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Pentagon Publishes Report on Material From an Alleged Alien Aircraft

The branch of the Pentagon tasked with investigating UFOs published a new report on the origins of what’s long been thought to be a piece of an alien aircraft. Spoilers: it’s not.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)—the DoD’s UFO investigators—sent a sample of an alleged extraterrestrial aircraft to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2022, according to a Thursday press release. Oak Ridge studied the material for two years and sent its report to the AARO in April, and the conclusion is that the sample is probably not alien at all. It’s likely just one in a long line of experimental materials from the 20th century crafted in an effort to make a lighter and stronger aircraft.

“This specimen has been publicly alleged to be a component recovered from a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle in 1947, and purportedly exhibits extraordinary properties, such as functioning as a terahertz waveguide to generate antigravity capabilities,” the AARO said in the press release. “Considering all available evidence, AARO assesses that this specimen is likely a test object, a manufacturing product or byproduct, or a material component of aerospace performance studies to evaluate the properties of [magnesium] alloys.”

According to the report, the speculated piece of a UFO aircraft is just a normal magnesium compound.

“Although the origin, chain of custody, and ultimate purpose of this specimen remain unclear, a modern and robust analysis of its chemical and structural composition and properties does not indicate that its origin is non-terrestrial, nor do the data indicate that the material examined ever had the pure single-crystalline bismuth layer that could possibly have acted as a terahertz waveguide,” Oak Ridge said in its report.

The source of the studied specimen is the To The Stars Academy, an independent research organization headed by Blink-182 frontman and UFO fanatic, Tom DeLonge. The organization said in a press release that “the material is clearly engineered with distinct layers of MgZn and Bi at structured thicknesses only microns thick” and “there is no precedent for this structured combination of materials.”

Oak Ridge agreed to look at the material after To The Stars consented to have it studied.

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European UAP Sightings in 2019-2023: Raw Data by Country and Year

The table and charts below represent the raw data of UFO/IFO observations reported to seventeen UAP organizations from eleven European countries where data are available.

These raw data are provided thanks to the contributions of the following organisations listed in Table 1, which belong to the EURO UFO net virtual community, as well as national institutions like GEIPAN (France) and the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare Italiana), which have published their statistics online.     

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Feds have UFO transparency problem: Ex-security official

A former top-ranking U.S. security official believes the federal government needs to be more transparent in its attempts to engage with detected unidentified anomalous phenomena rather than trying to hide its encounters from the general public.

Christopher Mellon, who served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, told NewsNation’s “Reality Check with Ross Coulthart” in an interview that he believes the government is making a mistake in classifying information about UAPs.

While information that is potentially damaging to national security must be classified, other materials, including videos of U.S. encounters with UAPs, should be released to the general public, Mellon believes.

“There is a real gap here and a problem in terms of transparency, and I think, unfortunately, many people in the intelligence community, it’s part of the culture to think that the less we share, the safer we are,” Mellon said in the November interview,

In 2017, Mellon provided The New York Times and Washington Post with videos of UAPs by U.S. Navy pilots between 2004 and 2015.

The release of the videos came in a bombshell New York Times report that unveiled a classified Pentagon UFO program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that was overseen by government officials.

Mellon told Coulhart that the videos he provided the two newspapers had previously been investigated by the U.S. Air Force and were confirmed as “unclassified” because they did not threaten national security. The videos enhanced national security by raising awareness of our vulnerability and the activity that needs to be addressed.

After that happened, the defense department created a classification system for UAPs that Mellon said seems to indicate that “anything and everything having to do with UAPs” is classified.

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Report claims 12 people at Red Rocks saw massive UFO hovering in the sky

Following dozens of Colorado-based UFO reports that have been filed earlier in 2024, four more reports have been added to the list during the month of June. One report on the National UFO Reporting Center website is particularly interesting, featuring a sighting that’s said to have taken place at about 1 a.m. with a dozen witnesses at one of Colorado’s most iconic venues.

