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China to Put Space Station in Orbit by 2024

May 1, 2021
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Article by Joel Gehrke April 14, 2021 (washingtonexaminer.com)

• “There’s just no question, as a general matter, that China is focused on achieving leadership in space,” the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, told a Senate oversight panel. China is expected to launch its own space station (pictured above) into low-earth orbit by 2024, and Chinese officials have “entered [the] pre-launch phase” for the core of a low-earth orbit space station. This project is expected to unfold in stages over the next few years, and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping aspires to make the space station a highly visible display of China’s ambitions.

• “We expect a Chinese space station in low Earth orbit (LEO) to be operational between 2022 and 2024,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a recently released report. “China also has conducted and plans to conduct additional lunar exploration missions, and it intends to establish a robotic research station on the Moon and later an intermittently crewed lunar base.”

• A trio of Chinese astronauts could be living in the core module within months. “China is aiming to construct its three-module space station with 11 launches across 2021-2022,” says Space News. “These will consist of three module launches and visits by four crewed missions and four cargo spacecraft. Chinese astronauts are currently in training for space station missions, with 12 astronauts expected to fly on the four missions.”

• A Chinese space station put into orbit with the assistance of Russian experts would be a major achievement for the Chinese, and would punctuate China’s emergence as a rival to the U.S. in space. “To fly humans in space and do it successfully, you have to master every field of technical endeavor — chemistry; physics; every form of engineering; medicine, you name it, you have to be a master in it,” Scott Pace told the Washington Examiner in 2018 when Pace was the executive secretary of the White House National Space Council.

• Chinese state media portrays this development as a peaceful display of China’s interest in space. “China’s space missions are mainly for peaceful purposes, and fruits of development can be shared with others, to offer great help to the progress of space technology, which is different from the U.S.’s space technology that mainly serves the military,” Chinese aerospace expert Song Zhongping was quoted as saying.

• But NATO officials see a growing security risk from such capabilities. China has developed and used at least one kind of anti-satellite missile to destroy a weather satellite in 2007. The PLA will continue to integrate space services such as satellite reconnaissance, positioning, navigation, timing, and communications into its weapons command-and-control systems to erode the US military’s information advantage, warns Haines. “China has already fielded ground-based ASAT missiles intended to destroy satellites in [low-earth orbit] and ground-based ASAT lasers probably intended to blind or damage sensitive space-based optical sensors on LEO satellites.”

• Haines suggested that countering those threats would involve both Space Force and private sector initiatives. “The private sector has just become increasingly important in our efforts to contest and to work, essentially, against contestations to our leadership in space,” Haines told the senators. “Economically, from a security perspective, from a communications perspective, and from the perspective of just understanding and intelligence … we want to ensure that we continue US leadership in this area.”

• [Editor’s Note] And so retired US deep state government officials and military officers continue their drum beat for war against China, Russia or whomever they can draw into battle, while enticing deep state-controlled corporations to support the deep state’s war agenda with the promise of massive military contracts. Just business as usual for the deep state.

China is expected to launch its own space station into low-earth orbit by 2024,

**Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines**

American intelligence officials assess, part of an effort to surpass the United States as the preeminent space power.

“There’s just no question, as a general matter, that China is focused on achieving leadership in space, in effect, as compared to the United States,” Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a Senate oversight panel on Wednesday before urging further decision during a closed session.

Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping aspires to make one very visible display of his ambitions in the coming weeks, as Chinese officials have “entered [the] pre-launch phase” for the core of a low-earth orbit space station, per state media. This project is expected to unfold in stages over the next few years, according to Haines’s team of analysts.

“We expect a Chinese space station in low Earth orbit (LEO) to be operational between 2022 and 2024,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a report released this week. “China also has conducted and plans to conduct additional lunar exploration missions, and it intends to establish a robotic research station on the Moon and later an intermittently crewed lunar base.”

A trio of Chinese astronauts could be living in the core module within months, according

to a trade publication analysis. “China is aiming to construct its three-module space station with 11 launches across 2021-2022,” Space News observed this week. “These will consist of three module launches and visits by four crewed missions and four cargo spacecraft. Chinese astronauts are currently in training for space station missions, with 12 astronauts expected to fly on the four missions.”

Those ambitions would punctuate China’s emergence as a rival to the U.S., which launched the International Space Station in 1999, placing “the third brightest object in the sky” into orbit with the assistance of Russian experts — a cooperative effort intended at the time to demonstrate post-Cold War comity and technological possibility. It would be a major achievement and opportunity for Chinese researchers.

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A Case for the Convergence of National and Commercial Space

April 30, 2021
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Article by Kimberly Underwood April 14, 2021 (afcea.org)

• Technological investments by private industry have created innovative and cost-effective solutions for the space domain, which can no longer be ignored by the Department of Defense, asserts General Bob Kehler, USAF (Ret.), of Kehler and Associates. “It is imperative that those two entities, national security space and commercial space, converge now,” said the former commander of Strategic Command and the Air Force Space Command, speaking at AFCEA International’s April 13 virtual event, ‘Partnering for Space Power in 2021 and Beyond’.

• “I think there’s a difference between talking about how we want a partnership between national security space and commercial space companies, and my assertion is what we really need is convergence.” Kehler said. To achieve such a convergence, the DOD would have to “embrace commercial space as a full contributing member of the architecture. And this requires I think the most important technical and cultural shift that that maybe we have ever seen.”

• Spaced-based capabilities have to support a new way of conducting intelligence and operations, Kehler continued. “Intelligence can no longer be about indications and warning, order of battle and targeting, Intelligence has to be about trends and anticipation.” Given adversarial capabilities, there is “less emphasis on fielding systems that can totally defeat threats and more on systems that can function in the face of the threat.”

• It is no secret that the acquisition system is not as effective as it could be, according to the former Air Force commander. The military has to improve processes and remove the barriers that stem from relying solely on requirements-based acquisition. The DOD needs to offer more entry points for corporate opportunities into the acquisition process, as well as for contracting of services.

• The military does not always provide industry with the right language, the clearest insight or even the certainty to allow them to bring their best ideas or capabilities to the table, Kehler said. The differences in acquisition systems, the lack of effective communication between DOD and industry and the uncertainties associated with the Congressional budgets and long-term commitments all create real impediments.

• “There’s a sense that the United States has fallen behind adversaries that are outpacing us,” Kehler noted. “I think there is a pretty clear realization that the acquisition model doesn’t yield the capabilities that keep up with either the threat or the pace of technology advance. I think that that commercial space can bring incredible innovation and technological advances that are fueled by an opportunity-based and not a requirements-based acquisition process.”

• While the convergence of national security space and commercial space will not solve all capability gaps, Kehler contended that “such a convergence makes a great contribution to solving them.” Without that convergence, the military will not get close to results that the leaders say they need. “One only has to look at the endless stream of technological breakthroughs and the entrepreneurial spirit that produced them to recognize the benefits the commercial industry can make available to the Department of Defense and the national security space community,” Kehler stated.

• “Look at space launch for example, look at Earth observation, look at space-based communications. These are significant capabilities, and you can get them at lower costs than through traditional government acquisition,” said Kehler. “[Meeting] the challenges of today and tomorrow is going to require us to partner with commercial providers of space and other capabilities routinely and effectively. We need to converge.”

Before the explosion of the private sector’s low-earth orbit satellite constellations and commercial launch services, the divide

between space-based capabilities used for national security purposes and solutions from the commercial sector was considerable. Technological investments by industry have created innovative and cost-effective solutions for the space domain, which can no longer be ignored by the Department of Defense, asserts Gen. Bob Kehler, USAF (Ret.), of Kehler and Associates.

“It is imperative that those two entities, national security space and commercial space, converge now,” said the former commander of Strategic Command and the Air Force Space Command, speaking at AFCEA International’s April 13 virtual event, Partnering for Space Power in 2021 and Beyond.

“Convergence is moving toward uniformity and partnership is cooperating to advance interests that are mutual,” Gen. Kehler explained. “I think there’s a difference between talking about how we want a partnership between national security space and commercial space companies, and my assertion is what we really need is convergence.”

To achieve such a convergence, the DOD would have to “embrace commercial space as a full contributing member of the architecture,” he said. “And this requires I think the most important technical and cultural shift that that maybe we have ever seen.”

The intersection is necessary given the complex and uncertain national security environment in which “potential adversaries can reach out at global distances and touch the United States and our allies and partners very quickly, and if we’re talking about cyberspace within seconds,” the general warned.

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Highest Number of UFO Sightings in US in 2020

April 29, 2021
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Article by Fabienne Lang April 14, 2021 (interestingengineering.com)

• A report in the New York Times stated that last year saw a surge in UFO sightings recorded in the United States. New Yorkers alone reported 300 UFO sightings — the highest number to date. Could extraterrestrial life forms be getting closer to Earth? Are there just more UFOs? Were they always there but are they now flying closer to Earth? Were the night skies just clearer during the pandemic?

• The number of sightings reported in 2020 by the National UFO Reporting Center was 7,263. That number is up from 6,277 in 2019, and jumps up radically from just a decade earlier in 2010, which saw 4,809 sightings reported. So there is a clear upwards trend.

• As more official agencies like the CIA share their official UFO documents, more people become interested in the topic and pay closer attention to what might be lurking above their homes at night. More satellites are being sent into orbit and the Pentagon recently confirmed that leaked Navy UFO footage was real, adding fuel to the UFO fire. Combine these factors with people having more time on their hands in lockdowns and clear skies, you have more opportunities for UFO sightings.

• To keep you occupied during lockdown you can have a little fun by checking out exactly where they’ve been seen through a cool UFO sightings map. Unless, of course, you prefer to take out your binoculars and look up at the starry sky directly.

Scientists have long suspected that extra-terrestrial life exists out there, but could

**hybrid underwater UFO off of Virginia in 2019**

more of these alien life forms be getting closer to Earth year on year?

An interesting report in the New York Times might believe so, as it stated that last year saw a surge in UFO sightings recorded in the U.S. New Yorkers alone reported 300 UFO sightings — the highest number to date.

This raises a number of questions. For instance, are there just more UFOs? Or, were they always there but are they now flying closer to Earth? Or, did people just have more time during lockdowns? And

finally, were the night skies clearer during the pandemic?

Unfortunately, no clear cut answer can be given. However, if we look at the numbers recorded by the National UFO Reporting Center in the U.S., the number of reported sightings last year was 7,263. That number is up from 6,277 in 2019, and jumps up radically from just a decade earlier in 2010, which saw 4,809

sightings reported.

The numbers vary over the years, but if you go down the fascinating list of

reportings, they do trickle down, with some years even just recording one sighting. So there is a clear upwards trend.

Why are there more UFO sightings?

