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Harvard Scientist Presents New Evidence That Samples Are Alien Spacecraft

Harvard professor and notorious UFO hunter Avi Loeb claims he has new evidence that meteor fragments recovered from the ocean floor are alien technology, Boston Public Radio reports, pushing back against detractors who argue their origins are more mundane.

“It raises the possibility that it may have been a Voyager-like meteor, artificially made by another civilization,” Loeb told the station on Monday, referencing an actual pair of probes sent screaming out of the solar system by NASA back in the 1970s.

Though perhaps best known for his provocative theories on the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua that passed through our solar system back in 2017, Loeb’s latest findings concern another interstellar oddity which, unlike Oumuamua, found its way to Earth — albeit not in one piece.

Dubbed IM1, the meteor plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea nearly a decade ago, but was overlooked until Loeb spearheaded efforts that confirmed in 2022 that it was the first interstellar object known to fall to Earth.

In hot pursuit, the astrophysicist launched an expedition to comb the ocean floor for the object last year and found, he claims, its remnants in the form of spherical metal fragments, or “spherules,” that he thinks could suggest IM1 might be some form of alien technology.

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National Archives tees up new rules for UFO records

Congress wants to know what agencies know about UFOs, and, under a new law, agencies have to tell them.

New records management provisions included in the recently enacted 2024 defense policy bill require federal agencies to organize and tag records related to what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena” or UAP. 

Agencies have until the end of the current fiscal year to “review, identify, and organize each UAP record in its custody for disclosure to the public and transmission to the National Archives,” according to a memo sent Tuesday afternoon from Laurence Brewer, chief records officer for the U.S. Government, and Chris Naylor, NARA’s executive for research services, to federal agency records managers.

A new, central collection of UAP records will be housed at the National Archives and Records Administration.

The law passed without measures sought by backers, notably Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that would have set up a presidential commission with the authority to declassify records pertaining to UAP.

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If there are advanced spacecraft why would they crash?

Members of Congress have heard testimony about alleged UFO crashes and retrievals. The stories sound much like the plot of a sci-fi movie but are now being taken seriously in Washington.

The question is, if there are advanced spacecraft from beyond, why would they crash?

April 18, 1962, an unknown object entered Earth’s atmosphere over Cuba, traveled up the East Coast, and then made an abrupt 45-degree left turn at New York. It blazed across the heart of the U.S., and was pursued by military jets that could not keep up, and then landed in a small town in Utah where it knocked out electricity, locals said, before taking off again. Somewhere over east-central Nevada, it exploded in a massive fireball seen all over the west.

“It’s a fantastic case involving, not only a few hundred witnesses, thousands of witnesses saw this thing as it traveled across the United States.” UFO Investigator and author Preston Dennett said.

According to an Air Force intelligence report, one military pilot who chased the object thought it was structured, not just a fireball, and that it was gasping and sputtering as it flew. The Air Force’s infamous Project Blue Book explained it away as a meteor, despite its highly unusual maneuvers.

In the early 2000s, Las Vegas was the annual host to a UFO crash conference, where the best-known investigators shared information about dozens of similar incidents. Ryan Wood was the conference organizer and wrote a book listing more than 70 possible UFO crashes.

“The best cases are the ones where we have multiple witnesses, some physical evidence, and multiple investigations by a variety of people over a long period of time,” Wood said.

Wood admits some of the tales might be disinformation or made up. Former Army Intelligence Col. John Alexander, himself a UFO investigator, expressed glaring doubt.

“It seems inconceivable to me that this hyper-advanced technology came a trillion miles to crash in our backyard once, let alone that this stuff keeps falling down,” Alexander said.

If these are advanced craft from another galaxy or dimension or century, why would they crash here?

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What are they trying to tell us? Internal Pentagon report warns America is unequipped to defend itself from an ALIEN invasion

US officials do not have the capabilities to defend America against a hypothetical alien invasion, internal Pentagon watchdogs have determined.

A newly declassified document found the Department of Defense (DoD) lacks comprehensive or coordinated effort to track and analyze UFOs – which have been rebranded Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) in recent years.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) made the eerie conclusion that this blindspot in the DoD’s defensive capabilities ‘poses a threat to military forces and national security.’

To address the issues identified in this report, the OIG has made 11 recommendations, including the enforcement of protection policies and the development of new tools in the event of an extraterrestrial attack.

‘DoD efforts to identify and understand UAP has been irregular because of competing priorities, lack of substantive progress, and inconclusive findings,’ reads ‘Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena‘, previously issued August 2023.