A published report of the incident states that in the early morning hours of June 5, 12 observers saw a metallic disk estimated to be “several hundred feet long” in the sky above the Golden-Morrison area. The disk was reportedly spotted by someone who was working at Red Rocks Amphitheater, who pointed it out to other coworkers around him.

As the others turned to look, the account states that the mysterious object was spotted hovering above the treetops on a hogback ridge about a mile or so north of Red Rocks.

According to the report, the large disk had three levels of windows, looking like a “really long three-story office building.” It was totally silent.

The reporting party of the incident also noted that the disc started to slowly tilt before vanishing once observers’ eyes were on it, with the full sighting said to have lasted about 30 seconds.

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Canadian military joined recent U.S. forum on UFOs; Pentagon trying to identify ‘metallic’ orbs

The Canadian military has confirmed it participated in a May 2023 forum for Five Eyes intelligence partners that was held by the director of the Pentagon’s UFO research program.

“Our nation’s militaries routinely exchange information on a number of subjects as part of our long-standing cooperation as partners in defence,” a Canadian National Defence spokesperson told CTVNews.ca. “While the details of the meeting remain classified it can be characterized as the sharing of information on the subject of UAP and no further details can be shared at this time.”

Following decades of denial and dismissal by U.S. authorities, both the Pentagon and NASA are currently studying what they call “unidentified anomalous phenomena” or “UAP,” terms for what are more commonly called “unidentified flying objects” and “UFOs.”

NASA held its first public meeting on UAP(opens in a new tab) last week, nearly a year after launching an independent study(opens in a new tab) into the subject. The 16-member panel included NASA experts and the director of the U.S. Department of Defence’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which was established in July 2022(opens in a new tab) to expand previous Pentagon UAP research efforts.

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UFO records archive finds new home with Rio Rancho Public Schools

The City of Vision is home to the largest collection of records about UFO sightings in North America.

KOB 4 found out you’ll soon be able to read through all of them yourself, and it sounds like they’ll need a lot of time.

“How you interpret what a UFO is, you know, is it miss identification of something prosaic? Is it alien? Is it something else? It doesn’t matter, at the end of the day it’s history,” said David Marler, executive director of the National UFO Historical Records Center.

Marler believes that history belongs to everyone.

“Whether you relegate UFOs, to fact fiction or folklore, it’s part of our history, it’s part of our culture. And I feel that regardless of belief, or non belief in the subject, we need to preserve this element of our culture,” said Marler. 

Marler built an addition to his Rio Rancho home to house the thousands of documents he’s collected over the years. Everything from declassified Project Blue Book files to newspaper clippings, air traffic control radio recordings are all packed inside a small room.

“It is essentially a traditional historical archive, albeit dedicated to a non-traditional subject,” said Marler. 

His collection, officially known as the National UFO Historical Records Center, is growing. Marler says more archivists are sending him their collections, so everything is under one roof.

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Aliens have ‘100% visited Earth’ and ‘actually protect humans’ claims Stanford academic

A top academic from one of the world’s leading universities has claimed that extraterrestrial beings have ‘100%’ visited our planet and that Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) actually serve to protect humanity. Dr Garry Nolan, a Professor of pathology at Stanford University, suggested that these unexplained phenomena provide a form of planetary defense, acting as a safeguard for humans, as reported by Sunday World.

He also indicated that the theory proposed by Irishman Patrick Jackson, who resides in Cambridge, is worth further exploration. “I’ve been in conversation with Patrick for over a year now and was among the first to try to bring his ideas into the spotlight. I believe there’s something here that merits investigation,” Professor Nolan wroteover the weekend, reports the Daily Star.

The nominee for the Nobel Prize went on to say: “I am deeply cognisant of the situation. I find the findings and overall observations compellingly worth trying to comprehend,” Professor Nolan added. “Sets of spheres seen in photos that were ‘unnoticed’ over decades. Who would know to ‘hoax’ them repeatedly until Patrick spotted them? Full credit to him.”

