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THE PENTAGON’S NEW UAP REPORT IS SERIOUSLY FLAWED

Last month the U.S. government’s new UAP investigation office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), submitted a report to Congress entitled, “Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAP, the new term for UFO). This new report is itself anomalous for several reasons.

First, who ever heard of a government report being submitted months before it was due? Especially one so rife with embarrassing errors in desperate need of additional fact-checking and revision? Was AARO Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick rushing to get the report out the door before departing, perhaps to ensure that his successor could not revise or reverse some of the report’s conclusions?

Second, this appears to be the first AARO report submitted to Congress that the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) did not sign off on. I don’t know why, but Avril Haines and her Office were quite right not to in this case, having spared themselves considerable embarrassment in the process.

Third, this is the most error-ridden and unsatisfactory government report I can recall reading during or after decades of government service. We all make mistakes, but this report is an outlier in terms of inaccuracies and errors. Were I reviewing this as a graduate student’s thesis it would receive a failing grade for failing to understand the assignment, sloppy and inadequate research, and flawed interpretation of the data. Hopefully, long before it was submitted, the author would have consulted his or her professor and received some guidance and course correction to prevent such an unfortunate outcome.

Another irregularity worth noting is the fact that before its release, Department of Defense (DoD) Public Affairs sponsored a closed-door pre-brief on the report’s findings for a select group of press outlets on an invitation-only basis. Outlets like The Debrief, which closely follow the UAP issue, were excluded. Following the report’s release, most of the news agencies that had participated in the pre-brief went on to publish articles that uncritically parroted the report’s findings. Moreover, they seem to have done so without consulting any of the scholars or experts who have studied and written extensively on this topic as would normally be the case in another field.

What about consulting the famous scientist, author, venture capitalist, and UAP expert Dr. Jacques Vallee, who worked with Air Force astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek on Project Blue Book and lived much of the history this UAP report purports to cover? Neither AARO nor the press bothered to speak with him. How about Robert Powell, Director of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies and author of the outstanding new book UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (and Don’t Know)? Or professor Alexander Wendt at the Ohio State University? I’m sure these and many other authors and scholars would have been happy to assist AARO or the press, had they been contacted.

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Harvard professor claims that UFOs could have travelled to Earth via ‘extra dimensions’ that CERN scientists are trying to unlock

The US government has yet to unravel the mysterious sightings of UFOs soaring through our skies, but a Harvard professor believes the answer may sit 300 feet below the surface.

Avi Loeb, known for his efforts to prove we are not alone, has claimed that extraterrestrial visitors are travelling through hidden dimensions created by researchers at the CERN particle accelerator are seeking.

The accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), blasts particles are nearly the speed of light to recreate conditions of the Big Bang, with hopes of uncovering  hidden dimensions that will reveal how our universe formed.

Speaking in a new documentary, Loeb said that alien civilizations may have been developing dimension-hopping technology for billions of years.

The physicist also noted that extraterrestrials are using theoretical quantum gravity engineering to travel through ‘curled’ dimensions that humans can only detect in particle accelerators such as CERN.

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UFOs don’t come to sighting hotspot in Wales for the sheep, expert says

An active network of ufologists and its abundance of space are why Wales is the UK’s UFO sighting hotspot according to an expert.

Wales is the most likely place to spot a UFO in Britain, with more sightings per capital than anywhere else in the UK, according to Podcaster and UFO boffin Ash Ellis, who reckons 21 of the 323 sightings across the UK last year were in Wales.

It’s also believed the only Earthly physical evidence of UFO comes from Wales, in the form of metal debris collected from a site near the village of Llanilar near Aberystwyth in 1983 where an object flying through the air crashed into trees, scattering pieces of itself across four fields before flying off.

And then there’s the sighting – or spate of sightings – around Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire in 1977 which was featured in Netflix documentary Encounters.

One of UK’s leading UFO experts Philip Mantle believes there are several factors at play behind Wales’ reputation, chiefly a robust network of ufologists whom public could report sightings to.

He said: “There are some very active UFO researchers in Wales. It’s a bit which comes first, the UFO or the UFO researcher. If you’ve got no one to report it to, then no one can report it.

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Fighter Jets Scrambled to Intercept UFO Detected Near Spanish Air Force Base

A pilot with the Spanish Air Force recently shared an intriguing account of an incident wherein fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a UFO. The curious event reportedly took place sometime last year and came to light this past Sunday by way of a Spanish journalist who published a letter that he received from the unnamed witness. Indicating that the incident occurred at the Morón Air Base near the city of Seville, the pilot explained that “our squadron was on operational alert when we received a detection signal from an unidentified flying object.”

In response to the presence of the UFO in the airspace near the base, “the scramble protocol was immediately activated” and the squadron of Eurofighter jets quickly took flight in search of the mysterious aerial interloper. “Upon arriving in the designated area,” the pilot recalled, “we observed an unidentified flying object that exhibited erratic behavior and did not respond to standard identification signals.” When they tried to approach the mysterious object, he wrote, “the UFO demonstrated a maneuvering capability that defied the capabilities of any known conventional aircraft, and eventually quickly disappeared from our sight at a speed that far exceeded any known operating parameter.”

