The U.S. Department of Defense approved the establishment of the Task Force for Unknown Aerial Phenomena (UAPTF). "The task of the task force is to detect, analyze, and catalog UAP that may pose a threat to U.S. national security," the U.S. Department of Defense website said. How things are
You may hear a lot about UFOs lately, and for good reason. In June, the Pentagon and the director of national intelligence will submit an unclassified report to Congress on the anomalies in which U.S. service personnel have found UFOs (UFOs). However, national security personnel refer to them as unidentified aerial phenomena or UAPs.
Obviously, there have been a lot of reports about UAP in recent years. We — the general public — just haven't heard of them. For decades, the government has vehemently denied the rumble of any flying saucer buzzing in our atmosphere. That is, until recently. So, what's changed?
Before 2007, the U.S. government created the Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a secretive organization hidden in the Pentagon. The program is responsible for collecting and analyzing information about strange aerial objects that service personnel have reported to the Department of Defense (DoD) over the years.
Luis Elizondo joined the effort in 2008, with 20 young military operations experience. In 2010, he was appointed head of the program and focused its attention on national security. He collected reports of UAP sightings and reviewed them with due diligence.
One hidden report that caught his attention was a strange tic-tac-toe object over the Pacific Ocean reported over the November 2004 moon by two former U.S. Navy pilots. Lieutenant Colonel David Flavor and Lieutenant Colonel Alex Dietrich are training with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. According to the "60 Minutes" report earlier this month, radar from a ship with training crew members detected "multiple anomalous vehicles" descending 80,000 feet (24,380 meters) on the horizon in less than a second. Flavor and Dietrich were sent to different planes to investigate, each with a weapons systems officer in the back seat.
As they approached, they saw an area of tumbling water the size of a 737 aircraft. Hovering above it are tic-tac-toe objects, "with no predictable motion, no predictable trajectories," Dietrich said. The object has no markings, no wings, and no exhaust plumes. When Flavor flew over to take a closer look, the object flew so fast that it seemed to disappear. A few seconds later, it was spotted on radar about 60 miles (96 kilometers) away.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. There are also reports of Navy pilots who have witnessed strange cubes or triangles do what known aircraft can't — stop quickly, turn immediately, and immediately accelerate to 11,000 mph (17,700 km/h) or higher. They do these things in restricted airspace, usually in airspace designated for fighter training, such as off the coast of San Diego, or off the coast of Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida.
We spoke to Elizondo in an email interview, and according to him, UAP, which has been tracked and monitored for decades, shows what it calls the "five observables." These are:
Anti-gravity elevator
Sudden and instantaneous acceleration
Hypersonic without any visible features, sonic booms, or observable propulsion patterns
Low observability or concealment
Cross-media travel – the ability to travel from space vacuum to the depths of the ocean in extraordinary ways, without drag or aerodynamic limitations
It is these characteristics that most confuse national security experts. "There's nothing in our arsenal that can perform missions in these ways, and we're pretty confident that no known Earth ally or adversary has the technology," Elizondo said. ”
According to Elizondo on the "60 Minutes" program, the pilots speculated that the objects were either secret U.S. technology or enemy espionage craft.
"Keep in mind that we've been observing these performance characteristics for decades," Elizondo guarantees. "If a foreign adversary developed these technologies 75 years ago and we still don't know they own it, it would be the most unusual intelligence failure in U.S. history."
So does that mean they're coming from outer space? Elizondo advises us not to rush to conclusions, but rather to open our hearts to the possibilities.
"These vehicles could come from outer space, inner space, or even space in between," he said. "We may be dealing with an advanced, self-replicating AI technology that uses the quantum internet to instantly communicate with itself over long distances." Perhaps an advanced underwater civilization originated on our planet, and we are now advanced enough to observe their movements in our oceans, airspace, and upper atmosphere. ”
The objects did not take aggressive hostile or aggressive action, although "if that was their intention, they were clearly strong enough to cause harm," Elizondo said. Any time advanced aircraft operate in restricted airspace with impunity, he said, you have to consider the likelihood that they could pose a threat, if they so wish.
"If we want to fully understand what we've observed and communicate those findings to the public, we need a collaborative and transparent holistic approach to government," Mr. Elizondo said.
AATIP's funding ran out in 2012, but Elizondo continued to investigate the UAP sighting until 2017, when he grew tired of the Pentagon's suspicions and withdrew. Before he left, however, he declassified three questions from UAP's Navy video. Then he began to spread the word.
Meanwhile, former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were killed in the united states. Christopher Mellon, W. Bush's deputy assistant secretary of intelligence, shared the declassified videos with The New York Times in civilian capacity. He told "60 Minutes" he had to do that to get the Defense Department to take this "national security issue seriously."
Raising public awareness prompted Congress to note that the Pentagon also acknowledges the existence of AATIP. Last August, the Pentagon reformulated the plan, changing the name to UAP Task Force. Service personnel were eventually allowed to share UAP sightings.
When Sen. Mark Rubio, then chairman of the Florida Intelligence Committee, was briefed on UAP, he called on the Pentagon and the director of national intelligence to submit an unclassified report of the sighting to Congress by June 2021.
"Fortunately, both Congress and the Department of Defense are prepared to take this issue seriously, and the remaining resistance to transparency is limited to a small group of people whose grasp of secrecy is rapidly waning," Mr. Elizondo said. "We've heard outcry from the men and women in our uniforms, as well as from the American people, and we have to take that seriously." ...... The Pentagon's intensification of obscuring these facts has become a responsibility. ”
There was a flood of data, videos, photographs, telemetry, collected signatures, and complete electromagnetic spectrum analysis that needed to be sifted through to provide a full report — "within 180 days of congressional authority, too much to sort it out properly," Mr. Elisundo said. He expects the report to be just a preview, with more details to come in the coming months.
"I hope this preliminary report will draw attention to the reality of UAPs, the potential scientific and technological value that exists in better understanding how they work, and the need for a permanent office in the U.S. government to examine the data we collect in order to present it to Congress and the American people."