USA Pentagon confirms leaked US Navy footage of spherical transmedium UFO that vanished into the ocean is real
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Henry Bowman
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Or disbelieve in them at your own risk could be said as well.
Everything you say is true however they have been seen by more than just those servicemen .
The point isn't if they exist or not. The point is why are they admitting it now.
If someone believes they are Demons or Nephilim thats fine too, lazy but fine. But why now ?
Henry Bowman
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Sure, so where does it say that they were Cherubium ?
marsh
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Everything Keeps Getting Weirder And Weirder
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2021 - 05:00 AM
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone,
Back in 2019 I wrote an article titled “Things Are Only Going To Get Weirder”, and from Covid to the 2020 election to the steadily increasing regularity with which UFOs are now mentioned in the mainstream media, that has indeed proved to be the case.
Our ongoing slide into the abyss of infinite weirdness may have eclipsed this from your memory by now, but there was once a time not too long ago when frequent mainstream news stories about the possibility of extraterrestrial aircraft in our skies would not have sounded like something from real life. Lately it’s been a daily occurrence, and the president of the United States is now being asked about it at news conferences.
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The question followed comments by Barack Obama earlier in the week on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
This follows a recent high-profile 60 Minutes special on UFOs (or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as the cool kids are calling them nowadays), while the Pentagon continues to release “information” to the public about the existence of these encounters and the US Senate prepares to receive a mandated report on the matter next month.
A new Telegraph article titled “The Pentagon thinks UFOs may exist after all… and the evidence is growing” just trended on Twitter under the much more click-friendly title “The Pentagon strongly suspects aliens exist — and we’ve got the evidence”, and it ominously warns us that there is “a growing acceptance among defence officials around the world that there may indeed be something ‘out there’ — and that it might pose a genuine global security threat.”
These are just a few of the many, many mainstream news reports that have been pouring out lately on a subject which until recently was the sole purview of fringe “crackpots” and “conspiracy theorists”. Speaking of which, another weird thing we’re seeing is the roles between mainstream reporters and UFO enthusiasts being almost reversed: we now see MSNBC pundits openly musing that “UFO’s are clearly real? And have been hanging around our airspace for a while?”, while influential UFOlogists like Steven Greer are warning that this is a hoax by the US military to get a bunch of dangerous weapons into space.
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I’m not interested in being one more person on the internet claiming to know exactly what’s going on with all this, but I do know there’s an exactly zero percent chance that all this is coming out into the mainstream spotlight because the US war machine suddenly decided that the public has a right to know about a potentially dangerous security threat.
The Pentagon did not spontaneously evolve an interest in radical transparency, and it is not coincidental that this is happening as we hurtle into a new multi-front cold war and an accompanying race to weaponize space.
As I’ve said before, the simplest and most likely explanation for all this UFO stuff is that the US military is manipulating us yet again to advance yet another strategic agenda. I’m not saying that’s necessarily the full story, but it’s definitely happening.
Again, there is a high-profile Senate report on this subject due next month, so we can expect the weird to get even weirder quite soon. This is happening as narrative manipulation gets even more ham-fisted and overt, with the empire having now graduated from just imprisoning inconvenient journalists to literally bombing inconvenient journalism offices.
The only prediction I’ll make out of all this mess is the same one I’ve been making: that things are going to keep getting weirder and weirder. Patterns are unpatterning, power structures are struggling to retain their foothold, humanity’s relationship with narrative is radically transforming, and we are not just plunging into the unknown but actively flooring the accelerator into it.
And, in a profoundly sick society with profoundly unhealthy patterns, that might just end up being a good thing.
CapeCMom
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Today in my son’s class ( He is a senior) they watched the 60 minutes episode about the UAPs. Interesting...he already knew about it because we follow Dr. Steven Greer but I was surprised that his teacher showed it.
By the way, you really have to watch Dr. Greer’s first movie “ Unacknowledged”. It’s from 2017 but it’s really eye opening.