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New discoveries about three-fingered ‘alien mummy’ found in South American cave revealed

Three-fingered ‘alien mummies’ uncovered in Peru have largely been dismissed as a hoax by the scientific community, but a new study has suggested otherwise.

A recent imaging analysis on one of the humanoids named ‘Maria’ found it has biological similarities to that of a human – but with ‘many morphological and anatomical structural differences.’

The creature’s bones were observed to flow smoothly under the mummified casing, in a way that is found throughout the human body, and its elongated skull showed no signs of artificial cranial deformation.

The team was also able to date the mummy to between 240AD and 383AD, ‘indicating its coexistence with the ancient Nazca civilization,’ they shared in the study.

Maria, labeled M01, was one of six mummies found inside the tomb in Nazca, a city in southern Peru in 2017 – a nine-month-old child and four males were also uncovered.

Journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan found the mummies and has paraded many of them in front of Mexico’s Congress, claiming they are alien beings that once walked on Earth.

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Cigar-Shaped Glowing UFO Captured on Military-Grade Night Vision in Montana; What Does This Mean for UFO Research?

A military-grade night vision video from Montana recently caught a bright, glowing UFO in the shape of a “cigar.” This has sparked a lot of interest in the field of UFO study.

The Intriguing Sighting in the Skies

In June, a person in Montana saw a slow-moving, silent object. It looked like a blur to the naked eye but was clearer through a night vision camera.

The defense contractor SiOnyx made the camera, which showed a long cylinder-shaped light moving across the starry sky before going behind a mountain range. Even though incident occurred near Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, the video contained no commercial air movement sounds.

Alejandro Rojas, an assistant to Enigma Labs, said that the object looked a lot like Starlink satellites but was seen as a single, solid object. The video was sent to Enigma Labs for further research.

They keep a complete UAP database. Rojas talked about how important these videos are for helping people and scientists understand UFO sightings.

Historical Background and Technological Insights

This sighting could not have been possible without the SiOnyx night vision camera. People using SiOnyx’s consumer models have said they have problems with high light contrast, which can make lit things look like one solid mass. This could explain why the UFO looked like a glowing sphere instead of clear lights.

As early as the late 1800s, people have seen UFOs that look like cigars. These things, often called “airships,” have been a common theme in UFO stories for a long time. In 1977, 15 Broad Haven, Wales, students said they saw a silver plane resembling a cigar. Researchers are still interested in and confused by these sightings.

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Lack of Transparency Surrounding U.S. Government’s Former UAP Office Director Raises Concerns

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) cannot explain why the former Director of its Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) office’s prior involvement with UAP was not disclosed to the media and public at the time of his appointment or during his tenure.

Recently, the DoD confirmed to Liberation Times that in 2018, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the former Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), attended a meeting on the Hill about Skinwalker Ranch—famed for its ties to UAP.

A DoD spokesperson told Liberation Times:

‘Dr. Kirkpatrick had no involvement with Skinwalker Ranch.  He attended one meeting on it on the Hill in 2018, which he has publicly acknowledged.’

Liberation Times asked the DoD why Dr. Kirkpatrick’s attendance was never previously made public and whether he had disclosed this fact before his appointment to the AARO.

In response, a DoD spokesperson stated:

‘We cannot comment on the interviews that occur during the hiring process, including what was or was not discussed during them.

‘We do not comment on internal discussions and deliberations between a director and his staff nor between a director and senior officials above him.’

This situation is problematic for the DoD, as the AARO’s creation was supposed to begin a new chapter of transparency regarding the UAP topic within the U.S. government. 

It is unclear whether the blame lies with the DoD for failing to disclose Kirkpatrick’s involvement with the meeting, or with Kirkpatrick himself, who may not have informed the DoD before taking the role.

The situation also calls into question other aspects of Kirkpatrick’s background and AARO’s investigations which may have also been omitted.

His attendance of the meeting was in the public interest and is indicative of Kirkpatrick’s awareness of the topic of UAP before joining AARO. 

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