June 2021 – Atmospheric Lights

June 30, 2021

Bethune UFO Encounter (1951)

This historic UFO case happened on 21 February 1951. Lt. Graham Bethune of the United States Navy was flying Navy R5D, Bureau No. 56501 with LCDR (Lieutenant Commander) Fred Kingdon and Lt. Noel Koger. They were on a scheduled eight-hour passenger flight from Keflavik, Iceland to Argentia, Nova Scotia, while two other crews slept on board. It was a clear northern night, and the pilots were flying on autopilot at 10,000 ft with a ground speed of over 200knots. Lt. Bethune and Lieutenant Commander Kingdon were on watch for other aircraft.

And Around four and a half hours out of Keflavik, Lt. Bethune noticed a bright yellow glow below the horizon around 30 to 35 miles away that appeared to be city lights. They were concerned that they were off course. They had Lt. Koger confirms the navigation and verifies that there were no ships in the area.

Lt. Jones and Lt. Meyer was awakened and came forward into the cockpit. The consent was that the lights were presumably due to a ship. When the lights from the UFO were approximately five to seven miles away, it was about thirty degrees to the right, the lights went out, and a circular yellow halo appeared on the water. This was an unusual sighting. The halo from the UFO turned from yellow to orange and later to a fiery red when it was rising suddenly to meet them, turning to a blueish red around the perimeter.

The UFO arrived at approximately 100 to 200 feet below their altitude in a fraction of a second and around 200 to 300 feet in front of the airplane. The UFO was observed to be a metallic disk-shaped object that was approximately 200 to 300 feet in diameter.

The UFO flew with the airplane for about five min and was witnessed by most of the passengers on board before leaving at speed above 1500mph, which was later confirmed to be about 1800mph by Gander Center Radar Newfoundland, Canada.

It should be mentioned that the airspeed record of 698.505mph was made roughly two years later, in November of 1952. It was done by General J. Slade Nash flying a North American F-86D Sabre.

In Lt. Bethune’s letter to Stuart Nixon from the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), he stated that the UFO was about 5 to 7 miles away when it began its ascent. However, in his interview with Sirius Disclosure, he later says that the UAP was about 15 miles away.

The UAP/UFO was described as rising from the sea at a distance of approximately five to seven miles to the approximate position and altitude of the craft in a fraction of a second. You might assign uncertainties to these distances and times to accommodate the possibility that the pilot and witnesses could have been in error. The reported duration of this maneuver was done with a fraction of a second. Is this a real UFO? What are your thoughts?

June 27, 2021

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) are also described as unknown anomalous aircraft, referred to as Unidentified Anomalous Vehicles (UAVs) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). They have been observed globally for many years. The UAP phenomena were studied officially by the United States Air Force in a series of UFO projects: Project Sign (1947), Project Grudge (1949), and Project Blue Book (1952–1969). Other nations, such as Chile, France, New Zealand, Denmark, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Russia (the former Soviet Union), Sweden, the United KingdomSpain, Uruguay, and the Vatican, have also conducted UAP-studies, or are currently studying, UAPs.

Furthermore, In December of 2017, it was revealed that the U.S. Government had been studying Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) through at least one secret program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. (Successor: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force). There have been times when U.S. Navy pilots have had to deal with nearly daily encounters with UAPs.

What Are Unidentified Aerial Phenomena?

These UAPs typically exhibit anomalous flight characteristics, such as changing direction or accelerating at extremely high rates, traveling at extremely high speeds, and hovering motionless for long periods of time. Furthermore, these UAPs appear to violate the laws of physics in that they do not have visible flight or control surfaces, any visible means of propulsion violating Newton’s Third Law. They are “transmedium” vehicles. That means they can also operate in multiple media, such as air, space (low Earth orbit), and water without apparent hindrance, heat dumps, or sonic booms.

Several Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) encountered by the military, commercial, and civilian aircraft have been reported to be structured craft that exhibits near impossible flight characteristics. Consider a handful of well-documented UFO/UAP encounters, including the 2004 encounters with the Nimitz Carrier Group off the coast of California, and consider lower bounds on the accelerations exhibited by the craft during the observed maneuvers.

Approximated accelerations range from almost a hundred G-Force to about thousands of G-Forces with no observed air disturbance. Also, no sonic booms and no evidence of excessive heat commensurate with even the minimal estimated energies.