By the way, you really have to watch Dr. Greer’s first movie “ Unacknowledged”. It’s from 2017 but it’s really eye opening.
Telescope Steve
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Something seems off to my about Dr. Greer. I listen to what he has to say, but it does not sit right with me.
I think that he is right about one thing though. And that is we should be careful because there is a lot of disinformation being broadcast about these high tech ships.
It looks to me like they are getting people ready to accept their version of project blue beam.
sleepyeddie
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If the pentagon says it is real, I can finally believe.
Henry Bowman
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It is the Pentagon saying they are real that is making me doubt it and I think they are real LOL
Terriannie
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I'm curious to what the Pentagon is going to say. Not that I'd fully believe what it is, just curious.
They've been lying to us about UFOs for decades. Granted, it's because of panic protection I suppose, but still.....they lied, 100%. Why would we trust them now?
One of my opinion guesses is it's going to be a big announcement laced with buzz words hinting at our/world's military's inability to interact with the visitors should the need to protect us arises. My curiosity is going to be exactly "how" the "boom" will be dropped so it doesn't panic the population so it'll start off slow, then it will transform into a big thing. A VERY big thing.
Since the direction of my belief is inter-dimensional demonic, not in the supposed, intergalactic aspect of these aliens, I will be in full prayer mode!!!
They've been lying to us about UFOs for decades. Granted, it's because of panic protection I suppose, but still.....they lied, 100%. Why would we trust them now?
One of my opinion guesses is it's going to be a big announcement laced with buzz words hinting at our/world's military's inability to interact with the visitors should the need to protect us arises. My curiosity is going to be exactly "how" the "boom" will be dropped so it doesn't panic the population so it'll start off slow, then it will transform into a big thing. A VERY big thing.
Since the direction of my belief is inter-dimensional demonic, not in the supposed, intergalactic aspect of these aliens, I will be in full prayer mode!!!
marsh
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[COMMENT: I thought this was interesting. It does pose a possible quandary about how religions will adapt to the existence of aliens.]
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Obama says new religions could spring up and US may spend more on weapons if UFO report confirms alien life
BARACK Obama said he believes new religions could emerge and the US may stockpile weapons if the Pentagon's UFO report confirms the existence of alien life.
His comments come as an unclassified intelligence report into UFOs is expected to be delivered to Congress as early as today.
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Obama has spoken out about his beliefs on alien lifeCredit: Getty
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It comes after the release of US military videos of 'UFOs' (pictured)Credit: AFP
Obama was questioned about whether he believes undeniable proof of aliens would change his politics during a podcast interview with The Ezra Klein show this week.
"New religions would pop up," the former president said should alien life be confirmed.
"But no doubt there would be immediate arguments about like, well, we need to spend a lot more money on weapons systems to defend ourselves.
"And who knows what kind of arguments we get into," the former president added.
"We’re good at manufacturing arguments for each other."
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Previously unseen military-captured footage of an alleged UFO was released earlier this yearCredit: georgeknapp66/Instagram
Overall, Obama said he did not believe that his politics would change if the Pentagon UFO report said aliens exist.
"My politics has always been premised on the notion that the differences we have on this planet are real," he told Klein.
"They’re profound. And they cause enormous tragedy as well as joy.
"But we’re just a bunch of humans with doubts and confusion. We do the best we can," Obama continued.
"And the best thing we can do is treat each other better because we’re all we’ve got.
"And so I would hope that the knowledge that there were aliens out there would solidify people’s sense that what we have in common is a little more important."
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Obama revealed he asked about UFOs when he was inauguratedCredit: AFP
Obama had previously said that UFO sightings by the military “must be taken seriously."
Speaking on James Corden’s The Late Late Show last week, the former president said he had seen the recently-released footage of UFOs harassing US military targets.
“What is true... is that there's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are,” Obama said.
“We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory… they did not have an easily explainable pattern.
