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Pentagon’s UFO Report Finds No Aliens, Official Says Some Witnesses Have ‘Mistaken’ Classified U.S. Military Programs

The Pentagon issued a big smackdown to alien watchers, reinforcing what I’ve been saying all along: Some of the UFOs are misidentified top-secret U.S. military programs. This article in the Washington Post covers it nicely.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/08/no-ufo-aliens-pentagon-report

Here is my biggest takeaway from the Post article:

[“A consistent theme in popular culture involves a particularly persistent narrative that the [U.S. government] — or a secretive organization within it — recovered several off-world spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains … and that it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public,” the report stated.

Government personnel are some of the most ardent believers in that idea. The investigators interviewed about 30 people, including some who had worked on official UAP research programs, “who claimed to have insight into alleged [U.S. government] involvement in off-world technology exploitation,” the report said. In some cases, they had stumbled upon actual, highly classified programs that had nothing to do with aliens.

“Many have sincerely misinterpreted real events or mistaken sensitive U.S. programs for which they were not cleared as having been related to UAP or extraterrestrial exploitation,” Tim Phillips, the AARO acting director, told reporters.]

Well, there you have it. Yet more evidence that the UFOs are not only NOT extraterrestrial, but in some cases are misidentified top-secret U.S. weapons.

Sean Kirkpatrick, in his second UFO Op/Ed in Scientific American, pretty much just confirmed that many UFOs are top-secret Pentagon programs that must remain off limits to the public

In his most recent opinion piece in Scientific American, Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), just pretty much confirmed that many UFOs are top-secret Pentagon programs that must remain hidden from the public. He also admonishes members of Congress to avoid the disclosure of secret military programs in the face of public pressure for greater UFO transparency, warning, “These are not town hall topics.”

Here is an excerpt from the Op/Ed, bold and in brackets, to support this idea, and also here is a link to the Op/Ed: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-investigate-ufos-but-without-the-distraction-of-conspiracy/

[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.]

Well, there you have it.

I certainly don’t fault Dr. Kirkpatrick for his commitment to absolute secrecy when it comes to classified programs. After all, he worked for the Pentagon. And, by the way, maybe this explains why a recent seemingly significant UFO encounter involving a pilot from Eglin Air Force Base was not reported to AARO and why official reports have been heavily redacted. Maybe it was one of ours.

In fact, I would argue that the most sensational encounters, think the 2004 Tic Tac, are actually not E.T. at all, but secret U.S. military weapons. Therefore, since AARO is unable to reveal this truth, the office is, ultimately, incapable of truly investigating UFOs.

We need an entirely independent organization, separated from the constraints of federal government, or we’re never going to understand what’s happening. And we need an organization that isn’t fully ensconced in the E.T. hypothesis (that is, the UFOs are extraterrestrial). An organization that’s at least open to the idea that the UFOs aren’t E.T. That the kinds of performance characteristics we’re seeing in UFOs are due to a series of propulsion breakthroughs going all the way back to the immediate postwar period. Developments that have been kept hidden from the public for more than 70 years, conceived, developed, perfected and executed totally by human scientists and engineers. The same species that has brought us similar quantum leaps over the centuries, astonishing advances ranging from nuclear weapons and lasers to microchips and medical imaging.

Let’s call this the terrestrial hypothesis. No assist from space aliens needed!

Object in Eglin Air Force Base Pilot’s UFO Encounter Seems Similar to Classic Kecksburg UFO

Ok, so thanks to The War Zone for this excellent coverage of a strange-but-true UFO encounter involving a pilot from Eglin Air Force Base in January 2023.

https://www.twz.com/air/air-force-pilots-bizarre-encounter-with-capsule-like-craft-off-florida-declassified

I particularly found it interesting that the object has the shape of a capsule, which seems similar to the UFO that crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1965. Although, this object appears to have been much larger than the Kecksburg UFO.

As is typical, the Pentagon is withholding so much information about this encounter, leaving MANY unanswered questions.

It’s very curious that the bottom of the craft glowed orange and optically distorted the air around it. Might these effects be caused by a field-propulsion system that creates a plasma of ionized air as a byproduct? And the Air Force jet’s radar system threw a circuit breaker, causing it to shut off. Could this indicate a large degree of electromagnetic energy generated by the UFO’s propulsion technology?

