Year: 2021

NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission Gets Launch Date

March 2, 2021
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Article by Paul Rincon February 11, 2021 (bbc.com)

• NASA has conformed that in October 2024, it will send the Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa (pictured above), scheduled to arrive there in April 2030. Europa holds an ocean under its frozen outer shell and is regarded as one of the most promising targets in the search for life elsewhere in our solar system.

• During a virtual meeting of NASA’s ‘Outer Planets Assessment Group’ organized by Arizona State University, project scientist Dr. Robert Pappalardo stated: “Europa’s about the size of Earth’s moon, yet we think it contains twice as much water as all of Earth’s oceans.”

• The spacecraft was to have launched on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. But that has now changed to the use of a commercial launch vehicle.

• Interest in Europa as a potential habitat for extra-terrestrial life was given a boost in the 1990s, when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft provided evidence that Europa harbored an ocean of liquid water beneath its outer shell. Europa probably has a rocky core surrounded by around 50 miles of liquid water covered by a shell of water-ice that’s roughly 12 miles thick.

• “At the bottom of the Earth’s oceans are places where water and rock interact, where water seeps down, contacts hot rock and emerges charged with chemical nutrients – reductants,” said Dr. Pappalardo. When these reductants get together with other chemicals called oxidants, they react. These reactions could, “potentially power life at the ocean floor of Europa – even where there is no light to allow for photosynthesis”.

• The Europa Clipper spacecraft will get close enough to analyze chemicals in the frozen water that has welled up to the surface from beneath the ice shell and sample the water plumes spurting out into space from the Jovian moon.

A mission to study a moon of Jupiter that could be home to extra-terrestrial life has been given a launch date.

Nasa is sending a spacecraft to the icy world of Europa, which holds an ocean under its frozen outer shell.

Scientists have long regarded the moon as one of the most promising targets in the search for life elsewhere in our Solar System.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will now launch to the jovian moon in October 2024, arriving in April 2030.

The spacecraft was to have launched on Nasa’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. But the space agency is reported to no longer be considering that launch vehicle.

It will instead lift off on a commercial rocket.

The details were disclosed by the mission’s project scientist, Dr Robert Pappalardo, during a virtual meeting of Nasa’s Outer Planets Assessment Group (Opag).

“We now have clarity on the launch vehicle path and launch date,” Dr Pappalardo, who is based at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told the meeting.

Interest in the moon as a potential habitat for extra-terrestrial life was given a boost in the 1990s, when Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft provided evidence that Europa harboured an ocean of liquid water beneath its outer shell.

Europa probably has a rocky core surrounded by around 80km (50 miles) of liquid water covered by a shell of water-ice that’s roughly 20km (12 miles) thick.

“Europa’s about the size of Earth’s moon, yet we think it contains twice as much water as all of Earth’s oceans,” Dr Pappalardo said during a virtual talk organised by Arizona State University (ASU) last week.

Discussing the moon’s potential for life, he said: “At the bottom of the Earth’s oceans are places where water and rock interact, where water seeps down, contacts hot rock and emerges charged with chemical nutrients – reductants.”

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New Evidence for Methane a Sign of Extraterrestrial Life

March 1, 2021
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Article by Sarah Kahle February 10, 2021 (dailyuw.com)

• Scientists know that methane is produced two ways: first by living biological microbes converting carbon monoxide into methane, and second by volcanos and deep sea hydrothermal vents. A biologically active exoplanet – the kind that astronomers search star systems for – could be detected by its abundance of methane.

• The James Webb Space Telescope (pictured above) is set to launch October 2021, and will replace the aging Hubble telescope in space. The Webb telescope is particularly adept at detecting atmospheric methane on distant exoplanets.

• A team led by UW postdoctoral student Nick Wogan set out to determine whether volcanic gas emissions on terrestrial exoplanets were abundant enough to disguise any biologically produced methane, and why an abundance of methane might be a potential indication of life. “We wanted to understand whether if we look at another planet, if we see methane there, is that because of life, or is that because of some weird volcano that also produces methane?” Wogan said. The team ran many combinations of simulations that modeled a wide range of volcanic chemistries possible for a terrestrial planet.

• The researchers found that while volcanic activity did produce methane, they weren’t capable of producing abundances anywhere near the level of biogenic methane. Further, if an abundance of methane in an atmosphere did come from volcanic activity, it would be indicated by an abundance of carbon monoxide as well, which the telescopes can detect.

• Therefore, the detection of proportionately large amount of methane in an exoplanet’s atmosphere might indeed be an indication that Earth-like organisms exist there. Large amounts of oxygen-rich gases, such as carbon dioxide and water vapor, alongside the methane would strengthen the possibility of a life-supporting biosignature. Says Wogan, “Really, our best shot of finding evidence of life on another planet is probably seeing the combination of methane and carbon dioxide.”

• Another indication of methane-producing bacteria or other similar lifeforms would be a proportionately low level of carbon monoxide which is consumed and converted by bacteria.

• The research group’s findings will be particularly helpful to astronomers analyzing exoplanetary atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope, and may be instrumental in finding extraterrestrial methane biosignatures.

A team led by UW postdoctoral student Nick Wogan has published a paper explaining why an abundance of methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (any planet orbiting a star other than the Sun) might be a potential indication of life.

Scientists typically search for molecular oxygen as an indication of life (or of conditions favorable to life) on other planets, but unfortunately, the James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch October 2021, isn’t well equipped to detect it in the atmospheres of faraway planets. The new telescope, however, intended to replace the aging Hubble, is particularly adept at detecting atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide abundances.

During the Archean, an eon early in Earth’s history, the first microbes developed and began to convert carbon monoxide into methane. This process continues today. As a result, methane began to build up in the atmosphere and has remained as an indication of biologic activity on Earth ever since.

However, life is not the only process we know of that can produce methane. Volcanism, deep sea hydrothermal vents, and meteor impacts can all generate methane as well. Wogan set out to determine whether volcanic gas emissions on terrestrial exoplanets were abundant enough to disguise any biologically produced methane.

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Techno Governments are Coming: Full Disclosure Needed More Than Ever

February 28, 2021
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On February 26, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak formally proposed legislation that would authorize Techno-Governments. The legislation would allow companies working in innovative areas such as blockchain, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, etc., to be granted the authority of a County Government for tracts of virgin land greater than 50,000 acres. This would mean big tech companies can establish smart cities from the ground up, and control judicial, educational, police and other county level governing authorities.

In this Exopolitics Today Podcast, Dr. Michael Salla discuss the proposed Bill, and why it makes the need for “full disclosure” more urgent than ever before. Available on Rumble and YouTube

Links discussed in Video

Debrief Article, Bill Allowing Big Tech To Form “Techno-Governments” To Be Announced Today

March 27, 2021 Webinar: The Great Awakening vs Global Reset: How Full Disclosure Trumps Transhumanism & Artificial Intelligence

The Great Awakening vs Global Reset: How Full Disclosure Trumps Transhumanism & Artificial Intelligence

February 28, 2021
exopolitics

The Great Reset was first proposed in June 2020 as a means of rebuilding societies and economies worldwide following the Covid-19 pandemic. The initiative envisages a major role to be played by big tech companies in this rebuilding effort, and this is best exemplified in a February 26, 2021, initiative in the US state of Nevada by its Governor Steve Sisolak. He formally proposed legislation that would authorize the creation of Techno-Governments.

The proposed Nevada legislation would allow companies working in innovative areas such as blockchain, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism, to be granted the authority of a County Government for tracts of virgin land greater than 50,000 acres. This would mean big tech companies could build smart cities from the ground up, controlling judicial, educational, police and other county level governing functions as Transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence are promoted and used to control the population. The legislation will open the door to similar proposals in the US and around the world that will profoundly alter societies and economies, just as proposed in the Great Reset.

The Great Awakening is a contrary global process whereby individuals, communities and nations take back control from the unholy alliance being formed between big government and big tech. Essential to the Great Awakening is a Full Disclosure process which reveals the truth about the hidden forces controlling societal and economic life, and further, releasing advanced life-changing technologies that have been suppressed for decades. The Great Awakening will allow individuals to reach their fullest potential as sovereign beings that shape society in ways that better align with their highest aspirations.

In this 4-hour Webinar Intensive, Dr. Michael Salla will explain the all-important crossroad that humanity has collectively reached, the respective pros and cons of the Great Awakening versus the Global Reset, and why the need for “full disclosure” is more urgent than ever before, along with who is working to see it delivered to the people.

About the Presenter: Dr. Michael Salla is the author of the bestselling Secret Space Programs Book Series & founder of Exopolitics.org

Webinar Date: March 27, 2021 (Saturday)

12 pm – 4.30 pm PDT/ 3 pm – 7.30 pm EDT USA (Includes Q&A at the end)
Cost: $55.

*This LIVE event will be recorded, and attendees are able to watch unlimited replays for 60 days.

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Space Lasers Will Revolutionize Military Communications

February 28, 2021
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Article by Patrick Tucker February 18, 2021 (defenseone.com)

• Satellites using lasers to exchange data has been around since 2011. Space-based laser communication is only possible with a very narrow beam, making it much harder than radio-frequency communication but also much more difficult for adversaries to jam or interfere with. Laser communication promises to make military communications faster and harder to intercept. But figuring out how to do it at the scale and reliability needed for practical communication poses a big challenge.

• Laser communication is potentially big money and a host of big tech companies are looking at its potential. The two-year-old Space Development Agency (SDA) has already released a communications standard to be used by four companies supplying the laser gear for a four-satellite trial experiment. SDA director Derek Tournear expects to soon release a request for proposals for a 150-satellite constellation the SDA plans to launch into low-earth orbit by September 2024.

• Tournear didn’t say what four companies were working on the project. He did say that he wants SDA to become the initial go-to market for such innovations in satellite communications. “We are actually trying to create a market,” he said at a recent Space Foundation event. “I want industry to view this as a way to develop a product that then they can sell into that market to try and win a portion of that market share. As long as we do that we’ll have a robust industry base.”

• The Space Development Agency is to be folded into the US Space Force by October 2022, according to the National Defense Authorization Act. But the law specifies that the agency will keep authorities for contracting, classification, etc autonomous. That autonomy is essential to help industry create new space-based technologies that may disrupt markets, said Tournear.

• The agency is asking businesses to take a risk in research and develop capabilities solely for the SDA. These new businesses must be autonomous enough to eventually find non-SDA uses for these technologies in order to expand the market into the space industry commercial sector. Otherwise, they have no long-term incentive to develop these technologies. “[T]he language in law is actually very good at trying to protect that from occurring,” says Tournear.

Satellites that use lasers to exchange data promise to make military communications faster and harder to intercept — if the Pentagon can figure out how to make them work.

With plans to launch a 150-satellite constellation into low-earth orbit by September 2024, the two-year-old Space Development Agency is on a deadline. It has already released a communications standard to be used by four companies supplying the laser gear for a four-satellite experiment called tranche zero, agency director Derek Tournear said Tuesday at a Space Foundation event. And by August, Tournear expects to release a request for proposals that will spell out key details for the “more robust” standard needed for the 150-satellite tranche one.

Laser communication between satellites has been around since 2011 but figuring out how to do it at the scale and reliability needed for practical communication is a big challenge. As engineer Allan Panahi’s seminal 2010 paper on the subject explains, space-based laser communication is only possible with a very narrow beam, making it much harder than radio-frequency communication but also much more difficult for adversaries to jam or interfere with. “The requirement for much more pointing accuracy, acquisition, and tracking…and the impact that this may have on the spacecraft that is moving at 3 [kilometers per second] for [geosynchronous orbit] to 7 [kilometers per second] for [low Earth orbit] is a formidable task,” Panahi wrote.

It’s also potentially big money. SpaceX, Facebook, Google and a host of other tech companies are looking at the potential of laser-based communications.

Tournear didn’t say what companies were working on his project. He did say that he wants SDA, which has plans to launch six additional satellite layers after tranche one, to become the initial go-to market for innovations in satellite communications, at a time when funding for some satellite startups has grown shaky. “We are actually trying to create a market,” he said. “I want industry to view this as a way to develop a product that then they can sell into that market to try and win a portion of that market share. As long as we do that we’ll have a robust industry base.”