“So I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”
Obama also admitted that when he was inaugurated, he asked about the possibility of UFOs.
“Look, the truth is that when I came into office I asked," he told Corden.
“I was like, 'All right, is there the lab somewhere where we're keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?'
A Pentagon report on military 'UFO' sightings could be released todayCredit: Fox
“They did a little bit of research…. and the answer was 'No,'' he quipped.
In this week's interview with Klein, Obama reiterated that he would "absolutely" like to know what is behind the military UFO sightings.
"My entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space," he added in the New York Times podcast.
Congress passed legislation in December, mandating the Department of Defense and the National Intelligence Director to produce a report about “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” within six months.
The report will be unclassified and is expected to contain everything the US Government knows about UAPs.
It's thought that the document could arrive as early as today - June 1.
It will examine if unidentified aerial phenomena constitute a threat to US airspace, Deadline reports.
The report is unlikely to conclude that highly advanced extraterrestrials are the cause but it may not rule them out.
It's expected that recommendations for further UFO research and funding will be included within the dossier.
Pentagon officials last year took the unprecedented step to release a trio of remarkable videos which showed "encounters" with UFOs.
Obama says weapons will be stockpiled & religions may pop up if UFOs confirmed
BARACK Obama said he believes new religions could emerge and the US may stockpile weapons if the Pentagon’s UFO report confirms the existence of alien life. His comments come as an unclassifi…
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Obama says new religions could spring up and US may spend more on weapons if UFO report confirms alien life
- Frances Mulraney
- Jun 1 2021, 16:17 ET
- Updated: Jun 1 2021, 17:38 ET
BARACK Obama said he believes new religions could emerge and the US may stockpile weapons if the Pentagon's UFO report confirms the existence of alien life.
His comments come as an unclassified intelligence report into UFOs is expected to be delivered to Congress as early as today.
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Obama has spoken out about his beliefs on alien lifeCredit: Getty
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It comes after the release of US military videos of 'UFOs' (pictured)Credit: AFP
Obama was questioned about whether he believes undeniable proof of aliens would change his politics during a podcast interview with The Ezra Klein show this week.
"New religions would pop up," the former president said should alien life be confirmed.
"But no doubt there would be immediate arguments about like, well, we need to spend a lot more money on weapons systems to defend ourselves.
"And who knows what kind of arguments we get into," the former president added.
"We’re good at manufacturing arguments for each other."
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Previously unseen military-captured footage of an alleged UFO was released earlier this yearCredit: georgeknapp66/Instagram
Overall, Obama said he did not believe that his politics would change if the Pentagon UFO report said aliens exist.
"My politics has always been premised on the notion that the differences we have on this planet are real," he told Klein.
"They’re profound. And they cause enormous tragedy as well as joy.
"But we’re just a bunch of humans with doubts and confusion. We do the best we can," Obama continued.
"And the best thing we can do is treat each other better because we’re all we’ve got.
"And so I would hope that the knowledge that there were aliens out there would solidify people’s sense that what we have in common is a little more important."
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Obama revealed he asked about UFOs when he was inauguratedCredit: AFP
Obama had previously said that UFO sightings by the military “must be taken seriously."
Speaking on James Corden’s The Late Late Show last week, the former president said he had seen the recently-released footage of UFOs harassing US military targets.
“What is true... is that there's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are,” Obama said.
“We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory… they did not have an easily explainable pattern.
“So I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”
Obama also admitted that when he was inaugurated, he asked about the possibility of UFOs.
“Look, the truth is that when I came into office I asked," he told Corden.
“I was like, 'All right, is there the lab somewhere where we're keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?'
A Pentagon report on military 'UFO' sightings could be released todayCredit: Fox
“They did a little bit of research…. and the answer was 'No,'' he quipped.
In this week's interview with Klein, Obama reiterated that he would "absolutely" like to know what is behind the military UFO sightings.
"My entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space," he added in the New York Times podcast.