‘However, military pilots have continued to report UAP incidents despite the sporadic efforts of the DoD to identify, report, and analyze the events’

The 2023 report was a collection of evaluations on whether the Pentagon, military branches, defense agencies and counterintelligence organizations conducted actions ‘to detect, report, collect, analyze, and identify UAP.’

‘The DoD has not issued a comprehensive UAP response plan that identifies roles, responsibilities, requirements, and coordination procedures for detecting, reporting, collecting, analyzing, and identifying UAP incidents,’ OIG concluded.

The agency conducted the work for the evaluation from May 2021 through June 2023 and interviewed Presidential and DoD policies, directives and guidance.

Those individuals are tasked with establishing requirements for intelligence gathering, counterintelligence, force protection, and civil liberty protections for 

‘As a result, the DoD response to UAP incidents is uncoordinated and concentrated within each Military Department.’

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UFO reports from pilots include ‘intense’ and ‘unusual’ lights over Canada in 2023

Early on Feb. 12, 2023, at least three different flights over Quebec reported(opens in a new tab) “seeing very strange lights in the sky, high above the flight paths” that were “moving in a rapid and irregular way.”

“It looks like it’s more than one and sort of circling,” a crew member aboard a cargo flight from Chicago to Luxembourg told air traffic controllers in Canada, according to audio obtained by CTVNews.ca(opens in a new tab). “It’s a bit weird.”

CTVNews.ca has identified at least 17 reports like these from 2023 in an online aviation incident database(opens in a new tab) maintained by Transport Canada, the federal transportation department. Those reports come from across the country and involve pilots and crew with WestJet(opens in a new tab), Air France(opens in a new tab), British Airways(opens in a new tab) and more(opens in a new tab). You can read all of the reports in an exclusive interactive map(opens in a new tab).

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Former UFO Office Director’s Opinions Draw Scrutiny on Impartiality and Investigation Handling

A recent opinion article written by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the U.S. government’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) office, known as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has prompted concerns regarding the impartiality and handling of the office under his leadership.

In the article published in Scientific American, Dr. Kirkpatrick took swipes at whistleblowers under threat from reprisals and current members of Congress currently investigating UAP.

Dr. Kirkpatrick, referring to former senior intelligence official and UAP whistleblower David Grusch, wrote:

‘Our efforts were ultimately overwhelmed by sensational but unsupported claims that ignored contradictory evidence yet captured the attention of policymakers and the public, driving legislative battles and dominating the public narrative.’

Dr. Kirkpatrick in October 2023 admitted that as director he had not spoken to Grusch about the allegations, casting doubts over his position to know whether they are unsupported. 

Grusch has lodged an official complaint with Thomas Monheim, the Intelligence Community’s Inspector General (ICIG), addressing UAP programs and the reprisals he endured. The complaint has been recognized as both credible and urgent.

That complaint was lodged in May 2022, almost two months before the AARO was stood up. 

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THE VANISHING STAR ENIGMA AND THE 1952 WASHINGTON D.C. UFO WAVE

As we look up at the starry sky, countless celestial bodies silently peer down upon us. Most of these have been there for billions of years as stellar processes slowly unfold, starting from their birth until their final demise. Light from other celestial objects, though long vanished, has only recently reached us. In other instances, swift changes in the sky occur at timescales as short as seconds or minutes, like when a dwarf star momentarily flares up or when a human satellite crosses the field of view.

My team has been searching for objects that may have vanished. As an unexpected result of our searches, we found cases where multiple star-like objects (transients) appeared and vanished in a small image within an hour, and even more peculiarly, two of our brightest cases happened in July 1952, coinciding in time with the 1952 Washington D.C. UFO flyovers. But what have we actually found, and how do these two events potentially link to one another?

In the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, our team has been dedicated to the search for celestial objects that vanished over the span of 70 years. In the grand scheme of cosmic time and the billions of years needed for a low-mass star to turn into a white dwarf, seventy years is only a fleeting moment in cosmic time. But 70 years is also much longer than the time needed for a satellite to pass through the telescope’s field of view. Our original objective was to search for a star that had vanished, with the hope of detecting instances where a star directly collapses into a black hole (failed supernova), an event predicted by supernova theoreticians. Alternatively, we were intrigued by the prospect of finding a star that vanishes entirely without a trace or explanation; a signature of a highly advanced civilization.