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Why Has NASA Not Sent Anyone to Mars?

February 28, 2021
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Article by Jess Romeo February 10, 2021 (daily.jstor.org)

• In 1969, humans first set foot on the Moon. With each step, the entire universe seemed to open up. Where would NASA and its brave astronauts go next? “At the time of the Moon landing, it was generally expected that the United States would quickly go on to Mars,” writes aerospace engineer and founder of the Mars Society Robert Zubrin.

• As Zubrin relates in The New Atlantis: “Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins recalled thinking ‘perhaps I could help [NASA] plan a Mars mission’. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the Moon, remembered feeling that ‘it wasn’t unreasonable to hope’ he’d be assigned to a Mars-bound crew. Gene Cernan, the twelfth and last man on the Moon, recounted with sadness the time that he finally faced the facts: ‘I’m not going to Mars.’”

• In the half-century following Apollo 11, NASA’s human spaceflight program stagnated. After 1972, no astronaut would stray further than 300 miles from Earth.

• People might blame this lack of human spaceflight on waning public support for the endeavor, lack of funding for NASA, or the fickleness of a democratic government during peacetime. But Zubrin is of a different mind. Historically, Zubrin argues, public support played a relatively small role in the space program in the 1960s. Lack of money is no excuse either. NASA actually has significantly more money today (adjusted for inflation) than it did when it first sent astronauts to the moon.

• As for that democratic “fickleness”, Zubrin points out that “many great things have been accomplished by democratic means during times of peace in the United States, including massive public works like the Erie Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the Interstate Highway System.”

• The real problem is what Zubrin calls a “change in mode of operation.” After Apollo 11, NASA lost sight of its clear, driving purpose. Human spaceflight projects became aimless and slow-moving. NASA has spent hundreds of billions of dollars over the past half-century with very little results. George H.W. Bush’s ‘Space Exploration Initiative’ in 1989 quickly collapsed. Barack Obama’s ‘Journey to Mars’ had no specific deadlines to accomplish anything. And despite establishing Space Force, the Trump administration’s ambitions were vague and Mars was never a top priority.

• Nowadays, Earth’s interaction with the Red Planet begins and ends with robots. But with people like Elon Musk vowing to colonize the Moon by 2026, perhaps the dream is closer than it seems.

• [Editor’s Note] The facts given in this article point to the causes for the NASA space program’s stagnation over the past fifty years, but not the underlying reason. The reason is that the deep state elite who presided over the creation of vast and competing secret space programs were incredibly greedy. They wanted to keep all of the advanced extraterrestrial technologies, to which they were exposed through their off-planet exploits, only to themselves. So in the 1950s, they set up the “civilian” NASA under the authority of the military industrial complex and invented a “Moon mission” using outdated rocket technology, while they continued to develop their secret space programs using advanced electromagnetic anti-gravity warp drive propulsion technology. Once the deep state put on their Apollo 11 show in 1969 and gave the world a bone to keep them quiet, they came up with other sinister ways to divert the public’s attention over the decades. Deep state agents used any excuse to discredit any real-world space program through the influence of a complicit media (just as they discredited the UFO phenomenon), paving the way for complicit legislators to give space activities the lowest priority. But don’t be fooled. There are millions of people currently residing on the Moon, Mars, and many other celestial bodies within and outside of our solar system.

In 1969, humans first set foot on the Moon. With each step, the entire universe seemed to open up. Where would NASA and its

brave astronauts go next? As it turns out, nowhere. In the half-century following Apollo 11, NASA’s human spaceflight program stagnated. Even our closest planetary neighbor, Mars, seems like an impossible destination—but this wasn’t always the case.

“At the time of the Moon landing, it was generally expected that the United States would quickly go on to Mars,” writes aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society and advocate for human exploration of Mars. As Zubrin relates in The New Atlantis: “Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins recalled thinking “
‘perhaps I could help them [NASA] plan’ a Mars mission. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the Moon, remembered feeling that ‘it wasn’t unreasonable to hope’ he’d be assigned to a Mars-bound crew. Gene Cernan, the twelfth and last man on the Moon, recounted with sadness the time that he “finally faced the facts: ‘I’m not going to Mars.’”

After 1972, no astronaut would stray further than 300 miles from Earth.

People might blame this lack of human spaceflight on waning public support for the endeavor, lack of funding for NASA, or the

fickleness of a democratic government during peacetime. Zubrin is of a different mind: “Each of these explanations is intuitively plausible,” he argues, “But […] taken together, they amount to a profound misunderstanding of how democratic peoples can do great things.”

Historically, Zubrin argues, public support played a relatively small role in the space program in the 1960s. “An analysis by historian Roger Launius found that […] lunar exploration in general almost never enjoyed majority support in contemporary polls.” Lack of money is no excuse either, Zubrin adds, as NASA actually has significantly more money today (adjusted for inflation) than it did when it first sent astronauts to the moon.

As for that democratic “fickleness,” Zubrin points out that “many great things have been accomplished by democratic means during times of peace in the United States, including massive public works like the Erie Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the Interstate Highway System.”

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‘Best UFO Video in Years’ Shows UFO Speed Away and Return

February 27, 2021
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Article by Dave Basner February 8, 2021 (iheart.com)

• A woman who identified herself only as a musician captured a video recording of a small UFO darting back and forth next to a commercial airliner flying to Chicago. The musician originally Tweeted the video with the caption: “Okay y’all, when I was flying home from Chicago I saw something spooky; my gut instinct was UFO but figured that couldn’t be possible so then I thought military drone, but idk… thoughts?”

• The woman filmed the playful UFO also pointed it out to people next to her. In the clip, she says it is “right over by those solar panels” and then an object zips into view, hovers and dashes away at a very high rate of speed. Sounds of shock and amazement can be heard before the UFO returns and curves upward, flying off in the distance.

• She has since removed the video from her Twitter without explaining why. Some commenters think maybe it was because the video was fake, but others considered the possibility that someone, maybe even from the government, asked her to pull the footage.
While many immediately label the video clip as a fake, others who are certain it is a real UFO. They feel it is absolutely genuine based on the reactions of people on the plane, with one commenter describing it as the “best UFO video in years.”

There are many views that you can admire from a plane window – fluffy clouds floating by, a nighttime sky full of stars, or a colorful sunset in the distance, but what one woman witnessed on her flight out of Chicago is something she will never forget – a UFO.

She filmed the flying saucer, pointing it out to those next to her. In the clip, she says it is “right over by those solar panels” and then an object zips into view, hovers and dashes away at a very high rate of speed. Sounds of shock and amazement can be heard before the UFO returns and curves upward, flying off in the distance.

The video was originally tweeted out by a musician who captioned it “Okay y’all, when I was flying home from Chicago I saw something spooky; my gut instinct was UFO but figured that couldn’t be possible so then I thought military drone, but idk… thoughts?”

She has since removed the video from her Twitter, but didn’t give an explanation as to why. Some commenters think maybe it was because the video was fake, but there is also the possibility that someone, maybe even from the government, suggested she pull the footage.

58 second video of small UFO next to a commercial jet (‘LUFOS’ YouTube)

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Were Betty and Barney Hill Really Abducted by Humanoid Aliens?

February 27, 2021
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Article by Aharon Abhishek February 10, 2021 (meaww.com)

• One night in September 1961, New Hampshire residents Betty and Barney Hill (pictured above) were abducted while driving on an interstate road. According to their first hand accounts, dream writings and hypnotic regression, they were taken by two small alien beings who were “nearly human” with huge dark eyes, noses, and black hair. They stood about five feet tall and wore matching blue uniforms. Their skin was gray. Barney told Walter Webb, an investigator with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, that the “beings were somehow not human.” They later recalled that these aliens were from the Zeta Reticuli star system.

• The two small gray beings led Betty into the forest (off of the highway). Barney, her husband, followed them until they reached a metallic disc ‘as wide as their house’. Betty saw that Barney was ‘dazed and practically sleepwalking’. The aliens walked the couple inside the metallic craft where there were other alien beings waiting. They were instructed to removed their clothes. The aliens took strands of their hair, clipped nails, and scraped their skin. They probed their heads, arms, legs, and along with their spines with needles connected to long wires. The beings inserted one of the needles into Betty’s belly. And all the while, the “leader” of the beings was keenly observing the experiments.

• Betty recalled asking the leader where they were. The leader replied, “if you don’t know where you are, there wouldn’t be any point in telling you where I am.” This implied telepathic communication. Some have linked the possibility if an extraterrestrial breeding program to produce alien-human hybrid beings with the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case.

• The Betty and Barney Hill case has become one of the most famed alien tales, taking its place in pop culture in the form of a 1975 flick, ‘The UFO Incident’. Many claims of alien abduction followed the Hill’s encounter. Most recently, the Betty and Barney Hill case and possible ties to a alien hybrid program was recounted in the season finale of the Discovery+ series’ ‘UFO Witness’ earlier this month.

Alien abduction tales and theories are a dime a dozen, but some have remained an enigma to date. The “Betty and Barney Hill’s

Alien Abduction” story on a September 1961 night has been one of those stories that have defined the whole abduction genre. Soon after, this incident was named the ‘Zeta Reticuli Incident’ after the couple claimed their aliens were from the Zeta Reticuli system. The story, like most famed alien tales, also saw its place in pop culture in the form of a 1975 flick, ‘The UFO Incident’.

Now, the events of the abduction will be examined again. This time, Discovery+ will reopen the chapter as part of its show, ‘UFO Witness’. The final episode titled, ‘The Hybrid Secret’ will explore the possibility of the alien-human breeding program and also looks at the Betty and Barney incident as one of the important links.

A look at the recount by both Betty and Barney sees them describe their abductors as gray beings with large eyes. These extraterrestrials had walked the couple into a metallic disc that was as wide as their house. The couple’s memories were reportedly erased. To date, there is no doubt the story has been looked at as a mystery and absolute balderdash.

According to History, Betty with the help of hypnosis recounts how the couple was experimented upon. The beings as they called them removed

their clothes, took strands of their hair, clipped nails, and also scraped their skin. Their heads, arms, and legs along with their spines were probed by needles that were connected to long wires. One of them was inserted into her belly. And all the while, a “leader” of the beings was keenly observing the experiments.

Did the Hills actually see humanoid aliens?

Although Betty’s account pretty much leaves a lot to the readers’ imagination, thinking of the aliens with a human structure might not be too much of a stretch. Barney, in his report to National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) investigator Walter Webb, said the “beings were somehow not human.” There are, of course, two explanations— fragged memory and the possibility that they weren’t humans, or at least they didn’t look like a normal human being.

Soon after their reports of being abducted, Betty experienced dreams with such incredible detailing that she actually wrote them down. Two small men walking her into the forest in one of her writings. Barney followed suit, although she describes him to be dazed and practically sleepwalking. The men reportedly stood about five feet and all wore matching blue uniforms. They were “nearly human” and had dark huge eyes, noses, and black hair as well. Their skin was gray.

2:10 minute video clip summary of Betty and Barney Hill case (‘Showmax’ YouTube)

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Finally! Warp Drives Possible! (more conservative ones at least)

February 26, 2021
Giorgio Piacenza

Applied Physics Constructs First Model of Physical Warp Drives - The Cowboy Channel

Press release by scientist Gianni Martire:

” Warp Drives are Now Possible”

The group’s findings have been published in the peer-reviewed journal,

Classical and Quantum Gravity

New York, NY – Scientists at Applied Physics are excited to announce they have

recently constructed the first model of physical warp drives.

Applied Physics is an independent group of scientists, engineers, and inventors that

advise companies and governments on science and technology for both commercial and

humanitarian applications.

In the organization’s most recent news, the team at Applied Physics is announcing the

first model of physical warp drives – something that, until now, has only had a place in

science fiction. The group’s study was conducted in close contact with distinguished

researchers in warp field mechanics, including receiving blessings from the esteemed

Theoretical Physicist Miguel Alcubierre, with findings being published in the peer-reviewed journal, Classical and Quantum Gravity.