UAPs Exhibit Strange And Extraordinary Flight Characteristics

Following observations, the estimated parameters describing the behavior of these crafts are both strange and extraordinary. The extreme flight characteristics reveal that these observations are either fabricated or seriously in error or that these vehicles exhibit technology far more advanced than any known craft on Earth.

In many UAP encounters, the number and quality of witnesses, the variety of roles they played in these encounters, and the equipment used to track and record the UAPs favor the latter hypothesis that they are technologically advanced crafts.

Moreover, the observed flight characteristics of these strange UAPs are consistent with the flight characteristics required for interstellar travel. I.e., suppose these observed accelerations were sustainable in space. In that case, these enigmatic UAPs could easily reach relativistic velocities in minutes to hours. If so, they could cover interstellar distances in a matter of days to weeks, proper time.

Reasons To Investigate UAPs

The origin, nature, and purpose of these UAPs are unknown. Moreover, it is not known if they are piloted by a biological entity, controlled remotely, or autonomous, maybe from artificial intelligence (AI). It has been made very clear by U.S. officials that if those UAPs were hostile, they would pose a serious threat. If some of these crafts are of extraterrestrial origin, it would be necessary to assess their potential threat.

More interestingly, these UAPs have the potential to provide new insights into aerospace engineering and other technologies. The possibility of a serious threat, the promise of advancements in engineering and science, evolving expectations about (ET) extraterrestrial life, and even a deeper understanding of the acts of misperception and misinterpretation are all important reasons for scientists to study and understand these objects seriously. Read about the recently released Pentagon’s UFO Report from 25 June 2021.

June 26, 2021

Does The UAP Task Force Report Provide Substance?

This is not a UAP report. This is a UAP Task Force status report. Whether that’s what it should have been is another story. The UFO Report tells us that the task force has identified 18 encounters with phenomena they can’t identify. These cases are given a designation of “other.” There’s no video evidence or deep dive into any of these encounters. But it does give us insight into what the UAP Task Force has been up to.

Many thought the UAP Task Force was purely looking at these objects because they feared they were foreign adversarial systems. The report makes clear this is not the case. There are, of course, foreign adversarial systems, and sometimes encounters with these systems are initially designated unidentified. But that’s not what this task force is about. They are not simply trying to get more details on unidentified but presumed foreign craft. The UAP Task Force’s mandate is clearly to study reports on the truly bizarre encounters classified as “other.”

11 near misses with UAPs in recent years

Another similar concern is that the UAP Task Force exists solely to advance the threat narrative, the notion that we need to study these unknowns intensely because if we don’t, we could be in trouble. The report throws cold water on that idea. Although the report does tell us that there have been 11 near misses with UAPs in recent years, that’s an aviation threat within the scope of the FAA. There’s no indication that there’s any military threat posed by the phenomena.

A recent article by Tim McMillan of the Debrief makes this point even more clear. Tim interviewed Ray Mabus, secretary of the U.S. Navy, from 2009 to 2017. During this time, we know the navy had a number of UAP encounters. Mabus confirms that these incidents reached his desk and that he never received a rational explanation. When I read this, I thought it insane.

Who would hear about something that could literally be an alien craft and then not relentlessly search for the answer? Well, if your other priorities are keeping China and Iran in check while trying to avoid nuclear war with North Korea, benign objects darting around the skies. Probably isn’t taking up a lot of mental cycle issues where real tangible lives are at stake come first, and so Mobis focused on the very real and very important priorities he had, and that’s essentially the tale of how all government officials treated the UAP issue.

The UAP Task Force is beginning to apply AI

Until now, the UAP Task Force Report is confirmation that they are now taking the issue seriously, whereas previous reports were stifled by stigma and no reporting mechanisms. This started changing two years ago. Because of this change, most of the UFO incidents studied by the UAP Task Force were very recent, but this doesn’t mean that historical cases are cold.

One of the most tantalizing details of the UAP Report was the hint that the UAP Task Force is beginning to apply AI and machine learning data mining techniques to historical data. This could be huge. This would find anomalies in satellite data, things like “fastwalkers.” Could you imagine if historical satellite data from November 14, 2004, the day of the famous “tic tac” incident, revealed a “fastwalker” entering our atmosphere?