The War Zone points out that Eglin Air Force Base is a major test-and-evaluation hub. So, might the Air Force be testing these platforms?

It’s also very telling that the pilot recorded a photo and video, but both are being withheld from the public, and the official reports were nearly entirely redacted because of national security concerns. Might this be simply because this object is a top-secret U.S. weapon, and photos and videos might hold clues to its mode of propulsion and other classified details that a vague sketch would not?

Also, the War Zone points out that the event was apparently not reported to the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), created by Congress specifically to investigate such UFO encounters.

Why not?

Anyway, I’ve always thought the Kecksburg event was a military accident and that perhaps the craft was an experimental platform that overshot its intended landing site, most likely at a nearby military base.

Many thanks to Abbas Michael Dharamsey, an independent researcher who obtained the information through the Freedom of Information Act, and John Greenwald, who posted the information on the Black Vault. What would we do without these people? They are valiantly trying to fill a giant void left by the mainstream media, which have enormous resources and people power for enterprise journalism, and yet are largely neglecting the entire subject of UFOs.

Rare Science-Based University Study on UFOs Finds Correlation to U.S. Military Bases

I found this University of Utah UFO study to be very interesting. A research paper about the study was published in the journal Scientific Reports on Dec. 14, 2023.

The West is best to spot UFOs

(A pdf of the study can be downloaded at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-49527-x.)

The research paper was authored by Richard M. Medina, Simon C. Brewer, both associate professors in the Geography Department, and Sean Kirkpatrick, former director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

 Here are my takeaways:

  1. People are seeing real objects because sightings are most prevalent where the sky is clearest and most unobstructed, in the Western United States and areas of the extreme Northeast (Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine).
  2. The sightings are primarily not the result of rare natural phenomena and optical illusions caused by the interplay of light and clouds.
  3. There is a correlation between UFO sightings over the past two decades and the location of U.S. military bases, suggesting many of the sightings could be the result of misidentified military aviation activity.

Here are some key findings from the research paper:

  1. “The highly credible relationships with air traffic and with military activity suggest that people are seeing, but not recognizing, things that are human made. As an example, a hot air balloon seen from a far enough distance can look unexplainable, especially if it is seen by someone who has not seen one before. Drones, which we did not test specifically for, can seem to fly erratically in areas where people aren’t used to seeing things moving in the sky.“
  2. “It is unlikely that events, such as ball lightning, seismic based lights, insects, or other natural occurrences are responsible for more than a small portion of these reports, as they are rare events themselves.”
  3. “We initially expected cloud cover to be credibly related to reports, as clouds can cause light to scatter and by doing so, obscure reflective or illuminated things that are moving within or above them and create patterns that some might consider unexplained. However, that was not the case.”

Well, there you have it, more evidence that UFOs are not extraterrestrial.

Many thanks to Professors Medina and Brewer and Dr. Kirkpatrick for this insightful study!

Pentagon’s Former Top UFO Hunter Confirms to Scientific American that Many Sightings Represent U.S. Tech ‘Edge’ Over Adversaries, and We Should ‘Take Some Comfort in That.’

There are some nuggets of news in this interesting interview in Scientific American with the Pentagon’s former top UFO hunter, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-governments-former-ufo-hunter-has-a-lot-to-say

My main takeaway is that Dr. Kirkpatrick confirmed, again, that many UFO sightings, even those by experienced military aviators, are not encounters with space aliens at all, but top-secret U.S. military tech. He also says these objects likely represent a technological “edge” over our adversaries.

Here are some of his key comments, in exchanges with journalist Dan Vergano, in brackets and bolded:

[Vergano: It’s fair to say that you had access to all the classified world that people have pointed to before as hiding some sort of program like this in the past, and you looked there, and you found no evidence of this story that the government has somehow been sitting on aliens for the last 60-plus years.

Kirkpatrick: That’s right. So everything that people have pointed to, we went and investigated and found no evidence to support that. Again, a lot of these things are real R&D or real state-of- the-art programs, not extraterrestrial, but it is completely understandable why someone who did not know that would draw that conclusion.

