Reading this article from CBS News about the most recent UFO report from the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the cynic in me says something isn’t quite right here.
Interesting comments from Ryan Graves. He notes that, although AARO showed the UFO in the “GOFAST” video wasn’t going fast, they never explained what the heck it was. Hmmm …
And, regarding those 21 still-unsolved cases in the report, the AARO director, a brainiac physicist and engineer, says he’s stumped.
Maybe the reason he is stumped is because these are all top-secret Pentagon weapons and AARO doesn’t have a need to know. Even if Dr. Kosloski did know, he wouldn’t be permitted to divulge this because people go to prison for revealing top-secret U.S. weapons to the world at large.
Just saying.
What if the UFOs are all ultra-classified U.S. weapons? No government agency including AARO would be able to reveal this, so isn’t it a bit ridiculous to expect them to?
Here is the nut graph from the Post article: “The tech mogul claims that the government is likely regularly testing out ‘new aircraft, new missiles, and things’ that are classified at such a high level that even those high up in the chain of command in the US military may not be aware (they) are being tested.”
It also seems like he’s onto something with this observation, as reported in the New York Post article: “He argued that the government would villainize aliens if it knew of their existence to easily green-light military spending.”
Anyway, what this all means is that it’s high time that we started to seriously entertain the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, and it goes something like this:
1) The UFOs are not extraterrestrial, and they have never been. Instead, the Pentagon has made a series of astonishing technological breakthroughs in propulsion going all the way back to the first important UFO sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947. These technologies are so unconventional they could easily be mistaken for something from another planet.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has alluded to this possibility in his writings and statements. He and AARO’s official UFO report, which reviews sightings and encounters since 1945, have unequivocally stated that witnesses, including members of the military, have unwittingly observed top-secret U.S. weapons and have mistaken these systems for extraterrestrial visitation.
Logically, then, the terrestrial hypothesis would suggest that a whole bizarre inventory of encounters involving U.S. military personnel and civilians alike have always been top-secret Pentagon technologies known only to a small circle of people with the appropriate clearances. Everything from those UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems back in the 1960s, to the huge triangular thing observed over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the “Phoenix lights” in 1997, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois in 2000, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the “Tic Tac” encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004, etc.
Moreover, the performance characteristics of these objects were such that there is one overarching likelihood suggested by this historical record of sightings: The Pentagon has developed exotic and highly unconventional propulsion systems that it has hidden from the public all these years.
This terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs leads to many follow-up questions and concerns, chief among them: Is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force that is far more capable than either of those entities? If so, how far have we gone? Do we have military bases in deep space? Are any of these top-secret platforms nuclear-powered?
Meanwhile, it certainly appears that there has been a disinformation effort to confuse people, and the media, about the whole subject of UFOs — various tales by former military personnel who claim to have encountered extraterrestrials. It’s a legacy that in my opinion goes back many years and includes The Day After Roswell, published in 1997.
(If you are interested, please read my review of The Day After Roswell, which I regard as a masterpiece of disinformation, here, https://emilvenere.com/files/138490884.pdf)
So, I would argue that you have opposing forces working against each other. You have AARO conducting legitimate investigations into UFOs, but then you have other elements, some of them possibly even within government, working to promote disinformation, contradicting AARO.
Why? Because as soon as you entangle the entire subject within the intellectual morass of space aliens you relegate the whole story to the fringe. Books and other media are carefully designed to confuse people, especially journalists, so that they’ll dismiss the whole business of UFOs as nonsense and won’t start to wonder whether it’s been the Pentagon all along that’s been flying these things.
This snippet from The Hill article is most relevant, in brackets and bolded:
[Following a classified briefing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), more commonly known as UFOs, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) suggested Wednesday that the U.S. government may be intentionally concealing information on these objects from the American public.
“I think there’s a cover up,” Burchett told Blake Burman on NewsNation’s “The Hill.”]
I wholeheartedly agree with Rep. Burchett: There is a HUGE coverup.
However, it has absolutely nothing to do with E.T. and everything to do with Pentagon secrecy about propulsion breakthroughs going back decades. All the evidence I’ve seen strongly suggests the UFOs are top-secret U.S. weapons, particularly the most sensational ones like the Tic Tac encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 over a U.S. military training range.