This could provide the corroborating evidence needed to determine the nature of these objects. And we can now be sure that there are people in the government who are digging into this topic. It’s not a balloon, and it’s not a wild goose chase. It’s a serious investigation that has a good chance of producing serious results.

So what’s next? Well, we need to press for regular updates from the UAP Task Force. They are doing very interesting things. We also need to press for more information on the existing reports. We now know there are 21 of these, covering 18 encounters with these “others.” Let’s get them released. There’s also a wealth of threads left completely untouched—things like metamaterials, incidents prior to 2000, and any theories to the nature of these “others.” We’re left to speculate on those topics.

Background to the UFO Report

The Office of the Director for National Intelligence has released a highly awaited report detailing the U.S. government’s assessments of military encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The nine-page report, titled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” details the results of an analysis of 144 reports drawn from United States government sources. “Of these, 80 reports involved observation with multiple sensors,” the report states, adding that the majority of the incidents examined “described UAP as objects that interrupted pre-planned training or other military activity.”

“The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) considered a range of information on UAP described in U.S. military and IC (Intelligence Community) reporting, but because the reporting lacked sufficient specificity, ultimately recognized that a unique, tailored reporting process was required to provide sufficient data for analysis of UAP events,” the report’s Executive Summary states.

June 26, 2021June 29, 2021

The Pentagon’s UFO Report

Read the Pentagon’s UFO Report from 25 June 2021. The implications are profound. As we have known for a long time, UFOs are real They defy conventional explanation, and until more is learned, pose a serious potential threat to U.S. national security. But don’t take my word for it read it: Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It has been impatiently waited for months.

For years, the U.S. military had collected sightings of unidentified objects in flight with naval ships and military jets. In addition, combat pilots occasionally reported spectacular encounters with UFOs (unidentified flying objects). A comprehensive report on these UFO sightings is now out. The first results are now known. Here I clarify the most important questions and answers.

What Is The Summary Of The Pentagon’s UFO Report?

The limited amount of high-quality reporting on UAPs or unidentified aerial phenomena limits the ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP.

The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) considered a range of information on UAP described in U.S. military and IC (Intelligence Community) reporting. However, because the reporting lacked enough specificity, it ultimately recognized that a unique, tailored reporting process is required to provide enough data to analyze UAP events.

What Are The Results Of The Pentagon’s UFO Report?

The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force concentrated its review on reports that occurred between 2004 and 2021. The majority of these are a result of this new tailored process to capture UAP events through formalized reporting.

Most of the UAP reported probably represent physical objects. A majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, including radar, weapon seekers, infrared, electro-optical, and visual observation. In a limited number of UAP incidents, they appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics. These UAP observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis.

There are probably multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations based on the range of appearances and behaviors described in the available reporting. However, the analysis of the data supports the construct that if and when individual UAP incidents are resolved, they will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or U.S. industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall “other” bin.

Christopher K. Mellon Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence — **Christopher K. Mellon**
**Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence**

UAP poses a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security. Safety concerns primarily center on pilots contending with an increasingly cluttered air domain. However, UAP also represents a national security challenge if they are from a foreign adversary collection platform or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology.

Regular consolidation of UAP reports from across the federal government, increased collection and analysis, standardized reporting, and a streamlined process for screening all such UFO report against a broad range of relevant USG data will also allow for a more sophisticated analysis of UAPs that is likely to deepen our understanding. However, some of these steps are resource-intensive and would require additional investment.

Is The UFO Report Evidence Of Extraterrestrials?

No – according to the officials, there is no evidence that aliens have actually been observed. Conversely, however, the government cannot definitely rule out that the phenomena observed by the military pilots are extraterrestrial spacecraft. Those UAP sightings will fall under the categories: “other.”

What Other Explanations Are There For The sightings?

They will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories:

Natural atmospheric phenomena
Airborne clutter
USG or U.S. industry developmental programs
Foreign adversary systems
“Other”

Airborne Clutter: These objects include balloons, birds, recreational (UAV) or unmanned aerial vehicles, or airborne debris like plastic bags that muddle a scene and affect an operator’s ability to identify true targets, such as enemy aircraft.