“Many people in the field of science are aware of the Alcubierre Drive and believe that

warp drives are unphysical because of the need for negative energy,” says Lund

University Astrophysicist and Scientist at Applied Physics, Alexey Bobrick.

“This, however, is no longer correct; we went in a different direction than NASA and others

and our research has shown there are actually several other classes of warp drives in

general relativity. In particular, we have formulated new classes of warp drive solutions

that do not require negative energy and, thus, become physical.”

“While we still can’t break the speed of light, we don’t need to in order to become an

interstellar species,” says Gianni Martire, Scientist at Applied Physics. “Our warp drive

research has the potential to unite us all.”

Both Bobrick and Martire are happy to provide further details about their work

regarding warp drives to any interested party.

For more information about Applied Physics, please visit https://AppliedPhysics.org

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Introducing Physical Warp Drives

Alexey Bobrick, Gianni Martire

The Alcubierre warp drive is an exotic solution in general relativity. It allows for superluminal travel at the cost of enormous amounts of matter with negative mass density. For this reason, the Alcubierre warp drive has been widely considered unphysical. In this study, we develop a model of a general warp drive spacetime in classical relativity that encloses all existing warp drive definitions and allows for new metrics without the most serious issues present in the Alcubierre solution. We present the first general model for subluminal positive-energy, spherically symmetric warp drives; construct superluminal warp-drive solutions which satisfy quantum inequalities; provide optimizations for the Alcubierre metric that decrease the negative energy requirements by two orders of magnitude; and introduce a warp drive spacetime in which space capacity and the rate of time can be chosen in a controlled manner. Conceptually, we demonstrate that any warp drive, including the Alcubierre drive, is a shell of regular or exotic material moving inertially with a certain velocity. Therefore, any warp drive requires propulsion. We show that a class of subluminal, spherically symmetric warp drive spacetimes, at least in principle, can be constructed based on the physical principles known to humanity today.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06824

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Watch: “Warp Drive News. Seriously!” (By Sabine Hossenfelder)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VWLjhJBCp0&feature=emb_logo

A previous study that mentions previous improvements such as those by Dr. Harold White from Eagleworks (NASA)

Click to access BobrickTorino2019.pdf

My Commentary: By using normal positive energy it would be more feasible and acceptable to most current scientists to accept the creation of a warp drive. But it would also be a “slower” drive (subluminal but, nonetheless, potentially ‘faster’ than current chemical rocketry and other crafts based on the Newtonian action-reaction principle). A step forward to open their minds also to the extraterrestrial/multidimensional presence about which there is much evidence.

I believe that other warp drive methods already exist in the classified world. Some might use negative energy states and potentially or actually superluminal.

But Martire and Bobrick’s theoretical demonstration is a good step forward because until their articles most physicists considered warp drives ‘science fiction” since they were linked to the possibility of using negative energy states widely considered as non-plausible and “non-physical.”

What Martire and Bobrick have apparently demonstrated is that by needing two orders of magnitude less amount of negative energies that requirement can basically be circumvented.

Interestingly, optimized geometries are looking very Ufo-ish.

Nation of Islam’s Truth About ‘Wheel’ UFOs

February 26, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Ilia Rashad Muhammad February 9, 2021 (finalcall.com)

• The Nation of Islam is an African-American political and new religious movement, founded on July 4, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace Fard Muhammad. The Nation of Islam members believe that Master Fard Muhammad was directly responsible for the construction and operation wheel-shaped flying craft which we think of as UFOs. It is said that Fard Muhammad introduced a gigantic circular craft called the Mother Wheel, along with 1,500 smaller ‘wheels’ to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the early 1930s.

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad openly answered questions about the ‘wheels’ I the sky to solved the mystery of the UFO phenomena. Members of the Nation of Islam believe that it is so extremely difficult to learn that the supreme power behind the modern UFO phenomena is represented by the children of once-slaves, that American government agencies such as the CIA along with Western world leaders who promote the premise of ‘white supremacy’ continue to actively disregard, deny and cover-up this truth of the true origin of UFOs. This, according to member of the Nation of Islam, is the underlying ‘big secret’ of the UFO phenomena.

• Master Fard Muhammad’s ‘wheels in the sky’ fulfills Islamic scriptural prophecies about God’s coming “with His heavenly Wheels”. The Nation of Islam, therefore, believe that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his servant, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (pictured above) are the clear representatives of a divine power on Earth.

• The Nation of Islam believes the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, and private groups like the Anti-Defamation League have all worked together to discredit the truth about the UFO phenomena and its direct connection to the Nation of Islam. The Anti-Defamation League has even placed UFO research in its list of anti-semitic conspiracy theories. All the aforementioned groups have a proven history of misinforming the public about the Nation of Islam and the UFO phenomena. These groups are on record for investigating and surveilling the Nation’s relationship to these Wheels, and plotting to discredit both the Nation of Islam and the ‘wheels’.

• It is told that according CIA documents, in 1942 the federal government arrested and interrogated the Honorable Elijah Muhammad about the huge wheel-shaped object (UFO) that the US Armed Forces encountered a few months prior that same year. The CIA was formed in the wake of mass UFO sightings that catapulted after the government had incarcerated Elijah Muhammad for his connection to these wheels.

• By 1947, these disc-shaped planes were now being spotted by thousands of people around the country and interfering with America’s military bases and weapons sites. It can be argued that the development of the NSA and the CIA under Truman’s National Security Act were likely in response to the accumulating sightings and reports that had escalated by 1947. According to the Nation of Islam, a new and overwhelmingly superior power was making its presence felt through Master Fard Muhammad’s Wheels and there was nothing the US government could do about it.

• This explains why these US government agencies hide the truth about the Nation of Islam’s connection to these UFOs and the power behind them. But because these Wheels are directly connected to the children of once slaves, there has been a deliberate refusal to acknowledge the proven source and representatives of this phenomena. The US government would rather give credit to fictitious aliens that they made up before acknowledging that Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan have brought forth clear proof that demystifies all their false UFO theories. Instead, government agencies silence Farrakhan so they can control the narrative about him and the ‘God of these Wheels’.

Apparently there has been news about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) releasing and disclosing its documents about unidentified flying

objects (UFOs) to the public. These are hundreds of files with most of the documents being heavily redacted to the point where it becomes difficult to decipher the depth of what’s being shared.

But let’s be honest. Did we really think that an agency, whose job has been to lie and deceive the public, is going to suddenly come clean about all they know concerning UFOs? Moreover, who told you the CIA is somehow the authority on this subject?

Any real or truthful disclosure about the worldwide UFO phenomena has to directly involve the Nation of Islam (NOI), for it was this group’s founder—Master Fard Muhammad—who is directly responsible for the construction and operations of these wheel-shaped crafts that have captured the attention and concern of every world government and military.

It was He who introduced this gigantic circular craft called the Mother Wheel (and its accompanying 1,500 smaller Wheels) to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the early 1930s. To this day, the NOI remains the only entity to give definitive facts concerning these global phenomena. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad answered the questions and solved the mystery of the UFO phenomena before the Government or the public had any major questions or concerns about it.

If the CIA files don’t include this most central truth concerning the UFO phenomena, then it’s clear they aren’t being truthful. That would be like telling the public about the history of bean pies without even mentioning those who brought this magnificent dessert to the public forefront.

Likewise, it is utterly deceitful to disregard the very people who brought the truth about these wheel-shaped planes to public attention. That’s what the big secret of the UFO phenomena involves.

In truth, it’s a hard pill to swallow for most people, especially for those who rule over world systems of White supremacy. It’s extremely difficult to learn that the supreme power behind the UFO phenomena is represented by the children of once-slaves.

It’s hard to accept the truth that all the scriptural prophecies about God’s coming with His heavenly Wheels is actually being fulfilled in the real world and in real time.

It’s almost impossible for religious and political leaders to admit that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his servant, the Honorable Minister Farrakhan are the clear representatives of this divine power on earth—even though they’ve proven to be 1,000 percent right and exact on this.

So, since world leaders find it difficult to have a discussion (or debate) with the Nation of Islam on this topic, they’ve responded by either ignoring the truth, or hiding the truth altogether.

This is what the worldwide UFO cover-up is all about, and the CIA has been a leading conspirator in this deception. Unlike what they’ve led you to believe, these planes have nothing to do with aliens or reptilians that are only seen in movies; rather, it has to do with a real God who brought real evidence of His power in the real world just as the prophecies predict.

The fact that the CIA is suddenly releasing their information about UFOs proves that they’ve been lying and hiding something for several decades, and there’s no rational reason to believe they’ve suddenly felt obligated to come forward with the truth.

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Pentagon Carried Out Tests on Futuristic ‘UFO Debris’

February 26, 2021
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Article by Berny Torre February 9, 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)

• On December 26, 2017, UFO researcher Tony Bragaglia submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the US Department of Defense for “all information on test results on UAP material from Bigelow Aerospace”. On January 8, 2021 he received a response to his request. “Incredibly, part of the information released discusses material with shape recovery properties, much like the ‘memory metal’ debris found fallen at the Roswell UFO crash in 1947,” writes Bragaglia in an online report (see here). “[S]ome of this material was placed with a defense contractor for analysis and storage in ‘specialized facilities’.

• Bragaglia claims the futuristic materials could have the power to make things invisible, ‘compress’ electromagnetic energy and may even slow down the speed of light. “Although much of the reports’ details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man.”

• “The information provided in the FOIA response seems to represent reports that are directly relevant to what was learned from the study of the UFO debris, and how insight gained from those studies might be applied in the future, but does not include a detailing of the found debris itself,” writes Bragaglia. “Disappointingly, the reports do not include much of what was requested, such as a physical description and the composition of the material, the origin of the material, and the names of the involved scientists. That remains classified.”

• However, the FOIA response does include ‘technical pursuit areas derived from the study of those materials’. “The released documents help to inform us of the potential applications of the materials…” says Bragaglia. “They speak of ‘recent experiments’ that ‘provide new concepts’ and of ‘theoretical developments that might result in new materials’.” According to Bragaglia, the FOIA reports say how more than 40 witnesses mentioned a metal-like material that could ‘remember itself’ following the Roswell crash. The material would return to its original state instantly after being folded or deformed.

• “The DIA believes it is being responsive to the FOIA request by acknowledging UFO debris, its storage by Bigelow, and by identifying areas of future applications of these materials, said Bragaglia, “without having to actually name responsible parties, of what elements the material is comprised, how it is processed…”

The Pentagon has recovered UFO debris and conducted tests on futuristic materials which are a “quantum leap” ahead of current

technologies, a flying saucer investigator has claimed.

ET expert Tony Bragaglia submitted a FOI request to the US defence department on December 26, 2017.

He has recently shared links to a Defense Intelligence Agency’s belated response more than three years on.

A letter dated January 8 this year provided partial responses to his request for “all information on test results on UAP material from Bigelow Aerospace”.

Mr Bragaglia claims the futuristic materials could have the power to make things invisible, ‘compress’ electromagnetic energy and may even slow down the speed of light.

Writing online, Mr Bragaglia said: “Now officially referred to as UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) rather than UFOs, some of this material was placed with a defense contractor for analysis and storage in ‘specialized facilities’.

“Incredibly, part of the information released discusses material with shape recovery properties, much like the ‘memory metal’ debris found fallen at the Roswell UFO crash in 1947.”

He added: “Although much of the reports’ details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man.”

Mr Bragaglia claimed: “The information provided in the FOIA response seems to represent reports that are directly relevant to what was learned from the study of the UFO debris, and how insight gained from those studies might be applied in the future, but does not include a detailing of the found debris itself.

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Bangor Daily News Readers Own UFO Stories

February 25, 2021
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Article by Troy R. Bennett February 5, 2020 (bangordailynews.com)

• In response to reports of rising numbers of UFO sightings in Maine in the Bangor Daily News, here are some more details of various sightings: Kathleen McKechnie of Bowdoinham, Maine says she saw a UFO. “It went from here to Topsham in the blink of an eye. No kidding. It was fast,” she wrote. “It was so fast, I couldn’t be more positive. I saw a UFO.”