The Pentagon’s recent UFO report pretty much confirms as much, explicitly spelling out that UFO witnesses have unwittingly observed top-secret weapons and that they misidentified these technologies as extraterrestrial. The report also makes clear that public discussion of these programs would seriously damage national security.
Here are some excerpts from the UFO report that demonstrate these facts, bulleted, bolded and in brackets:
[• AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before-seen experimental and operational space, rocket, and air systems, including stealth technologies and the proliferation of drone platforms.
• AARO concludes many of these programs represent authentic, current and former sensitive, national security programs, but none of these programs have been involved with capturing, recovering, or reverse-engineering off-world technology or material.
• In many cases, the interviewees named authentic USG (U.S. government) classified programs well-known and understood to those appropriately accessed to them in the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch; however, the interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with alien and extraterrestrialactivity.
• AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic, highly-sensitive national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation
• The interviewees and others who have mistakenly associated authentic sensitive national security programs with UAP had incomplete or unauthorized access to these programs; discussion of these programs outside of secure facilities presents a high risk of exposing national security information.]
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has also reinforced these assertions in two opinion pieces published in Scientific American.
[There also is the possibility that some observed and reported phenomena are associated with past or ongoing national security programs completely unrelated to extraterrestrials. Unfortunately, some who have been peripherally involved in these programs are taking advantage of the lack of understanding of security compartmentalization among the public—and some members of Congress—and feel that exposure of national security activities is a public right.
The harm of such exposure would be incalculable: billions of dollars and decades invested in military capabilities exposed to our potential adversaries to satisfy ill-informed curiosity. While some staffers and members of Congress may claim that they and the American people have a right to know of every classified research program, Congress already has an established process for notification of sensitive programs to the bipartisan leadership of both the Senate and House as well as the chairs and ranking minority members of the Senate and House intelligence committees, often referred to as the Gang of Eight. It is incumbent on both the speaker of the House, the Senate majority leader and both chairs of the intelligence committees to ensure that there is no risk of exposing any national security programs in a rush to find extraterrestrials, and that documents are reviewed within appropriate channels. If these members of Congress deem it appropriate not to share classified information, they are doing their job. These are not town hall topics.]
It’s worth noting that there is plenty of precedent for quantum leaps in military technology going all the way back to the ancient Sumerians and Greeks, astonishing breakthroughs held in extreme secrecy for decades.
There is, however, NO precedent for E.T. visitation.
I would argue that when you consider the historical pattern of UFO encounters beginning in 1947 that the U.S. has had some form of electric or electromagnetic field propulsion technology either in development or in operation since then. If this is true, then these systems have evolved entirely within the Pentagon’s “black budget,” keeping them hidden from the public.
I would further propose that if this is true, then it is the most profound military conspiracy in history, far surpassing everything from the Trojan Horse to the Manhattan Project. A secret of such magnitude that if revealed would have huge implications not only for the world economy but for the very trajectory of human civilization.
So, I would submit that if you remove E.T. visitation from the equation, the only logical explanation is that the Pentagon has very likely developed a series of propulsion breakthroughs that have been responsible for, but not limited to:
• Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947
• The UFOs over Washington, D.C., in 1952
• The UFO that crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1965
• The giant triangular UFO seen over the Hudson Valley and Belgium in the 1980s
• The giant triangular object over Phoenix, Arizona, in 1997
• The similarly giant triangular or delta-shape object observed over southern Illinois in 2000
• The Tic Tac-shape object encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004
• The disc-shape object observed over Chicago O’Hare International Airport in 2006
As to why the Pentagon would be operating these weapons over populated areas, perhaps it’s real-world training, a “living lab” to perfect tactics and to study how well they perform against state-of-the-art, white-world technologies like F-16s. There have been examples of mysterious military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This excellent article in The War Zone documents one such exercise over Los Angeles (https://www.twz.com/38753/those-mysterious-gray-helicopters-were-landing-on-multiple-downtown-la-rooftops-last-night).
