[Epoch Times, May 30, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Song Tang comprehensive report) For more than 50 years, UFOs (unidentified flying objects) in the United States have been regarded as jokes and pseudo-science, and UFO enthusiasts are also regarded as weird And lunatics. However, in the past three years, the U.S. government has overcome this taboo, and senior officials have publicly admitted that they are puzzled by unknown aerial phenomena.
In December 2017, the “New York Times” published an article that the Pentagon was secretly studying UFOs. The topic of UFOs began to become heated. American politicians, military and intelligence personnel put aside their scruples and talked about UFOs publicly.
On May 10, the “New Yorker” magazine published a 4D long article “How the Pentagon Started Taking UFO Seriously” (How the Pentagon Started Taking UFO Seriously), a retrospective of the history of UFO research in the United States. The article stated that since the emergence of UFO fever in the United States in 1947, a large number of UFO enthusiasts have emerged from the private sector. However, under the conditions of the Cold War at that time, the US government’s attitude was to conceal and arbitrarily explain the impact of UFOs through secrecy and To laugh at and lead the public to believe that UFOs are nonsense. Research by independent UFO investigators has also been suppressed by the government.
But with the continuous efforts of a large number of UFO enthusiasts, including those within the government, in 2008, the US Congress secretly allocated 22 million US dollars for UFO research. Beginning in 2017, UFO issues have heated up among the government, the media, and officials. Former President Trump signed a legislation in December 2020 that requires the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies to complete a UFO-related unidentified flying object (UFO) within 180 days. Report and submit it to Congress.
This report must mention “observed but not yet identified aerial objects”, and must also conduct a detailed analysis of the unknown phenomenon data collected by various intelligence sources. It will be released to the world in June 2021. It will be relevant at that time. Some truths about UFO will be revealed.
Independent UFO Investigator Leslie Keane
The in-depth report of “The New Yorker” takes Leslie Kean as the protagonist and tells the story of the entire UFO in the United States. Keane was born in a political family in New York. His ancestors were the first immigrants of Puritans. His grandfather had served in Congress for a long time, but Keane was always fascinated by mysterious events. Until 1999, Keane had been an investigative reporter and a radio station. Host.
In 1999, a journalist friend of hers in Paris sent her a 90-page report written by more than a dozen retired French generals, scientists and space experts, entitled “UFO and defense: we must What do you prepare yourself?” (UFO and Defense: For What Must We Prepare Ourselves?”).
The report analyzed many UFO files, radar and photo evidence, UFOs observed by pilots at close range, etc. UFO violated the laws of physics, “it is easy to reach supersonic speed, but there is no sonic boom”, “electromagnetic effects interfere with nearby The operation of radio or electrical equipment.” Through the exclusion method, the report believes that the “alien hypothesis” is the most reasonable explanation.
Keane has worked on the radio for many years, reporting on terror, injustice and oppression in the world, and shouting for the silent. After reading a large number of peculiar events in the French report, she seemed to have suddenly transcended the frustrating reality and caught a glimpse of a fascinating universe.
The original UFO controversy in the United States
It is generally believed that the modern UFO era began on June 24, 1947, when a pilot named Kenneth A. Arnold (Kenneth A. Arnold) was flying a CallAir A-2 and saw a jump from nine up and down. The moving luminous body, like “flying saucer jumping over the water”, moves at two to three times the speed of sound.
By the end of 1947, at least 850 similar sightings had been reported in the United States. But at the same time, scientists assert that flying saucers do not exist because “they cannot exist.” A large number of sighting reports are attributed to “mild weather allergies” and “hypnotized collectively.”
Within the US government, there was a deep division. By September 1947, there had been so many sighting reports that the Air Force could not ignore it. That month, Lieutenant General Nathan F. Twining advised military commanders in a confidential communiqué that “the reported phenomenon is real, not an illusion or fiction.” Under the circumstances, A concern has arisen about whether the Soviet Union has made unimaginable technological breakthroughs.
According to a memorandum, a full 20% of UFO reports cannot be explained by common sense. On the other hand, there is no conclusive evidence to prove it, such as crashed flying saucer wreckage.
