Brazil Police’s Encounter With UFOs and ‘Small’ Humanoids

Article by Nirmal Narayanan                                            June 3, 2021                                             (ibtimes.co.in)

• Rony Vernet, a self-styled alien researcher, has released secret documents from Brazilian police that narrate their encounter with a UFO which also led to an official Brazilian military investigation.

• On November 19, 2008, Renata Veloso saw an object descend at high speed from the sky. “I walked to the window and saw a huge luminous (hexagon) object accompanied by two other smaller spherical ones that rotated under its orbit,” she said. “From the window of my apartment, I [alerted] the military, and when they saw the object, they began to scream in a situation of enthusiasm, despair, and surprise.” After the UFO sighting, police officers witnessed small humanoid beings. Moments after this encounter, the electric power in the area was cut off.

• “On November 19 and 20 we had an experience, together with several other military personnel and people we met and interviewed about lights that flew over the city, and also about small “humanoid” beings that were chased by the Mitsubishi 13533 vehicle around 12 mph between the planted canes,” read the Brazilian police report. “These seen humanoids seemed to slip through the reeds. In all the actions of this officer, several armed military personnel followed the phenomenon at different times…”

 

Rony Vernet, a self-styled alien researcher has released secret documents from Brazilian police that surprisingly narrated their encounter with unidentified flying objects (UFO). A report published in Daily Star narrates the researcher’s finding, and it claims that the Brazilian police had encountered a UFO in 2008.

Brazilian UFO event triggered a military investigation

The document translated and released by Vernet also claims that the mysterious UFO event even led to a military investigation. According to the report, a woman named Renata Veloso saw an object descend at high speed from the sky similar to a lightning bolt on November 19, 2008.

“I walked to the window and saw a huge luminous object (hexagon) accompanied by two other smaller spherical ones that rotated under its orbit. From the window of my apartment, I commanded the action of the Military, and when they saw the object, they began to scream in a situation of enthusiasm, despair, and surprise,” read the report, Daily Star reports.

The report also notes that police officers witnessed humanoid beings after the UFO sighting. According to the report, these alleged aliens were very small in size, and moments after the encounter, the power in the area was cut off.

“On November 19 and 20 we had an experience, together with several other Military personnel and people we met and interviewed about lights that flew over the city, and also about small “humanoid” beings that were chased by the Mitsubishi 13533 vehicle around 12 mph between the planted canes. These seen humanoids seemed to slip through the reeds. In all the actions of this Officer, several armed Military personnel followed the phenomenon at different times, in one of these moments, we were in 03 vehicles,” added the report.

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European Soccer Star Chris Smalling Just Saw a UFO in Jamaica

Article by Amreen                                                     June 8, 2021                                                        (90min.com)

• Former stand-out footballer for Manchester United (that’s soccer for Americans) Chris Smalling was traded to the Roma club, but spent most of his time last season sidelined due to various injuries. He and his family recently spent a holiday in Jamaica.

• On Monday June 7th, Smalling’s wife Sam took to Instagram to claim the couple had seen what they believed was a UFO on the previous night. “Ok so I promise we weren’t on magic mushrooms or anything but me and @smalling saw the craziest UFO last night!” Sam began. “Not like a quick few seconds sighting of something high in the sky… It flew down low past us and then turned and shot back high up in the sky where it stayed for an hour (maybe longer but we had to leave) it was too small to get on film when it stayed stationed in the sky although Chris could see it rotating with lights flashing all around it, (I could only see the outer lights at this point as my eyes aren’t as good).”

• “We could have got it on camera when it was flying by us as it was clear to see but we were both too gobsmacked to get our cameras out. Plus we didn’t want to look away and miss whatever it was,” said Sam Smalling. “It looked massive. It didn’t look like your typical UFO sightings. It was totally silent.”

• “For the record,” Sam noted, “it was 100 billion % NOT a drone. It was massive and very sophisticated with faint lights all around the edge. It was also an odd shape not like that of a drone. Crazy I know Also wasn’t a plane or anything like that. It was silent. Even drones are loud.”

 

                the Smallings in Jamaica

Roma defender Chris Smalling has claimed to have seen a UFO while on holiday with

   the Smallings enjoying some beach time

his wife in Jamaica.

The former Manchester United defender spent most of last season sidelined due to various injuries, and was enjoying a relaxing pre-season holiday with his family, when they were interrupted by what they believe was an unidentified flying object.

Smalling’s wife Sam took to Instagram on Monday to claim the couple had seen what they believed was a UFO on Sunday night.

     Chris Smallings on the football field

Recalling their encounter on her Instagram story, she said: “Ok so I promise we weren’t on magic mushrooms or anything but me and @smalling saw the craziest UFO last night ! Not like a quick few seconds sighting of something high in the sky that could have enough a plane!”

She added, “It flew down low past us and then turned and shot back high up in the sky where it stayed for an hour (maybe longer but we had to leave) it was too small to get on film when it stayed stationed in the sky although Chris could see it rotating with lights flashing all around it, (I could only see the outer lights at this point as my eyes aren’t as good).

We could have got it on camera when it was flying by us as it was clear to see but we were both too gobsmacked to get our cameras out. Plus we didn’t want to look away and miss whatever it was. It looked massive. It didn’t look like your typical ufo sightings. It was totally silent.”

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China Completes Another Part of Its Own Space Station

Article by Arjun Kharpal                                                  May 31, 2021                                                  (cnbc.com)

• On May 30th, the China Manned Space Agency’s Long March 7 rocket carried the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft (pictured above) into orbit from the Wenchang island launch site (in Hainan province). The Tianzhou-2 then successfully docked with the Tianhe core module of China’s Tiangong space station. The Tiangong space station will be made of three modules, including the Tianhe “core”, the Tianzhou-2 and laboratories.

• Over the next two years, China will carry out eleven missions to complete the construction of the space station, and to bring astronauts and supplies up as well. The Tiangong space station is expected to be operational by 2022.

• The Tianzhou-2 carried up astronaut supplies including space suits and food, paving the way for China to launch astronauts to the space station. Shredded pork and kung pao chicken are among the food items transported to space, the Xinhua news agency reported.

• The Tiangong space station will rival the International Space Station, a co-operative effort between the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. China is not involved. Beijing has put a lot of emphasis on ambitious space projects. Last year, China completed its global navigation system called Beidou, a rival to the U.S. government-owned Global Positioning System (GPS). And an unmanned Chinese spacecraft landed successfully on Mars.

 

             the Tiangong Space Station

GUANGZHOU, China — China has completed another major part of its own space

      the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft

station, the latest in a string of ambitious extraterrestrial projects from the world’s second-largest economy.

The Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft took off at 8:55 p.m. local time on Saturday from the Wenchang launch site, according to the China Manned Space agency.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Tianzhou-2 docked with the core module of the space station called Tianhe.

a Chinese astronaut or ‘yuhangyuans’ or sometimes ‘taikonauts’

China’s space station will be made of three modules which includes the Tianhe “core,” cargo spacecraft such as Tianzhou-2 and laboratories. China will carry out 11 missions this year and next to complete the construction of the space station, and

          the International Space Station

bring astronauts and supplies up too. The space station is expected to go into operation in 2022.

The docking of Tianzhou-2 has paved the way for China to launch astronauts to the space station. The cargo spacecraft carried up astronaut supplies including space suits and food. Shredded pork and kung pao chicken are among the food items transported to space, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

China’s first self-developed space station will rival the International Space Station, which is a co-operative effort between the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. China is not involved.

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Australian Government Cover-up of 1966 UFO Incident

Article by Andrei Dergalin                                              May 30, 2021                                                        (sputniknews.com)

• In 1966, three “flying saucers” were spotted by students and teachers hovering over Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia. “I saw a craft – a mechanical object intelligently controlled hovering above me,” said Westall teacher, Andrew Greenwood in a 7NEWS Spotlight documentary. (see video below) Although Australian airforce and army personnel cordoned off the area from the public, Greenwood and others managed to sneak in again. “[We saw a] circular area, like the trampled grass,” he said. “And there were guards around it and there were people in there with equipment.”

• Greenwood changed his attitude after he was visited by two men “claiming to be government officials”. The visitors – “one in plain clothes, and the other one, senior air force” – advised him to keep quiet about the UFO sighting. “Absolutely, I was threatened. I was told that I should not say anything about it,” Greenwood said. “When I tried to explain to them that they weren’t there, I was and I knew what I saw, well, the first suggestion was that you’d be ill advised to go on saying that because clearly you were drunk on duty and will have to be reported to the education department and of course you will lose your job.”

