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If You Aren’t Paying Attention To The Latest UFO News, You Really, Really Should Be
Townhall.com ^ | January 20, 2020 | Scott Morefield

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.



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KEYWORDS: aeronautics; conspiracytheory; engineering; hypersonic; hypersonictictacs; qanon; tictac; ufos
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To: 3boysdad
I wonder where a third of the angels went that were cast out of heaven?

If memory serves they were cast to earth and into the pit. The 13th imam is prophesied to emerge from the bottomless well. Coincidence?

141 posted on 01/20/2020 12:23:08 PM PST by spudville
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To: StolarStorm

Would love to hear about your experiences.


142 posted on 01/20/2020 12:23:14 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
God created the Heavens and the Earth. It is very big. The Bible teaches that God created man so that He could be loved and so that He could love. Why then would God build such a large cosmos, and then populate only a single little planet with such a rich place surrounding that little planet in every direction? Nowhere in the Bible is there an indication that Earth is the single populated world. So, what gives you the notion that these things just cannot be others visiting this backwater place? Why do they have to be demons? I think you are jumping to conclusions similar in nature to the conclusions cave men made about the stars.

OK, let us address the physics of the situation. Our technology could be said to have started in earnest around 1845 with the invention of the telegraph. (Others would prefer to include the earlier works of Oersted, Babbage, Faraday, Korsakov, and Stratingh) So that gives us just 175 years to go from the candle to the cell phone and Mars landers. Suppose another civilization "out there" did not experience a "Fall of Rome", but instead experienced and additional 1800 years of technical growth. That is more that ten times the technological expansion we experienced. It is entirely possible that they would have discovered some physics that we have not yet discovered. Please don't be so arrogant to assume that we already know everything that can be known about physics.

143 posted on 01/20/2020 12:24:44 PM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Perhaps addressing others who actually know about this topic as “small-minded” might get you less vinegar from a response next time.

Try again...


144 posted on 01/20/2020 12:58:08 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Sirius Lee
That looks like a Water Bear.


145 posted on 01/20/2020 1:02:35 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Hebrews 11:6

+1 and they materialize or de-materialize right in front of eyewitnesses eyes.

Same with Bigfoot/Sasquatch (who are probably some form of Nephilim), demons/ghosts, ‘aliens’, and anything else in the realm of the paranormal.

They all come from the same source.
Evil = Demonic = Satanic

Every single eyewitness to these beings has the same petrified fear factor “paralysis” so to speak. Most are NOT Christian, so the religious factor can be tossed out there as well.

Interestingly enough, those who do practice the dark arts are almost 100% of all cases of ‘abduction’.

Ignoring the spiritual aspect of this topic is like not being able to distinguish the forest from the trees.


146 posted on 01/20/2020 1:05:16 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Kaslin
UFO's are like mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes:

UFO's:

The US Navy has reported that the UFOs they witnessed have comprehensive cloaking capabilities that can render them invisible to the naked eye as well as to radar. They do not need lights if they don't want to be seen.

So if you see nothing...

147 posted on 01/20/2020 1:07:37 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Vermont Lt
Advanced technology will appear to us as magic and those wielding it as gods.

So true. Like when we fly a helicopter or airplane over the Amazon or some other such primitive area.

Isn't this what we do to them?

Imagine, if we were to take a simple thing like an iPhone and go back just a brief 150 years and hand it to the best scientist of the day, they would have no hope of understanding it.

In fact, they couldn't even charge it as the first city would not be electrified for another 10 years.

Aliens could be not just 150 years in advance of us, but 150,000 or more.

Their science would appear to be magic to us.

148 posted on 01/20/2020 1:15:33 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
My cousins also seen one hovering over a neighbor's house. He is a locally well-known and well established medical doctor and as grounded as can be.

He never breathed a word of it to a soul. He was outside working in the yard when he saw it. He shouted to my cousin - his wife - "Come outside a minute hon. How much should the Ph be in the pool... oh, and WHAT'S THAT?" as he pointed to the UFO in the sky.

They both saw it.

His son told me and we later discussed it. Other family members have also seen them.

My sister swore she was abducted as a child - got ridiculed heavily by all and sundry and never spoke of it again. My brother saw a UFO in our neighborhood as did I.

But of course, we are all crazy, so don't talk about it so as not to tip off our friends, family, neighbors and co-workers.

Hazardous to your livelihood you know...

149 posted on 01/20/2020 1:22:53 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: cgbg

It’s funny, but I was never directly contacted about a discussion I had online about this topic. I was harassed like hell online by an individual that never posted prior or since. That was it. No visits from anyone. But my father did get some “official” grief. He got two visits from some folks and was grilled about me. Perhaps because he still worked at JSC and I had moved on? Perhaps because of his role? I don’t know. I just find it odd that they didn’t have a chat with me directly. I would have shut up immediately. I am under no contradictions to discuss the topic but would have complied if told to do so. I still would.