• In the 1990s, Deb Doherty of Steep Falls, Maine was driving on Route 114 from Gorham to Sebago Lake Village with her sister when they both saw “a bright orange thing streaking across the sky”. They both decided that “people already think we’re nuts. Don’t tell anyone. We laughed but I have always wondered.” Doherty said.

• Kathleen Thurnau, 73, was an 18-year-old English major at the University of Southern Maine in 1965 when one night, in early winter, Thurnau awoke to an odd noise coming from outside. It was a roaring, with a high-pitched squeak. She got up and looked out of the girls dormitory window atop the hill. Looking down toward Campus Avenue, Thurnau saw lights through the swirling snowflakes. The lights cycled between three points, as if they were attached to a dark, triangular shape. She thought it was a snowplow, until the lights moved. “There’s no way a truck could move that fast,” Thurnau said. The lights then shot down Campus Avenue and out of sight. Thurnau moved to another window with a better view and then watched the orbs racing up the hill toward the boys dormitory. The next day, she called the police but they had no explanation for her. She thought they would laugh at her if she suggested they may have been a UFO. “I’ve never forgotten, and it’s probably why I am such a sci-fi nut,” said Thurnau. “We are regular church-goers and my faith is extremely important to me, as I believe it guides my life, but I also believe I saw a UFO when I was 18.” “We cannot be the only beings in this vast universe.”

• An anonymous Portland, Maine resident and his partner were driving west on Route 302 in Windham in the summer of 2019 when a UFO appeared above their car for no more than a second. “It was oval-ish, with a red light that could have been part of a propulsion system, as it moved in the opposite direction of the light,” he said. “I didn’t know what the hell it was.” Judging by its size, he reckoned it was huge, or flying very low, or both. At the next red light, a dump truck pulled up beside them. “I rolled down my window and asked him if he just saw that,” the man said. The driver nodded and said that he had. The man said he’s not sure what he saw that night but can neither rule out aliens or a government conspiracy to make the public believe in extraterrestrial visitors. But he wonders, if there really are aliens, why can’t they make direct contact — or at least be better at hiding themselves?

• In 1978, Christine and Allan Morrill of Waterboro, Maine were 19 and 22-year-old newlyweds driving home from a barbecue in Newfield. “Allan was driving, when all of a sudden a blinding light shone down on the back of the car,” said Christine. “The next second, it was in front of the car. Then, a second later, it was gone. The road and sky were dark again.” They never got a look at where the light was coming from. At first, they thought it was a friend, playing a trick, driving up behind them with a spotlight. “Then we quickly realized there was no sound,” she said. “Our windows were down. It was a warm night.” Stunned, they drove home in silence. A week later, Allan was talking to a friend, who was also a York County Deputy Sheriff, who told Allan of a busy night the week before, when his office received multiple calls about unexplained lights in the sky over that same neck of the woods. Still, the Morrills kept silent about what happened for the next 43 years. “We knew people would laugh,” Christine said. “Even today I think of it like a scene right out of a movie — except it really happened.”

PORTLAND, Maine — A recent story we published about the rising numbers of UFO sightings in Maine drew a hearty number of reader responses.

Some folks wanted to make pithy retorts deriding the singular tales. Others sought to explain them away. Most wanted to chime in with their own first-hand accounts of strange aerial phenomena occurring high over the Pine Tree State.

“It went from here to Topsham in the blink of an eye. No kidding. It was fast,” wrote Kathleen McKechnie in Bowdoinham. “It was so fast, I couldn’t be more positive. I saw a UFO.”

Deb Doherty of Steep Falls also saw something: “I was driving on Route 114 from Gorham to Sebago Lake Village with my sister in law, back in the 90s, and as we crested a hill there was a bright orange thing streaking across the sky.”

They both witnessed it.

“She responded with, ‘People already think we’re nuts. Don’t tell anyone,” Doherty said. “We laughed but I have always wondered.”

A few other readers had laughs, too.

“Maine has a high rate of Allen’s Coffee Brandy drinkers too,” wrote one commenter. “Any connection?”

Scott Simcock of South Paris also had a chuckle: “I believe it by the high numbers of anal probes left on the ground in the parking lot by the pond.”

But the majority of people who got in touch just told their own UFO stories. Here are three of them.

Kathleen Thurnau, 73, was an 18-year-old English major at the University of Southern Maine in 1965 when she saw something she still can’t explain.

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UFO Sleuth Says US Government Knows More About Aliens Than It Lets On

February 25, 2021
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Article by Harry Pettit February 8, 2021 (thesun.co.uk)

• Since 1996, John Greenewald Jr. has run the website, The Black Vault, (see here), where he has filed more than 10,000 Freedom of Information Act requests and published over 2 million sensitive files from the CIA, NSA and other government agencies. His trove of documents dates back to World War One and covers topics including UFOs, Bigfoot, alien encounters, the JFK assassination and the CIA’s mind-control research.

• Each month, The Black Vault site attracts more than 300,000 visitors, who download a combined ten terabytes of documents. Most are so heavily classified you can’t read anything on the page. “A lot of people get frustrated at that,” Greenewald said. “But that to me… proves that the phenomena is real, that it’s unidentified, and that it’s highly classified. Whatever it is, they just don’t want us to know about it.”

• Greenewald believes that there are plenty of secrets stored in the various national archives that agency staff don’t even know are there. “[T]here’s a lot of evidence to suggest that most government agencies don’t know what they have in their holdings,” said Greenewald. “The National Archive here in America alone, they measure documents by cubic feet due to the amount of information they have. So it’s hard for me to believe they’ve found every UFO document that they have.”

• The cyber detective has made his fair share of head-spinning finds. They include the story of an explosion in a small Russian town in the 1970s which ripped off roofs, blew out windows and left a 90ft-wide crater. Residents there reported seeing a “moving fiery sphere”. Another tells of a Bosnian fugitive who claimed to have made contact with aliens. Perhaps the site’s biggest scoop are files relating to MKUltra, the CIA mind-control experiments conducted on dozens of US citizens to control human behavior, often using hallucinogens like LSD.

• Based in the town of Castaic in Los Angeles county California with his wife of nine years, Sabrena, and two children, Christian, aged six, and Anabelle, two, Greenewald has tirelessly investigated the shady activities of US government sleuths since the age of 15. He wakes up at 4:30am each day to investigate unexplained phenomena the world over, juggling his hobby with his day job running an online business that sells earphones to gyms and schools.

• In January, Greenewald published hundreds more declassified CIA files containing once top secret information on sightings of UFOs across the globe. But Greenewald says that there are still reams of documents held by the government regarding UFO sightings that are yet to be uncovered, and that spy agencies know a lot more about “alien” encounters than they’re letting on.

• In an interview with The Sun, the 39-year-old revealed that some files simply go “missing”. “Often they search their archives and tell you they didn’t find anything,” said Greenewald. “You really can’t fight it and you just have to trust them.” “Sometimes, the evidence is so explosive that they don’t really search as well as they say they do.”

• “I once filed requests on DIA and NSA material on UFOs that’s been classified for years,” said Greenewald. “Both agencies told me the same thing: They ‘lost everything’. They just can’t find it. That doesn’t make sense, that doesn’t fly. The government generally doesn’t lose anything. …For them to claim (they’ve lost) UFO material is very convenient.”

• Still, Greenewald hopes that The Black Vault can educate the general public by giving them as much of the story as possible. He’s kept the website free and allows people to download anything from the site without charging a fee. “I want visitors to have as many pieces of the puzzle as possible when it comes to UFOs or mind control or whatever the topic is,” he said. “They want this information, and they should have access to it.” “It’s the most amazing feeling I get when people benefit from that.”

A SEASONED UFO-hunter who has spent 25 years exposing US government secrets says that spy agencies know a lot more about

“alien” encounters than they’re letting on.

John Greenewald Jr, who runs a website where he has published more than 2million sensitive files from the CIA, National Security Agency and more, said reams of documents regarding mysterious sightings are yet to be uncovered.

Based in California, the father-of-two has tirelessly investigated the shady activities of US government sleuths since the age of 15.

Last month, he published hundreds of declassified CIA files containing once top secret information on sightings of UFOs across the globe to his website, The Black Vault.

Within the pages are a bizarre story of an explosion in a Russian town in the 1970s, and a dispute with a Bosnian fugitive who claimed to have made contact with aliens.

Since 1996, John says he’s filed more then 10,000 Freedom Of Information Act requests to get hold of elusive government papers.

They date back to World War One and cover topics including Bigfoot, alien encounters, the JFK assassination and the CIA’s mind-control research.

In an interview with The Sun, the 39-year-old revealed that some files are so explosive that they simply go “missing”.

“Often they search their archives and tell you they didn’t find anything,” John said. “You really can’t fight it and you just have to trust them.”

“Sometimes, the evidence is so explosive that they don’t really search as well as they say they do.”

On top of that, he believes that there are plenty of juicy secrets stored up in the national archives that agency staff don’t know are there.

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CIA Doc Claims Carl Jung Accused US Air Force of Covering Up UFOs

February 24, 2021
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Article by Arjun Walia February 2, 2021 (collective-evolution.com)

• In a declassified CIA document dated 1959 (see here), UFO researcher Fred A. Kirsch replies to a previous letter criticizing the famous psychoanalyst Dr. Carl Jung (pictured above) for his belief in flying saucers. Kirsch points out that other persons of integrity and reputation have also expressed their belief in UFOs and the Air Force’s cover-up of the truth about these objects. These persons include former director of the naval guided missile research program Admiral Delmar Fahrney and former chief of the CIA Roscoe M. Hillenkoetter, both of whom would be in a position to know.

• In his letter, Kirsch goes on: “If Jung were the only responsible person to make such charges, we could brush the whole thing off as nonsense. However, when a number of pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers agree that the UFOs are real, a serious reappraisal of the situation is in order.”

• 1959 was the same year that Jung released his book: “Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies”, which examines “not the reality or unreality” of UFOs but their “psychic aspect” and what it may signify that these phenomena are occurring at a time of Cold War “when humankind is menaced as never before in history”.

• In 1957, New Republic editor Gilbert A. Harrison wanted to get this Jung’s perspective on UFOs for his magazine. “The problem of the UFOs,” writes Jung, is that while “there is no certainty about their very nature…there is…overwhelming material pointing to their legendary or mythological aspect.” “[I]t looks to me as if something were seen and even confirmed by radar, but nobody knows exactly what is seen.”

• In an article: “Flying Saucers Come From A Distant World” in The American Weekly, October 24, 1954, Hermann Oberth, mentor to Wernher Von Braun and the ‘father of spaceflight’ stated his belief that “flying saucers are real” and that “they are space ships from another solar system” and manned by intelligent observers “of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.”

• In his very last interview before his death, Colonel Robert Friend, who from 1958-1962 was a director of the US Air Force UFO investigation ‘Project Blue Book’ suggested that the Air Force knew what these UFOs were. The first CIA director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, once said, “It is time for the truth to be brought out…Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officials are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects.” And former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Dr. Brian O’Leary said we now have “abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.”

• While UFOs have gone mainstream today, many people have concerns about “real” UFO disclosure given the fact that governments and mainstream media have deceived the public on so many occasions.

Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the very first director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once said that “It is time for the truth to be

brought out…Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officials are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects”

He said this decades ago. Hillenkoetter is also mentioned in this declassified document archived and released by the CIA. This particular document also mentions Carl Jung. It reads as follows: This is a reply to the letter (Aug. 6) criticizing Dr. Carl Jung for his belief in flying saucers and his charges that the Air Force has been covering up the truth about these objects. I would like to point out that Dr. Jung is not the first person of integrity and reputation who has made such charges. He is merely the latest. Exactly the same charge has been made by Admiral Delmar Fahrney, former director of the naval guided missile research program, and by R.M. Hillenkoetter, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. Both of these men would be in a position to know how much the AF investigation of saucers really found.

The piece was written by Fred A. Kirsch, a well known UFO researcher.