Another musing is that as more official agencies like the CIA share their official UFO documents, more people become interested in the topic and pay closer attention to what might be lurking above their homes at night. The Pentagon also recently confirmed that a recent leaked Navy UFO footage was real, adding fuel to the UFO fire.

Combine these factors with people having more time on their hands in lockdowns and clear skies, you have more opportunities for UFO sightings.

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Moves Closer To Suborbital Passenger Flights

April 28, 2021
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Article from CBS News April 14, 2021 (wsgw.com)

• On April 14th, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin took another step toward sending passengers into space with the launch of the fifteenth unpiloted New Shepard rocket in six years carrying an unmanned capsule on a suborbital test flight. Using live ‘astronaut stand-ins’ before takeoff and after landing to rehearse boarding and egress procedures, launch commentator Ariane Cornell said, “We’re getting very close to sending people up to space and back.” The stand-ins tested their communications gear and reviewed launch procedures before exiting to clear the pad for flight.

• Wednesday’s flight began at 12:51 p.m. ET when the New Shepard rocket’s hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine launched from the pad at Blue Origin’s remote Van Horn, Texas, flight test facility. The stubby rocket quickly climbed away from Launch Site One, steadily accelerating to reach a maximum velocity of 2,247 mph before releasing the empty crew capsule about two minutes and 40 seconds after liftoff. The capsule then soared to an altitude of 66 miles, well above the 50-mile-high lower “boundary” of space, before beginning the long plunge back to Earth.

• The New Shepard booster homed in on its landing pad, restarting its engine and deploying four short landing legs before settling to an on-target touchdown. Inside the separated capsule, an instrumented test dummy dubbed ‘Mannequin Skywalker’ experienced three to five minutes of microgravity before atmospheric deceleration forces set in. The capsule floated to a relatively gentle landing a short distance away, slowed by three large parachutes.

• The New Shepard system is designed to carry space tourists, government and civilian researchers and a variety of payloads to altitudes just above the discernible atmosphere. Blue Origin has not yet announced when it plans its first launch with passengers on board or how much tickets might cost. But the New Shepard capsule will afford six passengers at a time several minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this-world view through six large windows.

• NASA, the Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration consider 50 miles to be the dividing line between space and the discernible atmosphere, while the international Fédération Aéronautique Internationale puts the threshold at 100 kilometers, or 62 miles. The New Shepard capsule routinely exceeds both of those standards.

• New Shepard is a strictly suborbital rocket and spacecraft that is not capable of achieving the velocities required to reach orbit. It will compete with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceplane for commercial passengers and payloads. However, Blue Origin is developing orbit-class New Glenn rockets that will use a powerful new company-designed engine to help boost large satellites into orbit. The company has built a huge rocket factory just outside the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to manufacture the rockets and is developing a launch complex at the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

• The company also is leading a team, one of three, designing a moon lander to carry astronauts to and from the lunar surface in NASA’s Artemis program. NASA is expected to award contracts to one or possibly two teams over the next few weeks.

**New Shepard rocket returning to landing pad**

Taking another step toward sending passengers into space, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin

launched an unpiloted New Shepard capsule on a suborbital test flight Wednesday, using astronaut stand-ins before takeoff and after landing to rehearse boarding and egress procedures.

The company has not yet announced when it plans its first launch with passengers on board or how much tickets might cost. But after 15 unpiloted test flights, the system appears to be on the verge of commercial operations, giving six passengers at a time a few minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this-world view.

“We’re getting very close to sending people up to space and back,” said launch

commentator Ariane Cornell.

To help pave the way, company personnel walked up the launch gantry before liftoff and strapped in aboard the New Shepard capsule just as paying customers will do for an actual flight. The stand-ins tested their communications gear and reviewed launch procedures before exiting to clear the pad for flight.

Wednesday’s flight began at 12:51 p.m. ET when the New Shepard rocket’s hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine ignited with a rush of flaming exhaust at Blue Origin’s remote Van Horn, Texas, flight test facility.

The stubby rocket quickly climbed away from Launch Site One, steadily accelerating as it consumed propellants and lost weight, reaching a maximum velocity of 2,247 mph before releasing the crew capsule about two minutes and 40 seconds after liftoff.

The capsule then soared to an altitude of 66 miles (348,753 feet), well above the 50-mile-high lower “boundary” of space, before beginning the long plunge back to Earth. Inside, an instrumented test dummy — Mannequin Skywalker — experienced three to five minutes of microgravity before atmospheric deceleration forces set in.

The New Shepard booster, meanwhile, homed in on its landing pad, restarting its engine and deploying four short landing legs before settling to an on-target touchdown. The capsule floated to a relatively gentle landing a short distance away, slowed as usual by three large parachutes.

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China, Russia and the New Space Race

April 27, 2021
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Article by James Stavridis April 12, 2021 (bloomberg.com)

• Russia and China are contesting the US militarily, from the Arctic to the Baltics to the South China Sea. A few weeks ago, the two nations agreed to build a joint research station on the Moon. In an online statement, the China National Space Administration said the base would be open to “all interested countries and international partners”. But if you look at recent Russian and Chinese space operations, they have a distinctly military bent. And the idea of general political and military cooperation between the two is gaining speed, from massive war games on the Siberian border to warship deployments in the eastern Mediterranean and the North Atlantic.

• Washington needs to understand the strategic approach being taken by both of these US rivals in space. The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the lesser-known Secure World Foundation have recently released reports highlighting a cluster of Russian activities that have caught the attention of the US intelligence community. These include significant antisatellite missile tests throughout 2020; flights of Russian spacecraft very near US spy satellites; tests of projectile launches in space; and fraying ties with the US in civilian and scientific space cooperation.

• As the supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, this article’s writer, James Stavridis, spent a good deal of time with the then-Russian ambassador to the alliance, Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin went on to serve as deputy prime minister in charge of all Russian defense and space industries. Since 2018, Rogozin has been the head of Roscosmos, the equivalent of NASA. Given his strong defense background, Rogozin brings a military thrust to the Russian space program.

• Ten years ago, Rogozin told Stavridis that Russia’s military future was in space. In 2014, Rogozin mocked the US space program on Twitter as needing a trampoline to bring astronauts to the International Space Station. After a successful commercial launch by SpaceX in 2020, Elon Musk tweeted back, “The trampoline is working.”

• China doesn’t have the decades-long history that Russia has in the space domain, but the Chinese are accelerating rapidly. China had landed a lunar module on the Moon, returning soil samples. It launched a Mars probe that is currently orbiting the red planet. And it has plans to build a Moon base, along with Russia. All of this is part of an emerging “space culture” in China.

• Chinese efforts in space have an increasingly military feel to them as well. China has 363 satellites in space, second only to the U.S. (with more than 1,300). The Chinese have been conducting anti-satellite tests for nearly two decades, including missiles and lasers. They have devoted considerable effort to sharpening offensive cybertools that can go after US space assets. The Chinese have also fired more rockets into space than any other country for three years straight.

• As Russia and China come together to operate in the cosmos, their overall military and strategic cooperation will increase as well. The fledgling US Space Force must be part of a US response. America needs a small but elite US Cyber Force working alongside our allies, much as China and Russia intend to do. And Washington needs a coherent plan for private-public cooperation and to prioritize defense dollars for space.

• [Editor’s Note] The author of this article, retired Admiral James Stavridis, is intent on associating Russia with China’s CCP. And where is he now that he has retired from the US Navy? He is an operating executive with the Carlyle Group, a notorious bastion of the deep state elite trying to stoke a war between the US, China and Russia. China has invited “all interested countries and international partners” to join them in the development of a Moon base. After the deep state stopped utilizing Russian space rockets to bring Americans to the International Space Station in favor of their darling, Elon Musk, why wouldn’t Russia be interested in another Moon program? And didn’t the Russian navy just work with the US Navy to bottle up the Evergreen container ship ‘Ever Given’ in the Suez Canal, which reportedly contained not only trafficked humans but weapons of mass destruction?

What is really going on is a war between the deep state and non-compliant Alliance countries like Russia. Deep state shills like Admiral Stavridis only want to demonize Russia and stir up World War III to give the deep state a path to total control over the planet and the solar system. Unfortunately, Administrator Biden is also a deep state lackey who supports this evil agenda. It is up to the white hats in the US military to excise the deep state trolls from its ranks, completely remove the deep state from power, and set the planet on a course of peace and prosperity – including our expansion into space to stand alongside our space cousins – which the deep state has actively prevented since WWII.

Russia and China are looking hard at how they should allocate defense spending to

contest the U.S. militarily, from the Arctic to the Baltics to the South China Sea. Near the top of both national shopping lists are military operations and assets in space, and the most intriguing aspect of their decision to look to the stars is that they are going to do it together.

Most notably, the two nations agreed a few weeks ago to build a joint research station on the moon. In an online statement, the China National Space Administration said the base would be open to “all interested countries and international partners,” which sounds relatively benign. But if you look at recent Russian and Chinese space operations, they have a distinctly military bent. And the idea of general political and military cooperation between the two is gaining speed, from massive war games on the Siberian border to warship deployments in the eastern Mediterranean and the North Atlantic.

What should the U.S. be doing?

First, Washington needs to clearly understand the strategic approach being taken by both of these rivals, who are now peer competitors, at least in space.

We should begin with Russia, which has had a very long and successful track record in space operations dating back to Soviet times. The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the lesser-known Secure World Foundation have recently released reports highlighting a cluster of Russian activities that have caught the attention of the U.S. intelligence community.

These include significant antisatellite missile tests throughout 2020; so-called close aboard flights of Russian spacecraft very near U.S. spy satellites; tests of projectile launches in space; and fraying ties with the U.S. in civilian and scientific space cooperation. (The two nations have previously worked together closely, especially on the International Space Station.)

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Russia Expects Paris to Back Initiatives on Preventing Outer Space Arms Race

April 26, 2021
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Article by Mihail Metcel April 11, 2021 (tass.com)

• In an interview with the Russian News Agency TASS on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight, Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Meshkov said that Moscow expects Paris to support its initiatives aimed at non-placement of arms in outer space.

• “Moscow and Paris on the whole share the need to ensure the safety of space activities and their implementation in accordance with the norms of international law,” says Meshkov. “This concerns the prevention of an arms race in outer space and the need to prevent turning it into a new arena of confrontation.”

• Part of Russia’s diplomatic initiative is “launching talks on the treaty on preventing the placement of arms in outer space.” The draft document was submitted by Russia and China,” said Meshkov. “This also refers to the commitments on the non-use of force or a threat to use force against space objects, agreeing measures on increasing trust in space. It’s also important to adopt global political commitments on no first placement of arms in outer space.”

• “We count on the support of these initiatives by Paris,” Meshkov stressed.

**Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Meshkov**

PARIS, April 11. /TASS/. Moscow expects Paris to support its initiatives aimed at non-placement of arms in outer space, Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Meshkov said in an interview with TASS on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight.

According to him, “Moscow and Paris on the whole share the need to ensure the safety of space activities and their implementation in accordance with the norms of international law.” “This concerns the prevention of an arms race in outer space and the need to prevent turning it into a new arena of confrontation,” the diplomat said.

Russia is calling on its foreign partners, including France, to back its initiatives, the diplomat said. “Among them is launching talks on the treaty on preventing the placement of arms in outer space [the draft document was submitted by Russia and China – TASS],” Meshkov explained. “This also refers to the commitments on the non-use of force or a threat to use force against space objects, agreeing measures on increasing trust in space. It’s also important to adopt global political commitments on no first placement of arms in outer space.” “We count on the support of these initiatives by Paris,” he stressed.

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Military Scientist to Build ‘Space-Time Modification Weapon’

April 25, 2021
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Article by Michael Moran April 10, 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)

• The radar-invisible F117A Nighthawk and its flying wing cousin the B2 Spirit still look like something from a Star Wars film despite both designs being around 40 years old. Scientist Dr. Salvatore Pais (pictured above) claims that he is able to create artificially generated high energy electromagnetic fields that can manipulate the “quantum vacuum” which underlies the entire universe. Pais says that these discoveries will overturn the laws of physics as we currently understand them.

• While science writers such as Brett Tingley argues that the so-called Pais Effect “has no scientific basis in reality” and that the patents related to it are “filled with pseudo-scientific jargon”, the US Department of Defense has given Pais $500,000 to develop his ‘Space-Time Modification Weapon’.

• The ‘Pais effect’ is the electromagnetic “force field” that surrounds a craft that allows it incredible acceleration through air or water, and “capable of extreme underwater speeds” with virtually no resistance. The resulting new kind of aircraft, known as a HUAC, would be – according to Pais – able to “engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level”. “The HAUC is conical (like the point of a pencil) in configuration with an elliptical cross-section, similar in geometry to a hypersonic glide vehicle [or] dart,” notes Pais in a recent publication. The HUAC craft would operate as both an aircraft and a submarine, encasing its crew in a Faraday Cage to shield them from the intense electromagnetic forces.

• Pais has filed several patents, with titles such as “Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device,” “Piezoelectricity-induced High-Temperature Superconductor,” “High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Generator,” and “Ultrahigh Intensity Electromagnetic Field Generator”. At least one of his patents was initially rejected by the US Patent Office in 2018 because it did not seem to be scientifically plausible, but then was later resubmitted with further documentation that appeared to prove Pais’s wild claims.

• US Department of Defense (DoD) emails reveal that there was at least one experimental demonstration of the technology. The schematics Pais drew up for his experimental craft look suspiciously like the “Black Triangles” sometimes spotted gliding silently over the southwestern United States. The US National Institute for Discovery Science cataloged sightings of so-called “Black Triangle” UFOs dating back to the 1990s, and concluded that the behavior of the mysterious aerial objects “does not appear consistent with the covert deployment of an advanced DoD aircraft”.

• According to The Drive, the US military is investing in these technologies because of concerns that China has already developed ultra-advanced aircraft of the type that reportedly “buzzed” the USS Nimitz in 2004 (ie: The ‘Tic Tac’ UFO). The Drive’s Brett Tingley and Tyler Rogoway wrote: “The Chief Technical Officer of the Naval Aviation Enterprise personally wrote a letter addressed to the examiner claiming that the U.S. needs the patent as the Chinese are already ‘investing significantly’ in these aerospace technologies.”

The US Department of Defence has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the development

of a ‘Space-Time Modification Weapon’ that will ensure battlefield supremacy by bending the laws of physics.

While the concept might seem like something dreamed up by tinfoil-hatted conspiracy theorists, the US military has a long history of dabbling in research that sounds like science fiction.

The radar-invisible F117A Nighthawk and its flying wing cousin the B2 Spirit still look like something from a Star Wars film despite both designs being around 40 years old.

This new initiative is based on the work of controversial scientist Dr Salvatore Pais.

Pais claims that artificially generated high energy electromagnetic fields can manipulate the “quantum vacuum” that underlies the entire Universe.

If Pais is correct, a craft surrounded by an electromagnetic “force field” of this kind could move through air – or water – with virtually no resistance.

This would allow incredible acceleration and produce a new kind of aircraft that – according to the enigmatic Dr Pais – would be able to “engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level”.

But not everyone agrees with him.

Science writer Brett Tingley argues that the so-called Pais Effect “has no scientific basis in reality” and added the patents related to it “were filled with pseudo-scientific jargon”

But it’s pseudo-scientific jargon that has convinced at least some US defence chiefs. Pais has been handed over $500,000 (£365k) to research the bizarre concept.

Defence department emails reveal that there was at least one experimental demonstration of the technology. UFO hunters will note that the schematics Pais drew up for his experimental craft look suspiciously like the “Black Triangles” sometimes spotted gliding silently over the southwestern United States.

The US National Institute for Discovery Science catalogued sightings of so-called “Black Triangle” UFOs dating back to the 1990s, and concluded that the behaviour of the mysterious aerial objects “does not appear consistent with the covert deployment of an advanced DoD [U.S. Department of the Defence] aircraft”.

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French Space Forces Reach For Higher Orbit

April 25, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Murielle Delaporte April 9, 2021 (breakingdefense.com)

• France led its first multinational military space exercise, known as the ASTERX exercise, in Toulouse March 8-12 along with Germany, Italy and the U.S. The exercise was described by General Michel Friedling, head of the French Space Command, as a ‘’stress test’’ for the country’s space command processes and systems, and signals the country’s preparedness to face any future space conflict.

• The ASTERX exercise was a tactical exercise meant to train and prepare space combatants, with no less than 18 different simulated space events and scenarios ranging from an attack on a French satellite to space debris threatening civilian populations to an adversary jamming of allied SATCOM.

• The ASTERX exercise is one of the first tasks for French President Emmanuel Macron to overhaul the country’s space policy. The French military is moving to keep its rank as the third international space power in an increasingly large and competitive club of nations. The Covid pandemic has had a slight impact on that effort, postponing the launch of the military observation satellite CSO-2 spy satellite by a few months.

• 2021 already is set to be a busy year for French military space activities and organizational reforms with three major thrusts: 1) Restructure Military Space Chain of Command; 2) Modernize Space Capabilities; and 3) Pursue More Allied Cooperation.

• France is developing an integrated French Air and Space Force to replace the 2010-established joint space command. The combined force is now assembling about 200 AAE personnel, spread among four different sites and centers – Paris (management), Toulouse (space operations, command and control), Lyon (a space situational awareness center called COSMOS), and an observation center called CMOS in Creil. The CDE plans to host 500 military staff by 2025 in a building of its own in Toulouse.

• The Defense Ministry is hoping to tap into the commercial space industry to more rapidly develop modern capabilities. For example, the French space agency CNES will use the Ariane 5 heavy lift rocket to launch the first of two planned Syracuse IV military communications satellites, as well as the first of three planned Ceres signals intelligence. The next-generation Syracuse satellites, being developed by an Airbus/Thales Alenia Space team, are scheduled for launch in 2022. A third satellite is projected for 2030. The first Ceres sat, built by Airbus Defence and Space, is slated for launch this year.

• CNES is also going to participate in research under the recently designated ‘Yoda’ program — named after the Jedi master in Star Wars — for the development of France’s nano-satellites ‘patrol’. The patrol nanosats would identify on-orbit threats to France’s satellites and, if deemed necessary, disable the threat using an on-board laser.

• France considers international cooperation as vital for both France and Europe in order to face the ‘new front’ of space threats, and to gain new opportunities. Germany, Italy, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, India and Japan are considered key partners for France in the 2019 military space strategy. The US’s participation is a primary reason why France officially joined Space Command’s Combined Space Operations Initiative a year ago. NATO just approved Paris’ request to locate a new Center of Excellence for Space in Toulouse, inviting 42 experts – including 17 foreigners – in charge of doctrine, analysis, training and exercises.

• ASTERX is the first of many military space exercises with international partners. The name of the exercise is a tribute to the very first satellite France put in orbit in 1965, called Asterix. And both, of course, pay homage to the famous cartoon character all French children have grown up with since 1959: Astérix, a very stubborn chief of a Gallic village in the Roman era, whose inhabitants’ worst and constant fear is that the sky will fall on their heads … perhaps not such an irrational fear after all.

PARIS: France led its first multinational military space exercise last month, with

**General Michel Friedling, head of the French Space Command**

Germany, Italy and the US, marking the country’s effort to re-vamp its forces and operations to meet 21st century threats.

The exercise signals the French government’s intent to reach for a higher ‘orbit’ as a sovereign nation in order to be able to face any future space conflict. Up until now, Paris was a participant in US-led space wargames.

The ASTERX exercise, took place in Toulouse March 8-12. It was described by Gen. Michel Friedling, head of the French Space Command, as a ‘’stress test’’ for the country’s space command processes and systems. A tactical exercise meant to train and prepare space combatants, ASTERX simulated an international crisis with no less than 18 different space events and scenarios ranging from an attack on a French satellite to space debris threatening civilian populations to an adversary jamming of allied SATCOM.

Assessing future space operational needs through this kind of exercise is one of the first tasks for the government of French President Emmanuel Macron in its full speed effort launched in 2019 to overhaul the country’s space policy. The Covid pandemic has had a slight impact on that effort, postponing the launch of the military observation satellite CSO-2 spy satellite by a few months. (The satellite was launched in December from France’s spaceport in French Guiana, joining its sister CSO-1 in a 300km polar orbit.) By and large, the French military is moving apace in keeping with Paris’ determination to, at a minimum, keep its rank as the third international space power in an increasingly large and competitive club of nations.

Indeed, 2021 already is set to be an especially busy year for French military space activities and organizational reforms. Three major thrusts are underway.

Restructure Military Space Chain of Command.

Contrary to the US move to create a Space Force separate from the Air Force, France is developing an integrated French Air and Space Force (AAE for ‘’armée de l’Air et de l’Espace’’). The new combined force was officially stood up on Sept. 11, 2020 — a year after the French Ministry of the Armed Forces created a Space Command (CDE) to replace the 2010-established joint space command.

The AAE has now received its first officer, nicknamed “bébé espace” (literally space baby), directly assigned to a space position after graduation from France’s equivalent of the Air Force Academy. There currently are about 200 AAE personnel, spread among four different sites and centers – Paris (management), Toulouse (space operations, command and control), Lyon (a space situational awareness center called COSMOS) and an observation center called CMOS in Creil. The CDE plans to host 500 military staff by 2025 in a building of its own in Toulouse — for now, the command is co-located within France’s civil space agency, CNES.