Unexplainable UFO incidents continue to occur. In 1948, about a year after Arnold’s sightings occurred, two pilots on Eastern Airlines’ Douglas DC-3 plane saw a huge cigar-like light at a very fast speed. Flew towards them, then suddenly turned in an unbelievable way and disappeared into the clear sky. A pilot on the second plane agreed with some witnesses on the ground. This was the first time a UFO was observed up close: two pilots described that when it flew by, they saw a row of windows.
In July 1952, a UFO formation invaded the sky over the White House. The pilots and radar found the flying objects, and then the military dispatched jet aircraft to intercept it. Major General John Samford, Air Force Intelligence Director, held the largest press conference since the end of World War II. He mentioned that “a certain percentage of sighting reports were made by reliable observers.”
In January 1953, the CIA secretly convened an expert advisory group, led by Howard P. Robertson, a mathematical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. However, in the Cold War environment at that time, the team paid more attention to the national security issue of the invasion of US airspace.
In order to prevent a large number of reports, the Robertson team recommended that “national security agencies take immediate measures to deprive UFOs of their special status and mysterious aura.” He also suggested to infiltrate and monitor private UFO groups, and seek media participation in debunking UFOs. The movement culminated in a 1966 TV special, “UFO: Friends, Enemies, or Fantasy?” In the show, CBS anchor Walter Cronkite patiently classified UFOs into the third category.
Not all members of the military are satisfied with this position. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first director of the CIA, told the New York Times reporter: “Behind the scenes, senior Air Force officials are soberly concerned about UFOs, but through the official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens have been led to believe These UFOs are nonsense.”
“Blue Book Project” and “Conton Report” pour two buckets of cold water on UFO
The U.S. government has created a database for these sighting reports for UFOs, called the “Project Blue Book”, which operates at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio as the “Project Blue Book.” Not taken seriously, funds are scarce, and managed by low-level officials who always want to change jobs. Ohio astronomer J. Allen Hynek is the only scientist.
At first, Hynek adopted a “common-sense” method of identification, thinking that 95% of so-called UFOs were uncommon clouds, weather balloons, and atmospheric temperature reversals. The glowing sphere can be attributed to Venus, the silent triangle may be related to classified military technology, and U2 spy planes and SR71 Blackbirds are often reported as UFOs. But the remaining 5%, despite the government’s best efforts, cannot be fully explained. And Hynek was surprised to find that those who saw UFOs were not weirdos, liars, and “UFO fans”, and were more likely to be respectable and bewildered citizens.
Beginning on March 14, 1966, more than one hundred eyewitnesses in Dexter, Michigan and its surrounding areas reported that large football-shaped luminous objects were seen at low altitude, and Hynek discovered that the community was “nearly Hysterical” state. At the March 25 press conference, in order to avoid panic, Hynek attributed some sights to the moon and stars, while others attributed to the spontaneous combustion of decaying plants, or “biogas.” The Michigan state regarded this as an insult. Since then, “swamp gas” (Swamp gas) has become a commonly used metaphor, referring to the government’s superior fooling.
Gerald Ford, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan and the minority leader of the House of Representatives at the time, called for a congressional hearing, “because he firmly believes that the American public deserves a better explanation than the Air Force provides. In the testimony of the House Armed Services Committee, Hynek suggested the establishment of an independent agency to evaluate the “Blue Book Project” and ultimately resolve the issue of the legality of UFOs. Over the past 17 years, the Blue Book has reviewed approximately 12,000 cases, of which 701 cases remain unexplained.
At the end of 1966, Edward U. Condon, a physicist at the University of Colorado, received US$300,000 for UFO research. There were different opinions on the project. Some researchers believed that the truly fair method was to admit The fact that UFO may exist. But it was almost impossible at the time. They were mainly interested in the psychological and social environment of UFO followers. In other words, the sightings should be understood as anxiety or psychological contradictions about technology during the Cold War.
More than a thousand pages of “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects” (Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects), or “Conton Report”, was completed in the late fall of 1968. Of the 91 blue book cases selected for review, 30 are still mysteries.