So what did they really find? Keep in mind this document is from 1959, it’s now 2021. How much has been discovered and how much has been kept from the public? In his very last interview before his death, Colonel Robert Friend, who from 1958-1962 was a director of Project Blue Book (U.S. Air Force UFO investigation project) suggests the U.S. Air Force knew what these object were. Fast forward to today, and we now have

“abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.” (Dr. Brian O’Leary, former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor)

The document goes on:
If Jung were the only responsible person to make such charges, we could brush the whole thing off as nonsense. However, when a number of pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers agree that the UFOs are real, a serious reappraisal of the situation is in order.

Today, UFOs have gone mainstream, and the same information is being emphasized. For example, Christopher Mellon, who was the former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Intelligence from 1997 to 2002, recently made an appearance on CNN stating the same facts about these objects. Many people have concerns about “mainstream UFO disclosure” given the fact that governments and mainstream media, according to many, have deceived the public on so many occasions.

The same year that this document pertaining to Jung was written, he released his book called Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, which examines “not the reality or unreality” of the titular phenomena, but their “psychic aspect,” and “what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time” — the Cold War — “when humankind is menaced as never before in history.”

It seems, in my opinion, he was quite convinced of the phenomenon. Especially given the fact that he accused the Air Force of a cover-up. Again,

fast forward to today and we now know he was right.

In 1957, New Republic editor Gilbert A. Harrison wanted to get this Jung’s perspective on UFOs in his magazine. You can see (via The Awl) a scan of Jung’s response to Harrison’s query, the text reads as follows:
The problem of the Ufos is, as you rightly say, a very fascinating one, but it is as puzzling as it is fascinating; since, in spite of all observations I know of, there is no certainty about their very nature. On the other side, there is an overwhelming material pointing to their legendary or mythological aspect. As a matter of fact the psychological aspect is so impressive, that one almost must regret that the Ufos seem to be real after all. I have followed up the literature as much as possible and it looks to me as if something were seen and even confirmed by radar, but nobody knows exactly what is seen. In consideration of the psychological aspect of the phenomenon I have written a booklet about it, which is soon to appear. It is also in the process of being translated into English. Unfortunately being occupied with other tasks I am unable to meet your proposition. Being rather old, I have to economize my energies.

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Incredible Perseverance Rover Mars Landing

February 23, 2021
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Article by Ashley Strickland February 19, 2021 (cnn.com)

UPDATED

• On Thursday February 18th, NASA’s Perseverance rover reached Mars’ thin atmosphere. The rover’s ‘jetpack’ lowered the rover on tethers near to the planet’s surface where the rover disengaged from the jetpack and descended by parachute to the ground. Meanwhile, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (which has been orbiting Mars since 2006) flew overhead taking pictures of the descent and landing. The orbiter will relay data from the rover on the ground to the science team back on Earth. The rover and its jetpack were also snapping images along the way.

• While the first images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera on Thursday evening were black and white glimpses showing the rover safely landing on Mars, by Friday color images of the ‘Red Planet’ were being transmitted from the rover itself.

• Perseverance landed about 1.2 miles away from the Jezero Crater river delta, which hosted a lake 3.9 billion years ago. The rover switched over to the software it will use while driving on the Martian surface where it will spend the next two years investigating the crater and delta in search for evidence of ancient life that may have existed when Mars was a more habitable place.

• These first images shared during a NASA press conference were “exhilarating” for the team. A camera on the descent stage of the rover spacecraft captured a unique perspective. “This shot from a camera on my jetpack captures me in midair, just before my wheels touched down,” related the Perseverance rover on its Perseverance Twitter account. “The moment that my team dreamed of for years, now a reality.” “An open horizon, with so much to explore. Can’t wait to get going,” the Perseverance account tweeted. ”Dare mighty things.”

• “The team is overwhelmed with excitement and joy to have successfully landed another rover on the surface of Mars,” said Adam Steltzner, the Perseverance rover’s chief engineer. “When we do such investments, we do them for humanity, and we do them as a gesture of our humanity.” “We can only hope, in our efforts to engineer spacecraft and explore our solar system, that we might be able contribute yet another iconic image to this collection, and I’m happy to say that I’m hopeful that today we can with this.”

• Aaron Stehura, deputy phase lead for entry, descent and landing also reflected on the moment the science team saw the image of the rover from the perspective of the ‘jetpack’ descent stage. “This is something that we’ve never seen before. It was stunning and the team was awestruck. And, you know, there’s just a feeling of victory that we’re able to capture these and share them with the world.” After the successful landing, members of the team celebrated with virtual parties, ice cream and the best night’s sleep they’ve have in a long time.

• “The rover is doing great and is healthy on the surface of Mars and continues to be highly functional and awesome,” said Pauline Hwang, strategic mission manager for the rover. This weekend, the rover will go through some hardware checkouts to make sure everything is working properly, Hwang said. The head, or mast, will unfold and cameras on the mast will capture more images of the rover’s surroundings to provide a panorama, as well as a “selfie” panorama of the rover.

• ‘Ingenuity’, the little helicopter tucked up under the rover, will also go through a checkup before embarking upon a series of test flights over a 30-day period, said Hwang. The Perseverance rover will drive to a predetermined helipad location, lower the helicopter to the ground, roll back away from the helicopter. and record images and video of these historic flights. Ingenuity also carries two cameras and will be able to share its aerial views.

• Katie Stack Morgan, deputy project scientist for the rover has been helping to lead a team of 450 scientists around the world as they prepare to explore the Jezero Crater. Now, they’re ready to study these images and plot out a path for the rover to use as it navigates the intriguing features of the crater. The rover will explore nearby rocks on the crater floor to determine if they are volcanic basalt or sedimentary rocks and investigate the presence of a mineral called olivine that could be an explosive ash deposit, Morgan said.

• Holes present in some the rocks visible in images taken by the rover could suggest either gas that escaped the rocks if they were formed from lava, or fluids that dissolved part of the rock if they’re sedimentary. “Between us and the delta, we have a lot of interesting science to do,” said Morgan. “As soon as we got that color image from the surface of Mars, our chats lit up with the science team saying ‘look over here’ and’ look over here.’ And that’s exactly what we were hoping for… [W]e can’t believe that we’re really doing science now on the surface of Mars.”

After safely landing on the surface of Mars Thursday, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back a never-before-seen view: what it

looks like to land on Mars.

The rover also returned some beautiful postcards of its landing site.

The first image shared during a NASA press conference Friday was “exhilarating” for the team when they received it. It shows the rover nearing the Martian surface during entry, descent and landing. A camera on the descent stage of the spacecraft captured the perspective, something that wasn’t possible on previous missions.

“This shot from a camera on my ‘jetpack’ captures me in midair, just before my wheels touched down,” according to a tweet from the Perseverance Twitter account. “The moment that my team dreamed of for years, now a reality. Dare mighty things.”

Little dust plumes can be seen kicking up from the Martian surface, stirred by the engines landing the rover when it was just 6.5 feet above the surface.

“The team is overwhelmed with excitement and joy to have successfully landed another rover on the surface of Mars,” said Adam Steltzner, the rover’s chief engineer. “When we do such investments, we do them for humanity, and we do them as a gesture of our humanity.”

Steltzner cited iconic space images from the Apollo mission, like Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon, Voyager’s first image of Saturn and the Hubble Space Telescope’s awe-inspiring “Pillars of Creation” photo.

“We can only hope, in our efforts to engineer spacecraft and explore our solar system, that we might be able contribute yet another iconic image to this collection, and I’m happy to say that I’m hopeful that today we can with this.”

While the first images returned by the rover Thursday evening were black and white glimpses showing it safely landed on Mars, color images made available Friday show the characteristic red color of the Martian surface.

“An open horizon, with so much to explore. Can’t wait to get going,” the Perseverance account tweeted.

Rocks are also seen scattered across the flat surface of the landing site in Jezero Crater, but they’re small when compared to the large rover wheels.

Rocks spotted by the rover have holes in them — which has the scientists curious to see what would cause them.

Another tweet with the image read, “I love rocks. Look at these right next to my wheel. Are they volcanic or sedimentary? What story do they tell? Can’t wait to find out.”

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera, which flew over the landing site as Perseverance was coming in for a landing, captured an incredible view as the spacecraft’s parachutes opened.

“The Beauty of Flight! HiRISE captured this image of @NASAPersevere on its way to the landing site from over 700 km (435 mi) away!” the HiRISE account tweeted.

4:15 minute summary of the NASA Perseverance Mars landing (‘TODAY’ YouTube)

2:43 minute depiction of the Ingenuity helicopter (‘WKMG News 6 Orlando’ YouTube)

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Why Aren’t Alien Abductions Taken Seriously?

February 23, 2021
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Article by Pritha Paul February 3, 2021 (meaww.com)

• The existence of extraterrestrial beings is considered a deeply guarded government secret. As a result, the debate has raged about whether or not UFOs are real, and whether people have truly experienced alien abductions as many claim. One source estimates that 3.7 million people in the U.S. alone have experienced an alien abduction.

• A significant number of people stay in constant fear of aliens visiting their bedroom at night, being taken aboard a spaceship and subjected to medical experimentation including the removal of eggs or sperm. Abductees have told tales about sexually producing hybrid offspring with their alien abductor, and receiving important information about the fate of the Earth.

• One of the most famous alien abduction cases occurred on a September night in 1961. Betty and Barney Hill were driving down a winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains when they noticed a strange light that seemed to be following them. When they finally got home at dawn, they did not feel clean and their watches had stopped working. Barney’s shoes were strangely scuffed and Betty’s dress was ripped. And they could not recall two hours of their drive.

• With the aid of a psychiatrist, the Hills were able to regain flashes of their memory. According to whatever they could remember, Gray beings with large eyes had walked them into a metallic disc where the beings examined the couple and erased their memories. Their account set a precedent for how alien abductees would be scrutinized. Betty and Barney Hill would be accused of being liars, fantasists, crazy or simply sleep-deprived people. Not many in the media seem to take extraterrestrial abductions seriously.

• In Episode 6 of the Discovery+ series ‘UFO Witness’, Ben Hansen notes that while people who claim to have experienced such abductions have no history of mental instability, they often have a proclivity for fantasy. Other psychological explanations include dissociation – where mental processes detach from reality, often in response to extreme or stressful life events. Childhood trauma and hypnotic suggestibility can play a part in this.

• Sleep Paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity could also explain claims of alien abduction, when the mind is awake but the body is unable to move, just as a person passes between stages of sleep and waking. This rare condition is often accompanies by a feeling of fear or dread and the sense of another presence. Also common are a feeling of pressure on the chest, difficulty breathing and the feeling of being held or restricted to a lying position. When Michael Shermer collapsed from sleep deprivation following an 83-hour bike race, Shermer perceived medical personnel as aliens from the 1960s television series ‘The Invaders.’

While the existence of extraterrestrial beings has been considered to be a deeply guarded government secret, an age-old debate has raged

over the same not just because of UFOs being spotted in the sky, but also due to accounts of people experiencing alien abductions. However, non-believers have often clubbed such people with the recent rise of the anti-vaccination movement and the prominence of the Flat Earth movement – diminishing the seriousness of such accounts.

Nevertheless, a significant number of people stay in constant fear of aliens visiting their bedroom at night, being abducted, taken aboard a spaceship, and being subjected to medical experimentation including the removal of eggs or sperm. There have been abductees who have also told tales about forming sexual relationships with their alien abductors and subsequently producing hybrid offsprings with their same as well as having received important information about the fate of the Earth.

Although the exact tally of such accounts varies, they have been put at over 3.7 million in the United States alone to “at least several thousand worldwide.” The idea that the US government might be hiding aliens in a secret military base led to the mission, “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” on September 20, 2019. Although more than 2 million people responded “going” and 1.5 million “interested” on the event’s page on Facebook, only about 150 people were reported to have shown up at the entrance to Area 51, with none succeeding in entering the site.

First alien abduction claim

On a September night in 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving down the empty winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. They had not seen a car for miles and a strange light seemed to be following them. When they finally got home to Portsmouth at dawn, they did not feel clean and their watches stopped working. Also, Barney’s shoes were strangely scuffed and Betty’s dress was ripped. There was also a loss of time and memory. They could not recall two hours from their drive.