• Greenwood pointed out how eyewitnesses to the incident were “very certain about what they saw,” even after so many years have passed. “It just beggars belief for me in Australia we’ve never had an official investigation (of the Westall UFO incident). And flatly I think there has been a cover-up, I really do,” he remarked. “I think someone has buried the Department of Supply report which I know exists.”

 

Andrew Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher who worked at Westall High School in

                     Andrew Greenwood

Melbourne, says he was threatened by government officials after claiming he saw a UFO back in 1966, the Daily Mail reports.

During the incident in question, a cigar-shaped “flying saucer” object was apparently spotted hovering in the vicinity of the school and above the nearby Grange Reserve by students, teachers and Clayton South residents.

               illustration of 1966 event

“I saw a craft. A mechanical object intelligently controlled hovering above me,” Greenwood said in a 7NEWS Spotlight documentary.

Airforce and army personal arrived at the site and cordoned off the reserve but

           illustration of ‘flying saucers’

Greenwood and several others allegedly managed to sneak in.

“[We saw a] circular area, like the trampled grass,” he said. “And there were guards around it and there were people in there with equipment.”

 photo of circular area of ‘trampled grass’

However, even though he told reporters about the incident, Greenwood changed his attitude after he was visited by two men “claiming to be government officials,” as the newspaper put it.

As Greenwood explained, the visitors – “one in plain clothes, and the other one, senior air force” – advised him to keep quiet about the sighting.

“Absolutely, I was threatened. I was told that I should not say anything about it,” the former teacher said. “When I tried to explain to them that they weren’t there, I was and I knew what I saw, well, the first suggestion was that you’d be ill advised to go on saying that because clearly you were drunk on duty and will have to be reported to the education department and of course you will lose your job.”

2:10 minute clip of Westall’s 50-year-old UFO sighting (‘7NEWS Australia’ YouTube)

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The 1989 UFO Crash in Carp Ontario

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

• Everyone has heard of the famous 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. But there are stories of UFO crashes from around the world, and several dozen stories of these incidents have happened in North America over the last several decades. There is evidence that governments have been desperate to capture UFO technology for years. This means they have been doing their best to bring these objects down at times, even if the objects don’t instigate or initiate any type of aggression. The majority of cases show that these objects perform evasive maneuvers to avoid our own aircraft.

• A well-known incident among UFO researchers comes from Carp, Ontario, a small community located near Ottawa. In 1989, an extraterrestrial craft crash-landed in the swamps just outside Carp. A declassified document from Canada’s Department of National Defence described a scene with military soldiers desperate to retrieve the wreckage and any other debris that may have tumbled from the spacecraft in the surrounding the area. The alien bodies were taken to an underground research facility while the craft was taken to a nearby military base.

• The documents were leaked and distributed by an individual self-identifying as “Guardian”, and were accompanied by photos as well as a VHS tape recording of the UFO. The story spread quickly at the time. Newspapers picked up the story and it eventually made its way to the television screen, appearing in paranormal documentaries and shows.

• CBC news in Canada recently did a documentary on the case. (see brief video clip below) But the people in Carp are reluctant to talk about Guardian – on camera, at least. A year into making this documentary, people continue to come forward, but are still afraid to speak on the record. They fear the attention and the ridicule it might draw to them, in this place where so many people know one another.

• Below is the short documentary they produce about the story. What’s particularly interesting is that there are interviews with multiple people in the area, and many of whom have had numerous strange UFO experiences. In one instance a woman experienced a military helicopter land near her house after she witnessed a UFO. Soldiers got out of the helicopter, ran around the property, got back into the chopper and left. What were they looking for?

 

Nearly everybody has heard the lore of the famous 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. If you actually look into it, it’s hard not to believe something did indeed happen there, but it’s important to note that it’s not the only supposed incident. There are a plethora of stories of UFO crashes from around the world, several dozen stories of these incidents have happened in North America over the last several decades.

The idea that non-human intelligent life forms and their craft have crashed and been retrieved by military and government agencies is also something that’s crept into the mainstream as of late, and it’s been something many UFO researchers have been well aware of for a long time. Just last year renowned astrophysicist Eric W. Davis, who worked with the Pentagon UFO program, formerly known as AATIP (now known as the “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force” or UAPTF), gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department Agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this Earth.”

There is evidence showing that governments have been desperate to capture this technology for years. This inevitably means they might have been doing their best to bring these objects down at times, even if the objects don’t seem to instigate or initiate any type of aggression towards us. Based on my research, the majority of cases show that these objects perform evasive maneuvers to avoid our own aircraft. It is interesting to ponder how exactly incidents of crashed craft have occurred given the fact that the technology seems to be far more advanced than anything human beings can manufacture.

 

49 second video of Carp, Ontario UFO (‘Ryan Sprague’ YouTube)

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UFO ‘Paralyzes’ Weapons and Electronic Systems of Iranian Military Jets That Tried Shooting at It

Article by Arjun Walia                                                      May 18, 2021                                                     (collective-evolution.com)

• Mainstream UFO disclosure continues to accelerate at a tremendous pace. The US Navy has released multiple videos and pictures of unknown objects, and Navy personnel have given their testimony. The truth is, this is nothing new. Its been happening for decades and thousands of encounters have been well documented. One of the common themes with regards to UFOs behavior is that, most of the time, they seem to perform evasive maneuvers to avoid our own aircraft. Another is that critical electronic equipment in military jets shut down when in close proximity to these objects. Even nuclear missile facilities, such as Malmstrom Air Force Base in March of 1967, have been shut down when a UFO was seen overhead.

• In 1976, residents of Tehran, Iran and air traffic control noticed in the sky “an intensely bright object that was not supposed to be there.” The Iranian Air Force dispatched two F-4 fighter jets to check out the object. The United States, an ally of Iran at the time, took this encounter very seriously. An incident report was sent to multiple national security officials along with President Gerald R. Ford, CIA Director George Bush, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger.

• Both of the Iranian F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing the object visually, and it was tracked on their airborne radar. At a distance of twenty-five miles from the object, both planes experienced critical instrumentation and electronics failure. In an excerpt from the Iranian military report: “Iranian Air Force Jets and a UFO…played “cat and mouse”…appearing on radar and “paralyzing” their weapons and electronic systems when the jets attempted to open fire on it….As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the objects and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications.”

• The report continues: “Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4.” After detaching from the bigger object, the second object turned inside the arc of the F-4 itself, and then regained the original object. This incident apparently lasted for several hours.

• Objects splitting into two, traveling at speeds no man made aircraft can, performing maneuvers that no known aircraft can, is again, nothing new. This type of “splitting in two” was also observed in an incident occurring near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico airport in April 2013 (see previous ExoArticle here). The incident was filmed and team of analysts working with the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, a private group of scientists, military analysts, and investigators, produced a report analyzing the incident.

• What is most interesting about the Iran incident is that the UFOs seem to know when the jets were attempting to fire on them and were able to prevent it. Is this suggestive of some type of precognition?

• It is concerning that we would attempt to fire upon an object that doesn’t seem to pose a threat. There is evidence suggesting that governments of the world have been quite interested in capturing some of these objects and have standing orders to shoot them down. Some have indeed been successful.

• It is no secret that governments and mainstream media are losing trust among a large portion of their citizenry due to perceived deception with regards to geopolitical issues. Should we be so naive as to believe that these government officials will give us an accurate depiction of what they have discovered about the UFO phenomenon? If we want to learn more about this reality, it will likely require a citizen-based initiative and study of the phenomenon – one that is independent of any government organizations. This has already been happening around the world for quite some time.

 

Mainstream UFO disclosure continues to accelerate at a tremendous pace. The U.S. Navy has released multiple videos and pictures of unknown objects (as well as testimony from the personnel involved) performing maneuvers and travelling at speeds that no known man-made piece of machinery is capable of doing. The latest footage comes from the USS Omaha. It shows a spherical object that mysteriously disappeared into the ocean. The truth is, military encounters with these objects is nothing new, in fact it’s been happening for decades and the phenomenon has been well documented. There are thousands of encounters to choose from that provide a description of such events: the testimony of the personnel involved, radar tracking information, and in some cases, photographs and video of the object.

There are many common themes and consistencies with regards to the behaviour of these objects that seems to be quite evident based on the information and the number of examples that have made their way into the public domain. One of them is the fact that these objects, most of the time, seem to perform evasive maneuvers to avoid our own aircraft. Another is the fact that critical electronic equipment in military jets seems to shut down when in close proximity to these objects. This is well documented, and it doesn’t just occur with military jets but it’s something that’s happened at nuclear missile facilities.

