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.
Blumenthal has no idea of where he was in the early 70’s.
“IF there is alien life, it’s been the best kept secret in the entire world.”
Actually, the second best. My parents are STILL convinced that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election, but he somehow managed to keep it secret from the 500 people Mueller had testify or the 1000 subpoenas that Mueller issued.
Ha!....good one!
And don't forget that Cheney was blowing up the levies in New Orleans during Katrina.
FTC at WP?
I think that was Stephen Hawking.
https://www.space.com/29999-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-danger.html
If you actually observe a UFO, pay no attention unless you have the clearance and the need to know.
Someone discussing this topic on one of the cable shows said that we have the greatest ET story imaginible right in front of us in the Bible. He is of course right. But the ET of the Bible is resisted because He describes right and wrong and demands fealty. We don’t get to make it all up as we go...bummer...
Funny that these aliens can cross interstellar space to visit this out of the way planet, yet when they get here they keep crashing and we keep picking up the pieces.
Prince of the
Power of the Air,,,
It’s either that, aliens, or both. I’ve seen articles that speculate that a lot of our One thing is true: Aliens capable of interstellar travel can probably destroy our civilization (race) without breaking a sweat. If they decide that’s what they want to do, we probably can’t do a whole lot about it. So why worry?
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True. The saving grace is it requires some pretty advanced tech to traverse interstellar space. One hopes that any alien civilization old enough to have developed such tech will also have a level of intellectual maturity to where they have no need to eradicate us. My guess would be they know of our existence and being curious, want to observe us without direct interaction. They would likely be aware that direct interaction at this time in our development would be disruptive, to them as well as us.
Whatdaya expect? Thy’re teenage aliens hot rodding around! Drinking, smoking who knows what! Doing the equivalent of cow tipping on humans. It’s no wonder some of them crash!
What is chilling to me is that in every interview I have heard him do he talks about how the government agencies in charge of the parks and monuments will not help him at all. It is like they know about the issue but don’t want citizens to know.
Really?
I’ve never heard that. Seems like something the scientific big wigs should have already considered, though, right?
LOL Bump!
My Dad was sent out to Roswell for that thing in the late 40s. (He was a nuclear physicist who was also at Bikini for Crossroads.) The one thing he told me was: “that wasn’t a weather balloon.”
He as well never talked about UFO crap or wanted to be associated with Little Green Men theorists.
That’s amazing.
Did you form your own hypothesis as to the nature/origin, etc.?
I heard that these advanced aliens had decided to reveal themselves to us, but then saw a Democrat debate and decided we weren’t ready.
Luis Elizondo is a deep-state spook. Everything he says about UFOs is dis-information.”
Not disputing that, as such. But how do you know that?
Yep I and Mr. GG2 concur.
Of course the aliens could be our secret government:
https://www.amazon.com/V-Complete-Marc-Singer/dp/B00023BKMC
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