With the aid of a psychiatrist, they were able to regain flashes of their memory. According to whatever they could remember, gray beings with large eyes had walked them into a metallic disc. After entering the disc, the beings examined the couple and erased their memories. Their account not only started an Air Force inquiry, part of the secretive initiative Project Blue Book that investigated UFO sightings across the nation. It also set the precedent for how alien abduction stories got told from then on.

The husband and wife became forever embroiled in the debate of whether they were liars, fantasists, crazy or simply sleep-deprived people who relied heavily on their scrambled memories. Despite the widespread interest in seeking proof of the alien life form, not many seem to take extraterrestrial abductions seriously. In Episode 6 of Discovery+ series ‘UFO Witness,’ Ben Hansen sets out to discover exactly why these claims are swept under the rug.

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Navy’s UFO-Type Patent Raises Questions

February 23, 2021
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Article by Dave Makichuk February 3, 2021 (asiatimes.com)

• Brett Tingley at “The War Zone”/The Drive website has been leading the charge on analyzing and reporting on a series of next generation technology patents filed by the U.S. Navy in 2019, and invented by Navy aerospace engineer Dr. Salvatore Pais. These patents include a High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator and Propulsion System and a Compact Plasma Compression Fusion Reactor. The technology claimed in these patents could revolutionize not only military aviation, but just about everything.

• Between October 2016 and September 2019, the US Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division spent $466,000 on testing Pais’ theories. In a reversal, they now say that that the “Pais Effect” could not be proven and the Navy will conduct no further research on it.

• According to a report by Alex Hollings in The National Interest, the Chief Technology Officer of the US Naval Aviation Enterprise, Dr. James Sheehy, has pointed out that China is investing significantly in this field of technology and that it “will become a reality” someday. Sheely told Patent Examiner Philip Bonzell that the United States “would prefer that we hold the patent as opposed to paying forever more to use this revolutionary technology”. And if the Pentagon had, in fact, produced a working model of an electromagnetic propulsion system and a compact fusion reactor, would they reveal it to the public or our military adversaries? At this point, it’s impossible to say whether or not the Navy and Dr. Pais have managed to produce anything truly groundbreaking.

• The patent for the High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator resembles long-standing theories posited by UFO researchers about the means of propulsion employed by alien visitors. If functional, a HEEMFG could produce massive amounts of power with far reaching military and commercial implications. And The National Interest points out that an electromagnetic propulsion system could allow the Navy to build its own flying saucers.

• A compact, room temperature fusion reactor has long been the holy grail of energy scientists and researchers. While nuclear reactors in everything from power plants to aircraft carriers produce power by splitting a nucleus into two lighter nuclei (ie: splitting the atom), fusion power would involve fusing two or more nuclei together into a single, heavier element – most likely, hydrogen atoms being fused into a single helium one.

• Technically speaking, fusion reactors do already exist, but they’ve never been efficient enough to be used for power production. An efficient fusion reactor could effectively end humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels, or as a weapon end humanity as we know it. Documents released by The War Zone show that a compact fusion reactor could allow for the creation of a “Spacetime Modification Weapon” that would “make the hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in comparison.”

• As far as creating a super-weapon, we need not go any further than the ‘father of the hydrogen bomb’, physicist Edward Teller who decided to one-up the 10.4 megaton bomb that America detonated at Enewetak Atoll in 1952 by creating a 10,000-megaton nuclear weapon with the capability of destroying a small continent. To put a doomsday weapon like that in the hands of mankind would be pure madness, and, totally unnecessary. Thankfully, Teller’s plan was left on his infamous drawing board.

• Russia, China and the US already have enough nuclear firepower to destroy the world several times over. The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was the “Tsar Bomba” of the Soviet Union on October 30, 1961, with a yield estimated at 50-58 megatons.

• Salvatore Pais’ electromagnetic and fusion technologies wouldn’t be the first to be suppressed by the US government. In 1989, scientist Bob Lazar claimed to have worked on back-engineered UFO technology deep under Area 51 in Nevada. Lazar said that the UFOs’ propulsion was based on directing gravity waves generated by a powerful compact reactor.

• According to US Army Colonel Philip J. Corso, the US government has been extracting new technologies from from alien crashes, such as the infamous Roswell incident, since 1947. Any such technology is considered at least 50 years ahead of current aerospace technology and would be a tightly guarded secret by the US military, on the order of the Manhattan Project.

“If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.” – Albert Einstein

It has long been claimed by ufologists that the US government has been back-engineering UFOs at Area S4, the ultra secret site within Area 51.

In 1989, scientist Bob Lazar, who claimed to have worked at the base deep in the heart of the Nevada desert, spilled the beans on the study of UFOs — of which he claimed they had several.
The smaller saucer-like UFO he said he was studying, which was called the “sport model,” supposedly was based on directing gravity waves.

This came from a reactor which amplified the gravity waves which extended beyond the atom of Element 115, which he predicted to exist (he would be proved right years later).

Whether any of that is true or not, it is interesting to note that in 2019, the US Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) filed a number of seemingly out of this world patents that could, in theory, revolutionize not only military aviation, but just about everything.

According to a report by Alex Hollings in The National Interest, chief among these strange new inventions is a High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator (HEEMFG), which if functional, could produce massive amounts of power with far reaching military and commercial implications.

The patent also eerily resembles longstanding theories posited by UFO researchers about the means of propulsion seemingly employed by alien visitors.

**what was last seen of the Enewetak Atoll**

Recently, Brett Tingley over at The War Zone received a fresh dump of documents pertaining to these patents through a Freedom

of Information Act request.

The Warzone has been leading the charge on analysis on these unusual patents ever since they surfaced two years ago, and are continuing the effort by pouring through hundreds of pages of reports, technical drawings, data, and photos released to them by the Navy.

Believe it or not, an electromagnetic propulsion system that could allow the Navy to build its own flying saucers may not be the craziest thing to come out of these efforts, National Interest reported.

According to these newly released documents, another branch of this work deals with the concept of a compact fusion reactor, which among other things, could allow for the creation of a “Spacetime Modification Weapon.”

Per the Navy’s own internal documents, this weapon could “make the hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in comparison.”

These patents were born out of the work of US Navy aerospace engineer Dr. Salvatore Pais, and as crazy as his inventions may sound, the Navy clearly seems to think they are worth exploration, National Interest reported.

So far, it’s been confirmed that the Navy has poured more than US$466,000 into helping this program mature since 2017.

Here’s how a Navy PowerPoint slide labeled “For Internal Use Only” explains the implications of Dr. Pais’ Spacetime Modification Weapon, of course: “Under uniquely defined conditions, the Plasma Compression Fusion Device can lead to development of a Spacetime Modification Weapon (SMW- a weapon that can make the Hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in comparison). Extremely high energy levels can be achieved with this invention, under pulsed ultrahigh current (I) / ultrahigh magnetic flux density (B) conditions (Z-pinch with a Fusion twist).“

So what exactly is this new technology?

A compact fusion reactor has long been the holy grail of energy scientists and researchers, and to be clear Pais isn’t the first person to suggest that he’s close to pulling it off, National Interest reported.

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Success of Private Space Companies Helps US Secure Space Domain

February 22, 2021
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Article by Amanda Mcias and Michael Sheetz February 3, 2021 (cnbc.com)

• Despite fears that the Covid-19 pandemic would slow this past decade’s momentum, private investment in space companies set a record in 2002. Space Capital reported that builders of rockets and satellites brought in $8.9 billion last year, and venture capital investors continued to pour funds into space businesses.

• “There is a ton of excitement across America on space in all sectors,” said General John Raymond, the US Space Force’s chief of operations. Raymond confirmed that Wall Street has invested billions in the space industry. This in turn has sparked renewed interest in space commerce and recruitment in Space Force.

• There are “people…wanting to come into the Space Force in numbers greater than what we have slots to fill. [U]niversities are seeing more students apply for space STEM degrees. I think is going to be great for our nation,” Raymond said. “I’m excited about all of it, both what we’re doing here on national security and what’s going on in the commercial industry that we can leverage the advantage.” “[W]e are stronger with a secure and stable space domain and all of those sectors play into that.”

• Space Force has increasingly looked to partner with the private space industry sector. The Pentagon is closely watching the progress of rocket builders like Rocket Lab, Astra and Virgin Orbit in addition to SpaceX.

• SpaceX announced this month that it will fly its first all-civilian crew into orbit later this year, a mission known as Inspiration 4. The landmark flight, led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, is aimed at using high-profile space tourism to raise support for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Three yet-to-be-announced passengers will accompany Isaacman on the multiday journey around the Earth, with two of the seats to be decided in public online competitions this month.

• Raymond noted that SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully achieved the first operational launch of NASA’s Crew-1 mission, although SpaceX’s Starship rocket test flight on February 2nd was not so successful.

WASHINGTON – The nation’s top general leading the U.S. military mission in space said Wednesday that he is excited about Wall

Street and billionaire investment in the space industry, which has sparked renewed interest in the field among Americans and strong recruitment at the Pentagon’s youngest branch.

“There is a ton of excitement across America on space in all sectors,” said Gen. John Raymond, the U.S. Space Force’s chief of operations, when asked by CNBC about the strides made by private space companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

“I’ve talked about people knocking on our door wanting to come into the Space Force in numbers greater than what we have slots to fill. I’ve talked in the past about how universities are seeing more students apply for space STEM degrees, which I think is going to be great for our nation,” Raymond added.

“I’m excited about all of it, both what we’re doing here on national security and what’s going on in the commercial industry that we can leverage the advantage,” the four-star general said without specifically naming any companies.

“The U.S. has always, has long understood that we are stronger with a secure and stable space domain and all of those sectors play into that,” Raymond said.

The U.S. Space Force, the Pentagon’s youngest branch, has increasingly looked to partner with the private sector as companies and investors pour into the space industry. The Pentagon is closely watching the progress of rocket builders like Rocket Lab, Astra and Virgin Orbit in addition to SpaceX.

Raymond’s comments came on the heels of SpaceX announcing this week that it will fly its first all-civilian crew into orbit later this year, a mission known as Inspiration 4.

The landmark flight, led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, is aimed at using high-profile space tourism to raise support for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Three yet-to-be-announced passengers will accompany Isaacman on the multiday journey around the Earth, with two of the seats to be decided in public online competitions this month.

Raymond also called out NASA’s Crew-1 mission, which was the first operational launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.

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An Extraterrestrial “Channeler” Delivers a Message for Humanity

February 21, 2021
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Article by Arjun Walia January 30, 2021 (collective-evolution.com)

• Extraterrestrial-based UFOs are being afforded an unprecedented level of credibility within the mainstream. The idea of people from outer space is longer taboo and has become a serious topic of discussion. But when it comes to claiming to have had contact experiences we still have a ways to go.

• One sort of ET ‘contact experience’ is channeling – or receiving telepathic messages from extraterrestrials. The problem is that very often in channeling you are not communicating with the positive ET being that you think you are, as there are many telepathic tricksters out there. There are many who feel that one Englishman by the name of Dr. George King (1919-1997) (pictured above) truly channeled a benevolent higher being known as ‘Aetherius’ – a highly evolved extraterrestrial from Venus and part of an alliance of several extraterrestrial intelligences from other planets. Beginning in 1954, Aetherius told King, “Prepare yourself, you are to become the voice of interplanetary parliament.”

• For 43 years, from 1954 to1997. Dr. King dedicated himself to the teachings of advanced extraterrestrials to help Mother Earth and humanity as a whole, and to help navigate this period of great change. In order to attain the highest state of consciousness attainable on Earth – Cosmic Consciousness – Dr. King became a Master of Yoga. For more than a decade. Dr. King intensely practiced the higher forms of yoga an average of 8-10 hours per day, in order to master his own psychic abilities and to ultimately reach enlightenment.

• When Dr. King channeled Aetherius, King heard a disembodied voice speaking English to him within the room. The voice told him that he would become a voice in the interplanetary parliament, but King knew nothing about UFOs. In the 1950s there was no one he could turn to, so he threw himself into meditation. To King’s astonishment, his meditation brought forth a very physical Yogi Master whom King recognized, but who currently lived in India. The Yogi Master walked through the unopened door to enter the room, walked across the room and sat down in a chair. Through these types of physical and mental ‘contacts’ Aetherius would bring King new information and instructions, which King would pass along to his followers.