At Malmstrom Air Force Base in March of 1967, a base that was responsible for a large amount of nuclear weapons, multiple military witnesses there saw a red, glowing UFO hovering just outside the front gate. After that happened all of the nuclear missiles shut down and went completely dead. This is not an isolated incident and there are multiple examples.

A great example of an air encounter where this happened comes from an incident that took place in 1976. Residents of Tehran, Iran noticed a big bright object in the sky. The airport traffic controller also noticed, “it was an intensely bright object that was not supposed to be there.” The Iranian Air Force was contacted (at the time they were a close ally of the United States, under the rule of the Shah), and they dispatched two F-4 fighter jets to check out the object. The United States took this encounter very seriously, a report of what happened was sent to multiple national security officials and U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, CIA Director George Bush, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, among others.

Both of the F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing the object visually, it was also tracked on their airborne radar. Both planes experienced critical instrumentation and electronics go offline at a distance of twenty-five miles from the object. Here is an excerpt from the report: “Iranian Air Force Jets and a UFO which played “cat and mouse” with them, appearing on radar and “paralyzing” their weapons and electronic systems when the jets attempted to open fire on it….As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the objects and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4.”

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British Military Has UFO Videos and Must Release Them, Says Nick Pope

Article by Henry Holloway                                                  May 13, 2021                                           (thesun.co.uk)


• Nick Pope, who turned a brief stint working at the UFO desk of the British Ministry of Defense in the 1990s into a career as a UFO ‘expert’, says he “knows for a fact” that the MoD has footage of UFOs filmed from RAF fighter jet gun cameras from the 1950s and 60s. He has no doubt that the British military has in its possession UFO footage and photos similar to what has been officially released by the US military. Pope is calling upon the British to release what they have, although the official British line is that their UFO videos have been lost and destroyed.

• Pope said that he would be “staggered” if there is not more recent footage in the hands of MoD brass given the stunning videos released by the US from the last two decades. “We have exactly the same kit as the US government, so I am sure there is a treasure trove of official photos and videos of UFOs… sitting there in MoD headquarters.”

• During his own time working with the MoD in the 1990s, military pilots would tell him about their own up close and personal encounters with UFOs. But they typically would not file a report due to fears of ridicule or “psychological evaluation”. MoD officials tells the The Sun Online that its UFO program was terminated in 2009. It is suspected that highly classified investigations continue behind closed doors, and that the UK continues to liaise with the US on UFOs.

• A potentially bombshell report on UFOs is due to be released in June after investigations by the Director of National Intelligence into a string of unexplained encounters with US warships and fighter planes. Pentagon officials have taken the unprecedented step of confirming videos and pictures of UFOs are real and admitting they don’t know what they really are.

• Pope says what is happening in the US right now is a “big deal” – and not to be underestimated. The UK Government was due to release a potentially bombshell UFO dossier in January due to the 30-year rule of declassification. But this has now been blocked until 2072.

• Pope thinks that a rally of support for the UFO disclosure in the UK could help the government publicly treat it as the “national security issue that it is”, but added the MoD will likely have to be dragged into it “kicking and screaming”. It appears there has been some information sharing. US officials are certainly aware of infamous UK incidents such as Rendlesham Forest UFO and the “Calvine UFO Photograph” from 1990.

• “Nowadays if people see something strange, they’ll report to a variety of different places, including military bases, airports, police stations, the media, and civilian UFO groups and researchers,” Pope said. But this results in everyone getting “a few pieces of the puzzle, but nobody’s seeing the whole picture”.

• “I call on the MoD to reopen the real-life X-Files and treat the issue in the way that it should be treated – as a serious defense and national security issue,” says Pope. UFO investigations may be ongoing behind closed doors, but the UK needs to be more transparent as officials are being in the US.

• UFO incidents in the UK are looked at in the same category as flight safety incidents and near misses, referring to sightings in coded language such as “‘unusual aircraft”, “unconventional helicopter” and “unidentified drone” – perhaps in an effort to dodge any British Freedom of Information Act requests.

• “It can’t have escaped the MoD’s notice that over the last three years the US government position on UFOs has fundamentally changed,” says Pope. The US “went from denying any interest and involvement, to a situation where they released videos of UFOs taken from US Navy jets, issued instructions to military pilots telling them what to do if they encounter a UFO, and had classified briefings in Congress.” “If the US thinks this is a serious defense and national security issue – and their actions clearly show they do – the UK should too.” “So either the MoD is engaged, and the truth hasn’t come out, or they’re not. Either scenario is scandalous.”

• Competing theories on the strange videos continue to rage. Some claim the videos capture never-before-seen military aircraft or drones, while others claim it shows otherworldly craft possibly piloted by aliens. The usual skeptics remain dismissive, blaming camera tricks, natural phenomena or even outright hoaxes.

• The US DoD was forced to admit that reports claiming their investigations were stopped in 2012 were not true. In 2019, the Pentagon admitted it launched investigations into UFO sightings and will continue to probe such reports in a bid to keep the nation safe. Luis Elizondo, who headed up the Pentagon’s UFO program said that ‘UFOs are here – and we cannot stop them’.

 

reproduction of Calvine UFO photograph from 1990

UFO videos just like the infamous US “Tic-Tac” clip are likely being held by the British military, an ex-MoD investigator has said.

Nick Pope, one of the world’s leading experts on UFOs, has called on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to release information about its own unexplained encounters.

Mr Pope, who worked to investigate UFOs for the MoD in the 90s and worked in Whitehall until 2004, told The Sun Online now it is time for Britain to come clean about its role in investigating UFOs.

Britain was due to release a bombshell UFO dossier in January but this has now been blocked until 2072.

                       Nick Pope

He called for the release of any footage and photos being held by the MoD, with him being in no doubt Royal Navy and Royal Air Force have likely filmed clips similar to what are now being officially released by the US.

The investigator told The Sun Online he knows for a fact the MoD had footage of UFOs filmed from RAF fighter jet gun cameras on 8mm film from the 50s and 60s.

However, the official line is that the videos have been lost and destroyed.

But he said he would be “staggered” if there is not more recent footage in the hands of military brass given the stunning videos released by the US have occurred in the last two decades.

“We have exactly the same kit as the US government, so I am sure there is a treasure trove of official photos and videos of UFOs or UAPs – whatever they are – sitting there in MoD headquarters,” Mr Pope told The Sun Online.

During his own time working with the MoD, military pilots would tell him about “stunning” up close and personal encounters with UFOs.

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New Civilian Photos of Britain’s Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident Show a Flying Orb

Article by Emma Parry                                               May 5, 2021                                               (thesun.co.uk)

• By now, almost everyone has heard of the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident in Suffolk, England in late December 1980. Two USAF airmen, Staff Sgt Jim Penniston and Airman John Burroughs, stationed at the twin NATO bases RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters nearby, saw strange lights and got close enough to a mysterious triangular UFO craft that they could touch it. Colonel Charles Halt then led a military team into the forest to investigate the sightings. Halt and his team also saw strange lights and a red orb with a black center “winking” back at them, and claimed a UFO fired a beam of light near their feet.

• Now, a local resident has come forward claiming that he was poaching animals in the Rendlesham Forest in December of 1980, and saw Colonel Halt and his men in the woods. “Now bear this in mind,” says the poacher, “before this encounter I saw and heard a lot of strange things in that forest. I could tell you stories that would bend your bones, so every time I went poaching, I always took my camera always hoping to capture some evidence.”

• On this night, he got his black and white photos. “I saw a basketball sized red orb. It had a black center like a pupil and looked just like an eye winking at you, just like Halt explained it. It was zig zagging between the trees, strange. Freaked me out, weird… I saw it before Halt. It passed me first. Halt and his team were about 200 meters away, I could hear all the noise. Later I saw another UFO – it was firing beams of light down to the ground, definitely looking for something, God knows what.”

• The poacher submitted his photos and story anonymously through the UFO Casebook website, which collects information about UFO sightings from around the world. “I’ve sat on this information for over 40 years and it feels good to get it out and show the truth,” said the anonymous poacher. “I tell you, what I witnessed was simply incredible, definitely extra-terrestrial. No two ways about it.” “After this thing happened, I was followed for weeks, I had my phone tapped – scary time.” “You can read books and watch TV shows about it, but I’m telling you, you had to be there to really understand and appreciate just how incredible this thing was, changed my life forever.”

• British UFO sleuth Philip Mantle, a former director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association, questions the digital format of the proffered photos. “With today’s digital technology I have become very wary of any alleged UFO photographs, even more so when the photographer is anonymous as he is here with these pictures. Before I could come to any conclusions, I would have to know a lot more detail about the type of camera, the film, the exposure and so on,” said Mantle. “Remember, if these photos are authentic and taken in 1980, they would be on film and not digital.”