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UFO Sighting and Discovery of Dead Cattle in North Dakota

April 24, 2021
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Article by Nirmal Narayanan April 7, 2021 (ibtimes.co.in)

• On April 5th, a security camera over Williston, North Dakota captured a saucer-shaped object moving across the skies. While there are no farms nearby, two dead cattle were discovered near the area where the UFO appeared. Some say that the video image shows a smaller craft depositing objects – such as cows – into a larger craft below, and then returning the carcasses to the ground.

• “Object was caught by motion detection on a camera mounted on top of structure out at remote unoccupied farmstead object moved from north to south – unclear how far away,” said an eyewitness. “[N]ext motion event was daylight. Two dead cows found in a tree row less than a mile away, no obvious cause of death, covered in mud. No farms with cows around for 10 miles, no reported missing cows from nearby farms never seen anything like this out there on the cameras.”

• After capturing the events on camera, the eyewitness handed over the clip to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Some theorize that aliens are monitoring cows to get a better understanding of human health.

Conspiracy theorists have long been claiming that alien existence on earth is real, and the government is covering up facts about extraterrestrials to avoid public panic. To substantiate these theories, conspiracy theorists often cite examples of UFO sightings that have happened in various parts of the world. And now, another mysterious UFO event has happened in North Dakota and adding up to the mystery, two dead cattle were also discovered near the place where the UFO sighting happened.

UFO sighting recorded on security camera

The mysterious UFO event was recorded on a security camera, and it shows a saucer-shaped object moving across the skies. Shockingly, two dead cattle were also discovered near the place where the UFO appeared, and the eyewitness reveals that there are no farms with cows nearby.

“Object was caught by motion detection on a camera mounted on top of structure out at remote unoccupied farmstead object moved from north to south – unclear how far away – next motion event was daylight. 2 dead cows found in a tree row less than a mile away – no obvious cause of death, covered in mud. No farms with cows around for 10 miles, no reported missing cows from nearby farms never seen anything like this out there on the cameras,” says the eyewitness.

1:27 minute security camera video of UFO over Williston, North Dakota (‘UFO Sightings Daily’ YouTube)

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Was Fascinated With UFOs and Aliens

April 24, 2021
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Article by Jane Clinton April 10, 2021 (inews.co.uk)

• Among the late Prince Philip’s varied interests, the Duke of Edinburgh (pictured above) was said to be fascinated with UFOs and amassed a sizeable library of books on the subject. It is believed his interest was sparked by his uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who wrote an official report about an unidentified craft landing at his Broadlands estate in Romsey, Hampshire.

• Prince Philip spent the summer of 2019 reading The Halt Perspective which explores the Rendlesham Forest Incident. Dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, US Air Force security personnel stationed at nearby RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk reported seeing strange lights on December 26th and 28th 1980 in the surrounding forest. US servicemen claim to have gotten within touching distance of a “craft of unknown origin”.

• The Halt Perspective was co-written by retired US Air Force Col Charles Halt, who was the base deputy commander at the time, along with retired West Midlands detective, John Hanson. In a letter to Mr. Hanson, Prince Philip’s private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote: “I am certain it will be read with close interest over the summer.” Upon Prince Phillip receiving another book by Mr. Hanson, Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs, Miller-Bakewell again replied: “His Royal Highness will add this copy to his collection.” It is believed the duke spent decades collecting such titles on extra-terrestrial activity.

• John Hanson’s ex-father-in-law Chief Petty Officer Edward West served in the Royal Navy with Lord Mountbatten on the HMS Kelly. West said that the Duke had twelve of Hanson’s UFO/extraterrestrial books on his shelf. “I’m quite proud of Prince Philip,” said Hanson. “[W]hy shouldn’t he have been interested in UFOs, because for goodness sake, that is something that we should treat seriously rather than flippantly. It is a phenomenon that has baffled mankind for millennia.” Hanson adds, “Even Prince Charles is interested in it and Prince William”

• Derek Dempster, a former RAF pilot who went on to become a reporter for the Daily Express and then founding editor of Flying Saucer Review, spoke of “allies” in the likes of “Sir Peter Horsley, who had been Station Commander at North Weald, and was then equerry to Prince Philip”. “We received collaboration from Henry Chinnery, who was Horsley’s successor,” said Dempster. “Both men had a keen interest in keeping the Palace posted on ‘flying saucers’ and we used to exchange files with them.”

• Dempster, who died in 2012, went on: “There was also a shorthand writer for Lord Mountbatten, named Dan Lloyd, who was an ex-Royal Navy man. He was also very interested in ‘flying saucer’ matters and shared this interest and new research material with Mountbatten. It was said, at the time, that Mountbatten kept lever files of UFO photographs to show visitors on the bridge of the warships when he was at sea.”

**Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh**

Among his vast and varied interests, the Duke of Edinburgh was said to have had an enduring fascination with UFOs and amassed a sizeable library of titles on the subject.

It is believed his interest was sparked by his uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who wrote an official report about an unidentified craft landing at his Broadlands estate in Romsey, Hampshire.

Prince Philip reportedly spent the summer of 2019 reading The Halt Perspective which explores the Rendlesham Forest Incident which has been dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”.

United States Air Force (USAF) security personnel stationed at nearby RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, reported seeing strange lights on 26 and 28 December 1980 in the surrounding forest.

Servicemen went to investigate with one even claiming they got to within touching distance of a “craft of unknown origin”.

The Halt Perspective was co-written by retired US Air Force Col Charles Halt, who was the base deputy commander at the time, and retired West Midlands detective, John Hanson.

In a letter to Mr Hanson, Philip’s then private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote: “I am certain it will be read with close interest over the summer.”

Then after receiving another book on the topic by Mr Hanson, Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs Brigadier Miller-Bakewell again replied: “His Royal Highness will add this copy to his collection.”

John Hanson, whose ex-father-in-law, Chief Petty Officer Edward West, known as Ted, was on HMS Kelly with Lord Mountbatten, told i that the Duke had 12 of his books on the extraterrestrial.

Mr Hanson said: “I’ve got about 12 letters from the Duke’s private secretary that say the prince found the subject interesting.

“I’m quite proud of Prince Philip, why shouldn’t he have been interested in UFOs, because for goodness sake, that is something that we should treat seriously rather than flippantly. It is a phenomenon that has baffled mankind for millennia.”

He added: “Even Prince Charles is interested in it and Prince William”

It is believed the duke spent decades collecting such titles on extra-terrestrial activity.

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China’s Space War With the US

April 24, 2021
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Article by Brandon J. Weichert April 8, 2021 (asiatimes.com)

• Any conflict between the United States and China would likely begin at sea and in the skies over the Indo-Pacific region. Last month, US Navy Admiral John Aquilino testified before Congress that American forces deployed to the Indo-Pacific are overmatched by their Chinese rivals.

• US military forces and their allies would require unhampered access to satellites in order to defend against Chinese aggression. Nearly 70% of the US Army’s weapons rely on satellites to function. American warships would need to coordinate and communicate with one another and their combatant commands across the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite constellation in geosynchronous orbit, and across the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) constellation.

• The ubiquitous Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation of satellites is essential for the movement and deployment of US forces, especially in a large area of operation like the Indo-Pacific. Even America’s vaunted nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) satellites could be destroyed in geosynchronous orbit, nullifying America’s nuclear deterrent.

• Denying the Americans access to these vital satellite constellations would be key for any plan by Beijing to invade Taiwan or to capture the South or East China Sea. A “Space Pearl Harbor” would temporarily blind and confuse US forces to create a window of opportunity for China’s ‘People’s Liberation Army’ (PLA) to defeat a confused American military.

• The US military would also attack China’s satellite constellations. But Beijing’s forces are nowhere near as dependent on satellites as are America’s military forces. Also, American forces would wait to be attacked in space before responding in-kind. This gives Beijing the advantage by allowing the PLA escalation dominance in a space war – which would translate to China’s advantage on land, at sea, in the air, and within cyberspace, at least for a short time. Western dithering in the face of Chinese aggression would lead to their defeat.

• China’s leadership knows it does not need to defeat the United States and its allies in a war, they simply need to delay US military power from intervening against their forces long enough for China’s military to achieve their strategic objectives, say, capturing Taiwan. Once captured, China’s leaders believe that their American rivals would be unwilling to commit the resources needed to restore the status quo. China’s leaders would use their crippling defeat of US military forces in the Indo-Pacific as the leverage they’d need to seek a negotiated settlement with Washington to create a new regional paradigm wherein China, not the United States, is the dominant player.

• To deter China from enacting a Space Pearl Harbor, the Biden administration must demand a larger budget for the fledgling Space Force and insist upon a doctrine of satellite defense coupled with total space dominance. It is easier to preserve America’s satellite capabilities in peacetime than it is to try to restore them in war.

• If the United States continues to leave itself vulnerable to attack in the strategic high ground of space, an aggressive and innovative foe like China could exploit such weaknesses in a moment of geopolitical crisis and put another nail in the coffin of America’s superpower status. A China-dominated world order is a development that few outside of Beijing desire.

**Admiral John Aquilino testifying before Congress**

If a war between China and the United States erupted today, an American victory would not be assured. US Navy Admiral John Aquilino recently testified before Congress that American forces deployed to the Indo-Pacific are overmatched by their Chinese rivals.

Any conflict between the United States and China would likely begin at sea and in the skies over the Indo-Pacific region. Thus the US Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps would form the tip of America’s spear in the region.

These US military forces (and their allies) would require untrammeled access to satellites in order to defend against Chinese aggression.

For the US Navy to defend either the South or East China Sea effectively or to assist Taiwan, in the event that China attempted to invade the besieged democratic island-nation, American warships would need to coordinate and communicate with one another and their combatant commands across the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite constellation in geosynchronous orbit.
Nearly 70% of the US Army’s weapons rely on satellites to function. Therefore, another critical set of satellites China might target is the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) constellation.

The ubiquitous Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation of satellites is essential for the movement and deployment of US forces, especially in a large area of operation like the Indo-Pacific. Even America’s vaunted nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) satellites could be destroyed in geosynchronous orbit, nullifying America’s nuclear deterrent.

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Britain Launches Its Own Space Command

April 23, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Marta Blanco Sanchez and Edmond Reeves April 6, 2021 (smallcapnews.co.uk)

• The UK government has officially launched Space Command, to provide command and control of all defense space capabilities, including Skynet Satellite communications and the UK Space Operations Center. The command is made up of a joint force of all military branches: the Royal Navy, the British army, the Royal Air Force, and the civil service.

• An official from the UK’s Ministry of Defense explained that, “Space is an enabling field that includes global positioning system and satellite communications that affect civilian life, as well as an operational field where space activity of other countries can be observed. …[T]he establishment of a Space Command is a critical step in developing a coherent strategy for understanding and operating in space aimed at protecting the interests of the United Kingdom.”

