#terrestrial hypothesis

After Latest Drone Revelations from Trump Administration, This Sure Smells Like Top Secret Pentagon Research and Development Activity

Well, per this article in the Asbury Park Press today (Jan. 29, 2025), the Trump administration has revealed those mystery drones over New Jersey had been authorized by the FAA for “research and various other reasons …”

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2025/01/29/trump-drones-new-jersey-over-nj-faa/78005759007/

And do you know what this smells like to me?

Top secret Pentagon research and development involving testing and training for classified technologies.

This would explain why the FAA didn’t tell anyone the flights were authorized for research: perhaps the agency wasn’t permitted to divulge this because it was classified by the Pentagon.

Maybe that’s not what it was, but statements from the Trump administration seem to indicate that some of the flights were initially for some sort of official and authorized purpose.

Here are some of the most relevant bits from the Asbury Park Press article, bold and in brackets:

[That statement raised numerous questions about why the FAA did not tell the FBI and law enforcement officers that the flights had been authorized by them, or why the FAA did not acknowledge that they had authorized the drone flights.

“The drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by FAA for research and various other reasons … this was not the enemy,” Trump said in a written statement read by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at the first press briefing of the new administration.

There was no further explanation as to what “research and various other reasons” the FAA had authorized.

When asked why the FAA never revealed it authorized the drones to fly for research purposes, FAA spokesman Christopher Mullooly on Tuesday referred the matter to the White House for its official statement. He added for background that the FAA’s role is to ensure drones operate safely within the broader National Airspace System and said it is legal to operate drones under 400 feet while complying with all rules, including avoiding restricted airspace and other aircraft.]

So, there you have it.

Yet further evidence that the UFOs we’ve been seeing for decades stem from Pentagon R&D, not E.T.

The Late Jimmy Carter to NPR on Subject of UFOs: ‘They’re usually some experiment. You’d be surprised how often the Navy doesn’t know what the Air Force is up to, and so forth.’

Fascinating little tidbit from NPR regarding Jimmy Carter’s take on UFOs.

Here is a link to the brief article, published today, Jan. 11, 2025, and an excerpt, bold and in brackets:

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5248959/opinion-when-jimmy-carter-and-i-spoke-about-ufos

[“I have a story I can tell now about an off-the-record conversation I once had with the late Jimmy Carter, about one of the great human controversies: UFOs.

“This is totally off-the-record, I assured Mr. Carter. ‘But you were president for four years. You had access to all the national security intelligence. Could these people be right? Mr. President, is there anything we should know?’ “

… The president chuckled and replied, ‘No. But remember,’ he added, ‘a UFO is simply something we haven’t identified. There are dozens of unexplained incursions of our airspace every year. They’re usually some experiment. You’d be surprised,” he said, “how often the Navy doesn’t know what the Air Force is up to, and so forth.’

” ‘ So based on what you’ve seen,” I ventured, “you have no reason to think there’s life… out there?’ “

” ‘I don’t know that,” Mr. Carter gently corrected me. “But if there is, it has nothing to do with UFOs. If there’s some other civilization out there, I doubt they’d send big, bulky airships. They’d probably just keep watch and leave us alone.’ “]

Sounds like sage wisdom, and I offer it as further evidence supporting the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs: that is, the UFOs are top-secret Pentagon tech, not E.T.

And Re: The Navy not always being aware of what the Air Force is doing, remember the “tic tac”, where, in 2004, U.S. Navy pilots encountered a flying object exhibiting extraordinary performance characteristics over a military training range?

Just saying …

Joe Rogan Says Trump Knows ‘Something’ About UFOs … I Agree: He Knows They’re Top-Secret Pentagon Weapons

More UFO-related comments from Joe Rogan, as reported in this HuffPost article.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-rogan-trump-ufo-secrets-drone-sightings_n_676d7b4ee4b0b8149e959568

Here are some relevant bits from the article, bold and in quotes:

“When I confronted Mr. Trump [during our interview], he was very cagey, very cagey…He didn’t tell me shit,” Rogan said Tuesday. “It was basically like neither confirm nor deny.”

“I think he knows something, I [just] don’t think he’s interested,” the former “Fear Factor” host added.

Yeah, I agree, and I thank Joe Rogan for keeping the subject alive. If anyone knows the value of protecting trade secrets, it’s Trump.

But I don’t think he’s keeping UFO secrets because of anything having to do with space aliens. I think he’s keeping secrets about UFOs because he knows that they are top-secret Pentagon weapons.