Before the completion of the research, Condon declared that UFOs are unmitigated bunk. He wrote the summary of the report and the “Conclusions and Recommendations” section. He said: “Considering our existing records carefully, we have concluded that it is unreasonable to further study UFO extensively, and we cannot expect that our science will improve as a result.”
In 1972, Hynek published “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Enquiry” (The UFO Experience: A Scientific Enquiry), which severely criticized the Blue Book and the “Conton Report”. This book is also a blueprint for UFO system research. He wrote: The mission of the Blue Book is not to try to explain UFOs, but to explain them. The Condon report was even worse, focusing on denying any conjectures of alien spacecraft.
The “Conton Report” made scientists and officials sneer at UFOs, while the media mocked UFOs or classified them as science fiction. The UFO “golden age” that originally consisted of official investigations, congressional hearings, press conferences, independent scientific research, powerful civic groups, bestsellers and magazine cover stories is over. Hynek established an independent organization to continue his research, but he did not change the direction of public opinion until his death.
Keene research blocked
Keane agreed with Hynek in her research methods. She chose to study the “really good cases” in the blue book. For example, the witnesses were professionals such as pilots, and there were multiple witnesses, confirmed by photos or radar tracks, and other explanations have been ruled out, etc. .
One example is that in 1976, Major Parviz Jafari, the commander of the Iranian Air Force squadron, was dispatched to a place outside Tehran near the Soviet border to intercept a luminous “diamond” in an F4 jet. . When he approached the object, it “flashed with intense red, green, orange, and blue light, so bright that I couldn’t see its outline.” He found that his weapons and radio communications were jammed.
In 2002, Keane collaborated with the NBC Science Fiction Channel (now Syfy) to “work hard to find a new government record on a well-documented UFO case.”
Keane chose an incident that occurred in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965, in which an object the size of a Volkswagen Beetle allegedly flew through the air. According to several witnesses, the large acorn-shaped man was removed from the woods by a flatbed truck and guarded by soldiers with guns.
Keane applied for access to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) archives under the Freedom of Information Act, including some information on recovering UFO debris from the scene. After the appeal failed, Keane filed a lawsuit against NASA. President Clinton’s former chief of staff, John Podesta, who was also interested in UFOs, publicly supported the lawsuit. The case dragged on for four years. Keane won the settlement, but received hundreds of unrelated documents. file.
As Keane discovered, the paranoia and obstruction left over from the Cold War continue to plague UFO problems. At about 4 pm on November 7, 2006, people saw a rotating, metal-looking disk hovering about 1,900 feet above the C17 gate at Chicago O’Hare Airport. The object hovered for a few minutes, then tilted and accelerated, leaving an almost perfect circle in the clouds.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) claims that this is a “hole cloud”, a type of cirrocumulus or altocumulus cloud with a circular gap that occasionally appears at temperatures below freezing. But meteorologists believe that the temperature was too high that day to make hole clouds appear.
This incident aroused Keane’s indignation. As she said in the book: “Those who know the truth about O’Hare will continue to distrust our government, and the government once again stated that it will avoid handling UFO incidents at all costs.”
Keane turned to a similar case abroad and did not wait long. On Monday, April 23, 2007, a British plane carrying 18 passengers departed from Southampton to Alderney in the English Channel. The captain Ray Bowyer has a flight record for 18 years. In the past ten years, he has flown over the English Channel more than a thousand times.
At 2:06 pm, Bowyer looked up and found a shining yellow light directly in front of him. Bowyer reached out for his binoculars, and when magnified ten times, the yellow light showed the outline of a tangible object. It has a long, thin, cigar-like shape with sharp edges and sharp ends, looking like a wheel from the side. It was static, exuding an “indescribable” light, but he “was able to look at this magical light without feeling discomfort.” The passengers sitting behind Bowyer also saw the “sunny” object.
Three weeks later, the British Ministry of Defense published documents that included conclusive radar data provided by an air traffic controller on a nearby island, and a statement from another commercial pilot nearby, who saw the objects from different directions.