• A newsletter written back in the day by John and Margaret Storm and found in the FBI online archives, is an example of the impact that Dr. King’s channeled messages could have. Also, its worth noting that he FBI had enough interest in it to document it. The Storm’s newsletter provided the precise dates, times and locations of future flying saucer appearances all across North and Central America. Stating that the information had been supplied by George King, the newsletter noted that “George King is considered the best telepathic contact which the space people have”. Dr King’s credibility only grew over the succeeding decades.

• Another confirmation of King’s credibility is demonstrated in how in the 1950s, King relayed that the interplanetary parliament of space people were greatly concerned about Earth human’s use, testing and manufacturing of nuclear weapons. We now know that toward the end of the 1970s, the US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center actually tried to detonate a couple of nuclear weapons on the Moon to take scientific measurements. But according to AF Colonel Ross Dedrickson, these nuclear devices were destroyed by extraterrestrials before they could be detonated. Dedrickson noted that it was a “major concern” of the extraterrestrials, “to preserve the integrity of the Earth, because it (also) affects their own system….The idea of an explosion in space by any Earth government was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials, and that has been demonstrated over and over.”

• It’s public record that UFOs have been seen, many times, hovering over nuclear missile storage facilities when the missile launching capabilities were shut down. For example, in March of 1967, Captain Robert Salas reported a red, glowing UFO hovering just outside the front gate of Malmstrom Air Force Base missile launch facility in Montana. Suddenly, all of the nuclear missiles shut down and went completely dead.

• A document in the FBI Online Archive mention’s Dr. King’s contact experiences with extraterrestrials in the context of Nikola Tesla claimed to have been brought to Earth from Venus as a baby by “space people”. Tesla once said, “I think that nothing can be more important than interplanetary communication. It will certainly come someday. And the certitude that there are other human beings in the universe, working, suffering, struggling, like ourselves, will produce a magic effect on mankind and will form the foundation of a universal brotherhood that will last as long as humanity itself.”

• Dr. King claimed that these ET beings were concerned about humanity and the direction we are heading. That we need to do a better job at preserving the integrity of the Earth and living at a higher level of consciousness to bring about a better world. Service to others was a big part of the extraterrestrial message that came through him.

• The messages given to Dr, King corroborates with countless examples of continuing communications and events with UFOs and extraterrestrials, even 70 years later. Today, the Aetherius Society follows the teachings and information of Dr. King. A former student of Dr. King, Richard Lawrence, is the Executive Secretary of the Aetherius Society in Europe and Africa.

“Prepare yourself, you are to become the voice of interplanetary parliament,” is what Dr. George King (1919-1997) was told when he

was first contacted by extraterrestrial intelligence in 1954, known to him as “Aetherius,” whom, according to King, was a highly evolved extraterrestrial from Venus and part of an alliance of several extraterrestrial intelligences from other planets.

Before we go any further, please note that CE founder Joe Martino and myself recently sat down with Richard Lawrence for a podcast. Richard is the Executive Secretary for the Aetherius Society Europe and Africa. You can see him pictured above to the left of Dr. King. Lawrence was a close student of Dr. King. It was a very interesting discussion that dives into the topic of extraterrestrial messages, mainstream UFO disclosure, channeling extraterrestrials, spirituality, consciousness, the state of politics, the Aetherius Society and much more. You can listen to that podcast here.

Channeling is the ability to receive telepathic messages from supposed extraterrestrials. Many claim to have this ability, there are many who believe they do but probably don’t, and the idea of channeling extraterrestrials has exploded to the point where it’s hard to know who is being honest with themselves. I find the case of Dr. King to be much different, I personally believe he was one of the few channelers who was truly authentic. I’ve been studying this phenomenon for

more than fifteen years, and much of what King was relaying to humanity decades ago corroborates with a lot of information that’s come to light about the phenomenon today, in 2021. If there is anyone to consider “credible” within the phenomenon of channeling, I believe Dr. King is one of the best examples.

Dr. King was considered by many to be a Master of Yoga able to enter the highest state of consciousness attainable on Earth – Cosmic Consciousness, also known as nirvana or nirvikalpa samadhi. For more than a decade he had devoted himself to the intense practice of yoga for an average of 8-10 hours per day. Not so much yoga for physical fitness, wellbeing or relaxation, but the higher forms of yoga – for the mastery of psychic abilities and ultimately enlightenment. Dr. King believed, like it says in the ancient mystic Upanishads, that the greatest gift that anyone can give to anyone else is wisdom. And, conversely, that the greatest crime is to cause confusion by giving people the wrong teaching. For 43 years (1954-1997) he dedicated himself to his mission of helping the Mother Earth and helping humanity as a whole navigate this period of great change. This mission was in

essence to spread, and act upon, the teachings of advanced extraterrestrial intelligences.

It was in English, the voice was not in the head, this was no psychic apparition, the voice was outside of myself and it said, prepare yourself you are to become the voice of interplanetary parliament. Well, I had no idea what that meant, I knew nothing about UFOs in those days, I had not studied them, but I have studied Yoga and I studied Yoga long enough to realize that this was very important. And it was eight days after this first event that I decided that the only way that I could solve this mystery, because nobody else could help me and I tried many people, was to go into meditation myself. So I locked myself in the room, fully determined to stay there until I found some answer. Well I didn’t have to stay very long because a man, physical, who I did recognize, he was alive in India at the time, a well known Yogi master, he walked into the room, without me having to open the door by the way, he walked across the floor and sat down in the chair which creaked

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New SPACECOM Strategy Warns US Adversaries

February 21, 2021
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Article by Rachel S. Cohen February 1, 2021 (airforcemag.com)

• In August 2019, the US Space Command, or ‘SPACECOM’, was revived after being disbanded for 17 years, integrating its work with the other combatant commands that rely on and defend space assets. During a recent AFA Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies event, SPACECOM boss Gen. James H. Dickinson said that the US Space Command must “sustain a warfighting culture and adapt to a dynamic and changing strategic environment,” drawing upon the experience of the other armed forces.

• On February 1st, SPACECOM released a new strategy paper that broadly outlines goals for training, partnerships, and cybersecurity. But in a future with “increasingly capable competitors” and a “long-term security threat” posed by Russia and China, the paper also warns that the United States will hit back if its satellites, radars, and other space systems are endangered.

• As America and its allies expand their space economies and look to permanently return to the Moon, “[the] United States Space Command will always remain ready to prevail against any foreign space-related aggression” reads the strategy paper. “By developing…counter-space capabilities and…military doctrines to extend into space, our [Russian and Chinese] competitors seek to prevent our unfettered access to space and deny our freedom to operate in space.”

• The US military argues it needs to bolster its offense and defense in space to protect the satellites and radars that enable GPS guidance, ATMs, ballistic missile warning, and more. SPACECOM also uses those assets to direct weapons and troops, send information around the world, and collect intelligence—making them targets for those who want to disrupt American military operations.

• Brian Weeden, a director at the Secure World Foundation, says that the 12-page paper, comprised largely of pictures, lacks the detail of previous Pentagon strategy papers. “It reads more like an ad brochure full of chest-thumping assertions than a serious strategic document,” quipped Weeden.

• Weeden recognizes that the military may not be comfortable with publicly discussing developing space operations, and that the fact that there haven’t been any actual space battles, would explain the lack of sophistication for space doctrine relative to the other combat domains.

• Dickinson maintains that job one for SPACECOM is to attract the kind of veteran military talent who can bring various combat experiences to SPACECOM to develop a fully operational combatant command. “That generates combat power almost immediately.”

U.S. Space Command in its new strategy paper warns of a future with “increasingly capable competitors” and a “long-term security threat” posed by Russia and China, claiming the right of self-defense as America and its allies expand their space economies and look to permanently return to the moon.

The U.S. military argues it needs to bolster its offense and defense in space to protect the satellites and radars that enable GPS guidance, ATMs, ballistic missile warning, and more. SPACECOM also uses those assets to direct weapons and troops, send information around the world, and collect intelligence—making them targets for those who want to disrupt American military operations.

“By developing, testing, and deploying counter-space capabilities and evolving their military doctrines to extend into space, our competitors seek to prevent our unfettered access to space and deny our freedom to operate in space,” reads the paper, dated Feb. 1.

This is the latest document to warn that the United States will hit back if its satellites, radars, and other space systems are endangered. It also broadly outlines goals for training, partnerships, and cybersecurity. SpaceNews first reported on the strategic vision Jan. 28.

“The United States, along with our allies and partners, will champion and promote the responsible, peaceful, and safe use of space,” according to the strategy. “However, should our nation call, United States Space Command will always remain ready to prevail against any foreign space-related aggression.”

The document echoes earlier blueprints from the Pentagon and the Space Force, the branch of the military that supplies most systems and personnel to SPACECOM for daily operations. But the 12-page paper, comprised largely of pictures, lacks the detail of previous strategies.

“It reads more like an ad brochure full of chest-thumping assertions than a serious strategic document,” Brian Weeden, director of program planning at the Secure World Foundation, said on Twitter.

He suggested the strategy may miss the mark because the military is not yet comfortable with discussing often-classified space operations in a public forum.

“There is something to be said about the lack of sophistication for space doctrine relative to the other domains because we haven’t had any actual combat in space to draw on,” he told Air Force Magazine.

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UAE Creates Space Courts for Extraterrestrial Disputes

February 20, 2021
ExoNews Editor

February 1, 2021 (laprensalatina.com)

• On February 1st, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced an initiative called “Courts of the Future” that will launch “Space Courts” under an independent legal body, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DFIC). “The launch of the project signals to the international space community the intent of the UAE to play a leading role in advancing its judicial systems to specifically direct capacity and capability to commercial space-related disputes,” read a statement.

• The new Space Courts will bring together a group of private and public international bodies and experts with the aim of training of judges to become space-related dispute experts; exploring space-related legal innovations; and creating a “space dispute guide”. The head of the DIFC Supreme Court, Zaki Azmi, said that the courts will help “build a new judicial support network to serve the stringent commercial demands of international space exploration in the 21st century”.

• “As space commerce becomes ever more global and countries ever more connected, diverse and nimble, economies will need to enable growth. Complex commercial agreements will also require an equally innovative judicial system to keep pace, offering assurance and certainty to support and protect businesses,” Azmi said.

• The Dubai International Financial Centre was established in 2004 as an independent judicial system so the UAE’s international community can have “greater confidence in the Emirati legal framework” and to promote commercial relations in the Arab country.

• The announcement came eight days before the UAE’s Hope Mars oribter reached the orbit of Mars on February 9th. The orbiter aims to study the Red Planet’s weather and atmosphere.

Dubai, Feb 1 (efe-epa).- The United Arab Emirates on Monday announced that it will create “Space Courts” with an eye toward

developing a judicial system to resolve commercial disputes linked to space as its Hope mission probe is expected to reach Mars within days.

An initiative called “Courts of the Future” will be launched later this year to activate the Space Courts, the Dubai International Financial Centre, an independent legal body, said in a statement.

“The launch of the project signals to the international space community the intent of the UAE to play a leading role in advancing its judicial systems to specifically direct capacity and capability to commercial space-related disputes,” the statement read.

The new court will include a group of private and public international bodies and experts with the aim of “exploring space-related legal innovations” and creating a “space dispute guide.”

It will also be tasked with “training of judges to become space-related dispute experts.”

The courts will help “build a new judicial support network to serve the stringent commercial demands of international space exploration in the 21st century,” the head of the DIFC Supreme Court, Zaki Azmi, said in the statement.

“As space commerce becomes ever more global and countries ever more connected, diverse and nimble, economies will need to enable growth. Complex commercial agreements will also require an equally innovative judicial system to keep pace, offering assurance and certainty to support and protect businesses,” he added.