I guess a central problem is that the people traditionally driving the whole UFO bus have always been those who are convinced that it’s E.T. … Spielberg, Leslie Kean, a whole slew of “ufologists” … there has never been a diversity of thought on this subject.

The national conversation has always been dominated by the E.T. hypothesis. It has never been centered on the terrestrial hypothesis — the idea that the UFOs have been top-secret U.S. tech going all the way back to Kenneth Arnold’s seminal encounter in 1947.

For whatever reason, people can’t accept that concept. But they’re just fine with E.T. traveling trillions of miles from another solar system only to forget how to land, crashing in the desert, or for some godforsaken reason hanging out over U.S. military training ranges and the like.

The point is, people are either fully ensconced in the E.T. hypothesis, or they just dismiss the entire subject as nonsense. There is no middle ground.

Then, you have what appears to be state-sponsored disinformation: former military officials writing books about their alleged first-hand encounters with E.T., etc.

Of course, these claims can never be verified, and that’s the genius of it. It’s always: Well, I could tell you more, but that’s classified.

But then why say anything at all, if you were so concerned about revealing classified information? Why say anything?  It makes no sense.

Also, regarding the whole New Jersey drone flap: If there’s anything to it at all, chances are it has something to do with the Pentagon.

Just like all UFO flaps of yore, the sightings will suddenly stop and we’ll never receive any definitive information from the government. People will joke about it, forget about it, and that will be the end of it.

Perhaps it was some sort of military exercise and officials have gathered all the data they need. Meanwhile, people started seeing all sorts of things in the sky that had nothing to do with the initial exercise: planes, hobbyist drones, balloons, etc., etc., which is typical of past UFO flaps. This confuses the media, and journalists invariably pay more attention to these false reports than the hundred or so sightings that actually had some merit.

Is this by design?

Anyway, maybe it was nothing at all. But either way we’ll never know, and that’s how it always is.

So, I agree with Joe Rogan: Trump knows something.

But, no, it’s not space aliens.

Is Elizondo’s New UFO Book Just Another Example of Government Disinformation Designed to Confuse People, and Journalists?

So, I’ve been relishing all the mainstream media coverage of Luis Elizondo’s new memoir, where he penned some really over-the-top revelations and allegedly spills the beans on all sorts of UFO secrets.

A New York Times review actively promotes the book for what its authors see as a credible and sincere account by Mr. Elizondo, and maybe it is. I would not presume to know with certainty. Anyway, here is a link to that review: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/books/booksupdate/imminent-luiz-elizondo.html

However, alternatively, I wonder if his new book is just the latest example of government disinformation, 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, let’s do whatever one does to relax, sit back and venture off into unfamiliar territory when it comes to UFOs. Let’s call this territory 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 technologies and have mistaken these systems for extraterrestrial visitation.

Here are some excerpts from the AARO report:

• 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 extraterrestrial activity. 

• 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.]

2) Back to the terrestrial hypothesis, secondly, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation effort to make people think the UFOs are E.T. 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, including journalists, so that they won’t start to wonder whether it’s been the Pentagon all along that’s been flying these things.

Hey, I get it, people want to believe! I used to be there, but after many years of looking at all the available information I have found no compelling evidence that space aliens are responsible for UFOs.

The only thing that is clear is that something is there. The UFOs do exist. So, I would propose that instead of jumping automatically to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, we first fully entertain and explore the terrestrial hypothesis. So, for example, the “Tic Tac” object encountered in 2004 by Navy pilots over a U.S. military training range, is, in fact, a U.S. military platform. That’s why it was observed there. Furthermore, the fact that this encounter took place over a training range, as opposed to a test range, would suggest that it was not an “experimental aircraft,” but an operational platform. I would also propose that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret platforms, entirely unknown to the public and developed over the past seven decades or so, thanks to a burgeoning “black budget” that keeps these programs hidden from Congress.

Logically, then, this 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 with a “need to know.” 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 Tacs, etc., etc.

Moreover, the performance characteristics of these objects were such that there is one overarching likelihood suggested by this historical record of sightings: The U.S. military has developed exotic and highly unconventional propulsion systems that it has hidden from the public all these years.

As to why the Pentagon would sometimes be flying 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 military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This excellent article in The War Zone documents one such exercise over Los Angeles: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38753/those-mysterious-gray-helicopters-were-landing-on-multiple-downtown-la-rooftops-last-night

Anyway, the 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?

And if all of this sounds too crazy, is it any stranger than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, only to crash land or inexplicably hang out over U.S. military facilities?