Congress passed legislation in December, mandating the Department of Defense and the National Intelligence Director to produce a report about “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” within six months.
The report will be unclassified and is expected to contain everything the US Government knows about UAPs.
It's thought that the document could arrive as early as today - June 1.
It will examine if unidentified aerial phenomena constitute a threat to US airspace, Deadline reports.
The report is unlikely to conclude that highly advanced extraterrestrials are the cause but it may not rule them out.
It's expected that recommendations for further UFO research and funding will be included within the dossier.
Pentagon officials last year took the unprecedented step to release a trio of remarkable videos which showed "encounters" with UFOs.
marsh
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US intel report on UFOs: No evidence of aliens, but ...
Whatever or whoever they are, they’re still out there. But a new U.S. government report fails to give a definitive explanation of UFOs spotted by military pilots.
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US intel report on UFOs: No evidence of aliens, but. ...
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ROBERT BURNS31 minutes ago
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The image from video provided by the Department of Defense labelled Gimbal, from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds, traveling against the wind. “There's a whole fleet of them,” one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. “It's rotating." The U.S. government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects, under orders from Congress, and a report summarizing what officials know is expected to come out in June 2021. (Department of Defense via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whatever or whoever they are, they’re still out there. U.S. intelligence is after them, but its upcoming report won’t deliver any full or final truth about UFOs.
The tantalizing prospect of top government intel finally weighing in — after decades of conspiracy theories, TV shows, movies and winking jokes by presidents — will instead yield a more mundane reality that’s not likely to change many minds on any side of the issue.
Investigators have found no evidence the sightings are linked to aliens — but can’t deny a link either. Two officials briefed on the report due to Congress later this month say the U.S. government cannot give a definitive explanation of aerial phenomena spotted by military pilots.
The report also doesn’t rule out that what pilots have seen may be new technologies developed by other countries. One of the officials said there is no indication the unexplained phenomena are from secret U.S. programs.
The officials were not authorized to discuss the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Findings of the report were first published by The New York Times.
The report examines multiple unexplained sightings from recent years that in some cases have been captured on video of pilots exclaiming about objects flying in front of them.
Congress in December required the Director of National Intelligence to summarize and report on the U.S. government’s knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs — better known to the public as unidentified flying objects or UFOs. The effort has included a Defense Department UAP task force established last year. The expected public release of an unclassified version of the report this month will amount to a status report, not the final word, according to one official.
A Pentagon spokeswoman, Sue Gough, declined Friday to comment on news stories about the intelligence report. She said the Pentagon’s UAP task force is “actively working with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the report, and DNI will provide the findings to Congress.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, when asked about the report, said of the question at first, “It’s always a little wacky on Fridays.” But she added, “I will say that we take reports of incursions into our airspace by any aircraft — identified or unidentified — very seriously and investigate each one.”
The Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency have for decades looked into reports of aircraft or other objects in the sky flying at inexplicable speeds or trajectories.
The U.S. government takes unidentified aerial phenomena seriously given the potential national security risk of an adversary flying novel technology over a military base or another sensitive site, or the prospect of a Russian or Chinese development exceeding current U.S. capabilities. This also is seen by the U.S. military as a security and safety issue, given that in many cases the pilots who reported seeing unexplained aerial phenomena were conducting combat training flights.
The report’s lack of firm conclusions will likely disappoint people anticipating the report, given many Americans’ long-standing fascination with UFOs and the prospect of aliens having reached humankind. A recent story on CBS’ “60 Minutes” further bolstered interest in the government report.
Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said the one official’s claim that there was no indicated link to secret U.S. programs would be significant. But he called on the government to be fully transparent.
“I think that our tax dollars paid for information and data involving UFOs,” Elizondo said. “And I think it is the U.S. government’s obligation to provide those results to the American people.”
But skeptics caution that the videos and reported sightings have plausible Earth-bound explanations. Mick West, an author, investigator, and longtime skeptic of UFO sightings, said he supported the military looking into any possible incursion of U.S. airspace, especially by an adversary.