• There have been various theories to explain the Rendlesham incident including a lighthouse, a Russian satellite re-entry, and a stolen truck of manure set on fire. Brit researcher Nick Redfern put forward an explanation tying the sighting to scientists from the UK’s top-secret laboratory, Porton Down in Wiltshire, that carried out mind control experiments. He claims that soldiers from the base were tripping on LSD while the scientists set up advanced holograms to create images of UFOs.

 

                        poacher photo

THESE spooky black and white photos allegedly show the UFO at the centre of

                            poacher photo

Britain’s biggest ever case for the first time.

They were supposedly taken in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk by a poacher who claims he saw the same UFO being hunted by a military team from a nearby US airbase.

The alleged witness claims he was 200ft away from Colonel Charles Halt, deputy base commander of RAF Bentwaters, and his men, when he spotted the

          poacher ‘beam of light’ photo

glowing orb – in an unsolved case often dubbed the British Roswell after the infamous US UFO crash.

                            poacher photo

He said: “When I was younger, I was a poacher. I lived very close to Rendlesham Forest and frequently went poaching there. So back in 1980, 28 December, I was in the forest poaching.

“Now bear this in mind, before this encounter I saw and heard a lot of strange things in that forest. I could tell you stories that would bend your bones, so every time I went poaching, I always took my camera always hoping to capture some evidence.”

                         poacher photo

The case involved military witnesses from the twin NATO bases RAF Woodbridge and

    Jim Penniston and John Burroughs

RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk who saw strange lights in late December 1980.

Two airmen, Staff Sgt Jim Penniston and Airman John Burroughs, claim they got so close to a triangular craft they actually touched it.

Colonel Halt then led a military team into the forest to investigate the sightings.

They also saw strange lights and a red orb with a black centre “winking” back at them and claimed a UFO fired a beam of light near their feet.

         depiction of Rendlesham UFO

Halt later wrote a memo to the MOD describing the freakish incident but it was filed away by defence chiefs.

The poacher said: “I saw a basketball sized red orb, it had a black centre like a pupil

        Charles Halt

and looked just like an eye winking at you, just like Halt explained it.

“It was zig zagging between the trees, strange, freaked me out, weird, proper not right, I saw it before Halt.

“It passed me first. Halt and his team were about 200 meters away, I could hear all the noise. Later I saw another UFO – it was firing beams of light down to the ground, definitely looking for something, God knows what.

“I tell you, what I witnessed was simply incredible, definitely extra-terrestrial. No two ways about it.

“You can read books and watch TV shows about it, but I’m telling you, you had to be there to really understand and appreciate just how incredible this thing was, changed my life forever.

“I’ve sat on this information for over 40 years and it feels good to get it out and show the truth.

“After this thing happened, I was followed for weeks, I had my phone tapped – scary time.”

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UFO Pentagon Report Could Spark an Alien ‘Arms Race’

Article by Dylan Donnelly                                              May 4, 2021                                               (express.co.uk)

• Last year, the US Department of Defense authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos of mysterious UFOs from 2004 and 2015. The Pentagon verified they were investigating the incidents under a new UAP Task Force. “The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security,” stated the DoD.

• More recently, videos were released that showed UFOs swarming around Navy warships. Last December, as part of his coronavirus relief bill, President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on UAP/UFOs. This report is due for release by the end of June.

• Cristina Gomez, host of Paradigm Shifts UFO Channel on YouTube, said the report’s release could be dangerous if it confirms the existence of alien technology on Earth. But if the report points to extraterrestrials, Gomez thinks that the Pentagon would likely blame UFOs on “suspected foreign adversary drone technologies”, to avoid revealing their ‘off-world’ origin.

• “If a government was to acquire concrete evidence that these craft that are flying in our skies and traveling in our oceans are originating from one or more extraterrestrial civilizations, it would be entirely prudent of them to investigate whether or not they represented an existential threat to us as a species,” said Gomez. “I can imagine then that the entire subject would receive the very highest security classification during that investigative process.”

• Ms Gomez says that if alien technology is uncovered by the report, it could destabilize global relations and lead to a new type of “arms race”. “[I]f such were the case that the concrete evidence consisted of (UFO) wreckage, or at least some recovered components of vastly superior technology, then logically there would be the concern of such technology falling into the hands of one or more of their foreign adversaries. Not only would the government in question not want to alert other nations to the fact that it now possessed extraterrestrial technology, but it would also have a sudden need to know if other nations also had in their possession and were studying similar technological artifacts.” “It could and would be seen at the highest levels as a new form of military arms race.”

• Luis Elizondo, a whistleblower and former head of the Pentagon’s ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’, told the New York Post the US “acknowledged the reality of UAP”, and that there is a connection between UAP/UFO sightings and nuclear technology. “[W]e’ve actually had some of our nuclear capabilities disabled by these things,” said Elizondo. “There is absolutely evidence that UAPs have an active interest in our nuclear technology.”

 

Former President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill in December. The Pentagon’s brief into “observed airborne objects that have not been identified” is expected to be released this June, and comes after videos were released by the US showing UFO’s around Navy warships.

   Cristina Gomez

Cristina Gomez, host of Paradigm Shifts UFO Channel on YouTube, said the reports release could be dangerous if it confirms the existence of alien technology on Earth.

However, she also expects the US would not give “full disclosure” if the report finds extra-terrestrials, suggesting the Pentagon would likely describe any UAPs as “suspected foreign adversary drone technologies, rather than mentioning them as having an ‘Off-World’ origin”.

She added: “If a government was to acquire concrete evidence that these craft that are flying in our skies and travelling in our oceans are originating from one or more extra-terrestrial civilisations, it would be entirely prudent of them to investigate whether or not they represented an existential threat to us as a species.

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Small Aliens from Spaceships Regularly Visit a Bolivian City

Article by Joshua Smith                                            April 30, 2021                                             (dailystar.co.uk)

• The ‘chupacabra’ is a legendary creature known from the folklore of parts of Central and South America, with its first purported sighting in Puerto Rico in 1995. Chupacabra translates as ‘goat-sucker’.

• Residents of the Monteagudo neighborhood in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, saw such a creature there recently. First they saw three lights hovering in the sky. Then an object appeared. “As the object entered the sky, there was a crash, like thunder…as if it were throwing fire,” ufologist Javier Aliaga told local media. The object then became a ‘halo’ of light in the sky. Then the creature appeared, walking through the street “frightening children and young people”.

• The alien is said to have resembled a chupacabra – approximately 12 inches tall with an oval head, large eyes and three fingers on each hand. Minutes after the alien’s disappearance, the light in the sky went out, leaving circles in the grass where the light had shone, according to reports of the incident.

• Santa Cruz, Bolivia is becoming something of an alien hot spot for UFO sightings. In 2016, residents of the El Dorado neighborhood in Santa Cruz described an encounter with a mysterious being that “fell” out of a UFO that had landed there. A child told reporters that he saw strange eyes staring at him while a woman said the alien was “small and gooey” in appearance. “It extended its arms and climbed a tree. That’s when all the neighbors came out, but nothing could be found,” the woman said. Then there was a loud bang and a flash of light. When curious residents rushed out of their homes, the extraterrestrial thing scrambled back onboard his UFO spacecraft and disappeared.

 

An alien which reportedly ‘got out of its UFO and walked down the street’ resembled a mythical creature according to the people who claim to have seen it, it has been reported.

The incredible incident is said to have taken place in the Monteagudo neighborhood of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, after three lights were seen hovering in the sky, Radio Mitre reports.

People living in the neighbourhood are also reported to have then seen a halo of light in the sky before the creature appeared, according to El Tribuno.

The alien is said to have resembled a chupacabra and was approximately 30 centimeters (12 inches) tall, with an oval head, large eyes and three fingers on its hands.

The chupacabra, which translates as ‘goat-sucker’, is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico in 1995.

The animal is said to have walked through the street “frightening children and young people”, according to local reports.

“As the object entered the sky, there was a crash, like thunder. Furthermore, the characteristic of this object is as if it were throwing fire,” ufologist Javier Aliaga told local media.

Minutes after the alien’s supposed disappearance, the light in the sky went out, leaving circles in the grass where it had shone, reports of the incident said.

Santa Cruz in Bolivia could be something of an alien hotspot as this is not the first reported sighting of beings from foreign planets in the area.

In 2016, residents of the neighborhood in El Dorado district described to baffled TV news crews their encounter with a mysterious being who they said fell out of a UFO, walked around the neighborhood, and even climbed up a tree.