• The Space Command carries out its tasks alongside the Space Administration of the Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for policy, strategy, intergovernmental and international coordination of Britain’s space defense. Space Command will interact with British Space Agency and the British Aerospace Command when necessary, with a view to integrating multiple areas.

• Space Command will be headquartered at the Royal Air Force Station High Wycombe. By sharing a base with the Air Command, the Space Command can “take advantage of the existing RAF space structures, such as the UK Space Operations Center. The Space Command will begin recruiting, training, and developing space defense personnel for the new command center.

• Collaboration with international partners is the key in space. The British Space Command will continue the UK’s commitment to Joint space operations with Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the United States, to improve opportunities for cooperation, and operational coordination in space under NATO’s Space Alliance operation Olympic Defender.

The UK government officially launched Space Command, a joint force formed by Royal Navy, The the British army, The Royal Air Force And the civil service. Upon full operation of the new force, it will provide command and control of all defense space capabilities, including UK Space Operations Center (SpOC), Satellite communications Skynet, The RAF Fylingdales and other enabling capabilities. The country thus joins the list of countries that already have its own space force, such as the United States and France.

Space is essential for military operations. Loss or disruption of spatial dominance can affect the ability to perform most defensive tasks and has the potential to significantly affect civil, commercial and economic activity. With this in mind, the UK has made its new military arm in charge.

Unlike US Space Force, which follows the naval model, UK Aerospace Command is more consistent with the Air Force. Officials from the country’s Ministry of Defense explain that, “Space is an enabling field that includes global positioning system and satellite communications that affect civilian life, as well as an operational field where space activity of other countries can be observed. It is about being an advocate of space, not a fan of The space. ”

For the British authorities, “the establishment of a space command is a critical step in developing a coherent strategy for understanding and operating in space aimed at protecting the interests of the United Kingdom.”

Composition and structure

The Space Command carries out its tasks alongside the Space Administration of the Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for policy, strategy, and intergovernmental and international coordination of space defense. Title National Space Council It will flow through space direction to British Space Command and other related defense elements. Space Command will interact with British Space Agency when necessary, to provide a common national space capacity.

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Sixty Years After Gagarin, Is Russia Lagging in Space?

April 23, 2021
ExoNews Editor

April 7, 2021 (today.rtl.lu)

• Sixty years ago on April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union made history by launching Yuri Gagarin into space on a Soyuz-made capsule. Moscow announced its intent to replace the Soyuz design in 2009, boasting that the new capsule would be “bigger, with more powerful engines and more comfortable than the Soyuz.” RKK Energia was even awarded a development contract for the project. But after a series of delays, the Soyuz-degined capsule continues to be used for trips to the International Space Station (ISS).

• The head of RKK Energia’s flight centre Alexander Kaleri, himself a veteran cosmonaut who flew several missions into space and spent months on the ISS and Mir space stations, admits the project is a long way from taking off. “The goal is to carry out a first pilot-less test flight by 2023. For now we are starting by testing models for the capsule, it’s a fairly long process.”

• The new capsule’s grand designs have fallen victim to funding problems and bureaucratic inertia. Russian space expert Vitaly Yegorov says the lengthy development is hardly surprising given “the technical difficulties, Western sanctions against the Russian space industry, and a lack of funding” for the space program. With the Soyuz still flying, there is also no “acute need” for a replacement, Yegorov says.

• Other projects have also stagnated, including the next generation Angara-A5 rockets meant to carry Russian space capsules, which have been in development since the 1990s but have launched only twice in test mode, in 2014 and 2020. The Nauka laboratory module intended for the ISS began assembly in the 1990s, but has also suffered a string of failures.

• Despite these setbacks, Dmitry Rogozin – a nationalist politician and former diplomat now in charge of Russian space agency Roscosmos – continues to make bombastic claims about future projects. He has announced ventures to bring back samples from Venus and a rocket capable of making 100 round trips to space and back.

• After Russia pulled out of the US-led Lunar Gateway project to put a new space station in lunar orbit starting in 2024, Moscow and Beijing announced plans in March for a rival space station, but without a timetable or budget. A former Roscosmos official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it is clear that Rogozin’s projects are pie in the sky. “[H]is promises extend into the 2030s, when neither of them will be in power,” the official said.

• Russian space expert Vadim Lukashevich said the problem for Roscosmos is that when it comes to scientific projects, Putin’s mind is not on space exploration. Rather, the Kremlin’s attention is fixed on military ventures. “The priority for the Kremlin is military projects, especially the development of missiles,” he said. “Putin talks about new weapons and missiles,” Lukashevich says, including hypersonic weapons that can strike an enemy like a “meteorite”.

• While Russian defense spending has grown significantly in the last two decades, Roscosmos has seen its budget falling year by year. Last year, Rogozin announced that Roscosmos’ 2016-2025 total budget of $18.4 billion US was being cut by ten percent for the last five years.

• And as Russia’s space industry stalls, its competitors, including now the private sector, are moving forward. Last year, Russia lost its monopoly over ISS launches to Elon Musk’s reusable Space X rockets. But Roscosmos is wary of partnerships with private companies, fearing this could siphon away the “state space budget and contracts”.

• Meanwhile, the Russian space industry is beset with corruption, including multiple scandals over the construction of the new Vostochny launchpad in the Far East. “There is hardly any space company left whose officials have not been replaced or arrested,” laments a former Roscosmos staffer. “Today the industry is run by newcomers without training in space technologies.”

• [Editor’s Note] Don’t be so sure that Russia is languishing in advanced space technology. Some believe that Russia is the epicenter of the Alliance space program, working with benevolent Galactic Federation extraterrestrials to quietly develop modern spacefaring craft like the corvettes reported by Corey Goode to have harassed the deep state’s ‘pumpkin seed’ craft attempting to leave earth orbit over Antarctica in January 2016. Putin is a leader of the Alliance, and prefers to let the deep state think they are “lagging behind”. But since the Alliance is currently kicking the deep state’s ass in space, everyone is now aware of Russia and the Alliance’s capabilities in spite of hit pieces like this one.

Sixty years after the Soviet Union made history by launching Yuri Gagarin into space

on April 12, 1961, Russia continues to have lofty extraterrestrial ambitions, but its ability to realise them is more down to earth.

Project after project has been announced and then delayed, as grand designs fall victim to funding problems or bureaucratic inertia. The Kremlin’s attention meanwhile is fixed on military ventures rather than space exploration.

A case in point is the project to replace Russia’s ageing Soyuz capsule, a workhorse that has been ferrying astronauts into space since the 1960s and continues to be used for trips to the International Space Station.

First announced in 2009, the project to replace the Soyuz has been repeatedly pushed back. Even the name of the proposed capsule has changed multiple times, from the “Federation” to the “Oryol” (Eagle) and then a proposed smaller version called the “Orlyonok”.

RKK Energia, the firm that builds the Soyuz, was awarded a development contract for the project.

Standing in a museum at Energia’s offices celebrating Soviet space accomplishments, the head of the firm’s flight centre Alexander Kaleri boasts that the new capsule will be “bigger, with more powerful engines and more comfortable than the Soyuz.”

But Kaleri, a veteran cosmonaut who flew several missions into space and spent months on the ISS and Mir space stations, admits the project is a long way from taking off.

“The goal is to carry out a first pilot-less test flight by 2023. For now we are starting by testing models for the capsule, it’s a fairly long process.”

Stagnating projects

Russian space expert Vitaly Yegorov says the lengthy development is hardly surprising given “the technical difficulties, Western sanctions against the Russian space industry and a lack of funding” for the space programme.

With the Soyuz still flying, there is also no “acute need” for a replacement, he says.

Other projects have also stagnated, including the next generation Angara-A5 rockets meant to carry Russian space capsules, which have been in development since the 1990s but have launched only twice in test mode, in 2014 and 2020.

The Nauka laboratory module intended for the ISS, which began assembly in the 1990s, has also suffered a string of failures that have prevented it from entering orbit.

Despite these setbacks, Dmitry Rogozin — a nationalist politician and former

diplomat now in charge of Russian space agency Roscosmos — continues to make bombastic claims about future projects.

He has announced ventures to bring back samples from Venus and a rocket capable of making 100 round trips to space and back.

After Russia pulled out of the US-led international Lunar Gateway project — a space station in lunar orbit whose first modules are to be launched in 2024 — Moscow and Beijing announced

plans this March for a rival space station, but without a timetable or budget.

A former Roscosmos official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it is clear that Rogozin’s projects are pie in the sky.

The Roscosmos chief promises President Vladimir Putin “that they will go to the Moon, Mars or Venus,” the official said. “But his promises extend into the 2030s, when neither of them will be in power.”

Russian space expert Vadim Lukashevich said the problem for Roscosmos is that when it comes to scientific projects, Putin’s mind is not on space exploration.

“The priority for the Kremlin is military projects, especially the development of missiles,” he said.

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Navy Admiral is Clueless About the UFOs That Menaced US Destroyers Off California Coast in 2019

April 22, 2021
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Article by Bevan Hurley April 6, 2021 (dailymail.co.uk)

• Last month, The Drive website revealed that US Navy warships stationed off the coast of Los Angeles had encountered swarms of mysterious drones, which pursued them at high speed in low visibility. Ship logbooks, internal emails and eyewitness descriptions establish that the UAVs (unidentified aerial vehicles) had a far greater aeronautical capability than any previously known drones. (see previous ExoArticle here)

• Admiral Michael Gilday (pictured above), the Chief of US Naval Operations, led an investigation into the July 2019 incident. Speaking to the Defense Writers Group in Washington, Gilday told them “I am aware of those sightings, and as it’s been reported, there have been other sightings by aviators in the air and by other ships not only of the United States, but other nations — and of course other elements within the US joint force… Those findings have been collected and they still are being analyzed.”

• Gilday’s statements appear to rule out the theory that the drones could have come from a secret US military program. This has led to growing speculation that they were either built by a rival military power or ‘something else beyond our understanding is going on’. Scores of reports of similar sightings date back to the 1960s and remain classified. Lawmakers have been calling for the Pentagon to open up its classified records about the encounters, citing national security concerns.

• The 2019 LA sighting has parallels to previous UFO encounters, in particular an infamous 2004 incident when six Super Hornet pilots made visual or instrument contact with a mystery ‘Tic Tac’ UFO in November 2004. The Navy has now classified the 2019 LA ‘drones’ investigation, preventing further information from being released.

• Gadi Schwartz, an expert on UFO encounters, told NBC News that the Navy’s response only added to the intrigue surrounding the sightings. “There’s either another nation or possibly a secret program that has made some technological breakthroughs that would change the way we understand physics, or something else beyond our understanding is going on.”