Ten months later, the famous UFO skeptic David Clarke and three collaborators published an audit report. This report was based on dozens of field experts, meteorologists, and oceanographers. The report was jointly drafted by the Director of the Port Authority, French research institutes and British government departments. The report finally put forward 16 general hypotheses, ranked by credibility. Basically exclude atmospheric distortions such as sun dogs and lens clouds, as well as an extremely rare and little-known seismological phenomenon, namely “seismic light”. The report concludes: In short, we cannot explain satisfactorily UAP (Unidentified Flying Phenomena) sightings.
A fruitless attempt
In June 2011, Podesta invited Keane to give a secret speech at the Center for American Progress, the think tank he founded.
Keane stood with a physicist from Johns Hopkins University and foreign military personnel. Keane told the audience-those officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Pentagon, and the Department of Transportation, as well as congressional staff and retired The challenge for intelligence officials is to “remove the fifty years of strengthening UAP as a folklore and pseudoscience.”
Podesta said, “It is not a group of people who seem to go to the’Star Wars’ memorial conference, but serious people from the field of national security who want to know the answers to these unexplainable phenomena.”
He said that shortly after the event, a Democratic senator invited him to the meeting. “I thought it would be about food stamps and tax cuts, but the door was closed. He said,’I don’t want anyone to know about this, but I am really interested in UFOs, and I know you are too. So you What do you know?'”
In August 2014, Keane visited the West Wing of the White House and met again with Podesta, who was an adviser to President Obama at the time. She lowered the request and proposed to assign a person to deal with UFO issues in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. But this matter has no result.
Congress secretly allocates 22 million US dollars to study UFO
Another independent UFO investigator introduced by The New Yorker is Robert Bigelow. In 1947, when Bigelow was three years old, his grandparents were killed in the mountains northwest of Las Vegas. The luminous body crashed out of the road, which made Bigelow full of curiosity about UFOs throughout his life. Later, he made a fortune by investing in real estate and founded a private aerospace research company (Bigelow Aerospace). In 1995, the National Institute for Discovery Science was established to specialize in supernatural and mysterious phenomena.
At that time, there was a ranch in Utah, the United States, called “Skinwalker Ranch”. Spiritual events often occurred and became a mecca for UFO research enthusiasts. Bigelow spent 200,000 US dollars to buy the ranch and organize a The scientific and technological team has been stationed in the ranch for a long period of time to guard and research.
In 2007, Bigelow received a letter from a senior official of the Defense Intelligence Agency, saying he was curious about the “Skinner Ranch.” Bigelow found an old friend of his, Harry Reid, then the leader of the Senate Majority Party, who shared a common interest in UFOs.
Reid contacted two senators, Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye, for an “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Project” in the 2008 Supplementary Appropriations Act. Threat Identification Program) set aside $22 million in so-called “black money”.
But the Pentagon was not enthusiastic about this. The contract for the “Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Project” was won by Bigelow. He found the same group of paranormal investigators who had worked together and studied some UFO incidents in depth, including what was later called “Nimitz encounters UFO” incident.
In November 2004, the Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group entered the waters off the coast of California for training. At that time, the advanced SPY‧1 radar on a “Princeton” ship recorded some strange objects. After about a week of radar observation, Commander David Fravor (David Fravor) was sent on the interception mission. When he approached the location, he looked down and saw a rolling shoal on which was hovering a white oval object, similar to a large Tic Tac. It is estimated to be about 40 feet long, with no wings, no visible propellers, and bounces around like a ping-pong ball. Two other pilots, one sitting behind him and one on a nearby plane, gave similar statements.
Flavor descended to chase the object, and the opponent reacted and left suddenly at high speed. After Flavor returned to the Nimitz, another pilot, Chad Underwood, was sent to track with more advanced sensing equipment. His plane’s aiming pod recorded a video of the object. This video was called “flir1” (forward-looking infrared radar 1). In 1 minute and 16 seconds, a vague gray-white dot appeared at the end. In a few seconds, this little dot seemed to get rid of the radar lock and left quickly.
