Posted on 03/01/2023 7:20:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The quote in the title comes from a new op-ed published at Politico by Ryan Graves, a Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot who was one of many military officers who encountered anomalous objects in our restricted military airspace off the coast of Virginia in 2014. In the article, he reviews some of the recent activity of balloons (or “objects” or “balloon-like entities” or whatever we’re calling them this week) in American airspace and the Pentagon’s response to them. Graves has plenty of experience with UFOs because “those damn things” had been plaguing his fighter squadron for eight months during the period in question and he’s seen them up close and personal.
While Graves praises the Pentagon for improving our radar systems and other sensor data so we can more readily identify and, if appropriate, engage with unknown objects, he points out that balloons are not the only issue we need to be dealing with. And the things that he and his fellow pilots saw (and sometimes almost collided with) over the Atlantic Ocean were most assuredly not balloons.
Then came the hair-raising near misses that required us to take evasive action.
These were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.
After that near-miss, we had no choice but to submit a safety report, hoping that something could be done before it was too late.
Graves’ account was impressive and urgent enough that it caught the attention of Senator Marco Rubio. That makes sense since Rubio has been one of the Senators (along with Kirsten Gillibrand and others) who led the charge to investigate UFOs, writing legislation that created the Pentagon’s new UFO investigatory office, AARO.
Advanced objects demonstrating advanced technology are routinely flying over our restricted or sensitive airspace posing a risk to both flight safety & national security https://t.co/4bXEHuuaq0
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 28, 2023
One area where I’m not entirely sure how Graves views the situation comes with his praise of President Biden for ordering the creation of a new interagency UAP task force. On the one hand, I suppose that the more resources we bring to bear on this effort the better. But at the same time, we’ve just gone through years of debate and congressional wrangling to create the AARO office. Looking into these unidentified phenomena is the whole purpose of its existence. Will the new task force be sharing data so that nothing is missed? Will they be engaging in redundant efforts when we might make more progress if everyone is pulling on the same set of oars?
Ryan Graves is currently launching a new advocacy group called Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA). This group will support pilots seeking to responsibly report anomalous activity and the skies and help develop more comprehensive reporting and analysis measures. They will also advocate for greater transparency from the government on the subject of UFOs and potentially related phenomena. I applaud this effort and hope he is successful.
In closing, Graves circles back to point out that we can’t simply ignore the balloons, particularly the ones that are conducting surveillance on behalf of our adversaries. (Though we should probably avoid shooting down the ones belonging to the Boy Scouts with sidewinder missiles in the future.) But we cannot afford to switch over to a collective mentality where everything is viewed as an adversarial balloon or drone. There are objects in our skies, in space, and under the water that are doing things we can’t explain. And we need to get to the bottom of it.
[[In closing, Graves circles back]]
Oh Swell- Jen Psaki’s uncle works for the navy?
There are some incredible modelers on youtube that could make those leading leading edges move on that F-18!
If aliens were harmful we’d all be in their cesspool by now.
If they are able to travel across space they have the technology to wipe us out.
I just don’t give it much thought beyond that.
They show up on radar, have supposedly shut off and/or activated nuclear weapons systems, IIRC, here and in the former USSR.
if they’re not from earth and haven’t decided to destroy us...
then they’re probably not a threat.
if they are from another planet... their tech is far above ours.
and we really don’t want to piss them off.
That is a very old story about messing with the nuke systems and I don’t think the gov has ever confirmed that. Nor was it ever connected to sightings like they are admitting to now IIRC.
Yes, they show up on radar, then disappear without moving and reappear in the same place or a different place. They do all kinds of things on radar that no object should be able to do. But that isn’t threatening in and of itself. They can’t even say that they are objects.
Yeah, I’m hoping they’ll want to make nice when the make contact with us.
What better place for alien doctoral students to do a thesis than the planet earth?
The abnormal psychology papers must stretch across intergalactic space.
On the UFO it says, ?Made in China”.
Time to build a dome and make Mars pay for it
Important things first: do we know what gender they are?
Whatever they are, they've been here a long time. They haven't killed off our entire species, so that must not be what they want, but what have they done?
One thing they've purportedly done is run a hybridization program using humans and themselves. But to what end?
As Prof David Jacobs (Temple University) has argued for years, they might already be seeding our world with these hybrids. But what if their goal is to create something of Biblical proportions? Like an ubermensch...a really superior being to lead us where they want us to go.
I'm thinking they might be creating a body that can be possessed by something from their dimension.
But why was Al O'Donnell so willing to spill the beans? Surely he knew the dangers of talking about this stuff.
You thoughts literally describe biblical events, I am guessing you are either not aware of what the bible and apocrypha says or you are being intentionally coy and writing around the edges about it.
Take the leap, consider indeed demons could be seeking to re-embody themselves on earth. Demons ARE NOT the same thing as fallen angels, that also is biblically supported.
“...they might already be seeding our world with these hybrids.”
Happened before, Gen. 6. They were on course to breed out the human race. Noah was perfect in his generations (DNA).
I am amazed that people like John MacArthur discard Gen 6 as useless (he says the Sons of God were just "great" men).
The O’Donnell situation requires the full context to understand.
George Knapp works his sources and gets them to trust him. Part of that is George keeps his word—when he says he won’t release a name he has a proven track record of honoring that pledge.
Part of it is that Knapp is a Nevada journalist institution—not just a fly by night reporter or book-writer or hobbyist who is just passing through.
We see so little of true outstanding journalism these days we have forgotten how it is done by the experts—hard work, decades of developing and maintaining trust with sources, and true local connections and contacts.
People in Nevada want to talk to George Knapp—because he respects what they do and treats them well—year after year after year.
I agree about George. But people get killed for talking about this stuff.
Oh, you'll care. They're sadists who stick probes up your butt.
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