UFOs. As in Unidentified Flying Objects, a topic, granted, typically reserved for the realm of kooks and pranksters. But what’s been going on as of late is something entirely different, and if you’ve not been paying attention yet, I strongly suggest you start.
Last May, Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, a man whose background - working for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and heading up the since-defunded Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program - puts him in a unique position to speak on the topic. Currently the Director of Global Security and Special Programs at the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and the host of the History Channel series “Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation,” the knowledgeable, well-spoken, decidedly non-kooky Elizondo lends an aura of serious credibility to a topic not often taken seriously enough.
Navy pilot Chad Underwood, another decidedly non-kooky individual, had remained mostly quiet about his own November 2004 UFO encounter until last year, mainly because he wanted to dodge being “attached to the ‘little green men’ crazies that are out there.”
"At no point did I want to speculate as to what I thought this thing was — or be associated with, you know, 'alien beings' and 'alien aircraft' and all that stuff," Underwood told New York Magazine, explaining why it took him so long to speak out. "It is just what we call a UFO. I couldn't identify it. It was flying. And it was an object. It's as simple as that."
The “UFO” Underwood and his commanding officer, David Fravor (if you have a couple of hours, his interview with Joe Rogan is absolutely fascinating), witnessed “represents one of three known instances in which Navy pilots caught an unknown aerial object (the Navy prefers that term over UFO) on camera,” Business Insider reported, the other two being in 2015.
"The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving," he said, describing the “Tic-Tac”-like object they encountered while flying the Navy’s Super Hornet fighters on combat exercises. "Its changes in altitude, airspeed, and aspect were just unlike things that I've ever encountered before flying against other air targets."
The unclassified DOD report surrounding the event stated that the object seemed to go from 60,000 feet to 50 feet over the water “within seconds,” had no heat or wings, and “possibly demonstrated the ability to 'cloak' or become invisible to the human eye" and could even have the capability to "operate undersea completely undetectable by our most advanced sensors."
Speaking of Underwood’s encounter and the others as well as his own research and experience working for the government, Elizondo told Tucker that the question is no longer whether or not UFOs exist.
“Is it possible these things are a foreign adversarial technology that somehow was developed in secret and we are just now trying to figure these things out?” he said. “It’s possible. But, there are also other possibilities as well, of what these things could be.”
When pressed, Elizondo assigned a “low probability” to the adversarial technology theory: “Look, we have the most sophisticated weapon systems right now on the face of the planet, and we can identify not only a 737 or a MIG 25 or F-22, we can tell you even what airline it is and the difference between the models of aircraft within that type of aircraft. So, I think it’s highly unlikely that a foreign adversary was successful in developing something like this.”
While the government has allowed some information about these encounters, including some grainy videos, to be declassified or remain unclassified, recent news suggests there is still much that remains hidden. In fact, the Navy recently admitted to possessing top-secret information about UFOs that, if released to the public, could cause “exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States.” And if that doesn’t raise enough eyebrows, this reportedly includes at least one unreleased video that has been classified as “SECRET.”
At the end of his Fox News interview, Carlson asked Elizondo if he believed that the “U.S. government has in its possession any material from one of these aircraft?”
“I do. Yes,” he responded. “Unfortunately, I really have to be careful of my NDA. I really can’t go into a lot more detail than that … But simply put, yes.”
Elizondo’s “five observables” that differentiate UFO technology from known technology - instantaneous acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and positive lift or anti-gravity - mean that, alien or not, we’re dealing with something that, if discovered, could potentially alter life as we know it in ways none of us can possibly imagine. All of which leads to, of course, far more questions than answers. But for the first time in any of our lives, the questions have reached a whole new level. No longer are we wondering whether or not UFOs with superior technology to anything we know exists, but rather, who - or what - is behind the wheel.
Some country has had wildly advanced technology for decades but hasn’t used it militarily.
As if that would ever happen. Right. Lol.
Well it does seem strange that we have a Space Command as a military branch of the Armed Forces.
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Tom Delonge said the truth is frightening.
Blumenthal said we have no idea of the immense threat.
… we can identify not only a 737 or a MIG 25 or F-22, we can tell you even what airline it is and the difference between the models of aircraft within that type of aircraft.We can differentiate models within types? We can identify the airline?
Wow, that’s a far cry from a blip on a radar screen.
We should welcome some additional DNA. The human race seems to have inbred so much our average IQ is so low we are entertaining to reverting to be cave men instead of using wisdom to solve problems. If we spent the wasted money we use for defense weapons on improvements what would the world look like
Can’t speak for everyone, but I sure would be interested in hearing about your experiences.
I’m undecided about the whole phenomenon. Part of me would like to think they are ETs and that we could learn from their advanced tech and maybe make a quantum leap in our collective life here on Earth. Part of me is terrified that they might be ETs and/or that our government is involved with them clandestinely. The potential implications there, in light of the DS corruption we’re just starting to discover, are the stuff of nightmares.
However, more than anything, I would really like to know the truth, whatever it is.
It seems that the main post was deleted, but if you read through the comments, someone posted most of the links back in there again! The stories are fascinating.
IF there is alien life, it’s been the best kept secret in the entire world.
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The secret was perpetrated by one of the most vicious Fascist disinformation campaigns in American history where anyone who professed belief in alien life was turned into a ‘tin hatter.’ The remnants of this decades long, viciously established narrative remains to this day where anyone who mentions UFOs is still met with roaring ridicule. In the government’s disinformation campaign, paid ‘experts’ were hired to attack citizens’ First Amendment rights, which destroyed the citizen’s credibility and may have even cost some their lives. I have not heard a single apology from the Agency or any government official regarding these unrelenting personally destructive operations. If the government truly has a ‘national security’ basis for protecting this information, they sure as hell didn’t have to become Fascist in the process to accomplish their objective. Apparently, a ‘no comment’ was deemed not good enough.
I would be interested too.
I believe that we are being not only visited but engaged by civilization(s) that are far in advance of our own.
Ridicule is the weapon used to keep a veil of secrecy over the subject. The subject is also quite attractive to legions of lunatics - which helps in the above-mentioned effort.
Nonetheless, we are being visited. It is a big secret. They are not from here.
Take me to your leader, please!
I know a guy who used to work at NORAD. He said that in addition to UFO’s they also track unidentified submersibles.
It’s using its cloaking technology!
Any opinion on what they may be?
That’s my guess.
The videos were released for consumption by our adversaries. Clear enough to see what it can do, but distorted enough that you get no detail.
Luis Elizondo is a deep-state spook. Everything he says about UFOs is dis-information.
Advanced technology will appear to us as magic and those wielding it as gods.
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