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Japan’s Effort to Manage the Growing Problems of Space

Article by Robert Farley                                          April 23, 2021                                          (thediplomat.com)

• Much like the United States and Western Europe, the Japanese economy requires spaced-based communications technology to knit together the fabric of its industrial base. By some estimates, Japan has the fourth most orbital satellites in the world. Consequently, Japan’s Ministry of Defense is collaborating its civilian space agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), to establish a ‘Space Operations Squadron’ (SOS) within the Air-Self-Defense Force. The SOS expects to achieve operation readiness by 2023.

• The duties of the 100 member Space Operations Squadron will be largely defensive, working closely with U.S., German, and French space organizations. It will monitor potentially hostile foreign satellites and track space debris.

• Japan has not undertaken an anti-satellite weapons test, and the development of offensive anti-satellite technology may not conform with Japan’s constitutional framework. The legacy of World War II continues to loom large in East Asia. It is difficult to imagine that an ASAT test would be well-received either inside or outside of Japan. It is not difficult to imagine that Japan’s SOS could profitably share responsibilities with the U.S. Space Force in ways that would enhance the latter’s counter-space capabilities.

• On the civilian side, Japan has taken the lead on developing techniques for “cleaning” space of human-made debris and junk with several private firms collaborating with JAXA on using alternative techniques for clean-up, from magnetic docking systems to electromagnetic tethering to lasers.

• Japan’s highly advanced technological base makes it an enormous potential space power. The Space Operations Squadron may be the first indication of Japan flexing its “space muscles” as the strategic situation with China in the Indo-Pacific evolves.

 

As one of the world’s most technologically advanced societies, Japan is as dependent upon access to space as any country in the world. Much like the United States and Western Europe, the Japanese economy requires spaced-based communications technology to knit together the fabric of its industrial base. Indeed, by some estimates Japan has the fourth most orbital satellites in the world. Although the Japanese Self-Defense Forces do not operate in the same geographic scope as their U.S. or European counterparts, they still require satellite technology for communications and surveillance purposes.

Consequently, Japan has steadily increased its institutional military engagement with space, allowing the Ministry of Defense to collaborate with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the civilian space agency, for the first time in 2012. Japan also established a Space Operations Squadron (SOS) within the Air-Self-Defense Force in May 2020, with expected operational readiness in 2023. The squadron will have 100 members by the time it stands up. The portfolio of the squadron, which seems to most closely resemble the former Air Force Space Command in the United States, includes liaising with U.S., German, and French space organizations.

As framed thus far, the responsibilities of the Space Operations Squadron will be largely defensive, including the tracking of satellites and space debris in order to avoid collisions, as well as the monitoring of potentially hostile foreign satellites. Japan has not undertaken an anti-satellite test, and it is unclear how the development of offensive anti-satellite technology would sit within Japan’s constitutional framework, but the legacy of World War II continues to loom large in East Asia, and it is difficult to imagine that an ASAT test would be well-received either inside or outside of Japan. It is not difficult to imagine, however, that Japan’s SOS could profitably share responsibilities with the U.S. Space Force in ways that would enhance the latter’s counter-space capabilities — as suggested by the graphic below, which outlines a plan for enhancing space situational awareness (SSA) between, JAXA, the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MOD), and U.S. forces.

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Canadian Airline Pilots Keep Reporting UFOs

Article by Daniel Oits                                       April 21, 2021                                            (vice.com)

• Combing through thousands of reports in a searchable digital archive operated by the Canadian government known as the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Report System (CADORS), VICE World News has uncovered dozens of recent UFO sightings from Canadian and international airlines. With over three decades of data, CADORS contains nearly 300,000 aviation incident reports on everything from mechanical failures to rowdy passengers to bird strikes. It also provides a fascinating record of UFO sightings by professional aviators in Canadian airspace.

• “Pilots are probably not reporting about 90 per cent of the things they’re seeing, because they know it could have lengthy career implications,” says former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) pilot John “Jock” Williams, an aviation consultant, television commentator, and civilian pilot who spent 36 years in the Canadian military, including over two decades flying fighter jets. “For most pilots, it’s not worth it. That’s why I believe that each of these guys saw what they reported.”

• On the morning of May 30, 2016, an Air Canada Express flight from Montreal to Toronto reported it had “crossed an unidentified flying object, round in shape, flying at an approximate speed of 300kts,” or more than 550 km/h.

• On November 14, 2016, two Porter Airlines crew members were injured when their plane dove to avoid hitting an “object” that “appeared to be solid… and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube” 8,000 feet above Lake Ontario.

• On the night of March 16, 2017, a pair of WestJet flights near British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley reported “a bright, white strobe-type light” above them.

• On January 10, 2015, “multiple aircraft reported a very large object with a small white light in the middle, surrounded by a halo” that “appeared to descend from above” 41,000 feet just outside Regina, Saskatchewan.

• On Oct. 21, 2005, air traffic controllers received reports from four aircraft flight crews of a shiny, silver object over Toronto at roughly 30,000 feet which turned sharply and moved rapidly to the southeast over Lake Ontario.

• On Nov. 12, 2015, an undisclosed flight reported “a bright white light high above the aircraft”, 34,000 feet above Saskatchewan, and advised “it was not a meteorite or other aircraft.”

• On Dec. 18, 2016, a Qatar Airways flight south of Grande Prairie, Alberta reported an unidentified flying object in broad daylight in an account that offers no further visual clues. A Canadian government spokesperson said it is “not in a position to discuss individual aviators’ observations.” “The events that are entered into CADORS are entered as they are reported to Transport Canada,” the spokesperson said.

• On November 14, 2016, a morning Porter Airlines flight from Ottawa to Toronto’s downtown island airport reported ‘flying by’ a doughnut-like object “approximately 5 to 8 feet in diameter” that was “directly ahead on their flight path” over Lake Ontario, and “not likely a balloon”. The “captain overrode the autopilot in order to quickly descend the aircraft under the object.” The plane’s two flight attendants, who “were in the process of securing the cabin for arrival… received minor injuries when they were thrown into the cabin structure.”

• On the night of December 26, 2019, two separate Air Canada and Air Canada Jazz flights over British Columbia reported “sighting up to 2 dozen evenly-spaced bright objects in a line, travelling quickly at an altitude above their aircraft.” It was quickly identified as an earlier sighting of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites, which travel in groups in comparatively low orbits.

• On April 30, 2018, a Boeing 747 cargo flight reported “an object flying sporadically, estimated at (60 to 80 thousand feet) and moving at Mach 4,” or four times the speed of sound, as it travelled above the Northwest Territories on its way from New York to Alaska.

• On the morning of December 15, 2009, air traffic controllers in Fort McMurray, Alberta spotted a “solid bright light” that traveled “too fast to be any commercial aircraft” as it “moved in a southerly direction initially, then continued eastbound until it disappeared into the sunrise.” An Air Canada Jazz flight was even “delayed on departure for about four minutes until the object was well east of the aircraft’s departure path.”

• On January 6, 2019, the crew of a Vanguard Air Care medical transporter said “an inexplicable bright light followed them… at the same altitude and speed” over northern Manitoba when “no aircraft were reported in their vicinity.”

• A Transport Canada spokesperson said, “Reports of unidentified objects can rarely be followed up on as they are as the title implies, unidentified.” Of the eleven reports mentioned in this story, at least seven of them were forwarded to the military by air traffic controllers. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) tracks similar observations in the U.S., but often labels them as drones.

• According to researcher and filmmaker Matthew Hayes, there is a “very high degree of consistency” between the reports found in CADORS and the ones he uncovered for his 2019 doctoral dissertation on Canada’s Cold War UFO records. “Canadians have been reporting the same types of things, unabated, since the 1940s,” Hayes said. “Historically, it’s also been incredibly challenging to get the Canadian government to talk about this. Compare that with the U.S., where officials seem much more eager and ready to discuss the topic.”

• Veteran Canadian UFO investigator Chris Rutkowski has collected more than 22,000 UFO reports over the past three decades and has long included data from CADORS in his annual Canadian UFO Survey. “CADORS clearly shows that these types of incidents are occurring in airspace where thousands of passengers are potentially travelling every day,” Rutkowski told VICE World News. “Regardless of one’s belief or disbelief in UFOs, this is certainly a concern from a flight safety and public welfare perspective.”

 

On the morning of May 30, 2016, an Air Canada Express flight from Montreal to Toronto reported it had “crossed an unidentified flying object, round in shape, flying at an approximate speed of 300kts,” or more than 550 km/h. Over 8,000 feet above Lake Ontario on Nov. 14 of that year, two crew members were injured when a Porter Airlines plane dove to avoid hitting an “object” that “appeared to be solid… and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube.”

