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.
“Yep, they are real. Seen evidence first hand”
Pilots interviewed on TV have seen them for years. Not worth reporting. As you said get ridiculed or black mark on your work history.
Years ago I worked in a building reputed to house the little green men. One day I was walking up the hall and I came to an area where the floor was opened up. A Colonel was looking down in the opening. As I passed I casually said, “Feeding time, Colonel?” He started laughing and almost fell in the hole.
It humans from a 200,000 year old civilization. They have technology we can’t imagine but they aren’t in a sharing mood. There ain’t enough for everyone.
Everytime people witness something (in the air) that appears to do something out of the norm for conventional objects they automatically make this huge leap to “aliens”.
First off, you’re jumping to conclusions to assume that what you are seeing is a physical aircraft. Second, another jump to assume that it’s occupied. Third, and the furthest leap that is based on the least possible observable evidence, is that it is occupied by non-humans or non-terrestrial entities.
Also, anything that movies faster than our accepted premises about conventional aircraft, or seems to change directions by “defying physics” probably isn’t a physical (material) object anyway, at least not unless they have created a relative difference in temporal mechanics.
It is only arrogance that causes people to make such fantastic leaps.
When first world explorers met new “primitives” and produced a lighter, the observers were amazed and intrigued, but they only asked how the new and strange people were able to keep a flame inside such a small object and get it to leap out so easily, and they did not assume they were gods or magicians. Only a people who already assume they know most of everything that is to be known assume that something that functions in a way they can’t explain must be non-human.
People have discussed seeing blue balls of energy and ionized gas coming from the earth in the days before a major earthquake. Like you said the theory is quartz crystals being deformed under massive amounts of heat and pressure.
I watched the segment Tucker Carlson had on Fox News on his program.
Our government’s policy of ridicule and kookery lives on.
Have you looked at the videos?
This is video from military cameras, not some fringe lunatics.
It clearly shows aircraft under intelligent control- not ‘ball lightning’.
Blue... Huh-huh-huh...
Balls... heh-heh-heh...
Yup,
IIRC, it was Carl Sagan who postulated IF there is alien life we don't want them to find us for this very reason.
“I see people with strange colored hair quite often. “
You mean the fat ones with the rings in their noses? Damn! I’ve seen them around here.
Two drunk guys and some boards eh?
I've also thought about this based on books/articles I've read.
Might help explain some of the miracles seen in the End-Times.
More likely some technology is being developed to fool electronic sensors...
Just use a potato, everyone else does.
“...a topic, granted, typically reserved for the realm of kooks and pranksters.”
I’ve been an open-minded follower of “UFO” sightings my entire life. While a lot of it...even most of it...is debunkable or explainable, there are far too many instances that defy explanation based on the science and technology we know to exist. The problem has been that there are/were too many people like Morefield willing to pooh pooh the whole subject out of hand. Whether such sightings are explainable natural occurrences, advanced secret technology, or aliens...they are worthy of our serious consideration and should have been all along, not just now just because Morefield has suddenly seen the light. And, I’m sorry folks, if nature was the cause of many such sightings as claimed, it should be easily proven and reproduced. Nature falls far short of explaining too many of these events.
The Deep State has had its hopes up for creating a UFO “threat” for ages. It is the one perfect excuse for uniting under a worldwide government AND spending ever more on defense.
Military intel types have blathered on about how this will save us to.
So no, I don’t take seriously anyone from their world coming out to confess bits like this.
Or it could be swamp gas!
I wonder where a third of the angels went that were cast out of heaven? Hmmmmmmm.....
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