So, if this terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs is correct and the Pentagon has made a series of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs – something akin to antigravity – then this raises a whole host of follow-up concerns and questions. For example, do we have a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force? If so, do we have military bases in deep space?
Thanks to Rep. Burchett and his colleagues for pursuing this matter. Thanks to The Hill for covering the briefing.
After reading the Pentagon’s big Volume 1 UFO report, there can be only one logical conclusion: You have to take E.T. out of the equation.
Not only did the report conclusively demonstrate that there is no evidence for extraterrestrial visitation, it also specifically highlighted that in many cases witnesses are misidentifying top-secret programs known only to a small group of people. The report also makes clear that public discussion of these programs would seriously damage national security.
Here are some excerpts from the report that demonstrate these facts:
• AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before-seen experimental and operational space, rocket, and air systems, including stealth technologies and the proliferation of drone platforms.
• AARO concludes many of these programs represent authentic, current and former sensitive, national security programs, but none of these programs have been involved with capturing, recovering, or reverse-engineering off-world technology or material.
• In many cases, the interviewees named authentic USG (U.S. government) classified programs well-known and understood to those appropriately accessed to them in the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch; however, the interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with alien and extraterrestrialactivity.
• AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic, highly-sensitive national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation
• The interviewees and others who have mistakenly associated authentic sensitive national security programs with UAP had incomplete or unauthorized access to these programs; discussion of these programs outside of secure facilities presents a high risk of exposing national security information.
So, I would submit to you that after removed E.T. visitation from the equation, the only logical explanation is that the Pentagon has very likely developed a series of propulsion breakthroughs that have been responsible for, but not limited to:
• Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947
• The UFOs over Washington, D.C., in 1952
• The UFO that crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1965
• The giant triangular UFO seen over the Hudson Valley and Belgium in the 1980s
• The giant triangular object over Phoenix, Arizona, in 1997
• The similarly giant triangular or delta-shape object observed over southern Illinois in 2000
• The Tic Tac-shape object encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004
• The disc-shape object observed over Chicago O’Hare International Airport in 2006
I’m sure that I missed a few because there have been so many, but those are the examples that immediately come to mind.
I would further propose that if this is true, then it is the most profound military conspiracy in history, far surpassing everything from the Trojan Horse to the Manhattan Project. A secret of such magnitude that if revealed would have huge implications not only for the world economy but for the very trajectory of human civilization.
I find it very interesting that the Pentagon and former AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick have confirmed that many of the UFO sightings have been misidentified “highly-sensitive” U.S. military programs, yet no one seems to be asking what these programs are.
That seems like a no-brainer.
What are these programs, which are so unconventional that witnesses have mistaken them for alien technology?
Here’s an interesting development in the UFO story: Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick has told podcaster Peter Bergen the UFOs are not extraterrestrial, but top-secret U.S. weapons and new types of spherical drones that could be foreign.
Here are two articles about the interview, one published by a media company called Futurism, and the other in the Daily Mail newspaper.
I found these comments (bolded and in brackets) in the Futurism article to be especially relevant:
[“There [are] a lot of observations of real, advanced US programs,” Sean Kirkpatrick, the now-former director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), told CNN’s Peter Bergen in a new podcast interview. “But none of that is extraterrestrial in nature.”
As Kirkpatrick put it during his appearance on Bergen’s Audible podcast “In The Room,” lots of the initially unidentified crafts folks have historically spotted, from Roswell to those weird Chinese spy balloons, were the result of various secret military, intelligence, or even commercial projects.
“There are a number of advanced technologies that are being commercialized that people don’t recognize,” the veteran Defense Department official, who retired from government service in December, told Bergen.
There’s long been speculation — and some official confirmation — that there are military explanations for UFO sightings, and Kirkpatrick’s recent interviews after leaving the AARO and Pentagon have all but confirmed those suspicions. In his discussion with Bergen, he even explained the dynamics of some of the stranger sightings he’s aware of.
“There’s a large number of people, pilots, and others, who you know, have said, ‘Hey, I saw this giant sphere. It had a cube in it, I don’t understand it, it must be an alien.’ Well, actually, no,” Kirkpatrick said. “The next generation of drones that are being built are spherical drones.”]