“People are conflating this issue with the idea that these UFOs demonstrate amazing physics and possibly even aliens,” West said. “The idea that this is some kind of secret warp drive or it’s defying physics as we know it, there really isn’t any good evidence for that.”
The Pentagon last year announced a task force to investigate the issue, and the Navy in recent years created a protocol for its pilots to report any possible sightings. And lawmakers in recent years have pushed for more public disclosure.
“There’s a stigma on Capitol Hill,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told “60 Minutes” in May. “I mean, some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic and some kind of, you know, giggle when you bring it up. But I don’t think we can allow the stigma to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question.”
marsh
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Pentagon UFO report 'can't rule out' aliens or secret Russian tech, says expert
THE world must ramp up its investigations into UFOs as the Pentagon’s “disturbing” report appears unable to rule out that foreign hypersonic technology could be behind the sightings, an expert clai…
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- Chris Bradford
- Jun 4 2021, 6:06 ET
- Updated: Jun 4 2021, 14:40 ET
THE world must ramp up its investigations into UFOs as the Pentagon’s “disturbing” report appears unable to rule out that foreign hypersonic technology could be behind the sightings, an expert claims.
Intelligence officials cannot explain what dozens of reported sightings are but have appeared to rule out that the vast majority were not American military or other government technology.
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Intelligence officials fear that hypersonic aircraft could explain UFO sightingsCredit: AFP
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There are fears within the intelligence community that the US is lagging behind MoscowCredit: AP
The report is likely to conclude that the sightings do not show evidence of alien spacecraft, according to the New York Times.
Skeptics within the UFO community think the aerial phenomena could’ve been sent by Russia or China amid fears that Moscow may have ramped up their testing of hypersonic technology.
Officials fear the US will be lagging behind its rivals as hypersonic missiles can travel about 4,000 miles per hour - making them almost impossible to intercept, MailOnline reports.
Nick Pope, a former official at the Ministry of Defence, branded the report's leaked conclusions "intriguing and disturbing".
He told The Sun: "The possibility that some of what's been going on might be attributable to Russia or China is disturbing, and US and British spy chiefs need to step up their efforts to assess the current level of technology these nations possess when it comes to aircraft, missiles, and drones - particularly with regard to hypersonic technology."
He said it’s not good enough that intelligence officials cannot identify what the objects are after receiving reports that they stalk Navy vessels.
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Nick Pope, a former MOD official, has urged London and Washington to pool resources to investigate the national security matterCredit: Fox News
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Hypersonic missiles can travel up to 4,000 miles per hour - making them impossible to interceptCredit: Alamy Live News
The former MOD civil servant called on Washington and London to pool resources to address the security issue.
Dr. David Clarke, who was a consultant for the release of the MOD's UFO files at the National Archives between 2008-13, says a "new" Cold War is already underway.
He told The Sun: "They [hypersonic drones and unmanned aerial vehicles] are exactly what a lot of these things that can’t be explained clearly are.
"There's a new Cold War being fought undercover that’s not receiving a lot of attention. The Chinese and Russians and Americans have developed some incredible technology – almost sort of science-fiction-like.
"We’re not talking about the fighter jets that used to dominate everything in the Cold War. The new Cold War is unmanned aerial vehicles.”
It comes as Senator Marco Rubio said the government report should be only the beginning of the US effort to look into mysterious flying objects.
He said: "Men and women we have entrusted with the defense of our country are reporting encounters with unidentified aircraft with superior capabilities.
"We cannot allow the stigma of UFOs to keep us from seriously investigating this. The forthcoming report is one step in that process, but it will not be the last."
Former Pentagon investigator Luis Elizondo, who led the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, previously told The Sun that the military doesn't know what UFOs are and who is behind them.
He said: "There is something in our skies, we don’t know what it is, we don’t know how it works, we don’t know fully what it can do, we don’t know who is behind the wheel, we don’t know its intentions, and there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it."