150 posted on 01/20/2020 1:44:42 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: Bon mots

Interesting point for those who are interested in history. I do though think that they would have recognized it as a wireless telegraph. In fact that is exactly how I see texting. Photography they would have recognized too. Perhaps telephony would have surprised them or perhaps having all of these machines combined into one device. As far as the technology goes, I never found a single high school student who had the slightest inkling how any of this works, and until I mentioned it, never saw one who even cared to know. I used to take them outside to show them the cell towers, which they had never even seen though they passed by them every day.


151 posted on 01/20/2020 1:45:38 PM PST by BDParrish ( Please correct me! I never learned anything from anybody who already agreed with me.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Interestingly enough, those who do practice the dark arts are almost 100% of all cases of ‘abduction’. Ignoring the spiritual aspect of this topic is like not being able to distinguish the forest from the trees.Dr. Ross agrees that exposing oneself to the occult opens the gateway for demons--whereas abandoning occultic practices and influences forestalls them. He often relates many anecdotes illustrating this truth from his many decades investigating as an astronomer and pastor.
152 posted on 01/20/2020 1:48:31 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: GingisK

Only if you’re serious. I expect a sarcastic response of course :)

1. How many dimensions does this planet/world you call Earth have?
2. How many do you think there are there in the Universe?
3. You believe the Bible? Good... How old is the Earth?
4. Read Genesis 1:1-3. What do you ascertain from those verses?
5. Why were ancient cultures terrified of Mars?
6. What does Johnathan Swift discover before Asaph Hall and how?
7. How old are the craters on each planet/moon in the solar system?
8. What does Genesis 6 say to you? Look at 6:4 closely.
9. Jesus mentioned the end days would be the same as Noah & Lot. Why?
10. Matthew 4:1-11. How did you think Satan accomplished verse 8 specifically?

Lastly, Jesus warned us over & over again regarding future events to not be deceived.

Matthew 24:4
Mark 13:5
1 John 4:1
Luke 21:8

2 Thessalonians 2:2:9-12 talks about an even greater deception to come over humanity and what happens to those who fall for it.

The source of which is none other than who in Revelation 12:9.

So to answer your questions about what gives me (and everybody else that believes these ufo’s are demons) the notion that these things are evil - and by extension that the Earth is the only populated planet?

The Earth is Satan’s domain and he holds the deed.
Matthew 4:8-9
Luke 4:5-7
Luke 22:53 (his ‘hour’)
John 14:30
John 16:11
John 12:31
1 John 5:19
Ephesians 2:1-2

There has been a fight to death (spiritual) in the Heavens since the day that rebellious angel decided he shall sit on The Lord’s Throne in his mind (Isaiah 14:13).
The war destroyed our solar system and perhaps more in other realms. You really think those craters on Mars, the moon, Venus, Earth, Mercury are all by happen chance?

And if they happened billions of years ago that the debris of those impacts would still be there?

Mankind is a pawn & a prize to Demons, while loved and cherished by the Angelic Godly realm - including the Triune God.

Knowing the spiritual realm and what is at stake, it’s no surprise to me that “Paranormal Activity” is up and UFO’s are showing up more & more.


153 posted on 01/20/2020 1:56:28 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Kaslin
When something inexplicable is observed, the default explanation for some people is - "an alien intelligence has conquered the known laws of physics and has broken the barriers of space and time travel to come and try unsuccessfully to remain hidden from us."

Seems like just about every imaginable explanation should beat that one out, no matter how ludicrous.

154 posted on 01/20/2020 2:02:42 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: American in Israel
Radar spoofing is an effective countermeasure to the advantage of stealth fighters. With data interlinking between your fighters you could fill the skyscraper with false targets that your planes ignore.

Radar spoofing may account for some of these UFOs showing up on a radar screen. -Tom

155 posted on 01/20/2020 2:11:04 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Kaslin

Einstein was right when he said there may well be other intelligent life out there but we will never know.


156 posted on 01/20/2020 4:30:35 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: Hebrews 11:6

“In short, they are real yet not physical.”

The only thing wrong with that line is that it cannot be subjected to any kind of proof.

Also, the government is said by employees who was once worked in the related government departments to have alien crafts or parts of alien crafts.


157 posted on 01/20/2020 4:34:28 PM PST by odawg
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To: odawg

Suit yourself.


158 posted on 01/20/2020 4:39:09 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I have suspected for a long while that UFO sightings are at least partially our advanced stuff but I don’t know more about it than anybody else does.


159 posted on 01/20/2020 4:40:28 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Demons? Nope.


160 posted on 01/20/2020 4:42:37 PM PST by GingisK
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