The Navy is officially taking UFOs seriously

Hot Air.com ^ | April 26, 2019 | JAZZ SHAW

[Kaslin]

Pilots, both commercial and military, have been seeing weird things happening up in the sky for a very long time. The problem has always been that if you were heard talking about it, you’d be written off as some sort of loon and your career might well be over. That kept most of them from discussing or investigating anything anomalous that they might have come across. Now the United States Navy is putting a stop to those practices because there have been too many unidentified encounters with what appear to be very advanced aircraft and they want to get to the bottom of it. (Washington Post)

A recent uptick in sightings of unidentified flying objects — or as the military calls them, “unexplained aerial phenomena” — prompted the Navy to draft formal procedures for pilots to document encounters, a corrective measure that former officials say is long overdue.

As first reported by POLITICO, these intrusions have been happening on a regular basis since 2014. Recently, unidentified aircraft have entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month, Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for office of the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told The Washington Post on Wednesday.

Citing safety and security concerns, Gradisher vowed to “investigate each and every report.”

He said, “We want to get to the bottom of this. We need to determine who’s doing it, where it’s coming from and what their intent is. We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.”

We can take exception with at least one part of this report. If you ask around with the people who have been looking into this for a while, they don’t have “a recent uptick in sightings.” What they have is an uptick in pilots being willing to talk about it. This has been going on for a while now.

Perhaps this story is finally going to get some more attention. After the federal government and the military came forward in December of 2017 and released video of an “anomalous aerospace threat” encountered by some of our Navy pilots, the media covered the story for about a week. And then it simply disappeared. How something like that wasn’t seriously investigated further was a mystery to me, but according to the sources cited in the WaPo article, some of the pilots have grown upset over the lack of attention.

But now, the Navy is planning to do full investigations of all such reports. They’ll have quite a backlog to work through, though. After that initial admission, the Pentagon released another video in March of last year. Do you recall the one that’s often referred to as the “white tic tac” incident? It was something the size of a bus and shaped like a tic tac, with no visible wings or exhaust ports. It somehow managed to drop down from the stratosphere, hover about fifty feet above the ocean, and then take off at a speed that left two F-18s (capable of doing nearly Mach 2.5) in the dust. Here’s some cockpit video of it.

It’s not just military pilots who have been seeing things they can’t explain. Last winter a group of commercial airline pilots flying over Ireland all reported some “bright lights” passing them which couldn’t be identified. (CNN)

Chatter between airline pilots and Irish air traffic control focused briefly on the sightings, with at least four aviators confirming that they’d seen the phenomenon.

The exchange began when one pilot asked Shannon air traffic control if there was nearby military activity. When the air traffic controller replied in the negative, the pilot said that she had seen something moving “so fast.”…

A pilot on Virgin Flight 76 added that his flight crew had seen “two bright lights at 11 o’clock (which) seemed to bank over to the right and then climb away at speed.”

Turn on your audio and listen to the various airline pilots discussing this encounter over the radio and asking what the heck just passed them “at incredible speed.”

One aviation expert interviewed for that article tried to write it off as meteorites. But as far as I know, meteorites don’t tend to “bank” in midflight and then climb in altitude once they enter the atmosphere.

I’d really like to see some more information released on all of this activity. I’m not saying it’s extraterrestrials (though nobody can rule that out, I suppose) but it’s definitely something. We don’t have the technology to build anything capable of the flight characteristics these pilots are reporting. Or at least we’re not admitting to having that technology. If it’s some black bag experiment out of Skunkworks, fine. But what if it’s not ours? Have the Chinese or the Russians made some huge technological leap ahead of us? If so, wouldn’t we want to know?

Kudos to the Navy for taking this seriously. Now let’s see how transparent they want to be about whatever they find.

[Seruzawa]

When you have multiple sober trained observers see a UFO that is also verified by radar then the only true kook is the guy who says there’s nothing there.

[Windflier]

...alien airships are not yet confirmed

At least not publicly. I have a very strong suspicion that TPTB have had solid confirmation of the existence of ETs for a long, long time.

[arthurus]

Investigation of UAVs is not new or a renewed interest. What's new is officially talking about it. I do wonder what that's all about.

[SunkenCiv]

additional:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3744529/posts

[jonrick46]

" But as far as I know, meteorites don’t tend to “bank” in midflight and then climb in altitude once they enter the atmosphere."

Meteorites are acting like skipped rocks over water. The UFO phenomenon is a hoax. It has always been a hoax.

[YogicCowboy]

If they can take off from a nuclear carrier, why not?

[PIF]

There are currently3 postings on this story each with commenters mentioning different aspects - other than the silly or inane.

If the US Navy is taking this subject this serious, I suggest posters do also. Silly comments here are are not warranted, however initially funny there may appear; they just hi-jack the thread.

Here are the thre threads I found:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3744529/posts - posted by bitt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3744519/posts - posted by BenLurkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3744896/posts - posted by Kaslin

Now these articles are fairly short and do not have any in depth military analysis, so I'm referencing one that does.

What The Hell Is Going On With UFOs And The Department Of Defense?
Someone or something appears to have some extremely advanced technology and the Pentagon is actively changing the nature of the conversation about it.
By Tyler Rogoway April 26, 2019

The first and most important take away here is the technology is real.

Without going further with that article's content, I want to mention that there are two theories beside the 'Alien' one. The First theory is that having thrown billions of dollars into black projects for almost 80 years, a separate society and culture could have been created and have actually made these things, remaining totally separate from ours. The ringer here is that UFO sightings go back hundreds of years, so unless time travel is part of this tech, then this theory is not correct in all aspects.

Here's the Zero Point theory made by James Allen (died of radiation poisoning after making it) with explanations by Mark Cavendish who drew the blueprints for such a craft, more explanations by Physicist Dr. Hal Puthoff
Zero Point - Classified Anti Gravity Craft - UFO Full Documentary by James Allen R.I.P. 1.32 hrs

The Second theory mentioned in a book decades ago made the case that these things are not crafts carrying beings or some sort of remote device, but are themselves an living organism, a natural part of Earth's ecosystem.

[PIF]

Here's accounts of CVN USS Nimitz sightings
The Nimitz Encounters 2 This Film Will Be Removed Soon

USS Nimitz sailor (Omar Lara) UFO Reported Nov 04

[Kaslin]

I just don’t believe in UFOs

[Kaslin]

Exactly

[PIF]

Not implying you have to believe or not, however, from the War Zone article I referenced:

"The main revelation is that technology exists that is capable of performing flying maneuvers that shatter our perceptions of propulsion, flight controls, material science, and even physics. Let me underline this again for you, the Nimitz encounter with the Tic Tac proved that exotic technology that is widely thought of as the domain of science fiction actually exists. It is real. It isn't the result of altered perception, someone's lucid dream, a stray weather balloon, or swamp gas. Someone or something has crossed the technological Rubicon and has obtained what some would call the Holy Grail of aerospace engineering.

"This reality is very hard to process for many."

It seems not to be a matter of belief, but of reality. You can either accept that the technology exists or not. The Navy seems to have hard proof that it does exist and takes the existence of that technology just as serious as any other potential threat from peer nations.

No one is saying "aliens" just that there is a real technology.