Natural Atmospheric Phenomena: Natural atmospheric phenomena include moisture, ice crystals, and thermal fluctuations that may register on some infrared and radar systems.

USG or Industry Developmental Programs: Some UAP observations could be attributable to developments and classified programs by U.S. entities. However, we were unable to confirm that these systems accounted for any of the UAP reports we collected in this report.

Foreign Adversary Systems: And some UAP may be technologies deployed by Russia, China, another nation, or a non-governmental entity.

Other: Even though most of the UAP described in the dataset probably remain unidentified due to limited data or challenges to collection processing or analysis. They require additional scientific knowledge to collect on, analyze and characterize some of them successfully. They would group such objects in this category pending scientific advances to understand the phenomena better. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) aims to focus additional analysis on the small number of cases where a UAP appeared to display unusual flight characteristics or signature management.

Why Is The UFO report Coming Now Of All times?

The Trump administration ordered that at the end of December: the task force set up specifically is to present the non-secret part of its report to the US Congress within 180 days – that is, on the 25th of June 2021. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said earlier this month it is a report by the Department of Defense in collaboration with intelligence agencies. I hope you enjoyed this summary of the Pentagon’s UFO report.

June 25, 2021June 26, 2021

What Should The UFO Report Include? And Why Produce The UAP Report?

Why produce this UFO report? The answer is simple. There is no unified, complete process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on UAPs. Therefore, the information sharing across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent. The Community specifically mentions geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), human intelligence (HUMINT), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and measurement and signals intelligence (MASINT). Unfortunately, this problem has lacked attention from senior leaders. Consequently, Marco Rubio and his colleagues are now asking for a report on these issues.

This Pentagon UFO Report that the Director of National Intelligence, together with the Secretary of Defense and any other parties, should include these points in the UAP report:

A comprehensive analysis of UAP data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence. Also including data and intelligence reporting held by the UAPTF (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force)

A thorough analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by:

a. geospatial intelligence

b. signals intelligence

c. human intelligence

d. measurement and signals intelligence

A comprehensive analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of UAPs or unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace

A complete description of an interagency process for assuring timely data collection and centralized investigation of all UAP reporting for the Federal Government, despite which service or agency acquired the information

Description of an official accountable for the process outlined in paragraph 4

Identification of possible aerospace or other threats posed by the UAPs to national security, and an assessment of whether this UAP activity may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries

Description of any events or patterns that show a potential adversary has achieved breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put the United States strategy at risk.

Recommendations regarding increased data collection, enhanced research and development, and additional funding, and other resources.

The most interesting and problematic part of this need for a UAP report

It’s worth noting that this committee report and the existing draft of the latest Intelligence Authorization Act include classified annexes, which may have additional provisions regarding unidentified aerial phenomena. And the U.S. Navy is the service at the center of all of the major publicized UAP incidents in the past two decades.

The U.S. Navy has been the service providing classified briefings on unidentified aerial phenomena to senior members of Congress ever since media like the New York Times published its first comprehensive exposé on the AATIP- Program (Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) and its predecessors.

The most interesting and problematic part of this need for a UAP report is the apparent admission that the Senators in charge of overseeing America’s intelligence-gathering activities do not have a good understanding of the interagency process for the centralized collection and analysis of data on unidentified aerial phenomena from across the federal government. Or who is the top official in charge of that process.

It’s also hard to understand how this could be the case after all this time, given the possibility that these UAP encounters could reflect threats to U.S. national security, including directly from America’s potential adversaries.

June 25, 2021June 26, 2021

Pentagon UFO Report

U.S. Government has prepared a historical Report on UFOs. Once entirely dismissive of UFO sightings that for decades sparked the popular imagination, it is now in the making of to issue an expansive account of what it calls UAP or “unidentified aerial phenomena,” based heavily on observations by military pilots. In conjunction with the Pentagon. It is due in the coming days to submit a report to Congress on the subject.

The UFO report is issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It includes the work of a U.S. Navy-led UAP task force established by the Pentagon in August 2020 to examine UAP/UFO incidents. And U.S. Senator Marco Rubio was instrumental in ordering the report, requested as part of broader legislation passed last year.