Vergano: You know, there’s been a lot of concern that excessive classification is playing a role here, that people can’t even knock down these claims. Is that a fair complaint, or how would you describe that? Like, you can’t tell somebody that they didn’t see something they’re not to see because you’re not allowed to talk about it. Has that been a factor here?

Kirkpatrick: Uh, in some instances, yes, obviously, because if somebody inadvertently got access to something or had unauthorized access to something, you can’t go and explain to them everything about it. And so that’s where you get into another issue of who actually has access to that information on the Hill. Most people don’t understand [that] congressional members don’t all get access to everything.

Vergano: Is there anything you’d say to the more general reader, like, who thinks, “Okay, well, people aren’t talking about UFOs—the government must know something,” I mean, like, who maybe are maybe more amenable to, like, a reasonable argument?

Kirkpatrick: Well, what I would say is that the government spends a lot of time and effort developing advanced technology for a variety of reasons. Some of this is just people having observed things or seen things or got access to things that they shouldn’t have—that they don’t understand. And just because they don’t understand it, they seem to leap to “it must be extraterrestrial,” as opposed to, well, it could just be maybe the United States has an edge. So I would take some comfort in that.]

So, there you have it, further confirmation that many UFOs are top-secret U.S. weapons.

But doesn’t this inject a dose of irony into the whole UFO conversation, since the government’s own UFO investigations have inadvertently revealed the existence of top-secret U.S. platforms?

I also feel that we are dancing around the eight-hundred-pound gorilla in the room: the flying “Tic Tac”  encountered by U.S. military pilots, which seemingly defied the laws of physics. This encounter was in 2004, so I think we can rule out that it was our adversaries. We would surely have known by now that China or Russia had made this kind of quantum leap in propulsion technology.

Therefore, if it’s not E.T., and it’s not our adversaries, that means the U.S. military has made a quantum leap in propulsion technology.

This seems kind of important … just saying …

CNN Commentary and Peter Bergen Podcast About UFOs Highlight Ironic Truth: The Government’s Own Investigations Have Unwittingly Revealed Existence of Top-Secret U.S. Aircraft

So, there’s been a fair amount of media coverage of Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s rather astonishing interview with podcaster and CNN national security maven Peter Bergen.

Here is a link to CNN’s commentary about the podcast.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/opinions/ufos-actual-truth-bergen-german/index.html

The authors conclude that their main takeaway is that the ongoing UFO saga in this country has been perpetuated by a small group of fanatics who ignore rational explanations. Fair enough, but perhaps a more important takeaway is that the UFO investigations undertaken by the government have unwittingly revealed the existence of top-secret U.S. aircraft.

Here is a bit of the CNN commentary, bolded and in brackets, that supports this crazy idea:

[Since the term “flying saucer” was first coined, much of the conspiratorial thinking about UFOs has been spawned by people catching glimpses of highly secret US aircraft and wanting answers. And when the government doesn’t provide answers, the public imagination takes over.

But, in fact, Kirkpatrick says, his investigation found that most UFO sightings are of advanced technology that the US government needs to keep secret, of aircraft that rival nations are using to spy on the US or of benign civilian drones and balloons.

Kirkpatrick says his office dug deep into the Roswell incident and found that in the late 1940s and early 1950s, there were a lot of things happening near the Roswell Airfield. There was a spy program called Project Mogul, which launched long strings of oddly shaped metallic balloons. They were designed to monitor Soviet nuclear tests and were highly secret.

At the same time, the US military was conducting tests with other high-altitude balloons that carried human test dummies rigged with sensors and zipped into body-sized bags for protection against the elements. And there was at least one military plane crash nearby with 11 fatalities.

Echoing earlier government investigations, Kirkpatrick and his team concluded that the crashed Mogul balloons, the recovery operations to retrieve downed test dummies and glimpses of the charred aftermath of that real plane crash likely combined into a single false narrative about a crashed alien spacecraft.

Kirkpatrick also lays out a convincing case that something similar is happening today. He says new technology taking flight now could help explain a lot of the modern era of UFO sightings from the early 2000s on. It’s not just secret government technology, either. Lots of observers get flummoxed when they catch sight of cutting-edge drones and even odd-looking balloons.]