**‘transmedium sphere UFO’ off Virginia 2019**

The head of the United States Navy has admitted he has no idea where a swarm of

mysterious Tic Tac-shaped drones that menaced four US destroyers originated.

Admiral Michael Gilday, the chief of naval operations, led an investigation into the July 2019 incident in which a group of unmanned aerial vehicles chased four US Naval destroyers for up to 100 nautical miles off the coast of California.

Flight logs revealed as many as six mystery aircraft swarmed several US Navy warships close to a sensitive training area at the Channel Islands at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour and with a greater maneuverability than US military drones.

**‘Tic Tac’ UFO off of San Diego in 2004**

When asked directly if the Navy had confirmed the identity of the drones at a media

event on Monday, Gilday responded: ‘No, we have not.’

Gilday’s response appears to rule out the theory that the drones could have come from a secret US military program.
That has led to growing speculation that they were either built by a rival military power or ‘something else beyond our understanding is going on’.

The Drive revealed last month that US Navy warships stationed off the coast of Los Angeles had encountered swarms of mysterious drones, which pursued them at high speed in low visibility.

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Former CIA Director Woolsey Says He Believes UFOs Could Exist

April 21, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Aliki Kraterou April 6, 2021 (thesun.co.uk)

• Former CIA director (between 1993-1995) R. James Woolsey, 79 (pictured above), was recently on John Greenewald Jr.’s the Black Vault YouTube channel to promote his new book, Operation Dragon, in which Woolsey says that Lee Harvey Oswald is behind JFK’s assassination.

• Woolsey also says he has become less skeptical about the possibility of extraterrestrial life as he has heard several stories of unexplained aerial phenomena over the years. “There have been over the years now events of one kind of another, usually involving some kind of aircraft-like airframe,” said Woolsey. “I never thought there was anything to all this, it always seemed pretty far-out to me.”

• “But, there was one case in which a friend of mine (someone Woolsey said he ‘respects’) was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft,” Woolsey revealed. “There had just been enough things like that that have occurred that I think there will be a lot of examination of what’s going on over the course of several months or years.”

• Greenewald pointed out that there have been other former CIA directors who shared Woolsey’s openness to the possibility of alien life. During an interview with George Mason University, John Brennan who served as CIA’s director under Trump’s administration between 2013 and 2017, spoke about UFOs and called videos that had emerged “quite eyebrow-raising.” Brennan said that “it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe there is no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe.”

• Last month former Director of Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News that there were far more UFO sightings than the ones that have been made public. “Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engages in actions that are difficult to explain… Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”

• Last summer, the Pentagon set up a UFO/UAP task force to “detect and analyze” sightings of a mystery aircraft that “could pose security risks” and “to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs.” The UAP Task Force is headed by the Department of the Navy and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.

• Earlier this year, a dossier of CIA files containing information about UFO sightings all over the world was published online. “These people have reported very curious behavior by aircraft,” Woolsey continued. “And it may be something real that is an extraordinary change, for some unheralded reason… I am not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly. Something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent, experienced pilots and we’ll just have to see what it is.”

• “I’ve been in conversations with several individuals who have been close to aircraft performing in an extraordinary fashion, that performs in a fashion that has not yet come to be something that people are comfortable with or expecting to see,” says Woolsey. “[I] hope that we can be friendly and able to deal with…other creatures if they exist. I think we ought to be (open to) new possibilities. Some…are frauds but I don’t think this one is.”

• [Editor’s Note] It is remarkable that a former head of the CIA can be open and truthful about UFO and the extraterrestrial presence, tacitly confirming the government cover-up of UFOs, but the deep state still has such a stranglehold on these former officials that they still toe the line when it comes to the deep state/CIA’s 1963 murder of John F. Kennedy. Could these former government officials be coming forward to legitimize UFOs and extraterrestrials now to prepare us for a false flag alien invasion as described recently by Steven Greer?

You just can’t trust these rats. We won’t know the whole truth about our history and reality until we expel every deep state swamp creature from the halls of our government and start all over.

A FORMER CIA director says he believes UFOs could exist after his pal’s aircraft was “paused at 40,000 feet.”

R. James Woolsey, 79, shared his friend’s story and said he hopes humanity would be friendly to aliens if they ever made contact.
Woolsey, who was CIA’s director between 1993-1995, spoke to the Black Vault’s YouTube channel on Friday to promote his new book Operation Dragon.

In the book, he claims that Lee Harvey Oswald is behind JFK’s assassination.

But the conversation shifted from the death of the former President to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

The former intelligence chief said he has become less sceptical as he has heard several stories of unexplained aerial phenomena over the years.

“There have been over the years now events of one kind of another, usually involving

some kind of aircraft-like airframe.

“I never thought there was anything to all this, it always seemed pretty far-out to me.

**the innocent patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald**

“But, there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft.

“What was going on? I don’t know. Does anybody know?

“There had just been enough things like that that have occured that I think there will be a lot of examination of what’s going on over the course of several months or years.”

Woolsey added that the source was “someone he respects”.

The host of the show John Greenewald Jr, pointed out that there have been other former CIA directors who shared Woolsey’s openness to the possibility of alien life.

During an interview with George Mason University, John Brennan who served as CIA’s director under Trump’s administration between 2013 and 2017, spoke about UFOs and called videos that had emerged “quite eyebrow-raising.”

“I think it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe there is no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe,” he had said at the time.

Last month former Director of Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News that there were far more sightings than the ones that have been made public.

“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public.
“Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engages in actions that are difficult to explain.
“Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for.
“Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
He added that the Pentagon plans to release a report declassifying UFO sightings on June 1.
Last summer, the Pentagon set up a UFO task force to “detect and analyze” sightings of a mystery aircraft that “could pose security risks.”
Officials approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, which is headed by the Department of the Navy and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
The UAPTF was set up “to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs,” a press release at the time said.
It comes as earlier this year, a dossier of CIA files containing information about UFO sightings all over the world and top-secret information on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAPs) was published online.
“These people have reported very curious behavior by aircraft, Woolsey continued.
“And it may be something real that is an extraordinary change, for some unheralded reason.
“Or it may be a complex set of different views of what is going on in the world of cyber and so forth. I just don’t know.
“I am not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly.
“Something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent, experienced pilots and we’ll just have to see what it is.
“I have been, not in the presence of but I’ve been in conversations with several individuals who have been close to aircrafts performing in an extraordinary fashion, that performs in a fashion that has not yet come to be something that people are comfortable with or expecting to see.
“That’s how far I’d like to go, openness to new things.
“Willingness to examine them.
“Hope that we can be friendly and able to deal with a wide range of behaviors, in terms of dealing with our fellow human beings, or other creatures if they exist.
“I think we ought to be new possibilities, some new possibilities are frauds but I don’t think this one is.”

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To Seek Aliens We Need to Look at Earth Through Their Eyes

April 21, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Elizabeth Rayne April 5, 2021 (syfy.com)

• A research team from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory think that observing Earth from the perspective of distant extraterrestrial beings could help astronomers see our world through extraterrestrial eyes. And in turn, this can help our own scientists new insight on how to look for habitable – and inhabited – exoplanets.

• Researchers Noam Izenberg, Kevin Stevenson and Laura Mayorga recently presented the objective of the Earth Transit Observer (ETO) mission concept to the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, hoping to get a green light to pursue the idea.

• Astronomers have been using the ‘transit method’ of finding and studying exoplanets since 1999. When a planet is orbiting in front of its star, the starlight will dim and brighten again when the planet has moved on. Particles in a planet’s atmosphere absorb starlight at some frequencies to indicate a planet in transit. What the ETO team wants to determine is whether more can be applied to this method in the future.

• The research team pointed out that the fundamental problem in exoplanet science is that we only know an exoplanets as well as we know their host star. Stars have varying degrees of brightness throughout. Starspots (like sunspots) can make scientists think they are seeing in a transiting planet. Sunspots on our own Sun are well documented. But starspots on distant stars remain largely unknown. Also, most exoplanets are too close to their stars to make out continents and oceans.

• “Even if you can separate the planet from the star, the Earth is reflecting and absorbing sunlight at different wavelengths,” say the researchers. “For a star to be a good reference it either needs to be unchanging, or you need a good understanding of how it changes.”

• Atmospheric particles that absorb starlight can indicate whether an exoplanet has anything close to the air we breathe, or if it rains everything from metal to lava. One exoplanet is so hot that it not only vaporizes metal, but tears the vapor molecules until the dismembered atoms are blown to its cooler night side to regroup.

• Future NASA astrophysics missions using space telescopes like TESS, Hubble and the soon-to-be launched James Webb Space Telescope will require stacking dozens of transmission spectra to build up sufficient signal for the relatively small atmospheres on exoplanets. “An Earth transit observer will test how well stacking can be done or if other strategies are needed,” say the researchers.

• What an ‘Earth transit observer’ is likely to see is a pale blue dot, watery and covered in clouds with an atmosphere of nitrogen and oxygen in which water vapor precipitates. Reflected light can give away whether a planet has oceans, while planet life has very low reflectivity. Any celestial body with water is seen as having a higher chance of being habitable. There are also traces of methane in our atmosphere that could tell an alien observer that our blue planet could be swarming with life.

• Earth may not be so easy to demystify from an alien’s perspective, however. Sun flares and coronal mass ejections of plasma can mess with how our transiting planet is seen. Then there are the constantly changing planetary seasons of Earth that can also throw off an alien astronomer’s observations. “These lessons are then directly transferable to exoplanet observations,” say researchers. Of course, there may be creatures out there that breathe poison. Even some Earth bacteria can eat rocks and metabolize methane. So you have to expect anything.

Suppose there really are aliens out there who are creeping around on the surface of

some faraway planet and have managed to survive everything space has thrown at them so far. How could we find out they exist?

The answer might lie in how they would (hypothetically) see us. We may never know whether there really are intelligent beings who have spotted our planet as it passed by the sun, but observing it from their perspective could help us see through extraterrestrial eyes. This is the objective of the Earth Transit Observer (ETO) mission concept. Led by a research team from

the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), ETO will watch Earth in transit as if it was a spacecraft sent out here by other intelligent beings.

Researchers Noam Izenberg and Kevin Stevenson, who will be the project leads if this

mission becomes reality, and co-led a study recently presented at the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, and Laura Mayorga, who also co-led the study, believe that observing Earth from the perspective of a being who never knew it existed could give us new insight on how to look for habitable—and possibly inhabited—planets.

“While an earth transit observer will not explicitly help us detect exoplanets, it will help us understand them and tease out their possible habitability signatures better. There is a

fundamental problem in exoplanet science in that we only know planets as well as we know their stars,” they said.