Bergen is the host of the Audible podcast “In the Room” and a CNN national security analyst.
So, there you have it. The UFOs are still NOT E.T.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of AARO, lays it all out, revealing that sensational claims of E.T. UFOs are all hot air driven by a small group of enthusiasts with an agenda.
Also, interesting that he mentions some UFO reports stem from confusion over legitimate government R&D.
So, let’s see the report AARO is preparing for release to the public and Congress. It has the compelling title of Historical Record Report Volume 1.
Thank you, Dr. Kirkpatrick, for providing a much-needed voice of sanity in the roiling sea of malarkey about UFOs.
Let’s see how certain media keen on promoting E.T. fantasies will treat this moment of truth. Will they acknowledge that tales of extraterrestrials are likely all just nonsense? Or will they continue down the ridiculous rabbit holes of conspiracy theories and E.T. fever dreams, hoping for more clicks and the revenue they bring?
Ok, so I found this analysis to be nothing short of revelatory. It was prepared by an organization called Bellingcat, which describes itself as an “independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists …”
Using geolocation and mathematics, specialists at Bellingcat clearly show that the orb UFO observed by a U.S. military drone over the Middle East in 2022 is probably just a party balloon measuring a maximum of .43 meters, or 1.4 feet. The illusion of motion and speed is also clearly explained away by a phenomenon called parallax, the analysis concludes.
Yet, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, an official at the U.S. Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), claimed during a congressional hearing that AARO has been unable to identify the object. He makes other statements suggesting similar orb-shaped UFOs could be truly mysterious, saying they are capable of “very interesting apparent maneuvers …”
Pardon my cynicism, but I find it very hard to believe that Dr. Kirkpatrick doesn’t know this thing was a balloon. Anyway, hopefully the AARO will soon weigh in on all this, but it sure seems like an important issue to address. Also, in a related matter, what ever happened to the Eglin Air Force Base orb? Was that also just a balloon, and is AARO going to issue a report about that encounter, along with the photo that was taken by the pilot and seen by a U.S. representative?
Alright, so, there’s been a dearth of coverage about this apparently significant UFO event, an encounter over the Gulf of Mexico with an aircraft from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida sometime earlier this year. As I say, coverage has been sparse, and there has been virtually nothing in the big media. Here is an article posted recently by a publication called Liberation Times.
Actually, we don’t even have a date for this encounter. All we know is that it occurred “several months” before news of the encounter spilled out during a congressional hearing on UFOs in July 2023.
As I say, there has been almost NO coverage of this encounter, but according to Rep. Matt Gaetz, who received a classified briefing on it, a U.S. Air Force pilot saw a diamond-shape formation of UFOs over the Gulf of Mexico. The plane’s radar and camera systems failed as it approached the formation, but the pilot still managed to take a photo.
Gaetz, who evidently viewed this photo, described the object as an otherworldly “orb.”
Anyway, the most recent development, according to Liberation Times, is that the Department of Defense has acknowledged that an official report was filed with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and that AARO could release the report after it is approved.
So, we’ve heard a lot about the Pentagon’s newfound UFO “transparency” … let’s see if it proves true. Let’s see if AARO issues the report, complete with the photo the pilot took of this orb thing.
However, I wouldn’t get my hopes up, considering the long legacy of Pentagon UFO obfuscation.
What I would expect, based on this legacy, is that officials will take months to approve the report, knowing that people generally lose interest over time. Then, they will issue a heavily redacted thing, omitting the photo due to “national security” concerns.
I hope to be proven wrong. I really do! Maybe there will be a full report and the entire thing turns out to be something completely mundane – a balloon – and the malfunctioning sensors are totally explained as just an ordinary technological glitch.
Meanwhile, in other UFO news, Rep. Tim Burchett noted that NASA officials told the House Oversight Committee that the space agency’s UFO investigations wouldn’t deal at all with classified information. His comments are included in this Newsweek article – as I say, none of the big media are covering this stuff.