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The Navy Speaks Up About Its “UFO Patent” Experiments

February 20, 2021
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Article by Brett TIngley February 1, 2021 (thedrive.com)

• After reporting on the bizarre saga of the US Navy’s “UFO” patents by Dr. Salvatore Pais for over a year and a half, The War Zone has finally gotten an on-the-record comment from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). In a nutshell, NAWCAD concluded in September 2019 that the “Pais Effect” could not be proven. The Navy has washed its hands with Dr. Pais and his unproven patents, and all research on them has now been taken up by the US Air Force.

• The “Pais Effect” is a theoretical concept for generating high-intensity electromagnetic fields that could lead to breakthroughs in power generation and advanced propulsion, including a futuristic “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft” or ‘HAUC’ (which might have explained the ‘Tic Tac UFO’ that was in the news in 2018).

• The US Navy’s NAWCAD took Dr. Pais’ theories seriously enough to vouch for him to the US Patent Office and to assert that the Chinese had similar “operable” technology. The Navy invested $462,000 in researchers’ salaries plus $96,000 on “equipment, test preparation, testing and assessment” to test Dr. Pais’ patented ‘High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator’ (HEEMFG) theories between October 2016 and September 2019. While a group of Navy researchers obviously got richer, Timothy Boulay, Communications Director at NAWCAD, confirmed that the “Pais Effect” could not be proven and no further research is being conducted by the US Navy.

• So the US Navy knew in September 2019 that Dr. Pais’ theories were a scientific dead-end, but waited until now to say so publicly. Every single physicist that The Drive’s ‘The War Zone’ contacted over two years said that there was no scientific reality to the ‘pseudo-scientific jargon’ found in Dr. Pais’ patents. Still, in November 2019, Dr. Pais assured The War Zone that his work “shall be proven correct one fine day…”

• The bizarre secrecy surrounding this entire endeavor remains remarkably odd. Not until we actually got the images, data, and slides about the program of record that attempted to prove Pais’ theories did the Navy confirm its demise. We may never know why.

After reporting on the bizarre saga of the Navy’s “UFO” patents by Dr. Salvatore Pais for over a year and a half, The War Zone has finally

gotten an on-the-record comment from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, or NAWCAD, about the scientist’s seemingly out-of-this-world work and the service’s equally strange outright support of it.

As we reported in our last piece, the science and technology branches of the Naval Aviation Enterprise and NAWCAD took the theories of Dr. Pais seriously enough not just to vouch for them at the highest levels to patent examiners, asserting Chinese advances in similar areas of research and that they were ‘operable’ in nature, but to also subsequently invest a significant amount of money and time into researching the so-called “Pais Effect.” This is a theoretical concept for generating high-intensity electromagnetic fields that could supposedly lead to hypothetical breakthroughs in power generation and advanced propulsion. Specifically, the Navy has now responded to inquiries related to the new documentation we uncovered in our most recent report that shows hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on Pais’s High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator (HEEMFG) experiments, along with other details related to it.

Timothy Boulay, Communications Director at NAWCAD, confirmed several points to The War Zone by email:
– The High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator testing occurred from October 2016 through September 2019;
– The cost was $508,000 over the course of three years. Around ninety percent of the total – $462,000 – was for salaries, while the

rest was used for equipment, test preparation, testing and assessment.
– When NAWCAD concluded testing in September 2019, the “Pais Effect” could not be proven.
– No further research has been conducted, and the project has not transitioned to any other government or civilian organization.
While we greatly appreciate the response to our queries, it remains unclear why NAWCAD was unwilling to speak with us until now if they knew all along these experiments resulted in what appears to be a scientific dead-end that resulted in no verification of any of Pais’s theories.

In addition to the statements above, Boulay added the following about the inventor of the Navy’s “UFO patents”:
The latest on Dr. Pais: you might remember that he left NAWCAD in June 2019 and moved to the Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs organization. I found that he transferred to the U.S. Air Force this month.

We are still working with NAWCAD to determine where Pais was transferred within the research organizations of the USAF. Pais’s first move from NAWCAD to Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) office was somewhat interesting given that one of Pais’s most eyebrow-raising patents was for a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft.” SSP oversees the development and sustainment of the Navy’s nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

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Public Interest in UFOs Growing

February 19, 2021
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Article by Blake Bacho February 1, 2021 (monroenews.com)

• Public interest in extraterrestrial life is at an all-time high, thanks in part to some recent developments at the federal government level. In August, the Pentagon formed a UAP Task Force dedicated to investigating UFOs observed by US military aircraft. And the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill signed in December contained a stipulation requiring US intelligence agencies to disclose any and all information they have regarding UFOs to Congress within the next six months.

• The Michigan Mutual UFO Network (MIMUFON), a nonprofit organization that records and investigates UFO sightings, reported 233 sightings across Michigan in 2020. MIMUFON Director Bill Konkolesky said his organization averages around 160 reports a year. He attributed the higher number of reports for 2020 to not only the Starlink satellites, but the fact that the pandemic kept people at home leaving them with more time on their hands to look up in the sky.

• The high number of UFO reports may be attributed to misidentified Starlink satellites. “They’ve (the satellites) been sort of the bane of our existence since late 2019, because everybody has reported them as flying saucers…” says Konkolesky. “It’s a chain of satellites, they are in a formation in a single line… It’s a cool idea, but they look really eerie and people report them as UFOs.”

• Two cases that weren’t reported to MIMUFON are nevertheless intriguing, and are “worthy of investigation” says Konkolesky. On January 24th, Kristy Mariano was in her Detroit Beach, Michigan home late at night when outside of her window she happened to notice her neighbors outside gawking up at the sky. When she went into the backyard, she looked up and saw three huge lights in the sky, dancing around. “It was really strange,” said Mariano. “I was thinking it’s not an airplane, and it wasn’t a drone either because it was really, really low, and when it was passing by the clouds kept moving and moving and the stars were so bright…”. The lights disappeared after exactly 45 minutes. “It was so crazy,” she said. “I never believed in this kind of stuff before, but now I kind of do.”

• In October 2020, Monroe, Michigan resident Carl Walcz was taking photos of the Moon. But when he later looked at the photos, he noticed that in one of the photos there appeared a bluish-green object floating in the sky. “I never did see it when I was taking a picture of it,” Walcz said. “For all I know it could be something (that got stuck on) the camera or anything… But it’s too well-defined to be, and none of my other pictures that I took (had it). I took like two pictures right in a row of that same shot, and in one of them it was there and the other one it wasn’t.”

• Those dedicated to proving that we are not alone in the universe say it’s getting much more difficult to separate examples of truly inexplicable phenomena from the more common cases of mistaken identity. “One thing I often say is that if the Moon disappeared for a month, how many people would notice?” quipped Konkolesky. “I just don’t think people are looking up.”

Kristy Mariano was inside her Detroit Beach home late last Sunday night when she happened to notice something peculiar outside of her window. Many of her neighbors were outside gawking up at the sky.

Taking her dog with her, Mariano went into her backyard to see what all the fuss was about. When she looked up, she couldn’t believe what she saw.

“I see three big, like huge lights in the sky, and they’re dancing around,” she said. “It was really strange. I was thinking it’s not an airplane, and it wasn’t a drone either because it was really, really low, and when it was passing by the clouds kept moving and moving and the stars were so bright…

Mariano said the lights disappeared after exactly 45 minutes.

“It was so crazy,” she said. “I never believed in this kind of stuff before, but now I kind of do.”

Like Mariano, Monroe native Carl Walcz wasn’t really a believer in flying saucers or little green men. But one night this past October while he was taking photos of the moon, he stumbled across something he just could not explain: in just one of his pictures, there appeared a bluish-green object floating in the sky.

“I never did see it when I was taking a picture of it,” Walcz said. “For all I know it could be something (that got stuck on) the camera or anything… But it’s too well-defined to be, and none of my other pictures that I took (had it). I took like two pictures right in a row of that same shot, and in one of them it was there and the other one it wasn’t.”

Mariano and Walcz are certainly not the first people who have ever claimed to see Unidentified Flying Objects, and they certainly won’t be the last. But those who are dedicated to proving that we are not alone in the universe say it’s getting much more difficult to separate examples of truly inexplicable phenomena from the more common cases of mistaken identity.

The Michigan Mutual UFO Network (MIMUFON), a nonprofit organization that records and investigates UFO sightings, reported 233 sightings across Michigan in 2020 – only two of which were located in Monroe County. Both of those cases have been identified, meaning that MIMUFON investigators determined a known explanation for the sightings.

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The Official Space Force Ranks

February 19, 2021
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Article by Oriana Pawlyk January 29, 2021 (military.com)

• The US Space Force’s new ranking system for its enlisted members and officers mostly mirrors that Air Force’s ranks. The Space Force ranks took effect on February 1, 2021.

• In December, former-Vice President Mike Pence announced that space professionals would be called Guardians. Space Force junior enlisted members between E-1 and E-4 will now be called specialists (like the Army). E-5 personnel are sergeant and E-6 are technical sergeant. The most senior E-9 rank is the Chief Master Sergeant. Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, the senior enlisted adviser to the service, will officially assume that top enlisted title. Officer ranks from second lieutenant to general will be the same as the Air Force’s ranking. There will be no changes to benefits entitlements.

• In July, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, proposed an amendment in the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act requiring “the same system and rank structure as is used in the Navy” for the Space Force. A Navy rank system would make sense for the Space Force, experts have said. Other space enthusiasts have noted on social media that “Space Admiral just sounds better.”

• Even William Shatner – the actor who portrayed Capt. James Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” series – initially backed Crenshaw’s idea. In an op-ed titled, “What the heck is wrong with you, Space Force?” published in Military Times in August 2020, Shatner said, “When you unveiled the Space Force logo, many immediately saw it as an homage to ‘Star Trek’ (even though our Delta was an homage to the previous military space insignias). Why not borrow back from ‘Star Trek’ and adopt our ranks as well?” he wrote. “We took them from the Navy for good reason.”

• “A good reason to use Navy ranks in the Space Force is to better distinguish [Space Force] personnel from Air Force personnel, kind of like [the Marine Corps] using different ranks than the Navy,” said Todd Harrison, director of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. But lawmakers ultimately ditched Crenshaw’s provision on naval ranks.

• Space Force has so far debuted its organizational structure; official logo, seal, flag and motto; a dark navy-colored name tape; and a lapel pin. The service still lacks an official dress uniform, physical fitness uniform and mess dress uniform; an official song; patch and insignia wear. It has released three commercials to attract new recruits.

• [Editor’s Note] For years, Congress has managed to do next to nothing. Apparently, our “lawmakers” only step in when they feel it is time to screw things up. An ‘Admiral’ of a Starship makes so much more sense than a ‘General’. Did they do the opposite of Dan Crenshaw’s proposal simply because he is a Republican? It is clear that Congress is occupied by complete morons. It is time to clear them out, tell the public what is really going on, and to start all over for the sake of our country.

The U.S. Space Force finally has an official rank structure for its enlisted members and officers, a service spokesman has confirmed to Military.com.

A leaked memo first posted on the popular Facebook page Amn/Nco/Snco detailed the new ranks, which nearly mirror Air Force ranks.

Instead of “airman,” junior enlisted members between E-1 and E-4 will be called specialists, according to the document. The Army is the other service with a specialist rank, for troops in the E-4 paygrade.

While the Air Force has staff and technical sergeants, the Space Force E-5 rank will be known as sergeant, followed by technical sergeant for E-6. Officer ranks — second lieutenant to general — will remain the same as its sister service.

The new rank structure takes effect Feb. 1, the memo states.

The most senior member is the Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force, an E-9 rank, the memo adds. Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, the senior enlisted adviser to the service, will officially assume that title effective next week, the spokesman said.

There will be no changes to benefits entitlements, according to the memo.

Some speculated that the Space Force, which is part of the Department of the Air Force, would adopt its parent service’s rank structure; others argued for using the Navy’s rank system — which is what some lawmakers intended.

In July, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, proposed an amendment in the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act requiring “the same system and rank structure as is used in the Navy” for the Space Force, according to a House summary of the text.

Space Force officials said they were ready to move forward, but because of the measure, the service halted announcing its decision at that time.

A Navy rank system would make sense for the Space Force, experts have said. Other space enthusiasts have noted on social media that “Space Admiral just sounds better.”

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