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Senator Marco Rubio called for the US to investigate UAPs furtherCredit: Reuters
He added that it could be America's biggest spy failure since 9/11.
Retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms, Sean Cahil, recently warned that the UFOs spotted likely possess technology that the US could not defend itself against.
He told CNN: "The technology that we witnessed with the Tic-Tac was something we would not have been able to defend our forces against at the time.
An unclassified version of the findings is set to be released to Congress by June 25.
The report is expected to contain everything the Government knows about "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena".
It will examine if UAPs constitute a threat to US airspace, according to Deadline.
It's expected that recommendations for further UFO research and funding will be included within the dossier.
However, the final report will still include one classified annex, according to the Times.
Officials said that the annex will not contain any evidence of alien activity, but the fact that it must remain classified will likely fuel increased speculation.
Mr. Pope told The Sun that the public is likely to be "disappointed" when the report is presented to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
He said: "I think they will be disappointed because the general public will not get to see much of anything."
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Leaked footage shows a UFO hovering around the USS OmahaCredit: Instagram / @jeremycorbell
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There is great interest in the UFO debate in the USCredit: Getty
He warned that the unclassified part of the document may feature phrases such as "territorial integrity of the US" and "incursions into restricted military areas".
The classified annex will not be available for the public and media to read.
There has been a renewed interest in the UFO debate ahead of the publication of the Pentagon report.
Barack Obama spoke about UFOs on The Late Late Show With James Corden last month.
He said: "What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are."
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President Obama said there would be 'new religions' if extraterrestrial life was confirmedCredit: CBS
The former president said that "new religions would pop up" if alien life was confirmed.
Over recent months, several clips of classified Navy footage have been released that show mysterious flying objects hovering around military ships.
Most recently, footage emerged that showed a UFO buzzing around a US stealth ship near San Diego in 2004.
Commander Dave Fravor and Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich recalled the moment they saw an "unsettling" UFO that looked like a "Tic-Tac".
The pilots were training with a strike group flying over the Pacific Ocean when they saw the strange object.
And, an unusual orb was also caught stalking the USS Omaha in July 2019.
Freeholder
This too shall pass.
Like others, I'm not nearly so concerned with what the UFO's really are (though I also suspect demonic activity) as I am about what the intentions of the government might be in not only releasing the information now, but pushing it. I have thought for a long time that the stories of UFO's and aliens could be perverted to be used to unite the people of the whole Earth to fight against Jesus Christ when He returns to rule over the Earth at the end of the Great Tribulation. Science fiction movies and stories have encouraged people to believe in aliens, both friendly and hostile; if Jesus at His return is portrayed as a hostile invader (of His own Earth which He created!), given the brainwashing activities we've seen in the last year or so, how hard do you think it would be to convince much of the population to unite to fight against Him? Especially after the terrible seven years of the Tribulation, if Christians have been blamed for much of that?
Kathleen
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Many decades ago as a very young man, I was told by a individual in the USAF, whatever technology you can see now, is nothing compared to what real technology the military has. They‘re 60 years or more ahead of what we see.
I firmly believe we’ve re-engineered actual alien craft. And UFO’s are real, both extraterrestrial and our own.
I firmly believe we’ve re-engineered actual alien craft. And UFO’s are real, both extraterrestrial and our own.
Heliobas Disciple
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It's not just us - appears that China is looking into it as well. hmmm.
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China military uses AI to track rapidly increasing UFOs
Stephen Chen
Published: 11:00pm, 4 Jun, 2021
To the People’s Liberation Army, they are “unidentified air conditions” – a phrase which echoes the US military’s “unidentified aerial phenomena” – but to the public they are better known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
According to Wuhan-based researcher Chen Li from the Air Force Early Warning Academy, human analysts have been overwhelmed in recent years by the rapidly mounting sighting reports from a wide range of military and civilian sources across the country.