The Pentagon has released and confirmed the authenticity of UFO videos from naval aviators showing enigmatic aircrafts exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technologies. In the run-up to their following UFO report, Defense Department officials have made it clear that they take the UAP issue seriously while sidestepping questions about any possible extraterrestrial origin. The UFO report marks a turning point for the U.S. military after decades of deflecting, debunking, and debunking observations of unidentified flying objects and “flying saucers.”

The retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich was among aviators from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz involved in a 2004 “Tic Tac” incident off California’s coast with unknown aircraft described as resembling large “Tic Tac” breath mints. In an interview with Reuters this week, Dietrich recalled the elongated object lacked “visible flight control surfaces or means of propulsion.”

Dietrich said she thinks the episode was “professionally and soberly analyzed” by the military chain of command after she and her colleagues were questioned. She wishes her ability to go public will help reduce the shame and the stigma others once faced under similar circumstances, helping them to “speak up, even if they don’t know what they saw.”

U.S. intelligence officials have found no clear evidence that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) witnessed by U.S Navy pilots are alien spacecraft, but cannot explain the unusual movements of these objects and cannot definitively rule out extraterrestrial explanations. “We take reports of incursions into our airspace very seriously – by any aircraft, identified or unidentified – and we investigate each one,” said Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough.

Congress has received the UFO report on Friday 25th of June 2021. The new Pentagon report on UFOs did not confirm or deny the existence of interplanetary aircraft visiting Earth. But the report is a major pivot for the U.S. intelligence community, which has traditionally avoided frank discussion of unidentified aerial phenomena.

June 24, 2021

Navy pilots encountered UAPs on a near-daily basis

According to U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilot Ryan Graves, he and his fellow military pilots had encountered UAPs almost every day. “There were those everyday occurrences off of the East Coast, where we’d go up, and we’d see these UAPs on our radar. We’d see those UAPs on our FLIR and very rarely with our eyeballs. And these encounters were a daily issue.” And they’re still out there.

F/A-18’s upgrade to the AN/APG-79, AESA

Ryan says the appearance of these odd intruders coincided with the F/A-18’s upgrade to the AN/APG-79, AESA (active electronically scanned array radars). The upgrade represents a massive boost in combat capability for the Hornets. This signifies the most substantial capability upgrade in the legacy Hornet’s entire history.

These upgrades give the fighter pilot a slew of enhanced abilities. It includes enhanced detection and tracking ranges, target discrimination, and identification. It also provides the ability to spot low-flying reduced radar cross-section targets like cruise missiles and the capability to rapidly scan vast volumes of airspace as AESA radars do not rely on a mechanically steered radar dish to do so.

“Sometimes you get reflections off clouds with those older radars, so we were somewhat accustomed to seeing things on the radar that didn’t necessarily mean an object was actually there. But the APG-79 wasn’t supposed to have this problem, but it was quite new, so we just thought at first this was a bug in the software,” said Ryan.

Rather quickly, pilots began to realize whatever those radar returns were; they weren’t bugs in the system. “We started locking those UAPs up as solid returns and then slaving the FLIR to it, meaning you see an infrared (IR) source. That’s when we realized this wasn’t some type of radar malfunction. There were real physical objects out there.”

The AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR targeting pod capturing these UAPs is a multi-sensor, electro-optical system that incorporates a low-light television camera, laser spot tracker, target laser rangefinder/designator, and thermographic camera. The higher a UAP’s temperature, the more infrared black-body radiation is emitted.

The modern thermographic component of the ATFLIR converts those infrared emissions into an image the same way a standard camera forms an image using visible light. The systems are integrated with different sophisticated avionics, including radar, all to provide the modern warfighter with a superior degree of situational awareness.

“There were some distinct things we’d notice. The UAPs had a distinctive radar signature, which would allow the fighter pilots to recognize those things whenever they’d pop up on their integrated situational awareness page. Typically the UAPs were stationary, but sometimes they were moving, but rarely at supersonic speeds. But most of the time, the UFOs weren’t going incredibly fast.”

According to Graves, the pilots have what’s called a target aspect indicator. It is a line that comes off the radar track that represents the vector of the target or what direction the UAP is moving. When these UAPs were stationary, the aspect indicator jumped around.