However, this task was far from straightforward. My colleague spent two years developing powerful methods [5] for sifting through the vast terabytes of image data involved. In parallel, we were (and still are) running a citizen science project together with scientists, amateur astronomers, and students primarily in Algeria and Nigeria, to search for these vanishing stars.

For our searches, we employed an object catalog sourced from the US Naval Observatory (USNO) together with archival images dating back to the early 1950s, captured at the Palomar Observatory in California. The images from Palomar predate the dawn of human space exploration. This night sky was pristine, and a far cry from today’s sky that is littered with tens of thousands of debris pieces from human satellites in orbits around the Earth, many producing flashes lasting fractions of a second as they reflect sunlight and tumble through space. These images we compared to the modern databases from Palomar Sky Survey, PanSTARRS, and the Gaia satellite in our quest to find disappearing objects.

We still haven’t found a single failed supernova candidate. However, our exploration has led us to a more intriguing discovery: several images where multiple star-like objects appear in a single snapshot of the sky, never to be seen again. In a specific instance [1], nine faint objects looking like stars were visible in an image captured on April 12, 1950, during a 50-minute exposure. However, they were absent in the image taken just 30 minutes earlier and in another image from six days later. We searched through all available archives in an attempt to locate the nine objects. We directed the world’s largest optical telescope, the Gran Telescopio Canarias, with its 10.4-meter aperture, to the locations where the transients had been. Nothing was found. The objects had simply vanished.

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UFO Hearing Witness: New UAP Bill Will ‘Close the Gap’

A new bill that hopes to protect civil aviators from reprisal for reporting unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) will “close the gap” between reports of UFOs and national security channels, a whistleblower who testified to Congress last year has said.

Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Ryan Graves, a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, said commercial pilots were “sometimes our best sensors that we have available to us in the sky,” but faced a stigma for reporting sightings.

He added that the Safe Airspace for Americans Act, introduced in the House on Thursday, would create a channel through which pilots could make reports about objects they had seen in the sky, to “make sure that we’re listening to what they say, both for national security reasons and for whatever UAP turn out to be.”

The bill, introduced by California Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat, would require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish procedures for reporting UAP sightings and evaluate any threat they might present to American airspace.

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Mysterious ‘Jellyfish’ UFO Video Released

A bizarre aerial object seen in leaked footage has been dubbed the ‘Jellyfish’ UFO. Said to be recorded using thermal imaging in 2017 at a US military base in Iraq, a Marine veteran, Michael Cincoski, told NewsNation that the object did not appear to be threatening and was eventually considered like a “ghost story” at the base.

Researcher and documentarian Jeremy Corbell, who said the footage was leaked to him, described the UFO as being submerged in water for 17 minutes before rapidly ascending.

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Air Force Whistleblower’s Concerns “Legit” Over US Govt UFO Program Cover-Up; House Oversight Committee

A classified briefing on UFOs delivered to members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Friday elicited a mixed response, with some saying they were dissatisfied by the fragmented information presented, while others were grateful to receive some more clarity.

Interest in UFOs, which officials now call unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), surged in July 2023 when the Oversight Committee invited Air Force veteran David Grusch to speak after he’d filed a formal complaint with the Inspector General of the U.S. intelligence community, claiming “the U.S. government is operating with secrecy—above Congressional oversight” on the subject.

During that hearing, Mr. Grusch accused the Pentagon and its private contractors of covering up a “multi-decade” program to reverse-engineer technology retrieved from crashed UFOs piloted by “non-human” beings, or “biologics” as he called them.

He also mentioned knowledge of people harmed or injured in efforts to cover up or conceal the extraterrestrial technology program.

Though apparently only limited information was disclosed during Friday’s 90-minute briefing at the Capitol Building in Washington, the attendees agreed that the hearing seemed to confirm Mr. Grusch’s claims.

“Based on what we heard,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said, “many of Grusch[’s] claims have merit!”

“I think everybody left there thinking and knowing that Grusch is legit—if they didn’t think that before,” attested Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.).

The Tennessee legislator, one of the stronger voices calling for transparency on the issue of UAPs, nevertheless left the meeting somewhat frustrated, saying the meeting was just “more of the same.”

“By design this issue is very compartmentalized,” he explained. “It’s like looking down the barrel of a .22 rifle. All they know is just right in that little circle.”

“Now it’s just whack-a-mole—you go to the next [briefing], until we get some answers.”

For Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) the limited information presented only proved there was a “concerted effort to conceal as much information as possible—both in Congress and to the general public.”

“I asked very specific questions and was unable to get specific answers,” he said. “And so that’s a problem, and we’re not going to stop until we get the truth.”

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