“UFO’s”

A rare bipartisan hearing in Congress shows that there is much to learn

The Morning in America anchor of NewsNation, Markie Martin, said to me on Tuesday: “Avi, you are a Harvard astrophysicist and most of us do not have that education. How do you advise that we interpret the hearing at the US House of Representatives on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)?” My reply was simple: “Just pay attention to the factual information presented by the witnesses. Think of yourself as a juror in a courtroom and decide whether to believe the witnesses.”

If the truth is out there, the US Congress wants to know.

The House of Representatives convened a landmark panel on unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAPs), known more colloquially as UFOs, on Wednesday, in the most serious acknowledgement yet that mysterious sightings deserve scrutiny at the highest levels of government.

US lawmakers were “not bringing little green men or flying saucers into the hearing… we’re just going to get to the facts,” Republican Tim Burchett said at the beginning of the meeting. Yet the testimony at times strayed into the unknown.

Five Key Takeaways From the Congressional Hearing on UFOs

Ross Coulthart

Ross Coulthart @rosscoulthart you f**king legend. I could 😘 you

Watch till the end 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/TysojYETGt

— Nielo Gan 🇬🇧 🚀 (@Nielo_Gan) July 18, 2023

A former Air Force officer and intelligence official told Congress Wednesday he believes the government is hiding captured UFOs — and claimed he could not reveal whether anyone was murdered to keep the secret contained.

David Grusch, a former national reconnaissance officer representative for the Pentagon’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force, made the startling remarks during a bombshell House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UAP — Pentagon jargon for UFOs.

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Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch reiterated claims the U.S. government has recovered crashed crafts containing “non-human” biological material. Watch Live: https://t.co/2zA0QuuBZW #UFOHearing pic.twitter.com/3IaTb4SMLj

— NewsNation (@NewsNation) July 26, 2023

Whistleblower Fravor: “We have nothing that can come down from space, hang out for three hours and go back up.”

Watch live: https://t.co/qYOfXmAqjU #UFOHearings pic.twitter.com/i5VultA3vE

— NewsNation (@NewsNation) July 26, 2023

Former U.S. Navy commander David Fravor describes the ‘tic-tac’ incident: “All four of us saw a white ‘tic-tac’ object with a longitudinal axis pointing north-south, and moving very abruptly over the water, like a ping-pong ball.”

Watch live: https://t.co/qYOfXmAqjU #UFOHearings pic.twitter.com/zKO7Ld48Ad

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A former top US intelligence officer says defense officials told him UFOs have been recovered — and that bombshell details about the extraterrestrial craft are set to be revealed to Congress on Wednesday.

“I’ve been told that we have recovered technology that did not originate on this Earth, by officials in the Department of Defense and by former intelligence officials,” said Christopher Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, to NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo Monday night.

Christopher Mellon on NewsNation

“I’ve been told that we have recovered technology that did not originate on this earth by officials in the Department of Defense and by former intelligence officials.”#ufotwitter #ufo #uap pic.twitter.com/h72ltWwAfI

— UAP James (@UAPJames) July 25, 2023

People MURDERED To 'Protect' UFO Secret Programs, David Grusch Prepared To Testify

New interview with Ross Coulthart on The Hill. Ross says that David Grusch wants to tell us everything he can during the UAP hearing tomorrow morning at 10am EST.#ufotwitter #ufoX #uap #ufos… pic.twitter.com/pMOeQBiSdM

— Mike Colangelo (@MikeColangelo) July 25, 2023

An alien spaceship crash landing cannot be ruled out as the cause of the strange pointy protrusions found on Mars, scientists have said.

In April, Nasa’s Curiosity Rover photographed what appear to be rows of spikes, plates and wedges protruding from rocks on the floor of the 96-mile (154 km) Gale Crater.

UFOs are a ‘matter of national security’: Ryan Graves

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said he is 100% sure that the federal government is covering up documents about UFOs — and he’s not alone among members of Congress in trying to push for more information about what could be out there.