Astronomers have been using the transit method of finding exoplanets since 1999.

This method determines when a planet is orbiting in front of its star, which causes starlight to dim while it is being obscured and brighten again when the planet has moved on. Particles in a planet’s atmosphere can also absorb starlight at some frequencies, and the light that makes through can tell the observer how much was absorbed and whether that is a sign of a planet in transit. What the ETO team wants to know is whether there is more that can be applied to this method in the future.

The problem with stars is that they have varying degrees of brightness throughout, with starspots (like the sunspots in our own star) can warp what scientists think they are seeing in a transiting planet. However, the dark spots on our Sun are documented and followed, so scientists know how they change over time. Starspots on distant bodies remain largely unknown. When there is no clear idea of their size or distribution, they can mess with observations. Most exoplanets are also too close to their stars to make out the continents and oceans they may have.

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Secretary of Defense Austin is Updated on Strategic Space Systems

April 20, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Adam April 5, 2021 (nmtribune.com)

• On March 25th, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was briefed on the state of the DoD’s space systems and national security challenges in space. John Hill, the assistant secretary in charge of the defense for space affairs, headed Austin’s meeting attended by officials from Space Force, the US Space Command, and the National Reconnaissance Office, some in person and others via video teleconference.

• The briefing was meant to get Austin up to speed on space projects, the framework of the national defense space industry, and obstacles the US is facing in the space domain. China’s technical developments and space aspirations were also discussed. Biden has made technical rivalry with China a focal point for expenditure and policy decisions. Earlier in March, Austin assembled a “China Task Force” of senior government officials to offer suggestions about coping with China’s aspirations.

• “Serious and increasing risks to United States national security interests” are raised by Chinese and Russian space operations, according to Austin. In written confirmation hearings to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Austin said that the “strategic climate continues to change rapidly, particularly as it relates to space.” As defense secretary, he would embrace a national defense policy that addresses the “continued development of adversary space as well as counter space capacities.”

• US allies Japan and South Korea are increasingly anxious about China’s broad maritime assertions, technical advancements in space and other fields. In an address last month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the United States should “engage all nations, like China and Russia, in establishing principles and norms of responsible conduct in outer space.”

• US military commanders in the Indo-Pacific area are worried about China’s potential to interrupt GPS and other vital communications satellites. They have called for increased investments in advanced space systems technology. Austin will have to weigh combatant commanders’ demands for more money amid economic constraints and proposals to cut military budgets as he prepares to make his first budget proposal to Congress.

Last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin got a comprehensive report on the

Department of Defense’s space systems and national security challenges in space. Since taking office, this was Austin’s first high-level consultation on space concerns. In a comment to SpaceNews, Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby stated, “Secretary Austin was delighted to obtain a briefing on the space realm.”

Kirby stated he couldn’t elaborate on the exact topics addressed at the March 25 conference, but Austin “recognizes the relevance of this area to our national security,” according to Kirby. John Hill, who is serving as the assistant secretary in charge of the defense for space affairs, headed Austin’s meeting. Senior officials from the United States Space Force, United States Space Command, as well as the National Reconnaissance Office were present, some in person and others via video teleconference.

As per several outlets, the briefing was meant to get Austin up to speed on space projects, the framework of the national defense space industry, as well as the obstacles the United States confronts in the space domain. According to these sources, China’s technical developments and space aspirations were also discussed. The Biden government has made technical rivalry with China a focal point for expenditure and policy decisions. Austin assembled a “China task force” of senior government officials earlier this month to make suggestions about coping with China’s problems.

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Scientist Claims Trying to Contact Extraterrestrial Life Forms is a ‘Terrible Idea’

April 19, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Joshua Smith April 4, 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)

• Michio Kaku, author and Professor of Physics in New York City, told the ABC documentary “UFOs: Seeing Is Believing” that he thinks it is extremely unlikely that extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth. Kaku is open to the idea of “civilizations a million years ahead of us in technology”, but says that the notion of attempting to contact these advanced aliens “is a terrible idea”.

• Kaku’s bases his opinion on the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. “We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago.” If Earth does go ahead and try to make contact with other civilizations, Kaku thinks we should do so ‘very carefully’, despite his belief that they would ultimately be friendly.

• “Soon we’ll have the Webb telescope up in orbit and we’ll have thousands of planets to look at, and that’s why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilization,” said Kaku. “Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can’t gamble on it. So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.”

• Professor Daniel Drezner is more willing to believe that extraterrestrials are here with us now. Drezner noted that the UFO report signed off by US President Trump could reveal super-smart aliens are visiting us in peace. His claims came after the US former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed the Pentagon files included declassified intelligence of aircraft “that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom”.

• Jane Buckle, 68, would also disagree with Professor Kaku. She recently told the Daily Star that she was abducted on March 1st and after spending an evening with extraterrestrials, she gave birth to an alien-human hybrid whom she is now raising.

Contacting aliens “is a terrible idea” and that “we can’t gamble on it”, a top scientist

has warned.

String theorist Michio Kaku, who is Professor of Physics at the City College and City University of New York, has had a number of books published including New York Times Bestsellers Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future, and The Future of the Mind.

He previously told ABC documentary UFOs: Seeing Is Believing that he thinks it is extremely unlikely that extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth, but that “we must keep our minds open to the possible existence of civilizations a million years ahead of us in technology”.

Citing the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Dr Kaku told The Observer that while Earth could soon be able to make contact with aliens, he does not think that we should reach out to them.
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Dr Kaku added that if Earth does go ahead and try to make contact with other

civilizations, we should do so “very carefully”, despite his belief that they would ultimately be friendly.

He said: “Soon we’ll have the web telescope up in orbit and we’ll have thousands of planets to look at, and that’s why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilisation.

“There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that’s a terrible idea.

“We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago.

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SpaceX Civilian Passengers Heading Into Space This Year

April 18, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Anthony Cuthbertson April 2, 2021 (msn.com)

• In the autumn of 2021, Jared Isaacman will sponsor and participate in the first-ever ‘all civilian’ three days in orbit commercial ‘Inspiration4 mission’ on a SpaceX Dragon rocket. Isaacman, 38, is himself a pilot and will serve as spacecraft commander.

• On Earth, Isaacman is the head of Shift4 Payments, a credit card-processing company in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is covering the bill for what will be SpaceX’s first private flight, while raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Isaacman is donating $100 million to St. Jude. A lottery was created to offer other donors a chance to fly in space, raising another $13 million.

• In addition to the previously announced passenger Hayley Arceneaux, 29, a St. Jude physician assistant who was treated there as a child for bone cancer, two others were chosen by lottery. They are: Ms. Sian Proctor, 51, a college instructor and space art artist from Tempe, Arizona chosen by a panel of judges, and Mr. Chris Sembroski, 41, a former Air Force missileman from Everett Washington and Space Camp counsellor who took the place of a friend who declined to fly for personal reasons

• Proctor applied three times to Nasa’s astronaut corps, coming close in 2009, and took part in simulated Mars missions in Hawaii. She was born in Guam where her father worked at NASA’s tracking station for the Apollo mission moonshots. She plans to teach from space and create art up there, too. “To me, everything that I’ve done… has brought me to this moment,” she said.

• Their SpaceX Dragon capsule will launch no earlier than mid-September, aiming for an altitude of 335 miles. That’s about 75 miles higher than the International Space Station, on the same level with the Hubble Space Telescope.

• The next-generation SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is still undergoing testing and is yet to land successfully after flying to a high altitude. But other SpaceX flights using the craft are expected to follow the Inspiration4 mission before Elon Musk’s company begins commercial operations of its Starship vehicle.

• Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has already reserved the first Starship tickets for a trip around the Moon scheduled for 2023.

SpaceX has revealed the final members of its civilian crew who will take part in the

first-ever commercial space flight later this year.

The new passengers are Sian Proctor, a community college educator in Tempe, Arizona and Chris Sembroski, a former Air Force missileman from Everett Washington. They will join flight sponsor Jared Isaacman and another passenger for three days in orbit this autumn.

Mr Isaacman also revealed some details about his Inspiration4 mission, as the four gathered at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center this

week. He’s head of Shift4 Payments, a credit card-processing company in Allentown,

Pennsylvania, and is paying for what would be SpaceX’s first private flight while raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

Their SpaceX Dragon capsule will launch no earlier than mid-September, aiming for an altitude of 540 kilometres (335 miles). That’s 120 kilometres higher than the International Space Station and on a level with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Mr Isaacman, 38, a pilot who will serve as spacecraft commander, did not reveal how much he’s paying. He’s donating $100 million to St. Jude, while donors so far have contributed $13 million, primarily through the lottery that offered a chance to fly in space.

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Russia’s Outer Space Agreement With U.S.A.

April 18, 2021
ExoNews Editor

April 3, 2021 (presstv.com)

• In a move to avoid a new era of arms race in the outer space, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the extension of the ‘Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes’ agreement with the United States. A Russian press service said: “The extension of the agreement meets both countries’ interests and will facilitate the effective implementation of joint space projects.”

• The treaty was originally signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and US President George H.W. Bush on June 17, 1992. The agreement as extended will be in place until the end of 2030.

• Under the agreement, world powers are not allowed to place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in outer space orbit and must avoid harmful contamination of space. Outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means, according to the document.

• US President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to establish the Space Force, calling for American “dominance in space.” Space Force also became a full member of the US intelligence community. Following suit, both Russia and China are developing similar military capabilities as they seek to field the technology and erode America’s military dominance. Moscow and Beijing have proposed a treaty that prohibits the deployment of ground-based and space-based weapons targeting satellites in the space and are pushing Washington to sign it.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the extension of the Exploration and Use

of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes, the cabinet’s press service said in a statement on Saturday.

“The agreement …on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes will be in place until December 31, 2030,” it said.

“The extension of the agreement meets both countries’ interests and will facilitate the effective implementation of joint space projects.”

**President Trump creating Space Force**

The treaty was originally signed by then Russian President Boris Yeltsin and US President George W. Bush on June 17, 1992, in Washington.

Under the agreement, world powers are not allowed to place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or in the outer space and must

avoid harmful contamination of space.

The outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means, according to the document.

The administration of former US President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to establish the Space Force – the first new US military branch in 72 years – calling for his country’s “dominance in space.”

The Treaty, the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects (PPWT), bans deployment of “any weapons in outer space.”

The PPWT signatories may not “resort to the threat or use of force against outer space objects” or engage in activities “inconsistent” with the purpose of the treaty.