By combing through thousands of reports in a government flight incident database, VICE World News has uncovered dozens of recent UFO sightings from Canadian and international airlines.

They include a pair of WestJet flights near B.C.’s Okanagan Valley that allegedly saw “a bright, white strobe-type light” above

                       Chris Rutkowski

them on the night of March 16, 2017, and a pre-dawn Jan. 10, 2015 encounter outside Regina, Saskatchewan, when “multiple aircraft reported a very large object with a small white light in the middle, surrounded by a halo” that “appeared to descend from above” 41,000 feet.

The sightings come from the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Report System (CADORS), a searchable digital archive operated by Transport Canada, the federal department that oversees road, rail, marine, and air transportation. With over three

               Matthew Hayes

decades of data, CADORS contains nearly 300,000 aviation incident reports on everything from mechanical failures to rowdy passengers to bird strikes. It also provides a fascinating record of UFO sightings by professional aviators in Canadian airspace.

“Pilots are probably not reporting about 90 per cent of the things they’re seeing, because they know it could have lengthy career implications,” former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) pilot John “Jock” Williams told VICE World News.

Williams is an aviation consultant, television commentator, and civilian pilot who spent 36 years in the Canadian military, including over two decades flying fighter jets. He also worked as a flight safety officer at Transport Canada for more than a dozen years.

“For most pilots, it’s not worth it,” Williams said. “That’s why I believe that each of these guys saw what they reported.”

Although brief, CADORS cases can still be enigmatic, such as a single-sentence entry from the morning of Oct. 21, 2005, when air traffic controllers “received reports from four (4) aircraft flight crews of a shiny, silver object over Toronto at roughly (30,000 feet), which turned sharply and moved rapidy [sic] to the southeast over Lake Ontario.” Many are scant on detail, like one from the night of Nov. 12, 2015, when an undisclosed flight 34,000 feet above Saskatchewan reported “a bright white light high above the aircraft and advised it was not a meteorite or other aircraft.” Very few explicitly use terms like “UFO,” such as a Qatar Airways flight south of Grande Prairie, Alberta, that “reported an unidentified flying object” in broad daylight on Dec. 18, 2016 in an account that offers no visual clues.

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UFO Beamed Nick Pope’s Car Into Air on Florida Holiday

Article by Charles Wade-Palmer                                      April 18, 2021                                     (dailystar.co.uk)

• In a book by the former Ministry of Defence (MoD) X-Files employee from the 1990’s, Nick Pope, entitled The Uninvited, Pope relates the story of Peter and his girlfriend Jenny who were driving along a toll-road in South Florida when their car was slowly pulled off the road and 100 feet into the air above a clearing of trees. Peter unbuckled his seatbelt and stepped out of the car ‘into thin air’ before finding himself in a cramped metallic corridor. Then Peter found himself walking back in ‘mid-air’ into his car where Jenny was still sitting there motionless.

• Once back in the car, suspended in mid-air, the car began spinning down until it reached the ground. Now Peter found them driving down a different highway outside of Boca Raton. Peter estimated that the whole ordeal lasted less than half an hour. Later he determined that it was actually an hour and a half.

• UK ufology investigator Philip Mantle claims this alien encounter that Pope reports in his book was in fact experienced by the author himself. Another ufologist by the name of Chris Fowler claims that Pope “told us all that a few years ago, before he got the job at Air Staff 2A (MoD), he was on holiday with his girlfriend at the time in Florida and had what he described as a ‘missing road’ experience.” “Nick came out with something that I found pretty weird,” said Fowler. “[A]t least coming from him that is.”

• According to Mantle’s investigation, “Pope claimed that when he joined Air Staff (2A) in the summer of 1991 that he had no knowledge or interest in UFOs and it was only because of the UFO investigations that he carried out on behalf of the MoD that turned him into a believer. Well, I provided a document from the MoD in 1988 when he was working at Portsmouth that he had already dealt with a UFO enquiry there.”

• The UFO researchers believe Peter was in fact Nick Pope, with the significance being he had a keener interest in extraterrestrial life forms than he let on at the Ministry of Defence. “In January 1991, before he moved to the so-called ‘UFO DESK’ he had already had his own close encounter in Florida. …[Pope] now denies that any such encounter happened (to him).” “[W]e have also provided documents to show that while serving at Air Staff (2A), he was a D-grade clerk and never investigated anything.”

 

Nick Pope at the MoD’s ‘UFO Desk’ in 1990s

Ex-MoD worker Nick Pope is alleged to have been abducted on a toll road where he experienced “lost time”.

Ufologist Philip Mantle claims a chilling alien encounter Nick reports in his book The Uninvited was in fact experienced by the author himself.

According to Nick, a man named Peter was driving in Florida, US, with his girlfriend Jenny when their car was slowly pulled off the road into a clearing of trees about 100 feet off the ground.

With the trees lit up, Peter claimed he removed his seatbelt and stepped out of the vehicle into thin air before finding himself in a cramped metallic corridor.

Peter recalls eventually finding himself walking back in mid-air into his car where Jenny was still sitting there motionless.

                Philip Mantle

Once back in the car, it began spinning until it reached the ground but on a highway outside of Boca Raton rather than the toll road they were driving on.

Bizarrely Peter believed the whole ordeal lasted less than half an hour, only to learn it had been another hour on top of that.

A collective of researchers believe Peter was in fact Nick Pope, with the significance being he had a keener interest in extra terrestrial life forms than he let on at the Ministry of Defence.

Philip Mantle said: “Pope claimed that when he joined Air Staff (2A) in the summer of 1991 that he had no knowledge or interest in UFOs and it was only because of the UFO investigations that he carried out on behalf of the MoD that turned him into a believer.

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China to Put Space Station in Orbit by 2024

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.

                              Scott Pace

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.”

                        Xi Jinping

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

         Song Zhongping

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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China, Russia and the New Space Race

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.

 

          Fmr Admiral James Stavridis

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

       Dmitry Rogozin

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

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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French Space Forces Reach For Higher Orbit

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.

      French President Emmanuel Macron

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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Britain Launches Its Own Space Command

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

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

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

               Boris Yeltsin

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

            George H.W. Bush

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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Australian Military Could Develop Joint Space Command

Article by Andrew Tillett                                         March 31, 2021                                         (afr.com)

• In an interview marking the centenary of the Royal Australian Air Force, Chief of Air Force Mel Hupfeld said he was working on a review, due at the end of the year, on how the military embraces space. Hupfeld said that the growing militarization of space poses threats to satellites that are essential to everyday life as well as national security. “We are developing space domain capabilities to ensure our access to space,” said Hupfeld. “Space is a war-fighting domain but we’re not going to militarize space.”

• Under Hupfeld’s vision, Australia’s answer to the US Space Force would be a “space command” – bringing together officers from the air force, army and navy under an integrated command.

• A component of space control is ‘space domain awareness’. Australia’s military defense force would need to build an operational understanding of the space environment to determine if space assets are under threat, being attacked, or subjected to accidental interference or natural phenomena, and to develop capabilities to have a measure of space control to be able to move vehicles and satellites, and to avoid debris and threats in space.

• Last December, Hupfeld joined international colleagues to condemn a Russian anti-satellite missile test, which was viewed as ‘destabilizing’. “Everyone has the right to operate in international seas and air and space,” says Hupfeld. “What we will be looking to do is if there is someone who doesn’t follow international norms, is point it out and hold their behavior to account.”

• Early in March, the Royal Australian Air Force conducted joint drills with the Australian Navy’s destroyer, HMAS Hobart, which included the RAAF’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet for the first time. Chief Hupfeld rejected the criticism that the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet has received lately from the United State’s own House Armed Services Committee about the aircraft’s performance, delays and costs. Hupfeld said it would be foolish not to consider advances in technology and the changing strategic circumstances when weighing whether the RAAF would order additional aircraft beyond the 72 F-35s to which it has committed. “This approach with the F-35A and our other capabilities allows us to maintain our technological edge against rapid military advances in the region,” Hupfeld said.

 

Australia could launch a specialist “space command” bringing together officers from the air

    Chief of Aussie Air Force Mel Hupfeld

force, army and navy, as the growing militarisation of space poses threats to satellites that are essential to everyday life as well as national security.

In an interview marking the centenary of the Royal Australian Air Force, Chief of Air Force Mel Hupfeld also rejected criticism of its main weapon, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, saying its true potency remained top secret.

“I would argue very strongly that some of our more speculative commentators don’t have access to the specifications and capabilities and likely haven’t even sat, and certainly not been in control of a fighter aircraft during complex training missions, nor combat,” Air Marshal

                 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

Hupfeld said.