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More UFO hearings coming, Rep. Tim Burchett says

After a Pentagon report denying any evidence of alien technology or extraterrestrial life, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said there need to be more hearings on the subject.

The Pentagon report was issued in the wake of a whistleblower complaint from former intelligence officer David Grusch, who claimed the Pentagon was operating a secret UFO-retrieval program and even suggested the government had alien remains.

A hearing with Grusch and other former military personnel who had experiences encountering UAPs garnered bipartisan support from lawmakers but didn’t lead to any admission from the Department of Defense about alleged programs.

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Portland Community College Offers New Class on UFOs

Portland Community College is offering a niche new area of study this spring: UFOs.

“From Film to Real Life? UFOs, UAPs, Government and the Media” is an online class listed for non-credit in a category of study called “cultural exploration.” (Other offerings include low-cost Hawaii travel, foreign films and a “waterfalls and wine” tour of the Columbia River Gorge.)

The class is the brainchild of longtime local television news producer Brian Anslinger, the executive producer of KRCW’s lifestyle show Everyday Northwest. Previously, Anslinger worked as assistant news director and executive producer at KATU-TV.

Part of his mission with the class is to help students decode the confusing landscape of UAP sightings and research. (UAP, or unidentified aerial phenomena, is the updated name for UFOs, unidentified flying objects. Anslinger accepts both.)

“Having been looking at this subject for a long time and different aspects of it, I thought, gosh, if you see what’s happening on Capitol Hill or read headlines, I don’t know how you make sense of what’s actually going on,” Anslinger says.

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A new religion has Americans looking to the stars

Belief in aliens is no longer fringe. Fifty-one percent of Americans think that unidentified flying objects are likely controlled by extraterrestrials — an increase of more than 20 percentage points since 1996. And one in three believe we’re likely to make formal contact with aliens in the next 50 years.

But as someone who studies the psychology of religion, what’s most striking to me isn’t the widespread belief that aliens are out there — in the vastness of the universe, it’s unlikely that we’re alone — but rather the growing popularity of blending this belief with spirituality. From group sky-watching sessions in the desert Southwest to backyard meetups in suburbia, people are using practices like meditations, mantras, and offerings to try to commune with god-like entities they believe possess vast knowledge and technological power. And since UFOs are the supposed vehicles that aliens use to visit earth, looking for them, or sometimes even trying to entice them to appear, is a primary focus.

Is that enough to qualify this growing movement as a religion? For some scholars, the answer is yes. Diana Walsh Pasulka, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, says many faiths are characterized by stories of divine beings coming down from the sky. Whether it’s angels, spirits, or gods, we humans have always looked to the heavens for entities greater than ourselves and yearned to join them in their higher realms. Aliens easily fit that narrative. And in truth, religions based around enlightened extraterrestrials aren’t new. Raëlism, for example, is a minor religion that emerged in the 1970s in which adherents seek communion with the Elohim — an alien race they believe created Jesus, Buddha, and other great teachers as alien-human hybrids.

But now UFO spirituality is no longer only comprised of small cults; it’s a burgeoning movement — one the psychologist Clay Routledge argues can fill the spiritual needs of a growing segment of secular Americans. The question is: Why?

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The truth is out there — especially here

I thought my brother had been dipping a bit too heavily into the cooking sherry at work that night in the summer of 1986 when he says he saw something in the sky.

Rob Levine, then a recent graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, was driving home after closing the St. Andrews Cafe for the night. He saw what he first thought was a low-flying airplane or helicopter. Its size seemed to vary and colored lights were moving around it, he remembers.

He pulled over and watched for a while.

“I looked up and down the river valley, staring at this,” he said. “It seemed to get bigger and smaller, closer and farther, in the blink of an eye. The lights were moving in a V or triangle shape, and colors would change into shapes that looked like unknown letters, like it was trying to communicate something. And there was no sound whatsoever. There was light coming from it, but it appeared to go from the ground up instead of from the object down. I was, like, this isn’t a helicopter.”

I no longer think he was having a tipsy vision. In the 1980s and ‘90s, the Hudson Valley was a hotspot for unidentified flying objects. More than 5,000 people — including police officers, professionals and other highly reputable sources — report seeing essentially the same thing my brother saw between 1982 and 1986, making these sightings one of the biggest clusters of UFO reports in history. On March 24, 1983, there were more than 300 reports alone, all describing a V-shaped craft adorned with colored lights that hovered slowly and silently in the sky. The sighting became known as “the Westchester Boomerang.”

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Recommended reading…

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“Translated into over thirteen languages and now a major motion picture, John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecy is an unsettling true story of the paranormal that has long been regarded as a classic in the literature of the unexplained.

West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are seen moving across the sky. Domestic animals are found slaughtered and mutilated. And journalist John Keel, arriving to investigate the freakish events, soon finds himself an integral part of an eerie and unfathomable mystery.”