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The Evidence of UFOs is Uncontestable and Being Taken Seriously for the First Time

Article by Gary Heseltine                                                 July 3, 2021                                                                                (rt.com)

• In December 2017, the New York Times published an article about a strange aerial objects encountered by US Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier off the West Coast of the United States. The FLIR cockpit video and radar images provided physical evidence of these UFOs operating in US airspace. The highly trained Navy pilots had never encountered anything remotely like what they observed. The flight characteristics of the object seemed to defy the known laws of physics and aerodynamics. The New York Times article went on to reveal that other UFOs had been seen and recorded on both the East and West Coasts in 2015.

• Then we learned that a secret UFO research program existed within the Pentagon. The head of this program, Luis Elizondo, described what he and his team witnessed in a television interview: “Imagine a technology that can do 600 to 700 G-forces, that can fly 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and can fly through air and water and possibly space, and oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity. That’s precisely what we are seeing.”

• Confirmation of a secret government UFO study program was, in itself, a complete contradiction to the long-standing officially held US policy regarding UFOs, which stated that since the closure of ‘Project Blue Book’ in 1969, no such military/government research had ever been undertaken. The government’s official policy of denying and debunking any evidence of UFOs or the extraterrestrial presence seems to be crumbling as well, being replaced by a more open, grown-up approach to these phenomena.

• The mainstream media has also begun to realize that there may be something to the UFO story and have been keenly following developments. Many scientists have become interested in the topic as well. The subject is finally being treated seriously on mainstream TV.

• While the media, scientific and academic world may try to pass this series of recent UFO evidence off as a completely new revelation, in reality they are nothing new. Such UFOs have been observed by credible witnesses around the globe for over 70 years. For instance, between 1989-91, Belgium received approximately 2000 UFO reports from members of the public, police officers and military pilots. On the night of March 30/31, 1990, two F16 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a ground visual and radar-confirmed target. In a 70-minute-plus pursuit of the UFOs, one of the jets was able to record its flight instrument data of the incident. In addition, radar systems of three military bases and four civilian airports all confirmed the pursuit and the UFO.

• Top military officials publicly confirmed that an unauthorized, unidentified craft of unknown origin had entered Belgium airspace that night. Subsequent research confirmed that during the pursuit the object had been able to evade/break numerous lock-ons achieved by the chasing aircraft.

• The Chief of Air Staff for the Royal Belgium Air Force, Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer, held a press conference where he disclosed details of the incident and the videotape of the cockpit instrumentation taken during the event. At the press conference, Col. de Brouwer stated: “The day will come, undoubtedly, when the phenomenon will be observed with technological means of detection and collection that won’t leave a single doubt about its origin. This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the mystery for a long time. A mystery that continues to the present. But it exists, it is real, and that is an important conclusion.”

• Col. de Brouwer continued: “The Air Force has arrived at the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced within Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations… reinforced by the reports of the night of March 30-31 [1990], have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorized aerial activities have taken place. Until now, not a single trace of aggressiveness has been signaled; military or civilian air traffic has not been perturbed nor threatened. We can therefore advance that the presumed activities do not constitute a direct menace.”

• The top civilian radar specialist in Belgium, Professor Emile Schwietzer, was brought in to examine the accumulated data obtained during the pursuit. Schwietzer said that the UFO had made one particular maneuver that had impressed him greatly: a sharp high-speed turn that pulled a g-force in excess of 30G – well above the tolerance for humans to survive.

• In September 2019, physicist Michio Kaku spoke at a UFO conference in Barcelona, Spain. On the subject of the US Navy UFO revelations, Kaku said that the explanations usually invoked — meteors, weather balloons, even the planet Venus — can’t explain these incidents. They are either of human origin, representing cutting-edge technology, or it is “evidence of an advanced outer-space civilization”. “We’ve reached a turning point,” Kaku concluded. “It used to be that believers had to prove that these objects were from an intelligent race in outer space. Now the burden of proof is on the government to prove they’re not from intelligent beings in outer space.”

• Of course, other scientists remain locked in the debunking mindset. One is American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who, in March, posted onto Facebook an image from one of the FLIR videos, saying: “Not knowing what it is, does not count as evidence for knowing what it is.” In the world of UFO research, such inexplicable contrasts of opinion are borne out by the history of prominent ‘debunkers’ deliberately being given huge coverage in the media – from scientist Donald Menzel in the 1950s to aviation expert Philip Klass, who was known as the world’s leading debunker for many years until his death in 2005.