He said he was working on a review, due at the end of the year, on how the military embraces space.

While the Trump administration established a standalone US Space Force, Air Marshal Hupfeld downplayed the idea that Australia would follow suit.

One option could be for members of the three branches of the military and the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation to come together under an integrated command.

“Space is a war-fighting domain but we’re not going to militarise space,” Air Marshal Hupfeld said.

“We are developing space domain capabilities to ensure our access to space.

“As a component of space control, space domain awareness allows Defence to build an operational understanding of the space environment to determine if space assets are under threat, being attacked, or subjected to accidental interference or natural phenomena.”

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Chinese Telescope Now Open to Foreign Scientists

Article by Abhijnan Rej                                         April 3, 2021                                          (thediplomat.com)

• China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (or ‘FAST’, pictured above) will now be available for use by foreign scientists, reported Chinese state media. “All foreign applications will be evaluated, and the results will be announced on July 20. Observations by international users will begin in August.”

• China’s Xinhua news agency quoted the telescope’s chief engineer as saying that 10 percent of observation time would be allocated to foreign scientists in the instrument’s first year of operations. “The project will contribute Chinese wisdom to the construction of a community with a shared future for humanity, and strive to promote international sci-tech development and the progress of human civilization.”

• FAST, located in China’s Guizhou province, is the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope and became fully operational January last year. While the telescope’s scientific uses are vast, its potential use to discover extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) that has attracted considerable attention.

• In October 2016, the privately-funded Breakthrough Listen initiative announced that researchers using FAST will collaborate with those using the Green Bank Telescope in (West Virginia) USA and the Parkes Observatory in NSW Australia to “exchange observing plans, search methods and data” in its search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

• “Are we alone?’ is a question that unites us as a planet,” said Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire financing the Breakthrough Initiatives. “And the quest to answer it should take place at a planetary level too. With this agreement, we are now searching for cosmic companions with three of the world’s biggest telescopes across three continents.”

• Milner drew considerable political attention amid allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election when Milner made substantial investments in Facebook and Twitter on behalf of two Russian state entities. Milner also held stakes in a company co-owned with Jared Kushner, former White House advisor and son-in-law of Donald Trump.

• In September 2019, Maura McLaughlin, a radio astronomer at West Virginia University who studies extra-galactic pulsars, said she was “super excited to be able to use the (FAST) telescope.” However, with the deterioration of China-U.S. relations, American scientists have come under considerable scrutiny amid allegations that they are – wittingly or not – being used by the Chinese Communist Party for technical and scientific espionage and intellectual property theft. The arrest of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineering professor in January on charges that he failed to adequately disclose his professional and financial ties with China added to an increasingly long list of experienced scientists who have been pursued by the US Department of Justice for their China links.

 

Chinese state media reported earlier this week that China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) will now be available for use by foreign scientists. According to Xinhua, based on a statement by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), “All foreign applications will be evaluated, and the results will be announced on July 20. Observations by international users will begin in August.” This announcement confirms a January NAOC announcement that FAST would be open to astronomers around the world from April 1.

                             Yuri Milner

“The project will contribute Chinese wisdom to the construction of a community with a shared future for humanity, and strive to promote international sci-tech development and the progress of human civilization,” Xinhua quoted the statement as saying.

                  Maura McLaughlin

A separate January Xinhua story on FAST had quoted the telescope’s chief engineer as saying that 10 percent of observation time would be allocated to foreign scientists in the instrument’s first year of operations.

FAST, located in China’s Guizhou province, is the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope and became fully operational January last year. While the telescope’s scientific uses are vast – and the instrument had already been used to discover 100 new pulsars (fast-spinning dead stars that emit radio waves) in its test phase — it is its potential use to discover extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) that has attracted considerable attention, including from geopolitical analysts given to (farfetched) scenario planning.

In October 2016, NAOC and the privately-funded Breakthrough Listen initiative – which funds projects for astronomers to use radio telescopes around the world to search for ETI – announced their collaboration at a ceremony in Beijing. According to a Breakthrough Initiatives statement on the occasion, researchers using FAST will collaborate with those using the Green Bank Telescope in the U.S. and the Parkes Observatory in Australia to “exchange observing plans, search methods and data.”

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New Paper Reveals How UK is Making Plans for War in Space

Article by Kit Klarenberg                                        March 25, 2021                                       (rt.com)

• In 1997, the US Space Command’s ‘Vision for 2020’ forecast that space power would evolve into a “medium of warfare” during “the early portion of the 21st century”. Washington being able to “control” and “dominate” space in order to “deny other nations access”, was considered a top priority. Barack Obama escalated deployments of ‘first-strike’ missile defense systems encircling Russia and China in range to strike ground stations that communicate with orbiting military satellites. In March 2018, Donald Trump broached the creation of a ‘Space Force’, and in August 2018 the US’s 2019 National Defense Authorization Act repeatedly referenced “space warfighting operations” and plans to create a “unified command for space” under US Strategic Command.

• Now the UK wants to get in on the action. On March 22, the UK government published its ‘Defence Command Paper 2021’, outlining London’s grand vision for its “role in the world over the next decade” in respect of military and intelligence capabilities and operations. “Space, and our assured access to it, is fundamental to military operations,” the paper reads. “We must develop military, civilian and commercial capabilities that are resilient to and protected from space threats. We must also help shape an international environment of behaviours and operating norms that deters adversaries.”

• By 2030, the UK intends to have “the ability to monitor, protect and defend” its interests “in and through space”. Over the next 10 years, a total of £5 billion will be invested in Skynet, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) network of military communications satellites, which supports the Five Eyes global spying apparatus. £1.4 billion will be spent establishing a dedicated space command, launch a National Space Operations Centre, develop an “intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellite constellation”, and create a “Space Academy” to train Britain’s new army of “space specialists”.

• In May 2020, then-MoD Permanent Secretary Sir Stephen Lovegrove told a parliamentary committee that space was “now recognized as a warfighting domain.” The Defence Command Paper states that UK military and intelligence capabilities will from now on be fully integrated across “space, cyberspace, maritime, land and air”. By August of 2020, Royal Air Force officers began training at the US Space Command’s Space Defense Operations Center in California.

• Defence Secretary Ben Wallace consistently frames UK space-combat capacity as inherently defensive in nature. But in April 2019, a mysterious aircraft crash-landed in the West Australian outback. It was revealed to be a state-of-the-art experimental solar-powered surveillance drone, produced by aerospace firm Airbus for the MoD. The craft has a 25m wingspan and is capable of flying unmanned at a height of over 65,000 feet – twice the altitude of a commercial airliner, at the very edge of space.

• China and Russia have repeatedly presented draft treaties to the United Nations calling for a ban on the deployment of conventional weapons in space, and a prohibition on the use of force in and from space and against spacecraft. Despite being supported by an overwhelming number of UN member states, the proposals were consistently rebuffed by Washington.

• The UK’s updated defense priorities are Britain’s own contribution to this determined push to transform space into a dangerous battleground. By Ben Wallace’s own admission, there is “limited international agreement on norms and conventions” relating to the regulation of space technology, combined with “a lack of ethical standards to encourage their responsible use”. A cynic might suggest that, in fact, Whitehall intends to exploit these regulatory and moral shortfalls to its own advantage.

 

Space battles are the stuff of science fiction, but recent technological and political

 Defence Secretary Ben Wallace

developments have done much to make the prospect an ever more likely reality – and it’s clear the UK wants to get in on the action.

On March 22, the UK government published its Defence Command Paper 2021, a 76-page document offering further clarity on the previous week’s Integrated Review, which outlined London’s grand vision for its “role in the world over the next decade” in respect of military and intelligence capabilities and operations.

                  Sir Stephen Lovegrove

An accompanying foreword authored by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace – former British Army soldier and director of military technology firm QinetiQ, who has previously condoned torture – spells out the paper’s disturbing dimensions in some detail.

Strikingly, it contained dozens of references to space in a military context. The heavens were said to be of growing significance as an operational and “warfighting” domain – a dedicated section describing Whitehall’s plans to secure dominance in the sphere.

“Space, and our assured access to it, is fundamental to military operations. Loss of, or disruption to, the space domain could severely impact our ability to undertake most defence tasks,” it read. “We must develop military, civilian and commercial capabilities that are resilient to and protected from space threats. We must also help shape an international environment of behaviours and operating norms that deters adversaries.”