“The frequent occurrence of unidentified air conditions in recent years … brings severe challenges to air defence security of our country,” said Chen, in a 2019 report to a conference of senior information technology scientists in Beijing in 2019.
The PLA’s task force dedicated to the unknown objects increasingly relies on AI technology to analyse its data, according to Chen’s report, which is in line with several other military studies published in domestic journals, most recently in August last year.
According to Chen, one advantage of AI is that it can “think outside the box” – checking crumbs of information scattered across many data sets created at different times and locations, and drawing links unseen by human eyes – to help determine whether sightings were caused by a hostile country, amateur aviation enthusiasts, nature, or “other reasons”, he said.
The question about UFOs which most captures the imagination is whether they are alien spaceships. The US military recently confirmed the authenticity of some leaked video footage captured by navy pilots, in which flying objects appear to move in a manner that cannot be explained by current technology or physical laws.
The Pentagon report – requested by Congress on these sightings and which is expected to be partially released to the public – could be the first time any military has openly discussed the topic.
UFOs are a sensitive issue for any defence force, not only because they could be related to intelligent lifeforms from space, but also, and perhaps more likely, they may be incursions by another country’s military.
An intruding enemy drone or aircraft equipped with advanced interference technology, for example, could fool radar or other sensors by creating ghost images that jump around in an inexplicable manner on screen. Such incidents are usually classified for defence reasons, or to avoid embarrassment.
China’s only officially confirmed UFO sighting occurred over a military airbase in Cangzhou, Hebei province, on October 19, 1998. According to a report in Hebei Daily – official newspaper of the province which neighbours Beijing – two military jets were ordered to intercept a low-flying object that appeared suddenly above the airbase.
The object looked like a “short-legged mushroom”, with two beams of light shooting down from its belly. When the jets approached, the object climbed with “ghostlike” speed to an altitude of more than 20,000 metres, before disappearing from radar and visual contact.
According to Chen and his colleagues, the PLA has a three-tier reporting system to handle unknown aerial objects. The base level, which includes military radar stations, air force pilots, police stations, weather stations, and Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories, is responsible for gathering as much raw data as possible.
The information is processed in mid-tier by the PLA’s regional military command which conducts preliminary analysis and transfers the data to a national database.
With the help of AI, PLA headquarters assigns a “threat index” to each object based on its behaviour, frequency of occurrence, aerodynamic design, radioactivity, possible make and materials, along with any other information.
The AI can pull together other information which may help determine an object’s purpose. For instance, if similar unknown objects have a tendency to appear during major political events or military exercises, they are considered more likely to be a man-made device deployed by another country to gather intelligence.
Nature is responsible for a significant proportion of the suspicious activity detected by the military. Ionised particles can be produced by electricity in the atmosphere, creating apparently inexplicable images on radar or other electronic sensors, for example.
Manual verification of these events usually takes time, but AI can quickly identify most natural causes by cross-checking various sources of information, such as weather satellite data, according to the military researchers.
A radar scientist based in Xian, in the northwest province of Shaanxi, said the increasing number of unknown objects in China’s air space was “more likely caused by humans than aliens”.
Chinese authorities have gradually loosened control on flight activities in low altitudes over the past few years, while drones have also become relatively cheap and popular, he said.
Meanwhile, increased US military activities in the South China Sea and other sensitive waters near China could also account for the increased appearance of objects that cannot be immediately explained, said the researcher, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the topic.
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Chinese military turns to AI to track rapid rise in UFOs
China military uses AI to track rapidly increasing UFOs
To the People’s Liberation Army they are ‘unidentified air conditions’ and artificial intelligence is the best way to keep up with them.