• Now, for the first time in nearly 70 years, the stigma of talking about the UFO phenomena is finally beginning to dissipate. We are no longer being called cranks or kooks. It’s time for the best UFO research accumulated over the last 70 years to be recognized and studied. Scientists, academics and researchers should have an adult conversation about the subject and move forward together. This is what ‘ICER’, the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research is attempting to do. (see previous ExoArticle here)

• Mainstream scientists and academics have a choice to make. They can either stick their heads into the sand and dismiss everything out of hand, ignoring the mass of scientific data that’s been recorded and continues to be collected on an almost daily basis by a vast array of military technology, or for the first time really open their minds to the possibility that ‘non-human intelligences’ may have found us and are currently interacting with humankind, and seek out the diligent work of long-standing UFO researchers whom they have largely ignored. Surely, now is the time for all of us to work together for the benefit of the human race and help us prepare for a new reality.

 

     ‘Gimbal’ UFO off of Florida in 2015

In the second and concluding part of my series of what’s happening in the world of UFOs/UAPs, I set out the astonishing proof that indicates we are regularly being visited by super-intelligent visitors from outer space.

In my previous article, I outlined how the official policy of denying and debunking the evidence that our planet is being engaged by extraterrestrial/non-human intelligences is – at last – crumbling. And being replaced by a more open, grown-up approach to these phenomena, with even US senators, ex-presidents and former CIA directors admitting these ‘contacts’ cannot be explained.

 Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer

The first indication of this shift came in December 2017 when the New York Times, no less, published an article about a hitherto unknown secret Pentagon program that had researched strange aerial objects encountered by a number of US Navy pilots off the east and west coasts of

UFO chased by Belgium F16 fighter jets in 1990

the United States.

The first of these involved the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its carrier escort of ships in 2004. What made this highly significant is that the fighter aircraft involved used Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) video to visually capture an actual object that had been seen both visually and on radar.

The video provided corroborative physical evidence of an unknown object flying around in US airspace.

The pilots have described the object seen as similar to a Tic Tac sweet i.e., white, pill shaped, with rounded ends. David Fravor, the first pilot to go public about the incident, estimated the craft to be approximately 40 feet in length, not too dissimilar to the size of the F18 Super Hornet he was flying.

             Michio Kaku

Significantly, the highly trained Navy pilots had never encountered anything remotely like what

           Luis Elizondo

they observed. The flight characteristics of the object seemed to defy the known laws of physics and aerodynamics.

The New York Times article went on to reveal that on two further occasions, US Navy pilots had encountered similar objects in 2015 off the east and west coasts of America and that they too had been recorded on FLIR video.

Once again, the videos provided corroboration of what the pilots had observed and matched the ship-based radar data. The audio commentary of the pilots involved in these incidents makes it perfectly clear that the objects moved in ways unlike any object they had ever witnessed before.

Unusually, the three videos, which have become known as the ‘FLIR1’ (Tic Tac), ‘Gimbal’ and ‘Go Fast’ respectively, were released into the public domain.

The person who ran that secret program was identified as Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence specialist, who had recently resigned from the Department of Defense. Later, in a TV programme, Elizondo described what he and his team witnessed: “Imagine a technology that can do 600 to 700 G-forces, that can fly 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and can fly through air and water and possibly space, and oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity. That’s precisely what we are seeing.”

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30 Years Later, We Still Don’t Know What Happened During the Belgian UFO Wave

 

Article by Jeva Lange                          March 30, 2020                           (theweek.com)

• On a clear November night in 1989, near the town of Eupen, Belgium near the German border, policemen Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert Von Montigny called their dispatcher to report seeing “a strange (silent) object in the sky.” By the end of the evening, three other pairs of police officers and at least 30 different groups of people would also report seeing the UFOs. This “UFO wave” would continue for months, culminating on March 30, 1990 with two Belgian Air Force F-16s chasing the triangular UFOs on their radars, which they couldn’t even see.

• A Belgian police officer described the hovering craft “like lights on a huge football field” so bright you could read by them. Only gradually did you notice the object they emitted from — a hulking triangular shape, with three enormous spotlights pointed toward the ground, and a red, flashing light at its center. “The whole thing,” recalled the policeman, “was floating in the air.”

• In December 1989, Belgian Army Colonel André Amond and his wife reported seeing the silently floating lights while driving in their car. But the Belgian military had no answers. The Chief of Operations of the Belgian Air Staff, General Wilfried De Brouwer (pictured above), told investigative reporter Leslie Kean that he suspected the UFOs were experimental American military craft. De Brouwer filed inquiries with the US Embassy in Brussels. But the Americans responded by saying that “no USAF stealth aircrafts were operating in the… area during the periods in question.”

• So the Belgian Air Force, aviation authorities, and police devised a plan. They had F-16 jets ready to take off at the first sign of another UFO. On March 30, 1990, police and radar stations spotted an unknown object in the sky. The Belgian pilots tried to intercept the crafts and recorded targets on their radar with unusual behavior, such as jumping huge distances in seconds and accelerating beyond human capacity. But the pilots could never actually see the object. De Brouwer concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the crafts were really there. Still, in April 1990, thousands more sightings were reported before the encounters dropped off.