“darting around like a housefly”

For example, the UAP would be going to the 12 o’clock position on one pass. Then abruptly at six o’clock, and then three o’clock, etc. This would maybe make sense for a stationary target. But the pilots saw this same type of jitteriness when they were moving targets as well. The target aspect wasn’t smooth like an aircraft.”

In the last years, when more enduring data is obtained, more often than not, and thanks to increasingly sophisticated air defense systems, this same “jitteriness” Ryan Graves described often comes up. Other pilots say; described sightings they had of a UAP that was “violently and erratically maneuvering” as it traveled through the air. “It was darting around like a housefly.” The analogy of a housefly did resonate with what some of Graves’ fellow pilots said they had experienced.

“they’re still out here.”

Many pilots would see these UAPs on the radar and go try to check it out. But very rarely, though, would they physically see anything because it was like with a housefly. When they’d get close, the UAPs would move a little bit up or down. Just enough so you’d miss them. But on the few rare occasions, pilots did catch a glimpse; the UAPs were oddly described as looking like a cube in a sphere. The UFOs would engage in evasive maneuvers, occasionally be seen flying in formation and sometimes traveling at close to supersonic speeds.

Graves says: pilots almost exclusively encountered the mysterious UAPs over the ocean, between about 10 to 300 miles off the coast. “I don’t think we ever saw them over land, but to be fair, we rarely flew over land,” specified Ryan. According to Graves, a former flight student of his who graduated and made it to the fleet told him, “they’re still out there.”

June 24, 2021June 26, 2021

Who is The New UAP Task Force Director?

The Pentagon took a significant step forward on the issue last year, establishing The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. It has since spurred military pilots to report strange sightings, some of which have been detected to be flying at hypersonic speeds. The UFO report has been released on the 25th of June 2021, which Congress mandated. It was intended to end the stigma associated with UFOs/UAPs and emphasize to Americans that the intelligence community views these sightings as a significant vulnerability for the U.S.

Since Luis Elizondo stepped forward as the point man for one of the government’s UFO/UAP programs, AATIP, things have changed. From Elizondo’s own words, we’ve known AATIP did not end. It transformed. Years later, the public found out about an ongoing task force, The UAP Task Force. The leader of this task force was highly regarded. Many who knew him said he did great work and was primed to get things done. This UAPTF director has still not been named.

Then, out of nowhere, seemingly for political and possibly questionable reasons, this person was replaced. The replacement’s reputation was not as stellar as the prior director, according to various people “in the know” who have spoken on the record. Rumor’s circulated that the director was replaced to thwart efforts. The new director, the replacement, wasn’t one to make waves and kick up dust like the original UAPTF director allegedly was. With that said, many of us still stand by the new director and support him for no other reason other than him being the current point man for the program.

Brennan McKernan, New UAP Task Force Director

World, meet the Navy’s, Brennan McKernan. You’re now famous. Last week Members of the House Intelligence Committee and the House Armed Services Committee were briefed by McKernan, the director of the new Pentagon’s UAP task force, and Scott Bray, the deputy director of naval intelligence.

Who is Brennan McKernan?

Mr. Brennan McKernan is a Navy intelligence analyst. He spoke about the threats from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea at a press conference 2019 at the National Press Club. He did this in front of USNPAA members and guests from CHINFO. Sources familiar with the UAP briefings said the officials walked through the steps the Pentagon is taking to try to identify the enigmatic UAP sightings and figure out their source or sources.

June 23, 2021

Are The Aliens Already Here?

If the aliens are already here, it’s probably in the form of autonomous robotic interstellar space probes with a high level of artificial intelligence. These new ideas are now percolating in the news lately. And both UFO enthusiasts and SETI scientists agree on this idea. Both camps, the two fields in practice, have had almost nothing to do with one another. SETI often requires a graduate degree in astronomy. Its scientists tend to ignore UFO believers for requiring nothing more than a camera that takes blurry photos.

But recently, the two camps may be moving closer together. This idea stems from the hypothesis that aliens would be better served by sending robotic probes. Relatively simple probes might intermittently surveil nascent solar systems. Solar systems with biogenic planets might be surveilled more often. Alien probes with advanced AI’s might be placed permanently in the vicinity of planets that have reached multicellularity indicated by their oxygen-rich atmospheres or other biosignatures.

And once a permanently placed alien probe had detected artificial electromagnetic signs, indicating that one multicellular species had become technologically intelligent, it would try to decode the species.