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Elon Musk’s Girlfriend is ‘Ready to Die With Red Dirt of Mars Beneath’ Her Feet

April 17, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Bhavya Sukheja March 31, 2021 (republicworld.com)

• On March 30th, SpaceX’s Starship prototype, SN11, blasted off from the Starbase test site near Boca Chica Village, Texas. (see 5:44 minute video below) The rocket reached a height of 6.2 miles (10 kilometres) before beginning the landing procedure. About six minutes into its test flight, the stainless steel prototype Mars rocket failed and blew up over Texas. Space X CEO Elon Musk optimistically tweeted that a “significant” event took place before the landing sequence involving the engines.

• Before the launch, Musk’s 33-year-old girlfriend, Grimes (aka Claire Elise Boucher, pictured above with Musk), posted an image on Instagram posing in front of SpaceX CEO’s Starbase facility in Texas. In the caption, the Canadian singer wrote that she is “ready to die with the red dirt of Mars beneath my feet Starbase Tx”.

• The Canadian pop singer Grimes shares a son with Musk, named ‘X Æ A-Xii’. Grimes had previously admitted that she wants to help bring life to Mars. She had even confessed that she wants to relocate to the planet after she turns 50 in a bid to help erect a human colony there. Grimes said that she expects the move to the Red Planet will be “a case of manual labor until death, most likely,” but hoped that could change.

• Meanwhile, Grimes’ partner, Musk, claims that SpaceX will touch their spaceships down in Mars “well before 2030”. Musk plans to send one million people to Mars by 2050 and build a city there.

Elon Musk’s girlfriend, Grimes, on March 30, took to Instagram to express her

extraterrestrial interests and reveal that she is “ready to die on Mars”. While her partner Musk continues with his efforts to touch down on the Red Planet, the 33-year-old singer posted an image on social media, posing in front of SpaceX CEO’s Starbase facility in Texas. In the caption, Grimes wrote that she is “ready to die with the red dirt of Mars beneath my feet Starbase Tx”.

In the picture, the Canadian singer, who shares son X Æ A-Xii with Musk, wore a long-sleeved black top with a red plaid skirt with black boots and floral leggings while posing in front of both massive cranes and the interior of Musk’s Starbase facility in Texas. It is worth mentioning that Grimes had previously admitted that she wants to help bring life to Mars. She had even confessed that she wanted to relocate to the planet after she turns 50 in a bid to help erect a human colony there.

According to Daily Mail, Grimes, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, had even said that the move to the Red Planet would be a case of manual labour until death most likely but admitted that she hoped that could change. Meanwhile, her partner, Musk, earlier this month had claimed that his company will touch their ships down in Mars “well before 2030”. Musk plans to send one million people to Mars by 2050 and build a city there, however, it hasn’t all been plain sailing so far in his plans.

5:44 minute Space X Starship SN11 launch and flight test (‘Space Videos’ YouTube)

5:32 minute Grimes music video ‘Genesis’ (‘Grimes’ YouTube)

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Pentagon Confirms That Leaked UAP Photos and Video Are Real

April 17, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Duncan Phenix April 9, 2021 (mysterywire.com)

• Pentagon spokesperson, Susan Gough, has confirmed the photographs and video released by George Knapp at Mystery Wire and Jeremy Corbell are real and were taken by US Navy personnel. (see previous ExoArticle on 2019 encounters here) The following statement was sent to Mystery Wire: “I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel.” (see videos below)

• “The UAPTF (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force) has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations. As we have said before, to maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP.”

• The Pentagon had first confirmed this to The Black Vault.

• [Editor’s Note] Mystery drones, spheres and flying pyramids. George Knapp’s I-Team on Mystery Wire along with Jeremy Corbell have collected the images and video of several UFO encounters by the US Navy in spring and summer of 2019. These videos were leaked by technicians compiling the UAP Task Force’s declassified UFO report requested by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and due July 25th.

UFO incidents start with mechanical objects photographed over the ocean off of Virginia in March 2019 by the crew of an F-18 jet in broad daylight. Night vision video shows a swarm of ‘pyramid drones’ and disembodied colored lights that buzzed US Navy battleships off of Los Angeles over several days in mid-July 2019. Also in the summer of 2019, the USS Omaha, an Independence-class littoral combat ship, took video of a small round ‘transmedium vehicle’ that flew over the ocean and then dove beneath the water.

MYSTERY WIRE — A Pentagon spokesperson has confirmed the photographs and

**‘transmedium sphere’ diving into the ocean**

video released by Mystery Wire and Jeremy Corbell this week are real and were taken by Navy personnel.

A Pentagon spokesperson sent Mystery Wire the following statement: “I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel. The UAPTF has included these incidents

in their ongoing examinations. As we have said before, to maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information

that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP.” – Susan Gough, Pentagon Spokesperson

The Pentagon had first confirmed this to The Black Vault.

3:33 minute video of Jeremy Corbell discussing 2019 UFO incidents (‘Mystery Wire’ YouTube)

18-second night vision video of flying pyramids off of LA in July 2019 (‘Mystery Wire’ YouTube)

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Mystery UFO’s Off of Virginia Remain Unidentified

April 17, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by George Knapp April 6, 2021 (kxnet.com)

• Military and intelligence officials remain baffled by unidentified aircraft that have been encountered in recent years off both coasts of the United States. Investigators with the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force have requested that military airmen try to document their encounters. On March 4th, 2019, one of them did. (see image above)

• Since at least 2014, Navy F-18 jet pilots out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach have reported encounters with a bizarre array of UFOs positioned directly in their daily flight paths over the Atlantic Ocean off of Virginia. On March 4th, 2019, an F-18 weapons systems officer (WSO) seated behind the pilot used his iPhone to capture images of three different objects they encountered in flight. One object was dubbed the ‘sphere’, another the ‘acorn’. A third object encountered on the same day was described as a ‘metallic blimp’.

• A previous photo of the ‘acorn’ UFO was published online in December 2020, and was said to resemble a toy Batman balloon. But after two years careful study by the UAP Task Force, the objects remain unidentified. The Task Force reports noted that the objects were able to remain stationary in high winds, with no movement, beyond the capability of known balloons or drones. Now, more photos of these strange UFOs have been released to the public.

• Mystery Wire learned of the still unreleased photos two years ago during a private briefing hosted by Robert Bigelow in Las Vegas on April 6, 2019. Speculation at the time was that the objects might be foreign spy drones, possibly Chinese. Mystery Wire’s George Knapp learned the Navy wanted to capture one for study, but that never happened.

• Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Gilday maintains that the swarms of pyramid-shaped drones that buzzed Navy warships in July 2019 off of Los Angeles still defies explanation. (see previous ExoArticle here) Last month, former National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News that he was briefed on the mystery drones. “We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots,” said Ratcliffe. “Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”

• The pyramid drone swarms that buzzed Navy destroyers in 2019 appeared in the same general area as the 2004 Tic Tac UFO, which was pursued by former Navy Commander Dave Fravor. Unlike previous decades, when the UFO topic was ignored or covered-up by the government, Fravor thinks there are reasons for the Pentagon’s new interest. “I look at it for two reasons,” said Fravor. “One, if there’s a capability, we can’t explain it. Number two, if you can explain it, then you can literally change everything that we do.”

MYSTERY WIRE — Military and intelligence officials say they remain baffled by unusual,

**Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach**

unidentified aircraft that have been encountered in recent years off both coasts of the United States.

Many of the objects have been referred to as drones, but that is not what Pentagon investigators have been telling the chain of command behind the scenes.

Naval Air Station Oceana is the center of airpower on the east coast of the United States. It is a sprawling naval air station in Virginia, home to the best aviators in the world.

Since at least 2014, F-18 pilots flying into the zone designated W-72 have reported encounters with a bizarre array of unknown, unidentified objects and aircraft, positioned directly in their daily flight paths.

Investigators with the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force have requested that airmen try to

document their encounters.

On March 4th, 2019, one of them did.

An F-18 weapons systems officer (WSO) seated behind the pilot used his iPhone to capture images of three different objects he encountered in the same airspace.

At 3:02 p.m. he photographed an odd shaped object. Another photo, taken close to the same time, was first posted to twitter on May 11, 2020, then again on social media 6 months later.

Other photos taken on the same day; March 4th, 2019 have never been made public until now.

The object the Navy calls the “Sphere” was photographed at 2:44 p.m.

The second one to be photographed was dubbed the “Acorn.” A similar, but different photograph of this same object was published online in December 2020.

Then, 12 minutes later, the WSO spotted a third object, described as the “Metallic Blimp.” It appears to have various appendages.

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NASA Astronaut Has Seen an Alien Snake Floating in Space

April 16, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Cameron Frew April 3, 2021 (unilad.co.uk)

• When Franklin Story Musgrave, (a physician and NASA astronaut of six spaceflights between 1973 and 1993), was asked what he thought was out there in the wider galaxy, he said, “Living creatures…far more developed as civilizations… that’s why I make an effort to communicate…” Later, Musgrave elaborated that there are “… other civilizations that have been around for a million years that are doing unimaginable kinds of things.”

• “The more you fly in space the more you see an incredible amount of things out there and that sort of brings to you, really a certainty, that other living creatures are out there,” said Musgrave. “Some incredibly primitive, more primitive, some just…proteins coming together, amino acids and some just single-cell organisms…”

• During an interview in 1995, Musgrave made a fascinating account of an extraterrestrial snake being that he encountered in space. “On two of my missions… I have seen a snake out there, six seven eight feet long. It is rubbery because it has internal waves in it and it follows you for a rather long period of time.” Musgrave reiterated his encounter with the snake on two separate flights. He even took photographs of it. He described it as a “seven-foot eel swimming out there (in space).” However, he did concede “it may be an uncritical rubber seal from the main engines.” [Editor: On two separate occasions? Are NASA’s spacecraft falling apart that often?]

• “[I] might be considered eccentric because I do (believe in extraterrestrial beings)” said Musgrave, (now 85 years old). “…I know the probabilities are close to zero. But I do tell (the extraterrestrials) to come down and get me.”

We recently reported that more than 10% of the UK public believe they’ve seen a

UFO. All across the world, year after year, sightings and reports of unidentified aerial phenomena flood the web – whether it’s experimental aircraft or extraterrestrials, we don’t know.

However, the most damning accounts come from the experts. While there’s conspiracy theories over what Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin saw on the moon, Franklin Story Musgrave once spoke of a eight-foot snake ‘out there’ in space, which he couldn’t fully explain.

During an interview on Sightings in 1995, as per How & Whys, Musgrave explained: ‘On two of my missions, and I still don’t have an answer, um, I have seen, a snake out there, six seven eight feet long. It is rubbery because it has internal waves in it and it follows you for a rather long period of time.’

He added: ‘The more you fly in space the more you see an incredible amount of things out there and that sort of brings to you, really a certainty, that other living creatures are out there. Some incredibly primitive, more primitive, some just ah just proteins coming together, amino acids and some just single-cell organisms and other civilisations that have been around for a million years that are doing unimaginable kinds of things.’

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