• Of course, many explanations were offered to debunk the sightings. Some scientists considered the event to be an example of mass hysteria. UFO skeptic Philip Klass blamed the sightings on “mass excitement” caused by media reports of UFOs, where people would see ordinary things in the sky and “hopeful viewers” would then believe they were UFOs. Brian Dunning of the UFO skeptic podcast Skeptoid imaginatively claimed that the craft were helicopters. The Reuters news organization claimed it was a Soviet satellite ‘breaking up’.

• Some pranksters admitted in 2011 to concocting the “Petit-Rechain picture” often used as a photo of the Belgian triangle UFO. Said one hoaxer, “We made the model with polystyrene, we painted it, and then we started sticking things to it, then we suspended it in the air … then we took the photo.”

• Notwithstanding, General De Brouwer said, “I can conclude with confidence that the observations during what is now known as the Belgian wave were not caused by mass hysteria. The witnesses interviewed by investigators were sincere and honest. They did not previously know each other. Many were surprised by what they saw and today … they are still prepared to confirm their unusual experience.”

• While the Belgian UFO wave likely wasn’t an alien visitation, it remains unanswered even all these decades and technological advances later. “That is a pity,” says Colonel Amond who saw the lights with his wife, “I want to know before dying… that is all I can ask.”

[Editor’s Note]   In chapter 15 of Dr Michael Salla’s 2019 book: US Air Force Secret Space Program – Shifting Extraterrestrial Alliances & Space Force, he discusses the origin of the US Air Force’s top secret Aurora Program which developed the TR-3B triangle craft, able to perform both in the earth’s atmosphere and in near space. Salla cites Edgar Fouche who confirms that the TR-3B, code named ‘Astra’, was a tactical reconnaissance craft developed in the 1970s and built by private aerospace companies for the Air Force during the 1980s. Fouche served with the US Air Force from 1967 to 1987 and then spent another eight years with defense contractors working on a number of classified aviation programs at Groom Lake Area 51.

From November 1989 to April 1990, prototype black flying triangles, approximately 250 feet in length, were sighted and photographed in Scotland and Belgium by hundreds of witnesses including police officers. On March 30, 1990, the Belgium Air Force sent F-16 fighter jets to intercept a flying triangle. According to Fouche the 600-foot wide model TR-3B became operational in the early 1990’s, and three were flying by 1994.

The TR-3B employs a “Magnetic Field Disrupter” which rotates highly pressurized mercury-based plasma around a circular accelerator ring, reducing the craft’s weight by a factor of 89%. Three rocket engines using conventional fuel sources like hydrogen, oxygen and/or methane provide the thrust. The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Fouche claimed that the TR-3B was able to silently hover for at least 10 minutes and gave off “a corona of silver blue light” that glowed around it while hovering.
Corey Goode asserts that the TR-3B was a “hand me down” to the USAF’s military space program and to cabal “elites” from an even more highly classified space program controlled by NASA along with the Antarctic German Space Program.

 

At first, the witnesses claimed, all you noticed were the lights.

They were so bright you could read by them, so brilliant that a policeman described them as “like lights on a huge football field.” Only gradually did you notice the object they emitted from — a hulking triangular shape, with three enormous spotlights pointed toward the ground, and a red, flashing light at its center. “The whole thing,” recalled the policeman, as if barely able to believe it himself, “was floating in the air.”

It was a clear November night in 1989, near the town of Eupen, Belgium, which sits some seven miles from the German border. Heinrich Nicoll, the policeman, and his partner, Hubert Von Montigny, called their dispatcher to report the object they’d stumbled on while on a routine patrol. “Suddenly, they told me they were seeing a strange object in the sky,” Albert Creutz, who was on the receiving end, told Unsolved Mysteries in a 1992 episode. “It made no noise. We joked about it and said it might be Santa Claus trying to land.”

         the fake “Petit-Rechain” photo

But by the time the evening was over, at least 30 different groups and three separate pairs of police officers would allege to have seen the unidentified flying object. And they wouldn’t be the last. Belgium’s months-long “UFO wave” culminated 30 years ago today — on March 30, 1990 — in a physics-defying chase through the skies over Europe as two Belgian Air Force F-16s pursued mysterious objects on their radars that they couldn’t even see.

But, okay okay, did aliens really visit Belgium? It certainly seems deeply, deeply unlikely. Yet three decades later, it’s still hard to entirely dismiss the 2,000-odd sightings that took place in the country between November 1989 and April 1990. As Patrick Ferryn, the president of the Belgian committee for the study of space phenomena, SOBEPS, told The Telegraph, “You must know that most of these sightings will have the most banal explanation but there is a residue, which we simply can’t explain. And of those, there may be two or three where we may have questions over where they came from.”

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