“New York Times” reports UFO heating up
On October 4, 2017, at the behest of Christopher K. Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Intelligence for the Department of Defense, Keane was called to a secret meeting in a bar in an upscale hotel near the Pentagon. Here, Keane met a strong, thick-necked, tattooed man with a goatee, his name was Luis Elizondo (Luis Elizondo). The day before was his last day at the Pentagon. In the next three hours, Keane was taken to see some documents that proved the government’s first investigation into UFOs since the end of the Blue Book Project in 1970. What Keane didn’t expect was that the project she spent many years lobbying for has always existed.
Elizondo announced that they “plan to provide footage that has never been made public by the U.S. government system—not vague amateur photos, but real data and videos.”
Keane was told that if she could publish a report in the New York Times, she would be able to get the videos and the chain of custody documents. Keene then called his old friend Ralph Blumenthal (Ralph Blumenthal), a former staff member of The New York Times, who is working for Harvard University psychiatrist and alien abduction problem researcher John? John Mack wrote a biography.
Blumenthal emailed Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the newspaper, saying that they wanted to provide “a sensational and highly classified time-sensitive story”, and one of them “resigned suddenly last month.” “Senior U.S. Intelligence Officer” decided to expose “a deep secret project that has long been regarded as a myth but has now been confirmed.” After coordinating with the Washington Special Branch, the New York Times agreed. The newspaper assigned a senior Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper (Helene Cooper) to work with Keane and Blumenthal.
On Saturday, December 16, 2017, their report: “Glowing auras and’blackmoney’: thepentagon’s mysteriousu.fo program” appeared on the Internet, and it was reported the next day. Published on the front page. This report cited two videos, including “Forward Looking Infrared Radar 1” (flir1). Senator Reid was quoted in the article: “I don’t feel embarrassed, ashamed or regretful to promote this.” “I think it is one of the good things I did when I was in Congress. I did something that no one has done before. Thing.”
The Pentagon confirmed that the project once existed, but said it was closed in 2012. But Elizondo claimed that in the absence of special funds, the plan has been continuing.
“New York Times” articles attracted millions of readers. Keane noticed a change almost immediately. When people asked her what her job was at the dinner, they stopped sneering at her answer, and focused instead on her.
The government changed the position of high-ranking officials
Within one month of the publication of the “New York Times” article, the UAP (Unidentified Flying Object Research) department of the Pentagon was upgraded to a civilian intelligence officer equivalent to a two-star general.
Elizondo believes that compared with the situation two or three years ago, the UAP issue is now being taken very seriously. Elizondo said that a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee added a paragraph to the confidential annex to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 passed in August 2018, asking the Pentagon to continue its investigation of UFOs.
In April 2019, the Navy revised its official guidelines for pilots, encouraging them to report UAP incidents without fear of being scorned or blamed. In June, Virginia Senator Mark Warner admitted that he had been informed of the UAP incident. In September, a navy spokesperson announced that the “flir1” video and two videos seen near the east coast in 2015 showed that “unidentified aerial phenomena invaded our military training ground.”
At present, most UFO photos and videos are still blurry, but Elizondo hinted that the U.S. government has clear UFO visual documents.
In June 2020, Senator Rubio required the Director of the National Intelligence Agency and the Secretary of Defense to produce a detailed analysis report on unidentified flight phenomenon data and intelligence in the “Intelligence Authorization Act 2021” in the “Intelligence Authorization Act of 2021”, allowing them to complete within 180 days . Former President Trump signed this legislation last December.
Despite this, Elizondo said, “This effort will not really become a reality until August 2020.” That month, the Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist publicly announced the Unidentified Flying Phenomenon Working Group. The existence of its report is expected to be submitted in June 2021.
In May 2021, former President Barack Obama said in an interview on CBS’s “The Evening Show” that U.S. military pilots and satellites have captured unrecognizable objects in U.S. airspace, “We can’t explain their movements. Ways and trajectories.” “They don’t have an easy-to-explain pattern. So I think people are still seriously trying to investigate and figure out what it is.”
The White House also stated on May 25 that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is working hard on a report on unidentified flying objects (UFO), which is supported by President Biden.
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