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China military uses AI to track rapidly increasing UFOs
Stephen Chen
Published: 11:00pm, 4 Jun, 2021
- To the People’s Liberation Army they are ‘unidentified air conditions’ and artificial intelligence is the best way to keep up with them
- Chinese researchers confirm that sighting reports from across the country are on the rise but aliens are unlikely to be responsible
To the People’s Liberation Army, they are “unidentified air conditions” – a phrase which echoes the US military’s “unidentified aerial phenomena” – but to the public they are better known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
According to Wuhan-based researcher Chen Li from the Air Force Early Warning Academy, human analysts have been overwhelmed in recent years by the rapidly mounting sighting reports from a wide range of military and civilian sources across the country.
“The frequent occurrence of unidentified air conditions in recent years … brings severe challenges to air defence security of our country,” said Chen, in a 2019 report to a conference of senior information technology scientists in Beijing in 2019.
The PLA’s task force dedicated to the unknown objects increasingly relies on AI technology to analyse its data, according to Chen’s report, which is in line with several other military studies published in domestic journals, most recently in August last year.
According to Chen, one advantage of AI is that it can “think outside the box” – checking crumbs of information scattered across many data sets created at different times and locations, and drawing links unseen by human eyes – to help determine whether sightings were caused by a hostile country, amateur aviation enthusiasts, nature, or “other reasons”, he said.
The question about UFOs which most captures the imagination is whether they are alien spaceships. The US military recently confirmed the authenticity of some leaked video footage captured by navy pilots, in which flying objects appear to move in a manner that cannot be explained by current technology or physical laws.
The Pentagon report – requested by Congress on these sightings and which is expected to be partially released to the public – could be the first time any military has openly discussed the topic.
UFOs are a sensitive issue for any defence force, not only because they could be related to intelligent lifeforms from space, but also, and perhaps more likely, they may be incursions by another country’s military.
An intruding enemy drone or aircraft equipped with advanced interference technology, for example, could fool radar or other sensors by creating ghost images that jump around in an inexplicable manner on screen. Such incidents are usually classified for defence reasons, or to avoid embarrassment.
China’s only officially confirmed UFO sighting occurred over a military airbase in Cangzhou, Hebei province, on October 19, 1998. According to a report in Hebei Daily – official newspaper of the province which neighbours Beijing – two military jets were ordered to intercept a low-flying object that appeared suddenly above the airbase.
The object looked like a “short-legged mushroom”, with two beams of light shooting down from its belly. When the jets approached, the object climbed with “ghostlike” speed to an altitude of more than 20,000 metres, before disappearing from radar and visual contact.
According to Chen and his colleagues, the PLA has a three-tier reporting system to handle unknown aerial objects. The base level, which includes military radar stations, air force pilots, police stations, weather stations, and Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories, is responsible for gathering as much raw data as possible.
The information is processed in mid-tier by the PLA’s regional military command which conducts preliminary analysis and transfers the data to a national database.
With the help of AI, PLA headquarters assigns a “threat index” to each object based on its behaviour, frequency of occurrence, aerodynamic design, radioactivity, possible make and materials, along with any other information.
The AI can pull together other information which may help determine an object’s purpose. For instance, if similar unknown objects have a tendency to appear during major political events or military exercises, they are considered more likely to be a man-made device deployed by another country to gather intelligence.
Nature is responsible for a significant proportion of the suspicious activity detected by the military. Ionised particles can be produced by electricity in the atmosphere, creating apparently inexplicable images on radar or other electronic sensors, for example.
Manual verification of these events usually takes time, but AI can quickly identify most natural causes by cross-checking various sources of information, such as weather satellite data, according to the military researchers.
A radar scientist based in Xian, in the northwest province of Shaanxi, said the increasing number of unknown objects in China’s air space was “more likely caused by humans than aliens”.
Chinese authorities have gradually loosened control on flight activities in low altitudes over the past few years, while drones have also become relatively cheap and popular, he said.
Meanwhile, increased US military activities in the South China Sea and other sensitive waters near China could also account for the increased appearance of objects that cannot be immediately explained, said the researcher, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the topic.
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Chinese military turns to AI to track rapid rise in UFOs
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Well, there you go.
No further questions, your honor.
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