UFOs: A Cultural Diversion? By Brian Simpson

The thing that must be explained about the other world’s view of UFOs is why would any intelligent race want to associate with smelly humans? Either it is all fake, or they are real and getting ready to take us down. https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-03-23-pentagon-ufo-evidence-cannot-be-explained.html

“John Ratcliffe, the former director of Intelligence under former President Donald Trump, revealed that the Department of Defense (DOD) has evidence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that make maneuvers impossible with known technology. These include UFOs that break the sound barrier without creating a sonic boom.

“When we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions are difficult to explain,” Ratcliffe bared in an interview with Fox News on March 19, Friday.

These actions include “movements that are hard to replicate and that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom,” the ex-intel chief added.

He told host Maria Bartiromo that analysts typically look for a plausible explanation, such as a potential weather disturbance or a piece of advanced technology from American enemies, to try to explain a UFO. But he noted that there are instances where sightings elude any known explanation.

Ratcliffe’s revelations came after the DOD declassified a 2,700-page dossier about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – the Pentagon’s official term for UFOs. The release of this dossier in January followed the earlier release of three top-secret UAP videos last year.

But Ratcliffe revealed that there are a lot more sightings than the Pentagon have made public.

Pentagon to disclose classified UAP intel

Ratcliffe declined to go into further detail about the sightings but noted that the Pentagon will be releasing a report about all classified UAPs this June. The report is part of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which is under the $2.3 trillion COVID relief bill that Trump signed into law last Dec. 27.

Under the intelligence act, the Pentagon and other concerned agencies must produce a report on what they know about UAPs within six months of the bill’s passage. The report will be unclassified but will include a classified supplement.

Ratcliffe said he had hoped to make a similar report before he left office on Jan. 20. But his team wasn’t able to produce a document in an unclassified format quickly enough. (Related: Are the recent UFO disclosures setting us up for a mass deception of epic proportions?.)

UAP reports made public recently

Public knowledge about UAPs increased under the Trump administration following several moves that ramped up government transparency regarding UFO sightings. In April, the Pentagon declassified three videos that showed unidentified aircraft moving at incredible speeds. One video was taken in 2004 while the other two were taken in 2015.

The New York Times and To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Las Vegas-based media and private science organization, leaked the videos years before. The Pentagon said that it released the clips to “clear up any misconceptions” about their veracity. It also maintained that the UAPs seen in the footage remain unidentified.

The Pentagon also recently authorized the release of more than 2,700 pages of government documents about UAPs. John Greenwald Jr., an author and the founder of the Black Vault, an online repository of UFO-related files, obtained the records after hounding the Pentagon with a series of Freedom of Information Act requests over the years. He was eventually granted access and published the reports on his website in January this year.

The Pentagon claimed that the dossier comprised the entirety of the government’s declassified UAP intel, but Greenwald argued that there is no way to verify that claim.

In December, the Debrief website leaked two classified Pentagon documents about UAPs. One of the reports was made in 2018 and included a photo of a silver, cube-shaped object hovering at an altitude of up to 35,000 feet. A military pilot took the picture with his cellphone while flying an F/18 fighter jet off the eastern coast of the United States.

Experts were baffled by the picture but observed that the UAP resembled a GPS dropsonde, a weather profiling device designed to be dropped from an aircraft, typically over storms. (Related: Pentagon says test findings on UFO wreckage could “change our lives forever”.)

The other report was issued in early 2020 and included what was described as an “extremely clear” and “shocking” photo of a triangular aircraft with large, spherical white lights on each corner. Officials told the Debrief that the aircraft might have emerged from the ocean and shot upward. The picture was taken in 2019 from a military jet flying above the eastern coast and was not available to the public.

https://ufos.news/2021-01-26-astronomer-claims-alien-tech-marooned-solar-system.html

“Astronomer Abraham Loeb claims that a discarded alien machine visited the solar system but was mistaken as a natural object because of “groupthink.”

In his forthcoming book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,” Loeb wrote about the solar system’s first known interstellar visitor, ‘Oumuamua. He posited that ‘Oumuamua is really technological trash thrown away by an intelligent alien civilization based on its cigar or disk shape, shininess and behavior, which he noted are unlike anything ever seen in the solar system before.

However, Loeb said that his ideas are not taken seriously by the scientific community because everyone refuses to wrest free from the mainstream view that the object was just a space rock.

‘Oumuamua’s strange properties

‘Oumuamua was discovered in 2017 by astronomers at the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii. Known as the first documented interstellar visitor, the object was strangely luminous for a space rock, brightening at peaks rarely observed in comets and asteroids. Rocky and cigar-shaped with a somewhat reddish hue, it was up to a quarter-mile long and estimated to be 10 times as long as it is wide.

But the most compelling anomaly, according to Loeb, is that ‘Oumuamua seemed to accelerate as it moved away from the sun. No space rock except a comet can do that. As a comet passes close to the sun, it warms and starts to release gas. That “outgassing” is responsible for what astronomers call the “comet’s tail” – a visible trail of gas and dust that can be as long as hundreds of millions of miles. It acts like burning fuel that escapes from the bottom of a rocket, propelling a comet to higher velocities and new directions through space.

But the observers of ‘Oumuamua failed to see a comet’s tail. This, together with its unusual shape, suggests that the object might have been a light sail, a form of spacecraft that relies on sunlight to generate propulsion, according to Loeb.

Loeb suspects that the device was a piece of technological trash, or “e-waste,” from an alien civilization that produces huge numbers of machines that end up drifting uselessly through space.

“A buoy. A grid of pods for communication. Signposts that an extraterrestrial civilization could navigate by. Launch bases for probes. Other intelligent living organisms’ defunct technology or discarded technological trash,” Loeb wrote of the possible explanations for the ‘Oumuamua mystery.

He noted that these explanations are plausible as humans themselves are already producing these things, albeit on a far more limited scale. For one, scientists from the Breakthrough Initiatives, a space science program devoted to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, have been developing a light sail to be sent to the nearest star system to Earth, Alpha Centauri.

Scientific community rejects alien theory in favor of mainstream explanations

However, scientists also offered mundane explanations for ‘Oumuamua’s anomalies. Some brushed it off as a “cosmic dust bunny” made of fluffy, ultralight material that can be pushed by sunlight like a light sail. Others maintained that it was a comet of nearly pure hydrogen, releasing molecules that would be invisible to telescopes.

Loeb criticized these explanations, arguing, for instance, that ‘Oumuamua couldn’t possibly be a hydrogen comet because it would have fallen apart as it approached the sun. He was particularly critical of a study from the International Space Science Institutein Switzerland which he said embodied a “scientific establishment” engaged in “groupthink.” The researchers of that study asserted that ‘Oumuamua’s properties can be explained wholly by natural processes.

Loeb said that he has been mocked for his daring ideas. Yet physicists studying higher dimensions, or string theory, which has never been observed in the real world, are revered in the scientific community. “Instead they get prizes or honors,” Loeb said.”