I found this segment (bolded font) from the Newsweek article to be particularly enlightening:
“My colleague [Alabama Representative] Gary Palmer asked about classified stuff at NASA, and they said, ‘We don’t have anything classified,'” Burchett said regarding the meeting.
According to the congressman’s video, when pressed further about the issue of classified information, the representatives from NASA gave a “very elusive” response.
“And so, what I think they’ve done is, they sent these two folks in here, like the Pentagon did, that have very little knowledge of the issue,” Burchett continued. “So they can say they can hold up their hand before Congress and swear that they know nothing about the issue, and it doesn’t exist.”
Burchett said that he also pressed the NASA representatives about the testimonies that came out during July’s hearing, as well as videos of UAP that have been declassified and shared with the public.
“So anyway, didn’t get a lot from that, and I’m a little disappointed,” the congressman concluded.
“We’re probably going to have to get some more people from the Pentagon in there to tell us what exactly is going on.”
“I just want the truth,” he added. “Give me the facts.”
In my opinion, since NASA UFO investigations won’t deal with classified information, we won’t learn anything of great substance from the agency on the subject. This is because all of the most sensational encounters, such as the infamous Tic Tac in 2004, likely involve top-secret U.S. military platforms, not E.T.
While I admire members of Congress for their dogged pursuit of the truth, I question their unflinching allegiance to the ET hypothesis (i.e., it’s space aliens). I think the reason the Pentagon isn’t telling the truth about UFOs is because it simply cannot tell the truth about UFOs without revealing the existence of top-secret weapons.
So, yeah, there’s definitely a big UFO coverup, but it has nothing to do with space aliens and everything to do with propulsion breakthroughs at the Pentagon over the past seven decades, advances that have been entirely shrouded from Congress because they are funded through the Defense Department’s “black budget.” I propose that there has been a quantum leap in propulsion technology, conjured up entirely by Homo sapiens, the same species that has brought us nukes, microchips, lasers, microwave ovens, skyscrapers, the Mona Lisa, etc., etc., … no assist from space aliens needed!
So, we might call this supposition the terrestrial hypothesis, which presumes that none of the UFOs is extraterrestrial and that the entire space-alien hypothesis is just a myth fed by popular culture and the Pentagon’s disinformation apparatus.
But, hey, I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already considered at great length, sometimes over intoxicants and amid heated discussion, sometimes quietly and stone cold sober during those solitary pre-dawn hours of darkness.
It must have been very sophisticated and persistent disinformation, likely with fake documents, data, etc.
So, why go to such lengths?
The main reason to issue disinformation is to hide something. I think, at this point, it should be fairly obvious what that something is. The Pentagon is trying to hide the fact that it has made a series of unprecedented propulsion breakthroughs over the decades.
These vehicles spotted by U.S. Navy pilots are, in fact, top secret U.S. weapons, unknown to practically all other members of the military, Congress and the executive branch. They aren’t being tested. They are beyond the test phase. U.S. pilots are training with these vehicles. That is why they are seen over training ranges.
A secret so profound, a conspiracy so long-lived and pernicious, that it must be kept hidden at all costs.
I would submit to you that your own organization is actively suppressing investigations into UFOs because learning the truth would mean exposing these top-secret assets.
But, hey, I’m not telling you anything that you haven’t already seriously considered. It’s all in Flying Saucers!
The Pentagon says it has no concrete evidence of ET.
But then it goes on to suggest some of these high-performance objects could be from our geopolitical adversaries.
Of course, the media ate it all up. However, there is one really obvious possibility everyone seems to be overlooking: that the most sensational UFOs are from right here, super-secret hardware developed and tested by the U.S. military. A bona fide propulsion breakthrough so advanced no one would even consider that it could have been developed by the U.S. military.
Hypothetically, these could be so secret that only an ultra-small, highly compartmentalized group of people would have a “need to know.” This means even the military pilots having encounters with these objects do not know what they are.
And since when did the media start just accepting what they were told by the Pentagon? When did this absurd naivete begin?
What was it the late, great Baltimore Sun columnist Jack Germond famously said? “If your mother says she loves you, you better check it out.”
But, hey, I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already pondered. It’s all in Flying Saucers!
Emil Venere 