But even granted its immense onboard AI capabilities, it would still take time for the aliens to decode Homo sapiens’ languages, science, and culture.

Then the local probe needs to send data back to its home base for deeper analysis and instructions on how to proceed. When we hear from a local alien probe, its transmissions may be in a familiar terrestrial language after it has decoded us.

The dialogue will occur in near real-time, as opposed to the painstakingly slow dialogue between us and an alien civilization transmitting from a star at thousands of light-years distance. A fully autonomous AI probe would be able to communicate between the aliens and us.

The solution for this communication would be to string communication nodes at close proximity to one another, maybe one in orbit around every star, and located at a sufficient distance from the star to use the gravity lens. The store of information would grow with time regardless of whether the contributing alien civilizations persist or have gone extinct.

ET may wish to recruit us so that we might manufacture probes and nodes and take obligation for the maintenance of the interstellar communication system within our immediate stellar alien friends. SETI scientists now recognize with UFOers that the first alien detection plausibly could occur within our own solar system. They both also agree that if some UFO sightings are genuine sightings of aliens, then they must be of robotic AI probes rather than crafts crewed by biological beings.

June 21, 2021June 26, 2021

What’s about to be revealed in the unclassified UFO report to Congress?

Remember how UFOs used to be laughed at? The subject of conspiracy theories, the topic was part fringe, part sci-fi, with a little bit of innuendo about bodily probing thrown in for good measure. What a difference three years makes! In that time, the narrative has flipped 180 degrees, and the subject has come out of the fringe and into the mainstream. So what changed? As former PM Harold Macmillan is once reported to have said, ‘Events, dear boy, events.

Why you’ll soon be hearing a lot more serious talk about UFOs

Just over three years ago, it was revealed that the conspiracy theorists were right and that the US government really was investigating UFOs, despite the denials and debunking.

While spun as a project to probe next-generation aerospace threats, the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Investigation Program (AATIP) really did look at UFOs – or UAP as they’re known inside government: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

US Navy pilots have seen them, and military radar operators have tracked these mystery crafts performing speeds, maneuvers, and accelerations that seem to go beyond anything in our own inventory. When news began to leak of this, the US Congress demanded answers. Like the media and the public, they’d been told the government wasn’t researching UAPs, so they were outraged to find out they’d been lied to and that $22million (£16million) had, in fact,,, been spent on all this.

Classified briefings followed, and the super-secret Defense Intelligence Agency wrote to US lawmakers, explaining that AATIP had produced scientific papers covering topics such as anti-gravity, invisibility, wormholes, stargates (apparently there is such a thing), and warp drive. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s there for everyone to see in the Congressional record.

The Senate Intelligence Committee took a particular interest in this. Some of their members received classified briefings and were so concerned that they demanded a formal report. You can read the UFO report here. Their request was written into the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, and asked Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence, for an assessment of UFOs, in exactly the same way that they would ask her for an assessment of the North Korean ballistic missile program.

Her report has been written. Various Congressional committees and sub-committees have already been pre-briefed on the findings. So what’s about to be revealed.

According to leaks from senior US government administration officials who’ve seen the report’s conclusions, the study has found that there’s no definitive evidence that any of the unusual activity is extraterrestrial. But, sensationally, neither has the extraterrestrial hypothesis been ruled out. The report apparently goes on to discuss whether any of this could be attributable to secret prototype aircraft, missiles, or drones – either from the US itself or from a foreign adversary such as Russia or China. The US option has apparently been eliminated (apparently, this isn’t one part of the military blind-testing new toys against another), while Putin and Xi remain in the frame.

So, where do we go from here? Well, for a start, UFOs will never be ridiculed again. We now have military pilots, radar operators, and intelligence community personnel going on the record about this, framing this as a defense and national security issue. Former CIA directors, directors of national intelligence, and even presidents are saying this is real – whatever the true nature of the phenomenon. There’s something flying in our airspace, and we don’t know what it is. Whether we’re skeptics or believers, it’s time to find out.

Over the next few days, there’s going to be a lot of mainstream media coverage of UFOs, with people discussing the unclassified report to Congress and speculating about what’s hidden in the classified annex. One thing’s for sure: the subject of UFOs will never be the same again.