So, yes, Dr. Kirkpatrick points out the specious nature of UFO tall tales, and this is crucial.

However, in reviewing the various high-profile UFO sightings and encounters over the years, it also becomes obvious that just because the UFOs aren’t extraterrestrial, that doesn’t mean there isn’t something else going on here. That “something” is top-secret U.S. weapons and programs, which, at least in some cases, strongly suggest the existence of advanced propulsion systems capable of incredible performance.

Maybe this revelation is almost as significant as the discovery of extraterrestrials. After all, we may already possess the means to travel to E.T.’s neighborhood. Moreover, this quantum leap in transportation technology, if it does exist, is apparently unknown to Congress and even the executive branch of government, meaning its development and deployment are entirely without oversight.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick tells Peter Bergen those UFOs are not E.T., but spherical drones and top-secret U.S. military platforms

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.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-alien-hunter-ufos-military

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12992321/UFOs-ex-CIA-scientist-dubbed-Dr-Evil-Pentagon-AARO-cube-sphere-UFO-drone.html

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.

U.S. Government’s Top UFO Researcher, Former AARO Director Dr. Kirkpatrick, Pens Revealing Commentary in Scientific American: The UFOs have nothing to do with E.T.

Well, well, well … finally, a dose of sorely needed clarity regarding the whole UFO calamity in this country.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/

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?

After New UFO Briefing, Some Members of Congress Say Pentagon, Intelligence Community are Withholding Information

This NewsNation account of today’s UFO briefing for members of Congress (Jan. 12, 2024) pretty much sums up the whole dilemma: The Pentagon and intelligence community are not telling Congress the truth about UFOs.

House committee receives classified UAP briefing

You know my opinion: It has nothing to do with extraterrestrials and everything to do with top-secret U.S. military hardware, and Congress simply lacks a “need to know.”

So, the Pentagon can’t admit that it’s made a series of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs over the years because then the secret weapons would no longer be, well, secret.

Meanwhile, David Grusch and others are being fed some industrial-strength disinformation designed to muddy the waters, confuse the herd, make us all think that it just might be E.T.

Anyway, here are some key comments from members of Congress:

“I’m more concerned than I was going into the skiff, and I think that they have a lot of questions that remain unanswered,” Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois told NewsNation. “Mr. Grush has made allegations that we’re still trying to figure out the veracity of and we haven’t gotten the answers that we need.”

“There is a movement, whether it’s within the Intelligence Community or not, to prevent us from finding out more information on this,” said Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida. “So, we are going to do what we need to do as investigators to continue to pull on whatever strings and see where they lead.”

New York Post UFO Documentary Uncovers Major Flaws in New York Times 2017 Coverage

This documentary in the New York Post by Steven Greenstreet offers an excellent – and sorely needed – skeptical view of the current state of UFO affairs in the United States.

https://nypost.com/video/spooky-hustlers-how-wacky-ufo-activists-and-crazy-ghost-hunters-duped-congress-into-hunting-ufos/

It’s all pretty confusing, but my main takeaway is that the New York Times needs to set the record straight on its shoddy reporting on the subject. It seems evident that the Times’ coverage back in 2017 was slanted so that people would take UFOs seriously.

And there are some inaccuracies that need to be corrected, most notably that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) highlighted in 2017 didn’t really exist. This was evidently a fake name for something called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, which apparently was tasked with investigating a range of paranormal entities at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah that included alleged encounters with ghosts, demons and various creatures and monsters.

As uncovered by Greenstreet, reporting in the Times excluded this fact, allegedly so that readers would take the report – and the whole subject of UFOS – seriously.

The Times, being the foremost paragon of American journalism, a pillar of the fourth estate, which we all depend on to deliver honest, deception-free reportage, needs to explain what happened here. After all, this article back in 2017 had consequences: It opened the floodgates for a torrent of UFO coverage and has led to actual congressional inquiry. Readers of the Old Gray Lady, and all Americans including members of Congress, deserve to know what happened here as the country grapples with the ongoing mystery of UFOs.