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Discovery Revives Theories of an Alien Civilization in Ancient China

Article by Qin Chen                                            March 24, 2021                                     (scmp.com)

• The discovery a gold mask possibly worn by a priest, along with more than 500 artefacts in Sanxingdui, a Bronze Age archeological site in central Sichuan province of China, have become the talk of China since the news broke on March 20th. The Sanxingdui site dates from 2,800-1,100BC, and were largely discovered in the 1980s and 1990s. Experts believe the area was once inhabited by the Shu, an ancient Chinese civilization.

• The mask is similar to previous discoveries of bronze human statues. However, the inhuman features of the mask has triggered speculation they may belong to an alien race that may have once inhabited the area thousands of years ago. Some says that the Bronze Age face masks have more in common with characters from the film ‘Avatar’ than with Chinese people.

• The Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Wang Wei, stated: “There is no chance that Sanxingdui belongs to an alien civilization.” “These wide-eyed masks look exaggerated because the makers want to emulate the look of deities. They shouldn’t be interpreted as the look of everyday people,” Wang said.

• The director of the Sanxingdui Museum, Lei Yu, made similar comments: “It was a colorful regional culture, flourishing alongside other Chinese cultures.” But Lei could see why people might think the artefacts were left by aliens. Earlier excavations found a golden walking stick and a bronze tree-shaped statue unlike other ancient Chinese artefacts. But these artefacts are only a small portion of the entire Sanxingdui collection. Many other Sanxingdui artefacts can be easily traced to a human civilization, noted Lei.

 

             ‘alien’ mask

A major discovery of a gold mask alongside a treasure trove of artefacts at a Bronze Age site in China has generated online debate about whether there were once aliens in China thousands of years ago.

The gold mask, possibly worn by a priest, along with more than 500 artefacts in Sanxingdui, a Bronze Age site in central Sichuan province, have become the talk of China since the news broke on Saturday. The mask is similar to previous discoveries of bronze human statues, however, the inhuman and foreign features of the finds have triggered speculation they may belong to a race of aliens.

In responses collected by state broadcaster CCTV, some speculated that the earlier bronze face masks had more in common with characters from the film Avatar than with Chinese people.

“Does that mean Sanxindui belongs to an alien civilisation?” queried one.

However, some just asked if perhaps the finds came from another civilisation, such as one in the Middle East.

The Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Wang Wei, was quick to shut down the alien theories.

“There is no chance that Sanxingdui belongs to an alien civilisation,” he told CCTV.

“These wide-eyed masks look exaggerated because the makers want to emulate the look of deities. They shouldn’t be interpreted as the look of everyday people,” he added.

                                Lei Yu

The director of the Sanxingdui Museum, Lei Yu, made similar comments on CCTV earlier this year.

              Wang Wei

“It was a colourful regional culture, flourishing alongside other Chinese cultures,” he said.

Lei said he could see why people might think the artefacts were left by aliens. Earlier excavations found a golden walking stick and a bronze tree-shaped statue unlike other ancient Chinese artefacts.

But Lei said those foreign-looking artefacts, although well-known, only count as a tiny portion of the entire Sanxingdui collection. Many other Sanxingdui artefacts can be easily traced to a human civilisation.

The Sanxingdui sites date from 2,800-1,100BC, and it is on the UNESCO list of tentative world heritage sites. The site was largely discovered in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Former Ministry of Defence Official Says UK Gov is Secretly Investigating UFOs

Article by Cameron Frewon                                          March 24, 2021                                  (unilad.co.uk)

• To mark UFO Week on BLAZE tv, former Ministry of Defence official Nick Pope was interviewed by British media company UNILAD. For three years during the 1990s, Pope held a position within the MoD’s ‘UFO program’. The program ended in 2009. But Pope says that he has it on good authority that the British government is secretly ‘still looking at this’ UFO phenomenon. But Pope insists that he is not a ‘whistle blower’. “I take my security oath seriously,” says Pope. “The only reason I can talk about this is because the government has declassified and released a lot of my old case files.”

• In 2017, it was revealed that in 2012 the US military had budgeted $22 million for the ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’ (AATIP). In 2017, the US military allowed three grainy UFO videos to be publicly released. When asked how much UFO information the US military has shared with the UK government, Pope remains tight-lipped, wary of crossing a line beyond what’s permitted.

• Pope noted that military authorities stopped calling the phenomenon ‘UFOs’ and changed it to ‘UAPs’, or ‘unidentified aerial phenomenon’. Now they’re probably calling it something else says Pope. (Editor: Yes, ‘UAV’ or ‘unmanned aerial vehicle’) There’s also a suspicion that much of the UFO investigation has been relegated to the private sector in order to put it outside of the scope of the Freedom of Information Act.

• Today, the US Department of Defense admits to a UAP Task Force set up in the Office of Naval Intelligence, which is basically the AATIP under a different name. Pope says that the US government program has indeed shared some of their UFO findings with the other ‘Five Eyes’ nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK. “So GCHQ (UK Government Communications Headquarters) probably got to see some of this stuff on secure servers and things.”

• A US Congressional Senate committee has asked the military for an unclassified UFO investigations report, which is due to come out around World UFO Day on July 2nd. But the public and the media may still only get a summary of the unclassified report, “where the good stuff is going to buried”, says Pope.

• Pope says that, “There is close military and intelligence… collaboration (between the US and the UK). There’s intelligence sharing across a range of issues. There’s joint exercises. … [T]here’s been UK participation in some of the testing of cutting-edge technologies. But when we get into UFOs, that’s still a bit of an unknown.”

• Philip Mantle, director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association, described the Pentagon’s UFO footage as a ‘turning point’, not just because of the videos themselves, but the legitimacy with which they were released. “What was interesting is what colleagues have been saying for years… that the US authorities are studying UFOs somewhere,” said mantle. “And of course, they were proven right. …You then ask, ‘if the Americans are doing it, then who else?’ The answer is we don’t know.”

• So what are these craft seen in the grainy US military ‘Gimbal’, ‘Go Fast’ and ‘Tic Tac’ UFO videos? “Some of these things are going to be secret, prototype aircraft missiles and drones,” Pope said. “I don’t rule out the extraterrestrial hypothesis. … [A]pparently, in these interim reports [from the UAP Taskforce], they’ve not ruled out the extraterrestrial hypothesis.’

• Whether more videos are released to the public in the wake of the impending Senate committee report, to say those three Pentagon clips are just the beginning would be an understatement. “They must surely have more than three videos. There’s been little hints dropped here and there, more will surface at one point,” Mantle said.

• Pope claims to know “many people who…knew there’d been hundreds of these sorts of (UFO) incidents over the years. That’s another misconception about this; we’ve seen these three videos, but that’s the tip of the iceberg.”

 

The UK government is secretly investigating UFO sightings, according to a former Ministry of Defence official.

                           Nick Pope

In 2017, America’s very own X-Files-esque team was revealed by The New York Times: up until 2012, $22 million in defence funding went to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Three years later, amid leaks and speculation, the Pentagon officially released three declassified videos of UFOs – no aliens, but an emphasis on ‘unidentified’.

                        Philip Mantle

‘About time’, was the reaction of Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). Out of his 21 years in government, three were dedicated to a fascinating post that no longer exists. Well, officially, that is.

                    ‘Gimbal’ UFO video

In an interview with UNILAD to mark UFO Week on BLAZE, Pope sat down with me to chat about his past experiences, investigations and thoughts on the earth-shattering Pentagon footage, as well as what to expect from the intelligence agencies’ report on aerial phenomena as part of the COVID-19 relief bill.

‘The irony is it could possibly come out on World UFO Day. They’ve asked for an unclassified report. If the media and public get any of this, that’s all they’ll get. Not

                   ‘Go Fast’ UFO video

even that, maybe just a summary of it. It can have a classified annex, and that’s where the good stuff is going to buried,’ he said.

‘There’s a debate whether AATIP is still in existence or if it’s running under a different name now that people know about it. What the Department of Defense (DoD) did admit is they have something called the UAP Taskforce, that’s set up in the Office of

                    ‘Tic Tac’ UFO video

Naval Intelligence,’ Pope said.

He added, ‘There was a leak… saying they’ve shared some of their interim findings with other Five Eyes nations [in the intelligence-sharing alliance made up of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and US], so GCHQ probably got to see some of this stuff on secure servers and things.’

The position Pope once held in the ‘UFO program’ was cut at the end of 2009. ‘But I have it on multiple well-placed sources that somebody, somewhere in government is still looking at this,’ he said.

Pope continued, ‘Definitely not calling it UFOs anymore, nor UAP now it’s out of the box – probably calling it something else.There are still question marks whether there’s active liaison between the UAP Taskforce and anyone in the MoD. There’s also a suspicion that you put it out into the private sector, to put it outside the scope of the Freedom of Information act. So that’s something else to throw into the mix.’

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