“We’ve requested documents, we’ve gone to interview pilots and been stonewalled by our Pentagon. It’s ridiculous, it’s been going on since the ‘40s,” Burchett said Saturday afternoon on Fox News. “We are taking the gloves off.”

The Phenomenon – Good place to start for anyone interested.

The scientist and military intelligence officer leading the Pentagon’s task force for unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) — which the public calls UFOs — says being caught off guard by “intelligent or extraterrestrial technical supremacy” remains a top concern as investigators analyze more than 800 cases of mysterious sightings reported by U.S. military personnel dating back decades.

“Data and science has to guide where you go, and we will follow the data,” Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick said last month, in an exclusive first interview after his appointment to the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO.

h/t DG – Videos are eye opening.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, introduced extraordinary legislation on July 13, suggesting that the U.S. government or private contractors may secretly possess recovered UFOs and “biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence.”

According to the legislation, “non-human intelligence” is defined as “any sentient intelligent non-human lifeform, regardless of nature or ultimate origin which may be presumed responsible for” UFOs.

… If those “recovered technologies” are potentially dangerous, then I can see why the feds should be able to take them, subject to Second Amendment considerations, of course. Light saber, cold dead hands, etc.

If, however, some lucky rancher in New Mexico’s high desert stumbles across enough pieces of crashed alien technology on their property that it can be used to reverse engineer flying cars, say, a miracle fuel, replicators, or the like, he or she should be able to exploit it. This country’s fracking revolution was essentially enabled by the fact that U.S. landowners (unlike their counterparts almost anywhere else in the world) own the mineral rights under their property. Allowing the feds to simply expropriate the alien bounty found on private land not only is un-American, but also might well mean that it will go to waste, buried in red tape or some secretive, remote warehouse.

House Republicans on the Oversight Committee are making preparations for a hearing later this month on government efforts to try to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).

No witnesses have been announced, nor has the scope of the hearing been made public. But the hearing will come a little over a month after a Department of Defense whistleblower claimed the U.S. has retrieved several aircraft of “non-human origin.”

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, is pushing legislation to create a commission with broad authority to declassify government documents about U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial matters, in an attempt to force the government to share all that it knows about unidentified phenomena.

The measure offers the possibility of pushing back against the conspiracy theories that surround discussions of U.F.O.s and fears that the government is hiding critical information from the public.

Although this is very encouraging, until & unless the overly restrictive UAP security classification guide is revised, there will be little public benefit as virtually all recent data, including UAP videos, will be classified. Congress should press ahead for this guidance to be… https://t.co/JLQdPQoMka

— Christopher K. Mellon (@ChrisKMellon) July 14, 2023

Old School Russkies …

A majority of U.S. eligible voters believe the U.S. government knows more about UFOs than the public ahead of an investigation into claims about the existence of spacecraft, according to new polling exclusively conducted for Newsweek.

The poll, carried out by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, comes as the House of Representatives has said it would launch an investigation after a former intelligence official said the U.S. was in possession of non-human vehicles.

We did it. I led a Galileo Project expedition to the Pacific Ocean to retrieve spherules of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1, and brought back to Harvard College Observatory more than 50 that lay on the deep ocean floor for nearly a decade.

These sub-millimeter-sized spheres, which appear under a microscope as beautiful metallic marbles, were concentrated along the expected path of IM1, about 85 kilometers off the coast of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office leads the department’s efforts in investigating and understanding what it calls unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs.

The office, which is within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, was formed last July due to a provision within the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act that expanded the scope of the previous iteration of the office, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Group.

Underwater UFO / UAP: Navy Admiral Tim Gallaudet (ret) on the scientific study of underwater UFOs

Roswell UFO festival celebrates 27 years of extraterrestrial activities

The annual Roswell UFO Festival has long been a popular destination for extraterrestrial enthusiasts, featuring live music, parades, and an array of guest speakers.

Taking place last weekend, the three-day festival was first put on in 1996, paying homage to the Roswell incident, one of the nation’s most famous UFO sightings, which occurred one New Mexico summer in 1947.

One day I hope to attend.